Suez Page #4

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honors my house.

It is my great pleasure, Your Highness,

to present my son.

It is my great pleasure to welcome

to my court

another of your illustrious family.

Thank you.

Who is that?

That is Prince Said,

the next Viceroy of Egypt.

And your first assignment.

What am I supposed to do with him?

Cultivate him.

Make a friend of him.

So, here you are.

Trying to catch a glimpse

of the young gentleman, eh?

Come now. Get along with you.

Do your marketing.

Yes, grandfather.

What?

Yes, Sargeant.

His Highness, Prince Said,

is calling to see Mr Ferdinand de Lesseps.

I'll tell him.

No, don't go, grandfather. I'll tell him.

Mr de Lesseps, please.

He's in his office.

You mustn't go in.

He's very busy.

Oh, who cares.

I'm sorry, but he doesn't wish

to be disturbed.

Very well.

Mademoiselle. Please, don't go in...

Hello.

Hello, yourself.

What are you doing here?

I just dropped in.

So I see.

Look here, Toni. I'm very busy.

Who is she?

A friend of mine.

I suppose you are in love with her.

She doesn't look like much.

Now look here, Toni,

I've got a lot of very dull work to do

and my mind isn't on it.

And it's hot.

I wish to heaven I were back in Paris

and the flies are driving me mad

and now you have to come in

and make matters worse.

All right. I just came to tell you

that he's here.

Who?

You know.

The Prince.

Said?

You mean to say

that you've left him waiting out...

I only wanted to talk to you.

You're not angry with me?

I ought to take you over my knee

and spank you.

Oh, why don't you?

These men coming from Paris

are so edgy.

Good afternoon, Mathieu.

Good afternoon, Malcolm.

I was hoping you'd join me.

Thank you.

What are you doing?

Brushing up on your tricks?

Maybe I'll need them,

now that I have two of you to fight.

Only one, I'm sorry to say.

I'm going back to Paris.

Paris?

Yes, I've just had a letter from

Victor Hugo.

Things look pretty bad.

I shall miss you, Mathieu.

There's no fun bowling

at an empty wicket, you know.

Don't be too sure about that.

I'm leaving my son in charge here.

Poor lad, eh?

Yes, haven't told him yet.

Poor fellow,

I'm afraid it will be a blow to him.

What's that?

En garde.

Right. A simple.

En garde.

One.

Two.

Three.

Four.

Parry quatre.

Move your arm a little more to the left

for parry quatre. Ready?

Good boy, Your Highness.

I get rid of the old fox and

he leaves me with the young one.

Wait.

Here we go.

Up we go.

Please, could I rest in my father's carriage

for a few hours?

Of course, if you must.

But remember, you promised to ride

all the way to Suez.

Oh, all right. I will ride.

Good boy, Said.

(In Arabic)

Good morning, grandfather.

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