- 11 hours ago
- #wivesanddauthers
- #watchtv
#wivesanddauthers #watchtv https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5domZkB-eRa6BuFOO8OXaQ
It is revealed that Cynthia is also secretly engaged to Mr. Preston ever since she was 15 years old. When she tries to break off that engagement, Preston is reluctant to let her go or give her back her letters. After a visit to London, Cynthia also breaks off her engagement to Roger who is on an expedition in Africa. Osbourne's health decreases quite severely. Fearing his father's reproach, he still cannot tell him of his marriage to a French woman or his having a child.
Starring:
Justine Waddell
Bill Paterson
Francesca Annis
Keeley Hawes
Tom Hollander
Iain Glen
Anthony Howell
Michael Gambon
It is revealed that Cynthia is also secretly engaged to Mr. Preston ever since she was 15 years old. When she tries to break off that engagement, Preston is reluctant to let her go or give her back her letters. After a visit to London, Cynthia also breaks off her engagement to Roger who is on an expedition in Africa. Osbourne's health decreases quite severely. Fearing his father's reproach, he still cannot tell him of his marriage to a French woman or his having a child.
Starring:
Justine Waddell
Bill Paterson
Francesca Annis
Keeley Hawes
Tom Hollander
Iain Glen
Anthony Howell
Michael Gambon
Category
🎥
Short filmTranscript
00:00:00You
00:00:30My dearest Cynthia, as I watch the coast of England slip away, I realize how much of my heart I have left behind in your dear care.
00:00:53Your loving acceptance makes me the most fortunate of men. I will carry the memory of that kiss with me to lighten the depths of Africa.
00:01:10What a thing to do. Write a letter before he was fairly embarked. Of course, he has nothing to say except the usual sort of silliness.
00:01:18Cynthia, you do love Roger, don't you?
00:01:20Why don't you think I've given him proof of it?
00:01:23Oh, what if you do look at me like that? No, I don't think I have the gift for loving, as some people do.
00:01:29Well, I've never felt carried off my feet by love for anyone, not even you, and you know that I love you more than anyone.
00:01:34No, don't, don't. I won't hear you. I should never have asked you.
00:01:37Holly, what on earth is the matter with you? One might think you cared for him yourself.
00:01:41Well, I do care for him. I love him as a sister. I think he is a prince amongst men.
00:01:48Really?
00:01:53Well, even you must acknowledge that he's plain and he's awkward.
00:01:58You know I like pretty things and pretty people.
00:02:00Cynthia, I won't talk to you about him. He shan't be run down by you, even in jest.
00:02:05Oh, well, we shan't talk about him then.
00:02:07Perhaps we shan't ever be married after all.
00:02:18Two years is a long time.
00:02:21He might change his mind, or I might.
00:02:23Or someone else might come along and say I'm engaged to him.
00:02:26What should you say to that?
00:02:27Leave it, Agnes.
00:02:45Come, my dear.
00:02:47Be comfortable for once. Take your tea sitting down.
00:02:51Oh, my dear one.
00:02:53Now, I have a great piece of news to tell you.
00:03:00Oh, I thought there was something on hand.
00:03:02No for it.
00:03:03Well, Roger Hamley called to see us on the day he left, proposed to Cynthia and was accepted.
00:03:13Roger Hamley proposed to Cynthia?
00:03:15Why should he not?
00:03:17Well, only that not two weeks ago I gave my assurances to the squire that there was nothing of that sort
00:03:22between his sons and either of the girls.
00:03:25Well, what's done is done.
00:03:27It'll have to be a very long engagement, Daddy.
00:03:29Yes, I think perhaps it will.
00:03:31But then again, perhaps it won't.
00:03:34A little bird did tell me that Osborne Hamley's life is not so very secure,
00:03:39but then what will Roger be?
00:03:41Heir to the estate.
00:03:42Oh, my.
00:03:47Robert, whatever's the matter?
00:03:49Who told you that about Osborne?
00:03:53Who told you, I say?
00:03:54Why?
00:03:55Can you deny it?
00:03:56Is it not the truth?
00:03:57I'll ask you again.
00:03:58Who told you that Osborne Hamley's life was in any more danger than yours or mine?
00:04:02Oh, don't speak in that frightening way.
00:04:05I mean, my life's not in danger, I'm sure.
00:04:08Oh, Robert.
00:04:16Little bits of glass can be so dangerous.
00:04:18Never mind the glass.
00:04:19Who told you anything about Osborne's state of health?
00:04:23If you will know, it was you.
00:04:25You, you, yourself, you or Dr Nichols.
00:04:27I never spoke to you on the subject, and I don't believe Nichols did either.
00:04:30You'd better tell me at once what you're alluding to.
00:04:34I wish I'd ever got married again.
00:04:36I never thought you could be so cruel.
00:04:38And you shouldn't speak your medical secrets so loud if you don't want anyone to hear them.
00:04:45And you went into the store and for a jar of preserves, it was certainly for no pleasure of mine.
00:04:51And you overheard our conversation, I suppose.
00:04:53Just a sentence or two.
00:04:55And what were they?
00:04:58Well, Dr Nichols said if he's got an aneurysm of the aorta, then his days are numbered.
00:05:02And then you replied, I hope to God I'm mistaken, but it seems he has very clear indications of symptoms.
00:05:08I see.
00:05:09And may I ask how it is that you can remember so exactly the name of the disease?
00:05:14Well, because I...
00:05:16Now, don't get angry, please.
00:05:18I see no harm in what I did.
00:05:19I went into your surgery and I looked it up.
00:05:21I mean, well, why should I not?
00:05:25Well, I suppose as one bruise, one must bake.
00:05:29I don't know what you mean.
00:05:35So this is why you've changed your conduct towards Roger.
00:05:39Yeah.
00:05:41I noticed you've been more civil to him of late.
00:05:44Well, if you mean that I like him more than Osborne, you're very much mistaken.
00:05:48It's just that as Roger was the youngest son, I thought it best to discourage him.
00:05:52But now that you consider him to be the proximate heir to the Hamley estate, you've made him more welcome here.
00:05:57Well, I don't know what you mean by proximate.
00:06:00Well, go into the surgery and look it up, then.
00:06:04You overheard a professional conversation.
00:06:08Now, don't you know that professional conversations are confidential?
00:06:12That it would be the worst thing I could do to betray secrets that I learn in the exercise of my profession and trade on them.
00:06:19Yes, yes, of course, you.
00:06:21And a husband and wife not one in these respects.
00:06:24I just thought that you would be glad to see Cynthia well-married and of your hands.
00:06:30I don't know what to say to you.
00:06:32You either can't or won't see what I mean.
00:06:35But had you bothered to consult me, I could have told you that Dr. Nicholl's opinion was decidedly opposed to mine.
00:06:41He thinks that Osborne is as likely as any other man to live, to marry, and to beget children.
00:06:52Yes, well, let us review this misfortune, since I see that you know consider it as such.
00:07:01Well, not exactly a misfortune, but had I known Dr. Nicholl's opinion...
00:07:07No, comfort yourself, my dear.
00:07:10Roger Hamley is as fine a young man as ever breathed.
00:07:15With money or without.
00:07:18I only wish my Molly could meet with such another.
00:07:21I will try for Molly.
00:07:23I will indeed.
00:07:24No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
00:07:25That is one thing that I forbid.
00:07:26I will have no trying for Molly.
00:07:29Don't be angry, dear.
00:07:39For a minute there, I thought you were going to lose your temper.
00:07:43It would have been of no use.
00:07:55Breakfast is ready, sir.
00:07:56No breakfast, thank you, Mariah.
00:07:58And I won't be back for dinner.
00:08:09How are you getting on the thing in there, Mrs. Knight?
00:08:12Oh, very well, thank you.
00:08:26Miss Gibson?
00:08:45Looking very well indeed, if I may say so.
00:08:47I was just urging upon Miss Kirkpatrick the merits of a long walk in the countryside.
00:08:51Come, Molly.
00:08:52We shall be late.
00:08:53Sylvia, I understand I am to congratulate you on your engagement to Roger Hanley.
00:09:16You've won the heart of a very fine young man, and I hope you'll both be very happy.
00:09:26We had all pledged ourselves to keep it secret, Mama included, but I'm glad that you should
00:09:32know it.
00:09:33You've always been a very kind friend to me.
00:09:36It truly is hardly an engagement, though.
00:09:38He wouldn't allow me to bind myself by any promise till his return.
00:09:40I hope you're worthy of him, Cynthia.
00:09:43I've never known a truer or a warmer heart than Roger's, and I've known him since he was
00:09:47a little boy.
00:09:48You're not very complimentary, are you, Mr. Gibson?
00:09:52Still, he finds me worthy, I suppose.
00:09:56If you think so highly of him, you ought to respect his judgment of me.
00:09:59Why does his father have to speak to me like that?
00:10:13Cynthia, I'm afraid I must speak to the squire about this.
00:10:18I gave him my word that I would, if anything of the kind, arose.
00:10:21It's the one thing I stipulated for secrecy.
00:10:24But why keep it secret from the family?
00:10:26Surely in any case, Roger will tell his father.
00:10:29No.
00:10:30No, he won't, because I made him promise.
00:10:32I think he's one to respect a promise.
00:10:34Well, let's give him a chance, then, shall we?
00:10:36I won't go over to the hall till the end of the week.
00:10:39He may have written and told his father by then.
00:10:41So a man's promise is to override a woman's wish, then, is it?
00:10:44I don't see why it shouldn't.
00:10:46Mr. Gibson, will you please trust me when I tell you?
00:10:49This will cause me a great deal of distress if it gets known.
00:10:52Telling the boy's father is not making it public.
00:10:55I don't like this exaggerated desire for secrecy, Cynthia.
00:10:57It seems to me as if something more than as apparent is concealed behind it.
00:11:04Come on, Molly.
00:11:05Let's play that new duet I taught you.
00:11:08Let's play this part.
00:11:15Yeah.
00:11:16What?
00:11:17Let's play this thing.
00:11:25Let's play this part.
00:11:29I will play this with nothing.
00:11:29But it seems that Patrick has entered into an understanding
00:11:59of Roger. Cynthia Kirkpatrick,
00:12:01you say? I was hoping Roger
00:12:03would have told you in a letter.
00:12:05It shows you have no sons. Half these sons
00:12:07are mysteries to their fathers. Look at Osborne.
00:12:10I've got no more idea what goes on
00:12:11in his head than the man in the moon.
00:12:13I thought Roger would be different.
00:12:15He's a good lad. It's thanks to him.
00:12:17I'm able to put these drainage works back into
00:12:19commission, you see.
00:12:21This Kirkpatrick.
00:12:23Not the match I've been hoping for.
00:12:25I suppose she's no money.
00:12:26Oh, about £20 a year
00:12:29at my pleasure.
00:12:31Oh, well, as good as not Osborne.
00:12:34But what family is she of?
00:12:35She's not a trade, her beings are poor.
00:12:38I understand her
00:12:39father was the grandson
00:12:41of a baronet.
00:12:43That's something, that's something.
00:12:44But what sort of girl is she,
00:12:47Gibson? I don't know what you mean.
00:12:49Yes, you do. You're offended with me
00:12:51or you'd have answered me straight. You know what I mean?
00:12:54Is she like Molly? Sweet-tempered
00:12:55and sensible and ready to do anything
00:12:57one asked her.
00:12:58She's very pretty.
00:13:00She's prettier than
00:13:01Molly, I have to admit.
00:13:03She has very winning ways.
00:13:05I'm not sure that she feels things
00:13:07quite so keenly
00:13:09as Molly does, but
00:13:10all in all, I think she's one in a hundred.
00:13:13Oh, well, Molly's one in a thousand.
00:13:15But she's of no family, you see.
00:13:17No money either.
00:13:19Otherwise, she'd make the perfect wife
00:13:21to either of my two lads.
00:13:22Well, as there's no question
00:13:23of Molly in this business,
00:13:25then there's no need to bring
00:13:26her name into it, is there?
00:13:27I must get off.
00:13:28Good day to you, sir.
00:13:29Hang on, Gibson.
00:13:30We're all friends.
00:13:31Don't take offence.
00:13:32You're a fool to take offence.
00:13:34Look, bring her round to the hall.
00:13:35We'll have lunch.
00:13:36And bring her mother and Molly
00:13:38and let me see the girl myself.
00:13:42Madam, your wife and I
00:13:43didn't hit it off
00:13:44the only time I ever saw her.
00:13:46I'm not saying she was very silly,
00:13:47but one of us was really silly
00:13:49and it wasn't me.
00:13:51Thursday, Suge.
00:13:52Yes, you wish.
00:14:10Got it?
00:14:11No.
00:14:12Now you've got to hold it
00:14:12front of her,
00:14:13but not too tight.
00:14:15It's all in the wrist,
00:14:16and you see,
00:14:17the move.
00:14:18A sort of arch,
00:14:20and then I'll get a little flick,
00:14:21quick, like you see.
00:14:22That's right.
00:14:23You look close, pal.
00:14:26We'll make a fish and make a get.
00:14:28Try again.
00:14:29I'll get a little flick.
00:14:34Archie, sir.
00:14:35Archie, sir.
00:14:38I'll get the wheel.
00:14:40I'll get the wheel.
00:14:40I'll get the wheel.
00:14:41I'll get the wheel.
00:14:41I'll get the wheel.
00:14:46We've got him.
00:14:53We've got him.
00:14:54Look at the net.
00:14:55Look, he's a good one.
00:15:00Look, Molly!
00:15:01I caught one!
00:15:03Well done, lass.
00:15:06He's a grander.
00:15:16He's a grander.
00:15:18I'm not gonna lie.
00:15:23He's a grander.
00:15:29He's a grander.
00:15:33He's a grander.
00:15:38so how did it go off it got on very well I think how could anyone not like Cynthia
00:15:56well she puts herself out to please do you think that she's do you think that
00:16:02she's right for him like Roger she's a very charming young girl but somehow I don't
00:16:09quite understand her why should she want all this secrecy I don't know I don't think I
00:16:17understand her either but I do love her who's Osborne was he there no I think he had to go
00:16:24and see do something else Molly this business with Cynthia and Roger took me by surprise
00:16:33if there's anything else of the sort in the offing I think you'd better tell me at once
00:16:38if you mean you're afraid that Osborne thinks of me as Roger does of Cynthia you're quite mistaken
00:16:44Osborne and I are friends we could never be anything more that's all I can tell you
00:16:51that's quite enough little one it's a great relief oh Papa oh there there there there there's nothing
00:17:00the matter is there no only I wish I could have you all to myself more often yes well
00:17:09run along now I'm very glad to hear that you won't be carried off by any young man just yet a while
00:17:18Roger Hamley
00:17:19Roger Hamley.
00:17:45Mérif Cidliouzir.
00:17:48No, no, no.
00:17:49Mérif Cidliouzir.
00:17:51Carry on.
00:17:53Good pair of English legs here.
00:18:00My dearest Cynthia,
00:18:02it's just as well I was as strong as an ox when I set off.
00:18:06This country is extraordinary and a constant challenge every day.
00:18:11New hazards and new adventures.
00:18:14I'm learning the language,
00:18:15and more importantly,
00:18:17how to survive in this wonderful land.
00:18:23Miss Kirkpatrick!
00:18:25A letter from Africa!
00:18:27He sends you his best regards and his compliments to you, Mama.
00:18:36He sends you his best regards and his compliments to you, Mama.
00:18:53Where is he, Cynthia?
00:18:54What does he say?
00:18:55Where?
00:18:56I didn't look exactly.
00:18:57Somewhere in Abyssinia.
00:18:59Um, Huron?
00:19:01Does that make you any the wiser?
00:19:04Well, Harron, perhaps.
00:19:05Yes, I think you're right.
00:19:07Oh, Molly, you are clever.
00:19:08How did you guess?
00:19:09Fancy knowing anything about Abyssinia.
00:19:11I looked in the world atlas.
00:19:12I wanted to make some sort of picture for myself of where he was.
00:19:16Is he well, Cynthia?
00:19:18Well enough.
00:19:19He says he has a touch of fever, but...
00:19:20Fever?
00:19:21Yes, but he thinks he'll be quite acclimatised soon.
00:19:22But who will take care of him?
00:19:25I don't think he gets much caring for.
00:19:27I think it's pretty much sink or swim in Abyssinia.
00:19:31No doctors or nurses there.
00:19:34Still, he has plenty of quinine with him.
00:19:37But anyway, he thinks he's all the men now, so that's all right.
00:19:39Well, what if he isn't?
00:19:41Oh, no, we mustn't think that.
00:19:44Oh, Cynthia, how you must have been worrying about him.
00:19:47Well, as a matter of fact, I haven't been worrying about him.
00:19:50See, I made my mind up before he went not to worry.
00:19:53I mean, if anything did, well, you know, go wrong,
00:19:57it'd all be over before I even heard of it.
00:19:59Don't say that, Cynthia.
00:20:00Oh, moderate your tone, dear.
00:20:02What Cynthia's saying is only common sense, after all,
00:20:04and what is the point of worrying about something
00:20:06one can't help and may never happen?
00:20:08And he does say he's feeling better now, Molly.
00:20:13What else does he say?
00:20:15I mean, things that I may hear.
00:20:16Well, lover's letters are so silly,
00:20:19and I think this is sillier than usual.
00:20:21Um, ah.
00:20:24Here's a piece you may read.
00:20:26Couldn't get on with this myself.
00:20:28It's all about Aristotle and Pliny
00:20:30and some beetle he's found that proves something or another.
00:20:32Ha!
00:20:32Yes, do take it with you if you like.
00:20:37I must get this hat made up before I go out.
00:20:40Try it.
00:20:41Oh, God, let him live.
00:20:52Let him live.
00:20:54Even if I never set eyes on him again.
00:20:57Grant him he come home safe.
00:21:00And be happy.
00:21:01Hey.
00:21:09Hey.
00:21:39Oh.
00:21:40He's relinquished the profession.
00:21:41I'm relieved, yeah.
00:21:42And it's coming to a great deal of money.
00:21:43Oh.
00:21:44It's such a pleasure to meet my husband's former pupils, Mr. Cox.
00:21:45He's spoken to me so often about you.
00:21:46Indeed, ma'am.
00:21:47Well, I was very happy here.
00:21:48Um, is Miss Gibson still alive?
00:21:51Yes, ma'am.
00:21:52Yes, ma'am.
00:21:53Yes, ma'am.
00:21:54Yes, ma'am.
00:21:55Yes, ma'am.
00:21:56Yes, ma'am.
00:21:57Yes, ma'am.
00:21:58Yes, ma'am.
00:21:59Yes, ma'am.
00:22:00Yes, ma'am.
00:22:01Yes, ma'am.
00:22:02Yes, ma'am.
00:22:03Yes, ma'am.
00:22:04Yes, ma'am.
00:22:05Yes, ma'am.
00:22:06Um, is Miss Gibson still at home?
00:22:09I should very much like to...
00:22:10Oh, yes, yes.
00:22:11She'll be coming directly, along with my own daughter, Cynthia.
00:22:15Mr. Cox.
00:22:17Is it you?
00:22:19Yes.
00:22:20You remembered me.
00:22:21I was so afraid that you wouldn't.
00:22:23Well, you're so much grown.
00:22:24No.
00:22:25You're so much from...
00:22:26Um...
00:22:27Well, I suppose I mustn't say that I was...
00:22:30Yeah.
00:22:34This is Miss Kirkpatrick, my stepsister.
00:22:37Mr. Cox.
00:22:39Um...
00:22:40How do you do?
00:22:41How do you do, Mr. Cox?
00:22:42How do you do, Mr. Cox?
00:22:49Mr. Gibson.
00:22:50I dare say you'll be surprised, sir, at what I want to say.
00:22:54But I think it's the part of an honourable man, as you said yourself, sir, a year or two ago, to speak to the father first.
00:23:01And as you, sir, stand in the place of a father to Miss Kirkpatrick, I should like to express my feelings, my, er, hopes.
00:23:11Miss Kirkpatrick?
00:23:13I do assure you, sir, that I came here with a heart as faithful to your daughter as ever beaten a man's breast.
00:23:19But it soon became clear to me that her manner towards me, though friendly, was in no way...
00:23:25Well, it was... wasn't...
00:23:28While...
00:23:29Miss Kirkpatrick...
00:23:31Um...
00:23:33While Miss Kirkpatrick?
00:23:35Er...
00:23:36I was only going to say, sir, that I think that I may venture to hope that Miss Kirkpatrick welcomes my attentions.
00:23:42I don't believe that Miss Kirkpatrick could ever have meant to encourage you.
00:23:46Oh, I think so, if you could have seen her.
00:23:49At any rate, you won't mind me taking my chance and speaking to her?
00:23:54No, but if you take my advice, you'll spare yourself the pain of her refusal.
00:23:58I think I ought to tell you that her affections are otherwise engaged.
00:24:02Oh, I cannot believe that, no.
00:24:04There must be some mistake.
00:24:06I don't see how she could have misunderstood my meaning.
00:24:10Perhaps her affections may have been engaged before,
00:24:14but isn't it possible that she might come to prefer another?
00:24:18By another, you mean yourself, I suppose.
00:24:21Hmm.
00:24:22I can believe in such inconstancy.
00:24:25But I'd be very sorry to think that Miss Kirkpatrick could be guilty.
00:24:28But you will allow me to ask for her answer?
00:24:31Oh, certainly, my poor fellow.
00:24:33If you must.
00:24:35Oh, thank you, sir.
00:24:36Thank you. God bless you for a kind friend.
00:24:38Um, Miss Kirkpatrick.
00:24:39Can I tell you what the pleasure was asking please?
00:24:41Thank you, sir.
00:24:42Please tell me that you would return my place.
00:24:43It's the same for your wife.
00:24:44Mr Cox.
00:24:45Mr Cox.
00:24:46No one must end up at once.
00:24:47I must tell you why I'm engaged to marry someone else.
00:24:50Mr Cox.
00:24:51Okay.
00:24:52No one must find out the woods.
00:24:53I must tell you why I'm engaged to marry someone else.
00:24:55I'm in the ground.
00:24:56Thank you, sir.
00:24:57No one is a good dog, sir.
00:24:58No one is a good dog.
00:24:59Mr Cox.
00:25:00Oh, we must stand up at once.
00:25:01I must tell you why I'm engaged to marry someone else.
00:25:02Sir Cox.
00:25:03I must tell him I'm engaged to marry someone else.
00:25:21Molly, you must never trifle with the love of an honest man.
00:25:26You don't know what pain you may get.
00:25:30Molly, you'll never guess.
00:25:35Oh, Mr. Cox asked me to give you both his kind regards.
00:25:40I believe he's leaving Hollingford this afternoon.
00:25:43I trust this will never occur again, Cynthia.
00:25:47What am I to think of a young woman in your position?
00:25:50Engaged and yet accepting the overtures of another man.
00:25:54Do you realise what unnecessary pain you have given that young man by your thoughtless behaviour?
00:25:59I call it thoughtless. I could call it something worse.
00:26:03Well, please, Mr. Gibson, hear my side of the story before you speak so severely to me.
00:26:07I didn't mean to flirt. I only meant to be agreeable.
00:26:11I can't help doing that, can I?
00:26:13That goose of a Mr. Cox imagined that I was encouraging him.
00:26:16What do you mean that you weren't aware that he was falling in love with you?
00:26:21I suppose, to speak truly, I did think once or twice he might be.
00:26:26But I do hate cheering cold water on people.
00:26:28I never imagined they could take it into his silly head to imagine himself seriously in love and then to make such a fuss.
00:26:34You seem to have been pretty well aware of his silliness.
00:26:37You should have considered what it might lead to and what it has led to.
00:26:40Well, perhaps. I dare say I'm all wrong and he's all right.
00:26:44Well, really, it seems to me...
00:26:48In any case, I'm not finally engaged. Roger wouldn't allow it. I would have done it, but he wouldn't let me.
00:26:53I don't want to hear any more about this. I've said all that I mean to say.
00:26:56I'm willing to believe that you were only thoughtless.
00:26:59But don't let it happen again.
00:27:10Not proven, but we recommend the prisoner not to do it again.
00:27:13It's pretty much that, isn't it, Molly?
00:27:23Cynthia? Cynthia?
00:27:38I do believe your father might make a good woman of me yet.
00:27:41If he'd only take the pains and was not quite so severe.
00:27:44I was afraid poor Mr. Cox was becoming very fond of you.
00:27:48I wish I had said something now.
00:27:50It wouldn't have made any difference if you had.
00:27:52I knew he'd like me.
00:27:54Well, I like to be liked.
00:27:56We just shouldn't have carried it too far.
00:27:59I shall hate red-haired people for the rest of my life.
00:28:03Oh, I knew he came here to propose to you.
00:28:06Well, you were disagreeable, so I took pity on him.
00:28:11Shall you tell Roger about it?
00:28:13Oh, no.
00:28:15Well, I don't know.
00:28:17Perhaps if we're ever married.
00:28:19Do you know?
00:28:21I have a feeling I shan't ever get married to him.
00:28:23I don't know why.
00:28:24Still, best not to tell him all my secrets.
00:28:26Imagine if he knew them and then it never came off.
00:28:28I think it would break his heart.
00:28:31Molly, there's no need to be so dreadfully serious about everything.
00:28:35It is not my nature to go into ecstasies.
00:28:38I don't think I shall ever be in love.
00:28:41But I'm glad he loves me.
00:28:44And I like his face 10,000 times more than Mr. Preston's handsomeness.
00:28:49Mr. Preston?
00:28:50What should you think of me if I married him after all?
00:28:53Married Mr. Preston?
00:28:54Or has he ever asked you?
00:28:55More unlikely things have happened.
00:28:56Have you never heard of strong wills mesmerizing weak ones until they can't even think for themselves?
00:29:13Cynthia.
00:29:14Well, he's not a man to be easily thrown off, I can tell you.
00:29:32Oh, I wish Roger were rich and could marry me at once and carry me away from that man.
00:29:37Cynthia, what is this all about?
00:29:39Oh.
00:29:44Money matters are at the root of it.
00:29:48Core in poverty.
00:29:51Oh, dear, let's talk about something else.
00:29:54You'll make me feel so...
00:29:59I've never lived with good people before.
00:30:01I don't quite know how to behave.
00:30:02I don't believe that's really true, nor does Roger, I'm sure.
00:30:06Of course he thinks I'm good. He's in love with me.
00:30:08Yes. He's in love with you.
00:30:11And he... he depends upon you, so you should... you should try to deserve him.
00:30:16I need to deserve him!
00:30:17I don't know.
00:30:47It is sundown, Cynthia.
00:31:02They are singing outside my tent.
00:31:05The men say it's about a chap who pines for a girl in a distant land.
00:31:10They're teasing me, of course.
00:31:12They often do.
00:31:15Thank Molly for her letter.
00:31:17Tell her I had a sighting today of a glorious lizard
00:31:21and have found more of the great black bugs that I told her about.
00:31:26A species of Reduvius.
00:31:28She'll know which I mean.
00:31:29The Abyssinian wilds would not suit you, dearest Cynthia.
00:31:38But your love sustains me in this savage land.
00:31:41The Abyssinian wilds, and this is the game of a moose.
00:31:51The Abyssinian wilds, and this is the
00:32:04find out.
00:32:05I think they might have remembered that I'm a generation closer to them than she is.
00:32:25But no one thinks about family affection nowadays, do they?
00:32:28If you want us to sympathise, you'll have to tell us what the matter is.
00:32:38Well, I dare say it was meant as a kind attention.
00:32:40I just think that he should have asked me first, before Cynthia.
00:32:43And who is he, and what is meant for a kind attention?
00:32:47Mr Kirkpatrick, to be sure, my brother-in-law, Cynthia's uncle.
00:32:51He wants Cynthia to go and stay with them in London, but he hasn't even mentioned you and me.
00:32:57And I think he should have asked us first, that's all.
00:32:59As I couldn't possibly go, it makes very little difference to me.
00:33:02No. No, but I could have gone.
00:33:05At any rate, you could have paid me the compliment. I have a great mind not to let her go.
00:33:10Well, I can't go in any case, Mama.
00:33:12I've nothing to wear. My gowns are all so shabby, and I remember my aunt was very particular about dress.
00:33:17So please write it once and refuse it.
00:33:20Nonsense, child, nothing to wear?
00:33:22Why, what's happened to all your money? You've £20 a year, thanks to Mr Gibson and me.
00:33:26Well, however it's come about, I have no money to spend now, so that's that.
00:33:29Well, you couldn't have spent more than £10, so where's it gone?
00:33:32Mama, it may sound very cross, but I must tell you once and for all that, as I didn't ask for,
00:33:35and don't want any more than my allowance, I shan't answer any questions as to what I do with it.
00:33:44Well, I don't understand that at all, do you, Mama?
00:33:46No, no, she's not at all extravagant.
00:33:50She may have given it away to someone who wants it.
00:33:54It is very clear that she has neither the dress nor the money for this London trip,
00:33:59and she doesn't want any further inquiries into the subject.
00:34:02She likes mysteries, in fact, I detest them.
00:34:04But as I think it is desirable for her to keep up a friendship with her father's family,
00:34:09I will gladly give her £10.
00:34:12Oh, what a generous man you are, Mr Gibson, to my poor fatherless daughter.
00:34:17And I think maybe I should accompany her and stay for a day or two, you know.
00:34:24A lady cumbers in town are not at all in good health, and, yes, it would ease my spirits
00:34:28if I were to see her and offer her what comfort I can.
00:34:31Well, that's if you think that you could bear to fend for yourselves just for a day or two.
00:34:36No, no, we shouldn't mind at all, should we, Papa?
00:34:39Looking after ourselves.
00:34:43No, no, no, no, no.
00:34:44Oh, no, no, no, no, we shall bear it as best we can, my dear.
00:34:52Oh!
00:34:53Oh, I think, Mr Gibson's the kindest man I know!
00:34:59Oh!
00:35:03Oh, Mary, you don't think it's a very wicked and foolish of me to want to go to London, do you?
00:35:06I mean, on account of Roger and everything.
00:35:08No, of course you should go.
00:35:09Yes, all right!
00:35:11Oh!
00:35:12Am...
00:35:12do you think mr gibson is my god i hope you're not those growing crazy the pair of you
00:35:18what's all this about i pray i'm just glad we go to London well i think you might try and express
00:35:26your happiness in a more lady like Hannah darling Osborne Hamley is down in the consulting room
00:35:31with mr gibson and i don't know what he'd think if he heard you how ill that poor young man looks
00:35:37your father thinks it may not be very grievous after all but i don't think he has long to live
00:35:43oh but what will happen if he dies well it'd be sad of course and i'm sure we'd all feel it very
00:35:51much i've no doubt but we mustn't forget the living molly and if the worst were to happen
00:35:58then our own dear Roger would do everything in his power to step into Osborne's place
00:36:03and Cynthia's marriage need not be so long delayed mama how can you speak of Osborne's
00:36:09death and my marriage in the same breath well it's a very natural thought dear a young man
00:36:14strikes us all as looking very ill and i'm sure i'm sorry for it but illness often leads to death
00:36:19and i'm sure you'd agree with me so what's the harm in saying so and then molly asks the question what
00:36:25happens if he dies and i try to answer her i mean i don't want to talk about death any more than anyone
00:36:30else but one has to look forward to the consequences indeed i think we're commanded to do so somewhere
00:36:37aren't we in the bible or in the prayer book do you look forward to the consequences of my death mother
00:36:45oh cynthia you really are the most unfeeling girl i've ever met with
00:36:49oh i was hoping to speak to him what about gutsy nothing in particular
00:37:00is he really very ill it's one of those cases where it's not possible to be certain but
00:37:08i am anxious about him yes but i haven't told him that and nor should you
00:37:14but if he is really in danger he'd want to arrange his affairs wouldn't he
00:37:19well i'd consider that but the fear and anxiety could itself precipitate a crisis
00:37:24surely he has the right to know no no best to leave him in ignorance and to hope for a complete
00:37:30recovery now i say this in absolute confidence molly because i trust you completely you at any rate
00:37:37understand how to keep your counsel don't make yourself over anxious about osborne he may be well yet
00:38:07ah they are
00:38:08very odd sort of day
00:38:13neither one thing or the other
00:38:16i had a letter from roger
00:38:21he's very well
00:38:23had a good christmas
00:38:25look here osborne
00:38:29do you know anything about this engagement of rogers
00:38:33a pretty girl very pretty not one i'd have chosen miss kirkpatrick
00:38:38aye that's the one
00:38:39i wonder he never told me
00:38:42well he
00:38:42he never told me either
00:38:44gibson come over and made a clean breast of it like a man of honour
00:38:49well i let it go on it was only roger
00:38:51i knew if it had been you i'd have broken with gibson
00:38:54and every mother's son of him so i told gibson
00:38:57father i beg your pardon but i claim the right of choosing my wife for myself with no one's interference
00:39:01do you now
00:39:02then you'll keep your wife with no one's interference
00:39:05for you won't get a penny from me
00:39:07unless you marry to please me a little as well as yourself a great deal
00:39:10that's all i ask
00:39:11and she can be pretty or not
00:39:15and i don't mind if she's a bit older than you
00:39:18but she must be well born
00:39:20and the more money she brings to the old place the better
00:39:23i say again father i must choose my wife myself
00:39:26and i won't be dictated to even by you sir
00:39:30well if i'm not to be father thou shan't be son
00:39:33go against me in this and you'll find there's a devil to pay i mean it osborne
00:39:37you're the only manageable one left in the market
00:39:40and i want to hoist the old family up again
00:39:43don't go against me osborne
00:39:49it really will break my house if you do
00:39:53father don't say that
00:39:54i will do anything i can to oblige you anything
00:39:58except
00:39:59except the one thing i've set my heart on your doing
00:40:03oh god
00:40:26oh god
00:40:30what am i going to do
00:40:35oh god
00:40:42oh god
00:40:46oh god
00:40:49oh god
00:40:53oh god
00:40:56You don't want to do it, don't you?
00:41:02You girls be good.
00:41:17Now, Papa, I shall have it to myself for a whole week.
00:41:20You'll have to be very obedient.
00:41:22Shall I, indeed?
00:41:24Now, here's a rare sight.
00:41:26Mr. Gibson and his daughter walking together in the middle of the day.
00:41:30All right, ladies, yes. We've just been seeing my wife and her daughter off to London.
00:41:33Mrs. Gibson has gone up for a week.
00:41:35Only a week?
00:41:36Hey, dearie, dear. I can remember when it was a three-day journey to London.
00:41:40She'd scare some time to go and come back.
00:41:43Will it be very lonely for you, Molly, without your young companion?
00:41:46Yes, I shall miss her very much. But Papa and I...
00:41:49You, Mr. Gibson, it'll be like being a widower again.
00:41:52You must come and drink tea with us some evening. And Molly, too.
00:41:55Oh, yes, and you must come to our house as well.
00:41:58We must try and cheer you up a bit amongst us. Shall it be Tuesday?
00:42:01Well, that's very kind, but I have one or two pressing cases.
00:42:06But I'll see what I can do. But I think I can promise for Molly.
00:42:10Good day to you, ladies.
00:42:12Oh, thank you.
00:42:14Ah, could you waste one of our evenings? We have but six evenings altogether,
00:42:17and I reckon you're us doing all sorts of things. Just the two of us.
00:42:20What sort of things?
00:42:21Oh, I don't know. Everything that's unrefined, un-janteel.
00:42:25Well, by toil and labour, I've reached a fair height of refinement,
00:42:27and I won't be caught down again.
00:42:28Oh, yes, just for a week, you will.
00:42:30We'll have bread and cheese for dinner and eat it on our knees,
00:42:34and we'll put our knives into our mouths until we cut ourselves,
00:42:37and you shall pour your teeth into our souls until we cut our knives into our mouths until we cut our knives into our mouths until we cut our knives into our mouths.
00:42:42We'll put our knives into our mouths until we cut our knives into our mouths until we cut our knives into our mouths.
00:43:06Two letters in a week. Well, that's very proper.
00:43:11When I'd lump and say any postage any more, we'd be extravagant.
00:43:15And what does Cynthia say? Is she enjoying herself?
00:43:18Oh, yes, very much, I think.
00:43:20I've been to a dinner party, and one night when Mama was at Lady Cummings, Cynthia went to the play with her cousins.
00:43:26Upon my word. And all in one week?
00:43:30I do call that dissipation.
00:43:32Because Thursday would be taken up with the travelling, and Friday would be resting.
00:43:36And Sunday is Sunday all over the world.
00:43:39Well, I hope she won't find Olingford dull when she comes back.
00:43:43I don't think that's likely, Sally. Not now Mr Preston's moving to town.
00:43:48I've seen a great deal of Mr Preston, haven't you, Molly?
00:43:51Mr Preston?
00:43:53No, what should make you think so?
00:43:55Oh, a little bird told us.
00:43:57What do you mean? Who told you?
00:43:59Oh, little birds don't have names, I think you'll find.
00:44:02But this little bird was flying about one day in Heath Lane.
00:44:06And it saw Mr Preston with the young lady.
00:44:09We won't say who.
00:44:10Walking together in a very friendly manner.
00:44:13Well, that is to say, he was on horseback.
00:44:15Because just there, the path is raised above the roofs.
00:44:18No, no, perhaps Molly is in the secret, and we ought not to ask her about it.
00:44:22It could be no great secret, sister.
00:44:24Miss Hornblower says that Mr Preston owns to being engaged.
00:44:28Well, if he is engaged, it's not to Cynthia.
00:44:30That I know for certain.
00:44:32And I do wish you'd put a stop to any such reports.
00:44:36You don't know what mischief they may do.
00:44:38I do so hate that kind of chatter.
00:44:40Toity-toity.
00:44:41Kindly remember, I'm old enough to be your mother, Miss Molly.
00:44:45Chatter.
00:44:47To be sure.
00:44:51I beg your pardon, Miss Browning.
00:44:53Oh, but don't you see how bad it is to talk of such things in that way?
00:44:57Supposing...
00:44:58Supposing one of them cared for somebody else.
00:45:01And that might happen, you know.
00:45:03Mr Preston, for example, he may be engaged to somebody else.
00:45:07Well, if he is, I pity the young lady.
00:45:09Indeed, I do.
00:45:10But he's a great flirt.
00:45:12And young ladies better not have too much to do with him.
00:45:16Miss Browning, I beg you, would not talk about it any more.
00:45:19I have my reasons for asking.
00:45:35Phoebe!
00:45:39It was Molly herself that was with Mr Preston in Heath Lane.
00:45:44Goodness gracious, how do you know?
00:45:46I put in two and two together.
00:45:47Didn't you notice how pale she went?
00:45:49And how she said she knew for a fact that Mr Preston and Miss Kirkpatrick were not engaged.
00:45:54Oh, perhaps not engaged.
00:45:56And Mrs Goodenough saw them loitering together.
00:45:58Mrs Goodenough says, and none of the best.
00:46:00No, I'll answer for it.
00:46:01She saw Molly and Tuca for Cynthia.
00:46:04Well, perhaps it wouldn't be so very bad a match, Sally.
00:46:08About as bad a match as it could be.
00:46:10He plays billiards, you know.
00:46:11And he bets at the races.
00:46:13And Miss Hornblower told me that he was engaged to a very pretty Miss Gregson before.
00:46:17And her father made inquiries.
00:46:19And what he heard made him make her break off the match.
00:46:22And she's dead since.
00:46:24Oh, sorry.
00:46:25Now, he might do for Cynthia.
00:46:27She's been brought up in France, so she might not be too particular.
00:46:31But he mustn't have Molly.
00:46:33We must keep on the lookout, Phoebe.
00:46:35I'll be her guardian angel in spite of herself.
00:46:55I wonder how you are, dear Cynthia.
00:46:58I often picture you walking in the garden.
00:47:01I've had a bit of a fall, but I believe I shall soon be on the mend again.
00:47:06How is Molly?
00:47:08Has she been to the hall to see my father?
00:47:11He's so, so fond of her.
00:47:14I long to hear from you.
00:47:17The rains must have made the post from England slower than usual, I suppose.
00:47:22Write soon and tell me how you are and what you're thinking and doing.
00:47:31First, let's tell you these storms are different.
00:47:33I've had some very monsters.
00:47:34I'dWhy do these storms pretty quickly, I promise.
00:47:37At that time, seeing how you've committed to Saint бум is the Shouldn't haveán the drawer this summer without a he wouldn't be signing off
00:48:43Two new ballgowns.
00:48:45If I say so myself, she had more admirers than any of her cousins.
00:48:50Young Mr. Henderson was quite smitten with her, I believe.
00:48:54He's the most promising young man in Mr. Kirkpatrick's chambers.
00:48:58So, all in all, they're so fond of her, I don't know when we'll see her back.
00:49:02A letter came from Africa two days ago, and I sent it on.
00:49:05Did she say anything about what was in it?
00:49:08Yes, yes, it made her very uneasy, poor child.
00:49:11And then she was inclined not to go to Mr. Rawson's ball that evening, and I told her there was nothing to get fidgety about.
00:49:17That he was laid up after a fall.
00:49:19He's had a fall, yes.
00:49:22But he was better by the time he wrote, and he's got a very strong constitution, hasn't he, Mr. Gibson?
00:49:26Ah, yes, yes.
00:49:28And where he is, he has need of one.
00:49:30And after all, it's not a formal engagement.
00:49:32And Cynthia could hardly excuse herself by saying,
00:49:35Oh, a young man I know took a tumble two months ago in Africa, and now I can't go to the ball this evening.
00:49:40That would seem just like an affectation of sentiment.
00:49:43If there's one thing I hate, it's that.
00:49:47Quit.
00:49:50Good morning, Miss Gibson.
00:50:01Good morning, Miss Gibson.
00:50:02Miss Kirkpatrick returns today, does she not?
00:50:06Yes.
00:50:07We'll be happy to see her, I think.
00:50:10Yes, good morning.
00:50:21There, now, will you look at that.
00:50:24You had no call for arse, Mr. Sheepshanks, when you were Lord Cumnor's land agent.
00:50:29Ah, well, young Preston reckons himself to be a bit above a land agent.
00:50:34A gentleman and a ladies' man, and a gambling man and all.
00:50:38I wouldn't trust him any further than I could throw him.
00:50:41Well, that's not fair.
00:50:43Good day to you.
00:50:48Oh, look.
00:50:49Did you miss me?
00:51:00Excuse me.
00:51:01Can I have my best?
00:51:02Don't you?
00:51:03I see he's feeling much better.
00:51:06Learning another new dialect.
00:51:09What about Beatles?
00:51:11I think I'll save this one up for later.
00:51:12Look what they gave me, Molly.
00:51:21They were so good to me.
00:51:27Do you wish you were still there?
00:51:31In some ways, I do.
00:51:32There's something rather oppressive about the Hollingford somehow.
00:51:36Oh, nothing to do with you, Molly, of course, but one does feel more carefree in London.
00:51:44Does that sound very wicked of me?
00:51:49Might be interested in this paragraph here, Cynthia.
00:51:52Well, what is it?
00:52:02May I see?
00:52:03Yes, of course.
00:52:04There's nothing private about it.
00:52:08Proceedings of the Geographical Society.
00:52:11Lord Hollingford read a letter he'd received from Mr. Roger Hamley.
00:52:15Oh, Cynthia, isn't it wonderful?
00:52:18Yes, I suppose it is.
00:52:20It's not news to me, though.
00:52:22I heard about the meeting before I left London.
00:52:24It was a good deal talked about in my uncle's set.
00:52:26You mean you could have gone?
00:52:27Yes, I suppose I could.
00:52:29But I think they'd have been rather astonished by my sudden turn for science.
00:52:33If you'd told your uncle how things really stood.
00:52:37With Roger, I mean.
00:52:38Molly, once and for all, please do learn to understand.
00:52:40I don't want my relation to Roger mentioned or talked about.
00:52:44If I'm pushed to it, I'd rather break it off altogether at once than have done with it.
00:52:50Oh, Miss Browning, they were so fond of Cynthia, you would hardly believe it.
00:52:59And do you know that she has had three letters from London this week already, Marquise?
00:53:03Three letters?
00:53:04Fancy that.
00:53:05It must almost be as good as living there.
00:53:07Oh, a great deal better, I should think.
00:53:10As far as I can judge of London, it's no better than a pickpocket and a robber dressed up in the spoils of honest folk.
00:53:18No, I've no patience with London.
00:53:21In my opinion, Cynthia's much better out of it.
00:53:24And if I were you, Mrs Gibson, I'm not sure I wouldn't stop up those London letters.
00:53:29They'll only be unsettling.
00:53:30But perhaps she may live in London one of these days, Miss Browning.
00:53:36Well, I wish you an honest country husband with enough to live upon and little to lay by and a good character, Cynthia.
00:53:44Well, thank you, Miss Browning.
00:53:46Mind that, Molly.
00:53:47I wish Cynthia a husband with a good character.
00:53:50She's got a mother to look after her and you've none.
00:53:52I beg your pardon, Miss Browning.
00:53:55And when your mother was alive, she was a dear friend of mine.
00:53:59So I'm not about to let you throw yourself away upon anyone whose life is not clear and above board.
00:54:03You may depend upon it.
00:54:05I'm sure you're very much mistaken, Miss Browning, if you think that any mother could take more care of Molly than I do.
00:54:10Oh, I didn't mean to offend you, Mrs Gibson.
00:54:14As stepmothers go, I think you try and do your duty.
00:54:17No, I'm just meant to give Molly a hint.
00:54:19She understands what I mean.
00:54:21I'm sure I do not.
00:54:23I haven't a notion what you mean if you were alluding to anything more than you said straight out.
00:54:28I'm not thinking of marrying at all.
00:54:30But if I did, and if you were not a good man, then I should thank you for coming and warning me of it.
00:54:33You shan't stand on warning you, Molly.
00:54:35I shall forbid the bans in church, if need be.
00:54:39Do.
00:54:45Trying to do my duty, indeed.
00:54:48Everybody knows I have always done my duty.
00:54:51Without talking about it before my face in that rude manner.
00:54:55I have that deep feeling about duty that I think it ought only to be talked about in church and sacred places like that.
00:55:03Not in someone's sitting room, with everyone drinking tea, as if I didn't look after you quite as well as I do, Cynthia.
00:55:10I think perhaps Miss Browning has got some notion about Mr. Preston.
00:55:17She spoke to me about him once before.
00:55:20What could have put that into her head?
00:55:22Well, I may not always approve of Mr. Preston, but if it was him that she was thinking of, he's far more agreeable than she is.
00:55:29And I would rather keep his company than hers any day.
00:55:32Where's Cynthia, Molly?
00:55:43She's gone out.
00:55:44Oh, that's a pity.
00:55:46I've got old Simpson's dog cart and I was going to offer you both a drive out on my way to the lodge.
00:55:51Would you like to come?
00:55:53I'll get my bullet.
00:55:53I mean, you'd have to walk home on your own.
00:56:19I used to bring your mother here.
00:56:23Jump down, lassie.
00:56:29Make the best of your way back before it gets dark.
00:56:32You'll find the cut over crossing heath is quicker than the road we came back.
00:56:53You don't know your own mind.
00:57:02Why won't you see me?
00:57:03Why?
00:57:05Come here.
00:57:06Don't go.
00:57:07Oh, no, please.
00:57:08Just let me take it.
00:57:10No.
00:57:11Please.
00:57:12You gave your promise freely enough.
00:57:13Why should you not keep it?
00:57:15Because I can't bear it.
00:57:16Let me go.
00:57:18Please.
00:57:19Molly!
00:57:20What is it?
00:57:21What's the matter?
00:57:22I think you should let her go now.
00:57:29Has Miss Gibson ceased fit to interrupt a private conversation?
00:57:34Perhaps we can fix a time, a place where we can meet again without the presence of a third party.
00:57:38I'll go now if Cynthia wants me to.
00:57:40No.
00:57:40No, stay.
00:57:42I want you to hear it.
00:57:44I should have told her sooner.
00:57:46Miss Kirkpatrick is referring to our engagement.
00:57:50She promised long ago to be my wife.
00:57:52I don't believe him.
00:57:53Don't cry, Cynthia.
00:57:53I don't believe what he said.
00:57:55Molly, it's true.
00:57:56Oh, don't cry.
00:57:57Please don't.
00:57:59You can't imagine how it distresses me.
00:58:01Leave me alone.
00:58:01Go away.
00:58:02Don't you see him make her worse?
00:58:03I think since Miss Gibson has acquainted herself with this much, she had better hear the whole truth.
00:58:10That you were engaged to marry me as soon as you were 20.
00:58:13I'm sure you must have thought it strange that we should meet in secret and by appointment.
00:58:17Well, now you know.
00:58:19I don't know anything of the kind.
00:58:21I do know that Cynthia is engaged to another man, so you can hardly expect me to believe what you say.
00:58:25Molly, I am not engaged to Roger.
00:58:27I think some letters in my possession would convince Miss Gibson I'm telling the truth.
00:58:35And Mr. Roger Hamley, if he is the gentleman she's alluding to.
00:58:39And I should be happy to make everything clear to Mr. Gibson as well.
00:58:42Well, then that's what you should do.
00:58:43Speak to my father like a gentleman, not make assignations in secret.
00:58:48Let's go home now, Cynthia.
00:58:49I never wanted it to be a secret.
00:58:52Can you deny that it's only been at your request that I've kept the secret for so long?
00:58:55If you will have it out, yes.
00:58:57Yes, it's true.
00:58:58When I was a girl of 15, you lent me money and made me promise to marry you in return.
00:59:03Made you?
00:59:04Made wasn't the right word.
00:59:06I liked you then.
00:59:07I know you better now, though, and I'd never marry you.
00:59:09I've done everything you asked me to.
00:59:11I've waited for years.
00:59:13I've put up with jealousy and neglect.
00:59:15Cynthia, I've loved you.
00:59:19And I still love you.
00:59:21And I can't give you up.
00:59:23If you'll just keep your word and marry me, I swear I'll make you love me in return.
00:59:28Oh, I wish I'd never borrowed that money.
00:59:30I've scrimped and saved to give it back Molly and he won't take it.
00:59:34He won't set me free.
00:59:35You make it sound as if you've sold yourself for 20 pounds.
00:59:39I didn't sell myself.
00:59:41I liked you then.
00:59:43The hell do I hate you now?
00:59:45Molly, don't say any more.
00:59:52Just now.
00:59:54Come to my room tonight.
00:59:55I'll tell you everything.
00:59:57I know you'll blame me terribly, but I will tell you.
00:59:59I was on my own all that summer.
01:00:21Well, it was always like that.
01:00:26As soon as the holidays came around, Mama was off to some great house or other.
01:00:31Never seemed to care to take me with her.
01:00:35And while I was used to him coming, he and Mama were friends.
01:00:38And I believe that Mama thought...
01:00:43I don't know about that.
01:00:47But anyway, he was kind and sympathetic, I thought.
01:00:55So yes, I did like him then.
01:01:02So this day, he found me in the deserted schoolroom.
01:01:08The Donaldsons had invited me to a festival, you see.
01:01:14And although Mama had said I could go, she...
01:01:17She hadn't said how I could get any money for the journey.
01:01:21And I'd grown out of all my old summer dresses.
01:01:27We were always poor, you see.
01:01:32And yet we were never to speak of it.
01:01:35Because of the shame and the disgrace of it.
01:01:38All that worry about money made me sick of my life.
01:01:45All alone.
01:01:48Improving the shining hours.
01:01:49Mr. Preston noticed I was sad.
01:01:52And I was grateful to him for kind words and sympathetic looks.
01:01:59So, little by little, he made me tell him all my troubles.
01:02:03I said, I do sometimes think he was very nice in those days.
01:02:11He had 20 pounds in his pocket, he said.
01:02:14And shouldn't want it for months, and I could repay it.
01:02:18Mama must have known I would need money, he said.
01:02:20And most likely assumed I should ask him for it.
01:02:22So I took it.
01:02:27And I did so want to go, and...
01:02:31And not be ashamed of my shabbiness.
01:02:35It doesn't sound so very wrong, does it, Molly?
01:02:39No.
01:02:39And so I went to the festival.
01:02:51And I think I did look very pretty in my fine new clothes.
01:02:55I saw that other people thought so too.
01:02:57And it was pleasant to feel my power.
01:02:58And then, on the last day, he joined us.
01:03:11I suppose he really did fall in love with me then.
01:03:15I don't think he'd done so before.
01:03:17I don't think he'd done so.
01:03:47Well, the end of it was that he began to talk violent love to me.
01:04:16And he said that the money should not be a debt,
01:04:18but an advance against when I should be his.
01:04:20I don't quite know how it was, but...
01:04:23But I did give him my promise to marry him when I was 20.
01:04:27But asked that it should be a secret until then.
01:04:29After that, I wrote him some very silly letters, Molly.
01:04:50But it was all so long ago, and I did think I loved him then.
01:04:57But somehow, as soon as I felt pledged to him, I started to hate him.
01:05:03And I've just never been able to extricate myself.
01:05:06But how could you go and engage yourself to Roger, Cynthia?
01:05:10Well, why not?
01:05:12I was free. I was free in my own heart.
01:05:17I was... I was touched by his loves.
01:05:21So tender and unselfish, and not like Robert Preston's love at all.
01:05:25Oh, Molly, I...
01:05:28I know you feel I'm not good enough for Roger.
01:05:32And sometimes I think I'll... I'll give him up.
01:05:37And sometimes I think I'll...
01:05:39I'll marry Robert Preston out of pure revenge,
01:05:42and then I'll have him in my power.
01:05:43But I'd be the worst off for it.
01:05:50For he is cruel in his very soul.
01:05:55Tigerish.
01:05:57With his beautiful striped skin and his relentless heart.
01:06:01He says he will show my letters to your father
01:06:13unless I consent to acknowledge the engagement.
01:06:15He shan't do that.
01:06:17We won't let him do that.
01:06:19I'm not afraid of him.
01:06:21I'll ask him to give the letters back.
01:06:22Let's see if he dares refuse me.
01:06:24What if you were seen?
01:06:26Oh, Molly, you... you don't know him.
01:06:28He has made so many appointments with me,
01:06:30just as if he was going to take back the money, and...
01:06:34Molly, I've had it saved up for four months now.
01:06:40He says he's sure he can make me love him.
01:06:45And I think perhaps he could.
01:06:49He could make me do anything.
01:06:52And I should really be lost.
01:06:56I will get those letters for you.
01:06:59We're in the right.
01:07:00And he's in the wrong, and he knows it.
01:07:03He must give up those letters.
01:07:05And you must never tell anyone about this.
01:07:07Not even your father...
01:07:08Well, especially not your father.
01:07:09I...
01:07:10I just couldn't bear it if he knew.
01:07:12As if I would, for any reason, sure to...
01:07:14Not for any reason at all.
01:07:16I... I... I... I would leave Hollingford and never come back
01:07:18if ever he found out about this affair.
01:07:20You... you must promise me.
01:07:21I promise.
01:07:22I promise.
01:07:22I promise.
01:07:22I promise.
01:07:30I promise.
01:07:42I promise.
01:07:42Here we go.
01:08:12Is Cynthia not able to come?
01:08:36I didn't know you were expecting her.
01:08:39Yes.
01:08:40She said she would be here.
01:08:42Well, she sent me here to meet you.
01:08:51She's told me exactly how things stand between you.
01:08:55Has she?
01:08:56She's always the most open or reliable person in the world.
01:09:00If you really love her, you shouldn't speak of her in that way.
01:09:05You have some letters of hers that she wishes to have back.
01:09:08I dare say.
01:09:09And that you have no right to keep.
01:09:11No legal and no moral right.
01:09:13What do you mean?
01:09:14Simply, you have no right at all as a gentleman to keep a girl's letters when she asks for them back.
01:09:19Still less to hold them over her as a threat.
01:09:22I see you do know all, Miss Gibson.
01:09:24But you have heard the story from her point of view.
01:09:27Now you must hear mine.
01:09:29She promised me as solemnly as ever a woman did in this.
01:09:32She wasn't a woman.
01:09:32She was only a girl of 15.
01:09:34She was old enough to know what she was doing.
01:09:36She promised to be my wife and made me wait for her and to keep it secret.
01:09:41And I kept my promise.
01:09:44Though I might have married two or three girls with money and connections, one of them was handsome enough and not at all reluctantly.
01:09:49I beg your pardon, but I don't want to hear about other young ladies.
01:09:52I'm here for Cynthia, who doesn't like you and doesn't wish to marry you.
01:09:56Then I must make her like me, as you put it.
01:10:01She did like me once.
01:10:05She loved me.
01:10:07She'll love me again when we're married.
01:10:10She won't ever marry you.
01:10:13Then if she honours anyone else with her preference, he may read her letters to me.
01:10:17No honourable man would read your letters.
01:10:18What use can they be to you?
01:10:20They contain her repeated promises of marriage.
01:10:23But she doesn't love you.
01:10:24If she ever did, she hates you.
01:10:27She says she would rather leave Hollingford forever and earn her own living than marry you.
01:10:36Young ladies are very fond of words such as hate and detest.
01:10:41I've known some who applied them to men they were secretly hoping to marry.
01:10:46Well, I can't tell about other people.
01:10:49But I do know that Cynthia as nearly hates you as anybody like her does hate.
01:10:53Like her?
01:10:56I mean, I should hate worse.
01:11:01So, now would you mind sending her back the letters by me?
01:11:05I do assure you that you cannot make her marry you.
01:11:14You are very simple, Miss Gibson, aren't you?
01:11:16I don't suppose you know of any other feeling that can be gratified but love.
01:11:20Have you never heard of revenge?
01:11:22She has cajoled me with promises of love and I won't let her go unpunished.
01:11:26You may tell her that.
01:11:27I shall keep the letters and make use of them as I see fit.
01:11:31Mr. Roger Hamley shall hear of their contents even if he's too honourable to read them.
01:11:35Your father shall hear of them and what Miss Kirkpatrick says about her mother in them.
01:11:39Perhaps you care to read their contents yourself.
01:11:41No, I won't hear another word.
01:11:43They were written to you.
01:11:45Only to you when she thought you were her friend.
01:11:48But I have thought what to do next.
01:11:50I should have told my father but Cynthia made me promise not to.
01:11:52So I will tell it all to Lady Harriet.
01:11:54And ask her to speak to her father about it.
01:11:58And I am sure that she will.
01:12:01And I don't think you'll dare refuse Lord Cumnor.
01:12:06Miss Gibson, consider your position for a moment.
01:12:09Keep still, Mullen.
01:12:15You must be seen.
01:12:17You've done nothing to be ashamed of anyway.
01:12:24Morning, Miss Gibson.
01:12:25Your servant.
01:12:26It'll be early in the day to be meeting the sweetheart.
01:12:29Hey, Preston.
01:12:31Yes.
01:12:33I'm afraid I've kept you standing here too long, Miss Gibson.
01:12:38Good day.
01:12:39Good day.
01:12:48Sorry about that, Preston.
01:12:50Disturbing your little tete-a-tete.
01:12:52Oh, there'll be another time, I'm sure.
01:12:54I don't doubt it.
01:12:55Hey.
01:12:56Good day.
01:13:18.
Be the first to comment