:49:03
I've never heard
such bad luck as yours
:49:05
with the Grand National.
:49:08
Bosie tells me
that you would've won
:49:10
but your cousin wouldn't let you
ride the horse?
:49:13
Bloody fool said I was too old.
:49:16
You're never too old.
:49:17
Besides, I'd ridden
Old Joe on the gallops.
:49:20
Came in at 40 to 1.
:49:22
No horse could've carried me
over the jumps, I fear.
:49:25
What are you having?
:49:27
Pea soup and salmon.
:49:29
Then I shall join you.
:49:30
Spring is the time
to lunch on salmon.
:49:33
Though it tastes so much nicer
:49:35
if you've caught it yourself.
:49:37
You fish?
:49:38
I used to, when
I lived in Ireland.
:49:40
My father had the most
charming hunting lodge
:49:43
on an island in a lake.
:49:44
D'you know the west of Ireland?
:49:46
Not really.
:49:52
Whereabouts, exactly?
:50:07
The Christians go around
pretending they know
:50:09
who God is and how he works.
:50:11
I've no time
for that tomfoolery.
:50:13
If you don't know something,
:50:14
you should stand up and say so,
:50:16
not pretend you believe
in some mumbo-jumbo.
:50:19
I can believe in anything,
provided it's incredible.
:50:21
That's why I intend
to die a Catholic,
:50:23
though I couldn't
possibly live as one.
:50:25
Catholicism is such
a romantic religion.
:50:27
It has saints and sinners.
:50:29
The Church of England
only has respectable people
:50:32
who believe in respectability.
:50:33
You get to be a bishop
not by what you believe,
:50:36
but by what you don't.
:50:39
That's true enough!
:50:40
It's the only church
:50:42
where the sceptic
stands at the altar
:50:44
and St Thomas the Doubter
:50:45
is prince of the apostles.
:50:47
No, I couldn't possibly die
in the Church of England.
:50:50
Where do you stand
on cremation?
:50:53
I'm not sure I have a position.
:50:57
I'm for it.