HYACINTH: If I'm ever to show my face in society again
I've got to find a new cause of my own and quickly. Come, come, any ideas?
ENTOURAGE: Daisy Greville has the old. Lady Sitwell has the blind
HYACINTH: And the fund for sailor's widows?
ENTOURAGE: That's the two of them combined
HYACINTH: Nightschool for the nervous?
ENTOURAGE: Lady Beach and Margaret Guest
HYACINTH: Crutches for the crippled?
ENTOURAGE: That was Elsie Ponds' bequest
HYACINTH: Wayward women
ENTOURAGE: Daisy Greville
HYACINTH: Who's behind disfigured men?
ENTOURAGE: Daisy Greville
HYACINTH: And the deaf… don't tell me it's Greville yet again
Everyone's got something can't you see why I'm bereft
I want to do some good but what the devil's left?
ENTOURAGE: What the devil's left?
MONTY NAVARRO: If I may your Ladyship, one hears about such terrible poverty in Egypt
These days…
HYACINTH: Egypt. Land of the pharaohs and of Moses the Israelite
Home to the great pyramids and the sphinx
That's it! We'll populate an orphanage in Cairo, with foundlings from the reeds along
The Nile
To watch a creature grow, to swaddle it and know the joy of its pathetic little smile
ENTOURAGE: It's little smile
HYACINTH: The news will travel soon enough to London
ENTOURAGE: To London
HYACINTH: Our selflessness will meet with great acclaim
ENTOURAGE: Huzzah
HYACINTH: The sniping will be stilled, and the empire will be filled, with homes
For bastard children in my name
All aboard the Luxor express to Cairo
MONTY: And off she went, what I failed to tell her was that a violent uprising against
The empire was imminent
And no british citizen was considered safe, so you can imagine my surprise when
Lady Hyacinth returned to London quite unharmed
HYACINTH: Oh where will my largesse be truly appreciated
I need a place so low that hope itself has been abandoned
MONTY: You've heard of course of the untouchables in India
HYACINTH: India. Land of Hindus and Muslims, of tamarind and saffron. Exotic and
Unknowable
That's it! We'll find ourselves some lepers in the Punjab
The hopeless and the wretched and the cursed. Forgotten and Unblessed
ENTOURAGE: Unblessed
HYACINTH: I'll take them to my breast
ENTOURAGE: Your Breast
HYACINTH: If Daisy Greville doesn't get there first. When we arrive, they'll hobble
Out to greet us
ENTOURAGE: Hello there
HYACINTH: Their toothless grins would melt a heart of stone
ENTOURAGE: Awww
HYACINTH: And every dilettante, will envy me and want a colony of lepers of her own
Now not a word to even your mothers til we leave although
Come to think of it what is the point of helping others unless you let the whole
World know
Call the Times of London
MONTY: And off she went
I neglected to mention the malaria pandemic in the Punjab
A bit of insurance in case leprosy itself failed to prove contagious
So you can imagine my shock when Lady Hyacinth returned to London in record time
Quite the picture of health
I don't suppose you'd be willing to p**e the jungle of deepest darkest Africa…
HYACINTH: Africa. From Zululand to Yoruba, home of proud warriors that naked torsos
Rippling in the firelight
We'll civilize a village in the jungle
ENTOURAGE: The Jungle
HYACINTH: It can't take long to learn their mother tongue
ENTOURAGE: Not long then
HYACINTH: The words they have are six and five of them are clicks
ENTOURAGE: Click
HYACINTH: And all of them are different words for dong
And can't you see their frightful painted faces
ENTOURAGE: Their faces
HYACINTH: They'll teach us how to swing from vine to vine
ENTOURAGE: From vine to vine to vine
HYACINTH: It's Daisy Greville's loss, she'll never come across, a tribe of backward
Natives worse than mine
Their may appall us.But even they are part of God's design
ENTOURAGE: Awww
HYACINTH: We bid you all goodbye
ENTOURAGE: Goodbye
HYACINTH: Let all of London try, to find a tribe of natives worse than mine. Charity
Towards others is divine
ENTOURAGE: Divine, Divine, Divine, Divine, Charity is Divine