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00:00:00The End
00:00:38I'm afraid I know what you're saying.
00:00:41How do you do? How do you do? Very good to see you.
00:00:44And you. There you go.
00:00:49Oh, my God. How are you?
00:00:50How do you do it?
00:00:57It's a little sweet.
00:01:02Oh, you can see it.
00:01:04You know what?
00:01:06You smell it.
00:01:37Clare, who's that little girl?
00:01:40Oh, dear. Poor little woman.
00:01:44She must have lost herself.
00:01:46Who do you belong to, child?
00:01:48From Molly Gibson, please.
00:01:51I came with the Miss Brownings.
00:01:53Hollingford people, I see.
00:01:55She's very pale, Clare.
00:01:58Take her into the house and let her lie down in your room.
00:02:01I'll send in some food for her.
00:02:03Yes, of course, Lady Harriet.
00:02:06Come, dear.
00:02:19Take your shoes off and lie on the bed.
00:02:39See what kind Lady Harriet has sent for you.
00:02:42Will you take a little?
00:02:44No?
00:02:46Perhaps later.
00:02:48When you've had a little rest.
00:02:51Please, ma'am.
00:02:52Don't let them go without me.
00:02:54I'm to go back with the Miss Brownings.
00:02:57Don't trouble yourself, dear.
00:02:59I'll take care.
00:03:02I'll take care.
00:03:42Well, at least that's over for another year.
00:03:46Oh, it's turning quite chilly.
00:03:49Clare, get me my shawl.
00:03:53Oh, bless us and save us.
00:03:54What's this in the bed?
00:03:56I'm Molly Gibson, please.
00:03:59Oh.
00:04:01Why, I quite forgot about you.
00:04:04Never mind.
00:04:05You can stay for supper and go home in the morning.
00:04:07But I must go home.
00:04:09My father will want me to make his tea for him.
00:04:11Well, it can't be out now.
00:04:13You should have overslept yourself in a strange house.
00:04:16Oh, come.
00:04:17Don't cry.
00:04:19I have a little girl who can think of nothing better than to stay in such a fine house.
00:04:24But I have to leave her at home when I come here.
00:04:26All will be well, little one.
00:04:28Now brush your hair.
00:04:30And come down and have dessert with the other children.
00:04:44Ah, who's that creature in the blade, my throat?
00:04:46She looks quite wild and strange.
00:04:48French, I dare say.
00:04:49One together for the children, you know.
00:04:51Accents and so on.
00:04:52Bonsoir, ma petite.
00:04:53Comment tu t'appelles?
00:04:54I don't know French, ma'am.
00:04:56I'm only Molly Gibson.
00:04:57Ah, Gibson.
00:04:58I know the doctor's child.
00:05:00Oh.
00:05:01Oh, I know all about you, little woman.
00:05:04Oh, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho.
00:05:05Who's been sleeping in my bed, eh?
00:05:07What?
00:05:08Who's been sleeping in my bed?
00:05:10Oh, ho, ho.
00:05:11Well, little Goldilocks.
00:05:13And what have you got to say in your defence, eh?
00:05:15If you please, my lord.
00:05:17It was the lady they called Clare's bed.
00:05:19Not your lordship's.
00:05:20I stand rebuked.
00:05:21I stand rebuked.
00:05:22Her father is here.
00:05:24You can make your escape, little woman.
00:05:28I guess they shall be happier at home.
00:05:45Nice.
00:05:52So, what did you think of life on the Ridge Fox?
00:05:55They were kind to me.
00:05:57But I hope I never have to go there again.
00:05:59Nor shall you, goosey.
00:06:01If you don't want to.
00:06:04I'm so glad you came for me.
00:06:11Papa, I should like to get a long chain
00:06:13and fasten us to each end of it.
00:06:15Then we could never lose each other.
00:06:18So I'm to go about the country like a donkey
00:06:20with a clog tied to my leg.
00:06:22Is that it?
00:06:23I wouldn't mind being a clog
00:06:25so long as we were fastened together.
00:06:27Not so sure I'd care to beat the donkey.
00:06:42Oliver!
00:06:44Oliver!
00:06:46Oliver!
00:06:52And these as well, if you would gentlemen.
00:06:56Before I return...
00:07:07I don't think I have any chance with it, Tom.
00:07:09Why ask me?
00:07:10How should I know?
00:07:25She truly is the loveliest girl.
00:07:28Oh, my God.
00:07:34Mariah.
00:07:35Yes, sir?
00:07:42Thank you, sir.
00:07:56Mariah.
00:07:58Come here.
00:07:59Mariah.
00:08:04Give me that note.
00:08:05It's from Miss Molly, sir.
00:08:07He said I should give it into her own hands.
00:08:10Then you shall.
00:08:12Molly?
00:08:14Molly!
00:08:18Well, you'll come, Mariah.
00:08:19Shall I get us some tea?
00:08:22What is it?
00:08:24Give her the note, Mariah, and then you may go.
00:08:30Do you have any idea who that might be from, Molly?
00:08:33No.
00:08:33Oh.
00:08:34Good.
00:08:34Give it to me.
00:08:39Then off you go, Chrissy.
00:08:40Back to your skills.
00:09:09I'm not to know who it's from.
00:09:14I'm not to know who it's from.
00:09:18You're not to know who it is.
00:09:28I'm not.
00:09:30I'm not to know who it is.
00:09:38As you credit, some men have no principles at all.
00:09:43Oh, gentlemen, time to get back to your slavery.
00:10:25Master Cox, I have a prescription for you.
00:10:33Beg your pardon, sir?
00:10:36One ounce of modesty, two ounce of
00:10:38purposes of duty, one grain of deference, taken three times per day in aqua pura.
00:10:44That should cool the burning passion which I understand you'd be suffering from.
00:10:49I don't think it was the conduct of a gentleman, sir, to intercept my letter and open it and read
00:10:55words that were never addressed to you.
00:10:56If you had come to me and told me that you loved my daughter, that would have been honourable.
00:11:00Now I must write to your father and ask him to remove you from my household and tell him the
00:11:03reason why.
00:11:04I beg you wouldn't do that, sir.
00:11:05I should have told you, sir, but I knew you'd be angry with me and forbid it.
00:11:12And I do love Miss Gibson, sir, very dearly.
00:11:16Who could help it?
00:11:20Well, by accident or design, you've managed to say the right thing for once.
00:11:26Can I take it that this letter is your first attempt?
00:11:29She's unaware of your passion otherwise.
00:11:32Yes, sir.
00:11:33Good.
00:11:36Now, listen to me, Mr. Cox.
00:11:38This is a motherless girl of barely 17.
00:11:41She's too young for all this and it is not what you are here for.
00:11:45Now, if you could give me your word that there'll be no more of this nonsense, then perhaps I'll reconsider
00:11:50and let you stay.
00:11:52Do you understand?
00:11:53Yes, sir.
00:11:54Go ahead.
00:11:56In any case, my daughter is leaving us very soon to pay an extended visit to Squire and Mrs. Hamley
00:12:02at Hamley Hall.
00:12:07This afternoon?
00:12:09Why don't you want to go, Goosey?
00:12:11I don't know.
00:12:12I was never away without you before.
00:12:14Well, everything must have a beginning.
00:12:17Mrs. Hamley has been asking to meet you for a long time.
00:12:21She's not well, poor lady, and I think that I just must be unselfish.
00:12:25But why must it all be so sudden?
00:12:29There's another reason, isn't there, and it's something to do with that note and you don't want to tell me
00:12:33what it is.
00:12:33You're a witch, Goosey.
00:12:35I've got a good reason and I know that you'll be a good girl and you'll trust me on it.
00:12:41I haven't any gowns fit to wear.
00:12:43Well, how's a man to know when his daughter needs clothes, hmm?
00:12:47Go to Miss Rosie's and get yourself whatever you need in the way of frocks and hats.
00:12:50Miss Rosie's?
00:12:51Well, it seems you're a young woman now and you'll have to learn to run up bills with the best
00:12:56of them.
00:12:58Here's ten pounds.
00:13:00Ten pounds?
00:13:00Now, pray don't thank me. I don't want the money spent and I don't want you to go and leave
00:13:04me.
00:13:05Papa, you're getting mysterious again.
00:13:08Now, go away and spend your ten pounds.
00:13:10What did I give it to you for but to keep you quiet?
00:13:35What a little miss. Come this way, if you please.
00:13:40What a little miss. Come this way, if you please.
00:13:50Miss Gibson, Mum.
00:13:57Come.
00:13:58Molly.
00:14:00May I call you Molly?
00:14:02Yes, please. I wish you would.
00:14:04How good of you to come.
00:14:06Let me look at you.
00:14:11Good.
00:14:12I think we should be great friends. I like your face.
00:14:16Come. Let me show you where you are to sleep.
00:14:33Your room, my dear. I like it very much.
00:14:36I've had you put close to me. I thought you'd like it better.
00:14:39Though the room's not large.
00:14:51Are, er...
00:14:53Are those your sons, Mrs. Humley?
00:14:56Yes.
00:14:58Well guessed.
00:15:02That's Osborne seated and Roger standing.
00:15:06Of course, they're grown now.
00:15:07They're both up at Cambridge.
00:15:10Osborne's very brilliant and expected to get a fellowship.
00:15:14I like their faces.
00:15:16You must miss them very much when they're away.
00:15:18Oh, yes, I do.
00:15:20That's why I'm so happy to have you staying with us.
00:15:26Oh, I see you've bought your sewing with you.
00:15:30Like a good girl.
00:15:32I don't sew much.
00:15:35I read a great deal.
00:15:40Do you like reading, too?
00:15:42Yes.
00:15:44Well, it depends on the sort of book.
00:15:46I'm afraid I don't much like steady reading, as Papa calls it.
00:15:50Do you like poetry?
00:15:52Oh, yes, I do like poetry.
00:15:54Then I must show you some of Osborne's one day.
00:15:56Mr. Osborne Hamley?
00:15:58Is he a poet?
00:16:00Yes.
00:16:00I really think I could say he's a poet.
00:16:04He's very handsome.
00:16:06Yes.
00:16:08He was a beautiful boy.
00:16:10And he's grown into a beautiful young man.
00:16:13Roger was never to be compared with him.
00:16:16Well, I like his face, but...
00:16:18he isn't like Mr. Osborne at all, is he?
00:16:21No, and he's not likely to have such a brilliant career.
00:16:27But he's a good, dear fellow for all that.
00:16:31I'm fine.
00:16:32I'm fine.
00:17:05Harry, here's her, here's her.
00:17:07Come on, get in, get in.
00:17:11God bless my soul.
00:17:12I'd forgotten all about you.
00:17:16You're Gibson's daughter, aren't you?
00:17:18Come to pay us a visit, I remember.
00:17:20Well, I must say, I'm glad to see you, my dear.
00:17:23Very glad indeed.
00:17:26Well, well, well.
00:17:28Settled in, all right, have you?
00:17:29Yes, thank you, sir.
00:17:30Yeah, of course.
00:17:32Well, I must go and dress.
00:17:34Can't go in like this.
00:17:36Madam wouldn't like it.
00:17:37You see, she's broken me into her fine London ways.
00:17:41And I'm all the better for it, I dare say.
00:17:45Now, see this?
00:17:47Tomorrow, I shall have you do this for me, Miss Gibson.
00:17:50Well, I'll do it tonight, if you like, sir.
00:17:52No, no, today you're a visitor.
00:17:54Tomorrow, I'll send you an errands and call you by your Christian name.
00:17:59Molly, is it?
00:18:00Yes.
00:18:01Well, I was christened Mary, but Mama was Mary, so I was called Molly while she lived, and so I
00:18:08still am.
00:18:09Oh, yes, your Mama, poor thing.
00:18:12I remember how sorry everyone was when she died.
00:18:15Yeah, no one thought she was delicate.
00:18:17She had just a fresh colour.
00:18:19Then all at once, she just popped off, as you might say.
00:18:24It must have been a terrible blow to your father.
00:18:27Aye, but I would have thought he'd have married again by now, wouldn't you?
00:18:31Well, perhaps I'd better not have said it, but it's the truth.
00:18:34Everyone thought he would, but he didn't.
00:18:36I suppose he's likely to now. He's past 40, isn't he?
00:18:40I never thought he might want to marry again.
00:18:41Molly, my dear, really.
00:18:44You shouldn't mind what the squire says.
00:18:47Your father seems to me just like the sort of man who would remain constant to the memory of his
00:18:52wife.
00:19:02Principles of genealogy. It's a rather wild idea.
00:19:04Wilder than the Marx.
00:19:06I think I'll round up to the Marx point of view.
00:19:07And also that.
00:19:08What, the ducks get webbed feet because they swim?
00:19:11I know, it tickled me at first, but a doctor knows more about membranes than that.
00:19:15I'm pretty persuasive in a lot of kind of way, though.
00:19:17It could be...
00:19:18Ah.
00:19:21Lord Hollingford, I'm to bring Mr. Gibson to your mother.
00:19:25Oh, you remember, Mrs. Kirkpatrick?
00:19:27Come and find me before you leave. I'll be in the lab.
00:19:33But surely, um, we've, uh...
00:19:36I expect you to remember me as Miss Clare.
00:19:39I was here years ago as the girl's governess.
00:19:42Oh, yes. And you caught scarlet fever when they did, I remember.
00:19:45We were both much younger then, I think.
00:19:47Oh, yes, indeed.
00:19:49Well, I was thinking of myself.
00:19:51Oh, come, Mr. Gibson. If you were much younger then, so was I.
00:19:56Is Mr. Kirkpatrick here with you?
00:19:59Oh, no. No, I'm afraid Alfred died a long while ago, when our little girl was only four.
00:20:05Indeed.
00:20:06I have a school at Ashcombe now, and it's a summer holiday,
00:20:09so when Lady Kamner needed a companion, I was able to come.
00:20:14And, of course, she asked for me particularly,
00:20:16and I'm never happier than when I'm at the towers.
00:20:19I think you met my little Molly here on one of your visits.
00:20:22Yes. Yes, indeed.
00:20:25I can still see her sweet face on my pillow.
00:20:29Very kind to her, I believe. I wished I could thank you at the time.
00:20:44There's a slight irregularity, but nothing to cause concern, Lady Kamner.
00:20:51I make up a draft for you to take at night. Apart from that, plenty of light dishes,
00:20:57nothing too rich, no game, and no strong cheese.
00:21:00And try to walk every day, half a mile, no more.
00:21:03And don't sit up too late at night. And that's all.
00:21:08Thank you, Mr. Gibson. Such a pleasure being told what to do for once.
00:21:14No, no. How, um, how do you find Clare now that you see her again?
00:21:22Do you think she looks well, Mr. Gibson?
00:21:24Very well, indeed. The years have been kinder to her than they have to me, I think.
00:21:28Oh, don't disparage yourself, Mr. Gibson.
00:21:32Ladies like an active man such as yourself to look a little weather-beaten.
00:21:41Clare's had a difficult time of it, you know, and managed very bravely,
00:21:45bringing up a daughter, single-handed. As you have yourself, indeed.
00:21:52How is she getting on, that little woman of yours?
00:21:55Well enough, I think. It's been born in of me who lays.
00:21:59How much she misses by not having a mother's care.
00:22:04Even Lord Hollingford said something of the sort in passing, you know, the other day.
00:22:09Indeed.
00:22:10Perhaps I've been selfish, thinking that I could give the girl all that she needs
00:22:13in a way of care and affection and guidance in life.
00:22:18You know, her happiness means more to me than anything.
00:22:22Well, perhaps her happiness and your comfort might be secured by the same means.
00:22:30Ah.
00:22:32Perhaps they might.
00:22:37Ah, look, there he goes. Look, a heron.
00:22:39Ah, I've never seen a heron before, only in pictures.
00:22:42Rooks don't like him. Rooks and herons always at war.
00:22:46If my boy Roger was with us, he'd tell you a deal of things like that.
00:22:50You could show him a cobweb, and he'd tell you what sort of spider made it.
00:22:54Really?
00:22:55It's pretty they don't reckon such things at the university.
00:22:58If they did, Roger would be top of the class.
00:23:01But Mr. Osborne Hamley is very clever, isn't he?
00:23:03Oh, yes, Osborne's a bit of a genius.
00:23:05I was saying at the Pantastrates meeting,
00:23:07I've got a son who'll make a noise at Cambridge, and I'm very much mistaken.
00:23:11Mrs. Hamley let me read his poems.
00:23:13Did she? Did she?
00:23:15And did you like them?
00:23:17Oh, yes.
00:23:18I can't be reading poetry myself.
00:23:21I understand they're very good, very deep, you know.
00:23:24But, um, Roger's a good lad too, you know. Good, steady lad.
00:23:30Ah, now, there's my pet project.
00:23:32I'm going to drain all that land yonder.
00:23:34Good work for the men, good work for the land.
00:23:37Someone will leave behind me when I'm gone.
00:23:39Well, that's what we're here for, we're told.
00:23:41Leave the world the better place than the way we found it, eh?
00:23:56Damn it!
00:23:58What's that wretched boy about?
00:24:00I was told he's as good as wanted already.
00:24:03Yes, but I'm afraid he didn't do well enough in his examination.
00:24:06He said himself he was sure to be high up among the rangers,
00:24:10or whatever you call them, bad silted at all.
00:24:14How could he have gone and buried it?
00:24:17Molly, come here, my love.
00:24:21He mustn't let it upset you.
00:24:23He'll soon be himself again.
00:24:26Roger's returned to tell us that Osborne has done very poorly in his examination.
00:24:31It's quite unexpected, and the squire has taken it very badly.
00:24:36He doesn't understand about Cambridge.
00:24:38He was never at college himself.
00:24:40Oh!
00:24:44Poor, poor Osborne.
00:24:46But he can sit again, can't he?
00:24:49Well, failure isn't the end of everything.
00:24:51Of course, you're quite right.
00:24:52But Roger says he has very little chance of fellowship.
00:24:55And the squire, he put all his hopes on that.
00:25:02I don't think Mr. Roger should have told.
00:25:05He had no need to begin so soon about his brother's failure.
00:25:08Oh, my dear, you don't understand.
00:25:09Roger is a good boy.
00:25:11But it's such a comfort having you here, child.
00:25:14And your being a fourth at dinner is a blessing, too.
00:25:16At times like this, a stranger in the house is a wonderful help.
00:25:20Go on, get out of my sight.
00:25:32Where's your bottle of Birkenby with the yellow seal, Robinson?
00:25:36If you please, sir.
00:25:38There's not about six bottles of that one left.
00:25:40It's Mr. Osborne's favourite.
00:25:42Where's your bottle of it, as I told you?
00:25:45Mr. Osborne's likes and Mr. Osborne's dislikes have been law in this house long enough, in my opinion.
00:25:54How is your father, Miss Gibson?
00:25:57And when your next day is to favour us with his company, I shall tell him so myself.
00:26:02Your father is well?
00:26:03Yes, quite well, thank you.
00:26:07I shall look forward to having a talk with him when he has the time.
00:26:11He's the cleverest man in the county, I think.
00:26:14And has the best science library, apart from Lord Hollingford, of course.
00:26:16Oh, he's a good man, Gibson.
00:26:18He never felt the need to go to Cambridge University and dash his family's hopes into pieces.
00:26:22My dear.
00:26:23Well, well, I don't suppose he failed his tripos, or whatever you call it, on purpose.
00:26:29But he might have had the courage to come home and tell it so himself,
00:26:32instead of leaving poor Roger there to bear the brunt of it.
00:26:34Perhaps that's what he did mean to do if he'd been given the chance.
00:26:42I didn't get any pleasure from it, Miss Gibson, if that's what you imagine.
00:26:48I wish it'd have been I that failed my examination rather than Osborne,
00:26:52for then no one would have taken it amiss.
00:26:59That's an unusual dress, Molly.
00:27:02Is it the tartan of your father's clan, perhaps?
00:27:05No.
00:27:08Papa said it was not like any proper tartan he'd seen.
00:27:11He said it was quite outlandish.
00:27:13But Miss Rose said it was very popular last season in London.
00:27:16Well, I think it's very pretty.
00:27:20Don't you, Roger?
00:27:23Very.
00:27:24Yes.
00:27:27Okay.
00:27:43Yes.
00:28:08It seems a shame to wake her.
00:28:10Yes, very well.
00:28:21I can call back later.
00:28:23Oh, but you mustn't leave in this rain.
00:28:28Store me well?
00:28:29Yes.
00:28:31Cynthia, my daughter, sends word that for two days last week the packet could not sail from Boulogne.
00:28:37Miss Kirkpatrick is at Boulogne?
00:28:39Yes.
00:28:40Yes, she's been there for two years, Poe, so.
00:28:43Oh, she's learning French, amongst other things.
00:28:47Cynthia is a very romantic name.
00:28:50It's hardly fit for everyday use.
00:28:52It was my name, Mr. Gibson.
00:28:55She was named for me.
00:28:56I was called Hyacinth Clare, and once upon a time I found that name.
00:29:02Well, I was very proud of it, and other people found it pretty, too.
00:29:06But perhaps you're right.
00:29:08Such a flowery name might excite prejudice in some, and poor child, she's going to have enough to struggle with
00:29:14in her life.
00:29:16A young daughter is a great charge when there's only one parent to take care of her.
00:29:21Aye, it's hard for a child to be fatherless.
00:29:24But to be motherless, no.
00:29:27Might that not be a greater misfortune for a young girl?
00:29:31I'm sure your Molly is most fortunate to have a father so devoted to her happiness.
00:29:36You're very kind, but even so, I cannot be mother and father to her.
00:29:43And now, just now, she's becoming a woman.
00:29:46Yes, yes, she must be near my Cynthia's age.
00:29:49How I should love to see her.
00:29:51I hope you will.
00:29:53I should like you to see her.
00:29:56I should like you to love my poor little Molly.
00:30:01To love her as your own.
00:30:03Could you love her as your daughter?
00:30:07Will you try?
00:30:08May I introduce you to her as her future mother?
00:30:12It's my wife.
00:30:13Oh, Mr. Gibbs.
00:30:15My dear.
00:30:17My dearest.
00:30:21Oh, I'm so sorry.
00:30:22I'm so happy.
00:30:25You only knew what a long, lonely struggle it has been for me.
00:30:30It was clear that struggle is a thing of the past.
00:30:33Call me, Hyacinth.
00:30:34I hate, Claire.
00:30:35It reminds me of being a governess, and those days are gone at last, aren't they?
00:30:39They are, my dearest.
00:30:40They're gone forever.
00:30:41Then call me Hyacinth.
00:30:43Oh, your own dearest.
00:30:49Oh, my dearest.
00:30:51Oh, my dearest.
00:30:53Oh, my dearest.
00:30:53Oh, my dearest.
00:30:53Oh, my dearest.
00:30:54Oh, my dearest.
00:31:06Oh, my dearest.
00:31:10Oh, my dearest.
00:31:12Oh, my dearest.
00:31:20Molly?
00:31:25Papa?
00:31:30Papa!
00:31:33I was afraid you were unwell.
00:31:35No, I'm very well.
00:31:36But I woke so very early this morning and I was out in the fields and then it got too
00:31:40hot.
00:31:41I meant to watch for you. Truly, I did.
00:31:44How are you? How is everyone? Miss Browning? Miss Phoebe?
00:31:49Do you know, Papa, I don't think you're looking well.
00:31:52I don't look well. That must be all your fancy.
00:31:55I am well. In fact, I am uncommonly well.
00:31:59All the same, you need me at home to take care of you.
00:32:02I do like it here and everyone is very kind.
00:32:06What is it? Is it something bad?
00:32:10Not at all.
00:32:12But I have a piece of news for you.
00:32:14Can you guess what it is?
00:32:16How should I?
00:32:18Well, my love, I think you have felt, as I have, the difficulty of your situation.
00:32:25Of a girl growing up.
00:32:29You have felt the lack, as I have, of...
00:32:31You're going to be married again.
00:32:37To Mrs. Kirkpatrick.
00:32:39You remember her?
00:32:40They call her Claire at the towers.
00:32:42You recollect how kind she was to you that day you were left there.
00:32:45She's a very suitable age for me.
00:32:48She has very agreeable and polished manners,
00:32:50so you and I will have to watch our peas in cute, Goosey.
00:32:53And last but not least, she has a daughter about your age
00:32:56who will come and live with us and be a sister for you.
00:32:59So that's why I was sent away.
00:33:01So that all this could be quietly arranged in my absence.
00:33:10Goosey.
00:33:13Goosey.
00:33:24Goosey.
00:33:26Goosey.
00:33:27Goosey.
00:33:27Goosey.
00:33:29Goosey.
00:33:29Goosey.
00:33:30Goosey.
00:33:30Goosey.
00:33:30Goosey.
00:33:31Goosey.
00:33:32Goosey.
00:33:33Goosey.
00:33:33Goosey.
00:33:33Goosey.
00:33:33Goosey.
00:33:33Oh, Papa, if you'd only come back.
00:33:42Miss Gibson?
00:33:45Oh.
00:33:51Is it lunchtime?
00:33:55I don't know. It must be nearly. I was on my way home to lunch.
00:33:59But look, you're in distress. Has something happened?
00:34:05Can I be of any help?
00:34:08I don't mean to intrude. If you'd rather be alone, just say so and I'll go at once.
00:34:12No, it's all right. I don't mind.
00:34:17Then shall we walk back together?
00:34:19No. There's nothing.
00:34:25Please don't wait for me. I should be all right in a little while.
00:34:33No, I think I should...
00:34:39My father's going to marry again.
00:34:45And you're sorry for it?
00:34:53You know, it must be very hard for a man to go through life without companionship.
00:34:59Female companionship, I mean.
00:35:00He had me. You don't know what we were to each other.
00:35:04At least what he was to me.
00:35:07Still, he must have thought it for the best.
00:35:10Perhaps for your sake, even more than for his own.
00:35:12That's what he tried to convince me of.
00:35:17Do you know the woman he's engaged himself to?
00:35:20No.
00:35:22Well, that is...
00:35:24I met her once when I was a little girl.
00:35:27Everybody said she was kind to me.
00:35:28She let me rest on her bed and then she forgot all about me.
00:35:32I don't think she cares for other people very much at all.
00:35:39Miss Gibson, Molly.
00:35:43You probably won't like me for saying this, but...
00:35:45It doesn't do any good to prejudge people.
00:35:49Especially on the bad side.
00:35:51We have to give things a chance to turn out well.
00:35:55It might be for the best, after all, you know?
00:36:02Do you like my sermons?
00:36:06Have they given you an appetite for lunch?
00:36:12Come.
00:36:22I do know what you must be feeling.
00:36:24You must have thought me very hard on you.
00:36:27I'm not very good at expressing myself.
00:36:29Somehow I also fall into philosophising.
00:36:33I do feel very sorry for you and I shall often be thinking of you.
00:36:36Though I dare say it's best not to speak for you either.
00:36:54Come and have a look.
00:37:17That's one of the tiny creatures I fished out of the pond this morning.
00:37:21Do you see?
00:37:24How strange it looks.
00:37:26Does it all look pretty strange under a microscope?
00:37:30Yes.
00:37:31I expect we would.
00:37:37Ah, Molly.
00:37:39There you are.
00:37:41Oh, Mrs. Hamley, I did behave so badly to my father this morning.
00:37:46Never mind, child.
00:37:48Shh.
00:37:48You can make all well tomorrow.
00:37:50You know?
00:38:10Morning, sir.
00:38:12Mind, eh?
00:38:14Thank you, sir.
00:38:16Go on.
00:38:19Oh, Papa.
00:38:20There, there, Goosey, that'll do.
00:38:22I know all that you want to say.
00:38:24And you really, truly forgive me?
00:38:27It's all forgotten, Goosey.
00:38:32Now, I brought you an invitation.
00:38:35Lady Cumnor wants you to go and spend an afternoon at the Towers.
00:38:39Well, must I go?
00:38:40I want you and Hyacinth to get to know each other,
00:38:43since she's to be your mother.
00:38:45Hyacinth?
00:38:46I know it's a silliest name I ever heard,
00:38:49but it's hers, and I must call her by it.
00:38:52And the worst is, she's named her daughter after her.
00:38:56Cynthia.
00:38:58Now, the wedding is at Micklemas, and Cynthia is to come for it.
00:39:01And that's why I want you to get to know Hyacinth now
00:39:04and learn to love each other.
00:39:16Molly, darling Molly, I can't tell you how I've been looking forward to this.
00:39:20Come, come and sit down,
00:39:22and let me look at you.
00:39:30What eyes.
00:39:32So like your dear father.
00:39:37You must know how nervous I feel, so you'll help me, won't you?
00:39:40I know how much he loves you, and we'll love each other too, won't we, for his sake.
00:39:45I'll try.
00:39:46Oh, so like him.
00:39:49The same hair.
00:39:50Papa's is going grey.
00:39:51Is it?
00:39:52I never see it.
00:39:54I shall never see it.
00:39:55To me, he'll always be the handsomest of men.
00:39:58Oh, and he's so fond of you, dear.
00:40:00I mean, you don't know how he speaks of you.
00:40:02Sometimes I'm almost jealous.
00:40:06Well, make him so happy, hmm?
00:40:09And you must tell me all his little likes and dislikes,
00:40:11because of course you must know them,
00:40:13and you must be my little friend and helper.
00:40:15I don't think he's so particular about a lot of things.
00:40:19But there is one thing he's very fidgety about.
00:40:21He...
00:40:21He likes his meals to be very punctual.
00:40:24You see, he's often had a long ride,
00:40:26and there's another long ride to come,
00:40:27and sometimes he only has half an hour
00:40:29or even less to eat his dinner in.
00:40:33Thank you, my own love.
00:40:34That's just the sort of thing I mean.
00:40:36He doesn't care what he has so long as it's ready.
00:40:38He'd as soon eat bread and cheese as anything else.
00:40:40Bread and cheese?
00:40:42Mr Gibson eats cheese?
00:40:44Yes.
00:40:45He's very fond of it.
00:40:47Hmm, they must soon cure him of that.
00:40:49Oh, it's so coarse and strong-smelling,
00:40:51I can't abide the smell of cheese.
00:40:52And I know that he'd be sorry to annoy me.
00:40:54But the power's always...
00:40:57Yes, my love?
00:41:00Tell me about Cynthia.
00:41:01When is she to come?
00:41:02Oh, well, I know your father's begged for her to come to the wedding,
00:41:05but I think we should think about it just a little bit
00:41:08before quite fixing it.
00:41:10I do so want to see her.
00:41:11Is she very clever and accomplished?
00:41:13She ought to be.
00:41:14I've spent ever so much money,
00:41:16well, Lord Cummler has,
00:41:17on having her taught by the best masters.
00:41:28My little daughter, Lady Cummler.
00:41:30Nonsense, Claire.
00:41:32She's not your daughter yet and may never be.
00:41:35One third of the engagements I have ever heard of
00:41:38never came to marriages.
00:41:41Well, my dear, I'm glad to see you for your father's sake.
00:41:45And when I get to know you better,
00:41:48I hope it will be for your own.
00:41:51Mmm!
00:41:52I like her looks, Claire.
00:41:55You might make something very good of her.
00:41:58Why don't you take her back to the school at Ashcombe
00:42:01and let her stay with you until the wedding?
00:42:04Now, is that a capital scheme or is it not?
00:42:07Oh, but, my lady...
00:42:09I don't think it would be nice at all.
00:42:12I mean, my lady, I should dislike it very much.
00:42:16It would take me away from Papa
00:42:18just these very few last weeks we have together.
00:42:22Well, she expresses herself very frankly.
00:42:26Not, but what there's a good deal of truth in what she says.
00:42:29It must be very disagreeable, my dear,
00:42:32to have a stepmother coming in between your father and yourself.
00:42:36I see that, whatever the advantage is in the long run.
00:42:41She knows her own mind, Claire.
00:42:44I think you'll have your work cut out there.
00:43:04How are you?
00:43:05Was it a very trying day?
00:43:07I thought about you more than once.
00:43:11I did try to remember what you said and to think more of Elizabeth.
00:43:14Well, it's so difficult.
00:43:16I know.
00:43:17But you know you'll be happier for it by and by.
00:43:19No, I shan't.
00:43:21And if I'm to kill myself, as it were,
00:43:23trying to think and behave as other people want me to,
00:43:25I feel I might as well never have lived.
00:43:27And as for the happiness you speak of,
00:43:29well, I shall never be happy again.
00:43:40There, Mr. Gitchell.
00:43:43Anyone who'd have more than a cup of Esme's tea?
00:43:47There.
00:43:48Can we go to the door?
00:43:58Miss Browning, Miss Phoebe,
00:44:04I hardly know where to start,
00:44:06but as you were both such old and dear friends of my wife, Mary,
00:44:12and so kind to Molly...
00:44:14Oh, Miss dear Molly, she's been going away such a long time.
00:44:18It was necessary, I'm afraid.
00:44:21One of my young men, Mr. Cox,
00:44:25fancied himself in love with her.
00:44:26Heavens.
00:44:27And has she got over Mr. Cox?
00:44:29Well, he has got over her, I hope, and left us.
00:44:32Oh, I do like hearing of a love affair.
00:44:33Well, if you just let me get on, then you shall hear of mine.
00:44:37Yours.
00:44:38Bless us and save us.
00:44:40What next?
00:44:42My marriage, I hope.
00:44:45And that is what I have come to speak to you about.
00:44:50It seemed to me that my house needed a mistress again,
00:44:55and that Molly needed a mother's care.
00:44:57Quite right, Mr. Gibson.
00:45:00Of course, it's been an anxious thing for me to decide who I should ask.
00:45:05But...
00:45:07The lady that I have chosen...
00:45:12Tell us at once who she is.
00:45:13There's a good man.
00:45:16Mrs. Kirkpatrick.
00:45:18Used to be governess at the Towers.
00:45:20Oh.
00:45:23She's a very elegant-looking woman.
00:45:27Nonsense, sister.
00:45:28What's elegance got to do with it?
00:45:30Men don't marry women for their elegance.
00:45:32Not widowers, at any rate.
00:45:36So, what was the favour you came to ask for, Mr. Gibson?
00:45:39Do sit still.
00:45:40I wanted to ask if you'll have Molly to stay
00:45:45while Mrs. Gibson and I are on our wedding journey.
00:45:47Well, you might have asked us last time,
00:45:49before you asked Madam Hamley.
00:45:51We're your old friends.
00:45:52And her mother's friends, too,
00:45:53although we're not county folk,
00:45:56who you like to spend all your time with nowadays.
00:45:58And that's unjust, and you know it, Miss Brony.
00:46:00Well, maybe it is and maybe it isn't.
00:46:02But at all events.
00:46:07Of course, little Molly may stay with us
00:46:10as long as she likes.
00:46:12Yes, as long as she likes.
00:46:23There's no call for sighing, Phoebe.
00:46:26I don't know how you could ever have got the notion
00:46:27that Mr. Gibson would think of you.
00:46:37Good morning, my lord.
00:46:38Good morning, Preston.
00:46:46Mrs. Kirkpatrick.
00:46:55Such a happy day for you.
00:46:57Pity Miss Kirkpatrick will miss the wedding.
00:46:59She would have been a charming addition
00:47:00to the bridal party.
00:47:02Well, Cynthia could not be spared from school.
00:47:05Dommage.
00:47:09Ah, Claire.
00:47:11Oh, you are looking very pretty.
00:47:14Come along in.
00:47:15That's the idea.
00:47:17Oh, don't crease your dress now.
00:47:19Put it over my knees, I shan't mind.
00:47:21Going to a wedding, who minds anything?
00:47:24Different if we were going to a funeral, what?
00:47:26Miss Gibson?
00:47:31And will Miss Kirkpatrick be back from France?
00:47:34I don't know.
00:47:37What is she like?
00:47:38Very beautiful.
00:47:40And I expect she's very clever and accomplished too, isn't she?
00:47:43I suppose she is, yes.
00:47:46You see, she has such a charm about her
00:47:47that one forgets what she herself is
00:47:49in the halo that surrounds her.
00:47:56Lady Harriet?
00:48:03I think I have the advantage of you, Miss Gibson.
00:48:06I met you once when you were just a child.
00:48:08I've come as an amateur bridesmaid
00:48:10to help you out.
00:48:12Work on.
00:48:26I dare say it's something of a trial for you,
00:48:28this second marriage of your father's.
00:48:29I wonder how you'll all get on together.
00:48:31So do I.
00:48:32Well, from my experience,
00:48:33if you're a very good girl
00:48:34and suffer yourself to be led,
00:48:36you'll find your new step
00:48:37under the sweetest creature imaginable.
00:48:40I never managed it, but you might.
00:48:43I was hoping Cynthia would be here for the wedding.
00:48:47Oh, the daughter.
00:48:48Yes, so was she, I dare say.
00:48:51But I understand she's grown into a great beauty
00:48:53these last years.
00:48:54Perhaps her mama wished her a little younger
00:48:57or less pretty.
00:48:58That's a wicked thought.
00:49:00Who ever heard of a mother jealous of her own daughter?
00:49:03I'm sure there must be some other reason.
00:49:08Who is that man?
00:49:09The pa has asked Mr. Preston to stand witness
00:49:11as his land agent here in Ashcombe.
00:49:13I have an instinctive aversion to him.
00:49:15He does his duty by the bar,
00:49:17but don't allow him ever to get intimate with you.
00:49:20Now, what shall you be doing
00:49:21while the happy couple are on their wedding journey?
00:49:24Oh, I'm staying with Miss Browning's.
00:49:26Oh, really?
00:49:27I know them very well.
00:49:29Pexy and Flapsy, I call them.
00:49:31They're such comical creatures
00:49:32with their attempts at gentility.
00:49:35Quacking and flapping about.
00:49:37I shall come and call on you there.
00:49:38No, don't.
00:49:39Please, I beg you would not.
00:49:41Why ever not?
00:49:42Because, because I don't think you should speak
00:49:44of the class I belong to
00:49:45as if he was some strange kind of animal to make fun of.
00:49:48But I don't think of you in that way, Molly.
00:49:50But I am that sort of person.
00:49:53And I don't think you should come and call on me
00:49:54at the Miss Brownings if you're going to laugh at them.
00:49:56Call them names.
00:50:02I'm sorry, my lady.
00:50:03I don't mean to be disrespectful.
00:50:05No, you're quite right.
00:50:07I don't regret a word I said about that man Preston,
00:50:09but that's the Miss Browning's.
00:50:11I'm very sorry indeed
00:50:12if I offended you or them.
00:50:15Will you forgive me
00:50:16if I promise to mend my ways?
00:50:19Yes, of course I will.
00:50:21If you really mean it.
00:50:22I do.
00:50:23I feel very chastened.
00:50:25Truly.
00:50:46Thank you, Clarence.
00:50:59Thank you, Clarence.
00:51:04Thank you, Clarence.
00:51:20Lady Harriet!
00:51:23Quite an honour.
00:51:24But we have had our own excitement
00:51:26while you were away.
00:51:28Mr Roger Hamlet made a visit
00:51:30and he was asking most kindly after you, Molly.
00:51:34And he brought you that over there.
00:51:36I wouldn't touch the horrid thing.
00:51:37Oh, a wasp's nest.
00:51:40Wasp's nest indeed.
00:51:42Either he or you or both of you must be crazy.
00:51:44Did you know there are over a hundred different kinds
00:51:46of wasp in England alone?
00:51:48He told me all about them one day.
00:51:51More to the point.
00:51:52He brought a note from Mrs Hanley
00:51:54asking if we could spare you on Thursday.
00:51:56The men are all going to the agricultural show.
00:51:59Mr Osborne as well,
00:52:01for he's at home just now.
00:52:02And she wanted you to keep her company.
00:52:05And may I go?
00:52:07To be sure, my dear.
00:52:10The pleasure stirs the martening soul.
00:52:13The heart, the heart is lonely still.
00:52:16Fain would I fly the haunts of men.
00:52:19I seek to shun, not hate mankind.
00:52:22My breast requires the sullen glen
00:52:25whose gloom may suit a darkened mind.
00:52:29Oh, that to me the wings were given
00:52:31which bear the turtle to her nest.
00:52:34Then would I cleave the vault of heaven
00:52:36to flee away and be at rest.
00:52:41Osborne.
00:52:42Back so soon?
00:52:44I'm afraid so, Mother.
00:52:46Bullocks just aren't in my line, I find.
00:52:49Molly, this fellow is my son.
00:52:53Osborne.
00:52:54So, Miss Gibson,
00:52:55you're fond of Byron, are you?
00:52:57Yes, and Mrs Hanley showed me some of your poems too.
00:53:00Oh, did she?
00:53:01And what did you think of them?
00:53:03I thought they were very beautiful.
00:53:05Did you truly?
00:53:07Yes, of course, or I wouldn't have said so.
00:53:09Not like the rest of the world, then.
00:53:11Good, I like that.
00:53:13Oh, I meant to tell you,
00:53:15sullen glen reminded me.
00:53:17I spent a day in Haycraft's studio.
00:53:20I wish you'd come and see his new work.
00:53:23You'd like him too.
00:53:24He talks as well as he paints.
00:53:26Oh, I'd love to, Osborne.
00:53:29But your father fret so if I go away.
00:53:31Well, let him fret.
00:53:33Indulge yourself.
00:53:34What do you think, Miss Gibson?
00:53:36I don't think it's fair to ask me.
00:53:39Oh, you don't?
00:53:40I beg your pardon, then.
00:53:44Osborne!
00:53:45Why the deuce couldn't you tell as you were coming home?
00:53:47Sorry, Father.
00:53:48I didn't think you'd miss me.
00:53:49Roger, eh?
00:53:49Missed up his dinner hunting about for you.
00:53:51Oh, I didn't mind it, sir.
00:53:52I said we'd find him here.
00:53:54Mind on higher things, no doubt.
00:53:55Well, I wouldn't necessarily say that, sir.
00:54:01Good day.
00:54:02Very good.
00:54:03I saw the prettiest little jersey ever I've ever clapped eyes on.
00:54:06Nearly brought her home for you.
00:54:09Well, how are you getting on with Huber's book?
00:54:13Oh.
00:54:15Byron.
00:54:16Well, I am reading about the bees as well.
00:54:19But Byron's more congenial.
00:54:21There's no contest.
00:54:23She's such a good girl.
00:54:25But don't forget what Gibson said.
00:54:35Anything else, Molly, love?
00:54:37Don't want new Mrs. to think we can't do things right here.
00:54:40No, I don't think so, Bessie.
00:54:41It looks very nice, I think.
00:54:44Well, I should hope so, too.
00:54:46And if she don't like it, she can go elsewhere.
00:54:58Well, Molly...
00:55:01Well, Molly...
00:55:25tea dinner to be ready for you.
00:55:26Shouldn't you like to have that first?
00:55:28Oh, dear, I'm not sure that I'm not too fatigued to eat.
00:55:31Journeys do tire me so.
00:55:33But one mustn't think about oneself.
00:55:35So perhaps I will take just a little something.
00:55:38What is it, my dear?
00:55:39Oh, I'm sorry, Hayes, and I shall have to go out.
00:55:42One of my patients is dangerously ill.
00:55:44It's old Mr. Craven-Smith.
00:55:46Oh, I am sorry.
00:55:48Oh, you're going straight out again on our first evening at home together.
00:55:52Well, it can't be helped, my love.
00:55:54I'll be home as soon as I can.
00:55:59Well, what will be will be, I suppose.
00:56:01In that case, Molly, perhaps I will take a little supper in my room after all.
00:56:06Would you be so kind as to show me the way?
00:56:30It's all right, Betty. I'll go this time.
00:56:32Oh, thank you, love, there.
00:56:35Oh, jeez, I'm a patient of a speaker.
00:56:41Oh, I'm so lonely, darling, in this strange house.
00:56:53Will you be my little maid tonight and help me unpack and come and talk to me, hmm?
00:57:01I really do think that your dear Papa might have put off his visit to Mr. Craven-Smith just for
00:57:07this one evening.
00:57:08But perhaps Mr. Craven-Smith couldn't put off his dying.
00:57:12You droll girl.
00:57:15Well, if he is dying, as you say, then what was the use of your father going off in such
00:57:20a hurry?
00:57:21Does he expect a legacy or anything of that kind?
00:57:24Well, Papa can sometimes do something.
00:57:28Something to make the last struggle easier, that is, and it's a great comfort to the family to have him
00:57:33there.
00:57:35What a dreary knowledge of death you have for a girl of your age.
00:57:41Oh, dear, what an old-fashioned bed.
00:57:44Still, we'll renovate the house by and by.
00:57:47Not my room.
00:57:48I want you to stay just as it is.
00:57:50Come and read to me, dear.
00:57:52The sound of your voice will soon send me to sleep.
00:58:06How is Mr. Smith?
00:58:08Dead.
00:58:10You just recognised me.
00:58:13He was one of my very first patients when I came to Hollingford.
00:58:19And where's the new Mama?
00:58:21She was tired.
00:58:22She went to bed early.
00:58:26Must I call her Mama?
00:58:30I should like it, if you would.
00:58:34Then I shall.
00:58:36I shall.
00:59:00Congratulations, Mrs. Gibson.
00:59:02It's a pleasure to see my good friend Gibson so happily settled.
00:59:05You couldn't have done better, my dear.
00:59:09Take one.
00:59:13Come.
00:59:16Are both your sons at home, Squire Hamley?
00:59:19Neither, ma'am.
00:59:21I hope Mr. Osborne will visit us soon.
00:59:24Molly tells me he's such a handsome young man.
00:59:27Does she?
00:59:28Well, that's as may be.
00:59:30Handsome is as handsome does, I say.
00:59:33Ah, I was afraid you weren't in.
00:59:36We're all wrong at home, Molly.
00:59:39Osborne's gone and lost the fellowship he went back to try for.
00:59:42And now he's gone and failed his degree.
00:59:43After all he said, and all his mother said.
00:59:46And I, like a fool, boasting about my clever son.
00:59:49Well, I don't understand it.
00:59:51And it's thrown Madam into one of our fits of illness.
00:59:54Your father came to see her this morning and she asked him if she might have you about her.
01:00:00And he said I might come over and fetch you.
01:00:03And, well, here I am.
01:00:06You will come, won't you, my dear?
01:00:08I'll be ready in two minutes.
01:00:09My dear, stop a minute.
01:00:11I'm sure your papa quite forgot that you're going out with me this evening.
01:00:15But it's not important, is it?
01:00:17She's a very sick woman, Mrs. Gibson.
01:00:19And she set her heart on seeing Molly.
01:00:22Is there no way of getting her off?
01:00:23My dear, an engagement is an engagement.
01:00:26And you're engaged not only to Mrs. Cockerell, but also to me.
01:00:29Bound to accompany me in the absence of my husband.
01:00:34I'm sorry, Squire Hamley.
01:00:36But I think that Molly's duty is quite clear.
01:00:39And I'm sure that you will acknowledge that an engagement is an engagement.
01:00:43Did I say an engagement was an elephant, ma'am?
01:00:45Well, perhaps you might find it possible to permit her to come to us tomorrow.
01:00:57Certainly.
01:00:58She will be ready at any time you name.
01:01:03Thank you very much, madam.
01:01:05I'm much obliged to you.
01:01:13Now, my dear, I must never have you exposing me to the manners of such a man again.
01:01:17And you must not go on accepting invitations as though you're an independent young lady.
01:01:21But past it, I might go.
01:01:22Yes, well, now I am your mama, and all references shall be made through me.
01:01:28But, um, well, as you are to go, you may as well go well-dressed.
01:01:35And I will lend you my new shawl and set of green ribbons.
01:01:39For at Hamley Hall, one never knows who may be coming or going.
01:01:41Thank you, but I don't want the shawl and the ribbons, please.
01:01:45There will be no one there except a family.
01:01:48There never is, I think, another.
01:01:50She's so ill.
01:01:53Oh, my dear, how can I bring you back into good temper?
01:01:57You jump at invitations without consulting me.
01:02:00Refuse my prettiest things.
01:02:02Oh, my dear, how can I please you, Molly?
01:02:05I wonder.
01:02:17There you are, Miss Molly.
01:02:19She's expecting you.
01:02:21I'll go straight up.
01:02:34Osborne has been such a disappointment to us.
01:02:38I can't think how so much money was spent.
01:02:41And he refused to explain it.
01:02:44And now the squire won't have him in the house.
01:02:48Oh, Molly.
01:02:50How could Osborne have gone so wrong?
01:02:54You mustn't distress yourself.
01:02:58If I could have spoken to him quietly,
01:03:01I know he would have told me everything.
01:03:03Well, then send for him now.
01:03:06You will ease your mind.
01:03:07No, no, no, no, no, no.
01:03:08I can't go against the squire's orders.
01:03:09You can't think how it cuts him to the heart to have to lay off his workers.
01:03:13And he's so angry since he heard that Osborne has been borrowing money against his expectations.
01:03:26When the squire should die.
01:03:28I would never believe that.
01:03:31Couldn't it be that someone has imposed upon him?
01:03:34Bad men will do that.
01:03:35I've heard my father say.
01:03:36Gain a good man's trust and then use it to ruin him.
01:03:39Oh, you're a good girl, Molly.
01:03:43You'd think well of anyone.
01:03:46Not quite anyone.
01:03:48I've been so weak.
01:03:50I made such an idol of my beautiful Osborne.
01:03:57And now it turns out he has feet of clay.
01:04:36Robinson, come here.
01:04:39Robinson!
01:04:41Robinson!
01:04:46Oh, Molly.
01:04:47She's very bad.
01:04:48I'm sending her for your father.
01:04:50Would you go to her?
01:04:51It will calm her, I think.
01:04:53It's just an attack.
01:04:54It'll pass.
01:04:58Robinson, send Thomas down to Gibson's house.
01:05:11All right, Goosey.
01:05:13You get some rest.
01:05:18Oh, Moone.
01:05:46She's come through this time.
01:05:47Oh, thank you, Gibson. Praise God, she's turned the corner now. May I go to her?
01:05:51Don't let her talk.
01:05:59I think you should write to the sons, Molly, and tell them to come as quickly as may be.
01:06:03She's come through this time, but it can't be long now.
01:06:06Do you know their addresses?
01:06:07I don't know, Osborne. I can enclose a letter for him in Marjus.
01:06:11Maybe that'll do.
01:06:12Whatever these two lads may be to the world, they're as close to each other as any two brothers that
01:06:16I know.
01:06:16Oh. And let the squire know that you've done it.
01:06:20It'll be the gentlest way of breaking it, too.
01:06:24Will you tell them, Mona?
01:06:26Yes.
01:06:27Papa.
01:06:43Well, I thought, you know, as the day wore on, she got a little stronger.
01:06:48What do you think?
01:06:49Where there's life, there's hope, eh?
01:06:52I was thinking, as soon as she's better, we'll take a trip to London or Bath.
01:06:58What do you think?
01:07:04When Papa was here this morning, he told me to write to Mr. Roger and Mr. Osborne.
01:07:09To tell them they had better come home.
01:07:14And he wanted me to tell you I had written to them.
01:07:18He told you to send for Osborne and Roger?
01:07:24Yes.
01:07:27Yes.
01:07:29I understand.
01:07:33It has come, ma'am.
01:07:37But it will Osborne brought it on.
01:07:41I cannot forgive him for that.
01:07:44I cannot.
01:07:56You're a good girl.
01:08:00God bless you.
01:08:11She was asking for Osborne again today.
01:08:16Does she know he's coming soon?
01:08:19Any day?
01:08:20Yes.
01:08:22But she wants to know where he is.
01:08:26I can't tell you.
01:08:30But you're sure he'll come?
01:08:32Quite sure.
01:08:35Fanny.
01:08:39She calls me Fanny sometimes.
01:08:42It was the name of a little sister of ours who died.
01:08:47I wish I could tell you.
01:08:51And all that I know about Osborne.
01:08:55But I'm so involved in promises and secrecy.
01:09:26How is she?
01:09:27Yes.
01:09:28So,
01:09:29You will tell me. You must know the truth.
01:09:31I've travelled night and day since I got your letter.
01:09:34She's very ill, but I don't think she feels much pain.
01:09:39She's wanted you, sadly.
01:09:41My father sent me away.
01:09:43I know.
01:09:44I think no-one knew how ill she was.
01:09:48Oh, you know.
01:09:50Yes, she told you a great deal. She was very fond of you.
01:09:54And God knows how I love her.
01:09:59If I'd not been forbidden to come home, I should have told her all.
01:10:05Molly, is that you?
01:10:13You here, sir?
01:10:14He arrived just a few moments ago.
01:10:17Did he?
01:10:22Robinson, Mr. Osborne's here.
01:10:25Getting what he wants.
01:10:26Perhaps he can eat and drink.
01:10:28Yes, sir.
01:10:38Mama.
01:10:43I'm here.
01:10:45I'm here.
01:10:54That's it.
01:10:55Come and say goodbye to her.
01:10:57She may know it's you.
01:11:02Jonathan.
01:11:02Oh, come and say goodbye to her.
01:11:10Oh, come and say goodbye to her.
01:11:12I don't know.
01:11:13I don't know.
01:11:13Okay.
01:11:13Let's go.
01:11:53Really? Not gone yet? Why, how she lingers.
01:11:58What was that? Where's Betty?
01:12:01Betty didn't quite suit, and she'd become so impertinent.
01:12:04But she's looked after me since I was a little girl.
01:12:06Well, now you're a young lady, and you've no more need for her.
01:12:09Oh, I have such news for you, Cynthia.
01:12:12Oh, Cynthia is coming to live with us.
01:12:15And I want her to come in good temper,
01:12:17because between ourselves, she's just a little, little bit willful.
01:12:20So I'm fitting up her room and yours just alive.
01:12:23Oh, not least. Not mine.
01:12:25Oh, yes. Yes, of course yours, dear.
01:12:28I mean, think what people would say about me down in the town,
01:12:31petting my own daughter and neglecting my husband's.
01:12:34Very once you'll know I'm not a common stepmother.
01:12:39So, little French dressing table, different color on the walls, what do you say?
01:12:44What have you done with my things?
01:12:47They were my mother's.
01:12:50Oh, Molly, I don't know what's to be done with you.
01:12:53I've done my best, but there's no pleasing you.
01:12:57Perhaps you should think of others now and then,
01:13:00like the rest of us have to.
01:13:02I'm very much afraid that you and Cynthia will prove two of a kind.
01:13:34I'm very much afraid to be done with you.
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