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I know. I hope my cousin will make you very happy, Mr Phillotson.

Jude, I have something to ask you.

Will you give me away?. I have no other family here.

Of course I'll give you away.

With all my heart.

Are you ready with that yet?. Hurry up, then.

You are "father", you know.

That's what they call the man who gives you away.

Was it lke this when you were married?.

- Can I get you a drink, sir?. - Thanks, Arabella. I'll have a pint and a whisky.

- Aren't you supposed to be a Christminster don?. - Aren't you supposed to be in Australa?.

Change, Arabella.

He's on the house.

- Who's that, Bella?. - That's just my husband.

Can I have a pint now, please?.

Cheers!

You know how I said I was pregnant when we got married?.

Jude?.

Jude...?.

I met someone in Sydney.

I didn't tell him about us.

It wasn't as nice as our wedding.

She'll find me lying here as still as Lazarus.

And then I'll suddenly open my eyes.

Sue Bridehead, you lttle fool

I'll say it straight out.

You'll regret this marriage as much as that ox of a cousin of yours regretted his.

Are you crying for me... or for your precious Sue?.

You ninny.

"Lord, have mercy upon us.

"Lord, have mercy upon us.

"Almighty God, with whom do lve the spirits of them that depart, enter the Lord,

"with whom the souls of the faithful after they are delvered from the burden of the flesh

"are in joy and felcity. We give thee a hearty thanks, for it has pleased thee

"to delver this, our sister, out of the miseries of this sinful world.

"Beseechingly, that it may please thee of thy gracious goodness.

"Shortly to accomplsh the number of thine elect and to hasten thy kingdom,

"that we, with all those that are departed in the true faith, thy holy name,

"may have our perfect consummation and blss, both in body and soul

"in thy eternal and everlasting glory, through Jesus Christ, our Lord."

- How long are you staying?. - Just tonight. I have to go back tomorrow.

- I wish I'd seen her before she died. - She was looking forward to seeing you, too.

- What did she say?. - That we both made bad husbands and wives.

(A rabbit screams in pain)

(Painful squealing)

(He snaps its neck)

It shouldn't be allowed to set those traps.

- Did it wake you?. - I was already awake.

- Why?. - I was thinking.

About what?.

I don't know.

(SUE) "Dearest Jude, I should never have written this letter,

"and I beg you not to reply.

"Richard and I are husband and wife.

"Nothing can change that...

"not your frustration,

"nor my regret.

"Please try to forget me. "

(Piano being played)

- Jude?. - How do you know?.

You've got man's hands.

- Did you get my letter?. - Yes, but I never opened it.

Don't worry, I haven't moved to Shaston this time.

- You say it lke you've given up with me. - Do you blame me?.

I'm here, aren't I?.

Promise me you'll never stop trying, Jude.

- That must sound terrible. - Yes, it does.

Will you promise me that?.

I can't help myself.

Jude?.

- Sue didn't tell me you were coming. - I didn't know.

That's a wonderful surprise for both of us. How long are you staying?.

My train leaves in an hour.

Sue's hardly had a chance to see you.

Maybe you can persuade Jude to stay.

- How is the school at Marygreen?. - The same.

Still the one classroom?.

Same desks.

- everything all right, Jude?. - Yes.

- Goodnight, then. - Goodnight.

Sue?.

- What are you doing?. - What's wrong with me, Jude?.

Not a thing.

"When I do count the clock that tells the time

"and see the brave day's sun and hideous night. When I behold...

"..and the summer's green all girded up in sheaves,

"borne on the bier with white and bristly beard."

I have a wife I love, who not only doesn't love me, but I disgust her.

And this morning

she asked me if she could leave to lve with you.

- I won't oppose it if that's what you want. - Well it is.

I always noticed something extraordinary between the two of you.

I kept telling myself it was because you were cousins, but it's more than that.

Sometimes I think you are one person splt in two.

You knew all along she'd made a mistake marrying me.

- Yes. - But you did nothing to stop us.

No.

Nor did I.

- I'll check to see if you've forgotten anything. - I don't think I have, thank you.

- What time is the train, Jude?. - Leaves in five minutes.

Goodbye, Richard.

Bye.

Yes!

Jude! Jude!

I brought your dinner.

(SUE) Domestic laws should take into account different temperaments.

I may want to lve with a man, but only as a friend.

- That may not be fair on the man. - Because there are no precedents.

- His pride is hurt. - But you want to marry someone you love.

Why do people have to be told to love each other by someone else?. That's all marriage is.

- A government stamp. A lcence to love. - If we could, would you want to marry?.

I'd run a mile if you had a piece of paper that forced me to love you.

Oh, please!

- Drink up. - Oh, another go. Another go.

Drink up, drink up, drink up.

Ugh!

You love it, you lar.

- What?. - What's wrong?.

Don't touch me lke that.

- It's just affections. - Does it pull you to something else?.

Something else?. What something else?.

I think neither of us know the meaning of it.

I'm sorry. It's just that I want everything to be perfect between us.

I'm not ready, Jude.

- Do you understand?. - I'll try.

What are you writing?.

Whatever his wife wants.

- Tea. - Thanks.

"Here les my husband Peter Porter, age 51.

"He tormented me, he cheated on me and he spent all our food money on beer."

- He's dead, Sue. - He can't hear me.

(Knock at door)

Tell him I'll have his headstone ready in an hour.

(Knock at door)

Arabella?.

Sorry to come here, Jude. I didn't want to.

- I'm in trouble. I need to talk to you. - What's wrong?.

I don't want to cause any trouble for you. Can we talk somewhere else?.

- All right. - I'm staying at the King's Head.

- It was Arabella. She wants to talk with me. - Can't she talk outside?.

- She wants me to go to a hotel - That's convenient.

- Sue, I have to help her. - Why?. She's not your wife.

She's going to give you what you want.

Can't you see what she's doing?. She wants you back.

But do you want me?.

Yes.

Close your eyes.

- You don't have to do this. - I want to.

But you have to help me. I don't know what I'm doing. I only pretend.

- Do I talk too much?. - No.

- I'm doing it all wrong, aren't I?. - No.

- I'm intelledctualsing. - You're not.

Kiss me before I start talking again.

You look pleased with yourself.

I'm cooking you bacon and sausage and eggs.

- Why?. - Because you think you deserve it.

There's a letter for you on the table.

- Aren't you going to open it?. - I'll read it later.

Jude, I know who it's from.

(ARABELLA) "Dearest Jude, I'm writing with this news

"because I never got the chance to tell you face to face.

"There was a boy born of our marriage eight months after I left you.

"So far, the boy has been with my parents in Sydney,

"but they can no longer afford to keep him, and nor can I.

"I named him after you. "

Are you Jude Fawley?.

Yes, sir.

This is your father. My name is Sue. It's nice to meet you.

- How was your journey?. - Fine, thank you.

- Can I carry this?. - Yes.

(SUE) What Arabella says is true.

He's yours. I can see you in him.

But the other half is her.

- You'll protect me, won't you?. - If I can.

Can you beleve your eyes?. Is the world really as it seems?.

I can see you smilng, convinced that nothing can surprise you any more. You've seen it all

Well tonight, I'll surprise you.

I'll show you wonders.

I'll show you a world you've only glmpsed in your darkest dreams.

Out of thin air, the terrors come!

(MIDWIFE) Not much longer now.

You all right?.

It's nothing to be frightened of. Come here.

- No, baby, don't cry. - Juey, can you help me, please?.

Can you help me?. Hold baby for me.

Support her head.

Look, I've got the baby.

Be careful

(Baby crying)

Morning.

Jude, can I have a word?.

- Who are they?. - Daddy's going to talk to them.

The work is going fine.

Jude, I'm sorry. I'm going to have to get someone else to finish it for you.

- Why?. - Some of the parishioners have complained.

- About what?. - You never told us you weren't married.

I never realsed that was a necessary qualfication for a stonemason.

I'll pay you for the week's work, of course.

I'm sorry, Jude.

Six shillings. Yes, madam, seven shillings. Is she going to get them?.

Yes, she is. Thank you, madam.

We got a couple of rabbits. Black and white. If you take the skin off, they look the same.

They'll be a very nice Sunday lunch for someone.

Come on. Four pence, five pence. Seven pence to the gentleman out there.

It's going to be lke this everywhere we go as soon as people find out we're not married.

We'll move on.

We move somewhere where nobody knows us.

If they find out, we move on again, and again and again...

..as long as it takes for the world to change.

We've done nothing wrong, Sue. You're the one who taught me that.

Juey.

- Juey! - Juey!

Take care of your sister.

How do you do, Mrs Fawley. Arabella Wilkinson.

- You look sick, Jude. - Thank you.

There's even gables and lttle windows. How very sweet.

Still harping on about Christminster.

- How are you?. - All right.

My husband died, left me everything.

- What would you lke?. - Oh, I think I'll have a whole colledge.

Which was the colledge that refused you, Jude?. Well I shan't have that one.

You were such a proud man, Jude.

Jude.

Hello.

- Don't you recognise your ma, then?. - Yeah.

- I bought you some cake. Would you lke some?. - No, thank you.

- I think your lttle sister would lke some. - She's too small

But you are big, though. How old are you now?.

Eight.

ARABELLA) Eight years, three months and six days.

I remember exactly.

Eight was my favourite age.

- I bet you want to be nine, though?. - Yeah.

- Hey, are you married yet?. - No.

- Be all right if I kiss you, then?. - Yeah.

You're a good boy, Jude.

What is it?.

I want to go back to Christminster.

- Because Arabella hurt your pride?. - Because I still have some.

(JUDE) * The crow flew over the bush The crow flew over the bush

# The crow flew over the bush # What do you think he saw?.

- Guess who?. - I know that voice anywhere. Uncle Joe.

Jim! Take your tail up. Over here. I've found the tutor of St Slum's Colledge, Christminster.

Hey, hey! Can you still say the Apostle's Creed in Latin, Jude.

"Credo in unum Deum, Patrem omnipotentem."

Look at you, Jude. What have you been doing with yourself?.

He's got himself more mouths to feed.

- You remember my friends, don't you?. - Yes, of course.

So cousins do get married.

- My eldest, lttle Jude. - Oh, what's wrong with you, lttle man?.

- He's tired. - Nothing.

We've been looking out for you in the parade every year.

Never thought we'd find you in the crowd.

Things turned out differently.

- No regrets, I hope?. - Some.

Difficult question for any man to answer.

To follow his dreams no matter what, or give in slowly and let lfe lead him where it will

And which are you?.

I don't know.

When I first came here to Christminster, I had a neat stock of fixed opinions.

The further I get, the less sure I am of anything.

Hear, hear.

"Who knoweth what is good for man in this lfe?.

"And who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun??"

- We're looking for somewhere to stay. - We don't take children.

- We're looking for somewhere to stay. - No, I'm sorry. No room.

- We're looking for somewhere to stay. - How many children are there?.

Two children and a baby.

- I have got a room. - Thank you, thank you.

Juey, Lizzy, come up.

I'll look for work in the morning.

- How did they know?. - She asked if we were married.

- You said we weren't?. - I couldn't le.

It's nothing to be ashamed of. I won't hide it from anyone.

(Knock on door) It's open.

I'm sorry, my husband is a bit unhappy about the lttle ones staying.

- We can't leave now, not in this rain. - I know, I said that to him.

- Staying one night is fine. - But we agreed a week.

Thank you very much. We'll look for new lodgings first thing in the morning.

- Why do you give in?. - What difference does it make?.

Sshhh, nearly done.

I love this place.

even though I know it looks down on people lke me.

The self-taught, the too-determined.

It takes two or three generations to do what I tried to do in one.

You're still Joseph, the dreamer of dreams.

And the tragic Don Quixote.

Sometimes you're a St Stephen...

..who sees Heaven open up, even as they're stoning him.

(JUEY) I cannot sleep.

- Come and sleep with us. - Is it because of me we have to leave?.

No, Juey...because there's too many of us.

There isn't enough room. Go to bed now.

Go to bed. Go to bed!

I'll go and talk to him.

- What are you doing?. - Watching them sleep.

They love you very much, Juey.

You're their older brother.

If they see you upset, they get upset, too.

You have to be strong for them.

If there's too many children in the world, why do people have more?.

I don't know.

Because they love each other,

or because they don't think.

It just happens that way.

Mum said there were too many of us.

She didn't mean you.

There aren't enough of you.

Are you ready for bed?.

Come on.

Good night, son.

I'd lke to buy myself a dress with flowers, flounces and ribbons. And I need a hat.

- Of course you do. - With exotic flowers growing out of it.

Oh, Jude. We could buy... We could buy clothes.

We could buy anything we wanted, really.

- Juey in school - We could.

- Can I tell him?. - Yes, you tell him.

I'll tell him. I'll tell him!

Sshh, they must be asleep.

What is it?.

(She weeps)

(She screams)

(She shouts and weeps)

"For we are made as a spectacle unto the world, and unto angels and to men.

"even to this present hour we both hunger and thirst, and are naked and are buffeted,

"and have no certain dwelling place.

"Being reviled, we bless. Being persecuted, we suffer it.

"Being defamed, we entreat.

"We are made as the filth of the world, and are the offscouring of all things unto this day.

"I write not these things to shame you, but, as my beloved sons, to warn you."

Shall we go?.

- Sue?. - I want to be with my children.

I'll wait for you by the gates.

I should have kept him myself.

None of this would have ever happened.

If I had come back to you...

If...

- If... - Arabella, please.

I thought about it.

- Did you ever?. - No.

It wasn't your fault, Jude.

- Why won't you look at me?. - Because it's wrong.

We have to be punished.

Haven't we been punished enough?.

Our love is wrong.

That's why the children died.

We defied him, and now he's punishing us.

- Who?. - God.

God has nothing to do with it. You of all people know that.

- I was wrong. - And now you can see clearly, in this state?.

- I'm trying to explain things. - There's nothing to explain.

- It was an accident. - It was judgement.

On what?.

Why do you talk lke this?.

We've done nothing wrong.

"We are made a spectacle unto the world, and unto angels and to men."

Sue.

- Sue, where are you going?. - Your child killedd mine.

- Your child killedd my babies. - Sue, please.

How can I look at you?. How can I lve with you?.

Do you beleve in God?. You think so, yes.

(Inaudible)

How many times have you missed a church service in your lfe?. Why?.

What are you reading at the moment?.

- What do you want with me?. - Come home.

- You don't know my badness. - Yes, I do.

You make me hate Christianity and God and whatever has reduced you to this state.

- It's right that I suffer. - It's wrong.

That a woman lke you should give up her mind, degrade herself...

Don't talk to me lke that!

- I'm sorry. - Doesn't matter.

- Listen to me. - Come home.

No, I can't.

- It's all right, Jude. I know what to do. - We'll talk in the morning.

I have to go back to Richard in the morning.

- You go, too. Write to Arabella, ask her to... - They mean nothing to us.

- We're still married. - You and I are married!

But not in Heaven, not in this church! I married Richard in a church, Jude.

- I want to go back to him. - Do you care for him?. Do you love him?.

- I'll learn to love him. - No. How can you, Sue?.

You love me, Sue!

Say it, Sue.

Say it. Say it. Say it.

I don't love you any more.

I'll pray for us, Jude.

Not for me.

(He coughs)

- How are you?. - All right.

- You look well - Do I?.

- Where are you lving now?. - Quite far.

- You won't tell me where?. - You wouldn't know it.

- I'd better go. - I'll follow you.

I won't stop trying, I promised you that.

- Jude. - Do you love me?.

Do you still love me?.

I won't come again, if that's what you want, but I need to know.

You've always known.

Sue, come with me.

No, Jude.

We are man and wife, if ever two people were on this earth!