00:01Morning.
00:02Maggie,
00:03I've got some business to attend to.
00:05I'll just be out for about a quarter of an hour.
00:07Don't be late for dinner, Father.
00:09It's a long way off dinner time.
00:10So that if you stay too long in the Moonrakers,
00:12you'll be late for it.
00:15Moonrakers?
00:16If your dinner's ruined, it'll be your own fault.
00:20Well, I'll be eternally...
00:22Don't swear in here, Father.
00:24No.
00:25I'll sit down instead.
00:27Now,
00:29listen to me, you three.
00:32Providence has decreed
00:33that you should lack a mother's hand
00:34at the time when single girls grow butchers
00:37and must have somebody to rule.
00:39I'll tell you this. You'll not rule me.
00:42You're not addressing a mason's meeting now, Father?
00:44No. At the moment,
00:45I'm addressing a few remarks to the rebellious females
00:47of this household.
00:49What I say will be listened to,
00:50and heeded.
00:52There's been a gradual increase of
00:55upishness towards me.
00:57Morning, Vicky.
01:01Oh.
01:02Excuse me.
01:03Some other time.
01:07Yes, Father?
01:09I've come to a decision about you two.
01:12You're going to exercise your gifts
01:14on some other man than me.
01:16You mean get married, Father?
01:17Exactly.
01:18I'm going to choose husbands for the pair of you.
01:21You mean we can't choose husbands for ourselves?
01:23You're not even fit to choose dresses for yourselves.
01:26You're talking a lot to Alice and Vicky, Father.
01:28Where do I come in?
01:31You.
01:31Why?
01:32If you're dealing husbands round, don't I get one?
01:35You with a husband?
01:37That's a good one.
01:39Why not?
01:40Why not?
01:41Now, Maggie, I thought you'd sense enough to know
01:43whether if you want brutal truth,
01:46you're past marrying age.
01:47I'm 30.
01:48Aye, 30 and shelled.
01:50Well, all the women can't have husbands, Maggie.
01:53And I look to you to take the mother's place
01:55till I've made arrangements for them.
01:58Dinner's at one, remember?
01:59Dinner will be when I come in for it.
02:02I must're here.