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A Woman Of Substance S01E05 (2026)
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00:10To be continued...
00:30Henry 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 Lasalli 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 know.
01:00I didn't even know who he was when we first met him.
01:03I thought you were serious about your future here, Paula. I thought you had ambition.
01:07I am. I do.
01:08Then it ends today.
01:10But, Grandy, I love him.
01:14Paula, I understand.
01:16Believe me.
01:17That occasionally one can find oneself distracted.
01:22But one must use that distraction as a springboard for moving on.
01:26You and Jim Fairley are over.
01:29End of story.
01:32You don't get to where I am without making sacrifices.
01:53You and Jim Fairley are over.
02:07Ready for your grand opening day?
02:13Have a lovely day.
02:34All right.
02:37He's my second and compared to the first, he's just an angel.
02:42Emma, just don't tell him the worst of all.
02:45Harry.
02:46All right.
02:48All right.
03:21Perfect, Mrs. Jacobs.
03:23With the height you've been blessed with, I take the skirt up to mid-calf.
03:26I'll have to persuade my husband to ease a new jacket.
03:27He'll be showing me up in church.
03:29I'll have to sweeten them up first.
03:31Have you seen my treacle tart kits?
03:32It's my mother's recipe. My dad used to ask for one instead of a birthday cake in June.
03:40So, you've been working every day, every second.
03:44When will this place be running smoothly enough for you to take time off and see your family, eh?
03:47Men's wear. That should be next.
03:49Perfect way to expand the customer base.
03:51Now, look at yours.
03:54Yes.
03:56But if you're going to undress me, perhaps without an audience.
04:00I'm sorry.
04:04Tweed. I'm going to need lots of tweed.
04:06Can you...
04:06Oh.
04:08I'm good at being in charge.
04:17I'm going to need whatever you've got in tweed, worsted wool, maybe some linen.
04:22You can't be running dry already.
04:23It's not in a menswear line.
04:25Did you hear?
04:26They're selling juicery mill.
04:28Someone will make a fortune.
04:29Yeah, they'll have to spend one first.
04:31If you buy it, think how much bigger your profit margins will be.
04:34No, thank you.
04:35That would be too risky for my raft to take out a whacking lawn.
04:37It'd be more than pay for itself.
04:39Given how poorly everyone thinks of the Fairley Mills broadjuice, I reckon the contracts they've got left will be yours
04:43for the day.
04:44Mr. Lowther?
04:46You've seen what she's doing?
04:48Treacle tart kits in her dressmakers.
04:50Have you ever heard of such a thing?
04:52I knew it.
04:52The second you let her move in, I said to my husband, I said she's after my shop.
04:56Mrs. Hart is free to sell whatever she wants.
04:58Oh, you would say that.
04:59Protecting your fancy woman.
05:01Emma is a married woman.
05:03Who's she married to?
05:04The invisible man.
05:05I've seen the way she's in and out of your shop like nobody's business.
05:08Sounds like you've made it your business.
05:10Mrs. Minton, if you want to keep leasing my premises, I suggest you apologise to Mrs. Hart immediately.
05:14And spend less time worrying about what she's selling, and more about what you're selling, which as of late, I
05:19suspect is not very much.
05:25Sorry.
05:28Invisible husband.
05:28Invisible baby.
05:30Thanks for asking, Mrs. Minton, but my daughter's been very well looked after as a matter of fact.
05:34She wants her nothing.
05:35Emma?
05:39What does she know, eh?
05:41She thinks we're carrying on.
05:43She's going to her shop.
05:44I never keep you waiting for rent.
05:46I'd be too worried that she'd bludgeon us both to death with one of your treacle tarts.
05:58Some fish-eye darts at the front here would make for a better silhouette, don't you think?
06:02It would pull in the waist without...
06:03Just throw in the pool.
06:04Yes.
06:06You're right.
06:08Clean the lines.
06:13Can I take your measurements for samples?
06:18Shall I?
06:19Yes.
06:21Thanks.
06:41Most people would wait more than a few months after opening a ladies' wear shop to expand.
06:48Do you think it's due soon?
06:50No.
06:51I don't.
06:54And this is exactly why I wanted to work with you.
07:03Because you're not most people.
07:04I guess you're not most people.
07:17I can't.
07:17I can't.
07:18I can't.
07:18I'm married.
07:18Well, someone should remind your husband of that, because it's been almost a year, Emma,
07:22and he hasn't bothered to come near you, not even when he gave birth to his child.
07:25Please, always.
07:26A week after a week, I say to myself, has he any idea who he married?
07:29Does he know you?
07:30Has he seen you?
07:33Because surely if he'd had even a glimpse of you, he'd not be able to tear himself from
07:37your side.
07:37I'm sorry.
07:38I'm sorry.
07:53I'm sorry.
08:10Emma Hart, isn't it?
08:13Yes.
08:15How can I help you, Mrs.
08:16Miss Chandra?
08:19At least for the next few weeks, then it'll be Mrs. Edwin Fairley.
08:24That's why I'm here.
08:34Yes, I can see.
08:37It just needs the odd adjustment.
08:42All we have to do is...
08:43Burn it.
08:45It's a fairly alien they insisted I try on, and as you can see, it fits, which is rather
08:51unfortunate because it's an absolute monstrosity.
08:56I'm sorry.
08:58So am I.
08:59But I kept hearing such wonderful things about this place.
09:02I was hoping you could make it even a tiny bit less hideous.
09:05Let's see.
09:10I always imagined I'd get married and what my mother wore to her wedding.
09:13It was a beautiful red sari.
09:16Bold thread.
09:17But she won't be at the wedding herself.
09:24She passed away.
09:28I'm sorry.
09:30And to lose a mother, that's...
09:35I know.
09:37It's the worst thing.
09:39Yes.
09:40It is.
09:48He writes to you.
09:52Letters.
09:55Constantly.
09:58Though he seems to have no intention of sending them, so...
10:01I suppose I was always going to find them eventually.
10:08Why did you come here?
10:11If I'm going to spend the rest of my life with a man whose heart is broken, I thought I
10:15ought
10:16to at least have a good look at the woman responsible.
10:18If Edwin's heart is broken, it's entirely his own doing.
10:20I can assure you of that.
10:28You can look.
10:35Well, I'd have made me look an absolute fright if I were you.
10:38Oh, I considered it.
10:40It was a time I'd have ruined the dress completely.
10:43Anything to get back at them, even a little bit.
10:48I made a vow, you see.
10:50Spend the rest of my life punishing them.
10:53All of the failies.
10:55I know.
10:59Sometimes I wonder whether, in doing that, I'm also punishing myself.
11:14I don't marry him.
11:17Not because I want him, or because I'm trying to ruin his life.
11:21I just...
11:23I think you deserve more.
11:30He's good to me.
11:33And love can grow, I think.
11:37Now you have hope.
11:42I know this might be terribly inappropriate, but I really did want you to...
11:46I'll have it delivered.
11:48Once it's finished.
12:13Sure, I thought you'd be pleased to hear Edwin's living a life of misery.
12:16Doesn't it feel good, Emma, to know you built all this while he's been stood still, right where you left
12:20him?
12:21But part of me's been there with him, hasn't it?
12:23Wearing the ring he got me.
12:25Even pretending to have a husband at sea.
12:27Making sure there isn't even the slightest possibility I might one day be able to meet someone else.
12:34Are you ready for that?
12:37I want to be, I think.
12:40But I'm scared.
12:43That rage, the rage against Edwin, it's what's dragging me out of bed every single morning.
12:47It's what's keeping Edwina fed and safe.
12:49If I let that go, am I just going to get distracted again?
12:52Am I going to let me mam down?
12:53No, Emma, that fire inside you is going nowhere.
12:57It's that rage.
12:58It's who you are.
13:00Rage was just the fuel there for a little while, but that can come from anywhere.
13:05It can come from love.
13:09You're right.
13:13Emma.
13:14Would you speak to him for me?
13:16Would you speak to David?
13:19You'll probably notice how we are around each other.
13:23I never expected it.
13:25Tried to tell myself it wasn't happening, but...
13:28He makes me feel...
13:30I don't know...
13:32Excited.
13:33Fluttery.
13:35Hopeful.
13:37Is that bad?
13:40Never.
13:42What, um...
13:45What do you want me to say to him?
14:10I know I should feel guilty, but these past months, with the death away, have been the best of my
14:18life.
14:25Delivery for you, Miss Chandler.
14:27Oh, thank you.
14:30My wedding dress, so best not to mention it to you.
14:33Of course.
14:35Wouldn't want to bring about any...
14:36bad luck.
14:52What have you got there?
14:54Oh.
14:55It...
14:55It's, um...
14:56Oh, sorry.
14:57Is that the...
15:00Wedding dress.
15:01Yes.
15:02I had it altered.
15:03A little.
15:04At this...
15:05New dressmakers I kept hearing about.
15:10Really.
15:12Right.
15:13Good.
15:14Good.
15:16I hope you got...
15:18What you wanted.
15:35These are...
15:36for you.
15:38Mac told me about your husband.
15:39I'm so sorry.
15:53Why didn't you tell me sooner that he died?
15:59It was a while ago.
16:03I think I was scared...
16:06of us.
16:12worried about me being...
16:13worried about me being...
16:15forward.
16:19Worried I might.
16:26I was just going to have to drink.
16:27You're all right.
16:30Well, Mac sets you up.
16:32It's a loser husband.
16:35I feel awful.
16:36The things I said about him.
16:37You're right.
16:39Truth is, I...
16:40lost him a long time ago.
16:43Even before he died.
16:47You...
16:47made me feel...
16:50I...
16:51I...
16:56I...
16:58I...
17:00I...
17:00I...
17:01I...
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17:02I...
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17:02I...
17:11I...
17:23I...
17:27I...
17:46Do you spring mill is up for sale?
17:48We could ask them whether they'd sell us one of their looms.
17:50We still don't have one from the fire, but if we could just get back to running at full capacity...
17:54There's a little point running at full capacity where we're not even selling the fabric we're making at half.
17:57...but a hint of that sort of talk when Sir Rickham arrives, we'll focus on the wedding.
18:01If he says the conversation is turning to anything more serious, deflect.
18:05I think we're all pretty good at that.
18:07Now, Olivia, at the luncheon, I'm going to need you to...
18:09Did somebody say luncheon? I love luncheon.
18:14Adele, we weren't expecting you.
18:16Mother, you look.
18:16I know, darling. Come here.
18:20Sherry, Mother. Shut up, Gerald.
18:23No, thank you, darling.
18:24Yes. Wise.
18:26We've had to switch to the cheap stuff in those two long months you've been on holiday.
18:33Still, it's here when you need it.
18:36Tea. We've got tea. I think I'll rest.
18:39Right.
18:40I've come a long way.
18:44But, I'm so looking forward to hearing what you've all been up to while I've been gone.
19:04I may have got ahead of myself earlier.
19:07I had a plan, you see.
19:09Not much about them.
19:12What did it involve, this plan?
19:14Well, the first step is going to be persuading you to take a day off.
19:18I've not committed you out to hard work.
19:24It is time I took a day off.
19:27I need to go back.
19:29Home, I mean.
19:30See my family.
19:31I'm so out of touch with them.
19:33Would you be able to mind the shop?
19:35Of course.
19:36But this isn't exactly in line with my plan.
19:38I'm sorry.
19:40It's just, any spare moment I have, I go to my cousins to see Edwina.
19:43And so, going home, I think I've been scared of the reminders of my husband.
19:49But now I think I'm ready.
19:51To see my dad and my brother.
19:54Anyway, that's my plan for Friday.
19:56On Saturday, I'm very much committed to your plan.
20:01Oh, two days off in a row. Emma Hart, you slacker!
20:03I knew him.
20:07I knew him.
20:08I knew him.
20:12I knew him.
20:27Hmm.
20:29Ah!
20:30Ah!
20:32Ah!
20:44I'm sorry for not being here.
20:47Don't be sorry for that.
20:49So we'll leave, if anything.
20:53I'm not just talking about when I left.
21:00I've not been the mother you deserved.
21:04Well, not for a long time, not ever, perhaps.
21:15Do you remember when I was first learning to ride, being rather pathetic about it?
21:23And that night, father made me sleep there in the stables.
21:30I was so against it.
21:32You came, and I begged you to take me back to the house.
21:39You said no.
21:41That I had to face it.
21:42That it was the only way.
21:44I'm so sorry, darling.
21:45No.
21:46No.
21:47You were right.
21:49And you stayed with me, right through till morning.
21:55And by then, I wasn't scared anymore.
22:03You were...
22:04You were a wonderful mother.
22:07Until you weren't.
22:09And that's what made it so much worse.
22:13There have been so many times where I needed...
22:15I'm here now.
22:21What is it?
22:22You can tell me.
22:25I was trying to help.
22:26I really was.
22:27And I'm bloody good at it, Pokemon.
22:30Everyone says so.
22:33Things are so bad with the business.
22:34I thought that if I could make a bit of extra cash, then father would...
22:40I got reckless.
22:42And love.
22:43Oh, Christ.
22:45I'm in such a lot of debt.
22:47And father will be so upset.
22:49You leave your father to me.
22:52I'll fix it.
22:53I promise.
23:28I'll fix it.
23:33Bye!
23:34Bye!
23:44Bye!
24:09I don't do your work.
24:11I'm making a right pee-pee of it.
24:14I'm not hungry anyway.
24:17Frank!
24:26Where were you?
24:27Armley.
24:28In Leeds.
24:30Why didn't you think in a dress?
24:33I didn't know where you were.
24:34We couldn't even write.
24:35I've been working all hours of the day and trying to get myself settled.
24:40I've got a hand now.
24:42You don't look like you.
24:45You really sound like you.
24:46Frank.
24:48Please.
24:49I'm sorry.
24:51But listen, I've got so much to tell you.
24:55I don't care, am I?
24:57You can't just come walking in here after all this time acting like nothing's happened.
25:03I suppose you don't want these presents then?
25:05I've brought loads for you and for Dad.
25:09Come on, Frank.
25:10I'll help you clean this up and we can talk.
25:13You're expecting Dad home for lunch, are you?
25:15He won't want to eat off the floor, will he?
25:16I'll help you clean this up and eat off the floor.
25:18I'll help you clean this up and eat off the floor.
25:24Why is this winter go here?
25:27Is he home?
25:34Dad?
25:37Dad?
25:44Dad? I couldn't get rid of him. I couldn't get rid of any of it. I would have known.
26:00In my heart, I would have felt it. I know I would. I would have. When? What happened?
26:13Sophia. At the mill. Here around three months ago.
26:22You had to be the hero, of course. Running into Sheffield.
26:30I wasn't here. I wasn't here. You are now. I'm sorry. Oh, Frank. I'm so sorry.
26:45And, of course, we'll show you the church tomorrow. It's spectacular. Fairlies have been marrying there for centuries. To family.
26:55To family. Family. Family. Oh, look at them. Did you ever see a more handsome couple?
27:07Oh, well. Adam and I tend a few heads back in the day, didn't we, Adam? He couldn't keep his
27:12hands off me, I'm glad to say. But Edwin is more respectful.
27:19Yeah, Edwin tells me that. I suppose it's different, isn't it? With a marriage of convenience.
27:23I tell. Convenience. In that it's conveniently good for business. My mother has an unusual sense of humor.
27:31Well, it is good for business, isn't it? More so for ours than yours, I suspect, Sir Edwin.
27:40Pria, it's so wonderful that you're going to be wearing Adam's mother's wedding dress.
27:44Oh, are you? That is wonderful. Something borrowed. You will fit in perfectly. In this family, you can borrow anything
27:53you like.
27:54For example, Sir Vikram, my sister has been borrowing my husband for some time.
27:59I don't.
28:02What? I'm sure Pria knows, don't you, darling? She's been sleeping under the same roof. And if she doesn't, she
28:07ought to know what she's marrying into.
28:10I'm so sorry, Sir Vikram. The truth is, my wife is very ill.
28:15Oh, I have never felt better.
28:32Well, this was fun.
28:35Mm-hmm.
28:43I'm so sorry.
28:45Don't do that, Livy. Don't apologize as though it was just some accident, some mistake.
28:50You wanted my husband and you took him. I've loved him for a very long time.
29:00Longer than you've loved me.
29:14Same old Aunt Lily then?
29:17Remember when she caught Dad teaching us to whistle in the house?
29:20Satan! They're going to summon Satan!
29:22I think Dad did it on purpose to wind her up.
29:30Could've got to come and look after you.
29:32But she needn't any more.
29:34You can come to Armley and help me in the shop.
29:36I can't. I'll be starting boarding school soon.
29:39What?
29:40Yeah. The fairies are paying for it. They've been of us the kind.
29:43Why would they be doing that?
29:44I suppose they threw their ill with a debt given our Dad's save Master of Prince's life.
29:50Edmund?
29:52Yeah?
29:54What shall we run back in for?
29:59Emma?
30:01Emma!
30:02Emma?
30:02Emma!
30:09Emma!
30:10Emma!
30:13Emma!
30:15Emma!
30:17Emma!
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