:22:01
The secretary.
:22:05
He helped get her away
from the husband.
:22:10
They say the count kept her
practically a prisoner.
:22:13
Certainly the count
had his own way of life.
:22:19
- You knew him?
- I heard of him at Nice.
:22:22
Handsome, they say...
:22:26
...but eyes with a lot of lashes.
:22:29
When he wasn't with women...
:22:32
...he was collecting china.
:22:35
Paying any price for both,
I understand.
:22:38
Then where's the blame?
:22:40
Any one of us would have helped the
countess, just as the secretary did.
:22:45
He was still helping her a year later.
:22:48
Somebody met them
living together at Lausanne.
:22:52
Living together?
:22:55
Why not? She has the right
to make her life over.
:22:59
Why bury a woman alive
if her husband prefers whores?
:23:03
It's hardly a question of entombment.
:23:05
The countess is here, after all.
:23:09
Or do you believe a woman
should share the same freedoms as men?
:23:15
I suppose I do. Yes, I do.
:23:18
Apparently Count Olenski
takes a similarly modern view.
:23:22
I never heard of him lifting a finger
to get his wife back.
:23:29
Three days later,
the unthinkable happened.
:23:32
Mrs. Manson Mingott
sent out invitations...
:23:35
...summoning everyone
to a formal dinner.
:23:38
Such an occasion demanded
the most careful consideration.
:23:42
It required the appropriate plate.
:23:45
It called for three extra footmen...
:23:47
...two dishes for each course
and a Roman punch in the middle.
:23:54
The dinner, read the invitation...
:23:56
...was "to meet the Countess Olenska. "