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My dearest Cynthia, as I watch
the coast of England slip away,
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I realise how much of my heart
I have left behind in your dear care.
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Your loving acceptance
makes me the most fortunate of men.
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I will carry the memory of that kiss with me
to lighten the depths of Africa.
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What a thing to do, write a letter
before he was fairly embarked.
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Of course, he has nothing
to say except the usual silliness.
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Cynthia, you do love Roger, don't you?
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Don't you think I've given proof of it?
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Oh, well, if you do look at me like that.
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I don't think I have
the gift for loving as some people do.
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I've never felt carried off my feet
by love for anyone, not even you,
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- and you know I love you...
- Don't! I should never have asked you!
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One might think you cared for him yourself.
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I do care for him.
I... I love him as a sister.
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I think he is a prince amongst men.
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Really?
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Even you must acknowledge
that he's plain and awkward,
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and you know I like
pretty things and pretty people.
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Cynthia, I won't talk to you about him.
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He shan't be run down by you, even in jest.
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Oh, well, we shan't talk about him, then.
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Perhaps we shan't ever be married after all.
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I mean, two years is a long time.
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He might change his mind or I might,
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or someone else might come along
and say I'm engaged to him.
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What should you say to that?
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Leave it, Agnes.
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Come, my dear.
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Be comfortable for once,
take your tea sitting down.
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Oh, my dear one.
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Now, I have a great piece of news to tell you.
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Oh, I thought
there was something on hand. Now for it.
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Well, Roger Hamley called
to see us on the day he left,
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proposed to Cynthia and was accepted.
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- Roger Hamley proposed to Cynthia?
- Why should he not?
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Well, only that not two weeks ago
I gave my assurances to the Squire
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that there was nothing of that sort
between his sons and either of the girls.
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Well, what's done is done.
It'll have to be a long engagement.
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Yes, I think perhaps it will...
But then again, perhaps it won't.
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A little bird did tell me
that Osborne Hamley's life is not so very secure,
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then what will Roger be?
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Heir to the estate.
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Oh, why...?
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Robert, whatever's the matter?
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Who told you that about Osborne?
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Who told you, I say?!
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Why? Can you deny it? Is it not the truth?
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I ask again! Who told you that Osborne's
life was in any more danger than yours or mine?
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Don't speak in that frightening way.
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I... I mean my life's
not in danger... I'm sure.
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Oh, Robert... Little bits
of glass can be so dangerous.
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Never mind the glass! Who told you
anything about Osborne's state of health?
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If you will know it was you -
you yourself or Dr Nicholls.
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I never spoke to you on the subject,
and I don't believe Nicholls did.
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You'd better tell me at once
what you're alluding to.
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I wish I'd never got married again.
I never thought you could be so cruel.
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And you shouldn't speak your medical secrets
so loud if you don't want anyone to hear them.
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I only went into the storeroom
for a jar of preserves.
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It was certainly for no pleasure of mine.
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And you overheard our conversation?
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- Just a sentence or two.
- What where they?
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Dr Nicholls said, "If he's got aneurysm
of the aorta, then his days are numbered".
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And you replied, "I hope I'm mistaken,
but it seems he has very clear symptoms".
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I see. And may I ask how you remember
so exactly the name of the disease?
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Because I - don't get angry, please,
I see no harm in what I did -
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I went into your surgery and looked it up.
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I mean, why should I not...?
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Well, I suppose, as one brews one must bake.
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I don't know what you mean.
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So this is why
you've changed your conduct towards Roger.
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Yes, I noticed you've been
more civil to him of late.
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Well, if you mean I like him
more than Osborne, you're very much mistaken.
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It's just that as Roger was the younger son,
I thought it best to discourage him.
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But now you consider him the proximate heir
to the estate, you've made him more welcome.
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Well, I don't know
what you mean by "proximate".
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Go into the surgery and look it up!
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You overheard a professional conversation.
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Now, don't you know
that professional conversations are confidential?
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That it would be the worst thing I could do
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to betray secrets that I learn in the
exercise of my profession and trade on them.
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Yes, of course - you.
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Are husband and wife
not one in these respects?
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I just thought that you would be glad
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to see Cynthia well married and off your hands.
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I don't know what to say to you.
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You either can't or won't see what I mean.
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But had you bothered
to consult me, I could have told you
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that Dr Nicholls' opinion
was decidedly opposed to mine.
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He thinks that Osborne is
as likely as any other man to live,
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to marry and to beget children.
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- Oh.
- Hmm.
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Yes, well, let us review
this misfortune, since I see
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that you now consider it as such.
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Well, not exactly a misfortune,
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but... had I known Dr Nicholls' opinion...
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Well, comfort yourself, my dear.
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Roger Hamley is as fine a young man
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as ever breathed... with money or without.
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I only wish Molly
could meet with such another.
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I will try for Molly. I will indeed.
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No, no, no, no. That is one thing I forbid.
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I will have no trying for Molly.
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Don't be angry, dear.
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For a minute there, I thought
you were going to lose your temper.
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It would have been of no use.
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Breakfast is ready, sir.
No breakfast, thank you, Maria.
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And I won't be back for dinner.
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Miss Gibson. Looking very well
indeed, if I may say so.
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I was just urging upon Miss Kirkpatrick
the merits of a long walk in the countryside.
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Come, Molly. We shall be late.
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Cynthia, I understand I am to congratulate you
on your engagement to Roger Hamley.
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You've won the heart of a very fine young man.
I hope you'll both be very happy.
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Thank you.
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We had all pledged to keep it secret.
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Mama included.
But I'm glad that you should know it.
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You've always been a very kind friend to me.
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It truly is hardly an engagement, though.
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He wouldn't allow me
to bind myself by any promise till his return.
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I hope you're worthy of him, Cynthia.
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I've never known a truer or warmer heart, and
I've known Roger since he was a little boy.
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You're not very complimentary,
are you, Mr Gibson?
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Still, he finds me worthy, I suppose.
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If you think so highly of him,
you ought to respect his judgement of me.
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Why does your father
have to speak to me like that?
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Cynthia, I'm afraid I must
speak to the Squire about this.
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I gave him my word I would
if anything of the kind arose.
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It was the one thing I stipulated for: Secrecy.
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But why keep it secret from the family?
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Surely, in any case, Roger will tell his father?
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No, he won't, because I made him promise,
and I think he's one to respect a promise.
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Well, let's give him a chance, then, shall we?
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I won't go over to the Hall
until the end of the week.
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He may have written and told his father by then.
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So a man's promise
is to override a woman's wish?
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I don't see why it shouldn't.
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Mr Gibson, will you please
trust me when I tell you
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this will cause me a great deal
of distress if it gets known.
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Telling the boy's father is not making it public.
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I don't like this exaggerated
desire for secrecy, Cynthia.
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It seems to me as if something
more than is apparent is concealed behind it.
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Come on, Molly. Let's play
that new duet I taught you.
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- There's rock here.
- Here. Let me help you.
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- We'll need some more tiles.
- How many?
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Twenty should do it.
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Cynthia Kirkpatrick has entered
into an understanding with Roger.
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Cynthia Kirkpatrick, you say?
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I was hoping Roger
would have told you in a letter.
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That shows you have no sons.
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Half these sons are mysteries
to their fathers. Look at Osborne.
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I've got no more idea what goes on
in his head than the Man in the Moon.
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I thought Roger'd be different. He's a good lad.
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It's thanks to him I'm able to put
these drainage works back into commission.
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Hmm. Miss Kirkpatrick.
Not the match I'd been hoping for.
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I suppose she's no money.
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About twenty pound a year at my pleasure.
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Oh, well, it's good it's not Osborne.
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But what family is she of?
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She's none of trade, her being so poor.
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Well, I understand her father
was the grandson of a baronet.
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That's something.
But what sort of a girl is she, Gibson?
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- I don't know what you mean.
- Yes, you do.
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You're offended with me,
or you'd have answered me straight.
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You know what I mean. Is she like Molly?
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Sweet-tempered and sensible,
and ready to do anything one asked her?
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Well, she's very pretty...
prettier than Molly I have to admit.
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And she has very winning ways.
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I'm not sure she feels things
quite so keenly as Molly does.
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- But all in all, I think she's one in a hundred.
- Oh, well, Molly's one in a thousand.
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- Hmm.
- She's of no family, you see. No money either.
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Otherwise, she'd make
the perfect wife to either of my lads.
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As there's no question
of Molly in this business,
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there's no need to bring
her name into it, is there?
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I must get off. Good day, sir.
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Now, hang on, Gibson, we're old friends.
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You're a fool to take offence.
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Look, bring her round to the Hall for lunch.
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Bring her mother and Molly
and let me see the girl meself.
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Thank you.
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Your wife and I didn't
hit it off the only time I ever saw her.
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I'm not saying she was very silly,
but one of us was and it wasn't me.
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- Thursday suit you?
- As you wish.
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Got it. No, no.
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You've got to hold it proper firm,
but not too tight.
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It's all in the wrist.
You've got to get the movement right.
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A sort of an arching, and then a bit of a flick.
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Quick like, you see? That's right. Good, good.
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We'll make a fisherman of you yet.
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Try again.
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Arch and flick. Arch and flick.
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Ah, we got him. We got him.
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He's a beauty. I'll get the net.
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Ah, he's a beauty.
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Look, Molly. I caught one.
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Well done, lass. He's a grand'un.
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There.
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So, how did it go off?
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They got on very well, I think.
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But how could anyone not like Cynthia?
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Aye, when she puts herself out to please.
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Do you think that she's right for him, Molly?
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Right for Roger?
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She's a very charming young girl,
but I don't quite understand her.
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Why should she want all this secrecy?
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I don't know.
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I don't think
I understand her either, but I do love her.
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- How is Osborne? Was he there?
- No, I think he had to go and see...
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...do something else.
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Molly, this business with Cynthia
and Roger took me by surprise.
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If there's anything else
of this sort in the offing,
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I think you'd better tell me at once.
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If you mean you're afraid
that Osborne thinks of me
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as Roger does of Cynthia, you're quite mistaken.
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Osborne and I are friends.
We could never be anything more.
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That's all I can tell you.
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That's quite enough, little one.
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That's a great relief.
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- Oh, Papa.
- Oh, there, there, there.
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There's nothing the matter, is there?
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No. Only I wish I could have you
all to myself more often.
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Yes, well...
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Run along, now.
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I'm very glad you won't be carried off
by any young man just yet awhile.
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Roger Hamley.
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No, No, No.
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Carry on.
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A good pair of English legs here.
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My dearest Cynthia,
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it's just as well I was
as strong as an ox when I set off.
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This country is extraordinary
and a constant challenge.
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Every day new hazards and new adventures.
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I'm learning the language
and, more importantly,
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how to survive in this wonderful land.
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Miss Kirkpatrick! A letter from Africa!
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He sends you his best regards.
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And his compliments to you, Mama.
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Where is he, Cynthia? What does he say?
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Where? I didn't look exactly.
Somewhere in Abyssinia.
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Um, Huron? Does that make you any the wiser?
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- Harar, perhaps?
- Yes, I think you're right.
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You are clever!
Fancy knowing anything about Abyssinia.
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I looked in the world atlas.
I wanted to make a picture of where he was.
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Is he well, Cynthia?
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- Well enough. He says he has a touch of fever.
- Fever?
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Yes, but he thinks he'll acclimatise soon.
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- But who will take care of him?
- I don't think he gets much caring for.
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It's pretty much sink or swim in Abyssinia.
No doctors or nurses there.
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Still, he has plenty of quinine with him.
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- But he's on the mend now.
- But what if he isn't?
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Oh, no, we mustn't think that.
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You must have been worrying about him.
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Well, as a matter of fact,
I haven't been worrying about him.
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You see, I made my mind up
before he went not to worry.
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If anything did, well, you know, go wrong,
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- it would be over before I heard of it.
- Don't say that!
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Moderate your tone, dear.
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What Cynthia's saying
is only common sense.
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What is the point of worrying about what
one can't help and may never happen?
258
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He does say he's feeling better now.
259
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What else does he say?
I mean, things I may hear.
260
00:20:14,613 --> 00:20:19,209
Well, lover's letters are so silly,
and I think this is sillier than usual.
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Er...
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Here's a piece you may read.
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I couldn't get on with this myself.
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It's all about Aristotle and Pliny,
and some beetle he's found
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that proves something or another.
266
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Yes, do take it with you if you like.
267
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Now, I must get this hat
finished before I go out.
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Oh, God, let him live.
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Let him live.
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Even if I never set eyes on him again.
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Grant he may come home safe,
and be happy.
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A former pupil of mine,
a Mr Coxe, wants to pay us a visit, Hyacinth.
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Oh?
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He's relinquished the profession,
I'm relieved to hear,
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and has come into a great deal of money.
276
00:21:48,807 --> 00:21:51,742
Oh...
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It's such a pleasure
to meet my husband's former pupils, Mr Coxe.
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He's spoken to me so often about you.
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Indeed, ma'am? Well, I was very happy here.
280
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Um, is Miss Gibson still at home?
I should very much like to...
281
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Oh, yes. She'll be coming directly,
with my own daughter, Cynthia.
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Mr Coxe?
283
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- Is it you?
- Yes.
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You remember me. I was so afraid you wouldn't.
285
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Well, you're so much grown.
286
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So much more, um, well,
I suppose I mustn't say what I was going to.
287
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This is Miss Kirkpatrick, my step-sister.
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Mr Coxe.
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How do you do?
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How do you do, Mr Coxe?
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Mr Gibson, I dare say you'll be
surprised, sir, at what I want to say,
292
00:22:52,604 --> 00:22:55,038
but I think it the part of an honourable man,
293
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as you said yourself, sir, a year or two ago,
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to speak to the father first.
295
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And as you, sir, stand in the place
of a father to Miss Kirkpatrick,
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I should like to express my feelings, my hopes.
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Miss Kirkpatrick...?
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I do assure you, sir,
that I came here with a heart
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as faithful to your daughter
as ever beat in a man's breast.
300
00:23:18,330 --> 00:23:21,356
But it soon became clear
that her manner towards me,
301
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though friendly, was in no way...
302
00:23:24,503 --> 00:23:26,562
well, it was, wasn't...
303
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...while Miss Kirkpatrick, um...
304
00:23:31,309 --> 00:23:33,106
While Miss Kirkpatrick?
305
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Er, I was only going to say, sir,
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I think I may venture to hope
that Miss Kirkpatrick welcomes my attentions.
307
00:23:40,352 --> 00:23:43,446
I don't believe Miss Kirkpatrick
could ever have meant to encourage you.
308
00:23:43,588 --> 00:23:47,149
I think, sir, if you could have seen her...
309
00:23:47,993 --> 00:23:51,986
At any rate, you won't mind me
taking my chance and speaking to her?
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No, but if you'll take my advice,
you'll spare yourself the pain of a refusal.
311
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I think I ought to tell you
her affections are otherwise engaged.
312
00:24:00,639 --> 00:24:04,541
I cannot believe that.
No. There must be some mistake.
313
00:24:04,676 --> 00:24:08,271
I don't see how
she could've misunderstood my meaning.
314
00:24:08,480 --> 00:24:12,041
Perhaps her affections
may have been engaged before,
315
00:24:12,250 --> 00:24:16,209
but isn't it possible
she might come to prefer another?
316
00:24:16,321 --> 00:24:18,846
By "another" you mean yourself, I suppose?
317
00:24:20,992 --> 00:24:23,893
I can believe in such inconstancy,
318
00:24:23,995 --> 00:24:26,896
but I'm very sorry to think
Miss Kirkpatrick could be guilty.
319
00:24:26,998 --> 00:24:29,296
But you will allow me to ask for her hand, sir?
320
00:24:29,768 --> 00:24:31,531
Certainly, my poor fella.
321
00:24:32,404 --> 00:24:33,735
If you must.
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00:24:33,872 --> 00:24:35,134
Oh, thank you, sir.
323
00:24:35,273 --> 00:24:38,299
Thank you. God bless you for a kind friend.
324
00:24:42,113 --> 00:24:43,375
Um, Miss Kirkpatrick.
325
00:24:43,548 --> 00:24:47,177
I cannot tell you what pleasure
these last few days have given me.
326
00:24:53,124 --> 00:25:00,087
Dearest Cynthia, please tell me you return
my affections and consent to be my wife.
327
00:25:01,132 --> 00:25:04,465
Mr Coxe! You must stand up at once.
328
00:25:05,470 --> 00:25:08,064
I'm engaged to marry someone else.
329
00:25:20,185 --> 00:25:24,121
Molly, you must never
trifle with the love of an honest man.
330
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You don't know what pain you may give.
331
00:25:29,528 --> 00:25:31,496
Molly, you'll never guess.
332
00:25:34,332 --> 00:25:35,765
Oh.
333
00:25:36,735 --> 00:25:39,898
Mr Coxe asked me
to give you both his kind regards.
334
00:25:40,005 --> 00:25:42,030
I believe he's leaving Hollingford this afternoon.
335
00:25:42,173 --> 00:25:45,165
I trust this will never occur again, Cynthia.
336
00:25:46,177 --> 00:25:49,146
What am I to think
of a young woman in your position,
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engaged and yet accepting
the overtures of another man?
338
00:25:52,617 --> 00:25:54,744
Do you realise what unneccesary pain
339
00:25:54,986 --> 00:25:57,853
you have given that young man
by your thoughtless behaviour?
340
00:25:58,023 --> 00:26:02,050
I call it thoughtless,
I could call it something worse.
341
00:26:02,294 --> 00:26:06,253
Please, Mr Gibson. Hear my side
before you speak so severely to me.
342
00:26:06,364 --> 00:26:08,298
I... I didn't mean to flirt,
343
00:26:08,433 --> 00:26:11,869
I only meant to be agreeable,
and I can't help doing that, can I?
344
00:26:11,970 --> 00:26:15,235
And that goose, Mr Coxe,
imagined I was encouraging him.
345
00:26:15,340 --> 00:26:19,709
Do you mean you weren't aware
he was falling in love with you?
346
00:26:21,680 --> 00:26:25,548
I suppose, to speak truly,
I did think once or twice he might be,
347
00:26:25,684 --> 00:26:27,709
but I do hate throwing
cold water on people,
348
00:26:27,852 --> 00:26:30,082
and I never imagined
he could take it into his silly head
349
00:26:30,188 --> 00:26:33,316
to imagine himself seriously
in love and make such a fuss.
350
00:26:33,458 --> 00:26:35,221
You seem to have been aware of his silliness.
351
00:26:35,460 --> 00:26:38,691
You should have considered
what it might and has led to.
352
00:26:38,797 --> 00:26:42,824
Well, perhaps. I dare say
I'm all wrong and he's all right.
353
00:26:42,934 --> 00:26:44,902
But, really, it seems to me...
354
00:26:46,938 --> 00:26:49,304
In any case, I'm not finally engaged.
355
00:26:49,407 --> 00:26:53,138
- Roger wouldn't allow it.
- Nonsense!
356
00:26:53,378 --> 00:26:55,243
I've said all that I mean to say.
357
00:26:55,380 --> 00:27:00,875
I'm willing to believe you were only thoughtless,
but don't let it happen again.
358
00:27:06,358 --> 00:27:11,523
Well, "Not proven, but we recommend
the prisoner not to do it again".
359
00:27:12,364 --> 00:27:15,026
It's pretty much that, isn't it, Molly?
360
00:27:26,878 --> 00:27:29,438
Cynthia, Cynthia.
361
00:27:36,087 --> 00:27:39,545
I do believe your father
might make a good woman of me yet,
362
00:27:39,758 --> 00:27:43,023
if he'd only take the pains
and was not quite so severe.
363
00:27:43,294 --> 00:27:47,025
I was afraid poor Mr Coxe
was becoming very fond of you.
364
00:27:47,132 --> 00:27:48,690
I wish I had said something now.
365
00:27:48,800 --> 00:27:50,995
It wouldn't have made any difference.
366
00:27:51,136 --> 00:27:53,229
I... I knew he liked me.
367
00:27:53,405 --> 00:27:55,134
I... I like to be liked,
368
00:27:55,273 --> 00:27:57,673
but he shouldn't have carried it too far.
369
00:27:57,776 --> 00:28:00,973
I shall hate red-haired people
for the rest of my life.
370
00:28:02,080 --> 00:28:04,571
I knew he came here to propose to you.
371
00:28:04,849 --> 00:28:07,409
You were disagreeable, so I took pity on him.
372
00:28:10,522 --> 00:28:13,116
- Shall you tell Roger about it?
- Oh, no.
373
00:28:14,059 --> 00:28:15,492
Well, I don't know.
374
00:28:16,161 --> 00:28:18,527
Perhaps, if we're ever married.
375
00:28:19,631 --> 00:28:23,192
I have a feeling I'll never marry him.
I don't know why.
376
00:28:23,368 --> 00:28:26,804
Best not tell him all my secrets.
Suppose he knew them, and it never came off.
377
00:28:27,038 --> 00:28:29,131
I think it would break his heart.
378
00:28:29,574 --> 00:28:33,101
Molly, there's no need to be so serious.
379
00:28:33,511 --> 00:28:36,674
It's not in my nature to go into ecstacies.
380
00:28:36,781 --> 00:28:40,114
I don't think I shall ever be in love.
381
00:28:40,852 --> 00:28:42,513
But I'm glad he loves me.
382
00:28:42,887 --> 00:28:46,983
I like his face
10,000 times more than Mr Preston's.
383
00:28:47,125 --> 00:28:48,683
Mr Preston...?
384
00:28:48,793 --> 00:28:51,990
What should you think of me
if I married him after all?
385
00:28:52,130 --> 00:28:53,961
Married Mr Preston?
386
00:28:56,601 --> 00:28:58,501
Well, has he ever asked you?
387
00:28:58,603 --> 00:29:01,197
More unlikely things have happened.
388
00:29:05,477 --> 00:29:07,342
Have you never heard of...
389
00:29:08,046 --> 00:29:13,609
strong wills mesmerising weaker ones
until they can't even think for themselves?
390
00:29:21,493 --> 00:29:22,858
Cynthia.
391
00:29:25,063 --> 00:29:26,496
Well...
392
00:29:26,631 --> 00:29:29,191
He's not a man to be easily thrown off.
393
00:29:30,635 --> 00:29:33,468
Oh, I wish Roger were rich
394
00:29:33,571 --> 00:29:36,597
and could marry me at once
and carry me away from that man.
395
00:29:36,741 --> 00:29:38,436
Cynthia, what is this all about?
396
00:29:42,147 --> 00:29:44,741
Money matters are at the root of it.
397
00:29:46,184 --> 00:29:47,515
Horrid poverty.
398
00:29:48,887 --> 00:29:51,549
Oh, do let's talk about something else.
399
00:29:52,891 --> 00:29:55,485
You all make me feel so...
400
00:29:57,495 --> 00:30:00,487
I've never lived with good people before.
Don't quite know how to behave.
401
00:30:00,598 --> 00:30:02,862
I don't believe that's true, nor does Roger.
402
00:30:04,068 --> 00:30:06,229
He must think I'm good, he's in love with me.
403
00:30:06,337 --> 00:30:09,773
Yes, he's in love with you!
404
00:30:09,908 --> 00:30:13,241
And he, he depends upon you, so you should...
405
00:30:13,545 --> 00:30:15,945
you should try to deserve him!
406
00:30:58,156 --> 00:31:00,317
It is sundown, Cynthia.
407
00:31:00,491 --> 00:31:02,891
They are singing outside my tent.
408
00:31:03,261 --> 00:31:08,221
The men say it's about a chap
who pines for a girl in a distant land.
409
00:31:08,366 --> 00:31:10,129
They are teasing me, of course.
410
00:31:10,268 --> 00:31:11,633
They often do.
411
00:31:12,770 --> 00:31:15,034
Thank Molly for her letter.
412
00:31:15,673 --> 00:31:19,370
Tell her I had a sighting
today of a glorious lizard,
413
00:31:19,510 --> 00:31:23,139
and have found more
of the great black bugs I told her about,
414
00:31:23,681 --> 00:31:25,444
a species of reduvias.
415
00:31:25,817 --> 00:31:27,944
She'll know which I mean.
416
00:31:32,557 --> 00:31:36,118
The Abyssinian wilds
would not suit you, dearest Cynthia,
417
00:31:36,327 --> 00:31:39,091
but your love sustains me in this savage land.
418
00:32:12,163 --> 00:32:14,028
Hmm.
419
00:32:14,132 --> 00:32:16,362
Well.
420
00:32:16,501 --> 00:32:17,763
Yes.
421
00:32:18,269 --> 00:32:23,229
I think they might have remembered
I'm a generation closer to them than she is.
422
00:32:23,374 --> 00:32:26,935
But no one thinks about
family affection nowadays, do they?
423
00:32:28,713 --> 00:32:30,078
Hmm.
424
00:32:31,582 --> 00:32:35,916
If you want us to sympathise, Hyacinth,
you'll have to tell us what the matter is.
425
00:32:36,020 --> 00:32:38,045
I dare say it was meant as a kind attention.
426
00:32:38,156 --> 00:32:40,647
I just think he should
have asked me before Cynthia.
427
00:32:40,758 --> 00:32:42,692
And who is he?
428
00:32:42,794 --> 00:32:44,659
And what is meant for "a kind attention"?
429
00:32:44,762 --> 00:32:46,127
Mr Kirkpatrick, to be sure,
430
00:32:46,230 --> 00:32:48,562
my brother-in-law, Cynthia's uncle.
431
00:32:49,100 --> 00:32:51,398
He wants Cynthia
to stay with them in London.
432
00:32:51,536 --> 00:32:54,198
But he hasn't even mentioned you or me.
433
00:32:54,772 --> 00:32:56,706
I think he should have asked us first, that's all.
434
00:32:56,908 --> 00:32:59,968
As I couldn't possibly go,
it makes little difference to me.
435
00:33:00,912 --> 00:33:02,709
No, but I could have gone.
436
00:33:02,847 --> 00:33:06,112
At any rate, he could
have paid me the compliment.
437
00:33:06,250 --> 00:33:07,683
I've a great mind not to let her go.
438
00:33:07,785 --> 00:33:09,810
Well, I can't go in any case, Mama.
439
00:33:10,054 --> 00:33:13,080
I've nothing to wear. My gowns are so shabby,
440
00:33:13,191 --> 00:33:15,455
and I remember
my aunt was very particular about dress.
441
00:33:15,560 --> 00:33:17,926
Please write at once and refuse it.
442
00:33:18,062 --> 00:33:19,962
Nonsense, child. Nothing to wear?
443
00:33:20,098 --> 00:33:21,622
What's happened to all your money?
444
00:33:21,766 --> 00:33:23,700
You've twenty pounds a year,
thanks to Mr Gibson.
445
00:33:23,801 --> 00:33:26,326
However it's come about,
I've no money to spend.
446
00:33:26,504 --> 00:33:29,234
You couldn't have spent
more than ten pounds, so where's it gone?
447
00:33:29,340 --> 00:33:31,604
Mama - it may sound cross -
448
00:33:31,743 --> 00:33:34,837
as I didn't ask for and don't want
any more than my allowance,
449
00:33:34,979 --> 00:33:37,379
I shan't answer questions as to what I do with it.
450
00:33:42,086 --> 00:33:44,350
Well, I don't understand
that at all, do you, Molly?
451
00:33:44,489 --> 00:33:47,481
No, I know she's not at all extravagant.
452
00:33:47,725 --> 00:33:50,990
She may have given it away
to someone who wants it.
453
00:33:51,829 --> 00:33:56,562
It is very clear she has neither
the dress nor the money for this London trip,
454
00:33:56,701 --> 00:33:59,568
and she doesn't want
any further enquiries into the subject.
455
00:33:59,704 --> 00:34:02,229
She likes mysteries, in fact, I detest them.
456
00:34:02,340 --> 00:34:07,141
But as I think it desirable she keep up
her friendship with her father's family,
457
00:34:07,278 --> 00:34:08,643
I will gladly give her ten pounds.
458
00:34:09,914 --> 00:34:12,940
What a generous man you are, Mr Gibson,
459
00:34:13,084 --> 00:34:15,314
to my poor fatherless daughter.
460
00:34:17,388 --> 00:34:21,757
I think I should accompany her
and stay for a day or two, you know.
461
00:34:21,893 --> 00:34:24,521
Lady Cumnor's in town
and not at all in good health,
462
00:34:24,662 --> 00:34:29,099
and it would ease my spirits to see her
and offer her what comfort I can.
463
00:34:29,200 --> 00:34:33,933
Well, that's if you can bear
to fend for yourselves just for a day or two?
464
00:34:34,072 --> 00:34:39,032
Oh, no, we shouldn't mind at all,
should we, Papa, looking after ourselves?
465
00:34:40,144 --> 00:34:41,907
No, no, no, no, no.
466
00:34:42,580 --> 00:34:46,107
We shall bear it as best we can, my dear.
467
00:34:50,688 --> 00:34:54,784
# I do think
Mr Gibson is the kindest man I know.
468
00:34:54,926 --> 00:34:58,862
# Tiddle-iddle iddle iddle
iddle pom-pom to London I shall go. #
469
00:35:00,298 --> 00:35:04,462
Oh, Molly. You don't think it wicked and
flighty of me to want to go to London?
470
00:35:04,569 --> 00:35:07,663
- On account of Roger and everything?
- No, of course you should go.
471
00:35:07,772 --> 00:35:09,239
Hooray!
472
00:35:09,340 --> 00:35:13,071
# Oh, I do think
Mr Gibson is the kindest man I know... #
473
00:35:13,177 --> 00:35:19,639
Upon my word. I hope you're not
both going crazy. What's all this about, I pray?
474
00:35:19,784 --> 00:35:22,218
I'm just glad we're going to London, Mama.
475
00:35:22,353 --> 00:35:26,016
You might express your happiness
in a more ladylike manner, darling.
476
00:35:26,157 --> 00:35:29,752
Osborne Hamley
is in the consulting room with Mr Gibson.
477
00:35:29,894 --> 00:35:32,328
I don't know what he'd think if he heard you.
478
00:35:33,564 --> 00:35:35,725
How ill that poor young man looks.
479
00:35:35,867 --> 00:35:38,927
Your father thinks it may
not be very grievous after all,
480
00:35:39,070 --> 00:35:41,470
but... I don't think he has long to live.
481
00:35:42,473 --> 00:35:45,237
Oh, but what will happen if he dies?
482
00:35:45,343 --> 00:35:47,436
Well, it would be sad, of course,
483
00:35:47,578 --> 00:35:50,775
and we'd all feel it very much, I've no doubt.
484
00:35:50,915 --> 00:35:53,475
But we mustn't forget the living, Molly.
485
00:35:54,552 --> 00:35:55,883
If the worst were to happen,
486
00:35:55,987 --> 00:36:01,357
then our own dear Roger would do everything
in his power to step into Osborne's place.
487
00:36:01,526 --> 00:36:04,393
And Cynthia's marriage
need not be so long delayed.
488
00:36:04,562 --> 00:36:09,124
Mama, how can you speak of Osborne's death
and my marriage in the same breath?
489
00:36:09,267 --> 00:36:11,201
Well, it's a very natural thought, dear.
490
00:36:11,335 --> 00:36:13,860
A young man strikes us all as looking very ill,
491
00:36:13,971 --> 00:36:17,498
and I'm sorry for it,
but illness often leads to death.
492
00:36:17,642 --> 00:36:21,305
I'm sure you'd agree with me.
So what's the harm in saying so?
493
00:36:21,445 --> 00:36:25,905
And then Molly asks what happens
if he dies and I try to answer her.
494
00:36:26,083 --> 00:36:29,018
I don't want to talk about death
any more than anyone else,
495
00:36:29,187 --> 00:36:32,122
but one has to look forward to the consequences.
496
00:36:32,857 --> 00:36:35,621
I think we're commanded to do so somewhere.
497
00:36:35,726 --> 00:36:37,159
Aren't we?
498
00:36:37,295 --> 00:36:40,025
In the Bible, or in the prayer book?
499
00:36:40,131 --> 00:36:43,396
Do you look forward
to the consequences of my death?
500
00:36:43,534 --> 00:36:47,470
Cynthia, you really are
the most unfeeling girl I've ever met.
501
00:36:49,140 --> 00:36:52,974
Oh, I was hoping to speak to him.
502
00:36:53,544 --> 00:36:57,981
- What about, Goosey?
- Oh, nothing in particular.
503
00:37:00,484 --> 00:37:02,918
Is he really very ill?
504
00:37:03,154 --> 00:37:06,590
It's one of those cases
where it's not possible to be certain,
505
00:37:06,724 --> 00:37:08,885
but I am anxious about him, yes.
506
00:37:09,260 --> 00:37:12,661
But I haven't told him that,
and nor should you.
507
00:37:12,830 --> 00:37:17,392
But if he is really in danger,
he'd want to arrange his affairs, wouldn't he?
508
00:37:17,535 --> 00:37:22,268
I've considered that, but the fear
and anxiety could itself precipitate a crisis.
509
00:37:22,373 --> 00:37:24,705
Surely he has the right to know?
510
00:37:24,842 --> 00:37:28,539
No. Best to leave him in ignorance
and hope for a complete recovery.
511
00:37:28,679 --> 00:37:33,946
Now, I say this in absolute confidence,
Molly, because I trust you completely.
512
00:37:34,085 --> 00:37:37,111
You at any rate know how to keep your counsel.
513
00:37:37,521 --> 00:37:41,548
Don't get over-anxious about Osborne.
514
00:37:41,692 --> 00:37:44,422
He may be well yet.
515
00:38:04,849 --> 00:38:06,874
Ah, there you are.
516
00:38:09,887 --> 00:38:14,324
Funny old sort of day.
Neither one thing nor the other.
517
00:38:16,894 --> 00:38:19,260
I had a letter from Roger.
518
00:38:19,497 --> 00:38:23,900
He's very well.
Had a good Christmas.
519
00:38:25,503 --> 00:38:27,300
Look here, Osborne.
520
00:38:27,538 --> 00:38:31,030
Do you know anything
about Roger's engagement?
521
00:38:31,642 --> 00:38:33,405
Pretty girl, very pretty.
522
00:38:33,577 --> 00:38:36,444
- Not one I'd have chosen.
- Miss Kirkpatrick?
523
00:38:36,547 --> 00:38:38,071
Aye, that's the one.
524
00:38:38,316 --> 00:38:40,011
I wonder he never told me.
525
00:38:40,117 --> 00:38:42,915
Well, he... he never told me either.
526
00:38:43,521 --> 00:38:47,013
Gibson came over and made
a clean breast of it, like a man of honour.
527
00:38:47,158 --> 00:38:49,683
Well, I let it go on, it was only Roger.
528
00:38:49,927 --> 00:38:52,919
Mind you, if it had been you,
I'd have broken with Gibson
529
00:38:53,064 --> 00:38:55,123
and every mother's son of 'em, so I told Gibson.
530
00:38:55,266 --> 00:38:59,703
Pardon me, Father. I claim the right to choose
my own wife with no one's interference.
531
00:38:59,804 --> 00:39:01,829
Do you? Then you'll keep your wife
532
00:39:01,939 --> 00:39:04,772
with no one's interference,
for you won't get a penny from me
533
00:39:04,875 --> 00:39:07,969
unless you marry to please me a little,
as well as yourself a great deal.
534
00:39:08,112 --> 00:39:09,977
That's all I ask.
535
00:39:11,515 --> 00:39:15,918
She can be pretty or not, and I don't
mind if she's a bit older than you,
536
00:39:16,287 --> 00:39:18,221
but she must be well-born,
537
00:39:18,322 --> 00:39:20,654
and the more money she brings
to the old place the better.
538
00:39:20,891 --> 00:39:26,625
I say again, Father, I must choose
my wife myself, and I won't be dictated to,
539
00:39:26,831 --> 00:39:28,458
even by you, sir.
540
00:39:28,566 --> 00:39:31,467
Well, if I'm not to be father,
thou shan't be son.
541
00:39:31,569 --> 00:39:35,005
Go against me on this and there'll be
the devil to pay. I mean it.
542
00:39:35,106 --> 00:39:38,439
You're the only marriageable
one left in the market,
543
00:39:38,542 --> 00:39:41,340
and I want to hoist the old family up again.
544
00:39:44,448 --> 00:39:47,781
Don't go against me, Osborne.
545
00:39:47,918 --> 00:39:51,285
It really will break my heart if you do.
546
00:39:51,555 --> 00:39:57,892
Father, don't say that. I will do anything
to oblige you, anything, except...
547
00:39:58,062 --> 00:40:01,896
Except the one thing
I've set my heart on you doing!
548
00:40:23,554 --> 00:40:24,987
Oh, God.
549
00:40:27,358 --> 00:40:28,882
Oh, God.
550
00:40:31,362 --> 00:40:33,523
What am I going to do?
551
00:41:02,326 --> 00:41:04,123
Bye.
552
00:41:15,272 --> 00:41:18,366
Now, Papa, I shall have you
to myself for a whole week.
553
00:41:18,509 --> 00:41:21,910
- You'll have to be very obedient.
- Oh, shall I, indeed?!
554
00:41:22,012 --> 00:41:24,776
Well, now, here's a rare sight.
555
00:41:24,915 --> 00:41:28,646
Mr Gibson and his daughter
walking together at midday.
556
00:41:28,752 --> 00:41:31,687
Ladies. We've just seen
my wife and her daughter off to London.
557
00:41:31,789 --> 00:41:34,053
Mrs Gibson has gone up for the week.
558
00:41:34,158 --> 00:41:37,958
- Only a week!
- I remember when it was a three-day journey.
559
00:41:38,095 --> 00:41:41,258
She'd scarce have time to go and come back.
560
00:41:41,398 --> 00:41:44,390
Will it be lonely, Molly, without your companion?
561
00:41:44,602 --> 00:41:46,593
Yes, I shall miss her very much.
562
00:41:46,737 --> 00:41:47,431
But Papa and I...
563
00:41:47,571 --> 00:41:50,802
Mr Gibson, it'll be
like being a widower again.
564
00:41:51,342 --> 00:41:54,106
You must come and drink tea
with us some evening. And Molly, too.
565
00:41:54,211 --> 00:41:56,202
Yes, you must come to our house as well.
566
00:41:56,347 --> 00:42:00,408
We must try and cheer you up
a bit. Shall it be Tuesday?
567
00:42:00,551 --> 00:42:04,544
That's very kind, but I have,
er, one or two pressing cases.
568
00:42:04,722 --> 00:42:08,158
I'll see what I can do.
But I think I can promise for Molly.
569
00:42:08,859 --> 00:42:10,121
Good day, ladies.
570
00:42:10,294 --> 00:42:11,556
Oh, thank you.
571
00:42:11,729 --> 00:42:13,959
Papa! How could you waste one of our evenings?
572
00:42:14,098 --> 00:42:18,660
We have but six, and I wanted us
to do all sorts of things, just us.
573
00:42:18,769 --> 00:42:23,433
- What sort of things?
- Everything that's unrefined and ungenteel.
574
00:42:23,574 --> 00:42:25,735
By toil and labour,
I've reached a fair height of refinement.
575
00:42:25,876 --> 00:42:29,039
- And I won't be pulled down again.
- Oh, yes, just for a week you will.
576
00:42:29,179 --> 00:42:32,512
We'll have bread and cheese
for dinner and eat it on our knees,
577
00:42:32,616 --> 00:42:35,551
and we'll put our knives
into our mouths until we cut ourselves,
578
00:42:35,686 --> 00:42:38,280
and you shall pour your tea into a saucer.
579
00:43:04,248 --> 00:43:06,580
Two letters in a week.
580
00:43:06,717 --> 00:43:12,713
That's very proper, but at eleven pence
ha'penny postage any more would be extravagant.
581
00:43:13,557 --> 00:43:16,253
And what did Cynthia say?
Is she enjoying herself?
582
00:43:16,360 --> 00:43:18,328
Oh, yes, very much, I think.
583
00:43:18,462 --> 00:43:22,489
She went to a dinner party, and one night,
when Mama was at Lady Cumnor's,
584
00:43:22,600 --> 00:43:24,500
Cynthia went to the play with her cousins.
585
00:43:24,602 --> 00:43:27,127
Oh, my word. And all in one week.
586
00:43:28,339 --> 00:43:33,242
I do call that dissipation.
Thursday will be taken up travelling,
587
00:43:33,477 --> 00:43:38,437
Friday they'll be resting,
and Sunday is Sunday all over the world.
588
00:43:38,549 --> 00:43:41,484
I hope she won't find
Hollingford dull when she comes back.
589
00:43:41,585 --> 00:43:45,851
I don't think that's likely, Sally,
not now Mr Preston's moving to town.
590
00:43:46,557 --> 00:43:49,890
Been seeing a great deal
of Mr Preston, haven't you, Molly?
591
00:43:49,994 --> 00:43:51,291
Mr Preston?
592
00:43:51,395 --> 00:43:55,161
- No. What should make you think so?
- Oh, a little bird told us.
593
00:43:55,299 --> 00:43:57,699
What do you mean? Who told you?
594
00:43:57,801 --> 00:44:00,668
Little birds don't have names,
I'll think you'll find,
595
00:44:00,771 --> 00:44:04,298
but this little bird was
flying about in Heath Lane,
596
00:44:04,441 --> 00:44:08,741
and it saw Mr Preston
with a young lady - we won't say who -
597
00:44:08,879 --> 00:44:11,211
walking together
in a very friendly manner.
598
00:44:11,348 --> 00:44:15,910
He was on horseback,
because just there the path is raised...
599
00:44:16,053 --> 00:44:21,081
No, perhaps Molly is in the secret,
and we ought not to ask her about it.
600
00:44:21,191 --> 00:44:22,522
It'll be no great secret, sister.
601
00:44:22,660 --> 00:44:26,756
Miss Hornblower says
Mr Preston owns to being engaged.
602
00:44:27,197 --> 00:44:30,633
Well, if he is engaged,
it's not to Cynthia, that's for certain.
603
00:44:31,669 --> 00:44:35,002
And I do wish you'd put
a stop to any such reports.
604
00:44:35,139 --> 00:44:37,073
You don't know what mischief they may do.
605
00:44:37,207 --> 00:44:40,233
- I do so hate that kind of chatter.
- Hoity-toity.
606
00:44:40,411 --> 00:44:43,676
Kindly remember I'm old enough
to be your mother, Miss Molly.
607
00:44:44,548 --> 00:44:47,574
Chatter. Tish.
608
00:44:48,552 --> 00:44:51,419
I beg your pardon, Miss Browning...
609
00:44:51,622 --> 00:44:54,819
but don't you see how bad
it is to talk of such things?
610
00:44:54,958 --> 00:44:59,054
Supposing one of them cared for somebody else.
611
00:44:59,163 --> 00:45:05,398
And that might happen, you know. Mr Preston,
for example, may be engaged to somebody else.
612
00:45:05,502 --> 00:45:08,767
Well, if he is,
I pity the young lady, indeed I do.
613
00:45:08,906 --> 00:45:10,999
He's a great flirt,
614
00:45:11,542 --> 00:45:15,501
and young ladies better
not have too much to do with him.
615
00:45:15,646 --> 00:45:17,876
Miss Browning, I beg you
would not talk about it any more.
616
00:45:17,981 --> 00:45:20,745
I have my reasons for asking.
617
00:45:33,964 --> 00:45:35,431
Phoebe!
618
00:45:38,569 --> 00:45:42,232
It was Molly
with Mr Preston in Heath Lane.
619
00:45:42,372 --> 00:45:45,364
- Goodness gracious. How do you know?
- Put two and two together.
620
00:45:45,509 --> 00:45:47,670
Didn't you notice how pale she went?
621
00:45:47,778 --> 00:45:52,681
She said she knew for a fact Preston
and Miss Kirkpatrick weren't engaged.
622
00:45:52,783 --> 00:45:56,549
Perhaps not engaged, but Mrs Goodenough
saw them loitering together.
623
00:45:56,687 --> 00:45:58,951
Mrs Goodenough's eyes are not the best.
624
00:45:59,089 --> 00:46:02,422
I'll answer for it.
She saw Molly and took her for Cynthia.
625
00:46:02,860 --> 00:46:06,728
Well, perhaps it wouldn't be
so very bad a match, Sally.
626
00:46:06,864 --> 00:46:10,061
Not as bad a match as it could be?
He plays billiards, you know.
627
00:46:10,167 --> 00:46:15,730
He bets at the races. Miss Hornblower
said he was engaged to Miss Gregson.
628
00:46:15,873 --> 00:46:20,901
Her father made enquiries,
and he made her break it off.
629
00:46:21,044 --> 00:46:23,740
- And she's dead since.
- Oh, Sally.
630
00:46:23,881 --> 00:46:27,908
Now, he might do for Cynthia.
She was brought up in France,
631
00:46:27,985 --> 00:46:31,682
so she might not be too particular,
but he mustn't have Molly.
632
00:46:31,789 --> 00:46:37,284
We must keep on the lookout. I'll be
her guardian angel, in spite of herself.
633
00:46:53,544 --> 00:46:56,638
I wonder how you are, dearest Cynthia.
634
00:46:56,747 --> 00:46:59,375
I often picture you walking in the garden.
635
00:46:59,516 --> 00:47:04,351
I had a bit of a fall, but I believe
I shall soon be on the mend again.
636
00:47:04,488 --> 00:47:10,085
How's Molly? Has she been
to the Hall to see my father?
637
00:47:10,227 --> 00:47:12,718
He's so fond of her.
638
00:47:13,564 --> 00:47:17,056
I long to hear from you.
The rains must have made...
639
00:47:17,167 --> 00:47:20,330
...the post from England slower, I suppose.
640
00:47:21,238 --> 00:47:26,972
Write soon, tell me how you are,
what you're thinking and doing.
641
00:48:20,497 --> 00:48:22,863
A most delightful visit.
642
00:48:22,966 --> 00:48:26,402
I was so sorry to come away,
but knew you'd be missing me.
643
00:48:26,503 --> 00:48:29,700
- Yes, indeed.
- Oh, they live in great style.
644
00:48:29,840 --> 00:48:33,173
The Lord Chancellor himself could hardly do better.
645
00:48:33,310 --> 00:48:37,542
Mr Kirkpatrick's career has been
most successful - Queen's Counsel
646
00:48:37,681 --> 00:48:40,946
and Head of Chambers,
and they couldn't do enough for Cynthia.
647
00:48:41,084 --> 00:48:48,115
Two new ballgowns, and if I say so myself,
she had more admirers than any of her cousins.
648
00:48:48,258 --> 00:48:51,955
Young Mr Henderson was
quite smitten with her, I believe.
649
00:48:52,095 --> 00:48:56,691
He's the most promising
young man in Mr Kirkpatrick's chambers.
650
00:48:56,900 --> 00:49:00,392
They're so fond of her,
I don't know when she'll be back.
651
00:49:00,504 --> 00:49:05,874
She had a letter from Africa I sent on.
Did she say what was in it?
652
00:49:06,076 --> 00:49:08,840
Yes, yes. It made her
very uneasy, poor child.
653
00:49:08,946 --> 00:49:12,438
She was inclined not to go to
Mr Rawlson's ball that evening, but I told her
654
00:49:12,549 --> 00:49:16,610
there was nothing to worry about,
that he was laid up after a fall.
655
00:49:16,753 --> 00:49:21,087
- He's had a fall?
- Yes, but he was better by the time he wrote.
656
00:49:21,224 --> 00:49:24,523
He's got a very strong constitution,
hasn't he, Mr Gibson?
657
00:49:24,661 --> 00:49:27,994
Aye, he has, and where he is he has need of one.
658
00:49:28,131 --> 00:49:32,932
After all, it's not a formal engagement,
and she could hardly say,
659
00:49:33,070 --> 00:49:37,700
"A friend fell in Africa two months
ago, so I can't go to the ball."
660
00:49:37,841 --> 00:49:41,333
That would seem just like
an affectation of sentiment.
661
00:49:41,478 --> 00:49:43,309
If there's one thing I hate, it's that.
662
00:49:45,449 --> 00:49:46,711
Quite.
663
00:49:48,385 --> 00:49:50,683
Good morning, Miss Gibson.
664
00:49:58,795 --> 00:50:00,820
Good morning, Miss Gibson.
665
00:50:00,931 --> 00:50:04,128
Miss Kirkpatrick returns today, does she not?
666
00:50:04,267 --> 00:50:07,168
- Yes.
- You'll be happy to see her, I think.
667
00:50:07,304 --> 00:50:09,238
Yes. Good morning.
668
00:50:18,415 --> 00:50:21,543
There now, will you look at that!
669
00:50:22,419 --> 00:50:27,914
You had no call for harps, Mr Sheepshanks,
when you were Lord Cumnor's land agent.
670
00:50:28,025 --> 00:50:31,927
Well, young Preston reckons himself
to be a bit above a land agent.
671
00:50:32,029 --> 00:50:35,396
A gentleman, a ladies' man,
and a gambling man and all.
672
00:50:35,532 --> 00:50:38,865
I wouldn't trust him
any further than I could throw him.
673
00:50:39,002 --> 00:50:42,529
And that's not far. Good day to you.
674
00:50:45,909 --> 00:50:47,274
Poor Molly.
675
00:50:51,348 --> 00:50:55,978
Oh, hello... Did you miss me?
676
00:50:58,355 --> 00:51:00,482
Excuse me, can I have that box?
677
00:51:01,091 --> 00:51:05,425
He's feeling much better.
He's learning another new dialect,
678
00:51:06,196 --> 00:51:10,633
more about beetles.
I think I'll save this one up for later.
679
00:51:12,536 --> 00:51:14,629
Look what they gave me, Molly.
680
00:51:18,809 --> 00:51:20,970
They were so good to me.
681
00:51:25,549 --> 00:51:27,073
Do you wish you were still there?
682
00:51:28,552 --> 00:51:34,855
In some ways I do. There's something
oppressive about Hollingford somehow.
683
00:51:35,992 --> 00:51:40,122
Nothing to do with you, of course,
but one does feel...
684
00:51:40,330 --> 00:51:42,355
more carefree in London.
685
00:51:42,499 --> 00:51:44,660
Does that sound very wicked of me?
686
00:51:47,137 --> 00:51:50,595
Might be interested
in this paragraph here, Cynthia.
687
00:51:58,115 --> 00:51:59,946
- Oh.
- What is it?
688
00:52:00,050 --> 00:52:02,245
- May I see?
- Yes, of course.
689
00:52:02,352 --> 00:52:04,115
There's nothing private about it.
690
00:52:04,921 --> 00:52:07,754
Proceedings of the Geographical Society.
691
00:52:08,592 --> 00:52:12,460
Lord Hollingford read a letter
he received from Mr Roger Hamley.
692
00:52:12,562 --> 00:52:15,531
Oh, Cynthia, isn't it wonderful?
693
00:52:15,665 --> 00:52:21,228
Yes, but it's not news to me.
I heard about it before I left London.
694
00:52:21,338 --> 00:52:23,863
It was a good deal
talked about in my uncle's set.
695
00:52:23,974 --> 00:52:26,374
- You mean you could have gone?
- I suppose I could.
696
00:52:26,576 --> 00:52:30,535
I think they'd have been rather
astonished by my sudden turn for science.
697
00:52:30,747 --> 00:52:34,683
Why did...? If you'd told
your uncle how things really stood...
698
00:52:34,784 --> 00:52:38,049
- With Roger, I mean.
- Please do understand,
699
00:52:38,155 --> 00:52:42,319
I don't want my relation
to Roger mentioned or talked about.
700
00:52:42,425 --> 00:52:46,452
If I'm pushed to it, I'd rather
break it off and have done with it.
701
00:52:51,535 --> 00:52:56,973
Oh, Miss Browning. They were so fond
of Cynthia, you would hardly believe it.
702
00:52:57,107 --> 00:53:00,702
Do you know, she's had three letters
from London this week already.
703
00:53:00,844 --> 00:53:02,903
- Mama, please.
- Three letters, fancy that.
704
00:53:03,046 --> 00:53:07,608
- It must be almost as good as living there.
- A great deal better, I should think.
705
00:53:07,951 --> 00:53:14,857
In my opinion, London's no better
than a thief dressed as honest folk.
706
00:53:14,958 --> 00:53:18,052
Now, I've no patience with London.
707
00:53:18,895 --> 00:53:21,227
Cynthia's much better out of it.
708
00:53:21,364 --> 00:53:28,167
If I were you, Mrs Gibson, I'd stop up those
London letters. They'll only be unsettling.
709
00:53:28,305 --> 00:53:32,867
Perhaps she may live
in London one day, Miss Browning.
710
00:53:33,076 --> 00:53:36,876
I wish you an honest country husband,
711
00:53:36,980 --> 00:53:41,508
with enough to live on, a little
to lay by, and a good character, Cynthia.
712
00:53:41,618 --> 00:53:44,917
- Thank you, Miss Browning.
- Mind that, Molly.
713
00:53:45,021 --> 00:53:48,149
I wish Cynthia a husband with a good character.
714
00:53:48,325 --> 00:53:50,657
She's got a mother
to look after her, and you've none.
715
00:53:50,794 --> 00:53:53,524
I beg your pardon, Miss Browning?!
716
00:53:53,630 --> 00:53:57,066
When your mother was alive,
she was a dear friend of mine.
717
00:53:57,167 --> 00:53:59,692
I won't let you throw
yourself away on anyone
718
00:53:59,803 --> 00:54:02,601
whose life is not clear and above board.
You may depend on it.
719
00:54:02,739 --> 00:54:04,707
I'm sure you're much mistaken, Miss Browning,
720
00:54:04,841 --> 00:54:07,935
if you think any mother could
take more care of Molly than I do.
721
00:54:08,378 --> 00:54:10,869
I didn't mean to offend, Mrs Gibson.
722
00:54:10,981 --> 00:54:14,747
As step-mothers go,
I think you try and do your duty.
723
00:54:14,884 --> 00:54:17,045
I just meant to give Molly a hint.
724
00:54:17,153 --> 00:54:19,121
She understands what I mean.
725
00:54:19,256 --> 00:54:20,689
I'm sure I do not.
726
00:54:20,790 --> 00:54:24,624
I don't know what you mean, if you
were alluding to more than you said.
727
00:54:24,728 --> 00:54:27,720
I'm not thinking of marrying at all.
728
00:54:27,864 --> 00:54:31,891
If I did and he weren't a good man,
I should thank you for warning me.
729
00:54:32,002 --> 00:54:36,439
I shan't just warn you, Molly.
I shall forbid the banns in church if need be.
730
00:54:36,573 --> 00:54:38,507
Do!
731
00:54:42,545 --> 00:54:49,781
Trying to do my duty, indeed.
Everybody knows I have always done my duty,
732
00:54:49,919 --> 00:54:54,185
without talking about it
before my face in that rude manner.
733
00:54:54,324 --> 00:54:56,849
I've a deep feeling about duty.
734
00:54:56,960 --> 00:55:01,124
It ought to be talked of
in church, in sacred places,
735
00:55:01,264 --> 00:55:05,462
not in someone's sitting room,
with everyone drinking tea.
736
00:55:05,568 --> 00:55:08,935
As if I didn't look after you
as well as I do Cynthia.
737
00:55:10,507 --> 00:55:14,534
I think perhaps Miss Browning
has got some notion about Mr Preston.
738
00:55:14,678 --> 00:55:17,545
She spoke to me about him once before.
739
00:55:17,681 --> 00:55:20,445
What could have put that into her head?
740
00:55:20,550 --> 00:55:25,920
I may not always approve of Mr Preston,
but if it was him she was thinking of,
741
00:55:26,056 --> 00:55:30,015
he's more agreeable than her.
I'd keep his company over hers any day.
742
00:55:39,469 --> 00:55:42,063
- Where's Cynthia, Molly?
- She's gone out.
743
00:55:42,172 --> 00:55:43,662
Oh, that's a pity.
744
00:55:43,773 --> 00:55:48,437
I've got Simpson's dog cart. I was going
to offer you a drive on my way to the lodge.
745
00:55:48,545 --> 00:55:52,106
- Would you like to come?
- I'll get my bonnet.
746
00:55:53,416 --> 00:55:56,442
It means you'll have to walk home on your own.
747
00:56:17,340 --> 00:56:20,002
I used to bring your mother here.
748
00:56:24,247 --> 00:56:29,810
Jump down, lassie. Make your
way back before it gets dark.
749
00:56:29,953 --> 00:56:34,788
You'll find the cut over Croston Heath
is quicker than the way you came.
750
00:56:57,013 --> 00:56:59,038
You don't know your own mind.
751
00:56:59,783 --> 00:57:03,617
- Why won't you listen to me?
- Come here.
752
00:57:03,853 --> 00:57:06,651
- Don't go.
- Oh, please, just let me be.
753
00:57:08,758 --> 00:57:10,055
Please.
754
00:57:10,160 --> 00:57:12,788
You gave your promise freely enough.
Why should you not keep it?
755
00:57:12,929 --> 00:57:14,487
Because I can't bear it.
756
00:57:14,631 --> 00:57:16,030
Let me go, please.
757
00:57:17,167 --> 00:57:18,464
Molly!
758
00:57:18,568 --> 00:57:20,365
What is it? What's the matter?
759
00:57:20,503 --> 00:57:22,698
I think you should let her go now.
760
00:57:26,943 --> 00:57:30,709
As Miss Gibson sees fit
to interrupt a private conversation,
761
00:57:30,847 --> 00:57:35,750
perhaps we can arrange to meet again,
without the presence of a third party.
762
00:57:35,885 --> 00:57:39,514
- I'll go now, if Cynthia wants me to.
- No, stay.
763
00:57:39,656 --> 00:57:43,524
I want you to hear it.
I should have told her sooner.
764
00:57:43,726 --> 00:57:46,820
Miss Kirkpatrick is referring to our engagement.
765
00:57:47,096 --> 00:57:49,860
She promised long ago to be my wife.
766
00:57:49,966 --> 00:57:52,560
Don't cry, Cynthia.
I don't believe a word he says.
767
00:57:52,702 --> 00:57:54,863
- It's true.
- Don't cry.
768
00:57:54,971 --> 00:57:58,498
Please don't cry.
You can't imagine how it distresses me.
769
00:57:58,608 --> 00:58:01,805
- Leave me alone.
- Go away! Don't you see you make her worse.
770
00:58:01,911 --> 00:58:07,508
Miss Gibson had better hear
the whole truth.
771
00:58:07,650 --> 00:58:11,051
We were to marry
as soon as you were twenty.
772
00:58:11,154 --> 00:58:16,649
You must have thought it strange
we should meet in secret. Now you know.
773
00:58:16,860 --> 00:58:20,796
I don't know anything of the kind.
I know Cynthia is engaged to another,
774
00:58:20,897 --> 00:58:23,263
so you can hardly expect me
to believe you.
775
00:58:23,366 --> 00:58:25,800
Molly, I'm not engaged to Roger.
776
00:58:28,137 --> 00:58:32,631
I have some letters that might
convince Miss Gibson it's the truth;
777
00:58:32,742 --> 00:58:36,473
and Mr Roger Hamley, if he is
the gentleman she's alluding to.
778
00:58:36,579 --> 00:58:40,948
- I'm happy to make it clear to Mr Gibson, too.
- That's what you should do:
779
00:58:41,084 --> 00:58:45,817
Speak to my father like a gentleman
and not make assignations in secret.
780
00:58:45,955 --> 00:58:47,479
Let's go home now, Cynthia.
781
00:58:47,590 --> 00:58:51,287
I never wanted it to be a secret.
Can you deny that it's only been
782
00:58:51,394 --> 00:58:53,521
at your request that I've kept
this secret for so long?
783
00:58:53,663 --> 00:58:55,255
If you will have it out, yes.
784
00:58:55,365 --> 00:59:00,803
When I was fifteen, you lent me money
and made me promise to marry you.
785
00:59:00,904 --> 00:59:03,429
- Made you!
- "Made" wasn't the right word.
786
00:59:03,540 --> 00:59:07,442
I liked you then. I know you
better now, and I'd never marry you.
787
00:59:07,544 --> 00:59:09,239
I've done everything you've asked me to.
788
00:59:09,345 --> 00:59:16,114
I've waited for years, I've put up with
jealousy and neglect. Cynthia, I've loved you,
789
00:59:16,252 --> 00:59:18,277
and I still love you.
790
00:59:19,289 --> 00:59:25,250
I can't give you up. If you keep your word
and marry me, I swear I'll make you love me.
791
00:59:25,361 --> 00:59:28,228
I wish I'd never borrowed that money.
792
00:59:28,331 --> 00:59:31,596
I've scrimped and saved to give it back,
and he won't take it.
793
00:59:31,768 --> 00:59:33,065
He won't set me free.
794
00:59:33,169 --> 00:59:36,070
You make it sound as if
you sold yourself for twenty pounds.
795
00:59:36,639 --> 00:59:43,306
I didn't sell myself. I liked you then,
but, oh, do I hate you now.
796
00:59:49,185 --> 00:59:54,248
Molly, don't say any more just now. Come
to my room tonight and I'll tell you everything.
797
00:59:54,357 --> 00:59:57,758
You'll blame me terribly, but I will tell you.
798
01:00:17,780 --> 01:00:23,275
I was on my own all that summer.
Well, it was always like that.
799
01:00:24,087 --> 01:00:28,114
As soon as the holidays came around,
Mama was off to some great house or other.
800
01:00:28,224 --> 01:00:31,489
Never seemed to care to take me with her.
801
01:00:32,395 --> 01:00:37,230
I was used to him coming.
He and Mama were friends.
802
01:00:37,367 --> 01:00:39,733
I believe that Mama thought...
803
01:00:41,604 --> 01:00:45,165
Well, I don't know about that.
804
01:00:45,375 --> 01:00:52,008
Anyway, he was kind and sympathetic, I thought.
805
01:00:53,316 --> 01:00:56,649
So, yes, I did like him then.
806
01:01:00,957 --> 01:01:05,121
So this day, he found me
in the deserted schoolroom.
807
01:01:08,164 --> 01:01:11,361
The Donaldsons had invited me to a festival,
808
01:01:11,567 --> 01:01:15,003
and though Mama had said I could go,
809
01:01:15,138 --> 01:01:18,574
she hadn't said how I could
get any money for the journey,
810
01:01:18,708 --> 01:01:21,939
and I'd grown out
of all my old summer dresses.
811
01:01:24,781 --> 01:01:27,773
We were always poor, you see...
812
01:01:29,752 --> 01:01:32,687
and yet we were never to speak of it
813
01:01:32,789 --> 01:01:37,123
because of the shame
and the disgrace of it.
814
01:01:39,095 --> 01:01:42,258
All that worry about money
made me sick of my life.
815
01:01:43,132 --> 01:01:47,159
All alone? Improving the shining hour, I see.
816
01:01:47,303 --> 01:01:49,533
Mr Preston noticed I was sad,
817
01:01:50,740 --> 01:01:54,574
and I was grateful to him
for kind words and sympathetic looks.
818
01:01:57,814 --> 01:01:59,111
Tell me.
819
01:01:59,215 --> 01:02:02,116
Little by little, he made me
tell him all my troubles.
820
01:02:02,251 --> 01:02:06,278
I do sometimes think
he was very nice in those days.
821
01:02:08,858 --> 01:02:12,021
He had twenty pounds in his pocket, he said.
822
01:02:12,128 --> 01:02:16,292
He shouldn't want it for months,
and I could repay it.
823
01:02:16,399 --> 01:02:19,493
Mama knew I would need money,
he said, and most likely assumed
824
01:02:19,602 --> 01:02:22,935
I should ask him for it. So I took it.
825
01:02:25,808 --> 01:02:31,804
I did so want to go and not be
ashamed of my shabbiness.
826
01:02:32,882 --> 01:02:36,113
It doesn't sound so very wrong, does it, Molly?
827
01:02:36,219 --> 01:02:37,743
No.
828
01:02:46,696 --> 01:02:51,793
I went to the festival. I think
I looked pretty in my new clothes.
829
01:02:52,902 --> 01:02:57,305
I saw other people thought so, too.
It was pleasant to feel my power.
830
01:03:04,147 --> 01:03:06,672
Then, on the last day, he joined us.
831
01:03:09,652 --> 01:03:12,348
I suppose he really did fall in love with me.
832
01:03:12,855 --> 01:03:15,085
I don't think he'd done so before.
833
01:04:10,112 --> 01:04:14,139
Well, the end of it was that he began
to talk violent love to me,
834
01:04:14,283 --> 01:04:18,743
and he said the money should not be a debt,
but an advance for when I should be his.
835
01:04:18,888 --> 01:04:24,451
I don't quite know how, but I promised
to marry him when I was twenty,
836
01:04:24,560 --> 01:04:28,223
but asked it stay a secret until then.
837
01:04:44,280 --> 01:04:48,580
After, I wrote him
some very silly letters, Molly,
838
01:04:49,785 --> 01:04:54,154
but it was all so long ago,
and I did think I loved him then.
839
01:04:55,157 --> 01:05:00,356
But somehow, as soon as I felt
pledged to him, I started to hate him,
840
01:05:00,429 --> 01:05:03,489
and I've just never been able to extricate myself.
841
01:05:04,533 --> 01:05:08,025
But how could you get engaged to Roger?
842
01:05:08,137 --> 01:05:13,439
Well, why not? I was free,
I was free in my own heart.
843
01:05:15,511 --> 01:05:23,145
I was touched by his love, so tender
and unselfish, unlike Mr Preston's.
844
01:05:24,887 --> 01:05:29,153
Oh, Molly, I know you feel
I'm not good enough for Roger...
845
01:05:30,693 --> 01:05:33,491
and sometimes I think I'll give him up.
846
01:05:34,997 --> 01:05:39,900
Sometimes I think I'll marry
Robert Preston out of pure revenge,
847
01:05:40,002 --> 01:05:42,698
and then he'll be in MY power.
848
01:05:44,540 --> 01:05:46,735
But I'd be the worst off for it,
849
01:05:47,877 --> 01:05:50,641
for he is cruel in his very soul.
850
01:05:52,415 --> 01:05:54,576
Tigerish...
851
01:05:55,384 --> 01:06:00,185
with his beautiful striped skin
and his relentless heart.
852
01:06:06,529 --> 01:06:10,795
He says he will show my letters to your father,
853
01:06:10,967 --> 01:06:13,094
unless I acknowledge the engagement.
854
01:06:13,235 --> 01:06:16,329
He shan't do that.
We won't let him do that.
855
01:06:16,472 --> 01:06:20,932
I'm not afraid of him.
I'll ask him to give the letters back.
856
01:06:21,110 --> 01:06:23,977
- Let's see if he dares refuse me.
- What if you were seen?
857
01:06:24,113 --> 01:06:28,550
Oh, Molly, you don't know him.
He has made so many appointments with me,
858
01:06:28,684 --> 01:06:31,551
as if he were going to take back the money.
859
01:06:31,687 --> 01:06:35,623
Molly, I've had it saved up for four months now.
860
01:06:37,727 --> 01:06:41,219
He says he's sure he can make me love him,
861
01:06:43,299 --> 01:06:45,324
and I think perhaps he could.
862
01:06:46,602 --> 01:06:48,968
He could make me do anything...
863
01:06:50,006 --> 01:06:52,133
then I should really be lost.
864
01:06:54,276 --> 01:06:56,107
I will get those letters for you.
865
01:06:56,212 --> 01:07:00,342
We're in the right,
he's in the wrong and he knows it.
866
01:07:01,417 --> 01:07:03,180
He must give up those letters.
867
01:07:03,285 --> 01:07:07,244
And you must never tell anyone
about this, especially not your father.
868
01:07:07,356 --> 01:07:11,292
- I couldn't bear it if he knew.
- As if I would, for any reason, short of...
869
01:07:11,427 --> 01:07:15,989
Not for any reason at all! I would
leave Hollingford and never come back
870
01:07:16,132 --> 01:07:17,759
if he found out about this.
871
01:07:17,900 --> 01:07:20,300
- Promise me.
- I promise.
872
01:08:31,841 --> 01:08:33,934
Is Cynthia not able to come?
873
01:08:34,076 --> 01:08:36,544
I didn't know you were expecting her.
874
01:08:36,679 --> 01:08:39,011
Yes, she said she would be here.
875
01:08:41,984 --> 01:08:44,248
Well, she's sent me here to meet you.
876
01:08:48,924 --> 01:08:51,893
She's told me exactly
how things stand between you.
877
01:08:52,895 --> 01:08:57,628
Has she? She isn't the most open
or reliable person in the world.
878
01:08:57,800 --> 01:09:02,032
If you really love her,
you shouldn't speak of her in that way.
879
01:09:03,139 --> 01:09:05,903
You have some letters of hers
she wishes to have back...
880
01:09:06,041 --> 01:09:08,601
- I dare say.
... that you have no right to keep.
881
01:09:08,711 --> 01:09:11,646
No legal or no moral right?
Which do you mean?
882
01:09:11,747 --> 01:09:16,650
You've none at all, as a gentleman, to keep
a girl's letters when she asks for them.
883
01:09:16,752 --> 01:09:18,947
Still less to hold them over her as a threat.
884
01:09:19,088 --> 01:09:21,886
I see you do know all, Miss Gibson.
885
01:09:22,024 --> 01:09:26,586
But you have heard the story from
her point of view. Now you must hear mine.
886
01:09:26,729 --> 01:09:29,664
She promised me as solemnly
as ever a woman did in this.
887
01:09:29,765 --> 01:09:31,790
She was only a girl of fifteen.
888
01:09:31,934 --> 01:09:34,459
She was old enough
to know what she was doing.
889
01:09:34,570 --> 01:09:41,408
She promised to be my wife, made me wait
for her and to keep it secret. I kept my promise.
890
01:09:41,544 --> 01:09:44,980
I might've married two or three girls
with money and connections.
891
01:09:45,114 --> 01:09:47,548
One was handsome enough
and not reluctant...
892
01:09:47,750 --> 01:09:52,585
I don't want to hear about other young ladies.
I'm here for Cynthia, who doesn't like you,
893
01:09:52,721 --> 01:09:55,121
and doesn't wish to marry you.
894
01:09:55,257 --> 01:09:58,522
Then I must make her like me, as you put it.
895
01:09:59,495 --> 01:10:01,429
She did like me once.
896
01:10:03,265 --> 01:10:07,895
She loved me, and she'll
love me again when we're married.
897
01:10:08,003 --> 01:10:10,096
She won't ever marry you.
898
01:10:11,340 --> 01:10:14,571
Then if she honours anyone else with her
preference, he may read her letters.
899
01:10:14,710 --> 01:10:17,508
No honourable man would!
What use can they be to you?
900
01:10:18,180 --> 01:10:20,614
They contain her repeated promises of marriage.
901
01:10:20,749 --> 01:10:24,480
But she doesn't love you -
if she ever did - she hates you.
902
01:10:24,820 --> 01:10:30,656
She says she would rather leave Hollingford
forever and earn her own living than marry you.
903
01:10:34,096 --> 01:10:37,657
Young ladies are very fond
of words such as "hate" and "detest".
904
01:10:37,800 --> 01:10:43,204
I've known some who applied them
to men they were secretly hoping to marry.
905
01:10:44,139 --> 01:10:50,874
I can't say for others, but I do know
Cynthia hates you as anybody like her hates.
906
01:10:51,146 --> 01:10:53,080
"Like her"?
907
01:10:54,049 --> 01:10:56,574
I mean I should hate worse.
908
01:10:59,255 --> 01:11:04,625
So, now would you mind
sending her back the letters by me?
909
01:11:07,997 --> 01:11:10,124
I assure you, you cannot make her marry you.
910
01:11:11,800 --> 01:11:14,325
You are very simple, Miss Gibson, aren't you?
911
01:11:14,470 --> 01:11:18,201
I don't suppose you know of any
other feeling that can be gratified but love.
912
01:11:18,340 --> 01:11:19,898
Have you never heard of revenge?
913
01:11:20,209 --> 01:11:24,942
She has cajoled me with promises of love,
and I won't let her go unpunished. Tell her that.
914
01:11:25,281 --> 01:11:28,580
I shall keep the letters
and make use of them as I see fit.
915
01:11:28,717 --> 01:11:33,051
Mr Roger Hamley shall hear of their contents,
even if he's too honourable to read them.
916
01:11:33,188 --> 01:11:37,386
Your father shall hear of them and what
Miss Kirkpatrick says about her mother in them.
917
01:11:37,526 --> 01:11:39,050
Perhaps you'd care
to read their contents yourself?
918
01:11:39,161 --> 01:11:40,856
No, I won't hear another word.
919
01:11:40,996 --> 01:11:45,194
They were written to you, only to you,
when she thought you were her friend.
920
01:11:45,334 --> 01:11:47,802
But I have thought what to do next.
921
01:11:47,936 --> 01:11:52,339
I should tell my father, but I promised not to,
so I will tell Lady Harriet
922
01:11:52,441 --> 01:11:55,410
and ask her to speak to her father about it.
923
01:11:56,545 --> 01:12:01,915
I'm sure she will, and I don't think
you'll dare refuse Lord Cumnor.
924
01:12:03,919 --> 01:12:07,582
Miss Gibson, consider your position.
925
01:12:10,292 --> 01:12:13,853
Keep still, you must be seen.
926
01:12:14,296 --> 01:12:17,390
You've done nothing to be ashamed of.
927
01:12:20,736 --> 01:12:24,172
Good morning, Miss Gibson. Your servant.
928
01:12:24,306 --> 01:12:27,639
Bit early in the day to be
meeting a sweetheart, eh, Preston?
929
01:12:29,178 --> 01:12:34,343
Yes, I'm afraid I've kept you
standing here too long, Miss Gibson.
930
01:12:35,818 --> 01:12:37,251
Good day.
931
01:12:38,887 --> 01:12:40,252
Good day.
932
01:12:46,528 --> 01:12:49,725
Sorry about that, Preston,
disturbing your little t�te-�-t�te.
933
01:12:49,832 --> 01:12:52,164
Oh, there'll be another time, I'm sure.
934
01:12:52,301 --> 01:12:54,292
I don't doubt it.
81685
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