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Wives And Daughters 1999 Episode 3 - Video
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00:00:01Let's do it
00:00:41My dearest Cynthia, as I watch the coast of England slip away, I realize how much of my heart I
00:00:49have left behind in your dear care.
00:00:52Your loving acceptance makes me the most fortunate of men.
00:00:56I will carry the memory of that kiss with me to lighten the depths of Africa.
00:01:08What a thing to do. Write a letter before he was fairly embarked.
00:01:12Of course, he has nothing to say except the usual sort of silliness.
00:01:16Cynthia, you do love Roger, don't you?
00:01:18Why don't you think I've given him proof of it?
00:01:21Oh, what if you do look at me like that?
00:01:23No, I don't think I have the gift for loving as some people do.
00:01:27Well, I've never felt carried off my feet by love for anyone, not even you, and you know that I
00:01:31love you more than anyone.
00:01:32No, don't, don't. I won't hear you. I should never have asked you.
00:01:35Honey, what on earth is the matter with you? One might think you cared for him yourself.
00:01:39Well, I do care for him. I love him as a sister.
00:01:43I think he is a prince amongst men.
00:01:50Really?
00:01:51Well, even you must acknowledge that he's plain and he's awkward.
00:01:56You know I like pretty things and pretty people.
00:01:58Cynthia, I won't talk to you about him.
00:02:00He shan't be run down by you, even in jest.
00:02:03Oh, well, we shan't talk about him then.
00:02:13Perhaps we shan't ever be married after all.
00:02:16Two years is a long time.
00:02:18He might change his mind, or I might.
00:02:21Or someone else might come along and say I'm engaged to him.
00:02:23What should you say to that?
00:02:38Leave it, Agnes.
00:02:42Come, my dear.
00:02:44Be comfortable for once.
00:02:46Take your tea sitting down.
00:02:48Oh, my dear one.
00:02:53Now, I have a great piece of news to tell you.
00:02:57Oh, I thought there was something on hand.
00:03:00No for it.
00:03:01Well, Roger Hamley called to see us on the day he left.
00:03:06Proposed to Cynthia and was accepted.
00:03:11Roger Hamley proposed to Cynthia?
00:03:13Why should he not?
00:03:15Well, only did not two weeks ago I gave my assurances to the squire
00:03:18that there was nothing of that sort between his sons and either of the girls.
00:03:23Well, what's done is done.
00:03:24It'll have to be a very long engagement, Annie.
00:03:26Yes, I think perhaps it will.
00:03:29But then again, perhaps it won't.
00:03:32A little bird did tell me that Osborne Hamley's life is not so very secure,
00:03:36but then what will Roger be?
00:03:39Heir to the estate.
00:03:42Oh, my.
00:03:44Robert, whatever's the matter.
00:03:47Who told you that about Osborne?
00:03:50Who told you, I say?
00:03:52Why?
00:03:53Can you deny it?
00:03:54Is it not the truth?
00:03:55I'll ask you again.
00:03:55Who told you that Osborne Hamley's life was in any more danger than yours or mine?
00:03:59Oh, don't speak in that frightening way.
00:04:02I mean, my life's not in danger, I'm sure.
00:04:09Oh, Robert.
00:04:14Little bits of glass can be so dangerous.
00:04:15Never mind the glass.
00:04:16Who told you anything about Osborne's state of health?
00:04:20If you all know, it was you.
00:04:23You, you yourself, you or Dr Nichols.
00:04:25I never spoke to you on the subject, and I don't believe Nichols did either.
00:04:28You'd better tell me at once what you're alluding to.
00:04:31Oh, I wish I'd never got married again.
00:04:34I never thought you could be so cruel.
00:04:38And you shouldn't speak your medical secrets so loud if you don't want anyone to hear them.
00:04:43And you went into the store and for a jar of preserves, it was certainly for no pleasure of mine.
00:04:48And you overheard our conversation, I suppose.
00:04:51Just a sentence or two.
00:04:52And what were they?
00:04:55Well, Dr Nichols said if he's got an aneurysm of the aorta, then his days are numbered.
00:05:00And then you replied, I hope to God I'm mistaken, but it seems he has very clear indications of symptoms.
00:05:06I see.
00:05:06And may I ask how it is that you can remember so exactly the name of the disease?
00:05:12Well, because I...
00:05:13Now, don't get angry, please.
00:05:15I see no harm in what I did.
00:05:16I went into your surgery and I looked it up.
00:05:18I mean, well, why should I not?
00:05:22Well, I suppose as one brews, one must bake.
00:05:30I don't know what you mean.
00:05:33So this is why you've changed your conduct towards Roger?
00:05:37Yeah.
00:05:38I noticed you've been more civil to him of late.
00:05:41Well, if you mean that I like him more than Osborne, you're very much mistaken.
00:05:46It's just that as Roger was the younger son, I thought it best to discourage him.
00:05:50But now that you consider him to be the proximate heir to the Hamley estate, you've made it more welcome
00:05:54here.
00:05:56Well, I don't know what you mean by proximate.
00:05:58Well, go into the surgery and look it up, then.
00:06:02You overheard a professional conversation.
00:06:05Now, don't you know that professional conversations are confidential?
00:06:10That it would be the worst thing I could do to betray secrets that I learn in the exercise of
00:06:15my profession and trade on them.
00:06:17Yes, yes, of course, you.
00:06:19And our husband and wife not one in these respects.
00:06:21I just thought that you would be glad to see Cynthia well-married and of your hands.
00:06:28I don't know what to say to you.
00:06:29You either can't or won't see what I mean.
00:06:33But had you bothered to consult me, I could have told you that Dr. Nicholl's opinion was decidedly opposed to
00:06:39mine.
00:06:40He thinks that Osborne is as likely as any other man to live, to marry and to beget children.
00:06:51Yes, well, let us review this misfortune, since I see that you know, consider it as such.
00:06:59Well, not exactly a misfortune, but had I known Dr. Nicholl's opinion...
00:07:06Well, comfort yourself, my dear.
00:07:08Roger Hamley is as fine a young man as ever breathed, with money or without.
00:07:15I only wish my Molly could meet with such another.
00:07:19I will try for Molly. I will indeed.
00:07:22No, no, no, no, no, no, no. That is one thing that I forbid.
00:07:24I will have no trying for Molly.
00:07:33Don't be angry, dear.
00:07:36For a minute there, I thought you were going to lose your temper.
00:07:40It would have been of no use.
00:07:52Breakfast is ready, sir.
00:07:54No breakfast, thank you, Maria.
00:07:56And I won't be back for dinner.
00:08:07How are you getting off in your need, Mrs. Lennon?
00:08:09Oh, well, thank you, dear.
00:08:11Oh, my God.
00:08:41Miss Gibson?
00:08:43Looking very well indeed, if I may say so.
00:08:45I was just urging upon Miss Kirkpatrick the merits of a long walk in the countryside.
00:08:49Come, Molly.
00:08:50We shall be late.
00:09:07Cynthia.
00:09:07Cynthia, I understand I am to congratulate you on your engagement to Roger Hamley.
00:09:15You've won the heart of a very fine young man, and I hope you'll both be very happy.
00:09:23We had all pledged ourselves to keep it secret, Mama included, but I'm glad that you should know it.
00:09:30You've always been a very kind friend to me.
00:09:33It truly is hardly an engagement, though.
00:09:35He wouldn't allow me to bind myself by any promise till his return.
00:09:38I hope you're worthy of him, Cynthia.
00:09:40I've never known a truer or a warmer heart than Roger's, and I've known him since he was a little
00:09:45boy.
00:09:46You're not very complimentary, are you, Mr Gibson?
00:09:50Still, he finds me worthy, I suppose.
00:09:54If you think so highly of him, you ought to respect his judgment of me.
00:10:05Why does he not have to speak to me like that?
00:10:11Cynthia, I'm afraid I must speak to the squire about this.
00:10:15But I gave him my word that I would, if anything of the kind arose.
00:10:19It was the one thing I stipulated for secrecy.
00:10:22But why keep it secret from the family?
00:10:24Surely in any case, Roger will tell his father.
00:10:26No, no, he won't, because I made him promise.
00:10:30I think he's one to respect a promise.
00:10:32Well, let's give him a chance then, shall we?
00:10:34I won't go over to the hall till the end of the week.
00:10:36He may have written and told his father by then.
00:10:39So a man's promise is to override a woman's wish then, is it?
00:10:42I don't see why it shouldn't.
00:10:44Mr. Gibson, will you please trust me when I tell you
00:10:46this will cause me a great deal of distress if it gets known?
00:10:50Telling the boy's father is not making it public.
00:10:52I don't like this exaggerated desire for secrecy, Cynthia.
00:10:56Seems to me as if something more than as apparent is concealed behind it.
00:11:02Come on, Molly.
00:11:03Let's play that new duet I taught you.
00:11:13Let's play that new duet I taught you.
00:11:30Eh!
00:11:31Ah!
00:11:53Cynthia Kirkpatrick has entered into an understanding of Roger.
00:11:57Cynthia Kirkpatrick, you say?
00:12:00I was hoping Roger would have told you in a letter.
00:12:02It shows you have no sons.
00:12:04Half these sons are mysteries to their fathers.
00:12:06Look at Osborne.
00:12:07I've got no more idea what goes on in his head than the man in the moon.
00:12:11I thought Roger would be different.
00:12:13He's a good lad.
00:12:14It's thanks to him I'm able to put these drainage works back into commission, you see.
00:12:19This Kirkpatrick.
00:12:21Not the match I've been hoping for.
00:12:23I suppose she's no money.
00:12:25Well, about £20 a year at my pleasure.
00:12:28Oh, well, as good as not Osborne.
00:12:31But what family is she of?
00:12:33She's not a trade, her beings are poor.
00:12:36I understand her father was the grandson of a baronet.
00:12:40That's something, that's something.
00:12:42But what sort of girl is she, Gibson?
00:12:46I don't know what you mean.
00:12:47Yes, you do. You're offended with me or you'd have answered me straight.
00:12:50You know what I mean?
00:12:51Is she like Molly, sweet-tempered and sensible and ready to do anything when asked her?
00:12:56She's very pretty.
00:12:58She's prettier than Molly, I have to admit.
00:13:01She has very winning ways.
00:13:03I'm not sure that she feels things quite so keenly as Molly does.
00:13:08But all in all, I think she's one in a hundred.
00:13:11Oh, well, Molly's one in a thousand.
00:13:13But she's of no family, you see.
00:13:15No money either.
00:13:16Otherwise, she'd make the perfect wife to either of my two lads.
00:13:20Well, as there's no question of Molly in this business,
00:13:23then there's no need to bring her name into it, is there?
00:13:25I must get off. Good day to you, sir.
00:13:26Hang on.
00:13:27You smoothed her old friends.
00:13:29Don't take offence.
00:13:29You're a fool to take offence.
00:13:31Look, bring her round to the hall.
00:13:33We'll have lunch.
00:13:34And bring her mother and Molly.
00:13:36And let me see the girl myself.
00:13:39Madam, your wife and I didn't hit it off the only time I ever saw her.
00:13:43I'm not saying she was very silly,
00:13:45but one of us was very silly, and it wasn't me.
00:13:48Thursday suits you.
00:13:49Yes, you wish.
00:14:08Got it?
00:14:09No, you've got to hold it proper, sir.
00:14:11I'm not too tired.
00:14:13It's all in the wrist, sir.
00:14:15The moon.
00:14:16I sort of arch you.
00:14:17Then I'll get a little thick, quick, like you see.
00:14:20That's right.
00:14:21You look good, pal.
00:14:23We'll make a fisherman again.
00:14:26Sorry.
00:14:31Arch you, sir.
00:14:33Arch you, sir.
00:14:35I can't forget the moon.
00:14:37I can't forget the moon.
00:14:38I can't forget the moon.
00:14:38I can't forget the moon.
00:14:39I can't forget the moon.
00:14:49Ah, we've got him.
00:14:51We've got him.
00:14:51We've got him.
00:14:52I'll get the moon.
00:14:57Ah, he's a little too.
00:15:00Look, Molly, I caught one.
00:15:03Well done, lass.
00:15:04He's a grander.
00:15:05He, he, he, he, he.
00:15:47So, how did it go off?
00:15:50It got on very well, I think.
00:15:52How could anyone not like Cynthia?
00:15:54No, well, she puts herself out to please.
00:15:57Do you think that she's...
00:15:58Do you think that she's right for him, Molly?
00:16:02Right for Roger?
00:16:04She's a very charming young girl,
00:16:06but somehow I don't quite understand her.
00:16:08Why should she want all this secrecy?
00:16:12I don't know.
00:16:14I don't think I understand her either,
00:16:16but I do love her.
00:16:18Well, how is Osborne? Was he there?
00:16:20No, I think he had to go and see...
00:16:25Do something else.
00:16:27Molly, this business with Cynthia and Roger
00:16:29took me by surprise.
00:16:31If there's anything else of the sort in the offing,
00:16:34I think you'd better tell me at once.
00:16:37If you mean you're afraid that Osborne thinks of me as Roger
00:16:40does of Cynthia, you're quite mistaken.
00:16:43Osborne and I are friends.
00:16:45We could never be anything more.
00:16:47That's all I can tell you.
00:16:50That's quite enough, little one.
00:16:52It's a great relief.
00:16:53Oh, Papa.
00:16:55Oh, there, there, there.
00:16:57There's nothing the matter, is there?
00:17:00No.
00:17:01Only I wish I could have you all to myself more often.
00:17:05Yes.
00:17:06Well.
00:17:09Run along now.
00:17:11I'm very glad to hear that you won't be carried off
00:17:14by any young man just yet a while.
00:17:39Roger Hamley.
00:17:50Good pair of English legs here.
00:17:57My dearest Cynthia,
00:17:59it's just as well I was as strong as an ox
00:18:02when I set off.
00:18:03This country is extraordinary
00:18:05and a constant challenge every day.
00:18:08New hazards and new adventures.
00:18:11I'm learning the language
00:18:13and more importantly,
00:18:15how to survive in this wonderful land.
00:18:21Miss Kirkpatrick!
00:18:23A letter from Africa!
00:18:44He sends you his best regards
00:18:46and his compliments to you, Mama.
00:18:51Where is he, Cynthia?
00:18:52What does he say?
00:18:52Where?
00:18:53I didn't look exactly.
00:18:55Somewhere in Abyssinia.
00:18:56Um,
00:18:58Huron?
00:18:59Does that make you any the wiser?
00:19:01Well, Harron.
00:19:02Harron, perhaps.
00:19:03Yes, I think you're right.
00:19:05Oh, Molly, you are clever.
00:19:06How did you guess?
00:19:07Fancy knowing anything about Abyssinia.
00:19:08I looked in the world atlas.
00:19:10I wanted to make some sort of picture for myself
00:19:11of where he was.
00:19:14Is he well, Cynthia?
00:19:15Well enough.
00:19:16He says he has a touch of fever.
00:19:17Fever?
00:19:18Yes, but he thinks he'll be quite acclimatized soon.
00:19:20But who will take care of him?
00:19:22Oh, I don't think he gets much caring for.
00:19:24I think it's pretty much sink or swim in Abyssinia.
00:19:29No doctors or nurses there.
00:19:31Still, he has plenty of quinine with him.
00:19:34At any rate, he thinks he's all the men now,
00:19:36so that's all right.
00:19:37But what if he isn't?
00:19:39Oh, no, we mustn't think that.
00:19:41Oh, Cynthia, how you must have been worrying about him.
00:19:44Well, as a matter of fact, I haven't been worrying about him.
00:19:48See, I made my mind up before he went not to worry.
00:19:51I mean, if anything did, well, you know, go wrong,
00:19:55it'll all be over before I even heard of it.
00:19:56Don't say that, Cynthia.
00:19:58Oh, moderate your tone, dear.
00:20:00What Cynthia's saying is only common sense after all.
00:20:02And what is the point of worrying about something
00:20:04one can't help and may never happen?
00:20:05And he does say he's feeling better now, Molly.
00:20:10What else does he say?
00:20:12I mean, things that I may hear.
00:20:15Lovers' letters are so silly,
00:20:16and I think this is sillier than usual.
00:20:19Um, ah.
00:20:22Here's a piece you may read.
00:20:24Couldn't get on with this myself.
00:20:25It's all about Aristotle and Pliny
00:20:27and some beetle he's found that proves something or another.
00:20:32Yes, do take it with you if you like.
00:20:34Well, I must get this hat made up before I go out.
00:20:38Try it.
00:20:47Oh, God, let him live.
00:20:50Let him live.
00:20:52Even if I never set eyes on him again.
00:20:55Grant him he'd come home safe.
00:20:57And be happy.
00:21:04Let him live.
00:21:15Let him live.
00:21:16Let him live.
00:21:19Let him live.
00:21:22Let him live.
00:21:23Let him live.
00:21:23Let him live.
00:21:23Let him live.
00:21:26Let him live.
00:21:34A former pupil of mine, a Mr. Cox, wants to pay us a visit, Hyazinth.
00:21:40Oh.
00:21:41He's relinquished the profession. I'm relieved, dear.
00:21:45And it's come into a great deal of money.
00:21:49Oh.
00:21:51It's such a pleasure to meet my husband's former pupils, Mr. Cox.
00:21:55He's spoken to me so often about you.
00:21:58Indeed, ma'am.
00:21:59Well, I was very happy here.
00:22:04Um.
00:22:05Is Miss Gibson still at home? I should very much like to...
00:22:09Oh, yes, yes. She'll be coming directly, along with my own daughter, Cynthia.
00:22:13Mr. Cox.
00:22:16Is it you?
00:22:17Yes. You remembered me. I was so afraid that you wouldn't.
00:22:21Well, you're so much grown.
00:22:23You're so much from...
00:22:25Um.
00:22:25Well, I suppose I mustn't say what I was...
00:22:28Yeah.
00:22:32This is Miss Kirkpatrick, my stepsister.
00:22:36Mr. Cox.
00:22:38Um.
00:22:39How do you do?
00:22:40How do you do, Mr. Cox?
00:22:47Mr. Gibson.
00:22:49I dare say you'll be surprised, sir, at what I want to say.
00:22:52But I think it's the part of an honourable man, as you said yourself, sir, a year or two ago,
00:22:57to speak to the father first.
00:22:59And as you, sir, stand in the place of a father to Miss Kirkpatrick, I should like to express my
00:23:06feelings, my, er, hopes.
00:23:09Miss Kirkpatrick?
00:23:11I do assure you, sir, that I came here with a heart as faithful to your daughter as ever beat
00:23:16in a man's breast.
00:23:17But it soon became clear to me that her manner towards me, though friendly, was in no way...
00:23:24Well, it was... wasn't...
00:23:27While Miss Kirkpatrick...
00:23:29Um.
00:23:31While Miss Kirkpatrick?
00:23:33Uh, I was only going to say, sir, that I think that I may venture to hope that Miss Kirkpatrick
00:23:38welcomes my attentions.
00:23:40I don't believe that Miss Kirkpatrick could ever have meant to encourage you.
00:23:43Oh, I think so, if you could have seen her.
00:23:47At any rate, you won't mind me taking me chance and speaking to her.
00:23:52No, but if you'll take my advice, you'll spare yourself the pain of her refusal.
00:23:56I think I ought to tell you that her affections are otherwise engaged.
00:24:00Oh, I cannot believe that.
00:24:02No, there must be some mistake.
00:24:04I don't see how she could have misunderstood my meaning.
00:24:08Perhaps her affections may have been engaged before.
00:24:12But isn't it possible that she might come to prefer another?
00:24:16By another, you mean yourself, I suppose.
00:24:20I can believe in such inconstancy.
00:24:23But I'd be very sorry to think that Miss Kirkpatrick could be guilty.
00:24:27But you will allow me to ask for her answer?
00:24:29Certainly, my poor fellow.
00:24:32If you must.
00:24:33Oh, thank you, sir.
00:24:35God bless you for a kind friend.
00:24:38Um, Miss Kirkpatrick, can I tell you more of a place where these last few things are going to be
00:24:47here?
00:24:48Oh, thank you, sir.
00:24:55Oh, thank you, sir.
00:25:19Molly, you must never trifle with the love of an honest man.
00:25:24You don't know what pain you may get.
00:25:30Molly, you'll never guess.
00:25:33Oh, Mr. Cox asked me to give you both his kind regards.
00:25:39I believe he's leaving Honingford this afternoon.
00:25:42I trust this will never occur again, Cynthia.
00:25:45What am I to think of a young woman in your position, engaged and yet accepting the overtures of another
00:25:51man?
00:25:52Do you realise what unnecessary pain you have given that young man by your thoughtless behaviour?
00:25:57I call it thoughtless.
00:26:00I could call it something worse.
00:26:01Well, please, Mr. Gibson, hear my side of the story before you speak so severely to me.
00:26:06Well, I didn't mean to flirt.
00:26:08I'm only meant to be a crib.
00:26:10I can't help doing that, can I?
00:26:12That goose for Mr. Cox.
00:26:13Imagine that I was encouraging him.
00:26:15Well, do you mean that you weren't aware that he was falling in love with you?
00:26:20Well, I suppose, to speak truly, I did think once or twice he might be.
00:26:25But I do hate you in cold water and people, and I never imagined he could take it into his
00:26:29silly head
00:26:29to imagine himself seriously in love and to make such a fuss.
00:26:33Well, you seem to have been pretty well aware of his silliness.
00:26:35You should have considered what it might lead to and what it has led to.
00:26:38Well, perhaps.
00:26:40I dare say I'm all wrong and he's all right.
00:26:42Well, really, it seems to me...
00:26:46In any case, I'm not finally engaged.
00:26:49Roger wouldn't allow it.
00:26:50I would have done it, but he wouldn't let me.
00:26:52I don't want to hear anyone about this.
00:26:53I've said all that I mean to say.
00:26:55I'm willing to believe that you were only thoughtless.
00:26:58But don't let it happen again.
00:27:06Well.
00:27:08Not proven, but we recommend the prisoner not to do it again.
00:27:12It's pretty much that, isn't it, Molly?
00:27:35I do believe your father might make a good woman of me yet.
00:27:39If he'd only take the pains, it was not quite so severe.
00:27:43I was afraid poor Mr. Cox was becoming very fond of you.
00:27:46I wish I had said something now.
00:27:48Oh, it wouldn't have made any difference if you had.
00:27:50I knew he'd like me.
00:27:53Well, I like to be liked.
00:27:54He just shouldn't have carried it too far.
00:27:57I shall hate red-haired people for the rest of my life.
00:28:01Oh, I knew he came here to propose to you.
00:28:04Well, you were disagreeable, so I took pity on him.
00:28:10Shall you tell Roger about it?
00:28:11Oh, no.
00:28:14Well, I don't know.
00:28:16Perhaps if we're ever married.
00:28:17Do you know?
00:28:19I have a feeling I shan't ever get married to him.
00:28:22I don't know why.
00:28:23Still, best not to tell him all my secrets.
00:28:25Imagine if he knew them and then it never came off.
00:28:27I think it would break his heart.
00:28:29Molly, there's no need to be so dreadfully serious about everything.
00:28:34It's not my nature to go into ecstasies.
00:28:37I don't think I shall ever be in love.
00:28:40But I'm glad he loves me.
00:28:42And I like his face ten thousand times more than Mr. Preston's handsomeness.
00:28:47Mr. Preston?
00:28:48What should you think of me if I married him after all?
00:28:51Married Mr. Preston?
00:28:56Or has he ever asked you?
00:28:58More unlikely things have happened.
00:29:05Have you never heard of strong wills, mesmerising weaker ones,
00:29:10until they can't even think for themselves?
00:29:21Cynthia.
00:29:24Well, he's not a man to be easily thrown off, I can tell you.
00:29:30Oh, I wish Roger were rich and could marry me at once
00:29:34and carry me away from that man.
00:29:36Cynthia, what is this all about?
00:29:40Oh.
00:29:42Money matters are at the root of it.
00:29:46Corrin poverty.
00:29:49Oh, dear, let's talk about something else.
00:29:52You'll make me feel so...
00:29:57I've never lived with good people before.
00:29:59I don't quite know how to behave.
00:30:00I don't believe that's really true, nor does Roger, I'm sure.
00:30:04Of course he thinks I'm good.
00:30:05He's in love with me.
00:30:06Yes.
00:30:07He's in love with you.
00:30:09And he...
00:30:10He depends upon you, so you should...
00:30:13You should try to deserve him.
00:30:21He's in love with me.
00:30:29Oh, dear.
00:30:36You should try to...
00:30:38You should give me a hand.
00:30:41Mmm.
00:30:41I'll come.
00:30:43Go, get him.
00:30:44Hmm.
00:30:45I'll come.
00:30:57it is sundown Cynthia they are singing outside my tent the men say it's about a
00:31:04chap who pines for a girl in a distant land they're teasing me of course they
00:31:10often do thank Molly for her letter tell her I had a sighting today of a glorious
00:31:18lizard and have found more of the great black bugs that I told her about a
00:31:23species of Reduvius she'll know which I mean the Abyssinian wilds would not suit
00:31:34you dearest Cynthia that your love sustains me in this savage land
00:32:18I think they might have remembered that I'm a generation closer to them than she is
00:32:22but no one thinks about family affection nowadays do they
00:32:31if you want us to sympathize you will have to tell us what the matter is well I dare say
00:32:36it
00:32:36was meant as a kind attention I just think that he should have asked me first before Cynthia and
00:32:41who is he and what is meant for a kind attention mr. Kirkpatrick to be sure my brother-in-law
00:32:47Cynthia's uncle he wants Cynthia to go and stay with them in London but he hasn't even mentioned
00:32:53you and me and I think he should have asked us first at all as I couldn't possibly go it
00:32:58makes
00:32:58very little difference to me no no but I could have gone and at any rate could have paid me
00:33:05the
00:33:05compliment I have a great mind not to let her go well I can't go in any case mama I've
00:33:10nothing
00:33:11to wear my gowns are all so shabby and I remember my aunt was very particular about dress
00:33:15please write at once and refuse it nonsense child nothing to wear why what's happened to all
00:33:21your money you've 20 pounds a year thanks to mr. Gibson and me well however it's come about I have
00:33:25no money to spend now so that's that you couldn't spend more than 10 pounds so where's it gone
00:33:29mama it may sound very cross but I must tell you once and for all that as I didn't ask
00:33:33for
00:33:33and don't want any more than my allowance I shan't answer any questions as to what I do with it
00:33:41well I don't understand that at all do you mama no I know she's not at all extravagant
00:33:47she may have given it away to someone who wants it it is very clear that she has neither the
00:33:54dress
00:33:54nor the money for this London trip and she doesn't want any further inquiries into the subject she likes
00:34:00mysteries in fact I detest them but as I think it is desirable for her to keep up a friendship
00:34:05with
00:34:05her father's family I will gladly give her 10 pounds oh what a generous man you are mr. Gibson to
00:34:13my poor fatherless daughter and I think maybe I should accompany her and stay for a day or two you
00:34:21know a lady cumbers in town are not at all in good health and yes it would ease my spirits
00:34:26if I were
00:34:26to see her and offer her what comfort I can well that's if if you think that you could bear
00:34:31to fend
00:34:32for yourselves just for a day or two oh no we shouldn't mind at all should we papa looking
00:34:37after ourselves no no no no no we shall bear it as best we can my dear
00:34:50oh I do think mr. Gibson's the coming is fair I know take a little bit to London I shall
00:34:57go
00:35:00oh Mary you don't think it's a very wicked and flight of me to want to go to London do
00:35:03I mean on
00:35:04account of Roger and everything no of course you should go
00:35:09oh I do think mr. Gibson lives I could I hope you're not those growing crazy the pair of you
00:35:16what's all this about I pray just glad we're going to London well I think you might try and express
00:35:23your
00:35:23happiness in a more ladylike manner darling Osborne Hamley is down in the consulting room with mr. Gibson
00:35:29and I don't know what he'd think if he heard you how ill that poor young man looks your father
00:35:36thinks it may not be very grievous after all but I don't think he has long to live
00:35:42oh but what will happen if he dies well he'd be sad of course and I'm sure we'd all feel
00:35:48it very
00:35:49much I've no doubt but we mustn't forget the living Molly and if the worst were to happen then our
00:35:56own
00:35:56dear Roger would do everything in his power to step into Osborne's place and Cynthia's marriage
00:36:02need not be so long delayed well ma how can you speak of Osborne's death and my marriage in the
00:36:08same breath well it's a very natural thought dear a young man strikes us all as looking very ill and
00:36:14I'm sure I'm sorry for it but illness often leads to death and I'm sure you'd agree with me so
00:36:19what's the harm in saying so and then Molly asks the question what happens if he dies and I try
00:36:24to
00:36:25answer her I mean I don't want to talk about death any more than anyone else but one has to
00:36:29look forward
00:36:30to the consequences indeed I think we're commanded to do so somewhere aren't we in the Bible or in the
00:36:39prayer book do you look forward to the consequences of my death mother Cynthia you really are the most
00:36:45unfeeling girl I've ever met with oh I was hoping to speak to him what about Gussie nothing in particular
00:37:00is he really very ill it's one of those cases where it's not possible to be certain but I am
00:37:07anxious about
00:37:08him yes but I haven't told him that and nor should you but if he is really in danger he'd
00:37:14want to
00:37:16arrange his affairs wouldn't he consider that but the fear and anxiety could itself precipitate a crisis
00:37:22surely he has the right to know no no best to leave him in ignorance and to hope for a
00:37:27complete
00:37:27recovery now I say this in absolute confidence Molly because I trust you completely you at any rate
00:37:34understand how to keep your counsel don't make yourself over anxious about Osborne he may be well yet
00:38:05ah they are very odd sort of day neither one thing or the other
00:38:17I had a letter from Roger he's very well had a good Christmas
00:38:25look here Osborne do you know anything about this engagement of Rogers a pretty girl very pretty
00:38:33not one I'd have chosen miss Kirkpatrick hi that's the one I wonder he never told me
00:38:39well he he never told me either Gibson come over there and made a clean breast of it like a
00:38:46man of
00:38:46honor well if it go on it was only Roger and you if it had been you I'd have broken
00:38:51with Gibson
00:38:52and every mother's son of him so I told Gibson father I beg your pardon but I claim the right
00:38:57of
00:38:57choosing my wife for myself with no one's interference do you now then you'll keep your wife with no
00:39:02one's interference for you won't get a penny from me unless you marry to please me a little as well
00:39:06as yourself a great deal that's all I ask and she can be pretty or not and I don't mind
00:39:14if she's a bit
00:39:15older than you but she must be well born and the more money she brings to the old place the
00:39:20better I
00:39:21say again father I must choose my wife myself and I won't be dictated to even by you sir
00:39:28well if I'm not to be father thou shan't be son go against me in this and you'll find there's
00:39:34a
00:39:34devil to pay I mean it Osborne you're the only manageable one left in the market and I want
00:39:38to hoist the old family up again don't go against me Osborne it really will break my house if you
00:39:50do
00:39:50father don't say that I will do anything I can to apply to you anything except except the one thing
00:39:58I've set my heart on your doing
00:40:00I've set my heart on your doing
00:40:01I've set my heart on your doing
00:40:30what am I going to do
00:40:38what am I going to do
00:41:15now papa I should have it to myself for a whole week you'll have to be very obedient
00:41:19shall I indeed
00:41:21well now here's a rare sight
00:41:24mr. Gibson and his daughter walking together in the middle of the day
00:41:28all right ladies yes we've just been seeing my wife and her daughter off to London
00:41:31mrs. Gibson has gone up for a week
00:41:33only a week
00:41:34hey dearie dear I can remember when it was a three day journey to London
00:41:38she'd scarce have time to go and come back
00:41:41will it be very lonely for you molly without your young companion
00:41:44yes I shall miss her very much
00:41:46but papa and I
00:41:47you mr. Gibson it'll be like being a widower again
00:41:50you must come and drink tea with us some evening
00:41:52and molly too
00:41:53oh yes and you must come to our house as well
00:41:56we must try and cheer you up a bit amongst us
00:41:58shall it be Tuesday
00:41:59well that's very kind but I have one or two pressing cases
00:42:04but I'll see what I can do but I think I can promise for more lady
00:42:08good day to you ladies
00:42:10oh thank you
00:42:12ah could you waste one of our evenings
00:42:14we have at six evenings altogether and I reckon of us doing all sorts of things
00:42:17just the two of us
00:42:18what sort of things
00:42:19oh I don't know
00:42:20everything that's unrefined
00:42:23by toil and labour I've reached a fair height of refinement
00:42:25and I won't be poured down again
00:42:26oh yes just for a week you will
00:42:29we'll have bread and cheese for dinner
00:42:31and eat it on our knees
00:42:32and we'll put our knives into our mouths
00:42:34until we cut ourselves
00:42:35and you shall pour your teeth
00:43:04two letters in a week
00:43:05two letters in a week
00:43:06well that's very proper
00:43:09when I'd lump and tape me postage any more
00:43:11we'd be extravagant
00:43:13and what does Cynthia say
00:43:14is she enjoying herself
00:43:15oh yes very much I think
00:43:18I've been to a dinner party
00:43:20and one night when Mama was at Lady Cummings
00:43:22Cynthia went to the play with her cousins
00:43:24upon my word
00:43:25and all in one week
00:43:28I do call that dissipation
00:43:30because Thursday we'll be taken up with the travelling
00:43:32and Friday we're resting
00:43:34Sunday is Sunday all over the world
00:43:38well I hope she won't find Olingford dull
00:43:40when she comes back
00:43:41I don't think that's likely Sally
00:43:43not now Mr Preston's moving to town
00:43:46seeing a great deal of Mr Preston
00:43:48haven't you Molly
00:43:50Mr Preston?
00:43:51no what should make you think so?
00:43:53oh a little bird told us
00:43:54what do you mean?
00:43:56who told you?
00:43:57oh little birds don't have names
00:43:59I think you'll find
00:44:00but this little bird
00:44:01was flying about one day in Heath Lane
00:44:04and it saw Mr Preston with the young lady
00:44:07we won't say who
00:44:08walking together in a very friendly manner
00:44:10well that is to say
00:44:11he was on horseback
00:44:13because just there
00:44:14the path is raised above the roof
00:44:16no no perhaps Molly is in the secret
00:44:18and we ought not to ask her about it
00:44:21it could be no great secret sister
00:44:22Miss Hornblower says that Mr Preston
00:44:24owns to being engaged
00:44:26well if he is engaged
00:44:28it's not to Cynthia
00:44:28that I know for certain
00:44:31and I do wish you'd put a stop
00:44:33to any such reports
00:44:34you don't know what mischief they may do
00:44:36I do so hate that kind of chatter
00:44:38oity-toity
00:44:40kindly remember
00:44:41I'm old enough to be your mother
00:44:42Miss Molly
00:44:44chatter
00:44:46to be sure
00:44:49I beg your pardon
00:44:50Miss Browning
00:44:51oh but don't you see
00:44:52how bad it is to talk
00:44:53of such things in that way
00:44:55supposing
00:44:57supposing one of them
00:44:57cared for somebody else
00:44:59and that might
00:45:00happen you know
00:45:01Mr Preston
00:45:02for example
00:45:03he may be engaged
00:45:04to somebody else
00:45:05well if he is
00:45:06I pity the young lady
00:45:07indeed I do
00:45:09but he's a great flirt
00:45:12and young ladies
00:45:13better not have too much
00:45:14to do with him
00:45:15Miss Browning
00:45:16I beg you would not
00:45:16talk about it anymore
00:45:18I have my reasons
00:45:19for asking
00:45:34Phoebe
00:45:38it was Molly herself
00:45:39that was with Mr Preston
00:45:41in Heath Lane
00:45:41goodness gracious
00:45:43how do you know
00:45:43by putting two and two together
00:45:45didn't you notice
00:45:46how pale she went
00:45:47and how she said
00:45:48she knew for a fact
00:45:49that Mr Preston
00:45:50and Miss Kirkpatrick
00:45:51were not engaged
00:45:52perhaps not engaged
00:45:53but Mrs Goodenough
00:45:55saw them loitering together
00:45:56Mrs Goodenough
00:45:57is in none of the best
00:45:58no I'll answer for it
00:45:59she saw Molly
00:46:00and took her
00:46:01for Cynthia
00:46:02well
00:46:04perhaps it wouldn't be
00:46:04so very bad a match
00:46:05Sally
00:46:06about as bad a match
00:46:07as it could be
00:46:08he plays billiards
00:46:09you know
00:46:10and he bets at the races
00:46:11and Miss Hornblower
00:46:12told me
00:46:12that he was engaged
00:46:14to a very pretty
00:46:14Miss Gregson before
00:46:15and her father
00:46:16made inquiries
00:46:17and what he heard
00:46:18made him make her
00:46:19break off the match
00:46:20and she's dead since
00:46:22oh sorry
00:46:23now we might do
00:46:24for Cynthia
00:46:25she's been brought up
00:46:26in France
00:46:27so she might not
00:46:28be too particular
00:46:29but he mustn't have Molly
00:46:31we must keep on
00:46:32the loo count Phoebe
00:46:33I'll be her guardian angel
00:46:35in spite of herself
00:46:53I wonder how you are
00:46:54dear Cynthia
00:46:56I often picture you
00:46:57walking in the garden
00:46:59I've had a bit of a fall
00:47:01but I believe I shall soon
00:47:03be on the mend again
00:47:04how has Molly
00:47:06has she been to the hall
00:47:08to see my father
00:47:09he's so
00:47:10so fond of her
00:47:13I long to hear from you
00:47:15the rains must have made
00:47:16the post from England
00:47:18slower than usual
00:47:19I suppose
00:47:21write soon
00:47:21and tell me
00:47:22how you are
00:47:23and what you're thinking
00:47:25and doing
00:47:52what you're thinking
00:48:20Oh, most delightful visit.
00:48:22I should have been so sorry to come away,
00:48:24but I knew how you'd be missing me.
00:48:26Yes, indeed.
00:48:27Oh, they live in great style.
00:48:29The Lord Chancellor himself could hardly do better.
00:48:33And Mr. Kirkpatrick's career has been most successful.
00:48:36A Queen's Council, you know, and Head of Chambers.
00:48:38And they couldn't do enough for Cynthia.
00:48:41Two new ballgowns.
00:48:43If I say so myself, she had more admirers than any of her cousins.
00:48:48Young Mr. Henderson was quite smitten with her, I believe.
00:48:52He's the most promising young man in Mr. Kirkpatrick's chambers.
00:48:56So, all in all, they're so fond of her,
00:48:58I don't know when we'll see her back.
00:49:00A letter came from Africa two days ago and I sent it on.
00:49:03Did she say anything about what was in it?
00:49:06Yes, yes, it made her very uneasy, poor child.
00:49:09And then she was inclined not to go to Mr. Rawson's ball that evening
00:49:12and I told her there was nothing to get fidgety about.
00:49:14That he was laid up after a fall.
00:49:17He's had a fall, yes.
00:49:19But he was better by the time he wrote
00:49:21and he's got a very strong constitution, hasn't he, Mr. Gibson?
00:49:24Ah, yes, yes.
00:49:25And where he is, he has need of one.
00:49:28And after all, it's not a formal engagement.
00:49:30And Cynthia could hardly excuse herself by saying,
00:49:32Oh, a young man I know took a tumble two months ago in Africa
00:49:35and now I can't go to the ball this evening.
00:49:38That would seem just like an affectation of sentiment.
00:49:40And if there's one thing I hate, it's that.
00:49:45Quit.
00:49:47Good morning, Miss Gibson.
00:49:58Good morning, Miss Gibson.
00:50:00Miss Kirkpatrick returns today, does she not?
00:50:04Yes.
00:50:05We'll be happy to see her, I think.
00:50:07Yes, good morning.
00:50:18There, now, will you look at that.
00:50:22You had no call for arse, Mr. Sheepshanks,
00:50:25when you were Lord Cumnor's land agent.
00:50:27Ah, well, young Preston reckons himself to be a bit above a land agent.
00:50:32A gentleman and a ladies' man and a gambling man and all.
00:50:35I wouldn't trust him any further than I could throw him.
00:50:38Well, that's not fair.
00:50:41Good day to you.
00:50:45Poor Molly.
00:50:51Oh!
00:50:52Hello.
00:50:54Did you miss me?
00:50:58Excuse me.
00:50:59Can I have my breath?
00:51:01He's feeling much better.
00:51:03Learning another new dialect.
00:51:06More about Beatles.
00:51:08I think I'll save this one up for later.
00:51:12Look what they gave me, Molly.
00:51:14Oh!
00:51:18They were so good to me.
00:51:25Do you wish you were still there?
00:51:28In some ways, I do.
00:51:30There's something rather oppressive about the Hollingford somehow.
00:51:36Nothing to do with you, Molly, of course.
00:51:38But, er...
00:51:39One does feel more... more carefree in London.
00:51:42Does that sound very wicked of me?
00:51:47Might be interested in this paragraph here, Cynthia.
00:51:57Well, what is it?
00:52:00May I see?
00:52:01Yes, of course.
00:52:02There's nothing private about it.
00:52:05Proceedings of the Geographical Society.
00:52:08Lord Hollingford read a letter he'd received from Mr. Roger Hamley.
00:52:13Oh, Cynthia, isn't it wonderful?
00:52:16Yes, I suppose it is.
00:52:18It's not news to me, though.
00:52:20I heard about the meeting before I left London.
00:52:21It was a good deal talked about in my uncle's set.
00:52:23You mean you could have gone?
00:52:25Yes, I suppose I could.
00:52:26But, er...
00:52:27I think they'd have been rather astonished by my sudden turn for science.
00:52:31If you'd told your uncle how things really stood.
00:52:34With Roger, I mean.
00:52:35Molly, once and for all, please do learn to understand.
00:52:37I don't want my relation to Roger mentioned or talked about.
00:52:42If I'm pushed to it, I'd rather break it off altogether at once than have done with it.
00:52:51Oh, Miss Browning, they were so fond of Cynthia, you would hardly believe it.
00:52:56And, you know, she has had three letters from London this week already, Marquise.
00:53:01Three letters? Fancy that.
00:53:03It must almost be as good as living there.
00:53:05Oh, a great deal better, I should think.
00:53:08As far as I can judge of London.
00:53:10It's no better than a pickpocket in a robber dressed up in the spoils of honest folk.
00:53:15No, I've no patience with London.
00:53:18In my opinion, Cynthia's much better out of it.
00:53:21And if I were you, Mrs Gibson, I'm not sure I wouldn't stop up those London letters.
00:53:26They'll only be unsettling.
00:53:28But perhaps she may live in London one of these days, Miss Browning.
00:53:34Well, I wish you an honest country husband with enough to live upon and little to lay by and a
00:53:40good character, Cynthia.
00:53:42Well, thank you, Miss Browning.
00:53:43Mind that, Molly.
00:53:44I wish Cynthia a husband with a good character.
00:53:48She's got a mother to look after her and you've none.
00:53:52I beg your pardon, Miss Browning.
00:53:53And when your mother was alive, she was a dear friend of mine.
00:53:56So I'm not about to let you throw yourself away upon anyone whose life is not clear and above board.
00:54:01You may depend upon it.
00:54:02I'm sure you're very much mistaken, Miss Browning, if you think that any mother could take more care of Molly
00:54:07than I do.
00:54:08Oh, I didn't mean to offend you, Mrs Gibson.
00:54:11As stepmothers go, I think you try and do your duty.
00:54:14No, I'm just meant to give Molly a hint.
00:54:17She understands what I mean.
00:54:18I'm sure I do not.
00:54:20I haven't a notion what you mean if you were alluding to anything more than you said straight out.
00:54:25I'm not thinking of marrying at all.
00:54:27But if I did, and if you were not a good man, then I should thank you for coming and
00:54:30warning me of it.
00:54:31You shan't stand on warning you, Molly.
00:54:33I shall forbid the bans in church, if need be.
00:54:36Do.
00:54:42Trying to do my duty, indeed.
00:54:46Everybody knows I have always done my duty without talking about it before my face in that rude manner.
00:54:54I have that deep feeling about duty that I think it ought only to be talked about in church and
00:54:59sacred places like that.
00:55:01Not in someone's sitting room.
00:55:03With everyone drinking tea.
00:55:05As if I didn't look after you quite as well as I do, Cynthia.
00:55:10I think perhaps Miss Browning has got some notion about Mr Preston.
00:55:14She spoke to me about him once before.
00:55:18What could have put that into her head?
00:55:21Well, I may not always approve of Mr Preston, but if it was him that she was thinking of, he's
00:55:26far more agreeable than she is.
00:55:27And I would rather keep his company than hers any day.
00:55:39Where's Cynthia, Molly?
00:55:40She's gone out.
00:55:42Oh, that's a pity.
00:55:43I've got old Simpson's dog cart.
00:55:45I was going to offer you both a drive out on my way to the lodge.
00:55:48Would you like to come?
00:55:50I'll get my bullet.
00:55:53Means you'd have to walk home on your own.
00:55:55Come on.
00:56:17I used to bring your mother here.
00:56:24Aye, ma'am.
00:56:25Jump down, lassie.
00:56:26Make the best of your way back before he gets to luck.
00:56:29You'll find the cut over crossing heath is quicker than the road we came by.
00:56:57You don't know your own mind.
00:56:59Why would you be kidding me?
00:57:01Why?
00:57:02Come here.
00:57:03Don't go.
00:57:04Oh, no, please.
00:57:05Just let me take it.
00:57:07No.
00:57:08Please.
00:57:09You gave your promise freely enough.
00:57:11Why should you not keep it?
00:57:12Because I can't bear it.
00:57:14Let me go.
00:57:15Please.
00:57:17Molly!
00:57:18What is it?
00:57:18What's the matter?
00:57:20I think you should let her go now.
00:57:27Has Miss Gibson ceased fit to interrupt a private conversation?
00:57:31Perhaps we can fix a time and place where we can meet again without the presence of a third party.
00:57:36I'll go now if Cynthia wants me to.
00:57:38No.
00:57:38No, stay.
00:57:39I want you to hear it.
00:57:42I should have told her sooner.
00:57:44Miss Kirkpatrick is referring to our engagement.
00:57:47She promised long ago to be my wife.
00:57:49I don't believe him.
00:57:50Don't cry, Cynthia.
00:57:51I don't believe what he said.
00:57:52Molly, it's true.
00:57:53Oh, don't cry.
00:57:55Please don't.
00:57:56You can't imagine how it distresses me.
00:57:58Don't leave me alone.
00:57:59Go away.
00:58:00Don't you see you make her worse?
00:58:03I think since Miss Gibson has acquainted herself with this much, she had better hear the whole truth.
00:58:07That you were engaged to marry me as soon as you were 20.
00:58:11I'm sure you must have thought it strange that we should meet in secret and by appointment.
00:58:14Well, now you know.
00:58:16I don't know anything of the kind.
00:58:18I do know that Cynthia is engaged to another man so you can hardly expect me to believe what you
00:58:22say.
00:58:23Molly, I'm not engaged to Roger.
00:58:28I think some letters in my possession would convince Miss Gibson I'm telling the truth.
00:58:32And Mr. Roger Hamley, if he is the gentleman she's alluding to.
00:58:37And I should be happy to make everything clear to Mr. Gibson as well.
00:58:39Well, then that's what you should do.
00:58:41Speak to my father like a gentleman, not make assignations in secret.
00:58:45Let's go home now, Cynthia.
00:58:47I never wanted it to be a secret.
00:58:49Can you deny that it's only been at your request that I've kept the secret for so long?
00:58:53If you will have it out, yes.
00:58:55Yes, it's true.
00:58:56When I was a girl of 15, you lent me money and made me promise to marry you in return.
00:59:00Made you?
00:59:01Made wasn't the right word.
00:59:03I liked you then.
00:59:05I know you better now, though, and I'd never marry you.
00:59:07I've done everything you asked me to.
00:59:09I've waited for years.
00:59:11I've put up with jealousy and neglect.
00:59:13Cynthia, I've loved you.
00:59:16And I still love you.
00:59:19And I can't give you up.
00:59:21If you'll just keep your word and marry me, I swear I'll make you love me in return.
00:59:25Oh, I wish I'd never borrowed that money.
00:59:28I've scrimped and saved to give it back, Molly, and he won't take it.
00:59:31He won't set me free.
00:59:33You make it sound as if you sold yourself for 20 pounds.
00:59:36I didn't sell myself.
00:59:39I liked you then.
00:59:41Oh, do I hate you now.
00:59:49Molly, don't say any more just now.
00:59:51Come to my room tonight and I'll tell you everything.
00:59:54I know you'll blame me terribly, but I will tell you.
01:00:17I was on my own all that summer.
01:00:21But it was always like that.
01:00:23As soon as the holidays came around, Mama was off to some great house or other.
01:00:29Never seemed to care to take me with her.
01:00:32And while I was used to him coming, he and Mama were friends.
01:00:36And I believe that Mama thought...
01:00:43I don't know about that.
01:00:45But anyway, he was kind and sympathetic, I thought.
01:00:52So yes, I did like him then.
01:01:00To this day, he found me in the deserted schoolroom.
01:01:08The Donaldsons had invited me to a festival.
01:01:12You see?
01:01:12And although Mama had said I could go, she...
01:01:15She hadn't said how I could get any money for the journey.
01:01:18And had grown out of all my old summer dresses.
01:01:24We were always poor.
01:01:26You see.
01:01:30And yet we were never to speak of it.
01:01:33Because of...
01:01:34The shame and the disgrace of it.
01:01:38All that worry about money made me sick of my life.
01:01:43All alone.
01:01:45Improving the shining hour, as he...
01:01:47Mr Preston noticed I was sad.
01:01:50And I was grateful to him for kind words and sympathetic looks.
01:01:57Tell me.
01:01:58Little by little, he made me tell him all my troubles.
01:02:02I do sometimes think he was very nice in those days.
01:02:06No money, nothing to me.
01:02:08He had 20 pounds in his pocket, he said.
01:02:12And shouldn't want it for months and...
01:02:14And I could repay it.
01:02:16Mama must have known I would need money, he said.
01:02:18And most likely assumed I should ask him for it.
01:02:22So I took it.
01:02:25And I did so want to go and...
01:02:29And not be ashamed of my shabbiness.
01:02:33It doesn't sound so very wrong, does it Molly?
01:02:36No.
01:02:46And so I went to the festival.
01:02:49And I think I did look very pretty in my fine new clothes.
01:02:52I saw that other people thought so too.
01:02:54And it was pleasant to feel my power.
01:03:04And then, on the last day, he joined us.
01:03:09I suppose he really did fall in love with me then.
01:03:13I don't think he'd done so before.
01:03:36I don't think he'd done so before.
01:03:41He's a good boy.
01:03:44I don't think he'd done so easily.
01:03:45Oh-oh.
01:03:57Oh-oh.
01:04:02Oh-oh.
01:04:10Well, the end of it was that he began to talk violent love to me
01:04:13and he said that the money should not be a debt
01:04:15but an advance against when I should be his.
01:04:18I don't quite know how it was, but...
01:04:21but I did give him my promise to marry him when I was 20
01:04:24but asked that it should be a secret until then.
01:04:44After that, I wrote him some very silly letters, Molly.
01:04:49But it was all so long ago and I did think I loved him then.
01:04:55But somehow, as soon as I felt pledged to him, I started to hate him.
01:05:00And I've just... I've just never been able to extricate myself.
01:05:04But how could you go and engage yourself to Roger, Cynthia?
01:05:08Why not?
01:05:09I was... I was free. I was free in my own heart.
01:05:15I was... I was touched by his love.
01:05:18It's so tender and unselfish and not like Robert Preston's love at all.
01:05:24Oh, Molly, I...
01:05:26I know you feel I'm not good enough for Roger.
01:05:30And sometimes I think I'll... I'll give him up.
01:05:34And sometimes I think I'll...
01:05:37I'll marry Robert Preston out of pure revenge
01:05:39and then I'll have him in my power.
01:05:44But I'd be the worst off for it.
01:05:47For he is cruel in his very soul.
01:05:53Tigerish.
01:05:55For this beautiful striped skin and his relentless heart.
01:06:07He says...
01:06:08He will show my letters to your father
01:06:10unless I consent to acknowledge the engagement.
01:06:13He shan't do that.
01:06:14We won't let him do that.
01:06:16I'm not afraid of him.
01:06:18I'll ask him to give the letters back.
01:06:20Let's see if he dares refuse me.
01:06:21What if you were seen?
01:06:23Oh, Molly, you...
01:06:24You don't know him.
01:06:26He has made so many appointments with me,
01:06:28just as if he was going to take back the money and...
01:06:32Molly, I've had it saved up for four months now.
01:06:38He says he's sure he can make me love him.
01:06:43And I think perhaps he could.
01:06:46He could make me do anything.
01:06:49And I should really be lost.
01:06:54I will get those letters for you.
01:06:56We're in the right.
01:06:58And he's in the wrong and he knows it.
01:07:01He must give up those letters.
01:07:02And you must never tell anyone about this.
01:07:05Not even your father...
01:07:06Well, especially not your father.
01:07:07I just couldn't bear it if he knew.
01:07:09As if I would, for any reason short of...
01:07:12Not for any reason at all.
01:07:13I would leave Hollingford and never come back
01:07:16if ever he found out about this affair.
01:07:17You must promise me.
01:07:19I promise.
01:07:22I promise.
01:07:23I promise.
01:07:24I promise.
01:07:28I promise.
01:07:37I promise.
01:07:39일로 Lieblers.
01:07:40I promise.
01:07:44I promise.
01:07:45You have toratten다.
01:07:45At the word you understand,
01:07:46I promise.
01:07:46I promise.
01:07:49I promise.
01:07:52I promise.
01:07:53I don't know.
01:08:32is Cynthia not able to come I didn't know you were expecting her yes she said she would be here
01:08:41well she sent me here to meet you
01:08:48she's told me exactly how things stand between you
01:08:52has she she's always the most open or reliable person in the world if you really love her you
01:08:59shouldn't speak of her in that way you have some letters of hers that she wishes to have back
01:09:05I dare say and that you have no right to keep no legal and no moral right which do you
01:09:11mean
01:09:12simply you have no right at all as a gentleman to keep a girl's letters when she asks for them
01:09:16back
01:09:16still less to hold them over as a threat I see you do know all miss Gibson but you have
01:09:23heard the
01:09:23story from her point of view now you must hear mine she promised me as solemnly as ever a woman
01:09:29did in
01:09:29this she wasn't a woman she was only a girl of 15 she was old enough to know what she
01:09:33was doing
01:09:35she promised to be my wife and made me wait for her and to keep it secret and I kept
01:09:40my promise
01:09:41though I might have married two or three girls with money and connections one of them was handsome
01:09:45enough and not at all reluctant I beg your pardon but I don't want to hear about other young ladies
01:09:50I'm here for Cynthia who doesn't like you and doesn't wish to marry you
01:09:55then I must make her like me as you put it she did like me once
01:10:02she loved me
01:10:05and she'll love me again when we're married
01:10:08she won't ever marry you
01:10:11then if she honors anyone else with her preference he may read her letters to me
01:10:14no honorable man would read your letters what use can they be to you
01:10:17they contain her repeated promises of marriage
01:10:20but she doesn't love you if she ever did she hates you
01:10:24she says she would rather leave hollingford forever and earn her own living than marry you
01:10:33young ladies are very fond of words such as hate and detest
01:10:38I've known some who applied them to men they were secretly hoping to marry
01:10:44well I can't tell about other people
01:10:46but I do know that Cynthia as nearly hates you as anybody like her does hate
01:10:51like her
01:10:53I mean I should hate worse
01:10:59so
01:11:01now would you mind sending her back the letters by me
01:11:07I do assure you that you cannot make her marry you
01:11:11you are very simple Miss Gibson aren't you
01:11:14I don't suppose you know of any other feeling that can be gratified but love
01:11:18have you never heard of revenge
01:11:20she has cajoled me with promises of love and I won't let her go unpunished
01:11:23you may tell her that
01:11:25I shall keep the letters and make use of them as I see fit
01:11:28Mr. Roger Hamley shall hear of their contents even if he's too honourable to read them
01:11:32your father shall hear of them
01:11:34and what Miss Kirkpatrick says about her mother in them
01:11:37perhaps you care to read their contents yourself
01:11:39no I won't hear another word
01:11:41they were written to you
01:11:43only to you when she thought you were her friend
01:11:45but I have thought what to do next
01:11:47I should have told my father
01:11:49but Cynthia made me promise not to
01:11:50so I will tell it all to Lady Harriet
01:11:52and ask her to speak to her father about it
01:11:55and I am sure that she will
01:11:58and I don't think you'll dare refuse Lord Cumnor
01:12:03Miss Gibson
01:12:05consider your position for a moment
01:12:10keep still
01:12:12you must be seen
01:12:14you've done nothing to be ashamed of at any rate
01:12:21morning Miss Gibson
01:12:22your servant
01:12:24be telling the day to be meeting the sweetheart
01:12:26hey Preston
01:12:29yes
01:12:30I'm afraid I've kept you standing here too long Miss Gibson
01:12:35good day
01:12:38good day
01:12:46sorry about that Preston
01:12:47disturbing your little tête-à-tête
01:12:49oh there'll be another time I'm sure
01:12:51well I'm not sure you're there
01:12:52I don't doubt you
01:12:53haha
01:12:54it's alright
01:13:16I don't doubt you
01:13:18huh
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