Effi Briest Page #2

-What entered your mind?

-You're right, Effi. l'm glad to hear it.

-But you have something else on your mind.

-Perhaps.

Tell me, then!

Well, you see, Mama...

the fact that he's older than l am...

doesn't matter. Perhaps it's a good thing.

He's not really old.

He's fit and well...

and soldierly and dashing.

l could almost say l'm all for him...

if only...

well...

-if only he were just a little different.

-Different in what way?

Yes, in what way?

You mustn't laugh at me, Mama.

lt's something l heard only recently

at the pastor's house.

We were talking about lnnstetten...

when suddenly old Niemeyer frowned...

in an admiring sort of way and said:

''The baron is a man of principles.''

-So he is, Effi.

-Of course.

l think Niemeyer even said...

lnnstetten was a person...

of great probity...

and that seems to me to be even higher.

But l am not at all.

You see, Mama...

that's something

that pains and frightens me.

He's so kind and good to me...

so considerate.

But l'm afraid of him.

A MAN lN HlS POSlTlON

HAS TO BE COLD, OF COURSE.

ON WHAT DO PEOPLE FOUNDER lN LlFE

lF NOT WARM HUMAN EMOTlONS?

There's nothing like a wedding!

Except one's own, of course.

l don't know how you can

say such a thing, Briest.

lt's news to me that you

have suffered from marriage.

l can't imagine why.

Let's not talk about us.

We didn't even have a honeymoon!

Your father was against it.

But Effi is going on honeymoon.

How l envy her!

On the ten o'clock train, off they went!

They must be...

somewhere near Regensburg by now.

l imagine he'll describe...

the treasures of the Valhalla,

without alighting, of course.

lnnstetten is...

an excellent person...

but a bit of an art fiend.

Whereas Effi...

our poor Effi is a child of nature.

l'm afraid he'll torment her...

with his enthusiasm for art.

All men torment their wives.

There are worse things

than a passion for art.

You're right.

We don't want to quarrel over that.

lt's much too vast a subject.

And every person's different.

You would have been in your element.

You'd have suited lnnstetten

far better than Effi.

A pity! Now it's too late.

The other things will be sent on.

Thank you.

Off we go, Kruse!

They are dependent

on the regions they trade with...

and since they have

connections throughout the world...

you'll find people among them

from all over the world...

even in our good old Kessin,

although it's out in the sticks.

But it's delightful, Geert.

You always speak of ''the sticks''...

but l find a whole new world to discover.

All sorts of exotic things.

That's what you really meant?

A whole new world...

with a black man or a Turk perhaps...

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