1 00:00:46,067 --> 00:00:50,367 It came to me deep in the night, as it so often does. 2 00:00:51,033 --> 00:00:54,000 We shall be as a Meadow! 3 00:00:54,133 --> 00:00:55,567 Clara! The landing. 4 00:00:55,700 --> 00:00:57,733 Ah, Denise, haberdashery. 5 00:01:11,300 --> 00:01:12,567 From miss Audrey. 6 00:01:12,700 --> 00:01:14,900 Inspiration came to her in the night. 7 00:01:15,067 --> 00:01:16,900 - (Laughing) - Inspiration must be blind. 8 00:01:17,733 --> 00:01:20,433 Like love! And justice. And worms. 9 00:01:21,333 --> 00:01:22,693 Oh, I wish I could do that, though. 10 00:01:22,800 --> 00:01:24,167 Arrange things, don't you? 11 00:01:24,300 --> 00:01:27,067 These days, I think I could do anything I set my mind to. 12 00:01:27,167 --> 00:01:28,367 Really? Anything? 13 00:01:28,500 --> 00:01:30,267 What is there to stop me? 14 00:01:30,400 --> 00:01:33,067 I know. She scares me, too. 15 00:01:35,300 --> 00:01:37,833 - Clara! - Sorry, ma'am. Customer. 16 00:01:39,567 --> 00:01:40,700 You weren't back. 17 00:01:40,833 --> 00:01:42,700 Ladies, please take a seat. 18 00:01:43,767 --> 00:01:44,867 Denise! 19 00:01:45,067 --> 00:01:46,833 Le salon d'essayage. 20 00:02:07,067 --> 00:02:08,500 (Cooing) 21 00:02:12,633 --> 00:02:14,200 We have searched cellar to roof. 22 00:02:14,333 --> 00:02:16,933 Jonas: A female could get in and out and no-one any the wiser. 23 00:02:17,067 --> 00:02:18,433 We are vulnerable. 24 00:02:18,567 --> 00:02:21,200 My department has always adhered to the highest standards! 25 00:02:21,333 --> 00:02:24,733 Miss Audrey, no one supposes this a reflection on you or your staff. 26 00:02:24,867 --> 00:02:26,300 He belongs in the police station. 27 00:02:26,433 --> 00:02:28,733 Moray: No. I don't want him at the police station. 28 00:02:28,867 --> 00:02:30,233 I want him here. 29 00:02:30,367 --> 00:02:32,667 Dudley, you know infants. 30 00:02:32,800 --> 00:02:36,133 When Alice was sick last winter and couldn't nurse the baby, 31 00:02:36,267 --> 00:02:37,567 what did you do? 32 00:02:37,700 --> 00:02:39,843 Mellins infant food. Able's across the street will have it. 33 00:02:39,867 --> 00:02:42,233 - Arthur! - Arthur: Infant food. Able's. 34 00:02:42,367 --> 00:02:43,500 Yes, sir! 35 00:02:43,633 --> 00:02:45,633 Jonas, get a message to Peter adler. 36 00:02:45,767 --> 00:02:47,067 Tell him I wish to speak to him, 37 00:02:47,167 --> 00:02:48,300 on a matter of urgency. 38 00:02:48,433 --> 00:02:49,867 Dudley, the newspapers. 39 00:02:50,067 --> 00:02:52,507 Yesterday we were paying a Guinea a line for advertising space, 40 00:02:52,633 --> 00:02:54,867 tomorrow they'll give us the front pages for free. 41 00:02:55,067 --> 00:02:57,533 But mr moray, sir. Who is to look after him? 42 00:02:58,067 --> 00:03:00,067 Why, us. 43 00:03:01,067 --> 00:03:02,400 The paradise! 44 00:03:09,800 --> 00:03:11,667 They wish to donate money for the baby. 45 00:03:11,800 --> 00:03:13,167 If we had a box, or a tin? 46 00:03:13,300 --> 00:03:15,333 Yes! Yes! I will see to it. But make haste. 47 00:03:15,467 --> 00:03:16,947 The mrs felmingham are asking for you. 48 00:03:17,067 --> 00:03:18,867 Miss Audrey, my name is at the top of the list. 49 00:03:18,900 --> 00:03:21,100 I see that, but they have asked for Denise. 50 00:03:21,233 --> 00:03:23,433 All the morning customers have been asking for Denise! 51 00:03:23,567 --> 00:03:25,700 Indeed. She is quite the cause celebre, 52 00:03:25,833 --> 00:03:28,800 the girl who found the paradise baby. 53 00:03:28,933 --> 00:03:31,600 I believe it will be a new sales record. 54 00:03:38,400 --> 00:03:40,267 I shouldn't worry. 55 00:03:40,400 --> 00:03:42,067 With all the fuss being made of this one, 56 00:03:42,133 --> 00:03:45,800 we'll have every unwanted brat in the city dumped at our door. 57 00:03:47,800 --> 00:03:50,433 Plenty of bastard to go round, then. 58 00:03:59,600 --> 00:04:02,333 - (Baby cooing) - (Door opens) 59 00:04:02,467 --> 00:04:04,509 Katherine glendenning: Oh, I know! What business have I? 60 00:04:04,533 --> 00:04:06,433 But I heard and I had to see for myself. 61 00:04:06,567 --> 00:04:09,167 Allow me to introduce mr Peter adler. 62 00:04:09,300 --> 00:04:11,067 Peter, miss Katherine glendenning. 63 00:04:12,967 --> 00:04:15,133 I see you have already met my other guest. 64 00:04:15,267 --> 00:04:17,307 Katherine: Oh, he is quite the most beautiful thing. 65 00:04:17,400 --> 00:04:18,567 Mr adler: A heartbreaker, 66 00:04:18,700 --> 00:04:21,067 in the lair of a shameless opportunist. 67 00:04:21,200 --> 00:04:22,733 Oh, come on, adler! 68 00:04:22,867 --> 00:04:26,067 This is an opportunity that may serve us both. 69 00:04:26,167 --> 00:04:30,933 Poor miss glendenning must be wondering what devilish pact we have in hand. 70 00:04:31,067 --> 00:04:33,333 I am the patron of a foundling home, miss glendenning. 71 00:04:33,467 --> 00:04:37,333 Moray is hoping we will be able to find room for his unexpected guest. 72 00:04:37,467 --> 00:04:41,067 Though not quite yet. I want him in my store a day or two longer. 73 00:04:41,167 --> 00:04:42,600 A baby? Here? 74 00:04:42,733 --> 00:04:45,367 Oh! Moray, what can you be thinking of? 75 00:04:45,500 --> 00:04:46,867 The publicity. 76 00:04:48,433 --> 00:04:50,767 You wanted me, mr moray, sir? 77 00:04:51,433 --> 00:04:52,600 Yes. (Clears throat) 78 00:04:53,933 --> 00:04:55,533 Take him 79 00:04:55,667 --> 00:04:57,433 into the paradise. 80 00:04:58,400 --> 00:05:00,167 I want him seen. 81 00:05:00,300 --> 00:05:01,700 I want him loved. 82 00:05:02,300 --> 00:05:03,733 Understand? 83 00:05:04,400 --> 00:05:05,800 Yes, sir! 84 00:05:07,700 --> 00:05:11,600 Our friend has a reputation as a man of innovation and drive. 85 00:05:12,800 --> 00:05:15,767 Perhaps he is also hoping to demonstrate 86 00:05:15,900 --> 00:05:18,467 that there is a softer side to him, 87 00:05:18,600 --> 00:05:21,833 the human face of the all-conquering capitalist. 88 00:05:21,967 --> 00:05:23,767 Moray: Hmm, you have my measure. 89 00:05:24,967 --> 00:05:26,067 Do I have your support? 90 00:05:28,367 --> 00:05:30,467 We will take him. On one condition. 91 00:05:31,233 --> 00:05:32,833 - A donation? - And a visit. 92 00:05:33,667 --> 00:05:35,967 Our foundlings to your store. 93 00:05:36,100 --> 00:05:39,067 We do our best to fit them for work, give them a future. 94 00:05:39,167 --> 00:05:40,967 Well, who knows? If one of them impresses, 95 00:05:41,100 --> 00:05:45,133 you may even be moved to extend the offer of a job. 96 00:05:45,267 --> 00:05:48,800 Supposing the press were still on hand to report the gesture. 97 00:05:49,533 --> 00:05:51,633 Miss glendenning. Moray. 98 00:05:52,067 --> 00:05:53,600 Adler. 99 00:05:53,733 --> 00:05:56,800 Katherine: You must let me know when this visit is to take place. 100 00:05:56,933 --> 00:05:59,500 Your foundlings interest me, mr adler, 101 00:05:59,633 --> 00:06:01,400 I should like very much to be here. 102 00:06:02,100 --> 00:06:03,533 Of course. 103 00:06:04,933 --> 00:06:05,933 Miss glendenning. 104 00:06:13,100 --> 00:06:16,133 (Sighs) You're wasting your time, you know? 105 00:06:16,267 --> 00:06:17,700 He's far too high-minded. 106 00:06:18,267 --> 00:06:19,567 Now I wonder, 107 00:06:19,700 --> 00:06:21,933 is that meant as a warning 108 00:06:22,067 --> 00:06:23,133 or a challenge? 109 00:06:24,700 --> 00:06:26,067 Seriously, watch your back, 110 00:06:26,167 --> 00:06:28,533 she'd do anything for the kind of money you earned today. 111 00:06:29,167 --> 00:06:30,167 Isn't that right, Sam? 112 00:06:30,267 --> 00:06:32,067 - Who, Clara? Aye. - (Baby cooing) 113 00:06:32,167 --> 00:06:34,833 Sam: She'd kill her own grandmother to get commission on the hide. 114 00:06:36,833 --> 00:06:38,700 Oh! Can I hold him? Please can I hold him? 115 00:06:38,833 --> 00:06:40,909 Denise: It won't last. It's just people want to tell their friends 116 00:06:40,933 --> 00:06:43,733 they bought something from the girl who found the paradise baby. 117 00:06:43,867 --> 00:06:47,533 But he isn't! He isn't the paradise baby! 118 00:06:47,667 --> 00:06:49,700 He wasn't born here, he was just dumped. 119 00:06:49,833 --> 00:06:51,733 - In miss Audrey's stupid saloon! - (Chuckling) 120 00:06:51,867 --> 00:06:54,600 - Arthur: It's not funny! - No, come on, come on, come here. 121 00:06:54,733 --> 00:06:56,367 You're just being childish. 122 00:06:56,500 --> 00:06:58,076 Everywhere I've took him they've called him that, the paradise baby. 123 00:06:58,100 --> 00:07:00,367 I'm the one who was born here in the loading bays. 124 00:07:00,500 --> 00:07:03,167 And when you're rich and famous, there'll be a plaque out there. 125 00:07:03,300 --> 00:07:04,733 Saying what? 126 00:07:04,867 --> 00:07:06,433 His mam was the drayman's tart. 127 00:07:06,567 --> 00:07:08,927 She dropped him like a turd then fell down dead of the shame. 128 00:07:09,067 --> 00:07:11,367 God, you're full of spite! Don't take it out on him. 129 00:07:11,500 --> 00:07:13,400 What? I was just saying what I've heard. 130 00:07:13,533 --> 00:07:15,533 Arthur: What? What you heard? Where? From who? 131 00:07:15,667 --> 00:07:18,133 Oh, you know, people. 132 00:07:18,267 --> 00:07:21,200 Aye, come on! Hey, no, she's just got it wrong. 133 00:07:21,333 --> 00:07:23,967 Your mom was the drayman's daughter, she died of a fever. 134 00:07:24,100 --> 00:07:25,600 Your pa was lost at sebastopol 135 00:07:25,733 --> 00:07:27,176 and you were brought up by the men who worked in the bays. 136 00:07:27,200 --> 00:07:29,100 You told me the story, yourself. 137 00:07:29,233 --> 00:07:31,633 But what if that's all it is? 138 00:07:31,767 --> 00:07:33,400 A story? 139 00:07:42,067 --> 00:07:44,300 (Door opens) 140 00:07:44,433 --> 00:07:48,333 Lord glendenning: Last week, moray bestrode the narrow world like a colossus, 141 00:07:48,467 --> 00:07:51,100 this week he's Florence nightingale in pantaloons. 142 00:07:51,233 --> 00:07:52,533 The man's a genius. 143 00:07:52,667 --> 00:07:55,400 What do you know about a man called Peter adler? 144 00:07:55,533 --> 00:07:57,367 Apart from his market value. 145 00:07:57,500 --> 00:07:59,833 His market value is not to be sniffed at. 146 00:08:00,067 --> 00:08:02,633 They call him Saint Peter at the club, rich as croesus. 147 00:08:02,767 --> 00:08:05,900 Full-time philanthropist. Why? 148 00:08:06,067 --> 00:08:09,733 I thought I might invite him to dine. Would you object? 149 00:08:09,867 --> 00:08:11,367 Not at all. 150 00:08:11,500 --> 00:08:14,533 But I don't imagine it's my displeasure you're hoping to provoke. 151 00:08:16,333 --> 00:08:18,433 Every front page bar one! 152 00:08:18,567 --> 00:08:20,767 "City foundling finds new, celestial home 153 00:08:20,900 --> 00:08:22,200 "an angel in paradise, 154 00:08:22,333 --> 00:08:25,067 - "cherub among the chinaware." - (Chuckling) 155 00:08:25,200 --> 00:08:27,600 We are paying for your front pages. 156 00:08:27,733 --> 00:08:30,267 Adler's brats trooping through it any moment. 157 00:08:30,400 --> 00:08:32,709 I doubt the wheels of commerce are going to grind to a halt because 158 00:08:32,733 --> 00:08:33,933 a few children pay us a visit. 159 00:08:34,067 --> 00:08:36,533 Not children, foundlings, 160 00:08:36,667 --> 00:08:38,267 begotten in sin, 161 00:08:38,400 --> 00:08:40,833 abandoned while god looked the other way. 162 00:08:40,967 --> 00:08:43,633 They remind us of everything that's foul in ourselves. 163 00:08:48,500 --> 00:08:49,900 If ever I feel despondent, 164 00:08:50,067 --> 00:08:52,400 I need only a minute in the company of Jonas and lo, 165 00:08:52,533 --> 00:08:54,200 - the clouds lift. - (Chuckling) 166 00:08:55,067 --> 00:08:56,500 Where's the baby? 167 00:08:56,633 --> 00:08:58,776 Haberdashery got hold of him yesterday and hasn't let go since. 168 00:08:58,800 --> 00:09:01,700 Well, warn haberdashery not to become too attached. 169 00:09:01,833 --> 00:09:03,933 We have him on loan only. 170 00:09:05,867 --> 00:09:08,200 People are starting to speculate. 171 00:09:08,333 --> 00:09:10,200 As to why the child was left here. 172 00:09:10,333 --> 00:09:13,300 And? What do they conclude? 173 00:09:13,433 --> 00:09:15,833 That he is yours. 174 00:09:15,967 --> 00:09:19,333 You should read the editorial in the chronicle, Dudley. 175 00:09:19,467 --> 00:09:22,900 "Once, such a child would have been left on the church steps. 176 00:09:23,067 --> 00:09:26,067 "Today, the populace puts its trust not in god, 177 00:09:26,200 --> 00:09:27,667 "but in commerce." 178 00:09:28,367 --> 00:09:30,100 We are the new church. 179 00:09:31,200 --> 00:09:35,100 I slipped once. 18 months ago. 180 00:09:35,233 --> 00:09:37,100 I have not done so since. 181 00:09:37,233 --> 00:09:40,400 It is not, could not be mine. 182 00:09:42,067 --> 00:09:43,633 Mr Dudley, sir. 183 00:09:57,900 --> 00:10:00,167 Mr moray, mr Dudley. 184 00:10:01,500 --> 00:10:04,033 - It's private. - A list. 185 00:10:04,167 --> 00:10:06,067 A list with only two names. 186 00:10:07,767 --> 00:10:09,867 They worked here, when it was emmerson's. 187 00:10:10,833 --> 00:10:12,500 No-one else left who did. 188 00:10:13,733 --> 00:10:16,100 They tell tales in the bays, 189 00:10:16,233 --> 00:10:18,800 about how I came to lose my arm. 190 00:10:18,933 --> 00:10:20,133 Ever heard any? 191 00:10:21,967 --> 00:10:24,800 - No. - A story for every day of the year, 192 00:10:24,933 --> 00:10:27,500 most of them not fit to be repeated. 193 00:10:27,633 --> 00:10:29,733 None of them even close to the truth. 194 00:10:32,600 --> 00:10:33,833 Why don't you put them right? 195 00:10:33,967 --> 00:10:36,433 Because the story can change all it likes. 196 00:10:37,333 --> 00:10:38,600 This never will. 197 00:11:01,667 --> 00:11:04,067 - Good morning! - Edmund: Moray! 198 00:11:04,133 --> 00:11:05,333 You've shown us all the way. 199 00:11:05,467 --> 00:11:07,733 Everybody trusts a man holding a baby! 200 00:11:09,300 --> 00:11:12,833 I hear you're throwing your doors open too, very charitable. 201 00:11:12,967 --> 00:11:14,167 Mr adler! 202 00:11:14,300 --> 00:11:15,933 (Children talking indistinctly) 203 00:11:16,067 --> 00:11:17,200 Children. 204 00:11:19,333 --> 00:11:20,633 Welcome to the paradise. 205 00:11:23,200 --> 00:11:24,567 Go on, grace. 206 00:11:25,933 --> 00:11:30,067 I'm holding a party later, destitutes, vagrants, 207 00:11:30,133 --> 00:11:32,067 gentlemen of the press, all welcome! 208 00:11:33,633 --> 00:11:34,967 Keep holding hands. 209 00:11:36,067 --> 00:11:37,100 Thank you. 210 00:11:39,933 --> 00:11:40,967 After you, Peter. 211 00:11:54,067 --> 00:11:55,067 Mr adler: Come on girls. 212 00:11:59,400 --> 00:12:02,767 Miss Audrey: Hurry! Hurry, they are on their way. Remember, girls, 213 00:12:02,900 --> 00:12:07,333 we must not judge. Suffer the little children, as the good lord said. 214 00:12:07,467 --> 00:12:09,167 - Where are you going? - Eh, stock room. 215 00:12:09,300 --> 00:12:13,133 I can see the crawlers in their hair from here. Filthy little things! 216 00:12:13,267 --> 00:12:14,709 Miss Audrey: Don't let them touch anything. 217 00:12:14,733 --> 00:12:16,533 Moray: And this is the ladies' wear department, 218 00:12:16,600 --> 00:12:18,900 in which miss Audrey is queen. 219 00:12:19,833 --> 00:12:23,067 Oh, nonsense. I am not... 220 00:12:23,133 --> 00:12:24,900 (Whispering) It's ridiculous, child. 221 00:12:27,700 --> 00:12:30,833 Why, what a beautiful curtsey! 222 00:12:30,967 --> 00:12:34,600 But you know, mr moray meant only that miss Audrey is in charge here. 223 00:12:34,733 --> 00:12:39,100 Indeed, she is very fearsome and awfully elegant, 224 00:12:39,233 --> 00:12:43,133 (whispering) Sometimes I quite feel like curtseying to her myself. 225 00:12:46,333 --> 00:12:50,067 Miss Audrey, may I have your permission to show the girls the gowns? 226 00:12:50,167 --> 00:12:52,233 I feel sure they would like to see them. 227 00:12:52,367 --> 00:12:53,900 - Oh... - And maybe touch? 228 00:12:55,967 --> 00:12:57,133 Just a little. 229 00:12:59,300 --> 00:13:00,567 Perhaps I could help. 230 00:13:00,700 --> 00:13:02,400 Our very finest gowns 231 00:13:02,533 --> 00:13:05,800 are so precious, that only miss Audrey 232 00:13:05,933 --> 00:13:09,067 may touch them. Even mr moray is forbidden. 233 00:13:09,167 --> 00:13:13,933 But if we may beg some silk samples from the great hall, 234 00:13:14,067 --> 00:13:15,633 you could feel for yourselves, 235 00:13:15,767 --> 00:13:20,300 how taffeta is so stiff it almost stands up on its own 236 00:13:20,433 --> 00:13:23,333 and chiffon, so soft, 237 00:13:23,467 --> 00:13:25,667 it runs over your skin like water. 238 00:13:25,800 --> 00:13:30,067 After which, mr moray has put on a luncheon for us. 239 00:13:30,133 --> 00:13:32,600 Well, if you think you might be hungry. 240 00:13:32,733 --> 00:13:34,500 - (Children chattering) - Luncheon, splendid! 241 00:13:34,633 --> 00:13:36,933 - Shall we have a look around? - (Murmuring) Yes. 242 00:13:41,933 --> 00:13:43,433 Only, do you know? 243 00:13:43,567 --> 00:13:46,433 I was vain enough to put on new shoes for this visit. 244 00:13:46,567 --> 00:13:47,900 They are pinching me horribly. 245 00:13:48,067 --> 00:13:49,933 I think I may need some help with the stairs. 246 00:13:50,067 --> 00:13:51,833 I've got new shoes too. 247 00:13:51,967 --> 00:13:54,833 Mr adler: New to her. She means new to her. 248 00:13:55,300 --> 00:13:56,867 Come on, grace. 249 00:14:01,967 --> 00:14:03,567 (Indistinct chattering) 250 00:14:10,067 --> 00:14:13,333 It was kind of you, earlier to take the trouble with grace. 251 00:14:13,467 --> 00:14:15,867 - Such a taking little thing. - Mmm. 252 00:14:16,067 --> 00:14:17,700 What's her story? 253 00:14:17,833 --> 00:14:19,700 Grace is one of our "wanted" children. 254 00:14:19,833 --> 00:14:22,067 Her bed and board are paid for, probably by a parent 255 00:14:22,133 --> 00:14:24,833 who hopes to reclaim her when their circumstances change. 256 00:14:24,967 --> 00:14:27,933 It means she cannot be put up for adoption. 257 00:14:28,067 --> 00:14:32,867 I'm glad. Everyone needs to know they are wanted, 258 00:14:33,067 --> 00:14:34,133 don't you think? 259 00:14:36,467 --> 00:14:38,833 Just as everyone needs clothes and shoes that fit. 260 00:14:44,200 --> 00:14:45,633 Moray! 261 00:14:47,133 --> 00:14:48,800 I have an idea. 262 00:14:48,933 --> 00:14:51,933 Forty foundlings to be clothed and shod at her expense? 263 00:14:52,067 --> 00:14:55,433 - It'll cost a fortune! - Lucky she has one. 264 00:14:55,567 --> 00:14:57,133 She's just playing games. 265 00:14:57,267 --> 00:15:00,333 Trying to make moray jealous, by setting her cap at that adler. 266 00:15:00,467 --> 00:15:02,067 Anyone can see. 267 00:15:02,167 --> 00:15:04,176 What would you know? You spent the whole time in the stock room. 268 00:15:04,200 --> 00:15:06,633 Hey, think of the commission! Who do you think will get it? 269 00:15:15,800 --> 00:15:18,367 A store that expanded in stages 270 00:15:18,500 --> 00:15:20,467 and paid all its staff paltry wages, 271 00:15:20,600 --> 00:15:22,900 saw fit to employ a sweet baby boy 272 00:15:23,067 --> 00:15:25,400 and got itself on the front pages! 273 00:15:25,533 --> 00:15:27,267 What do you think? 274 00:15:27,400 --> 00:15:29,533 - You won't leave that? - Why not? 275 00:15:29,667 --> 00:15:32,433 It's funny. He's laughing. 276 00:15:36,300 --> 00:15:38,400 You mustn't. You can't! 277 00:15:38,533 --> 00:15:41,067 Don't let him scare you, Denise. 278 00:15:41,167 --> 00:15:43,500 He pays your wages, doesn't mean he owns you. 279 00:15:43,633 --> 00:15:46,600 I'm not speaking for him! I'm speaking for myself. 280 00:15:46,733 --> 00:15:48,243 And the only thing I'm scared of is the whole city 281 00:15:48,267 --> 00:15:50,233 - finding out how childish you are. - Childish? 282 00:15:50,367 --> 00:15:53,567 Miss Audrey: Denise. I often take a night cap at this time, in my private parlour. 283 00:15:53,700 --> 00:15:56,067 I wonder, would you care to join me? 284 00:16:07,367 --> 00:16:09,767 - You like ratafia? - Yes. 285 00:16:15,533 --> 00:16:17,733 Something else we have in common. 286 00:16:20,500 --> 00:16:23,633 I saw it in your face today, with the child, 287 00:16:23,767 --> 00:16:26,700 that a babe in your arms was not fulfilment. 288 00:16:27,533 --> 00:16:29,133 There is too much else first. 289 00:16:33,433 --> 00:16:36,967 Perhaps there will be too much else always. 290 00:16:40,800 --> 00:16:44,633 I received several offers of marriage in my youth. 291 00:16:44,767 --> 00:16:47,200 One in particular, we were fond, very fond. 292 00:16:48,733 --> 00:16:51,067 But a married woman may not be employed in a shop. 293 00:16:51,167 --> 00:16:53,700 And after every offer, I would return to my work, and the answer 294 00:16:53,833 --> 00:16:56,767 would come to me before I had even asked myself the question. 295 00:16:58,267 --> 00:17:01,867 I choose this, over him. 296 00:17:04,567 --> 00:17:06,433 Over everything, I choose this. 297 00:17:07,300 --> 00:17:08,767 I have never regretted my choice. 298 00:17:08,900 --> 00:17:11,800 I have loved my work and cherished it 299 00:17:11,933 --> 00:17:14,567 and forsaken all others to cleave to it. 300 00:17:16,833 --> 00:17:19,400 I will never let it be taken from me. 301 00:17:21,467 --> 00:17:23,200 Miss Audrey, 302 00:17:23,333 --> 00:17:25,676 if you are seeking assurance that I will not take my ideas to mr moray... 303 00:17:25,700 --> 00:17:29,067 Even if the ideas come from me, he will know they are yours. 304 00:17:30,800 --> 00:17:34,633 There is a difference in the order of our minds. I see that, now. 305 00:17:35,567 --> 00:17:38,100 My notions are small, insular. 306 00:17:39,167 --> 00:17:41,067 We shall be as a Meadow. 307 00:17:41,167 --> 00:17:45,433 Yours are as quick and as vital as the world to which they are a response. So, 308 00:17:46,467 --> 00:17:48,067 I have decided. 309 00:17:50,133 --> 00:17:51,967 There will be no more ideas. 310 00:17:54,100 --> 00:17:55,400 No more thoughts. 311 00:17:56,100 --> 00:17:57,667 I am to stop thinking? 312 00:17:59,100 --> 00:18:01,700 If you wish to remain at the paradise. 313 00:18:03,900 --> 00:18:08,233 There are things, Denise, he will not tolerate, even from a favourite. 314 00:18:08,367 --> 00:18:11,433 You must make certain you never stand accused of them. 315 00:18:13,933 --> 00:18:17,367 Don't mistake me. I have no wish to lose you. 316 00:18:17,500 --> 00:18:19,733 But I refuse to lose this. 317 00:18:22,200 --> 00:18:23,433 Now... 318 00:18:24,067 --> 00:18:25,400 Run along. 319 00:18:26,467 --> 00:18:28,800 Between pauline's snoring, the baby's crying 320 00:18:28,933 --> 00:18:31,200 and embarrassment over your uncle's ridiculous antics, 321 00:18:31,333 --> 00:18:33,500 you are like to have an unsettled night. 322 00:18:44,067 --> 00:18:46,700 You say you don't regret your choice. 323 00:18:46,833 --> 00:18:50,367 But what if you did not have to choose? 324 00:18:50,500 --> 00:18:51,867 What if you could have had both? 325 00:18:53,600 --> 00:18:55,167 No more thoughts, Denise. 326 00:18:56,867 --> 00:19:00,067 No ideas, no questions, no what-ifs. 327 00:19:01,433 --> 00:19:03,567 Just willing hands and an empty mind. 328 00:19:38,733 --> 00:19:42,367 Katherine: Mr adler, the velvet or the delaine wool? 329 00:19:42,500 --> 00:19:45,367 Above all, I wish them to look like children, rather than foundlings. 330 00:19:45,500 --> 00:19:49,067 The velvet is very popular with the better class of family. 331 00:19:49,200 --> 00:19:53,567 But the wool is less formal, more comfortable. 332 00:19:53,700 --> 00:19:55,900 And considerably cheaper. 333 00:19:56,067 --> 00:19:58,167 Then I say the wool has it. 334 00:19:58,300 --> 00:19:59,500 Katherine: Seconded! 335 00:19:59,633 --> 00:20:02,033 And now undergarments. 336 00:20:08,700 --> 00:20:10,780 Well done. That's half a crown each you just cost us. 337 00:20:10,867 --> 00:20:12,933 Don't you ever think about anything but money? 338 00:20:14,667 --> 00:20:16,876 60 yards of the delaine wool and they're making their way 339 00:20:16,900 --> 00:20:18,700 to ladies wear for undergarments. 340 00:20:19,500 --> 00:20:21,400 (Indistinct chattering) 341 00:20:26,133 --> 00:20:28,633 Girl, you are having an idea. I have told you. 342 00:20:28,767 --> 00:20:31,333 There will be no more. No more, I say! 343 00:20:31,467 --> 00:20:33,667 Yes, miss Audrey. I understand. 344 00:20:43,467 --> 00:20:46,033 (Inaudible) 345 00:20:46,167 --> 00:20:48,967 Miss Audrey, I fear we have quite stripped your shelves. 346 00:20:49,100 --> 00:20:54,633 Stripped? Oh no! Not stripped. I assure you. Never, stripped. 347 00:20:54,767 --> 00:20:57,467 The seamstresses are already hard at work on the wool. 348 00:20:57,600 --> 00:20:59,267 Preliminary fittings this evening. 349 00:20:59,400 --> 00:21:01,500 Denise and Clara will be on hand to assist. 350 00:21:01,633 --> 00:21:04,043 Mr adler: The children will arrive, as soon as the store is closed. 351 00:21:04,067 --> 00:21:06,100 Miss Audrey: I will pass on the message, myself. 352 00:21:18,433 --> 00:21:22,133 Miss Audrey! I cannot help with the fittings this evening. 353 00:21:22,267 --> 00:21:25,567 I have pains... Women's trouble? 354 00:21:25,700 --> 00:21:27,367 Indeed? 355 00:21:27,500 --> 00:21:29,600 Terrible cramps, ma'am. I can barely stand. 356 00:21:29,733 --> 00:21:32,067 And yet you did so whilst there was commission to be had. 357 00:21:32,133 --> 00:21:33,733 You will assist with the fittings, Clara, 358 00:21:33,767 --> 00:21:35,600 or I will consider your job half-finished 359 00:21:35,733 --> 00:21:37,700 and your commission forfeit. 360 00:21:37,833 --> 00:21:40,933 - Arthur: Miss Audrey! - Not now. And stop lurking! 361 00:21:43,233 --> 00:21:45,967 Katherine: Thank you. You have been most helpful. 362 00:21:48,067 --> 00:21:52,433 Perhaps mr moray should think of opening a department for children. 363 00:21:52,567 --> 00:21:54,007 So many of his customers are mothers. 364 00:21:54,067 --> 00:21:56,600 And it would have made your task today so very much easier. 365 00:21:58,067 --> 00:21:59,100 Don't you think? 366 00:22:01,433 --> 00:22:04,200 Mr adler: We are grateful to miss glendenning, of course. 367 00:22:04,333 --> 00:22:06,133 Well, who could not be? 368 00:22:06,267 --> 00:22:11,800 But my ambition is to make the home independent of anyone's generosity. 369 00:22:11,933 --> 00:22:14,567 If my name is to be remembered at all, 370 00:22:14,700 --> 00:22:18,233 I should like it to be as the man who made the home autonomous of any benefactor. 371 00:22:18,367 --> 00:22:21,633 Well, you may soon find yourself with a new benefactor. 372 00:22:21,767 --> 00:22:24,900 The collection started by our customers has... 373 00:22:25,067 --> 00:22:27,400 Grown beyond all expectation. 374 00:22:28,267 --> 00:22:29,833 The baby comes with a dowry. 375 00:22:29,967 --> 00:22:33,067 Lord glendenning: Then the fund requires proper administration. 376 00:22:33,133 --> 00:22:35,533 A patron. Give a public face to the giving 377 00:22:35,667 --> 00:22:37,567 and the people will give more. 378 00:22:37,700 --> 00:22:40,233 You raise a sufficient amount, you invest it wisely 379 00:22:40,367 --> 00:22:42,367 and then adler's home 380 00:22:42,500 --> 00:22:45,667 may yet achieve the independence he hopes for. 381 00:22:45,800 --> 00:22:47,167 Katherine: Why a patron? 382 00:22:48,400 --> 00:22:49,800 Why not a patroness? 383 00:22:49,933 --> 00:22:51,600 (Laughing) 384 00:22:51,733 --> 00:22:53,667 You offer yourself, miss glendenning? 385 00:22:55,967 --> 00:22:57,267 I do, mr adler. 386 00:22:57,400 --> 00:23:00,100 Moray: And what a delightful figurehead you would make. 387 00:23:00,233 --> 00:23:03,100 Though, perhaps, more for decoration than use. 388 00:23:03,233 --> 00:23:04,367 You doubt my capability? 389 00:23:04,500 --> 00:23:07,933 You are, an exquisite confection of froth, 390 00:23:08,067 --> 00:23:11,900 frivolity and fashion, who gives delight wherever she goes. 391 00:23:12,067 --> 00:23:16,867 - Man: Here, here. - And that is, that is your glory and your gift. 392 00:23:17,067 --> 00:23:21,067 Why seek to stray into areas for which you are so wholly unfitted? 393 00:23:28,067 --> 00:23:29,567 Judging by your profits, 394 00:23:29,700 --> 00:23:32,067 your customers seem a pretty deep-pocketed lot, 395 00:23:32,167 --> 00:23:34,467 why should their giving come as a surprise? 396 00:23:34,600 --> 00:23:38,733 - Moray: It's the extent of it that's unexpected. - How so? 397 00:23:38,867 --> 00:23:41,300 The majority of them are women, mothers. 398 00:23:41,433 --> 00:23:45,267 An unwanted child touches something in them. 399 00:23:45,400 --> 00:23:48,367 - I would have thought that obvious. - Moray: (Scoffs) 400 00:23:48,500 --> 00:23:51,067 You are quite the expert on my customers. 401 00:23:51,133 --> 00:23:53,100 Hardly that, 402 00:23:53,233 --> 00:23:55,967 but I do feel you are missing an opportunity. 403 00:23:57,867 --> 00:23:58,933 Indeed? 404 00:23:59,767 --> 00:24:01,467 (Clears throat) 405 00:24:01,600 --> 00:24:04,967 Naturally, my own experience is of the froth and frivolity variety. 406 00:24:05,100 --> 00:24:09,767 But having spent the day attempting to outfit 40 infants, 407 00:24:10,467 --> 00:24:12,133 I can assure you, 408 00:24:12,267 --> 00:24:14,700 a department supplying ready-made items for the young 409 00:24:14,833 --> 00:24:17,067 would be a godsend for their carers 410 00:24:18,100 --> 00:24:20,433 and a goldmine for you. 411 00:24:25,300 --> 00:24:27,167 A children's department? 412 00:24:28,967 --> 00:24:31,067 Splendid notion, moray. 413 00:24:31,933 --> 00:24:34,667 What can have brought it to mind? 414 00:24:34,800 --> 00:24:37,833 Though, in good conscience, I can't claim credit for the idea. 415 00:24:37,967 --> 00:24:40,067 One of your shop girls was talking about it. 416 00:24:41,067 --> 00:24:43,100 I feel sure you would have caught up with her, 417 00:24:44,633 --> 00:24:45,967 - at some point. - (Laughing) 418 00:24:55,933 --> 00:24:58,633 - Clara: Aren't you the pretty one? - Grace: Yes. 419 00:25:00,800 --> 00:25:04,400 I bet there's not a Princess in the land bonnier than you. 420 00:25:09,900 --> 00:25:10,900 (Chuckling) 421 00:25:16,100 --> 00:25:17,467 Well, that's another one done. 422 00:25:28,500 --> 00:25:29,667 What are you doing? 423 00:25:31,100 --> 00:25:33,467 Same as you, clearing up. 424 00:25:34,967 --> 00:25:37,067 All done. Goodnight. 425 00:25:52,067 --> 00:25:53,067 (Mr adler clears throat) 426 00:25:54,333 --> 00:25:55,967 Mr adler! 427 00:25:56,633 --> 00:25:58,067 I thought you had gone. 428 00:25:58,167 --> 00:26:02,200 Well, unfortunately, without this. Hence my return. 429 00:26:05,600 --> 00:26:09,833 Would you share your thoughts for the customary penny? 430 00:26:09,967 --> 00:26:13,467 (Chuckling) Oh, they are not worth so much. 431 00:26:19,233 --> 00:26:21,067 I was thinking about a dress. 432 00:26:22,333 --> 00:26:24,700 - Thus proving moray right. - Hmm. 433 00:26:24,833 --> 00:26:26,467 (Chuckling) 434 00:26:26,600 --> 00:26:29,100 I think moray likes to vex you. 435 00:26:30,167 --> 00:26:31,400 And you him. 436 00:26:34,900 --> 00:26:36,100 Was it a nice dress? 437 00:26:37,600 --> 00:26:41,633 Exquisite. My first, truly grown-up gown. 438 00:26:41,767 --> 00:26:45,700 - Black silk crepe, buttoned high to the throat. - Black? 439 00:26:47,233 --> 00:26:50,200 - You were in mourning? - For my mother. 440 00:26:52,333 --> 00:26:54,167 They hadn't told me she would die. 441 00:26:56,100 --> 00:27:00,200 I was... lost. 442 00:27:02,567 --> 00:27:04,700 I could neither be what I had been before, 443 00:27:05,667 --> 00:27:07,533 nor see what I must become. 444 00:27:09,933 --> 00:27:12,100 And then they put the dress on me. 445 00:27:14,067 --> 00:27:15,967 And I knew exactly who I was. 446 00:27:18,900 --> 00:27:20,600 I was sorrow incarnate. 447 00:27:22,067 --> 00:27:23,567 I was grief. 448 00:27:25,833 --> 00:27:27,667 I was my father's solace. 449 00:27:32,900 --> 00:27:36,267 Ever since then, I have used clothes to declare who I am. 450 00:27:36,400 --> 00:27:41,567 And if, on a particular day, who I am is not who I've a mind to be, 451 00:27:41,700 --> 00:27:44,600 why, then, I use clothes to transform myself. 452 00:27:46,500 --> 00:27:48,967 And these last days, in my company, 453 00:27:50,800 --> 00:27:52,200 who have you been, then? 454 00:27:56,433 --> 00:27:59,067 These last days... 455 00:28:00,167 --> 00:28:01,467 I have been... 456 00:28:05,933 --> 00:28:07,400 Someone I rather liked. 457 00:28:11,833 --> 00:28:13,500 Someone I would like to be more often. 458 00:28:15,400 --> 00:28:16,833 Well... 459 00:28:19,600 --> 00:28:23,833 I am glad that provoking moray's jealousy has not been my only value. 460 00:28:28,567 --> 00:28:30,067 Miss glendenning. 461 00:28:32,933 --> 00:28:34,067 Katherine. 462 00:28:35,900 --> 00:28:38,900 I have seen your kindness, I know you would not wish me pain. 463 00:28:40,633 --> 00:28:42,800 If my attentions would be unwelcome, 464 00:28:44,700 --> 00:28:48,067 if your affections are already engaged, 465 00:28:50,233 --> 00:28:52,900 I would ask you, in kindness, 466 00:28:54,500 --> 00:28:55,900 to speak now. 467 00:29:02,300 --> 00:29:04,200 (Heavy breathing) 468 00:29:10,600 --> 00:29:13,300 Thief! You thief! Give it back or I'll kill you. 469 00:29:13,433 --> 00:29:15,200 I swear, I'll kill you. 470 00:29:15,333 --> 00:29:17,300 (Grunting) 471 00:29:17,433 --> 00:29:19,467 (Baby crying) 472 00:29:28,367 --> 00:29:29,500 It was a nightmare. 473 00:29:29,633 --> 00:29:31,200 (Stuttering) Uh, Clara had a nightmare. 474 00:29:31,333 --> 00:29:34,633 - It was the baby crying worked into her dream. - Clara: Uh, yes. 475 00:29:34,767 --> 00:29:36,400 Uh... 476 00:29:36,533 --> 00:29:39,933 (Sobbing) I'm sorry for waking you, miss Audrey. I'm all right now. 477 00:29:53,367 --> 00:29:54,776 I don't know what it is you think I've taken. 478 00:29:54,800 --> 00:29:57,567 The money! You saw me, you knew I had it. 479 00:29:57,700 --> 00:30:00,020 - What money? - You knew I wouldn't be able to go to anyone. 480 00:30:00,133 --> 00:30:01,500 What money? 481 00:30:04,267 --> 00:30:06,167 From the collecting tin. 482 00:30:06,300 --> 00:30:08,333 You stole money from foundlings? 483 00:30:08,467 --> 00:30:12,133 It was given for a child! What does it matter whose child? 484 00:30:16,967 --> 00:30:20,900 She's yours. Isn't she? That little girl, grace. 485 00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:24,133 She's yours. 486 00:30:27,300 --> 00:30:28,733 (Sighs) 487 00:30:30,867 --> 00:30:34,733 I pay bed and board. 488 00:30:35,833 --> 00:30:39,333 She can't be adopted if she's paid for. 489 00:30:39,467 --> 00:30:43,000 But my commission's gone down since you came and the money's due. 490 00:30:43,133 --> 00:30:45,233 Clara, I swear to you. I didn't take it. 491 00:30:45,367 --> 00:30:47,100 - Then who did? - I don't know. 492 00:30:52,333 --> 00:30:53,733 Well, then I've lost her. 493 00:30:55,867 --> 00:30:56,900 Oh! 494 00:30:58,167 --> 00:30:59,400 I've lost her. 495 00:31:01,300 --> 00:31:02,600 (Sobbing) 496 00:31:13,800 --> 00:31:18,400 Denise. The collecting tin is full again. 497 00:31:18,533 --> 00:31:21,933 When you have finished, take it down to the office. 498 00:31:22,067 --> 00:31:23,200 Yes, miss Audrey. 499 00:31:23,333 --> 00:31:24,500 (Baby cooing) 500 00:31:24,833 --> 00:31:25,867 Oh! 501 00:31:34,067 --> 00:31:35,567 - Girl! - Miss Audrey. 502 00:31:37,433 --> 00:31:39,800 You are dallying with a baby. 503 00:31:39,933 --> 00:31:42,400 - Oh, he likes the pretty glass. - Enough! 504 00:31:42,533 --> 00:31:44,500 I have had enough! 505 00:31:44,633 --> 00:31:46,833 He cries, he disrupts. 506 00:31:46,967 --> 00:31:50,167 There are nightmares and birds and glass. 507 00:31:50,300 --> 00:31:54,333 It is not for us to understand what he likes, but the other way around! 508 00:31:54,467 --> 00:31:56,333 Infants are as wax 509 00:31:56,467 --> 00:31:58,700 to be imprinted with the proper way of things. 510 00:31:59,600 --> 00:32:01,400 What is needed is method. 511 00:32:11,700 --> 00:32:15,067 Now, then, master...(Sighs) 512 00:32:17,700 --> 00:32:18,800 Baby. 513 00:32:20,300 --> 00:32:21,833 Let us see. 514 00:32:38,967 --> 00:32:40,633 (Coins clinking) 515 00:32:45,333 --> 00:32:48,067 Nine pounds, seven shillings and ten pence. 516 00:32:49,067 --> 00:32:50,600 And still they give. 517 00:32:51,233 --> 00:32:52,667 Bank it with the rest. 518 00:32:55,800 --> 00:32:57,567 He has that effect on all of us. 519 00:32:57,700 --> 00:32:59,709 I sometimes think if I were left alone with him too long, 520 00:32:59,733 --> 00:33:01,900 I would find myself confessing to murder. 521 00:33:03,700 --> 00:33:06,400 By the way, mr moray would like to see you. 522 00:33:06,533 --> 00:33:09,633 - Do you know why? - There is to be a public presentation. 523 00:33:09,767 --> 00:33:11,667 Our baby and the money collected for him 524 00:33:11,800 --> 00:33:13,833 are to be given over the foundling home. 525 00:33:13,967 --> 00:33:16,600 I presume mr moray wants you to finish what you started. 526 00:33:22,233 --> 00:33:24,667 A children's department, Denise? 527 00:33:30,500 --> 00:33:31,800 How dare you? 528 00:33:33,167 --> 00:33:36,267 How dare you move behind my back, 529 00:33:36,400 --> 00:33:38,900 using my connections, 530 00:33:39,067 --> 00:33:42,533 laying me open to ridicule. How dare you manipulate me! 531 00:33:42,667 --> 00:33:45,167 - No, sir. I... - I gave you encouragement. 532 00:33:47,200 --> 00:33:48,900 I gave you licence, 533 00:33:49,667 --> 00:33:52,067 too much, it seems. 534 00:33:55,633 --> 00:33:57,133 You may be clever, 535 00:33:59,233 --> 00:34:00,600 but know this, 536 00:34:03,667 --> 00:34:05,433 I am not to be played. 537 00:34:06,433 --> 00:34:08,933 I am never to be played. 538 00:34:09,067 --> 00:34:11,200 - Do you understand? Yes? - (Knock on door) 539 00:34:14,333 --> 00:34:16,700 Miss glendenning. She asks for you. 540 00:34:16,833 --> 00:34:17,900 Tell her... 541 00:34:20,133 --> 00:34:21,533 I am on my way. 542 00:34:38,933 --> 00:34:39,967 I'm sorry. 543 00:34:57,867 --> 00:34:58,900 Can we talk? 544 00:35:00,500 --> 00:35:01,667 Not here. 545 00:35:07,367 --> 00:35:09,500 Peter adler wishes to pay court to me. 546 00:35:16,067 --> 00:35:18,867 I told him that his attentions would not be unwelcome. 547 00:35:22,867 --> 00:35:24,167 I see. 548 00:35:28,367 --> 00:35:30,533 I wished you to hear it from me. 549 00:35:31,667 --> 00:35:33,200 Well. 550 00:35:33,333 --> 00:35:36,067 Why allow someone else the pleasure? 551 00:35:36,167 --> 00:35:38,200 Oh, you are impossible! 552 00:35:38,333 --> 00:35:43,833 I offer you honesty and you turn it into something, tainted. 553 00:35:44,833 --> 00:35:47,067 You make me feel like something tainted. 554 00:35:49,700 --> 00:35:52,067 And you wonder why I'm choosing adler over you? 555 00:36:22,100 --> 00:36:24,533 - You were right. - Sorry? 556 00:36:25,767 --> 00:36:27,833 Miss glendenning and adler. 557 00:36:29,500 --> 00:36:30,867 And what are you going to do? 558 00:36:32,567 --> 00:36:35,767 Nothing. Wish them well. 559 00:36:35,900 --> 00:36:37,633 (Sighs) Oh... 560 00:36:37,767 --> 00:36:40,967 What would you... Pistols at dawn? 561 00:36:41,100 --> 00:36:43,633 If she wants him, let her have him! 562 00:36:43,767 --> 00:36:45,743 And if you are worrying about the effect this will have 563 00:36:45,767 --> 00:36:47,500 on my relationship with her father... 564 00:36:47,633 --> 00:36:50,067 I am worried about what effect it will have on you! 565 00:36:51,700 --> 00:36:54,067 When I asked you, about the baby, 566 00:36:54,133 --> 00:36:57,867 whether it could be yours, you said you had "slipped". 567 00:36:58,700 --> 00:37:00,600 You knew that! I told you at the time. 568 00:37:00,733 --> 00:37:02,500 "Slipped", moray? 569 00:37:03,900 --> 00:37:05,200 It is not a crime. 570 00:37:05,333 --> 00:37:07,700 - Why do you punish yourself for it? - Because... 571 00:37:09,567 --> 00:37:11,767 It, it felt like infidelity! 572 00:37:12,233 --> 00:37:13,600 (Clears throat) 573 00:37:14,967 --> 00:37:17,867 That time, with Clara. 574 00:37:21,100 --> 00:37:22,700 It felt like infidelity. 575 00:37:27,567 --> 00:37:29,733 And is it for the same reason 576 00:37:29,867 --> 00:37:31,500 that you refuse to fight for the comfort 577 00:37:31,633 --> 00:37:33,633 and companionship of a woman any man 578 00:37:33,767 --> 00:37:35,667 would feel proud to call his wife? 579 00:37:39,433 --> 00:37:42,300 Helene is three years gone, moray. 580 00:37:42,433 --> 00:37:43,867 You are still here. 581 00:37:44,067 --> 00:37:46,100 Clinging to your grief as if it were a lifeline. 582 00:37:46,233 --> 00:37:47,833 And if Alice died? 583 00:37:48,633 --> 00:37:49,900 Would you grieve? 584 00:37:52,500 --> 00:37:53,900 Three years. It... 585 00:37:56,367 --> 00:37:57,700 It is nothing! 586 00:37:59,167 --> 00:38:01,733 - It is yesterday. - It is not. 587 00:38:04,633 --> 00:38:06,400 Forgive me, but... 588 00:38:06,533 --> 00:38:09,533 I sometimes think you cleave to her memory with more passion 589 00:38:09,667 --> 00:38:11,133 than you ever felt for her living. 590 00:38:14,867 --> 00:38:17,600 A man who would so, wed himself to the past, 591 00:38:17,733 --> 00:38:20,400 is either ready for the grave himself, 592 00:38:20,533 --> 00:38:23,133 or looking for a way to escape the pain of the present. 593 00:38:24,433 --> 00:38:26,233 And I don't think you are ready for the grave. 594 00:38:27,367 --> 00:38:28,667 What would you have me do? 595 00:38:30,267 --> 00:38:32,467 I would have you be happy. 596 00:38:44,833 --> 00:38:46,933 It is time for you to take your turn. 597 00:38:56,133 --> 00:38:57,467 (Baby gurgles) 598 00:38:59,133 --> 00:39:03,200 The longer one has been holding him, the emptier one's arms. 599 00:39:03,333 --> 00:39:06,633 For this reason, if no other, do not give him back to pauline. 600 00:39:34,133 --> 00:39:36,900 I heard a noise. I didn't know it was... 601 00:39:37,067 --> 00:39:38,867 He sleeps when I hold him. 602 00:39:40,333 --> 00:39:43,500 When I put him down, he wakes. 603 00:39:47,300 --> 00:39:49,467 - Sorry. - Denise! 604 00:40:03,233 --> 00:40:05,333 Why a go-between? 605 00:40:05,467 --> 00:40:07,800 Of all people, miss glendenning? 606 00:40:11,367 --> 00:40:13,433 I told you to come to me. 607 00:40:14,267 --> 00:40:17,467 I gave you licence, an invitation. 608 00:40:17,600 --> 00:40:20,700 But miss Audrey is my every day. 609 00:40:20,833 --> 00:40:23,000 You are only my high days and holidays. 610 00:40:24,100 --> 00:40:25,567 I think I see. 611 00:40:28,267 --> 00:40:31,133 You find yourself in a difficult situation, 612 00:40:31,267 --> 00:40:36,000 conflicting demands, loyalties, pulling you this way and that. 613 00:40:36,600 --> 00:40:38,467 But, you are Denise. 614 00:40:39,600 --> 00:40:42,933 You are resourceful. You find a way and then 615 00:40:43,067 --> 00:40:44,600 I crush you for it. 616 00:40:46,633 --> 00:40:47,700 Yes? 617 00:40:53,067 --> 00:40:54,167 Yes. 618 00:40:56,433 --> 00:41:00,467 It must have seemed very unfair. 619 00:41:02,533 --> 00:41:07,067 I wish I had half your ingenuity to apply to my own predicaments. 620 00:41:09,367 --> 00:41:11,967 I am sorry if you are troubled, sir. 621 00:41:16,233 --> 00:41:20,900 My uncle always said, the only thing that matters, really matters, 622 00:41:21,067 --> 00:41:23,076 is that you can meet your own eyes in the mirror each day 623 00:41:23,100 --> 00:41:24,867 and know you've been true to yourself. 624 00:41:26,733 --> 00:41:28,667 Your uncle is a wise man 625 00:41:29,533 --> 00:41:31,733 and a shockingly bad poet. 626 00:41:37,433 --> 00:41:38,867 (Sighs) 627 00:41:57,133 --> 00:42:00,133 - Well, (stutters) Good night. - Goodnight. 628 00:42:03,433 --> 00:42:04,933 By the way... 629 00:42:06,767 --> 00:42:09,067 Adler has asked that we might name the baby. 630 00:42:10,200 --> 00:42:13,167 Since they both share an early start in the paradise, 631 00:42:13,300 --> 00:42:16,167 I thought perhaps "Arthur". 632 00:42:18,067 --> 00:42:19,100 What do you think? 633 00:42:20,067 --> 00:42:22,400 Arthur. Yes. 634 00:42:32,667 --> 00:42:35,633 (Whispering) Arthur, Arthur. Arthur. 635 00:42:38,500 --> 00:42:41,767 Did you do something to Clara 'cause of what she said about your ma? 636 00:42:41,900 --> 00:42:43,533 Did you take something from her? 637 00:42:45,867 --> 00:42:48,533 You have to give it back. You know that, don't you? 638 00:42:48,667 --> 00:42:50,133 I don't have it any more. 639 00:42:51,167 --> 00:42:52,967 I only took it to pay her out. 640 00:42:53,100 --> 00:42:55,067 I didn't want to keep it! 641 00:42:55,133 --> 00:42:59,433 So, I put it in the tin, for the foundlings. 642 00:43:28,433 --> 00:43:29,767 Don't ask. 643 00:43:44,833 --> 00:43:48,233 From the staff and customers of the paradise, 644 00:43:48,367 --> 00:43:51,133 with our best wishes, now and for the future. 645 00:43:52,067 --> 00:43:53,533 (All applauding) 646 00:43:54,867 --> 00:43:56,067 Thank you very much. 647 00:44:01,067 --> 00:44:04,133 I also wish to announce that as from next month, 648 00:44:04,267 --> 00:44:07,800 the paradise will be the first and only store in Europe 649 00:44:07,933 --> 00:44:11,700 to provide its customers with a dedicated children's department. 650 00:44:15,600 --> 00:44:18,200 An innovation for which I must thank 651 00:44:19,233 --> 00:44:20,700 miss Katherine glendenning. 652 00:44:21,233 --> 00:44:22,600 (Applauding) 653 00:44:27,067 --> 00:44:29,067 Arthur? 654 00:44:29,200 --> 00:44:33,600 Bye, little Arthur. Be good. Don't forget us. 655 00:44:35,533 --> 00:44:36,833 Thank you, Arthur. 656 00:44:51,200 --> 00:44:54,400 Arthur: Sir? We've all written things in it. 657 00:44:54,533 --> 00:44:58,333 Things he might want to know, when he's older, about his time here. 658 00:44:58,467 --> 00:45:00,200 Pauline, she's done 10 pages! 659 00:45:00,333 --> 00:45:03,400 But some of it's hard to read because of all the crying. 660 00:45:03,533 --> 00:45:07,933 And if he ever does want to visit, could he ask for me? 661 00:45:08,067 --> 00:45:09,700 I could show him where he was found! 662 00:45:09,833 --> 00:45:12,567 'Cause I'll still be here. I'll always be here. 663 00:45:12,700 --> 00:45:15,067 I shall be sure to let him know, Arthur. 664 00:45:15,467 --> 00:45:16,633 Thank you. 665 00:45:18,167 --> 00:45:22,600 Oh, dear, I'm afraid I'm finding this all a little heart-breaking. 666 00:45:22,733 --> 00:45:25,367 Oh! Not on this little chap's account. 667 00:45:25,500 --> 00:45:29,500 He won't be with us long. We've already had enquiries. 668 00:45:29,633 --> 00:45:33,100 No, break your heart for children like grace. 669 00:45:33,233 --> 00:45:36,167 We could have found her a loving home many times over, 670 00:45:36,300 --> 00:45:37,633 were we free to do so. 671 00:45:37,767 --> 00:45:39,167 Katherine: But she is wanted! 672 00:45:39,300 --> 00:45:42,067 You told me when circumstances change, she will be reclaimed. 673 00:45:42,200 --> 00:45:46,100 Mr adler: 99 times out of 100, circumstances do not change. 674 00:45:46,233 --> 00:45:49,267 And in the meantime, she is denied everything, 675 00:45:49,400 --> 00:45:52,767 because someone, somewhere would rather hold to a fantasy 676 00:45:52,900 --> 00:45:55,067 than look the truth in the face. 677 00:45:57,567 --> 00:45:58,933 Filthy little things. 678 00:46:12,300 --> 00:46:13,833 (Door opens) 679 00:46:29,533 --> 00:46:33,067 I came to tell you, that if you've had enough of making yourself ridiculous 680 00:46:33,200 --> 00:46:36,200 with your dolls and your verses, you can take them down now. 681 00:46:37,700 --> 00:46:39,800 The child's gone to the foundling home. 682 00:46:42,267 --> 00:46:45,067 It was only ever meant to be the joke of a moment. 683 00:46:47,567 --> 00:46:51,567 It was Denise, the way she looked at me. 684 00:46:53,133 --> 00:46:55,800 It made me realise where her heart lies, 685 00:46:56,800 --> 00:46:59,167 even if she does not know it herself. 686 00:47:01,267 --> 00:47:02,867 And it is not here. 687 00:47:03,067 --> 00:47:05,067 It's for her I have fought on, only for her 688 00:47:05,133 --> 00:47:07,853 - and now I don't know whether there's any fight left in me. - Enough! 689 00:47:09,533 --> 00:47:11,500 Denise, Denise, Denise! 690 00:47:13,100 --> 00:47:16,433 She cannot stop herself. I see that now, 691 00:47:16,567 --> 00:47:18,327 ideas flow from her like water from a spring. 692 00:47:18,433 --> 00:47:22,433 And the longer it goes on, the more he will see the difference between us. 693 00:47:22,567 --> 00:47:25,900 Your niece and her ideas will be the death of me, in the end. 694 00:47:27,067 --> 00:47:28,767 But the end is not yet come, 695 00:47:30,067 --> 00:47:31,167 for either of us. 696 00:47:34,400 --> 00:47:35,567 Your standards are slipping. 697 00:47:35,700 --> 00:47:37,767 I needed someone to keep me in line. 698 00:47:40,933 --> 00:47:45,200 Someone I could write real verses for. 699 00:47:45,333 --> 00:47:48,200 As I recall, you were prevented from versifying as you wished, 700 00:47:48,333 --> 00:47:51,233 by your inability to find anything other than the word "tawdry" 701 00:47:51,367 --> 00:47:53,133 to rhyme with my name. 702 00:47:55,133 --> 00:47:57,100 Don't delude yourself, Edmund. 703 00:47:58,333 --> 00:47:59,700 We wouldn't have suited. 704 00:48:03,300 --> 00:48:07,067 Well. We'll never know now, will we? 705 00:49:03,133 --> 00:49:04,633 (Whispering) Clara! 706 00:49:10,433 --> 00:49:11,633 Where have you been? 707 00:49:12,267 --> 00:49:13,533 Out. 708 00:49:35,533 --> 00:49:36,613 What happened to the money? 709 00:49:36,733 --> 00:49:39,500 Oh, a lot of drinks. A lot of friends. 710 00:49:42,100 --> 00:49:43,900 I hate you. 711 00:49:44,067 --> 00:49:46,200 I'm not just saying it 'cause I'm drunk. 712 00:49:47,433 --> 00:49:51,933 I really, really hate you. 713 00:50:14,500 --> 00:50:16,767 (Sobbing) 714 00:50:31,100 --> 00:50:32,533 (Sobbing) 715 00:51:24,933 --> 00:51:26,467 (Sobbing)