The years stretch before me and if only I knew how to fill them. But I would like to be useful again.

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

You can hear this line at 00:05:09 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

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- My own news is not very cheerful.

- In the 7 years since I last wrote to you, I have again left my husband, and sad to say, my marriage seems to be finally over.

- I'm staying with a friend in her boarding house in Clevedon.

- I don't know what my future is.

- Ever since Catherine, my daughter, got married last year, my life has been empty.

- The years stretch before me and if only I knew how to fill them. But I would like to be useful again.

- Burned again?

- Yes, I'm sorry, sir. The rule in the kitchen has has always been that cook cooks the cooked breakfast while her assistant toasts the toast.

- Why don't we just get her a pop-up toaster?

- We need not a new gadget but a revised staff plan, sir.

- A staff plan? I didn't know we had one.

- Yes, sir. A faulty one, unfortunately.

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