:05:01
to serve and protect a woman...
:05:05
and have children by her...
:05:07
is life's chiefest glory.
:05:11
Yes, sir.
:05:13
You must never, ever mention
any of this to your mother...
:05:17
or- or- or indeed to any lady.
:05:19
And if at your next school
the fellows mention it...
:05:22
just shut them up.
:05:24
Tell them you know.
:05:26
I think I shan't marry.
:05:28
What?
:05:30
Look, um, in 10 years to the day...
:05:34
I invite you and your wife to dine
with me and my wife as our guests.
:05:38
- What do you say?
- Oh, sir.
:05:40
Yes. It's a bargain then, is it?
:05:45
Oh, God. Those infernal designs.
:05:52
Sir, won't they be all right?
The tide will have covered them by now.
:06:00
Oh, yes, the rising tide.
:06:03
I only hope to God he's right...
:06:05
by God.
:06:13
Come, Victoria. Come.
:06:19
Wagner's utter rubbish.
Fat women with horns on their heads...
:06:22
singing at the tops of their voices...
:06:24
about how happy they are to be dying.
:06:26
It's a horrible noise. And it's unhealthy.
:06:28
But music is about death. It always has been.
:06:30
I think he's trying to provoke us.
:06:32
Go on then, Risley. Enlighten us.
:06:34
A superior mind wouldn't need enlightening.
:06:37
Music is the highest of the arts.
:06:40
It needs no reference to the figurative...
:06:42
or the corporeal.
:06:44
It is therefore, of all the arts,
the closest to death.
:06:48
Wagner's by no means unhealthy.
:06:51
He's merely expressing
most exactly the state of things.
:06:54
Help yourselves to potatoes, Hall.
Don't stand on ceremony.
:06:58
I can't stand music.