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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
Transcript
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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00:05:35There'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.
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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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