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2013 TV MOVIE "Aging novelist Vida Winter, enlists a young writer to finally tell the story of her life including her mysterious childhood spent in Angelfield House, which burned to the ground when she was a teenager. "Starring Vanessa Redgrave, Olivia Colman, Robert Pugh, Alexandra Roach, Steven MacKintosh, Tom Goodman-Hill
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00:02:25Good afternoon, Miss Lee.
00:02:27I'm Miss Winter's housekeeper.
00:02:29My name is Judith.
00:02:40Very good.
00:02:41I'll send up some sandwiches right away.
00:02:43You must be hungry after your long journey.
00:02:45Miss Winter expects to see you in the library at four.
00:03:27I'm Miss Winter's housekeeper.
00:03:39So, Miss Lee, have you read any of my books?
00:03:45Almost all of them, I think.
00:03:50Well...
00:03:54You'd better sit down.
00:04:01Now, if I interpret your answer to my letter correctly, you're not exactly leaping at this
00:04:08very attractive offer I've made you.
00:04:11Well, you'd be guaranteed a very healthy advance, but I can see from what you're wearing, you're
00:04:21not particularly interested in money.
00:04:24I've written about people who don't care for money, but I never actually expected to meet
00:04:30one.
00:04:32Are my books too popular for you?
00:04:37What exactly makes you hesitate?
00:04:42I'd like to know what made you choose me as a potential biographer.
00:04:52It certainly wasn't your celebrated biography of the Bronte sisters, which I wouldn't dream
00:05:00of reading.
00:05:02No.
00:05:04What caught my attention, Miss Lee, was that piece you wrote for that pretentious little
00:05:10magazine about the Landier sisters, the twins?
00:05:15Obviously I've been doing some research, and I couldn't help noticing in the couple of
00:05:19dozen interviews I looked at, you give a different account of your life in every one of them.
00:05:24You think I'm a liar?
00:05:26It isn't quite what I said.
00:05:29You surely don't think I'm so dull as to trot out the same story over and over again.
00:05:38I make things up so as not to bore myself.
00:05:42It's my profession.
00:05:44After all, there are only journalists, if you take my point.
00:05:49I'm not sure that I do exactly, I'm sorry.
00:05:54You don't need to be so polite.
00:05:56I can't abide politeness.
00:05:58I always think being nice is what's left over after you've failed at everything else.
00:06:07You're obviously a great success.
00:06:09Ah.
00:06:12Oh, that's better.
00:06:18Have you ever loved life?
00:06:23Oh, wait, wait, wait.
00:06:25I have an extraordinary story.
00:06:27Don't turn your back on it.
00:06:30It's about twins.
00:06:38Please, come back.
00:06:41Sit down.
00:06:46Don't take offence.
00:06:47I'm only trying to get to know you.
00:06:49I can't be expected to spill the secrets of a lifetime to a complete stranger.
00:06:54But this was your idea.
00:06:56I thought this is what you wanted to do.
00:06:58It's not that I want to.
00:06:59I have to.
00:07:01Why?
00:07:01Because I'm old.
00:07:02I'm dying.
00:07:04Dying?
00:07:06And why else should I subject myself to all this?
00:07:16Hmm.
00:07:22What do you need from me?
00:07:26I need to be sure that you're intending to tell me the truth.
00:07:30I'm a biographer.
00:07:31I deal in facts.
00:07:33Oh, I'm stupendously boring, you poor thing.
00:07:38Suppose we start by me asking you three independently verifiable questions,
00:07:42and then if your answers are true...
00:07:44Three questions.
00:07:44Hmm.
00:07:45Pleasantly traditional.
00:07:49My first question, what is your real name?
00:07:51Oh, I could easily bamboozle you there.
00:07:53It's Vida Winter.
00:07:54I had it changed by Deed Pearl.
00:07:56What you really need to know is the name I was originally known by.
00:08:02That's right, yes.
00:08:07Adeline March.
00:08:09My next question is your place of birth.
00:08:11You can check in the records of St Bart's in London.
00:08:15Next.
00:08:17Erm, I'd like you to tell me something that happened to you before you changed your name,
00:08:21which is also a matter of public record.
00:08:24Hmm.
00:08:25I can do that.
00:08:27But first, I have some conditions of my own.
00:08:30What are they?
00:08:32You must let me tell my story chronologically.
00:08:35No interruptions, no questions, and no sneaky peeping at the last page.
00:08:43All right.
00:08:44Good.
00:08:50Do you believe in ghosts?
00:08:54That's not a very easy question.
00:08:57Do you or don't you?
00:09:03Certain kinds of ghosts maybe.
00:09:06I was brought up in a house about five miles from here.
00:09:11A haunted house.
00:09:14I see.
00:09:15No, you don't.
00:09:27I call it my story, but it has none of the familiar consolations that word implies.
00:09:37Something far harsher.
00:09:40Much more painful.
00:09:43Something I suppose we have to call the truth.
00:09:52I was brought up in a house called Angelfield.
00:09:57When I was 17, there was a fire.
00:09:59The house was destroyed.
00:10:01And there is a public record?
00:10:03It was in all the local papers.
00:10:08And I can show you a different sort of record.
00:10:23So, you see, in spite of what I just said, you know the end of my story.
00:10:29The end?
00:10:32You said that happened when you were 17, before you even started writing.
00:10:36Oh, writing.
00:10:38It was just to fill in the time.
00:10:45I'm sorry if I shocked you, Miss Lee.
00:10:50One becomes so accustomed to one's own horrors.
00:10:53The Lord has this sort of color to be the same thing.
00:10:53I just think that's the same thing that it does.
00:10:58I'm sorry.
00:11:04I think that's probably a bit better.
00:11:04I think that's...
00:11:07It's not a sad thing.
00:11:10What you think it is?
00:11:10I think I'm sorry.
00:11:12I did.
00:11:12And like guys.
00:11:13I think it's something I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
00:11:14You don't trust me.
00:11:14Okay.
00:11:16You don't trust me.
00:11:20I'm sorry.
00:11:48Don't be like that, Margaret.
00:12:08Come in.
00:12:11If you don't mind, Dr Clifton, Miss Winter's doctor, would like to have a word with you.
00:12:16Oh.
00:12:17Okay.
00:12:22Thank you for agreeing to see me, Miss Lee.
00:12:25Miss Winter wanted me to explain her condition to you.
00:12:27Oh.
00:12:28Miss Winter has cancer of the pancreas, which we recently discovered has spread throughout
00:12:33her body.
00:12:35This means she has very little time left.
00:12:37How long?
00:12:38Well, not able to say precisely.
00:12:41Most people wouldn't have survived this long, but Miss Winter is extremely tough.
00:12:45She just wanted me to make you aware that time is of the essence.
00:12:50You can let her know I understand.
00:12:57Have you been her doctor long?
00:13:00Long enough to know that I'm extremely impatient to read your book.
00:13:09I was pleased last night when you didn't ask the question everybody else always does.
00:13:14What question's that?
00:13:15About the first book.
00:13:17About the Thirteenth Tale?
00:13:18That's right.
00:13:19Why are there only twelve?
00:13:24Shall we get started?
00:13:34The story begins at Angelfield.
00:13:42After the mysterious unexplained death of their parents, the house now belonged to Charlie
00:13:50Angelfield and his sister Isabel.
00:13:54She had left the house less than a year before, but her husband, Roland March, had been killed
00:14:01in the war, and now she returned.
00:14:08Of course, in their parents' day, there had been dozens of servants to run the estate,
00:14:14but now only two remained.
00:14:16Mrs. Dunn, the housekeeper, known to everyone as the Misses, and the gardener, John Digence,
00:14:24who we called John the Dig.
00:14:29You put it down there.
00:14:38Well, well.
00:14:41What are they called?
00:14:43Adeline and Emmeline.
00:14:46Which one is which?
00:14:48You know, I haven't the slightest idea.
00:14:53Oh, where is Mr. Angelfield?
00:14:55He'll be in the library, I expect, madam.
00:14:58I'll leave this with you.
00:15:05Truth to tell, it was not poverty or even the demands of the war which brought about the
00:15:12exodus of the Angelfield staff.
00:15:14It was the sense of chaos and unease caused by the bizarre and unpredictable behaviour of
00:15:23Isabel's brother.
00:15:26Charlie.
00:15:27I'm back.
00:15:28What do you mean?
00:15:30I'm back for good.
00:15:32I brought the children with me.
00:15:34What?
00:15:36What children?
00:15:41Oh, yes.
00:15:42It's just you and me now, Charlie.
00:15:45You shouldn't have gone away for so long, Isabel.
00:15:50I had to, Charlie.
00:15:51I explained it all to you.
00:16:04All the same.
00:16:23This one can be Adeline.
00:16:41I suppose we were shamefully neglected when we were children.
00:16:46No schooling, no discipline.
00:16:56We were so much on our own.
00:16:58We invented our own private language.
00:17:14Charlie and Isabel were so wrapped up in one another that the only people in our lives vaguely
00:17:20resembling parents were the Misses and John the Dig.
00:17:26You all right, Misses?
00:17:28Mm-hm.
00:17:30So she called me to go away.
00:17:32That's actually a little.
00:17:34That's what all came to me.
00:17:36But we did have each other and we were all the world to one another.
00:17:41We couldn't imagine that anyone but ourselves really existed.
00:17:46I expect that's why we were so cruel.
00:17:53The topiary garden had been planted by John the Dig's great-grandfather.
00:17:59It was his pride and joy.
00:18:02It was his pride and joy.
00:18:29When we were young, we were living from the big house.
00:18:31So they put up with us.
00:18:33One.
00:18:33Until the day we took Mary Jameson's baby.
00:18:38Three!
00:19:08There is only not me, so we live in the ring.
00:19:11I'm going to go to the bathroom.
00:19:15I'm going to go to the bathroom.
00:19:22Good afternoon. Is your mother in?
00:19:33Perhaps I'll try the back door.
00:19:41Mrs. Theodora Morsley, the local doctor's wife and something of a busybody, eagerly volunteered to take up the matter of
00:19:51Mary Jameson's baby with Charlie and Isabel.
00:20:09Hello?
00:20:14Is anybody there?
00:20:20Mr. Angelfield?
00:20:22Is that $11Door?
00:20:27Now this car's the map is going to be used.
00:20:29Google!
00:20:29Get out.
00:20:41Having a gaslight to my house is changing my vehicle with my daughter.
00:20:41What do you think about flowers?
00:21:07I don't know.
00:21:18What's the matter?
00:21:19Miss Winter?
00:21:21It's just my wolf.
00:21:23Wolf?
00:21:24That's what I call it.
00:21:26Pills are meant to keep him at babe.
00:21:28But he comes a little earlier every day.
00:21:33Is there anything I can do?
00:21:34Should we stop for the day?
00:21:36No.
00:21:37No, no, no.
00:21:38He's just sniffing around.
00:21:40We mustn't encourage him.
00:21:43No.
00:21:48Miss Lee, where were we?
00:21:52The doctor's wife and the violin.
00:21:55I'm desperate to know what happened next.
00:21:59Surely it must have been one of the children.
00:22:01No.
00:22:02No, I told you.
00:22:04I saw the children out on the steps on my way in.
00:22:09No, it was a woman in white.
00:22:11There's no woman in white in this house, Mum.
00:22:15You must have seen the ghost.
00:22:16They do say Angelfield is haunted.
00:22:29Dr. Morsley, I'm not sure if you remember me.
00:22:32It has been some time.
00:22:35Oh, yes.
00:22:37Might this be the person who attacked you?
00:22:42Yes.
00:22:44Yes, I think it might.
00:22:52Excuse me, but could you tell me, did you do these yourself?
00:22:59Yes.
00:23:06Mr. Angelfield, do you mind if I have a word with you in private?
00:23:32I think if there's not to visit her for at least a month,
00:23:35I'll give them time to draw some conclusions.
00:23:56Oh, Mr. Charlie.
00:23:59Oh, no.
00:24:01Oh, shit.
00:24:03Oh, shit.
00:24:05Oh, shit.
00:24:25Oh, shit.
00:24:26Oh, shit.
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00:24:33Oh, shit.
00:24:33Oh, shit.
00:25:08There's no woman in white in this house, ma'am.
00:25:12You think I'm a liar?
00:25:17Do you believe in ghosts?
00:25:21They do, the angel field is haunted.
00:26:03There's no one in the house.
00:26:03There's no one in the house.
00:26:04I'm not sure what's going on.
00:26:04I'm not sure what's going on.
00:26:31There's no one in the house.
00:26:34There's no one in the house.
00:26:46There's no one in the house.
00:26:49There's no one in the house.
00:27:29There's no one in the house.
00:27:47Shifts from the hook-a-donk-a-wetch.
00:27:51Pearl Bridge, Palace, Crackers Bay.
00:27:57After they took Isabel off to the asylum, Charlie Angelfield went completely to pieces.
00:28:17Dr. Morsley arranged through the family solicitor to appoint a governess to look after us.
00:28:24Her name was Hester Barrow.
00:28:28Welcome to Angelfield.
00:28:34I'll get your bags.
00:28:49So the children never knew their father?
00:28:52Oh no, Miss. None of us did. I don't even think Miss Isabel knew him very well.
00:28:59The only man she ever took any notice of was her brother Charlie.
00:29:04And when she came back here, she did everything for him.
00:29:10If you know what I mean.
00:29:13I'm not sure I do, Mrs. Dunn.
00:29:16Well...
00:29:16In any event, it's probably time I met Mr. Angelfield.
00:29:18I don't know as he'll want to see you, Miss. He's not very well in himself, like.
00:29:25He keeps to his quarters and no one's allowed to disturb him.
00:29:30I see.
00:29:31He never was very sociable, but since they took Miss Isabel away, he's hardly showed his face.
00:29:40I don't know where those children can be. I'll go and see if I can scare them up.
00:29:44No, no, no. Mrs. Dunn, it's not for us to go chasing after them.
00:29:49No doubt they'll come down for their dinner.
00:29:50Well, often as not. They just creep down and help themselves to sum it out the pantry.
00:29:58Oh. I don't think we can allow that.
00:30:04We'll try the twins' room, Miss, which is the third door along here on the left.
00:30:10It's just here.
00:30:11Can't cook them.
00:30:14Shh.
00:30:23Now, come along, girls. It's time you met your new governess.
00:30:33I am sorry, Miss Barrow.
00:30:35Don't you worry, Mrs. Dunn. We have all the time in the world.
00:30:39I should like to explore the rest of the house.
00:30:41I'll show you around.
00:30:42No, no, no. You get back to your kitchen, Mrs. Dunn.
00:30:45I should get on much better on my own.
00:30:48That first afternoon, we refused to come down and meet her.
00:30:53We thought she might be discouraged and go away.
00:30:56But she wasn't.
00:30:58No.
00:30:59She was the first person who tried to take us on.
00:31:03I went to have a look at Angelfield.
00:31:08Hmm. Did you?
00:31:11Did you see the ghost?
00:31:13I saw something.
00:31:15What?
00:31:17Not sure.
00:31:25Um, you were telling me about Hester.
00:31:29Yes.
00:31:31You remind me of her a bit.
00:31:34In what way?
00:31:35She was very determined and inquisitive.
00:31:40Food!
00:31:41Food!
00:31:42Food!
00:31:43Hungry!
00:31:44At the end of Hester's first day at the house,
00:31:47she'd already formed a strategy
00:31:50for dealing with her as yet invisible charges.
00:32:02No keys.
00:32:17Emeline?
00:32:18Adeline?
00:32:24Which one are you?
00:32:27Adeline or Emeline?
00:32:29Emeline.
00:32:32Are you hungry?
00:32:34Would you like some supper?
00:32:37Mm.
00:32:38And what about your sister?
00:32:43Never mind.
00:32:45Let's go to the kitchen.
00:32:53Follow me.
00:32:55Follow me.
00:33:00So, right from the start, Hester managed to drive a wedge between us.
00:33:07I can't say our education was entirely plain sailing.
00:33:14Although Emeline continued to be pretty much of a pushover.
00:33:23Well, a very good morning to you, Adeline.
00:33:26Now, fuck down, Emeline.
00:33:28Thank you so much, John.
00:33:32Very good of you to join us, I must say.
00:33:37We're starting the morning with a drawing of our beautiful Angel Field house.
00:33:43You're most welcome to stay down there if you're more comfortable.
00:33:46What?
00:34:01Oh!
00:34:03Oh!
00:34:03Oh!
00:34:04Adeline!
00:34:05Oh!
00:34:05Adeline, this behaviour will simply not be tolerated.
00:34:08Do you hear me?
00:34:08Oh!
00:34:09Do you hear me, Adeline?
00:34:24Miss?
00:34:25Yes, Emeline?
00:34:27Finished, Miss.
00:34:34Just a minute.
00:34:55Very nice, dear.
00:34:56Oh!
00:34:58I don't believe you've quite finished, Adeline.
00:35:01Oh!
00:35:08I don't believe you've quite finished, Adeline.
00:35:19Margaret?
00:35:20Margaret?
00:35:20I love your break.
00:35:24She's all right.
00:35:36I love her.
00:35:38I love her!
00:35:40I love her, Anna!
00:35:40Thank you for the night.
00:35:41It's濃, Miss!
00:36:10Do you believe in ghosts?
00:36:13You asked me that before.
00:36:16Your answer was evasive, as I recall.
00:36:21Well, let's just say I'm beginning to.
00:36:24Why would that be?
00:36:30Anyway, Hester didn't. Too sensible, poor thing.
00:36:35It would have been easier for her if she hadn't insisted on being so rational.
00:36:41Is there really nowhere we can get hold of some decent fish?
00:36:44Well, yes, you can, if you really want to.
00:36:48It's a bit of a plop.
00:36:52Emmeline?
00:36:55She's out in the garden, miss.
00:36:59I just saw her.
00:37:03I can hear them outside.
00:37:15Strange, I could have sworn.
00:37:20Was she wearing white, miss?
00:37:23Yes, she was.
00:37:26That'll be the ghost.
00:37:28Oh, don't be ridiculous, Mrs Dunn.
00:37:30It's probably just the sunlight flashing in the mirror.
00:37:34Woman in white, miss.
00:37:36We've all seen her.
00:37:38Well, I haven't.
00:37:40And I certainly don't intend to.
00:37:42What the hell?
00:37:44Maybe.
00:37:45I can't hear you.
00:37:49Out of the room?
00:37:50Actually, we were!
00:37:54No, no, no...
00:37:59Tis...
00:37:59Tis
00:38:00What the hell were they that imagined?
00:38:12Are you right?
00:38:20I don't know what to do.
00:38:43I don't know.
00:39:20I don't see you.
00:39:22I don't know.
00:39:52She hardly eats anything.
00:39:54It takes two of us to hold her down at bath time.
00:39:57She seems impervious to any kind of human emotion.
00:40:01Is she intelligent?
00:40:03It's hard to tell, given that she refuses to speak.
00:40:07Soon after I arrived, I sent off for a number of studies of twins.
00:40:12Really?
00:40:13And if I've understood correctly, what tends to happen is that certain pairs of twins divide up available emotions and
00:40:19personality traits between them.
00:40:21Thus, one being placid and passive, the other wild and violent, one clean, the other dirt loving.
00:40:30Of course, you would know much more about this than I.
00:40:33Well, not necessarily.
00:40:36Yes.
00:40:37My wife's opinion.
00:40:41I do sometimes discuss my patients with my wife.
00:40:46She thinks the child may quite simply be wicked.
00:40:50I think the explanation may be a little more nuanced than that.
00:40:54But no doubt my wife is apt to take the layman's view.
00:41:01I was thinking that the situation does present a rare opportunity for original research.
00:41:08Indeed.
00:41:10In which I would be more than happy to assist you.
00:41:40Where's Adeline?
00:41:41Back soon.
00:41:43Back soon.
00:42:13Adeline!
00:42:17Ready to go.
00:42:18Come on, Wip.
00:42:19Come on, Wip.
00:43:10Oh, my goodness, Emmeline.
00:43:27Come in.
00:43:28Let me show you your room.
00:43:30You'll like it.
00:43:32You'll have it all to yourself.
00:43:35I tell you, no good will come of this.
00:43:38I tell you, no good will come of this.
00:44:06They did a scientific experiment and so relished their daily discussions that they quite failed
00:44:12to notice that their patients were making no progress whatsoever.
00:44:24They completely ignored the only and most obvious diagnosis.
00:44:29The twins were missing each other desperately.
00:44:38Emmeline?
00:44:39Emmeline?
00:44:41Emmeline?
00:44:42Emmeline?
00:44:44Emmeline?
00:44:45Emmeline?
00:44:45Emmeline?
00:44:45There you are.
00:44:46Come along.
00:44:46It's time for your tea.
00:44:49Where have you been?
00:44:51I've been looking for you.
00:44:53We went down to the woods.
00:44:56Emmeline?
00:44:57You should say I went down to the woods.
00:45:00I went down to the woods.
00:45:02Hmm.
00:45:03And what did you do there?
00:45:04We picked some bluebells.
00:45:19Where did you put your bluebells?
00:45:25Bluebells you picked, did you put them in the vase?
00:45:29No.
00:45:30No.
00:45:31We saved them for Adeline.
00:45:36Well, you correct her, you see, and she gets it right for a moment, but then she always
00:45:40goes back to saying we.
00:45:42I'm afraid Adeline never speaks at all.
00:45:44Oh dear.
00:45:47I don't think you would be prudent to let her out of the house, do you?
00:45:52I say, I don't think you would be safe to let Adeline out of the house.
00:45:59No.
00:46:25Not to do with the house.
00:46:26I think it's a little better.
00:46:26Yeah, we gotta look for you.
00:46:26I'm sure you have to go now.
00:46:26But I can hold it.
00:46:27Yeah, I do.
00:46:29You're right.
00:46:30You're right.
00:46:31No.
00:46:37I'm good.
00:46:39All right.
00:46:42I'm not.
00:46:43I'm not.
00:46:47I thought we'd agreed that the rooms not immediately in use should be kept locked.
00:46:52Yes, that's right miss.
00:46:54Well just now I found the drawing room open.
00:46:56Not a bad idea to give it a bit of an ear in.
00:47:00Oh, so you opened it did you?
00:47:02Oh no miss. I don't have the keys anymore remember.
00:47:08You've got the keys.
00:47:41What is it? What's up?
00:47:42Can you get Adeline now?
00:47:49That's impossible.
00:47:50I've just seen her this minute with Emmeline in the grounds.
00:47:54Calm down. Here.
00:47:57Adeline has been here in this room this past hour.
00:48:01Ever since breakfast.
00:48:04But...
00:48:09I must be going mad.
00:48:12Moral.
00:48:12Yeah.
00:48:14Mad.
00:48:14Hmm?
00:48:16Hmm?
00:48:20Hmm?
00:48:43I'll thank you to leave this house immediately.
00:48:48And send John for the child.
00:48:51I can...
00:48:51I'll speak to you later.
00:49:02The next day Hester had vanished.
00:49:07Packed her bag, slipped away, never seen again.
00:49:10What happened to her?
00:49:11I've no idea.
00:49:13I've no idea.
00:49:13The doctor had disappeared as well so we can make an educated guess.
00:49:17Rumour was they disappeared to America.
00:49:20Wherever it was.
00:49:21I'm sure they both flourished.
00:49:25Hester was a resourceful little...
00:49:28thing.
00:49:29Don't know.
00:49:34She's upstairs.
00:49:37Emily!
00:49:46Oh!
00:49:50Oh!
00:49:55Oh!
00:49:55Oh!
00:49:56Oh!
00:49:57Oh!
00:49:57Oh!
00:49:58Oh!
00:49:58Oh!
00:50:01But why did you do that?
00:50:07I couldn't tell you.
00:50:15Over the next five or six years,
00:50:19in spite of strenuous efforts to maintain the status quo,
00:50:24bit by bit everything changed.
00:50:29The first letter came from the asylum
00:50:33saying that Isabel had died of pneumonia.
00:50:39A week or so later,
00:50:41we noticed that Charlie had stopped touching the food
00:50:44that the missus had left for him.
00:50:47He'd gone.
00:50:57I had an idea where Charlie might be.
00:51:00I'd often followed him and watched what he did there with Isabel.
00:51:05Isabel?
00:51:06Isabel?
00:51:25I'm having trouble.
00:51:27Do you know what your friends say?
00:51:28What do you think?
00:51:28They're not as摯s.
00:51:32I have to find you asweg1.
00:51:34The name isabel.
00:51:56I never said a word to the others.
00:52:02If Mr. Charlie is gone, didn't we ought to tell someone?
00:52:07No call to.
00:52:09I collect the money from the bank end of the month,
00:52:12same as always.
00:52:16If he runs short, I know a man that'll
00:52:19buy some of that wine from the cellar.
00:52:21Oh, he wouldn't like that.
00:52:25And he wrote, I'd better take him up his dinner.
00:52:33Of course, the missus was suffering from some kind of dementia,
00:52:39but we drifted on pretty much as we always had.
00:53:15Here's the first day.
00:53:20I think she, I think she'll be all moved down.
00:53:34Forgive me, please!
00:53:41Margaret, I'm sorry.
00:54:18Margaret, I'm sorry.
00:54:20Go on!
00:54:27Go on!
00:54:31Emmeline?
00:54:35Are you Emmeline?
00:54:37Go on!
00:54:50Oh, my God.
00:55:28Oh, my God.
00:56:02You look like death warmed up.
00:56:05What's the matter?
00:56:07I didn't get much sleep last night.
00:56:09Oh?
00:56:10Are you in a fit state to continue?
00:56:13Yes, of course.
00:56:14Um, we were talking about what happened after the missus died.
00:56:19John brought in a local boy to help with the garden.
00:56:23Ambrose Proctor.
00:56:25I don't see why we need him.
00:56:29He's all right.
00:56:31He keeps himself to himself, works hard, gives me a bit of time for what needs doing in the house.
00:56:40You said you were going to show me how to trim the topiary.
00:56:44Well, I will then.
00:56:45Huh?
00:56:50All right, check the safety latch first.
00:56:53All right.
00:56:55All right.
00:56:56A bit wobbly like against the tree.
00:56:59You need to test it before you go up it.
00:57:02All right.
00:57:05Up you go.
00:57:14Never cut into the sun or towards your own shadow.
00:57:19All right?
00:57:20Yes.
00:57:21Never look at the clouds.
00:57:22They keep moving, see, and they throw you out.
00:57:35Good deal.
00:57:37Good deal.
00:57:39Good deal.
00:57:40I don't know.
00:58:16Where's the ladder?
00:58:17Mr. Digent's took it.
00:58:19It's round the back, fixing the gutter in.
00:58:50Obviously, somebody had tampered with the safety catch.
00:58:54Who?
00:58:55We said, no questions.
00:58:59After that, everything's a blur.
00:59:02I did have the presence of mind to tell the police that Uncle Charlie was away.
00:59:08After the funeral, we had a meeting with the family solicitor, Mr. Lomax.
00:59:14So where exactly is your uncle?
00:59:17Peru, I think.
00:59:19Peru?
00:59:20I believe so.
00:59:22And when will he be back?
00:59:25I'm not sure. Quite soon, anyway.
00:59:32You're 17 now, if I'm not mistaken.
00:59:35That's right.
00:59:37I'm just wondering what arrangements we can put in place
00:59:40to make sure that you and your sister are properly looked after.
00:59:44We're quite used to fending for ourselves.
00:59:47Yes, but my grandmother knows the house very well.
00:59:49She can look in every day, like.
01:00:04There's no need for your grandmother to trouble herself.
01:00:08Well, that's lucky.
01:00:10Because I haven't got a grandmother.
01:00:18So who do you think killed John?
01:00:21It certainly wasn't Emmeline, if that's what you're thinking.
01:00:24And Ambrose had no motive, quite the contrary.
01:00:27Well, then...
01:00:32I agreed no questions.
01:00:36Patience, Miss Lee.
01:00:40And that was that.
01:00:40You got away with it.
01:00:46Mr Lomax was very happy not to put himself out.
01:00:50You got away with everything.
01:00:53I can't understand why the police didn't properly investigate John's death after all the...
01:00:58I'll tell the story in my own way, Miss Lee.
01:01:04I think that's probably enough for today.
01:01:16We said no questions.
01:01:19It certainly wasn't Emmeline, if that's what you're thinking.
01:01:34I think so.
01:01:36Let's go.
01:02:12Let's go.
01:02:37Let's go.
01:02:40Let's go.
01:02:40Let's go.
01:03:20Let's go.
01:03:41Let's go.
01:03:46Do you know if anyone's living at Angelfield?
01:03:49Why'd you ask?
01:03:50Well, I know it's pretty much a ruin.
01:03:52I've been there a couple of times.
01:03:54And the first time, some enormous man chases me out of the house.
01:03:57And the second time, in one of the rooms, there were signs of someone living there.
01:04:01He's called Aurelius love, he's not quite right in the head, but he's totally harmless, bit
01:04:07of a local character, works with his mother in the bakery.
01:04:12Was that what you wanted to ask me about?
01:04:22I think Miss Winter may have confessed to committing a murder when she was a teenager.
01:04:33Well, well, did she or didn't she?
01:04:35I haven't got the whole story yet, but somebody killed a gardener and I can't see who else it
01:04:38could have been and I don't know what to do about it.
01:04:42Do you have any evidence?
01:04:47No, and even if I did.
01:04:53Hmm.
01:04:55I'm sure you're right.
01:04:58Maybe wait until you've heard more.
01:05:03Emmeline.
01:05:07Dr. Clifton tells me you've been asking questions about her.
01:05:10How did you find out?
01:05:12I saw her one night in the garden and eventually worked out who she was.
01:05:16I see.
01:05:17I wanted to know why she was digging in the garden and what it was she kept saying all the
01:05:21time.
01:05:22Any theories?
01:05:25I think what she's saying is, dare to go underground.
01:05:35Very good.
01:05:37Miss Lee, you're doing very well.
01:05:40So she is looking for someone underground.
01:05:42Who, could it be a child?
01:05:47When are you going to tell me your story, Margaret?
01:05:50I haven't got a story.
01:05:53Everybody has a story.
01:05:55If you keep it to yourself, it dies and comes back to haunt you.
01:06:01You take my word for it.
01:06:04Well, I have no intention of telling anyone my story.
01:06:12Would you mind passing me that bottle?
01:06:14Yes, of course.
01:06:21What is it?
01:06:23Liquid morphine.
01:06:30For my wolf.
01:06:42What did you say?
01:06:44I said I'm sorry.
01:06:46I'm saving it special.
01:06:53What does it do?
01:06:55What?
01:06:59What does it do?
01:07:00What does it do?
01:07:00What does it do away from you?
01:07:09I don't think you're going to be evil.
01:07:14You're definitely looking for nothing.
01:07:17I'm just noticing that it's the winter too.
01:07:22I want to spend more time with Emmeline over the next couple of days.
01:07:29I always thought of Emmeline as a twin.
01:07:32I always thought of Emmeline as a twin.
01:07:37There's something special about losing a twin.
01:07:44My dear, whatever's the matter?
01:07:56I had a twin.
01:08:02Margaret, I'm sorry.
01:08:03I'm not talking to you.
01:08:05I'm not even going to walk with you.
01:08:07I'm going over to the other side.
01:08:08Don't. Walk by yourself.
01:08:15Please forgive me. Please.
01:08:19It was all my fault.
01:08:22She'd eaten a bar of chocolate that I'd been saving her.
01:08:26I wanted to punish her.
01:08:30Oh, all right.
01:08:33Come on, then.
01:08:37I'll wake up!
01:08:48Feeling guilty doesn't do anybody any good.
01:08:55It wasn't your fault.
01:09:00My mother thought it was, and she never forgets me.
01:09:09I've been so lonely all these years without my sister.
01:09:21We all have our stories.
01:09:23I don't know.
01:10:05I don't know.
01:10:18I don't know.
01:10:18You've been here before, haven't you?
01:10:20You're Aurelius.
01:10:22I frightened you when you came here.
01:10:24I didn't mean to.
01:10:26No, it was my fault I'd panicked.
01:10:28Look what they've done.
01:10:30Yeah.
01:10:32Developers.
01:10:34Didn't you live here?
01:10:36No.
01:10:38I just used to camp out, like.
01:10:41I live with me mum.
01:10:46I love this house.
01:10:51And what's going on down there?
01:10:53Oh, yeah.
01:10:55Funny thing.
01:10:57They found some bones.
01:11:01Skeleton.
01:11:26She's an aggressive, dangerous child.
01:11:31But I always thought of Emily as a twin.
01:11:36The twins were missing each other desperately.
01:11:41Remembering the rest of the night, the rest of the night, the rest of the night, the rest of the
01:11:47night, the rest of the night, the rest of the night, the rest of the night.
01:12:21There were three of you.
01:12:24There were three of you.
01:12:26It wasn't just Adeline and Emmeline.
01:12:28There were three of you.
01:12:30There were police at Angelfield.
01:12:32They found a body, a skeleton.
01:12:34Mm-hmm.
01:12:37There were three of us.
01:12:39And now there's one of us.
01:12:42Oh, I'm sorry.
01:12:44Oh, I'm so sorry.
01:12:45I got carried away.
01:12:49Oh, I'm sorry.
01:13:10So, you see, there was a ghost at Angelfield all along.
01:13:15A ghost with no name.
01:13:18A ghost with no name.
01:13:20It was me.
01:13:22I could or not.
01:13:23I was the ghost.
01:13:25Who was your mother?
01:13:29Oh, I've no idea.
01:13:33All I do know is that when Isabel went away to have the twins, Charlie went on some kind of
01:13:40a rampage.
01:13:44What I do know is that I was born a few months later than the twins, and Charlie, God knows
01:13:51if it ever dawned on him, was the father of us all.
01:14:00How did you get to Angelfield?
01:14:02All I know is what John the Dig told me.
01:14:06Which was what?
01:14:08He started to notice his strawberries and his carrots were disappearing from his vegetable garden.
01:14:15And he thought he saw signs of someone sleeping in the potting shed.
01:14:21Also, this someone was not properly turning off the outside tap.
01:14:47John and the missus took me in.
01:14:49Oh, he did, really.
01:14:53You're thinking what I'm thinking.
01:14:56There, yes.
01:14:58Shall we tell him?
01:15:04And I spent as much of the time as I could with him.
01:15:09He taught me how to read out of his seed catalogues.
01:15:19And, of course, Adeline never even wanted to learn to read.
01:15:23And she was...
01:15:26Genuinely dangerous, yes.
01:15:31Violence was always her first instinct.
01:15:35Higher!
01:15:36There!
01:16:00Finally she killed John.
01:16:03What made her do it?
01:16:08She hated him for some reason.
01:16:13She seemed to think he was responsible for taking her away from Emmeline that time or
01:16:20perhaps she was jealous of all the attention he gave me.
01:16:34He was the closest I ever had to a real parent.
01:17:05After John's death we were alone with Ambrose.
01:17:18I was never easy in my mind about him.
01:17:25Don't you touch Emeline, you hear me?
01:17:28I haven't touched Emeline.
01:17:31Good. Well, don't.
01:17:40It's not Emeline I want to touch.
01:17:44Even though she's kinder than what you are.
01:17:54Why can't you be kind like Emeline?
01:18:06Before long it was obvious that Emeline was pregnant and I dismissed Ambrose.
01:18:18I decided not to ask for any help with delivering the baby.
01:18:24I rode up for it as much as I could.
01:18:28So, I was deluded.
01:18:31Adeline was insane.
01:18:33And Emeline was helpless.
01:18:39All the same.
01:18:40Somehow or other.
01:18:42That's it Emeline, keep going.
01:18:44We managed.
01:18:48It's a boy Emeline.
01:18:51It's a boy.
01:19:08There.
01:19:16Shall I leave you to rest a while?
01:19:21No. I want to finish the story tonight. The wolf is at the door.
01:19:30It's time to tell you the thirteenth tale.
01:19:40I realised very early on how jealous Adeline was and how much she resented the baby.
01:20:02Please go on.
01:20:06And before long I discovered the baby was in real danger.
01:20:11Yeah.
01:20:22Yeah.
01:20:49I knew I had to go.
01:20:53I had to keep her under constant observation.
01:21:02Yeah.
01:21:04Yeah.
01:21:05Yeah.
01:21:06Yeah.
01:21:07Yeah.
01:21:12Yeah.
01:21:18Yeah.
01:21:26Yeah.
01:21:27Yeah.
01:21:37Yeah.
01:21:42Yeah.
01:21:54Yeah.
01:21:56Yeah.
01:22:00Yeah.
01:22:01Yeah.
01:22:02Yeah.
01:22:10Yeah.
01:22:15Yeah.
01:22:16Yeah.
01:22:19Yeah.
01:22:34Yeah.
01:22:43Yeah.
01:22:45Yeah.
01:22:47Yeah.
01:22:48Yeah.
01:22:59Yeah.
01:23:06Yeah.
01:23:13Yeah.
01:23:15Yeah.
01:23:18Yeah.
01:23:19Yeah.
01:23:19Yeah.
01:23:29Yeah.
01:23:31Yeah.
01:23:45Yeah.
01:23:47Yeah.
01:23:51Yeah.
01:23:53Yeah.
01:23:56Yeah.
01:23:58Yeah.
01:24:08Yeah.
01:24:09Yeah.
01:24:10Yeah.
01:24:10Yeah.
01:24:13Yeah.
01:24:14Yeah.
01:24:44Yeah.
01:24:45You saved the baby's life.
01:24:46Yeah.
01:24:50I left the baby outside the cottage belonging to the baker's widow, Mrs. Love.
01:25:01Everybody knew she had a kind heart.
01:25:05Aurelius Love.
01:25:06Yes.
01:25:08It turned out to be a bit simple but warm-hearted.
01:25:12I kissed mother.
01:25:24When I got back to the house, of course, everyone assumed I was Adeline.
01:25:39When we started, Margaret, I told you this was a story about twins.
01:25:44What I didn't tell you was that I wasn't one of them.
01:25:48Oh, I longed to be.
01:25:51But they always kept me out.
01:25:54So I stayed outside.
01:25:59That's what made me a writer.
01:26:08You lost your twin, Margaret.
01:26:14Margaret.
01:26:16Oh, that was terrible.
01:26:20But you had her with you for a while.
01:26:25She's always with me.
01:26:28I envy you.
01:26:39Oh, I'm so tired.
01:26:48He, he, he.
01:26:50The wolf is in the room.
01:26:58Oh, I'm so tired.
01:27:06But I'm so tired.
01:27:07Oh, I'm so tired.
01:27:34Margaret, I didn't want you to go before I had a chance to say goodbye.
01:27:38I'm going to stay in the area for a while, at least till after the funeral.
01:27:43Good. Good. Well, I'll see you there.
01:27:46And then will you go back to London?
01:27:50I'm not sure. I think I'll stay up here somewhere to write the book.
01:27:54I'll let you know what I decide.
01:28:43I'll let you know what I did.
01:29:03I'll let you know what I did.
01:29:06I'll let you know what I did.
01:29:06I'll let you know what I did.
01:29:09I'll let you know what I did.
01:29:11I'll let you know what I did.
01:29:12I'll let you know what I did.
01:29:12I'll let you know what I did.
01:29:12I'll let you know what I did.
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