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May I ask who you were addressing by that name?

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

You can hear this line at 00:15:11 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- Thank you, but I... regard this... room as my private place of work, and I... I prefer to keep distractions to a minimum.

- Would you call flowers a distraction then?

- I appreciate your kindness, but I prefer to keep things as they are.

- But since you are here, there is a matter I wanted to mention to you. Just a small matter.

- I happened to be walking past the kitchen yesterday morning, and I heard you calling to someone named William.

- May I ask who you were addressing by that name?

- Why, I should think I was addressing your father. There are no other Williams in this house, I take it.

- True.

- May I ask you in future to address my father as Mr. Stevens? If you are speaking of him to a third party, you may wish to call him Mr. Stevens Sr. to distinguish him from myself. So I would be most grateful to you.

- I don't quite understand what you're getting at, Mr. Stevens.

- I am the housekeeper in this house, and your father is the under-butler.

- In other houses, I was accustomed to address under-servants by their Christian names.

[...]

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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