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I, Said the Sparrow: Victoria St. John and her husband are surprised by Mrs. McClusky, who finds them in bed together. Great-Aunt Effie's efforts to keep Captain Mason away from Isabel are thwarted when he threatens to sue for breach of promise if she refuses her consent. Mrs. Bronowski is convicted of murder and sentenced to death, a fate she accepts. Jack clears Ned's name, but his regiment is departing for Somaliland and he must bid a tearful Matty goodbye.
Starring:
Clare Wilkie
Victoria Smurfit
Tabitha Wady
I, Said the Sparrow: Victoria St. John and her husband are surprised by Mrs. McClusky, who finds them in bed together. Great-Aunt Effie's efforts to keep Captain Mason away from Isabel are thwarted when he threatens to sue for breach of promise if she refuses her consent. Mrs. Bronowski is convicted of murder and sentenced to death, a fate she accepts. Jack clears Ned's name, but his regiment is departing for Somaliland and he must bid a tearful Matty goodbye.
Starring:
Clare Wilkie
Victoria Smurfit
Tabitha Wady
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00:33A sorry business, Randall.
00:37Yes, ma'am.
00:39I find myself in a most difficult position.
00:44I came to this house at the request of Mrs Hutchinson
00:48to safeguard both the physical and moral welfare of her niece
00:53during a delicate period in her development.
00:58It is a duty I take most seriously.
01:02Yes, ma'am.
01:04And now I find that the young woman with whom she has a companionship,
01:09the same young woman who is entrusted with the care of two small children,
01:14is proven to be so lax in her own morality
01:18as to born a child out of wedlock.
01:29Hello, please, love.
01:31I'm looking for a bloke with Ben Smy.
01:33I told you sometimes comes, isn't it?
01:36He's over there in the coolant.
01:39What's up?
01:41The last time I stayed in this house two years ago
01:44was to offer comfort to my niece and her husband
01:47on the tragic loss of one of their own children.
01:51I accept that your pain and grief
01:53must be no less now than theirs was then.
01:57I cannot find it in me to add to your distress
02:02that, together with the children's obvious well-being
02:06and affection for you,
02:09persuades me to let you keep your position in this house,
02:12provided that Miss Isabel is told nothing of these events.
02:18Of course, ma'am.
02:21I will not have her innocence tainted.
02:33What are you doing? Still awake?
02:35What's going on? What's happening downstairs?
02:39Nothing that should worry you, my bad.
02:41The mace told Floyd that the police were here
02:44and then you had to go downstairs.
02:46It's nothing.
02:47Don't fib.
02:48You and I always tell each other the truth.
02:52It was a bare-nothing fight with a lot of money on me.
02:54I know there was no love lost between Ned and Lenny Flynn.
02:57And when no-one would back me up,
02:58of course they're going to think it was murder.
02:59So no-one would come forward.
03:01Not even to save Ned.
03:03Not by themselves, no.
03:04What about with a little bit of, er, persuasion?
03:07What sort of persuasion was you thinking of?
03:10Did the police know it's Charlie?
03:13Not yet.
03:15Will you get sent away if they find out?
03:19Oh, I truly don't know, my love.
03:22You can't!
03:23You can't go away!
03:25What if Nanny Simmons comes back?
03:27Shush, shush, shush, shush, shush, shush, shush, now!
03:28Come on!
03:29Shush!
03:29Hey, we're made of tougher stuff than that, aren't we?
03:33No, we just have to do what we can for the best.
03:36Don't we?
03:37Yeah.
03:42Come on, then.
03:43Look.
03:44Please.
03:45What's going on?
03:46I didn't kill no-one.
03:48Least of all a little baby.
03:49Please, Mr. Tompkins, tell me what's happening.
03:53Where am I going?
03:56Do I get a lawyer or what?
03:57You'll find out soon enough.
04:02Irene?
04:04Irene, sing your song for me.
04:06I need to feel better.
04:08I used to be a naughty girl, but now I'm nice to feel today.
04:12Come on, out of it.
04:15I've told Harry to make a proper appointment to see Aunt F,
04:17to come in his uniform and everything.
04:19Then he can ask her formally if my hand in marriage.
04:22It'll work.
04:23I know it will.
04:24I do hope so.
04:25Oh, it will!
04:25It's only because she's such a stickler for protocol.
04:28Once Harry does the decent thing, she'll adore him as much as I do.
04:31So, if you go now...
04:34What?
04:35I can't go, can I?
04:36I'm gated.
04:38And I can't trust any of the other servants not to sneak on me
04:40or to bring a message back.
04:42Oh, I have things to attend to this morning,
04:45but I'll see if I can get to it this afternoon.
04:49No, I absolutely insist.
04:50But you go now.
04:54Elsa Bronowski, you are charged on the following count.
04:59That on or about the 12th day of August, in the year of our Lord, 1902,
05:04you did, with malice aforethought, bring about the murder of William John Randall
05:09by means of the administration of a poisonous substance,
05:13to wit, the morphine compound laudanum.
05:16Do you plead guilty or not guilty?
05:19Not guilty.
05:22In view of the severity of this case, I cannot grant bail.
05:30Therefore, you will be taken from this place
05:33and held at Holloway Prison until your trial at the Old Bailey.
05:46Harriet, we are going to see Miss Turner as usual.
05:50If you were going anywhere different, I'd tell you.
05:54When will I be sent away, then?
05:57Good morning.
06:00I keep telling you, you won't be sent away anywhere.
06:03Well, come what?
06:07Hannah!
06:10I'm glad to see you, too.
06:12So much I need to tell you.
06:14Listen, I can't talk now.
06:15My whole life is collapsing around my ears
06:17and I can't do anything about it
06:19until I've delivered a stupid message
06:20from a silly, frivolous ninny to a stupid lover.
06:23God save me from lovers, Mattie.
06:25They think the whole world revolves around them.
06:28Listen, we'll talk later, all right?
06:29Right.
06:36Well, if she can't be bothered to say
06:38what she wants for supper,
06:39they can have fish cakes and lump it.
06:43She may be feeling unwell again.
06:46I'll go and see if she's upstairs.
06:53It's time you weren't here.
06:55Why?
06:56Do you want rid of me?
06:58No.
07:00I just thought you had a meeting this morning, that's all.
07:03Possibly.
07:04Probably.
07:07And if I do,
07:09I shall cancel it.
07:10What?
07:13Oh, I have missed that smile.
07:17I've neglected you for too long, my love.
07:20And I'm not going to let it happen anymore.
07:26So, if you'd like my company today?
07:28Yes, I would.
07:31So, what should we do?
07:33Take a boat on the river?
07:35In this weather?
07:36Oh, we can wrap up well.
07:38Take a blanket.
07:39Hot water bottles.
07:40I feel quite mad.
07:42No.
07:44Just happy.
07:46One thing I have learnt is that
07:48there are very few second chances in life.
07:51And I'm determined
07:52to enjoy every moment of this one.
08:06Mrs. McCluskey,
08:07would you mind waiting for a reply
08:08before entering my room in future?
08:11Yes, ma'am.
08:13I do beg your pardon.
08:15I didn't think.
08:17I mean...
08:20I'm sorry.
08:27Hello.
08:27Morning, Gibbons.
08:28Hey, Lordship.
08:30I was just taking a post to the box, sir.
08:33Do you have any more to go?
08:35No.
08:35No, I don't think so.
08:38I'll, uh, hang on to this one
08:39for the time being, though.
08:40Sir.
08:46What is the meaning of this?
08:48I beg your pardon?
08:49Why have you written to Hugh?
08:52All I've done
08:54is ask him to consider
08:55how deeply he has hurt you
08:58and to try and find some way
09:00of regaining his place
09:01in your affections.
09:05I'm not going through all that distress again.
09:07I'm not going to allow you to.
09:09But George...
09:09Decided, Connie.
09:11The boy's a scoundrel.
09:13He's still your son.
09:16I oppose my son.
09:18I think the world's come to an end
09:20if he don't get a cuddle from you.
09:22He's perfectly happy with you.
09:28Well, will you have a look at his body?
09:30I think there's a bit of nappy rash on the way.
09:33See to it, then.
09:35Nanny, please.
09:38I don't want to do it anymore.
09:42That much of Simmons
09:43has been doping him
09:44and mistreating him
09:45since the day he was born.
09:48So the final heartbreak
09:49is that poor little Charlie
09:51was murdered.
09:52Or as good as.
09:54Poor my.
09:56So what about Mrs Brinovsky?
09:58She's going to be moved to prison
09:59this evening to await trial.
10:01I'm going to go see a solicitor I know,
10:03but the first thing I have to do
10:04is find Mrs Simmons.
10:06Well, have you any idea where she went?
10:09Mr Bowles will have an address
10:10where she came from.
10:11That'll be a start.
10:12And if you do find her,
10:14you know the truth
10:15about Billy will come out,
10:16don't you?
10:16Well, then it's just going to have to come out
10:17and devil take the hindmost.
10:18You know, I cannot let Mrs Brinovsky
10:20hang for something she didn't do.
10:22Oh, God, Maddie.
10:25And I'm so sorry.
10:30So, what with one thing and another,
10:33that is why you got short shrift this morning.
10:36Don't worry about that.
10:37I was only going to tell you
10:38about my romantic problems.
10:41You're quite right.
10:43Lovers do think the whole world
10:44revolves around them.
10:45You have a lover.
10:48You're back.
10:52I've been out of my mind with worry
10:54and here's you two standing around gossiping.
10:57Well, what happened, girl?
10:59Did you see him?
11:00What did he say?
11:01I do apologise, Miss Isabel.
11:04Captain Mason said that you were quite right
11:06and he would put the matter in hand
11:07as soon as he could.
11:11I would have appreciated knowing this
11:13as soon as you'd returned, Hannah.
11:16You may find my plight amusing,
11:17but I can assure you
11:18I take my future happiness
11:19very seriously indeed.
11:30And I always thought Nanny's had a quiet life.
11:38Well spotted, Gibbons.
11:41They do need replating.
11:43I'll mention it to her ladyship this afternoon.
11:45Right then.
11:46I'll...
11:52Oh, wait, please.
11:53I haven't finished.
11:55Good afternoon, Weston.
11:56How may I help you?
12:00I, um...
12:02I just wanted to ask
12:03if it would be convenient
12:04to have another reading lesson this evening.
12:07Another time, perhaps.
12:09I am rather busy tonight, I'm afraid.
12:12Oh, right.
12:15Front door.
12:24Mr Fowler?
12:28Have I done something to upset you?
12:30No, of course not, Weston.
12:33Only, um...
12:36You've been so kind and that.
12:39And teaching me letters and everything.
12:43I thought we were friends.
12:45We are indeed.
12:47Then...
12:48Your judgment is quite right this time,
12:50when in the past, perhaps it hasn't been.
12:54What?
12:57Let me read you something.
13:01Talks have begun between representatives
13:03of the Tsar of Russia and factory workers
13:07in a move to quell the growing riots
13:08and disturbances among the Russian peasantry.
13:12For centuries, the Russian royal family
13:15has held absolute power in their country,
13:18and now they are paying the price for it.
13:23Power comes in many forms,
13:25and it is very easy to take advantage of it, Lydia,
13:31regardless of the happiness of others.
13:35I have no wish to be thought to be doing the same.
13:40I tried to get in touch with that solicitor that we met,
13:42Mr Scott,
13:43but he's gone away to Italy for two months.
13:45Now, I do have an address for Nanny Simmons, though.
13:47I'll give it to the police.
13:48No, no, it's better if you go yourself.
13:52They think I'm a wicked Jewish baby farmer.
13:55They want me guilty just to make an example.
13:58They'll waste time.
13:59They won't go.
14:00Well, all right.
14:02I'll do it.
14:04I'll find her.
14:05We'll have the truth out.
14:15Nanny starts talking about Russia,
14:18about taking advantage in that.
14:20And I don't know what he's on about.
14:23We were becoming really good friends in that.
14:26And now it's all gone funny.
14:30Well, he sounds as if he's very fond of you, that's all.
14:33Me of him.
14:35But what's that got to do with taking advantage in Russia?
14:38Lydia,
14:40he watched you get rather badly misused
14:42by someone who should have known better.
14:44What do you mean, Lord Hugh?
14:48Because you weren't in a position to reject him
14:50as you would have done someone of your own class.
14:53That is taking advantage.
14:56Mr Fowler's also in a position of authority, so...
14:58Yeah, but he don't want to...
15:02No.
15:05Oh, goodness gracious me.
15:09Are you saying he might be...
15:11You know?
15:13No.
15:15Couldn't be.
15:17Could he?
15:19Who knows?
15:22When people live in the same house.
15:25Seeing each other every day.
15:28Yeah, but...
15:30What are you looking like that for?
15:34Matilda Wickham, have you got a sweetheart?
15:37I suppose so.
15:40Do you remember Ned?
15:41The footman who came on the picnic with us?
15:43Oh, but he's...
15:44Oh, he's ever so nice.
15:46Nay.
15:47You kept that a bit quiet.
15:49Yeah, well, it's very recent.
15:52Oh, goodness me.
15:56You're Jack being sweet on Anna.
15:59You and Ned.
16:01I know what you say about Mr Fowler.
16:06I don't know what's going to become of this all.
16:09I really don't.
16:10I don't know what you said.
16:39All right.
16:46All right, then, Mrs. Bronofsky.
16:54Irene, goodbye.
16:55Keep singing.
16:57No good you yelling all over the place.
16:59Irene's gone.
17:01Gone? Gone where?
17:03I had her dead a couple of hours ago.
17:06Yeah, she may have been a mad old vagrant.
17:09But she was worth ten of the likes of you.
17:16Good evening, Weston.
17:18Mr. Polo.
17:23I'm sorry, Master George, but it's not my place to advise.
17:26It has been for the last 40 years.
17:29Perhaps that's been quite long enough.
17:32Please, Nanny.
17:35You've known me longer than anyone.
17:38Known Hugh.
17:41Once people are out of the nursery, they become people I don't know.
17:45So I really don't see how I can help you.
17:48Evening, you little chip.
17:51Weston.
18:03There he is, over there.
18:05It's what?
18:05The big fella by the bar?
18:07Yeah.
18:08After the other blokes, you're out of the fight.
18:10You're in there and all.
18:11Are you sure we're just going to work?
18:13Of course it will.
18:22What a word for you, Pat.
18:25What about?
18:26Ned Jones.
18:27The night Lenny Flynn died.
18:31That's the last thing I want to talk about.
18:33Outside, eh?
18:38You're going to make me, are you?
18:45Dad brought it round five minutes ago.
18:50Oh, come on.
18:51What does it say?
18:56It's so good to see you.
18:57Pete's so worried about you.
18:59I'll say I'll be all right.
19:00Where are you?
19:00Where are you staying?
19:03Chelsea Barracks.
19:05What?
19:07Private Peter Clancy.
19:09Light infantry.
19:10At your service.
19:12Oh, my goodness.
19:14No, it's all right, sweetheart.
19:15It's great.
19:17Grub's not as good as only case, but...
19:19It's all found and it's safe.
19:21Keep your head down.
19:22There's no questions asked.
19:23No answers given.
19:25Yeah, but...
19:25Shh, shh, shh, shh.
19:27I told you.
19:28It's all right.
19:32Now, tell me how you are.
19:36Better now than the last few days, I can tell you.
19:38Did you talk to Jack?
19:40He said he'd try and find your mate, Dan.
19:43But I haven't heard from him since.
19:45I don't know what's happening.
19:56Sorry, mate.
20:10So...
20:13I stay in prison till trial at Old Bailey.
20:18No.
20:22It could be worse.
20:24In Poland, they don't even get a trial.
20:28No, this has gone far enough.
20:29You are not going to court.
20:32How are we going to stop it?
20:34Mm-mm.
20:36For telling the truth, that's how.
20:38Whatever the consequences, they have to believe me.
20:41Why?
20:41I mean, why will they have to believe you?
20:44Did you find Mrs. Simmons?
20:47No, I told you I couldn't.
20:49So what evidence have they got?
20:51The only thing they've got is a dead baby.
20:53Dead and murdered baby, Hannah.
20:56So you tell them the truth, and they'll say you murdered Charlie in order to put Billy in his place.
21:02You'll hang.
21:04Well, then, hang, I will.
21:06Every mistake in this mess has been mine, Mrs. Brinovsky, not yours, and I'm not having you pay the price
21:10for it.
21:10Billy will pay.
21:13What?
21:16So you get noble and tell the truth about the changelings?
21:20You hang.
21:25You think Billy's safe with Hutchinson's?
21:30Oh, no, but you'll be free.
21:33No, no, no, I'll be in prison.
21:35Accessory to murder.
21:37And Billy will be in an orphanage.
21:40How long do you think he'll last?
21:42His grandmother.
21:44Lady Ormansworth, I mean, she'll have him.
21:46With a murderess for a mother?
21:52Well, then I won't tell them anything about Charles.
21:55I'll just say that I murdered my own baby, and we'll leave it at that.
22:01And I got you the Lorden, and so we both hang.
22:04Yes, well, at least Billy will be safe.
22:06Yes.
22:07Yes, till they find another Mrs. Simmons, till Bertie spills beans.
22:13Oh, stop it.
22:19I'm just trying to help, and I just don't know what else to do.
22:27Sit down.
22:31Sleep well, did we, lads?
22:35All right, then, all right.
22:36Who's going to tell me what all this is about?
22:38Please, sir.
22:39All right, all right.
22:40No.
22:41Yes.
22:42It's best for everybody.
22:44I can't let you do it.
22:45I don't think you have a choice.
22:47I...
22:47Look.
22:53Oh, dear, Hannah.
22:56I've had my life.
22:59It's been a long, tiring life.
23:05Everything I ever had was taken away from me, without my say-so.
23:11My whole family, even my own baby.
23:17My country.
23:22And never was there anything I could do about it.
23:24Nothing to make things better for myself or anybody.
23:29Suddenly, there's you and Billy, and I love, and you love, and sunshine.
23:36And it's the best time of my life.
23:38The best time of my whole life, Hannah.
23:41Just this one time, silly old Mrs. Branowski can do something.
23:47Keep loved ones safe.
23:49Make things better.
23:51No.
23:52When my baby was born, I had dreams for him.
23:58Billy's the only one left to grow up and make it all worthwhile.
24:04And you're the only one who can see that it happens.
24:09For all of us, Hannah.
24:11So all I was trying to do was to get Houlihan down here and back up Dan's story.
24:15Well, you certainly got him here.
24:17Ask him.
24:18It weren't just Houlihan.
24:19They were all dead.
24:19Look at my original statement.
24:21I am.
24:21You're a blameless.
24:22You're a blameless.
24:23You're a blameless.
24:23You're a blameless.
24:24Sean O'Brien!
24:28Kevin Keeley!
24:31Well?
24:34It's Helen.
24:36You see, sir, I can understand why nobody wants to admit to gambling at an illegal fisticuffs,
24:43but I can't see why they deny just happening to be present when a scrap between gentlemen gets a little
24:49bit out of hand, as it were.
24:51Can you?
24:52Can you?
24:52Can you?
24:53Can you?
24:53I can't.
24:58All right.
25:00I was there.
25:02We'll take a few statements, shall we?
25:07Should I make him have his stewed prunes, or should I try him with something else?
25:14Maybe you just don't like stewed prunes.
25:17Maybe you just don't like stewed prunes.
25:17I don't know.
25:19What do you think, Nanny?
25:22I don't think anything.
25:24Oh, please.
25:26Well, I can't do it on my own.
25:29It's time you learnt then, isn't it?
25:33Right.
25:35In that case, I shan't listen to another word you say, shall I?
25:41I shall do things exactly as I want to.
25:44So you can retire to your niece in Bournemouth whenever you like, because I can manage perfectly well here on
25:50my own.
25:53So, we'll have these off for a start, shall we?
25:57He don't walk, so he don't need shoes.
25:59And I don't fancy going to the park this afternoon, either.
26:03Not in this weather.
26:05He don't need fresh air.
26:07And if he doesn't want to sleep tonight, I'll put a spot of rum in his milk, shall I?
26:11That should do the trick.
26:13And while we're at it, I am flipping freezing in here.
26:17Let's have this open.
26:20Stoke up a nice thug in him, shall we?
26:24I know it spits, but, well, a few burns on Ivo won't hurt him, will it?
26:28Teach him not to go near it.
26:30You are a wicked, wicked girl.
26:33Oh, so you do have an opinion, then?
26:43Nanny, you wouldn't stand by and let me do all that, would you?
26:47Not if it meant the slightest chance of any harm coming to little Ivo, would you?
26:51No, of course I wouldn't.
26:54Just because they're all grown up downstairs doesn't mean to say they can't come to any harm, does it?
27:01But it's all my fault.
27:04Oh, yes.
27:05And what would you say if I came running to you, saying something was my fault?
27:09You'd say, then deal with it, Lydia.
27:13That's what you'd say.
27:16You'd tell me to mend what needs mending and stop crying over spilt milk.
27:21That's what you'd say.
27:26So, you see, Sam, my baby's not dead at all.
27:29You substituted him for your employer's child.
27:32That's right.
27:33Miss Randall, the child was murdered.
27:36I know that now, but I didn't then, you know?
27:39It all just makes sense now, the way Mrs. Simmons just often left.
27:42Mrs. Simmons?
27:43The last nanny, I told you.
27:45She's now disappeared.
27:46Yes.
27:48I was mad.
27:49I know I was.
27:50It just seemed to make sense at the time.
27:52You carried a dead child all across London and nobody even noticed.
27:58Yes.
27:59And you put your own child in its place and nobody noticed that either.
28:05Yes.
28:07Well, I think I'd better have another word with your employer.
28:11Ned'll have to go down and make a statement, but they've dropped the murder charge.
28:15Eight people are told the same story.
28:17Jack, well, you poor face.
28:20Hey, steady on, doll.
28:21Not everyone knows I'm your brother.
28:23So he was telling the truth?
28:25Yeah, he was.
28:26So you can love him without feeling guilty now, can't you?
28:29Jack, thank you.
28:29Well, the welfare of the young people of the families is still very much my concern.
28:36So I hope you will allow me to express my opinion.
28:40I'll force steam ahead, nanny.
28:43Master Hugh has been very badly served by all of us.
28:46What do you mean?
28:50I have indulged him to excess.
28:54You, your lordship, have ignored him.
28:58And you, your ladyship, have replaced his mother.
29:01Not with malicious intent, I admit, but nonetheless,
29:04it's no wonder the boy's affections are addled and misplaced.
29:09What are you suggesting?
29:12Absolute truth, your lordship.
29:15Do you or do you not love Master Hugh?
29:25Flesh and blood, damn it.
29:27Well, then.
29:29Since her ladyship has been kind enough to attempt a reconciliation,
29:33you should accept with gratitude.
29:36We don't turn a kindness from the door, do we?
29:39In case it should never return.
29:42No, nanny.
29:53Ned!
29:59Ned!
30:01Matty, I told you, it's Peter Clancy.
30:04No, it's not.
30:06It's Ned Jones.
30:07Or Ned McCluskey.
30:09Or any name you choose.
30:12You're joking.
30:14Jack did it.
30:16He's still got to go in and answer questions,
30:18but it's not a murder charge any more.
30:22Yes!
30:25You choose.
30:27What?
30:28Jones and McCluskey.
30:30You're the one that's going to be called Mrs. wherever it is, son.
30:34You better choose.
30:35Yes.
30:40I did so hope this wouldn't happen.
30:44You will understand if I ask for your absolute discretion, Detective Pearson.
30:50So, you think this is a matter that simply requires discretion, do you?
30:56Well, of course it is.
30:58The poor girl is quite unbalanced by her grief.
31:01It's an absurd story.
31:03And you are quite certain the child is your great-nephew?
31:07Well, I'm not in my dotage yet, young man.
31:11Of course not, Mrs. Saunders.
31:12Forgive me.
31:15Would it be possible to see the child myself?
31:21By all means.
31:25If you think you're more capable of recognising a member of my own family than I am.
31:33Now, listen to me, Bertie.
31:35It is desperately, desperately important that you tell the truth now.
31:41Do you understand?
31:43None of the half-truths or any other stories that we made up together on Coronation Day.
31:49All right?
31:50Everything that has happened is no one's fault but mine.
31:54Now, promise me.
31:56Promise me you'll tell the truth.
31:59Come along then, Master Albert.
32:02Come on.
32:05Let's take you to your aunt.
32:08Come on.
32:15So, you're Master Albert, are you?
32:20Yes, sir.
32:23And who's this?
32:25It's Charlie.
32:27My baby brother.
32:30Is he indeed?
32:37I must say, you don't look much like him.
32:42I did when I was little, sir.
32:44Didn't I, Aunt Effie?
32:50I've grown up a bit since then.
32:59So, are we going to talk to this other woman she said was involved?
33:02Yeah.
33:04It's obvious around all girls talking demented nonsense.
33:07I can't see much point bothering this weekend, can you?
33:11It's all right.
33:12Everything's going to be all right.
33:14They're dropping the murder charges.
33:15He's a free man.
33:18Indeed, sir.
33:20Asked me to marry him.
33:22Oh, my good God.
33:24What?
33:24Well, I'm going to be your mother-in-law.
33:33I hope this is a joke, son.
33:35No, sir.
33:36I'm quite serious.
33:37No, no, no.
33:38Look, I'll give you another chance, all right?
33:41You do not really wish to leave the regiment, do you, Clancy?
33:46Uh, yes, I do, sir.
33:49I've changed my mind.
33:51No, you haven't.
33:52Because people what wish to leave the regiment,
33:56A, before their time is up,
33:57and B, while said regiment is on active service,
34:01gets classed as deserters.
34:04And then they get shot.
34:07Active service, sir?
34:09Haven't you heard?
34:13We're shipping out to Somaliland.
34:15End of next week.
34:18Anyway, um,
34:20I thought you'd like to know, um, Nanny Collins.
34:24She's still a bit thoughtful, like, but
34:27I think she'll be back to her old self in no time.
34:32She's very fortunate to have such a kindly and affectionate nursemaid as you, Weston.
34:36Why have you stopped calling me Lydia?
34:41I think it's for the best.
34:44Is it what you're saying about Russia?
34:47About taking advantage in that?
34:50Yes, yes, it is.
34:53Only I don't think it's fair, see?
34:56Because that makes me feel like I'm taking advantage of you,
34:59asking you to teach me reading and writing.
35:03Because we're not even, are we?
35:08Now, as I really and truly want to learn my letters,
35:13I'd appreciate it very much if you'd go back to calling me Lydia.
35:18Please.
35:26I shall.
35:32Well, then,
35:34Lydia,
35:36shall we begin with the alphabet?
35:39If that's what you think best, Mr Farrell.
35:52No.
35:54Make a man of you, Ned.
35:58Travel completes the education.
36:00That's what they say.
36:02And Africa.
36:04Plenty of people have paid good money to go somewhere like that.
36:08What's going on?
36:10Your mother says go...
36:11I'm so sorry.
36:12You can't go to Africa!
36:14I have to.
36:15No, you don't.
36:16Get a transfer to another regiment.
36:19You don't even know anything about fighting.
36:21Well, I wouldn't say that.
36:22You know perfectly well what I mean.
36:25After all the trouble I went to,
36:26I moved heaven and earth to get you on...
36:27Matty, there's just no way out of it!
36:29It's not fair!
36:35I think I'll take my cocoa up to bed with me.
36:39See you in the morning.
36:41Good night.
37:06I'll come back, Matty.
37:09These things don't last forever.
37:13Six months.
37:15A year, maybe.
37:18You said you wouldn't let go of me.
37:31What time do you have to be back at the barracks?
37:35There's no hurry.
37:37Don't know if you'll be back until tomorrow morning.
37:41Neither do I.
37:54Hannah, he's coming.
37:56Aunt Effie says Harry's allowed to come and talk to her this morning.
37:59Isn't it exciting?
38:00Yes.
38:06First of all, she said it was just some baby she was boarding.
38:10But then one time I heard her say it was her grandson.
38:13Then she says it belongs to some pal of hers.
38:16And I'm not even sure it was the same baby.
38:27Yes.
38:28I knew what it was.
38:31In fact, I recognised the smell as soon as I opened the bottle.
38:35It was clearly tincture of laudanum, which is a substance commonly used to pacify infants, or so I'm led to
38:45believe.
38:47I'm grateful you had the courtesy to come and see me, Captain Mason.
38:51But my rejection of you as a suitor for my niece is not based on the trivial flouting of social
38:58convention.
39:00Reprehensible, though that may be.
39:02It is based on my conviction that you are dishonest, dishonourable, deceitful, and in short, sir, a complete bounder.
39:15And that a marriage between yourself and my niece would result not only in disgrace to this family,
39:22but in shame and heartbreak to Isabel herself.
39:28And there's an end to it, sir.
39:31I bid you a good day.
39:35I said...
39:36In my head.
39:42Thing is, Aunt F,
39:48I'd rather set my heart on marrying young Isabel.
39:52And she on me.
39:53Can't think why, but there we are.
39:57So, long and short of it is, either married we get with full military whatnots,
40:02or I sue for breach of promise.
40:06You wouldn't.
40:08Well, I wouldn't want to, of course.
40:11It's never nice to see a young girl have her virtue, or lack of it, discussed in the courts,
40:16laughed about in public.
40:17It tends to send them into a sort of decline.
40:24But needs must stay, Aunt F.
40:28Disappointed fortunes.
40:30A chap's honour being impugned in the mess, all that.
40:32You unspeakable swine.
40:44Good afternoon, Aunt F.
40:50Shall I give Isabel the good news, or will you?
40:56To my great sadness, Your Worship, I have seen many such cases in my time.
41:00The so-called baby farmers keep the infants subdued with small doses of such substances
41:05as arsenic, or alcohol, or, as in this case, tincture of laudanum.
41:12Such repeated dosing to tiny infants does frequently result in their death.
41:20She's not back yet.
41:21I don't know where she is, Miss Isabel.
41:24Sorry.
41:26Elsa Bronowski.
41:28You have been found guilty of murdering the infant William John Randall.
41:33I don't care if she's out visiting, or shopping, or where she is.
41:39The point is, she should be here.
41:41This is the happiest and most important day of my life.
41:45She should be here to share it with me.
41:47The sentence of this court is that you'll be taken from here to a place of confinement,
41:53and from there to a place of execution,
41:57where you will be hanged by the neck until you are dead.
42:01Dory's selfish, in fact, that's all I can say.
42:03No!
42:04She hasn't been feeling terribly well.
42:06Maybe she's gone to see the doctor again.
42:08You are sweet Bertie, and I'm very thoughtless.
42:12I forgot she wasn't quite herself.
42:13You're wrong!
42:14It's not true!
42:16Remove that person!
42:17I'm a pronostic!
42:18Stupid girl.
42:20Come on.
42:22Never mind.
42:24When she does come home, I've got the very best news for her.
42:27It'll tear her up enormously.
42:37The execution will take place today of Elsa Bronowski,
42:41found guilty last week of murdering the infant son of Miss Hannah Randall, a servant.
42:48A little quieter, if you please, Simmons.
42:52Oh, I beg your pardon, sir.
43:09Are you all right, my dear?
43:13You look quite pale.
43:15I've been feeling a little unwell.
43:19Each morning.
43:22For the past week.
43:28Oh, my dear.
43:37Oh, do, Miss Turner, please.
43:40Little and might not get another chance to see troops marching out for years.
43:44A special duty only, as I shan't be sailing with them,
43:47but still, be a bit of a sight.
43:50If Nanny Randall is agreeable.
43:52What?
43:53Cousin Isabel wants to cancel lessons this morning,
43:55so we can go and watch the soldiers.
43:59Oh, come on, Hannah, please.
44:01You've hardly been out of the house for a week.
44:03The fresh air will do you good.
44:05Harriet's going with Nanny Wickham.
44:08Oh!
44:10No, that's fine.
44:12We'll all go.
44:14Will he be able to say goodbye?
44:17No, because he'll be busy marching.
44:21But he will be able to smile, so you must smile, too.
44:25And wave as hard as you can, so he doesn't feel bad about going.
44:29I'm going to throw one of my dry flowers at him.
44:33You do that.
44:41You may wave your handkerchief discreetly,
44:44but there'll be no calling out for disgracefulness, hmm?
44:48No, Nanny.
44:48Have a great day.
45:12Bye.
45:13Bye.
45:14Bye.
45:15Bye.
45:27I am the resurrection and the life, saith the Lord.
45:31He that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live.
45:36I am not Christian.
45:39And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die.
45:43Stop it, please, stop it.
45:46It's for your comfort to make you feel better.
45:58I kept silence, yea, even from good words, but it was pain and grief to me.
46:07My heart was hot within me, and while I was thus musing, the fire kindled.
46:13And at the last, I spake with my tongue.
46:18They used to call me, sweetheart, and the boys would soon and sigh and say the things I will remember
46:33all my life.
46:47Oh, my God!
47:43Come on, Nanny, cheer up.
47:45You'll make them feel badly about going.
47:49We're made of tougher stuff than that.
47:54Indeed we are, Bertie.
47:58Indeed we are.
47:59Thank you so much, Nanny!
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