Lawrence Of Arabia Page #10

It must be so.

What I owe you is beyond evaluation.

The powerhouse, the telephone

exchange, these I concede.

The pumping plant

I must retain.

If you retain the pumping plant,

there will be no water, sir.

I shall be glad of

any technical assistance.

In fairness, then, you

must bring down your flag.

I shall not bring down my flag,

and if your men attempt it,

my men will resist it.

-Have you any men, sir?

-Enough of that.

It's the kind of thing that

makes a very ugly incident.

I'm sure your government

does not wish to appear at the peace

conference in the light of an aggressor.

I say!

It's Lawrence, isn't it?

Well...

May I shake your hand, sir?

Just want to be able

to say I'd done it, sir.

Haven't we met before?

Don't think so, sir.

No, no, sir, I should

remember that.

It is widely known the Arab Council

took power in my name.

They have no power, sir.

It's illusory.

Illusions can be

very powerful.

Particularly...

when they take this form.

The world is delighted

at the picture of Damascus

liberated by the Arab army.

Led, may I remind you, sir,

by a British-serving officer.

Ah, yes. But then Aurens

is a sword with two edges.

We are equally glad

to be rid of him, are we not?

I thought I was a hard man, sir.

You are merely a general.

I...

must be a king.

Excuse me, sir.

Well?

Well...

it seems we're to have

a British waterworks

with an Arab flag on it.

Do you think it was worth it?

Not my business.

Thank God I'm a soldier.

Yes, sir.

So you keep saying.

You, I suspect,

are chief architect

of this compromise.

-What do you think?

-Me, Your Highness?

On the whole, I wish

I'd stayed in Tunbridge Wells.

Well, sir. Going home.

-Hm?

-Home, sir.

# Goodbye, Dolly, I must leave you #

# Though it breaks my heart to go #

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