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<i>NARRATOR: To those of you who ask
who was this Florence Nightingale</i>

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<i>and what did she do</i>

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<i>you would have to understand the
world into which she was born.</i>

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<i>It was England,
Dickens' England,</i>

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<i>where the people were divided
into two classes,</i>

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<i>the very rich and the very poor.</i>

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<i>But whether rich or poor,
it was a time of great medical ignorance,</i>

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<i>when to fracture an arm
or a leg was to lose it.</i>

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(WALTZ PLAYING)

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(ALL CHATTERING)

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Look at her, William,
the prettiest girl in the room.

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No wonder Henry is so smitten.

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Our other daughter does not appear
to be enjoying it quite so much.

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Sisters are natural rivals,
all women are.

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That's why you men
are so conceited.

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Poor Parthe will have a much better
chance with Florence out of the way.

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You still haven't
answered my question, Flo.

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But, Henry, I have.

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I've told you
time and time again.

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Yes, but you never tell
me the same thing twice.

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Dash it all, Flo,
I have loved you for so long.

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Ever since we were children.

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And I've told everyone we
were going to be married.

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Henry, no!

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Is it because we are cousins?

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Now, many cousins marry,
Florence.

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My love will sweep away
your fears about that.

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Henry, you deserve more than a
bride full of doubts and dreams.

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All the same, I won't stop
asking you till you say yes.

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Now, what more could you possibly want
from life than what I will offer you?

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Love, honor, comfort,
a beautiful home.

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What man in this room, in this
world, could offer you more?

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Mr. Milnes, you are admiring
my almost sister-in-law.

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She and my brother, Henry,
are about to be engaged.

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Could you be warning me
off, Miss Nicholson?

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You are a gentleman, I believe.

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Take it as a piece of advice to save
you possible trouble in the future.

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Trouble, my dear, is the most
interesting thing about the future.

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Would you...

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Yes, of course, Flo. Excuse me.

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Richard Monckton Milnes,
at your service.

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We've not been introduced.

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Now, these are modern times,
Miss Nightingale.

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The 1840s are not the 1700s.

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However, if you feel the
tradition is important to you,

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I can arrange
a formal introduction

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through your almost
sister-in-law, Miss Nicholson.

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I'm not exactly
known as traditional.

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Well, neither am I,
Miss Nightingale.

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When I'm not attacking
my fellow parliamentarians

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on their indifference
to the plight of the poor,

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I'm working on an edition of
the collected poems of Keats.

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And you?

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When I'm not pursuing
the more womanly arts,

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I'm learning,
trying to learn opera.

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Opera?
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hMmm.

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If it's your passion,
it becomes you, Miss Nightingale.

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And in womanly arts,
you are clearly second to none.

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Would you care to dance?

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Yes. Yes.

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(WALTZ PLAYING)

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WILLIAM: Fanny, are both the girls
going to join us for this ride?

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Florence isn't even down yet.
I think she's trying on her new outfit.

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No, not Flo. She's not
interested in such things.

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She has a man's brain.
She thinks.

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She does not, Papa.

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For a girl who complains about the
idleness of the leisured class,

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I think she's
the idlest of us all.

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FLORENCE: Am I then?

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Good morning, Papa.

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Good morning.

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Good morning, Flo.
You look absolutely lovely.

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\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hThank you.
WILLIAM: Breakfast is finished.

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\h\h\h\h\h\h\h(HORSE WHINNYING) FANNY:
Never mind. She can still have some tea.

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Good heavens, what gall.

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Henry, what's wrong?

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Why, that Monckton
Milnes fellow is here.

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But who could have invited him?

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I did.

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You? But you mean you
invited him here yourself?

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No, he's my guest. I invited him.
Such a charming man.

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I'm sorry, Henry, I simply
neglected to tell you.

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Oh, Henry, do sit down.
Control yourself.

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(INAUDIBLE)

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Florence.

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Good morning, Henry.

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William.

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Good morning, sir.
\h\h\h\hGood morning.

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I understand Mrs.
Burbage is in a bad way, sir.

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Indeed.

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She got burned last night, sir, while
she was helping over at Winston's place.

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I'm so sorry.

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I'm so glad you could
join us, Mr. Milnes.

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I hope the ride pleases you.

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Everything about this day pleases
me, Miss Nightingale.

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FLORENCE: This way.

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Miss Florence?

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Williams told us
about your accident.

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I came to see if
I might be of help.

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That's so kind.

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May I see the burn?

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No, dear.

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It's a terrible burn I've got.
You don't want to see it.

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It is fearful, ma'am.
She screams if you even touch it.

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But her wound has to be
kept clean and changed.

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Would you please
bring me some butter?

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Oh, no. No, you mustn't!

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Don't be afraid.

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No, it isn't that, it's just...

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(CRYING)

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Pretty eyes like yours should
never have to see such a thing.

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It's just a burn.

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(MRS. BURBAGE CRYING)

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Just a hurt that needs healing,
nothing bad. It will heal.

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(SIGHS)

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There. There now.

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(SIGHS)

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Forgive my curiosity,

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but when you left the ride I
couldn't help but wonder...

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You spoke of womanly arts,
Miss Nightingale,

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but I had no idea they
encompassed such a range.

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It seems you enjoy making fun of
people's feelings, Mr. Milnes.

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Only when I'm fond of them.

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How could you possibly be fond of me?
You don't know me.

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You only see that side of
me that everyone can see.

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Then tell me about the rest.

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\h\h\h\h\hThat's impossible.
Why?

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Because it is.

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Well, try to explain it then.

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When I was 17,
I heard a call from God.

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He spoke to me, Mr. Milnes.

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Now you can laugh if you like.

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And what precisely did
God call upon you to do?

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I don't know.
That's what torments me.

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Something more. To be more than a
pampered, wealthy little girl.

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Somehow,
to use the gifts I have to serve,

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instead of going
dancing and to parties.

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Does that sound strange?

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Florence, listen to me,
it is not strange

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that a strong, intelligent
girl who was blessed by fortune

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should wish to be more than
just an ornament to society.

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Remember you're not alone.

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There are many gifted people who
believe they should use their talents

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in the service of others.

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Besides, I'm sure Joan of Arc
enjoyed dancing, too, you know.

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Now you are making fun of me.

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Florence,

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my greatest wish would be
to see you every single day.

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(ALL CHATTERING)

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\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hCharles.
Florence.

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Selina. It's so good to see you.

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I didn't know you were
friends of Richard Milnes.

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Well, nor did we
until he invited us.

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It seems that anyone who's a friend
of yours is a friend of Mr. Milnes.

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Marianne, I'm so happy to see you.
Is Henry here?

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Do you think he has no pride?
I only come out of curiosity.

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What kind of man is
this Richard Monckton Milnes

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to court a young lady under the
very nose of her intended husband?

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Marianne, I'm not engaged to Henry
and I hardly know Mr. Milnes.

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From the way he looks at you,
if you knew him any better

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you would be ruined if
he did not marry you.

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Florence.

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Dr. and Mrs. Samuel Howe
from the United States.

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Florence Nightingale.

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Miss Nightingale.

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Hello.

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Hello.

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Mrs. Julia Ward Howe
is famous in her own right.

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She composes books and poetry, and
Dr. Howe works with the blind in Boston.

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With the blind, Dr. Howe?

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But what can one
do with the blind?

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Why, he teaches them,
Miss Nightingale.

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Dear friends,
it's time for breakfast.

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(ALL CHATTERING)

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Do you really
think it's possible?

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Oh, Selina, if only...
She's already 22.

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She's so beautiful,
so accomplished.

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Many men admire her.

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But she does not admire them.

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She's so strong-willed.

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Where would I be now if I'd
been as stubborn as that?

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You used to be, didn't you?

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Age does wonders for a woman's
sensibilities, you know.

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(GIGGLES)

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Dr. Howe,

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you said you worked in a
hospital helping the blind.

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Well, we do more than just help
them, Miss Nightingale.

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We teach them to read.

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To read?

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But how is that done?

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Allow me to show you.

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But first, I have to ask

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that you pretend to be blind.

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I always thought
that would be horrible.

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That is exactly why what we
are doing is so exciting.

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Now, Miss Nightingale, you are
blind, you cannot see a thing,

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so if I were to give you a
piece by William Shakespeare

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and ask you to read me a few
pages, what would you say?

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I would say
you were mad, Dr. Howe.

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Mmm-hmm.

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So, if I were to
give you another book

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and asked you to read to
me what would you say?

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Why, I would still
say the same thing.

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Now, Miss Nightingale,
I'm going to give you this.

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FLORENCE: What is this?

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This is what we have devised in
the Perkins School in Boston.

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Do you feel anything?

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Yes. Paper.
There's a small bump on it.

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That, Miss Nightingale,
is the letter "A."

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Here is the letter "B."

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And here is "C."

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Now, Miss Nightingale,
you are totally blind,

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you cannot see a thing

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yet can you tell me
what letter this is?

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B.

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Totally blind.

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C.

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Cannot see a thing.

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A.

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You see,

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Miss Nightingale,
if you have a passion,

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I would suggest the only way
to satisfy it is to pursue it.

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<i>NARRATOR: Florence knew
it was considered unthinkable</i>

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<i>for a lady of quality
to enter a hospital alone.</i>

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<i>But what she didn't know</i>

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<i>was that when she crossed the
threshold of Middlesex Hospital,</i>

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<i>she would be
changing her life forever.</i>

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(WOMAN CHATTERING)

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(WOMAN LAUGHING)

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Yes. Begging your pardon,
what do you want?

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I just wanted to know...

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This is a men's ward.

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They don't want
the likes of you here

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anymore than you want to
see the likes of them.

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Didn't you hear what she said?

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Now what you want is the hospital
for the deaf and dumb up Blackfriars.

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(ALL LAUGH)

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I told her.

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(WHEEZING)

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(GROANING)

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Help me. Help.

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Help me.

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(GASPING)

244
00:24:00,550 --> 00:24:03,050
(GASPING)

245
00:24:14,700 --> 00:24:17,899
FANNY: Did you say
the Middlesex Hospital?

246
00:24:17,900 --> 00:24:19,649
Yes.

247
00:24:19,650 --> 00:24:23,209
You mean, inside the hospital?

248
00:24:23,210 --> 00:24:25,130
Not much to see on the outside.

249
00:24:27,080 --> 00:24:31,549
You, without asking our permission,
went alone into all that filth and squalor.

250
00:24:31,550 --> 00:24:34,550
That's a fair description of it, Mama.
How did you know?

251
00:24:34,890 --> 00:24:36,919
How dare you address
Mama in that fashion?

252
00:24:36,920 --> 00:24:39,809
Would you have me contradict her
and say that it was beautiful?

253
00:24:39,810 --> 00:24:41,809
Or that the doctors
and nurses were sober?

254
00:24:41,810 --> 00:24:45,310
Or that the floors were sparkling and
clean instead of filthy and verminous?

255
00:24:45,810 --> 00:24:47,690
And that the stench was
almost enough to make...

256
00:24:47,770 --> 00:24:49,730
Florence, that's quite enough.

257
00:24:55,410 --> 00:24:59,909
Florence, if there is one thing that
we have taught you, it is good manners,

258
00:24:59,910 --> 00:25:03,749
which you seem to
have lost for the moment.

259
00:25:03,750 --> 00:25:07,750
Good manners demand that we never
make anybody feel uncomfortable.

260
00:25:09,750 --> 00:25:14,260
And I cannot help but believe that
a lady of your bearing and class

261
00:25:14,760 --> 00:25:17,759
made many people in that hospital
feel very uncomfortable indeed.

262
00:25:17,760 --> 00:25:20,259
So dreadfully posturing.

263
00:25:20,260 --> 00:25:23,350
So precious,
meddling about in a place like that.

264
00:25:26,640 --> 00:25:27,640
Florence.

265
00:25:29,720 --> 00:25:32,729
You have a kind
heart and mean well.

266
00:25:32,730 --> 00:25:34,729
Visiting a cottage in
the country is one thing,

267
00:25:34,730 --> 00:25:41,869
but visiting a public hospital in
London is another matter entirely.

268
00:25:41,870 --> 00:25:44,870
Unfortunately, Mother,
you are quite right.

269
00:25:54,050 --> 00:25:57,049
"Still as an island
stood our ship.

270
00:25:57,050 --> 00:25:59,050
"The waters gave no sound.

271
00:26:01,060 --> 00:26:06,560
"But when I touched
her quivering lip.

272
00:26:26,580 --> 00:26:28,580
"I felt the world go round".

273
00:26:31,590 --> 00:26:32,590
You wrote it?

274
00:26:33,040 --> 00:26:34,090
Mmm-hmm.

275
00:26:35,090 --> 00:26:36,090
I like it.

276
00:26:38,090 --> 00:26:40,089
All but the "quivering lip."

277
00:26:40,090 --> 00:26:42,599
(BOTH LAUGH)

278
00:26:42,600 --> 00:26:45,599
Why are women's lips supposed
to quiver and not men's?

279
00:26:45,600 --> 00:26:47,100
I don't know.

280
00:26:49,600 --> 00:26:52,610
I love you, Florence.
Will you marry me?

281
00:26:56,610 --> 00:27:00,609
Richard, I'm always so
happy when I'm with you.

282
00:27:00,610 --> 00:27:02,620
You know that, don't you?

283
00:27:07,370 --> 00:27:09,869
Isn't it wonderful,
on a day like this

284
00:27:09,870 --> 00:27:13,879
to know that Flo is going to
make the perfect marriage.

285
00:27:13,880 --> 00:27:17,379
Of course, the Nicholsons
will never talk to us again.

286
00:27:17,380 --> 00:27:20,890
Marianne cut me dead yesterday.
And Henry...

287
00:27:22,890 --> 00:27:25,889
A whole branch of
the family gone.

288
00:27:25,890 --> 00:27:29,980
But Florence is happy,
surely that is the most important thing.

289
00:27:31,980 --> 00:27:35,979
Richard, something
happened the other day.

290
00:27:35,980 --> 00:27:39,990
I think I learned something about
myself I didn't know before.

291
00:27:40,990 --> 00:27:43,489
I went to Middlesex Hospital.

292
00:27:43,490 --> 00:27:44,989
I was drawn there.

293
00:27:44,990 --> 00:27:49,499
I wanted so much to learn
how to heal the sick.

294
00:27:49,500 --> 00:27:51,500
Instead of learning anything
or seeing anything.

295
00:27:52,000 --> 00:27:54,499
I was frightened and ran away.

296
00:27:54,500 --> 00:27:57,449
I want to be brave.
I don't want to be a coward.

297
00:27:57,450 --> 00:28:00,959
I don't want to be sheltered
from the other side of life.

298
00:28:00,960 --> 00:28:06,350
I used to think I was called to
heal, now I'm certain of it.

299
00:28:07,710 --> 00:28:09,970
But I have to learn.

300
00:28:10,470 --> 00:28:14,469
Your friend from America, Dr. Howe,
told me about a place called Kaiserswerth

301
00:28:14,470 --> 00:28:18,480
where they train women,
mostly nuns, to become nurses.

302
00:28:19,980 --> 00:28:22,980
But my family will be
horrified and forbid it.

303
00:28:24,480 --> 00:28:26,979
Will you help me?

304
00:28:26,980 --> 00:28:29,400
Will you be my friend, my ally?

305
00:28:33,370 --> 00:28:35,380
Florence, you must believe me.

306
00:28:36,880 --> 00:28:38,879
While others may oppose you
in what you wish to do,

307
00:28:38,880 --> 00:28:42,380
I promise I never, never shall.

308
00:28:44,500 --> 00:28:45,999
Then you will help me?

309
00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:48,220
Of course,
in any way that I can.

310
00:28:49,310 --> 00:28:52,430
But you still haven't
answered my proposal.

311
00:28:56,150 --> 00:28:58,649
Oh, Richard, hold me.

312
00:28:58,650 --> 00:29:02,070
Tell me that I'm not mad or
morbid and that if I succeed,

313
00:29:03,520 --> 00:29:05,660
you won't stop loving me.

314
00:29:23,260 --> 00:29:26,039
WILLIAM: Richard,
this is serious.

315
00:29:26,040 --> 00:29:29,050
Do not let your love blind
you to a very real danger.

316
00:29:31,050 --> 00:29:35,049
I love my daughter, too.
And I'm proud of her accomplishments.

317
00:29:35,050 --> 00:29:37,519
But this
business of hospitals...

318
00:29:37,520 --> 00:29:38,560
(TSKING)

319
00:29:39,060 --> 00:29:40,519
(SIGHS)

320
00:29:40,520 --> 00:29:43,059
Tenacity has always
been her downfall.

321
00:29:43,060 --> 00:29:45,059
Well, I'm sorry, William,

322
00:29:45,060 --> 00:29:48,069
but that is a quality
I especially admire in her.

323
00:29:48,070 --> 00:29:51,070
You have not yet
tried living with it.

324
00:29:53,540 --> 00:29:58,580
You know, to be frank, my wife and I
are appalled by this hospital idea.

325
00:30:00,580 --> 00:30:04,159
We had hoped that when
she actually went to one

326
00:30:04,160 --> 00:30:06,800
she would see how
unsuitable it is.

327
00:30:08,800 --> 00:30:14,980
Thank heavens that she's agreed to this
idea in Europe with the Bracebridges.

328
00:30:17,060 --> 00:30:19,059
(SIGHS)

329
00:30:19,060 --> 00:30:23,020
Florence is not in Rome or Paris eating
bonbons or buying frocks, William.

330
00:30:23,570 --> 00:30:25,819
Ah.

331
00:30:25,820 --> 00:30:28,819
She's in Germany at
the Kaiserswerth Institute.

332
00:30:28,820 --> 00:30:31,940
She's trying her best
to learn to be a nurse.

333
00:30:36,950 --> 00:30:39,499
What the devil do you mean?

334
00:30:39,500 --> 00:30:42,999
When Florence has an idea
that's very strong in her

335
00:30:43,000 --> 00:30:47,930
she's like a mother with a newborn
child and hates to see that idea die.

336
00:30:51,680 --> 00:30:56,180
And I, perhaps just as much,
would hate to see that idea die in her.

337
00:30:58,470 --> 00:31:02,360
That's understandable,
you're in love with her.

338
00:31:08,650 --> 00:31:14,649
<i>NARRATOR: In Germany, Florence
learned about hygiene and nutrition.</i>

339
00:31:14,650 --> 00:31:21,370
<i>But above all, at Kaiserswerth she learned
that nursing was more than just caring.</i>

340
00:31:21,380 --> 00:31:22,960
<i>It was a science.</i>

341
00:31:34,970 --> 00:31:37,670
(DOCTOR SPEAKING GERMAN)

342
00:31:48,820 --> 00:31:51,820
(DOCTOR SPEAKING GERMAN)

343
00:32:04,750 --> 00:32:07,170
(DOCTOR AND NURSE
SPEAKING GERMAN)

344
00:32:25,520 --> 00:32:27,110
(GRUNTING)

345
00:32:29,230 --> 00:32:30,560
(EXCLAIMS)

346
00:32:32,030 --> 00:32:35,400
(SCREAMING)

347
00:33:05,810 --> 00:33:08,400
(NANNY SPEAKING GERMAN)

348
00:33:09,480 --> 00:33:11,190
(CHILDREN LAUGH)

349
00:33:14,020 --> 00:33:16,520
(NANNY SPEAKING GERMAN)

350
00:33:22,580 --> 00:33:24,580
You love children, yes?

351
00:33:26,080 --> 00:33:27,080
Yes.

352
00:33:27,081 --> 00:33:29,090
You have children of your own?

353
00:33:29,590 --> 00:33:31,119
No. Not yet.

354
00:33:31,120 --> 00:33:33,920
But surely some day.

355
00:33:34,710 --> 00:33:36,090
If God wills.

356
00:33:39,460 --> 00:33:41,050
(SCRUBBING)

357
00:33:49,270 --> 00:33:52,610
Tell us, what were you
trying to achieve in Germany?

358
00:33:56,110 --> 00:33:59,620
In London, one sees
the poor everywhere.

359
00:34:01,480 --> 00:34:05,489
Here, all we look out
on are lawns

360
00:34:05,490 --> 00:34:07,619
and beautiful trees,
but behind them...

361
00:34:07,620 --> 00:34:08,959
Come to the point.

362
00:34:08,960 --> 00:34:11,039
What I mean is, Papa,

363
00:34:11,040 --> 00:34:15,879
that none of the people we know do
anything to help the poor, those in need.

364
00:34:15,880 --> 00:34:20,049
Florence, do you know what
goes on in those hospitals?

365
00:34:20,050 --> 00:34:24,309
I didn't know, but I know now.

366
00:34:24,310 --> 00:34:30,479
I mean, what goes on between the
nurses and the medical students.

367
00:34:30,480 --> 00:34:36,849
And the doctors. As far as they're
concerned, nurses are just harlots.

368
00:34:36,850 --> 00:34:38,860
Parthenope, will you be quiet?

369
00:34:40,860 --> 00:34:43,779
If I were a fainting woman,
I would faint.

370
00:34:43,780 --> 00:34:46,199
Well, you're not.

371
00:34:46,200 --> 00:34:50,199
Don't you see? We have to change our
attitudes towards the poor and the sick,

372
00:34:50,200 --> 00:34:53,339
and towards women who would
go among them and help them.

373
00:34:53,340 --> 00:34:55,039
Yes, but how do you
propose to do that?

374
00:34:55,040 --> 00:34:58,119
By example, my own example.

375
00:34:58,120 --> 00:35:04,380
To give, not just money and
things, but to give of one's self.

376
00:35:04,880 --> 00:35:08,389
Are you trying to tell us that
you wish to leave Embley Park

377
00:35:08,390 --> 00:35:10,019
and go and work
inside a hospital?

378
00:35:10,020 --> 00:35:13,109
No one seems to mind the
idea that I go and leave them

379
00:35:13,110 --> 00:35:15,229
to marry Richard Milnes
and live inside his house.

380
00:35:15,230 --> 00:35:17,559
Look. Please, now listen.

381
00:35:17,560 --> 00:35:20,609
Do you realize
what you're proposing?

382
00:35:20,610 --> 00:35:23,619
You're proposing to
give up everything.

383
00:35:23,620 --> 00:35:29,909
Papa, don't you see,
it's everything that I want to use,

384
00:35:29,910 --> 00:35:35,249
not throw away or waste on
endless luncheons and teas.

385
00:35:35,250 --> 00:35:39,329
Florence, all we ask is that
you not throw away the chance

386
00:35:39,330 --> 00:35:43,050
to make a happy
and successful marriage.

387
00:35:43,550 --> 00:35:46,760
Yes, yes, yes. Well, you settle it
amongst yourselves. I'm off to London

388
00:35:47,340 --> 00:35:48,509
to get some peace and quiet.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hPapa...

389
00:35:48,510 --> 00:35:49,759
Oh, William, please.

390
00:35:49,760 --> 00:35:54,349
It's not, truthfully,
that I do not care. I do.

391
00:35:54,350 --> 00:35:56,850
I will not be part of
any more family rows.

392
00:36:02,440 --> 00:36:04,190
See what you've done?

393
00:36:25,760 --> 00:36:28,849
You can't come in here, miss.
This is a gentleman's club.

394
00:36:28,850 --> 00:36:32,439
I know that. My father,
Mr. Nightingale, is a member.

395
00:36:32,440 --> 00:36:36,519
All I want to know is, is he here?
Because if so, I must see him.

396
00:36:36,520 --> 00:36:39,939
I'm not permitted to say, miss,
or madam, as the case may be.

397
00:36:39,940 --> 00:36:43,399
It's a rule of the club.
If you'd care to leave a note,

398
00:36:43,400 --> 00:36:47,479
I'll see that Mr. Nightingale receives
it when he is next on the premises.

399
00:36:47,480 --> 00:36:51,455
If I were a gentleman,
you'd be able to tell me if he was inside.

400
00:36:51,456 --> 00:36:54,709
Ah, if you were a member,
which is to say a gentleman,

401
00:36:54,710 --> 00:36:57,629
that would be a different
matter, madam, I agree.

402
00:36:57,630 --> 00:37:01,129
And were a member ungentlemanly enough
not to wish his daughter to see him,

403
00:37:01,130 --> 00:37:05,639
would he cease to be both a
member and a gentleman or neither?

404
00:37:05,640 --> 00:37:07,999
You've got me mixed up, miss.

405
00:37:08,000 --> 00:37:10,340
Or madam, as the case may be.

406
00:37:13,510 --> 00:37:15,479
I say, William.
There's a young woman outside

407
00:37:15,480 --> 00:37:18,510
making an awful fuss
about having to see you.

408
00:37:18,520 --> 00:37:23,020
Oh, now, now, W.E.N.,
what have you been up to, dear boy?

409
00:37:24,020 --> 00:37:25,520
(MAN LAUGHS)

410
00:37:29,490 --> 00:37:30,989
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hFlorence!
Thank goodness.

411
00:37:30,990 --> 00:37:35,499
Oh, my dear, you know better
than to come looking for me here.

412
00:37:35,500 --> 00:37:37,499
Papa, since this is
the place where you are,

413
00:37:37,500 --> 00:37:40,499
surely looking for you anywhere
else would be rather stupid.

414
00:37:40,500 --> 00:37:43,009
Women are not allowed in
the club and you know that.

415
00:37:43,010 --> 00:37:45,010
But I'm not in the club,
I'm in the lobby.

416
00:37:45,510 --> 00:37:47,510
(SIGHS) Anyway,
you look radiant.

417
00:37:48,010 --> 00:37:51,009
Papa, there's something
I must discuss with you.

418
00:37:51,010 --> 00:37:54,019
Unless I have your
understanding and help,

419
00:37:54,020 --> 00:37:57,049
especially with Parthe and Mama...
What I mean is...

420
00:37:57,050 --> 00:37:59,559
(SHUSHING)

421
00:37:59,560 --> 00:38:02,560
I have reached the conclusion
that neither your mother, Parthe,

422
00:38:03,060 --> 00:38:04,529
nor anyone else for that matter,

423
00:38:04,530 --> 00:38:07,059
is capable of moderating or
controlling your interests,

424
00:38:07,060 --> 00:38:11,569
which will free you from all feeling
of responsibility toward them.

425
00:38:11,570 --> 00:38:15,370
As for me, I am now
totally on your side.

426
00:38:17,160 --> 00:38:18,629
Papa.

427
00:38:18,630 --> 00:38:21,959
But, for goodness sake,
don't tell your mother or your sister

428
00:38:21,960 --> 00:38:24,959
or the rest of my life will be made
even more unbearable than it already is.

429
00:38:24,960 --> 00:38:26,469
Oh, Papa.

430
00:38:26,470 --> 00:38:29,970
Now, remember, we are in the club,
not too much affection in public.

431
00:38:31,970 --> 00:38:34,840
RICHARD: Lord and Lady
Ashcroft, Florence Nightingale.

432
00:38:40,760 --> 00:38:46,099
Lord and Lady Breerly,
Florence Nightingale.

433
00:38:46,100 --> 00:38:50,610
Lord and Lady Monteagle,
Florence Nightingale.

434
00:38:51,110 --> 00:38:53,609
Lady Monteagle is on the
committee for the institution

435
00:38:53,610 --> 00:38:55,109
you may have heard of, Florence.

436
00:38:55,110 --> 00:38:56,670
The Hospital for
Distressed Gentlewomen.

437
00:38:57,110 --> 00:39:02,119
Yes. And I heard of Miss Nightingale
from Miss Marianne Nicholson.

438
00:39:02,120 --> 00:39:03,620
Come, dear.

439
00:39:08,010 --> 00:39:10,009
Mr. Gregory. Hello.

440
00:39:10,010 --> 00:39:11,959
Florence Nightingale.

441
00:39:11,960 --> 00:39:16,519
Look at him. When will Flo put
all this nonsense out of her mind

442
00:39:16,520 --> 00:39:19,100
and make up her
mind to marry him?

443
00:39:21,100 --> 00:39:25,110
Never. I'll wager
that she never does.

444
00:39:27,610 --> 00:39:29,560
Richard is a very patient man.

445
00:39:30,650 --> 00:39:34,069
Parthe, what was that
you just said?

446
00:39:34,070 --> 00:39:36,069
Ever since Flo
was a little girl,

447
00:39:36,070 --> 00:39:39,239
she has always done precisely what
she wanted and only what she wanted.

448
00:39:39,240 --> 00:39:43,209
She'll never do things his way. And after
all, that is what marriage is all about.

449
00:39:43,210 --> 00:39:46,799
Oh, really? I'd never noticed.

450
00:39:46,800 --> 00:39:49,629
You know it's true, Papa.

451
00:39:49,630 --> 00:39:54,639
A woman may say what parties to
go to or how a gown should be cut,

452
00:39:54,640 --> 00:39:58,059
but the real decisions
are made by the man.

453
00:39:58,060 --> 00:40:01,729
Florence will accept that.
She will have to.

454
00:40:01,730 --> 00:40:05,599
Of course, she will marry
and so will you.

455
00:40:05,600 --> 00:40:08,100
If I had Richard
Milnes paying court...

456
00:40:10,520 --> 00:40:13,020
Now there's the man I want you to
meet, Florence.

457
00:40:13,610 --> 00:40:16,609
Sidney Herbert, the most gifted
and influential man in England.

458
00:40:16,610 --> 00:40:20,909
Secretary at War,
a brilliant parliamentarian, vastly rich.

459
00:40:20,910 --> 00:40:24,419
He lives at Wilton, to my mind the
most beautiful house in England.

460
00:40:24,420 --> 00:40:26,919
Newly married,
so you needn't make eyes at him,

461
00:40:26,920 --> 00:40:30,420
and very interested
in hospitals.

462
00:40:38,550 --> 00:40:42,549
And why do you care so much about
nurses and hospitals, Miss Nightingale?

463
00:40:42,550 --> 00:40:44,549
What do you hope to accomplish?

464
00:40:44,550 --> 00:40:49,109
Women should have some alternatives
to just being wives, Mr. Herbert.

465
00:40:49,110 --> 00:40:50,110
Alternatives?

466
00:40:50,190 --> 00:40:52,279
Yes. Now they have none.

467
00:40:52,280 --> 00:40:56,279
Not in England.
None they can be proud of.

468
00:40:56,280 --> 00:40:58,279
Nursing in a hospital
is considered disgraceful

469
00:40:58,280 --> 00:41:00,289
when it should be
just the opposite.

470
00:41:00,290 --> 00:41:02,789
For the good of hospitals
and the good of women.

471
00:41:02,790 --> 00:41:04,789
But to change
the condition of the one

472
00:41:04,790 --> 00:41:07,880
it is necessary to change
the condition of the other.

473
00:41:08,380 --> 00:41:09,910
Bravo, Miss Nightingale.

474
00:41:12,500 --> 00:41:16,469
There's a hospital that needs a
new administrator, Mr. Herbert,

475
00:41:16,470 --> 00:41:19,509
the Hospital for
Distressed Gentlewomen.

476
00:41:19,510 --> 00:41:24,480
If I could just be considered for the post,
I would attempt to do the rest on my own.

477
00:41:31,600 --> 00:41:33,769
How do I look?
Am I dressed all right?

478
00:41:33,770 --> 00:41:36,269
You look wonderful, as always.

479
00:41:36,270 --> 00:41:39,779
I mean, mature, serious,
sober enough to be an administrator?

480
00:41:39,780 --> 00:41:41,779
I must be mad to even try.

481
00:41:41,780 --> 00:41:43,779
Well, Sidney Herbert
doesn't think so.

482
00:41:43,780 --> 00:41:47,779
And he's an excellent judge of
horses, wine and sober, serious women.

483
00:41:47,780 --> 00:41:50,289
Please don't tease me,
I'm frightened to death.

484
00:41:50,290 --> 00:41:51,790
What if they laugh at me?

485
00:41:52,290 --> 00:41:55,289
What if they ask me
questions I can't answer?

486
00:41:55,290 --> 00:41:58,799
Richard, you know that Lady Monteagle
is a friend of the Nicholsons

487
00:41:58,800 --> 00:42:02,299
and is clearly against me
for rejecting Cousin Henry.

488
00:42:02,300 --> 00:42:04,299
Well, I clearly am for you.

489
00:42:04,300 --> 00:42:06,799
Richard, I am serious.

490
00:42:06,800 --> 00:42:09,309
Now, darling, those biddies couldn't
think up a question you can't answer.

491
00:42:09,310 --> 00:42:11,309
Now what's the worst
that could possibly happen?

492
00:42:11,310 --> 00:42:16,309
You'd be turned down for this post but
be offered another, Mrs. Monckton Milnes.

493
00:42:16,310 --> 00:42:18,110
It's bad luck to try
and read the future.

494
00:42:22,900 --> 00:42:24,239
Florence...

495
00:42:24,240 --> 00:42:26,239
Please, help me, advise me.

496
00:42:26,240 --> 00:42:30,240
Tell me to be brave, but don't ask
me to make decisions about us now.

497
00:42:30,740 --> 00:42:32,749
I was going to say

498
00:42:32,750 --> 00:42:36,749
that you mustn't let them think for
a moment that you're their servant.

499
00:42:36,750 --> 00:42:38,750
Now, I know these committees.

500
00:42:39,250 --> 00:42:42,759
They'll only respect you if
they think they're serving you.

501
00:42:42,760 --> 00:42:45,760
Richard, you have
that sort of confidence

502
00:42:46,260 --> 00:42:49,230
but I'm so afraid
I'm going to fail.

503
00:42:50,730 --> 00:42:53,180
I'm not frightened
of that, Florence.

504
00:42:55,270 --> 00:42:57,940
What scares me is,
what if you succeed?

505
00:43:07,660 --> 00:43:12,170
I have tried to present the reasons I
believe I would be a good administrator

506
00:43:12,670 --> 00:43:16,169
and the ways I feel I can
improve hospital conditions.

507
00:43:16,170 --> 00:43:17,669
LADY MONTEAGLE: Miss
Nightingale.

508
00:43:17,670 --> 00:43:20,429
Yes, Lady Monteagle.

509
00:43:20,430 --> 00:43:26,879
Your qualifications are well set out in
Mrs. Herbert's letter of recommendation.

510
00:43:26,880 --> 00:43:31,190
But your ideas, I believe,
are quite unrealistic.

511
00:43:31,970 --> 00:43:34,190
Which ideas do you mean?

512
00:43:35,190 --> 00:43:39,699
Well, for one,
your suggestion to

513
00:43:39,700 --> 00:43:43,699
"install mechanical
lifts for food delivery."

514
00:43:43,700 --> 00:43:45,699
(ALL LAUGH)

515
00:43:45,700 --> 00:43:48,489
Well, our nurses have always
brought the patients their food.

516
00:43:48,490 --> 00:43:49,819
Well, of course they have.

517
00:43:49,820 --> 00:43:53,739
These lifts can save
much time and effort.

518
00:43:53,740 --> 00:43:58,579
But bedside bells
for summoning nurses.

519
00:43:58,580 --> 00:44:04,089
Why, patients will be calling every
moment for all sorts of silly things.

520
00:44:04,090 --> 00:44:06,169
Not at all. I feel...

521
00:44:06,170 --> 00:44:09,259
What about your suggestion for
piping hot water to the rooms?

522
00:44:09,260 --> 00:44:12,229
We have cold water piped to the
rooms and that is quite enough.

523
00:44:12,230 --> 00:44:14,599
Hear, hear.

524
00:44:14,600 --> 00:44:18,900
When hot water is required, the nurses
carry it in jugs, as they always have.

525
00:44:19,490 --> 00:44:24,489
You speak of these women as though
they were just pairs of legs, madam.

526
00:44:24,490 --> 00:44:26,579
They have a higher
calling than that.

527
00:44:26,580 --> 00:44:31,909
Do they, indeed?
A lower calling, perhaps.

528
00:44:31,910 --> 00:44:33,919
(WOMEN MURMURING)

529
00:44:33,920 --> 00:44:37,419
My nurses will be
dedicated to healing.

530
00:44:37,420 --> 00:44:40,459
The health and care of the
patient is the important thing.

531
00:44:40,460 --> 00:44:42,040
Your nurses?

532
00:44:42,540 --> 00:44:45,050
They are not your nurses yet,
Miss Nightingale.

533
00:44:45,051 --> 00:44:47,209
WOMAN: Quite, quite.

534
00:44:47,210 --> 00:44:51,719
Frankly, my dear, you seem too young
to take on these high responsibilities

535
00:44:51,720 --> 00:44:57,719
as evidenced in these well meaning
but quite impractical demands.

536
00:44:57,720 --> 00:45:01,139
Ladies, please,
these are not demands,

537
00:45:01,140 --> 00:45:06,779
but ideas for bettering the lot
for both the nurse and the patient.

538
00:45:06,780 --> 00:45:11,650
Miss Nightingale, you have had
only a few short weeks of training.

539
00:45:12,150 --> 00:45:15,659
Yet you come here,
you want to change everything.

540
00:45:15,660 --> 00:45:17,159
I feel that this is...

541
00:45:17,160 --> 00:45:21,459
I have come here in good faith
to say I want to work with you,

542
00:45:21,460 --> 00:45:25,969
to make this hospital an even
finer institution than it now is.

543
00:45:25,970 --> 00:45:29,969
If you agree, I would be proud
to be its administrator.

544
00:45:29,970 --> 00:45:34,979
And if you choose me, I will put
into effect any good ideas I have

545
00:45:34,980 --> 00:45:39,060
to make the sick more comfortable
and the nurses more efficient.

546
00:45:42,070 --> 00:45:43,520
Thank you.

547
00:45:48,990 --> 00:45:53,499
<i>NARRATOR: On July 23, 1853,</i>

548
00:45:53,500 --> 00:45:57,500
<i>Florence Nightingale was declared
superintendent of nursing</i>

549
00:45:58,000 --> 00:46:00,999
<i>for the Harley Street Hospital
for Gentlewomen.</i>

550
00:46:01,000 --> 00:46:04,009
I must say you're looking far less
"not too bad, miss" on the whole

551
00:46:04,010 --> 00:46:06,009
than you were this morning.

552
00:46:06,010 --> 00:46:09,009
(LAUGHS) You do make me laugh
sometimes, Miss Florence.

553
00:46:09,010 --> 00:46:10,010
(EXCLAIMS)

554
00:46:10,011 --> 00:46:12,009
No. No, like this, Miss Stewart.

555
00:46:12,010 --> 00:46:14,519
Remember? One arm under
the head and shoulders,

556
00:46:14,520 --> 00:46:17,020
the other in the
small of the back.

557
00:46:20,520 --> 00:46:21,520
(BOTTLES CLATTERING)

558
00:46:21,521 --> 00:46:22,530
Oh, dear!

559
00:46:46,920 --> 00:46:51,800
Nurse Davis, would you
come here, please?

560
00:47:02,570 --> 00:47:05,569
This bottle is labeled
"Spirits of Balsam."

561
00:47:05,570 --> 00:47:08,519
Luckily, I smelled it
before it was administered.

562
00:47:08,520 --> 00:47:10,659
It is muriatic acid!

563
00:47:10,660 --> 00:47:12,159
Well, that can't be.

564
00:47:12,160 --> 00:47:14,660
From whom did you order this
bottle, nurse?

565
00:47:15,160 --> 00:47:18,749
From the usual chemist.
He gives us the best price.

566
00:47:18,750 --> 00:47:20,829
No matter what the price,

567
00:47:20,830 --> 00:47:24,839
I want you to tell that man
that we will not use him again.

568
00:47:24,840 --> 00:47:27,289
I will not have my patients at
the mercy of a careless man,

569
00:47:27,290 --> 00:47:28,709
no matter what the price!

570
00:47:28,710 --> 00:47:31,290
Your patients?

571
00:47:31,790 --> 00:47:35,879
I were a nurse before you were
born, and a good one, too.

572
00:47:35,880 --> 00:47:38,520
I worked for pennies,
'cause I cared whether the sick got well.

573
00:47:38,970 --> 00:47:42,019
You just ask anyone about me.
And now you come accusing me

574
00:47:42,020 --> 00:47:44,519
like I were a common cheat that
took money from the chemist...

575
00:47:44,520 --> 00:47:49,609
You're accused of nothing,
nurse. I too care.

576
00:47:49,610 --> 00:47:51,609
There's a sick
patient in that room,

577
00:47:51,610 --> 00:47:55,030
who trusts us and could have
died from this medicine.

578
00:47:57,240 --> 00:48:00,370
We will not use
your man again, ever.

579
00:48:01,990 --> 00:48:03,659
Is that clear?

580
00:48:03,660 --> 00:48:05,040
What if it's not?

581
00:48:07,580 --> 00:48:11,579
Nurse, you're experienced
and well respected,

582
00:48:11,580 --> 00:48:16,139
I had hoped to have
your support in my work here.

583
00:48:16,140 --> 00:48:18,139
But I am the administrator,

584
00:48:18,140 --> 00:48:22,260
and it is my job to protect
and help the patients get well.

585
00:48:22,850 --> 00:48:24,349
We'll hire our own chemist

586
00:48:24,350 --> 00:48:26,679
and have a dispensary
right here on the premises.

587
00:48:26,680 --> 00:48:29,770
That way, there will be
a check on all medications.

588
00:48:30,270 --> 00:48:34,269
Now, if that is not agreeable with you,
then just as we will hire a new chemist,

589
00:48:34,270 --> 00:48:36,910
we will hire a new head nurse.

590
00:48:37,780 --> 00:48:40,750
Now, do you understand?

591
00:48:43,700 --> 00:48:45,500
Yes, Miss Nightingale.

592
00:48:46,290 --> 00:48:48,289
Good.

593
00:48:48,290 --> 00:48:54,130
This difficult job needs both of us.
Let us try to do it together.

594
00:49:14,150 --> 00:49:17,620
My dear, your success at the
hospital is the talk of London.

595
00:49:19,150 --> 00:49:21,650
You've become a sort of heroine.

596
00:49:23,160 --> 00:49:27,659
You've achieved
what you set out to do.

597
00:49:27,660 --> 00:49:30,659
Now, I really don't
begrudge the fame,

598
00:49:30,660 --> 00:49:36,089
but, quite selfishly, I wonder about
our plans for the future together.

599
00:49:36,090 --> 00:49:39,970
I need to ask you now,
finally, will you be my wife?

600
00:49:42,340 --> 00:49:46,810
Richard, you've been so kind and
patient with me for so long...

601
00:49:47,310 --> 00:49:48,809
Florence!

602
00:49:48,810 --> 00:49:52,349
Please, I beg you,
don't force me to an answer now!

603
00:49:52,350 --> 00:49:54,939
I must!

604
00:49:54,940 --> 00:49:58,939
I always believed we
had an understanding.

605
00:49:58,940 --> 00:50:01,439
But if you don't love me
enough to want to marry me now,

606
00:50:01,440 --> 00:50:03,949
why should you in the future?

607
00:50:03,950 --> 00:50:07,949
Richard, I've only just escaped
one kind of domestic life,

608
00:50:07,950 --> 00:50:11,869
the life of family, and I don't want
to be nailed to it again so soon.

609
00:50:11,870 --> 00:50:14,869
You're making excuses, Florence.

610
00:50:14,870 --> 00:50:17,090
Have I ever tried
to nail you down?

611
00:50:23,970 --> 00:50:27,469
I have loved you
truly as a friend,

612
00:50:27,470 --> 00:50:29,469
but I have a passionate side
of my nature, too.

613
00:50:29,470 --> 00:50:32,139
And that side of me
has to have an answer.

614
00:50:32,140 --> 00:50:34,639
If you tell me again that you
want more time, you're saying no,

615
00:50:34,640 --> 00:50:38,149
and I must take
that "no" as final.

616
00:50:38,150 --> 00:50:40,649
You choose to make
it final, not me.

617
00:50:40,650 --> 00:50:43,149
Very well, then, if it has to be
now or never, then let it be never.

618
00:50:43,150 --> 00:50:45,490
And I shall never marry!

619
00:50:54,960 --> 00:50:57,970
You're talking like a child,
Flo, and a spoiled one.

620
00:50:59,470 --> 00:51:01,919
Of course you will marry.

621
00:51:01,920 --> 00:51:05,839
I, too, have a passionate side
to my nature.

622
00:51:05,840 --> 00:51:09,090
And perhaps I shall satisfy it
outside of marriage.

623
00:51:10,230 --> 00:51:12,150
But I shall never marry.

624
00:51:34,000 --> 00:51:36,510
Florence, don't say
you'll never marry.

625
00:51:39,010 --> 00:51:41,010
Say rather that

626
00:51:45,510 --> 00:51:47,880
you and I will never fully part.

627
00:51:49,970 --> 00:51:51,470
I love you.

628
00:51:52,970 --> 00:51:55,480
When I say it,

629
00:51:55,980 --> 00:52:00,480
I'm saying goodbye to one whole
side of life and all of youth.

630
00:52:02,480 --> 00:52:07,990
Past and future,
being torn apart, right here.

631
00:52:11,490 --> 00:52:13,490
And I'm doing the tearing.

632
00:52:16,000 --> 00:52:17,580
And now it's done.

633
00:52:31,260 --> 00:52:32,650
(ALL SHOUTING)

634
00:52:36,480 --> 00:52:38,180
(SOLDIERS SCREAMING)

635
00:52:41,240 --> 00:52:42,600
(GUNFIRE)

636
00:53:02,840 --> 00:53:07,349
<i>NARRATOR: While Florence's fame grew
in the world of British medicine,</i>

637
00:53:07,350 --> 00:53:12,349
<i>England found itself entangled
in a war with Russia.</i>

638
00:53:12,350 --> 00:53:16,859
<i>The glow of pride which followed
the first victories on the Black Sea</i>

639
00:53:16,860 --> 00:53:20,859
<i>was soon to be replaced
by a feeling of national shame</i>

640
00:53:20,860 --> 00:53:24,309
<i>as over half
the Army's casualties occurred</i>

641
00:53:24,310 --> 00:53:28,370
<i>not on the battlefield,
but in its hospitals.</i>

642
00:53:34,910 --> 00:53:38,079
But if the medical supplies were
left behind at Varna and Calamita,

643
00:53:38,080 --> 00:53:39,080
why in heaven's name
haven't they been shipped

644
00:53:39,081 --> 00:53:41,079
to the main body
of the Army since?

645
00:53:41,080 --> 00:53:43,079
They've had five,
six weeks to do it in.

646
00:53:43,080 --> 00:53:44,499
Surely something so obvious,

647
00:53:44,500 --> 00:53:47,589
something calling for no more than
a simple shred of common sense,

648
00:53:47,590 --> 00:53:49,559
doesn't require a direct
order from London.

649
00:53:49,560 --> 00:53:51,589
Well, I wouldn't believe
everything that this chap, Russell,

650
00:53:51,590 --> 00:53:53,089
writes in the <i>Times, you know...</i>

651
00:53:53,090 --> 00:53:54,559
In fact, I do believe it.

652
00:53:54,560 --> 00:53:57,599
And even if only half of it's
true, it's still an outrage.

653
00:53:57,600 --> 00:53:59,599
And one which the whole
country will be reading about

654
00:53:59,600 --> 00:54:02,099
and justly feeling incensed
about from this morning onwards.

655
00:54:02,100 --> 00:54:04,599
Yes, sir.

656
00:54:04,600 --> 00:54:07,320
Miss Nightingale is
here to see you, sir.

657
00:54:11,530 --> 00:54:14,530
My dear Florence,
what can I do for you?

658
00:54:15,030 --> 00:54:18,529
Sidney, I would like to help
at the hospital in Scutari.

659
00:54:18,530 --> 00:54:21,539
Scutari? Florence,
there's a big difference between

660
00:54:21,540 --> 00:54:23,539
running a women's
hospital in London

661
00:54:23,540 --> 00:54:26,539
and trying to merely survive
in a pest-hole in Turkey.

662
00:54:26,540 --> 00:54:29,549
Here you're respected,
practically a celebrity.

663
00:54:29,550 --> 00:54:31,049
There, well...

664
00:54:31,050 --> 00:54:33,549
Have you any idea what life
might be like for a woman?

665
00:54:33,550 --> 00:54:35,549
Women are strong,
stronger than you think.

666
00:54:35,550 --> 00:54:41,059
I bow to no man in my respect for
women, but Scutari is a living hell.

667
00:54:41,060 --> 00:54:43,560
Besides, it is
a British Army installation.

668
00:54:44,060 --> 00:54:46,059
No woman would be
allowed to enter.

669
00:54:46,060 --> 00:54:48,059
And even if she were,
what could she possibly do?

670
00:54:48,060 --> 00:54:52,569
Exactly what the wives and mothers and
sisters of those young men would do.

671
00:54:52,570 --> 00:54:55,069
Clean them, take care of them,
nurse them back to health.

672
00:54:55,070 --> 00:54:58,569
Florence, I don't think you
understand the scope of this tragedy.

673
00:54:58,570 --> 00:55:00,579
But I do, Sidney.

674
00:55:00,580 --> 00:55:05,079
I want to raise a corps of nurses,
the best that can be found.

675
00:55:05,080 --> 00:55:08,079
Pay them out of my own
pocket, if I have to.

676
00:55:08,080 --> 00:55:12,089
Take them to Scutari with bandages
and shirts and medical supplies,

677
00:55:12,090 --> 00:55:15,589
pound down the Army's doors
if they won't let us in,

678
00:55:15,590 --> 00:55:17,589
and take care of
those wounded heroes.

679
00:55:17,590 --> 00:55:21,099
This whole war is
a monumental embarrassment.

680
00:55:21,100 --> 00:55:22,599
We wouldn't even be in it

681
00:55:22,600 --> 00:55:24,599
if the Russians didn't believe
that on land we are vulnerable

682
00:55:24,600 --> 00:55:26,569
as opposed to our
might on the seas.

683
00:55:26,570 --> 00:55:29,650
And to make matters worse,
the <i>Times sends William Russell</i>

684
00:55:30,160 --> 00:55:33,159
to record all of the Army's blunders
and the mishandling of the wounded.

685
00:55:33,160 --> 00:55:37,159
Florence, what do you suppose will
be the reaction of the military

686
00:55:37,160 --> 00:55:39,669
if they heard that a woman,
worse, a band of women,

687
00:55:39,670 --> 00:55:43,169
is on its way to
rescuing the British Army?

688
00:55:43,170 --> 00:55:46,669
Give me permission to try.
And if you can, give me funds.

689
00:55:46,670 --> 00:55:48,669
Enough funds to show the world

690
00:55:48,670 --> 00:55:53,049
that we won't let our soldiers rot away
in some foreign land for lack of care.

691
00:55:53,050 --> 00:55:58,129
Sidney, our soldiers are dying needlessly.
What you're talking about is pride.

692
00:55:58,130 --> 00:56:02,639
What I'm talking about is saving lives.
Will you help?

693
00:56:02,640 --> 00:56:05,639
Florence, you can't!
The boat sails in 10 days.

694
00:56:05,640 --> 00:56:08,639
You'd have to leave London
in less than a week.

695
00:56:08,640 --> 00:56:12,609
And if I tried,
and if I succeed,

696
00:56:12,610 --> 00:56:16,149
you would be going to a country
so vastly different from England,

697
00:56:16,150 --> 00:56:19,619
you'd be in the most horrible
of circumstances.

698
00:56:19,620 --> 00:56:24,130
No, Sidney, the most horrible of
circumstances would be to do nothing.

699
00:56:29,720 --> 00:56:31,750
(WOMEN MURMURING)

700
00:56:39,220 --> 00:56:40,760
FLORENCE: Experience?

701
00:56:41,260 --> 00:56:42,760
MRS. BRENT: Nursed
all me own family.

702
00:56:43,260 --> 00:56:45,259
Spent four years in St. John's.

703
00:56:45,260 --> 00:56:48,849
And I've done scrubbing and
washing, too, to raise me kids.

704
00:56:48,850 --> 00:56:52,850
That's perfect experience for Scutari.
Sister, sit down.

705
00:56:54,860 --> 00:56:56,859
Do you know where Scutari is?

706
00:56:56,860 --> 00:56:59,359
Some heathen place?

707
00:56:59,360 --> 00:57:01,860
Near Constantinople in Turkey.

708
00:57:04,950 --> 00:57:06,870
Are you married, Mrs. Brent?

709
00:57:09,370 --> 00:57:11,870
I never exactly married.

710
00:57:12,370 --> 00:57:16,380
I can go where I please,
and I please to go to wherever it is.

711
00:57:17,460 --> 00:57:19,429
Why do you please to go?

712
00:57:19,430 --> 00:57:23,440
For the money, miss.
Eighteen shillings a week!

713
00:57:25,440 --> 00:57:29,939
I just always liked nursing the sick.
It's a sort of calling I have.

714
00:57:29,940 --> 00:57:32,439
At least, I think I have.

715
00:57:32,440 --> 00:57:34,949
I don't really know much
about it, nobody taught me,

716
00:57:34,950 --> 00:57:39,949
but I just seem to know how
to make people feel better.

717
00:57:39,950 --> 00:57:42,959
And I love it.
You know what I mean, ma'am?

718
00:57:42,960 --> 00:57:44,460
FLORENCE: Yes.

719
00:57:47,460 --> 00:57:50,459
Just call me Iris.

720
00:57:50,460 --> 00:57:53,969
FLORENCE: Have you had any
experience in nursing, Iris?

721
00:57:53,970 --> 00:57:57,970
Well, I sure like soldiers.
Known a lot of them, too.

722
00:57:58,470 --> 00:58:01,969
I don't like to think of any I've
been with lying in that awful place,

723
00:58:01,970 --> 00:58:03,929
wanting a human hand to hold,

724
00:58:03,930 --> 00:58:07,349
or a woman to sponge them off
and make them better.

725
00:58:07,350 --> 00:58:09,480
I feel the same way
myself, Iris.

726
00:58:13,070 --> 00:58:16,569
I thought my calling
was to be a nun.

727
00:58:16,570 --> 00:58:21,079
I tried,
but it was wrong for me.

728
00:58:21,080 --> 00:58:24,529
So my parents arranged for me
to marry an Englishman.

729
00:58:24,530 --> 00:58:27,580
He's in the Army
somewhere in the Crimea.

730
00:58:28,580 --> 00:58:32,590
Perhaps in Scutari.

731
00:58:36,590 --> 00:58:38,040
(DOOR OPENS)

732
00:58:39,960 --> 00:58:42,130
You look surprised.

733
00:58:43,130 --> 00:58:44,130
I am.

734
00:58:47,720 --> 00:58:49,800
Please sit down, Nurse Davis.

735
00:58:52,190 --> 00:58:56,280
It's the end of a long,
hard day and I'm sure you're tired, too.

736
00:59:02,070 --> 00:59:03,949
I want to volunteer.

737
00:59:03,950 --> 00:59:07,239
To tend the wounded soldiers in Turkey?
Are you sure?

738
00:59:07,240 --> 00:59:09,829
Why me less than those others?

739
00:59:09,830 --> 00:59:14,329
I've watched them in and out of here
all day. Am I any worse than them?

740
00:59:14,330 --> 00:59:16,829
No. Of course not.

741
00:59:16,830 --> 00:59:19,799
You're a competent, experienced nurse.
I'm just surprised that...

742
00:59:19,800 --> 00:59:23,170
Surprised I want to go
with you? Well, don't be.

743
00:59:24,840 --> 00:59:28,060
What do you say, Miss Nightingale?
Will you take me?

744
01:00:07,880 --> 01:00:09,890
TRUDE: Miss Nightingale?

745
01:00:12,800 --> 01:00:14,020
Trude?

746
01:00:17,640 --> 01:00:21,649
Why, I can't believe my eyes.

747
01:00:21,650 --> 01:00:24,149
What are you doing in England?

748
01:00:24,150 --> 01:00:28,649
I have been here doing
work for Dr. Fleetner.

749
01:00:28,650 --> 01:00:32,370
I am a nurse, I come to serve.

750
01:00:33,460 --> 01:00:36,129
You want to go to Scutari?

751
01:00:36,130 --> 01:00:40,920
Where you go, if I can be of
help, Miss Nightingale.

752
01:00:42,000 --> 01:00:43,999
If you can be of help?

753
01:00:44,000 --> 01:00:46,919
If you only knew how I've
prayed for someone like you.

754
01:00:46,920 --> 01:00:50,509
Someone who understands,
who doesn't have to be taught.

755
01:00:50,510 --> 01:00:54,009
Trude, I'm taking 40 women
halfway around the world,

756
01:00:54,010 --> 01:00:57,519
nearly all with little training.

757
01:00:57,520 --> 01:01:01,650
And I'm terrified I won't
be equal to the task.

758
01:01:02,150 --> 01:01:05,910
You will. You will
be equal to anything.

759
01:01:06,990 --> 01:01:09,609
I hope so, I pray so.

760
01:01:09,610 --> 01:01:15,669
And those boys, they pray, too, I think.
And look, we are coming.

761
01:01:15,670 --> 01:01:18,589
Sometimes I think
prayers are answered.

762
01:01:18,590 --> 01:01:22,090
Yes. Yes. Yes.

763
01:01:23,260 --> 01:01:25,630
(CROWD CHATTERING)

764
01:01:38,610 --> 01:01:40,639
There she is, over there!

765
01:01:40,640 --> 01:01:42,229
But where are the Bracebridges?

766
01:01:42,230 --> 01:01:45,359
All these women traveling to
the continent unescorted.

767
01:01:45,360 --> 01:01:47,869
I'm so relieved Charles
has agreed to go with them.

768
01:01:47,870 --> 01:01:49,949
Otherwise, I'd never
have allowed her to go.

769
01:01:49,950 --> 01:01:51,710
PARTHENOPE: How could
anyone have stopped it?

770
01:01:52,040 --> 01:01:53,040
Charles, we're here!

771
01:01:53,290 --> 01:01:54,290
Hello.

772
01:01:56,160 --> 01:01:57,959
(CROWD CHEERS)

773
01:01:57,960 --> 01:01:59,039
Does Florence know you're here?

774
01:01:59,040 --> 01:02:00,549
No, we cannot get near her.

775
01:02:00,550 --> 01:02:02,050
She really is remarkable.

776
01:02:02,550 --> 01:02:04,049
I never would've
imagined she was capable

777
01:02:04,050 --> 01:02:06,549
of organizing and carrying
out a venture like this.

778
01:02:06,550 --> 01:02:08,049
Hereditary, I expect.

779
01:02:08,050 --> 01:02:12,559
I am so grateful that you and
Selina have agreed to go with her.

780
01:02:12,560 --> 01:02:16,059
She'll need to be among friends,
however strong she appears to be.

781
01:02:16,060 --> 01:02:18,559
There's not a lady in that
company, apart from Selina.

782
01:02:18,560 --> 01:02:21,569
No one of our class would go, Mama.
I certainly wouldn't.

783
01:02:21,570 --> 01:02:22,980
Florence!

784
01:02:24,990 --> 01:02:27,360
I'm so glad you've
come to see me off.

785
01:02:31,860 --> 01:02:33,409
Flo, do be careful.

786
01:02:33,410 --> 01:02:37,420
Turks do not respect women
the way English gentlemen do.

787
01:02:39,870 --> 01:02:41,119
I will be careful, Mama.

788
01:02:41,120 --> 01:02:42,420
PARTHENOPE: Florence.

789
01:02:45,960 --> 01:02:46,960
(SIGHS)

790
01:02:47,460 --> 01:02:51,050
My sister, my little sister.

791
01:02:53,970 --> 01:02:57,969
Flo, I'm so afraid for you.

792
01:02:57,970 --> 01:03:01,720
This all sounds so horrible.
I could not bear to...

793
01:03:03,310 --> 01:03:04,780
Parthe.

794
01:03:07,900 --> 01:03:10,400
I want to go, I'm not afraid.

795
01:03:11,400 --> 01:03:13,570
I know what I'm doing.

796
01:03:15,150 --> 01:03:17,290
Of course you do, Flo.

797
01:03:23,800 --> 01:03:27,629
Father, I hope you understand.

798
01:03:27,630 --> 01:03:31,139
Don't ask me that,
I shall never understand.

799
01:03:31,140 --> 01:03:34,640
But I shall always marvel,
with pride,

800
01:03:35,640 --> 01:03:38,639
with awe, at the brave,
noble girl

801
01:03:38,640 --> 01:03:43,650
that we raised in our family without
ever realizing that she was different.

802
01:03:46,650 --> 01:03:50,190
Godspeed, my gallant daughter.

803
01:04:08,210 --> 01:04:09,290
Richard.

804
01:04:15,800 --> 01:04:17,180
I had to be here.

805
01:04:19,270 --> 01:04:21,350
I'm so pleased.

806
01:04:33,310 --> 01:04:37,320
You really are the most
adorable patriot I've ever seen.

807
01:04:39,820 --> 01:04:41,960
I've missed you, Florence.

808
01:04:44,460 --> 01:04:49,460
Richard, I'm happy to hear that, and to
know you're not angry at me any longer.

809
01:04:51,970 --> 01:04:53,249
Will you write?

810
01:04:53,250 --> 01:04:54,250
Of course.

811
01:04:55,750 --> 01:04:56,970
And expect answers.

812
01:04:58,560 --> 01:05:00,060
And I will send them.

813
01:05:03,060 --> 01:05:06,060
I...
I am afraid of what's ahead,

814
01:05:08,070 --> 01:05:11,069
but this is what I
was always meant to do.

815
01:05:11,070 --> 01:05:14,160
I believe that,
and I want you to believe it.

816
01:05:16,240 --> 01:05:18,659
I do, Florence.

817
01:05:18,660 --> 01:05:22,860
CHARLES: All nurses stay together.
No wandering off, please.

818
01:06:11,880 --> 01:06:13,830
<i>RICHARD: Florence, my dear.</i>

819
01:06:14,880 --> 01:06:17,389
<i>Hold your head high.</i>

820
01:06:17,390 --> 01:06:22,890
<i>How many of us in our lifetime can
ever say, "I have made a difference"?</i>

821
01:06:24,680 --> 01:06:26,930
<i>You are one of
those rare ones, Flo.</i>

822
01:06:28,850 --> 01:06:31,349
<i>As for us,</i>

823
01:06:31,350 --> 01:06:33,849
<i>I have no regrets for what is,</i>

824
01:06:33,850 --> 01:06:37,570
<i>only selfishly at times</i>

825
01:06:38,570 --> 01:06:41,079
<i>for what might have been.</i>

826
01:06:41,080 --> 01:06:43,360
<i>Love, Richard.</i>

827
01:07:04,300 --> 01:07:07,799
<i>NARRATOR: The journey
to Turkey took nearly a month.</i>

828
01:07:07,800 --> 01:07:11,309
<i>By ferry from England to France.</i>

829
01:07:11,310 --> 01:07:13,810
<i>By train to
the port of Marseille.</i>

830
01:07:14,810 --> 01:07:18,309
<i>And by ship to Constantinople.</i>

831
01:07:18,310 --> 01:07:23,319
<i>Florence, Bracebridges,
and her group of 40 nurses</i>

832
01:07:23,320 --> 01:07:29,320
<i>arrived at the base hospital,
Scutari, on November 4th, 1854.</i>

833
01:07:54,900 --> 01:07:57,900
I'm Charles Bracebridge, sir.
My wife, Selina.

834
01:07:58,400 --> 01:07:59,910
This, of course,
is Miss Nightingale.

835
01:07:59,911 --> 01:08:05,159
I'm Dr. Clarke. Welcome to Scutari,
or as much welcome as it offers.

836
01:08:05,160 --> 01:08:08,279
This is where you'll be.
Barracks Hospital.

837
01:08:08,280 --> 01:08:11,779
This used to be a Turkish barracks,
now it's a British hospital.

838
01:08:11,780 --> 01:08:13,119
Strange, this war.

839
01:08:13,120 --> 01:08:15,200
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hGood God!
This way.

840
01:08:18,210 --> 01:08:20,210
We have at present
some 2,000 cases.

841
01:08:20,710 --> 01:08:24,709
The wounded, some cholera,
some simple dysentery.

842
01:08:24,710 --> 01:08:26,709
Hard to tell
the difference, really.

843
01:08:26,710 --> 01:08:30,719
You'll be staying in the Barracks
Hospital, if you stay.

844
01:08:30,720 --> 01:08:33,889
And I apologize in
advance for the stench,

845
01:08:33,890 --> 01:08:38,479
but, well, these are rough
military quarters, you know.

846
01:08:38,480 --> 01:08:40,979
I'll escort you to Dr. Menzies'
office, if you're ready.

847
01:08:40,980 --> 01:08:44,369
Now this Dr. Menzies, sir,
just who is he precisely?

848
01:08:44,370 --> 01:08:46,449
Our chief medical officer, sir.

849
01:08:46,450 --> 01:08:48,619
He will give you
your instructions.

850
01:08:48,620 --> 01:08:52,619
Our instructions, Doctor, come from the
Secretary at War, Mr. Sidney Herbert.

851
01:08:52,620 --> 01:08:55,329
Certainly
Dr. Menzies knows that.

852
01:08:55,330 --> 01:08:57,329
With all due respect,
Miss Nightingale,

853
01:08:57,330 --> 01:09:00,829
you and your party are a long,
long way from home.

854
01:09:00,830 --> 01:09:03,750
Dr. Menzies gives
the orders at Scutari.

855
01:09:11,430 --> 01:09:13,589
Who is that?

856
01:09:13,590 --> 01:09:15,179
DR. CLARKE: That,
Miss Nightingale, is the man

857
01:09:15,180 --> 01:09:17,599
who gives Dr. Menzies
his orders.

858
01:09:17,600 --> 01:09:21,939
Dr. John Hall, the man in charge of
all medical services for the Army.

859
01:09:21,940 --> 01:09:26,660
He is here on a tour of inspection.
He just arrived from the Crimea, actually.

860
01:09:43,170 --> 01:09:45,880
Doctor, please,
don't let us disturb your dinner.

861
01:09:47,380 --> 01:09:48,959
You've had your dinner, madam?

862
01:09:48,960 --> 01:09:50,469
No, sir.

863
01:09:50,470 --> 01:09:52,969
I'll see that a meal is laid
out for you and your ladies.

864
01:09:52,970 --> 01:09:55,470
Later on, when you've rested,
perhaps tomorrow or the next day,

865
01:09:55,970 --> 01:09:58,439
we'll have time to talk.

866
01:09:58,440 --> 01:10:01,939
Thank you, Doctor,
but we rested quite enough on the ship.

867
01:10:01,940 --> 01:10:03,859
We are eager to begin our work.

868
01:10:03,860 --> 01:10:05,859
Perhaps tomorrow, Miss
Nightingale, or the day after,

869
01:10:05,860 --> 01:10:09,199
something can be
arranged for you to do.

870
01:10:09,200 --> 01:10:12,200
Something can be
arranged for us to do?

871
01:10:14,540 --> 01:10:17,789
Miss Nightingale,
our problems here are enormous.

872
01:10:17,790 --> 01:10:21,379
We're already overloaded with patients
and are about to receive more.

873
01:10:21,380 --> 01:10:25,879
There's been a big battle at Balaclava
near Sebastopol, with a great many wounded.

874
01:10:25,880 --> 01:10:28,389
That means a mountain
of administrative work.

875
01:10:28,390 --> 01:10:31,389
We're literally snowed
under as it is with forms,

876
01:10:31,390 --> 01:10:36,229
indents, purveyor's warrants,
accounts to the paymaster general.

877
01:10:36,230 --> 01:10:37,510
Now if you'd
brought us 40 clerks

878
01:10:37,730 --> 01:10:40,020
instead of 40 nurses,
we could've put them to use.

879
01:10:40,021 --> 01:10:41,269
(MEN MURMURING)

880
01:10:41,270 --> 01:10:44,269
Sir, we are not clerks.

881
01:10:44,270 --> 01:10:46,269
We've come a long way
to tend the sick and wounded

882
01:10:46,270 --> 01:10:49,909
who, by your own description,
need us very badly.

883
01:10:49,910 --> 01:10:51,530
DR. HALL: Miss Nightingale,

884
01:10:54,110 --> 01:10:56,109
let me make myself very clear.

885
01:10:56,110 --> 01:10:59,119
Why ever you've come,
you are now under my command.

886
01:10:59,120 --> 01:11:01,589
What you suggest is,
of course, quite impossible.

887
01:11:01,590 --> 01:11:04,620
No female has ever been allowed
to nurse in the British Army,

888
01:11:05,120 --> 01:11:06,680
and that is that!

889
01:11:08,880 --> 01:11:10,800
Have I made myself plain?

890
01:11:19,350 --> 01:11:21,860
Florence,
we're wasting our time.

891
01:11:24,360 --> 01:11:29,479
Dr. Menzies, I understand all too well
the restrictions of the British Army.

892
01:11:29,480 --> 01:11:32,479
However, common soldiers who
have fought with uncommon courage

893
01:11:32,480 --> 01:11:34,989
are lying just a few
steps away from here,

894
01:11:34,990 --> 01:11:37,989
suffering for the lack of
what I have brought with me,

895
01:11:37,990 --> 01:11:40,989
medical supplies
and dedicated nurses.

896
01:11:40,990 --> 01:11:43,999
Surely you wouldn't
let your feelings about women

897
01:11:44,000 --> 01:11:47,549
prolong the suffering
of wounded soldiers?

898
01:11:47,550 --> 01:11:50,549
They are not my feelings
alone, Miss Nightingale.

899
01:11:50,550 --> 01:11:54,219
There's a good deal of opposition,
prejudice, if you will,

900
01:11:54,220 --> 01:11:58,229
among my divisional officers against
female nurses going into the men's wards.

901
01:11:58,230 --> 01:12:00,899
Well, in that case, sir,
what the devil have we come here for?

902
01:12:00,900 --> 01:12:02,649
I would ask you
the same question, sir.

903
01:12:02,650 --> 01:12:08,239
Doctor, when can we at least get
acquainted with the hospital?

904
01:12:08,240 --> 01:12:12,820
We are medical persons, as you are.
Tending wounds is our profession.

905
01:12:15,330 --> 01:12:19,329
Very well, Miss Nightingale.
Your curiosity shall be satisfied.

906
01:12:19,330 --> 01:12:22,950
Immediately after dinner, my aid,
Dr. McGregor, will escort you himself.

907
01:12:23,450 --> 01:12:27,459
But, Major, it will be dark
at that hour.

908
01:12:27,460 --> 01:12:29,340
The wards will be
as black as pitch.

909
01:12:29,920 --> 01:12:31,929
Miss Nightingale will light them
up with her presence, no doubt.

910
01:12:31,930 --> 01:12:33,429
(MEN CHUCKLING)

911
01:12:33,430 --> 01:12:35,630
Or better still, bring a candle.

912
01:12:37,600 --> 01:12:39,599
And Miss Nightingale,

913
01:12:39,600 --> 01:12:43,100
I wouldn't eat too much
beforehand, if I were you.

914
01:12:52,700 --> 01:12:54,200
SURGEON: Chloroform.

915
01:12:55,950 --> 01:12:59,539
Don't you know, sir?
I gave orders!

916
01:12:59,540 --> 01:13:03,039
No chloroform to be used in
any hospital under my command!

917
01:13:03,040 --> 01:13:06,330
But this man's leg's in a terrible
way, sir, mangled to the thigh.

918
01:13:06,830 --> 01:13:08,379
He's got to lose it, sir.

919
01:13:08,380 --> 01:13:11,969
Smart use of the knife, sir,
is a powerful stimulant.

920
01:13:11,970 --> 01:13:14,420
For it's far better
to hear a man bawl lustily

921
01:13:14,800 --> 01:13:17,390
than to see him sink
silently into the grave.

922
01:13:18,890 --> 01:13:19,890
Sir.

923
01:13:23,390 --> 01:13:24,980
Gag.

924
01:13:25,480 --> 01:13:26,760
(CRYING)

925
01:13:29,400 --> 01:13:31,150
I've got him, sir.

926
01:13:33,320 --> 01:13:34,940
(SCREAMING)

927
01:13:40,910 --> 01:13:42,410
(RATS SQUEALING)

928
01:13:55,010 --> 01:13:57,179
NURSE: 12 of us in here?

929
01:13:57,180 --> 01:14:00,129
We've only been allotted
these three rooms.

930
01:14:00,130 --> 01:14:04,689
Mrs. Bracebridge,
would you mind coming here, please?

931
01:14:04,690 --> 01:14:06,689
My God, what is that?

932
01:14:06,690 --> 01:14:12,189
A dead man from the look of it.
Russian, and a general, I should think.

933
01:14:12,190 --> 01:14:14,699
Would you mind giving
me a hand with him?

934
01:14:14,700 --> 01:14:16,199
Oh, God, I can't. I can't.

935
01:14:16,200 --> 01:14:20,199
Well surely you can try. Come on.
Come on, take some of the weight.

936
01:14:20,200 --> 01:14:23,199
Come on, lift him.

937
01:14:23,200 --> 01:14:27,710
Come on, help me. That's it, that's it.
Sit him up, sit him up, sit him up.

938
01:14:29,210 --> 01:14:31,710
Right, Trude,
we're gonna need help!

939
01:14:32,210 --> 01:14:33,210
Charles!

940
01:14:35,220 --> 01:14:37,719
Help us lift.

941
01:14:37,720 --> 01:14:39,219
Got him? Now, lift.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hYeah, yeah.

942
01:14:39,220 --> 01:14:40,720
All right.

943
01:14:41,720 --> 01:14:42,720
TRUDE: He's so heavy.

944
01:14:42,721 --> 01:14:44,729
All right, got him.

945
01:14:44,730 --> 01:14:46,730
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hNURSE: You got him?
Yes.

946
01:14:59,360 --> 01:15:02,859
Dr. McGregor,
be frank with me, please.

947
01:15:02,860 --> 01:15:06,360
Why are you doctors so frightened
of letting nurses into the wards?

948
01:15:06,860 --> 01:15:08,829
What do you imagine we can do?

949
01:15:08,830 --> 01:15:10,390
It isn't a question
of being frightened,

950
01:15:10,840 --> 01:15:14,870
it's just that women tending
common soldiers in the army,

951
01:15:16,370 --> 01:15:18,429
it's not done.

952
01:15:18,430 --> 01:15:23,099
Doctor, have you ever done things
in your life that aren't done?

953
01:15:23,100 --> 01:15:24,429
Of course.

954
01:15:24,430 --> 01:15:26,970
So have I. That's why I'm here.

955
01:15:28,520 --> 01:15:30,970
Now, please show me the wards.

956
01:15:42,200 --> 01:15:43,700
(RATS SQUEALING)

957
01:15:56,210 --> 01:15:58,220
(SOLDIERS GROANING)

958
01:15:59,720 --> 01:16:01,720
(SOLDIERS COUGHING)

959
01:16:09,230 --> 01:16:10,730
SOLDIER: Have mercy.

960
01:16:11,730 --> 01:16:13,729
(RAT SQUEALING)

961
01:16:13,730 --> 01:16:15,229
What's that sound?

962
01:16:15,230 --> 01:16:16,730
It's rats, madam.

963
01:16:32,700 --> 01:16:36,750
I see they lie here for the most
part just as they were brought in.

964
01:16:38,260 --> 01:16:39,260
No sheets or blankets?

965
01:16:39,261 --> 01:16:40,759
None.

966
01:16:40,760 --> 01:16:42,759
They're left where they landed.

967
01:16:42,760 --> 01:16:43,760
Shirts?

968
01:16:43,760 --> 01:16:44,760
What they've got on.

969
01:16:45,710 --> 01:16:46,760
Laundry?

970
01:16:47,260 --> 01:16:48,270
There is none.

971
01:16:50,270 --> 01:16:53,269
Dr. McGregor, we have clean
shirts and bedding with us.

972
01:16:53,270 --> 01:16:56,769
Please help us distribute
them to the men.

973
01:16:56,770 --> 01:16:59,190
It would seem simple,
wouldn't it?

974
01:16:59,730 --> 01:17:02,779
But the purveyor
must approve it.

975
01:17:02,780 --> 01:17:07,789
The truth is, if your shirts were for
the officers there would be no problem.

976
01:17:07,790 --> 01:17:10,789
But for the common soldier...

977
01:17:10,790 --> 01:17:15,789
Well, you've already had some introduction
to the prejudice of the British Army.

978
01:17:15,790 --> 01:17:16,790
Yes.

979
01:17:21,800 --> 01:17:23,800
(SOLDIERS MOANING)

980
01:17:37,820 --> 01:17:38,820
SOLDIER: Water.

981
01:17:43,820 --> 01:17:45,819
(SOLDIER EXCLAIMS)

982
01:17:45,820 --> 01:17:48,829
Are the windows ever opened here?
Floors ever cleaned?

983
01:17:48,830 --> 01:17:49,830
No.

984
01:17:55,330 --> 01:17:57,840
Are the dressings ever changed?

985
01:18:00,840 --> 01:18:04,339
Are the wounds
ever cleaned at all?

986
01:18:04,340 --> 01:18:05,839
Are the men ever
cared for in any way...

987
01:18:05,840 --> 01:18:06,840
SOLDIER: Doctor.

988
01:18:06,841 --> 01:18:08,349
...or are they just
brought in here to die?

989
01:18:08,350 --> 01:18:09,849
SOLDIER: Doctor!

990
01:18:09,850 --> 01:18:11,850
Have you finished?

991
01:18:15,850 --> 01:18:17,860
No, I have not.

992
01:18:31,870 --> 01:18:34,369
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hMa'am.
Yes?

993
01:18:34,370 --> 01:18:37,369
Have you come to
look after us then?

994
01:18:37,370 --> 01:18:39,379
What's your name?

995
01:18:39,380 --> 01:18:41,880
Tom. Tom Miller, ma'am.

996
01:18:44,380 --> 01:18:46,380
Where are you from, Tom?

997
01:18:47,380 --> 01:18:49,889
Cornwall, ma'am.

998
01:18:49,890 --> 01:18:53,389
Cornwall is beautiful, isn't it?

999
01:18:53,390 --> 01:18:58,399
Tom, we will be coming to look after you.
Try to get some sleep now.

1000
01:18:58,400 --> 01:19:01,400
I'll come to you soon. Yes.

1001
01:19:14,910 --> 01:19:16,910
SOLDIER: I don't want
to die here.

1002
01:19:18,920 --> 01:19:20,919
That boy's wound is infested.

1003
01:19:20,920 --> 01:19:22,869
Most of them are.

1004
01:19:22,870 --> 01:19:24,920
Better maggots than gangrene.

1005
01:19:27,930 --> 01:19:30,429
What are you going to say?

1006
01:19:30,430 --> 01:19:32,430
"You ought to be
ashamed of yourself"?

1007
01:19:33,010 --> 01:19:34,769
Would that help?

1008
01:19:34,770 --> 01:19:39,269
Miss Nightingale,
I do the best I can.

1009
01:19:39,270 --> 01:19:40,770
Believe me,
if I worked night and day,

1010
01:19:41,270 --> 01:19:44,279
if I begged and fought
for medical supplies...

1011
01:19:44,280 --> 01:19:46,279
If I killed myself
fighting conditions here,

1012
01:19:46,280 --> 01:19:49,729
do you think it would help
these poor wretches one bit?

1013
01:19:49,730 --> 01:19:53,729
No, they would simply be worse
off, with one less doctor.

1014
01:19:53,730 --> 01:19:58,619
So I do my best to
live with it, and I stay.

1015
01:19:58,620 --> 01:20:03,160
Dr. McGregor, I beg of you,
please help me to do the work I came to do!

1016
01:20:05,250 --> 01:20:09,750
Madam, there are centuries
of prejudice to overcome.

1017
01:20:11,250 --> 01:20:15,719
Only one thing has ever changed
anything in the British Army.

1018
01:20:15,720 --> 01:20:17,510
And what is that, Doctor?

1019
01:20:19,090 --> 01:20:20,510
Disaster.

1020
01:20:21,600 --> 01:20:25,600
My God, isn't this
disaster enough?

1021
01:20:38,750 --> 01:20:40,699
<i>FLORENCE: Dear Sidney,</i>

1022
01:20:40,700 --> 01:20:43,249
<i>the conditions of the sick and
wounded arriving from the battlefront</i>

1023
01:20:43,250 --> 01:20:47,249
<i>are even more appalling
than this hospital itself.</i>

1024
01:20:47,250 --> 01:20:50,759
<i>Tragically, most never survive
the 12-day journey from the Crimea</i>

1025
01:20:50,760 --> 01:20:52,760
<i>across the open sea.</i>

1026
01:20:53,260 --> 01:20:56,759
<i>Those that do are so ravaged by
gangrene, cholera and exposure</i>

1027
01:20:56,760 --> 01:21:00,269
<i>that there is little
anyone can do for them.</i>

1028
01:21:00,270 --> 01:21:03,719
<i>Surely, someone
must appeal to Dr. Hall</i>

1029
01:21:03,720 --> 01:21:07,780
<i>about this inhumane treatment
of our wounded boys.</i>

1030
01:21:08,280 --> 01:21:12,780
<i>For the most part,
they are just boys.</i>

1031
01:21:18,790 --> 01:21:20,289
Where's Mrs. Bracebridge?

1032
01:21:20,290 --> 01:21:22,289
Gone for her morning
walk, I shouldn't wonder.

1033
01:21:22,290 --> 01:21:24,289
Why must you always pick on her?

1034
01:21:24,290 --> 01:21:26,289
Because she deserves it.

1035
01:21:26,290 --> 01:21:29,299
She's got no stomach for this
kind of work and you know it.

1036
01:21:29,300 --> 01:21:31,799
When do we start work,
Miss Nightingale?

1037
01:21:31,800 --> 01:21:35,299
We can hear the men on the wards,
miss, calling out they are.

1038
01:21:35,300 --> 01:21:37,299
The stench in this place is
enough to give a man a fever,

1039
01:21:37,300 --> 01:21:40,809
let alone cure him of it.
And there are rats! I saw them.

1040
01:21:40,810 --> 01:21:42,809
Why can't they give
us decent quarters?

1041
01:21:42,810 --> 01:21:44,809
I just bet the officers
don't live like this.

1042
01:21:44,810 --> 01:21:49,819
Ladies, hear me out.
Mr. Herbert is thousands of miles away.

1043
01:21:49,820 --> 01:21:52,319
Our patients are here.

1044
01:21:52,320 --> 01:21:53,819
If we are to be
allowed to help them,

1045
01:21:53,820 --> 01:21:56,819
then we must bite our
tongues, do as we are told,

1046
01:21:56,820 --> 01:22:01,029
and show the Army that we, too,
can endure suffering without complaint.

1047
01:22:01,030 --> 01:22:04,030
But I never came all this
way to sit and sew blankets

1048
01:22:04,530 --> 01:22:06,869
while men are dying
for want of care.

1049
01:22:06,870 --> 01:22:08,869
If you can't make
them let us work,

1050
01:22:08,870 --> 01:22:10,839
why don't we just pack up
our things and go home?

1051
01:22:10,840 --> 01:22:14,429
Nurse Davis, you signed an
agreement to accept my orders.

1052
01:22:14,430 --> 01:22:21,379
My orders are to be patient,
silent and dedicated as a nurse should be.

1053
01:22:21,380 --> 01:22:23,880
I'm as good a nurse as any,
better than most.

1054
01:22:24,380 --> 01:22:26,889
But I'm not here
to waste my time.

1055
01:22:26,890 --> 01:22:30,889
I hear the men crying out in
there, and my stomach turns.

1056
01:22:30,890 --> 01:22:34,360
Get us in there,
or let's be gone!

1057
01:22:41,450 --> 01:22:43,289
You want to do what?

1058
01:22:43,290 --> 01:22:45,570
We want to clean your floors.

1059
01:22:46,070 --> 01:22:46,910
There are no brushes.

1060
01:22:46,911 --> 01:22:48,989
We have 200 in our store.

1061
01:22:48,990 --> 01:22:51,499
If we may not cleanse
and disinfect the men,

1062
01:22:51,500 --> 01:22:54,499
may we not at least go in and
scrub and disinfect the floors?

1063
01:22:54,500 --> 01:22:58,299
And throw open the windows to stop
the spread of cholera and typhus?

1064
01:22:58,300 --> 01:23:02,389
We have four miles of beds.
Four miles of floors.

1065
01:23:02,390 --> 01:23:04,339
And do you realize
how filthy they are?

1066
01:23:04,340 --> 01:23:07,259
Do you, Doctor?

1067
01:23:07,260 --> 01:23:10,309
It seems such a disgrace to let
the women do it by themselves.

1068
01:23:10,310 --> 01:23:13,899
We're not asking to
do it all by ourselves.

1069
01:23:13,900 --> 01:23:16,820
That's why we have
200 brushes, Major.

1070
01:23:18,660 --> 01:23:21,579
DR. MENZIES: Very well,
Miss Nightingale. Go ahead.

1071
01:23:21,580 --> 01:23:23,240
(ALL SHOUTING)

1072
01:23:25,000 --> 01:23:27,159
(TRUMPET PLAYING)

1073
01:23:27,160 --> 01:23:28,950
(EXPLOSION)

1074
01:23:30,530 --> 01:23:32,499
(GUNFIRE)

1075
01:23:32,500 --> 01:23:34,960
(SOLDIERS GROANING)

1076
01:23:36,340 --> 01:23:37,840
(GROANING)

1077
01:23:38,790 --> 01:23:40,760
(GUNFIRE)

1078
01:23:54,110 --> 01:23:55,609
(GROANING)

1079
01:23:55,610 --> 01:23:57,110
(EXPLOSION)

1080
01:24:22,920 --> 01:24:27,979
Miss Nightingale, there's been a heavy
battle at Mount Inkerman above Balaclava

1081
01:24:27,980 --> 01:24:29,979
I've been told to expect
over 1,000 wounded here

1082
01:24:29,980 --> 01:24:31,510
within the next seven days.

1083
01:24:32,100 --> 01:24:35,599
A thousand? But the wards are
hopelessly overcrowded already,

1084
01:24:35,600 --> 01:24:38,599
and the deaths from
cholera are still rising.

1085
01:24:38,600 --> 01:24:43,160
I was hoping we could
improvise something.

1086
01:24:43,740 --> 01:24:47,739
If your good ladies would help
out, as they did in the wards.

1087
01:24:47,740 --> 01:24:51,620
In the past several weeks,
your nurses have done tremendous work.

1088
01:24:53,420 --> 01:24:55,419
Really.

1089
01:24:55,420 --> 01:24:59,459
Few men would have the courage
to do what you have.

1090
01:24:59,460 --> 01:25:02,459
Dr. Menzies, we can help you.

1091
01:25:02,460 --> 01:25:05,800
But only if we are allowed
to attend to the wounded.

1092
01:25:07,300 --> 01:25:10,129
Is this a bit of blackmail,
Miss Nightingale?

1093
01:25:10,130 --> 01:25:11,639
Furthermore, we want
the purveyor's permission

1094
01:25:11,640 --> 01:25:14,639
to distribute free all the
shirts that we brought with us.

1095
01:25:14,640 --> 01:25:17,689
And your permission to hire
enough Turkish workmen to help us.

1096
01:25:17,690 --> 01:25:19,109
We have not got the funds.

1097
01:25:19,110 --> 01:25:23,030
We have. Over 29,000 pounds
raised by the <i>Times.</i>

1098
01:25:25,820 --> 01:25:28,320
Well, in that case,

1099
01:25:28,820 --> 01:25:34,539
if you could do all that, my dear lady,
it would be something like a miracle.

1100
01:25:34,540 --> 01:25:38,549
The miracle, Dr. Menzies,
will not be what my nurses can do

1101
01:25:38,550 --> 01:25:41,330
but that we will
finally be allowed to do it.

1102
01:25:47,750 --> 01:25:49,760
(COUGHING)

1103
01:26:02,770 --> 01:26:07,770
This man's shoulder looks to be shattered.
Place him over there, please.

1104
01:26:12,280 --> 01:26:13,280
Up the stairs, please.

1105
01:26:13,281 --> 01:26:14,780
Yes, ma'am.

1106
01:26:15,780 --> 01:26:17,780
NURSE: This way,
bring him through.

1107
01:26:22,290 --> 01:26:23,760
(GRUNTING)

1108
01:26:27,960 --> 01:26:28,960
Over there.

1109
01:26:38,020 --> 01:26:40,520
I shall look after him now.

1110
01:26:51,540 --> 01:26:54,539
You've had a long journey.

1111
01:26:54,540 --> 01:26:59,630
Now you're going to stay here with me, and
I'm going to be beside you all the time.

1112
01:27:01,130 --> 01:27:03,130
And you're going to rest.

1113
01:27:05,170 --> 01:27:10,220
That's right.
Close your eyes and rest.

1114
01:27:13,220 --> 01:27:15,230
Keep holding my hand.

1115
01:27:20,230 --> 01:27:22,350
Do you have a family?

1116
01:27:22,850 --> 01:27:24,600
I have a wife.

1117
01:27:26,690 --> 01:27:29,689
If she were here,
she'd want to hold you as I am.

1118
01:27:29,690 --> 01:27:33,690
Care for you
and help you to get well.

1119
01:27:37,700 --> 01:27:40,200
I'll help you
write a letter to her

1120
01:27:41,700 --> 01:27:44,500
and you'll see how
much better you'll feel.

1121
01:27:46,290 --> 01:27:47,710
(PANTING)

1122
01:27:56,800 --> 01:27:58,100
(GASPS)

1123
01:28:49,320 --> 01:28:53,409
<i>NARRATOR: During that
terrible year of 1855,</i>

1124
01:28:53,410 --> 01:28:57,909
<i>over 2,000 soldiers
wounded in the line of duty</i>

1125
01:28:57,910 --> 01:29:01,420
<i>died in the arms of
Florence Nightingale.</i>

1126
01:29:11,930 --> 01:29:12,930
(KNOCKING AT DOOR)

1127
01:29:13,430 --> 01:29:15,430
CHARLES: Florence.
It's us, Selina and I.

1128
01:29:16,880 --> 01:29:18,130
Come in.

1129
01:29:24,220 --> 01:29:26,860
Selina has something
to say to you.

1130
01:29:31,980 --> 01:29:35,319
Flo, I've asked Charles to
take me back to England.

1131
01:29:35,320 --> 01:29:38,030
Which, well, I suppose
I have no choice.

1132
01:29:38,540 --> 01:29:41,320
It seems like such a betrayal of
you, Florence.

1133
01:29:42,320 --> 01:29:43,710
Selina, why?

1134
01:29:44,790 --> 01:29:49,799
I'm not a nurse.
I have no purpose here.

1135
01:29:49,800 --> 01:29:53,799
What possible reason can
there be for me to stay?

1136
01:29:53,800 --> 01:29:56,299
For that matter, Charles,
what possible reason can there be for you?

1137
01:29:56,300 --> 01:29:59,839
I resent that.
We are here to support Florence!

1138
01:29:59,840 --> 01:30:04,559
SELINA: We're not supporting
her, she's supporting us.

1139
01:30:04,560 --> 01:30:09,180
Flo, I know it's you who's had to
cover up for all our inadequacies.

1140
01:30:09,770 --> 01:30:10,770
Selina, you have not been...

1141
01:30:10,771 --> 01:30:13,519
I am not as strong as you.

1142
01:30:13,520 --> 01:30:16,569
I cannot suppress my
feelings the way that you do.

1143
01:30:16,570 --> 01:30:18,080
Suppress them?

1144
01:30:19,080 --> 01:30:21,579
Is that how you see me?

1145
01:30:21,580 --> 01:30:26,579
How else have you managed to
survive and do what you have done?

1146
01:30:26,580 --> 01:30:31,089
Nearly a score of nurses that you brought
with you have gone down with cholera.

1147
01:30:31,090 --> 01:30:35,010
Half a dozen have died.
And yet you go on.

1148
01:30:41,630 --> 01:30:44,130
It requires a hardness, Flo.

1149
01:30:46,640 --> 01:30:49,890
You're different from us,
different from what you were.

1150
01:30:52,030 --> 01:30:54,529
I wonder sometimes how
you'll manage to go back.

1151
01:30:54,530 --> 01:30:57,029
Well, at least she's not going back
until she's done what she set out to do,

1152
01:30:57,030 --> 01:30:58,529
which is more than
you can say for us!

1153
01:30:58,530 --> 01:31:01,029
I mean, ever.

1154
01:31:01,030 --> 01:31:02,900
To that world we all once knew.

1155
01:31:06,240 --> 01:31:10,239
I suppose the answer is you'll manage
to do without it perfectly well,

1156
01:31:10,240 --> 01:31:12,379
as you'll manage to
do without us perfectly well.

1157
01:31:12,380 --> 01:31:14,720
CHARLES: For God's sake, Selina.

1158
01:31:17,580 --> 01:31:19,500
I'll say goodbye now, Flo.

1159
01:31:25,180 --> 01:31:26,890
I'm sorry I failed you.

1160
01:31:27,980 --> 01:31:29,980
Goodbye, my dear.

1161
01:31:37,650 --> 01:31:39,160
Goodbye, Flo.

1162
01:31:39,660 --> 01:31:41,160
Safe journey home.

1163
01:31:56,790 --> 01:31:58,590
Miss Nightingale.

1164
01:32:01,630 --> 01:32:06,179
That patient, the gangrene on Ward
Two, I'm going to amputate shortly.

1165
01:32:06,180 --> 01:32:07,469
I shall be there, Doctor.

1166
01:32:07,470 --> 01:32:09,550
I'll need the chloroform.

1167
01:32:12,610 --> 01:32:14,860
Dr. McGregor.

1168
01:32:16,860 --> 01:32:18,899
You should know
the symptoms by now.

1169
01:32:18,900 --> 01:32:22,650
For God's sake, for the sake
of this whole bloody hospital,

1170
01:32:23,150 --> 01:32:26,990
stay away or you'll
catch the cholera, too.

1171
01:32:37,130 --> 01:32:40,129
(SOLDIER SCREAMS)

1172
01:32:40,130 --> 01:32:45,470
Stop! You will please treat
these men with dignity!

1173
01:32:47,470 --> 01:32:52,479
God bless you, miss.
Are you Miss Nightingale, miss?

1174
01:32:52,480 --> 01:32:56,900
Yes. Nurse, will you
please see to this man?

1175
01:33:01,940 --> 01:33:04,489
Everybody knows your name,
Miss Nightingale.

1176
01:33:04,490 --> 01:33:06,990
What the world has not
yet seen is your face.

1177
01:33:07,490 --> 01:33:08,499
And who are you, sir?

1178
01:33:08,500 --> 01:33:10,499
William Russell of the <i>Times.</i>

1179
01:33:10,500 --> 01:33:12,500
And you are
Florence Nightingale.

1180
01:33:13,000 --> 01:33:15,699
I'm honored to meet you at last.

1181
01:33:15,700 --> 01:33:18,710
I can't believe the
change you've made here.

1182
01:33:19,210 --> 01:33:21,209
In the three months
since you came here,

1183
01:33:21,210 --> 01:33:24,709
you've brought some sense of order,
where before there was only chaos.

1184
01:33:24,710 --> 01:33:27,709
I have not been alone,
Mr. Russell.

1185
01:33:27,710 --> 01:33:31,219
Do you know that the soldiers
speak of you in hushed voices,

1186
01:33:31,220 --> 01:33:33,719
almost as if you were an angel?

1187
01:33:33,720 --> 01:33:36,219
At the front, you're
all that they talk about.

1188
01:33:36,220 --> 01:33:40,230
What's been done here was done by
ordinary people doing ordinary things.

1189
01:33:40,730 --> 01:33:45,229
It's the work of my nurses that has made
the difference, Mr. Russell, not mine.

1190
01:33:45,230 --> 01:33:49,240
And how do you explain
the quiet when you pass?

1191
01:33:49,740 --> 01:33:54,239
I can't. Sometimes,
listening to that quiet, I'm amazed,

1192
01:33:54,240 --> 01:33:57,709
because of the
suffering, the squalor,

1193
01:33:57,710 --> 01:33:59,209
and because in the
middle of it all,

1194
01:33:59,210 --> 01:34:04,250
there is this extraordinary
gentleness among men.

1195
01:34:04,750 --> 01:34:09,260
And they're the ones the grandees of
the Army call the scum of the earth.

1196
01:34:09,760 --> 01:34:11,759
I've got to know a lot of
them since I've been out here.

1197
01:34:11,760 --> 01:34:15,059
And you're right.
They're brave and they're good.

1198
01:34:15,060 --> 01:34:19,350
But I know no one who's braver or better
than the woman I'm looking at now.

1199
01:34:19,850 --> 01:34:22,189
That sounds like
newspaper talk, Mr. Russell.

1200
01:34:22,190 --> 01:34:25,769
No, it's not.
Indeed, you are brave.

1201
01:34:25,770 --> 01:34:29,779
And important to the British people.
You deserve the credit.

1202
01:34:29,780 --> 01:34:32,249
And it's my job to
see that you get it.

1203
01:34:32,250 --> 01:34:35,869
So you're attempting to
make me a hero?

1204
01:34:35,870 --> 01:34:40,589
I'm just trying to describe the truth,
Miss Nightingale. Only the truth.

1205
01:34:40,590 --> 01:34:42,589
I have to leave for
the Crimea in the morning.

1206
01:34:42,590 --> 01:34:45,089
Could we go somewhere and talk?

1207
01:34:45,090 --> 01:34:49,600
A man is about to have his leg amputated.
I promised to be by his side.

1208
01:34:52,050 --> 01:34:55,050
Well, maybe afterwards.
I could wait for you.

1209
01:34:57,550 --> 01:35:00,060
May not be an afterwards,
Mr. Russell.

1210
01:35:00,560 --> 01:35:05,060
That man's probably going to die by
morning. No man should die alone.

1211
01:35:05,560 --> 01:35:07,360
By tomorrow, you'll be gone.

1212
01:35:08,950 --> 01:35:11,449
If you're ready to wait
all night with that man,

1213
01:35:11,450 --> 01:35:14,399
I'm ready to wait all tomorrow on the
off chance that you might be free,

1214
01:35:14,400 --> 01:35:17,160
even for an hour,
Miss Nightingale.

1215
01:35:19,160 --> 01:35:20,660
All right.

1216
01:35:32,060 --> 01:35:37,230
<i>NARRATOR: Now William Russell knew
what Florence had told me years ago,</i>

1217
01:35:37,680 --> 01:35:40,729
<i>that she had a calling.</i>

1218
01:35:40,730 --> 01:35:46,019
<i>This lady, who carried herself
with such dignity.</i>

1219
01:35:46,020 --> 01:35:49,519
<i>This lady, who carried herself
with such grace</i>

1220
01:35:49,520 --> 01:35:53,030
<i>that men kissed her
shadow as she passed.</i>

1221
01:35:54,530 --> 01:35:57,530
<i>This lady with the lamp.</i>

1222
01:36:14,710 --> 01:36:20,219
WILLIAM: Fanny, here's another article
from Mr. Russell on conditions in Scutari.

1223
01:36:20,220 --> 01:36:23,219
Oh, read it, Papa.
Please, read it.

1224
01:36:23,220 --> 01:36:28,729
"Due to the heroic exertions of
Miss Nightingale and her nurses

1225
01:36:28,730 --> 01:36:34,229
"conditions of the Barracks Hospital,
so catastrophic but for a few months ago,

1226
01:36:34,230 --> 01:36:39,039
"have improved out of all
recognition and are still improving."

1227
01:36:39,040 --> 01:36:42,120
What an amazing girl.

1228
01:36:42,130 --> 01:36:46,129
Yet I shouldn't be surprised. Her
whole life has been leading up to this.

1229
01:36:46,130 --> 01:36:48,470
I am so proud of her!

1230
01:37:01,510 --> 01:37:03,509
(ALL MURMURING)

1231
01:37:03,510 --> 01:37:08,519
Robert! Robert! Robert!

1232
01:37:08,520 --> 01:37:12,519
Oh! Oh, no! Oh, Mother of God.

1233
01:37:12,520 --> 01:37:15,990
(CRYING) Oh, no! No!

1234
01:37:16,530 --> 01:37:20,530
My darling! My darling! No!

1235
01:37:22,530 --> 01:37:24,030
(CRYING)

1236
01:37:25,540 --> 01:37:27,040
No!

1237
01:37:47,560 --> 01:37:50,060
I know I had given
him up in my heart.

1238
01:37:52,060 --> 01:37:55,060
I began to think I'd
never see him again.

1239
01:37:57,070 --> 01:37:59,070
And I did see him again.

1240
01:38:04,990 --> 01:38:09,499
<i>FLORENCE: Richard, though I am
hardly ever alone in this place,</i>

1241
01:38:09,500 --> 01:38:15,000
<i>I feel very much alone.
Everyone here has felt the strain.</i>

1242
01:38:17,000 --> 01:38:21,010
<i>If there is a hell on earth,
this must be it.</i>

1243
01:38:27,010 --> 01:38:32,519
<i>And when I think of you and
what our life would be together</i>

1244
01:38:32,520 --> 01:38:38,519
<i>I feel I must be mad or possessed
by the devil himself to be here.</i>

1245
01:38:38,520 --> 01:38:42,530
<i>I miss you, Richard.
I love you, Richard.</i>

1246
01:38:58,680 --> 01:39:01,129
When did that bed become vacant?

1247
01:39:01,130 --> 01:39:04,680
Early this morning,
ma'am, took him away.

1248
01:39:05,180 --> 01:39:07,689
Isn't he the third man to
die in that bed in two weeks?

1249
01:39:07,690 --> 01:39:10,189
That's right, ma'am.

1250
01:39:10,190 --> 01:39:13,690
It's kind of a hard-luck bed.
I'm glad I'm not in it.

1251
01:39:14,690 --> 01:39:17,200
It smells bad down there, too.

1252
01:39:36,220 --> 01:39:37,720
(SNIFFS)

1253
01:40:00,320 --> 01:40:03,829
Nurse, Doctor.

1254
01:40:03,830 --> 01:40:07,330
Nurse Davis, take Tom out of that bed.
Put him into the far end of the ward.

1255
01:40:07,830 --> 01:40:09,829
Don't put any new
patients in this area.

1256
01:40:09,830 --> 01:40:12,339
But we're so short of space.

1257
01:40:12,340 --> 01:40:15,290
Nurse, please. Do as I say.
It may save lives.

1258
01:41:14,980 --> 01:41:16,980
(RAT SQUEALING)

1259
01:41:29,200 --> 01:41:31,200
(GASPS)

1260
01:41:31,700 --> 01:41:33,869
(RAT SQUEALING)

1261
01:41:33,870 --> 01:41:35,950
So, Dr. Clarke, how long
have you been out

1262
01:41:36,450 --> 01:41:39,039
in this infidel wilderness?

1263
01:41:39,040 --> 01:41:41,120
DR. CLARKE: Too long, sir,
I assure you.

1264
01:41:46,710 --> 01:41:48,210
What is that?

1265
01:41:48,710 --> 01:41:50,180
I believe it is
Florence Nightingale.

1266
01:41:51,180 --> 01:41:53,520
The lady with the lamp.

1267
01:41:55,350 --> 01:41:57,359
May I present
Dr. John Sutherland,

1268
01:41:57,360 --> 01:42:02,189
Dr. Hector Gavin and Mr. Rawlinson
of the special commission.

1269
01:42:02,190 --> 01:42:05,199
Gentlemen, you could not have
chosen a more opportune moment.

1270
01:42:05,200 --> 01:42:09,200
When I explain to you why,
it will explain to you my appearance.

1271
01:42:11,150 --> 01:42:14,739
I think your appearance is just
grand, Miss Nightingale.

1272
01:42:14,740 --> 01:42:19,960
You do? Then please follow
me, Dr. Sutherland. Gentlemen.

1273
01:42:27,050 --> 01:42:28,560
DR. SUTHERLAND: My God!

1274
01:42:30,060 --> 01:42:31,930
(RATS SQUEALING)

1275
01:42:42,820 --> 01:42:44,319
DR. GAVIN: Shocking!

1276
01:42:44,320 --> 01:42:47,820
Doctor, this entire building
is a veritable death trap.

1277
01:42:48,320 --> 01:42:51,280
The gases from the sewerage
channels are killing our men.

1278
01:42:51,860 --> 01:42:53,329
That's impossible.

1279
01:42:53,330 --> 01:42:54,830
Dr. Menzies.

1280
01:43:00,840 --> 01:43:05,840
What you have down there
beneath this imposing structure

1281
01:43:06,790 --> 01:43:09,850
is a sea of decaying filth.

1282
01:43:11,350 --> 01:43:13,849
The sewerage channels
are hopelessly blocked

1283
01:43:13,850 --> 01:43:16,720
by the bodies of
dozens of dead animals.

1284
01:43:18,800 --> 01:43:23,189
Every breeze, every puff of wind

1285
01:43:23,190 --> 01:43:26,199
blows poisonous gases
into the air works,

1286
01:43:26,200 --> 01:43:30,699
killing all those whose beds
are near the vents.

1287
01:43:30,700 --> 01:43:35,710
Worse yet, Doctor,
it appears your water supply

1288
01:43:36,210 --> 01:43:39,540
passes right through the
carcasses of two dead horses!

1289
01:43:44,750 --> 01:43:51,669
Dr. Menzies, we will hire workers
to clean these channels right away

1290
01:43:51,670 --> 01:43:56,340
or I am telegraphing London to
demand your immediate resignation!

1291
01:44:00,310 --> 01:44:02,060
Is that clear?

1292
01:44:30,460 --> 01:44:32,959
Miss Nightingale, there's a
soldier asking for you in Ward B.

1293
01:44:32,960 --> 01:44:35,465
She just left.
She should be there by now.

1294
01:44:35,466 --> 01:44:37,470
She's doing too much.
She'll wear herself out.

1295
01:44:37,970 --> 01:44:39,969
I can't bear to see
how pale she looks.

1296
01:44:39,970 --> 01:44:43,969
No paler than us,
locked up in this dungeon 18 hours a day.

1297
01:44:43,970 --> 01:44:45,725
Oh, I'm sick of
your complaining.

1298
01:44:45,726 --> 01:44:48,779
Why don't you leave then
and go home where you belong?

1299
01:44:48,780 --> 01:44:51,279
Who are you to
say where I belong?

1300
01:44:51,280 --> 01:44:55,279
You're no nurse,
you're just a common thief, a slut,

1301
01:44:55,280 --> 01:44:59,209
here to collect your 18 shillings.
It's easier than earning them on your back!

1302
01:44:59,210 --> 01:45:00,569
Why, you!

1303
01:45:00,570 --> 01:45:01,570
(BOTH SHOUTING)

1304
01:45:02,070 --> 01:45:03,210
NURSE: Iris!

1305
01:45:03,960 --> 01:45:05,910
(ALL CLAMORING)

1306
01:45:14,090 --> 01:45:15,090
NURSE: Let go!

1307
01:45:15,590 --> 01:45:17,090
Oh, my God!

1308
01:45:21,180 --> 01:45:22,679
Go!

1309
01:45:22,680 --> 01:45:25,060
Go from here.
You disgrace your calling!

1310
01:45:25,400 --> 01:45:27,319
Wait!

1311
01:45:27,320 --> 01:45:29,319
She called me names, Miss Nightingale.
Terrible names.

1312
01:45:29,320 --> 01:45:30,760
Ask the others if
it ain't the truth.

1313
01:45:31,320 --> 01:45:32,819
And I'll say them again.
Thief! Woman of the streets!

1314
01:45:32,820 --> 01:45:34,819
Don't you dare...

1315
01:45:34,820 --> 01:45:38,109
Nurse Davis!

1316
01:45:38,110 --> 01:45:43,699
Why do you torment your sisters so?
You're a fine nurse,

1317
01:45:43,700 --> 01:45:47,700
but ever since we came here your hand
that is so gentle with the soldiers

1318
01:45:48,200 --> 01:45:50,369
seems to be set against us.

1319
01:45:50,370 --> 01:45:53,880
Not against them, against you!

1320
01:45:55,960 --> 01:45:58,299
But why?

1321
01:45:58,300 --> 01:46:02,470
If I'd been born in your
place, I'd be the leader here.

1322
01:46:04,520 --> 01:46:07,020
Shame on you. For shame!

1323
01:46:08,890 --> 01:46:13,450
You think that's such an enviable job?
Then take it.

1324
01:46:17,730 --> 01:46:22,570
If it were in my power alone,
I would gladly give it to you.

1325
01:46:43,390 --> 01:46:46,680
This has been a terrible
burden on all of us.

1326
01:46:49,350 --> 01:46:52,430
Let us all try to
get some sleep now.

1327
01:47:04,660 --> 01:47:08,700
"It is Christ that died,
yea rather that has risen again.

1328
01:47:09,200 --> 01:47:13,710
"Who was even at the right hand of God,
who also maketh intercession for us.

1329
01:47:14,210 --> 01:47:17,039
"Who shall separate us
from the love of Christ?

1330
01:47:17,040 --> 01:47:22,430
"Shall tribulation, or distress,
or persecution, or famine,

1331
01:47:23,430 --> 01:47:25,720
"or nakedness or perils?

1332
01:47:29,940 --> 01:47:35,450
"As it is written, for thy sake,
we are killed all the day long,

1333
01:47:35,950 --> 01:47:39,950
"we are accounted as sheep
for the slaughter.

1334
01:47:40,450 --> 01:47:45,989
"Nay, in all these things, we are more
than conquerors through him that loved us.

1335
01:47:45,990 --> 01:47:50,159
"For I am persuaded
that neither death nor life,

1336
01:47:50,160 --> 01:47:53,159
"nor angels, nor principalities,

1337
01:47:53,160 --> 01:47:56,670
"nor powers, nor things
present, nor things to come

1338
01:47:58,170 --> 01:48:02,169
"nor height, nor depth

1339
01:48:02,170 --> 01:48:07,010
"nor any other creature shall be able
to separate us from the love of God."

1340
01:48:19,940 --> 01:48:24,329
<i>NARRATOR: On September 7th,
1855,</i>

1341
01:48:24,330 --> 01:48:28,749
<i>John Sutherland wrote
Sidney Herbert in London,</i>

1342
01:48:28,750 --> 01:48:35,839
<i>"You little know what daily anxiety it
causes me to see her dying by inches.</i>

1343
01:48:35,840 --> 01:48:41,839
<i>"This woman, who tends to the
soldiers and to her nurses.</i>

1344
01:48:41,840 --> 01:48:46,850
<i>"This woman tends to
everyone but herself."</i>

1345
01:49:02,610 --> 01:49:07,620
Miss Nightingale, since I arrived,
I've done everything you asked me to. True?

1346
01:49:08,120 --> 01:49:11,119
Yes, Doctor. True.
And more than true.

1347
01:49:11,120 --> 01:49:16,129
Well, now I want you to do
something for me. Will you grant it?

1348
01:49:16,130 --> 01:49:18,629
Hadn't I better
know what it is first?

1349
01:49:18,630 --> 01:49:22,629
And what if when you'd ordered
me down the sewers I'd said,

1350
01:49:22,630 --> 01:49:25,139
"I think I'll have to know
what's down there first"?

1351
01:49:25,140 --> 01:49:28,139
I trust that's not a strict
parallel, Doctor?

1352
01:49:28,140 --> 01:49:30,590
Far from it, I'm hoping.

1353
01:49:32,140 --> 01:49:37,149
Tell me, how long is it since
you enjoyed a decent meal,

1354
01:49:37,150 --> 01:49:39,149
served on china plate,

1355
01:49:39,150 --> 01:49:44,659
with knives and forks that weren't bent out
of shape, and a good-sized glass of wine?

1356
01:49:44,660 --> 01:49:48,279
I can't even remember.

1357
01:49:48,280 --> 01:49:51,780
Well, there's a small cafe
down in Scutari, I'm told.

1358
01:49:52,280 --> 01:49:57,750
Now you need, in fact, we both need a few
hours outside of this place or we'll go mad.

1359
01:49:58,340 --> 01:50:00,839
And then what use
will we be to anybody?

1360
01:50:00,840 --> 01:50:05,459
Dr. Sutherland,
is that an invitation to dinner?

1361
01:50:05,460 --> 01:50:09,849
If you prefer, not so much an
invitation as a prescription.

1362
01:50:09,850 --> 01:50:15,350
You persist in calling me doctor.
Well, what if I said in that capacity

1363
01:50:15,800 --> 01:50:19,859
that your work is suffering
from a lack of recreation?

1364
01:50:19,860 --> 01:50:22,059
Is that true?

1365
01:50:22,060 --> 01:50:25,399
No. But what if
I were to say it?

1366
01:50:25,400 --> 01:50:30,989
Then I suppose I would have to do
what you want me to do and come.

1367
01:50:30,990 --> 01:50:32,959
Dressed.
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hWhat?

1368
01:50:32,960 --> 01:50:38,330
None of that nurse's garb. The real benefit
only comes when you're all dressed up.

1369
01:50:38,830 --> 01:50:42,829
At 8:00, Miss Nightingale,
if you please.

1370
01:50:42,830 --> 01:50:46,500
And by the way,
thanks very much for the honor.

1371
01:51:34,300 --> 01:51:37,299
<i>RICHARD: "My dear friend,</i>"

1372
01:51:37,300 --> 01:51:40,809
<i>"I hesitate to write this,
yet I know I must.</i>

1373
01:51:40,810 --> 01:51:45,779
<i>"I hesitate because I sense that
in the turmoil that surrounds you,</i>

1374
01:51:45,780 --> 01:51:49,309
<i>"you are much alone
and face many problems.</i>

1375
01:51:49,310 --> 01:51:54,819
<i>"Yet, and before anyone else
knows about it,</i>

1376
01:51:54,820 --> 01:51:59,240
<i>"I feel in duty bound to tell
you that I'm going to be married.</i>

1377
01:52:01,830 --> 01:52:05,830
<i>"If, my dear Florence,
we could live forever,</i>

1378
01:52:07,830 --> 01:52:10,340
<i>"I would wait for you
to come to me.</i>

1379
01:52:11,840 --> 01:52:16,340
<i>"But I cannot make time
stand still for either of us.</i>

1380
01:52:18,840 --> 01:52:23,850
<i>"I love you and will always.
Richard."</i>

1381
01:52:49,880 --> 01:52:51,880
(PEOPLE CHATTERING)

1382
01:53:00,890 --> 01:53:05,270
To the future and us.
To us tonight.

1383
01:53:10,860 --> 01:53:13,449
Somehow this
makes me feel silly.

1384
01:53:13,450 --> 01:53:16,530
It's good for you to feel silly
once in a while, Florence.

1385
01:53:16,540 --> 01:53:20,040
You've been cooped up in
that place for far too long.

1386
01:53:23,330 --> 01:53:27,830
I was joking earlier about being your
doctor, but your hand is trembling.

1387
01:53:29,330 --> 01:53:31,220
Is there something wrong
with you, Florence?

1388
01:53:31,800 --> 01:53:32,800
Nothing.

1389
01:53:33,750 --> 01:53:36,249
You must tell me, you know.

1390
01:53:36,250 --> 01:53:40,839
Nothing that as a doctor you'd
need to know about. I promise.

1391
01:53:40,840 --> 01:53:46,510
Then perhaps,
may I ask not as a doctor?

1392
01:53:55,110 --> 01:54:00,950
Today I received a letter from the
man I once thought I would marry,

1393
01:54:03,950 --> 01:54:06,670
only he's going to
marry someone else.

1394
01:54:09,340 --> 01:54:11,839
Forgive me.

1395
01:54:11,840 --> 01:54:17,210
He has every right to marry,
and I have no right to shed a single tear.

1396
01:54:19,100 --> 01:54:20,880
You loved him?

1397
01:54:22,380 --> 01:54:25,389
Yes, I loved him.

1398
01:54:25,390 --> 01:54:29,889
But when he proposed,
I could not say yes.

1399
01:54:29,890 --> 01:54:32,390
I put him off again and again.

1400
01:54:34,900 --> 01:54:39,900
I think I knew even then that if I gave
myself to him wholly and completely,

1401
01:54:41,900 --> 01:54:49,209
I could not do my work.
One passion would cancel out the other.

1402
01:54:49,210 --> 01:54:53,719
One of the reasons I invited
you here with me was that,

1403
01:54:53,720 --> 01:54:59,220
even though I see you surrounded by
people, I feel you're very lonely.

1404
01:55:03,890 --> 01:55:09,400
One has to be alone to be able to
think in the midst of all this turmoil.

1405
01:55:11,100 --> 01:55:14,600
I don't mean
being alone to think.

1406
01:55:15,100 --> 01:55:19,320
I mean, it's as though the path
you've chosen in life is lonely.

1407
01:55:23,410 --> 01:55:28,420
I am lonely,
but I don't want to be.

1408
01:55:31,920 --> 01:55:35,920
Sometimes, in the middle of the
night, I long to cling to someone.

1409
01:55:37,930 --> 01:55:42,429
But then I get
frightened and I...

1410
01:55:42,430 --> 01:55:48,139
I feel that if I give myself to
someone, I'll lose my way altogether.

1411
01:55:48,140 --> 01:55:51,640
It seems the only thing
you're afraid of is love.

1412
01:55:53,730 --> 01:55:57,399
Dr. Sutherland... Florence.

1413
01:55:57,400 --> 01:56:01,900
Do you really believe that a love
will take you away from your work?

1414
01:56:02,900 --> 01:56:05,289
That will never be.

1415
01:56:05,290 --> 01:56:09,660
Florence, you're
a divinely gifted healer.

1416
01:56:11,160 --> 01:56:14,579
Whatever you want
to do, you'll do.

1417
01:56:14,580 --> 01:56:17,670
Wherever you want
to go, you'll go.

1418
01:56:19,670 --> 01:56:24,669
And I would be most grateful
if in any capacity you choose

1419
01:56:24,670 --> 01:56:28,309
you would allow me
to go with you.

1420
01:56:28,310 --> 01:56:30,849
Forgive me, John,
I must get back.

1421
01:56:30,850 --> 01:56:32,930
Florence.

1422
01:56:33,430 --> 01:56:37,440
It won't help those people hungry at
the hospital if you eat well tonight.

1423
01:56:39,740 --> 01:56:43,280
I know that, but don't you see?
I can't swallow it down.

1424
01:56:46,660 --> 01:56:50,669
I don't choose to be as I am.
This is not what I wanted.

1425
01:56:50,670 --> 01:56:53,670
This, it is kind of a curse.

1426
01:56:55,670 --> 01:56:58,760
I can never have
a life like other women.

1427
01:57:02,180 --> 01:57:05,680
When I was 17
I heard a call from God.

1428
01:57:07,180 --> 01:57:09,180
I hear that voice still.

1429
01:57:11,190 --> 01:57:13,190
Go your own way, John.

1430
01:57:15,190 --> 01:57:18,110
Don't ask to go at mine.

1431
01:57:35,330 --> 01:57:38,829
<i>NARRATOR: As Florence's fame
continued to grow,</i>

1432
01:57:38,830 --> 01:57:43,340
<i>a vengeful Dr. Hall took steps
to relieve her of her command.</i>

1433
01:57:44,340 --> 01:57:46,839
<i>Left with no other choice,</i>

1434
01:57:46,840 --> 01:57:52,340
<i>Florence made preparations to confront
the man who clearly was her enemy.</i>

1435
01:58:16,870 --> 01:58:20,839
Miss Nightingale,
before you leave,

1436
01:58:20,840 --> 01:58:24,379
I should like to take this opportunity
of wishing you a safe journey.

1437
01:58:24,380 --> 01:58:26,850
Thank you, Dr. Menzies.

1438
01:58:27,300 --> 01:58:31,849
I also want to tell you
that I owe you an apology,

1439
01:58:31,850 --> 01:58:35,349
and not just because you're
to see the Inspector General.

1440
01:58:35,350 --> 01:58:37,859
We did not receive you very
graciously when you came.

1441
01:58:37,860 --> 01:58:40,359
I'm the first to
acknowledge that.

1442
01:58:40,360 --> 01:58:44,859
But your pluck and persistence,

1443
01:58:44,860 --> 01:58:48,120
well, those virtues are two
I particularly admire.

1444
01:58:48,620 --> 01:58:52,790
Every soldier does.
No man could have shown more.

1445
01:58:53,790 --> 01:58:56,120
That's what I wanted to say.

1446
01:58:57,660 --> 01:59:01,580
And you saying it
means a great deal.

1447
01:59:10,390 --> 01:59:14,389
<i>NARRATOR: Of the original 40 nurses
that Florence brought to Turkey,</i>

1448
01:59:14,390 --> 01:59:17,899
<i>only 12 had survived
when she left Scutari.</i>

1449
01:59:17,900 --> 01:59:23,400
<i>Now, sick with fever, Florence led
her small band of travelers to Russia</i>

1450
01:59:24,400 --> 01:59:26,909
<i>for her meeting with destiny.</i>

1451
01:59:26,910 --> 01:59:28,860
(SOLDIERS CHEERING)

1452
01:59:51,260 --> 01:59:53,970
God bless you, ma'am!
You're a saint!

1453
02:00:13,900 --> 02:00:19,409
Florence, you look exhausted.
The journey was far too long.

1454
02:00:19,410 --> 02:00:23,409
I am a little tired but
pleased by our reception.

1455
02:00:23,410 --> 02:00:25,909
The men seem so encouraged
that we're here.

1456
02:00:25,910 --> 02:00:28,920
You're like a miracle to
them, Flory.

1457
02:00:38,430 --> 02:00:39,929
Is that you, Miss Nightingale?

1458
02:00:39,930 --> 02:00:42,429
Yes.

1459
02:00:42,430 --> 02:00:43,929
How long ago were you wounded?

1460
02:00:43,930 --> 02:00:47,440
A couple of hours.
Stray bullet it was, miss.

1461
02:00:48,900 --> 02:00:51,439
This man's wound should have
been cleaned on the spot

1462
02:00:51,440 --> 02:00:52,939
and the clothing
round it cut away.

1463
02:00:52,940 --> 02:00:55,439
Why has this not been
dealt with immediately?

1464
02:00:55,440 --> 02:00:59,449
Well, do it! Don't you have orders to do
that as soon as the man is found wounded?

1465
02:00:59,450 --> 02:01:00,949
Yes, ma'am. Very good, ma'am.

1466
02:01:00,950 --> 02:01:03,950
Florence, gently does it.

1467
02:01:04,450 --> 02:01:07,459
You told me that when I was so angry
with Menzies I wanted to hit him

1468
02:01:07,460 --> 02:01:11,460
because of the conditions
of the sewer. Remember?

1469
02:01:13,960 --> 02:01:16,459
I remember, John. Yes.

1470
02:01:16,460 --> 02:01:18,469
You Miss Nightingale, ma'am?

1471
02:01:18,470 --> 02:01:20,469
Yes, I am.

1472
02:01:20,470 --> 02:01:21,939
Where's Dr. Hall, please?

1473
02:01:21,940 --> 02:01:24,470
His tent is just
over there, ma'am.

1474
02:01:24,970 --> 02:01:25,970
Thank you.

1475
02:01:26,470 --> 02:01:27,980
Bless you for coming, ma'am.

1476
02:01:35,620 --> 02:01:37,900
SOLDIER: Sir,
Miss Nightingale, sir.

1477
02:01:38,700 --> 02:01:40,209
Ah.

1478
02:01:40,210 --> 02:01:43,739
Miss Nightingale.
A pleasure, indeed.

1479
02:01:43,740 --> 02:01:48,299
Forgive me, Doctor. But there was
a wounded man being brought in.

1480
02:01:48,300 --> 02:01:51,299
They said he was picked up
over two hours ago,

1481
02:01:51,300 --> 02:01:53,800
but in those two hours his
wound had not been cleaned,

1482
02:01:54,300 --> 02:01:56,300
the clothing round it
had not even been cut away.

1483
02:01:56,810 --> 02:01:58,469
\h\h\h\hlsn't it possible that...
In that case,

1484
02:01:58,470 --> 02:02:03,179
I trust you gave the orderly in
charge a thorough dressing down?

1485
02:02:03,180 --> 02:02:07,679
Dr. Hall, we've sent so many
letters and reports

1486
02:02:07,680 --> 02:02:12,190
imploring your men to take these
elementary measures at the frontlines.

1487
02:02:13,690 --> 02:02:16,689
Do you know how many
hundreds and hundreds

1488
02:02:16,690 --> 02:02:19,489
of cases of gangrene
we've had at Scutari?

1489
02:02:19,490 --> 02:02:22,029
Miss Nightingale,
I do not intend to be subjected

1490
02:02:22,030 --> 02:02:24,079
to a harangue by
a hysterical woman.

1491
02:02:24,080 --> 02:02:26,585
If that's the method
that got results at Scutari,

1492
02:02:26,586 --> 02:02:30,089
then I must warn you that I'm a
much sterner man than Dr. Menzies,

1493
02:02:30,090 --> 02:02:33,090
and far less susceptible
to the wiles of a woman.

1494
02:02:37,100 --> 02:02:41,599
Miss Nightingale, are you quite all right?
Would you like tea?

1495
02:02:41,600 --> 02:02:42,769
Yes, please.

1496
02:02:42,770 --> 02:02:44,350
Orderly!

1497
02:02:44,850 --> 02:02:45,889
Sir.

1498
02:02:45,890 --> 02:02:46,890
Tea for Miss Nightingale.

1499
02:02:47,110 --> 02:02:48,140
Sir.

1500
02:02:49,560 --> 02:02:51,560
(TRUMPET PLAYING)

1501
02:02:54,230 --> 02:02:56,230
(SOLDIER BARKING ORDERS)

1502
02:02:58,570 --> 02:02:59,949
Oh, well, you feeling better?

1503
02:02:59,950 --> 02:03:01,650
Yes.

1504
02:03:02,200 --> 02:03:05,209
Yes, you're a frail little thing.
I can see that now.

1505
02:03:05,210 --> 02:03:07,709
I'm not trying to belittle your
work, Miss Nightingale.

1506
02:03:07,710 --> 02:03:09,709
But when I read the papers,

1507
02:03:09,710 --> 02:03:14,219
with the magnificent achievements
attributed to you and you alone at Scutari,

1508
02:03:14,220 --> 02:03:17,250
it does grit one's teeth a bit.

1509
02:03:17,840 --> 02:03:24,179
Believe me, Dr. Hall, I have never
made any such claims for myself.

1510
02:03:24,180 --> 02:03:27,679
Well, you do not appear to disavow
them, all the same.

1511
02:03:27,680 --> 02:03:30,679
You have no real authority here at
all, I've told you that before.

1512
02:03:30,680 --> 02:03:33,190
Your report states that you're
the superintendent in charge

1513
02:03:33,191 --> 02:03:39,189
of the female nurses at Scutari.
That's Turkey, this is Russia.

1514
02:03:39,190 --> 02:03:42,659
British-occupied Russia,
but Russia nonetheless.

1515
02:03:42,660 --> 02:03:49,169
I did not come to exercise any authority,
Dr. Hall, but to discuss my ideas with you.

1516
02:03:49,170 --> 02:03:52,169
And to try, with your help,

1517
02:03:52,170 --> 02:03:56,170
to prevent the tragedies of last
winter from happening again.

1518
02:03:58,680 --> 02:04:03,680
Dr. Hall, much has been
accomplished at Scutari.

1519
02:04:05,180 --> 02:04:09,100
I had hoped to ask your
permission to stay on there.

1520
02:04:12,110 --> 02:04:13,609
But I see...

1521
02:04:13,610 --> 02:04:17,199
Oh, how softly you speak
now, Miss Nightingale.

1522
02:04:17,200 --> 02:04:19,699
Well, you may visit
my hospitals, if you wish.

1523
02:04:19,700 --> 02:04:22,740
It's the least you deserve. But I shall
need no help from you or your nurses.

1524
02:04:23,200 --> 02:04:27,490
I have a well-trained staff, thank
you, who don't coddle our soldiers.

1525
02:04:29,990 --> 02:04:34,999
We are not interested in your
wildly applauded ideals on morale.

1526
02:04:35,000 --> 02:04:38,469
We do not have
a little girl's army.

1527
02:04:38,470 --> 02:04:42,419
We have come here to gain a victory, madam.
We're interested in glory.

1528
02:04:42,420 --> 02:04:47,929
Men who can bear pain without
flinching, obey orders without question.

1529
02:04:47,930 --> 02:04:51,429
Something you might think about.
My advice to you would be

1530
02:04:51,430 --> 02:04:56,940
to spend a few days here, enjoy our
hospitality, and then go back to England.

1531
02:04:59,650 --> 02:05:01,659
But, Dr. Hall, I...

1532
02:05:01,660 --> 02:05:03,779
Miss Nightingale,

1533
02:05:03,780 --> 02:05:06,779
the British Army has a long,
long history.

1534
02:05:06,780 --> 02:05:11,329
And it will flourish long after you and
your nurses have disappeared and left...

1535
02:05:11,330 --> 02:05:14,540
Dr. Hall, don't speak to me
of the British Army!

1536
02:05:15,540 --> 02:05:19,039
The army is men, sir!

1537
02:05:19,040 --> 02:05:24,550
Unless we see every soldier,
every single one, as a human being

1538
02:05:25,050 --> 02:05:28,549
deserving of proper treatment,
medical or otherwise,

1539
02:05:28,550 --> 02:05:33,050
deserving equally,
whether he be of high or low degree.

1540
02:05:33,550 --> 02:05:36,559
Unless we do that, Dr. Hall,

1541
02:05:36,560 --> 02:05:41,529
your British Army will become
what it was but a few months ago,

1542
02:05:41,530 --> 02:05:45,570
an army of well-fed
officers who make wars,

1543
02:05:47,070 --> 02:05:50,620
and dying soldiers
who have to fight them.

1544
02:06:02,170 --> 02:06:06,470
I am interested,
not in prejudice,

1545
02:06:07,470 --> 02:06:09,920
and certainly not in conceit,

1546
02:06:11,980 --> 02:06:15,480
but in proper
treatment of human beings,

1547
02:06:17,480 --> 02:06:19,979
bodies and even minds.

1548
02:06:19,980 --> 02:06:22,489
I have come here to
ask you to help me,

1549
02:06:22,490 --> 02:06:26,489
not to learn the rules of the British
Army, but to change them.

1550
02:06:26,490 --> 02:06:31,500
Or the proud, great country that we
both love will one day be humbled

1551
02:06:33,000 --> 02:06:35,500
and lost because
of men like you!

1552
02:06:42,960 --> 02:06:45,040
Miss Nightingale!

1553
02:06:56,520 --> 02:06:59,940
She will get well, she must.

1554
02:07:00,780 --> 02:07:03,729
It is in God's hands.

1555
02:07:03,730 --> 02:07:07,200
Aye. If we can only
bring the fever down.

1556
02:07:07,700 --> 02:07:12,870
We have done all we can.
What is there left now but to pray?

1557
02:07:18,330 --> 02:07:22,380
Like us, all the soldiers,
they are praying, too.

1558
02:07:28,390 --> 02:07:30,390
I've come to relieve you.

1559
02:07:30,890 --> 02:07:32,889
No, no. I'll stay
a little longer.

1560
02:07:32,890 --> 02:07:36,889
You'd best get some sleep.

1561
02:07:36,890 --> 02:07:41,399
What good is it if you get cholera, too?
Who'll take care of her then?

1562
02:07:41,400 --> 02:07:44,399
She is right, Doctor.
You are exhausted.

1563
02:07:44,400 --> 02:07:48,069
I sleep to get
strength to serve her.

1564
02:07:48,070 --> 02:07:51,239
Without us, she's helpless now.

1565
02:07:51,240 --> 02:07:54,250
I will sleep for an hour.

1566
02:08:11,760 --> 02:08:14,270
I'll be here when you get back.

1567
02:08:40,910 --> 02:08:42,410
You're on fire.

1568
02:08:46,000 --> 02:08:48,500
Well, little Nightingale,

1569
02:08:49,500 --> 02:08:52,140
you're brought low now,
aren't you?

1570
02:08:53,220 --> 02:08:55,140
Not so pretty now.

1571
02:08:57,730 --> 02:09:00,090
Sickness can do that, can't it?

1572
02:09:01,180 --> 02:09:03,900
To the rich and the poor alike.

1573
02:09:07,490 --> 02:09:09,990
One thing to do
they haven't done.

1574
02:09:12,490 --> 02:09:15,990
They'd never believe it
weren't for spite, though.

1575
02:09:23,000 --> 02:09:27,000
What would you do
if you were me?

1576
02:09:30,010 --> 02:09:33,510
What would I want if I were you?

1577
02:09:36,010 --> 02:09:37,970
I'd want to live, little lady.

1578
02:09:39,930 --> 02:09:42,390
I'd want to bring
that fever down.

1579
02:10:12,300 --> 02:10:17,309
You heard the news?
Miss Nightingale's been taken very bad.

1580
02:10:17,310 --> 02:10:18,810
Go on.

1581
02:10:19,810 --> 02:10:21,309
They think she'll die.

1582
02:10:21,310 --> 02:10:23,310
Dear Mother of God.

1583
02:10:24,310 --> 02:10:26,809
Don't say it's that cholera.

1584
02:10:26,810 --> 02:10:29,820
They said it was
the Crimean fever,

1585
02:10:31,320 --> 02:10:32,820
that's what they said.

1586
02:10:46,670 --> 02:10:47,670
Richard.

1587
02:10:48,170 --> 02:10:49,170
(SHUSHING)

1588
02:10:49,670 --> 02:10:52,170
\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hRichard.
(SHUSHING) It's all right, Flory.

1589
02:10:55,680 --> 02:10:57,680
It's all right.

1590
02:11:04,690 --> 02:11:06,189
My hair.

1591
02:11:06,190 --> 02:11:08,690
It had to be done to
break the fever, Flory.

1592
02:11:10,190 --> 02:11:13,700
And it is broken.
You'll get well.

1593
02:11:22,200 --> 02:11:23,699
Who?

1594
02:11:23,700 --> 02:11:26,210
Nurse Davis and Trude.

1595
02:11:26,710 --> 02:11:30,709
They've been in here,
faithful as mother hens, tending you

1596
02:11:30,710 --> 02:11:33,210
and coaxing you back to life.

1597
02:11:35,220 --> 02:11:38,720
You, you look like a Madonna.

1598
02:11:42,720 --> 02:11:44,730
Beautiful lady.

1599
02:11:46,230 --> 02:11:48,730
The lamp shines on your hair,

1600
02:11:50,730 --> 02:11:52,730
on your gentle, sweet face,

1601
02:11:54,240 --> 02:11:55,740
on your eyes.

1602
02:12:01,240 --> 02:12:04,250
Let me comfort you now.

1603
02:12:11,250 --> 02:12:13,250
Let me love you now.

1604
02:12:43,120 --> 02:12:48,459
OFFICER: Come on, pick them up there,
pick them up. Left, right, left, right...

1605
02:12:48,460 --> 02:12:53,240
It is Lord Raglan to see you.
The commander-in-chief, Miss Nightingale.

1606
02:13:08,480 --> 02:13:09,480
Major Sutherland.

1607
02:13:09,980 --> 02:13:10,980
Lord Raglan.

1608
02:13:15,980 --> 02:13:18,989
Miss Nightingale.

1609
02:13:18,990 --> 02:13:21,990
I'd heard you were better,
but I had to come and see for myself.

1610
02:13:22,490 --> 02:13:25,490
Very kind of you, Lord Raglan.

1611
02:13:25,990 --> 02:13:30,830
I should've come sooner,
but I've had a message from the Queen.

1612
02:13:31,870 --> 02:13:33,869
From the Queen?

1613
02:13:33,870 --> 02:13:40,369
Asking me to make sure that "that excellent
and valuable person, Miss Nightingale",

1614
02:13:40,370 --> 02:13:42,880
"is making a safe recovery."

1615
02:13:46,050 --> 02:13:49,049
I should like to
telegraph her tonight

1616
02:13:49,050 --> 02:13:54,050
that you have indeed made the recovery
which she and all of England prays for.

1617
02:13:54,560 --> 02:13:56,270
May I?

1618
02:13:57,270 --> 02:13:58,730
Yes.

1619
02:14:01,810 --> 02:14:07,820
I'm also giving you a copy of
today's general orders, signed by me.

1620
02:14:09,820 --> 02:14:13,569
Because it concerns you.

1621
02:14:13,570 --> 02:14:18,050
I have also sent a copy to Dr. John
Hall, whom I believe you know.

1622
02:14:21,000 --> 02:14:26,549
"Miss Nightingale is recognized
by Her Majesty's Government

1623
02:14:26,550 --> 02:14:33,389
"as the general superintendent of nursing
of all military hospitals of the Army.

1624
02:14:33,390 --> 02:14:36,729
"The principal medical officer will,
therefore, communicate with her

1625
02:14:36,730 --> 02:14:40,229
"on all matters connected
with that establishment

1626
02:14:40,230 --> 02:14:45,740
"and will give and receive
orders only through that lady."

1627
02:14:51,780 --> 02:14:55,080
Miss Nightingale,
I believe this is also for you.

1628
02:14:58,090 --> 02:15:04,380
This brooch was created in your
honor by Her Majesty, Queen Victoria.

1629
02:15:06,930 --> 02:15:10,180
I've been asked to present it
to you on her behalf.

1630
02:15:14,720 --> 02:15:20,220
The inscription reads,
"Blessed are the Merciful."

1631
02:15:38,660 --> 02:15:41,160
<i>NARRATOR: Six months later,</i>

1632
02:15:41,660 --> 02:15:44,670
<i>the war with Russia
was finally over.</i>

1633
02:15:47,170 --> 02:15:49,670
<i>Though a hero's
welcome awaited her,</i>

1634
02:15:51,170 --> 02:15:54,680
<i>Florence chose to slip
quietly back to England.</i>

1635
02:15:57,180 --> 02:15:58,680
<i>Back to her home.</i>

1636
02:17:16,720 --> 02:17:18,309
FANNY: Florence!

1637
02:17:18,310 --> 02:17:19,310
Mama.

1638
02:17:20,810 --> 02:17:22,230
PARTHENOPE: Florence.

1639
02:17:24,900 --> 02:17:26,150
Florence!

1640
02:17:36,580 --> 02:17:38,080
I'm home.

1641
02:17:39,360 --> 02:17:40,949
I'm home.

1642
02:17:40,950 --> 02:17:42,450
Oh, my darling Flo.