An Ideal Husband
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Well, by now, Lord Radley
was a Cabinet minister...

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.. and, as the Baron well knew,
I was working as his personal secretary.

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One night, as usual,
I was the last to leave the office.

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Later that evening,
I wrote the Baron a letter...

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.. containing
highly confidential information,...

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.. highly valuable information
regarding the financing of the Suez Canal.

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- A Cabinet secret?
- Indeed.

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In a subsequent transaction,...
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.. the Baron made for himself
three quarters of a million pounds.

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And you?
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I received from the Baron £110,000.
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You were worth more, Robert.
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No. No, no.
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I got exactly what I wanted.
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I entered straight into Parliament
and I've...

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Well, I've never looked back.
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Is it fair that some act of youthful folly...
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.. should be brought up against me
all these years later?

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Robert, life is never fair!
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Perhaps it's a good thing
for most of us that it's not.

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Now, what does Gertrude
make of all this?

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Robert.
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My dear Robert,
secrets from other people's wives...

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.. are a necessary luxury in modern life.
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But no man should have a secret
from his own wife.

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She invariably finds it out.
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If I were to tell her, Arthur, I would lose
the love of the one woman I worship.

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I couldn't tell her,...
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.. but it... did strike me
that perhaps you might...

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Go on.
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Well, perhaps you might...
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.. talk with her.
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- Oh, really?
- Not to tell her, of course.

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But... just to talk with her.

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