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00:22The Countess is here to see you, Mrs. Hart.
00:25Mummy, what a dreadful week for you.
00:28I just can't bear it.
00:30I said to the florist, your absolute best bouquet, though no roses.
00:33And the girl knew immediately they must be for you.
00:35How about that?
00:36Oh, those wretched papers.
00:38I was so pleased when you suggested lunch.
00:40Are you surviving?
00:41When have you known me not to?
00:43Hello, darling.
00:44I put patsies for 1.30.
00:45Will that do?
00:46Danet, swear she saw Sinatra there only last Tuesday.
00:48My favourite thing to say is that she's done it all for her family,
00:50which is ludicrous, of course,
00:52for a woman who spent every moment of her adult life
00:55avoiding her family and making grand speeches about bloody revenge.
00:59She's pathetic.
01:00There's a downside, of course,
01:03to making certain one's children never want for anything at all.
01:07And that's being forced to watch them stroll through life,
01:11taking everything in their path for granted.
01:13Mummy, I'm so sorry.
01:14What would you like to explain first, my love?
01:17Your detailed exposé to the press of my confidential medical records?
01:21Or your use, too, Mr. Fairley, of the word Haridan?
01:26I can explain.
01:27Well, I'd love to hear it, darling.
01:30Truly,
01:31I'd love to understand.
01:35Because everything I've ever done has been for my family.
01:54Oh, no!
01:56Oh, no!
01:57Oh, no!
01:58Oh, no!
02:09Time sheets, Mr. Farber.
02:11Thanks.
02:12It is all well, at home.
02:21What about it?
02:22I know some of the staff at the hall were wondering if Emma might have been in touch with any
02:26news around now.
02:32It's been months since we saw her.
02:36It's been six months.
02:39Six and a half.
02:44She sends money every month.
02:47Postmark leads.
02:48She's got her head on her shoulders, Mr. Fairley.
02:51She gets on weight.
02:53No address, no news.
02:55No one has to worry.
02:57Anyway, I told congratulations to her in order for your engagement.
03:04I'm allowed to shift to keep awake.
03:24I'm allowed to shift to keep awake.
03:37Now, Mrs. Fairweather, I've been up all night finishing this dress just for you.
03:43So I believe this will be exactly what you're after.
03:45Where do you find the time, Mrs. Hart, in your condition?
03:48There's a name for Mrs. Hart's condition.
03:50Tireless.
03:51Fact is, Mrs. Hart, I'm also in the family way.
03:54Congratulations, Mrs. Fairweather.
03:56Perhaps I could make you a skillet like mine with the drawstring waist.
03:58See?
03:58Wraps around my front, like so.
04:00Well, come and see me and I'll get you measured up.
04:01See you soon.
04:08I've never had a shop assistant bring as much costume as you.
04:11It's all adding up.
04:12Three quarters for you, Mr. Lowther.
04:16And a quarter for...
04:18Your plan, with a capital P.
04:20Capital P, for baby.
04:23I'm saving.
04:24Well, you're not saving energy.
04:25I'll sit down when the baby's born.
04:27That's how it works when you're a mother, isn't it?
04:29You do nothing but rest.
04:31Well, I'm not sure that is how it works.
04:33Mrs. Fairweather, I was hoping you'd be in.
04:35You've got to love this.
05:02Oh, thank God.
05:08All safe and sound in there.
05:12I'm going to keep you that way.
05:35I'm going to keep you that way.
05:54I'm going to keep you that way.
06:01I'm going to keep you that way.
06:19I'm going to keep you that way.
06:23No!
06:28Walk along.
06:32Not slacking up, I hope, Mrs. Hart?
06:34Lunch. Don't worry, though, I've not stopped working.
06:37I can forbid.
06:45Closing for the day already? She's never opened.
06:52I think you'll be very pleased with what I've got for you today.
06:56The new silks are perfect.
06:58And to you, only three and six a yard.
07:01Sharon will only pay you two and six, then?
07:03Three shillings.
07:04Two and nine.
07:05Oh, you're a tyrant.
07:12Those pin marks on those fingers?
07:14Mrs. Hart, how long have you been working for Joel Alder?
07:16Six months, is it?
07:17And every minute of that, you work like a dog.
07:19People love to tell me to slow down, but babies don't write ahead and make appointments.
07:23And I am running out of time.
07:25The money's not coming in quick enough.
07:28Does your husband mind you working so hard?
07:31He's working too. I've told you, the Navy can't spare him.
07:35Well, he's missing out, is all I'd say.
07:39I expect you'll miss him too, being away from home.
07:42I miss my dad. I'm a brother.
07:45No time to miss anyone else.
07:47Anyway, I'm saving up, so when the baby's born, I can have two months off.
07:50Maybe even three.
07:51Better work hard in these last few weeks.
07:53It's looking like another record-breaking day.
07:57Teamwork, Mr. Alder?
07:59I don't think so.
08:00When I watch you selling, you don't have a mind like a woman's at all.
08:04Yours is more like a man's.
08:07Is there a difference?
08:09You're living here now, are you?
08:11I've got work to do.
08:16Is this the new cloth?
08:17Looks pricey.
08:18It was supposed to be.
08:20It's to replace the Fairley stuff, Mr. Lowther.
08:22The fact is, customers can spot it.
08:24Cloth from the Fairley mill's just bad quality.
08:26Rotten, some might say.
08:31We've lost another cloth, Alder.
08:33More complaints about the quality.
08:36A lot of that equipment is old and tired.
08:39And we can't keep asking the men to work around the clock.
08:42Your usual grabbers who don't pay the plebs enough money.
08:44Now we're offering night-time hours, suddenly they have to be home for their tea.
08:47They're not plebs.
08:48They're people.
08:49Who have rights and feelings.
08:52Oh, Priya!
08:54You're back!
08:58Sorry.
08:59Long day.
09:00Oh, you must be tired.
09:06Edwin, Priya and I were hoping that tomorrow we might get down to the real business of the week.
09:10Wedding planning.
09:12We should talk about churches, certainly.
09:16It's summer's date.
09:17I was hoping we might decide on a date at least while I'm here.
09:20Because your father's a busy man.
09:22Silvery Crum needs to make plans.
09:27So, we must get every wedding detail fixed, mustn't we, Edwin?
09:32He's preoccupied at work.
09:34Good old Edwin.
09:36Doing all he can to save the business.
10:15Do the hell do you think you are.
10:17You should be ashamed of yourself.
10:19You don't just stroll in here when for months you can come near her.
10:21Well, sure, I'm here now when I can see she's been busy.
10:29My poor name.
10:31What the hell have you been playing at?
10:32Mr. R, you should know that your wife has been working tirelessly.
10:36Every minute.
10:39In the absence of anyone else bothering to...
10:40Mr. Klinsky, David, this is not my husband.
10:44This is just a friend.
10:45A dear friend.
10:47Mac.
10:48He barely knows my husband.
10:49Oh, you'd be surprised by how little...
10:53Well, I had no idea.
10:55I'll see you at closing time.
10:57And...
10:58See you soon.
11:08Adar?
11:09Brought you these.
11:12I was looking for a vase like Mother's, you know, that allowed the flowers to splay out.
11:17Do you remember?
11:18She always had such a way with flowers.
11:22Edwin rushed off early again.
11:25But work never stops at the mill.
11:27Not these days.
11:28I mean, Adam's barely home.
11:31I mean, you know, I hardly ever see him.
11:33He's barely here.
11:36Do you need more hot water, darling?
11:38Or anything, you know, anything to eat?
11:46Darling.
11:50I wonder if maybe you ought to get out.
11:55Do you think?
11:57Just get away from this place.
12:03I was wondering about Aunt Jessie's cottage by the sea.
12:07Would you like that?
12:08Remember that little beach down below in the gulls?
12:12And she'd love to have you.
12:13I know she would.
12:13Yeah, and you may just find that...
12:21Adele?
12:24Adele?
12:31Adele, please.
12:40Are those lily of the valley?
12:46Glorious, aren't they?
12:48There's hundreds of them out there.
12:50They do that.
12:53They're invasive.
12:54If left unchecked.
12:57Lily of the valley will simply take over the whole garden.
13:01You can't get rid of them.
13:13Well, find that bars.
13:34Oh, sorry, we're...
13:36Closed.
13:37Your guard dog's not with you, no?
13:39Mr. Klinsky just does the deliveries.
13:41He's only being kind.
13:42Oh, kind, is he?
13:44As well as handsome.
13:50Like you were born to work here.
13:59Emma Hart, are you going to avoid looking at me for the whole rest of your life?
14:05What's going on, darling?
14:16Dad doesn't know I'm here.
14:19And he mustn't.
14:21I can't take trouble to his door.
14:25Not after, ma'am.
14:28I haven't seen him.
14:30I haven't seen him, love.
14:33How can I afford to bring up this baby by myself?
14:39Vernon.
14:44How the hell have you got yourself in this whole mess?
15:00It was a lad back home.
15:03You don't know him.
15:05He let me down.
15:07Then I'll thrash the living day lads out of him.
15:09No need.
15:11He said he'd marry me at first and run away to join the Navy.
15:18And this?
15:21So nobody thinks bad of me.
15:25And also because I like remembering.
15:27Remembering him?
15:28Remembering I won't ever again let someone make me feel the way he did.
15:33Not till the day I die.
15:36I'm remembering what drives me now.
15:38What will drive me my whole life.
15:42Revenge.
15:47Emma, how are you going to look after the baby and work?
15:52I'm making dresses.
15:54And I'm good.
15:56I am.
15:57I get such a thrill to see the money pile up.
15:59I'm...
16:00I've saved up for two months, which means when the baby's born I can stop a while.
16:08Did you drop something?
16:10You know I'll marry you.
16:13Emma Hart.
16:14And happily.
16:16It'd be an honour.
16:20Emma, will you marry me?
16:25You're the best man I know.
16:28Sure to marry you would be a privilege.
16:30A burden, what like?
16:31Have you seen these shoulders?
16:33I could look after the both of you.
16:36I know.
16:38I know you would.
16:41But I've got it planned.
16:43I'm going to look after us myself.
16:46Somehow.
16:47I'm going to be a mother, Mac.
16:49A mum.
16:50I'm going to have a real baby.
16:52Most precious thing you can have.
16:54And more than anything I've ever done, I want to take care of it.
16:58Well, I could have at least an eye.
17:00Mac.
17:02You have the biggest heart I know.
17:05It's bursting.
17:06Which is why I want you to be able to give that heart to someone you love.
17:09For real.
17:11Not just a girl you feel sorry for.
17:13Ah, Emma, but...
17:14The answer's no.
17:16It's a no with the biggest thank you in the world.
17:28You might want to...
17:30get under that seat with the...
17:33sweeping brush to...
17:35dust the shock and...
18:00And this is a no with the ghost of ghosts in the sky.
18:18let me rent next door
18:19let me rent it from you and open a dress shop
18:21my own shop filled with dresses made by me
18:24give me one reason why not
18:26oh you want to want one
18:27well which reason do you want
18:29that you've no experience running a shop
18:31that you've no experience running a business of any kind
18:34that you're barely nineteen
18:36you're pregnant
18:37mr lowther the ounce 12 ends the same
18:39i can do it
18:40mrs hart that's fanciful at best
18:42two people are filled in that shop this year
18:44two inefficient people
18:45mrs cleveland her stock was shoddy and too expensive for its quality
18:48she didn't know her customers
18:49i do i know what kind of clothes they like
18:52and i'm good
18:53you know i am
18:54and you said it yourself i'm a grafter i can sell
18:56which is why i can't afford to lose you from my shop
18:59you wouldn't be losing me
19:00we'll drive business to each other
19:01right now when people come in all they see is rolls of cloth
19:04with my dress shop next door you'll have a showroom for what that cloth can become
19:08double your profits in a month
19:09treble them probably
19:10plus i'll be your best customer
19:12every dress that i sell
19:13i'll be buying the cloth from you
19:15and the shop's empty mr lowther
19:16gathering dust
19:17i can take it off your hands today
19:19now this minute
19:21so you don't lose a moment's rent
19:22mrs hart you forget i know your circumstances
19:25you live in my upstairs room
19:27the deposit on that shop is sky high
19:41i have enough in here for your deposit
19:44and because i know you're nervous about me
19:45which you won't be the moment you see the profits i bring in
19:48i know you usually ask for four weeks rent in advance
19:51but i have enough in here for eight
19:54it's all in here
19:57take it
19:58mrs hart
20:00i need to remind you
20:02you're having a baby
20:03that's me to take care of
20:06and it's why i'm absolutely certain that this is right
20:14you
20:45you
20:49you
21:15Oh, I'm sorry.
21:16No, it's fine. I was just...
21:17I was just walking home.
21:18You're allowed to walk where you like.
21:23Nice aim. You got there?
21:24I've sat through three days now of your aunt talking about bridal bouquets
21:28and of you and your father shouting at each other about looms.
21:31I had some steam to let off.
21:39Oh!
21:41Okay, let's see.
21:44Not bad, not bad.
21:45Not bad.
21:48Terrible.
21:50Dreadful.
21:52Well, they'll be wondering about dinner.
21:55Yes.
21:59You know, when you asked me to marry you,
22:01I thought we had a connection.
22:04That you were optimistic, like me.
22:06You seemed starry-eyed.
22:10And I wasn't sure if we made each other's hearts sore.
22:12Not in the way people talk about hearts soaring in books.
22:15You probably don't read those kind of books.
22:18Not really.
22:20But you know the concept of hearts soaring?
22:25Yes.
22:26Anyway, I just wanted to say...
22:29Not everyone gets that.
22:30The hearts soaring.
22:32That's not what life is, I don't think.
22:35But recently,
22:37the stars have left those eyes of yours.
22:39And I know this engagement pleases your father.
22:42And he's not an easy man to please.
22:44But...
22:46We could just walk away?
22:52There's a lot to be said for pleasing people.
22:56And not just parents.
22:59Priya,
23:01I wouldn't have asked you.
23:04I wouldn't have considered it if I had intended...
23:09Somehow...
23:10To do my very best to please you, too.
23:15Well, let me know, will you?
23:18When the trying to please me starts.
23:43Father, how are you?
23:48I suppose I...
23:50Wanted to see you.
23:53If you don't mind.
24:06Because everything just feels a bit...
24:09Wrong somehow.
24:12Priya's a sweet girl in many ways.
24:13Where is your father?
24:18He never comes to me.
24:20Your father never comes anywhere near me.
24:22Where is he?
24:25He's...
24:25Not back yet.
24:27I don't know.
24:28He's been busy at the mill.
24:29But does he not know that I'm here, Edwin?
24:33And I'm not nobody.
24:36I'm not nobody.
24:41I think you are...
24:43I think you are...
24:45I'm not...
24:50Stop it!
24:54Get out!
24:57Sorry.
24:58Sorry.
25:00I'm sorry.
25:03I'm sorry.
25:03I'm sorry.
25:05I'm sorry.
25:07I'm sorry.
25:11I'm sorry.
25:13I'm sorry.
25:14One.
25:14Two.
25:16Stop it.
25:17Yeah!
25:17Go!
25:21Go!
25:23Go!
25:41Shelves here, rails of dresses here and here, and a fitting area here, and also a range
25:47of elasticated skirts for pregnant women, and a chair for them, but also for people
25:50like you. Menfolk. And there will be a fire, the shop will always be warm.
25:57And you'll prepare to heat it, will you?
25:59Yes, and it will be worth it, because people will want to come, and every customer will
26:03be greeted by name.
26:03And Emma, in a few weeks' time, the baby.
26:09I'll manage.
26:20I'll manage.
26:31I'll manage.
26:44I'll manage.
26:49Fire!
27:00Oh, my God.
27:26Oh, my God.
27:38What's happened?
27:39It overheated.
27:41He sent you.
27:42No one in there.
27:45Who's in there?
27:46Who?
27:46My brother.
27:48Edwin.
27:48Edwin went through.
28:01Oh, we can do this.
28:03We can do this.
28:05Can't we?
28:06Can't we?
28:08Of course we can.
28:10Over here.
28:13We're alone.
28:14We can do it together.
28:20Oh, my God.
28:24Oh, my God.
28:29Oh, my God.
28:34Oh, my God.
28:46Oh, my God.
29:27Oh, my God.
29:38Oh, my God.
29:40Oh, my God.
29:56Oh, my God.
30:28Oh, my God.
30:56Oh, my God.
31:24Well, what an elegant name.
31:30Edwina Shane Hart.
31:58Oh, my God.
32:04Oh, my God.
32:33Emma, don't go making her unknown.
32:36Don't give her that.
32:40But me.
32:44Mark, it's such a responsibility.
32:46Oh, now, do I have to be telling you again about these shoulders?
33:01Well, darling, how do I have to be...
33:08Well, darling, how do you feel?
33:21I don't know, data, her...
33:21No one in my family is going to suffer.
33:23Here, I don't know.
33:26I don't know.
33:31I don't know.
33:38I don't know.
33:48I don't know.
34:09I don't know.
34:44Do you mind, darling?
34:50Stay, Olivia.
34:52Please.
35:00I will stay in this house while my son needs me.
35:03Then, the moment Edwin's well, I need to be too.
35:08I need to leave.
35:22My darling, I've not been the mother you deserve.
35:30And I'm so sorry.
35:33But I promise I will put this right.
35:38I promise you.
35:53It's all right.
35:54I'm coming.
35:54I mean, I just need help.
35:59I just need help.
36:17I just need help.
36:26Stop.
36:29Stop.
36:31Stop.
36:33Come on.
36:37Stop.
36:43Help.
36:49Help.
36:50Help.
36:51Help.
36:51Help.
36:54Help.
37:07you're my baby girl
37:11yes you are
37:13and Edwina you were so loved
37:15so loved
37:18and I won't let anything happen to you
37:22I'll take care of you
37:26and you will have the best of everything
37:30I promise you
37:33you know
37:34those fairies turned their back on us
37:37because they think they're better than us
37:39that's what they think
37:41and if it takes my whole life
37:43all of my energy
37:44and everything I've got
37:45I'm going to prove to them that they're wrong
37:51I will keep you safe
37:56and if I have to make sacrifices
37:58give a few things up
37:59then I will do
38:01if it means you're taken care of
38:03I'll sacrifice anything in the world
38:05I will
38:07no
38:16no
38:29no
38:30no
38:32I don't know.
39:12I don't know.
39:48I don't know.
39:57I don't know.
39:59I don't know.
40:00I don't know.
40:00motherly sort. Will you tell her I'll visit next weekend, and after that every other Sunday.
40:08And I'll send money, of course. And will you tell her...
40:13Emma.
40:14Tell her I have to do it. Please. Will you make sure she understands that? Tell her there's
40:22no choice.
40:23Ah, darling.
40:24As soon as I get back on my feet, and I can look after her properly, I'll bring her back
40:29to me. And I'll just take her. Please, just take her.
40:41Emma. God knows you're doing all of this for this child.
40:44I don't know about him, but I just hope Irina knows. And will you please just go.
40:51Just go, please.
41:10I don't know.
41:24I don't know.
41:28I don't know.
41:58At which velvet chaise long and at which polished table have you spent your entire life sitting?
42:03Would we have starved to death, do you think?
42:05If you worked less and been at home more, or would we have eaten just less costly brie?
42:09I am struggling not to feel ashamed.
42:19If you have ever been in any doubt that I love you, Edwina, with all my heart...
42:29Or is there just a little bit of that heart that resents me?
42:33Resents all of us for not being you?
42:35Oh, we can't compete on the suffering front, of course.
42:39Dry bread, holes in your shoes, and if only your mother could have afforded a paracetamol or two, she might
42:43have lived!
42:46And there it is.
42:50Now I feel ashamed.
42:52I'm not your only rebel child, but because I'm the firstborn, the first palmed off on a relative, the first
42:58lied to about her father.
43:03So what's next in your bold new world of skullduggery and initiative, Edwina?
43:08Well, I shall call my anarchic siblings...
43:11To tell them you fumbled it?
43:12No. To tell them that the plan may no longer be secret, that nothing has changed.
43:17You continue.
43:22And then who will you have?
43:25I shall have Paula.
43:44Paula.
43:47Paula.
43:50Paula.
43:52Paula.
43:53Paula.
44:01Is that Jim Fairley?
44:03Yes, Mrs. Hart.
44:03He came in to collect the paperwork for the reopening of his magazine.
44:29He came in to collect the paperwork for the reopening of his magazine.
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