1 00:01:37,000 --> 00:01:38,599 It won't be long now, Miss Ronberry. 2 00:01:38,678 --> 00:01:40,433 For once the train from London is on time. 3 00:01:40,468 --> 00:01:42,665 You arranged for the transfer to the station, Mr. Jones ? 4 00:01:42,693 --> 00:01:44,458 I did. And I notified the Squire as well. 5 00:01:44,498 --> 00:01:47,405 The colonel is sure to be on time. Military discipline. 6 00:01:48,593 --> 00:01:50,554 - Well, Sarah ? - Are you finished, m'am ? 7 00:01:50,571 --> 00:01:52,198 Is everything spick and span ? 8 00:01:52,219 --> 00:01:54,696 I made the bed lovely and I dusted... 9 00:01:54,711 --> 00:01:58,555 Well that will be all, dear. The Colonel is bound to have his own manservant. 10 00:01:58,646 --> 00:02:01,170 Then I had better have another sit down in my post office. 11 00:02:01,228 --> 00:02:02,790 What's the matter with your post office ? 12 00:02:02,825 --> 00:02:05,404 It has not had a letter in 7 weeks. 13 00:02:05,439 --> 00:02:07,142 Nobody but me can write 14 00:02:07,206 --> 00:02:10,477 and no good me writing because nobody but me can read. 15 00:02:10,512 --> 00:02:12,556 You see ? Anybody in Wales will tell you that 16 00:02:12,622 --> 00:02:15,537 the people in this part of the countryside are barbarians. 17 00:02:15,572 --> 00:02:19,613 I can't think why a colonel should elect to come and live in a place like this. 18 00:02:19,906 --> 00:02:22,332 I've never seen so many books. 19 00:02:22,466 --> 00:02:25,573 I do hope the curtains won't seem too feminine. 20 00:02:25,608 --> 00:02:27,483 I chose them with such care. 21 00:02:27,566 --> 00:02:30,908 The spinning wheel too. And the china. 22 00:02:31,463 --> 00:02:34,221 His own furniture's so distinctive. 23 00:02:34,256 --> 00:02:37,153 The desk. And the wastepaper basket. 24 00:02:37,188 --> 00:02:39,318 So virile. 25 00:02:39,353 --> 00:02:41,821 A wastepaper basket that is virile. 26 00:02:41,856 --> 00:02:45,349 Are you hoping the colonel will live up to his wastepaper basket ? 27 00:02:45,384 --> 00:02:48,921 That's horrid, Mr. Jones. Even for a Welshman. 28 00:02:57,633 --> 00:02:59,484 What are those words you're singing ? 29 00:02:59,519 --> 00:03:00,964 The wicked shall burn in hell. 30 00:03:08,623 --> 00:03:09,712 Good evening. 31 00:03:16,024 --> 00:03:17,031 Come in. 32 00:03:18,507 --> 00:03:20,127 - The Squire. -Oh. 33 00:03:22,519 --> 00:03:25,250 - Mister Treverby. - My delicious lady. 34 00:03:25,285 --> 00:03:28,790 - Squire. - Delicious surprise and a merry afternoon to you... 35 00:03:28,825 --> 00:03:30,601 as our ancestors used to say. 36 00:03:31,231 --> 00:03:32,763 - Good day to you. - Good afternoon. 37 00:03:32,768 --> 00:03:35,049 No, no, no, squat, dear fellow. Squat. 38 00:03:35,504 --> 00:03:36,966 Make no ceremony with me. 39 00:03:37,901 --> 00:03:40,333 - No sign of the new inhabitant ? - Any moment now, I think. 40 00:03:40,401 --> 00:03:42,147 Well, let's hope the new fool is all right. 41 00:03:42,251 --> 00:03:43,385 - Why ? - Why... 42 00:03:44,541 --> 00:03:45,804 all these books, 43 00:03:45,939 --> 00:03:48,538 it isn't possible that one fellow could have read them all, 44 00:03:48,895 --> 00:03:50,436 or ever will. 45 00:03:51,836 --> 00:03:52,901 They're here. 46 00:03:53,011 --> 00:03:54,152 At last. 47 00:03:54,203 --> 00:03:57,190 They're trapped with all the luggage. Made good time from the station too. 48 00:03:57,465 --> 00:04:00,460 What does he look like, Mr. Jones ? Is he young ? 49 00:04:00,694 --> 00:04:03,693 - Middle aged ? - No sign of any colonel yet. 50 00:04:04,106 --> 00:04:06,956 - Only two women. - Two women ? 51 00:04:07,247 --> 00:04:09,943 Come on, Bessie. Get a move on with these parcels. 52 00:04:11,045 --> 00:04:12,876 What are we being brought here for ? 53 00:04:13,136 --> 00:04:15,124 - I hate it I do. - Shut up. 54 00:04:15,125 --> 00:04:16,911 This place is a clinker, that's what. 55 00:04:16,996 --> 00:04:19,946 - And don't it save us from the law ? - I hate it anyhow. 56 00:04:20,239 --> 00:04:24,353 If we had stayed in London, I could have nabbed that red dress I admired. 57 00:04:24,533 --> 00:04:27,890 Ungrateful girl, that's what you are. Behave yourself. 58 00:04:28,035 --> 00:04:30,292 You haven't had the chance to live in luxury 59 00:04:30,309 --> 00:04:32,428 and you go bleeting about your red dress. 60 00:04:32,459 --> 00:04:35,395 - Oh, it's going to be lovely here. - It smells. 61 00:04:36,040 --> 00:04:39,656 Hush ! Now you go down to the station and get the big trunks. 62 00:04:40,315 --> 00:04:42,429 Oh, these bags are a mess. 63 00:04:44,781 --> 00:04:48,790 - Who are you ? - I never speak until I'm spoken to. 64 00:04:49,344 --> 00:04:50,898 Well, speak up now, my girl. 65 00:04:51,112 --> 00:04:52,829 Bessie Watty is the name. 66 00:04:53,317 --> 00:04:56,748 If anybody could say I really got a name at all. 67 00:04:59,165 --> 00:05:01,636 - Is this Pengarth House ? - It is. 68 00:05:04,891 --> 00:05:07,097 - What's wrong with it ? - What's good about it ? 69 00:05:07,831 --> 00:05:10,520 Bit of a puzzle for you, that one, wasn't it now ? 70 00:05:10,726 --> 00:05:12,607 We'll have none of your impudence. 71 00:05:12,772 --> 00:05:14,341 - Do you speak English ? - I do. 72 00:05:14,419 --> 00:05:15,819 Then be a dear and hold this. 73 00:05:16,813 --> 00:05:18,976 Do you know that creature, my girl ? Who is she ? 74 00:05:19,111 --> 00:05:20,145 My mummy. 75 00:05:20,509 --> 00:05:23,447 - I never had no daddy. - I'm sorry. It seems a pity. 76 00:05:23,414 --> 00:05:27,600 We all has our cross to bear. Having no daddy is mine. 77 00:05:27,635 --> 00:05:30,057 - Strike me pink that they're heavy. - What are they ? 78 00:05:30,156 --> 00:05:31,239 - Books. - More books ? 79 00:05:31,312 --> 00:05:33,647 Look here, my good woman. Is your employer with ill ? 80 00:05:33,802 --> 00:05:36,106 No. Followed behind most of the way. 81 00:05:36,119 --> 00:05:38,397 Ought to be here by now. I'll have a see. 82 00:05:39,964 --> 00:05:41,707 Oh, here they are. Tally-o! 83 00:05:42,876 --> 00:05:44,656 Thought we'd lost you. 84 00:05:44,695 --> 00:05:45,995 What a beautiful country. 85 00:05:46,212 --> 00:05:47,633 I'd hoped to catch up with you. 86 00:05:47,694 --> 00:05:49,888 But that last hill proved to be too much. 87 00:05:56,732 --> 00:05:59,015 - Good afternoon. - How do you do ? 88 00:05:59,519 --> 00:06:01,132 There are few nippers at the gate 89 00:06:01,167 --> 00:06:02,956 so I thought I'd better bring Priscilla inside. 90 00:06:04,206 --> 00:06:05,404 Can you take care of her ? 91 00:06:05,505 --> 00:06:08,972 Come on girl, give us a hand. Don't stand there getting into mischief. 92 00:06:09,147 --> 00:06:11,113 It's bigger than I expected. 93 00:06:11,823 --> 00:06:14,638 - So this is my house. - No, it isn't. 94 00:06:15,696 --> 00:06:18,205 Oh ? Well, isn't this Pengarth ? 95 00:06:18,392 --> 00:06:20,580 - The name of the building, I mean. - Yes, it is. 96 00:06:21,328 --> 00:06:24,645 That's right. It was left to me by my uncle, Dr. Moffat. 97 00:06:25,051 --> 00:06:26,287 I'm Miss Moffat. 98 00:06:28,699 --> 00:06:30,191 I take it you're the Miss Ronberry 99 00:06:30,289 --> 00:06:32,453 who so kindly corresponded with me. 100 00:06:32,636 --> 00:06:35,919 But surely those letters we received were written by a man. 101 00:06:36,110 --> 00:06:39,740 If they were, I've been grossly deceiving myself for a great many years. 102 00:06:40,610 --> 00:06:42,231 Now that's very interesting. 103 00:06:42,568 --> 00:06:44,897 Why did it never occur to you that I might be a woman ? 104 00:06:45,683 --> 00:06:47,435 Well, for one thing the paper was not scented. 105 00:06:47,816 --> 00:06:50,132 And surely you signed your name rather oddly. 106 00:06:50,968 --> 00:06:52,299 Oh, my initials L.C.... 107 00:06:52,887 --> 00:06:56,474 Well, you see, I never felt that Lily Christabel really suited me. 108 00:06:57,146 --> 00:06:59,264 And I thought it meant Lieutenant Colonel. 109 00:06:59,883 --> 00:07:01,946 But there was a military title after it. 110 00:07:02,130 --> 00:07:03,564 M.A. Master of Arts. 111 00:07:04,594 --> 00:07:07,468 Arts ? Do you mean the degree my father bought for me 112 00:07:07,503 --> 00:07:09,129 when I came down from the varsity ? 113 00:07:09,399 --> 00:07:11,849 The very same. Except that I was at Aberdeen 114 00:07:11,884 --> 00:07:13,404 and worked jolly hard to buy it. 115 00:07:13,520 --> 00:07:16,755 A female M.A. And how long is that going to last ? 116 00:07:17,010 --> 00:07:18,562 Quite a long while I hope, 117 00:07:18,621 --> 00:07:21,641 considering the fact that we've been waiting for it for two thousand years. 118 00:07:22,779 --> 00:07:23,992 Are you saved ? 119 00:07:26,412 --> 00:07:29,042 - I beg your pardon ? - Are you Church or Chapel ? 120 00:07:30,346 --> 00:07:31,860 Well, I really don't know. 121 00:07:35,097 --> 00:07:36,938 And now that you know all about me... 122 00:07:37,803 --> 00:07:39,425 - What do you do ? - What ? 123 00:07:39,947 --> 00:07:41,449 I'm afraid I don't do anything. 124 00:07:41,769 --> 00:07:43,420 Mr. Treverby owns the Hall. 125 00:07:43,668 --> 00:07:46,507 Really ? I never had much to do with the landed gentry. 126 00:07:46,541 --> 00:07:47,591 Interesting. 127 00:07:48,075 --> 00:07:49,828 Au revoir, dear lady. Mr. Jones. 128 00:07:50,106 --> 00:07:51,320 Interesting! 129 00:07:54,161 --> 00:07:55,362 What impertinence. 130 00:07:58,607 --> 00:08:00,850 Nobody could say I made a conquest there. 131 00:08:07,184 --> 00:08:08,928 This is not a bad little room. 132 00:08:12,168 --> 00:08:14,178 - Where is his lordship ? - Took offense and left. 133 00:08:14,594 --> 00:08:17,389 Took offense ? At her ? Well, aren't you good ? 134 00:08:17,711 --> 00:08:20,296 What do you think of her, ay ? Ain't she a clinker ? 135 00:08:20,607 --> 00:08:24,166 - She is unusual, is she not ? - She's a clinker, that's what. 136 00:08:24,167 --> 00:08:28,451 Terrible strong-willed, of course. Get her into mischief, I keep telling her. 137 00:08:28,476 --> 00:08:32,942 Would bring me here. I said no, I said, not with my past, I said. 138 00:08:33,178 --> 00:08:35,693 - Your past ? - But what with her taking me up 139 00:08:35,728 --> 00:08:38,661 and now I've joined the Corpse, it's all blotted out. 140 00:08:38,680 --> 00:08:41,209 - The "Corpse" ? - The Militant Righteous Corpse. 141 00:08:41,601 --> 00:08:43,334 Ran into them in limehouse I did, 142 00:08:43,369 --> 00:08:46,205 singing and praying and collecting, full blast 143 00:08:46,590 --> 00:08:48,361 And I've been a different woman since. 144 00:08:48,941 --> 00:08:50,609 - Are you saved ? - Yes I am. 145 00:08:50,635 --> 00:08:52,291 So am I. Ain't it lovely ? 146 00:08:52,766 --> 00:08:55,036 - What was your past ? - Light fingers. 147 00:08:55,346 --> 00:08:56,443 Light fingers ? 148 00:08:57,003 --> 00:09:01,237 - Do you mean stealing ? - Everywhere I went. Terrible. 149 00:09:01,568 --> 00:09:04,796 Pennies, stockings, brooches, spoons, tiddly, anything. 150 00:09:04,950 --> 00:09:07,048 Every time there was a do, everything went; 151 00:09:07,142 --> 00:09:09,365 and I always knew it was me ! 152 00:09:09,927 --> 00:09:12,317 I'm just telling them about my trouble. 153 00:09:12,577 --> 00:09:13,608 Don't tell them any more. 154 00:09:14,468 --> 00:09:17,610 I like the former tenant's taste. Plenty of bookshelves. 155 00:09:17,751 --> 00:09:20,500 - The volumes are all dusted. - And Sarah Pugh has fixed the upstairs. 156 00:09:20,877 --> 00:09:23,674 You've arranged everything quite splendidly. I do thank you. 157 00:09:23,891 --> 00:09:25,873 And now the garden. Shall we have a look at it ? 158 00:09:26,303 --> 00:09:28,251 - If you like. - I'll join you in a moment. 159 00:09:29,241 --> 00:09:31,757 - I'm hungry. - You got an appetite like a horse. 160 00:09:31,939 --> 00:09:34,313 - I haven't. - It's a fine big kitchen, Watty. 161 00:09:34,597 --> 00:09:37,119 - Everything in order ? - Haven't seen no mice yet. 162 00:09:37,212 --> 00:09:40,759 Good. When the luggage comes up from the station, have them take it upstairs. 163 00:09:40,827 --> 00:09:41,909 Yes, mam. 164 00:09:42,859 --> 00:09:45,778 - We'll have tea, Watty, whenever you're ready. - All right, m'am. 165 00:09:46,879 --> 00:09:48,671 I knew I wasn't wrong in coming here. 166 00:09:48,771 --> 00:09:52,335 Somehow this place has something so exactly right about it. 167 00:09:52,611 --> 00:09:54,212 These will be friendly for your room. 168 00:09:55,427 --> 00:09:57,349 That was nicely phrased, Mr. Jones. 169 00:09:57,619 --> 00:09:59,567 I'd heard that you Welshmen had no sentiment. 170 00:09:59,761 --> 00:10:01,993 Like all other people, the Welsh too can see beauty. 171 00:10:02,065 --> 00:10:05,192 Of course they can. I promise I shan't make the same mistake again. 172 00:10:05,539 --> 00:10:06,627 Tell me, Mr. Jones. 173 00:10:06,726 --> 00:10:09,127 - Does this barn belong to the property ? - No, Miss Moffat. 174 00:10:09,199 --> 00:10:10,666 - Is it in use now ? - No, m'am. 175 00:10:11,057 --> 00:10:12,208 Splendid. 176 00:10:14,940 --> 00:10:17,747 - What's that singing ? - Boys coming home from the mine. 177 00:10:18,243 --> 00:10:19,289 Boys you say ? 178 00:10:19,343 --> 00:10:21,504 You can see them in a minute coming over the bridge. 179 00:10:22,378 --> 00:10:23,386 I should like to. 180 00:10:24,941 --> 00:10:26,854 I should like very much to look at children 181 00:10:26,890 --> 00:10:29,300 who can sing after a day's work in the coal mine. 182 00:11:31,531 --> 00:11:35,209 They burst into song on the slightest provocation. You mustn't take any notice. 183 00:11:39,731 --> 00:11:40,758 Tell me, Mr. Jones. 184 00:11:41,372 --> 00:11:44,674 Within a radius of 5 miles, how many families are there around here ? 185 00:11:44,853 --> 00:11:48,965 About 40 families in the village and 15 in the farms around. 186 00:11:49,099 --> 00:11:50,767 - Many children ? - What age ? 187 00:11:51,436 --> 00:11:52,778 Up to 16 and 17. 188 00:11:52,966 --> 00:11:55,134 Around here they are only children until they are 12. 189 00:11:55,361 --> 00:11:56,692 Then they are sent away to the mines 190 00:11:56,742 --> 00:11:58,360 and in one week they're old men. 191 00:11:59,955 --> 00:12:00,919 I see. 192 00:12:02,028 --> 00:12:03,379 How many can read and write ? 193 00:12:03,914 --> 00:12:04,878 Next to none. 194 00:12:05,762 --> 00:12:06,758 Next to none. 195 00:12:07,523 --> 00:12:11,378 I wonder who started the ridiculous rumor that this was a civilized world. 196 00:12:12,578 --> 00:12:14,550 Well, since it's the only world we have to live in, 197 00:12:14,605 --> 00:12:16,410 I suppose we have to make the best of it. 198 00:12:16,522 --> 00:12:19,065 Too easy, Mr. Jones. Much too soft and easy. 199 00:12:20,015 --> 00:12:24,012 When I was a young girl I looked the world into the eye and I decided I didn't like it. 200 00:12:24,535 --> 00:12:27,377 I saw poverty and disease, ignorance and injustice. 201 00:12:27,837 --> 00:12:30,829 And in a small way, I've always done what I could to fight them. 202 00:12:31,033 --> 00:12:33,651 So now that I've had the good fortune to come into this house 203 00:12:33,704 --> 00:12:36,995 and a little money, what could I do better than to continue to fight them? 204 00:12:37,441 --> 00:12:38,918 Especially with you two to help me. 205 00:12:39,190 --> 00:12:40,934 Would you please put these in water? 206 00:12:41,948 --> 00:12:44,227 - I ? - Yes, you, Miss Ronberry. 207 00:12:45,119 --> 00:12:46,406 Sit down, won't you ? 208 00:12:47,937 --> 00:12:50,236 I used to meet friends of yours at lectures in London. 209 00:12:50,580 --> 00:12:52,955 You live alone. You have just enough money. 210 00:12:53,234 --> 00:12:54,809 You're not badly educated. 211 00:12:54,968 --> 00:12:56,763 And time lies heavy on your hands. 212 00:12:57,344 --> 00:12:58,388 Isn't that so ? 213 00:12:58,754 --> 00:13:01,352 Not at all. When the proper gentleman appears... 214 00:13:01,635 --> 00:13:04,881 Oh, no, Miss Ronberry. If you're a spinster well on in her thirties, 215 00:13:04,916 --> 00:13:06,627 he's lost his way and isn't coming. 216 00:13:07,086 --> 00:13:09,905 Why don't you face the fact and enjoy life the way I do ? 217 00:13:10,199 --> 00:13:11,466 When did you give up hope ? 218 00:13:12,161 --> 00:13:13,833 Oh, what a horrid expression. 219 00:13:14,183 --> 00:13:16,356 I can't recall ever having had any hope. 220 00:13:16,397 --> 00:13:19,319 Visitors used to take a long look at my figure and say: 221 00:13:19,454 --> 00:13:20,951 "she's going to be the clever one." 222 00:13:21,448 --> 00:13:24,656 But a woman's only future is to marry and fulfil the duties. 223 00:13:24,711 --> 00:13:26,759 Nonsense. I'd have made a shocking wife anyway. 224 00:13:27,521 --> 00:13:29,263 But haven't you ever been in love ? 225 00:13:29,436 --> 00:13:31,939 I have never talked to a man for more than 5 minutes in my life 226 00:13:32,016 --> 00:13:33,589 without wanting to box his ears. 227 00:13:33,998 --> 00:13:35,642 Which brings me to you, Mr. Jones. 228 00:13:35,984 --> 00:13:38,159 My conscience is as clear as the snow. 229 00:13:38,301 --> 00:13:40,904 I'm sure it is. But I've inquired about you too. 230 00:13:41,095 --> 00:13:45,055 Your father was a grocer with just enough money to send you to grammar school. 231 00:13:45,090 --> 00:13:47,559 With the result that you're educated beyond your sphere 232 00:13:47,905 --> 00:13:50,337 and yet failed to qualify for the upper classes. 233 00:13:50,412 --> 00:13:53,069 You feel frustrated and fall back on being saved. 234 00:13:53,462 --> 00:13:54,470 Am I right ? 235 00:13:54,520 --> 00:13:56,400 It is such a terrible thing you have said that... 236 00:13:56,713 --> 00:13:58,614 - I will have to think it over. -Do. 237 00:13:59,121 --> 00:14:02,969 In the meantime, would you two like to stop moping and be very useful to me ? 238 00:14:02,970 --> 00:14:04,284 - Useful ? - Yes. 239 00:14:04,846 --> 00:14:06,565 I'm going to start a school. 240 00:14:06,600 --> 00:14:08,320 A school ? What for ? 241 00:14:08,591 --> 00:14:11,712 What for ? You see these books ? Hundreds of them. 242 00:14:12,016 --> 00:14:14,864 And something wonderful to read in each and every one. 243 00:14:14,899 --> 00:14:18,260 These nippers are to be cut off from that forever, are they ? Why ? 244 00:14:18,261 --> 00:14:21,668 Just because they happen to be born penniless in an uncivilized country ? 245 00:14:21,703 --> 00:14:24,856 - You're right. - The ordinary children, you mean ? 246 00:14:26,509 --> 00:14:28,675 Yes, my dear. The ordinary children 247 00:14:29,249 --> 00:14:32,321 who came into the world by exactly the same process as you and I. 248 00:14:32,573 --> 00:14:36,410 But I couldn't teach those children. I couldn't. They... they smell. 249 00:14:37,279 --> 00:14:39,190 If we'd never been taught to wash, so would we. 250 00:14:39,669 --> 00:14:41,311 We'll put them under the pump. 251 00:14:41,493 --> 00:14:43,548 But I have an enormous house to run. 252 00:14:43,583 --> 00:14:44,827 And all the flowers to do. 253 00:14:45,248 --> 00:14:49,432 We'll shut it up except for one room and let the flowers die a natural death. 254 00:14:49,467 --> 00:14:51,267 Mr. Jones, I want you too. 255 00:14:51,366 --> 00:14:55,197 I'm a solicitor's clerk at Gwaenygam and I earn 33 shillings per week. 256 00:14:55,729 --> 00:14:57,793 I'll give you 34. And your lunch. 257 00:14:58,590 --> 00:15:01,294 But those children are in the mine earning money. 258 00:15:01,389 --> 00:15:04,706 I'll pay their parents the few miserable pennies they get out of it. 259 00:15:04,791 --> 00:15:06,315 And when I'm finished with you, 260 00:15:06,786 --> 00:15:09,317 you won't have time to worry about snapping up a husband... 261 00:15:09,645 --> 00:15:12,372 and you won't have time to be so pleased you're saved. 262 00:15:13,241 --> 00:15:14,316 Well ? 263 00:15:17,736 --> 00:15:20,694 I do not care if you are not Chapel. I am with you. 264 00:17:16,225 --> 00:17:17,712 Come in. 265 00:17:17,713 --> 00:17:18,586 Come on. 266 00:17:19,893 --> 00:17:21,103 You're here again ? 267 00:17:21,797 --> 00:17:22,967 Be mai'n ddeud ? 268 00:17:22,968 --> 00:17:23,963 I said, you here again ? 269 00:17:24,081 --> 00:17:25,348 No, Miss. 270 00:17:25,349 --> 00:17:26,591 What d'you mean, no Miss ? 271 00:17:27,688 --> 00:17:30,497 - We isn't here "again", Miss. - What are you then ? 272 00:17:31,030 --> 00:17:33,137 We isn't the same lot which comes in the morning. 273 00:17:33,322 --> 00:17:35,166 We's the lot which comes in the evenings 274 00:17:35,497 --> 00:17:38,336 Well, even after six weeks you all look the same to me. 275 00:17:38,630 --> 00:17:40,404 - Mam ! - Yes ? 276 00:17:40,588 --> 00:17:42,091 Some more for ya. 277 00:17:42,192 --> 00:17:44,936 Wait there, boys, and mind you don't blacken the furniture. 278 00:17:51,017 --> 00:17:53,324 - Good evening, Mr. Jones. - Good evening, sir. 279 00:17:53,584 --> 00:17:54,672 Good evening, boys. 280 00:17:54,775 --> 00:17:57,430 I seen you and the lady teacher behind the door. 281 00:17:57,967 --> 00:18:00,638 You wait till you see Miss Moffat. She will give you what for. 282 00:18:02,056 --> 00:18:04,859 You wait till you see Miss Moffat. She will give you what for. 283 00:18:06,686 --> 00:18:08,225 - Miss Ronberry. - Yes, Mr. Jones. 284 00:18:08,260 --> 00:18:09,649 These children are so careless. 285 00:18:09,683 --> 00:18:11,686 - Where's Miss Moffat ? - In her room, I think. 286 00:18:11,721 --> 00:18:13,561 Sarah Pugh gave me this letter for her. 287 00:18:13,662 --> 00:18:15,162 It's the one she's been waiting for. 288 00:18:15,373 --> 00:18:17,179 I'll take it to her imediately. 289 00:18:20,855 --> 00:18:22,756 Shall we wait, Miss Ronnyberry ? 290 00:18:22,918 --> 00:18:24,746 Miss Moffat will be with you in a minute. 291 00:18:29,349 --> 00:18:30,806 From the management of the mine. 292 00:18:31,117 --> 00:18:32,006 Thank you. 293 00:18:39,553 --> 00:18:42,928 The solicitors of the mineowners politely but firmly advises me 294 00:18:43,199 --> 00:18:46,017 no children working in the mine can be released above ground. 295 00:18:46,217 --> 00:18:47,373 How horrid! 296 00:18:47,860 --> 00:18:49,600 Surely there must be some way. 297 00:18:50,697 --> 00:18:52,021 They underestimate us. 298 00:18:55,505 --> 00:18:58,519 I'll have to keep you waiting. I must attend to errands in the village. 299 00:18:58,982 --> 00:19:01,149 In the meantime, would you go to the well in the garden 300 00:19:01,224 --> 00:19:03,023 and scrub your hands and faces. 301 00:19:03,058 --> 00:19:04,240 Through there. 302 00:19:04,776 --> 00:19:06,563 Please, Miss. Can I have a kiss ? 303 00:19:08,636 --> 00:19:09,676 What did you say ? 304 00:19:09,737 --> 00:19:11,386 Please, Miss. Can I have a kiss ? 305 00:19:14,223 --> 00:19:15,514 Of course you can. 306 00:19:21,809 --> 00:19:23,580 Could I oblige anybody else ? 307 00:19:25,986 --> 00:19:27,638 - Mr. Jones. - Yes, Miss Moffat. 308 00:19:29,521 --> 00:19:33,327 After they have washed themselves you'd better occupy them with something. 309 00:19:33,428 --> 00:19:35,945 - Ask them to write a composition. - Any particular subject? 310 00:19:36,931 --> 00:19:38,775 How I would spend my holiday. 311 00:19:38,928 --> 00:19:40,653 - It's always reliable. - Yes, mam. 312 00:19:40,988 --> 00:19:41,965 Thank you. 313 00:19:42,019 --> 00:19:43,850 - Come, Miss Ronberry. - Yes, Miss Moffat. 314 00:19:43,955 --> 00:19:45,886 Please, Miss. Can I have a smacked bottom ? 315 00:19:46,427 --> 00:19:47,872 How horrifying. 316 00:20:28,947 --> 00:20:32,267 - Mr. Jones, would you like a sweetie ? - No, thank you, my little dear. 317 00:20:32,917 --> 00:20:35,021 - Have you had another walk ? - Yes, Mr. Jones. 318 00:20:35,617 --> 00:20:38,071 - All by myself. - Did you see anybody ? 319 00:20:38,301 --> 00:20:40,021 Only a lady and gentleman in the lane. 320 00:20:40,237 --> 00:20:41,801 But mother told me never to look. 321 00:20:42,424 --> 00:20:44,145 Why are you holding your hair like that ? 322 00:20:44,245 --> 00:20:46,435 These are my curls. Do you think it's nice ? 323 00:20:46,945 --> 00:20:48,510 It is nice but it is wrong. 324 00:20:48,860 --> 00:20:51,835 I've been curling each one round my finger and holding it tight 325 00:20:51,998 --> 00:20:52,987 until it's all right. 326 00:20:53,466 --> 00:20:56,214 My fingers are aching something terrible. 327 00:20:57,574 --> 00:20:59,171 - Mr. Jones. - Yes. 328 00:20:59,788 --> 00:21:04,985 Is it true that the school idea isn't going on so well ? 329 00:21:05,020 --> 00:21:06,173 Who told you that ? 330 00:21:06,760 --> 00:21:11,142 - I heard some talking. - Everything is splendid, Bessie. 331 00:21:11,181 --> 00:21:12,850 Oh. I'm glad. 332 00:21:13,525 --> 00:21:16,475 - Miss Moffat's been cruel to me. - Cruel to you ? 333 00:21:16,594 --> 00:21:18,608 She hates my sweets. And... 334 00:21:19,170 --> 00:21:21,326 - and she's a liar too. - A liar ? 335 00:21:21,663 --> 00:21:23,645 She told me they're bad for me. 336 00:21:25,705 --> 00:21:28,528 And it says on the bag that they're nourishing. 337 00:21:30,223 --> 00:21:32,424 - She's wicked. - Now come on, Bessie... 338 00:21:32,463 --> 00:21:34,778 - and help me. - You don't have to scream ! 339 00:21:38,758 --> 00:21:41,405 Boys, it's time to write the essay. 340 00:21:42,986 --> 00:21:45,682 You didn't wash very clean. Why not ? 341 00:21:45,902 --> 00:21:47,363 Because the water is too cold. 342 00:21:51,685 --> 00:21:53,151 Mr. Jones ! Mr. Jones ! 343 00:21:53,473 --> 00:21:55,286 - Cloch yr ysgol. - Yes, Idwal. 344 00:21:56,279 --> 00:21:58,627 Yes, the bell for our school. 345 00:21:58,856 --> 00:22:01,179 Diolch, ymachgcni. 346 00:22:17,718 --> 00:22:18,763 The plans. 347 00:22:19,376 --> 00:22:20,386 Thank you. 348 00:22:33,220 --> 00:22:36,018 These are champions indeed. Let's go to track and find out.. 349 00:22:36,162 --> 00:22:37,403 They'll never win the race. 350 00:22:37,580 --> 00:22:39,780 You make me bet half a sovereign and you lost. 351 00:22:39,975 --> 00:22:42,134 That wasn't a fair race, Thomas. You're daffy. 352 00:22:42,193 --> 00:22:43,198 If you don't pay... 353 00:22:44,265 --> 00:22:45,791 I'll pay tomorrow, lad. 354 00:22:51,149 --> 00:22:54,027 - Good day tou you, Miss Ronberry. - Good day, Mr. Thomas. 355 00:22:54,049 --> 00:22:56,500 How's Miss Moffat prospering in Glansarno ? 356 00:22:56,810 --> 00:22:58,760 I do not wish to discuss Miss Moffat. 357 00:22:59,115 --> 00:23:01,842 You've taken to fancy her yourself, Miss Ronberry. 358 00:23:02,449 --> 00:23:05,582 I do not wish to discuss Miss Moffat or myself. 359 00:23:06,145 --> 00:23:07,592 Good day, Mr. Thomas. 360 00:23:07,906 --> 00:23:09,519 Good day, Miss Ronberry. 361 00:23:10,301 --> 00:23:11,765 A mistress at a school. 362 00:23:27,578 --> 00:23:29,875 That was obviously said for my benefit. 363 00:23:29,993 --> 00:23:31,551 Would you mind translating it for me ? 364 00:23:31,782 --> 00:23:34,479 I said, "Teacher, can I stay in after school ?" 365 00:23:35,829 --> 00:23:37,425 You don't like the idea of a school. 366 00:23:37,607 --> 00:23:40,865 - We do not. - I hardly expected that you would. 367 00:23:41,339 --> 00:23:42,662 Miss Moffat, the Squire. 368 00:23:48,175 --> 00:23:51,228 - We've lost the first round, Miss Ronberry. - Oh, dear. 369 00:23:51,514 --> 00:23:54,413 Take heart. I can be as stubborn as the Welsh. 370 00:23:55,453 --> 00:23:58,249 Hello, hello, hello. A jolly good afternoon to you, teacher. 371 00:23:58,375 --> 00:24:00,297 As a matter of fact I was on my way to call. 372 00:24:02,027 --> 00:24:05,026 I have a most important message for you, my dear madame. 373 00:24:05,130 --> 00:24:08,351 From a gent who's been lunching with me today. Sir Herbert Vezey. 374 00:24:08,448 --> 00:24:09,506 Yes, do be quick. 375 00:24:09,645 --> 00:24:12,466 He has definitely decided that he has no use for the barn... 376 00:24:12,689 --> 00:24:15,808 But he does not see it as a school, and under no circumstances 377 00:24:15,868 --> 00:24:17,519 will he let it to such to anyone. 378 00:24:17,766 --> 00:24:21,819 Therefore, he most regrets to decline etc, etc, etc. 379 00:24:21,925 --> 00:24:24,897 But he implied in his letter he'd be willing to sell. 380 00:24:24,932 --> 00:24:28,348 Well, some bigwig must have made him change his mind, mustn't he ? 381 00:24:28,803 --> 00:24:31,635 - You. - My dear madame. I shall be blunt. 382 00:24:32,048 --> 00:24:35,636 I'm not going to have any more of this confounded hanky panky in my village. 383 00:24:35,671 --> 00:24:37,277 - Your village. - My village. 384 00:24:37,460 --> 00:24:40,117 I'm no braggart but I'll have you know that everything you can see 385 00:24:40,159 --> 00:24:41,369 from your windows, 386 00:24:41,404 --> 00:24:43,734 you haven't got a bad view, I own. 387 00:24:43,969 --> 00:24:47,895 I may add that all my life I've done my level best for the villagers. 388 00:24:47,930 --> 00:24:50,572 They call me Squire. Term of affection, you know. 389 00:24:50,607 --> 00:24:52,428 - It's really decent of them. - Go on. 390 00:24:52,626 --> 00:24:54,543 They chatter away in their absurd lingo, but 391 00:24:54,644 --> 00:24:56,303 bless their hearts, it's a free country ! 392 00:24:56,389 --> 00:25:00,589 but this putting them up to read English, pothooks and giving them ideas. 393 00:25:00,922 --> 00:25:03,839 More more people like you and England will be a dangerous place to live in. 394 00:25:03,874 --> 00:25:06,232 What are you trying to do ? Turn them into gentlemen ? 395 00:25:06,387 --> 00:25:08,920 - What's the idea ? - I'm beginning to wonder myself. 396 00:25:09,126 --> 00:25:13,138 There's another thing. This buying them out of the mine is a lot of poppycock. 397 00:25:13,714 --> 00:25:17,114 It may interest you to know that I own a half share in it. 398 00:25:17,118 --> 00:25:18,619 That explains a good deal. 399 00:25:18,802 --> 00:25:21,312 Why don't you take up croquet, my dear madame ? 400 00:25:21,347 --> 00:25:23,958 - Keep you out of mischief. - Stop calling me your dear madame 401 00:25:24,035 --> 00:25:25,562 I'm not married, I'm not French 402 00:25:25,597 --> 00:25:27,613 and you haven't the slightest affection for me. 403 00:25:27,648 --> 00:25:30,098 - All right. Roger... - Just a moment. 404 00:25:30,714 --> 00:25:33,172 I know I shall be sticking a pin into a whale. 405 00:25:33,207 --> 00:25:35,363 But here are two words about yourself. 406 00:25:35,398 --> 00:25:37,746 You are the Squire Bountiful, are you? 407 00:25:37,781 --> 00:25:41,125 I should like to point out that there is a considerable amount of dirt, ignorance, 408 00:25:41,160 --> 00:25:43,374 misery and discontent abroad in this world, 409 00:25:43,409 --> 00:25:45,450 and a good deal of it is due to people like you. 410 00:25:45,485 --> 00:25:47,735 - What ? - You are a stupid, conceited, 411 00:25:47,757 --> 00:25:49,058 addle-headed nincompoop. 412 00:25:49,093 --> 00:25:51,495 And you can go to blue blazes. Good afternoon ! 413 00:25:54,908 --> 00:25:56,288 Must have been drinking ! 414 00:26:01,607 --> 00:26:04,335 That was most undignified of me. But I feel better for it. 415 00:26:04,612 --> 00:26:07,834 I am glad because it was plain spoken, wasn't it ? 416 00:26:08,363 --> 00:26:11,755 Sometimes I wonder if men really know best, don't you ? 417 00:26:14,001 --> 00:26:15,320 What will we do now ? 418 00:26:18,050 --> 00:26:21,222 - Have you got a handkerchief ? - That is a good idea. 419 00:26:21,811 --> 00:26:24,461 I always love to cry when I'm depressed. 420 00:26:24,496 --> 00:26:27,189 Such an advantage over the gentlemen, I always think. 421 00:26:28,700 --> 00:26:30,466 I want to blow my nose. 422 00:26:59,122 --> 00:27:00,961 Miss Moffat. We have the bell for the school. 423 00:27:02,096 --> 00:27:03,444 It's good to see it anyway. 424 00:27:03,557 --> 00:27:06,177 It was in the monastery before it was burned down. 425 00:27:16,780 --> 00:27:19,312 I've decided to give up the school, Miss Rodenderry. 426 00:27:22,306 --> 00:27:24,459 What are these exercise books doing here ? 427 00:27:24,664 --> 00:27:25,718 Don't you remember ? 428 00:27:25,819 --> 00:27:29,305 You assigned the boys an essay on "How I spent my holiday". 429 00:27:29,911 --> 00:27:31,024 Must've been mad. 430 00:27:31,093 --> 00:27:35,746 "If I has ever holiday I has breakfast and talks then 431 00:27:35,781 --> 00:27:38,777 dinner and a rest, tea then nothing 432 00:27:38,908 --> 00:27:42,348 then supper then I talks and I go sleep." 433 00:27:42,383 --> 00:27:44,306 From exhaustion, I suppose. 434 00:27:44,341 --> 00:27:48,305 In another time I'd be faintly amused by this one's idea of a holiday. 435 00:27:48,472 --> 00:27:51,445 - Judging by a rather crude drawing. - What is it ? 436 00:27:51,480 --> 00:27:53,555 A bicycling tour with me in bloomers. 437 00:27:54,949 --> 00:27:58,929 What shall it be this year, tobogganing among the eternal snows 438 00:27:58,964 --> 00:28:01,228 or tasting the joys of Father Neptune?" 439 00:28:01,244 --> 00:28:03,637 Why, that's beautiful. Extraordinary. 440 00:28:03,707 --> 00:28:05,314 Yes, I might have thought so too 441 00:28:05,349 --> 00:28:07,443 if I hadn't seen it in that book open on the desk. 442 00:28:09,229 --> 00:28:11,818 Oh, no. Your Squire was right. 443 00:28:12,804 --> 00:28:15,546 I've been a stupid and impractical idiot. 444 00:28:16,035 --> 00:28:18,373 I can't imagine how. 445 00:28:20,844 --> 00:28:22,561 The mine is dark. 446 00:28:24,764 --> 00:28:26,929 If a light come into the mine... 447 00:28:28,686 --> 00:28:30,139 the rivers... 448 00:28:31,708 --> 00:28:35,625 the rivers in the mine will run fast with the voice of many women. 449 00:28:35,985 --> 00:28:39,779 Walls will fall in and it will be the end of the world. 450 00:28:40,803 --> 00:28:41,807 We put up the bell... Shhh ! 451 00:28:41,953 --> 00:28:43,602 So the mine is dark. 452 00:28:43,815 --> 00:28:47,920 But when I walk through the Tan something shaft in the dark, 453 00:28:48,733 --> 00:28:52,083 I can touch with my hands the leaves on the trees 454 00:28:52,700 --> 00:28:56,622 and underneath where the corn is green. 455 00:28:56,909 --> 00:28:58,148 Go on reading. 456 00:29:00,553 --> 00:29:02,271 There is a wind in the shaft, 457 00:29:02,468 --> 00:29:05,282 not carbon monoxide they talk about 458 00:29:05,782 --> 00:29:07,609 It smells like the sea. 459 00:29:08,400 --> 00:29:13,853 Only like as if the sea had fresh flowers lying about . . . 460 00:29:15,948 --> 00:29:19,122 And that is my holiday. 461 00:29:26,511 --> 00:29:29,705 - Are you Morgan Evans ? - Yes, Miss. 462 00:29:30,507 --> 00:29:31,735 Did you write this ? 463 00:29:32,742 --> 00:29:33,823 No, Miss. 464 00:29:34,029 --> 00:29:36,353 - But it's in your book. - Yes, Miss. 465 00:29:37,407 --> 00:29:38,768 Then who did write it ? 466 00:29:39,555 --> 00:29:40,738 I don't know, Miss. 467 00:29:48,984 --> 00:29:51,825 - Did you write this ? - I don't know, Miss. 468 00:29:52,132 --> 00:29:53,128 What's the matter with it ? 469 00:29:54,146 --> 00:29:55,179 Sit down. 470 00:29:58,230 --> 00:30:00,634 Spelling... Take your cap off. 471 00:30:01,487 --> 00:30:02,571 Spelling's deplorable. 472 00:30:02,674 --> 00:30:04,827 "Mine" with two "n"s and "leaves" l, e, f, s. 473 00:30:05,172 --> 00:30:07,333 - What was it by right ? - A "v" to start with. 474 00:30:07,529 --> 00:30:10,324 - I never heard of no "v"s, Miss. - Don't call me Miss. 475 00:30:10,659 --> 00:30:11,701 Are you not a miss ? 476 00:30:11,774 --> 00:30:13,557 Yes, I am. But it's not polite. 477 00:30:13,843 --> 00:30:16,427 You say, "Yes, Miss Moffat", or "No, Miss Moffat". 478 00:30:16,462 --> 00:30:18,855 M-O-F-F-A-T. 479 00:30:19,083 --> 00:30:21,054 - No "v"s ? - No "v"s. 480 00:30:22,202 --> 00:30:23,283 Where do you live ? 481 00:30:23,941 --> 00:30:25,223 Under the ground, Miss. 482 00:30:25,413 --> 00:30:28,904 - No, I mean your home. - Llyn-y-Mwyn, Miss... Moffat. 483 00:30:29,505 --> 00:30:32,201 - Four miles from here. - How big is it ? 484 00:30:32,989 --> 00:30:34,531 A few houses and a beer house. 485 00:30:35,339 --> 00:30:37,166 Have you any hobbies ? Oh, yes. 486 00:30:37,573 --> 00:30:39,393 - What ? - Rum. 487 00:30:40,879 --> 00:30:42,129 Rum. 488 00:30:42,364 --> 00:30:44,964 - Do you live with your parents ? - No. By my own self. 489 00:30:45,273 --> 00:30:47,457 My mother is dead and my father and my 4 brothers 490 00:30:47,492 --> 00:30:49,334 was in the big shaft accident when I was 10. 491 00:30:50,484 --> 00:30:52,505 - Killed ? - Oh, yes. Everybody was. 492 00:30:53,257 --> 00:30:54,918 What sort of man was your father ? 493 00:30:56,130 --> 00:30:57,415 He had a dash of English. 494 00:30:59,297 --> 00:31:00,451 He learned it to me. 495 00:31:01,729 --> 00:31:03,948 - Do you go to Chapel ? - No, thank you. 496 00:31:04,744 --> 00:31:06,581 Who taught you to read and write ? 497 00:31:06,802 --> 00:31:08,392 - I did. - Why ? 498 00:31:10,963 --> 00:31:11,987 I don't know. 499 00:31:13,112 --> 00:31:15,018 - What books have you read ? - Books ? 500 00:31:16,149 --> 00:31:19,279 Bits of the Bible and a book that a fella nabbed for me. 501 00:31:20,023 --> 00:31:20,940 What was it ? 502 00:31:21,175 --> 00:31:22,334 The Lady's Companion. 503 00:31:39,234 --> 00:31:40,783 - Can I go now, please ? - No ! 504 00:31:43,185 --> 00:31:44,691 Do you want to learn any more ? 505 00:31:44,931 --> 00:31:45,996 No, thank you. 506 00:31:47,072 --> 00:31:48,155 Why not ? 507 00:31:48,585 --> 00:31:50,358 The other men would have a good laugh. 508 00:31:51,067 --> 00:31:52,181 I see. 509 00:31:53,388 --> 00:31:55,587 Have you ever written anything before this exercise ? 510 00:31:55,698 --> 00:31:57,165 What is the matter with it ? 511 00:31:57,569 --> 00:32:00,560 Nothing is the matter with it. Quite the contrary. 512 00:32:00,979 --> 00:32:02,728 It shows you are very clever. 513 00:32:03,990 --> 00:32:05,022 Clever ? 514 00:32:06,630 --> 00:32:08,326 Is that what you have said ? 515 00:32:09,167 --> 00:32:11,120 What effect has this news on you ? 516 00:32:11,763 --> 00:32:13,275 Well, it is a bit sudden. 517 00:32:15,697 --> 00:32:16,998 It makes me that I... 518 00:32:17,830 --> 00:32:19,678 I want to get more clever still. 519 00:32:20,337 --> 00:32:23,444 I want to know what is behind all of them books. 520 00:32:24,012 --> 00:32:25,270 Can you come tomorrow ? 521 00:32:26,553 --> 00:32:27,724 At night I could come. 522 00:32:27,949 --> 00:32:30,266 In the day I'm working on the 6 to 4 shift. 523 00:32:30,512 --> 00:32:31,558 Good. 524 00:32:31,978 --> 00:32:33,069 At 7 then. 525 00:32:35,250 --> 00:32:37,688 In the meantime I'll correct the spelling and grammar. 526 00:32:38,341 --> 00:32:39,487 Yes, Miss Moffat. 527 00:32:40,265 --> 00:32:41,971 That will be all. Good night. 528 00:32:43,336 --> 00:32:44,494 Good night, Miss Moffat. 529 00:32:49,032 --> 00:32:51,899 - Are you the one I spanked ? - Yes, Miss... 530 00:32:51,934 --> 00:32:53,139 Moffat. 531 00:33:07,139 --> 00:33:08,298 Miss Ronberry ! 532 00:33:10,075 --> 00:33:11,673 - Miss Ronberry. - Yes. 533 00:33:11,800 --> 00:33:14,868 I have been a fool. It doesn't matter about the barn. 534 00:33:14,963 --> 00:33:17,601 We're going to start the school right here in this room. 535 00:33:17,636 --> 00:33:20,956 I'm going to get those youngsters out of that mine if I have to... 536 00:33:20,991 --> 00:33:23,626 blacken my face and go down and fetch them myself. 537 00:33:23,951 --> 00:33:25,544 We're going on with the school. 538 00:33:27,090 --> 00:33:30,588 "And when I walk in the dark... 539 00:33:31,795 --> 00:33:34,006 I can touch with my hands... 540 00:33:34,730 --> 00:33:36,830 where the corn is green. 541 00:34:53,055 --> 00:34:55,754 One, two, three... 542 00:36:21,714 --> 00:36:23,208 You are a clinker, m'am. 543 00:36:23,303 --> 00:36:25,886 Always sneeking off to the village on your byke. 544 00:36:26,177 --> 00:36:28,850 - My Greek books arrived, Watty. - Greek ? 545 00:36:29,213 --> 00:36:31,530 Do you mean to say you can jabber in Greek, Mam ? 546 00:36:31,598 --> 00:36:33,861 You flatter me. I have to do a bit of studying. 547 00:36:34,268 --> 00:36:35,885 If I am to teach more than Evans' Greek 548 00:36:35,916 --> 00:36:38,906 I'll have to keep at least one day ahead of him. And trust to luck. 549 00:36:49,117 --> 00:36:50,565 That was quite better. 550 00:36:50,666 --> 00:36:53,888 Full of splendid feeling and nice and precise as well. 551 00:36:54,384 --> 00:36:56,998 Please, Miss Ronberry. Can we have some more ? 552 00:36:57,101 --> 00:36:59,692 Not today. School dismissed. 553 00:37:06,131 --> 00:37:08,078 - Good afternoon. - Good afternoon. 554 00:37:13,732 --> 00:37:16,321 Is there something you would like to know, Mr. Tom ? 555 00:37:16,829 --> 00:37:19,562 - Where is Shakespeare ? - Where ? 556 00:37:21,131 --> 00:37:25,254 Shakespeare, Mr. Tom, was a very great writer. 557 00:37:25,289 --> 00:37:29,483 Dear me. And me thinking the man was a place. 558 00:37:36,843 --> 00:37:38,020 Class dismissed. 559 00:37:38,892 --> 00:37:41,584 - They have finished their exercises. - Good. 560 00:37:42,994 --> 00:37:45,397 Tomorrow we'll start working on the fractional equations. 561 00:37:45,398 --> 00:37:46,921 - Yes, Miss Moffat. - Good afternoon. 562 00:37:48,613 --> 00:37:51,712 Gwynal, I find you have the most enormous difficulty 563 00:37:51,813 --> 00:37:54,498 differentiating between the divisor and the dividend. 564 00:37:54,533 --> 00:37:57,340 - Is it quite clear now ? - Yes, Miss Moffat. 565 00:37:57,359 --> 00:37:59,623 Good. Thank you, Mr. Jones. 566 00:38:02,302 --> 00:38:04,807 - Finished, Evans ? - Yes, Miss Moffat. 567 00:38:05,000 --> 00:38:06,372 - How many pages ? - Nine. 568 00:38:06,717 --> 00:38:08,571 Three too many. Boil it down to six. 569 00:38:10,122 --> 00:38:12,029 I'm starting you on Greek next week. 570 00:38:12,832 --> 00:38:15,830 Evans, this essay on the wealth of nations is yours. 571 00:38:16,198 --> 00:38:17,519 Yes, Miss Moffat. 572 00:38:17,554 --> 00:38:18,985 Say so and underline it. 573 00:38:19,086 --> 00:38:21,948 Nothing irritates a teacher so much as this sort of a vagueness. 574 00:38:26,674 --> 00:38:28,796 The eighteenth century was a cauldron. 575 00:38:29,015 --> 00:38:30,808 Vice and elegance boiled to a simmer 576 00:38:30,909 --> 00:38:33,176 until the kitchen of society reeked fulminously, 577 00:38:33,207 --> 00:38:36,019 and the smell percolated to the marble halls above. 578 00:38:36,134 --> 00:38:37,999 - Do you know what it means ? - Yes, Miss Moffat. 579 00:38:38,037 --> 00:38:40,580 I don't. Clarify, my boy. Clarify. 580 00:38:40,894 --> 00:38:43,593 "Water" with two "t"s. That's a bad lapse. 581 00:38:43,915 --> 00:38:46,850 Seven out of ten. Not bad but not good. 582 00:38:46,966 --> 00:38:50,531 You must avoid using long words unless you know exactly what they mean. 583 00:38:50,532 --> 00:38:53,076 - Yes, Miss Moffat. - Have you those lines on Voltaire ? 584 00:38:53,077 --> 00:38:54,123 Yes, Miss Moffat. 585 00:38:54,783 --> 00:38:57,577 It's just 3 o'clock. Go for your walk. Good and brisk. 586 00:38:57,824 --> 00:39:00,420 But kill two birds and learn the Voltaire by heart. 587 00:39:00,444 --> 00:39:02,700 If you can ever argue a point like that, you'll do. 588 00:39:02,735 --> 00:39:05,873 Back in 20 minutes. Take your pen from behind your ear. 589 00:39:10,243 --> 00:39:13,848 Yes, Miss Moffat. Now turn a somersault and beg. 590 00:39:14,685 --> 00:39:17,381 - Can you smell scent ? - Yes. 591 00:39:18,359 --> 00:39:19,613 Nice, isn't it ? 592 00:39:20,383 --> 00:39:21,435 I don't know. 593 00:39:21,847 --> 00:39:23,900 I never come across scent before. 594 00:39:24,436 --> 00:39:26,661 I never did come across scent before. 595 00:39:26,896 --> 00:39:30,444 Bright, aren't you ? Don't you ever get tired of lessons ? 596 00:39:32,517 --> 00:39:37,813 Oh, dear, what can the matter be... 597 00:39:38,087 --> 00:39:39,180 There we go. 598 00:39:39,245 --> 00:39:40,790 Stuck up teacher's pet. 599 00:39:41,384 --> 00:39:46,187 Oh, dear, what can the matter be... 600 00:39:48,333 --> 00:39:52,428 You must not think that, dear. Miss Moffat says he's clever. 601 00:39:52,463 --> 00:39:55,312 Miss Moffat's riding for a fall. 602 00:39:55,582 --> 00:39:57,337 All this ordering him about. 603 00:39:57,785 --> 00:40:00,892 I've got eyes in my head even if she hasn't. 604 00:40:00,996 --> 00:40:02,339 And he's getting sick of it. 605 00:40:03,790 --> 00:40:06,369 I think a lady ought to be dainty. 606 00:40:07,461 --> 00:40:09,084 She has no idea. 607 00:40:09,571 --> 00:40:11,618 - Mr. Jones. - Yes, Bessie. 608 00:40:12,319 --> 00:40:14,434 I got some scent on my hands. 609 00:40:15,291 --> 00:40:16,888 Would you like to smell them ? 610 00:40:17,178 --> 00:40:19,409 No, thank you. I can smell them from here. 611 00:40:22,403 --> 00:40:23,667 It's lovely. 612 00:40:25,394 --> 00:40:28,499 Please, Miss Moffat, can I have the money for my ticket ? 613 00:40:28,500 --> 00:40:32,132 - What ticket ? - For the fair at Tregarna tomorrow. 614 00:40:32,402 --> 00:40:35,095 You said I could go. 615 00:40:35,317 --> 00:40:37,759 On the contrary. I said you couldn't, not on school hours. 616 00:40:38,245 --> 00:40:40,830 Ron, has this bill from Liddel and Scott been paid ? 617 00:40:40,885 --> 00:40:43,228 I'm afraid not. It's for Evans' new suit. 618 00:40:43,594 --> 00:40:45,772 I shall have to sell a couple more shares, I expect. 619 00:40:46,621 --> 00:40:48,180 - Tend to it, would you ? - Certainly. 620 00:40:50,784 --> 00:40:53,839 Bessie Watty. What is this dying duck business ? 621 00:40:54,261 --> 00:40:57,781 - Yes, Miss Moffat. - Don't Miss Moffat me. Explain yourself. 622 00:40:57,999 --> 00:41:01,805 Mummy says all these lessons is bad for my inside. 623 00:41:02,221 --> 00:41:03,736 What's the matter with your inside ? 624 00:41:04,782 --> 00:41:08,142 It keeps going round and round from sitting down. 625 00:41:09,488 --> 00:41:11,461 Perhaps what I want is a change. 626 00:41:11,749 --> 00:41:15,187 There's nothing to prevent you from going for walks between lessons. 627 00:41:15,553 --> 00:41:18,493 As a matter of fact you can go now. Quick. March. 628 00:41:21,600 --> 00:41:22,891 I'm not going. 629 00:41:25,163 --> 00:41:26,185 What did you say ? 630 00:41:26,220 --> 00:41:28,874 I'm not going. Everybody's against me. 631 00:41:29,352 --> 00:41:31,939 I'm going to throw myself off a cliff and kill myself. 632 00:41:31,974 --> 00:41:35,407 It'll make a nice case in the papers. Me at the bottom of a cliff. 633 00:41:35,427 --> 00:41:39,418 In pieces. I'm going mad. I'm going mad, I am. 634 00:41:39,453 --> 00:41:42,169 I'm going to kill myself. Nothing's going to stop me. 635 00:41:42,204 --> 00:41:44,135 Stone dead at the bottom of a cliff. 636 00:41:50,112 --> 00:41:52,202 I made a mess of your floor, m'am, but it's worth it. 637 00:41:52,237 --> 00:41:56,320 She's got bad blood, this girl, mark my word. She'll catch her death. 638 00:41:56,321 --> 00:42:00,087 There's nothing like cold water, m'am. I learned that with her father. 639 00:42:00,088 --> 00:42:01,928 He was foreign, you know. 640 00:42:03,172 --> 00:42:04,529 How do you feel after that ? 641 00:42:04,642 --> 00:42:08,885 I can't remember anything. I'm in a "comma". 642 00:42:12,289 --> 00:42:15,591 Shall we go to our room now, with the door locked and try to remember ? 643 00:42:16,948 --> 00:42:19,022 Next week, I'll send you away to work. 644 00:42:20,220 --> 00:42:21,953 And we'll see how you like that. 645 00:42:28,397 --> 00:42:31,625 Oh, Ron. Don't forget the Squire's coming at six. 646 00:42:31,999 --> 00:42:34,525 But we haven't seen him since that dreadful day. 647 00:42:34,760 --> 00:42:37,869 I know. I hope I don't behave as stupidly again. 648 00:42:37,904 --> 00:42:40,915 It's vital that I make the right impression this time. 649 00:42:43,074 --> 00:42:46,331 Why, Miss Watty. Guess what happened to me ? 650 00:42:46,366 --> 00:42:48,857 - What ? - I'm a Sargent-Major. 651 00:42:49,380 --> 00:42:50,976 Indeed to goodness. 652 00:42:50,999 --> 00:42:53,956 You remember Sargent-Major Hopkins deserting in Cardiff 653 00:42:54,057 --> 00:42:55,277 and marrying a sailor ? - Yes. 654 00:42:55,312 --> 00:43:00,024 Well, last week, not two months after she left the Corps she was dead. 655 00:43:00,059 --> 00:43:01,674 And you stepped right into her shoes. 656 00:43:01,906 --> 00:43:03,618 They're a bit on the big side. 657 00:43:03,653 --> 00:43:05,222 But I can put a bit o' paper in. 658 00:43:05,323 --> 00:43:08,988 The uniform fits lovely, though. Ain't it a clinker ? 659 00:43:09,572 --> 00:43:12,204 - Mrs. Watty ! - Coming. 660 00:43:12,239 --> 00:43:14,954 - Tally-o - We'll be late for the meeting. 661 00:43:14,989 --> 00:43:18,785 - All right, Mrs. Stit, what's the hurry ? - The whole Corpse is waiting. 662 00:43:34,313 --> 00:43:35,430 Another, Glen. 663 00:43:38,059 --> 00:43:39,099 The same. 664 00:43:46,582 --> 00:43:48,863 You can fix me a bottle to take with me, Glen. 665 00:43:51,383 --> 00:43:53,886 I said you can fix me up a bottle to take with me. 666 00:43:54,254 --> 00:43:56,792 Oh, now you're speaking English, Morgan. 667 00:43:57,093 --> 00:43:58,298 What if I do ? 668 00:43:58,333 --> 00:44:01,138 Our dear Morgan goes to school now, he does. 669 00:44:02,571 --> 00:44:03,938 Which is none of your business. 670 00:44:04,182 --> 00:44:06,475 What language is this you've written here, Morgan ? 671 00:44:06,510 --> 00:44:07,575 Tis Latin. 672 00:44:07,730 --> 00:44:09,373 Do the words have a meaning ? 673 00:44:09,839 --> 00:44:10,895 They do. 674 00:44:11,466 --> 00:44:13,088 I love, you love, he loves. 675 00:44:13,123 --> 00:44:14,866 Words you have learned at the school ? 676 00:44:14,867 --> 00:44:17,389 - They are. - What use are they, Morgan ? 677 00:44:17,390 --> 00:44:20,341 Will they help you swing a pick any faster when you go back to the mine ? 678 00:44:20,576 --> 00:44:22,765 I love, you love, heee loves. 679 00:44:24,841 --> 00:44:27,186 The words are not meant to be funny. 680 00:44:27,221 --> 00:44:30,282 I love, you love, he loves, she ... 681 00:44:49,982 --> 00:44:52,602 Sorry, lad. The boys are only having fun. 682 00:44:53,356 --> 00:44:55,885 And there is others that's been having their fun too, Glen. 683 00:45:04,245 --> 00:45:08,800 - Are you going into the Gwesmor Arms ? - I'd go anywhere to save sinners. 684 00:45:25,103 --> 00:45:26,485 Miss Moffat ! 685 00:45:30,478 --> 00:45:32,667 Miss Moffat. It's the Squire. 686 00:45:33,420 --> 00:45:34,533 Let him in, Ron. 687 00:45:35,350 --> 00:45:37,428 Very well. Coming. 688 00:45:40,226 --> 00:45:42,572 - Squire. - Good evening. 689 00:45:42,803 --> 00:45:44,632 So this is the seat of learning. 690 00:45:44,667 --> 00:45:46,690 - Your hat. - No, thank you. I'm not staying. 691 00:45:47,500 --> 00:45:50,732 You can tell her for me that I have not come here to be insulted again. 692 00:45:50,789 --> 00:45:53,238 Oh, I'm sure you haven't. I mean... 693 00:45:53,273 --> 00:45:56,488 She called me an addle-headed nincompoop. 694 00:45:56,523 --> 00:45:59,736 Miss Ronberry, dear. My roses are dying. 695 00:45:59,837 --> 00:46:01,911 Would you pour out a little water for them ? 696 00:46:02,045 --> 00:46:03,698 I've such a headache. I... 697 00:46:05,153 --> 00:46:07,595 - Squire. - You wrote me. 698 00:46:08,081 --> 00:46:10,817 - Perhaps you've forgotten. - Oh, How could I forget ? 699 00:46:10,863 --> 00:46:14,708 I only thought that after the overwrought fashion of my behavior 700 00:46:14,743 --> 00:46:18,664 at our last meeting, you must ignore my very nervous invitation. 701 00:46:20,558 --> 00:46:23,292 Miss Ronberry, a chair, dear, for the Squire. 702 00:46:24,365 --> 00:46:27,000 I haven't a great deal of time to spare, I fear. 703 00:46:27,484 --> 00:46:30,567 Of course you haven't. I was just saying to Miss Ronberry 704 00:46:30,602 --> 00:46:33,439 the Squire is so busy he'll never be able to fit us in. 705 00:46:34,199 --> 00:46:36,871 Miss Ronberry, dear, would you put water in these, please. 706 00:46:39,952 --> 00:46:41,026 Tell me, Squire... 707 00:46:41,673 --> 00:46:44,589 how did your prize-giving fare this afternoon ? 708 00:46:44,859 --> 00:46:46,469 Rather a bore, I'm afraid. 709 00:46:46,546 --> 00:46:50,013 I have always wanted to see you judge. I love flowers. 710 00:46:50,596 --> 00:46:52,926 It wasn't flowers. It was cows. 711 00:46:53,002 --> 00:46:56,744 Oh. Well it was your speech I wanted to hear, of course. 712 00:46:56,745 --> 00:46:59,736 I heard you made such an amusing one at the croquet club. 713 00:46:59,771 --> 00:47:03,078 Did they tell you about that ? Rather a good pun, eh ? 714 00:47:04,762 --> 00:47:07,234 - May I sit down ? - Do. 715 00:47:07,722 --> 00:47:11,544 I thought the Griffith the butcher was going to laugh his napper off. 716 00:47:12,300 --> 00:47:15,421 Indeed. You know, Squire, that makes me very proud. 717 00:47:15,877 --> 00:47:17,409 Proud ? Why ? 718 00:47:17,449 --> 00:47:20,356 Because he wouldn't have understood a word you said 719 00:47:20,391 --> 00:47:23,300 if his two little girls hadn't learned English at my school. 720 00:47:23,435 --> 00:47:24,972 I never thought of it like that. 721 00:47:25,693 --> 00:47:27,075 May I offer you some tea ? 722 00:47:27,176 --> 00:47:29,405 No, thank you very much. I can't abide the stuff. 723 00:47:29,755 --> 00:47:32,887 I've trained my tummy to better things than tea, thank you very much. 724 00:47:33,527 --> 00:47:36,026 I'm sorry to be unable to offer you anything stronger, 725 00:47:36,259 --> 00:47:38,826 but in this house we are only women, you know. 726 00:47:38,861 --> 00:47:42,030 I quite understand. A feminine tummy, I've always said, 727 00:47:42,131 --> 00:47:43,762 is very much like the feminine mind. 728 00:47:43,796 --> 00:47:45,469 Both a bit on the weak side. 729 00:47:47,963 --> 00:47:49,927 How right you are, Squire. 730 00:47:50,563 --> 00:47:53,429 We're not exactly rugged creatures, are we ? 731 00:48:03,961 --> 00:48:05,386 What's the matter ? Headache ? 732 00:48:05,478 --> 00:48:09,241 Squire, you see before you a tired woman. 733 00:48:09,546 --> 00:48:10,615 We live and learn, 734 00:48:11,099 --> 00:48:13,696 and I have learnt how right you were that day. 735 00:48:14,043 --> 00:48:16,311 I have worked my fingers to the bone, 736 00:48:16,412 --> 00:48:19,440 battering my head against a stone wall. 737 00:48:19,575 --> 00:48:22,371 But I heard tou were a spiffing success. 738 00:48:22,406 --> 00:48:23,552 Oh, no. 739 00:48:23,587 --> 00:48:26,535 It's very fair of you to admit it, I must say. 740 00:48:26,570 --> 00:48:29,697 You see, in one's womanly enthusiasm 741 00:48:29,732 --> 00:48:34,251 one forgets that the qualities vital to success in a venture of this sort 742 00:48:34,344 --> 00:48:38,502 are lacking in one: intelligence, courage and authority. 743 00:48:38,603 --> 00:48:41,111 In short, the qualities of a man. 744 00:48:42,048 --> 00:48:44,999 Oh, come, come. You mustn't be too hard on yourself. 745 00:48:45,034 --> 00:48:46,671 After all, you meant well. 746 00:48:47,004 --> 00:48:50,907 It's kind of you to say, Squire. But I need more than words. 747 00:48:51,142 --> 00:48:54,074 - I need help. Your help. - What kind of help ? 748 00:48:54,894 --> 00:48:57,551 Well, you see, I'm faced with a problem. 749 00:48:57,570 --> 00:49:01,211 The question of what to do with the future of Morgan Evans. 750 00:49:01,789 --> 00:49:03,033 Morgan Evans ? 751 00:49:03,068 --> 00:49:04,965 He used to be one of my miners, I believe. 752 00:49:05,066 --> 00:49:06,301 What's his trouble ? Punching ? 753 00:49:06,414 --> 00:49:07,406 Oh, no. 754 00:49:07,407 --> 00:49:10,478 Got humself tangled up with a bit of muzzling ? 755 00:49:10,713 --> 00:49:12,004 Something of that sort ? 756 00:49:12,041 --> 00:49:15,865 - Oh, no, Squire. - What about the little Cockney filly ? 757 00:49:15,892 --> 00:49:20,727 Bessie ? No, I assure you, she's only a schoolgirl. It's nothing of that sort. 758 00:49:20,762 --> 00:49:22,916 But he is a problem just the same. 759 00:49:23,055 --> 00:49:28,391 And, like a true woman, I have to scream for help to a man. 760 00:49:29,275 --> 00:49:30,296 To you. 761 00:49:31,442 --> 00:49:33,253 Scream away, dear lady. 762 00:49:34,325 --> 00:49:35,600 Scream away. 763 00:49:36,028 --> 00:49:37,288 Well... 764 00:49:37,323 --> 00:49:40,472 - Morgan Evans is clever. He can write. - Can he now ? 765 00:49:40,507 --> 00:49:43,880 Oh, he's more than clever. This boy is quite out of the ordinary. 766 00:49:43,915 --> 00:49:45,015 Are you sure ? 767 00:49:45,115 --> 00:49:47,332 I'm as sure as one of your miners would be 768 00:49:47,367 --> 00:49:50,759 cutting through coal and striking a diamond without a flaw. 769 00:49:50,794 --> 00:49:53,214 This boy was born with exceptional gifts. 770 00:49:53,249 --> 00:49:54,792 They should be given every chance. 771 00:49:55,095 --> 00:49:57,925 You mean he may turn into a literary bloke ? 772 00:49:58,048 --> 00:50:01,795 - He might, yes. - How do you know ? 773 00:50:01,822 --> 00:50:05,201 - By his work. It's very good. - How do you know it's good ? 774 00:50:05,823 --> 00:50:07,716 How does anyone know Shakespeare's good ? 775 00:50:08,583 --> 00:50:10,901 Skakespeare ? What's he got to do with it ? 776 00:50:10,936 --> 00:50:14,044 - He was a literary bloke. - He was, wasn't he ? 777 00:50:14,279 --> 00:50:16,546 If Morgan Evans had a protector... 778 00:50:16,581 --> 00:50:17,598 What ? 779 00:50:17,815 --> 00:50:21,002 A protector. We had them before in England , you know ? 780 00:50:22,049 --> 00:50:23,264 Listen. 781 00:50:23,761 --> 00:50:27,129 To the Right and Honorable Earl of Southhampton... 782 00:50:27,163 --> 00:50:31,632 your Honor's in all duty, William Shakespeare. 783 00:50:34,666 --> 00:50:38,788 I often think of the pride that surged in the Earl's bosom 784 00:50:38,823 --> 00:50:42,342 when his encouragement gave birth to the masterpiece 785 00:50:42,477 --> 00:50:44,762 of a poor and humble writer. 786 00:50:45,352 --> 00:50:47,210 This little tenant of yours, Squire, 787 00:50:47,263 --> 00:50:49,327 has it in him to bring great credit to you. 788 00:50:49,357 --> 00:50:51,656 By Jove, he is a tenant of mine, isn't he ? 789 00:50:51,670 --> 00:50:53,824 Well, if this boy really is clever, 790 00:50:53,925 --> 00:50:57,009 it seems a pity for me not to do something about it, doesn't it ? 791 00:50:57,044 --> 00:51:00,179 It is a great pity. And I can tell you exactly what you can do about it. 792 00:51:00,395 --> 00:51:03,131 There's a scholarship going at Oxford. 793 00:51:03,232 --> 00:51:03,997 Oxford ? 794 00:51:04,032 --> 00:51:06,516 They have agreed to take this boy on one condition. 795 00:51:06,617 --> 00:51:07,960 That you vouch for him. 796 00:51:07,976 --> 00:51:10,004 My dear lady, you take the cake... 797 00:51:10,164 --> 00:51:12,172 Can't he be just as clever at home? 798 00:51:12,207 --> 00:51:14,937 Oh, no. He must have polish. He has everything else. 799 00:51:14,972 --> 00:51:18,067 The background of a university would be invaluable to him. 800 00:51:18,202 --> 00:51:19,850 - My dear lady... - Will you do it ? 801 00:51:19,951 --> 00:51:22,606 - I must say it's asking... - Think of Shakespeare. 802 00:51:22,641 --> 00:51:24,967 Squire, William Shakespeare... 803 00:51:25,753 --> 00:51:28,906 If the Earl of Southampton could produce a Shakespeare, 804 00:51:29,523 --> 00:51:31,437 I.. I... 805 00:51:31,472 --> 00:51:35,146 Think of your inscription, Squire. It will be handed down to posterity. 806 00:51:35,347 --> 00:51:37,796 Posterity ? Posterity ! 807 00:51:38,181 --> 00:51:41,212 Oh, serene dear lady. Oh, serene. 808 00:51:42,366 --> 00:51:45,388 I'll drop a line to some of the bigwigs next week. 809 00:51:45,523 --> 00:51:47,472 By Jove, it's rather a laugh, eh ? 810 00:51:47,707 --> 00:51:51,763 - Like having an entry in the Derby. - Exactly like the Derby, Squire. 811 00:51:51,798 --> 00:51:53,022 Well, I must be off. 812 00:51:54,157 --> 00:51:58,491 Oh, Squire. I would be most obliged if the letter could be posted tomorrow. 813 00:51:58,526 --> 00:52:00,938 Would you like me to draft out a recommendation 814 00:52:01,039 --> 00:52:02,695 and send it over to the Hall ? 815 00:52:02,729 --> 00:52:05,523 - You must be so busy with the estate. - Yes, I am rather. 816 00:52:05,558 --> 00:52:08,127 Polka supper tomorrow night. Do, do that. 817 00:52:08,162 --> 00:52:12,043 - Well, good bye, dear lady. - Thank you so very much, Squire. 818 00:52:12,078 --> 00:52:14,507 Happier conditions, and all that. 819 00:52:16,380 --> 00:52:20,017 - I'm glad you've come to your senses. - Thank you again, Squire. 820 00:52:20,476 --> 00:52:23,035 - From the bottom of a greatful heart. - Not at all. 821 00:52:23,052 --> 00:52:25,312 I'm all for giving a writer-fellow a helping hand. 822 00:52:25,659 --> 00:52:27,579 Well, good bye again, dear lady. 823 00:52:27,633 --> 00:52:30,438 - Good bye again, Squire. - Go ahead, Evan. 824 00:52:38,845 --> 00:52:42,088 That man is so stupid. It sits on him like a halo. 825 00:52:43,655 --> 00:52:44,995 Thank you for your shawl, Ron. 826 00:52:45,186 --> 00:52:47,313 Better watch out. I'll beat you to the altar yet. 827 00:52:47,586 --> 00:52:50,794 - What happened ? - We have met the Squire and he's ours. 828 00:52:51,029 --> 00:52:53,348 In 10 minutes I have given the Squire the impression 829 00:52:53,473 --> 00:52:56,845 he spends his whole time fostering genius in the illiterate. 830 00:52:56,872 --> 00:52:59,725 - How ? - By soft soap and courtseying. 831 00:53:00,224 --> 00:53:04,570 Ron, I am entering Morgan Evans for a scholarship to Oxford University 832 00:53:04,705 --> 00:53:06,811 and the Squire is going to vouch for him. 833 00:53:06,846 --> 00:53:11,067 - Halellujah ! - But they don't have miners at Oxford. 834 00:53:11,102 --> 00:53:12,315 Well, they're going to. 835 00:53:13,543 --> 00:53:16,619 - Well, good night. - Good night. 836 00:53:21,968 --> 00:53:24,693 Oh, it's you, Morgan. Miss Moffat is in the study. 837 00:53:25,143 --> 00:53:28,551 - I'll tell her that you are back. - I don't want to see no Miss Moffat. 838 00:53:29,155 --> 00:53:31,238 You mean, "I don't want to see Miss Moffat." 839 00:53:31,273 --> 00:53:34,110 - The double negative, you know. - Now don't you start. 840 00:53:34,145 --> 00:53:37,283 I like the double negative. It says what I want the way I like and 841 00:53:37,319 --> 00:53:39,433 I'm not going to stand no interferences from nobody. 842 00:53:40,593 --> 00:53:43,717 Morgan, I've never seen you like this before. 843 00:53:43,789 --> 00:53:44,953 No you haven't, have you ? 844 00:53:47,707 --> 00:53:49,805 Oh, you're back, Evans. Have a good walk ? 845 00:53:50,641 --> 00:53:53,541 - Yes, Miss Moffat. - Sit down. I have a surprise for you. 846 00:53:53,576 --> 00:53:56,173 - I will stand, Miss Moffat. - If you like. 847 00:53:56,471 --> 00:53:58,161 - Good night, Ron. - Good night. 848 00:53:59,775 --> 00:54:02,090 I'm putting you in for a scholarship at Oxford. 849 00:54:02,885 --> 00:54:04,106 Oxford ? 850 00:54:04,141 --> 00:54:05,394 Where the lords go ? 851 00:54:05,429 --> 00:54:06,632 The same. 852 00:54:06,667 --> 00:54:08,285 Oh, by the way. About your Greek. 853 00:54:08,687 --> 00:54:11,200 I've made you a simplified alphabet to begin with. 854 00:54:11,235 --> 00:54:13,167 It's jolly interesting after Latin. 855 00:54:13,202 --> 00:54:16,506 Have a look at it by Tuesday so we can make a good start. 856 00:54:16,856 --> 00:54:19,024 Oh, before we go on with the lesson, 857 00:54:19,228 --> 00:54:21,574 I'll find you a nail file. I'll show you how to use it. 858 00:54:22,112 --> 00:54:24,846 I shall not need a nail file in the coal mine. 859 00:54:25,405 --> 00:54:27,959 - In the what ? - I am going back to the coal mine. 860 00:54:29,209 --> 00:54:31,452 I don't understand you. Explain yourself. 861 00:54:31,487 --> 00:54:33,028 I don't want to learn Greek, 862 00:54:33,063 --> 00:54:36,101 not to pronounce long English words, not to keep my hands clean. 863 00:54:37,076 --> 00:54:39,892 What is the matter with you ? Why not ? 864 00:54:40,448 --> 00:54:42,538 Because I was born in a Welsh hayfield 865 00:54:42,573 --> 00:54:44,411 when my mother was helpin' with the harvest. 866 00:54:44,446 --> 00:54:47,875 and I always lived in a house with no stairs, only a ladder and no water... 867 00:54:47,910 --> 00:54:50,983 and until my brothers was killed I never sleep except three in a bed. 868 00:54:51,911 --> 00:54:54,571 I know that is terrible grammar but it's true. 869 00:54:54,812 --> 00:54:56,995 What has 3 in a bed got to do with learning Greek ? 870 00:54:57,199 --> 00:54:58,635 It has a lot. 871 00:54:59,274 --> 00:55:02,456 The last two years I have not had no proper talk with English chaps in the mine 872 00:55:02,554 --> 00:55:05,099 because I was so busy keepin' this old grammar in its place. 873 00:55:05,296 --> 00:55:06,680 Tryin' to better myself. 874 00:55:06,715 --> 00:55:08,778 Tryin' to better myself, the day and the night! 875 00:55:09,681 --> 00:55:12,703 You cannot take a nail file into the Gwesmor Arms public bar ! 876 00:55:13,063 --> 00:55:15,007 My dear boy, file your nails at home ! 877 00:55:15,511 --> 00:55:17,188 Besides, you don't go to the Gwesmor Arms. 878 00:55:17,217 --> 00:55:20,170 Yes, I do, I have been there every afternoon for a week, 879 00:55:20,300 --> 00:55:21,441 spendin' your pocket money. 880 00:55:21,476 --> 00:55:24,222 And I have been there now, and that is why I can speak my mind. 881 00:55:25,697 --> 00:55:27,880 I had no idea that you felt like this. 882 00:55:27,938 --> 00:55:29,848 Because you're not interested in me, that's why. 883 00:55:33,115 --> 00:55:34,444 Not interested in you ? 884 00:55:34,536 --> 00:55:36,083 How can you be interested in a machine 885 00:55:36,118 --> 00:55:37,840 that you put a penny in and if nothing comes out 886 00:55:37,841 --> 00:55:39,050 you give it a good shake? 887 00:55:39,085 --> 00:55:41,564 "Evans, write me an essay; Evans, get up and bow; 888 00:55:41,734 --> 00:55:43,438 Evans, what is a subjunctive?" 889 00:55:44,253 --> 00:55:47,468 My name is Morgan Evans, and all my friends call me Morgan, 890 00:55:47,821 --> 00:55:51,045 and if there is anything gets on the wrong side of me it is callin' me Evans! 891 00:55:51,477 --> 00:55:53,617 And do you know what they call me in the village? 892 00:55:53,852 --> 00:55:55,706 Ci bach yr ysgol! 893 00:55:55,741 --> 00:55:57,836 The schoolmistress's little dog! 894 00:55:59,588 --> 00:56:02,067 What has it got to do with you if my nails are dirty ? 895 00:56:02,102 --> 00:56:03,269 Mind your own business ! 896 00:56:22,385 --> 00:56:24,429 I had never meant you to know this. 897 00:56:25,179 --> 00:56:26,703 I have spent money on you. 898 00:56:26,853 --> 00:56:29,148 I don't mind. That money ought to be spent. 899 00:56:30,198 --> 00:56:32,134 But time is different. 900 00:56:32,540 --> 00:56:35,517 Your life is just beginning. Mine is half over. 901 00:56:35,978 --> 00:56:38,903 Two years is valuable currency. 902 00:56:39,347 --> 00:56:41,443 I have spent two years on you. 903 00:56:43,179 --> 00:56:44,907 Ever since that first day, 904 00:56:45,667 --> 00:56:48,524 the mainspring of this school has been your career. 905 00:56:49,790 --> 00:56:51,858 Sometimes in the middle of the night, 906 00:56:52,684 --> 00:56:55,256 when I have been desperately tired, 907 00:56:55,717 --> 00:56:58,122 I have lain awake making plans. 908 00:56:59,227 --> 00:57:02,394 Large and small, sensible and silly. 909 00:57:03,767 --> 00:57:05,487 Plans for you. 910 00:57:06,399 --> 00:57:09,095 And you say I have no interest in you. 911 00:57:11,976 --> 00:57:14,686 If I say any more, I shall start to cry. 912 00:57:15,417 --> 00:57:17,958 I haven't cried since I was younger than you are. 913 00:57:18,738 --> 00:57:20,716 And I'd never forgive you for that. 914 00:57:23,207 --> 00:57:25,682 I don't like this sort of conversation. 915 00:57:25,717 --> 00:57:27,237 Please never mention it again. 916 00:57:29,522 --> 00:57:32,405 If you want to go on, be at school tomorrow. 917 00:57:33,502 --> 00:57:35,259 If not, don't. 918 00:57:37,486 --> 00:57:39,974 I don't want your money and I don't want your time. 919 00:57:40,009 --> 00:57:43,205 I don't want to be thankful to no strange woman for anything. 920 00:57:44,686 --> 00:57:46,341 I don't understand you. 921 00:57:48,033 --> 00:57:50,259 I don't understand you at all. 922 00:58:20,144 --> 00:58:21,228 Morgan ! 923 00:58:22,231 --> 00:58:24,073 Come help me down. 924 00:58:25,333 --> 00:58:26,665 Come help me down ! 925 00:58:35,201 --> 00:58:36,405 Hello. 926 00:58:37,642 --> 00:58:41,291 I hurt my knee sliding down the roof. 927 00:58:45,327 --> 00:58:47,189 Perhaps I'm invisible. 928 00:58:49,088 --> 00:58:51,431 - Going for a walk ? - I am. 929 00:58:51,999 --> 00:58:55,204 - Do you mind if I come along with you ? - Free country. 930 00:59:01,457 --> 00:59:04,678 Don't walk so fast, Morgan. You'll have me all out of breath. 931 00:59:05,945 --> 00:59:07,880 - Talking a lot, aren't I ? - Yes. 932 00:59:07,915 --> 00:59:10,277 Well so were you in there. And I'm not deaf. 933 00:59:10,480 --> 00:59:11,525 Spying, were you ? 934 00:59:11,560 --> 00:59:14,458 If people lock me up in rooms and take the key out of the keyhole 935 00:59:14,493 --> 00:59:17,217 they can't blame me for listening at it. 936 00:59:17,836 --> 00:59:20,458 - She's wicked. - Mind your own business. 937 00:59:43,000 --> 00:59:44,876 Listening to the night, Morgan ? 938 00:59:45,902 --> 00:59:47,461 Isn't it beautiful ? 939 00:59:51,606 --> 00:59:53,708 You like that singing, don't you ? 940 00:59:56,083 --> 00:59:58,631 You know, it's funny. 941 01:00:00,107 --> 01:00:03,673 We've never been by ourselves before. 942 01:00:23,811 --> 01:00:26,482 Didn't know I knew Welsh before, did you ? 943 01:00:27,190 --> 01:00:29,081 You like that song, don't you ? 944 01:00:30,960 --> 01:00:32,870 That's why I learned it. 945 01:00:35,774 --> 01:00:37,707 You are different when you sing. 946 01:00:38,112 --> 01:00:39,384 Am I ? 947 01:00:59,229 --> 01:01:00,889 What's this ? Medicine ? 948 01:01:03,032 --> 01:01:04,386 Tastes like rubber. 949 01:01:04,948 --> 01:01:06,005 It's nice though. 950 01:01:08,594 --> 01:01:12,988 You know, you was quite right putting her in her place like that. 951 01:01:14,075 --> 01:01:19,198 Clever chap like you learning lesson off a woman. 952 01:01:20,251 --> 01:01:22,912 You don't have to go to Oxford. 953 01:01:24,013 --> 01:01:26,215 A clever chap like you. 954 01:01:27,902 --> 01:01:29,170 That's right. 955 01:01:30,153 --> 01:01:31,998 What a man wants 956 01:01:33,814 --> 01:01:36,377 is a bit of sympathy. 957 01:01:43,867 --> 01:01:47,786 A pronoun is a word used instead of a noun. 958 01:01:48,283 --> 01:01:49,634 That is correct. 959 01:01:50,251 --> 01:01:54,934 Now notice the sentence: "James took James' hat 960 01:01:54,978 --> 01:01:58,028 and put James' hat on James' desk." 961 01:01:58,309 --> 01:02:00,606 - Is it correct ? - No, Miss Moffat. 962 01:02:01,231 --> 01:02:04,228 Write the sentence on your slates as you think it should be written. 963 01:02:14,318 --> 01:02:17,489 Gwyllam, you seem to be having difficulty. Can you make a try ? 964 01:02:19,196 --> 01:02:24,488 If I take my hat and put it on my desk... 965 01:02:25,440 --> 01:02:26,500 What is wrong with that ? 966 01:02:26,595 --> 01:02:28,471 Gwyllam, we're not talking about your hat, 967 01:02:28,506 --> 01:02:30,418 we're talking about the sentence, the structure. 968 01:02:30,552 --> 01:02:32,067 The use of pronouns. 969 01:02:32,702 --> 01:02:34,505 I do not understand. 970 01:02:34,897 --> 01:02:36,553 Idwal, you may read yours. 971 01:02:38,368 --> 01:02:42,047 James took his hat and put it on his desk. 972 01:02:42,114 --> 01:02:44,454 Exactly. Wyllam, do you understand now ? 973 01:02:44,810 --> 01:02:46,194 No, Miss Moffat. 974 01:02:47,022 --> 01:02:49,650 Very well, we'll try again tomorrow. Class dismissed. 975 01:02:56,101 --> 01:02:59,237 I'm afraid Gwyllam uses no head for grammar. 976 01:03:00,113 --> 01:03:02,034 It was different with Morgan Evans. 977 01:03:02,135 --> 01:03:04,615 It's not always the hare wins the races, Mr. Jones. 978 01:03:04,693 --> 01:03:06,226 Indeed not, Miss Moffat. 979 01:03:06,289 --> 01:03:08,917 But I have seen you struggling with Gwyllam Hughes and the others. 980 01:03:09,008 --> 01:03:12,769 It was not my intention to start a school for only those with natural gifts. 981 01:03:12,890 --> 01:03:14,646 You must help all who want to be helped. 982 01:03:14,989 --> 01:03:17,704 The old and the young, the slow and the fast. 983 01:03:19,384 --> 01:03:21,457 - Oh, Mr. Jones. - Yes, Miss Moffat. 984 01:03:21,547 --> 01:03:23,783 Mrs. Simon Thomas received a letter from America. 985 01:03:23,884 --> 01:03:24,989 Would you read it for her? 986 01:03:25,062 --> 01:03:26,513 - Yes, mam. - Thank you. 987 01:03:50,245 --> 01:03:51,993 - Morgan ? - Come in. 988 01:03:56,830 --> 01:03:57,855 Good evening. 989 01:03:59,211 --> 01:04:00,411 What do you want ? 990 01:04:00,968 --> 01:04:03,597 Oh, my boy. I mean no offense. 991 01:04:05,060 --> 01:04:09,285 Has the time come in Glansarno when a man can't pay a family call ? 992 01:04:09,386 --> 01:04:10,580 Miss Moffat sent you. 993 01:04:10,669 --> 01:04:12,985 No. Miss Moffat didn't send me. 994 01:04:13,856 --> 01:04:18,218 You see, old Mrs. Simon Thomas just down the lane had a letter from America. 995 01:04:18,250 --> 01:04:21,602 And since she cannot read, I went over there to read it for her. 996 01:04:21,951 --> 01:04:23,339 What has that got to do with me ? 997 01:04:24,036 --> 01:04:27,858 Well, you could have read it yourself and saved me a trip. 998 01:04:27,907 --> 01:04:32,181 True, you have been away from the school for some time now. 999 01:04:32,210 --> 01:04:34,496 - That is my concern. - Yes, but... 1000 01:04:35,093 --> 01:04:37,515 still, it is a fine thing to be able to read. 1001 01:04:38,047 --> 01:04:39,379 Books, for instance. 1002 01:04:41,474 --> 01:04:43,220 Norwood's History of Kings. 1003 01:04:44,442 --> 01:04:46,067 How do you find it, Morgan ? 1004 01:04:47,491 --> 01:04:49,448 - That is my business. - Morgan, 1005 01:04:50,199 --> 01:04:52,147 you must come back to the school. 1006 01:04:52,385 --> 01:04:53,873 - Miss Moffat... - Why must I ? 1007 01:04:54,284 --> 01:04:57,254 Because the Almighty God has given you a brain 1008 01:04:57,300 --> 01:04:58,862 and you must make the most of it. 1009 01:04:59,315 --> 01:05:02,983 - I am all right the way I am. - Yes, but you are not happy, boy. 1010 01:05:03,293 --> 01:05:04,615 Anyone can see that. 1011 01:05:04,668 --> 01:05:06,951 I don't need Miss Moffat. I don't need to read no books. 1012 01:05:06,973 --> 01:05:09,074 I can hold my own head up. Now get out ! 1013 01:05:22,143 --> 01:05:23,807 But remember this, Morgan. 1014 01:05:24,747 --> 01:05:30,948 A full year of corn will bend its head. But an empty one stands upright. 1015 01:05:36,753 --> 01:05:43,247 A king's duty is to govern his people well. 1016 01:05:44,388 --> 01:05:50,367 He must see that only good laws is made. 1017 01:05:51,241 --> 01:05:59,095 And he must also take care that the people obeys them. 1018 01:06:09,293 --> 01:06:10,540 Continue, Mr. Tom. 1019 01:06:11,334 --> 01:06:16,076 And the Bishop's duty is to pray and preach 1020 01:06:16,362 --> 01:06:21,389 and to see that all the clergymen who are under his... 1021 01:06:36,988 --> 01:06:38,602 I would like to learn Greek. 1022 01:06:39,466 --> 01:06:41,106 I would like to try for Oxford. 1023 01:06:54,419 --> 01:06:57,935 You will find the first lesson marked, and the second. 1024 01:06:58,244 --> 01:06:59,418 Watch your verbs. 1025 01:07:00,545 --> 01:07:03,225 - And watch your English Hist... - I've read it 20 times. 1026 01:07:03,598 --> 01:07:04,735 I know it by heart. 1027 01:07:07,096 --> 01:07:08,546 We will begin in the morning. 1028 01:07:23,483 --> 01:07:27,422 Very well. Now I should like you to conjugate the verb "pimpai". 1029 01:07:27,526 --> 01:07:30,216 To set. Just the present. 1030 01:07:32,648 --> 01:07:37,464 - Pimpo, pimpas... - Pimpo, pimpas, pimpai, pimpomen... 1031 01:07:37,563 --> 01:07:42,634 - P?mpomen... - P?mpomen, pimpoti, pimposi. 1032 01:07:43,229 --> 01:07:46,227 You should always stress the first syllable, Evans. Try it again. 1033 01:07:47,040 --> 01:07:48,826 Pimpo, pimpas, pimai 1034 01:07:49,732 --> 01:07:52,582 Pimpomen, pimpoti, pimposi. 1035 01:08:08,962 --> 01:08:11,024 Na NO3 1036 01:08:25,971 --> 01:08:30,870 LAO 1564, 1642. 1037 01:08:40,888 --> 01:08:42,524 Hey, Morgan ! Morgan ! 1038 01:08:45,602 --> 01:08:47,575 Run down, boy. It's time to come out. 1039 01:08:47,676 --> 01:08:49,507 We've come to take you to the examination. 1040 01:08:51,089 --> 01:08:53,880 No, Morgan, no. Now you must always speak in English. 1041 01:08:53,909 --> 01:08:54,924 In English ! 1042 01:08:56,042 --> 01:08:58,607 The same like you will when you have won the examination. 1043 01:08:58,688 --> 01:09:00,809 When you are at Oxford. 1044 01:09:01,848 --> 01:09:03,548 English, Morgan, English. 1045 01:09:03,858 --> 01:09:05,905 All right then. Like it might be at Oxford. 1046 01:09:06,799 --> 01:09:09,865 May I say first I am delighted you have come for me. 1047 01:09:10,062 --> 01:09:11,835 I shan't be more than a moment. 1048 01:09:41,189 --> 01:09:44,241 But remember. Even if I am lucky enough to pass the examination today, 1049 01:09:44,587 --> 01:09:46,386 I will still be a long way from Oxford. 1050 01:09:46,723 --> 01:09:49,218 It will only allow me to take the talking examination 1051 01:09:49,253 --> 01:09:50,311 with the professors. 1052 01:09:50,473 --> 01:09:52,253 You'll win the examination today. 1053 01:09:52,293 --> 01:09:54,594 And when the time comes, you'll win the talking. 1054 01:09:57,554 --> 01:09:59,448 You're all my good friends, Robert. 1055 01:09:59,988 --> 01:10:02,077 And if I am lucky enough to win the examination 1056 01:10:02,189 --> 01:10:03,229 and then the scholarship, 1057 01:10:04,411 --> 01:10:07,255 I know I shall learn nothing of friendship at Oxford. 1058 01:10:07,385 --> 01:10:10,455 Well, come along. Standing here will not get us there on time. 1059 01:10:45,333 --> 01:10:51,219 I am saved, I am I am saved, I am... 1060 01:10:51,829 --> 01:10:57,182 I am S-A-V-E-D. 1061 01:10:57,536 --> 01:11:00,682 - What might the armchair be for, Miss ? - The Squire is coming. 1062 01:11:01,112 --> 01:11:04,018 - He is invitulating. - What was that, please, Miss ? 1063 01:11:04,408 --> 01:11:08,347 The Oxford people have appointed him and Miss Moffat to watch Morgan Evans 1064 01:11:08,382 --> 01:11:10,009 while he's sitting the scholarship. 1065 01:11:10,025 --> 01:11:12,373 - Why ? - So that he cannot cheat. 1066 01:11:12,537 --> 01:11:13,791 What a shame! 1067 01:11:14,179 --> 01:11:16,879 - What time is it ? - It's nearly 9 o'clock, Miss. 1068 01:11:17,505 --> 01:11:19,498 Terrible if Morgan couldn't get through. 1069 01:11:19,750 --> 01:11:23,381 Counting sheep all night I was. She didn't get a wink neither. 1070 01:11:23,684 --> 01:11:25,233 I could hear her thinking. 1071 01:11:25,434 --> 01:11:28,104 This is a very important day for her, Watty. 1072 01:11:28,346 --> 01:11:32,803 The post's here, Miss. Looks like this one's from Bessie. 1073 01:11:33,278 --> 01:11:36,422 - Would you mind, Miss ? - To think I taught her to write. 1074 01:11:38,511 --> 01:11:41,881 "Dear Mum, I don't like being in service at all. 1075 01:11:42,305 --> 01:11:45,018 Cheltenham is terrible. I do the steps. 1076 01:11:45,421 --> 01:11:48,566 Madam is terrible. Can I have a shilling ? 1077 01:11:48,834 --> 01:11:50,468 Your obedient girl." 1078 01:11:50,569 --> 01:11:52,795 Obedient ? I like that. 1079 01:11:53,246 --> 01:11:56,044 She's been away 3 months now. She ought to be getting used to it. 1080 01:11:56,110 --> 01:11:59,740 - Do you not miss her ? - No. I don't like her, you know. 1081 01:11:59,905 --> 01:12:02,977 - Never have. - Why, Mrs. Watty, your own daughter ? 1082 01:12:03,072 --> 01:12:06,172 I know. But I've never been able to take to her. 1083 01:12:06,485 --> 01:12:09,503 First time I saw her I said "No" ! 1084 01:12:20,963 --> 01:12:23,361 Do you think he will get through the rain all right ? 1085 01:12:23,867 --> 01:12:25,824 He'd get through anything this morning. 1086 01:12:26,032 --> 01:12:27,437 I am so glad. 1087 01:12:28,708 --> 01:12:30,810 Wouldn't it be splendid if he won ? 1088 01:12:31,675 --> 01:12:33,210 It's not very likely, I'm afraid. 1089 01:12:33,529 --> 01:12:36,283 They have some pretty strong public school candidates against him. 1090 01:12:36,318 --> 01:12:37,769 But wouldn't it be exciting ? 1091 01:12:38,796 --> 01:12:40,627 Yes, it would. But more than that, 1092 01:12:40,728 --> 01:12:43,819 it would be a wonderful for rural education all over the country. 1093 01:12:44,112 --> 01:12:47,929 Most of all, it would be a wonderful thing for you. 1094 01:12:48,389 --> 01:12:49,658 I suppose so. 1095 01:12:50,942 --> 01:12:54,703 It's odd to have spent so many hours with another human being and 1096 01:12:54,738 --> 01:12:56,790 in closest intellectual communion 1097 01:12:57,371 --> 01:12:58,704 And it has been that. 1098 01:12:59,506 --> 01:13:02,973 I know every trick and twist of that brain of his. 1099 01:13:03,520 --> 01:13:07,284 Exactly where it will falter, exactly where it will gallop ahead of me. 1100 01:13:08,631 --> 01:13:10,590 And yet not to know him at all. 1101 01:13:12,636 --> 01:13:15,529 I woke up in the middle of the night thinking of Henry VIII. 1102 01:13:15,564 --> 01:13:18,559 I have a feeling they'll ask a question about the old boy and the Papacy. 1103 01:13:20,076 --> 01:13:24,139 I'll cram one or two facts into him at the last minute. 1104 01:13:26,383 --> 01:13:28,863 Oh, dear God, he must win. He must. 1105 01:13:35,606 --> 01:13:37,308 A cup of tea, mam. 1106 01:13:39,937 --> 01:13:42,351 Now, mam, don't get in a pucker ! 1107 01:13:42,584 --> 01:13:46,412 Six more Saturday mornin's like this in the next 'alf-year, remember ! 1108 01:13:47,190 --> 01:13:48,772 Suppose the Squire doesn't come. 1109 01:13:49,972 --> 01:13:53,591 He will. He's gotten to the point of looking at the boy as a racehorse. 1110 01:13:54,174 --> 01:13:55,537 There's the Squire now. 1111 01:14:00,485 --> 01:14:05,284 - Bessie, it can't be you, your letter... - I left the same day I posted it. 1112 01:14:05,630 --> 01:14:08,221 - This is unexpected. - Isn't it just ? 1113 01:14:08,615 --> 01:14:09,999 I've been travelling all night. 1114 01:14:10,378 --> 01:14:12,830 I woke Mr. Jones up and he got the stationmaster 1115 01:14:12,931 --> 01:14:14,834 to drive us home in the truck in the rain. 1116 01:14:16,189 --> 01:14:17,292 Nice wasn't it ? 1117 01:14:17,393 --> 01:14:19,441 You arrived at the most inconvenient time. 1118 01:14:20,291 --> 01:14:22,816 - Fancy. - Have you come to see your mother ? 1119 01:14:23,026 --> 01:14:24,492 No. 1120 01:14:25,054 --> 01:14:27,910 - Then why are you here ? - Questions and answers. 1121 01:14:28,680 --> 01:14:30,402 Just like school again. 1122 01:14:30,695 --> 01:14:33,069 Mr. Jones, why have you brought that girl here this morning ? 1123 01:14:33,304 --> 01:14:35,816 I did not bring her, Miss Moffat. She brought me. 1124 01:14:37,652 --> 01:14:39,030 Whom have you come to see ? 1125 01:14:39,847 --> 01:14:40,851 You. 1126 01:14:42,491 --> 01:14:44,993 I can give you exactly one minute of my time. 1127 01:14:47,431 --> 01:14:48,454 Is it money ? 1128 01:14:50,508 --> 01:14:52,177 Would you mind waiting in the study ? 1129 01:14:54,023 --> 01:14:55,219 Quickly ! 1130 01:14:55,660 --> 01:14:57,429 - One minute. - Why ? 1131 01:14:57,977 --> 01:15:01,498 Morgan Evans is sitting here for his Oxford examinations this morning. 1132 01:15:02,916 --> 01:15:04,734 - Well, he needn't. - What do you mean ? 1133 01:15:04,962 --> 01:15:07,069 Because he won't ever be going to Oxford. 1134 01:15:07,134 --> 01:15:08,242 Why not? 1135 01:15:08,277 --> 01:15:11,287 Because there's going to be a little stranger. 1136 01:15:11,322 --> 01:15:14,282 - I'm going to have a little stranger. - You're lying. 1137 01:15:14,502 --> 01:15:16,552 Dr. Brett, living in Cheltenham. 1138 01:15:16,763 --> 01:15:18,538 And if you don't believe it's Morgan Evans, 1139 01:15:19,204 --> 01:15:21,513 you ask him about that night you locked me up. 1140 01:15:22,081 --> 01:15:24,292 The night you had the words with him. 1141 01:15:26,818 --> 01:15:28,115 I see. 1142 01:15:32,175 --> 01:15:34,257 - Does he know ? - I come to tell him. 1143 01:15:34,517 --> 01:15:36,226 I was ever so upset, of course. 1144 01:15:36,542 --> 01:15:38,764 Now I've lost my place I shall have to have some help 1145 01:15:38,814 --> 01:15:40,407 in taking care of the little stranger. 1146 01:15:40,442 --> 01:15:42,059 Oh, stop saying little stranger. 1147 01:15:42,335 --> 01:15:44,237 If you must have a baby, call it a baby. 1148 01:15:44,752 --> 01:15:47,148 - Have you told anybody ? - Mr. Jones, that's all. 1149 01:15:48,981 --> 01:15:51,497 Morgan Evans must not be disturbed for 3 hours. 1150 01:15:51,824 --> 01:15:54,494 - You are not going to see him. - You can't bully me. 1151 01:15:55,241 --> 01:15:57,195 Hasn't sunk in yet, has it ? 1152 01:15:57,401 --> 01:15:59,467 I'm teaching you something, am I ? 1153 01:15:59,653 --> 01:16:01,812 You couldn't see what was going on under your nose 'cause 1154 01:16:01,913 --> 01:16:03,844 you were so busy managing everything. 1155 01:16:03,879 --> 01:16:05,498 You can't manage him any longer because 1156 01:16:05,533 --> 01:16:06,911 he's got to manage me now. 1157 01:16:07,414 --> 01:16:09,986 I'm afraid I'm going to do some managing right now. 1158 01:16:10,477 --> 01:16:13,477 You are going into the kitchen where your mother will prepare your breakfast. 1159 01:16:13,932 --> 01:16:16,412 You will then lie down. After the session is over, 1160 01:16:16,513 --> 01:16:18,793 we will go upstairs and talk it all over. 1161 01:16:18,828 --> 01:16:20,158 When we are a little calm. 1162 01:16:20,923 --> 01:16:22,066 He's here. I got to see him. 1163 01:16:22,197 --> 01:16:25,567 If you try and disobey me I shall not answer for the consequences. 1164 01:16:28,039 --> 01:16:29,811 You wouldn't dare lay a finger on me. 1165 01:16:30,051 --> 01:16:31,275 Oh yes I would. 1166 01:16:31,628 --> 01:16:33,099 If you stay in this room, 1167 01:16:33,134 --> 01:16:36,155 or if you blab about this to anybody before we've had that little talk, 1168 01:16:36,585 --> 01:16:38,089 even your mother, 1169 01:16:38,124 --> 01:16:40,810 I'm in a pretty nervous state myself this morning 1170 01:16:40,845 --> 01:16:43,988 and I shall strike you so hard that I shall probably kill you. 1171 01:16:46,106 --> 01:16:47,757 I mean every word I say. 1172 01:16:55,531 --> 01:16:59,361 I don't mind. Three hours will go by soon enough. 1173 01:17:14,508 --> 01:17:15,829 - Good morning. - Sorry. 1174 01:17:16,358 --> 01:17:18,326 - It's a dreadful day. How kind of you. - Not at all. 1175 01:17:18,941 --> 01:17:20,142 Ron, the Squire is here. 1176 01:17:20,313 --> 01:17:23,706 Anything for a lark ? I'm glad it isn't me. 1177 01:17:24,086 --> 01:17:25,419 - Squire. - Oh, thank you. 1178 01:17:25,924 --> 01:17:29,041 - You're soaking. - Yes, I am rather wet. 1179 01:17:31,119 --> 01:17:33,642 I've got a spiffy bit of news for you. 1180 01:17:33,743 --> 01:17:35,283 I bought the barn from Sir Herbert... 1181 01:17:35,550 --> 01:17:38,088 and we can move the whole shool next door by the end of the year. 1182 01:17:38,303 --> 01:17:40,080 - What do you think of that ? -Wonderful. 1183 01:17:40,886 --> 01:17:42,223 Aren't you pleased about it ? 1184 01:17:42,258 --> 01:17:44,602 Yes, but... this examination is rather worrying. 1185 01:17:45,015 --> 01:17:47,020 - Squire, your chair. - Oh, thank you. 1186 01:17:52,764 --> 01:17:54,464 - Good day, everyone. - Good morning. 1187 01:17:54,899 --> 01:17:57,073 - Let me take your things. - Thank you. 1188 01:17:58,353 --> 01:18:00,516 - Beastly weather, isn't it? - Yes, it is. 1189 01:18:03,738 --> 01:18:05,859 - You haven't caught cold, have you ? - No, Miss Moffat. 1190 01:18:05,894 --> 01:18:09,139 Before I open the papers, I have a feeling they may bring up Henry VIII. 1191 01:18:09,174 --> 01:18:11,299 - Would you memorize these facts. - Thank you. 1192 01:18:14,177 --> 01:18:16,145 White heather. Just a thought. 1193 01:18:16,605 --> 01:18:17,779 Thank you. 1194 01:18:19,362 --> 01:18:20,756 Good luck, my boy. 1195 01:18:20,791 --> 01:18:22,936 - Thank you, sir. - I'm glad it isn't me. 1196 01:18:29,501 --> 01:18:32,296 One minute more, Evans. You'd better sit down. 1197 01:18:37,772 --> 01:18:41,692 Name and particulars, to save time. And don't get exuberant. 1198 01:18:41,793 --> 01:18:43,300 - No. - Or illegible. 1199 01:18:43,335 --> 01:18:44,645 No. 1200 01:18:44,830 --> 01:18:47,399 Aren't you going to wish my little proteg? good fortune ? 1201 01:18:54,370 --> 01:18:55,517 Good luck. 1202 01:18:57,507 --> 01:18:58,582 Thank you. 1203 01:19:24,774 --> 01:19:25,959 Ready ? 1204 01:19:46,985 --> 01:19:48,593 Henry VIII. 1205 01:20:18,527 --> 01:20:21,059 - Greetings, Learned lady. - Good morning, Squire. 1206 01:20:21,284 --> 01:20:23,682 You know I'm beginning to feel like a silly old Headmaster ? 1207 01:20:23,901 --> 01:20:26,493 Watching these eager little beggars sucking up education 1208 01:20:26,528 --> 01:20:28,164 like a lot of blinking little blotters. 1209 01:20:28,504 --> 01:20:31,076 There's quite a thrill to it once you get the proper viewpoint. 1210 01:20:31,803 --> 01:20:34,093 You don't think my being there disturbs them, 1211 01:20:34,128 --> 01:20:36,656 makes them selfconscious, nothing of that sort ? 1212 01:20:36,936 --> 01:20:38,747 Of course not. We like having you. 1213 01:20:38,782 --> 01:20:43,273 That's very nice of you. Extremely so. Any news yet from young Evans ? 1214 01:20:43,308 --> 01:20:44,948 I expect we'll hear in a day or two. 1215 01:20:44,983 --> 01:20:47,860 I must say I've got that young man on my mind these days. 1216 01:20:47,895 --> 01:20:52,012 Well, I must be toddling on. Goodbye, dear lady. Goodbye. 1217 01:20:52,113 --> 01:20:53,699 You mustn't be late for class, you know. 1218 01:21:05,861 --> 01:21:08,987 - Wonder where my chip book is. - You were using it only yesterday. 1219 01:21:09,122 --> 01:21:10,386 Right where you are. 1220 01:21:10,883 --> 01:21:12,231 Oh, yes, of course. Here it is. 1221 01:21:12,685 --> 01:21:14,113 More bills for the school. 1222 01:21:14,616 --> 01:21:17,204 I wish you could be more careful in your expenditures. 1223 01:21:17,686 --> 01:21:20,501 Nonsense. Moderation is a vastly overrated virtue. 1224 01:21:21,584 --> 01:21:23,582 Ron, your next class is waiting for you. 1225 01:21:25,617 --> 01:21:27,864 Do you know what has happened to Bessie Watty ? 1226 01:21:30,027 --> 01:21:31,077 Why do you ask that ? 1227 01:21:31,325 --> 01:21:33,959 Well, there's been a great deal of curiosity. 1228 01:21:34,184 --> 01:21:35,347 Gossip, really. 1229 01:21:36,037 --> 01:21:37,963 She was sent back to service in Cheltenham. 1230 01:21:38,691 --> 01:21:40,090 Anything odd about that ? 1231 01:21:40,564 --> 01:21:42,145 No, I suppose not. 1232 01:21:43,287 --> 01:21:45,795 Only people have been asking questions. 1233 01:22:42,481 --> 01:22:46,220 - Now. You all understand that ? - Yes, Mr. Jones. 1234 01:22:46,499 --> 01:22:49,310 - Let me see your slate, Robbart. - Mr. Jones ! 1235 01:22:50,124 --> 01:22:53,937 In that word there, "known", what in goodness is a "k" doing there? 1236 01:22:55,496 --> 01:22:58,413 Well,... it is there because ... 1237 01:22:59,056 --> 01:23:00,630 that is the proper way to spell. 1238 01:23:00,731 --> 01:23:02,269 It is not the way you say it. 1239 01:23:02,735 --> 01:23:06,845 "Nown" is the way it sounds. You do not say "k-nown". 1240 01:23:07,160 --> 01:23:09,109 Is that not right, Squire ? 1241 01:23:09,888 --> 01:23:11,888 I must admit you've got a point there. 1242 01:23:11,923 --> 01:23:14,614 N-O-W-N. K-N-O-W-N. 1243 01:23:15,132 --> 01:23:18,305 Your viewpoint is completely logical. No one can deny that. 1244 01:23:18,340 --> 01:23:21,938 Please, sir. How many "l"s in daffodils ? 1245 01:23:22,363 --> 01:23:25,493 Daffodils ? The usual number, I suppose. 1246 01:23:25,818 --> 01:23:28,810 - One "l" or two, sir ? - Look here, my good man. 1247 01:23:29,231 --> 01:23:31,663 If you don't know the meaning or the proper spelling of a word, 1248 01:23:31,726 --> 01:23:33,169 look it up in the dictionary. 1249 01:23:33,204 --> 01:23:35,872 You're the one who's supposed to be getting the education. Not I. 1250 01:23:36,220 --> 01:23:38,160 I went through all that myself ages ago. 1251 01:23:38,436 --> 01:23:41,364 There's no reason for me to delve into all those matters over again. 1252 01:23:43,439 --> 01:23:45,862 - And now, pupils, I have a surprise for you. 1253 01:23:46,076 --> 01:23:47,957 - Morgan Evans, - Yes. 1254 01:23:47,992 --> 01:23:50,602 Our Morgan is returning from Oxford University. 1255 01:23:51,129 --> 01:23:52,986 And if you all will behave yourselves, 1256 01:23:52,921 --> 01:23:55,834 you can stay in here to welcome him this afternoon. 1257 01:23:56,668 --> 01:23:59,193 In the meantime, the class must go on. 1258 01:24:08,344 --> 01:24:10,259 Now, now, boys. Sit down. Sit down. 1259 01:24:10,787 --> 01:24:12,638 Or I will not allow you to wait for Morgan. 1260 01:24:13,310 --> 01:24:16,303 - Any sign of him yet ? - No, there's no sign of young Evans. 1261 01:24:16,395 --> 01:24:17,577 Only old Sarah. 1262 01:24:17,612 --> 01:24:20,900 He is not expected before the train leaving Oxford in the morning. 1263 01:24:21,035 --> 01:24:24,096 Just the same, I sent the wagon at dawn to the station on the off chance. 1264 01:24:24,677 --> 01:24:26,136 If you would please sit down, sir. 1265 01:24:26,337 --> 01:24:28,729 The pupils are having enough difficulty concentrating now. 1266 01:24:28,930 --> 01:24:31,491 Excuse me. I simply can't do a thing with my class. 1267 01:24:31,602 --> 01:24:33,436 No concentration at all. 1268 01:24:33,471 --> 01:24:35,945 Do you think that Morgan may know the result when he arrives ? 1269 01:24:35,980 --> 01:24:38,538 I doubt it. Miss Moffat said we ought to get a letter in day or two. 1270 01:24:38,777 --> 01:24:41,931 I think I'll propel the old pins down the road. Just in case. 1271 01:24:42,443 --> 01:24:44,267 - Please, Squire. - What is it, my boy ? 1272 01:24:44,302 --> 01:24:47,409 - What sort of place is Oxford ? - I don't know I'm sure. 1273 01:24:47,597 --> 01:24:48,749 Cambridge myself. 1274 01:24:49,337 --> 01:24:50,844 Oh, thank you, Jones. 1275 01:24:51,812 --> 01:24:54,809 Now pupils, we'll continue our History class from this morning. 1276 01:24:56,314 --> 01:24:58,112 Sarah Pugh, what are you all dressed up for ? 1277 01:24:58,147 --> 01:25:00,166 - Because for Morgan Evans. - Is there any news ? 1278 01:25:00,201 --> 01:25:01,365 Of Morgan ? Oh, quickly. 1279 01:25:03,216 --> 01:25:05,117 - Any news ? - Not yet, Mr. Jones. 1280 01:25:06,264 --> 01:25:10,055 But when it comes I know it's good news, so what do I do ? 1281 01:25:10,090 --> 01:25:15,270 I open the dresser, out the lavender bags and into my Sundays ! 1282 01:25:15,305 --> 01:25:17,803 Before we have definite news that is unwise. 1283 01:25:18,063 --> 01:25:22,540 John Goronwy Jones, please, sir. You are an old soft. 1284 01:25:22,575 --> 01:25:25,961 Everybody is ready to meet him down by the Railroad Station ! 1285 01:25:25,996 --> 01:25:27,219 The grocer got his fiddle... 1286 01:25:27,324 --> 01:25:29,694 And William Williams, the public, got his cornet. 1287 01:25:29,729 --> 01:25:31,002 And me with my mouth organ. 1288 01:25:32,965 --> 01:25:36,344 Perhaps preparing for news to be good means that it will be. 1289 01:25:36,448 --> 01:25:38,198 Everything is preordained. 1290 01:25:38,299 --> 01:25:40,771 Morgan Evans has either won the scholarship or lost it. 1291 01:25:41,048 --> 01:25:45,533 Let us all say together: "Morgan Evans has won the scholarship." 1292 01:25:46,026 --> 01:25:50,323 "Morgan Evans has won the scholarship." 1293 01:25:50,458 --> 01:25:52,395 This waiting is getting to be a definite strain. 1294 01:25:52,430 --> 01:25:55,541 If we're going to welcome the lad, Great Scot, let's go and welcome him ! 1295 01:25:55,576 --> 01:25:57,344 Squire, wait, we'll go with you. 1296 01:25:57,379 --> 01:26:01,577 - Pupils, pupils, please ! - Don't worry. I'll go tell Miss Moffat. 1297 01:26:06,695 --> 01:26:09,685 Pupils ! Class must go on. Please. 1298 01:26:14,147 --> 01:26:15,211 It's simply no use. 1299 01:26:15,312 --> 01:26:17,684 They're all scurrying down the road to meet Morgan. 1300 01:26:17,898 --> 01:26:20,055 You're the only one who doesn't seem to be nervous. 1301 01:26:20,904 --> 01:26:22,341 I'm past being nervous, Ron. 1302 01:26:23,538 --> 01:26:25,698 If he has won, I shan't believe it, frankly. 1303 01:26:26,826 --> 01:26:27,958 And if he has lost ? 1304 01:26:31,747 --> 01:26:32,941 If he has lost, 1305 01:26:36,391 --> 01:26:38,796 we must proceed as if nothing had happened. 1306 01:26:41,700 --> 01:26:43,958 Won't you come and help me keep some semblance of order ? 1307 01:26:44,818 --> 01:26:46,603 Very well, Ron. I shall be up presently. 1308 01:27:04,308 --> 01:27:09,655 ...love alone his watch is keeping, 1309 01:27:10,215 --> 01:27:13,561 all through the night. 1310 01:27:14,662 --> 01:27:17,155 Miss Ronberry, how great their English has improved. 1311 01:27:18,412 --> 01:27:21,897 Very well. Now shall we try and sing the words with the music? 1312 01:27:22,082 --> 01:27:23,679 Yes, Miss Moffat. 1313 01:27:23,714 --> 01:27:26,692 You'd better follow me on the blackboard for the first time. 1314 01:27:26,727 --> 01:27:37,013 "Sleep my love and peace attend thee 1315 01:27:37,048 --> 01:27:43,035 all through the night." 1316 01:27:43,559 --> 01:27:49,808 "Guardian angels God will lend thee 1317 01:27:49,843 --> 01:27:54,110 all through the night." 1318 01:27:56,577 --> 01:28:02,804 "Soft the drowsy hours are creeping 1319 01:28:02,839 --> 01:28:07,591 "hill and vale in slumber steeping, 1320 01:28:07,592 --> 01:28:15,772 "love alone his watch is keeping, 1321 01:28:15,807 --> 01:28:22,657 "all through the night." 1322 01:28:23,612 --> 01:28:24,694 That was splendid. 1323 01:28:26,868 --> 01:28:29,866 And now, Miss Ronberry, I suggest that they sing it from memory. 1324 01:28:29,901 --> 01:28:32,029 - We'll try. - Good afternoon. 1325 01:28:32,064 --> 01:28:34,106 Good afternoon, Miss Moffat. 1326 01:28:34,772 --> 01:28:37,706 - Are you ready ? - Yes, Miss Ronberry. 1327 01:29:35,045 --> 01:29:38,336 Mr. Hughes. Are you sure that Morgan Evans didn't come in on the last train ? 1328 01:29:38,371 --> 01:29:40,465 No, I'm sorry. He didn't. 1329 01:29:40,924 --> 01:29:42,798 Is there not another train from London ? 1330 01:29:42,833 --> 01:29:45,003 No, Idwal. Not until tomorrow. 1331 01:29:47,194 --> 01:29:48,311 Squire... 1332 01:29:48,346 --> 01:29:49,947 How do you get from Oxford to Wales ? 1333 01:29:50,282 --> 01:29:52,081 I don't. I know nothing about Oxford. 1334 01:29:52,316 --> 01:29:56,348 Well, no train till tomorrow. I'm off. Good night, boys. 1335 01:29:56,716 --> 01:29:58,432 - Good night, Squire. - Good night. 1336 01:30:22,099 --> 01:30:24,311 You would be the first I would talk to, I said, 1337 01:30:24,737 --> 01:30:26,064 when I came back from Oxford. 1338 01:30:27,312 --> 01:30:28,399 Morgan. 1339 01:30:30,101 --> 01:30:33,648 I caught the early train. I knew they'd all be watching for me. 1340 01:30:33,848 --> 01:30:36,003 So I got off at the last stop before Glansarno 1341 01:30:36,038 --> 01:30:37,222 and got a lift from there. 1342 01:30:37,683 --> 01:30:39,693 - Does that mean... - Oh, no. No news. 1343 01:30:39,992 --> 01:30:42,234 - Except that I am not hopeful. - Why not ? 1344 01:30:43,350 --> 01:30:45,105 They talked to me for one hour at the Viva. 1345 01:30:45,140 --> 01:30:46,333 It doesn't mean anything. Go on. 1346 01:30:46,368 --> 01:30:49,977 They jumped on hard on the New Testament questions as you said they would. 1347 01:30:50,059 --> 01:30:52,297 - You're very pale. - Better than a raging fever. 1348 01:30:52,873 --> 01:30:54,124 Sit down. 1349 01:30:54,398 --> 01:30:57,057 I spent 5 minutes explaining why Saint Paul 1350 01:30:57,092 --> 01:30:59,006 sailed from a town 300 miles inland. 1351 01:30:59,339 --> 01:31:01,608 - Oh, dear. Parnell ? - Parnell ? 1352 01:31:01,643 --> 01:31:04,679 Oh, yes. I was going to stick up for the old chap 1353 01:31:04,714 --> 01:31:07,051 but when they started off with "that fellow Parnell", 1354 01:31:07,086 --> 01:31:09,228 I told the tale against him for half an hour. 1355 01:31:09,263 --> 01:31:11,049 I wasn't born a Welshman for nothing. 1356 01:31:11,495 --> 01:31:13,400 - And the French ? - Oh, not good. 1357 01:31:13,636 --> 01:31:15,025 I said "naturellement" for everything. 1358 01:31:15,126 --> 01:31:16,489 But it didn't fit all the time. 1359 01:31:17,016 --> 01:31:19,559 - Did the Dean send for you ? - I had half an hour with him. 1360 01:31:19,594 --> 01:31:20,837 - Did you? - Oh, yes, but 1361 01:31:20,956 --> 01:31:22,363 so did the other 9 candidates. 1362 01:31:22,398 --> 01:31:24,744 He was a very kind and grand old gentleman 1363 01:31:24,779 --> 01:31:27,080 sitting in a drawing-room the size of Town Hall. 1364 01:31:27,115 --> 01:31:29,070 I talked about religion the same as you said. 1365 01:31:29,359 --> 01:31:32,178 - Just as you were advised. - Just as you advised. 1366 01:31:33,029 --> 01:31:34,710 He asked me if I had ever had strong drink. 1367 01:31:35,012 --> 01:31:37,448 I looked him straight in the eye and said, "No". 1368 01:31:37,890 --> 01:31:40,087 Oh! When shall we know ? 1369 01:31:40,222 --> 01:31:42,114 The day after tomorrow. They are writing to you. 1370 01:31:43,852 --> 01:31:46,539 The villagers are all in their best talking about a holiday. 1371 01:31:46,856 --> 01:31:48,394 It's very stupid of them. 1372 01:31:48,429 --> 01:31:51,933 Because if you failed, it'll make you all the more sick at heart. 1373 01:31:52,602 --> 01:31:54,194 If I failed ? 1374 01:31:55,074 --> 01:31:57,762 -Don't speak about it. - But we must speak about it, Morgan. 1375 01:31:58,039 --> 01:32:00,441 You faced that fact the day you left for Oxford. 1376 01:32:00,476 --> 01:32:03,891 I know. But I've been to Oxford and come back since then. 1377 01:32:03,926 --> 01:32:05,476 I have come back from the world. 1378 01:32:06,759 --> 01:32:10,204 Since the day I was born, I've been a prisoner behind a stone wall. 1379 01:32:10,239 --> 01:32:13,324 And now somebody has given me a leg-up to take a look at the other side. 1380 01:32:14,363 --> 01:32:16,401 They cannot drag me back again, they cannot. 1381 01:32:16,535 --> 01:32:18,577 They must give me a push and send me over! 1382 01:32:19,344 --> 01:32:22,308 I've never heard you talk so much since I've known you. 1383 01:32:22,343 --> 01:32:24,317 That is just it. I can talk, now. 1384 01:32:24,564 --> 01:32:27,303 The three days I have been there, I have been talking my head off. 1385 01:32:27,527 --> 01:32:30,007 If three days at Oxford will do this to you, 1386 01:32:30,020 --> 01:32:33,163 think what you would be like at the end of three years. 1387 01:32:33,198 --> 01:32:36,041 That's just it again. It would be everything I need, everything ! 1388 01:32:37,185 --> 01:32:40,253 I spent 3 hours discussing the law with one of the other candidates, 1389 01:32:40,313 --> 01:32:42,078 the most brilliant one of the lot he was. 1390 01:32:42,572 --> 01:32:44,362 The words came pouring out of me, 1391 01:32:44,397 --> 01:32:47,679 all the words that I had learnt and written down and never spoken. 1392 01:32:48,131 --> 01:32:49,770 I suppose I was talking nonsense, 1393 01:32:49,805 --> 01:32:51,453 but I was at least holding a conversation 1394 01:32:51,993 --> 01:32:53,999 I suddenly realized that I'd never done it before. 1395 01:32:54,078 --> 01:32:55,430 I had never been able to do it. 1396 01:32:55,465 --> 01:32:57,428 Before it's always been like this: 1397 01:32:57,529 --> 01:33:01,363 "How are you, Morgan ? Nice day, Mr. Jones ! Not bad for the harvest." 1398 01:33:01,946 --> 01:33:03,583 A vocabulary of 20 words 1399 01:33:04,486 --> 01:33:07,360 and there I was with this other candidate, the brilliant one, 1400 01:33:07,853 --> 01:33:11,090 and all the words you taught me just came pouring out 1401 01:33:11,225 --> 01:33:12,604 like I'd always known them. 1402 01:33:14,333 --> 01:33:16,757 I came out of his rooms that night and walked down the High. 1403 01:33:16,858 --> 01:33:18,348 That's their High Street, you know. 1404 01:33:18,649 --> 01:33:19,737 Yes, yes. 1405 01:33:20,156 --> 01:33:21,763 Everybody seemed to be walking very fast, 1406 01:33:21,824 --> 01:33:23,361 with their gowns on, in the moonlight. 1407 01:33:23,764 --> 01:33:25,123 The bells were ringing, 1408 01:33:25,464 --> 01:33:28,087 and I was walking faster than anybody and I felt... 1409 01:33:28,974 --> 01:33:30,899 well, the same as on the rum in the old days. 1410 01:33:31,275 --> 01:33:32,432 Go on. 1411 01:33:32,680 --> 01:33:35,607 All of a sudden, with one big rush, against that moon, 1412 01:33:35,642 --> 01:33:36,995 and against that High Street, 1413 01:33:37,955 --> 01:33:39,463 I saw this room. 1414 01:33:40,004 --> 01:33:41,802 You and me sitting here studying 1415 01:33:42,620 --> 01:33:44,023 and all those books 1416 01:33:44,828 --> 01:33:47,368 and everything I have learnt from those books, and from you, 1417 01:33:47,403 --> 01:33:49,602 was lighted up, like a magic lantern. 1418 01:33:51,150 --> 01:33:55,174 Ancient Rome, Greece, Shakespeare, Carlyle, Milton. 1419 01:33:55,484 --> 01:33:56,809 Everything had a meaning 1420 01:33:57,234 --> 01:34:00,202 because I was in a new world, my world. 1421 01:34:01,288 --> 01:34:02,538 And so it came to me, 1422 01:34:03,635 --> 01:34:05,932 why you had worked like a slave 1423 01:34:06,033 --> 01:34:07,658 to make me ready for this scholarship. 1424 01:34:10,905 --> 01:34:12,353 I've finished. 1425 01:34:13,262 --> 01:34:14,738 I didn't want you to stop. 1426 01:34:15,427 --> 01:34:17,068 - I have not been drinking. - I know. 1427 01:34:19,439 --> 01:34:20,975 I can talk to you now. 1428 01:34:21,513 --> 01:34:22,852 Yes, I'm glad. 1429 01:34:37,168 --> 01:34:38,954 No sign of the boy on that train. 1430 01:34:39,466 --> 01:34:40,877 Never seen such a crowd in my life. 1431 01:34:41,141 --> 01:34:42,946 The whole village was down at the station. 1432 01:34:43,173 --> 01:34:44,164 - Squire. - Yes ? 1433 01:34:45,055 --> 01:34:48,461 Great Scot ! There you are, Evans. 1434 01:34:48,562 --> 01:34:51,014 - Good day, sir. - Any news, my boy? 1435 01:34:51,049 --> 01:34:52,876 They're sending the result through the post. 1436 01:34:53,047 --> 01:34:54,119 The devil, they are. 1437 01:34:54,120 --> 01:34:56,494 You know this waiting is becoming a definite strain. 1438 01:34:56,629 --> 01:34:58,486 - Squire, sit down. - Thank you, my dear. 1439 01:35:00,987 --> 01:35:03,134 - Morgan. - How are you, Mr. Jones ? 1440 01:35:03,783 --> 01:35:05,668 - Well ? - The day after tomorrow. 1441 01:35:07,960 --> 01:35:10,669 Why, Mr. Morgan. Well ? 1442 01:35:11,899 --> 01:35:14,332 The day after tomorrow. 1443 01:35:16,642 --> 01:35:19,080 - How are you, Morgan, dear. - Very well, thank you. 1444 01:35:19,115 --> 01:35:20,519 The suspense is killing me. 1445 01:35:20,923 --> 01:35:23,068 Mr. Jones, would you light the lamp for me, please? 1446 01:35:24,909 --> 01:35:28,033 Even the little children are worried about the result of the examination. 1447 01:35:29,029 --> 01:35:31,234 They couldn't wait until school was dismissed. 1448 01:35:31,919 --> 01:35:33,448 Little Idwal was the first. 1449 01:35:33,549 --> 01:35:35,546 How did you find the examiners, my boy ? 1450 01:35:35,681 --> 01:35:38,612 - Rather sticky, sir. - A lot of old fogies, I expect. 1451 01:35:41,901 --> 01:35:43,071 Keep the change. 1452 01:35:44,133 --> 01:35:45,198 Morgan, my boy, 1453 01:35:45,481 --> 01:35:46,904 are you not exhausted after the journey ? 1454 01:35:47,271 --> 01:35:48,698 Would you not like something to eat ? 1455 01:35:48,733 --> 01:35:50,473 - Well, I... - Of course, how stupid of me. 1456 01:35:50,538 --> 01:35:51,613 You must be very hungry. 1457 01:35:51,848 --> 01:35:54,543 - Watty will fix you something. - Thank you. Excuse me. 1458 01:36:01,366 --> 01:36:03,745 You seemed very anxious to get him out of the room. 1459 01:36:03,780 --> 01:36:05,128 The most terrible thing... 1460 01:36:12,036 --> 01:36:13,457 How do you do, everybody ? 1461 01:36:15,633 --> 01:36:18,208 Still the same old place, ain't it ? 1462 01:36:18,971 --> 01:36:23,682 - Look who's here. Hello, Squire. - How do you do ? 1463 01:36:24,320 --> 01:36:26,426 I do like this. Class, ain't it ? 1464 01:36:27,096 --> 01:36:28,692 How are you ? Blooming ? 1465 01:36:29,439 --> 01:36:30,462 Yes, thank you. 1466 01:36:30,897 --> 01:36:33,051 - What is this ? - Hello, Miss Ronberry. 1467 01:36:33,086 --> 01:36:37,198 How's geography, the world's still goin' round in circles ? 1468 01:36:37,430 --> 01:36:39,155 And to what do we owe this honor ? 1469 01:36:39,937 --> 01:36:41,540 Well, you see, it's like this... 1470 01:36:42,373 --> 01:36:46,226 Yesterday, after I had received my usual check, 1471 01:36:46,793 --> 01:36:50,084 I was lucky enough to be glancing through the Mid-Wales Gazette. 1472 01:36:51,482 --> 01:36:55,707 And I've come here to congratulate a certain young gent. 1473 01:36:56,514 --> 01:36:59,473 Just in case he has won that scholarship. 1474 01:36:59,706 --> 01:37:01,366 What has that got to do with you ? 1475 01:37:02,275 --> 01:37:04,657 Well, you see, Miss. It's like this. 1476 01:37:04,692 --> 01:37:06,381 - Four... - Don't say it ! 1477 01:37:07,262 --> 01:37:08,359 Don't say it. 1478 01:37:10,706 --> 01:37:13,122 Four weeks ago yesterday, 1479 01:37:14,940 --> 01:37:16,493 I had a baby. 1480 01:37:17,750 --> 01:37:20,588 - You had a what ? - A baby. A little stranger. 1481 01:37:20,878 --> 01:37:23,116 7 pounds, 13 ounces. 1482 01:37:23,214 --> 01:37:24,884 Good Heavens ! How ghastly ! 1483 01:37:28,789 --> 01:37:30,042 Where's that luggage ? 1484 01:37:30,982 --> 01:37:32,053 Any news, sir ? 1485 01:37:34,793 --> 01:37:35,887 Bessie ! 1486 01:37:36,804 --> 01:37:40,307 My, you do look a dollymop ! Oh... excuse me, sir. 1487 01:37:40,319 --> 01:37:41,519 Say anything you like. 1488 01:37:41,554 --> 01:37:43,039 Where d'you get them bracelets ? 1489 01:37:43,369 --> 01:37:45,204 - A present. - Oh, that's all right. 1490 01:37:45,642 --> 01:37:49,064 - And what have you been up to ? - Turning you into a granny. 1491 01:37:52,754 --> 01:37:54,311 Fancy that ! 1492 01:37:55,232 --> 01:37:57,269 You could 'ave knocked me down with a feather ! 1493 01:37:57,370 --> 01:37:59,248 Watty. Have you tended to Morgan's luggage ? 1494 01:38:00,693 --> 01:38:03,657 Hello. I've just been telling 'em. 1495 01:38:04,210 --> 01:38:05,599 You know what. 1496 01:38:05,700 --> 01:38:08,062 Now I think it's high time you told us who the fellow is. 1497 01:38:08,097 --> 01:38:10,807 - Yes, dear. Who is it ? - Well, as a matter of fact... 1498 01:38:10,893 --> 01:38:12,063 No! 1499 01:38:16,724 --> 01:38:18,757 I'll pay you anything. Anything ! 1500 01:38:21,433 --> 01:38:22,920 It's no good, Miss. 1501 01:38:27,801 --> 01:38:29,945 - It's Morgan Evans. - What ? 1502 01:38:31,272 --> 01:38:32,461 Oh, m'am... 1503 01:38:34,374 --> 01:38:36,019 I've been dreading this for months. 1504 01:38:37,760 --> 01:38:39,916 In a terrible way it's a relief. 1505 01:38:40,221 --> 01:38:43,615 Bamboozling me every week that he was in a gutter. 1506 01:38:43,650 --> 01:38:46,383 I can't go on listening. I can't bear it. 1507 01:38:46,418 --> 01:38:48,847 This horrible unnatural happening. 1508 01:38:49,774 --> 01:38:53,320 All I know is I have a baby, kicking healthy and hungry. 1509 01:38:53,610 --> 01:38:55,619 And I haven't got a husband to keep it. 1510 01:38:55,869 --> 01:38:58,534 So his father's got to turn into my husband. 1511 01:38:58,635 --> 01:39:00,297 It's only fair, ain't it ? 1512 01:39:00,431 --> 01:39:02,662 I'm afraid, Miss Moffat, I'm inclined to agree. 1513 01:39:02,706 --> 01:39:04,800 - I'll call him. - There is no need to call him. 1514 01:39:04,835 --> 01:39:06,022 Why not ? 1515 01:39:06,596 --> 01:39:10,623 I am sorry to say that I have a strong feeling of affection for this young woman 1516 01:39:11,104 --> 01:39:12,936 And I am willing to do the honorable thing 1517 01:39:13,037 --> 01:39:15,395 by rehabilitating her in wedlock. 1518 01:39:15,742 --> 01:39:17,930 And bestowing on the infant every advantage 1519 01:39:18,198 --> 01:39:20,400 by bringing it up a proper Christian. 1520 01:39:20,828 --> 01:39:23,018 - Are you serious ? - I am always serious. 1521 01:39:24,246 --> 01:39:25,833 You'd love that, wouldn't you ? 1522 01:39:29,859 --> 01:39:31,780 Now we're not pretendin' it's a windfall, 1523 01:39:31,815 --> 01:39:34,889 but for a girl who's took the wrong turnin', it's a present ! 1524 01:39:34,924 --> 01:39:37,791 And you'd have your own way in everything, wouldn't she, sir? 1525 01:39:37,826 --> 01:39:40,897 - Of course. - Well, now. Will you ? 1526 01:39:42,515 --> 01:39:43,737 No. 1527 01:39:44,221 --> 01:39:46,969 I'd like to oblige, really, but I can't. 1528 01:39:47,851 --> 01:39:50,879 Besides, my Alf would be furious. 1529 01:39:50,914 --> 01:39:53,643 - Your Alf ? - Ever such a nice gentleman. 1530 01:39:54,007 --> 01:39:55,704 Sporting, quite a swell. 1531 01:39:56,061 --> 01:39:57,739 Owns a racecourse. 1532 01:39:58,315 --> 01:40:01,223 You needn't look like that. I only met him ten weeks ago. 1533 01:40:01,258 --> 01:40:03,783 I never heard this kind of conversation outside a police station. 1534 01:40:03,918 --> 01:40:05,891 I shall seek the purity of the outside air. 1535 01:40:06,392 --> 01:40:09,540 I don't suppose you'd care to make an offer, Squire ? 1536 01:40:10,175 --> 01:40:11,243 What ? 1537 01:40:11,277 --> 01:40:12,872 Gross impertinence ! 1538 01:40:18,174 --> 01:40:20,053 Doesn't this man of yours want to marry you ? 1539 01:40:20,088 --> 01:40:23,408 He won't talk of anything else. But he won't have the baby. 1540 01:40:24,877 --> 01:40:27,919 He said of course if the father had been a pal of his 1541 01:40:27,954 --> 01:40:29,119 it might be different. 1542 01:40:29,952 --> 01:40:32,723 Now you can understand that really, can't you ? 1543 01:40:34,814 --> 01:40:38,291 I suppose Mr. Jones wouldn't consider the baby without me. 1544 01:40:38,714 --> 01:40:41,873 The baby without you ? Your child ? 1545 01:40:42,572 --> 01:40:44,358 What about your mother love ? 1546 01:40:44,802 --> 01:40:47,184 I expect you'll think I'm a very wicked girl. 1547 01:40:47,319 --> 01:40:49,741 But you know, I haven't got any. 1548 01:40:50,564 --> 01:40:53,213 You're inhuman. That's what you are ! 1549 01:40:54,021 --> 01:40:56,378 To think that you don't even want it. 1550 01:40:59,313 --> 01:41:01,620 You want to make him marry you on the chance 1551 01:41:01,725 --> 01:41:04,866 that he'll become fond enough of the child to ensure it's future. 1552 01:41:05,209 --> 01:41:08,510 Your conscience will be clear and later you can go off on your own. 1553 01:41:08,571 --> 01:41:11,120 - I shouldn't be surprised. - In the meantime, 1554 01:41:11,155 --> 01:41:13,858 it is worthwhile to ruin the future of the boy. 1555 01:41:14,008 --> 01:41:16,615 I know nothing about that, I am sure. 1556 01:41:17,631 --> 01:41:19,186 There must be some way out. 1557 01:41:20,468 --> 01:41:22,585 God bless us, mam. I got it ! 1558 01:41:22,955 --> 01:41:25,025 - What ? - Why can't you adopt it ? 1559 01:41:27,339 --> 01:41:28,617 Don't be ridiculous. 1560 01:41:28,980 --> 01:41:30,270 Would that do you, Bessie ? 1561 01:41:30,565 --> 01:41:32,491 - Well, I never thought... - Well, would it, though ? 1562 01:41:32,950 --> 01:41:34,250 Yes, it would. 1563 01:41:34,509 --> 01:41:37,490 But what do I know about babies ? I don't even know what they look like. 1564 01:41:37,634 --> 01:41:40,167 They're lovely little things. Now it's all arranged. 1565 01:41:41,688 --> 01:41:43,900 Oh, Watty, it would be fantastic. 1566 01:41:43,819 --> 01:41:45,130 Oh, do, please. 1567 01:41:45,448 --> 01:41:47,594 Don't you see ? It'll put everything to right. 1568 01:41:47,869 --> 01:41:49,329 I'd know the baby was safe. 1569 01:41:49,430 --> 01:41:51,364 Morgan Evans need never know anything about it. 1570 01:41:51,660 --> 01:41:54,107 And I can marry my friend and it will all be very beautiful. 1571 01:41:54,315 --> 01:41:55,689 It's mad, I tell you. 1572 01:41:56,396 --> 01:41:59,010 Besides, he might even grow up to be quite nice 1573 01:41:59,583 --> 01:42:01,282 and turn out like his father. 1574 01:42:02,917 --> 01:42:06,081 Now, ma'am, you've been pushin' us around for three years, 1575 01:42:06,182 --> 01:42:08,105 it's our turn to give you a shove ! 1576 01:42:08,344 --> 01:42:10,352 But, Watty, you're the grandmother. Surely you... 1577 01:42:10,387 --> 01:42:11,692 Oh, no, I couldn't. 1578 01:42:11,727 --> 01:42:13,105 I don't bear it no ill will. 1579 01:42:13,206 --> 01:42:15,311 But every penny I get goes to the corpse. 1580 01:42:15,412 --> 01:42:17,579 You're the one, really you are. 1581 01:42:25,807 --> 01:42:27,177 Bessie Watty... 1582 01:42:28,357 --> 01:42:30,829 Do you mean to say that if I should adopt this child... 1583 01:42:30,864 --> 01:42:32,674 Morgan Evans need never know. 1584 01:42:33,220 --> 01:42:35,201 - You swear? - I swear. 1585 01:42:37,757 --> 01:42:38,809 Very well, then. 1586 01:42:41,516 --> 01:42:43,570 - I give in. - Oh, that's lovely. 1587 01:42:44,063 --> 01:42:45,773 My friend will be pleased. 1588 01:42:46,060 --> 01:42:48,190 We'll arrange the details later, shall we ? 1589 01:42:48,708 --> 01:42:51,476 My friend gave me this buckle. Nice ain't it ? 1590 01:42:51,787 --> 01:42:54,370 He offered me a tiny one. Real. 1591 01:42:54,471 --> 01:42:56,503 But I think the false one is prettier. 1592 01:42:56,872 --> 01:42:58,088 Don't you ? 1593 01:42:59,415 --> 01:43:01,952 Are you going to take up a life of disrepute ? 1594 01:43:02,487 --> 01:43:04,438 I shouldn't be a bit surprised. 1595 01:43:06,615 --> 01:43:10,291 That cold water didn't really do the trick, did it, mumsy dear ? 1596 01:43:14,116 --> 01:43:16,107 Goodbye, Miss Schoolteacher. 1597 01:43:16,544 --> 01:43:19,330 I only did it to spite you, you know. 1598 01:43:21,461 --> 01:43:23,873 You're not fit to touch the hem of her garment ! 1599 01:43:23,908 --> 01:43:25,238 Oh, yes I am ! 1600 01:43:25,390 --> 01:43:27,181 Just because she's read a lot of books. 1601 01:43:27,516 --> 01:43:29,031 Books, books, look at them all. 1602 01:43:29,509 --> 01:43:33,886 I got more out of life at my age than she has out o' them all her days. 1603 01:43:35,060 --> 01:43:37,160 And I'll get a lot more yet ! 1604 01:43:37,841 --> 01:43:39,358 What d'you bet me ? 1605 01:43:50,673 --> 01:43:54,676 Well now, that's settled. Now a nice cup of tea for everybody. 1606 01:43:55,081 --> 01:43:56,300 I'll help you, Watty. 1607 01:44:05,797 --> 01:44:06,922 Has she gone ? 1608 01:44:08,155 --> 01:44:10,326 - Why ? - The Squire has just told me. 1609 01:44:12,060 --> 01:44:14,500 Oh, fool! The idiotic fool! 1610 01:44:14,779 --> 01:44:15,853 Then it's true. 1611 01:44:16,950 --> 01:44:18,554 - He thought I knew. - There is no need 1612 01:44:18,589 --> 01:44:20,212 for you to to upset yourself, my boy. 1613 01:44:20,344 --> 01:44:22,335 Miss Moffat is going to take care of the child. 1614 01:44:23,735 --> 01:44:24,904 You are what ? 1615 01:44:25,471 --> 01:44:27,315 I am going to adopt the child. 1616 01:44:27,350 --> 01:44:28,821 What the devil do you take me for... 1617 01:44:28,983 --> 01:44:30,012 Morgan, my boy. 1618 01:44:31,096 --> 01:44:32,646 We thought it was for the best. 1619 01:44:32,896 --> 01:44:35,157 - What would you like to do ? - What would I like to do ? 1620 01:44:35,805 --> 01:44:38,203 It is not what I would like but what I am going to do. 1621 01:44:38,238 --> 01:44:39,347 I am going to marry her. 1622 01:44:40,239 --> 01:44:42,232 I knew this would happen, I knew. 1623 01:44:42,378 --> 01:44:45,543 Bessie Watty and I are going to get married as soon as we can. 1624 01:44:45,677 --> 01:44:46,701 And that is final ! 1625 01:44:49,577 --> 01:44:50,504 Come in. 1626 01:44:50,972 --> 01:44:52,003 A telegram ! 1627 01:44:52,039 --> 01:44:53,429 They sent it from Penlan. 1628 01:44:54,303 --> 01:44:56,168 I never seen a telegram before. 1629 01:44:56,872 --> 01:44:58,219 Read it, Miss Moffat. 1630 01:44:58,437 --> 01:45:01,447 I would like to know for once what it says in a telegram. 1631 01:45:11,923 --> 01:45:13,896 You have won the scholarship, Morgan. 1632 01:45:16,764 --> 01:45:19,534 First, Evans, Second, Fayver-Iles, 1633 01:45:20,105 --> 01:45:21,147 Third, Starling. 1634 01:45:22,284 --> 01:45:23,595 Congratulations! 1635 01:45:45,320 --> 01:45:46,321 Look at me, Morgan. 1636 01:45:50,059 --> 01:45:51,592 The first time we are together. 1637 01:45:52,448 --> 01:45:54,916 Our hearts are face to face unashamed. 1638 01:45:55,449 --> 01:45:58,241 The clock is ticking and there is no time to lose. 1639 01:45:58,982 --> 01:46:02,332 If there was ever anybody at the crossroads, you are now. 1640 01:46:02,367 --> 01:46:04,075 It's no good. I'm going to marry her. 1641 01:46:04,162 --> 01:46:06,031 And I am going to speak to you very simply. 1642 01:46:06,417 --> 01:46:09,962 I'm going to ask you to change suddenly from a boy to a man. 1643 01:46:10,854 --> 01:46:13,428 I understand that this has been a great shock to you. 1644 01:46:13,763 --> 01:46:16,877 But I'm going to ask you to throw off this passionate obstinacy 1645 01:46:16,912 --> 01:46:18,215 to do the right thing. 1646 01:46:18,703 --> 01:46:20,570 Have you ever asked Bessie to marry you ? 1647 01:46:20,671 --> 01:46:22,526 - No, never. - Have you even told her 1648 01:46:22,561 --> 01:46:24,338 - you were in love with her ? - No, never. 1649 01:46:24,373 --> 01:46:27,243 That does not alter the fact that I have a duty to them both. 1650 01:46:27,430 --> 01:46:30,478 She has her own plans and does not want the child. 1651 01:46:31,007 --> 01:46:33,628 And if you do marry her, you know what will happen, don't you ? 1652 01:46:34,147 --> 01:46:35,588 You'll go back to the mine. 1653 01:46:35,623 --> 01:46:37,827 In two years' time she will have left you both. 1654 01:46:38,321 --> 01:46:41,767 You will start drinking again, only this time you won't stop. 1655 01:46:42,310 --> 01:46:46,149 And you will enjoy being this besotted and uncouth village genius 1656 01:46:46,204 --> 01:46:47,781 who once showed such promise. 1657 01:46:48,358 --> 01:46:50,129 And it won't be worth it, you know that. 1658 01:46:50,164 --> 01:46:52,585 There is a child, living and breathing on this earth, 1659 01:46:52,620 --> 01:46:54,667 and living and breathing because of me. 1660 01:46:54,702 --> 01:46:57,396 You merntioned the word duty just now, didn't you ? 1661 01:46:57,431 --> 01:46:58,479 Yes, you have a duty. 1662 01:46:59,259 --> 01:47:01,528 But it's not to this loose little lady, 1663 01:47:01,629 --> 01:47:03,062 or to her offspring either. 1664 01:47:03,554 --> 01:47:05,057 You mean duty to you ? 1665 01:47:07,888 --> 01:47:08,991 No. 1666 01:47:09,779 --> 01:47:12,009 A year ago, I would have said duty to me. 1667 01:47:12,992 --> 01:47:14,445 But that night you showed your teeth. 1668 01:47:15,502 --> 01:47:18,597 Caught me unawares, and I gave you the worst possible answer. 1669 01:47:19,909 --> 01:47:24,006 I turned sorry for myself and taunted you with ingratitude. 1670 01:47:25,832 --> 01:47:28,616 I was a dope not to realize that a debt of gratitude 1671 01:47:29,392 --> 01:47:31,329 is the most humiliating debt of all. 1672 01:47:32,171 --> 01:47:35,112 And that a little show of affection would have wiped it out. 1673 01:47:37,333 --> 01:47:39,430 I offer that affection to you now. 1674 01:47:43,668 --> 01:47:45,507 Why are you saying this to me now? 1675 01:47:46,157 --> 01:47:50,616 Because, as the moments are passing, and I am going to have my way, 1676 01:47:52,261 --> 01:47:54,022 I know I shall never see you again. 1677 01:47:55,323 --> 01:47:57,159 Never again? But why? 1678 01:47:58,413 --> 01:47:59,778 If you are not to marry her, 1679 01:47:59,878 --> 01:48:02,443 it would be madness to come to contact with the child. 1680 01:48:02,960 --> 01:48:05,551 And so, as I'm adopting the child, 1681 01:48:05,606 --> 01:48:07,536 you must not come to see me again. 1682 01:48:07,888 --> 01:48:09,063 That's only common sense. 1683 01:48:09,798 --> 01:48:13,507 You are being given that push over the wall you asked for. 1684 01:48:15,020 --> 01:48:16,325 But you are staying here. 1685 01:48:17,512 --> 01:48:19,028 How can I never come back? 1686 01:48:20,306 --> 01:48:22,232 After everything you've done for me. 1687 01:48:25,742 --> 01:48:27,711 Do you remember, for the past six months, 1688 01:48:28,358 --> 01:48:30,660 I've taken a long walk over Moel Hiraeth, 1689 01:48:30,661 --> 01:48:32,056 every morning for my health? 1690 01:48:32,091 --> 01:48:33,134 Yes. 1691 01:48:34,167 --> 01:48:36,171 There's a bit of the road, round a boulder 1692 01:48:36,995 --> 01:48:37,171 and there's an oak tree 1693 01:48:39,098 --> 01:48:41,854 and under it the valley suddenly drops sheer. 1694 01:48:43,172 --> 01:48:46,575 Every morning regularly, as I turned that corner, 1695 01:48:47,635 --> 01:48:49,026 by some trick of the mind, 1696 01:48:49,963 --> 01:48:52,474 I would find myself thinking about you 1697 01:48:52,775 --> 01:48:55,458 working for this scholarship and winning it. 1698 01:48:58,144 --> 01:49:02,558 And I experienced something which after all is comparatively rare. 1699 01:49:04,244 --> 01:49:06,211 A feeling of complete happiness. 1700 01:49:10,030 --> 01:49:11,768 I shall experience it again. 1701 01:49:13,463 --> 01:49:17,119 No, Morgan Evans, you have no duty to me. 1702 01:49:17,821 --> 01:49:19,838 Your only duty is to the world. 1703 01:49:20,984 --> 01:49:22,244 To the world ? 1704 01:49:22,400 --> 01:49:24,117 Now you're going away, 1705 01:49:24,342 --> 01:49:26,220 there's no harm in telling you something. 1706 01:49:26,827 --> 01:49:28,755 I don't think you quite realize 1707 01:49:28,890 --> 01:49:31,705 what your future can become if you give it the chance. 1708 01:49:32,860 --> 01:49:37,293 I rather made out to the Squire I wanted you to become a writer 1709 01:49:38,059 --> 01:49:40,183 but stranger things have happened. 1710 01:49:40,450 --> 01:49:42,254 You have a great deal now, Morgan. 1711 01:49:43,160 --> 01:49:45,937 - But Oxford will give you the rest. - But what ? 1712 01:49:46,727 --> 01:49:49,419 Enough to become a great man of our country. 1713 01:49:50,366 --> 01:49:52,794 "If a light come into the mine", you said. 1714 01:49:53,728 --> 01:49:54,923 Remember? 1715 01:49:58,270 --> 01:49:59,287 Yes. 1716 01:49:59,606 --> 01:50:03,510 Make that light come in the mine and some day free these children. 1717 01:50:04,167 --> 01:50:06,396 Oh, you can be more. Much, much more. 1718 01:50:06,687 --> 01:50:09,541 You can be a man for a future nation to be proud of. 1719 01:50:12,398 --> 01:50:14,496 Perhaps I'm mad, I don't know. 1720 01:50:15,350 --> 01:50:17,922 We'll see. It's up to you. 1721 01:50:20,973 --> 01:50:22,042 Yes. 1722 01:50:27,597 --> 01:50:28,879 I think that's all. 1723 01:50:31,448 --> 01:50:33,543 I do not know what to say. 1724 01:50:34,862 --> 01:50:36,257 Then don't say anything. 1725 01:50:40,666 --> 01:50:43,045 I've been so much time in this room. 1726 01:50:43,698 --> 01:50:45,414 And the lessons are over. 1727 01:50:47,900 --> 01:50:49,435 I shall always remember. 1728 01:50:50,912 --> 01:50:53,887 Will you? I'm glad you think you will. 1729 01:50:59,457 --> 01:51:01,974 Please, Miss Moffat, the band is out, and they say Morgan 1730 01:51:02,009 --> 01:51:04,387 got to come down to Town Hall for Wales to see a real toff ! 1731 01:51:07,482 --> 01:51:09,149 Idwal, take this for Morgan. 1732 01:51:09,184 --> 01:51:11,693 Tyd, Morgan, Tyd, they're waiting for you. 1733 01:51:21,283 --> 01:51:22,427 Goodbye, Morgan. 1734 01:51:33,129 --> 01:51:35,962 Isn't it grand ? I've never felt so excited in my life. 1735 01:51:35,997 --> 01:51:37,812 I'm going outside to have a look at the fun. 1736 01:51:38,948 --> 01:51:42,702 Makes me very proud, one of my boys getting a scholarship at Oxford. 1737 01:51:43,263 --> 01:51:44,387 Pity it wasn't Cambridge. 1738 01:51:53,079 --> 01:51:56,059 - Is he gone ? - Yes, Watty. 1739 01:51:57,085 --> 01:52:00,183 Bessie sent a gentleman over from the public house to see you. 1740 01:52:01,058 --> 01:52:03,723 - What's this ? - It's a birth certificate, m'am. 1741 01:52:05,757 --> 01:52:08,542 - I'd forgotten all about that. - Come on, mam, 1742 01:52:08,902 --> 01:52:10,672 you've got to start sometime. 1743 01:52:15,415 --> 01:52:20,247 Moffat, my girl. You mustn't be clumsy this time. 1744 01:52:21,721 --> 01:52:23,173 You mustn't be clumsy. 1745 01:52:38,581 --> 01:52:40,947 School tomorrow, the same as usual ? 1746 01:52:42,919 --> 01:52:44,141 Yes, Ron. 1747 01:52:45,000 --> 01:52:46,314 Same as usual.