You don't like having pretty girls on the staff, I've noticed. Might it be that our Mr...
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Miss Kenton:
[about a new housemaid]
You don't like having pretty girls on the staff, I've noticed.
[teasing]
Miss Kenton:
Might it be that our Mr Stevens fears distraction? Can it be that our Mr Stevens is flesh and blood after all and doesn't trust himself?
Stevens:
[with the faintest trace of a smile]
You know what I'm doing, Miss Kenton? I'm placing my thoughts elsewhere as you chatter away.
Miss Kenton:
...then why is that guilty smile still on your face?
Stevens:
Oh it's not a guilty smile. I'm simply amused by the sheer nonsense you sometimes talk.
Miss Kenton:
It *is* a guilty smile. You can hardly bear to look at her. That's why you didn't want to take her on, she's too pretty.
Stevens:
Well, you must be right Miss Kenton, you always are.
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You don't like to have pretty girls on the staff I've noticed
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Might it be that our Mr Stevens fears distraction
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Can it be that our Mr Stevens is flesh and blood after all
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and cannot trust himself
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You know what I'm doing Miss Kenton
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I'm placing my thoughts elsewhere while you chatter away
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Then why is that guilty smile still on your face
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Oh it's not a guilty smile
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Simply amused by the sheer nonsense you sometimes talk
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It's a guilty smile You can hardly bear to look at her
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That's why you didn't want to take her on She was too pretty
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Well you must be right Miss Kenton
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You always are
Clip duration: 40 seconds
Views: 264
Timestamp in movie: 01h 26m 19s
Uploaded: 03 December, 2022
Genres: drama, romance
Summary: A rule bound head butler's world of manners and decorum in the household he maintains is tested by the arrival of a housekeeper who falls in love with him in post-WWI Britain. The possibility of romance and his master's cultivation of ties with the Nazi cause challenge his carefully maintained veneer of servitude.
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