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Colonel Ludlow :
Alfred! Stop mooning over
Miss Finncannon and come in here. Samuel wants to know
about the young calves raised up in Cheyena. Come on,
get in here.
Alfred : Please excuse my father. It makes him feel
young and powerful to treat us like we're idiot
children.
Colonel Ludlow : For this and all His countless
blessings, may God's holy name be praised and blessed.
Amen.
Alfred, Tristan, Samuel : Amen.
Tristan : Tell Father what you were saying about
Vienna.
Colonel Ludlow : What's that?
Samuel : oh, it's the
Kaiser. He won't stop them from
annihilating
Serbia.
Colonel Ludlow : Let's not talk about war at the
table. Please.
Samuel : Susannah hears that all England is
mobilizing. We're
stuck out in the middle of nowhere while all
this is going on.
Colonel Ludlow : Thank God for that.
Samuel : You wouldn't want us to
evade our duty.
Colonel Ludlow : Wouldn't I?
Alfred : Father, with respect...
Susannah : Please excuse me for being late. I packed
so carefully I couldn't find. Thank you.
All : Would you like some...
Colonel Ludlow : Dear Isabel, how strange to have a
cultivated woman in the house again, and how
intoxicating. Indeed to have all three of my sons under
my roof again fills me with such a deep, quiet
satisfaction that I thank God. |
