1 00:00:10,981 --> 00:00:13,211 BOY: Floy! Wait for me! 2 00:00:15,261 --> 00:00:17,616 (THEME TUNE MASKS DIALOGUE) 3 00:00:45,181 --> 00:00:47,172 (CLOCK TICKING) 4 00:00:52,141 --> 00:00:53,700 "And Son." 5 00:00:55,101 --> 00:00:59,493 The house will once again be not only in name, but in fact, 6 00:00:59,581 --> 00:01:02,380 Dombey and Son. 7 00:01:03,581 --> 00:01:08,098 Mrs Dombey, my...my dear, he will be christened Paul, of course. 8 00:01:08,461 --> 00:01:10,054 Of course. 9 00:01:10,141 --> 00:01:13,179 His grandfather's name, Mrs Dombey, and his father's. 10 00:01:13,861 --> 00:01:17,058 I wish his grandfather were alive this day. 11 00:01:17,141 --> 00:01:19,451 Dombey...and Son. 12 00:01:23,821 --> 00:01:25,892 - Mama! - Ah, Florence. 13 00:01:25,981 --> 00:01:30,134 You may go and look at your little brother if you like, I daresay. Don't touch him. 14 00:01:30,221 --> 00:01:33,498 - Mama! - Shh! There, there, there, my pet. 15 00:01:33,581 --> 00:01:35,697 -(SOBS) - You mustn't cry. 16 00:01:35,781 --> 00:01:40,093 It's over. You have a new brother. Shh. 17 00:01:40,181 --> 00:01:43,492 It's an ill-advised and feverish proceeding, this, I'm sure. 18 00:01:43,581 --> 00:01:47,973 I'd better ask Dr Peps if he will have the goodness to step upstairs again. 19 00:01:48,061 --> 00:01:52,214 I needn't beg you to take particular care of this young gentleman, Mrs... 20 00:01:52,301 --> 00:01:54,770 - Blockitt, sir. - Of this young gentleman, Mrs Blockitt. 21 00:01:54,861 --> 00:01:58,616 No, indeed, sir. I remember when Miss Florence was born. 22 00:01:58,701 --> 00:02:00,374 Miss Florence was all very well, 23 00:02:00,461 --> 00:02:03,453 but this young gentleman has to accomplish a destiny. 24 00:02:04,021 --> 00:02:06,581 - A destiny, little fellow. -(\NATCH TICKS) 25 00:02:14,901 --> 00:02:18,451 Florence, my dear, dry your tears. 26 00:02:18,541 --> 00:02:21,260 Go and see your little brother. 27 00:02:31,821 --> 00:02:33,812 (SIGHS) 28 00:02:34,861 --> 00:02:39,492 Well, sir! Do you find that you are able to rouse your dear lady by your visit? 29 00:02:39,581 --> 00:02:42,300 Stimulated, as it were? - I confess I have no notion. 30 00:02:42,381 --> 00:02:45,897 It would be a satisfaction to me if Dr Parker Peps would step upstairs again. 31 00:02:45,981 --> 00:02:49,576 I shall. We should not disguise from you, sir, 32 00:02:49,661 --> 00:02:53,131 the fact that there is a want of power in her grace the Duchess. 33 00:02:53,221 --> 00:02:58,773 I...beg your pardon...l confuse names. I should say, your amiable lady. 34 00:02:58,861 --> 00:03:02,491 There is a degree of languor and absence of elasticity 35 00:03:02,581 --> 00:03:04,731 -that we would rather not... - See? 36 00:03:04,821 --> 00:03:09,770 Mm? Oh! Quite so. The system of Lady Cankaby... 37 00:03:09,861 --> 00:03:13,934 Forgive me, I should say Mrs Dombey... I confuse the names of cases... 38 00:03:14,021 --> 00:03:16,615 So very numerous, Dr Parker Peps' West End practice. 39 00:03:16,701 --> 00:03:20,899 Oh, thank you! The system of, um, our patient, 40 00:03:20,981 --> 00:03:25,293 has been subjected to a stress from which it can only hope to rally 41 00:03:25,381 --> 00:03:27,657 -by a great and strong and... - Vigorous? 42 00:03:27,741 --> 00:03:30,733 Exactly so...and vigorous effort 43 00:03:30,821 --> 00:03:34,576 But if our amiable friend the Countess of Dombey... 44 00:03:34,661 --> 00:03:36,732 excuse me, Mrs Dombey... 45 00:03:36,821 --> 00:03:38,459 -should not be... - Able... 46 00:03:38,541 --> 00:03:40,976 ...to make that effort successfully, 47 00:03:41,061 --> 00:03:45,180 then a crisis might arise which we should sincerely deplore. 48 00:03:49,981 --> 00:03:52,131 My dear Paul! 49 00:03:52,221 --> 00:03:56,180 I've been upstairs! And he is quite a Dombey! 50 00:03:56,261 --> 00:03:57,899 Yes, I think he is like the family. 51 00:03:57,981 --> 00:04:00,541 Don't agitate yourself, Louisa. 52 00:04:00,621 --> 00:04:02,817 He's such a perfect Dombey! 53 00:04:02,901 --> 00:04:04,812 I never saw anything like it in my life! 54 00:04:04,901 --> 00:04:07,575 Dr Parker Peps appears to be concerned about Fanny. 55 00:04:07,661 --> 00:04:10,016 My dear Paul, take my word. It's nothing whatever. 56 00:04:10,101 --> 00:04:11,933 There is exhaustion, certainly, 57 00:04:12,021 --> 00:04:16,413 but nothing like I underwent, either with George or with Frederick. 58 00:04:16,501 --> 00:04:19,015 An effort is necessary, that's all. 59 00:04:19,101 --> 00:04:21,741 -(COUGHS) - If only dear Fanny were a Dombey. 60 00:04:21,821 --> 00:04:23,812 But I daresay she'll make it. 61 00:04:23,901 --> 00:04:26,859 Oh! I have no doubt she'll make it! 62 00:04:26,941 --> 00:04:30,650 Knowing it to be required of her as a duty, of course she'll make it! 63 00:04:32,061 --> 00:04:34,291 Oh! Miss Tox! 64 00:04:34,381 --> 00:04:38,215 The kindest creature. I could never have got here without her. 65 00:04:38,301 --> 00:04:41,612 Miss Tox, my brother, Mr Dombey. 66 00:04:41,701 --> 00:04:47,140 Paul, my dear, my very particular friend, Miss Tox. 67 00:04:47,221 --> 00:04:51,454 Oh, I am sure that to have the honour of being presented to Mr Dombey 68 00:04:51,541 --> 00:04:53,657 is a distinction which I have long sought 69 00:04:53,741 --> 00:04:56,381 but never quite expected at the present moment. 70 00:04:56,461 --> 00:05:00,136 Miss Tox, Paul, has been working at a little gift for Fanny. 71 00:05:00,221 --> 00:05:01,859 How very kind of Miss Tex. 72 00:05:01,941 --> 00:05:05,411 Oh, it's only a pincushion for the toilette table, Paul. 73 00:05:05,501 --> 00:05:07,412 - But I do say... - Oh, no! 74 00:05:07,501 --> 00:05:09,174 ...and I will say, and I must say, 75 00:05:09,261 --> 00:05:13,380 that she has most prettily adapted the sentiment to the occasion. 76 00:05:13,461 --> 00:05:16,931 I call "Welcome, little Dombey" poetry, myself. 77 00:05:17,021 --> 00:05:20,139 - Is that the device? - That is the device. 78 00:05:20,221 --> 00:05:22,178 - It's quite charming. - Oh! 79 00:05:22,261 --> 00:05:25,174 - Your grace. . .sir. .. - Excuse me. 80 00:05:26,141 --> 00:05:28,052 Oh! Oh! 81 00:05:28,141 --> 00:05:31,611 I knew you would admire my brother. I told you so beforehand. 82 00:05:31,701 --> 00:05:33,419 Oh, you did! 83 00:05:33,501 --> 00:05:36,857 And as to his propefly, my dear... oh, it's immense. 84 00:05:36,941 --> 00:05:42,220 Oh! But, my dear Louisa, his deportment, his presence, his dignity... 85 00:05:42,301 --> 00:05:45,498 something so...so stately, you know! Oh! 86 00:05:45,581 --> 00:05:48,300 A pecuniary Duke of York, my dear, and nothing shod of it! 87 00:05:48,381 --> 00:05:51,214 - That is what I shall designate him. - Louisa? 88 00:05:51,301 --> 00:05:53,372 - Louisa! - My dear Paul, what's the matter? 89 00:05:53,461 --> 00:05:56,658 - They tell me that...that Fanny... - No! No, don't believe it. 90 00:05:56,741 --> 00:06:00,450 If you have any reliance on my assurance, Paul, you may rest assured 91 00:06:00,541 --> 00:06:04,091 that nothing is required but an effort on Fanny's part, 92 00:06:04,181 --> 00:06:07,219 and that effort she must be encouraged and urged to make. 93 00:06:07,301 --> 00:06:09,690 Now, come upstairs with me and Miss Tox. 94 00:06:11,101 --> 00:06:12,694 (TICKING) 95 00:06:23,221 --> 00:06:25,258 Restless without the little girl. 96 00:06:25,341 --> 00:06:27,059 I thought it best to let her remain. 97 00:06:29,741 --> 00:06:33,780 Fanny, my dear, here's Mr Dombey come to see you. 98 00:06:34,101 --> 00:06:36,615 Won't you speak to him? 99 00:06:36,701 --> 00:06:40,012 Don't you think it's time you roused yourself a little, eh? 100 00:06:41,901 --> 00:06:44,290 What was it you said, my dear? I didn't hear you. 101 00:06:46,061 --> 00:06:47,893 Ah, now, really, Fanny, my dear, 102 00:06:47,981 --> 00:06:52,020 I shall have to be quite cross with you if you don't rouse yourself. 103 00:06:52,101 --> 00:06:54,536 This is a world of effort, you know, 104 00:06:54,621 --> 00:06:58,137 and we must never yield when so much depends upon us. 105 00:06:59,341 --> 00:07:02,220 Come. Try? 106 00:07:04,141 --> 00:07:06,655 I...l really must scold you, if you don't. 107 00:07:10,581 --> 00:07:12,254 Fanny? 108 00:07:13,061 --> 00:07:14,893 Only look at me. 109 00:07:14,981 --> 00:07:18,861 Only open your eyes to show that you hear and understand me. 110 00:07:19,781 --> 00:07:21,772 (TICKING) 111 00:07:25,581 --> 00:07:27,174 (TICKING STOPS) 112 00:07:32,301 --> 00:07:34,133 Mama? 113 00:07:39,901 --> 00:07:43,496 Louisa, you see, it was absolutely dreadful. When I heard that she had died, 114 00:07:43,581 --> 00:07:47,097 I thought, "Oh, dear, that poor little baby..." 115 00:07:47,181 --> 00:07:48,819 (BABY CRIES) 116 00:07:48,901 --> 00:07:50,812 ...and so, my dear Louisa, 117 00:07:50,901 --> 00:07:55,054 hearing that it has become necessary to find a nurse for little Paul, 118 00:07:55,141 --> 00:07:58,054 I posted myself off to the Queen Charlotte's Royal Married 119 00:07:58,141 --> 00:08:00,610 and asked if they knew of any woman who would suit. 120 00:08:00,701 --> 00:08:03,614 What a dear, good Tox you are! 121 00:08:04,141 --> 00:08:06,291 Not at all. Don't say so. 122 00:08:07,061 --> 00:08:09,098 Now, if you will permit me... 123 00:08:12,101 --> 00:08:13,899 (CLEARS THROAT) 124 00:08:19,821 --> 00:08:21,892 -(MURMURS) -(BABIES WAIL) 125 00:08:29,861 --> 00:08:33,217 - How do you do, Polly? - Oh, I'm pretty well, I thank you, ma'am. 126 00:08:33,301 --> 00:08:35,941 - I'm very glad to hear it. I hope... -(\NAILING CONTINUES) 127 00:08:36,021 --> 00:08:38,171 (RAISES VOICE) I hope you keep so! 128 00:08:38,261 --> 00:08:41,413 -(BABIES CRY) - Five children, the youngest six weeks. 129 00:08:41,501 --> 00:08:45,654 Sir, you were going to be good enough to inform me that you were by trade a... 130 00:08:45,741 --> 00:08:48,051 - Stoker. - A choker? 131 00:08:48,141 --> 00:08:51,497 - Stoker. Steam engine. - Oh! Oh, yes. 132 00:08:51,581 --> 00:08:53,652 - And how do you like it, sir? - Which, mum? 133 00:08:53,741 --> 00:08:56,813 - Why, that. Your trade. - Pretty well, mum. 134 00:08:56,901 --> 00:08:58,619 The ashes sometimes gets in here 135 00:08:58,701 --> 00:09:01,136 and makes a man speak gruff, as at present time... 136 00:09:01,221 --> 00:09:04,851 - Oh. -..but it is ashes, mum, not crustiness. 137 00:09:22,341 --> 00:09:26,539 Ah! Paul, my dear. Miss Tox has brought this woman to see us 138 00:09:26,621 --> 00:09:30,455 as a candidate for the position of nurse to our little treasure. 139 00:09:30,541 --> 00:09:33,897 Perhaps you would care to examine these testimonials, dear brother. 140 00:09:34,941 --> 00:09:37,535 - Your name is? - Toodle, sir. 141 00:09:38,341 --> 00:09:40,617 Hm. My good woman, 142 00:09:40,701 --> 00:09:43,932 I presume you wish to earn money by nursing the little boy, my son, 143 00:09:44,021 --> 00:09:47,696 who has been so prematurely deprived of what can never be replaced. 144 00:09:50,101 --> 00:09:51,899 Hm? 145 00:09:51,981 --> 00:09:55,292 Well, so far as I can tell, you appear to be a deserving object, 146 00:09:55,381 --> 00:09:58,692 but one or two conditions I must impose upon you before you enter my house. 147 00:09:58,781 --> 00:10:01,136 While you are here, you shall be known as... 148 00:10:01,221 --> 00:10:04,179 say, as Richards, an ordinary name and convenient. 149 00:10:04,261 --> 00:10:06,491 Have you any objection to be known as Richards? 150 00:10:06,581 --> 00:10:09,414 Oh, no, sir. Only, if I'm to be called out of my name, 151 00:10:09,501 --> 00:10:11,890 perhaps it would be kindly considered in the wages. 152 00:10:12,861 --> 00:10:16,297 Of course. I desire to make it a question of wages altogether. 153 00:10:17,101 --> 00:10:20,617 You will receive a liberal stipend in return for your duties, 154 00:10:20,701 --> 00:10:25,172 in the performance of which I wish you to see as little of your family as possible. 155 00:10:26,141 --> 00:10:30,851 When those duties cease to be required, there is an end of all relations between us. 156 00:10:31,941 --> 00:10:34,137 You'll go away, you'll stay away. 157 00:10:34,221 --> 00:10:36,417 The child will cease to remember you, 158 00:10:36,501 --> 00:10:39,254 and you will cease, if you please, to remember the child. 159 00:10:39,341 --> 00:10:42,333 - You understand me? - Oh. I hope I know my place, sir. 160 00:10:42,421 --> 00:10:44,014 I hope you do, Richards. 161 00:10:44,661 --> 00:10:48,291 Louisa, my dear, arrange with Richards about money. 162 00:10:48,581 --> 00:10:50,379 LOUISA: Richards, come over here. 163 00:10:50,461 --> 00:10:53,453 Mr What's-your-name, a word with you, if you please. 164 00:10:53,541 --> 00:10:56,693 - You have children? - Five on 'em, sir. 165 00:10:56,781 --> 00:10:59,057 Four 'ims and an 'er, all alive. 166 00:10:59,141 --> 00:11:00,939 Is it as much as you can afford to keep them? 167 00:11:01,021 --> 00:11:03,661 There's one thing in the world I could hardly afford less, sir. 168 00:11:03,741 --> 00:11:05,493 - What's that? - To lose 'em, sir. 169 00:11:06,821 --> 00:11:09,176 - You read? - Why, not particular, sir. 170 00:11:09,261 --> 00:11:11,332 - Why don't you learn? - Oh, I'm going to! 171 00:11:11,421 --> 00:11:13,059 One of my little boys is gonna learn me 172 00:11:13,141 --> 00:11:15,417 when he's old enough, and been to school hisself. 173 00:11:15,501 --> 00:11:18,220 You heard what I said to your wife just now? 174 00:11:18,301 --> 00:11:21,134 Polly heard it, so it's all right. 175 00:11:21,221 --> 00:11:23,258 As you appear to leave everything to your wife, 176 00:11:23,341 --> 00:11:25,810 I suppose it is of no use my saying anything to you. 177 00:11:25,901 --> 00:11:29,257 Not a bit, sir. Polly heard it, and she's awake, sir. 178 00:11:29,341 --> 00:11:31,981 I won't detain you any longer. Erm... 179 00:11:32,061 --> 00:11:36,055 - Where have you worked all your life? - Mostly underground, till I got married. 180 00:11:36,141 --> 00:11:38,098 I come up to the level then. 181 00:11:38,181 --> 00:11:42,379 I'm a-going on one of these here railroads, when they comes into full play. 182 00:11:43,421 --> 00:11:47,210 Indeed. Goodbye, Mr... 183 00:11:48,261 --> 00:11:51,413 First we must have you measured for your mourning, 184 00:11:51,501 --> 00:11:54,812 and it will fit beautifully. I know the very best material. 185 00:11:54,901 --> 00:11:58,019 Lor! You'll look so smart, your husband won't know you! 186 00:11:58,101 --> 00:12:02,220 - Will you, sir? - I should know her anyhows and anyvvheres. 187 00:12:06,421 --> 00:12:08,219 You'll be going home, then, I daresay? 188 00:12:08,301 --> 00:12:12,374 Seeing as how the gentleman says he ain't a-going to detain me, 189 00:12:12,461 --> 00:12:14,338 - I might as well. - Yes. 190 00:12:21,901 --> 00:12:24,370 I'll say goodbye, then. 191 00:12:26,901 --> 00:12:29,017 Oh... 192 00:12:32,341 --> 00:12:37,620 - Oh, my little clears. -(BOTH BABIES CRY) 193 00:12:39,501 --> 00:12:42,892 Goodbye. Now, you'll be happy with your dad. You will. 194 00:12:42,981 --> 00:12:44,619 You be a good boy, now. 195 00:12:47,861 --> 00:12:49,852 (LIVE LY CHATTER) 196 00:12:52,181 --> 00:12:54,855 - Hello, Uncle Sol! - What, you're here, are you? 197 00:12:55,581 --> 00:12:59,290 How have you got on without me all day? ls dinner ready? I'm so hungry. 198 00:12:59,381 --> 00:13:01,770 As for getting on, it'd be odd 199 00:13:01,861 --> 00:13:06,014 if I couldn't get on without a young dog like you a great deal better than with you. 200 00:13:06,101 --> 00:13:09,981 And as to dinner being ready, it's been ready this half-hour and waiting for you. 201 00:13:10,061 --> 00:13:12,132 And as to being hungry, I am. 202 00:13:12,221 --> 00:13:14,895 Come along, then, Uncle! Hoorah for the admiral! 203 00:13:14,981 --> 00:13:18,861 Confound the admiral. The Lord Mayor's your admiral now, lad. 204 00:13:18,941 --> 00:13:21,376 You're a man of business. You belong to the city. 205 00:13:21,461 --> 00:13:24,180 Sit you down, Walter. Let's hear something about the firm. 206 00:13:24,261 --> 00:13:26,138 Well, there's not much to be told, Uncle. 207 00:13:26,221 --> 00:13:29,418 - It's a precious dark set of offices. - Go on. 208 00:13:29,501 --> 00:13:32,015 In the room where I sit, there's a high fender... 209 00:13:32,101 --> 00:13:33,580 - Yes? -..and an iron safe. 210 00:13:33,661 --> 00:13:35,140 - Yes? - There's some cards 211 00:13:35,221 --> 00:13:37,895 about ships that are going to sail, there's an almanack, 212 00:13:37,981 --> 00:13:40,097 an ink bottle, some books and some boxes. 213 00:13:40,181 --> 00:13:43,219 What, no bank books or cheque books, 214 00:13:43,301 --> 00:13:46,373 or tokens of the wealth that comes rolling in every day? 215 00:13:46,461 --> 00:13:50,011 All that son of thing's in Mr Carker's room, or Mr Mon'in's, or Mr Dombey's. 216 00:13:50,101 --> 00:13:52,695 - Has Mr Dombey been there today? - Oh, yes, in and out. 217 00:13:52,781 --> 00:13:54,931 He didn't take much notice of you, I suppose? 218 00:13:55,021 --> 00:13:58,537 Yes, he did! He walked up to my seat. I wish he wasn't so solemn and stiff, Uncle. 219 00:13:58,621 --> 00:14:00,259 -(LAUGHS) - He said, 220 00:14:00,341 --> 00:14:03,015 "You're the son of Mr Gills, the ship's instrument-maker?" 221 00:14:03,101 --> 00:14:06,139 -"Nephew, sir," I said. -"That's what I said, boy," he said. 222 00:14:06,221 --> 00:14:10,215 Then he told me I was expected to be attentive and punctual, and he walked away. 223 00:14:10,301 --> 00:14:12,133 I thought he didn't seem to like me much. 224 00:14:12,221 --> 00:14:14,610 You mean, I suppose, you didn't seem to like him much. 225 00:14:14,701 --> 00:14:17,170 Well, Uncle, perhaps so. I never thought of that. 226 00:14:17,261 --> 00:14:20,014 But what are you about? That's the precious Madeira! 227 00:14:20,101 --> 00:14:21,580 There's only one more bottle! 228 00:14:21,661 --> 00:14:25,541 You shall drink the other bottle, Walter, when you come to good foflune. 229 00:14:25,621 --> 00:14:27,259 My love to you. 230 00:14:27,341 --> 00:14:30,299 - Have you had a customer today, Uncle? - Nary a one, lad. 231 00:14:31,021 --> 00:14:34,980 In the last ten days, I can't remember but one person coming into the shop. 232 00:14:35,061 --> 00:14:36,779 Two, Uncle. Don't you recollect? 233 00:14:36,861 --> 00:14:38,977 A man came to ask for change for a sovereign. 234 00:14:39,061 --> 00:14:41,575 - That was the one. - Don't you call the woman anybody 235 00:14:41,661 --> 00:14:43,971 who came to ask the way to Mile-End Turnpike? 236 00:14:44,061 --> 00:14:47,053 Ah. Forgot her. Two persons. But they didn't buy anything! 237 00:14:47,141 --> 00:14:49,496 Ah, but there were two, Uncle, and you said only one. 238 00:14:49,581 --> 00:14:51,777 If there was a hundred, we couldn't live on 'em. 239 00:14:51,861 --> 00:14:55,820 I'm an old-fashioned man, in an old-fashioned shop, 240 00:14:55,901 --> 00:14:59,019 in a street that is not the same as I remember it. 241 00:14:59,101 --> 00:15:03,732 Now, Wally, that is why I want you to be early in the busy world, 242 00:15:03,821 --> 00:15:05,812 to be on the world's track. 243 00:15:05,901 --> 00:15:09,860 I've fallen behind the time, and I'm too old to catch it again. 244 00:15:09,941 --> 00:15:12,501 - It's the Captain! - How goes it? 245 00:15:12,581 --> 00:15:16,370 -(CHUCKLES) Well, Well! - Ah! Well! 246 00:15:17,141 --> 00:15:19,610 Q-he? 'The! 247 00:15:19,701 --> 00:15:23,331 (\NHISTLES) Wal'r, look at him! 248 00:15:23,421 --> 00:15:25,537 Love, honour and obey him. 249 00:15:25,621 --> 00:15:28,010 Overhaul your catechism till you find that passage, 250 00:15:28,101 --> 00:15:30,012 and when found, turn the leaf down. 251 00:15:30,101 --> 00:15:32,217 - Success, my boy! - Success! 252 00:15:33,901 --> 00:15:36,211 All them instruments out there! 253 00:15:36,301 --> 00:15:40,499 It's so comfortable to sit here and feel that you might be weighed, measured, 254 00:15:40,581 --> 00:15:42,731 magnified, electrified, polarised, 255 00:15:42,821 --> 00:15:45,051 played the very devil with, and never know how. 256 00:15:45,141 --> 00:15:48,133 Come! Before you have your glass of grog, Ned, we must finish the bottle. 257 00:15:48,221 --> 00:15:50,940 - Stand by! Give the boy some more. - No more, thank'ee, Uncle! 258 00:15:51,021 --> 00:15:55,015 Yes, yes. We'll finish the bottle to the House of Dombey, Ned. 259 00:15:55,101 --> 00:15:56,580 - Walter's house! - Eh? 260 00:15:56,661 --> 00:16:00,450 Well, it may one day be, in pad. Who knows? 261 00:16:00,541 --> 00:16:03,260 Sir Richard Whittington married his master's daughter. 262 00:16:03,341 --> 00:16:06,891 - That's right! - Although Mr Dombey hasn't a daughter. 263 00:16:06,981 --> 00:16:08,494 Well, yes, he has, Uncle. 264 00:16:08,581 --> 00:16:11,972 - He knows all about her already, see? - How can I help hearing what they tell me? 265 00:16:12,061 --> 00:16:16,214 The son's a bit in our way at present. Nevertheless, we'll drink him. 266 00:16:17,061 --> 00:16:21,214 - Here's to Dombey...and Son. - And Daughter. 267 00:16:21,701 --> 00:16:23,772 (BOTH LAUGH) 268 00:16:30,541 --> 00:16:34,091 Well, Miss Floy! Won't your pa be angry now, 269 00:16:34,181 --> 00:16:37,936 when it was tickerlerly given out that you wasn't to go and worry the wet nurse? 270 00:16:38,021 --> 00:16:41,855 She don't worry me. We was just talking about her poor dear mama. 271 00:16:41,941 --> 00:16:43,579 Besides, I'm very fond of children. 272 00:16:43,661 --> 00:16:48,132 Begging your pardon, Mrs Richards, I may be very fond of pennyvvinkles, 273 00:16:48,221 --> 00:16:50,132 but it don't follow I'm to have 'em for tea. 274 00:16:50,221 --> 00:16:52,019 Remember, if you'll be so good, 275 00:16:52,101 --> 00:16:56,174 that Miss Floy is under my charge, and Master Paul under yours. 276 00:16:56,261 --> 00:16:58,298 Even so, Miss Nipper, we needn't quarrel. 277 00:16:58,381 --> 00:17:00,213 I've no wish to, I'm sure. 278 00:17:00,301 --> 00:17:02,975 But Miss Floy's not back in the house a quarter-of-an-hour 279 00:17:03,061 --> 00:17:04,859 but she's a-smearing her wet face 280 00:17:04,941 --> 00:17:08,013 against the expensive mourning you're a-wearing for her ma. 281 00:17:08,101 --> 00:17:10,661 Well, Miss Florence is just happy to be home again. 282 00:17:10,741 --> 00:17:12,459 - Oh, you think that, do you? - Yes. 283 00:17:12,541 --> 00:17:15,693 And she'll be even more pleased when she's seen her dear papa. 284 00:17:15,781 --> 00:17:19,251 -"Seen her dear papa"? - Won't she, then? 285 00:17:19,341 --> 00:17:21,935 Lor, Mrs Richards, no! 286 00:17:22,021 --> 00:17:24,615 Her pa's a deal too wrapped up in somebody else. 287 00:17:24,701 --> 00:17:27,580 Oh, no! 288 00:17:27,661 --> 00:17:30,301 And before there was a somebody else to be wrapped up in, 289 00:17:30,381 --> 00:17:32,292 she was never a favourite. 290 00:17:32,381 --> 00:17:36,136 Girls are thrown away in this house, Mrs Richards, I assure you. 291 00:17:36,221 --> 00:17:38,610 Hasn't Mr Dombey seen her since her poor mama... 292 00:17:38,701 --> 00:17:41,739 Not once since. And although she's been staying 293 00:17:41,821 --> 00:17:45,052 at Mrs Chick's house these three weeks, and is come home now, 294 00:17:45,141 --> 00:17:48,338 she may as well be on the moon as far as her pa's concerned. 295 00:17:48,421 --> 00:17:50,697 Ain't you going to take her to see her papa, then? 296 00:17:50,781 --> 00:17:53,978 To see him? Do you think he'd want some... 297 00:17:56,261 --> 00:17:58,093 How is Master Paul, Richards? 298 00:17:58,181 --> 00:18:00,377 Oh, he's quite thriving, sir, and well. 299 00:18:02,741 --> 00:18:04,334 He looks so. 300 00:18:04,421 --> 00:18:07,732 - They give you everything you want, I hope? - Oh, yes, thank you, sir. 301 00:18:07,821 --> 00:18:10,734 Florence? Come here, child. 302 00:18:13,741 --> 00:18:15,493 What is the child afraid of? 303 00:18:18,101 --> 00:18:19,694 Come here, Florence. 304 00:18:21,941 --> 00:18:24,979 - Do you know who I am? - Yes, Papa. 305 00:18:25,061 --> 00:18:26,734 Have you nothing to say to me? 306 00:18:28,301 --> 00:18:31,453 There. Now, be a good girl. Go with Miss Nipper now, go. 307 00:18:32,901 --> 00:18:35,211 Come along, Miss Floy. 308 00:18:35,301 --> 00:18:37,815 - Her mama all over. - A curious child. 309 00:18:37,901 --> 00:18:42,532 I quite worry and fret myself about her. She will never, never, never be a Dombey, 310 00:18:42,621 --> 00:18:45,898 not if she lives to be a thousand years old, never. 311 00:18:45,981 --> 00:18:49,611 -(DOOR BANGS) - Oh, you beauties! 312 00:18:52,061 --> 00:18:55,053 Never be a Dombey, won't she? It's to be hoped she won't! 313 00:18:55,141 --> 00:18:58,099 We don't want any more such. One's enough! 314 00:18:58,781 --> 00:19:02,661 Richards, on the occasion when you first came here, 315 00:19:02,741 --> 00:19:04,937 your husband revealed to me the melancholy fact 316 00:19:05,021 --> 00:19:08,013 that your family, himself at the head, were steeped in ignorance. 317 00:19:08,101 --> 00:19:09,580 Oh, if you please, sir... 318 00:19:09,661 --> 00:19:12,619 I am far from being friendly with what is called "general education" 319 00:19:12,701 --> 00:19:14,772 but it is necessary that the inferior classes 320 00:19:14,861 --> 00:19:18,695 should be taught to know their position, to conduct themselves properly. 321 00:19:18,781 --> 00:19:22,456 There exists an establishment known as the Charitable Grinders, 322 00:19:22,541 --> 00:19:26,819 where the scholars are not only educated but given a dress and a badge. 323 00:19:26,901 --> 00:19:30,576 I have today nominated your eldest son to a vacancy. 324 00:19:30,661 --> 00:19:32,538 - My Biler, sir? - What? 325 00:19:32,621 --> 00:19:36,535 My Biler. My husband christened him in commemoration of the steam engine. 326 00:19:36,621 --> 00:19:41,013 Your... Your son is now a Charitable Grinder. 327 00:19:41,301 --> 00:19:45,215 Oh! Dear Richards! Now indeed you may be proud! 328 00:19:45,301 --> 00:19:47,178 Dressed and educated! 329 00:19:48,261 --> 00:19:50,059 I'm sure I'm much obliged to you, sir. 330 00:19:50,141 --> 00:19:53,054 I'm glad to see that you have so much feeling, Richards. 331 00:19:53,141 --> 00:19:55,610 It makes one almost hope, it really does, 332 00:19:55,701 --> 00:20:00,013 that there may yet be some faint spark of feeling in the world. 333 00:20:01,301 --> 00:20:04,020 Do Mrs Richards' children live very far from here, Susan? 334 00:20:04,101 --> 00:20:07,457 It's in Staggs's Gardens, Miss Florence. It's in Camden Town. 335 00:20:09,501 --> 00:20:14,211 Oh, Miss Nipper, I can't wait to see my Biler in his new Grinders clothes! 336 00:20:14,301 --> 00:20:17,976 -(LAUGHS) - But if Mr Dombey should find out... 337 00:20:18,061 --> 00:20:21,691 Awalk is a walk, ma'am. And Mr Dombey won't know... 338 00:20:21,781 --> 00:20:24,011 and won't know, which is nearer the point, 339 00:20:24,101 --> 00:20:27,014 whether we take it in Camden Town or in the park. 340 00:20:27,821 --> 00:20:29,539 Fasten your bonnet, Miss Floy. 341 00:20:29,821 --> 00:20:32,620 I think I shall like seeing Mrs Richards' children. 342 00:20:32,701 --> 00:20:35,170 So shall I. All of them. 343 00:20:36,021 --> 00:20:37,898 -(TRADERS CALL) MAN: Horse chestnuts! 344 00:20:37,981 --> 00:20:39,972 WOMAN: Lovely chestnuts! 345 00:20:40,061 --> 00:20:42,052 (EXCITED CHATTER) 346 00:20:45,461 --> 00:20:48,214 Here's my Biler now! Biler! 347 00:20:48,301 --> 00:20:50,417 Oh, don't he look smart? 348 00:20:51,061 --> 00:20:53,291 Biler, it's me! 349 00:20:54,101 --> 00:20:55,978 It's your ma! 350 00:21:03,301 --> 00:21:05,292 (JEERING) 351 00:21:05,741 --> 00:21:07,300 (BOYS SHOUT) 352 00:21:07,381 --> 00:21:09,941 What are they doing to him? 353 00:21:10,021 --> 00:21:14,060 You boys! You boys! Leave him be! 354 00:21:15,101 --> 00:21:17,092 - Get him! - Biler! 355 00:21:23,941 --> 00:21:25,932 (SHOUTING) 356 00:21:31,141 --> 00:21:32,859 Biler! 357 00:21:35,381 --> 00:21:38,021 Susan! Oh, please wait! 358 00:21:44,541 --> 00:21:46,373 Biler, you toff! 359 00:21:46,461 --> 00:21:48,452 (SHOUTING) 360 00:21:55,541 --> 00:21:59,171 Oh, look, Miss Nipper! Look what they've done to him! 361 00:22:02,701 --> 00:22:04,374 Sorry. 362 00:22:14,461 --> 00:22:18,011 Well, my dear? Lost, are you? 363 00:22:19,101 --> 00:22:22,219 I thought they were with me. Where are they? 364 00:22:22,301 --> 00:22:26,579 You come with me. I'll show you. 365 00:22:30,461 --> 00:22:33,294 Oh, little vagabonds! 366 00:22:33,741 --> 00:22:38,417 Oh, look, Miss Nipper! They've torn his new Grinders clothes! 367 00:22:40,181 --> 00:22:41,899 Miss Florence! 368 00:22:43,421 --> 00:22:45,139 Where's Miss Florence? 369 00:22:46,381 --> 00:22:48,657 Please let me go. Please let me go! 370 00:22:48,741 --> 00:22:51,972 Now, don't you vex me. Come along. 371 00:23:04,541 --> 00:23:07,659 Now, then. Don't vex me, I say. 372 00:23:08,741 --> 00:23:10,812 If you do, I'll kill you. 373 00:23:11,421 --> 00:23:16,291 I could have killed you at any time, even if you was at home in your own bed. 374 00:23:17,181 --> 00:23:18,774 Now, then. 375 00:23:18,861 --> 00:23:21,057 Let's know who you are. 376 00:23:21,141 --> 00:23:22,779 Please... 377 00:23:22,861 --> 00:23:25,694 - What's your name? - Dombey. 378 00:23:25,781 --> 00:23:28,660 Ooh. Well! 379 00:23:28,741 --> 00:23:32,257 I want that pretty frock, Miss Dombey, 380 00:23:32,341 --> 00:23:37,814 and that little bonnet, and a petticoat or two. 381 00:23:37,901 --> 00:23:39,938 (CHUCKLES) 382 00:23:40,021 --> 00:23:41,659 That'll do... 383 00:23:42,181 --> 00:23:44,457 ...to begin with. 384 00:23:45,141 --> 00:23:48,816 I want 'em. Do you hear me? 385 00:23:50,421 --> 00:23:52,253 I want 'em now!