1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:03,000 Copper! Copper! They've struck! 2 00:00:03,000 --> 00:00:06,000 I do not wish to appear forward, but when may I see you again? 3 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:08,000 Wife murderer! 4 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:12,000 Even now, in her heart, she still hankers for him. 5 00:00:12,000 --> 00:00:15,000 'Our friend Choake sold me his shares in Wheal Leisure.' 6 00:00:15,000 --> 00:00:17,000 Your kitchen maid?! You cannot hope to have 7 00:00:17,000 --> 00:00:19,000 entry into any respectable gathering! 8 00:00:19,000 --> 00:00:21,000 My dear, it's so good of you to come to us. 9 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:23,000 A pretty little thing. 10 00:00:23,000 --> 00:00:26,000 There are reports that Francis has another woman. Has he? 11 00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:28,000 Look after our family for me. 12 00:00:28,000 --> 00:00:29,000 Of course. 13 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:31,000 'And our good name.' 14 00:00:31,000 --> 00:00:34,000 'I hope you will have a little love to spare.' 15 00:00:34,000 --> 00:00:36,000 For what? Our child. 16 00:01:17,000 --> 00:01:20,000 DISTANT RUMBLING, WATER DRIPS 17 00:01:29,000 --> 00:01:33,000 TAPS ECHO, DUST FALLS 18 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:33,000 Captain Poldark. 19 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:36,000 Dr Enys! You survived the journey? 20 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:39,000 Missed the riots in London, but caught them in Exeter! 21 00:02:39,000 --> 00:02:41,000 We're uncivilized here, let me warn you. 22 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:42,000 I've seen worse. 23 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:44,000 You've saved worse! Come meet my friends. 24 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:47,000 Paul, Zacky, Mark, this is Dwight Enys. 25 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:49,000 I have him to thank for patching me up! 26 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:51,000 I trust my skill's improved since then. 27 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:53,000 Dwight is here to make a study of mine diseases. 28 00:02:53,000 --> 00:02:55,000 There's no shortage of subjects! 29 00:02:55,000 --> 00:02:56,000 Do you suffer yourself? 30 00:02:56,000 --> 00:02:58,000 Heart and lungs of an ox! 31 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:01,000 Then I hope we'll have no call to meet, except socially. 32 00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:02,000 You must come meet my wife. 33 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:30,000 Demelza, my friend, Dr Dwight Enys. Ma'am. 34 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:32,000 'Twas you that mended his face? 35 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:33,000 Your fame precedes you, sir! 36 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:34,000 My infamy, you mean! 37 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:40,000 I intend to keep my head down here. I've no wish to become notorious. 38 00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:43,000 BELL TOLLS 39 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:51,000 MAN: Roll up! GENERAL HUBBUB 40 00:03:54,000 --> 00:03:55,000 A picture of conjugal bliss! 41 00:03:57,000 --> 00:04:00,000 Make the most of it, while you still can! 42 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:02,000 You look well. 43 00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:05,000 Oh! A month to go and I'm already fatter than Prudie! 44 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:09,000 If in doubt, purge. That's our motto. 45 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:11,000 Bleed, boil, blister, sweat. 46 00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:14,000 Healing is a...a science, ma'am. 47 00:04:14,000 --> 00:04:17,000 Few comprehend its mysteries. Or its fees. 48 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:23,000 I merely meant not everyone can afford expensive treatments. 49 00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:26,000 And sometimes does it not do better to work with nature's remedies? 50 00:04:26,000 --> 00:04:29,000 And you are...? Dr Dwight Enys. 51 00:04:29,000 --> 00:04:31,000 He's here to make a study of mine diseases. 52 00:04:31,000 --> 00:04:32,000 He's come to the right place. 53 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:34,000 Not if he cares to eat. 54 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:37,000 The only cases are miners, and they rarely pay. 55 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:40,000 I wonder if healing is not its own reward? 56 00:04:40,000 --> 00:04:43,000 When you're living under a hedge and dining off thistles, 57 00:04:43,000 --> 00:04:46,000 perhaps you'll care to revisit that question, sir. 58 00:04:52,000 --> 00:04:54,000 How's Grambler? 59 00:04:54,000 --> 00:04:57,000 Mortgaged to the hilt, running out of ore, 60 00:04:57,000 --> 00:04:58,000 the price of copper tumbling. 61 00:04:58,000 --> 00:05:01,000 Perhaps we'll all be sleeping under hedges soon! 62 00:05:04,000 --> 00:05:07,000 Stop playing with him, Mark. Come on! 63 00:05:07,000 --> 00:05:09,000 CHEERING AND LAUGHTER 64 00:05:15,000 --> 00:05:17,000 I am undone, 65 00:05:17,000 --> 00:05:19,000 there be no living, 66 00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:21,000 none, 67 00:05:21,000 --> 00:05:23,000 if Bertram be away. 68 00:05:23,000 --> 00:05:28,000 'Twere all one that I should love a bright particular star 69 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:29,000 and think to wed it. 70 00:05:33,000 --> 00:05:36,000 He is so above me. 71 00:05:36,000 --> 00:05:41,000 In his bright radiance and collateral light 72 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:46,000 must I be comforted, not in his sphere... 73 00:05:49,000 --> 00:05:50,000 My love? 74 00:05:50,000 --> 00:05:51,000 It's just an ache. 75 00:05:53,000 --> 00:05:55,000 I'll maybe stretch my legs awhile. 76 00:06:15,000 --> 00:06:18,000 THUNDER RUMBLES 77 00:06:22,000 --> 00:06:23,000 Back so soon? 78 00:06:24,000 --> 00:06:27,000 DEMELZA GROANS 79 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:34,000 Oh, I hate to see your pain, my dear. 80 00:06:34,000 --> 00:06:36,000 PANTING: I hate to see yours. 81 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:40,000 Get the linen. 82 00:06:40,000 --> 00:06:43,000 I could prescribe a remedy. 83 00:06:43,000 --> 00:06:46,000 One that lives near Truro and captains a ship. 84 00:06:46,000 --> 00:06:49,000 I never think of him, Demelza. I pray you do likewise. 85 00:06:49,000 --> 00:06:52,000 I must have something to divert me! 86 00:06:54,000 --> 00:06:55,000 Ah, Judas! 87 00:06:58,000 --> 00:06:59,000 Where's that brandy wine? 88 00:06:59,000 --> 00:07:02,000 SHE GASPS 89 00:07:05,000 --> 00:07:06,000 Perhaps we should go upstairs. 90 00:07:11,000 --> 00:07:14,000 All yet seems well 91 00:07:14,000 --> 00:07:16,000 and if it end so meet, 92 00:07:16,000 --> 00:07:19,000 the bitter past, 93 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:21,000 and more welcome is the sweet. 94 00:07:21,000 --> 00:07:24,000 MARK APPLAUDS ALONE 95 00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:27,000 OTHERS JOIN THE APPLAUSE 96 00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:33,000 Should we expect an announcement soon? 97 00:07:33,000 --> 00:07:36,000 You may soon find you've an announcement of your own. 98 00:07:56,000 --> 00:07:58,000 BABY CRIES 99 00:08:11,000 --> 00:08:14,000 How did we make something so perfect? 100 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:18,000 I am afeared, Ross, 101 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:21,000 that I love her too much. 102 00:08:21,000 --> 00:08:24,000 It will hurt so much more if things go amiss. 103 00:08:26,000 --> 00:08:27,000 I promise you... 104 00:08:29,000 --> 00:08:32,000 ..I will make the world a better place for her. 105 00:08:34,000 --> 00:08:37,000 I will be a better man for her sake. 106 00:08:37,000 --> 00:08:38,000 And for me? 107 00:08:41,000 --> 00:08:43,000 I'm already a better man because of you. 108 00:08:55,000 --> 00:08:58,000 BABY GRIZZLES 109 00:09:22,000 --> 00:09:24,000 Ross and Demelza have a daughter. 110 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:30,000 I wish them well. 111 00:09:45,000 --> 00:09:47,000 KNOCK AT DOOR 112 00:09:54,000 --> 00:09:56,000 DOOR OPENS 113 00:09:59,000 --> 00:10:02,000 'Tis Mistress Poldark from Trenwith. 114 00:10:02,000 --> 00:10:04,000 Please, don't get up. 115 00:10:04,000 --> 00:10:09,000 Ross ain't here and Julia's sleeping. 116 00:10:09,000 --> 00:10:11,000 'Tis you I came to see. 117 00:10:11,000 --> 00:10:13,000 I? 118 00:10:13,000 --> 00:10:15,000 Er...some refreshment. 119 00:10:15,000 --> 00:10:16,000 I beg you, do not trouble yourself. 120 00:10:28,000 --> 00:10:30,000 That's very pretty. 121 00:10:30,000 --> 00:10:35,000 Oh, it's just a fancy I had, to make her a keepsake. 122 00:10:35,000 --> 00:10:38,000 I know it is not made of gold, or silver. 123 00:10:38,000 --> 00:10:40,000 Or even copper! 124 00:10:41,000 --> 00:10:43,000 It's made of something more precious. 125 00:10:44,000 --> 00:10:48,000 A mother's love for her child surpasses all other loves, 126 00:10:48,000 --> 00:10:49,000 does it not? 127 00:10:52,000 --> 00:10:54,000 I'm not sure Ross would care to hear that! 128 00:10:54,000 --> 00:10:56,000 Nor Francis! 129 00:10:58,000 --> 00:10:59,000 Men do not understand such things. 130 00:11:04,000 --> 00:11:07,000 'Julia Grace Poldark,' 131 00:11:07,000 --> 00:11:12,000 I baptize thee in the name of the Father, 132 00:11:12,000 --> 00:11:13,000 and of the Son... 133 00:11:15,000 --> 00:11:17,000 ..and of the Holy Ghost. 134 00:11:17,000 --> 00:11:18,000 Amen. 135 00:11:18,000 --> 00:11:20,000 CONGREGATION: Amen. 136 00:11:31,000 --> 00:11:33,000 Congratulations, Ross. 137 00:11:33,000 --> 00:11:36,000 This is Ross's doing! 138 00:11:36,000 --> 00:11:39,000 I said I wanted two christenings, one for his sort and one for mine. 139 00:11:39,000 --> 00:11:41,000 And where do I fit in? 140 00:11:41,000 --> 00:11:44,000 You fit in everywhere. You are like Ross. 141 00:11:44,000 --> 00:11:47,000 Whereas I... 142 00:11:47,000 --> 00:11:48,000 I can scarce breathe. 143 00:11:48,000 --> 00:11:50,000 What's there to fear? 144 00:11:50,000 --> 00:11:52,000 That my stays are so tight they'll burst? 145 00:11:53,000 --> 00:11:57,000 I'm surprised Captain Poldark allows such riffraff in his house. 146 00:11:57,000 --> 00:12:01,000 But perhaps he's been obliged to lower his standards of late. 147 00:12:05,000 --> 00:12:07,000 Getting much sleep, Ross? 148 00:12:07,000 --> 00:12:09,000 I've no complaints. 149 00:12:09,000 --> 00:12:11,000 A child changes everything. 150 00:12:11,000 --> 00:12:14,000 So does owning a mine. Neither can be ignored. 151 00:12:14,000 --> 00:12:15,000 Much as one tries! 152 00:12:17,000 --> 00:12:20,000 My wife is perfection, is she not? 153 00:12:20,000 --> 00:12:23,000 God knows what I've done to deserve her. 154 00:12:31,000 --> 00:12:33,000 The curse of the Poldarks. 155 00:12:33,000 --> 00:12:36,000 Once given, our hearts are not easily withdrawn. 156 00:12:37,000 --> 00:12:39,000 They're very different. 157 00:12:39,000 --> 00:12:41,000 Yes. 158 00:12:41,000 --> 00:12:43,000 Yet each has something the other lacks. 159 00:12:43,000 --> 00:12:45,000 Perhaps you'd like them both(?) 160 00:12:45,000 --> 00:12:47,000 Perhaps I would! 161 00:12:59,000 --> 00:13:01,000 HE CLEARS HIS THROAT 162 00:13:03,000 --> 00:13:04,000 I envy you. 163 00:13:04,000 --> 00:13:06,000 My charmed life? 164 00:13:06,000 --> 00:13:08,000 Is it not charmed? 165 00:13:08,000 --> 00:13:13,000 Has it not comfort and purpose and certainty? 166 00:13:13,000 --> 00:13:16,000 This is Cornwall, Dwight. Nothing is certain! 167 00:13:19,000 --> 00:13:23,000 As we feared. Choake sold his shares in Leisure. 168 00:13:23,000 --> 00:13:24,000 To whom? 169 00:13:26,000 --> 00:13:27,000 (Oh, damn!) 170 00:13:27,000 --> 00:13:30,000 Your health and prosperity, Ross! And yours, George, 171 00:13:30,000 --> 00:13:33,000 particularly in the light of your recent acquisition. 172 00:13:33,000 --> 00:13:36,000 Ah, my shares in Wheal Leisure? You must take that as a compliment. 173 00:13:36,000 --> 00:13:39,000 Oh, I do. Clearly you know a fine investment when you see it! 174 00:13:43,000 --> 00:13:45,000 What of the other shareholders? 175 00:13:45,000 --> 00:13:47,000 Two or three more wish to sell. 176 00:13:47,000 --> 00:13:48,000 We must buy them out. 177 00:13:48,000 --> 00:13:51,000 How? No idea. 178 00:13:51,000 --> 00:13:55,000 But I'll starve before I see another piece of Leisure in his hands. 179 00:14:00,000 --> 00:14:02,000 Has Ruth Treneglos finished dissecting me? 180 00:14:04,000 --> 00:14:07,000 Don't mind her, dear. She cannot spoil a splendid day. 181 00:14:07,000 --> 00:14:08,000 Oh, Verity! 182 00:14:12,000 --> 00:14:14,000 I wish you could have this, too. 183 00:14:14,000 --> 00:14:17,000 Don't waste another moment on such thoughts. 184 00:14:20,000 --> 00:14:23,000 PRUDIE: Who be this, then, just as we run out o' likky pie? 185 00:14:26,000 --> 00:14:28,000 JUD: 'Tis like a blathering funeral procession! 186 00:14:32,000 --> 00:14:33,000 It can't be... 187 00:14:36,000 --> 00:14:38,000 Mr Carne! 188 00:14:39,000 --> 00:14:41,000 How do you do, sir? 189 00:14:41,000 --> 00:14:45,000 Mrs Carne, glad you were able to join us, ma'am. 190 00:14:45,000 --> 00:14:46,000 This way. 191 00:14:57,000 --> 00:14:59,000 Step no further, Nelly. 192 00:15:01,000 --> 00:15:04,000 This be a place of filth and abomination. 193 00:15:05,000 --> 00:15:08,000 Shame on you, daughter... 194 00:15:08,000 --> 00:15:11,000 to mix with such dandical folk 195 00:15:11,000 --> 00:15:13,000 when your own flesh and blood should take precedence. 196 00:15:13,000 --> 00:15:16,000 And so they shall, sir. 197 00:15:16,000 --> 00:15:19,000 Allow me to introduce you to my friends and family, 198 00:15:19,000 --> 00:15:20,000 beginning with your granddaughter. 199 00:15:24,000 --> 00:15:26,000 This way, Mr Carne. 200 00:15:30,000 --> 00:15:33,000 My cousin Francis, my friends John and Ruth Treneglos, 201 00:15:33,000 --> 00:15:34,000 Dr Dwight Enys. 202 00:15:34,000 --> 00:15:36,000 Your servant, sir. 203 00:15:38,000 --> 00:15:40,000 No servant o' mine! 204 00:15:40,000 --> 00:15:41,000 And no friend neither. 205 00:15:43,000 --> 00:15:45,000 Cover yourself, missy! 206 00:15:46,000 --> 00:15:49,000 Your place is to be decent and modest, 207 00:15:49,000 --> 00:15:52,000 not...laying out wares for men to slaver over. 208 00:15:54,000 --> 00:15:56,000 Damn your insolence! 209 00:15:56,000 --> 00:15:58,000 John, did you hear what he said? 210 00:16:00,000 --> 00:16:01,000 You impudent swine! 211 00:16:01,000 --> 00:16:03,000 Make apology or I'll have the coat off your back! 212 00:16:03,000 --> 00:16:07,000 Have a care, John. John, you are both my guests 213 00:16:07,000 --> 00:16:09,000 and I couldn't permit you to strike my father-in-law. 214 00:16:09,000 --> 00:16:11,000 Nay, let him come! 215 00:16:11,000 --> 00:16:14,000 I've been in the ring, I can hold me own! 216 00:16:14,000 --> 00:16:15,000 Hold your tongue, sir! 217 00:16:15,000 --> 00:16:17,000 If we want your opinion, we'll ask. 218 00:16:17,000 --> 00:16:20,000 John, allow me, as host, to apologise for any offence caused. 219 00:16:20,000 --> 00:16:24,000 Well...if Ruth is satisfied. 220 00:16:24,000 --> 00:16:28,000 Naturally, if Ross wishes to protect his new relative... 221 00:16:29,000 --> 00:16:31,000 ..allowances should be made... 222 00:16:31,000 --> 00:16:33,000 for those who don't know any better. 223 00:16:46,000 --> 00:16:48,000 I thought the players had moved on? 224 00:16:48,000 --> 00:16:49,000 They had! 225 00:16:51,000 --> 00:16:52,000 She did tell me she'd return. 226 00:16:54,000 --> 00:16:55,000 I never thought she would! 227 00:16:55,000 --> 00:16:57,000 You must catch her while you can. 228 00:16:57,000 --> 00:16:58,000 I mean to. 229 00:17:00,000 --> 00:17:03,000 Keren! Like a lamb to the slaughter. 230 00:17:09,000 --> 00:17:11,000 They've gone. 231 00:17:11,000 --> 00:17:12,000 And good riddance! 232 00:17:12,000 --> 00:17:14,000 Blasted hypocrites! 233 00:17:14,000 --> 00:17:15,000 Why did they come? 234 00:17:15,000 --> 00:17:17,000 Because I invited them. 235 00:17:17,000 --> 00:17:19,000 They meant to shame and disgrace me. 236 00:17:19,000 --> 00:17:21,000 Well, they failed. 237 00:17:21,000 --> 00:17:22,000 In a week it will all be forgot. 238 00:17:24,000 --> 00:17:26,000 Not by me. 239 00:17:38,000 --> 00:17:41,000 I did miss 'ee. 240 00:17:41,000 --> 00:17:42,000 How much? 241 00:17:42,000 --> 00:17:44,000 I scarce did eat. 242 00:17:44,000 --> 00:17:46,000 They all say that. 243 00:17:47,000 --> 00:17:51,000 I can't stay here long and tomorrow I shall be gone. 244 00:17:51,000 --> 00:17:52,000 And when return? 245 00:17:52,000 --> 00:17:55,000 Happen I shan't. 246 00:17:55,000 --> 00:17:57,000 Not ever? 247 00:17:57,000 --> 00:17:58,000 What's to keep me here? 248 00:18:05,000 --> 00:18:08,000 Find her a home? Within a week? 249 00:18:08,000 --> 00:18:10,000 How? Why? 250 00:18:10,000 --> 00:18:13,000 It's the condition of her agreeing to marry him. 251 00:18:15,000 --> 00:18:17,000 Well, you could help them. There's a cottage at Mellin. 252 00:18:17,000 --> 00:18:19,000 It's in no fit state to live in. 253 00:18:19,000 --> 00:18:22,000 Does she love him? 254 00:18:22,000 --> 00:18:23,000 She says so. 255 00:18:23,000 --> 00:18:24,000 Does he love her? 256 00:18:24,000 --> 00:18:26,000 Besotted. 257 00:18:30,000 --> 00:18:31,000 Then they should marry. 258 00:18:33,000 --> 00:18:34,000 Because? 259 00:18:35,000 --> 00:18:38,000 Love SHOULD conquer all. 260 00:18:38,000 --> 00:18:39,000 Even if it requires a little help. 261 00:18:39,000 --> 00:18:40,000 On the contrary! 262 00:18:42,000 --> 00:18:44,000 Some obstacles cannot be overcome... 263 00:18:44,000 --> 00:18:47,000 and should not, for the peace of all concerned. 264 00:19:03,000 --> 00:19:05,000 He would have enjoyed today. 265 00:19:07,000 --> 00:19:08,000 He'd have revelled in it. 266 00:19:10,000 --> 00:19:13,000 The great...patriarch and leader of men! 267 00:19:15,000 --> 00:19:16,000 Is that to be disdained? 268 00:19:18,000 --> 00:19:20,000 It's...to be lived up to. 269 00:19:22,000 --> 00:19:23,000 And can you not? 270 00:19:29,000 --> 00:19:31,000 It was a question, not a judgment. 271 00:19:50,000 --> 00:19:54,000 ELIZABETH SPEAKS QUIETLY INSIDE 272 00:19:56,000 --> 00:19:58,000 Shall Papa read to you now? 273 00:19:58,000 --> 00:20:04,000 Papa...has business to attend to in town. 274 00:20:20,000 --> 00:20:21,000 Will you be gone long? 275 00:20:21,000 --> 00:20:26,000 As long as it takes to raise capital to buy out our nervous shareholders. 276 00:20:43,000 --> 00:20:44,000 Are you ready? 277 00:20:44,000 --> 00:20:46,000 Well, pick me liver! What's the blatherin' rush? 278 00:20:46,000 --> 00:20:49,000 Sneakin' an' slidin' an' slitherin' about - 279 00:20:49,000 --> 00:20:51,000 'tedn't right, 'tedn't fit, tedn't proper. 280 00:20:51,000 --> 00:20:54,000 We must be done and back by five or Julia will suffer. 281 00:20:54,000 --> 00:20:55,000 Let's get gone. 282 00:21:11,000 --> 00:21:13,000 Thank you, sir! 283 00:21:23,000 --> 00:21:25,000 'What brings you to town?' 284 00:21:25,000 --> 00:21:27,000 Insane optimism? 285 00:21:27,000 --> 00:21:30,000 The fond hope that my banker can drum up sufficient capital 286 00:21:30,000 --> 00:21:32,000 to buy out our discontented shareholders. 287 00:21:32,000 --> 00:21:35,000 Before selling to the Warleggans. I wish you well. 288 00:21:35,000 --> 00:21:37,000 Let us change the subject. 289 00:21:37,000 --> 00:21:40,000 By all means. Did you hear of the riots in Launceston? 290 00:21:40,000 --> 00:21:42,000 Are you surprised? 291 00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:45,000 People can only starve for so long while the rich get fat. 292 00:21:45,000 --> 00:21:48,000 In France, they make their feelings known with hatchets and pikes. 293 00:21:48,000 --> 00:21:50,000 They may do so here, soon. 294 00:21:50,000 --> 00:21:52,000 Copper prices have fallen again. 295 00:21:52,000 --> 00:21:55,000 God knows when Grambler last paid full wages. 296 00:21:55,000 --> 00:21:57,000 The industry's on its knees. 297 00:21:57,000 --> 00:21:59,000 What's to be done? 298 00:21:59,000 --> 00:22:01,000 Sit tight and wait for the price to rise. 299 00:22:18,000 --> 00:22:19,000 Thank you. 300 00:22:35,000 --> 00:22:38,000 We're all committed to short-term loan repayments. 301 00:22:38,000 --> 00:22:41,000 If we don't sell cheap, we don't sell at all. 302 00:22:41,000 --> 00:22:43,000 Of course, if the smelting companies were honestly run... 303 00:22:43,000 --> 00:22:45,000 Are they not? 304 00:22:45,000 --> 00:22:48,000 It's a ring. They don't bid against each other 305 00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:50,000 so the price they pay us is rock-bottom. 306 00:22:50,000 --> 00:22:53,000 A pity the mines are not in similar unity. 307 00:22:53,000 --> 00:22:54,000 We could band together 308 00:22:54,000 --> 00:22:57,000 and withhold supplies till a decent price was paid. 309 00:22:57,000 --> 00:22:58,000 No remedy, then? 310 00:22:58,000 --> 00:23:01,000 Unless the mines were to form a company of their own, 311 00:23:01,000 --> 00:23:05,000 bid independently, purchase ore, extract the copper, 312 00:23:05,000 --> 00:23:06,000 build a smelting works. 313 00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:08,000 That would keep the shareholders happy. 314 00:23:08,000 --> 00:23:10,000 I couldn't help but overhear. 315 00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:13,000 You intend to form a smelting company? 316 00:23:13,000 --> 00:23:16,000 I intend nothing, sir. 317 00:23:16,000 --> 00:23:19,000 I merely say that WERE the mines to unite and create a company - 318 00:23:19,000 --> 00:23:23,000 one that would bid, buy, refine and sell their own products - 319 00:23:23,000 --> 00:23:25,000 they might keep the profit for themselves 320 00:23:25,000 --> 00:23:28,000 instead of handing it to the Warleggans. 321 00:23:32,000 --> 00:23:34,000 QUIETLY: Absolute genius! 322 00:23:39,000 --> 00:23:41,000 DOOR OPENS 323 00:23:47,000 --> 00:23:50,000 May I be of service to you, ma'am? 324 00:23:50,000 --> 00:23:52,000 My name is Poldark. 325 00:23:55,000 --> 00:23:57,000 Did Verity send you? 326 00:23:57,000 --> 00:24:01,000 No. She's no idea I've come. 327 00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:02,000 No-one does. 328 00:24:04,000 --> 00:24:07,000 It was made clear long ago that Verity was not for me. 329 00:24:07,000 --> 00:24:11,000 I've since moved on, set my sights elsewhere. 330 00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:12,000 You're married? 331 00:24:12,000 --> 00:24:13,000 To my ship. 332 00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:17,000 To my profession. 333 00:24:17,000 --> 00:24:18,000 And all the better for it. 334 00:24:18,000 --> 00:24:21,000 But... I never think of her now! 335 00:24:24,000 --> 00:24:26,000 I'm sorry you've had a wasted journey. 336 00:24:58,000 --> 00:25:02,000 If you wish to raise money to buy out your shareholders, 337 00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:04,000 you have only one option - 338 00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:07,000 raise a mortgage on Nampara. 339 00:25:09,000 --> 00:25:11,000 And risk the very roof over my head. 340 00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:13,000 And with a wife and young child to support. 341 00:25:13,000 --> 00:25:14,000 You'd advise against. 342 00:25:14,000 --> 00:25:15,000 Most emphatically. 343 00:25:24,000 --> 00:25:26,000 DOOR OPENS 344 00:25:26,000 --> 00:25:27,000 A good day? 345 00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:29,000 A frustrating day. 346 00:25:32,000 --> 00:25:35,000 At least Julia's content. 347 00:25:35,000 --> 00:25:37,000 She is. 348 00:25:37,000 --> 00:25:41,000 But you seem very confined here. Can you bear it? 349 00:25:41,000 --> 00:25:43,000 I find it suits me well enough. 350 00:25:43,000 --> 00:25:45,000 Mark Daniel's just sent for 'ee, Cap'n. 351 00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:50,000 It seems to be catching. 352 00:25:50,000 --> 00:25:52,000 What? Recklessness. 353 00:25:58,000 --> 00:25:59,000 She's a fortunate girl. 354 00:25:59,000 --> 00:26:01,000 A plaguey demandin' one! 355 00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:03,000 What kind of woman makes such conditions? 356 00:26:03,000 --> 00:26:05,000 Happen she never thought he'd do it. 357 00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:07,000 Well, she don't know Mark, then. 358 00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:09,000 Looks like you are making progress. 359 00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:11,000 No sleep for four nights! 360 00:26:12,000 --> 00:26:14,000 And you're set on this girl, Mark? 361 00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:18,000 You barely know her. Maybe so, Ross, 362 00:26:18,000 --> 00:26:20,000 but truly she is my heart's desire. 363 00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:23,000 I hope she deserves you. 364 00:26:33,000 --> 00:26:35,000 BAND PLAYS LIVELY MUSIC 365 00:26:37,000 --> 00:26:39,000 They don't like her. 366 00:26:39,000 --> 00:26:42,000 They like Mark. She's an outsider. 367 00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:44,000 So am I. 368 00:26:44,000 --> 00:26:47,000 They like me. They make allowances for you! 369 00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:02,000 Is that it?! 370 00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:03,000 Yes. 371 00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:05,000 Oh. 372 00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:10,000 We'll make it fit 'ee, Keren. It will soon be a palace, you'll see. 373 00:27:17,000 --> 00:27:20,000 LAUGHTER AND MUSIC 374 00:27:31,000 --> 00:27:34,000 I've secured lodgings for you. 375 00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:35,000 That's tremendous. Where? 376 00:27:35,000 --> 00:27:39,000 Mingoose Cottage. It's not grand, but I hope it'll serve. 377 00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:41,000 It will serve me... 378 00:27:41,000 --> 00:27:42,000 to know who my neighbour is! 379 00:27:42,000 --> 00:27:44,000 Have you been introduced to the bride? 380 00:27:44,000 --> 00:27:47,000 If he'd dance with her, she might introduce herself. 381 00:27:47,000 --> 00:27:50,000 Oh, er, at your service, ma'am. 382 00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:02,000 I've been thinking, Ross. 383 00:28:02,000 --> 00:28:06,000 Keren, she do have finer tastes than I can easy stretch to. 384 00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:09,000 Yes? 385 00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:13,000 So could 'ee maybe find me extra work at the mine? 386 00:28:14,000 --> 00:28:16,000 I'd like to say yes, Mark. 387 00:28:17,000 --> 00:28:20,000 But it depends on how we fare in tomorrow's auction. 388 00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:30,000 So, there you have it. 389 00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:32,000 The copper auction is tomorrow. 390 00:28:32,000 --> 00:28:37,000 As usual, the price will be fixed by the smelting companies. 391 00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:39,000 And I've no means to buy out our shareholders 392 00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:40,000 without risking all we have. 393 00:28:43,000 --> 00:28:44,000 This house, our land... 394 00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:47,000 ..our very livelihood. 395 00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:55,000 You must be regretting your marriage to such a destitute rogue! 396 00:28:55,000 --> 00:28:56,000 Must I? 397 00:28:58,000 --> 00:29:00,000 After what you brought me to? 398 00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:02,000 Am I now such a great lady 399 00:29:02,000 --> 00:29:04,000 as to forget where I'd be if we'd never met? 400 00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:06,000 HE LAUGHS 401 00:29:06,000 --> 00:29:08,000 What? 402 00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:09,000 Women. 403 00:29:10,000 --> 00:29:12,000 None are created equal. 404 00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:17,000 Some...are never satisfied. 405 00:29:19,000 --> 00:29:21,000 Some could never be brought so low. 406 00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:26,000 And others thumb their nose at adversity and roll up their sleeves! 407 00:29:28,000 --> 00:29:30,000 Perhaps you wish you'd married a rich lady?! 408 00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:33,000 I'm quite aware of my good fortune, I assure you. 409 00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:39,000 Shall we ask Papa how much copper we sent? 410 00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:42,000 "We"? Our mine. 411 00:29:42,000 --> 00:29:45,000 Grambler...to the auction. 412 00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:47,000 One parcel or two? 413 00:29:47,000 --> 00:29:49,000 Mama's becoming quite the expert. 414 00:29:50,000 --> 00:29:55,000 We must hope for a good price. Though we know we shan't get it! 415 00:29:55,000 --> 00:29:58,000 And unless the price goes sky-high, 416 00:29:58,000 --> 00:30:00,000 Papa will have to start pawning the family jewels. 417 00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:02,000 Francis... 418 00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:04,000 Perhaps someone will make a bid for Mama. 419 00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:32,000 Gentlemen. Gentlemen. The auction is now open. 420 00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:38,000 I have first to dispose of a dole of ore from Grambler. 421 00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:39,000 45 tonnes. 422 00:30:41,000 --> 00:30:44,000 Disastrous. A scandal. Disgrace! 423 00:30:44,000 --> 00:30:47,000 Every single parcel gone for half its true value. 424 00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:51,000 We'll be paying them to take it off us next. 425 00:30:51,000 --> 00:30:55,000 You realise you've been uncommonly dull since you became a father? 426 00:30:55,000 --> 00:30:58,000 My apologies. No matter, I've a remedy. 427 00:30:58,000 --> 00:31:01,000 Seeing what little entertainment your life affords, 428 00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:02,000 I have procured you an invitation. 429 00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:05,000 To what? The ultimate house party. 430 00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:09,000 And if that doesn't put a smile on your face... Gentlemen. 431 00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:12,000 I take it you feel no satisfaction at the business done today? 432 00:31:12,000 --> 00:31:14,000 Who the devil could? 433 00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:16,000 Then, may I trouble you to step this way a moment? 434 00:31:22,000 --> 00:31:27,000 We'd like your word that nothing that passes between us 435 00:31:27,000 --> 00:31:28,000 goes any further. 436 00:31:38,000 --> 00:31:42,000 Jinny...put the tetty pie to cool. I'll walk out to meet Ross. 437 00:31:48,000 --> 00:31:49,000 'A smelting company?' 438 00:31:50,000 --> 00:31:52,000 Run by the mines themselves? 439 00:31:54,000 --> 00:31:56,000 Well, it all rings very agreeable, 440 00:31:56,000 --> 00:31:59,000 but you'd be biting off no end of trouble. 441 00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:03,000 We know that, sir. The smelting companies will want no competition. 442 00:32:03,000 --> 00:32:05,000 And the Warleggans will be behind 'em. But all of us here 443 00:32:05,000 --> 00:32:10,000 are willing to stand together and some of us can lay our hands 444 00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:14,000 on a measure of cash. But it requires secrecy. 445 00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:17,000 So before we proceed, who wishes to join us? 446 00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:26,000 What do you say, Ross? Too risky a venture? 447 00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:29,000 It was your cousin who first suggested it. 448 00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:30,000 Did he? 449 00:32:32,000 --> 00:32:34,000 We can't go on as we are. 450 00:32:34,000 --> 00:32:37,000 And I would rather fail fighting, than throw up my hands 451 00:32:37,000 --> 00:32:38,000 and wait for the end. 452 00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:41,000 And Mr Francis Poldark? 453 00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:49,000 My finances are, at present... somewhat complicated. 454 00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:55,000 So, I cannot, at this time, join you. 455 00:32:55,000 --> 00:32:58,000 But I wish you well... 456 00:32:58,000 --> 00:33:00,000 Gentlemen. I do, indeed. 457 00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:08,000 And who is to be your leader? Is it you, Tonkin? 458 00:33:08,000 --> 00:33:11,000 Oh, no, sir. I'm not at all the right man, 459 00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:13,000 but we're all agreed on who is. 460 00:33:21,000 --> 00:33:23,000 A house party! 461 00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:25,000 At George Warleggan's. 462 00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:27,000 Think of that, my lamb. 463 00:33:27,000 --> 00:33:30,000 Your mother's a lady, your father's a gent. 464 00:33:30,000 --> 00:33:35,000 His name goes back hundreds of years and a good name it is. 465 00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:39,000 Mistress Poldark! Forgive me, I don't mean to alarm you, 466 00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:41,000 but I must speak. 467 00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:47,000 Good news or bad? 468 00:33:48,000 --> 00:33:51,000 Both. The auction was dismal, but... 469 00:33:51,000 --> 00:33:52,000 I still have a job? 470 00:33:52,000 --> 00:33:54,000 And I have a new one. 471 00:33:56,000 --> 00:34:01,000 I was unmannerly. I'm a man of strong temper 472 00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:04,000 and to control it has been the work of a lifetime, 473 00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:07,000 but God forbid that I should quarrel with those who wish me well. 474 00:34:07,000 --> 00:34:10,000 Captain Blamey, I cannot stay. Hear me out, I beg you. 475 00:34:11,000 --> 00:34:15,000 Since your visit, I have been in turmoil. 476 00:34:16,000 --> 00:34:18,000 I thought that I had put her behind me, but... 477 00:34:20,000 --> 00:34:22,000 ..I had not. 478 00:34:22,000 --> 00:34:26,000 Mr Francis cannot be part of the new smelting company? Will not. 479 00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:28,000 Nor others who bank with the Warleggans. 480 00:34:28,000 --> 00:34:32,000 If their names were known, George would call in their debts. 481 00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:33,000 To a man, they'd be ruined. 482 00:34:33,000 --> 00:34:35,000 But I may have found a compromise. 483 00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:36,000 Those who bank with Warleggans 484 00:34:36,000 --> 00:34:38,000 will keep their names secret. 485 00:34:38,000 --> 00:34:41,000 Those who bank elsewhere will let their names be known. 486 00:34:41,000 --> 00:34:45,000 I bank with Pascoe, so George cannot touch me. 487 00:34:46,000 --> 00:34:48,000 What do you want of me? 488 00:34:48,000 --> 00:34:51,000 To ask you... Am I to hope? 489 00:34:51,000 --> 00:34:54,000 With her father deceased, do I have a chance? 490 00:34:54,000 --> 00:34:57,000 May I see her? How? When? 491 00:34:57,000 --> 00:35:00,000 I don't know. My husband, he mustn't see you here. 492 00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:03,000 Is he against me, too? He wasn't before. 493 00:35:03,000 --> 00:35:05,000 He's against me stirring up what should be left alone. 494 00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:11,000 He'll be on his way home soon. I must go. Will you tell Verity? 495 00:35:11,000 --> 00:35:15,000 No... I think, not yet. 496 00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:17,000 I'll send word. 497 00:35:17,000 --> 00:35:19,000 Bless you, ma'am. 498 00:35:21,000 --> 00:35:23,000 I will not fail you. 499 00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:24,000 Nor her. 500 00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:47,000 You seem excitable. Is something amiss? 501 00:35:47,000 --> 00:35:49,000 Nothing, no. 502 00:35:50,000 --> 00:35:54,000 Only, a letter came, inviting us to George Warleggan's party. 503 00:35:56,000 --> 00:35:59,000 I'm that glad! It'll make up for the christening. 504 00:35:59,000 --> 00:36:04,000 Now I'll show that I CAN wear fine clothes 505 00:36:04,000 --> 00:36:07,000 and behave all genteel, along with the best of them. 506 00:36:07,000 --> 00:36:09,000 That you will not. Why? 507 00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:12,000 It's not that kind of party. 508 00:36:12,000 --> 00:36:13,000 Oh. 509 00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:17,000 Oh, don't look so sorry for yourself. 510 00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:20,000 It'll be nothing but gaming and toping 511 00:36:20,000 --> 00:36:23,000 and dawn-to-dusk business talk. 512 00:36:23,000 --> 00:36:25,000 Will you go, then? 513 00:36:25,000 --> 00:36:29,000 If only to please Francis and throw George off the scent 514 00:36:29,000 --> 00:36:33,000 of my latest ventures, but at least you can be spared. 515 00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:19,000 Going somewhere? 516 00:37:19,000 --> 00:37:21,000 Hmmm. To town. 517 00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:23,000 To what purpose? 518 00:37:25,000 --> 00:37:28,000 Urgent business. I need a new cloak and Verity must help me choose. 519 00:37:29,000 --> 00:37:33,000 What? The choosing of cloaks. 520 00:37:33,000 --> 00:37:36,000 May that always be the worst of your worries! 521 00:37:36,000 --> 00:37:38,000 Now, don't delay me, I have a party to attend. 522 00:37:38,000 --> 00:37:40,000 Jud! Bring the horses. 523 00:37:47,000 --> 00:37:49,000 You spoil me. 524 00:37:50,000 --> 00:37:51,000 Do you like it? 525 00:37:51,000 --> 00:37:53,000 I like to be appreciated. 526 00:37:54,000 --> 00:37:55,000 Who doesn't? 527 00:37:59,000 --> 00:38:01,000 Does your wife not appreciate you? 528 00:38:01,000 --> 00:38:06,000 My wife....tries to make me a better man. 529 00:38:08,000 --> 00:38:10,000 Like your father? 530 00:38:12,000 --> 00:38:14,000 I will never be that man. 531 00:38:28,000 --> 00:38:30,000 Could you take me to Miss Verity? 532 00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:31,000 This way, ma'am. 533 00:38:39,000 --> 00:38:42,000 Are you joining this urgent trip to the dressmakers? 534 00:38:42,000 --> 00:38:46,000 Because shopping and dressing up are the only things of matter 535 00:38:46,000 --> 00:38:50,000 to us women? Not at all. They are, of course, 536 00:38:50,000 --> 00:38:54,000 but I hesitate to buy ribbons when our copper can scarce be given away. 537 00:38:54,000 --> 00:38:58,000 Besides, Francis has more urgent calls on his purse. 538 00:38:58,000 --> 00:39:01,000 Such as? Gaming, 539 00:39:01,000 --> 00:39:04,000 entertaining. Oh, himself, not his wife. Nor his workers. 540 00:39:04,000 --> 00:39:07,000 They are not remotely entertained, though I dare say she is, 541 00:39:07,000 --> 00:39:11,000 lavishly. Elizabeth, I wish... There was something you could do? 542 00:39:12,000 --> 00:39:14,000 Oh, I wish it, too, Ross. 543 00:39:16,000 --> 00:39:18,000 But we are beyond wishing, are we not? 544 00:39:18,000 --> 00:39:22,000 APPROACHING FOOTSTEPS 545 00:39:22,000 --> 00:39:24,000 Next time, I hope to join you. 546 00:40:24,000 --> 00:40:27,000 Were you not afraid? The look in their eyes? 547 00:40:27,000 --> 00:40:30,000 I've seen the like before, 548 00:40:30,000 --> 00:40:32,000 in Luggan once, when we were out of corn. 549 00:40:32,000 --> 00:40:35,000 Empty bellies make for such looks. 550 00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:53,000 And his grandfather was a blacksmith? 551 00:40:55,000 --> 00:40:56,000 How is it possible? 552 00:40:56,000 --> 00:40:59,000 To leap from poverty to wealth in two generations? 553 00:40:59,000 --> 00:41:01,000 And maintain it in the midst of a slump, 554 00:41:01,000 --> 00:41:03,000 while men like you and Francis face ruin! 555 00:41:03,000 --> 00:41:06,000 We have different ways of doing business. 556 00:41:14,000 --> 00:41:18,000 Who is that? The infamous Matthew Sanson? 557 00:41:18,000 --> 00:41:20,000 Mill owner and corn merchant. Does his infamy extend beyond 558 00:41:20,000 --> 00:41:23,000 bankrupting Francis? 559 00:41:23,000 --> 00:41:26,000 It extends almost everywhere and he has George's endorsement, 560 00:41:26,000 --> 00:41:29,000 which makes him... A force to be reckoned with. A man of means, 561 00:41:29,000 --> 00:41:32,000 though, sadly, not of generosity. 562 00:41:33,000 --> 00:41:36,000 Is that collar not a gift of his? 563 00:41:36,000 --> 00:41:38,000 No, indeed. The giver was a man of taste. 564 00:41:52,000 --> 00:41:54,000 Could you manage without me, while I visit the chandler? 565 00:41:56,000 --> 00:41:59,000 On no account. You must help me choose. 566 00:41:59,000 --> 00:42:02,000 What do you think of this one? Or this one, perhaps? 567 00:42:10,000 --> 00:42:11,000 Miss Verity? 568 00:42:18,000 --> 00:42:19,000 A physician, sir? 569 00:42:22,000 --> 00:42:25,000 Pray, what do you prescribe for boredom? 570 00:42:25,000 --> 00:42:28,000 It's not a condition I'm familiar with, sir. 571 00:42:28,000 --> 00:42:32,000 Doubtless, you will have opportunities to study it. 572 00:42:32,000 --> 00:42:34,000 I suspect not, sir. 573 00:42:36,000 --> 00:42:40,000 The patients I tend rarely suffer from that affliction. Your health. 574 00:42:46,000 --> 00:42:51,000 A pity he hasn't your skill at cards...or in other ways. 575 00:42:54,000 --> 00:42:58,000 He'll shortly be ruined. And you will have done with him. 576 00:42:59,000 --> 00:43:01,000 As his wife did long ago. 577 00:43:03,000 --> 00:43:07,000 Do all men come to regret their choice? I couldn't say. 578 00:43:07,000 --> 00:43:08,000 Do you? 579 00:43:09,000 --> 00:43:11,000 I regret nothing. 580 00:43:11,000 --> 00:43:14,000 Come the day, you know where to find me. 581 00:43:16,000 --> 00:43:19,000 You was always my weakness, milord. 582 00:43:24,000 --> 00:43:28,000 For so long, I never dared to hope, but such a chance as this... 583 00:43:28,000 --> 00:43:31,000 Captain Blamey, may I introduce you to my cousin, 584 00:43:31,000 --> 00:43:33,000 Mistress Demelza Poldark, Ross's wife. 585 00:43:33,000 --> 00:43:35,000 I'm honoured, ma'am. 586 00:43:35,000 --> 00:43:36,000 And I, sir. 587 00:43:38,000 --> 00:43:44,000 May I beg the pleasure of your company, for a cordial or a coffee? 588 00:43:44,000 --> 00:43:46,000 That would be... No! 589 00:43:48,000 --> 00:43:50,000 Thank you, sir. We cannot. 590 00:43:50,000 --> 00:43:53,000 No good can come of it. I bid you good day. 591 00:44:18,000 --> 00:44:20,000 What are the stakes? 592 00:44:20,000 --> 00:44:22,000 You wouldn't wish to know. On the contrary. 593 00:44:23,000 --> 00:44:25,000 You'll find out soon enough. 594 00:44:36,000 --> 00:44:38,000 Pray excuse me, gentlemen. 595 00:44:41,000 --> 00:44:43,000 A pleasure...as always. 596 00:45:01,000 --> 00:45:02,000 Get off! 597 00:45:17,000 --> 00:45:20,000 Verity...would it have been so very bad to hear him out? 598 00:45:20,000 --> 00:45:23,000 He can have nothing to say that I wish to hear. Nothing? 599 00:45:23,000 --> 00:45:27,000 HUBBUB 600 00:45:27,000 --> 00:45:30,000 Oh! Verity! Miners! 601 00:45:38,000 --> 00:45:41,000 Will you believe me if I say it gives me no pleasure 602 00:45:41,000 --> 00:45:42,000 to see Francis beggar himself? 603 00:45:42,000 --> 00:45:44,000 Business is business. 604 00:45:44,000 --> 00:45:48,000 It's not my business to bankrupt a friend. So you leave it 605 00:45:48,000 --> 00:45:50,000 to a third party and your conscience is clear. 606 00:45:51,000 --> 00:45:53,000 I thank you for your hospitality. 607 00:46:00,000 --> 00:46:02,000 CHAOTIC HUBBUB 608 00:46:02,000 --> 00:46:06,000 Miss Verity, I beg you, if you would only hear me out. 609 00:46:06,000 --> 00:46:07,000 I cannot. I cannot! 610 00:46:20,000 --> 00:46:23,000 These people should be flogged! Be careful, Mr Sanson, sir. 611 00:46:26,000 --> 00:46:30,000 Pay for it, damn you! 15 shillings a bushel is the price! 612 00:46:30,000 --> 00:46:34,000 15 shillings a bushel and not a penny less! 613 00:46:37,000 --> 00:46:39,000 All these years, I've thought of none but you. 614 00:46:39,000 --> 00:46:42,000 I've been waiting, in the hope that, one day... 615 00:46:42,000 --> 00:46:45,000 I cannot bear it, Andrew. Are we to endure it all again? 616 00:46:47,000 --> 00:46:51,000 The parting and the heartache? No. Not the parting. 617 00:46:51,000 --> 00:46:53,000 I swear to you, never the parting. 618 00:46:56,000 --> 00:46:59,000 We should leave. It is not safe here. Of course. Follow me. 619 00:47:06,000 --> 00:47:07,000 Damn! I know who you are! 620 00:47:15,000 --> 00:47:16,000 Get out of it! 621 00:47:16,000 --> 00:47:18,000 Get out! 622 00:47:59,000 --> 00:48:02,000 And I could not for the life of me choose between the blue or grey, 623 00:48:02,000 --> 00:48:07,000 so I came away with none. I'm sorry you had a wasted journey. 624 00:48:07,000 --> 00:48:09,000 Did you hear anything of the riots? 625 00:48:09,000 --> 00:48:12,000 With our heads full of muslin and calico? 626 00:48:12,000 --> 00:48:16,000 Verity, we must try again next week. Can you spare the time? 627 00:48:16,000 --> 00:48:18,000 I can. 628 00:48:18,000 --> 00:48:22,000 And how was the party? Dull as you feared? 629 00:48:22,000 --> 00:48:23,000 Duller. 630 00:48:31,000 --> 00:48:34,000 I don't imagine we've seen the last of the unrest. 631 00:48:34,000 --> 00:48:37,000 I wonder how Verity and I missed it. 632 00:48:37,000 --> 00:48:41,000 But we'd so much to talk of, we barely noticed another soul. 633 00:48:41,000 --> 00:48:44,000 Verity seemed in high spirits. 634 00:48:44,000 --> 00:48:46,000 She did, indeed. 635 00:48:46,000 --> 00:48:49,000 I'm that glad. She deserves to be content. 636 00:48:49,000 --> 00:48:52,000 She should make the most of it. 637 00:48:53,000 --> 00:48:55,000 Why? 638 00:48:55,000 --> 00:48:57,000 Her life is about to change... 639 00:48:59,000 --> 00:49:01,000 ..and not for the better. 640 00:49:11,000 --> 00:49:14,000 It was monstrous crowded in Truro. 641 00:49:14,000 --> 00:49:16,000 Kenwyn Street was a boiling of miners 642 00:49:16,000 --> 00:49:19,000 and there was talk of a riot. There will be rioting closer to home soon. 643 00:49:19,000 --> 00:49:21,000 All these years... 644 00:49:21,000 --> 00:49:24,000 Damn, it was old afore I was born. 645 00:49:26,000 --> 00:49:28,000 Old John Trenwith 646 00:49:28,000 --> 00:49:33,000 cut the first goffin the year afore he died. 200 years ago. 647 00:49:35,000 --> 00:49:41,000 And never closed. Not once. Not long since, it yielded thousands a year. 648 00:49:41,000 --> 00:49:45,000 It don't seem right. It don't seem right, at all. 649 00:49:45,000 --> 00:49:46,000 What's this? 650 00:49:49,000 --> 00:49:53,000 Shall you tell her? Or shall I let you have the pleasure? 651 00:49:55,000 --> 00:49:58,000 For months now, you know that Grambler has been failing. 652 00:49:58,000 --> 00:50:01,000 She means, Francis has been failing! We could no longer afford 653 00:50:01,000 --> 00:50:05,000 the repayments on the loans. Thanks to his profligacy and mismanagement! 654 00:50:05,000 --> 00:50:10,000 So, in an attempt to recoup these losses, Francis today staked... 655 00:50:10,000 --> 00:50:13,000 Gambled... ..the mine. Mmm. 656 00:50:13,000 --> 00:50:15,000 On a game of cards. 657 00:50:22,000 --> 00:50:23,000 He lost. 658 00:50:30,000 --> 00:50:31,000 What does this mean? 659 00:50:32,000 --> 00:50:34,000 For Francis? 660 00:50:35,000 --> 00:50:38,000 Loss of income, loss of pride... 661 00:50:39,000 --> 00:50:42,000 ..loss of family inheritance. 662 00:50:44,000 --> 00:50:48,000 For Verity and Elizabeth? A sharp decline in their standard of living. 663 00:50:50,000 --> 00:50:52,000 For the Warleggans? 664 00:50:52,000 --> 00:50:55,000 A chance to tighten their stranglehold, 665 00:50:55,000 --> 00:50:56,000 by closing down a rival mine. 666 00:50:58,000 --> 00:51:01,000 And for the poor souls who worked there? 667 00:51:01,000 --> 00:51:02,000 Unimaginable hardship. 668 00:51:05,000 --> 00:51:08,000 All because one man was weak and others were greedy. 669 00:51:14,000 --> 00:51:16,000 So often, I've envied Elizabeth. 670 00:51:20,000 --> 00:51:21,000 Why? 671 00:51:23,000 --> 00:51:25,000 Why did you envy Francis? 672 00:51:44,000 --> 00:51:46,000 There's no need for you to come. 673 00:51:46,000 --> 00:51:47,000 Elizabeth! 674 00:51:48,000 --> 00:51:49,000 Elizabeth! 675 00:51:56,000 --> 00:51:58,000 What I did was unforgiveable... 676 00:52:00,000 --> 00:52:02,000 ..but my love for you... 677 00:52:04,000 --> 00:52:07,000 ..my love will...always... 678 00:52:30,000 --> 00:52:32,000 My friends... 679 00:52:33,000 --> 00:52:36,000 ..this has been a Poldark mine for over 200 years. 680 00:52:38,000 --> 00:52:41,000 Generations of all our families have worked it together. 681 00:52:42,000 --> 00:52:46,000 It was my dearest wish that my own son take it up, 682 00:52:46,000 --> 00:52:53,000 but...time and...circumstance have ruined that hope. 683 00:52:53,000 --> 00:52:55,000 SOBBING 684 00:52:55,000 --> 00:52:59,000 It may be that we shall all meet here again... 685 00:52:59,000 --> 00:53:01,000 to see her resurrection, but... 686 00:53:03,000 --> 00:53:06,000 ..for the...present... 687 00:53:08,000 --> 00:53:09,000 ..um... 688 00:53:12,000 --> 00:53:14,000 It is...it is now 12 noon. 689 00:53:25,000 --> 00:53:29,000 BELL CHIMES AND RESONATES 690 00:53:29,000 --> 00:53:34,000 CHIMING CONTINUES 691 00:54:51,000 --> 00:54:52,000 Elizabeth. 692 00:54:54,000 --> 00:54:55,000 What can I do? 693 00:54:57,000 --> 00:55:00,000 Not once has Francis asked me that question. 694 00:55:00,000 --> 00:55:02,000 He's afraid to. 695 00:55:02,000 --> 00:55:06,000 You must know this was never what he intended for you. 696 00:55:06,000 --> 00:55:08,000 And yet, it is how it is. 697 00:55:08,000 --> 00:55:12,000 And we shall weather it. Retrench, make economies. 698 00:55:12,000 --> 00:55:14,000 There are many worse off than we. 699 00:55:17,000 --> 00:55:19,000 Let Francis feel sorry for himself. 700 00:55:19,000 --> 00:55:21,000 I will not do so. 701 00:55:39,000 --> 00:55:41,000 He'll need to watch his step. 702 00:55:45,000 --> 00:55:46,000 He's young. 703 00:55:47,000 --> 00:55:48,000 And handsome! 704 00:55:50,000 --> 00:55:51,000 And green. 705 00:55:53,000 --> 00:55:54,000 And free. 706 00:55:55,000 --> 00:55:56,000 Do you envy him? 707 00:55:59,000 --> 00:56:00,000 Sometimes. 708 00:56:00,000 --> 00:56:02,000 SHE LAUGHS 709 00:56:07,000 --> 00:56:08,000 You were right. 710 00:56:10,000 --> 00:56:12,000 The world is a harder place now. 711 00:56:13,000 --> 00:56:15,000 The stakes are higher. 712 00:56:17,000 --> 00:56:19,000 Losses more painful. 713 00:56:21,000 --> 00:56:23,000 Yet, I would not change places with him. 714 00:56:25,000 --> 00:56:29,000 My life is more precious for being less certain 715 00:56:29,000 --> 00:56:30,000 and richer for being poorer. 716 00:56:34,000 --> 00:56:35,000 What does it mean? 717 00:56:35,000 --> 00:56:37,000 "Resurgam"? 718 00:56:40,000 --> 00:56:42,000 "I shall rise again". 719 00:56:44,000 --> 00:56:45,000 Shall we? 720 00:56:48,000 --> 00:56:50,000 I hope so. 721 00:56:56,000 --> 00:56:59,000 Bodmin Jail is as plain a death sentence as you could wish, sir. 722 00:56:59,000 --> 00:57:01,000 Do you have a plan? None whatsoever. 723 00:57:01,000 --> 00:57:03,000 Jim, can you hear me? 724 00:57:03,000 --> 00:57:06,000 The Warleggans are giving a ball. Are we invited? 725 00:57:06,000 --> 00:57:09,000 Will there not be trouble that you broke the jail and helped 726 00:57:09,000 --> 00:57:10,000 a prisoner escape? Let there be. 727 00:57:10,000 --> 00:57:12,000 The matter has not gone unnoticed, sir. 728 00:57:12,000 --> 00:57:15,000 Has Verity said anything about Andrew Blamey? 729 00:57:15,000 --> 00:57:18,000 I will not be ashamed of our love. If we're seen together, it will be a disaster. 730 00:57:18,000 --> 00:57:22,000 Step aside. Your sister is not to be commanded! 731 00:57:22,000 --> 00:57:23,000 Folk say she's brazen. 732 00:57:23,000 --> 00:57:26,000 If you behave like this, you'll not come to another! 733 00:57:26,000 --> 00:57:28,000 If you behave like this, I'll not want to! 734 00:57:28,000 --> 00:57:31,000 What do you intend to play with? My stake in Wheal Leisure.