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Bad business. How are you managing?

4 seconds sound clip from the The Remains of the Day movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:11:43 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- But what I do find a major irritation are those persons who simply going from post to post looking for romance.

- Housekeepers are particularly guilty here. No offence intended, of course.

- None taken.

- I know for my own experience how a house is at sixes and sevens once the staff start marrying each other.

- Yes, indeed.

- Might I have a word wit you, sir?

- Of course.

- My lord, it's regarding the under-butler, and the housekeeper who ran off together last month.

- Bad business. How are you managing?

- I believe I've found two first-rate replacements, sir.

- Miss Kenton, a young woman with excellent references. Very pleasing demeanour. Appears to be very able.

- And a man with considerable experience of butlering, sir. Now at certain age and happy to take on the post of under-butler.

- Name?

- Stevens, sir.

- Stevens?

- Yes, sir.

- That's your name.

- This is my father, sir.

- Really? We couldn't do better, I'm sure. I'd like to see him sometime.

[...]

The Remains of the Day Sound Clip

The Remains of the Day poster

A selection of the most important quotes from The Remains of the Day (1993 film), featuring short sound bites.

Actors: Anthony Hopkins (Mr Stevens), Emma Thompson (Miss Kenton), Christopher Reeve (Congressman Jack Lewis), Hugh Grant (Reginald Cardinal), James Fox (Lord Darlington), Michael Lonsdale (Dupont d'Ivry)

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