1 00:00:00,560 --> 00:00:04,120 If they point the finger at me, who's going to believe 2 00:00:04,160 --> 00:00:06,400 someone else could have done it? 3 00:00:06,440 --> 00:00:08,760 I found your little Laddie. 4 00:00:08,800 --> 00:00:11,160 He's here as my guest. I go by Olaudah now. 5 00:00:11,200 --> 00:00:13,440 Unless I'm in the ring. 6 00:00:13,480 --> 00:00:15,960 A toast, George, 7 00:00:16,000 --> 00:00:19,640 to your singing, dancing, smiling subjects. 8 00:00:20,960 --> 00:00:24,640 This is science, Frances, we're doing important work in here. 9 00:00:24,680 --> 00:00:27,240 Ah! I should have been the one to kill you. 10 00:00:27,280 --> 00:00:29,800 And I should have done it LONG before now! 11 00:00:31,040 --> 00:00:34,560 I have been many terrible things. 12 00:00:34,600 --> 00:00:37,400 I was hers, also. 13 00:00:44,680 --> 00:00:47,120 FRANNIE: They said it was all in my head. 14 00:00:48,400 --> 00:00:50,600 That a woman like her 15 00:00:50,640 --> 00:00:52,600 could never love a woman like me.' 16 00:00:52,640 --> 00:00:55,000 Hm! No, no, no, no. 17 00:00:56,080 --> 00:00:57,720 I won the trick. Oh. 18 00:00:57,760 --> 00:00:59,720 Thank you. Sorry. 19 00:01:02,840 --> 00:01:05,440 They say it didn't happen. 20 00:01:06,920 --> 00:01:09,600 Only because they would never believe it could.' 21 00:01:10,760 --> 00:01:15,120 "I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine" 22 00:01:15,160 --> 00:01:19,400 "and rage the likes of which you would not believe." 23 00:01:20,600 --> 00:01:23,720 When we were alone together... 24 00:01:25,640 --> 00:01:27,800 ...we were simply two women. 25 00:01:28,960 --> 00:01:30,960 Never woman and maid.' 26 00:01:31,000 --> 00:01:33,039 Frances. 27 00:01:33,080 --> 00:01:34,720 Frances! 28 00:01:34,759 --> 00:01:36,960 I was listening! 29 00:01:38,440 --> 00:01:40,400 I was listening with my eyes closed. 30 00:01:42,039 --> 00:01:44,200 Do you want more? Yes. 31 00:01:44,240 --> 00:01:45,960 You can't have it. 32 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:49,400 You have to stay here... all morning. 33 00:02:09,880 --> 00:02:12,240 It's good to see you fit again, Meg. 34 00:02:13,720 --> 00:02:16,560 Two days of you claiming megrims. 35 00:02:17,720 --> 00:02:21,880 A man expects to have a sighting of his wife from time to time. 36 00:02:23,840 --> 00:02:26,800 I am lucky you have such low expectations. 37 00:02:31,120 --> 00:02:34,000 Are you actually going to eat that or just play with it? 38 00:02:38,120 --> 00:02:39,920 For God's sake. 39 00:02:42,600 --> 00:02:44,880 Eat! THUD. 40 00:02:59,000 --> 00:03:01,080 It has been on the floor. 41 00:03:27,800 --> 00:03:30,440 We should leave. 42 00:03:30,480 --> 00:03:32,640 Let's just leave here. 43 00:03:36,720 --> 00:03:39,880 I'm curious to know why you make such a fuss about this. 44 00:03:42,079 --> 00:03:44,120 Laudanum? 45 00:03:45,720 --> 00:03:47,280 Try yourself. 46 00:03:59,360 --> 00:04:02,200 It takes everything away. 47 00:04:18,399 --> 00:04:20,640 It was one of those moments. 48 00:04:20,680 --> 00:04:26,080 A pinch of happiness, like salt into a cake. 49 00:04:26,120 --> 00:04:31,120 Which meant, of course, that it couldn't last. 50 00:04:32,760 --> 00:04:36,120 We were surrounded by people who would have wanted us punished 51 00:04:36,159 --> 00:04:37,640 if they knew the whole truth.' 52 00:04:37,680 --> 00:04:40,560 It's just a drop more. No harm in that. 53 00:04:41,720 --> 00:04:44,840 Her, for breaking their rules...' 54 00:04:44,880 --> 00:04:46,800 I should not. 55 00:04:46,840 --> 00:04:49,680 Why not? Why not? 56 00:04:49,720 --> 00:04:52,680 We must be our own women. We must please ourselves! Shh! 57 00:04:52,720 --> 00:04:56,159 Me, for not knowing my place...' 58 00:04:56,200 --> 00:04:57,720 Spoilsport. 59 00:04:57,760 --> 00:04:59,720 ...and not staying in it.' 60 00:05:01,880 --> 00:05:03,520 We should leave. 61 00:05:04,640 --> 00:05:06,200 Run, run away. 62 00:05:07,560 --> 00:05:09,000 If only. 63 00:05:09,040 --> 00:05:10,200 HEP: Meg! 64 00:05:11,920 --> 00:05:13,880 Oh, God. What's she doing here? 65 00:05:13,920 --> 00:05:16,560 Meg, darling, I've just been to the house. 66 00:05:16,600 --> 00:05:19,040 George said he thought you might be out here. 67 00:05:19,080 --> 00:05:22,280 Oh, he's back, is he? What does he want? 68 00:05:22,320 --> 00:05:24,640 What are you doing walking around out here in the rain? 69 00:05:24,680 --> 00:05:27,400 Honestly, you'll get a chill. Come along, let's get you home. 70 00:05:27,440 --> 00:05:28,880 You can't stay out here. 71 00:05:29,920 --> 00:05:31,720 Home, Meg. Come along. 72 00:05:32,880 --> 00:05:35,080 We'll talk privately when we're there. 73 00:05:37,480 --> 00:05:40,640 And then Hep Elliot came to stay.' 74 00:05:44,480 --> 00:05:46,400 You don't need to be here, Hep. 75 00:05:48,240 --> 00:05:50,640 You're indulging again, Meg. 76 00:05:52,200 --> 00:05:54,480 And George says you're not eating. 77 00:05:55,520 --> 00:05:58,159 I'm fine. I'm well. 78 00:05:58,200 --> 00:06:02,400 I-I've been preoccupied recently, that's all. 79 00:06:04,240 --> 00:06:06,240 It's the damned drug. 80 00:06:06,280 --> 00:06:09,960 One of these days, you'll embarrass yourself in some irretrievable way. 81 00:06:11,920 --> 00:06:14,440 It's for your own good that I'm here. 82 00:06:14,480 --> 00:06:16,320 My own good (!) 83 00:06:19,200 --> 00:06:23,080 You can't do this again, Hep. Tell him no, it's cruel. 84 00:06:25,360 --> 00:06:27,200 I'm worried, Meg. 85 00:06:29,600 --> 00:06:31,120 And besides, it... 86 00:06:33,040 --> 00:06:35,560 ...seems to be the only way I can see you nowadays. 87 00:06:37,200 --> 00:06:39,200 We used to be so close. 88 00:06:40,520 --> 00:06:42,640 What we shared... Hep. 89 00:06:42,680 --> 00:06:45,000 We shared nothing. 90 00:06:47,720 --> 00:06:49,800 You call it nothing? 91 00:06:53,920 --> 00:06:55,400 Well... 92 00:06:57,400 --> 00:06:59,760 I wish it were different, Meg. 93 00:07:02,360 --> 00:07:04,760 You really don't give us any choice. 94 00:07:09,080 --> 00:07:10,880 Come along. 95 00:07:25,200 --> 00:07:28,840 That woman has been in here all day as if she was guarding the door. 96 00:07:30,560 --> 00:07:31,960 What are you doing? 97 00:07:33,520 --> 00:07:36,520 This is your manuscript. Yes, I know! 98 00:07:37,880 --> 00:07:40,520 All that work wasted. 99 00:07:42,520 --> 00:07:44,159 Ashes to ashes. 100 00:07:45,920 --> 00:07:49,320 Has she said something that has caused you to carry on like this? 101 00:07:51,360 --> 00:07:54,159 I missed you this afternoon. 102 00:07:57,200 --> 00:08:00,760 I was relegated to the kitchens, as you know. 103 00:08:05,640 --> 00:08:07,720 Is she staying here? 104 00:08:07,760 --> 00:08:10,040 At my husband's pleasure. 105 00:08:10,080 --> 00:08:12,560 As we all are, I suppose. 106 00:08:13,920 --> 00:08:17,160 Except she will be about as pleasant to have around as a guard dog. 107 00:08:19,840 --> 00:08:24,840 I'm to be under her supervision at all times. 108 00:08:26,040 --> 00:08:28,120 This is madness. 109 00:08:28,160 --> 00:08:31,480 They're downstairs now, planning God knows what. 110 00:08:34,600 --> 00:08:36,679 Frances, maybe you can help me? 111 00:08:38,760 --> 00:08:40,919 Of course, I'll help you. 112 00:08:42,760 --> 00:08:46,040 I've gotten hold of a rather excellent doctor recently. 113 00:08:47,200 --> 00:08:49,520 A new discovery on the recommendation of Winnie. 114 00:08:51,160 --> 00:08:55,040 Why don't we send for him? I'm sure that's not necessary. 115 00:08:55,080 --> 00:08:56,160 I'm sure it is. 116 00:08:57,480 --> 00:09:00,720 I see no need to depart from the usual arrangements, Hephzibah. 117 00:09:00,760 --> 00:09:03,000 Just keep her quiet. Keep her inside. 118 00:09:03,040 --> 00:09:05,640 Make sure her misbehaviour doesn't scale the walls. 119 00:09:05,680 --> 00:09:08,360 Clearly the usual arrangements won't be enough. 120 00:09:08,400 --> 00:09:10,360 HE GRUNTS 121 00:09:10,400 --> 00:09:11,760 I'm more concerned than ever. 122 00:09:11,800 --> 00:09:14,280 She seems worse than ever, doesn't she? 123 00:09:14,320 --> 00:09:16,960 Well, something isn't right. She's not herself. 124 00:09:17,000 --> 00:09:20,200 She hasn't been herself since we returned from Long reach. 125 00:09:20,240 --> 00:09:22,760 Perhaps you should blame yourself for that. 126 00:09:22,800 --> 00:09:25,040 Though, in point of fact, one could argue 127 00:09:25,080 --> 00:09:27,360 that she is currently very much herself. 128 00:09:27,400 --> 00:09:28,520 This is who she is. 129 00:09:29,880 --> 00:09:31,600 Sadly. 130 00:09:31,640 --> 00:09:34,880 This is who I married. She needs a doctor. 131 00:09:37,760 --> 00:09:39,440 Is he... 132 00:09:40,560 --> 00:09:43,800 ...is he discreet, this doctor? 133 00:09:44,920 --> 00:09:46,800 Better than that, he's competent. 134 00:09:48,120 --> 00:09:51,360 Which I find is a far more useful skill when the patient is ill. 135 00:09:54,880 --> 00:09:57,680 Very well. But I expect you to deal with all the arrangements. 136 00:09:57,720 --> 00:09:59,800 That is what you're here for after all. 137 00:09:59,840 --> 00:10:02,200 I don't expect you to be down here every moment 138 00:10:02,240 --> 00:10:03,760 bothering me with minutiae. 139 00:10:03,800 --> 00:10:05,320 Minutiae? 140 00:10:06,600 --> 00:10:09,200 That's quite a novel way for a man to describe his own wife. 141 00:10:09,240 --> 00:10:11,240 Just get on with it. 142 00:10:12,680 --> 00:10:14,520 You're lucky Percy lets you keep hold 143 00:10:14,560 --> 00:10:16,400 of the family purse strings, George. 144 00:10:16,440 --> 00:10:19,960 Which is the only reason you can play the puppet-master to me. 145 00:10:21,160 --> 00:10:23,200 If only money really did make the man. 146 00:10:30,200 --> 00:10:31,360 DOOR CLOSES 147 00:10:34,400 --> 00:10:35,720 Well? 148 00:10:37,840 --> 00:10:39,720 They're bringing a doctor. 149 00:10:48,840 --> 00:10:50,600 Of course they are. 150 00:11:00,800 --> 00:11:02,680 MEG SCREAMS 151 00:11:10,320 --> 00:11:12,000 Just tell them no. 152 00:11:13,160 --> 00:11:14,800 It's not that simple, Frances. 153 00:11:16,720 --> 00:11:19,680 If I do not comply, he will threaten the asylum. 154 00:11:20,720 --> 00:11:24,240 I must convince him I am calm again. 155 00:11:25,960 --> 00:11:28,280 HEP: Her condition has severely worsened. 156 00:11:28,320 --> 00:11:30,640 I think she may be suffering from exhaustion 157 00:11:30,680 --> 00:11:32,000 on top of everything else. 158 00:11:33,440 --> 00:11:35,480 Let's take a little look, shall we? 159 00:11:46,600 --> 00:11:47,600 Hm... 160 00:11:50,560 --> 00:11:52,280 I do see what you mean, Miss Elliot. 161 00:11:52,320 --> 00:11:54,360 These female ailments can strike rather fast 162 00:11:54,400 --> 00:11:55,800 and be very debilitating. 163 00:11:55,840 --> 00:11:57,280 What have you told him, Hep? 164 00:11:57,320 --> 00:12:00,480 So, you do think bloodletting would be advisable, Dr Pears? 165 00:12:00,520 --> 00:12:02,680 It is usually the fail-safe method 166 00:12:02,720 --> 00:12:04,400 in calming a case of hysteria like this. 167 00:12:04,440 --> 00:12:05,680 No, I don't need it! 168 00:12:05,720 --> 00:12:07,760 Going to be a good girl, are we, Mrs Benham? 169 00:12:07,800 --> 00:12:10,480 Meg, Meg! WAILS: No, I don't want it. 170 00:12:10,520 --> 00:12:11,880 HEP: Shh, shh, shh. 171 00:12:11,920 --> 00:12:14,640 Thank you, Miss Elliot, you'd make a capital nurse. 172 00:12:14,680 --> 00:12:17,440 She doesn't want it. Can't you see you're torturing her? 173 00:12:17,480 --> 00:12:19,800 Be quiet, Frances, and let the doctor do his work. 174 00:12:19,840 --> 00:12:20,840 MEG GAPS 175 00:12:20,880 --> 00:12:22,800 HEP: Shh. 176 00:12:22,840 --> 00:12:25,040 MEG WHIMPERS 177 00:12:27,800 --> 00:12:30,000 MEG WAILS 178 00:12:42,760 --> 00:12:45,760 For once, we are actually better placed 179 00:12:45,800 --> 00:12:48,880 to take the lead on something in the West Indies. 180 00:12:50,880 --> 00:12:53,560 Not all knowledge is born in Europe. 181 00:13:00,000 --> 00:13:03,400 Benham might have the name... 182 00:13:03,440 --> 00:13:06,080 but I have the specimens. 183 00:13:09,120 --> 00:13:10,800 HEP: Frances?' 184 00:13:10,840 --> 00:13:12,000 Frances! 185 00:13:12,040 --> 00:13:13,960 Are you deaf, girl? 186 00:13:14,000 --> 00:13:16,160 Show the doctor out. 187 00:13:31,360 --> 00:13:33,160 DOOR CLOSES 188 00:13:43,800 --> 00:13:46,760 Has it not formed part of your duties 189 00:13:46,800 --> 00:13:50,000 to tidy up in here every once in a while? 190 00:13:50,040 --> 00:13:54,960 I simply do not know how Meg can abide these piles everywhere. 191 00:14:02,080 --> 00:14:04,120 What have they done to you? 192 00:14:17,760 --> 00:14:19,720 Please leave us. 193 00:14:23,160 --> 00:14:24,680 You're not needed here. 194 00:14:33,800 --> 00:14:35,880 Go, Frances. 195 00:14:55,120 --> 00:14:56,960 SHE GROANS WEAKLY 196 00:15:10,280 --> 00:15:11,880 There you are. 197 00:15:13,640 --> 00:15:15,480 You managed a little rest. 198 00:15:22,320 --> 00:15:24,240 Are you looking for Frances? 199 00:15:24,280 --> 00:15:27,480 The two of you are always searching each other out, aren't you? 200 00:15:31,320 --> 00:15:35,040 She'll be sleeping in the attic again from now on. 201 00:15:35,080 --> 00:15:37,880 You don't need two nurses. 202 00:15:37,920 --> 00:15:40,080 Mr Benham agreed to that? 203 00:15:41,240 --> 00:15:43,040 Well, I think he would, wouldn't he? 204 00:15:44,800 --> 00:15:47,000 If he were in possession of all the facts. 205 00:15:51,640 --> 00:15:53,520 It's just that you've become so... 206 00:15:55,560 --> 00:15:59,960 ...agitated, ever since she joined your staff. 207 00:16:08,240 --> 00:16:11,000 I think you need to be careful with this, too. 208 00:16:12,720 --> 00:16:14,040 You know what they say... 209 00:16:15,360 --> 00:16:17,560 "..The dose is the poison." 210 00:16:19,800 --> 00:16:22,800 I'll, erm... keep hold of it. 211 00:16:24,120 --> 00:16:27,960 I'll measure it out for you from now on. 212 00:16:40,000 --> 00:16:43,240 They do this sometimes. You mustn't worry. 213 00:16:44,800 --> 00:16:48,000 It's just until she's right, and then it's all back to normal again. 214 00:16:49,160 --> 00:16:51,720 It's not right. 215 00:16:51,760 --> 00:16:55,520 They've locked her in. She hasn't been out in days. 216 00:16:55,560 --> 00:16:57,240 She'll be all right, Fran. 217 00:17:00,040 --> 00:17:02,840 But you need to worry about yourself. 218 00:17:04,280 --> 00:17:09,160 It had been days, but then she managed to steal away.' 219 00:17:09,200 --> 00:17:10,760 KNOCK ON DOOR 220 00:17:11,760 --> 00:17:14,040 She said she had no choice...' 221 00:17:14,079 --> 00:17:15,720 WHISPERS: Frances. 222 00:17:15,760 --> 00:17:18,599 ...but to do as she was told.' 223 00:17:18,640 --> 00:17:21,319 Are you all right? Don't. 224 00:17:21,359 --> 00:17:23,119 But what she meant was...' 225 00:17:23,160 --> 00:17:24,520 Someone might come. 226 00:17:24,560 --> 00:17:27,599 ...she wasn't brave enough to choose. 227 00:17:27,640 --> 00:17:33,000 And then she asked me to deliver another message to Laddie.' 228 00:17:34,080 --> 00:17:35,640 Please. 229 00:17:35,680 --> 00:17:39,880 A small act of resistance against her husband, she said. 230 00:17:42,680 --> 00:17:44,760 And so... 231 00:17:46,040 --> 00:17:48,560 ...I did as I was told.' 232 00:18:13,400 --> 00:18:15,320 SIGHS Miss Langton. 233 00:18:22,640 --> 00:18:26,160 I'm bone-tired, Miss Langton. 234 00:18:26,200 --> 00:18:28,040 I'll be asleep in 15 minutes, 235 00:18:28,080 --> 00:18:31,040 so you have five to do whatever you came here to do. 236 00:18:31,080 --> 00:18:33,640 Mr African Genius. 237 00:18:33,680 --> 00:18:37,480 What would they say if they could see this? 238 00:18:37,520 --> 00:18:42,320 Whatever they would have to say is of THEIR concern, not mine. 239 00:18:45,720 --> 00:18:47,400 Another one? 240 00:18:50,440 --> 00:18:52,400 She's got you well-trained. 241 00:18:55,760 --> 00:18:58,880 And on the laudanum, by the looks of things. 242 00:19:07,320 --> 00:19:09,320 "Since we met at Long reach, 243 00:19:09,360 --> 00:19:13,200 "I've been thinking about what you said about your childhood. 244 00:19:14,240 --> 00:19:17,360 "My husband will not allow himself to see the truth. 245 00:19:17,400 --> 00:19:19,640 "But I can. 246 00:19:19,680 --> 00:19:21,800 "I think you should write to the newspapers" 247 00:19:21,840 --> 00:19:24,200 "before his proposals go to parliament." 248 00:19:24,240 --> 00:19:26,400 "Someone should tell the truth about him." 249 00:19:31,160 --> 00:19:33,160 Has she gone mad? 250 00:19:35,640 --> 00:19:37,080 "I offer you my assistance," 251 00:19:37,120 --> 00:19:39,760 "though it is imperative that I am not discovered." 252 00:19:40,800 --> 00:19:43,040 "My involvement must never be known." 253 00:19:45,000 --> 00:19:47,440 What is she playing at? 254 00:19:47,480 --> 00:19:50,160 She cannot help. 255 00:19:50,200 --> 00:19:53,080 And yet, apparently, she offers to do so freely. 256 00:19:53,120 --> 00:19:56,520 While you, who actually could help, stay silent. 257 00:20:10,880 --> 00:20:13,320 Is there a reply? 258 00:20:16,280 --> 00:20:17,480 No. 259 00:20:18,960 --> 00:20:20,280 I beg your pardon? 260 00:20:21,320 --> 00:20:23,960 Tell your mistress, no. 261 00:20:25,960 --> 00:20:29,000 Some of us may be happy to make sport of themselves 262 00:20:29,040 --> 00:20:30,680 for her entertainment. 263 00:20:31,800 --> 00:20:33,200 But not me. 264 00:20:44,720 --> 00:20:46,520 DOOR SLAMS SHUT 265 00:21:13,600 --> 00:21:16,120 MEG GIGGLES LIGHTLY 266 00:21:48,280 --> 00:21:49,600 What did he say? 267 00:21:50,600 --> 00:21:52,280 He said to the Devil with you. 268 00:21:53,840 --> 00:21:54,840 He did? 269 00:21:54,880 --> 00:21:57,480 Well, that is to his credit, I suppose. 270 00:21:58,560 --> 00:22:01,120 I'll have to write again. You'll take it, won't you? 271 00:22:02,560 --> 00:22:03,720 Frances? 272 00:22:03,760 --> 00:22:06,280 I'm tired of being your errand girl. 273 00:22:08,200 --> 00:22:11,160 And I am tired of being your secret. 274 00:22:12,280 --> 00:22:13,440 But, Frances... 275 00:22:16,440 --> 00:22:17,760 ...it cannot be another way. 276 00:22:22,600 --> 00:22:24,040 What do you want from me? 277 00:22:26,520 --> 00:22:29,240 I don't want to be in the dark any more. 278 00:22:30,960 --> 00:22:34,080 I want you to be proud to be with me. 279 00:22:35,240 --> 00:22:37,000 I want to be proud with you. 280 00:22:38,320 --> 00:22:40,480 I want to touch you... 281 00:22:42,480 --> 00:22:45,280 ...when you want me to. 282 00:22:45,320 --> 00:22:48,480 I want all of those impossible things. 283 00:22:53,240 --> 00:22:54,960 Don't you? 284 00:24:03,600 --> 00:24:05,640 What are you doing here? 285 00:24:07,520 --> 00:24:09,400 Someone might come. 286 00:24:09,440 --> 00:24:11,640 Then I will hide under the bed. 287 00:25:45,200 --> 00:25:46,520 DOOR SLAMS 288 00:25:52,000 --> 00:25:54,000 Playing the man of the house? 289 00:25:57,400 --> 00:25:58,840 Do you want something? 290 00:26:05,760 --> 00:26:08,440 Meg has been carrying on with the girl right under your nose. 291 00:26:11,880 --> 00:26:13,320 HE SIGHS DEEPLY 292 00:26:13,360 --> 00:26:15,040 I've seen them. 293 00:26:21,840 --> 00:26:23,640 How long? 294 00:26:26,040 --> 00:26:28,200 I've suspected since Long reach. 295 00:26:28,240 --> 00:26:30,560 Since... 296 00:26:30,600 --> 00:26:32,120 Since Long reach? 297 00:26:32,160 --> 00:26:36,200 You-You kept it to yourself all this time? 298 00:26:36,240 --> 00:26:40,560 You, who have never kept a secret in your entire miserable life. 299 00:26:40,600 --> 00:26:44,880 You would have seen it for yourself if you paid her attention. 300 00:26:44,920 --> 00:26:48,080 But instead, you're too busy yourself sneaking around 301 00:26:48,120 --> 00:26:49,600 doing God knows what. 302 00:26:49,640 --> 00:26:52,160 Don't you dare. 303 00:26:52,200 --> 00:26:56,080 Society may forgive the man who is debauched. 304 00:26:57,160 --> 00:27:02,080 It may even forgive the man whose housemaid is debauched, 305 00:27:02,120 --> 00:27:05,840 but it will destroy the man who allows his wife to be. 306 00:27:08,520 --> 00:27:13,520 You are a vile hypocrite, Hephzibah. 307 00:27:13,560 --> 00:27:16,280 Talking to me about morality. 308 00:27:17,400 --> 00:27:19,360 Are you threatening me? 309 00:27:24,880 --> 00:27:26,560 I have done nothing. 310 00:27:30,280 --> 00:27:32,840 We should be allies in this. 311 00:27:32,880 --> 00:27:37,480 There are books hidden under the girl's bed. 312 00:27:37,520 --> 00:27:39,920 Hoarded. 313 00:27:39,960 --> 00:27:42,160 Taken from your library. 314 00:27:42,200 --> 00:27:44,800 We can put it about that she was stealing. 315 00:27:46,600 --> 00:27:49,080 So no-one will blame you. 316 00:27:53,840 --> 00:27:56,040 Not a word leaves this house. 317 00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:02,040 If it does, not only will you be deprived 318 00:28:02,080 --> 00:28:05,280 of every single penny of your allowance, 319 00:28:05,320 --> 00:28:08,400 but the world will learn something of your own... 320 00:28:08,440 --> 00:28:10,920 What was the word that you used? 321 00:28:13,320 --> 00:28:14,920 Debauchery. 322 00:28:20,200 --> 00:28:22,040 Rouse the servants. 323 00:28:23,840 --> 00:28:26,520 Fetch Frances. 324 00:28:41,960 --> 00:28:43,360 THUD 325 00:28:45,760 --> 00:28:48,200 BANGING ON DOOR HEP: Mrs Linux! 326 00:28:49,640 --> 00:28:52,320 Mrs Linux, I need your assistance at once! 327 00:29:13,600 --> 00:29:16,440 Frances. Sir? 328 00:29:17,440 --> 00:29:19,040 You're dismissed. 329 00:29:21,240 --> 00:29:22,840 What? 330 00:29:24,360 --> 00:29:25,720 Why? 331 00:29:25,760 --> 00:29:29,200 You're to leave this household immediately. 332 00:29:30,280 --> 00:29:31,600 I don't understand. 333 00:29:31,640 --> 00:29:35,600 Where will I go? That is entirely up to you. 334 00:29:35,640 --> 00:29:39,080 You're free. This is a free country. 335 00:29:39,120 --> 00:29:43,760 But we are not in the habit of giving characters for thieves, 336 00:29:43,800 --> 00:29:46,920 and so YOU will get none from me. 337 00:29:49,000 --> 00:29:50,640 What are you talking about? 338 00:29:50,680 --> 00:29:53,640 I didn't steal anything. You stole these. 339 00:29:54,800 --> 00:29:58,680 Valuable rare editions that belong to your master. 340 00:29:59,720 --> 00:30:02,280 This is ridiculous. 341 00:30:02,320 --> 00:30:05,400 Madame lent me those books. 342 00:30:07,120 --> 00:30:09,680 You think I care about the books? 343 00:30:11,520 --> 00:30:14,480 You've stolen my trust. 344 00:30:14,520 --> 00:30:18,240 I took you in. I gave you sanctuary, 345 00:30:18,280 --> 00:30:21,600 and you seek to repay me by taking what is mine. 346 00:30:29,360 --> 00:30:31,080 You can't do this. 347 00:30:31,120 --> 00:30:35,680 And there'll be no tender goodbyes with your mistress. 348 00:30:35,720 --> 00:30:37,200 Please don't do this. 349 00:30:39,640 --> 00:30:43,160 Madame! Madame! 350 00:30:43,200 --> 00:30:45,040 Get your hands off of me! 351 00:30:45,080 --> 00:30:47,360 Get her out of here, for God's sake. Madame! 352 00:30:47,400 --> 00:30:50,560 Miss Langton, must I call the watchman? 353 00:31:05,120 --> 00:31:06,760 Madame! 354 00:31:09,480 --> 00:31:11,720 Get away from here, or I will call the watchman! 355 00:31:11,760 --> 00:31:15,400 You'll soon learn that thieves are transported. 356 00:31:15,440 --> 00:31:17,200 DOOR SLAMS 357 00:31:35,480 --> 00:31:37,320 It's late, Hep. 358 00:31:37,360 --> 00:31:38,840 I need to warn you. 359 00:31:42,480 --> 00:31:45,360 George knows. About you and the girl. 360 00:31:49,600 --> 00:31:51,480 I'm sure I don't know what you mean. 361 00:31:51,520 --> 00:31:54,320 The one good purpose served by the truth 362 00:31:54,360 --> 00:31:58,000 is that you no longer have to waste your energy on this facade, Meg. 363 00:31:58,040 --> 00:31:59,600 It's making you ill. 364 00:32:01,360 --> 00:32:04,440 How would he know? She told him. 365 00:32:07,800 --> 00:32:09,560 I don't believe that. 366 00:32:10,720 --> 00:32:12,800 Not for a minute. I have to speak to her. 367 00:32:12,840 --> 00:32:15,480 She's been turned out already, she'll be long gone. 368 00:32:25,600 --> 00:32:27,000 It was you. 369 00:32:28,840 --> 00:32:30,240 You told him! 370 00:32:31,360 --> 00:32:33,360 Oh, Hep, what have you done?! 371 00:32:34,480 --> 00:32:36,120 I did what needed to be done. 372 00:32:36,160 --> 00:32:38,360 She has brought you nothing but trouble! 373 00:32:38,400 --> 00:32:40,520 Why can't you see that? 374 00:32:40,560 --> 00:32:43,640 You scheming bitch. Meg, please. 375 00:32:43,680 --> 00:32:44,960 Just forget about her. 376 00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:48,840 I'm trying to help you. Why are you always doing this? 377 00:32:48,880 --> 00:32:51,120 MEG WHIMPERS, DOOR CLOSES 378 00:32:57,480 --> 00:32:59,760 Going somewhere, Meg? 379 00:33:01,960 --> 00:33:06,160 You turned Frances out? Hep told me. 380 00:33:06,200 --> 00:33:08,600 Apparently, several months too late. 381 00:33:11,080 --> 00:33:12,720 Were you going somewhere? 382 00:33:18,040 --> 00:33:19,240 No. 383 00:33:33,120 --> 00:33:35,440 SHE SOBS 384 00:33:44,320 --> 00:33:46,160 TEARFULLY: Madame. 385 00:34:05,040 --> 00:34:06,920 That woman did nothing to stop them 386 00:34:06,960 --> 00:34:09,520 from turnin' you out empty-handed. 387 00:34:09,560 --> 00:34:11,560 What kinda love is that? 388 00:34:11,600 --> 00:34:14,719 How you can't see that she was just like the rest of them? 389 00:34:14,760 --> 00:34:16,800 If you find your hand stuck in the Devil mouth, 390 00:34:16,840 --> 00:34:18,080 you have to yank it out! 391 00:34:18,120 --> 00:34:21,159 I saw it all, but she was... 392 00:34:21,199 --> 00:34:23,320 You saw not'ing! 393 00:34:23,360 --> 00:34:24,920 You can't see not'ing! 394 00:34:24,960 --> 00:34:27,239 You always have your nose turned up so damn high, 395 00:34:27,280 --> 00:34:29,400 you're tripping over your own damn feet. 396 00:34:30,560 --> 00:34:32,320 But the trouble wit you, 397 00:34:32,360 --> 00:34:35,320 you couldn't leave the people dem alone. 398 00:34:35,360 --> 00:34:37,840 Them now have nuttin' for you. 399 00:34:38,960 --> 00:34:41,320 Hello? Thank you. 400 00:34:44,080 --> 00:34:48,800 Well, not every ting from on high is a blessing. 401 00:34:48,840 --> 00:34:52,840 Gwaan, stay there. You stay there. 402 00:34:54,080 --> 00:34:57,280 Tan deh fretting about love, about her, 403 00:34:57,320 --> 00:35:00,560 when I'm standing right here trying to help you. 404 00:35:03,400 --> 00:35:05,440 Why you can't see that? 405 00:35:06,800 --> 00:35:08,120 Sal... 406 00:35:25,080 --> 00:35:26,720 After they threw me out... 407 00:35:28,880 --> 00:35:30,600 ...I didn't know what to do. 408 00:35:32,680 --> 00:35:35,640 I had never been outside before 409 00:35:35,680 --> 00:35:38,360 without a destination of someone else's choosing. 410 00:35:39,520 --> 00:35:41,880 I was on the street for days. 411 00:35:41,920 --> 00:35:44,480 Sick. Starving. 412 00:35:45,600 --> 00:35:48,560 Desperate for that damn drug. 413 00:35:48,600 --> 00:35:52,040 And then... I met Sal.' 414 00:36:06,840 --> 00:36:08,480 Ladies. 415 00:36:15,600 --> 00:36:17,600 You can dry out in here. 416 00:36:18,880 --> 00:36:20,680 Where am I? 417 00:36:23,520 --> 00:36:25,600 SHE GROANS 418 00:36:49,640 --> 00:36:51,240 Come now. 419 00:37:08,040 --> 00:37:12,760 SHE BREATHES RAPIDLY 420 00:37:12,800 --> 00:37:14,400 BIRDSONG 421 00:37:37,680 --> 00:37:38,920 WHIP CRACKS 422 00:37:38,960 --> 00:37:41,480 MAN GRUNTS 423 00:37:45,800 --> 00:37:47,480 Louder! 424 00:37:49,960 --> 00:37:54,000 Shut it! Come on! MAN: Again. 425 00:37:57,680 --> 00:38:00,440 WHIP CRACKS 426 00:38:00,480 --> 00:38:02,480 MAN GASPS 427 00:38:12,320 --> 00:38:15,520 Oh, you're up and about at last. 428 00:38:15,560 --> 00:38:17,920 Gyal, you were in a bad, bad way. 429 00:38:17,960 --> 00:38:20,280 You feeling any better now? 430 00:38:21,320 --> 00:38:23,920 Thank you. I might have died. 431 00:38:25,840 --> 00:38:28,080 WHIP CRACKS, MAN YELPS 432 00:38:28,120 --> 00:38:29,760 Stand up now! 433 00:38:31,360 --> 00:38:33,000 Is this place what I think it is? 434 00:38:36,560 --> 00:38:38,920 Depends what you tink it is. 435 00:38:41,520 --> 00:38:44,560 You ever whip anybody? What? 436 00:38:44,600 --> 00:38:47,840 Two tings white coves can't get enough of. 437 00:38:48,880 --> 00:38:51,600 Mulattas and flogging. 438 00:38:52,640 --> 00:38:55,960 Them get a taste for that in school and forever afterwards 439 00:38:56,000 --> 00:38:59,920 them either got to be giving a whipping or getting one. 440 00:39:02,160 --> 00:39:03,640 Ladies. 441 00:39:10,560 --> 00:39:14,480 They used my time at the School House against me at my trial. 442 00:39:14,520 --> 00:39:18,080 Said that what happened there just went to show 443 00:39:18,120 --> 00:39:20,320 that I was a savage character...' 444 00:39:20,360 --> 00:39:22,000 The whip. 445 00:39:22,040 --> 00:39:24,680 ...and an unrepentant whore.' 446 00:39:24,720 --> 00:39:27,360 Did I give you permission to speak? 447 00:39:28,880 --> 00:39:31,000 But it was just work. 448 00:39:31,040 --> 00:39:35,320 The first work I ever got paid for.' 449 00:39:35,360 --> 00:39:37,360 MAN CRIES OUT 450 00:39:37,400 --> 00:39:39,960 I stayed for five months. 451 00:39:40,000 --> 00:39:41,960 It came to feel like home.' 452 00:39:42,000 --> 00:39:44,080 SAL READS ALOUD SLOWLY 453 00:39:44,120 --> 00:39:46,800 Small threads of happiness. 454 00:39:47,760 --> 00:39:51,160 I even started writing this manuscript, 455 00:39:51,200 --> 00:39:53,880 my own confessions.' 456 00:39:56,480 --> 00:39:58,840 Almack's. Almack's. 457 00:40:01,000 --> 00:40:03,080 Wh'appen? 458 00:40:03,120 --> 00:40:05,040 This is who I used to work for. 459 00:40:05,080 --> 00:40:08,400 George Benham. That son of a bitch. 460 00:40:08,440 --> 00:40:12,000 You know him? Of him. 461 00:40:12,040 --> 00:40:14,040 Word gets around. 462 00:40:14,080 --> 00:40:16,840 Any sensible house knows not to let them in. 463 00:40:16,880 --> 00:40:18,800 Benham or him no-good brother. 464 00:40:18,840 --> 00:40:21,320 Benham and Lord Percy? 465 00:40:21,360 --> 00:40:25,640 They come round here? Not all money is good money. 466 00:40:25,680 --> 00:40:28,680 Some of the punters make a name for them self. 467 00:40:28,720 --> 00:40:30,800 Benham is one. 468 00:40:30,840 --> 00:40:33,960 The kind of man that don't take no for an answer. 469 00:40:38,360 --> 00:40:41,440 Him crippled a girl once. 470 00:40:41,480 --> 00:40:44,560 Went too far. Wouldn't stop. 471 00:40:44,600 --> 00:40:47,240 One of her friends called the Watch, 472 00:40:47,280 --> 00:40:49,680 but the constable wouldn't pay them no mind. 473 00:40:51,520 --> 00:40:55,200 Benham or him brother, one of them, had bought him off already. 474 00:40:56,520 --> 00:40:58,040 Everybody knows 475 00:40:58,080 --> 00:41:00,440 the two of them just pay whoever them need to pay, 476 00:41:00,480 --> 00:41:03,080 and then nobody can say a word against them. 477 00:41:03,120 --> 00:41:06,280 Or listen to a word the likes of us have to say. 478 00:41:08,200 --> 00:41:10,080 You're better off out of there. 479 00:41:10,120 --> 00:41:11,760 KNOCK ON DOOR 480 00:41:11,800 --> 00:41:13,280 Gent downstairs for you, Fran. 481 00:41:13,320 --> 00:41:15,280 Urgent, he says. 482 00:41:38,520 --> 00:41:40,080 How did you find me? 483 00:41:41,280 --> 00:41:44,320 You're developing quite the reputation. 484 00:41:45,360 --> 00:41:46,880 Who's in charge of you? 485 00:41:48,600 --> 00:41:52,200 I am. Well, that makes things simple. 486 00:41:53,920 --> 00:41:57,360 I came thinking I was going to have to argue to take back what's mine. 487 00:41:57,400 --> 00:42:01,360 What's yours? In any event, I can't find any decent help. 488 00:42:01,400 --> 00:42:03,480 Can't afford any, you mean. 489 00:42:04,680 --> 00:42:05,680 Pack your things. 490 00:42:09,960 --> 00:42:13,320 Did you hear me? I said pack your things. 491 00:42:17,680 --> 00:42:19,200 Come back here! 492 00:42:19,240 --> 00:42:22,440 Martha? Yes, Fran? 493 00:42:24,640 --> 00:42:26,400 See this person out. 494 00:42:27,640 --> 00:42:31,560 I left you with Benham, not to whore yourself out for guineas! 495 00:42:31,600 --> 00:42:33,760 I'm not whoring myself out. 496 00:42:34,760 --> 00:42:37,280 Like mother, like daughter, I suppose. 497 00:42:40,080 --> 00:42:43,960 Well, thank God I didn't take after my father. 498 00:42:51,760 --> 00:42:55,320 Seeing him again brought it all back. 499 00:42:57,080 --> 00:43:00,280 All the things I couldn't bear to think about.' 500 00:43:00,320 --> 00:43:02,600 You can tell me any ting, Frannie. 501 00:43:03,720 --> 00:43:06,680 Any ting. You know that. 502 00:43:07,880 --> 00:43:11,960 Remember, you and me comin' from the same place. 503 00:43:20,240 --> 00:43:22,480 The boy... 504 00:43:23,560 --> 00:43:24,760 Phibbah. 505 00:43:26,960 --> 00:43:28,840 What happened that night.' 506 00:43:44,640 --> 00:43:46,920 Whatever it is... 507 00:43:51,240 --> 00:43:54,400 ...maybe you're going to have to forgive your own self. 508 00:43:57,640 --> 00:44:00,480 But that was easier said than done. 509 00:44:02,320 --> 00:44:05,280 I had found a measure of happiness with Madame. 510 00:44:06,520 --> 00:44:10,520 But when I lost it, I kept thinking that it was 511 00:44:10,560 --> 00:44:14,600 because happiness was much more than I deserved.' 512 00:44:14,640 --> 00:44:17,520 You still have fret bout your white woman, Fran? 513 00:44:17,560 --> 00:44:21,680 You need to stop moping and live your life. 514 00:44:25,040 --> 00:44:27,720 But all that time I stayed at the School House, 515 00:44:27,760 --> 00:44:33,960 some part of me always strayed backwards anyway, towards her.' 516 00:44:35,120 --> 00:44:36,720 KNOCK ON DOOR 517 00:44:39,040 --> 00:44:40,840 Thank you, Martha. 518 00:44:40,880 --> 00:44:44,920 And then one day, my wish came true.' 519 00:44:57,720 --> 00:44:59,360 MEG: I am unwell. 520 00:44:59,400 --> 00:45:02,720 And I fear only you can make me better. 521 00:45:03,800 --> 00:45:06,320 I miss you. 522 00:45:06,360 --> 00:45:10,200 Please come back to me, Frances. Come back.' 523 00:45:15,920 --> 00:45:18,920 I hope you know you're a damn fool. 524 00:45:21,360 --> 00:45:23,640 I'll come back after she's well. 525 00:45:24,640 --> 00:45:27,440 The type of ill she is doesn't get better, Frannie. 526 00:45:30,080 --> 00:45:31,880 But ya goin' anyway. 527 00:45:57,000 --> 00:45:58,480 SAL SNIFFLES 528 00:46:01,120 --> 00:46:05,440 When you do come back, we goin' be right here. 529 00:46:13,440 --> 00:46:15,720 Thank you, Sal. 530 00:46:17,680 --> 00:46:20,080 For everything. 531 00:47:03,640 --> 00:47:04,880 You. 532 00:47:04,920 --> 00:47:08,280 Madame sent for me. I am well aware of that. 533 00:47:09,720 --> 00:47:12,560 The master says we're to tolerate your return. 534 00:47:12,600 --> 00:47:14,880 For reasons known only to himself. 535 00:48:01,120 --> 00:48:02,680 Madame? 536 00:48:08,720 --> 00:48:10,640 Frances! 537 00:48:13,320 --> 00:48:15,000 Is it truly you? 538 00:48:18,280 --> 00:48:22,280 Are you ill? I dreamt you would come. 539 00:48:22,320 --> 00:48:25,280 I dreamt it so often, I can't even tell if you are real. 540 00:48:30,760 --> 00:48:32,960 SHE RETCHES 541 00:48:33,000 --> 00:48:35,480 You need to stop taking that poison. 542 00:48:36,960 --> 00:48:38,800 This is not the drug. 543 00:48:39,840 --> 00:48:41,400 Frances... 544 00:48:41,440 --> 00:48:44,160 Frances, I don't know how to tell you. 545 00:48:44,200 --> 00:48:45,960 What's wrong? 546 00:48:59,240 --> 00:49:00,920 I'm sorry, I... 547 00:49:02,240 --> 00:49:05,320 You were gone... You are not ill. 548 00:49:05,360 --> 00:49:08,360 ...and so I was taking so much, too much, 549 00:49:08,400 --> 00:49:12,840 and it sent me quite mad and I needed... 550 00:49:12,880 --> 00:49:15,640 Oh, I don't know what I needed, I needed something. 551 00:49:16,720 --> 00:49:20,320 So... So I went to see him one night. 552 00:49:21,320 --> 00:49:23,240 One night and... See who? 553 00:49:23,280 --> 00:49:27,040 I knew it was wrong, but I had no-one. Who? 554 00:49:29,680 --> 00:49:32,560 Olaudah was a friend to me once. 555 00:49:42,760 --> 00:49:44,400 Why? 556 00:49:45,640 --> 00:49:47,520 Please, can you not forgive me? 557 00:49:47,560 --> 00:49:50,040 Why am I here? 558 00:49:57,000 --> 00:49:59,400 Subtitles by accessibility@itv.com