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00:00:00Ah.
00:00:00Ah.
00:00:28Oh, you sleep like a child.
00:00:30I've been up this half-hour making a fearful row,
00:00:33and still you slumbered on.
00:00:36I've run for breakfast. I hope you're hungry.
00:00:39Yes. Yes, I am.
00:00:40Good. Ah, here she is.
00:00:42Morning, ma'am.
00:00:44Morning, miss.
00:00:45Very good, Blake. Draw a bath for Miss King.
00:00:47Oh, and tell Mrs Hooper I'll speak to her about luncheon.
00:00:49Yes, ma'am.
00:00:53There's a Persian story I read as a girl.
00:00:56A beggar sets a genie free from a bottle
00:00:59and is rewarded with a wish.
00:01:00He can live in ordinary comfort for 70 years.
00:01:05Or in pleasure.
00:01:06With a princess for a bride.
00:01:09Servants, every desire satisfied for 500 days.
00:01:13Now, if you were that beggar, which would you choose?
00:01:16The pleasure.
00:01:18Good.
00:01:21So did the beggar.
00:01:25So, will you stay with me now?
00:01:27And be pleasured and pleasure me in your turn?
00:01:31Stay with you as what?
00:01:33Your guest, your friend, your servant?
00:01:36As my tard, you silly girl.
00:01:38No, no, no, no, not in a hole-and-corner way.
00:01:41You'll ride out with me to the park, attend me at the theatre.
00:01:43We're the finest clothes.
00:01:45But you'll belong to me.
00:01:47And we'll pleasure each other. How does that seem?
00:01:51I don't know.
00:01:51I don't know enough about you to know whether I like you.
00:01:54And you don't know me.
00:01:55I know all I need to know about you.
00:01:58You're like me.
00:01:59You showed it last night and you're showing it now.
00:02:03You hunger for your own sex.
00:02:05You hunger for the pleasure I can give you, don't you?
00:02:09Yes.
00:02:11There are moments in our lives that change us.
00:02:15That night when Kitty cast her rose at me
00:02:17and sent my admiration tumbling over into love.
00:02:20And this was another.
00:02:23The start of a new life.
00:02:25Yes.
00:02:35How do you like yourself?
00:02:37Not bad.
00:02:39Smarter than anything I wore down the dilly.
00:02:41It's your coming-out suit.
00:02:43I had begun my new life.
00:02:45And what a life.
00:02:47And what a world.
00:02:48It was so easy to get sucked in.
00:02:51Look how they eye you.
00:02:52Men and women, both.
00:02:53They'd all love to have you, but they shan't because you're mine.
00:02:56Bought and paid for.
00:02:58Diana, you old ruin.
00:03:01You've done it at last.
00:03:03Ladies, allow me to present my companion, Miss King.
00:03:07This is Mrs. Jecks, Nan.
00:03:09Quite my oldest friend in London and quite the most is reputable.
00:03:13Everything she says and does is designed corrupt.
00:03:15I'm afraid I've been corrupted already, Mrs. Jecks.
00:03:18Ha!
00:03:19Good.
00:03:20Good God.
00:03:21The talks.
00:03:22That is dicky, Miss King.
00:03:25Touch of the green-eyed monster there.
00:03:28Charmed.
00:03:29Likewise.
00:03:30So tell me, Miss King.
00:03:32Where does a little treasure like you come from?
00:03:36Like me?
00:03:37There's no one quite like me, Mrs. Jecks.
00:03:41But if you want to know, I was born by the seaside.
00:03:44In Whitstable.
00:03:45Where the oysters come from.
00:03:48Whitstable?
00:03:49Would you believe it?
00:03:51She's a Whitstable mermaid.
00:03:55Like a mermaid.
00:04:04Come along, child.
00:04:06But the Whitstable mermaid was no more.
00:04:09This was my life now.
00:04:12For the most part, she kept me close and displayed me at home.
00:04:16The boy, they called me.
00:04:18She contrived tableaus so that they could feast their eyes on me.
00:04:21She enjoyed that, that they could look but couldn't touch.
00:04:26They knew that she would be enjoying me later.
00:04:31Ladies, tonight, we give you hermaphrodite.
00:04:36In the last murder scene.
00:04:37You're my son.
00:04:38No, no...
00:04:38No, no, no, no...
00:04:41Oh!
00:04:43Just about it.
00:04:45Oh!
00:04:47Oh!
00:04:50Oh!
00:04:53Oh!
00:04:53Oh!
00:04:54Oh!
00:04:54Oh!
00:04:56Oh!
00:04:58Oh!
00:05:15we were a perfect double act
00:05:17I was the living proof
00:05:19of her perversity
00:05:20I was the stain left by her lust
00:05:22she had awakened
00:05:24something perverse in me too
00:05:26and I couldn't imagine a life
00:05:28beyond her shaping
00:06:03sorry miss
00:06:04I used you to put on and take off this stuff
00:06:07where's mrs. leatherby
00:06:09gone out miss
00:06:10she went out before you woke up
00:06:11well she might have told me
00:06:13oh
00:06:13she can please herself can't she
00:06:17not like you and me
00:06:21do you like being a maid here Blaine
00:06:24it's a very good place miss
00:06:26but I'd rather be my own mistress
00:06:28what would you do if you were your own mistress
00:06:32I'd set up my own boarding house
00:06:35in the colonies
00:06:38I'm saving from my wages towards it now
00:06:42a boarding house in the colonies
00:06:44yeah
00:06:45for ladies
00:06:47well maybe I'll come and stay in it someday
00:06:51you'd be very welcome miss
00:06:55I'll come and stay in it
00:06:55I'll come and stay in it
00:06:56I'll come and stay in it
00:07:00I'll come and stay in it
00:07:04I'll come and stay in it
00:07:05I'll come and stay in it
00:07:07I'll come and stay in it
00:07:09I'll come and stay in it
00:07:09I'll come and stay in it
00:07:10I'll come and stay in it
00:07:10I'll come and stay in it
00:07:11I'll come and stay in it
00:07:12I'll come and stay in it
00:07:12I'll come and stay in it
00:07:13I'll come and stay in it
00:07:14I'll come and stay in it
00:07:15I'll come and stay in it
00:07:16I'll come and stay in it
00:07:21I'll come and stay in it
00:07:48To mark the passing of time.
00:07:51Do you know you've been with me longer than any of the others?
00:07:57Quite an achievement.
00:08:16Take our coats.
00:08:20Dickie, Clara, the boy will take our coats.
00:08:22Oh, what a little angel.
00:08:29There.
00:08:30Take care, will you?
00:08:33Ladies and gentlemen, will you please carry along to your seats?
00:08:36The curtain will rise in three minutes.
00:08:39Thank you, sir.
00:08:40Two gents and two ladies.
00:08:43Don't you know me, Bill?
00:08:44Nan King.
00:08:47Have you got a sec?
00:08:48Give us two ticks, Raymond.
00:08:51What happened to you then, Nan?
00:08:52What have you been doing?
00:08:53Oh, you was missed.
00:08:55And you still are.
00:08:56There was never an act like you and Kitty Butler's.
00:08:58Do you hear from Mr Bliss?
00:09:01Or Kitty?
00:09:02Oh, yes.
00:09:03They've got an act together now, playing just down the road.
00:09:05At the Strand Palace.
00:09:07Oh, tonight?
00:09:08What time are they on?
00:09:10Second half.
00:09:11Just after the interval, I think.
00:09:12What are you doing?
00:09:13He's talking to the nigger at the close.
00:09:15I'd better go.
00:09:16And thanks, Bill.
00:09:19Can't take him anywhere.
00:09:21I think you should get a collar and chain, Diana.
00:09:24And a whip.
00:09:29Excuse me.
00:09:31Call her nature.
00:09:37Let's see where she's going.
00:09:40I had to see her.
00:09:42I had to see Kitty again.
00:09:51Where's my little Willie now?
00:09:57He's my only comfort and my only joy.
00:10:01Now his mother's gone to heaven.
00:10:03All I've got's my little boy.
00:10:07Can anybody tell me, where's my little Willie now?
00:10:12No!
00:10:13No!
00:10:26Oh!
00:10:27Oh!
00:10:29Hey, Father, I've been looking for you all over.
00:10:33Oh, Willie!
00:10:34Come to you and Dad, and give us a kiss.
00:10:40Now don't you ever run away again, me boy!
00:10:45Come, anybody tell me where's my little Willie now?
00:10:53APPLAUSE
00:11:15I've been taking the gents. Sorry.
00:11:27I know where you've been tonight. Corda followed you, but what I want to know is mine!
00:11:30There was an act I wanted to see!
00:11:33A girl I used to know.
00:11:34Oh, damn you!
00:11:36A girl I once love more than anyone!
00:11:38More than myself!
00:11:39More than you love me!
00:11:40Much more than I love you! I don't love you at all!
00:11:43I hate you!
00:11:44No!
00:11:45No!
00:11:47No!
00:11:47No!
00:11:49No!
00:11:50No!
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00:12:01No!
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00:12:05No!
00:12:08No!
00:12:13No!
00:12:13No!
00:12:16No!
00:12:18No!
00:12:20Oh, Kitty!
00:12:20Kitty.
00:12:22Kitty.
00:12:50Kitty.
00:12:52Kitty.
00:13:02You feeling better, Miss?
00:13:04You looked ever so poorly last night.
00:13:07Oh, yes.
00:13:07I shall live.
00:13:09Come sit down, Blake.
00:13:11Talk to me.
00:13:13What about, Miss?
00:13:17Well, what's your first name?
00:13:20It's Xena, Miss.
00:13:22Mrs Ledleby says she got you out of a reformatory.
00:13:26What were you there for?
00:13:27I was sent there on account of a girl I was friends with at a house in Kentish Town.
00:13:32We were maids there together.
00:13:34So you were a maid before you came here?
00:13:36I went out as a skivvy when I was ten.
00:13:39And then I got the place at Kentish Town when I was fourteen.
00:13:42I was a housemaid then.
00:13:45And...
00:13:46I got very thick with another maid there called Agnes.
00:13:50Agnes had a chap.
00:13:52She threw the chap over, Miss, for my sake.
00:13:57That's how thick we was.
00:14:00And it was Agnes got you sent to the reformatory?
00:14:03No, Miss, it was another girl.
00:14:05She was jealous of me and Agnes.
00:14:07It was her that told the missus.
00:14:10And Mrs Leatherby, does she know why you were in the reformatory?
00:14:13Oh, yeah, she knows all right.
00:14:15She's a great friend of the lady governor.
00:14:21Has Mrs Leatherby ever tried?
00:14:23Not since you came, Miss.
00:14:25It is only once or twice in any case.
00:14:28I think she just wanted to make it clear, like, that she could do what she wanted with me.
00:14:33Oh, yes.
00:14:35I can believe that all right.
00:14:41Will there be anything else, Miss?
00:14:43No.
00:14:44Not just now.
00:14:47Very good, Miss.
00:14:51What had become of me?
00:14:53What had I become?
00:14:56She spoke of love, and it touched me.
00:14:59But I felt too spoiled and stained for love.
00:15:04Besides, I was still obsessed with Diana, for all her casual cruelty.
00:15:09I must have been.
00:15:10For it would have been easy enough, you would think, just to walk out of the house one day when
00:15:14she was out.
00:15:15Walk out forever and leave no word of farewell.
00:15:20I hated myself.
00:15:23But still, after nearly two years, I was on fire for her, as she was for me.
00:15:29I had started, and I had to take that journey with her right the way to the end.
00:15:35Though I feared it would be a bad end.
00:15:42Well?
00:15:44Did you miss me?
00:15:46How much do you care if I miss you or not?
00:15:48No, no, little soldier.
00:15:50No sulks.
00:15:59Of course I care.
00:16:02Don't you know you're the love of my life?
00:16:08And then, in March, came Diana's 40th birthday.
00:16:11She decided to celebrate it with a fancy dress party.
00:16:16I chose to go as Antinous, Hadrian's favourite page, who drowned in the Nile.
00:16:22His sad fate suited my mood.
00:16:26I hated my life, but I couldn't leave it.
00:16:37What do you think?
00:16:38I think you look lovely, miss.
00:16:53I hated it all.
00:16:54But I still had my pride.
00:16:56I would still be the most beautiful thing in the place.
00:17:00Desired by all, inaccessible to any but my mistress.
00:17:04Shh-shh-shh-shh-shh-shh-shh-shh-shh-shh-shh-shh-shh-shh-shh-shh-shh-shh-shh-shh!
00:17:06Ladies, ladies.
00:17:08I give you...
00:17:10...Antinous.
00:17:20Oh...
00:17:21Well, no dildo. Where's Monsieur Dildo?
00:17:25He might come later. But remember, this is a very sweet
00:17:29and virtuous Roman boy.
00:17:40That's delightful.
00:17:44You look like a picture from a bugger's compendium, my dear.
00:17:48Thank you kindly, I'm sure. And what might
00:17:52you be wearing under that, young man?
00:17:56Just a little eau de cologne, no? You mustn't touch
00:18:00or look. Just use your imagination.
00:18:04Don't get much chance to use anything else these days.
00:18:09God, look at Dickie. What's she supposed to be?
00:18:12Dorian Gray, I believe.
00:18:32Oh!
00:18:36Oh!
00:18:36Oh!
00:18:52I swear to you, it was as big as a boy's doogle and as stiff as my thumb.
00:18:58She blames it on her can-do nurse.
00:19:01I've seen that amongst the Turks as well.
00:19:04They bred like it
00:19:06in order to pleasure themselves
00:19:08and the seragio.
00:19:10We'd go as far as that to find it.
00:19:12English girls in the slums all have them.
00:19:15They're brought up twenty to a bed, frigging all night.
00:19:19I was sick of it.
00:19:20No, no.
00:19:21The backbiting, the bitching.
00:19:24Something inside me was getting ready to explode.
00:19:27If we had a girl from her slums here,
00:19:29I'd pull down her drawers myself and show you the proof.
00:19:32What does Antinua say?
00:19:35You used to be a little slum-slut, didn't you, once upon a time?
00:19:40Of course, Blake, come here.
00:19:41Come here.
00:19:44You're a reformatory girl, aren't you?
00:19:47Aren't you?
00:19:48Yes, ma'am.
00:19:48Good.
00:19:50Lower your drawers and lift up your skirt.
00:19:53Oh!
00:19:54Oh, good God, girl.
00:19:55Don't have to come and do it for you.
00:19:56Leave her alone.
00:19:57What?
00:19:57Let her alone.
00:19:59Go back to the kitchen, Blake.
00:20:01Stay where you are.
00:20:02No.
00:20:02And as for you, do you think your mistress here?
00:20:06What's it to you if I ask my girl to show me what she's got between her legs?
00:20:10You've done the same thing yourself often enough.
00:20:14Get back behind the curtain.
00:20:17And when we finish with Blake, perhaps we'll all take turns upon Antinua.
00:20:22You can't talk to me like that.
00:20:24You don't own me.
00:20:25Oh, Lord, what a bore.
00:20:30What a bore.
00:20:32Nothing to you, you old cow.
00:20:34Got up like a boy of 17.
00:20:37Dorian Gray.
00:20:38Look at the glass.
00:20:39You're more like the portrait in the attic.
00:20:41And that goes for the rest of you, you tired old trotters.
00:20:45Why don't you all just fuck off home?
00:20:47This girl's worth dead of any one of you.
00:20:49I think you're a little overexcited, Nancy.
00:20:52You'll go to your room now.
00:20:55And when you've had time to think, you will come down and apologise.
00:20:58Then we'll devise a little punishment for you.
00:21:03Something suitably Roman, maybe.
00:21:05What are you gonna do then?
00:21:08Throw me to the lions?
00:21:10I know one thing.
00:21:12I'd make a tastier meal than you, you worn out pathetic old trollop.
00:21:17You ruined it forodu.
00:21:17No ho!
00:21:17Come...
00:21:20Oh no...
00:21:29Oh no!
00:21:40Ah!
00:21:50what a night
00:21:52I've got a cloth
00:21:54with a bit of ice in it
00:21:57if you just let me
00:22:01I'm sorry
00:22:06what is it
00:22:09can I stay here with you miss
00:22:12I'm frightened to go back to my own room
00:22:14with those ladies roaming all over the house
00:22:16yes you can stay
00:22:20what's in the bottle
00:22:22brandy
00:22:24miss
00:22:25I've thought for the shock
00:22:27give it here
00:22:37Josh
00:22:38yeah
00:22:52yeah
00:23:03mm-hmm
00:24:11I've got a thing to do.
00:24:39Did you used to frig yourself in the reformatory?
00:24:43You're as bad as them downstairs, to think of me with a cock.
00:24:51I'd like to see you with one.
00:24:55What?
00:24:56You don't mean...
00:25:07You don't mean...
00:25:38It's over here.
00:26:06It's over here.
00:26:06It's over here.
00:26:08It's over here.
00:26:09Diana, wait!
00:26:10How dare you speak to me, you little whore?
00:26:12Have you forgotten who I am and what you are?
00:26:14The love of your life.
00:26:15You said I was the love of your life.
00:26:17I say, hearts and flowers.
00:26:19Listen to the little liar.
00:26:22Cora!
00:26:22Cora!
00:26:24Cora!
00:26:32Cora!
00:26:33Cora!
00:26:34What an end to it all.
00:26:35What are we to do?
00:26:36Oh, you'll be all right, I suppose.
00:26:38Go back to your family and spin and some tale about where you've been.
00:26:41No!
00:26:41I won't go back there.
00:26:42I couldn't...
00:26:43I couldn't let them see me like this.
00:26:45Well, we're in the same boat then, aren't we, miss?
00:26:47Don't you have any cash back at all?
00:26:49What's in the bag?
00:26:51Clothes.
00:26:51The boys' clothes are brought with me when I first came.
00:26:53Well, then.
00:26:54What, you mean we should put them on and pass as gents?
00:26:57No, I mean we should sell them.
00:26:59Sell them?
00:26:59Well, it's that I'll sell ourselves, I reckon.
00:27:01Don't want to spend a night in the open, do ya?
00:27:04Come on, miss.
00:27:13It's all right, miss.
00:27:14Men and women are separate.
00:27:22So, from luxury and a four-poster bed, I had come to this.
00:27:28But I had seen her and a little money now.
00:27:32Come on, hurry up.
00:27:37Lie close, miss.
00:27:40To the wolves.
00:27:42You mustn't call me miss anymore.
00:27:43You must call me Nan.
00:27:45We're equal now, aren't we?
00:27:48If only Diana hadn't come in when she did.
00:27:51It was fun though, wasn't it?
00:27:52Until she came and spoiled it.
00:27:54It's always fun before they catch her.
00:27:58It won't be so bad, will it?
00:28:00We've got each other now.
00:28:02We might make a go of it.
00:28:04Don't you think?
00:28:11Yes, I had lost my place of privilege.
00:28:13But I had found something better, I told myself.
00:28:16I had found a good pal in Xena Blake.
00:28:27Morning.
00:28:28You're a good sleeper.
00:28:34Where's my friend?
00:28:36Where's my friend?
00:28:37Where's my friend?
00:28:38Where's my friend?
00:28:40Where's my friend?
00:28:40She went hours ago, dearie, before it was light.
00:28:42I saw her.
00:28:43I saw her go.
00:28:44And you never stirred a whisker.
00:28:48I saw her go.
00:28:51I saw her go.
00:28:53I saw her go.
00:28:55I saw her go.
00:28:56Xena had gone and taken our meagre funds with her.
00:29:00Spare some change, sir?
00:29:04Spare again for a cup of tea, sir.
00:29:23for the first time for over a year I found myself longing for home I thought
00:29:30of the warmth of the oyster parlour brothers cooking father's jokes but I didn't have so
00:29:37much as a tutney bus fare and how could I let them see me like this but I had to
00:29:43find somewhere
00:29:44or starve on the streets and during that long night it came to me there was a place where I'd
00:29:53been made to feel at home
00:30:04Mrs. Milne! Mrs. Milne! Gracie! Gracie! Mrs. Milne!
00:30:21They used to live here. Where have they gone? Couldn't say. The lady before me took her back in November
00:30:27and her sister come and took her back to live with her.
00:30:31But where? Bristol, Bath, Dunham. Dear girl, you have been in the wars haven't you?
00:30:41I have. And that's not all. I've got nowhere to live and nothing to eat and not a penny to
00:30:46buy bread.
00:30:47Well, we've got nothing to spare so it's no use hanging around here begging. You'll get nothing by it.
00:30:52Wait! Mr. There was a girl who lived over there with her mother. Name her Florence.
00:30:57Oh, she's been gone this past year. Moved to Quilter Street in Bethnal Green, I think.
00:31:03Bethnal Green? But that's miles from here. Best I can do.
00:31:06Shhh-hahhh.
00:31:23Yay!
00:31:25Yay!
00:31:26Yay!
00:31:29Come on, come on, come on.
00:31:57Dear lady, please!
00:32:00Please miss!
00:32:05Quilter Street.
00:32:08Quilter Street.
00:32:10Excuse me.
00:32:12Is this Quilter Street?
00:32:13Florence, where does she live?
00:32:16Just up there.
00:32:28One hundred nine.
00:32:31One hundred eleven.
00:32:42One hundred thirteen.
00:32:47One hundred fifteen.
00:33:02What are you doing here?
00:33:05What are you doing here?
00:33:05No.
00:33:29She's been in the wars all right, poor girl.
00:33:32Look at that cheek.
00:33:35Someone's cropped her hair.
00:33:38Prison, do you reckon?
00:33:39They cropped the poor girls very short there, don't they?
00:33:42Or one of your reformatory girls.
00:33:44She's pretty near half dead, whoever she is.
00:33:47Oh, look how she's... she's waking up.
00:33:50Hello there, miss.
00:33:52Here we go.
00:33:53You feeling a bit better?
00:33:55There's no need to fear, you know.
00:33:57You're among friends here.
00:34:00Here.
00:34:01Let's help you out.
00:34:02Give us a hand here, Flo.
00:34:03Here we are.
00:34:05I'll make you a nice cup or something hot.
00:34:07Would you like that?
00:34:08Yes, please.
00:34:11It's very kind.
00:34:13You're both very kind.
00:34:16Would it make you very ill to tell me why you've come here?
00:34:19I met you once.
00:34:21A long time ago, don't you remember?
00:34:22Yes.
00:34:24I remember.
00:34:25You left me sitting in that cafe.
00:34:27You made me feel a fool.
00:34:29I'm sorry.
00:34:31It was...
00:34:34I can't explain.
00:34:36Please don't send me away.
00:34:37Why should you go to such a lot of trouble to find me now?
00:34:40I couldn't think of anyone else I could go to.
00:34:44And I just always remembered you.
00:34:47I thought you'd remember me.
00:34:49I made a mistake.
00:34:51Didn't expect to find you like this.
00:34:55You've changed, I think.
00:34:57With a baby and everything.
00:34:59Here we are, then.
00:35:01Oh, she looks better already, doesn't she, Florence?
00:35:04Ralph.
00:35:05This lady's a friend of Miss Darby's.
00:35:08That lady I used to work for.
00:35:09Oh.
00:35:10I'm afraid I've forgotten your name.
00:35:13It's Nancy Astley.
00:35:15Miss Nancy Astley.
00:35:17Pleased to meet you, Miss Nancy Astley.
00:35:20You're very welcome.
00:35:26That cheek still looks very sore.
00:35:28I suspect you're wondering how I came by it.
00:35:30It was a man with a ladder on the street.
00:35:36No, I can't tell a lie.
00:35:39Truth is I've been living with someone and they've thrown me out and kept all my things and...
00:35:43I had such handsome things.
00:35:45A gentleman, I suppose.
00:35:49Yes.
00:35:52You must think me very wicked.
00:35:54But he...
00:35:56He said I was the love of his life.
00:35:59He was as rich as anything.
00:36:01He could do what he liked.
00:36:03He did what he liked with me.
00:36:05He used to like to make me dress up as a boy in a soldier's suit.
00:36:09They're the worst of the lot when they go bad, the rich ones.
00:36:11They think their money gives them the right to treat people like toys.
00:36:14I'm a socialist, Miss Astley, and we're working to try and put a stop to all that sort of thing.
00:36:18You ain't in trouble, are you?
00:36:20No.
00:36:22I was.
00:36:24But the gent fixed that when he...
00:36:27when he beat me.
00:36:32Oh, well, Miss Astley, if you truly have nowhere, it won't hurt for you to stay the night with us.
00:36:37Just one night.
00:36:39And tomorrow, I'll help you find a proper lodging.
00:36:41But I've no money to pay.
00:36:45Well, then I'll help you find work as well.
00:36:54I had thought and hoped Florence was a Tom like me.
00:36:59But here she was, married, with a child.
00:37:02And so stern and serious and thoughtful.
00:37:07He was kinder to me than she was.
00:37:21And there was nothing more in it than kindness. I was sure of that.
00:37:27Gentle as Jesus he was.
00:37:30And her working, working for her friendless girls, no doubt.
00:37:36And never looking at the friendless girl who lay in her armchair, almost too weak to move.
00:37:42You'll do it, Ralph.
00:37:55You'll do it, Ralph.
00:37:58Wow.
00:37:58You'll do it.
00:38:02It's all of this, Ralph.
00:38:03You've done it.
00:38:05I'll turn in.
00:38:09You've done it.
00:38:11Good night, Miss Astley.
00:38:15I hope to see you feeling better in the morning.
00:38:19Good night, and thanks for all your kindness.
00:38:25You do understand, don't you, that it's just for one night?
00:38:28It won't do to have you stay any longer.
00:38:31If the girls at the hostel heard about it, they'd all be clamouring.
00:38:33If she can stay with the family, then why shouldn't we?
00:38:38Yes, I can see that.
00:38:40I suppose.
00:38:41Have you got everything you need?
00:38:44Peppy's out back, as you know.
00:38:46Ralph will be up and out of the house by six.
00:38:48I'll get up a bit later.
00:38:50But you'll have to leave the house when I do at eight.
00:38:52You do understand that?
00:38:54Yes.
00:38:56You've been so kind to me when really you hardly know me at all.
00:39:00And your husband.
00:39:04Good night, then.
00:39:15Good night.
00:39:20Good night.
00:39:23Good night.
00:39:47Oh, Miss Astley, are you not up yet?
00:39:49You must get up now.
00:39:51I have to get to work.
00:39:52Oh, dear, I don't feel so well.
00:39:55This morning.
00:39:55Well, I'm sorry, but you can't stay here.
00:39:58I must go to work, and I must go now.
00:40:00If you keep me waiting any longer, I should be late.
00:40:02Oh, please let me stay.
00:40:04Just a little while till my head clears,
00:40:06and I'll get a little strength back.
00:40:07You don't need to wait.
00:40:08I'll let myself out later.
00:40:10I'd be gone by the time you get home.
00:40:12You could trust me.
00:40:14I wouldn't take anything.
00:40:18All right, you may do as you said and let yourself out.
00:40:21There's precious little to steal here anyway.
00:40:23Now, I've made you a list of places you might find a bed in
00:40:26and some places where you might find work.
00:40:30Oh, and Ralph left you this half-crown.
00:40:34He says goodbye.
00:40:37And good luck.
00:40:40He's so good.
00:40:43Now, I'm trusting you.
00:40:46Don't let me down.
00:40:59Hello.
00:41:00Hello.
00:41:01Who are you?
00:41:02Just a friend of the family.
00:41:04I was down on my luck, and they let me stay the night.
00:41:07Yeah, that's them.
00:41:08Always doing things for other people.
00:41:11Miss Banner and her brother.
00:41:12They've got no time to look after themselves.
00:41:14He's her brother.
00:41:15But I thought they were man and wife.
00:41:19So, little Sue.
00:41:22No, nothing like that.
00:41:25He belonged to another girl, their previous lodger.
00:41:29Whoa.
00:41:32I see.
00:41:34Then, I knew what I should do.
00:41:38I would make myself indispensable.
00:41:41I would make myself the angel of the house.
00:42:03This will be my new home home.
00:42:07It will.
00:42:09It will.
00:42:12It will.
00:42:13It will.
00:42:15It will.
00:42:27Oh, my God.
00:42:53Oh, my God.
00:43:19Oh, my God.
00:43:19Yeah, it looks.
00:43:36Who are you?
00:43:37Who are you?
00:43:38I'm Nan.
00:43:40Astley.
00:43:41I'm just visiting here for a while.
00:43:44You've been making your presence felt.
00:43:45I've never seen it so tidy.
00:43:47Thought I'd come in the wrong house.
00:43:50Yeah, well, come to drop these leaflets off, all right?
00:43:52Tell Flory.
00:43:54I'm Annie.
00:43:55Annie Price.
00:43:57Bet you can't guess what I do for a living.
00:43:59Chimney sweep?
00:44:00Hey, you're not far off.
00:44:02But I don't crawl up chimneys.
00:44:03I crawl down drains.
00:44:04Yeah.
00:44:05I'm a sanitary inspector.
00:44:06It's the stinkiest job in London and I love it.
00:44:10Mm, lovely smell.
00:44:12What is it?
00:44:13Oh, beef and oysters.
00:44:14I'd better see to it if you'll excuse me.
00:44:16Do you need any help?
00:44:18Oh, no.
00:44:18I'm all right.
00:44:22Oh, hello.
00:44:23Yeah, I brought them like I said.
00:44:25Yeah, well, I've got to run now and I'll be late.
00:44:27Smell something very nice, I think.
00:44:30According to name.
00:44:35You wait and see.
00:44:37I'm never wrong.
00:44:38Bye, Miss Astley.
00:44:44I wanted to do something for you,
00:44:46so I cleaned the house and made supper for you
00:44:49and your brother.
00:44:51Who told you that?
00:44:52The lady next door.
00:44:54I like my house the way it was.
00:44:57Please don't be like that.
00:44:59Oh, Florence, please let me stay.
00:45:03It's not possible.
00:45:04Yes, it is.
00:45:05I could cook and clean for you like I did today.
00:45:07I could sleep downstairs like I did last night.
00:45:09I could do your washing
00:45:10and look after your baby boy while you were at work.
00:45:13My word, I never saw such a shiny doorstep.
00:45:15I was almost frightened to tread on it.
00:45:17Hello, Miss Astley.
00:45:18Are you still here?
00:45:19Have we you to think for all this?
00:45:24Oh, what is that?
00:45:31It's just been to us.
00:45:32Let me have it.
00:45:33No, it won't do.
00:45:34Just for a moment.
00:45:35Please.
00:45:38Come.
00:45:47All right, you may stay.
00:45:50For a week.
00:45:51And if the week works out,
00:45:53we shall try it for a month.
00:45:55But if it doesn't work, you must go.
00:46:08And so I became a sort of housekeeper to them.
00:46:12It was a kind of work I'd never done much of before.
00:46:15Hard enough and dull too, you'd think.
00:46:18But it seemed like play to me.
00:46:21Dad wasn't boys.
00:46:31And his mother went into games.
00:46:51You said
00:46:51Yes, you are.
00:46:54Yes, you are.
00:46:56Yes, you are.
00:46:57Oh, Sue.
00:46:59Oh, Sue.
00:47:21Oh, Sue.
00:47:58And as the time went by, I got more confident.
00:48:02Why not? I thought.
00:48:05After all, women's clothes weren't suited to hard physical work.
00:48:08It was only practical.
00:48:15And I started to express myself in other ways, too.
00:48:22Oh, my pal Cyril, he's regular peril
00:48:26When he gives the girls the eye
00:48:29Oh, my pal Cyril, he drinks like a devil
00:48:33He could drink the dairy dry
00:48:35And when he goes up on the town
00:48:39A wiggling his walking stick up and down
00:48:43And then he goes off on a spree
00:48:50Oh, that's delicious.
00:48:51Beautiful, Nan. Beautiful.
00:48:53I think if there was only one dish that had to be served in paradise,
00:48:57it would be oysters.
00:48:58No, beef and oyster pie for me.
00:49:00Well, oysters, definitely.
00:49:01And it would be a socialist paradise, of course.
00:49:03Equal shares for all.
00:49:05And who would be there with you to share it?
00:49:07Well, in paradise?
00:49:09Well, Flo, of course.
00:49:11And Cyril.
00:49:12And you.
00:49:13And Eleanor Marks, I think.
00:49:15And Keir Harding.
00:49:16And Mrs Sykes from next door.
00:49:19Oh, that's you all over.
00:49:21You'd let them all come.
00:49:22You would.
00:49:23Well.
00:49:25And who would be in yours, Nancy?
00:49:27Well, you and Ralph would have to be there,
00:49:30making yourselves busy and telling everyone how to run it.
00:49:33And Cyril, of course.
00:49:35Can't leave my big boy out.
00:49:37And, of course, you would have to be in mine.
00:49:41Well, who else would make me oyster pie?
00:49:47Well, I've had better compliments paid me, but not recently.
00:49:52Thank you kindly, Miss Banner.
00:50:07Well, up the wooden hill for me.
00:50:11Good night, boss.
00:50:11Good night.
00:50:16What a lovely day it's been.
00:50:19Do you know, I don't think we've had a picnic in years.
00:50:21You do too much for others.
00:50:23You have to think of yourself now and then.
00:50:26Don't go up yet.
00:50:28Come sit down by me.
00:50:30All right, then.
00:50:39I wanted to say...
00:50:41I'm sorry for running away from you before.
00:50:46I was hurt at the time then.
00:50:48The thing is, you kept wanting to know what I did and I couldn't tell you.
00:50:53Somehow I couldn't tell you a lie either, so I thought I just couldn't be with you at all.
00:50:57Lie to me?
00:50:58Lie to me?
00:50:59About what?
00:51:04I let you think it was a gentleman I lived with, but it was a lady.
00:51:08She picked me up off the street and carried me off in her carriage.
00:51:11And what was I doing on the street?
00:51:13I was selling myself to men dressed as a boy.
00:51:18When you say you lived with this lady, do you mean...
00:51:23As a lover?
00:51:24As a slave, more like.
00:51:26She dressed me up in fine clothes, but really I was just a kept all.
00:51:31Oh, man.
00:51:33Have you never been truly happy?
00:51:35Oh, yes.
00:51:37When I was in love, that was a girl called Kitty.
00:51:40She was my first love and she broke my heart.
00:51:44And I've been happy since I've been living here with you.
00:51:47As happy as I could be, except I never felt able to tell you the truth about myself.
00:51:51But now I have and...
00:51:54I suppose you're going to say I have to go.
00:51:57No.
00:51:59I'd like to tell you something then.
00:52:02That night after you...
00:52:04After we partied, I went to that lecture and I met a girl there.
00:52:10Her name was Lillian.
00:52:12Well, she was so very interesting looking, I knew I just had to know her.
00:52:15So after the lecture, I went up to her.
00:52:18And we began to talk.
00:52:20We just went on from there.
00:52:23It was as if she understood all my thoughts.
00:52:27I'd never felt like that about anybody.
00:52:30Oh.
00:52:31You loved her.
00:52:32Yes.
00:52:34And she loved me too.
00:52:36Only not in the same way.
00:52:38The fact is, she had a man friend who wanted to marry her.
00:52:42Only she wouldn't do it.
00:52:43She wouldn't be a man's property, she said.
00:52:45Though she loved him.
00:52:47And then when she fell pregnant, the man wouldn't stand by her.
00:52:51So she came here to live with us.
00:52:54And those were the happiest months of all my life.
00:52:58And then...
00:53:00And then she died.
00:53:03She died having Cyril.
00:53:05She was too slight.
00:53:07The confinement was a hard one.
00:53:10And she died then.
00:53:13I'm so sorry about your friend, Flo.
00:53:17Well, it's been very hard since then.
00:53:21Sometimes...
00:53:22I've wished I might die myself.
00:53:26She'd only been gone six months when you came.
00:53:30And I couldn't bear the thought of having another girl in the house.
00:53:35She's the only one I could ever love, you see.
00:53:44So...
00:53:46I'm just about good enough to do the cooking and the cleaning, but no hope of anything more, right?
00:53:51No, no, I didn't mean that.
00:53:53Yes, you did.
00:53:55I'm not good enough for you, am I?
00:53:58And no one ever will be after her.
00:54:10I'm going to bed.
00:54:14Good night.
00:54:33What are you doing?
00:54:36Well, I can't stay here anymore, can I?
00:54:39After last night.
00:54:41You've been very kind to me.
00:54:44No, wait.
00:54:46I've been awake half the night thinking about things.
00:54:51I'm sorry too, Nan.
00:54:53I haven't treated you very gentle since you've been here, have I?
00:54:56It wasn't right to take it out on you because I was unhappy.
00:55:00I've liked it.
00:55:02Having you here all these months.
00:55:06I'm glad you stayed.
00:55:09I was wondering...
00:55:11perhaps we could go out somewhere together.
00:55:14Just the two of us tonight.
00:55:17All right.
00:55:23I thought you said it was all girls now.
00:55:26It is.
00:55:27You want to look a bit more carefully.
00:55:33Oh.
00:55:36Did you used to come here as a boy?
00:55:38What's he going to want?
00:55:39No, I mean.
00:55:39So he slapped down his sovereign and Susie and me flap up for half an hour and then tip the
00:55:45velvet while the Jen looked on.
00:55:46It's the nicest work we've ever had.
00:55:48We could have done it for nothing.
00:55:49If only he'd known it.
00:55:51Dipping the velvet?
00:55:53What ever can that be?
00:55:56You don't know.
00:55:57It sounds like something to do with dressmaking or millinery.
00:56:01I don't think it can be.
00:56:03Nobody would pay to watch that.
00:56:05It isn't.
00:56:07For what then?
00:56:11Oh, so I understand.
00:56:14So you've managed to get her out of the house.
00:56:16Good for you now, Natalie.
00:56:18I kept telling Flory this is the place.
00:56:20Oh, Flo.
00:56:22I'm in such a state.
00:56:23She's coming here tonight.
00:56:25I met this girl the other day in the office at the sewage works.
00:56:29Sitting in a ray of sunshine.
00:56:31I said, are you Sue Bridehead?
00:56:34My name's Jude.
00:56:36She gave me a little smile and she took my hand and I knew that I was in love again.
00:56:40Who are you?
00:56:41Oh, well, it's about time you was in love again, too.
00:56:45Perhaps you can shower the way, Uncle.
00:56:50Here she comes.
00:56:52Yeah, well, I won't bring her over if you don't mind.
00:56:54I want her all to meself.
00:57:04Excuse me, sweetheart.
00:57:07But didn't you used to be Nan King that worked the halls with Kitty Butler?
00:57:11Yes.
00:57:12I was Nan King.
00:57:14Who wants to know it?
00:57:16There you are.
00:57:16What did I tell you?
00:57:17It is her.
00:57:18Oh, come and give us a song, Nan.
00:57:20No.
00:57:21No, I'm finished with all that.
00:57:22Ah, you was the best, you and her.
00:57:25Half the girls in London was in love with you.
00:57:27Me and Jenny had got your picture by our bed.
00:57:30Oh, come on.
00:57:32Just one song, eh?
00:57:33Just to remind us.
00:57:36Well, go on.
00:57:37I'd love to hear you.
00:57:39Oh, all right, then.
00:57:41Oh, I can go out on the town to all the grand hotels.
00:57:46Going at large till midnight with all the London swells.
00:57:50But it ain't any good at all.
00:57:54I can't help remembering.
00:57:58I can't help remembering.
00:58:02The girl is young.
00:58:05Very charming.
00:58:07Oh, Rosie, do you remember?
00:58:12The promises we made only last September.
00:58:20Why did I have to go away?
00:58:24We said goodbye with a tear and a sigh.
00:58:31And whispered all the pretty things that sweethearts say.
00:58:35You promised me every day from me.
00:58:47You promised me every day of me.
00:58:54The tears, tears in my heart for you.
00:59:13Miss King, delightful to hear you again, and in such good voice.
00:59:18I shan't detain you, but if you are ever interested in a return to the boards,
00:59:22I can guarantee you excellent billing in any of my theatres.
00:59:26My card?
00:59:28Good evening to you, Miss King.
00:59:30Mum?
00:59:32Who was that?
00:59:33Mr Charles Frobisher.
00:59:35He only owns six theatres in the West End.
00:59:37So you really did?
00:59:39I did, and maybe I will again.
00:59:41Good night, eh?
00:59:43And why don't you take care of her?
00:59:46Anyway, where are we going?
00:59:47Good night, all right?
00:59:50Here come the Toms.
00:59:52Look at them, the dirty cows.
00:59:54How do you like to see what a proper man can do?
00:59:57Come on.
00:59:59Who's first?
01:00:00Ignore him, just keep going.
01:00:01Come on, girls.
01:00:03We'll show you a thing or two.
01:00:06You?
01:00:07You can hardly get across the road, let alone get a cock stand.
01:00:11Show us a thing or two.
01:00:12I don't think so.
01:00:14Now get off home to your wife before I put you over my knee and spank you.
01:00:18Come on, Flo.
01:00:22Oh, Lord, they're coming.
01:00:24Oh, Lord, they're coming.
01:00:43Come on, Flo.
01:00:45Come on, Flo.
01:00:49Oh, look, Ned.
01:00:51It's all frozen over.
01:00:54Oh, look.
01:01:25I'm sorry.
01:01:35Ralph must have gone up.
01:01:38We better be quiet.
01:01:46What a night.
01:01:48Wasn't it Jess?
01:01:49What a night.
01:01:58What a night.
01:01:59What a night.
01:02:00What a night.
01:02:02What a night.
01:02:03What a night.
01:02:05What a night.
01:02:57What a night.
01:03:03What a night.
01:03:05What a night.
01:03:09What a night.
01:03:35What a night.
01:03:55What a night.
01:04:10What a night.
01:04:22What a night.
01:04:31What a night.
01:04:39What a night.
01:04:42What a night.
01:04:49What a night.
01:04:58What a night.
01:05:26What a night.
01:05:28What a night.
01:05:35What a night.
01:05:39What a night.
01:05:55What a night.
01:05:56What a night.
01:06:05What a night.
01:06:21Yes. I think it'll do me very nicely. Thanks.
01:06:33Oh, Flo.
01:06:38What is the rich man's wealth?
01:06:40Robbery. They steal the land.
01:06:43They set a wall about it.
01:06:45They steal the fruits.
01:06:47Flo, please be quiet. How's a man to think?
01:06:50He steals the fruits.
01:06:51He steals the fruits of our labour
01:06:53and obliges us to buy them back from him.
01:06:55Good!
01:06:56Oh, what kind of girl she's as pretty as a picture
01:06:59She's the best pal in the world
01:07:11Hello, Nan.
01:07:16Sorry, Jimmy. Could you give us five minutes?
01:07:21Tommy, five minutes.
01:07:23Top of the bill, I see.
01:07:26Charlie Frobich has done you proud.
01:07:29Do you remember when you first came to see me, I wonder?
01:07:34What do you want, Kitty?
01:07:36You haven't forgotten me then.
01:07:38I was afraid you might have.
01:07:43Well, I wanted to see you again, of course.
01:07:48Nan, if you knew how I'd tried to find you,
01:07:52it was as though you'd vanished off the face of the earth.
01:07:56I was afraid you might have harmed yourself.
01:08:00It was you that harmed me, Kitty.
01:08:03I'm so sorry, Nan.
01:08:05It doesn't matter now.
01:08:07No.
01:08:08No, I can see.
01:08:09You're doing ever so well.
01:08:11And you?
01:08:11Are you still married to Walter?
01:08:13You heard about that?
01:08:15Yes.
01:08:16Yes, I am.
01:08:17Well, after a fashion, if you know what I mean.
01:08:20It's what you might call a marriage of convenience.
01:08:27Nan, so long, I've thought about what I might say
01:08:29if I ever found you.
01:08:30I must, I must tell you now.
01:08:32I'm not sure I want to hear it.
01:08:41Would you come back to me, Nan?
01:08:45Aren't you forgetting you're a married woman?
01:08:47Ah, that needn't matter.
01:08:48Walter's very good.
01:08:49He lets me do very much as I like.
01:08:51Well, if we were only little...
01:08:53No!
01:08:54We were always careful because you wanted it that way.
01:08:59You were always half-hearted, Kitty.
01:09:02And I was all for you.
01:09:05And now I've found someone who's all for me.
01:09:11She isn't me, though.
01:09:13Is she, Nan?
01:09:14No.
01:09:18She's very different from you.
01:09:22Nan, I made a mistake with Walter.
01:09:26If you were to come back to me, I would leave him.
01:09:30It would be just you and me.
01:09:32I make it all up to you, Nan.
01:09:34I promise.
01:09:37I've never stopped loving you, Nan.
01:09:40You broke my heart, Kitty.
01:09:44Well, won't you let me see if I can't mend it again?
01:09:49My mermaid.
01:10:00You need time to think about it.
01:10:04I shan't beg you, Nan.
01:10:08You let your heart tell you what's right.
01:10:13I'll come to the show on Monday.
01:10:16Until then.
01:10:23Goodbye.
01:10:27Until then.
01:10:37Goodbye.
01:10:37Goodbye.
01:11:00Penny for your thoughts.
01:11:03That's torn it.
01:11:05The rally's off.
01:11:09The marquee company won't let us have the tents.
01:11:11We won't have no trap with political revolutionaries, so that's that.
01:11:14Oh, Ralph, we can't just give up just like that.
01:11:17Well, what else are we to do?
01:11:19Well, the theatre's dark on Sundays. You could hold your meeting there.
01:11:22Oh, Nan, do you think you could wangle it for us?
01:11:25I think Charlie Frober should do more than that to keep me happy.
01:11:28Nan, you're a chipped topper, you are!
01:11:31Mm!
01:11:35I beg your pardon.
01:11:37They call it enterprise and capitalism, but what is it, really?
01:11:44What is it?
01:11:46Oh, really?
01:11:47Robbery, swindling and slavery!
01:11:50Robbery, swindling and slavery!
01:11:52In secret card, please.
01:11:54I'll give you Ralph Fanner.
01:11:57Go on. You'll be fine.
01:11:59Yeah.
01:12:00Yeah.
01:12:00Yeah.
01:12:01Yeah.
01:12:04Yeah.
01:12:05Oh, Lord.
01:12:07Huh?
01:12:08Yeah.
01:12:11Yeah.
01:12:13Yeah.
01:12:14Yeah.
01:12:14Yeah.
01:12:15Yeah.
01:12:16Yeah.
01:12:16Yeah.
01:12:17Yeah.
01:12:18Yeah.
01:12:28Well, ladies and gentlemen...
01:12:31...
01:12:32What?
01:12:33Why socialism?
01:12:34That is the question that I'll be invited to discuss with you yourself to know.
01:12:37Speak up!
01:12:38Yeah!
01:12:41Yeah!
01:12:44Why socialism?
01:12:46I shall keep my answer rather brief.
01:12:48Thank God for small mercy!
01:12:57How many times have you heard economists say that England is the richest country in the world?
01:13:03If you were a person, they would answer the question.
01:13:07I can't bear this.
01:13:10Nor can I.
01:13:13Order, ladies and gentlemen. Order, please.
01:13:16All right, ladies and gents. Why socialism?
01:13:20We'll tell you why.
01:13:22Because we've been robbed and cheated long enough.
01:13:26Haven't we, Mr Banner?
01:13:27Yeah, here we are.
01:13:31How old are we likely to be when we die? Do you know that?
01:13:35What's the average age of death in Bethnal Green?
01:13:39Mr Banner knows, don't you, Mr Banner?
01:13:4129.
01:13:42Well, tell them.
01:13:4429.
01:13:4529!
01:13:46And your rich man lives to 70!
01:13:50And all this in the richest city on earth.
01:13:55And they call it progress.
01:13:58But what do we call it, Mr Banner?
01:14:00Huh?
01:14:01We call it a disgrace.
01:14:03We call it a disgrace.
01:14:05And...
01:14:06And it is a disgrace.
01:14:08And we want an end to it.
01:14:10Why is the rich man's wealth but robbery under another name?
01:14:14Is it right?
01:14:16Babies should die for want of milk.
01:14:19We call it a disgrace!
01:14:23Go!
01:14:25What do we call it?
01:14:32What do we call it?
01:14:48Join us!
01:14:49Join us!
01:15:22Like a mermaid to me.
01:15:28I do love you.
01:15:30So very much.
01:15:49It's your beginners call ladies and gentlemen.
01:15:51Beginners please.
01:16:11Five minutes Miss King.
01:16:12Five minutes Miss King.
01:16:12Five minutes Miss King.
01:16:41Five minutes Miss King.
01:17:07Hello again.
01:17:09Remember me?
01:17:12There's a lot of things have happened since you and I last met.
01:17:15I've been up and I've been down.
01:17:16But here's the best thing yet.
01:17:18If all the things around us are sent from heaven above, they've sent me down an angel.
01:17:24I can't help it.
01:17:26I'm in love.
01:17:32I've got a girl, she's as pretty as a picture.
01:17:36She's the best pal in the world.
01:17:39She's not the kind who'd let you down.
01:17:43She's the sweetest little I live up in London town.
01:17:48She's a dear, she's a darling, she's a little bit of heaven.
01:17:52She's a diamond, she's a ruby, she's a pearl.
01:17:55Oh I've got a girl, she's as pretty as a picture.
01:17:59She's the best pal in the world.
01:18:03I've had a funny sort of life, with lots of ups and downs.
01:18:08I've worn a lot of different sorts of hats.
01:18:11I've trudged the streets of London, not a penny to my name.
01:18:15Next day a toff in topper, cane and spats.
01:18:18I've seen a lot of pretty girls.
01:18:21A lot of plain ones too.
01:18:23I felt the prick of Naughty Cupid's dart.
01:18:27I've known some girls whose kisses could leave you black and blue.
01:18:32And one or two could fairly break your heart.
01:18:39But now I think it's time I settled down.
01:18:44And built myself a cosy little nest.
01:18:50To share with the sweetest girl in London town.
01:18:57The one that I love best.
01:19:04I've got a girl, she's as pretty as a picture.
01:19:08She's the best pal in the world.
01:19:12She's not the kind who'd let you down.
01:19:15She's the sweetest little olipop in London town.
01:19:20She's a dear, she's a darling, she's a little bit of heaven.
01:19:24She's a diamond, she's a ruby, she's a pearl.
01:19:27Oh, I've got a girl, she's as pretty as a picture.
01:19:31She's the best pal in the world.
01:19:38Good evening, myo!
01:19:44Alright.
01:21:15I had come so far from the days when I was a girl, standing on this beach, wondering why I
01:21:21didn't care for Freddy like I should.
01:21:24And here I am again, and though I shan't stay long, there's a part of me who will always belong
01:21:31here, in Whitstable, where they have the best oysters in the world.
01:21:42Shall we go, Lynn?
01:21:43Have you got your courage up?
01:21:45Are you ready to meet the family?
01:21:47If you are.
01:22:07It's only human nature at the world.
01:22:13Oh, my God.
01:22:14Oh, my God.
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