Brideshead Revisited1981

[at Brideshead Hall during the army's occupation of it in World War II]

Lieutenant Hooper:
Did you say you knew this place before?

Charles Ryder:
Yes. Very well. It belongs to friends of mine.

Lieutenant Hooper:
It doesn't make any sense. One family in a place this size - what's the use of it?

Charles Ryder:
I suppose Brigade find it useful.

Lieutenant Hooper:
That's not what it's built for, though, is it?

Charles Ryder:
No, it's *not* what it was built for. Maybe that's one of the pleasures of building. Like having a son. Wondering how he'll grow up. I don't know. I've never built anything. And I've forfeited the right to watch my son grow up. I'm homeless, childless, middle-aged and loveless.