Where Angels Fear to Tread Page #2

...in Sawston with you all? No thank you.

Thank goodness now I

can stand up for myself.

I've found Gino,

and this time I am I marrying for love.

Well, I forbid you to do

it. You are ungrateful.

There is going to be such a row

in this town that you and he...

...will be sorry you ever came to it.

It is unwise of you to laugh.

I forbid you to marry Carella,

and I shall tell him so now.

Do. Let's have it out with

him. I'll tell him right now.

Gino. Avanti.

Philip forbids the marriage.

Watch out, or he might hurt you.

Mrs. Herrington is agitated, but...

...there is no reason

why we shouldn't be calm.

Please sit down.

Might I offer you a cigarette?

- No.

I'm going to be frank

with you, Signor Carella.

I'm here to prevent you marrying

Mrs Herriton, because I see...

...that you will both be

unhappy together. Capito? - Si.

She is English, you're Italian,

she's used to one thing...

...and you to another.

She is - you'll have to pardon me for

saying this - she's rich and you are poor.

I do not marry her because she is rich.

- No, I am sure you are honourable.

But are you wise?

You must understand that we

want her with us, at home.

Her daughter will be motherless

and our home will be broken up.

If you grant my request

you'll earn our thanks.

Of course you won't be without a

reward, for your disappointment.

What reward?

How about 1000 lire?

1500?

- No, no.

all right 2000 you can get it tonight.

No, it's too late. Because...

Perch ci siamo sposati.

We're married. We did it as

we were told that you were coming.

You've traveled all this way for nothing.

With all of your generosity.

I'm rude.

I am no better than a peasant.

Miss Abbott?

Miss Abbott?

Miss Abbott.

He assaulted me.

Can you believe it - in my own room?

I am not staying here, I can't.

Its too late to leave now,

but I'll leave first thing in the morning.

Its lucky for him I'm English.

I can't stay here.

I daren't.

You must take me with you.

So you knew they were married?

I could prosecute him,

but I won't.

'As you can guess, my life is

very active with much to do'

'My time is mostly taken up with

the little house we've bought,'

'just outside the Volterra Gate,

where Gino and I first met.'

'Philip probably knows it well.'

' I can't thank him enough. If it

hadn't been for Philip none of this...

...could possibly have happened.'

Well done, Philip. - Shut up Harriet.

- It was your bright idea to send her to Italy.

She's been seduced by a

country, not by a peasant...

...but that's not something

I'd expect you to understand.

You mean like you were?

She proved herself completely

incapable of running...

...a house in England,

in spite of all my help.

I hardly feel she'll fare much better in Italy.

Harriet, we must reply at once.

Tell Signora Carella,

That all future communications should

be addressed to the Solicitors.

And I'll ask for the return of my

inlaid box which I lent to her,

for her collars and

handkerchiefs....lent, not gave.

Signora.

A letter to the English lady.

Wait.

Thank you.

What I have to sacrifice for a life with you.

- the inlaid box, don't send it back.

Your Fool. Life, I mean.

The Herritons are very well connected;

they are the leaders of Sawston society.

But what do I care, I just have

my wonderful, lovely, lovely boy.

Very beautiful.

Go and play Pallone.

I'm a married man.

I'm not playing games anymore.

Go and visit your friends, then.

I have no friends now.

- You can't stop indoors all day.

I want to see no one but you.

Silly thing, silly thing.

Go and see your friends

and bring them to me.

I want to see people, I love society.

You did not want to receive my relatives.

- I am not talking about your relatives.

I said I did not want to live

with them, you would have...

...your mother and all your sisters

living right here in the house with us.

You are right. They are not for you.

I want to see different people,

you know important people.

Who are the most important

people in Monteriano?

The prison governor

and his officers, perhaps.

And the mayor.

- Are they married? - Yes.

There we are then. Do you know them?

Yes, in a way.

I see.

They look down on you,

do they, you poor boy.

That's going to change, just you wait.

I want to wake you all up,

just as I woke up Sawston.

I'm having real,

English tea parties.

So sorry..

Mr. Herriton. I hardly recognized you.

- Are you going up to London for the day?

Yes, I travel up on this every month now.

- Can I help you with this? - Thank you.

Are you visiting friends?

No, charity work for the poor.

Well, we can travel up together. - Yes,

I'd like that.

You considered me sentimental

and wicked at the time,

but you never knew how

much I was to blame.

Really I haven't thought about it now.

I hated Sawston, you see.

The idleness, stupidity,

respectability-...

The petty unselfishness.

I have an idea that everyone

there made small sacrifices...

...of objects they did not care for...

To please people they do not...

...like. Just as bad, they didn't

learn how to enjoy themselves.

I thought Gino was splendid, young. If they

wanted to get married, why shouldn't they.

So I called her to my

bedroom one night and...

...asked her 'Do you love

this man, yes or no'.

She said yes, and I said...

'Why don't you marry him if

you think you would be happy?'.

So she had you that made her happy.

- It may not have been so wrong.

He was only a boy.

Just starting to turn into something fine.

Is that you, Spiridone?

- Did you go and get married?

Have you heard it?

- From England, blond. Is she rich?

Incredibly rich. But there is a problem.

- Just one? Lucky dog.

That was lovely.

You have such a beautiful

voice, Signor Tesi.

I am sorry, I cannot stay.

Well? But...

I'm so glad that you like music.

- Yes, passionately.

I have not studied scientific music,

only music of the heart.

Well you must come again.

We must have many lovely

evenings just like this.

Goodbye. And thank you.

I won't be long.

You're probably right.

I will not invite more.

Why should she be treated differently?

Wisely. You should monitor

what is valuable.

But she needs something to do.

Is she Catholic?

No.

- It was a shame.

You have to persuade her.

It will be a solace in her loneliness.

What are you doing?

- Go out.

Perfetta must clear away lunch.

I can walk by myself.

I forbid you.

- I always do in England.

This is Italy. Married women

do not go around alone.

I'm older than you and do what I want.

I'm your man.

And I have the money.

Think about how you behave,

otherwise I will stop...

What happened?

What was it that broke?

Perfetta. What happened?

What did you say to him?

- I said nothing.

Nothing...

Wait a moment...

Do you want a ride?

- No.

Yes, I want to post.

I will.

Stay....

Are you blind and deaf, stupid woman?

I know nothing. Do not blame me.

Jumped her from the loggia? The roof?

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