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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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01:04How dare you?
01:05You made it pretty clear you didn't want us, so we had to make our own entertainment.
01:09Well, then, since you're so pleased with each other's company, you may leave my house this moment.
01:14Oh, please, my lady, don't dismiss me.
01:16I've never done anything like that before, and I never will again.
01:19Not in my house you won't, because you won't spend one more moment in it.
01:22What you do outside of it is no concern of mine.
01:25You can do it in the street like dogs, for all I care.
01:27Corder? Where's Corder?
01:29Diana, wait!
01:30How dare you speak to me, you little whore?
01:32Have you forgotten who I am and what you are?
01:33The love of your life.
01:35You said I was the love of your life.
01:36You say, hearts and flowers.
01:40Listen to the little liar.
01:42Corder!
01:43Oh, Zena, what an end to it all.
01:55What are we to do?
01:56Oh, you'll be all right, I suppose.
01:58Go back to your family.
01:59You spin and some tell about where you've been.
02:01No, I won't go back there.
02:02I couldn't.
02:03I couldn't let them see me like this.
02:05We're in the same boat, then, aren't we, Miss?
02:07Don't you have any cash back at all?
02:09What's in the bag?
02:10Clothes.
02:11The boys' clothes I brought with me when I first came.
02:13Well, then.
02:15What, you mean we should put them on and pass as gents?
02:17No, I mean we should sell them.
02:18Sell them?
02:19Well, it's that I'll sell ourselves, I reckon.
02:21Don't want to spend a night in the open, do you?
02:24Come on, Miss.
02:33It's all right, Miss.
02:34Men and women are separate.
02:35So, from luxury and a four-poster bed, I had come to this.
02:48But I had seen her and a little money now.
02:52Come on, hurry up.
02:58Lie close, Miss.
03:00To the wolves.
03:01You mustn't call me Miss anymore.
03:04You must call me Nan.
03:06We're equal now, aren't we?
03:08If only Diana hadn't come in when she did.
03:11It was fun, though, wasn't it?
03:13Until she came and spoiled it.
03:14It's always fun before they catch her.
03:18It won't be so bad, will it?
03:20We've got each other now.
03:22We might make a go of it.
03:24Don't you think?
03:25Yes, I had lost my place of privilege.
03:33But I had found something better, I told myself.
03:36I had found a good pal in Xena Blake.
03:47Morning.
03:48You're a good sleeper.
03:54Where's my friend?
03:55Where's my friend?
03:57Where's my friend?
03:58Where's my friend?
04:00She went hours ago, dearie, before it was light.
04:02I saw her.
04:03I saw her go.
04:05And you never stirred a whisker.
04:08Zena had gone and taken our meagre funds with her.
04:20Spare some change, sir?
04:24Spare a penny for a cup of tea, sir.
04:26For the first time for over a year, I found myself longing for home.
04:48I thought of the warmth of the oyster parlour, mother's cooking, father's jokes.
04:55But I didn't have so much as a Tupney bus fare.
04:58And how could I let them see me like this?
05:01But I had to find somewhere.
05:04Or starve on the streets.
05:06And during that long night, it came to me.
05:10There was a place where I'd been made to feel at home.
05:14Mrs. Milne!
05:25Mrs. Milne!
05:27Gracie!
05:29Gracie!
05:32Mrs. Milne!
05:34They used to live here.
05:43Where have they gone?
05:44Couldn't say.
05:45The lady before me took her back in November.
05:48And her sister come and took her back to live with her.
05:51But where?
05:53Bristol, Bath, Dunham.
05:56Dear girl, you have been in the wars, haven't you?
06:01I have.
06:02And that's not all.
06:04I've got nowhere to live and nothing to eat and not a penny to buy bread.
06:07Well, we've got nothing to spare, so it's no use hanging around here begging.
06:10You'll get nothing by it.
06:12Wait.
06:13Mister.
06:14There was a girl who lived over there with her mother.
06:16Name her Florence.
06:17Oh, she's been gone this past year.
06:20Moved to Quilter Street and Bethnal Green, I think.
06:23Bethnal Green?
06:24But that's miles from here.
06:25Best I can do.
06:32Ah!
06:32Oh, she's been gone.
06:37Oh, she's been gone.
06:38Oh, she's been gone.
06:39Oh, she's been gone.
06:39Oh, she's been gone.
06:39Oh, she's been gone.
06:40Oh, she's been gone.
06:41Oh, she's been gone.
06:41Oh, she's been gone.
06:41Oh, she's been gone.
06:42Oh, she's been gone.
06:43Oh, she's been gone.
06:43Oh, she's been gone.
06:44Oh, she's been gone.
06:44Oh, she's been gone.
06:45Oh, she's been gone.
06:45Oh, she's been gone.
06:46Oh, she's been gone.
06:47Oh, she's been gone.
06:48Oh, she's been gone.
06:49Oh, she's been gone.
06:50Oh, she's been gone.
06:51Oh, she's been gone.
06:52Oh, she's been gone.
06:53Can you make a case, lady?
07:18Yeah, lady!
07:19Please!
07:21Miss!
07:26Quilter's tree.
07:28Quilter's tree.
07:30Excuse me.
07:32Is this Quilter's tree?
07:34Florence, where did she leave me?
07:37Just up there.
07:40One hundred nine.
07:51One hundred eleven.
08:02One hundred thirteen.
08:07One hundred fifteen.
08:10One hundred and ten.
08:14One hundred and ten.
08:24What are you doing here?
08:26No!
08:28Ah!
08:29She's been in the wars, all right, poor girl.
08:51Look at that cheek.
08:55Someone's cropped her hair.
08:56Prison, do you reckon?
08:59They cropped the poor girls very short there, don't they?
09:01Or one of your reformatory girls.
09:04She's pretty near half dead, whoever she is.
09:07Go look out, she's waking up.
09:10Hello there, miss.
09:11Here we go.
09:13You feeling a bit better?
09:16There's no need to fear, you know.
09:17You're among friends here.
09:20Here.
09:21Here, let's help you out.
09:22Give us a hand to your flow.
09:24Here we are.
09:24I'll make you a nice cup of something, Oct.
09:27Would you like that?
09:28Yes, please.
09:31It's very kind.
09:33You're both very kind.
09:36Would it make you very ill to tell me why you've come here?
09:39I met you once.
09:41A long time ago.
09:42Don't you remember?
09:43Yes.
09:44I remember.
09:45You left me sitting in that cafe.
09:47You made me feel a fool.
09:49I'm sorry.
09:51It was...
09:54I can't explain.
09:56Please don't send me away.
09:57Why should you go to such a lot of trouble to find me now?
10:00I couldn't think of anyone else I could go to.
10:04And I just always remembered you.
10:07I thought you'd remember me.
10:10I made a mistake.
10:11Didn't expect to find you like this.
10:13You've changed, I think.
10:17With a baby and everything.
10:19Here we are, then.
10:21Oh, she looks better already, doesn't she, Florence?
10:24Ralph.
10:25This lady's a friend of Miss Darby's.
10:28That lady I used to work for.
10:30Oh.
10:30I'm afraid I've forgotten your name.
10:32It's Nancy Astley.
10:36Miss Nancy Astley.
10:37Pleased to meet you, Miss Nancy Astley.
10:40You're very welcome.
10:46That cheek still looks very sore.
10:48I suspect you're wondering how I came by it.
10:50It was a man with a ladder on the street.
10:56No, I can't tell a lie.
10:59Truth is, I've been living with someone
11:01and they've thrown me out and kept all my things
11:02and I had such handsome things.
11:05A gentleman, I suppose.
11:06I suppose.
11:09Yes.
11:12You must think me very wicked.
11:14But he...
11:15He said I was the love of his life.
11:19He was as rich as anything.
11:21He could do what he liked.
11:23He did what he liked with me.
11:25He used to like to make me dress up as a boy
11:27in a soldier's suit.
11:29They're the worst of the lot when they go bad, the rich ones.
11:31They think their money gives them the right
11:32to treat people like toys.
11:34I'm a socialist, Miss Astley,
11:35and we're working to try and put a stop to all that sort of thing.
11:38You ain't in trouble, are you?
11:40No.
11:42I was.
11:44But the gent fixed that when he...
11:46when he beat me.
11:48Oh, well, Miss Astley,
11:53if you truly have nowhere,
11:55it won't hurt for you to stay the night with us.
11:57Just one night.
11:59And tomorrow, I'll help you find a proper lodging.
12:01But I've no money to pay.
12:05Well, then I'll help you find work as well.
12:07I had thought and hoped Florence was a Tom like me.
12:19But here she was,
12:21married,
12:22with a child,
12:23and so stern and serious and thoughtful.
12:27He was kinder to me than she was.
12:29And there was nothing more in it than kindness.
12:45I was sure of that.
12:47Gentle as Jesus he was.
12:50And her...
12:50working, working for her friendless girls, no doubt.
12:55and never looking at the friendless girl
12:58who lay in her armchair,
12:59almost too weak to move.
13:23Well...
13:23I'll turn in.
13:31Good night, Miss Astley.
13:35Hope to see you feeling better in the morning.
13:39Good night.
13:41And thanks for all your kindness.
13:45You do understand, don't you,
13:46that it's just for one night?
13:48I won't do to have you stay any longer.
13:51If the girls at the hostel heard about it,
13:52they'd all be clamouring.
13:53If she can stay with the family,
13:55then why shouldn't we?
13:57Yes.
13:58I can see that.
14:00I suppose.
14:01Have you got everything you need?
14:04Trevi's out back, as you know.
14:06Ralph will be up and out of the house by six.
14:08I'll get up a bit later.
14:10But you'll have to leave the house when I do at eight.
14:12You do understand that?
14:13Yes.
14:16You've been so kind to me
14:17when really you hardly know me at all.
14:20And your husband.
14:24Good night, then.
14:24Good night.
14:25Have a nice day.
14:49Bye.
14:50Woo!
14:50Woo!
14:50Woo!
14:52Woo!
14:52Oh, Miss Astley, are you not up yet?
15:09You must get up now. I have to get to work.
15:12Oh, dear, I don't feel so well this morning.
15:15Well, I'm sorry, but you can't stay here.
15:18I must go to work, and I must go now.
15:20If you keep me waiting any longer, I should be late.
15:22Oh, please let me stay just a little while,
15:24till my head clears, and I'll get little strength back.
15:27You don't need to wait. I'll let myself out later.
15:29I'll be gone by the time you get home.
15:32You could trust me. I wouldn't take anything.
15:38All right, you may do as you said and let yourself out.
15:41There's precious little to steal here anyway.
15:43Now, I've made you a list of places you might find a bed in,
15:46and some places where you might find work.
15:48Like, oh, and Ralph left you this half-crown.
15:54He says goodbye.
15:57And good luck.
16:00He's so good.
16:03Now, I'm trusting you.
16:06Don't let me down.
16:07Hello.
16:20Hello.
16:21Who are you?
16:22Just a friend of the family.
16:24I was down on my luck, and they let me stay the night.
16:27Yeah, that's them.
16:28Always doing things for other people.
16:31Miss Banner and her brother.
16:32They've got no time to look after themselves.
16:34He's her brother, but I thought they were man and wife.
16:38So, little Sue.
16:42No, nothing like that.
16:45He belonged to another girl, their previous lodger.
16:49Whoa.
16:52I see.
16:53Then, I knew what I should do.
16:58I would make myself indispensable.
17:01I would make myself the angel of the house.
17:04This will be my new home.
17:25It will.
17:26It will.
17:30It will.
17:33It will.
17:34It will.
17:34Oh, boy!
18:04Let's go.
18:34Whoops.
18:55Who are you?
18:58I'm Nan.
19:00Astley.
19:01I'm just visiting here for a while.
19:03You've been making your presents felt. I've never seen it so tidy.
19:07Thought I'd come in the wrong house.
19:10Yeah, well, I come to drop these leaflets off, all right? Tell Flory.
19:14I'm Annie. Annie Price.
19:17Bet you can't guess what I do for a living.
19:19Chimney sweep?
19:20Hey, you're not far off, but I don't crawl up chimneys. I crawl down drains.
19:24Yeah.
19:25I'm a sanitary inspector. It's the stinkiest job in London, and I love it.
19:30Mmm, lovely smell. What is it?
19:32Oh, beef and oysters. I'd better see to it, if you'd excuse me.
19:36Do you need any help?
19:38Oh, no. I'm all right. Thank you.
19:42Oh, hello. Yeah, I brought them, like I said.
19:45Yeah, well, I've got to run now, or I'll be late.
19:47It smells something very nice, I think.
19:50Cordon Mayne.
19:52And...
19:52You wait and see. I'm never wrong.
19:58Bye, Miss Astley.
19:59I wanted to do something for you, so I cleaned the house and made supper for you and your brother.
20:11Who told you that?
20:12The lady next door.
20:14I like my house the way it was.
20:17Please don't be like that.
20:19Oh, Florence.
20:22Please let me stay.
20:23It's not possible.
20:24Yes, it is.
20:25I could cook and clean for you like I did today.
20:27I could sleep downstairs like I did last night.
20:29I could do your washing and look after your baby boy while you were at work.
20:32My word, I never saw such a shiny doorstep.
20:35I was almost frightened to tread on it.
20:37Hello, Miss Astley. Are you still here?
20:38If we're you to thank for all this.
20:50What are you talking about?
20:51It's just been to Osh.
20:52Let me have it.
20:53No, it won't do.
20:54Just for a moment.
20:55Look, please.
20:56Come on.
20:58Come on.
20:58Come on.
20:59Come on.
20:59All right, you may stay for a week.
21:11And if the week works out, we shall try it for a month.
21:15But if it doesn't work, you must go.
21:22And so I became a sort of housekeeper to them.
21:32It was a kind of work I'd never done much of before.
21:35Hard enough and dull, too, you'd think.
21:39But it seemed like play to me.
21:41Yeah!
21:45Yeah!
21:45Yeah!
22:15Next time, my child is a little boy.
22:17Oh, dear.
22:18Oh, dear.
22:20Oh, dear.
22:20Oh, dear.
22:42Bye.
22:43ORGAN PLAYS
23:13And as the time went by, I got more confident.
23:23Why not, I thought.
23:25After all, women's clothes weren't suited to hard physical work.
23:29It was only practical.
23:35And I started to express myself in other ways too.
23:38ORGAN PLAYS
23:43Oh, my pal Cyril, he's a regular peril
23:46When he gives the girls the eye
23:49Oh, my pal Cyril, he drinks like a devil
23:53He could drink the dairy dry
23:55And when he goes up on the town
23:59A-wiggling his walking stick up and down
24:03And then he goes off on a spree
24:06Oh, that's delicious.
24:11Beautiful, Nan. Beautiful.
24:13I think if there was only one dish that had to be served in paradise,
24:16it would be oysters.
24:18No, beef and oyster pie for me.
24:20But oysters, definitely.
24:21And it would be a socialist paradise, of course.
24:23Equal shares for all.
24:25And who would be there with you to share it?
24:27What, in paradise?
24:29Well, Flo, of course.
24:31And Cyril.
24:32And you.
24:33And Eleanor Marks, I think.
24:35And Keir Harding.
24:36And Mrs Sykes from next door.
24:39Oh, that's you all over.
24:41You'd let them all come.
24:42You would.
24:43Well.
24:45And who would be in yours, Nancy?
24:47Well, you and Ralph would have to be there
24:49making yourselves busy and telling everyone how to run it.
24:53And Cyril, of course.
24:55Can't leave my big boy out.
24:57And, of course, you would have to be in mine.
25:01Well, who else would make me oyster pie?
25:06Well, I've had better compliments paid me,
25:10but not recently.
25:13Thank you kindly, Miss Banner.
25:27Well, up the wooden hill for me.
25:31Night, boss.
25:31Night.
25:36What a lovely day it's been.
25:39Do you know, I don't think we've had a picnic in years.
25:42You do too much for others.
25:43You have to think of yourself now and then.
25:45Don't go up yet.
25:48Come sit down by me.
25:50All right, then.
25:51I wanted to say sorry for running away from you before.
26:05I was hurt at the time, then.
26:08The thing is, you kept wanting to know what I did and I couldn't tell you.
26:13Somehow I couldn't tell you a lie either,
26:15so I thought I just couldn't be with you at all.
26:17Lie to me?
26:18About what?
26:24I let you think it was a gentleman I lived with,
26:26but it was a lady.
26:28She picked me up off the street and carried me off in her carriage.
26:31And what was I doing on the street?
26:33I was selling myself to men, dressed as a boy.
26:38When you say you lived with this lady,
26:42do you mean as...
26:43As a lover?
26:44As a slave, more like.
26:46She dressed me up in fine clothes,
26:48but really I was just a kept all.
26:51Oh, man.
26:53Have you never been truly happy?
26:55Oh, yes.
26:57When I was in love,
26:58that was a girl called Kitty.
27:01She was my first love and...
27:03and she broke my heart.
27:05And I've been happy since I've been living here with you.
27:07As happy as I could be,
27:08except I never felt able to tell you the truth about myself.
27:11But now I have,
27:12and I suppose you're going to say I have to go.
27:17No.
27:19I'd like to tell you something, then.
27:22That night, after you...
27:24after we parted,
27:26I went to that lecture
27:27and I met a girl there.
27:30Her name was Lillian.
27:31Well, she was so very interesting-looking,
27:34I knew I just had to know her.
27:35So after the lecture,
27:37I went up to her
27:37and we began to talk.
27:40We just went on from there.
27:43It was as if she understood all my thoughts.
27:45I'd never felt like that about anybody.
27:50Oh.
27:51You loved her.
27:52Yes.
27:54And she loved me too.
27:56Only not in the same way.
27:58The fact is,
27:59she had a man friend
28:00who wanted to marry her.
28:02Only she wouldn't do it.
28:03She wouldn't be a man's property, she said.
28:05Though she loved him.
28:07And then when she fell pregnant,
28:09the man wouldn't stand by her.
28:11So she came here to live with us.
28:13And those were the happiest months
28:15of all my life.
28:18And then?
28:20And then she died.
28:23She died having Cyril.
28:26She was too slight.
28:27The confinement was a hard one.
28:30And she died then.
28:33I'm so sorry about your friend, Flo.
28:37Well, it's been very hard since then.
28:40Sometimes
28:41I've wished I might die myself.
28:46She'd only been gone six months when you came.
28:50I couldn't bear the thought
28:51of having another girl in the house.
28:55She's the only one I could ever love, you see.
28:57I'm just about good enough to do the cooking
29:08and the cleaning,
29:09but no hope of anything more, right?
29:11No, no, I didn't mean that.
29:12Yes, you did.
29:15I'm not good enough for you, am I?
29:18And no one ever will be
29:19after her.
29:20I'm going to bed.
29:34Good night.
29:35What are you doing?
29:54Well, I can't stay here anymore, can I?
29:59After last night.
30:01You've been very kind to me.
30:04No, wait.
30:05I've been awake half the night
30:07thinking about things.
30:10I'm sorry too, Nan.
30:12I haven't treated you very gentle
30:14since you've been here, have I?
30:16It wasn't right to take it out on you
30:18because I was unhappy.
30:20I've liked it,
30:22having you here all these months.
30:26I'm glad you stayed.
30:27I was wondering
30:30perhaps we could go out
30:32somewhere together.
30:34Just the two of us tonight.
30:37All right.
30:43I thought you said
30:44it was all girls, aren't you?
30:46It is.
30:47You want to look a bit more carefully.
30:53Oh.
30:54Did you used to come here
30:57as a boy?
30:58What's he going to want?
30:58No, Nan.
30:59So he slapped down his sovereign
31:01and Susie and me
31:02flap up for half an hour
31:04and then tipped the velvet
31:05while the Jen looked on.
31:06It's the easiest
31:07nice work we've ever had.
31:08We could have done it for nothing.
31:09If only he'd known it.
31:11Tipping the velvet?
31:13Whatever can that be?
31:16You don't know.
31:17It sounds like something
31:18to do with dressmaking
31:19or millinery.
31:21I don't think it can be.
31:23Nobody would pay
31:23to watch that.
31:25It isn't.
31:27Well, what then?
31:31Oh, so I understand.
31:34So you've managed
31:35to get her out of the house.
31:36Good for you, Nan Ashley.
31:38I kept telling Flory
31:39this is the place for me.
31:40Oh, Flo.
31:41I'm in such a state.
31:43She's coming here tonight.
31:45I met this girl
31:47the other day
31:47in the office
31:48at the sewage works.
31:49Sitting in a ray of sunshine.
31:51I said,
31:52Are you Sue Bridehead?
31:54My name's Jude.
31:56She gave me a little smile
31:57and she took my hand
31:58and I knew
31:58that I was in love again.
32:00Oh, you.
32:01Oh, well,
32:02it's about time
32:03you was in love again, too.
32:05Perhaps you can
32:05shower the way, Uncle.
32:06Here she comes.
32:12Yeah, well,
32:12I won't bring her over
32:13if you don't mind.
32:14I want her all to meself.
32:24Excuse me, sweetheart,
32:26but didn't you
32:27used to be Nan King
32:29that worked the halls
32:29with Kitty Butler?
32:31Yes.
32:32I was Nan King.
32:33Who wants to know it?
32:36There you are.
32:36What did I tell you?
32:37It is her.
32:38Oh, come and give us
32:39a song, Nan.
32:40No, no,
32:41I'm finished with all that.
32:42Ah, you was the best,
32:44you and her.
32:45Half the girls in London
32:46was in love with you.
32:47Me and Jenny
32:48have got your picture
32:49by our bed.
32:51Oh, come on.
32:51Just one song, eh?
32:53Just to remind us.
32:56Well, go on.
32:57I'd love to hear you.
32:59Oh, all right, then.
33:00Oh, I can go out
33:03on the town
33:03to all the grand hotels
33:06Going at large
33:07till midnight
33:08with all the London swells
33:10But it ain't
33:11any good at all
33:14I can't help
33:17remembering
33:18The girl is young
33:24Oh, Rosie, do you remember
33:32The promises we made
33:36Only last September
33:39Why did I have to go away?
33:44We said goodbye
33:46With a tear and a sigh
33:48And whispered all the pretty things
33:54That sweethearts say
33:55You promised me
33:58There's everything in my heart
34:18For you
34:21Miss King
34:34Delightful to hear you again
34:36And in such good voice
34:38I shan't detain you
34:39But if you're ever interested
34:40in a return to the boards
34:42I can guarantee you
34:43excellent billing
34:44in any of my theatres
34:45My card
34:47Good evening to you, Miss King
34:50Mum?
34:52Who was that?
34:53Mr. Charles Frobisher
34:54He only owned six theatres
34:56in the West End
34:57So you really did?
34:59I did
34:59And maybe I will again
35:01Good night, eh?
35:03And why don't you take care of her?
35:06Anyway, there we go
35:07Good night, Uncle
35:08Here come the Toms
35:11Look at them
35:12You dirty cows
35:14How'd you like to see
35:15what a proper man can do?
35:18Come on
35:18Who's first?
35:20Ignore him
35:20Just keep going
35:21Come on, girls
35:23We'll show you a thing or two
35:25You?
35:27You can hardly get across the road
35:29let alone get a cock stand
35:30Show us a thing or two
35:32I don't think so
35:33Now get off home to your wife
35:35before I put you over my knee
35:36and spank you
35:37Come on, Flo
35:39Oh, Lord, they're coming
35:43Oh, Lord, they're coming
35:46from pl술
35:48That's all right
35:48Oh, man
35:48You said he's slack
36:02You could be arm
36:03Oh, Lord, they're coming
36:04to the side
36:05Come on, Flo
36:06Oh, look, then.
36:11It's all frozen, huh?
36:36Oh, look, then.
36:55Ralph must have gone up.
36:58We'd better be quiet.
37:06Oh, what did I...
37:08Wasn't it, Jess?
37:17Please be hard.
37:36Because I love it,
38:05Morning.
38:20Morning.
38:22Morning.
38:23Nate.
38:24Oh.
38:25What happened last night?
38:27Oh, don't say you wish it hadn't happened.
38:29I couldn't bear that.
38:30I was determined it shouldn't happen.
38:33I thought I could never care about another girl after Lillian.
38:38But when it came to it, I think you put a spell on me with that song you sang.
38:43That was the idea.
38:45And you were really on the halls?
38:48Do you really mean to go back?
38:50Well, if Charlie Frobisher thinks I can still do it, I think I might give it a go.
38:56Would you mind?
39:01I think I'd be rather proud to be a friend of Nan King's.
39:05And very happy to be the lover of Nan Astley.
39:10Flo?
39:11Flo?
39:12Oh, God.
39:13Oh, no, stop it.
39:14Don't disturb you, Nan.
39:15You don't know where Flo might have...
39:17Oh, there you are.
39:20I was wondering if you could have Cyril for a few minutes.
39:24Just...
39:25While I get...
39:26Get shaved.
39:27Here we are.
39:30Well...
39:32I'll just...
39:38Get shaved.
39:39Oh, Flo.
39:40Your brother's just about the best kind of man, I think.
39:54Okay, now, when we go round the stairs, I'll lift and you drop a bit, alright?
39:58Alright.
39:59Okay.
40:00Okay.
40:01That evening, we put the truckle bed back in the attic.
40:06And I moved my night things to Florence's room.
40:09And I put my gown beneath her pillow.
40:14And I felt...
40:16I had come home at last.
40:24Right.
40:25Now.
40:26I've had enough of this.
40:28And I've just about as much as I can take.
40:33Look about you.
40:34At our great places and public buildings.
40:37And our country houses.
40:39And our...
40:40Oh, damn.
40:41Our factories and our empire.
40:43The factories and empire.
40:44Yeah, thanks.
40:45Thanks, Nan.
40:46That was very good till then.
40:47Yeah.
40:48Well, get on.
40:49What is the rich man's wealth but robbery?
40:53Gradually, I was drawn into the centre of their lives.
40:56I'd never given a thought to politics.
40:58But now I couldn't escape it, it seemed.
41:01There was going to be a big rally at Victoria Park.
41:04Florence was helping to organise it.
41:06And Ralph was to speak at it.
41:08And my own life was opening up as well.
41:12This way, ladies?
41:13Hmm.
41:14Hmm.
41:15Hmm.
41:16It's the best dressing room in the house, Miss King.
41:19I trust it meets with your approval?
41:20Yes.
41:21I think it'll do me very nicely.
41:22Thanks.
41:23Thanks.
41:24Thanks.
41:25Thanks.
41:26Oh, Flo.
41:27Oh, Flo.
41:28What's the one who's out of here?
41:29Oh, Flo?
41:30Oh, Flo.
41:31Oh, Flo.
41:32Oh, my God.
41:33Oh, my God.
41:34It's the best dressing room in the house, Miss King.
41:37I trust it meets with your approval?
41:39Yes.
41:40Yes. I think it'll do me very nicely. Thanks.
41:52Oh, Flo!
41:58What is the rich man's will but robbery?
42:01They steal the land and set a wall about it.
42:04They steal the fruits...
42:06Flo, please be quiet. How's a man to think?
42:09He steals the fruits.
42:11The fruits of our labour.
42:13And obliges us to buy them back from him.
42:15Good!
42:16Oh, what God, a girl, she's as pretty as a picture.
42:19She's the best pal in the world.
42:30Hello, Nan.
42:36Sorry, Jimmy, could you give us five minutes?
42:39Tommy, five minutes.
42:42Top of the bill, I see.
42:44Charlie Frobich has done you proud.
42:48Do you remember when you first came to see me, I wonder?
42:53What do you want, Kitty?
42:55You haven't forgotten me then.
42:57I was afraid you might have.
42:59Well, I wanted to see you again, of course.
43:06Nan, if you knew how I'd tried to find you.
43:11It was as though he'd vanished off the face of the earth.
43:15I was afraid you might have harmed yourself.
43:18It was you that harmed me, Kitty.
43:21I'm so sorry, Nan.
43:24It doesn't matter now.
43:26No.
43:27No, I can see.
43:28You're doing ever so well.
43:30And you, are you still married to Walter?
43:32You heard about that?
43:33No.
43:34Yes.
43:35Yes, I am.
43:36Well, after a fashion, if you know what I mean.
43:39It's what you might call a marriage of convenience.
43:46Nan, so long I've thought about what I might say if I ever found you.
43:49I must, I must tell you now.
43:51I'm not sure I want to hear it.
44:01Would you come back to me, Nan?
44:04Aren't you forgetting you're a married woman?
44:06That needn't matter.
44:08Walter's very good.
44:09He lets me do very much as I like.
44:11Well, if we were only a little girl...
44:12No!
44:14We were always careful because you wanted it that way.
44:19You were always half-hearted, Kitty.
44:22And I was all for you.
44:24And now I've found someone who's all for me.
44:31She isn't me, though.
44:33Is she, Nan?
44:34No.
44:38She's very different from you.
44:41Nan.
44:43I made a mistake with Walter.
44:46If you were to come back to me, I would leave him.
44:50It would be just you and me.
44:52I make it all up to you, Nan.
44:54I promise.
44:57I've never stopped loving you, Nan.
45:00You broke my heart, Kitty.
45:03Well, won't you let me see if I can't mend it again?
45:05I'll end it again.
45:09My mermaid.
45:20You need time to think about it.
45:24I shan't beg you, Nan.
45:28You let your heart tell you what's right.
45:31I'll come to the show on Monday.
45:37Until then.
45:44Goodbye.
46:00Bye.
46:01Bye.
46:02Bye.
46:19Penny for your thoughts.
46:22That's torn it!
46:25The rally's off!
46:26The marquee company won't let us have the tents.
46:30Won't have no truck with political revolutionaries, so that's that.
46:33Oh, Ralph, we can't just give up just like that.
46:36Well, what else are we to do?
46:38Well, the theatre's dark on Sundays. You could hold your meeting there.
46:41Oh, Nan, do you think you could wangle it for us?
46:44I think Charlie Frober should do more than that to keep me happy.
46:47Nan, you're a tip-topper, you are!
46:50I beg your pardon.
46:56They call it enterprise and capitalism, but what is it, really?
47:03What is it?
47:05Oh, really?
47:06Robbery, swindling and slavery!
47:09Robbery, swindling and slavery!
47:12Instinct with car, please. I'll give you Ralph Banner.
47:16Go on. You'll be fine.
47:20Oh, Lord.
47:25Oh, Lord.
47:26Oh, Lord.
47:31I'll give you a hug.
47:44Don't I?
47:48Ladies and gentlemen...
47:50Why socialism? That is the question I've been invited to discuss with you this afternoon.
47:57Speak up!
48:03Why socialism? I shall keep my answer rather brief.
48:07Thank God for small mercy!
48:10How many times have you heard economists say that England is the richest country in the world?
48:26I can't bear this. Nor can I.
48:33Order, ladies and gentlemen. Order, please.
48:35All right, ladies and gentlemen. Why socialism?
48:39We'll tell you why.
48:41Because we've been robbed and cheated long enough.
48:45Haven't we, Mr. Banner?
48:47Yeah, here we have.
48:51How old are we likely to be when we die? Do you know that?
48:55What's the average age of death in Bethnal Green?
48:58Mr. Banner knows, don't you, Mr. Banner?
49:0129.
49:02Well, tell them.
49:0329.
49:0429!
49:06And your rich man lives to 70.
49:10And all this in the richest city on earth.
49:15And they call it progress.
49:18But what do we call it, Mr. Banner?
49:20We call it a disgrace.
49:21And...
49:22And it is a disgrace.
49:23And we want an end to it.
49:26Why is the rich man's wealth but robbery under another name?
49:29Is it right?
49:30Babies should die for want of milk.
49:33Join you guys in the fight.
49:34Join you guys in fight!
49:35All right! Babies should die for want of milk!
49:43Join you guys!
50:05Thank you!
50:35Like a mermaid.
50:43I do love you.
50:49So very much.
51:05This is your beginner's call, ladies and gentlemen. Beginners, please!
51:31Five minutes, Miss King.
51:35Five minutes, Miss King.
51:43Six minutes, Miss King.
51:47Have a happy day.
51:55Six minutes, Miss King.
51:59Three minutes.
52:01The triumphant return to the London stage of Miss Dan King.
52:25Hello again.
52:29Remember me?
52:31There's a lot of things that have happened since you and I last met.
52:35I've been up and I've been down.
52:37But here's the best thing yet.
52:38If all the things around us are sent from heaven above, they've sent me down an angel.
52:44I can't help it.
52:46I'm in love.
52:52I've got a girl, she's as pretty as a picture.
52:55She's the best pal in the world.
52:59She's not the kind who'd let you down.
53:03She's the sweetest little olive up in London town.
53:08She's a dear, she's a darling, she's a little bit of heaven.
53:12She's a diamond, she's a ruby, she's a pearl.
53:15Oh, I've got a girl, she's as pretty as a picture.
53:19She's the best pal in the world.
53:22I've had a funny sort of life with lots of ups and downs.
53:27I've worn a lot of different sorts of hats.
53:31I've trudged the streets of London, not a penny to my name.
53:35Next day a toff in topper cane and spats.
53:38I've seen a lot of pretty girls, a lot of plain ones too.
53:43I've felt the prick of Naughty Cupid's dart.
53:47I've known some girls whose kisses could leave you black and blue.
53:53And one or two could fairly break your heart.
53:58But now I think it's time I settled down
54:03And built myself a cosy little nest
54:08To share with the sweetest girl in London town
54:16The one that I love best
54:21Oh, I've got a girl, she's as pretty as a picture
54:28She's the best pal in the world
54:30She's not the kind who'd let you down
54:35She's the sweetest little lollipop in London town
54:39She's a dear, she's a darling
54:42She's a little bit of heaven
54:44She's a diamond, she's a ruby, she's a pearl
54:47Oh, I've got a girl, she's as pretty as a picture
54:51She's the best pal in the world
55:21Oh, I've got one of them
55:22I've got a girl there
55:23And now I'll be the best pal in the world
55:25She's the best pal in the world
55:26She's the best pal in the world
55:27I'm your host
55:28I know, my feetensively
55:28I'm your foot pal, I think I'm your tool
55:29I don't know.
55:59I don't know.
56:29I had come so far from the days when I was a girl, standing on this beach, wondering
56:38why I didn't care for Freddy like I should.
56:40And here I am again, and though I shan't stay long, there's a part of me will always belong
56:49here, in Whitstable, where they have the best oysters in the world.
56:55Shall we go, then?
57:01Have you got your courage up?
57:03Are you ready to meet the family?
57:05If you are.
57:07It's only human nature and her own.
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