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00:00:18She's coming. I've seen her. Moderate your turn, dear. She'll be here just as soon.
00:00:46Well, here she is. Molly, this is Cynthia. Cynthia, Molly. You're to be sisters, yeah?
00:00:55How do you do? I'm so pleased to meet you at last. And I, Hugh.
00:01:10And here's Mama. Why, how you've grown, darling. You look quite a woman.
00:01:19That's how I am. Well, I was before I went away. I've hardly grown since. Except in wisdom, I hope.
00:01:26Yes. That we would hope.
00:01:32There's hot breakfast in the dining room when you're ready for it. I'm sure you're hungry after your night journey.
00:01:38Thank you. Molly will show you to your room. It's next to hers and I'm so afraid of the drafts.
00:02:00Oh, I'm so sorry there isn't a fire for you. I suppose it wasn't ordered and of course I don't
00:02:04give the orders now.
00:02:06Here's some hot water, though. Stop a minute.
00:02:12I think I shall like you. I'm so glad. I was afraid I shouldn't.
00:02:17We're all in a very awkward position together, aren't we?
00:02:19Yes. I suppose so.
00:02:23Yes, well, you may laugh, but I don't know I'm easy to get on with.
00:02:27Mama and I didn't suit when we were last together. Stop.
00:02:31Perhaps we are each of us wiser now.
00:02:34Oh, I like your father's looks, though.
00:02:36Thanks for joining us.
00:02:38Oh, is he going out already?
00:02:40Yes. He's called out at all hours. I expect he's going to Hamley Hall.
00:02:44Mrs. Hamley has died.
00:02:47Very ill.
00:02:51I think you're probably a very good person, Molly.
00:02:55I'm not very good myself.
00:02:57In fact, I gave myself up years ago as a heartless baggage.
00:03:05And this is Miss Rose's.
00:03:07Her dress is a very fashionable.
00:03:11And this is Princeton's bookshop.
00:03:13Miss Browning. Miss Phoebe, good morning.
00:03:16Cynthia. Cynthia, my daughter.
00:03:20Oh, we were just coming to call on you.
00:03:22We wanted to invite you both to our card party on the 12th.
00:03:25Just a few young people, you know.
00:03:28Oh, yes, of course we'll come.
00:03:29Molly, dear.
00:03:30How very kind of you, Miss Browning, Miss Phoebe.
00:03:32But you see, I hardly like to let them go.
00:03:35They're not out, you know, till after the Easter ball.
00:03:39Not out?
00:03:40Till then, you see, we are invisible.
00:03:42Uh-huh.
00:03:44In my days, girls went wherever it pleased folk to ask them.
00:03:49I've seen many girl of 14 or even 12 at a card party
00:03:52who knows how to behave as well as any lady there.
00:03:55There should be no talk of coming out for anyone
00:03:58onto the daughter of a squire.
00:04:00After Easter, Molly and I shall be capable of proper behaviour,
00:04:03but not before.
00:04:03Proper behaviour?
00:04:04Well, I'm quite sure that Molly has been capable of proper behaviour
00:04:07ever since she was a little girl.
00:04:09Always a little lady.
00:04:11Molly wants the refinements that good society gives.
00:04:14Why, only today I saw her coming upstairs two steps at a time.
00:04:18Oh, only two, Molly.
00:04:19Yesterday I found I could manage four, you know.
00:04:21My dear, what are you saying?
00:04:23I'm merely confessing, Mama, that I too, like Molly,
00:04:26want the refinements that good society brings.
00:04:29Therefore, please do let us go to the Browning's card party.
00:04:32I think I might make an exception this morning.
00:04:36Well, I think so indeed.
00:04:40You shouldn't do that.
00:04:41You don't understand.
00:04:43Oh, do me that.
00:04:44I'm only teasing Mama.
00:04:46Oh, no, you are quite right to correct me.
00:04:49Won't do any good, though.
00:04:50I am, as I am, I'm afraid.
00:05:06Thank you, Mr. Gibson.
00:05:09Thank you, Mr. Gibson.
00:05:56There's some supper for you in the dining room.
00:06:00Where's your mother?
00:06:02She's upstairs with Cynthia.
00:06:04I'll just take some bread and cheese and a glass of beer then.
00:06:07She'll have to go out again soon.
00:06:09I've not seen my tongue patients yet.
00:06:32Yes, she's gone, Molly.
00:06:34Oh.
00:06:36Oh.
00:06:39Oh.
00:06:41Oh.
00:06:44Oh.
00:06:46I'm sorry.
00:06:48Of course I knew it was coming.
00:06:50But I was so fond of her.
00:06:52And she was so good to me.
00:06:55And poor Squire Howley loved her so much.
00:06:59They all did.
00:07:03They all sent their love to you, Molly.
00:07:06Roger said he knew how you would feel it.
00:07:08Did he?
00:07:28You loved her dearly, didn't you?
00:07:31Yes.
00:07:33Had you known her all of your life?
00:07:36No.
00:07:38Not a year.
00:07:40But I'd seen so much of her.
00:07:43I was almost like a daughter to her.
00:07:46She said so.
00:07:47Molly.
00:07:49Molly, I wish I could love people as you do.
00:07:53Don't you?
00:07:53No.
00:07:55No.
00:07:57A number of people love me.
00:07:59I don't really seem to care very much for anybody.
00:08:02Well, I think I love you better than anyone.
00:08:04And, well, I've only known you for ten days.
00:08:07Not more than your mother.
00:08:08Oh, yes.
00:08:10Yes.
00:08:11It's very shocking, I dare say.
00:08:13But, well, there it is.
00:08:17Do you know, I don't think the loving one's mother comes quite by nature.
00:08:22I loved my father.
00:08:24Well, he died when I was quite a little thing.
00:08:27Nobody believes I remember him.
00:08:29But I do.
00:08:31So, you see, I can't forgive Mama for her neglect of me when I would have clung to her.
00:08:37I know she had to go out and work as a governess, but...
00:08:41Well, if she had wanted me to love her, she shouldn't have sent me away to school at four years
00:08:45old.
00:08:48Didn't Mama say Mrs Hamley had two sons?
00:08:50Yes.
00:08:52Osborne and Roger.
00:08:54They've been so kind to me, Roger especially.
00:08:56He has such a good heart.
00:08:58Perhaps it belongs to you?
00:09:01No.
00:09:02Nothing like that.
00:09:04Well, ten past six.
00:09:06Just waiting for Mr Osborne, sir.
00:09:09Can, Mr Osborne, sir. Bring it in now.
00:09:16Surely it isn't six o'clock.
00:09:17More like quarter past.
00:09:20I fancy your watch must be wrong, sir.
00:09:22My watch is like myself, plain but steady-going, not like a whippersnapper of a French watch.
00:09:27I beg your pardon, sir. I had no idea you were waiting. Otherwise, I could have dressed much quicker.
00:09:32I don't think so.
00:09:33Whenever a young man, it would be a shame to spend so much time fiddled faddling at me looking-glass
00:09:38as if I'd been a girl.
00:09:41Mother always liked us all to dress for dinner. I got into the habit of doing it to please her,
00:09:46and I keep it up now.
00:09:47Don't you cast up your mother's wishes to me, sir!
00:09:51You came so near to breaking her heart.
00:09:56What do you do now?
00:09:58You come and go as you please without a word of explanation as to where you go or how you
00:10:01spend my money.
00:10:03What is it you do?
00:10:05Is it gambling, sir, or do you keep a mistress?
00:10:08Neither, sir.
00:10:11I'm only a cause of irritation to you.
00:10:14And home is no longer home to me, but a place where I am to be controlled and scolded as
00:10:19if I were a child.
00:10:19I am as ready as any man to earn my living, but to prepare for a profession costs money, and
00:10:25I have none.
00:10:26No more have I!
00:10:31What's to be done, then?
00:10:34We used to learn to stop at all and not take expensive journeys.
00:10:37You can't earn money, at least you needn't spend it.
00:10:41But to lay aside all my drainage work, aye, and lay off good men are promised work too, all because
00:10:45of your extravagance.
00:10:49There's two things you've gone and done that have put me beside myself.
00:10:51You've turned out next door to a dunce at college, and worse than that, you've...
00:10:58I won't say what the other thing is.
00:11:00Tell me, sir.
00:11:01No.
00:11:02I know what I know.
00:11:04You can tell your money-lending friends.
00:11:07There's either my money nor my timber if I cut you out of my will.
00:11:12Then there's Roger.
00:11:16Roger.
00:11:17Roger.
00:11:18We never made an adieu about him, but he'll be worth ten of you.
00:11:22He'll make us proud of him.
00:11:26You know why I say...
00:11:30We...
00:11:31and us.
00:11:34Ought to be I.
00:11:38We know...
00:11:39us anymore.
00:11:44Be I forever more in this world.
00:12:03Father!
00:12:18My father's not well.
00:12:23And I have to go away rather urgently.
00:12:26Will you tell him I was called away?
00:12:31Not now.
00:12:33Tomorrow morning will do.
00:12:36Mr. Osborne called away again.
00:12:40Yes, sir. I'll tell him.
00:12:42No, he's gonna be a little ace.
00:12:44I'm sorry, sir.
00:12:46He's gonna be a little ace.
00:12:48By the way I am here.
00:12:49No, he never has to.
00:12:51Do you need a little ace?
00:12:52No, he's just a far away.
00:13:07All the 말...
00:13:10This is only the tea tree that came up with me.
00:13:12Let's not get any whiskey.
00:13:25Bring those over here.
00:13:27That's it.
00:13:28All right.
00:13:28Johnson.
00:13:29Give me the line down, Johnson.
00:13:32All right.
00:13:34All right.
00:13:37All right.
00:13:45Thank you, Will.
00:13:51There he is, squire.
00:13:53Thank you, Sarah.
00:13:58Why, now, do it come, squire.
00:14:01Your father came to see my father when he were dying.
00:14:05Come on, Silas.
00:14:06We'll have no talk of dying.
00:14:08We'll have you out of here, rest assured.
00:14:09I doubt that.
00:14:11I'm a deal nearer to heaven than I were yesterday.
00:14:15But I'm glad you could come.
00:14:17I wanted to tell you, you should look to your uncovers.
00:14:22Them navvies of Lord Comners, they're tearing up your goss and your brush, they are.
00:14:30Hey, just to light their fires.
00:14:37Come to hooligans.
00:14:38I'm not at that.
00:14:44Good morning, sir.
00:14:46You're the manager of these works.
00:14:48I am, that.
00:14:49Many other things besides, sir.
00:14:50My name is Preston.
00:14:51I've succeeded Mr. Sheepshanks in the management of my lord's land.
00:14:55Mr. Hamley of Hamley, I believe.
00:14:56Yes, I am, sir.
00:14:58I suppose you're ignorant of your boundaries, so I tell you.
00:15:03My property begins yonder, just by that rise in the ground.
00:15:06I know that, sir.
00:15:07Why do you call my attention to it now?
00:15:09Because I've been told that your men don't respect these boundaries.
00:15:13They'll be digging up my gorse cupboards for their fires.
00:15:16Possible they may.
00:15:17I dare say they think no harm in it.
00:15:19However, I'll inquire.
00:15:21Be doubt my words, sir.
00:15:22Please see your temper, Mr. Hamley.
00:15:24I said I should inquire.
00:15:25If you've not seen it yourself, I'm sure you would have said so.
00:15:27If it is the case, I'll see to it you're compensated.
00:15:30I suppose the damage might come to as much as half a crown?
00:15:33I don't know who you are, sir, but I've known land agents who were gentlemen and some that weren't.
00:15:37And you belong to the last sore young man.
00:15:38That you do.
00:15:39I have a mind to arsewhip you for your insolence.
00:15:42You have your temper, Mr. Hamley, and reflect.
00:15:43I'm sorry to see a man of your age and such a passion.
00:15:46Mr. Preston!
00:15:47Roger asked him to get his men off my land.
00:15:49He refused, said he doubted my word.
00:15:51Your father has misunderstood me.
00:15:52I never refused to do what was just and right.
00:15:54Come, father.
00:15:55Old Silas was asking for you again.
00:15:56He's very poorly.
00:15:58Mr. Preston, perhaps you should remember the deference you should show to a man of my father's age and position.
00:16:03Good day to you.
00:16:04Come on, father.
00:16:05There's nothing to be gained from arguing with such a man.
00:16:08I'm a child, Roger.
00:16:09Position, indeed.
00:16:10It's the position of a man who starts works without counting the cost.
00:16:13Must have turned off his laborers at the beginning of winter.
00:16:16As good a gentleman as you, sir, are you, father?
00:16:21Look to your work there.
00:16:24I know I turned them off.
00:16:26But what could I do?
00:16:26I had no money to pay the men.
00:16:28No one knows how much it cut me to turn off so near wintertime.
00:16:32Did everything I could for them.
00:16:33I had three barren cows fattened and gave every scrap of meat to the men.
00:16:37We'll find a way of going on with the work.
00:16:39We'll find a way somehow, father.
00:16:41You wish to heaven I'd horse whipped the fellow.
00:16:58Sit still, dear.
00:17:00Agnes will go.
00:17:13Mr. Preston, ma'am.
00:17:19Mrs. Gibson?
00:17:21Miss Gibson?
00:17:23I should have called sooner to pay my respects.
00:17:25But now I've taken over Lord Cumnor's land agency,
00:17:28I shall be moving to Hollingford.
00:17:30Oh, but she'll see you much more often.
00:17:32Oh, please sit down, Mr. Preston.
00:17:48You're both looking very well, if I may say so.
00:17:54Have you been to a public ball yet, Miss Gibson?
00:17:57No.
00:17:58It'll be a great pleasure to you when the time comes.
00:18:01We hope to attend the Easter charity board.
00:18:04Of course.
00:18:06And Miss Kirkpatrick?
00:18:09Will she have returned from France by then?
00:18:11Yes.
00:18:12We hope she'll be here by Easter.
00:18:15Then I shall hope to have the pleasure of dancing with two very pretty partners.
00:18:32Miss Kirkpatrick?
00:18:43Look, Molly.
00:18:45Uh, eight pence a yard and 14 pence.
00:18:48What do you think?
00:18:49I like the green.
00:18:50Right.
00:18:53Have you heard the news?
00:18:55They say that Roger Hamley's passed out first in his examination.
00:18:59All unlikely things.
00:19:00Has he been given a fellowship?
00:19:02Worth a good deal of money, I believe.
00:19:04Truly?
00:19:05Oh, I'm so happy for him and the Squire would be so proud of him.
00:19:08Indeed.
00:19:10Indeed.
00:19:10He's in need of a bit of comfort.
00:19:12He's mismanaged his estate woefully.
00:19:15The whole family's going down fast in my opinion.
00:19:18Last of the old Saxon stock.
00:19:20Land rich and cash poor.
00:19:23Their only hope is if Osborne Hamley marries some tradesman's daughter with a deal of money,
00:19:26otherwise it's all up with them.
00:19:27Hmm?
00:19:28I happen to believe in good old families like the Hamleys.
00:19:32I have heard that Osborne and Roger Hamley are two very fine young men and I don't believe
00:19:36it's all up with the Hamleys in the least.
00:19:38They are fortunate in having Miss Kirkpatrick's good word.
00:19:40I know that Miss Gibson has a very high regard for them.
00:19:43And I value her opinion far above the common gossip of the county.
00:20:02Well, how dare he speak about your friends in that way?
00:20:08Of course, I really know nothing at all about the Hamleys, but I couldn't have him speaking
00:20:13of them so.
00:20:14Well, your poor eyes filling with tears.
00:20:16You were very short with Mr. Preston, darling.
00:20:19There is something disagreeable in his manner.
00:20:22Yes, well, he certainly doesn't improve on acquaintance.
00:20:25Although there was a time, Mama, when I think both you and I found him very agreeable indeed.
00:20:38You're the last to come.
00:20:40The good enough girls and their brother are here, and you will see we've got a gentleman
00:20:44for you after all.
00:20:46Who is it, Miss Phoebe?
00:20:47A senior wrangler from Cambridge.
00:20:50Wasn't it fortunate he came to call?
00:20:52Oh, I won't say we laid violent hands on him because he's too good for that, but really
00:20:57we shouldn't have been near it if he hadn't stayed of his own accord.
00:21:02I was so happy to hear your news.
00:21:04Oh, I hope to have the pleasure of telling you myself.
00:21:09Oh, I beg your pardon.
00:21:11This is Miss Kirkpatrick.
00:21:13How do you do?
00:21:14How do you do?
00:21:16Miss Gibson, what games are we playing?
00:21:18Because we only know whist and old maid.
00:21:21That is to say, if we had to play for money, we hope the stakes won't be very high.
00:21:25May I just put you for a moment?
00:21:27Yes, if you like.
00:21:30We have heard that Cambridge men always play for very high stakes.
00:21:35And they are sometimes ruined.
00:21:36And then the St. Dan, disgrace.
00:21:39We only play for the thoppins at my uncle's.
00:21:41I'm sure we won't be playing for any higher today.
00:21:44Oh.
00:21:45Thank you, Miss Gibson.
00:21:54Good night, Molly.
00:21:55I'm sorry we didn't have a chance to talk more.
00:21:58Look, so am I.
00:22:00I'd so like to hear more about your honours at Cambridge.
00:22:03Oh, that's a long story.
00:22:05Besides, you probably wouldn't find it very interesting.
00:22:09Well, Cynthia looked very much interested.
00:22:12Did you think so?
00:22:24Good night, Miss Kirkpatrick.
00:22:26Good night.
00:22:28Go on.
00:22:34Roger was there, wasn't he?
00:22:36Yes.
00:22:36What did you think of my favorite today?
00:22:39Well, he's not as handsome as some young men.
00:22:42And he did tell me a great deal more than I needed to know
00:22:44about Cambridge and fellowships and such.
00:22:47But there is something one likes about him, yes.
00:22:49And what sort of evening have you had, Molly?
00:22:52Very pleasant, thank you.
00:22:53Do you know, I think we should give a little dinner party
00:22:55and invite both the brothers.
00:22:57One hears so little of Osborne, Hamley.
00:23:00With Molly, it's all Roger this and Roger that.
00:23:02I didn't know I mentioned him so often.
00:23:04And these Hollingford people are rather commonplace.
00:23:07Yes, I think it would be a very pretty attention.
00:23:09Must be rather gloomy for them at Hamley Hall.
00:23:24That Miss Cynthia is a rare young lady.
00:23:27All her pretty coaching ways.
00:23:29You asked me to teach her the Bud Roses come the season.
00:23:33I know, weren't you?
00:23:34She'll learn sharp enough for all she says.
00:23:36She's so stupid.
00:23:38Well, you can finish now.
00:23:39I think you know which plants go where.
00:23:40I wouldn't say as I do.
00:23:41If you could just go over it once more,
00:23:44I'm not as young as I once was.
00:23:45Bring the spades and we'll do it together.
00:23:47Right.
00:23:51Molly!
00:23:54I've only just found out where you were.
00:23:56Mrs. Gibson said you'd gone out.
00:23:58I saw you just now, but I couldn't leave Williams.
00:24:00I've been here above an hour.
00:24:04Well, come.
00:24:05Let's see your garden plan.
00:24:09Oh.
00:24:11That was Mother's favourite.
00:24:14How is the square?
00:24:15Oh, he's pretty low.
00:24:17Was he still angry with your brother?
00:24:19Yes, poor Oswald.
00:24:21He's not the villain he's made out to be.
00:24:23I can tell you that his misfortunes
00:24:25have nothing to do with wickedness or vice.
00:24:27I never thought they had.
00:24:29He's very fond of you.
00:24:32I wish you could come and stay with us again, Molly,
00:24:34but I don't suppose it would be thought proper.
00:24:36Though we think of you quite as a sister.
00:24:38Do you?
00:24:39Hmm.
00:24:44I can't tell you how much I like Miss Kirkpatrick.
00:24:48It must be such a pleasure to you having her as a companion.
00:24:51Well, yes, it is. I'm very fond of her.
00:24:53But how quickly you found out her virtues.
00:24:56I didn't say virtues, did I?
00:25:01Mrs Gibson has asked me to dine here on Friday.
00:25:04And are you coming?
00:25:05Yeah, certainly I am.
00:25:07And she's made me promise to bring Osborne.
00:25:09He's always pleased to see you.
00:25:11You always do us good, Molly.
00:25:15Lord Hollingford was telling me of a paper of yours
00:25:17he had read on comparative osteology, I think it was.
00:25:21Yes, that's right.
00:25:22He said it was quite excellent work.
00:25:24Comparative osteology? What on earth is that?
00:25:26Oh, don't ask him, Mrs Gibson, I beg you.
00:25:28His answer might take several hours.
00:25:30It's just the study of the bone structure of the various species.
00:25:34It shows that we're more nearly related to the great apes
00:25:36than some of us might care to think.
00:25:37Oh, well, you wouldn't need to be a scientist
00:25:39to come to that conclusion, would you?
00:25:40Cynthia, dear.
00:25:41Oh, the present company accepted, of course.
00:25:45Oh, please don't stare so severely at me,
00:25:51even if I am a dunce.
00:25:52I didn't know.
00:25:53I didn't mean to look severely, I'm sure.
00:25:55And Cynthia is not a dunce.
00:25:57I've often observed that some people have a talent for one thing
00:26:00and some for another,
00:26:01and Cynthia inclines more towards poetry.
00:26:03I've heard her recite The Prisoner of Chillon
00:26:06from beginning to end.
00:26:08You're rather a bore to hear her, I think.
00:26:11Oh, Mr Gibson, I have long known that you have no soul for poetry
00:26:16and Molly here is a true daughter of yours.
00:26:19She reads such deep books.
00:26:21She'll be quite a blue-stocking by and by.
00:26:23I'm not a blue-stocking, and it wasn't a deep book.
00:26:26It was the one you lent me with the shape of all the cells
00:26:28of the different bees in it.
00:26:29It was very interesting.
00:26:30Well, never mind, Molly.
00:26:32I stand up for blue-stocking.
00:26:34And I object to the distinction implied in what you say.
00:26:37It wasn't deep.
00:26:39Ergo, it was interesting.
00:26:40Now, a book or a person may be both deep and interesting,
00:26:44don't you think?
00:26:46And if you're going to chop logic and use Latin words,
00:26:48I think it's time for us to leave the room.
00:26:50Oh, well, Mama, we mustn't run away as if we're beaten.
00:26:57I understand what Mr Roger Hamley said just now,
00:26:59even though it may be logic.
00:27:00And, well, I read a little of Molly's book,
00:27:02and whether it was deep or not, I found it very interesting indeed.
00:27:11Well, gentlemen, I must leave you now to make my evening rounds.
00:27:16But if Cynthia is to recite The Prisoner of Chillon,
00:27:19then I should be in time to catch the end of it on my return.
00:27:50Well, I think those young men have spent quite long enough at Mr Gibson's good wife.
00:27:55Molly?
00:28:03But Cynthia's eyes are perfection.
00:28:07I've often tried to find something in nature to compare them to.
00:28:10They're not quite like amber.
00:28:12They're a deeper tint, changing with the light.
00:28:14No, come on.
00:28:15You can't go trying to match her eyes like a draper.
00:28:17Call them lodestars and be dumping.
00:28:20Roger, I hear you are well and truly a smitten man.
00:28:24Smitten?
00:28:24No.
00:28:25What I feel for her is deeper.
00:28:27It's something I've never felt before.
00:28:29Cynthia is perfection.
00:28:31Believe me, Cynthia's kind of perfection never lasts.
00:28:34Well, as you already have your own pretty French wife,
00:28:38your opinion is neither here nor there.
00:28:52Miss Gibson.
00:28:53Miss Gibson.
00:28:54Oh, there you are.
00:28:56Come and help me choose some music.
00:29:01This one.
00:29:02What do you think?
00:29:04What you just overheard, I beg you to forget it if you can.
00:29:08At least never to speak of it.
00:29:09Not to anyone.
00:29:11Will you promise?
00:29:12Of course.
00:29:13I should have done so even without a promise.
00:29:15I thought it sounded delightful.
00:29:17Ah, there it is.
00:29:18I was sure you'd have it.
00:29:19Yes.
00:29:20My mother used to play with you.
00:29:22When you were her 80 years, she gave it up.
00:29:25When she wasn't as strong.
00:29:27She loved it.
00:29:28She loved it.
00:29:29She loved it.
00:29:32Molly's told me so much about the squire.
00:29:35And your mother.
00:29:37She's so fond of you all.
00:29:41It's a pity you won't be able to go to the ball.
00:29:43Molly and I are looking forward to it very much.
00:29:47You're great friends then, you and Molly.
00:29:51I'm so glad.
00:29:52Yes, we are.
00:29:54I never thought I should like anyone so much.
00:29:59Any girl, I mean.
00:30:08Cynthia.
00:30:09Come and sing that little French ballad to Mr. Osborne Hamley.
00:30:12Which one do you mean?
00:30:13Oh, you know, darling.
00:30:14Do I?
00:30:16Yes, I will.
00:30:19If you wish.
00:30:19Such a pretty, playful warning to young men.
00:30:23If you take a wife too young, you'll repent of it.
00:30:25Well, of course, it is a French song that refers to a French wife.
00:30:29Quite a different matter if it was an Englishman thinking of an English wife.
00:30:43A warning's a little late, isn't it?
00:30:45I'm so sorry.
00:30:47Don't upset yourself.
00:30:49It was my fault, not yours.
00:30:51He won't feel it long.
00:30:53And a man must take the consequences when he puts himself in a false position.
00:31:08You have an excellent accent, Miss Kirkpatrick.
00:31:10Have you spent much time in France?
00:31:12I was at school in Boulogne for about a hundred years.
00:31:14And you?
00:31:15Oh, various places.
00:31:18Paris, Marseille, Avignon, and Metz.
00:31:22Really?
00:31:23Where were you happiest?
00:31:25In Metz.
00:31:26And are we allowed to know why?
00:31:29They're talking about France.
00:31:31Sounds very interesting.
00:31:33Shall we go nearer and hear what they're saying?
00:31:37Oh, and now, Molly, you must play a little.
00:31:40Where's that little piece of cold Brennan's, my dear?
00:31:43Must I?
00:31:44Oh, don't be silly, dear.
00:31:46You may not play it quite rightly.
00:31:48But you're amongst friends now.
00:31:50Is she not?
00:31:52She gets so nervous playing in company.
00:31:55Come, Molly, let me turn the pages for you.
00:31:57I beg you, we'll go away and talk.
00:31:59I can do it for myself.
00:32:00Please.
00:32:00No, I insist.
00:32:02I've heard you play before.
00:32:04And your mama is right.
00:32:06You're amongst friends now.
00:32:11Oh, here's your film.
00:33:38I can't think what you're doing indoors, the pair of you.
00:33:44Oh, I ran into Lord Hollingford as I was beating the bounds.
00:33:48He was gracious enough to spare me a few words.
00:33:51As if the Amblies hadn't been in a county four centuries before his lot were ever heard of.
00:33:56Lord Hollingford's a good man, Father.
00:33:58And he's got a first-class scientific brain.
00:34:00Man's a wig.
00:34:01They're all wigs.
00:34:02Given their head, they'll reform us all to kingdom come.
00:34:05Oh, and do you know who he had with him as his house guest?
00:34:09Some damned Frenchman.
00:34:12Tried to introduce me.
00:34:13I wouldn't speak to the man.
00:34:14Father.
00:34:15Well, in my day, we were content to hate the French.
00:34:18I beat them at sea and on the land.
00:34:22I'd sooner have me and cut off than have a Frenchman in this house or anywhere near it.
00:34:27Oh, I remember one time.
00:34:30Madam had a liking for a French maid.
00:34:34I gave her a wish and everything, but there I drew the line.
00:34:37French maid?
00:34:40I'd sooner keep snakes in the house.
00:34:50Well, you see, it's hopeless.
00:34:54How can I tell him I'm married to a French woman who was a nursery maid?
00:35:00I certainly wouldn't like to be there when you do.
00:35:05I think you should.
00:35:10Look, I've been collecting my poems.
00:35:13And I want to know, do you think Dayton would publish them?
00:35:17Because you're a name in Cambridge now.
00:35:19He'd look at them if you offered them.
00:35:20Well, I can but try.
00:35:23Well, you wouldn't get much by them.
00:35:24Because I must find a means of supporting her myself.
00:35:27So I've already borrowed so much for the cottage and the furniture.
00:35:32And if I could get a hundred, that would keep Amy and myself
00:35:38while I studied at the bar, say.
00:35:41Or if the worst came to the worst, a hundred would take us to Australia.
00:35:45Australia?
00:35:48I think that would break father's heart.
00:35:51Well, it might have done once, but it wouldn't now.
00:35:59Look here.
00:36:02This fellowship will give me a bit more cash than I need to live on.
00:36:06You're welcome to half of it.
00:36:09Just while you're waiting for your poems to burst forth upon an astonished world of culture.
00:36:14What a good fellow you are.
00:36:17I'm not sure I deserve such a brother.
00:36:22But I'm extremely glad I have one.
00:36:26That's nonsense.
00:36:32Well, I think perhaps I should go and smoke a pipe with father.
00:36:47What an handsome boy Osborne was then.
00:36:52Well, he's an handsome fellow now, but the sunshine's got out of his face.
00:36:57He's a good deal troubled about the anxiety he's given you.
00:36:59No, not him. He's none troubled.
00:37:08No trouble for an eldest son to borrow money against his expectations.
00:37:13And how old is your father, they say?
00:37:16And has he had a stroke or a fit?
00:37:18No, let's not talk about him, Roger.
00:37:20It's no good. He and I are out of tune.
00:37:27Let me fill you another pipe, father.
00:37:37You're wrong about Osborne.
00:37:40He cares about you a great deal.
00:37:42Does he?
00:37:44Why is it Rory to get away from me?
00:37:49Because he can't bear to upset you, father.
00:37:52And because he's trying to make a career for himself.
00:37:55And, well, country life doesn't suit him as well as it suits you or me.
00:37:59And neither of it suits his mother, but she never complained.
00:38:05I used to miss her so much when she took her London trips.
00:38:10Yeah?
00:38:11I'd write to her, you know, give her all the home news.
00:38:16But no letter would reach her now.
00:38:19Nothing reaches her.
00:38:22No, you only just come home, lad.
00:38:25You don't know where I am nowadays.
00:38:27That's Thomas or Robinson.
00:38:30I used to be reckoned a good master.
00:38:34Osborne was once a little boy.
00:38:37She was once alive.
00:38:41And I was once a good master.
00:38:44All that's past now.
00:38:55I'd like to be pretty.
00:38:58You are.
00:38:59I don't think so.
00:39:01Oh, well, there you have it.
00:39:03You see, the French girls would tell you to believe that you were pretty would make you so.
00:39:07PHONE RINGS
00:39:12They've sent us something.
00:39:14Well, here's the Hamley carriage.
00:39:22Look!
00:39:24Bouquets.
00:39:25Aren't they beautiful?
00:39:27For us.
00:39:28Oh, who else?
00:39:30I'm sure it's Osborne who thought of them.
00:39:32He's lived in France, of course.
00:39:34It's the custom there to send bouquets.
00:39:35I don't see why you should think it was Osborne.
00:39:38Roger used to gather nosegays for his mother almost every day and sometimes he did for me.
00:39:41I know what I'm going to do. I'm going to make you a little coinette.
00:39:44Oh, Cynthia, don't pull them out. You spoil it.
00:39:47Well, it doesn't matter. I can take the spoiled one.
00:39:49I can make it up again afterwards.
00:39:52Anyway.
00:39:53The red flowers won't go with the pink dress.
00:39:56Well, any colour will go with your white muslin.
00:39:58You can just wait and see.
00:40:03What do you say to that?
00:40:06Here, miss.
00:40:07No, it's not for you, miss.
00:40:08It's for Miss Kirkpatrick and there's a note for her besides.
00:40:11Oh, thank you, Mary.
00:40:18Read that, if you will.
00:40:22I send you some flowers and you must allow me to claim the first dance after 9 o'clock,
00:40:27before which time I fear I cannot arrive.
00:40:30R.P.
00:40:33But who is it?
00:40:35It's Mr. Preston.
00:40:37And I shan't dance with him.
00:40:39There goes flowers.
00:40:41Oh, Cynthia, we might have put them in water. They were so lovely.
00:40:43No, it's best to destroy them.
00:40:44I can't bear to be reminded of that man.
00:40:48There.
00:40:49Now, let's not talk any more about him.
00:40:51But I shan't dance with him.
00:40:53And nor must you.
00:40:58Well...
00:41:00Are we ready?
00:41:02Oh, good evening!
00:41:04Good evening, a very pleasant evening.
00:41:06Oh, my sister is following, close behind.
00:41:09Good evening!
00:41:10Oh, good evening, Mr. Sheepshacks.
00:41:12Good evening.
00:41:12Oh, good evening, Mr. Sheepshacks.
00:41:14Good evening.
00:41:14Well, here we are.
00:41:17I like to keep up the custom.
00:41:19Miss Hornblower!
00:41:22A sedan chair, to my mind, is much better, for it'll come straight into a person's parlour,
00:41:27lift you up and carry you cosy and tight into another warm room,
00:41:30without having to show your legs by going up the stairs or down the stairs.
00:41:34Good evening, Miss Hornblower.
00:41:36Good evening, Miss Hornblower.
00:41:36How do you like the arrangements?
00:41:38Oh, my word!
00:41:40I really do think this is a better room in our Ashcombe Gorthouse.
00:41:44Oh!
00:41:45Oh, how prettily it's decorated!
00:41:48But you all have such taste at Oliver's.
00:41:51Oh, look, there's young Mr. Roscoe, our new doctor.
00:41:54Mr. Roscoe!
00:41:55Mr. Roscoe!
00:41:58We think very highly of our young doctor, I can assure you, Miss Browning.
00:42:02Very happy to make your acquaintance.
00:42:04Yes, well, if ever we're in Ashcombe, we're not feeling quite the thing.
00:42:07But Mr. Gibson is our doctor.
00:42:10Not that he finds time to go dancing.
00:42:12Miss Hornblower, do you know that lovely girl in pink?
00:42:16Why is that Cynthia Kirkpatrick?
00:42:18How she's grown since she left Ashcombe.
00:42:22She was pretty then.
00:42:24They did say Mr. Preston admired her very much, but she was so young then.
00:42:29Could you introduce me?
00:42:31Would you like to ask her to dance?
00:42:32Of course I will.
00:42:34Her mother's a very old friend.
00:42:36Come, we'll lose no time.
00:42:45I should say young Mr. Roscoe loses no time in seeking out a pretty face.
00:42:50Well, he may be all very well.
00:42:51But I shouldn't like him to be my doctor.
00:42:54Should you, Philip?
00:42:55No.
00:42:56That sounds strange.
00:42:58Such a very young man to be a doctor.
00:43:01I suppose Mr. Gibson was a very young doctor once upon a time.
00:43:05She's very finished a line.
00:43:14To be sure, how very condescending we are.
00:43:17I remember the time when the new Mrs. Gibson wore old black silks and was thankful and civil as became
00:43:24her place as a schoolmistress.
00:43:25And would have been grateful to join us for all she's dressed in the pearl grey satin now.
00:43:30And she'd have been glad enough to marry Preston the land agent in those days.
00:43:33That I know for a fact.
00:43:34I thought you said he admired the daughter.
00:43:37Well, perhaps I did.
00:43:39And perhaps it was so.
00:43:41Some folks say he admired the mother and she admired him.
00:43:45But then he met the daughter.
00:43:48Folk thought the daughter too young for him and the mother too old.
00:43:52Really?
00:43:54But one may be mistaken, you know.
00:43:57And I only said people talked about it.
00:44:00See, there's been enough talk about young Preston to fill a book and wasn't enough for it to be heard
00:44:05in company.
00:44:06So that's Miss Kirkpatrick, is it?
00:44:10What a pretty girl she is.
00:44:12So is Miss Gibson.
00:44:14Indeed she is.
00:44:15I never meant she wasn't.
00:44:18I'm sure neither of them were one for partners.
00:44:39You're right, he did.
00:44:40Yes.
00:44:40Yes, Matt.
00:44:42Oh, my God.
00:44:51Oh!
00:44:54Thank you!
00:44:56Thank you!
00:45:33Mr. Preston, you're not dancing.
00:45:35No. The partner I had engaged has made some mistake.
00:45:39I'm waiting to have an explanation.
00:45:51Molly, did you know you've just been dancing with a man who keeps Grinstead's bookshop?
00:45:56Oh, well, that accounts for him knowing all about the latest books.
00:45:59And he dances beautifully.
00:46:01Yes, well, just so long as you remember, you'll have to shake hands over the counter tomorrow with some of
00:46:05your partners or tonight.
00:46:07But really, I don't know how to refuse when I'm longing to dance.
00:46:10If Miss Gibson finds any difficulty in refusing a partner, she has only applied to Miss Kirkpatrick for instruction.
00:46:17You forget, Mr. Preston.
00:46:19Miss Gibson implied that she wished to dance with the person who asked her.
00:46:22I think that makes all the difference.
00:46:25Miss Kirkpatrick.
00:46:26Oh, Mr. Roscoe.
00:46:42Miss Kirkpatrick has not done me the honour of wearing the bouquet I sent her.
00:46:45She received it, I suppose, on my note.
00:46:48Yes, but you see, we had already accepted these.
00:46:50Yes, yes, yes, yes, we're so sorry, but two such lovely nosegays had already arrived from family war.
00:46:57Since Miss Kirkpatrick was so well provided for, I would have felt honoured had you accepted mine.
00:47:03I remember how fond you were of Gardeini's.
00:47:08Excuse me.
00:47:33Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes,
00:47:54yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes,
00:47:55yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes,
00:47:55yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes,
00:47:55yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes,
00:47:55yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes
00:48:04Well, Mrs Gibson, nearly midnight, and no sign of the Cungna party.
00:48:11It's long past my bedtime.
00:48:14I only came to see the Duchess they've got staying in her diamonds.
00:48:18I hope they haven't changed their mind.
00:48:20Oh, I'm sure they haven't, good enough.
00:48:26Get away!
00:48:30Good evening, good evening, over here, I think.
00:48:35Is that the Duchess that palsy thing?
00:48:40Well, where are diamonds?
00:48:44Here have I been sitting up and coal and candlelight wasting at home,
00:48:48and in comes a Duchess wearing a...
00:48:51Shhh!
00:48:52But Farmer Hudson's daughter's got to dress smarter than that.
00:48:56Oh, do carry on, everybody, please.
00:48:58Do carry on.
00:49:07Well, here we are at last.
00:49:09Aren't we shamefully late?
00:49:11How are you, Claire?
00:49:12It was the Duchess.
00:49:13That ill-mannered woman kept us all waiting,
00:49:16and then appeared L'Enfant.
00:49:18As you see, our mamma is so angry with her.
00:49:20I think we've lost all our popularity,
00:49:23and that means we've lost votes.
00:49:25What do you think, Molly?
00:49:26I think people were sorry he didn't come sooner,
00:49:28and isn't that rather a proof of popularity?
00:49:30That's a very neat and diplomatic answer.
00:49:34Good evening, ma'am.
00:49:35I hope you're well.
00:49:36Well enough.
00:49:37But what a letdown.
00:49:39Such a shabby thing for a Duchess I never saw.
00:49:42Not a bit of a diamond nearer.
00:49:44This is Lady Harriet from the Towers, Mrs. Goodenough.
00:49:49Oh, dearie, dear, your ladyship,
00:49:50I hope I've given no offence.
00:49:52But I've only stayed out of my bed to see the Duchess.
00:49:55I thought at least she'd have come in a diamonds and a coronet.
00:49:58You're quite right, Mrs. Goodenough.
00:50:00We must try to do better.
00:50:05Here is my brother.
00:50:07Excuse me one moment.
00:50:10Molly, I cannot have you speaking so to Lady Harriet,
00:50:13and do stop putting yourself into our conversation.
00:50:16I can't help it if she asks any questions.
00:50:18Yes, but there is no need to set yourself up with an opinion at your age.
00:50:22I don't know how to help it.
00:50:24Now, Edward, we must make amends and dance with some of the townspeople.
00:50:27No, I shan't take no for an answer.
00:50:29Claire, will you allow me to introduce my brother to Miss Gibson?
00:50:33He hopes to engage her for this dance.
00:50:35Lord Hollingford, Miss Gibson.
00:50:47Oh, my dear.
00:50:48Did you see that?
00:50:50Lord Hollingford himself asked Molly to dance.
00:50:54Oh, how well they look together.
00:50:58I never knew his lordship was a dancing man.
00:51:00Well, you see, we're the right partner.
00:51:03And he's still a young man.
00:51:06Quite a young man.
00:51:08And a widow or two.
00:51:11Oh, no.
00:51:12Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
00:51:14Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
00:51:29Is Cynthia going to dance with Mr. Preston?
00:51:35You're a charming girl, that daughter of yours is good, so quick and intelligent.
00:51:39She could talk about sensible things.
00:51:41Retina mark, she says.
00:51:43She's a good girl. I'm very fond of her.
00:51:45Very pretty, too.
00:51:48Oh, I really must make Cynthia pursue a course of serious reading.
00:51:53She's quite as intelligent as Molly, but she's no steadfastness of purpose.
00:52:00Oh, and look at her now.
00:52:03And she said she'd have nothing to do with Mr. Preston.
00:52:05Oh, no.
00:52:33Oh, no.
00:52:50Oh, no.
00:53:01Oh, Mr. Osborne, you should have been there.
00:53:04Well, we thought of you all very often during the evening, didn't we, Roger?
00:53:08Yes.
00:53:09Yes.
00:53:11Cynthia, darling, do you hear what Mr. Osborne is saying?
00:53:13He says that he thought of us all evening.
00:53:17Oh, we must thank you for the flowers.
00:53:19They were very beautiful.
00:53:21I fancy that that was your idea, Mr. Osborne.
00:53:24Well, I believe it was my idea, but it was Roger that took all the trouble of it.
00:53:28Did he?
00:53:29Well, I consider the thought is everything.
00:53:32Thought is spiritual, while action is merely material.
00:53:36I'm afraid our flowers were too late.
00:53:38I met Preston this morning and was sorry to hear that his had arrived first.
00:53:41Well, he had no right to say that.
00:53:43His came just as we were leaving, and I threw him straight into the fire.
00:53:50Cynthia, darling.
00:53:52What an idea you'll give of yourself to Mr. Osborne.
00:53:56But to be sure, I think you inherit my prejudice against bought flowers.
00:54:02Yes.
00:54:19Come in.
00:54:26I was wondering if you were quite well.
00:54:29You didn't seem yourself earlier.
00:54:31Yes.
00:54:33I've been thinking.
00:54:35Molly, I've been long enough here.
00:54:38I'd better go out and be a governess.
00:54:39Cynthia, what do you mean?
00:54:42You're overtired.
00:54:51Molly, no one ever loved me like you.
00:54:54And your father, I think.
00:55:00It's so hard to be driven out.
00:55:03Still, I suppose there's no escaping one's doom.
00:55:08What do you mean by your doom?
00:55:13No, that would be telling, little one.
00:55:16I may be a coward at the heart, but I can show fight.
00:55:22Dirty hands you have, Molly.
00:55:24I shan't stay another minute.
00:55:29It gives me no pleasure to ride home now, Roger.
00:55:33I know, Father.
00:55:43Roger.
00:55:44Lord Hollingford was here for you, but he couldn't wait.
00:55:47He wants you to go and stay at the towers.
00:55:50Well, the commoners have taken some notice of the Amleys at last,
00:55:52have they?
00:55:54There'll be a trap set for you, Osborne.
00:55:55Nothing to do with me, sir.
00:55:57It's Roger, Lord Hollingford, wants to see.
00:55:58I don't understand that.
00:55:59What do you want Roger for?
00:56:01You know, I've never dined at the towers, not once.
00:56:04Well, he did used to invite you, sir, but you chose not to go.
00:56:06And what do you mean by that?
00:56:07What a curry favour of Whigs.
00:56:09They're quick enough to invite the Amleys when there's an election coming up.
00:56:12I tell you, sir, it's not me.
00:56:13It's Roger.
00:56:14Roger is making a name for himself,
00:56:16and Hollingford wants him to meet a very distinguished French anatomist
00:56:19who admires a paper Roger wrote.
00:56:21Not a rich Frenchman.
00:56:22I don't want you meeting foreigners in a Whig house, Roger, nor you, Osborne.
00:56:26Very well, sir. I'll refuse his invitation.
00:56:28I should think so.
00:56:38Ten to one, he'll be in another mind tomorrow.
00:56:41No.
00:56:43I won't run the risk of vexing them.
00:56:48I'd give a lot to talk to Saint-Hilaire.
00:56:51He's a leading man in Europe, and there's so much.
00:56:56Oh, well.
00:56:57There'll be another time, I dare say.
00:57:08I had a letter from M.A. this morning.
00:57:12She's going to have a child, Roger.
00:57:17You must tell father now.
00:57:20Now, Roger, when you go up to the towers, you must take a groom with you.
00:57:24I've been making Jem try on his livery coat, but he's got too stout.
00:57:27But you must look up, you know, and hold your own.
00:57:30You're at Hamley, you are.
00:57:32That lost us muck.
00:57:33We've only been in the county since Queen Anne's time.
00:57:39Thank you so much for coming, Mr. Hamley.
00:57:41It's been a most enlightening weekend.
00:57:44Oh, thank you, sir.
00:57:48It's been a pleasure to meet you, Mr. Hamley.
00:57:51Next time in Paris, I hope.
00:57:53I'll write you soon.
00:57:58I feel a bit suspicious to your father, Mr. Hamley.
00:58:00I hope you do the honour of dining with me here before too long.
00:58:02Perhaps to celebrate your appointment as soon as it's confirmed
00:58:04and to wish you good fortune in your travels.
00:58:09I'm most grateful to you, sir.
00:58:11Not at all.
00:58:12Talent brings its own rewards.
00:58:38Talent brings its own rewards.
00:58:57It's a great honour.
00:58:59That is, if I could persuade myself I've been chosen for my scientific abilities alone.
00:59:03What other reason might there be?
00:59:04My constitution.
00:59:06I'm as strong as an ox.
00:59:07Of course, country stocks.
00:59:08But Africa, will you be away for long?
00:59:11Two years.
00:59:13That's the only thing I shall regret about it.
00:59:15Being away from my father and brother, and you, of course.
00:59:19And your sister.
00:59:21How is she?
00:59:23Still not quite herself.
00:59:25I brought her these.
00:59:27So I see.
00:59:28I wish there was something more I could do.
00:59:30I wish there was more I could do myself.
00:59:32She's always glad to see you.
00:59:34I know that.
00:59:39Oh, so tiresome.
00:59:43Really, Mr. Hamley, we must learn to shut our doors on you if you are to come so often and
00:59:47at such early hours.
00:59:48Oh, yes.
00:59:50Perhaps it was thoughtless of me.
00:59:51But I was passing close by and I had a piece of news.
00:59:54Yes.
00:59:55Well, you see, it's my wish to keep Cynthia and Molly to a course of improving reading.
01:00:00And with such early visitors, it is quite impossible to observe any regularity of habits.
01:00:06You're quite right.
01:00:07I beg your pardon.
01:00:08I shall take up no more of your time.
01:00:09Oh, no, don't go.
01:00:12Are those for me?
01:00:14Yes.
01:00:18I love me.
01:00:21My darling, now that our own road is arousal, we needn't trouble Mr. Hamley.
01:00:25What is your news?
01:00:27Lord Hollingford has invited me to lead a scientific expedition to Africa.
01:00:34But Molly will tell you.
01:00:35I feel I shouldn't stay here any longer now.
01:00:37Well, come again soon.
01:00:40Yes.
01:00:41Perhaps we may see you again before you set sail, Mr. Hamley.
01:00:45And pray tell your brother that we're longing to have a visit from him again soon.
01:00:49Yes.
01:00:49He's away just at present, but I will see he knows.
01:00:53Goodbye, Molly.
01:00:55Mrs. Gibson.
01:00:57Cynthia.
01:01:01I can't think why he comes at such untimely hours.
01:01:04But it's no wonder he feels he can call.
01:01:07Osborne is welcome at any time.
01:01:09Yes, well, it's quite different with Osborne.
01:01:11We're so much more intimate with him, he may call at any time he pleases.
01:01:15In short, Mama, one man may steal a horse.
01:01:18The other mustn't look over the hedge.
01:01:19Oh, do be quiet, child.
01:01:21All proverbs are vulgar, and I do believe that that's a vulgarist of them all.
01:01:26I really think that you're catching Roger Hamley's coarseness, Cynthia.
01:01:31Well, Mama, I don't mind your abusing me, but Mr. Roger Hamley has been very kind to me when I've
01:01:37not been well, and I won't hear him disparaged.
01:01:40If he is coarsed, then I hope I may be coarsed as well, for, well, it seems to me that
01:01:44it must mean kindness and pleasantness and, well, the bringing of pretty flowers and presents.
01:02:03There, there you go.
01:02:29There, there you go.
01:02:35Goodbye, my love.
01:02:37I'll come again soon.
01:02:40I will find the right moment to tell my father.
01:02:42Yes, of course.
01:02:44But are you happy?
01:02:46Yes, yes.
01:02:48More than words could say.
01:02:54My love.
01:03:01You must go.
01:03:11Here he is, sir.
01:03:12Ah, Gibson, capital.
01:03:14Come in, just a man I wanted to see.
01:03:16Come in.
01:03:17You've heard about Roger?
01:03:19It is definite, then.
01:03:20Aye, definite, definite.
01:03:22Chosen from all the young men in Europe to lead this expedition.
01:03:26Ah, you must, you must read this letter here.
01:03:30Hmm?
01:03:31Yeah.
01:03:32Ah, they used to say Roger was slow, but slow and sure wins the race.
01:03:37You must have a glass of this.
01:03:39Hmm.
01:03:39It's old ale, as old as Osborne.
01:03:44We brewed it the autumn he were born, and we called it young Squire's ale.
01:03:49I planned to have tapped it on his marriage, but I don't know when that's likely to come
01:03:54to pass.
01:03:55So I tapped it now in Roger's honour.
01:03:58And it is an honour to have such a son.
01:04:02This is high praise from Lord Hollingford, and the remuneration offer is excellent.
01:04:07Oh, yes, my luck's churning at last.
01:04:09And you know what Roger's done?
01:04:10He's raised money on it so I can put the drainage works back into commission.
01:04:14And he's insured his life to cover it.
01:04:17I've sent for the foreman, and tomorrow, please God, they'll be at work again.
01:04:23Aye.
01:04:24Roger's twice a son to me than Osborne ever was.
01:04:27Come.
01:04:28Let's not disparage Osborne.
01:04:30We may praise one without hitting at the other.
01:04:33Well, I wish I could praise Osborne, but all the lad ever does is go on journeys or loaf
01:04:38into Hollingford to visit your girls.
01:04:41Hope he's not after one of them.
01:04:43No offence, but he is the eldest boy, you know.
01:04:46I don't believe there's anything of that kind going on.
01:04:48And not much at home, but if there were anything, I think I'd have got wind of it.
01:04:51No, I don't know.
01:04:53Gibson, don't be offended.
01:04:54I'm not offended, but there is understand each other properly.
01:04:57If you don't want your sons to come to my house, you must tell them yourself.
01:05:00I like the lads, and I'm always glad to see them.
01:05:03But if they do come, you must take the consequences.
01:05:06But as I say, I don't think there's any cause for concern at present.
01:05:12And if there were, I'd let you know.
01:05:23Why, Osborne, is that you?
01:05:25I thought it was an old man of 50.
01:05:28What ails your man?
01:05:30You're not well, are you?
01:05:32I don't know what it is.
01:05:35A walk like this should be nothing to me.
01:05:37This is estrangement from your father that's telling on your health.
01:05:40Talk to him.
01:05:41You may be angry at first, but you come round.
01:05:44I wish I had your confidence.
01:05:47But I dare say, life at home has affected my health.
01:05:53I've had these episodes before.
01:05:55I think little of them.
01:05:57They pass soon enough.
01:05:58Whatever it is, we'll bring it about.
01:06:01And if you can manage to ride over and have lunch with us tomorrow,
01:06:04Dr. Nichols will be with us.
01:06:06And you shall have the benefit of two doctors instead of one.
01:06:10Who's that?
01:06:11Delicate health?
01:06:12Of course, you'll be in delicate health if you eat nothings as Gibson.
01:06:15Try some of this brawn, ma'am.
01:06:17It's capital.
01:06:18No, no, I couldn't possibly.
01:06:20Take a pickled onion or two, eh?
01:06:22What a first-class luncheon this is, eh?
01:06:25It's a very pretty table decoration.
01:06:27Yours, I imagine, Miss Kirkpatrick.
01:06:30Correct.
01:06:31Molly is the useful one.
01:06:32I confine myself to the ornamental.
01:06:34Well, I, alas, am neither use nor ornament.
01:06:37Oh, that's not true.
01:06:38What about your poems?
01:06:40Oh, well, I wish I could find a publisher
01:06:42that shared your high opinion of them, Miss Gibson.
01:06:45But I'm touched by your loyalty, truly.
01:06:47I wonder, do you have a good strong cheese
01:06:51that we could finish up with?
01:06:53Oh.
01:06:54I'll see what cook can find, Dr. Nichols.
01:06:57Then we'll see what's to be done with this young man.
01:07:01Hmm?
01:07:01Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
01:07:09Hmm.
01:07:10Where's Cynthia going?
01:07:12Oh, for a walk, I suppose.
01:07:14Yeah, I think it's quite strange that she should have taken to country walks
01:07:17all of a sudden.
01:07:18Never cared about them before.
01:07:21Oh, Mr. Hamley.
01:07:23Oh, you look quite done up.
01:07:25So would many a man, I think,
01:07:27if they'd had two good doctors
01:07:29pushing and pulling them about.
01:07:31But you're quite well, I trust.
01:07:32Well, I'm not sure they came to any conclusion.
01:07:34At all events, they sent me off
01:07:36so they could discuss me at great length.
01:07:38Or perhaps they're talking about something else entirely.
01:07:40I've, um, just remembered.
01:07:43I hope you don't think me rude, Mr. Hamley,
01:07:46but I have to pop into town on an errand.
01:07:48Not at all, ma'am, no.
01:08:08May I come up?
01:08:10Of course.
01:08:29I was hoping to be able to speak to you alone.
01:08:37Do you remember that conversation you overheard?
01:08:40I've never spoken of it to anyone.
01:08:43Truly.
01:08:44I'm sure you haven't.
01:08:46Roger's going away for some time.
01:08:49And
01:08:51I'd like somebody else to know about my wife.
01:08:55About Amy.
01:08:58Amy?
01:09:01Can you not tell the squire?
01:09:06From his point of view,
01:09:07I've made the worst of all possible choices.
01:09:11I'm supposed to marry a girl
01:09:12from a good old English family
01:09:14with plenty of money.
01:09:16Amy is French,
01:09:18she's Roman Catholic,
01:09:19and she's penniless.
01:09:24When I met her,
01:09:25she was a nursemaid
01:09:26in an English family.
01:09:29I helped to find a toy rabbit
01:09:31one of the children
01:09:32had lost in the park.
01:09:35And when her employer
01:09:36discovered that we were in love,
01:09:37she sent Amy back to France.
01:09:39She couldn't understand
01:09:40how it was between us.
01:09:42I couldn't bear to be parted from her,
01:09:45so I followed her to France,
01:09:46to Metz,
01:09:49where we were married.
01:09:53If you could meet her,
01:09:55you'd understand.
01:09:57You'd love her, I know.
01:09:59She's the dearest,
01:10:01gentlest creature.
01:10:06The best thing in my life.
01:10:13Will you keep my secret
01:10:15while it has to be kept secret?
01:10:19Yes, of course.
01:10:24If he has got aneurysm,
01:10:26the water,
01:10:27his days are numbered.
01:10:29To Mr. Roger Hamley,
01:10:30most urgent.
01:10:32My dear sir,
01:10:33how is it that you have not been
01:10:35to see us lately?
01:10:36I know that you're about to leave
01:10:37for Africa,
01:10:38and I would not forgive myself
01:10:39if you left without calling,
01:10:41for it would be punishing others
01:10:43as well as my naughty self.
01:10:45Come tomorrow,
01:10:46as early as you like.
01:10:54Good day, Miss Gibson.
01:10:56Good day, Mr. Preston.
01:11:00Good day, Mr. Dick.
01:11:01Good day.
01:11:14Good day.
01:11:18Good day.
01:11:20Come here.
01:11:21Good day.
01:11:28i've been watching for you dear don't go in the drawing room love roger hamley is in there with
01:11:33cynthia and i have every reason to think oh isn't it charming young love so sweet do you mean that
01:11:38roger has proposed well no no not exactly that but i did hear him say that he'd meant to leave
01:11:43england without speaking of his love but the temptation of being alone with her had been too
01:11:47great and all i wanted was to let it come to a crisis without interruption so you see my dear
01:11:54that's why i've been watching out for you so that you wouldn't go in and disturb them but i may
01:11:58go to
01:11:58my own room yes yes of course but well i had expected more sympathy from you such an interesting moment
01:12:30molly roger hamley is here and he wants to say goodbye before he goes
01:12:44cynthia you've made me happy beyond description oh my dear boy what a delightful outcome it's what
01:12:51i've always dreamed of oh molly i think you have long guessed my secret well now it's out i've told
01:13:01cynthia how fondly i love her and she my dear sweet girl values your love i am sure and i
01:13:11do believe
01:13:11that i could tell tales as to the cause of her low spirits in the spring whether you know no
01:13:16such
01:13:17thing pray don't invent stories about me i have engaged myself to roger hamley and that is enough
01:13:22enough more than enough i am bound you are free two years is a long time oh that's so generous
01:13:32of you
01:13:32but i must insist that it be kept secret until roger returns molly mama i must especially beg it of
01:13:38you
01:13:39why so especially for me you know i'm the most trustworthy person alive
01:13:47i must go i had no idea it was so late the coach will be at the george and it
01:13:52only waits five minutes
01:13:55dearest cynthia
01:14:05only remember you are free
01:14:08well if i'd consider myself free do you think i would have permitted that
01:14:14oh my you won't forget me i know and i shall never forget you
01:14:19nor your goodness to my mother goodbye
01:14:26goodbye
01:14:26goodbye
01:14:26bye
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