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Following the Turrills' wedding Alf meets Nan, a milkmaid from Fordlow, a neighboring hamlet. There has been a long-standing feud between the two communities and the pair date in secret before Alf, having heard gossip from Twister, stops seeing Nan. Margaret and Thomas set a wedding date and Minnie makes clumsy efforts to reconcile Dorcas with James, whose business is floundering. Starring: Julia Sawalha, Olivia Hallinan, Claudie Blakley, Brendan Coyle.
Following the Turrills' wedding Alf meets Nan, a milkmaid from Fordlow, a neighboring hamlet. There has been a long-standing feud between the two communities and the pair date in secret before Alf, having heard gossip from Twister, stops seeing Nan. Margaret and Thomas set a wedding date and Minnie makes clumsy efforts to reconcile Dorcas with James, whose business is floundering. Starring: Julia Sawalha, Olivia Hallinan, Claudie Blakley, Brendan Coyle.
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00:19To be continued
00:32Laura, ain't it?
00:34I'm fine.
00:38Before you think it, I didn't roll a turn at you on purpose.
00:41No, I'm sure it was an accident then.
00:45There was a wariness between even the young people of Larkrise and the neighbouring village of Fordlow.
00:51Dear.
00:52Oh, you aren't going anywhere fancy?
00:55Only a wedding.
00:57Oh, aye. Were you postbag?
01:00Oh, naturally, I'll take it off for the service.
01:03It was a feud that had simmered between Larkrise and Fordlow for many years.
01:08It was about to rise to the surface once more, turning neighbour against neighbour and young lovers into enemies.
01:21ORCHESTRAL MUSIC PLAYS
02:28The longest courtship in the county.
02:3140 years biding together, but legal at last.
02:40Legal and heaven-blessed.
02:45Aw.
02:46Queenie, my wife, and my life.
02:58You might not know this, but I first won my Queenie with a song.
03:04Does anyone know I once loved a lass?
03:11I once loved a lass, and I loved her so well.
03:15I hated all others who spoke of her ill.
03:19And now she's rewarded me well for my love, for she's gone and she's married another.
03:27Except she hasn't.
03:38Turtle doves couldn't kiss more sweetly.
03:41Aw.
03:42Well, my Tom had a sweet voice even then.
03:48And he had no money to buy Banbury cakes or ribbons.
03:55So how else was a boy to woo?
04:00I held out for a while, of course.
04:08There's sausages.
04:10Two apiece.
04:11One for the little ones.
04:13Oh.
04:13Oh, I ain't made of money.
04:27Come and pass me the cups to fill.
04:30And shall I taste the mead, as I used to as a boy, and perhaps scrape the bowl clean?
04:36That were your greatest pleasure, wouldn't it?
04:38It was.
04:41I wish I could go back to such simple pleasures.
04:45It's clear that happily married is not for me.
04:50You must have faith.
04:52In what?
04:53Don't give up too easy.
04:57Women hold out.
04:58We pretend to be hard-hearted.
05:00It's only a bit of power we have, so we use it.
05:03But if the love is there, we come round.
05:09Congratulations, Twister.
05:11You're next, Alfie.
05:13Me?
05:14Wed?
05:15That'll be the date.
05:17All the girls are either spoken for or away in service.
05:19Or both.
05:20All the girls are spoken for or away in service.
05:52Did you drop it, Minnie?
05:54Drop it? No, Mum.
05:57No, Mum.
05:59Yes, Mum.
06:02Well done.
06:06It is emotional progress, Minnie,
06:08when we can admit to our mistakes.
06:11Growing up, you might say.
06:13And not just to admit them,
06:14but face others knowing that we have,
06:17well, tripped.
06:20Yes, Mum.
06:22I only dropped a calendar, Mum.
06:25Oh, yes.
06:27Poor girl.
06:28And I am dishing out life lessons.
06:31I like them, Mum, your life lessons.
06:33Them I understand.
06:35I may dish them out all too readily,
06:37but I can't claim to understand them all myself.
06:41The person who married them aloud,
06:45he did cry.
06:48All that forbid it, I'd have you draw nigh.
06:56Thought I, to myself,
06:59I'd have a good reason why,
07:02though I had not the heart to forbid it.
07:09And when I saw my love sit down to meet.
07:16I sat down beside her,
07:18but nothing could eat.
07:21I thought a sweet company better than meat.
07:25Although she was tied to another.
07:30That was my Pa's favourite song.
07:32I'm just learning it from this old book.
07:35Don't stop on my account.
07:37Go on.
07:41You can't play and read at the same time.
07:43Those lines missing.
07:45Tell you what.
07:46I'll sing it.
07:47You sing it back to me.
07:50And when the bridesmaidens had dressed her for bed.
07:55And when the bridesmaidens had dressed her for bed.
08:00I stepped in amongst them and kissed the bride.
08:05I stepped in amongst them and kissed the bride.
08:10And wished that I could have been laid by her side.
08:15And wished that I could have been laid by her side.
08:20And by that means I got me the favour.
08:26You're blushing like a rose.
08:29Well, ain't it a bit near the knuckle?
08:31It's only natural.
08:35So, what happens in the end?
08:37Poor fellow.
08:39He never gets her.
08:40He dies of a broken heart and is quite forgotten.
08:45My Pa used to reel the whole thing off.
08:47Said it was the song that was truest to a young man's passion.
08:56Well, I'm going that way.
08:59I'm going that way.
09:01Right enough.
09:03I suppose that's as far as it goes.
09:05I suppose it is.
09:07Lark-Rise and Fordlow.
09:15We could always meet here again.
09:18Just to learn that...
09:19I could teach you the rest of the song.
09:22Tomorrow?
09:24Tomorrow or this evening?
09:39Mr. Downer?
09:41Mr. Downer?
09:41Mr. Downer?
09:49Mr. Downer?
10:04Mum, Mum, look. Flowers.
10:06The mechanism seems to be jammed.
10:10They're for you.
10:11Well, I didn't suppose you thought they were for me.
10:17Don't know. If we've got a vase big enough, it might have to be the coal skull.
10:24Aren't you even going to read the note, Mum?
10:26Go back to your chores, Minnie.
10:28Mum, you love flowers, and I ain't seen flowers the likes of them,
10:32and I would be bursting to know what the note says if I was you,
10:34just for the curiosity of it.
10:36Your broom, Minnie.
10:37I'm only saying, Mum, how can you sleep if you don't know what the note says?
10:41You are a little too concerned with my business, Minnie.
10:44I implore you to clean and cook, not to counsel me.
10:57A ship in sail.
11:01A natten looks to me like a big Dutch rabbit.
11:05Rabbit.
11:05I said rabbit.
11:12Hello.
11:18Don't mind us.
11:32Where'd we get back to Larkrise?
11:34How far are theys lingering with the Fordlin?
11:38Fox won't think that badly.
11:40Don't reckon?
11:42Why'd you look so discomforted, then?
11:46Best be going.
11:47Oi.
11:50Tomorrow?
11:5412 noon.
12:16Well, Alf.
12:20Alf, Barolus.
12:22What?
12:27Pretty, isn't she?
12:29She is, isn't she? Don't you think?
12:31So it's only looks that matter.
12:33No. Of course not.
12:39You can't keep that smile away from your face, can you?
12:44Can I do this, Laura?
12:47And she's from Fordlow, isn't it?
12:49Of course she can.
12:51If you're inclined.
12:57But, Alf, take care.
13:02Only give away your heart where it's truly urine for.
13:06I know how it feels if it isn't.
13:10You understand.
13:20Hey, if this is married life, we should have done it years ago.
13:25Why?
13:27Is it different?
13:29All those years, I had a feeling.
13:34Didn't even know it was there.
13:37A wondering.
13:39Now it's gone and I feel more settled.
13:44Everything settled.
13:56I'll just empty this and look in on me hives.
14:14Oh, no!
14:17The bees are gone.
14:21Look.
14:24Bees.
14:26Bees.
14:32Oh, Emma, have you seen my bees?
14:36Bees?
14:36They may be swarmed.
14:38I asked the children if they've seen a cloud of bees go by.
14:42If I know where they are, I can coax them back.
14:45I'll ask the children, but they haven't said anything.
14:49Oh.
14:51They might have swarmed when we were in church yesterday.
14:54I didn't visit them last evening.
14:57Ah.
14:59That's what happened.
15:01I bet my life on it.
15:02They ain't swarmed.
15:04They were stolen.
15:06Oh, Twister, no.
15:07Why would?
15:08Think about it.
15:10All of Lackroy's in the church.
15:12Queenie Turrell, the happiest day of her life.
15:16Who would look to ruin that?
15:18Twister, don't say such things.
15:20It don't help to blame.
15:22Oh, Twister, they've swarmed.
15:24I've just got to find them.
15:26They were stolen.
15:28Stolen by the lowliest creatures ever
15:30to crawl from under a stone.
15:35Fordlow.
15:36There'll be more postal orders in the back room.
15:38Just a moment.
15:45precision is all, ma'am.
15:48You've been engaged an awful long time now, Miss Ellison.
15:51Quite a long time, Minnie.
15:54Why, I think you have enough polish there.
15:57Oh.
15:58Yes.
16:01Ha.
16:04Today is Tuesday evening.
16:06Tuesday the 24th.
16:09Ha.
16:10Ha.
16:11Ha.
16:11Ha.
16:12Ha.
16:12Thursday evening, Graham will soon be able to set the date.
16:16Oh.
16:18Really?
16:19He's the only one who can do it.
16:21The man's job.
16:23Oh.
16:24Yes.
16:25Did he say...
16:26Did he say when?
16:28Oh, he's set his mind on fixing it.
16:30so I expect it'll be done soon.
16:45Ah.
16:46Oh, well done.
16:47It's working again.
16:49Minnie, the calendar is unjammed.
16:50Well done, well done.
16:57Oh, Thomas.
16:59I thought perhaps you would like
17:00to give these flowers to Miss Ellison.
17:03They're your flowers, aren't they?
17:05For you, not for me to give to Miss Ellison.
17:08As Miss Margaret is only just out of that dreadful cold,
17:10I expect she might appreciate a little cheering up.
17:13Here she is herself, Mum.
17:17I quite forgot the latter part of my errand stamps.
17:22Mr Brown.
17:24Miss Margaret.
17:27Well, if I may,
17:30I happen to come upon, as a token,
17:34as a means of uplifting you
17:36at a time when uplifting might be...
17:39Oh, thank you.
17:41Let me savour the moment.
17:52May I hint at my favourite month,
17:54which is October?
17:57Yes, I like October, too.
17:59It is not so soon
18:00that all that needs to be done
18:01cannot be done,
18:02nor so far into the year
18:04that the weather will have turned.
18:07If the bridesmaids are in light muslin,
18:09they may catch a chill.
18:14Ah, it's chill.
18:16It's muslin.
18:18The 14th of October, I know, is a Saturday.
18:22Does it not have an auspicious ring to it?
18:26Saturday, the 14th of October.
18:31Ah, yeah.
18:33Well, it's...
18:36Thomas?
18:37Yeah, ma'am.
18:38Mr Reddington would like to know
18:40when you will be collecting the parcel
18:41you wrongly delivered to him this morning,
18:43and so do I.
18:45Miss...
18:46Mr Red...
18:48Ah!
18:50The parcel.
18:52I wrongly delivered
18:54and must be collected
18:55today.
18:56Now!
19:00I must...
19:03On your way, Laura.
19:05Oh, yes, Miss Lane.
19:15Ah.
19:16Laura, it's you.
19:19You're a post, Mr Dowland.
19:22Miss Lane hopes you're well.
19:25Did she enjoy her flowers?
19:29She thought they were splendid, sir.
19:32And very...
19:34tropical.
19:36Tropical?
19:43She did not, did she?
19:46I don't think Miss Lane
19:47is ready to receive
19:48such a gift, sir.
19:50Do you know
19:50if she read my letter?
19:53Miss Lane...
19:55She put it aside
19:56to read it later, sir.
20:02I keep thinking I can hear them coming back up the rise.
20:07But it ain't my bees.
20:10It's just my mind tricking me.
20:14Truth is truth, my dear.
20:16And fact is fact.
20:20Painful as it is to hear
20:21and more so to say
20:24they ain't coming back
20:25lest we go and fetch them.
20:28Well, perhaps we wait another day.
20:30They're in Fordlow
20:32and we know what's to be derivated.
20:35Twister, I'd rather leave things be.
20:38Please.
20:40No good can come of accusing folk
20:43of what no one can prove.
20:45I will accuse these Fordlans
20:47and I'll see it in their faces.
20:50What kind of lowly, ugly,
20:53sin-ridged vermin
20:54steals a beekeeper's peace?
20:57Staves the love of our life.
21:00One of the loves.
21:02I'll look at them
21:03and I'll see it.
21:04It's in their eyes.
21:05It's in their blood.
21:07Thieves is bread.
21:09Guilt can't be hid
21:10if you know how to look for it.
21:12Twister, why can't you leave me be
21:14when I ask you?
21:37Are you waiting for Alf?
21:39Had to come up anyway
21:40because of the cows.
21:45Alf's a really fine lad.
21:48Everyone in Lark Cries likes him.
21:50Good looking and all, ain't he?
21:53Wint some eyes.
21:55He's very musical too.
21:57You should hear him play.
21:58I did already.
22:01What time is it?
22:03It was 12 o'clock when I set out
22:05so it must be close to 1.
22:07I didn't think it got so late.
22:11I'm sure he'll come then.
22:14Hmm.
22:45I've heard tales about Fordlow.
22:48Since I was a child.
22:51What was the start of it?
22:53The start of such bad feelings.
23:01I only know what I was told.
23:07Queenie's grandma was accused of stealing bees from the hives of a Fordlow beekeeper.
23:13No one is saying that everyone who ever lived here in Larkrise was saintly.
23:18By God, no.
23:19But not Queenie's grandma.
23:21She was known to be everything that is decent and true.
23:26It wasn't possible.
23:29It was a malicious thing to say.
23:31Born out of jealousy.
23:35Now, it wouldn't have mattered, but the accusation pained her so much.
23:41She was near enough taken down by it.
23:44The poor woman seemed to lose her spirit.
23:49Injustice can bring down a hearty man, let alone a fragile old woman.
23:55Alfie, you owe no debt of duty to Queenie's grandma.
24:00But I do owe Queenie plenty.
24:06I have checked the forthcoming events in the parish.
24:10There's a lot of activity in October, all throughout October, every day.
24:15The christening of infant Robinson, confessions, confirmations.
24:20Oh, how keen you are to have gone so speedily to the parish diary.
24:26Fear not.
24:27I will speak to the rector.
24:59Elaine sent me over to ask very kindly if you had a cigar box she could borrow.
25:11A cigar box?
25:12Yes.
25:13She wants it for her cigars.
25:19Is that so?
25:20Yes.
25:20And could you do her the favour, she said, of delivering it yourself?
25:25Now.
25:28Oh, dear Minnie.
25:31She didn't send you, did she?
25:50I was hoping I might find Alfie.
25:54Oh, I'm sure we'll be back in a minute.
25:57Rock the baby carriage, would you?
26:00I think her teeth must be troubling her.
26:08You're a nan, aren't you?
26:11Alfie's girl.
26:12I ain't this girl?
26:14Don't think I am.
26:15That's as much as my eyes can bear.
26:18Standing there, as bold as barley.
26:22They ain't got no feelings to them.
26:25Yes, you've come to gloat.
26:26Is that what you want?
26:28Is it?
26:29If I knew what you were talking about, I might give you an answer.
26:31Questa, Taro, don't you set two?
26:33I have a question for you, girl.
26:36Do you know, or were you part of, or was it you?
26:40Or was it one of yours, you Fordlow Pikers,
26:44what took our bees and stole them?
26:47That ain't one question.
26:48That's a barrel full.
26:49And the answer to them all is no.
26:52See the look in her face, Emma.
26:54Lies.
26:55Guilt.
26:56Guilty as the guiltiest thing.
26:58Twister.
26:58You ain't no right to say such things.
27:01Queenie, Queenie, my dear.
27:04I have the very proof we've been wanting.
27:07Perhaps my bees aren't my bees.
27:13Perhaps they've gone where God wants them to be.
27:18Perhaps they've gone because I don't deserve to keep them.
27:21Oh, Queenie.
27:23You've been keeping bees since the first day
27:27my eyes looked out over the hamlet.
27:30Perhaps that's the problem.
27:32Perhaps I never should have.
27:35See how the grief of it has knotted up her thinking
27:38into such a fuddle.
27:41See what thieving has done to decent folk.
27:45Ain't you got no shame, girl?
27:46Ain't you got no morals?
27:47I was brought up to tell the truth.
27:50Be afraid of no one.
27:51I don't need no morals from the likes of Lark-Rise folk.
27:55My pa sat me on his lap and pointed up that hill
27:57and told me,
27:58if you want to know what's wrong with this world,
28:00spend an afternoon in Lark-Rise.
28:02Well, now I know he's right
28:03and I ain't even been here an hour.
28:06I know about thieves.
28:08Lark-Rise thieves.
28:09Bee thieves as far back as ever there was.
28:12Is that what you believe?
28:14Truly?
28:17You heard me say it.
28:19Well, I've heard enough then, ain't I?
28:21Look what's come of it.
28:24The youngs set against each other.
28:27One spiteful old fuddle wife
28:28accused Queenie's grandma
28:29of stealing her hives when it weren't true.
28:32She didn't have a thieving bone in her body.
28:35Ain't no putting any of it to rights now.
28:37It's done.
28:39It's the way it will always be.
28:42Now we have to live with it.
28:45Ain't never gonna be any love
28:47between Fordlow and Lark-Rise.
28:52Never.
28:54Never.
29:03The christening of the infant Robinson
29:05will be completed by ten o'clock on the 14th.
29:08Our wedding
29:09will immediately follow
29:11that happy event.
29:13Well,
29:14that is most,
29:16indeed,
29:17that is.
29:43what's keeping you from your bed?
29:46a heavy heart
29:48and the need of a friend.
29:51Sit down here.
30:02Emma,
30:03I can't even look at you
30:05as I say this.
30:07I feel like I've brought shame
30:09into the whole of Lark-Rise.
30:13There's things I know,
30:16things I saw
30:17with my own eyes.
30:19I can't keep it in my own heart anymore.
30:23The bees?
30:26Your grandma.
30:29I saw.
30:32I saw her face.
30:37She stole those bees from Fordlow.
30:40But
30:42everybody ever knew her
30:43said she was the sweetest soul.
30:46Oh,
30:46she was.
30:48And kinder to me
30:49than my own ma.
30:52That's why I could never admit it.
30:54Not even to my own self.
30:56But I saw her.
30:59She was jealous.
31:02And more prideful of her bees
31:04than was good for her.
31:07Took such a hold of her.
31:11Burned up her heart.
31:13She kept it in,
31:15but I saw it.
31:17She stole those bees away.
31:20And no one would ever believe it
31:22here in Lark-Rise.
31:25And now look what it's doing
31:27to us all.
31:29Doing to young Alfie.
31:35I thought it was all in the past.
31:38But it isn't.
31:40It won't stay there.
31:44What are we going to do, Queenie?
32:09Thomas.
32:11Sir.
32:15I hate to have to say this,
32:16but, uh,
32:18the way things are going,
32:21I'm not going to be able
32:22to keep you on.
32:26Oh.
32:29I'll pay you
32:30to the end of the week.
32:33I understand,
32:35Mr. Downer.
32:37I'm sorry.
32:38I know you have
32:39plans.
32:42I wish you every happiness
32:44for the future.
32:46Thank you, sir.
32:51Miss Margaret.
32:54Miss Margaret.
32:55Will you
32:57sit a moment?
32:58Please.
32:59Oh.
33:01Yes.
33:08Miss Margaret,
33:09I have
33:09something to tell you
33:10which will
33:11necessarily
33:11delay our marriage.
33:13Oh.
33:15Yes.
33:16It cannot be helped.
33:17I shall shortly
33:19no longer be required
33:21at the hotel
33:22which will
33:23be considerably
33:23worse off
33:24and cannot
33:24in all conscience
33:25subject you
33:26to a lowering
33:28of expectations.
33:30Oh.
33:32Is that all?
33:34Do you not realise,
33:36Thomas,
33:36that even were you
33:37a very poor man indeed,
33:38it would not matter
33:39to me?
33:41It would not matter
33:42at all.
34:19It's the truth,
34:20Tom.
34:24But
34:26does it have to be?
34:27I mean,
34:29can it be a mistake?
34:31The truth
34:32is the truth.
34:35We don't have to say
34:36it out loud,
34:37though,
34:37do we?
34:39We do.
34:41Now.
34:44Admit it.
34:45To them.
34:47To Fordlow.
34:49That we're the thieves.
34:53I think it's time.
34:55Yes.
35:01How am I supposed
35:02to walk down the lane
35:04with them
35:05knowing,
35:07looking at me,
35:08thinking?
35:09We'll know
35:09we told the truth.
35:11We'll know
35:12we did the right thing.
35:17Yes.
35:21I see it.
35:24You're right,
35:24my dear.
35:29Perhaps we could do it
35:30next year.
35:31Now,
35:32Twister.
35:34Now is the time
35:35to rid myself
35:36of this.
35:44I'll stand
35:45beside you,
35:46my dear.
35:48If I ain't
35:49confined to the house
35:50with the rheumatism.
36:10Thomas,
36:10I am correct
36:11in thinking
36:11you're writing a letter.
36:14A letter
36:15to Miss Ellison?
36:18I simply wish
36:19to illuminate her,
36:20ma'am,
36:20to deliver us
36:21from her misunderstanding.
36:23Hmm.
36:25You may call it
36:26illumination,
36:27Thomas.
36:29The news alone
36:30will break her heart.
36:32I only wish
36:32to clarify
36:33the reasoning,
36:34Miss Lane.
36:35See,
36:35when I speak,
36:36I fluster.
36:37If I can write it
36:38in words
36:39with clarity,
36:40then she can see
36:41that I mean no harm.
36:43A note,
36:44Thomas,
36:45in such circumstances
36:46is cold.
36:49And to the woman
36:50who receives it,
36:52cowardly.
36:54If I were her,
36:57I would not want
36:58to receive a note.
37:00When what was called for
37:02was to see in your eyes
37:03what you felt.
37:05Your fear,
37:06your hopes.
37:09To see something true.
37:13Isn't it you,
37:14Thomas,
37:15who is always telling me
37:16we must live life
37:17by God's will?
37:29Oh,
37:30this is good,
37:31Laura.
37:31Here,
37:33I have a lifeline.
37:34A booking of 16
37:36for a fortnight
37:37to arrive the day
37:38after tomorrow.
37:40That does sound good,
37:41Mr Dowland.
37:42And there's not
37:43a single thing
37:44that I can do about it.
37:48I have insufficient staff.
37:52There are no rooms ready.
37:53There's very probably
37:54no milk in the pantry.
37:56I don't know.
37:56I haven't checked.
37:58I haven't taken notice
37:59of anything for weeks.
38:05Telegraph to them,
38:06will you?
38:07Tell them their booking
38:08cannot be taken.
38:10That's a shame,
38:11Mr Dowland.
38:13Shame's the very word,
38:14Laura.
38:19Miss Ellis.
38:21You have such good taste,
38:24Miss Lane.
38:25I wondered
38:26if you might look
38:27at the materials
38:28I am considering
38:29for my dress.
38:32I have swatches,
38:34shades of paleless
38:36dove grey.
38:37Grey can be
38:38deceptively attractive,
38:40don't you think so,
38:40Miss Lane?
38:42I prefer things
38:43which are a little more
38:44transparently attractive.
38:47But, Miss Ellison,
38:48dove grey
38:49is certainly elegant.
38:50I am a little
38:51mature for white.
39:09Miss Margaret.
39:12I have to find
39:13a degree of courage
39:14here
39:15in order to say
39:16something to you.
39:22Please,
39:22I think it would be
39:22best if you were seated.
39:23Oh, yes.
39:32The subject
39:33is disappointment.
39:36Oh, poor Miss Ellison.
39:39It's just a difficult
39:40thing for me to say.
39:43Concerning
39:43disappointment?
39:45Yes.
39:48My dear,
39:49Margaret.
39:52what I have to say
39:53to you
39:55is that I...
40:02I will try
40:03my very utmost
40:04not to be
40:05a disappointment
40:06to you
40:08when we are married
40:09on the 14th of October.
40:34Frank.
40:36Frank.
40:43Come on.
40:44Come on.
40:47Come on.
40:48Come on.
40:50Come on.
40:52Come on.
40:52Come on.
40:52Come on.
40:53Come on.
40:54Come on.
40:54Come on.
40:54Come on.
40:55Come on.
40:56Come on.
40:57Come on.
40:57Come on.
40:58Come on.
40:58Come on.
40:58Come on.
40:59Come on.
40:59Come on.
41:00Come on.
41:01Come on.
41:02Come on.
41:02Come on.
41:22Mr. Dowling?
41:27Gone nine o'clock, sir.
41:31Is it?
41:33I took it upon myself to see the two sets of guests off, sir.
41:39I suppose they would have expected me to bid them a safe journey.
41:44They were rather puzzled.
41:47I told them that you were not yourself.
41:52Who was I?
41:56Girls?
41:58Archie!
41:59Children!
42:00Um, Queenie!
42:03Have you seen the children?
42:04They were nowhere to be found when I woke up.
42:07Well, our brood had gone on a wall.
42:09What?
42:10Alf.
42:11I've driven Alf away.
42:13Well, Alf can look after himself, but where are the children?
42:17Where have you been?
42:19What are you doing?
42:21What are you doing?
42:21Kicking a cabbage!
42:23That's good food!
42:24We went over with Fordlow.
42:26We dared do it and we smashed up their gardens.
42:29Where's Twister?
42:29We want to tell him.
42:30You did what?
42:32Pulled up the cabbages and made a bit of mess.
42:35Edmund Timmons.
42:37You should have known better.
42:39This is not how you've been brought up.
42:42But Twister said we was at war with Fordlow.
42:44Then Twister is wrong.
42:46That is the food from someone's table.
42:48I don't care who they are.
42:50We must make amends.
42:52Let's do it.
43:36Solly, what have you got you up to?
43:38We're off to Fordlow to make amends.
43:50No!
44:02Dad!
44:03Dad!
44:09There he is, the lock, right beggar.
44:12Wreck our gardens, would you?
44:14After him!
44:15Come here, you!
44:17Come on!
44:18Come on!
44:19Come on!
44:21Enough!
44:25I ain't running away.
44:27I came here to talk.
44:28Leave him be!
44:32I want him.
44:34Because the children spoil the gardens.
44:36Don't, Robert.
44:38It's for me to mend.
44:52I came here to speak with Nan Carter.
45:00Nan.
45:03I should have stood up and defended you.
45:06I didn't.
45:07And I hate myself for it.
45:10I just want to say, if you'll meet me again, I'd like to see if you and me...
45:19I'd like to get to know you, Nan.
45:32Well, I'd...
45:37I'd like that too.
45:41You have my blessing.
45:53The children wrecked the gardens.
45:57and who can blame them?
45:58An example we set.
46:05At some point,
46:08it's time to let bygones be bygones.
46:18To make amends for the spoiled gardens
46:22shouldn't have happened
46:23and it won't happen again.
46:26You're welcome.
46:53I love you.
47:06Oh, my God.
47:23Miss Lane baked these for you.
47:29Why not?
47:31I haven't had any breakfast or lunch.
47:43Is there any return message?
47:57Thomas, I'm in such a spin.
48:00I know it isn't my place to meddle in Mr Dowland's affairs,
48:03but I can't bring myself to do this,
48:05to go ahead and cancel this booking.
48:10Oh, Minnie.
48:12You look how I feel.
48:14I've never seen a man so undone by pining.
48:17I know he ain't no saint,
48:18and I know he gets what we deserve,
48:20but I do think it's cruel of Miss Lane.
48:21What is cruel of Miss Lane?
48:23Not cruel, Mum.
48:24Did I say cruel?
48:24I didn't mean cruel.
48:25I would never think cruel of you.
48:26You ain't cruel.
48:27Minnie, for heaven's sake, just say it.
48:30Mum.
48:32I can't.
48:32You will only tell me to get out of your sight if I do.
48:35Mr Dowland is pining, ma'am.
48:37And his pining seems to have affected everything he does.
48:41The hotel is...
48:43Floundering.
48:44It's not too great a word for it, ma'am.
48:46And you think this is all my doing?
48:49It is for me to remedy with a cheery visit to Mr Dowland?
48:55Mr Dowland's feelings are his own.
48:58I cannot be responsible for his heart.
49:01If that is cruel, then...
49:05I do not wish to see him suffer.
49:09And I certainly don't wish his business to flounder on account of...
49:13his emotions.
49:29Mr Dowland?
49:39Oh, Dorcas.
49:45My staff tell me that you are expecting a large party and that...
49:49you are not properly prepared.
49:55I can't remember whether I have booked any staff.
50:02Nothing seems to stick in my mind at the moment.
50:07Well, might I suggest that you pick yourself up and set to?
50:12We can help you.
50:14But you must tell us what needs to be done.
50:19Could you go to the kitchen and, uh...
50:22see if we have any food?
50:25And perhaps call the residential staff down and, uh...
50:29tell them we have a party.
50:44Oh, Dorcas.
50:47I prayed that you would come.
50:52I hoped that you would come, but I didn't believe it.
51:20Dorcas Lane.
51:21Laying tables.
51:23I never thought I would see such a thing.
51:27In my hotel.
51:29Oh, I know my way around a knife and fork.
51:32Dorcas, I thought that I had lost you.
51:35Lost all hope.
51:37It was the blackest place.
51:40But I'm glad it happened.
51:43It has taught me what it feels like.
51:46What it would mean to...
51:47James, stop. You must stop.
51:49I must tell you.
51:49No, I must tell you.
51:52And you must listen.
51:54And you must hear me.
51:59I could not bear to look down the street
52:01and see your business come apart
52:04when you have strived so much to make this life for yourself.
52:09But I must be clear with you.
52:14I cannot stand to see a neighbour struggling.
52:18It is in my nature.
52:21I know my heart well enough now.
52:26I know who I am.
52:29And I know what matters to me.
52:36I will help you today.
52:39And I will help you whenever you need it.
52:45As a friend.
52:55In a world as small as ours,
52:58sometimes it took courage to be a good neighbour.
53:06But peace and accord were the natural tendency in those parts.
53:11So Larkrise welcomed the return of harmony with Fordlow.
53:16Queenie's bees returned as well, of course.
53:18As she had said they would.
53:21Queenie knew her bees well.
53:26For her, Noir.
53:31I will help you because it was so rude.
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