:26:01
Rick Von Sloneker is tall,
rich, good-looking...
:26:05
stupid, dishonest, conceited...
:26:07
a bully, liar, drunk and thief...
:26:10
an egomaniac
and probably psychotic.
:26:12
In short,
highly attractive to women.
:26:15
You're completely unfair.
You don't know anything about Rick.
:26:18
- In fact, he's quite shy.
- God!
:26:21
He's a considerate and sensitive man.
:26:23
The rest is just
a superficial game he plays, a fachade...
:26:26
which you've obviously
been taken in by.
:26:28
It's incredible, the eagerness of girls like you
to justify the worst bastards imaginable...
:26:31
as being sensitive and shy.
:26:33
But if any guy who really was shy
dared talk to you...
:26:36
you wouldn't give him the time of day-
your eyes would glaze over.
:26:39
You're really hung up on Rick, aren't you?
He must really threaten you somehow.
:26:42
You're right.
I do feel threatened...
:26:44
that I may get a venereal disease
from one of the St. Tim's girls he's been with.
:26:50
Did you learn that
from your lovemaking with Rick?
:26:53
I hear it can get really rough.
:26:55
- Hey!
- Don't do that again.
:26:59
For me, it isn't erotic.
:27:03
- What are you looking at?
- My father's apartment.
:27:08
- Where?
- The fourth floor.
:27:10
- Corner apartment.
- That's Kate Preston's building.
:27:13
Have your parents been divorced long?
:27:16
The actual divorce
was three years ago...
:27:18
but they were separated
for a year before that.
:27:21
- Do you see your father much?
- We have lunch when I'm in town.
:27:24
- That's very little.
- No, actually we have a very good relationship.
:27:28
Probably much better than most people
who see their father all the time.
:27:31
It's just that my stepmother is a writer
and having us around makes her nervous.
:27:36
I read that Lionel Trilling essay
you mentioned.
:27:38
- You really like Trilling?
- Yes.
:27:42
I think he's very strange.
:27:44
He says that nobody could like
the heroine of Mansfield Park.
:27:48
I like her.
:27:50
Then he goes on and on about how we modern
people of today with our modern attitudes...
:27:54
bitterly resent Mansfield Park
because its heroine is virtuous?
:27:58
What's wrong with a novel
having a virtuous heroine?