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00:06What are you doing in here?
00:11Sorry, Mr. Dodd.
00:12Get her out of here.
00:13This house must be costing Β£30 a year, and there's not much coming in from what I've heard.
00:18People are talking.
00:20It's not usual for clergymen to leave their parish, travel hundreds of miles, as if to escape something.
00:26Come in, Margaret. Meet my new friend and first proper pupil, Mr. Thornton.
00:34I wish I could tell you, Reddeth, how much I long for home.
00:41Mr. Haynes is a gentleman, and his daughter is an accomplished young lady.
00:47Soon bosses will be telling us they can't make our pay, would it were five years ago!
00:51I won't be able to live on five-shill and strike pay from union.
00:55My children, they'll starve.
00:57It's a war, and we masters have to win it or go under.
01:02Period.
01:03Get ready!
01:03Ha-ha-ha-ha!
01:06EλΉ
02:06Machine mended?
02:08Yes.
02:09Then use it.
02:11There's many to take your place.
02:26The child is ill. Send her home.
02:28Telephone?
02:30The child cannot work.
02:35Is there another child at home?
02:38If you can get to here within the hour, you can keep the place.
02:43In the hour, mine, I'll lose it.
02:59Whatever you think about some of them, you know how this mother works almost better than I do.
03:07You ask me what I miss most about the countryside.
03:10Well, Edith, in Milton, you cannot feel the seasons change around you.
03:14But I do think that at long last, we've put winter behind us.
03:18And I can resume my daily walks.
03:22I don't know why you're blaming me.
03:24I'm playing tricks out at Ashland. That's your decision.
03:26If you get it wrong, we all suffer.
03:27You wanted 5%. Would you have given him that?
03:29No.
03:31But I would have told them straight.
03:33I wouldn't pretend they were thinking about it and told them to come back on payday so that I could
03:36turn them down flat and provoke them.
03:37Are you accusing me of trying to encourage a strike?
03:40It's only that I wouldn't have suited you.
03:42It's their lives and our lives that would have changed.
03:44You would have your work better.
03:55Here is the address of our doctor.
04:00You did not need to visit in person.
04:02You could have sent a servant.
04:05Oh, you've been in this heathen climate for some time now, Miss Hale.
04:08I'm surprised you haven't needed a doctor yet.
04:11We don't.
04:12I came here personally because I didn't want to alarm my father.
04:16It's just a precaution.
04:18In case.
04:19My mother has low spirits.
04:21Really?
04:23We don't have much of that up here.
04:25But I'm sure Dr Donaldson will try to help if he can.
04:28I'm sorry to disturb you.
04:30You do not disturb me.
04:33But even you, not remotely interested in industry, might know that there is talk of a strike.
04:38Not just here at Marlborough Mills, but one that will affect the whole of Milton.
04:43What would they gain by striking?
04:45They'll be wanting higher wages?
04:48That is what they will say.
04:51But the truth is that there are some men who raise themselves to be masters, while others will always seek
05:00to pull them down.
05:02That is the way of the world, Miss Hale.
05:05And there is nothing you or I can do about it.
05:33Do you like working here?
05:35Like it?
05:36Like what?
05:38It's the same as anywhere.
05:40Well, it's better than hamper's.
05:41You can only earn partial inside.
05:43I earn five and ten for you.
05:44But my dad knows he can win most of it.
05:47What would you spend it on, if you could?
05:50Food, and then more food.
05:52Pile it up, put your plates.
05:55So, would you join a strike?
05:57Well, I'm not saying there will be one.
05:59Just, if there was.
06:07Your mother is kindly giving me the name of the doctor.
06:10You're real?
06:11No.
06:11No, it's just a precaution.
06:18Your mother is always accusing me of knowing nothing about Milton and the people who live here.
06:22I doubt she meant you should hang on to the tittle-tattle of young pieces and spinners.
06:25They weren't telling me any secrets.
06:28There's a man with a surveyor a few weeks ago.
06:30It's quite the new thing.
06:31They've become practice in telling others their wages and their working conditions.
06:35Do you mind that?
06:36If they tell the truth?
06:37Of course not.
06:38I don't apologise to anyone about the wages I pay or how I run more than others.
06:42It's no secret.
06:42It's in plain sight for all to see.
06:45What about how they spend their money?
06:48Well, that would be none of my business.
06:50My duty is to the efficient running of the mill.
06:52If I neglect that, all the workers will cease to have an income.
06:55But what about your moral duty?
06:57If she keeps to her hours and does nothing to disrupt the honest and efficient working of the mill,
07:02what she does in her own time is not my concern.
07:05Even the North, we value our independence.
07:09Surely you must take an interest.
07:12I'm an employer.
07:13I'm not a father or a brother that I can command her to do with her please.
07:18Sorry to disappoint you, Miss Hale.
07:21I'm quite a clearly overbearing master.
07:24But I'll answer your questions as honestly as I'm sure you ask them.
07:36I'll have an excuse on the other's in business.
07:40And all the time, there she is, looking down on us like a great black angry crow guarding the nest.
07:46I would ever consider her son as a suitor.
07:49Come on, don't say you haven't thought about it.
07:51Mind you, you'd have to get yourself some smarter clothes.
07:54You wanted to mix with them at Marlborough Mills.
07:56I'll have you know these were new last year.
07:58You won't stand a chance.
07:59There's loads of girls after him.
08:01Well, they are welcome to him, with my good wishes.
08:04I can say this.
08:05If I ever have a son, I'll not hang on to him like she does.
08:09Well, I'll never be having children of any sort.
08:12So that won't be a problem.
08:19Bessie, is it really so bad?
08:24Fluff on me lungs.
08:26Won't go away, however much I cough.
08:29At least I won't grow too old and ugly.
08:32And there is that.
08:33And this happened at Marlborough Mills?
08:35No.
08:37No.
08:39Must have happened when I were little.
08:41We didn't know of these things then.
08:43We all had to work.
08:46When father found out, he moved me straight away to Thornton's.
08:50He loves you very much, doesn't he?
08:52Yes.
08:56Fathers and daughters.
08:58Mothers and sons.
09:00So maybe we shouldn't be too hard on old Badlax Thornton.
09:05Maybe your mother be just the same as she had a son.
09:10She does.
09:11Have a son.
09:14I have a brother.
09:16Well, now, why didn't you ever say so before?
09:18Because we don't talk about him.
09:20Come on, I could do with a good story.
09:26I cried when Fred left her.
09:28So did mother.
09:30But he was desperate to go to sea.
09:32And father thought it would be the making of him.
09:37He left full of hope.
09:40But that was before he sailed with the captain.
09:43He was a monster.
09:45Once they set sail, the captain did whatever he liked.
09:49He beat the children to within an inch of their lives.
09:51But couldn't they do anything?
09:52Well, they tried.
09:54Frederick and the others stood up to him.
09:56Some of them wanted to kill him.
09:58Eventually, they put the captain and a few of his officers in a boat
10:00and let it loose on the open sea.
10:03The Navy called it to mutiny.
10:06But Frederick really had no choice.
10:09He was branded the ringleader and called a traitor.
10:17Eventually, the Navy printed a list of the mutineers.
10:21And Fred's name was among them.
10:24They nearly killed my parents.
10:46He was in South America for a few years.
10:49Now he lives in Spain.
10:51In Cadiz.
10:52Spain!
10:54How romantic.
10:56Sometimes I think I'll never see him again.
10:59But if he could be told how he were put upon,
11:02how I defended others against that madman,
11:04surely the law would spare him.
11:05Some of the sailors were caught.
11:07They pleaded their case.
11:09Captain Reed was clearly insane.
11:11But they were hanged anyway.
11:14No, Frederick's safe in Spain.
11:16But if he comes home, he'll be condemned to death, I'm sure.
11:23I suppose you can take comfort that he was so brave
11:27and acted to spare those sailors weaker than himself.
11:31Yes, I do.
11:33But I confess that sometimes I wish he had been more of a coward,
11:36if and that my mother might see him once more.
11:58The preparations are ready.
12:00If we're going to entertain, we must do it properly.
12:05You're not regretting the invitations, are you?
12:08No.
12:09Spend what you will.
12:12Though we may have to be the last dinner party we have for some time.
12:19So, who's on the list?
12:22Slickson's, of course.
12:24Foster's.
12:25Brown's will decline, but we must invite them also.
12:28Hale's will come, I presume.
12:30They are probably aware of the very great advantage it would be to Mr Hale
12:33to be introduced to people, like the Fosters.
12:36I'm sure that motive would not influence them funny.
12:39How you seem to understand these Hales, John.
12:42Do you really think they're so very different from any other people we meet?
12:45He seems a worthy kind of man.
12:47Oh, rather too simple for trade.
12:51She's a bit of a fine lady, with all her low spirits.
12:56As for the daughter, she gives herself heirs.
13:00And yet they're not rich, and they never have been.
13:02And she's not accomplished, Mother.
13:04She can't play the piano.
13:05Go on, Fanny.
13:05What else does she like to bring her up to your standard?
13:08I heard Miss Hale say she could not blame herself, John.
13:14If you would let us alone, we might perhaps see a Meriton like her.
13:19I'm sure I never could.
13:38I wish you would try to like Miss Hale, Mother.
13:42Why?
13:44You've not formed an attachment to her, have you?
13:48Mind you, she'll never have you.
13:52Why, she once laughed in my face at the thought of it.
13:54I'm sure she did.
13:56She would never have me.
13:59She's too good an opinion, I was up to take it.
14:02I should like to know where she'd find anyone better.
14:05You can both believe me, then, when I say this out of complete indifference to Miss Hale.
14:10Mr. Hale is my friend.
14:11She's his only daughter.
14:12I wish you would both make an effort to befriend her.
14:16I only wish I knew I talked about her quite so much.
14:19I'm tired of it.
14:21What would you like us to talk about?
14:23How about a strike for a more pleasant topic?
14:30Now!
14:31Now, listen!
14:33The men up at Ampers have been told not to expect a ride.
14:37Sigh!
14:38Let's make it go!
14:40Let's make it go!
14:43So, what do you reckon?
14:44Go!
14:51I thought so.
14:53Now is the time.
14:55We will all stop our machines at the end of the day, Friday, ten minutes before time.
14:59And no one, no one will stop them.
15:03Go!
15:08Well, Gary Slingson decides to offer.
15:10Do anything to keep his mill working at advantage of others.
15:14Then you still come out.
15:17Remember, if we all refuse to work, we'll struggle!
15:24How long do you think masters will last out, if we're all together?
15:28A week, two weeks at most.
15:29Why is they sending Ferran's from Ireland?
15:30They wouldn't dare.
15:31Thornton would!
15:32He died before being contentive!
15:33I'll take you down if he gives me half a chance!
15:35I'll take you down if he gives me half a chance!
15:37Yes!
15:40No!
15:42Come on!
15:43Listen!
15:43No!
15:45No violence!
15:47Masters expect us to behave like animals.
15:49We will show them we are thinking men.
15:53We will not be out thought!
15:56The only enemy of the strike is ourselves!
15:59Now we must manage this strike well.
16:02Not like five years ago, when half of us went back to work before the others.
16:07They're understood?
16:09They're understood!
16:11They're understood!
16:11This is it.
16:12We keep together!
16:14Friday evening it is!
16:16Friday evening it is!
16:38Are the hands about to turn out?
16:41They're waiting for the moment I have to turn down the wage demands.
16:43Are there many orders in hand?
16:45Of course.
16:46I know that well enough.
16:50The Americans are flooding the market.
16:53Our only chance is producing at a lower price and faster.
16:58The faster we fill the orders, the longer it takes for us to be paid for them.
17:01How much are we owed?
17:06The debt to the bank is nearly Β£400.
17:11The men are less patient.
17:15They've barely made up pay since the last cut.
17:18Why don't they listen?
17:20I think that just by putting their ignorant heads together, they'll get their way.
17:24Don't worry, Mother.
17:26It's a young industry. These problems will iron themselves out.
17:31We're not yet in the position of selling up.
17:33Can't you get men from Ireland?
17:35Then you can get rid of the strikers.
17:38I would.
17:39I'd teach them I was master and could employ who I like.
17:43Yes, I can.
17:45And I will too, if the strike lasts.
17:48It'll be trouble and expense.
17:50But I will do it rather than give in.
17:59If there is to be this extra expense, I'm sorry we're giving the dinner this year.
18:05We should go on as before.
18:08No more, no less.
18:25There, now, Mother.
18:27Surely one of these will do for the Thorntons?
18:29Excuse me.
18:30Ah, and this is Margaret, of course.
18:33You know, the last time I saw you, you were eight years old, running round Helston with your brother.
18:37Oh, Mr. Bell?
18:39Of course.
18:41How do you do?
18:43Well, Hale, I thought then she would grow into a handsome young woman, but this goddess I never imagined.
18:49Come, come, Bell.
18:50Margaret will not understand your humour.
18:52Oh, no offence, my dear.
18:54Of course not.
18:55I'm pleased you've come to visit at last.
18:58With all this talk of strikes, I thought I'd better check with my banker whether I should sell out my
19:02property.
19:03Surely not.
19:05We're not even certain there'll be a strike, are we, Father?
19:08I don't know.
19:09Seems to me the masters and workers will never see eye to eye.
19:13In my teaching capacity, I meet many a working man.
19:17They have some dreadful tales, and speak from the heart,
19:20and have arguments for the strike, which appear to me to be entirely logical.
19:25You know, they suffered a pay cut five years ago,
19:28and have never got back to those wages.
19:31Although the price of food goes up all the time.
19:34But then our friend Thornton comes to read,
19:38and he answers my questions,
19:42and puts the other side so eloquently,
19:47I truly don't know what to think.
19:49I'm sure Mr Thornton does put his own view very eloquently.
19:55I'm surprised the Thorntons are having a dinner with trouble looming.
20:00Oh, the Thorntons have an annual dinner on exactly the same date every year.
20:04Time nor tide stops for Mrs Thornton's dinners.
20:07She does not turn back for any money.
20:09Now that is very true.
20:11You know, Margaret's also made friends amongst the workers.
20:13Really.
20:15Extraordinary gal.
20:23Said no.
20:26They were expecting it.
23:28But all around there is desperation.
24:06Two weeks, she said.
24:08It's been twice as long as that.
24:10My little angel lying in their beds, too hungry to cry.
24:15Don't.
24:16Don't.
24:18No, I told you I would take care of you.
24:23And I pledge my heart and soul that we will win.
24:26I expect a man to watch his children.
24:27I expect a man to watch his children stour very dare go against union.
24:37You've no more pity for a man than a pack of hungry wolves.
24:50We do what we do what we do.
24:51We do what little we can.
24:52We do what little we can.
24:52I feel guilty that we do not go hungry and helpless in the face of so much suffering.
25:11She's a bit down in the mouth today.
25:13She's a bit down in the mouth today.
25:13The strike's been going on too long.
25:14Do you blame me?
25:17What about the vouchers?
25:18I left a basket outside the door.
25:21He's got less spirit than father and more mouths to feed.
25:24The master will try anything to get them back.
25:26How are you going to stop him going to work while you all stay out?
25:29We'll be persuasive.
25:37Where I come from in the south, if the field labourers strike, the seed would not be sown
25:42and there'd be no harvest.
25:43So?
25:45What would become of the farms?
25:47Well, the farmers would have to give them up.
25:49Or maybe they could pay a fair wage for once.
25:51I suppose they couldn't.
25:53Even if they wished to.
25:54Then they'd have no corn to sell and no wages to pay the next year.
25:57I don't know about the south.
25:59I've heard there are a lot of unspirited, downtrodden men.
26:10I'm sure I'm very ignorant.
26:12But surely not all the masters would withhold pay with no reason.
26:15You're a foreigner.
26:16You know nothing.
26:18You're to hell with Thorntons.
26:21Slixons.
26:22Hampers.
26:23To hell with a lot of them.
26:26Is Mr Thornton really as bad as the rest?
26:28He's a fighter.
26:29Fierce as a bulldog.
26:31He's better looking, surely, than a bulldog.
26:33I'll stick to his word like a dog.
26:35I'll give him that.
26:36He's worth fighting with.
26:37It's the best I'll say for him.
26:40I'll not argue with you on this.
26:44See you later, Alice.
26:50He doesn't mean to shout.
26:52They're all nerves at the minute.
26:54Where's he going?
26:55Golden Dragon.
26:56He has a pint pot to calm himself sometimes.
27:00He talks so certain.
27:02But he's worried about keeping the strike together.
27:04There's a lot of men.
27:06And not all of them the same discipline as father.
27:20Mrs Thornton.
27:22I hope it is silent enough for you tonight, Mr Hale.
27:26The men have been gracious enough to turn out last month.
27:30So all is quiet for our dinner party.
27:40I'm sorry that your mother is here.
27:42It's nothing serious, I'm sure.
27:44She's just a little tired.
27:49I wonder if she might like to try the water mattress.
27:53What's the very latest thing?
27:54A mattress that fills with water.
27:57Gives great comfort to the back.
28:00Have you been ill, Miss Thornton?
28:01Oh, no.
28:02No.
28:02I am very delicate.
28:04I'll send off her the latest inventions, just in case.
28:08Mother doesn't approve.
28:24Ah, Thornton.
28:25I took the liberty of inviting myself, knowing your mother's hospitality.
28:29I hope you're not worrying about mob mills.
28:31We'll ride out the strike, just as we always have.
28:34I've always had complete faith in you, Thornton, but obviously in the present situation.
28:37It's nothing I can't handle.
28:38No, of course not.
28:40Thornton knows everything in matters of business.
28:42He has my every confidence.
28:43I do.
28:44You know Miss Latimer?
28:44You know Miss Latimer?
28:45You're going to meet me.
28:50What's up?
28:52It's nothing I'm going to die.
28:56What's up?
28:57It's nothing I've ever heard.
28:58It's nothing you ain't going to die.
29:11It's nothing I can't believe.
29:11It's nothing I can't believe.
29:14It's nothing I can tell you.
29:14It's nothing I can't believe.
29:14Faunton, I must speak with you.
29:19Excuse me.
29:28Have you left word at the barracks?
29:29It's been done.
29:30Men on horseback, armed men...
29:31All those arrangements have been made.
29:34If they find out you are planning to break the strike by bringing in Irish work...
29:37I take this risk for myself.
29:39You need not join in.
29:41I can and will protect myself and anyone that works for me from any kind of violence.
29:45I sincerely hope so.
29:48Well, really, Thornton is most ungallant this evening,
29:51leaving the most glorious woman in the room to talk to that slimy eel Slickson.
29:56Now then, who can we introduce you to?
29:59Come with me.
30:07I hear Arnold is moving lock, stock and barrel to America.
30:11America?
30:12I'll be damned.
30:13That's what I'd like to do.
30:14Pack up and leave.
30:15Damn strikers have no work at all, then.
30:18Well, they have no work at the moment.
30:21There is work.
30:22They choose not to do it.
30:25Thornton, what do you think?
30:27Oh, I think our Mr Bell is up to his old tricks.
30:30Playing with words at the expense of us simpler fellows.
30:34But it's a serious question.
30:37I don't want a manufacturer in another country,
30:39but it's logical for others to try if they cannot make enough profit here.
30:42What do you think, Miss Hale?
30:45Surely you don't condone the strikers.
30:47Well, no.
30:48Well, and yes,
30:50it is surely good to try to see both sides of a question.
30:53Mrs Arthur saw you taking a basket to the Princeton district the other afternoon.
31:02I have a good friend in Princeton.
31:05Her name is Bessie Higgins.
31:06Higgins?
31:08Isn't he one of your union leaders, Amper?
31:10Yeah.
31:11He's a terrific firebrand.
31:14Dangerous man.
31:15I'm surprised, Miss Hale, that you keep such company.
31:18Bessie is my friend.
31:19Nicholas is a little...
31:21She's on first-name terms.
31:24Mr Higgins has been made a little wild by circumstances,
31:28but he speaks from his heart, I'm sure.
31:31Well, if he's so determined, I'm surprised he'll accept charity.
31:35Well, he doesn't for himself.
31:38The basket was for a man whose six children are starving.
31:41Ah, well, then he knows what to do.
31:44Go back to work.
31:47I believe this poor starving fellow works at Marlborough Mills, doesn't he, Margaret?
31:56You do the man, whoever he is, more harm than good with your basket.
32:01Logic would say, the longer you support the strikers,
32:05the more you prolong the strike.
32:07That is not kindness.
32:10They will be defeated, but it will take longer.
32:13Their pain will be prolonged.
32:17But surely to give a dying baby food is not just a question of logic.
32:22Mrs Thornton, I really must congratulate you on these magnificent table settings.
32:30I don't believe I've seen finer table decorations,
32:34even in the grandest gatherings in Harley Street.
32:37Well, all masters are the same, Mr Bell.
32:40You do us an injustice to always think we're all up to some underhand scheme or other.
32:44I don't know.
32:45I do believe you'll be right back.
32:53Do you come in, Maria?
33:01They still be up.
33:04Margo!
33:16Who is that, Dixon?
33:18Who?
33:19The man I saw leaving the house.
33:22What man?
33:23Dixon.
33:28It was the doctor.
33:29Dr. Donaldson.
33:31Mother.
33:32He was just making his usual visit.
33:34His usual visit.
33:36How long has he been coming here?
33:53Margaret.
33:56Why are you hiding over there?
34:10Oh, Nana, what's this?
34:26Dixon told you, didn't she?
34:31She promised she would.
34:33I made her.
34:35It was Dixon who said that you shouldn't be told.
34:40What does Dixon know?
34:42She's a servant.
34:44I'm your daughter.
34:46Shh.
34:46I don't want your father to hear.
34:50Don't be angry with Dixon.
34:53She loves me.
34:56No.
34:58I'll try not to.
35:01I keep thinking about Helston.
35:06I used to complain about it sometimes and want to leave.
35:12And now I'll never see it again.
35:15That's my punishment.
35:21And Margaret.
35:25I can't stop thinking about Frederic.
35:29I'll never see him again either.
35:33Oh, Margaret, it's so hard.
35:43Shh.
35:45Shh.
35:46Shh.
35:48Shh.
35:48Shh.
35:49Shh.
35:50Shh.
35:50Shh.
35:51Shh.
35:51Shh.
35:52Shh.
35:55Well, now, Miss, you would know.
35:58Now you'll fret before you need to.
36:02Likely tell the master, too.
36:03Then I'll have the whole house to deal with.
36:05No, I won't tell father.
36:07I can bear it better than him.
36:10So I see.
36:15I've known for some time now how well she is.
36:19And though I don't pretend to love her as you do,
36:23I've loved her better than anyone else in the whole world.
36:31I'll never forget the first time I saw her.
36:36The young Miss Beresford.
36:42I broke a needle into my finger.
36:43I broke a needle into my finger.
36:44I was so nervous.
36:49And she bound my hand with her own handkerchief.
36:56And then, when she returned from the ball, she remembered to look in on me.
37:09And she changed the handkerchief for another one.
37:18She was the most beautiful thing I'd ever seen.
37:25Well, since, since.
37:32Now, Miss, you best get to bed.
37:35You're going to need a clear mind in the morning.
37:44I'm sorry I get cross with you, Dixon.
37:48Bless you.
37:50I like a bit of spirit.
37:51When you're all fired up, you remind me of Master Frederick.
37:57That is a welcome sight.
38:16OK.
38:35Come on.
38:47Come on.
39:20Come on.
39:22Oh, it's you, miss.
39:29Did you see anyone in the street?
39:30No.
39:31That's very odd, isn't it?
39:33Where is everyone?
39:34I think we'll know soon enough.
39:39Let's get inside, house, miss.
39:41And bolt the door behind you.
40:13Mama will be here in a moment, Miss Hale.
40:15She asked me to apologise.
40:16Did I see faces in the mill?
40:19My brother has imported hands from Ireland.
40:21They're huddled up in the top room.
40:23What are they doing there?
40:25They're frightened.
40:26The strikers have frightened them so that they don't dare work
40:29and we don't dare let them out.
40:31Poor wretches.
40:32Mama is seeing to their food and John is trying to calm them down.
40:36Some of the women are wailing and begging to go back home.
40:42Ah, here's my ma.
40:45Excuse me, Mrs Thornton.
40:46I'm sorry to bother you at such a time.
40:48My mother...
40:49Fanny mentioned you had a water mattress that we might borrow.
40:53I'm sorry, I thought.
41:23Keep her head in the back of the house, Mother.
41:24How soon can the soldiers be here?
41:28She tries to stop her panicking.
41:30Miss Hale!
41:39Miss Hale, I'm sorry you have visited us at this enforcement moment.
42:09Oh, my God, they're going for the middle door.
42:17Oh, no.
42:19It's Boucher.
42:24Let them yell.
42:25Keep up your courage for a few minutes longer, Miss Hale.
42:27I'm not afraid.
42:29Why can't you pacify them?
42:30The soldiers will let them see reason.
42:32Reason?
42:33What kind of reason?
42:35Mr Thornton, go down this instant and face them like a man.
42:38Speak to them as if they were human beings.
42:40They're driven mad with hunger.
42:42Their children are starving.
42:43They don't know what they're doing.
42:44Go and save your innocent Irishman.
42:53Mr Thornton, take care.
43:09In God's name, stop.
43:10Think of what you're doing.
43:12He was only one man and you were many.
43:14Go home.
43:15The soldiers are coming.
43:17Go in peace.
43:18You shall have an answer to your complaint.
43:20Will you send the Irish off?
43:21Never!
43:27Go inside.
43:28This is not your fault.
43:29They will not want to hurt a woman.
43:30Go inside or I will take you.
43:44Are you satisfied?
43:48You came here for me, so kill me if that's what you want.
44:17Is she dead?
44:18No, Miss Fanny.
44:19She's breathing, but she looks very bad.
44:21Where is mother?
44:22We need a doctor.
44:24She had to get through rioters.
44:25She were only one of us brave enough to go.
44:29Did you see, Miss?
44:30What?
44:31Miss Hale.
44:32What happened down below?
44:35Did you not see Miss Hale clinging to the master?
44:38No.
44:40Did all the servants see?
44:41We had a good enough view from top window.
44:44Well, I'm all sure she set her mind on John.
44:46This proves it.
44:49Oh, quick!
44:49Jane, fetch some water.
44:52There, there.
44:54Miss Hale.
44:55You lie quietly.
44:57Mother's gone for the doctor.
44:59He will be here soon.
45:02I don't need a doctor.
45:04I must go home.
45:05No!
45:06You can't!
45:07Oh, Mother!
45:07My goodness, you're back.
45:08Miss Hale, is she worse?
45:10No.
45:11I'm quite well.
45:12I want to go home.
45:20Hmm.
45:21It looks worse than it is.
45:25But you've had quite a blow, young lady.
45:30You'd better rest here a while.
45:31No.
45:32You know my mother is unwell.
45:35She must not be alarmed.
45:36If she hears of this, I will go now.
45:40Surely not, Doctor.
45:42I think she must be allowed to do as she will.
45:45I'll take her with me in the carriage.
45:47See she reaches home safely.
45:49The streets are still very noisy.
45:51Very well.
46:16Mr. Thornton?
46:18Mr. Thornton?
46:29Don't worry, sir.
46:30We'll catch the ringleaders.
46:32Thornton's come up smiling again.
46:34Those hoodlums have broken the strike.
46:36Didn't even have to use it, Irishman.
46:54Oriva, Barbara.
46:57Amazon Snitchfield.
47:11Gregory, is that you?
47:15Yes, Mother.
47:16Mother, I'll be in soon. I must wash. The streets are very dusty today.
47:26Where is Miss Hale?
47:28She has gone home.
47:31Gone home? That is not possible.
47:34Really, John, she was quite well.
47:37Mother, she took a terrible blow. What were you thinking of letting her go home?
47:41Everything was done properly. Dr Donaldson was gone.
47:43In fact, I went for her myself, as no-one else seemed to have a mind to go.
47:49Thank you, Mother. The streets were dangerous.
47:53I'm sure it's not possible to keep such a headstrong young woman anywhere she doesn't care to be.
47:59She's such a reckless young woman.
48:02Jane, have you nothing to be getting on with?
48:04Miss Fanny, sir...
48:05I was so scared. Believe me, I almost fainted.
48:09I thought they would break down the door and murder us all.
48:11Oh, Fanny, don't be so ridiculous.
48:14You were in no danger.
48:20Where are you going?
48:23To see if Miss Hale is well.
48:25I sent her home in a carriage with Dr Donaldson. Everything was done properly.
48:29John!
48:33I'm asking you not to go.
48:59I'm asking you not to go.
49:06I hear there's been some violence up at Marlborough Mills.
49:11I do hope there's not too much damage.
49:15There's a young lady who wants Miss Margaret.
49:18I told her to go, but she's very distressed.
49:21I said her name's Mary.
49:26I'm sorry, Miss.
49:27I didn't know what to do.
49:29Bessie's been took so very ill.
49:31I said so.
50:11MUSIC PLAYS
50:31You still up?
50:39I thought you'd be exhausted.
50:41Why should I be?
50:45Where have you been?
50:48Just walking.
50:55And where have you been walking?
50:58I promised you I would not go there, and I did not.
51:02But?
51:04But.
51:09Mother, you know I will have to go there tomorrow,
51:11and you know what I will have to say.
51:13Yes.
51:15You could hardly do otherwise.
51:18What do you mean?
51:21I mean that you are bound in honor,
51:24and she has shown her feelings for all the world to see.
51:28Her feelings?
51:28She rushed out in front of an angry mob and saved you from danger.
51:33Or are you telling me I imagine that?
51:36Do you think none of the servants saw it?
51:39Do you think it's not become the tittle-tattle of Milton?
51:43And she did save me.
51:46Mother, I don't believe such a woman could care for me.
51:51Don't be so foolish.
51:54And what more proof do you need that she should act in such a shameless way?
52:06I'm sure she will take you from me.
52:10That is why I didn't want you to go to see her today.
52:15I wanted one last evening of being the first in your affections.
52:27I'll have to change the initials on our linen.
52:30We'll bare her right now.
52:33Her isn't yours.
52:37I know she does not care for me.
52:41But I can't remain silent. I must ask her.
52:45Don't be afraid, John.
52:47She has admitted it to the world.
52:52I might even learn to like her for it.
52:57Must have taken a great deal to overcome her pride.
53:20Oh, no, no!
53:31Don't be afraid, John.
53:33Don't find her.
53:35Don't be afraid, John.
53:38Don't be afraid.
53:39No, no, no!
53:42Don't be afraid.
53:44I don't need to see her as soon as she can.
53:49I know she is.
53:50You're feeling guilty, Margaret. Surely you can have nothing to reproach yourself for.
53:55After all, the workers chose to go on strike, and I'm sure you've done your best to help.
54:00Even when we were little girls, you always did the right thing.
54:38I've not noticed the colour of this fruit.
54:43Miss Hale, I'm afraid I was very ungrateful yesterday.
54:47You have nothing to be grateful for?
54:49I think that I do.
54:51Well, I did only the least that anyone would have.
54:55That can't be true.
54:56Well, I was, after all, responsible for placing you in danger.
55:01I would have done the same for any man there.
55:04Any man?
55:07So you approve of that violence? You think I got what I deserved?
55:09Oh, no, of course not.
55:11But they were desperate. I know, if you were to talk...
55:14I forgot. You imagined them to be your friends.
55:19But if you were to be reasonable...
55:21Me?
55:21Were you saying that I'm unreasonable?
55:24If you would talk with them, and not set the soldiers on them, I know they would...
55:28They will get what they deserve.
55:36Miss Hale, I didn't just come here to thank you.
55:41I came because...
55:45I think it very likely...
55:47I know I've never found myself in this position before.
55:53It's difficult to find the words.
55:58Miss Hale, my feelings for you are very strong.
56:01Miss Hale, please, stop.
56:04Please, please don't go any further.
56:06Excuse me.
56:08Please don't continue in that way.
56:11It's not the way of a gentleman.
56:17I'm well aware that, in your eyes at least, I'm not a gentleman.
56:21But I think I deserve to know why I am offensive.
56:24It offends me that you should speak to me as if it were your duty to rescue my reputation.
56:28I spoke to you about my feelings because I love you.
56:31I had no thought for your reputation.
56:32You think that because you are rich, and my father is in reduced circumstances,
56:37that you can have me for your possession?
56:39I suppose I should expect no less from someone in trade.
56:41I don't want to possess you. I wish to marry you because I love you.
56:44You shouldn't, because I do not like you, and never have.
56:47Love.
56:55The minute we talk of the colour of fruit, the next of love,
57:02when does that happen?
57:10My friend, Bessie Higgins, is dying.
57:15And that, of course, it's my fault too.
57:22I'm sorry.
57:23For what?
57:25That you find my feelings for you offensive?
57:27Or that you assume because I'm in trade,
57:29I'm only capable of thinking in terms of buying and selling?
57:32Or that I take pleasure in sending my employees to an early grave?
57:35No. No, of course not.
57:39I'm sorry to be so blunt.
57:42I have not learnt how to...
57:45how to refuse.
57:47How to respond when a man talks to me, as you just have.
57:51Oh, there are others.
57:54This happens to you every day.
57:57Of course.
57:59You must have to disappoint so many men that offer you that hard.
58:02Please, understand, Mr Thornton.
58:03I do understand.
58:06I understand.
58:07I understand you completely.
58:10With this in mind,
58:10I know you do not do it.
58:12I know you will not do it.
58:14You must have to.
58:22I know you will never do it.
58:24I know you will be the only one another.
58:25To you, and let me see you alone.
58:26I know you will be the only one another.
58:26To you, and I know you are one another.
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