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Molly Gibson, whose mother has long ago died, is brought up by her father Dr. Gibson. At the age of 17, Molly visits and immediately befriends the Hamleys, her neighbors, especially she and the youngest son Roger Hamley, studying in Cambridge, become good friends. This is when Dr. Gibson tells his daughter of his upcoming marriage to Hyacinth Kirkpatrick, a widower who also has a daughter around Molly's age, Cynthia.
Starring:
Justine Waddell
Bill Paterson
Francesca Annis
Keeley Hawes
Tom Hollander
Iain Glen
Anthony Howell
Michael Gambon
Molly Gibson, whose mother has long ago died, is brought up by her father Dr. Gibson. At the age of 17, Molly visits and immediately befriends the Hamleys, her neighbors, especially she and the youngest son Roger Hamley, studying in Cambridge, become good friends. This is when Dr. Gibson tells his daughter of his upcoming marriage to Hyacinth Kirkpatrick, a widower who also has a daughter around Molly's age, Cynthia.
Starring:
Justine Waddell
Bill Paterson
Francesca Annis
Keeley Hawes
Tom Hollander
Iain Glen
Anthony Howell
Michael Gambon
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00:00:00Mollie!
00:00:23Come on!
00:00:24Come here, little party.
00:00:25Molly, you're Mr. Bart.
00:00:27Come on.
00:00:29Come on.
00:00:31How do you do? How do you do?
00:00:33Very good to see you.
00:00:35And you.
00:00:37Very good to see you.
00:00:39Oh, my goodness.
00:00:41How do you do?
00:00:43How do you do?
00:00:45How do you do?
00:00:47Very good to see you.
00:00:49And you.
00:00:51Oh, my goodness.
00:00:53Very good to see you.
00:00:55Very good to see you.
00:01:05Too sweet.
00:01:07Oh, you're good to see you.
00:01:09You're not sorry.
00:01:11Yes, very sweet.
00:01:13Oh, my goodness.
00:01:15Oh, my goodness.
00:01:17Oh, my goodness.
00:01:19Oh, my goodness.
00:01:21I put my house inها.
00:01:23Oh, my goodness.
00:01:41Flera. who's that little girl?
00:01:43Oh.
00:01:45Poor little woman.
00:01:47She must have lost herself.
00:01:49Who do you belong to, child?
00:01:51Molly Gibson, please.
00:01:53I can with the Miss Brownings.
00:01:55Hollingford people, I see.
00:01:57She's very pale, Claire.
00:01:59Take her into the house and let her lie down in your room.
00:02:03I'll send in some food for her.
00:02:05Yes, of course, Lady Harriet.
00:02:07Come, dear.
00:02:15Take your shoes off and lie on the bed.
00:02:27See what kind Lady Harriet has sent for you.
00:02:45Will you take a little?
00:02:47No?
00:02:49Perhaps later.
00:02:51When you've had a little rest.
00:02:53Please, ma'am.
00:02:55Don't let them go without me.
00:02:57Time to go back with the Miss Brownings.
00:03:01Don't trouble yourself, dear.
00:03:03I'll take care.
00:03:23Well, at least that's over for another year.
00:03:33It's turning quite chilly.
00:03:35well at least that's over for another year oh it's turning quite chilly
00:03:52yeah get me my shawl oh bless us and save us what's this in the bed
00:03:59i'm only gibson please oh why i quite forgot about you never mind you can stay for supper and go home
00:04:09in the morning but i must go home my father would want me to make his tea for him well it can't be
00:04:15out now you should have overslept yourself in a strange house oh come don't cry
00:04:21i have a little girl who could think of nothing better than to stay in such a fine house but i
00:04:27have to leave her at home when i come here all will be well little one now brush your hair
00:04:32hmm and come down and have dessert with the other children
00:04:35ah you snap creature in the plate my throat she looks quite wild and strange french i dare say
00:04:52one together with children you know accents and so on bonsoir ma petite comment you t'appelle i don't
00:04:58know french ma'am i'm only molly gibson ah gibson i know the doctor's child oh oh i know all about you
00:05:06little woman who's been sleeping in my bed eh what who's been sleeping in my bed oh well little
00:05:15girl deluxe and what have you got to say in your defense eh if you please my lord it was the lady
00:05:21they call claire's bed not your lordships i stand rebuked i stand rebuked her father is here
00:05:27you can make your escape little woman i guess she'll be happier at home
00:05:34so what did you think of life on the rich books they were kind to me but i hope i never have to go
00:06:02there again nor shall you if you don't want to
00:06:06i'm so glad you came for me
00:06:10papa i should like to get a long chain and fasten us to each end of it
00:06:18then we can never lose each other so i'm to go about the country like a donkey with a clog tied to
00:06:25my leg is that it i wouldn't mind being a clog so long as we are fastened together
00:06:30not so sure i care to beat the donkey
00:06:32Oliver! come on!
00:06:34Oliver! come on!
00:06:35Oliver! come on!
00:06:39Oliver!
00:06:40Oliver!
00:06:45coming!
00:06:52And these are as well, if you will, gentlemen.
00:06:59Before I return.
00:07:10Do you reckon I have any chance for you, Tom?
00:07:12Why ask me?
00:07:13How should I know?
00:07:22She truly is the loveliest girl.
00:07:38Mariah.
00:07:39Yes, sir?
00:07:47Thank you, sir.
00:07:52Mariah.
00:08:01Come here.
00:08:03Mariah.
00:08:07Give me that note.
00:08:09But it's from Miss Molly, sir.
00:08:10He said I should give it into her own hands.
00:08:13Then you shall.
00:08:16Molly?
00:08:17Molly!
00:08:18Molly!
00:08:22Well, you'll come, Mariah.
00:08:23Shall I get us some tea?
00:08:26What is it?
00:08:28Give her the note, Mariah, and then you make off.
00:08:34Do you have any idea who that might be from, Molly?
00:08:37No.
00:08:38Good.
00:08:38Give it to me.
00:08:42Then off you go.
00:08:43You can see back to your scales.
00:08:44Am I not to know who it's from?
00:08:46Not at present.
00:08:49My pupils and I are engaged in an ethical debate, Molly.
00:08:53Mr Cox here was arguing for kill or cure.
00:08:57If we cannot recover the patient, we should put him out of his misery.
00:09:01Oh, indeed, sir.
00:09:02I didn't quite say that.
00:09:03You implied that, Mr Cox.
00:09:04And look how you've shocked poor Mr Wynne.
00:09:08Mr Wynne disapproves of homicide, I believe.
00:09:10Well, of course I do, sir.
00:09:12But my own view is that it doesn't do to make away with profitable patients.
00:09:16As long as they can pay their two and six a visit,
00:09:18then it is our duty to keep them alive as long as possible.
00:09:22If they can't pay, of course, well, that's an entirely different matter.
00:09:25But really, sir?
00:09:26Father.
00:09:27What?
00:09:28Mr Wynne, you know Father goes every day to see old Mrs Grant,
00:09:31who hasn't got a penny, and she has the most expensive medicine that can be got.
00:09:34Well, even I find it difficult to live up to my precepts all the time.
00:09:38Never mind, Mr Wynne, your virtue does you credit.
00:09:42Some men have no principles at all.
00:09:47Oh, gentlemen, time to get back to your slavery.
00:09:49I want to give up.
00:10:10Master Cox, I have a prescription for you.
00:10:37Beg your pardon, sir.
00:10:38One ounce of modesty, two ounces of duty, one grain of deference, taken three times
00:10:44per day in aqua pura.
00:10:47That should cool the burning passion which I understand you'd be suffering from.
00:10:53I don't think it was the conduct of a gentleman, sir, to...
00:10:56Intercept my letter and open it and read words that were never addressed to you.
00:11:00If you had come to me and told me that you loved my daughter, that would have been honourable.
00:11:03Now I must write to your father and ask him to remove you from my household and tell him
00:11:07the reason why.
00:11:07I beg you wouldn't do that, sir.
00:11:09I should have told you, sir, but I knew you'd be angry with me and forbid it.
00:11:16And I do love Miss Gibson, sir, very dearly.
00:11:19Who could help it?
00:11:22Well, by accident or design, you've managed to say the right thing for once.
00:11:29Can I take it that this letter is your first attempt and she's unaware of your passion otherwise?
00:11:36Yes, sir.
00:11:37Good.
00:11:39Now listen to me, Mr Cox.
00:11:42This is a motherless girl of barely seventeen.
00:11:45She's too young for all this and it is not what you are here for.
00:11:49Now if you could give me your word that there'll be no more of this nonsense, then perhaps I'll
00:11:53reconsider and let you stay.
00:11:55Do you understand?
00:11:57Yes, sir.
00:11:58Good.
00:11:58In any case, my daughter is leaving us very soon to pay an extended visit to Squire and
00:12:04Mrs Hamley at Hamley Hall.
00:12:07This afternoon?
00:12:12Why don't you want to go, Goosey?
00:12:14I don't know.
00:12:16I was never away without you before.
00:12:18Well, everything must have a beginning.
00:12:21Mrs Hamley has been asking to meet you for a long time.
00:12:24She's not well, poor lady, and I think that I just must be unselfish.
00:12:29But why must it all be so sudden?
00:12:33There's another reason, isn't there, and it's something to do with that note and you don't
00:12:36want to tell me what it is.
00:12:37You're a witch, Goosey.
00:12:39I've got a good reason, and I know that you'll be a good girl, and you'll trust me on it.
00:12:44I haven't any gowns fit to wear.
00:12:47Well, how's a man to know when his daughter needs clothes, hmm?
00:12:50Go to Miss Rosie's.
00:12:51Get yourself whatever you need in the way of frocks and hats.
00:12:54Miss Rosie's?
00:12:55Well, it seems you're a young woman now, and you'll have to learn to run up bills with
00:13:00the best of them.
00:13:02Here's ten pounds.
00:13:03Ten pounds?
00:13:04Now, pray don't thank me.
00:13:05I don't want the money spent, and I don't want you to go and leave me.
00:13:08Papa, you're getting mysterious again.
00:13:11Now, go away and spend your ten pounds.
00:13:14What did I give it to you for but to keep you quiet?
00:13:16Come this way, if you please.
00:13:30Miss Gibson, ma'am.
00:13:56Come, Molly.
00:14:04May I call you Molly?
00:14:06Yes, please.
00:14:07I wish you were...
00:14:07How good of you to come.
00:14:10Let me look at you.
00:14:14Good.
00:14:16I think we should be great friends.
00:14:18I like your face.
00:14:20Come, let me show you where you are to sleep.
00:14:23Your room, my dear.
00:14:39I like it very much.
00:14:40I've had you put close to me.
00:14:41I thought you'd like it better.
00:14:43Though the room's not large.
00:14:44Are...
00:14:56Are those your sons, Mrs. Hamley?
00:15:00Yes.
00:15:02Well guessed.
00:15:06That's...
00:15:07Osborne's seated and Roger's standing.
00:15:10Of course, they're grown now.
00:15:11They're both up at Cambridge.
00:15:12Osborne's very brilliant
00:15:15and expected to get a fellowship.
00:15:18I like their faces.
00:15:20You must miss them very much when they're away.
00:15:22Oh, yes, I do.
00:15:24That's why.
00:15:26I'm so happy
00:15:27to have you staying with us.
00:15:30Oh,
00:15:31I see you've bought your sewing with you.
00:15:34Like a good girl.
00:15:35I don't so much.
00:15:38I read
00:15:39a great deal.
00:15:44Do you like reading, too?
00:15:46Yes.
00:15:47Well,
00:15:48it depends on the sort of book.
00:15:50I'm afraid I don't much like
00:15:51steady reading,
00:15:52as Papa calls it.
00:15:54Do you like poetry?
00:15:56Oh, yes,
00:15:56I do like poetry.
00:15:58Then I must show you
00:15:58some of Osborne's one day.
00:16:00Mr. Osborne Hamley.
00:16:02Is he a poet?
00:16:03Yes.
00:16:04I really think I could say
00:16:06he's a poet.
00:16:08He's very
00:16:08handsome.
00:16:09Yes.
00:16:12He was a beautiful boy
00:16:13and he's grown into
00:16:14a beautiful young man.
00:16:17Roger was never to be compared
00:16:18with him.
00:16:20I like his face,
00:16:21but
00:16:21he isn't like Mr. Osborne
00:16:23at all,
00:16:24is he?
00:16:25No,
00:16:25and he's not likely
00:16:26to have such
00:16:27a brilliant career.
00:16:31But he's a good,
00:16:32dear fellow
00:16:33for all that.
00:16:35Mm-hmm.
00:16:54Mm-hmm.
00:16:57Mm-hmm.
00:16:59God bless my soul.
00:17:16I'd forgotten all about you.
00:17:19You're Gibson's daughter, aren't you?
00:17:21Come to pay us a visit, I remember.
00:17:24Well, I must say I'm glad to see you, my dear.
00:17:27Very glad indeed.
00:17:29Well, well, well.
00:17:31Set it in all right, have you?
00:17:33Yes, thank you, sir.
00:17:34Yeah, of course.
00:17:35Well, I must go and dress.
00:17:38Can't go in like this.
00:17:40Madam wouldn't like it.
00:17:41She's broken me into her fine London ways.
00:17:45And I'm all the better for it, I dare say.
00:17:49Now, see this?
00:17:51Tomorrow I shall have you do this for me, Miss Gibson.
00:17:54Well, I'll do it tonight, if you like, sir.
00:17:56No, no.
00:17:57Today you're a visitor.
00:17:58Tomorrow I'll send you an errands and call you by your Christian name.
00:18:02Molly, is it?
00:18:04Yes.
00:18:05Well, I was christened Mary, but Mama was Mary, so I was called Molly while she lived.
00:18:10And so I still am.
00:18:13Ah, yes.
00:18:14Your Mama, poor thing.
00:18:16I remember how sorry everyone was when she died.
00:18:19Yeah.
00:18:19No one thought she was delicate.
00:18:21She had just a fresh colour.
00:18:23Then all at once, she just popped off, as you might say.
00:18:25It must have been a terrible blow to your father.
00:18:31Aye.
00:18:31But I would have thought he'd have married again by now, wouldn't you?
00:18:35Well, perhaps I'd better not have said it, but it's the truth.
00:18:38Everyone thought he would, but he didn't.
00:18:40I suppose he's likely to now.
00:18:42He's past 40, isn't he?
00:18:43I never thought he might want to marry again.
00:18:45Molly, my dear, really.
00:18:48You shouldn't mind what the squire says.
00:18:51Your father seems to me just like the sort of man who would remain constant to the memory of his wife.
00:19:05Principles of genealogy.
00:19:07It's a rather wild idea.
00:19:08Where are the Lamarques?
00:19:09I think they'll round up to the Lamarques' point of view.
00:19:11And also that.
00:19:12What, the ducks get webbed feet because they swim?
00:19:15I know, it tickled me at first, but a doctor knows more about membranes than that.
00:19:19Pretty persuasive in a lot of kind of way, though.
00:19:20It could be...
00:19:22Ah.
00:19:25Lord Hollingford, I'm to bring Mr Gibson to your mother.
00:19:29You remember, Mrs Kirkpatrick?
00:19:30Come and find me before you leave.
00:19:32I'll be in the Lamarques' point of view.
00:19:37But surely, um...
00:19:39We've, uh...
00:19:40I expect you to remember me as Miss Clare.
00:19:43I was here years ago as the girl's governess.
00:19:46Oh, yes.
00:19:46And you caught scarlet fever when they did, I remember.
00:19:49We were both much younger then, I think.
00:19:51Oh, yes, indeed.
00:19:53You know what?
00:19:53I was thinking of myself.
00:19:55Oh, come, Mr Gibson.
00:19:56If you were much younger then, so was I.
00:19:58Is Mr Kirkpatrick here with you?
00:20:02Oh, no.
00:20:03No, I'm afraid Alfred died a long while ago, when our little girl was only four.
00:20:09Indeed.
00:20:10I have a school at Ashcombe now.
00:20:12And it's a summer holiday, so when Lady Kamner needed a companion, I was able to come.
00:20:17And, of course, she asked for me particularly, and I'm never happier than when I'm at the Towers.
00:20:23I think you met my little Molly here on one of your visits.
00:20:27Yes.
00:20:27Yes, indeed.
00:20:29I can still see her sweet face on my pillow.
00:20:33You were very kind to her, Abelie.
00:20:34Yes, I wished I could thank you at the time.
00:20:48Yes, there's a slight irregularity, but nothing to cause concern, Lady Kamner.
00:20:55I make up a draft for you to take at night.
00:20:57Apart from that, plenty of light dishes, nothing too rich, no game, and no strong cheese.
00:21:04Try to walk every day, half a mile, no more.
00:21:08And don't sit up too late at night.
00:21:10And that's all.
00:21:12Thank you, Mr. Gibson.
00:21:14Such a pleasure being told what to do for once.
00:21:20How, um...
00:21:22How do you find Claire, now that you see her again?
00:21:26Do you think she looks well, Mr. Gibson?
00:21:28Very well, indeed.
00:21:30The years have been kinder to her than they have to me, I think.
00:21:32Oh, don't disparage yourself, Mr. Gibson.
00:21:36Ladies like an active man, such as yourself, to look a little weather-beaten.
00:21:45Claire's had a difficult time of it, you know, and managed very bravely, bringing up a daughter, single-handed.
00:21:51As you have yourself, indeed.
00:21:56How is she getting on, that little woman of yours?
00:21:59Well enough, I think.
00:22:01That it's been born in of me, who lays, how much she misses by not having a mother's care.
00:22:08Even Lord Hollingford said something of the sort in passing, you know, the other day.
00:22:13Indeed.
00:22:14Perhaps I've been selfish, thinking that I could give the girl all that she needs in a way of care and affection and guidance in life.
00:22:22You know, her happiness means more to me than anything.
00:22:26Well, perhaps her happiness and your comfort might be secured by the same means.
00:22:33Ah.
00:22:36Perhaps they might.
00:22:37Ah, look, there he goes. Look, a heron.
00:22:43I've never seen a heron before. Only in pictures.
00:22:46Rooks don't like him. Rooks and herons always at war.
00:22:50If my boy Roger was with us, he'd tell you a deal of things like that.
00:22:54You could show him a cobweb, and he'd tell you what sort of spider made it.
00:22:58Really?
00:22:59Mm-hmm.
00:23:00It's a pity they don't reckon such things at the university.
00:23:02If they did, Roger would be top of the class.
00:23:04But Mr. Osborne Hamley is very clever, isn't he?
00:23:07Oh, yes. Osborne's a bit of a genius.
00:23:09I was saying at the Manchesterates meeting, I've got a son who'll make a noise at Cambridge, and I'm very much mistaken.
00:23:15Mrs. Hamley let me read his poems.
00:23:17Did she? Did she?
00:23:19And did you like them?
00:23:21Oh, yes.
00:23:22I can't be reading poetry myself.
00:23:25I understand they're very good, very deep, you know, but, um, Roger's a good lad too, you know.
00:23:31Good, steady lad.
00:23:31Ah, now there's my pet project.
00:23:36I'm going to drain all that land yonder.
00:23:38Good work for the men, good work for the land.
00:23:41Someone will leave behind me when I'm gone.
00:23:43Well, that's what we're here for, we're told.
00:23:45Leave the world the better place than the way we found it, eh?
00:23:47Damn it!
00:24:02What's that wretched boy about?
00:24:04I was told he's as good as wanted already!
00:24:07Yes, but I'm afraid he didn't do well enough in his examination.
00:24:10He said himself, he was sure to be high up among the rangers, or whatever you call them.
00:24:16Bad sips and all.
00:24:18Out did he have gone and spared him!
00:24:21Molly!
00:24:22Come here, my love.
00:24:23You mustn't let it upset you.
00:24:27He'll soon be himself again.
00:24:30Roger's returned to tell us that Osborne has done very poorly in his examination.
00:24:36It's quite unexpected, and the squire has taken it very badly.
00:24:40He doesn't understand about Cambridge.
00:24:42He was never at college himself.
00:24:44Oh!
00:24:48Paul.
00:24:49Paul Osborne.
00:24:50But he can sit again, can't he?
00:24:53Well, failure isn't the end of everything.
00:24:55Of course you're quite right.
00:24:56But Roger says he has very little chance of a fellowship.
00:24:59And the squire...
00:25:01He put all his hopes on that.
00:25:06I don't think Mr. Roger should have told.
00:25:09He had no need to begin so soon about his brother's failure.
00:25:12No, my dear, you don't understand. Roger is a good boy.
00:25:15But it's such a comfort having you here, child.
00:25:18And your being a fourth at dinner is a blessing, too.
00:25:20At times like this, a stranger in the house is a wonderful help.
00:25:24Go on, get out of this house!
00:25:36It's a bottle of Burgundy with a yellow seal, Robinson.
00:25:39If you please, sir.
00:25:41There's not about six bottles of that one left.
00:25:44It's Mr. Osborne's favourite.
00:25:46It's a bottle of it, as I told you.
00:25:49Yes, sir.
00:25:50Mr. Osborne's likes and Mr. Osborne's dislikes
00:25:53have been luring this house long enough, in my opinion.
00:25:55How is your father, Miss Gibson?
00:26:01And when he next day is to favour us with his company, I shall tell himself myself.
00:26:06Your father is well?
00:26:07Yes.
00:26:08Quite well, thank you.
00:26:11I shall look forward to having a talk with him when he has the time.
00:26:13He's the cleverest man in the county, I think.
00:26:17And has the best science library, apart from Lord Hollingford, of course.
00:26:20Oh, he's a good man, Gibson.
00:26:22He never felt the need to go to Cambridge University
00:26:24and dash his family's hopes for him to pieces.
00:26:26My dear.
00:26:27Well, I don't suppose he failed his tripos, or whatever you call it, on purpose.
00:26:33But he might have had the courage to come home and tell it so himself
00:26:36instead of leaving poor Roger there to bear the brunt of it.
00:26:38Perhaps that's what he did mean to do if he'd been given the chance.
00:26:46I didn't get any pleasure from it, Miss Gibson, if that's what you imagine.
00:26:52I wish it had been I that failed my examination rather than Osborne,
00:26:56for then no one would have taken it amiss.
00:27:03That's an unusual dress, Molly.
00:27:06Is it the tartan of your father's clan, perhaps?
00:27:10No.
00:27:12Papa said it was not like any proper tartan he'd seen.
00:27:15He said it was quite outlandish.
00:27:17Although Miss Rose said it was very popular last season in London.
00:27:21Well, I think it's very pretty.
00:27:24Don't you, Roger?
00:27:26Very.
00:27:28Very.
00:27:28Very.
00:27:28Very.
00:27:28Very.
00:27:28Very.
00:27:28Very.
00:27:28Very.
00:27:29Very.
00:27:29Very.
00:27:30Very.
00:27:31Very.
00:27:32Very.
00:27:33Very.
00:27:34Very.
00:27:35Very.
00:27:36Very.
00:27:37Very.
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00:27:56Very.
00:27:56It seems a shame to wake her.
00:28:14Yes, very well.
00:28:15I can call back later.
00:28:27Oh, but you mustn't leave in this rain.
00:28:32Store me well.
00:28:33Yes.
00:28:34Cynthia, my daughter, sends word that for two days last week the packet could not sail from Boulogne.
00:28:41Miss Kirkpatrick is at Boulogne?
00:28:43Yes. Yes, she's been there for two years, Poe, so.
00:28:47She's learning French, amongst other things.
00:28:51Cynthia is a very romantic name. It's hardly fit for everyday use.
00:28:57It was my name, Mr Gibson. She was named for me.
00:29:01I was called Hyacinth Clare, and once upon a time I found that name.
00:29:06Well, I was very proud of it, and other people found it pretty, too.
00:29:10But perhaps you're right. Such a flowery name might excite prejudice in some.
00:29:16And poor child, she's going to have enough to struggle with in her life.
00:29:20A young daughter is a great charge when there's only one parent to take care of her.
00:29:25Aye, it's hard for a child to be fatherless.
00:29:28But to be motherless, no.
00:29:31Might that not be a greater misfortune for a young girl?
00:29:35I'm sure your Molly is most fortunate to have a father so devoted to her happiness.
00:29:40Very kind, but even so, I cannot be mother and father to her.
00:29:47And now, just now, she's becoming a woman.
00:29:50Yes, yes, she must be near my Cynthia's age.
00:29:53How I should love to see her.
00:29:55I hope you will.
00:29:57I should like you to see her.
00:30:00I should like you to love my poor little Molly.
00:30:05To love her as your own.
00:30:07Could you love her as your daughter?
00:30:11Will you try?
00:30:12May I introduce you to her as a future mother?
00:30:16As my wife?
00:30:17Oh, Mr. Gibbs.
00:30:19My dear.
00:30:21My dearest.
00:30:25Oh, I'm so sorry.
00:30:26I'm so happy.
00:30:29If you only knew what a long, lonely struggle it has been for me.
00:30:34Miss Clare, that struggle is a thing of the past.
00:30:37My Hyacinth.
00:30:38I hate Clare.
00:30:39It reminds me of being a governess, and those days have gone at last, aren't they?
00:30:43We are, my dearest.
00:30:44They're gone forever.
00:30:45Then call me Hyacinth.
00:30:47Oh, your own dearest.
00:30:50Oh, my dearest.
00:30:51Oh, my dearest.
00:31:17Molly?
00:31:20Oh, my dearest.
00:31:21Oh, my dearest.
00:31:22Oh, my dearest.
00:31:23Oh, my dearest.
00:31:23Oh, my dearest.
00:31:24Molly?
00:31:26Hmm?
00:31:29Papa?
00:31:33Papa?
00:31:34Papa!
00:31:34Papa!
00:31:35I was afraid you were unwell.
00:31:39No, I'm very well.
00:31:40But I woke so very early this morning, and I was out in the fields, and then it got too
00:31:44hot.
00:31:45I meant to watch for you.
00:31:47Truly, I did.
00:31:48How are you?
00:31:50How is everyone?
00:31:51Miss Browning?
00:31:51Miss Phoebe?
00:31:53Do you know, Papa, I don't think you're looking well.
00:31:56I don't look well.
00:31:57That must be all your fancy.
00:31:58I am well.
00:32:00In fact, I am uncommonly well.
00:32:03All the same, you need me at home to take care of you.
00:32:06I do like it here, and everyone is very kind.
00:32:10What is it?
00:32:12Is it something bad?
00:32:14Not at all.
00:32:15Well, I have a piece of news for you.
00:32:18Can you guess what it is?
00:32:20How should I?
00:32:22Well, my love, I think you have felt, as I have, the difficulty of your situation, of
00:32:29a girl growing up.
00:32:33You have felt the lack, as I have, of...
00:32:35You're going to be married again.
00:32:39Yes.
00:32:41To Mrs. Kirkpatrick.
00:32:43You remember her?
00:32:44They call her Claire at the towers.
00:32:46You recollect how kind she was to you that day you were left there.
00:32:49She's a very suitable age for me.
00:32:52She has very agreeable and polished manners, so you and I will have to watch our peas in
00:32:56Q's, Goosey.
00:32:57And last but not least, she has a daughter about your age who will come and live with
00:33:01us and be a sister for you.
00:33:03So that's why I was sent away?
00:33:05So that all this could be quietly arranged in my absence?
00:33:12Oh, my God!
00:33:34Papa, if you would only come back.
00:33:46Miss Gibson?
00:33:53Oh.
00:33:55Is it lunchtime?
00:33:59I don't know. It must be nearly. I was on my way home to lunch.
00:34:04But look, you're in distress. Has something happened?
00:34:09Can I be of any help?
00:34:12I don't mean to intrude. If you'd rather be alone, just say so, and I'll go at once.
00:34:17No, it's all right. I don't mind.
00:34:22Then shall we walk back together?
00:34:23No. There's nothing.
00:34:29Please don't wait for me. I should be all right in a little while.
00:34:34No, I think I should...
00:34:39My father's going to marry again.
00:34:49And you're sorry for it?
00:34:50You know, it must be very hard for a man to go through life without companionship.
00:35:03Female companionship, I mean.
00:35:04He had me. You don't know what we were to each other.
00:35:08At least what he was to me.
00:35:11Still, he must have thought it for the best.
00:35:14Perhaps for your sake, even more than for his own.
00:35:16That's what he tried to convince me of.
00:35:21Do you know the woman he's engaged himself to?
00:35:24No.
00:35:26Well, that is...
00:35:27I met her once when I was a little girl.
00:35:31Everybody said she was kind to me.
00:35:33She let me rest on her bed and then she forgot all about me.
00:35:35I don't think she cares for other people very much at all.
00:35:43Miss Gibson, Molly.
00:35:47You probably won't like me for saying this, but...
00:35:50It doesn't do any good to prejudge people.
00:35:53Especially on the bad side.
00:35:55We have to give things a chance to turn out well.
00:35:57It might be for the best, after all, you know?
00:36:06Do you like my sermons?
00:36:10Have they given you an appetite for lunch?
00:36:11Hey.
00:36:13Hey.
00:36:19Come.
00:36:20I do know what you must be feeling.
00:36:29You must have thought me very hard on you.
00:36:31I'm not very good at expressing myself.
00:36:33Somehow I must fall into philosophising.
00:36:37But I do feel very sorry for you.
00:36:38I shall often be thinking of you.
00:36:41Though I dare say it's...
00:36:42It's not just me.
00:36:43Yeah, no.
00:36:50Come and have a look.
00:36:59Come and have a look.
00:37:20That's one of the tiny creatures I fished out of the pond this morning.
00:37:25Do you see?
00:37:28Strange it looks.
00:37:30It should all look pretty strange under a microscope.
00:37:34Yes.
00:37:36I expect we would.
00:37:41Ah, Molly.
00:37:44There you are.
00:37:45Oh, Mrs. Hamley, I did behave so badly to my father this morning.
00:37:50Never mind, child.
00:37:53You can make all well tomorrow.
00:37:55Oh.
00:37:55Oh.
00:37:55Oh.
00:37:55Oh.
00:37:55Oh.
00:37:55Oh.
00:37:55Oh.
00:37:55Oh.
00:37:55Oh.
00:37:55Oh.
00:37:57Oh.
00:37:57Oh.
00:37:58Oh.
00:37:59Oh.
00:38:00Oh.
00:38:01Oh.
00:38:02Oh.
00:38:03Oh.
00:38:04Oh.
00:38:05Oh.
00:38:06Oh.
00:38:07Oh.
00:38:08Oh.
00:38:09Oh.
00:38:10Oh.
00:38:11Oh.
00:38:12Oh.
00:38:13Oh.
00:38:14Oh.
00:38:14Oh.
00:38:15Morning, sir.
00:38:16Mind I?
00:38:17Thank you, sir.
00:38:19Go on.
00:38:21Oh, Papa.
00:38:23There, there, Goosey.
00:38:25That'll do.
00:38:26I know all that you want to say.
00:38:28And you really, truly forgive me?
00:38:31It's all forgotten, Goosey.
00:38:33Now, I brought you an invitation.
00:38:38A lady come, though, wants you to go and spend an afternoon at the towers.
00:38:42Or must I go?
00:38:43Or must I go?
00:38:44I want you and Hyacinth to get to know each other, since she's to be your mother.
00:38:49Hyacinth?
00:38:50Yes.
00:38:51I know it's the silliest name I ever heard, but it's hers, and I must call her by it.
00:38:56And the worst is, she's named her daughter after her.
00:39:00Cynthia.
00:39:01Now, the wedding is at Michaelmas, and Cynthia is to come for it, and that's why I want you
00:39:08to get to know Hyacinth now, and learn to love each other.
00:39:11work for her.
00:39:12Can I say death?
00:39:13Well, you want me to play a game for you?
00:39:14Well, look.
00:39:15Come, darling Molly, I can't tell you how I've been looking forward to this.
00:39:16Come, come and sit down, and let me look at you.
00:39:21Molly, I can't tell you how I've been looking forward to this.
00:39:25Come, come and sit down and let me look at you.
00:39:35What eyes.
00:39:37So like your dear father.
00:39:41You must know how nervous I feel, so you'll help me, won't you?
00:39:44I know how much he loves you and we love each other too, won't we, for his sake.
00:39:49I'll try.
00:39:51Oh, so like him.
00:39:53The same hair.
00:39:54Papa's is going grey.
00:39:56Is it?
00:39:57I never see it.
00:39:58I shall never see it.
00:39:59To me, he'll always be the handsomest of men.
00:40:02Oh, and he's so fond of you, dear.
00:40:05I mean, you don't know how he speaks of you.
00:40:06Sometimes I'm almost jealous.
00:40:10We'll make him so happy.
00:40:13And you must tell me all his little likes and dislikes,
00:40:16because of course you must know them and you must be my little friend and helper.
00:40:19I don't think he's so particular about a lot of things.
00:40:23But there is one thing he's very fidgety about.
00:40:25He likes his meals to be very punctual.
00:40:29You see, he's often had a long ride and there's another long ride to come
00:40:32and sometimes he only has half an hour or even less to eat his dinner in.
00:40:37Thank you, my own love.
00:40:38That's just the sort of thing I mean.
00:40:40He doesn't care what he has so long as it's ready.
00:40:42He'd as soon eat bread and cheese as anything else.
00:40:45Bread and cheese?
00:40:46Mr. Gibson eats cheese?
00:40:48Yes.
00:40:49He's very fond of it.
00:40:51Then we'll soon cure him of that.
00:40:53It's so coarse and strong smelling, I can't abide the smell of cheese.
00:40:57And I know that he'd be sorry to annoy me.
00:40:59But the power's always...
00:41:01Yes, my...
00:41:02Tell me about Cynthia.
00:41:05When is she to come?
00:41:06Oh, well, I know your father's begged for her to come to the wedding,
00:41:09but I think we should think about it just a little bit before quite fixing it.
00:41:14I do so want to see her.
00:41:15Is she very clever and accomplished?
00:41:17She ought to be.
00:41:18I've spent ever so much money, well, Lord Cummler has,
00:41:21on having her taught by the best masters.
00:41:23My little daughter, Lady Cummler.
00:41:35Nonsense, Claire.
00:41:36She's not your daughter yet and may never be.
00:41:39One third of the engagements I have ever heard of never came to marriages.
00:41:44Well, my dear, I'm glad to see you for your father's sake.
00:41:49And when I get to know you better, I hope it will be for your own.
00:41:56Mmm!
00:41:57I like her looks, Claire.
00:41:59You might make something very good of her.
00:42:03Why don't you take her back to the school at Ashcombe
00:42:06and let her stay with you until the wedding?
00:42:08Now, is that a capital scheme or is it not?
00:42:12Oh, but, my lady...
00:42:13I don't think it would be nice at all.
00:42:16I mean, my lady, I should dislike it very much.
00:42:21It would take me away from Papa just these very few last weeks we have together.
00:42:27Oh, she expresses herself very frankly.
00:42:30Not, but what there's a good deal of truth in what she says.
00:42:34It must be very disagreeable, my dear,
00:42:37to have a stepmother coming in between your father and yourself.
00:42:40I see that.
00:42:41Whatever the advantage is in the long one.
00:42:45She knows her own mind, Claire.
00:42:49I think you'll have your work cut out there.
00:42:52How are you?
00:43:09Was it a very trying day?
00:43:12I thought about you more than once.
00:43:14I did try to remember what you said and to think more of Elizabeth.
00:43:19But it's so difficult.
00:43:20I know.
00:43:22But you know you'll be happier for it, am I?
00:43:24No, I shan't.
00:43:25And if I'm to kill myself as it were,
00:43:27trying to think and behave as other people want me to,
00:43:29I feel I might as well never have lived.
00:43:31And as for the happiness you speak of,
00:43:33well, I shall never be happy again.
00:43:35There, Mr. Gitson.
00:43:47If anyone had left more,
00:43:48I'd have a couple of eggs to see.
00:43:51There.
00:43:52Can we go to the house?
00:43:53Miss Browning?
00:44:05Miss Phoebe?
00:44:07I hardly know where to start,
00:44:10but as you were both such old and dear friends of my wife, Mary,
00:44:16and so kind to Molly...
00:44:19How, Miss dear Molly?
00:44:20She's been going away such a long time.
00:44:22I think it was necessary, I'm afraid.
00:44:26One of my young men, Mr. Cox,
00:44:29fancied himself in love with her.
00:44:31Heavens?
00:44:32And has she got over Mr. Cox?
00:44:33Well, he has got over her, I hope,
00:44:35and left us.
00:44:36Oh, I do like hearing of a love with her.
00:44:38Well, if you just let me get on,
00:44:39then you shall hear of mine.
00:44:42Yours?
00:44:43Bless us and save us.
00:44:45What next?
00:44:46My marriage, I hope.
00:44:50And that is what I have come to speak to you about.
00:44:52It seemed to me that my house needed a mistress again,
00:44:58and that Molly needed a mother's care.
00:45:02Quite right, Mr. Gibson.
00:45:04Of course, it's been an anxious thing for me to decide who I should ask,
00:45:09but the lady that I have chosen.
00:45:16Tell us at once who she is.
00:45:18There's a good man.
00:45:20Mrs. Goodpatrick.
00:45:22Used to be governess at the Tars.
00:45:25Oh.
00:45:28She's a very elegant-looking woman.
00:45:31Nonsense, sister.
00:45:32What's elegance got to do with it?
00:45:34Men don't marry women for their elegance.
00:45:37Not widowers, at any rate.
00:45:40So what was the favour you came to ask for, Mr. Gibson?
00:45:43Do sit still.
00:45:45I wanted to ask if you'll have Molly to stay
00:45:48while Mrs. Gibson and I are on our wedding journey.
00:45:52Well, you might have asked us last time,
00:45:54before you asked Madam Hamley.
00:45:55We're your old friends,
00:45:56and her mother's friends too,
00:45:58although we're not county folk,
00:46:00who you like to spend all your time with nowadays.
00:46:02And that's unjust, and you know it, Miss Broglie.
00:46:04Well, maybe it is and maybe it isn't.
00:46:06But at all events.
00:46:12Of course, little Molly may stay with us
00:46:14as long as she likes.
00:46:16Yes, as long as she likes.
00:46:28There's no call for sighing, Phoebe.
00:46:30I don't know how you could ever have got the notion
00:46:32that Mr. Gibson would think of you.
00:46:36Good morning, my lord.
00:46:43Good morning, Preston.
00:46:50Mrs. Kirkpatrick.
00:46:59Such a happy day for you.
00:47:01A pity Miss Kirkpatrick will miss the wedding.
00:47:04She would have been a charming addition to the bridal party.
00:47:07For Cynthia could not be spared from school.
00:47:10Dommage.
00:47:14Ah, Claire.
00:47:16Oh, you are looking very pretty.
00:47:18Come along in.
00:47:20That's the idea.
00:47:21Oh, don't crease your dress now.
00:47:23Put it over my knees, I shan't mind.
00:47:26Going to a wedding, who minds anything?
00:47:28Different if we were going to a funeral, what?
00:47:31Miss Gibson?
00:47:36And will Miss Kirkpatrick be about from France?
00:47:38I don't know.
00:47:39What is she like?
00:47:43Very beautiful.
00:47:44And I expect she's very clever and accomplished too, isn't she?
00:47:48I suppose she is, yes.
00:47:50You see, she has such a charm about her that one forgets what she herself is in the halo that surrounds her.
00:47:55Lady Harriot.
00:48:01Lady Harriot.
00:48:01I think I have the advantage of you, Miss Gibson.
00:48:10I met you once when you were just a child.
00:48:12I've come as an amateur bridesmaid to help you out.
00:48:15I dare say it's something of a trial for you, this second marriage of your father's.
00:48:34I wonder how you'll all get on together.
00:48:35So do I.
00:48:36Well, from my experience, if you're a very good girl and suffer yourself to be led,
00:48:40you'll find your new step under the sweetest creature imaginable.
00:48:43I never managed it, but you might.
00:48:48I was hoping Cynthia would be here for the wedding.
00:48:51Oh, the daughter.
00:48:53Yes, so was she, I dare say.
00:48:55But I understand she's grown into a great beauty these last years.
00:48:59Perhaps her mama wished her a little younger or less pretty.
00:49:03That's a wicked thought.
00:49:05Who ever heard of a mother jealous of her own daughter?
00:49:07I'm sure there must be some other reason.
00:49:12Who is that man?
00:49:13The power has asked Mr. Preston to stand witness.
00:49:15He's his land agent here in Ashcombe.
00:49:18I have an instinctive aversion to him.
00:49:20He does his duty by the power, but don't allow him ever to get intimate with you.
00:49:25Now, what shall you be doing while the happy couple are on their wedding journey?
00:49:28Oh, I'm staying with Miss Brownings.
00:49:30Oh, really?
00:49:31I know them very well.
00:49:34Pexy and Flapsy, I call them.
00:49:36They're such comical creatures with their attempts at gentility.
00:49:39Quacking and flapping about.
00:49:41I shall come and call on you there.
00:49:43No, don't.
00:49:44Please, I beg you would not.
00:49:45Why ever not?
00:49:46Because I don't think you should speak of the class I belong to as if it was some strange
00:49:51kind of animal to make fun of.
00:49:53But I don't think of you in that way, Molly.
00:49:55But I am that sort of person.
00:49:57And I don't think you should come and call on me at the Miss Brownings if you're going
00:50:00to laugh at them.
00:50:01Call them names.
00:50:02I'm sorry, my lady.
00:50:07I don't mean to be disrespectful.
00:50:10No, you're quite right.
00:50:11I don't regret a word I said about that man Preston, but that's the Miss Brownings.
00:50:15I'm very sorry indeed if I offended you or them.
00:50:20Will you forgive me if I promise to mend my ways?
00:50:24Yes, of course I will.
00:50:25If you really mean it.
00:50:27I do.
00:50:28I feel very chastened.
00:50:30Truly.
00:50:31Thank you very much.
00:51:00Thank you very much.
00:51:01Thank you very much.
00:51:31While you were away, Mr. Roger Hamley made a visit and he was asking most kindly after
00:51:37you, Molly. And he brought you that over there. I wouldn't touch the horrid thing.
00:51:42Oh, a wasp's nest.
00:51:44Wasp's nest, indeed. Either he or you or both of you must be crazy.
00:51:49Did you know there are over a hundred different kinds of wasp in England alone? He told me
00:51:53all about them one day.
00:51:55More to the point, he brought a note from Mrs. Hamley asking if we could spare you on Thursday.
00:52:01The men are all going to the agricultural show, Mr. Osborne as well, for he's at home just
00:52:06now. And she wanted you to keep her company.
00:52:09And there I go.
00:52:12Pichu, my dear.
00:52:15The pleasure stirs the maddening soul. The heart, the heart is lonely still.
00:52:21Fain would I fly the haunts of men. I seek to shun, not hate mankind.
00:52:26My breast requires the sullen glen, whose gloom may suit a darkened mind.
00:52:33Oh, that to me the wings were given, which bear the turtle to her nest.
00:52:39Then would I cleave the vault of heaven to flee away and be at rest.
00:52:45Osborne. Back so soon?
00:52:48I'm afraid so, mother. Bullocks just aren't in my line, I find.
00:52:54Molly, this fellow is my son, Osborne.
00:52:58So, Miss Gibson, you're fond of Byron, are you?
00:53:01Yes, and Mrs. Hamley showed me some of your poems too.
00:53:04Oh, did she? And what did you think of them?
00:53:07I thought they were very beautiful.
00:53:10Did you truly?
00:53:11Yes, of course, sir. I wouldn't have said so.
00:53:13Not like the rest of the world, then.
00:53:15Good, I like that.
00:53:18Oh, I meant to tell you, a sullen glen reminded me.
00:53:22I spent a day in Haycraft's studio.
00:53:25I wish you'd come and see his new work.
00:53:27You'd like him, too. He talks as well as he paints.
00:53:31Oh, I'd love to, Osborne.
00:53:33But your father frets so if I go away.
00:53:36Well, let him fret. Indulge yourself.
00:53:39What do you think, Miss Gibson?
00:53:41I don't think it's fair to ask me.
00:53:43Oh, you don't?
00:53:45I beg your pardon, then.
00:53:49Osborne! Why the deuce couldn't you tell as you were coming home?
00:53:51Sorry, Father, I didn't think you'd miss me.
00:53:53Roger ain't missed up his dinner hunting about for you.
00:53:56Oh, I didn't mind it, sir. I said we'd find him here.
00:53:58Mind on I have things, no doubt.
00:53:59Well, I wouldn't necessarily say that, sir.
00:54:01Good day.
00:54:07Very good. I saw the prettiest little jersey ever I've ever clapped eyes on.
00:54:11Nearly brought her on for you.
00:54:13Well, how are you getting on with Huber's book?
00:54:16Have you been nesting?
00:54:18Oh.
00:54:19Byron.
00:54:20Well, I'm reading about the bees as well.
00:54:24But Byron's more congenial.
00:54:26There's no contest.
00:54:27She's such a good girl.
00:54:29Well, don't forget what Gibson said.
00:54:39Anything else, Molly, love?
00:54:42Don't want newnesses to think we can't do things right here.
00:54:45No, I don't think so, Betty.
00:54:46It looks very nice, I think.
00:54:48Well, I should hope so, too.
00:54:50And if she don't like it, she can go elsewhere.
00:54:53Well, Molly.
00:55:17Betty.
00:55:18Betty.
00:55:18Very nice.
00:55:26Molly, my dear, show your mamma at home.
00:55:28Well, I've ordered a sort of tea dinner to be ready for you, shouldn't you?
00:55:31You like to have that first?
00:55:32Oh, dear, I'm not sure that I'm not too fatigued to eat.
00:55:35Journey's too tiring, so...
00:55:37But one mustn't think about oneself, so perhaps I will take just a little something.
00:55:42What is it, my dear?
00:55:43Oh, I'm sorry, Harrison, I shall have to go out.
00:55:46One of my patients is dangerously ill.
00:55:48It's old Mr Craven-Smith.
00:55:50Oh, I am sorry.
00:55:52Oh, you're going straight out again on our first evening at home together.
00:55:57Well, it can't be helped, my love.
00:55:59I'll be home as soon as I can.
00:56:02Well, what will be will be, I suppose.
00:56:06In that case, Molly, perhaps I will take a little supper in my room after all.
00:56:10Would you be so kind as to show me the way?
00:56:13I'll go this time.
00:56:36Oh, thank you, love, there.
00:56:38Oh, jeez, I have patience on the screen.
00:56:53Oh, I'm so lonely, darling, in this strange house.
00:56:57Will you be my little maid tonight and help me unpack and come and talk to me, hmm?
00:57:02I really do think that your dear Papa might have put off his visit to Mr Craven-Smith just for this one evening.
00:57:13But perhaps Mr Craven-Smith couldn't put off his dying.
00:57:15You drool girl.
00:57:20Well, if he is dying, as you say, then what was the use of your father going off in such a hurry?
00:57:26Does he expect a legacy or anything of that kind?
00:57:29Well, Papa can sometimes do something.
00:57:33Something to make the last struggle easier, that is.
00:57:36And it's a great comfort to the family to have him there.
00:57:38What a dreary knowledge of death you have for a girl of your age.
00:57:45Oh, dear, what an old-fashioned bed.
00:57:49Still, we'll renovate the house by and by.
00:57:52Not my room.
00:57:53I want her to stay just as it is.
00:57:55Come and read to me, dear.
00:57:56The sound of your voice will soon send me to sleep.
00:58:10How was Mr Craven-Smith?
00:58:13Dead.
00:58:15He just recognised me.
00:58:17He was one of my very first patients when I came to Hollingford.
00:58:20And where's the new Mama?
00:58:26Well, she was tired.
00:58:27She went to bed early.
00:58:31Must I call her Mama?
00:58:35I should like it, if you would.
00:58:39Then I shall.
00:58:50Congratulations, Mrs Gibson.
00:59:07It's a pleasure to see my good friend Gibson so happily settled.
00:59:10You couldn't have done better, my dear.
00:59:14Take one.
00:59:20Are both your sons at home, Squire Hamley?
00:59:24Neither, ma'am.
00:59:26I hope Mr Osborne will visit us soon.
00:59:29Molly tells me he's such a handsome young man.
00:59:32Does she?
00:59:33Well, that's as may be.
00:59:35Handsome is as handsome does, I say.
00:59:38Ah, I was afraid you weren't in.
00:59:41We're all wrong at home, Molly.
00:59:44Osborne's gone and lost the fellowship we've been back to try for.
00:59:46And now he's gone and failed his degree.
00:59:48After all he said and all his mother said.
00:59:50And I, like a fool, boasting about my clever son.
00:59:54Well, I don't understand it.
00:59:56And it's thrown Madam into one of her fits of illness.
00:59:59Your father came to see her this morning.
01:00:01And she asked him if she might have you about her.
01:00:05And he said I might come over and fetch you.
01:00:07And, well, here I am.
01:00:11You will come, won't you, my dear?
01:00:12I'll be ready in two minutes.
01:00:14My dear, stop a minute.
01:00:15I'm sure your papa quite forgot that you're going out with me this evening.
01:00:19But it's not important, is it?
01:00:21She's a very sick woman, Mrs Gibson.
01:00:24And she set her heart on seeing Molly.
01:00:27Is there no way of getting her off?
01:00:28My dear, an engagement is an engagement.
01:00:31And you're engaged not only to Mrs Cockrell, but also to me.
01:00:34Bound to accompany me in the absence of my husband.
01:00:37I'm sorry, Squire Hamley, but I think that Molly's duty is quite clear.
01:00:44And I'm sure that you will acknowledge that an engagement is an engagement.
01:00:48Did I say an engagement was an elephant, ma'am?
01:00:56Perhaps you might find it possible to permit her to come to us tomorrow.
01:01:02Certainly.
01:01:02She will be ready at any time, you name.
01:01:08Thank you very much, madam.
01:01:10I'm much obliged to you.
01:01:17Now, my dear, I must never have you exposing me to the manners of such a man again.
01:01:22And you must not go on accepting invitations as though you're an independent young lady.
01:01:26Papa said I might go.
01:01:27Yes, well, now I am your mama, and all references shall be made through me.
01:01:33But, um, well, as you are to go, you may as well go well-dressed.
01:01:40And I will lend you my new shawl and set of green ribbons.
01:01:43For at Hamley Hall one never knows who may be coming or going.
01:01:46Thank you, but I don't want the shawl and the ribbons, please.
01:01:49There will be no one there except the family.
01:01:52There never is, I think, another.
01:01:55She's so ill.
01:01:56There you are, Miss Molly.
01:02:09Miss Molly, I wonder.
01:02:21There you are, Miss Molly.
01:02:24She's expecting you.
01:02:26I'll go straight up there.
01:02:27Osborne has been such a disappointment to us.
01:02:43I can't think how so much money was spent.
01:02:46And he refused to explain it.
01:02:48And now the squire won't have him in the house.
01:02:53Oh, Molly.
01:02:55How could Osborne have gone so wrong?
01:02:57You mustn't distress yourself.
01:03:02If I could have spoken to him quietly,
01:03:06I know he would have told me everything.
01:03:08Well, then send for him now.
01:03:11You will ease your mind.
01:03:12No, no, no, no, no.
01:03:12I can't go against the squire's orders.
01:03:14You can't think how it cuts him to the heart to have to lay off his workers.
01:03:18And he's so angry since he heard that Osborne has been borrowing money against his expectations.
01:03:31When the squire should die.
01:03:33I would never believe that.
01:03:36Couldn't it be that someone has imposed upon him?
01:03:39Bad men will do that.
01:03:40I've heard my father say.
01:03:41Gain a good man's trust and then use it to ruin him.
01:03:44Oh, you're a good girl, Molly.
01:03:47You'd think well of anyone.
01:03:51Not quite anyone.
01:03:53I've been so weak.
01:03:55I made such an idol of my beautiful Osborne.
01:04:03And now it turns out he has feet of clay.
01:04:17Robinson, come here.
01:04:42Robinson!
01:04:44Robinson!
01:04:45Robinson!
01:04:50Oh, Molly.
01:04:52She's very bad.
01:04:53I'm sending her for your father.
01:04:55Would you go to her?
01:04:56It will calm her, I think.
01:04:58It's just an attack.
01:04:59It'll pass.
01:05:03Robinson, send Thomas down to Gibson's house, please.
01:05:05All right, Goosey.
01:05:18You get some rest.
01:05:19Goosey.
01:05:25Good.
01:05:29Goosey.
01:05:30she's come through this time oh thank you gibson praise god she's turned the corner now
01:05:55may i go to her don't let her talk
01:06:00i think if she'd write to the sons molly tell them to come as quickly as may be
01:06:07she's come through this time but it can't be long now do you know their addresses i don't know
01:06:13i can enclose a letter for him in lodges that'll do whatever these two lads may be to the world
01:06:18they're as close to each other as any two brothers that i know and let the squire know that you've
01:06:24done it it'll be the gentlest way of breaking it too
01:06:28will you tell them yes papa
01:06:33well i thought you know as the day wore on she got a little stronger
01:06:51what do you think whoever's life does hold me
01:06:55i was thinking as soon as she's better we'll take a trip to london or bath
01:07:02what do you think
01:07:04when papa was here this morning he told me to write to mr roger and mr osborne
01:07:13to tell them they had better come home
01:07:16and he wanted me to tell you i had written to them
01:07:21he told you to send for osborne and roger
01:07:26yes
01:07:30yes
01:07:32i understand
01:07:35it has come then
01:07:40but it will osborne brought it on
01:07:45i cannot forgive him for that i cannot
01:07:50you're a good girl
01:08:02god bless you
01:08:06she was asking for osborne again today
01:08:19does she know he's coming soon
01:08:23any day
01:08:24yes
01:08:25but she wants to know where he is
01:08:29i can't tell you
01:08:32but you're sure he'll come
01:08:37i'm quite sure
01:08:38fanny
01:08:41she calls me fanny sometimes
01:08:46it was the name of a little sister of ours who died
01:08:49i wish i could tell you
01:08:54and her
01:08:56all that i know about osborne
01:08:58but i'm so involved in promises and secrecy
01:09:11how is she? you will tell me you must know the truth. I've traveled night and day since I got
01:09:38your letter. she's very ill but I don't think she feels much pain. she's wanted you sadly. my
01:09:46father sent me away. I know. I think no one knew how ill she was. oh you know. yes she told you a
01:09:56great deal. she was very fond of you and God knows how I love her. if I'd not been forbidden to come
01:10:06home. I should have told her all. Molly, is that you?
01:10:13you here sir? he arrived just a few moments ago. did he?
01:10:25Robinson. Mr. Osborne's here. getting what he wants. perhaps he can eat and drink. yes sir.
01:10:32Mama. I'm here. I'm here.
01:10:39I'm here. I'm here. that's it. come and say goodbye to her. she may know it's you.
01:11:04of him.
01:11:17I was looking forward.
01:11:19Let's go.
01:11:49Really? Not gone yet? Why, how she lingers.
01:12:03Who's that?
01:12:05Where's Betty?
01:12:06Betty didn't quite suit, and she'd become so impertinent.
01:12:09But she's looked after me since I was a little girl.
01:12:11Well, and now you're a young lady, and you've no more need for her.
01:12:14Oh, I have such news for you. Cynthia.
01:12:16Oh, Cynthia is coming to live with us.
01:12:20And I want her to come in good temper,
01:12:21because between ourselves she's just a little, little bit willful.
01:12:25So I'm fitting up her room and yours just alive.
01:12:28Oh, no, please. Not mine.
01:12:30Oh, yes. Yes, of course yours, dear.
01:12:33I mean, think what people would say about me down in the town,
01:12:36petting my own daughter and neglecting my husband's.
01:12:38Very once you'll know I'm not a common set mother.
01:12:41So, little French dressing table, different colour on the walls, what do you say?
01:12:49What have you done with my things?
01:12:52They were my mother's.
01:12:55Oh, Molly, I don't know what's to be done with you.
01:12:58I've done my best, but there's no pleasing you.
01:13:02Perhaps you should think about this now and then,
01:13:05like the rest of us have to.
01:13:07I'm very much afraid that you and Cynthia will prove two of a kind.
01:13:11I'm very much afraid.
01:13:41I'm very much afraid that you and Cynthia will prove two of a kind.
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