1 00:01:04,120 --> 00:01:07,120 MUSIC PLAYS 2 00:01:24,880 --> 00:01:29,200 What a business this wedding has been! What an expense! 3 00:01:29,240 --> 00:01:34,440 You know sometimes, my dear sister, I envy you your little country parsonage. 4 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:39,440 You two married for love, I know. 5 00:01:39,480 --> 00:01:43,240 Now of course, Edith can afford to do that. 6 00:01:43,280 --> 00:01:45,880 Go on Captain, dance. 7 00:01:45,920 --> 00:01:48,160 Dance with your bride. 8 00:02:01,440 --> 00:02:03,760 You are bored, Miss Margaret? 9 00:02:03,800 --> 00:02:05,880 No. 10 00:02:05,920 --> 00:02:08,040 I'm tired. 11 00:02:08,080 --> 00:02:13,560 I'm exhausted. And a little too grown-up for ornaments like this. 12 00:02:15,120 --> 00:02:21,240 When I get married I want to wake up on a sunny day, put on my favourite dress, and just walk to the church. 13 00:02:25,080 --> 00:02:30,240 There. Is that better? I think you look very well. 14 00:02:31,800 --> 00:02:35,560 You would look very well, whatever you wore. 15 00:02:35,600 --> 00:02:37,760 I love my cousin dearly. 16 00:02:37,800 --> 00:02:40,000 I have been very happy in this house. 17 00:02:40,040 --> 00:02:43,160 But I will be even more happy to go home to Helstone tomorrow. 18 00:02:43,200 --> 00:02:45,240 Oh, the wonderful Helstone. 19 00:02:45,280 --> 00:02:46,880 You cannot be kept away. 20 00:02:46,920 --> 00:02:49,400 No. I cannot. 21 00:02:49,440 --> 00:02:51,000 It's the best place on earth. 22 00:03:15,320 --> 00:03:16,880 Margaret. 23 00:03:16,920 --> 00:03:18,240 Is that you? 24 00:03:22,720 --> 00:03:25,120 Mr Lennox! 25 00:03:25,160 --> 00:03:28,080 What's happened? Is it Edith? Some accident?! 26 00:03:28,120 --> 00:03:29,600 No, no, no, no. Calm yourself. 27 00:03:29,640 --> 00:03:31,640 No such calamity. 28 00:03:31,680 --> 00:03:33,600 I have come to visit Paradise. 29 00:03:35,160 --> 00:03:36,760 As you suggested. 30 00:03:38,480 --> 00:03:40,320 Oh, well. 31 00:03:40,360 --> 00:03:41,840 Mr Lennox. 32 00:03:43,640 --> 00:03:45,520 You'd better sit down. 33 00:04:01,560 --> 00:04:03,840 This is home. 34 00:04:25,560 --> 00:04:27,480 Mama. 35 00:04:27,520 --> 00:04:29,360 You remember Mr Lennox. 36 00:04:29,400 --> 00:04:31,840 Oh, yes. Yes, yes, of course I... 37 00:04:33,760 --> 00:04:36,760 I could walk this route with my eyes closed. 38 00:04:36,800 --> 00:04:42,560 I've been visiting father's parishioners since I was a very small girl. 39 00:04:42,600 --> 00:04:45,000 Did you hear what I just said? 40 00:04:45,040 --> 00:04:47,200 Sorry. 41 00:04:47,240 --> 00:04:50,920 I was just remembering your prescription for a perfect wedding. 42 00:04:50,960 --> 00:04:54,080 "I should like to walk to church on a sunny morning." 43 00:04:54,120 --> 00:04:56,440 Was this the path you were describing? 44 00:04:56,480 --> 00:04:59,960 Why yes. I suppose so. 45 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:04,640 I wasn't actually thinking of my wedding, you understand. 46 00:05:04,680 --> 00:05:07,280 I was wondering, Margaret, whether.... 47 00:05:07,320 --> 00:05:11,320 Please, don't wonder. Whether you might consider making that walk. 48 00:05:11,360 --> 00:05:15,920 Sharing that morning, with one, who... Please listen, Margaret... 49 00:05:15,960 --> 00:05:18,600 Please don't continue. 50 00:05:19,560 --> 00:05:21,040 I'm sorry. 51 00:05:23,440 --> 00:05:25,640 Excuse me. 52 00:05:25,680 --> 00:05:29,600 You led me to believe that such an offer would not be unwelcome. 53 00:05:29,640 --> 00:05:35,200 A London girl would have known not to talk of wedding days in such ambiguous terms. Excuse me. 54 00:05:35,240 --> 00:05:37,320 I said nothing I am ashamed of. 55 00:05:37,360 --> 00:05:42,960 I'm sorry if you have been mistaken in my affections for you. Is there someone else? 56 00:05:43,000 --> 00:05:45,320 Someone you prefer? No. 57 00:05:47,080 --> 00:05:49,680 I do like you Henry. 58 00:05:49,720 --> 00:05:51,920 But I'm not ready to marry anyone. 59 00:05:51,960 --> 00:05:54,600 You must believe that I mean what I say. 60 00:06:05,800 --> 00:06:07,320 Henry, I... 61 00:06:09,800 --> 00:06:11,800 I'm sorry. 62 00:06:31,400 --> 00:06:33,480 We'll be on the streets! 63 00:06:33,520 --> 00:06:35,440 In a strange place! 64 00:06:35,480 --> 00:06:38,280 Mama, I told you. We will stay at a hotel until we find a house. 65 00:06:38,320 --> 00:06:40,160 It won't take long. 66 00:06:40,200 --> 00:06:43,600 Perhaps Dixon and I could stay on the coast while you look? 67 00:06:43,640 --> 00:06:46,920 Oh, yes, as the missus is so delicate. 68 00:06:46,960 --> 00:06:49,400 No, Maria, your place is with us. 69 00:06:49,440 --> 00:06:51,800 It will not take us long to find a house. 70 00:06:51,840 --> 00:06:55,040 My old college friend, Mr Bell, has agreed to help. 71 00:06:55,080 --> 00:06:57,960 He's already organised a list of potential pupils. 72 00:06:58,000 --> 00:07:00,520 There'll be plenty of teaching for me. 73 00:07:04,160 --> 00:07:09,240 There will be no people there like us in Milton. How can there be?! 74 00:07:09,280 --> 00:07:11,400 We will manage, mother. 75 00:07:11,440 --> 00:07:13,840 It's not another planet. 76 00:07:15,400 --> 00:07:19,880 Outward Milton. Outward Milton! 77 00:07:19,920 --> 00:07:25,920 All change. All change for stations north. 78 00:07:25,960 --> 00:07:28,920 Why have we come here, Dixon? 79 00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:32,280 It's going to be awful. 80 00:07:33,360 --> 00:07:34,840 I know it is. 81 00:07:38,080 --> 00:07:41,400 Dixon! Take care and find a porter. 82 00:07:41,440 --> 00:07:43,320 We have arrived. 83 00:07:51,800 --> 00:07:53,640 Porter! 84 00:07:53,680 --> 00:07:55,160 Take these please. 85 00:08:10,160 --> 00:08:12,120 We'll find a house faster if we go separately. 86 00:08:12,160 --> 00:08:13,800 Are you sure? 87 00:08:13,840 --> 00:08:16,160 Of course. 88 00:09:29,920 --> 00:09:32,800 The living room is quite spacious, as you can see. 89 00:09:32,840 --> 00:09:34,880 The property is not for me. 90 00:09:34,920 --> 00:09:37,960 I am making enquiries on behalf of one of my master's business acquaintances. 91 00:09:42,720 --> 00:09:44,800 Man who is to live here is a clergyman. 92 00:09:44,840 --> 00:09:48,120 Or rather, a former clergyman. He is used to living simply. 93 00:09:48,160 --> 00:09:50,600 I don't think he has ever been a man of great property. Or fortune. 94 00:09:58,560 --> 00:10:00,760 A matter of conscience I think. 95 00:10:00,800 --> 00:10:04,200 Ah, conscience? Well, that never put bread on the table. 96 00:10:04,240 --> 00:10:09,480 South, eh? A little indiscretion took place, maybe? 97 00:10:09,520 --> 00:10:12,680 Well, they do say the devil makes work for idle hands don't they? 98 00:10:12,720 --> 00:10:14,320 Maybe his hands weren't so idle? 99 00:10:15,880 --> 00:10:19,360 Well, he'll certainly find things quite different up north. 100 00:10:19,400 --> 00:10:21,800 Oh, aye, oh, aye. I'll make good the repairs. 101 00:10:21,840 --> 00:10:23,400 But the decoration's good enough. 102 00:10:23,440 --> 00:10:27,760 Hey, what a business, eh? For a man to uproot his wife and child, to come all the way to Milton. 103 00:10:27,800 --> 00:10:31,400 Conscience or no conscience, that's strange behaviour. 104 00:10:31,440 --> 00:10:33,240 Excuse me, madam? Can I help you? 105 00:10:33,280 --> 00:10:35,040 My name is Margaret Hale. 106 00:10:35,080 --> 00:10:36,880 Who are you? 107 00:10:36,920 --> 00:10:39,120 I'm Williams, Mr Thornton's overseer. 108 00:10:39,160 --> 00:10:41,240 He asked me to look out properties for your father. 109 00:10:44,280 --> 00:10:46,280 How much is the rent for the year? 110 00:10:46,320 --> 00:10:48,880 These are details Mr Thornton will discuss with your father. 111 00:10:48,920 --> 00:10:50,720 There's no need to concern yourself. 112 00:10:50,760 --> 00:10:53,240 I have no idea who your Mr Thornton is. 113 00:10:53,280 --> 00:10:55,280 I thank him for his trouble. 114 00:10:55,320 --> 00:10:59,160 But my father and I are sharing the task of securing a property. 115 00:10:59,200 --> 00:11:02,520 I have spent two days viewing what Milton has to offer, 116 00:11:02,560 --> 00:11:04,560 so I have a fairly good idea of price. 117 00:11:04,600 --> 00:11:06,880 Mr Thornton thinks this will do very well for your father. 118 00:11:06,920 --> 00:11:08,560 Where is this Mr Thornton? 119 00:11:08,600 --> 00:11:10,720 Excuse me? 120 00:11:10,760 --> 00:11:13,160 Take me to see this Mr Thornton. 121 00:11:13,200 --> 00:11:15,480 If you won't deal with me, I'll have to deal with him. 122 00:11:40,360 --> 00:11:42,000 Does Mr Thornton live here? 123 00:11:42,040 --> 00:11:43,880 Aye. But he'll be at work. 124 00:11:47,840 --> 00:11:50,400 Stay here, Miss. I'll find Master. 125 00:13:54,360 --> 00:13:55,480 Stephens! 126 00:13:55,520 --> 00:13:58,320 Put that pipe out! 127 00:14:03,120 --> 00:14:04,800 I saw you! 128 00:14:09,200 --> 00:14:12,760 Stephens! Stephens! 129 00:14:14,840 --> 00:14:16,840 Come here! 130 00:14:20,240 --> 00:14:23,240 Smoking again?! I wasn't. Where is it? 131 00:14:23,280 --> 00:14:25,160 I wasn't smoking, I swear! 132 00:14:25,200 --> 00:14:27,360 Still warm. I warned you! 133 00:14:27,400 --> 00:14:30,440 No, no, please, Sir. No, don't, please. 134 00:14:30,480 --> 00:14:33,400 Please, Sir. 135 00:14:33,440 --> 00:14:34,600 Look at me! 136 00:14:37,200 --> 00:14:39,960 Stop! Stop, please. Stop! 137 00:14:40,000 --> 00:14:42,560 Who are you? What are you doing in here! 138 00:14:42,600 --> 00:14:45,080 My name is Margaret Hale. Miss Hale! 139 00:14:45,120 --> 00:14:46,840 I'm sorry, sir, Mr Thornton. 140 00:14:46,880 --> 00:14:49,600 Get her out of here. Aye. Crawl away on your belly. 141 00:14:49,640 --> 00:14:51,640 And don't come back! Please, Sir. 142 00:14:51,680 --> 00:14:53,560 I have little ones. 143 00:14:53,600 --> 00:14:56,200 You know the rules! 144 00:14:56,240 --> 00:14:57,840 My children will starve, Sir. 145 00:14:57,880 --> 00:15:00,000 Better they starve than burn to death. 146 00:15:00,040 --> 00:15:02,000 Get out before I call the police! 147 00:15:02,040 --> 00:15:06,360 Get that woman out of here! Please, Miss? 148 00:15:09,400 --> 00:15:12,400 Miss? Miss, please, Miss. 149 00:15:12,440 --> 00:15:14,640 Please, Miss, please. 150 00:15:56,280 --> 00:15:58,360 My darling Margaret. 151 00:15:58,400 --> 00:16:01,480 We are back at last from our honeymoon in Corfu. 152 00:16:01,520 --> 00:16:04,400 We've been away so long I am almost fluent in Greek, 153 00:16:04,440 --> 00:16:06,480 or so the Captain says. 154 00:16:06,520 --> 00:16:10,000 but you know everything he says is always so agreeable. 155 00:16:10,040 --> 00:16:15,640 Oh, dear Margaret, now I am going to say something that will make you very angry, but I can't help it. 156 00:16:15,680 --> 00:16:20,160 What was Uncle thinking of taking you all so far away from home? 157 00:16:20,200 --> 00:16:22,960 What on earth are you doing in that awful place? 158 00:16:23,000 --> 00:16:26,680 Where they make cotton, when no-one who is anyone wishes to buy it? 159 00:16:26,720 --> 00:16:29,640 I'm sure we will always wear linen. 160 00:16:31,600 --> 00:16:33,280 Dear Edith, 161 00:16:33,320 --> 00:16:39,040 I am pleased to report that we have replaced the horrible wallpapers with altogether more agreeable colours. 162 00:16:39,080 --> 00:16:43,080 Dixon has only, if you think this possible, grown in energy. 163 00:16:43,120 --> 00:16:48,200 She has set herself the task of engaging an undermaid but as yet there isn't anyone within 164 00:16:48,240 --> 00:16:53,400 a radius of at least 50 miles who is remotely suitable to wait on us hand and foot. 165 00:16:53,440 --> 00:16:56,040 I'll sit if you don't mind. 166 00:16:58,040 --> 00:17:01,880 You'll be expected to be up before the family to light the fires. 167 00:17:01,920 --> 00:17:04,760 I'm sorry. I'm not getting up at five in the morning. 168 00:17:04,800 --> 00:17:08,240 And I'm not working for those wages. 169 00:17:08,280 --> 00:17:11,240 I can get four shillings as a piecer up at Hamper's. 170 00:17:11,280 --> 00:17:17,560 Anyway, if you don't mind me asking, where's money coming from to pay for me? 171 00:17:17,600 --> 00:17:23,600 This house must be costing thirty pound a year and there's not much coming in from what I've heard. 172 00:17:23,640 --> 00:17:26,720 I'll come and go as I please. 173 00:17:26,760 --> 00:17:32,000 And I don't need no bossy jumped-up servant to tell me what's what and how to think and how to behave. 174 00:17:32,040 --> 00:17:34,040 You can keep your rotten job. 175 00:17:44,080 --> 00:17:47,320 Me! A servant indeed! 176 00:17:47,360 --> 00:17:50,320 Don't know what the master was thinking of, 177 00:17:50,360 --> 00:17:52,680 subjecting us to all this gossip. 178 00:17:55,640 --> 00:17:57,120 Margaret? 179 00:18:07,240 --> 00:18:08,920 What's the matter? 180 00:18:13,640 --> 00:18:17,360 There is some talk. 181 00:18:18,600 --> 00:18:19,960 Margaret? 182 00:18:21,960 --> 00:18:24,200 Margaret, what does she mean, talk? 183 00:18:24,240 --> 00:18:29,520 I did hear some people talking when we were house-hunting. 184 00:18:29,560 --> 00:18:32,200 About why we moved to Milton. 185 00:18:32,240 --> 00:18:35,160 So abruptly. Why you left the church. 186 00:18:35,200 --> 00:18:37,880 People are...talking? 187 00:18:37,920 --> 00:18:42,280 Well, it's only natural, after all, that people should wonder, 188 00:18:42,320 --> 00:18:45,880 it's not usual for clergymen to leave their parish, 189 00:18:45,920 --> 00:18:47,440 travel hundreds of miles, 190 00:18:47,480 --> 00:18:49,640 as if to escape something. 191 00:18:51,200 --> 00:18:54,960 Just because we follow you without question. 192 00:19:04,040 --> 00:19:06,480 It's from the Bishop. 193 00:19:06,520 --> 00:19:09,240 It's not about Frederick? Oh, no, no. 194 00:19:09,280 --> 00:19:11,960 I keep that letter with me at all times 195 00:19:12,000 --> 00:19:14,880 to reassure me that I made the right decision. 196 00:19:21,960 --> 00:19:25,160 Is this all? 197 00:19:25,200 --> 00:19:30,280 "I ask that all rectors in the diocese of the New Forest 198 00:19:30,320 --> 00:19:34,280 "reaffirm their belief in the Book of Common Prayer." Yes! There! 199 00:19:34,320 --> 00:19:35,800 Exactly. The effrontery. 200 00:19:35,840 --> 00:19:37,520 The man's ten years our junior, 201 00:19:37,560 --> 00:19:40,960 he tries to treat us all like children! 202 00:19:41,000 --> 00:19:43,880 But this is a formality surely? 203 00:19:43,920 --> 00:19:45,720 To reaffirm? 204 00:19:45,760 --> 00:19:49,120 My conscience will not let me. 205 00:19:49,160 --> 00:19:54,720 I can, and have, lived quietly with my doubts, well, for some years now. 206 00:19:56,280 --> 00:20:02,360 I cannot swear publicly to doctrines I am no longer sure of. 207 00:20:02,400 --> 00:20:05,880 We men of conscience have to make a stand. 208 00:20:05,920 --> 00:20:10,400 We? Yes. There are others who have doubts. We all agreed. 209 00:20:10,440 --> 00:20:13,720 We could not reaffirm. 210 00:20:13,760 --> 00:20:16,240 Are you telling me 211 00:20:16,280 --> 00:20:21,760 that all the rectors of the New Forest have decamped to industrial towns? 212 00:20:23,320 --> 00:20:26,080 Well... 213 00:20:26,120 --> 00:20:29,080 some thought it possible to yield. 214 00:20:30,640 --> 00:20:32,240 But I did not. 215 00:20:32,280 --> 00:20:34,160 How many? How many refused? 216 00:20:34,200 --> 00:20:38,160 I could not avoid this. I was forced into it. 217 00:20:38,200 --> 00:20:39,840 You must understand. 218 00:20:42,800 --> 00:20:44,280 I understand. 219 00:20:49,240 --> 00:20:52,200 I understood... 220 00:20:52,240 --> 00:20:55,320 that the very worst must have happened. 221 00:20:57,080 --> 00:20:59,160 That you had lost your faith. 222 00:21:01,040 --> 00:21:02,520 Or that you felt... 223 00:21:02,560 --> 00:21:06,760 that God wished you to preach his word in these new places. 224 00:21:08,560 --> 00:21:14,480 That some very great matter must have made you uproot us all, 225 00:21:14,520 --> 00:21:19,080 dragging us up to this godforsaken place. Maria! 226 00:21:19,120 --> 00:21:22,200 You gave up your livelihood... 227 00:21:26,120 --> 00:21:28,200 ..our source of income. 228 00:21:31,040 --> 00:21:35,120 On a formality? It was not like that, Maria, 229 00:21:35,160 --> 00:21:37,880 really it is not. 230 00:21:40,040 --> 00:21:42,160 I already have work, 231 00:21:42,200 --> 00:21:44,000 teaching, 232 00:21:44,040 --> 00:21:46,280 and I will find more. 233 00:21:48,160 --> 00:21:50,040 And maybe 234 00:21:50,080 --> 00:21:52,400 I will discover 235 00:21:52,440 --> 00:21:55,000 that is my real vocation after all. 236 00:21:56,560 --> 00:21:58,920 The people here don't want learning. 237 00:22:00,680 --> 00:22:05,040 They don't want books and culture. 238 00:22:06,600 --> 00:22:09,520 It's all money and smoke. 239 00:22:11,080 --> 00:22:14,200 That's what they eat and breathe. 240 00:22:20,000 --> 00:22:22,080 And you are right, Edith. 241 00:22:22,120 --> 00:22:28,400 Milton is very far from home but it is quite an interesting and modern sort of place. 242 00:22:28,440 --> 00:22:31,640 There are at least 20 mills, all very prosperous, in and around 243 00:22:31,680 --> 00:22:36,600 the town and it is full of new industry of one sort or the other. 244 00:22:36,640 --> 00:22:40,200 It is, of course, not remotely green like Helstone, 245 00:22:40,240 --> 00:22:42,960 and so large that I often lose my way 246 00:22:43,000 --> 00:22:45,360 but the people are friendly enough. 247 00:22:45,400 --> 00:22:49,720 And there is nearly always someone to point me in the right direction. 248 00:22:56,760 --> 00:22:59,920 WHISTLE BLOWS 249 00:23:23,280 --> 00:23:24,920 Watch out, lass! 250 00:23:30,640 --> 00:23:34,600 Don't please, don't. Stop, please. 251 00:23:34,640 --> 00:23:37,240 Please stop. 252 00:23:51,600 --> 00:23:53,840 Leave the lass alone. 253 00:23:53,880 --> 00:23:57,760 She shouldn't take on so. We were only having a bit of fun. 254 00:24:02,080 --> 00:24:03,560 Come on, Miss. 255 00:24:06,200 --> 00:24:09,040 Be careful where you walk when the whistle sounds for break. 256 00:24:10,600 --> 00:24:12,280 Don't worry. They won't harm you. 257 00:24:12,320 --> 00:24:15,360 They just like a bonny face. 258 00:24:15,400 --> 00:24:16,880 And yours is a picture. 259 00:24:23,840 --> 00:24:26,360 Come on. I'm obliged to you. 260 00:24:26,400 --> 00:24:29,280 Thank you, Sir. You're welcome, lass. 261 00:24:34,680 --> 00:24:36,040 No charge, Miss. 262 00:24:54,400 --> 00:24:59,920 So this century was probably the most productive, simply in terms of the number of... 263 00:24:59,960 --> 00:25:02,640 Father is working hard. He teaches students and lectures. 264 00:25:02,680 --> 00:25:10,480 Though some of it is unpaid and, I fear, unwanted. 265 00:25:10,520 --> 00:25:12,760 But he keeps happy. 266 00:25:15,800 --> 00:25:19,640 THEY CLAP WITHOUT ENTHUSIASM 267 00:25:19,680 --> 00:25:21,680 Until next Sunday. 268 00:25:22,720 --> 00:25:25,880 He entertains his private pupils at home. 269 00:25:25,920 --> 00:25:27,880 You have to make a choice, John, 270 00:25:27,920 --> 00:25:30,000 now it's difficult, I know. 271 00:25:30,040 --> 00:25:33,040 Margaret, is that you? 272 00:25:33,080 --> 00:25:35,520 Oh, Margaret, come in Margaret, come in. 273 00:25:35,560 --> 00:25:40,720 Meet my new friend, and first proper pupil. Mr Thornton. 274 00:25:40,760 --> 00:25:43,800 This is my daughter. Margaret. 275 00:25:47,360 --> 00:25:49,440 I believe your daughter and I have already met. 276 00:25:49,480 --> 00:25:54,320 Oh? Mr Thornton can't decide between Aristotle and Plato. 277 00:25:54,360 --> 00:25:56,320 I suggest we start 278 00:25:56,360 --> 00:25:59,600 with Plato and then move on. What do you think? 279 00:25:59,640 --> 00:26:03,240 I'm afraid Miss Hale and I met under less than pleasant circumstances. 280 00:26:03,280 --> 00:26:05,840 I had to dismiss a worker for smoking in the sorting room. 281 00:26:05,880 --> 00:26:08,720 I saw you beat a defenceless man who was not your equal! 282 00:26:08,760 --> 00:26:12,240 Margaret! No. she's right. 283 00:26:12,280 --> 00:26:16,960 I was angry. I have a temper. Fire is the greatest danger at my mill. I have to be strict. 284 00:26:17,000 --> 00:26:21,840 A gentleman would not use his fists on such a pathetic creature. 285 00:26:21,880 --> 00:26:23,400 Or shout at children. 286 00:26:23,440 --> 00:26:29,520 I dare say a gentleman has not had to see 300 corpses laid out on a Yorkshire hillside, as I did in May. 287 00:26:29,560 --> 00:26:31,200 And many of them were children. 288 00:26:31,240 --> 00:26:33,040 And that was an accidental flame. 289 00:26:33,080 --> 00:26:35,520 The whole mill destroyed in 20 minutes. 290 00:26:39,360 --> 00:26:41,760 I should go. 291 00:26:41,800 --> 00:26:43,520 You'll join us for dinner next week? 292 00:26:43,560 --> 00:26:45,600 Oh, yes, of course. 293 00:26:45,640 --> 00:26:51,080 Thank you. And we'll start with Plato next Tuesday? 294 00:26:51,120 --> 00:26:52,840 I will ask my mother to call. 295 00:26:52,880 --> 00:26:55,760 When you are settled. Of course. 296 00:26:55,800 --> 00:26:58,640 By all means. We are always here, aren't we, Margaret? 297 00:27:10,320 --> 00:27:17,200 I'll admit that Milton does not have any grand palaces or works of art but it does have pleasant parks 298 00:27:17,240 --> 00:27:23,600 where we take our daily walk, and meet our friends while the weather holds. 299 00:27:31,400 --> 00:27:33,640 Are you following me? No. 300 00:27:33,680 --> 00:27:38,440 Well, yes. I didn't mean any offence. I recognised you from Marlborough Mills. 301 00:27:38,480 --> 00:27:41,000 And I recognise you. 302 00:27:41,040 --> 00:27:43,400 Giving Thornton back as good as he gave. 303 00:27:44,960 --> 00:27:47,600 Don't see that every day. 304 00:27:47,640 --> 00:27:49,280 I don't want to keep you. 305 00:27:49,320 --> 00:27:52,680 And what important appointments might I have? 306 00:27:54,440 --> 00:27:56,040 I'm going to meet my father. 307 00:27:56,080 --> 00:27:58,640 He works up at Hamper's, a mile across town. 308 00:27:58,680 --> 00:28:00,400 But you work at Marlborough Mills? 309 00:28:00,440 --> 00:28:02,360 Yes. 310 00:28:02,400 --> 00:28:04,240 It's nearer home... 311 00:28:04,280 --> 00:28:06,840 and the work's easier. 312 00:28:06,880 --> 00:28:08,720 Here's Father now. 313 00:28:08,760 --> 00:28:10,480 Father. 314 00:28:10,520 --> 00:28:13,200 Young woman I told you about. 315 00:28:13,240 --> 00:28:15,640 Day Thornton beat up Stephens and sent him packing. 316 00:28:15,680 --> 00:28:18,120 He deserved it. Fool put everyone at risk. 317 00:28:20,080 --> 00:28:22,360 You're not from this part of the world, are you? 318 00:28:22,400 --> 00:28:24,760 No. I'm from the south. 319 00:28:24,800 --> 00:28:26,600 From Hampshire. Mmm. 320 00:28:26,640 --> 00:28:29,920 That's beyond London, I reckon. Mmm. 321 00:28:33,080 --> 00:28:35,480 Where do you live? 322 00:28:35,520 --> 00:28:38,680 We put up at Frances Street. In Princeton. 323 00:28:38,720 --> 00:28:40,600 Behind Golden Dragon. 324 00:28:40,640 --> 00:28:42,840 And your name? 325 00:28:42,880 --> 00:28:45,040 My name is Margaret Hale. 326 00:28:45,080 --> 00:28:49,800 My name is Nicholas Higgins. This is my daughter, Bessy Higgins. Why do you ask? 327 00:28:49,840 --> 00:28:53,800 Well, I thought that I might come and bring a basket? 328 00:28:53,840 --> 00:28:57,920 Excuse me. At home, when my father was a clergyman, of course... 329 00:28:57,960 --> 00:28:59,920 A basket? 330 00:28:59,960 --> 00:29:01,920 What would I want with a basket? 331 00:29:01,960 --> 00:29:04,240 We've little enough to put in it. 332 00:29:06,720 --> 00:29:10,040 I don't much like strangers in my house. 333 00:29:10,080 --> 00:29:12,560 I dare say in the south, where you come from, 334 00:29:12,600 --> 00:29:16,520 a young lady such as yourself feels that she can wander into anyone's house whenever they feel like it. 335 00:29:16,560 --> 00:29:20,680 But up here we wait to be asked into someone's parlour before we go charging in. 336 00:29:20,720 --> 00:29:22,560 Excuse me, Mr Higgins. 337 00:29:22,600 --> 00:29:24,280 Bessy. I didn't mean any offence. 338 00:29:24,320 --> 00:29:26,520 THUNDER GROWLS You can come if you want, 339 00:29:26,560 --> 00:29:29,640 but you'll not remember us, 340 00:29:29,680 --> 00:29:31,240 I'll bet on that. 341 00:29:44,560 --> 00:29:46,320 Margaret! 342 00:29:47,400 --> 00:29:50,240 What's the matter? Are you unwell? 343 00:29:50,280 --> 00:29:52,520 It must be Mr Thornton's mother. 344 00:29:54,080 --> 00:29:57,120 There's no mistaking that stern brow. 345 00:29:57,160 --> 00:29:59,360 And that must be the sister. 346 00:29:59,400 --> 00:30:01,600 What a deal of starch! 347 00:30:01,640 --> 00:30:05,360 It would take someone all day to iron that petticoat! 348 00:30:05,400 --> 00:30:10,360 Where will we put them, Mama? I don't think the two of them will fit in here. 349 00:30:36,120 --> 00:30:38,200 How exquisite. 350 00:30:38,240 --> 00:30:43,200 I haven't seen English pointwork quite like that for years. 351 00:30:43,240 --> 00:30:47,120 Our Milton craftsmanship can compare with the very best. 352 00:30:52,360 --> 00:30:55,240 I suppose you are not musical. As I see no piano. 353 00:30:55,280 --> 00:30:59,040 I am fond of music, but I cannot play well myself. 354 00:31:01,720 --> 00:31:06,320 As you can see, this house would hardly bear a grand instrument. 355 00:31:06,360 --> 00:31:08,360 We sold ours when we moved. 356 00:31:08,400 --> 00:31:12,080 Yes. These rooms are far too small for entertaining. 357 00:31:12,120 --> 00:31:15,840 Our staircases are wider than the whole width of this room. 358 00:31:26,280 --> 00:31:28,800 I wonder how you can exist without a piano. 359 00:31:28,840 --> 00:31:32,520 It almost seems to me a necessity of life. 360 00:31:35,560 --> 00:31:37,560 There are concerts here, I believe. 361 00:31:37,600 --> 00:31:39,880 Oh, yes! Rather crowded! 362 00:31:39,920 --> 00:31:47,320 They let in anybody. But we have whatever is the fashion in London, a little later, unfortunately. 363 00:31:47,360 --> 00:31:50,560 You know London, of course. Oh, yes. 364 00:31:50,600 --> 00:31:55,320 I lived there with my aunt and cousin for a while. Oh! 365 00:31:55,360 --> 00:31:59,760 London and the Alhambra. They are the two places I long to see! 366 00:31:59,800 --> 00:32:05,000 The Alhambra? Yes. Ever since I read the Tales Of The Alhambra. 367 00:32:05,040 --> 00:32:06,520 Do you know them? 368 00:32:06,560 --> 00:32:09,880 I don't think so. 369 00:32:09,920 --> 00:32:13,320 But it's a very easy journey to London and not half so far. 370 00:32:13,360 --> 00:32:20,120 Yes. But Mama has never been to London and she cannot understand why I long to go. 371 00:32:20,160 --> 00:32:22,920 She is very proud of Milton. 372 00:32:22,960 --> 00:32:25,120 Dirty, smoky, place that it is. 373 00:32:25,160 --> 00:32:26,640 I can't wait to leave. 374 00:32:29,320 --> 00:32:32,320 May I ask why you chose to come and live in Milton? 375 00:32:32,360 --> 00:32:36,360 I mean why did you leave... wherever it was? Helstone. 376 00:32:40,120 --> 00:32:44,080 Well, it was my husband's decision. 377 00:32:44,120 --> 00:32:47,000 It was a matter of conscience. 378 00:32:47,040 --> 00:32:49,280 But Mr Hale is no longer a clergyman, I thought? 379 00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:56,240 My husband very much enjoys his lessons with Mr Thornton. 380 00:32:56,280 --> 00:32:59,200 I think it makes him feel young again. 381 00:32:59,240 --> 00:33:02,160 Classics are all very well for men who loiter their lives away 382 00:33:02,200 --> 00:33:08,200 in the country or in colleges, but Milton men ought to have all their energies absorbed by today's work. 383 00:33:08,240 --> 00:33:11,480 They should have one aim only. 384 00:33:11,520 --> 00:33:17,560 Which is to hold and maintain an honourable place amongst the merchants of this country. 385 00:33:17,600 --> 00:33:19,880 Go where you will, 386 00:33:19,920 --> 00:33:24,680 the name of John Thornton in Milton, manufacturer and magistrate, 387 00:33:24,720 --> 00:33:29,120 is known and respected amongst all men of business. 388 00:33:29,160 --> 00:33:33,400 And sought after by all the young women in Milton. 389 00:33:33,440 --> 00:33:35,200 Not all of them, surely! 390 00:33:38,760 --> 00:33:42,840 If you had a son like mine, Mrs Hale, you would not be embarrassed to sing his praises. 391 00:33:49,360 --> 00:33:56,920 If you can bear to visit our dirty, smoky home, we shall receive you next week. 392 00:34:44,400 --> 00:34:47,000 Mrs Thornton. 393 00:34:47,040 --> 00:34:50,720 Well, what a splendid house. 394 00:34:50,760 --> 00:34:57,560 But do you not find the proximity to the mill a little...well...noisy? 395 00:34:57,600 --> 00:34:59,320 Never. 396 00:34:59,360 --> 00:35:05,040 I've not become so fine as to forget the source of my son's power and wealth. 397 00:35:05,080 --> 00:35:06,960 The mill is everything. 398 00:35:08,520 --> 00:35:11,040 There is no other factory like it in Milton. 399 00:35:13,720 --> 00:35:16,840 This house is my son's achievement. 400 00:35:22,080 --> 00:35:26,160 Did I tell you, Thornton, about the price of raw cotton I found in Le Havre? 401 00:35:26,200 --> 00:35:28,280 I believe you did. 402 00:35:28,320 --> 00:35:32,080 Come on Thornton, even you can spot a bargain when you see it. 403 00:35:32,120 --> 00:35:34,120 Cotton's a great deal cheaper from the Caribbean than from America. 404 00:35:34,160 --> 00:35:37,400 That's nonsense. I'll bet you Egyptian cotton is still much cheaper. 405 00:35:37,440 --> 00:35:40,200 I don't believe they can offer at those prices for long. 406 00:35:40,240 --> 00:35:43,000 They'll be bankrupt in a year and we'll have our supply interrupted. 407 00:35:43,040 --> 00:35:46,120 I'd rather pay more and have a steady supply through Liverpool. 408 00:35:46,160 --> 00:35:48,120 Others can do as they wish. 409 00:35:48,160 --> 00:35:52,560 Thornton's as straight as they come. He won't risk Marlborough Mills in any risky enterprise, 410 00:35:52,600 --> 00:35:54,600 even if it means he passes up the chance to speculate. 411 00:35:54,640 --> 00:35:59,640 But that's the best way surely? With so many lives depending on the factory's continued success. 412 00:36:01,200 --> 00:36:02,880 Well, that's the Christian way. 413 00:36:02,920 --> 00:36:08,240 By the way, everyone, have you heard the latest over clamouring for a new wheel? 414 00:36:08,280 --> 00:36:10,280 I thought you had agreed to the wheel? Yeah, well, I had. 415 00:36:10,320 --> 00:36:12,600 First the men threatened to turn out if I didn't install 416 00:36:12,640 --> 00:36:15,120 the infernal wheel, which would have cost me six hundred pound. 417 00:36:15,160 --> 00:36:19,120 The wheel blows away the strands of cotton that flies off in the sorting rooms. 418 00:36:19,160 --> 00:36:23,760 Helps keep fluff off the workers' lungs. It doesn't stop it, but it helps. So what was the problem? 419 00:36:23,800 --> 00:36:27,280 The workers claimed they'd need more money to work in a place with a wheel. 420 00:36:27,320 --> 00:36:30,880 What? Yes. believe me. They'd heard it'd make them hungry. 421 00:36:30,920 --> 00:36:32,680 No?! Even hungrier than they claim they always are. 422 00:36:32,720 --> 00:36:35,200 The wheel would make them hungry? Yes. I swear. 423 00:36:35,240 --> 00:36:40,440 They said if I put the wheel in, there would be less fluff to swallow so their bellies would be emptier. 424 00:36:40,480 --> 00:36:44,440 Yes, so... Oh, and this is the beautiful part. 425 00:36:44,480 --> 00:36:47,520 They were saying that I'd have to pay them more. 426 00:36:47,560 --> 00:36:50,680 And now the men can't agree to what they want. So... 427 00:36:50,720 --> 00:36:53,960 I've been spared £600 and the men have only themselves to thank 428 00:36:54,000 --> 00:36:58,640 for the carding rooms being like Christmas every day with all that sneezing. 429 00:36:58,680 --> 00:37:03,200 Oh, come on, Thornton, surely you wouldn't approve of your workers telling you what to pay them? 430 00:37:03,240 --> 00:37:05,880 I've had a wheel in all my sheds for these past two years. 431 00:37:05,920 --> 00:37:08,200 Well, more fool you. I can't see profit in it. 432 00:37:08,240 --> 00:37:10,240 There is no immediate profit. 433 00:37:10,280 --> 00:37:13,720 None that you can count in pounds, shillings and pence. 434 00:37:13,760 --> 00:37:17,560 But? Well there is a "but" isn't there? But... 435 00:37:17,600 --> 00:37:19,320 my workers are healthier. 436 00:37:19,360 --> 00:37:21,200 Their lungs don't clog so easily. 437 00:37:21,240 --> 00:37:23,640 They work for me longer. Their children work for me longer. 438 00:37:23,680 --> 00:37:25,200 Even you can see the profit in that. 439 00:37:25,240 --> 00:37:27,800 But surely it's the right path also. 440 00:37:27,840 --> 00:37:32,440 Sound business sense, Mr Hale, and I cannot operate under any other moral law. 441 00:37:32,480 --> 00:37:35,520 I do not run a charitable institution. 442 00:37:35,560 --> 00:37:39,560 My workers expect me to be hard but truthful. 443 00:37:39,600 --> 00:37:43,680 I always tell them how things are and they either take it or they leave it. 444 00:37:43,720 --> 00:37:46,160 Harkness is always trying little tricks with his workers. 445 00:37:46,200 --> 00:37:48,000 Keep them on their toes. 446 00:37:48,040 --> 00:37:52,920 It's a war, and we masters have to win it or go under. 447 00:37:52,960 --> 00:37:55,960 THEY CHUCKLE 448 00:38:02,840 --> 00:38:05,440 Mama, I have a letter from Edith. 449 00:38:05,480 --> 00:38:09,600 Would you like me to read it to you? She sends love from Aunt Shaw. 450 00:38:09,640 --> 00:38:12,840 I wonder that your father prefers the company of Milton tradesmen. 451 00:38:12,880 --> 00:38:16,400 As if there wasn't enough to do already. 452 00:38:16,440 --> 00:38:18,520 We've got no help to speak of. 453 00:38:18,560 --> 00:38:21,640 I have to do everything! 454 00:38:21,680 --> 00:38:24,040 It's all the master's fault. 455 00:38:24,080 --> 00:38:27,120 He took leave of his senses when he brought us here. 456 00:38:31,560 --> 00:38:34,080 He is not the vicar of Helstone any more. 457 00:38:34,120 --> 00:38:39,000 He has thrown away his position in society and brought us all down with him. 458 00:38:39,040 --> 00:38:40,800 He'll be the death of us all! 459 00:38:48,920 --> 00:38:50,440 Dixon! 460 00:38:52,080 --> 00:38:55,040 I know you love my mother but you forget yourself. 461 00:38:55,080 --> 00:38:57,640 Please don't talk about my father in that way. 462 00:38:57,680 --> 00:39:01,400 It's not for you to question his motives or judgment. 463 00:39:01,440 --> 00:39:03,800 You are a servant in this house. 464 00:39:03,840 --> 00:39:08,720 If you have such thoughts keep them to yourself or you are free to leave and go back to Helstone. 465 00:39:11,320 --> 00:39:13,800 Like it or not... 466 00:39:13,840 --> 00:39:15,360 we are here. 467 00:39:17,120 --> 00:39:19,680 I will help you. 468 00:39:19,720 --> 00:39:21,280 You, Miss Margaret? 469 00:39:21,320 --> 00:39:24,200 In the kitchen? Yes. 470 00:39:24,240 --> 00:39:25,800 Me. 471 00:39:25,840 --> 00:39:31,000 I can learn to starch and iron. And I will until we find suitable help. 472 00:39:31,040 --> 00:39:33,040 You'll do as I say, Dixon. 473 00:39:41,280 --> 00:39:45,680 Excuse me. I'm looking for Bessy Higgins. I must have come in the wrong direction. 474 00:39:45,720 --> 00:39:48,760 She lives along the way. Just round corner. CHILD CRIES 475 00:39:48,800 --> 00:39:50,280 It's all right. 476 00:39:50,320 --> 00:39:52,160 She's not frightened of you. 477 00:39:52,200 --> 00:39:54,240 She's hungry, that's why she cries. 478 00:39:57,680 --> 00:39:59,400 Bessy's just round corner. 479 00:40:36,720 --> 00:40:38,800 Excuse me, I thought Bessy Higgins lived here. 480 00:40:42,480 --> 00:40:45,600 I'm sorry I didn't come earlier. 481 00:40:45,640 --> 00:40:49,080 To tell you the truth, I didn't know that I would be welcome. 482 00:40:49,120 --> 00:40:51,960 I thought the groceries would be offensive. 483 00:40:52,000 --> 00:40:53,640 But if I had come without anything... 484 00:40:53,680 --> 00:40:57,160 If there's a remote possibility of us finding offence, 485 00:40:57,200 --> 00:40:58,840 you can be sure we will. 486 00:40:58,880 --> 00:41:01,720 We're very good at that in Milton. 487 00:41:03,400 --> 00:41:06,440 I feel I've lived in Milton for quite some time now. 488 00:41:06,480 --> 00:41:10,360 But I still find myself constantly at fault, whichever way I turn. 489 00:41:10,400 --> 00:41:12,800 How long do you think it will take for that to change? 490 00:41:12,840 --> 00:41:16,120 Oh, a couple of years, at least, in your case. 491 00:41:27,120 --> 00:41:30,000 SHE COUGHS 492 00:41:30,040 --> 00:41:36,080 Sorry. It's just a bit of cold I can't seem to shift. 493 00:41:51,640 --> 00:41:53,960 She were right. She said you'd come. 494 00:41:54,000 --> 00:41:56,480 How was the meeting, Father? 495 00:41:59,360 --> 00:42:02,120 Do not worry on my account. 496 00:42:02,160 --> 00:42:05,400 I have no-one to tell any secrets to. 497 00:42:05,440 --> 00:42:09,320 Your father. The parson's been seen supping with the bosses. 498 00:42:09,360 --> 00:42:10,880 Mr Thornton is his pupil. 499 00:42:10,920 --> 00:42:13,960 He is certainly not my friend. And Boucher? 500 00:42:14,000 --> 00:42:17,280 He's our neighbour down the way. 501 00:42:17,320 --> 00:42:20,440 He's holding up, just., 502 00:42:20,480 --> 00:42:25,360 but he'll be with us when the fire goes up right enough, if he knows what's good for him. 503 00:42:25,400 --> 00:42:29,440 Miss Margaret, your father teaches at the Lyceum Hall doesn't he? Yes, he does. 504 00:42:29,480 --> 00:42:31,640 Sunday afternoons. 505 00:42:35,760 --> 00:42:38,760 GIRL SINGS > 506 00:42:38,800 --> 00:42:42,680 Mother, remember I go to the Hales this evening. 507 00:42:42,720 --> 00:42:45,640 I will be home to dress but then out until late. 508 00:42:45,680 --> 00:42:50,240 Dress! Why should you dress up to take tea with an old parson? 509 00:42:50,280 --> 00:42:53,080 Ex-parson. Mr Hale is a gentleman. 510 00:42:53,120 --> 00:42:55,360 And his daughter is an accomplished young lady. 511 00:42:57,960 --> 00:43:01,880 Don't worry, Mother, I'm in no danger from Miss Hale. 512 00:43:01,920 --> 00:43:05,560 She is very unlikely to consider me a catch. 513 00:43:05,600 --> 00:43:08,800 She's from the South. She doesn't care for our northern ways. 514 00:43:08,840 --> 00:43:11,080 Airs and graces. 515 00:43:11,120 --> 00:43:16,120 What business has she, a renegade clergyman's daughter, 516 00:43:16,160 --> 00:43:21,360 who's now only fit to play at giving useless lectures to those who do not wish to hear them? 517 00:43:21,400 --> 00:43:24,120 What right has she to turn up her nose at you! 518 00:43:24,160 --> 00:43:27,600 Board up the windows. There'll be a storm later. 519 00:44:04,640 --> 00:44:07,480 THUNDER GROWLS 520 00:44:07,520 --> 00:44:10,240 All motion and energy, but truly, a thing of beauty. 521 00:44:10,280 --> 00:44:12,840 Classics will have to be rewritten to include it. 522 00:44:14,560 --> 00:44:18,760 Ah, I'm afraid we're boring Miss Hale with our enthusiasm for Arkwright's invention. 523 00:44:18,800 --> 00:44:20,640 No. 524 00:44:20,680 --> 00:44:24,320 Indeed, I'm sure it's fascinating. 525 00:44:24,360 --> 00:44:27,320 I am a little tired, that's all. 526 00:44:53,120 --> 00:44:57,240 Mr Thornton has been admiring our newly redecorated rooms, Maria. 527 00:44:57,280 --> 00:45:00,000 Oh, yes, Mr Thornton, 528 00:45:00,040 --> 00:45:04,880 well there wasn't a great deal of choice, but these papers 529 00:45:04,920 --> 00:45:07,960 are of a similar shade to our drawing room in Helstone, 530 00:45:08,000 --> 00:45:10,280 but not quite. 531 00:45:10,320 --> 00:45:14,520 Well, on behalf of Milton taste I'm glad we've almost passed muster. 532 00:45:14,560 --> 00:45:17,920 Yes, yes, well, 533 00:45:17,960 --> 00:45:20,760 very clearly you are very proud of Milton. 534 00:45:20,800 --> 00:45:24,640 My husband admires its energy and its... 535 00:45:27,240 --> 00:45:32,840 Its people are very busy making their businesses successful. 536 00:45:32,880 --> 00:45:36,240 I won't deny it. I'd rather be toiling here, success or failure, 537 00:45:36,280 --> 00:45:40,880 than leading a dull prosperous life in the South with their slow careless days of ease. 538 00:45:40,920 --> 00:45:45,360 You are mistaken. You don't know anything about the South. 539 00:45:45,400 --> 00:45:49,200 It may be a little less energetic in its pursuit of competitive trade, 540 00:45:49,240 --> 00:45:53,040 but then there is less suffering than I've seen in your mills. 541 00:45:53,080 --> 00:45:54,920 And all for what? 542 00:45:54,960 --> 00:45:57,960 We make cotton. Which no-one wants to wear! 543 00:45:58,000 --> 00:46:02,440 I think that I might say you do not know the North. 544 00:46:02,480 --> 00:46:06,200 We masters are not all the same, whatever your prejudice against Milton men and their ways. 545 00:46:06,240 --> 00:46:08,120 I have seen how you treat your men. 546 00:46:08,160 --> 00:46:12,160 You treat them as you wish because they are beneath you. No. I do not. 547 00:46:12,200 --> 00:46:16,640 You have been blessed with good luck and fortune, but others have not. 548 00:46:16,680 --> 00:46:19,000 I do know something of hardship. 549 00:46:21,560 --> 00:46:27,680 16 years ago, my father died in very miserable circumstances. 550 00:46:27,720 --> 00:46:31,960 I became the head of the family very quickly, I was taken out of school. 551 00:46:32,000 --> 00:46:34,480 I think that I might say that my only good luck 552 00:46:34,520 --> 00:46:38,920 was to have a mother of such strong will and integrity. 553 00:46:38,960 --> 00:46:41,120 I went to work in a draper's shop. 554 00:46:41,160 --> 00:46:45,400 And my mother managed so that I could put three shillings aside a week. 555 00:46:45,440 --> 00:46:48,440 It taught me self denial. 556 00:46:48,480 --> 00:46:52,560 Now I am able to keep my mother in such comfort as her age requires 557 00:46:52,600 --> 00:46:55,840 and I thank her every day for that early training. 558 00:46:55,880 --> 00:47:03,920 So, Miss Hale, I do not think that I was especially blessed with good fortune or luck. 559 00:47:11,040 --> 00:47:14,000 I have outstayed my welcome. Oh, no John. 560 00:47:14,040 --> 00:47:17,800 Come, Miss Hale, let us part friends despite our differences. 561 00:47:17,840 --> 00:47:21,600 If we become more familiar with each other's traditions we may learn to be more tolerant, I think. 562 00:47:31,960 --> 00:47:34,800 I'll see myself out. 563 00:47:45,120 --> 00:47:47,120 Margaret! 564 00:47:47,160 --> 00:47:50,400 The handshake is used up here in all forms of society. 565 00:47:50,440 --> 00:47:55,240 I think you gave Mr Thornton real offence by refusing to take his hand. 566 00:47:55,280 --> 00:47:57,920 I'm sorry, Father! 567 00:47:57,960 --> 00:48:01,360 I'm sorry I am so slow to learn the rules of civility in Milton. 568 00:48:02,920 --> 00:48:04,480 But I'm tired. 569 00:48:04,520 --> 00:48:09,600 I have spent the whole day washing curtains so that Mr Thornton should feel at home. 570 00:48:09,640 --> 00:48:14,040 So please excuse me if I misunderstood the handshake. 571 00:48:16,040 --> 00:48:23,200 I'm sure in London, a gentleman would never expect a lady to take his hand like that, all unexpectedly. 572 00:48:23,240 --> 00:48:27,440 And I'm sure I didn't know where to look when he told us about his past. 573 00:48:27,480 --> 00:48:31,080 His father might have died in the workhouse! 574 00:48:31,120 --> 00:48:34,080 I think it might have been worse than that. 575 00:48:38,640 --> 00:48:44,760 According to my friend Mr Bell, his father speculated wildly and lost. 576 00:48:44,800 --> 00:48:48,200 He was swindled by a business partner in London. 577 00:48:48,240 --> 00:48:49,720 He... 578 00:48:51,800 --> 00:48:53,360 He killed himself. 579 00:48:54,920 --> 00:48:57,640 Because he couldn't bear the disgrace. 580 00:48:57,680 --> 00:49:02,160 Mother, son and daughter lived on nothing for years 581 00:49:02,200 --> 00:49:07,200 so that the creditors could be repaid, long after they had given up any hope of settlement. 582 00:49:08,760 --> 00:49:10,240 Margaret? 583 00:49:12,240 --> 00:49:14,720 I think it very fine, Father. 584 00:49:14,760 --> 00:49:18,560 I am sorry to have offended your friend. 585 00:49:18,600 --> 00:49:21,680 And I must go to bed. 586 00:50:03,680 --> 00:50:05,760 Ah. Put him down, he's one of ours isn't he? 587 00:50:05,800 --> 00:50:07,720 Boucher? He's Thornton's. 588 00:50:07,760 --> 00:50:09,800 Aren't you interested Thornton? 589 00:50:09,840 --> 00:50:13,160 All the mills together, if you please. We need to show them. 590 00:50:13,200 --> 00:50:14,840 We know what they're up to. 591 00:50:14,880 --> 00:50:18,040 Let them meet. If that's how they want to spend their leisure time. 592 00:50:18,080 --> 00:50:22,640 We're all trying to work together, Thornton. Are we? 593 00:50:22,680 --> 00:50:24,720 What does that mean? 594 00:50:24,760 --> 00:50:28,160 I overheard some of my men talking. 595 00:50:28,200 --> 00:50:31,000 It seems you're planning to give into them. 596 00:50:31,040 --> 00:50:34,480 We agreed we'd all be in line, 597 00:50:34,520 --> 00:50:40,040 so that the men would know we meant business and know that we kept our word. 598 00:50:40,080 --> 00:50:41,600 Well...I... 599 00:50:53,000 --> 00:50:54,400 Father? 600 00:50:58,520 --> 00:51:04,200 My pupils asked if they could use the hall for a special meeting. 601 00:51:04,240 --> 00:51:07,160 Who am I to force Ecclesiastical Architecture on them? 602 00:51:07,200 --> 00:51:10,200 CHEERING 603 00:51:10,240 --> 00:51:14,360 Quiet! Quiet, please! 604 00:51:16,400 --> 00:51:19,120 Friends. 605 00:51:19,160 --> 00:51:21,840 Welcome. 606 00:51:21,880 --> 00:51:25,520 Now this is the first time we have ever gathered together! 607 00:51:28,880 --> 00:51:33,040 Don't worry, we'll all get to speak as long as we take our turn. 608 00:51:33,080 --> 00:51:35,080 Now I'm Nicholas Higgins. 609 00:51:35,120 --> 00:51:37,440 I work up at Hamper's Mill. 610 00:51:37,480 --> 00:51:39,520 There's quite a few of us! 611 00:51:39,560 --> 00:51:42,520 And there's some men from Thornton's and Marlborough Mill? 612 00:51:42,560 --> 00:51:45,400 Where's Henderson's? 613 00:51:45,440 --> 00:51:48,400 What about Slickson's? 614 00:51:49,720 --> 00:51:52,640 Now up at Hamper's 615 00:51:52,680 --> 00:51:55,200 we've got a lot of work. 616 00:51:55,240 --> 00:51:58,600 Orders are flooding in and cheap cotton to meet them. 617 00:51:58,640 --> 00:52:05,000 There's those of us that know soon bosses'll be telling us although they're making a fat profit, 618 00:52:05,040 --> 00:52:09,040 they can't make our pay to what it were five years ago. 619 00:52:09,080 --> 00:52:13,320 Now they'll have a load of excuses. 620 00:52:13,360 --> 00:52:17,160 It's all because cotton's suddenly become expensive. 621 00:52:17,200 --> 00:52:20,280 This or that bit of machinery packed up. 622 00:52:20,320 --> 00:52:23,840 The buyers can't pay, so there's no money to pay us. 623 00:52:23,880 --> 00:52:25,840 You've all heard it before. 624 00:52:25,880 --> 00:52:28,320 Aye, but bosses make their own rules. 625 00:52:28,360 --> 00:52:30,520 Henderson's says one thing. Hamper's another. 626 00:52:30,560 --> 00:52:32,240 Different from one week to the next. 627 00:52:32,280 --> 00:52:35,720 But what's to stop them cutting pay again, eh? 628 00:52:35,760 --> 00:52:39,160 And if we quit over wages there's more'll take our places. 629 00:52:39,200 --> 00:52:44,880 And that is why we must all work together. 630 00:52:44,920 --> 00:52:50,000 Because next time one of our bosses plays tricks, we'll all know about it. 631 00:52:50,040 --> 00:52:52,960 If we all decide on a fair wage, and none of us, 632 00:52:53,000 --> 00:52:56,280 none of us work for less, then for once we'll have a say. 633 00:52:57,360 --> 00:52:59,120 And if bosses don't like it? 634 00:52:59,160 --> 00:53:02,600 What if they don't like it? What do we do then? What do we do then? 635 00:53:04,440 --> 00:53:05,960 Boucher. 636 00:53:06,000 --> 00:53:11,600 It's... It's all right some of you talking brave. 637 00:53:11,640 --> 00:53:15,320 Nicholas here earns what? 15, 16 shilling a week? 638 00:53:15,360 --> 00:53:17,080 He's only three to keep on it. 639 00:53:17,120 --> 00:53:19,480 My wife's sick. 640 00:53:19,520 --> 00:53:23,680 I've six children, none of them old enough for factory work. 641 00:53:25,240 --> 00:53:26,720 if I turn out 642 00:53:26,760 --> 00:53:31,360 we'll not be able to live on five shillings strike pay from the union. 643 00:53:31,400 --> 00:53:32,880 My children... 644 00:53:34,840 --> 00:53:36,600 ..they'll starve. 645 00:53:40,640 --> 00:53:42,840 Look, I'm not saying 646 00:53:42,880 --> 00:53:45,080 that we're coming out today. 647 00:53:45,120 --> 00:53:48,360 I'm not saying that we're coming out tomorrow. 648 00:53:48,400 --> 00:53:51,160 What I'm saying is 649 00:53:51,200 --> 00:53:53,800 when the time comes, 650 00:53:53,840 --> 00:53:59,360 we will be ready and we will stick together. 651 00:54:22,080 --> 00:54:24,040 Margaret. 652 00:54:24,080 --> 00:54:27,320 I know you and your mother feel I've let you down. 653 00:54:27,360 --> 00:54:28,880 Father, no. No. 654 00:54:28,920 --> 00:54:30,560 You do. 655 00:54:30,600 --> 00:54:33,120 I know. 656 00:54:33,160 --> 00:54:36,720 But I hope you'll realise that the people up here... 657 00:54:36,760 --> 00:54:39,080 they aren't so very different. 658 00:54:39,120 --> 00:54:41,360 You know, they just have different ways. 659 00:54:51,800 --> 00:54:53,920 Master? 660 00:54:53,960 --> 00:54:56,160 What are you doing here? 661 00:54:56,200 --> 00:54:58,680 I beg you to take me back. Get out. 662 00:54:58,720 --> 00:55:01,160 I were at the meeting this evening. 663 00:55:01,200 --> 00:55:04,560 I can tell you what they're planning. What's in their thoughts. 664 00:55:04,600 --> 00:55:06,440 Please, sir, I beg you. 665 00:55:06,480 --> 00:55:09,760 Get out and don't come near this mill again. Who's there? 666 00:55:09,800 --> 00:55:11,480 It's only us. 667 00:55:11,520 --> 00:55:13,720 I promise... Get away from here! 668 00:55:22,120 --> 00:55:24,440 Couldn't you show a little mercy? Mr Hale! 669 00:55:26,280 --> 00:55:31,000 Please do not try to tell me my business. 670 00:55:31,040 --> 00:55:33,280 Remember. They do things differently here. 671 00:55:35,920 --> 00:55:37,800 Come, Father. 672 00:56:01,320 --> 00:56:03,480 I wish I could tell you, Edith, 673 00:56:03,520 --> 00:56:06,400 how lonely I am... 674 00:56:06,440 --> 00:56:09,600 how cold and harsh it is here. 675 00:56:09,640 --> 00:56:14,600 Everywhere there is conflict and unkindness. 676 00:56:29,040 --> 00:56:32,040 I think God has forsaken this place. 677 00:56:36,960 --> 00:56:39,480 I believe I've seen Hell. 678 00:56:41,560 --> 00:56:44,040 And it's white. 679 00:56:44,080 --> 00:56:46,240 It's snow white. 680 00:57:18,240 --> 00:57:22,560 Subtitles by Red Bee Media