The Mind Beyond. (1976) 3. The Love of a Good Woman.

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First broadcast 13th October 1976.  A pair of childhood sweethearts have their peaceful life interrupted when a vulgar woman from her dreams show up in reality.  Anna Massey - Isabella Ridout William Lucas - Henry Ridout Diana Bishop - Emily Troop Frederick Bennett - Mr. Palamountain Liza Hayden - Margaret Ann Peggy Ann Wood - Mrs. Addicott Ronald Russell - Mr. Addicott Tony Sympson - Mr. Gee Wally Thomas - Old Tom Alan Hay - Dr. Percival John Baker - Mr. Baste Paul Cooper - Darts Player Tom Cotcher - Darts Player John Kearney - Darts Player John Sarbutt - Darts Player

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00:00I

01:10Seven pounds, exactly.

01:12Oh, I like it when it's exact.

01:14Well, it's not enough.

01:16It's out of season.

01:43It's out of season.

01:57Shall we have any chicken?

02:00You haven't had that before?

02:01It's very simple.

02:05Delicious.

02:06Don't say.

02:33Don't say it, Will.

02:38Oh, I meant it, Andrew.

02:41Yes, I saw it.

02:44Never notice.

02:45Well, it wasn't difficult.

02:47Don't be upset.

02:48You couldn't help it.

02:51It needs to be weighted like the others.

02:54I'll slip in a piece of lead.

02:58I'll slip in a piece of lead.

02:59It's really good.

03:00It's how clever you are, Isabella.

03:02Not clever at all.

03:05How were they all tonight?

03:08All the same.

03:10Well, Mr. Pallamountain is getting deafer.

03:16Young Graham is leaving.

03:19Leaving?

03:20Going to Canada.

03:24I don't think of Canada as being a place of glaziers.

03:28Hmm.

03:28Twice the money, they say.

03:32Hmm.

03:33Oh, Mrs. Ringgit died.

03:36Slipped away during her tea-time nap.

03:38Nice way to go.

03:40Oh, they tend to go nicely after 90.

03:44As we shall, Henry.

03:46Oh, we shall live a long, long time.

03:48Happy people, do they, say?

03:50Do they?

03:51Oh, yes, indeed.

04:06Oh, indeed.

04:08Hmm.

04:09Mr. Pallamountain's niece is coming to look after him.

04:14Widowed or some such, I understand.

04:16I hope for her.

04:18Oh, her need and is it, I say.

04:23Do you know I dreamed that?

04:26That Mr. Pallamountain's niece was coming three nights ago.

04:29I even meant to tell you.

04:31A dreadful woman.

04:33Dreadful?

04:34Hmm, gross and vulgar.

04:35After his money.

04:37Well, they say he hasn't got much.

04:39Enough, apparently.

04:41Isn't it extraordinary to have a dream like that?

04:45She shouldn't be allowed to come to a town like this.

04:47You said in my dream.

04:49Out after an old man's money.

04:51Made you angry.

04:53Like it really would.

04:55Oh.

04:56I'm sure Mr. Pallamountain's niece didn't like that at all.

05:00It'll be interesting to see.

05:23It won't work, you know.

05:25He knows which side his bread is buttered.

05:27So does she.

05:30It'll never take, all the same.

05:33Mr. Pallamountain's niece, we were saying it would never take.

05:36He can be tricky, you know.

05:38Look, I didn't say it would never take.

05:40What I said was...

05:41Let's hear, Henry, dear.

05:42Do you think it'll take, Henry?

05:44Well, I dare say.

05:58Well, then, come on, my girl.

06:00Come on.

06:03Henry, my niece.

06:05Mrs. Emily Troop.

06:07Henry Riddop, my dear, our landlord.

06:11Well, how do you do, Mrs. Troop?

06:13Mr. and Mrs. Adicate.

06:15How do you?

06:16Mr. Bast, Mr. G, Old Tom.

06:20Yes, Mrs.

06:21We are friends at the dartboard.

06:25Then, my dear, you'd like a drink, eh?

06:28A gin and pep, why not?

06:30A gin and...

06:31A gin and pep, Uncle.

06:32A gin and pepper, Henry.

06:36Have a little...

06:55What a charming place.

06:58Well, it's quiet this time of season.

07:01But nicer, surely.

07:04Nicer to have it quiet.

07:06Oh, well, we need the visitors.

07:10You would, of course.

07:13Cheers.

07:15Cheers.

07:24Emily's come to look after me.

07:27Not that you need looking after, Uncle.

07:29You need looking after when you're my age.

07:33Oh, I'm really gonna like it here.

07:40Come on, Johnny, have a go.

07:42Come here with me.

07:43He married above himself.

07:45The child of the old public house he was.

07:47She was quite the great lady.

07:50You'd see him about the place together

07:52when they weren't meant to be,

07:55lurking about the boats up on the cliffs.

07:59She had a governess woman,

08:01and an old tartar.

08:02Aided Isabella being friends with him.

08:05But in the end, he married her, of course.

08:07And children?

08:10Have they children?

08:12No, no, Bess, you know.

08:18Mrs. Riddert.

08:21What's Mrs. Riddert like?

08:23Beautiful.

08:24Beautiful child.

08:26Beautiful woman.

08:28Isabella.

08:29She looks just like an Isabella.

08:32Ever so pretty in her dresses, Isabella was.

08:34It's a peculiar type of name.

08:36They had a place they used to go to,

08:38an old orchard by the church beyond the graveyard.

08:42They used to play there.

08:44No one ever went there except themselves.

08:47Childhood sweethearts.

08:51Childhood sweethearts.

08:52They're in their childhood still,

08:54Henry and Isabella.

08:55I've heard that said about him.

08:58Her family turned on him

08:59because of something the governess said.

09:02Something was happening

09:03that the governess was aware of.

09:06They were falling in love with one another,

09:10even though they were children.

09:11Well, I never.

09:13Sounds most peculiar.

09:15They love one another now.

09:16No different from that.

09:18You see them walking along the shore,

09:20up on the cliffs,

09:22doing a bit of mackerel fishing.

09:24He thinks the world of her.

09:26There's no one in this town

09:28thinks as much of a woman

09:29as Henry Ridout thinks of his wife.

09:32It's funny not having kiddies.

09:35Their dream came true, you might say.

09:39Her family moved away, you know,

09:41disowning her when she married him.

09:44Not a penny, they said,

09:45and they stuck to it.

09:47So down she comes in the world,

09:50and there she is,

09:51at the eagle's rest.

09:53She don't ever enter the bar.

09:55To this day,

09:56she couldn't pull a glass of beer for you.

09:59He wouldn't let her, see.

10:02Sounds fascinating, Mrs Ridout, does.

10:04She's a good woman.

10:18Good night, Henry.

10:23Good night, Henry.

10:23Good night, my dear.

10:25Good night.

10:37Good night.

10:38Good night.

11:13She says you're not to hang around.

11:19She doesn't like you hanging around me.

11:21Those gulls are building a nest.

11:24I'm talking about my governess.

11:27There's that boy hanging around, she said when we came out of the drapers.

11:32Isabella's playing with a common boy, she said at lunchtime.

11:34Are you my mother, Aust?

11:37If you don't want to play with me, you don't have to.

11:41You don't have to, Isabella.

11:44You don't have to.

11:45Who do you?

11:47I'm having to.

11:50I'm having to.

12:04I don't have to.

12:05Putin.

12:05I'm having to.

12:27Come back, Henry.

12:29Come back.

12:57Come back.

13:00Come back.

13:08Come back.

13:20I thought you were perhaps unmarried when I met you last night, Mr. Redoubt.

13:25There's a chap I said to myself as the look of a man who isn't married.

13:30No, I am married, Mrs. True.

13:34Yes, I know.

13:38I did discover from my uncle.

13:52But you get what I mean.

13:55I mean, you look at a person.

13:57I mean, you're curious.

14:00No, I'm married, Mrs. True.

14:09I was married myself.

14:12You died of a heart thing.

14:14Least expected, just like that.

14:17Well, I'm sorry.

14:20He giveth, he taketh away.

14:25And, er, you have no children, Mr. Redoubt?

14:29No.

14:31Mine have fled the nest.

14:34Eighteen and twenty.

14:36Would you ever think it?

14:37Grown-up children?

14:39I'm thirty-nine.

14:43Well...

14:44You haven't the look of a father.

14:46I said that too.

14:47No, he's not a father, I said.

14:49Well, you can always tell a thing like that.

14:53No, I'm...

14:54I'm not a father.

14:56Well, just as well, perhaps.

14:59Sharp as a serpent's tooth, you know the thing.

15:03Still, that can bring a joyfulness too.

15:09Your, er...

15:10Your wife doesn't come into the bar then, Mr. Redoubt?

15:14Er... no.

15:16Would you go for walks?

15:18I must look out for you.

15:20Handsome couple you must be.

15:30I've, er...

15:31I've been hearing your story.

15:35Story?

15:43Childhood sweethearts and all that.

15:49It's very lovely.

15:58It's very lovely.

16:09I love the quietness here.

16:15It's always quiet in the mornings, I'd say.

16:18Oh.

16:19Until the summer.

16:23Well, if I were your beautiful wife, I think I'd keep you company all the same.

16:28Never know who might come wandering in.

16:30Eh?

16:31Well, my wife has a lot to do in the house.

16:34Looking after you.

16:37Yeah.

16:38Yeah, I suppose.

16:39I should imagine you take quite a lot of looking after.

16:42Oh.

16:43No more than any other man.

16:45Oh, I'd say you do.

16:48I'd say you're often hungry.

16:50Well, no hungrier than...

16:52Oh, yes.

16:53I'd say so.

16:56There's hunger and hunger, you know.

16:57Ah...

17:26I've waited him.

17:27Henry, look.

17:37I want to call him Thomas.

17:40My darling, he's beautiful.

17:42Mr. Roach found him in London for us.

17:43He knew he'd have him.

17:44Oh, yes, of course.

17:46Yes.

17:46He really is gorgeous.

17:48Oh, I knew you'd like him.

17:52Then there's this.

17:58My dear, I think you had to drop too much again.

18:01The edge of your jacket brushed the table.

18:03I found him here this morning.

18:06I'm sorry.

18:06Oh, try not to.

18:08He suffered before, this little chap.

18:10Look.

18:11You awaited him.

18:12Yeah.

18:14I'll mend him.

18:25I've bought us Eccles cakes for tea.

18:32We haven't been mackerel fishing, Henry.

18:35Not for ages.

18:37Shall we go soon?

18:40May we, Henry?

18:43Let's see you get a walk.

18:45Are you sure we're not all going to regret this terrible?

18:56Settled in, Herrscher, Mr. Palamundin.

18:59Your niece.

19:00Settled in, Herrscher.

19:02Chapter in the Ironmonger.

19:05No more advice, then.

19:07Two more, Henry.

19:08It could be worse.

19:09And the drops for Mr. Palamundin.

19:11So the enchanting wire he wants, apparently.

19:14He cuts it off, the 14-yard line.

19:16It's for you to see.

19:18I'll change the price, Mr. Palamundin.

19:21And then you.

19:21You've got to hold it up a bit.

19:23Up like that.

19:24On top of the chicken.

19:25Yeah.

19:26Honey, right to go.

19:27That's it.

19:27Beautiful.

19:28Whoa, up there, Henry.

19:30I was having another trick.

19:31Oh, where did I end?

19:53You had a drop too much again.

19:55You're clumsy when you're like that, Henry.

19:57Knocking things about.

19:59Now, now, come along.

20:01Tell me what I am.

20:07You're good, Isabella.

20:08The good are complicated.

20:10All people are complicated.

20:11The bad are to a penny.

20:12And you're beautiful as well.

20:14I was happy.

20:15We were running on the beach and I was happy, Henry.

20:18We were in our orchard.

20:20Yes, of course we were.

20:22The seagulls still as statues.

20:25The apple blossoms, Henry.

20:27Now you must go back to bed.

20:29No, then I'll dream.

20:32Oh, close the window, dear.

20:34Oh, don't you love it?

20:36Don't you love the sea as much as we always did?

20:38All our lives, Henry.

20:40Yes, of course, but it's cold with the window open, dear.

20:45You always say that.

20:49Do you remember that storm when you were little?

20:51When you watched the waves coming over the wall?

20:53The shingle thrown up on the promenade.

20:57When that old woman was washed away.

21:00You cried because of that.

21:02Yes.

21:04My dear, you'll be cold.

21:06You must go back to bed.

21:07In my dream, there was a heaven.

21:10There was the sea closing together again and there was a heaven.

21:13You and I as we were.

21:14Do you remember that?

21:16How we were?

21:18And how they hated you?

21:20Because it wasn't right for children to be in love.

21:24Look, let's not remember it all now, eh?

21:28You listened when I told you about my goodness.

21:30You laughed and laughed.

21:31Do you remember that?

21:33How you'd laugh and listen on the beach and then again in our orchard.

21:39And then you'd be solemn.

21:40Tell me about the eagle's rest.

21:42When no one had time for you.

21:44Your father gave you glasses to wash up and your mother didn't care.

21:53You must not drink so.

21:56I don't, Isabella.

21:57You lurch and knock things over.

21:59No, Isabella.

21:59You destroy things, Henry.

22:01No, no.

22:01Why do you always tell me lies?

22:02It's nothing but lies.

22:03All the time lies, lies, lies.

22:05All our life, Henry.

22:06No, they're not lies.

22:08We keep a secret, that's all.

22:12Every night I dream of it again.

22:16You must try not to.

22:18Cannot try.

22:22Why did you destroy it all, Henry?

22:24Every walk we went on together.

22:26Every conversation.

22:28On the beach you used to take my hand.

22:30Do you remember?

22:31We walked by the edge of the sea and we climbed the cliffs to the orchard

22:35where the apple trees were forgotten.

22:38Do you remember that, Henry?

22:41I was too young to be destroyed.

22:44There was sunshine in our orchard.

22:46Don't you even remember that, Henry?

22:48The sea far down below us and the sky is blue as a corn cloud.

22:54No, Henry.

22:55Oh, close your eyes, Henry.

22:57No.

22:57Please, Isabella.

22:59Oh, God, no.

22:59That boughs.

23:00Oh, God.

23:01Don't let him.

23:03Oh, God, please.

23:04Oh, God.

23:05Oh, God, please.

23:06And suddenly the pink was hideous.

23:08Oh, God, please.

23:09The grass that grew was suddenly dead.

23:11The trees were faces out of hell.

23:13Who, Missy?

23:14Henry.

23:15Madness, Henry.

23:16A child gone mad.

23:17A mind that wouldn't work because it was frightened, Henry.

23:20Terrified.

23:21No.

23:22No.

23:23No.

23:24Only...

23:26The sea was gently whispering to us.

23:32But you prefer to keep the secret.

23:35A child gone mad.

23:38A child gone mad.

23:42Hmm?

23:43No.

23:45No.

23:46No.

23:47No.

23:48No.

23:49No.

23:50No.

23:55No.

24:08No.

24:09No.

24:11No.

24:12No.

24:13No.

24:14No.

24:15No.

24:16No.

24:34hello

24:37oh morning Mrs. Tiff

24:39I just slipped in

24:41for an early

24:44care of the animal Mr. Riddharp

24:47oh a gin and peppermint

24:49make it a biggish one

25:04have something yourself Mr. Riddharp

25:05oh no no thank you

25:16good morning Mrs. Riddharp

25:18good morning

25:21Mr. Pallermarton's niece

25:23Mrs. Troop

25:26I've mended him Henry

25:51she's beautiful your wife

26:09change your mind

26:12sorry

26:13hair of the animal Mr. Riddharp

26:15oh no no no

26:18cigarette

26:20no I don't smoke

26:25ah well

26:42goodbye Mr. Riddharp

26:48I shall still be around

26:51but you know what I mean

27:10you like it

27:13delicious

27:14it's the other recipe

27:16oh Mrs. Marsh's

27:18oh

27:20Mr. G left in some soul

27:23yes he said he would

27:27my dear you look tired

27:30yes I am a little

27:47better looking woman than I thought she'd be

27:52the old man's niece

28:16don't let them take me away

28:17I'm going to take me away

29:42She buys China figures.

29:46It's I who break them, so we say.

29:48It's all pretense.

29:51My God.

29:53Do you know what it's like, living in a pretense like that?

30:26It's all pretense.

30:32It's all pretense.

30:34Good night, Henry.

30:36Good night, Henry.

30:37Good night, Henry.

30:38Good night, Henry.

30:39Good night.

30:40Good night.

30:41Good night.

30:42Good night, my dear.

30:43What do you expect to happen next?

30:45It was a woodpecker, see?

30:47The drunk got mixed up with a woodpecker.

30:49No, Mr. Palomar.

30:50Come on, Henry's closing up.

30:52It's meant to be funny, see.

30:54It's meant to be a joke.

30:55He takes this young lady up and he gets this woodpecker he's appearing.

31:01I mean, no young shepherd like it getting mixed up with a woodpecker.

31:07Good night, Henry.

31:38Good night.

31:40Good night, Henry.

31:59Got to be back at the house.

34:45Love.

34:46Love.

35:16Love.

35:46Love.

35:54Young chap, one and two cheese sandwiches.

36:05We're going to have your baby, Henry.

36:21You're a clever woman, Mrs. Redoubt.

36:23Well, lucky.

36:25Well, he wanted a child and it was something I could give him.

36:31Come in, Henry.

36:34Oh, I'm sorry.

36:35What on earth?

36:36What on earth is that?

36:37That's a gin and pep.

36:40Take your daughter, Henry.

36:41I'm sorry.

36:48Oh, I'm sorry.

36:56Yeah, ooh, I'm sorry.

37:03Well, if the other one gets away, he's gonna take the one.

37:09There's a doctor.

37:14Oh, no.

37:16I've got one.

37:19Oh, no, Margaret.

37:34All right, my love?

37:36Oh, I couldn't get the earrings.

37:38Oh, they haven't had earrings all week, apparently.

37:42Well, how's Margaret Anne, eh?

37:45Never so good she's been.

37:47Isn't she?

38:03I'll get you tea.

38:04I'll get you tea.

38:11Call to see Dr. Percival.

38:13Yes.

38:14Yes, it's the same.

38:15You should take her to see some chap.

38:17Some blooming psycho.

38:18Oh, yes, my best.

38:20Just to be on the safe side, Dr. Percival said.

38:25Well, you're a good girl with the doctor.

38:28You'll go ahead, eh?

38:29Answer all his questions.

38:36Well, come on.

38:37Okay.

38:51You're a good girl.

38:59You're a beautiful girl.

39:01Alright.

39:40There's nothing the matter, he said.

39:42Nothing whatsoever.

39:44Dr. Percival said the same, remember?

39:49It's you, Henry.

39:51She's only like it when you're here.

39:55Me?

39:56She's perfectly all right.

39:57You have an effect on her.

39:59You mean she...

40:01You trouble her, Henry.

40:04I love her.

40:05I wouldn't hurt a scratch of her.

40:07She's perfectly all right when you're not here.

40:11She senses something in you, Henry.

40:32I love her.

40:36I love her.

41:18Hurry up.

41:37There now, my darling.

41:43There now, little thing.

41:56Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry.

42:23Henry, Henry, Henry.

42:29I once knew a young fellow who could balance himself on the end of a pen.

42:33Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry.

42:40Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry.

43:00What's the matter?

43:05Don't you hear it?

43:12There's nothing.

43:28What are you doing?

43:31Nothing, nothing.

43:52Henry.

43:59Henry.

44:00Henry.

44:08Henry?

44:17Henry?

44:30Margaret Ann?

44:32Margaret Ann?

44:40Margaret Ann?

44:43Margaret Ann?

44:49This

44:50bit of trial.

45:09No.

45:09Have you seen Margaret Ann, Mrs. Utica?

45:11No, dear.

45:12Has Margaret Ann been here, Henry?

45:15No, no.

45:18What's the trouble with her?

45:20She's searching for the kiddie.

45:47Oh, good, good.

46:11Smugger down!

46:19Smugger down!

46:48Smugger down!

46:52Smugger down!

47:15Smugger down!

47:24Smugger down!

47:28Smugger down!

47:30Smugger down!

47:45Smugger down!

47:59Smugger down!

48:16Smugger up!

48:19and my forgiveness

48:23I want you so

48:30I couldn't help being what I was

48:33I'm sorry Henry

48:35but I couldn't help it

48:36of course not

48:39of course not

48:41I thought you were killing me that day in the orchard

48:46that's when death began

48:49mine

48:51and yours Henry

48:52leave us alone

48:55I'll tend the grave

48:56I love you Henry

48:57I'll do anything

48:59my love will always whisper to you through your child

49:28I'll do anything

49:29I'll do anything

49:32I'll do anything

49:34I'll do anything

49:36I'll do anything

49:43I'll do anything

49:45Let's go.

50:23He's still good for me.

50:31Same again, Emily, love.

51:01Let's go.

51:02Let's go.

51:03Let's go.

51:04Let's go.

51:05Let's go.

51:06Let's go.

51:10Let's go.

51:11Let's go.

51:12Let's go.

51:13Let's go.

51:14Let's go.

51:39Let's go.

51:45Let's go.

51:46Let's go.

51:49Let's go.

51:55Let's go.

51:56Let's go.

52:20Let's go.

52:21Let's go.

52:22Let's go.

52:29Let's go.

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