368 & 369 - November 22, 1967

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[Elizabeth narrating] - Time has been suspended at Collinwood

while one woman makes an uncertain

and frightening journey into the past,

back to .

And that woman from the present

lives in the past she has always loved

and discovers that our tragedies

often start before we are born.

- Oh, I'm sorry. - What?

Oh, it's perfectly all right. Come in.

- I didn't wish to disturb you.

- Any disturbance is completely welcome now.

- Sarah thinks that she might have left

her sewing box down here.

Actually, I don't think she wants to do any sewing at all.

We planned on going into town today,

but with this weather.

- I don't know why you even want to think about it.

I'm sorry, Miss Winters.

The storm, of course, is an inconvenience to you.

- No, that was very stupid of me.

You have ships out in it, of course.

- Yes, five of them

and I haven't even thought about them.

The one ship that concerns me is not even ours.

- Your fiancé.

- Her ship is already a week overdue.

I knew she shouldn't travel now,

the Atlantic storms at this time of year are at their worst.

If anything has happened --

- Nothing has happened.

- What?

- I said that nothing has happened.

Your fiancé will arrive here safely.

- You say that with such assurance I believe you.

Are you psychic? - No.

- Well, I've always wanted to meet someone who is.

Are you sure you can't tell the future?

- No, of course not.

- Miss Winters, I don't believe you.

- I wouldn't tell the future even if I could.

Not to you,

not to anyone, never.

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- Oh, come, Miss Winters, you were so positive before.

Give me a date Josette's boat will dock.

I've told you all that I can.

- But you must -- - There you are, Miss Winters.

I understood that Sarah's lessons

were to keep you occupied here.

- I was just on my way up to her room.

- Well, I don't know where you left her,

but she is now in my study.

I told her to stay in the nursery.

- She will only stay there if you are with her.

Now you know.

My gout keeps me at home, what's your excuse?

Why aren't you at the yards?

- I don't need an excuse.

At my age, I'd ought to be able to make a few decisions.

- At your age you should make correct ones.

- Well, I was worried about the storm.

- Worry is not an occupation that pays a decent living.

Order your horse brought round immediately.

- Father, I'm not going to the office.

I have a feeling that I should be here today.

- Do you think I built those shipyards

giving into my feelings?

- Well, you must have once or twice

when you were in love.

- Love!

Your generation is obsessed with that word.

Men were better off when marriages were arranged for them

and love was only a word in ladies' novels.

[knocking on door] - Oh, but excuse me, father.

- You need not answer that door.

- Well, it may be word.

- How? I heard no carriage, no horses.

How will you ever get through life if you put importance

to really unimportant things.

- Josette is not unimportant.

She is my whole future.

- A woman is not a future.

Don't begin thinking that.

[knocking on door]

Oh, those servants, where are they?

- Monsieur Barnabas!

- Angelique, what -- - You are surprised?

- Astonished!

We weren't expecting the Countess for at least a week.

Oh, where is she and why are you walking?

- Oh, your roads Monsieur,

pigsties, the Countess calls them.

The carriage is in the mud, stuck.

- Where?

- Too far for my lady to walk.

- Oh, I must go immediately.

Well, come in. You must be wet.

[thunder rumbles]

Father, this is Angelique, the Countess duPres' maid.

This is my father, Angelique.

- Monsieur Collins.

- Well, your mistress wrote to us

that she would be visiting New York

until they the day before the wedding.

- The city does not suit my lady.

- Well, I wish we had known she changed her plans.

Barnabas, fetch one of the stable boys or Ben.

I will see that the rooms are made ready.

- Will you see that Angelique

is shown to her room, father?

- Oh, no, I must return with you.

- It isn't necessary.

- It may not be to you, sir, but it is to my mistress.

- Then very well, come the back way to the stables.

- It is a great privilege to be in your home, Monsieur.

- Hmm.

♪♪

It's an excellent sherry.

Far too good for this time of day.

[thunder rumbles]

Little wonder that this house is so inefficiently run.

Everything is in order, I believe.

- Is it indeed?

- Your breakfast eggs were prepared as you like them.

If your study is not as tidy as you would have it,

it is because you are working there.

- If I ran my business -- - This is not a business,

it's a home.

- I have just been to the kitchen.

Cook is not there.

Not a maid in sight.

Then they are working somewhere else.

- Where? - I don't know.

- Exactly.

- Tell me what you want.

It would be a pleasure to be of some use to you.

- There is no need to use that tone of voice.

We have guests.

- Josette?

- Her aunt and her maid.

That's all, I gather.

But nothing is ready.

- We weren't expecting them.

I will see to everything.

- Will you?

How? Look at yourself.

- I look all right.

- You don't sound all right.

Perhaps they will be kind and merely think you ill.

- I'm all right, Joshua. - You had better be.

[horses approaching]

They are here.

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[door closes]

- No, no, it is impossible.

- Countess, I am as sorry as you are.

- Because Josette wrote me from Paris

just before they left.

She promised she would be here last week.

I cannot be here before them.

Oh, it is a mistake.

- Of course it isn't, Countess.

- Obviously it is, there is no one here to greet me.

- Oh, we didn't expect you.

- It is not necessary to say that again.

- Well, you never let me finish?

We are delighted to have you.

- Are you?

So, this is the house where you expect my Josette to live?

- Well, father is giving it to us as a wedding present,

and then he and my mother are going to live in the new house

when it is finished.

- And take the furnishings with them I trust.

Are there rooms for us here?

- Yes, I'll show them to you.

Josette will be very happy here.

- You think so?

Tell me, does it ever stop raining?

- Of course it does.

- Is it ever warm?

- Well, it's not as warm as it is in Martinique.

- But the sun does shine occasionally?

- Yes, it does.

- I taught Josette to love color.

There is so little here.

- She loves me -- as I her.

- So, perhaps your love can make up for

the barrenness of the world you have chosen.

- Oh, here they are.

I would like to present the Countess duPres.

- This is my mother. - How'd you do?

- My father.

- I trust your journey was an easy one, Madam.

- No trip through a wasteland can be easy, Sir.

- Well, I'm sure your stay in New York was pleasant.

- Oh, an impossible city,

without a - a decent inn or respectable restaurant.

Oh, and completely filled with the most unattractive people.

All and all a place,

which makes one glad to live elsewhere.

- I enjoy New York when I go there, Madam.

Of course, I only go there on business.

I do not take trips for pleasure.

- That is just as well.

In your country, you would get none.

- I will show you to your rooms, Countess.

- Countess,

do you still affect a title, Madam?

- I was born with it, I am still alive.

- But France has followed our example

and become a republic.

- Precisely why I live in Martinique.

Come Angelique.

Oh, I suppose there is someone

to bring in our luggage?

- There is, Madam.

- See you later then, mon cher.

- I should be in my study.

Let no one disturb me.

You shall go to the yards and resume your work.

There is much to be done.

- As you wish, father.

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- So, she was born with a title.

What is that to be proud of?

It's outdated.

Ridiculously snobbish.

- It doesn't hurt to call her Countess, Joshua.

- Twenty years ago,

we fought a revolution against those people.

People are born equal.

- Calling her Countess

doesn't make me feel less than she.

- Whatever will the people in town think if,

if this Josette is anything like her aunt?

- If she is, what?

Will you cancel the wedding?

- Yes, if necessary.

- Joshua, the wedding is Barnabas' business, not yours.

Remember that.

- It is my business. I'm glad you reminded me.

Josette's father is the largest producer of sugarcane

on the island.

- I don't care about that.

- Well, you should.

He is arriving with an agreement,

which gives us the exclusive service with his company.

- That's all you care about --

not whether there is love in that house.

- Love! What's that got to do with it?

- Nothing.

Nothing.

It's almost time for dinner.

♪♪

- No, no, I do this for myself,

whenever I want a glimpse into the future.

The cards never lie.

You do not believe me.

- I do not know whether I do or not.

- Ah, the night before I left Martinique,

I puzzled over them.

If this card, the card of death

or if this very evil card, the tower,

had been next to the card that represents me,

I should have postponed my leaving.

- It seems that you're too sophisticated

for this sort of thing.

- It is not that I am sophisticated,

it is that you are naive.

Now, listen and learn.

The cards never make a mistake.

Now, here is your card, the magician,

because you have won the love of our Josette.

- Thank you.

But what does that sign at the top mean?

- Well, that is the sign for infinity.

- You mean that I'm going to live forever?

- Would you like that?

- Of course.

Oh, Miss Winters.

- No.

No, you wouldn't.

- Miss Winters,

you haven't met the Countess duPres.

And this is Miss Winters, my sister's new governess.

- Julia.

- I - I beg your pardon?

- I'm - I'm sorry.

You look very much like someone I knew.

- Oh, I hate to be told that.

It implies that there are so many of me.

- Now -- - Miss Winters will be very interested in your tarot cards.

Only this morning I accused her of being clairvoyant.

- Oh?

And are you?

- Of course not.

- You sound almost too sure.

Now this is the card for Josette,

the high priestess.

Ah, she is safe as long as she is on board ship.

Good.

- How do you tell?

- Because the card of death is not beside her.

- But it is here.

Now, what is this card next to Josette's?

- [gasps]

The wicked woman.

- Well, what does that mean?

- It means --

Oh, the game is over.

- But Countess, why?

- Because I have told you all that I can.

- All you can or all you wish to tell?

- There is a wicked woman in this house.

That is what the cards tell us.

The woman will bring grief!

But the cards do not tell us who she is.

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[thinking] - Why wouldn't the Countess finish reading the cards?

It's all nonsense.

Josette is coming

and everything will be all right then.

If there is a wicked woman in this house,

it's the Countess herself.

[knocking on door]

Who's there?

[knocking continues]

Who is it?

[knocking continues]

- A ghost from your past.

Close the door, quickly.

- Angelique.

- I've waited for this moment all day long.

You do not remember?

- I remember.

- I waited in my room but you didn't come.

So, here I am.

Well, I have not your pride.

I have no reason for pride.

Oh, hold me.

- Angelique --

- After you left our island,

I would wake up at night hearing you say my name.

Did you think of me at all?

- Yes I -- I did.

- Oh, tell me.

Hold me tight and tell me.

- No.

- Well, you do not think me pretty anymore?

- Yes, of course you are.

- But -- you see, it was a mistake.

Oh, I -- I know it was wrong to say it this way,

but it was my fault. I know.

It was my weakness to --

- Love me?

- I love Josette.

- But you came to me.

- I'm sorry.

- For what?

For making me love you?

- You do not love me.

- Oh, you can tell me how I feel?

- Oh, I am sorry.

- Today, when you opened the door,

I thought you were glad to see me.

- I was.

- You are honest now? - Yes.

- Then you are glad that I am in this room.

- Josette is coming -- - She is not here yet.

- But she is going to be.

- You are so different here.

You are as cold as that wind outside your house.

- I am not cold, but I want to be.

I have to be.

- Why?

- Because, Angelique, I didn't know

we were going to be married then.

To be honest, I thought I was in love with Josette,

but I didn't realize she was in love with me.

But now that we have written,

well -- you and I -- well, it is impossible.

- Are you sad about it?

- Well, what good would it be to admit that?

- We both have different roles to play now.

- And what is mine?

The Countess' maid?

Ha, but you know me as I really am.

I am no one's servant, but yours. - No.

- Yes.

I am your servant.

You are my master.

That's the way it is.

That is the way it is to be.

- No Angelique!

You will see.

♪♪

[eerie music] ♪♪

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