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00:09Change the grace Mirabella call to an in-person meet at Vogue HQ this afternoon please.
00:15I need to be out and about. Let people see for themselves my children's claims about my ill health.
00:21I've greatly exaggerated.
00:23Grandy, have you spoken to any of you?
00:24I wonder if a calmer, more considered conversation with Aunt Edwina might-
00:29And get Henry Rossiter to come and see me.
00:32I need to liquidate some assets.
00:34Really? How much do you need?
00:36Seven million pounds.
00:38What for?
00:39And as much as it pains me to say it, I should make a television appearance.
00:43So call Peter Lasali and tell him it's finally a yes for The Tonight Show.
00:48And after that, I'd like you to call Jim Fairley and put an end to your dalliance with him.
00:57I don't know what you mean.
01:00I didn't even know who he was when we first met.
01:03I thought you were serious about your future here, Paula.
01:06I thought you had ambition.
01:07I am. I do.
01:08Then it ends today.
01:10But, Grandy, I love him.
01:13Paula, I understand.
01:16Believe me, that occasionally one can find oneself distracted.
01:21But one must use that distraction as a springboard for moving on.
01:26You and Jim Fairley are over.
01:29End of story.
01:31You don't get to where I am without making sacrifices.
01:47A THREE OF YOUR OTHERS are over.
01:52That's the only day I've done with you.
01:53I don't like it.
01:53I don't like it.
01:53I don't like it.
01:53I don't like it.
01:53I don't like it.
01:54I don't like it.
01:56I don't like it.
01:58I don't like it.
02:02The next day I am.
02:04I don't like it.
02:07Ready for your grand opening day?
02:13Have a lovely day.
02:34All right, you were settled down.
02:37He's my second, and compared to the first, he's just an angel.
02:42Emma, is this don't tell anyone the words to go?
02:45Terry.
02:46Terry.
03:13He's my second, and I'm sorry.
03:19He's my last voice.
03:24Good, Mrs. Jacobs.
03:26Oops. With the height you've been blessed with, I take the skirt up to mid-calf.
03:29I'll have to persuade my husband to ease a new jacket. He'll be showing me up in church.
03:33Perhaps sweeten them up first. Have you seen my treacle tart kits?
03:36My mother's recipe. My dad used to ask for one instead of a birthday cake in June.
03:44So, you've been working every day, every second.
03:47When will this place be running smoothly enough for you to take time off and see your family, eh?
03:51Menswear. What should be next?
03:53Perfect way to expand the customer base. Now, look at yours.
03:59Yes. But if you're going to undress me, perhaps without an audience.
04:04Sorry.
04:07Tweed. I'm going to need lots of tweed. Can you...
04:10Oh. I'm good at being in charge.
04:21I'm going to need whatever you've got in tweed, worsted wool, maybe some linen.
04:25You can't be running dry already.
04:27It's not in a menswear line.
04:29Did you hear? They're selling juicetery mill. Someone will make a fortune.
04:33Yeah, they'll have to spend one first.
04:35You should buy it. Think how much bigger your profit margins will be.
04:37No, thank you.
04:39That would be too risky for me. I'd have to take out a whacking lawn.
04:41It'd be more than pay for itself, given how poorly everyone thinks of the Fairley Mills produce.
04:44I reckon the contracts they've got left will be yours for the day again.
04:48Mr Lowther?
04:50You've seen what she's doing?
04:51Treacle tart kits in her dressmakers.
04:54Have you ever heard of such a thing?
04:55I knew it.
04:56The second you let her move in, I said to my husband, I said she's after my shop.
04:59Mrs Hart is free to sell whatever she wants.
05:02Oh, you would say that.
05:03Protecting your fancy woman.
05:05Emma is a married woman.
05:06Who's she married to?
05:08The invisible man.
05:09I've seen the way she's in and out of your shop like nobody's business.
05:12Well, it sounds like you made it your business.
05:14Mrs Minton, if you want to keep leasing my premises, I suggest you apologise to Mrs Hart immediately.
05:18And spend less time worrying about what she's selling, and more about what you're selling,
05:22which, as of late, I suspect is not very much.
05:28Sorry.
05:31Invisible husband.
05:32Invisible baby.
05:34Thanks for asking, Mrs Minton, but my daughter's been very well looked after, as a matter of fact.
05:37She wants her to nothing.
05:39Emma?
05:43What does she know, eh?
05:44She thinks we're carrying on.
05:47She could be her shop.
05:48I never keep you waiting for rent.
05:50I'd be too worried that she'd bludgeon us both to death with one of your treacle tarts.
06:01Some fish-eye darts at the front here would make for a better silhouette, don't you think?
06:05It would pull in the waist without...
06:07Just over in the pool.
06:09Yes.
06:10You're right.
06:12Clean the lines.
06:16Can I take your measurements, for samples?
06:22Shall I?
06:23Yes.
06:25Thanks.
06:45Most people...
06:47could wait more than a few months after opening a ladies' wear shop to expand.
06:52You think it's too soon?
06:53No, I don't.
06:58And this is exactly why I wanted to work with you.
07:07Because you're not most people.
07:20I can't, I can't, I'm married.
07:22Well, someone should remind your husband of that, because it's been almost a year, Emma,
07:26and he hasn't bothered to come near you, not even when he gave birth to his child.
07:29He's always...
07:29Week after week, I say to myself, has he any idea who he married?
07:33Does he know you?
07:34Has he seen you?
07:37Because surely if he'd had even a glimpse of you, he'd not be able to tear himself from your side.
07:41I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
07:55He's not going to die.
07:57What are you talking about?
08:14Emma Hart, isn't it?
08:17Yes.
08:18How can I help you, Mrs...
08:20Miss... Chandra?
08:22At least for the next few weeks, then it'll be Mrs. Edwin Fairley.
08:28That's why I'm here.
08:45Yes, I can see.
08:49It just needs the odd adjustment.
08:53All we have to do is...
08:54Burn it.
08:57It's a fairly alien they insisted I try on, and as you can see, it fits.
09:01Which is rather unfortunate, because it's an absolute monstrosity.
09:08I'm sorry.
09:09So am I.
09:10But I kept hearing such wonderful things about this place.
09:13I was hoping you could make it even a tiny bit less hideous.
09:17Let's see.
09:21I always imagined I'd get married and what my mother wore to her wedding.
09:25It was a beautiful red sari.
09:27Gold thread.
09:29But she won't be at the wedding herself.
09:35She passed away.
09:40I'm sorry.
09:42To lose a mother, that's...
09:46I know.
09:48It's the worst thing.
09:50Yes.
09:52It is.
10:00He writes to you.
10:04Letters.
10:06Constantly.
10:09Though he seems to have no intention of sending them, so...
10:12I suppose I was always going to find them eventually.
10:19Why did you come here?
10:22If I'm going to spend the rest of my life with a man whose heart is broken,
10:26I thought I ought to at least have a good look at the woman responsible.
10:29If Edwin's heart is broken, it's entirely his own doing.
10:32I can assure you of that.
10:40You can look.
10:42Look.
10:46Well, I'd have made me look an absolute fright if I were you.
10:50Oh, I considered it.
10:51It was a time I'd have ruined the dress completely.
10:54Anything to get back at them, even a little bit.
10:59I made a vow, you see.
11:02Spend the rest of my life punishing them.
11:05All of the failies.
11:07And now?
11:11Sometimes I wonder whether, in doing that, I'm also punishing myself.
11:26Don't marry him.
11:28Not because I want him, or because I'm trying to ruin his life.
11:32I just...
11:34think you deserve more.
11:41He's good to me.
11:44And love can grow, I think.
11:48Now you have hope.
11:53I know this might be terribly inappropriate, but I really did want you to...
11:58I'll have it delivered.
12:00Thanks, it's finished.
12:24Sure, I thought you'd be pleased to hear Edwin's living a life of misery.
12:28Doesn't it feel good, Emma, to know you built all this while he's been stood still, right where you left
12:32him?
12:32But part of me's been there with him, hasn't it?
12:35Wearing the ring he got me.
12:36Even pretending to have a husband at sea.
12:38Making sure there isn't even the slightest possibility I might one day be able to meet someone else.
12:46Are you ready for that?
12:48I want to be, I think.
12:52But I'm scared.
12:54That rage, the rage against Edwin, it's what's dragging me out of bed every single morning.
12:59It's what's keeping Edwina fed and safe.
13:01If I let that go, am I just going to get distracted again?
13:03Am I going to let my man down?
13:05No.
13:05Emma, that fire inside you is going nowhere.
13:08It's not rage.
13:10It's who you are.
13:11Rage was just the fuel there for a little while, but...
13:13That can come from anywhere.
13:17It can come from love.
13:21You're right.
13:24Emma.
13:25Would you speak to him for me?
13:27Would you speak to David?
13:30You probably noticed how we are around each other.
13:34I never expected it.
13:37Tried to tell myself it wasn't happening, but...
13:39He makes me feel...
13:42I don't know.
13:43Excited.
13:45Fluttery.
13:47Hopeful.
13:48Is that bad?
13:51Never.
13:53What, um...
13:56What do you want me to say to him?
14:22I know I should feel guilty.
14:24But these past months, with Adele away, have been the best of my life.
14:37Delivery for you, Miss Chandler.
14:38Oh, thank you.
14:42My wedding dress, so best not to mention it to...
14:45Of course.
14:46Wouldn't want to bring about any bad luck.
15:04What have you got there?
15:05What have you got there?
15:06Oh, it's, um...
15:08Oh, sorry.
15:09Is that the...
15:11Wedding dress?
15:12Yes.
15:13I had it altered a little.
15:16At this new dressmakers I kept hearing about.
15:21Really?
15:23Right.
15:25Good.
15:26Good.
15:27I hope you got...
15:29What you wanted.
15:46These are...
15:47For you.
15:49Mac told me about your husband.
15:51I'm so sorry.
16:05Why didn't you tell me sooner that he died?
16:10It was a while ago.
16:14I think I was scared...
16:17Of us.
16:22Not...
16:23Worried about me being...
16:26Forward.
16:30Worried I, mate.
16:38I was just going to have to check you're all right.
16:42Well, Mac says you are, but...
16:43To lose her husband.
16:46I feel awful.
16:47The things I said about him.
16:48You're right.
16:50Truth is, I...
16:51Lost him a long time ago.
16:54Even before he died.
16:58You make me feel...
17:00You will.
17:03You make me feel...
17:09You make me feel...
17:16You make me feel...
17:36Oh, my God.
18:18Oh, my God.
18:25Adele, we weren't expecting you.
18:27Mother, you look.
18:28I know, darling. Come here.
18:32Sherry, Mother.
18:33Shut up, Gerald.
18:34No, thank you, darling.
18:36Yes. Wise.
18:38We've had to switch to the cheap stuff
18:40in those two long months you've been
18:42on holiday.
18:45Still, it's here when you need it.
18:48Tea. We've got tea.
18:49I think I'll rest.
18:51Right.
18:52I've come a long way.
18:55But I'm so looking forward to hearing
18:57what you've all been up to while I've been gone.
19:21I may have got ahead of myself earlier.
19:26I had a plan, you see.
19:28Not much like them.
19:30What did it involve, this plan?
19:32Well, the first step is going to be
19:34persuading you to take a day off.
19:36I've not committed you out to hard work.
19:43It is time I took a day off.
19:45I need to go back.
19:47Home, I mean.
19:48See my family.
19:50I'm so out of touch with them.
19:51Would you be able to mind the shop?
19:53Of course.
19:54But this isn't exactly in line with my plan.
19:56I'm sorry.
19:58It's just any spare moment I have,
20:00I go to my cousin's to see Edwina.
20:02So going home,
20:03I think I've been scared
20:04with the reminders of my husband.
20:07But now I think I'm ready.
20:09To see my dad and my brother.
20:12Anyway, that's my plan for Friday.
20:14On Saturday,
20:17I'm very much committed to your plan.
20:19Two days off in a row.
20:20Emma Hart, you slacker!
20:21Oh God.
20:24I mean it.
20:26I mean it.
20:26I mean it.
20:27It's completely all the time
20:28and it stops anyone.
20:45What?
20:46Bronwyn!
20:50I mean it.
20:51I mean it.
21:02I'm sorry for not being here.
21:05Don't be sorry for that.
21:07It's a relief, if anything.
21:11I'm not just talking about when I left.
21:18I've not been the mother you deserved.
21:22Not for a long time.
21:25Not ever, perhaps.
21:33Do you remember when I was first learning to ride,
21:36being rather pathetic about it?
21:41And that night,
21:44my father made me sleep there in the stables.
21:48I was so against it.
21:50You came and I begged you to take me back to the house.
21:57You said no.
21:59But I had to face it.
22:00That it was the only way.
22:02I'm so sorry, darling.
22:03No.
22:04You were right.
22:07And you stayed with me right through till morning.
22:13And by then I wasn't scared anymore.
22:21You were...
22:22You were a wonderful mother.
22:25Until you weren't.
22:27And that's what made it so much worse.
22:31There have been so many times where I needed...
22:33I'm here now.
22:39What is it?
22:40You can tell me.
22:43I was trying to help.
22:44I really was.
22:45And I'm bloody good at it, Pug.
22:48Everyone says so.
22:51Things are so bad with the business.
22:52I thought that if I could make a bit of extra cash,
22:55then father would...
22:58I got reckless.
23:00And love.
23:01Oh, Christ.
23:03I'm in such a lot of debt.
23:05And father will be so upset.
23:07You leave your father to me.
23:10I'll fix it.
23:11I promise.
23:15I promise.
23:44I promise.
23:47I promise.
23:51I promise.
23:54I'll fix it.
24:03I promise.
24:27I'm trying to do your lunch.
24:29I'm making a right picture of it.
24:32I'm not hungry anyway.
24:36Frank!
24:44Where were you?
24:45Armley.
24:46In Leeds.
24:48Why didn't you send me an address?
24:51I didn't know where you were.
24:52We couldn't even write.
24:53I've been working all hours of the day and trying to get myself settled.
24:58What I am now.
25:01You don't look like you.
25:03We really sound like you.
25:05Frank.
25:06Please.
25:08I'm sorry.
25:09But listen, I've got so much to tell you.
25:13I don't care, am I?
25:15You can't just come walking in here after all this time acting like nothing's happened.
25:21I suppose you don't want these presents then?
25:23I've brought loads for you and for Dad.
25:27Come on, Frank.
25:28I'll help you clean this up and we can talk.
25:31Expecting Dad home for lunch, are you?
25:33They won't want to eat off the floor, will they?
25:41Why is this winter coat here?
25:45Is he home?
25:52Dad?
25:55Dad!
26:00Dad!
26:02Dad!
26:03I couldn't get rid of them.
26:05I couldn't get rid of any of it.
26:13I would have known.
26:15I would have known.
26:18In my heart, I would have felt it.
26:20I know I would.
26:21I would have.
26:24When?
26:25What happened?
26:29Sophia.
26:31At the mill.
26:35Here at three months ago.
26:40You had to be the hero, of course.
26:43Running into Sheffield.
26:47I wasn't here.
26:49I wasn't here.
26:53You are now.
26:54I'm sorry.
26:58Oh, Frank.
27:00I'm so sorry.
27:03And, of course, we'll show you the church tomorrow.
27:06It's spectacular.
27:07Oh, yes.
27:07Fairlies have been marrying there for centuries.
27:11To family.
27:14To family.
27:15Family.
27:16Family.
27:21I will look at them.
27:23Did you ever see a more handsome couple?
27:25Oh, well, Adam and I tend a few heads back in the day, didn't we, Adam?
27:29He couldn't keep his hands off me, I'm glad to say.
27:31But Edwin is more respectful.
27:37Yeah, Edwin tells me that.
27:38I suppose it's different, isn't it?
27:40With a marriage of convenience.
27:42A tell?
27:43Convenience?
27:44In that it's conveniently good for business.
27:46My mother has an unusual sense of humor.
27:49Well, it is good for business, isn't it?
27:52More so for ours than yours.
27:54I suspect, Sir Vickram.
27:58Priya, it's so wonderful that you're going to be wearing Adam's mother's wedding dress.
28:02Oh, are you?
28:03That is wonderful.
28:04Yes.
28:05Something borrowed.
28:06You will fit in perfectly.
28:09In this family, you can borrow anything you like.
28:12For example, Sir Vickram, my sister has been borrowing my husband for some time.
28:17I don't.
28:19What?
28:21I'm sure Priya knows, don't you, darling?
28:22She's been sleeping under the same roof.
28:24And if she doesn't, she ought to know what she's married into.
28:28I'm so sorry, Sir Vickram.
28:30The truth is, my wife is very ill.
28:33Oh, I have never felt better.
28:35Oh, I have never felt better.
28:39Oh, I have never felt better.
28:49Well, this was fun.
28:53Mm-hmm.
29:02I'm so sorry.
29:03Don't do that, Livy.
29:04Don't apologize as though it was just some accident, some mistake.
29:09You wanted my husband and you took him.
29:12I've loved him for a very long time.
29:18Longer than you've loved me.
29:32Same old Aunt Lily, then?
29:35Remember when she caught Dad teaching us to whistle in the house?
29:38It's Satan!
29:38They're going to summon Satan!
29:40I think Dad did it on purpose to wind her up.
29:48Could have had to come and look after you.
29:50But you needn't any more.
29:52You can come to Armley, help me in the shop.
29:54I can't.
29:55I'll be starting boarding school soon.
29:57What?
29:58Yeah.
29:58The families are paying for it.
30:00They've been of us the kind.
30:01Why would they be doing that?
30:02I suppose they threw their ear with a debt,
30:04giving our Dad's save master of his wife.
30:09Edwin?
30:10Yeah.
30:10That's who we run back in for.
30:18Emma?
30:20Emma!
30:24Emma!
30:25Oh, my God.
30:29Ah!
31:04what the hell were you playing at do you have any idea how important that marriage is you're
31:11going to lecture me on the importance of marriage adele the business is in an incredibly precarious
31:18position our finances don't say don't bore me with the details darling i shall read about them
31:23in the divorce papers we can't divorce let's see adultery yes we can be certain of that and for
31:32additional grounds i believe i shall go for cruelty cruelty you are the queen of cruelty
31:42i mean do you really blame me adele we're seeking solace elsewhere elsewhere perhaps not but my sister
31:54why why did it have to be her adam because she is the only one who understood what it was
32:01like
32:02to watch you disappear you caged me too when you locked yourself in this damn room in sickness and
32:09in health adam that was the vow remember i spent years blaming myself but you abandoned me
32:16the second you saw that i was sinking you let go of my hand that is not true i tried
32:21you drowned
32:23yourself adele all i ever wanted to do is to please you to stay on that pedestal where you put
32:28me
32:29a perfect proper little wife to sit by your side at church every sunday and then to submit to your
32:38darkest desires every night
32:39darkest desires every night
32:41i have never done a thing to you that you didn't yearn for that's absolutely true
32:54you loved every second of turning me into your little whore
32:59that then you couldn't bear the thought of being married to one
33:06get on your knees
33:17i will never be on my knees again
33:31if i am the problem then why is it that olivia and i have been perfectly happy without you here
33:39you always were unfitted though to be a wife and a mother olivia though she's wonderful at both born for
33:50it
33:50just like you were born a dirty rotten little
33:58oh
33:58oh
33:59oh
33:59oh
34:08I don't know.
34:37I don't know.
35:07I don't know.
35:37I don't know.
35:59I don't know.
36:10I don't know.
36:13I don't know.
36:27I don't know.
36:49I don't know.
37:01I don't know.
37:11I don't know.
37:20I don't know.
37:36I don't know.
37:42What did you say to her?
37:45What did you say to her?
38:12I don't know.
38:31I don't know.
38:34I don't know.
38:45I don't know.
39:01I don't know.
39:11I don't know.
39:32I don't know.
39:38I don't know.
39:40I don't know.
39:41I don't know.
39:44I don't know.
39:51I don't know.
39:56I don't know.
40:02I don't know.
40:04I don't know.
40:09I don't know.
40:15I don't know.
40:19I don't know.
40:20husband to sign on my behalf well in 45 minutes that's exactly what I'll have
40:24no one's going into this blind mr. Evans Emma I don't believe in superstition I
40:30think we make our own look
40:37I'm not sure what I did to get this lucky you head to the church I won't be
40:42on come if you like mr. Evans we can discuss the terms Emma your stock everything you
40:55built this this is just the foundations and the lawn what's that for I'm buying
41:00Jewsbury mill if I'm making my own fabric the profit margins will be huge you don't
41:05know how to run a mill but I know a lot of men who do men who loved my dad
41:10as much
41:11as I do men who were dissatisfied with the current employer you're going to
41:15steal workers from the Fairleys I'm just going to make them a better offer so
41:21it's back then the rage I thought you were moving on but this is all about
41:27revenge yes it is and it feels wonderful Emma a loveless marriage things well if
41:35you're so hell-bent on marrying someone you don't love marry me then I already
41:38asked you once I do love you
41:46imagine me ruining your life Joe can help me and he wants to and he's got
41:53influence Joe's a decent man and he won't be a distraction I let myself get
41:59carried away thinking I could put all of this behind me put them behind me and now
42:03my father's dead that wasn't your fault oh I know that my father's blood's on
42:08Fairley hands and I won't rest until every drop of theirs is on mine no Fairley will
42:12ever come near me or my family ever again
42:20you can't tell me who to love I'm a grown woman I'm simply giving you a choice between Jim Fairley
42:29and your future at this company you don't even know him only his surname do you think it's a coincidence
42:35his interest in you my grandchild my protege neither of us knew who the other was when we first met
42:41oh come
42:41along Paula don't be so naive the whole world knows I've been training you to be me to take over
42:48everything of course a Fairley would seek to take advantage what if this isn't about you as
42:53incomprehensible as that may seem for someone so self-centered you have no idea what I have sacrificed what if
43:01Jim loves me for me the fact that you think I would want to do it
43:05I would want to be you surrounded by people but entirely alone no thank you I choose life
43:23yes Mrs. Hart
43:25Jerry
43:27Mrs. Hart
43:28would you call an ambulance please
43:30Mrs. Hart
43:32I think now we're having a heart attack
43:35oh my god
43:37Mrs. Hart
43:39Mrs. Hart
43:40Mrs. Hart
43:40Mrs. Hart
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