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Herbert breaks off with Kate-who immediately sues him for breach of promise. He sees it as revenge, but does Kate? Starring:
Eileen Atkins, Michael Bryant, Bernard Lee.
Herbert breaks off with Kate-who immediately sues him for breach of promise. He sees it as revenge, but does Kate? Starring:
Eileen Atkins, Michael Bryant, Bernard Lee.
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11:31I've secreted a little something in the cupboard here before we set off for the
11:35registry office. it's only sherry I'm afraid. that's very kind of you Ned. you
11:40shouldn't have. you know you've got grit Herbert Dodd. not many men would do what
11:47you've done marrying the daughter of a bankrupt father when you've got
11:52business buddies of your own. love and honor they they go together don't they? bad is it? I've mortgaged the
12:04shop I've mortgaged the stock and still I've been able to raise only 200 out of the four and I
12:10don't even know how I'm going to pay the interest on the mortgages the business won't stand it or anything
12:13like it. the woman knows it yet still the damn letters from her solicitors more more more. I wish I
12:21could help.
12:25here drink this up and forget about it for a bit. that's why if we're blessed with
12:29children I pray for daughters. if I've no business to leave to a son and I'm
12:33pretty sure I shan't have. I'd rather have a daughter. I know how you feel old man.
12:40anyway. they seem very very cruel. they're not the cruel ones they're only following instructions. her instructions. I'm told she's
12:55living in London now in style on us.
13:00shall we be able to keep our little flat here over the shop? we shall have to. it's all we've
13:04got left.
13:11dearest. since she took legal advice I wonder that you didn't do the same.
13:19before being sure I mean that you stood no chance. perhaps your people would see things differently from hers.
13:27all any lawyer would have wanted to do would have been to drag me into court to fight it out.
13:33but might they not have told you that she could never take you into court?
13:37with that letter? that letter was a gift to any jury. oh no. I'd have ended up in court. never
13:42fear.
13:43at least I've avoided that final degradation.
13:45yes I'm sure you're right dearest. anyway I am sure you always take too gloomy a view.
13:53I'm sure everything's going to turn out well for us. isn't it?
13:58yes. of course it is dearest Nan.
14:04right up we go.
14:09that's the last of them then gov.
14:12I'll put it on the court. use it here or smooth it.
14:14let's go.
14:39there there. it's all right. it's all right my dear.
14:43I shall get a job as a publisher's representative.
14:45there there. it's all right. it's all right my dear.
14:53if you don't know about books who does?
14:58that way I shall be able to keep up the mortgage on our little flat.
15:04you have decided to mortgage the flat then after all.
15:07I must my dear. the vultures are still at me.
15:10I must try to get together another 50.
15:1450.
15:16where will it ever end?
15:20what are you going to do about the rest?
15:22I don't know Nan. I don't know.
15:27can't you tell her through her solicitors what she's doing to us?
15:32I'd rather lie in the gutter like an Indian beggar first.
15:38I wonder you didn't take advice as she did.
16:04if only you'd checked.
16:08only made sure she was within her rights
16:11that's all I see.
16:13I sent her the 20.
16:15that's 300 she's had now
16:17and that's all she's getting.
16:35she's simply not strong enough.
16:37not well nourished enough to pull through.
16:44you look all in yourself.
16:46isn't there someone else who could sit with her for a bit?
16:48some other member of the family?
16:50there was.
16:52she would have been nine now.
16:55same thing influenza.
16:56shh
16:58shh
17:02if you take an advice
17:06shh
17:07shh
17:07shh
17:07shh
17:07shh
17:07shh
17:23shh
17:24shh
17:24shh
18:17do you mind if I sit down no please don't let me chase you away
18:25this is a public bench is it not? then may we not both enjoy it I'll go away if you
18:47wish
18:48me to I mean now now that you've seen that I'm here I wanted you to know that I was
18:53here I didn't want us to meet accidentally I thought of writing to you and then I was
19:00afraid that if I wrote you might refuse so knowing that you must come here I
19:07thought of this way I've waited several days for you to come but I'll do as you
19:15wish you want me to go I'll go but in that case I should like to come back I came
19:28down I came from town on purpose to see you and staying on and I have great patience and I'll
19:40give you time
19:44and may I say it's important now that I do see you I see how inevitable it was inevitable I
19:56mean I
19:57really couldn't not have come but I don't expect you to understand that until you get used to the
20:04idea get used to what idea of my being here in the town after 10 years I see um you
20:17think you're coming
20:17back here to live I'm not entirely sure place greatly changed not to the better either oh really oh it's
20:26going down and down it's going so fast heaven only knows when it will stop mind you I'd not abandon
20:33it
20:33myself I like the place still with all its faults I suppose one gets used to the old town clerk
20:41died
20:42you know you remember him old Paxley he was good man for the town got a new chap in now
20:48one of these
20:49fellas with modern ideas I'm told he's not the same article at all I'm told council don't know where
20:54they are with him half the time I wanted to ask they pulled down the old market cross in the
20:59square
20:59you know oh four years ago in his place they put up one of those nasty hotels for visitors the
21:07council's whole policy seems to be to cater for cheap excursionists I'm staying at the royal
21:19oh are you now have you ever been in it once I had to deliver a set of books to
21:27a rich lady who
21:27was staying there she wanted to take him back to London I remember she left without settling with me
21:34she sent me her check from London four months later you should have charged her interest
21:47did they have the Bijou theater on the end of the pier ten years ago I don't remember I think
21:54it's in a very
21:55poor way now the company who run it are in a very precarious state I understand very precarious financial
22:00state people here won't support anything that's at least bit artistic I sometimes wonder what they want
22:07out of life half the time I wonder if I might prevail on you to come to Sunday tea with
22:12me tomorrow at
22:12five the royal yes I gave up my modest but rather interesting little old book business never so long ago
22:27you
22:33know if you can come I shall be at home I came down as I said for the sole purpose
22:42of seeing you but I leave you to
22:46decide how you feel about it I can quite understand that it might take some thinking about I know that
22:52I
22:53I still owe you a large sum of money if you've come to see me about that I may as
22:57well tell you here and now that I
22:58shall be able to meet my full obligation in the future as little as I've met it in the past
23:02I shall
23:03never be able to pay up that balance
23:18you must think about it take your time but I shall be at home
23:33you married no I'm not married oh I see
24:22you decided then I wouldn't miss it now for the world I have concluded that she wants something from me
24:31I've thought that the least I can do is to listen to what she has to say I shouldn't have
24:37thought you'd have
24:37wanted any commerce at all with that woman she killed your wife and my daughter and my granddaughter
24:44as sure as heads lay eggs if I'm to have my revenge I've also reason that I must know at
24:50what point to
24:50attack she'll give me an opening to that end when she tells me what she wants will she a woman
24:56like
24:56that my nan might have done your man she was unguarded as a kitten but this one to want something
25:04from
25:04someone is already to put yourself a little in their hands besides I've decided it's an adventure and
25:11when in my benighted life have I ever had anything remotely resembling an adventure especially one with
25:18sweet revenge at the end
25:22and then we told him it was a court martial offense if the supplies weren't found and lo and behold
25:28they
25:28turned up the very next day
25:30well that's quartermasters for you they sound rather enterprising to me
25:36if you please madam mr. Dodd
25:44mr. Dodd how nice of you to come
25:46captain Roper mr. Herbert Dodd
25:49how do you do
25:51how do you do
25:53well then goodbye till next time captain
25:56oh yes indeed
25:59oh um thank you very much for the tea it was extremely pleasant
26:10goodbye to you sir
26:13oh
26:20he's an acquaintance but he's a bore
26:22he turned up without being invited and I told him before you came that I was expecting a gentleman
26:27with whom I should wish to be alone and anyway he'd had his tea
26:31but he hadn't had his tea
26:36well at any rate you must have yours
26:38I've come as you've seen but um
26:42I've come to understand and if you require to be alone with me and if I am to break bread
26:47with you
26:48it seems to me that I must first know exactly where I am and to what you assume I commit
26:53myself
26:54you commit yourself to nothing
26:57you're perfectly free
27:00it's only I who am not free
27:03now won't you please sit down
27:19you are not free
27:20I'm tied to this
27:22but this is luxury and riches
27:26don't riches liberate
27:28riches
27:29you always used quaint phrases
27:32well if you prefer it then you obviously got a lot of money
27:36yes
27:38I've got money
27:40it intrigues you of course and you wonder about it and I wanted you to wonder
27:44it was to make you take in that fact that I came
27:48so now you know
27:49you you came to show me you got pots of money
27:51I have enough
27:52enough
27:54I should think so
27:56enough for what I wanted
27:58I don't always live like this I'm too thrifty for that
28:01but I can if I want to
28:03I came to the best hotel on purpose
28:06I wanted to show you I could
28:10now do you understand
28:12understand
28:14that it wasn't wasted
28:17what I did
28:20what I did here all those years ago
28:23you mean when you made me pay you
28:24the 300
28:26all I could get from you as you reminded me yesterday
28:28so I had to give up the rest
28:33that was the idea I had
28:35to bleed me quite to death
28:37to make you raise money
28:39since you had to you had to you did
28:41so what better proof could there be
28:43oh I did oh yes I did indeed
28:47well then
28:49here it is
28:51it isn't lost
28:53here it is
28:55my poor agonized old money
28:58my blood
28:59it's my blood too now
29:01I took it from you
29:02but this
29:03the fact that one can live like this
29:07that's what I've made of it
29:11that was the idea I had
29:13to have everything in the world at my wretched expense
29:16to make you use your money in a way you'd never have used it yourself
29:19my money
29:20do you do you know what my life has been
29:22have you any conception how I have lived woman
29:25my wife died attended by a charity doctor
29:29she was a beautiful girl when I married her
29:32when she died she looked like an old woman
29:36she became an old woman she died an old woman
29:39because I wasn't able to give her enough
29:43food or warmth or anything that a man is supposed to provide for his woman
29:50my daughter jenny she died too
29:52she was never very strong
29:55she died because I wasn't able to provide for her the way
30:00her father is supposed to provide for his child
30:05and all because you had your idea
30:11I did it for you
30:12I did it for you
30:17for me
30:19don't you understand
30:22for what other reason could it have been
30:24for grasp greed and vindictiveness
30:27no
30:29if it was for me would you kindly enlighten me as to what good it has ever done me
30:35it will do you good now
30:40am i to understand that your notion is to repay me
30:46my intention is to repay you with interest
30:52oh
31:02i wanted to take care of you
31:05it was what i first wanted
31:07it was all i wanted
31:10it was what you consented to
31:13and i'd have done it
31:15oh i'd have done it
31:17i'd have loved you and helped you
31:20and guarded you and you'd have had no trouble in your life
31:23you'd have been safe and easy and comfortable
31:28you swore that you cared for me you wrote it and made me believe it
31:33you pledged me your honor and your faith
31:38then you turned and changed suddenly from one day to the next
31:41everything altered
31:43you broke your vows
31:45you as good as told me you only wanted a break with me
31:48you faced me with dislike behaved as if you hated me
31:52you'd met a girl of great beauty i admit who made me seem a fright in a ball
31:56no
31:57yes no no never never i'd never seen her at that time and didn't even dream of her
32:04it was you who became sharp and harsh with me and then i saw you get off the train with
32:09bill
32:09franklin and i thought that was the reason and i spoke to nan as a confidant in my misery
32:15you saw me get out of a compartment once with mr bill franklin
32:20it was your faces
32:23you were laughing
32:28well never mind
32:32i dare say we will never know the real truth of it neither of us
32:36but we shall have our versions
32:38sometimes it seems a long time ago
32:41sometimes it doesn't
32:44it's always seemed like yesterday to me
32:48well let's say that there wasn't much difference whether it was for another woman or because of a false
32:53imagining on your part or that you suddenly found me plain and simply loathed me for myself
32:58the effect was the same i was out in the cold and nothing is more hopeless than complaining that
33:04someone doesn't love you anymore no i i didn't intend to cause you pain
33:08do you remember that sonnet of shakespeare's the one you used to read to me
33:12love is not love that alters when it alteration finds
33:16i found that was true you're telling me you ruined me out of love
33:23all i ever wanted exclusively and passionately from the first day i met you was to take care of
33:28you i was denied the opportunity it was snatched away from me so i had to find another way
33:33another way another way to secure your future for you what well i had no money whatever then
33:39nothing of my own it wasn't with mine i could do it but i could do it with yours i
33:43knew i could if
33:43i could once get it out of you you put my life up at the sale room but using your
33:48money for you and
33:49using you yourself for your own futures i should have done had you married me that was my motive
33:56and as i've told you without your quite seeming to understand it i've brought it all back to you
34:05everything every penny i squeezed out of you multiplied many times over
34:13it's all mine if it's all come back to me what did nan have what did poor nan have and
34:20jenny
34:24i don't think you can think about that how could i not think about it in a way they helped
34:28pay for
34:29what you're offering me now they went without they died my poor loyal nan with only her one question
34:36the only question she ever approached me with what question can you give me your word of honor
34:43that if i had taken decent advice i mightn't have defied you
34:52certainly you could have defied me
34:56they would have told me you had no legal case
35:00they would have told you that i had nothing
35:06they would have told you it was right
35:09so
35:10okay
35:28so
35:41here you know I have never done that well you've got to do something old man
35:46you can't sit here and mope and torment yourself the way you're doing
35:51where's your revenge then what's but suppress your revenge how can you take
35:57revenge on a woman who's offering you money in handfuls what can you do to hurt
36:01her you can take it that wouldn't hurt her that's what she wants you know in a
36:07way it's it's incredibly incredibly romantic to the fact that she still
36:15loves you oh romantic no no no no Herbert fair's fair think of her as we may she's
36:22a staunch one she sticks she's terrifying she's the strangest mixture of tenderness
36:29and patience and cruelty the world ever saw she's like a fairy tale and a
36:34nightmare rolled into one well the fairy tale part of it I can understand that I
36:40mean an under clerk at the gas board suddenly being offered a fortune but I'm
36:46I don't mind if I can see any nightmare in it oh by the way old man do you mind
36:51if I dust down here tonight
36:54troubles with the landlady in there what troubles with the landlady oh no no of course not
37:02the nightmare is how can I accept a fortune with them staring at me my lovely Nan my
37:10lovely Jenny who died because of what she brought on us indirectly oh man very
37:17indirectly directly well she didn't breathe the sickness on she didn't know you were
37:24going to be a failure yeah that's the strangest part of all I think she did I believe that's that's
37:32why
37:32she thought I needed her in the first place perhaps she did I'll not take her money I thought it
37:41was your
37:41money I'll not betray Nan and Jenny I'll not give up my bitterness and hatred she can
37:46sit there in the Royal Hotel among her plushes and her bronzes for ten years I'll
37:50not I'll not come near again sure you wouldn't no hang you don't know
38:15you've done well I'll save that for you I mean holding up the way you have
38:25it's been a week now I have thought you thought what oh just plain simple
38:32curiosity old man I mean the desire to know how did she do it turning your money into a fortune
38:43that'll be a trick worth hearing about all the same even if you did nothing about it I'm not
38:49interested how can you say you're not interested I grant you full marks for holding up but I've got
38:55eyes at my head but I can see what it's costing you it's costing me nothing the main thing is
39:00it's
39:01going to cost you your job taking time off day after day to roam about the town and the promenade
39:09like a tiger the gas ball will stand for that it's marvelous you know Ned Drury what a tender interest
39:18you're taking in me since the prospect of money gleamed in my life now that's not fair I've always stuck
39:27by you bonds of marriage two derelicts washed up on the beach of life together I've always looked up
39:37for you I'm sorry that was a terrible thing to say I know you have you're right the whole thing
39:48is a mortal strain
39:49it takes nerve to do what you're doing I know I've seen you I've watched you walk past the royal
39:59hotel
39:59a lot of a dozen times on your wanderings not once not once you so much as turned your head
40:06to look at it
40:09you've had no sign from none nothing at all not a flicker
40:13and for all you know she may have gone back to London the first night
40:17she may well have done
40:21so you've lost everything forever
40:26I'll have kept my self-respect somehow I've always managed to keep that
40:31I've never given in to her on anything ever
40:49she's still here
40:51how do you know that
40:52well the underporter there's a friend of mine I inquired of him
40:56you shouldn't have done that
40:58no no no don't worry she won't find out
41:01I hardly imagine she's the type of woman that even passed the time of day that underporter
41:07in any way if she did hear about the inquiry she'd hardly connected with you
41:12yes I suppose you're right
41:14I begin to be in danger of investing her with the powers of a witch
41:18thank you
41:20what do you suppose she's hanging on for
41:22her idea as she calls it she has to follow it through
41:27she's always been like that I must be broken down
41:31you know you're always talking about going to see her
41:34what if she should come to you
41:36come to me
41:39she did it once
41:40finding you there on the bench last week
41:43I mean what's to stop her from doing it again
41:46once she knows you're not going to see her
41:49what's to stop her seeking you out again
41:52I know her she'd not do that a second time
41:57she might
41:58suppose she did
42:00if she came to me again and it's an impossible if
42:03it would mean she felt absolutely sure of success
42:07she's not a woman to feel herself to have failed twice
42:09it would mean she took my refusal for hollow heroics of vain parade
42:15that my need my misery my inability to go on hating
42:19my pathetic response like a stray mongrel
42:22to the least little pat on the head would this time
42:26bring me down
42:28and bring me to heal
42:31it would mean she assumed I was tired and frightened
42:36that I woke every morning with my stomach in a knot of wretchedness
42:40and that I went to bed every night
42:43as to a refuge I hoped would turn into eternity
42:49it would mean she felt I go through life lost in a fog of terror
42:55she would assume all that
42:58what?
43:00yes
43:02it would mean that she'd done so yes
43:06what would you do if she did come?
43:12I'd turn my back on her and walk straight away
43:19I'm scared to have that
43:21no
43:22do you mind?
43:24no
43:24no
43:26no
43:27no
43:27no
43:27no
43:28no
43:30no
43:32no
43:34no
43:35no
43:35no
43:57no
44:05you only have to draw draw yes that's what people do when they have money
44:11they draw it out and use it please won't you come and sit down I have all the
44:18details for you we can hardly go into it standing here
44:29supposing I choose not to draw supposing I'd just leave it all there to gather
44:33dust that's your choice of course but what it will gather will not be dust but
44:37interest the problem as it were will grow bigger and not smaller supposing I just
44:41give it all the way to charity that too is your privilege at least you'd have
44:45made your own decision about your own money now this is the statement of
44:50account this is the form of credit I've arranged for you here's your checkbook
44:59you'll have to provide them with a specimen signature of course I should
45:03have thought you'd have given up I should have thought you'd have gone away
45:07oh come now Herbert Dodd as if you didn't know by what accord you hold me you knew I
45:14wouldn't go away you knew that if I was silent it was because I was busy on your
45:18behalf swear to you I thought nothing of the kind you certainly knew where you
45:23could find me this morning as I equally certainly knew where I should find you I
45:27had no idea in the world I'd find you here this has been my haunt over the years not yours
45:32it's been my habit of a lifetime to come here every Sunday morning that seemed too
45:35beautiful to be shut in church I hadn't dreamed that you'd been here and I
45:39thought so I wouldn't have come and it was you who came to me just now wasn't it not
45:45the other way around me who came to you Herbert Dodd I've been coming to you for 10 years
46:28well then
46:37well then goodbye
46:40but don't don't we discuss it further it seems so abrupt now that it's done
46:45well it's not abrupt for me it's the end of a long journey but it's only abrupt as
46:52all arrivals are but it isn't an arrival it's a departure
46:57yes it's that too but if you go shan't I see you again
47:08do you like to see me
47:18where did it all come from it came from you
47:23I mean so much money such a lot of it it's all I made every penny
47:28you must have slaved yes I slaved but no more than you I told you a long time ago I
47:34have had a talent for commerce I can't take all this what will you live on oh I've
47:42learned to live on very little every penny that wasn't working for you I
47:45begrudged bitterly
47:50it's odd isn't it the saying is money isn't everything
47:59it's it's it's an enormous thing of course but it isn't everything is it
48:07there are demons it won't buy off
48:20I've moved out of the flat I had in London
48:23I've no need to be at the center now oh see are you in lodgings yes but far from
48:31the center of course at Richmond up on the hill oh yes yes I've heard of the
48:36hill of course they do say it's awfully sunny and nice
48:40oh yes it's very nice so that it's not exactly like being at the center why
48:46at least you're comfortable oh yes I should be very comfortable
48:52you shall stay here shall you buy something here yes I suppose I shall
48:59I hadn't really thought about it of course I must set Nan's father up somewhere
49:07oh yes yes you must do that
49:16well
49:18it'll be difficult about addresses
49:22addresses
49:23yes to keep in touch
49:27you seem absurd not to keep in touch
49:31well I'll give you mine
49:38what must you
49:42what must you have done
49:45what must you have been through
49:47you can't think I can have made so much money honestly is that it
49:50oh you've been honest
49:52anything was possible under the stress of my hatred
49:55here's my address
49:59your hatred
50:01of what I must have been doing to you all those years
50:03it made me
50:07desperate
50:08oh but that's my story
50:11may I not hear it
50:13no
50:13because I may not hear yours
50:15but you can
50:16because I do not wish to hear yours
50:19may we not talk then
50:22no
50:23not ever
50:26never
50:40well
50:45I see
50:56but I can still take care of you
51:03Kate
51:05please do
51:06let's do
51:07let's do
51:08yeah
51:11let's do
51:15that
51:16I
51:16I
51:16I
51:17I
51:18I
51:19I
51:22I
51:23I
51:24I
51:35I
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