1 00:00:09,380 --> 00:00:11,270 Get ready. 2 00:00:11,320 --> 00:00:14,640 Shh. Shh! 3 00:00:21,120 --> 00:00:24,590 - Got them. - Jo, those are the kitchen scissors. 4 00:00:24,640 --> 00:00:27,550 - They're good and sharp. - Please don't make me be the first. 5 00:00:27,600 --> 00:00:31,120 No... Amy's first. 6 00:00:35,960 --> 00:00:39,590 If I must make this sacrament, I do it gladly. 7 00:00:39,640 --> 00:00:42,720 But don't you dare take more than a half inch. 8 00:00:54,400 --> 00:00:56,800 Do you have any letters for the post, Pastor March? 9 00:00:59,040 --> 00:01:03,400 - This will go on the mail train tonight? - Yes, sir. - Bless you, son. 10 00:01:04,640 --> 00:01:06,160 Cold. 11 00:01:27,720 --> 00:01:34,440 Merry Christmas, Father. With our fondest love, Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy. 12 00:02:18,560 --> 00:02:21,710 Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents. 13 00:02:21,760 --> 00:02:23,230 Jo, get up off the rug. 14 00:02:23,280 --> 00:02:26,310 That party dress is in a bad enough state as it is. 15 00:02:26,360 --> 00:02:29,870 We agreed not to have any presents this year. We said we didn't mind 16 00:02:29,920 --> 00:02:32,310 as long as we had Marmee and Father and each other. 17 00:02:32,360 --> 00:02:33,910 Beth, we haven't got Father 18 00:02:33,960 --> 00:02:36,430 and we shan't have him for ever such a long time. 19 00:02:36,480 --> 00:02:40,270 - Not until the war ends. - Meg! I found Jo's gloves. 20 00:02:40,320 --> 00:02:42,350 They're all creased and sticky. 21 00:02:42,400 --> 00:02:45,430 I used them to mop up some lemonade I spilled at Sally's birthday dance. 22 00:02:45,480 --> 00:02:47,190 Jo, why didn't you clean them? 23 00:02:47,240 --> 00:02:49,550 You can't go to a party without any gloves. 24 00:02:49,600 --> 00:02:52,550 I was hoping I wouldn't be invited to another one. 25 00:02:52,600 --> 00:02:55,390 I should have gone away with Father in disguise, 26 00:02:55,440 --> 00:02:59,870 signed up as a drummer boy and done my duty as he has. 27 00:02:59,920 --> 00:03:03,270 Jo, I don't think that's allowed or even possible. 28 00:03:03,320 --> 00:03:06,590 Besides, I can't think of anything more disagreeable. 29 00:03:06,640 --> 00:03:09,430 Why would you want to sleep in a tent 30 00:03:09,480 --> 00:03:13,230 and drink out of a tin mug and eat all sorts of... bad-tasting food? 31 00:03:13,280 --> 00:03:15,750 Because, Amy, she forgets that she's a young lady 32 00:03:15,800 --> 00:03:18,470 and that I am trying to mend her dress. 33 00:03:18,520 --> 00:03:21,470 I can't help that I like boy's clothes and work and manners. 34 00:03:21,520 --> 00:03:23,510 Being born a girl is the most disappointing thing 35 00:03:23,560 --> 00:03:25,520 that ever happened to me. 36 00:04:06,800 --> 00:04:09,710 I do believe that was busiest day the depot ever had. 37 00:04:09,760 --> 00:04:13,190 We had to get 200 boxes of soldiers' comforts onto the five o'clock train 38 00:04:13,240 --> 00:04:15,230 and we lacked mittens for some of them. 39 00:04:15,280 --> 00:04:17,870 We'll have to sit and knit more like pokey old women. 40 00:04:17,920 --> 00:04:20,390 Jo, be careful. 41 00:04:20,440 --> 00:04:24,150 - You look tired to death. - Aunt March kept me on my toes today. 42 00:04:24,200 --> 00:04:27,120 Most people mellow out at Christmas but not her. 43 00:04:28,520 --> 00:04:32,120 Do I get a kiss as well as warm slippers, Amy? 44 00:04:35,680 --> 00:04:38,870 You're all such a treat to come home to. 45 00:04:38,920 --> 00:04:41,590 And I have a treat for you, too. 46 00:04:41,640 --> 00:04:44,310 - A letter? - Is it from Father? 47 00:04:44,360 --> 00:04:45,800 Yes, it is. 48 00:04:53,200 --> 00:04:55,870 You're late, Theodore. 49 00:04:55,920 --> 00:04:57,440 I'm sorry, Grandfather. 50 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:04,070 How was your voyage? 51 00:05:04,120 --> 00:05:08,910 Did you stay on deck and keep your eyes on the horizon as I advised? 52 00:05:08,960 --> 00:05:10,590 Mostly. 53 00:05:10,640 --> 00:05:12,430 Mostly worked. 54 00:05:12,480 --> 00:05:16,800 I presume you brought your principal's reports for me to read. 55 00:05:18,600 --> 00:05:23,110 "A year is a long time to wait before we meet again. 56 00:05:23,160 --> 00:05:28,120 "But these hard days will not be wasted if we all work hard. 57 00:05:30,240 --> 00:05:33,470 "Give them all my dear love and a kiss, 58 00:05:33,520 --> 00:05:38,950 "tell them I think of them by day and pray for them each evening. 59 00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:41,190 "Our country may be torn in two 60 00:05:41,240 --> 00:05:43,990 "because it can't agree on what is right, 61 00:05:44,040 --> 00:05:46,310 "but even in this time of darkness, 62 00:05:46,360 --> 00:05:49,750 "when armies clash and blood is shed, 63 00:05:49,800 --> 00:05:53,430 "we can shine a light through our kindness to each other. 64 00:05:53,480 --> 00:05:56,070 "And there are smaller battles we can win, 65 00:05:56,120 --> 00:05:59,630 "within our hearts and close to home. 66 00:05:59,680 --> 00:06:03,790 "I know my daughters will fight their bosom enemies bravely 67 00:06:03,840 --> 00:06:06,470 "and conquer themselves so beautifully 68 00:06:06,520 --> 00:06:11,470 "that when I come back to them, I may be fonder and prouder than ever 69 00:06:11,520 --> 00:06:13,800 "of my little women." 70 00:06:43,720 --> 00:06:45,880 Merry Christmas, Jo. 71 00:06:54,360 --> 00:06:56,830 Hannah, do you know where our mother is? She isn't in her room. 72 00:06:56,880 --> 00:07:00,870 She wouldn't be, because we had some shoeless little lad come 73 00:07:00,920 --> 00:07:04,070 wheeling and hammering on the door saying his mother was starving 74 00:07:04,120 --> 00:07:07,870 and sickly and like to die and all her children like to die with her. 75 00:07:07,920 --> 00:07:10,950 - Kindly get your fingers out the syrup. - Sorry. - Sorry. 76 00:07:11,000 --> 00:07:15,430 So, your mother went running off after him to see what she could do. 77 00:07:15,480 --> 00:07:17,990 And she took a great pile of firing from next to my stove. 78 00:07:18,040 --> 00:07:21,430 As long as we've enough to cook the bacon. 79 00:07:21,480 --> 00:07:23,710 Merry Christmas, Hannah! 80 00:07:23,760 --> 00:07:26,070 If you don't unleash me, you young rapscallions, 81 00:07:26,120 --> 00:07:28,400 there will be no pancakes! 82 00:07:29,720 --> 00:07:31,200 Girls. 83 00:07:32,520 --> 00:07:36,310 I've just come from the most deprived and wretched home 84 00:07:36,360 --> 00:07:38,630 I have ever seen. 85 00:07:38,680 --> 00:07:41,710 There was a mother with a newborn 86 00:07:41,760 --> 00:07:46,670 and five other little ones huddled under rags for warmth. 87 00:07:46,720 --> 00:07:51,680 I took firewood but... it was not enough. 88 00:08:11,880 --> 00:08:13,990 Cream! We never have cream. 89 00:08:14,040 --> 00:08:15,790 I'm carrying the bacon. 90 00:08:15,840 --> 00:08:18,710 The smell torments me like the legions of the damned! 91 00:08:18,760 --> 00:08:21,910 Hurry, Beth, dear. Don't let those sugar rolls get cold! 92 00:08:21,960 --> 00:08:23,400 Come on, Jo! 93 00:08:31,840 --> 00:08:34,270 Oh, my stars! Miss, I'm so sorry. 94 00:08:34,320 --> 00:08:37,830 I could have... broken your... coffee service. 95 00:08:37,880 --> 00:08:40,790 I'm quite likely to break it myself before I'm through. 96 00:08:40,840 --> 00:08:44,150 Or lose my self-control and just drink all the coffee. 97 00:08:44,200 --> 00:08:46,350 We're giving our Christmas breakfast away 98 00:08:46,400 --> 00:08:48,670 to a poor German family we've never even met. 99 00:08:48,720 --> 00:08:51,310 - Was that your idea? - No. Our mother's. 100 00:08:51,360 --> 00:08:54,590 The soccer ball wasn't mine. It was my grandfather's. 101 00:08:54,640 --> 00:08:57,230 He thinks it's the kind of thing a boy my age might like. 102 00:08:57,280 --> 00:08:59,550 Mr Laurence is YOUR grandfather? 103 00:08:59,600 --> 00:09:02,670 Until last night I hadn't seen him for ten years. 104 00:09:02,720 --> 00:09:05,910 But I'll be living with him now -- at least until I go to college. 105 00:09:05,960 --> 00:09:08,870 - That's nice. - Hurry up! 106 00:09:08,920 --> 00:09:12,390 I should go back. Grandfather's watching through the window, 107 00:09:12,440 --> 00:09:14,950 so I have to make out like I'm having fun. 108 00:09:15,000 --> 00:09:18,240 - Happy Christmas present-giving! - Oh, yes. 109 00:10:16,640 --> 00:10:18,150 Jo, dear, there you are. 110 00:10:18,200 --> 00:10:21,670 Ah, a hot drink first for Mrs Hummel. 111 00:10:21,720 --> 00:10:23,160 Give the tray to Meg. 112 00:10:24,320 --> 00:10:25,830 Beth and Amy, 113 00:10:25,880 --> 00:10:29,590 could you start spooning out some oatmeal for the little ones? 114 00:10:29,640 --> 00:10:32,800 Jo, see if you can stop that broken window. 115 00:10:35,320 --> 00:10:37,110 What with? 116 00:10:37,160 --> 00:10:41,070 Ah... Hannah's hat will do. 117 00:10:41,120 --> 00:10:43,120 If you'd be so kind. 118 00:11:07,120 --> 00:11:10,270 I didn't even know that people lived like that. 119 00:11:10,320 --> 00:11:12,670 But they do. 120 00:11:12,720 --> 00:11:14,910 Come downstairs. 121 00:11:14,960 --> 00:11:17,080 There's something you'll enjoy. 122 00:11:31,680 --> 00:11:34,790 - Did you do this? - No. 123 00:11:34,840 --> 00:11:39,470 There's pink ice cream and white ice cream. And jelly! 124 00:11:39,520 --> 00:11:41,590 You never saw anything so elegant! 125 00:11:41,640 --> 00:11:44,030 Old Mr Laurence from next door sent it. 126 00:11:44,080 --> 00:11:47,110 It's a reward, because he heard about us giving our breakfast away. 127 00:11:47,160 --> 00:11:51,000 That boy just lost his mother. We must make him welcome. 128 00:12:29,200 --> 00:12:32,670 It's burning. It's burning, Jo! You're burning my hair! 129 00:12:32,720 --> 00:12:34,870 Are the tongs supposed to smoke like that? 130 00:12:34,920 --> 00:12:37,110 Of course they are! It's just the dampness drying. 131 00:12:37,160 --> 00:12:38,510 Something's scorching, Jo. 132 00:12:38,560 --> 00:12:40,910 Even I can smell it and I've got quite a flat nose. 133 00:12:40,960 --> 00:12:43,350 Nonsense! When I take these papers out, you're all going see 134 00:12:43,400 --> 00:12:44,840 a cloud of little ringlets! 135 00:12:57,240 --> 00:13:03,070 Oh, Meg... Oh, no. I'm so sorry! 136 00:13:03,120 --> 00:13:06,310 I'm so sorry! So... 137 00:13:06,360 --> 00:13:11,350 What have you done? Jo! What have you done?! 138 00:13:11,400 --> 00:13:14,280 I did what you asked me to do, I curled your hair! 139 00:13:16,440 --> 00:13:20,310 Why did you even ask me? You know I always ruin everything! 140 00:13:20,360 --> 00:13:23,230 - Oh, that's not true, Jo! - It's true tonight! 141 00:13:23,280 --> 00:13:28,270 How can I go to the party without any hair? 142 00:13:28,320 --> 00:13:31,270 You still have plenty at the back that's really smooth and pretty. 143 00:13:31,320 --> 00:13:34,720 And it's not as though you're Jo, whose hair is her one beauty. 144 00:14:07,080 --> 00:14:08,830 Not that piano. 145 00:14:08,880 --> 00:14:11,920 There was... I'm sorry, sir. I didn't know. 146 00:14:13,360 --> 00:14:17,710 Look, if you must play, there's a concert grand in the drawing room. 147 00:14:17,760 --> 00:14:19,240 Yes, sir. 148 00:14:22,040 --> 00:14:26,080 Nobody plays that piano any more. I don't permit it! 149 00:14:30,920 --> 00:14:33,000 Does it really look all right, Jo? 150 00:14:34,840 --> 00:14:38,120 It looks almost like you've invented a new fashion. 151 00:14:45,480 --> 00:14:47,670 Would you like to swap a glove with me? 152 00:14:47,720 --> 00:14:49,350 Mine are still all creased and sticky. 153 00:14:49,400 --> 00:14:52,230 - I could not get that lemonade out. - I meant swap just one, 154 00:14:52,280 --> 00:14:55,550 so we can each wear a smart glove and carry one that's spoiled. 155 00:14:55,600 --> 00:14:57,750 Will it make you happy? 156 00:14:57,800 --> 00:14:59,520 Yes, it will. 157 00:15:09,400 --> 00:15:14,190 Meg, if I do anything really wrong, will you wink at me? 158 00:15:14,240 --> 00:15:18,790 I will do no such thing! I shall raise my eyebrows. 159 00:15:18,840 --> 00:15:20,600 That's much more ladylike. 160 00:15:36,840 --> 00:15:39,920 - What? - Smile. 161 00:16:01,040 --> 00:16:04,670 You can't spend the whole evening in the retiring room, Jo. 162 00:16:04,720 --> 00:16:06,430 Don't you have any dances? 163 00:16:06,480 --> 00:16:08,800 No. Can't say I do. 164 00:16:13,240 --> 00:16:16,550 Ned Moffat has engaged me for supper! 165 00:16:16,600 --> 00:16:20,310 I can scarcely wait to sit down, my shoes are pinching so! 166 00:16:20,360 --> 00:16:23,350 Oh. Please come back to the party. 167 00:16:23,400 --> 00:16:25,880 People will think we're being impolite. 168 00:16:37,120 --> 00:16:40,470 Susie Perkins has three drawing lessons a week. 169 00:16:40,520 --> 00:16:44,670 She says there's no substitute whatever for drawing from life. 170 00:16:44,720 --> 00:16:46,320 Can we see it yet? 171 00:16:51,520 --> 00:16:52,670 You look as sooty and black 172 00:16:52,720 --> 00:16:54,870 as if you've just crawled out of a coal bin. 173 00:16:54,920 --> 00:16:57,480 No-one can say I don't have accomplished daughters! 174 00:16:58,600 --> 00:17:01,630 Did you know that Jo's writing a novel? 175 00:17:01,680 --> 00:17:05,030 I've seen the pages all piled up on her desk in the garret. 176 00:17:05,080 --> 00:17:07,200 Let Jo write in peace. 177 00:17:31,320 --> 00:17:34,150 Hello, again. Don't you care for the party either? 178 00:17:34,200 --> 00:17:38,790 Oh, um, it's lovely. It's just I don't know many people. 179 00:17:38,840 --> 00:17:41,070 Me neither. And I have a headache. 180 00:17:41,120 --> 00:17:44,830 - Me too. - I think I might have the grippe coming on. 181 00:17:44,880 --> 00:17:47,150 I just have 19 hairpins stuck in my head. 182 00:17:47,200 --> 00:17:49,790 I let my little sister loose on my coiffure. 183 00:17:49,840 --> 00:17:53,790 Is that the little dark one or the little fair one? 184 00:17:53,840 --> 00:17:57,590 The fair one. Do you know us all by sight? 185 00:17:57,640 --> 00:18:00,470 We're neighbours. We ought to know each other's names. 186 00:18:00,520 --> 00:18:02,950 And when you sent the thank you letter for the supper, 187 00:18:03,000 --> 00:18:06,710 it just said "Margaret, Josephine, Elizabeth and Amy March." 188 00:18:06,760 --> 00:18:09,270 So I still don't know which one of you is which! 189 00:18:09,320 --> 00:18:13,310 Well, I'm Josephine, but everybody calls me Jo, apart from one 190 00:18:13,360 --> 00:18:17,630 ancient aunt whom I have to wait on and who's usually vexed with me. 191 00:18:17,680 --> 00:18:20,870 I'm called Theodore, and I hate it. 192 00:18:20,920 --> 00:18:23,750 The boys at school in Switzerland used to call me Dora. 193 00:18:23,800 --> 00:18:26,630 They changed to Laurie in the end. I made them. 194 00:18:26,680 --> 00:18:29,750 Did you learn a lot of French out there? 195 00:18:29,800 --> 00:18:37,000 ~ 196 00:18:38,680 --> 00:18:40,750 Oh, ah. "I came here with my tutor. 197 00:18:40,800 --> 00:18:43,390 "But he is in the smoking room with all the other men, 198 00:18:43,440 --> 00:18:46,270 - "talking about the war." - You have a tutor? 199 00:18:46,320 --> 00:18:48,510 Grandfather insisted. 200 00:18:48,560 --> 00:18:51,750 He wants me to go to Harvard, but my grades aren't what they need to be. 201 00:18:51,800 --> 00:18:55,230 Jo? Jo...? I turned my ankle over in the gallop 202 00:18:55,280 --> 00:18:57,630 and I swear I heard a tearing sound! 203 00:18:57,680 --> 00:18:59,270 Oh. 204 00:18:59,320 --> 00:19:01,590 Should I fetch ice? 205 00:19:01,640 --> 00:19:04,600 You'll have to fetch a stretcher or we'll never get her home! 206 00:19:36,800 --> 00:19:39,670 I was about to send Hannah to collect you. 207 00:19:39,720 --> 00:19:42,710 And I warned you about those high-heeled shoes. 208 00:19:42,760 --> 00:19:45,830 It was a case of, "Let us be elegant or die!" 209 00:19:45,880 --> 00:19:48,710 She took them off in case she sprained the other ankle. 210 00:19:48,760 --> 00:19:50,590 I'm Theodore Laurence. 211 00:19:50,640 --> 00:19:53,870 I live next door and this is my tutor, Mr Brooke, ma'am. 212 00:19:53,920 --> 00:19:56,070 I helped Miss March into our carriage, 213 00:19:56,120 --> 00:19:58,110 so that she'd be spared the walk home. 214 00:19:58,160 --> 00:20:01,440 Well, I thank you both for your extremely kind attentions. 215 00:20:13,480 --> 00:20:15,350 Meg, have you been drinking wine? 216 00:20:15,400 --> 00:20:19,560 I had punch. Does that have wine in it? 217 00:20:28,480 --> 00:20:32,230 There are three dolls on my side of the bed, Beth. 218 00:20:32,280 --> 00:20:34,350 Wasn't this one mine once? 219 00:20:34,400 --> 00:20:37,360 You broke the top off her head and I found her in the ragbag. 220 00:20:43,040 --> 00:20:45,430 Jo, I see that Laurence boy standing at the window, 221 00:20:45,480 --> 00:20:48,150 looking down, sometimes. 222 00:20:48,200 --> 00:20:50,320 Do you suppose he's lonely? 223 00:20:51,880 --> 00:20:54,560 Yes. I do. 224 00:21:11,400 --> 00:21:15,750 Marmee! Marmee! Marmee! 225 00:21:15,800 --> 00:21:18,790 Have you seen my rubber overshoes? 226 00:21:18,840 --> 00:21:21,710 If you don't put 'em away, don't expect them to stay put! 227 00:21:21,760 --> 00:21:23,710 I can't find my slate either! 228 00:21:23,760 --> 00:21:25,510 Beth, have you seen my slate? 229 00:21:25,560 --> 00:21:27,870 It has a sum on it I need to take to school today. 230 00:21:27,920 --> 00:21:30,670 - I have a headache, Amy. - All girls get headaches, Beth. 231 00:21:30,720 --> 00:21:32,590 We just have to bear them as best we can. 232 00:21:32,640 --> 00:21:35,230 I have one too, Marmee, as well as my ankle smarting. 233 00:21:35,280 --> 00:21:36,590 Can I take some belladonna? 234 00:21:36,640 --> 00:21:40,310 No. Wrap a shawl around your head. The walk to work will cure it. 235 00:21:40,360 --> 00:21:43,110 Letter for the mistress. I don't know who it's from 236 00:21:43,160 --> 00:21:45,830 but it has Mr Laurence's cipher on the envelope. 237 00:21:45,880 --> 00:21:48,870 And are youse young ladies ever going to take these hot turnovers 238 00:21:48,920 --> 00:21:52,150 I've been fretting about since sunup, or are you not? 239 00:21:52,200 --> 00:21:55,550 They most certainly are, Hannah. And they are going to take them 240 00:21:55,600 --> 00:21:58,510 out of the house within the next five minutes! 241 00:21:58,560 --> 00:22:00,840 Get to school and get to work! 242 00:22:07,360 --> 00:22:09,470 Bonjour, Mademoiselle Josephine. 243 00:22:09,520 --> 00:22:13,400 Your boots, upon the matting, s'il vous plait. 244 00:22:19,880 --> 00:22:22,750 I dare say you had a fine Christmas with your family, 245 00:22:22,800 --> 00:22:27,110 replete with homespun pleasures and the comforts of the hearth? 246 00:22:27,160 --> 00:22:29,910 Yes, we did. New Year next! 247 00:22:29,960 --> 00:22:34,150 Let us hope it brings the world less anguish than the last one. 248 00:22:34,200 --> 00:22:38,470 Polly was grieved by your absence, it would seem. 249 00:22:38,520 --> 00:22:40,070 Likewise. 250 00:22:40,120 --> 00:22:43,550 He doesn't care for that maid of mine, or her ministrations. 251 00:22:43,600 --> 00:22:48,080 He's like me. He can smell a papist from ten yards. 252 00:22:52,800 --> 00:22:56,080 Do you want to talk about your invitation from Mr Laurence? 253 00:22:58,080 --> 00:23:01,830 Oh, Beth. It's a simple invitation to go to his house, 254 00:23:01,880 --> 00:23:05,560 to play on a beautiful concert grand piano. 255 00:23:07,280 --> 00:23:08,830 Beth, dear, 256 00:23:08,880 --> 00:23:11,990 we agreed you need not go to school because it troubled your spirits, 257 00:23:12,040 --> 00:23:14,910 and we agreed that you could help to run the house, 258 00:23:14,960 --> 00:23:18,590 rather than waste your days. But if you don't engage with the world, 259 00:23:18,640 --> 00:23:20,960 all you'll be running is your own prison. 260 00:23:23,320 --> 00:23:25,920 I'm not doing what Father asked, am I? 261 00:23:27,240 --> 00:23:30,120 I'm not fighting my bosom enemies bravely. 262 00:23:31,880 --> 00:23:33,080 No. 263 00:23:35,080 --> 00:23:36,920 And you have to try. 264 00:23:38,920 --> 00:23:42,790 "In such times of dangerous trial, many would be deterred from 265 00:23:42,840 --> 00:23:48,230 "inquiring into and embracing the truth, and others tempted 266 00:23:48,280 --> 00:23:52,680 "and drawn aside from their steadfastness and integrity..." 267 00:23:56,920 --> 00:24:00,750 Why don't you just open a little wider and swallow the whole book? 268 00:24:00,800 --> 00:24:04,270 - Sorry, Aunt March. - When I engaged you as my companion, Josephine, 269 00:24:04,320 --> 00:24:06,590 it was my hope that you would come to find 270 00:24:06,640 --> 00:24:11,750 Mr Belsham's Sermons as transporting and restorative as I. 271 00:24:11,800 --> 00:24:15,070 I should have taken Margaret on not you. 272 00:24:15,120 --> 00:24:19,470 She has dainty manners, a soft voice and a sweeter nature. 273 00:24:19,520 --> 00:24:22,430 She also had another job already, taking care of four small children. 274 00:24:22,480 --> 00:24:26,230 Four small children is a recipe for heartache, headache, 275 00:24:26,280 --> 00:24:28,590 and indigestion -- and it always was. 276 00:24:28,640 --> 00:24:31,190 No-one can help how big their family gets. 277 00:24:31,240 --> 00:24:33,710 Well, they can help who they fall in love with. 278 00:24:33,760 --> 00:24:37,470 The most foolish thing your mother ever did was to marry my nephew! 279 00:24:37,520 --> 00:24:40,990 He had filled his skull with theologising and philosophising 280 00:24:41,040 --> 00:24:45,190 and didn't leave space for a grain of business acumen! 281 00:24:45,240 --> 00:24:49,510 I can only hope that you and your sisters learn from her error 282 00:24:49,560 --> 00:24:51,760 and do not do likewise. 283 00:24:52,760 --> 00:24:55,110 Go and put clean sand under Polly's perch. 284 00:24:55,160 --> 00:24:58,830 After which... we may resume the sermon. 285 00:24:58,880 --> 00:25:03,200 Meaning Mr Belsham's... and not mine. 286 00:25:30,960 --> 00:25:33,790 - You savage, Laurie Laurence! A real savage! - Amy! 287 00:25:33,840 --> 00:25:38,870 Amy! Stop screaming like that! 288 00:25:38,920 --> 00:25:41,560 That's right! Do as your sister says! 289 00:25:45,640 --> 00:25:47,320 Not so fast! 290 00:25:49,040 --> 00:25:50,720 Leave this to me, Amy! 291 00:25:52,680 --> 00:25:57,080 - I'll beat you, Laurie Laurence! - I don't think so, Jo March! 292 00:26:27,600 --> 00:26:30,390 Do you want to go the theatre, Jo? 293 00:26:30,440 --> 00:26:32,430 I'm writing. 294 00:26:32,480 --> 00:26:36,000 - Well, I didn't mean today. I just meant... - Shh! 295 00:26:39,040 --> 00:26:41,670 It's a regular castle in the air up here. 296 00:26:41,720 --> 00:26:45,230 A castle in the air is a place you go to dream, Laurie Laurence. 297 00:26:45,280 --> 00:26:48,280 This garret is a chamber of industry. 298 00:26:50,320 --> 00:26:53,600 Page 156. 299 00:26:55,000 --> 00:26:57,670 I don't know how you peg away the way you do. 300 00:26:57,720 --> 00:27:01,070 Never wasting an hour, never letting one moment go cold. 301 00:27:01,120 --> 00:27:05,870 Brooke called me a lazy dog yesterday and I'm afraid I am. 302 00:27:05,920 --> 00:27:08,150 Marmee says it's all about finding a motive. 303 00:27:08,200 --> 00:27:10,230 A reason to get up and apply yourself. 304 00:27:10,280 --> 00:27:15,190 She's possibly -- probably -- absolutely right. 305 00:27:15,240 --> 00:27:19,270 I just don't know what that motive is, or ever will be. 306 00:27:19,320 --> 00:27:21,990 Grandfather wants me to be an India merchant after college, 307 00:27:22,040 --> 00:27:24,790 just like he was. And I'd rather be shot. 308 00:27:24,840 --> 00:27:29,150 If I were a boy and if I were you, I would get on one of those old 309 00:27:29,200 --> 00:27:33,000 ships and sail away and never come back until I'd tried my own way. 310 00:27:36,040 --> 00:27:37,680 We should go together. 311 00:27:39,600 --> 00:27:40,990 All right. 312 00:27:41,040 --> 00:27:44,240 As long as you show me London and Paris and Italy along the way. 313 00:27:45,760 --> 00:27:49,310 Shake on it. And go pack your trunk. 314 00:27:49,360 --> 00:27:51,950 After I've finished this chapter. 315 00:27:52,000 --> 00:27:54,510 Castles in the air need keys. 316 00:27:54,560 --> 00:27:57,280 And sometimes I dare to think that this is mine. 317 00:28:03,080 --> 00:28:05,510 Oh, thank goodness it will be dark in the theatre! 318 00:28:05,560 --> 00:28:07,550 This brushing braid is hanging off the hem. 319 00:28:07,600 --> 00:28:09,360 I must have put my foot through it. 320 00:28:10,480 --> 00:28:11,910 You're going out! 321 00:28:11,960 --> 00:28:14,310 I can smell eau de cologne right along the landing 322 00:28:14,360 --> 00:28:17,630 - and Hannah's been polishing the opera glasses. - Yes, she has. 323 00:28:17,680 --> 00:28:19,830 Because we're going to the theatre. 324 00:28:19,880 --> 00:28:23,950 - To see The Seven Princesses Of The Diamond Lake? - Yes. 325 00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:26,990 Laurie invited the two of us to go with him and Mr Brooke. 326 00:28:27,040 --> 00:28:28,990 Then I'm coming, too! 327 00:28:29,040 --> 00:28:31,670 No, you aren't, because you haven't been asked. 328 00:28:31,720 --> 00:28:34,550 Oh, couldn't we buy her a ticket? It was my turn to have the rag money 329 00:28:34,600 --> 00:28:37,590 - this month and I haven't spent it yet. - Thank you, thank you! - No, Meg! 330 00:28:37,640 --> 00:28:40,030 Even if we can get her a ticket, she can't sit alone! 331 00:28:40,080 --> 00:28:41,630 And neither you nor I can sit alone, 332 00:28:41,680 --> 00:28:44,390 so that means Laurie or Mr Brooke would have to. 333 00:28:44,440 --> 00:28:47,360 You're supposed to be the one with the ladylike manners, Meg. 334 00:28:50,240 --> 00:28:52,320 I hate you, Josephine March! 335 00:28:54,680 --> 00:28:57,480 You'll pay for this. Just you wait. 336 00:29:01,200 --> 00:29:02,240 Hurry! 337 00:29:04,680 --> 00:29:05,920 Come on! 338 00:29:07,520 --> 00:29:09,710 I'm sorry! Meg was fussing with her hair. 339 00:29:09,760 --> 00:29:12,280 She won't let me near with the tongs any more! 340 00:30:15,480 --> 00:30:18,550 My feet just chattered on the ground. 341 00:30:18,600 --> 00:30:20,520 I couldn't even ring the bell. 342 00:30:22,240 --> 00:30:24,840 Keep your cloak and bonnet on. 343 00:30:26,520 --> 00:30:30,750 You can come with me to the Hummels. Amy, would you like to come, too? 344 00:30:30,800 --> 00:30:34,800 No, thank you, Marmee. I'll stay home and tidy my art box. 345 00:30:44,880 --> 00:30:49,030 We're promised a Chorus of Comical Crimson Imps, among other delights. 346 00:30:49,080 --> 00:30:52,710 Jo, why not change places with Meg? 347 00:30:52,760 --> 00:30:55,400 The man in front of her is really tall. 348 00:32:08,880 --> 00:32:12,430 - Girls! Did you enjoy the play? - If you're lucky, after dinner, Meg 349 00:32:12,480 --> 00:32:15,230 and I will reprise the entire Ballet Of The Swans! 350 00:32:15,280 --> 00:32:19,390 Jo bought these for you in the foyer. Chocolate-coated caramels. 351 00:32:19,440 --> 00:32:20,750 Why? 352 00:32:20,800 --> 00:32:23,950 Because I was a crosspatch, and I'm sorry. 353 00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:25,350 Thank you. 354 00:32:25,400 --> 00:32:27,110 Why not unwrap them, Amy? 355 00:32:27,160 --> 00:32:29,990 It's the kind of treat that tastes much better when it's shared. 356 00:32:30,040 --> 00:32:32,750 I imagine all treats taste better when shared. 357 00:32:32,800 --> 00:32:34,910 I'll take you to the play next week, Amy. 358 00:32:34,960 --> 00:32:37,270 There are tickets, I asked at the office. 359 00:32:37,320 --> 00:32:40,990 So which one of youse young ladies has been meddling 360 00:32:41,040 --> 00:32:42,710 with my cooking range?! 361 00:32:42,760 --> 00:32:46,230 I leave the house for one hour in pursuit of additional onions 362 00:32:46,280 --> 00:32:50,390 and I come back to my kitchen to find the stove cold, smoking 363 00:32:50,440 --> 00:32:53,560 and choked with a load of scrawny papers! 364 00:33:02,000 --> 00:33:05,310 This is mine. This is my writing! 365 00:33:05,360 --> 00:33:06,910 What's happened to the rest of it? 366 00:33:06,960 --> 00:33:09,600 In a nutshell, it's all turned to soot and black ash. 367 00:33:14,080 --> 00:33:16,000 Amy, did you burn my book? 368 00:33:17,200 --> 00:33:19,870 I said I'd make you pay for being so hateful. 369 00:33:19,920 --> 00:33:21,200 And I have. 370 00:33:25,440 --> 00:33:26,710 Girls! Jo! 371 00:33:26,760 --> 00:33:30,510 You wicked, wicked girl! I will never write again! 372 00:33:30,560 --> 00:33:33,030 And I will never forgive you as long as I live! 373 00:33:33,080 --> 00:33:36,480 - Jo! Stop! Stop! - Why should I? It's too late to stop her! 374 00:33:42,880 --> 00:33:44,960 Amy, how could you? 375 00:33:46,760 --> 00:33:48,400 Did you see what she did?! 376 00:33:49,440 --> 00:33:52,760 - Did you see what she did?! - Yes. 377 00:33:54,280 --> 00:33:58,350 And don't look to me for comfort, because I don't blame her! 378 00:34:08,080 --> 00:34:10,750 If it was in your head once, some of it must still be in there. 379 00:34:10,800 --> 00:34:13,510 Writing isn't like that. You can't keep it anywhere. 380 00:34:13,560 --> 00:34:17,150 It passes through you and you have to catch it and get it on the page. 381 00:34:17,200 --> 00:34:20,870 And do you know the worst thing? I don't even know if it was any good. 382 00:34:20,920 --> 00:34:24,150 All I ever wanted was to take it somewhere to show it to someone 383 00:34:24,200 --> 00:34:27,350 to see if it might be fit to publish. 384 00:34:27,400 --> 00:34:28,830 I don't mind if you cry, Jo. 385 00:34:28,880 --> 00:34:32,120 - Tears are an unmanly weakness. - You're not a man! 386 00:34:39,960 --> 00:34:41,400 Go on. Apologise. 387 00:34:53,320 --> 00:34:55,240 I'm truly, truly sorry, Jo. 388 00:34:58,720 --> 00:35:02,110 - Please forgive me. - I can't. 389 00:35:02,160 --> 00:35:06,080 Did you hear that? I apologised and she won't accept it! 390 00:35:13,560 --> 00:35:20,270 Jo... don't let the sun go down on your anger. You're sisters. 391 00:35:20,320 --> 00:35:22,200 Forgive each other. 392 00:35:23,800 --> 00:35:27,670 - You can start again in the morning. - Start what again? My book? 393 00:35:27,720 --> 00:35:32,320 Amy did an abominable thing and she doesn't deserve to be forgiven! 394 00:35:44,160 --> 00:35:46,230 I can't imagine any of you quarrelling. 395 00:35:46,280 --> 00:35:49,430 You don't have to imagine it. We've been at odds for days now. 396 00:35:49,480 --> 00:35:52,790 Even Beth acts grieved and wistful all the time. 397 00:35:52,840 --> 00:35:54,590 But it always looks so idyllic, 398 00:35:54,640 --> 00:35:57,750 when I look down and see you through the parlour window in the evenings. 399 00:35:57,800 --> 00:35:59,470 It's like the window is a frame 400 00:35:59,520 --> 00:36:01,910 and you're all part of a perfect picture. 401 00:36:01,960 --> 00:36:05,310 You must cherish your illusions if they make you happy. 402 00:36:05,360 --> 00:36:07,480 What would make YOU happy, Jo? 403 00:36:09,280 --> 00:36:11,870 Skating. With you. 404 00:36:11,920 --> 00:36:14,390 You said we should, if the lake froze properly 405 00:36:14,440 --> 00:36:16,590 and this is probably the last ice we shall have. 406 00:36:16,640 --> 00:36:19,430 - I also said we'd take Amy. - What? - I'm sorry. 407 00:36:19,480 --> 00:36:21,280 It was before she burnt your book. 408 00:36:40,520 --> 00:36:43,110 Now, stay away from the middle 409 00:36:43,160 --> 00:36:47,270 and if you hear a cracking sound, it means the ice is about to give. 410 00:36:47,320 --> 00:36:49,680 If you don't hear a crack... 411 00:36:51,200 --> 00:36:52,960 .. it's time for hockey! 412 00:36:55,400 --> 00:36:56,960 Not so fast! 413 00:37:43,600 --> 00:37:46,320 Jo! Jo! 414 00:37:48,600 --> 00:37:51,280 Jo, will you help me put my skates on? 415 00:37:53,240 --> 00:37:54,830 Laurie invited me last week, 416 00:37:54,880 --> 00:37:59,950 I don't need you to talk to me, I just need you to do the straps. 417 00:38:00,000 --> 00:38:02,830 If you're old enough to force your way in when you're not wanted, 418 00:38:02,880 --> 00:38:05,240 you're old enough to fasten them yourself! 419 00:38:06,840 --> 00:38:09,720 You won't shut me out like this! 420 00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:13,590 We're supposed to be trying to be good people! 421 00:38:13,640 --> 00:38:16,430 And you, Jo March, aren't going to get anywhere 422 00:38:16,480 --> 00:38:19,280 when you ignore someone who's trying to set a virtuous... 423 00:38:24,200 --> 00:38:27,670 - Amy! - Jo! 424 00:38:27,720 --> 00:38:30,310 Amy! Jo, stop! 425 00:38:30,360 --> 00:38:32,640 You can't walk on it, it's too thin. 426 00:38:34,800 --> 00:38:38,150 She didn't know! You told me, and I didn't tell her. She didn't know. 427 00:38:38,200 --> 00:38:40,070 Jo! Jo! 428 00:38:40,120 --> 00:38:42,590 Amy. Don't move. I'm coming to get you. 429 00:38:42,640 --> 00:38:45,070 You have to stay absolutely still, Amy, 430 00:38:45,120 --> 00:38:47,710 and when I get to you, trust me absolutely. 431 00:38:47,760 --> 00:38:49,600 Don't grab me, do you understand? 432 00:38:53,000 --> 00:38:57,800 Jo... This won't do, Jo. Go find a branch! 433 00:39:28,040 --> 00:39:31,470 Take it! Take it, Amy. Take it. 434 00:39:31,520 --> 00:39:33,190 Don't let go, Jo. 435 00:39:33,240 --> 00:39:36,960 Never. I swear to you. Never. 436 00:39:44,680 --> 00:39:48,510 Jo, Amy won't even catch cold, you wrapped her up so well 437 00:39:48,560 --> 00:39:50,430 and brought her home so quickly. 438 00:39:50,480 --> 00:39:52,230 Laurie did everything. 439 00:39:52,280 --> 00:39:54,550 All I did was let her go skating off alone 440 00:39:54,600 --> 00:39:57,600 because I can't conquer my horrible temper. 441 00:39:58,920 --> 00:40:02,430 It's been your burden since you were a little girl. 442 00:40:02,480 --> 00:40:04,150 You will learn to master it. 443 00:40:04,200 --> 00:40:05,870 I won't! 444 00:40:05,920 --> 00:40:09,550 I try and I think I've won, and then it breaks out worse than ever. 445 00:40:09,600 --> 00:40:11,790 I'll never learn to govern myself. 446 00:40:11,840 --> 00:40:14,320 - You don't know what it's like, Marmee! - I do! 447 00:40:15,680 --> 00:40:17,230 But you're never angry. 448 00:40:17,280 --> 00:40:19,280 No. I never SEEM angry. 449 00:40:20,560 --> 00:40:24,270 But I am angry, almost every day of my life. 450 00:40:24,320 --> 00:40:27,600 I've been trying to cure my rage for 40 years... 451 00:40:28,720 --> 00:40:31,710 .. and have only succeeded in controlling it. 452 00:40:31,760 --> 00:40:33,790 Are you angry when you press your lips together 453 00:40:33,840 --> 00:40:35,040 and go out of the room? 454 00:40:36,840 --> 00:40:38,040 Yes. 455 00:40:39,360 --> 00:40:42,280 Father doesn't have a temper, does he? 456 00:40:43,800 --> 00:40:46,160 He's always so wise and so patient. 457 00:40:47,480 --> 00:40:49,560 No-one is without their trials. 458 00:40:52,080 --> 00:40:55,720 But his strengths speak to my weaknesses and help to bear me up. 459 00:40:57,000 --> 00:40:58,480 Don't cry, Marmee. 460 00:41:00,320 --> 00:41:03,720 You didn't even cry when Father left for Washington in his uniform. 461 00:41:05,000 --> 00:41:07,750 I gave my best to the country I love 462 00:41:07,800 --> 00:41:09,600 and saved my tears till he was gone. 463 00:41:11,640 --> 00:41:15,480 Sometimes, we simply have to do the bravest thing. 464 00:41:41,320 --> 00:41:42,560 I'm sorry. 465 00:41:45,120 --> 00:41:46,480 So am I. 466 00:42:16,840 --> 00:42:19,310 When Laurie said his visitors were English, I thought it would 467 00:42:19,360 --> 00:42:21,110 all be very smart and formal. 468 00:42:21,160 --> 00:42:22,350 I even bought new gloves. 469 00:42:22,400 --> 00:42:25,630 Give them to me. I'm going back to sit by the hampers. 470 00:42:25,680 --> 00:42:28,110 And which ensign do you sail under, Miss Margaret? 471 00:42:28,160 --> 00:42:29,790 The Union Jack or the Union Flag? 472 00:42:29,840 --> 00:42:32,830 Oh, I dare say I ought to make our guests feel welcome. 473 00:42:32,880 --> 00:42:35,680 A delightful gesture and a very good choice. 474 00:42:47,920 --> 00:42:51,680 There they are! We're coming for you! 475 00:42:53,560 --> 00:42:56,280 Amy! Don't you dare! 476 00:42:59,640 --> 00:43:01,120 Jo! 477 00:43:20,120 --> 00:43:23,790 Have they sent you up here to talk to me? 478 00:43:23,840 --> 00:43:25,070 No. 479 00:43:25,120 --> 00:43:26,440 I just came. 480 00:43:27,960 --> 00:43:29,990 I'm scared to talk to them. 481 00:43:30,040 --> 00:43:31,200 Are you shy? 482 00:43:34,200 --> 00:43:35,520 I'm not. 483 00:43:36,960 --> 00:43:39,880 Although I can't claim to be particularly interesting. 484 00:43:41,600 --> 00:43:46,070 I used to be able to talk about two things -- hunting and cricket. 485 00:43:46,120 --> 00:43:47,790 But I broke my legs hunting, 486 00:43:47,840 --> 00:43:51,120 and I can't think you and I would get very far with cricket. 487 00:43:58,200 --> 00:44:00,750 I have a pack of cards with me. 488 00:44:00,800 --> 00:44:04,640 Oh! No, I'm worse at cards than I am at conversation. 489 00:44:08,960 --> 00:44:12,120 If you'd like to try cricket, I will listen very hard. 490 00:44:22,640 --> 00:44:25,430 Did you enjoy the translation of the German poem? 491 00:44:25,480 --> 00:44:27,310 I left it in your mailbox on Sunday. 492 00:44:27,360 --> 00:44:29,550 - Oh, that was you. - Yes. 493 00:44:29,600 --> 00:44:31,470 We all thought it was Laurie. 494 00:44:31,520 --> 00:44:33,390 Do you read German, Miss March? 495 00:44:33,440 --> 00:44:34,870 My father was teaching me, 496 00:44:34,920 --> 00:44:38,430 but I've fallen behind since he went to Washington with the Army. 497 00:44:38,480 --> 00:44:41,580 Perhaps the deficiency might be remedied by your governess. 498 00:44:43,000 --> 00:44:44,320 I am a governess. 499 00:44:45,320 --> 00:44:46,640 A paid governess? 500 00:44:47,640 --> 00:44:49,790 I work for a family called the Kings. 501 00:44:49,840 --> 00:44:51,590 They have four little children. 502 00:44:51,640 --> 00:44:53,550 I see. 503 00:44:53,600 --> 00:44:56,350 Laurie didn't make your position entirely plain. 504 00:44:56,400 --> 00:44:58,040 You must excuse me. 505 00:45:05,240 --> 00:45:07,800 I had hoped that Miss Vaughn and I might be friends. 506 00:45:09,120 --> 00:45:11,950 I think perhaps ours is the country to belong to, 507 00:45:12,000 --> 00:45:13,510 if you have to be a worker. 508 00:45:13,560 --> 00:45:15,920 I get great satisfaction from earning a wage. 509 00:45:18,120 --> 00:45:20,590 I only wish I enjoyed teaching as much as you do. 510 00:45:20,640 --> 00:45:23,030 You would, if you had Laurie as a pupil. 511 00:45:23,080 --> 00:45:25,510 And I shall miss him, when he goes to college next year. 512 00:45:25,560 --> 00:45:28,710 Next year? That's not so very far away. 513 00:45:28,760 --> 00:45:31,670 I shall wave him off and turn soldier. 514 00:45:31,720 --> 00:45:34,870 And I have no family to miss me, or even care, should I not be spared. 515 00:45:34,920 --> 00:45:37,280 Laurie and Mr Laurence would care a great deal. 516 00:45:38,440 --> 00:45:41,840 And we would all be heartbroken if you came to any harm. 517 00:45:44,120 --> 00:45:45,280 Thank you. 518 00:45:46,960 --> 00:45:50,000 Now, Miss Meg, let's race back to those hampers. 519 00:46:06,600 --> 00:46:10,230 This rat's getting particular as well as tame, Jo. 520 00:46:10,280 --> 00:46:12,310 He likes the cheese. 521 00:46:12,360 --> 00:46:13,990 He wouldn't touch the ham. 522 00:46:14,040 --> 00:46:16,790 I said you mustn't talk until I've finished this chapter. 523 00:46:16,840 --> 00:46:17,920 Jo? 524 00:46:19,320 --> 00:46:21,710 Jo! Have you seen my cream glove? 525 00:46:21,760 --> 00:46:24,520 - It's half of the kid pair I had new at Laurie's picnic. - No. 526 00:46:26,760 --> 00:46:28,040 Oh. 527 00:46:29,240 --> 00:46:32,720 - I bet you used it to mop up lemonade. - Shh! 528 00:47:46,640 --> 00:47:48,670 Nobody is supposed to play that piano! 529 00:47:48,720 --> 00:47:50,630 I'm sorry, Mr Laurence! 530 00:47:50,680 --> 00:47:53,630 I'm sorry. I know I was supposed to play the concert grand, but... 531 00:47:53,680 --> 00:47:56,110 No, no, no... 532 00:47:56,160 --> 00:47:57,520 Oh, my word. 533 00:47:59,720 --> 00:48:01,830 I'm sorry. 534 00:48:01,880 --> 00:48:04,230 I didn't mean to startle you. 535 00:48:04,280 --> 00:48:06,870 But I once had a daughter 536 00:48:06,920 --> 00:48:09,880 who loved this piano as much as I loved her. 537 00:48:12,480 --> 00:48:16,310 I thought silence was her best memorial, 538 00:48:16,360 --> 00:48:18,720 but now I suspect I may be mistaken. 539 00:48:20,720 --> 00:48:22,110 Don't stop. 540 00:48:22,160 --> 00:48:23,400 Here we are. 541 00:48:25,880 --> 00:48:27,120 Please. 542 00:48:55,960 --> 00:48:57,870 You've travelled all over Italy. 543 00:48:57,920 --> 00:49:00,110 What do they do with the sunflowers over there? 544 00:49:00,160 --> 00:49:02,350 I don't want to poison Aunt Cockle-top and the chicks! 545 00:49:02,400 --> 00:49:04,910 Aunt Cockle-top and the chicks are eating every little seed 546 00:49:04,960 --> 00:49:06,270 that falls to earth. 547 00:49:06,320 --> 00:49:08,880 They don't look like they're being poisoned to me. 548 00:49:11,360 --> 00:49:14,750 Meg's been in our hothouse with Brooke for a long time. 549 00:49:14,800 --> 00:49:16,030 What do you mean? 550 00:49:16,080 --> 00:49:18,870 She only went to fetch the orange tree he's been raising from a pip 551 00:49:18,920 --> 00:49:22,750 and all I have to say is, how much fetching does an orange tree take? 552 00:49:22,800 --> 00:49:25,830 You're insinuating things and I don't care for it. 553 00:49:25,880 --> 00:49:27,470 You're better than that and so is Meg. 554 00:49:27,520 --> 00:49:30,630 It might be insinuating if I didn't know where her cream glove was. 555 00:49:30,680 --> 00:49:32,880 Or who had it and still does. 556 00:49:34,040 --> 00:49:36,030 Brooke has Meg's glove? 557 00:49:36,080 --> 00:49:37,910 - How do you know? - Saw it. 558 00:49:37,960 --> 00:49:40,350 He's had it in his pocket all this time. 559 00:49:40,400 --> 00:49:42,720 - Isn't that romantic? - No. 560 00:49:44,000 --> 00:49:45,200 It's horrid. 561 00:49:47,400 --> 00:49:48,560 Bad boy. 562 00:49:49,960 --> 00:49:51,110 Brooke? 563 00:49:51,160 --> 00:49:52,310 No. 564 00:49:52,360 --> 00:49:53,960 You, for telling me. 565 00:49:58,440 --> 00:50:02,390 Marmee, can I have some pickled limes to take to school on Monday? 566 00:50:02,440 --> 00:50:04,560 - Pickled limes? - It's the fashion. 567 00:50:06,240 --> 00:50:10,350 It used to be pricking bits of India rubber to make balls. 568 00:50:10,400 --> 00:50:13,270 Mr Davies said they were a distraction and forbade them, 569 00:50:13,320 --> 00:50:15,510 so now it's pickled limes. 570 00:50:15,560 --> 00:50:16,950 Marmee! 571 00:50:17,000 --> 00:50:19,270 Look what Mr Brooke gave me for my piece of the garden. 572 00:50:19,320 --> 00:50:22,150 And I have pansies. Mr Laurence calls them heartsease -- 573 00:50:22,200 --> 00:50:24,100 he says they're his favourite flower. 574 00:50:29,440 --> 00:50:30,800 It's a telegram. 575 00:51:22,080 --> 00:51:24,030 Your father is very ill 576 00:51:24,080 --> 00:51:26,320 and I have been asked to go to him at once. 577 00:51:28,680 --> 00:51:31,990 Laurie, if you would go to Plumfield 578 00:51:32,040 --> 00:51:36,800 and ask for this note to be given to Aunt March, I would be grateful. 579 00:51:38,080 --> 00:51:39,990 Is there nothing else I can do? 580 00:51:40,040 --> 00:51:41,120 I... 581 00:51:42,520 --> 00:51:43,960 I don't know. 582 00:51:47,200 --> 00:51:49,280 Hannah, the brown trunk from the garret. 583 00:51:59,080 --> 00:52:02,240 We have sufficient sal volatile and nux vomica, but... 584 00:52:04,360 --> 00:52:06,760 .. Jo, you'll have to get me some more... 585 00:52:08,480 --> 00:52:11,630 .. belladonna and some Holloway's pills. 586 00:52:11,680 --> 00:52:14,480 - Where from? - From the pharmacy on Main Street! 587 00:52:16,200 --> 00:52:17,320 What can I do? 588 00:52:19,080 --> 00:52:23,590 You must help Hannah prepare some linen for your father. 589 00:52:23,640 --> 00:52:26,230 And while I'm away, you must help her with the laundry. 590 00:52:26,280 --> 00:52:28,040 What can we do? 591 00:52:29,360 --> 00:52:30,520 Pray. 592 00:52:32,600 --> 00:52:36,390 Pray that I may be able to afford the train to Washington. 593 00:52:36,440 --> 00:52:38,030 Soon. 594 00:52:38,080 --> 00:52:39,630 Pray that I am not too late. 595 00:52:39,680 --> 00:52:43,680 Oh, children, help me. Help me to bear it. 596 00:53:14,200 --> 00:53:16,710 - Bonjour, Mademoiselle. - Do you only speak French? 597 00:53:16,760 --> 00:53:19,800 Because I have to be elsewhere and I need to do this quickly. 598 00:53:29,840 --> 00:53:32,790 When you send me a written appeal for aid, the least you can do 599 00:53:32,840 --> 00:53:36,590 is to await me in the parlour and without an apron on. 600 00:53:36,640 --> 00:53:40,150 I didn't think you'd come in person. 601 00:53:40,200 --> 00:53:42,960 - May I offer you a chair? - I think not. 602 00:53:45,640 --> 00:53:49,550 I'm sorry, Mademoiselle, but we never pay lavishly. 603 00:53:49,600 --> 00:53:52,870 It's the work that renders a wig so costly. 604 00:53:52,920 --> 00:53:57,960 And yours would have to be dyed -- it is a sadly unfashionable colour. 605 00:54:02,120 --> 00:54:04,440 I need 25. 606 00:54:09,120 --> 00:54:11,790 My father is a Union Army Chaplain. 607 00:54:11,840 --> 00:54:14,390 He is mortally sick in a hospital in Washington 608 00:54:14,440 --> 00:54:17,520 and my mother can't even raise the money for her train ticket. 609 00:54:19,400 --> 00:54:21,640 Don't you have anyone fighting in the War? 610 00:54:23,280 --> 00:54:24,520 A son. 611 00:54:26,520 --> 00:54:28,440 25. 612 00:54:32,320 --> 00:54:34,000 I hate to beg. I hate it. 613 00:54:35,440 --> 00:54:36,750 But you did. 614 00:54:36,800 --> 00:54:38,070 Yes. 615 00:54:38,120 --> 00:54:40,350 And my husband may still die. 616 00:54:40,400 --> 00:54:44,870 But at least, if I go to him, he may not die alone. 617 00:54:44,920 --> 00:54:48,310 Well, what ails the fool? Dysentery? 618 00:54:48,360 --> 00:54:50,320 Typhus? Apoplexy? 619 00:54:51,880 --> 00:54:53,390 The telegram didn't say. 620 00:54:53,440 --> 00:54:56,750 In which case it was indubitably written by a man. 621 00:54:56,800 --> 00:55:00,070 I venture to suggest that we had best send a woman there, 622 00:55:00,120 --> 00:55:03,000 so that we might, ah, ascertain the facts. 623 00:55:06,080 --> 00:55:07,320 Thank you. 624 00:55:23,480 --> 00:55:25,350 I was able to get you everything you wanted. 625 00:55:25,400 --> 00:55:26,720 Oh, you splendid girl. 626 00:55:28,440 --> 00:55:31,310 Mr Laurence is sending Mr Brooke to Washington on business 627 00:55:31,360 --> 00:55:34,550 and he can escort me on my journey and is to make sure that Father 628 00:55:34,600 --> 00:55:36,990 and I have everything that we might need. 629 00:55:37,040 --> 00:55:40,520 Meanwhile, Aunt March is lending me the money for my fare. 630 00:55:42,560 --> 00:55:43,680 Oh. 631 00:55:45,800 --> 00:55:47,560 Because I got you this. 632 00:55:49,280 --> 00:55:50,600 What is this? 633 00:55:58,880 --> 00:56:00,280 Oh. 634 00:56:12,320 --> 00:56:13,790 Your one beauty. 635 00:56:13,840 --> 00:56:15,120 Oh, Jo. 636 00:56:21,560 --> 00:56:23,280 I leave you to Hannah's care... 637 00:56:24,360 --> 00:56:27,430 .. and Mr Laurence's protection. 638 00:56:32,760 --> 00:56:33,960 The carriage is ready. 639 00:56:37,600 --> 00:56:39,920 And I want you all to remember this one thing. 640 00:56:41,400 --> 00:56:43,840 Whatever may come to pass in Washington... 641 00:56:47,040 --> 00:56:50,910 .. you can never be fatherless under heaven. 642 00:56:50,960 --> 00:56:52,880 Take care of each other. 643 00:57:12,320 --> 00:57:14,110 I want to run after her. 644 00:57:14,160 --> 00:57:15,870 I want her to see us waving. 645 00:57:15,920 --> 00:57:18,430 No. Then she would know that we aren't being brave 646 00:57:18,480 --> 00:57:20,350 and that would distress her. 647 00:57:20,400 --> 00:57:23,880 If we were boys, we wouldn't be quaking and quivering like this. 648 00:57:42,120 --> 00:57:44,510 The female animal should not be indulged, 649 00:57:44,560 --> 00:57:46,270 for hers is a thorny path. 650 00:57:46,320 --> 00:57:50,750 I could be a better person, Laurie. I've known that for a while now. 651 00:57:50,800 --> 00:57:52,150 I think that too. 652 00:57:52,200 --> 00:57:53,950 Oh, please wake up. 653 00:57:54,000 --> 00:57:55,710 Please wake up. 654 00:57:55,760 --> 00:57:59,230 - Why do you never listen to anything I say, Laurie? - Because I want what's best for you. 655 00:57:59,280 --> 00:58:02,590 I would like to keep all of my girls for as long as I can, 656 00:58:02,640 --> 00:58:05,800 but I also want real love for all of you.