1 00:00:00,480 --> 00:00:04,220 The Durbeyfields are the greatest gentlefolk in the county. 2 00:00:04,320 --> 00:00:07,480 A family vault in Kingsbere is the extent of your legacy. 3 00:00:07,580 --> 00:00:09,220 What you've got to do is go claim kin. 4 00:00:09,320 --> 00:00:11,080 What would I have to do to win your affections? 5 00:00:14,380 --> 00:00:18,060 Why should I be scared? Well, the ladies need partners and I'm inclined to have a fling. 6 00:00:18,160 --> 00:00:22,420 You'll never love me, will you, Tess? I have never loved you, Alec, and I never will. 7 00:00:41,460 --> 00:00:46,020 O merciful God, have pity upon my poor baby. 8 00:00:46,020 --> 00:00:50,100 I know how I have sinned and I must be punished, 9 00:00:50,100 --> 00:00:51,180 but I beg you. 10 00:00:54,220 --> 00:00:56,940 Heap your anger on me 11 00:00:56,940 --> 00:00:58,540 and spare my child. 12 00:01:02,020 --> 00:01:09,100 He will get well again, won't he? 13 00:01:13,940 --> 00:01:15,460 He won't suckle. 14 00:01:15,460 --> 00:01:19,220 He won't stop crying. 15 00:01:19,220 --> 00:01:20,780 Mother, please! 16 00:01:20,780 --> 00:01:26,580 John, I am begging you, please, let us call Parson Tringham. 17 00:01:26,580 --> 00:01:29,780 We'll do no such thing! But if baby's not baptised, John... 18 00:01:29,780 --> 00:01:33,660 No parson shall come inside this door, prying into my affairs. Father, please! 19 00:01:33,660 --> 00:01:37,740 Good God, girl, haven't you brought enough shame 20 00:01:37,740 --> 00:01:41,660 onto our good name as it is? 21 00:01:41,660 --> 00:01:48,980 There'll be no parson beneath my roof! From now on, we keep our business to ourselves! 22 00:02:10,020 --> 00:02:17,260 I baptise thee, Sorrow, in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost. 23 00:02:17,260 --> 00:02:19,780 Say, "Amen," children. 24 00:02:19,780 --> 00:02:26,780 Amen. Our father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Join in. 25 00:02:26,780 --> 00:02:30,540 Thy kingdom come, thy will be done. BABY SCREAMS 26 00:02:30,540 --> 00:02:33,380 On earth as it is in heaven. 27 00:02:33,380 --> 00:02:38,820 Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses 28 00:02:38,820 --> 00:02:41,420 as we forgive them that trespass against us... 29 00:02:41,420 --> 00:02:44,420 BABY CONTINUES TO SCREAM 30 00:03:09,940 --> 00:03:12,620 It will be just the same for Sorrow, won't it, sir? 31 00:03:12,620 --> 00:03:14,140 In the next life? 32 00:03:16,020 --> 00:03:18,300 Well, it's hard to say. 33 00:03:19,140 --> 00:03:22,780 But I have baptised him, just as you would have. 34 00:03:24,380 --> 00:03:27,740 Yes, I understand you, Tess, 35 00:03:27,740 --> 00:03:31,820 but ecclesiastically you lack the necessary qualifications. 36 00:03:31,820 --> 00:03:34,420 But you will give him a Christian burial? 37 00:03:34,420 --> 00:03:37,300 I'm afraid that is not in my power. 38 00:03:37,300 --> 00:03:39,020 But a child, 39 00:03:39,020 --> 00:03:43,820 a little baby, who's never sinned in his little life, 40 00:03:43,820 --> 00:03:48,180 to hide him away in the night with the suicides and the drunks and the sinners, 41 00:03:48,180 --> 00:03:50,740 it's...it's wicked! 42 00:03:50,740 --> 00:03:53,500 There are rules, Tess, there are principles! 43 00:03:53,500 --> 00:03:56,020 I can't understand them, I don't know what they mean! 44 00:03:56,020 --> 00:04:02,020 If it just concerned the two of us, I would gladly give your child a Christian burial, but I cannot. 45 00:04:03,700 --> 00:04:09,300 Perhaps it will be just the same for him, even if you don't. Will it? 46 00:04:11,620 --> 00:04:15,180 Please don't speak to me as saint to sinner. 47 00:04:15,180 --> 00:04:18,180 Speak to me as you yourself, to me myself. 48 00:04:19,820 --> 00:04:23,620 In God's eyes, will it be the same? 49 00:04:27,300 --> 00:04:30,220 In God's eyes, 50 00:04:30,220 --> 00:04:33,140 it will be just the same. 51 00:04:35,380 --> 00:04:40,220 But I will not, cannot give your child a Christian burial. 52 00:04:40,220 --> 00:04:45,540 Then I do not like you, and I do not like your God, and I will not set foot in your church again. 53 00:04:51,060 --> 00:04:53,380 DOOR SLAMS 54 00:04:58,500 --> 00:05:00,060 TESS CRIES 55 00:06:06,180 --> 00:06:08,860 Send Mr Crick our best wishes. 56 00:06:08,860 --> 00:06:10,860 You'll do well there. 57 00:06:14,780 --> 00:06:17,700 Promise me that you'll tell no-one of your troubles. 58 00:06:17,700 --> 00:06:22,260 What's past is past. I know. Promise me, Tess. 59 00:06:23,260 --> 00:06:24,940 I promise. 60 00:07:23,900 --> 00:07:25,420 COW MOOS 61 00:07:43,060 --> 00:07:46,340 You found us easy enough? I followed your herd. 62 00:07:46,340 --> 00:07:48,700 I've never seen such fine beasts. 63 00:07:48,700 --> 00:07:50,260 Finest animals in the world. 64 00:07:50,260 --> 00:07:52,700 Finest pastures too. You know these parts? 65 00:07:52,700 --> 00:07:57,260 No, sir. Though my ancient ancestors come from around here. Is that right? 66 00:07:57,260 --> 00:08:01,260 It's a long time ago. It's all forgotten now. 67 00:08:01,260 --> 00:08:05,340 You're awful pale, girl. You sure you can stand the work? 68 00:08:05,340 --> 00:08:10,300 'Tis comfortable enough here for us rough folk, but we don't live in a cowcumber frame. 69 00:08:10,300 --> 00:08:16,100 I've been indoors a great deal this past winter, that's all. 70 00:08:16,100 --> 00:08:18,300 I don't want my cows running dry on me. 71 00:08:18,300 --> 00:08:21,580 I'll show you now, sir, if you wish. 72 00:08:21,580 --> 00:08:24,540 Some milks easy, some milks hard. 73 00:08:24,540 --> 00:08:27,940 I'll start you off on Old Pretty here. 74 00:08:27,940 --> 00:08:30,940 Don't you want some victuals first? A dish of tea? 75 00:08:30,940 --> 00:08:34,060 Oh, I'll just have some of this if I may, sir. 76 00:08:38,540 --> 00:08:39,500 HE LAUGHS 77 00:08:40,900 --> 00:08:44,820 I don't know how you can swallow it. I haven't touched it in years. 78 00:08:44,820 --> 00:08:46,300 Lies in my innards like lead. 79 00:08:59,220 --> 00:09:03,060 To my thinking, the cows don't give down their milk today as usual. 80 00:09:03,060 --> 00:09:06,460 It's because there's a new hand come among us. 81 00:09:06,460 --> 00:09:09,660 I've heard that their milk goes up into their horns. It's true! 82 00:09:09,660 --> 00:09:12,460 Well, that's one possibility. What d'you reckon, sir? 83 00:09:12,460 --> 00:09:15,700 Well, from an anatomical point of view, I confess I'm sceptical. 84 00:09:15,700 --> 00:09:18,300 Folks, we must lift a stave or two, see if that helps. 85 00:09:18,300 --> 00:09:20,780 Perhaps you could go and get your harp, sir! 86 00:09:20,780 --> 00:09:23,660 I fear that would have the opposite effect, Izzy. 87 00:09:23,660 --> 00:09:26,460 A song, then. Sing it out, ladies. Good and strong. 88 00:09:26,460 --> 00:09:31,500 89 00:09:31,500 --> 00:09:35,700 90 00:09:35,700 --> 00:09:39,580 91 00:09:39,580 --> 00:09:43,220 92 00:09:43,220 --> 00:09:47,580 93 00:09:47,580 --> 00:09:52,620 94 00:09:52,620 --> 00:09:56,780 95 00:09:56,780 --> 00:10:00,500 96 00:10:07,740 --> 00:10:10,380 HARP PLAYS 97 00:10:15,420 --> 00:10:17,500 His name's Mr Angel Clare. 98 00:10:17,500 --> 00:10:19,180 Angel, Angel, Angel. 99 00:10:19,180 --> 00:10:23,940 A parson's son from Emminster way. 100 00:10:23,940 --> 00:10:28,140 He's a deep sort. He's too taken up with his own thoughts to notice us girls. 101 00:10:28,140 --> 00:10:30,020 Speak for yourself, Izz Huett. 102 00:10:30,020 --> 00:10:32,540 Listen! HARP CONTINUES TO BE PLAYED 103 00:10:32,540 --> 00:10:34,700 He sleeps upstairs. 104 00:10:34,700 --> 00:10:36,540 Angel's in his heaven. 105 00:10:36,540 --> 00:10:39,820 So near and yet so far. 106 00:10:39,820 --> 00:10:44,660 I tell you, I love Angel Clare with all my heart, 107 00:10:44,660 --> 00:10:47,180 but he still can't play that rotten bloody harp. 108 00:10:47,180 --> 00:10:48,660 THEY LAUGH 109 00:11:08,340 --> 00:11:10,180 What brings you all this way, Tess? 110 00:11:12,500 --> 00:11:17,300 Just...felt like a change, s'all. 111 00:11:18,340 --> 00:11:19,580 Trouble at home? 112 00:11:20,620 --> 00:11:27,260 No matter. Work's hard, but Crick's a good sort. 113 00:11:27,260 --> 00:11:30,380 You'll be happy here. I hope so. 114 00:11:37,820 --> 00:11:40,740 And some say that when the moon is full 115 00:11:40,740 --> 00:11:45,660 you can still see the figure of the white lady gliding across the water meadow, 116 00:11:45,660 --> 00:11:49,700 her severed head tucked neatly underneath her arm. 117 00:11:49,700 --> 00:11:52,380 You come out with some nonsense, Marian Lewell. 118 00:11:52,380 --> 00:11:55,180 It's true! True as I'm sitting here. 119 00:11:55,180 --> 00:11:56,780 I don't know about ghosts, 120 00:11:56,780 --> 00:12:01,220 but I do know that our souls can be made to go out of our bodies when we're alive. 121 00:12:05,620 --> 00:12:07,500 Really now? 122 00:12:07,500 --> 00:12:09,780 How so, maidy? 123 00:12:09,780 --> 00:12:13,900 A very good way to feel 'em go is to lie on the grass at night 124 00:12:13,900 --> 00:12:20,740 and look straight up at some big, bright star, and by fixing your mind upon it you'll soon find that 125 00:12:20,740 --> 00:12:24,140 you are hundreds and hundreds of miles away from your body, 126 00:12:24,140 --> 00:12:26,380 which you don't seem to want at all. 127 00:12:26,380 --> 00:12:29,140 Is that right, maidy? 128 00:12:29,140 --> 00:12:30,780 It's just... 129 00:12:30,780 --> 00:12:32,460 just a fancy. 130 00:12:32,460 --> 00:12:37,020 Here's one. Has anyone heard of the Ghostly Carriage of Egdon Slope? No! 131 00:13:05,340 --> 00:13:07,380 PLAYS DISCORDANT NOTE 132 00:13:07,380 --> 00:13:10,620 Damn, damn and blast it! Bloody thing! 133 00:13:10,620 --> 00:13:12,380 TESS LAUGHS 134 00:13:13,340 --> 00:13:16,540 Tess? Tess! Wait a moment, Tess! 135 00:13:16,540 --> 00:13:21,580 Stop! I wasn't spying, I was just walking, getting some air, and I heard the harp. 136 00:13:21,580 --> 00:13:25,740 There's nothing to be afraid of, Tess. You seem afraid of so many things. 137 00:13:25,740 --> 00:13:27,460 Me? 138 00:13:27,460 --> 00:13:31,180 Oh, no, sir. Not of outdoor things. 139 00:13:31,180 --> 00:13:32,740 You have indoor fears? 140 00:13:33,820 --> 00:13:35,660 Well, yes, sir. 141 00:13:35,660 --> 00:13:38,100 I suppose so. 142 00:13:38,100 --> 00:13:39,340 What of? 143 00:13:40,260 --> 00:13:42,220 Well, I couldn't quite say. 144 00:13:43,780 --> 00:13:46,260 Ah, life in general? 145 00:13:46,260 --> 00:13:48,020 Yes. I suppose so. 146 00:13:49,580 --> 00:13:51,380 It is all rather serious, isn't it? 147 00:13:51,380 --> 00:13:53,420 This business of being alive. 148 00:13:57,780 --> 00:14:05,260 Sometimes I see the numbers of tomorrows all in a line, 149 00:14:05,260 --> 00:14:10,460 the others getting smaller and smaller as they stand further away, 150 00:14:10,460 --> 00:14:13,060 but they all seem so fierce to me. 151 00:14:13,060 --> 00:14:17,380 It's as if they're saying, "Beware of me! I'm coming!" 152 00:14:20,460 --> 00:14:22,660 And sometimes... 153 00:14:22,660 --> 00:14:24,940 it's a silly thought. 154 00:14:24,940 --> 00:14:26,380 Go on. 155 00:14:29,580 --> 00:14:32,100 Sometimes I note the days of the year... 156 00:14:33,820 --> 00:14:36,300 ..the birthdays, 157 00:14:36,300 --> 00:14:40,020 the anniversaries of events, both good and bad... 158 00:14:41,740 --> 00:14:45,380 ..and I think that there is another date greater than all of those... 159 00:14:47,940 --> 00:14:49,500 the date on which I shall die... 160 00:14:51,500 --> 00:14:53,020 ..just lying there... 161 00:14:54,620 --> 00:14:58,220 ..sly and quiet among all the other days... 162 00:15:00,820 --> 00:15:02,380 ..waiting for me. 163 00:15:06,260 --> 00:15:08,100 Who knows? Perhaps it is today. 164 00:15:14,100 --> 00:15:16,980 Well, Tess, I think that I can safely say that that's... 165 00:15:16,980 --> 00:15:19,180 quite the gloomiest thing I've ever heard. 166 00:15:21,700 --> 00:15:25,180 Good God, that's depressing. 167 00:15:35,580 --> 00:15:37,140 CLOCK RINGS 168 00:15:55,740 --> 00:16:00,340 Heavens' sake, Marian, I've told you enough times! Sorry! It won't happen again! 169 00:16:00,340 --> 00:16:03,100 That's what you said last time! It's nearly six, the day's half gone! 170 00:16:03,100 --> 00:16:06,500 If you can't get up, someone else'll have to do. I'd be happy to do it. I'll do it. 171 00:16:06,500 --> 00:16:15,940 Well, that's settled, then. As of tomorrow, it's Tess and Mr Clare. 172 00:16:21,100 --> 00:16:26,300 Don't push! You can see just as well as I! It's no use being in love with him any more, Retty Priddle. 173 00:16:26,300 --> 00:16:30,100 His thoughts are of other cheeks than thine! 174 00:16:31,140 --> 00:16:34,900 You needn't laugh, Izz. I saw you kissing his shade. 175 00:16:34,900 --> 00:16:37,540 What did you see her doing? 176 00:16:37,540 --> 00:16:43,580 He was standing over the whey tub and the shadow of his face came upon the wall behind, close to Izz, 177 00:16:43,580 --> 00:16:47,580 and she put her lips against the wall and kissed the shadow of his mouth! 178 00:16:47,580 --> 00:16:50,060 Oh, Izz Huett! 179 00:16:50,060 --> 00:16:51,700 So? There's no harm in it! 180 00:16:52,660 --> 00:16:55,060 I'd marry him tomorrow. 181 00:16:55,060 --> 00:16:59,500 I too. I'd marry him and more. 182 00:16:59,500 --> 00:17:03,260 Well, we can't all marry him. We shan't none of us marry him. Why not? 183 00:17:05,100 --> 00:17:08,380 Because he likes Tess Durbeyfield best. 184 00:17:08,380 --> 00:17:13,300 So silly, all this is. He won't marry any of us, or Tess either. 185 00:17:13,300 --> 00:17:15,380 A gentleman's son marry a milkmaid? 186 00:17:15,380 --> 00:17:18,540 He might ask us to milk his herd, but nothing more. 187 00:17:18,540 --> 00:17:20,980 The sooner we get that into our heads the better. 188 00:18:56,660 --> 00:18:58,260 TESS KNOCKS 189 00:18:58,260 --> 00:19:00,860 Mr Clare? 190 00:19:04,860 --> 00:19:08,380 It's like we're the only people on Earth, Tess. Adam and Eve, Tess. 191 00:19:08,380 --> 00:19:10,060 Adam and Eve. 192 00:19:10,060 --> 00:19:14,500 They say there are tremendous opportunities for farmers in Brazil, 193 00:19:14,500 --> 00:19:16,820 if you have the courage and drive. 194 00:19:16,820 --> 00:19:20,300 Fertile land as far as the eye can see. 195 00:19:20,300 --> 00:19:23,420 I'll live like some new Abraham, 196 00:19:23,420 --> 00:19:25,860 just myself, my flocks and herds. 197 00:19:25,860 --> 00:19:28,660 It sounds very lonely. 198 00:19:28,660 --> 00:19:30,620 Just the sheep to talk to. 199 00:19:32,340 --> 00:19:34,340 Perhaps I'll take a wife with me. 200 00:19:36,260 --> 00:19:39,820 What about you, Tess, do you have no ambitions? 201 00:19:39,820 --> 00:19:42,820 Ambitions? 202 00:19:42,820 --> 00:19:45,180 I wanted to be a teacher once. 203 00:19:45,180 --> 00:19:46,940 Really? 204 00:19:46,940 --> 00:19:50,540 What happened? It came to nothing. 205 00:19:53,820 --> 00:19:56,820 You seem very sure of what the future holds, Tess. 206 00:19:57,820 --> 00:20:00,100 Perhaps you'll be happy. 207 00:20:02,180 --> 00:20:03,540 I hope so. 208 00:20:06,100 --> 00:20:08,660 I know I'm happy now. 209 00:20:11,220 --> 00:20:12,660 So am I. 210 00:20:30,940 --> 00:20:32,300 What say you, Mr Clare? 211 00:20:34,220 --> 00:20:35,220 Garlic. 212 00:20:36,260 --> 00:20:38,460 THEY GROAN It tastes of garlic. Garlic! 213 00:20:38,460 --> 00:20:41,460 I thought there wasn't a blade left. We must start again. 214 00:20:41,460 --> 00:20:43,540 What, the whole mead? 215 00:20:43,540 --> 00:20:46,340 The whole mead. This can't continue! 216 00:20:59,900 --> 00:21:03,700 How are you, Tess? Very well, sir. 217 00:21:17,620 --> 00:21:19,300 Concentrate, Mr Clare. 218 00:21:26,380 --> 00:21:28,660 Quite right. Concentrate. 219 00:21:34,020 --> 00:21:35,780 THUNDER CRASHES 220 00:22:10,220 --> 00:22:12,460 BELLS CHIME 221 00:22:22,980 --> 00:22:25,900 We can't get there without walking through it. 222 00:22:25,900 --> 00:22:27,980 We could go the turnpike way. 223 00:22:27,980 --> 00:22:30,100 Service'll be started by then. 224 00:22:30,100 --> 00:22:32,820 Whole congregation staring at us. 225 00:22:32,820 --> 00:22:36,100 That's that, then. I'm going back to bed. 226 00:22:41,580 --> 00:22:44,220 Marian! Get back here now! 227 00:22:49,780 --> 00:22:52,100 Forgive him, Lord, he knows not what he does. 228 00:22:52,100 --> 00:22:54,060 Marian! That's Scripture! 229 00:22:54,060 --> 00:22:57,620 Good morning, ladies! And how lovely you all look. 230 00:22:57,620 --> 00:22:59,860 You'll forgive my lack of formal attire, 231 00:22:59,860 --> 00:23:05,580 I was curious to see the extent of the flooding, but all seems well. 232 00:23:05,580 --> 00:23:10,260 Now I see the problem. Perhaps I can be of assistance. Who's first? 233 00:23:11,220 --> 00:23:14,020 First for what, sir? I'll carry you. Across the water. 234 00:23:20,100 --> 00:23:21,820 Don't go away! 235 00:23:23,860 --> 00:23:30,820 And I'm supposed to put my arms around his neck, 236 00:23:30,820 --> 00:23:34,060 and put my face against his, and feel his arms around me, 237 00:23:34,060 --> 00:23:38,580 and put my face against his? I don't think I can. There's nothing in it, Retty. 238 00:23:38,580 --> 00:23:41,060 That's what you say. I think I'm going to burst. 239 00:23:43,260 --> 00:23:44,780 Thank you, Mr Clare. 240 00:23:48,900 --> 00:23:54,340 As Scripture says, "There's a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing." 241 00:23:56,260 --> 00:23:59,140 It's time to embrace. 242 00:23:59,140 --> 00:24:02,340 Retty, a nice easy one this time. 243 00:24:04,620 --> 00:24:06,540 Whoa! 244 00:24:10,580 --> 00:24:15,020 I'm going to kiss him. I don't care what happens, I'm going to kiss him. 245 00:24:15,020 --> 00:24:17,460 You wouldn't mind, would you? If I tried? 246 00:24:17,460 --> 00:24:19,940 I know that you're his favourite and all. Izzy. 247 00:24:19,940 --> 00:24:22,940 I've got to try, haven't I? I might never get another chance. 248 00:24:26,740 --> 00:24:29,140 How do I look? Do I look pretty? 249 00:24:29,140 --> 00:24:31,940 Tell me, Tess? Very pretty, Izz. 250 00:24:31,940 --> 00:24:33,700 Here I go. 251 00:24:33,700 --> 00:24:34,940 Wish me luck. 252 00:25:03,780 --> 00:25:04,740 Hmm. 253 00:25:15,180 --> 00:25:16,300 What are you doing? 254 00:25:16,300 --> 00:25:19,660 I think I can climb along the bank after all. 255 00:25:19,660 --> 00:25:24,060 Tess, no! Really, I'm quite all right. Tess! And you must be so tired. 256 00:25:24,060 --> 00:25:25,980 Oh! 257 00:25:28,180 --> 00:25:30,660 Three Leahs to get one Rachel. 258 00:25:30,660 --> 00:25:32,460 What d'you mean? 259 00:25:32,460 --> 00:25:37,020 the labour just for this moment. 260 00:25:37,020 --> 00:25:39,660 They are a lot better women than I, all of them. 261 00:25:39,660 --> 00:25:41,740 Not to me. 262 00:25:43,700 --> 00:25:45,500 I'm not too heavy? 263 00:25:45,500 --> 00:25:50,220 Compared to Marian, you're like gossamer. You're a billow warmed by the sun. 264 00:25:50,980 --> 00:25:52,780 That's very pretty, 265 00:25:52,780 --> 00:25:54,340 if I seem like that to you. 266 00:26:01,940 --> 00:26:04,060 I didn't expect an event like this today. 267 00:26:04,060 --> 00:26:06,140 Nor I. 268 00:26:06,140 --> 00:26:08,740 The water came up so quickly. 269 00:26:10,980 --> 00:26:14,140 That's not what I meant at all. 270 00:26:20,380 --> 00:26:21,580 Ladies. 271 00:26:22,540 --> 00:26:24,500 Come on, we'll be late. 272 00:26:29,620 --> 00:26:33,180 I was sure he was going to kiss me. 273 00:26:33,180 --> 00:26:38,620 I lay still, hoping and hoping that he'd kiss me. But he didn't. No, he didn't. 274 00:26:43,340 --> 00:26:45,500 I wish I was dead. Don't say that! 275 00:26:45,500 --> 00:26:48,060 It's true. If he were to marry you... 276 00:26:48,060 --> 00:26:51,780 He won't! It's a summer fancy is all, Retty. 277 00:26:51,780 --> 00:26:56,340 Marrying is not in his mind, and even if he were to ask, I would refuse him. 278 00:26:58,260 --> 00:27:03,340 You would? I would have to refuse him. Why? 279 00:27:08,980 --> 00:27:11,900 She says she won't marry him, even if he asks. 280 00:27:13,300 --> 00:27:15,140 Too late for that now anyway. 281 00:27:16,300 --> 00:27:18,100 Why? 282 00:27:18,100 --> 00:27:22,220 She's a young lady, a doctor of divinity's daughter, out Emminster way. 283 00:27:22,220 --> 00:27:24,860 Mercy something-or-other. 284 00:27:24,860 --> 00:27:27,300 Very pretty, they say, very proper. 285 00:27:27,300 --> 00:27:31,540 And they're engaged? Not engaged as such, not yet, 286 00:27:31,540 --> 00:27:35,020 though she is of his own rank and of his family's choosing. 287 00:27:35,020 --> 00:27:36,620 Four more months he's with me. 288 00:27:36,620 --> 00:27:41,700 Come Christmas he'll be moving on, starting a new life. I just thought it best you know. 289 00:27:48,460 --> 00:27:50,300 I don't care what I do any more. 290 00:27:50,300 --> 00:27:54,420 I was going to marry a dairyman at Stickleford. 291 00:27:54,420 --> 00:27:56,380 He's asked me twice, but... 292 00:27:56,380 --> 00:28:00,340 my soul, I think I'd rather die than be his wife. 293 00:28:00,340 --> 00:28:02,140 I really am going to kill myself. 294 00:28:02,140 --> 00:28:03,620 Retty! That's enough. 295 00:28:23,900 --> 00:28:25,500 Mr Clare? 296 00:28:30,780 --> 00:28:32,660 Mr Clare? TESS OPENS THE DOOR 297 00:28:51,660 --> 00:28:53,660 Miss Mercy Chant? 298 00:28:55,260 --> 00:28:56,940 Angel! 299 00:28:57,860 --> 00:29:00,340 You're back! 300 00:29:00,340 --> 00:29:03,140 I had no idea. It was an impulse. 301 00:29:03,140 --> 00:29:05,140 I thought I'd surprise my parents. 302 00:29:07,700 --> 00:29:09,260 How are you, Mercy? 303 00:29:09,260 --> 00:29:12,140 You look very well. Thank you. 304 00:29:12,140 --> 00:29:14,860 You look very... 305 00:29:15,940 --> 00:29:17,500 ..brown. 306 00:29:18,340 --> 00:29:20,900 From my labours in the fields! 307 00:29:20,900 --> 00:29:22,260 Look at my hands! 308 00:29:27,100 --> 00:29:30,260 Oh, some black puddings, some mead. 309 00:29:30,260 --> 00:29:33,780 Gifts for my parents. Mead? 310 00:29:33,780 --> 00:29:35,340 Goodness gracious. 311 00:29:35,340 --> 00:29:37,380 What has happened to you, Angel Clare? 312 00:29:39,060 --> 00:29:41,180 I will see you at church, I'm sure. 313 00:29:41,180 --> 00:29:42,940 I hope so. 314 00:29:42,940 --> 00:29:44,620 Goodbye, Angel. 315 00:29:44,620 --> 00:29:47,220 GIGGLING That's enough now! 316 00:30:14,180 --> 00:30:15,860 Hallowed be Thy name. 317 00:30:15,860 --> 00:30:21,820 Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. 318 00:30:21,820 --> 00:30:23,940 Give us this day our daily bread 319 00:30:23,940 --> 00:30:29,100 and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. 320 00:30:29,100 --> 00:30:30,460 Excuse me. 321 00:30:31,660 --> 00:30:34,140 Of course. Angel? 322 00:30:38,580 --> 00:30:41,740 Angel? Is it really you? 323 00:30:41,740 --> 00:30:44,060 The prodigal returns! 324 00:30:52,940 --> 00:30:55,260 'He's an old adversary of mine,' 325 00:30:55,260 --> 00:30:58,060 a notorious and dissolute young man, 326 00:30:58,060 --> 00:31:02,820 Mr Alec D'Urberville. 327 00:31:02,820 --> 00:31:05,140 he felt was aimed in his direction. 328 00:31:05,140 --> 00:31:07,620 As I'm sure it was. Indeed. 329 00:31:07,620 --> 00:31:10,460 Afterwards, we came to blows. 330 00:31:10,460 --> 00:31:15,060 Not literally, I hope. Not quite, but he came close. 331 00:31:15,060 --> 00:31:18,900 Soon afterwards his mother died. 332 00:31:18,900 --> 00:31:21,260 Poor man took it rather harder than expected. 333 00:31:21,260 --> 00:31:25,060 He comes to see me quite often now, to discuss spiritual matters. 334 00:31:26,980 --> 00:31:29,500 I know a Durbeyfield, on the farm. 335 00:31:29,500 --> 00:31:31,220 A distant relation perhaps? 336 00:31:31,220 --> 00:31:34,020 Not possible. The family's real name was Stoke. 337 00:31:34,020 --> 00:31:36,860 Made their money in chocolate, I believe! 338 00:31:36,860 --> 00:31:38,660 They bought the name. 339 00:31:38,660 --> 00:31:41,340 Pure vanity and affectation. 340 00:31:41,340 --> 00:31:43,140 No no, 341 00:31:43,140 --> 00:31:46,620 the last of the true D'Urbervilles 342 00:31:46,620 --> 00:31:48,940 died out long, long ago. 343 00:31:55,780 --> 00:31:58,780 344 00:31:58,780 --> 00:32:03,500 345 00:32:03,500 --> 00:32:06,300 346 00:32:06,300 --> 00:32:10,700 347 00:32:10,700 --> 00:32:13,260 348 00:32:13,260 --> 00:32:18,300 349 00:32:28,260 --> 00:32:30,460 Come along, we must be getting home now. 350 00:32:30,460 --> 00:32:33,820 I suppose it is farming or nothing with you now? 351 00:32:33,820 --> 00:32:36,580 It seems so, Felix. In England? 352 00:32:36,580 --> 00:32:38,300 The Colonies. 353 00:32:38,300 --> 00:32:40,780 Brazil, possibly. Brazil? 354 00:32:40,780 --> 00:32:43,740 But aren't they all Roman Catholics? 355 00:32:43,740 --> 00:32:45,540 Are they? I hadn't thought of it. 356 00:32:45,540 --> 00:32:49,260 I do entreat you, Angel, to keep in touch with moral ideals. 357 00:32:49,260 --> 00:32:52,540 Clearly farming means roughing it externally, 358 00:32:52,540 --> 00:32:55,860 but high-thinking may go with plain living nevertheless. 359 00:32:55,860 --> 00:32:58,860 Felix, why should you think I've lost my moral ideals? 360 00:32:58,860 --> 00:33:04,500 Well, we just thought, didn't we, Cuthbert, from your letters, that you were somehow losing... 361 00:33:04,500 --> 00:33:06,700 well, intellectual grasp. 362 00:33:06,700 --> 00:33:10,100 Well, perhaps you're right, Felix. 363 00:33:14,820 --> 00:33:17,420 I daresay you are looking for the black puddings. 364 00:33:17,420 --> 00:33:21,180 I suggested to your father that we take Mrs Crick's kind present 365 00:33:21,180 --> 00:33:25,300 to the children of the poor man in the village who cannot find work at present, 366 00:33:25,300 --> 00:33:28,660 and he agreed with me that it would be a great pleasure to them. 367 00:33:28,660 --> 00:33:30,660 So we did! 368 00:33:30,660 --> 00:33:32,620 I see. Of course. 369 00:33:32,620 --> 00:33:39,380 The mead I found so intensely alcoholic, it was quite unfit for use as a beverage. 370 00:33:39,380 --> 00:33:41,380 I've put it in my medicine chest. 371 00:33:41,380 --> 00:33:42,620 For emergencies. 372 00:33:42,620 --> 00:33:46,260 Well, I had rather hoped to tell her that we'd enjoyed her gifts. 373 00:33:46,260 --> 00:33:49,780 Well, you cannot, if we did not. 374 00:33:51,020 --> 00:33:54,020 It's a shame. That mead was a spot of pretty tipple. 375 00:33:54,020 --> 00:33:56,260 A what? 376 00:34:10,300 --> 00:34:15,100 I've taken the trouble of putting aside a sum of money every year 377 00:34:15,100 --> 00:34:18,380 towards the purchase or lease of some land. 378 00:34:20,020 --> 00:34:25,500 Thank you, Father. Though I remain sceptical as to the purpose of this labour, 379 00:34:25,500 --> 00:34:27,780 if not for the honour and glory of God. 380 00:34:27,780 --> 00:34:30,740 I hope for the honour and glory of Man. 381 00:34:35,540 --> 00:34:37,580 Then we should discuss the terms. 382 00:34:37,580 --> 00:34:44,460 Before we do so, Father, 383 00:34:44,460 --> 00:34:47,140 I will need some assistance? A bailiff? A wife. 384 00:34:50,500 --> 00:34:52,060 That seems not unreasonable. 385 00:34:52,060 --> 00:34:55,940 And what sort of wife do you think would be best for me 386 00:34:55,940 --> 00:34:59,300 as a thrifty, hard-working farmer? 387 00:34:59,300 --> 00:35:02,260 A truly Christian woman. 388 00:35:02,260 --> 00:35:05,500 Indeed, the daughter of my good-friend Doctor Chant. 389 00:35:05,500 --> 00:35:09,020 But ought she not to be able to milk cows, churn butter, rear chickens? 390 00:35:09,020 --> 00:35:12,460 Perhaps, but for a pure and saintly woman, 391 00:35:12,460 --> 00:35:17,300 you will find no-one more to your advantage than your friend Mercy. 392 00:35:17,300 --> 00:35:20,060 Yes, yes, Mercy Chant, but Father... 393 00:35:20,060 --> 00:35:22,860 Mother should hear this. 394 00:35:22,860 --> 00:35:25,540 Mother! Mother! 395 00:35:25,540 --> 00:35:27,020 Yes? 396 00:35:40,540 --> 00:35:44,140 I came here today to tell you that fate, 397 00:35:44,140 --> 00:35:50,380 or Providence, or God if you wish, has placed in my path a woman, 398 00:35:50,380 --> 00:35:53,740 a regular church-goer of simple faith, honest-hearted, 399 00:35:53,740 --> 00:36:00,460 receptive, intelligent, graceful, pure, virtuous as a Vestal. 400 00:36:00,460 --> 00:36:02,980 She is also, I might add, exceptionally beautiful. 401 00:36:02,980 --> 00:36:04,980 But Angel, 402 00:36:04,980 --> 00:36:08,100 is she from...a good family? 403 00:36:08,100 --> 00:36:11,060 Is she, in short...a lady? 404 00:36:11,060 --> 00:36:16,460 She is not what in common parlance is called a "lady", but a lady nevertheless, in feeling and nature. 405 00:36:16,460 --> 00:36:18,020 But in common parlance? 406 00:36:18,020 --> 00:36:20,420 She's a milkmaid. 407 00:36:27,220 --> 00:36:29,380 Mercy Chant is of a good family! 408 00:36:29,380 --> 00:36:31,420 Oh, pooh to good families! Angel! 409 00:36:31,420 --> 00:36:33,980 What is the use of a good family in the life I shall lead? 410 00:36:33,980 --> 00:36:37,940 Mercy is accomplished, and accomplishments have their charm. 411 00:36:37,940 --> 00:36:41,620 And Tess has accomplishments. She has many accomplishments, Mother! 412 00:36:41,620 --> 00:36:44,660 True, she has no formal education, but she is an apt pupil, 413 00:36:44,660 --> 00:36:47,820 brim full of poetry, and actualised poetry! 414 00:36:47,820 --> 00:36:50,260 She lives what paper-poets only write! 415 00:36:50,260 --> 00:36:55,740 She's also a devote, unimpeachable God-fearing Christian, precisely of the species you desire to propagate! 416 00:36:55,740 --> 00:37:00,980 Angel, please! I beg your pardon, Mother, but all this talk of Mercy Chant. Can Mercy milk a cow? 417 00:37:00,980 --> 00:37:03,220 Or cook? Perhaps not. 418 00:37:03,220 --> 00:37:06,660 But Mercy Chant is our choice, Angel. 419 00:37:06,660 --> 00:37:09,700 There was a time she seemed to be your choice too. 420 00:37:14,380 --> 00:37:16,460 Goodbye, Mother. I will write soon. 421 00:37:16,460 --> 00:37:17,940 Be sure that you do. 422 00:37:24,260 --> 00:37:27,980 Angel... You know, of course, that no-one 423 00:37:27,980 --> 00:37:32,020 could be less concerned with worldly wealth and status than myself. 424 00:37:32,020 --> 00:37:35,940 It makes no difference to me if she's penniless or well-provided, 425 00:37:35,940 --> 00:37:39,700 a milkmaid or a lady, 426 00:37:39,700 --> 00:37:42,060 providing... 427 00:37:42,060 --> 00:37:45,100 she is pure 428 00:37:45,100 --> 00:37:48,140 and of good faith. 429 00:37:48,140 --> 00:37:53,820 Of course, legally you're at liberty to do as you please. 430 00:37:53,820 --> 00:37:59,780 We simply ask that you pay the closest possible attention to her faith, 431 00:37:59,780 --> 00:38:02,460 her virtue, her history 432 00:38:02,460 --> 00:38:06,100 and morality before you make what will no doubt be 433 00:38:06,100 --> 00:38:09,500 the most important decision of your life. 434 00:38:23,740 --> 00:38:28,620 Mr Clare, I'd wondered where... Tess, you will not Mr Clare me ever again! 435 00:38:28,620 --> 00:38:34,420 I'm devoted to you, Tess, with all my heart, and I love and adore you 436 00:38:34,420 --> 00:38:39,940 in all sincerity, and I shall need a wife, Tess, someone by my side. 437 00:38:39,940 --> 00:38:45,180 And I can think of no-one better, more beautiful, more virtuous than you. 438 00:38:50,660 --> 00:38:52,140 Be my wife! 439 00:38:53,780 --> 00:38:56,900 Mr Clare, I cannot be your wife. 440 00:39:02,540 --> 00:39:05,340 But Tess... No, it cannot be. 441 00:39:05,340 --> 00:39:07,300 But you love me, Tess? Yes! 442 00:39:07,300 --> 00:39:11,780 And I would rather be yours than anybody's in the whole world. 443 00:39:11,780 --> 00:39:14,260 But I cannot marry you! 444 00:39:14,260 --> 00:39:16,900 You are engaged to someone else? No! 445 00:39:16,900 --> 00:39:19,380 You love another man? How can you ask that? 446 00:39:19,380 --> 00:39:20,940 Then why do you refuse me? 447 00:39:20,940 --> 00:39:24,420 Your parents would not like me. They will when they meet you, Tess. 448 00:39:24,420 --> 00:39:28,020 That's why I went home, to tell them all about you. You have someone else! 449 00:39:28,020 --> 00:39:31,700 In Emminster, I know all about her. Mercy? 450 00:39:31,700 --> 00:39:34,500 How did...? 451 00:39:34,500 --> 00:39:39,700 Mercy Chant is a friend, Tess. An old childhood friend, nothing more. 452 00:39:39,700 --> 00:39:42,740 I love...have only ever loved you. 453 00:39:42,740 --> 00:39:45,980 And I love you. 454 00:39:45,980 --> 00:39:48,420 I only ever want to love you. 455 00:39:49,980 --> 00:39:52,460 But I will not... 456 00:39:52,460 --> 00:39:55,820 I cannot marry you. 457 00:40:12,300 --> 00:40:14,300 You didn't come for me this morning. 458 00:40:14,300 --> 00:40:16,900 I've started to wonder if you're avoiding me, Tess. 459 00:40:16,900 --> 00:40:20,220 Perhaps I spoke too soon? Perhaps you need time to reconsider. 460 00:40:20,220 --> 00:40:23,100 Do you need more time, Tess? 461 00:40:23,100 --> 00:40:25,860 It's because of Retty. 462 00:40:25,860 --> 00:40:30,300 I swore to her that I would never be your wife. It would break her heart. 463 00:40:30,300 --> 00:40:35,260 You cannot tie our future happiness to that of Retty Priddle's, Tess. It's absurd. I made a promise! 464 00:40:35,260 --> 00:40:37,340 I will not break my word. 465 00:40:39,140 --> 00:40:42,380 I promised myself I would never kiss you until you were mine, 466 00:40:42,380 --> 00:40:44,780 but I can't help myself, Tess. 467 00:40:44,780 --> 00:40:46,420 This is torture. 468 00:40:46,420 --> 00:40:52,060 I can't sleep, I can't eat, I can't read, I can do nothing until I hear that some day you'll be my wife. 469 00:40:54,180 --> 00:40:57,220 Then I will tell you. 470 00:40:57,220 --> 00:41:01,860 I will tell you my experiences and all about myself, everything. 471 00:41:01,860 --> 00:41:05,380 I will give you a complete answer. A complete and final answer? Yes. Soon? 472 00:41:05,380 --> 00:41:06,660 This week. 473 00:41:06,660 --> 00:41:08,540 Tomorrow. Sunday. 474 00:41:08,540 --> 00:41:09,980 Sunday, then. 475 00:41:12,100 --> 00:41:15,060 But I may hope, Tess? 476 00:41:15,060 --> 00:41:17,300 Say I may hope. 477 00:41:39,580 --> 00:41:45,180 The London train's a quarter of four. You're sure you don't want me to go instead? We'll be fine. 478 00:41:45,180 --> 00:41:47,660 Be careful then. The two of you. 479 00:41:50,380 --> 00:41:51,860 Walk on. 480 00:42:10,700 --> 00:42:14,380 Your hands are like cold marble. Come here, come closer. 481 00:42:37,500 --> 00:42:41,460 I was born in Marlott, about 25 miles from here. 482 00:42:43,060 --> 00:42:48,140 I have little to say of my childhood, except that it was happy...in places. 483 00:42:48,140 --> 00:42:51,860 But there was trouble in my family. 484 00:42:51,860 --> 00:42:55,020 My father wasn't very industrious. 485 00:42:55,020 --> 00:42:57,060 He drank. 486 00:42:57,060 --> 00:43:00,460 He drinks a little... 487 00:43:00,460 --> 00:43:03,100 and one day 488 00:43:03,100 --> 00:43:06,860 he was told something very peculiar... 489 00:43:06,860 --> 00:43:09,860 about us. 490 00:43:09,860 --> 00:43:12,300 About me. 491 00:43:12,300 --> 00:43:17,300 Go on. I am not in fact a Durbeyfield, 492 00:43:17,300 --> 00:43:18,740 but a D'Urberville, 493 00:43:18,740 --> 00:43:23,060 a direct descendant of that great family 494 00:43:23,060 --> 00:43:25,100 and we are gone to nothing. 495 00:43:25,100 --> 00:43:27,900 A D'Urberville? 496 00:43:27,900 --> 00:43:30,780 Yes. 497 00:43:30,780 --> 00:43:32,820 And is that all the trouble, Tess? 498 00:43:34,740 --> 00:43:37,060 I was told you hated old families. 499 00:43:37,060 --> 00:43:44,820 I do! I hate the aristocratic principle, but if you take my name, you'll escape yours. 500 00:43:44,820 --> 00:43:47,500 I suppose I will. Then do it. 501 00:43:49,100 --> 00:43:52,740 One word, Tess. Say yes! 502 00:43:55,020 --> 00:43:58,380 If you're sure it will make you very happy to have me as your wife. 503 00:43:58,380 --> 00:44:00,420 It will. And if you want me, 504 00:44:00,420 --> 00:44:02,860 all of me, 505 00:44:02,860 --> 00:44:04,420 whatever my past offences. 506 00:44:04,420 --> 00:44:05,820 I do. 507 00:44:08,460 --> 00:44:10,020 Then... 508 00:44:13,300 --> 00:44:14,860 ..yes. 509 00:44:14,860 --> 00:44:17,740 Yes, you will? Yes! Oh, yes! 510 00:44:26,060 --> 00:44:29,300 This doesn't look much like gladness, Tess. 511 00:44:29,300 --> 00:44:32,060 Because I've broken my vow. 512 00:44:32,060 --> 00:44:35,460 I promised myself I would never marry. 513 00:44:35,460 --> 00:44:37,060 But you are glad? 514 00:44:37,060 --> 00:44:39,140 Tess, you do care for me? 515 00:44:50,900 --> 00:44:52,380 Now do you believe me? 516 00:44:57,460 --> 00:45:01,580 We must keep it secret, even from Crick, until we can name the day. 517 00:45:01,580 --> 00:45:03,660 But I must write to my mother. 518 00:45:03,660 --> 00:45:06,340 You don't mind me doing that? Of course not. 519 00:45:06,340 --> 00:45:08,940 Where did you say she lives? Marlott. 520 00:45:08,940 --> 00:45:12,500 The other side of Blackmore Vale. I know Marlott. 521 00:45:12,500 --> 00:45:14,780 You danced there once. 522 00:45:14,780 --> 00:45:16,780 A May Day, some years ago. 523 00:45:18,980 --> 00:45:21,220 You? 524 00:45:21,220 --> 00:45:22,660 That was you! 525 00:45:24,500 --> 00:45:27,580 I knew it! I knew I'd seen you somewhere before! 526 00:45:29,820 --> 00:45:31,260 Good night. 527 00:45:41,380 --> 00:45:47,780 "Dear Tess... 528 00:45:47,780 --> 00:45:49,420 "But Tess, 529 00:45:49,420 --> 00:45:53,900 "I say between ourselves, quite private, but very strong, 530 00:45:53,900 --> 00:45:58,620 "that on no account, do you say a word about your bygone trouble. 531 00:45:58,620 --> 00:46:01,980 "Many a woman, some the highest in the land, 532 00:46:01,980 --> 00:46:07,980 "have had a trouble in their time, and why should you trumpet yours when they don't trumpet theirs? 533 00:46:07,980 --> 00:46:12,500 "Especially as it was long ago and not your fault at all. 534 00:46:12,500 --> 00:46:15,060 "I know it is in your childish nature 535 00:46:15,060 --> 00:46:17,380 "to tell all that is in your heart, 536 00:46:17,380 --> 00:46:22,140 "but remember you did solemnly promise me never to let it out. 537 00:46:22,140 --> 00:46:25,580 "What's past is past. 538 00:46:25,580 --> 00:46:28,420 "Your affectionate mother, Joan." 539 00:46:28,420 --> 00:46:31,820 This is what I wanted you to see. What is it? 540 00:46:31,820 --> 00:46:36,300 It's your ancestral seat, Tess, the House of the D'Urberville! 541 00:46:37,900 --> 00:46:40,500 To think I'm marrying into nobility! 542 00:46:40,500 --> 00:46:42,100 Lady Teresa D'Urberville. 543 00:46:42,100 --> 00:46:44,420 No Lady. Just dairymaid Tess. 544 00:46:44,420 --> 00:46:49,020 Not that I approve, of course, politically speaking, but at least my mother will be pleased. 545 00:46:49,020 --> 00:46:52,620 You must revert to the old spelling while you still can. D'Urberville! 546 00:46:52,620 --> 00:46:55,020 I like the other way best. No, you must! 547 00:46:55,020 --> 00:46:59,940 You must stop all these arrivistes snapping it up, passing themselves off as the real thing. 548 00:46:59,940 --> 00:47:04,860 What do you mean? I met a counterfeit D'Urberville. In Emminster. 549 00:47:06,460 --> 00:47:08,380 I don't understand. 550 00:47:08,380 --> 00:47:10,620 Who...who did you meet? 551 00:47:10,620 --> 00:47:12,380 A Mr Alec D'Urberville! 552 00:47:12,380 --> 00:47:15,020 Sinister chap, didn't like him at all. 553 00:47:15,020 --> 00:47:18,180 And the cheek of the man, claiming to be your blood relation 554 00:47:18,180 --> 00:47:23,660 when in fact he's no such thing, just a jumped-up chocolate millionaire from Bradford of all places. 555 00:47:26,780 --> 00:47:28,820 What is it, Tess? 556 00:47:28,820 --> 00:47:31,420 I'm only teasing you. It's no good. 557 00:47:31,420 --> 00:47:34,540 I didn't mean any harm. I will never, ever make you happy. 558 00:47:34,540 --> 00:47:38,140 Tess. I will not have you talk like that! Come here. Sssh! 559 00:47:44,300 --> 00:47:50,060 I thought perhaps New Years Eve. Then we can begin the New Year as husband and wife. 560 00:47:50,060 --> 00:47:54,860 Then in the spring we can set out on our great adventure. 561 00:47:54,860 --> 00:47:57,380 Argentina, Brazil. 562 00:48:00,980 --> 00:48:03,300 You don't like the plan? 563 00:48:03,300 --> 00:48:05,980 I think it's a fine plan. 564 00:48:05,980 --> 00:48:09,980 I just wish that we could stay here, that's all. 565 00:48:09,980 --> 00:48:12,220 I just wish that this could go on forever. 566 00:48:14,580 --> 00:48:18,340 That it could always be summer and autumn, 567 00:48:18,340 --> 00:48:22,660 and you were always courting me, and always thinking of me as you do now. 568 00:48:24,260 --> 00:48:25,740 As I always will. 569 00:48:40,540 --> 00:48:41,860 A-hem! 570 00:48:41,860 --> 00:48:43,900 We were just talking! 571 00:48:43,900 --> 00:48:46,460 Oh, talking, is it? I see. Talking. 572 00:48:48,940 --> 00:48:51,260 We're going to be married! 573 00:48:51,260 --> 00:48:56,620 I knew it! Didn't I say? Oh, she's too good for a dairymaid, I said. 574 00:48:56,620 --> 00:48:59,980 Oh, she's a prize for any man. 575 00:48:59,980 --> 00:49:05,100 Soon as I set eyes on her. A lady she is, I said, a proper lady. 576 00:49:05,100 --> 00:49:08,580 But who'll do my skimming now, Tess? I'm losing my best milker! 577 00:49:26,700 --> 00:49:28,660 I'm so proud of you. 578 00:49:28,660 --> 00:49:33,940 Proud, why? Because no-one else is going to marry him. 579 00:49:33,940 --> 00:49:36,180 No fine lady, 580 00:49:36,180 --> 00:49:39,140 nobody in jewels and gold, just you, Tess. 581 00:49:39,140 --> 00:49:42,100 You who lives just like we do. 582 00:49:54,180 --> 00:49:57,980 Was that for love of her, because other lips have been there? 583 00:49:57,980 --> 00:49:59,620 I never thought of that! 584 00:50:01,220 --> 00:50:04,500 We're so happy for you, Tess. Are you happy? 585 00:50:04,500 --> 00:50:06,300 More than I can say! 586 00:50:07,740 --> 00:50:09,300 Retty? 587 00:50:09,300 --> 00:50:10,900 Come here, my love. 588 00:50:22,020 --> 00:50:25,420 Retty, I'm so sorry. 589 00:50:25,420 --> 00:50:27,780 I should hate you. 590 00:50:27,780 --> 00:50:30,020 I want to hate you. 591 00:50:30,020 --> 00:50:34,020 I've tried. But I can't. 592 00:51:04,140 --> 00:51:07,060 Tess? 593 00:51:07,060 --> 00:51:09,380 Yes, Retty? 594 00:51:09,380 --> 00:51:11,460 When you are married, 595 00:51:11,460 --> 00:51:14,380 would you tell him all about me? 596 00:51:15,980 --> 00:51:18,940 How I loved him, 597 00:51:18,940 --> 00:51:22,100 and tried to hate you for marrying him, 598 00:51:22,100 --> 00:51:23,780 but couldn't, 599 00:51:23,780 --> 00:51:25,780 because you were his choice. 600 00:51:28,180 --> 00:51:30,500 You will tell him that, won't you, Tess? 601 00:51:44,020 --> 00:51:45,660 So, what do you think? 602 00:51:45,660 --> 00:51:47,380 It's perfect! 603 00:51:47,380 --> 00:51:50,700 You're so kind. I never want to take it off. 604 00:51:50,700 --> 00:51:53,260 Well, you must, I'm afraid, it's getting late. 605 00:51:53,260 --> 00:51:57,460 I'll see to the horse and gig and I'll meet you at the inn. 606 00:51:57,860 --> 00:52:00,540 Just one little look. No, you mustn't! It's bad luck. 607 00:52:19,980 --> 00:52:25,780 Well, if it isn't that little whore from Trantridge! 608 00:52:30,940 --> 00:52:32,740 Apologise. Get off me! 609 00:52:32,740 --> 00:52:34,740 Apologise at once, damn it! 610 00:52:35,820 --> 00:52:38,660 Beg pardon...sir. 611 00:52:40,820 --> 00:52:42,660 It was a mistake. 612 00:52:42,660 --> 00:52:45,860 I thought that she was someone else. 613 00:52:48,580 --> 00:52:50,500 My mistake. 614 00:52:52,300 --> 00:52:58,540 "I have wanted to tell you by word of mouth, many times, and each time my courage has failed me. 615 00:52:58,540 --> 00:53:03,700 "Not because I fear you will not understand and forgive, 616 00:53:03,700 --> 00:53:06,300 "but because my love for you is so great. 617 00:53:06,300 --> 00:53:08,100 "My Angel! 618 00:53:08,100 --> 00:53:10,740 "Yet, it seems as if, 619 00:53:10,740 --> 00:53:16,020 "even if we were to travel to the ends of the earth, my past would follow me there. 620 00:53:16,020 --> 00:53:22,380 "Today's encounter has confirmed this in my mind, and I fear that I can never be happy, 621 00:53:22,380 --> 00:53:27,100 "never at rest, until I tell you the whole truth. 622 00:53:28,500 --> 00:53:32,260 "Some time ago, when I was just 17 years old, 623 00:53:32,260 --> 00:53:36,220 "and shortly after our first encounter on that May Day, 624 00:53:36,220 --> 00:53:38,860 "I met a man. 625 00:53:38,860 --> 00:53:41,460 "His name was Alec D'Urberville." 626 00:54:28,860 --> 00:54:30,540 Tess! 627 00:54:36,980 --> 00:54:39,420 I've been waiting for you all night. 628 00:54:40,980 --> 00:54:43,260 I wanted to know that... 629 00:54:43,260 --> 00:54:44,700 What, Tess? 630 00:54:46,820 --> 00:54:48,580 Nothing has changed. 631 00:54:50,580 --> 00:54:52,300 Everything is just as it was. 632 00:54:53,900 --> 00:54:55,900 Of course it is. 633 00:54:57,500 --> 00:55:00,020 I knew it! I knew it! 634 00:55:02,300 --> 00:55:04,220 At last, I can be happy. 635 00:55:40,540 --> 00:55:44,020 I think that's everything. Except one last thing. What's that? 636 00:55:44,020 --> 00:55:47,820 You'll be pleased to hear I've forgotten my harp. I'll get it. 637 00:55:48,860 --> 00:55:51,100 You're a lucky man. 638 00:56:45,780 --> 00:56:48,020 There you are, Tess. 639 00:56:51,500 --> 00:56:54,020 You must get changed. We'll be late. 640 00:56:54,020 --> 00:56:57,740 There has been a mistake, a most terrible mistake. 641 00:56:57,740 --> 00:57:01,740 I must tell you all my faults and blunders. No faults today. Today you're perfect. 642 00:57:01,740 --> 00:57:06,660 I'm not! You think I am, but I am not! There'll be plenty of time to discover each other's failings. 643 00:57:06,660 --> 00:57:11,100 We can both confess after the wedding. Take it in turns. Liven up a dull evening. 644 00:57:12,340 --> 00:57:13,860 Come here. 645 00:57:13,860 --> 00:57:15,980 What's wrong? 646 00:57:19,260 --> 00:57:20,980 I must get dressed. 647 00:57:24,020 --> 00:57:25,820 Yes. Of course. 648 00:57:25,820 --> 00:57:27,900 Don't keep me waiting. 649 00:58:01,220 --> 00:58:03,860 It's all my fault, Angel. I broke my word and now I must pay. 650 00:58:03,860 --> 00:58:06,460 I take it you forgive me. Now you can forgive me. 651 00:58:06,460 --> 00:58:09,100 You're D'Urberville's tart. 652 00:58:09,100 --> 00:58:11,700 You're still a beauty, Tess. He's such a good man. 653 00:58:11,700 --> 00:58:14,180 He's a man, Tess. Just like the other one. 654 00:58:14,180 --> 00:58:15,380 Father, she's spotless. 655 00:58:15,380 --> 00:58:18,260 There is one thing, Tess. I will have you. 656 00:58:18,260 --> 00:58:22,700 If either of you know any impediment, why you may not be joined in matrimony, 657 00:58:22,700 --> 00:58:24,900 ye do now confess it. 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