Sense And Sensibility Page #3

A man like you in his prime ...

She'd be a fortunate young lady.

Marianne Dashwood would

no more think of me than of you.

- Don't think of yourself so meanly.

- And all the better for her.

Besotted ... An excellent match.

- He's rich and she's handsome.

- How long have you known him?

As long as I've been here,

and I came 15 years back.

His estate is but four miles hence.

He and John are very thick.

He has no wife and children.

He had a tragic history.

He loved a ward to the family.

They were not permitted to marry.

- On what grounds?

- Eliza was poor.

She was flung out of the house,

and he was packed off to the army.

I think he'd have done himself harm

if not for John.

- What became of the lady?

- She was passed from man to man.

She disappeared from good society.

When Brandon returned from India

he searched and searched. -

- only to find her dying

in a poorhouse.

I thought my daughter Charlotte

might have cheered him up.

Look at him now!

So attentive!

- I should try a little experiment.

- Please. Let the colonel alone.

All suitors need a little help.

- We haven't heard you play of late.

- You have a superior musician here.

Brandon shares your passion for

music. He plays the pianoforte well.

You know as many melancholy tunes

as Miss Marianne.

You must play us a duet.

Let us see you both side by side.

I do not know any duets.

Forgive me, Colonel.

Will we never have peace? The rent

is low. but it comes on hard terms.

Mrs. Jennings has nothing to do but

marry off everyone else's daughters.

There's a parcel arrived.

Look!

When is a man safe from such wit.

if infirmity does not protect him?

If he is infirm.

then I am at death's door.

- He complained of rheumatism.

- "A slight ache" was his phrase.

Edward said

he would bring it himself.

"lt gives me great pleasure to

restore this atlas to its owner."

"Business prevents my delivering it,

which will hurt me more than you."

"Memories of your kindness must

sustain me. and I remain -

- your devoted servant,

E.C. Ferrars."

- Why hasn't he come?

- He says he's busy, dear.

- He said he'd come. Why hasn't he?

- I'm taking you for a walk.

- It is going to rain.

- It is not going to rain.

I fear

Mrs. Jennings is a bad influence.

- You must miss him. Elinor.

- We are not engaged, Mamma.

- But he loves you, dearest.

- I am by no means assured of that.

And had he such a preference,

there would certainly be obstacles -

- to his marrying a woman of no rank

who cannot afford to buy sugar.

- But your heart must tell you ...

- It is better to use one's head.

- It can't be good for me.

- It is. Stop complaining.

- It's giving me a cough.

- It is not giving you a cough.

It's lovely. Come on, catch up!

- Over there is a field of rabbits.

- I don't want to see rabbits.

- Is anything superior to this?

- I told you it would rain.

- Blue sky! Let us chase it!

- I'm not supposed to run.

Are you hurt?

- I cannot walk. Run and fetch help.

- I will run as fast as I can.

Margaret!

Don't be afraid. He's quite safe.

- Are you hurt?

- Only my ankle.

May I have your permission to

ascertain if there are any breaks?

It is not broken.

Can you put your arm about my neck?

Allow me to escort you home.

At last!

She fell down and he's carrying her!

Marianne, are you hurt?

It's a twisted ankle.

It's not serious.

I felt the bone. and it's sound.

- I cannot begin to thank you.

- Do not think of it.

- Will you not be seated?

- I'd leave a water mark.

- But permit me to call tomorrow.

- We shall look forward to it.

I'll show you out.

Margaret, get the gentleman's hat.

- His name!

- To whom are we so much obliged?

John Willoughby of Allenham

at your service.

John Willoughby of Allenham ...

What an impressive gentleman!

He lifted me as if I weighed no more

than a dried leaf.

- Tell me if I hurt you.

- She feels no pain, Mamma.

Margaret, ask Betsy to make up

a cold compress.

Please don't say anything important.

- He expressed himself well.

- With decorum and honour.

- And spirit and wit and feeling.

- And economy. Ten words at most.

- Change, or you'll catch a cold.

- What care I for colds?

- You'll care when your nose swells.

- You're right. Help me.

He's worth catching. Marianne must

not have all the men to herself.

- But what do you know of him?

- There's not a bolder rider.

But what are his tastes.

his passions, his pursuits?

- He has a smart little pointer ...

- Where is Allenham?

Nice little estate three miles east.

He is to inherit it from a relative.

Lady Allen is the name.

It's Col. Brandon.

I should go out and keep watch.

You're looking out for Willoughby.

You'll not think of Brandon now.

Come in.

Good morning, Brandon.

- How is the invalid?

- Thank you so much, Colonel.

Why set your cap at Willoughby when

you've already made such a conquest?

I'll not set my cap at anyone.

- Lady Allen's nephew?

- He visits. for he's to inherit.

He has a pretty estate of his own.

Combe Magna in Somerset.

I'd not give him up to a younger

sister for tumbling down hills.

The man himself. Come. Brandon.

We know when we are not wanted.

Thank you so much for calling.

Marianne. the colonel and Sir John

are leaving.

Goodbye.

Thank you for the flowers.

- How do you do, Colonel?

- How do you do, more like.

- Mr. Willoughby, what a pleasure!

- The pleasure is all mine.

- Miss Marianne has not caught cold?

- You've found out my name.

The area is crawling with my spies.

You cannot venture out to nature ...

- So nature must be brought to you.

- How beautiful.

- These are not from the hothouse.

- Mine is not the first offering.

- They come from an obliging field.

- I always prefer wild flowers.

- Would you ..?

-your gratitude is beyond words.

I've grieved for this lonely house.

Then I heard it was taken.

I felt an interest which nothing can

account for but my present delight.

Pray sit, Mr. Willoughby.

Who is reading

Shakespeare's sonnets?

- Marianne is reading them out.

- And which are your favourites?

Mine is 1 16.

"Let me not to the marriage

of true minds admit impediments."

"Love is not love which alters

when it alteration finds. -

- or bends with the remover

to remove ..."

- How does it continue?

- "No. it is an ever fixed mark ..."

- "That looks on tempests..."

- Is it "tempests"?

It's strange you are reading these.

I carry them with me always.

Until tomorrow then ...

My pocket sonnets are yours.

A talisman against further injury.

Goodbye. Thank you.

Good work. Marianne. You covered

Shakespeare, Scott, poetry.

When you know his views on romance,

you'll have nothing left to talk of.

I suppose I erred against decorum.

I should have talked of the weather.

Mr. Willoughby can be in no doubt

of your enthusiasm for him.

Should I hide my regard?

- No. but we know so little of him.

- Time does not determine intimacy.

Seven years is too little for some,

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