:08:01
I should have asked you to have
lunch with me even if you hadn't
upset the vase so clumsily.
:08:04
Come along. We needn't talk to
each other if we don't feel like it.
:08:07
Thank you very much.
:08:13
Oh, I'll just ha-have
s-some scrambled eggs.
:08:16
Oui, mademoiselle.
:08:19
What's happened to your friend ?
:08:21
Oh, she's ill in bed with a cold.
:08:23
I'm sorry
I was so rude to you yesterday.
:08:26
The only excuse I can offer is that I've
become boorish through living alone.
:08:30
You weren't really.
You simply wanted to be alone, and--
:08:32
Tell me, is Mrs. Van Hopper
a friend of yours or just a relation ?
:08:36
No, she's my employer.
I'm what is known as a paid companion.
:08:39
I didn't know companionship
could be bought.
:08:42
I looked up the word ''companion''
in the dictionary once.
:08:44
It said,
''a friend of the bosom.''
:08:46
[ Chuckles ]
I don't envy you the privilege.
:08:48
Oh, she's very kind, really,
and I have to earn my living.
:08:51
-Haven't you any family ?
-No, my mother died years and years ago,
:08:55
and then there was only my father.
:08:58
And he died last summer,
and then I took this job.
:09:01
- How rotten for you.
- Yes, it was rather,
:09:04
because, you see,
we got on so well together.
:09:06
You and your father ?
:09:08
Yes. He was a lovely person--
very unusual.
:09:10
- What was he ?
- A painter.
:09:12
- Ah. Was he a good one ?
- Well, I thought so.
:09:15
But people didn't understand him.
:09:17
Yes, that's often the trouble.
:09:19
He painted trees.
At least it was one tree.
:09:23
You mean he painted the same
tree over and over again ?
:09:25
Yes. You see, he had a theory that
if you should fiind one perfect thing...
:09:29
or place or person,
you should stick to it.
:09:31
Do you think that's very silly ?
:09:33
Not at all.
I'm a fiirm believer in that myself.
:09:35
And what did you fiind
to do with yourself
while he was painting his tree ?
:09:39
Oh, I sat with him and I sketched
a little. I don't do it well, though.
:09:42
-You're going sketching this afternoon ?
-Yes.
:09:44
- Where ?
- I haven't made up my mind.
:09:46
- I'll drive you somewhere in the car.
- Oh, no, please. I didn't mean--
:09:49
Oh, nonsense.
Finish up that mess and we'll get along.
:09:52
Thank you. It's very kind of you,
but I'm not very hungry.
:09:55
Oh, come on.
Eat it up like a good girl.