1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:04,240 Hundreds of girls have to give up scholarships 2 00:00:04,240 --> 00:00:06,640 to look after children. But Holly's exceptional. 3 00:00:06,640 --> 00:00:09,160 We need a proper purpose-built housing estate. 4 00:00:09,160 --> 00:00:13,360 That parcel of land will be worth a fortune once the council have built there. Buy some! 5 00:00:13,360 --> 00:00:16,040 Nothing has been decided yet. Town planning will take a vote. 6 00:00:16,040 --> 00:00:18,520 You're going to do great things here, Sarah. 7 00:00:18,520 --> 00:00:21,160 Sorry. It's all right. May I ask you about your wife? 8 00:00:21,160 --> 00:00:23,200 You know she's in a mental home? 9 00:00:23,200 --> 00:00:25,640 Some of the girls were saying that I needn't give myself airs 10 00:00:25,640 --> 00:00:27,720 because everybody knew that Daddy was going broke. 11 00:00:27,720 --> 00:00:31,000 I wish life could be simpler. Yeah, so do I. 12 00:00:31,000 --> 00:00:32,040 Ooft! Oh! 13 00:00:32,040 --> 00:00:35,640 Shall I call the doctor? I'll be all right. It's happened before. 14 00:00:45,680 --> 00:00:48,600 Good morning, Miss, and how can I help you this morning? 15 00:00:48,600 --> 00:00:50,840 I wonder, could you put a call in to Mr Carne? 16 00:00:50,840 --> 00:00:54,000 Er, he's staying here. Mr Carne? 17 00:00:54,000 --> 00:00:56,080 No, as I thought. The gentleman 18 00:00:56,080 --> 00:00:58,280 checked out early this morning. 19 00:00:58,280 --> 00:01:01,320 I attended to him myself, Miss. 20 00:01:01,320 --> 00:01:02,760 Er, are there any messages? 21 00:01:02,760 --> 00:01:03,800 The name's Burton. 22 00:01:03,800 --> 00:01:05,120 I'll have a look for you, 23 00:01:05,120 --> 00:01:07,000 Miss Burton. 24 00:01:09,800 --> 00:01:12,920 No. No messages, Miss... 25 00:01:12,920 --> 00:01:14,400 I'm afraid. 26 00:01:23,320 --> 00:01:25,680 Oh, goodness me, come in, 27 00:01:25,680 --> 00:01:27,240 come in out of the cold. 28 00:01:27,240 --> 00:01:29,640 Whatever are you doing here on Christmas Eve? 29 00:01:29,640 --> 00:01:31,160 I came to bring you something 30 00:01:31,160 --> 00:01:34,000 to wish you a merry Christmas. Oh, that's very kind of you. 31 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:36,680 I haven't got anything for you. You were supposed to be 32 00:01:36,680 --> 00:01:39,280 a hundred miles away with your sister, weren't you? 33 00:01:39,280 --> 00:01:41,760 Yes. I changed my mind. Oh, dear. 34 00:01:41,760 --> 00:01:44,000 No family quarrels, I hope? 35 00:01:44,000 --> 00:01:46,080 No, no. I... Well, come on through. 36 00:01:46,080 --> 00:01:48,240 We're just sorting out what's for us 37 00:01:48,240 --> 00:01:49,880 and what's for other folk. 38 00:01:49,880 --> 00:01:52,240 I'm sure I'll find you something. 39 00:01:52,240 --> 00:01:54,240 It's Miss Burton, Jim. 40 00:01:54,240 --> 00:01:56,480 How do? Is Midge not still here with you? 41 00:01:56,480 --> 00:01:57,920 Yes, she is. Well, I say yes. 42 00:01:57,920 --> 00:02:01,200 She's spending the morning with a friend, Jennifer, was it, or Judy? 43 00:02:01,200 --> 00:02:05,120 It's just that I thought she'd be back with her father for Christmas. 44 00:02:05,120 --> 00:02:08,600 So did I and I'm sure she will, but I haven't seen him since he left for 45 00:02:08,600 --> 00:02:12,240 Manchester a few days ago. Typical man! Oh. 46 00:02:12,240 --> 00:02:14,240 Why? What is it? 47 00:02:14,240 --> 00:02:15,880 Nothing... 48 00:02:17,400 --> 00:02:19,600 Is she alright? Has her cheek healed? 49 00:02:19,600 --> 00:02:21,800 I did feel awfully responsible. 50 00:02:21,800 --> 00:02:25,240 No harm done, I would say. And Robert didn't blame you, you know. 51 00:02:25,240 --> 00:02:26,880 Oh. Did he talk to you about it? 52 00:02:26,880 --> 00:02:28,200 He was so good at the time. 53 00:02:28,200 --> 00:02:30,680 PHONE RINGS Excuse me. 54 00:02:35,200 --> 00:02:37,480 Christmas round again? 55 00:02:37,480 --> 00:02:39,120 Yes. Do you like Christmas? 56 00:02:39,120 --> 00:02:42,160 Yes, I do. I don't. 57 00:02:42,160 --> 00:02:45,680 Folks staying in other folk's houses, feeling uncomfortable, 58 00:02:45,680 --> 00:02:47,840 not getting on, offending each other. 59 00:02:47,840 --> 00:02:50,720 All that unnecessary expenditure. 60 00:02:50,720 --> 00:02:53,440 The world's gone mad in my view. Stark staring mad. 61 00:02:53,440 --> 00:02:54,520 Well, there you are. 62 00:02:54,520 --> 00:02:57,360 That was Robert. He's just on his way round for Midge. 63 00:02:59,680 --> 00:03:05,000 I must go. Oh, stay. Why don't you? I'm sure he'd love to see you. 64 00:03:05,000 --> 00:03:06,760 No, no. 65 00:03:06,760 --> 00:03:09,880 I wanted to call in on Lydia Holly. 66 00:03:09,880 --> 00:03:11,680 Oh, right. 67 00:03:11,680 --> 00:03:15,720 Well, if you're going over, you can take them this ham from us. 68 00:03:15,720 --> 00:03:18,600 I thought it would help to see them through Christmas. 69 00:03:18,600 --> 00:03:21,760 That ham?! Well, there's seven of them, Jim, and only two of us, 70 00:03:21,760 --> 00:03:24,400 and it's not as if we don't have another in the larder. 71 00:03:24,400 --> 00:03:26,000 And it is Christmas, after all. 72 00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:29,280 And we must find something for you, too, Sarah, for being such a saint. 73 00:03:33,560 --> 00:03:35,600 Do you like crystallized fruits? 74 00:03:35,600 --> 00:03:37,360 Yes, yes, I... 75 00:03:37,360 --> 00:03:40,080 No... Really, you shouldn't. 76 00:03:40,080 --> 00:03:41,800 Of course I should, go on. 77 00:03:41,800 --> 00:03:45,400 We've far too many boxes and jars of this and that. 78 00:03:48,840 --> 00:03:52,840 Thank you very much. And a very Happy Christmas. 79 00:03:52,840 --> 00:03:54,120 From both of us! 80 00:04:06,680 --> 00:04:10,320 Give me that! I want it, I want it! No! 81 00:04:29,720 --> 00:04:31,760 Well, this is a pleasure, Miss Burton! 82 00:04:31,760 --> 00:04:34,040 Lydia, put the kettle on. Cup of tea for Miss Burton. 83 00:04:34,040 --> 00:04:37,440 No, really, I won't stop long. I've just came to see how you all are 84 00:04:37,440 --> 00:04:40,680 and bring you a few things. This lovely ham's from Mrs Beddows. 85 00:04:43,080 --> 00:04:46,080 Oh, look at that girls! Look at that! 86 00:04:48,760 --> 00:04:52,720 Er, there's a little something for all of you in there, thank you. Thank you. 87 00:04:53,680 --> 00:04:55,240 And this is for you, Lydia. 88 00:04:57,760 --> 00:04:59,600 Oh, my stars, look at that! 89 00:05:05,520 --> 00:05:07,880 Lydia, say thank you to Miss Burton. Thank you. 90 00:05:07,880 --> 00:05:14,440 There's lots of notebooks and pens and pencils for you to write poetry... 91 00:05:14,440 --> 00:05:17,280 And anything else that you like. 92 00:05:17,280 --> 00:05:21,600 It's a good strong case. I hope it'll see you through your student days and beyond. 93 00:05:21,600 --> 00:05:25,360 My student days? You mean when I go to Oxford, like you? Lydia. 94 00:05:25,360 --> 00:05:28,480 Yes, why not? You're at least as clever as I ever was. 95 00:05:28,480 --> 00:05:30,720 You've got to keep your dreams alive, Lydia. 96 00:05:30,720 --> 00:05:35,520 Don't you think I've got enough to do trying to keep my brother and sisters and myself alive? 97 00:05:35,520 --> 00:05:37,800 You're the one who's dreaming, Miss. Lydia. 98 00:05:37,800 --> 00:05:39,440 I'm sorry. I know it's hard. 99 00:05:41,560 --> 00:05:43,920 But you are special. 100 00:05:43,920 --> 00:05:45,520 She is, Mr Holly. 101 00:05:45,520 --> 00:05:47,280 Oh, I know that. 102 00:05:47,280 --> 00:05:50,560 She's one in a million is our Lyd. 103 00:05:50,560 --> 00:05:53,120 Well, I should be going. 104 00:05:55,080 --> 00:05:58,480 Let's talk about this in the New Year, yes? 105 00:05:58,480 --> 00:06:01,480 Happy Christmas, Lydia. Yeah. 106 00:06:03,440 --> 00:06:05,200 Thank you, Miss Burton. 107 00:06:12,440 --> 00:06:17,160 Daddy. Perfect timing. Midge has just come back from playing with one of her friends. 108 00:06:17,160 --> 00:06:19,320 Come on through. Have you missed me? 109 00:06:19,320 --> 00:06:21,960 Not a bit! Only joking! Have you missed me? No, no. 110 00:06:21,960 --> 00:06:25,160 Never thought about you once. Yes, you did, you fibber, I know you did. 111 00:06:25,160 --> 00:06:26,840 I've just been at Jenny's house. 112 00:06:26,840 --> 00:06:29,400 We had a super time. They're not our sort of people at all, though. 113 00:06:29,400 --> 00:06:31,280 Oh, aye? Do you know how they eat oranges? 114 00:06:31,280 --> 00:06:34,040 They just cut them in half and suck them! Do they? 115 00:06:34,040 --> 00:06:38,280 It makes the funniest slurping noises! Actually I quite enjoyed it. Good. I'm glad. 116 00:06:39,320 --> 00:06:41,040 How are you, Beddows? Struggling. 117 00:06:41,040 --> 00:06:43,640 I'll be days with this. I'll help you! 118 00:06:43,640 --> 00:06:45,880 I've got a little something for you, Robert. 119 00:06:45,880 --> 00:06:49,560 I'll start in the front edge there so you do t'sky... 120 00:06:49,560 --> 00:06:50,720 Thank you. 121 00:06:52,160 --> 00:06:53,880 I've got something for you an'all. 122 00:06:53,880 --> 00:06:56,360 That one goes in there... 123 00:06:58,520 --> 00:07:00,080 I, er, 124 00:07:00,080 --> 00:07:03,760 couldn't find anything fit to wrap it in, so... 125 00:07:04,720 --> 00:07:06,040 Happy Christmas. 126 00:07:09,240 --> 00:07:11,400 Oh, Robert. 127 00:07:13,360 --> 00:07:15,200 This was Muriel's. 128 00:07:15,200 --> 00:07:17,280 Yes. 129 00:07:17,280 --> 00:07:21,920 I gave it to her after Midge were born. But I want you to have it. 130 00:07:24,800 --> 00:07:28,480 Muriel isn't going to get any better. She's never coming home. 131 00:07:28,480 --> 00:07:32,440 She can't take pleasure in nice things, so best we can do 132 00:07:32,440 --> 00:07:34,240 is make her comfortable. 133 00:07:35,320 --> 00:07:38,360 Well, thank you. It's beautiful. 134 00:07:40,280 --> 00:07:44,600 Emma, you've enjoyed having Midge the last few days, haven't you? 135 00:07:44,600 --> 00:07:46,360 I mean, she's been no bother to you? 136 00:07:46,360 --> 00:07:48,880 Oh, not a bit of it. We've loved having her. 137 00:07:48,880 --> 00:07:51,360 So... If I had to go away for a bit or, God forbid, 138 00:07:51,360 --> 00:07:54,560 anything should ever happen to me, I could entrust her to you? 139 00:07:54,560 --> 00:07:57,200 Of course you could. You don't have to ask, Robert. 140 00:08:01,680 --> 00:08:04,280 PHONE RINGS 141 00:08:19,360 --> 00:08:22,400 Oh! Ah. Disappointed. 142 00:08:22,400 --> 00:08:23,800 I thought you were... 143 00:08:23,800 --> 00:08:26,440 Someone else? Erm... 144 00:08:26,440 --> 00:08:27,480 I saw the light, 145 00:08:27,480 --> 00:08:30,040 I thought you were at your sisters. I changed my mind. 146 00:08:30,040 --> 00:08:31,960 Well, would you like some company? 147 00:08:33,800 --> 00:08:35,320 Sorry, Joe. I just don't think 148 00:08:35,320 --> 00:08:37,240 I would be very good company tonight. 149 00:08:37,240 --> 00:08:39,600 Alright. Well... Merry Christmas, Sarah. 150 00:08:41,520 --> 00:08:43,200 Er... Is that a bottle of whisky? 151 00:08:45,480 --> 00:08:48,840 God forgive you, woman. It's a 12 year-old single malt. 152 00:08:50,840 --> 00:08:54,520 What's in the newspaper? Erm, herrings. 153 00:08:55,680 --> 00:08:57,560 From the lads down at the docks. 154 00:08:58,680 --> 00:09:02,520 Never let it be said us commie bastards don't know how to show a girl a good time! 155 00:09:04,480 --> 00:09:06,560 I can't think of anything better. 156 00:09:08,160 --> 00:09:09,840 They were good herrings! 157 00:09:17,000 --> 00:09:19,320 Excellent malt. 158 00:09:21,000 --> 00:09:24,280 Yeah, I knew there was a bit of the Scot in you somewhere. 159 00:09:26,720 --> 00:09:30,200 I'm glad you came. 160 00:09:30,200 --> 00:09:32,720 You know, you're the best friend I've made here. 161 00:09:34,520 --> 00:09:37,400 Tough time of year. 162 00:09:37,400 --> 00:09:40,280 Yes, it is rather. 163 00:09:40,280 --> 00:09:43,080 You always tend to think of happy times past. 164 00:09:43,080 --> 00:09:46,880 Is that it? Your fiance? 165 00:09:48,360 --> 00:09:49,920 No. 166 00:09:49,920 --> 00:09:53,520 No, it's just... 167 00:09:55,560 --> 00:09:57,400 I'm done with all that. 168 00:09:57,400 --> 00:10:01,120 Falling in love, it's a fool's game. 169 00:10:01,120 --> 00:10:02,840 Blundering around in the dark. 170 00:10:02,840 --> 00:10:05,840 Friendship's much better. 171 00:10:09,520 --> 00:10:13,440 Aye, aye. I suppose it is. 172 00:10:15,280 --> 00:10:16,720 And work. 173 00:10:20,040 --> 00:10:23,640 To work and friendship. 174 00:10:23,640 --> 00:10:26,760 Work and friendship. 175 00:10:26,760 --> 00:10:28,480 And a Merry Christmas to you, Sarah. 176 00:10:30,000 --> 00:10:31,880 And to you, too. 177 00:10:47,000 --> 00:10:48,040 KNOCK AT THE DOOR 178 00:10:48,040 --> 00:10:50,480 Come in. Mr Holly to see you, Miss Burton. 179 00:10:50,480 --> 00:10:52,080 Oh, thank you, Midge. 180 00:10:52,080 --> 00:10:54,440 Thank you for coming in, Mr Holly. 181 00:10:54,440 --> 00:10:56,760 I hope it hasn't put you to too much trouble. 182 00:10:59,560 --> 00:11:01,240 Hey, you've got some books here. 183 00:11:03,480 --> 00:11:05,520 Charles Dickens, Somerset Maugham. 184 00:11:05,520 --> 00:11:07,560 I loved my books when I was a little lad. 185 00:11:07,560 --> 00:11:10,960 I was a proper little scholard, I was. 186 00:11:10,960 --> 00:11:14,080 But economic circumstances brutally curtailed my education, otherwise 187 00:11:14,080 --> 00:11:16,880 my life story would have been a very different one, Miss Burton. 188 00:11:16,880 --> 00:11:17,920 I'm sure it would. 189 00:11:17,920 --> 00:11:22,520 And that's why we must find a way to stop it happening to Lydia. She's a clever girl is Lyd. 190 00:11:22,520 --> 00:11:23,560 Takes after me. 191 00:11:26,320 --> 00:11:28,400 Oh, I almost forgot. 192 00:11:32,120 --> 00:11:34,080 This is for you. 193 00:11:34,080 --> 00:11:37,800 Oh, thank you. Barm cake. Home made. 194 00:11:37,800 --> 00:11:39,400 Lydia. 195 00:11:39,400 --> 00:11:42,400 It's not up to her mother's yet, but she's coming along. 196 00:11:42,400 --> 00:11:45,120 She's like a proper little housewife these days. 197 00:11:45,120 --> 00:11:47,960 But she could do so much more. 198 00:11:49,400 --> 00:11:51,960 If we could find a way of getting Lydia back to school, 199 00:11:51,960 --> 00:11:54,480 I'm sure she could get a scholarship for university. 200 00:11:54,480 --> 00:11:57,240 Oxford or Cambridge, even. Wouldn't that be wonderful? 201 00:11:57,240 --> 00:11:59,840 Aye, it would. Yes. 202 00:11:59,840 --> 00:12:03,120 I dare say I could have myself, if things had gone the right way. 203 00:12:03,120 --> 00:12:07,520 Do you know I could recite the Wreck of the Hesperus from start to finish, not a word out of place? 204 00:12:07,520 --> 00:12:08,560 I think I still could. 205 00:12:08,560 --> 00:12:11,040 "It was the schooner Hesperus that sailed the wintry sea." 206 00:12:11,040 --> 00:12:14,160 Mr Holly. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, that was your boy 207 00:12:14,160 --> 00:12:16,960 for poetry. But why couldn't I have written poetry? 208 00:12:16,960 --> 00:12:19,080 It was always in me. It's still in me now. 209 00:12:20,600 --> 00:12:26,320 I'm sure it is, but we're thinking of Lydia now, not you. 210 00:12:26,320 --> 00:12:28,600 Aye, we are. 211 00:12:28,600 --> 00:12:32,200 Can't you think of anyone who might be persuaded 212 00:12:32,200 --> 00:12:36,880 to come and help you at home so that Lydia could return to school? 213 00:12:38,760 --> 00:12:41,880 No. 214 00:12:41,880 --> 00:12:43,480 I don't think I can. 215 00:12:45,560 --> 00:12:48,280 Just this one and we're all done. 216 00:12:48,280 --> 00:12:50,920 It's very good of you to get this all drawn up so quickly, Drew. 217 00:12:50,920 --> 00:12:53,480 Least I could do with your life insurance 218 00:12:53,480 --> 00:12:55,400 burning a hole in your pocket. 219 00:12:55,400 --> 00:12:58,920 Now it's just Town Planning we've to wait on. 220 00:12:58,920 --> 00:13:02,120 Yeah, but not for long, eh? I mean, the vote's coming up. 221 00:13:02,120 --> 00:13:04,840 So, I mean, that's when prices will rocket, eh? 222 00:13:04,840 --> 00:13:07,960 Should do, should do. 223 00:13:07,960 --> 00:13:11,600 Providing Mr Carne doesn't cause too much bother. 224 00:13:11,600 --> 00:13:16,320 But one man can't stand in the way of progress like this, Drew. 225 00:13:16,320 --> 00:13:19,640 He may be going bust but he's very well respected. 226 00:13:19,640 --> 00:13:22,720 He could still spoil it for the rest of us. 227 00:13:22,720 --> 00:13:25,360 You'll just have to hope for the best, Alfred, hmm? 228 00:13:33,080 --> 00:13:34,440 Little beauty, isn't he? 229 00:13:35,400 --> 00:13:37,200 I wish we could keep him. 230 00:13:37,200 --> 00:13:39,680 Yeah, so do I. 231 00:13:39,680 --> 00:13:41,920 I wish a lot of things. 232 00:13:41,920 --> 00:13:43,680 It's all right, Daddy. 233 00:13:45,200 --> 00:13:47,600 I know Mummy isn't ever going to come home. 234 00:13:49,360 --> 00:13:52,920 But it's all right, just us. Isn't it? 235 00:14:00,520 --> 00:14:02,800 Who's this? 236 00:14:02,800 --> 00:14:05,360 Alderman Huggins. 237 00:14:05,360 --> 00:14:10,840 Good afternoon! Afternoon. Ah. Lovely little creature. 238 00:14:10,840 --> 00:14:14,040 Beauty comes in many forms. 239 00:14:15,360 --> 00:14:18,800 I, er, wanted a private word, if you've got a moment? 240 00:14:21,800 --> 00:14:25,400 All right, take him back. Right, sir. You go up to the house. 241 00:14:27,840 --> 00:14:30,440 Now, I know we haven't always been on the same side 242 00:14:30,440 --> 00:14:32,200 but I've always liked you, Carne. 243 00:14:32,200 --> 00:14:36,960 And, well, I've come to ask you to drop your opposition to the housing scheme. 244 00:14:36,960 --> 00:14:38,040 Why would I do that? 245 00:14:38,040 --> 00:14:41,000 Because a new estate's in everybody's best interest. 246 00:14:41,000 --> 00:14:45,120 I mean, what's the good of being on the council if you can't make things better for folk? 247 00:14:45,120 --> 00:14:48,720 And between you and me, I think it'd be to your advantage, too. 248 00:14:48,720 --> 00:14:50,000 How d'you work that out? 249 00:14:50,000 --> 00:14:52,600 Well, if you were to buy up some land on the Wastes, you know, 250 00:14:52,600 --> 00:14:54,640 I think it'd solve all your problems for good. 251 00:14:54,640 --> 00:14:57,520 I mean, I've got it on good authority that the new estate's 252 00:14:57,520 --> 00:15:00,840 being built there, so anybody with land there can only make money. 253 00:15:00,840 --> 00:15:02,640 Whose authority? Never mind. 254 00:15:02,640 --> 00:15:08,040 You mean Snaith? All I can tell you is that I'm sure enough about this that I've got 32 acres for myself. 255 00:15:08,040 --> 00:15:10,920 So you want me to act against my principles so that you and your 256 00:15:10,920 --> 00:15:13,280 friends can make a profit on a bit of land speculation? 257 00:15:13,280 --> 00:15:16,720 Not at all! This is a grand scheme whether we profit by it or not! 258 00:15:16,720 --> 00:15:19,320 Look, I've just come round here to do you a favour, 259 00:15:19,320 --> 00:15:22,480 so come on, what do you think? What do I think? I think you, Snaith, 260 00:15:22,480 --> 00:15:24,480 Drew, all your friends, you're nothing 261 00:15:24,480 --> 00:15:27,440 but a bunch of criminals. Now, you can't take that tone with me! 262 00:15:27,440 --> 00:15:31,000 Yeah? We'll see what tone South Riding Press take when I tell them about it, eh? 263 00:15:31,000 --> 00:15:33,520 You can't do that! This conversation was confidential! 264 00:15:33,520 --> 00:15:39,040 Get off my land before I throw you in the horse pond. You understand? You've got it all wrong. 265 00:15:39,040 --> 00:15:40,960 You've misunderstood me. 266 00:15:42,440 --> 00:15:43,720 Oh, Lord! 267 00:15:44,520 --> 00:15:48,200 Educate your children well, said Plato. 268 00:15:48,200 --> 00:15:53,840 And they will grow up with rightly and nobly ordered minds and characters. 269 00:15:53,840 --> 00:15:56,000 Now, this is a good example of what I mean. 270 00:15:56,000 --> 00:15:59,800 The modern school is light and airy with large windows 271 00:15:59,800 --> 00:16:01,400 and good ventilation. 272 00:16:02,920 --> 00:16:05,120 Here, as you watch English youngsters 273 00:16:05,120 --> 00:16:07,080 engaged in a wide range of physical 274 00:16:07,080 --> 00:16:11,760 and intellectual activities, you may conclude, as I do... 275 00:16:15,280 --> 00:16:16,840 How do you manage it, Mr Carne? 276 00:16:16,840 --> 00:16:20,520 We've all been kept back after class and you seem to have escaped again. 277 00:16:20,520 --> 00:16:22,840 Come and sit down, you haven't missed much. 278 00:16:22,840 --> 00:16:25,800 Miss Burton's just been showing us the error of our ways. 279 00:16:25,800 --> 00:16:28,120 Oh, I doubt Miss Burton knows the half of it. 280 00:16:28,120 --> 00:16:30,920 Robert? For God's sake, man. Don't start. Not again. 281 00:16:30,920 --> 00:16:32,920 What do you think's going on here, Astell? 282 00:16:32,920 --> 00:16:35,000 Would building a future be too simple for you? 283 00:16:35,000 --> 00:16:36,920 Is that what you think? Serving the people. 284 00:16:36,920 --> 00:16:38,800 Is that what you think's happening here? 285 00:16:38,800 --> 00:16:41,440 Well, isn't that what we all want? Then you're a fool, Astell. 286 00:16:41,440 --> 00:16:43,520 Though I believe you to be an honest one. 287 00:16:43,520 --> 00:16:48,560 But there's people in this room whose only interest is lining their own pockets at the public's expense. 288 00:16:48,560 --> 00:16:52,840 You should be careful what you say, Mr Carne. Those are very serious allegations. 289 00:16:52,840 --> 00:16:57,000 Aye, and I've got good grounds for them. Oh, for pity's sake, Robert. Say no more. 290 00:16:57,000 --> 00:17:02,960 I know you've been quietly buying up land on the Wastes for months, pushing up the price bit by bit. 291 00:17:02,960 --> 00:17:07,680 And then you'll vote for Astell's estate to be built there and the ordinary people of the South Riding, 292 00:17:07,680 --> 00:17:13,400 they'll have to pay a pretty penny for ground that was just worthless swamp a few months ago, won't they? 293 00:17:13,400 --> 00:17:16,680 It's people like you, Snaith, that make politics a dirty game. 294 00:17:16,680 --> 00:17:19,480 And you, Mr Carne, have made a very big mistake. 295 00:17:19,480 --> 00:17:23,520 I got it from your friend, Huggins, here. He invited me to join your scheme. 296 00:17:23,520 --> 00:17:26,200 I never said that! You've got it all wrong, Carne! 297 00:17:26,200 --> 00:17:29,600 Have I? I don't think so. You're nothing but a bunch of crooks! 298 00:17:29,600 --> 00:17:31,840 Mr Carne? 299 00:17:31,840 --> 00:17:34,880 You have accused me of corruption in front of witnesses. 300 00:17:34,880 --> 00:17:37,760 That is slander and I shall sue you for it. 301 00:17:37,760 --> 00:17:40,960 I shall prove in court that I own no land on the Wastes 302 00:17:40,960 --> 00:17:43,040 and never did own any land there. 303 00:17:43,040 --> 00:17:49,240 I shall demand punitive damages for this gross slur upon my character, and I will get them. 304 00:17:49,240 --> 00:17:52,480 If you are not a ruined man already, Mr Carne, 305 00:17:52,480 --> 00:17:55,680 then you will be by the time I've finished with you. 306 00:17:55,680 --> 00:17:58,360 You can do what you damn well like. 307 00:17:58,360 --> 00:18:00,000 I'm done with the lot of you. 308 00:18:01,600 --> 00:18:04,960 The dictators are acting on that knowledge. 309 00:18:04,960 --> 00:18:08,080 Can the democracy afford to fall behind? 310 00:18:08,080 --> 00:18:10,120 Should they, even if they could? 311 00:18:11,840 --> 00:18:16,520 Oh, Lord! Who would have thought that would have happened? Yes. Quite lively! 312 00:18:16,520 --> 00:18:19,160 You were as cool as a cucumber. 313 00:18:19,160 --> 00:18:21,520 Are you sure we're alright? 314 00:18:21,520 --> 00:18:25,240 Quite sure. Poor Carne, I feel quite sorry for him. 315 00:18:25,240 --> 00:18:27,120 I don't. He were very rude to me. 316 00:18:27,120 --> 00:18:30,640 Oh, dear. Was he? I were only trying to do him a favour. 317 00:18:30,640 --> 00:18:34,760 I'm sure you were. People are so quick to misinterpret one's motives. 318 00:18:34,760 --> 00:18:37,840 I sometimes wonder why any of us venture into politics. 319 00:18:40,080 --> 00:18:43,840 Well, to make things better for our fellow men. 320 00:18:43,840 --> 00:18:46,240 Oh, yes, of course. That must be it. 321 00:18:49,200 --> 00:18:50,720 Come on. There we go! 322 00:18:50,720 --> 00:18:54,560 Here... Don't forget to hold their hand on that road. 323 00:18:54,560 --> 00:18:56,680 Have a good day. Bye! 324 00:18:56,680 --> 00:18:58,240 Bye! 325 00:18:58,240 --> 00:19:00,720 Dad, this is yours. 326 00:19:00,720 --> 00:19:02,240 Thanks. 327 00:19:05,840 --> 00:19:07,920 BABY CRIES 328 00:19:07,920 --> 00:19:11,080 Thanks, love. Lennie, alright, alright, ey, ey, ey. 329 00:19:15,280 --> 00:19:17,320 Give us a smile, then. 330 00:19:28,360 --> 00:19:31,800 Eh, lads, look at that for a vision of loveliness. 331 00:19:31,800 --> 00:19:33,560 None of your impudence! 332 00:19:33,560 --> 00:19:36,000 Off to town, is it? 333 00:19:36,000 --> 00:19:40,480 Like a bit of company? Quite happy on my own, thank you, Mr Holly. 334 00:19:40,480 --> 00:19:42,920 A lovely lady like you should never be alone! 335 00:19:47,840 --> 00:19:49,560 Oh, hold the bus for us! 336 00:19:56,360 --> 00:19:58,960 No. Whoa! Hold on! 337 00:19:58,960 --> 00:20:00,960 Mrs Brimsley! 338 00:20:02,520 --> 00:20:04,640 Hello. 339 00:20:08,320 --> 00:20:12,520 I haven't got any curd tarts with me, if that's what you're after. 340 00:20:12,520 --> 00:20:14,200 I'm not after curd tarts. 341 00:20:14,200 --> 00:20:15,680 That'll be a first. 342 00:20:20,360 --> 00:20:22,360 How's that lass of yours coping? 343 00:20:24,000 --> 00:20:27,560 She's too young, Missus, and that's the short of it. 344 00:20:27,560 --> 00:20:31,560 Aye, she is. I'm sorry for her loss. 345 00:20:31,560 --> 00:20:33,400 And for yours. 346 00:20:38,320 --> 00:20:41,320 So how're you getting on now that your lads have left home? 347 00:20:41,320 --> 00:20:43,400 All that baking and no mouths to feed? 348 00:20:45,080 --> 00:20:48,480 Oh, I manage. It must get a bit lonely now and then. 349 00:20:50,320 --> 00:20:52,360 What's your game? What's this about? 350 00:20:53,400 --> 00:20:56,160 Well, everyone gets lonely now and then, don't they? 351 00:21:03,280 --> 00:21:04,920 Sorry about that. 352 00:21:04,920 --> 00:21:07,120 No-one hurt? 353 00:21:07,120 --> 00:21:10,160 Just sit tight while we clear this lot. 354 00:21:12,080 --> 00:21:15,840 Ey, where you going? You heard the man. You're to sit tight. 355 00:21:15,840 --> 00:21:19,160 You just, you just rest, rest against me. 356 00:21:21,560 --> 00:21:23,280 You're a cheeky monkey, you are. 357 00:21:25,440 --> 00:21:27,560 If my boys could see me now. 358 00:21:27,560 --> 00:21:29,440 They're not here are they? 359 00:21:29,440 --> 00:21:31,240 You're shameless. 360 00:21:32,760 --> 00:21:36,440 But you're comfy enough where you are, aren't you? 361 00:21:36,440 --> 00:21:37,960 Seems I don't have a choice. 362 00:21:42,400 --> 00:21:44,120 The thing is, Mrs Brimsley, 363 00:21:46,440 --> 00:21:50,200 we're all at sea. 364 00:21:50,200 --> 00:21:54,560 And we need someone to come and take charge of us so that Lydia can go back to school. 365 00:21:54,560 --> 00:21:57,240 And I think you need a bit of looking after an all. 366 00:21:58,760 --> 00:22:00,280 And I'm the man to do it. 367 00:22:02,680 --> 00:22:06,160 Oh, you are, are you? I am. 368 00:22:06,160 --> 00:22:08,680 If you'll let me. 369 00:22:15,840 --> 00:22:19,320 He's demanding £10,000. 370 00:22:19,320 --> 00:22:21,640 I haven't got that kind of money! 371 00:22:21,640 --> 00:22:24,120 No. I imagine not. 372 00:22:24,120 --> 00:22:27,520 Can we fight it? No, Robert, we can't. 373 00:22:27,520 --> 00:22:30,200 Alderman Snaith's case is unarguable. 374 00:22:30,200 --> 00:22:33,360 Can you raise a mortgage on Maythorpe? 375 00:22:37,640 --> 00:22:39,680 Lydia! Lydia! Lydia! 376 00:22:41,800 --> 00:22:43,320 Leave me alone. 377 00:22:43,320 --> 00:22:45,760 I'm in the middle of a good bit. It's Dad, 378 00:22:45,760 --> 00:22:48,080 he's got a lady with him! 379 00:22:51,240 --> 00:22:53,800 Lydia, come down and say how do to Mrs Brimsley! 380 00:22:57,600 --> 00:22:58,760 Hello, dear. 381 00:23:01,640 --> 00:23:03,840 Your father's told me all about you, 382 00:23:03,840 --> 00:23:08,160 about how clever you are and how well you've been managing. 383 00:23:08,160 --> 00:23:12,800 You can take up your scholarship again because Mrs Brimsley says she's going to come and look after 384 00:23:12,800 --> 00:23:15,120 t'little uns. What do you say about that then, eh? 385 00:23:23,120 --> 00:23:26,120 Give her a bit of time, Jessie, eh? She'll come round. 386 00:23:30,320 --> 00:23:32,080 In't your brother a good boy? 387 00:23:32,080 --> 00:23:33,800 Is he always this good? 388 00:23:33,800 --> 00:23:35,440 Sometimes. Does he cry a lot? 389 00:23:35,440 --> 00:23:37,640 Eh, this is a bit of alright, isn't it, eh? 390 00:23:37,640 --> 00:23:39,440 What do you say? 391 00:23:39,440 --> 00:23:42,600 Thanks. This is the best curd tart in South Riding by miles! 392 00:23:42,600 --> 00:23:45,480 And this is the kindest hearted woman in Yorkshire! 393 00:23:45,480 --> 00:23:50,640 Oh, give over! Oh, by the way, I don't think your Lydia's too happy. 394 00:23:52,160 --> 00:23:55,400 She'll just have her nose in a book, that's all. 395 00:23:59,440 --> 00:24:01,200 Lydia? 396 00:24:17,240 --> 00:24:19,120 It's all right up here, in'it? 397 00:24:19,120 --> 00:24:21,400 Ah, best view in Yorkshire. 398 00:24:21,400 --> 00:24:23,240 I wonder I never tried it before. 399 00:24:36,880 --> 00:24:39,320 So what is it, then, Lyd? 400 00:24:39,320 --> 00:24:41,440 Have you taken against Mrs Brimsley? 401 00:24:41,440 --> 00:24:44,000 Dad, we were all right the way we were. 402 00:24:44,000 --> 00:24:46,960 Aye, you did a right good job of looking after the little ones. 403 00:24:46,960 --> 00:24:50,200 But it weren't fair on you, it were robbing you of your scholarship. 404 00:24:50,200 --> 00:24:52,000 I didn't mind that. 405 00:24:52,000 --> 00:24:53,760 Well, I did, 406 00:24:53,760 --> 00:24:57,040 and Miss Burton did, and your mother would have too, and she were 407 00:24:57,040 --> 00:25:00,120 that proud of you getting into high school and doing so well. 408 00:25:00,120 --> 00:25:01,640 I thought you'd forgotten about her. 409 00:25:01,640 --> 00:25:03,000 Lydia! 410 00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:07,440 How could I ever do that? 411 00:25:07,440 --> 00:25:10,560 Your Ma was my dear darling, 412 00:25:10,560 --> 00:25:12,600 she was my first and only love. 413 00:25:14,120 --> 00:25:17,280 But I'm not the sort of man who could go about in mourning for the 414 00:25:17,280 --> 00:25:20,680 rest of my life, with a long face and black armband. I'm not that man. 415 00:25:20,680 --> 00:25:23,600 I know! Lyd, it's just not in me. 416 00:25:23,600 --> 00:25:28,840 But I swear to you that nobody could ever take your mother's place in my heart. 417 00:25:28,840 --> 00:25:33,280 Do you? Do you truly? 418 00:25:33,280 --> 00:25:34,800 I do. 419 00:25:43,080 --> 00:25:45,760 See, it's just like 420 00:25:45,760 --> 00:25:49,600 a new chapter in our lives. 421 00:25:49,600 --> 00:25:52,880 It don't mean we forget about our past. 422 00:25:54,240 --> 00:25:56,720 And you're going to make us so proud of you, 423 00:25:58,480 --> 00:26:02,600 and your mother's going to be watching from up there and she's going to be saying 424 00:26:02,600 --> 00:26:06,920 to the angels, she'll be saying, that's my Lydia down there, such a clever girl. 425 00:26:06,920 --> 00:26:09,320 She takes after her dad, you know! 426 00:26:09,320 --> 00:26:13,920 And the angels'll be saying, aye, Barnabas Holly, ah, we always hoped he'd make more of hissen. 427 00:26:13,920 --> 00:26:15,160 A Prime Minister, maybe. 428 00:26:15,160 --> 00:26:18,080 But his daughter, 429 00:26:18,080 --> 00:26:21,520 ah, his daughter's going to fulfil his hopes and his dreams. 430 00:26:21,520 --> 00:26:24,320 One hundredfold! Oh, shut up, you. 431 00:26:27,440 --> 00:26:29,280 So you're all right about it, then? 432 00:26:31,880 --> 00:26:35,120 Case of like it or lump it, ain't it? 433 00:26:35,120 --> 00:26:37,160 Might as well make up me mind... 434 00:26:38,680 --> 00:26:40,200 to like it. 435 00:26:42,160 --> 00:26:43,680 That's my girl! 436 00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:20,520 It's one of the shortest poems I know. 437 00:27:20,520 --> 00:27:25,160 It was written over 400 years ago and yet it still feels so fresh today. 438 00:27:25,160 --> 00:27:29,280 Some people say the first two lines don't have anything to do 439 00:27:29,280 --> 00:27:32,360 with the last two. What do you think? 440 00:27:32,360 --> 00:27:35,720 "Oh, Western wind, when wilt thou blow, 441 00:27:35,720 --> 00:27:38,240 "that the small rain down can rain? 442 00:27:39,880 --> 00:27:44,120 "Christ, that my love were in my bed 443 00:27:44,120 --> 00:27:47,320 "and I in his arms again." 444 00:27:47,320 --> 00:27:49,040 Miss, that's not quite right. 445 00:27:49,040 --> 00:27:51,360 Isn't it? 446 00:27:51,360 --> 00:27:52,960 No, in the book it's, 447 00:27:52,960 --> 00:27:57,560 "Christ, that my love were in my arms and I in my bed again." 448 00:27:59,280 --> 00:28:01,680 Oh, yes, so it is. 449 00:28:01,680 --> 00:28:05,120 Like, in the book you can't tell if it's a man or a woman talking, 450 00:28:05,120 --> 00:28:08,640 but the way you said it, it's definitely a woman talking. 451 00:28:08,640 --> 00:28:10,400 Yes, yes, you're quite right. 452 00:28:10,400 --> 00:28:11,920 How silly of me, oh, dear. 453 00:28:13,640 --> 00:28:15,280 You're blushing, Miss. 454 00:28:15,280 --> 00:28:18,160 KNOCK AT THE DOOR Well, none of us like to make mistakes. Come in. 455 00:28:18,960 --> 00:28:21,320 One of the governors to see you, Miss Burton. 456 00:28:21,320 --> 00:28:24,840 Right. Er, this shouldn't take too long, why don't you wait outside, 457 00:28:24,840 --> 00:28:27,880 make some notes on the poem and we'll talk about it afterwards. 458 00:28:45,680 --> 00:28:47,240 It's you. 459 00:28:48,280 --> 00:28:49,680 Is this a bad moment? 460 00:28:49,680 --> 00:28:52,600 Well, you could have made an appointment. 461 00:28:55,440 --> 00:28:57,560 No, it's all right. 462 00:29:06,840 --> 00:29:08,800 What did you want? 463 00:29:08,800 --> 00:29:13,320 I thought you'd like to know that I'm going to be stepping down as one of the governors. 464 00:29:13,320 --> 00:29:15,400 I'm about to be bankrupted, 465 00:29:15,400 --> 00:29:18,480 so I thought I'd go before I was pushed. 466 00:29:20,680 --> 00:29:23,840 I dare say you won't be sorry to see the back of me. 467 00:29:23,840 --> 00:29:28,840 How can you say that? Because you're against everything I stand for. 468 00:29:28,840 --> 00:29:31,600 Of course I am, but that doesn't matter! 469 00:29:31,600 --> 00:29:33,840 I'm not against you. 470 00:29:33,840 --> 00:29:35,720 I don't see the difference. 471 00:29:35,720 --> 00:29:38,640 Yes, you do, don't pretend to be more pigheaded than you really are. 472 00:29:40,640 --> 00:29:42,960 Why haven't you been near me since Manchester? 473 00:29:42,960 --> 00:29:44,880 I was worried about you. 474 00:29:44,880 --> 00:29:47,440 You could have been dead, for all I knew. 475 00:29:47,440 --> 00:29:49,360 Why have you been avoiding me? 476 00:29:49,360 --> 00:29:52,920 I could ask the same of you. Were you hoping I'd run after you? 477 00:29:52,920 --> 00:29:57,960 No. I assumed you were as embarrassed as I was about the whole episode. 478 00:29:57,960 --> 00:30:00,280 So I embarrass you, do I? I didn't say that. 479 00:30:00,280 --> 00:30:04,160 I suppose you think I'm some cheap little tart, but believe me, 480 00:30:04,160 --> 00:30:07,480 I don't make a habit of sleeping with men in hotel rooms. 481 00:30:07,480 --> 00:30:09,320 I'm sure you don't. Then what? 482 00:30:09,320 --> 00:30:11,840 For God's sake, woman! I embarrassed myself! 483 00:30:11,840 --> 00:30:13,880 To take advantage of you, put you in a compromising 484 00:30:13,880 --> 00:30:16,800 situation, then collapse on you like a broken down nag? 485 00:30:18,920 --> 00:30:20,880 I don't think of you as a cheap little tart. 486 00:30:24,000 --> 00:30:26,320 You're a remarkable woman. 487 00:30:28,200 --> 00:30:31,400 But I assumed what you wanted that night was a man, not just a 488 00:30:31,400 --> 00:30:33,840 washed-up wreck! Oh, God! 489 00:30:35,640 --> 00:30:36,800 Men! 490 00:30:36,800 --> 00:30:40,800 It's all got to be about your virility, hasn't it? 491 00:30:40,800 --> 00:30:43,520 I didn't want a man, I wanted you! 492 00:30:43,520 --> 00:30:46,320 And we were together. I thought we were. 493 00:30:46,320 --> 00:30:48,520 And afterwards, apart from knowing you were 494 00:30:48,520 --> 00:30:52,960 all right, all I wanted was some sort of acknowledgment that it did mean something, that 495 00:30:52,960 --> 00:30:57,200 it wasn't some grubby little episode to be forgotten about as soon as possible. 496 00:30:57,200 --> 00:30:59,760 Clearly you see things differently. Sometimes I think men and women 497 00:30:59,760 --> 00:31:02,840 must be two completely different species. 498 00:31:04,360 --> 00:31:05,960 Yeah, I think you could be right. 499 00:31:13,120 --> 00:31:17,280 And now I've embarrassed and humiliated myself all over again. 500 00:31:17,280 --> 00:31:19,680 I'd like you to go now, please. 501 00:31:23,200 --> 00:31:25,680 So you don't think less of me for what happened? 502 00:31:27,760 --> 00:31:32,880 You stupid man. Of course not. 503 00:31:37,520 --> 00:31:39,000 Will you please just go? 504 00:31:45,200 --> 00:31:48,120 It did mean something to me, Sarah. 505 00:31:48,120 --> 00:31:50,240 Just go, please! 506 00:32:03,440 --> 00:32:07,040 Awful, awful! 507 00:32:12,880 --> 00:32:14,400 Come on! 508 00:32:18,600 --> 00:32:23,120 At least I didn't tell him I'm in love with him. 509 00:32:39,160 --> 00:32:41,720 Stand. Stand. 510 00:33:23,720 --> 00:33:25,400 It's all right. It's all right. 511 00:33:25,400 --> 00:33:30,760 He will come back. He always comes back. 512 00:33:47,560 --> 00:33:49,280 Don't you worry, Miss. 513 00:33:49,280 --> 00:33:51,160 I'll wager he'll be home come tea time. 514 00:33:51,160 --> 00:33:53,280 Thank you, Hicks. 515 00:34:14,680 --> 00:34:16,880 I'm so sorry to burst in like this. 516 00:34:16,880 --> 00:34:21,320 But there's some dreadful news for poor Midge Carne. 517 00:34:21,320 --> 00:34:24,440 Is it her mother? No, it isn't. 518 00:34:27,360 --> 00:34:29,400 Back to your class, Lydia. 519 00:34:33,880 --> 00:34:35,240 What is it? 520 00:34:35,240 --> 00:34:39,160 It's her father. It's Robert Carne. 521 00:34:39,160 --> 00:34:41,360 There's been an accident. 522 00:34:41,360 --> 00:34:44,160 His horse was found on the beach this morning. 523 00:34:46,080 --> 00:34:49,560 I don't know how I'm going to tell the poor girl. 524 00:34:49,560 --> 00:34:51,920 They were so attached, the two of them. 525 00:35:14,120 --> 00:35:18,200 No, no, no! You need to find him! You need to bring him back! 526 00:35:48,600 --> 00:35:52,160 Until a body is recovered, we shan't be able to proceed with probate, 527 00:35:52,160 --> 00:35:55,320 but I wanted to see you because of the child. 528 00:35:55,320 --> 00:36:01,360 Mr Carne made a new will quite recently, naming you as Midge's legal guardian in the event of his death. 529 00:36:01,360 --> 00:36:03,400 Were you aware of that? 530 00:36:03,400 --> 00:36:05,200 No. 531 00:36:05,200 --> 00:36:08,920 He asked me, informally, 532 00:36:08,920 --> 00:36:12,680 in a friendly kind of way, if I'd look after Midge if anything happened. 533 00:36:12,680 --> 00:36:15,560 And, of course, I said I'd be glad to. 534 00:36:15,560 --> 00:36:19,400 Good, good. Erm, had you spoken with him recently? 535 00:36:19,400 --> 00:36:20,920 Of course. We see each... 536 00:36:23,600 --> 00:36:27,360 We saw each other almost every day. 537 00:36:27,360 --> 00:36:29,000 And he seemed his usual self? Not... 538 00:36:29,000 --> 00:36:32,480 depressed or agitated? Not at all. 539 00:36:32,480 --> 00:36:34,960 He was worried about money 540 00:36:34,960 --> 00:36:39,920 and a little vexed with some of his fellow councillors, but... 541 00:36:44,120 --> 00:36:47,480 Oh, no. You can't think that... 542 00:36:47,480 --> 00:36:50,040 He wouldn't do a thing like that! 543 00:36:53,520 --> 00:36:54,880 How do? 544 00:37:01,440 --> 00:37:02,960 Sorry. 545 00:37:04,600 --> 00:37:07,200 At least you came. 546 00:37:07,200 --> 00:37:09,160 Well, you have to, don't you? 547 00:37:09,160 --> 00:37:13,640 Now, I wonder if you gentlemen will help settle an argument between my friend and me? 548 00:37:13,640 --> 00:37:16,320 You know all the tides and currents. 549 00:37:16,320 --> 00:37:19,240 Man goes over the cliff at Maythorpe. 550 00:37:19,240 --> 00:37:23,320 How long till his body washes up and where will it be? 551 00:37:23,320 --> 00:37:25,920 This is unbearable. 552 00:37:25,920 --> 00:37:27,000 Three days, likely. 553 00:37:27,000 --> 00:37:30,360 Well south of where he went in. Leame Estuary, somewhere like that. 554 00:37:30,360 --> 00:37:34,720 There you are, what did I say? He'd have shown well before now if he was going to. 555 00:37:34,720 --> 00:37:37,800 This that chap Carne who went over, horse and all? 556 00:37:37,800 --> 00:37:42,120 That's the man. And I think we'll find he doubled his life insurance before he went out. 557 00:37:42,120 --> 00:37:43,640 Shall we go? Yes. 558 00:37:52,160 --> 00:37:54,800 You don't think he killed himself, do you? 559 00:37:57,080 --> 00:37:59,360 I can't say. 560 00:38:02,760 --> 00:38:04,800 Sarah, I can't. 561 00:38:04,800 --> 00:38:08,160 How can we know what's going on in another person's mind? 562 00:38:08,160 --> 00:38:11,040 How can you know that he hadn't simply just had enough? 563 00:38:11,040 --> 00:38:13,360 No, you don't understand. I have to believe 564 00:38:13,360 --> 00:38:16,360 it was an accident, that he was thinking about the future. 565 00:38:16,360 --> 00:38:19,120 Because I can't bear to think that he'd given up on life. 566 00:38:22,600 --> 00:38:25,040 Well, I'm afraid I can't help you there. 567 00:38:25,040 --> 00:38:28,280 If you want my advice, you're the one who ought to be thinking about the future. 568 00:38:28,280 --> 00:38:34,840 The first conversation I had with you, you were still mourning a man who'd been dead for nearly 20 years. 569 00:38:34,840 --> 00:38:39,760 And now you're setting yourself up to spend the rest of your life mourning for another one. 570 00:38:39,760 --> 00:38:42,040 You have to live the life that's there to be lived. 571 00:38:42,040 --> 00:38:44,240 Bad things happen, life goes on. 572 00:38:51,000 --> 00:38:53,520 Sarah, I'm leaving Kiplington. 573 00:38:55,480 --> 00:38:58,880 I've had enough of the sewage farms and the small politics. 574 00:39:00,840 --> 00:39:03,040 No, not you as well. 575 00:39:03,040 --> 00:39:05,320 You're the only thing that could make me stay. 576 00:39:05,320 --> 00:39:08,560 Well, do. Do stay. Do stay! 577 00:39:08,560 --> 00:39:10,760 You don't understand. 578 00:39:10,760 --> 00:39:15,680 There are bigger things out there in the world and I want to be part of them. 579 00:39:15,680 --> 00:39:19,040 Now, if I had a chance with you, to be more than just a friend... 580 00:39:23,280 --> 00:39:26,040 Och, damn it, woman. You must know I'm in love with you? 581 00:39:37,920 --> 00:39:40,760 All right. I understand. 582 00:39:47,040 --> 00:39:48,800 So... 583 00:39:48,800 --> 00:39:51,720 I'm going to London. 584 00:39:51,720 --> 00:39:54,000 There's real work for me to do there. 585 00:39:55,520 --> 00:39:58,720 I can't see another war coming and do nothing about it. 586 00:40:05,520 --> 00:40:07,200 If you ever change your mind... 587 00:40:19,160 --> 00:40:21,320 You keep away from that edge now. 588 00:40:31,480 --> 00:40:34,800 BABY CRIES 589 00:40:43,440 --> 00:40:46,200 Mrs Carne? 590 00:40:46,200 --> 00:40:49,080 Muriel? 591 00:40:49,080 --> 00:40:52,160 I'm Emma Beddows, 592 00:40:52,160 --> 00:40:54,680 a good friend of your husband's. 593 00:40:57,360 --> 00:40:59,280 I've got some very sad news. 594 00:41:01,480 --> 00:41:03,800 Robert was killed in a riding accident. 595 00:41:06,280 --> 00:41:07,720 Robert? 596 00:41:07,720 --> 00:41:12,520 Yes, Robert. Your husband. 597 00:41:17,280 --> 00:41:19,360 Am I coming home now? 598 00:41:22,920 --> 00:41:24,880 Man that is born of a woman 599 00:41:24,880 --> 00:41:27,800 hath but a short time to live 600 00:41:27,800 --> 00:41:30,400 and is full of misery. 601 00:41:30,400 --> 00:41:33,640 He cometh up and is cut down like a flower. 602 00:41:33,640 --> 00:41:37,840 Not much cutting down required, from what I hear. 603 00:41:40,360 --> 00:41:44,920 What do you mean? I mean this is consecrated ground. 604 00:41:44,920 --> 00:41:48,040 Would you bury him in consecrated ground in your own church? 605 00:41:49,080 --> 00:41:50,880 You're not saying...? 606 00:41:50,880 --> 00:41:54,440 That's exactly what he's saying. Excuse me? 607 00:41:54,440 --> 00:41:57,960 So say it. Out loud, if that's what you think. 608 00:41:57,960 --> 00:42:00,320 Would you rather whisper behind your hand? I think the rector... 609 00:42:00,320 --> 00:42:02,720 You think he'd leave his daughter? 610 00:42:02,720 --> 00:42:06,360 Do you think he'd abandon the woman he loved for years, even...? 611 00:42:11,000 --> 00:42:13,080 That's not the man I knew. 612 00:42:13,080 --> 00:42:15,240 And no, I won't excuse you. 613 00:42:16,760 --> 00:42:19,640 You obviously knew him very well, Miss Burton. 614 00:42:19,640 --> 00:42:23,920 Yes, I did. And I'm not ashamed to say it. 615 00:42:31,800 --> 00:42:33,000 Please. 616 00:42:36,080 --> 00:42:40,600 Thou knowest, Lord, the secrets of our hearts. 617 00:42:40,600 --> 00:42:44,320 Shut not thy merciful ears to our prayer. 618 00:42:44,320 --> 00:42:46,360 But spare us, Lord most holy. 619 00:42:46,360 --> 00:42:50,000 Suffer us not at our last hour. 620 00:42:50,000 --> 00:42:54,680 For any pains of death to fall from thee. 621 00:42:54,680 --> 00:43:00,840 For as much as it hath pleased Almighty God of his great mercy. 622 00:43:00,840 --> 00:43:05,560 To take unto himself the soul of our dear brother here departed. 623 00:43:05,560 --> 00:43:08,320 We therefore commit his body to the ground. 624 00:43:10,440 --> 00:43:14,280 Steady! 'Earth to earth.' 625 00:43:14,280 --> 00:43:15,880 Steady, boy! 626 00:43:15,880 --> 00:43:17,640 'Ashes to ashes.' 627 00:43:17,640 --> 00:43:19,200 Steady! 628 00:43:19,200 --> 00:43:20,840 'Dust to dust. 629 00:43:25,920 --> 00:43:30,040 'In sure and certain hope of the resurrection to eternal life. 630 00:43:30,040 --> 00:43:32,160 'Through our Lord, Jesus Christ.' 631 00:43:33,840 --> 00:43:37,600 Amen. Amen. 632 00:44:05,400 --> 00:44:07,800 Are you all right? I beg your pardon? 633 00:44:07,800 --> 00:44:09,320 Do you have everything you want? 634 00:44:09,320 --> 00:44:12,880 There's some bits and bobs, if you're hungry. 635 00:44:12,880 --> 00:44:16,240 Would you be Mrs Beddows, by any chance? 636 00:44:16,240 --> 00:44:19,720 Yes. And you are? Sedgmire. 637 00:44:19,720 --> 00:44:23,000 Oh, we didn't think you'd come. 638 00:44:23,000 --> 00:44:25,640 Why wouldn't I come? I want to see my granddaughter. 639 00:44:25,640 --> 00:44:28,360 Do you? After all this time. 640 00:44:28,360 --> 00:44:30,880 Better late than never. 641 00:44:30,880 --> 00:44:33,120 And do you think she'll want to see you? 642 00:44:33,120 --> 00:44:35,080 Why don't we find out? 643 00:44:40,400 --> 00:44:43,920 So you're Midge. You're very like your mother was at your age. 644 00:44:43,920 --> 00:44:46,240 Thank you. 645 00:44:56,280 --> 00:45:02,600 Now... Your father appointed Mrs Beddows your legal guardian but I want you to come and live with me. 646 00:45:04,360 --> 00:45:06,960 My nephew and his wife are at the castle now. 647 00:45:06,960 --> 00:45:10,800 More to the point, they have a girl a little younger than you. 648 00:45:12,320 --> 00:45:14,280 We haven't sent her to school yet. 649 00:45:14,280 --> 00:45:16,520 She's had governesses. 650 00:45:18,040 --> 00:45:22,560 We're thinking of a finishing school in France or Switzerland. 651 00:45:22,560 --> 00:45:27,160 You could go together. Or you could stay here with me. 652 00:45:28,920 --> 00:45:31,800 She's at a very good school here, you know? 653 00:45:31,800 --> 00:45:34,880 She's happy there and she's doing really rather well. 654 00:45:34,880 --> 00:45:39,200 It might not be a good idea to disrupt her life at this stage. 655 00:45:39,200 --> 00:45:43,960 Her life's already been disrupted. Shall we ask the girl? 656 00:45:46,080 --> 00:45:48,400 Would you prefer to stay here 657 00:45:48,400 --> 00:45:50,560 or come to Shropshire? 658 00:45:52,600 --> 00:45:55,120 Oh... Come and live with you, Grandfather. 659 00:45:55,120 --> 00:45:59,200 Now that Daddy's dead, there's nothing to keep me here. 660 00:45:59,200 --> 00:46:05,560 So be it, then. I assume you won't go to law about it? 661 00:46:08,800 --> 00:46:10,800 No. No. 662 00:46:13,720 --> 00:46:16,360 If that's what Midge wants. 663 00:46:16,360 --> 00:46:18,280 Good. 664 00:46:35,480 --> 00:46:37,000 Elsie! 665 00:46:37,000 --> 00:46:39,120 Have you seen Miss Burton? 666 00:46:41,160 --> 00:46:43,280 I don't think she came back to the house. 667 00:46:54,200 --> 00:46:57,040 Where's Miss Burton? Oh, she's not here, Mrs Beddows. 668 00:46:57,040 --> 00:46:58,840 She's catching the train to London. 669 00:46:58,840 --> 00:47:02,320 Although she did leave this letter for the Chair of the Governors. 670 00:47:03,760 --> 00:47:07,200 Give it to me. 671 00:47:24,440 --> 00:47:27,760 Where's Lydia Holly? She should be in room four, Mrs Beddows. 672 00:47:38,600 --> 00:47:39,920 WHISTLE BLOWS 673 00:47:45,920 --> 00:47:47,480 Is this the London train? It is. 674 00:47:47,480 --> 00:47:49,320 When's it due out? Two minutes. 675 00:47:49,320 --> 00:47:51,160 Did you see Miss Burton get on, Percy? 676 00:47:51,160 --> 00:47:52,840 Next carriage down. 677 00:47:55,360 --> 00:47:56,880 You wait there. 678 00:48:04,120 --> 00:48:07,000 You'll be the death of me, young lady! Oh! 679 00:48:07,000 --> 00:48:08,520 Wait a minute, Percy! 680 00:48:09,560 --> 00:48:12,160 Well, I must say, I never had you down as a bolter. 681 00:48:12,160 --> 00:48:14,960 No, I am not a bolter. So what's all this, then? 682 00:48:14,960 --> 00:48:17,640 How can I stay here with the whole town laughing at me? 683 00:48:17,640 --> 00:48:19,240 I'm not fit to be a head teacher. 684 00:48:19,240 --> 00:48:22,560 It'll die down. You're not the first woman to embarrass herself in public. 685 00:48:22,560 --> 00:48:25,400 I could tell you of the time my knickers fell down when I 686 00:48:25,400 --> 00:48:29,200 was presenting the prizes at the brass band festival. I don't know what came over me. 687 00:48:29,200 --> 00:48:34,400 It's been going on for weeks, I just had to bear it, but when they were gossiping over his grave... 688 00:48:34,400 --> 00:48:36,520 He didn't kill himself, I know he didn't. 689 00:48:36,520 --> 00:48:40,520 Sarah, I heard the gossip, too, and it hurt me just as much as it hurt you. 690 00:48:40,520 --> 00:48:43,640 I don't want to believe he killed himself either but I can't overlook 691 00:48:43,640 --> 00:48:48,600 he changed his will before he died and left Midge for me to look after. 692 00:48:48,600 --> 00:48:52,560 It doesn't really matter. 693 00:48:52,560 --> 00:48:54,080 I loved him just the same. 694 00:48:55,640 --> 00:48:57,840 Probably more than was good for me. 695 00:48:57,840 --> 00:49:00,240 And Jim. 696 00:49:03,040 --> 00:49:07,080 No, you don't understand. He didn't kill himself. He was ill. 697 00:49:07,080 --> 00:49:10,680 Oh, nonsense! He never had a day's illness in his life. 698 00:49:10,680 --> 00:49:14,840 Yes. He collapsed with a heart attack when he was with me... 699 00:49:17,600 --> 00:49:20,200 With me in Manchester. 700 00:49:22,840 --> 00:49:26,320 I didn't know. He didn't tell me. 701 00:49:29,280 --> 00:49:31,160 I wish he'd told me. 702 00:49:31,160 --> 00:49:32,760 I'm sorry. 703 00:49:35,520 --> 00:49:37,800 Well, at least you know that much. 704 00:49:41,400 --> 00:49:44,240 WHISTLE BLOWS 705 00:49:44,240 --> 00:49:47,720 Not yet, Percy! Put that down! 706 00:49:47,720 --> 00:49:48,880 Right. 707 00:49:48,880 --> 00:49:52,120 We'd better get off this train before we both end up in London. 708 00:49:52,120 --> 00:49:56,440 No, I can't. Why? Because you've been disappointed in love? Join the queue. 709 00:49:57,720 --> 00:50:02,320 When you came here six months ago, you blew your horn pretty loud. 710 00:50:02,320 --> 00:50:06,760 You were full of plans for what you could do for our girls. 711 00:50:06,760 --> 00:50:09,520 You can't leave now because your heart's been broken. 712 00:50:09,520 --> 00:50:11,240 You'll find another head teacher. 713 00:50:13,240 --> 00:50:14,720 She won't. 714 00:50:17,760 --> 00:50:19,800 No, that's not fair! No, it's not. 715 00:50:19,800 --> 00:50:23,080 You made a big song and dance about the waste if she had to leave. 716 00:50:23,080 --> 00:50:27,680 Are you going to leave her in the lurch now? And all the other girls whose lives you could change? 717 00:50:27,680 --> 00:50:30,120 Now that would be a waste, wouldn't it? 718 00:50:34,160 --> 00:50:35,880 I know you're unhappy, 719 00:50:35,880 --> 00:50:38,840 but running away won't make you any happier. 720 00:50:49,760 --> 00:50:52,480 All right, Percy, we're getting out! 721 00:51:09,760 --> 00:51:13,160 Oh, Mr Drew. Councillor Huggins. How are you? 722 00:51:13,160 --> 00:51:14,680 Very well. Good luck. 723 00:51:20,640 --> 00:51:23,680 HE BANGS GAVEL 724 00:51:23,680 --> 00:51:29,200 Ladies and gentlemen of the press, I am now in a position to announce the decision 725 00:51:29,200 --> 00:51:34,440 of the Town Planning Committee with regard to the new housing estate. 726 00:51:34,440 --> 00:51:40,080 After long deliberation, we have decided on Schedule B. 727 00:51:40,080 --> 00:51:43,280 No! Schedule B, that's the Cold Harbour site. 728 00:51:43,280 --> 00:51:46,000 That is the decision of the committee, Councillor Huggins. 729 00:51:48,040 --> 00:51:52,400 That's impossible! That's impossible! 730 00:51:52,400 --> 00:52:00,000 I assure you, Councillor Huggins, that the vote, a unanimous one, as it turned out, has chosen Schedule B. 731 00:52:00,000 --> 00:52:06,440 The overriding reason being that recent land speculation has forced up land values on Leame Ferry Wastes 732 00:52:06,440 --> 00:52:12,200 so that a compulsory council purchase would be a very bad bargain. 733 00:52:12,200 --> 00:52:18,960 This is an historic day for the South Riding, and a vindication of the theory of public-private partnership. 734 00:52:18,960 --> 00:52:20,720 APPLAUSE 735 00:52:28,680 --> 00:52:31,760 No doubt you're pleased with the outcome, Mrs Beddows. 736 00:52:31,760 --> 00:52:34,960 It's hard to feel pleased about anything just now, Mr Snaith. 737 00:52:34,960 --> 00:52:37,120 Yes. Very sad. Very sad. 738 00:52:37,120 --> 00:52:41,640 However, the council may have an opportunity to acquire Maythorpe. 739 00:52:41,640 --> 00:52:48,280 The house and grounds could be converted into a municipal care home for mental incurables. 740 00:52:48,280 --> 00:52:52,600 We might even name it after Carne. The Robert Carne Memorial Hospital. 741 00:52:52,600 --> 00:52:55,040 That's got a good ring to it, don't you think? 742 00:52:57,400 --> 00:52:59,280 Excuse me, Mr Snaith. 743 00:53:06,680 --> 00:53:09,480 I'm not sure he's at home, sir. I'll ask if he can see you. 744 00:53:09,480 --> 00:53:13,040 Oh, he'll see me or I'll want to know the reason why! I'm sorry, sir. 745 00:53:13,040 --> 00:53:17,360 It's all right, Christie. What can I do for you, Huggins? You can damn well explain yourself! 746 00:53:17,360 --> 00:53:19,640 You've ruined me! My dear man, I don't understand. 747 00:53:19,640 --> 00:53:21,960 You told me the new estate would be on the Wastes! 748 00:53:21,960 --> 00:53:25,680 It was always going to be built on the cheapest site. Anything else would be irresponsible. 749 00:53:25,680 --> 00:53:28,480 But I sold my life insurance to buy 32 acres. 750 00:53:28,480 --> 00:53:32,120 Did you? Course I did, man! Did you think I'm so slow I wouldn't take your tip? 751 00:53:32,120 --> 00:53:35,240 To do what? Defraud the County Council? That was never my intention. 752 00:53:35,240 --> 00:53:38,640 The thing about corruption is that it nearly always comes out in the end. 753 00:53:38,640 --> 00:53:40,720 You should know that. I'm not corrupt. 754 00:53:40,720 --> 00:53:44,440 I'm a good man! I've always done what's best for the people. I've never been in it for myself! 755 00:53:44,440 --> 00:53:47,640 I was in a bit of a spot and I thought you might help me out! 756 00:53:47,640 --> 00:53:49,520 And what a mess you got yourself into. 757 00:53:49,520 --> 00:53:54,440 I suppose, with the benefit of hindsight, we could have all seen it coming. Couldn't we, Edgar? 758 00:53:54,440 --> 00:53:56,800 Never mind bloody Edgar! Why did you do it? 759 00:53:56,800 --> 00:54:01,280 Why did you lend me £500 when you thought it might all go wrong? 760 00:54:01,280 --> 00:54:04,040 The £500 was for your daughter. 761 00:54:04,040 --> 00:54:07,560 Wait a minute. You'll be all right, won't you? 762 00:54:07,560 --> 00:54:09,720 You've got that little railway down at Cold Harbour. 763 00:54:09,720 --> 00:54:12,480 That's what you wanted all along, wasn't it? 764 00:54:12,480 --> 00:54:16,520 Yes, it's funny how things turn out, isn't it? You slimy bastard! 765 00:54:16,920 --> 00:54:18,680 HE CHOKES 766 00:54:23,160 --> 00:54:25,760 Oh, Lord, have mercy on us miserable sinners! 767 00:54:25,760 --> 00:54:27,240 Aagh! 768 00:54:29,720 --> 00:54:33,400 HE GASPS 769 00:54:33,400 --> 00:54:35,120 Oh, Lord, I'm sorry! 770 00:54:38,000 --> 00:54:41,320 Not quite the evening we had in mind, is it, Edgar? 771 00:55:06,880 --> 00:55:12,920 To those of you who are leaving, you will find the world a lot more complicated than it looks. 772 00:55:14,720 --> 00:55:19,120 There will be unexpected delights as well as setbacks. 773 00:55:20,640 --> 00:55:24,800 As you get older, you know fewer things for certain. 774 00:55:29,000 --> 00:55:32,120 Not more. 775 00:55:34,840 --> 00:55:38,600 PAPER IS TORN 776 00:55:38,600 --> 00:55:41,480 Things will happen to you that you didn't expect. 777 00:55:41,480 --> 00:55:45,760 Things that challenge everything you thought you knew. 778 00:55:45,760 --> 00:55:47,120 Don't be afraid of that. 779 00:55:49,080 --> 00:55:50,920 We all have to make mistakes. 780 00:55:54,680 --> 00:55:56,600 The trick is to learn from them. 781 00:55:58,120 --> 00:56:00,800 You've heard me say before, question everything. 782 00:56:00,800 --> 00:56:03,880 Question yourselves, question authority. 783 00:56:05,120 --> 00:56:07,680 But open your eyes, 784 00:56:07,680 --> 00:56:10,600 your ears and... 785 00:56:10,600 --> 00:56:12,360 your hearts, too. 786 00:56:14,880 --> 00:56:17,400 You can learn things from the most 787 00:56:17,400 --> 00:56:19,720 unexpected people. 788 00:56:23,160 --> 00:56:28,200 People you might not think could teach you anything. That's a lesson we all must learn. 789 00:56:31,840 --> 00:56:37,000 Above all, enjoy your lives and live to the full. 790 00:56:37,000 --> 00:56:40,000 Please, don't ever be afraid. 791 00:56:43,680 --> 00:56:45,200 The future belongs to you. 792 00:59:02,600 --> 00:59:05,640 Subtitles by Red Bee Media Ltd 793 00:59:05,640 --> 00:59:08,680 E-mail subtitling@bbc.co.uk