Of Human Bondage Page #7

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behind the way you did before.

Thanks, Dunsford.

Cabby?

Yes, sir.

52 Withman place.

Here you are.

Is this your luggage? Yes, it is.

Mr. Carey

expecting you?

Yes, he is.

Oh, all right.

What's your name?

Mrs. Philip Carey.

Philip!

Let me help you.

She's getting to be so heavy.

George, will you

take Mrs. Carey's box up?

She's got some things out here.

Mrs. Carey?

I told her we was married.

I had to.

Why did you tell her

we were married?

Well, I had to

tell her something.

I didn't know what she'd think of

me, arriving here bag and baggage.

I had to tell her

on account of the baby.

Shouldn't I have said it?

It doesn't matter.

I'll put her to bed right

away. Where shall I go?

Come on. In here.

Right here.

I'm afraid I haven't got

a cradle for the baby.

Oh, she'll be all right.

She's tired out. She's

always tired, like her mother.

Look at you.

Remember you said once

down at Brighton

You'd bring her up as your own?

Well, now you've got your chance.

If I'm going to

cook and clean up,

I'd better buy an apron

or something.

Sit down, Philip.

No need to be so formal.

Mildred, I would

have found a room

For you somewhere by yourself,

But actually I'm very hard

up. I've got only 80 pounds

To carry me through at the

hospital until I qualify,

And that's for everything.

I get a bit

panic-Stricken sometimes

When I think of the future.

What about that

old uncle of yours?

Well, if anything should

happen to him,

Of course there would be his

insurance, which would come to me.

You know, Philip...

It's very good of you not to

say anything disagreeable to me

After what you found out

about me last night.

Don't think of it.

It's past, isn't it?

You are a gentleman

in every sense of the word,

The only one I ever met, and

you haven't changed a bit.

I bought some extra

milk for the baby.

And you're going out now,

just as I've arrived?

Give me my hat.

I don't know that I will now.

On Monday nights, I meet

some of my fellow students.

We spend the evening

together drinking and talking.

Philip, you are an old silly.

A fat lot you must

have ever loved me.

It's a little bit humiliating.

What's humiliating?

What you said

last night in that room

When you said I could

come and stay here.

Did you mean you didn't

want me to be anything to you

Except just a cook

and that sort of thing?

Yes, I did. Don't sit up for me.

I'll see you tomorrow. Good night.

Good evening, sir. I've

got Mrs. Carey's box here.

Bring it in here.

In here?

No. In there.

Well, you better put it down there.

You might wake the baby.

There you are, missus.

Come on, ma.

Oh, shut up, you!

Good king Wenceslas looked out

on the feast of Stephen

when the snow lay

round about...

Here you are. Here's

a nice little sprig

Of mistletoe for luck, ma'am.

I saw Mrs. Foreman out.

They've got

a 12-Pound turkey.

I just got a chicken for us.

Mrs. Foreman remarked about my husband

Not being out for the

Christmas shopping.

I told her you had a cold.

Oh, it ain't half blowy out. I'm froze.

I bought myself

a little present.

I haven't a rag

to wear on my back

Around the house of an evening.

I took the money out of your

cash box. I hope you don't mind.

You did?

I needed money

for the shopping, anyway.

It was only a pound

I took for everything.

Where did you find the key?

Under the paper in the

drawer, where you keep it.

That's all I have in the world.

After the new year, I think

you should try to find a job.

What have I got to

wear to find a job in?

You bought something today.

This isn't the one to find a

job in. Wait till you see it.

You could put the

holly around the place,

And it wouldn't look so

much like an undertaker's.

You'll find a bunch of mistletoe

there. You could hang that up, too.

Couldn't we go out

somewhere tomorrow night?

Do you have to go to your friend

Mr. Athelny

and all those brats?

No, I'll see the Athlnlys tonight.

Tonight?

It's Christmas eve.

I'm taking them

a Christmas tree.

I bought one for you

and the baby, too.

What did you do with

the bunch of mistletoe?

Oh.

Here it is.

Kiss me under

the mistle...

I don't like mistletoe.

You know, you haven't

kissed me since I came here.

Oh, Mildred, don't talk rot.

You're making a fool out of yourself

And making me feel

like an idiot.

I want to make up for all

the wrong I did you, Philip.

I can't go on like this.

It's not in human nature.

It's too late.

Too late?

When I look at you now,

I think of Miller

and Griffiths and...

And a lot of other things.

You rescued me,

and I'm grateful to you.

I've told you I was grateful to you.

You may stay here

because you have

Nowhere else to go and

because of the baby...

But as friends only.

No!

Don't be such

an old silly, Philip.

You disgust me.

Who hung around after me from the start

When I told you to keep away?

You did, you slimy, sneaking swine.

Who hung around after me? Who? You did.

I knew what you was up to.

I knew what was in your dirty mind.

Well, you mug.

I never cared

For you, not once. Not once, you mug.

I made a blinking

fool of you all, I did.

Yes. And me and Harry

Griffiths used to laugh.

We used to laugh and laugh

at you behind your back.

We laughed at you.

I let you kiss me for the money.

For the money, yes, and it made

me sick. I had to wipe my mouth.

Go on, you creepy... Run away,

run away if you can... Or limp!

It makes me sick to my

stomach to think I ever

Let myself be mauled

about by a cripple!

Yes, that's what you are. A

dirty cripple. Cripple! Cripple!

Hey, she chucked it out.

Is she

going to chuck any more out?

She throwed it

out of the window.

Uncle Philip, uncle Philip!

Daddy, it's uncle Philip.

Hello, Thorpe. Why aren't you in bed?

Santa Claus is on his way, you know.

A Christmas tree. A

small one, but a nice one.

Philip, my dear fellow. A merry,

merry Christmas. Betty, it's Philip.

Where have you

been hiding yourself?

We thought we'd lost you

forever. Come in, come in.

Philip, this is a nice

surprise. We've missed you.

Uncle Philip brought

a Christmas tree.

Oh. Now off

to bed, Thorpe.

It's a little broken, I'm

afraid. It had an accident.

But it's very kind of you.

Very kind.

Thank you.

Now come on, young man, off to bed,

Or there will be no

Santa Claus for you.

I'll take this for you, dear.

By Jove, this is

kind of you, Philip.

My word, it's a very nice

little tree, isn't it, betty?

Don't you think so,

eh? Lovely.

Yes. Now

put it down.

No. No. No, dear.

Put it down.

Why?

Come on, put your coat on.

They'll be here any minute now.

No. The young man must

be shown at once that this

Is no ordinary family that

he's preparing to enter.

What's the matter, Philip?

Oh, he looks chilled.

Oh, uh, what young man?

You must wait and meet him.

You may even pass judgment. Oh?

Our Sally has a young man,

And she's bringing him home tonight.

Yes, and I, the

traditional grim parent,

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