00:00You mean Colonel Gill.
00:02We marsh farmers made this land, pinched it from the sea inch by inch,
00:07then put up a wall to keep the sea out.
00:09Took a devil of a lot of work and money.
00:12And generations of fellows...
00:14There's nothing to laugh at.
00:15Oh, I'm not laughing. It's just the way my face is made.
00:18Everybody thinks that.
00:19Oh.
00:20And that's why the king gave us our charter.
00:23Let us offer few taxes.
00:25Allowed us to appoint our own justices and so forth.
00:28And that's why it's called the liberty.
00:31And now these white old johnnies are going to tell us how to farm it, are they?
00:38You know, there's little point in my giving you an interview, young woman,
00:41if you don't trouble to write it down.
00:43I'm so sorry.
00:44My leg upset you?
00:45No. No, not at all.
00:47Keep meaning to oil it. Always forget.
00:51It amuses you, doesn't it?
00:53Yes.
00:54How long have you been a reporter?
00:56Oh, ages.
00:57How did you get on with Tom Cuffley the other time?
01:00Pretty well.
01:01He's my father.
01:02What?
01:03Well, well, well.
01:05So you're Meg Cuffley.
01:08Well, you know, I thought I knew your face.
01:10Where have you been all these years?
01:12Oh, getting educated.
01:13In Scotland, mostly.
01:15They wouldn't let me come home during the war.
01:17Quite grown up, aren't you?
01:19For getting married next thing you know.
01:21Well, that's the general idea, yes.
01:22Oh, plenty of time here.
01:24Why not now?
01:25Why not indeed?
01:27Why not me, for instance?
01:29Well, I think there's too much difference in our ages.
01:33Oh, very true.
01:35If I were only a few years younger...
01:38Well, what about young Sam Everard?
01:40Too sentimental.
01:41Wants to hold hands all the time.
01:43I can't be bothered.
01:44You seem to be unhealthily discriminating, my dear.
01:47Oh, I hate messing about.
01:48I want to get married.
01:50Well, haven't we better get on with this interview?
01:53Yeah, well, what more do you want to know?
01:54Well, what's your plan of campaign?
01:56If I catch one of these ministry beggars this side of Burley Gutter,
02:00I'll run him in for trespass.
02:01Oh, that would make a wonderful story.
02:03It's almost like the old days with the customs officers.
02:06Customs officers?
02:08What do you mean?
02:09Well, the smugglers used to bribe them, didn't they?
02:12Oh, you can't do that sort of thing nowadays.
02:14Oh, no, no, of course not.
02:16Oh, that sort of thing's dead and done with long ago, that sort of thing.
02:20It's rather a shame, really.
02:21They're a bad business.
02:22Oh, I'm glad you agree.
02:23No, no, no, I meant the smugglers.
02:25Oh.
02:26Well, I must be going.
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