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Before going to Africa, Roger proposes to Cynthia and is accepted. Molly faces some problems with her stepmother and her views.
Starring:
Justine Waddell
Bill Paterson
Francesca Annis
Keeley Hawes
Tom Hollander
Iain Glen
Anthony Howell
Michael Gambon
Before going to Africa, Roger proposes to Cynthia and is accepted. Molly faces some problems with her stepmother and her views.
Starring:
Justine Waddell
Bill Paterson
Francesca Annis
Keeley Hawes
Tom Hollander
Iain Glen
Anthony Howell
Michael Gambon
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00:00:20She's coming! I've seen her!
00:00:23Oh, moderate your turn, dear. She'll be here just as soon.
00:00:48Well, here she is. Molly, this is Cynthia. Cynthia, Molly. You're to be sisters, you know?
00:00:57How do you do?
00:01:01I'm so pleased to meet you at last. And I, Hugh.
00:01:12Here's my mum.
00:01:13Why, how you've grown, darling. You look quite a woman.
00:01:20That's how I am.
00:01:22Well, it was before I went away. I've hardly grown since.
00:01:26Except in wisdom, I hope.
00:01:28Yes. That we would hope.
00:01:34There's hot breakfast in the dining room when you're ready for it. I'm sure you're hungry after your night journey.
00:01:39Thank you. Molly will show you to your room. It's next to hers, and I'm so afraid of the drafts.
00:02:02Oh, I'm so sorry there isn't a file for you. I suppose it wasn't ordered, and of course I don't
00:02:06give the orders now.
00:02:08Here's some hot water, though.
00:02:10Stop a minute.
00:02:14I think I shall like you.
00:02:16I'm so glad. I was afraid I shouldn't.
00:02:18We're all in a very awkward position together, aren't we?
00:02:21Yes.
00:02:23I suppose so.
00:02:25Yes, well, you may laugh, but I don't know I'm easy to get on with.
00:02:29Mama and I didn't suit when we were last together.
00:02:32Stop.
00:02:33Perhaps we are each of us wiser now.
00:02:35Oh, I like your father's looks, though.
00:02:37Oh, is he going out already?
00:02:42Yes. He's called out at all hours. I expect he's going to Hamley Hall.
00:02:45Mrs Hamley has died... very ill.
00:02:53I think you're probably a very good person, Molly.
00:02:56I'm not very good myself.
00:02:59In fact, I gave myself up years ago as a heartless baggage.
00:03:07And this is Miss Rose's.
00:03:09Her dresses are very fashionable.
00:03:11Oh, and this is Princeton's bookshop.
00:03:15Miss Browning.
00:03:16Miss Phoebe, good morning.
00:03:18Cynthia.
00:03:20Cynthia, my daughter.
00:03:21Oh, we were just coming to call on you.
00:03:23We wanted to invite you both to our car party on the 12th.
00:03:27Just a few young people, you know.
00:03:29Oh, yes, of course we'll come.
00:03:31Molly, dear.
00:03:32How very kind of you, Miss Browning, Miss Phoebe.
00:03:34But, you see, I hardly like to let them go.
00:03:37They're not out, you know, till after the Easter ball.
00:03:41Not out?
00:03:42Till then, you see, we are invisible.
00:03:45Uh-huh.
00:03:46In my days, girls went wherever it pleased folk to ask them.
00:03:50Hmm.
00:03:50I've seen many a girl of 14 or even 12 at a car party who knows how to behave as
00:03:55well as
00:03:56any lady there.
00:03:57There should be no talk of coming out for anyone onto the daughter of a squire.
00:04:01After Easter, Molly and I shall be capable of proper behaviour, but not before.
00:04:05Proper behaviour?
00:04:06Well, I'm quite sure that Molly has been capable of proper behaviour ever since she was a little
00:04:10girl.
00:04:11Always a little lady.
00:04:12Molly wants the refinements that good society gives.
00:04:15Why, only today I saw her coming upstairs two steps at a time.
00:04:20Only two, Molly.
00:04:21Yesterday I found I could manage four, you know.
00:04:23My dear, what are you saying?
00:04:25I'm merely confessing, Mama, that I too, like Molly, want the refinements that good society
00:04:30brings.
00:04:31Therefore, please do let us go to the Browning's card party.
00:04:34I think I might make an exception with one.
00:04:37I think so indeed.
00:04:42You shouldn't do that, we don't understand.
00:04:45Don't do that.
00:04:46I'm only teasing Mama.
00:04:48Ah, no, you are quite right to correct me.
00:04:51Won't do any good though.
00:04:52I am, as I am, I'm afraid.
00:05:09Thank you, Mr. Gibson.
00:05:20Thank you, Mr. Gibson.
00:05:26Thank you, Mr. Gibson.
00:05:58There's some supper for you in the dining room.
00:06:02Where's your mother?
00:06:03She's upstairs with Cynthia.
00:06:06I'll just take some bread and cheese and a glass of beer then.
00:06:09This will have to go out again soon. I've not seen my tongue patients yet.
00:06:33Yes, she's gone, Molly.
00:06:48I'm sorry. Of course I knew it was coming.
00:06:52But I was so fond of her. And she was so good to me.
00:06:57And poor Squire Howley loved her so much.
00:07:01They all did.
00:07:05They all sent their love to you, Molly.
00:07:07Roger said he knew how you would feel it.
00:07:10Did he?
00:07:30You loved her dearly, didn't you?
00:07:33Yes.
00:07:35Had you known her all of your life?
00:07:38No.
00:07:40Not a year.
00:07:42But I'd seen so much of her.
00:07:45I was almost like a daughter to her.
00:07:48She said so.
00:07:49Molly.
00:07:51Molly, I wish I could love people as you do.
00:07:54Don't you?
00:07:55No.
00:07:57No.
00:07:59A number of people love me.
00:08:00I don't really seem to care very much for anybody.
00:08:03Well, I think I love you better than anyone.
00:08:05And I've only known you for...
00:08:07...ten days.
00:08:08More than your mother.
00:08:10Oh, yes.
00:08:12Yes.
00:08:13It's very shocking, I dare say.
00:08:15But...
00:08:15Well, there it is.
00:08:19Do you know, I don't think...
00:08:21...the loving one's mother comes quite by nature.
00:08:24I loved my father.
00:08:26Well, he died when I was quite a little thing.
00:08:29Nobody believes I remember him.
00:08:31But I do.
00:08:33So, you see, I can't forgive Mama for her neglect of me...
00:08:36...when I would have clung to her.
00:08:39I know she had to go out and work as a governess, but...
00:08:43Well, if she had wanted me to love her...
00:08:45...she shouldn't have sent me away to school at four years old.
00:08:49Did Mama say Mrs Hamley had two sons?
00:08:52Yes.
00:08:54Osborne and Roger.
00:08:56They have been so kind to me.
00:08:57Roger, especially.
00:08:58He has such a good heart.
00:09:00Perhaps it belongs to you?
00:09:02Oh, no.
00:09:04Nothing like that.
00:09:06Well, ten past six.
00:09:08Just waiting for Mr Osborne, sir.
00:09:11Come, Mr Osborne, sir.
00:09:12Bring it in now.
00:09:18Surely it isn't six o'clock.
00:09:19More like quarter past.
00:09:21I fancy a watch must be wrong, sir.
00:09:24My watch is like myself.
00:09:25Plain but steady going.
00:09:26Not like a whippersnapper of a French watch.
00:09:29I beg your pardon, sir.
00:09:30I had no idea you were waiting.
00:09:32Otherwise, I could have dressed much quicker.
00:09:34Thanks, sir.
00:09:35When I were a young man, it would be a shame to spend so much time fiddle-faddling at me
00:09:39looking-glasses if I'd been a girl.
00:09:42Mother always liked us all to dress for dinner.
00:09:45I got into the habit of doing it to please her, and I keep it up now.
00:09:49Don't you cast up your mother's wishes to me, sir.
00:09:53You came so near to breaking our heart.
00:09:57What do you do now?
00:09:59You come and go as you please without a word of explanation as to where you go or how you
00:10:03spend my money.
00:10:05What is it you do?
00:10:07Is it gambling, sir, or do you keep a mistress?
00:10:10Neither, sir.
00:10:13I'm only a cause of irritation to you.
00:10:16And home is no longer home to me, but a place where I am to be controlled and scolded as
00:10:20if I were a child.
00:10:21I am as ready as any man to earn my living, but to prepare for a profession costs money, and
00:10:27I have none.
00:10:28No more have I.
00:10:33What's to be done, then?
00:10:35We used to learn to stop at home and not take expensive journeys.
00:10:39If you can't earn money, at least you needn't spend it.
00:10:42But to lay aside all my drainage work, aye, and lay off good men, I promise, work too, all because
00:10:47of your extravagance.
00:10:50There's two things you've gone and done that'll put me beside myself.
00:10:53You've turned out next door to a dunce at college, and worse than that, you've...
00:11:00I won't say what the other thing is.
00:11:02Tell me, sir.
00:11:03No.
00:11:04I know what I know.
00:11:06You can tell your money-lending friends that see no other my money nor my timber if I cut you
00:11:11out of my will.
00:11:14And there's Roger.
00:11:18Roger.
00:11:19We never made an adieu about him, but he'll be worth telling you.
00:11:24He'll make us proud of him.
00:11:28You know why I say...
00:11:32We...
00:11:33An horse.
00:11:35Or to be I.
00:11:39We know...
00:11:41Us anymore.
00:11:46Be I forevermore in this world.
00:12:05Father!
00:12:07Father!
00:12:10Father!
00:12:20My father's not well.
00:12:25And I have to go away rather urgently.
00:12:28Will you tell him I was called away?
00:12:33Not now.
00:12:35Tomorrow morning will do.
00:12:38Mr. Osborne called away again.
00:12:41Yes, sir.
00:12:43I'll tell him.
00:12:53I'll tell him.
00:12:57I'll tell him.
00:13:00It's one more time.
00:13:01I'll tell him.
00:13:02I'll tell him.
00:13:27Bring those over here.
00:13:28That's it.
00:13:29All right.
00:13:30Johnson.
00:13:31Give him a line down, Yonker.
00:13:35All right.
00:13:47Thank you, Will.
00:13:53There he is, squire.
00:13:54Thank you, Sarah.
00:13:59Why, now, do it come, squire.
00:14:02Your father came to see my father when he were dying.
00:14:07Come on, Silas.
00:14:08We'll have no talk of dying.
00:14:09We'll have you out of here, rest assured.
00:14:11I doubt that.
00:14:13I'm a deal nearer to heaven than I was yesterday.
00:14:17But I'm glad you could come.
00:14:19I wanted to tell you, you should look to your covers.
00:14:24Them navvies are Lord Cumners.
00:14:27They're tearing up your goss and your brush, they are.
00:14:32Hey, just to light their fires.
00:14:38Come down to Hooligans.
00:14:40I'm not at that.
00:14:46Morning, sir.
00:14:47You're the manager of these works.
00:14:49I am that.
00:14:50Many other things besides, sir.
00:14:52My name is Preston.
00:14:53I've succeeded Mr. Sheepshanks in the management of my lord's land.
00:14:57Mr. Hamley of Hamley, I believe.
00:14:58Yes, I am, sir.
00:15:00I suppose you're ignorant of your boundaries, so I tell you.
00:15:04My property begins yonder, just by that rise in the ground.
00:15:08I know that, sir.
00:15:09Why do you call my attention to it now?
00:15:11Because I've been told that your men don't respect these boundaries.
00:15:15They'll be digging out my gorse cupboards for their fires.
00:15:17It's possible they may.
00:15:19I dare say they think no harm in it.
00:15:21However, I'll inquire.
00:15:22You doubt my words, sir.
00:15:24There's your temper, Mr. Hamley.
00:15:25I said I should inquire.
00:15:27If you've not seen it yourself, I'm sure you would have said so.
00:15:29If it is the case, I'll see to it you're compensated.
00:15:32I suppose the damage might come to as much as half a crown?
00:15:34I don't know who you are, sir, but I've known land agents who were gentlemen
00:15:37and some that weren't, and you belong to the last sore young man.
00:15:40That you do.
00:15:41I haven't mind to.
00:15:42I'll sweep you for your insolence.
00:15:43There'll be a temper, Mr. Hamley, unreflected.
00:15:46I'm sorry to see a man of your age and such a passion.
00:15:48Mr. Preston!
00:15:49Roger asked him to get his men off my land.
00:15:51He refused.
00:15:52Said he doubted my word.
00:15:53Your father has misunderstood me.
00:15:54I never refused to do what was just and right.
00:15:56Come, father.
00:15:57Old Silas was asking for you again.
00:15:58He's very poorly.
00:16:00Mr. Preston, perhaps you should remember the deference you should show to a man of my father's
00:16:03age and position.
00:16:05Good day to you.
00:16:06Come on, father.
00:16:07There's nothing to be gained from arguing with such a man.
00:16:09Another child, Roger.
00:16:11Position, indeed.
00:16:12It's the position of a man who starts works without counting the costs.
00:16:15Must have turned off his labourers at the beginning of winter.
00:16:17I'm as good a gentleman as you, sir, or your father.
00:16:23What's your work there?
00:16:26I know I turned them off, but what could I do?
00:16:28I had no money to pay the men.
00:16:29No-one knows how much it caught me to turn off so near wintertime.
00:16:34I did everything I could for them.
00:16:35I had three barren cows fattened and gave every scrap of meat to the men.
00:16:39We'll find a way of going on with the work.
00:16:41We'll find a way somehow, father.
00:16:43I wish to heaven I'd horsewhip the fellow.
00:17:00Sit still, dear.
00:17:02Agnes will go.
00:17:14Mr Preston, ma'am.
00:17:21Mrs Gibson?
00:17:23Miss Gibson?
00:17:24I should have called sooner to pay my respects,
00:17:27but now I've taken over Lord Cumnor's land agency,
00:17:29I shall be moving to Hollingford.
00:17:31I hope I shall see you much more often.
00:17:34Oh, please sit down, Mr Preston.
00:17:50You're both looking very well, if I may say so.
00:17:55Have you been to a public ball yet, Miss Gibson?
00:17:58No.
00:18:00It'll be a great pleasure to you when the time comes.
00:18:03We hope to attend the Easter charity ball.
00:18:06Of course.
00:18:08And Miss Kirkpatrick, will she have returned from France by then?
00:18:13Yes.
00:18:14We hope she'll be here by Easter.
00:18:17Then I shall hope to have the pleasure of dancing with two very pretty partners.
00:18:34Miss Kirkpatrick?
00:18:39Hey.
00:18:48Miss Kirkpatrick?
00:18:50What do you think?
00:18:51I like the green.
00:18:54Have you heard the news?
00:18:57They say that Roger Hamley's passed out first in his examination.
00:19:00All unlikely things.
00:19:02He's even been given a fellowship.
00:19:04Worth a good deal of money, I believe.
00:19:06Truly?
00:19:07Oh, I'm so happy for him, and the squire would be so proud of him.
00:19:10Indeed.
00:19:11He's in need of a bit of comfort.
00:19:14He's mismanaged his estate woefully.
00:19:17The whole family's going down fast, in my opinion.
00:19:19Last of the old Saxon stock.
00:19:22Land rich and cash poor.
00:19:24Their only hope is if Osborne Hamley marries some tradesman's daughter with a deal of money,
00:19:28otherwise it's all up with them.
00:19:29I happen to believe in good old families like the Hamleys.
00:19:33I have heard that Osborne and Roger Hamley are two very fine young men,
00:19:37and I don't believe it's all up with the Hamleys in the least.
00:19:39They are fortunate in having Miss Kirkpatrick's good word.
00:19:42I know that Miss Gibson has a very high regard for them,
00:19:45and I value her opinion far above the common gossip of the county.
00:20:02Hateful man.
00:20:05Well, how dare he speak about your friends in that way?
00:20:10Well, of course, I really know nothing at all about the Hamleys,
00:20:12but I couldn't have him speaking of them so,
00:20:15and with your poor eyes filling with tears.
00:20:17You were very short with Mr. Preston, darling.
00:20:21But there is something disagreeable in his manner.
00:20:24Yes, well, he certainly doesn't improve on acquaintance.
00:20:27Although there was a time, Mama,
00:20:28when I think both you and I found him very agreeable indeed.
00:20:40You're the last to come.
00:20:41The good enough girls and their brother are here,
00:20:44and you will see we've got a gentleman for you after all.
00:20:47Who is it, Miss Phoebe?
00:20:48A senior wrangler from Cambridge.
00:20:52Wasn't it fortunate he came to call?
00:20:54Oh, I won't say we laid violent hands on him
00:20:56because he's too good for that.
00:20:58But really, we shouldn't be near it
00:21:00if he hadn't stayed of his own accord.
00:21:03Oh, I was so happy to hear your news.
00:21:06Oh, I hope to have the pleasure of telling you myself.
00:21:11Oh, I beg your pardon.
00:21:13This is Miss Kirkpatrick.
00:21:14How do you do?
00:21:16How do you do?
00:21:18Miss Gibson, what games are we playing?
00:21:20Because we only know whist and all made.
00:21:23That is to say, if we had to play for money,
00:21:25we hope the stakes won't be very high.
00:21:27May I spit you for a moment?
00:21:29Yes, if you like.
00:21:31We have heard that Cambridge men
00:21:34always play for very high stakes.
00:21:36And they are sometimes ruined.
00:21:38And then they're sent down in disgrace.
00:21:41We only play for Thorpeens at my uncle's.
00:21:43I'm sure we won't be playing for any higher today.
00:21:46Oh, thank you, Miss Gibson.
00:21:56Good night, Molly.
00:21:57I'm sorry we didn't have a chance to talk more.
00:22:00Look, so am I.
00:22:02I'd so like to hear more about your honours at Cambridge.
00:22:05Oh, that's a long story.
00:22:07Besides, you probably wouldn't find it very interesting.
00:22:11We're Cynthia Luke very much interested.
00:22:14Did you think so?
00:22:26Good night, Miss Kirkpatrick.
00:22:28Good night.
00:22:30Go on.
00:22:36Roger was there, wasn't he?
00:22:37Yes.
00:22:38What did you think of my favourites of him?
00:22:40Well, he's not as handsome as someone else.
00:22:44And he did tell me a great deal more than I needed to know about Cambridge and fellowships
00:22:48and such.
00:22:48But, well, there is something one likes about him, yes.
00:22:51And what sort of evening have you had, Molly?
00:22:54Very pleasant, thank you.
00:22:55Do you know, I think we should give a little dinner party and invite both the brothers.
00:22:59One hears so little of Osborne Hamley.
00:23:01With Molly, it's all Roger this and Roger that.
00:23:03I didn't know I mentioned him so often.
00:23:06And these Hollingford people are rather commonplace.
00:23:08Yes, I think it would be a very pretty attention.
00:23:11Must be rather gloomy for them at Hamley Hall.
00:23:26That Miss Cynthia is a rare young lady, of all her pretty coaching ways.
00:23:31You asked me to teach her the bud roses come the season.
00:23:35I know, weren't you?
00:23:36She'll learn sharp enough for all she says she's so stupid.
00:23:40Well, you can finish now.
00:23:41I think you know which plants go where.
00:23:42I wouldn't say as I do.
00:23:43If you could just go over it once more, I'm not as young as I once was.
00:23:47Bring the spades and we'll do it together.
00:23:49Right.
00:23:53Molly!
00:23:56I've only just found out where you were.
00:23:58Mrs Gibson said you'd gone out.
00:23:59I saw you just now, but I couldn't leave Williams.
00:24:02I've been here above an hour.
00:24:06Well, come, let's see your garden plan.
00:24:11Oh.
00:24:12That was Mother's favourite.
00:24:15How is the square?
00:24:17Oh, he's pretty low.
00:24:19Is he still angry with your brother?
00:24:21Yes, poor Oswald.
00:24:23He's not the villain he's made out to be.
00:24:25I can tell you that his misfortunes have nothing to do with wickedness or vice.
00:24:29I never thought they had.
00:24:31He's very fond of you.
00:24:34I wish you could come and stay with us again, Molly, but I don't suppose it would be thought proper.
00:24:38Though we think of you quite as a sister.
00:24:40Do you?
00:24:41Hmm.
00:24:46I can't tell you how much I like Miss Kirkpatrick.
00:24:50Must be such a pleasure to you, having her as a companion.
00:24:52Well, yes, it is.
00:24:53I'm very fond of her.
00:24:55But how quickly you found out her virtues.
00:24:58I didn't say virtues, did I?
00:25:03Mrs. Gibson has asked me to dine here on Friday.
00:25:06And are you coming?
00:25:07Yeah, certainly I am.
00:25:08And she's made me promise to bring Osborne.
00:25:11He's always pleased to see you.
00:25:13You always do us good, Molly.
00:25:17Lord Hollingford was telling me of a paper of yours he had read on comparative osteology, I think it was.
00:25:23Yes, that's right.
00:25:24He said it was quite excellent work.
00:25:25Comparative osteology? What on earth is that?
00:25:28Oh, don't ask him, Mrs. Gibson. I beg you. His answer might take several hours.
00:25:32It's just the study of the bone structure of the various species.
00:25:35It shows that we're more nearly related to the great apes, and some of us might care to think.
00:25:39Oh, you wouldn't need to be a scientist to come to that conclusion, would you?
00:25:42Cynthia, dear.
00:25:43Oh, the present company accepted, of course.
00:25:46Oh, please don't stare so severely at me, even if I am a dunce.
00:25:54Oh, I didn't know. I didn't mean to look severely, I'm sure.
00:25:57And Cynthia is not a dunce.
00:25:59I've often observed that some people have a talent for one thing and some for another,
00:26:02and Cynthia inclines more towards poetry.
00:26:05I've heard her recite The Prisoner of Chillon from beginning to end.
00:26:10You'd be rather a bore to hear her, I think.
00:26:13Oh, Mr. Gibson, I have long known that you have no soul for poetry,
00:26:18and Molly here is a true daughter of yours.
00:26:21She reads such deep books.
00:26:22She'll be quite a blue-stocking by and by.
00:26:24I'm not a blue-stocking, and it wasn't a deep book.
00:26:27It was the one you lent me with the shape of all the cells of the different bees in it.
00:26:30It was very interesting.
00:26:32Well, never mind, Molly. I stand up for blue-stocking.
00:26:36And I object to the distinction implied in what you say.
00:26:39It wasn't deep. Ergo, it was interesting.
00:26:42Now, a book or a person may be both deep and interesting, don't you think?
00:26:47And if you're going to chop logic and use Latin words,
00:26:50I think it's time for us to leave the room.
00:26:52Oh, well, Mama, we mustn't run away as if we're beaten.
00:26:58I understand what Mr. Roger Hamley said just now,
00:27:01even though it may be logic, and...
00:27:02Well, I read a little of Molly's book,
00:27:04and whether it was deep or not, I found it very interesting indeed.
00:27:13Well, gentlemen, I must leave you now to make my evening rounds.
00:27:18But if Cynthia is to incite the prisoner of Chillon,
00:27:21then I should be in time to catch the end of it on my return.
00:27:50Well, I think those young men have spent
00:27:53quite long enough at Mr. Gibson's good wine.
00:27:57Molly?
00:28:05But Cynthia's eyes are perfection.
00:28:08I've often tried to find something in nature to compare them to.
00:28:12They're not quite like amber.
00:28:14They're a deeper tint, changing with a light.
00:28:16No, come on.
00:28:16You can't go trying to match her eyes like a draper.
00:28:19Call them lodestars and be done with it.
00:28:21Roger, I hear you are well and truly a smitten man.
00:28:26Smitten?
00:28:26No!
00:28:27What I feel for her is deeper.
00:28:29It's something I've never felt before.
00:28:31Cynthia is perfection.
00:28:33Believe me, Cynthia's kind of perfection never lasts.
00:28:36Well, as you already have your own pretty French wife,
00:28:40your opinion is neither here nor there.
00:28:54Miss Gibson.
00:28:56Oh, there you are.
00:28:58Come and help me choose some music.
00:29:03This one, what do you think?
00:29:06What you just overheard, I beg you to forget it if you can.
00:29:09At least never to speak of it.
00:29:11Not to anyone.
00:29:12Is that you?
00:29:13Will you promise?
00:29:14Of course.
00:29:14I should have done so even without a promise.
00:29:17I thought it sounded delightful.
00:29:19Ah, there it is.
00:29:20I was sure you'd have it.
00:29:34Molly's told me so much about the squire and your mother.
00:29:39She's so fond of you all.
00:29:43It's a pity you won't be able to go to the ball.
00:29:45Molly and I are looking forward to it very much.
00:29:49You're great friends, then, you and Molly.
00:29:53I'm so glad.
00:29:54Yes, we are.
00:29:56I never thought I should like anyone so much.
00:30:00Any girl, I mean.
00:30:09Sylvia, come and sing that little French ballad to Mr. Osborne Hamley.
00:30:14Which one do you mean?
00:30:15Oh, you know, darling.
00:30:16Do I?
00:30:16Tu t'en réponderas, Colin?
00:30:18Oh, yes.
00:30:19Very well.
00:30:20If you wish.
00:30:21Such a pretty, playful warning to young men.
00:30:24If you take a wife too young, you'll repent of it.
00:30:27Though, of course, it is a French song that refers to a French wife.
00:30:30Quite a different attitude was an Englishman thinking of an English wife.
00:30:35Tu t'en réponderas, Colin, tu t'en réponderas.
00:30:45A warning's a little late, isn't it?
00:30:47I'm so sorry.
00:30:49Don't upset yourself.
00:30:51It was my fault, not yours.
00:30:53He won't feel it long.
00:30:55And a man must take the consequences when he puts himself in a false position.
00:31:09You have an excellent accent, Miss Kirkpatrick.
00:31:12Have you spent much time in France?
00:31:13I was at school in Boulogne for about a hundred years.
00:31:16And you?
00:31:17Oh, various places.
00:31:20Paris, Marseille, Avignon, and Metz.
00:31:24Really?
00:31:25Where were you happiest?
00:31:26In Metz.
00:31:28And are we allowed to know why?
00:31:31They're talking about France.
00:31:33Sounds very interesting.
00:31:35Shall we go nearer and hear what they're saying?
00:31:39Oh, and now, Molly, you must play a little.
00:31:42There's a little piece of cold friends, my dear.
00:31:45Must I?
00:31:45Oh, don't be silly, dear.
00:31:48You may not play it quite rightly, but you're amongst friends now.
00:31:52Is she not?
00:31:54She'll get so nervous playing in company.
00:31:57Come, Molly, let me turn the pages for you.
00:31:59I beg you will go away and talk.
00:32:00I can do it for myself, please.
00:32:02No, I insist.
00:32:03I've heard you play before.
00:32:05And your mama is right.
00:32:07You're amongst friends now.
00:32:13Oh, here's your phone.
00:32:34There's a human thing.
00:36:14That's nonsense.
00:36:21Well, I think perhaps I should go and smoke a pipe with father.
00:36:35What an handsome boy Osborne was then.
00:36:40Well, he's an handsome fellow now, but the sunshine's got out of his face.
00:36:45He's a good deal troubled about the anxiety he's given you.
00:36:48No, not him. He's none troubled.
00:36:56No trouble for an eldest son to borrow money against his expectations.
00:37:01And how old is your father, they say?
00:37:04And has he had a stroke or a fit?
00:37:06No, let's not talk about him, Roger. It's no good. He and I are out of tune.
00:37:16Let me fill you another pipe, father.
00:37:26You're wrong about Osborne.
00:37:29He cares about you a great deal.
00:37:31Does he?
00:37:32Why is it Rory to get away from me?
00:37:37Because he can't bear to upset your father.
00:37:40And because he's trying to make a career for himself.
00:37:44And, well, country life doesn't suit him as well as it suits you or me.
00:37:48And neither of it suits his mother, but she never complained.
00:37:54I used to miss her so much when she took her London trips.
00:37:59Yeah?
00:38:00I'd write to her, you know.
00:38:01Give her all the home news.
00:38:04But no letter would reach her now.
00:38:07Nothing reaches her.
00:38:10No, you only just come home, lad.
00:38:13You don't know where I am nowadays.
00:38:15That's Thomas or Robinson.
00:38:18I used to be reckoned a good master.
00:38:22Osborne was once a little boy.
00:38:26She was once alive.
00:38:29And I was once a good master.
00:38:32All that's passed now.
00:38:43I'd like to be pretty.
00:38:46You are, love.
00:38:48I don't think so.
00:38:50Oh, well, there you have it.
00:38:52You see, the French girls would tell you to believe that you were pretty would make you so.
00:39:00They've sent us something.
00:39:02Well, here's the Hamlet carriage.
00:39:10Look!
00:39:13Bouquets.
00:39:14Aren't they beautiful?
00:39:15For us?
00:39:17Well, who else?
00:39:18I'm sure it's Osborne who thought of them.
00:39:20He's lived in France, of course, and it's the custom there to send bouquets.
00:39:24I don't see why you should think it was Osborne.
00:39:26Roger used to gather nosegays for his mother almost every day and sometimes he did for me.
00:39:30I know what I'm going to do.
00:39:31I am going to make you a little coinet.
00:39:33Oh, Cynthia, don't pull them out.
00:39:34You spoil it.
00:39:35Oh, it doesn't matter.
00:39:36I can take the spoiled one.
00:39:37I can make it up again afterwards.
00:39:40Anyway.
00:39:42The red flowers won't go with the pink dress.
00:39:44Well, any colour will go with your white muslin.
00:39:47Just wait and see.
00:39:52What do you say to that?
00:39:54Here, Miss.
00:39:56No, it's not for you, Miss.
00:39:57It's for Miss Kirkpatrick and there's a note for her besides.
00:39:59Oh, thank you, Mara.
00:40:06Read that, if you will.
00:40:10I send you some flowers and you must allow me to claim the first dance after nine o'clock, before
00:40:16which time I fear I cannot arrive.
00:40:18I'll pee.
00:40:22But who is it?
00:40:23It's Mr. Preston.
00:40:26And I shan't dance with him.
00:40:28Like those flowers.
00:40:29Oh, Cynthia, we might have put them in water. They were so lovely.
00:40:32Yeah, it's best to destroy them.
00:40:33I can't bear to be reminded of that man.
00:40:36There.
00:40:37Now, let's not talk any more about him.
00:40:40But I shan't dance with him.
00:40:42And nor must you.
00:40:47Well, are we ready?
00:40:51Oh, good evening.
00:40:52Good evening.
00:40:53A very pleasant evening.
00:40:55Oh, Massie's true scholar in close behind.
00:40:58Good evening.
00:41:00Oh, good evening, Mr. Sheepshanks.
00:41:02Good evening.
00:41:03Well, here we are.
00:41:05I like to keep up the custom.
00:41:08Miss Hornblower.
00:41:11The sedan chair, to my mind, is much better, for it'll come straight into a person's parlour,
00:41:15lip you up and carry you cosy and tight into another warm room,
00:41:19without having to show your legs by going up the stairs or downstairs.
00:41:23Good evening, Miss Hornblower.
00:41:25How do you like the arrangement?
00:41:26Oh, my, my work.
00:41:28How do you think this is a major room in our Ashkin Gort house?
00:41:32Oh!
00:41:33Oh, how pretty it is.
00:41:36Decorated.
00:41:37But you all have such taste at all.
00:41:40Oh, look, there's young Mr. Roscoe, our new doctor.
00:41:43Mr. Roscoe.
00:41:44Mr. Roscoe.
00:41:47We think very highly of our young doctor, I can assure you, Miss Browning.
00:41:51Very happy to make your acquaintance now.
00:41:52Yes, well, if ever we're in Ashkin, we're not feeling quite the thing.
00:41:55But Mr. Gibson is our doctor.
00:41:58Not that he finds time to go dancing.
00:42:00Miss Hornblower, do you know that lovely girl in pink?
00:42:04Why, that's Cynthia Kirkpatrick.
00:42:07How she's grown since she left Ashkin.
00:42:10She was pretty then.
00:42:12They did say Mr. Preston admired her very much, but she was so young then.
00:42:17Could you introduce me?
00:42:19She'd like to ask her to dance.
00:42:21Of course I will.
00:42:23Her mother's a very old friend.
00:42:25Come, we'll lose no time.
00:42:33I should say young Mr. Roscoe loses no time in seeking out a pretty face.
00:42:38Well, he may be all very well, but I shouldn't like him to be my doctor.
00:42:43Should you, Phil?
00:42:43No.
00:42:45That sounds strange.
00:42:46Such a very young man to be a doctor.
00:42:50I suppose Mr. Gibson was a very young doctor once upon a time.
00:42:54She had finished her line.
00:43:02To be sure, how very condescending we are.
00:43:06I remember the time when the new Mrs. Gibson wore old black silks
00:43:10and was thankful and civilized became her place as a schoolmistress.
00:43:14And would have been grateful to join us.
00:43:16For all, she's dressed in pearl grey satin now.
00:43:18And she'd have been glad enough to marry Preston the land agent in those days.
00:43:21That I know for a fact.
00:43:22I thought you said he admired the daughter.
00:43:26Well, perhaps I did.
00:43:27And perhaps it was so.
00:43:29Some folks say he admired the mother and she admired him.
00:43:33But then he met the daughter.
00:43:37Folk thought the daughter too young for him and the mother too old.
00:43:41Really?
00:43:43But one may be mistaken, you know.
00:43:46And I only said people talked about it.
00:43:48See, there's been enough talk about young Preston to fill a book
00:43:52and mostly not for it to be heard in company.
00:43:54So that's Miss Kirkpatrick, is it?
00:43:58What a pretty girl she is.
00:44:00So is Miss Gibson.
00:44:02Indeed she is.
00:44:04I never meant she wasn't.
00:44:06I'm sure neither of them will want for partners.
00:44:08Who are you?
00:44:12She's not sure of his.
00:44:18She's not very able to get with my father to the world.
00:44:23She's not very able to get this.
00:44:25That's a very big time.
00:44:27To be honest.
00:45:40Molly, did you know you've just been dancing with a man who keeps Grinstead's bookshop?
00:45:44Oh, well, that accounts for him knowing all about the latest books, and he dances beautifully.
00:45:49Yes, well, just so long as you remember, he'll have to shake hands over the counter tomorrow with some of
00:45:54your partners of tonight.
00:45:56But really, I don't know how to refuse when I'm longing to dance.
00:45:59If Miss Gibson finds any difficulty in refusing a partner, she has only applied to Miss Kirkpatrick for instruction.
00:46:05You forget, Mr. Preston. Miss Gibson implied that she wished to dance with the person who asked her.
00:46:11I think that makes all the difference.
00:46:14Miss Kirkpatrick.
00:46:15Mr. Roscoe.
00:46:30Miss Kirkpatrick has not done me the honour of wearing the bouquet I sent her.
00:46:33She received it, I suppose, on my note.
00:46:36Yes, but you see, we had already accepted these.
00:46:40Yes. Yes, yes, we're so sorry, but two such lovely nosegays had already arrived from family war.
00:46:46Since Miss Kirkpatrick was so well provided for, I would have felt honoured had you accepted mine.
00:46:51I remember how fond you were of Gardenia's.
00:46:56Excuse me.
00:47:06Excuse me.
00:47:15No!
00:47:21Hello!
00:47:34I'm not.
00:47:52Well, Mrs Gibson, nearly midnight and no sign of the Kugner party.
00:48:00It's long past my bedtime.
00:48:03I only came to see the Duchess they've got staying in her diamonds.
00:48:07I hope they haven't changed their mind.
00:48:09Oh, I'm sure they haven't, Mrs Woodenough.
00:48:15Get away!
00:48:16Is that the Duchess that I've been here?
00:48:19Good evening. Good evening.
00:48:21So late in her over here, I think.
00:48:24Who's that, the Duchess?
00:48:26That pouncey thing?
00:48:28Well, where are diamonds?
00:48:32Here have I been sitting up and coal and candlelight wasting at home,
00:48:37and in comes a Duchess wearing a...
00:48:39Shh!
00:48:40Well, Farmer Hudson's daughter's got to dress smarter than that.
00:48:44Oh, do carry on, everybody, please.
00:48:47Do carry on.
00:48:55Well, here we are at last.
00:48:58Aren't we shamefully late?
00:48:59How are you, Claire?
00:49:00It was the Duchess.
00:49:02That ill-mannered woman kept us all waiting.
00:49:04And there appeared Alon Fon.
00:49:06As you see, our mamma is so angry with her.
00:49:09I think we've lost all our popularity.
00:49:11And that means we've lost votes.
00:49:13What do you think, Molly?
00:49:15I think people were sorry he didn't come sooner.
00:49:17And isn't that rather a proof of popularity?
00:49:18That's a very neat and diplomatic answer.
00:49:22Good evening, ma'am.
00:49:23I hope you're well.
00:49:24Well enough.
00:49:25But what a letdown.
00:49:28Such a shabby thing for a Duchess I never saw.
00:49:31Not a bit of a diamond nearer.
00:49:32This is Lady Harrod from the Towers.
00:49:35This is good enough.
00:49:37Oh, dearie, dear, your ladyship.
00:49:38I hope I've given no offence.
00:49:40But I've only stayed out of my bed to see the Duchess.
00:49:44I thought at least she'd have come in a diamonds and a coronet.
00:49:47You're quite right, Mrs. Goodenough.
00:49:48We must try to do better.
00:49:54Here is my brother.
00:49:56Excuse me one moment.
00:49:58Molly, I cannot have you speaking so to Lady Harrod.
00:50:01And do stop putting yourself into a hot conversation.
00:50:04I can't help it if she asks me questions.
00:50:06Yes, but there is no need to set yourself up with an opinion at your age.
00:50:11I don't know how to help it.
00:50:12Now, Edward, we must make amends and dance with some of the townspeople.
00:50:16No, I shan't take no for an answer.
00:50:17Claire, will you allow me to introduce my brother to Miss Gibson?
00:50:21He hopes to engage her for this dance.
00:50:24Lord Hollingford, Miss Gibson.
00:50:35Oh, my dear.
00:50:37Did you see that?
00:50:38Lord Hollingford himself asked Molly to dance.
00:50:43Oh, how well they look together.
00:50:46I never knew his lordship was a dancing man.
00:50:49Well, you see, with the right partner.
00:50:52And he's still a young man.
00:50:55Quite a young man.
00:50:56And a widower, too.
00:51:00Oh, no.
00:51:01Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
00:51:03Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
00:51:08Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
00:51:18no, no, no.
00:51:18Is Cynthia going to dance with Mr. Preston?
00:51:23What a charming girl!
00:51:24That daughter of yours is Gibson, so quick and intelligent.
00:51:27She could talk about sensible things.
00:51:30Renton of Mark, she says.
00:51:31She's a good girl. I'm very fond of her.
00:51:34Very pretty, too.
00:51:37Oh, I really must make Cynthia pursue a course of serious breathing.
00:51:42She's quite as intelligent as Molly,
00:51:43but she's no steadfastness of purpose.
00:51:48Oh, and look at her now.
00:51:51And she said she'd have nothing to do with Mr. Preston.
00:52:02She's a good girl.
00:52:49Oh, Mr. Osborne, you should have been there.
00:52:53Well, we thought of you all very often during the evening, didn't we, Roger?
00:52:57Yes. Yes.
00:52:59Cynthia, darling, do you hear what Mr. Osborne is saying?
00:53:02He says that he thought of us all evening.
00:53:06Oh, we must thank you for the flowers.
00:53:08They were very beautiful.
00:53:09I fancy that that was your idea, Mr. Osborne.
00:53:12Well, I believe it was my idea,
00:53:14but it was Roger that took all the trouble of it.
00:53:16Did he?
00:53:18Well, I consider the thought as everything.
00:53:20Thought is spiritual, while action is merely material.
00:53:24I'm afraid our flowers were too late.
00:53:26I met Preston this morning and was sorry to hear that his had arrived first.
00:53:30Well, he had no right to say that.
00:53:32His came just as we were leaving, and I threw him straight into the fire.
00:53:38Cynthia, darling, what an idea you'll give of yourself to Mr. Osborne.
00:53:44But to be sure, I think you inherit my prejudice against bought flowers.
00:54:06Come in.
00:54:14I was wondering if you were quite well.
00:54:18You didn't seem yourself earlier.
00:54:20Yes.
00:54:22I've been thinking.
00:54:23Molly, I've been long enough here.
00:54:26I'd better go out and be a governess.
00:54:28Cynthia, what do you mean?
00:54:30You're overtired.
00:54:33Oh.
00:54:39Molly, no one ever loved me like you.
00:54:42And your father, I think.
00:54:48It's so hard to be driven out.
00:54:52Still, I suppose there's no escaping one's doom.
00:54:57What do you mean by your doom?
00:55:01No, that would be telling, little one.
00:55:04I may be a coward at the heart, but I can show fight.
00:55:08Well, dirty hands you have, Molly.
00:55:12I shan't stay another minute.
00:55:17It gives me no pleasure to ride home now, Roger.
00:55:21I know, Father.
00:55:33Lord Hollingford was here for you, but he couldn't wait.
00:55:36He wanted you to go and stay at the towers.
00:55:38Well, the commoners are taking some notice of the Amleys at last, Ali.
00:55:42There'll be a trap set for you, Osborne.
00:55:44Nothing to do with me, sir.
00:55:45It's Roger Lord Hollingford wants to see.
00:55:46I don't understand that.
00:55:47What do you want Roger for?
00:55:49You know, I've never dined at the towers, not once.
00:55:52Well, he did used to invite you, sir, but you chose not to go.
00:55:55And what do you mean by that?
00:55:56I want to curry favour of Whigs.
00:55:57They're quick enough to invite the Amleys when there's an election coming up.
00:56:01I tell you, sir, it's not me, it's Roger.
00:56:03Roger is making a name for himself,
00:56:04and Hollingford wants him to meet a very distinguished French anatomist
00:56:07who admires a paper Roger wrote.
00:56:09No, there is Frenchman.
00:56:10I don't want you meeting foreigners in a Whig house, Roger, nor you, Osborne.
00:56:14Very well, sir. I'll refuse his invitation.
00:56:17I should think so.
00:56:27Ten to one, he'll be in another mind tomorrow.
00:56:30No.
00:56:31I won't run the risk of vexing him.
00:56:36I'd give a lot to talk to Saint-Hilaire.
00:56:39He's the leading man in Europe, and there's so much...
00:56:44Oh, well.
00:56:45There'll be another time, I guess, sir.
00:56:56I had a letter from M.A. this morning.
00:57:00She's going to have a child, Roger.
00:57:05You must tell father now.
00:57:08Now, Roger, when you go up to the towers, you must take a groom with you.
00:57:12I've been making Jem try on his livery coat, but he's got too stout.
00:57:16But you must look up, you know, and hold your own.
00:57:18You're at Hamley, you are.
00:57:20That lot's just muck.
00:57:22We've only been in the county since Queen Anne's time.
00:57:26Thank you so much for coming, Mr. Hamley.
00:57:30It's been a most enlightening weekend.
00:57:32Oh, thank you, sir.
00:57:37It's been a pleasure to meet you, Mr. Hamley.
00:57:40Next time in Paris, I hope.
00:57:41I'll write you soon.
00:57:46I feel a bit suspicious to your father, Mr. Hamley.
00:57:48I hope that you'll honour a dining with me here before too long.
00:57:50Perhaps to celebrate your appointment, as instance is confirmed,
00:57:53and to wish you good fortune in your travels.
00:57:57I'm most grateful to you, sir.
00:57:59Not at all.
00:58:00Talent brings its own rewards.
00:58:22Talent brings its own rewards.
00:58:46It's a great honour.
00:58:47That is, if I could persuade myself I've been chosen for my scientific abilities alone.
00:58:51What other reason might there be?
00:58:53My constitution.
00:58:54I'm as strong as a dog's.
00:58:56Of course, country's stock.
00:58:56But Africa, will you be away for long?
00:59:00Two years.
00:59:01Well, that's the only thing I should regret about it.
00:59:03Being away from my father and brother, and you, of course.
00:59:08And your sister.
00:59:10How is she?
00:59:11Still not quite herself.
00:59:13I brought her these.
00:59:15So I see.
00:59:16I wish there was something more I could do for you.
00:59:18I wish there was more I could do myself.
00:59:21She's always glad to see you.
00:59:22I know that.
00:59:27Oh, so tiresome.
00:59:31Really, Mr. Hamley, we must learn to shut our doors on you if you are to come so often and
00:59:36at such early hours.
00:59:37Oh, yes.
00:59:38Perhaps it was thoughtless of me.
00:59:40But I was passing close by and I had a piece of news.
00:59:43Yes.
00:59:44Well, you see, it's my wish to keep Cynthia and Molly to a course of improving reading.
00:59:48And with such early visitors, it is quite impossible to observe any regularity of habits.
00:59:54You're quite right.
00:59:55I beg your pardon.
00:59:56I shall take up no more of your time.
00:59:58Oh, no, don't go.
01:00:00Are those for me?
01:00:03Yes.
01:00:07I love you.
01:00:09My darling, now that our own road is aright, we needn't trouble Mr. Hamley immediately.
01:00:13What is your news?
01:00:16Lord Hollingford has invited me to lead a scientific expedition to Africa.
01:00:20Oh.
01:00:22But Molly will tell you I feel I shouldn't stay here any longer now.
01:00:26Well, come again soon.
01:00:28Yes.
01:00:29Perhaps we may see you again before you set sail, Mr. Hamley.
01:00:33And pray tell your brother that we're longing to have a visit from him again soon.
01:00:37Yes.
01:00:38He's away just at present, but I will see he knows.
01:00:42Goodbye, Molly.
01:00:43Mrs. Gibson.
01:00:45Cynthia.
01:00:49I can't think why he comes at such untimely hours.
01:00:53But it's no wonder he feels he can call.
01:00:55Osborne is welcome at any time.
01:00:57Yes, well, it's quite different with Osborne.
01:00:59We're so much more intimate with him, he may call at any time he pleases.
01:01:04In short, Mama, one man may steal a horse, the other mustn't look over the hedge.
01:01:07Oh, do be quiet, child.
01:01:10All proverbs are vulgar, and I do believe that that's the vulgarest of them all.
01:01:14I really think that you're catching Roger Hamley's coarseness, Cynthia.
01:01:20Well, Mama, I don't mind your abusing me, but Mr. Roger Hamley has been very kind to me when I've
01:01:25not been well, and I won't hear him disparaged.
01:01:28If he is coarsed, then I hope I may be coarsed as well, for, well, it seems to me that
01:01:32it must mean kindness and pleasantness, and, well, the bringing of pretty flowers and presents.
01:01:37Come on, let's go.
01:01:44Come on.
01:01:52Come on.
01:01:53Come on.
01:02:00Come on.
01:02:24Goodbye, my love.
01:02:26I'll come again soon.
01:02:29I will find the right moment to tell my father.
01:02:31Yes, of course.
01:02:33But are you happy?
01:02:34Yes, yes.
01:02:36More than words could say.
01:02:42My love.
01:02:49Here's good.
01:02:59Here he is, sir.
01:03:00Ah, Gibson, capital, come in.
01:03:03Just a man I wanted to see.
01:03:04Come in.
01:03:06You've heard about Roger.
01:03:07It is definite, then.
01:03:08Aye, definite, definite.
01:03:10Chosen from all the young men in Europe to lead this expedition.
01:03:14Ah, you must, you must read this letter here.
01:03:19Hmm?
01:03:19Yeah.
01:03:21Ah, they used to say Roger was slow, but slow and sure wins the race.
01:03:25Oh, you must have a glass of this.
01:03:27Oh, you must have a glass of this.
01:03:28It's old ale, as old as Osborne.
01:03:32We brewed it the autumn he were born, and we called it Young Squire's Ale.
01:03:37Well, I planned to have tapped it on his marriage, but I don't know when that's likely to come to
01:03:42pass.
01:03:43Yes, so I tapped it now in Roger's honour.
01:03:45Well, it is an honour to have such a son.
01:03:50This is high praise from Lord Hollingford, and the remuneration offer is excellent.
01:03:55Oh, yes, my luck's churning at last.
01:03:57And you know what Roger's done?
01:03:58He's raised money on it so I can put the drainage works back into commission.
01:04:02And he's insured his life to cover it.
01:04:05I've sent for the foreman, and tomorrow, please God, they'll be at work again.
01:04:11Aye.
01:04:12Roger's twice a son to me than Osborne ever was.
01:04:16Come.
01:04:16Let's not disparage Osborne.
01:04:18We may praise one without hitting at the other.
01:04:21Well, I wish I could praise Osborne, but all the lad ever does is go on journeys,
01:04:25or loaf into Hollingford, to visit your girls.
01:04:29Hope he's not after one of them.
01:04:31No offence, but he is the eldest boy, you know.
01:04:34I don't believe there's anything of that kind going on.
01:04:36And not much at home, but if there were anything, I think I'd have got wind of it.
01:04:40I don't know, Gibson, don't be offended.
01:04:43I'm not offended, but they just understand each other properly.
01:04:45If you don't want your sons to come to my house, you must tell them yourself.
01:04:49I like the lads, and I'm always glad to see them, but if they do come, you must take the
01:04:53consequences.
01:04:55But as I say, I don't think there's any cause for concern at present.
01:05:00And if there were, I'd let you know.
01:05:11Why, Osborne, is that you?
01:05:14I thought it was an old man of 50.
01:05:17What a hell's your man?
01:05:19You're not well, are you?
01:05:20I don't know what it is.
01:05:23A walk like this should be nothing to me.
01:05:25This is estrangement from your father that's telling on your health.
01:05:29Talk to him.
01:05:30He may be angry at first, but you come round.
01:05:32I wish I had your confidence.
01:05:35But, I dare say, life at home has affected my health.
01:05:41I've had these episodes before.
01:05:43I think little of them.
01:05:45They pass soon enough.
01:05:47Whatever it is, we'll bring it about.
01:05:49And if you can manage to ride over and have lunch with us tomorrow,
01:05:53Dr Nichols will be with us.
01:05:54And you shall have the benefit of two doctors instead of one.
01:05:58Who's that?
01:05:59Delicate health?
01:06:00Of course you'll be in delicate health if you eat nothing.
01:06:03She's Gibson.
01:06:04Try some of this brawn, ma'am.
01:06:05It's capital.
01:06:06No, no, I couldn't possibly.
01:06:08Take a pickled onion, too, eh?
01:06:11What a first-class luncheon this is, eh?
01:06:14It's a very pretty table decoration.
01:06:16Yours, I imagine, Miss Kirkpatrick.
01:06:18Correct.
01:06:19Molly is the useful one.
01:06:20I confine myself to the ornamental.
01:06:22Well, I, alas, am neither use nor ornament.
01:06:25Oh, that's not true.
01:06:27What about your poems?
01:06:28Oh, well, I wish I could find a publisher
01:06:30that shared your high opinion of them, Miss Gibson.
01:06:33But I'm touched by your loyalty, truly.
01:06:35I wonder, do you have a good strong cheese
01:06:40so we could finish up with?
01:06:42I'll see what Kirk can find, Dr Nichols.
01:06:45Then we'll see what's to be done with this young man.
01:06:59Where's Cynthia going?
01:07:00Oh, for a walk, I suppose.
01:07:02Yeah, I think it's quite strange
01:07:03that she should have taken to country walks all of a sudden.
01:07:06Never cared about them before.
01:07:09Oh, Mr Hamley.
01:07:11Oh, you look quite done up.
01:07:14So would many a man, I think,
01:07:15if they'd had two good doctors
01:07:17pushing and pulling them about.
01:07:19But you're quite well, I trust.
01:07:21Well, I'm not sure they came to any conclusion.
01:07:23At all events, they sent me off
01:07:24so they could discuss me at great length.
01:07:26Or perhaps they're talking about something else entirely.
01:07:29I've, um, just remembered.
01:07:32I hope you don't think me rude, Mr Hamley,
01:07:34but I have to pop into town on an errand.
01:07:36Not at all, my aunt.
01:07:56May I come up?
01:07:58Of course.
01:08:17I was hoping to be able to speak to you alone.
01:08:26Do you remember that conversation you overheard?
01:08:29I've never spoken of it to anyone.
01:08:31Truly.
01:08:32I'm sure you haven't.
01:08:35Roger's going away for some time.
01:08:39And I'd like somebody else to know about my wife.
01:08:43About Amy.
01:08:46Amy?
01:08:50Can you not tell the squire?
01:08:54From his point of view,
01:08:56I've made the worst of all possible choices.
01:08:59I'm supposed to marry a girl
01:09:01from a good old English family
01:09:03with plenty of money.
01:09:05Amy is French,
01:09:06she's Roman Catholic,
01:09:08and she's penniless.
01:09:12When I met her,
01:09:13she was a nursemaid in an English family.
01:09:18I helped to find a toy rabbit,
01:09:20one of the children lost in the park.
01:09:23And when her employer discovered that we were in love,
01:09:25she sent Amy back to France.
01:09:27She couldn't understand how it was between us.
01:09:31I couldn't bear to be parted from her,
01:09:33so I followed her to France,
01:09:35to Metz,
01:09:37where we were married.
01:09:41If you could meet her,
01:09:43you'd understand.
01:09:45You'd love her, I know.
01:09:48She's the dearest,
01:09:50gentlest creature.
01:09:54It's the best thing in my life.
01:10:02Will you keep my secret
01:10:03while it has to be kept secret?
01:10:07Yes, of course.
01:10:12If he has got aneurysm in the air water,
01:10:15his days are numbered.
01:10:17To Mr. Roger Hamley,
01:10:18most urgent.
01:10:20My dear sir,
01:10:22how is it that you have not been to see us lately?
01:10:24I know that you're about to leave for Africa,
01:10:26and I would not forgive myself
01:10:28if you left without calling,
01:10:29for it would be punishing others
01:10:31as well as my naughty self.
01:10:34Come tomorrow,
01:10:35as early as you like.
01:10:43Good day, Miss Gibson.
01:10:45Good day, Mr. Preston.
01:11:16I've been watching for you, dear.
01:11:18Don't go in the drawing room, love.
01:11:20Roger Hamley is in there with Cynthia,
01:11:22and I have every reason to think,
01:11:23oh, isn't it charming?
01:11:24Young love, so sweet.
01:11:26You mean that Roger has proposed to you?
01:11:28Well, no, no, not exactly that,
01:11:29but I did hear him say
01:11:31that he'd meant to leave England
01:11:32without speaking of his love,
01:11:33but the temptation of being alone with her
01:11:34had been too great.
01:11:37And all I wanted was to let it come
01:11:38to our crisis without interruption.
01:11:40So you see, my dear,
01:11:42that's why I've been watching out for you,
01:11:44so that you wouldn't go in and disturb them.
01:11:46But I may go to my own room.
01:11:47Yes, yes, of course.
01:11:49But, well,
01:11:50I had expected more sympathy from you
01:11:52in such an interesting moment.
01:12:17Molly?
01:12:19Roger Hamley is here,
01:12:20and he wants to say goodbye
01:12:22before he goes.
01:12:32Cynthia,
01:12:33you've made me happy
01:12:34beyond description.
01:12:36Oh, my dear boy,
01:12:37what a delightful outcome.
01:12:39It's what I've always dreamed of.
01:12:42Oh, Molly,
01:12:44I think you have long guessed my secret.
01:12:47Well, now it's out.
01:12:48But I've told Cynthia
01:12:50how fondly I love her.
01:12:52And she...
01:12:54My dear sweet girl
01:12:56values your love,
01:12:57I am sure.
01:12:58And I do believe
01:12:59that I could tell tales
01:13:00as to the cause
01:13:01of her low spirits
01:13:02in the spring.
01:13:04Mother, you know
01:13:05no such thing.
01:13:06Pray don't invent stories
01:13:07about me.
01:13:08I have engaged myself
01:13:09to Roger Hamley,
01:13:10and that is enough.
01:13:11Enough?
01:13:13More than enough.
01:13:14I am bound.
01:13:16You are free.
01:13:17Two years is a long time.
01:13:19Oh, that's so generous of you.
01:13:21But I must insist
01:13:21that it be kept secret
01:13:22until Roger returns.
01:13:24Molly,
01:13:25Mama,
01:13:26I must especially beg it of you.
01:13:27Why so especially
01:13:29if poor me?
01:13:29You know I'm the most
01:13:30trustworthy person in life.
01:13:35I must go.
01:13:37I had no idea
01:13:38it was so late.
01:13:39The coach will be
01:13:39at the George
01:13:40and it only waits
01:13:41five minutes.
01:13:43Dearest Cynthia.
01:13:53Only remember
01:13:54you are free.
01:13:57If I'd consider myself free,
01:13:58do you think
01:13:59I would have permitted that?
01:14:03Oh, my.
01:14:04You won't forget me,
01:14:06I know,
01:14:06and I shall never forget you,
01:14:07nor your goodness
01:14:08to my mother.
01:14:10Goodbye.
01:14:14Goodbye.
01:14:31Goodbye.
01:14:42Goodbye.
01:14:43Goodbye.
01:14:45Goodbye.
01:14:48Goodbye.
01:14:48Goodbye.
01:14:48Goodbye.
01:14:48Goodbye.
01:14:48Goodbye.
01:14:48Goodbye.
01:14:48Goodbye.
01:14:48Goodbye.
01:14:54Goodbye.
01:14:56You
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