Setting: Brideshead
Julia: it's sweet of you to come. Mummy has been asking for you, but I don't know if she'll be able to see you now after all.
Charles: Is she very ill?
Julia: Yes. She's dying. She may live a week or two, or she may go at any minute. She's asleep now, but I can tell you what she wanted to say... she was beastly to you, last time you met. She knows now that she was wrong about you... she wanted to apologize.
Charles: There's no need.
Julia: I was so sorry when you had to go. You'd become such a part of us... But there's another thing. Sebastian – she wants him. I don't know if that's possible, is it?
Charles: I hear he's in a very bad way... I met Blanche in London. After he'd given Rex the slip, Sebastian stayed with him in Marseille, I gather – he was out of funds, stealing from his host, pawning what he took, and drinking the proceeds! A sot is how Blanche described him. Last heard of living in Fez with a Germain out of Foreign Legion...
Julia: Oh, Charles! (she touches his arm) It seems as if everything is changing, and nothing can stop it. Will you try and get him? I think Sebastian would want it, too, if he realized.