Brideshead Revisited Page #2

(EVERYONE LAUGHING )

-My dears.

-HeIIo, BIanche.

HeIIo, BIanche.

I couIdn't get away before.

I was Iunching

with my preposterous tutor.

I toId him I had to change for footer.

(ALL LAUGHING )

(BLANCHE MOANS )

Anthony, you remember CharIes.

From Iast night?

CharIes is reading history,

but he wants to be an artist.

-No!

-Why ever not?

-Either you are an artist or you are not.

-MAN:
Hear, hear.

-Then I am.

-Interesting.

You have about you

a distinct hint of the pragmatic.

What do you want to be an artist for?

I mean, what's the point of it?

Why don't you just

buy a bIoody camera

and take a bIoody photograph

and stop giving yourseIf airs?

-That's what I want to know!

-That's it, go it, Boy!

-I don't give myseIf airs.

-Yes, you do.

And, anyway,

you haven't answered my question.

Come on! Answer!

-Answer, answer, answer, answer...

-MAN:
Yes.

ALL:
Answer, answer, answer, answer...

Because a camera

is a mechanicaI device

which records a moment in time,

but not what that moment means

or the emotions that it evokes.

(ALL GIGGLING )

Whereas a painting,

however imperfect it may be,

is an expression of feeIing.

An expression of Iove.

Not just a copy of something.

(BLANCHE CLAPPING )

And who on earth do you think

cares about your feeIings?

SEBASTIAN:
I do.

Boy, you're an oaf. Behave yourseIf.

To art and Iove.

ALL:
To art and Iove!

We'd just arrived in his rooms, then,

without even a, ''By your Ieave,''

the Lord FIyte pokes his head

through the window and vomits.

Ground fIoor rooms, you see.

Poor CharIes may never recover.

-Morning, Jasper.

-Morning.

(LAUGHING )

RUGB Y PLAYER:

Two tries out of you today...

CharIes. You're to come away at once!

I've got a basket of strawberries

and a bottIe of Chateau Peyraguey,

which isn't a wine you've ever tasted,

so don't pretend.

It's heaven with strawberries.

Just the pIace to bury a crock of goId.

I shouId Iike to bury

something precious

in every pIace where I've been happy.

And, then,

when I was oId and ugIy and miserabIe,

I couId come back

and dig it up and remember.

Come aIong, CharIes.

There's someone I want you to meet.

-Is this where you Iive?

-It's where my famiIy Iive.

Don't worry,

you won't have to meet them.

-Oh, but I shouId Iike to.

-You can't. They're away.

Everything's shut up.

We better go this way.

SEBASTIAN:
Keep up.

CharIes. CharIes.

(BOTH LAUGHING )

(DOOR OPENING )

WeII, this is a surprise!

How IoveIy to see you.

(NANNY HAWKINS EX CLAIMS )

Meet my new chum, CharIes.

CharIes, this is Nanny Hawkins.

This is who I wanted you to meet.

-I don't think I know you, do I?

-How do you do?

Your friend has charming manners.

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