Out of Africa Page #6

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Yesterday.

Don't move.

I want to move.

Don't move.

Tanne, may I see you?

Well, I'm broke too, you know?

I wouldn't ask,

but tips were a bit light.

Are you all right?

If I get a decent crop.

I could shoot him.

I've got this terrible urge

to kiss you.

He is smarter than I am.

It may go well.

Good luck, Tanne.

You might have asked.

I did.

She said yes.

If I get eaten up some time,

bury me here, will you?

Whatever's left.

just there,

at the crest of the hill.

When are you leaving?

Tomorrow.

Doesn't it matter to you

that I'm another man's wife?

What matters to me

is that you tried so hard.

What time tomorrow?

Goodbye again.

How many acres under cultivation?

Five hundred.

The rest of it's wild?

Well, the Kikuyu live there.

Why don't you move them off?

'Cause they live there.

We'll take it over

should you default.

We've got another year.

God is great, msabu.

He's charging three percent.

This chief says...

tall children can come

to school now.

Tell Chief Kinanjui

that reading is a valuable thing.

His children

will remember him well.

This chief says, "British can read,

and what good has it done them?"

Miss Felicity Spurway,

clear round.

She's quite something,

that Felicity.

Yes, indeed.

The next competitor,

Mr John Sutton on Castano.

How are you?

Getting old, I think.

Not you.

How is the hunt?

I'll make a living.

Where is Denys?

Uganda. Some potentate.

I thought you might

be wanting a divorce.

Has she got money?

Of course she's got money.

Is this important

I suppose.

Well, I'll have to accuse you

of something.

Or did you think you would have it

the other way around?

Fire away. Whatever.

I have surely done it.

Thank you, Tanne.

How do you manage it

to keep us friends?

We started that way.

Well, I'll be happy for you,

if I can.

I remember that quite well.

When you go away on safari...

are you ever with someone else?

I'd be with you

if I wanted to be with anyone.

Do you ever get lonely?

Sometimes.

Do you ever wonder

if I am lonely?

No, I don't.

Do you think about me at all?

Often.

But not enough to come back.

I do come back all the time.

What is it?

Nothing.

Bror has asked me for a divorce.

He found someone that he wants to marry.

I just thought

we might do that someday.

Divorce?

How How would a wedding

change things?

I would have someone of my own.

You wouldn't.

What's wrong with marriage, anyway?

Have you ever seen one

you admire?

Yes, I have. Many.

Belfields, for one.

He sent her home

for the rains in 1910.

Didn't tell her they were over

till 1913.

It's not a joke. People marry.

It's not revolutionary.

There are animals that mate for life.

Geese.

You use the damn animals

for your own argument.

You won't let me use them for mine.

I'd mate for life.

One day at a time.

I'd just like someone

to ask me once, that's all.

Promise me you'll do that,

if I promise to say no?

just trust you, eh?

When you go away...

you don't always go

on safari, do you?

just want to be away.

It's not meant to hurt you.

It does.

I'm with you because

I choose to be with you.

I don't want to live

someone else's idea of how to live.

Don't ask me to do that.

I don't want to find out one day that

I'm at the end of someone else's life.

I'm willing to pay for mine.

To be lonely sometimes.

To die alone, if I have to.

I think that's fair.

Not quite.

You want me to pay for it as well.

No, you have a choice, and you're

not willing to do the same for me.

I won't be closer to you...

and I won't love you more

because of a piece of paper.

See if you can shore it up.

Move away.

Let it go.

This water lives in Mombasa anyway.

I flew as far as Narok.

You could see all the ruts

where the lorries had been.

The Serengeti was still good.

Take a week just getting there.

And Samburu is still good.

Where's Belknap?

I haven't seen him.

He must be in America by now.

I let him go.

I had to. But you don't want

to hear about the farm, do you?

I Have you got any buttons?

What are you doing?

Mending your shirt.

Don't.

Don't do that.

You don't have to do that.

Maybe I'll try Samburu

day after tomorrow.

You just got back.

You know,

Felicity asked to come along...

and I almost said no

because I thought you wouldn't like it.

There's no reason for her not to come.

Yes, there is. I wouldn't like it.

You want her along?

I want things that don't matter

not to matter.

Then tell her no. Do it for me.

And then? What else would it be?

Why is your freedom

more important that mine?

It isn't. And I've never interfered

with your freedom.

No. I'm not allowed to need you.

Or rely on you,

or expect anything from you.

I'm free to leave.

But I do need you.

You don't need me.

If I die, will you die?

You don't need me.

You're confused. You've mixed up

need with want. You always have.

My God. In the world that you would

make, there would be no love at all.

Or the best kind.

The kind we wouldn't have to prove.

You'll be living on the moon then.

Why? Because I won't do it your way?

Are we assuming there's one proper way

to do all this?

Do you think I care about Felicity?

Do you think

I'll be involved with her?

Then there's no reason for this.

If she's not important...

why won't you give it up?

I have learned a thing

that you haven't.

There are some things worth having...

but they come at a price,

and I want to be one of them.

I won't allow it.

You have no idea the effect

that language has on me.

I used to think that there was nothing

that you really wanted...

but that's not it, is it?

You want to have it all.

I'm going to Samburu.

She can come or not.

Then you will be living elsewhere.

All right.

Is that a prince in there?

I think that you had better get up,

memsahib.

What?

I think that you had better get up.

I think that God is coming.

All gone.

How did it start?

I think God had a hand in it.

He gave me my best crop ever,

and then He remembered.

Insurance?

That's for pessimists.

Where is Denys?

Who knows?

Doesn't matter.

The baroness is broke, "D."

It's over.

I've got to find some land

before I go, for my Kikuyu.

You've trouble enough, Karen.

just a chunk somewhere,

so they can stay all together.

We're just out of coffee...

but I can give you tea.

There is no arable land that size

outside the reserve...

and if there were,

we'd not put natives on it.

Since it's theirs.

It belongs to the crown, Baroness.

What you want is quite impossible.

Yes, it always is.

Who must I see next?

You've run through us all,

I'm afraid.

We have a new governor,

haven't we?

Sir Joseph?

He hasn't arrived yet.

But will soon, I'm told.

You do still ask me to things?

Captain Jacques Llewllyn.

Your servant, sir.

Mr Llewllyn.

The honourable Hugh Chomondeley,

Lord Delamere.

Your servant, sir.

Lady Delamere.

How do you do?

Lady Delamere.

Commissioner.

Baroness.

The Baroness von Blixen.

I'm sorry to know

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