Outsider, The (1948)

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Attention please in one minute

the 235 train for Basingstoke Salisbury

Saint Bury and Exeter will be

leaving from number 10 platform

For goodness sake hurry

up with them tickets there

Right on here I'm waiting

you'd better be quick

-Mind you write to us?

-Of course,Papa

Oh good bye dear,see you at Christmas

-Good bye

-So long,son

-Good luck you'll be alright,son

Good bye,take care of yourself

-Good bye

-Papa

First time he's ever been away from home

I only hope we've done

the right thing,mother

I'm still seeing him,goodbye

Did you know how you can tell

him to carry his bag,it is important

You can't make a chap out of


school,that is the problem

I wonder how the new kids would be like

The usual slimy lot I expect

We beat you at cricket last year

-You are a new boy

-Yeah

Might you,come on in

My name is Fitch,I'm in

charge of the new kids

-What prep school were you at?

-Holland

I was at Nottham House

That's a rotten place I


was at the Grane's,Seaford

Most of our chaps go to Eton or Winchester

Which school were you at?

Me? Middle of North Walthamstow

-Where is that?

-Do you want to know?

Well,it is between the gasworks

and the cemetery

Oh

Saint Bury,Saint Bury

Saint Bury

Hello,Peck,little scoundrel,


still got your moustache?

Ah,when you can grow one like this,

you'll have something to be proud of

-What do you look after?

-My trunk

New boy? What is your house?

Cloister,Mr Hartley

-Is it labelled


-Don't think so

Didn't your mother read the prospectus?

It says in block letters

will the parents please

label luggage with the name of the house

Which is it?

Oh,that'll do ,Sir

And don't call me,Sir, I call you,Sir

I'm Peck the school porter and I


look after your luggage,and you push off

-Sir

-Yes,Sir

Excuse me

could you tell me please the way

to Cloister's house Saint Bury School

Yes,I'm going up that

way,I'll show you up,would I?

Oh thanks

-Hurt your leg?


-Well no not exactly

I'm just getting used to a new one

Oh accident?

Well,no I rather think the Jerry

who shot me intended it

Oh

What's your name?

Jack, Jack Reed

-Were you in the army?

-Yes.-My dad was in the army

Did 26 years service

-He's in home guard now

-Good

-Played football for the army too

-Soccer? -Yeah,inside right

-Quite a chap,eh?

-Yeah

-Well here we are

-Thanks for chiming in

-So long

-Oh,as a matter of fact I live here too

You'd better go and say hello to Mr Hartley

Good luck

Come in

I was told to come in here

-You are Read,I suppose

-Yes,Sir

-Pleased to meet you

-How do you do

-This is Mrs Hartley

-Oh

How do you do

I hope you had a good journey

Yes,thanks pleased to meet you Mrs Hartley

We are very pleased to meet you

We've heard a lot about

you from the Headmaster

-Oh

-Well

-I hope you will be very happy here

-Thanks

You,you'd like some tea,wouldn't you?

-Well,I wouldn't mind

-No

Come in

Ah,Fitch,come in

-How do you do,Sir?

-You had a good holiday,Fitch?

Yes,thank you,Sir.Hello Mrs Hartley

Mother asked me to give you this note

-It's about my socks I think

-Perfect

Look,Fitch you know the ropes here

Take Read along to the dining

hall will you?There's a good chap

And,Fitch,show his dormitory

as well,will you?

-It's the same as yours

-Very good,Mrs Hartley

Now Read you run along with Fitch

And better get a good meal

before it all disappears

Thanks Mrs Hartley

-Well ?

-Well indeed

What is this school coming to?

Give the boy a chance Lloyd,dear,

come along and have your tea

BTW Lady Presley wants to know

if David can wear his blue shirts

with the collars attached

-No,certainly not

-It's a question of coupons

I will not have any boy letting

down the standard w*r or no w*r

White collars have been the

rule of Cloister's for thirty years

And it's going on being the rule

You tell Lady Tracey with my compliments

If she can't buy any

shirts with white collars

She'd better set to and do make some

Out of what,Lloyd,dear?

I don't propose to be

dragged into an argument

about an obviously incompetent woman

I'm very glad you've come here Mr. Lorraine

Although he won't admit Dad

has needed a House Tutor for ages

Thanks

There are more boys here in

this term than ever before

No,no don't move Mr Lorraine

Oh

-He's arrived

-Who?

-Read

-Ah yes Read

We walked up from town together

-He asked me the way here

-Who's Read?

He comes from an

elementary school in Walthamstow

His father's is a tobacconist

The headmaster asked us to take him

Because of this Fleming report

What ever is that?

Oh well the Board of Education

set up a committee on public schools

To find out if we are as black

like some people like too paint us

Oh and are we?

Well,it's come to the conclusion

that more boys like Read

should come to schools like Saint Bury

-That's right Mr Lorraine

-Yes

Thank you

So the Headmaster's persuaded the governors

to give the boy a scholarship

-It's an experiment

-What do you think of the idea,Daddy

-Will it work?

-Ah the Head's a very shrewd man

I don't think he believes it for one moment

He just doesn't want to be

labelled as a die-hard reactionary

-What's in these?

-Fish paste

I mean to say it,how are

you going to mix a boy

whose fathers is a general

with a boy whose parents

keep a grocer's shop in Pimlico

-Hey Lorraine

- Well boys are very malleable creatures

They usually fill in

provided they've given a chance

-Don't you think?

-Oh yes, Daddy,you must give him a chance

Oh naturally I'll give him

every chance,that's fair

And I haven't told anyone where

he comes from not even village

-Ham is for you

-Thank you

-Oh Pete come and sit here

-Yes,Bernie

At times it was hundred

times mined fortresses

And in the daylight

I say,did you see how Audrey looked like?

-She is a smash

-Yes,she is in the reins,isn't she?

Anyone met the new house Tutor?

Yes I have,doesn't seem to

be a bad sort of bloke

Had his leg shot off believe

he's going to be kept for the XVth

Well,with one leg?

Taken three quarter so

the old man said anyway

He's a rugger blue played for Oxford

Played for England too

Don't eat so fast Tracey you

made yourself quite ill last term

Remember?

Greedy guts

Miss is not a bad old trout

Except when we are in the sickroom

and then she rans filthy pills

down your throat the whole day

Pass the fish paste,might be?

Where's my f*g

Is Hopkins here?

I don't think he's arrived yet Grimmett

Hi,you new boy

Hi,you!

Yes,you

You'll find two suitcases in the passage,

take one to my dorm the other to my study

Got it?

Did you hear me?

I haven't finish my tea yet

-What's your name?

-Read

Get to move on then

Come on

I'll show you where they are

In there

-Anyway it's my last term

-Mine too

Come in

All right put it over there,will you

Not that one

Well,you didn't say which one did you?

Don't answer back

What dormitory are you in?

In B,why?

Don't why me,I'm Gregory,

your dormitory prefect

And take your hand out of your pocket

Only the sixth formers or members

of the first eleven or first 15 are allowed

to put their hands in their pockets and

And don't speak to house prefect

unless they speak to you first

Well suppose I got to tell him something

You wait till they speak to you

Oh and when you

address Mr Hartley you

say may I speak to you,please,Sir

when you go you say

leave to go please,Sir

-Got it

-Yeah

Right now take that old

suitcase up to my dormitory

and cut away back to the day room

Great Scott

Under what stone did they find him

The boy's a complete street urchin

Didn't him the named ? man take him anyway

Beats me

We have much work on

our hands this day,Oh Lord

If we forget thee do not thou forget us

for Jesus Christ's sake amen

Amen

Bon Jour,mes enfants

Bon Jour,Monsieur

Stand-up the new boys

Magnifique

I'll now explain my system

In my French sets we speak

only French on parle seule Francais

Now I'll find out what you boys know

Et maintenant,a vous

Lisez

Bien apprez,comment s'appellez vous?

What is your name?

Oh,Read,Monsieur

No,you read

Son nome est Read,Monsieur

Oh,c'est bien ca,helas,read,Read

Where?

voulez vous,anywhere

Les espere quelle jolie nom

pour

pour de sye ne

La foute,la tante,la tante

to chase her

Your accent,boy, is deplorable

I can't imagine where you acquired it

Translate that, Read

Hope

Silence,nous sont pas aux theatre

This isn't the theatre

Wasn't that excellent

-Un peu,n'est ce pas?

-You snobs.

You wait for it,funny

Don't worry about Tracey he

is a ruinous smear anyway

Read

I say Read

Is it true that you lived on..

I think this is the moment to

tell you all I carry this stick

because I have a gammy leg

but it can serve other

useful purposes as well

-You're Tracey aren't you?

-Yes,Sir

I hear you've been in

this form a rather long time

Yes,Sir

You must pack up and

get out of it,mustn't you?

Yes

Right

Now let's start to work

This morning we are going to read

some of the poetry of John Keats

Now you're just turn to

page 153 in your books

First of all we had been in the

wrong ?? type that rails against tradition

Let's take this,tradition is

knowledge based on experience

Of course,Sir

Did they have the founder

ceremony in your days,Sir?

The founder ceremony,did

they have it in your days?

Oh yes,yes of course

Quiet,this founder ceremony

is to teach the new kids

to respect the traditions of this school

All right,Read,you start

Come on stand on that stone

Now in front of you is a

statue of Henry the Eighth

If it hadn't been for him

you wouldn't be here

To show appreciation of your good fortune

You will bow at your founder three times

Now bow

Not like that bow low

Right,twice more

??

Bow to the founder

Bow to the founder

That to the founder

All right grab him

Quiet

This is the second stage of the ceremony

Ordeal by the rubbish box

-Everything ready?

-Yeah

All ready Gregory

-Good

-In with him

You sooky rotten devils

I think everyone settling

down very nicely,Grimmett,don't you?

Yes,Sir,but there is one exception,Sir

-Who is that?

-Read,Sir

He's such a scrappy individual raised

an awful shindy at the founder ceremony

-I am told told he brags as well ,Sir

-Brags?

Yes ,Sir,there's something about

his father playing soccer for the Army

No decent chap talks about

soccer to rugger school,do they,Sir?

30 rotten old stinkers

All new boys go through it,I had too

Have a piece of cake

I'm not dead of it,rolling in little dirt

Look at this jacket

I say look at this

What?

It's Twinians Girl School

What about it? One of them is your girl?

Quick Scott man, no

We are not allowed to mix

with the girl school you know

Why not? They are only girls,aren't they?

Here

Read

Read

Come to my study at once

Yes,Sir

Can you believe it,Lorraine.

I just caught this boy,Read

Whistling to the girl's school

Really?

I don't know to handle

this boy,frankly I don't

What have we got in common? Nothing

He's quite intelligent,you know

Perhaps,yes, but is the

boy himself he's out looking

Character I'd like to turn

him into a decent self-respecting

Saint Burian,but in heavens name,how?

-Would you like me to go?

-No,no

Come in

And shut the door

Well

You said you wanted me

When you address me,Read,

you say,may I speak to you,please,Sir

Didn't your dormitory

prefect teach you that?

-Yes,Sir

-And stand to attention

Come on,come on,fingers

on your knees,get up

Now why were you

whistling to the girl school?

-You whistle to girls at home ?

-Yes

Come on,come on man,put your tie straight

Grimmett tells me that you

objected to the founder ceremony

-Is that so?

-Yes,Sir,I thought it was silly

What right have you to

judge our customs here

Their object is to knock any

c*ck out with you boys

and put him on his proper level

Did you know that Henry the

eighth's founded this school?

Yes,Sir

Isn't that a good enough reason

for paying your respect?

That's not what they make you do it

-Oh

-No they just want you to bend down

-so they an kick you up the arse

-Read

Don't use that word,Read,I don't like it

-Understand?

-Yes sir

Now listen to me and

put your shoulders back,man

Like this

Now whether you like our customs or not

they're going to be part of your

life here for the next three or four years

We have a great tradition to keep up

And I will not tolerate rudeness

or slackness in any shape or form

-Is that clear?

-Yes,Sir

Right

Now get out and get on with it

-Leave to go please ,Sir?

-Yes,yes,get out

What can I do?

Well,I suppose how do you,

you will just have to give yourself time

Yes

Shut up,shut up you two

Right into bed everybody,

lights are going out

Hurry up

All right pull the black ups

-Good night all

-Good night prefect

Hey, Tracey ,Tracey

If you don't stop whispering,

Tracey and McKean

I shall beat you both

Are you leaving early tomorrow?

Yes,I'll up at the crack of dawn

I hope you like it here

You sound doubtful,are you?

No,not really,I love this place myself

Then I was born here

I do think there are in some

ways you have lot to get used to

In what way?

Well,you've been out in the world

and know what goes on there

Saint Bury is a little community on

its own cut off from everything

Don't you think that in the future

Schools will have to teach

life as well as history

I don't think the average master

here knows very much about life

-Do you see what I mean?

-Well,I'm beginning to

Read

What the devil you doing,Read?

I won't stopping here let go away

Just a minute

Stop your idiot,the door is locked anyway

-I'm not stopping

-I'll tell you the doors are closed,shut up

or you wake up the entire school

Lorraine,I think I go back to the house

-Won't tell any others will you?

-Of course,I won't

-Good night Lorraine

-Good night

I think we'd better have a

talk about this,haven't we?

Come here

Come on

Maybe better sit down

I'd rather stand

All right,as you like

You're getting a bit fed up aren't you?

Only go home

I want to go home

Why? I think I would sit down if I were you

That's right

Have you got a handkerchief?

-No

-Here

Have this one

Here you are

And give it back

When it is washed

Do your father stock a tobacco

called Hallam mixture?

I don't think so

Well,I must go sometimes with you

When did he play soccer for the army?

I don't know but he did

I don't doubt it if you say so

This is the first time you've

been away from home,isn't it?

Yes,Sir

What would you do if I send you home now?

Never come back

Yes I rather gathered that

When you heard you would come

here,did you want to come?

-Yes,Sir

-Why?

Because I thought I'd stand a better

chance to learn about things

The education here is pretty good,you know

If you can stick the other side of it

There are things Saint Bury can give you

and I don't just mean snob

advantages are not reliable

What sort of things?

Knowledge for one thing you'll

have time to fill your mind here,Read

This place hasn't got bad record,you know

It's turned out scientists,

poets,soldiers,statesmen

You might add to that record

You see,Read you and I both new boys here

-So we've got a bond in common

-You're a master

I know but I'm a new master

I expect there was a time when

your father hated the army

But he didn't chuck it,did he?

No

And you can't run away from life like this

just because you don't like it,you know

There are a lot of snobs here

Well they're not

they're just being brought up in a

different environment,that's all

It's quite likely they think you are a snob

-Me

-Oh don't you sometimes

brag about your father

playing soccer for the army

Yes,that's different

Read

You know it's my duty to

tell Mr Hartley about this don't you?

Yes,Sir

Well instead I,I'm going to forget about it

But only on one condition

That you stand up to the

things you don't like here

It's a new word to Read but I

think it's got something to offer you

Will you stick it?

Yes,Sir

Good

Now the porter does not lock up until ten

You'd better go back the way you came

And remember not a word to anyone

Yes,Sir

-Thanks

-Bye

Why do we always have

to write home on Sundays

Never have anything to say

But if you write to tell

you,if you stink,Tracey

They know that already

If I was you,Fitch,I'll address

your remarks to your pal,Read

Oh,shut up you two

I'm trying to write a letter

You lousy

I'm sure mother can afford

to buy you new clothes mine can't

Read

You horrid little boy go and

report yourself to Mr Hartley at once

How is young Jack doing?

Oh,he's doing fine

-A couple of letters from him

-Oh good

-Out of Hallam mixture,please

-Sorry,Sir we're right of Hallam mixtures

-Thank you

-Here you are Charlie

Thank you very much

You haven't forgotten that

lot for Mr. Lorraine,have you,Dad?

-No I haven't forgotten it

-Make sure it goes off this afternoon

All right I'll make sure

Is Jack going to be a foot

ball player like you Mr Read?

Oh,they play rugby there

That's not football

Cover your right forwards

Let's get that ball away quicker,Read

It's nice and clean now

When matron returns and you had

a shower she will bandage it properly

Thanks,Mrs Hartley

Still finding things here

a bit strange,Read

Yes,Mrs Hartley

I think you're going to do splendidly

Now run away and change now

you mustn't catch a cold

Thanks Mrs Hartley

Get on with it,boy,get on with it

Let me see,Read

How many times have I told you,Read

That you cannot use quad in that sense,no

No,no

Tempora mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis,

you know what that means,Read?

No,Sir

It means the times are perpetually

changing and we with the times

I like that coming from the old man

My tea ready yet?

-Yes Gregory

-Then clear out

Hey

What's this?

-It's your toast

-What?

Well,it sort of fell in the fire

-Did it?

-Yes

How very interesting

Come here

Go and bend over

Right over tighter

Right,now get out

Looking forward to Christmas holidays ,Read

Yes,Sir

What a daft question

Expect the trains late let's

hope it's not a b*mb on the line,Dad

-That'll be him

-You've said that four times

It's him

Mum

Jack

Hello,son

Can we have look at you?

Not here,mother,give us your bag,son

-Had a good journey?

-All right

You must be hungry hurry up sit down there

You lost a bit of weight,son

I can feed him up

Come on,sit down get stuck into it

-What's the grub like at school?

-Not bad

-Bread and butter

-Oh

Well,Jack,how do you like it there?

Well,it's okay

What's this Mr Hartley like?

No,dad let him alone and have his tea

Another tick

Now come on,you have some more

That's enough,thanks Mum

Have a good meal

Thank you

Quiet,dad,isn't he?

If you ask me he doesn't like it there

Oh,I don't know he hasn't

been there very long

What they say back up a bit when

he meets a few of his old pals

Oh,I dear say

Thank you making voice to the (?) work

Do you wear an apron Jack?

Everybody does it at first

I'd like to see another boy cane me

That's to teach him discipline

But they are not all going to

be Sergeant Majors,are they?

Wouldn't do you know how

to do a bit of house work,Percy

You mean to say you can't

even whistle at girls?

I expect they think that's common

Just a different system that's all

It's a snob system that's what it is

Well it turned out some

pretty famous people

Oh what's sort of people Jack?

Generals, prime ministers all sorts

Yes,that's quite right,isn't it it dad?

Oh my right ladies and gentlemen

the Honourable Jack Read

MP LDD

What's LDD?

La-di-da of course

Well,time is getting on,come on

Mabel we have a long way to go

So long,Fred

So long,Percy

-And Elsie

-Percy,never so nice

I just see off the premises

We shan't be,Jilly

Good night,Mr Prime Minister

Sharks out first, good night,duck

-Lovely party

-Good night Jack

Good night,Jack

You won't forget all your

old friends,will you?

Well,dad,I start the washing up

You don't have to stop

there son,if you don't like it

I said you don't have to

stop there if you don't like it

And you don't,do you?

How much? No

Why not?

They don't like me and I don't like them

So they don't fight there

Well,I told you Jack come away tomorrow

It was your mother who was so keen on

this idea,I was against it from the start

-I'll write to Mr Hartley tomorrow

-Don't do that

I'll stick it out

Saint Bury,Saint Bury

Oh,Read don't throw this at me will you?

Promise

That's right

John Mead is the head

of the house this term

He's not too bad

I wonder what the new boys are like

Slimy lot,aren't they?

Yes pretty ruinous

Tell me what did you do in the hols?

Nothing much

I'll say I got a shot up,so did Read

Oh,Lord I'll have Hartley this

term,that'll be sweat

And I Lorraine,thanks heaven

-What it is Johnson?

-Oh yes

You chaps should find your coup's caps

-I just signed them

-Congratus

Congratus,Read

Thanks very much,Johnson

Well done both of you

Yes,it is good, but it's not good enough

Now look Read try and imagine

this little wooden ship

No bigger than a modern fishing boat

Sailing out of Plymouth

Harbor early one morning

For three years nothing's heard of her she

is probably given up for lost

Then one day her sails are

sighted from Plymouth Hove

She's home from new lands and charted seas

loaded to the gunwales with treasure

and most exciting news of all a Golden hind

under Drake's command has

sailed right around the world

Surely you can write about that can't you?

Yes,sure I can

No idea Read

No idea at all I told you a hundred times

to keep your hands together on the handles

Go and sweep that up,Tracey

You are still a f*g till the

end of this term

-I said sweep it up

-Sweep it up yourself

Thank you for that,Tracey

What's going on here

Who started it?

I did,Sir

Why?

All right,I just started it

I see

Well,this is another place

and another way to fight

Do you want to go on with it Tracey?

Yes,Sir

All right

Both be in the gym at 6 o'clock tonight

Are there any to pick

ball on Read,any takers?

Break it,break away

I think you both had about

enough,haven't you?

Yes,Sir

Oh,well if you have,I have

anyway so shake hands,go on

But a study in this house

Lorraine is a privilege

I realize that but personally

I think Read's owned it

After all,it is usual for

someone of his seniority

No,no a boy with that background

is always an uncertainty

and I won't take chances

Have you seen his background?

What do you mean?

Well you accept other boys

backgrounds without seeing them

Why can't you accept Read's?

Because with my experience one

knows these things instinctively

You know ,Lorraine, you're

always trying to alter things

Oh why not? If they're out of date

Are you suggesting that

Saint Bury is out of date?

Very well

Extraordinary chap

And we of this school after

over five years of w*r

Humbly thank God that he has seen fit to

grant us victory and we pray to Him

that we may for many years to come

continue our work here at Saint Bury

in peace

We will now sing the first and last

verses of the hymn o valiant house

-Good bye come down here again won't you?

-I'll do that

-Welcome home,Lynne

-Thank you,Mr Stevens

You've been away far too long

Tell me,Mrs Hartley,how is Lloyd

He's in school but I'm

very worried about him

Mummy is trying to make him see a doctor

You know daddy he's very stubborn

I'm sure he ought to

You're trying to persuade

him,won't you Mrs Hartley?

I'll do my best

Request from the headmaster a command

Thank you,Lynne, I must flush off now

I've got a meeting with

the school governors

We are going to discuss the

perform of the new w*r memorial

-Good bye,Mrs Hartley

-Good bye Lynne-Good bye

You've heard the governor's views,Stringer

And you haven't said a word

How about it?

Well, Sir James, I would

like to see a plaque

placed in the chapel

commemorating the names of

those boys who died

Now that should cost very little

With the remain of the money

I would like to do two things

One establish scholarships and free places

for the sons of Old

boys who fell in the w*r

and to pay for other boys of the right type

whose parents couldn't afford our fees

-You mean like that boy,Read

-Exactly Sir James

and secondly

to help to send such boys from

here when necessary to the Universities

I've been talking to Hartley,Sir James

He feels strongly that this money

should be spent on a new school hall

I agree with him,we need one badly

Well I am bound to say

that I am most strongly against making

the dead an excuse for enriching the school

Oh,come,come Stringer,surely a memorial

must be something tangible,

something you can see

This scholarship scheme won't work,Stringer

Apart from that we must keep

up the tone of the old place

I'd say you chaps are getting a bit

too reactionary in your old age,aren't you?

Look you say here

the monarchical system in Germany

during the 14th and 15th centuries can

be compared with that of

England during the same period

-Yes,Sir

-That's absolute nonsense

Look go down at Becker's

and get a book called

Europe and the Middle Ages by Geoff Black

Yes,Sir

-And you can put it down at me if you like

-Thank you,Sir

now take this gross distortion of the truth

-and hop it

-Yes,Sir

BTW Mr Stevens tells me your

French is very much better this term

I read French last holiday,

there's a continental paper shop near us

Well that's not reading French

Oh yes it is,Sir,you can read

La vie parisienne,you can read anything

I hope you're learn more

languages here than that

Let me see this is

your third year,isn't it?

Yes

You thought what you're going

to do when you leave

Well,Sir, I,I'd like to teach

Oh,why?

Well,Sir

Well,you know Sir

I think it's worth doing

Good of course you'd have

to have a degree,you know

Yes,Sir

Do you think so,that there's any chance

of my getting a scholarship to Cambridge

Do you want my candid opinion?

Yes,Sir

Boy you've got a quick and

very intelligent mind

You grasped the bounce

of the subjects very rapidly

But you're weak on developing it

Now,there is no use my

saying you got a scholarship brain

Because quite frankly, I,

I don't think you have

Does that disappoint you?

Yes,it does rather

Of course you could go up

to Cambridge in the ordinary way

Yes but what would it cost?

Dependent on your college but

from 250£ to 300£ a year

Dad could never afford that,Sir

-Well,we'll have to cease our break

-Yes,Sir

Anyway come along now and

don't forget about that book

Righto,Sir

-Yes?

Have you a book called

Europe in the Middle Ages

Have we dad?

Is that the one by GF Black?

Yes that's it

In the stockroom I think

It would be

Would you mind holding the ladder for me?

Thank you

Didn't I see you in Barton Woods on Sunday?

Oh did you?

Sitting under a tree reading

It's a quiet place to work I often go there

So do I

-This is it,isn't it?

-Yes,that's all right

Would you put it down to

Mr Lorraine,Cloisters,please

Okie-dokie

Thanks

Perhaps I'll see next time when

you are in Barton Woods

Maybe

-Good bye

-Good bye

Tell me,Head,did you put my point of view?

Well I,I didn't have to Hartley

The bishop put it for you very clearly

What have people of this

type ever done to justify education

That's surely depends on

how we educate them

Well,if I may say so Head I don't propose

to have any more boys like Read in my house

And the Ministry of Education

can go to the devil

But surely,daddy,this scholarship

idea is such a good one

It means that Mr Stringer can pick

out the boys with a good brain

-Exactly

-I think of a memorial should give some

visible sign to the next generations

So that they'll remember

But daddy

Did the boys of your house

remember the dead of the last w*r?

The living forget the dead very quickly

If we knew what they wanted us to do

Don't you think it would be

to try and help the living?

Yes,Hartley,I do feel

that's absolutely true

I wish goodness you'd never

ask me to take this boy,Head

I've never really trusted him and

I don't suppose I ever shall

I asked you to take him partly

for a very good reason

Because you and Mrs Hartley have

made this house the finest in the schools

I thought in this atmosphere,

young Read would have the best chance

And I get to be convinced that

the experiment has failed

Failed?

But surely,Head, without the cooperation

without the House Masters it must fail

I accepted this boy because you asked me to

but Carter,Robottom,Linklater

all house masters of some experience

are dead against the idea

Always have been and always will

It must fail

Good shot Lorraine

Feeling like that are you?

Just a bit that's game isn't it?

Frustrated?

I've had three years of it you know

At Saint Bury's that's not long

It's long enough to make up my mind

as well I'm going to stay or not

Is it daddy?

Well no,not exactly

as a man I like him a lot

but as (?) to mind here

Lynne,which I simply can't stand

Your father rather espouse it

Yeah I do hope you

don't mind saying all this

-If you leave what will you do?

-I don't know yet

But you can't fight

against a stone wall then

Let's go back to the house and have a drink

All right

Hello

What to do to this Lorraine,

Alex Stevens has just told me

that he saw Read in

Barton woods with a girl

A girl?

That's the boy you try to make a prefect

Well,Lorraine,your judgement

You can call that sort

of ???? with the house

He comes from a slum

and got a mind like a slum

Lynne,come and help

with the laundry,will you dear?

Well,not a very serious offence is it?

Going out with a girl?

After all,it's only natural isn't it?

God knows how they are cooped up here

for nearly nine months in a year

and they never speak to one

Boys aren't made of wood you know

I know more about boys

than you do,Lorraine

I doubt if you know more about Read

Have you heard his side of the case?

I sent for it but do

you think I don't know?

A boy like that could

always revert to type,always

Is that quite fair

Now look here,Lorraine,

ever since that boy came here

You've taken his side against me

-You do..

-Yes you have

It's been unspoken criticism,

I know it's been there

Hartley,you've never

given that boy a chance

You've done him out of hand

ever since he came here

because you were unable to understand him

-How dare you talk like that

-I'm sorry it's got to be said

You don't like Read

whenever he's done anything good

instead praising him you patronized him

Now,that's going to be your

future attitude to boys like Read

and whether you like it or

not they are coming here

Then I don't feel I want to work with you

All right then I'll get another house tutor

At least I thought you were loyal

I am,I'm loyal to the things I believe in

and this plan will never succeed

while men like you are trying

in every possible way to wreck it

And Saint Bury,I regret to say

is full of men like you, men who will not

try and see what's happening around them

Please,accept this is my resignation

You'll have to give that to the Head

and its usual with a term's notice

Very well,I'll leave at

the end of next term

Come in

You wanted me,Sir

Yes,follow me

Close the door

Now,Read, Mr. Stephens tells me that

he saw you in Barton woods with a girl

-Is that true?

-Yes,Sir

-Who was this girl

-Miss Beckett,Sir,from the bookshop

You picked her up?

Well,no Sir,not exactly,

she sort of picked me up

You realize that going out

with the girls is against the rules

Well,Sir, I was just doing some prep

for Mr Lorraine,some reading,Sir

She came along

Everyone in the school knows her so

-We call her..

-Well,what do you call her?

And what do you call her?

Well, actually,Sir,we call her plum tart

How interesting

-Did you speak to her first?

-Well,no,Sir,actually she spoke to me

What happened?

So we just went for a walk

You knew you were breaking the rules

Well,Sir,I never thought about that

You never thought about it

Then I shall make you think about it

Shall I report you to the headmaster

or will you take a beating instead?

I'll take a beating,Sir

Right

Bend over

And I wanted to know if

you think you can manage it

Well,how much would it cost?

That's what it boils down to Mr Lorraine

Well, three years a little

under a thousand pounds I'd say

Oh dear that's a lot of money,you know

Yes,still a lot of money

But if he's going to be a schoolmaster

he's got to have a degree

and that means going to university

Of course we should like

the boy to have his chance

Now he's got so far

I guess I could raise a

couple of hundred on the business

And there's your army pension too,dad

Yes, how good that is

No I don't honestly say we can Mr Lorraine

When wound he have to go?

Oh,not till the end of the

next year at the earliest

But we ought to enter his name

one of the colleges as soon as possible

Well you enter his name,Mr Lorraine

-Hear half a minute ago..

-No,you enter his name

We are finding the money somehow

Well,think it over

Good bye and thank you

very much for my tea

Shall we be seeing you down

the school on the Commemoration day?

No,I don't think so thank you

We wouldn't want Jack to feel,well,you know

Thanks all the same

Good bye Mr Read

Good bye,Mr Lorraine,and thanks

for all you done for the boys

Really the first chance

time I've had to thank you

Not at all,I think he's worth it

-Don't forget your Hallam mixture

-Oh,thank you very much

Now look here mother, how do you think

we're gonna find a thousand pounds

Daddy's he's got to go,

we've got every year to rise it

Yes but thousand pounds

that's a devil of a lot of money,you know

Made it clear,dad

before I married you I was

earning a living and I can do it again easy

It's only for a couple of years

If Mr Lorraine says he's worth it

Well,it's up to us

You know I had this

room till I was 17,Lorraine

They used to be bars on this

window to keep me from falling out

I wonder if I should ever say to my son

This is the nursery here my son

Your mother thought the thoughts of youth

which year by year and one by one

a touch of life was turned to truth

That made a nice

miserable new bode doesn't it?

Daddy would slay me

BTW did I tell you I was going away

Going away?

-Why no? Where to?

-To London

I'm going to get a job

I can't go on kicking my heels around here

Well, I'm sorry you are

getting a job in London

I had one too

To offer you myself

Lorraine

I'm afraid now it's not a very good one

I might like it

I wanted you to marry me

I will marry you Lorraine

Do you want to know why?

Why? Yes,please

Because I love you terribly

I've loved you my darling

for nearly three years

Lorraine is in?

Oh,yes I see you are

Well I only wanted you

to run up the Sandford's

for medicine for Webb mind

you he is coughing rather badly

I can do it if you are too busy

Mrs Hartley

Lynne has just said she'll marry me

Oh you had

Oh I'm delighted

I thought you were just

Oh,well,no

Oh my dear,I am so,so glad

-May I kiss you too Lorraine?

-Oh,yes rather

Mummy,what's daddy going to say?

Oh dear yes

Or you mean you don't think I

am sort of son-in-law he'd choose,ah?

Well,it's going to be a rather shock to him

He's supposed to be taking things

quietly the doctor examined him

this morning and his heart's not too good

-Mummy it's nothing serious?

-Oh,dear,no,no

Stepwise got to know

sometimes,hasn't he?

I think I'll go and tell him now

Oh mummy what about Webb minor's medicine?

Let him cough his head off,

this is important

-Darling

-Yes?

Have you had a lot of

experience with women?

-Raw heaps

-Who?

I was known as the licentious

Lorraine and that I'll remain

Oh darling

Read

For what we have received may

the Lord make us truly thankful

Amen

Well,Read,there's nobody we

can hope to (?),aren't you?

Yes,Sir

BTW whether I get that letter out

said your dozens of subject appeal to,ah?

I'm sorry Sir

Well what's the held up?

Well,Sir I don't really seem

to have had very much time,Sir

Oh rubbish it's a week overdue now

Well,Sir I,I don't think as much

point with going on with extra history,Sir

What on earth do you mean?

I'm going to leave

Leave? To where?

Leave Saint Bury

But why?

Because I got to,Sir

Now look here,Read,you and I had known

each other quite a long time let's have it

Go on,out with it

Well,Sir I've

just found out that my mother's going

out to work again to pay for my education

Are you sure about this?

My cousin wrote me from home,he found out

I can't let do it,Sir, I've got to leave

Now hold on a minute I,I don't

think she is doing it to keep you here

-I rather sense this is my fault

-Your fault,Sir?

Well,I went to see your people,Read

to find out whether they can afford

to send you up to Cambridge

I told them what it would cost and

they tell me to go ahead and enter you

It seems your mother's a

very determined woman,Read

She is,Sir

Well if you throw your hand in

now you'll be letting her down terribly

So don't do anything stupid and above all

Don't let her know you found out

It'll only hurt her

Now, we we've got

to find some other way out

What's on your mind Lorraine?

It's young Read,Lynne, I've got to

get him to Cambridge somehow

It all comes back to daddy doesn't it?

When I think of that Memorial Fund

being squandered on some pipping new

building it makes me absolutely sick

He's not just being pigheaded,

darling,he believes he's right

He loves Saint Bury

He is Saint Bury

He's been his work for over 30 years

You mustn't blame him for being

a bit foggy about what's go on outside

I don't blame him money I

wish I could make him see

if he agreed to this scholarship scheme

the rest would follow him you know that

Yes I know,but we can't change him,Lorraine

The lights are going to

come in from outside

Yes,I'm afraid you're right

Only we shan't be here to see it

Wait a minute though

-Look when's the commem day?

-July the 16th

Why?

You said light from the outside,didn't you?

Well,I think I know how to let some in

You have heard from the headmaster

of our record this year in

scholarships to the universities

He has told you also that

once again we have

beaten Cranbria at football

Further he has informed you that during

the past year we have

had four cases of measles

three of chickenpox and that one

boy fell down a disused

well and broke his ankle

but but I have no doubt

that the piece of news

I am now going to give him

will come as a considerable

surprise

from my position on

this rostrum,Sir, I demand

that next week these hard-working

undernourished and long-suffering boys

be given an extra half holiday

Are you sure they'll turn up?

Well I hope so I told that

it is very important

Look,darling, I must go now,

Mummy will be getting fussed about the tea

All right,good bye

-Hello,Lorraine

-Good afternoon Head

Well,what do you think

of the parents this year?

I think they're improving don't you?

Yes,have you heard the

doctor's verdict on Hartley?

Yes I have I'm very sorry

He's got to give up the

house at the end of term

I know it's his bad luck

Look here Lorraine I want you

to withdraw your resignation

And take up the Hartley's

house when he leaves

I'm afraid I can't do that Head

For goodness sake,Lorraine,why not?

Look,Head, Hartley's has

given 20 years of his life to Cloisters

And he's forced to chuck it

now just because he's a sick man

He,he's parting with

something he's created and loved

Do you think he wants to hand over to

someone with the views he

disagrees so violently

No I'm afraid my respect

for him is too great

Well thank you for telling

me but I'm still very sorry

Oh well hit

BTW the governor's meeting

after the dance tonight

to take a final decision on

our w*r Memorial Proposal

Yes I know ,oh excuse me head will you

I think I see a light on the horizon

Light on?

Mind if I nobble another one,Mrs Hartley?

-No do,Lynne please another cup of tea

-Yes,of course I do

I'm sorry about Gerald

first time to get mumps

I hope it doesn't spread

Oh,so do I

No thank you I don't

want any more,thank you

We must be going,don't take me over the

article,Mr Hartley,he's paid the picture

-I'm sure it's terrible

-It's a nude

God gracious at your age

Right mother,it's a man

I should hope so

Oh,Mrs Hartley I don't think

you've met Mr and Mrs Read,have you

I'm so glad you could come down to see us

-How do you do

-How do you do

-Do you have some tea won't you?

-Thank you Madam

-Goodbye Mrs Hartley

-Good bye Lady Tracey

Ronald do stop annoying your fingers

I don't think you know my husband do you?

Good bye Mrs Hartley

-Goodbye

-Thanks for looking after Gerald

-Pleased to meet you Mr. Hartley

-How do you do

-Heard a lot about you,Sir

-Oh how do you do

-You sit down

-Thank you very much

I think I'll go and chase up young Jack

-What time did you arrive?

-Well we got in about two

We had a bite at the dinner

at the local you know

But you should have come here

That's what I said only

father's independent

Have you ,have you seen over the school?

Well we had a glance on our

way out from the cricket field

Lovely place you've got here

Oh lovely buildings so old aren't they?

-16th century

-Why I never

-Dad?

-Thank you-Thank you

You haven't been down here before have you?

-No,first time

-We just shut up the shop

I see

Mum

-Hello,Jack

-Dad

How are you,son?

-Looked surprised(?), did you

-No

-Have tea?

-Yes,thank you,Mrs Hartley

Well I suggest that as

soon as your parents had theirs

you take your mother for

a look around the house

you'd like like to see where

Jack lives,wouldn't you?

-Oh I would yes

-And I expect

You'd like to have a talk

with daddy,Mr Read

Supposing you take

Mr. Read around the school,daddy

Oh thank you

Why yes, certainly of course

I'll be quite frank with you Mr Hartley

When I first heard that

Jack could come here

I wasn't too happy about it

I wasn't worrying whether

our Jack would suit your school

I was wandering whether your

school would suit our Jack

Oh,I see

You see I always looked on

this is a sort of experiment

which might or might not come off

I'm sure we agree on that point

But now I'm feeling very different about it

Oh,in what way?

Well,this sort of school doesn't

only go in for book learning

You teach them things here Mr Hartley

that they don't learn in other places

What sort of things?

Well,team spirit for one

thing and self confidence

and how to get on with the other fellows

And good manners too I hope

Yes,that's one thing I always

used to say about Hitler

He never had any manners

To be truthful Mr Read your

boy has been a problem to me

I can understand that, Sir you're

not used to that sort of boy

That's what I meant by getting

on with the other fellows

If Jack can get on with you I

reckon he can get on with anybody

Thank you

Been under a man like you Mr Hartley

that's given our Jack the

finest start he could possibly have

I only wish I'd had an opportunity

like it when I was his age

I think you owe your thanks

to Mr Lorraine,not me

But Mr Lorraine is not the house master

In the long run at a school like this

it's the house masters that

count I know that well enough

like the sergeant majors in the army

the colonel used to say

to me there are a rough lot

make them into men,Sergeant

major,make them into men

and I did

Yes I can believe you did

I don't know if you're

aware of it Mr Hartley

But your house has come to

mean a great deal to our Jack

Very good of you to tell me

In all the time you've been here

I don't suppose you ever have had

what you'd call a real failure have you?

Well,I don't quite know what to say

I know well enough

Well,they catch the train,alright?

Yes,dear,I tried to persuade

them to stay but they couldn't

Good chap,old Read

You know he tells me he wants

the boy to be a schoolmaster

I think that's rather a

compliment to you,dear

I see I have become old haven't I?

Nonsense,Lloyd you've

hardly changed since we first met

Yes,in a way that's rather what I meant

Excuse me,Sir,may I

have this dance Mrs Hartley

I should like to,Jack

-The Douglas still at it,Hartley?

-Yes I knew

Give the boy a chance,Lloyd dear

Yes daddy,you must give him a chance

Amen,you never give a man by chance

20 boys being sons of poor

townsmen of Saint Bury

to be maintained out of

the foundation of the school

of native genius as far as maybe

and apt to learn

the rest to pay in custom with

other schools and grammar

We have now been discussing the same point

for exactly one hour and 42 minutes

We really must make up our minds

I don't know if you chaps are too old

but I want to have a crack at the dancing

I still ask Sir James what is the

point of trying to educate these

boys amid surroundings to

which they are quite unaccustomed

in the long run what good will it do

May I answer that question,Sir James?

I don't know why the Dickens

you're here ,Hartley

But come in,come in

Please forgive my bursting in like this

It's probably the last time

I shall meet you all together

You see,I feel that the

school is in grave danger

of making a mistake for which I should

be largely responsible and I want before

it's too late to try to prevent it

I don't want to interrupt

the proceedings for longer that I can help

but as so many of you here have contributed

so generously to the w*r Memorial Fund

Sir James Caulfield has asked me to

announce the governor's decision

There will be a plaque placed in the chapel

commemorating the names

of all Saint Buryin's who fell

The balance will be spent in

finding scholarships and to aid

some boys to go on from here

to the university,thank you very much

This is just a small gift from Cloister

so we'd like you to accept

Every boy has contributed freely

and without any undue persuasion

but I'm afraid I'm not much of a

hand at making speeches,Sir

Anyway you'll see by the inscription

how we feel about your leaving

To Lloyd Hartley MA from the boys of his

house in affection and gratitude

for he's a jolly good fellow

Three hips for Mrs Hartley,hip,hip,hurrah

One more for luck hip,hip,hurrah

Well Lynne,dear,that's our

last house supper

Lorraine help yourself to whisky and soda

Thanks

Well,they did cheer him

tonight,didn't they?

It was grand

And how they cheered Mummy

Yes and what for?

-May I tell you?

-Yes,please do

Well,then I will

They choose you,my dear,to

them you've been a mother

and a friend

in your own way you fought

their battles for them

though you've never been disloyal to Lloyd

sometimes they felt that

you were on their side

That's why they cheered you tonight

In their hearts they'll go on

cheering you all their lives

Is this true?

Every word of it

I'm glad you told her that

-Where's Lloyd

-In the study

Do you think he'd like a drink?

I think he deserves one

Come in

I thought you'd might like a nightcap

Oh thank you,I'd love it

You know I never expected

that cigarette box

I wonder who would get this house

So do I

What about Alex Stevens?

No,no too slack,too fond of fishing

Why did you refuse it,Lorraine?

I told you

I wanted to change

I suppose your refusal has

nothing to do with me

With you? How do you mean?

Well,we've had our arguments

in the past I thought

-No,no,no

-Oh

It isn't easy a handing over this house

I'd like my successor to carry it on

Well in the way I'd like it carried on

Naturally I see that

It's no that I objected to change

it's just that I can't change myself

That's the penalty of

growing older

I suppose I just got vain and

pompous,I think my way is the best

A poor pretty sound in the past

Maybe but I've gone past with them

Well,tomorrow I start packing up

and hand the future over to someone else

I wonder who?

It rests with Head

Does it? I believe it rests with me

I believe you refused this job

because you didn't want to hurt me

Well,what if I did

You wouldn't like me here,Lloyd,would you?

Not in your shoes

Listen to me Lorraine

I've been doing some hard thinking lately

You're the man to do the

kind of job that's coming

The kind of job I know I can't do

I'm asking you now before it's too late

to take on this house next term

No,a new man an outsider,

that's much the best

Not from my point of view

because I want the things

that are good in this house

to remain and in your hands they would

Well I'd love to ?? anything you know that

-But

-Then will you

Well,if you really mean that Lloyd

I will

Thank you Lorraine,thank you very much

Daddy,mommy's gone up to bed

Ah,Lynne,I've got some news for you

Lorraine has just agreed

to take on the house

What? Oh darling

And if you're half as good house

masters wife with your mother was

You won't do so badly

What is all that noise?

Come in

May I speak to you,please,Sir

Yes what is it

You're wanted in the top room,Sir

I'll stop that row

"We want Mr Hartley"

What made you change your mind,darling?

Your father,you know,

I really think he wants me

Oh good

Now look, when we get our own furniture

I think we'd better have the desk

Oh,well there I suppose

Oh Lorraine this is going to be wonderful

Tell me do you think

mother will give advice?

Yes and then she is a

very exceptional woman

Will you take it?

No unless I'm a very exceptional daughter

Oh,there you are ,Sir

Thompson said you wanted to

see me before I went to bed,Sir

Come in,Read,I've got some news for you

I thought you might like to

know that Mr Hartley

is recommended that you go on to Cambridge

after you leave here

Gosh,Sir

And can you keep your mouth shut?

Try to,Sir

Well,I'm taking on this

house from next term

Gosh I am glad,Sir

Right,go along to bed,remember

not a word to anyone

Yes,Sir,good night Sir,

good night Mrs Lorraine

No,Jack not yet

-Well, next time anyway,good night

-Good night

Gosh,Sir

Nothing,Sir

Jolly good show,Sir

-Good night

-Good night,Read

Oh daddy go up to mother at once

They wanted a rag so they got a rag

But I downed six of them before they got me

Oh,daddy,really

I like to hide,now I go to bed

Good night,you two

Don't alter my study rolly until

tomorrow,tonight it's still mine

And Lorraine

Don't keep Lynne down here too long

All right,daddy,we're just coming

Will ours be a jolly good show,darling?

It's got to be,Lynne

It's got to be the finest

show,we can make it

-You do it,Lorraine,I know you will

-I will try

We'll certainly try