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Would you like to inspect the original subtitles? These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:05,319 --> 00:00:10,521 There were always skylarks, their songs hanging over the fields of dark gold. 2 00:00:14,788 --> 00:00:19,146 As a child, it felt as though this quiet old country life had always been so, 3 00:00:21,207 --> 00:00:23,301 and would always be so. 4 00:00:29,521 --> 00:00:33,434 My father used to say that nobody ever came to Lark Rise, and nobody ever left. 5 00:00:39,001 --> 00:00:41,218 But he was wrong on both counts. 6 00:00:47,624 --> 00:00:50,208 Come on. Not long, not long. 7 00:00:50,574 --> 00:00:53,769 Take a little breath. Take a little breath. So close. 8 00:01:09,208 --> 00:01:11,119 There we are boys and girls. 9 00:01:11,562 --> 00:01:15,230 The girl I was, couldn't see how quickly the world was moving away 10 00:01:15,368 --> 00:01:17,417 from those slow summer days. 11 00:01:43,050 --> 00:01:44,273 This is Annie. 12 00:01:45,405 --> 00:01:48,752 Annie, this is Ethel... and Frank... 13 00:01:50,258 --> 00:01:53,148 and Edmund... and Laura. 14 00:01:54,844 --> 00:01:57,015 We'll have to get out of this left behind place. 15 00:01:57,168 --> 00:02:00,241 There's no room here for so many of us, not when another one come. 16 00:02:00,523 --> 00:02:05,033 I could only half sense that my own life was about to be forever changed. 17 00:02:06,855 --> 00:02:11,601 Episode 1 18 00:02:12,671 --> 00:02:16,493 Transcript: Evarin Transcript UK 19 00:02:16,806 --> 00:02:20,490 Sync: Moochie 20 00:02:45,703 --> 00:02:48,844 Do you ever wonder why we were born on this spot here, Alf? 21 00:02:49,012 --> 00:02:50,480 Well, because we were. 22 00:02:50,686 --> 00:02:53,162 But we might have been born somewhere else, 23 00:02:53,300 --> 00:02:55,516 and we wouldn't have had all of this. 24 00:03:04,678 --> 00:03:07,804 - It's too soon. - Robert Timmins, you agreed to this. 25 00:03:07,942 --> 00:03:10,441 - A man can change his mind, can't he? - Your mind? 26 00:03:10,593 --> 00:03:12,779 It's your heart I can hear talking. 27 00:03:13,605 --> 00:03:16,066 The truth of it is, Robert, she's our daughter 28 00:03:16,234 --> 00:03:18,619 but she doesn't belong here at Lark Rise. 29 00:03:18,993 --> 00:03:23,243 You've heard her speak, the way she thinks, the way she sees the world, 30 00:03:23,625 --> 00:03:26,010 she's not like the other hamlet children. 31 00:03:28,111 --> 00:03:30,695 I know you'll miss your girl, 32 00:03:32,071 --> 00:03:34,379 but it's still the right thing to do. 33 00:03:36,301 --> 00:03:38,747 Bees, bees, I'm back again. 34 00:03:44,532 --> 00:03:46,856 Don't you ever get tired of sitting there, Queenie? 35 00:03:47,001 --> 00:03:47,949 Never! 36 00:03:48,285 --> 00:03:51,159 Tending bees isn't work, that's a treat. 37 00:03:52,880 --> 00:03:55,448 You keep your brother close, young Laura. 38 00:03:56,120 --> 00:03:59,438 Brothers can get lost if you don't keep a careful eye on them. 39 00:04:01,224 --> 00:04:02,508 Be warned. 40 00:04:03,471 --> 00:04:04,893 Ethel, come back. 41 00:04:05,260 --> 00:04:07,140 Stop that now! Ethel! Frank! 42 00:04:07,904 --> 00:04:09,433 Stop that fighting! 43 00:04:11,275 --> 00:04:14,210 Laura! Can you not tend to the baby? 44 00:04:17,925 --> 00:04:20,156 Must I see to everything myself? 45 00:04:20,529 --> 00:04:23,540 How can you have your head stuck in a book when there's so much to do? 46 00:04:23,961 --> 00:04:27,508 If you're no help to me, it's as well l have found a place for you. 47 00:04:28,096 --> 00:04:29,197 A place? 48 00:04:29,854 --> 00:04:32,713 I was intending to tell you when the moment was right, Laura. 49 00:04:33,553 --> 00:04:37,130 Cousin Dorcas has kindly agreed to take you on in the Post Office... 50 00:04:37,360 --> 00:04:38,430 in Candleford. 51 00:05:03,748 --> 00:05:04,803 Ma...? 52 00:05:06,301 --> 00:05:08,915 I have never even been inside of a Post Office. 53 00:05:09,099 --> 00:05:11,911 - It's decided, Laura. - But I'll help you. 54 00:05:12,943 --> 00:05:16,184 - I'll look after the baby, I promise. - It's good work. 55 00:05:16,795 --> 00:05:18,630 You'll learn from Dorcas, 56 00:05:19,165 --> 00:05:21,137 she's made something of her life, 57 00:05:22,046 --> 00:05:24,400 a woman running a Post Office on her own. 58 00:05:25,287 --> 00:05:27,886 And a forge. Imagine it! 59 00:05:28,573 --> 00:05:31,096 Ma... please don't make me leave Lark Rise. 60 00:05:34,941 --> 00:05:36,179 Come here. 61 00:05:39,972 --> 00:05:42,342 When I was about your age, Laura, 62 00:05:43,014 --> 00:05:45,674 some relatives came to visit us from Australia. 63 00:05:46,133 --> 00:05:48,869 And they persuaded me to go back with them. 64 00:05:49,585 --> 00:05:51,649 I was so excited. 65 00:05:52,031 --> 00:05:54,461 It was going to be a whole new life. 66 00:05:55,195 --> 00:05:56,953 It was all arranged, 67 00:05:57,481 --> 00:06:00,141 till the night before I was due to go 68 00:06:00,310 --> 00:06:04,145 They began to talk about snakes that infested their garden. So, 69 00:06:04,772 --> 00:06:06,484 I said, "I shan't go." 70 00:06:07,164 --> 00:06:08,479 And I wouldn't. 71 00:06:09,587 --> 00:06:11,635 But the truth of it is, Laura, 72 00:06:13,011 --> 00:06:15,617 it was more than snakes I was afraid of. 73 00:06:17,111 --> 00:06:20,596 And I still find myself wondering, "What if?" 74 00:06:22,584 --> 00:06:24,418 Do you see, my flower? 75 00:06:31,300 --> 00:06:33,822 I've put a potato cake in a bag for you. 76 00:06:34,006 --> 00:06:37,033 A little bit of sugar can always be spared. 77 00:06:39,291 --> 00:06:43,281 No child of mine shall go out into this world without a good outfit. 78 00:06:46,246 --> 00:06:48,065 For your writing, Laura. 79 00:06:51,133 --> 00:06:52,723 Thank you, Edmund. 80 00:07:05,448 --> 00:07:06,518 Walk on. 81 00:07:12,002 --> 00:07:14,065 You go and get rich, little Laura! 82 00:07:14,295 --> 00:07:18,193 Wrap up every penny stamp in your best Lark Rise smile! 83 00:07:18,675 --> 00:07:22,497 And don't take any nonsense from that hoity-toity lot over there. 84 00:07:22,649 --> 00:07:25,172 And don't ever forget where you come from. 85 00:08:00,681 --> 00:08:03,768 To my eyes, a hamlet girl's eyes, 86 00:08:04,365 --> 00:08:07,667 it all seemed so new and so different to the life I'd known. 87 00:08:09,195 --> 00:08:10,081 Walk on. 88 00:08:10,227 --> 00:08:12,933 Did I sense then that this was what I wanted? 89 00:08:14,767 --> 00:08:16,174 Perhaps I did. 90 00:08:25,968 --> 00:08:27,868 Thomas, I believe we have a parcel 91 00:08:28,037 --> 00:08:29,815 - for Mr Norcutt? - Yes, ma'am. 92 00:08:29,959 --> 00:08:32,875 I'm sorry, Mrs Glover, we have nothing for you today. 93 00:08:33,471 --> 00:08:36,116 Mrs Macey will cash your postal order, Mr Pew. 94 00:08:37,112 --> 00:08:38,366 Dorcas? 95 00:08:39,573 --> 00:08:41,224 You remember our Laura? 96 00:08:42,432 --> 00:08:45,077 - I picked these for you, ma'am. - Thank you, Laura. 97 00:08:45,405 --> 00:08:48,631 You've arrived at just the right time, we've had the most terrible rush. 98 00:08:48,799 --> 00:08:52,284 But it's all over now, so we can have a little something to eat. 99 00:08:54,882 --> 00:08:57,435 I can't say we lay on such a spread every day. 100 00:08:57,588 --> 00:08:58,780 It's a feast. 101 00:08:58,979 --> 00:09:01,333 We thought it would be a warm welcome for Laura. 102 00:09:01,516 --> 00:09:02,877 Didn't we, Zillah? 103 00:09:08,721 --> 00:09:10,739 Are you a Christian, Missie? 104 00:09:11,717 --> 00:09:13,987 Even if that were any of your business, Thomas Brown, 105 00:09:14,139 --> 00:09:17,335 we should not discuss such lofty matters at my table. 106 00:09:18,481 --> 00:09:21,508 Laura, meet Matthew, who runs the forge for me. 107 00:09:23,899 --> 00:09:26,918 Perhaps tomorrow morning Mrs Macey and Thomas Brown here, 108 00:09:27,049 --> 00:09:30,465 can show you how we sort the mail when it arrives from the head office? 109 00:09:31,108 --> 00:09:33,049 Food is my one weakness! 110 00:09:37,125 --> 00:09:38,133 Walk on. 111 00:10:01,715 --> 00:10:02,861 So, Laura... 112 00:10:04,069 --> 00:10:05,353 shall we begin? 113 00:10:05,697 --> 00:10:08,188 Form AB55 - The Savings Bank Form. 114 00:10:08,341 --> 00:10:10,282 K21 - The Postal Order Abstract. 115 00:10:10,435 --> 00:10:12,484 XY15 - The Cash Account Sheet. 116 00:10:12,652 --> 00:10:14,570 Don't worry, you'll soon get used to them. 117 00:10:14,754 --> 00:10:16,634 And the stamps here, 118 00:10:16,986 --> 00:10:19,432 the one penny and the half penny. 119 00:10:19,707 --> 00:10:21,984 Postal orders we'll come to later. 120 00:10:32,348 --> 00:10:35,864 Thomas, telegram for Mrs Arless over in Lark Rise. 121 00:10:38,263 --> 00:10:41,855 Did you hear me, Thomas? Telegram for Mrs Arless over in Lark Rise. 122 00:10:42,038 --> 00:10:43,506 So it began. 123 00:10:45,134 --> 00:10:48,588 One little telegram bearing a few words of good news 124 00:10:48,787 --> 00:10:51,279 was about to set hamlet against town, 125 00:10:51,447 --> 00:10:52,899 rich against poor, 126 00:10:53,044 --> 00:10:55,467 Lark Rise against Candleford. 127 00:10:56,207 --> 00:11:00,120 Wouldn't it be splendid to have your very own nine-gallon cask 128 00:11:00,387 --> 00:11:02,252 of good ale in your pantry? 129 00:11:02,551 --> 00:11:05,027 Turn on the tap and fetch a glass for your husband. 130 00:11:05,195 --> 00:11:08,038 Or better still, he can fetch one for me. 131 00:11:08,240 --> 00:11:10,492 And you'll have plenty of time to pay for it. 132 00:11:10,645 --> 00:11:13,610 Just put your instalment by each week for me to come and collect. 133 00:11:13,748 --> 00:11:16,729 Now, who's gonna to be the very first in Lark Rise 134 00:11:16,927 --> 00:11:20,214 to own their own cask of best foaming beer? 135 00:11:38,844 --> 00:11:40,388 What are you upto? 136 00:11:53,152 --> 00:11:55,262 Ma! Ma! Wake up. 137 00:11:55,962 --> 00:11:58,453 The little 'uns are after their dinner. 138 00:12:00,716 --> 00:12:02,276 Argh, I'm burning! 139 00:12:16,563 --> 00:12:18,719 - Who sleeps here? - You do. 140 00:12:19,957 --> 00:12:23,014 - Who else? - No-one else. 'Tis your room. 141 00:12:23,159 --> 00:12:24,642 My own room? 142 00:12:24,841 --> 00:12:28,020 This is a home, not a farmyard. 143 00:12:28,280 --> 00:12:30,359 You're in Candleford now, gal. 144 00:12:46,751 --> 00:12:48,692 Go on! Over to Emma's. 145 00:12:49,151 --> 00:12:52,101 Put your best hungry faces on. Just stand by the door. 146 00:12:52,743 --> 00:12:54,180 Don't say I sent you. 147 00:12:56,137 --> 00:12:59,928 I know what you're thinking, I shouldn't have spent your wages on the beer. 148 00:13:00,103 --> 00:13:03,383 I was feeling in need of cheering up. That's all. 149 00:13:06,118 --> 00:13:08,396 I miss your pa more than you realise. 150 00:13:11,209 --> 00:13:12,936 I've learnt my lesson. 151 00:13:13,613 --> 00:13:15,539 See it in my face if l haven't. 152 00:13:22,647 --> 00:13:24,397 Ain't you the beautiful one? 153 00:13:24,588 --> 00:13:27,814 Don't you fret... little Laura won't forget you. 154 00:13:29,243 --> 00:13:32,667 We might fret about feeding the little 'uns before anything else. 155 00:13:33,210 --> 00:13:35,457 You got any more work in the field tomorrow? 156 00:13:35,610 --> 00:13:38,801 Some more ditches to be dug out, another week or more. 157 00:13:39,443 --> 00:13:40,436 Good lad. 158 00:13:45,911 --> 00:13:47,058 Dorcas? 159 00:13:47,348 --> 00:13:50,222 Timothy... Oh, how sweet of you. 160 00:13:50,459 --> 00:13:53,455 - Are they from the manor gardens? - Ah! this is, er, 161 00:13:53,853 --> 00:13:56,665 this is rather difficult you see. I, I've promised these to Zillah. 162 00:13:56,864 --> 00:13:59,639 She dropped the most enormous hint the other day. 163 00:13:59,853 --> 00:14:02,940 Yes, there's no missing Zillah's intimations. 164 00:14:04,255 --> 00:14:07,694 I saw Thomas setting off just now with a scowl from ear to ear. 165 00:14:07,878 --> 00:14:11,837 He has a telegram to deliver to Lark Rise. You know how he loves to suffer. 166 00:14:12,823 --> 00:14:15,636 I take it from your dress that you are not riding out with me today? 167 00:14:15,773 --> 00:14:19,564 A new girl has arrived, Laura, Emma Timmin's eldest child. 168 00:14:19,846 --> 00:14:22,613 She's very spirited and rather lovely with it. 169 00:14:22,896 --> 00:14:25,143 I'd like to see her properly settled in. 170 00:14:25,342 --> 00:14:28,277 I've left her to get acquainted with Zillah's brand of welcome. 171 00:14:29,714 --> 00:14:31,151 Well, tomorrow then? 172 00:14:32,068 --> 00:14:33,337 Yes, I'd love to. 173 00:14:41,466 --> 00:14:43,705 Telegram for Mrs Arless. 174 00:14:43,897 --> 00:14:45,609 Telegram? Who from? 175 00:14:46,678 --> 00:14:50,056 Three and six for the hire of man and horse carriage. 176 00:14:50,316 --> 00:14:53,771 Well, I can see the horse carriage, but I can't see no man. 177 00:14:54,612 --> 00:14:57,195 - I see you've not found Christ yet? - No, 178 00:14:57,434 --> 00:14:59,375 and I've not found three and six neither. 179 00:14:59,758 --> 00:15:02,139 In which case, in accordance with Post Office Regulations, 180 00:15:02,307 --> 00:15:04,615 - I cannot deliver this telegram. - Oh, 181 00:15:04,993 --> 00:15:06,812 don't be so heartless, man. 182 00:15:07,683 --> 00:15:10,633 It might be from my daughter, who's pregnant. 183 00:15:10,964 --> 00:15:13,929 When the young 'uns begin, it's about time the old 'uns stopped. 184 00:15:14,434 --> 00:15:17,369 Well, it's a bit late for that now, isn't it, Thomas? 185 00:15:17,644 --> 00:15:19,509 Or that might be about my Walter... 186 00:15:19,738 --> 00:15:22,612 - that might be news of his ship. - That might indeed. 187 00:15:23,467 --> 00:15:26,097 And if you hadn't wittered away the earnings he sent you 188 00:15:26,219 --> 00:15:27,962 on vices such as ALE, 189 00:15:28,091 --> 00:15:30,010 you might have the means to find out. 190 00:15:30,170 --> 00:15:32,448 You stay here a while. I'll get your money for you. 191 00:15:32,586 --> 00:15:33,961 Ma, what are you doing? 192 00:15:34,099 --> 00:15:37,049 Well, we have to know what's in that telegram, don't we? 193 00:15:37,309 --> 00:15:41,223 That's well enough me lending it you, how you going to find it to pay me back? 194 00:15:41,394 --> 00:15:44,489 Please, Mr Paxton. They wouldn't be sending me no telegram 195 00:15:44,627 --> 00:15:47,098 unless it was terrible bad news, would they? 196 00:15:47,296 --> 00:15:49,161 Go on. Please. 197 00:15:50,499 --> 00:15:52,685 This is the last time and I mean it. 198 00:15:54,152 --> 00:15:57,086 They're charging hamlet folk what amounts to a day and a half's wages 199 00:15:57,255 --> 00:15:59,342 for a few words on a piece of paper. 200 00:16:03,371 --> 00:16:05,648 They're charging for the distance. 201 00:16:06,107 --> 00:16:09,302 Candleford Post Office say we're outside their eight mile limit. 202 00:16:09,455 --> 00:16:11,350 That's them getting paid twice! 203 00:16:11,496 --> 00:16:14,400 They're taking the food off our tables and the clothes off our backs. 204 00:16:14,553 --> 00:16:16,708 They want to take us for no more than country fools. 205 00:16:16,846 --> 00:16:19,277 Right's right and wrong ain't right. 206 00:16:19,429 --> 00:16:21,096 We're not outside of no limit. 207 00:16:21,302 --> 00:16:24,023 Milestones might say we are. Maps might say we are. 208 00:16:24,191 --> 00:16:26,775 But we all walk to and from and we know what eight mile is. 209 00:16:26,943 --> 00:16:28,945 We ought to do something about it. 210 00:16:29,121 --> 00:16:32,729 All I want is my money back and a fair share of what's right. 211 00:16:33,814 --> 00:16:36,993 You know, somebody ought to ruffle their feathers 212 00:16:37,162 --> 00:16:39,508 and let them know they've been ruffled 'n' all. 213 00:16:39,700 --> 00:16:44,117 We should write a letter, to the Post Master General hi'self. 214 00:16:45,019 --> 00:16:46,701 What do you think, Robert? 215 00:16:55,950 --> 00:16:58,305 That's something about our Lucy. 216 00:16:58,831 --> 00:17:02,302 Won't cost me another three and six for you to read it, will it? 217 00:17:09,295 --> 00:17:13,285 "Your daughter did give birth today to a fine baby girl." 218 00:17:14,304 --> 00:17:17,659 "Mother and child are both in good health." 219 00:17:21,350 --> 00:17:25,692 Thomas Brown, we should raise a drop of ale in the blessedness of it. 220 00:17:26,487 --> 00:17:30,583 If you ask me, the blessed thing to do would be to abstain. 221 00:17:32,377 --> 00:17:36,489 Well, the beer's here and this is certainly something worth celebrating. 222 00:17:42,954 --> 00:17:45,599 It may take a little while, but she'll settle. 223 00:17:46,210 --> 00:17:47,816 We'll settle too. 224 00:17:48,305 --> 00:17:51,928 We're not the first family to send their daughter out into the world. 225 00:17:52,356 --> 00:17:53,946 It's done, Robert. 226 00:17:58,256 --> 00:18:00,121 It is done, isn't it, Robert? 227 00:18:00,396 --> 00:18:03,652 I suppose it is, if you say it is. 228 00:18:10,670 --> 00:18:14,262 I wrote it all down, everything I saw and heard. 229 00:18:15,386 --> 00:18:19,024 My mother always said even small things never passed unnoticed by me. 230 00:18:19,666 --> 00:18:21,577 Are you all settled in, Laura? 231 00:18:21,898 --> 00:18:25,379 - Yes, I am, thank you. - Good. Then you need your sleep, 232 00:18:25,562 --> 00:18:27,458 you have a big day tomorrow. 233 00:18:27,825 --> 00:18:30,500 Was that Lady Adelaide we saw today, ma'am? 234 00:18:30,851 --> 00:18:32,158 It was, yes. 235 00:18:32,708 --> 00:18:35,092 And impossibly beautiful, don't you think? 236 00:18:35,245 --> 00:18:36,239 Yes. 237 00:18:37,080 --> 00:18:39,327 - I heard she was from London. - Yes, 238 00:18:39,625 --> 00:18:41,704 but now she is married to Sir Timothy, 239 00:18:42,224 --> 00:18:45,694 whose family have given us our squire for hundreds of years. 240 00:18:46,397 --> 00:18:49,897 That means we must love Lady Adelaide and cherish her. 241 00:18:50,581 --> 00:18:52,217 She is one of us now. 242 00:18:53,241 --> 00:18:55,121 And tomorrow you may meet her. 243 00:18:55,519 --> 00:18:57,720 - Does she come into the Post Office? - No. 244 00:18:58,553 --> 00:19:01,672 I don't suppose Her Ladyship has much need of a penny stamp. 245 00:19:02,329 --> 00:19:05,799 She won't come to you, Laura, but you will go along to the manor. 246 00:19:06,281 --> 00:19:09,567 You must go to see Sir Timothy and be sworn in. 247 00:19:10,087 --> 00:19:14,367 No-one can work for the Post Office until they have signed The Declaration. 248 00:19:21,430 --> 00:19:24,533 It wasn't so much the words she spoke about Lady Adelaide, 249 00:19:24,999 --> 00:19:27,751 as the look in Miss Lane's eyes as she said them. 250 00:19:39,532 --> 00:19:41,397 I'm joining you today, Miss Lane. 251 00:19:41,580 --> 00:19:44,103 I'm curious what it is you two gossip about. 252 00:19:45,027 --> 00:19:46,938 If only it was so diverting. 253 00:19:47,137 --> 00:19:49,337 Timothy has engaged me in the same conversation 254 00:19:49,475 --> 00:19:51,806 since we were ten years old. 255 00:19:52,593 --> 00:19:54,427 Well, I am no rider but, erm, 256 00:19:54,626 --> 00:19:58,142 I promised Timothy that I would make an effort after all this time. 257 00:19:58,295 --> 00:20:01,566 The poor horse knows when there's a city girl in the saddle. 258 00:20:01,787 --> 00:20:04,631 Timothy, you talk such back-wood nonsense. 259 00:20:05,028 --> 00:20:06,633 You ride so well, Dorcas. 260 00:20:07,107 --> 00:20:09,492 I have watched you, many times. 261 00:20:10,378 --> 00:20:11,510 Walk on... 262 00:20:39,168 --> 00:20:42,531 - How about a juicy little kiss then? - I will NOT! 263 00:20:42,737 --> 00:20:45,887 All we did was trot around saying "hello" to your tenants 264 00:20:46,070 --> 00:20:48,821 and yet you came back from those jaunts so much sunnier. 265 00:20:49,020 --> 00:20:52,185 At least now you know you're not... missing anything. 266 00:20:54,592 --> 00:20:57,405 And what have you been up to, young lady? Poaching? 267 00:20:57,695 --> 00:21:02,143 Rick-burning? Or is it petty larceny? I look gravely upon petty larceny. 268 00:21:05,951 --> 00:21:07,800 Forgive me, Laura. I couldn't resist. 269 00:21:07,953 --> 00:21:10,937 You looked so full of dread standing there. Come in. 270 00:21:11,908 --> 00:21:13,421 Dorcas has, um... 271 00:21:13,803 --> 00:21:16,387 Miss Lane has told me all about you. Please... 272 00:21:17,686 --> 00:21:19,475 Ah, there we are. 273 00:21:20,070 --> 00:21:22,057 The Declaration, 274 00:21:22,241 --> 00:21:26,941 which even the most humble of candidates for Her Majesty's Service must sign 275 00:21:27,590 --> 00:21:29,853 before a magistrate. 276 00:21:31,947 --> 00:21:34,775 - I am the magistrate. - Yes, Sir. 277 00:21:35,570 --> 00:21:36,946 I know who you are. 278 00:21:39,088 --> 00:21:40,051 Wait... 279 00:21:40,907 --> 00:21:44,637 You must never put your name to anything before you read it, Laura. 280 00:21:44,805 --> 00:21:48,016 You might sign away your fortune. Now, what does it say? 281 00:21:50,324 --> 00:21:54,696 "I do solemnly promise and declare that I will not open, or delay," 282 00:21:54,864 --> 00:21:57,341 "or cause or suffer to be opened or delayed," 283 00:21:57,486 --> 00:22:00,299 "any letter or anything sent by post." 284 00:22:01,568 --> 00:22:02,714 And do you? 285 00:22:04,060 --> 00:22:07,453 Solemnly promise to be a servant of Her Majesty's Post Office, 286 00:22:07,634 --> 00:22:10,891 bound by its many codes and statutes? 287 00:22:12,327 --> 00:22:14,957 - I do, Sir. - Then now you may sign it. 288 00:22:18,136 --> 00:22:19,909 Very well read it was, too. 289 00:22:24,373 --> 00:22:27,690 You should do well with Miss Lane. She is an excellent woman. 290 00:22:28,861 --> 00:22:31,505 Erm, efficient, I mean... 291 00:22:32,300 --> 00:22:34,578 and respected... 292 00:22:35,770 --> 00:22:38,048 and kind to those of whom she approves. 293 00:22:41,700 --> 00:22:43,626 Your eyes are young, Laura. 294 00:22:45,445 --> 00:22:47,661 Let's hope they will never be dimmed... 295 00:22:48,915 --> 00:22:50,153 by crying. 296 00:23:07,086 --> 00:23:10,464 You tell him, that letter's from all of Lark Rise. 297 00:23:10,655 --> 00:23:12,852 Mr Paxton, I'm afraid there are regulations 298 00:23:13,047 --> 00:23:15,329 that govern even what the Post Master General can do. 299 00:23:15,497 --> 00:23:16,613 You ask him 300 00:23:17,293 --> 00:23:19,494 how are folks supposed to afford it, eh, 301 00:23:19,632 --> 00:23:21,573 on ten shillings farm wages? 302 00:23:22,307 --> 00:23:24,937 Right's right and wrong ain't right. 303 00:23:26,076 --> 00:23:29,164 How can you be so sure Lark Rise is inside of the eight mile limit? 304 00:23:29,378 --> 00:23:32,358 There's folk in the hamlet understands these things. 305 00:23:32,939 --> 00:23:34,927 It's in their feet you might say. 306 00:23:36,925 --> 00:23:39,585 And that's for certain that ain't no eight mile. 307 00:23:40,884 --> 00:23:43,941 I Well, I will certainly forward this to the Post Master General for you. 308 00:23:44,133 --> 00:23:48,963 We're being treated as poor relations to Candlef0rd's jumped-up ways, 309 00:23:49,147 --> 00:23:50,874 and that ain't right. 310 00:23:51,607 --> 00:23:55,536 No-one can ever say that Lark Rise is against Her Majesty, 311 00:23:55,979 --> 00:23:58,608 God bless her. Can they, Laura? 312 00:24:07,079 --> 00:24:11,008 It ain't Candleford's fault that those country savages send each other 313 00:24:11,176 --> 00:24:13,369 telegrams about every silly something or nothing, 314 00:24:13,500 --> 00:24:16,472 without a thought about how it's going to be paid for. 315 00:24:20,810 --> 00:24:23,470 Do you suppose you could spare a crust of loaf, Emma? 316 00:24:23,623 --> 00:24:26,455 I ain't got a morsel of bread and the young 'uns is half starved. 317 00:24:26,613 --> 00:24:29,740 You can't bring your children up on borrowed bread, Caroline. 318 00:24:29,893 --> 00:24:32,675 Oh, listen to you. Duchess of Lark Rise. 319 00:24:32,843 --> 00:24:35,625 Well, I wouldn't be much of a neighbour if I said nothing 320 00:24:35,793 --> 00:24:38,850 and your borrowing landed you in the debtors' prison. 321 00:24:39,026 --> 00:24:41,395 I shall feather the foam. 322 00:24:41,609 --> 00:24:45,079 The time to stop living is when you're dead. Thank you. 323 00:24:49,493 --> 00:24:51,664 - Thank you. - Thank you, Miss Lane. 324 00:24:53,521 --> 00:24:56,089 Laura, is there a letter for Miss Midwinter? 325 00:25:00,599 --> 00:25:02,327 - Thank you. - There you are. 326 00:25:03,552 --> 00:25:06,701 'Tis churning day on the farm today, Miss Lane. 327 00:25:06,870 --> 00:25:09,988 Thank you, Zillah. Then I should like to take a bath tonight. 328 00:25:10,340 --> 00:25:13,749 Like I said, you're in Candleford now, girl. 329 00:25:18,599 --> 00:25:21,060 That young lady who came in to collect the letter... 330 00:25:21,228 --> 00:25:24,545 - Miss Midwinter? - ... she's a cousin of Sir Timothy's. 331 00:25:24,684 --> 00:25:27,757 And the letter is from a handsome farmer's boy, 332 00:25:28,185 --> 00:25:30,065 intoxicatingly handsome. 333 00:25:31,330 --> 00:25:33,111 It will never do, of course, 334 00:25:33,501 --> 00:25:36,871 the poor boy doesn't have so much as a penny to bless himself. 335 00:25:37,766 --> 00:25:41,312 Love rarely crosses the great divide of social class. 336 00:25:45,478 --> 00:25:46,838 So, you see, Laura, 337 00:25:48,214 --> 00:25:51,287 that Declaration you signed before Sir Timothy, 338 00:25:51,754 --> 00:25:54,995 it means that you and I are the guardians of secrets 339 00:25:55,224 --> 00:25:57,425 that even he may not know of. 340 00:25:57,991 --> 00:26:00,834 - It's certainly less... - Maybe under some lace? 341 00:26:17,505 --> 00:26:18,942 I do think that 342 00:26:19,080 --> 00:26:20,881 this would suit Your Ladyship. 343 00:26:21,425 --> 00:26:24,665 The style is the new favourite of Princess Louise. 344 00:26:24,833 --> 00:26:25,893 I don't think so. 345 00:26:26,013 --> 00:26:30,910 Perhaps the green satin does so suit Your Ladyship's comely complexion. 346 00:26:35,636 --> 00:26:37,975 Could I have a reel of blue cotton for Miss Lane? 347 00:26:38,571 --> 00:26:39,916 Ruby, would you? 348 00:26:42,557 --> 00:26:45,767 Yes, now I know green is not always your colour, 349 00:26:45,966 --> 00:26:50,643 but this one is a very special blue... It absolutely pinpoints your eyes... 350 00:26:53,298 --> 00:26:56,600 - Aren't you the child from Lark Rise? - Yes, ma'am. 351 00:26:56,921 --> 00:27:00,345 Well, make sure you don't touch anything in my shop, will you? 352 00:27:01,553 --> 00:27:04,534 You wonder that Miss Lane could not find someone more genteel 353 00:27:04,718 --> 00:27:07,117 than a little country girl to assist her in her office. 354 00:27:07,301 --> 00:27:09,059 I can read, and I can count 355 00:27:09,219 --> 00:27:11,344 and I was brought up with proper manners, 356 00:27:11,528 --> 00:27:14,478 which is more than can be said for some people in Candleford! 357 00:27:14,723 --> 00:27:17,123 Well... Well, 358 00:27:17,650 --> 00:27:21,074 I can't see her lasting long under Miss Lane's standards. 359 00:27:38,137 --> 00:27:39,192 Mrs Arless... 360 00:27:41,852 --> 00:27:43,594 Mrs Arless! Are you at home? 361 00:28:02,424 --> 00:28:05,084 Sir, I'm looking for Mrs Arless. 362 00:28:05,298 --> 00:28:08,677 I've travelled over special from Oxford to collect her payment for the beer. 363 00:28:08,944 --> 00:28:11,543 Do you know where I might find Mrs Arless? 364 00:28:33,517 --> 00:28:35,398 Alfie, has Old Monday paid you your wages? 365 00:28:35,550 --> 00:28:36,757 Yes, sir, he has. 366 00:28:37,033 --> 00:28:39,601 Have a thought before you hand it over to your ma. 367 00:28:40,357 --> 00:28:42,238 Well, she'll be expecting something. 368 00:28:42,482 --> 00:28:45,417 There's a fair chance she'll spend it before the day's out. 369 00:28:45,616 --> 00:28:48,566 It won't be easy to refuse her but it might be the right thing. 370 00:28:49,331 --> 00:28:51,142 - Yes. Sir. - Good lad. 371 00:28:52,216 --> 00:28:53,576 I am your ma! 372 00:28:54,233 --> 00:28:55,884 You give your wages to me. 373 00:28:56,472 --> 00:29:00,034 - But you will buy food with it? - I'll buy food. 374 00:29:00,416 --> 00:29:02,174 Course I'll buy food! 375 00:29:05,514 --> 00:29:06,890 You see if I don't. 376 00:29:10,727 --> 00:29:13,371 So how's your new girl, Laura, settling in? 377 00:29:13,624 --> 00:29:18,256 She's bright, spirited, more afraid than she likes to show, 378 00:29:18,883 --> 00:29:20,350 knows her own mind. 379 00:29:20,503 --> 00:29:23,330 I hear she made quite an impression with Pearl and Ruby Pratt. 380 00:29:23,478 --> 00:29:27,651 Yes, and for that you should give her a medal and I should raise her allowance. 381 00:29:30,931 --> 00:29:34,615 Timothy, you are looking at me in that disconcerting way of yours. 382 00:29:34,859 --> 00:29:35,822 Am I? 383 00:29:39,002 --> 00:29:41,402 She just reminds me of you at that age. 384 00:29:42,254 --> 00:29:44,700 You are no good for me, Timothy. 385 00:29:44,914 --> 00:29:47,069 You bring out the sentimental in me 386 00:29:47,574 --> 00:29:50,555 and sentiment is as unattractive as self pity. 387 00:29:54,180 --> 00:29:56,733 I fear there's trouble brewing with Lark Rise. 388 00:29:56,916 --> 00:29:59,087 The letter to the Post Master General? 389 00:29:59,469 --> 00:30:01,686 Oh, word is out I see. 390 00:30:03,657 --> 00:30:06,546 I have a suspicion Robert Timmins is behind it. 391 00:30:07,463 --> 00:30:09,526 I wish I could wave the charge but 392 00:30:09,725 --> 00:30:12,048 he's in the wrong, they're in the wrong. 393 00:30:12,194 --> 00:30:15,022 They're outside of the limit and that's the end of it. 394 00:30:17,575 --> 00:30:19,501 If only life were so simple. 395 00:30:25,660 --> 00:30:27,616 My father would never back down. 396 00:30:27,769 --> 00:30:31,155 Not when he felt there was an injustice against poor people. 397 00:30:31,506 --> 00:30:32,897 But I felt torn. 398 00:30:33,302 --> 00:30:36,681 I couldn't help falling in love with the luxuries of Candleford. 399 00:30:40,227 --> 00:30:43,254 Your bath is prepared, Miss Lane. 400 00:30:43,569 --> 00:30:46,779 Then I shall take my canary dip. Thank you, Zillah. 401 00:30:48,124 --> 00:30:50,417 Baths are my one weakness! 402 00:30:54,105 --> 00:30:56,382 A quart of buttermilk, I say. 403 00:30:56,612 --> 00:31:01,572 A quart of buttermilk she has to wash her face on churning day. 404 00:31:01,778 --> 00:31:05,677 And warm rainwater for the bath. 405 00:31:24,613 --> 00:31:27,395 Poor Queenie, her brother's ill. 406 00:31:30,781 --> 00:31:32,722 You'd better fetch Thomas. 407 00:31:51,390 --> 00:31:52,475 Mrs Turill? 408 00:31:54,233 --> 00:31:55,196 Telegram. 409 00:32:00,004 --> 00:32:02,893 Thomas Brown says he ain't giving me the telegram 410 00:32:03,030 --> 00:32:05,323 till he's got the three and six pence in his hand. 411 00:32:05,446 --> 00:32:08,258 No, I told them. I told that Dorcas Lane herself, 412 00:32:08,411 --> 00:32:10,227 "I ain't paying" and that's a fact. 413 00:32:10,347 --> 00:32:13,311 I'm sorry, Queenie, but wrong is wrong. 414 00:32:13,494 --> 00:32:16,919 If that's got our name on it, then it's our telegram. 415 00:32:17,362 --> 00:32:20,481 Ain't no Candleford muster going to keep it from us! 416 00:32:20,802 --> 00:32:22,285 Come on, lads! 417 00:32:25,694 --> 00:32:27,589 Gentlemen there he is. 418 00:32:28,460 --> 00:32:32,221 - Thomas Brown, that's our telegram... - Thomas Brown... 419 00:32:37,256 --> 00:32:39,075 Give us our telegram! 420 00:32:41,391 --> 00:32:44,277 - Come back! Come here! - I'm not standing for it! 421 00:32:46,978 --> 00:32:48,958 There'll be trouble about this telegrams. 422 00:32:49,149 --> 00:32:52,267 Won't have to be no trouble if them up the road do what's fair and right. 423 00:32:52,412 --> 00:32:56,157 It's the Post Office Regulations, Robert. It's not Candleford's doing... 424 00:32:56,524 --> 00:32:58,863 even if that's what you want it to be. 425 00:32:59,642 --> 00:33:00,575 Robert... 426 00:33:01,380 --> 00:33:03,795 it was you who wrote the letter to the Post Master 427 00:33:03,933 --> 00:33:05,682 about the telegrams, wasn't it? 428 00:33:05,819 --> 00:33:07,638 I give them a few tips on the wording of it. 429 00:33:07,822 --> 00:33:09,733 - Oh, Robert. - It ain't my name on it, 430 00:33:09,885 --> 00:33:13,095 - I made sure of that. - It'll stir trouble, and you know it. 431 00:33:13,786 --> 00:33:16,548 You couldn't leave it alone, could you? 432 00:33:16,668 --> 00:33:19,475 It's the same man, the same horse, the same cart 433 00:33:19,612 --> 00:33:22,262 delivers telegrams to Candleford, do they have to pay for it? 434 00:33:22,382 --> 00:33:24,000 If you get yourself involved in this, 435 00:33:24,120 --> 00:33:26,376 you'll not make it easy for Laura at the Post Office. 436 00:33:26,498 --> 00:33:28,339 If anyone's petty-minded enough to use it... 437 00:33:28,459 --> 00:33:31,451 Oh, listen to yourself. You think this is about your principles 438 00:33:31,596 --> 00:33:33,997 and the rights and wrongs of the telegrams 439 00:33:34,126 --> 00:33:36,045 and the distance, but it's not. 440 00:33:36,591 --> 00:33:39,556 You just need something to throw your sadness at. 441 00:33:39,702 --> 00:33:42,591 Is that right? You know that, do you? You know my emotions, my 442 00:33:42,774 --> 00:33:45,419 - motives I better than do myself? - Yes, I do. 443 00:33:45,701 --> 00:33:48,698 - When it's about your daughter. - Well, you're wrong. 444 00:33:49,141 --> 00:33:52,580 You think I haven't turned my guts inside out asking myself that? 445 00:33:52,885 --> 00:33:56,646 It's unfair. I just want poor people to get a bit of justice. 446 00:33:57,531 --> 00:34:00,420 I'm asking you, please leave it alone. 447 00:34:02,912 --> 00:34:04,578 Will you promise me that? 448 00:34:22,904 --> 00:34:25,472 Thomas was unable to deliver it, I'm afraid. 449 00:34:25,854 --> 00:34:27,780 - But it's for Queenie. - Yes. 450 00:34:27,956 --> 00:34:30,616 Well, her brother's ill, she should be told. 451 00:34:31,005 --> 00:34:32,534 Why didn't he tell her? 452 00:34:32,654 --> 00:34:35,293 Oh, because, Laura, it isn't as simple as that. 453 00:34:35,499 --> 00:34:38,174 The Post Office is built on rules and regulations. 454 00:34:38,297 --> 00:34:40,423 Can rules and regulations be wrong sometimes? 455 00:34:40,543 --> 00:34:44,411 And it is founded on these principles for very good and honourable reasons. 456 00:34:44,624 --> 00:34:46,417 You'll appreciate that when you're older 457 00:34:46,570 --> 00:34:48,577 and more experienced in the proportion of things. 458 00:34:48,715 --> 00:34:50,530 I don't believe I will, Miss Lane. 459 00:34:50,705 --> 00:34:53,610 I don't think I'll ever appreciate what's cruel and heartless. 460 00:34:53,763 --> 00:34:55,157 Laura, that is enough. 461 00:34:55,294 --> 00:34:57,587 Your place is to work and not to question what you don't 462 00:34:57,737 --> 00:35:00,538 properly understand. And that's exactly what you will do now. 463 00:35:10,143 --> 00:35:12,375 Suppose I don't get the three and six? 464 00:35:12,543 --> 00:35:15,493 Does that mean we never find out what's in the telegram? 465 00:35:15,693 --> 00:35:17,772 Well, that don't seem right! 466 00:35:18,399 --> 00:35:20,470 Suppose it is something pressing? 467 00:35:21,509 --> 00:35:23,206 Perhaps we could ask Miss Lane 468 00:35:23,420 --> 00:35:26,355 if the Post Office will tell us who it's from at least? 469 00:35:26,554 --> 00:35:28,816 That might only add to the mystery of it. 470 00:35:30,184 --> 00:35:32,997 Suppose it's from someone you don't like? 471 00:35:33,761 --> 00:35:36,023 Or someone who don't like you? 472 00:35:37,231 --> 00:35:39,279 Or someone you don't even know? 473 00:35:41,469 --> 00:35:44,022 Well, I don't like the things. 474 00:35:44,633 --> 00:35:46,804 Edmund! Ethel! 475 00:35:46,926 --> 00:35:49,357 - Now, go on. - Where are you? 476 00:35:55,443 --> 00:35:56,956 Steak and onions? 477 00:35:58,378 --> 00:36:02,368 Oh, Caroline... How can you afford steak and onions? 478 00:36:03,016 --> 00:36:06,470 Alf has his wages, and I ain't going to squander it paying my debts. 479 00:36:06,608 --> 00:36:08,442 But it's all gone on one meal. 480 00:36:08,626 --> 00:36:10,659 Oh, I shall feather the foam. 481 00:36:10,842 --> 00:36:12,952 I have before and I shall again. 482 00:36:13,796 --> 00:36:16,685 Come and sit down, Emma, have yourself a bite. 483 00:36:16,853 --> 00:36:18,871 Whoever said no to red meat? 484 00:36:27,452 --> 00:36:29,683 You haven't paid your rent, haven't you, Caroline? 485 00:36:31,090 --> 00:36:32,634 Life's for enjoying. 486 00:36:34,208 --> 00:36:36,425 What's the use of worrying, I say. 487 00:36:38,609 --> 00:36:42,094 Timothy, I thought we might ride out Ingleston way. What do you think? 488 00:36:42,315 --> 00:36:45,082 Well, to be quite frank, Dorcas, we always ride out 489 00:36:45,244 --> 00:36:47,613 in whichever direction you to take a fancy for. 490 00:36:47,781 --> 00:36:51,672 How can you say such a thing? It's as much as I can do to keep up with YOU. 491 00:37:05,666 --> 00:37:06,767 What is it? 492 00:37:08,035 --> 00:37:09,809 Mrs Turrill's brother. 493 00:37:10,772 --> 00:37:13,829 We had a telegram yesterday to say he was ill. 494 00:37:14,831 --> 00:37:16,864 Thomas was unable to deliver it because 495 00:37:17,062 --> 00:37:19,814 Queenie couldn't afford to pay the three and six pence. 496 00:37:21,236 --> 00:37:23,223 Now it seems he has passed away. 497 00:37:25,465 --> 00:37:27,728 Poor woman must have lain awake all night, 498 00:37:27,865 --> 00:37:30,617 wondering what it was we were keeping from her. 499 00:37:34,041 --> 00:37:38,123 Dorcas you were only the messenger, don't punish yourself too much. 500 00:37:40,347 --> 00:37:43,352 My father always impressed upon me to put aside my feelings 501 00:37:43,474 --> 00:37:46,317 and do everything according to Post Office Regulations. 502 00:37:46,500 --> 00:37:48,403 But it doesn't come easily when it means 503 00:37:48,571 --> 00:37:51,499 I have to stand by something I don't believe in! 504 00:37:52,515 --> 00:37:55,955 Well, perhaps you and I could I ride over to Lark Rise now. You could 505 00:37:56,093 --> 00:37:59,777 deliver the news to Mrs Turrill yourself, offer her your apologies. 506 00:38:00,480 --> 00:38:02,559 I'm sure she would appreciate that. 507 00:38:15,592 --> 00:38:17,487 And I hear she was unmannerly 508 00:38:17,640 --> 00:38:21,583 to Miss Pearl and Miss Ruby on her first visit to the stores. 509 00:38:21,752 --> 00:38:24,798 You have to wonder what Miss Lane was thinking of, bringing such a girl 510 00:38:24,918 --> 00:38:26,391 under her roof. 511 00:38:29,662 --> 00:38:31,313 Rain in the sky again... 512 00:38:32,030 --> 00:38:35,867 I'd better have just one more tart to see me through the second delivery. 513 00:38:42,946 --> 00:38:45,606 I felt I did not have a friend in Candleford. 514 00:38:46,263 --> 00:38:48,556 And don't you make the mistake of thinking 515 00:38:48,694 --> 00:38:51,682 I'm here at the beck and call of just anyone, my girl. 516 00:38:51,881 --> 00:38:53,578 Cos I ain't having it. 517 00:38:54,885 --> 00:38:57,759 And after the troubles with the telegram about Queenie's brother, 518 00:38:58,408 --> 00:39:00,250 I felt I didn't want one. 519 00:39:05,624 --> 00:39:08,069 We're all sorry at the Post Office... 520 00:39:08,635 --> 00:39:11,203 Sorry that you didn't receive the message. 521 00:39:13,129 --> 00:39:15,407 If I have added to you suffering... 522 00:39:17,994 --> 00:39:19,859 He was such a beautiful boy. 523 00:39:22,931 --> 00:39:24,414 My mother always said, 524 00:39:25,064 --> 00:39:27,678 "Harry will even look handsome in his coffin." 525 00:39:32,325 --> 00:39:35,031 Mrs Turrill, if there is anything I can do? 526 00:39:37,585 --> 00:39:40,138 Such a beautiful boy. 527 00:39:53,004 --> 00:39:55,374 Dorcas, is something the matter? 528 00:39:56,535 --> 00:39:58,690 I just called on Mrs Turrill 529 00:39:58,965 --> 00:40:02,511 because we had a telegram to say that her brother had been taken ill 530 00:40:02,908 --> 00:40:05,614 but, unfortunately, Thomas wasn't able to deliver it. 531 00:40:06,440 --> 00:40:08,259 And now the poor man has died. 532 00:40:10,743 --> 00:40:13,281 I thought perhaps I should tell her myself. 533 00:40:14,381 --> 00:40:16,262 That's very considerate of you. 534 00:40:26,365 --> 00:40:29,851 But if Queenie had known he was ill, she might've gone to be with him. 535 00:40:30,301 --> 00:40:33,649 Thomas should have told Mrs Turrill that she could come in to the Post Office 536 00:40:33,817 --> 00:40:35,422 - to collect her message. - Yes. 537 00:40:35,590 --> 00:40:38,770 If she'd walked the distance she'd know it wasn't eight miles. 538 00:40:38,922 --> 00:40:42,041 - I would hope that you know me... - It shouldn't be at Candleford's favour 539 00:40:42,179 --> 00:40:44,900 that Queenie finds out if her brother's living or not! 540 00:40:45,740 --> 00:40:49,730 Folk in Candleford don't pay three and six, do they? 541 00:40:49,883 --> 00:40:52,558 - But they don't live outside... - It isn't eight mile! 542 00:40:52,825 --> 00:40:55,355 Ladies, if I might suggest there does seem to be 543 00:40:55,493 --> 00:40:58,844 a fair and simple way to resolve the dispute about the distance. 544 00:40:58,997 --> 00:41:00,709 Erm, we'll measure it. 545 00:41:01,466 --> 00:41:04,538 And I'll oversee the operation to guarantee impartiality. 546 00:41:05,089 --> 00:41:08,054 That might be a fitting way to put this thing to rest. 547 00:41:08,345 --> 00:41:10,210 How does next Sunday sound? 548 00:41:10,706 --> 00:41:11,868 Measuring?! 549 00:41:12,082 --> 00:41:15,460 Yes, to settle a dispute. I had to do something. It was my idea. 550 00:41:15,659 --> 00:41:19,343 You're measuring the distance between Candleford and Lark Rise, 551 00:41:19,489 --> 00:41:23,341 and that is why we will miss the MOST stunning ball of the summer?! 552 00:41:23,570 --> 00:41:25,037 Adelaide, I am the squire. 553 00:41:25,175 --> 00:41:27,567 I'm sorry, but I must attend to this. This as what I do. 554 00:41:27,736 --> 00:41:30,105 But so far as I can see, this is a Post Office dispute, 555 00:41:30,258 --> 00:41:32,963 which doesn't really call for "the squire" to resolve it. 556 00:41:33,139 --> 00:41:36,303 Yes, I suppose it is a Post Office matter. But these are MY tenants, 557 00:41:36,456 --> 00:41:39,804 so it is MY duty to see justice done. You can see that, can't you? 558 00:41:41,386 --> 00:41:46,537 Adelaide, the more I give myself to my obligation, the more I enjoy it. 559 00:41:48,127 --> 00:41:49,778 You could join me. 560 00:41:50,459 --> 00:41:52,324 We could do this together. 561 00:41:57,070 --> 00:42:01,045 Thomas, I think that perhaps on this one Sunday you might show a little pliancy. 562 00:42:01,198 --> 00:42:05,172 You may call it pliancy, ma'am, the Lord calls it dereliction, 563 00:42:05,318 --> 00:42:07,733 and the dereliction leads to degradation. 564 00:42:07,871 --> 00:42:09,598 Keep holy the Sabbath Day! 565 00:42:11,807 --> 00:42:13,993 We will have two penny stamps. 566 00:42:14,176 --> 00:42:16,163 We just wanted you to let you know, Miss Lane, 567 00:42:16,331 --> 00:42:19,037 that we will be there to stand behind you come Sunday. 568 00:42:19,243 --> 00:42:21,093 I'm not sure that will be necessary, ladies. 569 00:42:21,215 --> 00:42:23,355 But it's our duty to defend the town's good name. 570 00:42:23,493 --> 00:42:25,617 It's a wonder you allowed such a challenge 571 00:42:25,740 --> 00:42:27,262 to your authority and integrity. 572 00:42:27,382 --> 00:42:29,363 To the integrity of all of us, 573 00:42:29,485 --> 00:42:32,726 it is a slight on the standards of the whole of Candleford. 574 00:42:32,970 --> 00:42:35,569 - We mustn't let this blow up into... - We will be there. - 575 00:42:35,715 --> 00:42:39,322 We have encouraged our friends and customers to come to the cause. 576 00:42:39,506 --> 00:42:43,236 We will ensure that the whole of Candleford stands behind you, Miss Lane. 577 00:42:58,168 --> 00:42:59,300 Pa! 578 00:43:01,210 --> 00:43:04,069 - What are you doing here? - Enjoying the sights. 579 00:43:05,460 --> 00:43:07,294 My, don't you look the part. 580 00:43:08,331 --> 00:43:10,180 How is it for you here, Laura? 581 00:43:10,563 --> 00:43:14,430 I like having my own room, and the meals and the baths 582 00:43:14,598 --> 00:43:16,677 and there's books everywhere. 583 00:43:16,861 --> 00:43:19,828 You would tell me if you couldn't settle here, wouldn't you? 584 00:43:20,210 --> 00:43:23,038 - Of course, I would. - Well, it's all for the best. 585 00:43:23,955 --> 00:43:28,274 - Here's to you in your new home. - What is it, Pa? 586 00:43:29,344 --> 00:43:31,881 I've walked that road I a thousand times 587 00:43:32,347 --> 00:43:35,266 why is it today it seems further than eight miles? 588 00:43:35,970 --> 00:43:38,466 I feel as if I'm making a fool of myself, Laura. 589 00:43:38,757 --> 00:43:40,515 I said I knew things I didn't know, 590 00:43:40,653 --> 00:43:43,129 made others believe me, and now just don't know. 591 00:43:43,312 --> 00:43:45,743 We'll all be fools, all of Lark Rise. 592 00:43:46,409 --> 00:43:48,105 Now, don't you worry though. 593 00:43:48,266 --> 00:43:51,186 If I'm wrong it might dent my pride, but that's not what matters. 594 00:43:51,346 --> 00:43:53,394 There's a chance we're right, and we must take it, 595 00:43:53,532 --> 00:43:56,459 so that what happened to Queenie never happens again. 596 00:44:03,966 --> 00:44:05,999 Hopefully they'll be there next week. 597 00:44:15,033 --> 00:44:16,073 Laura? 598 00:44:19,704 --> 00:44:23,220 I have some clothes from when I was your age. 599 00:44:24,045 --> 00:44:27,821 I thought you might like to have them to wear in the Post Office. 600 00:44:29,143 --> 00:44:31,711 I don't think I'll be needing them, ma'am. 601 00:44:35,166 --> 00:44:38,132 Do you feel that Candleford is not right for you? 602 00:44:39,662 --> 00:44:42,414 I feel as though I am not right for Candleford 603 00:44:44,401 --> 00:44:49,415 I know it can be difficult to settle into a new home, a new town. 604 00:44:50,386 --> 00:44:53,505 But I must admit I thought you were doing rather well. 605 00:44:53,963 --> 00:44:57,525 And there must be some things about Candleford that you quite like? 606 00:45:02,301 --> 00:45:04,716 So what is it that's really troubling you? 607 00:45:07,269 --> 00:45:08,905 I saw my pa today. 608 00:45:09,745 --> 00:45:12,176 He walked back from Lark Rise. 609 00:45:12,823 --> 00:45:16,064 And he is convinced that the hamlet is outside the eight-mile limit... 610 00:45:17,256 --> 00:45:20,513 that the measuring will certainly prove Lark Rise to be wrong. 611 00:45:21,697 --> 00:45:24,158 Perhaps that is just his fear talking. 612 00:45:25,794 --> 00:45:29,210 Or perhaps your father is right. Laura... 613 00:45:29,500 --> 00:45:32,209 I know I had no right to be so cross with you, ma'am, 614 00:45:32,744 --> 00:45:35,397 but I just wanted to explain that the cost of a telegram 615 00:45:35,517 --> 00:45:39,203 - is such a great burden to poor people. - Do you imagine I don't know that? 616 00:45:40,827 --> 00:45:43,426 If respect the Post Office rules, 617 00:45:43,991 --> 00:45:46,330 it doesn't always mean that I like them. 618 00:45:48,883 --> 00:45:50,656 Don't be despondent. 619 00:45:51,715 --> 00:45:55,292 My father used to say that we should work with the regulations. 620 00:45:56,056 --> 00:45:59,786 But I have always rather enjoyed looking for ways to work around them. 621 00:46:13,663 --> 00:46:15,635 - Are we ready, Matthew? - Sir. 622 00:46:15,926 --> 00:46:17,042 Then lead on. 623 00:46:17,974 --> 00:46:18,922 William! 624 00:46:33,331 --> 00:46:35,751 So as the church bells rang that Sunday morning, 625 00:46:35,871 --> 00:46:37,848 we set off to walk to Lark Rise. 626 00:46:38,165 --> 00:46:40,229 I was heading homewards but somehow 627 00:46:40,832 --> 00:46:43,721 I found myself on the wrong side of this little war. 628 00:47:12,818 --> 00:47:16,349 Thomas, did the Lord give you the day off after all?! 629 00:47:16,470 --> 00:47:18,776 It's not like this is work though, is it, ma'am? 630 00:47:18,896 --> 00:47:22,777 No-one can say that Thomas Brown did labour upon the Sabbath Day. 631 00:47:35,497 --> 00:47:36,506 Timothy... 632 00:47:37,093 --> 00:47:40,441 I'd like to thank you for doing this whatever the outcome. 633 00:47:40,671 --> 00:47:43,093 I'm just doing what's right by my tenants. 634 00:47:44,171 --> 00:47:46,969 Yes, but you have been a constant friend to me 635 00:47:47,733 --> 00:47:50,255 and I cannot let that go unmentioned today. 636 00:49:10,208 --> 00:49:11,308 Sir Timothy. 637 00:49:12,302 --> 00:49:14,641 Perhaps we could stop for something to eat now? 638 00:49:15,145 --> 00:49:17,117 Food is my one weakness! 639 00:49:17,821 --> 00:49:20,702 Matthew! A luncheon break, I think. 640 00:49:21,016 --> 00:49:22,285 Luncheon break. 641 00:49:45,028 --> 00:49:48,430 Adelaide, what a wonderful surprise. Come and have some lunch. 642 00:49:48,644 --> 00:49:52,878 Your Ladyship, you've joined us just in time for the conclusion of our odyssey. 643 00:49:53,154 --> 00:49:55,064 Forgive me for arriving so late. 644 00:49:55,324 --> 00:49:58,963 I imagined that you could get along just fine without a "city" girl. 645 00:50:06,544 --> 00:50:08,470 Matthew, can you predict the result? 646 00:50:08,661 --> 00:50:10,551 I'd say by the time we get to Lark Rise... 647 00:50:11,162 --> 00:50:13,318 we'll be outside the eight-mile limit. 648 00:50:17,013 --> 00:50:18,924 What's Dorcas saying to Matthew? 649 00:50:19,825 --> 00:50:21,874 Right, time to bend the rules. 650 00:50:25,061 --> 00:50:28,730 Laura, I need you to take a message to your father. 651 00:50:48,250 --> 00:50:50,734 What have they been feeding you in Candleford? 652 00:50:50,871 --> 00:50:53,393 I have so much to tell you. I don't know where to begin. 653 00:50:53,516 --> 00:50:55,258 You might begin by sitting down beside me. 654 00:50:55,378 --> 00:50:58,667 I can't. I have to talk to Miss Lane. I'll find you later. 655 00:51:10,685 --> 00:51:13,681 Excuse me, Sir, if I might ask? 656 00:51:14,430 --> 00:51:16,662 Which way are you proposing to travel? 657 00:51:21,787 --> 00:51:24,203 Only that isn't the most direct way, Sir. 658 00:51:25,380 --> 00:51:27,627 The road I always travel is the main route. 659 00:51:27,767 --> 00:51:29,648 I think you'll find Post Office Regulations 660 00:51:29,820 --> 00:51:31,559 say nothing about the main route, 661 00:51:31,699 --> 00:51:33,702 or the safest, or most convenient. 662 00:51:34,130 --> 00:51:37,692 Just the distance from the Post Office must be no more than eight miles. 663 00:51:38,227 --> 00:51:41,024 - You can't do this. - What are you proposing, Mr Timmins? 664 00:51:41,292 --> 00:51:44,441 We go round the rise that way and into the hamlet there. 665 00:51:53,316 --> 00:51:56,358 Matthew, lead on. Mr Timmins will show you the way. 666 00:51:59,981 --> 00:52:00,944 William! 667 00:52:11,683 --> 00:52:12,570 Ma'am. 668 00:53:01,618 --> 00:53:03,284 It's still gonna be close. 669 00:53:22,199 --> 00:53:23,284 Well... 670 00:53:24,011 --> 00:53:27,863 there are only a few yards in it, but a result is a result. 671 00:53:29,284 --> 00:53:33,182 Ladies and gentleman, I believe that we have established today, 672 00:53:33,573 --> 00:53:35,789 that according to Post Office statutes, 673 00:53:35,942 --> 00:53:38,373 the village of Lark Rise lies within, 674 00:53:38,556 --> 00:53:41,996 I repeat, within... the eight-mile limit and, 675 00:53:43,471 --> 00:53:47,002 therefore is not subject to charge for the delivery of telegrams. 676 00:53:51,506 --> 00:53:54,028 But I won't be delivering across no field. 677 00:53:56,321 --> 00:53:57,948 How can they say that's right? 678 00:53:58,155 --> 00:54:01,549 I think the Lord would want us to be magnanimous in defeat, Thomas. 679 00:54:02,924 --> 00:54:05,913 Well, I think the squire could stand a beer for those with a thirst 680 00:54:06,066 --> 00:54:09,253 - after our seven-mile walk. - What did I tell you. 681 00:54:09,413 --> 00:54:13,643 Ain't no use in worrying, you see, things always turn out somehow. 682 00:54:23,898 --> 00:54:26,267 You keep your brother close, young Laura. 683 00:54:27,039 --> 00:54:30,418 Brothers can get lost if you don't keep a careful eye on them. 684 00:54:31,381 --> 00:54:32,543 Be warned. 685 00:54:48,146 --> 00:54:49,537 One for the fiddler. 686 00:54:54,964 --> 00:54:56,141 Miss Lane! 687 00:54:59,312 --> 00:55:01,728 Erm, I hope you'llagree, ma'am, 688 00:55:01,957 --> 00:55:04,754 that what's been paid out, should be returned. 689 00:55:04,930 --> 00:55:06,703 Right is right, Mr Paxton. 690 00:55:06,902 --> 00:55:10,770 Which is why I have already returned the three and sixpence to Mrs Arless. 691 00:55:11,106 --> 00:55:12,344 Mrs Arless?! 692 00:55:12,978 --> 00:55:16,525 Mrs... No, no, hold hard there, Mrs Arless! 693 00:55:16,922 --> 00:55:17,962 Mrs... 694 00:55:19,743 --> 00:55:23,598 And anyone else who has paid, if you will give your telegram to Thomas, 695 00:55:23,720 --> 00:55:25,980 I'll make sure that you're reimbursed. 696 00:55:27,471 --> 00:55:30,475 That still ain't right. Candleford still come out on top. 697 00:55:30,605 --> 00:55:32,833 Don't you dare start anything more. 698 00:55:32,985 --> 00:55:35,845 They've got our Laura and I just want to tell them how lucky they are. 699 00:55:35,983 --> 00:55:39,281 But perhaps not today, eh? 700 00:55:39,954 --> 00:55:45,304 ♪ Twister Turrill is my name ♪ ♪ England is my nation ♪ 701 00:55:45,935 --> 00:55:52,401 ♪ Lark Rise is my dwelling place ♪ ♪ And Christ is my salvation ♪ 702 00:55:52,654 --> 00:55:58,050 ♪ When I am dead and in my grave ♪ ♪ And all my bones are rotten ♪ 703 00:55:59,281 --> 00:56:05,716 ♪ Sing you this song and think of me ♪ ♪ And mind I'm not forgotten. ♪ 704 00:56:06,312 --> 00:56:09,247 - Miss Lane, I was wanting to say... - I know, Laura. 705 00:56:09,446 --> 00:56:12,672 Post Office Regulations have their advantages, too, hm? 706 00:56:15,729 --> 00:56:18,083 Miss Lane was certainly right about that. 707 00:56:18,427 --> 00:56:22,019 Life was infinitely more complicated than I'd thought. 708 00:56:27,039 --> 00:56:30,930 The little war of the telegram had given me a glimpse of her love of mischief. 709 00:56:31,098 --> 00:56:33,834 Sir Timothy had called her "an I excellent woman" 710 00:56:34,048 --> 00:56:36,754 and I was about to find out, just what he meant. 711 00:56:46,844 --> 00:56:50,100 I felt so proud of my friends in Lark Rise 712 00:56:50,383 --> 00:56:52,279 poor beyond imagining, 713 00:56:52,539 --> 00:56:56,681 yet they had never lost the secret of being happy on little. 59364

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