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00:00It was a momentous day when June's mother remarried and they joined our family.
00:25The illustrious foresights, or so we like to think of ourselves.
00:32The groom, my grandson Jolyon, newly returned from his escapades in Europe to take up his
00:38role as heir to the family firm.
00:43Much to the frustration of his cousin Soames, an ambitious soul unwilling to play second
00:49fiddle to anyone.
00:51I wish your mother could have lived to see this day.
00:55She'll be the making of you.
01:11Frances was a widow, queen of high society, handpicked to cement our status among the London elite.
01:21Of course, every family has its rivalries, its intrigues, but on this great day of celebration,
01:38we put them aside.
01:40That one is my brother James's abode.
01:45That one is my brother James's abode, but inside it's not a patch on ours.
02:03You can see why my brother wanted her for Jo.
02:16She'll steady him, put an end to all this running amok amid the flashpots of Europe.
02:33But you could have had her.
02:34I'd have made an offer.
02:35I'm obliged to you, Pa, but when the time comes, the bride will be of my choosing.
02:40Well, quite frankly, why would you want to burden yourself with an eight-year-old brat?
02:46My late husband invested with Forsyth and Co., so you might think this is a natural progression.
02:56I'm a prime asset changing hands, and June has long needed a father figure.
03:03Go and be presented.
03:09Grandmamma Anne is the head of our family.
03:19Do I have to like you?
03:21No.
03:22Because I don't like anyone.
03:24It's a good decision.
03:25Of course.
03:26What's going on?
03:27This is June.
03:28Do you know what a foresight is?
03:31A foresight is someone who knows the value of stock, and family, and repute.
03:48You must never ask questions, never contradict, and never ever fail to come up to scratch.
03:57Don't scare her.
03:58She needs to know what she's letting herself in for.
04:17No.
04:18It is, no.
04:20You might but Haac.
04:22Okay.
04:23l You can get a bond.
04:24Like we could.
04:25I'm sure you have that becauseか.
04:26There's still one.
04:27After all rigs up to scratch.
04:28That's not too much, I guess.
04:29But you know what dad is unLAINÉ.
04:30To you, I feel like the trouver that.
04:31Tell me who knows何ers are going to murляются.
04:32I'm a firm man, I'm a firm man, but.
04:34I'm an eternal man.
04:35You're a great is un Branham fan.
04:36You heard her.
04:38I'm a king.
04:40To you later...
04:43To you later.
04:45You said you are getting to the truth,
04:46Ten years on, as June's 18th birthday approaches,
04:57the peace and stability of the Foresight world is about to be overturned.
05:05Explain to me why drawing is such a necessary accomplishment for cultured young ladies.
05:11What possible use could it be?
05:13It's exactly what your grandfather said to me when I joined the family firm.
05:16But you used to love drawing.
05:19I love many things.
05:20Will you draw me? Please. Just a quick sketch.
05:40That is me. Exactly me.
05:42Here, we'll be late for breakfast.
05:47So, I was thinking, for my birthday, instead of a ball, could we just have a picnic?
05:55Just...
05:56Because your mother wouldn't for a moment mind cancelling the adventures we've had for the last ten years.
06:02So, what do we think of Charlie Armstrong?
06:10Is that Sir Roger's boy?
06:13For what?
06:14For June.
06:14Does she like him?
06:16She's never met him.
06:17But I've invited the Armstrongs to the ball.
06:20Along with the Latimer's...
06:23Tea.
06:24Pallisters.
06:26Railways.
06:27Carteret's.
06:28Land.
06:29It's a question of who would most benefit the family.
06:32Miles Latimer.
06:34Horatio Carteret.
06:35The Prince of Wales?
06:36Oh, I'm serious.
06:40Hurry with your breakfast.
06:41We have an appointment in town.
06:43Where?
06:44The dressmaker.
06:46Your gown for the ball.
07:00So, Pa, was something rather exciting?
07:03And costly.
07:05A racehorse, Papa.
07:06Monty's found the very thing.
07:07And when you know the GGs, as I do.
07:09I'd hope, as my brother, you'd want to encourage my husband.
07:14Just as when you wed, I'll happily take your wife under my wing.
07:18If ever there were a reason not to marry.
07:20Who's marrying?
07:20Frances was saying she knows a dozen girls who'd make Soames a splendid wife.
07:24Though I'm sure I don't know who'd be good enough.
07:26I believe she has several coming to June's ball.
07:28Well, thanks for the warning.
07:30I'll go and disguise.
07:32Shall we be off, Pa?
07:33Thank you so much.
08:02Ah, Lady Carteret.
08:09Oh, dear.
08:10We were hoping to keep Miss Louisa to ourselves.
08:13My apologies.
08:15Do you know Mrs. Frances Forsyte?
08:18And her daughter, June?
08:22Good day to you.
08:24How do you do?
08:25We need a gown for June's 18th birthday ball.
08:28I hope you received our invitation.
08:30So kind.
08:34Try not to let Mrs. Forsyte monopolize you.
08:45Yes.
08:46If you'd please remove your coat.
08:48Yes.
08:49Obviously, this has to go.
08:52Sadly, she's been influenced by her father, who has his own eccentric views on fashion.
08:56Like wearing clothes, which actually let you move.
08:58So, a tight waistline, a bustle, potentially a train.
09:02Certainly, madam, if I may first take measurements.
09:07Yes, of course.
09:09Yes.
09:09Yes.
09:09Yes.
09:10Yes.
09:11Yes.
09:11Yes.
09:12Yes.
09:12Yes.
09:13I've other calls to make.
09:14I'll return.
09:14Yes.
09:15Oh, my God.
09:45Patrick, thank you. Here you are. Here you are, lad.
09:51Ah, good morning. How's the morning?
09:52Morning, Mr. Horser.
10:02For half a century, we have been preeminent among London's stockbroking elite.
10:08But lately, young upstarts have been snapping at our heels.
10:12So how do we maintain our supremacy?
10:14By not resting on our laurels.
10:17By seeking out new investments, new markets.
10:19By keeping our ear to the ground for information that we may be able to turn to our advantage.
10:24I have something.
10:26So, Sir Roger Armstrong, Durham mining clerk, is about to croak.
10:33Good God, he's barely 50.
10:34Of course, the family's keeping it close to their chest.
10:37Who will be taking over?
10:38The young lad, Charlie Armstrong.
10:39Well, that wastrel. Never done a day's work in his life.
10:43Precisely the point.
10:44When the news breaks, the share price will plummet.
10:46Not necessarily.
10:48It could hold steady, provided there's no loss of confidence.
10:50We should sell.
10:52Our stock, client's stock.
10:53Thus ensuring a loss of confidence.
10:54So where do you suggest our loyalty is lying?
10:57You know as well as I, a massive sale of stock will panic the markets.
11:00And some of our clients have their entire savings invested with us.
11:02If enough shareholders got together, they could force the company to appoint a steadier hand.
11:07Confidence could be restored.
11:14Excellent. Anything else?
11:18Have a good day. Onward.
11:24Obviously we'll sell.
11:26Obviously.
11:26Your mother is very beautiful.
11:33No.
11:34I don't take after her.
11:36Perhaps you favor your father?
11:38Oh, stepfather.
11:40Is he a good one?
11:41The best?
11:43Without him I'd have run away to see.
11:48What would you be if you could choose?
11:51Free?
11:52To go where I like?
11:54Meet who I want?
11:54Do you use my own gowns?
11:59And you?
12:00Would you be anything other than the best kept secret in London?
12:07I'm content.
12:07I'm content.
12:24My father was a visionary in every way except for one fatal flaw.
12:48His insistence that the company be passed from eldest son to eldest son, regardless of merit or aptitude.
12:54Ridiculous.
12:55My brother's had his moments.
12:56The company's prospered.
12:58But as for Joe, our so-called heir apparent, far inferior to you in every way.
13:06Still, there's a long way to go before my uncle dies.
13:09And by that time, Joe's utter unfitness for leadership will be clear.
13:14Whereas you will have demonstrated your credentials.
13:18I'm going to listen to God.
13:18I'll be right back to him.
14:39Well, had we stayed in Paris, you would not have had to scratch about London for tuition.
14:45But then I would not have met your dear stepmother, and then where would we be?
14:50Lost. Entirely without the sanity of an outside perspective.
14:53But my dear, the ballet, it's simply not a respectable profession.
15:03Well, you can't deny it attracts women of ill repute.
15:05And artists, of which my mother was one.
15:08And so must you be.
15:16Madame Lannis says there's no more she can teach me here.
15:19She thinks I should return to Paris, take my chance at the Croix de Ballet, if they'll have me.
15:24As for further securing our heritage, it's high time you were seeking an advantageous match.
15:29Look.
15:30Look.
15:30Papa?
15:56Papa, what is it?
15:58You're hot again?
15:59I knew it.
16:01I said we shouldn't go out.
16:02We're trying to stay indoors.
16:04I'll see you at home.
16:05Hipp, Paul, lean on me.
16:06May I be of assistance?
16:07Sir, how thoughtful.
16:08My husband has taken a turn.
16:09Hipp, permit me.
16:10You're very kind.
16:12May I call your carriage?
16:13Where do you live?
16:13Purtney, how generous of you, Mr.
16:16Foresight.
16:17Foresight?
16:19Foresight?
16:21What if it's Allard Harris?
16:25Clarissa Heron.
16:26Honoured to make your acquaintance.
16:29And yours.
16:29Wait here.
16:30I'll fetch you a carriage.
16:34So obliging of you, sir.
16:37Let me give you my card, miss.
16:39Oh, Heron.
16:40Irene.
16:41So, Miss Forsythe.
16:48A pleasure.
16:49Tell me about your day.
17:18I was measured for my gown.
17:24And Mama told me who was coming to my ball.
17:26Anyone you know?
17:28A few dull cousins.
17:30And a torrent of people who matter.
17:33No doubt you'll be flounced up like a meringue and served up for dessert.
17:39You guessed.
17:40I brought you these, Grandma and Mama.
17:45Oh, sweet boy.
17:51Oh, show Grandma and Mama the drawing.
17:53Isn't it wonderful?
18:04Don't encourage him.
18:04No, seriously.
18:07Don't.
18:08It isn't that the Forsythes dislike art.
18:13They understand its value, provided they can buy it and sell it.
18:17It's just they don't care for the artists, and they certainly don't wish to be related to them.
18:24Do we really have to be thinking of a match for June?
18:39The darling girl is an asset to be deployed strategically, as I was, hand-picked to ready you for rule.
18:51You are.
18:52If only I was the ruling type.
18:58You are, my love.
19:01You are my love.
19:02My love.
19:06My love.
19:10My love.
19:14My love.
19:16My love.
19:18My love.
19:44Are you coming, Mama?
19:46You said you'd read to us.
19:47I will, my darlings.
19:48Let me just finish this.
20:00You must write to Madame Grasse in Montmartre.
20:05Hopefully she'll have a room.
20:08Yes, Papa, but my first priority is to get you well again.
20:12You never compromise.
20:13You hold vast to your passion.
20:14You have the means to pursue it in thy will.
20:25Why are you saying this?
20:26Why are you saying this?
20:39There, there.
20:40Set me a place.
20:42France is omitted to order tripe, and I cannot abide breakfast without offal.
20:44Sir Jimmy Buckland's had electric lamps installed at his house.
20:59I believe your brother is considering them for next door.
21:03Look into it, Sam's.
21:05I'll be damned if he gets them before we do.
21:08Quite right, too.
21:09Well, you must be delighted.
21:22The will is entirely weighted in your favour.
21:26Purely to cover my expenses in Paris.
21:29But your share amply covers the lease on this house.
21:33With no change to your manner of living.
21:36OK.
21:37This is a mystery.
21:46It is a mystery.
21:51I bet you will miss Tetris.
21:53My sincere condolences, I saw the notice
22:21and felt compelled to pay my respects.
22:24That's so kind of you.
22:38He was my dearest friend.
22:41I hope family and friends will rally round.
22:45My stepmother is my only family.
22:49Mr. Forsyte!
22:56Oh, we are the reft.
22:58I doubt we shall ever recover.
23:00If there's anything I can do...
23:01There is.
23:02My husband's financial affairs are quite baffling.
23:06Any light you could shed.
23:08I'm entirely at your service.
23:10So, what I've done is create the impression of a corset without the whalebone structure.
23:21Where did you learn all this?
23:22I used to be a lady's maid and would have to repair her dresses.
23:25And when I came to London, I took in mending and set up as a seamstress.
23:30Are you coming, Mama?
23:31Oh, excuse me.
23:32We normally have tea at this hour.
23:35Would you like to join us?
23:37Yes.
23:38Oh, well, yes please.
23:40I'm ravenous.
23:48What I'd give for your life.
23:50It's so simple.
23:52Straightforward.
23:53Honestly, you don't know how lucky you are.
23:56Signature here.
24:07And have you had chance to look over the contracts for the Blackfriars purchase?
24:12Remind me.
24:13Land adjacent to the river acquired by the company with a view to development.
24:17Oh, yes.
24:18Canny piece of business.
24:19This is your doing, Joe tells me.
24:21I can't take all the credit.
24:22As the firm's attorney, your judgment is highly regarded, Mr. Cole.
24:25Please, come for me.
24:36Any savings?
24:37Property?
24:38My father's wealth was largely in shares.
24:52He was largely in shares. He was retired and lived off the dividends.
24:56Oh, yes. Yes, I see.
25:11Won't you excuse me for a moment?
25:13Any update on the Durham share price?
25:22Ah, yes. As a matter of fact.
25:27Congratulations. You did it.
25:31You're floated every share.
25:33You went behind my back knowing we had agreed to try and save the company.
25:37I considered it the best course of action.
25:39Did you? Leaving no time to finalize a rescue package.
25:42So the company has collapsed.
25:44It has.
25:45But you knew would happen.
25:47And still you went ahead with it, disregarding all the consequences.
25:50The consequences are that I've succeeded in protecting the bulk of our clients.
26:00Do you have a moment to look at some contracts?
26:12So I see that the majority of Professor Heron's estate was invested in a mining company.
26:27The Durham Mining Company?
26:29Yes.
26:30Yes.
26:36Ruined.
26:37Utterly.
26:41How could your father let this happen?
26:44As Mr. Forsyte explained, stock rises and falls as no one's fault.
26:47But how are we to live?
26:48We cannot entertain their cause.
26:49Even leave the house without risking ignominy.
26:53And I cannot go to Paris.
26:57And I cannot go to Paris.
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29:44Dear boy
29:46just can't help himself he's too impulsive by half.
29:49For the firm or the world in general?
29:51Both.
29:52Ours is a cutthroat business.
29:54And Soames, you see, and James, they are hard-headed, whereas Joe is...
29:59Led by the heart.
30:02But to prosper.
30:03Truly, as we have done, one has to be cold.
30:07Unsentimental.
30:09As I have been my whole life.
30:11And yet lately I have regretted sometimes.
30:16Well...
30:18Easy to say when one has amassed a great fortune.
30:23I believe the boy has the makings of a fine leader.
30:27Once he has acquired a little more...
30:29Ruthlessness?
30:31Yes.
30:32Of course I know little of business.
30:35But might there ever be a circumstance...
30:38Or a need...
30:40For Jolion to step up?
30:42Would he then not see the necessity of acquiring a little more steel?
30:48Quite possibly.
30:49Whilst absolutely retaining his principles.
30:52Yes.
30:53So what would this circumstance be?
30:54So what would this circumstance be?
30:55What would this circumstance be?
30:57The sheer extravagance of this wall?
30:58Of my life?
30:59Of this place?
31:03Of this place?
31:04I'm glad you're aware of the advantages you've been given.
31:05But I wish we were poor.
31:09My dressmaker in Soho.
31:10Her life.
31:11It's simple.
31:12She works hard.
31:13But I wish we were poor.
31:14My dressmaker in Soho.
31:15Her life.
31:16It's simple.
31:17She works hard.
31:18She's an artist.
31:19But...
31:20She answers to no one.
31:22No strictures.
31:23No rules.
31:24No obligation to marry well.
31:25There's no obligation to marry at all.
31:26There there's no obligation to marry at all.
31:39Isn't there?
31:40No obligation to writ at all, isn't there?
31:53Isn't there, in this family?
32:03Yeah, Mama.
32:08Uncanny how like you she is.
32:11They're not even a foresight born.
32:14So she might still escape.
32:18Will you?
32:23On my wedding day, I stood in this very room, brimming with hope.
32:28My whole life ahead of me.
32:31And then?
32:35I became a foresight.
32:44You won't be content till we have a stick to sit on.
32:46What choice do we have?
32:48How else do you propose to show up our future?
32:53There are other ways, that don't involve beggaring ourselves.
33:04Especially when one is in one's prime.
33:09Nothing.
33:10Nothing.
33:25Have we some appointment?
33:27I wasn't...
33:28Ah, good heavens.
33:29Is that...
33:31Is...
33:32Mr. Forsyth?
33:33Did he invite us?
33:34Did he invite us?
33:42Your hand up!
33:43Your hand up!
33:44Your hand up!
33:45Go!
33:46Your hand up!
34:00Yeah.
34:04Ele空!
34:05hello
34:13hello
34:13take this
34:16Mrs. Herron
34:21Mrs. Herron
34:23so good of you to come
34:26marvellous sport, Polo
34:28I've long been a fan
34:31I like to keep active
34:32desk work is stifling
34:34do you enjoy sports Mrs. Herron
34:36tennis and archery are my favourites
34:38may I offer you some tea
34:41how delightful
34:42so
34:49tonight
34:49at what hour
34:51leave it to me
34:53I know how to time things
34:57for maximum effect
34:58well
35:14show me
35:17I realise it's the function of youth to aggravate its elders
35:28but could you occasionally resist the impulse
35:30and allow me to take some pleasure in my child
35:33can you
35:34do you
35:37contrary to what you might think
35:39often
35:40and if I seem to dictate
35:43that is only because I was also once your age
35:47and I thought I knew best
35:48and did you
35:51I did not
35:53so humour me
35:56and allow me sometimes to offer you the benefit of hindsight
36:01as long as
36:04you allow me
36:06to make my own mistakes
36:08I will try
36:09and now may I see
36:16oh no Hannah it's impossible
36:42I can't
36:43there's a carriage here waiting to take you
36:45I can
37:14It will take time. I must replace the entire panel.
37:29Please be as quick as you can. The guests will soon be arriving.
37:32Sir Stanley and Lady Carteret, Miss Olivia and the Honourable Horatio Carteret, Mr.
37:59Carteret and Mrs. Isaac Cole.
38:06And what are Horatio's plans after Cambridge? I hope we'll see more of him in London.
38:11My grandson and his sister have a very full calendar, as I'm sure you'll appreciate.
38:18Mr. Forsyte.
38:20She'll do very well for you. Elevator's no end.
38:23Not wishing to upstage June's occasion, but Mrs. Cole and I have some news.
38:30The Cole dynasty is about to produce an heir.
38:34That's tremendous.
38:36Any advice on fatherhood? I can hardly think I'm the expert.
38:40June might disagree.
38:42Sir, Miss June is on her way. Would you excuse me?
38:47Excuse me.
38:48I sound excited.
39:13Miss June Forsyte.
39:15Forza.
39:42Oh, my God.
40:12Oh, my God.
40:42Oh, my God.
41:12Oh, my God.
41:42Her entry into society for what is life but a series of entrances and exits.
41:50As one steps out, another steps aside.
41:54As chairman of Foresight and Co., I have labored long for the greater glory in our little empire.
42:01But now I am wondering, has the time come for me to pass over the reins to my son, Joe?
42:13I tell you this now not to distract from your special day, but to rather augment it.
42:22A double celebration, if you will, to my son and granddaughter, both stepping up.
42:29Mrs. Byrne?
42:38Mrs. Byrne?
42:53Mrs. Byrne, a moment.
42:54There's someone I want you to meet.
42:57Papa!
42:58Papa!
42:59May I introduce you to a new friend?
43:02The most wonderful dressmaker.
43:04Mrs. Louise Brown.
43:05I have to speak with my cousins for a moment.
43:16I hope June is pleased with her gown.
43:21How are you here?
43:25Your wife came to my shop.
43:29How long have you been...
43:30In Soho.
43:31A long time.
43:34And are you married?
43:37Widowed.
43:41Since when?
43:43Many years.
43:44And you didn't think to tell me?
43:54Our lives are very different now.
43:57I must go.
43:58Louisa.
44:16After I left Venice, you...
44:18You promised to write.
44:20It was a difficult time.
44:22We were traveling.
44:24I had no way of reaching you.
44:27Nothing could ever have come of it.
44:28I was a lady's maid.
44:31You were the heir to a dynasty.
44:35I loved you.
44:39You would not have been allowed to love me.
44:45I must go.
44:47God bless you, Joe.
44:48I must go.
44:48God bless you, Joe.
44:58Yeah.
45:09Interesting decision.
45:10But you approve?
45:12Are you prepared?
45:14Is he...
45:15my brother would never have come to this alone
45:20it's her doing and hats off to her a man needs an ambitious wife if he's to scale the heights
45:29wasted mission of course the firm will go to the dogs with him in charge
45:35simply never had the killer instinct no matter others do
45:45so had you the least idea
45:55your father's announcement oh yes what on earth possessed him i never knew him to be so
46:07impulsive one wonders what he was like in his youth quite feral i should imagine not unlike
46:14yourself me rumor has it on your grand tour you blazed across europe leaving a trail of
46:23broken hearts why not we all deserve our moments of madness
46:29and then we grow up
46:35and then we grow up
46:40and then we grow up
46:54and then we grow up
46:59and then we grow up
47:03Don't move.
47:33Don't move.
47:49My apologies for calling unannounced.
47:51I'm afraid my stepmother is out. Am I yet telling you called?
47:54By all means.
47:55Forgive my presumption, but since I first met you and Mrs Heron,
48:00well, I suspect you've noticed where my attentions have been directed.
48:06I have.
48:11And may I just say, my stepmother is an admirable woman.
48:20Your stepmother?
48:22Yes.
48:25I-I sense perhaps a slight confusion.
48:29Admirable, as Mrs Heron is, she's not in fact the primary motivation for my visit.
48:36Uh...
48:39Miss Heron, I'm aware that your life must be in turmoil.
48:45The loss of your father, your financial difficulties.
48:48All I ask is to be considered a friend.
48:52A...
48:53A companion.
48:55To me.
48:56To you.
48:58Will you allow that?
49:01A friend would be most welcome.
49:12MMMM
49:21and if you do your lessons well perhaps when i finish miss carter's gown
49:44we might go to the park and eat ices oh may we please
49:52oh that'll be the laundress i'll get it thank you hannah
50:03forgive me i was passing and i wanted to thank miss spurn for saving the day last night
50:08absolutely mrs for sight oh you're more than welcome
50:13so you've been in london for ten years now and before that ireland as a lady's maid
50:26and europe did you ever travel italy perhaps uh well i am
50:36mama look at this picture well who are these charming persons
50:44i'm holly i'm joss we're twins but i'm the oldest only just
50:49and the tallest nobody cares joss is that it's what mama calls me although my proper name's jolian
51:02well i'm delighted to meet you both
51:15and thank you again for last night turned out to be quite the occasion
51:28so
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