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Unconventional, unflinching, and undeniably engaging, this coming-of-age story is about a provincial young woman who follows her heart--and a beautiful male impersonator--to London. It's also a candid depiction of love in Victorian England. Starring: Rachael Stirling, Keeley Hawes, Anna Chancellor, Jodhi May.
Unconventional, unflinching, and undeniably engaging, this coming-of-age story is about a provincial young woman who follows her heart--and a beautiful male impersonator--to London. It's also a candid depiction of love in Victorian England. Starring: Rachael Stirling, Keeley Hawes, Anna Chancellor, Jodhi May.
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01:55Oh, Kitty.
02:00What have you done?
02:02Don't be horrible to me, Nan.
02:04I couldn't help it.
02:05Oh, he forced you, did he?
02:08So that's what all your business meetings were about?
02:10All this time when I thought you were mine?
02:14No, it wasn't like that.
02:17Until last night, it was just...
02:19just talk and kisses, I swear it, Nan.
02:23We were going to tell you everything.
02:26Everything.
02:28Good God, what war is there to tell?
02:31Kitty and I are going to be married, Nan.
02:33I'm sure in time you'll come to see it for the best.
02:35No!
02:40No!
02:44Don't you see, Nan?
02:45It wouldn't do to go on as we were.
02:47I believe you killed me.
02:49The pair of you...
02:50Oh, come now, compose yourself, Nan.
02:52I know this has come as a shock to you,
02:54but this carry-on is quite out of proportion.
02:57Out of proportion?
02:58Don't you know?
03:00Hasn't she told you about us?
03:02I know that you were sweethearts of a kind.
03:04Of a kind!
03:05The kind that hold hands!
03:08Didn't she tell you that we fuck each other?!
03:10I don't care to use such language, Nan.
03:13And if I did, I wouldn't use that word
03:14for anything a pair of girls can do.
03:18You need a man for that, I think you'll find.
03:21Hey, Kitty.
03:28Goodbye.
03:28You said we'd be together forever.
03:43You said you'd love me.
03:45You said you'd love me.
03:47You said we'd be together forever.
03:49You said we'd be together forever.
03:51You said you'd love me.
03:53Love me.
03:54Love me.
03:55Love me.
03:55Love me.
03:55Love me.
03:56Love me.
04:09Kitty and I are going to be married.
04:10I walked the streets all that day,
04:17not knowing where I was going.
04:19I wanted to see nothing,
04:21to feel nothing,
04:22to remember nothing.
04:24Everyone I knew and loved had betrayed me.
04:30You need a man for that, I think you're right.
04:33You need a man.
04:37You need a man.
04:37I think you're right.
04:40You said you'd love me.
04:46How could she let him touch her?
04:49I hated them and wanted to die.
04:53But I wouldn't let them do that to me.
05:00Morning, Nan.
05:02Oh, you don't look at a thing at all.
05:05Kitty's not in, is she?
05:07Or Mr Bliss?
05:08No, for you.
05:09A bit early for them.
05:10� dig?
05:11No, you well.
05:14No, you're right.
05:17Very nice.
05:17Sure, we will be with you.
05:19Come on.
05:20Bye.
05:21Bye.
05:33Come on.
05:34I've come about the room.
06:01The house I keep here is a tidy one, I like my lodger's ditto, I've had trouble with single ladies in the past, who you see or what you do outside my house is your concern, but there's one thing I won't have, and that's gentleman followers in a single ladies room.
06:16You'll have no trouble on that score from me, Mrs Best.
06:26Five shillings a week, in advance.
06:31Late payments will not be tolerated.
06:36I expect the room to be kept clean at all times.
06:40No cats, dogs...
06:42Now I was truly alone.
06:47A poor outcast from life's feast, tormented by my memories.
06:53It's nice and hot. You really should take some of this.
07:00It's nice and hot. You really should take some of this.
07:05It's nice and hot. You really should take some of this.
07:14It's nice and hot. You really should take some of this.
07:21You really should take some of this.
07:22You're
07:47Oh, my God.
08:17For nigh on two months, I never left that room.
08:24I barely washed and never changed my dress, for I had no other.
08:28I believe I would have faded away altogether if it weren't for the little maid Mary,
08:32who brought me morsels of food and urged me to eat them.
08:36Nice to not miss.
08:47Kitty and I are going to be married.
08:52Kitty and I are going to be married.
09:03You said you love me!
09:05It was done.
09:07It was over.
09:09I suppose I had been hoping that she would change her mind and come and find me.
09:13But now I knew for certain she was lost to me.
09:17It was time to face the world alone, though I had no idea how I should live in it.
09:24But I found that to walk alone in London isn't an easy thing for a woman to do.
09:28Hello, darling.
09:30Oi.
09:31Oi.
09:32What's the matter, love?
09:33I've lost six months and found a penny.
09:36You plucked the old line with me and I'll treat you.
09:38Leave me alone.
09:39Leave me alone.
09:40You're all right, dear.
09:42Don't be asking.
09:43I thought, what a cruel joke that I, who had swaggered across the stages of London, should
09:50be afraid to walk upon the streets.
09:53And most of all, I wished that I could escape from my miserable self.
09:57I thought, what a cruel joke that I could escape from my life.
10:27You're looking for a room.
10:36How long, dear?
10:37Just an hour.
10:40One hour only, mind.
10:41One hour only, mind.
10:43One hour only, mind.
10:45You're looking for a nice time?
10:48Hello, dear. You looking for a nice time?
11:07Not today, dear. Perhaps another time, eh?
11:11All right, dear. Well, don't forget now!
11:15And for the first time since that terrible day,
11:18I felt a sort of freedom and a sort of strength.
11:23Somehow I had taken the first steps that would lead me out of my misery
11:27and into some different way of living,
11:30though I had no idea what that would be.
11:37My little stock of money was dwindling fast
11:39and I was going to have to find some way of replenishing it or starve.
11:44Necessity is a hard task, Master,
11:46and if the opportunity had presented itself,
11:49I dare say I should have sunk so low as to become a thief.
11:51Good evening, Tommy Atkins.
11:56Buying a little present for your sweetheart?
11:58Couldn't afford anything here, sir.
12:00That's a shame she'll have to be content with a kiss, then, eh?
12:03Haven't got no sweetheart.
12:05Not anymore.
12:08No, sweetheart?
12:09A good-looking lad like you, I find that hard to believe.
12:13Are you up for it, Tommy? For a sovereign?
12:15Up for what, sir? I don't understand you.
12:17Oh, come on. You know the game, Tommy.
12:19You're all that, you soldier boys.
12:20Your hands are never off each other's cocks.
12:23Not me, sir.
12:25I only joined up last week. I've never done anything like that.
12:27Then it's time you began, my boy.
12:29Just take it in your hand.
12:30Only a minute's work.
12:32And there's a sovereign in it for you.
12:35Oh, have a heart, Tommy.
12:37I'm hard as a broom handle
12:38and aching for a spend.
12:41Nan Ashley could never have given the answer that I gave him.
12:44But Tommy Atkins took us both by surprise.
12:56Come on, then.
13:03Ooh.
13:07Slow and steady, Tommy, dear.
13:09I thought, if this were Walter, I'd bite it off.
13:30Oh, steady off.
13:31Ooh.
13:32Ooh.
13:33Ooh.
13:33Ooh.
13:33Ooh.
13:34Ooh.
13:34Ooh.
13:35Ooh.
13:35Ooh.
13:36Ooh.
13:36Ooh.
13:37Ooh.
13:37Ooh.
13:38I suppose I should have felt ashamed.
14:04But I felt nothing but surprise
14:06and a kind of fierce elation
14:08that in a couple of minutes
14:09I had earned enough to keep me for a couple of weeks.
14:14And so I began my new career as a streetwalker.
14:17And I found it not so very different from acting on the stage.
14:22I told myself it wasn't Nan Ashley
14:24who took men's spunk in my mouth
14:26or in my hand.
14:27But Tommy Atkins or Eton Bertie or Aval Seaman Sims
14:32or Bobby Brown from Bermondsey.
14:35But now I was in a regular way of business, I needed a more regular way of life.
14:55I had had enough of changing in filthy rooms that
15:05reeked of men's spendings.
15:08Perhaps this respectable lady would accommodate the needs of a rather unusual female.
15:13Good afternoon.
15:14Good afternoon.
15:15Good afternoon.
15:16Good afternoon.
15:18I've come about the room.
15:28Say good day to the Lady Grace.
15:46Good day, Grace.
15:47Oh dear.
15:48To tell the truth, we were hoping for someone a bit older.
15:54A widow perhaps.
15:56You see, my daughter's a rather unusual, trusting sort of girl.
16:03I wouldn't like to have young fellas coming in and out.
16:06There wouldn't be any young fellas, Mrs Milne.
16:09That I guarantee.
16:11And I'd never get behind with my rent.
16:13Well...
16:14You see, the thing is, I work as a kind of entertainer at parties and such like.
16:19And for that, I sometimes dress in gentlemen's suits.
16:22Now, if you and Grace don't mind that, I think I might do very well.
16:27Gentlemen's suits, you say?
16:29Well, Grace, what do you think of that?
16:32Would you like to see one, Grace?
16:42Oh, my eyes, Grace.
16:44What a beauty.
16:45Would you like to try it, Grace?
16:47Yes, please.
16:48Now, isn't that kind of a lady?
16:50She gave me the first floor front.
17:11Eight shillings a week.
17:13I think she'd have let me have it for nothing, for Grace's sake.
17:17Sometimes I thought she must have been as simple as her daughter,
17:20for she never asked where I went or what I did.
17:23Oh, Gracie.
17:24I'm off then, Mrs M.
17:26See you tomorrow, Gracie.
17:27You'll take as long as you like, dear.
17:29Give your own key.
17:30Mm-hmm.
17:31Bye, then.
17:38Some nights I didn't need to go out.
17:41I told myself that this was freedom.
17:44Perhaps that was the secret of happiness.
17:46To expect nothing.
17:48Or expect very little.
17:50What is it the soldiers say?
17:52If you're warm, dry and smoking, that's happiness.
18:00Evening, sweetheart.
18:01How are you?
18:03Come on, Florence.
18:04You ready?
18:06Florence!
18:08Florence.
18:10Who knows what it is that draws one person to another.
18:13But for the first time in months, I felt something of my old self stirring in me.
18:18I wanted to see more of Florence.
18:20And soon enough, I did.
18:23Hello again.
18:24I hope I didn't cry on you the other night.
18:27I'm sorry, I don't...
18:28Evening, sweetheart.
18:29How are you?
18:30Oh, that was you.
18:31Quite right.
18:32You live up there, do you?
18:33I do.
18:34And you live there?
18:35That's right.
18:36We were very lucky.
18:37Mother and I lost our other house.
18:38But Miss Darby found us this one.
18:39And now I work for her charity.
18:40Finding homes for others.
18:41Well, that's nice.
18:42I was just going to the park.
18:43Will you come with me?
18:44Oh, no.
18:45I've got so many calls.
18:46Oh, but I go along that way.
18:47So you're not in your trousers today, then?
18:48No.
18:49I like to change and change about.
18:50Boy, one day.
18:51Girl, the next.
18:52Does that shock you?
18:53No.
18:54I don't think so.
18:55I can see it must have advantages.
18:56I can see it must have advantages.
18:57Yes.
18:58I can see it must have advantages.
18:59Yes.
19:00I can see it must have advantages.
19:01Yes.
19:02Yes.
19:03Yes.
19:04Yes.
19:05Yes.
19:06Yes.
19:07Yes.
19:08Yes.
19:09Yes.
19:10Yes.
19:11Yes.
19:12Yes.
19:13Yes.
19:14I can see it must have advantages.
19:16I suppose you can go where you like.
19:18You can do as you like.
19:20Exactly so.
19:21Hit the nail on the head.
19:22Or Miss Darby would be most interested.
19:24She's writing a book about the woman question.
19:27Perhaps she'd like to put me in it, then.
19:29I certainly think she'd be interested in meeting you.
19:32I didn't give a tinker's fart for Miss Darby,
19:35or the woman question.
19:37But I knew I wanted to see more of Florence.
19:40I wonder, would you like to come to a lecture with me?
19:45At the Athenaeum Hall?
19:47It's on women and labour.
19:48A lecture?
19:49I say, that's just my style, I don't think.
19:52But I'll give it a go, if you like.
19:55Really?
19:56Said so, didn't I?
19:58When is it?
19:59Thursday.
20:00Six.
20:01We could meet for some tea beforehand, if you like.
20:04Done.
20:05You live with your mother, don't you?
20:09That's right.
20:10Before that, we lived just round the corner.
20:13You know, I've never been out of Islington.
20:16Very adventurous, eh?
20:17You don't have to travel far to have adventures.
20:23Any more?
20:24You're not from round here, are you?
20:25No.
20:26So where'd you come from?
20:27Kent.
20:28Whitstable.
20:29It's a seaside place.
20:31I used to work in an oyster bar.
20:36Did you go back there very often?
20:38See your ma and pa?
20:41They're dead.
20:42Oh.
20:43I'm sorry.
20:44No need to be.
20:46It was a long time ago.
20:50So what work do you do in London?
20:52In a shop.
20:53What sort of a shop?
20:55A hat shop.
20:57Well, I'd never have imagined that.
20:59Why not?
21:00I don't know.
21:01No, no.
21:02You just don't seem the sort.
21:04I bet they don't let you wear your trousers in there.
21:07No.
21:08No, of course not.
21:19So...
21:21What do you do there, exactly?
21:23You...
21:24You serve in the shop, or are you in the back making the hats up?
21:27I just can't seem to imagine you there somehow.
21:31I...
21:33Well...
21:35I couldn't keep it up.
21:36You know.
21:37She was so sweet and straight, I couldn't bear to lie to her.
21:42But I couldn't tell her the truth either.
21:46Is there a ladies lavatory here?
21:48Yeah, through there, I think.
21:49I won't be a ticket.
21:50I won't be a ticket.
21:51I won't be a ticket.
21:52What made me think I could be friends with a respectable girl?
22:02All that was over for me.
22:04What made me think I could be friends with a respectable girl?
22:16All that was over for me.
22:19If she could have seen me, known what I really did
22:22and what I really used those clothes for.
22:26I belonged in the gutter.
22:28Watch your nan, how's business?
22:37I can't do anything I want to do, dear.
22:45You going for it, Sonny?
22:47It's a sub for a dubbing, two for a suck, but I won't be buggered.
22:50I don't pay more than a sub for a soldier.
22:53Dubbing all nothing, then?
22:54Know a place?
22:56Follow me.
22:58Let's see what you're made of, soldier boy.
23:20No, I said no.
23:22Let me up, I'll cut you, I will.
23:25Keep still, or you'll get worse.
23:27All right, me boy.
23:35You're safe now.
23:37You come with me, you won't be hurt.
23:39Please, constable, let me go.
23:41It was my very first time, sir.
23:43He made me.
23:44Constable?
23:46I'm no constable.
23:49Somebody's taken a fancy to you.
23:51You've got nothing to fear.
23:54I won't be buggered.
23:57In you go.
24:03Good evening.
24:05I never thought...
24:06Well, now you see, you have nothing to fear.
24:09I'll see you safely home.
24:11Or my own house is quite nearby.
24:13Let me offer you a hot toddy to calm your nerves.
24:16You were in a little difficulty just now, I think.
24:18Yes.
24:19Thanks, ever so.
24:19That chap said he'd buy me a drink, and next thing I knew, he'd drag me off the street.
24:25I'd have had fright there, but I shall know better next time, miss.
24:28Shall you?
24:29So you were perfectly innocent, were you?
24:31No idea at all what a gentleman on the town might want with a young soldier boy.
24:36No, miss.
24:37Well, now, that's a surprise.
24:39I had the impression that you understood the game pretty well.
24:42I've been watching you for a while, young man.
24:44There's no need to be coy with me.
24:45I'm sorry, miss.
24:46You made a mistake.
24:47No, I don't think I have.
24:48Truly, you have, miss.
24:50I'm very grateful, but honest, I'm not what you're looking for.
24:52Oh, yes, I think you are.
24:54But I'm a girl.
24:55Do you think I didn't know that, you little fool?
24:57Though you wear the outfit far better than most of the lads do.
25:00And you have the legs for it, too.
25:02Oh, yes.
25:03And none of your gentlemen guessed.
25:07If they did, they didn't say.
25:08In any way, I was pretty strict about what they could and couldn't touch.
25:13And it all went off all right until tonight.
25:16Pretty strict, were you?
25:18I wonder, should I like you to be pretty strict with me?
25:23But there's no need to be afraid.
25:25This could be the luckiest night of your life.
25:28Come, come.
25:29Where's your sense of adventure?
25:38Take my arm.
25:54Don't think of making a run for it.
25:56Cawdor is quick as well as strong.
25:58That'll be all tonight, won't you, Blake?
26:14Yes, ma'am.
26:15Night, ma'am.
26:16Night, sir.
26:19Come, come.
26:20Night, sir.
26:50How warm it is in here.
26:54Not too warm for you, I hope.
26:57Perhaps a bit.
26:58What's your name?
27:00Nancy.
27:02King.
27:03And I think you might have offered me a glass of wine and a cig.
27:06I beg your pardon, Miss King.
27:09My name is Leatherby, Mrs. Diana Leatherby.
27:12Have you heard that name before?
27:14No.
27:16All the better.
27:20If you were the king of pleasure and I were the queen of pain,
27:29you're very handsome, Miss King.
27:34No.
27:34Oh, what have we here, I wonder?
27:44What have we here, I wonder?
27:44So, all your promise has come to nothing after all.
27:59Take those off.
28:02Give me the glass and the cigarette.
28:03Quickly!
28:04Quickly!
28:04You may leave the jacket on, and the boots, and the hat.
28:11Good.
28:32Now, go through there into the bedroom, and open the chest under the mirrors.
28:40Hunter!
28:40Hunter!
28:40Hunter!
28:49Come on.
28:50wied
28:52Where is that?
28:53Where is that?
28:55I believe in the house fates.
28:56I really feel so faded so I want you to take care of.
29:00That's too high!
29:01It's no testament of the рассinghouse, all your way.
29:03That's it, my mum.
29:04That's it, my mum.
29:05That's too high!
29:07That's pretty good.
29:38Put it on.
29:48Put it on and come to me.
30:05Come here.
30:08Come here.
30:38Come here.
31:08You exquisite little tod.
31:38Oh, you sleep like a child.
31:49I've been up this half hour making a fearful row and still you slumbered on.
31:56I've run for breakfast. I hope you're hungry.
31:58Yes. Yes, I am.
32:00Good. Ah, here she is.
32:02Morning, ma'am.
32:04Morning, miss.
32:05Very good, Blake. Draw a bath for Miss King.
32:07Oh, and tell Mrs. Hooper. I'll speak to her about luncheon.
32:09Yes, ma'am.
32:13There's a Persian story I read as a girl.
32:15A beggar sets a genie free from a bottle and is rewarded with a wish.
32:20He can live in ordinary comfort for 70 years.
32:24Or in pleasure.
32:25With a princess for a bride.
32:28And servants, servants, every desire satisfied for 500 days.
32:33Now, if you were that beggar, which would you choose?
32:36The pleasure.
32:38Good.
32:40So did the beggar.
32:43So, will you stay with me now?
32:47And be pleasured and pleasure me in your turn?
32:51Stay with you as what?
32:53Your guest, your friend, your servant?
32:55As my tard, you silly girl.
32:58No, no, no, no. Not in a hole and corner way.
33:00You'll ride out with me to the park, attend me at the theatre, wear the finest clothes.
33:05But you'll belong to me.
33:07And we'll pleasure each other. How does that seem?
33:10I don't know.
33:11I don't know enough about you to know whether I like you.
33:14And you don't know me.
33:15I know all I need to know about you.
33:18You're like me.
33:19You showed it last night and you're showing it now.
33:22You hunger for your own sex.
33:25You hunger for the pleasure I can give you, don't you?
33:29Yes.
33:31There are moments in our lives that change us.
33:34That night when Kitty cast her rose at me and sent my admiration tumbling over into love.
33:40And this was another.
33:43The start of a new life.
33:45Yes.
33:46I think it's an excellent character.
33:49I don't even know.
33:55How do you like yourself?
33:57Not bad.
33:58It's smarter than anything I wore down the dilly.
34:00It's your coming out suit.
34:02I had begun my new life.
34:05And what a life.
34:06And what a world.
34:08It was so easy to get sucked in.
34:10Look how they eye you.
34:12Men and women.
34:12Both.
34:13They'd all love to have you.
34:14But they shan't because you're mine.
34:15Bought and paid for.
34:18Diana.
34:18You old rue.
34:20You have done it at last.
34:23Ladies, allow me to present my companion.
34:26Miss King.
34:27This is Mrs. Jecks, Nan.
34:29Quite my oldest friend in London and quite the most is reputable.
34:32Everything she says and does is designed to corrupt.
34:35I'm afraid I've been corrupted already, Mrs. Jecks.
34:38Ha!
34:38Good.
34:39Good God.
34:40It talks.
34:42That is Dickie, Miss King.
34:44Touch of the green-eyed monster there.
34:48Charmed.
34:49Likewise.
34:50So tell me, Miss King, where does a little treasure like you come from?
34:56Like me?
34:57There's no one quite like me, Mrs. Jecks.
35:00But if you want to know, I was born by the seaside in Whitstable, where the oysters come from.
35:07Whitstable?
35:08Would you believe it?
35:11She's a Whitstable mermaid.
35:15Like a mermaid.
35:23Come along, child.
35:25But the Whitstable mermaid was no more.
35:29This was my life now.
35:31For the most part, she kept me close and displayed me at home.
35:36The boy, they called me.
35:38She contrived tableaus so that they could feast their eyes on me.
35:41She enjoyed that, that they could look but couldn't touch.
35:46They knew that she would be enjoying me later.
35:51Ladies,
35:52Tonight,
35:53we give you
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36:10She's a bit of a
36:10She's a bit of a
36:10She's a bit of a
36:11She's a bit of a
36:12She's a bit of a
36:13She's a bit of a
36:14She's a bit of a
36:14She's a bit of a
36:15She's a bit of a
36:15We were a perfect double act.
36:37I was the living proof of her perversity.
36:40I was the stain left by her lust.
36:42She had awakened something perverse in me too
36:46and I couldn't imagine a life beyond her shaping.
37:21Ow!
37:23Sorry, Miss.
37:24I used to put on and take off this stuff.
37:26Where's Mrs Leatherby?
37:28I've gotten out, Miss.
37:30She went out before you woke up.
37:31Well, she might have told me.
37:33Oh, she can please herself, can't she?
37:36Not like you and me.
37:38Do you like being a maid here, Blaine?
37:43It's a very good place, miss.
37:46But I'd rather be my own mistress.
37:48What would you do if you were your own mistress?
37:52I'd set up my own boarding house.
37:55In the colonies.
37:57I'm saving from my wages towards it now.
38:02A boarding house in the colonies?
38:04Yeah.
38:05For ladies.
38:06Well, maybe I'll come and stay in it someday.
38:11You'd be very welcome, miss.
38:36Where'd you go?
38:37I know you'd be very happy.
38:37Oh, my God.
38:38I know you'd be very happy.
38:39I know you'd be very happy.
38:39I know you'd be happy.
38:40I know you'd be there.
38:40I know you'll keep in mind.
38:41You know you.
38:41I know you're comfortable with me.
38:42What am I going to do?
38:42I know you'll be happy.
38:42I know you're very happy.
38:43Good.
38:44Good.
38:44Good.
38:45Good.
38:46Good.
39:01Good.
39:02To mark the passing of time.
39:11Do you know you've been with me longer than any of the others?
39:16Quite an achievement.
39:32Take our coats.
39:37Dickie, Clara, the boy will take our coats.
39:42Oh, what a little angel.
39:48There. Take care, will you?
39:51Ladies and gentlemen, will you please carry along to your seats?
39:55The curtain will rise in three minutes.
39:58Thank you, sir. Two gents and two ladies.
40:01Don't you know me, Bill? Nan King.
40:05Have you got a sec?
40:07Give us two ticks, Raymond.
40:09What happened to you then, Nan? What have you been doing?
40:12Oh, you was missed. And you still are.
40:15There was never an act like you and Kitty Butler's.
40:17Do you hear from Mr Bliss? Or Kitty?
40:21Oh, yes. They've got an act together now,
40:23playing just down the road at the Strand Palace.
40:26Oh, tonight? What time are they on?
40:29Second half? Just after the interval, I think.
40:31What's the boy doing? He's talking to the nigger at the close.
40:35I'd better go. And thanks, Bill.
40:39Can't take him anywhere.
40:41I think you should get a collar and chain, Diane.
40:44And a whip.
40:49Excuse me. Call her nature.
40:52I had to see her. I had to see Kitty again.
41:04Where's my little Willie now?
41:16He's my only comfort and my only joy.
41:20Now his mother's gone to heaven, all I've got's my little boy.
41:25Can anybody tell me where's my little Willie now?
41:31Oh.
41:33Oh.
41:35Oh.
41:36Oh.
41:38Father, I've been looking for you all over.
41:52Oh, Willie. Come to your dad and give us a kiss.
41:57Oh, Willie.
41:58Now, don't you ever run away again, me boy.
42:00Can anybody tell me where's my little Willie now?
42:05Come, anybody, tell me where's my little witty now?
42:35I've been taking the gents. Sorry.
42:46I don't know where you've been tonight. Corda followed you.
42:48But what I want to know is mine!
42:50There was an act I wanted to see!
42:52A girl I used to know.
42:54Oh, damn you!
42:55A girl I want to love more than anyone!
42:57More than myself!
42:58More than you, not me!
43:00What's more than I love you? I don't love you at all!
43:02I hate you!
43:05...
43:32Oh, Giddy.
43:40Giddy.
44:02I do love you.
44:13That was so great.
44:16You feeling better, miss?
44:23You looked ever so poorly last night.
44:26Oh, yes.
44:27I shall live.
44:29Come sit down, Blake.
44:30Talk to me.
44:33What about, miss?
44:36Well, what's your first name?
44:40It's Xena, miss.
44:42Mrs Legleby says she got you out of her reformatory.
44:45What were you there for?
44:47I was sent there on account of a girl I was friends with
44:50at a house in Kentish Town.
44:52We were maids there together.
44:54So you were a maid before you came here?
44:56I went out as a skivvy when I was ten.
44:59When I got the place at Kentish Town, I was fourteen.
45:02I was a housemaid then.
45:04And I got very thick with another maid there called Agnes.
45:09Agnes had a chap.
45:12She threw the chap over, miss, for my sake.
45:16That's how thick we was.
45:19And it was Agnes got you sent to the reformatory?
45:22No, miss.
45:23It was another girl.
45:25She was jealous of me and Agnes.
45:27It was her that told the missus.
45:29And Mrs Leatherby, does she know why you were in the reformatory?
45:32Oh, yeah.
45:33She knows all right.
45:34She's a great friend of the lady governor.
45:41Has Mrs Leatherby ever tried?
45:42Not that she came, miss.
45:44It was only once or twice in any case.
45:47I think she just wanted to make it clear, like, that she could do what she wanted with me.
45:52Oh, yes.
45:53I can believe that all right.
45:56Will there be anything else, miss?
45:59No.
46:00Not just now.
46:02Very good, miss.
46:03What had become of me?
46:04What had I become?
46:05She spoke of love, and it touched me.
46:08But I felt too spoiled and stained for love.
46:11Besides, I was still obsessed with my love.
46:15And I felt too spoiled and stained for love.
46:20Besides, I was still obsessed with my love.
46:25I was still obsessed with Diana, for all her casual cruelty.
46:29I must have been.
46:30For it would have been easy enough, you would think, just to walk out of the house one day
46:34when she was out.
46:35Walk out forever and leave no word of farewell.
46:38Thank you, Coy.
46:40I hated myself.
46:43But still, after nearly two years, I was on fire for her, as she was for me.
46:49I had started, and I had to take that journey with her right the way to the end.
46:54Though I feared it would be a bad end.
47:02Well?
47:03Did you miss me?
47:05How much do you care if I miss you or not?
47:08No, no, little soldier.
47:09No sulks.
47:10No sulks.
47:19Of course I care.
47:22Don't you know you're the love of my life?
47:24And then, in March, came Diana's 40th birthday.
47:32She decided to celebrate it with a fancy dress party.
47:36I chose to go as Antinous, Hadrian's favourite page, who drowned in the Nile.
47:41His sad fate suited my mood.
47:45I hated my life.
47:48But I couldn't leave it.
47:56What do you think?
47:57I think you look lovely, miss.
48:13I hated it all.
48:15But I still had my pride.
48:16I would still be the most beautiful thing in the place.
48:20Desired by all.
48:22Inaccessible to any but my mistress.
48:24Sh, sh, sh, sh, sh.
48:26Ladies, ladies.
48:28I give you...
48:30Antinous.
48:31What?
48:32What?
48:34What?
48:36What?
48:38What?
48:40What?
48:41Well no dildo!
48:42Where's Monsieur Dildo?
48:45He might come later.
48:47But remember, this is a very sweet and virtuous Roman boy.
48:51You look like a picture from a bugger's compendium, my dear.
49:08Thank you kindly, I'm sure.
49:10And what might you be wearing under that, young man?
49:15Just a little eau de cologne, no?
49:19You mustn't touch or look.
49:21Just use your imagination.
49:23Don't get much chance to use anything else these days.
49:28God, look at Dickie. What is she supposed to be?
49:31Dorian Gray, I believe.
49:51I swear to you, it was as big as a boy's doogle and as stiff as my thumb.
50:04She blames it on her Hindu nurse.
50:07I've seen that amongst the Turks as well.
50:10They're bred like it in order to pleasure themselves and the seragio.
50:16You need to go as far as that to find it.
50:18English girls in the slums all have them.
50:21They're brought up twenty to a bed frigging all night.
50:24No wonder their little clitoris is good.
50:26No wonder their little clitoris is good.
50:27I was sick of it.
50:40Oh, no.
50:41The backbiting.
50:42The bitching.
50:43Someone's been telling you.
50:44Something inside me was getting ready to explode.
50:47If we had a girl from her slums here, I'd pull down her door myself and show you the proof.
50:52What does Antinua say?
50:54You used to be a little slum slut, didn't you, once upon a time?
50:59Of course, Blake, come here.
51:01Come here.
51:03You're a reformatory girl, aren't you?
51:06Aren't you?
51:07Yes, ma'am.
51:08Good.
51:09Lower your drawers and lift up your skirt.
51:13Oh, good God, girl.
51:14Don't have to come and do it for you.
51:15Leave her alone.
51:16What?
51:17Let her alone.
51:19Go back to the kitchens, Blake.
51:20Stay where you are.
51:21Stay where you are.
51:22And as for you, do you think your mistress here?
51:26What's it to you if I ask my girl to show me what she's got between her legs?
51:30You've done the same thing yourself often enough.
51:33Get back behind the curtain.
51:36And when we finish with Blake, perhaps we'll all take turns upon Antinua.
51:42You shouldn't talk to me like that.
51:44You don't own me.
51:45Oh, Lord, what a bull.
51:49What a bull.
51:50Nothing to you, you old cow.
51:54Got up like a boy of 17.
51:56Dorian Gray.
51:57Look at the glass.
51:58You're more like the portrait in the attic.
52:00And that goes for the rest of you, you tired old trotters.
52:04Why don't you all just fuck off home?
52:06This girl's worth dead of any one of you.
52:08You're a little overexcited, Nancy.
52:10You'll go to your room now.
52:14And when you've had time to think, you will come down and apologize.
52:18Then we'll devise a little punishment for you.
52:21Something suitably Roman, maybe.
52:24What are you going to do then?
52:27Throw me to the lions?
52:29I know one thing.
52:31I'd make a tastier meal than you, you worn out pathetic old trollop.
52:37Oh, come on!
52:38Oh, come on!
52:39I'm so scared to take me!
52:40I'm so scared to take me!
52:41I'm so scared to take me!
52:43Come on!
52:44Oh, come on!
52:45Oh!
52:46Oh!
52:47I've seen them.
53:10What a night.
53:12I've got a cloth with a bit of ice in it.
53:17If you just let me in here.
53:21I'm sorry.
53:23Shh.
53:26What is it?
53:28Can I stay here with you, miss?
53:31I'm frightened to go back to my own room with those ladies roaming all over the house.
53:36Yes, you can stay.
53:39What's in the bottle?
53:41Brandy.
53:43Miss, I've thought for the shock.
53:47Give me here.
53:48You're here.
53:49Does it show you?
53:50You're here.
53:50Yes, you're here.
53:50Yes, you're here.
53:52Give me here.
53:54Yes.
53:55Yes.
53:56Yes.
53:58Yes.
54:01Yes.
54:03Yes.
54:05It's not.
54:07Yes.
54:10Yes.
54:11Oh!
54:12Yes.
54:12Yes.
54:12Yes.
54:13Yes.
54:13Yes.
54:13Yes.
54:14That's right.
54:15Yes.
54:16Oh, my God.
54:46Oh, my God.
55:16Oh, my God.
55:46Oh, my God.
56:16You don't mean...
56:46Oh, my God.
57:16Oh, my God.
57:18Oh, my God.
57:20Oh, my God.
57:22Oh, my God.
57:24Oh, my God.
57:28Oh, my God.
57:30Oh, my God.
57:34Oh, my God.
57:36But whatever you say, it's only human nature.
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