All This, and Heaven Too Page #7

Unfortunately, the House of Peers

is meeting this afternoon.

Your father has to make a speech about

the advantages of a treaty with Turkey.

- A speech?

- Let Turkey wait.

- May we come and hear you?

- Perhaps, if I make a very good speech...

...mademoiselle will allow me

to come along on your walk in the park.

- What is it, Pierre?

- The carriage is ready.

Oh, yes.

Mademoiselle, I'd like to talk to you.

Yes, monsieur.

Isabelle, take care of Raynald, will you?

Louise, Berthe, get out your books.

Yes, mademoiselle.

Come, Raynald.

- Yes, monsieur?

- Tell me, please...

...about these sniffles.

Is it a cold, do you think?

It is too early to say.

He will be all right.

I'll keep him in today.

- Good. Mademoiselle?

- Yes, monsieur?

There is something I wanted to tell you.

If I have fallen short in any way,

monsieur...

Do you know, we had almost forgotten

what peace was...

...until you came into this house.

I can't tell you how much it means to me.

But, really, monsieur,

they're such good children.

How foolish my fears seem now.

- Fears, monsieur?

- About you. Because you were a stranger.

From now on,

my fear will be that some day...

...you will leave us.

Oh, I would not be so foolish

as that, monsieur.

For as long as the children need me

and you wish me to stay.

Thank you, mademoiselle.

Berthe, my darling, the song

is to learn history to, not to dance to.

Yes, mademoiselle. I didn't mean to.

I'm very sorry.

And, Louise, you are old enough

to know better.

But, mademoiselle, it's so hard to remember

things that happened so long ago...

...and way over in England, not France.

When I taught an English girl

French history, she said the same thing.

The war of the Roses is very simple

if you just learn the song.

The king's coat of arms had the red rose

of Lancaster for an emblem...

...and the queen's,

the white rose of York.

I know. Just like Mama and Papa.

She had a crest of her own

before she married him.

Only his was better than hers.

- Mama had the most money.

- Not when they were married.

She has now.

At least Grandfather Sebastiani has.

He owns this house. He only lets us

live here because Papa married Mama.

That's true, mademoiselle.

I'll bet it makes Papa simply furious...

Now, now, Louise. Some other time.

We must finish our song.

Berthe, my darling, come here.

There.

I apologize for intruding on your domain,

Mademoiselle Deluzy.

But, madame, on the contrary,

we wish you would visit us more often.

I'm only here now because I was

sure this is where I would find monsieur.

- He spends so much time with the children.

- He left, Mother.

- He's gone to make a speech.

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