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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 Patsy's for 1.30.
00:45Will that do?
00:46Janet, I 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's spent every moment of her adult life avoiding her family
00:56and making grand speeches about bloody revenge.
00:59She's pathetic.
01:01There'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 expose to the press of my confidential medical records?
01:21Or your use, too, Mr. Fairley, of the word harridan?
01:26I can explain.
01:27Well, I'd love to hear it, darling.
01:31Truly, I'd love to understand.
01:34Because everything I've ever done has been for my family.
01:53I don't know.
01:56Oh, no!
02:09Time sheets, Mr. Fowler.
02:11Thanks.
02:13It 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
02:27news.
02:28Around now.
02:33It's been months since we took her.
02:36It's been six months.
02:39Six and a half.
02:44She sends money every month.
02:47Post-mort leads.
02:48She's got a good head on her shoulders, Mr. Fowler.
02:51She gets on weight.
02:53No address, no news.
02:55No one is to worry.
02:57Anyway, it's all congratulations are in order for your engagement.
03:04Have a later shift to keep awake.
03:20Is there something else?
03:22No.
03:23No.
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. Tireless.
03:51Fact is, Mrs. Hart, I'm also in the family way.
03:54Congratulations, Mrs. Fairweather.
03:56Perhaps I could make you a skirt like mine with a drawstring waist.
03:58See? Wraps around my front like so.
04:00Well, come and see me and I'll get you measured up. See 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 her.
04:18Your plan? With a capital P?
04:20Capital B for baby.
04:23I'm saving.
04:24Well, you're not saving energy.
04:26I'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. Barlow, I was hoping you'd be in.
04:35You've got to love this.
05:02Thank God.
05:08All safe and sound in there.
05:12I'm going to keep you that way.
05:17Okay.
05:46I'm going to keep you that way.
06:15All right in there having a little play
06:32Not slacking up I hope Mrs Hart
06:35Lunch don't worry though we've not stopped working
06:37I can forbid
06:45Closing for the day already
06:46She'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
06:59Only three and six a yard
07:01Shame I'm only paying you two and six then
07:02Three shillings
07:03Two and nine
07:05Oh you're a tyrant
07:12Those pin marks on those fingers
07:14Mrs Hart
07:14How long have you been working for Joel Elder?
07:16Six months is it?
07:17And every minute of that you've worked 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
07:43And my brother
07:45No time to miss anyone else
07:47Anyway I'm saving up
07:48So when the baby's born I can have two months off
07:50Maybe even three
07:51If I work hard in these last few weeks
07:53It's looking like another record breaking day
07:57Teamwork Mr. Lowther
07:58I don't think so
08:00When I watch you selling
08:01You don't have a mind like a woman's at all
08:04Yours is more like a man's
08:07Is there a difference?
08:10You'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 is just bad quality
08:26Rotten some might say
08:31We've lost another cloth holder
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
08:41Your usual grab is we don't pay the plebs enough money
08:44Now we're offering night time hours
08:45Suddenly they have to be home for their tea
08:47They're not plebs
08:48They're people
08:49Who have rights and feelings
08:54Ria!
08:54You're back!
08:58Sorry
08:58Long day
09:01You must be tired
09:06Edwin
09:06Priya 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
09:22So the groom needs to make plans
09:26So
09:27We must get every wedding detail fixed
09:30Mustn't we Edwin
09:32He's preoccupied at work
09:34Good old Edwin
09:35Doing all he can to save the business
09:55Oh my god
10:02Oh my god
10:07Sorry, that's it.
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.
10:22Well, sure, I'm here now when I can see she's been busy.
10:29My poor name, what 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, you barely know he's my husband.
10:49You'd be surprised by how little.
10:53Well, I had no idea.
10:55I'll see you at closing time.
10:57After.
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.
11:34He's barely here.
11:36Do you need more hot water, darling?
11:39Or anything, you know, anything to eat?
11:41I mean, you know, I don't know if you're going to eat.
11:43I don't know if you're going 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 and the gulls?
12:12And she'd love to have you.
12:13I know she would.
12:14And you may just find that...
12:21Adele?
12:24Adele?
12:32Adele, please.
12:40Are those lily of the valley?
12:44Yes.
12:46Dorious, 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.
13:14Well, find that bars.
13:34Oh, sorry.
13:35We're...
13:36Closed.
13:37Your guard dog not with you, no?
13:39Mr. Klinski 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,
14:01are you going to avoid looking at me for the whole rest of your life?
14:05What's going on, darling?
14:17Dad 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?
14:44How the hell have you got yourself in this all, miss?
14:59It was a lad back home.
15:03You don't know him.
15:05He let me down.
15:07Then I'll thrash to live in Dayland, sort of.
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?
15:25Also 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.
16:00I've saved up for two months, which means that when the baby's born I can stop a while.
16:08Did you drop something?
16:10You know I'll marry you, Emma Hart.
16:14And happily.
16:16It'd be an honour.
16:19Emma, will you marry me?
16:25You're the best man I know.
16:28Sure to marry you would be a privilege.
16:30Birdie, more 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 mam.
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.
17:06It's bursting.
17:07Which 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.
17:29You might want to get under that seat with the sweeping brush.
17:34The dust is shocking.
17:46Good morning.
18:18Let me run now.
18:19Next door. Let me rent it from you and open a dress shop. My own shop filled with dresses made
18:23by me. Give me one reason why not.
18:26Oh, you only want one. Well, which reason do you want? That you've no experience running a shop? That you've
18:32no experience running a business of any kind? That you're barely 19? That you're pregnant?
18:37Mr Lowther, the aunt's 12, then it's the same. I can do it.
18:40Mrs Hart, that's fanciful at best. Two people are filled in that shop this year.
18:44Two inefficient people. Mrs Cleveland, her stock was shoddy and too expensive for its quality. She didn't know her customers.
18:50I do. I know what kind of clothes they like. And I'm good. You know I am. And you said
18:55it 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. We'll drive business to each other. Right now, when people come in, all they see
19:04is rolls of cloth. With my dress shop next door, you'll have a showroom for what that cloth can become.
19:08Double your profits in a month. Treble them, probably. Plus, I'll be your best customer. Every dress that I sell,
19:13I'll be buying the cloth from you.
19:14And the shop's empty, Mr Lowther. Gathering dust. I can take it off your hands today. Now. This minute. So
19:21you don't lose a moment's rent.
19:22Mrs Hart, you forget I know your circumstances. You live in my upstairs room. The deposit on that shop is
19:29sky high.
19:41I have enough in here for your deposit. And because I know you're nervous about me, which you won't be
19:45the moment you see the profits I bring in.
19:48I know you usually ask for four weeks' rent in advance. But 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.
20:04That's me to take care of.
20:06And it's why I'm absolutely certain that this is right.
20:29You're happy to come in and have a great day.
21:15Oh, I'm sorry.
21:16No, it's fine.
21:16I was just walking home.
21:18You're allowed to walk where you like.
21:23Nice aim.
21:24You got there.
21:25I've sat through three days now of your aunt talking about bridal bouquets and of you
21:28and 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.
21:49Dreadful.
21:52Well, they'll be wondering about dinner.
21:55Yes.
21:59You know, when you asked me to marry you, I thought we had a connection, that you were
22:05optimistic like me.
22:07You seemed starry-eyed.
22:10And I wasn't sure if we made each other's hearts sore.
22:12Not too many 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, not everyone gets that.
22:30The hearts soaring.
22:32That's not what life is, I don't think.
22:35But recently, stars have left those eyes of yours.
22:39And I know this engagement pleases your father, and he's not an easy man to please.
22:43But we could just walk away.
22:52There's a lot to be said for pleasing people.
22:56And not just parents.
23:00Priya, I wouldn't have asked you.
23:04I wouldn't have considered it if I had intended, somehow, to do my very best to please you.
23:15Well, let me know, will you?
23:18When the trying to please me starts.
23:45Mother, how are you?
23:48I suppose I wanted to see you.
23:53If you don't mind.
24:06Because everything just feels a bit wrong, somehow.
24:12Priya's a sweet girl in many ways.
24:14Where is your father?
24:18He never comes to me.
24:20Your father never comes anywhere near me.
24:22Where is he?
24:25He's not 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?
24:32And I'm not nobody.
24:36I'm not nobody.
24:42But take your hands.
24:51Stop it!
24:54Get out!
24:57Sorry.
24:58Sorry.
25:11I'm not nobody.
25:15No.
25:31Okay.
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
25:51like you.
25:53Menfolk.
25:55And there'll be a fire.
25:56The shop will always be warm.
25:57And you'll pair to heat it, will you?
25:59Yes, and it'll be worth it, because people will want to come.
26:01And every customer will be greeted by name.
26:03And Emma.
26:06In a few weeks' time, the baby.
26:09I'll manage.
26:31I'll manage.
26:44I'll manage.
26:50I'll manage.
26:53I'll manage.
27:04Let's go, let's go.
27:25Let's go, let's go, let's go.
28:00Oh, we can do this, we can do this, can't we, can't we, of course we can, I'm here, we're
28:13alone, we can do it together.
28:33Oh, we can do this, can't we, of course we can do this.
29:01Oh, we can do this.
29:29Oh, we can do this.
29:37Oh, we can do this.
29:45Oh, we can do this.
30:06Oh, we can do this.
30:10Oh, we can do this.
30:21Oh, we can do this.
30:47Oh, we can do this.
31:06Oh, we can do this.
31:56Oh, we can do this.
32:24Oh, we can do this.
32:27Oh, we can do this.
32:31Oh, we can do this.
32:35Oh, we can do this.
32:40Oh, we can do this.
32:50Oh, we can do this.
33:13Oh, we can do this.
33:15Oh, we can.
33:16Are you sure if that little girl is not the luckiest in the world?
33:21No one in my family is going to suffer. Not ever again.
34:14No one in my family is going to suffer.
34:45Do you mind?
34:45darling.
34:50Stay, Olivia.
34:52Please.
35:00I will stay in this house
35:01while my son needs me.
35:03Then, the moment Edwin's well,
35:05I need to be too.
35:08I need to leave.
35:22My darling.
35:26I'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.
35:52It's all right.
35:54I'm coming.
35:55I just need...
35:58I need to leave.
36:00I need to leave.
36:26Stop.
36:29Stop.
36:31Stop.
36:33Stop.
36:34Come on.
36:46Sayonara, can't you please?
37:00Sayonara, can't you please?liever
37:07you're my baby girl
37:11yes you are
37:13and Edwina you are 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
37:34that's fair he's 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 and everything I've got
37:45I'm going to prove to them that they're wrong
37:52I 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
38:09I will do
38:09no
38:09no
38:09no
38:09no
38:09no
38:09no
38:16I don't know.
38:39I don't know.
39:13Now there's a bag by the door with all her necessaries.
39:16She's had a good sleep, and two bottles already, this morning.
39:21So she's good at taking bottles.
39:24And I've put a letter in there for Cousin Frida, thanking her.
39:29And I've put in some lists, songs Edwina like sung and so on, because Frida might not know
39:34what kind of song she likes.
39:40I'm sure about this, Mavorneen.
39:44You're certain?
39:46Sacrifices must be made.
39:48If that means we have to be apart while I get this up and running.
39:53And this is all for her.
39:55One day Edwina will thank me for this.
39:57She will.
40:00Cousin Frida's the motherly sort.
40:03Will you tell her I'll visit next weekend?
40:05And after that, every other Sunday.
40:08And I'll send money, of course.
40:11And will you tell her...
40:14Tell her I have to do it.
40:17Please.
40:18Will you make sure she understands that?
40:21Tell her there's no choice.
40:23Darling.
40:24As soon as I get back on my feet,
40:27and I can look after her properly,
40:28I'll bring her back to me.
40:31Now just take her.
40:33Please, just take her.
40:39Emma.
40:41God knows you're doing all of this for this child.
40:44I don't know about him,
40:44but I just hope Edwina knows.
40:46Will you please just go?
40:51Just go, please.
40:55Please.
41:09Please.
41:20Sigh.
41:23Sigh.
41:25Sigh.
41:27you
41:42all for me all of this has been for your family well i'm sorry to tell you mummy
41:48but it's felt an awful lot from where i've been sitting as though you've done it all for you and
41:53where have you been sitting edwina on which cushion seats on which velvet chaise long and at which
42:00polished table have you spent your entire life sitting would we have starved to death do you
42:05think if 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 all of it
42:29or is there just a little bit of that heart that resents me
42:32resents all of us for not being you oh we can't compete on the suffering front of course
42:38dry bread holes in your shoes and if only your mother could have afforded a paracetamol or two
42:42she might have lived
42:46and here it is
42:50now i feel ashamed i'm not your only rebel child but because i'm the first born the first
42:57palmed off on a relative the first lied 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 to tell them you fumbled it
43:12no to tell them that the plan may no longer be secret that nothing has changed
43:18you continue
43:22and then who will you have
43:25i shall have paula
43:45paula
44:01is that you fairly yes mrs hart he came in to collect the paperwork for the reopening of his magazine
44:11and i shall have a chance to get back to my priory
44:24so
44:24so
44:24so
44:24so
44:24so
44:24so
44:24so
44:28I'll see you next time.
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