The House of Mirth Page #2
One never talks to one's husband.
Wives never like their husbands
talking to other women.
Only if the women are slightly
too eligible, or divorced.
Wives may do as they wish.
Husbands are expected to be like
money - influential but silent.
If divorcees were more
acceptable, I might be tempted.
Gus! Oh, dear.
You see? I came after all.
Thank you for keeping me
from playing bridge, Mr Gryce.
Not at all.
I have no head for it
or the rules of betting.
I've been dragged into it in the past
and lost an appalling amount
of money.
Mr Gryce, I have shocked you.
Whilst I do not approve
of cards, I do approve of you.
I hope that means you
forgive me. For I am penitent.
- You'll go to church tomorrow?
- Yes.
- May I accompany you?
- Of course, Mr Gryce.
- Good night.
- Good night, Miss Bart.
Dear me, am I late?
- Late for what?
- Late for whom?
Perhaps you had
an earlier engagement?
Yes, I had.
Perhaps I am in the way, then?
Mr Selden is at your disposal.
I never interfere
with Mr Selden's engagements.
But I have no engagement
with Mr Selden.
My engagement was to go to church
and I'm afraid that the
carriages have left without me.
Have they left, do you know?
sometime since.
Then I shall have to walk.
It's too late to get there.
Well, I shall have the credit
for trying, at any rate.
You must be quite breathless.
How fast you walk. I thought
But I've been sitting here
for nearly an hour!
- Waiting for me, I hope.
- Waiting to see if you'd come.
- Weren't you sure that I would?
- If I waited long enough.
But I only had a limited time
to give to the experience.
- Why limited?
- By my other engagement.
Ah, now I see why you were
getting up on your Americana.
That is why I was waiting for you.
To thank you for having
given me so many points.
the subject in so short a time.
Won't you devote the afternoon to it?
We'll take a walk, and you
can thank me at your leisure.
Let us sit here.
I've broken two engagements
for you today
and both of them with Percy Gryce.
How many have you broken for me?
None. My only engagement
at Bellomont was with you.
You really came to Bellomont
to see me?
- Of course I did.
- Why?
Because I always
like to see what you're doing.
You're such a wonderful spectacle.
Well, now that you are here
you can see the effect first-hand.
Oh, I don't flatter
myself that my coming here
has deflected your course
of action by a hair's breadth.
Oh, do give me one
I haven't smoked in days.
Why such unnatural abstinence?
Because it's not deemed becoming
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