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[Bright music]

[Flourishing orchestral music]

[Birds chirping]

[Gentle music]

[John] Paris, my sweet, is thoroughly French in every way.

We do business over coffee and cognac the day long

and everyone is in a race to dream up fashions

still more daring than were worn yesterday.

I brought back silks from tangier and, in no time,

they were in the window of the bon marche

as the most audacious gowns I've set my eyes upon.

But the bon marche is not the paradise.

Paris is not home.

And you, my love, are not here.

[Waitress speaking French]

[John speaking French]

[Waitress speaking French]

[John chuckles]

[Waitress speaking French]

[John speaking French]

[John and waitress chuckling]

I want to promise you

that the time will come when we are together.

Just to write down those words makes the day more bearable.

Never forget, my love, everything I do

is so that we can be together again.

I want to feel your breath on my face,

I want to feel your eyes gazing at me,

I want to fill my senses with you.

Come on, lads! Slackers to the front.

I want every one of these boxes inside

before anyone even thinks about a cup of tea.

[Sam] Looks like a lot of boxes, Mr. Dudley.

Royalty in these crates, Sam.

Royalty is sure to sell, sir.

- Sam! - Whoa!

I was just about to catch it! Thank you, Mr. Nathaniel.

- Susy. - [Gentle music]

[John] I work hard to fill the time

to make possible what we are waiting for.

I tell myself that I would only be apart from you for today.

That is as much as I can bear, my love.

- Oh, Denise. - Thank you.

Girls, girls.

Are we trying to vitalize custom in the store

or are we contented to expend our energy

on tittle-tattle the day long?

Our order book was once bursting with commissions,

now look at it!

Yes, well.

We endeavour.

Now more than ever we must strive

if the paradise is to survive.

Is it me or is she starting to talk in rhymes?

How is moray?

He's back in Paris now,

but he misses all of us.

Misses the paradise.

The paradise misses him.

Oh! That's most impressive, Mr. Dudley.

Chantilly lace flounce,

jet beading,

lined with burgundy silk.

As worn by Princess Alexandra.

- Oh. - We have 200 of them.

Isn't that rather a lot, Mr. Dudley, sir?

We must sell every one of them.

If we don't restore the fortune to the paradise,

then lord glendenning will go ahead with the sale

to the fenton brothers.

We're running out of time.

If you were looking for someone

to model one of them beauties in the store, Mr. Dudley,

I would be willing to wear one of them and nothing else.

Well, perhaps put on me best drawers, for modesty.

We need to attract customers, myrtle,

not frighten 'em off.

Dumplings is ready.

I have extensive advertising placed in the newspapers

announcing the arrival of the royal cape tomorrow.

Let's be sure we take our chance.

It may be our last.

[Suspenseful music]

[Water gushing]

[Susy giggling]

[Distant clanging]

What is that sound?

[Suspenseful music]

[Water rushing]

[Susy shouting]

[Susy] Get the capes! Get the capes!

The capes! All the capes, grab them!

Get out, get out!

[Nathaniel] Get the capes! Get the capes out of the way!

[Susy] Oh! Oh, no, no!

[Dramatic music]

- [Melancholy music] - [Water dripping]

[Sighs] That's it.

As surely as I stand here, we have lost.

Perhaps we can try cleaning them up or...

Some of them were...

Maybe the ones at the bottom aren't quite

- so badly damaged. - Please don't.

Seems no matter what I try comes to grief.

[Susy] Can't help thinking this place is cursed.

Susy, don't say that. Superstition won't help us.

This wasn't an accident.

Do you think someone deliberately cut it?

She's right.

Why should this be the pipe that breaks,

right here, by the boxes?

Oh, I'd rather believe witchery

than imagine someone who works here

would do the likes of this.

Aye. See there.

[Flourishing orchestral music]

Telegram, sir.

Thank you, Arthur.

[Waiter speaking French]

[John speaking French]

[Flourishing orchestral music continues]

Denise. Moray is coming back.

I don't understand.

He's been summoned. I don't understand it, either.

Summoned by who?

A telegram from lord glendenning's agent.

Moray is on his way.

[Bright orchestral music]

[Horse whinnies]

Mr. Dudley, sir.

Miss glendenning.

It is Mrs. Weston now, Dudley.

May I say how delightful it is to be here

and to be greeted by you?

Might I inquire, ma'am, the mourning?

My father passed away.

- My condolences, ma'am. - Your tenderness

is greatly appreciated, Dudley.

Let me introduce my husband, Mr. Tom Weston.

Tom, this is Dudley.

He has been taking care of things for us.

Mr. Weston, sir.

Every day, surrounded by women.

I don't know whether to envy you or pity you.

[Katherine and Tom chuckle]

Look at this place!

I should like to explore.

Perhaps you might be so kind as to escort me?

You will find us happy to oblige, sir.

Flora, my darling, I want you to meet your new friends.

Flora is Mr. Weston's daughter.

[Gentle music]

Our daughter now.

My dearest, you may take a look at the many treasures

this store has whilst I speak with Mr. Dudley.

Perhaps one of the girls might show you around.

Denise?

[Denise] I would be...

Yes, of course, ma'am.

Miss flora.

[Gentle music continues]

Sir, if you'd like to follow me.

Mrs. Weston.

How pleasant it is to be in this room again.

We all of us enjoyed such splendid times here.

I cannot tell you how already it helps to assuage my grief.

Ma'am, I feel obliged to tell you

that I wrote to your father.

Yes, I know.

Lord glendenning advised me.

His agent sent the telegram

informing me that moray is to return.

That is not so.

Ma'am, I assure you, I have the telegram.

It was not at my father's bidding.

It was mine.

With my father passing,

I have taken on the responsibility for the estate.

Myself and my husband, of course.

Of course.

Then it is not your intention to sell, ma'am?

Your faith and dedication, Dudley,

during a most difficult time has been,

well, all that I might expect from a man of your esteem.

I realise that events of a year ago

will cause no little consternation but it will pass.

It is not a flogging offence

for a woman to abandon her wedding plans.

My father was intent on selling.

I am, shall we say,

more open-minded on the matter.

Tell me about Denise.

What do you want to know about her, sir?

The way she was looking at my wife just now.

She was frightened.

Your wife is Katherine glendenning.

We're all afraid of her.

Why do you suppose I asked you to escort me, Clara?

Mm, well, my fine cheekbones?

Apart from your lovely bones.

You're not fearful of my wife.

Everyone else had their eyes on Katherine,

your eyes were fixed on Denise.

You are quite the spy, sir.

If I may be permitted to ask, sir,

we are all wondering, if the paradise is to be sold,

why has Mr. Moray been recalled?

[Suspenseful music]

Oh, we are indeed selling.

That much is certain.

[Boy knocking]

[Tender orchestral music]

I thought that when I saw you

it'd be the same as it was but it's not.

Of course it's not, it's so much better.

[Denise giggles]

I thought I would hold you and kiss you

and that would be enough.

Oh, when I look at you, when I feel your eyes on me, I...

Denise, will you marry me? Marry me now!

John, it was Katherine who arranged for your return.

Answer my question!

Why would she bring you back? She's married now.

Then, that is her reason.

[Sighs] Katherine has found her own happiness.

We no longer matter to her.

You don't believe that any more than I do.

I know that nothing is ever as it appears with Katherine

but whatever it is she's doing,

it means I can come back to the paradise.

She seemed, I don't know, calm.

I want to say kind. It frightened me.

I fear she'll send you away again.

She will never again come between us.

I promise you, Denise.

I have prayed for this, to be here with you.

If Katherine wants me to work in her store as her manager,

I will smile and do it,

but every day I will be plotting to take back what is mine,

what I've spent my life building, what was stolen from me.

You haven't answered my question.

[Tender orchestral music continues]

Thank you, darling, for coming to live in this house.

It means so much to me.

Flora will love it here, i'm sure, as I did as a girl.

Why did you wait until the day of the wedding

to call off your marriage to moray?

It was such a cruel business.

But I do not regret what I did.

I wouldn't be here with you if I hadn't come to my senses.

You haven't answered my question.

[Pensive music]

Why was it on the very day of the wedding that you withdrew?

My father warned me many times I was being foolish.

I persisted in denying him.

It was only when I was truly facing a life

with a man I could not love

that I saw the recklessness of what I was about to do.

Aren't you tired after such a day?

I am enjoying being here with you.

But you are tired.

You should go to bed.

Perhaps I am a little weary.

Why did you not tell me that you've recalled moray?

Oh, did I not?

I'm sorry, everything has happened so quickly.

Heavens.

Perhaps the grief has stricken me more than I care to admit.

But if that place is to be disposed of,

why would you want him back here?

I know why you're here.

You want to come in as partner in my shop, start again.

Lovett and moray. Notice the order of the names.

No, no, that's not why I've come back, Edmund.

You have to admit, there's a certain poetry to it.

You, the little fella,

fighting against that giant over there.

I have missed you, Edmund.

Ah, well, if you've got nowhere else to stay,

you can spend the night here.

I never thought I'd hear myself say those words.

I should get back.

[Bell tinkles]

[Pensive music]

[Fenton] Moray.

I didn't know. No one did.

Mr. Dudley just said he received a telegram.

It would seem they want to out manoeuvre us.

They have brought him back to intimidate us.

I will need you to act on my behalf again, Nathaniel.

Mr. Fenton, sir,

you promised me there'd be no more,

that we were finished with this deception.

Do you suppose I have worked and planned

this past year to let them outwit me now?

No! Moray will only prosper if we allow him to.

I know the man.

He will try some extravagant scheme.

We will turn it on him and let him devise his own downfall.

[Nathaniel knocking]

Susy.

What are you doing?

If we are caught up here we'll both be dismissed.

[Nathaniel] Should we walk out on Sunday?

You came up here just to ask me that?

Just wanted to see you.

I wanted to, oh, I don't know.

I couldn't sleep. I wanted to tell you.

Yes? Yes, what, tell me what?

Every day I'm waiting for Sunday to come,

so it's just me and you the whole day.

- Yes. - Just us.

What did you want to tell me?

[Sighs] I'm sorry.

I shouldn't have come up here. I'll see you in the morning.

[Gentle music]

I think he just told me he loves me.

But I'm not quite sure.

[Clock bell tolling]

[Flourishing orchestral music]

As ever, you're the first in to work, Dudley.

Still not early enough to arrive before you, moray.

[Laughs] I've missed your jibes.

Don't worry, I've been saving them up for you.

This is our chance, Dudley.

This is what we have worked for.

I thought I'd failed you.

I never doubted you.

We start today.

Dudley, I wish to address the staff,

all of them, first thing.

I'll gather them together before we open the doors.

Katherine may own the paradise, but she will never own me.

I don't know how long it will take us

but this will be ours once more.

As of today, we will close the store. Sam, put up a sign.

Oh, we all said you were bound to kick things into life.

Close the door, that's the best sales promotion

- I've ever heard. - Sam.

I have a task especially suited to your gifts, Sam.

Modelling fine suits? Charming the daughters of the rich?

Gossip.

See? We know you better than you think we do.

When have I ever been known to gossip?

I heard you this morning in the yard,

saying Mr. Moray's back, all hell will break loose!

Word will travel across the city that I have returned.

I need you to add to the foment. Embellish the story.

Not sure I know how to embellish, sir.

And while we're closed, curiosity will grow.

I will stay out of sight until we open.

But when we do, we must be ready to sell

to everyone who has come here to gawp.

Oh, and one more thing. We have goods arriving today.

Let's fill up the store.

[Arthur] What goods, Mr. Moray, sir?

The likes of which you've never seen before, Arthur!

I think he means clean trousers, Arthur!

- [Staff murmuring] - [Frenetic orchestral music]

Sorry, Mr. Weston, Mrs. Weston, we're closed.

Under Mr. Moray's instructions.

But of course we're open for you, sir.

Mr. Moray, sir? Mr. Weston.

Mr. Weston! I'm glad you've called in on us.

The store is closed.

Indeed, indeed.

It is my intention, sir, to create something of a splash,

to reopen with a fanfare.

Well, you might have discussed such a radical move

with my wife and I.

For the paradise to stand empty might appear

as if the whole enterprise is floundering

at the very time of our return.

Then let me offer my apologies, sir.

It was simply that I wish to act decisively.

My staff are used to seeing me run the business in that way

and the idea is in part to buoy their confidence.

Mr. Moray's experience, especially after this last year,

will be sorely needed, Mr. Weston.

On my travels, sir, I have gathered all manner of exotica.

Exotica?

Yes, yes. The most delightful clothes, ornaments-

how amusing.

Well I hope it will be more than amusing, sir.

Oh, what do I know about managing a department store?

I've been a soldier all my life.

I understand nothing about hosiery. [Chuckles]

My wife has come in to buy dresses.

Then I must offer her my condolences for her bereavement.

Oh, let the women be, with their trifles.

You have business to tend to, moray.

And so do I.

Thank you.

This is the best part of the shop.

Why, miss Glen...

Mrs. Weston.

We are fortunate indeed to see you so well,

to see you back with us again after,

after your travels.

Flora and I have decided we would like matching dresses.

Perhaps you could have us measured up?

Of course!

It is our honour to serve you and our delight to see you!

May we congratulate you on your marriage?

A true blessing for anyone, all of us,

to find such a blessing, to be so blessed.

Perhaps one of your girls?

- Clara. - I wish to show no favouritism

but Denise has always served me so well.

Yes, of course.

Denise!

- [Hammer clanking] - [Suspenseful music]

Did you see him?

There's nothing in this world like Mr. Moray.

You just have to look at him and you know all will be well.

[Nathaniel grunting]

Nathaniel! What is it?

There's work to do and the lads

are nowhere to be seen, that's all.

I wanted to make a good impression on Mr. Moray.

You will, of course you will.

Mr. Dudley's always saying

you're the best store man ever there was.

If Mr. Moray doesn't see it then I will tell him myself.

Flora's quite taken with you, Denise.

[Denise] She's a sweet girl, ma'am.

One can never guess at the turns of fate.

How could I imagine a year ago

I would be here now like this?

With a 10-year-old child under my care to love.

She will want to visit the store regularly, I'm sure.

Will you look after her for me?

If that is what you want, ma'am.

Denise.

I must apologise to you.

To me, ma'am?

When we last spoke, I,

I was not quite myself. The circumstances...

There was considerable confusion.

It was only when I admitted to myself

that I could not possibly marry moray,

that I did not love him, that...

I realised that I meant you no harm.

Do you see?

- Yes ma'am. - It was a ridiculous notion

to believe that I could marry a storekeeper.

To be at war with a shop girl.

[Inquisitive music]

I am so glad to see that you are still here with us.

[Flora] Mama!

Yes, flora, my darling?

[Fenton] The price was agreed

with lord glendenning's agent.

But that was the value when the store was in decline.

What I propose is to sell the paradise reinvigorated.

Is that why you brought moray back?

To squeeze a better offer out of me?

It would be a weakling man who did not seek

a fair price for his assets.

A businessman of your stature will surely appreciate that,

- Mr. Fenton. - Indeed.

Does moray know that you will toss him aside

when he has served your purpose?

Moray is my concern.

My employee.

What if matters do not go as you planned, sir?

Have you considered that fortunes may not improve?

Suppose moray's return brings disaster?

Will that then be reflected in your valuation?

I see no reason to imagine such an outcome.

The man is cavalier!

He has a reputation for over-confidence.

You believe you have me in a bind. I accept that.

But if moray fails you,

then you will understand if I return the favour.

You have no other buyers.

Should you sell to me today,

I will honour the price already agreed.

But if you gamble on moray, then you,

you risk diminishing the value of the paradise.

- [Gentle music] - [Birds chirping]

[Servant] This way.

Katherine.

Moray. I thought it best we speak here.

Yes, of course, I understand.

I was sorry to hear about your father.

He missed his home.

I think it took its toll on him.

Oh, please, sit down.

Katherine, I'm grateful you've permitted me to return.

You have been brought back to restore the fortunes

of an asset my family now owns.

Yes, what I meant was I do not wish

this moment to pass without acknowledging

-how difficult- -really, moray.

Gallantry would be an unwelcome touch of sentimentality

when there is no call for it.

I would not wish for things

to be any different than they are.

-Then I am glad that- -it was an audacious move

to close the store.

Well, I hope that it will be to our benefit.

I have goods for sale,

all manner of exotic, imported temptations

and I want to make our customers wait to see them,

to feed their curiosity.

That is not the only thing

you want them to be curious about.

You wish also to play on your own notoriety.

Then let me apologise.

I seem unable to shake off that part of me

which is no more than a vulgar salesman.

Closing the doors to the store

has made my husband doubt you.

The sale must prove to him that the paradise

and you are a glittering success.

[John] Miss flora.

Can we go to the paradise again, mama? I did love it so.

[Chuckles] I'm glad to hear you're so taken

with the store, flora.

And Denise. Can we see Denise again?

You are confident that your exotic imports

will return the paradise to its former glory?

- I am. - They must.

If you fail, Tom will insist we sell.

Neither you nor I want such an outcome, do we?

Mr. Nathaniel, sir, I have saved a nice piece

of boiled bacon for you.

Unless you prefer the pie.

What I like best about him is his manliness.

A man needs to be a man,

- doesn't he? - Can someone please tell me,

did she just say there was more boiled bacon

when a moment ago there was none?

Or not for the likes of Sam, anyway!

No, it's his kindness.

I'll have the pie, please, myrtle. Let Sam have the bacon.

No, oh, no, no.

- I'll have the pie! - No, it's his handsomeness

I like best.

'Cause if I have the boiled bacon

I'll feel like I'm having someone's leftovers!

I'll have the bacon!

There's only one thing better than boiled bacon

and that's more boiled bacon.

If I had been out bloody front

I'd have seen with me own two eyes.

Lady Katherine glendenning in mourning and married!

Brazen as the day she was bare-arsed born.

All I get down here's the gossip.

If I was up top, I'd see the deeds!

Is there any wonder you are kept out of sight, myrtle?

Such coarseness and obscenity

might make you friends after dark in a farmyard.

What is required in a department store

is a degree of humanity.

[Chuckles] Perhaps you're right, miss Audrey.

I did once enjoy an hour under the moon with a cowman.

But I'll say this.

I am not so dry as a stick

that I would break in half if a man so much as touched me.

- [Cutlery clatters] - [Chair scrapes]

[Gentle music]

Another hand?

It's late. You ought to be getting back.

I will not break, Edmund, if you touch me.

Edmund.

Will you marry me?

Yes! [Giggles]

That's one.

Oh. [Giggles]

- [Man gasping in pain] - [Tender music]

I always know when it is hurting you.

If you tell me when it burns, I will comfort you.

Like the first night.

Is that what you want, my darling?

Yes. Yes, it is.

[Pensive music]

[Tom sobbing]

[Men arguing]

[Pensive music continues]

Susy, come and look at this.

Who's this man talking with Nathaniel?

There's no one there!

They were there.

Nathaniel and another man.

They seemed to be arguing.

Susy, is there something troubling Nathaniel?

He has seemed agitated.

Has he spoken to you about anything

or have you seen anything?

No, nothing. Nothing at all.

He is just as he always is.

There was just that business in the yard.

What business in the yard?

Well, him kicking at crates and cursing.

Susy, when he came up here to see you,

I could only see him from the doorway but,

there seemed to be tears in his eyes, like he was,

I don't know, desperate.

You're scaring me, Denise. Why are you talking like this?

Oh, I'm sorry.

Don't worry. I'm sure it's nothing.

I think we must all be feeling the strain a little.

[John] Pack it all tight together,

there's plenty more in the bays.

I want the place to feel crammed, brimming with temptations!

[Bright music]

[Crowd chattering]

[Susy screams]

It were a black thing.

Huge and black and,

and its tail were curled, curled up.

It was coming from a crate, and-

and you're certain that's what you saw?

It ran away so fast, it vanished!

If it's come out of one of the boxes,

it's come all the way from China or the likes.

Thank you, myrtle.

Scorpions are terrible poisonous. They kill people.

One sting, you're dead.

Thank you, myrtle. I'm sure you have work to do.

It could be anywhere. It could be in my kitchen.

[Gasps] It could be in the store.

[Dudley] Myrtle! That's enough!

But it's true, isn't it?

Well, we'll just have to find it.

How are we supposed to find a creature that small?

We'll have to move everything!

Sam, have you seen Nathaniel?

He's probably in the yard, throwing his weight about.

No, he's not in the yard.

It's impossible, that's what. And suppose we don't...

What about them out there?

We cannot open the store until it is discovered.

We'll just have to find it.

I want it found, I just don't want to be

the one who finds it.

Well, surely the creature would not come

all the way up the stairs to ladies wear.

I refuse to imagine such savagery

here amongst our refinement.

I don't think anybody's told the scorpion

he's not welcome.

Mr. Weston. If I might have a word with you, sir.

Uh, scorpions, from one of the crates from the delivery.

If a customer were to open it...

If a customer were to get stung, they would die.

Susy! Was Nathaniel with you when you saw the scorpion?

I'm glad he was there,

otherwise I might have died of the fright.

Are you sure of what you saw?

I can see the thing still in my mind.

I hope I never see the likes again.

You know what it means?

If we can't find it,

if we have to turn those customers away,

it would cause so much damage to our hopes.

But I saw it. Why do you doubt me?

Before you saw it,

the way you were talking, it sounded...

Did Nathaniel see it first?

Did he describe what he had seen?

I don't know, he, he might have.

Why does it matter? I saw it myself.

[Tom] The risk to the...

Ah, moray! We were wondering when you might join us.

Might I ask, what is the purpose of this gathering?

We must call off the opening.

I will not permit one customer to set foot through the door.

Mr. Weston, if we might speak privately?

I am sure that amongst your many gifts, moray,

you have the capacity to change.

At least have the courtesy to sit down.

Sir, while we are here talking,

we could be out there searching for the thing.

If we find it, then we can still open today.

Is that your best hope?

If one customer sees the damn creature

it will be a disaster for the val...

For the reputation of this place.

The customers are here.

We can't turn them away.

We cannot let them see us faltering.

I had all manner of foreign goods

shipped to the bon marche.

And yes, sometimes there were beetles and bugs.

But my employers did not buckle

for fear a customer might get a glimpse of nature!

I have ordered all the crates

to be removed from the loading bays.

A department store is built on confidence.

That is what we need now!

Forgive my forthrightness, sir,

but what qualifies me to know what is best

for the paradise is my experience.

I have never so much as bought a necktie,

if you're wondering what qualifies me-

- i am! - I own the paradise!

That is qualification enough.

I intend to sell to the fenton brothers.

I will conclude my business with them today,

before any further damage can be done.

[Nathaniel grunts]

Nathaniel, I saw the money.

You saw nothing, Denise. Let me get on with my work.

Please, I know that susy loves you,

and I believe that you love her,

I'm just trying to understand.

I saw you from my window, Nathaniel.

Last night, fighting with that man, arguing with him-

you're too bloody clever, that's what!

You let me go, do you hear me?

But it's you that's got a hold of her.

Why would you do this to all of us?

Have we not been friends to you

these past few months since you came here?

I have done nothing wrong.

I know a lie when I see it in a man's face.

It's because of what susy saw

that the store is closed.

If she is wrong, do you see?

She's the one to blame.

But I saw the creature. I saw it!

Nathaniel, whatever the reason, could you do that to susy?

But I saw it!

[Pensive music]

I saw it.

You didn't see anything, susy.

I put it there. I put it into your mind.

I took you on. Gave you work.

And this is how you would repay me?

You would betray us!

Is it true?

Have you been working on the fenton's behalf?

They told me it would be a little spying,

no more, all I had to do was a bit of spoiling.

But it's not a bit of spoiling, is it?

You're out to ruin every hope we have!

I kept asking them, "can I leave now?"

But they told me they would expose me

if I didn't do what they'd asked.

So when the capes were spoiled, I was sure it was all done.

The store was to be sold.

They brought moray back, and I panicked.

I didn't want to use you, susy.

I didn't know what I was doing.

Be gone by the end of the day.

Or I'll have the constables after you.

[John] Let's get the store ready.

We open in 15 minutes!

[Flourishing orchestral music]

[Women chattering]

[Customers clamouring]

Let me show you our new silks, ladies.

Look at the colours.

I had to travel miles and miles

over dangerous mountains to find these.

Magnificent, isn't it?

If you would like to follow me to ladies wear,

you can try on a dress so rare

that only an empress of the qing dynasty might wear it.

Heaven knows what the man got up to in China.

Some of his tales I'd rather not hear. I'm still young.

Now, was it four yards you said you wanted? Or was it six?

And how are things in ladies wear, Clara?

If I could get through the door, sir, I'd tell you.

Miss Audrey's doing fittings.

The last time miss Audrey did fittings,

I was in short trousers. [Chuckles]

See?

Now that Mr. Moray's back, it'll be like this every day.

I never saw anything so beautiful.

One day it'll be me out there.

- [Gentle music] - [People chattering]

I must congratulate you, Mr. Weston.

Would you take me for a pigeon, Mr. Fenton?

Would you pick my pocket?

Do you look at me and see an easy Mark?

I lost. I accept that.

You can't blame a man for trying.

I will pay your price.

Some men have little forgiveness in them.

I am a soldier. I have none.

I would not sell a shoelace to you, sir.

If you do not leave my store,

I will personally remove you.

[Bright orchestral music]

Katherine.

I must congratulate you, moray.

The paradise once more responds to your touch.

I hope we've proven to your husband

that there's no need to sell the store.

Oh, I would not have let him do that.

I can see you are glad to be back.

Mm.

That is understandable.

Would you like to see it in a different colour?

You are my employer now, Katherine.

I will serve you as best I can.

I am certain you will.

[Bright orchestral music continues]

After today, I've taken quite a fancy to this place.

That doesn't surprise me, sir.

Moray is quite a man.

I'm pleased to hear he's earned your respect,

Mr. Weston, sir.

[Tom chuckles]

Did they take his store away from him?

Did lord glendenning banish moray from the city?

I'm just a shop girl, sir.

I don't understand the plots and intrigues of business.

What about the wedding?

What are people saying?

That he called it off?

We may be poor, sir, but we're not fools.

Your wife is the most beautiful woman

I've ever set eyes upon.

Everyone can see that. She's rich beyond imagining.

Moray loves nothing better

than the thought of conquering this city.

He's made of ambition.

Why would a man like him not want

to marry Katherine glendenning?

You and I are going to get along splendidly, Clara.

I'm going to be about the business of the store.

Come to me if you need anything.

[People chattering]

Mr. Moray is buying you all a drink tonight.

Whoa!

Isn't it marvellous how your thirst swells

when the bosses are buying?

Hey, I warned you about Nathaniel, didn't I, Mr. Dudley?

No, you didn't, Sam.

Well, I meant to. I warned you lot, didn't I, Denise?

[Myrtle] Show a little consideration for susy, Sam.

Susy'll recover.

Women have a hearty constitution when it comes to men.

You know what girls do

when they get their heart broke by a bad fella?

[Both] She looks for another one.

And hasn't Katherine glendenning found herself a gem?

I have a feeling Mr. Weston could make the devil blush.

Oh, she'll be a match for him, fear not.

Hey, it's not what they do to each other that bothers me.

It's what they'll do to us.

Oh, well, let's drink to that, then, eh?

Did you say there's free drinks all night, Mr. Dudley?

Cause I think my thirst has just overtaken myrtle's.

Do you see, my love?

This is what I wrote to you about.

This is what I've been waiting for,

to be here with you again.

I could see you today across the store and I was thinking-

this is how it should be.

The paradise, bursting with customers.

But at the same time, thinking-

longing for them all to go.

So we could have the place to ourselves.

I thought they'd never leave.

So you see?

There could be no better time for us to marry.

I do.

I do see that.

[John sighs happily]

Does Katherine seem happy to you?

Why do you ask?

You've said that's why she allowed you to come back.

Back here, back to me.

Because she has her own happiness now.

Yes, in her own way, she seems content.

She clearly adores the child and...

You haven't answered my question.

Why has she brought you back?

John, I want the same as you do. Of course I do.

To be married, to be together, because I love you.

But if we do that, think how Katherine might react.

She's not as accepting as she would like us to believe.

Are we to deny ourselves the thing

we desire most because of her?

My love, you are here.

That is enough. For now.

We do not even know yet how it might be possible

to take the paradise back from her.

All of our efforts must go into that.

We must tread carefully.

We must wait, do you see? We must wait.

[Tender music]

[Bright orchestral music]