Parade

"Sylvia asks me to take her back. She’s joined her mother in Germany.”

“Will you take her back?”

“I imagine so. There’s the child to consider. Marchant says he’s beginning to talk like a farmer’s boy already. Well, I shan’t have a house again. There’s a certain discredit attaches to itself to a cuckold, quite properly. Anything beyond a flat looks like impudence in a man who can’t keep his wife.”

“I wish you’d divorce her. Drag her through the mud.”

“For a gentleman there’s such a thing as...... call it parade.”

“And if you met someone you wanted to marry?”

“It would change nothing. I stand for monogamy.”

“You..”

“Aye! Monogamy and chastity. And for not talking about it.”

 


This scene in Parade’s End Episode 1 is heartbreaking to watch. Christopher Tietjens (Benedict Cumberbatch) looks so pained. :(