Major Barbara Page #3
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- 1941
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of a millionaire...
penniless professor of Greek.
Good evening, Morrison. I
suppose we're too late for dinner.
I regret to say so, sir.
But, sir, your, uh...
Oh. Excuse me.
[Door Opens]
- Is anything the matter, Mother?
- Presently, Stephen.
Don't begin to read, Stephen.
I shall require all your attention.
Oh, it was only while I was waiting.
Now.
- I haven't kept you waiting very long,
I think? - Not at all, Mother.
Give me my cushion, please.
Sit down.
Don't fiddle with your tie, Stephen.
There's nothing the matter with it.
Oh, I... I beg your pardon.
Stephen, I really cannot bear the whole
burden of our family affairs any longer.
You must advise me.
Really, Mother? I know so
little about your family affairs.
So impossible to mention
some things to you.
- I suppose you mean your father.
- Yes.
My dear, we can't go on all
our lives not mentioning him.
You're old enough now to be
taken into my confidence...
and to help me deal
with him about the girls.
No, the girls are all
right. They are engaged.
Yes, I've made a very
good match for Sarah.
Charles Lomax will be
a millionaire at 35.
But in the meantime, his trustees
cannot allow him more than 800 a year.
- Uh, yes, but... - Sarah will
have to find at least another 800.
And what about Barbara?
I thought Barbara was going to make
the most brilliant career of all of you.
And what does she do?
Joins the Salvation Army and walks in
one evening with a professor of Greek...
whom she's picked up in the street.
when I heard they were engaged.
Cusins is a very nice fellow, certainly.
he was born in Australia.
make a very good husband.
- After all, nobody can say a word
against Greek. - No, indeed.
Besides, my dear, you must marry soon.
I'm trying to arrange something for you.
Don't sulk, Stephen.
I'm not sulking, Mother.
I mean, what has all
this to do with my father?
My dear, Stephen. Where
is the money to come from?
You know how poor my father is.
Whereas your father must
be fabulously wealthy.
There's no need to
remind me of that, Mother.
I've hardly been able to open a newspaper
in my life without seeing our name in it.
The Undershaft quick firer, the Undershaft
torpedo, the Undershaft submarine.
And now, the Undershaft bomb.
At Harrow they called
me the Woolwich infant.
And at Cambridge some little
beast swiped my Bible...
your first birthday present to me.
My writing underneath my name, "Son
and heir to Undershaft and Lazarus...
Death and Destruction Dealers.
Address:
Christendom and Judaea."But that wasn't so bad as the way people
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