3. Kipps Gets Engaged
HG Wells
Kipps
Episode 3 of 5
Artie Kipps gets engaged to Miss Walshingham but his thoughts return to his childhood sweetheart Ann.
Starring Paul Daneman, Mark Straker, Nickolas Grace, Kathryn Hurlbutt and Rosalind Ayres.
1905 novel by HG Wells telling the story of a young man’s battle to improve his lot in life.
Dramatised by Michelene Wandor.
HG Wells … Paul Daneman
Kipps … Mark Straker
Miss Walshingham … Kathryn Hurlbutt
Chitterlow … Nickolas Grace
Uncle …. John Hollis
Aunt … Jane Wenham
Sid Pornick … Michael Jenner
Ann … Moir Leslie
Carshot … Christopher Biggins
Buggins … John Webb
Flo … Helen Atkinson-Wood
Chester Coote …. Christopher Good
Miss Coote …. Helena Breck
Henry Walshingham …. Spencer Banks
Mrs Walshingham …. Penelope Lee
Music by Ilona Sekacz.
Director: Martin Jenkins.
Kips by HG Wells dramatized by michelen wander music by Lona SE with Mark ster as Kips Katherine hbert as Helen John Hollis as Kip’s uncle and Paul danman as HG Wells the Storyteller episode three Kips gets engaged Arthur Kips once a draper by trade has come into a fortune living now in a large house in Folkston with a housekeeper and maid’s mind he’s been worrying that education and learning have passed him by in particular he is rather anxious to be able to do the
Right thing when he calls on Kips has learned that refined persons call on other refined persons when he calls on a Helen Walsingham a teacher of wood carving whose careful preite Beauty has caught his heart as someone who takes a close interest in the young man’s welfare I am a little concerned that
This infatuation has quite put out of his mind Anne pornic the girl next door and his childhood sweetheart still Anne has gone into service somewhere and Kips is ignorant of her whereabouts so I shall not judge too harshly My Name by the way is HG Wells I am what Mr Kips
Would call uh Nora at this moment Kips is about to make a call on a Mr Chester coot a young gentleman who is easing him into the ways of etiquette you look very smart today Mr Kips oh hello Mr Wells do I really tell very much a very smart silk cette if I
May say so puse is it it was clean when I put it on no I mean the color sort of red I reckon never mind now are you very clear about what you must do upon calling knock on the door no I mean should there be no one at home you will
Have to leave a card card you mean yeah I’ve got a pack of cards at home but why should I want to leave playing cards that’s calling card a card with your name on it with your compliments oh l oh dear what am I going to do well it seems
A shame to waste your cat on the world should you decide to turn back let’s see it first if anyone is at home fortunately we’re nearly there yeah but we’re right outside it yeah well done off you go do I not double oring neither there’s a bell
Right yes sir Mr Kips call in on Mr Chester coot very well sir would you care to come in don’t mind if I do just a moment sir yes of course gimps look you can see into the drawing room a black and gold piano a glazed bookcase a a Moorish Cozy Corner
On the mantle shelf a number of cards of invitation to meetings and recital here Mr Wills what’s that that’s a bust of bethoven just look at all them pictures H probably done by Miss C oh yes his sister what paints who what his sister who paints that’s what I just
Said shh Mr Wells right Mr Kips how very kind of you to call I’m Chester’s sister how do you do how’ you do Miss cot I’m afraid Chester has just gone down to the arts school to see about some drawing or other he’ll be back soon will you wait I
Don’t mind if I do I’ve been looking at your paintings do you paint not really where are all these views of well this one is of the cliff stunned on the sea front no I would never have recognized them isn’t it funny how things look in a picture oh
Oh but they’re awfully good thank you Mr KBS I wish AR paint that’s what Chester says but I tell him he’s got better things to do ah Chester I was just Entertaining Mr Kips with an account of my painting brother glad to see you my dear chap
Well I’ll just go and see about te if you’ll excuse me what capital timing my dear chap come into my study it’s rather cozy in there Good’s study was a little bedroom put to studious uses over the mantle he had an array of things he had been led to believe indicative of
Culture and refinement a Swiss carved pip with many joints a phenological bust a picture of what’s painting minor a table under the window bore a little microscope some dust in a saucer some grimy glass slips and broken cover glasses for coot had gone in for biology
A little the longer side of the room was given over to bookshelves neatly edged with pinked American cloth and with an array of books Lord what a lot of books you’ve got oh yes yeah why have you got lots of copies of the same book that my dear fellow is is the encyclopedia
Britanica oh then there’s Tennyson Charles Kingsley Rosetti some HG Wells modern writer and this is a photograph of Amel Cathedral nothing enlarges the mind like travel and books well I’ve often wanted to have a good go in at reading well so long as you avoid trashy
Reading you ought to make the rule Kips to read one serious book A Week of course we can learn from novels nice novels that is but it isn’t the same as a serious book here’s one such Pond Life by Mrs tadl to oh they look very difficult not really ah this will
Interest you manners and rules of good Society here oh by a member of the aristocracy I say borrow it Mia chap may I really of course what’s that that will be tea ah Come Along ah there you both are and look who else is called Helen Oh here was Helen Walsingham solid and real the Easy Flow of the dark hair back from her brow over her ears the shapeliness of the white hands that came out from her simple cuffs the delicate penciling of her brow oh dear Mr Wells what should I do just relax and be
Yourself gips right oh good afternoon Miss W Singham well done Mr Gibs what a very pleasant surprise are you back in folon with us uh just here on a bit of business I thought you was on holiday in bruise tea with milk Mr KBS uh tough
Thanks my mother and I decided to wait until my brother takes his holidays solicitors are such busy chaps and he’s qualified now you know very important we shall go to Bru when he is free to accompany us now where are you staying in folon oh actually I’ve got a house of
My own is called huon oh but of course I heard all about your good fortune from Miss coot sugar Mr KBS I don’t mind just as you like some bread and butter I am a bit hungry just a slice thanks don’t I get a plate for the bread Mr Wells no
You’ll have to balance it on the edge of your saucerer when are we going to sit around the table this is a migratory method of taking tea to which you will have to become a customer o careful oh sorry I seem to have dropped me
Bread oh it’s all right I don’t mind off the floor did you go to the concert last night har oh yes a Divine rendition of the Moonlight sinat I thought quite Heavenly all bread kids no best not I do hope you will all come to the next
Concert who is giving it pedi it should be superb quite superb I recall a concert he gave somewhere in London so exciting Mr KBS now that you have altered your station shall you remain here in folston with us I don’t really know yet I got an uncle and a’t in new
Romley I might go back there for a bit I just don’t know yet well I expect the world is now your oyster my what you will be able to go anywhere you like Paris Florence there’s a girl called Flo works at the dr’s Emporium where I was
Before I come into my money well I could visit her why New York even I thought of popping over to bogy just for a look around at any rate if you stay in dull old Folkston with us you must go to the next recital oh yes I’m sure you will
Enjoy it if you do what dare say I shall I don’t know much about music but I do know what I like I got a banjo oh and you must very definitely call on mother and me before we depart for bruge oh rather that would be delightful Miss
Coot may I borrow that drawing board from you but of course it’s in my studio thank you goodbye then goodbye goodbye miss Walsingham don’t forget to call well I’ll best be off and all hold on a moment I’ve got another book to lend you Ruskin Sesame and lies is that
About food it’s about art Mia chap oh tough and be sure you read manners and rules of good Society very carefully oh thanks C your real friend h next time I’ll let you have a book on Vitality that you might find Helpful on his way home Kips began to wonder about the precise effect of his behavior at tea on Miss Walsingham by the time he arrived he was full of anxiety that he might have offended or otherwise upsetter once in the privacy of his study he took out the book which
Chester coot had lent him here we are manners and rules of good Society a cheap magnificent cover of red and gold 2 first edition whatever that means go on then what read it turn over the page now start there those individuals who have led secluded or isolated lives or have hitherto lived
And moved in other spheres than those wherein well-bred people move will gather all the information necessary from these pages to render them thoroughly conversent with the manners and amenities of society is all one sentence now go on the art of conversing go on you read it having thus acquired possession of an
Idea the little ship should not be abruptly launched into deep Waters but should first be permitted to Glide gently and smoothly into the shallows that is to say the conversation should not be commenced by broadly or roundly stating a fact or did did didactically expressing an opinion as the subject
Would thus be virtually or summarily disposed of or perhaps be met with a really or indeed or some equally brief mon monic reply I don’t think much of this carry on if an opposite opinion were held by the person to whom the remark were addressed he might not if a
Stranger care to express it in a form of a direct contradiction or actual descent to Glide him imp perceptibly into the conversation is the object to be attained I don’t get a word of this do you want to learn or don’t you of course I do then go back to the beginning and
Read it all through again right having thus acquired Possession when gips finally made his call on the wallingham it happened rather differently from the prescriptions set down in manners and rules so differently indeed that he was rather lost from the outset instead of the footman or maid servant which the book had said was proper to these occasions Miss Walsingham opened the
Door to him herself Mr Kips what a pleasant surprise I thought I called oh do come in you won’t think it unconventional of me to invite you in mother is out just at the moment oh don’t mind if you don’t mind the Walsingham dwelling struck Kips as being smaller and rather less
Emphatically colored than that of the Coots and in which at first only a copper bowl of white poppies upon the brown tablecloth caught his attention I’ve told mother all about you she’ll be delighted to meet you come into the drawing room I’m looking forward to meeting her well she has gone out to
Make some Duty course I didn’t go I had something to write I write a little you know really oh it’s nothing much one must do something what do you think of our view Mr keeps we look straight onto the square it’s Pleasant in early spring like bright green laid on with a dry
Brush and it’s very pleasant in Autumn I never thought of you like that the colors in there yes I like it is that your garden out there it’s only a little garden are you interested in gardening well I’ll grew a penny worth of nerian once me uncle’s desp we’ve just got that
Little patch of turf and my narcissi and yellow wall flowers it’s nice it’s small but this is is the day of small things oh if you were writing when I came in I must be interrupting you oh no I’d finished what you making up something well I try quite vainly to write stories
One must do something I don’t know whether I shall ever be any good at it it seems so hopeless and of course one must study the popular taste but now my brother Henry has gone to London I get a lot of leisure he’s luckier than I he
Has a chance is he a good solic oh excellent he’s frightfully clever he’s involved with so many people and ideas no doubt he has a wonderfully busy life in London well you got your wood carving classes and things they ought to satisfy me but they don’t I suppose I’m
Ambitious but I’ve never had much of a springboard I should think you could do anything you wanted as a matter of fact I can’t do anything I want to but you’ve done a great deal what have I done Mr Kips well Chester Tom you passed one of these University things um oh I
Matriculated well I should think was no end of a swell if I did that I know that for sure Mr Kips do you have any idea how many people matriculate into London University every year I don’t know between two and 3,000 who do you think how many don’t oh they don’t count
Oh the fact is I’m a discontented person Folkston is simply a seafront and it values people by sheer vulgar prosperity now mother and I are not prosperous and we live in a Backstreet I can tell you it’s a mercy we haven’t had to let rooms one simply feels one hasn’t had
Opportunities oh I understand that all right that’s just it no I believe you could do anything you wanted to if you tried I watched you when you were teaching in that wood carving class and you got something oh it’s very evident that you are one of
Those rare people who believe in me Mr Kip oh I do I do as Mrs Walsingham appeared in the doorway bonneted and ladylike Kips felt a certain apprehension at First Sight she appeared rather jaded and hay but then she held out her hand he took it
And she responded to his touch with a friendly pressure he felt a little less apprehensive just a little less apprehensive there you are mother look who has come to call on us Mr Kips how very very kind of you Mr Kips new people rarely call on us nowadays
How do you do uh how’d you do have you had tear yet not yet mother I’ll go and see to it it was nearly ready when Mr Kips called I’m sure you can entertain each other I say don’t trouble my account no trouble I’m thirsty on my own
Account weren’t to one of Helen’s pupils yes that’s how I had the pleasure of meeting her she takes great pleasure in that wood carving class she is so energetic and it gives her an outlet oh I think she teaches something Splendid everyone thinks she does very well Helen
I think would do anything well she undertook to do she is so very clever she throws herself into things you know she told me all about your poor cut hand when you open the window for her fcy are telling you that oh she tells me everything she told me how Brave you
Were she said you didn’t seem to feel the cut a bit even though it was bleeding terribly oh it was nothing oh here we are then oh lovely Mr Gibs um would you mind pulling out the table for tea I don’t want if I do thank you there now milk sugar Mr
Kips yes please oh he looks lovely I must say there we are this time Kips took no bread and butter and managed his teup creditably then he began talking he talked quite modestly and simply about his changed condition about his inherited Fortune his early apprenticeship as a draper his aunt and
Uncle in new Romney he confided he submitted and he remained for about 2 hours having forgotten how terribly incorrect it is to stay such a length of time fortunately Miss Walsingham and her mother did not seem to mind at all within 2 months a mere 3 and 50 days
Kips had clamored to the battlements of his heart’s desire it all became finally possible when the Walsingham decided not to go to Bru for their holidays but to stay in Folkston one day there was a water party organized by Chester on the nearby Canal Kips had learned to paddle
With when he was a boy and it has to be said that Kips did not paddle at all Badly the trip was to culminate in a visit to the local Castle Kips removed his jacket and rolled up his sleeves to take charge of the boat he shared with Miss Walsingham muscles hardened by lifting pieces of creton in his former place of work gave him a perfectly
Respectable figure also in the party were Chester coot Mrs Bingham and Helen’s brother the young successful solicitor down for the weekend from London here we are everyone Ro to the bank Kips right CH bump how you jump Henry Now Catch hold of this yes of course there we are then what fun help
Me out of the boot Mr kid certainly take my hand Miss Walsingham yes there we are thank you so much Mrs Walsingham thank you Mr K oh there’s the castle over there now then young Henry you can take your mother onto the castle we’ll follow the long way around across the
Field I say that’s a rather fearsome looking Beast oh dear just look at that boot it’s all right mamar I should merely wave my hat at it like so a vult you silly creature Fortune had favored Kips by placing a small convenient field entirely at the disposal of an
Adolescent and bull the field was adjacent to the landing place and was directly between the Boating Party and the castle I shall walk past that never fear I shall protect you all there toror Matador picador oh dear it is rather large he’s only a little bll I sh walk past it
Mother Mrs is waringham May I escort you around by the park toing notion Mr K come on mat we’ll leave this stupid animal to get on with its dinner you AR making a fuss about nothing come along then will you be all right hel of course
I will Mr Kips is going to escort me aren’t you Mr Kips goodbye dear bye see you all at the castle see you bye bye good bye oh isn’t he sweet hello chip perhaps he’s not that sweet oh he’s only you littl come on I’ll help you over the
Style come on there we are are you sure of course I’m sure come on if you say so Mr KS there there’s good fellow easy does it it was not an affair of the bull ring exactly no desperate rushing and gorings but the bull came resolutely towards
Them oh Mr kids he regarded them with a large Wicked bluish eye opened a mouth below his moist glistening nose and booed and shook his head and showed that tossing was in his mind he looks awfully Fierce just stay very calm and we’ll get to the gate
That’s a ticket that’s fine come on Now look here you bull you just mind your manners and be off yeah that’s more like it go on Miss walham open the gate he won’t harm you oh stand guard if necessary I’ll have another word with him there now and you you behave yourself next time you see a lady
Oh Mr Gibs How brave how very brave you are thank you it was Nothing the company had planned to climb the castle keep and Survey the low Blue Hills by wiel sea and Hastings to the east hung France between the Sea and the sky and round to the north bounding the wide perspective of farms and houses and woods were the Downs with their chalk
Pits sustaining the passing Shadows of the sailing Cloud isn’t it absolutely marvelous oh come on let’s get to the top I don’t think I can climb any more of these horrid Little Steps well all this fresh air is making me feel quite faint I must have a cigarette come on
Coot let’s toddle down to the Village right coming mother I shall sit on the stone I’ve done quite enough toddling for today oh come on then Mr Kips let’s go right up to the top right glorious quite glorious oh isn’t it quite glorious Mr Gibs oh yes always
Been very fond of scenery my there is a lot of scenery up here isn’t there one feels one owns things standing up here miss W Singham I’ve been thinking about what about names names what sort of names well C was saying to me a while
Ago the p my real name isn’t spelled k PPS but CU PS I’m not too sure about it well it’s an interesting proposition I don’t know I was just thinking Kips had intended to lead from this question to the general question of surnames and changes of names it had seemed a light
And witty way of approaching what he had in mind a proposition of a marital nature he decided to try another approach when I see seniory and things like that that it things that are beautiful it makes me feel what silly like oh you needn’t you know Mr Kips you hold yourself too
Cheap you mean you don’t hold me cheap oh no but for instance you don’t think of me as an equal AR why ever not oh but really if I thought what you know so much oh that’s all nothing I know what I am if I thought you was possible if I
Thought that you I believe I could do anything missingham is it possible that you could care for me enough to help me missingham do you care for me at all I think you are the most generous the most kind most modest of men and this afternoon I thought you were the
Bravest oh there is Mother she’s signaling we have to go down yes but you must know Miss wallingham You must tell me what if you care for me it was as if everything in the world was drawn to the breaking point and in a minute must certainly break yes I do
Know promise me something Arthur promise you what if I do not hold you cheap you will never hold yourself cheap if you do not hold me cheap you mean yes I hold you dear or me yes of course who else I mean will you would
You marry me Helen oh but of course you silly what else could I mean yes yes yes Kips felt as a Praying hermit might have felt snatched from the midst of his quiet devotions his modest sackcloth and Ashes and hurled neck and crop over the glittering Gates of paradise smack among the iridescent
Wings the brigh eyed cherubim he felt like some lowly and righteous man dynamiting into Bliss his hand tightened on the rope that stead his one upon the stairs of stone he was for kissing her hand and and did not he said not a word more he turned about and with something
Very like a scared expression on his face led the way into the obscurity of their Descent the tea was spread on a white cloth under the trees Kips handed the wrong things to the wrong people and killed wasps as if he were in a dream Helen was carefully not looking at him but he knew that the goddess had come from her Altar
And had taken him by the hand I say Kips old man snap out of it pass the sandwiches oh perhaps in olden times they jousted here on the grass this cast is are such Melancholy places but I feel quite cheerful here with my children and our good friends oh mother do know Mr
Kips Henry is very like Helen they both so quick so artistic so full of ideas you know even when Helen was a little girl she wrote first well I don’t bother with versifying in London just more and more clients Henry is taking on more clients to solicit for every day I don’t
Think that’s quite the right word m but I am looking for clients that is true how about you Mr Kips need a solicitor well I’ve got one whats in and bean old be been infect but he’s a bit of an old Cove I’ll say an old has
Been I must say I wouldn’t mind someone a bit near to my own SV done Mr Kips I can tell you’re an honest man I would be delighted to take you on you know Mr Kips that are bright days and dark days and mine have not always been
Bright until today I know just what you mean Mrs Walsingham as the afternoon continued Helen now and then threw a priv glance across at Kips when they all went home the sky was a vast Splendor and close to them with the dark protecting trees and The Shining smooth
Still Water behind Kips was money and opportunity Freedom he was indeed at his heart’s Desire the following day Chester called on Kip O come in my dear chap Mary let me in I said why are you sitting alone here in the dark I didn’t notice I was thinking and I bet I know what about or rather about whom do you oh yes she’s Splendid
Isn’t she oh yes congratulations my dear chap I couldn’t help noticing the radiance on her face at the picnic did you oh yes my dear Kips this is better than a legacy I don’t deserve it you can’t say that and you say it All Began
Before your manage oh yes when I was in her class it’s a County family you know she’s connected with the boprey family you know Lord boprey I don’t believe I do distantly related of course still oh it’s all too much C what should I do now
Well you’ll have to call of course you must speak to Mrs wam tell her you mean to marry her daughter oh I dare say Ellen’s told her by now oh she’s guessed she ain’t stupid that’s not the point the point is you must tell her ask her
Permission oh I see then there’s the ring what must I do back there oh yes uh of course you must buy a tasteful engagement ring go to the shop and ask them they’ll show you some rings and they W do I take it to her
No send it much better and this call on Mrs W how one ought to be dressed rather a ceremonial occasion I think what like a frock coat I think so light trousers and all that how about a rose I think you might run to a button hole and of
Course when you see her you’ll have to ask her to name the day oh there’s no worry oh but there’s no reason to delay a year say a year is rather a long time is it I have to think it over I say could yes what’s a
Tatar ah you mean a t that’s a conversation alone together well he Sydney put you borrow me that strictly we oughtn’t enjoy a tat not together walk together ride together or meet during any part of the day well that doesn’t leave us much time to talk
Does it the book says that I read it before you came but I thought he was a bit rum well let me see you won’t find missingham as strict as all that they’d only do that in Old aristocratic families the washams are fairly modern advanced you might say I
Expect you’ll get plenty of chance to talk there’s a tremendous lot to think about I suppose I better go and tell my uncle and Aunt about it all but Kip soon became caught up in other preoccupations and the idea of telling his aunt and uncle receded into the background he had
To call on Mrs Walsingham he had listened to his friend coot and for the occasion his trousers were a dark gray he wore a deep skirted frog coat patent leather boots and he carried a silk hat he had generous white cuffs with gold links and his gray gloves one
Some of which had burst when he put them on were held Loosely in his hand his small umbrella was rolled to an Exquisite tightness the world smelt of his rose bud I am delighted Mr Kips this is a a great thing to a mother a daughter is so
Much more than a son marriage is a lottery and without love and Toleration well and my son is delighted that he’s handling your Affairs oh that wasn’t anything they’re both so clever I call them my twin Jewels oh that’ll be Helen I’m sure you’ll want to talk to one
Another alone you young people mustn’t be shy of one another hello mother oh why Arthur hello Helen I’ll leave you have you been speaking to mother oh yes we didn’t sit in silence I do you mean about us oh that yes oh Arthur oh I don’t know Helen what is it Arthur
Everything’s changed I feel like someone else look I don’t know things I’m not refined the more you see me the more you’ll find me out but I’m going to help you you’ll have to help me a fearful lot then I’ll help you a fearful lot other
If you don’t mind if you will let me tell you things I wish you would I will for instance sometimes you’re a little careless with your pronunciation oh I know you mean hates I know about them I know chaper nectar he’s told me all about hates and that of course on the
Stage they got to look out they take regular lessons don’t requires a little care I dare say I shall soon get into it and then this dress you don’t mind oh no well you you mustn’t be too dressy it’s possible to be over conventional over elaborate it makes you look like a
Shoers well like a common well of person there’s a sort of easiness that is better a real gentleman looks right without looking as though he’ tried to be right well just as though he put on what come first not exactly that but a sort of ease I
See and you must accustom yourself to be more your ease when you’re with people you mean not pled or fringes on this cushion that sort of thing yes I’ll try I’ll really do my best I know you will one has to learn exactly Arthur one has to learn KBS walked home sober and
Thoughtful Mr Gibbs what oh it’s you Mr wels giips you forgot something you forgot to get Helen to name the day oh I’ve got to leave something to talk about next time have so you have and there’s something else what else when are you going to tell your aunt and uncle about your
Engagement they’ll have to know it’s only fair don’t stop nagging at me I’ve got a lot of my mind you must all right all right I’ll go tomorrow satisfied now just leave me alone for a bit the following day Kips dressed with a certain quiet severity and meditated
Over his Kipper and bacon then after an early cold lunch he proceeded to hire a Motorcar and a driver he purchased a cap and coat and thus equipped he entered the Motorcar to drive to New Romney to visit his aunt and uncle here we are my man this toy shop just
Here right sir I’ll say make the thing out a bit will you that’s it go on that’s it rabbit who the Dickens is making that only R outside my shop yeah is that you ay it is hello Uncle thank you driver you take yourself off and out and then come back and get
Me thank you sir rabbit party what is it thing like that cost I ain’t bought it uncle just hiding you want to be careful they ain’t no further than experiments them cars you could get took in by them they won’t last you know come on come in the
Shop hey Molly look who’s turned up why oh what a surprise here come and sit down I just f a cup of tea you’re how’ you like that whiskey I sent you well me boy I Haven the slightest out it’s very good whiskey and cost you a tidy price
But Dash if it suits me it catches me just here in the chest heartburn it’s what all the actor manager chaps drink in London I to know that for a fact I dare say those actor chaps might but then they’ve already had their livers burnt out my stomach’s always been a bit
Delicate but but I’ll tell you I like them cigars you can send me more of them if you like easy done yeah yeah there you are can’t thank you Molly here have you two ever thought of moving moving moving from here I could provide for you you know and then you could
Retired from business I could buy you a little cottage somewhere with flowers all around the door oh oh yeah well we don’t want to move in an AR as of when we move we want to be sure about it we’ve been here for so long we could be
Here for a bit longer you let me look about a bit first yeah but if we have a large house we we should want a servant and I don’t want no girls in the place laugh in and Snicker in and going all ly D well you need have a large house yeah
But if we have a smaller house we won’t be able to swing a cat oh you ain’t got no care and then there’s the stock I I don’t want to sell it all off for nothing took years to accumulate I mean it might might take years and years to
Sell there some people come in and look around and go away without buying anything all what you think about it no anyway tell us what you’ve been doing with yourself these days we must come over and visit you one of these days hey Molly of course well I got something
Well you you see the way I look at it ay is when you know a place you know a place and I know this place you know what I mean what’s that well that’s church bells s ringing out someone’s wedding being Saturday you haven’t forgotten the church BS no no of course
Not look I’m off for a bit of a stroll just to look at the old places Does this remind you of being young oh yes Mr wels clim B the church chat to to whom Gibs oh nothing nobody you’re not thinking of young Anne pornic by any chance no I ain’t she belongs in the past here’s someone else from the past oh s
Aie art K well I never I see poric I ain’t seen you since I was 14 oh are you me old mate I was just this very moment wonder if I ever see you again oh I turn up oh chat all right actually I’ll you haven’t changed much AR I I knew you
Directly I saw you even all that funny and coat yeah you got me St I have you having your holid well partly but actually I’m taking a bit of holiday the fact is I have to give myself holiday these days I’ve set up by myself you
Know what D here oh no here I’m not a turnip I’ve started up in amers Smith manufacturing Dy no engineer or manufacture bicycles bicycles well I’m learning to ride a bicycle oh well I’ve got just a thing for you here have a hand buil oh that’s my mate there it’s
Called the Red Flag I got a transer with me name on it best machine at Democratic price in London no gu no discounts on his trade I’ll build them to order really I made seven so far I’ll come down here to visit my again you married
Kips well no not yet I am married these two years got a Nipper proper little chapp he is course actually I got engaged day before yesterday W who’s the fortunate lady solicitors da in folon rather a nice set related to the ear of Bo prey see I’ve had a bit of luxid
Being less of money have you how much £1,200 a year 12 well never my grandfather it was only knew I had a grandfather 1200 a year approximately that’s a blooming Stroke of Luck I’m glad for you better you to me though I don’t envy you I couldn’t
Keep it if I did have it why not I’m a socialist you see I don’t know wealth what is wealth labor robbed out of the poor I don’t get it but when you look at it rationally the present distribution of wealth is damn foolishness yeah you
Have a job you Kips and you get paid hardly anything then suddenly you get 1,200 a year yeah it’s not your fault old chap it’s a system still better you than most people eh yeah you’ll be a swell Kips oh sh you can’t have money like that and not swell
Out you’ll soon be too big to speak to a mere mechanic like I ain’t that sort s you know me money will be too much for you besides you’re caught by a swell already the girl you’re going to mared oh you don’t know her she’s not like that at
All keep so CH see you being rich yeah do you remember This the original hero War C and remember that old wreck on the beach that we used to playing enough you see how’s your sister in oh she’s all right I expect where is she in the place Ashford actually the fact is we ain’t been getting on too well I don’t
Know with service we’re common people I suppose I just don’t like it I don’t see why a sister of mine should wait at other people’s tables no I raced her once she didn’t run B for a girl I wonder what you’ll do with all that money well what would you do no
It’s no good giving it to the state I might start an overnight profit sharing Factory perhaps or a or a socialist paper we need a new socialist paper oh dear I’ll best be getting back I had a motor com for the afternoon he’ll be waiting for me how much it cost you
£55 keep five families for a week well come out of a look at it at any rate oh well don’t mind if I do just before I catch the train back how fast can it go oh looks good enough here’s your coat ay and your goles hi real fur is he of
Course he gets very nippy sitting with a wind whistling past you you don’t need all this gear on a bicycle but you got to work on a bicycle keeps your mind occupied that does oh my say the motor is not bad I would mind having a look at
This motor in my workshop upon my word Ary I have a good mind to come with you do you want to come for a ride then no no it’s too late some other time all right then well I’ll be off goodbye thene see you say now then said pic if you could get
To own something like that little machine then you’d have something to talk about I’ll do a lot better than that before I’m done Mr Kips not you how many bicycles is it you made 17 oh that’s very good don’t make near as much noise as one of them things you got a
Long way to go said pornic oh well I’ll best be off to see me mother say goodbye give him your best head right goodbye I told you Molly didn’t I them pornic would never amount to much show a bit of Charity eh only if you got some tea left come on yeah get
Away as he was being driven back to folston Kips remembered a sudden glimpse of Anne pornic as she had been when he told her how lovers gave each other tokens and the memory was so strong so bright that it seemed to breathe before him I’ve got this idea I read in the
Magazine tip baates actually that lavs give each other tokens what a token well you take something and divide it in two like you might take six and break it into two why should you do that it’s no good if it’s broke you divide it in two
And then you keep one bit each that’s what a token is what why on Earth didn’t you tell your uncle and Aunt tell him what Mr W not your engagement of course oh I don’t know I just Som I didn’t have you had your first inkling of certain incompatibilities lying about the course
Of true love you are well let’s put it this way being engaged to Helen is sane and excellent in Folkston but might be regarded with suspicion in new Romney I don’t know getting cold feet oh no but I’m really proud that someone like Helen likes me cuz she does she kissed me
Three times on the forehead the other day I didn’t kiss her mind but then I didn’t kiss him porny neither Helen took Kips in hand in perfectly good faith she told him about his accent his costume his bearing his way of looking at things she found his simple willingness to listen a lovable
Thing there was it must be confessed a touch of motherliness in her feelings towards him Kip’s education continued without pause at home out walking and in caf and restaurants no really artha I don’t think you should sing to the banjo but I like it Anyway buggins said who is
Buggins CH I used to work with in a shop what ho Kips hello chillo thought it was you old chap where the devil have you been hiding yourself uh chlo this is Ellen and Miss waringham how do you do Mr chlo my dear At Your Service here keeps your ear for just a
Moment about that play what play my play what I wrote you recall well it’s all right there’s a strong smell of Syndicate in the air oh good good you needn’t tell anybody but I think it’s coming off mustach right are goodbye my dear Goodbye Mr Arthur who was that that was chlo
Sort of a friend of mine running to me once on his bicycle and we got talking he’s a nature chip this ways he writes plays what was all that about a Syndicate search me he sells shares in his plays perhaps sex it have you seen any of his plays well no he hasn’t
Actually on the stage yet that’s all coming I bought a court Shar his play for £ 100 it’s a go M say Arthur you must promise me something promise you won’t do anything without consulting me like buying shares in place and that sort of thing well in a sort of way he
Did help me to my money he pointed out the advertisement in the newspaper telling me there was something toor vage one can’t know everybody you know which reminds me I think we should do a little work on the elusive aspirate the what your hes oh I’ve got a lot of difficulty
Then you know like with eie I should say ha is he shouldn’t I but what’s the difference well has is a verb and as is a conjunctive I know that but when he’s has a conjunction and when he is a verb well it’s has when one means one has
Meaning having but if it isn’t to do with having then it has as for example one says he has oh I mean he has has but then one says as he has oh I see so I ought to say is he no if you’re asking a
Question you’ll say has he I mean has he oh Lord right now I got it clear as he has he as yes that’s it well it does help if you remember about having I will I Will miss coot sister of his good friend Chester special ized in Kip’s artistic education Mr Kips do look through this book of the hund best paintings in the world oh say that one’s rather nice that little thing there that color picture that’s a print a color print
Oh he was impressed by Mrs Walsingham Gibs was not a big man but with Mrs Walsingham he always felt as though he had been rolled in clay that his voice was strident she did not so much teach him as tactfully guide and infect him do
You know Mr Kips I was in the Omnibus the other day and a man passed my change to the conductor he was quite a common little man but I will say something for him he lifted his Hat Helen’s brother’s share in the educational Syndicate was just as important you order Hawk for lunch and sparkly Melle for dinner and make sure you get these cigarettes with gold tips don’t pay more than a penny a minute for a handsome cab don’t talk like a Fool on
The train sit quiet and thoughtful oh it will be jolly when you come up to London aarty when we move to London we shall spell your name cui PS we shall be Mr and Mrs keeps oh oh you’ll soon get used to [Applause] it so in their several ways they all contributed to enlarge and refine and exercise the intelligence of Kips and presiding over all these influences was Kip’s nearest friend Chester cot a sort of Master of Ceremonies one day walking in the park he launched into fome praise you’re improving daily Kips my dear
Fellow thank you cute old chip you’re pretty well completely a gentleman now you know we took you up just in time you’ll soon get S I hope so next year perhaps if there’s a good extension literature course you should go in for that savwa fair is more than half the
Secret of s you see there are big people and the modest refined gentlemanly people like me who may dabble in the professions there are Lords and there are gentle folk who have to manage but they can all call on one another they constitute Society of course down here
In folston one doesn’t see much of it but there is still local society and that has the same rules my liver KS I say bu so it is hello there who on Earth are there buggins and Co from the clo P where I used to work before coming to me
Money that man is smoking a Brier pipe I’ll leave them to you evening CH hello short Bu you’re a proper gentleman in them clothes enjoying it are you it’s all right how about you oh holidays next week if you don’t look out I’ll be on
The Cotton On before you eh you got have belog FR come along Kips old chap I say Kips if you seen anything of her lhip lately she was along as Sir William in the shop and she asked me remembered to you sir William suffers a lot from his gout don’t you know come
Along Kips we ought to be moving on oh sorry sir didn’t see you there got an appointment in a manner of speaking oh we should come along with you some company car we’re late Kips oh well we won’t keep you will we bagin oh I’m so sorry did I flick some
Ash on your sleeve how clumsy of me I don’t think we’re at all in need of your Society thank you very much come along Kips I think that was the most awful cheap I expect it was charitable as one is one must admit that there are people who do things impossible things these
People must be cut the cut in society is no joke it excommunication it it is so tragic that entire novels have been written about it you will have to cultivate a certain distance it’s difficult I admit but you will have to lose certain old friends the true gentleman you see Kips
Is patriotic he lifts his hat to the national anthem he does not talk of passion Finance politics birth and death I see profundities get me one does not talk but on the other hand one is punctilious to do remember this Kips I will I will the whole event in the park
Was an interesting little object lesson and it it stuck in the front of Kip’s mind for a long time he was so preoccupied that when later that day he went to hear Helen playing bov sonatas he forgot to say how perfectly lovely the music was he felt as though he had
Struck kot and buggins in the face in circumstances that gave them no power to reply he felt Disturbed uneasy he loved Helen he had entered Society but he could not quite forget Anne pornic Sid pornic kot and buggins all his oldest friends perhaps one day he Would Paul danman played HG Wells Mark ster Kips Katherine Halbert Helen and John Hollis uncle in the third episode of Kips by HG Wells which has been dramatized in five episodes by Micheline Wonder Kip’s Aunt Jane winham Miss coot Helena bre Chester coot Christopher good Mrs Walsingham Penelope Lee Henry
Spencer Banks Sid Michael Jenner and MOA Leslie carot Christopher Biggins buggins John Webb and Chito Nicholas Grace the music was composed by Alona seat Kips was directed by Martin Jenkins A