Howards End Page #6

That's why...

you noodle.

-There's no cause to call a person names.

- Yes. there is when a person is being

tremendously stupid.

[ Sighs ]

Oh, listen. This is serious.

Our friend said you should be

looking around for another post now...

before anything happens.

- Will you?

- I'll think about it.

No. you must do more than think.

You must search for another place

while you still have one.

Now, promise you will

do that at least. please.

All right. Thank you.

Miss Schlegel.

Come and tell us when you've found

another place, orjust come anyway.

And don't say no.

Don't dare to say no.

And don't forget your umbrella

or you'll say we pinched it.

You ought to be more careful. Miss Schlegel.

Your servants ought to have orders

not to let such people in.

Oh, but we invited him in.

Yes. we wanted to see him again,

and talk to him and maybe help him...

- not only in a practical way.

- You're too kind.

You behave too well to people

and then they impose on you.

I know the world and that type of man.

Oh, but he is not a type. Mr. Wilcox.

- [ Chuckles ]

- No. I think he is a quite

unusualyoung man.

And he has something in him.

I don't know what it is.

Except that he wants

something better than he's got.

- Oh.

- Yes.

He has a sort of romantic ambition.

It is your view of him

that is romantic. Miss Schlegel.

Evie.

We wish you to have something

to remember Mrs. Wilcox by...

in return for your kindness

to her in those days.

Oh, thank you so much.

What a lovely thought.

Thank you.

She would want you to have it.

She spoke very fondly ofyou.

It's beautiful.

Are you sure?

Is it 1 8th century?

It must be crystal.

Thank you. Thank you. Evie.

- So what does she look like?

- A sort of an old-maid type.

Goodness knows why Father

wanted me to ask her.

She talks and talks

Here she is.

- Miss Schlegel.

- Hello. Miss Wilcox.

How do you do?

This is my fiance, Percy Cahill.

How do you do?

- Ah, good afternoon.

- Hello. I didn't expect to see you.

Well. Evie told me of her little plot,

so I just slipped in and secured a table.

Always secure a table first.

Evie, sit there.

- Miss Schlegel. ifyou please. here.

- Thank you very much.

Mr. Cahill, there.

Well, are you still worrying around

after your young clerks?

- I hope you're hungry.

- Famished. I want to eat heaps.

Good. What will you have?

- Fish pie.

- Ah. fish pie.

Fancy coming for fish pie to Simpson's.

It's not a good thing to go for here.

- Go for something for me then.

- Right. uh...

roast beef and

Yorkshire pudding and...

- What will you have?

- cider to drink.

- That's the type of thing to go for.

- I'll have trout.

I like this place for a joke

once in a while.

It's so thoroughly old English.

Don't you agree?

I began an inventory

of our possessions.

There are over 300 things

in the drawing room alone

Oh, thank you. Lovely.

And that's not counting the books.

Whatever shall I do?

- You see, modern ownership ofmoveables...

-[ Whispering ] I told you.

-is reducing us again to a nomadic hoard.

-How awful.

We are reverting to a civilization

ofluggage, Mr. Wilcox.

- [ Chuckling ]

- Thank you.

- Thank you. sir.

Always tip the carver.

Tip everywhere is my motto.

- Perhaps it does make life more human.

- Then these fellows remember one again.

Especially in the East.

Ifyou tip. they remember you

from year's end to year's end.

- Have you been in the East?

- Yes, Greece and the Levant.

I used to go for sport

and business to Cyprus.

A few piastres properly distributed

help to keep one's memory green.

- [ Margaret ] How shockingly cynical.

- Not a bit. Simply realistic.

Excuse me. sir.

How would you like your beef done?

- Well done.

- Well done.

You don't like cheese.

You never take cheese.

- Percy, I adore cheese.

- You said you didn't like it.

That's the most despicable lie. Percy.

You've gone quite pink.

- I haven't gone pink.

-Your ears have gone pink about the tips.

- I have not.

- [ Henry] Evie, I like that.

Miss Schlegel expects me to act

as house agent for her.

[ Chuckling ]

I want a new home in September.

and someone must find it. I can't.

Do you know of anything, Percy?

Can't say I do.

I wish you would give us Howards End.

- Howards End, I'm afraid, is let.

- Can't you turn out your tenant

and let it to us?

No.

[ Sighs ]

We're nearly demented.

Mr. Wilcox, I am demented.

One bit of advice: Fix your district.

fix your price, then don't budge.

That's how I got Ducie Street

and Oniton.

Well, I shall, uh

I shall look around a bit for you.

- Would you?

- Yes.

- Wouldyou really? How kind.

- Yes.

But I warn you.

the house has not been built...

that would suit the Schlegel family.

- It's no fun trying to help us.

- Fun?

No. but it's a pleasure

and a privilege...

to do whatever I can

for Miss Margaret Schlegel.

Thank you very much.

[ Henry ]

Dear Miss Schlegel...

dare I intrude

on your holiday in Devon...

and requestyou

to come up to London...

where, I may add,

you are greatly missed?

Matter is ofsome urgency.

But to interrupt your holiday.

dear Margaret...

and before we have

undertaken our excursions.

You haven't been

to Nine Barrows Downs.

I know. Aunt Juley,

But I shall be back before long.

Let me go up to town today...

and take the house

if it's the least bit possible.

I don't understand.

Whose house is this?

Mr. Wilcox's, Tibby.

You are being remarkably obtuse.

Are you doing it on purpose?

Look. "Owing to

changed circumstances"

He means that Evie's getting married.

That's his daughter.

"I no longer have need

for a London house of this size..."

"and am willing to let it

on a yearly tenancy."

- That's perfect.

- Out of all our hotel acquaintances...

Mr. Wilcox is the only one who's stuck,

yet we've met far more interesting people.

Interesting people

don't get one houses.

I shall never forget

that dreadful motor driver...

that perfectly dreadful Charles.

My one consolation is that for once

I was able to be useful to you girls.

Thank you. Aunt J uley.

And now it is

my turn to be useful.

This is the ballroom.

Goodness. oh.

- Like it?

- Rather!

Even I know a good thing

when I see it.

Yes. but nowadays, with. uh,

Evie always out with her fiance...

when I get home in the evenings.

I tell you I can't stand the place.

- It would be very lonely for you.

- Yes.

Do you ever get lonely, Miss Schlegel?

I soon shall, horribly.

It's heartbreaking

to leave one's old home.

Goodness. how high

this ceiling must be.

H mm?

Yes. it must be over 30 feet.

No. maybe 40, I should think.

Perhaps even more.

Miss Schlegel. uh...

I've had you here

on false pretenses.

I want to speak on a much more

serious matter than the house.

Uh...

do you think you could

be induced to share?

I mean, is it at all

probable that

Oh, yes. I see.

Miss Schlegel.

Margaret.

- I don't think you quite understand.

- Oh, yes. I ndeed. yes.

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