1 00:00:01,720 --> 00:00:04,480 [dramatic music] 2 00:00:38,560 --> 00:00:40,560 [Henry] No Beatrice, I have already told you. 3 00:00:40,680 --> 00:00:41,560 [Beatrice] Told us yes. 4 00:00:41,680 --> 00:00:42,960 [Henry] It is completely out of the question. 5 00:00:43,080 --> 00:00:43,920 [Beatrice] But you haven't even listened 6 00:00:44,040 --> 00:00:45,160 to what we've been saying. 7 00:00:45,280 --> 00:00:45,640 [Henry] I have listened to more than enough 8 00:00:45,760 --> 00:00:48,280 of your insolence my girl. 9 00:00:48,400 --> 00:00:50,000 [Evie] Please father, she's only trying to explain. 10 00:00:50,120 --> 00:00:51,240 [Henry] You keep out of this Evangeline. 11 00:00:51,360 --> 00:00:53,160 [Evie] But it's my future that you're discussing. 12 00:00:53,280 --> 00:00:54,880 [Henry] And there is nothing more to be said. 13 00:00:55,000 --> 00:00:55,960 [Evie] That's not fair. 14 00:00:56,080 --> 00:00:58,160 [Henry] Did you not hear what I said? 15 00:00:59,280 --> 00:01:00,600 I will decide what is best for you Evangeline 16 00:01:00,720 --> 00:01:03,400 and that is final. 17 00:01:03,520 --> 00:01:05,800 [door slams] 18 00:01:09,440 --> 00:01:10,400 Do you think we should apologise? 19 00:01:10,520 --> 00:01:13,440 No Evie, we have nothing to apologise for. 20 00:01:14,960 --> 00:01:16,880 I've never seen him so angry. 21 00:01:17,000 --> 00:01:18,520 It was a perfectly reasonable request 22 00:01:18,640 --> 00:01:19,640 which anyone but father 23 00:01:19,760 --> 00:01:21,120 would at least have considered. 24 00:01:26,360 --> 00:01:27,720 Perhaps breakfast wasn't the best time 25 00:01:27,840 --> 00:01:28,800 to bring it up. 26 00:01:28,920 --> 00:01:31,200 There is no best time with him Evie. 27 00:01:31,320 --> 00:01:32,880 He should have sent you to school in the first place 28 00:01:33,000 --> 00:01:34,040 instead of finding the cheapest 29 00:01:34,160 --> 00:01:36,440 most ineffectual governors in the country. 30 00:01:36,560 --> 00:01:38,680 But you didn't go to school either. 31 00:01:38,800 --> 00:01:39,760 I had mother. 32 00:01:41,120 --> 00:01:42,280 It's what she would have wanted for you, 33 00:01:42,400 --> 00:01:43,720 I know it is. 34 00:01:43,840 --> 00:01:44,760 If not art school, 35 00:01:44,880 --> 00:01:45,760 somewhere else where you could mix 36 00:01:45,880 --> 00:01:47,480 with other young people. 37 00:01:47,600 --> 00:01:49,240 -Miss Bea, come quick. -What? 38 00:01:49,360 --> 00:01:52,080 The master. He's having some sort of attack. 39 00:01:54,120 --> 00:01:56,600 [sombre music] 40 00:02:10,120 --> 00:02:11,880 There was nothing I could do about it mother. 41 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:13,600 I'm only his executor. 42 00:02:13,720 --> 00:02:15,800 It was specified in the will. 43 00:02:15,920 --> 00:02:18,040 A private funeral, family only, 44 00:02:18,160 --> 00:02:19,760 no hymns, no flowers. 45 00:02:19,880 --> 00:02:21,520 Typical of Henry. 46 00:02:21,640 --> 00:02:23,040 Penny pinching to the last. 47 00:02:24,560 --> 00:02:27,280 One owes it to other people to make a splash. 48 00:02:28,240 --> 00:02:29,840 What about his patients? 49 00:02:29,960 --> 00:02:31,160 And his medical friends? 50 00:02:32,960 --> 00:02:34,160 I'm sure Beatrice and Evangeline 51 00:02:34,280 --> 00:02:36,680 are relieved that it to be a quiet affair. 52 00:02:36,800 --> 00:02:38,800 Quiet is one thing, 53 00:02:38,920 --> 00:02:40,640 complete silence is another. 54 00:02:42,240 --> 00:02:44,560 When I think of your dear father's funeral. 55 00:02:44,680 --> 00:02:45,920 That was rather different. 56 00:02:46,040 --> 00:02:50,000 Yes. How many funerals get into the Tackler? 57 00:02:50,120 --> 00:02:51,120 That might have had something to do 58 00:02:51,240 --> 00:02:53,000 with the Duke of York being present. 59 00:02:53,880 --> 00:02:56,520 [bells ringing] 60 00:03:02,600 --> 00:03:05,360 [birds chirping] 61 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:10,960 Thou knowest Lord the secrets of our hearts. 62 00:03:11,080 --> 00:03:15,000 Shut not thy merciful ears to our prayer, 63 00:03:15,120 --> 00:03:18,080 but spare us Lord most holy. 64 00:03:18,200 --> 00:03:20,280 Oh God most mighty, 65 00:03:20,400 --> 00:03:22,760 Oh holy and merciful saviour, 66 00:03:23,680 --> 00:03:26,160 thou most worthy judge eternal. 67 00:03:26,280 --> 00:03:29,080 Suffer us not at our last hour, 68 00:03:29,200 --> 00:03:33,080 for any pains of death to fall from thee, 69 00:03:34,240 --> 00:03:36,600 for as much as it hath pleased almighty God 70 00:03:36,720 --> 00:03:38,320 of his great mercy 71 00:03:38,440 --> 00:03:39,960 to take unto himself 72 00:03:40,080 --> 00:03:43,400 the soul of our dear brother here departed. 73 00:03:43,520 --> 00:03:47,120 We therefore commit his body to the ground. 74 00:03:50,400 --> 00:03:52,000 It's an admirably simple will 75 00:03:52,120 --> 00:03:54,080 drawn up by my partner rather myself. 76 00:03:54,200 --> 00:03:55,440 It seemed only proper, 77 00:03:55,560 --> 00:03:56,240 since I'm a relative 78 00:03:56,360 --> 00:03:57,440 as well as a beneficiary. 79 00:03:59,360 --> 00:04:01,520 He's bequeathed to me his medical library. 80 00:04:04,040 --> 00:04:06,040 Otherwise, the entire estate goes to the two of you. 81 00:04:06,160 --> 00:04:07,880 That is to say the house and its contents 82 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:09,440 together with all his investments. 83 00:04:11,080 --> 00:04:12,280 I should of course have to go into it all 84 00:04:12,400 --> 00:04:13,760 with the bank and the stockbrokers 85 00:04:13,880 --> 00:04:16,360 before I can tell you the exact amount involved. 86 00:04:16,480 --> 00:04:17,840 We've arranged an appointment at my office 87 00:04:17,960 --> 00:04:19,440 in a week or so, 88 00:04:19,560 --> 00:04:21,000 but I think I can safely say 89 00:04:21,120 --> 00:04:23,080 that it will be a not inconsiderable sum. 90 00:04:27,680 --> 00:04:28,440 In the meantime, 91 00:04:28,560 --> 00:04:29,520 I've made an arrangement with the bank 92 00:04:29,640 --> 00:04:30,640 to open a temporary account 93 00:04:30,760 --> 00:04:32,160 with overdraft facilities. 94 00:04:33,440 --> 00:04:35,760 You mean we'll be able to draw out money? 95 00:04:35,880 --> 00:04:38,440 You'll be young ladies of means. 96 00:04:38,560 --> 00:04:41,280 [dramatic music] 97 00:04:45,240 --> 00:04:47,240 [Beatrice chuckles softly] 98 00:04:47,360 --> 00:04:49,240 [dramatic music] 99 00:04:49,360 --> 00:04:50,440 [Beatrice sighs] 100 00:04:50,560 --> 00:04:53,320 [dramatic music] 101 00:04:56,560 --> 00:04:59,000 [Evie crying] 102 00:05:01,240 --> 00:05:04,000 [dramatic music] 103 00:05:09,520 --> 00:05:11,160 [Evie crying] 104 00:05:11,280 --> 00:05:14,040 [dramatic music] 105 00:05:20,280 --> 00:05:22,080 Evie. Oh little one. 106 00:05:24,680 --> 00:05:27,000 [Evie sobbing] 107 00:05:27,120 --> 00:05:29,920 I'm sorry, I didn't mean to wake you. 108 00:05:30,040 --> 00:05:31,520 But I wasn't asleep. 109 00:05:37,240 --> 00:05:39,120 I know he could be strict on me. 110 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:42,040 He could be awful, 111 00:05:44,120 --> 00:05:46,000 but I think he meant for the best. 112 00:05:48,440 --> 00:05:50,680 In spite of everything, I did love him. 113 00:05:50,800 --> 00:05:51,680 I know. 114 00:05:54,040 --> 00:05:54,880 Here. 115 00:06:00,640 --> 00:06:03,640 [Evie sniffling] 116 00:06:03,760 --> 00:06:06,400 -I feel so guilty too. -You? 117 00:06:06,520 --> 00:06:08,280 It was me you were quarrelling about. 118 00:06:08,400 --> 00:06:10,640 But it could have happened any time, 119 00:06:10,760 --> 00:06:11,840 the doctor said so. 120 00:06:13,720 --> 00:06:14,600 But what happens, 121 00:06:14,720 --> 00:06:15,880 it wouldn't happen so soon. 122 00:06:16,000 --> 00:06:18,640 No Evie, I refuse to feel guilty 123 00:06:18,760 --> 00:06:19,840 and neither must you. 124 00:06:20,960 --> 00:06:22,160 If he had been a reasonable man, 125 00:06:22,280 --> 00:06:24,920 we could have discussed it calmly. 126 00:06:25,040 --> 00:06:26,680 I was damned if I was going to stand by 127 00:06:26,800 --> 00:06:28,000 and watch you waste away your youth 128 00:06:28,120 --> 00:06:29,960 as I've wasted mine. 129 00:06:30,080 --> 00:06:32,400 -Looking after me? -Nonsense! 130 00:06:32,520 --> 00:06:33,680 If I hadn't been born, 131 00:06:33,800 --> 00:06:35,080 mother might still be alive 132 00:06:35,200 --> 00:06:36,960 and you wouldn't have been stuck with me. 133 00:06:37,080 --> 00:06:40,160 No Evie, you must never think that. 134 00:06:41,880 --> 00:06:43,000 Having you has been the one thing 135 00:06:43,120 --> 00:06:45,160 that's made it all worthwhile. 136 00:06:45,280 --> 00:06:48,000 [dramatic music] 137 00:06:51,000 --> 00:06:53,960 I can't wait to get these beasley books out of the house. 138 00:06:54,080 --> 00:06:55,960 Arthur, he's welcome to look. 139 00:06:57,720 --> 00:06:59,360 Do you remember that time that I pinched one 140 00:06:59,480 --> 00:07:02,320 and learned all the section on male anatomy by heart? 141 00:07:02,440 --> 00:07:03,880 I remember Ms. Pilkington's face 142 00:07:04,000 --> 00:07:05,960 when she found your drawings. 143 00:07:06,080 --> 00:07:08,360 Well, made a change from bowls of fruit. 144 00:07:08,480 --> 00:07:11,360 [Beatrice chuckles] 145 00:07:11,480 --> 00:07:13,000 Isn't it odd? 146 00:07:13,120 --> 00:07:14,000 I know all there is to know 147 00:07:14,120 --> 00:07:15,800 about a man's anatomy, 148 00:07:15,920 --> 00:07:17,320 and absolutely nothing about men. 149 00:07:17,440 --> 00:07:19,040 Oh, you still have time to learn. 150 00:07:19,160 --> 00:07:21,680 You're not an old maid like your sister. 151 00:07:21,800 --> 00:07:23,440 30 is not that old Bea. 152 00:07:23,560 --> 00:07:24,600 It is when half the single men 153 00:07:24,720 --> 00:07:25,880 have been wiped out. 154 00:07:26,000 --> 00:07:27,320 The rest can have the pickings. 155 00:07:29,360 --> 00:07:30,440 Was there ever anyone? 156 00:07:32,000 --> 00:07:33,760 There might have been. 157 00:07:33,880 --> 00:07:35,480 Father soon saw him off. 158 00:07:36,760 --> 00:07:38,680 Afraid he'd lose his unpaid housekeeper. 159 00:07:40,840 --> 00:07:41,960 Was it Philip White? 160 00:07:42,920 --> 00:07:44,240 I thought so. 161 00:07:44,360 --> 00:07:46,600 I remember him coming around when we were little. 162 00:07:46,720 --> 00:07:48,960 He played snakes and ladders with us. 163 00:07:49,080 --> 00:07:50,480 I've always hated this room. 164 00:07:51,920 --> 00:07:56,000 Me too. I used to dread being summoned here by father. 165 00:07:56,120 --> 00:07:58,040 It's so dark and drab. 166 00:07:59,120 --> 00:08:00,760 We'll get rid of all this old furniture 167 00:08:00,880 --> 00:08:02,880 and redecorate it ourselves. 168 00:08:03,000 --> 00:08:05,040 Yes, like we did our room. 169 00:08:05,160 --> 00:08:05,960 I'll think of some ideas. 170 00:08:06,080 --> 00:08:08,400 Something light and sunny, 171 00:08:08,520 --> 00:08:10,560 and we'll have electricity installed. 172 00:08:10,680 --> 00:08:12,120 That'll please Molly. 173 00:08:12,240 --> 00:08:14,200 And we'll engage another maid as well. 174 00:08:14,320 --> 00:08:16,000 It's far too much for one. 175 00:08:16,120 --> 00:08:18,160 Especially now, we'll be going out more. 176 00:08:20,200 --> 00:08:21,600 I still can't believe we're going to be free 177 00:08:21,720 --> 00:08:23,080 to do as we wish. 178 00:08:23,200 --> 00:08:25,880 We'll do all the things mother would have wanted us to. 179 00:08:26,000 --> 00:08:27,960 Travel, theatres, galleries. 180 00:08:28,080 --> 00:08:29,320 -Art school? -Of course! 181 00:08:29,440 --> 00:08:31,360 And a social life that extends a little further 182 00:08:31,480 --> 00:08:33,320 than aunt Lydia and Arthur. 183 00:08:33,440 --> 00:08:36,800 [Evie chuckles] 184 00:08:36,920 --> 00:08:39,560 It seems awful planning our future like this. 185 00:08:39,680 --> 00:08:40,840 Father was only just.. 186 00:08:40,960 --> 00:08:44,040 At least now we have a future to plan. 187 00:08:44,160 --> 00:08:46,480 [soft music] 188 00:08:52,800 --> 00:08:54,960 Will we truly be able to go to Paris? 189 00:08:55,080 --> 00:08:56,320 If Nancy Cunard can, 190 00:08:56,440 --> 00:08:58,080 why shouldn't we? 191 00:08:58,200 --> 00:08:59,880 We'll take a room in the Latin quarter. 192 00:09:00,000 --> 00:09:02,960 Hobnob with poets and jazz musicians. 193 00:09:03,080 --> 00:09:04,640 Drink wine and cognac, 194 00:09:04,760 --> 00:09:05,640 and black coffee. 195 00:09:05,760 --> 00:09:07,800 And smoke Russian cigarettes. 196 00:09:07,920 --> 00:09:09,360 And wear African bangles. 197 00:09:09,480 --> 00:09:10,680 And while we're about it, 198 00:09:10,800 --> 00:09:11,920 we're calling on madam Chanel 199 00:09:12,040 --> 00:09:13,480 at the rue Cambon. 200 00:09:13,600 --> 00:09:14,560 Could you give us a few tips 201 00:09:14,680 --> 00:09:15,960 on dressmaking please? 202 00:09:16,080 --> 00:09:18,560 [Beatrice chuckles] 203 00:09:18,680 --> 00:09:20,840 It's not just a game anymore, is it? 204 00:09:20,960 --> 00:09:22,320 We'll actually be able to do these things. 205 00:09:22,440 --> 00:09:23,880 We certainly will. 206 00:09:24,000 --> 00:09:25,520 Tomorrow, we'll go to the bank. 207 00:09:30,960 --> 00:09:32,280 Thank you very much. 208 00:09:32,400 --> 00:09:35,120 [dramatic music] 209 00:09:37,040 --> 00:09:37,720 [upbeat music] 210 00:09:37,840 --> 00:09:39,400 [Beatrice and Evie chuckle] 211 00:09:39,520 --> 00:09:42,040 [upbeat music] 212 00:11:17,800 --> 00:11:19,480 Look at that cake. 213 00:11:21,480 --> 00:11:23,360 Mother once took me here, 214 00:11:23,480 --> 00:11:25,000 on my tenth birthday. 215 00:11:26,000 --> 00:11:28,080 We'd been to the national gallery. 216 00:11:28,200 --> 00:11:30,120 You had tea at Gunter's? 217 00:11:31,800 --> 00:11:33,720 Father didn't know of course. 218 00:11:33,840 --> 00:11:35,680 He thought we were going to the dentist. 219 00:11:38,800 --> 00:11:40,800 I shall take you there, 220 00:11:40,920 --> 00:11:42,680 after we've seen Arthur. 221 00:11:42,800 --> 00:11:44,560 It shall be our celebration. 222 00:11:51,640 --> 00:11:53,960 I'm sorry to be the harbinger of such news, 223 00:11:55,520 --> 00:11:57,480 and to have raised your hopes falsefully. 224 00:11:58,760 --> 00:11:59,640 Suffice it to say 225 00:11:59,760 --> 00:12:00,880 that it came as much of a shock 226 00:12:01,000 --> 00:12:02,920 to me and to your aunt as it has to you. 227 00:12:04,080 --> 00:12:05,600 I don't understand. 228 00:12:05,720 --> 00:12:06,760 Surely there must.. 229 00:12:06,880 --> 00:12:07,520 Let me put it in layman's terms Evangeline. 230 00:12:07,640 --> 00:12:09,240 Perfectly simple Evie. 231 00:12:09,360 --> 00:12:10,880 Father has left us nothing but the house 232 00:12:11,000 --> 00:12:12,440 and a stack of bills. 233 00:12:12,560 --> 00:12:14,480 I didn't quite say that Beatrice. 234 00:12:14,600 --> 00:12:17,240 There are a few hundred pounds in his deposit account. 235 00:12:17,360 --> 00:12:18,040 Okay? If we invest it, 236 00:12:18,160 --> 00:12:18,840 that should give you each 237 00:12:18,960 --> 00:12:21,120 an annual income, say 40 pounds. 238 00:12:22,840 --> 00:12:24,880 But there must have been more. 239 00:12:25,000 --> 00:12:27,360 Father was a successful doctor. 240 00:12:27,480 --> 00:12:29,720 Not alas, a successful businessman. 241 00:12:31,280 --> 00:12:32,840 It seems he took bad advice. 242 00:12:32,960 --> 00:12:35,000 Speculated on high risk stocks 243 00:12:35,120 --> 00:12:36,440 and with the market so uncertain. 244 00:12:36,560 --> 00:12:38,920 I find that extremely difficult to believe. 245 00:12:39,040 --> 00:12:41,240 Father was neither a gambler nor a fool. 246 00:12:41,360 --> 00:12:42,360 Perhaps you didn't know your father 247 00:12:42,480 --> 00:12:44,600 as well as you thought Beatrice. 248 00:12:44,720 --> 00:12:46,480 [phone ringing] 249 00:12:46,600 --> 00:12:48,040 The bank account I opened for you 250 00:12:48,160 --> 00:12:50,560 will now of course have to be closed. 251 00:12:50,680 --> 00:12:52,760 But what are we going to do? 252 00:12:52,880 --> 00:12:54,840 How will we manage? 253 00:12:54,960 --> 00:12:57,040 It would be unwise to make any decisions 254 00:12:57,160 --> 00:12:59,000 until the dust has settled. 255 00:12:59,120 --> 00:13:01,120 The situation is obviously grave, 256 00:13:01,240 --> 00:13:03,080 but rest assured Evangeline, 257 00:13:03,920 --> 00:13:05,840 as your only male relative 258 00:13:05,960 --> 00:13:06,800 and as your legal guardian. 259 00:13:06,920 --> 00:13:07,920 What did you say? 260 00:13:09,120 --> 00:13:10,040 My guardian? 261 00:13:11,360 --> 00:13:12,240 Oh didn't I expect. 262 00:13:13,760 --> 00:13:15,560 Your fathers will entrusts you to my care 263 00:13:15,680 --> 00:13:17,280 until you come of age. 264 00:13:20,400 --> 00:13:22,120 What about Bea? 265 00:13:22,240 --> 00:13:23,480 She's my closest relative 266 00:13:23,600 --> 00:13:25,800 and she's always looked after me. 267 00:13:25,920 --> 00:13:26,880 On the domestic front yes, 268 00:13:27,000 --> 00:13:29,320 and an excellent job she's made of it 269 00:13:29,440 --> 00:13:31,840 but when it comes to the more crucial matters of life. 270 00:13:31,960 --> 00:13:33,720 I was not deemed good enough? 271 00:13:33,840 --> 00:13:35,560 Experienced enough. 272 00:13:37,000 --> 00:13:38,480 A young woman like Evangeline needs a man 273 00:13:38,600 --> 00:13:40,000 to protect her interests. 274 00:13:40,120 --> 00:13:41,840 As father protected them? 275 00:13:43,200 --> 00:13:46,160 [car engine roaring] 276 00:13:48,880 --> 00:13:50,640 All the time he must have known 277 00:13:50,760 --> 00:13:52,280 and he didn't even warn us. 278 00:13:52,400 --> 00:13:53,760 Perhaps he didn't realise 279 00:13:53,880 --> 00:13:56,440 how much of the money had gone, 280 00:13:56,560 --> 00:13:58,240 or perhaps he was just too ashamed to tell us. 281 00:13:58,360 --> 00:13:59,040 [Beatrice scoffs] 282 00:13:59,160 --> 00:14:02,560 [man playing harmonica] 283 00:14:02,680 --> 00:14:04,200 Oh, for heavens sake Evie. 284 00:14:04,320 --> 00:14:07,400 We can't afford to throw away money now. 285 00:14:07,520 --> 00:14:10,480 I'm sorry, I didn't think. 286 00:14:10,600 --> 00:14:12,240 Oh to hell! Come on. 287 00:14:13,600 --> 00:14:16,120 We'll have our tea at Gunter's. 288 00:14:28,840 --> 00:14:30,760 If we want to look so rich. 289 00:14:30,880 --> 00:14:31,760 Perhaps we should ask the waitress 290 00:14:31,880 --> 00:14:34,400 to put our tea onto one of their bills. 291 00:14:34,520 --> 00:14:36,000 I don't suppose they'd notice. 292 00:14:37,720 --> 00:14:39,920 Are you sure we have enough Bea? 293 00:14:40,040 --> 00:14:41,400 Provided we don't have another of these 294 00:14:41,520 --> 00:14:42,360 and we walk home. 295 00:14:45,080 --> 00:14:46,360 I still can't take it in. 296 00:14:47,880 --> 00:14:49,120 What will it actually mean? 297 00:14:49,240 --> 00:14:52,200 We promised not to talk about it, not now. 298 00:14:54,280 --> 00:14:56,800 Evie, look at that woman who's just come in. 299 00:14:56,920 --> 00:14:58,160 [Beatrice chuckles] 300 00:14:58,280 --> 00:15:00,920 The one with that hat like a chamber pot? 301 00:15:01,040 --> 00:15:03,720 [Beatrice] No, a friend who looks like a cottage loaf. 302 00:15:05,960 --> 00:15:07,720 She can't help the way she's shaped. 303 00:15:09,440 --> 00:15:12,080 Or she doesn't have to accentuate it like that, 304 00:15:13,520 --> 00:15:17,720 but if she wore something less fitted with simple lines, 305 00:15:20,040 --> 00:15:21,680 I think she'd look so much better. 306 00:15:23,720 --> 00:15:25,520 I see what you mean. 307 00:15:29,560 --> 00:15:32,200 Yes, but perhaps with a little.. 308 00:15:44,640 --> 00:15:46,000 To give it panache. 309 00:15:46,120 --> 00:15:48,680 Brilliant. Should we send it over to her? 310 00:15:48,800 --> 00:15:51,760 With compliments of the Eliott sisters. 311 00:15:51,880 --> 00:15:52,880 Order is welcome. 312 00:15:56,720 --> 00:15:58,640 Wouldn't it be marvellous? 313 00:16:04,280 --> 00:16:06,800 I suppose there's no point in dreaming any more. 314 00:16:10,480 --> 00:16:12,280 You obviously have to help them. 315 00:16:12,400 --> 00:16:13,640 You mean give them money? 316 00:16:15,080 --> 00:16:16,840 They are my cousins mother. 317 00:16:16,960 --> 00:16:18,360 Cousins once removed. 318 00:16:22,520 --> 00:16:23,440 Perhaps a small allowance? 319 00:16:23,560 --> 00:16:24,680 No Arthur. 320 00:16:25,680 --> 00:16:27,120 Start along that path, 321 00:16:27,240 --> 00:16:29,000 there's no knowing where it might end. 322 00:16:32,280 --> 00:16:34,280 I suppose if the worst comes to the worst, 323 00:16:34,400 --> 00:16:36,440 they may have to sell the house. 324 00:16:36,560 --> 00:16:38,120 I doubt we'd find a buyer. 325 00:16:38,240 --> 00:16:39,600 It is a bit of a white elephant. 326 00:16:39,720 --> 00:16:42,040 There is awkward size, unfashionable area. 327 00:16:42,160 --> 00:16:43,440 And without electricity. 328 00:16:43,560 --> 00:16:45,360 I did try to persuade uncle Henry 329 00:16:45,480 --> 00:16:46,840 to have it installed. 330 00:16:46,960 --> 00:16:49,240 At least that would have been a safe investment. 331 00:16:51,480 --> 00:16:53,760 Of course Evangeline will marry. 332 00:16:53,880 --> 00:16:55,440 She's young and pretty. 333 00:16:55,560 --> 00:16:57,160 And malleable. 334 00:16:57,280 --> 00:16:58,480 But as for Beatrice.. 335 00:16:58,600 --> 00:17:00,160 Not a hope. 336 00:17:00,280 --> 00:17:01,120 Apart from everything else, 337 00:17:01,240 --> 00:17:03,560 she has such a disconcerting manner. 338 00:17:03,680 --> 00:17:05,840 She had to grow up too quickly. 339 00:17:05,960 --> 00:17:07,560 She was always unstable, 340 00:17:07,680 --> 00:17:09,320 even as a small child. 341 00:17:09,440 --> 00:17:12,320 She threw one of my lead soldiers out of the window. 342 00:17:12,440 --> 00:17:15,400 Surely you don't hold that against her still? 343 00:17:15,520 --> 00:17:17,000 It spoiled my collection. 344 00:17:18,520 --> 00:17:19,840 Mind you, she did keep house 345 00:17:19,960 --> 00:17:22,120 for her father most efficiently. 346 00:17:22,240 --> 00:17:23,160 Anyone who could manage 347 00:17:23,280 --> 00:17:25,760 on what he gave her must score some points. 348 00:17:27,960 --> 00:17:31,040 I have it! Of course! 349 00:17:31,160 --> 00:17:32,800 Why didn't I think of it before? 350 00:17:34,040 --> 00:17:34,880 Paying guests? 351 00:17:35,000 --> 00:17:37,200 Handpicked by aunt Lydia of course. 352 00:17:37,320 --> 00:17:39,280 She even had some suitable people in mind. 353 00:17:39,400 --> 00:17:42,400 Some frightful old memsaab's from Singapore. 354 00:17:42,520 --> 00:17:44,480 What on earth did you say to her? 355 00:17:44,600 --> 00:17:46,040 I told her that even without money 356 00:17:46,160 --> 00:17:47,000 we fully intended 357 00:17:47,120 --> 00:17:49,480 to make some sort of life for ourselves, 358 00:17:49,600 --> 00:17:51,640 and that having skivvies for paying guests 359 00:17:51,760 --> 00:17:54,800 would be unlikely to contribute much to that life. 360 00:17:54,920 --> 00:17:56,200 A very lady Astor. 361 00:17:58,640 --> 00:18:01,680 I also told her we fully intended to look for work 362 00:18:02,800 --> 00:18:04,200 and that was when Arthur came to the telephone 363 00:18:04,320 --> 00:18:06,000 and started to pontificate about.. 364 00:18:07,320 --> 00:18:08,840 What's the matter? 365 00:18:08,960 --> 00:18:10,000 This is cashmere. 366 00:18:11,360 --> 00:18:12,080 Cashmere? 367 00:18:14,560 --> 00:18:15,280 You're right. 368 00:18:16,840 --> 00:18:18,480 I didn't know father owned anything like this. 369 00:18:18,600 --> 00:18:19,880 Nor did I. 370 00:18:20,000 --> 00:18:22,160 It must have cost the earth. 371 00:18:22,280 --> 00:18:23,000 Where did you find it? 372 00:18:23,120 --> 00:18:24,840 In the dressing room cupboard, 373 00:18:24,960 --> 00:18:26,040 with this suitcase. 374 00:18:32,360 --> 00:18:37,200 Oh Bea, beautiful. 375 00:18:38,800 --> 00:18:41,440 They're silk, all of them. Feel. 376 00:18:43,880 --> 00:18:46,640 So all his money didn't go on high risk stocks? 377 00:18:49,040 --> 00:18:50,440 Where do you suppose he wore them? 378 00:18:51,560 --> 00:18:54,200 On his trips to Bournemouth I suppose. 379 00:18:54,320 --> 00:18:57,000 No wonder he never let me pack for him. 380 00:18:57,120 --> 00:18:58,680 They were just stuffy old medical conferences. 381 00:18:58,800 --> 00:18:59,880 Not as stuffy as all that. 382 00:19:00,000 --> 00:19:02,640 He obviously found some time for pleasure. 383 00:19:04,480 --> 00:19:06,000 Imagine father in these. 384 00:19:06,120 --> 00:19:07,800 He must have looked quite a dandy. 385 00:19:10,000 --> 00:19:12,920 So much for his lectures on thrift. 386 00:19:13,040 --> 00:19:14,040 I like to think of him 387 00:19:14,160 --> 00:19:15,680 having a good time every now and then. 388 00:19:16,960 --> 00:19:18,040 I wouldn't grudge on that Evie 389 00:19:18,160 --> 00:19:18,840 if he'd ever given us 390 00:19:18,960 --> 00:19:20,960 anything to spend on clothes, 391 00:19:21,080 --> 00:19:22,200 instead of forcing us to make everything 392 00:19:22,320 --> 00:19:25,040 out of cheap remnants and improvised tat. 393 00:19:25,160 --> 00:19:26,920 Oh, but it was such fun making them, wasn't it? 394 00:19:27,040 --> 00:19:28,960 Yes Evie, but that is not the point. 395 00:19:31,320 --> 00:19:32,480 May we keep these, 396 00:19:33,640 --> 00:19:34,960 and the dress shirts? 397 00:19:35,080 --> 00:19:37,120 We could do something with them. 398 00:19:37,240 --> 00:19:39,000 Needn't it all go to charity, need it? 399 00:19:39,120 --> 00:19:41,400 No! From now on charity begins at home. 400 00:19:51,080 --> 00:19:53,520 Molly, I think it is time we had to talk. 401 00:19:53,640 --> 00:19:55,480 Is it about my wages? 402 00:19:55,600 --> 00:19:56,480 Or lack of them. 403 00:19:58,360 --> 00:20:01,080 You are aware of the situation father has left us in. 404 00:20:01,200 --> 00:20:02,720 Dirty shame I call it. 405 00:20:04,040 --> 00:20:05,640 Evangeline and I fully intend 406 00:20:05,760 --> 00:20:07,080 to look for work ourselves. 407 00:20:08,040 --> 00:20:09,360 I hope it won't be too long 408 00:20:09,480 --> 00:20:10,760 before we find something. 409 00:20:12,560 --> 00:20:13,280 In the meantime, 410 00:20:13,400 --> 00:20:14,680 we will pay you as much as we can. 411 00:20:14,800 --> 00:20:16,120 Don't you worry Ms. Bea, 412 00:20:16,240 --> 00:20:17,800 I've been thinking. 413 00:20:17,920 --> 00:20:19,480 Perhaps I could take him washing 414 00:20:19,600 --> 00:20:20,960 then you won't have to pay me nothing 415 00:20:21,080 --> 00:20:22,880 till you've got yourselves fixed up. 416 00:20:24,920 --> 00:20:25,800 Thank you. 417 00:20:37,240 --> 00:20:39,040 Excuse me, could you please tell us 418 00:20:39,160 --> 00:20:39,840 which of these papers 419 00:20:39,960 --> 00:20:41,640 have advertisements for jobs? 420 00:20:45,880 --> 00:20:50,920 Chauffeur, chauffeur, foot man, chauffeur. 421 00:20:51,200 --> 00:20:52,640 A lot of people must be buying cars. 422 00:20:52,760 --> 00:20:55,040 Secretary, lawyer's office. 423 00:20:55,160 --> 00:20:56,960 Oh no, male. 424 00:20:57,080 --> 00:21:00,600 Secretary, female. Shorthand and typing essential. 425 00:21:00,720 --> 00:21:01,680 That's no good. 426 00:21:03,080 --> 00:21:03,880 Plenty of nannies 427 00:21:04,000 --> 00:21:06,680 but they all insist on experience. 428 00:21:06,800 --> 00:21:07,520 Well, you've gained plenty of experience 429 00:21:07,640 --> 00:21:08,720 looking after me. 430 00:21:08,840 --> 00:21:10,880 Oh, I doubt your recommendation would count. 431 00:21:11,000 --> 00:21:12,840 Besides, one would have to live in. 432 00:21:14,280 --> 00:21:16,800 There isn't much work at all these days. 433 00:21:16,920 --> 00:21:17,600 Now the men are back, 434 00:21:17,720 --> 00:21:18,880 it's mostly for them, 435 00:21:19,000 --> 00:21:21,080 or for people with qualifications 436 00:21:21,200 --> 00:21:24,120 like assistant to laboratory technician. 437 00:21:24,240 --> 00:21:26,360 Our education wasn't quite up to that. 438 00:21:26,480 --> 00:21:28,200 Or translator for firm of publishers. 439 00:21:28,320 --> 00:21:30,280 French, Spanish, all that. 440 00:21:30,400 --> 00:21:31,520 He equipped us for nothing, 441 00:21:31,640 --> 00:21:32,920 nothing at all. 442 00:21:39,520 --> 00:21:41,240 Bea, don't worry. 443 00:21:41,360 --> 00:21:42,400 We'll find something. 444 00:21:42,520 --> 00:21:44,040 We'll have to, and soon 445 00:21:44,840 --> 00:21:45,840 The tradesmen won't let us 446 00:21:45,960 --> 00:21:47,480 have things on tick indefinitely. 447 00:21:52,360 --> 00:21:55,320 Manicurist required for gentleman's barbershop. 448 00:21:55,440 --> 00:21:57,000 Perhaps I could do that. 449 00:21:57,120 --> 00:22:00,960 Evie, can you see Aunt Lydia's face? 450 00:22:02,000 --> 00:22:02,880 There it is. 451 00:22:03,000 --> 00:22:04,760 Frank's sister Pearl spotted it. 452 00:22:04,880 --> 00:22:07,320 The one who works at Marshall and Snelgrove. 453 00:22:07,440 --> 00:22:09,520 The Danieli Academy requires young ladies 454 00:22:09,640 --> 00:22:10,600 as dancing partners. 455 00:22:10,720 --> 00:22:12,120 You could do that Miss Evie. 456 00:22:12,240 --> 00:22:13,280 Do you think so? 457 00:22:13,400 --> 00:22:15,520 You're young and a lady. 458 00:22:15,640 --> 00:22:16,560 Well, since they only take 459 00:22:16,680 --> 00:22:19,720 a very superior type of person at Danieli's. 460 00:22:19,840 --> 00:22:21,160 But I've only ever danced with Bea. 461 00:22:21,280 --> 00:22:23,440 It's just the same with a real man 462 00:22:23,560 --> 00:22:25,200 except there's less to get in the way. 463 00:22:25,320 --> 00:22:27,320 And that was only the wolksan polka. 464 00:22:27,440 --> 00:22:28,200 They're expected to know 465 00:22:28,320 --> 00:22:29,400 all the latest dances wouldn't they? 466 00:22:29,520 --> 00:22:30,600 The fox trot. 467 00:22:30,720 --> 00:22:33,120 Oh yeah, and the jog trot and the twinkle. 468 00:22:33,240 --> 00:22:34,480 I've never even heard of those. 469 00:22:34,600 --> 00:22:35,560 Don't you worry, 470 00:22:36,520 --> 00:22:38,000 I can teach you. 471 00:22:38,120 --> 00:22:40,160 Frank and me are demons. 472 00:22:43,800 --> 00:22:44,840 On loan from Pearl. 473 00:22:46,800 --> 00:22:49,560 The Original Dixieland Jass Band. 474 00:22:49,680 --> 00:22:50,960 Head up miss Evie. 475 00:22:52,200 --> 00:22:54,560 That's it, you've got it. 476 00:22:54,680 --> 00:22:56,080 Haven't I. 477 00:22:56,200 --> 00:22:57,400 Now we do this next bit we practised. 478 00:22:57,520 --> 00:22:58,440 Do you remember? 479 00:22:58,560 --> 00:22:59,320 Come on, show me. 480 00:22:59,440 --> 00:23:00,760 Watch. 481 00:23:00,880 --> 00:23:03,280 [soft music] 482 00:23:05,240 --> 00:23:07,440 -Do you remember now? -Yes. 483 00:23:07,560 --> 00:23:09,880 Come on then, we'll do it together. 484 00:23:10,000 --> 00:23:10,840 Go! 485 00:23:13,040 --> 00:23:15,800 Now come on Ms. Evie, hand up, 486 00:23:15,920 --> 00:23:17,640 -and head round. -[Evie] Now? 487 00:23:17,760 --> 00:23:19,640 And kick, and again. 488 00:23:21,120 --> 00:23:22,800 [soft music] 489 00:23:22,920 --> 00:23:24,360 [Molly screams in delight] 490 00:23:24,480 --> 00:23:25,880 [Evie] It won't be like this with a a man though, will it? 491 00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:28,040 If he's not cranky, he'll have no problems. 492 00:23:28,160 --> 00:23:28,840 [Molly screams in delight] 493 00:23:28,960 --> 00:23:29,640 See, it's quite good fun 494 00:23:29,760 --> 00:23:32,000 when you get a hang of it. 495 00:23:33,040 --> 00:23:35,840 There, you picked it up in no time. 496 00:23:35,960 --> 00:23:38,040 You're a natural born Pueblo here. 497 00:23:39,080 --> 00:23:40,880 Well, I don't know about that 498 00:23:41,000 --> 00:23:43,080 but it might be worth going to see Mr. Danieli. 499 00:23:44,320 --> 00:23:45,560 Don't tell Bea though. 500 00:23:45,680 --> 00:23:46,720 If I do get the job, 501 00:23:46,840 --> 00:23:48,680 I want it to come as a complete surprise. 502 00:23:49,880 --> 00:23:52,120 What sort of job is it? 503 00:23:52,240 --> 00:23:56,200 Tailor made. You remember the Spenser Ewell's? 504 00:23:56,320 --> 00:23:57,760 No, why should you? 505 00:23:57,880 --> 00:24:01,120 General Spenser Ewell was a patient of your uncle Richards. 506 00:24:02,280 --> 00:24:06,400 Arthur and I dined with them the other evening, 507 00:24:06,520 --> 00:24:08,920 and the general mentioned in passing 508 00:24:09,040 --> 00:24:10,720 that his elderly mother 509 00:24:10,840 --> 00:24:12,920 who lives in Belgravia 510 00:24:13,040 --> 00:24:14,960 is looking for a day companion. 511 00:24:18,520 --> 00:24:22,440 Someone reliable and from a sound background. 512 00:24:23,440 --> 00:24:24,720 I said it once. 513 00:24:24,840 --> 00:24:26,880 I know the very person. 514 00:24:27,000 --> 00:24:29,320 [soft music] 515 00:24:34,680 --> 00:24:35,480 In, 516 00:24:39,520 --> 00:24:43,280 [music drowns out speaker] 517 00:24:43,400 --> 00:24:44,720 and away. 518 00:24:44,840 --> 00:24:46,200 In! 519 00:24:46,320 --> 00:24:48,680 [soft music] 520 00:24:58,920 --> 00:25:00,520 And back. 521 00:25:00,640 --> 00:25:02,760 [soft music] 522 00:25:02,880 --> 00:25:03,800 In, in, in. 523 00:25:15,800 --> 00:25:18,320 [upbeat music] 524 00:25:27,880 --> 00:25:29,480 Bea, our troubles are over, 525 00:25:29,600 --> 00:25:30,560 I found a job. 526 00:25:30,680 --> 00:25:31,560 Where? 527 00:25:31,680 --> 00:25:33,400 At Danieli's dancing academy. 528 00:25:33,520 --> 00:25:34,440 Where? 529 00:25:34,560 --> 00:25:37,400 At Danieli's dancing academy. 530 00:25:37,520 --> 00:25:38,360 Doing what? 531 00:25:39,400 --> 00:25:42,240 Dancing. I was chosen from five other girls 532 00:25:42,360 --> 00:25:43,520 and I had to do the tango. 533 00:25:45,480 --> 00:25:46,640 Well, say something. 534 00:25:47,800 --> 00:25:49,600 Aren't you pleased? 535 00:25:49,720 --> 00:25:53,960 Well yes, but it isn't up to me, is it? 536 00:25:54,080 --> 00:25:56,960 Absolutely out of the question Evangeline. 537 00:25:57,080 --> 00:25:59,080 What sort of reputation do you think we'd get? 538 00:26:00,040 --> 00:26:02,680 A dancing partner at Danieli's? 539 00:26:02,800 --> 00:26:05,640 But it's a very respectable dancing academy. 540 00:26:05,760 --> 00:26:06,840 There is no such thing. 541 00:26:06,960 --> 00:26:09,000 Some utter cuds use those places. 542 00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:10,640 What on earth are you thinking of? 543 00:26:10,760 --> 00:26:12,560 Of earning some money. 544 00:26:12,680 --> 00:26:13,560 Mind you, it's Beatrice I blame. 545 00:26:13,680 --> 00:26:15,520 It wasn't Bea's fault. 546 00:26:15,640 --> 00:26:18,120 She didn't even know I was going for the interview. 547 00:26:19,720 --> 00:26:21,160 I wanted to surprise her. 548 00:26:25,120 --> 00:26:25,800 It is just as well 549 00:26:25,920 --> 00:26:28,280 that uncle Henry made you my wort. 550 00:26:28,400 --> 00:26:29,960 The world is full of dangers 551 00:26:30,080 --> 00:26:31,880 for pretty young creatures like you. 552 00:26:34,120 --> 00:26:35,280 I can see that I'm going to have to keep 553 00:26:35,400 --> 00:26:36,960 a very strict eye on you. 554 00:26:38,280 --> 00:26:42,000 So no more of this nonsense about Danieli's please. 555 00:26:43,320 --> 00:26:44,280 I told Mr. Danieli 556 00:26:44,400 --> 00:26:46,160 I would be starting on Monday. 557 00:26:46,280 --> 00:26:48,160 I will have my clerk draw up a letter informing him 558 00:26:48,280 --> 00:26:50,080 that you will not after all be available. 559 00:26:50,200 --> 00:26:51,600 You will make no further contact 560 00:26:51,720 --> 00:26:52,680 with the place yourself. 561 00:26:52,800 --> 00:26:53,800 Is that understood? 562 00:26:56,840 --> 00:26:59,040 I have no choice, have I? 563 00:27:02,440 --> 00:27:03,640 How are you getting home? 564 00:27:05,440 --> 00:27:06,960 By bus. 565 00:27:07,080 --> 00:27:08,200 I take it Beatrice will be meeting you. 566 00:27:08,320 --> 00:27:12,080 No, she's gone to see Mrs. Spenser Ewell. 567 00:27:12,200 --> 00:27:13,800 Oh yes. 568 00:27:13,920 --> 00:27:15,520 Well, then you'd better take a taxi cab. 569 00:27:15,640 --> 00:27:16,320 We can't have you travelling alone 570 00:27:16,440 --> 00:27:17,640 in public transport, can we? 571 00:27:20,560 --> 00:27:23,960 And before you get into the taxi, 572 00:27:24,080 --> 00:27:25,560 be absolutely certain to check 573 00:27:25,680 --> 00:27:26,720 that it has a door handle on the inside 574 00:27:26,840 --> 00:27:28,200 as well as the outside. 575 00:27:29,240 --> 00:27:30,640 Some I'm told have not. 576 00:27:34,800 --> 00:27:37,000 White slave traffic. 577 00:27:37,120 --> 00:27:39,440 [soft music] 578 00:28:32,960 --> 00:28:33,760 Yes madam? 579 00:28:33,880 --> 00:28:35,600 I'm Beatrice Eliott. 580 00:28:35,720 --> 00:28:37,360 I have an appointment with Mrs. Spenser Ewell. 581 00:28:37,480 --> 00:28:38,880 Will you please come in? 582 00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:39,840 Thank you. 583 00:28:43,680 --> 00:28:46,160 Am I supposed to know you? 584 00:28:46,280 --> 00:28:48,040 No, I.. 585 00:28:48,160 --> 00:28:51,360 Good. You can never be sure these days. 586 00:28:51,480 --> 00:28:54,240 I have come about the post of day companion. 587 00:28:54,360 --> 00:28:56,160 Oh yes. 588 00:28:57,720 --> 00:28:58,840 Your son the general 589 00:28:58,960 --> 00:29:00,560 is a friend of my aunt's. 590 00:29:00,680 --> 00:29:02,880 Elgie interfering again. 591 00:29:03,000 --> 00:29:04,480 He thinks I'm going batty. 592 00:29:06,320 --> 00:29:07,240 Well, sit down. 593 00:29:08,720 --> 00:29:09,920 Let me have a look at you. 594 00:29:15,840 --> 00:29:19,080 Well, at least you're a sensible age. 595 00:29:20,160 --> 00:29:22,640 Won't be making cow's eyes for foot men. 596 00:29:22,760 --> 00:29:25,120 [soft music] 597 00:29:39,640 --> 00:29:40,680 It's all right, 598 00:29:40,800 --> 00:29:41,760 don't you worry. 599 00:29:45,640 --> 00:29:46,720 Can I help? 600 00:29:46,840 --> 00:29:47,760 Oh yes please miss. 601 00:29:47,880 --> 00:29:49,360 If we could just get her home. 602 00:29:49,480 --> 00:29:51,920 [lady groans] 603 00:29:57,920 --> 00:30:01,080 It was my aunt, lady Lydia Eliott 604 00:30:01,200 --> 00:30:02,960 who recommended me to your son. 605 00:30:03,080 --> 00:30:07,160 Lydia? Oh yes I remember her. 606 00:30:07,280 --> 00:30:08,320 Pretty little creature 607 00:30:09,640 --> 00:30:11,360 but below the pale. 608 00:30:12,760 --> 00:30:15,120 Wasn't her father in trade? 609 00:30:15,240 --> 00:30:17,560 I have never heard anything about aunt Lydia's parents. 610 00:30:17,680 --> 00:30:19,360 I'm not surprised. 611 00:30:19,480 --> 00:30:21,480 Still, a dash of yeoman blood 612 00:30:21,600 --> 00:30:23,160 never harmed any family. 613 00:30:25,120 --> 00:30:27,160 You have good bones. 614 00:30:27,280 --> 00:30:28,120 Thank you. 615 00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:31,720 Like a sit tall girl. 616 00:30:31,840 --> 00:30:33,360 Extraordinary looking creature. 617 00:30:36,920 --> 00:30:37,960 We're nearly home. 618 00:30:40,120 --> 00:30:41,800 It's ever so good of you miss. 619 00:30:41,920 --> 00:30:43,760 I'm just glad I was there to help. 620 00:30:43,880 --> 00:30:45,040 I told her she shouldn't go out. 621 00:30:45,160 --> 00:30:47,840 She only had the baby four days ago. 622 00:30:52,200 --> 00:30:54,280 Charlie! My mum must take a bath. 623 00:30:54,400 --> 00:30:55,920 Go and fetch Millie. 624 00:30:56,040 --> 00:30:57,320 I'm all right. 625 00:30:59,280 --> 00:31:01,480 Miss Maddox, miss Maddox! 626 00:31:03,160 --> 00:31:06,040 Hey, what's going on? Mrs Watkins! 627 00:31:06,160 --> 00:31:07,960 I'm all right, all right. 628 00:31:08,080 --> 00:31:09,440 She's just collapsed in the street. 629 00:31:09,560 --> 00:31:10,480 Oh, poor old thing. 630 00:31:12,240 --> 00:31:13,480 I said they should never have allowed 631 00:31:13,600 --> 00:31:14,280 her out of the hospital. 632 00:31:14,400 --> 00:31:15,760 It's a disgrace. 633 00:31:15,880 --> 00:31:16,880 I shall take you there. 634 00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:18,880 This lady here helped us back. 635 00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:21,480 Hello. Penelope Maddox from the local mission. 636 00:31:22,680 --> 00:31:23,480 That's right Tilly, 637 00:31:23,600 --> 00:31:25,360 let's get her inside. 638 00:31:25,480 --> 00:31:28,360 I bought some milk and provisions, 639 00:31:28,480 --> 00:31:30,440 and there are some baby cribs in my basket. 640 00:31:30,560 --> 00:31:32,480 Would you do mind getting them? 641 00:31:32,600 --> 00:31:36,000 Come on. Let's get her out of the wheelchair. 642 00:31:36,120 --> 00:31:38,560 Are you good at reading aloud Ms. Erkut? 643 00:31:38,680 --> 00:31:40,200 Eliott. 644 00:31:40,320 --> 00:31:41,360 That is what I said. 645 00:31:42,320 --> 00:31:44,840 I used to read to my sister when she was small. 646 00:31:44,960 --> 00:31:47,800 Not how I imagined Ethel M. Dell. 647 00:31:47,920 --> 00:31:50,880 No. What would my other duties be 648 00:31:51,000 --> 00:31:52,000 Mrs. Spenser Ewell? 649 00:31:54,160 --> 00:31:59,000 Duties? Helping me through this maze 650 00:31:59,240 --> 00:32:01,000 my mind has become, 651 00:32:02,160 --> 00:32:05,200 picking up objects when I drop them, 652 00:32:05,320 --> 00:32:06,920 pushing me about in my bath chair 653 00:32:07,040 --> 00:32:08,960 when the weather allows it, 654 00:32:09,080 --> 00:32:11,040 putting up with my continual complaints. 655 00:32:12,560 --> 00:32:14,360 If you can do all that, 656 00:32:14,480 --> 00:32:16,120 the job is yours. 657 00:32:16,240 --> 00:32:18,800 [soft music] 658 00:32:18,920 --> 00:32:20,480 But if I were you, 659 00:32:20,600 --> 00:32:22,560 I wouldn't touch it with a barge pole. 660 00:32:22,680 --> 00:32:24,080 [dramatic music] 661 00:32:24,200 --> 00:32:25,960 Need the money I suppose? 662 00:32:26,800 --> 00:32:27,640 Yes. 663 00:32:29,240 --> 00:32:30,560 Well, think it over. 664 00:32:31,560 --> 00:32:33,360 Let me know by the end of the week, 665 00:32:33,480 --> 00:32:36,000 [bell rings] 666 00:32:37,800 --> 00:32:39,680 and do not say yes 667 00:32:39,800 --> 00:32:41,960 unless you are prepared to see me out. 668 00:32:47,880 --> 00:32:51,000 I hadn't realised people live like that. 669 00:32:51,120 --> 00:32:53,200 Thousands of them. 670 00:32:53,320 --> 00:32:55,560 The slum clearance will take to kingdom come. 671 00:32:56,640 --> 00:32:57,520 All those children? 672 00:32:58,520 --> 00:33:00,920 She's had two in the last 18 months, 673 00:33:01,040 --> 00:33:02,440 as well as a miscarriage. 674 00:33:03,520 --> 00:33:06,040 War was a rest cure for women like her. 675 00:33:07,120 --> 00:33:08,640 Seems so dreadful when they can't afford 676 00:33:08,760 --> 00:33:10,720 to feed or clothe them. 677 00:33:11,880 --> 00:33:13,760 Maury is right of course. 678 00:33:13,880 --> 00:33:15,400 Birth control is the only answer. 679 00:33:16,920 --> 00:33:19,080 He's hoping to open a clinic next year. 680 00:33:19,200 --> 00:33:20,720 Well, that's if the god bothering bigots 681 00:33:20,840 --> 00:33:22,800 don't clap her in irons first. 682 00:33:22,920 --> 00:33:25,560 The name Marie Stopes is like a red rag to them. 683 00:33:26,520 --> 00:33:28,520 Do you know Marie Stopes? 684 00:33:28,640 --> 00:33:30,240 She's an old family friend. 685 00:33:30,360 --> 00:33:33,080 My parents met her in Japan studying fossils. 686 00:33:34,720 --> 00:33:37,320 Have you read her book Married Love? 687 00:33:37,440 --> 00:33:38,720 No. 688 00:33:38,840 --> 00:33:41,880 Well, don't you dare get spiced until you have. 689 00:33:42,000 --> 00:33:43,360 I'll lend it to you if you like. 690 00:33:50,120 --> 00:33:51,600 Sorry, what did you say her name was? 691 00:33:51,720 --> 00:33:53,240 Penelope Maddox. 692 00:33:53,360 --> 00:33:55,640 She works for a mission that helps poor people, 693 00:33:56,880 --> 00:33:58,280 and she campaigned for those four women, 694 00:33:58,400 --> 00:34:00,760 and she knows Marie Stopes, 695 00:34:00,880 --> 00:34:02,040 and Lady Wonder and Sidney Webb, 696 00:34:02,160 --> 00:34:05,600 and she's coming to tea tomorrow. 697 00:34:08,040 --> 00:34:10,040 Well, you said we needed a social circle. 698 00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:15,480 Say, cracks of the Nat ridge 699 00:34:15,600 --> 00:34:17,000 are on your outfit. 700 00:34:17,120 --> 00:34:17,760 Well, as a matter of fact, 701 00:34:17,880 --> 00:34:19,160 I have been offered a post. 702 00:34:19,280 --> 00:34:22,040 As day companion to some aided invalid. 703 00:34:22,160 --> 00:34:23,760 Well, you mustn't do that. 704 00:34:23,880 --> 00:34:25,320 That's what I said. 705 00:34:25,440 --> 00:34:27,200 Well, if anyone has any better suggestions, 706 00:34:27,320 --> 00:34:29,280 beggars can't be choosers. 707 00:34:29,400 --> 00:34:31,040 Oh I'm sorry. 708 00:34:31,160 --> 00:34:33,800 I know decent jobs aren't easily come by. 709 00:34:33,920 --> 00:34:35,720 Especially when you've had no education. 710 00:34:35,840 --> 00:34:38,280 And have a guardian like Arthur. 711 00:34:38,400 --> 00:34:39,600 Of course I can afford to do the work 712 00:34:39,720 --> 00:34:41,160 I want to unpaid. 713 00:34:41,280 --> 00:34:44,840 One tends to take it for granted sometimes, 714 00:34:44,960 --> 00:34:47,080 but there must be something for you Beatrice. 715 00:34:47,200 --> 00:34:49,320 You don't mind if I call you Beatrice? 716 00:34:49,440 --> 00:34:50,440 What can you do? 717 00:34:50,560 --> 00:34:52,000 Not much. 718 00:34:52,120 --> 00:34:55,160 Well nonsense! You must be able to do heaps of things. 719 00:34:55,280 --> 00:34:57,160 She's a marvellous dressmaker. 720 00:34:59,520 --> 00:35:01,160 Well, what did you do in the war? 721 00:35:01,280 --> 00:35:02,000 Were you a nurse? 722 00:35:02,120 --> 00:35:03,400 You're a doctor's daughter. 723 00:35:03,520 --> 00:35:04,560 I did nothing. 724 00:35:04,680 --> 00:35:06,440 Of course you did Bea. 725 00:35:06,560 --> 00:35:08,320 She looked after father and me, 726 00:35:08,440 --> 00:35:09,520 and helped run the house. 727 00:35:09,640 --> 00:35:11,960 And knitted about a million balaclava's. 728 00:35:12,080 --> 00:35:13,360 Oh well, the boys are damn glad of them, 729 00:35:13,480 --> 00:35:14,320 I can tell you. 730 00:35:14,440 --> 00:35:16,040 It was freezing out there at the front. 731 00:35:17,360 --> 00:35:19,240 Were you out there Penelope? 732 00:35:19,360 --> 00:35:20,040 For a while. 733 00:35:20,160 --> 00:35:20,920 [Evie] What did you do? 734 00:35:21,040 --> 00:35:22,080 I drove an ambulance. 735 00:35:23,560 --> 00:35:25,560 How exciting! 736 00:35:25,680 --> 00:35:26,680 Oh, was it dreadful? 737 00:35:27,920 --> 00:35:30,240 Both. Have you read those new poems 738 00:35:30,360 --> 00:35:31,560 -by Wilfred Owen? -No. 739 00:35:31,680 --> 00:35:32,800 Well you must. 740 00:35:32,920 --> 00:35:34,440 They ought to be compulsory reading. 741 00:35:34,560 --> 00:35:36,560 We must never let another war happen. 742 00:35:36,680 --> 00:35:38,800 We don't have money to spend on books. 743 00:35:38,920 --> 00:35:39,800 Well, never mind. 744 00:35:39,920 --> 00:35:40,840 I'll lend it to you if you like 745 00:35:40,960 --> 00:35:42,120 along with the Marie Stopes one 746 00:35:42,240 --> 00:35:44,440 and anything else you want to borrow, 747 00:35:44,560 --> 00:35:47,080 and I'll keep a lookout for jobs too. 748 00:35:47,200 --> 00:35:48,840 Thank you. 749 00:35:48,960 --> 00:35:50,320 [Penelope] What are friends for? 750 00:35:54,280 --> 00:35:56,520 -Bye! -See you again soon. 751 00:36:16,320 --> 00:36:18,680 [soft music] 752 00:37:06,400 --> 00:37:08,760 Bea, I'm just going to bed now so.. 753 00:37:08,880 --> 00:37:10,400 What are you doing? 754 00:37:10,520 --> 00:37:13,200 Trying to work out how much these will fetch. 755 00:37:14,920 --> 00:37:15,800 But Bea, that's moms jewellery. 756 00:37:15,920 --> 00:37:18,000 You can't sell those. 757 00:37:18,120 --> 00:37:20,000 The tradesmen won't wait forever Evie. 758 00:37:21,120 --> 00:37:23,120 Even if I take the job at Mrs. Spenser Ewell's, 759 00:37:23,240 --> 00:37:25,400 I won't be paid at once. 760 00:37:25,520 --> 00:37:30,440 Bea, I know how much you treasure these. 761 00:37:30,560 --> 00:37:32,880 We can't afford to be sentimental. 762 00:37:33,000 --> 00:37:34,000 This is gold. 763 00:37:34,120 --> 00:37:35,480 It should fetch a few pounds. 764 00:37:39,040 --> 00:37:41,840 It's beautiful. Did father give it to her? 765 00:37:43,120 --> 00:37:46,440 Father? When did he ever give her anything worth having? 766 00:37:47,880 --> 00:37:50,000 Grandfather gave it to her on her 17th birthday. 767 00:37:51,120 --> 00:37:52,800 You cannot sell that Bea. 768 00:37:53,760 --> 00:37:56,000 Have you any better ideas? 769 00:37:56,120 --> 00:37:58,400 Well, Penelope may come up with something. 770 00:37:58,520 --> 00:38:00,040 Wouldn't rely on it. 771 00:38:00,160 --> 00:38:02,880 Besides we need the money now. 772 00:38:03,000 --> 00:38:04,200 Tomorrow I have to do the rounds 773 00:38:04,320 --> 00:38:06,040 and I must pay something on account. 774 00:38:06,160 --> 00:38:07,640 I'm sure if you asked the tradesmen 775 00:38:07,760 --> 00:38:08,440 they would understand. 776 00:38:08,560 --> 00:38:10,440 [Beatrice] No Evie, not again. 777 00:38:10,560 --> 00:38:12,720 I cannot ask for any more favours. 778 00:38:12,840 --> 00:38:14,160 It's too humiliating. 779 00:38:18,120 --> 00:38:20,640 I can't tell you how grateful I am Mr Cooper. 780 00:38:20,760 --> 00:38:22,080 I assure you the rest will be paid 781 00:38:22,200 --> 00:38:23,280 by the end of the month. 782 00:38:24,320 --> 00:38:29,160 -Thank you. -[Mr Cooper speaks softly] 783 00:38:39,640 --> 00:38:41,960 [soft music] 784 00:38:55,480 --> 00:38:57,080 Penelope. 785 00:38:57,200 --> 00:38:58,520 Oh hello there. 786 00:39:05,040 --> 00:39:06,800 I brought you those books I promised. 787 00:39:06,920 --> 00:39:08,080 Oh, marvellous! 788 00:39:08,200 --> 00:39:09,720 Oh, and I think I may have found you a job too. 789 00:39:09,840 --> 00:39:11,880 My brother Jack, photographer. 790 00:39:13,040 --> 00:39:15,080 Jack Maddox is your brother? 791 00:39:15,200 --> 00:39:16,800 The one who takes society photographs? 792 00:39:16,920 --> 00:39:18,240 He's good with the old biddies 793 00:39:18,360 --> 00:39:20,280 but he is totally disorganised. 794 00:39:20,400 --> 00:39:22,040 What will I have to do? 795 00:39:22,160 --> 00:39:25,600 General dog's body and put up with his moods. 796 00:39:25,720 --> 00:39:26,840 Moods? 797 00:39:26,960 --> 00:39:29,520 Well, he's an only son. Spoiled rotten. 798 00:39:29,640 --> 00:39:30,600 Love him dearly though, 799 00:39:30,720 --> 00:39:31,400 and you'll have to meet him of course. 800 00:39:31,520 --> 00:39:32,800 See if you pass masters. 801 00:39:32,920 --> 00:39:35,160 So tomorrow morning, 11 o'clock. 802 00:39:35,280 --> 00:39:36,480 There's the address. 803 00:39:36,600 --> 00:39:37,640 Thank you. 804 00:39:39,160 --> 00:39:41,480 Wouldn't it be marvellous if I got this job? 805 00:39:41,600 --> 00:39:43,120 We could pay off the tradesmen 806 00:39:43,240 --> 00:39:44,720 and you could say no thank you 807 00:39:44,840 --> 00:39:45,760 to Mrs. Spencer Ewell. 808 00:39:45,880 --> 00:39:47,000 Now let's not jump the gun Evie. 809 00:39:47,120 --> 00:39:48,880 Even if you do get the job, 810 00:39:49,000 --> 00:39:51,240 you still need Arthur's permission. 811 00:39:51,360 --> 00:39:53,560 He can't not approve. 812 00:39:53,680 --> 00:39:57,000 Jack Maddox has had photographs in The Creed. 813 00:40:01,800 --> 00:40:04,640 -Number 24 did you say? -Yes. 814 00:40:04,760 --> 00:40:06,160 This must be it. 815 00:40:06,280 --> 00:40:08,600 [soft music] 816 00:40:21,480 --> 00:40:23,960 [bells jingle] 817 00:40:26,280 --> 00:40:27,680 Come on through. 818 00:40:42,600 --> 00:40:43,520 Mr. Maddox? 819 00:40:49,360 --> 00:40:50,000 Morning. 820 00:40:51,560 --> 00:40:53,160 Who the devil are you? 821 00:40:53,280 --> 00:40:55,280 Our name is Eliott. 822 00:40:55,400 --> 00:40:57,640 Penelope arranged an appointment for my sister. 823 00:40:58,680 --> 00:40:59,920 Evangeline Eliott. 824 00:41:00,040 --> 00:41:02,280 You're splendidly alliterative, 825 00:41:02,400 --> 00:41:04,840 and you're here to chaperone her of course. 826 00:41:04,960 --> 00:41:06,480 Very wise too. 827 00:41:06,600 --> 00:41:07,400 Far too delectable. 828 00:41:07,520 --> 00:41:09,560 Do we let loose on our own? Champagne? 829 00:41:09,680 --> 00:41:10,520 No, thank you. 830 00:41:11,720 --> 00:41:13,760 Suit yourself. Sit down. 831 00:41:15,120 --> 00:41:17,480 So, you're chums of Penelope's? 832 00:41:18,720 --> 00:41:19,880 She thinks I need a factotum 833 00:41:20,000 --> 00:41:22,160 and was organising people of Perm. 834 00:41:22,280 --> 00:41:24,680 Starving hoards, wayward brothers. 835 00:41:27,040 --> 00:41:29,160 So tell me what can you do 836 00:41:29,280 --> 00:41:30,920 Miss Evangeline Eliott? 837 00:41:32,240 --> 00:41:33,120 Well I'm.. 838 00:41:33,240 --> 00:41:35,040 She used to help our father in the reception. 839 00:41:35,160 --> 00:41:35,920 By our father, 840 00:41:36,040 --> 00:41:38,000 I take it you do not mean the deity? 841 00:41:38,120 --> 00:41:39,880 No, he was a doctor. 842 00:41:41,240 --> 00:41:43,280 So you could make appointments reliably? 843 00:41:43,400 --> 00:41:44,080 I think so. 844 00:41:44,200 --> 00:41:46,120 -Think or know? -Know. 845 00:41:48,400 --> 00:41:49,080 Can you type? 846 00:41:50,200 --> 00:41:50,920 With two fingers. 847 00:41:51,040 --> 00:41:53,240 She has extremely neat handwriting. 848 00:41:53,360 --> 00:41:55,320 Confident on the telephone? 849 00:41:55,440 --> 00:41:56,080 Yes she is. 850 00:41:59,080 --> 00:42:01,800 Can you tell me about cameras? 851 00:42:04,280 --> 00:42:05,480 I'm afraid not. 852 00:42:05,600 --> 00:42:06,280 A few people do. 853 00:42:07,880 --> 00:42:09,360 Are you any good at telling lies? 854 00:42:10,840 --> 00:42:12,320 Well, I've not really had much practise. 855 00:42:12,440 --> 00:42:15,040 My sister was not brought up to tell lies Mr Maddox. 856 00:42:15,160 --> 00:42:17,760 Pity. The ability to lie is essential to the job. 857 00:42:18,680 --> 00:42:19,560 Let me show you. 858 00:42:20,760 --> 00:42:21,480 You see the women who come to me 859 00:42:21,600 --> 00:42:23,080 to have their portrait taken 860 00:42:23,200 --> 00:42:26,240 are of a certain age. 861 00:42:27,320 --> 00:42:28,240 This is how they look 862 00:42:30,680 --> 00:42:33,000 and this is how they would like to look. 863 00:42:33,840 --> 00:42:35,840 I perform a miracle. 864 00:42:35,960 --> 00:42:36,880 I've become very successful 865 00:42:37,000 --> 00:42:37,720 and made a lot of women happy 866 00:42:37,840 --> 00:42:39,400 with a few lies. 867 00:42:39,520 --> 00:42:40,400 As my receptionist, 868 00:42:40,520 --> 00:42:42,600 you'll have to back up these lies. 869 00:42:42,720 --> 00:42:43,600 So they'll ask you, 870 00:42:44,880 --> 00:42:46,960 is it a true likeness? 871 00:42:47,080 --> 00:42:49,120 And you will have to convince them that it is 872 00:42:49,240 --> 00:42:52,240 without so much as murmuring the word retouch. 873 00:42:53,680 --> 00:42:55,360 Well, that would only count as white lies surely? 874 00:42:55,480 --> 00:42:56,440 That's driven snow, 875 00:42:57,560 --> 00:42:58,760 so for summer. 876 00:43:00,760 --> 00:43:02,040 On the plus side, 877 00:43:03,720 --> 00:43:05,400 you can type with two fingers, 878 00:43:05,520 --> 00:43:07,600 you can make appointments onto the telephone 879 00:43:09,400 --> 00:43:10,960 and on the minus side, 880 00:43:15,400 --> 00:43:16,880 you'd drive away all my old trouts 881 00:43:17,000 --> 00:43:18,720 and I'd be bankrupt within a year. 882 00:43:21,200 --> 00:43:22,640 How much too young and much too pretty 883 00:43:22,760 --> 00:43:23,960 for the job Evangeline. 884 00:43:26,480 --> 00:43:27,120 You'd do that? 885 00:43:29,360 --> 00:43:31,160 You must be mad Bea. 886 00:43:31,280 --> 00:43:33,280 I would have given anything for that job. 887 00:43:33,400 --> 00:43:34,080 Nothing on earth. 888 00:43:34,200 --> 00:43:34,920 Wouldn't you think to work 889 00:43:35,040 --> 00:43:36,560 for that odious man? 890 00:43:36,680 --> 00:43:37,840 I liked him. 891 00:43:37,960 --> 00:43:39,960 That was obvious. 892 00:43:40,080 --> 00:43:42,400 I suppose it's because he's related to Penelope. 893 00:43:42,520 --> 00:43:43,920 You don't like her either, do you? 894 00:43:44,040 --> 00:43:45,280 [Beatrice speaks softly] 895 00:43:45,400 --> 00:43:48,360 Well, if you'd rather work for Mrs. Spenser Ewell. 896 00:43:48,480 --> 00:43:50,520 At least I shall know where I am with her. 897 00:43:51,720 --> 00:43:53,200 But don't you see? 898 00:43:53,320 --> 00:43:56,160 That's the wonderful thing about Jack Maddox. 899 00:43:56,280 --> 00:43:58,160 Working for him will never, ever be dull. 900 00:44:03,800 --> 00:44:07,000 Molly, can you remember when you first met Frank? 901 00:44:07,120 --> 00:44:08,240 Oh sure do. 902 00:44:08,360 --> 00:44:09,840 It's was only three months ago. 903 00:44:11,320 --> 00:44:13,400 -Did you lose your appetite? -No. 904 00:44:15,360 --> 00:44:18,160 -Did you lie awake at night? -No. 905 00:44:19,800 --> 00:44:21,840 Go jelly kneed whenever you thought of him? 906 00:44:21,960 --> 00:44:22,920 [Molly] Glory no! 907 00:44:25,200 --> 00:44:26,800 Isn't that what falling in love is like? 908 00:44:26,920 --> 00:44:29,040 Sounds more like the flu to me. 909 00:44:29,160 --> 00:44:30,120 Anyway, me and Frank 910 00:44:30,240 --> 00:44:32,760 weren't never what you called love birds. 911 00:44:32,880 --> 00:44:34,640 With 2 million surplus women or girls, 912 00:44:34,760 --> 00:44:36,960 lucky if she can nab a man at all. 913 00:44:37,080 --> 00:44:39,720 Love is for those that can afford it. 914 00:44:39,840 --> 00:44:41,760 [opera singing] 915 00:44:41,880 --> 00:44:44,200 Who do we know with a son that's going a-begging? 916 00:44:46,480 --> 00:44:48,200 For Evangeline. 917 00:44:48,320 --> 00:44:49,960 Now that Beatrice has a position, 918 00:44:50,080 --> 00:44:51,600 we must think about her sister. 919 00:44:53,640 --> 00:44:56,120 I suppose it'll have to be a younger son. 920 00:44:58,040 --> 00:44:59,960 What about Dick Hintlesham's brother? 921 00:45:01,120 --> 00:45:04,200 Poor chap is a nervous wreck. Shell shock. 922 00:45:04,320 --> 00:45:07,040 A soothing young wife may be just what he needs. 923 00:45:08,160 --> 00:45:10,320 You see life in such simplistic terms mother. 924 00:45:10,440 --> 00:45:11,960 Marriage solves everything. 925 00:45:12,080 --> 00:45:14,200 The right marriage, 926 00:45:14,320 --> 00:45:15,840 and that reminds me Arthur, 927 00:45:15,960 --> 00:45:17,520 the Winthrops are back from Biarritz. 928 00:45:17,640 --> 00:45:18,680 Oh mother. 929 00:45:18,800 --> 00:45:21,680 I know Agatha is no oil painting 930 00:45:21,800 --> 00:45:24,280 but she's so well connected. 931 00:45:24,400 --> 00:45:27,240 You make her sound like an electric lamp. 932 00:45:27,360 --> 00:45:29,520 She has certainly taken a shine to you. 933 00:45:29,640 --> 00:45:30,760 [Lydia chuckles] 934 00:45:30,880 --> 00:45:32,560 When I decide to marry, 935 00:45:32,680 --> 00:45:34,800 I shall make my own choice. 936 00:45:34,920 --> 00:45:36,280 That is what I'm afraid of. 937 00:45:37,280 --> 00:45:38,160 As father did? 938 00:45:41,840 --> 00:45:44,520 And he couldn't have made a better choice, could he? 939 00:45:44,640 --> 00:45:46,960 [soft music] 940 00:45:52,240 --> 00:45:53,640 All the same, 941 00:45:53,760 --> 00:45:56,240 one does not climb the social ladder 942 00:45:56,360 --> 00:45:58,360 in order to slide down it again. 943 00:46:00,040 --> 00:46:03,520 I hear the Pettinger girl has turned up quite well. 944 00:46:03,640 --> 00:46:04,760 Perhaps we should invite her to the theatre. 945 00:46:04,880 --> 00:46:07,880 Mother, would you please confine 946 00:46:08,000 --> 00:46:09,880 your matchmaking talents elsewhere. 947 00:46:10,000 --> 00:46:12,920 If only there wasn't such a shortage of men. 948 00:46:13,040 --> 00:46:15,400 The war has a lot to answer for 949 00:46:17,600 --> 00:46:21,000 and it isn't as if poor Evangeline had any social graces. 950 00:46:21,880 --> 00:46:23,960 When did Henry ever entertain? 951 00:46:25,120 --> 00:46:26,200 Not at home certainly. 952 00:46:31,960 --> 00:46:34,720 [birds chirping] 953 00:46:48,160 --> 00:46:50,480 [soft music] 954 00:47:11,280 --> 00:47:14,880 Arthur, this is Beatrice. 955 00:47:15,000 --> 00:47:18,360 I would like to make an appointment to come and see you. 956 00:47:18,480 --> 00:47:19,400 As soon as possible. 957 00:47:21,520 --> 00:47:22,440 A family matter. 958 00:47:22,560 --> 00:47:24,920 [soft music] 959 00:47:33,000 --> 00:47:34,680 Oh Beatrice, sorry to keep you. 960 00:47:35,720 --> 00:47:38,040 I can spare you 15 minutes. 961 00:47:38,160 --> 00:47:39,120 How can I help? 962 00:47:39,240 --> 00:47:41,440 By telling me the truth about father's money. 963 00:47:41,560 --> 00:47:42,720 I'm sorry? 964 00:47:42,840 --> 00:47:43,600 I don't believe he lost it all 965 00:47:43,720 --> 00:47:45,120 through careless investments. 966 00:47:47,000 --> 00:47:49,000 I'm not sure what you're suggesting. 967 00:47:49,120 --> 00:47:51,640 I think you've been covering up for him. 968 00:47:51,760 --> 00:47:52,680 Was there a woman? 969 00:47:55,120 --> 00:47:57,040 Have you quite taken leave of your senses? 970 00:47:58,480 --> 00:48:00,800 Uncle Henry was a pillar of society. 971 00:48:00,920 --> 00:48:02,200 What on earth makes you suggest such a thing? 972 00:48:02,320 --> 00:48:04,760 A cupboard full of expensive clothes, 973 00:48:04,880 --> 00:48:06,760 a lace handkerchief. 974 00:48:06,880 --> 00:48:07,760 Please tell me. 975 00:48:07,880 --> 00:48:08,720 I have a right to know. 976 00:48:17,720 --> 00:48:18,600 I'd hoped that you and Evangeline, 977 00:48:18,720 --> 00:48:20,640 you'd never find out. 978 00:48:20,760 --> 00:48:21,560 Evangeline need not 979 00:48:21,680 --> 00:48:23,160 which is why I'm here on my own. 980 00:48:23,280 --> 00:48:24,800 Or mother, it would kill her. 981 00:48:25,840 --> 00:48:27,960 Then he did have a mistress. 982 00:48:28,080 --> 00:48:29,240 There were a series of, 983 00:48:30,480 --> 00:48:33,400 shall we say liaisons going back over many years 984 00:48:33,520 --> 00:48:34,360 since you were a small child. 985 00:48:34,480 --> 00:48:35,600 What? 986 00:48:35,720 --> 00:48:37,880 They were all of course ladies of a certain standard. 987 00:48:38,000 --> 00:48:38,920 Did you mean he was whoring 988 00:48:39,040 --> 00:48:40,440 while mother was still alive? 989 00:48:40,560 --> 00:48:42,040 Fortunately he was discreet. 990 00:48:42,160 --> 00:48:43,840 Dirty lying hypocrite. 991 00:48:43,960 --> 00:48:44,920 Beatrice please. 992 00:48:45,040 --> 00:48:46,720 Wasn't it enough that he killed her? 993 00:48:46,840 --> 00:48:47,840 No, come on.. 994 00:48:47,960 --> 00:48:49,680 Yes he did forcing her to go on trying 995 00:48:49,800 --> 00:48:50,880 for a son year after year 996 00:48:51,000 --> 00:48:52,360 when he knew it wasn't safe. 997 00:48:52,480 --> 00:48:53,200 Keep your voice down, 998 00:48:53,320 --> 00:48:53,960 people will hear. 999 00:48:54,080 --> 00:48:55,480 Good, I want them to hear. 1000 00:48:55,600 --> 00:48:58,000 To hear how the upright Dr. Eliott betrayed mother 1001 00:48:58,120 --> 00:49:00,040 and ruined my life as well. 1002 00:49:00,160 --> 00:49:00,880 For God sakes! 1003 00:49:01,000 --> 00:49:01,880 How he make me work 1004 00:49:02,000 --> 00:49:03,480 as an unpaid housekeeper, a nanny 1005 00:49:03,600 --> 00:49:05,480 because he was too mean to pay anybody else. 1006 00:49:05,600 --> 00:49:06,480 Pull yourself together. 1007 00:49:06,600 --> 00:49:08,960 How he deprived me of a decent education 1008 00:49:09,080 --> 00:49:11,920 and the only hope I ever had of marriage. 1009 00:49:12,040 --> 00:49:13,680 How he stopped Evie and I doing all the things 1010 00:49:13,800 --> 00:49:15,800 that make life worthwhile, 1011 00:49:15,920 --> 00:49:17,480 and all the time he was out fornicating 1012 00:49:17,600 --> 00:49:18,640 with a string of whores. 1013 00:49:18,760 --> 00:49:19,720 Beatrice! 1014 00:49:26,880 --> 00:49:27,800 It's only natural 1015 00:49:27,920 --> 00:49:29,320 that you should feel a little bitter. 1016 00:49:29,440 --> 00:49:30,760 A little bitter? 1017 00:49:30,880 --> 00:49:32,360 But you must try to be sensible. 1018 00:49:33,440 --> 00:49:34,600 Put all that behind you now 1019 00:49:34,720 --> 00:49:36,400 and look to the future. 1020 00:49:38,080 --> 00:49:40,080 We have the offer of an excellent post. 1021 00:49:40,200 --> 00:49:41,400 Waiting on Mrs. Spenser Ewell 1022 00:49:41,520 --> 00:49:44,200 till the last remnant of my youth is gone? 1023 00:49:44,320 --> 00:49:45,040 If there was doubt, 1024 00:49:45,160 --> 00:49:47,280 you would be offered a better post. 1025 00:49:47,400 --> 00:49:48,960 Well as matter of fact I have, 1026 00:49:50,560 --> 00:49:52,160 with the photographer Jack Maddox, 1027 00:49:54,400 --> 00:49:56,440 and what's more, I intend to take it. 1028 00:49:57,560 --> 00:50:00,080 [dramatic music]