1 00:00:28,795 --> 00:00:33,562 He seemed to think he was fully engaged to you and the letters were the only proof he had. 2 00:00:34,367 --> 00:00:36,961 I think he loves you... in his way. 3 00:00:37,070 --> 00:00:39,402 And do you think he'll return them now? 4 00:00:39,773 --> 00:00:41,968 I don't know. 5 00:00:47,147 --> 00:00:49,377 I was so happy when I first came here. 6 00:00:50,717 --> 00:00:53,049 There, just as I expected. 7 00:00:53,353 --> 00:00:56,413 Your Uncle Kirkpatrick would like you to stay with them again. 8 00:00:56,523 --> 00:00:58,081 Cheer up poor Helen. 9 00:00:58,191 --> 00:01:00,421 - Can you go directly? - I should love to. 10 00:01:00,527 --> 00:01:04,520 And you'll be ready to go by the bang-up tonight? I'm summoned to London myself, 11 00:01:04,631 --> 00:01:07,964 to attend Lady Cumnor. She's worse, I'm afraid. 12 00:01:08,068 --> 00:01:11,401 Oh, poor Lady Cumnor. What a shock! 13 00:01:11,504 --> 00:01:15,531 Thank goodness I've had my breakfast. I wouldn't have been able to eat a thing. 14 00:01:15,642 --> 00:01:19,442 - What about your gowns, Cynthia? - Oh, they're all right, Mama. 15 00:01:19,546 --> 00:01:21,639 I shall be quite ready by 4 o'clock. 16 00:01:30,557 --> 00:01:33,287 I hope you don't think I was glad to leave you. 17 00:01:33,393 --> 00:01:36,624 It's just such a relief to get away from that man for a little while. 18 00:01:38,298 --> 00:01:40,425 What did Roger say in his letter? 19 00:01:40,533 --> 00:01:43,696 - Is he well? Has he quite got over his fever? - Yes, quite. 20 00:01:43,803 --> 00:01:49,503 Yes, he writes in very good spirits. A great deal about birds and beasts and the habits of natives. 21 00:01:50,410 --> 00:01:53,538 I think most of it was meant for you, Molly. 22 00:01:53,713 --> 00:01:56,614 He knows I don't care for spiders and things. 23 00:01:56,783 --> 00:01:59,343 Here! I'll trust you with this. 24 00:02:00,653 --> 00:02:05,090 Don't read between here and here. 25 00:02:05,191 --> 00:02:06,954 That's the silly part. 26 00:02:08,161 --> 00:02:10,459 Would you write back for me? I shan't have time. 27 00:02:10,563 --> 00:02:13,259 And shall I say you'll write as soon as you get to London? 28 00:02:13,366 --> 00:02:16,927 Yes, of course. Well, as soon as I've settled in. 29 00:02:17,070 --> 00:02:19,436 You'll write a much better letter than I could. 30 00:02:19,606 --> 00:02:23,440 - Cynthia, he wants to hear from you. - Does he? 31 00:02:24,744 --> 00:02:27,212 Yes, I suppose he does. 32 00:02:30,083 --> 00:02:33,416 - This packet came by hand, Miss Kirkpatrick. - Oh, thank you, Maria. 33 00:02:53,473 --> 00:02:56,169 Molly, it's the letters. 34 00:02:56,342 --> 00:02:58,435 Molly, you've saved my skin. 35 00:03:03,016 --> 00:03:04,916 There he goes. 36 00:03:11,324 --> 00:03:13,656 He is better than I believed him to be. 37 00:03:24,637 --> 00:03:28,664 Now, there is just one more thing to be done, and if you would be my angel 38 00:03:28,775 --> 00:03:31,505 - and do it for me? - I can't do any more! 39 00:03:31,611 --> 00:03:33,943 It's just a very tiny little thing. 40 00:03:35,548 --> 00:03:38,745 Just to return to him his money. �23. 41 00:03:39,018 --> 00:03:42,010 That's with 5% added in, so he can't complain about anything, and... 42 00:03:42,655 --> 00:03:44,987 It's all wrapped up ready. Look! 43 00:03:45,091 --> 00:03:48,288 I hate having these underhand dealings with him. 44 00:03:48,394 --> 00:03:53,627 Underhand? Why, you might meet him by chance in a shop or in the street. 45 00:03:53,733 --> 00:03:57,430 If you had it in your pocket, nothing could be easier. 46 00:03:57,537 --> 00:04:03,407 Molly, I could go off with such a light heart if only I knew you could get it safely to him. 47 00:04:07,213 --> 00:04:09,374 Goodbye, Molly. 48 00:04:09,482 --> 00:04:12,212 Be a good girl. Look after your mama. 49 00:04:12,952 --> 00:04:14,476 Thank you, John. 50 00:04:18,958 --> 00:04:20,926 Go on there. 51 00:04:29,269 --> 00:04:31,635 I expect Mr Henderson will be there again. 52 00:04:32,405 --> 00:04:36,239 Do you know that he was head over heels in love with Cynthia? 53 00:04:36,342 --> 00:04:40,711 And Mrs Kirkpatrick told me that last summer the poor man went all the way to Switzerland 54 00:04:40,980 --> 00:04:44,677 - to try and forget her. Imagine that! - Poor man, indeed. 55 00:04:44,784 --> 00:04:47,218 It's a pity she didn't tell them all she was engaged. 56 00:04:47,320 --> 00:04:50,619 - It is not an engagement. - What is it, then? 57 00:04:50,723 --> 00:04:54,625 They're more to each other than I am to Osborne, for example. 58 00:04:54,727 --> 00:04:56,194 Molly. 59 00:04:56,296 --> 00:04:59,629 You must never couple your name with that of a young man. I mean... 60 00:04:59,732 --> 00:05:02,895 how am I to teach you delicacy, my dear? 61 00:05:04,037 --> 00:05:06,505 And, you know, between ourselves... 62 00:05:06,606 --> 00:05:10,702 I sometimes think that it will come to nothing with Roger Hamley. 63 00:05:10,977 --> 00:05:12,467 He's so long away. 64 00:05:12,578 --> 00:05:16,571 And, privately, Cynthia is not very constant. 65 00:05:16,683 --> 00:05:20,517 And I once knew her very taken before. 66 00:05:20,620 --> 00:05:24,021 Not with such a pleasing young man as Mr Henderson. 67 00:05:24,357 --> 00:05:28,259 - I hope you won't find it too dull on your own. - No, not at all. 68 00:05:28,361 --> 00:05:30,488 Yes, you're just like me. 69 00:05:30,596 --> 00:05:33,258 Never less alone than when alone, 70 00:05:33,366 --> 00:05:38,133 as one of our great authors has so justly expressed it. 71 00:05:47,113 --> 00:05:49,104 - Oh! - Don't get up, Molly. 72 00:05:49,716 --> 00:05:52,150 This call's not on you. 73 00:05:52,251 --> 00:05:54,310 Though I am very pleased to see you. 74 00:05:56,389 --> 00:05:58,550 Hoped I'd find your father here at lunch time. 75 00:05:58,658 --> 00:06:02,025 He's gone to London with Cynthia. He'll be back tomorrow evening. 76 00:06:02,128 --> 00:06:04,255 Oh, I should have liked to see her again. 77 00:06:08,434 --> 00:06:10,664 I wish to God Roger were at home. 78 00:06:13,673 --> 00:06:16,642 - Do you really think you are very ill? - I don't know. 79 00:06:17,610 --> 00:06:19,441 Sometimes I do. 80 00:06:20,713 --> 00:06:24,171 Then at other times I think it's half fancy. 81 00:06:25,118 --> 00:06:27,951 But I should like your father to tell me so. 82 00:06:29,555 --> 00:06:32,046 Well, as Roger is so far away... 83 00:06:32,992 --> 00:06:36,655 And as I still haven't been able to tell my father about Aim�e. 84 00:06:38,064 --> 00:06:40,965 I want somebody else to know where she is. 85 00:06:41,067 --> 00:06:45,561 In case... You know, in case something should happen. 86 00:06:49,242 --> 00:06:51,676 I know I can trust you, Molly. 87 00:06:52,612 --> 00:06:54,944 As I trust Roger. You're like one of us. 88 00:06:57,617 --> 00:07:00,051 I've written her address here. 89 00:07:00,620 --> 00:07:04,647 Keep it safe. And keep it to yourself. 90 00:07:06,025 --> 00:07:08,391 I pray you may never need it. 91 00:07:11,731 --> 00:07:13,562 I feel better already... 92 00:07:15,134 --> 00:07:18,661 now someone else knows the whereabouts of my wife and child. 93 00:07:21,174 --> 00:07:22,471 Child? 94 00:07:22,575 --> 00:07:24,566 Miss Phoebe Browning. 95 00:07:24,944 --> 00:07:26,502 Ooh, Mr Hamley. 96 00:07:26,612 --> 00:07:28,409 I'm so sorry. 97 00:07:28,514 --> 00:07:32,678 I came to ask Molly if she cared to walk into town with me, seeing as she's all alone today. 98 00:07:32,952 --> 00:07:36,979 But now I see she's not. 99 00:07:37,089 --> 00:07:39,523 Oh, dear, I was always malapropos from a child. 100 00:07:39,625 --> 00:07:41,525 Not at all, Miss Phoebe. 101 00:07:43,262 --> 00:07:46,129 In fact, I was just about to leave. 102 00:07:50,536 --> 00:07:52,265 Goodbye. 103 00:07:56,342 --> 00:07:57,707 Miss Phoebe. 104 00:08:00,680 --> 00:08:05,379 Such a nice suitable thing, and I came in the midst and spoilt it all. 105 00:08:05,485 --> 00:08:09,182 Miss Phoebe, you didn't spoil anything. 106 00:08:09,288 --> 00:08:12,257 If you're imagining a love affair between Mr Osborne Hamley and me, 107 00:08:12,358 --> 00:08:14,326 you were never more mistaken in your life. 108 00:08:14,427 --> 00:08:17,988 - Please, just believe me. - Yes, if you say so. 109 00:08:18,097 --> 00:08:20,565 I shan't tell any secrets. 110 00:08:20,666 --> 00:08:24,693 Dear, dear, somehow sister got it into her head it was Mr Preston. 111 00:08:24,971 --> 00:08:27,997 One guess is just as wrong as the other, I assure you. 112 00:08:28,107 --> 00:08:30,371 Well, if you say so, Molly. 113 00:08:30,476 --> 00:08:33,377 I've so many errands, I'm sure I shall forget one. 114 00:08:33,479 --> 00:08:36,175 I know sister wanted me to call in at Grinstead's 115 00:08:36,282 --> 00:08:38,978 to see if they have a new edition of Mrs Heman's poems. 116 00:08:39,085 --> 00:08:42,543 I wanted to go to Grinstead's, too. I've ordered a book about scarabs. 117 00:08:42,655 --> 00:08:47,092 - Scarabs, indeed. What on earth are scarabs? - Beetles. 118 00:08:47,193 --> 00:08:51,425 Well, fancy anyone wanting to write a book about beetles, or read one. 119 00:08:52,298 --> 00:08:54,960 The new Sir Walter Scott should arrive next week. 120 00:08:55,067 --> 00:08:58,696 - Should I put one aside for you, Miss Gibson? - That would be very kind. Thank you. 121 00:09:06,946 --> 00:09:10,006 Will there be anything else, Miss Gibson? 122 00:09:10,583 --> 00:09:14,019 No, not today. Thank you. 123 00:09:16,289 --> 00:09:20,623 I'm just going over to Johnson's, Molly. You can come and find me there. 124 00:09:20,726 --> 00:09:22,956 Yes, I shan't be a minute. 125 00:09:24,997 --> 00:09:27,295 Here we are, Miss Gibson. All parcelled. 126 00:09:29,035 --> 00:09:30,400 Miss Gibson? 127 00:09:32,238 --> 00:09:34,138 - Thank you. - Thank you. 128 00:09:35,207 --> 00:09:37,175 Mrs Goodwin, good day. 129 00:09:51,757 --> 00:09:53,657 Good afternoon. 130 00:10:04,036 --> 00:10:07,938 No one can say I didn't please my husbands. Both of them. 131 00:10:08,040 --> 00:10:11,498 Poor Jeremy was tickler in his tastes than poor Harry Beaver. 132 00:10:12,111 --> 00:10:14,011 - There, ooh! - Oh! 133 00:10:14,113 --> 00:10:19,380 - I can't help it. I've no more hearts. - Oh, never mind, Miss Phoebe. 134 00:10:19,485 --> 00:10:22,045 And talking of marriage, 135 00:10:22,154 --> 00:10:27,956 I could tell you of a girl we're all fond of who's on the high road to matrimony, 136 00:10:28,060 --> 00:10:31,655 going at dusk to meet her sweetheart just as if she was a scullery maid. 137 00:10:31,764 --> 00:10:34,756 I suppose you mean Miss Gibson and Mr Preston. 138 00:10:35,034 --> 00:10:37,696 Well, now, who told you that? You can't say as I did. 139 00:10:37,803 --> 00:10:39,464 Oh, no, indeed! 140 00:10:39,572 --> 00:10:43,736 But my Uncle Sheepshanks came upon them at dawn in the park avenue. 141 00:10:44,010 --> 00:10:46,069 - Oooph. - Oh, well. 142 00:10:46,479 --> 00:10:49,107 Now, there's no harm in saying 143 00:10:49,281 --> 00:10:53,741 that I saw her pass him a note in Grinstead's Bookshop. 144 00:10:53,953 --> 00:10:56,183 Oh, he looked at me black as thunder 145 00:10:56,288 --> 00:11:00,054 as if to say, "You dare tell my secrets abroad". 146 00:11:00,159 --> 00:11:02,992 - But I'm not afraid of him. - It looks very bad for Miss Gibson. 147 00:11:03,095 --> 00:11:07,498 Not if the banns are read soon and all's done right and proper. 148 00:11:08,401 --> 00:11:11,734 Some folk like to do their courting clandestine-like. 149 00:11:12,004 --> 00:11:15,030 Though I'm surprised at it in Molly Gibson. 150 00:11:15,307 --> 00:11:19,209 I would have thought it was more like that pretty piece Cynthia. 151 00:11:19,345 --> 00:11:24,146 But I wouldn't want to do Mr Gibson's girl a bad turn, 152 00:11:24,250 --> 00:11:27,151 so I think we had better keep it a secret 153 00:11:27,253 --> 00:11:30,416 - till we see how it turns out. - Oh, yes, indeed, Mrs Goodenough. 154 00:11:30,523 --> 00:11:33,117 I'm sure she's a good girl really. 155 00:11:46,806 --> 00:11:48,535 Phoebe! Whatever's the matter? 156 00:11:48,641 --> 00:11:52,441 Oh, Sally. Molly Gibson has lost her character. 157 00:11:52,545 --> 00:11:55,241 And it is Mr Preston after all. 158 00:11:55,347 --> 00:11:57,747 Molly Gibson has lost her character? 159 00:11:58,017 --> 00:12:01,919 Molly Gibson has done no such thing! How dare you repeat such stories? 160 00:12:02,021 --> 00:12:07,926 I can't help it. Mrs Dawes says it's all over town that Molly and Mr Preston are keeping company 161 00:12:08,027 --> 00:12:11,622 as if she were a maidservant and he was a gardener, 162 00:12:11,731 --> 00:12:16,464 meeting at all different sorts of places, slipping letters into each other's hands! 163 00:12:16,569 --> 00:12:19,299 - Control yourself, Phoebe! - And the whole town is talking about it! 164 00:12:19,405 --> 00:12:22,306 And crying shame and saying they ought to be married... 165 00:12:24,610 --> 00:12:27,204 You shouldn't have done that, Sally. 166 00:12:27,313 --> 00:12:31,750 If I ever hear you say such things again, I shall turn you out of the house. 167 00:12:32,017 --> 00:12:33,951 I don't believe it. 168 00:12:34,086 --> 00:12:36,145 I won't believe it. Not my little Molly. 169 00:12:36,255 --> 00:12:38,485 But you must believe it, Mr Gibson. 170 00:12:38,657 --> 00:12:43,026 It's sorely against my will that I have been convinced, but I have. 171 00:12:43,129 --> 00:12:46,587 - And I thought you should know. - As it was, I should thank you. 172 00:12:46,699 --> 00:12:48,599 But I can't. 173 00:12:49,435 --> 00:12:53,371 I don't want your thanks. I just thought I should do what's right. 174 00:12:53,472 --> 00:12:58,171 I only wish I could meet that man and whip him to within an inch of his life. 175 00:12:58,377 --> 00:13:04,077 And that I had the doctoring of those slanderous gossips. I'd make their tongues lie still awhile. 176 00:13:04,183 --> 00:13:08,552 My little girl! What harm has she done them all that they should foul her good name? 177 00:13:08,654 --> 00:13:14,524 Whether the story be true or false, I shall always love Molly 178 00:13:14,627 --> 00:13:17,118 - for her mother's sake. - You ought to love her for her own. 179 00:13:17,763 --> 00:13:21,221 She's done nothing to disgrace herself. I'm sure of it. 180 00:13:28,073 --> 00:13:30,041 Shut the door. 181 00:13:32,645 --> 00:13:34,545 Come here. 182 00:13:34,647 --> 00:13:36,308 What is it? 183 00:13:36,415 --> 00:13:37,677 Is it Osborne? 184 00:13:37,783 --> 00:13:41,947 Have you been keeping up a secret relationship with Mr Preston? 185 00:13:42,054 --> 00:13:45,080 Meeting him in out-of-the-way places? 186 00:13:45,191 --> 00:13:47,284 Exchanging letters? 187 00:13:47,393 --> 00:13:49,486 - Answer me! - Ow! 188 00:13:50,462 --> 00:13:52,657 - Look! - Never mind that. Answer my question. 189 00:13:52,765 --> 00:13:56,201 - Have you met that man in private? - Yes, I have, but I don't think it was wrong. 190 00:13:56,402 --> 00:13:58,302 Not wrong? 191 00:13:58,404 --> 00:14:00,201 Well, I must bear it somehow. 192 00:14:00,306 --> 00:14:01,466 It's true, then? 193 00:14:01,674 --> 00:14:06,077 Father, I can't tell you everything. It's not my secret, or I'd tell you straight away. 194 00:14:06,178 --> 00:14:09,306 You must trust me. I've never deceived you, have I? 195 00:14:09,415 --> 00:14:11,280 How can I tell? The whole town is talking of you. 196 00:14:11,383 --> 00:14:14,113 - What business is it of theirs? - Everyone makes it their business 197 00:14:14,220 --> 00:14:17,155 when a girl neglects the commonest rules of modesty. 198 00:14:17,256 --> 00:14:20,248 But I haven't. How can you believe that? 199 00:14:21,961 --> 00:14:24,657 I will tell you exactly what I have done. 200 00:14:24,763 --> 00:14:28,062 I met Mr Preston once with another person. 201 00:14:28,167 --> 00:14:32,968 I met him a second time, by appointment in the Towers park, and that is all. 202 00:14:34,139 --> 00:14:35,629 And the letters? 203 00:14:36,141 --> 00:14:40,100 I gave him one letter, which I didn't write, in Grindstead's Bookshop. 204 00:14:40,246 --> 00:14:42,407 And that is all! Truly! 205 00:14:42,514 --> 00:14:45,972 There was never anything between me and him, and I need never speak to him again. 206 00:14:49,121 --> 00:14:51,248 Very well. 207 00:14:51,590 --> 00:14:53,148 I believe you. 208 00:14:54,793 --> 00:14:59,992 You imply that you were acting for another. And, of course, I guess it was Cynthia. 209 00:15:01,967 --> 00:15:04,231 You must tell me everything in full. 210 00:15:04,336 --> 00:15:06,463 These rumours must be refuted point by point. 211 00:15:06,672 --> 00:15:09,334 No! You mustn't. 212 00:15:09,441 --> 00:15:13,275 I have told you all I can and it's all over and done with now. 213 00:15:13,379 --> 00:15:15,472 Not your share in it, Molly. 214 00:15:15,581 --> 00:15:20,314 You don't know how slight a thing can blacken a girl's reputation for life. 215 00:15:20,419 --> 00:15:23,217 Am I to do nothing to contradict these slanders? 216 00:15:23,322 --> 00:15:27,418 Am I to go around smiling and content while people spread lies about me and mine... 217 00:15:27,526 --> 00:15:30,359 I'm afraid you must, Papa. 218 00:15:30,462 --> 00:15:34,159 And it will die away after a time when nothing comes of it. 219 00:15:34,266 --> 00:15:38,532 And, please, don't accuse Cynthia. You'll drive her away. 220 00:15:42,107 --> 00:15:43,335 Oh, Molly! 221 00:15:45,010 --> 00:15:47,501 Molly, how shall you bear it? 222 00:15:48,447 --> 00:15:50,381 I don't know. 223 00:15:51,116 --> 00:15:54,313 It's like... tooth-drawing, I suppose. 224 00:15:56,322 --> 00:15:58,756 It'll be over some time. 225 00:16:00,326 --> 00:16:03,295 Oh, Papa, you're not angry with me now, are you? 226 00:16:04,530 --> 00:16:08,694 Oh, get out of my way. If I'm not angry with you, I ought to be. 227 00:16:09,668 --> 00:16:14,230 You caused a very great deal of worry, which won't be over yet awhile, I can tell you. 228 00:16:17,576 --> 00:16:20,977 Get away with you. You'll see if I'm not right. 229 00:16:26,585 --> 00:16:30,043 I am surprised to see Molly Gibson here tonight. 230 00:16:30,155 --> 00:16:34,421 Indeed. It does make it so awkward for everyone else. 231 00:16:53,746 --> 00:16:57,307 How much is twice eighteen? Thirty? 232 00:16:57,416 --> 00:17:01,182 - Thirty-six. - Ah! 233 00:17:03,922 --> 00:17:05,981 So! 234 00:17:07,026 --> 00:17:10,325 Molly Gibson is to marry Mr Preston. 235 00:17:10,429 --> 00:17:11,657 Is she, indeed? 236 00:17:11,930 --> 00:17:13,898 Are you sure you've got it right, Papa? 237 00:17:13,999 --> 00:17:17,560 Well, you know. They've been caught meeting in the park. 238 00:17:18,137 --> 00:17:20,105 And corresponding. 239 00:17:20,205 --> 00:17:22,435 All sorts of things that are likely to end in marriage. 240 00:17:22,741 --> 00:17:25,232 Molly Gibson? I don't believe it. 241 00:17:25,344 --> 00:17:29,280 I wonder what Clare could be doing to allow such goings on. 242 00:17:29,381 --> 00:17:33,010 I think it's more likely that Clare's own daughter is the real heroine of this story. 243 00:17:33,118 --> 00:17:35,484 Really, Harriet. I can't understand what makes you 244 00:17:35,587 --> 00:17:39,023 take such an interest in these petty Hollingford affairs. 245 00:17:39,358 --> 00:17:43,954 Oh, Mama! It's only tit for tat. They take the keenest interest in ours. 246 00:17:44,063 --> 00:17:47,328 And I like Molly Gibson. And I do not like Mr Preston. 247 00:17:47,433 --> 00:17:50,231 And I shall be very glad indeed to find there's no truth in it. 248 00:17:51,370 --> 00:17:53,304 I'm sorry I said anything about it now. 249 00:17:54,540 --> 00:17:58,032 I'll try and find a more agreeable piece of news. 250 00:17:58,610 --> 00:18:02,046 Old Margery at the Lodge is dead. 251 00:18:13,525 --> 00:18:14,958 Good day, my Lord. 252 00:18:15,060 --> 00:18:18,621 I wanted to ask you about that pasture land, Preston. 253 00:18:18,730 --> 00:18:20,129 If I might suggest, my Lord... 254 00:18:20,232 --> 00:18:23,167 Before you do that, Father, there is something I should like to ask Mr Preston about. 255 00:18:23,268 --> 00:18:26,169 Of course, Lady Harriet. I shall be happy to oblige you. 256 00:18:26,538 --> 00:18:29,473 We have heard reports about Miss Gibson and you. 257 00:18:30,008 --> 00:18:33,000 - I ought to congratulate you on an engagement. - No. 258 00:18:34,079 --> 00:18:36,343 No, I am not so fortunate. 259 00:18:37,015 --> 00:18:40,917 Then, sir, are you aware of the injury you may do to a young lady's reputation 260 00:18:41,286 --> 00:18:44,585 if you meet her and detain her in conversation when she's unaccompanied? 261 00:18:44,990 --> 00:18:48,221 You give rise... You have given rise to scandal, sir. 262 00:18:48,393 --> 00:18:50,691 I say, steady on, Harriet. 263 00:18:50,963 --> 00:18:52,624 Let the man explain himself. 264 00:18:52,731 --> 00:18:57,361 My Lord, Lady Harriet forces me to acknowledge - 265 00:18:57,469 --> 00:19:00,996 it's not pleasant to own it - that I am a jilted man, 266 00:19:01,106 --> 00:19:04,564 jilted by Miss Kirkpatrick after a long engagement. 267 00:19:05,110 --> 00:19:07,010 Miss Gibson was, I believe, the instigator. 268 00:19:07,112 --> 00:19:11,344 She was certainly the agent of this last step of Miss Kirkpatrick's. 269 00:19:11,450 --> 00:19:14,078 I hope that satisfies your Ladyship's curiosity. 270 00:19:14,486 --> 00:19:18,513 Harriet, my dear, we have no right to pry into Mr Preston's private affairs. 271 00:19:19,224 --> 00:19:24,355 Indeed, we have not. But he will understand that I was anxious for my friend Miss Gibson. 272 00:19:25,931 --> 00:19:28,661 Thank you, Mr Preston. You have set my mind at rest. 273 00:19:29,735 --> 00:19:33,466 - I'm truly obliged to you. - Thank you. 274 00:19:33,972 --> 00:19:35,462 My Lady. 275 00:19:45,984 --> 00:19:49,147 Now, let's see what we can do. 276 00:19:55,727 --> 00:19:58,059 Oh, Lady Harriet! 277 00:19:58,163 --> 00:20:00,461 - What a pleasant surprise! - Clare. 278 00:20:00,566 --> 00:20:02,591 Mother would like you to pay her a visit tomorrow. 279 00:20:02,701 --> 00:20:05,397 And if Molly can be spared... 280 00:20:05,504 --> 00:20:09,304 Miss Gibson, would you be good enough to walk into town with me? 281 00:20:09,675 --> 00:20:12,143 - My Lady! - Lady Harriet! 282 00:20:12,244 --> 00:20:14,075 Good afternoon. 283 00:20:14,213 --> 00:20:16,238 Good afternoon. Not so chilly today. 284 00:20:19,551 --> 00:20:24,420 Now, Miss Gibson, I need your advice on a little present for my brother. 285 00:20:24,523 --> 00:20:28,152 Edward is so difficult to buy for, but I'm sure you can help me. 286 00:20:28,260 --> 00:20:30,228 He so admired you at the Hollingford Ball. 287 00:20:30,329 --> 00:20:33,628 Said you were quite the best-read young woman he's met. 288 00:20:36,401 --> 00:20:38,369 My compliments to the Miss Brownings. 289 00:20:38,704 --> 00:20:41,400 But I never leave cards, Lady Harriet. 290 00:20:41,506 --> 00:20:44,498 Never mind. Today you shall do everything properly. 291 00:20:47,246 --> 00:20:50,238 Now, Miss Gibson, you must come out to the Towers for a long day. 292 00:20:50,349 --> 00:20:53,147 Papa will send the carriage for you whenever you wish. 293 00:20:53,252 --> 00:20:55,618 Lady Harriet herself! 294 00:20:59,491 --> 00:21:02,722 Well, that was a good day's work, I think. 295 00:21:16,942 --> 00:21:18,170 You're home! 296 00:21:18,210 --> 00:21:21,737 - Did you do it? - Yes, it's done. 297 00:21:26,051 --> 00:21:29,487 Molly, look! 298 00:21:29,588 --> 00:21:31,112 Oh, they're lovely. 299 00:21:31,223 --> 00:21:34,590 I think you should know we're not best pleased with Cynthia just now. 300 00:21:34,693 --> 00:21:36,422 Why? What's the matter? 301 00:21:36,528 --> 00:21:41,192 Ooh, Mr Henderson offered to me while I was in London and, well, I refused him. 302 00:21:41,366 --> 00:21:44,267 Such a fine young man and such a gentleman. 303 00:21:44,469 --> 00:21:46,664 Do you forget I've promised to marry Roger Hamley? 304 00:21:46,772 --> 00:21:50,003 Yes, but you must have known that you might change your mind. 305 00:21:50,108 --> 00:21:52,269 Yes, well, I haven't changed my mind. 306 00:21:52,377 --> 00:21:55,073 I'm going to marry Roger and there's an end to it. 307 00:21:55,180 --> 00:21:57,307 I shan't be spoken to about it any more. 308 00:21:57,416 --> 00:21:59,384 Oh, marry Roger, yes, that's all very fine. 309 00:21:59,484 --> 00:22:02,351 But who's going to guarantee his coming back alive? 310 00:22:03,422 --> 00:22:06,721 And what are they going to marry on? That's what I'd like to know. 311 00:22:06,992 --> 00:22:09,984 Mr Henderson is a very suitable match for Cynthia. 312 00:22:10,095 --> 00:22:13,428 And that is what I will say to Lady Cumnor tomorrow. 313 00:22:13,532 --> 00:22:16,092 I don't think you should mention it to Lady Cumnor, Mama. 314 00:22:17,602 --> 00:22:21,060 Molly, I know you mean it kindly, dear, 315 00:22:21,173 --> 00:22:24,939 but don't let one walk into town with Lady Harriet go to your head. 316 00:22:25,043 --> 00:22:30,037 I think I'm quite capable of deciding what I should or shouldn't say to Lady Cumnor. 317 00:22:33,485 --> 00:22:38,479 Now, Clare, when I think a thing, I say it out. I don't beat about the bush. 318 00:22:38,590 --> 00:22:43,323 You have spoiled that girl of yours until she does not know her own mind. 319 00:22:43,428 --> 00:22:46,693 She has behaved abominably to Mr Preston. 320 00:22:46,798 --> 00:22:50,063 And it is all in consequence of the faults in her education. 321 00:22:50,168 --> 00:22:52,602 You have much to answer for. 322 00:22:52,704 --> 00:22:54,399 Cynthia? 323 00:22:55,440 --> 00:22:57,374 - And Mr Preston? - What? 324 00:22:57,809 --> 00:22:59,333 Clare! 325 00:23:00,512 --> 00:23:03,675 Do you mean to say that you were not aware 326 00:23:03,949 --> 00:23:09,512 that your daughter has been engaged to Mr Preston for some time? Years, I believe. 327 00:23:09,621 --> 00:23:12,385 Mr Preston did not want it spoken of. 328 00:23:12,557 --> 00:23:17,119 And has at last chosen to break it off. To be a "Jilting Jessy", as we used to say. 329 00:23:17,229 --> 00:23:20,164 She has used the Gibson girl as a cat's-paw 330 00:23:20,265 --> 00:23:25,567 and made her and herself the butt of all the gossip in Hollingford. 331 00:23:26,471 --> 00:23:29,099 Oh, Cynthia. I little thought when you were born 332 00:23:29,207 --> 00:23:31,937 how I would have to bear to hear you spoken about. 333 00:23:32,043 --> 00:23:35,137 - What's the matter? - You, you are the matter! 334 00:23:35,247 --> 00:23:38,307 I have just had to hear from Lady Cumnor, of all people, 335 00:23:38,417 --> 00:23:43,354 that you have gone and engaged yourself to Mr Preston 336 00:23:43,455 --> 00:23:47,186 and now refuse to marry him. And they call this jilting. 337 00:23:47,292 --> 00:23:50,557 And they tell me that you are the talk of all Hollingford. 338 00:23:50,662 --> 00:23:53,563 But do you wish me to marry Mr Preston, Mama? 339 00:23:53,665 --> 00:23:55,758 No, of course I don't. 340 00:23:56,034 --> 00:23:59,094 But you have gone and entangled yourself with Roger Hamley, 341 00:23:59,204 --> 00:24:00,569 a very worthy young man, I dare say. 342 00:24:00,672 --> 00:24:05,541 Entangled yourself with him and the same sort of thing with Mr Preston. 343 00:24:05,644 --> 00:24:11,014 And got yourself into an imbroglio, and now I am being blamed for your misconduct. 344 00:24:11,249 --> 00:24:14,514 And I find it very hard. 345 00:24:22,694 --> 00:24:24,355 Is this true, Cynthia? 346 00:24:24,496 --> 00:24:26,487 - Molly knows it all. - Yes, I know that. 347 00:24:26,598 --> 00:24:29,567 And that she has had to bear gossip and slander for your sake, 348 00:24:29,668 --> 00:24:32,728 - but she refused to tell me more. - She told you that much, did she? 349 00:24:33,004 --> 00:24:35,632 - I couldn't help it. - Why did you have to speak of it at all? 350 00:24:35,740 --> 00:24:40,268 Because her reputation was attacked for your misconduct and I demanded an explanation. 351 00:24:40,378 --> 00:24:43,973 There's no need to be ungenerous because you've been a flirt and a jilt. 352 00:24:44,316 --> 00:24:48,946 You say that of me, Mr Gibson, not knowing what the circumstances are?! 353 00:24:49,054 --> 00:24:52,114 Papa, if you knew everything, you wouldn't speak so to Cynthia. 354 00:24:52,224 --> 00:24:53,748 I wish you could hear all she has told me. 355 00:24:54,025 --> 00:24:56,619 I am very ready to hear whatever she has to say. 356 00:24:56,728 --> 00:24:59,356 No! No, you have prejudged me. 357 00:24:59,464 --> 00:25:02,058 You've spoken to me as you had no right to speak. 358 00:25:02,167 --> 00:25:06,263 I refuse to give you my confidence or accept your help. 359 00:25:06,371 --> 00:25:08,669 People are very cruel to me. 360 00:25:08,940 --> 00:25:11,170 I didn't think you would have been but I can bear it! 361 00:25:11,276 --> 00:25:13,267 Cynthia! 362 00:25:13,378 --> 00:25:15,141 Oh, Papa! 363 00:25:15,247 --> 00:25:21,152 I think you have been, Mr Gibson, very, very unkind to my poor, fatherless daughter. 364 00:25:21,553 --> 00:25:24,181 And I only wish that her own father was alive, 365 00:25:24,289 --> 00:25:26,257 then none of this would have happened. 366 00:25:26,358 --> 00:25:28,155 Aye, very probably. 367 00:25:29,594 --> 00:25:34,258 I have sheltered Cynthia. I have loved her almost as if she were my own. 368 00:25:34,366 --> 00:25:37,597 Oh, Molly, just go away and leave me alone! 369 00:25:37,702 --> 00:25:41,263 You don't treat her as though she's your own child. 370 00:26:11,002 --> 00:26:17,168 I wish you both to know that I've written to Roger to break off our engagement. 371 00:26:17,275 --> 00:26:20,142 Oh, Cynthia. It'll break his heart. 372 00:26:20,612 --> 00:26:23,445 No, I don't think it will. 373 00:26:23,548 --> 00:26:28,576 But... even if it did, I couldn't help it. 374 00:26:30,522 --> 00:26:34,288 I don't think we could have made each other very happy. 375 00:26:43,034 --> 00:26:45,468 I'm going to tell your father now. 376 00:26:53,111 --> 00:26:54,442 I wanted you to know the truth 377 00:26:54,546 --> 00:26:58,448 because otherwise you might think the worse of me than I really deserve. 378 00:26:58,550 --> 00:27:00,450 And I couldn't bear that. 379 00:27:00,552 --> 00:27:03,214 And I couldn't bear Roger to know about me and Mr Preston 380 00:27:03,355 --> 00:27:05,550 and have to beg for his forgiveness. 381 00:27:05,657 --> 00:27:11,254 Oh, come. You've acted foolishly at first and perhaps wrongly afterwards, 382 00:27:11,363 --> 00:27:14,992 but you don't want your husband to find you faultless? 383 00:27:15,100 --> 00:27:21,630 Yes. Yes, I do. I won't stand before him like a child to be admonished and forgiven. 384 00:27:22,507 --> 00:27:25,499 But here you are in just such a position before me. 385 00:27:25,710 --> 00:27:28,907 Oh, yes, well, I love you much more than I love Roger. 386 00:27:29,014 --> 00:27:30,948 I've often told Molly so. 387 00:27:37,489 --> 00:27:43,155 I have determined that I must go away and leave Hollingford forever, 388 00:27:43,261 --> 00:27:45,456 to be a governess. 389 00:27:45,563 --> 00:27:48,430 In Russia, if it comes to that. 390 00:27:49,601 --> 00:27:54,300 I can't bear knowing that everybody is talking about me and judging me. 391 00:27:54,406 --> 00:27:58,638 Because they will. I mean, even you and Molly. 392 00:27:58,743 --> 00:28:05,114 You see, Mr Gibson, I will always want admiration and worship. 393 00:28:06,184 --> 00:28:08,482 And men's good opinion. 394 00:28:08,987 --> 00:28:11,888 Are you saying that you don't love Roger? 395 00:28:13,491 --> 00:28:15,652 No, I don't. 396 00:28:16,695 --> 00:28:18,322 Well, not as I should. 397 00:28:19,397 --> 00:28:23,265 Well, then I believe it is right that you break it off. 398 00:28:23,368 --> 00:28:24,699 That poor lad. 399 00:28:35,280 --> 00:28:37,077 It's all done. 400 00:28:40,418 --> 00:28:42,648 I told him everything. 401 00:28:49,728 --> 00:28:51,719 Was it very bad? 402 00:28:51,996 --> 00:28:54,931 Uh, not in the end. 403 00:28:55,366 --> 00:28:57,493 I think he understood. 404 00:29:01,906 --> 00:29:05,467 Oh, dear. I do think life is very dreary. 405 00:29:19,023 --> 00:29:20,923 Oh, well. 406 00:29:21,025 --> 00:29:23,391 Roger will marry you, Molly. 407 00:29:23,495 --> 00:29:25,622 I mean, you'd suit him much better than I would. 408 00:29:25,730 --> 00:29:29,131 Cynthia, don't. Your husband this morning and mine tonight? 409 00:29:29,234 --> 00:29:31,532 What do you take him for? 410 00:29:32,203 --> 00:29:34,034 A man. 411 00:29:34,139 --> 00:29:38,235 If you won't let me call him "changeable", 412 00:29:38,343 --> 00:29:42,404 I'll call him "consolable". 413 00:29:49,320 --> 00:29:51,550 Morning, Mr Osborne, sir. 414 00:30:44,108 --> 00:30:47,544 - Is the Master here? - No. He went out early. 415 00:30:47,645 --> 00:30:51,979 Oh, dear. There's a man come from Hamley Hall and he says Mr Osborne is dead. 416 00:30:57,422 --> 00:30:59,549 The doctor's gone out. 417 00:31:00,391 --> 00:31:02,018 He's dead? 418 00:31:03,127 --> 00:31:04,355 Agnes! 419 00:31:04,462 --> 00:31:06,589 - Do you know where Papa is? - What's the matter, dear? 420 00:31:06,698 --> 00:31:09,667 - Agnes! Agnes! - Don't shout, dear. Ring the bell. 421 00:31:09,767 --> 00:31:13,032 - What is the matter, dear? - Osborne Hamley is dead. 422 00:31:13,404 --> 00:31:15,497 Oh, dear! 423 00:31:15,607 --> 00:31:17,131 Poor young man. 424 00:31:17,242 --> 00:31:19,176 But why the fuss to fetch your father? 425 00:31:19,277 --> 00:31:21,677 It's not as if he can do anything if Osborne's dead. 426 00:31:21,779 --> 00:31:25,112 I'm going there now. I'll put the side-saddle on Nora. 427 00:31:25,216 --> 00:31:27,013 I can't bear to think of the Squire there alone. 428 00:31:27,118 --> 00:31:29,109 Molly, Molly, what are you about? 429 00:31:29,220 --> 00:31:32,189 The Squire won't want you there, dear. 430 00:31:51,743 --> 00:31:54,303 Go on! Go on! 431 00:31:58,650 --> 00:32:01,551 He's in the old nursery, miss. 432 00:33:05,249 --> 00:33:07,547 Won't you eat a little? 433 00:33:09,320 --> 00:33:15,225 He... will... never... eat again. 434 00:33:42,353 --> 00:33:44,548 He's gone to bed. 435 00:33:44,655 --> 00:33:46,589 He asked if I'd let you stay. 436 00:33:46,691 --> 00:33:48,716 I should get you home. You're done in. 437 00:33:48,993 --> 00:33:50,756 I wish to stay. 438 00:33:51,029 --> 00:33:52,519 Do you? 439 00:33:52,630 --> 00:33:54,962 How will you manage? 440 00:33:55,066 --> 00:33:57,466 I can manage, Papa. 441 00:33:58,703 --> 00:34:01,228 You're a good girl. 442 00:34:03,107 --> 00:34:06,599 I'll be back tomorrow. Sleep now. 443 00:34:39,977 --> 00:34:42,309 I beg your pardon. I didn't see you there. 444 00:34:42,413 --> 00:34:45,746 - I broke your sleep? - No, no, it doesn't matter. 445 00:34:47,785 --> 00:34:50,618 Shall I ring for Robinson? 446 00:34:50,721 --> 00:34:53,747 - You should take some breakfast. - I'm brought very low, Molly. 447 00:34:54,625 --> 00:34:59,153 I suppose it's God's doing, but it comes down very hard upon me. 448 00:35:00,531 --> 00:35:04,627 He was my first-born child, you know. 449 00:35:04,735 --> 00:35:06,965 I do try to say "God's will be done", 450 00:35:07,071 --> 00:35:12,373 but it's harder to be resigned than happy people think. 451 00:35:13,978 --> 00:35:20,406 But of late years we weren't... We weren't such good friends as we would wish to be and... 452 00:35:21,419 --> 00:35:26,356 I wasn't sure... I wasn't sure he knew that... 453 00:35:26,457 --> 00:35:29,620 how much I loved him. 454 00:35:40,671 --> 00:35:44,664 There's something I know that I think I must tell you. 455 00:35:44,976 --> 00:35:47,410 Osborne had a wife. 456 00:35:49,213 --> 00:35:50,646 A wife? 457 00:35:52,183 --> 00:35:56,381 Osborne married...? Well, tell me everything. 458 00:35:57,588 --> 00:36:01,684 He said his wife was a good woman and he loved her very dearly, 459 00:36:01,993 --> 00:36:04,484 but she was French and a Roman Catholic. 460 00:36:05,062 --> 00:36:08,054 And she'd been a servant once. 461 00:36:08,166 --> 00:36:11,363 And he gave me her address in case... 462 00:36:12,336 --> 00:36:14,429 He never told me. 463 00:36:14,539 --> 00:36:17,940 Well, well, all that's past now. 464 00:36:18,042 --> 00:36:21,443 All dead and gone. We'll not blame him. 465 00:36:21,546 --> 00:36:22,945 But I wish he had... 466 00:36:23,181 --> 00:36:27,641 He and I to live together, one of us holding such a secret. 467 00:36:27,752 --> 00:36:30,346 There is something else you should know. 468 00:36:31,355 --> 00:36:34,518 - There's a child. - A child?! 469 00:36:35,726 --> 00:36:40,095 Husband and father and I didn't know. 470 00:36:41,465 --> 00:36:45,367 God bless it. God bless Osborne's child. 471 00:36:46,337 --> 00:36:48,305 He had a wife, Gibson. 472 00:36:48,406 --> 00:36:51,273 Osborne had a wife and child. 473 00:36:51,375 --> 00:36:53,366 And he never told me. 474 00:36:59,383 --> 00:37:02,352 You're becoming a very surprising young woman. 475 00:37:02,453 --> 00:37:05,013 Knowing so much and telling so little all this time. 476 00:37:05,189 --> 00:37:09,250 - I never wanted to have secrets from you. - I know that, Goosey. 477 00:37:10,962 --> 00:37:13,396 Someone must write to the wife. 478 00:37:14,298 --> 00:37:16,960 We shouldn't say that he's dead, just that he's very ill. 479 00:37:17,068 --> 00:37:22,005 - Let her get used to the idea gradually. - I'll do it. He confided in me. 480 00:37:22,139 --> 00:37:25,074 Did the Squire say anything about Roger and Cynthia? 481 00:37:25,176 --> 00:37:29,510 No. He doesn't know yet. I saw her letter unopened in the hall. 482 00:37:30,281 --> 00:37:34,081 I dare say he'll bear that a good deal better than Roger will. 483 00:37:35,052 --> 00:37:39,489 He'll get the news about Osborne and Cynthia's letter at the same time. 484 00:37:45,029 --> 00:37:50,433 To think of it all being so sudden at last, and so provoking. 485 00:37:50,534 --> 00:37:53,697 Just as Cynthia had given up Roger. 486 00:37:53,971 --> 00:37:55,962 If only you had waited one day, dear. 487 00:37:56,073 --> 00:37:58,132 I'm not sure I know what you mean, Mama. 488 00:37:58,242 --> 00:38:01,473 - Why, that Roger is heir now, of course. - Oh, Mama, please! 489 00:38:01,612 --> 00:38:04,206 I hate to think of these things in a mercenary spirit, 490 00:38:04,348 --> 00:38:09,183 but it is so provocative. I mean, to see you throwing over two good matches. 491 00:38:09,287 --> 00:38:11,414 First Mr Henderson and now Roger Hamley. 492 00:38:11,522 --> 00:38:14,116 You are not in full possession of the facts. 493 00:38:15,192 --> 00:38:20,357 It would appear that Osborne was secretly married, and had fathered a child. 494 00:38:22,400 --> 00:38:24,527 - Boy or girl? - It's not yet known. 495 00:38:24,635 --> 00:38:28,537 Oh, but Osborne married? But he was so young and boyish. 496 00:38:28,639 --> 00:38:30,573 Oh, what a deceit! 497 00:38:30,675 --> 00:38:33,337 He might have broken your heart, or Molly's. 498 00:38:33,511 --> 00:38:38,005 No, I'm sorry. I can't forgive him even though he is dead, poor fellow. 499 00:38:38,115 --> 00:38:42,211 I think it's possible that his marriage was not contracted 500 00:38:42,320 --> 00:38:48,384 with the express intention of deceiving either you or the girls, my dear. 501 00:38:50,728 --> 00:38:53,356 But if there is a son then he'll be the heir. 502 00:38:54,298 --> 00:38:57,028 So Roger will be just as poorly off as ever, 503 00:38:57,201 --> 00:39:00,432 so maybe it's just as well you did write to break it off, darling. 504 00:39:00,604 --> 00:39:03,664 Though you can hardly take any credit for it. 505 00:39:09,647 --> 00:39:12,275 It's true. Osborne Hamley to Marie-Aim�e Scherer. 506 00:39:13,484 --> 00:39:17,250 Parish church and witnessed and... 507 00:39:17,455 --> 00:39:19,082 Oh, dear... 508 00:39:19,190 --> 00:39:20,885 He was afraid of me. 509 00:39:21,225 --> 00:39:22,692 Afraid. 510 00:39:23,594 --> 00:39:26,062 It made him keep it all to himself. 511 00:39:26,163 --> 00:39:28,097 And care killed him. 512 00:39:28,199 --> 00:39:31,032 Oh, my lad, my lad. 513 00:39:31,135 --> 00:39:36,368 I know better now, but it's... all too late. It's too late. 514 00:39:36,474 --> 00:39:38,032 Look. 515 00:39:38,442 --> 00:39:40,637 It's a baby's birth certificate. 516 00:39:41,145 --> 00:39:43,579 Roger Stephen Osborne Hamley. 517 00:39:43,681 --> 00:39:46,241 A boy, a boy. Yes, that's it. 518 00:39:46,384 --> 00:39:49,251 My little grandson I never knew about. 519 00:39:49,353 --> 00:39:53,187 Roger. No, he should be called Osborne. 520 00:39:53,491 --> 00:39:56,392 There's a Roger already in the house. Well, there's two, 521 00:39:56,494 --> 00:39:59,088 but one's a good-for-nothing old man. 522 00:39:59,196 --> 00:40:02,393 No, we'll call him Osborne and we'll take him here, Molly. 523 00:40:02,500 --> 00:40:05,492 And we'll get a nurse for him and we'll... 524 00:40:05,603 --> 00:40:07,696 make sure his mother's comfortable in her own country. 525 00:40:08,439 --> 00:40:12,398 And this little lad shall never hear a cross word. 526 00:40:13,411 --> 00:40:16,175 Osborne, Osborne... 527 00:40:17,181 --> 00:40:20,309 Do you know now how much I loved you, my boy? 528 00:40:20,418 --> 00:40:22,181 Squire Hamley... 529 00:40:22,286 --> 00:40:26,484 Do you not think that Osborne's widow would be very reluctant to part with her little boy? 530 00:40:27,158 --> 00:40:30,525 I never would... however poor I was. 531 00:40:30,628 --> 00:40:33,096 That's you, you see. She's a foreigner. 532 00:40:33,197 --> 00:40:35,688 Better off with her own folk in her own country. 533 00:40:35,800 --> 00:40:38,098 Lawyers will arrange it all. 534 00:40:38,202 --> 00:40:41,296 I'll get someone to collect the lad and bring him back here. 535 00:40:42,339 --> 00:40:45,103 I don't want to see the girl. 536 00:40:58,122 --> 00:41:01,250 "And he looks at your picture every day. 537 00:41:01,659 --> 00:41:06,323 "Et il dit en anglais... " And he says in English... 538 00:41:06,430 --> 00:41:10,093 "'Papa come'. Et 'J'esp�re' and... 539 00:41:10,201 --> 00:41:14,695 "And I hope, too, that Papa will come as soon as he can... 540 00:41:14,972 --> 00:41:18,408 "to see his loving Aim�e." 541 00:41:19,610 --> 00:41:22,408 And that's where he was going. 542 00:41:23,514 --> 00:41:24,674 And I never thought it. 543 00:41:27,718 --> 00:41:29,982 Who's that now? 544 00:41:38,462 --> 00:41:41,056 Please, can I see Mr Osborne Hamley? 545 00:41:41,165 --> 00:41:45,101 He is ill, I know, but... I am his wife. 546 00:41:45,469 --> 00:41:47,266 Ahh... 547 00:41:54,011 --> 00:41:56,605 Wait there a moment, miss. 548 00:42:04,989 --> 00:42:08,686 What is it? What is it? Don't keep it from me. I can bear it. 549 00:42:09,293 --> 00:42:11,261 Is it Roger? 550 00:42:16,033 --> 00:42:17,500 You are Molly? 551 00:42:17,601 --> 00:42:19,364 You write me the letter? 552 00:42:19,470 --> 00:42:21,370 Can I see him? 553 00:42:21,972 --> 00:42:24,065 Well, is he very ill? 554 00:42:31,448 --> 00:42:34,713 There now, lad. I've got you. 555 00:42:35,719 --> 00:42:38,381 S'il vous pla�t... 556 00:42:59,710 --> 00:43:02,201 She's not like a Frenchwoman, is she, Molly? 557 00:43:02,313 --> 00:43:04,110 I don't know. 558 00:43:04,214 --> 00:43:06,478 I don't know what Frenchwomen are like. 559 00:43:06,584 --> 00:43:08,950 Poor thing. 560 00:43:09,053 --> 00:43:11,180 Looks like a gentlewoman. 561 00:43:11,288 --> 00:43:13,313 All but her hands. 562 00:43:14,625 --> 00:43:18,254 - How do you think she is, Molly? - I don't know. 563 00:43:19,196 --> 00:43:21,528 - I fear it's broken her heart. - Nay, nay. 564 00:43:21,632 --> 00:43:25,329 It's not that easy to break your heart. Sometimes I wish it were. 565 00:43:25,502 --> 00:43:28,960 No, we have to go on living all the appointed days, 566 00:43:29,173 --> 00:43:31,641 as it says in the Bible. 567 00:43:49,994 --> 00:43:52,155 He's a jolly little chap. 568 00:43:52,262 --> 00:43:55,231 He's a proper hand, he is. 569 00:43:55,332 --> 00:43:58,563 Now, shall we show the doctor, eh? 570 00:43:58,669 --> 00:44:03,072 We'll show the doctor how you smoke your grandad's pipe. 571 00:44:03,173 --> 00:44:05,698 Oh, I hope very much that he will not! 572 00:44:05,976 --> 00:44:08,137 A little puff won't do him any harm. 573 00:44:08,245 --> 00:44:09,712 Now, where's the nurse? 574 00:44:09,980 --> 00:44:12,039 Now, you go with your nurse 575 00:44:12,149 --> 00:44:16,245 and we'll have some rare fun when this gentleman's gone home, eh? 576 00:44:16,487 --> 00:44:18,580 There's me chappie. 577 00:44:20,391 --> 00:44:22,359 - Bye. - Bye bye. 578 00:44:22,459 --> 00:44:26,327 Robinson, pour Gibson some more wine. 579 00:44:26,430 --> 00:44:28,591 Robinson has to keep out of the way. 580 00:44:28,699 --> 00:44:32,328 The little chap's taken a strong dislike to his big red nose. 581 00:44:36,974 --> 00:44:38,703 So, how do you find her, Gibson? 582 00:44:38,976 --> 00:44:40,534 Getting stronger every day, I reckon. 583 00:44:41,311 --> 00:44:43,336 She'll be able to leave here soon, eh? 584 00:44:43,447 --> 00:44:46,541 - To go where? - Well, back to her own people. 585 00:44:47,117 --> 00:44:49,677 Molly tells me she has no family or friends left. 586 00:44:49,787 --> 00:44:51,584 I dare say something can be arranged. 587 00:44:51,689 --> 00:44:55,591 I think if you want the child, you'll have to take the mother, too. 588 00:44:55,693 --> 00:44:59,459 - Wait and see what Roger says. - Yes, he'll know what to do. 589 00:44:59,563 --> 00:45:02,999 - Meanwhile, I need my own child at home. - Why, what's the matter? 590 00:45:03,100 --> 00:45:06,001 I just want her at home under my own eye. 591 00:45:06,136 --> 00:45:08,934 She's been overtaxing her strength here, I think. 592 00:45:09,039 --> 00:45:10,973 She needs a bit of cossetting herself. 593 00:45:11,442 --> 00:45:15,173 Aye, I think on her like a child of mine, not a stranger. 594 00:45:15,279 --> 00:45:16,678 I dare say I have come hard upon her. 595 00:45:17,448 --> 00:45:21,316 Aye, let her go home. My Roger'll be home soon. 596 00:45:24,188 --> 00:45:26,656 Ah! Now, where's that little chap of mine? 597 00:45:27,091 --> 00:45:30,083 I'm coming to get you. Where is he? 598 00:46:04,027 --> 00:46:05,426 What lovely flowers! 599 00:46:05,529 --> 00:46:09,556 Yes, aren't they? They came from the Hall this morning. 600 00:46:09,666 --> 00:46:12,692 - The Hall? - Yes. Roger is home. 601 00:46:15,439 --> 00:46:17,236 Roger is home? 602 00:46:21,712 --> 00:46:23,111 Have you seen him? 603 00:46:23,213 --> 00:46:25,943 Yes, late last evening. 604 00:46:26,049 --> 00:46:28,210 - How does he look? - Very well. 605 00:46:29,052 --> 00:46:32,351 Brown as a berry and with a fine growth of a beard. 606 00:46:32,956 --> 00:46:34,184 A beard? 607 00:46:34,291 --> 00:46:38,728 Oh, I do so dislike that sort of affectation in a young man. 608 00:46:38,996 --> 00:46:42,932 I would never permit Mr Kirkpatrick to grow one. 609 00:46:43,133 --> 00:46:45,124 Did he say anything about coming to see us? 610 00:46:45,502 --> 00:46:49,097 Well, I think he might find that a little awkward just now. 611 00:46:49,206 --> 00:46:52,073 But I hope he'll find his way here in time. 612 00:46:52,176 --> 00:46:54,644 Now, I must be off. 613 00:46:54,745 --> 00:46:56,269 Good day to you. 614 00:47:01,018 --> 00:47:04,920 Well, I don't see there need be any awkwardness on my account. 615 00:47:06,290 --> 00:47:10,021 I do hope he doesn't choose tomorrow to pay his respects, though. 616 00:47:10,127 --> 00:47:12,186 I've had a letter from Mr Henderson. 617 00:47:12,663 --> 00:47:14,893 He says he's visiting this part of the country 618 00:47:15,032 --> 00:47:19,526 - and hopes to pass through here tomorrow. - Mr Henderson? 619 00:47:19,636 --> 00:47:22,969 Oh, precious child, are we to congratulate you? 620 00:47:23,073 --> 00:47:25,564 - Oh, no. - But he has offered? 621 00:47:25,676 --> 00:47:28,110 Or he intends to offer at least, I am sure. 622 00:47:28,478 --> 00:47:30,673 Well, yes, I suppose he has offered. 623 00:47:31,014 --> 00:47:32,948 Oh, and shall you accept? 624 00:47:34,084 --> 00:47:38,180 Oh, Cynthia, darling. Do say yes. Say yes and make me happy. 625 00:47:39,223 --> 00:47:44,217 And Lady Cumnor, she will view the match most favourably, I am sure. 626 00:47:44,428 --> 00:47:46,453 I haven't made my mind up yet. 627 00:47:46,563 --> 00:47:49,293 And I shan't say yes to please anybody but myself. 628 00:48:13,490 --> 00:48:15,082 Molly. 629 00:48:15,325 --> 00:48:19,421 - This is Mr Henderson. - How do you do. 630 00:48:19,529 --> 00:48:24,023 I've heard a great deal about you, Miss Gibson, and I hope we shall be very good friends. 631 00:48:26,203 --> 00:48:27,534 Thank you. 632 00:48:30,007 --> 00:48:34,467 Well, you go on. I want to speak to Molly just now, not you. 633 00:48:39,483 --> 00:48:41,951 So, what do you think? 634 00:48:43,220 --> 00:48:45,688 Well, do you really like him enough to marry him? 635 00:48:46,390 --> 00:48:48,017 I think so. 636 00:48:49,459 --> 00:48:54,658 I told him I wasn't very constant and he said he liked me just the way I was, so... 637 00:48:54,765 --> 00:48:57,199 You see, he's been fairly warned. 638 00:49:00,437 --> 00:49:02,564 I think he's a little bit afraid, though. 639 00:49:02,673 --> 00:49:05,164 He wants us to be married very soon. 640 00:49:06,243 --> 00:49:09,235 I'm very pleased, Miss Kirkpatrick, 641 00:49:09,346 --> 00:49:12,975 that you are going to make a creditable marriage. 642 00:49:13,083 --> 00:49:16,348 I hope it will efface your former errors of conduct, 643 00:49:16,920 --> 00:49:21,084 and that you will live to be a comfort to your mother. 644 00:49:21,558 --> 00:49:25,995 - I understand that Mr Anderson... - Er, Henderson. 645 00:49:26,964 --> 00:49:29,296 ...is in the law. 646 00:49:29,399 --> 00:49:33,233 Although there is a general prejudice against attorneys, 647 00:49:33,337 --> 00:49:37,637 I have known of two or three who were very respectable men, 648 00:49:37,741 --> 00:49:43,407 and it may well be that your Mr... Henderson is one of them. 649 00:49:43,513 --> 00:49:45,572 Well, he is a barrister, not an attorney. 650 00:49:45,682 --> 00:49:49,914 Yes, yes, there is no need for you to speak so loud, my dear. 651 00:49:50,020 --> 00:49:53,615 And when you have been a little in society, 652 00:49:53,724 --> 00:49:57,387 you will understand that it is bad manners to interrupt. 653 00:49:59,129 --> 00:50:01,461 Now... 654 00:50:03,567 --> 00:50:07,162 - What was I going to say, Harriet? - About the house party. 655 00:50:07,270 --> 00:50:09,704 Oh, yes, that was it. 656 00:50:09,973 --> 00:50:13,636 Hollingford has invited half the Geographical Society 657 00:50:13,744 --> 00:50:17,077 and I don't know who else besides to the Towers. 658 00:50:17,180 --> 00:50:20,581 I've never known him to take any interest in party-giving before. 659 00:50:21,418 --> 00:50:22,976 The house will be quite full. 660 00:50:23,086 --> 00:50:27,648 - Mmm, how delightful! - It's all in honour of Mr Roger Hamley, 661 00:50:27,758 --> 00:50:30,318 the famous traveller and man of science. 662 00:50:32,029 --> 00:50:34,998 It seems the whole world wants to meet him. 663 00:50:36,099 --> 00:50:40,160 I was wondering if you could spare Miss Gibson. 664 00:50:41,638 --> 00:50:46,371 Harriet has a great fancy to have her there, too. 665 00:50:46,476 --> 00:50:48,103 Yes. 666 00:50:48,378 --> 00:50:52,075 - Yes, yes, I suppose so, yes. - Good. 667 00:50:52,649 --> 00:50:55,277 So, that's settled, then. 668 00:50:59,156 --> 00:51:03,092 Engaged to a lawyer now. Little baggage. 669 00:51:03,360 --> 00:51:08,730 Like or not she'lljilt him, too. You're well out of that, my boy. 670 00:51:08,999 --> 00:51:12,127 Don't say anything against her, Father. 671 00:51:12,769 --> 00:51:15,237 - Don't forget how once I loved her. - Once? 672 00:51:15,972 --> 00:51:17,530 Not any more? 673 00:51:22,312 --> 00:51:25,509 I could tell from her letters her heart wasn't really in it. 674 00:51:26,383 --> 00:51:29,284 But I wouldn't let myself believe in it. 675 00:51:32,789 --> 00:51:34,757 It wasn't really her I loved, I think. 676 00:51:35,625 --> 00:51:38,492 It was a notion of her I dreamed up myself. 677 00:51:39,329 --> 00:51:43,663 - A kind of hypothetical Cynthia that never was. - Hmm. 678 00:51:44,401 --> 00:51:46,665 It's a bit deep for me, that. 679 00:51:46,770 --> 00:51:50,262 Pretty little thing, though. No denying it. 680 00:51:50,373 --> 00:51:53,137 There'll be fine ladies enough at the Towers, no doubt. 681 00:51:54,411 --> 00:51:56,504 You know what I think was a strange thing? 682 00:51:56,613 --> 00:52:02,108 How both you boys picked out girls below you in rank and family, 683 00:52:02,219 --> 00:52:07,555 yet neither of you set your fancies on little Molly Gibson. 684 00:52:09,226 --> 00:52:12,195 Now, there's a lassie who's found a way to my heart. 685 00:52:12,295 --> 00:52:14,388 Molly's like a sister to me. 686 00:52:31,181 --> 00:52:35,379 Now, Molly, as you are far and away the prettiest girl of the party, 687 00:52:35,485 --> 00:52:37,680 I'm afraid you might be pestered, 688 00:52:37,787 --> 00:52:43,248 so I've detailed my cousin Charles to act as your sheepdog and stand guard over you. 689 00:53:01,645 --> 00:53:06,082 Mama, I'm sure you remember Miss Gibson. 690 00:53:06,183 --> 00:53:08,276 Miss Gibson. How charming you look. 691 00:53:09,152 --> 00:53:11,643 Are you going to be dancing this evening? 692 00:53:11,988 --> 00:53:13,979 I hope you enjoy yourself. 693 00:53:14,090 --> 00:53:18,186 Now, let me introduce you to my cousin Charles Morton. 694 00:53:19,095 --> 00:53:20,926 Miss Gibson. 695 00:53:22,032 --> 00:53:23,659 Excuse me. 696 00:53:27,437 --> 00:53:29,234 Do you know our guest of honour, Miss Gibson? 697 00:53:29,339 --> 00:53:31,102 Yes, he's a very old friend. 698 00:53:31,208 --> 00:53:34,541 - Really. Is he very awe-inspiring? - No, not at all. 699 00:53:34,644 --> 00:53:38,045 He's very kind and not at all like anyone else I know. 700 00:53:38,148 --> 00:53:40,514 He gave me a wasps' nest as a present once. 701 00:53:40,617 --> 00:53:42,949 Miss Gibson, you astonish me. 702 00:53:43,620 --> 00:53:46,054 - Here we are. - Thank you. 703 00:53:47,224 --> 00:53:49,351 - How are you, Molly? - I'm very well. 704 00:53:50,393 --> 00:53:52,987 I wondered if I'd recognise you. 705 00:53:53,096 --> 00:53:55,462 Papa said you had a beard. 706 00:53:55,565 --> 00:53:58,193 Oh, no, I don't. 707 00:54:12,949 --> 00:54:15,213 - Mr Hamley. - Yes? 708 00:54:15,685 --> 00:54:17,710 Were the natives not dangerous? 709 00:54:17,988 --> 00:54:19,922 One hears such stories. 710 00:54:20,023 --> 00:54:22,958 Do they really eat each other? 711 00:54:23,059 --> 00:54:27,120 Only rarely. The flesh of the European is considered the real delicacy. 712 00:54:27,230 --> 00:54:30,393 - Oh. - Especially the females. 713 00:54:32,669 --> 00:54:36,469 Open season all year round on missionaries, eh, Hamley? 714 00:54:50,787 --> 00:54:53,119 Sir Charles, excuse me. 715 00:55:21,151 --> 00:55:24,279 How do you think my little prot�ge� is getting on, Mr Hamley? 716 00:55:24,387 --> 00:55:25,911 Very well. 717 00:55:26,022 --> 00:55:27,614 She seems just the same. 718 00:55:27,724 --> 00:55:30,454 And yet completely different somehow. 719 00:55:30,560 --> 00:55:32,289 Good. 720 00:55:32,629 --> 00:55:35,223 I've hardly had a chance to speak to her. 721 00:55:35,332 --> 00:55:37,994 I didn't realise she was going to be here. 722 00:55:40,270 --> 00:55:42,295 Who's the gentleman with her? 723 00:55:43,206 --> 00:55:46,300 Sir Charles Morton, my cousin. 724 00:55:47,644 --> 00:55:50,977 - Oh. - Ah, Hamley, I need you over here. 725 00:56:12,936 --> 00:56:14,267 Molly... 726 00:56:14,371 --> 00:56:16,305 Roger. How nice. 727 00:56:16,406 --> 00:56:20,001 I've been trying to get to talk to you. I know. 728 00:56:20,110 --> 00:56:22,078 I've been unlucky. 729 00:56:22,979 --> 00:56:26,676 Sir Charles Morton... Have you known him long? 730 00:56:26,950 --> 00:56:32,047 No, not long at all. Lady Harriet told him to take care of me, and... 731 00:56:32,155 --> 00:56:34,623 he does everything she tells him. 732 00:56:34,724 --> 00:56:36,692 Oh, I see. 733 00:56:38,762 --> 00:56:40,957 It seems so long since I saw you. 734 00:56:42,265 --> 00:56:44,233 Yes. 735 00:56:44,334 --> 00:56:46,564 I know how deeply we are indebted to you. 736 00:56:46,669 --> 00:56:50,628 My father told me you were like a true daughter to him at that worst time. 737 00:56:51,408 --> 00:56:55,003 You helped him to bear it more than anyone else could have. 738 00:56:56,413 --> 00:56:59,712 I can't tell you how good it is to see you again, Molly. 739 00:56:59,983 --> 00:57:01,177 Yes. 740 00:57:02,419 --> 00:57:05,411 Your letters meant so much to me when I was in Africa. 741 00:57:06,156 --> 00:57:10,058 I think you took much more pains with them than Cynthia did with hers. 742 00:57:11,628 --> 00:57:13,459 It's all right. 743 00:57:13,563 --> 00:57:15,588 I can speak of her, Molly. 744 00:57:17,267 --> 00:57:19,030 It's over. 745 00:57:19,969 --> 00:57:21,596 For me as well. 746 00:57:23,406 --> 00:57:25,704 We both made a mistake, I think. 747 00:57:32,315 --> 00:57:34,510 My father's very angry with you. 748 00:57:34,617 --> 00:57:36,175 Angry with me? 749 00:57:36,286 --> 00:57:38,447 Only because you came here instead of to us at Hamley. 750 00:57:38,555 --> 00:57:40,921 Oh, well, Lady Harriet wanted me, and... 751 00:57:41,024 --> 00:57:44,482 I don't quite know why, but there's no refusing her. 752 00:57:44,594 --> 00:57:46,960 Then will you come and stay at the Hall 753 00:57:47,063 --> 00:57:49,361 before I go away to Africa again? 754 00:57:50,300 --> 00:57:52,928 Aim�e has been asking for you, too. 755 00:57:54,070 --> 00:57:56,937 May I tell my father you'll come next week? 756 00:57:57,373 --> 00:58:00,274 Yes, I should like to very much. 757 00:58:00,376 --> 00:58:01,570 Thank you. 758 00:58:01,678 --> 00:58:04,545 You don't know what a pleasure it will give him. 759 00:58:04,647 --> 00:58:06,046 Give us. 760 00:58:07,484 --> 00:58:10,544 Will I see you later? Yes. Of course. 761 00:58:12,689 --> 00:58:15,089 Very satisfactory. 762 00:58:15,191 --> 00:58:17,489 - Sorry, Harriet, don't follow. - Don't you think that your prot�ge 763 00:58:17,594 --> 00:58:20,529 and my favourite young woman are finding out each other's good qualities? 764 00:58:20,630 --> 00:58:22,530 Roger Hamley has more to think about. 765 00:58:22,632 --> 00:58:25,658 Molly Gibson's a very pretty, good little country girl, 766 00:58:25,935 --> 00:58:28,130 but Roger Hamley has a glittering career ahead of him. 767 00:58:28,238 --> 00:58:31,537 If she's trying to trap him into marriage, it'll be a disaster. 768 00:58:31,641 --> 00:58:34,201 I'm surprised you invited her if that's her game. 769 00:59:06,709 --> 00:59:09,974 But of course you must go to Hamley Hall. 770 00:59:10,146 --> 00:59:13,604 As I shall be in London choosing Cynthia's trousseau, 771 00:59:13,716 --> 00:59:18,449 it's a very convenient opportunity to have you out of the house for a few days. 772 00:59:18,555 --> 00:59:21,149 Of course, Molly, I do understand your reservations. 773 00:59:21,257 --> 00:59:22,485 - Of course I do. - Do you? 774 00:59:22,592 --> 00:59:25,026 Well, yes, of course I do. 775 00:59:25,128 --> 00:59:30,896 I mean, you don't feel comfortable associating with a Frenchwoman of doubtful rank 776 00:59:31,000 --> 00:59:33,662 - and, well, I think you're quite right. - Oh, it isn't that. 777 00:59:33,937 --> 00:59:36,405 Well, what is it, then, I pray? 778 00:59:36,506 --> 00:59:40,067 Mrs Goodenough may say you're setting your cap at Roger Hamley, 779 00:59:40,176 --> 00:59:43,612 but what business is it of hers or, indeed, of anyone else's? 780 00:59:44,547 --> 00:59:46,981 You know how to conduct yourself with propriety, 781 00:59:47,083 --> 00:59:52,248 even if others don't, and I have never had the slightest concern about you on that score. 782 00:59:52,956 --> 00:59:57,222 Though if you were a little more forthcoming, it might not be a bad thing. 783 00:59:57,327 --> 01:00:01,093 It didn't do Cynthia any harm in the end, did it, dear? 784 01:00:07,437 --> 01:00:11,339 Molly... It's so good to have you back here. 785 01:00:14,711 --> 01:00:16,542 Aim�e! 786 01:00:17,680 --> 01:00:20,740 - You look so well now. - I'm so happy to see you. 787 01:00:21,017 --> 01:00:22,609 And I you. 788 01:00:25,655 --> 01:00:29,216 So you can come a-visiting, though you've been up with the grand folks. 789 01:00:30,159 --> 01:00:33,686 We thought you was going to cut us, Miss Molly, now you was up at the Towers. 790 01:00:33,796 --> 01:00:37,095 They asked me and I went. And now you've asked me and I've come here. 791 01:00:37,200 --> 01:00:40,431 - Oh, and which do you prefer, then? - I don't think I should answer that. 792 01:00:40,770 --> 01:00:44,103 - Hoity-toity, eh? - Here, of course. 793 01:00:44,207 --> 01:00:45,538 What's the matter, little chap? 794 01:00:45,675 --> 01:00:47,734 You off your food? Come here. 795 01:00:48,478 --> 01:00:50,105 Ah, now, sit here. 796 01:00:50,213 --> 01:00:52,078 Sit on your grandad's lap. 797 01:01:00,089 --> 01:01:01,920 Don't you like Roger? 798 01:01:03,026 --> 01:01:05,051 He's so good and kind to me. 799 01:01:05,161 --> 01:01:08,961 Yes, he's always been good and kind to me as well. 800 01:01:09,332 --> 01:01:12,495 I think he likes you very much. 801 01:01:12,602 --> 01:01:14,934 We used to be like brother and sister. 802 01:01:15,038 --> 01:01:17,370 No, I don't think so. 803 01:01:18,341 --> 01:01:20,275 Oh, no, you don't understand. 804 01:01:20,777 --> 01:01:23,974 He was engaged to my sister - my step-sister. 805 01:01:24,080 --> 01:01:26,742 He made a mistake, I think. 806 01:01:27,016 --> 01:01:28,244 No. 807 01:01:31,220 --> 01:01:34,189 I wish you wouldn't speak about it any more, Aim�e. 808 01:01:53,543 --> 01:01:54,771 Molly! 809 01:01:55,611 --> 01:01:58,079 It's the new stuff I had sent on from Africa. 810 01:01:59,615 --> 01:02:01,708 Why don't you come and have a look? 811 01:02:03,586 --> 01:02:06,077 - I thought you'd be interested. - I am interested. 812 01:02:06,255 --> 01:02:08,348 - Of course I am. - Come on, then. 813 01:02:21,104 --> 01:02:23,538 That's the one you did a drawing of. You remembered it? 814 01:02:24,040 --> 01:02:26,235 Of course I remembered it. 815 01:02:26,342 --> 01:02:28,242 I remember everything you wrote in your letters. 816 01:02:30,313 --> 01:02:32,543 How could you think I wouldn't? 817 01:02:34,317 --> 01:02:35,545 Then... 818 01:02:39,021 --> 01:02:40,352 I've hurt you. 819 01:02:45,027 --> 01:02:46,756 Tell me what the matter is. 820 01:02:49,065 --> 01:02:51,056 You're ill, aren't you? 821 01:02:53,069 --> 01:02:56,038 - Have I upset you? - No... 822 01:02:56,472 --> 01:02:57,700 No. 823 01:02:59,275 --> 01:03:01,505 You don't understand... 824 01:03:06,349 --> 01:03:08,476 I don't see why you don't put up for her still. 825 01:03:08,584 --> 01:03:11,178 Don't you think you could like her if you tried? 826 01:03:11,287 --> 01:03:13,915 No need for trying to love her. That's already done. 827 01:03:14,023 --> 01:03:15,354 But it's too late. 828 01:03:15,458 --> 01:03:18,256 It's too late. She's as good as told me so. 829 01:03:18,361 --> 01:03:20,522 It's my own fault. 830 01:03:20,596 --> 01:03:22,393 There's nothing to be done. 831 01:03:22,498 --> 01:03:25,023 That's nonsense, my lad. That's not the way to go about it. 832 01:03:25,134 --> 01:03:28,160 You made a mistake before. She won't hold it against you forever. 833 01:03:28,271 --> 01:03:30,671 Just tell her you love her. If she won't have you now, 834 01:03:30,973 --> 01:03:33,066 then wait a while and ask her again. 835 01:03:33,176 --> 01:03:35,337 And don't give up trying till you've made her safe. 836 01:03:35,444 --> 01:03:37,503 - You don't understand, Father. - I understand a deal more 837 01:03:37,613 --> 01:03:39,706 than you think I understand. 838 01:03:58,301 --> 01:04:00,895 So, how's my little chap, then? 839 01:04:01,003 --> 01:04:02,527 Not well, I'm afraid. 840 01:04:02,638 --> 01:04:04,162 Scarlet fever. 841 01:04:04,974 --> 01:04:08,000 Molly will have to leave the house at once. 842 01:04:08,110 --> 01:04:10,271 - She hasn't had it, you see. - Mummy. 843 01:04:19,455 --> 01:04:23,255 I gathered these for you to take home with you. 844 01:04:23,693 --> 01:04:26,662 Thank you. You are kind. 845 01:04:27,496 --> 01:04:29,521 Molly, tell me. 846 01:04:29,632 --> 01:04:34,069 Have I done something to vex you? Since you were so happy at the Towers. 847 01:04:34,237 --> 01:04:36,034 No. 848 01:04:37,240 --> 01:04:40,004 No, you never vexed me in my whole life, Roger. 849 01:04:42,178 --> 01:04:44,669 Then, will you give me back one of those flowers? 850 01:04:45,281 --> 01:04:47,579 As a pledge of what you've just said? 851 01:04:49,752 --> 01:04:51,481 Of course. 852 01:04:51,587 --> 01:04:53,452 You take whichever you like. 853 01:04:53,556 --> 01:04:55,046 No. 854 01:04:55,691 --> 01:04:57,488 You must choose. 855 01:05:01,964 --> 01:05:04,592 Please, Squire Hamley, do you know which is Roger's favourite flower? 856 01:05:04,700 --> 01:05:07,601 No. A rose, I dare say. You'll come back directly, won't you, Gibson? 857 01:05:07,703 --> 01:05:09,102 Certainly. 858 01:05:13,976 --> 01:05:15,204 Here, Roger. 859 01:05:21,350 --> 01:05:22,908 Goodbye, Molly. 860 01:05:31,560 --> 01:05:35,291 We must stop up all intercourse with the Hall for a time. 861 01:05:35,398 --> 01:05:38,458 If there's one illness I dread, it's this. 862 01:05:56,519 --> 01:05:58,350 That's right, little chap. 863 01:05:58,988 --> 01:06:00,956 Yes, he'll do. 864 01:06:01,624 --> 01:06:05,060 - I apprehend no immediate anxiety. - Mama. 865 01:06:05,161 --> 01:06:06,924 Oh, thank you, Mr Gibson. 866 01:06:07,029 --> 01:06:09,964 But it's still highly contagious, even to adults. 867 01:06:10,666 --> 01:06:15,000 Don't come in here without me until I tell you that it's safe to do so. 868 01:06:18,341 --> 01:06:20,468 You know I set off on Tuesday, Mr Gibson. 869 01:06:20,576 --> 01:06:22,271 As soon as that? 870 01:06:22,645 --> 01:06:24,306 May I come to the house before I go? 871 01:06:24,413 --> 01:06:27,109 I won't run the risk of infection, if you don't mind. 872 01:06:27,216 --> 01:06:30,208 Then I won't see Molly again. 873 01:06:30,319 --> 01:06:32,253 So that's how it is. 874 01:06:32,355 --> 01:06:34,016 Yes. 875 01:06:34,123 --> 01:06:36,421 I know what you must be thinking. 876 01:06:36,525 --> 01:06:41,121 I only wish you could know what a different feeling this is to my boyish love for Cynthia. 877 01:06:41,230 --> 01:06:43,095 I could beat myself for having been such a blind fool. 878 01:06:43,199 --> 01:06:46,225 Come, come, Cynthia wasn't that bad. 879 01:06:46,602 --> 01:06:51,039 I dare say Molly despises me, but I must ask for a chance. 880 01:06:51,140 --> 01:06:52,664 Do you think she could be brought to listen to me? 881 01:06:52,775 --> 01:06:55,243 I don't know. I can't tell. 882 01:06:55,411 --> 01:06:57,174 Women are queer, unreasoning creatures, 883 01:06:57,279 --> 01:07:01,375 and just as likely as not to love a man who's been throwing his affection away. 884 01:07:03,386 --> 01:07:06,184 Thank you, sir. I see you mean to give me encouragement. 885 01:07:06,288 --> 01:07:10,884 My encouragement is neither here nor there, but if she can stomach you, I dare say I can. 886 01:07:10,993 --> 01:07:13,518 Then may I see her just once before I go? 887 01:07:13,629 --> 01:07:18,123 No, decidedly not. And there I come in as a doctor as well as a father. 888 01:07:18,234 --> 01:07:19,633 No. 889 01:07:20,569 --> 01:07:24,369 Very well. Then, if I don't come back, I shall haunt you for having been so cruel. 890 01:07:25,307 --> 01:07:27,172 Come, I like that. 891 01:07:27,276 --> 01:07:31,144 Give me a wise man of science in love. No one to beat him for folly. 892 01:07:31,981 --> 01:07:33,608 Goodbye, now. 893 01:07:37,953 --> 01:07:42,253 Lover versus father. Lover wins. 894 01:07:51,000 --> 01:07:53,730 Oh, such a gloomy day. 895 01:07:55,704 --> 01:07:58,730 I really do think that Cynthia should have written to me first 896 01:07:59,008 --> 01:08:01,602 after all the trouble that I took over her trousseau. 897 01:08:01,710 --> 01:08:05,612 Molly. Molly, look. Who's that man wrapped in a cloak there? 898 01:08:05,915 --> 01:08:08,008 By the park wall, under the beech tree. 899 01:08:08,117 --> 01:08:10,381 He's been there for half an hour. 900 01:08:11,454 --> 01:08:15,254 He's been looking at this house all the time. I think it's very suspicious. 901 01:08:16,992 --> 01:08:18,391 Why, it's Roger. 902 01:08:19,295 --> 01:08:20,523 Look, he's waving. 903 01:08:20,629 --> 01:08:23,223 He's kissing his hand to us. He's saying goodbye. 904 01:08:24,066 --> 01:08:26,626 Oh, how romantic. 905 01:08:26,936 --> 01:08:29,063 It reminds me of my former days. 906 01:08:29,171 --> 01:08:32,470 Goodbye, goodbye. 907 01:08:35,578 --> 01:08:37,546 Oh, he'll be late for the coach. 908 01:08:37,646 --> 01:08:39,045 I must send him on his way. 909 01:09:35,271 --> 01:09:39,264 Upon my word, this little attention of Roger's 910 01:09:39,375 --> 01:09:44,904 has reminded me most forcibly of a very charming young man I used to know: 911 01:09:45,047 --> 01:09:47,140 Lieutenant Harper. 912 01:09:49,185 --> 01:09:53,212 He was devoted to me when I was 17 and at Mrs Duncombe's. 913 01:09:53,322 --> 01:09:58,055 And when the regiment was ordered to another town, poor Lieutenant Harper, do you know... 914 01:09:58,160 --> 01:10:03,393 he came and stood opposite the schoolroom window for nearly half an hour. 915 01:10:06,368 --> 01:10:09,565 Molly? Where are you going? 916 01:10:25,621 --> 01:10:28,613 Oh, I say, you'll be wet up there. 917 01:10:57,152 --> 01:10:59,211 I couldn't go. 918 01:10:59,755 --> 01:11:01,689 I couldn't go without... 919 01:11:03,359 --> 01:11:05,657 Molly, do I still have any chance with you? 920 01:11:05,761 --> 01:11:07,160 Yes. 921 01:11:07,263 --> 01:11:08,662 I've been such a fool... 922 01:11:09,732 --> 01:11:11,290 ...Yes? 923 01:11:13,002 --> 01:11:14,560 Yes. 924 01:11:17,673 --> 01:11:19,573 There was so much I'd prepared to say to you. 925 01:11:21,243 --> 01:11:24,735 How I should have seen it was you that I truly loved even before... 926 01:11:25,314 --> 01:11:28,112 - You mean it? - Yes. 927 01:11:37,760 --> 01:11:40,285 I mustn't come any closer. I promised your father. 928 01:11:40,396 --> 01:11:42,762 Yes, I know. 929 01:11:49,405 --> 01:11:50,997 Molly. 930 01:11:51,573 --> 01:11:53,438 Dear Molly. 931 01:11:58,080 --> 01:11:59,775 Will you be my wife? 932 01:12:01,483 --> 01:12:02,916 Yes. 933 01:12:03,686 --> 01:12:05,620 Yes, I will. 934 01:12:06,689 --> 01:12:08,623 Yes. 935 01:12:17,232 --> 01:12:19,359 I'd hoped to see her dressed a bit grander 936 01:12:19,468 --> 01:12:22,266 now she's a fine lady and mistress of Hamley Hall. 937 01:12:22,438 --> 01:12:27,102 Our Molly looks nice in whatever she puts on, and there's no airs and graces about her. 938 01:12:27,209 --> 01:12:29,143 Not like some. 939 01:12:30,079 --> 01:12:32,639 We always knew Roger Hamley loved our Molly. 940 01:12:32,748 --> 01:12:34,943 We knew no such thing, Phoebe. 941 01:12:35,417 --> 01:12:38,147 Well, he rode seven miles to bring her a wasps' nest 942 01:12:38,253 --> 01:12:41,051 and you don't do that for no reason. 943 01:12:41,590 --> 01:12:44,320 Lady Cumnor, this is the young master. 944 01:12:44,426 --> 01:12:47,122 Oh, he's a fine boy. 945 01:12:47,229 --> 01:12:49,720 Quite a credit to his mother. 946 01:12:49,998 --> 01:12:52,193 Come say hello to Uncle Roger. Where is he? 947 01:12:52,301 --> 01:12:54,565 There's Roger. 948 01:12:54,670 --> 01:12:58,538 - Hey! - Hurrah! Hurrah! Hurrah! Bravo! 949 01:13:00,142 --> 01:13:02,372 Comment �a va, mon brave? 950 01:13:03,946 --> 01:13:07,211 So, off to Africa again, Hollingford tells me. 951 01:13:07,616 --> 01:13:09,982 Must be pretty good at the lingo by now, what? 952 01:13:14,490 --> 01:13:16,458 And what does that mean when it's at home? 953 01:13:16,558 --> 01:13:18,492 "Man learns what he needs to know." 954 01:13:18,594 --> 01:13:19,993 Really? 955 01:13:20,095 --> 01:13:22,393 Oh, well, that's very edifying. 956 01:13:23,632 --> 01:13:28,035 I can't help but think it was such a pity I was born when I was. 957 01:13:28,137 --> 01:13:31,106 I should like to belong to this generation. 958 01:13:31,206 --> 01:13:33,538 I sometimes feel like that myself. 959 01:13:33,642 --> 01:13:36,167 So many advances in science. 960 01:13:36,278 --> 01:13:38,439 I'd like to see where they all lead. 961 01:13:38,547 --> 01:13:41,175 And to be in Roger's shoes, that would be something. 962 01:13:41,650 --> 01:13:44,050 To tell the truth, I was thinking of Cynthia. 963 01:13:44,153 --> 01:13:47,316 I was quite as pretty as she as a girl and now look at the difference. 964 01:13:47,790 --> 01:13:51,726 I have to live in a small country town with only five servants, 965 01:13:51,994 --> 01:13:56,158 while she lives in Sussex Place, keeps a brougham and I don't know what. 966 01:13:56,532 --> 01:13:59,057 I only hope she won't be spoilt by it. 967 01:13:59,168 --> 01:14:01,966 Riches are a great snare, you know. 968 01:14:02,070 --> 01:14:05,096 Be thankful you are spared temptation, my dear. 969 01:14:08,944 --> 01:14:11,174 Well, what do you say now? 970 01:14:11,547 --> 01:14:14,414 - Was I not right? - Absolutely right. 971 01:14:15,083 --> 01:14:17,608 And I was absolutely wrong. 972 01:14:20,456 --> 01:14:23,914 Remarkable. Oh, it's not remarkable at all. 973 01:14:24,426 --> 01:14:28,055 You men concern yourselves with the eternal verities. 974 01:14:29,198 --> 01:14:32,656 We women are content to ponder the petty things in life.