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00:22The Countess is here to see you, Mrs. Hart.
00:26Mummy, 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 patsis for 1.30.
00:45Will that do?
00:46Janet, I swear she saw Sinatra there only last Tuesday.
00:48My favorite 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 avoiding her family
00:56and 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 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.
01:56Oh, no!
02:10Time's reach, Mr. Fairley.
02:11Thanks.
02:12It's all, well, at home.
02:21What about you?
02:22I know some of the staff at the hall were wondering
02:24if Emma might have been in touch with any news around now.
02:33It's been a month since we saw her.
02:36It's been six months.
02:39Six and a half.
02:44She sends money every month.
02:47Post-mile leads.
02:48She's got her head on her shoulders, Mr. Fairley.
02:51She gets some weight.
02:53No address, no news.
02:55Don't want us to worry.
02:57Anyway, it's all congratulations are in order for your engagement.
03:04Have a later shift to keep awake.
03:20So, now, what are you doing tonight?
03:24Roach.
03:31Now, Mrs. Fairweather.
03:33I've been up all night finishing this dress just for you.
03:36So, I believe this will be exactly what you're after.
03:39Where do you find the time, Mrs. Hart?
03:40In your condition?
03:41There's a name for Mrs. Hart's condition.
03:44Tireless.
03:44The fact is, Mrs. Hart, I'm also in the family way.
03:47Congratulations, Mrs. Fairweather.
03:49Perhaps I could make you a skirt like mine with a drawstring waist.
03:52See?
03:52Wraps around my front like so.
03:53Well, come and see me and I'll get you measured up.
03:55See you soon.
04:01I've never had a shop assistant bring as much costume as you.
04:05It's all adding up.
04:06Three quarters for you, Mrs. Lowther.
04:09And a quarter to four.
04:11Good plan.
04:12With a capital P.
04:14Capital P.
04:15A baby.
04:16I'm saving.
04:17Well, you're not saving energy.
04:19I'll sit down when the baby's born.
04:21That's how it works when you're a mother, isn't it?
04:23You do nothing but rest.
04:25Well, I'm not sure that is how it works.
04:26Mrs. Varno.
04:27I was hoping you'd be in.
04:28You're going to love this.
04:55Thank God.
04:57Thank God.
05:02Well, safe and sound in there.
05:06I'm going to keep you that way.
06:08All right in there, we're having a little play.
06:21Won't be long.
06:26Not slacking up, I hope, Mrs Hart?
06:28Lunch.
06:29Don't worry though, we've not stopped working.
06:31I can't forbid.
06:38Closing for the day already?
06:40She's never opened.
06:45I think I'd be very pleased with what I've got for you today.
06:49The new silks are perfect.
06:52And to you, only three and six a yard.
06:54Shame I'm only paying you two and six then.
06:56Three shillings.
06:57Two and nine.
06:59Oh, you're a tyrant.
07:05Are those pin marks on those fingers?
07:08Mrs Hart, how long have you been working for Joe Lowther?
07:10Six months, is it?
07:11And every minute of that you've worked like a dog.
07:13Look, people love to tell me to slow down, but babies don't write ahead and make appointments.
07:16And I am running out of time.
07:19The money's not coming in quick enough.
07:21Does your husband find you working so hard?
07:25He's working too.
07:26I've told you, the Navy can't spare him.
07:29Well, he's missing out, is all I'd say.
07:33I expect you'll miss him too, being away from home.
07:36I miss my dad.
07:37I'm a brother.
07:38No time to miss anyone else.
07:40Anyway, I'm saving up, so when the baby's born I can have two months off.
07:44Maybe even three, if I work hard in these last few weeks.
07:47It's looking like another record-breaking day.
07:50Teamwork, Mr Lowther?
07:52I don't think so.
07:53When I watch you selling, you don't have a mind like a woman's at all.
07:58Yours is more like a man's.
08:01Is there a difference?
08:03You're living here now, are you?
08:05I've got work to do.
08:10Is this the new cloth?
08:11Looks pricier.
08:12It was supposed to be.
08:14It's to replace the Fairley stuff, Mr Lowther.
08:16The fact is, customers can spot it.
08:18Cloth from the Fairley mill is just bad quality.
08:20Rotten, some might say.
08:25We've lost another cloth holder.
08:27More complaints about the quality.
08:30A lot of that equipment is old and tired.
08:33And we can't keep arsing the men to work round the clock.
08:35You're usual grabers who don't pay the plebs enough money.
08:38Now we're offering night time hours, suddenly they have to be home for their tea.
08:41They're not plebs.
08:42They're people.
08:43Who have rights and feelings.
08:47Ria!
08:48You're back!
08:51Sorry.
08:52Long day.
08:55You must be tired.
08:59Edwin, Priya and I were hoping that tomorrow we might get down to the real business of the week.
09:04Wedding planning.
09:06We should talk about churches, certainly.
09:09It's on stage.
09:11I was hoping we might decide on a date at least while I'm here.
09:14Because your father's a busy man.
09:16Sylvia Crum needs to make plans.
09:21So, we must get every wedding detail fixed, mustn't we, Evan?
09:26He's preoccupied at work.
09:28Good old Edwin.
09:29Doing all he can to save the business.
09:54What?
09:56No.
10:00Sorry.
10:01Back.
10:08How the hell do you think you are?
10:11Hm?
10:11You should be ashamed of yourself.
10:13You don't just stroll in here, but for months you can come near her.
10:15Well, sure I'm here now when I...
10:18Can see she's been busy.
10:19Oh!
10:22My poor name.
10:24What the hell have you been playing at?
10:26Mr. R, you should know that your wife has been working tirelessly.
10:30Every minute.
10:32In the absence of anyone else bothering to...
10:34Mr. Klinski.
10:35David.
10:36This is not my husband.
10:37This is just a friend.
10:39A dear friend.
10:41Mac.
10:41He barely knows my husband.
10:43You'd be surprised by how little.
10:47Well, I had no idea.
10:49I'll see you at closing time.
10:50Right.
10:52See you soon.
11:01Adel?
11:03Brought you these.
11:06I was looking for a vase like Mother's, you know, that allowed the flowers to splay out.
11:11Do you remember that she always had such a way with flowers?
11:16Edwin rushed off early again.
11:19But work never stops at the mill.
11:20Not these days.
11:22I mean, Adam's barely home.
11:25I mean, you know, I hardly ever see him.
11:27He's barely here.
11:30Do you need more hot water, darling?
11:32Or anything, you know, anything to eat?
11:40Darling.
11:44I wonder if maybe you ought to get out.
11:49Do you think?
11:50Just get away from this place.
11:57I was wondering about Aunt Jessie's cottage by the sea.
12:00Would you like that?
12:02Do you remember that little beach down below and the goals?
12:05And she'd love to have you.
12:07I know she would.
12:07And you may just find the-
12:14Adele?
12:17Adele?
12:21Adele?
12:25Please.
12:34Are those lily of the valley?
12:38Yes.
12:40Glorious, aren't they?
12:42There's hundreds of them out there.
12:44They do that.
12:46They're invasive.
12:48If left unchecked.
12:50The lily of the valley will simply take over the whole garden.
12:55You can't get rid of them.
13:07Well, we ain't that fast.
13:27Oh, sorry.
13:28We're closed.
13:30Your guard dog's not with you, no?
13:33Mr. Kalinske just does the deliveries.
13:35He's only being kind.
13:36Oh.
13:36Kind, is he?
13:38As well as handsome.
13:44Like you were born to work here.
13:53Emma Hart?
13:54What?
13:55Are you going to avoid looking at me for the whole rest of your life?
13:59What's going on, darling?
14:10Dad doesn't know I'm here.
14:12And he mustn't.
14:14I can't take trouble to his door.
14:19Not after, ma'am.
14:22I haven't seen him.
14:24I haven't seen him.
14:27How can I afford to bring up this baby by myself?
14:32I'm fine.
14:37How the hell have you got yourself in this old mess?
14:45There was a lad back home.
14:48You don't know him.
14:51He let me down.
14:53Then I'll thrash the living day lads out of him.
14:55No need.
14:57He said he'd marry me at first, then ran away to join the Navy.
15:04And this?
15:07So nobody thinks bad of me.
15:11Also because I like remembering.
15:13Remembering him?
15:14Remembering I won't ever again let someone make me feel the way he did.
15:19Not till the day I die.
15:22I'm remembering what drives me now.
15:24What'll drive me my whole life.
15:28Revenge.
15:33Emma, how are you going to look after the baby?
15:35And work?
15:37I'm making dresses.
15:40And I'm good.
15:41I am.
15:42I get such a thrill to see the money pile up.
15:46I've saved up for two months, which means that when the baby's born I can stop a while.
15:54Did you drop something?
15:56You know I'll marry you.
15:58Emma Hart.
16:00And happily.
16:02It'd be an honor.
16:05Emma, will you marry me?
16:11I'm the best man I know.
16:13Sure, to marry you would be a privilege.
16:16A burden more like.
16:17Have you seen these shoulders?
16:19I could look after the both of you.
16:22I know.
16:24I know you would.
16:27But I've got it planned.
16:29I'm going to look after us myself.
16:31Somehow.
16:33I'm going to be a mother, Mac.
16:34A mom.
16:36I'm going to have a real baby.
16:37The most precious thing you can have.
16:40And more than anything I've ever done, I want to take care of it.
16:44Well, I could have at least an eye.
16:46Mac.
16:47You have the biggest heart I know.
16:51It's bursting.
16:52Which is why I want you to be able to give that heart to someone you love.
16:55For real.
16:57Not just a girl you feel sorry for.
16:59Ah, Emma, but...
17:00The answer's no.
17:02It's a no with the biggest thank you in the world.
17:14You might want to...
17:16Get under the last seat with the...
17:19Sweeping brush.
17:20The...
17:20Dust is shocking.
17:21The Dwarfvenant.
17:22The Dwarfvenant.
17:28I've seen it.
17:29I've seen it.
17:31I've seen it.
17:32It's a no with the...
17:33...to my heart.
17:34Good morning.
17:37The Dwarf...
17:40The Dwarf...
17:42The Dwarf...
17:44The Dwarf...
17:45The Dwarf...
18:04Let me rent next door.
18:05Let me rent it from you and open a dress shop.
18:07My own shop filled with dresses made by me.
18:10Give me one reason why not.
18:12Oh, you only want one.
18:13Well, which reason do you want?
18:15That you've no experience running a shop.
18:17That you've no experience running a business of any kind.
18:20That you're barely 19.
18:21That you're pregnant.
18:23Mr Lowther, the answer to all of them's the same.
18:25I can do it.
18:26Mrs Hart, that's fanciful at best.
18:28Two people have filled in that shop this year.
18:29Two inefficient people?
18:31Mrs Cleveland, her stock was shoddy and too expensive for its quality.
18:34She didn't know her customers.
18:35I do.
18:36I know what kind of clothes they like.
18:38And I'm good.
18:39You know I am.
18:40And you said it yourself.
18:41I'm a grafter.
18:41I can sell.
18:42Which is why I can't afford to lose you from my shop.
18:45You wouldn't be losing me.
18:46We'll drive business to each other.
18:48Right now, when people come in, all they see is rolls of cloth.
18:50With my dress shop next door, you'll have a showroom for what that cloth can become.
18:54Double your profits in a month.
18:55Treble them, probably.
18:56Plus, I'll be your best customer.
18:58Every dress that I sell, I'll be buying the cloth from you.
19:00And the shop's empty, Mr Lowther.
19:02Gathering dust.
19:04I can take it off your hands today.
19:05Now.
19:06This minute.
19:07So you don't lose a moment's rent.
19:08Mrs Hart, you forget I know your circumstances.
19:11You live in my upstairs room.
19:13The deposit on that shop is sky high.
19:27I have enough in here for your deposit.
19:29And because I know you're nervous about me, which you won't be the moment you see the profits I bring
19:32in.
19:34I know you usually ask for four weeks' rent in advance.
19:36But I have enough in here for eight.
19:39It's all in here.
19:42Take it.
19:44Mrs Hart.
19:45I need to remind you.
19:48You're having a baby.
19:49That's me to take care of.
19:52And it's why I'm absolutely certain that this is right.
20:22You're having a baby.
20:24I need to look at me.
20:25I need to look at you.
20:29I need to look at you.
20:43I need to look at you.
20:54You're having a baby.
20:54oh no it's fine i was just i was just walking home you're allowed to walk where you like
21:02nice aim you've got that i've sat through three days now of your
21:05aunt talking about bridal bouquets and of you and your father shouting at each other about looms
21:10i had some steam to let off
21:19oh okay let's see
21:23not bad not bad not bad terrible dreadful
21:31well they'll be wondering about dinner yes
21:38you know when you asked me to marry you i thought we had a connection that you were optimistic like
21:45me
21:46you seemed starry-eyed and i wasn't sure if we made each other's hearts or not in the way people
21:51talk
21:51about parts or in books you probably don't read those kind of books not really but you know the
21:59concept of heart soaring yes anyway i just wanted to say not everyone gets that the heart soaring
22:11that's not what life is i don't think but recently stars have left those eyes of yours and
22:19i know this engagement pleases your father and he's not an easy man to please but
22:25we could just walk away
22:31there's a lot to be said for pleasing people
22:35and not just parents
22:39priya i wouldn't have asked you
22:43i wouldn't have considered it if i had intended
22:47somehow
22:49i do my very best to please you
22:54but let me know will you
22:57when the trying to please me starts
23:24mother how are you
23:27i suppose i wanted to see you
23:32if you don't mind
23:45because everything just feels a bit
23:48wrong somehow
23:51priya's a sweet girl in many ways
23:53where is your father
23:57he never comes to me your father never comes anywhere near me where is he
24:04he's not back yet i don't know he's been busy at the mill wheel
24:08but does he not know that i'm here edwin
24:12and i'm not nobody
24:16i'm not nobody
24:20i think you can't
24:24stop it
24:33get out
24:36sorry sorry
24:50okay
25:20Shelves here, rails of dresses here and here, and a fitting area here.
25:25And also a range of elasticated skirts for pregnant women.
25:28And a chair for them, but also for people like you.
25:32Men folk.
25:34And there'll be a fire. The shop will always be warm.
25:36And you'll pair to hate it, will you?
25:38Yes, and it'll be worth it, because people will want to come.
25:40And every customer will be greeted by name.
25:42And Emma, in a few weeks' time...
25:47The baby?
25:48I'll manage.
26:21Oh!
26:29Fire!
26:30Oh, my God, my God, my God, my God, my God.
27:03Oh, my God, my God, my God, my God, my God.
27:30Oh, my God, my God, my God, my God.
27:35Oh, my God, my God, my God, my God, my God.
27:38Oh, my God, my God, my God.
28:04Oh, my God.
28:07Oh, my God.
28:24Oh, my God.
28:29Ah!
28:34Ah!
28:50Ah!
28:53Ah!
28:55Ah!
28:57Ah!
29:16Edwin!
29:34Edwin, that's my heart.
29:43Is there nothing in the whole world you've got to do?
30:05Mother loved to say I spent my christening pulling faces at the vicar.
30:11This is how mum must have felt about me.
30:14She'd be so sad there's no christening now.
30:18Because don't look kind little mothers like me.
30:23Who needs a church? Or a font?
30:29Now, what do you name her? Because my vornine, lucky you, the decision's all yours.
30:35On account of her father, your local lad, being off on his boat.
30:45Edwina is her name?
30:59Well, what an elegant name.
31:02Edwina Shane Hart.
31:06Named after her uncle Mark.
31:09Best mum I know.
31:18Edwina Shane Hart.
31:25In the name of God, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost.
31:32May you be healthy, wealthy, and wise.
31:37No sense of that and beautiful.
31:39Because look at her mother.
31:46She didn't even cry.
31:51So what has she got to cry about?
31:56What are you going to say when the registrar asks for her father's name?
32:03Unknown?
32:04Ah, Emma.
32:06Don't go making her unknown.
32:08Don't give her that.
32:12Put me.
32:15Mark, it's such a responsibility.
32:18And how do I have to be telling you again about these shoulders?
32:32Well, darling.
32:35How do you feel?
32:39See?
32:42Almost.
32:44I'm beginning to feel me and Edwina might be safe.
32:48Sure if that little girl's not the luckiest in the world.
32:53No one in my family is going to suffer.
32:55Not ever again.
32:56No one in my family is going to forgive.
32:58Maybe.
33:14Yes, maybe.
33:16Maybe.
33:20Whatever.
33:24Maybe.
33:25Maybe.
33:26Let's go.
34:17Do you mind, darling?
34:22Stay, Livia.
34:24Please.
34:32I will stay in this house while my son needs me.
34:35Then, the moment Edwin's well, I need to be too.
34:40I need to leave.
34:54My darling, I've not been the mother you deserve.
35:02And I'm so sorry.
35:05But I promise I will put this right.
35:10I promise you.
35:25It's all right.
35:26I'm coming.
35:28I just need...
35:29I'm coming.
35:34I'm coming.
35:44I'm coming.
35:54I'm coming.
35:59Stop it.
36:02Stop.
36:05Aaauaauauuuu
36:14Aaaaaaaaaaaauuuu
36:16Aaaaaaaaauuu und
36:21Aaaaaaauuuu
36:22Aghh
36:40you're my baby girl
36:43yes you are
36:45and Edwina
36:46you are so loved
36:47so loved
36:50and I won't let anything happen to you
36:54I'll take care of you
36:58and you will have the best of everything
37:02I promise you
37:06you know
37:06those fairies turn their back on us
37:09because they think they're better than us
37:11that's what they think
37:13and if it takes my whole life
37:15all of my energy
37:16and everything I've got
37:17I'm going to prove to them that they're wrong
37:24I will keep you safe
37:27and if I have to make sacrifices
37:30give a few things up
37:31then I will do
37:33if it means you're taken care of
37:35I'll sacrifice anything in the world
37:37I will
37:59and if I have to make it happen
38:06I will do
38:06I will do
38:07I will do
38:07I will do
38:07I will do
38:07Oh, my God.
38:13Oh, my God.
38:19Oh, my God.
38:21Oh, my God.
38:45and there's a bag by the door with all her necessaries
38:48she's had a good sleep and two bottles already this morning
38:53so she's good at taking bottles and i've put a letter in there for cousin frida thanking her
39:01um and i've put in some lists songs adwina like sung and so on because frida might not know what
39:07kind of song she likes
39:13sure about this before me you're certain sacrifices must be made if that means we have to be apart
39:22while i get this up and running and this is all for her one day adwina will thank me for
39:29this
39:29she will cousin frida is the motherly sort will you tell her i'll visit next weekend
39:38and after that every other sunday and i'll send money of course
39:43and will you tell her i don't know tell her i have to do it please will you make sure
39:51she
39:51understands that tell her there's no choice as soon as i get back on my feet
39:59and i can look after her properly i'll bring her back to me now just take her please just take
40:05her
40:13emma god knows you're doing all of this for this choice i don't know about him but i just hope
40:17will you please just go just go please
40:24just go please
40:27oh
40:29oh
40:30oh
40:30oh
40:31oh
40:33oh
40:34oh
40:41oh
40:45oh
41:00oh
41:08oh
41:09oh
41:09oh
41:09oh
41:09oh
41:15all of this has been for your family
41:19well i'm sorry to tell you mummy but it's felt an awful lot from where i've been sitting
41:23as though you've done it all for you
41:25and where have you been sitting edwina on which cushioned seats on which velvet chaise long
41:31and at which polish table have you spent your entire life sitting would we have starved to death do you
41:37think
41:38if you worked less and been at home more or would we have eaten just less costly brie
41:45oh
41:55oh
41:56I love you, Edwina, with all my heart.
42:00All of it.
42:01Or is there just a little bit of that heart that resents me?
42:05Resents all of us for not being you?
42:07Oh, we can't compete on the suffering front, of course.
42:11Dry bread, holes in your shoes,
42:12and if only your mother could have afforded a paracetamol or two,
42:15she might have lived!
42:19And here it is.
42:23Now I feel ashamed.
42:24I'm not your only rebel child.
42:26But because I'm the first born,
42:28the first palmed off on a relative,
42:30the first lied to about her father.
42:35So what's next in your bold new world of skullduggery and initiative, Edwina?
42:41Well, I shall call my anarchic siblings.
42:43To tell them you fumbled it?
42:45To tell them that the plan may no longer be secret,
42:47but that nothing has changed.
42:50We continue.
42:54And then who will you have?
42:56Hmm?
42:58I shall have Paula.
43:17Paula?
43:33Is that you, Fanny?
43:35Yes, Mrs. Hart.
43:36You came in to collect the paperwork for the reopening of this magazine.
43:38Can you see them?
43:40Do you see them coming in?
43:43I'll see you.
43:43Yeah.
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