:23:00
Yes.
:23:01
Charles Parker is...
:23:03
a gentleman's valet.
:23:06
You met his brother
there too, I believe.
:23:09
- Yes.
- He is a groom.
:23:13
I didn't care tuppence
what they were.
:23:15
I liked them.
:23:17
I have a passion
to civilise the community.
:23:20
I recognise no social
distinctions at all,
:23:22
of any kind.
:23:24
To me youth,
the mere fact of youth
:23:26
is so wonderful,
:23:28
that I would sooner talk
to a young man for half an hour
:23:31
than... well, than be
cross-examined in court.
:23:34
Do I understand that...
:23:36
even a young boy you might
pick up on the street
:23:39
would be a pleasing companion?
:23:41
I would talk to a street Arab
with pleasure.
:23:43
If he would talk to me.
:23:45
- And take him to your rooms?
- Yes.
:23:47
And then commit
improprieties with him!
:23:51
Certainly not.
:23:54
Certainly not.
:23:55
You withdraw your libel action
:23:57
against Lord Queensberry.
:23:59
Well and good.
:24:02
But there remains a question
of the evidence...
:24:05
Lord Queensberry's
evidence against you.
:24:07
My information is
:24:09
that the Crown wishes
to pursue the matter.
:24:14
In which case,
:24:16
an arrest and a charge
of gross indecency
:24:19
are certain
to follow.
:24:20
The maximum sentence
:24:22
is two years'
hard labour.
:24:25
Nine months' hard labour
:24:26
is reckoned to be more than
a man of our... background
:24:31
can survive.
:24:32
Um...
:24:35
The children...
The boys...?
:24:37
I must go and see them.
:24:38
You have no time
for that.
:24:39
But my wife...
:24:41
I have to say goodbye
to my wife.
:24:44
Unless you wish to subject her
:24:46
to the further humiliation
of seeing you arrested
:24:49
and taken away
in front of the gutter press,
:24:52
Mr Wilde, you must go.