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My dearest Cynthia, as I watch
the coast ofr England slip away,
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I realise how much ofr my heart
I have left behind in your dear care.
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Your loving acceptance
makes me the most frortunate ofr men.
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I will carry the memory ofr that kiss with me
to lighten the depths ofr Afrrica.
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What a thi ng to do, write a letter
before he was fai rly embarked.
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Of course, he has nothi ng
to say except the usual silliness.
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Cynthia, you do love Roger, don't you?
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Don't you think I've given proof of it?
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Oh, well, if you do look at me like that.
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I don't think I have
the gift for loving as some people do.
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I've never felt carried off my feet
by love for anyone, not even you,
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- and you know I love you...
- Don't! I should never have asked you!
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One might think you cared for him yourself.
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I do care for him.
I...I love him as a sister.
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I think he is a prince amongst men.
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(BOTH CHUCKLE)
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Really?
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Even you must acknowledge
that he's plain and awkward,
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and you know I like
pretty things and pretty people.
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Cynthia, I won't talk to you about him.
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He shan't be run down by you, even in jest.
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Oh, well, we shan't talk about him, then.
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(BELL RINGS)
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Perhaps we shan't ever be married after all.
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I mean, two years is a long time.
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He might change his mind or I might,
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or someone else might come along
and say I'm engaged to him.
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What should you say to that?
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(KNOCK AT DOOR)
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Leave it, Agnes.
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Come, my dear.
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Be comfortable for once,
take your tea sitting down.
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Oh, my dear one.
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Now, I have a great piece of news to tell you.
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Oh, I thought
there was something on hand. Now for it.
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Well, Roger Hamley called
to see us on the day he left,
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proposed to Cynthia and was accepted.
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- Roger Hamley proposed to Cynthia?
- Why should he not?
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Well, only that not two weeks ago
I gave my assurances to the Squire
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that there was nothing of that sort
between his sons and either of the girls.
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Well, what's done is done.
It'll have to be a long engagement.
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Yes, I think perhaps it will...
But then again, perhaps it won't.
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A little bird did tell me
that Osborne Hamley's life is not so very secure,
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then what will Roger be?
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Heir to the estate.
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Oh, why...?
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Robert, whatever's the matter?
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Who told you that about Osborne?
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Who told you, I say?!
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Why? Can you deny it? Is it not the truth?
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I ask again! Who told you that Osborne's
life was in any more danger than yours or mine?
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Don't speak in that frightening way.
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I...I mean my life's
not in danger...I'm sure.
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(GLASS BREAKS)
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Oh, Robert... Little bits
of glass can be so dangerous.
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Never mind the glass! Who told you
anything about Osborne's state of health?
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If you will know it was you -
you yourself or Dr Nicholls.
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I never spoke to you on the subject,
and I don't believe Nicholls did.
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You'd better tell me at once
what you're alluding to.
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I wish I'd never got married again.
I never thought you could be so cruel.
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And you shouldn't speak your medical secrets
so loud if you don't want anyone to hear them.
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I only went into the storeroom
for a jar of preserves.
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It was certainly for no pleasure of mine.
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And you overheard our conversation?
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- Just a sentence or two.
- What where they?
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Dr Nicholls said, "If he's got aneurysm
of the aorta, then his days are numbered".
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And you replied, "I hope I'm mistaken,
but it seems he has very clear symptoms".
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I see. And may I ask how you remember
so exactly the name of the disease?
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Because I - don't get angry, please,
I see no harm in what I did -
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I went into your surgery and looked it up.
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I mean, why should I not...?
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Well, I suppose, as one brews one must bake.
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I don't know what you mean.
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So this is why
you've changed your conduct towards Roger.
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Yes, I noticed you've been
more civil to him of late.
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Well, if you mean I like him
more than Osborne, you're very much mistaken.
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It's just that as Roger was the younger son,
I thought it best to discourage him.
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But now you consider him the proximate heir
to the estate, you've made him more welcome.
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Well, I don't know
what you mean by "proximate".
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Go into the surgery and look it up!
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You overheard a professional conversation.
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Now, don't you know
that professional conversations are confidential?
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That it would be the worst thing I could do
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to betray secrets that I learn in the
exercise of my profession and trade on them.
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Yes, of course - you.
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Are husband and wife
not one in these respects?
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I just thought that you would be glad
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to see Cynthia well married and off your hands.
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I don't know what to say to you.
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You either can't or won't see what I mean.
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But had you bothered
to consult me, I could have told you
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that Dr Nicholls' opinion
was decidedly opposed to mine.
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He thinks that Osborne is
as likely as any other man to live,
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to marry and to beget children.
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- Oh.
- Hmm.
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Yes, well, let us review
this misfortune, since I see
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that you now consider it as such.
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Well, not exactly a misfortune,
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but...had I known Dr Nicholls' opinion...
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Well, comfort yourself, my dear.
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Roger Hamley is as fine a young man
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as ever breathed...with money or without.
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I only wish Molly
could meet with such another.
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I will try for Molly. I will indeed.
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No, no, no, no. That is one thing I forbid.
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I will have no trying for Molly.
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Don't be angry, dear.
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For a minute there, I thought
you were going to lose your temper.
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It would have been of no use.
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(DOOR CLOSES)
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(MARIA) Breakfast is ready, sir.
(GIBSON) No breakfast, thank you, Maria.
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And I won't be back for dinner.
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(DOOR OPENS AND BANGS SHUT)
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(INAUDIBLE)
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(SHOP DOORBELL RINGS)
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Miss Gibson. Looking very well
indeed, if I may say so.
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I was just urging upon Miss Kirkpatrick
the merits of a long walk in the countryside.
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Come, Molly. We shall be late.
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Cynthia, I understand I am to congratulate you
on your engagement to Roger Hamley.
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You've won the heart of a very fine young man.
I hope you'll both be very happy.
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Thank you.
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We had all pledged to keep it secret.
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Mama included.
But I'm glad that you should know it.
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You've alays been a very kind friend to me.
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It truly is hardly an engagement, though.
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He wouldn't allow me
to bind myself by any promise till his return.
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I hope you're worthy of him, Cynthia.
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I've never known a truer or warmer heart, and
I've known Roger since he was a little boy.
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You're not very complimentary,
are you, Mr Gibson?
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Still, he finds me worthy, I suppose.
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If you think so highly of him,
you ought to respect his judgement of me.
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Why does your father
have to speak to me like that?
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Cynthia, I'm afraid I must
speak to the Squire about this.
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I gave him my word I would
if anything of the kind arose.
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It was the one thing I stipulated for: secrecy.
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But why keep it secret from the family?
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Surely, in any case, Roger will tell his father?
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No, he won't, because I made him promise,
and I think he's one to respect a promise.
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Well, let's give him a chance, then, shall we?
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I won't go over to the Hall
until the end of the week.
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He may have written and told his father by then.
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So a man's promise
is to override a woman's wish?
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I don't see why it shouldn't.
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Mr Gibson, will you please
trust me when I tell you
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this will cause me a great deal
of distress if it gets known.
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Telling the boy's father is not making it public.
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I don't like this exaggerated
desire for secrecy, Cynthia.
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It seems to me as if something
more than is apparent is concealed behind it.
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Come on, Molly. Let's play
that new duet I taught you.
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- There's rock here.
- Here. Let me help you.
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- We'll need some more tiles.
- How many?
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Twenty should do it.
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Cynthia Kirkpatrick has entered
into an understanding with Roger.
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Cynthia Kirkpatrick, you say?
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I was hoping Roger
would have told you in a letter.
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That shows you have no sons.
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Half these sons are mysteries
to their fathers. Look at Osborne.
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I've got no more idea what goes on
in his head than the Man in the Moon.
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I thought Roger'd be different. He's a good lad.
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It's thanks to him I'm able to put
these drainage works back into commission.
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Hmm. Miss Kirkpatrick.
Not the match I'd been hoping for.
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I suppose she's no money.
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About twenty pound a year at my pleasure.
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Oh, well, it's good it's not Osborne.
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But what family is she of?
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She's none of trade, her being so poor.
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Well, I understand her father
was the grandson of a baronet.
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That's something.
But what sort of a girl is she, Gibson?
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- I don't know what you mean.
- Yes, you do.
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You're offended with me,
or you'd have answered me straight.
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You know what I mean. Is she like Molly?
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Sweet-tempered and sensible,
and ready to do anything one asked her?
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Well, she's very pretty...
prettier than Molly I have to admit.
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And she has very winning ways.
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I'm not sure she feels things
quite so keenly as Molly does.
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- But all in all, I think she's one in a hundred.
- Oh, well, Molly's one in a thousand.
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- Hmm.
- She's of no family, you see. No money either.
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Otherwise, she'd make
the perfect wife to either of my lads.
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As there's no question
of Molly in this business,
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there's no need to bring
her name into it, is there?
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I must get off. Good day, sir.
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Now, hang on, Gibson, we're old friends.
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You're a fool to take offence.
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Look, bring her round to the Hall for lunch.
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Bring her mother and Molly
and let me see the girl meself.
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Thank you.
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Your wife and I didn't
hit it off the only time I ever saw her.
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I'm not saying she was very silly,
but one of us was and it wasn't me.
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- Thursday suit you?
- As you wish.
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Got it. No, no.
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You've got to hold it proper firm,
but not too tight.
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It's all in the wrist.
You've got to get the movement right.
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A sort of an arching, and then a bit of a flick.
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Quick like, you see? That's right. Good, good.
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We'll make a fisherman of you yet.
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Try again.
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Arch and flick. Arch and flick.
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Ah, we got him. We got him.
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He's a beauty. I'll get the net.
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Ah, he's a beauty.
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Look, Molly. I caught one.
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Well done, lass. He's a grand'un.
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There.
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So, how did it go off?
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They got on very well, I think.
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But how could anyone not like Cynthia?
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Aye, when she puts herself out to please.
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Do you think that she's right for him, Molly?
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Right for Roger?
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She's a very charming young girl,
but I don't quite understand her.
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Why should she want all this secrecy?
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I don't know.
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I don't think
I understand her either, but I do love her.
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- How is Osborne? Was he there?
- No, I think he had to go and see...
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..do something else.
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Molly, this business with Cynthia
and Roger took me by surprise.
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If there's anything else
of this sort in the offing,
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I think you'd better tell me at once.
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If you mean you're afraid
that Osborne thinks of me
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as Roger does of Cynthia, you're quite mistaken.
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Osborne and I are friends.
We could never be anything more.
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That's all I can tell you.
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That's quite enough, little one.
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That's a great relief.
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- Oh, Papa.
- Oh, there, there, there.
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There's nothing the matter, is there?
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No. Only I wish I could have you
all to myself more often.
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Yes, well....
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Run along, now.
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I'm very glad you won't be carried off
by any young man just yet awhile.
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Roger Hamley.
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(SPEAKS AMHARIC)
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No, No, No. (AMHARIC)
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Carry on.
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A good pair of English legs here.
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My dearest Cynthia,
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it's just as well I was
as strong as an ox when I set off.
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This country is extraordinary
and a constant challenge.
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Every day new hazards and new adventures.
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I 'm learning the language
and, more importantly,
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how to survive in this wonderful land.
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Miss Ki rkpatrick! A letter from Africa!
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(CYNTHIA SIGHS AND LAUGHS)
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He sends you his best regards.
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And his compliments to you, Mama.
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Where is he, Cynthia? What does he say?
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Where? I didn't look exactly.
Somewhere in Abyssinia.
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Um, Huron? Does that make you any the wiser?
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- Harar, perhaps?
- Yes, I think you're right.
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You are clever!
Fancy knowing anything about Abyssinia.
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I looked in the world atlas.
I wanted to make a picture of where he was.
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Is he well, Cynthia?
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- Well enough. He says he has a touch of fever.
- Fever?
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Yes, but he thinks he'll acclimatise soon.
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- But who will take care of him?
- I don't think he gets much caring for.
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It's pretty much sink or swim in Abyssinia.
No doctors or nurses there.
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Still, he has plenty of quinine with him.
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- But he's on the mend now.
- But what if he isn't?
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Oh, no, we mustn't think that.
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You must have been worrying about him.
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Well, as a matter of fact,
I haven't been worrying about him.
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You see, I made my mind up
before he went not to worry.
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if anything did, well, you know, go wrong,
264
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- it would be over before I heard of it.
- Don't say that!
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Moderate your tone, dear.
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What Cynthia's saying
is only common sense.
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What is the point of worrying about what
one can't help and may never happen?
268
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He does say he's feeling better now.
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What else does he say?
I mean, things I may hear.
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00:20:14,213 --> 00:20:18,809
Well, lover's letters are so silly,
and I think this is sillier than usual.
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Er...
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Here's a piece you may read.
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I couldn't get on with this myself.
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It's all about Aristotle and Pliny,
and some beetle he's found
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that proves something or another.
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Yes, do take it with you if you like.
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Now, I must get this hat
finished before I go out.
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Oh, God, let him live.
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Let him live.
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Even if I never set eyes on him again.
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Grant he may come home safe,
and be happy.
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(DR GIBSON) A frormer pupil ofr mine,
a Mr Coxe, wants to pay us a visit, Hyacinth.
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(MRS GIBSON, DISINTERESTED) Oh?
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He 's relinquished the profression,
I'm relieved to hear,
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and has come into a great deal ofr money.
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(MRS GI BSON, VERY I NTERESTED) Oh...
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It's such a pleasure
to meet my husband's former pupils, Mr Coxe.
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He's spoken to me so often about you.
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Indeed, ma'am? Well, I was very happy here.
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Um, is Miss Gibson still at home?
I should very much like to...
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Oh, yes. She'll be coming directly,
with my own daughter, Cynthia.
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Mr Coxe?
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- Is it you?
- Yes.
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You remember me. I was so afraid you wouldn't.
295
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Well, you're so much grown.
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So much more, um, well,
I suppose I mustn't say what I was going to.
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This is Miss Kirkpatrick, my step-sister.
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Mr Coxe.
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How do you do?
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How do you do, Mr Coxe?
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Mr Gibson, I dare say you'll be
surprised, sir, at what I want to say,
302
00:22:52,204 --> 00:22:54,638
but I think it the part of an honourable man,
303
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as you said yourself, sir, a year or two ago,
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to speak to the father first.
305
00:23:00,012 --> 00:23:04,005
And as you, sir, stand in the place
of a father to Miss Kirkpatrick,
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I should like to express my feelings, my hopes.
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Miss Kirkpatrick...?
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I do assure you, sir,
that I came here with a heart
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as faithful to your daughter
as ever beat in a man's breast.
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But it soon became clear
that her manner towards me,
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though friendly, was in no way...
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well, it was, wasn't...
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..while Miss Kirkpatrick, um...
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While Miss Kirkpatrick?
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Er, I was only going to say, sir,
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I think I may venture to hope
that Miss Kirkpatrick welcomes my attentions.
317
00:23:39,952 --> 00:23:43,046
I don't believe Miss Kirkpatrick
could ever have meant to encourage you.
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I think, sir, if you could have seen her...
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00:23:47,593 --> 00:23:51,586
At any rate, you won't mind me
taking my chance and speaking to her?
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No, but if you'll take my advice,
you'll spare yourself the pain of a refusal.
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00:23:56,535 --> 00:24:00,096
I think I ought to tell you
her affections are otherwise engaged.
322
00:24:00,239 --> 00:24:04,141
I cannot believe that.
No. There must be some mistake.
323
00:24:04,276 --> 00:24:07,871
I don't see how
she could've misunderstood my meaning.
324
00:24:08,080 --> 00:24:11,641
Perhaps her affections
may have been engaged before,
325
00:24:11,850 --> 00:24:15,809
but isn't it possible
she might come to prefer another?
326
00:24:15,921 --> 00:24:18,446
By "another" you mean yourself, I suppose?
327
00:24:20,592 --> 00:24:23,493
I can believe in such inconstancy,
328
00:24:23,595 --> 00:24:26,496
but I'm very sorry to think
Miss Kirkpatrick could be guilty.
329
00:24:26,598 --> 00:24:28,896
But you will allow me to ask for her hand, sir?
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00:24:29,368 --> 00:24:31,131
Certainly, my poor fella.
331
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If you must.
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Oh, thank you, sir.
333
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Thank you. God bless you for a kind friend.
334
00:24:41,713 --> 00:24:42,975
Um, Miss Kirkpatrick.
335
00:24:43,148 --> 00:24:46,777
I cannot tell you what pleasure
these last few days have given me.
336
00:24:50,923 --> 00:24:52,356
(CYNTHIA SIGHS)
337
00:24:52,724 --> 00:24:59,687
Dearest Cynthia, please tell me you return
my affections and consent to be my wife.
338
00:25:00,732 --> 00:25:04,065
Mr Coxe! You must stand up at once.
339
00:25:05,070 --> 00:25:07,664
I'm engaged to marry someone else.
340
00:25:19,785 --> 00:25:23,721
(DR GIBSON) Molly, you must never
trifrle with the love ofr an honest man.
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You don't know what pain you may give.
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(CYNTHIA) Molly, you'll never guess.
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00:25:33,932 --> 00:25:35,365
Oh.
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Mr Coxe asked me
to give you both his kind regards.
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00:25:39,605 --> 00:25:41,630
I believe he's leaving Hollingford this afternoon.
346
00:25:41,773 --> 00:25:44,765
I trust this will never occur again, Cynthia.
347
00:25:45,777 --> 00:25:48,746
What am I to think
of a young woman in your position,
348
00:25:48,881 --> 00:25:52,112
engaged and yet accepting
the overtures of another man?
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00:25:52,217 --> 00:25:54,344
Do you realise what unneccesary pain
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you have given that young man
by your thoughtless behaviour?
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00:25:57,623 --> 00:26:01,650
I call it thoughtless,
I could call it something worse.
352
00:26:01,894 --> 00:26:05,853
Please, Mr Gibson. Hear my side
before you speak so severely to me.
353
00:26:05,964 --> 00:26:07,898
I...I didn't mean to flirt,
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00:26:08,033 --> 00:26:11,469
I only meant to be agreeable,
and I can't help doing that, can I?
355
00:26:11,570 --> 00:26:14,835
And that goose, Mr Coxe,
imagined I was encouraging him.
356
00:26:14,940 --> 00:26:19,309
Do you mean you weren't aware
he was falling in love with you?
357
00:26:21,280 --> 00:26:25,148
I suppose, to speak truly,
I did think once or twice he might be,
358
00:26:25,284 --> 00:26:27,309
but I do hate throwing
cold water on people,
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00:26:27,452 --> 00:26:29,682
and I never imagined
he could take it into his silly head
360
00:26:29,788 --> 00:26:32,916
to imagine himself seriously
in love and make such a fuss.
361
00:26:33,058 --> 00:26:34,821
You seem to have been aware of his silliness.
362
00:26:35,060 --> 00:26:38,291
You should have considered
what it might and has led to.
363
00:26:38,397 --> 00:26:42,424
Well, perhaps. I dare say
I'm all wrong and he's all right.
364
00:26:42,534 --> 00:26:44,502
But, really, it seems to me...
365
00:26:46,538 --> 00:26:48,904
In any case, I'm not finally engaged.
366
00:26:49,007 --> 00:26:52,738
- Roger wouldn't allow it.
- Nonsense!
367
00:26:52,978 --> 00:26:54,843
I've said all that I mean to say.
368
00:26:54,980 --> 00:27:00,475
I'm willing to believe you were only thoughtless,
but don't let it happen again.
369
00:27:05,958 --> 00:27:11,123
Well, "Not proven, but we recommend
the prisoner not to do it again".
370
00:27:11,964 --> 00:27:14,626
It's pretty much that, isn't it, Molly?
371
00:27:26,478 --> 00:27:29,038
(MOLLY) Cynthia, Cynthia.
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00:27:35,687 --> 00:27:39,145
I do believe your father
might make a good woman of me yet,
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00:27:39,358 --> 00:27:42,623
if he'd only take the pains
and was not quite so severe.
374
00:27:42,894 --> 00:27:46,625
I was afraid poor Mr Coxe
was becoming very fond of you.
375
00:27:46,732 --> 00:27:48,290
I wish I had said something now.
376
00:27:48,400 --> 00:27:50,595
It wouldn't have made any difference.
377
00:27:50,736 --> 00:27:52,829
I...I knew he liked me.
378
00:27:53,005 --> 00:27:54,734
I...I like to be liked,
379
00:27:54,873 --> 00:27:57,273
but he shouldn't have carried it too far.
380
00:27:57,376 --> 00:28:00,573
I shall hate red-haired people
for the rest of my life.
381
00:28:01,680 --> 00:28:04,171
I knew he came here to propose to you.
382
00:28:04,449 --> 00:28:07,009
You were disagreeable, so I took pity on him.
383
00:28:10,122 --> 00:28:12,716
- Shall you tell Roger about it?
- Oh, no.
384
00:28:13,659 --> 00:28:15,092
Well, I don't know.
385
00:28:15,761 --> 00:28:18,127
Perhaps, if we're ever married.
386
00:28:19,231 --> 00:28:22,792
I have a feeling I'll never marry him.
I don't know why.
387
00:28:22,968 --> 00:28:26,404
Best not tell him all my secrets.
Suppose he knew them, and it never came off.
388
00:28:26,638 --> 00:28:28,731
I think it would break his heart.
389
00:28:29,174 --> 00:28:32,701
Molly, there's no need to be so serious.
390
00:28:33,111 --> 00:28:36,274
It's not in my nature to go into ecstacies.
391
00:28:36,381 --> 00:28:39,714
I don't think I shall ever be in love.
392
00:28:40,452 --> 00:28:42,113
But I'm glad he loves me.
393
00:28:42,487 --> 00:28:46,583
I like his face
10,000 times more than Mr Preston's.
394
00:28:46,725 --> 00:28:48,283
Mr Preston...?
395
00:28:48,393 --> 00:28:51,590
What should you think of me
if I married him after all?
396
00:28:51,730 --> 00:28:53,561
Married Mr Preston?
397
00:28:56,201 --> 00:28:58,101
Well, has he ever asked you?
398
00:28:58,203 --> 00:29:00,797
More unlikely things have happened.
399
00:29:05,077 --> 00:29:06,942
Have you never heard of...
400
00:29:07,646 --> 00:29:13,209
strong wills mesmerising weaker ones
until they can't even think for themselves?
401
00:29:21,093 --> 00:29:22,458
Cynthia.
402
00:29:24,663 --> 00:29:26,096
Well...
403
00:29:26,231 --> 00:29:28,791
He's not a man to be easily thrown off.
404
00:29:30,235 --> 00:29:33,068
Oh, I wish Roger were rich
405
00:29:33,171 --> 00:29:36,197
and could marry me at once
and carry me away from that man.
406
00:29:36,341 --> 00:29:38,036
Cynthia, what is this all about?
407
00:29:41,747 --> 00:29:44,341
Money matters are at the root of it.
408
00:29:45,784 --> 00:29:47,115
Horrid poverty.
409
00:29:48,487 --> 00:29:51,149
Oh, do let's talk about something else.
410
00:29:52,491 --> 00:29:55,085
You all make me feel so...
411
00:29:57,095 --> 00:30:00,087
I've never lived with good people before.
Don't quite know how to behave.
412
00:30:00,198 --> 00:30:02,462
I don't believe that's true, nor does Roger.
413
00:30:03,668 --> 00:30:05,829
He must think I'm good, he's in love with me.
414
00:30:05,937 --> 00:30:09,373
Yes, he's in love with you!
415
00:30:09,508 --> 00:30:12,841
And he, he depends upon you, so you should...
416
00:30:13,145 --> 00:30:15,545
you should try to deserve him!
417
00:30:52,751 --> 00:30:55,345
(AFRICAN SINGING)
418
00:30:57,756 --> 00:30:59,917
It is sundown, Cynthia.
419
00:31:00,091 --> 00:31:02,491
They are singing outside my tent.
420
00:31:02,861 --> 00:31:07,821
The men say it's about a chap
who pines fror a girl in a distant land.
421
00:31:07,966 --> 00:31:09,729
They are teasing me, ofr course.
422
00:31:09,868 --> 00:31:11,233
They often do.
423
00:31:12,370 --> 00:31:14,634
Thank Molly fror her letter.
424
00:31:15,273 --> 00:31:18,970
Tell her I had a sighting
today ofr a glorious lizard,
425
00:31:19,110 --> 00:31:22,739
and have fround more
ofr the great black bugs I told her about,
426
00:31:23,281 --> 00:31:25,044
a species ofr reduvias.
427
00:31:25,417 --> 00:31:27,544
She 'll know which I mean.
428
00:31:32,157 --> 00:31:35,718
The Abyssinian wilds
would not suit you, dearest Cynthia,
429
00:31:35,927 --> 00:31:38,691
but your love sustains me in this savage land.
430
00:32:11,763 --> 00:32:13,628
Hmm.
431
00:32:13,732 --> 00:32:15,962
Well.
432
00:32:16,101 --> 00:32:17,363
Yes.
433
00:32:17,869 --> 00:32:22,829
I thi nk they might have remembered
I 'm a generation closer to them than she is.
434
00:32:22,974 --> 00:32:26,535
But no one thinks about
family affection nowadays, do they?
435
00:32:28,313 --> 00:32:29,678
Hmm.
436
00:32:31,182 --> 00:32:35,516
If you want us to sympathise, Hyacinth,
you'll have to tell us what the matter is.
437
00:32:35,620 --> 00:32:37,645
I dare say it was meant as a kind attention.
438
00:32:37,756 --> 00:32:40,247
I just think he should
have asked me before Cynthia.
439
00:32:40,358 --> 00:32:42,292
And who is he?
440
00:32:42,394 --> 00:32:44,259
And what is meant for "a kind attention"?
441
00:32:44,362 --> 00:32:45,727
Mr Kirkpatrick, to be sure,
442
00:32:45,830 --> 00:32:48,162
my brother-in-law, Cynthia's uncle.
443
00:32:48,700 --> 00:32:50,998
He wants Cynthia
to stay with them in London.
444
00:32:51,136 --> 00:32:53,798
But he hasn't even mentioned you or me.
445
00:32:54,372 --> 00:32:56,306
I think he should have asked us first, that's all.
446
00:32:56,508 --> 00:32:59,568
As I couldn't possibly go,
it makes little difference to me.
447
00:33:00,512 --> 00:33:02,309
No, but I could have gone.
448
00:33:02,447 --> 00:33:05,712
At any rate, he could
have paid me the compliment.
449
00:33:05,850 --> 00:33:07,283
I've a great mind not to let her go.
450
00:33:07,385 --> 00:33:09,410
Well, I can't go in any case, Mama.
451
00:33:09,654 --> 00:33:12,680
I've nothing to wear. My gowns are so shabby,
452
00:33:12,791 --> 00:33:15,055
and I remember
my aunt was very particular about dress.
453
00:33:15,160 --> 00:33:17,526
Please write at once and refuse it.
454
00:33:17,662 --> 00:33:19,562
Nonsense, child. Nothing to wear?
455
00:33:19,698 --> 00:33:21,222
What's happened to all your money?
456
00:33:21,366 --> 00:33:23,300
You've twenty pounds a year,
thanks to Mr Gibson.
457
00:33:23,401 --> 00:33:25,926
However it's come about,
I've no money to spend.
458
00:33:26,104 --> 00:33:28,834
You couldn't have spent
more than ten pounds, so where's it gone?
459
00:33:28,940 --> 00:33:31,204
Mama - it may sound cross -
460
00:33:31,343 --> 00:33:34,437
as I didn't ask for and don't want
any more than my allowance,
461
00:33:34,579 --> 00:33:36,979
I shan't answer questions as to what I do with it.
462
00:33:41,686 --> 00:33:43,950
Well, I don't understand
that at all, do you, Molly?
463
00:33:44,089 --> 00:33:47,081
No, I know she's not at all extravagant.
464
00:33:47,325 --> 00:33:50,590
She may have given it away
to someone who wants it.
465
00:33:51,429 --> 00:33:56,162
It is very clear she has neither
the dress nor the money for this London trip,
466
00:33:56,301 --> 00:33:59,168
and she doesn't want
any further enquiries into the subject.
467
00:33:59,304 --> 00:34:01,829
She likes mysteries, in fact, I detest them.
468
00:34:01,940 --> 00:34:06,741
But as I think it desirable she keep up
her friendship with her father's family,
469
00:34:06,878 --> 00:34:08,243
I will gladly give her ten pounds.
470
00:34:09,514 --> 00:34:12,540
What a generous man you are, Mr Gibson,
471
00:34:12,684 --> 00:34:14,914
to my poor fatherless daughter.
472
00:34:16,988 --> 00:34:21,357
I think I should accompany her
and stay for a day or two, you know.
473
00:34:21,493 --> 00:34:24,121
Lady Cumnor's in town
and not at all in good health,
474
00:34:24,262 --> 00:34:28,699
and it would ease my spirits to see her
and offer her what comfort I can.
475
00:34:28,800 --> 00:34:33,533
Well, that's if you can bear
to fend for yourselves just for a day or two?
476
00:34:33,672 --> 00:34:38,632
Oh, no, we shouldn't mind at all,
should we, Papa, looking after ourselves?
477
00:34:39,744 --> 00:34:41,507
No, no, no, no, no.
478
00:34:42,180 --> 00:34:45,707
We shall bear it as best we can, my dear.
479
00:34:50,288 --> 00:34:54,384
# I do think
Mr Gibson is the kindest man I know.
480
00:34:54,526 --> 00:34:58,462
# Tiddle-iddle iddle iddle
iddle pom-pom to London I shall go. #
481
00:34:59,898 --> 00:35:04,062
Oh, Molly. You don't think it wicked and
flighty of me to want to go to London?
482
00:35:04,169 --> 00:35:07,263
- On account of Roger and everything?
- No, of course you should go.
483
00:35:07,372 --> 00:35:08,839
Hooray!
484
00:35:08,940 --> 00:35:12,671
# Oh, I do think
Mr Gibson is the kindest man I know... #
485
00:35:12,777 --> 00:35:19,239
Upon my word. I hope you're not
both going crazy. What's all this about, I pray?
486
00:35:19,384 --> 00:35:21,818
I'm just glad we're going to London, Mama.
487
00:35:21,953 --> 00:35:25,616
You might express your happiness
in a more ladylike manner, darling.
488
00:35:25,757 --> 00:35:29,352
Osborne Hamley
is in the consulting room with Mr Gibson.
489
00:35:29,494 --> 00:35:31,928
I don't know what he'd think if he heard you.
490
00:35:33,164 --> 00:35:35,325
How ill that poor young man looks.
491
00:35:35,467 --> 00:35:38,527
Your father thinks it may
not be very grievous after all,
492
00:35:38,670 --> 00:35:41,070
but...I don't think he has long to live.
493
00:35:42,073 --> 00:35:44,837
Oh, but what will happen if he dies?
494
00:35:44,943 --> 00:35:47,036
Well, it would be sad, of course,
495
00:35:47,178 --> 00:35:50,375
and we'd all feel it very much, I've no doubt.
496
00:35:50,515 --> 00:35:53,075
But we mustn't forget the living, Molly.
497
00:35:54,152 --> 00:35:55,483
If the worst were to happen,
498
00:35:55,587 --> 00:36:00,957
then our own dear Roger would do everything
in his power to step into Osborne's place.
499
00:36:01,126 --> 00:36:03,993
And Cynthia's marriage
need not be so long delayed.
500
00:36:04,162 --> 00:36:08,724
Mama, how can you speak of Osborne's death
and my marriage in the same breath?
501
00:36:08,867 --> 00:36:10,801
Well, it's a very natural thought, dear.
502
00:36:10,935 --> 00:36:13,460
A young man strikes us all as looking very ill,
503
00:36:13,571 --> 00:36:17,098
and I'm sorry for it,
but illness often leads to death.
504
00:36:17,242 --> 00:36:20,905
I'm sure you'd agree with me.
So what's the harm in saying so?
505
00:36:21,045 --> 00:36:25,505
And then Molly asks what happens
if he dies and I try to answer her.
506
00:36:25,683 --> 00:36:28,618
I don't want to talk about death
any more than anyone else,
507
00:36:28,787 --> 00:36:31,722
but one has to look forward to the consequences.
508
00:36:32,457 --> 00:36:35,221
I think we're commanded to do so somewhere.
509
00:36:35,326 --> 00:36:36,759
Aren't we?
510
00:36:36,895 --> 00:36:39,625
In the Bible, or in the prayer book?
511
00:36:39,731 --> 00:36:42,996
Do you look forward
to the consequences of my death?
512
00:36:43,134 --> 00:36:47,070
Cynthia, you really are
the most unfeeling girl I've ever met.
513
00:36:48,740 --> 00:36:52,574
Oh, I was hoping to speak to him.
514
00:36:53,144 --> 00:36:57,581
- What about, Goosey?
- Oh, nothing in particular.
515
00:37:00,084 --> 00:37:02,518
Is he really very ill?
516
00:37:02,754 --> 00:37:06,190
It's one of those cases
where it's not possible to be certain,
517
00:37:06,324 --> 00:37:08,485
but I am anxious about him, yes.
518
00:37:08,860 --> 00:37:12,261
But I haven't told him that,
and nor should you.
519
00:37:12,430 --> 00:37:16,992
But if he is really in danger,
he'd want to arrange his affairs, wouldn't he?
520
00:37:17,135 --> 00:37:21,868
I've considered that, but the fear
and anxiety could itself precipitate a crisis.
521
00:37:21,973 --> 00:37:24,305
Surely he has the right to know?
522
00:37:24,442 --> 00:37:28,139
No. Best to leave him in ignorance
and hope for a complete recovery.
523
00:37:28,279 --> 00:37:33,546
Now, I say this in absolute confidence,
Molly, because I trust you completely.
524
00:37:33,685 --> 00:37:36,711
You at any rate know how to keep your counsel.
525
00:37:37,121 --> 00:37:41,148
Don't get over-anxious about Osborne.
526
00:37:41,292 --> 00:37:44,022
He may be well yet.
527
00:38:04,449 --> 00:38:06,474
Ah, there you are.
528
00:38:09,487 --> 00:38:13,924
Funny old sort of day.
Neither one thing nor the other.
529
00:38:16,494 --> 00:38:18,860
I had a letter from Roger.
530
00:38:19,097 --> 00:38:23,500
He's very well.
Had a good Christmas.
531
00:38:25,103 --> 00:38:26,900
Look here, Osborne.
532
00:38:27,138 --> 00:38:30,630
Do you know anything
about Roger's engagement?
533
00:38:31,242 --> 00:38:33,005
Pretty girl, very pretty.
534
00:38:33,177 --> 00:38:36,044
- Not one I'd have chosen.
- Miss Kirkpatrick?
535
00:38:36,147 --> 00:38:37,671
Aye, that's the one.
536
00:38:37,916 --> 00:38:39,611
I wonder he never told me.
537
00:38:39,717 --> 00:38:42,515
Well, he...he never told me either.
538
00:38:43,121 --> 00:38:46,613
Gibson came over and made
a clean breast of it, like a man of honour.
539
00:38:46,758 --> 00:38:49,283
Well, I let it go on, it was only Roger.
540
00:38:49,527 --> 00:38:52,519
Mind you, if it had been you,
I'd have broken with Gibson
541
00:38:52,664 --> 00:38:54,723
and every mother's son of 'em, so I told Gibson.
542
00:38:54,866 --> 00:38:59,303
Pardon me, Father. I claim the right to choose
my own wife with no one's interference.
543
00:38:59,404 --> 00:39:01,429
Do you? Then you'll keep your wife
544
00:39:01,539 --> 00:39:04,372
with no one's interference,
for you won't get a penny from me
545
00:39:04,475 --> 00:39:07,569
unless you marry to please me a little,
as well as yourself a great deal.
546
00:39:07,712 --> 00:39:09,577
That's all I ask.
547
00:39:11,115 --> 00:39:15,518
She can be pretty or not, and I don't
mind if she's a bit older than you,
548
00:39:15,887 --> 00:39:17,821
but she must be well-born,
549
00:39:17,922 --> 00:39:20,254
and the more money she brings
to the old place the better.
550
00:39:20,491 --> 00:39:26,225
I say again, Father, I must choose
my wife myself, and I won't be dictated to,
551
00:39:26,431 --> 00:39:28,058
even by you, sir.
552
00:39:28,166 --> 00:39:31,067
Well, if I'm not to be father,
thou shan't be son.
553
00:39:31,169 --> 00:39:34,605
Go against me on this and there'll be
the devil to pay. I mean it.
554
00:39:34,706 --> 00:39:38,039
You're the only marriageable
one left in the market,
555
00:39:38,142 --> 00:39:40,940
and I want to hoist the old family up again.
556
00:39:44,048 --> 00:39:47,381
Don't go against me, Osborne.
557
00:39:47,518 --> 00:39:50,885
It really will break my heart if you do.
558
00:39:51,155 --> 00:39:57,492
Father, don't say that. I will do anything
to oblige you, anything, except...
559
00:39:57,662 --> 00:40:01,496
Except the one thing
I've set my heart on you doing!
560
00:40:06,304 --> 00:40:09,239
(AIMéE SINGS A LULLABY IN FRENCH)
561
00:40:23,154 --> 00:40:24,587
Oh, God.
562
00:40:26,958 --> 00:40:28,482
Oh, God.
563
00:40:30,962 --> 00:40:33,123
What am I going to do?
564
00:40:48,179 --> 00:40:50,739
(INDISTINCT GOODBYES)
565
00:41:01,926 --> 00:41:03,723
(ALL) Bye.
566
00:41:14,872 --> 00:41:17,966
Now, Papa, I shall have you
to myself for a whole week.
567
00:41:18,109 --> 00:41:21,510
- You'll have to be very obedient.
- Oh, shall I, indeed?!
568
00:41:21,612 --> 00:41:24,376
Well, now, here's a rare sight.
569
00:41:24,515 --> 00:41:28,246
Mr Gibson and his daughter
walking together at midday.
570
00:41:28,352 --> 00:41:31,287
Ladies. We've just seen
my wife and her daughter off to London.
571
00:41:31,389 --> 00:41:33,653
Mrs Gibson has gone up for the week.
572
00:41:33,758 --> 00:41:37,558
- Only a week!
- I remember when it was a three-day journey.
573
00:41:37,695 --> 00:41:40,858
She'd scarce have time to go and come back.
574
00:41:40,998 --> 00:41:43,990
Will it be lonely, Molly, without your companion?
575
00:41:44,202 --> 00:41:46,193
Yes, I shall miss her very much.
576
00:41:46,337 --> 00:41:47,031
But Papa and I...
577
00:41:47,171 --> 00:41:50,402
Mr Gibson, it'll be
like being a widower again.
578
00:41:50,942 --> 00:41:53,706
You must come and drink tea
with us some evening. And Molly, too.
579
00:41:53,811 --> 00:41:55,802
Yes, you must come to our house as well.
580
00:41:55,947 --> 00:42:00,008
We must try and cheer you up
a bit. Shall it be Tuesday?
581
00:42:00,151 --> 00:42:04,144
That's very kind, but I have,
er, one or two pressing cases.
582
00:42:04,322 --> 00:42:07,758
I'll see what I can do.
But I think I can promise for Molly.
583
00:42:08,459 --> 00:42:09,721
Good day, ladies.
584
00:42:09,894 --> 00:42:11,156
Oh, thank you.
585
00:42:11,329 --> 00:42:13,559
Papa! How could you waste one of our evenings?
586
00:42:13,698 --> 00:42:18,260
We have but six, and I wanted us
to do all sorts of things, just us.
587
00:42:18,369 --> 00:42:23,033
- What sort of things?
- Everything that's unrefined and ungenteel.
588
00:42:23,174 --> 00:42:25,335
By toil and labour,
I've reached a fair height of refinement.
589
00:42:25,476 --> 00:42:28,639
- And I won't be pulled down again.
- Oh, yes, just for a week you will.
590
00:42:28,779 --> 00:42:32,112
We'll have bread and cheese
for dinner and eat it on our knees,
591
00:42:32,216 --> 00:42:35,151
and we'll put our knives
into our mouths until we cut ourselves,
592
00:42:35,286 --> 00:42:37,880
and you shall pour your tea into a saucer.
593
00:43:03,848 --> 00:43:06,180
Two letters in a week.
594
00:43:06,317 --> 00:43:12,313
That's very proper, but at eleven pence
ha'penny postage any more would be extravagant.
595
00:43:13,157 --> 00:43:15,853
And what did Cynthia say?
Is she enjoying herself?
596
00:43:15,960 --> 00:43:17,928
Oh, yes, very much, I think.
597
00:43:18,062 --> 00:43:22,089
She went to a dinner party, and one night,
when Mama was at Lady Cumnor's,
598
00:43:22,200 --> 00:43:24,100
Cynthia went to the play with her cousins.
599
00:43:24,202 --> 00:43:26,727
Oh, my word. And all in one week.
600
00:43:27,939 --> 00:43:32,842
I do call that dissipation.
Thursday will be taken up travelling,
601
00:43:33,077 --> 00:43:38,037
Friday they'll be resting,
and Sunday is Sunday all over the world.
602
00:43:38,149 --> 00:43:41,084
I hope she won't find
Hollingford dull when she comes back.
603
00:43:41,185 --> 00:43:45,451
I don't think that's likely, Sally,
not now Mr Preston's moving to town.
604
00:43:46,157 --> 00:43:49,490
Been seeing a great deal
of Mr Preston, haven't you, Molly?
605
00:43:49,594 --> 00:43:50,891
Mr Preston?
606
00:43:50,995 --> 00:43:54,761
- No. What should make you think so?
- Oh, a little bird told us.
607
00:43:54,899 --> 00:43:57,299
What do you mean? Who told you?
608
00:43:57,401 --> 00:44:00,268
Little birds don't have names,
I'll think you'll find,
609
00:44:00,371 --> 00:44:03,898
but this little bird was
flying about in Heath Lane,
610
00:44:04,041 --> 00:44:08,341
and it saw Mr Preston
with a young lady - we won't say who -
611
00:44:08,479 --> 00:44:10,811
walking together
in a very friendly manner.
612
00:44:10,948 --> 00:44:15,510
He was on horseback,
because just there the path is raised...
613
00:44:15,653 --> 00:44:20,681
No, perhaps Molly is in the secret,
and we ought not to ask her about it.
614
00:44:20,791 --> 00:44:22,122
It'll be no great secret, sister.
615
00:44:22,260 --> 00:44:26,356
Miss Hornblower says
Mr Preston owns to being engaged.
616
00:44:26,797 --> 00:44:30,233
Well, if he is engaged,
it's not to Cynthia, that's for certain.
617
00:44:31,269 --> 00:44:34,602
And I do wish you'd put
a stop to any such reports.
618
00:44:34,739 --> 00:44:36,673
You don't know what mischief they may do.
619
00:44:36,807 --> 00:44:39,833
- I do so hate that kind of chatter.
- Hoity-toity.
620
00:44:40,011 --> 00:44:43,276
Kindly remember I'm old enough
to be your mother, Miss Molly.
621
00:44:44,148 --> 00:44:47,174
Chatter. Tish.
622
00:44:48,152 --> 00:44:51,019
I beg your pardon, Miss Browning...
623
00:44:51,222 --> 00:44:54,419
but don't you see how bad
it is to talk of such things?
624
00:44:54,558 --> 00:44:58,654
Supposing one of them cared for somebody else.
625
00:44:58,763 --> 00:45:04,998
And that might happen, you know. Mr Preston,
for example, may be engaged to somebody else.
626
00:45:05,102 --> 00:45:08,367
Well, if he is,
I pity the young lady, indeed I do.
627
00:45:08,506 --> 00:45:10,599
He's a great flirt,
628
00:45:11,142 --> 00:45:15,101
and young ladies better
not have too much to do with him.
629
00:45:15,246 --> 00:45:17,476
Miss Browning, I beg you
would not talk about it any more.
630
00:45:17,581 --> 00:45:20,345
I have my reasons for asking.
631
00:45:33,564 --> 00:45:35,031
Phoebe!
632
00:45:38,169 --> 00:45:41,832
It was Molly
with Mr Preston in Heath Lane.
633
00:45:41,972 --> 00:45:44,964
- Goodness gracious. How do you know?
- Put two and two together.
634
00:45:45,109 --> 00:45:47,270
Didn't you notice how pale she went?
635
00:45:47,378 --> 00:45:52,281
She said she knew for a fact Preston
and Miss Kirkpatrick weren't engaged.
636
00:45:52,383 --> 00:45:56,149
Perhaps not engaged, but Mrs Goodenough
saw them loitering together.
637
00:45:56,287 --> 00:45:58,551
Mrs Goodenough's eyes are not the best.
638
00:45:58,689 --> 00:46:02,022
I'll answer for it.
She saw Molly and took her for Cynthia.
639
00:46:02,460 --> 00:46:06,328
Well, perhaps it wouldn't be
so very bad a match, Sally.
640
00:46:06,464 --> 00:46:09,661
Not as bad a match as it could be?
He plays billiards, you know.
641
00:46:09,767 --> 00:46:15,330
He bets at the races. Miss Hornblower
said he was engaged to Miss Gregson.
642
00:46:15,473 --> 00:46:20,501
Her father made enquiries,
and he made her break it off.
643
00:46:20,644 --> 00:46:23,340
- And she's dead since.
- Oh, Sally.
644
00:46:23,481 --> 00:46:27,508
Now, he might do for Cynthia.
She was brought up in France,
645
00:46:27,585 --> 00:46:31,282
so she might not be too particular,
but he mustn't have Molly.
646
00:46:31,389 --> 00:46:36,884
We must keep on the lookout. I'll be
her guardian angel, in spite of herself.
647
00:46:53,144 --> 00:46:56,238
I wonder how you are, dearest Cynthia.
648
00:46:56,347 --> 00:46:58,975
I often picture you walking in the garden.
649
00:46:59,116 --> 00:47:03,951
I had a bit ofr a frall, but I believe
I shall soon be on the mend again.
650
00:47:04,088 --> 00:47:09,685
How's Molly? Has she been
to the Hall to see my frather?
651
00:47:09,827 --> 00:47:12,318
He 's so frond ofr her.
652
00:47:13,164 --> 00:47:16,656
I long to hear frrom you.
The rains must have made...
653
00:47:16,767 --> 00:47:19,930
.. the post frrom England slower, I suppose.
654
00:47:20,838 --> 00:47:26,572
Write soon, tell me how you are,
what you're thinking and doing.
655
00:48:20,097 --> 00:48:22,463
(MRS GI BSON) A most delightfrul visit.
656
00:48:22,566 --> 00:48:26,002
I was so sorry to come away,
but knew you'd be missing me.
657
00:48:26,103 --> 00:48:29,300
- Yes, i ndeed.
- Oh, they live i n great style.
658
00:48:29,440 --> 00:48:32,773
The Lord Chancellor himself could hardly do better.
659
00:48:32,910 --> 00:48:37,142
Mr Kirkpatrick's career has been
most successful - Queen's Counsel
660
00:48:37,281 --> 00:48:40,546
and Head of Chambers,
and they couldn't do enough for Cynthia.
661
00:48:40,684 --> 00:48:47,715
Two new ballgowns, and if I say so myself,
she had more admirers than any of her cousins.
662
00:48:47,858 --> 00:48:51,555
Young Mr Henderson was
quite smitten with her, I believe.
663
00:48:51,695 --> 00:48:56,291
He's the most promising
young man in Mr Kirkpatrick's chambers.
664
00:48:56,500 --> 00:48:59,992
They're so fond of her,
I don't know when she'll be back.
665
00:49:00,104 --> 00:49:05,474
She had a letter from Africa I sent on.
Did she say what was in it?
666
00:49:05,676 --> 00:49:08,440
Yes, yes. It made her
very uneasy, poor child.
667
00:49:08,546 --> 00:49:12,038
She was inclined not to go to
Mr Rawlson's ball that evening, but I told her
668
00:49:12,149 --> 00:49:16,210
there was nothing to worry about,
that he was laid up after a fall.
669
00:49:16,353 --> 00:49:20,687
- He's had a fall?
- Yes, but he was better by the time he wrote.
670
00:49:20,824 --> 00:49:24,123
He's got a very strong constitution,
hasn't he, Mr Gibson?
671
00:49:24,261 --> 00:49:27,594
Aye, he has, and where he is he has need of one.
672
00:49:27,731 --> 00:49:32,532
After all, it's not a formal engagement,
and she could hardly say,
673
00:49:32,670 --> 00:49:37,300
"A friend fell in Africa two months
ago, so I can't go to the ball."
674
00:49:37,441 --> 00:49:40,933
That would seem just like
an affectation of sentiment.
675
00:49:41,078 --> 00:49:42,909
If there's one thing I hate, it's that.
676
00:49:45,049 --> 00:49:46,311
Quite.
677
00:49:47,985 --> 00:49:50,283
Good morning, Miss Gibson.
678
00:49:58,395 --> 00:50:00,420
Good morning, Miss Gibson.
679
00:50:00,531 --> 00:50:03,728
Miss Kirkpatrick returns today, does she not?
680
00:50:03,867 --> 00:50:06,768
- Yes.
- You'll be happy to see her, I think.
681
00:50:06,904 --> 00:50:08,838
Yes. Good morning.
682
00:50:18,015 --> 00:50:21,143
(MRS GOODENOUGH)
There now, will you look at that!
683
00:50:22,019 --> 00:50:27,514
You had no call for harps, Mr Sheepshanks,
when you were Lord Cumnor's land agent.
684
00:50:27,625 --> 00:50:31,527
Well, young Preston reckons himself
to be a bit above a land agent.
685
00:50:31,629 --> 00:50:34,996
A gentleman, a ladies' man,
and a gambling man and all.
686
00:50:35,132 --> 00:50:38,465
I wouldn't trust him
any further than I could throw him.
687
00:50:38,602 --> 00:50:42,129
And that's not far. Good day to you.
688
00:50:45,509 --> 00:50:46,874
Poor Molly.
689
00:50:50,948 --> 00:50:55,578
Oh, hello... Did you miss me?
690
00:50:57,955 --> 00:51:00,082
Excuse me, can I have that box?
691
00:51:00,691 --> 00:51:05,025
He's feeling much better.
He's learning another new dialect,
692
00:51:05,796 --> 00:51:10,233
more about beetles.
I think I'll save this one up for later.
693
00:51:12,136 --> 00:51:14,229
Look what they gave me, Molly.
694
00:51:18,409 --> 00:51:20,570
They were so good to me.
695
00:51:25,149 --> 00:51:26,673
Do you wish you were still there?
696
00:51:28,152 --> 00:51:34,455
In some ways I do. There's something
oppressive about Hollingford somehow.
697
00:51:35,592 --> 00:51:39,722
Nothing to do with you, of course,
but one does feel...
698
00:51:39,930 --> 00:51:41,955
more carefree in London.
699
00:51:42,099 --> 00:51:44,260
Does that sound very wicked of me?
700
00:51:46,737 --> 00:51:50,195
Might be interested
in this paragraph here, Cynthia.
701
00:51:57,715 --> 00:51:59,546
- Oh.
- What is it?
702
00:51:59,650 --> 00:52:01,845
- May I see?
- Yes, of course.
703
00:52:01,952 --> 00:52:03,715
There's nothing private about it.
704
00:52:04,521 --> 00:52:07,354
Proceedings of the Geographical Society.
705
00:52:08,192 --> 00:52:12,060
Lord Hollingford read a letter
he received from Mr Roger Hamley.
706
00:52:12,162 --> 00:52:15,131
Oh, Cynthia, isn't it wonderful?
707
00:52:15,265 --> 00:52:20,828
Yes, but it's not news to me.
I heard about it before I left London.
708
00:52:20,938 --> 00:52:23,463
It was a good deal
talked about in my uncle's set.
709
00:52:23,574 --> 00:52:25,974
- You mean you could have gone?
- I suppose I could.
710
00:52:26,176 --> 00:52:30,135
I think they'd have been rather
astonished by my sudden turn for science.
711
00:52:30,347 --> 00:52:34,283
Why did...? If you'd told
your uncle how things really stood...
712
00:52:34,384 --> 00:52:37,649
- With Roger, I mean.
- Please do understand,
713
00:52:37,755 --> 00:52:41,919
I don't want my relation
to Roger mentioned or talked about.
714
00:52:42,025 --> 00:52:46,052
If I'm pushed to it, I'd rather
break it off and have done with it.
715
00:52:49,600 --> 00:52:50,999
(LAUGHTER)
716
00:52:51,135 --> 00:52:56,573
Oh, Miss Browning. They were so fond
of Cynthia, you would hardly believe it.
717
00:52:56,707 --> 00:53:00,302
Do you know, she's had three letters
from London this week already.
718
00:53:00,444 --> 00:53:02,503
- Mama, please.
- Three letters, fancy that.
719
00:53:02,646 --> 00:53:07,208
- It must be almost as good as living there.
- A great deal better, I should think.
720
00:53:07,551 --> 00:53:14,457
In my opinion, London's no better
than a thief dressed as honest folk.
721
00:53:14,558 --> 00:53:17,652
Now, I've no patience with London.
722
00:53:18,495 --> 00:53:20,827
Cynthia's much better out of it.
723
00:53:20,964 --> 00:53:27,767
If I were you, Mrs Gibson, I'd stop up those
London letters. They'll only be unsettling.
724
00:53:27,905 --> 00:53:32,467
Perhaps she may live
in London one day, Miss Browning.
725
00:53:32,676 --> 00:53:36,476
I wish you an honest country husband,
726
00:53:36,580 --> 00:53:41,108
with enough to live on, a little
to lay by, and a good character, Cynthia.
727
00:53:41,218 --> 00:53:44,517
- Thank you, Miss Browning.
- Mind that, Molly.
728
00:53:44,621 --> 00:53:47,749
I wish Cynthia a husband with a good character.
729
00:53:47,925 --> 00:53:50,257
She's got a mother
to look after her, and you've none.
730
00:53:50,394 --> 00:53:53,124
(MRS GIBSON)
I beg your pardon, Miss Browning?!
731
00:53:53,230 --> 00:53:56,666
When your mother was alive,
she was a dear friend of mine.
732
00:53:56,767 --> 00:53:59,292
I won't let you throw
yourself away on anyone
733
00:53:59,403 --> 00:54:02,201
whose life is not clear and above board.
You may depend on it.
734
00:54:02,339 --> 00:54:04,307
I'm sure you're much mistaken, Miss Browning,
735
00:54:04,441 --> 00:54:07,535
if you think any mother could
take more care of Molly than I do.
736
00:54:07,978 --> 00:54:10,469
I didn't mean to offend, Mrs Gibson.
737
00:54:10,581 --> 00:54:14,347
As step-mothers go,
I think you try and do your duty.
738
00:54:14,484 --> 00:54:16,645
I just meant to give Molly a hint.
739
00:54:16,753 --> 00:54:18,721
She understands what I mean.
740
00:54:18,856 --> 00:54:20,289
I'm sure I do not.
741
00:54:20,390 --> 00:54:24,224
I don't know what you mean, if you
were alluding to more than you said.
742
00:54:24,328 --> 00:54:27,320
I'm not thinking of marrying at all.
743
00:54:27,464 --> 00:54:31,491
If I did and he weren't a good man,
I should thank you for warning me.
744
00:54:31,602 --> 00:54:36,039
I shan't just warn you, Molly.
I shall forbid the banns in church if need be.
745
00:54:36,173 --> 00:54:38,107
Do!
746
00:54:42,145 --> 00:54:49,381
Trying to do my duty, indeed.
Everybody knows I have alays done my duty,
747
00:54:49,519 --> 00:54:53,785
without talking about it
before my face in that rude manner.
748
00:54:53,924 --> 00:54:56,449
I've a deep feeling about duty.
749
00:54:56,560 --> 00:55:00,724
It ought to be talked of
in church, in sacred places,
750
00:55:00,864 --> 00:55:05,062
not in someone's sitting room,
with everyone drinking tea.
751
00:55:05,168 --> 00:55:08,535
As if I didn't look after you
as well as I do Cynthia.
752
00:55:10,107 --> 00:55:14,134
I think perhaps Miss Browning
has got some notion about Mr Preston.
753
00:55:14,278 --> 00:55:17,145
She spoke to me about him once before.
754
00:55:17,281 --> 00:55:20,045
What could have put that into her head?
755
00:55:20,150 --> 00:55:25,520
I may not alays approve of Mr Preston,
but if it was him she was thinking of,
756
00:55:25,656 --> 00:55:29,615
he's more agreeable than her.
I'd keep his company over hers any day.
757
00:55:39,069 --> 00:55:41,663
- Where's Cynthia, Molly?
- She's gone out.
758
00:55:41,772 --> 00:55:43,262
Oh, that's a pity.
759
00:55:43,373 --> 00:55:48,037
I've got Simpson's dog cart. I was going
to offer you a drive on my way to the lodge.
760
00:55:48,145 --> 00:55:51,706
- Would you like to come?
- I'll get my bonnet.
761
00:55:53,016 --> 00:55:56,042
It means you'll have to walk home on your own.
762
00:56:16,940 --> 00:56:19,602
I used to bring your mother here.
763
00:56:23,847 --> 00:56:29,410
Jump down, lassie. Make your
way back before it gets dark.
764
00:56:29,553 --> 00:56:34,388
You'll find the cut over Croston Heath
is quicker than the way you came.
765
00:56:56,613 --> 00:56:58,638
You don't know your own mind.
766
00:56:59,383 --> 00:57:03,217
- Why won't you listen to me?
- Come here.
767
00:57:03,453 --> 00:57:06,251
- Don't go.
- Oh, please, just let me be.
768
00:57:08,358 --> 00:57:09,655
Please.
769
00:57:09,760 --> 00:57:12,388
You gave your promise freely enough.
Why should you not keep it?
770
00:57:12,529 --> 00:57:14,087
Because I can't bear it.
771
00:57:14,231 --> 00:57:15,630
Let me go, please.
772
00:57:16,767 --> 00:57:18,064
Molly!
773
00:57:18,168 --> 00:57:19,965
What is it? What's the matter?
774
00:57:20,103 --> 00:57:22,298
I think you should let her go now.
775
00:57:26,543 --> 00:57:30,309
As Miss Gibson sees fit
to interrupt a private conversation,
776
00:57:30,447 --> 00:57:35,350
perhaps we can arrange to meet again,
without the presence of a third party.
777
00:57:35,485 --> 00:57:39,114
- I'll go now, if Cynthia wants me to.
- No, stay.
778
00:57:39,256 --> 00:57:43,124
I want you to hear it.
I should have told her sooner.
779
00:57:43,326 --> 00:57:46,420
Miss Kirkpatrick is referring to our engagement.
780
00:57:46,696 --> 00:57:49,460
She promised long ago to be my wife.
781
00:57:49,566 --> 00:57:52,160
Don't cry, Cynthia.
I don't believe a word he says.
782
00:57:52,302 --> 00:57:54,463
- It's true.
- Don't cry.
783
00:57:54,571 --> 00:57:58,098
Please don't cry.
You can't imagine how it distresses me.
784
00:57:58,208 --> 00:58:01,405
- Leave me alone.
- Go away! Don't you see you make her worse.
785
00:58:01,511 --> 00:58:07,108
Miss Gibson had better hear
the whole truth.
786
00:58:07,250 --> 00:58:10,651
We were to marry
as soon as you were twenty.
787
00:58:10,754 --> 00:58:16,249
You must have thought it strange
we should meet in secret. Now you know.
788
00:58:16,460 --> 00:58:20,396
I don't know anything of the kind.
I know Cynthia is engaged to another,
789
00:58:20,497 --> 00:58:22,863
so you can hardly expect me
to believe you.
790
00:58:22,966 --> 00:58:25,400
Molly, I'm not engaged to Roger.
791
00:58:27,737 --> 00:58:32,231
I have some letters that might
convince Miss Gibson it's the truth:
792
00:58:32,342 --> 00:58:36,073
and Mr Roger Hamley, if he is
the gentleman she's alluding to.
793
00:58:36,179 --> 00:58:40,548
- I'm happy to make it clear to Mr Gibson, too.
- That's what you should do:
794
00:58:40,684 --> 00:58:45,417
speak to my father like a gentleman
and not make assignations in secret.
795
00:58:45,555 --> 00:58:47,079
Let's go home now, Cynthia.
796
00:58:47,190 --> 00:58:50,887
I never wanted it to be a secret.
Can you deny that it's only been
797
00:58:50,994 --> 00:58:53,121
at your request that I've kept
this secret for so long?
798
00:58:53,263 --> 00:58:54,855
If you will have it out, yes.
799
00:58:54,965 --> 00:59:00,403
When I was fifteen, you lent me money
and made me promise to marry you.
800
00:59:00,504 --> 00:59:03,029
- Made you!
- "Made" wasn't the right word.
801
00:59:03,140 --> 00:59:07,042
I liked you then. I know you
better now, and I'd never marry you.
802
00:59:07,144 --> 00:59:08,839
I've done everything you've asked me to.
803
00:59:08,945 --> 00:59:15,714
I've waited for years, I've put up with
jealousy and neglect. Cynthia, I've loved you,
804
00:59:15,852 --> 00:59:17,877
and I still love you.
805
00:59:18,889 --> 00:59:24,850
I can't give you up. If you keep your word
and marry me, I swear I'll make you love me.
806
00:59:24,961 --> 00:59:27,828
I wish I'd never borrowed that money.
807
00:59:27,931 --> 00:59:31,196
I've scrimped and saved to give it back,
and he won't take it.
808
00:59:31,368 --> 00:59:32,665
He won't set me free.
809
00:59:32,769 --> 00:59:35,670
You make it sound as if
you sold yourself for twenty pounds.
810
00:59:36,239 --> 00:59:42,906
I didn't sell myself. I liked you then,
but, oh, do I hate you now.
811
00:59:48,785 --> 00:59:53,848
Molly, don't say any more just now. Come
to my room tonight and I'll tell you everything.
812
00:59:53,957 --> 00:59:57,358
You'll blame me terribly, but I will tell you.
813
01:00:17,380 --> 01:00:22,875
I was on my own all that summer.
Well, it was alays like that.
814
01:00:23,687 --> 01:00:27,714
As soon as the holidays came around,
Mama was off to some great house or other.
815
01:00:27,824 --> 01:00:31,089
Never seemed to care to take me with her.
816
01:00:31,995 --> 01:00:36,830
I was used to him coming.
He and Mama were friends.
817
01:00:36,967 --> 01:00:39,333
I believe that Mama thought...
818
01:00:41,204 --> 01:00:44,765
Well, I don't know about that.
819
01:00:44,975 --> 01:00:51,608
Anyway, he was kind and sympathetic, I thought.
820
01:00:52,916 --> 01:00:56,249
So, yes, I did like him then.
821
01:01:00,557 --> 01:01:04,721
So this day, he found me
in the deserted schoolroom.
822
01:01:07,764 --> 01:01:10,961
The Donaldsons had invited me to a festival,
823
01:01:11,167 --> 01:01:14,603
and though Mama had said I could go,
824
01:01:14,738 --> 01:01:18,174
she hadn't said how I could
get any money for the journey,
825
01:01:18,308 --> 01:01:21,539
and I'd grown out
of all my old summer dresses.
826
01:01:24,381 --> 01:01:27,373
We were alays poor, you see...
827
01:01:29,352 --> 01:01:32,287
and yet we were never to speak of it
828
01:01:32,389 --> 01:01:36,723
because of the shame
and the disgrace of it.
829
01:01:38,695 --> 01:01:41,858
All that worry about money
made me sick ofr my lifre.
830
01:01:42,732 --> 01:01:46,759
All alone? Improving the shining hour, I see.
831
01:01:46,903 --> 01:01:49,133
Mr Preston noticed I was sad,
832
01:01:50,340 --> 01:01:54,174
and I was gratefrul to him
fror kind words and sympathetic looks.
833
01:01:57,414 --> 01:01:58,711
Tell me.
834
01:01:58,815 --> 01:02:01,716
Little by little, he made me
tell him all my troubles.
835
01:02:01,851 --> 01:02:05,878
I do sometimes think
he was very nice in those days.
836
01:02:08,458 --> 01:02:11,621
He had twenty pounds in his pocket, he said.
837
01:02:11,728 --> 01:02:15,892
He shouldn 't want it fror months,
and I could repay it.
838
01:02:15,999 --> 01:02:19,093
Mama knew I would need money,
he said, and most likely assumed
839
01:02:19,202 --> 01:02:22,535
I should ask him fror it. So I took it.
840
01:02:25,408 --> 01:02:31,404
I did so want to go and not be
ashamed of my shabbi ness.
841
01:02:32,482 --> 01:02:35,713
It doesn't sound so very wrong, does it, Molly?
842
01:02:35,819 --> 01:02:37,343
No.
843
01:02:46,296 --> 01:02:51,393
I went to the frestival. I think
I looked pretty in my new clothes.
844
01:02:52,502 --> 01:02:56,905
I saw other people thought so, too.
It was pleasant to freel my power.
845
01:03:03,747 --> 01:03:06,272
Then, on the last day, he joined us.
846
01:03:09,252 --> 01:03:11,948
I suppose he really did frall in love with me.
847
01:03:12,455 --> 01:03:14,685
I don 't think he 'd done so befrore.
848
01:04:09,712 --> 01:04:13,739
Well, the end ofr it was that he began
to talk violent love to me,
849
01:04:13,883 --> 01:04:18,343
and he said the money should not be a debt,
but an advance fror when I should be his.
850
01:04:18,488 --> 01:04:24,051
I don 't quite know how, but I promised
to marry him when I was twenty,
851
01:04:24,160 --> 01:04:27,823
but asked it stay a secret until then.
852
01:04:43,880 --> 01:04:48,180
After, I wrote hi m
some very si lly letters, Molly,
853
01:04:49,385 --> 01:04:53,754
but it was all so long ago,
and I did thi nk I loved hi m then.
854
01:04:54,757 --> 01:04:59,956
But somehow, as soon as I felt
pledged to him, I started to hate him,
855
01:05:00,029 --> 01:05:03,089
and I've just never been able to extricate myself.
856
01:05:04,133 --> 01:05:07,625
But how could you get engaged to Roger?
857
01:05:07,737 --> 01:05:13,039
Well, why not? I was free,
I was free in my own heart.
858
01:05:15,111 --> 01:05:22,745
I was touched by his love, so tender
and unselfish, unlike Mr Preston's.
859
01:05:24,487 --> 01:05:28,753
Oh, Molly, I know you feel
I'm not good enough for Roger...
860
01:05:30,293 --> 01:05:33,091
and sometimes I think I'll give him up.
861
01:05:34,597 --> 01:05:39,500
Sometimes I think I'll marry
Robert Preston out of pure revenge,
862
01:05:39,602 --> 01:05:42,298
and then he'll be in MY power.
863
01:05:44,140 --> 01:05:46,335
But I'd be the worst off for it,
864
01:05:47,477 --> 01:05:50,241
for he is cruel in his very soul.
865
01:05:52,015 --> 01:05:54,176
Tigerish...
866
01:05:54,984 --> 01:05:59,785
with his beautiful striped skin
and his relentless heart.
867
01:06:06,129 --> 01:06:10,395
He says he will show my letters to your father,
868
01:06:10,567 --> 01:06:12,694
unless I acknowledge the engagement.
869
01:06:12,835 --> 01:06:15,929
He shan't do that.
We won't let him do that.
870
01:06:16,072 --> 01:06:20,532
I'm not afraid of him.
I'll ask him to give the letters back.
871
01:06:20,710 --> 01:06:23,577
- Let's see if he dares refuse me.
- What if you were seen?
872
01:06:23,713 --> 01:06:28,150
Oh, Molly, you don't know him.
He has made so many appointments with me,
873
01:06:28,284 --> 01:06:31,151
as if he were going to take back the money.
874
01:06:31,287 --> 01:06:35,223
Molly, I've had it saved up for four months now.
875
01:06:37,327 --> 01:06:40,819
He says he's sure he can make me love him,
876
01:06:42,899 --> 01:06:44,924
and I think perhaps he could.
877
01:06:46,202 --> 01:06:48,568
He could make me do anything...
878
01:06:49,606 --> 01:06:51,733
then I should really be lost.
879
01:06:53,876 --> 01:06:55,707
I will get those letters for you.
880
01:06:55,812 --> 01:06:59,942
We're in the right,
he's in the wrong and he knows it.
881
01:07:01,017 --> 01:07:02,780
He must give up those letters.
882
01:07:02,885 --> 01:07:06,844
And you must never tell anyone
about this, especially not your father.
883
01:07:06,956 --> 01:07:10,892
- I couldn't bear it if he knew.
- As if I would, for any reason, short of...
884
01:07:11,027 --> 01:07:15,589
Not for any reason at all! I would
leave Hollingford and never come back
885
01:07:15,732 --> 01:07:17,359
if he found out about this.
886
01:07:17,500 --> 01:07:19,900
- Promise me.
- I promise.
887
01:08:27,904 --> 01:08:29,838
(HORSE WHINNIES)
888
01:08:31,441 --> 01:08:33,534
Is Cynthia not able to come?
889
01:08:33,676 --> 01:08:36,144
I didn't know you were expecting her.
890
01:08:36,279 --> 01:08:38,611
Yes, she said she would be here.
891
01:08:41,584 --> 01:08:43,848
Well, she's sent me here to meet you.
892
01:08:48,524 --> 01:08:51,493
She's told me exactly
how things stand between you.
893
01:08:52,495 --> 01:08:57,228
Has she? She isn't the most open
or reliable person in the world.
894
01:08:57,400 --> 01:09:01,632
If you really love her,
you shouldn't speak of her in that way.
895
01:09:02,739 --> 01:09:05,503
You have some letters of hers
she wishes to have back...
896
01:09:05,641 --> 01:09:08,201
- I dare say.
-..that you have no right to keep.
897
01:09:08,311 --> 01:09:11,246
No legal or no moral right?
Which do you mean?
898
01:09:11,347 --> 01:09:16,250
You've none at all, as a gentleman, to keep
a girl's letters when she asks for them.
899
01:09:16,352 --> 01:09:18,547
Still less to hold them over her as a threat.
900
01:09:18,688 --> 01:09:21,486
I see you do know all, Miss Gibson.
901
01:09:21,624 --> 01:09:26,186
But you have heard the story from
her point of view. Now you must hear mine.
902
01:09:26,329 --> 01:09:29,264
She promised me as solemnly
as ever a woman did in this.
903
01:09:29,365 --> 01:09:31,390
She was only a girl of fifteen.
904
01:09:31,534 --> 01:09:34,059
She was old enough
to know what she was doing.
905
01:09:34,170 --> 01:09:41,008
She promised to be my wife, made me wait
for her and to keep it secret. I kept my promise.
906
01:09:41,144 --> 01:09:44,580
I might've married two or three girls
with money and connections.
907
01:09:44,714 --> 01:09:47,148
One was handsome enough
and not reluctant...
908
01:09:47,350 --> 01:09:52,185
I don't want to hear about other young ladies.
I'm here for Cynthia, who doesn't like you,
909
01:09:52,321 --> 01:09:54,721
and doesn't wish to marry you.
910
01:09:54,857 --> 01:09:58,122
Then I must make her like me, as you put it.
911
01:09:59,095 --> 01:10:01,029
She did like me once.
912
01:10:02,865 --> 01:10:07,495
She loved me, and she'll
love me again when we're married.
913
01:10:07,603 --> 01:10:09,696
She won't ever marry you.
914
01:10:10,940 --> 01:10:14,171
Then if she honours anyone else with her
preference, he may read her letters.
915
01:10:14,310 --> 01:10:17,108
No honourable man would!
What use can they be to you?
916
01:10:17,780 --> 01:10:20,214
They contain her repeated promises of marriage.
917
01:10:20,349 --> 01:10:24,080
But she doesn't love you -
if she ever did - she hates you.
918
01:10:24,420 --> 01:10:30,256
She says she would rather leave Hollingford
forever and earn her own living than marry you.
919
01:10:33,696 --> 01:10:37,257
Young ladies are very fond
of words such as "hate" and "detest".
920
01:10:37,400 --> 01:10:42,804
I've known some who applied them
to men they were secretly hoping to marry.
921
01:10:43,739 --> 01:10:50,474
I can't say for others, but I do know
Cynthia hates you as anybody like her hates.
922
01:10:50,746 --> 01:10:52,680
"Like her"?
923
01:10:53,649 --> 01:10:56,174
I mean I should hate worse.
924
01:10:58,855 --> 01:11:04,225
So, now would you mind
sending her back the letters by me?
925
01:11:07,597 --> 01:11:09,724
I assure you, you cannot make her marry you.
926
01:11:11,400 --> 01:11:13,925
You are very simple, Miss Gibson, aren't you?
927
01:11:14,070 --> 01:11:17,801
I don't suppose you know of any
other feeling that can be gratified but love.
928
01:11:17,940 --> 01:11:19,498
Have you never heard of revenge?
929
01:11:19,809 --> 01:11:24,542
She has cajoled me with promises of love,
and I won't let her go unpunished. Tell her that.
930
01:11:24,881 --> 01:11:28,180
I shall keep the letters
and make use of them as I see fit.
931
01:11:28,317 --> 01:11:32,651
Mr Roger Hamley shall hear of their contents,
even if he's too honourable to read them.
932
01:11:32,788 --> 01:11:36,986
Your father shall hear of them and what
Miss Kirkpatrick says about her mother in them.
933
01:11:37,126 --> 01:11:38,650
Perhaps you'd care
to read their contents yourself?
934
01:11:38,761 --> 01:11:40,456
No, I won't hear another word.
935
01:11:40,596 --> 01:11:44,794
They were written to you, only to you,
when she thought you were her friend.
936
01:11:44,934 --> 01:11:47,402
But I have thought what to do next.
937
01:11:47,536 --> 01:11:51,939
I should tell my father, but I promised not to,
so I will tell Lady Harriet
938
01:11:52,041 --> 01:11:55,010
and ask her to speak to her father about it.
939
01:11:56,145 --> 01:12:01,515
I'm sure she will, and I don't think
you'll dare refuse Lord Cumnor.
940
01:12:03,519 --> 01:12:07,182
Miss Gibson, consider your position.
941
01:12:09,892 --> 01:12:13,453
Keep still, you must be seen.
942
01:12:13,896 --> 01:12:16,990
You've done nothing to be ashamed of.
943
01:12:20,336 --> 01:12:23,772
Good morning, Miss Gibson. Your servant.
944
01:12:23,906 --> 01:12:27,239
Bit early in the day to be
meeting a sweetheart, eh, Preston?
945
01:12:28,778 --> 01:12:33,943
Yes, I'm afraid I've kept you
standing here too long, Miss Gibson.
946
01:12:35,418 --> 01:12:36,851
Good day.
947
01:12:38,487 --> 01:12:39,852
Good day.
948
01:12:46,128 --> 01:12:49,325
Sorry about that, Preston,
disturbing your little tête-à-tête.
949
01:12:49,432 --> 01:12:51,764
Oh, there'll be another time, I'm sure.
950
01:12:51,901 --> 01:12:53,892
I don't doubt it.
78543
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