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The great barrister Sir Wilfrid returns from the hospital to a hero's welcome and instantly wants none of it. He bickers with his nurse, snaps at his staff, and threatens to check himself back in. "Any more sentimentality around here, I shall go back to the hospital!" Under the grouchiness is a man quietly pleased to be home.
Sir Wilfrid Bickers With His Nurse
Sir Wilfrid Misses His Chambers
After a long hospital stay, Sir Wilfrid is driven home by his nurse, Miss Plimsoll, and greeted by his clerks and Carter, his chief clerk. He grumbles about the fuss, brushes off any sentiment, and inspects his chambers, where he finds that everything has been packed away.
Sir Wilfrid's homecoming introduces the film's hero before the drama: a brilliant, impossible old man who cannot bear to be fussed over. The nurse's small tyrannies and his refusal of the welcome party are a running joke, but they also show the energy he has been missing. His chambers have been packed away while he was ill, and he bristles at being treated as finished — he snaps, "Any more sentimentality around here, I shall go back to the hospital!" Then, quieter, he admits, "But I never knew I could miss anything so much." Carter's boast that solicitors are breaking down their doors is both flattery and a careful limit: the great criminal lawyer is offered only civil cases. He is already itching to work again, and the film lets us feel how much the coming trial will mean to him.
A1–C2 es la escala MCER. Las tarjetas por encima del nivel elegido se atenúan y la reproducción no se pausa en ellas.
“I'm not a religious man, but when they carted you off, I went out and lit a candle.”
It disarms the listener by admitting doubt first, then offers plain tender action.
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“If I'd known how much you talked I'd never have come out of my coma.”
A life-and-death word becomes a punchline, showing affection through mock horror.
Informal
“But I never knew I could miss anything so much.”
It flips early grumbling into plain feeling and reveals how much the place means.
Neutral
“Any more sentimentality around here, I shall go back to the hospital!”
A mock-serious threat turns an emotional moment into a joke without hurting anyone.
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Witness for the Prosecution: tu progreso
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Siguiente · 02when her back is turnedLa escena: Sir Wilfrid Hides Cigars in His CaneHe hates emotional fuss and being treated as fragile after his heart attack. The rudeness is his way of insisting that he is back to his old self and ready to work.
Sir Wilfrid's chief clerk, who has kept the chambers running and guarded his wig while he was ill. He greets him warmly and brings him cases to consider.
He says the doctors have forbidden it and offers divorce, tax and insurance work instead. Sir Wilfrid insists those are not worthwhile, which sets up the murder case to come.
While Sir Wilfrid was hospitalized, no one expected him to practise again, so everything was stored. Finding it that way is what stings him and pushes him to demand real work.
