00:04What are you doing, lad?
00:07Left!
00:24Careful!
00:32D'you know what to do?
00:56Your room is just here, man. across the corridor from mine.
00:59Thank you, Mrs. Ashley.
01:06Oh, it's lovely, Mrs. Ashley.
01:08Really charming.
01:09You've certainly worked wonders.
01:11It looks very nice in me.
01:12Thank you, madam.
01:13Ah, thank you.
01:14There you are.
01:15As you can see, we have the good fortune to have Mary here as a visitor.
01:18It was such a surprise, Mr. Ashley,
01:20when your cousin came to fetch me.
01:22The others were green with envy.
01:24Can I speak to you, please?
01:26Yes, of course.
01:27As soon as Mary is settled...
01:29No, no, I'm afraid it cannot wait.
01:34You're at liberty to say anything you please in front of Mary.
01:39I don't wish to make intrusion.
01:42Let me go and unpack, Mrs. Ashley.
01:46Very well.
01:48Leave the doors wide open, Mary,
01:50so you can hear me if I call.
01:51Yes, certainly, Mrs. Ashley.
02:12Why have you done this?
02:14After last night,
02:15I cannot be with you alone again.
02:18How long is she to stay?
02:19As long as I choose.
02:23Rachel, this can't be settled in a moment's conversation
02:25with the doors open.
02:27I beg of you, listen to me.
02:28Let me talk to you alone, please.
02:30You threatened me last night.
02:32Once was enough.
02:34There is nothing to settle.
02:35Now go.
02:36I beg of you.
03:02I beg of you.
03:04Oh.
03:05Oh.
03:10Oh.
03:15Oh.
03:18Oh.
03:23Oh.
03:39Philip, sir!
03:43John!
04:03John!
04:04John!
04:04I don't know.
04:45I don't know.
05:04I don't know.
06:43I have been ill.
06:47You are lucky to be alive.
06:50Am I?
06:55I think it was your own horse strength that pulled you through.
06:59And certain things I bade them do.
07:06I made a serum out of the juices of herbs.
07:10They called it poison.
07:12But you have survived.
07:20Is Mary Pascoe still here?
07:25I sent her away.
07:27Last week.
07:28I think.
07:47Well, Talman.
07:50we shall uh we shall lay a footpath along the bottom and there'll be that bridgeway going
07:55from side to side sir they've only just started work on that of course it's bigger than i thought
08:04deeper yes it's
08:12it's most impressive tamlin thank you sir
08:20where did you find that oh the mistress had that brought from italy sir
08:25uh we thought we might make a fountain in the bottom it'd be nice if we could have
08:29another little figure up at the other end sir perhaps the mistress will get one when she
08:32goes back to italy i uh i don't think she has any intention of returning tamlin i'm glad of that
08:42sir but we are different she was only waiting for you to get better before she went let's discuss it
08:51uh i wouldn't do that sure not if i was you that's laburnum you see it is poisonous sir
09:07hello hello louise this is a surprise thank you
09:19thank you tamlin morning miss louise
09:25how are you philip i'm much much better thank you
09:30well don't i look it indeed you do
09:34i heard you'd be making changes
09:37yes this is a great improvement don't you think
09:42philip i must talk to you
09:46is something wrong yes something is wrong
09:51well what is it philip i've been worried about you for such a long time now
09:57i wanted to talk to you after that dreadful birthday dinner but then it's about rachel please
10:01listen to what i have to say i only want to help you you set yourself against her from the
10:06very
10:06start you made up your mind to dislike her what about you don't you remember what you said about
10:13her before she came you mistrusted her and with good reason you must stop this louise
10:19please if you continue talking we shall hate each other
10:29do you love her then so much
10:36keep honest with yourself philip what does the future hold now for either of you
10:43i have asked her to marry me i asked her once and twice
10:48and i shall ask her again and again until she consents
10:54when was the first time you asked her when philip the morning of my birthday
10:59what did she answer you we spoke at cost purposes i thought that she meant yes when in fact she
11:05meant
11:05no had you read your document at that time no she read that later later the same morning she lost
11:10little time in reading it then and driving out to see my father she did not understand it very well
11:14she understood it when she drove away i remember perfectly as the carriage waited and we stood
11:20upon the steps my father said to her the remarriage clause may strike a little hard you
11:25must remain a widow if you wish to keep your fortune and mrs ashley smiled at him and said that
11:31suits me very well stop looking for trouble louise that clause was inserted to safeguard the estate
11:37to prevent any squander by a stranger if she were my wife it would not apply if she were your
11:42wife the
11:43whole estate would revert to you again that's the law philip
11:50yes but she knows i would share every penny of it with her but she wouldn't refuse to marry me
11:56because
11:56of that one clause would she is that what you're trying to suggest i am not suggesting anything but
12:01remember that a wife cannot take her husband's money from the country nor return to the place where
12:05she belongs she belongs here louise with me then why is she planning to return to florence but she is
12:11not everyone speaks of it gossip malicious gossip why does she ride into town every day
12:18why shouldn't she she goes to the bank philip i'm sure she's sending money out of the country and
12:28yes
12:31she goes to the inn by the harbour the schooner she meets someone there
12:38how do you know all this i heard the servants talking gossiping all right gossiping perhaps it is true
12:52when she goes to this inn who does she meet there i do not know
13:03you must believe me philip i do not know
13:16you
13:42to
13:47Oh, my God.
14:16Nick Kendall tells me that there is fresh gossip about the countryside.
14:21What now?
14:23Well, that you are going back to Florence.
14:26Tamlin tells me the same.
14:29There is plenty of time to decide about these things.
14:32Well, have you sold the villa yet?
14:35No, I can't afford to keep it now, can't I?
14:39Have you left it?
14:40No.
14:42You mean that you would want to spend the winter there?
14:46Possibly.
14:47Or the late summer.
14:50Why is there any need to go at all?
14:52You belong here.
14:52This is your home.
14:54Philip, you must stop behaving like this.
14:56Like what?
14:57As if we were married or intended to marry.
15:00You know very well that cannot be.
15:02I've made it abundantly clear.
15:04No one could have made it clearer.
15:08So, uh, letters will pass between us, will they?
15:12From England to Italy.
15:14Month after month throughout the year.
15:17I will say to you, uh, dear Rachel, the camellias are in bloom.
15:20And you will reply, dear Philip, I'm very glad to hear it.
15:23My rose garden is doing very well.
15:25Is that to be our future?
15:27You could visit me in the spring.
15:29There's much you would like in Italy.
15:39How long has Rinaldi been here?
15:44That's my business.
15:46Answer me.
15:49Very well for the past two weeks.
15:51Why is he here?
15:52Because I asked him, because I needed his advice.
15:55Why should you need his advice?
15:56Philip, will you stop behaving like a child and have some understanding?
16:00Oh, you expect me to understand deceit.
16:03You have been lying to me every day for the past two weeks, and you cannot deny it.
16:08If I have deceived you, it was for your sake only.
16:11You hate Rinaldi.
16:12If you had known I was meeting him, this scene would have come this soon,
16:15and I just could not bear the idea of it.
16:18Oh, God, must I go through this again?
16:20First with Ambrose, now with you.
16:22He's in love with you.
16:23Rinaldi?
16:24And has been for years.
16:25He's my friend, that's all.
16:26He's my friend.
16:27Send him away, then.
16:29Send him back where he belongs.
16:30He's already gone.
16:32Gone?
16:33He sails from Plymouth tomorrow.
16:37When will you follow him?
16:41That depends on you.
16:45Philip, if only you could be less bitter and less cruel.
16:55No, leave me now, Philip.
16:57Please, leave me.
17:13As the weeks pass, I notice more and more how she turns for advice to a man I have mentioned
17:20before in my letters.
17:23Signor Rinaldi, I believe this man to have a pernicious influence upon her.
17:38What is it that they say to one another when I am not there?
17:47What is it that they say to one anotherzialist?
21:19Would you mind if I didn't come with you?
21:22It's so hot and stuffy and cowardly.
21:24I will bring her home later.
21:27Well, there will be no trouble.
21:30Yes, very well.
21:32Thank you again, Mrs. Ashley.
21:34I shall see you next Sunday, if not before.
21:37I hope so.
21:49I'm so glad you decided to stay a little longer.
21:52I'm so glad you decided to stay a little longer.
21:52We have so few opportunities for any conversation.
22:20I suppose the heat in Florence now must be well-nigh unbearable.
22:25Even to you.
22:27I never found it so.
22:29I am lucky at the Villa Sangaletti in having a little courtyard beside the house.
22:35It faces north and it is always pleasantly cool.
22:40in spring and in spring and in summer, I never sit anywhere else.
22:44Very good, darling.
22:53Now, who will come for a walk with me?
22:57Louise?
22:58If you will excuse me, Mrs. Ashley, but it is rather hot, is it not?
23:05I shall have to go by myself, then.
23:08I want to see what Tamlin and his men have been doing at the Sunken Garden.
23:11Be careful, then.
23:14Careful?
23:15I thought I'd better warn you, sir, not to stand on the bridgeway over the Sunken Garden.
23:20There's only a framework as yet and won't bear no weight upon it.
23:25Be careful of walking too long in the Sunken Garden.
23:37Quickly.
23:38We have not much time.
23:52We are not much time.
24:13You remember that conversation we had last week?
24:16Well, you were right.
24:18And I was wrong.
24:20And I have suspicions of worse beside.
24:22I believe she has tried to poison me and that she did the same to Ambrose but I
24:28must have final proof. it doesn't matter now how I discovered it but the proof
24:33may lie in a letter from that man Rinaldi. you know Italian don't you? yes yes
24:39you do you learned it with your French. now between us we can make some kind of
24:44translation. why did you not warn my father? if she is guilty he could accuse her with greater force than
24:50you.
24:50because I must have proof. you shouldn't be doing this Philip. what you are doing now is what
24:55anyone might do. a common thief. here what's this? I'm not sure I think there's a list of
25:04plants. the writing is not clear. yes the site is written in English. it's a list of
25:10plants and herbs. not Philip Burnham? yes it's here. does it mention poison? no it just says that
25:18it's a native of South Europe and should be transplanted in March.
25:26what is it? it's a letter from the bank. listen. dear madam we thank you for the return of the
25:36Ashley collection of jewels which according to your instruction as you are shortly to leave the country
25:44will remain with us in custody until such time as your heir Mr. Philip Ashley may take possession of them.
25:55the letter I'm looking for is not here. it's worth a picnic.
26:01have you looked through the blotter? no this is it. here read it what does it say?
26:20but it is in English. here you see he says since you have become more English than Italian
26:26I write you in your language of adoption. I will do all you ask of me in Florence
26:32though I'm not sure you deserve any of it. at least the villa will be waiting for you
26:40and the servants when you at last decide to tear yourself away and not delay too long.
26:53I have never had great faith in those impulses of your heart and your emotions.
27:00if in the end you cannot bring yourself to leave that boy behind then bring him with you.
27:08I'll warn you though against my better judgment.
27:14have a care to yourself and believe me your friend Rinaldi that's a nice letter Philip a friendly letter there
27:29is nothing criminal in that.
27:31what? no it's Ambrose. how ill he looks.
27:44here what's this at the bottom?
27:55remember only the happy hours. did she not show it to you before?
28:08no. can you have misjudged her do you think? about the poison? you can see for yourself there is no
28:16proof.
28:19no. no. there is not any proof. and there never will be. not now. not ever.
28:28if there is no proof Philip you cannot condemn her. she may be innocent. she may be guilty.
28:35yes. yes you're right. if she is innocent and you accused her you would be guilty then not she.
28:42and you would never forgive yourself Philip. no. let's go now please. i wish we had not meddled with her
28:53things.
28:56is she coming? do you see her? no. no. no. no!
29:12oh
29:13is she going? Carol
29:16no. no. nothing. no. no. no. no. no. no. no. no. no. no. no. no. no. no. no. oh. no.
29:48I don't know.
30:24I don't know.
30:55I don't know.
31:18I don't know.
31:50I don't know.
32:20I don't know.
32:41I don't know.
32:43I don't know.
33:13I don't know.
