Jeremy Irons, as Lena's smoking-jacketed rotter-aristocrat uncle, and Emma Thompson, as her floridly angry mother, are like blithe spirits out of a Dark Shadows sequel you want to see.
He's a believer in monogamy, he flatly asserts, and he holds the view, as well, that any man who divorces his wife is a rotter a great many pronouncements for a man otherwise of few words.