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Love finds Fanny, but it is short-lived as her happiness is threatened by Lord Manderstoke. Starring: Chloe Salaman, Peter Woodward, Michael Culver, Julia Chambers.
Love finds Fanny, but it is short-lived as her happiness is threatened by Lord Manderstoke. Starring: Chloe Salaman, Peter Woodward, Michael Culver, Julia Chambers.
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00:00The End
00:30ORCHESTRA PLAYS
01:00Oh, God, help us. It's me birthday.
01:03I reckon this little darling's looking for a toe, mate.
01:06Perhaps she's lost her rudder.
01:07Oh, she can take my tiller any time, mate.
01:10I thought yours had dropped off, Joe.
01:12Don't go in here, ducky. Out you go.
01:14Leave her be, Polly.
01:17This little ducksy wants a dance.
01:19Here we go.
01:25Don't you put that little troll of her side.
01:35Now, could you please tell me if...
01:37Miss Fanny.
01:39Oh, chunks.
01:41You know her.
01:43Of course I do.
01:44She's a very old friend of mine.
01:47And just you lot remember that in the future.
01:50Right, lads.
01:51Time for my last drink, Polly.
01:53This round's on me.
01:54Oh, that's funny.
01:55Oh, Miss Fanny.
01:57Now, you come along with me.
01:58I don't know.
02:02Some bloke's getting all the luck, don't they?
02:04He's a dark horse, all right.
02:06I reckon you'll soon be getting your marching orders, Polly.
02:09Come on, go.
02:10Don't give me yours, Bert Tanner.
02:11Run away?
02:13But why?
02:14I had to.
02:15It's a long story.
02:17Can I tell you later?
02:18Yeah, of course you can.
02:20Here.
02:20You ain't in any trouble, are you?
02:22No.
02:23Trust me, chunks.
02:25Yeah, but of course I do.
02:27Here, sit down.
02:28It's a good job you kept that bit of paper I gave you.
02:30Otherwise, you could have been wandering the lanes.
02:32Well, this ain't the healthiest of neighbourhoods, even in the daylight.
02:35I know.
02:37Are you hungry?
02:38Oh, ravenous.
02:39I could eat a horse.
02:41Well, I can't quite run to that, Miss Fannykins.
02:43But look, there's some bread, cheese, ham and chipmings in the cupboard.
02:47Well, you tuck into that lot, and I'll go and clear the bar.
02:52Poor Miss Fanny.
02:55It's good to see you again.
02:59Hiya, mate.
03:00Hiya, you was up.
03:01Hang on now.
03:03Anxious to get to bed, are you?
03:07What was that supposed to be, Bert?
03:09Oh, running, chugs.
03:10A little joke, that's all.
03:12A little joke, was it, eh?
03:14You don't end up being thrown into the canal.
03:16Oh, you won't make any more little jokes like that.
03:19You see, that little girl, well...
03:22I'm back to be your guardian.
03:24Got it?
03:27Just to remember it, eh?
03:30Ah, off it.
03:33I don't know, Bert.
03:34You and your big mouth.
03:37Come on, Mark.
03:38Come along.
03:39Nice you had your company, mate.
03:41God bless you, love.
03:42Come on, mate.
03:44See you again tomorrow.
03:45Heyya, there.
03:46Good night.
03:46Good night.
03:47Good night.
03:50Guardian, is it?
03:56Chunks, he's heading.
03:57I can't make it legal, but...
03:59promised me you'll be a guardian, that little girl.
04:02So we shook hands and I promised.
04:05He always treated me very fair to you, Mr. Upward.
04:07Thank you for telling me that, Chunks.
04:11Yeah.
04:13I'll, er, make up a bed for you.
04:15In a minute.
04:17Well, it's only a box room, Fannikins.
04:19You see, well, we've only got two bedrooms and we'll...
04:21Oh, that doesn't matter.
04:22But Polly, won't I be putting you out?
04:25No, dear.
04:26Well, the fact is, Fannikins,
04:28well, Polly kind of looks hard on me, like, and she's...
04:31Oh, good.
04:34About time someone did.
04:37I reckon her and me's gonna get on all right, Chunks.
04:41Yeah.
04:42Yeah.
04:43Well, thank God for that, eh?
04:45You'll be all right here, lovey.
04:47I could do with a bit of feminine company.
04:49Good.
04:50And if I can't pay for my board,
04:52at least let me help with the housework and the mending.
04:55I'm used to that.
04:56The more she says, the more I like her.
04:58Pity is you didn't run away from that place months ago.
05:02Gone?
05:05Gone where?
05:06I don't understand.
05:08Nor do I, Clyde.
05:09I simply woke up one morning to be told that only Hooper
05:12had packed her bags and stolen away into the night.
05:17But why?
05:19Ah, well, the reason did not become apparent for several days.
05:24Not till I came to look for that emerald ring you gave me.
05:28Oh, come on.
05:31Now, Alicia, you're surely not saying...
05:33I am saying that the ring disappeared at the same time Hooper disappeared.
05:39By the by, I haven't yet contacted the police.
05:42I think I ought, don't you?
05:47No.
05:54Perhaps you simply misplaced it, Sonia.
05:58I really cannot believe that Fanny was...
06:02Fanny?
06:04Well, isn't that the girl's name?
06:07Yes.
06:09Strange.
06:10I always used to call her Hooper.
06:14I must have heard it from Mrs. Beavis.
06:22Isn't this the ring?
06:25Yes.
06:26You just accused her of stealing it.
06:30I lied to you.
06:32Lied?
06:32Why?
06:33I wanted to see your reaction.
06:38I enjoyed that.
06:40Damn you and your chicks, Alicia!
06:43And the girl's still here?
06:45No.
06:47She left.
06:48That's true.
06:49No doubt I shall have to find out the reason elsewhere.
06:53I think it's high time I put my house in order.
06:56What do you mean by that, Clive?
07:00There will be no more of your suarez
07:01that include half the riffraff of London
07:03and continue until dawn.
07:05You will not spend another penny at Noel Depp.
07:06I will dress where I choose.
07:08Neither will you see Captain Tennant again!
07:11As a diplomat, I cannot and will not have my good name.
07:13Your good name?
07:14Oh, what a pompous hypocrite you are.
07:21Your good name belongs to a man
07:24who fathered a bastard
07:25and had her fostered out to a whoremonger.
07:30Oh, I always knew there was something strange about that girl.
07:34You see, after she left, I had inquiries made.
07:36I spent 20 guineas of your money, Clive.
07:40Oh, and wasn't that a wise investment?
07:42I know everything.
07:46All about your sordid little affair
07:48with a daughter of a farmer.
07:50I don't think I wish to hear it.
07:51No, I don't suppose you do, but others will.
07:54Just imagine it.
07:56A well-known diplomat
07:58who invested in a notorious bordello
08:00called Hopwood's Hades.
08:03Won't that make fine reading?
08:05You wouldn't dare.
08:05Wouldn't I?
08:06Spelled ruin for both of us.
08:07Oh, you've got more to lose than I, Clive.
08:10Why did I ever treasure you so highly?
08:18I shall stay at the club.
08:21Make not use of it while you can!
08:24You'll be blackballed the moment this scandal breaks.
08:27I'm going to sue you for divorce, Clive Seymour.
08:30You realise I can contest a name tenant?
08:31Oh, yes, but you won't.
08:32Instead of which,
08:34you'll make me a handsome settlement
08:36and in return, I'll keep your secret.
08:41Otherwise, I'll drag that bastard daughter of yours
08:43through the court!
08:47What a despicable creature you are.
08:49I hate the woman.
08:59But when you find out about Lady Alicia
09:01and Captain Tennant,
09:02why didn't you go to your father?
09:04I couldn't.
09:05He was in Washington.
09:06And anyway,
09:08even if he had been here,
09:09it wouldn't have been right.
09:11Well, why not go to your mother's in Yorkshire?
09:14I did think of that, Lucy.
09:16But I must make my way here in London.
09:19Well, you won't get very far at the jolly bargey.
09:22I know,
09:23but for the moment,
09:24I'm safe enough with chunks.
09:25Well, it wouldn't do for me.
09:28Oh, Fanny,
09:29you should see where I'm living now.
09:32It's so pretty.
09:33I'd love to,
09:34but you haven't even told me where it is.
09:36It's a little house in St. John's Wood.
09:40How can you afford that?
09:42I met this marvellous man at Nell Day
09:45called Bartley Pippin.
09:47He bought me the house to live in as his mistress.
09:51Not shocked, are you?
09:53No.
09:54Of course not.
09:56As long as you're happy.
09:58Oh, I am.
10:00Funny.
10:02Have you?
10:05Sprained my ankle, do you mean?
10:08Well, have you?
10:10No.
10:10Not yet.
10:13But I won't mind in the least
10:14once I meet the right man.
10:18Fanny's darling,
10:19I always think that every man is the right one.
10:24Anyway,
10:26Barclay says
10:27that he can get me a start in the theatre
10:29as a dancer in the chorus.
10:32Lucy, I didn't know you could dance that well.
10:34I've been taking lessons.
10:36My teacher says I have a great natural talent.
10:39Good morning, Albert.
10:39That's wonderful.
10:49Funny.
10:49I've just had an idea.
10:53Now, I wasn't going to tell you about this job,
10:55but, well, seeing as you're not so easily shocked
10:58as I thought you might be,
11:00and seeing as you need a job,
11:02now promise you'll hear me out.
11:04It's in a bordello, isn't it?
11:06Floricel's is hardly a bordello.
11:09It's just about the smartest joy house in town.
11:15It's owned by a lady called Kitty Cairns,
11:18and she needs a new assistant.
11:21Assistant?
11:22Yes.
11:23Oh, nothing like that.
11:24A secretary, really.
11:26You'd like her.
11:28And I'm sure she'd pay very well.
11:31Well?
11:36Harry,
11:37you're surely not going to disappoint us.
11:40I'm afraid I am, Mother.
11:43You see, I've come back from Washington
11:45to help Clive Seymour draw up
11:46a whole series of complicated agreements.
11:50I doubt if I'll get any leave
11:51before the end of the year.
11:53Mama!
11:55That poor daughter of Lady Croft.
11:59Harry.
12:01Oh, darling, darling Harry.
12:05Oh, I've missed you.
12:07We've both missed it.
12:09Kate, I haven't yet shaved your scratch yourself.
12:12Oh, I don't mind one little bit.
12:14Besides, it makes you look even more manly.
12:17Why didn't you write?
12:19I could have met the boat.
12:20Well, my leaving was only decided at the last minute.
12:23Oh, it doesn't matter.
12:23You're here.
12:25And doesn't he look splendid, Mother?
12:28What was Washington like?
12:29And the women.
12:30Were they all beautiful?
12:32Yes, some of them were...
12:33Mother was quite convinced
12:34that you'd find an heiress and bring her home.
12:36Kate, I never said any such thing.
12:38And why don't you both sit down?
12:42There's nothing wrong in showing sisterly affection.
12:45I never said there was.
12:47You see how she picks on every word I say?
12:50But...
12:50Don't start quarrelling, you two.
13:04Harry doesn't want to come to Scotland with us, Kate.
13:08What?
13:09Now, that isn't what I said.
13:11It's just that I won't be able to get any leave, Kate.
13:14Well, what is the matter this year?
13:16The good news is that you're going to be in London.
13:19Oh, Harry.
13:20We can go to the theatre
13:21and to concerts nearly every night, can't we?
13:26You don't seem very enthusiastic.
13:29Well, I had thought of taking rooms in Westminster.
13:34What on earth for?
13:35Well, I would have thought that would be obvious, Kate,
13:37to be near my work.
13:42I see.
13:47You've decided already, haven't you?
13:49I will be seeing you both every weekend.
13:51Oh, how very, very gracious of you.
13:54I know full well why you want rooms of your own
13:57and it's got nothing to do with work.
13:59Kate, for goodness sake.
13:59No doubt you spent the whole voyage planning this.
14:02Mother and I mean nothing to you, do we?
14:06Oh, God, Harry!
14:09Why did you have to spoil it?
14:13Harry, you could have waited.
14:19Well, then, Miss Hooper,
14:20having disposed of the formalities,
14:22let us talk business.
14:24You are, of course,
14:25fully aware of the kind of establishment I keep.
14:28Oh, yes.
14:30And you have no moral scruples or prejudices.
14:32Oh, I do have some moral scruples, Miss Cairns.
14:37But if you mean about working here, no.
14:42I stand corrected.
14:44One should always say exactly what one means.
14:47I like you, child.
14:50Yes.
14:51You are a most striking and unusual girl.
14:55My clients would find you interesting.
14:58I'm sure you mean that as a compliment, Miss Cairns.
15:01But...
15:01But that is not the reason why you are here.
15:04Yes.
15:05Yes, I fully understand.
15:08Now, as to your duties,
15:10you will act as both my assistant and my secretary.
15:13You will make appointments,
15:15pay the bills,
15:16and answer letters.
15:18Although I can assure you I commit very little to paper.
15:21Any questions?
15:23Well, no.
15:25Except I think I must point out
15:27that I've had no training for this type of work.
15:30No matter.
15:30I will train you myself.
15:33Now, as to your wardrobe,
15:35here you must let me be your guide.
15:39And for this favour,
15:40I will pay for all your clothes.
15:43Ah, yes.
15:44Salary.
15:45Would Β£150 a year be acceptable?
15:50Most acceptable.
15:53When would you wish me to start?
15:55Tomorrow, if that is convenient.
15:57But don't bother to arrive before 11.
16:00So until then,
16:02au revoir, my dear.
16:0311 o'clock.
16:05Au revoir, Miss Cairns.
16:16Chiddy!
16:18I want a word with you.
16:20This damn letter you sent me!
16:21My dear Lord Manderstoke,
16:22we're standing in the same room.
16:24There really is no need to shout.
16:26If I feel like shouting, madam,
16:27I will shout.
16:28This letter,
16:29what do you mean by it?
16:31I would have thought the meaning was clear enough, my lord.
16:33Quite simply,
16:34you are no longer welcome in my house.
16:38Has one of those bitches of yours complained?
16:40My girls are ladies, not bitches.
16:44For your information,
16:45three of them have complained.
16:47My lord,
16:48if you have a partiality for violence,
16:50then you must practice it elsewhere.
16:53Oh, must I?
16:54I really think you should reconsider that decision, Kitty.
16:58You see,
16:59I shouldn't take it at all kindly
17:00if I were barred from Florizel's.
17:04My dear Jerry,
17:04I do hope you're not threatening me.
17:06You live under a threat all the time.
17:08Any bordello,
17:09however fashionable it may be,
17:10owes its very existence
17:12to discretion.
17:14True.
17:15But of course,
17:16the same could also be said
17:17that any man about town,
17:19however fashionable,
17:21is only accepted by society
17:23as long as his good name exists.
17:26I believe you used to frequent
17:27Hopwood's Hades,
17:28did you not, Jerry?
17:29I did.
17:32And look what befell poor Hopwood.
17:34Exactly the point I was making.
17:37That is why I made sure
17:38the same fate would not happen to me.
17:41Luckily,
17:42I have acquired a number of valuable depositions
17:44from certain people.
17:47Of course,
17:47I would not dream of using them
17:49unless forced to do so.
17:59I do hope that you don't lose them.
18:11That's an awful lot of money
18:13they're paying you, lovey.
18:14You sure they don't want you
18:15to do nothing else
18:16if you take my meaning?
18:18Quite sure, Polly.
18:20Florizel's.
18:22I seem to remember
18:23Mr. Hopwood talked of her.
18:24Spoke most I did.
18:27A lot of nobility
18:27used to go there.
18:28You know,
18:29I wouldn't be too surprised
18:30if I didn't recognise
18:31a few faces from the old days.
18:33That's it, Chunks.
18:34Eh?
18:35A man I saw this morning.
18:37I knew the face,
18:38but I couldn't think
18:38where I'd seen him before.
18:40Perhaps he went to Hades.
18:42Yeah?
18:42What was his name?
18:43That's it, I don't know.
18:45Yeah, well,
18:45could be any one of a thousand.
18:47Such an evil face.
18:50Polly, she's shivering.
18:51Don't want you to go
18:52catching cold
18:53before you start a new job.
18:54Go on, drink that.
18:55Go on, treat it like medicine.
18:58That's a good girl.
19:02Yeah, Fanny,
19:03are you going to stay on here?
19:05I did think about that,
19:06but as I'll probably
19:07be going home in the dark.
19:09Yeah, but I wouldn't want you
19:10wandering around there
19:10in the dark.
19:11It's all right with our records,
19:13but there are others
19:13who cut your throat
19:14the sooner's work of you.
19:15Yeah, Chunks is right, Fanny.
19:16You'd be better off
19:17getting a room near
19:18where you're going to work.
19:19Yes.
19:21I shall be sorry
19:22to leave here.
19:23I've learned a lot
19:24from you, Polly.
19:25Yeah, well,
19:26don't go telling
19:27whether it's good or bad, eh?
19:29I'll miss you both.
19:31Yeah.
19:32Well, you can always
19:33come visiting.
19:35Don't forget
19:35fannykins.
19:37If you ever need
19:38any help,
19:39can you come
19:40and see old Chunks, eh?
19:42Polly?
19:43Yeah?
19:43Get the good glasses, huh?
19:45I reckon this calls
19:46for a celebratory drink,
19:47don't you?
19:51I thought we'd take
19:52in the Alhambra
19:53and then go on
19:54to Evan's Supper Room.
19:56Excellent.
19:58Something on your mind, Harry?
20:01Yes.
20:03As a matter of fact,
20:04I have a favour to ask you.
20:07Your father's firm
20:08has always represented
20:09the Seymour Estate.
20:10Damn it, man,
20:13you're behaving like a clam
20:14before I've even started.
20:16Was my lawyer's caution
20:17showing at the seams?
20:18Yes.
20:19Sorry.
20:20Go on.
20:22Well,
20:23I've worked with Clive Seymour
20:24in Paris and Washington.
20:27I like the man immensely.
20:29I respect him.
20:32When I got back,
20:33I was told he'd taken leave.
20:35Since then,
20:36I've been hearing
20:36some rather shabby rumours.
20:39Is there any substance
20:40to them?
20:41I don't know
20:42what you've been hearing
20:43and I don't want to know.
20:45But,
20:46since you're a close friend of his
20:47and as it will be announced
20:49in the next few days anyway,
20:51I think it's safe
20:52to tell you
20:53that Clive Seymour
20:54has resigned.
20:56Good God,
20:56why?
20:57Look, Harry,
20:58I'm only a junior
21:01partner.
21:02You are also
21:02my closest friend.
21:06Julian!
21:07Oh, very well.
21:11But for your ears only,
21:14it appears
21:18that his wife,
21:19Lady Alicia,
21:20has been
21:20playing fast and loose.
21:24So he's divorcing her then?
21:25No.
21:26She is divorcing him.
21:28But surely,
21:29it's...
21:29And he refuses to defend.
21:31But worse than that,
21:32he had agreed
21:33to make her a large settlement
21:34even before he came to see us
21:36and agreed in writing,
21:37would you believe?
21:39Well, in heaven's name,
21:40why?
21:40I don't know.
21:43So far,
21:43he's said very little.
21:45I can only assume
21:46his wife
21:47has some
21:47hold over him.
21:52The poor boy
21:53looks as though
21:53he's waiting
21:54for the dentist.
21:56Claire,
21:57he has arrived.
21:58Treat him gently.
22:00It's his first time.
22:04His first time?
22:06Yes,
22:07at 24.
22:09But Claire
22:10will give him
22:10enough confidence
22:11to make him a good lover.
22:12How did he find
22:13his way here?
22:14He didn't.
22:15He was brought
22:16almost forcibly.
22:18You see,
22:19he's the son
22:20of a bishop.
22:21Luckily,
22:22he has an uncle
22:23who is both a general
22:23and a valued client.
22:25He thought to do
22:26the boy a favour
22:27by making this
22:27his birthday present.
22:30Kitty,
22:31my dear.
22:32Harry,
22:33what a delightful surprise.
22:36I thought you'd
22:36quite deserted us.
22:38Oh, Emily,
22:38please turn up the lamps
22:39and draw the curtains.
22:40Now, come and sit down
22:41and tell me
22:42what you've been doing.
22:43It's been such a long
22:45time since I've seen you.
22:46Well, I've been abroad.
22:48Oh, bravely
22:50keeping the flag flying,
22:51no doubt.
22:54Oh, I'm sorry, my dear.
22:55Let me introduce you
22:56to Miss Hooper.
22:57Fanny,
22:58this is Harry Somerford.
23:04I'm delighted
23:05to meet you, Miss Hooper.
23:06How do you do,
23:07Mr. Somerford?
23:07Um, surely we've met before.
23:13Oh, Harry,
23:14really,
23:15it's hardly a compliment
23:16to make such an old approach.
23:18No, I'm sorry,
23:19this time I really meant it.
23:21I doubt that we have met,
23:22Mr. Somerford.
23:23I have only recently
23:24come to work for Miss Kearns.
23:26And now,
23:27if you're sure
23:27you don't need me anymore.
23:29No, no, my dear,
23:29you run along.
23:30I'll just put this
23:31in the office, then.
23:32Good.
23:33And then come back
23:33and say goodbye
23:34to Mr. Somerford,
23:35won't you?
23:42Kitty,
23:43where does she come from?
23:47What does she do here?
23:48What do you mean,
23:48is she one of my girls?
23:49The answer is no.
23:51She's my secretary.
23:53Good.
23:54Oh,
23:54does that make a difference, Harry?
23:56Now, stop playing the arch-innocent
23:58and tell me about her.
23:59My, my.
24:01I've rarely seen a man
24:02smitten so quickly.
24:04Le coup de fou.
24:06But you listen to me,
24:07Harry Somerford.
24:08If you upset that girl,
24:09you will lose my friendship.
24:11I should have thought
24:11you'd have known me better than that.
24:13It's just that she's become
24:14very special to me.
24:17Good night, Miss Kearns.
24:18Good night, Mr. Somerford.
24:21So pleasant to have met you.
24:23My dear,
24:23Harry has kindly offered
24:25to see you home.
24:26Well, thank you,
24:27but really it isn't...
24:28Yes, indeed.
24:30I really do insist.
24:32Well, then,
24:34it seems I had no choice.
24:37Thank you, Mr. Somerford.
24:38You see, we're almost there.
24:59I did tell you
25:00it was not very far.
25:01Miss Hooper?
25:02Yes?
25:03I have to see you again.
25:06You have to.
25:07Or you wish to,
25:08Mr. Somerford.
25:09Oh,
25:09I apologise.
25:10I wish to see you again.
25:12But I'm sure you will.
25:13I'm at Florizel's every day
25:15between a...
25:15Oh, no, I didn't mean there.
25:17I...
25:17I meant alone.
25:20Please.
25:24I have Thursday afternoon off
25:26and I'm free every Sunday.
25:29Well, this Sunday, then.
25:30I'll call for you at your lodgings
25:31if you'd allow me to.
25:34If that is really what you want.
25:36I shall be there at noon.
25:38Oh, Harry, it's so lovely.
26:06I've never been here before.
26:09You must tell me
26:10all the other places
26:11you haven't been.
26:13I'll show them to you.
26:16But there must be
26:17thousands and thousands
26:19of places.
26:20Splendid.
26:21That takes care
26:22of the first 50 years.
26:24What shall we do
26:24with the next 50?
26:27Can we come here
26:28next Sunday?
26:29We can come here
26:30every Sunday
26:31if you like.
26:32From now on,
26:33this place
26:33will be ours.
26:35Yes.
26:36Places do belong
26:37to people,
26:38don't they?
26:44Katie tells me
26:45you're in the diplomatic service.
26:48What exactly
26:49do you do?
26:51Nothing very exciting, really.
26:54Just oil the occasional
26:55cog to keep
26:56the empire running smoothly.
26:57In point of fact,
26:59I sit at a desk
27:00doing a very boring job.
27:02That's enough about me.
27:04Tell me about yourself.
27:07One day.
27:09Not today.
27:11Does that mean
27:12that if I'm patient
27:14you'll go on seeing me?
27:19If you would like me to.
27:23Indeed I would.
27:27Keep your guard up.
27:52You see?
27:53Try again.
27:54That's good.
27:57That's better.
27:58You're punching
27:58much stronger now.
28:04You thought
28:04I wasn't watching you,
28:05didn't you?
28:07All right then.
28:08That's all for this week.
28:10See you all next time.
28:13Thanks.
28:19Just how long
28:20have you been standing there
28:21watching me
28:21make a fool of myself?
28:22I arrived early.
28:24I'm rather glad I did.
28:29You never told me
28:30you did this.
28:32Well they're all good lads.
28:34I try and come here
28:35to help them whenever I can.
28:38You're a strange man, Harry.
28:40What other secrets
28:40are you hiding from me?
28:42Oh come now,
28:43you're the lady of mystery.
28:45I've known you for six weeks
28:46and you've told me
28:46practically nothing
28:47about yourself.
28:48a dark lady
28:50of the sonnets
28:50or I perhaps
28:52a princess
28:52living incognito.
28:57I'm sorry.
28:59No more prying,
29:00I promise.
29:01Is there anything you wish
29:18to tell me, Fanny?
29:20What about?
29:21My dear girl,
29:23all the morning
29:24you've been going around
29:25with a face
29:25like a yard
29:26of pump water.
29:28Is it anything
29:29to do with Harry Somerford?
29:32Yes.
29:35Well, no,
29:36not exactly.
29:38You are in love
29:39with him.
29:41Yes.
29:42More than I thought
29:43it possible
29:44to love anyone.
29:45Yet you are unhappy.
29:46Have you quarrelled?
29:49No.
29:51Then it must
29:51concern someone else.
29:54My father.
29:56Mr Hooper.
29:58No.
29:59My real father.
30:01I don't bear his name.
30:04I've never spoken
30:05about him to you before.
30:06It's a complicated story.
30:08In that case,
30:09I suggest you come
30:10straight to the point.
30:12Very well.
30:12My friend Lucy Beckett
30:16called on me yesterday.
30:18There's been some gossip
30:19where she works
30:20about my father.
30:22There is to be a divorce.
30:25And although his wife
30:26has been unfaithful to him,
30:27she is naming him
30:29as the guilty party.
30:30It's so unjust.
30:32It happens quite frequently.
30:35But what has this
30:36got to do with Harry?
30:39Well,
30:40there are certain facts
30:42that could come to light.
30:43Ah.
30:45Because you are
30:46a love child.
30:47Yes.
30:49But of greater importance,
30:52my foster father
30:53was involved
30:53in a terrible scandal.
30:56If both these things
30:58become known,
30:59and
30:59if I continue
31:01to see Harry,
31:04well,
31:05it could only ruin
31:07his career.
31:08So many ifs.
31:10why not let
31:11Harry decide
31:12for himself?
31:14No.
31:16That would be unfair.
31:19You will keep
31:20my secret,
31:21won't you,
31:21Miss Cairns?
31:22Yes.
31:23Of course.
31:24me,
31:27do you get
31:43wine?
31:43What about that?
31:45Yes.
31:45Yes.
31:45Yes.
31:47Yes.
31:47Yes.
31:48Yes.
31:49Yes.
31:49Yes.
31:50Yes.
31:50Yes.
31:51Yes.
31:52Yes.
31:52Yes.
31:53you don't stop pacing you'll wear out my carpet kitty you write to me saying it's urgent i
32:22should come and see fanny and now that i'm here you refuse to say anything patience harry patience
32:28she'll be here in a moment sit down and calm yourself you wanted to see me miss cairns harry
32:37harry has persuaded me that this foolishness between you has gone on quite long enough i have
32:42said and poor helpless creature that i am he has forced me to lend you to him for half an hour
32:49lend come on fanny if i keep you for one minute over half an hour kitty will probably turn me into a toad
32:59bless you kitty
33:06please harry don't ask me i can't tell you it's all to do with my father something that happened in the
33:14past and it's because of this that you broke our appointment on that sunday yes now you listen
33:18to me young lady i am not in the least bit interested in your past i care about you now
33:27don't you understand you are the most precious thing in my life harry no
33:32your fear and my foolish pride have kept us apart for long enough
33:36i want to be with you for every moment of my life
33:42i don't intend to let you go ever again i love you
33:49i love you
33:53i love you
33:58oh my darling i've loved you from the first moment i saw you
34:06i love you
34:20oh i've longed for your arms around me
34:24i do want you so
34:28and now you
34:30my love
34:31take me back to florida no no no not there darling i i want you desperately so very desperately
34:44but let us wait until after we are married
34:51no harry i will not marry you
34:54but if you love me then surely please
35:01don't ask me to explain one day i will tell you and you will understand
35:10but until then trust me
35:17with all my heart
35:17for i know that we are bound together
35:29but if we are not to marry you
35:32well then we shall live together and i shall be your love girl
35:41one day you will be my wife
35:43but until then i will find somewhere that is our own
35:54where we can share our love together
35:58then let it be soon
36:01very soon
36:02and then have you master harry
36:14yes thank you mrs pringle
36:18and what a splendid supper
36:19oh i'm glad you liked it
36:21of course since mr pringle went i haven't had much call
36:26i do hope you'll be happy here
36:28i'm sure we will
36:33and from the both of us thank you
36:36there's no need for you to go tanking me master harry
36:40after all the help you give us in the past
36:44i'm only glad to be of service
36:52you made a good choice she's right for you
36:55yes i think so too
37:00good night good night sleep well
37:19harry
37:25i think you could see
37:35but a few months later
37:39will i send you to the best
37:42i'm not alone
37:43but this tamiya should be
37:44the best
37:45i will try my hand
37:46if i don't get to the best
37:47i think so
37:48i will try my hand
37:50i will try my hand
37:51i will try my hand
37:52no
37:53You are so beautiful.
38:12I've been waiting all my life for you.
38:23I've been waiting all my life for you.
38:30Harry?
38:33Huh?
38:36Do you know anything about divorce?
38:43After one night of unmarried bliss.
38:46You want to know about divorce?
38:49Seriously?
38:55Do both parties have to appear in court?
39:00Generally yes.
39:06How does one find out when a case has to be heard?
39:10Well I could ask Julian to look up in the lists if you like.
39:20Is it someone you know?
39:27What's his name?
39:30Seymour.
39:34Close, Seymour.
39:38You know him?
39:40I used to work for him.
39:42How on earth do you know him?
39:46I...
39:47I worked in his house.
39:52Well good damned.
39:56I'll let her in.
40:04Kate?
40:06Kate is that you?
40:08Really Kate.
40:09It's too bad of you.
40:10Cook has had to put dinner back twice.
40:11Oh do stop talking mother and listen.
40:14At long last I found out where he's living.
40:17Harry?
40:18Of course Harry.
40:20Did you speak to him?
40:22No I did not.
40:23He's living with a woman called Fanny Hooper.
40:26Obviously a harlot.
40:28Oh my poor Harry.
40:29I'd save your sympathy if I were you mother.
40:33Do you remember our old coachman Pringle?
40:36Yes.
40:38Harry has taken lodgings with Mrs Pringle.
40:41In little Welbeck Street.
40:43Oh how caught she.
40:45When I think of all the things I did for that woman after her husband died.
40:50Kate.
40:52Supposing she tells others our friends could hear?
40:54Exactly.
40:56It would bring down shame on both of us.
41:00There is only one way to get Harry to come to heel.
41:04Money.
41:07I don't understand.
41:08You mean pay that woman?
41:11No.
41:13No.
41:15Listen mother.
41:18Harry is trustee of father's estate.
41:21If he were proved to be unfit to hold that position
41:25someone else would have to administer the estate
41:27and they could decide to cut his allowance entirely.
41:30Kate.
41:31You know how I dislike legal matters.
41:34Besides...
41:35You'll be doing it out of love.
41:38For his own good.
41:39I imagine you've just been seeing old Mr Cartlid.
41:51I have.
41:53I've written to mother three times.
41:56I have received no reply.
41:57Can you tell me why?
41:59Yes.
42:00She never saw your letters.
42:01I tore them up.
42:02You tore them up!
42:04Since you've chosen to run away from your responsibilities as head of the house
42:08and since you've decided to abandon your mother
42:10Abandon?
42:11I've taken it upon myself to make sure she's upset as little as possible.
42:15You are deliberately trying to poison her.
42:17Oh no Harry.
42:18You're the poisoner.
42:19You're the one that soiled our family by choosing to wallow with a filthy harlot.
42:25You're hurting me.
42:27If you ever use those words again
42:30I will not be responsible for my actions Kate.
42:34I am in love.
42:37I am deeply in love.
42:41Can you not understand?
42:47It's you who can't understand.
42:52You've never known how much I've loved you Harry.
42:58You're all I ever wanted.
43:03Go home Kate.
43:13Leave me alone.
43:19I had thought about going along to court myself.
43:22But for any of his friends to have been there
43:25we thought it would only have proved an embarrassment to him.
43:28I think you were wise.
43:29Where is Clive Seymour now?
43:30He's returned to Wharton.
43:31It was all over very quickly.
43:35The judge didn't care very much for her ladyship and made that quite plain.
43:39But since Seymour offered no defense he had no choice but to grant a decree.
43:43And it was a very substantial settlement.
43:46But if he was the innocent party...
43:48I did eventually find out the reason.
43:50But not until it was all over.
43:51It all goes back about twenty years.
43:54Seymour fell in love with a local girl on the estate.
43:58They didn't marry but there was a child. A girl.
44:04Somehow Lady Alicia found out and threatened to drag the girl's name through the courts.
44:09Unless...
44:10Oh no.
44:11Why did he let her do that?
44:14It wouldn't have mattered.
44:16It wouldn't have mattered.
44:28You're his daughter.
44:32Aren't you?
44:33Just give me a moment.
44:44Paddy is this true?
44:46Something she said did make me wonder.
44:49At the time I thought no more about it.
44:51I'm so sorry Mr Carteret.
44:55I'm not normally given to tears.
44:58It's quite understandable.
45:00I'm only sorry to have broken the news in that way.
45:03You want to know.
45:07Harry I must go to him.
45:10Yes of course you must.
45:12I think he'd also welcome a visit from you Harry.
45:15Life's at rather a low ebb for him at the moment.
45:18I'll get some leave.
45:19We'll both go to Yorkshire together.
45:22Oh Harry that would be wonderful.
45:32By selling off half my land I had hoped to weather the crisis.
45:35But the settlement I had to make on my wife.
45:38Quite crippling.
45:40Will you have to sell off the horn?
45:42Oh no I shall keep that.
45:43And the horse farm.
45:45Oh I'll not starve Harry.
45:47It's a wretched business.
45:50Yes.
45:52But it's all behind me now.
45:53Must look to the future.
45:55Warning.
45:59There's been a lot of talk lately about scientific farming.
46:02Making one acre yield as much as ten.
46:06The idea is not only an attraction but a challenge.
46:10But what about that work you were always threatening to write?
46:13On the Roman occupation of Britain.
46:15Oh.
46:16Yes.
46:17There's always great consolation in scholarship.
46:22And it's also a great consolation to know that you and Fanny are together.
46:28Whether you get married or not is for you both to choose.
46:30Not me.
46:31I'd have the right thing for a father to say I know but in any event you have my blessing.
46:40Thank you sir.
46:44I see you're wearing the brooch he gave you.
46:46Well I always wear it on special occasions.
46:49The way things are going he'll not have much else to leave you.
46:52Is it that bad?
46:53Aye.
46:55He's been too soft-hearted and that's a fact.
46:58He lent out thousands of pounds to his tenants.
47:01New roads, cottages, new barns.
47:04Even built a school for them.
47:06And now when he needs the money most not a penny can they pay back.
47:10He'll have to sell up most of the estate you know.
47:13And all because of that woman.
47:16What about this cottage mother?
47:18Will you have to leave here?
47:19Oh no.
47:20From the very beginning your father said he'd stand by me and he's not a man to go back on his word.
47:25Which is more than you can say for most men.
47:28Mother you haven't even met Harry yet.
47:32And until you're married neither do I intend to.
47:35But I've already told you he's asked me to marry him.
47:38Well then?
47:40I want him to be absolutely sure before I say yes.
47:45Now you listen to me Fanny.
47:46If he's half the man you say he is he'll not take no for an answer but make you his wife.
47:52And when that day comes I'll be happy to shake his hand and give you both my blessing.
47:57But not before then.
47:58You're still back in Yorkshire aren't you?
48:05Poor mother.
48:07So concerned for me.
48:12All that way.
48:14And you never even met her.
48:17There will be another time.
48:18And if you took her good advice and married me then the sooner that would be.
48:24Just give me time Harry.
48:27We're so happy together.
48:30I'm frightened to do anything that might change that.
48:35Love seems so fragile.
48:37No.
48:41Our love will stand against the world.
48:43Hmm.
48:44Which one's for you?
48:58Oh.
48:59It's from Lucy.
49:00Harry.
49:05She's in a show.
49:08She's in the chorus.
49:10But also has a small speaking part.
49:13And it opens next week.
49:16Oh Harry.
49:18Can we go?
49:19Hmm?
49:37That's confoundedly odd.
49:39What is Harry?
49:41Sir William Faraby.
49:43He's an old friend of my father's.
49:45Keeping very dubious company by the look of things.
49:47Where?
49:49Over there.
49:51Oh never mind.
50:17There's Lucy.
50:20There's Lucy.
50:22Huh.
50:47He is a rooster!
50:48What's he doing?
50:49Exactly.
50:50I'm so scared and Mr.
52:26It's the charmer with the golden hair.
52:29Oh, those shoulders.
52:32And that fine straight back.
52:34What luck to find you here, my dear.
52:36Huh?
52:40Now, don't you go away.
52:47Fanny, what is he?
52:49That man.
52:50Well, do you know him?
52:52He's evil.
52:54He seemed rather interesting to me.
52:57Hello, my boy.
52:58Sir William.
52:59Oh, I'm delighted to see you.
53:01Sir William Farabit.
53:02Miss Lucy Beckett.
53:04And Miss Fanny Hooper.
53:06My pleasure.
53:06Well, do sit down and join us.
53:08Oh, thank you, my boy.
53:09Oh, a word in private.
53:11Your little excuses.
53:17Did you see us at the gate here with those ghastly moles?
53:20Yes.
53:21Not shot of them, thank God.
53:23Do you know Manderstoke?
53:24Oh, no.
53:25Well, I've heard tell of him.
53:26He's badly scammered.
53:27He's out for the women.
53:28He's got his eyes on that fair girl with you.
53:30Ah, so it seems.
53:32Harry, my boy, he's dangerous.
53:34Get them out of here while there's still time.
53:36Thank you for the advice, sir.
53:38I can handle him if I have to.
53:40Damn it, he's back.
53:43Lord Manderstoke.
53:45I think perhaps you'd better be on your way.
53:47Who the hell are you?
53:49It's none of your business.
53:50Just do as I say.
53:52You bloody little counter jumper.
53:53Take your hands off me and don't you tangle with me.
53:55Gentlemen, gentlemen, please.
53:57There will be no trouble.
53:58No, won't there.
53:59That was very foolish of you.
54:01You may have won the round, Harry.
54:19But that man doesn't take kindly to losing.
54:22He'll make it his business to get even.
54:24You do well to steer clear of him.
54:31Oh, what happened to that champagne?
54:34Oh, wine, please.
54:36Oh, wine, please.
55:01Oh, wine, please.
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