1 00:00:36,020 --> 00:00:40,650 We must begin our story, sad to say, with an empty chair. 2 00:00:41,780 --> 00:00:45,280 If it were not empty, we would not have a story. 3 00:00:45,530 --> 00:00:50,330 But it is, and we do, and it is time to tell it. 4 00:01:14,640 --> 00:01:17,060 This is the story of my family, 5 00:01:17,310 --> 00:01:20,400 of my seven children, who are all very clever 6 00:01:20,650 --> 00:01:24,360 but all very, very, very naughty. 7 00:01:29,700 --> 00:01:31,740 This is Nanny Whetstone, 8 00:01:31,990 --> 00:01:35,080 the 17th nanny I had hired to look after my children. 9 00:01:35,330 --> 00:01:38,290 She was the strictest, the toughest 10 00:01:38,540 --> 00:01:42,130 and the most fearless nanny in all the land. 11 00:01:44,130 --> 00:01:47,050 As I went to work that day at the funeral parlour, 12 00:01:47,300 --> 00:01:49,760 I was confident in the knowledge... 13 00:01:49,890 --> 00:01:52,850 that there was nothing, absolutely nothing 14 00:01:53,100 --> 00:01:57,060 that my children could do to upset her. 15 00:01:57,310 --> 00:01:59,310 They've eaten the baby! 16 00:02:00,400 --> 00:02:01,860 Except that. 17 00:02:16,160 --> 00:02:18,580 - Quick! He's coming! - Hide! 18 00:02:18,830 --> 00:02:20,790 - Quiet! - Stop it! 19 00:02:38,350 --> 00:02:41,110 Children, where's Aggy? 20 00:02:56,950 --> 00:02:58,500 Look at you. 21 00:02:58,750 --> 00:03:00,790 You're all cabbagey. 22 00:03:01,040 --> 00:03:04,590 Oh...and you're all gravy-y. 23 00:03:04,840 --> 00:03:09,510 As was your intention, Nanny Whetstone has resigned from her post. 24 00:03:09,760 --> 00:03:13,550 I shall go to the agency this afternoon and hire a new nanny. 25 00:03:13,800 --> 00:03:18,350 You will not drive her away as you have done with her predecessors. 26 00:03:21,770 --> 00:03:22,730 Papa. 27 00:03:23,650 --> 00:03:26,070 Can't catch me out. That showed 'em who's boss. 28 00:03:30,490 --> 00:03:33,620 Three days, eight hours and 47 minutes. 29 00:03:33,870 --> 00:03:36,080 So that got rid of her... 30 00:03:36,330 --> 00:03:39,160 23 hours and 13 minutes quicker than the last one. 31 00:03:39,410 --> 00:03:43,920 I think the turning point was definitely eating the baby. Well done, Eric. 32 00:03:45,040 --> 00:03:47,840 Mr Brown, are you all right? 33 00:03:48,090 --> 00:03:49,920 I'm perfectly all right. 34 00:03:50,170 --> 00:03:55,510 Evangeline, could you let Cook know that the new nanny has had to leave 35 00:03:55,720 --> 00:03:58,720 and I'm off to the agency to find a new one? 36 00:04:06,230 --> 00:04:09,320 Good. I'll just... 37 00:04:23,710 --> 00:04:26,500 - Mrs Partridge? - We're closed. 38 00:04:26,750 --> 00:04:29,050 - There's been a tiny hiccup. - We're not here. 39 00:04:29,300 --> 00:04:31,590 - Please, let me in... - Go away. 40 00:04:31,840 --> 00:04:35,260 Listen, they didn't eat the baby. It was a chicken, actually. 41 00:04:35,510 --> 00:04:39,060 There's no more nannies! You've had the lot. 42 00:04:48,400 --> 00:04:52,320 The person you need is Nanny McPhee. 43 00:04:52,570 --> 00:04:54,820 Is that you, Mrs Partridge? 44 00:04:55,870 --> 00:05:00,700 The person you need is Nanny McPhee. 45 00:05:00,950 --> 00:05:04,620 I need her to start right away. I'm late for a vital tea dance. 46 00:05:04,870 --> 00:05:07,540 Nanny McPhee is not on our books. 47 00:05:07,790 --> 00:05:11,630 Nanny McPhee is not on anyone's books. 48 00:05:13,720 --> 00:05:15,430 Nanny Whetstone's gone. 49 00:05:15,680 --> 00:05:19,760 There's a surprise. Hurry it up there. Spuds. 50 00:05:20,010 --> 00:05:24,980 Mr Brown's gone to the agency. I said the children'll be fine with us. 51 00:05:25,230 --> 00:05:27,270 They won't be fine with me. 52 00:05:27,480 --> 00:05:30,780 I won't have them dirty blighters in my kitchen, and that is that! 53 00:05:31,030 --> 00:05:34,700 I have it in writing. In writing! 54 00:05:38,370 --> 00:05:41,790 - Well, that's the final straw. - Pa! 55 00:05:42,040 --> 00:05:44,080 There are no more nannies. 56 00:05:44,330 --> 00:05:47,630 None. All over, finished. 57 00:05:47,880 --> 00:05:51,130 I've had to cancel my appointment and that will cause trouble. 58 00:05:51,380 --> 00:05:56,340 - I told them not to. It wasn't my idea. - Don't look at me! It's not my fault. 59 00:05:56,590 --> 00:05:59,390 Well, you seem intent on distressing me... 60 00:05:59,640 --> 00:06:02,850 Er...don't do that, darling, please. That's my sore bit. 61 00:06:04,520 --> 00:06:07,650 You seem intent on distressing me, so I'm going to distress you. 62 00:06:07,900 --> 00:06:11,770 You are to...to go to bed immediately. 63 00:06:12,020 --> 00:06:14,690 Before supper? 64 00:06:17,280 --> 00:06:19,370 Without supper. 65 00:06:20,570 --> 00:06:23,240 Did he say without supper? 66 00:06:23,450 --> 00:06:25,870 Never mind that. 67 00:06:26,120 --> 00:06:29,500 There's no more nannies. 68 00:06:29,750 --> 00:06:32,960 Poor him...and poor them. 69 00:06:33,210 --> 00:06:35,550 Poor them, my Aunt Fanny. 70 00:06:35,800 --> 00:06:38,550 They're the worstest, nastiest, horriblest... 71 00:06:38,800 --> 00:06:42,050 It'll be snow in August before this family's straightened out. 72 00:06:42,300 --> 00:06:46,310 "Dear Nanny Whetstone, I'm so very sorry." 73 00:06:46,560 --> 00:06:48,980 "My children..." 74 00:06:49,230 --> 00:06:52,440 Eric, give it back to her! Give it back now! Stop it! 75 00:06:52,690 --> 00:06:54,190 My children. 76 00:06:56,820 --> 00:06:59,780 Eric! Eric, that's my teddy! 77 00:07:00,030 --> 00:07:03,240 - Eric, stop doing this! - Give it back! 78 00:07:05,240 --> 00:07:08,410 - Stop fighting! - Oi, you lot! 79 00:07:08,660 --> 00:07:11,500 Quiet! 80 00:07:11,750 --> 00:07:16,340 You're driving your poor father to distraction. Stop it. 81 00:07:17,470 --> 00:07:20,800 Lily, what's this word? 82 00:07:21,050 --> 00:07:24,510 Lovingly."He took her lovingly by the hand." 83 00:07:24,760 --> 00:07:26,310 What's your book about, Evangeline? 84 00:07:26,560 --> 00:07:30,770 It's about the daughter of a nice man who remarries after his wife dies 85 00:07:31,020 --> 00:07:32,770 and the stepmother's horrid to her. 86 00:07:33,020 --> 00:07:35,400 Why doesn't the man stop her being horrid? 87 00:07:35,650 --> 00:07:38,570 Fathers all turn bad once their wives die. 88 00:07:38,650 --> 00:07:40,360 They don't care any more. 89 00:07:40,610 --> 00:07:43,820 Simon. Yours does. 90 00:07:44,080 --> 00:07:45,790 No, he doesn't. 91 00:07:46,040 --> 00:07:50,960 Does he read to Chrissie or play cricket with us like he used to? 92 00:07:51,210 --> 00:07:54,500 He doesn't even sing Loola-bye to Aggy. We hardly see him. 93 00:07:54,750 --> 00:07:59,720 He loves you, Simon. You know that. He's just had a lot on his mind since... 94 00:07:59,970 --> 00:08:02,340 Since Mother died. 95 00:08:09,140 --> 00:08:11,690 You used to be as close as anything. 96 00:08:11,940 --> 00:08:16,770 Not any more. All he cares about now is getting himself a nice new wife. 97 00:08:19,280 --> 00:08:23,280 Well... I don't know if that's true or not, 98 00:08:23,530 --> 00:08:25,910 but it might be nice to have a new mother. 99 00:08:26,160 --> 00:08:29,080 Don't you know anything about the world? 100 00:08:29,330 --> 00:08:32,790 Whoever he marries will be vile and treat us like slaves. 101 00:08:33,040 --> 00:08:36,590 - You don't know that. - Plenty of hard evidence for it. 102 00:08:36,840 --> 00:08:41,800 There isn't one stepmother in there who's even halfway decent. 103 00:08:42,050 --> 00:08:46,720 They're an evil breed. Anyway, who ever likes other people's children? 104 00:08:46,970 --> 00:08:48,720 I like you. 105 00:08:48,970 --> 00:08:52,270 Yes, but you're a servant. You're paid to like us. 106 00:08:52,520 --> 00:08:54,520 That doesn't count. 107 00:08:57,900 --> 00:09:01,150 I've got my work to be getting on with. 108 00:09:04,570 --> 00:09:06,570 I really am hungry, Evangeline. 109 00:09:06,820 --> 00:09:10,700 Could you maybe bring me some secret toast and jam? 110 00:09:10,950 --> 00:09:14,290 All right, forget the jam. Just some secret toast. 111 00:09:25,050 --> 00:09:28,180 Shall I plump the cushion on Mrs Brown's chair? 112 00:09:28,430 --> 00:09:31,020 I know you like to plump it yourself sometimes. 113 00:09:31,270 --> 00:09:35,310 Oh, no, that's...that's all right. You plump away, Evangeline. Thank you. 114 00:09:41,940 --> 00:09:46,160 I was wondering if I might make Master Sebastian a piece of toast. 115 00:09:46,410 --> 00:09:49,620 Yes, I should think... Er...no, under no circumstances. No. 116 00:09:49,830 --> 00:09:51,700 I could do it secret-like. 117 00:09:51,910 --> 00:09:55,500 No, they'll hear him chewing and then we're done for. 118 00:09:56,710 --> 00:09:58,210 No, they get nothing. 119 00:09:58,420 --> 00:10:00,250 Righto, Mr Brown. 120 00:10:03,260 --> 00:10:07,050 The person you need is Nanny McPhee. 121 00:10:09,260 --> 00:10:11,010 Nanny McPhee. 122 00:10:20,310 --> 00:10:22,270 No supper. 123 00:10:22,530 --> 00:10:25,690 Discipline. That's more like it. 124 00:10:50,930 --> 00:10:54,390 Now, you listen here, you pustular tykes. 125 00:10:54,600 --> 00:10:57,690 You ain't allowed in this kitchen, not now, not ever. 126 00:10:57,940 --> 00:10:59,600 I have it in writing. 127 00:11:00,940 --> 00:11:05,030 Well, dear, the agency has closed its doors. 128 00:11:05,280 --> 00:11:08,530 What am I to do? Aunt Adelaide says... 129 00:11:08,780 --> 00:11:10,990 Your children are out of control, Cedric. 130 00:11:11,240 --> 00:11:13,450 And there was that thing she said... 131 00:11:13,530 --> 00:11:16,250 about their needing a female influence. I... 132 00:11:17,370 --> 00:11:20,080 You know what she's like. She'll stop the allowance 133 00:11:20,330 --> 00:11:25,300 unless I marry again and give them a new mother within the month. 134 00:11:25,550 --> 00:11:30,800 A month. I mean, it's unbearable. But l... I had to... I had to promise. 135 00:11:33,350 --> 00:11:38,430 Remember we talked about what would happen without her money. 136 00:11:38,680 --> 00:11:40,980 The bank will take the house. 137 00:11:41,230 --> 00:11:45,440 There'll be debtors' prison for me, workhouse for the older children. 138 00:11:45,690 --> 00:11:48,860 Goodness only knows what'll happen to little Chrissie. 139 00:11:49,110 --> 00:11:51,200 And as for Aggy... 140 00:11:51,450 --> 00:11:53,740 it's unimaginable. 141 00:12:01,370 --> 00:12:05,380 Where are you? You mewling half-bakes! 142 00:12:05,630 --> 00:12:08,130 I'm ready for you. And I'm hard! 143 00:12:15,930 --> 00:12:17,930 This is fun! 144 00:12:19,100 --> 00:12:20,430 We got Cook! 145 00:12:20,680 --> 00:12:25,110 The person you need is Nanny McPhee. 146 00:12:25,360 --> 00:12:28,190 Jump! 147 00:12:28,440 --> 00:12:31,200 Eric, you're not making another bomb, are you? 148 00:12:33,820 --> 00:12:37,030 McPhee... 149 00:12:37,280 --> 00:12:39,450 Jump! 150 00:12:39,700 --> 00:12:42,040 - Oh! - Jump! 151 00:12:44,380 --> 00:12:49,710 - They're in the kitchen. - No! No! You took them down for toast! 152 00:12:49,960 --> 00:12:52,760 I never did! You sent them to bed with no dinner. 153 00:12:53,010 --> 00:12:54,390 - That's what done it! - Don't tell... 154 00:13:04,190 --> 00:13:05,690 - I'll, er... - Why don't you...? 155 00:13:05,940 --> 00:13:07,570 - I'll go. - No, I'd better... 156 00:13:07,820 --> 00:13:10,610 - Well, no, I can... - You, erm... I'll... 157 00:13:10,860 --> 00:13:14,660 - I'll be off, then. - Yes, you... I'll just... 158 00:13:44,940 --> 00:13:48,810 Good evening, Mr Brown. I am Nanny McPhee. 159 00:13:50,360 --> 00:13:53,570 Oh, you're... Er...of course. 160 00:13:53,820 --> 00:13:56,070 Good heavens. I suppose the agency... 161 00:13:56,320 --> 00:14:00,660 I do not belong to any agency, Mr Brown. I am a government nanny. 162 00:14:00,910 --> 00:14:03,700 A government nanny? How... 163 00:14:05,250 --> 00:14:06,420 .. unusual. 164 00:14:06,670 --> 00:14:08,250 May I come in? 165 00:14:08,500 --> 00:14:11,840 Yes, by all means, do...do come in. 166 00:14:16,300 --> 00:14:20,430 I understand you have extremely ill-behaved children. 167 00:14:20,680 --> 00:14:24,480 No. No, no. No. No... Good grief, what a suggestion. 168 00:14:27,140 --> 00:14:29,150 - Playful. - Shut up! 169 00:14:29,400 --> 00:14:31,320 What are your main concerns? 170 00:14:31,570 --> 00:14:32,690 Concerns? 171 00:14:32,940 --> 00:14:35,740 Mm. Do they go to bed when they're told? 172 00:14:35,990 --> 00:14:38,410 Well, no, not, er... No. 173 00:14:38,660 --> 00:14:42,660 - Do they get up when they're told? - Er...well, no, not exactly. 174 00:14:42,910 --> 00:14:46,500 - Get dressed when they're told? - Now, that's a good question. 175 00:14:46,750 --> 00:14:51,590 - Do they say "please" and "thank you"? - In what context? 176 00:14:51,840 --> 00:14:55,300 That will do to be going on with. 177 00:14:55,550 --> 00:14:59,390 Your children need me. 178 00:14:59,640 --> 00:15:03,430 I'll go and make sure everything's in order before I introduce you. 179 00:15:03,680 --> 00:15:06,480 I shall introduce myself. 180 00:15:06,730 --> 00:15:10,100 Please, Mr Brown, go back to your newspaper. 181 00:15:31,790 --> 00:15:33,340 Oh, look. 182 00:15:35,550 --> 00:15:38,220 The door's open and there's nobody there. 183 00:15:41,640 --> 00:15:43,600 I am here. 184 00:15:43,850 --> 00:15:46,220 I am Nanny McPhee. 185 00:15:46,470 --> 00:15:49,140 Oh, did...did somebody speak? 186 00:15:49,350 --> 00:15:53,400 - I didn't hear anything. - That's because nobody's there. 187 00:15:56,570 --> 00:15:59,990 Then listen carefully and try to hear this. 188 00:16:00,240 --> 00:16:03,490 Stop what you are doing, put the kitchen to rights 189 00:16:03,740 --> 00:16:05,490 and go upstairs to bed. 190 00:16:09,370 --> 00:16:13,130 - Did you hear what I said? - I've just had an idea. 191 00:16:13,380 --> 00:16:17,760 Why don't we play here in the kitchen all night long? 192 00:16:18,010 --> 00:16:20,220 Let's, let's! 193 00:16:22,800 --> 00:16:26,600 - Excellent notion. - Tomatoes! 194 00:16:26,850 --> 00:16:30,480 Jump! Jump, jump! Jump! 195 00:16:30,730 --> 00:16:34,480 Jump, jump, jump, jump! 196 00:16:34,730 --> 00:16:37,570 Jump! Jump! Jump! Jump! 197 00:16:37,820 --> 00:16:40,110 Jump! Jump! Jump! Jump! 198 00:16:40,360 --> 00:16:43,280 Jump! Jump! Jump! Jump! Jump...jump... 199 00:16:43,530 --> 00:16:46,240 jump. 200 00:17:03,880 --> 00:17:05,640 Government nanny? 201 00:17:08,930 --> 00:17:10,140 What's she done? 202 00:17:10,390 --> 00:17:14,440 - She's done something to us! - They went in the pot! 203 00:17:14,690 --> 00:17:16,150 I can't stop! 204 00:17:16,400 --> 00:17:17,940 She banged her stick! 205 00:17:18,190 --> 00:17:20,150 I'm going to be sick! 206 00:17:24,950 --> 00:17:28,410 - It must be magic! - What's happening? 207 00:17:32,870 --> 00:17:35,370 - Please, Simon, let's stop! - We've got to stop! 208 00:17:35,620 --> 00:17:38,170 - Let's stop! - Let's stop! 209 00:17:41,710 --> 00:17:44,380 - Well, stop if you want, then! - We can't! 210 00:17:44,630 --> 00:17:45,840 It's her fault! 211 00:17:46,090 --> 00:17:47,930 It started when she banged the stick! 212 00:17:48,180 --> 00:17:51,720 - I can't stop! - Slow down! 213 00:17:52,390 --> 00:17:53,770 Simon! 214 00:17:54,020 --> 00:17:57,480 Come on, whoever you are! Let's stop this and go to bed! 215 00:17:59,440 --> 00:18:02,230 - Say "please". - I never say "please". 216 00:18:02,490 --> 00:18:03,530 Very well. 217 00:18:03,780 --> 00:18:06,110 - Please! - Please! 218 00:18:06,360 --> 00:18:09,120 - Don't touch Aggy! - Wait! 219 00:18:09,330 --> 00:18:11,040 Say it! 220 00:18:11,290 --> 00:18:14,460 Actually, Simon, would you, because this baby's gonna blow! 221 00:18:14,710 --> 00:18:18,670 - And Aggy's gonna go in the stockpot! - Put her back, Chrissie! 222 00:18:20,000 --> 00:18:22,380 Oh, for goodness' sake! Please, then! 223 00:18:24,970 --> 00:18:28,050 Take Aggy off me! 224 00:18:28,300 --> 00:18:31,180 Please, Nanny McPhee. 225 00:18:33,220 --> 00:18:34,600 Chrissie, don't! 226 00:18:35,850 --> 00:18:39,150 - Say it! - Take Aggy out! 227 00:18:39,400 --> 00:18:42,070 - No, Lily! - Say it! 228 00:18:42,320 --> 00:18:43,980 Simon! 229 00:18:44,240 --> 00:18:47,990 I can't stop myself! 230 00:18:48,240 --> 00:18:50,620 Please, Nanny McPhee. 231 00:18:51,580 --> 00:18:53,910 I'm going to jump! 232 00:18:54,160 --> 00:18:55,500 Too late! 233 00:19:10,140 --> 00:19:12,260 Blimey. 234 00:19:12,510 --> 00:19:14,600 Up to bed, please. 235 00:19:27,530 --> 00:19:30,780 Goodnight, Mrs Blatherwick. Goodnight, Evangeline. 236 00:19:31,030 --> 00:19:33,370 Goodnight, Nanny McPhee. 237 00:19:34,490 --> 00:19:38,710 When Mr Brown said no dinner, I thought they'd be down in a trice. 238 00:19:38,960 --> 00:19:40,580 They've been ever so quiet. 239 00:19:40,830 --> 00:19:44,710 Don't you fret. They don't dare come in this kitchen. 240 00:19:44,960 --> 00:19:47,550 I have it in writing. 241 00:19:51,680 --> 00:19:53,470 Be careful, Aggy. 242 00:19:53,720 --> 00:19:55,180 It's Mama's rattle, 243 00:19:55,260 --> 00:19:58,600 and it's the only thing we've got of hers. 244 00:20:01,440 --> 00:20:04,520 - What on earth are you doing? - Getting ready for bed. 245 00:20:04,770 --> 00:20:08,780 - What she told us to do. - Since when did we do what we're told? 246 00:20:08,990 --> 00:20:11,820 Since we nearly got Cook blown up and Aggy boiled. 247 00:20:13,780 --> 00:20:18,660 May I just remind you of something? We got rid of the last 17 nannies. 248 00:20:18,870 --> 00:20:21,080 We're getting rid of this one too. 249 00:20:23,750 --> 00:20:26,050 Fine! Be brave, then! 250 00:20:26,300 --> 00:20:31,300 Yes, well, I nearly got blown up! And anyway, l... 251 00:20:37,810 --> 00:20:39,180 Hm. 252 00:20:56,530 --> 00:21:00,500 You must feel at such a disadvantage, Nanny McPhee. 253 00:21:00,750 --> 00:21:01,910 In what way? 254 00:21:02,160 --> 00:21:05,040 We know your name but you don't know ours. 255 00:21:07,960 --> 00:21:10,840 Pleased to meet you. I'm Oglington Fartworthy. 256 00:21:19,430 --> 00:21:22,440 How do you do? 257 00:21:24,310 --> 00:21:26,650 That's F-A-R-T. 258 00:21:26,900 --> 00:21:30,610 Fartworthy. 259 00:21:32,530 --> 00:21:35,200 Booger McHorsefanny. 260 00:21:35,450 --> 00:21:37,660 Knickers O'Muffin. 261 00:21:37,870 --> 00:21:39,120 Sandra. 262 00:21:39,370 --> 00:21:40,410 Bum. 263 00:21:40,660 --> 00:21:42,830 I'm Bum! 264 00:21:43,080 --> 00:21:44,830 Oh. Bosoms. 265 00:21:48,540 --> 00:21:49,630 Bum. 266 00:21:49,880 --> 00:21:54,220 You can't be Bum, Aggy. Sebastian's Bum. You're Poop. 267 00:21:54,470 --> 00:21:55,760 Poop Bum. 268 00:21:56,010 --> 00:21:58,100 You can't be Poop and Bum. 269 00:22:18,780 --> 00:22:20,910 Goodnight, Agatha. 270 00:22:28,380 --> 00:22:30,840 Goodnight, Sebastian. 271 00:22:31,050 --> 00:22:33,130 Goodnight, Tora. 272 00:22:33,380 --> 00:22:35,420 Goodnight, Christianna. 273 00:22:37,010 --> 00:22:38,970 Goodnight, Lily. 274 00:22:39,220 --> 00:22:41,100 Goodnight, Eric. 275 00:22:44,600 --> 00:22:46,690 Goodnight, Simon. 276 00:22:52,440 --> 00:22:56,860 There is something you should understand about the way I work. 277 00:22:57,110 --> 00:23:01,490 When you need me but do not want me, then I must stay. 278 00:23:01,740 --> 00:23:07,870 When you want me but no longer need me, then I have to go. 279 00:23:12,290 --> 00:23:15,210 It's rather sad, really, but there it is. 280 00:23:16,380 --> 00:23:19,260 We will never want you. 281 00:23:20,760 --> 00:23:22,970 Then I will never go. 282 00:23:28,020 --> 00:23:30,900 Goodnight, children. 283 00:23:34,230 --> 00:23:37,740 How did she know our names? No one ever knows our names. 284 00:23:37,990 --> 00:23:39,780 - Magic. - Witchcraft. 285 00:23:40,030 --> 00:23:43,870 It doesn't matter. We're getting rid of her tomorrow. 286 00:23:52,840 --> 00:23:57,720 What? Wha... What? What? 287 00:23:57,970 --> 00:23:59,930 I did knock. 288 00:24:00,180 --> 00:24:03,930 Of course. You weren't just creeping up on me. What a suggestion. 289 00:24:04,180 --> 00:24:07,180 The children are all in bed and asleep. 290 00:24:07,270 --> 00:24:08,180 Good. Really? 291 00:24:08,430 --> 00:24:10,140 Hm. 292 00:24:11,400 --> 00:24:14,770 - Good grief. - I shall see myself to my room. 293 00:24:15,020 --> 00:24:16,860 Goodnight, Mr Brown. 294 00:24:21,860 --> 00:24:23,780 No, wait. 295 00:24:25,080 --> 00:24:28,120 What do you... I mean, how... What are your terms? 296 00:24:29,830 --> 00:24:32,960 Your children require five lessons. 297 00:24:33,210 --> 00:24:37,300 Lesson one, to go to bed when they're told, is complete. 298 00:24:37,550 --> 00:24:41,840 As for my terms, I take Sunday afternoons off. 299 00:24:42,970 --> 00:24:45,300 Goodnight. 300 00:24:47,260 --> 00:24:48,560 Interesting. 301 00:25:03,860 --> 00:25:05,700 Time to get up. 302 00:25:06,910 --> 00:25:09,040 No. 303 00:25:11,910 --> 00:25:15,380 Hm. I shall give you half an hour to be up, 304 00:25:15,630 --> 00:25:19,130 washed, dressed, teeth cleaned, beds made 305 00:25:19,380 --> 00:25:20,760 and out into the garden... 306 00:25:20,880 --> 00:25:23,090 for healthful fresh air before breakfast. 307 00:25:23,340 --> 00:25:28,010 Lessons start at nine...sharp. 308 00:25:30,430 --> 00:25:34,730 I don't know about you lot, but I want to stay in bed. 309 00:25:34,980 --> 00:25:38,610 Sebastian, run the thermometer under the hot tap. 310 00:25:38,860 --> 00:25:42,490 Chrissie, chalk. Eric, crayons. Lily, pepper. 311 00:25:42,740 --> 00:25:45,780 How do you know she won't do something horrid to us? 312 00:25:46,030 --> 00:25:47,490 I worked it out. 313 00:25:47,740 --> 00:25:52,000 She's a trained hypnotist. That's how she made us do those things. 314 00:25:52,250 --> 00:25:55,120 Don't look directly at her and she can't hypnotise us. 315 00:25:56,880 --> 00:25:58,090 - Morning, Mr Brown. - Morning. 316 00:25:58,340 --> 00:26:01,090 I'm off to work early. We're busy at the mortuary. 317 00:26:01,340 --> 00:26:03,630 Some bout of influenza at Archway... 318 00:26:03,760 --> 00:26:06,720 is carrying off all the old folks... Ah-ah-ah! 319 00:26:06,970 --> 00:26:10,260 Still, what's bad for them is good for us. 320 00:26:10,510 --> 00:26:12,310 Poor things. 321 00:26:12,560 --> 00:26:15,230 Well, I know. That, too. Of course. 322 00:26:18,400 --> 00:26:21,900 Odd. She normally says, "Have a nice day," 323 00:26:22,150 --> 00:26:25,240 or "Don't forget your jacket" if it's cold out. 324 00:26:25,490 --> 00:26:28,530 Very odd. Most peculiar. 325 00:26:30,660 --> 00:26:33,080 Hm. 326 00:26:34,210 --> 00:26:37,790 - I did knock. - Did you? I didn't hear. 327 00:26:38,040 --> 00:26:39,630 I was talking to... 328 00:26:42,300 --> 00:26:44,130 Never mind. 329 00:26:44,380 --> 00:26:47,300 I believe the children will be staying in bed today. 330 00:26:47,550 --> 00:26:50,350 The children? What, all day? Are they ill? What's wrong? 331 00:26:50,600 --> 00:26:54,060 Nothing. I know precisely what to do. Please leave it to me. 332 00:26:54,310 --> 00:26:56,600 You managed them splendidly last night. 333 00:26:56,850 --> 00:26:58,560 If they are under the weather, 334 00:26:58,810 --> 00:27:01,980 give them what they want, ice-cream and jelly and suchlike. 335 00:27:02,230 --> 00:27:05,400 My late wife was very particular. If ever they were ill, 336 00:27:05,650 --> 00:27:08,110 she used to wait on them hand and foot... 337 00:27:08,240 --> 00:27:10,160 even if they weren't ill at all. 338 00:27:10,410 --> 00:27:14,750 I shall be sure to give them exactly what they need. 339 00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:19,540 Excellent. Excellent. Well, I'll just be off to work, then. 340 00:27:31,140 --> 00:27:32,810 She's coming! 341 00:27:33,060 --> 00:27:36,020 Remember, everyone, don't look in her eyes. 342 00:27:40,560 --> 00:27:41,860 Dear me. 343 00:27:42,110 --> 00:27:46,240 We can't get up. We're ill. 344 00:27:46,490 --> 00:27:48,610 Colds in our doses. 345 00:27:48,860 --> 00:27:50,360 And kemperakurk. 346 00:27:50,610 --> 00:27:53,200 We think it bight be the beasles. 347 00:27:53,450 --> 00:27:54,950 Got measig. 348 00:27:55,200 --> 00:27:57,790 Good heavens. 349 00:27:58,040 --> 00:28:01,210 Then there is of course no question of your getting up. 350 00:28:01,460 --> 00:28:06,960 I'm very sorry to have to tell you all that you'll have to stay in bed. 351 00:28:11,010 --> 00:28:12,140 Hm. 352 00:28:31,360 --> 00:28:34,370 - Ah. - I don't feel well. 353 00:28:34,620 --> 00:28:39,250 - I think I've got a temperature. - Don't be daft. 354 00:28:41,830 --> 00:28:43,670 Simon, I can't get up. 355 00:28:43,920 --> 00:28:46,960 - You must have looked at her, then. - I did not look. 356 00:28:47,210 --> 00:28:51,840 I was under the covers the whole time, Simon. I can't get up either. 357 00:28:52,090 --> 00:28:54,970 - I can't get up! - I'm stuck like glue! 358 00:28:55,220 --> 00:28:56,810 I'm stuck, too! 359 00:28:58,770 --> 00:29:02,810 Hypnosis, eh? Bang goes that theory. 360 00:29:07,110 --> 00:29:08,820 Good morning. 361 00:29:17,370 --> 00:29:20,040 Morning, Mr B! 362 00:29:20,250 --> 00:29:22,710 Good morning, Mr Jowls, Mr Wheen. 363 00:29:22,960 --> 00:29:26,630 - Thought we'd get you that time. - No, not this time. 364 00:29:26,880 --> 00:29:31,260 - Nice tea dance, Mr B? - Ooh, lovely, I shouldn't wonder. 365 00:29:31,510 --> 00:29:34,800 No. I didn't even get there. Disaster. Children, you know. 366 00:29:35,050 --> 00:29:37,640 - We do know. - We've said it before. 367 00:29:37,890 --> 00:29:41,230 It's not funerals you should be in the business of. 368 00:29:41,480 --> 00:29:43,770 It's christenings. 369 00:29:52,450 --> 00:29:56,620 Good morning. Just excuse me a moment, would you? 370 00:29:56,870 --> 00:29:59,160 Cedric, let me not beat about the bush. 371 00:29:59,410 --> 00:30:01,040 Your children are out of control. 372 00:30:01,290 --> 00:30:04,750 You need a wife and your children need a mother. 373 00:30:05,000 --> 00:30:08,420 If you do not remarry by the end of the month, 374 00:30:08,540 --> 00:30:10,590 steps will have to be taken. 375 00:30:10,840 --> 00:30:13,800 Oh, dear. Oh, dear, oh, dear, oh, dear. 376 00:30:15,720 --> 00:30:18,470 What's your wife like? 377 00:30:18,720 --> 00:30:23,270 Never mind. Less than a month to go. There's nothing for it. 378 00:30:23,520 --> 00:30:27,610 It'll have to be that woman... the dreadful one. 379 00:30:28,860 --> 00:30:33,190 Mr Jowls, do you recollect that...enthusiastic lady? 380 00:30:33,440 --> 00:30:38,030 Mrs Swiftly, was it? Or was it Mrs Thadius something last year? 381 00:30:38,280 --> 00:30:41,200 - Mrs Thadius Quickly? - Oh, don't. 382 00:30:41,450 --> 00:30:46,290 "Oh, Mr Brown, you are a saint. You have a lovely look of kindness about you." 383 00:30:46,540 --> 00:30:52,090 What I wouldn't give for a man like you, Mr Brown, in my hour of need. 384 00:30:53,630 --> 00:30:55,550 - That one? - Yes, that one. 385 00:30:55,800 --> 00:30:58,300 We buried Mr Quickly last autumn. Poor devil. 386 00:30:58,550 --> 00:31:02,180 - He was happy to go. - He was her third. 387 00:31:02,430 --> 00:31:06,190 You don't happen to know if... if she ever...ever, erm... 388 00:31:06,440 --> 00:31:08,900 remarried? You know, number four? 389 00:31:09,150 --> 00:31:11,400 Mr Brown, you're not thinking what I think... 390 00:31:11,520 --> 00:31:13,280 you're thinking, are you, Mr Brown? 391 00:31:14,740 --> 00:31:17,280 Good grief, no! No, no. No. No. 392 00:31:17,530 --> 00:31:21,580 No. No, no... no. What a thought. No. No. 393 00:31:24,410 --> 00:31:26,750 What's that? 394 00:31:27,000 --> 00:31:30,460 Measle medicine, to be administered once an hour. 395 00:31:30,710 --> 00:31:33,170 Actually, I'm not sure it is measles. 396 00:31:33,420 --> 00:31:36,380 How can it be anything other? 397 00:31:36,630 --> 00:31:39,300 The chalky-white faces, the livid spots, 398 00:31:39,550 --> 00:31:43,010 the temperatures of 120 degrees. 399 00:31:43,260 --> 00:31:46,430 I've seen it time and again. Measles. 400 00:31:47,940 --> 00:31:49,980 Definitely. 401 00:31:57,570 --> 00:32:01,990 - Open. - Simon, don't! 402 00:32:02,240 --> 00:32:04,540 I'm not taking that. 403 00:32:04,790 --> 00:32:07,370 Then you will not get any better. 404 00:32:07,620 --> 00:32:09,330 Believe me. 405 00:32:09,580 --> 00:32:11,960 It's moving! 406 00:32:13,420 --> 00:32:15,800 Open wide. 407 00:32:17,970 --> 00:32:19,590 Wider. 408 00:32:36,230 --> 00:32:38,530 Simon, spit it out! 409 00:32:38,780 --> 00:32:41,200 You'll have to swallow it sooner or later, 410 00:32:41,280 --> 00:32:43,240 so I suggest you get it over with. 411 00:32:49,410 --> 00:32:52,880 Very good. Who's next? 412 00:32:54,090 --> 00:32:55,420 "Took..." 413 00:32:55,670 --> 00:32:57,300 "He..." 414 00:32:57,550 --> 00:33:00,420 "He took her lovingly..." 415 00:33:00,670 --> 00:33:05,510 "He took her lovingly by the...the hand." 416 00:33:05,760 --> 00:33:10,560 Oh! Nanny McPhee, you startled me. 417 00:33:10,810 --> 00:33:12,230 It was that quiet. 418 00:33:12,480 --> 00:33:16,820 I just got to practising my sounds. Lily's teaching me to read. 419 00:33:17,070 --> 00:33:18,360 That is good. 420 00:33:18,610 --> 00:33:22,780 They're all good... underneath it all. 421 00:33:24,160 --> 00:33:28,620 - A favourite of yours? - Don't know. 422 00:33:28,870 --> 00:33:30,910 I haven't finished it yet. 423 00:33:31,160 --> 00:33:34,460 The stepmother's a bit of a horror, though. 424 00:33:34,580 --> 00:33:35,330 Oh, indeed. 425 00:33:35,580 --> 00:33:38,090 It's a pity stories aren't about real people. 426 00:33:38,340 --> 00:33:42,300 This one seems a farm girl, but I'll bet a pound to a penny 427 00:33:42,550 --> 00:33:46,350 he finds out she's really an educated lady. 428 00:33:46,600 --> 00:33:48,890 And then he falls for her. 429 00:33:49,140 --> 00:33:51,230 You must read it and find out. 430 00:33:51,480 --> 00:33:54,350 He wouldn't love her if she couldn't read. 431 00:33:54,600 --> 00:33:57,770 He'd think her stupid 432 00:33:58,020 --> 00:34:02,070 and worthless and beneath him. 433 00:34:02,320 --> 00:34:03,400 Hm. 434 00:34:18,750 --> 00:34:23,130 Buttered spuds for lunch with boiled beef, apple pie and custard. 435 00:34:23,380 --> 00:34:25,630 Hm. 436 00:34:27,300 --> 00:34:31,560 I think the children will be requiring something a little more... 437 00:34:31,810 --> 00:34:33,680 austere today. 438 00:34:33,930 --> 00:34:35,600 'Orse what? 439 00:34:35,850 --> 00:34:39,730 The children are not quite themselves, Mrs Blatherwick. 440 00:34:39,980 --> 00:34:42,030 God! That means jellies and ice-cream, 441 00:34:42,150 --> 00:34:44,400 raspberry cordial and God knows what else. 442 00:34:44,650 --> 00:34:47,200 Well, I'd better get cracking, then. 443 00:34:47,450 --> 00:34:49,580 Evangeline! 444 00:34:49,830 --> 00:34:52,040 Where is that lump? 445 00:34:52,290 --> 00:34:53,580 It'll be snow in August... 446 00:34:53,660 --> 00:34:55,790 before that one's there when you need her. 447 00:34:56,040 --> 00:35:00,880 Calm yourself, Mrs Blatherwick. I'm in charge today. 448 00:35:01,130 --> 00:35:05,470 I understand that you were once in the armed forces. 449 00:35:08,010 --> 00:35:12,100 I was that. Cooked at a training camp in Gloucestershire. 450 00:35:12,350 --> 00:35:14,480 Kept those boys strong, I did. 451 00:35:14,730 --> 00:35:20,310 I'm sure you did. Perhaps a broth of some sort for the children. 452 00:35:20,560 --> 00:35:22,650 You must be an expert. 453 00:35:22,900 --> 00:35:25,740 Best thin potato gruel with peelings in? 454 00:35:25,990 --> 00:35:28,530 That always got 'em groaning but kept 'em strong. 455 00:35:28,780 --> 00:35:30,870 Are you well supplied with peelings? 456 00:35:36,370 --> 00:35:38,460 These'll do. Only a day old. 457 00:35:44,840 --> 00:35:48,260 A bit of gristle for flavour. Ever so tasty. 458 00:35:50,390 --> 00:35:51,760 Get that down you. 459 00:35:51,890 --> 00:35:55,270 There's a lot of goodness in a turkey neck. 460 00:35:55,520 --> 00:35:57,640 That'll put the hairs back on your chest. 461 00:35:57,890 --> 00:35:59,150 Smell that. 462 00:35:59,230 --> 00:36:04,230 That is the smell that forged this empire. 463 00:36:04,440 --> 00:36:08,740 That pong is the pong of conquerors. 464 00:36:08,990 --> 00:36:12,120 All right, men. As you were. 465 00:36:13,870 --> 00:36:16,700 They actually are starving us. 466 00:36:16,950 --> 00:36:20,210 I wonder how long it will take for us all to die. 467 00:36:36,390 --> 00:36:39,230 Quickly... 468 00:36:39,440 --> 00:36:42,860 Quickly, Quickly, Quickly... 469 00:36:43,060 --> 00:36:45,650 Mrs Selma Quickly. 470 00:36:51,740 --> 00:36:54,830 Have you lazy lot been in bed all day? 471 00:36:55,030 --> 00:36:56,870 Evangeline. 472 00:36:57,120 --> 00:36:59,290 You've been doing measles, haven't you? 473 00:36:59,540 --> 00:37:01,790 The situation's very simple, Evangeline. 474 00:37:02,040 --> 00:37:05,210 The nanny, who in my opinion is a witch, 475 00:37:05,460 --> 00:37:08,170 made us ill and fed us boiled-down toads. 476 00:37:08,420 --> 00:37:12,300 Nanny McPhee is not a witch, Eric. You're very naughty to say so. 477 00:37:12,550 --> 00:37:14,760 I'm sure she knew what she was doing. 478 00:37:15,010 --> 00:37:18,720 - She must be fully trained. - Yes, but as what? 479 00:37:18,970 --> 00:37:21,520 I'm unbelievably hungry, Evangeline. 480 00:37:21,770 --> 00:37:26,270 Can you please get us something decent to eat? 481 00:37:26,520 --> 00:37:28,820 Did you just say "please"? 482 00:37:29,070 --> 00:37:31,200 Please, please, Evangeline! 483 00:37:33,030 --> 00:37:36,490 Well, children, I hear you've been in bed all day 484 00:37:36,740 --> 00:37:38,330 but that you're better now. 485 00:37:38,580 --> 00:37:40,790 It wasn't our fault. 486 00:37:41,040 --> 00:37:44,960 I'm sure it wasn't anybody's fault. You can't help it if you're ill. 487 00:37:45,210 --> 00:37:47,000 But you're better now. 488 00:37:59,810 --> 00:38:01,180 - Papa? - Yes, Chrissie? 489 00:38:01,430 --> 00:38:04,560 Now that we're better, can we get up? 490 00:38:04,810 --> 00:38:07,770 Can we get up, please? 491 00:38:17,410 --> 00:38:19,580 Of course you can. 492 00:38:19,830 --> 00:38:21,450 Read to us. 493 00:38:21,700 --> 00:38:25,000 I, erm... I have my letter-writing to do. I... 494 00:38:26,710 --> 00:38:30,920 I'll read to you tomorrow. Goodnight, my dears. 495 00:38:36,680 --> 00:38:37,720 Evangeline, 496 00:38:37,970 --> 00:38:41,850 please ask Cook to make the children scrambled eggs on toast. 497 00:38:42,100 --> 00:38:44,980 I'm sure they'd like supper now they're feeling better. 498 00:38:45,230 --> 00:38:48,360 I'll do it myself, Nanny McPhee. 499 00:38:56,490 --> 00:38:58,530 Didn't she have two bumpy things? 500 00:38:58,780 --> 00:39:00,830 The word is "wart". 501 00:39:01,080 --> 00:39:04,660 Traditionally associated with witches, as it happens. 502 00:39:04,870 --> 00:39:07,250 Well, one of 'em's gone. 503 00:39:18,970 --> 00:39:20,970 I did knock. 504 00:39:21,220 --> 00:39:23,180 Of course you did. 505 00:39:23,430 --> 00:39:27,440 Lesson two, to get up when they're told, is complete. 506 00:39:27,690 --> 00:39:29,770 Of course. Very good. Thank you. 507 00:39:30,020 --> 00:39:32,110 Goodnight, Mr Brown. 508 00:39:33,650 --> 00:39:36,150 - Nanny McPhee... - Yes, Mr Brown? 509 00:39:36,400 --> 00:39:38,660 Didn't you used to have two... 510 00:39:40,780 --> 00:39:43,160 w...w...? 511 00:39:46,250 --> 00:39:49,250 Never mind. It's, er... it's my imagination. 512 00:39:58,800 --> 00:40:01,550 There was a telegram, Mr Brown. 513 00:40:09,980 --> 00:40:12,310 Oh, my... Oh, my goodness. 514 00:40:15,780 --> 00:40:17,780 - Ah, Nanny McPhee. - Pa! 515 00:40:18,030 --> 00:40:21,700 Good, good, good. All right, I have an announcement. 516 00:40:21,950 --> 00:40:23,370 Yes... 517 00:40:23,580 --> 00:40:26,660 Your Great-Aunt Adelaide is coming for tea today. 518 00:40:28,500 --> 00:40:31,210 - No! - Aunt Adelaide is vile and vicious. 519 00:40:31,420 --> 00:40:32,500 She's blind as a bat. 520 00:40:32,630 --> 00:40:34,880 And we are convalescing, for heaven's sake! 521 00:40:35,090 --> 00:40:37,170 That's enough. I don't want to hear... 522 00:40:37,300 --> 00:40:39,550 anything bad about her. She pays the rent. 523 00:40:39,760 --> 00:40:43,220 - She scares me. - She's only coming for tea. 524 00:40:43,430 --> 00:40:45,770 You'll all put your best clothes on 525 00:40:45,970 --> 00:40:48,480 and Nanny McPhee will keep you in order. 526 00:40:48,730 --> 00:40:53,020 I shall do my best, sir, considering that today is Sunday 527 00:40:53,270 --> 00:40:55,360 and I am off duty this afternoon. 528 00:40:55,610 --> 00:40:57,280 Off duty? 529 00:40:59,650 --> 00:41:02,110 You're off duty when...? 530 00:41:02,370 --> 00:41:05,280 You can't be off duty. I need you. They need you. 531 00:41:05,530 --> 00:41:07,450 I shall be leaving at noon. 532 00:41:07,700 --> 00:41:10,370 Thereafter, I'm sure the children will do... 533 00:41:10,460 --> 00:41:13,210 exactly as they're told. Won't you, children? 534 00:41:14,960 --> 00:41:18,050 Listen to this, dear. Aunt Adelaide says, 535 00:41:18,300 --> 00:41:20,800 "l am coming with the express intention 536 00:41:21,050 --> 00:41:24,010 of easing your financial burden." 537 00:41:24,260 --> 00:41:28,350 Maybe she's thought the better of my having to remarry. 538 00:41:28,600 --> 00:41:31,350 Perhaps I won't have to go through with it. 539 00:41:48,290 --> 00:41:51,620 I hate my best clothes. They're itchy. 540 00:41:51,870 --> 00:41:53,870 Well, we promised, so that's that. 541 00:41:55,000 --> 00:41:58,170 Tora's right. We should do exactly as we're told. 542 00:41:58,420 --> 00:42:02,510 We've been told to put our best clothes on, haven't we? Right. 543 00:42:02,760 --> 00:42:07,850 Well, I'm going to put my best clothes on...the pig. 544 00:42:08,100 --> 00:42:09,350 Simon, no. 545 00:42:09,600 --> 00:42:13,190 - Yeah, the pig! - Oh, please, don't! 546 00:42:20,690 --> 00:42:23,900 - Aunt Adelaide, welcome back. - Where are you? 547 00:42:24,160 --> 00:42:27,410 - Here I am, Aunt Adelaide. - Oh! Don't crowd me so. 548 00:42:27,660 --> 00:42:31,790 You're looking very peely-wally. Where's my tea? I must have tea. 549 00:42:32,040 --> 00:42:33,660 Of course. This way. At once. 550 00:42:35,370 --> 00:42:36,830 I smell damp. 551 00:42:37,040 --> 00:42:40,760 No, no... At least not noticeably. 552 00:42:41,010 --> 00:42:43,510 Damp in the house. Hence your pallid complexion. 553 00:42:43,760 --> 00:42:44,720 Lovely hat. 554 00:42:44,970 --> 00:42:48,760 A gift from the Duchess of Kent. She has taste. 555 00:42:49,010 --> 00:42:52,020 I've always hated this room. 556 00:42:52,270 --> 00:42:53,770 - Milk? - Certainly not. 557 00:42:54,020 --> 00:42:56,310 Filthy stuff. Most unhealthy. 558 00:42:56,560 --> 00:42:58,860 - Sugar? - Six, if you please. 559 00:42:59,110 --> 00:43:00,610 Six. 560 00:43:00,860 --> 00:43:05,910 Let me not beat about the bush, Cedric. You have too many children. 561 00:43:06,160 --> 00:43:08,530 - Ah, that. - Don't interrupt. 562 00:43:08,780 --> 00:43:14,040 Your wife, my poor, weak-minded niece, had no sense of proportion. 563 00:43:14,290 --> 00:43:19,380 However, I know where my duties lie. I gave her my word that I would help. 564 00:43:19,630 --> 00:43:22,760 As you know, Cedric, my word is my law. 565 00:43:22,960 --> 00:43:25,380 I now propose to help you further. 566 00:43:25,630 --> 00:43:28,720 Oh, thank you, Aunt Adelaide. Thank you. 567 00:43:28,840 --> 00:43:30,720 Don't interrupt. Sit down. 568 00:43:30,970 --> 00:43:33,560 This is my proposal. 569 00:43:33,810 --> 00:43:37,440 I shall relieve you of one of your children... 570 00:43:38,560 --> 00:43:41,520 and give it a home with me at Stitch Manor. 571 00:43:47,030 --> 00:43:50,160 It will require sacrifice on my part. I realise that. 572 00:43:50,410 --> 00:43:56,330 But as my sainted father always said, "Duty, Adelaide, always duty." 573 00:43:56,580 --> 00:44:00,130 - You mustn't. I can't possibly... - Thank me enough. I know. 574 00:44:00,380 --> 00:44:04,090 You must feel quite overwhelmed by the benefits of such a plan. 575 00:44:04,340 --> 00:44:05,970 Your fortunate daughter, 576 00:44:06,170 --> 00:44:09,760 for it must be a girl and not one of those other things, 577 00:44:10,010 --> 00:44:13,890 will receive private tuition in literature, history, deportment 578 00:44:14,140 --> 00:44:17,390 and above all, elocution. 579 00:44:17,640 --> 00:44:22,980 If there's one thing I won't stand for, it's loose vowels. 580 00:44:24,440 --> 00:44:28,740 What did Papa say? He must have told her not to even think of it. 581 00:44:28,990 --> 00:44:31,410 He didn't say anything. 582 00:44:34,990 --> 00:44:38,330 Come on. Let's find the others. 583 00:44:38,540 --> 00:44:42,130 I must be frank. There is no question of your taking... 584 00:44:42,380 --> 00:44:45,670 Hush now! I'm used to taking responsibility... 585 00:44:45,800 --> 00:44:47,760 for other people's mistakes. 586 00:44:48,010 --> 00:44:52,600 Now, where is the bulk of your offspring? 587 00:44:59,060 --> 00:45:03,020 Ah. Here we are. 588 00:45:08,400 --> 00:45:11,610 - It was a bee. A big bee. Erm... - Good heavens! 589 00:45:13,780 --> 00:45:15,870 Gone now. Phew. 590 00:45:16,080 --> 00:45:19,250 - Hm. - You're not well, Cedric. 591 00:45:19,500 --> 00:45:22,880 The sooner you find a good wife, the better. 592 00:45:23,130 --> 00:45:26,920 This'll put her off wanting any of you girls. 593 00:45:27,170 --> 00:45:30,050 Speak up, girl! 594 00:45:30,300 --> 00:45:34,010 Oh! What an unfortunate face. 595 00:45:34,260 --> 00:45:37,220 All those bristles. 596 00:45:37,470 --> 00:45:40,770 It might be very hard to get her decently betrothed. 597 00:45:43,310 --> 00:45:45,730 Do you not have a more comely girl? 598 00:45:51,650 --> 00:45:55,030 Perhaps round the front of the house. 599 00:45:58,790 --> 00:46:02,250 Chrissie, hurry up! 600 00:46:04,710 --> 00:46:07,210 Tie it, Chrissie. 601 00:46:07,460 --> 00:46:10,380 Eric, stop her! 602 00:46:10,630 --> 00:46:12,550 - Chrissie, stop! She'll see you! - Papa! 603 00:46:12,800 --> 00:46:16,050 Cedric, I had no idea that you had produced such a... 604 00:46:16,300 --> 00:46:19,770 such an unattractive batch of females. 605 00:46:20,020 --> 00:46:23,890 I shall leave directly. Get my hat. 606 00:46:24,150 --> 00:46:26,730 Your hat? So soon? 607 00:46:26,980 --> 00:46:29,860 - Really? No, you can't... I'll get it. - Hewitt! 608 00:46:32,700 --> 00:46:34,240 No! 609 00:46:38,870 --> 00:46:42,790 Oh, yes. You'll do perfectly. 610 00:46:43,040 --> 00:46:47,920 A little timid, perhaps, but we'll soon knock that out of you. 611 00:46:48,170 --> 00:46:51,380 Come on, come on. It can't do any harm to try. 612 00:46:51,630 --> 00:46:54,430 I can't find your... What are you doing? 613 00:46:54,680 --> 00:46:56,970 - This is the chosen one. Get her ready. - Papa, help! 614 00:46:57,220 --> 00:46:59,010 Chrissie? You're not listen... 615 00:46:59,100 --> 00:47:01,310 Shut up, Cedric, and do as you're told! 616 00:47:01,560 --> 00:47:04,810 Nanny McPhee, we need you. 617 00:47:05,060 --> 00:47:10,650 Nanny McPhee, please, we need you. 618 00:47:10,900 --> 00:47:14,860 Where is my hat? 619 00:47:17,280 --> 00:47:18,660 Hide! 620 00:47:24,580 --> 00:47:26,500 My hat! 621 00:47:26,750 --> 00:47:29,920 How dare you! 622 00:47:39,600 --> 00:47:43,810 - Oh, my, what a merry game. - Yoo-hoo! 623 00:47:44,060 --> 00:47:46,600 My, my, what a pretty girl you are. 624 00:47:54,150 --> 00:47:56,650 Oh, this is the girl for me. 625 00:47:58,200 --> 00:47:59,700 Run. 626 00:47:59,950 --> 00:48:03,160 Such poise, such gaiety. 627 00:48:03,410 --> 00:48:06,410 - Ah, there you are, staff. - Yes, madam. 628 00:48:06,660 --> 00:48:10,710 I'm taking this child with me. Get her ready. 629 00:48:17,840 --> 00:48:19,300 Very well, madam. 630 00:48:19,550 --> 00:48:21,890 Sherry time. 631 00:48:24,640 --> 00:48:28,640 Do not forget that someone has to go with your great-aunt 632 00:48:28,890 --> 00:48:31,360 and it cannot be the donkey, can it? 633 00:48:41,700 --> 00:48:44,910 Well, I'm the eldest girl. I'll go. 634 00:48:45,160 --> 00:48:50,120 No. I've always known I was destined for tragedy. I'll go. 635 00:48:50,370 --> 00:48:52,170 Aggy go. 636 00:48:52,420 --> 00:48:55,960 Don't be silly, Aggy. You're not even a whole girl yet. 637 00:48:57,170 --> 00:49:00,260 No. She wanted me. I'll go. 638 00:49:00,510 --> 00:49:02,600 You can't all go. 639 00:49:13,980 --> 00:49:16,730 Well, I am entirely satisfied. 640 00:49:16,980 --> 00:49:21,490 I will keep my word, Cedric, if you will keep yours. 641 00:49:21,740 --> 00:49:25,370 You must give those children a mother before the month is out. 642 00:49:25,620 --> 00:49:26,990 No. 643 00:49:28,910 --> 00:49:30,120 What? 644 00:49:30,370 --> 00:49:34,630 You cannot order me around. And you certainly can't take any of my children. 645 00:49:34,880 --> 00:49:36,420 l... 646 00:49:36,670 --> 00:49:40,380 Your carriage awaits, madam. 647 00:49:40,630 --> 00:49:42,680 Is the chosen one seated? 648 00:49:42,930 --> 00:49:46,010 - lndeed she is. - Good. 649 00:49:46,260 --> 00:49:49,850 - All is prepared. - Which chosen one? What's prepared? 650 00:49:50,100 --> 00:49:52,850 Cedric, in view of this afternoon's happy outcome, 651 00:49:53,100 --> 00:49:56,730 I am willing to overlook that last unattractive outburst. 652 00:49:56,980 --> 00:49:59,400 - Nanny McPhee. - Off we go, Hewitt. 653 00:49:59,650 --> 00:50:02,490 - What have you done? - I have done nothing, sir. 654 00:50:02,740 --> 00:50:05,200 The children have decided amongst themselves. 655 00:50:05,450 --> 00:50:07,580 Decided what? What do you mean? 656 00:50:07,830 --> 00:50:09,830 There you are, dear. 657 00:50:10,080 --> 00:50:13,250 Not little Chrissie. 658 00:50:14,420 --> 00:50:16,040 Chrissie! 659 00:50:19,550 --> 00:50:20,920 Chrissie! 660 00:50:22,220 --> 00:50:23,340 Yah! 661 00:50:25,090 --> 00:50:26,470 Chrissie! 662 00:50:31,270 --> 00:50:34,230 Now, then, you'd better tell me your name, little girl. 663 00:50:38,320 --> 00:50:39,280 Christianna! 664 00:50:39,360 --> 00:50:42,280 Don't be shy, my dear. What is your name? 665 00:50:46,370 --> 00:50:49,080 Sit up straight and tell me your name. 666 00:50:51,450 --> 00:50:53,500 No! 667 00:50:54,830 --> 00:50:56,750 - Christianna! - Papa! 668 00:50:57,000 --> 00:50:59,750 Papa! Papa! 669 00:51:02,510 --> 00:51:05,380 Oh! 670 00:51:09,350 --> 00:51:10,890 Then...then who...? 671 00:51:14,730 --> 00:51:18,480 Evangeline. My name's Evangeline. 672 00:51:26,950 --> 00:51:30,950 And what a pretty name it is, too. 673 00:51:34,250 --> 00:51:36,420 Evangeline... 674 00:51:38,130 --> 00:51:39,630 Oh. 675 00:52:02,190 --> 00:52:04,610 Time for bed. 676 00:52:04,820 --> 00:52:08,660 - Thank you for saving me, Nanny McPhee. - Hm. 677 00:52:10,490 --> 00:52:13,290 Yes. Thank you. 678 00:52:13,490 --> 00:52:15,710 Thank you. 679 00:52:15,910 --> 00:52:18,250 - Thank you. - Thank you. 680 00:52:34,720 --> 00:52:36,180 Hm. 681 00:52:38,390 --> 00:52:41,190 Papa was going to let her take me. 682 00:52:41,400 --> 00:52:46,240 No, Christianna. Your father would never have allowed it. 683 00:52:54,040 --> 00:52:57,830 - Goodnight, children. - Goodnight, Nanny McPhee. 684 00:53:02,290 --> 00:53:04,590 She hasn't got any warts at all now. 685 00:53:04,800 --> 00:53:07,670 Do you think she's using some sort of cream? 686 00:53:35,830 --> 00:53:39,330 Thank you, Nanny McPhee. You were a tremendous help. 687 00:53:39,540 --> 00:53:40,830 Not at all. 688 00:53:41,040 --> 00:53:43,130 You will find that lesson three, 689 00:53:43,330 --> 00:53:46,750 to get dressed when they're told, is complete. 690 00:53:46,960 --> 00:53:49,340 Just to get dressed when they're told? 691 00:53:49,420 --> 00:53:52,180 They've learned a great deal more than that. 692 00:53:53,800 --> 00:53:55,970 I have five lessons to teach. 693 00:53:56,180 --> 00:54:00,730 What lessons they learn is entirely up to them. Goodnight, Mr Brown. 694 00:54:00,940 --> 00:54:04,860 - Nanny McPhee... - Yes, Mr Brown? 695 00:54:05,060 --> 00:54:09,440 She will be all right, won't she? Evangeline, I mean. 696 00:54:10,990 --> 00:54:14,120 I can't help being concerned. 697 00:54:14,320 --> 00:54:18,370 Aunt Adelaide can be so, erm... Well, you saw. 698 00:54:18,580 --> 00:54:21,080 She will certainly be all right. 699 00:54:21,290 --> 00:54:23,830 Good. 700 00:54:24,040 --> 00:54:26,420 I suppose she volunteered to go, did she? 701 00:54:26,540 --> 00:54:29,000 Couldn't wait to be shot of us, I imagine. 702 00:54:29,210 --> 00:54:31,050 Not quite. 703 00:54:31,260 --> 00:54:32,800 It was Simon's idea. 704 00:54:33,010 --> 00:54:35,510 He knew Evangeline might like to educate herself 705 00:54:35,720 --> 00:54:38,890 and that her going would save Christianna. 706 00:54:39,100 --> 00:54:40,890 He's a very clever boy. 707 00:54:41,100 --> 00:54:43,060 Good heavens. Simon, eh? 708 00:54:43,140 --> 00:54:46,690 Well, good for him. Quick...quick thinking. 709 00:54:46,900 --> 00:54:49,190 Goodnight, Mr Brown. 710 00:55:03,580 --> 00:55:06,170 So that's it, then. 711 00:55:06,380 --> 00:55:09,340 I shall have to marry...Quickly. 712 00:56:02,140 --> 00:56:05,480 Children, your father has asked me to tell you 713 00:56:05,680 --> 00:56:09,560 there's a Mrs Quickly coming for tea tomorrow. 714 00:56:10,650 --> 00:56:14,570 - Nanny McPhee? - Yes, sweetheart? 715 00:56:14,780 --> 00:56:19,160 Can you stop Papa from marrying a horrible stepmother? 716 00:56:21,280 --> 00:56:22,990 I'm afraid not. 717 00:56:23,200 --> 00:56:28,540 - Even if you wanted to? - Even if I wanted to. 718 00:56:28,750 --> 00:56:33,630 I cannot interfere with affairs of the heart. 719 00:56:41,140 --> 00:56:43,600 Perhaps Simon could talk to him about it. 720 00:56:43,810 --> 00:56:46,020 He won't listen. 721 00:56:57,610 --> 00:56:59,860 You have a visitor, Mr Brown. 722 00:57:00,070 --> 00:57:03,660 An especially eager visitor, Mr Brown. 723 00:57:13,130 --> 00:57:16,590 Quickly by name... 724 00:57:16,800 --> 00:57:17,920 Oh! 725 00:57:18,130 --> 00:57:20,300 Simon, my boy. 726 00:57:20,510 --> 00:57:22,760 Well, come in. 727 00:57:22,970 --> 00:57:24,930 Come on, I won't bite. 728 00:57:27,980 --> 00:57:32,020 - Father, we want to ask you something. - Well, of course. 729 00:57:32,230 --> 00:57:34,270 Of course. Anything at all. Ask away. 730 00:57:34,480 --> 00:57:37,190 Who is Mrs Quickly? 731 00:57:38,740 --> 00:57:42,570 Good heavens, such a face. She's, er... 732 00:57:42,780 --> 00:57:45,530 She's...she's a friend. She's...a friend. 733 00:57:45,740 --> 00:57:47,660 Just a friend? 734 00:57:47,870 --> 00:57:48,580 Well, my boy, 735 00:57:48,660 --> 00:57:51,250 it's not exactly any of your business, is it? 736 00:57:51,460 --> 00:57:53,710 It is if she's to be our new mother. 737 00:57:53,920 --> 00:57:55,710 Who said anything about that? 738 00:57:55,920 --> 00:57:58,840 It is true? You are going to marry her? 739 00:58:00,510 --> 00:58:02,260 You go too far, Simon. 740 00:58:02,470 --> 00:58:04,970 - You must not question... - I didn't. 741 00:58:05,180 --> 00:58:06,890 - Don't contradict me! - I'm not! 742 00:58:07,100 --> 00:58:10,020 You do not understand the adult world. 743 00:58:10,230 --> 00:58:13,190 You know, there are certain things that... 744 00:58:13,400 --> 00:58:16,110 certain things... 745 00:58:16,320 --> 00:58:18,690 You will leave me this instant. Go home! 746 00:58:21,450 --> 00:58:23,490 You never listen! 747 00:58:52,980 --> 00:58:54,980 Nanny McPhee? 748 00:58:57,860 --> 00:58:59,980 Nanny McPhee? 749 01:00:04,550 --> 01:00:06,930 Hello, Simon. 750 01:00:07,130 --> 01:00:08,720 Can I help you? 751 01:00:08,930 --> 01:00:11,060 I did knock. 752 01:00:11,260 --> 01:00:14,480 I know. I heard you. 753 01:00:18,060 --> 01:00:20,480 May I be of assistance? 754 01:00:24,190 --> 01:00:27,410 We need you to, erm... 755 01:00:27,610 --> 01:00:30,030 I mean...you saved Chrissie. 756 01:00:31,120 --> 01:00:32,950 And so... 757 01:00:33,160 --> 01:00:36,040 You're on our side, is what I mean. 758 01:00:36,250 --> 01:00:38,210 Aren't you? 759 01:00:38,420 --> 01:00:43,130 You saved Chrissie, and I do not take sides. 760 01:00:45,010 --> 01:00:51,220 I...we... need you to help us get rid of this woman, Mrs Quickly. 761 01:00:51,430 --> 01:00:56,980 It will not surprise you to hear that I cannot agree to that, Simon. 762 01:00:57,180 --> 01:01:01,110 Then let us do whatever we have to do to get rid of her. 763 01:01:01,310 --> 01:01:05,150 Are you prepared to accept the consequences? 764 01:01:05,360 --> 01:01:06,740 Yes. 765 01:01:06,940 --> 01:01:10,910 - You promise? - Yes. Yes, absolutely, I promise. 766 01:01:14,370 --> 01:01:20,370 Then I will, as you put it, let you do whatever you have to do. 767 01:01:20,580 --> 01:01:22,380 Thank you. 768 01:01:24,170 --> 01:01:26,670 Thank you. 769 01:01:29,180 --> 01:01:33,600 Look at them! Will you just look at them? 770 01:01:35,810 --> 01:01:39,980 The little, small things. 771 01:01:41,150 --> 01:01:43,560 Children, this is, er... Mrs Quickly. 772 01:01:43,770 --> 01:01:45,780 Oh, you mustn't be so formal. 773 01:01:45,980 --> 01:01:50,450 You must call me Auntie Selma. 774 01:01:50,650 --> 01:01:54,410 Oh, dear me, one does work up such a thirst in this heat. 775 01:01:55,740 --> 01:01:58,160 Oh. Tea, of course. Do go through. I'll... 776 01:01:58,370 --> 01:02:02,420 And leave these dear creatures? How can you ask it of me? 777 01:02:04,460 --> 01:02:07,840 - Oh, the heart of the house. - Yes, yes. 778 01:02:08,050 --> 01:02:10,300 - The old bachelor's den. - Mm. 779 01:02:10,510 --> 01:02:13,720 - Well, l... - lsn't it enchanting? 780 01:02:13,930 --> 01:02:16,220 Ooh! Have you read all those books? 781 01:02:16,430 --> 01:02:18,470 - Well, l, er... - Clever. 782 01:02:18,680 --> 01:02:22,900 - Take my chair. It's more comfortable. - Thank you. Ooh! 783 01:02:23,100 --> 01:02:25,900 Well, what have we here? 784 01:02:26,110 --> 01:02:29,190 I see there is already provision for a lady. 785 01:02:29,320 --> 01:02:30,900 How thoughtful you are. 786 01:02:31,110 --> 01:02:33,160 What a gentleman. 787 01:02:35,070 --> 01:02:39,080 Wait! Er...just let me make it, er...comfy for you. 788 01:02:39,290 --> 01:02:40,870 Too, too precious. 789 01:02:41,080 --> 01:02:44,830 Here in the centre of the male dominion, 790 01:02:45,040 --> 01:02:48,420 ..an oasis of feminine charm and elegance. 791 01:02:48,630 --> 01:02:53,010 There, just as I thought. It's dusty. It just needs a good old thump. 792 01:02:53,220 --> 01:02:56,300 There. All thumped and ready to go. 793 01:02:56,510 --> 01:03:00,850 There you go again. Nothing is too much trouble for you. 794 01:03:02,060 --> 01:03:06,860 I observed that very characteristic on the sad day we buried Mr Quickly. 795 01:03:07,060 --> 01:03:10,530 Even in my demented grief, I said to my friend Letitia Carter... 796 01:03:10,740 --> 01:03:15,280 Remember her? A pinker complexion than my own. She takes too much sun. 797 01:03:15,490 --> 01:03:19,490 I said, "Kindness seems to be second nature to him." 798 01:03:19,700 --> 01:03:21,700 "He is a perfect gentleman." 799 01:03:21,910 --> 01:03:25,920 "There's something so masculine and yet retiring in his manner..." 800 01:03:26,130 --> 01:03:27,960 Mr Brown! 801 01:03:33,470 --> 01:03:35,510 Un moment, I pray you. 802 01:03:35,720 --> 01:03:37,680 I don't know what came over me. 803 01:03:37,890 --> 01:03:42,140 I do. I understand. I never took you for such. 804 01:03:42,350 --> 01:03:47,150 But now I see it. Passion is clearly your nature, too. 805 01:03:47,350 --> 01:03:52,490 I feel it. Who would have thought we were such kindred spirits? 806 01:03:52,690 --> 01:03:54,240 Passion is my life. 807 01:03:54,320 --> 01:03:57,870 In fact, Mr Brown, what is life without it? 808 01:03:58,820 --> 01:04:02,660 A grey wheel of habit, spinning idly on. 809 01:04:10,880 --> 01:04:14,670 This is no time for food, Mrs Quickly... 810 01:04:14,800 --> 01:04:15,300 Selma. 811 01:04:15,510 --> 01:04:18,300 I couldn't possibly swallow it under the circumstances. 812 01:04:18,510 --> 01:04:20,930 You are tempestuous, Mr Brown. 813 01:04:22,140 --> 01:04:25,350 - Tea? - Yes, tea. 814 01:04:25,560 --> 01:04:29,270 We must blanket the raw impulse with that reliable beverage. 815 01:04:32,650 --> 01:04:35,320 That's a nice bit of porcelain. Is that Spode? 816 01:04:35,440 --> 01:04:37,280 I like a bit of Spode. Tasteful. 817 01:04:37,490 --> 01:04:41,120 Anyway, so essential for upholding the normal... 818 01:04:41,330 --> 01:04:44,750 - You don't want that. - How right you are. 819 01:04:44,950 --> 01:04:47,620 You see into my inmost self. 820 01:04:47,830 --> 01:04:52,630 What is tea when we can drink from the nectar of our emotions? 821 01:04:52,840 --> 01:04:54,670 Let the common herd drink tea. 822 01:04:54,880 --> 01:04:58,630 Our souls need a more divine libation! 823 01:05:03,220 --> 01:05:06,430 Oh! You mad fool! I say. 824 01:05:06,640 --> 01:05:09,480 No, no, not here amongst the cutlery. 825 01:05:09,690 --> 01:05:11,980 I say! 826 01:05:13,610 --> 01:05:17,030 I must go before my reputation is in tatters on this rug. 827 01:05:17,240 --> 01:05:19,450 Lovely rug. Is it Chinese silk? 828 01:05:19,660 --> 01:05:22,240 Must escape before all is lost. 829 01:05:22,450 --> 01:05:23,780 Wait! 830 01:05:23,990 --> 01:05:28,460 Heavens to Betsy! You are inflamed! 831 01:05:28,660 --> 01:05:33,340 How does a lonely widow best you? What defences does she have? 832 01:05:35,090 --> 01:05:38,010 All it takes is one question, Cedric, and I'm yours. 833 01:05:38,220 --> 01:05:43,510 - Ask me or you'll lose me forever. - Oh, no... Absolutely. 834 01:05:43,720 --> 01:05:46,310 Say it. Say it. 835 01:05:46,520 --> 01:05:50,350 - Say it. Say it. - No! 836 01:05:51,060 --> 01:05:55,570 Oh! No! This is too much, sir! 837 01:05:56,940 --> 01:05:59,070 You are a cad! 838 01:06:00,950 --> 01:06:04,200 A bounder and a cad! 839 01:06:04,990 --> 01:06:07,830 Yeah! 840 01:06:08,040 --> 01:06:09,910 Papa's coming. 841 01:06:21,590 --> 01:06:24,430 She's gone. 842 01:06:24,640 --> 01:06:29,100 The only person in the whole world who stands between all of us 843 01:06:29,310 --> 01:06:31,980 and total ruin... 844 01:06:32,190 --> 01:06:35,060 and she's gone. 845 01:06:36,610 --> 01:06:38,730 What's ruin? 846 01:06:40,240 --> 01:06:44,870 There's no time to mince words. I can't support my own family. 847 01:06:45,070 --> 01:06:48,660 I never have been able to. There are so many of you. 848 01:06:50,000 --> 01:06:52,040 But you're all so delicious. 849 01:06:52,250 --> 01:06:55,670 When Aggy came along and your mother was so ill, I said, 850 01:06:55,880 --> 01:07:00,210 "We may have to stop now, dear," and she said... 851 01:07:00,420 --> 01:07:02,930 She said, "l know." 852 01:07:10,560 --> 01:07:13,690 The fact of the matter is, your Great-Aunt Adelaide 853 01:07:13,890 --> 01:07:17,820 has been supporting us for years with a monthly allowance. 854 01:07:18,020 --> 01:07:20,440 A little while ago, she told me 855 01:07:20,650 --> 01:07:23,820 that I had to remarry or the allowance would stop. 856 01:07:24,030 --> 01:07:27,030 This woman today was my last chance. 857 01:07:27,240 --> 01:07:29,370 Our last chance. 858 01:07:29,580 --> 01:07:31,330 Ours? 859 01:07:32,790 --> 01:07:36,460 When the money stops, the house will be taken. 860 01:07:36,670 --> 01:07:40,090 Some of you will perhaps be put into the workhouse. 861 01:07:40,300 --> 01:07:44,840 Some will be put into the care... into the care of others. 862 01:07:45,930 --> 01:07:49,760 I don't know how many of you will be allowed to stay together. 863 01:07:56,650 --> 01:07:58,690 I'm sorry to have failed you, children. 864 01:08:02,740 --> 01:08:05,320 You deserve so much better. 865 01:08:10,280 --> 01:08:14,330 - Do something. - What would you suggest? 866 01:08:14,540 --> 01:08:19,460 Change what happened. Bang your stick. Make it undo itself. 867 01:08:19,670 --> 01:08:21,880 I cannot. These were your actions. 868 01:08:22,090 --> 01:08:25,760 Simon promised that you would accept the consequences. 869 01:08:25,970 --> 01:08:29,430 What shall we do? Help us. Tell us what to do. 870 01:08:29,640 --> 01:08:34,230 - You must undo it for yourselves. - How? How? 871 01:08:34,430 --> 01:08:36,770 Think. 872 01:08:36,980 --> 01:08:39,810 You are very clever, children. 873 01:08:40,020 --> 01:08:41,610 Think. 874 01:08:45,280 --> 01:08:46,650 So, 'e was keen? 875 01:08:46,740 --> 01:08:49,990 Oh, Letty, he was in a maddened condition. 876 01:08:50,200 --> 01:08:53,370 He couldn't keep his hands off me. But I held firm. 877 01:08:53,580 --> 01:08:58,420 I said, "Shedric..." I mean, "Cedric, I have my reputation to uphold." 878 01:08:58,620 --> 01:09:01,540 "It's marriage or nothing. What do you take me for?" 879 01:09:01,750 --> 01:09:03,050 "Some common...?" 880 01:09:03,250 --> 01:09:05,880 - Tart? - Not for me. I'm bloated. 881 01:09:06,090 --> 01:09:08,470 No."Some common tart." You said... 882 01:09:08,680 --> 01:09:11,470 Who's that knocking? 883 01:09:11,680 --> 01:09:13,720 It might be him. 884 01:09:15,600 --> 01:09:18,890 If you've come to fumble with my fastenings... Oh. 885 01:09:20,480 --> 01:09:23,150 Mrs Quickly, we're very sorry about the tea... 886 01:09:23,230 --> 01:09:24,610 you had with our father. 887 01:09:24,820 --> 01:09:27,240 Typical of a man, sending his little ones... 888 01:09:27,360 --> 01:09:28,490 to do the dirty work. 889 01:09:28,700 --> 01:09:31,240 No. He doesn't know we're... 890 01:09:31,450 --> 01:09:33,950 I mean, he very much wants to marry you. 891 01:09:34,160 --> 01:09:38,210 I know what he wanted. No wonder there's so many of you! 892 01:09:38,410 --> 01:09:42,920 Wait. Father wasn't being rude. No one on earth could be less rude. 893 01:09:43,130 --> 01:09:46,380 He was protecting you from the naughty things we were doing. 894 01:09:46,590 --> 01:09:49,720 - The toad in the teapot. - And the wormy sandwiches. 895 01:09:49,930 --> 01:09:53,390 That was my idea! I mean, my fault. 896 01:09:53,600 --> 01:09:56,600 I have no idea to what you can be referring. 897 01:09:56,810 --> 01:10:00,940 Don't try to make excuses for him. He's a flounder and a gad. 898 01:10:01,150 --> 01:10:04,650 He's not. He's a good man. He was just trying to save us. 899 01:10:04,860 --> 01:10:07,400 If he doesn't marry, all the money will go. 900 01:10:07,490 --> 01:10:09,700 We'll be thrown out onto the streets. 901 01:10:09,900 --> 01:10:13,780 - Money? What money? - Our Great-Aunt Adelaide's money. 902 01:10:13,990 --> 01:10:16,490 Lady Adelaide Stitch. 903 01:10:16,700 --> 01:10:19,410 Lady? Ooh! 904 01:10:20,710 --> 01:10:22,670 - Mr Brown. - Mrs Quickly. 905 01:10:22,880 --> 01:10:26,130 - Your children have explained it all. - Explained? 906 01:10:26,340 --> 01:10:28,630 That their tricks during tea was a result... 907 01:10:28,760 --> 01:10:30,300 of their motherless condition, 908 01:10:30,510 --> 01:10:33,140 that they need a woman's presence to calm them, 909 01:10:33,340 --> 01:10:36,100 and that you could benefit from that presence, 910 01:10:36,310 --> 01:10:38,470 pathetic and lonely as you are. 911 01:10:38,680 --> 01:10:44,730 And all it takes is one little question, Cedric. 912 01:10:47,190 --> 01:10:50,360 Oh. Oh, y... er...yes, of course. 913 01:10:50,570 --> 01:10:52,950 Erm...just give me...Yes. 914 01:10:54,320 --> 01:10:56,240 - Mrs Quickly... - Selma. 915 01:10:56,450 --> 01:10:58,330 Yes, I mean Selma. 916 01:10:58,540 --> 01:11:02,710 Would you do me the honour of becoming my... 917 01:11:05,330 --> 01:11:08,210 - ..of becoming my... - Wife. 918 01:11:08,420 --> 01:11:13,720 - Exactly. Wife. That's the word. - Yes. Oh, yes, Cedric. 919 01:11:19,350 --> 01:11:22,140 Off you go now, dears. 920 01:11:22,350 --> 01:11:25,690 Let Daddy have a little moment to himself... 921 01:11:25,770 --> 01:11:27,270 with your new mummy. 922 01:11:31,280 --> 01:11:34,280 A bit big for this nightie, aren't... 923 01:11:34,410 --> 01:11:36,870 you, sweetheart? We'll have a new one made. 924 01:11:46,710 --> 01:11:48,750 I'm sorry. 925 01:11:51,090 --> 01:11:54,590 I should have told you. I can see that now. 926 01:11:54,800 --> 01:11:58,680 If I'd discussed it with you before, we wouldn't be in this mess. 927 01:12:00,310 --> 01:12:03,270 No, it was our fault. 928 01:12:05,730 --> 01:12:09,610 We should have known you had a good reason for getting married. 929 01:12:09,820 --> 01:12:13,030 At least this way, we'll all be together. 930 01:12:13,110 --> 01:12:16,160 That's what matters most, isn't it? Hm? 931 01:12:16,360 --> 01:12:19,740 I promise I'll never hide anything that affects us from you again. 932 01:12:19,950 --> 01:12:23,040 I see you're more than capable of understanding it. 933 01:12:24,580 --> 01:12:27,500 - Papa? - Yes, my boy? 934 01:12:27,710 --> 01:12:31,960 Do you think Mama still thinks about us where she is? 935 01:12:34,760 --> 01:12:37,010 I'm sure she does. 936 01:12:38,890 --> 01:12:41,010 I know she does. 937 01:12:46,600 --> 01:12:50,650 Now, Chrissie, why don't you choose us a story? 938 01:12:52,730 --> 01:12:55,320 939 01:12:55,530 --> 01:12:59,070 - - Lesson four is complete. 940 01:12:59,280 --> 01:13:02,740 941 01:13:02,950 --> 01:13:05,370 Lesson four? 942 01:13:06,750 --> 01:13:09,290 To listen. 943 01:13:12,290 --> 01:13:13,920 Well done. 944 01:13:14,130 --> 01:13:19,680 945 01:13:19,890 --> 01:13:23,100 946 01:13:23,310 --> 01:13:26,730 947 01:13:26,930 --> 01:13:32,900 948 01:13:33,860 --> 01:13:39,780 949 01:13:40,870 --> 01:13:53,500 950 01:13:58,340 --> 01:14:01,340 The big day. I do love my weddings. 951 01:14:01,550 --> 01:14:04,140 Mr Brown. What's he really like? 952 01:14:04,350 --> 01:14:07,060 No idea. Keen as mustard to tie the knot, though. 953 01:14:07,270 --> 01:14:11,020 Had to sort this out quick. Only got the sheep dipped yesterday. 954 01:14:11,230 --> 01:14:15,070 But he's easily controlled, unlike his nasty little brood. 955 01:14:15,270 --> 01:14:17,780 However will you manage them, Selma? 956 01:14:17,990 --> 01:14:20,910 I've got a few tricks up my sleeve. Never you mind. 957 01:14:21,110 --> 01:14:24,080 I started off by giving them a good clean-up. 958 01:14:24,280 --> 01:14:26,540 Oh, don't they look lovely? 959 01:14:28,450 --> 01:14:31,250 Sebastian, your top button is undone. 960 01:14:31,460 --> 01:14:35,800 Lily, you have a little hair caught in your crook. Eric, help her, please. 961 01:14:36,000 --> 01:14:38,840 Your father will be down in a moment. 962 01:14:39,050 --> 01:14:43,720 Now, that is an improvement. Letty, go and keep a lookout. 963 01:14:44,680 --> 01:14:46,890 I say, whatever your name is, 964 01:14:47,100 --> 01:14:50,230 give me a second on my own with the little darlings? 965 01:14:55,230 --> 01:15:00,070 Now, my dears, there's going to be some changes made round here. 966 01:15:01,740 --> 01:15:04,070 I'm in charge of this household now 967 01:15:04,280 --> 01:15:08,790 and while I'm in charge, you children will behave. 968 01:15:08,990 --> 01:15:12,750 Do you hear? Behave. 969 01:15:12,960 --> 01:15:17,340 Behave. 970 01:15:19,670 --> 01:15:22,510 And we're not having any of that nasty noise... 971 01:15:22,630 --> 01:15:24,800 all the way through my nice wedding. 972 01:15:25,010 --> 01:15:29,930 Shut her up. 973 01:15:31,890 --> 01:15:33,560 Naughty. 974 01:15:33,770 --> 01:15:36,060 It's our mother's rattle. Give it back. 975 01:15:36,270 --> 01:15:38,440 I'm your mother now. 976 01:15:44,070 --> 01:15:46,160 Time to adapt. 977 01:15:55,500 --> 01:15:57,590 Papa, Mrs Quickly... 978 01:15:57,790 --> 01:15:59,960 Yoo-hoo, Cedric. 979 01:16:00,170 --> 01:16:03,720 I realise the bride and groom shouldn't meet until the ceremony, 980 01:16:03,920 --> 01:16:06,800 but you and I are old hands at this. 981 01:16:07,010 --> 01:16:11,140 She's here! Lady Stitch! 982 01:16:11,350 --> 01:16:13,020 Selma, there's footmen. 983 01:16:15,020 --> 01:16:18,690 Oi, make way! 984 01:16:22,360 --> 01:16:23,820 Where's the woman? 985 01:16:24,030 --> 01:16:27,450 - Aunt Adelaide... - Shut up! Where's the woman, Cedric? 986 01:16:27,660 --> 01:16:30,370 May I present my...fiancee, Selma Quickly. 987 01:16:30,490 --> 01:16:32,200 Selma, this is Lady Stitch. 988 01:16:32,410 --> 01:16:36,290 Your Ladyness. Welcome, if I may be so bold, 989 01:16:36,500 --> 01:16:39,090 to our humble, nay, lowly festivities. 990 01:16:39,290 --> 01:16:42,510 You shower glory upon us from above. 991 01:16:42,710 --> 01:16:46,550 The very air about you shines with... 992 01:16:46,760 --> 01:16:50,930 with...with aboveness. 993 01:16:51,140 --> 01:16:55,310 A gracious welcome, I must say. Rise, my dear. 994 01:16:55,520 --> 01:16:58,310 Here are the children in their, erm...shepherdess outfits. 995 01:16:58,520 --> 01:17:02,690 Well, that's the girls. The boys... I'm not sure what they are. 996 01:17:02,900 --> 01:17:04,940 But, erm...anyway, you can see. 997 01:17:05,150 --> 01:17:07,320 Oh, keep up, will you? 998 01:17:26,590 --> 01:17:28,590 Who's that? 999 01:17:28,800 --> 01:17:32,890 - It's a princess. - A fairy princess. 1000 01:17:34,560 --> 01:17:37,310 It's Evangeline. 1001 01:17:40,060 --> 01:17:43,980 Straight back. Remember your vowels. 1002 01:17:45,320 --> 01:17:50,660 May I present my adopted daughter, Miss Evangeline Stitch. 1003 01:17:54,700 --> 01:17:58,330 What are we doing milling about in this dreary vestibule? 1004 01:17:58,540 --> 01:18:00,670 Sherry this instant. 1005 01:18:00,880 --> 01:18:05,380 Might I beg the honour of pouring the privileged schooners myself? 1006 01:18:06,590 --> 01:18:09,720 Delectable to see you again, madam. 1007 01:18:09,930 --> 01:18:12,090 Blinkin' hell! 1008 01:18:14,310 --> 01:18:17,180 And how nice to see the young people. 1009 01:18:17,390 --> 01:18:21,520 Welcome back, Evangeline. You look well. Are you well? 1010 01:18:21,730 --> 01:18:24,730 I am most content. 1011 01:18:26,030 --> 01:18:29,820 You must be very happy to be marrying again. 1012 01:18:30,860 --> 01:18:35,790 Oh, yes, I'm... I'm... How did you put it? Most content. 1013 01:18:35,990 --> 01:18:38,870 Of course. Good grief. 1014 01:18:40,500 --> 01:18:42,540 I am so glad. 1015 01:18:42,750 --> 01:18:44,920 Evangeline! 1016 01:18:45,130 --> 01:18:47,710 Pray excuse me. 1017 01:18:50,130 --> 01:18:54,390 Are you sure it's Evangeline? It doesn't look anything like her. 1018 01:18:54,600 --> 01:18:57,470 Nonsense. She's always looked like that. 1019 01:19:29,210 --> 01:19:32,760 What can we do? There has to be another way. 1020 01:19:32,970 --> 01:19:36,180 - Behave. - Beehive. 1021 01:19:36,390 --> 01:19:38,260 You must do as you're told. 1022 01:19:38,470 --> 01:19:40,810 - Behave. - Beehive. 1023 01:19:41,020 --> 01:19:45,980 Lesson number five, Simon. You must do exactly as you're told. 1024 01:19:54,990 --> 01:19:56,740 Beehive. 1025 01:19:56,950 --> 01:19:58,330 Beehive? 1026 01:19:58,530 --> 01:20:00,240 Please be seated. 1027 01:20:02,040 --> 01:20:04,370 There isn't a beehive. What do you mean? 1028 01:20:07,630 --> 01:20:12,130 Dearly beloved, we are gathered here together 1029 01:20:12,340 --> 01:20:17,180 in the sight of God and in the face of this congregation 1030 01:20:17,390 --> 01:20:21,680 to join together this man and this woman 1031 01:20:21,890 --> 01:20:24,850 in holy matrimony, 1032 01:20:25,060 --> 01:20:30,400 which is an honourable estate instituted of God 1033 01:20:30,610 --> 01:20:33,570 in the time of man's innocence... 1034 01:20:36,070 --> 01:20:38,700 ..and commended of St Paul... 1035 01:20:38,910 --> 01:20:42,240 ..to be honoured among all men. 1036 01:20:42,450 --> 01:20:44,120 Get off! 1037 01:20:44,330 --> 01:20:46,960 - And is therefore... - Get off! 1038 01:20:47,170 --> 01:20:50,670 - .. not by any man to be enterprised... - There's one on you! 1039 01:20:50,880 --> 01:20:56,380 .. nor taken in hand unadvisedly, lightly, wantonly... 1040 01:20:57,300 --> 01:21:01,810 - There's one on your back! - ..to satisfy man's carnal lusts... 1041 01:21:02,010 --> 01:21:05,600 It's the flowers on her dress! They're attracting them! 1042 01:21:05,810 --> 01:21:08,810 - I hate bees. I'm allergic. - There aren't any bees, you fool! 1043 01:21:09,020 --> 01:21:11,770 No, truly, I swell up. 1044 01:21:11,980 --> 01:21:13,360 They're trying to ruin... 1045 01:21:13,440 --> 01:21:15,900 my lovely wedding. Nasty, vicious creatures. 1046 01:21:16,110 --> 01:21:18,740 Do something! 1047 01:21:20,450 --> 01:21:23,990 Cedric, look at me. Do you see any bees? 1048 01:21:31,960 --> 01:21:36,760 I said, look at me! Do you see any bees? Do you? 1049 01:21:36,970 --> 01:21:39,390 - Do you? - I do. 1050 01:21:39,590 --> 01:21:44,270 It's all right. I've got the little bugger. 1051 01:21:44,470 --> 01:21:47,020 It's on me! 1052 01:21:47,230 --> 01:21:52,150 Lord love a duck! I'm so dreadfully sorry! 1053 01:21:54,860 --> 01:21:56,570 No, no, no, no, no... 1054 01:21:59,950 --> 01:22:03,410 Oh, my Lord. Your Higherness! 1055 01:22:32,940 --> 01:22:36,070 - Don't touch the cake! - Get the tarts! 1056 01:22:36,280 --> 01:22:38,820 - Not me good ones! - Ow, he hit me! 1057 01:22:39,900 --> 01:22:41,910 Attack! 1058 01:22:43,700 --> 01:22:46,040 Not the cake! Not the cake! 1059 01:22:47,950 --> 01:22:50,710 Right! I'll have the lot of you! 1060 01:22:50,920 --> 01:22:53,580 Simon, bowling practice. 1061 01:23:23,910 --> 01:23:26,490 Evangeline, where are your manners? 1062 01:23:26,700 --> 01:23:28,490 Sod my manners, you old trout. 1063 01:23:28,700 --> 01:23:31,790 This is the first fun I've had in weeks! 1064 01:23:32,000 --> 01:23:36,710 - Oh, Lord. - Letty, my hair. Where is it? 1065 01:23:36,920 --> 01:23:41,010 "Look at them, the little, small things." 1066 01:23:41,220 --> 01:23:46,470 That's it! You dreadful, awful, monstrous creatures! 1067 01:23:46,680 --> 01:23:48,930 Take your hands off my children! 1068 01:23:49,140 --> 01:23:53,480 Cedric, it's over! I won't spend another minute with this rabble 1069 01:23:53,690 --> 01:23:56,980 and I don't care how much the old hag is giving you. 1070 01:23:57,190 --> 01:23:59,820 Letty, the lambs! 1071 01:24:03,740 --> 01:24:06,570 - This dress is ruined! - Absolute carnage! 1072 01:24:06,780 --> 01:24:10,580 A nice choice for a wife, I must say, Cedric. 1073 01:24:10,790 --> 01:24:13,660 I'm sorry. You gave me no time to find anyone else. 1074 01:24:13,870 --> 01:24:16,420 As for your children, a lengthy spell... 1075 01:24:16,540 --> 01:24:19,340 in a corrective institution is long overdue. 1076 01:24:19,550 --> 01:24:22,050 And you, Evangeline, I can see... 1077 01:24:22,130 --> 01:24:25,260 that you are as wild as the rest of them. 1078 01:24:25,470 --> 01:24:28,010 And proud to be. I love them, Lady Stitch, 1079 01:24:28,140 --> 01:24:29,680 which is more than you do. 1080 01:24:29,890 --> 01:24:31,770 Insolence! 1081 01:24:31,970 --> 01:24:33,810 I'd leave you here to rot, 1082 01:24:33,930 --> 01:24:36,850 but I gave my word that I would raise you 1083 01:24:37,060 --> 01:24:41,070 and I never, ever, break my word. Come away now. 1084 01:25:07,130 --> 01:25:08,970 Wait, Aunt Adelaide! Wait! 1085 01:25:10,350 --> 01:25:12,640 You agreed. You gave your word 1086 01:25:12,850 --> 01:25:15,640 that if our father remarried this month, you'd support us. 1087 01:25:15,850 --> 01:25:17,520 I did. 1088 01:25:17,730 --> 01:25:20,900 So if he marries today, you'll have to keep your word. 1089 01:25:21,110 --> 01:25:23,650 - Oh, you're wasting my time! - No. 1090 01:25:23,860 --> 01:25:26,700 No. No, I'm not. 1091 01:25:28,070 --> 01:25:30,120 - He will marry today. - What? 1092 01:25:30,320 --> 01:25:31,450 - What? - What? 1093 01:25:31,660 --> 01:25:32,660 What? 1094 01:25:32,870 --> 01:25:37,420 - Who? - He'll marry Evangeline. 1095 01:25:46,420 --> 01:25:48,880 Incest? 1096 01:25:49,090 --> 01:25:53,060 No! No, Aunt Adelaide. Evangeline isn't our sister. 1097 01:25:53,260 --> 01:25:55,810 - Not your sister? - Of course she's not our sister. 1098 01:25:57,270 --> 01:25:59,400 Well, who is she, then? 1099 01:26:02,900 --> 01:26:05,360 I'm his scullery maid. 1100 01:26:05,570 --> 01:26:06,780 What? 1101 01:26:06,990 --> 01:26:10,320 Evangeline, do you love Papa? 1102 01:26:12,830 --> 01:26:17,330 Of course not. I know my place. That wouldn't be right. I mean... 1103 01:26:19,250 --> 01:26:20,750 Yes. 1104 01:26:27,470 --> 01:26:29,470 Papa, do you love Evangeline? 1105 01:26:29,680 --> 01:26:31,890 What? That would be totally improper. 1106 01:26:32,090 --> 01:26:35,180 A thing like that could...could never happen. 1107 01:26:35,310 --> 01:26:36,640 I mean, obviously... 1108 01:26:42,440 --> 01:26:44,150 Yes. 1109 01:26:47,820 --> 01:26:51,320 He's marrying the scullery maid? 1110 01:26:51,530 --> 01:26:52,820 Oh! 1111 01:27:43,040 --> 01:27:45,170 It's snowing! 1112 01:27:45,380 --> 01:27:48,130 Well, I never! Snow! 1113 01:27:48,340 --> 01:27:50,800 Snow in August! 1114 01:28:11,820 --> 01:28:14,450 I take it, then, Mr Brown, 1115 01:28:14,660 --> 01:28:18,240 that the young lady is not in fact the fruit of your loins? 1116 01:28:18,450 --> 01:28:23,870 Because the Church would have to take a rather dim view of it if she were. 1117 01:28:24,080 --> 01:28:28,250 No. What happened was my son Simon is a very clever boy. 1118 01:28:28,460 --> 01:28:30,000 Evangeline... 1119 01:28:30,210 --> 01:28:31,010 for the record, 1120 01:28:31,130 --> 01:28:33,510 whatever I may have said about stepmothers, 1121 01:28:33,720 --> 01:28:35,680 that whole "evil breed" moment, 1122 01:28:35,890 --> 01:28:39,470 most emphatically does not apply to you. 1123 01:28:44,100 --> 01:28:46,230 This way. 1124 01:28:46,440 --> 01:28:52,400 Jolly good. If I may then invite you all to join us once more. 1125 01:28:52,610 --> 01:28:54,110 Hallelujah. 1126 01:28:54,320 --> 01:28:58,870 Oh, Nanny McPhee... I'm so nervous. 1127 01:28:59,080 --> 01:29:01,200 Deep breaths. 1128 01:29:02,370 --> 01:29:05,460 I don't look much like a bride, do l? 1129 01:29:07,120 --> 01:29:09,340 You will. 1130 01:30:01,760 --> 01:30:04,180 How's the reading coming along? 1131 01:30:04,390 --> 01:30:06,680 It's much better. 1132 01:30:06,890 --> 01:30:09,980 But I still haven't got to the end of that story. 1133 01:30:10,190 --> 01:30:14,900 No need. You are the end of the story. 1134 01:30:41,840 --> 01:30:45,770 Dearly beloved, we are gathered together 1135 01:30:45,970 --> 01:30:49,850 to join together this man and this woman 1136 01:30:50,060 --> 01:30:53,270 in holy matrimony. 1137 01:30:58,990 --> 01:31:01,820 Make a loud noise and rejoice 1138 01:31:02,030 --> 01:31:04,240 and sing praise. 1139 01:31:20,630 --> 01:31:21,970 There is something... 1140 01:31:22,050 --> 01:31:24,800 you should understand about the way I work. 1141 01:31:25,010 --> 01:31:30,060 When you need me but do not want me, then I must stay. 1142 01:31:30,270 --> 01:31:34,190 When you want me but no longer need me, 1143 01:31:34,400 --> 01:31:36,520 then I have to go. 1144 01:34:04,130 --> 01:34:06,010 Yoo-hoo! 1145 01:35:06,690 --> 01:34:06,010 [ © anoXmous @ https://thepiratebay.sx/user/anoXmous/]