A Room with a View (1985)

/ I have NO (falling) profession /

/My ATTITUDE (fall rise) /

I have no profession.
/ quite an indefensible ONE (low fall)/
My attitude, quite an
indefensible one, is that so / is that so long as I’m no TROUBLE (falling) for
long as I’m no trouble for anyone /
C anyone I have the right to
do as I like. / I have the right to do as I LIKE (high fall) /
It is, I dare say, an example
/It is /
of my decadence.
/ I ‘dare (level) SAY /

/ an EXAMPLE (low fall) of my decadence /

/ It’s so DISGUSTING (fall rise) /

C It’s so disgusting the way
an engagement is regarded /the ‘way an ENGAGEMENT (fall rise)/
as public property.
All these old women / is ‘regarded as ‘public / PROPERTY (rise fall)/
smirking.
/ All these ‘old ‘women SMIRKING (falling)/

/ ‘One has to GO THROUGH (high fall) it /

One has to go through it, I
L
suppose. / I SUPPOSE (fall rise) /
They won’t notice us so
very much next time. / They won’t ‘notice us so ‘very ‘much ‘next TIME
(low rise) /
 / But my POINT (high fall) is /

/ their whole ‘attitude is WRONG (high fall)/

But my point is, their whole
attitude is wrong.
/ An ENGAGEMENT (rise fall)/
C An engagement, horrid
word in the first place, is a
private matter and should / ‘horrid ‘word in the FIRST (high fall) place /
be regarded as such.
/ is a PRIVATE (rise fall) matter /

/ and should be REGARDED (high fall) as such /

L Oh! Oh! (high fall)

C There’s your / There’s your ‘philoso,phizing PARSON (low rise) /

philosophizing parson.

L Don’t you like Mr. Beebe / Don’t you ‘like Mr. Beebe EITHER? (high fall) /
either?

I never said so. / I ‘never SAID (high fall) so /

C I consider him far above the
average. / I ‘consider him ‘far above the AVERAGE (falling)/