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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.
01:54Oh, no!
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.
03:13Bye.
03:20Bye.
03:34No.
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.
03:51The fact 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.
04:00Come 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. Three 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.
04:25I'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. Barlow, I was hoping you'd be in.
04:34You're going to love this.
05:02Thank God.
05:08All safe and sound in there.
05:12I'm going to keep you that way.
06:01Oh
06:15All right in there having a little play
06:32Not slacking up I hope Mrs Hart
06:35Lunch don't worry though I've not stopped working
06:37I think for bid
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
07:02Three shillings
07:03Two 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've worked like a dog
07:19People love to tell me to slow down but babies don't write ahead to 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 and my 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 if I work hard in these last few weeks
07:53It's looking like another record breaking day
07:57Teamwork Mr. Alder
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
08:20Is 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, 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
08:41Your usual grabbers who 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
08:53Oh, Ria!
08:54You're back!
08:58Sorry
08:58Long day
09:00Oh
09:01You must be tired
09:06Edwin, Priya and I were hoping that tomorrow
09:08We 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 Vikram needs to make plans
09:26So
09:27We must get every wedding detail fixed, mustn't we, Edwin?
09:32He's preoccupied at work
09:34Hmm
09:34Good old Edwin
09:36Doing all he can to save the business
09:38Yes
09:49No
09:50You're lucky
09:53Yes
09:59Okay
10:00No
10:02No
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.
10:30What 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 who'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?
11:46Darling.
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.
14:31I haven't seen him, love.
14:33How can I afford to bring up this baby by myself?
14:39Fine.
14:44How the hell have you got yourself in this all, miss?
15:00There was a lad back home.
15:03You don't know him.
15:05He let me down.
15:07Then I'll thrash to live in daylight, 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.
15:25And 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.
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.
16:12Emma 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 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.
16:43And I'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 we 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.
17:07Which 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...
17:31get under the last seat with the...
17:33sweeping brush.
17:34The dust is shocking.
17:45Good morning.
17:48Good morning.
17:50Good morning.
17:51Good morning.
18:18Let me rent next door.
18:20Let me rent it from you and open a dress shop.
18:22My own shop filled with dresses made by me.
18:24Give me one reason why not.
18:26Oh, you only want one.
18:27Well, which reason do you want?
18:29That you've no experience running a shop?
18:32That you've no experience running a business of any kind?
18:34That you're barely 19?
18:36That you're pregnant?
18:37Mr Lowther, the answer to all of them is 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.
18:50I know what kind of clothes they're like.
18:52And I'm good.
18:53You know I am.
18:54And you said it yourself.
18:55I'm a grafter.
18:56I can sell.
18:57Which 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.
19:02Right now, when people come in, all they see is rolls of cloth.
19:05With my dress shop next door, you'll have a showroom for what that cloth can become.
19:08Double your profits in a month.
19:10Treble them, probably.
19:11Plus, I'll be your best customer.
19:12Every dress that I sell, I'll be buying the cloth from you.
19:15And the shop's empty, Mr Lover.
19:17Gathering dust.
19:18I can take it off your hands today.
19:20Now.
19:20This 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, which you won't be the moment you see the profits I bring
19:47in.
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.
20:00But I need to remind you.
20:02You're having a baby.
20:04That's a need to take care of.
20:06And it's why I'm absolutely certain that this is right.
20:10I don't think I'm able to stick with it.
20:11Okay.
20:37It's why I'll go ahead.
20:38So it's why I'm so important.
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 and of you and your father shouting
21:29at 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, I thought we had a connection.
22:04That you were optimistic, 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.
22:38And 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, too.
23:15Well, let me know, will you?
23:18When the trying to please me starts.
23:43Mother, how are you?
23:48I suppose I wanted 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.
24:14Where 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?
24:33And I'm not nobody.
24:37I'm not nobody.
24:40I'm not nobody.
24:42But take your hands.
24:51Stop it!
24:53Get out!
24:57Sorry.
24:58Sorry.
25:01Sorry.
25:01I can't wait.
25:12Sorry.
25:14Sorry.
25:14Sorry.
25:15It's okay.
25:15You're the Last of $1.
25:16I don't know.
25:16Get out.
25:21Hey!
25:22Hey!
25:25Hey heels!
25:26Hey!
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.
25:53Menfolk.
25:55And there will be a fire, the shop will always be warm.
25:57And you'll pay her to heat it, will you?
25:59Yes, and it'll 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.
26:10I'll manage.
26:39I'll manage.
26:49Fire!
26:51Fire!
26:53Fire!
26:55Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
27:26Oh, God.
27:38What's happened?
27:39It overheated.
27:41We sent you. No one in there.
27:45Who's in there?
27:46Who?
27:46My brother.
27:48Edwin.
27:48Edwin went through.
27:50That's the red one!
28:00Oh, we can do this.
28:03We can do this.
28:05Can't we?
28:06Can't we?
28:08Of course we can.
28:10I'm here.
28:13We're alone.
28:14We can do it together.
28:17Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
28:25Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
28:52Ah!
28:55Ah!
29:11Ah!
29:13Ah!
29:16Ah!
29:25Ah!
29:27Ah!
29:32Ah!
29:38Edwin!
29:39Ah!
29:55And my heart.
30:04There's nothing in the whole world you can't do.
30:33Mother loved to say I spent my christening pulling faces at the vicar.
30:40This is how ma'am must have felt about me.
30:43She'd be so sad there's no christening now.
30:46Pecas don't look kindly to mothers like me.
30:50Who needs a church?
30:53Or a font?
30:57Now, what are you naming her?
30:59Because mavornine, lucky you, the decision's all yours.
31:03On account of her father.
31:06Your local lad, being off on his boat.
31:11Edwina is her name.
31:26Well, what an elegant name.
31:30Edwina Shane Hart.
31:34In the name of God, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost.
32:00May you be healthy, wealthy, and wise.
32:05No sense of that and beautiful.
32:07Because look at her mother.
32:14She didn't even cry.
32:19So what has she got to cry about?
32:24What are you going to say when the registrar asks for her father's name?
32:31Unknown.
32:32Ah, Emma.
32:34Don't go making her unknown.
32:36Don't give her that.
32:40Put me.
32:43Mac, it's such a responsibility.
32:46And now do I have to be telling you again about these shoulders?
33:01Well, darling, how do you feel?
33:08Safe.
33:10Almost.
33:12I'm beginning to feel me and Edwina might be safe.
33:16Are you sure if that little girl's not the luckiest in the world?
33:21No one in my family is going to suffer.
33:23Not ever again.
33:56That little girl is going to feel bad about...
33:57Just a little crying, you'reoy.
34:04Nancy and Timothy.
34:14Everyone is hunting.
34:14Apparently, he.
34:15I don't know.
34:45Do you mind, darling?
34:50Stay, Olivia. Please.
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.
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.
35:53It's all right. I'm coming.
35:56I just need...
35:58Ow!
35:59Ed...
36:00Come, come.
36:01Ooh,
36:08Ooh,
36:08Ooh,
36:10Ooh,
36:11Ooh!
36:26Stop!
36:29Stop!
36:32Stop!
36:33Stop!
36:33Stop!
36:34Come on!
36:35Useful gun!
36:37Blam!
36:45Blam!
36:47Blam!
36:49Blam!
37:08You're my baby girl.
37:11Yes, you are.
37:13And Edwina, you are so loved.
37:16So 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, Notts Fairley's turned their back on us.
37:37Because they think they're better than us, that's what they think.
37:41And if it takes my whole life, all of my energy and 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, give a few things up, then I will do.
38:01If it means you're taken care of, I'll sacrifice anything in the world, I will.
38:08I'll push you safe.
38:09Oh, gosh.
38:14Oh, gosh.
38:23Eww.
38:24Eww.
38:26Huh?
38:57I don't know.
39:24And I've put a letter in there for Cousin Frieda, thanking her.
39:29And I've put in some lists, songs Edwina like sung and so on.
39:33Because Frieda might not know what kind of song she likes.
39:40I'm sure about this, before I need.
39:45You're certain?
39:46Sacrifices must be made.
39:49If 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 Frieda'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...
40:14Emma...
40:14Tell her I have to do it.
40:17Please, will 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, and I can look after her properly, I'll bring her back
40:29to me.
40:31Now just take her.
40:32Please, just take her.
40:39Emma.
40:41God knows you're doing all of this for this child.
40:44I don't know about him, but I just hope Edwina knows.
40:46Will you please just go?
40:51Just go, please.
40:52Please.
40:54Ugh!
40:56Ugh!
40:59Ugh!
41:25Oh, my God.
41:29Oh, my God.
41:43All for me?
41:45All of this has been for your family?
41:47Well, I'm sorry to tell you, Mummy, but it's felt an awful lot from where I've been sitting, as though
41:51you've done it all for you.
41:53And where have you been sitting, Edwina?
41:55On which cushioned seats, on which velvet chaise long, and at which polished table have you spent your entire life
42:03sitting?
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 first born, the first palmed off on a relative, the
42:58first lied to about her father.
43:03So what's next in your bold new world of skullduggery and initiative, Edwina?
43:09Well, 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.
43:18We continue.
43:22And then who will you have?
43:26I shall have Paula.
43:45Paula?
44:01Is that you, Fairley?
44:02Yes, Mrs. Hart. He came in to collect the paperwork for the reopening of his magazine.
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