1:35:01
You mean, you have the feeling
that you've known me before?
1:35:04
I had, for a moment.
1:35:07
As a matter of fact, I felt it quite strongly
the first day you came into my office.
1:35:13
- You didn't show it.
- No?
1:35:15
- Is that why you engaged me?
- Perhaps.
1:35:17
It was also your air of quiet efficiency.
1:35:21
Forgive me...
1:35:23
but is there any possibility
that you might marry again?
1:35:27
Not the slightest.
1:35:28
I'm asking you
because I have a proposal to make.
1:35:32
I need your help in my parliamentary life.
1:35:36
- Social secretary?
- Not exactly.
1:35:40
You know...
1:35:42
it seemed quite a reasonable idea
when it came to me.
1:35:46
But now, I'm rather losing my nerve.
1:35:49
Why? Is it so startling?
1:35:50
It may sound outrageous to you,
but it's not a sudden impulse.
1:35:55
I've thought it over very carefully.
1:35:58
You and I are in the same boat,
Miss Hanson.
1:36:00
We're both ghost-ridden.
1:36:02
That sounds a bit romantic,
but I think it expresses it.
1:36:05
We are prisoners of our past.
1:36:09
Yes.
1:36:12
What if we were to pool our loneliness...
1:36:15
and give each other what little we have:
Support, friendship?
1:36:21
I'm proposing marriage, Miss Hanson.
1:36:24
Or should I call it a merger?
1:36:28
You know, I'm good at mergers.
1:36:32
A Member of Parliament
should have a wife, Margaret.
1:36:35
So I'm told on all sides.
"He needs a clever hostess."
1:36:38
You have exceptional gifts.
1:36:40
Would it interest you
to have a wider field for them?
1:36:44
You need have no fear that I would make
any emotional demands upon you.
1:36:49
I have only sincere friendship to offer.
1:36:53
I won't ask any more from you.
1:36:57
Please. Don't answer at once.
Think it over.