1:03:01
fine wine, fresh game
and a house as large as his
other fortunes were small.
1:03:05
We've ceiling beams
en route from Provence.
1:03:11
And next week,
a muralist from Paris arrives...
1:03:16
to paint a trompe l'oeil
in the ballroom.
1:03:20
- Doesn't that please you ?
- Very much.
1:03:26
I would prefer brandy
in the salon...
1:03:28
where we can sit side by side
before the fire.
1:03:35
I'd rather read, thank you.
1:03:39
You prefer a book
to your husband's company ?
1:03:43
Well, no wonder.
I'm only flesh and blood.
1:03:48
That's no match, is it,
for the printed page, hmm ?
1:03:55
Good evening then.
Enjoy your solitude.
1:04:09
Your linens, please.
1:04:14
Your linens.
1:04:20
Now or never.
1:04:23
Voila !
1:04:41
Well, if you won't read it
to your own mother,
1:04:43
perhaps you ought not
to be reading it at all.
1:04:46
It's not your cup of tea, Mother.
1:04:48
Oh, go on, darling,
give it a read.
1:04:58
" Monsieur Bouloir was a man
whose erotic appetites...