Goodbye, Mr. Chips Page #7

And the blessing I shall ask

Will remain unchanging

To be brave and strong and true

And to fill the world with love

My whole life through

Did I fill the world with love?

Did I fill the world with love

Did I fill the world with love

My whole life through?

- I'll take you around.

- Not now.

I have time before my class.

No, please, darling, not now.

You go and tell them about the interesting

derivation of the word "soubrette."

I'm just not feeling up to it.

Forgive me, darling, please forgive me.

Of course.

Just give me a few days to learn

and I won't disgrace you, I promise.

I'll never do that.

Never, never, never.

Of course you won't.

Congratulations, Chipping.

Thank you, Fenwick. How's Delilah?

Dreadful, I wish I could report

a snake had eaten her.

She's the most repulsive animal

in my menagerie.

I hesitate to put it

more bluntly in front of your wife.

What you mean, Lord Sutterwick,

is the girl's a tart.

I didn't say that.

I merely said that I happen to know

she's had numerous love affairs...

...with several well-known young men.

and her moral reputation in London stinks.

Dear me.

Then why has she married Chipping?

As I heard the story, Calbury's the one

she's determined to get to the altar.

This marriage

with a figure like Chipping...

...is her last attempt

to bring Bill Calbury to heel.

That's quite beside the point, of course.

My own point is quite simple.

As Mrs. Chipping, this person will be.

until she sees fit to leave her husband...

...in charge of my son's welfare.

And that, headmaster, I won't have.

That I won't buy at any price.

Chipping either loses his house

or you don't get those playing fields.

And that's quite that.

Then that is your ultimatum,

Lord Sutterwick?

Ultimatum is hardly a word

I would have chosen myself.

Indeed, then what word

would you have chosen yourself?

Excuse me.

Chipping?

Katherine!

Katherine!

Caesar, heel, Heel.

Katherine! Katherine!

My dear fellow.

My dear old fellow.

Katherine!

- My dear old fellow, I must ask...

- That's a bloody silly word, suitability.

- I didn't invent it.

- How do I know?

It's in Webster.

Well, I'm not gonna let it happen, Max.

Apollo has willed it.

Today is mine

What shall I do with it?

Throw it away

That's what I do with it

Nine times out of 10

The sun will shine

Am I a friend of it?

You wouldn't say I was a friend of it

Nine times out of 10

The day is fine

What will I see in it?

Not very much

That's what I see in it

Nine times out of 10

What shall I do

With today?

Captain Calbury, could you tell me

where I could find Katherine?

Perhaps you don't remember me...

...but we once had the pleasure

of meeting at a party of hers.

- Please, tell me. Please, where is she now?

- Troops, forward march.

Try Ursula.

I'll get it, my pet.

Who is making that dreadful noise?

Darling, how divine of you to come.

Party would have been hell

without you.

Not that it isn't hell.

even with you, but you mustn't mind.

- Still taking to drink in that third act?

- No, in the second act now.

Yes, that would be much better.

Glass of bubbly for you, I think.

Come along, darling.

No, no, darling.

urgent business to attend to.

We're playing the acting game.

which I know you absolutely adore, darling.

And I'm doing "the part is greater

than the whole" in that loom in there.

And I think I've found a way of doing it

so they can guess it quite quickly.

- Is my wife here?

- Wife?

- Which wile, darling?

- She was called Katherine Bridges.

Katie? Of course she's here.

- Did you say "wife"?

- Yes.

- But that would make you her husband.

- Yes.

Then she's not here, darling.

she's nowhere near the place.

That's what I was told to say

if you came in.

She's in the kitchen, darling.

making scrambled eggs.

- There's the kitchen.

- Ursula, you're on.

What was my phrase?

"The part is greater than the whole."

Oh, yes.

I can do that.

Come along, darling.

Too early. Whoever you are.

you'll have to wait your tum.

I don't intend to.

You would catch me scrambling eggs.

It's no way to play this scene.

I do not understand

what you mean by that.

I've only come to tell you that I love you.

that I cannot live without you.

Your grammar is too perfect,

and your prose style too impeccable.

You can't qualify superlatives.

- Can't you?

- Well, you can, if you want to.

You can do anything if you want to.

You'll still remain, for me, the only

person in the world that I've ever loved...

...or ever will love.

Why did you run away?

I said it all outside that assembly hall.

I told you then

I wouldn't ever disgrace you.

Ever, ever, ever.

That might just, but only just, explain

why some gills in your position...

...might have deserted their duty

through sheer, paralysing, bloody funk.

It didn't explain why you did.

Well, I did desert it.

- Isn't that proof enough?

- No.

- I think those eggs are burning.

- Then let them.

Mr. Chips.

I love you very much.

- You know that, don't you?

- Yes.

You think I ran away from you...

- ...because of sheer, paralysing funk?

- Yes.

Don't think it might have been

because I love you?

Yes, but it was still funk.

- Chips, you don't know...

- Oh, yes, I do know.

I know all about Sutterwick, his threats

to tell the governors about your past.

I know all about your unsuitability...

Horrible word.

Both our unsuitabilities...

The plural is even worse.

But how you'd ever imagine

that a word like suitability...

Which is only in Webster, mind you,

not in the Oxford, or is it?

...Could ever prevail over a word like love.

- which is in all the dictionaries.

There's no earthly reason to cry.

you know.

Of course there isn't.

You must have been all over the place

looking for me.

Here and there.

I demanded and took a fortnight's leave.

You, who never cut a class

in your whole life...

...took off a fortnight?

I'd have taken a lifetime.

Oh, Chips.

You'll lose everything you hold dear.

Everything I hold dear, I'm holding now.

Anyway, I mean to fight

and beat Sutterwick.

Don't tell me that dreadful man is here

or I'll have to get the police.

- How are the eggs?

- Scrambled.

So I see.

The part is greater than the whole.

With me acting.

wouldn't you think they'd guess?

All they kept saying was

"The Brothers Karamazov."

I'll get Freddie

Franklin-Finch to fix these.

He adores doing eggs for some reason.

He's very Freudian, our Freddie.

Ursula, you know Lord Sutterwick?

That's light, darling, the police.

There's a rather divine sergeant

at Vine Street.

I'll get him.

How that Sutterwick

has the gall to come here...

...when I'd thrown him out

bag and baggage last July.

I kept a little of the baggage...

...just a few ratty pieces of sable

and the odd chandelier.

Oh, but so mean.

with all those millions.

Darling, connect me

with Vine Street Police Station.

Sergeant Higgins.

Ursula, Lord Sutterwick is not here.

I only asked you if you knew him.

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