Bright Young Things

This way, this way!

Thank you.

Oh!

Nina!

Miles!

Adam not back yet?

What?

Adam? Not back yet?

Any day now.

Isn't this too dull?

- I've never been more bored in my life.

Drink?

I'd kill for a martini.

Spot of absinthe?

Yes, at least a spot.

Whoa!

I know you, don't I?

Lord Balcairn, how are you?

- Very well, I know you, but I don't know you.

Simon!

Been the longest age.

Business or pleasure?

Well the business of pleasure.

Adam not back yet?

Any day, poor lamb.

I'll just a.

Who's your ferrety friend?

Lord knows.

What a foul party though, eh?

Isn't it, though?

I was just saying to Miles,

"I don't think I've ever been

"so frantically bored in my life."

Miles here?

- Supposed to be fetching me a drink.

- Ah, now dear, he really should be more discreet.

Oh damn I've just remembered

where I've seen that little man before!

He's a bloody photo rat.

Let's get him.

A rat!

A rat!

Let's get him, the bloody photo rat!

Oh!

Get the bloody rat!

(waves splashing and seagulls cawing)

Keep your hands still.

- Not too hard, not too hard!

- Chastity, you're such a coward.

Ow!

I don't feel so well.

I think I'm--

Oh you're disgusting.

Make way!

- And now we're (mumbles)

0-4 to Dover (mumbles).

- Did you see that steward?

He was winking at us?

He was not!

Chastity, Piety, Endeavor.

This minute!

Yes, Mrs. Ape!

- (mumbles) by boat going to London.

Come on, come on!

That your case, sir?

- Girls, how many times have I had to--

- Just some very old clothes and some books.

Books, eh?

And what sort of books, may I ask?

- Would you behave yourself? - Fortitude,

I forbid you to bounce.

Wee, whoa!

- Because if you lay against books,

their own secretaries.

We can't stamp out literature in our own country,

we can at least stop it being brought in.

Hello, hello!

What's this?

That's a book too.

One I've just written.

Your name's Sue, is it?

Dear, oh dear, oh dear.

That's a pseudonym.

Su de Nime.

- I can read, thank you very much.

- No, you don't understand, it's sort of a joke.

Su de Nime, pseudonym.

Nom de plume.

And what's this?

Vomit.

There was an accident.

You come along with me.

Briggs!

Sir!

I really must catch the train.

- There are worse things than missing trains,

young Susan!

- Hey John, get a shot of that!

Here they come!

You hit at me?

Oh no you didn't, you ghastly savages!

It was rude you-- - Books, sir.

Goes by the name of Susan. - Ow!

- Well now, what's this about books?

- They're just books. - Get off me!

- I'll be the judge of that, thank you!

Oh!

Adam, darling!

Hello Agatha!

I never saw you on the boat.

I can't tell you the things

that have been happening to me in there.

The way they looked.

Too shaming!

Positively surgical my dear, and such wicked old women.

I shall ring up every cabinet minister

and all the newspapers

and give them the most shy making details.

Let's find the train.

I've got troubles of my own.

Well now.

You can take these books and the dictionary,

minus this page,

thank you very much.

But this, Bright Young Things,

that's just downright dirt and is marked for burning.

What?

There's no dirt in the book.

You must be misinterpreting--

I know dirt when I see it.

Or I shouldn't be where I am today.

- Do you realize my whole livelihood depends on that book?

I've already been paid for it.

- And my livelihood depends on keeping filth like that

out of the country!

- Archie Swert's giving a lovely party tonight.

So we simply have to catch the next train,

or I shan't have a chance to dress.

Archie who?

Oh God!

Oh you poor things!

Have you been waiting here in all this time?

- I don't know what Lord Monomark's gonna say.

Suppose he'll want his money back.

- The press is getting all together too bothersome.

Except when they aren't.

You won't forget to come to Archie Swert's party?

- Oh, I've got to get to my hotel.

- You're not still staying at Shepheard's, are you darling?

So many little people.

What can they all do with their lives?

When are you and Nina going to get married?

I have just the trousers to wear

and then you won't do it!

- Well I'm not sure we'll be able to.

Just here, will be fine!

Thank you, driver.

- Darling, if you don't marry her soon,

someone else will.

And that will never do.

- Take the lady on to Brogan Street

and drop my luggage off at Shepheard's Hotel, Saint James.

Right, sir.

Bye, darling.

See you at Archie's.

19 cents, 19 cents!

19 cents, boiled seals at party.

Shocking pictures, shocking pictures.

Read Mr. Chatterbox!

Read Mr. Chatterbox!

Chatterbox tells all!

Shocking pictures!

Shocking pictures!

London, Adam.

There's no place like it on God's green Earth.

Yep, quite a city.

For the first 20 years of my life,

the biggest town I ever saw, or hoped to see,

was Necessity, Manitoba.

Population 1,230 souls.

Now, here I am, Prince of the greatest metropolis

the world has ever known.

Gives a man to think, wouldn't you say?

Certainly.

Certainly.

You're right there, Adam.

Certainly.

Now I believe you owe me a book.

A little late in delivery?

Ah, well now.