David Copperfield Page #13

(AGNES) Will you go away again.?

(DAVID) Perhaps. There is

little enough to hold me here.

You have a secret.

Let me share it.

- A secret?

- There is someone close to your heart.

My aunt told me. Confide in me.

Let me be your friend and brother

in this as in so many other things.

- What have I done?

- I am not myself.

Don't speak to me now.

We'll talk later.

If you have a burden,

let me lighten it.

I must go.

If you have a lover, you can tell me.

The attachment I have is not

a new one. It is not what you suppose.

I cannot reveal it! It has long been mine

and must remain mine.

Agnes...

You love me?

I have loved you all my life.

- For God's sake, let me go.

- What have I ever been without you?

- You mean as a sister?

- No.

Much more than that.

I went away loving you,

I stayed away loving you,

and I have returned home loving you.

Do you remember how Dora

sent for me the night that she died?

She made me

promise something to her.

What was it?

She told me that only I could occupy

this empty space in your heart.

(CHILDREN'S LAUGHTER)

Trotwood! We have a visitor.

(DAN LAUGHS)

Maybe things were a little hard at first,

but what with sheep farming

and one thing and another,

we are as well to do as well could be.

And Emily?

She might have married

any number of times.

"But Uncle," she says to me,

"that's gone forever."

That's my Emily.

There's happy news of someone else

you might recall, sir.

"Mr Wilkins Micawber,

magistrate, writer, famed public orator,

"and manager of

the Port Middlebay Bank,

"was fted at a public dinner

this Thursday last.

"Far be it from us to follow

our distinguished townsman

"through the smoothly-flowing periods of

his polished and highly ornate address!"

...and the Lord Chancellor

turned to me and said,

"By God, Micawber, you're right.

The law must be changed."

(LAUGHTER)

"It was a masterpiece of eloquence,

"and those passages in which he traced

his own brilliantly successful career,

"with particular emphasis

on the importance

"of avoiding

pecuniary liabilities at all costs,

"brought a tear

to the manliest eye present."

I would like to introduce you to

the greatest person I have ever known.

My lovely wife, Emma.

(APPLAUSE)

(CLOCK STRIKES)

And so my story

draws to its close.

There was a night much like this

many years ago, Trot.

Except perhaps for one more item

that demands to be recorded.

Our first two children had been boys.

It's a girl

A beautiful little girl

(BABY IS WHIMPERING)

She shall be called

Betsey Trotwood Copperfield

in honour of her godmother.

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