Maurice

2:11:00

What a grotesque announcement.

2:11:08

Most grotesque.

2:11:10

- But I felt I ought to tell you.
- Maurice -

2:11:12

Maurice, we did everything we could
when you and I thrashed out the subject.

2:11:15

- When you brought yourself to kiss my hand.
- Don't allude to that.

2:11:22

Come in here.

2:11:28

I'm more sorry for you
than I can possibly say.

2:11:31

And I do, do beg you to resist
the return of this obsession.

2:11:35

I don't need advice.

2:11:37

I'm flesh and blood, Clive,
if you'll condescend to such low things.

2:11:43

I've shared with Alec.

2:11:47

Shared - Shared what?

2:11:50

Everything.

2:11:53

Alec slept with me in the Russet Room
when you and Anne were away.

2:11:56

Oh, good God.

2:12:00

Also in town.

2:12:03

The sole excuse for any relationship between
two men is that it remain purely platonic.

2:12:08

- Surely we agreed that.
- I don't know.

2:12:12

I've come to tell you what I did.

2:12:15

Well, Alec - Scudder- is in point of fact
no longer in my service.

2:12:21

In fact, he's no longer in England.
He sailed for Buenos Aires this very day.

2:12:26

He didn't.
He sacrificed his career for my sake...

2:12:30

without a guarantee.

2:12:33

I don't know whether
that's platonic of him or not...

2:12:36

but it's what he did.

2:12:39

Scudder missed his boat?

2:12:43

Maurice, you're going mad.

2:12:45

- May I ask if you intend to pursue -
- No. No, you may not ask.

2:12:49

I'll tell you everything up to this minute.
Not a word beyond.