Goodbye, Mr. Chips Page #5

and skipping around.

But even so.

Hello.

Oh, why, hello.

Medea at the Old Vic?

No, I hadn't forgotten.

It's just that it would be impossible

to get tickets for this Friday.

You've got them.

223 Riverwalk, Chiswick.

Yes, yes. I've got that down.

Oh, yes.

Oh, I'm sure

I would enjoy meeting them very much.

Looking forward to it enormously.

And how nice to hear from you

out of the blue.

Goodbye.

I suppose a telegram at the last minute

saying I'm ill.

But, um, you didn't write

the address down.

What 101?

To send a telegram to, uh...

Oh, I can't. I've forgotten it.

223 Riverwalk, Chiswick.

- Two?

- Two.

Two.

...3 Riverwalk, Chiswick.

Oh, but could...?

Oh, but, darling, what, I ask you,

but what's going to happen to Chloe?

I mean, it's all too devastating for words

to be left by Eloise...

...for, of all people,

Freddie Franklin-Finch.

Freddie Franklin-Finch,

who doesn't even come up to her navel.

- Ale you going in?

- Yes.

Oh, don't, it's hell.

What is poor Chloe going to do?

You're in that wonderful play

at the Criterion...

...where you drink in the last act.

- Actually...

- You do it beautifully.

It made me believe every other word.

- Where do you wear that orchid?

- Well, I...

- Dear heart.

- Not at all.

But Eloise and Freddie.

I mean, you know me, darling.

I don't care what people do...

...provided they do it in bed,

but it's too much.

I mean he's so small, it's impractical...

I don't think I do know you.

You must be mad.

- What's your name?

- Arthur Chipping.

That's right. You take to drink.

I do not take to drink, madam.

Excuse me.

Madam, I like. Madam, I adore.

Chipping, I know.

The guest of honour at some party...

...I've been asked to

at Augustus John's or Tallulah's.

Mr. Chips.

I was so scaled you wouldn't tum up.

My guest of honour, Arthur Chipping.

How do you do?

Oh, it was here. I knew it was somewhere.

Oh, but what a beautiful man, Katie.

What's your next play, darling?

I'm not an actor, madam.

I'm a schoolmaster.

He could call me madam all night.

Well, come along, children, time to go.

- Night is young, say bye-bye.

- Bye.

- Oh, Katie, darling, absolutely wonderful.

- Thank you.

Wear that orchid behind your ear.

you know.

Oh, a beautiful man.

Where Katie finds them, I don't know.

Change from that last one,

that abysmal Bill Calbury, or the one...

Come on, Ursula.

I told Penelope we'd be there ages ago.

Bobbie, my dear, don't rush me.

Can't you see I'm running away?

I'm so glad you came.

So am I. Very glad indeed.

Come in.

You won't know anybody.

but they're all mad to meet you.

- They are?

- Mm-hm.

Who was that lady

I just had the pleasure of meeting?

Ursula?

- She's just Ursula.

- Indeed?

Very famous actress, Ursula Mossbank,

but, well, she's just Ursula.

She seemed just Ursula.

Oh, this is for you.

How very sweet.

Dear Mr. Chips.

Up to form.

Very up to form.

I didn't know who to ask,

so I just got together a few of my friends.

I'd be delighted to meet them.

I adore Ramsay MacDonald.

He's got such a beautiful face.

And if you took off his moustache...

...people would stand up in Hyde Park

to see him go by.

- I wouldn't.

- Never mind, darling.

Hello.

- Tilly, Arthur Chipping.

- Hello. How do you do?

Eloise, Arthur Chipping.

my guest of honour.

How do you do?

Yes, I know...

Oh, hello, you remember me? Algie.

- You're, um...?

- Chipping.

Oh, yes, yes.

Well, come and have green tea, eh?

Green tea. Come along, old chap.

Now, what would you like?

My dear, you weren't coming.

Amiably done. Kevin had the

divine Captain Carville, oh...

Look what you've done, you silly gill.

You've spilt my white lady

all over your dress.

Allow me, dear.

Well, you must...

Oh, you're a friend of Maynard Keynes.

and you write for that paper, Monsieur?

- Actually, no, I...

- Oh, I swore it.

Mind you, didn't think

I'd be back so soon.

Johnnie, how sweet of you to come.

Absolute hell.

all the gate-washers in the world.

My dear, isn't it a shame

I'd never heard of you?

You just hold my hand and I'll...

But I daren't in public.

Go rescue your friend.

He's stuck with Tilly.

- What friend?

- There.

I'm so sorry.

It's not Chips?

Yes, poor darling.

What?

One moment.

Bye-bye, darling. Thank you so much.

I mean that with all men...

- Chips.

- Johnnie.

Let's go over there, Longbridge.

- Let's sit down somewhere.

- Move along.

Move along.

Now, dear, who in the devil

would want to see a museum?

Oh, frankly, I never have sleep.

but you have to take your...

- What's the matter with you?

- Oh, bless you.

But why are you guest of honour?

Along story, Johnnie, but look,

in Naples, I did my best for you...

...because she's nice,

and I'm doing my best for you...

Oh, gosh.

- You're raving, aren't you?

- Well, of course.

An hour of this, and who wouldn't?

But there's Medea after this.

You love this minuscule creature.

and I don't altogether blame you...

...so I'm doing my very best for you.

Oh, I do apologize

for this nightmare of a party.

Oh, it's not a nightmare at all.

It's splendid.

Hello, Katie, darling.

Haven't you got the wrong address?

That's a good one.

I helped furnish this house, remember?

Yes, I do...

...but I have a private party in it

to which you were not invited.

- So would you please go?

- Now, Katie, old gill, really.

Bygones and things.

Wouldn't be so unkind to an old friend

as to throw him out"?

Did you not hear Miss Bridges

ask you to go?

- Who are you?

- It doesn't matter who I am.

All that matters is that Miss Bridges

wishes you to leave her house...

...and you are therefore leaving.

I've met you somewhere before.

I remember that voice.

Now, here are your hat and stick,

and that is the front door.

- Do tell this idiotic man...

- Straight ahead, please.

That voice. There's something about it.

I don't know who you are.

but I can guess what you are.

- You're a schoolteacher.

- Correct.

- I'll bet you give your boys hell.

- Only the bad ones.

Now I know.

Not that I needed to,

but now I know for sure.

What?

Well, If that's how you do

your best for me...

...I'd be interested to see how

you do your worst.

My dear old fellow, you really mustn't

leap to insane conclusions.

It wasn't a very long leap, was it?

Anyway, it's not insane.

It she won't have me, and she won't.

you're much the next best thing.

It's very sane, I think, for both of you.

Go away, Johnnie.

You're putting a large foot in it.

Let me handle things.

And, Johnnie, darling,

take care of the party for me.

Walk through the world with me

And you will see how happy life can be

How fresh and new

When you're with me

This is a fascinating stretch of London.

The Georgian archite...

Don't talk. Do you mind?

- I only observed...

- I know.

But don't.

Let's fly away and find another day

To call our own

Where we can be in love alone

Where we can live the life

We dream of living

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