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- Not leaving?
- Will you excuse me, Father?
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Come here for a moment.
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Here, in the light.
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You are flushed. Your eyes look sick.
1:24:18
You have been weeping.
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You have broken your engagement.
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Oh, if you have, I must tell you,
Catherine,
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that I admire you greatly for it.
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I know the effort you must have made.
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- Do you, Father?
- But in time the pain will pass.
1:24:38
I cannot begin to tell you
how proud of you I am.
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- Are you?
- Oh, deeply. Most deeply proud.
1:24:48
He deserted me.
1:24:52
What?
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Morris deserted me.
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- Now do you admire me, Father?
- Oh, Catherine.
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Don't be kind to me.
It doesn't become you.
1:25:04
Are you blaming me
because I tried to protect you?
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Yes.
1:25:08
Someday you will realise
I have done you a great service.
1:25:11
I can tell you now what you
have done. You have cheated me.
1:25:14
You thought any handsome, clever man
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would be as bored with me
as you were.
1:25:18
It was not love that made you
protect me, it was contempt.
1:25:21
Morris Townsend did not love you,
Catherine.
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I know that now, thanks to you.
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Better to know it now
than 20 years hence.
1:25:28
Why? I lived with you for 20 years
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before I found out
you didn't love me.
1:25:32
Morris may not have have hurt me
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or starved me of affection
more than you did.
1:25:36
Since you couldn't love me,
you should have let someone else try.
1:25:40
You have found a tongue at last,
Catherine.
1:25:43
It is only to say
such terrible things to me.
1:25:46
Yes. This is a field where you
will not compare me to my mother.
1:25:50
Should I have let him ruin your life?
1:25:52
You'll find some honest, decent man.
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- You have many fine qualities.
- And 30,000 a year.
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Yes. That should make it possible
for you to choose with discretion.