1 00:00:48,409 --> 00:00:52,703 He even took the Gramophone on safari. 2 00:00:54,835 --> 00:00:56,603 Three rifles... 3 00:00:56,640 --> 00:01:00,720 supplies for a month and Mozart. 4 00:01:03,841 --> 00:01:07,127 He began our friendship with a gift. 5 00:01:08,679 --> 00:01:10,588 And later... 6 00:01:10,681 --> 00:01:13,219 not long before Tsavo... 7 00:01:13,309 --> 00:01:15,266 he gave me another. 8 00:01:15,353 --> 00:01:17,760 An incredible gift. 9 00:01:17,855 --> 00:01:22,683 A glimpse of the world through God's eye. 10 00:01:22,777 --> 00:01:24,853 And I thought... 11 00:01:24,946 --> 00:01:28,860 "Yes, I see. 12 00:01:28,950 --> 00:01:30,989 This is the way it was intended." 13 00:01:35,665 --> 00:01:37,574 I've written about all the others... 14 00:01:37,667 --> 00:01:39,790 not because I loved them less... 15 00:01:39,877 --> 00:01:44,753 but because they were clearer, easier. 16 00:01:45,841 --> 00:01:47,881 He was waiting for me there. 17 00:01:51,555 --> 00:01:56,099 But I've gone ahead of my story. He'd have hated that. 18 00:01:56,185 --> 00:01:59,221 Denys loved to hear a story told well. 19 00:02:01,023 --> 00:02:03,858 You see... 20 00:02:03,943 --> 00:02:05,935 I had a farm in Africa... 21 00:02:06,028 --> 00:02:09,480 at the foot of the Ngong Hills. 22 00:02:09,573 --> 00:02:11,981 But it began before that. 23 00:02:12,076 --> 00:02:14,484 It really began in Denmark. 24 00:02:21,877 --> 00:02:24,333 And there I knew two brothers. 25 00:02:24,422 --> 00:02:28,206 One was my lover, and one was my friend. 26 00:02:28,301 --> 00:02:31,586 - It's too cold for champagne. - It's too cold for anything but. 27 00:02:37,101 --> 00:02:39,141 You said you'd be at Klampenborg. 28 00:02:39,228 --> 00:02:41,850 I thought I'd come, but then I didn't. 29 00:02:43,941 --> 00:02:45,601 Was it fun? 30 00:02:50,072 --> 00:02:52,610 Tanne? 31 00:02:52,700 --> 00:02:55,191 Tanne, come on. 32 00:02:55,286 --> 00:02:57,658 It's not as though you loved him. 33 00:02:57,747 --> 00:02:59,953 You'd like to be a baroness, that's all. 34 00:03:00,041 --> 00:03:02,080 - He lied to me. - Of course. 35 00:03:02,168 --> 00:03:04,919 Would you be in bed with him otherwise? 36 00:03:05,004 --> 00:03:07,958 My brother's only dull, but not stupid. 37 00:03:11,844 --> 00:03:13,173 Pretend it's Hans. 38 00:03:16,891 --> 00:03:18,599 - Where would you go? - Anywhere. 39 00:03:18,684 --> 00:03:22,634 America. Ceylon. I would even go to Australia. 40 00:03:23,397 --> 00:03:27,976 Well, perhaps not Australia. But I've got to be away from here. 41 00:03:28,069 --> 00:03:30,108 I'll give you all I've got. 42 00:03:30,196 --> 00:03:35,534 That should get you into town. God, it was fun. 43 00:03:35,618 --> 00:03:38,702 - You could marry me. - I have to marry a virgin. 44 00:03:38,788 --> 00:03:40,994 I can't stand criticism. 45 00:03:41,082 --> 00:03:42,873 For the money, I mean. 46 00:03:45,544 --> 00:03:46,707 Probably. 47 00:03:47,630 --> 00:03:50,880 Bror, listen to me. I've got no life at all. 48 00:03:50,967 --> 00:03:53,255 They wouldn't teach me anything useful. 49 00:03:53,344 --> 00:03:57,009 Now I've failed to marry. You know the punishment for that. 50 00:03:57,098 --> 00:03:59,221 "Miss Dinesen's at home." 51 00:03:59,308 --> 00:04:03,176 You've gone through all your money. You're off seducing the servant girls. 52 00:04:03,271 --> 00:04:05,062 We're a pair, you and I. 53 00:04:06,357 --> 00:04:08,599 I mean, at least we're friends. 54 00:04:08,693 --> 00:04:11,480 We might be all right. And if we weren't... 55 00:04:11,570 --> 00:04:13,444 at least we'd have been somewhere. 56 00:04:13,531 --> 00:04:16,734 You don't think you're being too romantic? 57 00:04:24,792 --> 00:04:27,034 Am I supposed to think you're serious? 58 00:04:30,798 --> 00:04:33,503 I had a farm in Africa. 59 00:04:35,720 --> 00:04:38,756 I had a farm in Africa... 60 00:04:38,848 --> 00:04:42,181 at the foot of Ngong Hills. 61 00:04:44,729 --> 00:04:46,970 I had a farm in Africa. 62 00:07:41,238 --> 00:07:43,480 - Good morning. - Have you had trouble? 63 00:07:43,574 --> 00:07:45,567 Now and then. Have you? 64 00:07:45,660 --> 00:07:47,569 No. I'm travelling to Nairobi. 65 00:07:47,662 --> 00:07:49,571 Well, you caught the right train. 66 00:07:52,500 --> 00:07:54,492 Get away! Shoo! Shoo! 67 00:07:56,295 --> 00:07:58,786 That's all my crystal. My Limoges. 68 00:08:00,383 --> 00:08:02,375 They didn't know it was Limoges. 69 00:08:05,888 --> 00:08:07,797 So you plan to stay, then? 70 00:08:07,890 --> 00:08:10,725 I've come out to marry Baron Blixen. Do you know him? 71 00:08:10,810 --> 00:08:14,309 - Bror? Yes. - We plan to start a dairy. 72 00:08:15,898 --> 00:08:18,436 Are you quite famous? They stopped the train for you. 73 00:08:18,526 --> 00:08:21,396 It's rude not to here. 74 00:08:21,487 --> 00:08:24,488 A dairy. Isn't it a bit soon for milk at the door? 75 00:08:28,119 --> 00:08:30,277 - Aren't you boarding? - No, I'm going on. 76 00:08:30,371 --> 00:08:31,949 On? To where? 77 00:08:32,039 --> 00:08:35,657 Mention the ivory to Berkeley Cole. Bror knows him. 78 00:08:35,751 --> 00:08:37,791 I'm Baroness Blixen! 79 00:08:37,878 --> 00:08:39,254 Not yet. 80 00:08:40,923 --> 00:08:42,832 Finch Hatton, Denys! 81 00:08:47,847 --> 00:08:50,598 Msabu, I am Farah Aden. 82 00:08:50,683 --> 00:08:52,142 We can go now. 83 00:08:52,226 --> 00:08:54,978 - Where is Baron Blixen? - He's at Muthaiga. 84 00:08:55,062 --> 00:08:56,972 Please, come. 85 00:09:06,365 --> 00:09:08,274 Where is Muthaiga? 86 00:09:08,367 --> 00:09:10,858 Muthaiga is a club where British go for drinking. 87 00:09:11,579 --> 00:09:13,203 Please. 88 00:09:20,796 --> 00:09:25,589 Listen. On the train are my crates with china and crystal. 89 00:09:25,676 --> 00:09:27,918 - Do you know china? - Yes, msabu. 90 00:09:28,012 --> 00:09:30,088 China, it can break. 91 00:10:15,101 --> 00:10:16,559 Stay. 92 00:10:30,157 --> 00:10:32,945 Excuse me. I'm looking for Baron Blixen. 93 00:10:33,035 --> 00:10:34,660 Rajiv. 94 00:10:41,794 --> 00:10:45,708 - Yes. I wondered if you might... - Memsahibs must not be here. 95 00:10:47,425 --> 00:10:50,129 - I'm simply looking... - Memsahibs must not be here. 96 00:10:59,520 --> 00:11:01,596 Where have you been? 97 00:11:01,689 --> 00:11:04,394 - Where have you been? - Arranging things. 98 00:11:04,483 --> 00:11:06,642 How was the trip? You can tell me later. 99 00:11:08,029 --> 00:11:10,983 - Would you like to change? - My luggage is still on the train. 100 00:11:11,073 --> 00:11:14,738 Room "D," head of the stairs. I haven't done anything about a ring. 101 00:11:14,827 --> 00:11:16,903 - Do you care? - Did you think I wouldn't come? 102 00:11:16,996 --> 00:11:19,950 I didn't think you'd want to spend the money. You will love it here. 103 00:11:20,041 --> 00:11:22,366 Servants are wonderful. Shall we get a drink? 104 00:11:22,460 --> 00:11:24,369 We've got almost one hour before the wedding. 105 00:11:24,462 --> 00:11:26,004 One hour? 106 00:11:37,308 --> 00:11:40,593 - Is it all right? - I wondered what colour you'd choose. 107 00:11:40,686 --> 00:11:42,975 It's ivory. Oh, my God. 108 00:11:43,064 --> 00:11:45,187 - I've got this man's ivory. - Whose ivory? 109 00:12:04,293 --> 00:12:07,958 I'm Sarah, Lady Belfield. Shall I stand up for you? 110 00:12:08,047 --> 00:12:09,672 - Thank you. - Short or long? 111 00:12:09,757 --> 00:12:12,675 Long, please. Give me time to adjust to it. 112 00:12:14,428 --> 00:12:16,421 Settle down, all. 113 00:12:16,514 --> 00:12:19,219 By the authority of His Majesty's government vested in me... 114 00:12:19,308 --> 00:12:22,060 I declare that the Baron Bror Von Blixen... 115 00:12:22,144 --> 00:12:24,433 citizen of Sweden, and... 116 00:12:25,940 --> 00:12:29,190 - What's your name, my dear? - Damn it, Henry, I told you her name. 117 00:12:29,277 --> 00:12:31,353 Karen Christentze Dinesen. 118 00:12:31,445 --> 00:12:33,355 Karen Christentze Dinesen... 119 00:12:33,447 --> 00:12:35,357 a female subject of the King of Denmark... 120 00:12:35,449 --> 00:12:37,738 are henceforth united man and wife. 121 00:12:39,453 --> 00:12:42,454 God save this company. God save the king. 122 00:12:47,503 --> 00:12:49,294 Thank you for this. 123 00:12:51,716 --> 00:12:53,708 Did you hear about Shuttleworth? No, I said. 124 00:12:53,801 --> 00:12:57,419 "He's living up country," he says "in a tree with a baboon." 125 00:12:57,513 --> 00:12:59,672 "Male or female?" I said to him. 126 00:12:59,765 --> 00:13:01,390 "Female, of course." he says. 127 00:13:01,475 --> 00:13:03,801 "There's nothing queer about old Shuttleworth." 128 00:13:05,229 --> 00:13:07,767 Sarah, where's your muddle-headed husband? 129 00:13:07,857 --> 00:13:11,901 The governor's at the punch bowl hoping to avoid you. 130 00:13:11,986 --> 00:13:15,770 Would you like to meet the bride, or did you just come for the whisky? 131 00:13:15,865 --> 00:13:18,570 Not for the company, God knows. 132 00:13:18,659 --> 00:13:21,862 Lord Delamere, may I present Baroness Blixen? 133 00:13:21,954 --> 00:13:25,869 Baroness Blixen, Lord Delamere, such as he is. 134 00:13:27,126 --> 00:13:28,917 Baroness. A Swede, are you? 135 00:13:29,795 --> 00:13:31,705 No. Danish, actually. 136 00:13:31,797 --> 00:13:34,882 The little country next to Germany. 137 00:13:34,967 --> 00:13:38,052 If it comes to war, where will Denmark stand? 138 00:13:39,305 --> 00:13:43,255 On its own, I hope. We do have that history. 139 00:13:44,060 --> 00:13:47,179 Is there something we can call you that gets around this "baroness"? 140 00:13:47,271 --> 00:13:49,180 What do they call you? 141 00:13:49,273 --> 00:13:51,681 "D," if I'm lucky. 142 00:14:03,037 --> 00:14:06,453 My stupid name's Felicity, but I do like your dress. 143 00:14:06,540 --> 00:14:08,663 Oh, thank you. 144 00:14:08,751 --> 00:14:10,660 That's not much of a hat, though. 145 00:14:10,753 --> 00:14:13,671 It's meant to be stunning. 146 00:14:13,756 --> 00:14:15,583 We die of sunstroke here. 147 00:14:16,592 --> 00:14:18,917 At least I'm safe from the mosquitos. 148 00:14:19,011 --> 00:14:20,589 The big ones. 149 00:14:23,557 --> 00:14:25,799 - Good Lord. - You nervous? 150 00:14:26,686 --> 00:14:27,800 Should I be? 151 00:14:29,272 --> 00:14:31,181 You know. 152 00:14:31,274 --> 00:14:33,183 Wedding night and all that. 153 00:14:48,916 --> 00:14:52,332 So they're both naked and not a shrub in sight. 154 00:14:52,420 --> 00:14:55,670 Karen, have you met Vicky Gresham? 155 00:14:55,756 --> 00:14:58,591 Hello, Baroness. I'd curtsy, but I'm drunk. 156 00:15:00,678 --> 00:15:03,347 - May I see you, please? - Excuse me. 157 00:15:05,516 --> 00:15:08,434 If you want any friends, I'd make them here. 158 00:15:08,519 --> 00:15:12,018 - There's no one else. - I want to see my house. 159 00:15:13,733 --> 00:15:15,772 You may want to change. 160 00:15:15,860 --> 00:15:17,769 It's a two-hour ride. 161 00:15:28,789 --> 00:15:30,699 Excuse me. 162 00:15:42,595 --> 00:15:45,465 My God, these people drink. 163 00:15:45,556 --> 00:15:47,513 I'm sorry. I was just... 164 00:15:48,225 --> 00:15:50,183 - I'm afraid... - No, it's all right. 165 00:15:50,269 --> 00:15:52,807 I'm afraid you've caught me snooping. 166 00:15:52,897 --> 00:15:55,732 It's not my room. It's Denys's. And Denys won't mind. 167 00:15:55,816 --> 00:15:57,359 That's the thing about Denys. 168 00:15:57,443 --> 00:16:00,444 Are you Cole? 169 00:16:00,529 --> 00:16:02,403 Berkeley Cole. 170 00:16:02,490 --> 00:16:04,363 I brought the ivory with me on the train. 171 00:16:04,450 --> 00:16:05,648 Well, thank you. 172 00:16:08,496 --> 00:16:11,532 - You taking your quinine? - Oh, yes. 173 00:16:12,416 --> 00:16:13,579 He has got lovely books. 174 00:16:15,211 --> 00:16:18,212 - Does he lend them? - We had a friend... 175 00:16:18,297 --> 00:16:22,461 Hopworth, he'd got a book from Denys and didn't return it. 176 00:16:22,551 --> 00:16:24,094 Denys was furious. I said to Denys... 177 00:16:24,178 --> 00:16:26,965 "You wouldn't lose a friend for the sake of a book." 178 00:16:27,056 --> 00:16:31,220 He said, "No, but he has, hasn't he?" 179 00:16:35,189 --> 00:16:38,854 - Did you come out through London? - No, from Rome, actually. 180 00:16:38,943 --> 00:16:41,695 I thought you might have a newspaper. 181 00:16:41,779 --> 00:16:44,068 No. Sorry. 182 00:16:44,156 --> 00:16:47,074 Oh, nothing in them anyway. 183 00:16:48,077 --> 00:16:51,909 I had a friend who I used to take to the dances at Oxford. 184 00:16:51,998 --> 00:16:54,619 They were in June by the river. 185 00:16:54,709 --> 00:16:58,837 She always wore a new silk dress. 186 00:16:58,921 --> 00:17:01,293 I think you're wearing her perfume. 187 00:17:11,058 --> 00:17:14,474 It's very nice, but it's not the same. 188 00:17:16,355 --> 00:17:17,933 We can go now. 189 00:18:16,040 --> 00:18:17,451 This is Belknap. 190 00:18:17,541 --> 00:18:21,290 - He runs the farm. - Good evening, ma'am. 191 00:18:27,927 --> 00:18:30,762 This is your cook. Name's Esa. 192 00:18:37,812 --> 00:18:40,848 And this is Juma. Houseboy. 193 00:18:46,696 --> 00:18:50,230 Come. See your house. 194 00:18:50,324 --> 00:18:53,409 When you leave me, I'm going to marry Berkeley Cole. 195 00:18:53,494 --> 00:18:57,243 - A man in trade. - Is that what he does? 196 00:18:57,331 --> 00:18:59,240 He's thick with the Somalis. 197 00:18:59,333 --> 00:19:02,868 There's a crowd of them on his land who think he's a prince. 198 00:19:02,962 --> 00:19:05,287 He sells Finch Hatton's ivory. 199 00:19:05,381 --> 00:19:08,465 Belknap is a cheery sort. 200 00:19:08,551 --> 00:19:12,383 Had a place of his own. Went belly up trying to grow flax. 201 00:19:13,931 --> 00:19:17,976 - Does he know cattle? - I didn't buy cattle. 202 00:19:18,060 --> 00:19:20,895 We're going to grow coffee instead. 203 00:19:28,696 --> 00:19:31,104 That's not what we planned. 204 00:19:31,198 --> 00:19:33,986 You were in Denmark. I had to decide. 205 00:19:34,076 --> 00:19:36,863 We made a decision. 206 00:19:36,954 --> 00:19:38,662 We don't know anything about coffee. 207 00:19:38,748 --> 00:19:42,282 - You plant it, it grows. - We said a dairy. My mother... 208 00:19:42,376 --> 00:19:45,745 Your mother doesn't care if it's cows or coffee as long as it pays. 209 00:19:46,964 --> 00:19:48,873 You have to be with a herd or things go wrong. 210 00:19:48,966 --> 00:19:51,837 I didn't come to Africa to sit with silly cows. 211 00:19:51,928 --> 00:19:54,964 Just tell her we changed our minds. 212 00:19:55,056 --> 00:19:57,594 Next time you change your mind... 213 00:19:57,683 --> 00:19:59,640 you do it with your money. 214 00:20:01,646 --> 00:20:04,931 They bought you a title, Baronessa. They didn't buy me. 215 00:20:08,152 --> 00:20:12,150 Fetch some wine for my lover's brother. 216 00:20:16,661 --> 00:20:18,155 I think you're tired. 217 00:20:25,461 --> 00:20:26,955 Be careful. 218 00:20:33,010 --> 00:20:35,501 Did I tell you Hans came to say goodbye? 219 00:20:55,074 --> 00:20:57,067 Where is Baron Blixen? 220 00:20:57,159 --> 00:21:01,027 - He's gone to hunt. - Did he say when he'd return? 221 00:21:01,122 --> 00:21:03,529 He says he can come before the rain. 222 00:21:05,293 --> 00:21:07,250 Is it going to rain today? 223 00:21:08,921 --> 00:21:12,504 It can be many days before the rain, msabu. 224 00:21:44,332 --> 00:21:47,333 In Ohio we put up scarecrow to keep the birds away. 225 00:21:47,418 --> 00:21:50,205 Here, you hope there's enough leopard to keep down the baboon. 226 00:21:50,296 --> 00:21:52,787 They'll take your dog too. But that's Africa. 227 00:21:52,882 --> 00:21:55,669 - How much will we plant? - A thousand acres. 228 00:21:55,760 --> 00:21:59,378 - How long will that take? - That depends on Kinanjui. 229 00:21:59,472 --> 00:22:03,137 He's chief of the Kikuyu. Gotta deal with him to get your help. 230 00:22:03,225 --> 00:22:07,389 - When will be our first harvest? - Well, these are seedlings. 231 00:22:07,480 --> 00:22:09,768 It'll be three, maybe four years. 232 00:22:10,942 --> 00:22:13,230 - Four years? - If they bear at all. 233 00:22:13,319 --> 00:22:15,395 No one's ever tried coffee this high. 234 00:22:17,114 --> 00:22:22,535 - What will we live on for four years? - I'm working to get home. 235 00:22:22,620 --> 00:22:25,574 If you haven't got it, be good if you could tell me right now. 236 00:22:28,334 --> 00:22:30,291 We will plant 500. 237 00:22:32,922 --> 00:22:36,967 Chief Kinanjui, I've heard you're wise... 238 00:22:37,051 --> 00:22:38,960 Not now, please. 239 00:22:39,053 --> 00:22:41,461 And I look forward to our dealings. 240 00:22:41,555 --> 00:22:44,260 Your Kikuyu are good workers... 241 00:22:44,350 --> 00:22:47,968 and I look forward to dealing with them... 242 00:22:48,062 --> 00:22:49,770 honestly and fairly. 243 00:22:49,855 --> 00:22:52,429 Msabu, this chief has no British. 244 00:22:55,444 --> 00:22:59,394 - Tell him I am Baroness Blixen. - Chief knows that, msabu. 245 00:22:59,490 --> 00:23:04,532 Well, then tell him what I said. 246 00:23:37,570 --> 00:23:39,479 What did he say? 247 00:23:39,572 --> 00:23:42,442 He says this Kikuyu can do this work. 248 00:23:47,246 --> 00:23:49,155 What else did he... 249 00:24:10,019 --> 00:24:12,177 Your leg is very sick. 250 00:24:14,607 --> 00:24:16,516 You must come to the house for medicine. 251 00:24:19,403 --> 00:24:22,073 - Does he understand me? - Yes, msabu. 252 00:24:25,868 --> 00:24:28,869 If you don't come, the other boys will say you are afraid. 253 00:24:33,918 --> 00:24:36,124 I, myself, will think only that you are foolish. 254 00:24:37,964 --> 00:24:40,585 This boy must come to my house for treatment. 255 00:24:40,675 --> 00:24:42,584 See that he does. 256 00:24:45,304 --> 00:24:48,091 What else did Kinanjui say? 257 00:24:48,182 --> 00:24:51,966 He says coffee must not grow this high. 258 00:24:52,061 --> 00:24:55,145 Never mind, msabu. He's a chief, but he's a Kikuyu. 259 00:25:28,681 --> 00:25:31,765 If you put a dam here to stop the water... 260 00:25:31,851 --> 00:25:33,760 then I can make a pond here. 261 00:25:33,853 --> 00:25:37,352 - Do you know how... - This water must go home to Mombasa. 262 00:25:37,440 --> 00:25:40,109 It can go home after we make a pond. 263 00:25:40,192 --> 00:25:43,110 Msabu, this water lives at Mombasa. 264 00:25:48,951 --> 00:25:50,362 Come, then. 265 00:26:59,605 --> 00:27:01,099 I wouldn't run. 266 00:27:02,984 --> 00:27:05,439 If you do, she'll think you're something good to eat. 267 00:27:07,947 --> 00:27:11,232 Have you... Do you have a gun? 268 00:27:11,325 --> 00:27:13,033 She won't like the smell of you. 269 00:27:14,036 --> 00:27:15,530 Shoot it. 270 00:27:15,621 --> 00:27:17,744 She's had breakfast. 271 00:27:18,332 --> 00:27:19,281 Don't... 272 00:27:22,336 --> 00:27:25,954 - Please, shoot her. - No, let's give her a moment. 273 00:27:27,592 --> 00:27:29,584 Oh, my God, shoot her! 274 00:27:39,103 --> 00:27:42,270 Just how much closer did you expect to let her come? 275 00:27:42,356 --> 00:27:43,685 A bit. 276 00:27:44,942 --> 00:27:48,560 She wanted to see if you'd run. That's how they decide. A lot like people. 277 00:27:48,654 --> 00:27:52,237 - She almost had me for lunch! - It wasn't her fault. She's a lion. 278 00:27:52,325 --> 00:27:55,325 - It wasn't mine. - Doesn't that outfit come with a rifle? 279 00:27:55,411 --> 00:27:58,495 It's on my saddle. 280 00:27:58,581 --> 00:28:01,416 Better keep it with you. Your horse isn't much of a shot. 281 00:28:02,752 --> 00:28:04,993 For Berkeley. He's brought you presents. 282 00:28:05,588 --> 00:28:08,257 We stopped by your house and them came looking for you. 283 00:28:08,341 --> 00:28:10,914 Good Lord, you're sweet. 284 00:28:11,010 --> 00:28:14,213 On the road, actually. We're off to Magadi to shoot some ivory. 285 00:28:14,305 --> 00:28:18,255 Now, at least, I have something good to offer you. 286 00:28:18,351 --> 00:28:21,850 Did you intend to tell Berkeley what a fool I was? 287 00:28:21,938 --> 00:28:25,805 - She had a lion a bit interested. - A bit? 288 00:28:25,900 --> 00:28:27,809 But not enough to bite. 289 00:28:27,902 --> 00:28:30,191 It's all right to take a chance... 290 00:28:30,279 --> 00:28:32,188 as long as it's you who'll pay. 291 00:28:32,281 --> 00:28:35,282 - Wouldn't you say so? - It's the sort of thing you'd say. 292 00:28:35,368 --> 00:28:38,155 - Thank you. - Not at all. Where's Blix? 293 00:28:38,246 --> 00:28:41,081 - Hunting. - Has he been out long? 294 00:28:41,165 --> 00:28:42,363 Yes. 295 00:28:43,834 --> 00:28:46,372 You'll need a good chat, then. Shall we stay to supper, Denys? 296 00:28:46,462 --> 00:28:50,376 - Blix will have jackets we could use. - Do I have anything to say in this? 297 00:28:50,466 --> 00:28:54,167 - Not really, but we'll hear you out. - Then I would like you to stay. 298 00:28:54,262 --> 00:28:57,179 Good. Denys. 299 00:28:57,265 --> 00:29:00,135 I don't know. Do you sing? 300 00:29:02,186 --> 00:29:03,135 Never. 301 00:29:03,813 --> 00:29:05,805 Can you tell a story? 302 00:29:05,898 --> 00:29:08,769 I happen to be very good at stories. 303 00:29:09,819 --> 00:29:11,776 I believe that. 304 00:29:14,448 --> 00:29:16,737 What's happened to the cows, the dairy? 305 00:29:16,826 --> 00:29:20,361 We changed our minds. We'll grow coffee instead. 306 00:29:20,454 --> 00:29:23,408 - A bit risky, this high. - So I've been told. 307 00:29:23,499 --> 00:29:27,164 - Didn't seem to bother you. - I think they just haven't tried. 308 00:29:27,253 --> 00:29:30,503 Every time I turn my back, it wants to go wild again. 309 00:29:30,590 --> 00:29:32,547 It will go wild. 310 00:29:37,513 --> 00:29:40,467 - Your man... - Kanuthia. 311 00:29:40,558 --> 00:29:42,800 - He's not Kikuyu. - No. 312 00:29:45,062 --> 00:29:46,972 Shall I see that he's given supper? 313 00:29:47,064 --> 00:29:49,555 Don't do anything for him, thank you, Baroness. 314 00:29:51,360 --> 00:29:54,147 It's true of all Somalis. They're the only tribe that knows horses. 315 00:29:54,238 --> 00:29:58,651 They don't drink, charge interest or chase other men's wives. 316 00:30:01,287 --> 00:30:02,746 Got to go to town for that. 317 00:30:06,959 --> 00:30:09,166 Did you know that in all of literature... 318 00:30:09,253 --> 00:30:11,923 there's no poem celebrating the foot. 319 00:30:12,006 --> 00:30:15,422 There's lips, eyes, hands, face... 320 00:30:15,509 --> 00:30:17,217 hair, breasts... 321 00:30:17,303 --> 00:30:19,461 legs, arms, even the knees. 322 00:30:19,555 --> 00:30:21,927 But not one verse for the poor foot. 323 00:30:24,185 --> 00:30:28,017 - Why do you think that is? - Priorities, I suppose. 324 00:30:28,105 --> 00:30:30,181 Did you think you would make one? 325 00:30:30,274 --> 00:30:32,183 Problem is there's nothing to rhyme it with. 326 00:30:32,276 --> 00:30:34,103 - Put. - It's not a noun. 327 00:30:34,195 --> 00:30:37,149 Doesn't matter. Along he came and he did put... 328 00:30:37,239 --> 00:30:39,647 upon my farm his clumsy foot. 329 00:30:45,373 --> 00:30:47,828 We should have a story now. 330 00:30:52,088 --> 00:30:55,207 When I tell a story to my nieces at home... 331 00:30:55,299 --> 00:30:57,837 one of them always provides the first sentence. 332 00:31:00,221 --> 00:31:03,091 - Anything? - Absolutely anything. 333 00:31:06,477 --> 00:31:11,269 There was a wandering Chinese named Cheng Huan... 334 00:31:13,943 --> 00:31:16,434 living in Limehouse... 335 00:31:16,529 --> 00:31:20,112 and a girl named Shirley. 336 00:31:22,451 --> 00:31:25,369 Who spoke perfect Chinese... 337 00:31:25,454 --> 00:31:27,862 which she learned from her missionary parents. 338 00:31:29,542 --> 00:31:33,540 Cheng Huan lived alone in a room on Formosa Street... 339 00:31:33,629 --> 00:31:35,954 above the Blue Lantern. 340 00:31:38,217 --> 00:31:40,257 He sat at his window... 341 00:31:42,513 --> 00:31:46,381 and in his poor listening heart... 342 00:31:46,475 --> 00:31:50,556 strange echoes of his home and country... 343 00:32:18,716 --> 00:32:20,792 They found them there the next morning... 344 00:32:20,885 --> 00:32:23,720 in their room above the Blue Lantern... 345 00:32:23,804 --> 00:32:26,212 the dead child and the warlord... 346 00:32:27,016 --> 00:32:31,345 with Cheng Huan's love gift coiled about his neck. 347 00:32:36,692 --> 00:32:38,649 Had you been to those places? 348 00:32:39,987 --> 00:32:43,736 I have been a mental traveller. 349 00:32:43,824 --> 00:32:45,983 - Till now. - Yes. 350 00:32:46,077 --> 00:32:49,113 Was this England? Excuse me. Denmark? 351 00:32:50,581 --> 00:32:52,906 I like my things. 352 00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:56,001 When you travelled before in your mind... 353 00:32:56,087 --> 00:32:58,044 did you carry so much luggage? 354 00:32:59,090 --> 00:33:02,838 A mental traveller hasn't the need to eat or sleep... 355 00:33:02,927 --> 00:33:05,299 or entertain. 356 00:33:08,349 --> 00:33:09,380 You're right. 357 00:33:10,268 --> 00:33:13,802 Anyway, aren't you pleased that I brought my crystal and china? 358 00:33:13,896 --> 00:33:16,221 And your stories, yes. 359 00:33:16,315 --> 00:33:21,024 The conquering heroes come 360 00:33:21,112 --> 00:33:24,148 Sound the trumpets 361 00:33:24,240 --> 00:33:26,695 Beat the drums 362 00:33:36,919 --> 00:33:40,917 - I want you to come often. - I'd like that very much. 363 00:33:41,007 --> 00:33:44,008 - And you must promise it will be soon. - I promise. 364 00:33:53,561 --> 00:33:56,134 Did you save my life, Finch Hatton? 365 00:33:56,230 --> 00:34:01,225 No. The lioness did that. She walked away. 366 00:34:01,319 --> 00:34:04,438 So I'm not indebted, then? 367 00:34:04,530 --> 00:34:06,819 Ah, but I am. 368 00:34:06,907 --> 00:34:08,984 We pay our storytellers here. 369 00:34:13,998 --> 00:34:15,373 It's lovely. 370 00:34:17,168 --> 00:34:19,741 But my stories are free... 371 00:34:19,837 --> 00:34:22,209 and your present's much too dear. 372 00:34:23,758 --> 00:34:26,046 Write them down sometime. 373 00:34:32,892 --> 00:34:34,552 Take care, Finch Hatton. 374 00:34:35,645 --> 00:34:37,187 You wouldn't rather call me Denys? 375 00:34:43,736 --> 00:34:45,147 Baroness. 376 00:34:47,365 --> 00:34:48,823 Goodbye. 377 00:35:21,315 --> 00:35:23,023 What are you doing? 378 00:35:25,278 --> 00:35:27,400 I want you to come home. 379 00:35:47,675 --> 00:35:49,584 We never spoke about children. 380 00:35:54,015 --> 00:35:55,260 Did you... 381 00:35:57,393 --> 00:35:58,306 Do you? 382 00:35:59,228 --> 00:36:02,727 Yes. Is that all right? 383 00:36:21,876 --> 00:36:24,367 These Kikuyu want to be sick now. 384 00:36:25,713 --> 00:36:27,789 Good Lord. 385 00:36:30,051 --> 00:36:32,589 Your leg has got worse. 386 00:36:32,678 --> 00:36:34,635 You should go to hospital. 387 00:36:35,431 --> 00:36:37,720 This leg may be foolish. 388 00:36:37,808 --> 00:36:40,478 It may think not to go to hospital. 389 00:36:42,229 --> 00:36:46,013 This leg will do as it pleases. 390 00:36:46,108 --> 00:36:48,101 But if you will take it to hospital... 391 00:36:48,194 --> 00:36:50,649 I will think that you are wise. 392 00:36:50,738 --> 00:36:55,115 And such a wise man as this, I would want to work in my house... 393 00:36:55,201 --> 00:36:56,612 for wages. 394 00:36:56,702 --> 00:37:00,202 How much wages would come to such a wise man as that? 395 00:37:03,584 --> 00:37:06,787 More wages than come from tending goats. 396 00:37:08,381 --> 00:37:10,622 I will speak to this leg. 397 00:37:52,341 --> 00:37:55,378 - What about air raids? - Quiet! One question at a time. 398 00:37:55,469 --> 00:37:58,673 The war is in Europe. How do we know they're going to reach here? 399 00:37:58,764 --> 00:38:02,513 German East is only 200 miles south. General von Lettow is there. 400 00:38:02,602 --> 00:38:04,890 I don't want to wait until he joins us at the bar. 401 00:38:04,979 --> 00:38:07,552 - Would we engage them? - Blix, this is our war. 402 00:38:07,648 --> 00:38:10,139 You don't have to be involved, but thanks. 403 00:38:10,234 --> 00:38:13,686 I've got crops coming in. How long's this thing gonna last? 404 00:38:13,779 --> 00:38:16,780 We just have to stay and go as we must. 405 00:38:16,866 --> 00:38:19,701 They won't fight if we won't fight. 406 00:38:19,785 --> 00:38:22,241 We could always arm the Masai and point them south. 407 00:38:22,330 --> 00:38:25,699 Do you want the job of collecting rifles from the Masai when this is over? 408 00:38:25,791 --> 00:38:29,077 What about our women and children? Should we bring them into town? 409 00:38:29,170 --> 00:38:32,539 We will deal with that problem as it arises. 410 00:38:32,632 --> 00:38:36,879 - Will they use native troops? - I'd assume so, but not Masai. 411 00:38:36,969 --> 00:38:38,878 Berkeley, what about your Somalis? 412 00:38:40,306 --> 00:38:43,805 They'd make very good scouts. We could cover the area from here to the border. 413 00:38:43,893 --> 00:38:46,431 We could gather information for when the regulars arrive. 414 00:38:46,520 --> 00:38:48,727 What's it about? Have you any idea? 415 00:38:50,691 --> 00:38:53,229 - Not really. - Then why do you want to get into it? 416 00:38:53,319 --> 00:38:55,691 - Well... - It's got nothing to do with us. 417 00:38:55,780 --> 00:38:58,152 They've made agreements we know nothing about. 418 00:38:58,240 --> 00:39:00,150 Victoria and the Kaiser were relatives, for God's sake. 419 00:39:03,329 --> 00:39:07,492 They've divided Africa between them. Do you know why there's a border? 420 00:39:07,583 --> 00:39:09,540 Because she had two mountains, and he had none. 421 00:39:09,627 --> 00:39:12,296 So she gave him Kilimanjaro. 422 00:39:12,380 --> 00:39:15,416 It's a silly argument between two spoiled countries. 423 00:39:15,508 --> 00:39:19,636 The sooner it ends, the sooner we pick up where we left off. 424 00:39:22,473 --> 00:39:23,848 It may end... 425 00:39:25,393 --> 00:39:27,966 but we're not going to pick up where we left off. 426 00:39:28,062 --> 00:39:30,849 You don't have to go. 427 00:39:30,940 --> 00:39:33,810 - You want to go. - We've got to live here. 428 00:39:33,901 --> 00:39:35,858 They have made it plain they don't want you. 429 00:39:35,945 --> 00:39:39,480 - I'll have to show them where we stand. - I'm not so fond of their empire... 430 00:39:39,573 --> 00:39:41,483 I'd have you shot for it. 431 00:39:41,575 --> 00:39:44,245 More likely chewed on than shot. 432 00:39:44,328 --> 00:39:46,950 The farm will take care of itself, and you've got Belknap. 433 00:39:47,039 --> 00:39:50,159 The farm will not take care of itself. 434 00:39:50,251 --> 00:39:52,290 That's not the point. 435 00:39:56,465 --> 00:39:59,170 I didn't expect to like you so much. 436 00:40:04,015 --> 00:40:07,051 You're not going to go falling in love, are you? 437 00:40:08,644 --> 00:40:10,803 Not with someone who's always leaving. 438 00:40:14,567 --> 00:40:18,778 If you need me, send a runner to find Delamere. 439 00:40:18,863 --> 00:40:20,939 That's where I'll be. 440 00:40:26,829 --> 00:40:28,738 That's a fine kiss goodbye. 441 00:40:28,831 --> 00:40:30,788 I am better at hello. 442 00:40:46,807 --> 00:40:49,595 It's an odd feeling... farewell. 443 00:40:50,853 --> 00:40:54,103 There is some envy in it. 444 00:40:54,190 --> 00:40:58,401 Men go off to be tested for courage. 445 00:40:58,486 --> 00:41:02,353 If we're tested at all, it's for patience... 446 00:41:02,448 --> 00:41:05,200 for doing without... 447 00:41:05,284 --> 00:41:09,614 for how well we can endure loneliness. 448 00:41:09,705 --> 00:41:12,243 But I had always known that. 449 00:41:14,877 --> 00:41:17,249 It didn't require a war. 450 00:41:17,338 --> 00:41:20,671 I said goodbye to Bror. 451 00:41:20,758 --> 00:41:23,925 Denys left without a word... 452 00:41:24,011 --> 00:41:25,755 which was quite proper. 453 00:41:28,808 --> 00:41:30,717 Hello, the house! 454 00:41:32,853 --> 00:41:34,763 Felicity! 455 00:41:34,855 --> 00:41:38,224 I thought you might want some meat. 456 00:41:38,317 --> 00:41:41,982 - Is there any word? - No, nothing new. 457 00:41:42,071 --> 00:41:44,776 Not much fighting. Awful fever, though. 458 00:41:46,200 --> 00:41:48,489 I've got time for tea, I should think. 459 00:41:55,626 --> 00:41:57,583 Are you for the Germans? 460 00:42:01,424 --> 00:42:03,666 Did they send you out to ask me this? 461 00:42:03,759 --> 00:42:07,378 - We had a row about it in town. - Because of my bad English. 462 00:42:08,848 --> 00:42:10,757 And whose side were you on? 463 00:42:12,101 --> 00:42:13,892 Yours. 464 00:42:18,858 --> 00:42:22,523 They want to send me home to school. Mother says I'm growing up wild. 465 00:42:22,612 --> 00:42:25,566 - I wanted to ask you about it. - Me? 466 00:42:25,656 --> 00:42:29,571 You've been round and about. 467 00:42:29,660 --> 00:42:33,029 Someday, I'd like to run my own show the way you do. 468 00:42:34,916 --> 00:42:38,249 - Is that what I do? - You don't seem to need us much. 469 00:42:41,589 --> 00:42:43,878 Baroness, may I ask you something? 470 00:42:45,635 --> 00:42:48,885 I don't know much about men. 471 00:42:52,266 --> 00:42:55,635 I want them to like me, but I... 472 00:42:55,728 --> 00:42:57,768 I want to be let alone too. 473 00:43:02,401 --> 00:43:05,153 I'm supposed to want to be taken, aren't I? 474 00:43:07,990 --> 00:43:09,983 I've got this book. 475 00:43:11,369 --> 00:43:15,616 But how do you know when to do what they want you to... 476 00:43:15,706 --> 00:43:18,743 and when not to? 477 00:43:23,339 --> 00:43:25,545 I suppose you ought to call me Karen. 478 00:43:41,899 --> 00:43:45,233 They need paraffin and tinned food, enough for 300 men. 479 00:43:45,319 --> 00:43:47,857 He wants you to send a white man with the wagon. 480 00:43:47,947 --> 00:43:51,731 - Is he all right? - Well enough to send the message. 481 00:43:52,785 --> 00:43:55,074 And where would my husband like this wagon sent? 482 00:43:55,162 --> 00:43:58,033 He's with Delamere on the border near Lake Natron. 483 00:43:58,124 --> 00:44:00,116 That's confidential, of course. 484 00:44:00,209 --> 00:44:02,083 I will bear that in mind, Lieutenant. 485 00:44:02,169 --> 00:44:06,298 I only meant it wouldn't do for it to be talk around Nairobi. 486 00:44:06,382 --> 00:44:10,711 And we're going to have to move you into town. We can't protect you here. 487 00:44:10,803 --> 00:44:12,712 What do you mean? 488 00:44:12,805 --> 00:44:15,723 With the men gone, we're worried about the native element. We have orders. 489 00:44:15,808 --> 00:44:17,848 Women and children into town. 490 00:44:17,935 --> 00:44:20,177 That is internment, Lieutenant. 491 00:44:20,271 --> 00:44:22,477 Women and children, Baroness. 492 00:44:23,316 --> 00:44:27,563 - Is that one category or two? - You'll want time to gather your things. 493 00:44:27,653 --> 00:44:29,729 I'll send an escort for you Thursday. 494 00:44:29,822 --> 00:44:32,278 And I'm a captain, Baroness. 495 00:44:37,663 --> 00:44:40,450 I'm not paid to fight, Mrs Blixen. 496 00:44:45,463 --> 00:44:47,502 Where is Lake Natron? 497 00:44:47,590 --> 00:44:50,342 It's south, bush country. 498 00:44:50,426 --> 00:44:52,502 It's no place for a white man. 499 00:47:35,675 --> 00:47:39,375 We should have crossed the Sand River today. 500 00:47:39,470 --> 00:47:41,926 I may have got us lost. 501 00:47:42,014 --> 00:47:43,923 God is great, msabu. 502 00:48:37,653 --> 00:48:41,733 - What the devil are you doing here? - I'm on my way to Delamere. 503 00:48:41,824 --> 00:48:43,982 Ridiculous. We don't send women to war. 504 00:48:44,076 --> 00:48:45,072 I'm going. 505 00:48:45,161 --> 00:48:47,568 We haven't time for this. You don't even know where you are. 506 00:48:47,663 --> 00:48:49,205 I do now. 507 00:48:49,290 --> 00:48:53,370 - You'll just get lost again. - I'm going on. 508 00:48:53,461 --> 00:48:56,581 - Talk to her, will you? - No. 509 00:48:58,341 --> 00:49:01,710 - She could be hurt or worse. - I imagine she knows that. 510 00:49:03,387 --> 00:49:05,297 Right. I tried. 511 00:49:11,187 --> 00:49:12,349 Here. 512 00:49:14,190 --> 00:49:17,440 Find a spot on the horizon each morning and steer by it. 513 00:49:17,526 --> 00:49:21,192 South, southwest. About three days. 514 00:49:22,323 --> 00:49:23,865 I see. 515 00:49:23,950 --> 00:49:26,487 Don't worry about us. We'll be all right. 516 00:50:19,422 --> 00:50:21,747 - What is it? - Masai. 517 00:52:08,072 --> 00:52:11,655 Ismail! My rifle! Where's my rifle? 518 00:52:38,853 --> 00:52:40,347 Get away! 519 00:53:41,874 --> 00:53:45,409 Msabu's bleeding. She does not have this ox. 520 00:53:47,255 --> 00:53:50,209 This lion is hungry. 521 00:53:50,299 --> 00:53:52,375 He does not have this ox. 522 00:53:53,970 --> 00:53:56,211 This wagon is heavy. 523 00:53:56,305 --> 00:54:00,054 It doesn't have this ox. 524 00:54:00,142 --> 00:54:02,265 God is happy, msabu. 525 00:54:02,353 --> 00:54:04,392 He plays with us. 526 00:54:15,241 --> 00:54:17,530 Tell Blix his wife's here. 527 00:55:06,709 --> 00:55:08,618 I've brought you some things. 528 00:55:10,254 --> 00:55:12,163 You've changed your hair. 529 00:55:15,092 --> 00:55:18,010 - You needed supplies. - Send someone, I said. 530 00:55:18,095 --> 00:55:20,005 You were lucky to get through. 531 00:55:20,097 --> 00:55:22,505 - It was really foolish. - But I did get through. 532 00:55:25,061 --> 00:55:26,638 And it was fun. 533 00:55:32,109 --> 00:55:34,149 When are you coming home? 534 00:55:37,198 --> 00:55:38,396 Not just yet. 535 00:55:40,868 --> 00:55:43,739 You're not going to help at all with the farm. 536 00:55:48,334 --> 00:55:51,667 I could force you. I could cut you off. 537 00:55:53,047 --> 00:55:55,799 I'll just hunt professionally. 538 00:55:57,468 --> 00:55:59,425 I might do it anyway. 539 00:56:03,683 --> 00:56:06,090 It's not the way we thought it would be. 540 00:56:08,479 --> 00:56:09,938 Is it? 541 00:56:17,530 --> 00:56:20,151 But I like it that you're honest with me. 542 00:56:21,575 --> 00:56:23,485 I like you too. 543 00:56:31,919 --> 00:56:33,378 Very much. 544 00:57:11,626 --> 00:57:14,461 I had a compass from Denys. 545 00:57:14,545 --> 00:57:17,463 To steer by, he said. 546 00:57:17,548 --> 00:57:19,707 But later it came to me... 547 00:57:19,800 --> 00:57:22,754 that we navigated differently. 548 00:57:24,972 --> 00:57:30,014 Perhaps he knew, as I did not... 549 00:57:30,102 --> 00:57:32,676 that the Earth was made round... 550 00:57:32,772 --> 00:57:36,437 so that we would not see too far down the road. 551 00:58:07,932 --> 00:58:09,841 You've got syphilis. 552 00:58:15,273 --> 00:58:17,230 That's not possible. 553 00:58:19,819 --> 00:58:21,728 Your husband is not ill? 554 00:58:28,744 --> 00:58:31,829 Not the last time I saw him. 555 00:58:31,914 --> 00:58:34,370 That was three months ago. He's on the... 556 00:58:37,795 --> 00:58:40,831 He's on the border with Delamere. He would have come home. 557 00:58:40,923 --> 00:58:44,292 These cases vary. 558 00:58:44,385 --> 00:58:46,294 He may have just a touch. 559 00:58:48,306 --> 00:58:49,848 You're very ill. 560 00:58:59,108 --> 00:59:01,943 Is he the only possibility? 561 00:59:04,196 --> 00:59:06,236 Yes. 562 00:59:06,324 --> 00:59:08,400 You'll have to go home to deal with it. 563 00:59:09,493 --> 00:59:13,622 The treatment's difficult, but they have a thing called salvarsan. 564 00:59:14,540 --> 00:59:15,703 Arsenic. 565 00:59:18,544 --> 00:59:21,166 And if I'm not cured... 566 00:59:21,255 --> 00:59:24,422 then I will be insane, won't I? 567 00:59:24,508 --> 00:59:26,466 You ought to go soon. 568 00:59:28,304 --> 00:59:30,213 I'll have to see your husband. 569 00:59:34,060 --> 00:59:35,886 I will send for him. 570 00:59:35,978 --> 00:59:39,145 These ought to help with the fever till you get home. 571 00:59:48,324 --> 00:59:50,696 And what are my chances? 572 00:59:50,785 --> 00:59:53,536 About even, I'm afraid. 573 01:00:03,422 --> 01:00:06,459 It's not what I thought would happen to me now. 574 01:00:24,652 --> 01:00:26,977 - What? - Your letters, msabu. 575 01:00:36,372 --> 01:00:38,365 Excuse me. 576 01:00:39,959 --> 01:00:41,998 I heard you'd made it. 577 01:00:42,086 --> 01:00:45,170 I'd have paid anything to see their faces. 578 01:00:47,383 --> 01:00:49,541 - Would you join us for a drink? - I can't. 579 01:00:49,635 --> 01:00:51,628 How is it that you are home? 580 01:00:51,721 --> 01:00:54,093 I brought Berkeley back. 581 01:00:54,181 --> 01:00:56,388 - Has he been wounded? - Fever. 582 01:00:56,475 --> 01:00:59,595 More than usual, but he'll be all right as long as the gin holds out. 583 01:01:00,980 --> 01:01:04,265 And you? How is it with the fighting? 584 01:01:05,901 --> 01:01:08,024 We're taking a beating. 585 01:01:08,112 --> 01:01:10,069 It's likely to last for a while. 586 01:01:12,950 --> 01:01:16,284 - I still have your compass. - Why don't you keep it? 587 01:01:17,580 --> 01:01:18,860 You've earned it. 588 01:01:20,458 --> 01:01:22,783 Besides, I don't always want to know where I'm going. 589 01:01:29,467 --> 01:01:31,424 Please don't let me keep you. 590 01:01:35,097 --> 01:01:39,391 - Are you all right? - Yes. Take good care. 591 01:01:41,395 --> 01:01:44,729 - We're behind a story or two. - Yes. When I get back. 592 01:01:44,815 --> 01:01:46,393 Back? From where? 593 01:01:46,484 --> 01:01:48,939 When you get back, I meant. 594 01:01:51,781 --> 01:01:54,532 - I thought it was malaria. - Well, it wasn't. 595 01:01:56,953 --> 01:02:00,203 You may be all right, but you have to be seen. 596 01:02:02,208 --> 01:02:05,162 And the others, whoever they are. 597 01:02:05,253 --> 01:02:07,744 I hope they've got it. 598 01:02:07,838 --> 01:02:11,089 It's my fault. No one else's. 599 01:02:16,681 --> 01:02:18,056 I want to go with you. 600 01:02:19,141 --> 01:02:21,597 No. Someone has to stay here and run things. 601 01:02:21,686 --> 01:02:23,927 And the factory must be finished. 602 01:02:25,856 --> 01:02:28,857 - Can you do that? - That's little enough. 603 01:02:44,083 --> 01:02:45,577 I'm sorry. 604 01:03:01,601 --> 01:03:02,799 Where is memsahib? 605 01:03:04,228 --> 01:03:06,102 She can come soon enough. 606 01:03:15,448 --> 01:03:19,113 Later that day, I left for Mombasa... 607 01:03:19,201 --> 01:03:22,119 and the voyage home to Denmark. 608 01:03:24,123 --> 01:03:26,531 It was a longer journey this time. 609 01:03:27,710 --> 01:03:30,497 The war went on. 610 01:03:30,588 --> 01:03:33,873 I fought my own war. 611 01:03:33,966 --> 01:03:36,457 Arsenic was my ally... 612 01:03:36,552 --> 01:03:38,877 against an enemy I never saw. 613 01:03:41,766 --> 01:03:45,763 I stayed in the room where I was born... 614 01:03:45,853 --> 01:03:47,762 in Rungstedland... 615 01:03:47,855 --> 01:03:51,473 and tried to remember the colours of Africa. 616 01:04:03,788 --> 01:04:06,623 There was only the medicine... 617 01:04:06,707 --> 01:04:08,616 and walks with my mother... 618 01:04:08,709 --> 01:04:11,746 along a deserted stretch of beach... 619 01:04:11,837 --> 01:04:15,787 and this room in my mother's house. 620 01:04:18,261 --> 01:04:21,879 Denmark had become a stranger to me... 621 01:04:21,973 --> 01:04:24,642 and I to her. 622 01:04:24,725 --> 01:04:28,260 But my mother's house I came to know again. 623 01:04:29,272 --> 01:04:32,107 And knew I would come back to it... 624 01:04:32,191 --> 01:04:34,860 sick or well... 625 01:04:34,944 --> 01:04:38,562 sane or mad someday. 626 01:04:38,656 --> 01:04:41,361 And so I did... 627 01:04:41,450 --> 01:04:43,408 after Tsavo. 628 01:05:35,504 --> 01:05:37,663 Almost everyone's got them now. 629 01:06:51,205 --> 01:06:53,114 I am cooking now, memsahib. 630 01:06:53,207 --> 01:06:55,330 Yes, I have heard about this. 631 01:07:06,971 --> 01:07:09,094 Are you well, Farah Aden? 632 01:07:10,308 --> 01:07:12,300 I am well enough, msabu. 633 01:07:13,102 --> 01:07:16,138 Then I am well enough also. 634 01:07:18,149 --> 01:07:21,269 - What will you do? - I have been thinking I'll hunt. 635 01:07:21,360 --> 01:07:23,317 Safari sort of thing. 636 01:07:23,404 --> 01:07:27,188 They say it'll be quite a business once the war is over. 637 01:07:27,283 --> 01:07:29,240 You wouldn't want to teach? 638 01:07:30,911 --> 01:07:33,034 I would like these Kikuyu to have a school. 639 01:07:35,041 --> 01:07:36,665 There will be a fight about that. 640 01:07:43,841 --> 01:07:45,585 Are you all well? 641 01:07:47,178 --> 01:07:49,135 They say I'm cured. 642 01:07:51,724 --> 01:07:53,847 I won't have children. 643 01:08:02,193 --> 01:08:04,067 Have you thought about us? 644 01:08:08,115 --> 01:08:09,278 Of course. 645 01:08:20,044 --> 01:08:24,124 Belknap says the coffee will flower after the next rains. 646 01:08:25,383 --> 01:08:26,877 If it does... 647 01:08:26,968 --> 01:08:30,965 you'll have start thinking about hiring for the harvest... 648 01:08:31,055 --> 01:08:33,546 and how you'll get to market. 649 01:09:46,505 --> 01:09:48,996 - Where would Berkeley be? - He must be here. 650 01:10:00,686 --> 01:10:02,643 Who won the match? 651 01:10:10,613 --> 01:10:12,736 Have you got a story for me? 652 01:10:17,036 --> 01:10:20,571 I've been demoted. I was Denys last time. 653 01:10:20,665 --> 01:10:22,871 Would you care for some champagne? 654 01:10:24,502 --> 01:10:26,459 They said you went home for a while. 655 01:10:27,838 --> 01:10:30,543 Yes. Where is Berkeley? 656 01:10:30,633 --> 01:10:32,756 It's good to see you. 657 01:10:36,555 --> 01:10:38,548 He's still down with fever. He'll be all right. 658 01:10:38,641 --> 01:10:40,550 Who are all these people? 659 01:10:42,311 --> 01:10:46,309 Bror says we'll be a colony soon. 660 01:10:46,399 --> 01:10:48,724 Yes. They want it settled now. 661 01:10:48,818 --> 01:10:52,269 There's a lottery. Buy a ticket, win a farm in Africa. 662 01:10:52,363 --> 01:10:55,234 Did you really think it would stay the way it was? 663 01:10:57,618 --> 01:10:59,658 I thought it might. 664 01:11:01,872 --> 01:11:04,957 - Where is Kanuthia? - He's dead. 665 01:11:11,924 --> 01:11:14,925 How are you? Would you join us for a drink? 666 01:11:16,804 --> 01:11:18,512 It's time to find a pillow. 667 01:11:19,724 --> 01:11:22,345 - Another night then? - Yeah. 668 01:11:25,396 --> 01:11:27,305 Have a good Christmas. 669 01:11:28,983 --> 01:11:30,062 Christmas. 670 01:11:31,777 --> 01:11:33,153 So it is. 671 01:12:04,435 --> 01:12:07,519 This Chief says children higher than this... 672 01:12:07,605 --> 01:12:09,514 must not learn to read. 673 01:12:11,776 --> 01:12:14,148 Tell him all the children must go to school. 674 01:12:14,236 --> 01:12:17,487 No. This is a chief. 675 01:12:17,573 --> 01:12:20,111 - You are not a chief. - That's absurd. 676 01:12:20,201 --> 01:12:24,281 It's not good for tall people to know more than this chief. 677 01:12:24,372 --> 01:12:26,411 When these children are tall... 678 01:12:26,499 --> 01:12:29,168 then this chief can be dead. 679 01:13:04,495 --> 01:13:08,244 Bror, yes. But Denys hired out to tourists? I can't imagine. 680 01:13:08,332 --> 01:13:10,455 He's got no other trade. Besides, we've got no choice. 681 01:13:10,543 --> 01:13:12,785 The government's put a stop to the ivory. 682 01:13:12,878 --> 01:13:16,413 - What will you do? - I'll concentrate on the farm. 683 01:13:16,507 --> 01:13:17,670 Hello, the house! 684 01:13:17,758 --> 01:13:20,878 Felicity! How is it you're home? 685 01:13:20,970 --> 01:13:23,046 I'm out. Look. 686 01:13:23,139 --> 01:13:25,926 I didn't learn a thing, but I'm wonderfully clean. 687 01:13:27,518 --> 01:13:31,053 I'll come see you. You save me a dance, Berkeley. 688 01:13:39,238 --> 01:13:41,729 What's this nonsense I hear about a school? 689 01:13:41,824 --> 01:13:43,900 I've taken on a young missionary. 690 01:13:43,993 --> 01:13:47,278 He's promised me to do the alphabet first and save God for later. 691 01:13:47,371 --> 01:13:49,364 Wogs can't even count their goats. 692 01:13:50,583 --> 01:13:53,584 - It's none of your business. - Who the devil are you? 693 01:14:00,217 --> 01:14:02,922 I wonder if you'd dance with me? 694 01:14:04,764 --> 01:14:06,673 You are about to apologize. 695 01:14:10,311 --> 01:14:12,434 You do stir things up, Baroness. 696 01:14:16,567 --> 01:14:19,105 When they said they liked to read, how did they put that, exactly? 697 01:14:19,195 --> 01:14:21,152 Do they know they'd like Dickens? 698 01:14:21,238 --> 01:14:25,188 - You don't think they should learn? - I think you might have asked them. 699 01:14:25,284 --> 01:14:27,822 Did you ask to learn when you were a child? 700 01:14:27,912 --> 01:14:30,070 How can stories possibly harm them? 701 01:14:30,164 --> 01:14:32,655 They have their own stories. They're just not written down. 702 01:14:32,750 --> 01:14:35,075 And what stake to you have in keeping them ignorant? 703 01:14:35,169 --> 01:14:37,375 They're not ignorant. 704 01:14:37,463 --> 01:14:40,832 I just don't think they should be turned into little Englishmen. 705 01:14:46,681 --> 01:14:49,635 - You do like to change things. - For the better, I hope. 706 01:14:51,394 --> 01:14:54,478 I want my Kikuyu to learn to read. 707 01:14:54,563 --> 01:14:58,395 "My Kikuyu."My Limoges." "My farm." 708 01:14:58,484 --> 01:14:59,563 It's a lot to own. 709 01:14:59,652 --> 01:15:01,941 I have paid a price for everything I own. 710 01:15:02,029 --> 01:15:03,821 What is it, exactly, that's yours? 711 01:15:06,033 --> 01:15:08,655 We're not owners here. We're just passing through. 712 01:15:10,997 --> 01:15:14,282 Is life really so damn simple for you? 713 01:15:14,375 --> 01:15:17,044 Perhaps I ask less of it than you do. 714 01:15:18,588 --> 01:15:21,791 - I don't believe that. - Happy new year! 715 01:15:25,803 --> 01:15:28,970 Should auld acquaintance be forgot 716 01:15:29,056 --> 01:15:34,561 And never brought to mind 717 01:15:34,645 --> 01:15:39,687 Should auld acquaintance be forgot 718 01:15:39,775 --> 01:15:45,280 For the sake of auld lang syne 719 01:15:45,364 --> 01:15:50,322 For auld lang syne, my dear 720 01:15:50,411 --> 01:15:55,322 For auld lang syne 721 01:15:55,416 --> 01:16:01,039 We'll drink a cup of kindness here 722 01:16:01,130 --> 01:16:06,088 For the sake of auld lang syne 723 01:16:06,177 --> 01:16:10,044 We'll drink a cup 724 01:16:12,725 --> 01:16:14,848 God save... 725 01:16:14,936 --> 01:16:18,885 Our gracious king 726 01:16:18,981 --> 01:16:24,735 Long live our noble king 727 01:16:24,820 --> 01:16:30,028 God save our king 728 01:16:30,117 --> 01:16:35,871 Send him victorious 729 01:16:35,957 --> 01:16:41,331 Happy and glorious 730 01:16:41,420 --> 01:16:43,330 Happy new year, Karen. 731 01:16:44,507 --> 01:16:47,294 And for you too. 732 01:16:47,385 --> 01:16:53,257 God save the king 733 01:17:05,444 --> 01:17:08,648 Someone has left her underclothes in the back. 734 01:17:15,788 --> 01:17:18,409 I want you to take a place in town. 735 01:17:24,547 --> 01:17:26,006 Are you sure? 736 01:17:50,156 --> 01:17:51,105 Eat. 737 01:17:57,997 --> 01:17:59,575 Elephant. 738 01:18:26,651 --> 01:18:28,560 Give me work. 739 01:19:11,570 --> 01:19:14,524 We've got peace. Where is the prosperity? 740 01:19:14,615 --> 01:19:18,031 Why should prices fall now just because we're not killing anybody? 741 01:19:19,287 --> 01:19:21,409 Well, tea's down just as bad. 742 01:19:24,083 --> 01:19:26,656 Do they always have to whip them so? 743 01:19:54,739 --> 01:19:58,190 Look. They finally made a machine that's really useful. 744 01:19:58,284 --> 01:19:59,197 Listen. 745 01:20:03,873 --> 01:20:05,201 It's for you. 746 01:20:07,001 --> 01:20:10,085 - I can't accept it. - Why not? 747 01:20:10,171 --> 01:20:11,962 Bror's moved to town. 748 01:20:13,549 --> 01:20:15,458 That's a private matter, I imagine. 749 01:20:25,478 --> 01:20:27,684 Did you think you would spend the night? 750 01:20:27,772 --> 01:20:32,066 Can't, thanks. I have to go down to the Mara. 751 01:20:34,028 --> 01:20:36,982 I've taken up safari work, and I've got to find a camp. 752 01:20:42,495 --> 01:20:44,902 There's country there you ought to see. 753 01:20:44,997 --> 01:20:47,037 It won't last long now. 754 01:20:47,124 --> 01:20:50,161 No. I would be wasting your time. 755 01:20:51,462 --> 01:20:53,371 Why don't you get your things? 756 01:20:56,175 --> 01:20:59,046 If you like me at all... 757 01:20:59,136 --> 01:21:01,046 don't ask me to do this. 758 01:22:21,886 --> 01:22:23,084 What's your word? 759 01:22:26,098 --> 01:22:27,261 Shoo? 760 01:22:29,393 --> 01:22:31,350 Is that it? Shoo? 761 01:22:41,781 --> 01:22:44,106 That's a fine word you've got there, Baroness. 762 01:22:53,960 --> 01:22:56,248 Crank it again, will you? 763 01:22:56,337 --> 01:22:58,958 Almost. Crank it again. 764 01:23:01,175 --> 01:23:02,254 Again. 765 01:23:07,598 --> 01:23:08,677 Once more. 766 01:23:15,273 --> 01:23:17,645 Well done. We're off. 767 01:23:24,532 --> 01:23:26,406 I don't know the scientific basis for it... 768 01:23:26,492 --> 01:23:30,406 but I know you can see further in the African night than any other place. 769 01:23:34,166 --> 01:23:36,124 And the stars are brighter. 770 01:23:40,923 --> 01:23:43,379 It's about the tents. 771 01:23:43,467 --> 01:23:45,294 When I'm out with Kanuthia... 772 01:23:47,096 --> 01:23:50,180 it used to be we didn't use them. 773 01:23:51,475 --> 01:23:54,761 I remember him. 774 01:23:54,854 --> 01:23:56,182 There was something... 775 01:23:56,272 --> 01:23:58,514 Masai. 776 01:23:58,608 --> 01:24:01,562 He was half Masai. That's what you remember about him. 777 01:24:01,652 --> 01:24:03,526 They're like nobody else. 778 01:24:05,156 --> 01:24:08,192 We think we'll tame them... 779 01:24:08,284 --> 01:24:10,490 but we won't. 780 01:24:10,578 --> 01:24:12,535 If you put them in prison, they die. 781 01:24:13,581 --> 01:24:16,701 - Why? - Because they live now. 782 01:24:16,792 --> 01:24:18,702 They don't think about the future. 783 01:24:20,504 --> 01:24:24,454 They can't grasp the idea that they'll be let out one day. 784 01:24:24,550 --> 01:24:26,792 They think it's permanent. 785 01:24:26,886 --> 01:24:28,261 So they die. 786 01:24:31,265 --> 01:24:33,756 They're the only ones out here that don't care about us... 787 01:24:33,851 --> 01:24:36,176 and that is what will finish them. 788 01:24:38,940 --> 01:24:41,727 What did the two of you ever find to talk about? 789 01:24:44,278 --> 01:24:45,192 Nothing. 790 01:24:50,326 --> 01:24:53,944 So. You knew I would come. 791 01:25:01,879 --> 01:25:05,628 It's an early day tomorrow. Why don't you get some sleep? 792 01:25:07,927 --> 01:25:10,762 - And what happens tomorrow? - I have no idea. 793 01:25:16,811 --> 01:25:18,768 - Good night. - Good night. 794 01:25:57,935 --> 01:26:00,972 You would think they would run off. 795 01:26:01,063 --> 01:26:02,226 You didn't. 796 01:26:32,011 --> 01:26:33,754 Think of that. 797 01:26:33,846 --> 01:26:35,969 Never a man-made sound, and then Mozart. 798 01:27:09,298 --> 01:27:11,836 - Have you clients already? - In a week. 799 01:27:11,926 --> 01:27:14,251 A man from Belgium and his daughters. 800 01:27:14,345 --> 01:27:17,465 His letter said, "We'd like three of everything." 801 01:27:17,556 --> 01:27:20,723 It'll be an interesting trip. I'll be gone a month... 802 01:27:20,810 --> 01:27:23,597 or an hour and a half. 803 01:27:23,688 --> 01:27:26,854 Why are you doing this? 804 01:27:26,941 --> 01:27:28,898 I don't know how to sew. 805 01:27:46,502 --> 01:27:49,075 Do you know what they're made of? Cloth. 806 01:27:49,171 --> 01:27:50,998 Where will he land? 807 01:27:51,090 --> 01:27:53,047 Trick is not to. 808 01:27:57,221 --> 01:27:59,297 It must feel amazing. 809 01:28:03,978 --> 01:28:06,730 It's how I imagined America to be. 810 01:28:07,940 --> 01:28:11,475 - Have you been to America? - No, but my father was there. 811 01:28:11,569 --> 01:28:14,523 He told me stories about it when I was a little girl. 812 01:28:16,490 --> 01:28:18,400 - Are you still close? - He died. 813 01:28:18,492 --> 01:28:22,193 He killed himself when I was ten years old. 814 01:28:45,686 --> 01:28:47,643 I can fix that, I think. 815 01:28:47,730 --> 01:28:49,723 "Laughed loud and long... 816 01:28:49,815 --> 01:28:54,027 and all the while his eyes went to and fro. 817 01:28:54,111 --> 01:28:58,654 'Ha ha,' quoth he, 'full plain I see. 818 01:28:58,741 --> 01:29:01,777 The devil knows how to row.' 819 01:29:03,913 --> 01:29:06,783 - Farewell, farewell..." - You're skipping verses. 820 01:29:06,874 --> 01:29:09,282 I leave out the dull parts. 821 01:29:09,377 --> 01:29:11,416 "Farewell, farewell... 822 01:29:11,504 --> 01:29:14,458 but this I tell to thee, thou wedding guest." 823 01:29:14,548 --> 01:29:17,336 Lay your head back. 824 01:29:17,426 --> 01:29:19,218 "He prayeth well... 825 01:29:19,303 --> 01:29:23,681 who loveth well both man and bird... 826 01:29:23,766 --> 01:29:25,723 and beast." 827 01:29:36,362 --> 01:29:38,520 That's better. 828 01:29:39,407 --> 01:29:43,191 Will it be so different, hunting for hire? 829 01:29:44,161 --> 01:29:47,412 Not for the animals. Well, maybe for the animals. 830 01:29:47,498 --> 01:29:51,033 Do you really prefer them to people? 831 01:29:51,127 --> 01:29:52,372 Sometimes. 832 01:29:53,212 --> 01:29:55,537 They don't do anything half-heartedly. 833 01:29:55,631 --> 01:29:57,707 Everything's for the first time... 834 01:29:57,800 --> 01:30:01,169 Hunting, working, mating. 835 01:30:01,262 --> 01:30:03,504 It's only man that does it badly. 836 01:30:03,598 --> 01:30:07,298 It's only man that tires of going through it. 837 01:30:07,393 --> 01:30:11,770 Who says, "See here. Now I know how you feel about me... 838 01:30:11,856 --> 01:30:16,067 and you know how I feel about you... 839 01:30:16,152 --> 01:30:21,146 and we understand each other, so let's lie down and get on with it." 840 01:30:29,790 --> 01:30:31,700 Why am I here? 841 01:30:34,587 --> 01:30:36,663 Because I wanted you to see all this. 842 01:30:40,134 --> 01:30:43,218 I wanted to show it to you. 843 01:30:43,304 --> 01:30:45,213 I thought you'd understand it. 844 01:30:50,436 --> 01:30:52,512 Do you think much about death? 845 01:30:52,605 --> 01:30:54,514 I think about getting old. 846 01:30:57,443 --> 01:31:00,195 Be like living with a cranky, demanding old bastard. 847 01:31:02,073 --> 01:31:05,442 Well, you are a cranky, demanding old bastard. 848 01:31:12,500 --> 01:31:14,409 I had syphilis. 849 01:31:20,549 --> 01:31:22,459 That's why I went home. 850 01:31:25,680 --> 01:31:27,222 I know. 851 01:31:30,017 --> 01:31:32,425 I never seem to get anything. 852 01:31:32,520 --> 01:31:34,559 German measles once. 853 01:31:38,442 --> 01:31:42,689 They say I'll have a normal life now... 854 01:31:42,780 --> 01:31:44,903 but no children. 855 01:31:47,201 --> 01:31:49,158 So, the school? 856 01:31:52,915 --> 01:31:56,035 So, the school. 857 01:31:56,127 --> 01:31:58,534 The farm. That's what I am now. 858 01:32:11,559 --> 01:32:15,058 We'll need meat for the camp tomorrow. 859 01:32:15,146 --> 01:32:16,889 I'll wake you at dawn. 860 01:32:24,905 --> 01:32:25,937 Good night. 861 01:32:27,366 --> 01:32:28,564 Good night. 862 01:32:40,630 --> 01:32:44,793 We might scare up gazelles, but we'll be going through buffalo country again. 863 01:32:44,884 --> 01:32:46,960 They get cocky when you're on foot. 864 01:34:07,925 --> 01:34:09,004 Supper. 865 01:34:10,386 --> 01:34:12,295 Good size, but... 866 01:34:22,398 --> 01:34:23,311 Lion. 867 01:34:26,027 --> 01:34:28,150 Careful, the wind's behind us. 868 01:35:29,298 --> 01:35:30,377 Back up. 869 01:35:30,466 --> 01:35:31,664 Slowly. 870 01:35:46,065 --> 01:35:49,232 If there's a charge, drop flat... 871 01:35:49,318 --> 01:35:51,227 and let me do it. 872 01:36:33,654 --> 01:36:34,817 Reload! 873 01:37:13,486 --> 01:37:15,609 Dinner in a while? 874 01:37:17,490 --> 01:37:19,447 I'm glad you came. 875 01:38:49,206 --> 01:38:50,665 To rose-lipped maidens. 876 01:38:59,926 --> 01:39:03,923 There was a very young girl from Denmark... 877 01:39:04,013 --> 01:39:07,761 who took passage on a steamer bound for Suez. 878 01:39:10,394 --> 01:39:12,351 There was a storm... 879 01:39:13,856 --> 01:39:15,185 off Morocco... 880 01:39:18,527 --> 01:39:21,481 and she was washed ashore... 881 01:39:21,572 --> 01:39:23,481 onto a beach. 882 01:39:28,496 --> 01:39:30,488 Onto a white beach. 883 01:39:40,007 --> 01:39:43,008 Onto a beach so, so white... 884 01:40:24,010 --> 01:40:25,753 I'd like to do that. 885 01:40:37,690 --> 01:40:40,810 - Will that hurt? - No. 886 01:40:49,368 --> 01:40:53,662 If you say anything now, I'll believe it. 887 01:41:18,564 --> 01:41:21,020 I need to know how to think about this. 888 01:41:23,611 --> 01:41:25,153 Why? 889 01:42:02,566 --> 01:42:05,817 Your clear soup, the new lettuce... 890 01:42:05,903 --> 01:42:07,979 chicken, just the breast. 891 01:42:10,783 --> 01:42:12,989 I trust this meets with your approval? 892 01:42:13,077 --> 01:42:15,912 - Who is coming? - Bwana Cole is coming. 893 01:42:15,997 --> 01:42:18,285 I will think on Bwana Cole. 894 01:42:27,842 --> 01:42:30,759 I've got myself in real trouble now. 895 01:42:30,845 --> 01:42:33,087 - Now you think they should vote? - No, worse. 896 01:42:49,989 --> 01:42:51,234 Get Kamante. 897 01:42:53,284 --> 01:42:55,442 He is out of hand entirely. 898 01:43:03,210 --> 01:43:04,918 Does this look like a chicken? 899 01:43:07,965 --> 01:43:11,417 Here is not a chicken, memsahib. Here is a fish. 900 01:43:13,512 --> 01:43:14,888 Go away. 901 01:43:20,811 --> 01:43:22,519 What do you think? 902 01:43:23,940 --> 01:43:26,098 It's quite good, isn't it? 903 01:43:28,402 --> 01:43:29,731 Be careful. 904 01:43:34,033 --> 01:43:36,654 When the old map makers got to the edge of the world, they used to write... 905 01:43:36,744 --> 01:43:39,200 "Beyond this place there be dragons." 906 01:43:40,581 --> 01:43:42,538 Is that where I am? 907 01:43:45,002 --> 01:43:47,672 He likes to give presents... 908 01:43:47,755 --> 01:43:49,380 but not at Christmas. 909 01:43:51,676 --> 01:43:55,258 He hasn't even said when he's coming again. 910 01:43:55,346 --> 01:43:57,385 If he's coming again. 911 01:43:59,183 --> 01:44:00,381 Would you divorce? 912 01:44:02,270 --> 01:44:04,227 Then I would have no one. 913 01:45:19,347 --> 01:45:21,754 Men who missed moose in Alaska... 914 01:45:21,849 --> 01:45:24,470 grizzly in America, tiger in India... 915 01:45:24,560 --> 01:45:26,600 are all at sea now, bound for here. 916 01:45:29,106 --> 01:45:31,479 Berkeley is going to farm. 917 01:45:31,567 --> 01:45:33,856 You could do that. 918 01:45:33,945 --> 01:45:37,029 No, thank you. 919 01:45:37,114 --> 01:45:39,784 You ought to look in on him, though. 920 01:45:39,867 --> 01:45:41,776 He didn't look all that well. 921 01:45:49,794 --> 01:45:51,703 Can you stay? 922 01:45:55,716 --> 01:45:59,085 For a day or so. 923 01:45:59,178 --> 01:46:01,218 - Is that all right? - No. 924 01:46:05,142 --> 01:46:07,182 You don't need two guns on safari. 925 01:46:07,270 --> 01:46:09,558 Then do the town work. 926 01:46:09,647 --> 01:46:13,098 Meet the clients, do outfitting, there's mail. 927 01:46:13,192 --> 01:46:15,600 I don't know that I'd be right for that. 928 01:46:15,695 --> 01:46:18,779 You've got to do something. 929 01:46:18,864 --> 01:46:21,272 I don't, actually. 930 01:46:21,367 --> 01:46:23,406 My water's gone black. 931 01:46:29,458 --> 01:46:32,329 We've got to get you to a hospital and get you some proper care. 932 01:46:35,423 --> 01:46:37,629 I'm being cared for properly. 933 01:46:48,769 --> 01:46:50,145 It's... 934 01:46:52,356 --> 01:46:55,061 some years now. 935 01:46:55,151 --> 01:46:57,060 She's fond of me, I think. 936 01:47:00,615 --> 01:47:03,284 Why didn't you tell me? 937 01:47:04,577 --> 01:47:06,819 I suppose... 938 01:47:06,913 --> 01:47:08,157 I thought... 939 01:47:11,000 --> 01:47:13,076 I didn't know you well enough. 940 01:47:17,465 --> 01:47:19,374 There's money left in the trading account. 941 01:47:19,467 --> 01:47:23,085 I'd like my share to go to Mairiamo. 942 01:47:23,179 --> 01:47:25,136 Listen. 943 01:47:25,222 --> 01:47:28,638 George Martin had black water fever, and that was five years now. 944 01:47:29,769 --> 01:47:32,342 You might take along that 12-bore you're so fond of. 945 01:47:32,438 --> 01:47:34,478 The trigger seems a bit... 946 01:47:35,399 --> 01:47:37,606 Get Karen to try the Rigby. 947 01:47:37,693 --> 01:47:39,982 It's a nice-size gun for her. 948 01:47:49,956 --> 01:47:51,284 Would you like... 949 01:47:54,001 --> 01:47:56,326 Would you like me to take you home? 950 01:47:58,005 --> 01:48:00,675 I am home, I suppose. 951 01:48:00,758 --> 01:48:02,466 - "F." - "F." 952 01:48:04,178 --> 01:48:05,886 - "G." - "G." 953 01:48:07,390 --> 01:48:09,216 "G" for girl. 954 01:48:14,647 --> 01:48:17,220 Are you packed? 955 01:48:17,316 --> 01:48:19,225 Yes. 956 01:48:19,318 --> 01:48:20,729 How was town? 957 01:48:21,988 --> 01:48:23,102 Crowded. 958 01:48:28,327 --> 01:48:29,738 I've been thinking. 959 01:48:31,664 --> 01:48:35,247 With all the safari work, I have little use for the room... 960 01:48:35,334 --> 01:48:36,793 at the club. 961 01:48:42,675 --> 01:48:46,091 I don't know that I'd be any good at this... 962 01:48:47,346 --> 01:48:51,474 but how would it be if I kept a few things with you? 963 01:48:57,857 --> 01:49:00,099 You would come and go from my house? 964 01:49:01,861 --> 01:49:04,150 If that's all right. 965 01:49:05,948 --> 01:49:09,448 When the gods want to punish you, they answer your prayers. 966 01:49:19,629 --> 01:49:20,708 Berkeley's dying. 967 01:49:23,841 --> 01:49:25,917 - What? - Black water fever. 968 01:49:27,011 --> 01:49:28,422 Oh, my God. 969 01:49:29,847 --> 01:49:33,050 - I'll go to him. - No, he wouldn't want you there. 970 01:49:33,142 --> 01:49:34,091 Why? 971 01:49:36,687 --> 01:49:39,890 There's a woman there. She's Somali. 972 01:49:42,360 --> 01:49:43,937 She's been with him for some time. 973 01:49:45,112 --> 01:49:47,022 You never told me this. 974 01:49:49,825 --> 01:49:51,284 I didn't know. 975 01:50:10,179 --> 01:50:14,391 "... with each one of us now and forevermore." Amen. 976 01:50:36,372 --> 01:50:38,661 Strange that Denys isn't here. 977 01:50:40,918 --> 01:50:42,827 I think he is off with Berkeley. 978 01:50:53,055 --> 01:50:56,970 In the days and hours that Denys was at home... 979 01:50:57,059 --> 01:50:59,681 we spoke of nothing ordinary. 980 01:51:00,896 --> 01:51:04,100 Not of my troubles with the farm... 981 01:51:04,191 --> 01:51:07,940 my notes due and my failing crop... 982 01:51:08,029 --> 01:51:10,354 or of his, with his work... 983 01:51:10,448 --> 01:51:13,864 what he knew was happening to Africa. 984 01:51:16,454 --> 01:51:22,243 Or of anything at all that was small and real. 985 01:51:22,335 --> 01:51:26,119 We lived disconnected... 986 01:51:26,213 --> 01:51:29,167 and apart from things. 987 01:51:30,217 --> 01:51:33,966 I had been making up stories while he was away. 988 01:51:34,055 --> 01:51:37,969 In the evenings, he made himself comfortable... 989 01:51:38,059 --> 01:51:42,471 spreading cushions like a couch in front of the fire. 990 01:51:42,563 --> 01:51:47,309 And with me sitting cross-legged like Shahrazade herself... 991 01:51:47,401 --> 01:51:52,359 he would listen, clear eyed, to a long tale... 992 01:51:53,407 --> 01:51:56,823 from when it began until it ended. 993 01:52:38,703 --> 01:52:40,446 Where did you get it? 994 01:52:40,538 --> 01:52:42,614 Mombasa. 995 01:52:42,707 --> 01:52:44,783 Get in. 996 01:52:49,714 --> 01:52:52,287 When did you learn to fly? 997 01:52:52,383 --> 01:52:53,842 Yesterday. 998 01:55:59,737 --> 01:56:01,148 Don't move. 999 01:56:07,995 --> 01:56:09,904 I want to move. 1000 01:56:11,540 --> 01:56:12,916 Don't move. 1001 01:56:44,740 --> 01:56:46,484 Tanne, may I see you? 1002 01:56:54,458 --> 01:56:55,787 Well, I'm broke too, you know? 1003 01:56:55,876 --> 01:56:59,542 I wouldn't ask, but tips were a bit light. 1004 01:57:03,175 --> 01:57:06,710 - Are you all right? - If I get a decent crop. 1005 01:57:08,889 --> 01:57:10,847 I could shoot him. 1006 01:57:14,854 --> 01:57:18,721 I've got this terrible urge to kiss you. 1007 01:57:21,444 --> 01:57:23,271 He is smarter than I am. 1008 01:57:23,362 --> 01:57:25,271 It may go well. 1009 01:57:27,283 --> 01:57:29,192 Good luck, Tanne. 1010 01:57:41,672 --> 01:57:43,250 You might have asked. 1011 01:57:43,341 --> 01:57:44,751 I did. 1012 01:57:46,344 --> 01:57:47,968 She said yes. 1013 01:58:01,901 --> 01:58:05,186 If I get eaten up some time, bury me here, will you? 1014 01:58:05,279 --> 01:58:07,735 Whatever's left. 1015 01:58:07,823 --> 01:58:10,824 Just there, at the crest of the hill. 1016 01:58:16,666 --> 01:58:18,742 When are you leaving? 1017 01:58:18,834 --> 01:58:20,293 Tomorrow. 1018 01:58:22,004 --> 01:58:25,124 Doesn't it matter to you that I'm another man's wife? 1019 01:58:26,509 --> 01:58:29,759 What matters to me is that you tried so hard. 1020 01:58:32,515 --> 01:58:34,591 What time tomorrow? 1021 01:58:44,694 --> 01:58:46,354 Goodbye again. 1022 01:58:47,446 --> 01:58:49,154 How many acres under cultivation? 1023 01:58:49,240 --> 01:58:52,443 - Five hundred. - The rest of it's wild? 1024 01:58:52,535 --> 01:58:56,449 - Well, the Kikuyu live there. - Why don't you move them off? 1025 01:58:57,707 --> 01:59:00,280 'Cause they live there. 1026 01:59:00,376 --> 01:59:03,045 We'll take it over should you default. 1027 01:59:06,173 --> 01:59:08,878 - We've got another year. - God is great, msabu. 1028 01:59:08,968 --> 01:59:10,925 He's charging three percent. 1029 01:59:22,023 --> 01:59:23,932 This chief says... 1030 01:59:24,025 --> 01:59:26,694 tall children can come to school now. 1031 01:59:34,994 --> 01:59:39,952 Tell Chief Kinanjui that reading is a valuable thing. 1032 01:59:41,000 --> 01:59:43,573 His children will remember him well. 1033 01:59:59,060 --> 02:00:03,638 This chief says, "British can read, and what good has it done them?" 1034 02:01:34,447 --> 02:01:37,068 Miss Felicity Spurway, clear round. 1035 02:01:37,158 --> 02:01:39,150 She's quite something, that Felicity. 1036 02:01:39,243 --> 02:01:40,702 Yes, indeed. 1037 02:01:43,414 --> 02:01:48,657 The next competitor, Mr John Sutton on Castano. 1038 02:01:50,588 --> 02:01:52,462 How are you? 1039 02:01:52,548 --> 02:01:54,505 Getting old, I think. 1040 02:01:55,760 --> 02:01:57,836 Not you. 1041 02:01:57,929 --> 02:01:59,506 How is the hunt? 1042 02:01:59,597 --> 02:02:01,886 I'll make a living. Where is Denys? 1043 02:02:03,225 --> 02:02:07,638 Uganda. Some potentate. 1044 02:02:07,730 --> 02:02:11,644 I thought you might be wanting a divorce. 1045 02:02:16,530 --> 02:02:18,653 Has she got money? 1046 02:02:18,741 --> 02:02:20,650 Of course she's got money. 1047 02:02:22,578 --> 02:02:24,156 Is this important 1048 02:02:25,206 --> 02:02:26,581 I suppose. 1049 02:02:28,042 --> 02:02:30,615 Well, I'll have to accuse you of something. 1050 02:02:32,213 --> 02:02:35,048 Or did you think you would have it the other way around? 1051 02:02:36,550 --> 02:02:38,460 Fire away. Whatever. 1052 02:02:38,552 --> 02:02:40,462 I have surely done it. 1053 02:02:43,891 --> 02:02:45,551 Thank you, Tanne. 1054 02:02:45,643 --> 02:02:49,890 How do you manage it... to keep us friends? 1055 02:02:49,981 --> 02:02:52,732 We started that way. 1056 02:02:55,569 --> 02:02:58,855 Well, I'll be happy for you, if I can. 1057 02:03:06,831 --> 02:03:08,788 I remember that quite well. 1058 02:03:33,065 --> 02:03:35,473 When you go away on safari... 1059 02:03:35,568 --> 02:03:37,975 are you ever with someone else? 1060 02:03:38,070 --> 02:03:40,312 I'd be with you if I wanted to be with anyone. 1061 02:03:43,034 --> 02:03:45,785 - Do you ever get lonely? - Sometimes. 1062 02:03:46,579 --> 02:03:48,618 Do you ever wonder if I am lonely? 1063 02:03:50,416 --> 02:03:52,076 No, I don't. 1064 02:03:53,085 --> 02:03:55,078 Do you think about me at all? 1065 02:03:56,255 --> 02:04:00,087 - Often. - But not enough to come back. 1066 02:04:01,719 --> 02:04:04,424 I do come back... all the time. What is it? 1067 02:04:06,182 --> 02:04:07,806 Nothing. 1068 02:04:14,690 --> 02:04:18,770 Bror has asked me for a divorce. He found someone that he wants to marry. 1069 02:04:18,861 --> 02:04:21,103 I just thought we might do that someday. 1070 02:04:22,365 --> 02:04:23,645 Divorce? 1071 02:04:26,994 --> 02:04:30,446 How... How would a wedding change things? 1072 02:04:31,540 --> 02:04:34,114 I would have someone of my own. 1073 02:04:36,379 --> 02:04:37,789 You wouldn't. 1074 02:04:39,674 --> 02:04:41,713 What's wrong with marriage, anyway? 1075 02:04:41,801 --> 02:04:43,840 Have you ever seen one you admire? 1076 02:04:43,928 --> 02:04:45,802 Yes, I have. Many. 1077 02:04:49,267 --> 02:04:51,473 Belfields, for one. 1078 02:04:51,560 --> 02:04:54,478 He sent her home for the rains in 1910. 1079 02:04:54,563 --> 02:04:56,686 Didn't tell her they were over till 1913. 1080 02:04:56,774 --> 02:04:59,146 It's not a joke. People marry. It's not revolutionary. 1081 02:04:59,235 --> 02:05:02,438 - There are animals that mate for life. - Geese. 1082 02:05:02,530 --> 02:05:05,614 You use the damn animals for your own argument. 1083 02:05:05,700 --> 02:05:07,526 You won't let me use them for mine. 1084 02:05:08,869 --> 02:05:11,195 I'd mate for life. 1085 02:05:12,373 --> 02:05:14,164 One day at a time. 1086 02:05:15,376 --> 02:05:20,750 I'd just like someone to ask me once, that's all. 1087 02:05:20,840 --> 02:05:24,291 Promise me you'll do that, if I promise to say no? 1088 02:05:24,385 --> 02:05:27,006 Just trust you, eh? 1089 02:05:31,892 --> 02:05:33,766 When you go away... 1090 02:05:35,229 --> 02:05:37,436 you don't always go on safari, do you? 1091 02:05:44,363 --> 02:05:46,605 Just want to be away. 1092 02:05:47,950 --> 02:05:49,859 It's not meant to hurt you. 1093 02:05:51,913 --> 02:05:53,739 It does. 1094 02:05:55,207 --> 02:05:57,698 I'm with you because I choose to be with you. 1095 02:05:57,793 --> 02:06:01,127 I don't want to live someone else's idea of how to live. 1096 02:06:01,213 --> 02:06:03,586 Don't ask me to do that. 1097 02:06:03,674 --> 02:06:07,672 I don't want to find out one day that I'm at the end of someone else's life. 1098 02:06:09,847 --> 02:06:12,089 I'm willing to pay for mine. To be lonely sometimes. 1099 02:06:12,183 --> 02:06:14,674 To die alone, if I have to. I think that's fair. 1100 02:06:14,769 --> 02:06:17,805 Not quite. You want me to pay for it as well. 1101 02:06:17,897 --> 02:06:21,432 No, you have a choice, and you're not willing to do the same for me. 1102 02:06:25,029 --> 02:06:27,946 I won't be closer to you... 1103 02:06:28,032 --> 02:06:30,653 and I won't love you more because of a piece of paper. 1104 02:06:44,882 --> 02:06:46,542 See if you can shore it up. 1105 02:06:57,561 --> 02:06:58,510 Move away. 1106 02:07:01,732 --> 02:07:04,223 Let it go. 1107 02:07:05,861 --> 02:07:08,435 This water lives in Mombasa anyway. 1108 02:07:54,285 --> 02:07:56,194 I flew as far as Narok. 1109 02:07:56,287 --> 02:07:59,786 You could see all the ruts where the lorries had been. 1110 02:07:59,874 --> 02:08:01,783 The Serengeti was still good. 1111 02:08:01,876 --> 02:08:03,785 Take a week just getting there. 1112 02:08:09,342 --> 02:08:12,093 And Samburu is still good. 1113 02:08:12,178 --> 02:08:14,254 Where's Belknap? I haven't seen him. 1114 02:08:17,600 --> 02:08:19,723 He must be in America by now. 1115 02:08:23,522 --> 02:08:25,432 I let him go. 1116 02:08:27,026 --> 02:08:30,229 I had to. But you don't want to hear about the farm, do you? 1117 02:08:30,321 --> 02:08:33,904 - L... Have you got any buttons? - What are you doing? 1118 02:08:35,534 --> 02:08:36,945 - Mending your shirt. - Don't. 1119 02:08:37,995 --> 02:08:39,620 Don't do that. 1120 02:08:39,705 --> 02:08:40,950 You don't have to do that. 1121 02:08:50,216 --> 02:08:52,292 Maybe I'll try Samburu day after tomorrow. 1122 02:08:52,385 --> 02:08:54,128 You just got back. 1123 02:08:58,516 --> 02:09:01,351 You know, Felicity asked to come along... 1124 02:09:03,187 --> 02:09:06,105 and I almost said no because I thought you wouldn't like it. 1125 02:09:06,190 --> 02:09:09,274 - There's no reason for her not to come. - Yes, there is. I wouldn't like it. 1126 02:09:10,027 --> 02:09:11,569 You want her along? 1127 02:09:11,654 --> 02:09:13,730 I want things that don't matter not to matter. 1128 02:09:13,823 --> 02:09:16,574 - Then tell her no. Do it for me. - And then? What else would it be? 1129 02:09:16,659 --> 02:09:18,616 Why is your freedom more important that mine? 1130 02:09:18,703 --> 02:09:21,241 It isn't. And I've never interfered with your freedom. 1131 02:09:21,330 --> 02:09:23,406 No. I'm not allowed to need you. 1132 02:09:23,499 --> 02:09:25,741 Or rely on you, or expect anything from you. 1133 02:09:25,835 --> 02:09:27,744 I'm free to leave. 1134 02:09:29,005 --> 02:09:30,914 - But I do need you. - You don't need me. 1135 02:09:31,007 --> 02:09:33,248 If I die, will you die? You don't need me. 1136 02:09:33,342 --> 02:09:36,260 You're confused. You've mixed up need with want. You always have. 1137 02:09:36,345 --> 02:09:39,382 My God. In the world that you would make, there would be no love at all. 1138 02:09:39,473 --> 02:09:41,715 Or the best kind. The kind we wouldn't have to prove. 1139 02:09:41,809 --> 02:09:44,596 - You'll be living on the moon then. - Why? Because I won't do it your way? 1140 02:09:44,687 --> 02:09:47,604 Are we assuming there's one proper way to do all this? 1141 02:09:47,690 --> 02:09:49,433 Do you think I care about Felicity? 1142 02:09:49,525 --> 02:09:51,434 Do you think I'll be involved with her? 1143 02:09:56,949 --> 02:09:58,942 - Then there's no reason for this. - If she's not important... 1144 02:09:59,035 --> 02:10:00,861 why won't you give it up? 1145 02:10:03,748 --> 02:10:06,321 I have learned a thing that you haven't. 1146 02:10:07,543 --> 02:10:09,785 There are some things worth having... 1147 02:10:11,047 --> 02:10:14,629 but they come at a price, and I want to be one of them. 1148 02:10:17,219 --> 02:10:18,844 I won't allow it. 1149 02:10:21,557 --> 02:10:24,558 You have no idea the effect that language has on me. 1150 02:10:24,644 --> 02:10:27,479 I used to think that there was nothing that you really wanted... 1151 02:10:27,563 --> 02:10:29,805 but that's not it, is it? 1152 02:10:29,899 --> 02:10:32,568 You want to have it all. 1153 02:10:37,740 --> 02:10:39,982 I'm going to Samburu. She can come or not. 1154 02:10:47,416 --> 02:10:49,374 Then you will be living elsewhere. 1155 02:10:56,592 --> 02:10:57,873 All right. 1156 02:11:37,883 --> 02:11:39,841 Is that a prince in there? 1157 02:11:57,778 --> 02:12:00,863 I think that you had better get up, memsahib. 1158 02:12:00,948 --> 02:12:03,618 - What? - I think that you had better get up. 1159 02:12:03,701 --> 02:12:05,658 I think that God is coming. 1160 02:13:01,425 --> 02:13:02,836 All gone. 1161 02:13:20,695 --> 02:13:24,111 - How did it start? - I think God had a hand in it. 1162 02:13:24,198 --> 02:13:28,112 He gave me my best crop ever, and then He remembered. 1163 02:13:28,202 --> 02:13:30,776 - Insurance? - That's for pessimists. 1164 02:13:31,581 --> 02:13:33,490 Where is Denys? 1165 02:13:33,583 --> 02:13:34,958 Who knows? 1166 02:13:37,420 --> 02:13:40,171 Doesn't matter. The baroness is broke, "D." 1167 02:13:42,049 --> 02:13:43,508 It's over. 1168 02:13:43,593 --> 02:13:47,637 I've got to find some land before I go, for my Kikuyu. 1169 02:13:47,722 --> 02:13:49,180 You've trouble enough, Karen. 1170 02:13:49,265 --> 02:13:52,349 Just a chunk somewhere, so they can stay all together. 1171 02:13:55,271 --> 02:13:57,643 We're just out of coffee... 1172 02:13:57,732 --> 02:13:59,689 but I can give you tea. 1173 02:14:00,818 --> 02:14:04,602 There is no arable land that size outside the reserve... 1174 02:14:04,697 --> 02:14:06,736 and if there were, we'd not put natives on it. 1175 02:14:06,824 --> 02:14:10,738 - Since it's theirs. - It belongs to the crown, Baroness. 1176 02:14:10,828 --> 02:14:12,785 What you want is quite impossible. 1177 02:14:12,872 --> 02:14:16,241 Yes, it always is. Who must I see next? 1178 02:14:16,334 --> 02:14:19,038 You've run through us all, I'm afraid. 1179 02:14:19,128 --> 02:14:21,121 We have a new governor, haven't we? 1180 02:14:21,213 --> 02:14:24,748 Sir Joseph? He hasn't arrived yet. 1181 02:14:24,842 --> 02:14:27,796 But will soon, I'm told. 1182 02:14:27,887 --> 02:14:30,045 You do still ask me to things? 1183 02:14:30,139 --> 02:14:32,974 Captain Jacques Llewllyn. 1184 02:14:33,059 --> 02:14:34,968 - Your servant, sir. - Mr Llewllyn. 1185 02:14:36,228 --> 02:14:39,064 The honourable Hugh Chomondeley, Lord Delamere. 1186 02:14:39,148 --> 02:14:41,935 - Your servant, sir. - Lady Delamere. 1187 02:14:42,026 --> 02:14:44,019 - How do you do? - Lady Delamere. 1188 02:14:47,031 --> 02:14:48,940 - Commissioner. - Baroness. 1189 02:14:49,033 --> 02:14:50,942 The Baroness von Blixen. 1190 02:14:52,411 --> 02:14:55,116 I'm sorry to know that Kenya will be losing you. 1191 02:14:55,206 --> 02:14:57,779 - You have heard of my trouble then? - Yes. 1192 02:14:57,875 --> 02:14:59,998 I regret it. 1193 02:15:00,086 --> 02:15:02,707 - And do you know of my problem now? - Baroness. 1194 02:15:04,048 --> 02:15:07,464 - This land you want from us. - Will you help me, Sir Joseph? 1195 02:15:07,551 --> 02:15:09,591 - Baroness, this really isn't the time. - That's quite difficult. 1196 02:15:13,474 --> 02:15:15,514 - Baroness. - Please, get up. 1197 02:15:19,188 --> 02:15:21,809 Kenya is a hard country for women... 1198 02:15:22,858 --> 02:15:24,768 so there is a chivalry here, of a sort. 1199 02:15:24,860 --> 02:15:28,561 You are a powerful man, and I have no one else to turn to. 1200 02:15:28,656 --> 02:15:30,613 Let's discuss this in the proper way. 1201 02:15:30,700 --> 02:15:33,451 You mustn't be embarrassed. I've lost everything. 1202 02:15:33,536 --> 02:15:35,493 - It costs me very little to beg you. - Wait. 1203 02:15:38,207 --> 02:15:40,200 Give her a moment, please. 1204 02:15:50,553 --> 02:15:52,960 This land was theirs, you see. 1205 02:15:53,055 --> 02:15:56,222 We took it, and now they have nowhere else to go. 1206 02:15:56,309 --> 02:16:00,176 I'll look into it. We'll do the best we can. 1207 02:16:00,271 --> 02:16:02,180 May I have your word, sir? 1208 02:16:08,029 --> 02:16:09,357 You have mine. 1209 02:16:19,999 --> 02:16:21,458 Thank you. 1210 02:16:22,710 --> 02:16:24,619 I hope you will be happy here. 1211 02:16:25,796 --> 02:16:27,421 I was. 1212 02:16:28,674 --> 02:16:30,631 I'm sorry I won't know you. 1213 02:16:45,066 --> 02:16:47,438 I didn't hear it until I got to the border. 1214 02:16:47,526 --> 02:16:50,646 It seems I'll do almost anything to get your attention. 1215 02:16:56,911 --> 02:16:58,820 I've nearly got you packed. 1216 02:17:05,670 --> 02:17:07,828 And my poor family, I've got them near bankrupt. 1217 02:17:07,922 --> 02:17:10,627 Now I have to ask them for more money. 1218 02:17:12,176 --> 02:17:16,921 - Let me help you. - You would keep me, then? 1219 02:17:22,520 --> 02:17:25,141 No. I want to be worth something now. 1220 02:17:27,191 --> 02:17:29,599 What will you do? 1221 02:17:29,694 --> 02:17:32,445 After my rummage sale, leave. 1222 02:17:32,530 --> 02:17:34,606 Friday for Mombasa, and then... 1223 02:17:35,700 --> 02:17:37,242 the boat to Denmark. 1224 02:17:55,553 --> 02:17:56,964 Thank you. 1225 02:18:07,648 --> 02:18:10,400 You must have them ready to leave before the rains. 1226 02:18:10,484 --> 02:18:12,940 It is good land, enough for all. 1227 02:18:13,029 --> 02:18:16,065 But they must not fight about it or be any trouble to the authorities. 1228 02:18:16,157 --> 02:18:20,237 Do you understand? Or they will lose it. 1229 02:18:20,328 --> 02:18:24,788 You must make them understand that I will not be here... 1230 02:18:24,874 --> 02:18:26,748 to speak for them. 1231 02:18:26,834 --> 02:18:29,621 This land is far? 1232 02:18:29,712 --> 02:18:31,123 Not too far. 1233 02:18:34,842 --> 02:18:39,303 How can it be now with me and yourself? 1234 02:18:39,388 --> 02:18:43,137 You will have some money. Enough, I think. 1235 02:18:43,225 --> 02:18:45,135 I do not speak of money. 1236 02:18:49,357 --> 02:18:51,978 Do you remember how it was... 1237 02:18:52,068 --> 02:18:53,977 on safari? 1238 02:18:54,070 --> 02:18:58,114 In the afternoons I would send you ahead to look for a camp... 1239 02:18:58,199 --> 02:19:00,275 and you would wait for me. 1240 02:19:00,368 --> 02:19:02,574 You can see the fire... 1241 02:19:02,662 --> 02:19:04,571 and come to this place. 1242 02:19:07,333 --> 02:19:08,792 Yes. 1243 02:19:10,503 --> 02:19:12,412 Well, it will be like that. 1244 02:19:15,007 --> 02:19:18,922 Only this time I will go ahead and wait for you. 1245 02:19:21,013 --> 02:19:24,429 It is far, where you are going? 1246 02:19:27,186 --> 02:19:28,728 Yes. 1247 02:19:30,189 --> 02:19:33,439 You must make this fire very big... 1248 02:19:33,526 --> 02:19:36,195 so I can find you. 1249 02:19:43,202 --> 02:19:45,111 Take that out to the lawn. 1250 02:20:25,828 --> 02:20:27,737 Have you had dinner? 1251 02:20:30,249 --> 02:20:31,708 Yes. 1252 02:20:38,925 --> 02:20:41,166 Your things... I packed your things. 1253 02:20:41,260 --> 02:20:43,668 I thought I would send them on to the club. 1254 02:20:43,763 --> 02:20:45,387 Is that all right? 1255 02:21:07,703 --> 02:21:10,325 This wasn't a very good idea. 1256 02:21:23,052 --> 02:21:25,804 I think we should have had it this way all the time. 1257 02:21:28,057 --> 02:21:29,966 I don't know. 1258 02:21:30,059 --> 02:21:32,182 I was beginning to like your things. 1259 02:21:33,562 --> 02:21:36,896 And I was beginning to like living without them. 1260 02:21:46,742 --> 02:21:49,529 You've ruined it for me, you know. 1261 02:21:50,580 --> 02:21:52,157 Ruined what? 1262 02:21:56,252 --> 02:21:57,746 Being alone. 1263 02:22:00,923 --> 02:22:02,382 Have I? 1264 02:22:09,056 --> 02:22:11,428 I'd like to come with you to Mombasa. 1265 02:22:14,895 --> 02:22:16,722 Can I fly you there? 1266 02:22:18,232 --> 02:22:20,225 Aren't you going away again? 1267 02:22:21,277 --> 02:22:24,646 I have some things to do tomorrow at Tsavo, but I'll be back on Friday. 1268 02:22:26,907 --> 02:22:29,114 Will that be all right? 1269 02:22:31,412 --> 02:22:32,823 Of course. 1270 02:22:37,877 --> 02:22:40,997 I've got this little thing that I've learned to do lately. 1271 02:22:42,715 --> 02:22:45,632 When it gets so bad... 1272 02:22:45,718 --> 02:22:49,632 and I think I can't go on... 1273 02:22:49,722 --> 02:22:52,178 I try to make it worse. 1274 02:22:54,101 --> 02:22:57,221 I make myself think about our camp on the river... 1275 02:23:01,233 --> 02:23:02,692 and Berkeley... 1276 02:23:05,196 --> 02:23:07,983 and the first time that you took me flying. 1277 02:23:10,034 --> 02:23:11,991 How good it all was. 1278 02:23:16,374 --> 02:23:19,624 And when I'm certain that I can't stand it... 1279 02:23:19,710 --> 02:23:22,118 I go one moment more. 1280 02:23:24,882 --> 02:23:27,919 And then I know I can bear anything. 1281 02:23:32,223 --> 02:23:34,429 Would you like to help me? 1282 02:23:35,476 --> 02:23:36,757 Yes. 1283 02:23:47,071 --> 02:23:49,028 Come dance with me then. 1284 02:24:37,204 --> 02:24:39,280 You were right, you know. 1285 02:24:39,373 --> 02:24:41,947 The farm never did belong to me. 1286 02:24:44,587 --> 02:24:46,496 I may have been wrong. 1287 02:24:48,049 --> 02:24:50,836 I had a farm in Africa. 1288 02:24:54,055 --> 02:24:56,012 - Friday. - Yes. 1289 02:26:41,454 --> 02:26:43,245 Would you like a drink? 1290 02:26:47,043 --> 02:26:48,501 Please. 1291 02:27:07,855 --> 02:27:09,480 Denys has been killed. 1292 02:27:12,193 --> 02:27:14,600 His plane crashed at Tsavo. 1293 02:27:35,841 --> 02:27:37,384 There was a fire. 1294 02:27:51,065 --> 02:27:53,188 Can I take you into town, Tanne? 1295 02:27:56,570 --> 02:27:58,362 Why did they send you? 1296 02:28:02,159 --> 02:28:03,986 I thought I should. 1297 02:28:11,836 --> 02:28:13,745 My God, you are brave. 1298 02:28:52,877 --> 02:28:56,625 "The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon at night. 1299 02:28:56,714 --> 02:28:59,798 The Lord shall preserve thee from all evil. 1300 02:28:59,884 --> 02:29:02,090 He shall preserve thy soul. 1301 02:29:02,178 --> 02:29:05,463 The Lord shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in. 1302 02:29:05,556 --> 02:29:08,723 From this time forth and even forevermore." 1303 02:29:08,809 --> 02:29:11,016 Amen. 1304 02:29:37,171 --> 02:29:39,958 "The time you won your town the race... 1305 02:29:41,175 --> 02:29:44,461 we chaired you through the marketplace. 1306 02:29:44,553 --> 02:29:46,926 Man and boy stood cheering by... 1307 02:29:47,014 --> 02:29:50,798 as home we brought you, shoulder high. 1308 02:29:52,520 --> 02:29:57,146 Smart lad, to slip betimes away... 1309 02:29:57,233 --> 02:30:00,269 from fields where glory does not stay. 1310 02:30:01,904 --> 02:30:04,988 Early though the laurel grows... 1311 02:30:05,074 --> 02:30:07,861 it withers quicker than a rose. 1312 02:30:09,036 --> 02:30:11,492 Now you will not swell the rout... 1313 02:30:11,581 --> 02:30:13,953 of lads that wore their honours out. 1314 02:30:15,042 --> 02:30:18,494 Runners whom renown outran... 1315 02:30:18,588 --> 02:30:20,960 and the name died... 1316 02:30:21,048 --> 02:30:22,507 before the man. 1317 02:30:24,594 --> 02:30:27,345 And round that early laurelled head... 1318 02:30:28,431 --> 02:30:31,467 will flock to gaze the strengthless dead... 1319 02:30:33,269 --> 02:30:36,685 and find unwithered on its curls... 1320 02:30:38,566 --> 02:30:40,025 a garland... 1321 02:30:47,074 --> 02:30:49,909 briefer than a girl's." 1322 02:31:06,886 --> 02:31:10,800 Now take back the soul of Denys George Finch Hatton... 1323 02:31:12,516 --> 02:31:14,805 whom You have shared with us. 1324 02:31:17,355 --> 02:31:19,312 He brought us joy... 1325 02:31:21,067 --> 02:31:23,024 and we loved him well. 1326 02:31:26,572 --> 02:31:28,481 He was not ours. 1327 02:31:32,328 --> 02:31:34,237 He was not mine. 1328 02:32:44,734 --> 02:32:48,103 If I know a song of Africa... 1329 02:32:48,904 --> 02:32:51,027 of the giraffe... 1330 02:32:51,115 --> 02:32:54,864 and the African new moon lying on her back... 1331 02:32:56,078 --> 02:32:58,830 of the ploughs in the fields... 1332 02:32:58,915 --> 02:33:02,414 and the sweaty faces of the coffee pickers... 1333 02:33:03,711 --> 02:33:07,294 does Africa know a song of me? 1334 02:33:09,216 --> 02:33:11,754 Will the air over the plain quiver... 1335 02:33:11,844 --> 02:33:14,631 with a colour that I have had on? 1336 02:33:16,682 --> 02:33:19,304 Or will the children invent a game... 1337 02:33:19,393 --> 02:33:21,801 in which my name is? 1338 02:33:23,522 --> 02:33:26,227 Or the full moon throw a shadow... 1339 02:33:26,317 --> 02:33:28,772 over the gravel of the drive... 1340 02:33:29,570 --> 02:33:32,820 that was like me? 1341 02:33:32,907 --> 02:33:37,652 Or will the eagles of the Ngong Hills look out for me? 1342 02:33:50,258 --> 02:33:52,630 You cannot come where I am going. 1343 02:33:52,718 --> 02:33:54,877 There is no cooking where you are going? 1344 02:33:56,555 --> 02:34:00,719 You would not like it there. You must trust me about this. 1345 02:34:24,041 --> 02:34:27,457 Letters you can send on to this address in Denmark. 1346 02:34:27,545 --> 02:34:31,293 When you sell the car, if you would send the cheque to Hunter and Company... 1347 02:34:31,382 --> 02:34:34,134 and anything else you don't know what to do with. 1348 02:34:34,218 --> 02:34:35,629 Yes, ma'am. 1349 02:34:37,722 --> 02:34:41,340 Baroness, I've been sent to ask if we may stand you a drink. 1350 02:34:42,727 --> 02:34:47,602 - Who is "we"? - Well, the members, actually. 1351 02:34:51,068 --> 02:34:52,231 All right. 1352 02:35:08,544 --> 02:35:10,916 Whiskey, please. 1353 02:35:11,005 --> 02:35:12,962 Two whiskys, please. 1354 02:35:35,905 --> 02:35:37,019 Baroness? 1355 02:35:39,367 --> 02:35:43,281 Rose-lipped maidens, light-foot lads. 1356 02:35:43,371 --> 02:35:44,913 Hear, hear. 1357 02:35:53,756 --> 02:35:55,167 Thank you. 1358 02:36:03,516 --> 02:36:05,176 This is very dear to me. 1359 02:36:08,354 --> 02:36:10,430 It has helped me to find my way. 1360 02:36:12,191 --> 02:36:13,602 Thank you, msabu. 1361 02:36:30,835 --> 02:36:33,077 I want to hear you say my name. 1362 02:36:36,215 --> 02:36:40,592 You are Karen, msabu. 1363 02:36:52,565 --> 02:36:54,688 The mail has come today... 1364 02:36:54,775 --> 02:36:57,527 and a friend writes this to me: 1365 02:36:58,904 --> 02:37:03,566 "The Masai have reported to the district commissioner at Ngong... 1366 02:37:04,660 --> 02:37:09,406 that many times at sunrise and sunset... 1367 02:37:09,498 --> 02:37:14,789 they have seen lions on Finch Hatton's grave. 1368 02:37:14,879 --> 02:37:18,129 A lion and a lioness have gone there... 1369 02:37:18,215 --> 02:37:23,127 and stood or lain on the grave for a long time. 1370 02:37:25,056 --> 02:37:28,638 After you went away, the ground around the grave... 1371 02:37:28,726 --> 02:37:32,806 was levelled out into a sort of terrace. 1372 02:37:32,897 --> 02:37:38,484 I suppose that the level place makes a good site for the lions. 1373 02:37:38,569 --> 02:37:42,649 From there they have a view over the plain... 1374 02:37:42,740 --> 02:37:46,156 and the cattle and game on it." 1375 02:37:48,746 --> 02:37:50,703 Denys will like that. 1376 02:37:51,582 --> 02:37:54,073 I must remember to tell him.