REMAINS OF THE DAY CHAPTER 2

  • woke up on hour before dialogue]

  • electric light to shave at the sink in the corner

  • round-backed bridge crossed a stream

    • mist pbsuricng on of the bridge posts

  • hammering noise from afar

  • cocuhing in room next door

  • no sound

  • breakfast is served aat 7:30

  • Miss Kenton=Mrs.Benn(20 years)

  • Miss kenton is divorced

  • Miss Kentons house =Helston

  • now lives in little village little compton

  • Stevens feels like the is waste in miss kenton’s life if she doesn;t decide to work at darlington hall again

  • Miss kento briongs up Alice White

    • brings up vow2el sound and noices ungramtical sentences

  • miss kenton talks about view of second floor bedroom summer evenings

  • both watched father walking uo and dwon summer house path looking for a jewel

  • father=underbutler

  • miss kenton=housekeeper

  • joined at same time

  • stevens doesn’t like people who get married an leave prfession

    •     calls them liaisons

  • father worked at loughborough house, left after john silvers death

  • father has arthritis

  • father’s first name is “William”

  • kenton thinks stevens left dust pan on stairway

  • kenton talks about china in front of doorway

    • supposed to be on the upstairs landing

  • steven was in the billiard room

  • father at one point falls

  • darlington is very shy

    • pulls a book from library(volume of brtanica or encyclopedias) and pretend to read as stevens comes on stairs

  • stevens father carried

  1. teapot

  2. cups

  3. saucers

  4. sandwiches

  5. cakes

  • DR meredith was the doctor that helped steven’s dad

  • Stevens calls father’s room a prison cell

  • oil lamp beside bed

  • Father awake for 3 hours before conversation

  • waited at the table for 54 years

  • maybe worked for 54 years

  • 72 years old

  • stevens driving at 15 mph

  • stoped half foot to foot before hen

  • chicken name ios nellie

  • tortoise killed 3 years ago same spot

  • conference=march 1923

People Darling ton talked to abiut war

  1. Herr Karl-Hienz Bremman (Darlington German frient)

  2. Sir Richard Fox-from frogien office(Darlington work)

  3. Professor Maynard Keynes

  1. Lord Daniels

  2. Mr. H. G. Wells

  3. Sir David Cardinal(CLOSEST ALLY)

  • Invited people from Britain, Germany, Belgium, France, Switzerland

    • diplomats, politicians, retired military, nobel figures with beliefs of no fair play at versailles

  • Prime Minister=David Lloyd George

    Darlington doesnt like frenchmen

  • Baron Overath=old freind of Darlington father

  • 3 trips to Paris=2m months

  • Invited frenchmen= M. Dupont

  • 18 men 2 women invited to conference

    • german countess

    • Eleanor Austin

  • 3 days for conference

  • arrival dates uncertain

  • WHO’S WHO book opened by darlington second time

  • Sir David Cardinal son = Yound Reginald(secretary)

  • 23 years old

  • David teaches Reginald about facts of life fdor the last 5 years.

  • darlington=reginald’s godfather

  • Mr. Lewis= American Senator

    • arrived 2 days earlier

    • bad for darlington and “home team”

    • Mr Lewis acts like good guy

  • Dupont: grey beard, monocle

  • raint morning, last week of March conference begins

  • kitchen=pandemonium

  • cook=MRs. Mortime