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Before going to Africa, Roger proposes to Cynthia and is accepted. Molly faces some problems with her stepmother and her views.
Starring:
Justine Waddell
Bill Paterson
Francesca Annis
Keeley Hawes
Tom Hollander
Iain Glen
Anthony Howell
Michael Gambon
Before going to Africa, Roger proposes to Cynthia and is accepted. Molly faces some problems with her stepmother and her views.
Starring:
Justine Waddell
Bill Paterson
Francesca Annis
Keeley Hawes
Tom Hollander
Iain Glen
Anthony Howell
Michael Gambon
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00:00:00She's coming! I've seen her!
00:00:24Moderate your tone, dear. She'll be here just as soon.
00:00:48Well, here she is. Molly, this is Cynthia. Cynthia, Molly. You're to be sisters, yeah?
00:00:57How do you do? I'm so pleased to meet you at last. And I, Hugh.
00:01:04And here's Mama. Why, how you've grown, darling. You look quite a woman.
00:01:21Well, so I am. Well, it was before I went away. I've hardly grown since. Except in wisdom, I hope.
00:01:28Oh, yes. That we would hope.
00:01:34There's hot breakfast in the dining room when you're ready for it. I'm sure you're hungry after your night journey.
00:01:40Thank you. Molly will show you to your room. It's next to hers, and I'm so afraid of the drafts.
00:01:49Oh, I'm so sorry there isn't a fire for you. I suppose it wasn't ordered, and, of course, I don't give the orders now.
00:02:08Here's some hot water, though. Stop a minute. I think I shall like you. I'm so glad. I was afraid I shouldn't.
00:02:19We're all in a very awkward position together, aren't we? Yes. I suppose so.
00:02:25Yes, well, you may laugh, but I don't know I'm easy to get on with. Mama and I didn't suit when we were last together.
00:02:32Stop. Perhaps we were each of us wiser now.
00:02:36Oh, I like your father's looks, though.
00:02:38Thank you, John.
00:02:40Oh, is he going out already?
00:02:42Yes. He's called out at all hours. I expect he's going to Hamley Hall.
00:02:46Mrs Hamley has died...
00:02:49...very ill.
00:02:53I think you're probably a very good person, Molly.
00:02:57I'm not very good myself.
00:02:59In fact, I gave myself up years ago as a heartless baggage.
00:03:07And this is Miss Rose's. Her dress is a very fashionable.
00:03:13And this is Princeton's bookshop.
00:03:15Miss Browning. Miss Phoebe, good morning.
00:03:18Cynthia. Cynthia, my daughter.
00:03:21Oh, we were just coming to call on you.
00:03:23We wanted to invite you both to our car party on the 12th.
00:03:27Just a few young people, you know.
00:03:29Oh, yes, of course we'll come.
00:03:31Molly, dear.
00:03:32How very kind of you, Miss Browning, Miss Phoebe.
00:03:34But, you see, I hardly like to let them go.
00:03:37They're not out, you know, till after the Easter ball.
00:03:40Not out?
00:03:42Until then, you see, we are invisible.
00:03:45Uh-huh.
00:03:46In my days, girls went wherever it pleased folk to ask them.
00:03:50I've seen many girl of 14 or even 12 at a car party
00:03:54who knows how to behave as well as any lady there.
00:03:57There should be no talk of coming out for anyone onto the daughter of a squire.
00:04:01After Easter, Molly and I shall be capable of proper behaviour, but not before.
00:04:05Proper behaviour?
00:04:06I'm quite sure that Molly has been capable of proper behaviour ever since she was a little girl.
00:04:10Always a little lady.
00:04:12Molly wants the refinements that good society gives.
00:04:15Why, only today I saw her coming upstairs two steps at a time.
00:04:19Only two, Molly. Yesterday I found I could manage four, you know.
00:04:22My dear, what are you saying?
00:04:24I'm merely confessing, Mama, that I, too, like Molly, want the refinements that good society brings.
00:04:31Therefore, please do let us go to the Browning's card party.
00:04:34I think I might make an exception this morning.
00:04:38I think so, indeed.
00:04:42You shouldn't do that.
00:04:43I don't understand.
00:04:45Do not do that.
00:04:46Molly teasing Mama.
00:04:48Oh, no, you are quite right to correct me.
00:04:51Won't do any good, though.
00:04:52I am, as I am, I'm afraid.
00:05:10Thank you, Mr Gibson.
00:05:22I am.
00:05:23Oh, no, you are, isn't it.
00:05:24I do not.
00:05:25I am.
00:05:26I am.
00:05:27It is.
00:05:28I am.
00:05:29I am.
00:05:30I am.
00:05:31I am.
00:05:32I am.
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00:05:34I am.
00:05:35There's some supper for you in the dining room.
00:06:02Where's your mother?
00:06:03She's upstairs with Cynthia.
00:06:06I'll just take some bread and cheese and a glass of beer then.
00:06:09She'll have to go out again soon. I've not seen my tongue patient yet.
00:06:33Yes, she's gone, Molly.
00:06:36Hope.
00:06:38Hope.
00:06:48I'm sorry.
00:06:49Of course I knew it was coming, but I was so fond of her, and she was so good to me.
00:06:57And poor Squire Howley loved her so much.
00:07:01They all did.
00:07:02They all sent their love to you, Molly.
00:07:07Roger said he knew how you would feel her.
00:07:10Did he?
00:07:11You loved her dearly, didn't you?
00:07:31Oh, yes.
00:07:35Had you known her all of your life?
00:07:38No.
00:07:40Not a year.
00:07:42But I'd seen so much of her.
00:07:43I was almost like a daughter to her.
00:07:48She said so.
00:07:49Molly.
00:07:51Molly, I wish I could love people as you do.
00:07:54Don't you?
00:07:55No.
00:07:55A number of people love me.
00:08:01I don't really seem to care very much for anybody.
00:08:03Well, I think I love you better than anyone, and I've only known you for ten days.
00:08:08More than your mother.
00:08:10Oh, yes.
00:08:12Yes.
00:08:13It's very shocking, I dare say, but...
00:08:16Well, there it is.
00:08:19Do you know, I don't think the loving one's mother comes quite by nature.
00:08:23I loved my father.
00:08:26Well, he died when I was quite a little thing, and nobody believes I remember him.
00:08:31But I do.
00:08:33So, you see, I can't forgive Mama for her neglect of me when I would have clung to her.
00:08:39I know she had to go out and work as a governess, but...
00:08:43Well, if she had wanted me to love her, she shouldn't have sent me away to school at four years old.
00:08:49Did Mama say Mrs. Hamley had two sons?
00:08:52Yes.
00:08:54Osborne and Roger.
00:08:56They've been so kind to me, Roger especially.
00:08:58He has such a good heart.
00:09:00Perhaps it belongs to you?
00:09:02Oh.
00:09:03No.
00:09:04Nothing like that.
00:09:06Well, ten past six.
00:09:08Just waiting for Mr. Osborne, sir.
00:09:11Can, Mr. Osborne, sir.
00:09:12Bring it in now.
00:09:13Surely it isn't six o'clock.
00:09:19More like quarter past.
00:09:20I fancy a watch must be wrong, sir.
00:09:24Well, my watch is like myself, plain but steady going, not like a whippersnapper of a French watch.
00:09:28I beg your pardon, sir.
00:09:30I had no idea you were waiting.
00:09:32Otherwise, I could have dressed much quicker.
00:09:34Thanks, sir.
00:09:35When I were a young man, it would be a shame to spend so much time fiddle-faddling at me looking-glasses if I'd been a girl.
00:09:41Mother always liked us all to dress for dinner.
00:09:45I got into the habit of doing it to please her, and I keep it up now.
00:09:49Don't you cast up your mother's wishes to me, sir!
00:09:51You came so near to breaking our hearts.
00:09:57What do you do now?
00:09:59You come and go as you please without a word of explanation as to where you go or how you spend my money.
00:10:05What is it you do?
00:10:07Is it gambling, sir, or do you keep a mistress?
00:10:10Neither, sir.
00:10:13I'm only a cause of irritation to you.
00:10:15And home is no longer home to me, but a place where I am to be controlled and scolded as if I were a child.
00:10:22I am as ready as any man to earn my living, but to prepare for a profession costs money, and I have none.
00:10:27No more have I!
00:10:33What's to be done, then?
00:10:35We used to learn to stop at home and not take expensive journeys.
00:10:39You can't earn money. At least you needn't spend it.
00:10:41But to lay aside all my drainage work, aye, and lay off good men, I promise work too, all because of your extravagance.
00:10:50There's two things you've gone and done that'll put me beside myself.
00:10:53You've turned out next door to a dunce at college, and worse than that, you've...
00:10:59I won't say what the other thing is.
00:11:02Tell me, sir.
00:11:03No.
00:11:04I know what I know.
00:11:05You can tell your money-lending friends that see neither my money nor my timber if I cut you out of my will.
00:11:14And there's Roger.
00:11:18Roger.
00:11:19We never made an ado about him, but he'll be worth telling you.
00:11:25He'll make us proud of him.
00:11:26You know why I say we and us ought to be I.
00:11:39We know us anymore.
00:11:46Be I forevermore in this world.
00:11:49I know.
00:11:56Father!
00:12:20My father's not well.
00:12:22And I have to go away rather urgently.
00:12:28Will you tell him I was called away?
00:12:33Not now.
00:12:35Tomorrow morning will do.
00:12:38Mr. Osborne called away again.
00:12:42Yes, sir, I'll tell him.
00:12:43I'll tell him.
00:12:52Thank you, Professor.
00:12:55I'm so annoyed.
00:12:55Thank you, Professor.
00:12:58He is my friend.
00:13:00What?
00:13:02I'm sorry!
00:13:03I'm sorry!
00:13:08There's something...
00:13:10You can do it.
00:13:15It earth looks too good!
00:13:16Does He really matter.
00:13:17OrGod values of all aboutones?
00:13:19Missed God, you cannot do something.
00:13:21Thank you, Will.
00:13:51There he is, squire.
00:13:54Thank you, Sarah.
00:13:59Why, now, do it come, squire.
00:14:02Your father came to see my father when he were to die in.
00:14:07Come on, Silas, we'll have no talk of dying.
00:14:09We'll have you out of here, rest assured.
00:14:11I doubt that.
00:14:13I'm a deal nearer to heaven than I were yesterday.
00:14:17But I'm glad you could come.
00:14:19I wanted to tell you, you should look to your uncovers.
00:14:24Them navvies of Lord Cumners,
00:14:27they're tearing up your goss and your brush, they are.
00:14:32Hey, just to light their fires.
00:14:39Down to Hooligans.
00:14:40I'm not at that.
00:14:41Come on.
00:14:46Morning, sir.
00:14:46You're the manager of these works.
00:14:50I am, that.
00:14:50Many other things besides, sir.
00:14:52My name is Preston.
00:14:53I've succeeded Mr. Sheepshanks in the management of my lord's land.
00:14:57Mr. Hamley of Hamley, I believe.
00:14:58Yes, I am, sir.
00:15:00I suppose you're ignorant of your boundaries, so I tell you.
00:15:04My property begins yonder, just by that rise in the ground.
00:15:08I know that, sir.
00:15:09Why do you call my attention to it now?
00:15:11Because I've been told that your men don't respect these boundaries.
00:15:15They'll be digging out my gorse cupboards for their fires.
00:15:18Possible they may.
00:15:19I dare say they think no harm in it.
00:15:21However, I'll inquire.
00:15:22You doubt my words, sir.
00:15:24Use your temper, Mr. Hamley.
00:15:25I said I should inquire.
00:15:27If you've not seen it yourself, I'm sure you would have said so.
00:15:29If it is the case, I'll see to it you're compensated.
00:15:32I suppose the damage might come to as much as half a crown.
00:15:34I don't know who you are, sir, but I've known land agents who were gentlemen and some that weren't.
00:15:38And you belong to the last sore young man.
00:15:40That you do.
00:15:41I haven't mind to ask with you for your insolence.
00:15:44You have your temper, Mr. Hamley, and reflect.
00:15:46Sorry to see a man of your age in such a passion.
00:15:48Mr. Preston.
00:15:49Roger asked him to get his men off my land.
00:15:51He refused.
00:15:51Said he doubted my word.
00:15:53Your father has misunderstood me.
00:15:54I never refused to do what was just and right.
00:15:56Come, father.
00:15:57Old Silas was asking for you again.
00:15:58He's very poorly.
00:16:00Mr. Preston, perhaps you should remember the deference you should show to a man of my father's age and position.
00:16:05Good day to you.
00:16:06Come on, father.
00:16:07There's nothing to be gained from arguing with such a man.
00:16:09I'm a child, Roger.
00:16:11Position, indeed.
00:16:12It's the position of a man who starts works without counting the cost.
00:16:15Must have turned off his labourers at the beginning of winter.
00:16:18As good a gentleman as you, sir, or your father.
00:16:23What's your work there?
00:16:26I know I turned them off.
00:16:27But what could I do?
00:16:28I had no money to pay the men.
00:16:30No one knows how much it could be to turn off so near wintertime.
00:16:34I did everything I could from my three barren cows fattened and gave every scrap of meat to the men.
00:16:39We'll find a way of going on with the work.
00:16:41We'll find a way somehow, father.
00:16:43Wish to heaven I'd horse-whip the fella.
00:16:44Sit still, dear.
00:17:02Agnes will go.
00:17:03Mr. Preston, ma'am.
00:17:16I should have called sooner to pay my respects.
00:17:27But now I've taken over Lord Cumnor's land agency, I shall be moving to Hollingford.
00:17:31But she'll see you much more often.
00:17:34Oh, please sit down, Mr. Preston.
00:17:36You're both looking very well, if I may say so.
00:17:56Have you been to a public ball yet, Miss Gibson?
00:17:59No.
00:18:00It'll be a great pleasure to you when the time comes.
00:18:02We hope to attend the Easter charity ball.
00:18:06Of course.
00:18:08And Miss Kirkpatrick.
00:18:11Will she have returned from France by then?
00:18:13Yes.
00:18:14We hope she'll be here by Easter.
00:18:17Then I shall hope to have the pleasure of dancing with two very pretty partners.
00:18:21Miss Kirkpatrick.
00:18:45Look, Molly.
00:18:47Eight pence a yard.
00:18:49And 14 pence.
00:18:50What do you think?
00:18:51I like the green.
00:18:54Have you heard the news?
00:18:57They say that Roger Hamley's passed out first in his examination.
00:19:01All unlikely things.
00:19:02He's even been given a fellowship.
00:19:04Worth a good deal of money, I believe.
00:19:06Truly?
00:19:07Oh, I'm so happy for him and the squire would be so proud of him.
00:19:10Indeed.
00:19:11He's in need of a bit of comfort.
00:19:14He's mismanaged his estate woefully.
00:19:17The whole family's going down fast, in my opinion.
00:19:20Last of the old Saxon stock.
00:19:22Land rich and cash poor.
00:19:24Their only hope is if Osborne Hamley marries some tradesman's daughter with a deal of money, otherwise it's all up with them.
00:19:29I happen to believe in good old families like the Hamleys.
00:19:33I have heard that Osborne and Roger Hamley are two very fine young men, and I don't believe it's all up with the Hamleys in the least.
00:19:39They are fortunate in having Miss Kirkpatrick's good word.
00:19:42I know that Miss Gibson has a very high regard for them, and I value her opinion far above the common gossip of the county.
00:19:48They are.
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00:20:05Well, how dare he speak about your friends in that way.
00:20:07Of course I really know nothing at all about the Hamleys, but I couldn't have him speaking
00:20:14of them so, and well your poor eyes are filling with tears.
00:20:17You were very short with Mr. Preston, darling.
00:20:20But there is something disagreeable in his manner.
00:20:23Yes, well he certainly doesn't improve on acquaintance, although there was a time Mama when
00:20:28I think both you and I found him very agreeable indeed.
00:20:35you're the last to come
00:20:41the good enough girls and their brother are here
00:20:44and you will see we've got a gentleman for you after all
00:20:47who is it Miss Phoebe?
00:20:48a senior wrangler from Cambridge
00:20:51wasn't it fortunate he came to call
00:20:54I won't say we laid violent hands on him
00:20:56because he's too good for that
00:20:58but really we shouldn't be near it
00:21:00if he hadn't stayed of his own accord
00:21:02I was so happy to hear your news
00:21:05oh I hope to have the pleasure of telling you myself
00:21:08oh I beg your pardon
00:21:12this is Miss Kirkpatrick
00:21:14how do you do?
00:21:16how do you do?
00:21:18Miss Gibson
00:21:18what games are we playing?
00:21:21because we only know whist and all made
00:21:22that is to say if we had to play for money
00:21:25we hope the stakes won't be very high
00:21:27may I spit you for a moment?
00:21:29yes
00:21:29we have heard
00:21:33that Cambridge men always play for very high stakes
00:21:36and they are sometimes ruined
00:21:38and then they sent down in disgrace
00:21:40we only play for thoppins at my uncle's
00:21:42I'm sure we won't be playing for any higher today
00:21:45oh
00:21:46thank you Miss Gibson
00:21:48goodnight Molly
00:21:57I'm sorry we didn't have a chance to talk more
00:21:59look
00:22:00so am I
00:22:02I'd so like to hear more about your honours at Cambridge
00:22:05oh
00:22:05it's a long story
00:22:07besides you probably wouldn't find it very interesting
00:22:09well Cynthia looked very much interested
00:22:12did you think so?
00:22:14goodnight Miss Kirkpatrick
00:22:27goodnight
00:22:28go on
00:22:30Roger was there wasn't he?
00:22:37yes
00:22:38what did you think of my favourites of them?
00:22:40well he's not as handsome as someone else
00:22:43and he did tell me a great deal more than I needed to know about Cambridge and fellowships and such
00:22:48but well there is something one likes about him yes
00:22:50and what sort of evening have you had Molly?
00:22:54very pleasant thank you
00:22:55do you know I think we should give a little dinner party and invite both the brothers
00:22:59one hears so little of Osborne Hamley with Molly it's all Roger this and Roger that
00:23:04I didn't know I mentioned him so often
00:23:05and these Hollingford people are rather commonplace
00:23:08yes I think it would be a very pretty attention
00:23:11must be rather gloomy for them at Hamley Hall
00:23:14that Miss Cynthia is a rare young lady with all her pretty coaching ways
00:23:30you asked me to teach her the bud roses come the season
00:23:34I don't know weren't you
00:23:35she'll learn sharp enough for all she says she's so stupid
00:23:39well you can finish now I think you know which plants go where
00:23:42I wouldn't say as I do if you could just go over it once more
00:23:45I'm not as young as I once was
00:23:47bring the spades and we'll do it together
00:23:49right
00:23:49Molly
00:23:53I've only just found out where you were
00:23:57Mrs Gibson said you'd gone out
00:23:59I saw you just now but I couldn't leave Williams
00:24:02I've been here above an hour
00:24:03well come let's see your garden plan
00:24:07that was mother's favourite
00:24:13that was a square
00:24:16oh he's pretty low
00:24:18is he still angry with your brother
00:24:20yes poor Osborne
00:24:22he's not the villain he's made out to be
00:24:24I can tell you that his misfortunes have nothing to do with wickedness or vice
00:24:29I never thought they had
00:24:30he's very fond of you
00:24:32I wish you could come and stay with us again Molly
00:24:35but I don't suppose it would be thought proper
00:24:37though we think of you quite as a sister
00:24:40do you
00:24:40hmm
00:24:41I can't tell you how much I like Miss Kirkpatrick
00:24:48must be such a pleasure to you having her as a companion
00:24:52well yes it is I'm very fond of her
00:24:54but how quickly you found out her virtues
00:24:57I didn't say virtues did I
00:25:00Mrs Gibson has asked me to dine here on Friday
00:25:05and are you coming?
00:25:07yes certainly I am
00:25:08and she's made me promise to bring Osborne
00:25:10he's always pleased to see you
00:25:13you always do us good Molly
00:25:14Lord Hollingford was telling me of a paper of yours
00:25:19he had read on comparative osteology I think it was
00:25:22yes that's right
00:25:23he said it was quite excellent work
00:25:25comparative osteology what on earth is that?
00:25:28oh don't ask him Mrs Gibson I beg you
00:25:30his answer might take several hours
00:25:31it's just the study of the bone structure of the various species
00:25:35it shows that we're more nearly related to the great apes
00:25:38and some of us might care to think
00:25:39oh well you wouldn't need to be a scientist to come to that conclusion would you?
00:25:42Cynthia dear
00:25:43oh the present company accepted of course
00:25:46oh please don't stare so severely at me
00:25:52even if I am a dunce
00:25:53oh I didn't know
00:25:54I didn't mean to look severely I'm sure
00:25:56and Cynthia is not a dunce
00:25:58I've often observed that some people have a talent for one thing and some for another
00:26:02and Cynthia inclines more towards poetry
00:26:05I've heard her recite the prisoner of chillin from beginning to end
00:26:09you'd be rather a bore to hear her I think
00:26:12oh Mr Gibson
00:26:14I have long known that you have no soul for poetry
00:26:18and Molly here is a true daughter of yours
00:26:20she reads such deep books
00:26:22she'll be quite a blue stocking by and by
00:26:24I'm not a blue stocking
00:26:25and it wasn't a deep book
00:26:27it was the one you lent me with the shape of all the cells of the different bees in it
00:26:30it was very interesting
00:26:32well never mind Molly
00:26:33I stand up for blue stocking
00:26:35and I object to the distinction implied in what you say
00:26:39it wasn't deep
00:26:40ergo
00:26:41it was interesting
00:26:42now a book
00:26:43or a person may be both deep and interesting
00:26:46don't you think
00:26:47and if you're going to chop logic and use Latin words
00:26:50I think it's time for us to leave the room
00:26:52oh well Mama
00:26:53we mustn't run away as if we're beaten
00:26:55I understand what Mr Roger Hamley said just now
00:27:01even though it may be logic
00:27:02and well I read a little of Molly's book
00:27:04and whether it was deep or not
00:27:05I found it very interesting indeed
00:27:07well gentlemen
00:27:14I must leave you now to make my evening rounds
00:27:17but if Cynthia is to recite the prisoner of Chillon
00:27:20then I should be in time to catch the end of it
00:27:24on my return
00:27:25well I think those young men have spent quite long enough
00:27:54at Mr Gibson's good wine
00:27:56Molly
00:27:58but Cynthia's eyes are perfection
00:28:07I've often tried to find something in nature to compare them to
00:28:12they're not quite like amber
00:28:13they're a deeper tint
00:28:15changing with the light
00:28:16no come on
00:28:16you can't go trying to match her eyes like a draper
00:28:19call them lone stars
00:28:20and be done with me
00:28:21Roger
00:28:22I hear you are well and truly a smitten man
00:28:25smitten?
00:28:26no
00:28:27what I feel for her is deeper
00:28:28it's something I've never felt before
00:28:30Cynthia is perfection
00:28:32believe me
00:28:33Cynthia's kind of perfection never lasts
00:28:36well as you already have your own pretty French wife
00:28:39your opinion is neither here nor there
00:28:41Miss Gibson
00:28:54ah there you are
00:28:57come and help me choose some music
00:28:59this one what do you think
00:29:04what you just overheard I beg you to forget it if you can
00:29:09at least never to speak of it
00:29:11not to anyone
00:29:12was that you?
00:29:13will you promise?
00:29:13of course
00:29:14I should have done so even without a promise
00:29:16thank you
00:29:17I thought it sounded delightful
00:29:18ah there it is
00:29:20I was sure you'd have it
00:29:21my mother used to play with you
00:29:24but when you were her lady
00:29:25she gave it off
00:29:26when she wasn't as strong
00:29:28Molly's told me so much about the squire
00:29:36and your mother
00:29:37she's so fond of you all
00:29:40it's a pity you won't be able to go to the ball
00:29:44Molly and I are looking forward to it very much
00:29:46you're great friends then
00:29:50you and Molly
00:29:51I'm so glad
00:29:54yes we are
00:29:55I never thought I should like anyone so much
00:29:58any girl I mean
00:30:01I don't think that little French ballad to Mr. Osborne Hamley
00:30:14which one do you mean?
00:30:15oh you know darling
00:30:16do I?
00:30:16du temps répondera Colin
00:30:18oh yes I will
00:30:20if you wish
00:30:21such a pretty playful warning to young men
00:30:24if you take a wife too young you will repent of it
00:30:27though of course it is a French song
00:30:29it refers to a French wife
00:30:30quite a different matter if it was an Englishman
00:30:32thinking of an English wife
00:30:34the morning's a little late isn't it?
00:30:47I'm so sorry
00:30:48don't upset yourself
00:30:50it was my fault not yours
00:30:52you won't feel it long
00:30:54and a man must take the consequences when he puts himself in a false position
00:30:58you have an excellent accent Miss Kirkpatrick
00:31:12have you spent much time in France?
00:31:13I was at school in Boulogne for about a hundred years
00:31:16and you?
00:31:17oh various places
00:31:18Paris, Marseille, Avignon
00:31:22and Metz
00:31:24really?
00:31:25where were you happiest?
00:31:27in Metz
00:31:27and are we allowed to know why?
00:31:31they're talking about France
00:31:32sounds very interesting
00:31:34shall we go nearer and hear what they're saying?
00:31:39oh and now Molly you must play a little
00:31:42there's that little piece of cold friends my dear
00:31:44must I?
00:31:46oh don't be silly dear
00:31:47you may not play it quite rightly
00:31:49but you're amongst friends now
00:31:51is she not?
00:31:54she gets so nervous playing in company
00:31:57come Molly let me turn the pages for you
00:31:58I beg you we'll go away and talk
00:32:00I can do it for myself
00:32:01please
00:32:02no I insist
00:32:03I've heard you play before
00:32:05and your mama is right
00:32:07you're amongst friends now
00:32:09thank you
00:32:11oh
00:32:13here's your phone
00:32:15thank you
00:32:17thank you
00:32:18thank you
00:32:22thank you
00:33:36I can't think what you're doing indoors, the pair of you.
00:33:45Oh, I ran into Lord Hollingford as I was beating the bounds.
00:33:49He was gracious enough to spare me a few words.
00:33:53As if the Amblies hadn't been in a county four centuries before his lock would ever heard of.
00:33:58Lord Hollingford's a good man, Father, and he's got a first-class scientific brain.
00:34:02Man's a wig. They're all wigs. Give them their head. They're the reformers all to kingdom come.
00:34:07Oh, and do you know who he had with him as his houseguest?
00:34:11Some damn Frenchman.
00:34:14If you had to introduce me, I wouldn't speak to the man.
00:34:16Father.
00:34:17Well, in my day, we were content to hate the French.
00:34:20I beat them at sea and on the land.
00:34:22I'd sooner have me and cut off than have a Frenchman in this house or anywhere near it.
00:34:29Oh, I remember one time.
00:34:32Madam had a liking for a French maid.
00:34:35I gave her a wish and everything, but there I drew the line.
00:34:39French maid?
00:34:41I'd sooner keep snakes in the house.
00:34:52Well, you see, it's hopeless.
00:34:55How can I tell him I'm married to a French woman who was a nursery maid?
00:35:02I certainly wouldn't like to be there when you do.
00:35:05I think you should.
00:35:11Look, I've been collecting my poems, and I want to know, do you think Dayton would publish them?
00:35:19Because you're a name in Cambridge now. He'd look at them if you offered them.
00:35:22Well, I can but try.
00:35:24Well, you wouldn't get much by them.
00:35:26Because I must find a means of supporting her myself.
00:35:29So I've already borrowed so much for the cottage and the furniture, and...
00:35:34If I could get a hundred, that would keep Amy and myself while I studied at the bar, say.
00:35:43Or if the worst came to the worst, a hundred would take us to Australia.
00:35:47Australia?
00:35:47I think that would break father's heart.
00:35:53Well, it might have done once, but who wouldn't now?
00:35:55Look here.
00:36:04This fellowship will give me a bit more cash than I need to live on.
00:36:08You're welcome to half of it.
00:36:11Just while you're waiting for your poems to burst forth upon an astonished world of culture...
00:36:15What a good fellow you are.
00:36:19I'm not sure I deserve such a brother.
00:36:23But I'm extremely glad I have one.
00:36:28That's nonsense.
00:36:33Well, I think perhaps I should go and smoke a pipe with father.
00:36:37What an handsome boy Osborne was then.
00:36:53Well, he's an handsome fellow now, but the sunshine's got out of his face.
00:36:59He's a good deal troubled about the anxiety he's given you.
00:37:01No, not him.
00:37:02He's none troubled.
00:37:03No trouble for an eldest son to borrow money against his expectations.
00:37:15And how old is your father, they say?
00:37:17And has he had a stroke or a fit?
00:37:20Now, let's not talk about him, Roger.
00:37:22It's no good.
00:37:23He and I are out of tune.
00:37:29Let me fill you another pipe, father.
00:37:33You're wrong about Osborne.
00:37:42He cares about you a great deal.
00:37:44Does he?
00:37:46Why is it a worry to get away from me?
00:37:50Because he can't bear to upset you, father.
00:37:54And because he's trying to make a career for himself.
00:37:57And, well, country life doesn't suit him as well as it suits you or me.
00:38:01And neither of it suits his mother, but she never complained.
00:38:07I used to miss her so much when she took her London trips.
00:38:13I'd write to her, you know, give her all the home news.
00:38:18But no letter would reach her now.
00:38:21Nothing reaches her.
00:38:22No, you want to just come home, lad.
00:38:26You don't know where I am nowadays.
00:38:29That's Thomas or Robinson.
00:38:31I used to be reckoned a good master.
00:38:35Osborne was once a little boy.
00:38:39She was once alive.
00:38:41And I was once a good master.
00:38:46All that's passed now.
00:38:57I'd like to be pretty.
00:38:59Were you well, love?
00:39:01I don't think so.
00:39:03Oh, well, there you have it.
00:39:05You see, the French girls would tell you
00:39:07to believe that you were pretty would make you so.
00:39:14They've sent us something.
00:39:15Well, here's the Hamlet carriage.
00:39:17I don't know if they don't.
00:39:24Raffi, look.
00:39:26Bouquets.
00:39:27Aren't they beautiful?
00:39:29For us.
00:39:30Oh, who else?
00:39:32I'm sure it's Osborne who thought of them.
00:39:34He's lived in France, of course.
00:39:35Well, it's the custom there to send bouquets.
00:39:37I don't see why you should think it was Osborne.
00:39:39Roger used to gather nosegays for his mother almost every day,
00:39:42and sometimes he did for me.
00:39:43I know what I'm going to do.
00:39:44I am going to make you a little coinette.
00:39:46Oh, Sid, you don't pull them out.
00:39:48You spoil it.
00:39:48Oh, it doesn't matter.
00:39:49I can take the spoiled one.
00:39:51I can make it up again afterwards.
00:39:54Anyway, red flowers won't go with a pink dress,
00:39:57and any colour will go with your white muslin.
00:40:00You'll just wait and see.
00:40:05What do you say to that?
00:40:08Here, miss.
00:40:09No, it's not for you, miss.
00:40:10It's for Miss Kirkpatrick, and there's a note for her besides.
00:40:13Oh, thank you, Mary.
00:40:16Read that, if you will.
00:40:24I send you some flowers, and you must allow me to claim the first dance after nine o'clock,
00:40:29before which time I fear I cannot arrive.
00:40:32I'll pee.
00:40:32But who is it?
00:40:37It's Mr. Preston.
00:40:39And I shan't dance with him.
00:40:41Like those flowers.
00:40:42Oh, Cynthia, we might have put them in water.
00:40:44They were so lovely.
00:40:45Yeah, it's best to destroy them.
00:40:46I can't bear to be reminded of that man.
00:40:50There.
00:40:51Now, let's not talk any more about him.
00:40:53But I shan't dance with him.
00:40:55And nor must you.
00:40:56Well, are we ready?
00:41:04Oh, good evening.
00:41:05Good evening.
00:41:06A very pleasant evening.
00:41:08Oh, Massie's to his following, close behind.
00:41:11Good evening.
00:41:12Good evening.
00:41:12Good evening.
00:41:13Miss Lillard.
00:41:14Oh, good evening, Mr. Sheepshanks.
00:41:15Good evening.
00:41:16Well, here we are.
00:41:17I like to keep up the custom.
00:41:21Miss Hornblower.
00:41:24The sedan chair, to my mind, is much better,
00:41:27for it'll come straight into a person's parlour,
00:41:29nip you up and carry you cosy and tight
00:41:31into another warm room
00:41:32without having to show your legs
00:41:33by going upstairs or downstairs.
00:41:36Good evening, Miss Hornblower.
00:41:38How do you like the arrangement?
00:41:40Oh, my word.
00:41:41Do you think this is a major room
00:41:43in our Ashland Gaunt house?
00:41:45Oh, how pretty it is.
00:41:49Decorated.
00:41:50But you all have such taste at all.
00:41:53Oh, look.
00:41:54There's young Mr. Roscoe, our new doctor.
00:41:56Mr. Roscoe.
00:41:57Mr. Roscoe.
00:42:00We think very highly of our young doctor,
00:42:03I can assure you, Miss Browning.
00:42:04Very happy to make your acquaintance.
00:42:06Yes, well, if ever we're in Ashka,
00:42:07we're not feeling quite the thing.
00:42:09But Mr. Gibson is our doctor.
00:42:11Not that he finds time to go dancing.
00:42:14Miss Hornblower.
00:42:15Do you know that lovely girl in Pink?
00:42:17Why, that's Cynthia Kirkpatrick.
00:42:20How she's grown since she left Ashka.
00:42:24She was pretty then.
00:42:26They did say Mr. Preston admired her very much,
00:42:29but she was so young then.
00:42:31Could you introduce me?
00:42:32Would you like to ask her to dance?
00:42:34Of course I will.
00:42:36Her mother's a very old friend.
00:42:38Come, we'll lose no time.
00:42:40I should say young Mr. Roscoe loses no time
00:42:49in seeking out a pretty face.
00:42:52Well, he may be all very well,
00:42:53but I shouldn't like him to be my doctor.
00:42:56Should you, Phil?
00:42:57No.
00:42:58That sounds strange,
00:43:00such a very young man to be a doctor.
00:43:02I suppose Mr. Gibson was a very young doctor
00:43:06once upon a time.
00:43:07I should have finished her lying.
00:43:15To be sure,
00:43:17how very condescending we are.
00:43:19I remember the time
00:43:20when the new Mrs. Gibson wore
00:43:22old black silks
00:43:23was thankful
00:43:24and civilized
00:43:25became her place
00:43:26as a schoolmistress
00:43:27and would have been grateful
00:43:28to join us
00:43:29for all she's dressed in
00:43:30the pearl grey satin now
00:43:31and she'd have been glad enough
00:43:32to marry Preston the land agent
00:43:34in those days.
00:43:34That I know for a fact.
00:43:35I thought you said
00:43:36he admired the daughter.
00:43:39Well, perhaps I did
00:43:40and perhaps it was so.
00:43:43Some folks say
00:43:44he admired the mother
00:43:45and she admired him,
00:43:47but then he met
00:43:48the daughter.
00:43:50Folk thought the daughter
00:43:51too young for him
00:43:52and the mother too old.
00:43:54Really?
00:43:56But one may be mistaken,
00:43:58you know,
00:43:59and I only said
00:44:00people talked about it.
00:44:02See, there's been enough
00:44:03talk about young Preston
00:44:05to fill a book
00:44:05and wasn't enough
00:44:06for it to be heard in company.
00:44:08So that's Miss Kirkpatrick,
00:44:10is it?
00:44:11Oh, what a pretty girl she is.
00:44:14So is Miss Gibson.
00:44:16Indeed she is.
00:44:17I never meant she wasn't.
00:44:19I'm sure neither of them
00:44:21will want for partners.
00:44:22I never meant she was.
00:44:23I never meant she was.
00:44:24I never meant she was.
00:44:25I never meant she was.
00:44:26I never meant she was.
00:44:27I never meant she was.
00:44:28I never meant she was.
00:44:29I never meant she was.
00:44:30I never meant she was.
00:44:31I never meant she was.
00:44:32I never meant she was.
00:44:33I never meant she was.
00:44:34I never meant she was.
00:44:35I never meant she was.
00:44:36I never meant she was.
00:44:37I never meant she was.
00:44:38I never meant she was.
00:44:39I never meant she was.
00:45:10Mr. Preston, you're not done, sir.
00:45:36No. The partner I had engaged has made some mistake. I'm waiting to have an explanation with him.
00:45:52Molly, did you know you've just been dancing with a man who keeps Grinstead's bookshop?
00:45:58Oh, well, that accounts for him knowing all about the latest books, and he dances beautifully.
00:46:02Yes, well, just so long as you remember, you'll have to shake hands over the counter tomorrow with some of your partners of tonight.
00:46:09But really, I don't know how to refuse when I'm longing to dance.
00:46:12If Miss Gibson finds any difficulty in refusing a partner, she has only applied to Miss Kirkpatrick for instruction.
00:46:18You forget, Mr. Preston, Miss Gibson implied that she wished to dance with the person who asked her.
00:46:24I think that makes all the difference.
00:46:26Miss Kirkpatrick.
00:46:28Oh! Mr. Ruskell!
00:46:43Miss Kirkpatrick has not done me the honour of wearing the bouquet I sent her?
00:46:47She received it, I suppose, on my note.
00:46:50Yes, but you see, we had already accepted these.
00:46:52Yes.
00:46:53Yes, yes, we're so sorry, but two such lovely nosegays
00:46:57had already arrived from family war.
00:46:59Since Miss Kirkpatrick was so well provided for,
00:47:02I would have felt honoured had you accepted mine.
00:47:05I remember how fond you were of Gardenia's.
00:47:10Excuse me.
00:47:17Oh, no, no, no, no.
00:47:47Well, Mrs Gibson, nearly midnight and no sign of the Kugner party.
00:48:13It's long past my bedtime.
00:48:15I only came to see the Duchess they've got staying in her diamonds.
00:48:20I hope they haven't changed their mind.
00:48:22Oh, I'm sure they haven't, Mrs Wooden-up.
00:48:28Good evening. Good evening.
00:48:34Is that the Duchess? That palsy thing?
00:48:41Well, where are diamonds?
00:48:45Here have I been sitting up on coal and candlelight wasting at home.
00:48:50And in comes a Duchess wearing a...
00:48:52But Farmer Hudson's daughter's got to dress smarter than that.
00:48:56Oh, do carry on, everybody, please. Do carry on.
00:49:00Well, here we are at last. Aren't we shamefully late? How are you, Claire?
00:49:13Claire? It was the Duchess. That ill-mannered woman kept us all waiting.
00:49:18And there appeared l'enfant.
00:49:20As you see, our mamma is so angry with her, I think we've lost all our popularity.
00:49:25And that means we've lost votes.
00:49:27What do you think, Molly?
00:49:28I think people were sorry he didn't come sooner. Isn't that rather a proof of popularity?
00:49:32That's a very neat and diplomatic answer.
00:49:34Good evening, ma'am. I hope you're well.
00:49:37Well enough. But what a letdown. Such a shabby thing for a Duchess I never saw. Not a bit of a diamond nearer.
00:49:46This is Lady Harriet from the Towers, Mrs. Goodenough.
00:49:50Oh, dearie, dear, Your Ladyship, I hope I've given no offence. But I've only stayed out of my bed to see the Duchess.
00:49:57I thought at least she'd have come in a diamonds and a coronet.
00:50:00You're quite right, Mrs. Goodenough. We must try to do better.
00:50:07Here is my brother. Excuse me one moment.
00:50:11Molly, I cannot have you speaking so to Lady Harriet and do stop putting yourself into our conversation.
00:50:17I can't help it if she asks me questions.
00:50:20Yes, but there is no need to set yourself up with an opinion at your age.
00:50:24I don't know how to help it.
00:50:25Now, Edward, we must make amends and dance with some of the townspeople.
00:50:29No, I shan't take no for an answer.
00:50:31Claire, will you allow me to introduce my brother to Miss Gibson?
00:50:35He hopes to engage her for this dance.
00:50:37Lord Hollingford, Miss Gibson.
00:50:49Oh, my dear. Did you see that?
00:50:52Lord Hollingford himself asked Molly to dance.
00:50:55Oh, how well they look together.
00:50:59I never knew his lordship was a dancing man.
00:51:02Well, you see, we're the right partner.
00:51:05And he's still a young man.
00:51:08Quite a young man.
00:51:10And a widower, too.
00:51:13Oh, no. Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
00:51:17Mm, mm, mm, mm.
00:51:31Is Cynthia going to dance with Mr. Preston?
00:51:34What a charming girl. That daughter of yours is so quick and intelligent.
00:51:40She could talk about sensible things.
00:51:43Renton of Mark, she says.
00:51:44She's a good girl. I'm very fond of her.
00:51:47Yes, very pretty, too.
00:51:50Oh, I really must make Cynthia pursue a course of serious breathing.
00:51:55She's quite as intelligent as Molly, but she's no steadfastness of purpose.
00:52:02Oh, and look at her now.
00:52:04And she said she'd have nothing to do with Mr. Preston.
00:52:07Oh, and look, I'll be right back.
00:52:08Oh, and look.
00:52:09I'll come back down.
00:52:10Good girl.
00:52:19You're welcome.
00:52:29Oh, and we'll be right back.
00:52:33¶¶
00:53:02Oh, Mr. Osborne, you should have been there.
00:53:06Well, we thought of you all very often during the evening, didn't we, Roger?
00:53:10Yes. Yes.
00:53:13Cynthia, darling, do you hear what Mr. Osborne is saying?
00:53:15He says that he thought of us all evening.
00:53:19Oh, we must thank you for the flowers. They were very beautiful.
00:53:23I fancy that that was your idea, Mr. Osborne.
00:53:26Well, I believe it was my idea, but it was Roger that took all the trouble of it.
00:53:30Did he?
00:53:31Well, I consider the thought as everything.
00:53:34Thought is spiritual, while action is merely material.
00:53:38I'm afraid our flowers were too late.
00:53:40I met Preston this morning and was sorry to hear that his had arrived first.
00:53:43Well, he had no right to say that.
00:53:45His came just as we were leaving, and I threw him straight into the fire.
00:53:51Cynthia, darling.
00:53:52What an idea you'll give of yourself to Mr. Osborne.
00:53:58But to be sure, I think you inherit my prejudice against bought flowers.
00:54:03Come in.
00:54:21Come in.
00:54:21I was wondering if you were quite well.
00:54:31You didn't seem yourself earlier.
00:54:33Yes.
00:54:35I've been thinking.
00:54:37Molly, I've been long enough here.
00:54:40I'd better go out and be a governess.
00:54:42Cynthia, what do you mean?
00:54:43You're...
00:54:43You're overtired.
00:54:45Well, Molly, no one ever loved me like you.
00:54:56And your father, I think.
00:54:57It's so hard to be driven out.
00:55:05Deadly.
00:55:06I suppose there's no escaping one's doom.
00:55:10What do you mean by your doom?
00:55:15No, that would be telling, little one.
00:55:17I may be a coward at heart, but I can show fight.
00:55:22What dirty hands you have, Molly.
00:55:26I shan't stay another minute.
00:55:27It gives me no pleasure to ride home now, Roger.
00:55:34I know, Father.
00:55:45Roger, Lord Hollingford was here for you, but he couldn't wait.
00:55:49He wanted you to go and stay at the towers.
00:55:52Well, the commoners have taken some notice of the amblies at last, darling.
00:55:55There'll be a trap set for you, Osborne.
00:55:57Nothing to do with me, sir.
00:55:58It's Roger, Lord Hollingford wants to see you.
00:55:59I don't understand that.
00:56:01What do you want Roger for?
00:56:02You know, I've never dined at the towers, not once.
00:56:06Well, he did used to invite you, sir, but you chose not to go.
00:56:08And what do you mean by that?
00:56:09I want to curry favour of Whigs.
00:56:11They're quick enough to invite the ambly air when there's an election coming up.
00:56:14I tell you, sir, it's not me, it's Roger.
00:56:16Roger is making a name for himself, and Hollingford wants him to meet a very distinguished French anatomist who admires a paper Roger wrote.
00:56:22No, there is Frenchman.
00:56:24I don't want you meeting foreigners in a Whig house, Roger, nor you, Osborne.
00:56:28Very well, sir.
00:56:28I'll refuse his invitation.
00:56:30I should think so.
00:56:31Ten to one, he'll be in another mind tomorrow.
00:56:43No.
00:56:45I won't run the risk of vexing him.
00:56:49I'd give a lot to talk to Sant'Hilaire.
00:56:53He's a leading man in Europe, and there's so much...
00:56:57Oh, well.
00:56:59There'll be another time, I guess.
00:57:01I had a letter from Emma this morning.
00:57:14She's going to have a child, Roger.
00:57:19You must tell father now.
00:57:21Now, Roger, when you go up to the towers, you must take a groom with you.
00:57:25I've been making Jem try on his livery coat, but he's got too stout.
00:57:29But you must look up, you know, and hold your own.
00:57:32You're at Hamley, you are.
00:57:34That lost us mook.
00:57:35We've only been in the county since Queen Anne's time.
00:57:37Thank you so much for coming, Mr. Hamley.
00:57:43It's been a most enlightening weekend.
00:57:46Oh, thank you, sir.
00:57:47It's been a pleasure to meet you, Mr. Hamley.
00:57:52I hope I'll be back in Paris, I'll write you soon.
00:57:56I feel a bit suspicious to your father, Mr. Hamley.
00:58:02I hope he'll honour a dining with me here before too long, perhaps to celebrate your appointment
00:58:05as since it's confirmed, and to wish you good fortune in your travels.
00:58:09I'm most grateful to you, sir.
00:58:12Not at all.
00:58:13Talent brings its own rewards.
00:58:15Thank you, sir.
00:58:45It's a great honour.
00:59:01That is, if I could persuade myself I've been chosen for my scientific abilities alone.
00:59:04What other reason might there be?
00:59:06My constitution.
00:59:07I'm as strong as a box.
00:59:09Of course, country stocks.
00:59:09But, Africa, will you be away for long?
00:59:13Two years.
00:59:14That's the only thing I should regret about it.
00:59:17Being away from my father and brother, and you, of course.
00:59:20And your sister.
00:59:23How is she?
00:59:25Still not quite herself.
00:59:27I brought her these.
00:59:28So I see.
00:59:31She's always glad to see you.
00:59:32I know that.
00:59:38Oh, so tiresome.
00:59:42Really, Mr. Hamley, we must learn to shut our doors on you if you are to come so often and at such early hours.
00:59:47Oh, yes.
00:59:49Perhaps it was thoughtless of me.
00:59:50But I was passing close by, and I had a piece of news.
00:59:53Yes.
00:59:54Well, you see, it's my wish to keep Cynthia and Molly to a course of improving reading.
00:59:59And with such early visitors, it is quite impossible to observe any regularity of habits.
01:00:05You're quite right.
01:00:06I beg your pardon.
01:00:07I shall take up no more of your time.
01:00:08Oh, no, don't go.
01:00:11Are those for me?
01:00:13Yes.
01:00:17I love me.
01:00:19My darling, now that our own road is around, we needn't trouble Mr. Hamley.
01:00:24What is your news?
01:00:26Lord Hollingford has invited me to lead a scientific expedition to Africa.
01:00:32But...
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