00:00Miss Lister at Shubden?
00:04Yes, ma'am.
00:05I just wanted to assure you that it won't affect the time I spend on my duties here,
00:10with you on your estate.
00:13Um, do please tell Miss Lister that if she needs any sort of reference for you,
00:19I'd be happy to give it.
00:20I didn't know Miss Lister was back.
00:22Oh, very much so, ma'am.
00:24We must visit her, William.
00:26My wife is rather a fan of Miss Lister, Miss Walker.
00:30She collected her own rents just this last week.
00:33Of course she did.
00:34Well, with Mr Briggs not being himself on his last legs, leg.
00:38You see, that's exactly the sort of thing she'd do.
00:42I've always been a great champion of Miss Lister, haven't I, William?
00:45Despite what others say.
00:46You see, I appreciate her clever mind and her adventurous spirit.
00:50It is true, she isn't always as feminine, as some people would like her to be.
00:55But she's an original.
00:57She's natural.
00:58She's true to her own nature.
01:01And as she herself says, when we leave nature behind, we leave our only steady guide.
01:07And we can hardly blame Miss Lister if nature was an odd freak on the day she made her.
01:12Thank you, Washington.
01:16Mum.
01:18Mrs Priestley.
01:19Mr Priestley.
01:21Have you ever met her, Anne?
01:23Yes.
01:24Once.
01:25Years ago.
01:26I was 19.
01:27And she came to tea here with me and Elizabeth after my mother and father had died.
01:32She walked in the garden with us.
01:34She stayed for an hour or two, but then we never saw her again.
01:40Well, you wouldn't.
01:41She's hardly ever here.
01:42You can never pin her down.
01:44We should pay her a visit while she is here.
01:47And you should come with us.
01:49We'll take you out of yourself, Anne.
01:51Yet do you good.
01:52She's very entertaining.
01:54I'd like that.
01:55And very clever.
01:56And very kind.
01:57And actually, when you get to know her, she's a very good friend to have.
02:05How's Mr Briggs, Dr Kenny?
02:08A matter of days only, Mum, I would say.
02:13He must do something for his widow when the time comes.
02:18And how about the little Hardcastle boy?
02:20Oh, he'll live.
02:21And Miss Walker.
02:23Yes, I saw Miss Walker the day before yesterday.
02:25I mean, not entirely recovered from the accident, but...
02:28I didn't realise she was hurt.
02:30Oh, she wasn't, physically.
02:32She was shaken, shocked.
02:34But, yes, no bones were broken.
02:37Although she has always had a very delicate spine.
02:42No, I was called in to...
02:45She suffers with her nerves.
02:49She lives alone, and then, socially,
02:51she's surrounded almost entirely by people a lot older than herself.
02:54And she has so few diversions.
02:58Between you and me,
02:59if her money were to fly away and she had to work for a living,
03:02the girl would be perfectly well.
03:05I hope you don't discuss any members of my family
03:07with your other patients, Dr Kenny.
03:12Marion must go over to Crow Nest.
03:15She said she would.
03:17This Marion?
03:18Our Marion?
03:19Younger company.
03:19To cheer Miss Walker up?
03:21Surely she's more likely to bore someone into a paralytic stupor.
03:25Well, how about you?
03:26Why don't you go?
03:28The accident happened on your land.
03:29I did once take tea with the Mrs Walker, years ago,
03:33before the older one got married and went off to Scotland.
03:36Really?
03:37They were dull and stupid.
03:39It's too strong a word.
03:40And certainly no oil painting.
03:42Ma'am, sorry, ma'am.
03:45Mr and Mrs Priestley are downstairs.
03:47They're with Mr Priestley's cousin, Miss Walker, of Crow Nest.
03:53Well, well, well.
03:54My only regret is that it doesn't go far enough
04:03as regards addressing the anxieties of the ordinary work...
04:06Mrs Priestley!
04:06Miss Lister!
04:08How delightful!
04:09We had no idea you were back.
04:11Well, it wasn't exactly the plan, but here we are.
04:14Not until Miss Walker told us yesterday,
04:17and then we hardly dared believe it.
04:21Miss Walker.
04:21Miss Walker.
04:24I've heard so much about you lately.
04:26How are you?
04:28I'm very well, thank you.
04:30Good.
04:32Good.
04:34Has my sister been entertaining you all
04:36with her turgid and uninformed opinions about the reform bill?
04:39Please forgive us for taking the liberty of calling on you
04:42before you'd called on us.
04:44In the terms of the new reform bill,
04:46I find myself for the first time excluded from the franchise.
04:51By my sex.
04:52What do you mean?
04:53Have you voted before?
04:54No, of course not.
04:55You see, I wouldn't put it past her if she had.
04:59No, the point is,
05:00women have never been specifically denied the vote before.
05:03Now it's written, or it will be,
05:04in statute, universal male suffrage.
05:08I have 30-odd tenants who may vote,
05:09but I, the landowner, may not.
05:11Isn't that curious?
05:12But surely that's always been that way.
05:15A male £10 householder down in Halifax
05:18may also now vote, such is progress,
05:20but I've been told very specifically and very definitely that I may not.
05:24You may not, Miss Walker.
05:26And how many rolling acres and tenants do you have?
05:29Exactly.
05:31So many you don't even remember.
05:33And yet, no vote.
05:35Don't talk to me about progress.
05:37It's change that's unnecessary and entirely in the wrong direction.
05:40But the point is, the bill enfranchises the hard-working men,
05:43not just the landed interest.
05:45Yes, why, though?
05:46Because society is changing before our eyes.
05:50Economic power is moving away from the land and into the towns,
05:53and those who govern us must adapt to that change,
05:56as they are doing, thank goodness,
05:58or risk revolution.
05:59Really?
06:00Who have you been talking to, Marion?
06:02Who have you got all this nonsense from?
06:04No-one.
06:05Haven't got it from anyone.
06:07It isn't nonsense.
06:08It's my own opinion.
06:10Oh.
06:11No, no, no, don't get up.
06:13How is everyone?
06:14Oh, Miss Walker, sit here, aunt.
06:18How nice to see you again.
06:20I just...
06:21I wanted to take the opportunity of visiting again with my cousin
06:26to say thank you again for your kind hospitality
06:30to me and my aunt the other day in our moment of distress.
06:34How are you feeling, my dear?
06:37Would you like some Madeira, Dr Kenny?
06:40Oh, thank you.
06:42No, actually, Dr Kenny,
06:43and now you've seen to my aunt's leg,
06:45I'd like you to look at my cart horse.
06:47He's clandered.
06:48Hemingway, could you show Dr Kenny to the stables?
06:58Tick-tock.
07:02Odd little man, Dr Kenny.
07:04Don't you think, Miss Walker?
07:05Mincing walk makes me suspicious.
07:07Of what?
07:10I'm not sure.
07:11You need to be careful, and Miss Lister keeps a journal.
07:15Oh, she's famous for a journal.
07:17She records everything, absolutely everything, in great detail.
07:20Yes, you must be certain to stay on the right side of her,
07:23otherwise you might end up in it.
07:25You don't have to offend me to grace the pages of my journal.
07:28Sometimes I write about people I really like.
07:31Do you keep a journal, Marion?
07:33Me? Oh, no.
07:34Thought I to myself.
07:36I never know what to put.
07:37Shall I make up to Miss Walker?
07:39Thank you.
07:40Though she'll scarcely understand it herself,
07:42I can see that the poor girl already seems thoroughly in love with me.
07:47And what she lacks in rank,
07:49she certainly makes up for in fortune.
07:51Shall I stay here,
08:02at Chibden,
08:03and restore its drooping fortunes,
08:05and endeavour to make wealthy little Miss Walker
08:08my wife?
08:10She just wanted to thank Jاء for having my wife.
08:24I love you.
08:25I am a daddy in Chase,
08:28I am a nine-year-old.
08:30Join me,
08:30if you are a father,
08:30you may not be born.
08:32She's not the one half of me!
08:34And she is the
08:37versão she.'
08:38I am a coach of her not Hollister.
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