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

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

You can hear this line at 00:15:39 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

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- 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.

- If you would stop to think for a moment, you'd realize that how inappropriate it is for one such as yourself to address as William someone such as my father.

- Well, I'm sure it must have been very galling for your father to be called William by one such as myself.

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