:04:00
But what if all her calm,
her niceness...
:04:04
...were just a negation...
:04:06
...a curtain dropped in front
of an emptiness?
:04:10
Archer felt he had never yet
lifted that curtain.
:04:15
Quite stunning, isn't it?
:04:18
It's Julius Beaufort who donates
the club's prizes, isn't it?
:04:22
This looks like him, of course.
It will make quite an heirloom.
:04:27
You should leave it
to your eldest daughter.
:04:30
What? Will there be no daughters?
:04:32
Only sons? Can't I say that either?
Look at her blushing.
:04:38
Ellen! Ellen! Are you upstairs?
:04:41
She's over from Portsmouth,
spending the day.
:04:47
Insists on putting up with those--
What's their name? Blenkers.
:04:51
But I gave up arguing
with young people 50 years ago.
:04:56
I'm sorry, ma'am.
Miss Ellen's not in the house.
:04:59
- She's left?
- I saw her going down the shore path.
:05:05
Run down and fetch her
like a good grandson.
:05:08
May and I will have a gossip
about Julius Beaufort.
:05:12
Go ahead.
She'll want to see you both.
:05:14
Is it true Beaufort has given
Annie Ring a diamond bracelet?
:05:18
I hear he even plans
to bring her to Newport.
:05:29
He'd heard her name often during the
year and a half since they'd last met.
:05:34
He was even familiar
with the main incidents of her life.
:05:38
But he heard all these accounts
with detachment...
:05:42
...as if listening to reminiscences
of someone long dead.
:05:47
But the past had come again
into the present...
:05:51
...as in those newly discovered
caverns in Tuscany...
:05:54
...where children had lit
bunches of straw...
:05:58
...and seen old images
staring from the wall.