1 00:00:08,220 --> 00:00:09,280 A year has passed. 2 00:00:10,360 --> 00:00:11,660 A year since Meg married. 3 00:00:12,880 --> 00:00:14,360 Since I sold my novel. 4 00:00:16,160 --> 00:00:17,120 It failed. 5 00:00:18,360 --> 00:00:19,370 If I get bigger, 6 00:00:19,720 --> 00:00:21,870 I won't be able to wear any clothes at all! 7 00:00:21,920 --> 00:00:23,550 I'll have to wrap myself in sheets, 8 00:00:23,600 --> 00:00:25,510 and stay in the house till the baby arrives! 9 00:00:25,560 --> 00:00:27,750 This skirt has plenty of room in it, Meg. 10 00:00:27,800 --> 00:00:29,830 And I promise you, I've added so many frills 11 00:00:29,880 --> 00:00:32,950 the eye will be drawn away from everything that's going on. 12 00:00:33,000 --> 00:00:35,720 No-one will look lower than your shoulders! 13 00:00:39,080 --> 00:00:40,200 Oh! 14 00:00:43,160 --> 00:00:45,550 I can't even write a diary any more, 15 00:00:45,600 --> 00:00:47,440 and yet my head is full of words. 16 00:00:48,640 --> 00:00:51,430 A magnificent harvest, if I do say so! 17 00:00:51,480 --> 00:00:53,190 Are you sure they can be spared? 18 00:00:53,240 --> 00:00:55,040 - Of course they can! - Oh! 19 00:00:57,960 --> 00:01:01,670 She's a terrible big size for a terrible small girl, Mrs March. 20 00:01:01,720 --> 00:01:03,470 Meg is young, and she's healthy. 21 00:01:03,520 --> 00:01:05,750 There is no reason to suppose that she will struggle, 22 00:01:05,800 --> 00:01:07,120 when the time comes. 23 00:01:13,800 --> 00:01:16,670 Our house is full of stories. 24 00:01:16,720 --> 00:01:18,080 Lives unfolding. 25 00:01:19,120 --> 00:01:22,000 Wings waiting to take flight. 26 00:01:58,360 --> 00:01:59,750 Jo! 27 00:01:59,800 --> 00:02:01,710 Why didn't you do your hair the pretty way? 28 00:02:01,760 --> 00:02:03,470 Because I hate paying calls. 29 00:02:03,520 --> 00:02:05,190 And you don't need your mackintosh! 30 00:02:05,240 --> 00:02:07,390 I can smell thunder, even if you can't. 31 00:02:07,440 --> 00:02:09,790 And if people care more for my clothes than they do for me, 32 00:02:09,840 --> 00:02:11,710 - then I don't want to see them! - Please, Jo! 33 00:02:11,760 --> 00:02:12,750 We owe half a dozen calls 34 00:02:12,800 --> 00:02:15,270 even before we go to see Aunt Carrol at Aunt March's house. 35 00:02:15,320 --> 00:02:17,190 If you're going to be in a contrary fit... 36 00:02:17,240 --> 00:02:19,310 .. you'll drive me distracted before the day is out! 37 00:02:19,360 --> 00:02:20,670 Likewise! 38 00:02:20,720 --> 00:02:22,070 And remember! 39 00:02:22,120 --> 00:02:25,080 - Loop your gown up in the street, and trail it in the house. - Oh! 40 00:02:26,360 --> 00:02:27,590 Yes! 41 00:02:53,560 --> 00:02:55,120 Ah! Oooh... 42 00:02:59,520 --> 00:03:01,600 Please be set. Please...! 43 00:03:07,320 --> 00:03:10,710 Florence's first season was such a spectacular success 44 00:03:10,760 --> 00:03:14,630 that we're now intending an entire programme of new activities for her, 45 00:03:14,680 --> 00:03:17,310 - aren't we, dearest? - Yes, Mother. 46 00:03:17,360 --> 00:03:21,110 Not that she will neglect any opportunity to share her advantages 47 00:03:21,160 --> 00:03:22,790 with those less fortunate! 48 00:03:22,840 --> 00:03:26,230 Tell me, Amy dear, are you much occupied with charitable works? 49 00:03:26,280 --> 00:03:28,270 Marmee has always encouraged us 50 00:03:28,320 --> 00:03:30,870 to support the Ladies Aid Society, Aunt Carrol. 51 00:03:30,920 --> 00:03:33,870 And I'm tending a table at their bazaar on Saturday. 52 00:03:33,920 --> 00:03:37,870 And I don't doubt that it will be laden with her pretty works of art! 53 00:03:37,920 --> 00:03:39,320 And what about you, Josephine? 54 00:03:40,600 --> 00:03:43,310 Oh, my scribbling keeps me too busy for charity schemes. 55 00:03:43,360 --> 00:03:45,390 By scribbling, do you mean drawing, dear? 56 00:03:45,440 --> 00:03:47,590 Oh, Josephine doesn't draw. 57 00:03:47,640 --> 00:03:50,950 She writes romances, in a general way, 58 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:53,920 with a dash of the spectacular thrown in as a makeweight. 59 00:03:55,160 --> 00:03:56,990 I see. 60 00:03:57,040 --> 00:03:58,790 Does that amuse you, dear? 61 00:03:58,840 --> 00:04:00,080 It pays me. 62 00:04:01,960 --> 00:04:03,910 And how do you fare with your languages? 63 00:04:03,960 --> 00:04:06,590 Oh, I don't know a word of anything, 64 00:04:06,640 --> 00:04:08,030 only English. 65 00:04:08,080 --> 00:04:11,520 And I can't keep at any sort of study, and I can't bear French! 66 00:04:12,600 --> 00:04:14,790 It's a such a slippery, silly sort of language. 67 00:04:14,840 --> 00:04:16,040 Don't you think? 68 00:04:20,960 --> 00:04:22,000 Hmm. 69 00:04:31,400 --> 00:04:32,760 Beth. 70 00:04:33,760 --> 00:04:35,670 What's the matter? Shall I call Marmee? 71 00:04:35,720 --> 00:04:37,510 Please don't. 72 00:04:37,560 --> 00:04:39,200 Don't call her, and don't tell her. 73 00:04:40,200 --> 00:04:41,590 Are you in pain? 74 00:04:41,640 --> 00:04:44,400 A little. But I can bear it. 75 00:04:49,960 --> 00:04:52,160 You don't look as though you're bearing it. 76 00:04:56,440 --> 00:04:57,680 Will you stroke my head? 77 00:05:03,760 --> 00:05:06,060 I wish you would tell me what was troubling you. 78 00:05:07,560 --> 00:05:08,720 Not yet. 79 00:05:25,560 --> 00:05:27,270 I had a letter from Aunt Carrol today. 80 00:05:27,320 --> 00:05:29,630 Did she grill you about your charitable activities? 81 00:05:29,680 --> 00:05:30,950 No... 82 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:34,440 She told me about her forthcoming tour of Europe. 83 00:05:35,720 --> 00:05:40,270 And she says that she needs a companion for her daughter Florence. 84 00:05:40,320 --> 00:05:42,030 So she has asked... 85 00:05:42,080 --> 00:05:43,400 Me to go with her?! 86 00:05:45,480 --> 00:05:47,240 No, dear. Not you. 87 00:05:49,480 --> 00:05:50,870 Amy. 88 00:05:50,920 --> 00:05:53,390 Aunt Carrol wants to go to Europe with her? 89 00:05:53,440 --> 00:05:56,390 London, England, Stonehenge, 90 00:05:56,440 --> 00:05:59,870 Edinburgh, Paris, France, Vienna, 91 00:05:59,920 --> 00:06:02,430 Berlin, Venice, Italy, 92 00:06:02,480 --> 00:06:03,990 Athens, Rome. 93 00:06:04,040 --> 00:06:06,030 Mr Thomas Cook will be arranging 94 00:06:06,080 --> 00:06:08,270 some very circuitous rail connections. 95 00:06:08,320 --> 00:06:11,190 But she wants me to go with her? 96 00:06:11,240 --> 00:06:15,190 I actually begged her to take you off my hands, 97 00:06:15,240 --> 00:06:18,160 and she has my gratitude for being so obliging. 98 00:06:29,600 --> 00:06:31,550 I'm sorry, Jo. 99 00:06:31,600 --> 00:06:34,950 I know how much that would have meant to you. 100 00:06:35,000 --> 00:06:36,350 It isn't fair, Marmee. 101 00:06:36,400 --> 00:06:37,750 Amy gets all the fun, 102 00:06:37,800 --> 00:06:39,790 and all I ever do is work. 103 00:06:39,840 --> 00:06:42,430 Jo, you would've had a hard year, 104 00:06:42,480 --> 00:06:44,920 pretending to be someone other than yourself. 105 00:06:45,960 --> 00:06:48,660 And I'm not sure that that wouldn't have cost you dearly. 106 00:06:56,640 --> 00:06:58,150 Are you stitching that for Amy? 107 00:06:58,200 --> 00:06:59,950 How can you tell? 108 00:07:00,000 --> 00:07:02,190 I wish I could say I do it gladly, 109 00:07:02,240 --> 00:07:04,350 but I don't. 110 00:07:04,400 --> 00:07:06,790 - Oh, Jo... - Don't speak to me kindly! 111 00:07:06,840 --> 00:07:08,710 I was too thoughtless, and too blunt, 112 00:07:08,760 --> 00:07:10,270 and I have an ungovernable tongue! 113 00:07:10,320 --> 00:07:11,870 I know how hurt you are. 114 00:07:11,920 --> 00:07:13,350 I can't let anybody see, Laurie! 115 00:07:13,400 --> 00:07:15,830 You never let people see your soft side! 116 00:07:15,880 --> 00:07:17,870 But everyone who cares knows it's there! 117 00:07:17,920 --> 00:07:20,590 I'd rather not talk about my soft side at the moment. 118 00:07:20,640 --> 00:07:22,310 Why don't we talk about you? 119 00:07:22,360 --> 00:07:25,030 And all your grand plans, now you're a college graduate? 120 00:07:25,080 --> 00:07:27,630 I don't have any grand plans. 121 00:07:27,680 --> 00:07:30,550 Grandfather's so pleased and so relieved 122 00:07:30,600 --> 00:07:33,000 I think he'll let me take a vacation for a while. 123 00:07:34,600 --> 00:07:36,190 Well, aren't you fortunate? 124 00:07:36,240 --> 00:07:38,400 Jo! Jo! 125 00:07:41,280 --> 00:07:42,950 Beth? 126 00:07:43,000 --> 00:07:45,750 John came to the house, to fetch Marmee. 127 00:07:45,800 --> 00:07:46,920 It's happening, Jo. 128 00:07:58,920 --> 00:08:00,910 We shall have to get her lying down, Mrs March. 129 00:08:00,960 --> 00:08:03,430 The girl's going to exhaust herself! 130 00:08:03,480 --> 00:08:05,200 Good girl. Good girl! 131 00:08:08,160 --> 00:08:11,870 You didn't tell me. How did you ever survive it? 132 00:08:11,920 --> 00:08:13,430 Oh, I don't know, Meg. 133 00:08:13,480 --> 00:08:15,950 I don't believe women ever know. 134 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:18,870 But I did. We do. 135 00:08:18,920 --> 00:08:20,230 And you will. 136 00:08:20,280 --> 00:08:22,000 I promise you, you will! 137 00:08:32,560 --> 00:08:34,630 Look at you, John! The man who has everything! 138 00:08:34,680 --> 00:08:37,630 I have a family at last. I can want for nothing else. 139 00:08:37,680 --> 00:08:39,670 When do I find out if it's a boy or a girl? 140 00:08:41,560 --> 00:08:42,510 You'll see. 141 00:08:43,560 --> 00:08:44,950 Come! 142 00:08:45,000 --> 00:08:47,560 Don't open your eyes yet. 143 00:08:56,160 --> 00:08:58,320 - Surprise! - By Jupiter. 144 00:09:00,320 --> 00:09:01,590 Twins?! 145 00:09:01,640 --> 00:09:03,750 A boy, and a girl! 146 00:09:03,800 --> 00:09:07,510 I put a blue bow on one of them and a pink one on the other, 147 00:09:07,560 --> 00:09:09,080 French fashion. 148 00:09:10,320 --> 00:09:12,200 It's the joke of the season, isn't it? 149 00:09:21,600 --> 00:09:23,040 A son and a daughter. 150 00:09:26,800 --> 00:09:31,400 Do you suppose one day she'll say to me, "How did you ever survive this?" 151 00:09:32,720 --> 00:09:34,710 Very possibly. 152 00:09:34,760 --> 00:09:36,600 And you can say "You will." 153 00:09:40,360 --> 00:09:41,840 Thank you, Marmee. 154 00:09:47,120 --> 00:09:49,080 Laurie might ride by in a moment. 155 00:09:50,760 --> 00:09:52,630 He went out to play billiards tonight, 156 00:09:52,680 --> 00:09:54,780 and this is the time he usually comes home. 157 00:09:57,080 --> 00:09:58,320 Here he is... 158 00:09:59,760 --> 00:10:01,240 All serene on the front! 159 00:10:05,280 --> 00:10:06,830 I like it so much when he does that. 160 00:10:06,880 --> 00:10:10,080 He looks so strong, and well and happy. 161 00:10:17,360 --> 00:10:19,070 Goodbye! 162 00:10:19,120 --> 00:10:20,440 We'll miss you! 163 00:10:21,680 --> 00:10:22,720 Goodbye! 164 00:10:28,440 --> 00:10:30,000 Be safe, sweetheart. 165 00:10:31,280 --> 00:10:32,950 Write to us! 166 00:10:33,000 --> 00:10:34,800 I'll write when I get to England! 167 00:10:37,400 --> 00:10:38,840 Goodbye! 168 00:10:54,400 --> 00:10:56,120 First nip of fall in the air. 169 00:11:00,320 --> 00:11:01,830 No pen and no ink today? 170 00:11:01,880 --> 00:11:04,510 I've penned and I've inked in every room in the house this week, 171 00:11:04,560 --> 00:11:07,260 and not one has proved more conducive than the garret. 172 00:11:12,600 --> 00:11:15,230 Where are you floating off to, on that cloud of cologne and pomade? 173 00:11:15,280 --> 00:11:16,550 Eugenia Randall's house. 174 00:11:16,600 --> 00:11:18,190 Eugenia Randall? 175 00:11:18,240 --> 00:11:19,590 Is she the girl you sent a rose to 176 00:11:19,640 --> 00:11:21,230 every morning of your sophomore year? 177 00:11:21,280 --> 00:11:24,390 She's giving a tea party so everyone can see her engagement presents. 178 00:11:24,440 --> 00:11:26,910 She was a delicious romp, and a fine flirt, but... 179 00:11:26,960 --> 00:11:28,630 Marmee doesn't like that sort of girl. 180 00:11:28,680 --> 00:11:30,580 Marmee didn't raise that sort of girl. 181 00:11:31,560 --> 00:11:34,160 I wouldn't know how to flirt, even if she had allowed it. 182 00:11:35,760 --> 00:11:37,470 I flirt constantly. 183 00:11:37,520 --> 00:11:38,800 I can't help myself. 184 00:11:39,760 --> 00:11:44,840 But what I really like are sensible straightforward, modest young women. 185 00:11:53,760 --> 00:11:54,950 Jo? 186 00:11:55,000 --> 00:11:56,520 Jo, dear! I want you. 187 00:12:02,680 --> 00:12:03,880 Laurie. 188 00:12:05,880 --> 00:12:07,240 This won't do. 189 00:12:22,400 --> 00:12:23,760 What is it, Jo? 190 00:12:26,520 --> 00:12:27,830 I want to go away. 191 00:12:27,880 --> 00:12:29,040 Where? 192 00:12:30,320 --> 00:12:32,190 To a hospital in a big city, 193 00:12:32,240 --> 00:12:33,910 to train to be a nurse. 194 00:12:33,960 --> 00:12:35,350 No, Jo! No. 195 00:12:35,400 --> 00:12:37,270 No. Besides, the war is over. 196 00:12:37,320 --> 00:12:39,070 Do you think disease has stopped existing, 197 00:12:39,120 --> 00:12:40,870 because the country is at peace? 198 00:12:40,920 --> 00:12:42,470 People will always need help, Marmee! 199 00:12:42,520 --> 00:12:44,310 And what do you need, Jo? 200 00:12:44,360 --> 00:12:46,870 Because, and forgive me if I sound disrespectful, 201 00:12:46,920 --> 00:12:49,350 I don't believe the state of the sick and the suffering 202 00:12:49,400 --> 00:12:51,000 is your principal concern. 203 00:12:52,680 --> 00:12:54,750 I need to not live out my entire life 204 00:12:54,800 --> 00:12:56,790 in the tiny town where I was born! 205 00:12:56,840 --> 00:12:58,750 I need to see things, 206 00:12:58,800 --> 00:12:59,910 and be things, 207 00:12:59,960 --> 00:13:02,310 because I'm terrified that if I don't, 208 00:13:02,360 --> 00:13:05,230 my writing will have to be forced out of nothing, 209 00:13:05,280 --> 00:13:06,560 and go nowhere! 210 00:13:07,960 --> 00:13:09,660 And I need to get away from Laurie. 211 00:13:11,680 --> 00:13:13,510 He's become... 212 00:13:13,560 --> 00:13:14,840 .. fond of me. 213 00:13:15,800 --> 00:13:16,880 And, uh... 214 00:13:19,080 --> 00:13:21,110 .. you don't think you could become fond of him? 215 00:13:21,160 --> 00:13:22,550 No. 216 00:13:22,600 --> 00:13:23,910 I love him, 217 00:13:23,960 --> 00:13:26,110 but like I've always loved him. Like a brother. 218 00:13:26,160 --> 00:13:28,510 And... that won't change. 219 00:13:28,560 --> 00:13:30,280 I know it won't change! 220 00:13:31,760 --> 00:13:33,030 Good, 221 00:13:33,080 --> 00:13:34,380 because you and Laurie... 222 00:13:35,320 --> 00:13:37,310 .. you're too much alike, 223 00:13:37,360 --> 00:13:40,600 both have hot tempers and strong wills. 224 00:13:42,440 --> 00:13:47,630 Marriage takes... infinite patience and forbearance, Jo. 225 00:13:47,680 --> 00:13:48,880 As well as love. 226 00:13:49,800 --> 00:13:51,000 I know that. 227 00:13:51,960 --> 00:13:54,320 Because I've seen that. 228 00:13:56,440 --> 00:13:58,920 But I'm not sure I could manage it with anybody. 229 00:14:00,200 --> 00:14:01,640 And I don't intend to try. 230 00:14:09,640 --> 00:14:11,960 Laurie needs a girl like Beth, Marmee. 231 00:14:13,200 --> 00:14:14,280 Like Beth? 232 00:14:15,320 --> 00:14:17,310 Beth loves Laurie. 233 00:14:17,360 --> 00:14:21,480 In the most tender, most hopeful, most hopeless way. 234 00:14:22,680 --> 00:14:24,230 And that's what's been troubling her? 235 00:14:24,280 --> 00:14:25,630 It's been breaking her heart! 236 00:14:25,680 --> 00:14:26,950 And it will break mine too, 237 00:14:27,000 --> 00:14:29,600 if I stand in the way of what might be the better thing! 238 00:14:45,400 --> 00:14:47,390 You'll hate New York. 239 00:14:47,440 --> 00:14:50,830 I might. But I like the sound of Mrs Kirke's boarding house. 240 00:14:50,880 --> 00:14:53,470 You're going there as a governess to her children. 241 00:14:53,520 --> 00:14:54,790 If she didn't need a governess, 242 00:14:54,840 --> 00:14:56,590 and if she wasn't an old friend of Marmee's, 243 00:14:56,640 --> 00:14:58,480 I wouldn't be going to New York at all. 244 00:15:10,880 --> 00:15:12,160 "Dear Marmee and Beth. 245 00:15:13,440 --> 00:15:15,910 "I kept trying not to remember Father's face 246 00:15:15,960 --> 00:15:17,950 "when I left him at the station. 247 00:15:18,000 --> 00:15:20,200 "But the sun came out and I took it as an omen. 248 00:15:26,520 --> 00:15:28,080 "Independence has its charms. 249 00:15:29,160 --> 00:15:31,040 "It also has its challenges. 250 00:15:32,640 --> 00:15:36,040 "But I make shift, and so far haven't disgraced myself at all. 251 00:15:39,360 --> 00:15:42,350 "Mrs Kirke's house is a veritable Babel." 252 00:15:44,840 --> 00:15:46,470 "There are two French ladies 253 00:15:46,520 --> 00:15:49,360 "and three engineers fresh off the boat from Sweden. 254 00:15:51,640 --> 00:15:53,600 "There's a professor from Germany. 255 00:15:54,880 --> 00:15:57,400 "He's raising two nephews, after his sister died." 256 00:16:01,360 --> 00:16:02,990 "He has a beard 257 00:16:03,040 --> 00:16:05,470 "and a kindly sort of face. 258 00:16:05,520 --> 00:16:07,190 "Or perhaps I just think that, 259 00:16:07,240 --> 00:16:11,590 "because I keep being told what a splendid man he is." 260 00:16:11,640 --> 00:16:14,790 "And because it's so very obvious he's poor. 261 00:16:14,840 --> 00:16:17,400 "Poverty always enriches those who rise above it." 262 00:16:19,880 --> 00:16:27,230 ♪ Kennst du das Land, wo die Zitronen bluhn? 263 00:16:27,280 --> 00:16:34,630 ♪ Im dunkeln Laub die Goldorangen gluhn 264 00:16:34,680 --> 00:16:36,190 ♪ Ein sanfter Wind... ♪ 265 00:16:36,240 --> 00:16:37,800 Please can I get past? 266 00:16:40,680 --> 00:16:43,310 Child! This is too heavy for such a little one as you. 267 00:16:43,360 --> 00:16:44,390 Give it to me. 268 00:16:44,440 --> 00:16:45,480 Thank you. 269 00:16:47,360 --> 00:16:51,990 It always pains me when a child must earn their bread. 270 00:16:52,040 --> 00:16:53,830 Yes. 271 00:16:53,880 --> 00:16:55,240 It pains me too. 272 00:17:01,600 --> 00:17:05,430 "So far, London is all fog and umbrellas, and I went to 273 00:17:05,480 --> 00:17:09,710 "Westminster Abbey and sketched three tombs and a rudiment screen. 274 00:17:09,760 --> 00:17:11,910 "Flo and I got in a hansom cab today... 275 00:17:11,960 --> 00:17:13,870 ".. but Aunt Carrol made us both get out 276 00:17:13,920 --> 00:17:15,790 "because the driver smelled of beer. 277 00:17:15,840 --> 00:17:18,910 "I am, as ever, your loving Amy. 278 00:17:18,960 --> 00:17:23,960 "PS, ribbon is so cheap here! Only sixpence a yard." 279 00:17:31,800 --> 00:17:36,350 Kitty! Minnie! What in mercy's name are you doing? 280 00:17:36,400 --> 00:17:39,230 We're playing a game of menagerie, Miss March! 281 00:17:39,280 --> 00:17:42,830 Franz and Emil are a tiger and lion respectively, 282 00:17:42,880 --> 00:17:45,390 hence their incarceration behind the dining chairs. 283 00:17:45,440 --> 00:17:47,230 Minnie's feeding them ginger cake. 284 00:17:47,280 --> 00:17:49,310 A very particular ginger cake, 285 00:17:49,360 --> 00:17:53,990 formulated for the mammalian species Felidae. 286 00:17:54,040 --> 00:17:56,310 Meanwhile, I'm an elephant. 287 00:17:56,360 --> 00:17:57,950 No ginger cake for me. 288 00:18:17,480 --> 00:18:20,670 - You write fast? - Faster since I've been here. 289 00:18:20,720 --> 00:18:22,510 20, 20, 20. 290 00:18:22,560 --> 00:18:23,990 I'll only pay ten for this 291 00:18:24,040 --> 00:18:26,990 because stories of sisterly love don't generally appeal. 292 00:18:27,040 --> 00:18:28,470 They appeal to me, sir... 293 00:18:28,520 --> 00:18:30,510 Ten. And that's my final offer. 294 00:18:30,560 --> 00:18:32,070 However, bring me more like these 295 00:18:32,120 --> 00:18:34,960 and you'll be published once a fortnight. 20 every time. 296 00:18:36,880 --> 00:18:40,670 "... Und Gott druckte das tote Kind zu Seinem Herzen, und Flugel 297 00:18:40,720 --> 00:18:46,760 "wurden ihm gegeben, damit er mit dem Engel fliegen konnte, hand in hand." 298 00:18:48,560 --> 00:18:51,710 Now Miss March will read now from the English book, 299 00:18:51,760 --> 00:18:53,520 so as to learn our language lesson. 300 00:18:55,320 --> 00:18:58,230 "Then the child opened his eyes and looked into the glorious 301 00:18:58,280 --> 00:19:03,110 "happy face of the angel, and at the same moment they found 302 00:19:03,160 --> 00:19:06,600 "themselves in that heavenly home where all is happiness and joy. 303 00:19:07,880 --> 00:19:10,910 "And God pressed the dead child to His heart, and wings were 304 00:19:10,960 --> 00:19:15,040 "given him so that he could fly with the angel, hand in hand." 305 00:19:25,680 --> 00:19:27,190 Miss March. 306 00:19:27,240 --> 00:19:30,110 Pray tell if I disturb you. You're writing home? 307 00:19:30,160 --> 00:19:31,630 Ah, no. I'm just writing. 308 00:19:31,680 --> 00:19:34,870 Erm, might I enquire as to 309 00:19:34,920 --> 00:19:39,190 whether you have any fondness for philosophy? 310 00:19:39,240 --> 00:19:42,230 I have read a little Immanuel Kant, but 311 00:19:42,280 --> 00:19:44,150 I struggle with his notion that we don't 312 00:19:44,200 --> 00:19:46,670 - conform to the world, but the world conforms to us. - Ah, ja. 313 00:19:46,720 --> 00:19:49,390 Well, I struggle with that also. 314 00:19:49,440 --> 00:19:54,150 Um, I find greater coherence in the views of Hegel. 315 00:19:54,200 --> 00:19:55,910 Yes. Exactly. 316 00:19:55,960 --> 00:19:59,470 Well, there is a symposium -- a debate -- 317 00:19:59,520 --> 00:20:01,350 to be held next week. 318 00:20:01,400 --> 00:20:05,080 May I take the liberty of purchasing admission for us both? 319 00:20:07,800 --> 00:20:10,230 Ah... I would like that. 320 00:20:10,280 --> 00:20:11,600 Ja? 321 00:20:12,680 --> 00:20:14,370 Ja, that's great! 322 00:20:15,920 --> 00:20:17,040 Ah, ja. 323 00:20:24,600 --> 00:20:27,350 I called in at the library to look up the works of Mr Hegel, 324 00:20:27,400 --> 00:20:29,070 and I agree with him. 325 00:20:29,120 --> 00:20:31,870 If everything I know comes from my sensations of the world, 326 00:20:31,920 --> 00:20:35,710 there must then exist a world to provide me with such sensations! 327 00:20:35,760 --> 00:20:38,040 Yes. Yes, exactly. 328 00:20:45,360 --> 00:20:47,030 "No matter where I go, 329 00:20:47,080 --> 00:20:50,950 "Jo's wild imagination has been there in advance of me. 330 00:20:51,000 --> 00:20:54,550 "The Vampire Bridesmaid set me up sublimely for the catacombs, 331 00:20:54,600 --> 00:20:56,030 "and I read The Gondolier's Ransom 332 00:20:56,080 --> 00:20:59,270 "within an earshot of actual gondoliers! 333 00:20:59,320 --> 00:21:02,590 "Can you send me some blue dye for my satin button boots? 334 00:21:02,640 --> 00:21:04,710 "I need to make them match my walking suit, 335 00:21:04,760 --> 00:21:07,830 "and you can't get blue dye in the whole of Europe. 336 00:21:07,880 --> 00:21:10,760 "I guess everyone just buys new shoes all of the time..." 337 00:21:15,200 --> 00:21:17,590 Hurry! The maids will be coming in to set the table. 338 00:21:17,640 --> 00:21:19,270 Take those painted eggs to your room, 339 00:21:19,320 --> 00:21:21,710 and don't put them where they'll be smashed or trampled, 340 00:21:21,760 --> 00:21:24,920 or everyone's labours will have been in vain, including mine! 341 00:21:26,400 --> 00:21:29,670 My nephews enjoy their handicrafts with you. 342 00:21:29,720 --> 00:21:31,710 I like teaching boys. 343 00:21:31,760 --> 00:21:34,150 Better than teaching girls -- but don't tell Mrs Kirke. 344 00:21:34,200 --> 00:21:35,640 No. No! Shh! 345 00:21:37,800 --> 00:21:40,710 Observe this, this illustration. 346 00:21:40,760 --> 00:21:43,630 I wince to surmise what adventures it depicts, and think it 347 00:21:43,680 --> 00:21:46,990 should not be brought into a house where there are children. 348 00:21:47,040 --> 00:21:49,030 Look, more of it there is! 349 00:21:49,080 --> 00:21:50,950 It's better they play with gunpowder, 350 00:21:51,000 --> 00:21:52,150 than they read such things! 351 00:21:52,200 --> 00:21:55,750 The Weekly Volcano? Let it burn. 352 00:21:55,800 --> 00:21:59,750 You know, I have no patience for those who create this bad trash! 353 00:21:59,800 --> 00:22:02,910 In which case, Professor Bhaer, you have no patience with me. 354 00:22:02,960 --> 00:22:05,230 Every other week I publish a story in that magazine. 355 00:22:05,280 --> 00:22:07,150 And every penny I earn in exchange for them 356 00:22:07,200 --> 00:22:09,430 goes to the good of someone I love. 357 00:22:09,480 --> 00:22:11,350 My sister, as it happens! 358 00:22:11,400 --> 00:22:14,150 I shouldn't have to explain how much a sister can matter. 359 00:22:14,200 --> 00:22:15,510 Not to you. 360 00:22:15,560 --> 00:22:16,720 Wait. Ah... 361 00:22:18,840 --> 00:22:21,310 Your sister is sick? 362 00:22:21,360 --> 00:22:22,720 She isn't strong. 363 00:22:25,080 --> 00:22:27,560 I've been saving up so I can take her to the ocean. 364 00:22:31,560 --> 00:22:34,400 Does that still make my stories "bad trash" in your eyes? 365 00:22:56,880 --> 00:23:02,390 I have not words sufficient to apologise. 366 00:23:02,440 --> 00:23:03,800 I wish instead to... 367 00:23:05,080 --> 00:23:06,360 .. present a gift. 368 00:23:11,960 --> 00:23:14,870 - The Complete Works Of Shakespeare. - Hmm. 369 00:23:14,920 --> 00:23:18,240 There's a universe of literature within these boards. 370 00:23:19,560 --> 00:23:22,190 Shakespeare earned his living by his pen. 371 00:23:22,240 --> 00:23:25,360 He wrote spectaculars, and he entertained the people. 372 00:23:26,920 --> 00:23:31,750 But he also created works of such beauty that the world 373 00:23:31,800 --> 00:23:33,560 is still sustained by them. 374 00:23:34,760 --> 00:23:37,240 One need not exclude the other. 375 00:23:40,080 --> 00:23:42,120 You know so much more than I do. 376 00:23:43,160 --> 00:23:45,760 That only makes me learned. 377 00:23:47,320 --> 00:23:48,960 It does not make me wise. 378 00:23:51,240 --> 00:23:52,800 But I am wiser now. 379 00:23:54,680 --> 00:23:55,720 Professor Bhaer. 380 00:23:57,840 --> 00:23:59,960 I've decided to go home for a short while. 381 00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:02,760 I'm leaving next week. 382 00:24:04,040 --> 00:24:06,350 S-so suddenly? 383 00:24:06,400 --> 00:24:10,200 I've had another payment, which means I have enough to take my sister to the sea. 384 00:24:11,880 --> 00:24:13,470 She needs the air very badly. 385 00:24:13,520 --> 00:24:15,480 But you will return? 386 00:24:17,440 --> 00:24:19,230 To New York? 387 00:24:19,280 --> 00:24:20,520 Yes. 388 00:24:21,920 --> 00:24:22,960 Yes. 389 00:24:34,480 --> 00:24:36,600 Godspeed you on your journey, Miss March. 390 00:24:37,680 --> 00:24:39,640 - I'll see you in four weeks! - Ja. 391 00:24:46,400 --> 00:24:49,600 - Write often! - Bye. - Bye. - Safe journeys. 392 00:25:26,360 --> 00:25:30,110 - Jo, we're going to have to have this out. - Have what out? 393 00:25:30,160 --> 00:25:32,470 I've loved you ever since I've known you! 394 00:25:32,520 --> 00:25:34,270 And I can't help it, even though I've tried. 395 00:25:34,320 --> 00:25:36,230 Laurie, I don't want to have this conversation! 396 00:25:36,280 --> 00:25:38,110 I know you don't! 397 00:25:38,160 --> 00:25:41,110 I've tried to show you how I feel but you refuse to see it. 398 00:25:41,160 --> 00:25:44,510 So now I'm going to make you hear it, and give me an answer! 399 00:25:44,560 --> 00:25:46,510 Jo! 400 00:25:46,560 --> 00:25:48,830 I don't want you to be unhappy, Laurie! 401 00:25:48,880 --> 00:25:51,830 - I went away so that you wouldn't be! - It was no use. 402 00:25:51,880 --> 00:25:54,150 I spent the whole time trying to turn myself into someone 403 00:25:54,200 --> 00:25:55,670 good enough for you to love! 404 00:25:55,720 --> 00:25:57,910 You are good enough. You've always been good enough! 405 00:25:57,960 --> 00:26:00,990 It's just I can't love you in the way that you want me to. 406 00:26:01,040 --> 00:26:04,360 I've tried, and I won't lie and say I love you like that when I don't! 407 00:26:06,680 --> 00:26:08,920 Have you really, truly tried? 408 00:26:10,640 --> 00:26:12,160 Really, truly. 409 00:26:38,440 --> 00:26:40,000 Teddy, I'm sorry. 410 00:26:44,400 --> 00:26:46,560 I'm so desperately sorry. 411 00:26:48,480 --> 00:26:50,750 I'd kill myself if I thought it would help! 412 00:26:50,800 --> 00:26:54,110 - In what way would that help, Jo? - I don't know! 413 00:26:54,160 --> 00:26:57,470 But it would be easier than making myself love you when I don't! 414 00:26:57,520 --> 00:26:59,870 - That can't be done. - Some people manage it. 415 00:26:59,920 --> 00:27:03,680 I don't believe in that sort of love, and I don't intend to try. 416 00:27:06,640 --> 00:27:08,400 I have something to tell you. 417 00:27:10,880 --> 00:27:14,390 If it's about that old man, I'd rather not hear it. 418 00:27:14,440 --> 00:27:15,630 What old man? 419 00:27:15,680 --> 00:27:18,230 That professor you were always writing home about! 420 00:27:18,280 --> 00:27:19,870 Professor Bhaer? 421 00:27:19,920 --> 00:27:21,630 We're friends, Laurie. 422 00:27:21,680 --> 00:27:23,630 We talk about literature and plays, and... 423 00:27:23,680 --> 00:27:26,470 You go to philosophical symposiums together! 424 00:27:26,520 --> 00:27:28,430 We went to one philosophical symposium! 425 00:27:28,480 --> 00:27:31,150 If you tell me you love him, I'll be the one who kills myself! 426 00:27:31,200 --> 00:27:35,510 - I haven't the least idea of loving Professor Bhaer or anybody else. - You will in the end! 427 00:27:35,560 --> 00:27:37,760 And so will you in the end! 428 00:27:58,320 --> 00:27:59,480 You grew out your hair. 429 00:28:02,520 --> 00:28:04,160 I thought you might care for it. 430 00:28:11,960 --> 00:28:14,270 I'll never love anyone but you. 431 00:28:14,320 --> 00:28:15,990 Laurie. 432 00:28:16,040 --> 00:28:17,520 Be sensible. 433 00:28:19,360 --> 00:28:24,230 I will not be sensible! I can't be sensible, Jo! 434 00:28:24,280 --> 00:28:26,510 I don't believe you've got any heart at all! 435 00:28:26,560 --> 00:28:28,240 And I wish I hadn't! 436 00:28:37,640 --> 00:28:39,240 Love cannot be forced, Laurie. 437 00:28:40,400 --> 00:28:42,190 Well, that's what she said. 438 00:28:42,240 --> 00:28:44,310 And I'd rather hang myself than live in a world where 439 00:28:44,360 --> 00:28:45,430 she won't change her mind. 440 00:28:45,480 --> 00:28:48,950 Sometimes the only response to the provocation of a woman 441 00:28:49,000 --> 00:28:51,390 is to take it like a man. 442 00:28:51,440 --> 00:28:53,080 What if I can't take it like a man? 443 00:28:55,120 --> 00:28:56,800 Then take yourself abroad. 444 00:29:04,560 --> 00:29:06,750 You said I could travel once I graduated, 445 00:29:06,800 --> 00:29:08,910 but I didn't think I'd be travelling alone. 446 00:29:08,960 --> 00:29:10,590 You wouldn't be alone. 447 00:29:10,640 --> 00:29:12,670 I wouldn't be with Jo. 448 00:29:12,720 --> 00:29:16,840 There's at least one person who'd go to the end of the Earth with you. 449 00:29:19,000 --> 00:29:20,390 Who? 450 00:29:20,440 --> 00:29:21,950 Me. 451 00:29:23,500 --> 00:29:25,380 Thank you, sir. 452 00:29:26,240 --> 00:29:28,750 I went through all of this when I was your age. 453 00:29:28,800 --> 00:29:32,870 And then again when it was your father's turn. 454 00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:39,760 May I advise against the Sonata Pathetique... 455 00:29:41,800 --> 00:29:44,080 .. until we're feeling more robust? 456 00:30:43,120 --> 00:30:47,080 You have a bay scallop and an angel wing here. 457 00:30:48,520 --> 00:30:51,830 Do you want me to look the other ones up in the book? 458 00:30:51,880 --> 00:30:52,920 Later. 459 00:31:01,400 --> 00:31:02,640 You know, don't you, Jo? 460 00:31:10,360 --> 00:31:11,560 Yes. 461 00:31:13,920 --> 00:31:15,790 I wanted to tell you, 462 00:31:15,840 --> 00:31:17,400 but I couldn't. 463 00:31:20,160 --> 00:31:21,720 I've known for a long time. 464 00:31:23,960 --> 00:31:25,670 I suspected, and I wanted to be wrong, 465 00:31:25,720 --> 00:31:28,820 so I went to Dr Bangs, so he could tell me not to be so silly and... 466 00:31:31,560 --> 00:31:32,640 .. and he didn't. 467 00:31:38,240 --> 00:31:41,510 Now I'm used to it, it isn't hard to bear. 468 00:31:41,560 --> 00:31:43,350 Except I've been keeping a secret. 469 00:31:43,400 --> 00:31:45,600 Is that what was troubling you last autumn? 470 00:31:47,040 --> 00:31:48,080 Yes. 471 00:31:50,280 --> 00:31:51,870 It wasn't to do with Laurie? 472 00:31:51,920 --> 00:31:53,560 Why would it be to do with Laurie? 473 00:31:55,760 --> 00:31:58,950 Apart from seeing him so strong 474 00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:02,310 and well and so full of happy plans, like all of you. 475 00:32:02,360 --> 00:32:03,920 But you kept it a secret. 476 00:32:05,520 --> 00:32:08,110 You didn't let us comfort you or help you. 477 00:32:08,160 --> 00:32:10,720 Why did you try to shut us out and bear it all alone? 478 00:32:15,720 --> 00:32:17,280 I didn't want to be selfish. 479 00:32:19,280 --> 00:32:20,750 I didn't want to frighten Marmee, 480 00:32:20,800 --> 00:32:23,550 when she was already worried about Meg and her confinement. 481 00:32:23,600 --> 00:32:25,680 You don't think we wanted to care for you? 482 00:32:28,320 --> 00:32:29,990 You have to let us help you. 483 00:32:30,040 --> 00:32:31,590 You have to try to get well. 484 00:32:31,640 --> 00:32:32,800 I do try. 485 00:32:34,200 --> 00:32:37,150 But every day I lose a little strength 486 00:32:37,200 --> 00:32:39,600 and feel more certain I shall never get it back. 487 00:32:43,680 --> 00:32:44,960 It's like the tide, Jo. 488 00:32:48,120 --> 00:32:50,920 When it turns, it goes slowly, but it can't be stopped. 489 00:32:54,440 --> 00:32:55,680 I'll stop it. 490 00:32:57,280 --> 00:32:58,520 I'll fight it. 491 00:33:00,000 --> 00:33:03,550 I'll... keep you alive, 492 00:33:03,600 --> 00:33:05,950 whatever I have to do, 493 00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:07,920 and whatever I have to give up to God. 494 00:33:09,200 --> 00:33:13,950 This is what He wants, Jo. 495 00:33:14,000 --> 00:33:15,640 He can't be that cruel. 496 00:33:18,800 --> 00:33:20,360 I don't want to let life go. 497 00:33:22,640 --> 00:33:24,400 I can only try to be willing. 498 00:33:26,680 --> 00:33:28,830 Will you tell Father and Marmee, when we get home? 499 00:33:28,880 --> 00:33:30,880 - I won't have to. - But you must. 500 00:33:32,920 --> 00:33:34,680 And you must look after them. 501 00:33:36,360 --> 00:33:37,480 Promise me. 502 00:33:40,720 --> 00:33:42,120 I promise. 503 00:33:51,920 --> 00:33:53,830 Good afternoon, Miss March! 504 00:33:53,880 --> 00:33:57,310 - Laurie! - Or should that be bonjour, Mademoiselle Mars? 505 00:33:57,360 --> 00:34:00,230 Marmee a ecrit que vous serez a Sienne! 506 00:34:00,280 --> 00:34:02,310 Your tenses are all back to front, Amy! 507 00:34:05,880 --> 00:34:09,110 I've been making Herculaneum efforts with my art. 508 00:34:09,160 --> 00:34:12,110 I thought the Continent would bring out the Raphael in you. 509 00:34:12,160 --> 00:34:13,790 It hasn't so far. 510 00:34:13,840 --> 00:34:16,790 And I tried oils in Paris, drawing in Nice 511 00:34:16,840 --> 00:34:18,680 and absolutely everything in Rome. 512 00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:22,280 You know... 513 00:34:23,600 --> 00:34:25,960 .. I'm starting to think I might not be a genius. 514 00:34:27,880 --> 00:34:31,510 I think the same thing every time I try to sit down and write my opera. 515 00:34:31,560 --> 00:34:33,550 You're writing an opera? 516 00:34:33,600 --> 00:34:36,190 Grandfather likes to see me occupied, 517 00:34:36,240 --> 00:34:38,190 and I like Mozart and Beethoven. 518 00:34:38,240 --> 00:34:40,120 Not that that has got me anywhere. 519 00:34:55,560 --> 00:34:58,630 You've timed your return to perfection, as it happens. 520 00:34:58,680 --> 00:35:02,390 The cat has had kittens again, and someone needs to take them on, 521 00:35:02,440 --> 00:35:06,360 - as Hannah has threatened to run them through her mangle. - Marmee. 522 00:35:09,240 --> 00:35:10,280 Yes? 523 00:35:13,840 --> 00:35:15,240 I'm sick... 524 00:35:17,360 --> 00:35:19,240 .. and I'm not going to get better. 525 00:35:54,160 --> 00:35:56,840 She was the one that I never made plans for. 526 00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:01,280 She was the that one I... 527 00:36:03,200 --> 00:36:04,960 .. I couldn't imagine married. 528 00:36:07,520 --> 00:36:08,960 She was the one that... 529 00:36:10,120 --> 00:36:12,680 .. I couldn't picture with an infant in her arms. 530 00:36:15,400 --> 00:36:18,710 She knew she was dying for a long time, Marmee... 531 00:36:18,760 --> 00:36:20,710 And all I know was that she... 532 00:36:20,760 --> 00:36:22,560 .. she would never leave home! 533 00:36:23,560 --> 00:36:26,190 And I was content with that. 534 00:36:26,240 --> 00:36:28,480 I could keep her safe here! 535 00:36:34,080 --> 00:36:37,830 And now she's going to go so far away from home, 536 00:36:37,880 --> 00:36:41,480 I won't be able to guide her or protect her. 537 00:36:44,040 --> 00:36:45,400 I-I... 538 00:36:46,920 --> 00:36:49,040 I won't be able to be her mother. 539 00:36:52,040 --> 00:36:53,750 And she will need me, Jo. 540 00:36:53,800 --> 00:36:55,320 She will need me! 541 00:37:41,240 --> 00:37:44,470 I'm afraid I might have overdone it with my embellishments. 542 00:37:44,520 --> 00:37:47,480 So many fresh flowers, I might as well climb into a vase. 543 00:37:49,120 --> 00:37:52,000 I'm sorry. I... brought you some more. 544 00:37:57,280 --> 00:37:59,070 This stuff is nice. 545 00:37:59,120 --> 00:38:01,080 It's called illusion tulle. 546 00:38:02,480 --> 00:38:04,470 You can pin it on over the shabbiest gown 547 00:38:04,520 --> 00:38:06,550 and shimmer like a moth in candlelight! 548 00:38:06,600 --> 00:38:07,640 Which is lovely... 549 00:38:08,800 --> 00:38:10,520 .. unless you don't like moths. 550 00:38:18,120 --> 00:38:20,120 Would you care to dance, Amy? 551 00:38:21,440 --> 00:38:23,520 One generally does at a ball. 552 00:38:55,760 --> 00:38:57,160 Jo. 553 00:39:03,800 --> 00:39:05,570 Do the babies tire you? 554 00:39:07,320 --> 00:39:08,360 (Yes.) 555 00:39:11,040 --> 00:39:12,200 Shhh. 556 00:40:27,520 --> 00:40:28,560 Beth, dear... 557 00:40:32,320 --> 00:40:34,440 .. you're going to have to go on a journey... 558 00:40:37,920 --> 00:40:39,320 .. and you mustn't be afraid. 559 00:40:42,920 --> 00:40:45,120 You were always braver than you knew. 560 00:40:54,520 --> 00:40:56,320 Rest here, until you're ready. 561 00:41:42,440 --> 00:41:45,950 "Take care of Amy, Teddy. Stop. 562 00:41:46,000 --> 00:41:49,000 "With love. Stop. Jo." 563 00:42:27,880 --> 00:42:31,240 Marmee says I'm to stay here with Aunt Carroll and Florence. 564 00:42:33,360 --> 00:42:35,000 I keep wanting to tell you to cry. 565 00:42:36,160 --> 00:42:37,200 I can't. 566 00:42:42,160 --> 00:42:47,080 I keep remembering that will I wrote when Beth had scarlet fever. 567 00:42:49,040 --> 00:42:52,440 You bequeathed me a plaster horse, if I recall correctly. 568 00:42:54,600 --> 00:42:55,640 I had my death... 569 00:42:57,040 --> 00:43:00,040 .. all rehearsed in my mind. 570 00:43:01,240 --> 00:43:04,030 I had Beth's all rehearsed and ready too. 571 00:43:04,080 --> 00:43:05,800 I thought it would tear me open... 572 00:43:07,800 --> 00:43:09,880 .. burn me down, like a house. And now... 573 00:43:12,200 --> 00:43:13,560 .. I'm just frozen. 574 00:43:16,920 --> 00:43:19,720 I'll come to see you every day, Amy. 575 00:43:22,680 --> 00:43:23,880 Promise me? 576 00:43:25,520 --> 00:43:26,560 Yes. 577 00:43:38,120 --> 00:43:41,230 Marmee thought that I shouldn't keep this in my bedroom any more. 578 00:43:41,280 --> 00:43:43,350 I thought to put it in the parlour... 579 00:43:43,400 --> 00:43:45,350 .. but, it's Beth's 580 00:43:45,400 --> 00:43:48,470 and I don't think it should be where I can see it for a while. 581 00:43:48,520 --> 00:43:50,160 It can have a home with me. 582 00:43:58,680 --> 00:43:59,720 Help me. 583 00:44:00,880 --> 00:44:01,960 Always. 584 00:44:05,600 --> 00:44:07,680 You have to write, Jo. 585 00:44:09,600 --> 00:44:11,000 You have to write. 586 00:44:14,880 --> 00:44:18,150 Sift down through your heart, 587 00:44:18,200 --> 00:44:20,080 through all the pain... 588 00:44:21,760 --> 00:44:23,120 .. and grief. 589 00:44:24,480 --> 00:44:26,160 There are words there. 590 00:44:29,680 --> 00:44:31,400 There's a woman there. 591 00:44:34,480 --> 00:44:35,720 And it's you. 592 00:44:37,160 --> 00:44:39,950 But I don't know what the words are. 593 00:44:40,000 --> 00:44:42,150 I don't know what to say. 594 00:44:42,200 --> 00:44:43,920 Say you were happy once. 595 00:44:47,200 --> 00:44:49,000 Say there was laughter. 596 00:44:51,760 --> 00:44:53,280 Say what is true. 597 00:45:22,480 --> 00:45:24,200 My Beth. 598 00:45:31,920 --> 00:45:35,350 Sitting patient in the shadow 599 00:45:35,400 --> 00:45:37,840 Till the blessed life shall come 600 00:45:39,280 --> 00:45:42,670 A serene and saintly presence 601 00:45:42,720 --> 00:45:44,720 Sanctifies our troubled home 602 00:45:46,600 --> 00:45:49,600 O my sister passing from me 603 00:45:51,080 --> 00:45:54,400 Out of human care and strife 604 00:45:57,960 --> 00:46:00,550 Leave me as a gift those virtues 605 00:46:00,600 --> 00:46:02,760 Which have beautified your life. 606 00:46:07,800 --> 00:46:09,800 By Josephine March. 607 00:46:25,440 --> 00:46:26,640 Thank you, miss. 608 00:46:38,560 --> 00:46:39,130 Jo! 609 00:46:39,680 --> 00:46:42,470 Don't let the babies in! They won't get a Christmas surprise if you do! 610 00:46:42,520 --> 00:46:44,880 They're with Marmee and Hannah in the kitchen. 611 00:46:48,040 --> 00:46:51,750 Father showed me your poem in Godey's magazine. 612 00:46:51,800 --> 00:46:53,310 It's beautiful, Jo. 613 00:46:53,360 --> 00:46:55,950 The editor ordered four stories 614 00:46:56,000 --> 00:46:58,550 and as much verse as I care to write. 615 00:46:58,600 --> 00:47:02,640 He said that he liked them because they were pure, warm and honest. 616 00:47:04,840 --> 00:47:08,390 Cut it out and pin it to the wall above your desk, 617 00:47:08,440 --> 00:47:10,880 so you can see what you can do. 618 00:47:12,560 --> 00:47:14,750 I just broke my scissors. 619 00:48:00,160 --> 00:48:02,590 I've had to do yours all over again. 620 00:48:02,640 --> 00:48:05,230 It will never sail anywhere folded like this. 621 00:48:05,280 --> 00:48:09,070 Laurie, that paper boat could sail across oceans. 622 00:48:09,120 --> 00:48:12,910 It could sail all the way back home! 623 00:48:12,960 --> 00:48:15,230 Get back on the bank, Amy. 624 00:48:15,280 --> 00:48:19,510 I've saved you from drowning once before, I'm not doing it again. 625 00:48:19,560 --> 00:48:21,120 OK, give me yours now! 626 00:48:41,200 --> 00:48:43,600 Oh, they're not going anywhere. 627 00:48:46,200 --> 00:48:47,680 I'm not sure I want them to. 628 00:48:49,560 --> 00:48:53,670 I quite like them just sitting there side by side. 629 00:48:53,720 --> 00:48:55,240 On the same journey. 630 00:49:00,160 --> 00:49:02,960 We're on the same journey, aren't we, Amy? 631 00:49:04,920 --> 00:49:05,960 Yes. 632 00:49:09,880 --> 00:49:11,360 Can we make it last forever? 633 00:49:39,520 --> 00:49:41,040 Amy's engaged to be married? 634 00:49:43,560 --> 00:49:45,510 To Laurie? 635 00:49:45,560 --> 00:49:47,430 Yes. 636 00:49:47,480 --> 00:49:49,750 He's been writing me all winter. 637 00:49:49,800 --> 00:49:52,950 Were you hoping that he would ask you again? 638 00:49:53,000 --> 00:49:54,640 No. 639 00:49:56,960 --> 00:49:58,440 I was hoping he wouldn't. 640 00:49:59,720 --> 00:50:01,960 Because if he had, I might have said yes... 641 00:50:02,960 --> 00:50:04,560 .. and not for the right reasons. 642 00:50:06,920 --> 00:50:08,160 I've got writing to do. 643 00:50:27,640 --> 00:50:29,390 That's lovely, Daisy. 644 00:50:29,440 --> 00:50:33,390 Amy will like the blue pitcher best, blue is her favourite colour! 645 00:50:33,440 --> 00:50:34,480 Oh! 646 00:50:35,560 --> 00:50:38,030 Look. That's lovely! 647 00:50:38,080 --> 00:50:41,950 If they haven't arrived already, and early, and if the little lady 648 00:50:42,000 --> 00:50:45,870 isn't dressed in silk from her head to her French-buttoned boots! 649 00:50:48,040 --> 00:50:50,840 - Shall we go see her? Come on! - Come on! 650 00:50:53,520 --> 00:50:56,480 - Amy! Sweetheart! - Marmee! 651 00:50:58,400 --> 00:50:59,710 Welcome home! 652 00:50:59,760 --> 00:51:01,280 Thank you, sir. Good to see you. 653 00:51:05,800 --> 00:51:08,270 That's not an engagement ring. 654 00:51:08,320 --> 00:51:10,950 She has a sapphire from Chopard as big as a pigeon's egg! 655 00:51:11,000 --> 00:51:13,120 But I can't get my glove on over it. 656 00:51:15,120 --> 00:51:16,360 It's a wedding ring! 657 00:51:20,400 --> 00:51:23,160 - Well done! - Thank you, sir! - Well done! 658 00:51:34,120 --> 00:51:38,430 Hey, Jo! Is genius burning, or can you tolerate a visit? 659 00:51:38,480 --> 00:51:40,470 I can always tolerate a visit from you, Teddy. 660 00:51:40,520 --> 00:51:44,950 But... I'm not sure how many more surprises I can bear. 661 00:51:52,000 --> 00:51:53,760 Why didn't you tell anyone, Teddy? 662 00:51:57,600 --> 00:51:59,750 We thought it would be a lark. 663 00:52:05,240 --> 00:52:07,640 I have to get back to my wife soon. 664 00:52:09,280 --> 00:52:12,310 But I want to say one thing, once, 665 00:52:12,360 --> 00:52:13,920 and then put it by forever. 666 00:52:15,960 --> 00:52:19,080 And what is that, Teddy? 667 00:52:22,440 --> 00:52:26,480 I used every power in my possession to stop myself from loving you. 668 00:52:27,840 --> 00:52:29,320 And now I know I never shall. 669 00:52:31,320 --> 00:52:34,320 I will love you till the day I die, Jo. 670 00:52:36,880 --> 00:52:41,950 But you and Amy have changed places in my heart. 671 00:52:42,000 --> 00:52:45,670 You are my sister, and she is... 672 00:52:45,720 --> 00:52:47,160 Mrs Laurence? 673 00:52:48,800 --> 00:52:50,510 Yes. 674 00:52:50,560 --> 00:52:52,310 Can you believe it? 675 00:52:52,360 --> 00:52:53,400 Yes. 676 00:52:56,720 --> 00:53:00,000 Now can we go back to being happy, like we were before? 677 00:53:01,520 --> 00:53:02,720 Not quite. 678 00:53:04,320 --> 00:53:07,080 We were children before, and we aren't any longer. 679 00:53:25,960 --> 00:53:27,320 Marmee will be along soon. 680 00:53:28,320 --> 00:53:31,790 She just wanted to be sure that you had seen the doctor. 681 00:53:31,840 --> 00:53:35,150 Estelle sent for him this morning. 682 00:53:35,200 --> 00:53:40,750 He told me only what I knew already. 683 00:53:40,800 --> 00:53:42,520 Which is that you've had a stroke. 684 00:53:43,880 --> 00:53:49,240 A small stroke. I am in no danger. 685 00:53:50,280 --> 00:53:52,040 I want you to take some of this soup. 686 00:53:54,880 --> 00:53:57,910 Ordering your elders and fiddling with the sick. 687 00:53:57,960 --> 00:54:01,110 You've turned into an old maid, Josephine. 688 00:54:01,160 --> 00:54:04,280 I prefer to think of myself as a literary spinster. 689 00:54:05,840 --> 00:54:07,520 We're both aunts. 690 00:54:09,200 --> 00:54:11,830 There is a pleasure in it, 691 00:54:11,880 --> 00:54:16,990 as well as duty, and vexation. 692 00:54:17,040 --> 00:54:20,040 The world should be kinder to those of us. 693 00:54:22,440 --> 00:54:25,790 Our lives are not without purpose. 694 00:54:25,840 --> 00:54:27,600 But mine is small, Aunt March. 695 00:54:28,960 --> 00:54:32,880 It's so small, and so narrow, I feel it closing in on me like walls. 696 00:54:34,880 --> 00:54:36,880 I wasn't meant for a life like this. 697 00:54:40,040 --> 00:54:41,360 Now... 698 00:54:43,000 --> 00:54:44,270 .. open up. 699 00:54:44,320 --> 00:54:45,880 W-when I'm ready. 700 00:54:49,600 --> 00:54:51,920 Better times will come. 701 00:55:15,120 --> 00:55:17,400 Professor Bhaer? Is that you? 702 00:55:19,040 --> 00:55:20,480 Miss March! 703 00:55:24,320 --> 00:55:25,440 You look tired. 704 00:55:27,720 --> 00:55:30,640 I've been to see my aunt. She's sick. 705 00:55:35,520 --> 00:55:37,840 What in heaven's name has brought you here? 706 00:55:39,200 --> 00:55:40,440 Business. 707 00:55:42,400 --> 00:55:43,880 Please, take shelter. 708 00:55:50,960 --> 00:55:52,320 You said you'd come back. 709 00:55:55,080 --> 00:55:57,520 I promised Beth I'd stay. 710 00:56:01,000 --> 00:56:02,760 I shouldn't have stopped writing. 711 00:56:03,800 --> 00:56:05,670 You didn't. 712 00:56:05,720 --> 00:56:07,040 You wrote a poem. 713 00:56:08,840 --> 00:56:10,710 It was called My Beth. 714 00:56:10,760 --> 00:56:12,040 You saw it? 715 00:56:13,440 --> 00:56:16,360 And I keep it against my heart... 716 00:56:19,840 --> 00:56:21,760 .. which has been sore for you. 717 00:56:29,240 --> 00:56:31,190 I should go. 718 00:56:31,240 --> 00:56:35,230 - You must entertain visitors, perhaps? - No. 719 00:56:35,280 --> 00:56:37,230 It's just my family. 720 00:56:37,280 --> 00:56:40,990 But don't worry, I've told them so much about you. 721 00:56:41,040 --> 00:56:42,280 Oh, you have? 722 00:56:52,560 --> 00:56:53,950 Come here. 723 00:56:54,000 --> 00:56:56,320 I've forgotten how to do it the pretty way! 724 00:57:00,000 --> 00:57:01,640 You don't have to, Jo. 725 00:57:02,960 --> 00:57:04,440 You look beautiful. 726 00:57:06,480 --> 00:57:08,670 Everybody really likes him. 727 00:57:16,960 --> 00:57:20,400 Hurry up, Jo. It's your turn, and your audience is getting restless! 728 00:57:55,560 --> 00:57:58,240 She's looking a little stronger, Amy. I'm sure of it. 729 00:58:00,040 --> 00:58:01,350 Yeah. 730 00:58:01,400 --> 00:58:03,350 Boys! Boys! 731 00:58:03,400 --> 00:58:05,790 Lay off the apple picking for now and come and get your tea. 732 00:58:05,840 --> 00:58:09,230 Class One over there, Class Two there, where I can see you. 733 00:58:09,280 --> 00:58:12,800 I never imagined Aunt March would leave Plumfield to Jo in her will. 734 00:58:13,800 --> 00:58:17,080 And I dare say Aunt March never imagined what she'd do with it. 735 00:58:19,400 --> 00:58:21,590 I don't think that old house ever made her happy. 736 00:58:21,640 --> 00:58:24,270 But it's brought me more joy than any castle in the air, 737 00:58:24,320 --> 00:58:27,550 even if my hair is turning grey. 738 00:58:27,600 --> 00:58:29,160 Nothing is ever perfect. 739 00:58:31,160 --> 00:58:33,040 But things can be just right. 740 00:58:34,040 --> 00:58:35,440 Yes, they can.