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On the contrary,
I was once in love with her.
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And she didn't care for you?
:28:05
That's why you don't like her?
:28:07
How can we have
discussed such things?
:28:10
Monsieur Merle was then living.
:28:12
Is he dead now?
:28:14
So she says.
:28:16
Don't you believe her?
:28:19
Yes, because...
:28:22
the husband of Madame Merle
would be likely to pass away.
:28:29
Am I late?
:28:31
I do apologise.
:28:33
No, not at all.
:28:38
Are you aware of the beautiful
walking paths round the estate?
:28:44
Americans certainly
make poor Europeans.
:28:49
We've no natural place here.
:28:52
But a woman, it seems to me,
has no natural place anywhere.
:28:56
Wherever she finds herself,
she must stay on the surface,
:29:00
and more or less crawl.
:29:02
I shall never crawl.
:29:03
Yes. On the whole,
I don't see you crawling.
:29:08
But the men, the Americans?
:29:11
Look at poor Ralph Touchett.
:29:13
What sort of figure do you call that?
:29:16
Fortunately, he has consumption.
:29:19
I say fortunately because
it gives him something to do.
:29:23
His consumption's his... carrière.
:29:25
It's a kind of position.
:29:28
If he were not ill,
he'd do something.
:29:30
He'd take his father's
place in the bank.
:29:33
I doubt it.
He's not at all fond of the bank.
:29:37
- Are you not good friends?
- Perfectly!
:29:40
But he doesn't like me.
:29:43
What have you done to him?
:29:44
Nothing whatever,
:29:46
but one has no need
of a reason for that.
:29:49
For not liking you? I think one
has need of a very good reason.
:29:53
Ah. I love the English rain.
:29:56
There's always a little of it
and never too much at once.