:58:02
The family is difficult.
Not one of them wants to be different.
:58:06
And when they are,
they end up like Ellen's parents.
:58:09
Nomads. Continental wanderers.
:58:12
Dragging Ellen about.
:58:14
Lavishing on her an expensive
but incoherent education.
:58:19
Out of them all, there's not one that
takes after me but my little Ellen.
:58:24
You've got a quick eye. Why in
the world didn't you marry her?
:58:31
For one thing, she wasn't
there to be married.
:58:35
No, to be sure.
:58:37
And she's still not.
:58:39
The count, you know...
:58:41
...wrote to Mr. Letterblair.
:58:45
He wants her back.
:58:46
On her own terms.
:58:49
The count doesn't defend himself,
I will say that.
:58:53
And Ellen will be losing
a great deal if she stayed here.
:58:57
There's her old life:
gardens at Nice...
:59:00
...jewels, of course,
music and conversation.
:59:04
She says she goes unnoticed in Europe.
:59:07
But I know her portrait's
been painted nine times.
:59:11
All this, and the remorse
of a guilty husband.
:59:15
I'd rather see her dead.
:59:19
Would you really?
:59:21
We should remember marriage is
marriage, and Ellen is still a wife.
:59:27
Ellen! See who's here!
:59:30
Yes, I know. I went to see your
mother to ask where you'd gone.
:59:37
Since you never answered my note,
I was afraid you might be ill.
:59:41
He was in a rush
to get married, that's why.
:59:44
Off the train and straight here.
He wants me to use my influence...
:59:49
...to marry his sweetheart sooner.
:59:53
Well....
:59:54
Surely between us we can persuade
the Wellands to do as he wishes.
:59:58
Newland, you see?
Right to the problem, like me.