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Thank you. Mademoiselle.

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- That's Clorinde.
- Otherwise known as the pianist.

3
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She had two fingers missing
but she played beautifully.

4
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It was her dog
who bit her fingers off.

5
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The Châtelet sacked her
so she ended up here.

6
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Don't pity her too much.
She ran away with a banker.

7
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- An Englishman.
- He was nice.

8
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- He was a nut case.
- Nonsense.

9
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Camélia's right.

10
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The guy made her paint her face like
an old lady and go by his mother's name.

11
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You're confusing her with Martha.

12
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The mummy's boy
was an officer out in the Indies.

13
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Clorinde's banker was the one
who liked eating her shit

14
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as much as we like eating
Lardoix macaroons.

15
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You've put me off macaroons for life!

16
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- Enough!
- You should see yourself!

17
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Did you search their room
like I asked you to?

18
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Morphine. Opium tablets.
A few coca leaves.

19
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Where has it all come from?

20
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All Camélia's clients
know her tendencies.

21
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I can clean up the dormitory
if you like.

22
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No. At least they're fucking.

23
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300...

24
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350. 400.

25
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That makes total takings of 420.
440 if we count Olympe's suspenders.

26
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What about the stall?

27
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I'm going to put tobacco up
to 60 centimes and...

28
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Calvados to one franc.

29
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Perhaps we should put the tokens up
to 11 francs?

30
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Véra is still a first-rate whore.

31
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She has never turned me on.

32
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And when were you last turned on?

33
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It's like with my mother.

34
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Cleaning and selling fish
put her off eating it for life.

35
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Here.

36
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This is for all your hard graft.

37
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I'm delighted to see that
your friends at the Jockey Club

38
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allow you the time
to come and pay me a visit.

39
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Well?

40
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That bunch of snobs
rejected your candidature.

41
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Yes. I am well informed.

44
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I am to be involved in resuming
the building of the opera house.

45
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Once it's finished. They'll be begging me
to join the Jockey Club.

46
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Don't you worry about me
or about France.

47
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I have come to talk
about projects and investments.

48
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I think we should start with the clients.

49
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And ascertain who they are
and what they want.

50
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So you'll be wanting
a list of my clients?

51
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It would seem to me to be essential.

52
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And if some of the gentlemen on it
were members of the Jockey Club.

53
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That would be even better. Eh?

54
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I read that Baron du Plessis' circle has
remained loyal to the establishment.

55
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Why don't we start with them?

56
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I thought a rejection
by the Jockey Club meant

57
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that you couldn't reapply
for another ten years.

58
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I could sack you. Hortense.

59
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What about your wife and future sons?

60
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Don't you want to protect them
from what I might tell them.

61
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You know I have never
succumbed to blackmail.

62
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In the past.
You have had nothing to lose.

63
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- Mademoiselle Anne-Louise Diaz?
- She is here.

64
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- Take us to her.
- What is this about?

65
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She has been denounced
by a receiver of stolen goods.

66
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She sold him a necklace that Baron
du Plessis had on him when he died.

67
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Go ahead. Please.

68
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This way.

69
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The pigs are here.

70
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Louise. You haven't done
anything stupid. Have you?

71
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They're talking about a necklace
stolen from Du Plessis' corpse.

72
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Listen to me. Louise.

73
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Louise!

74
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You found the necklace
in the street. All right?

75
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Okay? Louise. Do you hear me?

76
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Anne-Louise Diaz?

77
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That's me.

78
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You're quicker off the mark
to collar us than to protect us.

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- What happened to her?
- A jealous lover. A tragedy.

80
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But I insisted on keeping her on here
as a maid.

81
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Wait. It's me you're looking for.

82
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My name is Ernestine Ferrier.
Alias Angèle.

83
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I asked Louise to sell
a fancy necklace for me.

84
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I found it in the street.
The girl hasn't done anything wrong.

85
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Then we'll take you both
to the station.

86
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Mother.

87
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I didn't steal anything.

88
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- I found the necklace.
- I believe you. Angèle.

89
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I'll take care of your man.

90
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Shit!

91
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What did you just say to her?

92
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What with Valentine in Saint-Lazare
and Angèle and Louise in prison.

93
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Those two junkies will hardly
keep us from the brink of ruin.

94
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This all started
because of your spat with the boss.

95
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- What are you talking about?
- Come off it. Véra.

96
00:10:00,798 --> 00:10:02,675
This stolen necklace
works in your favour.

97
00:10:02,798 --> 00:10:06,916
The filth will home in on Brise-Caboche.
Bringing them closer to Hortense.

98
00:10:07,038 --> 00:10:08,790
You dykes always
put a spanner in the works.

99
00:10:08,918 --> 00:10:11,307
Do you think Hortense
gave me any choice?

100
00:10:14,158 --> 00:10:17,275
If we shut down.
Will our debts be written off?

101
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Are you stupid or what?

102
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The brothel might shut.
But your thighs will remain firmly open.

103
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- What did you say to her?
- I just told her I trusted her.

104
00:10:27,518 --> 00:10:29,986
"I believe you. Angèle."
Yes. I heard that.

105
00:10:30,118 --> 00:10:32,996
- What did you whisper in her ear?
- "Crooks and scoundrels."

106
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Crooks and scoundrels?

107
00:10:46,478 --> 00:10:48,867
It's an expression
we use in the brothel.

108
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What did you mean by it?

109
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That I knew she was trapped
by a man and that I understood.

110
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What man?

111
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- A client.
- Who?

112
00:11:10,638 --> 00:11:13,994
It's common knowledge
that Jules Steiner...

113
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appreciates Angèle's
natural disposition.

114
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- Tell me about her fiancé.
- No.

115
00:11:22,238 --> 00:11:24,991
Then I'll ask Mademoiselle Derville
myself this afternoon.

116
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She's just the first of your girls to be
questioned in connection with the Baron.

117
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His name is Brise-Caboche.

118
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Communard?

119
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- I'd say so.
- Sympathiser or partisan?

120
00:11:42,798 --> 00:11:44,709
Partisan. From what I've heard.

121
00:11:44,838 --> 00:11:47,033
Where can we find him?

122
00:11:47,158 --> 00:11:50,992
I kept telling Angèle to be careful.

123
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- Her man is a lone wolf.
- You seem to know him well.

124
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You know. During the events.

125
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Such chaos reigned
that I sometimes had to call on men

126
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whose reputation
I wasn't able to check out first.

127
00:12:06,238 --> 00:12:07,717
As for Anne-Louise Diaz.

128
00:12:07,838 --> 00:12:10,147
Her statement matches
that of Ernestine Ferrier.

129
00:12:11,638 --> 00:12:14,027
She sold the necklace
without knowledge of its provenance.

130
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She risks little
and should soon be out of here.

131
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- Good.
- Do you wish to take her back?

132
00:12:30,318 --> 00:12:32,070
Just as I thought.

133
00:12:38,598 --> 00:12:40,589
Rose isn't your real name.

134
00:12:43,078 --> 00:12:45,672
Why don't you use the name
your mother gave you?

135
00:12:47,278 --> 00:12:49,348
You no longer have a mother.

136
00:12:52,278 --> 00:12:53,267
Do you?

137
00:12:54,438 --> 00:12:56,668
Do you know my mother?

138
00:13:06,958 --> 00:13:09,028
She was called Floriane.

139
00:13:10,358 --> 00:13:13,634
- Is she dead.
- I don't know.

140
00:13:22,958 --> 00:13:25,267
Some girls just disappear.

141
00:13:26,478 --> 00:13:30,312
They...
Do they leave the profession?

142
00:13:30,438 --> 00:13:33,555
They rarely leave the profession
to live by the sea.

143
00:13:40,958 --> 00:13:43,267
Are they bumped off?

144
00:13:43,398 --> 00:13:46,310
Perhaps. Yes. Sometimes.

145
00:13:48,998 --> 00:13:51,558
But more often than not.
They break the hourglass...

146
00:13:54,358 --> 00:13:56,349
and kill themselves.

147
00:14:14,478 --> 00:14:17,868
I heard that Hortense went
to buy her back from the Colbert.

148
00:14:20,958 --> 00:14:23,950
When I came to the Paradis.
She had already gone.

149
00:14:26,198 --> 00:14:28,428
All I know is that she didn't go far.

150
00:14:31,638 --> 00:14:33,993
I'll talk to Hortense about her.

151
00:14:45,718 --> 00:14:48,710
Be careful not to reveal too much
to that old spider.

152
00:14:50,678 --> 00:14:55,877
She already rules your arse.
Don't give her your heart. Too.

153
00:15:00,158 --> 00:15:01,557
Come here.

154
00:15:05,558 --> 00:15:07,947
I'll have to find a former client. Then.

155
00:15:19,558 --> 00:15:23,392
So how long has Francis Demarzet
been working at Thiers?

156
00:15:23,518 --> 00:15:25,395
He doesn't work at Thiers.

157
00:15:25,518 --> 00:15:28,351
Whatever made you think that?
Thiers!

158
00:15:33,158 --> 00:15:34,307
Hortense!

159
00:15:36,118 --> 00:15:37,597
Hortense?

160
00:15:46,038 --> 00:15:48,029
What did you expect me to do?

161
00:15:48,158 --> 00:15:50,991
- This is his house.
- So you've made your mind up?

162
00:15:51,118 --> 00:15:54,349
- You might at least try to convince me.
- Why? Has he bothered to do so?

163
00:15:54,478 --> 00:15:56,275
He owns this place
and he has money.

164
00:15:56,398 --> 00:15:58,992
Enough for me
to never need any of yours.

165
00:15:59,118 --> 00:16:01,393
You're with me or with him.
Against me or against him.

166
00:16:01,518 --> 00:16:02,917
Do you understand?

167
00:16:05,638 --> 00:16:08,471
Have you ever worked for a man?

168
00:16:08,598 --> 00:16:11,351
You hate them as much as I do.

169
00:16:11,478 --> 00:16:13,946
And yet women
aren't to your taste. Either.

170
00:16:14,078 --> 00:16:16,114
It's a cruel world. Isn't it?

171
00:16:16,238 --> 00:16:18,354
That's where we come in.

172
00:16:20,758 --> 00:16:23,477
You see?
We understand one another after all.

173
00:16:34,318 --> 00:16:36,832
So what shall I say to him
next time he corners me?

174
00:16:55,798 --> 00:16:58,232
Didn't you know
where the necklace had come from?

175
00:17:05,078 --> 00:17:07,308
So you're prepared to die for him?

176
00:17:09,038 --> 00:17:13,077
- Brise-Caboche...
- Don't you dare mention his name.

177
00:17:13,198 --> 00:17:16,349
The coppers already know it. Dummy.
Everyone's looking for him.

178
00:17:19,438 --> 00:17:21,998
What did you tell the filth
to let you come here?

179
00:17:25,038 --> 00:17:27,427
Just that you're like a sister to me.

180
00:17:31,838 --> 00:17:34,033
And the fact that the necklace
came from the Baron

181
00:17:34,158 --> 00:17:35,750
had nothing to do with it?

182
00:17:38,838 --> 00:17:43,514
I'm 35 years old.
I've got a 16-year-old daughter.

183
00:17:47,318 --> 00:17:49,354
I was going to be free. Angèle.

184
00:17:50,718 --> 00:17:52,390
Free.

185
00:17:53,758 --> 00:17:56,192
Don't you want to be free?

186
00:17:57,478 --> 00:17:59,389
Of course I do.

187
00:18:05,158 --> 00:18:07,388
If Brise-Caboche drops Hortense.
He can survive this.

188
00:18:07,518 --> 00:18:09,474
Brise would never kill for the mistress.

189
00:18:09,598 --> 00:18:12,317
Not for the mistress.
For the mistress's money.

190
00:18:18,718 --> 00:18:20,674
- You don't understand.
- Then explain it to me.

191
00:18:20,798 --> 00:18:22,629
You don't see it. You...

192
00:18:32,358 --> 00:18:34,508
You're in love. Is that it?

193
00:19:05,438 --> 00:19:06,837
I'm sorry.

194
00:19:11,558 --> 00:19:15,995
Perhaps Brise-Caboche didn't tell her
he was acting on behalf of Hortense.

195
00:19:16,118 --> 00:19:18,313
Or even that he'd killed the Baron.

196
00:19:20,078 --> 00:19:22,433
A guy like him doesn't need
to be ordered to kill.

197
00:19:22,558 --> 00:19:26,153
I can assure you. On this occasion
he was acting under orders.

198
00:19:27,718 --> 00:19:31,108
Hortense would stop at nothing
to stop the Baron taking me away.

199
00:19:34,838 --> 00:19:37,068
Meanwhile.
Your friend is carrying the can.

200
00:19:41,278 --> 00:19:44,714
Don't you find Hortense Gaillac's
behaviour at all strange?

201
00:19:45,758 --> 00:19:49,387
It's understandable that she would seek
to protect her establishment.

202
00:19:54,318 --> 00:19:57,116
You would only have a man killed
for love.

203
00:20:28,958 --> 00:20:31,756
And you don't think me capable
of inspiring such love?

204
00:20:35,038 --> 00:20:38,348
Get away from me
or I will have you arrested.

205
00:20:41,878 --> 00:20:44,790
Forget this sordid affair.

206
00:20:44,918 --> 00:20:48,308
Whatever your boss has done.
You are no better than she is.

207
00:20:55,358 --> 00:20:57,918
<i>"Here Is my heart,
where your hand should strike me</i>

208
00:20:58,038 --> 00:21:01,075
<i>"Impatient already to expiate
its offence to meet your arm</i>

209
00:21:01,198 --> 00:21:02,995
<i>"I can feel It now advance</i>

210
00:21:03,118 --> 00:21:04,346
"Strike

211
00:21:04,478 --> 00:21:06,833
<i>"Or If you think It not worthy
of your blow</i>

212
00:21:06,958 --> 00:21:09,074
<i>"If your hate refuses me
such sweet torment, so</i>

213
00:21:09,198 --> 00:21:12,474
<i>"Or If your hand
by my vile blood would be stained</i>

214
00:21:12,598 --> 00:21:16,716
<i>"Instead of your arm,
lend me then your blade</i>

215
00:21:16,838 --> 00:21:18,237
"Offer lt"

216
00:21:20,958 --> 00:21:22,357
Bravo!

217
00:21:28,918 --> 00:21:31,990
- You are too kind.
- Not at all.

218
00:21:33,518 --> 00:21:35,349
It's my favourite play.

219
00:21:35,478 --> 00:21:38,595
On the Cape. There were
so few of us who spoke French.

220
00:21:38,718 --> 00:21:41,630
I mainly performed it
for people at the embassy.

221
00:21:41,758 --> 00:21:44,716
But your repertoire must be
more contemporary.

222
00:21:44,838 --> 00:21:47,989
I see Corneille
as an eternal contemporary.

223
00:21:48,118 --> 00:21:51,076
Wasn't it Racine
who wrote Phaedra?

224
00:21:52,158 --> 00:21:55,912
- Didn't I say Racine?
- I think you said Corneille.

225
00:21:56,038 --> 00:21:57,710
Really?

226
00:21:58,838 --> 00:22:00,874
A careless mistake. Forgive me.

227
00:22:08,358 --> 00:22:10,952
You are so sparkling
and beautiful.

228
00:22:12,158 --> 00:22:13,671
And clever.

229
00:22:14,718 --> 00:22:16,834
My brother is very lucky.

230
00:22:18,358 --> 00:22:20,747
You mentioned "clever" last.

231
00:22:20,878 --> 00:22:22,869
Don't tell me you have self-doubt?

232
00:22:23,998 --> 00:22:26,751
I only wish Pierre didn't doubt me.

233
00:22:26,878 --> 00:22:29,392
I'm quite sure he doesn't.

234
00:22:29,518 --> 00:22:32,874
- I shouldn't be telling you this.
- On the contrary.

235
00:22:34,278 --> 00:22:37,827
- I know so little about men.
- Ah. Men.

236
00:22:39,758 --> 00:22:42,318
There is so little to know.

237
00:22:47,478 --> 00:22:50,436
What if Pierre heard us
talking like this?

238
00:22:50,558 --> 00:22:53,391
He'd be most reassured. Believe me.

239
00:23:26,718 --> 00:23:28,788
Steiner and Angèle?

240
00:23:30,238 --> 00:23:32,798
Grandet has a vivid imagination.

241
00:23:32,918 --> 00:23:35,910
- They occasionally went up together.
- What?

242
00:23:38,478 --> 00:23:41,311
Perhaps the Jew was hiding
his true feelings.

243
00:23:51,278 --> 00:23:53,997
I was engaged once to a Jew.

244
00:23:54,118 --> 00:23:55,949
Really?

245
00:23:56,078 --> 00:23:58,148
But I didn't know it.

246
00:23:58,278 --> 00:24:00,997
- Wasn't it obvious?
- No.

247
00:24:02,598 --> 00:24:07,194
What you don't seek
you won't find. That's all.

248
00:24:07,318 --> 00:24:10,037
And this was Berry. You know.

249
00:24:15,518 --> 00:24:17,429
Did you break it off?

250
00:24:17,558 --> 00:24:19,549
No. The bastard left me.

251
00:24:20,878 --> 00:24:24,109
And what's more. He had his fill of me
right up until the day before the wedding.

252
00:24:24,238 --> 00:24:28,948
The next day there was nothing for it
but to wipe myself dry with my dress.

253
00:24:29,078 --> 00:24:30,909
Bastard Jew.

254
00:24:32,118 --> 00:24:35,827
When I found out later who he was.
I understood.

255
00:24:35,958 --> 00:24:39,507
To them. The mother of Jesus
was as much a whore as the rest.

256
00:24:41,438 --> 00:24:43,713
They say she wasn't even a virgin.

257
00:24:44,758 --> 00:24:47,477
Virginity for them...

258
00:24:47,598 --> 00:24:49,350
No. No. No.

259
00:24:49,478 --> 00:24:51,469
It's not same as it is for us.

260
00:24:52,878 --> 00:24:54,630
Nothing's the same.

261
00:25:06,638 --> 00:25:09,596
- Fancy a drink?
- Go on. Then.

262
00:25:20,438 --> 00:25:22,793
You were seen
going into the police station.

263
00:25:24,398 --> 00:25:26,753
What were you doing
hanging around there?

264
00:25:28,238 --> 00:25:30,194
Telling Angèle we're all behind her.

265
00:25:32,998 --> 00:25:34,590
How is she doing?

266
00:25:37,558 --> 00:25:39,196
Badly.

267
00:25:42,598 --> 00:25:44,554
Did she talk?

268
00:25:47,678 --> 00:25:50,272
The coppers are looking for you anyway.

269
00:25:50,398 --> 00:25:52,389
I know.
There are two in the street.

270
00:25:54,118 --> 00:25:56,234
What is your role here?
To be the Angel of Death?

271
00:25:56,358 --> 00:25:58,997
You stab my man
and you land Angèle in it?

272
00:25:59,118 --> 00:26:01,473
Don't compare yourself to Angèle.

273
00:26:01,598 --> 00:26:04,066
Your Angèle's is so beaten up.
She looks like a rotten apple.

274
00:26:09,278 --> 00:26:11,872
They're looking for a culprit.
The real one.

275
00:26:11,998 --> 00:26:13,989
Don't they read the newspapers?

276
00:26:14,118 --> 00:26:17,474
- That banker guy stabbed your Baron.
- Nonsense. And Steiner's not a banker.

277
00:26:17,598 --> 00:26:19,077
So?

278
00:26:21,038 --> 00:26:25,111
You can't leave your fiancée
in the lurch just like that.

279
00:26:25,238 --> 00:26:28,708
Anyway. They'll catch you in the end.

280
00:26:28,838 --> 00:26:31,227
Meanwhile. It's Angèle
who's paying the price.

281
00:26:33,478 --> 00:26:36,993
- That girl knows what she's doing.
- What she's doing is dying.

282
00:26:38,518 --> 00:26:42,067
I'm going to get her out of there.

283
00:26:42,198 --> 00:26:45,395
How much did Hortense pay you?

284
00:26:45,518 --> 00:26:47,554
You're wide of the mark. Sweetheart.

285
00:26:47,678 --> 00:26:50,715
It's Hortense you're protecting.
Not yourself.

286
00:26:50,838 --> 00:26:53,591
If you spill the beans.
She'll get it in the neck.

287
00:26:53,718 --> 00:26:55,709
You could avoid the scaffold
and run away.

288
00:26:55,838 --> 00:26:58,636
Stay out of it. Sweetheart.
This is bigger than you and me.

289
00:26:58,758 --> 00:27:01,431
What are you talking about?

290
00:27:01,558 --> 00:27:03,469
Listen to me.

291
00:27:03,598 --> 00:27:06,556
The Commune isn't over.
There will be others.

292
00:27:06,678 --> 00:27:09,795
And next time. We'll win.
Angèle knows that.

293
00:27:11,838 --> 00:27:15,353
- I told you. She's dying.
- And your Baron was a scumbag.

294
00:27:15,478 --> 00:27:17,787
His patent leather shoes
were full of our comrades' blood.

295
00:27:17,918 --> 00:27:20,910
We should have cut the throats
of the whole family.

296
00:27:21,038 --> 00:27:24,269
Angèle knows I'm with her. Forever.

297
00:27:25,478 --> 00:27:27,275
That means bringing justice
to the people.

298
00:27:27,398 --> 00:27:30,231
So that her martyr's statue can
one day grace Brise-Caboche Square.

299
00:27:30,358 --> 00:27:32,235
Named after the famous revolutionary?

300
00:27:32,358 --> 00:27:35,748
You take care of yourself. Véra.
And forget about Angèle.

301
00:27:35,878 --> 00:27:39,791
I can assure you. Deep down
you are more alone than she is.

302
00:27:48,878 --> 00:27:50,869
Do you want my advice?

303
00:27:51,998 --> 00:27:54,228
Drop it.

304
00:27:54,358 --> 00:27:56,508
Even if you're right.
You'll never be able to prove it.

305
00:27:56,638 --> 00:27:58,310
So you said.

306
00:27:58,438 --> 00:28:03,068
Hortense always wins.
She'll outlive us all. You'll see.

307
00:28:03,198 --> 00:28:05,553
She's come so far.
She's scared of nothing.

308
00:28:05,678 --> 00:28:08,556
Are you in love with her or what?

309
00:28:08,678 --> 00:28:12,193
You're mistaken. Marguerite.
Hortense inspires fear. Not pleasure.

310
00:28:12,318 --> 00:28:14,752
- Winning's not about giving pleasure.
- I say it is.

311
00:28:14,878 --> 00:28:17,711
I say it is and I can prove it to you.

312
00:28:26,478 --> 00:28:27,957
Whip.

313
00:28:28,078 --> 00:28:29,477
Torture.

314
00:28:29,598 --> 00:28:31,395
Su...

315
00:28:31,518 --> 00:28:32,746
One...

316
00:28:32,878 --> 00:28:34,391
- Two...
- Sublime.

317
00:28:34,518 --> 00:28:36,509
- Sublime!
- No. No. No.

318
00:28:36,638 --> 00:28:40,756
Sorry. My dear.
Adjectives are strictly forbidden.

319
00:28:41,678 --> 00:28:44,112
Go on. Go on. Go on!

320
00:29:04,878 --> 00:29:06,470
Right. Cloud.

321
00:29:07,358 --> 00:29:08,791
Thunder.

322
00:29:08,918 --> 00:29:10,033
Gale.

323
00:29:10,158 --> 00:29:11,147
Ocean.

324
00:29:12,078 --> 00:29:13,227
Ow! Wave.

325
00:29:14,318 --> 00:29:15,353
Jolt.

326
00:29:16,358 --> 00:29:17,711
Thunderstorm.

327
00:29:17,838 --> 00:29:19,510
- Gale!
- Ah!

328
00:29:21,198 --> 00:29:22,711
Go on!

329
00:29:22,838 --> 00:29:25,398
Go on. Go on. Go on!

330
00:29:31,838 --> 00:29:33,829
Marcel? Where is Marcel?

331
00:29:34,598 --> 00:29:35,872
Hello. Marcel.

332
00:29:35,998 --> 00:29:37,716
- Hello. Grandet.
- Blondin.

333
00:29:37,838 --> 00:29:40,955
Ladies. I hope you appreciate
that you have among you

334
00:29:41,078 --> 00:29:43,592
one of the country's
most brilliant writers.

335
00:29:45,918 --> 00:29:50,594
My dear Véra. This article will force
the authorities to finally take action.

336
00:29:50,718 --> 00:29:54,757
The justice system needs the press
like a blind man needs his stick.

337
00:29:54,878 --> 00:29:58,871
Our friend Grandet has just put
that imposter Steiner in his place.

338
00:29:58,998 --> 00:30:01,387
I doubt he'll ever get back on his feet.
Bravo. Grandet.

339
00:30:01,518 --> 00:30:04,078
Steiner madly in love with Angèle.
Killing and robbing a rival?

340
00:30:04,198 --> 00:30:05,950
That's ridiculous.

341
00:30:06,078 --> 00:30:08,512
Quite in keeping
with that pathetic man.

342
00:30:08,638 --> 00:30:10,993
Kill Du Plessis a second time.
Why don't you?

343
00:30:12,678 --> 00:30:15,112
My father and Grandet are vultures.

344
00:30:16,358 --> 00:30:18,110
Don't stoop to their level.

345
00:30:20,198 --> 00:30:22,393
Poor Angèle.

346
00:30:22,518 --> 00:30:24,588
She was a ray of sunlight
in this house.

347
00:30:26,358 --> 00:30:28,394
And she taught me so much.

348
00:30:36,998 --> 00:30:39,353
- Good evening. Madame.
- Monsieur.

349
00:30:39,478 --> 00:30:42,311
So our dear Camélia
is back among you?

350
00:30:47,398 --> 00:30:48,797
One second.

351
00:30:51,278 --> 00:30:53,473
Haven't you got work to do?

352
00:31:03,758 --> 00:31:05,828
Joncourt is here.

353
00:31:05,958 --> 00:31:09,234
Not him. You know that.

354
00:31:09,358 --> 00:31:11,713
Then get a move on
and bag some clients.

355
00:31:20,238 --> 00:31:21,876
I'll go.

356
00:31:21,998 --> 00:31:23,397
No. You won't.

357
00:31:44,478 --> 00:31:46,150
The General is here.

358
00:31:46,278 --> 00:31:50,317
- So?
- They say he's the jail's oldest client.

359
00:31:50,438 --> 00:31:53,236
- What of it?
- He's bound to have known my mother.

360
00:32:14,918 --> 00:32:16,715
- Edmond?
- Yes. Sultana?

361
00:32:17,718 --> 00:32:19,868
I need to get out of here.

362
00:32:20,638 --> 00:32:23,675
Set you free?
I don't have the funds your Baron had.

363
00:32:23,798 --> 00:32:26,835
No. You don't get it.
Now. Just for an hour.

364
00:32:27,998 --> 00:32:31,035
- I want to go and see Angèle.
- Angèle?

365
00:32:32,798 --> 00:32:34,914
All right.
What do I need to do?

366
00:32:35,038 --> 00:32:36,994
Tell Hortense you want
to take me back to yours.

367
00:32:38,638 --> 00:32:40,435
It will cost you.

368
00:32:41,598 --> 00:32:43,395
Will you really come?

369
00:32:44,838 --> 00:32:46,749
Yes. After I've seen Angèle.

370
00:32:50,878 --> 00:32:54,393
- Do you know Athéna?
- From the Chabanais?

371
00:32:54,518 --> 00:32:56,873
She's said to be
one of the best lays in Paris.

372
00:32:56,998 --> 00:32:58,590
A real hellcat.

373
00:33:02,798 --> 00:33:05,392
- Have you heard of Lord Farber?
- No.

374
00:33:06,878 --> 00:33:09,312
A rich and powerful man.

375
00:33:10,438 --> 00:33:12,474
One wife. Two mistresses.

376
00:33:15,038 --> 00:33:18,269
Two years ago. The night before he died.
He summoned me to London.

377
00:33:22,918 --> 00:33:25,591
He wanted to be alone with me.

378
00:33:25,718 --> 00:33:29,552
His wife led me to his room
so I could administer his last rites.

379
00:33:31,558 --> 00:33:35,710
For a man of that stature
to choose your fanny as his final vision.

380
00:33:35,838 --> 00:33:37,829
You don't just need to be
one of the best lays.

381
00:33:38,918 --> 00:33:41,352
You need to be the best lay.

382
00:33:42,758 --> 00:33:44,669
What an extraordinary coincidence.

383
00:33:44,798 --> 00:33:48,029
Athéna recently told me
more or less the same story.

384
00:33:48,158 --> 00:33:50,467
Only I think her conquest
was an Italian bishop.

385
00:33:50,598 --> 00:33:53,396
I don't think she mentioned a wife.

386
00:33:56,558 --> 00:33:58,913
What if I organised
a little competition.

387
00:33:59,038 --> 00:34:01,074
At my house tonight.
With one or two friends of mine.

388
00:34:02,158 --> 00:34:04,547
To see which of you is the best lay?

389
00:34:04,678 --> 00:34:07,067
The result will be conclusive.

390
00:34:07,198 --> 00:34:08,995
What do you say?

391
00:34:13,878 --> 00:34:16,233
Go and see Hortense.

392
00:34:16,358 --> 00:34:18,155
I'll get ready.

393
00:34:25,798 --> 00:34:27,436
- Good evening. Marguerite.
- Mr Steiner.

394
00:34:27,558 --> 00:34:29,071
- Everything all right?
- Very good.

395
00:34:29,198 --> 00:34:32,315
- Is Grandet here?
- The mistress doesn't want you to meet.

396
00:34:32,438 --> 00:34:35,271
Just tell me what you want to do
and with whom and...

397
00:34:41,398 --> 00:34:42,592
You louse!

398
00:34:45,358 --> 00:34:48,668
I'll make you snort your filthy spunk
out through your nostrils!

399
00:34:56,518 --> 00:34:59,351
- I am confused.
- The show won't wait for me. You know.

400
00:34:59,478 --> 00:35:02,470
I was so racked by doubt.
I felt I had to come straight away.

401
00:35:10,078 --> 00:35:12,308
I am surprised at you. Mademoiselle.

402
00:35:12,438 --> 00:35:14,554
When I read that
it was a Mauboussin necklace.

403
00:35:14,678 --> 00:35:18,148
I realised there had been
a terrible mistake.

404
00:35:18,278 --> 00:35:20,348
Look.

405
00:35:20,478 --> 00:35:23,117
It is similar but it is not the necklace
the Baron game me.

406
00:35:23,238 --> 00:35:24,990
The jeweller has confirmed the sale.

407
00:35:25,118 --> 00:35:28,633
The necklace he had on him
when he died was not a Mauboussin.

408
00:35:28,758 --> 00:35:30,271
It was a very common model.

409
00:35:30,398 --> 00:35:32,912
I could prosecute you
for perverting the course of justice.

410
00:35:33,038 --> 00:35:37,031
- And I could make your life impossible.
- I am at entirely at your disposal!

411
00:35:53,798 --> 00:35:55,550
Please sit down.

412
00:36:08,158 --> 00:36:12,788
Your sending me this letter has led
to the arrest of your friend. Angèle.

413
00:36:12,918 --> 00:36:17,628
Perhaps you were hoping
she would rapidly denounce her fiancé.

414
00:36:17,758 --> 00:36:20,352
Or that he would easily be arrested.

415
00:36:20,478 --> 00:36:23,868
Only Angèle is digging her heels in
and may end up being convicted.

416
00:36:29,478 --> 00:36:31,230
Madame Derville.

417
00:36:32,678 --> 00:36:36,466
I do not wish to see Angèle die in jail
any more than you do.

418
00:36:39,198 --> 00:36:41,189
It is Brise-Caboche that I want.

419
00:36:43,878 --> 00:36:47,268
And if. On arrest. That scoundrel
denounces Hortense Gaillac.

420
00:36:47,398 --> 00:36:50,834
Rest assured that
she will join him on the scaffold.

421
00:37:00,518 --> 00:37:04,796
Here is what I suggest.
Stick to your story.

422
00:37:07,798 --> 00:37:11,996
Help me track down Brise-Caboche.
And for my part.

423
00:37:12,118 --> 00:37:15,269
I will release Angèle on bail.

424
00:37:16,398 --> 00:37:17,990
What do you say?

425
00:37:40,518 --> 00:37:43,191
I don't need to tell you that
he must avoid any excitement.

426
00:37:43,318 --> 00:37:44,592
Of course.

427
00:37:45,878 --> 00:37:47,948
Thank you very much. Doctor.

428
00:37:48,078 --> 00:37:49,716
What about Valentine?

429
00:37:49,838 --> 00:37:52,591
We can't be sure of anything
until she's out of quarantine.

430
00:37:52,718 --> 00:37:54,629
How is the chancre developing?

431
00:37:54,758 --> 00:37:56,510
Favourably.

432
00:37:56,638 --> 00:37:58,754
Is there any ulceration?

433
00:37:58,878 --> 00:38:03,474
Even if Valentine avoids syphilis.
She will only recover with plenty of rest.

434
00:38:03,598 --> 00:38:05,316
I am aware of that.

435
00:38:05,438 --> 00:38:07,713
Perhaps she could go
back to her family.

436
00:38:07,838 --> 00:38:10,193
Her mother is in prison
and her father is an alcoholic.

437
00:38:10,318 --> 00:38:12,513
I can assure you
she'll be well looked after here.

438
00:38:12,638 --> 00:38:14,674
I will take care of her myself.

439
00:38:17,078 --> 00:38:18,670
As you wish. Madame.

440
00:38:33,838 --> 00:38:36,193
What did the doctor say?

441
00:38:36,318 --> 00:38:38,513
When will I get another hard-on?

442
00:39:31,918 --> 00:39:33,271
Camélia?

443
00:40:11,318 --> 00:40:12,797
Go on!

444
00:40:16,638 --> 00:40:19,198
- Mademoiselle?
- I haven't had a chance to thank you.

445
00:40:19,318 --> 00:40:22,435
- What for?
- For helping to get me in here.

446
00:40:22,558 --> 00:40:24,947
I didn't realise then
that you were seeking work.

447
00:40:25,078 --> 00:40:26,909
Work and pleasure.

448
00:40:28,358 --> 00:40:30,997
I'm sorry.
But don't count on me for that.

449
00:40:31,118 --> 00:40:34,747
You think too much.
This is where it all happens.

450
00:40:36,398 --> 00:40:38,832
Will you come with me?

451
00:40:38,958 --> 00:40:40,357
I'm sorry. Young lady.

452
00:40:40,478 --> 00:40:44,073
I swear you won't find
a worse-bred man next-door than me.

453
00:40:44,198 --> 00:40:48,635
- But none of them knew my mother.
- What? What did you say?

454
00:40:56,998 --> 00:40:59,512
So your Marie-Jeanne
was Floriane. Then?

455
00:41:02,198 --> 00:41:03,995
What was she like?

456
00:41:06,518 --> 00:41:08,509
I didn't like your mother much.

457
00:41:10,038 --> 00:41:11,437
Why not?

458
00:41:14,718 --> 00:41:17,676
She was complicated.
Temperamental.

459
00:41:20,638 --> 00:41:24,517
Véra is like that. Too.
And yet you seem to like her.

460
00:41:24,638 --> 00:41:26,833
Véra is an actress.

461
00:41:26,958 --> 00:41:29,233
Prostitution is theatre. Mademoiselle.

462
00:41:29,358 --> 00:41:31,553
- Of course.
- Don't say "of course".

463
00:41:31,678 --> 00:41:34,556
You still have a lot to learn
about this world.

464
00:41:34,678 --> 00:41:37,431
Don't go thinking that women
on the other side are happier.

465
00:41:37,558 --> 00:41:38,957
Don't think that.

466
00:41:40,958 --> 00:41:43,518
I believe your mother made that mistake.

467
00:41:45,198 --> 00:41:46,916
Did she seem unhappy?

468
00:41:49,238 --> 00:41:51,115
She didn't know how to love.

469
00:41:52,998 --> 00:41:57,628
But that might have been
a function of her status.

470
00:41:57,758 --> 00:41:59,157
Her status?

471
00:42:01,558 --> 00:42:04,072
Her status as the favourite.

472
00:42:09,318 --> 00:42:13,755
Why did my mother have privileges
if she was such a bad worker?

473
00:42:16,878 --> 00:42:18,709
Ask Hortense.

474
00:42:18,838 --> 00:42:21,033
She was already in charge
at that time.

475
00:42:23,678 --> 00:42:25,794
She can tell you better than anyone.

476
00:42:46,718 --> 00:42:49,869
Steiner and Grandet have just fought
like two young dogs.

477
00:42:49,998 --> 00:42:53,354
I've been following Grandet's campaign.
It's utter codswallop.

478
00:42:53,478 --> 00:42:55,753
Not enough to prevent Steiner
from becoming a minister.

479
00:42:55,878 --> 00:42:57,470
Is that what you think?

480
00:42:57,598 --> 00:43:00,510
- It's what everyone is saying.
- That's interesting.

481
00:43:00,638 --> 00:43:04,631
Do you advise me to form links with him.
To choose Steiner over Grandet?

482
00:43:06,038 --> 00:43:07,756
Do as you wish.

483
00:43:08,758 --> 00:43:10,749
Knowing how ill-intentioned
you are towards me.

484
00:43:10,878 --> 00:43:13,756
My tendency would be to do
the opposite of what you suggest.

485
00:43:13,878 --> 00:43:17,109
Which should drive me
to go and see Grandet.

486
00:43:17,238 --> 00:43:19,035
On the other hand.

487
00:43:19,158 --> 00:43:21,797
You may have anticipated
that I would ignore your advice.

488
00:43:21,918 --> 00:43:23,954
So I should ignore my instinct
to ignore your advice.

489
00:43:24,078 --> 00:43:26,148
And do what you have advised me.

490
00:43:27,838 --> 00:43:30,636
These petty quarrels
are so complicated.

491
00:43:30,758 --> 00:43:32,589
I think I am going to go home.

492
00:43:33,638 --> 00:43:35,196
By the way...

493
00:43:37,838 --> 00:43:40,113
Elizabeth was delighted
to have met you.

494
00:43:41,598 --> 00:43:44,476
We are going
to become true friends.

495
00:43:44,598 --> 00:43:48,147
Friends who have no secrets
from one another.

496
00:43:48,278 --> 00:43:51,031
Don't worry.
I am in no hurry to hurt you.

497
00:43:55,918 --> 00:43:57,636
Camélia?

498
00:44:23,398 --> 00:44:24,797
Camélia!

499
00:44:28,398 --> 00:44:30,753
That lunatic ravaged me.

500
00:44:34,078 --> 00:44:36,592
Do you know
what he wants us to call him?

501
00:44:38,358 --> 00:44:40,155
The surgeon.

502
00:44:41,638 --> 00:44:43,151
I'll be right back.

503
00:44:43,278 --> 00:44:45,792
There's nothing to be done.
It just needs to heal up.

504
00:44:50,918 --> 00:44:53,910
He was a surgeon in the army.
So he knows what to do.

505
00:44:56,678 --> 00:44:58,748
I can't work any more now.

506
00:44:59,958 --> 00:45:01,550
Not here anyway.

507
00:45:03,798 --> 00:45:05,868
Matron will sack me.

508
00:45:16,838 --> 00:45:18,794
A farewell gift.

509
00:45:24,598 --> 00:45:26,031
Here.

510
00:45:27,318 --> 00:45:29,832
It's good stuff.
It's made with opium.

511
00:45:32,718 --> 00:45:34,117
Take it.

512
00:45:34,238 --> 00:45:37,036
You'll see.
We're both going to be all right.

513
00:45:40,798 --> 00:45:43,107
We're going to be all right.

514
00:46:10,758 --> 00:46:11,793
Véra?

515
00:46:41,398 --> 00:46:42,911
Hello.

516
00:46:43,038 --> 00:46:44,187
Hello.

517
00:46:45,398 --> 00:46:46,911
Monsieur.

518
00:46:47,038 --> 00:46:48,187
Pierre.

519
00:46:52,958 --> 00:46:54,676
I have you tell you.

520
00:46:56,198 --> 00:46:59,508
I fancy you and I want you badly.

521
00:47:01,238 --> 00:47:03,672
But I have just had
rather a passionate night.

522
00:47:03,798 --> 00:47:06,517
- Did you at least win?
- I'm sorry?

523
00:47:08,198 --> 00:47:11,235
The competition
for the best whore in Paris.

524
00:47:13,158 --> 00:47:17,037
Edmond was so chuffed.
He told everyone. Including his father.

525
00:47:17,158 --> 00:47:21,549
Tomorrow the capital's children will be
talking about it in the playground.

526
00:47:21,678 --> 00:47:24,909
- A unanimous victory.
- Bravo!

527
00:47:25,038 --> 00:47:28,155
I am tired. But the men are good
for a week in a sanatorium.

528
00:47:29,278 --> 00:47:32,270
Véra. I adore you.

529
00:47:33,398 --> 00:47:35,628
I told you. Last night...

530
00:47:40,158 --> 00:47:41,557
I see.

531
00:47:44,398 --> 00:47:47,196
I promised my sister
I wouldn't touch you.

532
00:47:49,518 --> 00:47:52,590
What I want is for you to touch her.

533
00:47:52,718 --> 00:47:57,314
I know the sum of your debt.
This wad of notes will cover it.

534
00:47:57,438 --> 00:47:59,269
If you agree.
I'll give you ten notes a week

535
00:47:59,398 --> 00:48:01,514
and in three weeks you'll be free.

536
00:48:04,838 --> 00:48:07,875
But I want you
to make my sister happy.

537
00:48:11,878 --> 00:48:14,711
Does her unhappiness pain you?

538
00:48:14,838 --> 00:48:16,988
Her spitefulness wounds me.

539
00:48:19,118 --> 00:48:21,951
You are assuming
that love melts hearts.

540
00:48:22,078 --> 00:48:24,034
I'm not sure it does
where she is concerned.

541
00:48:24,158 --> 00:48:25,750
Your love?

542
00:48:27,078 --> 00:48:29,911
It will melt her heart
like ice in the sun.

543
00:48:46,038 --> 00:48:48,188
You would disappear overnight.

544
00:48:50,478 --> 00:48:52,514
A departure worthy
of your legendary status.

545
00:48:52,638 --> 00:48:54,708
She'll be none the wiser.

546
00:49:01,918 --> 00:49:04,591
And you will be there to console her.

547
00:49:06,038 --> 00:49:07,915
Why the hesitation?

548
00:49:12,918 --> 00:49:15,148
Is it because you still love her?