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00:00:30My dearest Cynthia, as I watch the coast of England slip away, I realise how much of my heart I
00:00:38have left behind in your dear care.
00:00:41Your loving acceptance makes me the most fortunate of men.
00:00:45I will carry the memory of that kiss with me to lighten the depths of Africa.
00:00:57What a thing to do. Write a letter before he was fairly embarked.
00:01:01Of course, he has nothing to say except the usual sort of silliness.
00:01:04Cynthia, you do love Roger, don't you?
00:01:06Well, don't you think I've given him proof of it?
00:01:10Oh, what if you do look at me like that?
00:01:12No, I don't think I have the gift for loving as some people do.
00:01:15Well, I've never felt carried off my feet by love for anyone, not even you.
00:01:19And you know that I love you more than anyone.
00:01:21No, don't, don't. I won't hear you. I should never have asked you.
00:01:24Honey, what on earth is the matter with you?
00:01:25One might think you cared for him yourself.
00:01:28Well, I do care for him. I love him as a sister.
00:01:32I think he is a prince amongst men.
00:01:39Really?
00:01:40Well, even you must acknowledge that he's plain and he's awkward.
00:01:44You know I like pretty things and pretty people.
00:01:47Cynthia, I won't talk to you about him.
00:01:49He shan't be run down by you, even in jest.
00:01:52Oh, well, we shan't talk about him then.
00:02:02Perhaps we shan't ever be married after all.
00:02:05Two years is a long time.
00:02:07He might change his mind, or I might.
00:02:10Or someone else might come along and say I'm engaged to him.
00:02:12What should you say to that?
00:02:27Leave it, Agnes.
00:02:31Come, my dear.
00:02:32Cynthia, be comfortable for once.
00:02:35Take your tea sitting down.
00:02:37Oh, my dear one.
00:02:42Now, I have a great piece of news to tell you.
00:02:46Oh, I thought there was something on hand.
00:02:49No for it.
00:02:50Well, Roger Hamley called to see us on the day he left,
00:02:55proposed to Cynthia and was accepted.
00:03:00Roger Hamley proposed to Cynthia.
00:03:02Why should he not?
00:03:04Well, only that not two weeks ago I gave my assurances to the squire
00:03:07that there was nothing of that sort between his sons and either of the girls.
00:03:12Well, what's done is done.
00:03:13It'll have to be a very long engagement, Daddy.
00:03:15Yes, I think perhaps it will.
00:03:18But then again, perhaps it won't.
00:03:20But a little bird did tell me that Osborne Hamley's life is not so very secure.
00:03:25But then what will Roger be?
00:03:28Heir to the estate.
00:03:31Oh, why, Robert, whatever's the matter?
00:03:36Who told you that about Osborne?
00:03:39Who told you, I say?
00:03:40Why?
00:03:42Can you deny it?
00:03:43Is it not the truth?
00:03:44I'll ask you again.
00:03:44Who told you that Osborne Hamley's life was in any more danger than yours or mine?
00:03:48Oh, don't speak in that frightening way.
00:03:51I mean, my life's not in danger, I'm sure.
00:03:55Oh, Robert.
00:04:01Oh.
00:04:02Little bits of glass can be so dangerous.
00:04:04Never mind the glass.
00:04:05Who told you anything about Osborne's state of health?
00:04:09If you will know, it was you.
00:04:11You, you, yourself, you or Dr Nichols.
00:04:14I never spoke to you on the subject, and I don't believe Nichols did either.
00:04:16You'd better tell me at once what you were alluding to.
00:04:21I wish I'd ever got married again.
00:04:23I never thought you could be so cruel.
00:04:27And you shouldn't speak your medical secrets so loud if you don't want anyone to hear them.
00:04:32I only went into the store and for a jar of preserves, it was certainly for no pleasure of mine.
00:04:37And you overheard our conversation, I suppose.
00:04:40Just a sentence or two.
00:04:41And what were they?
00:04:44Well, Dr Nichols said if he's got aneurysm of the aorta, then his days are numbered.
00:04:49And then you replied, I hope to God I'm mistaken, but it seems he has very clear indications of symptoms.
00:04:55I see.
00:04:55And may I ask how it is that you can remember so exactly the name of the disease?
00:05:00Well, because I...
00:05:02Now, don't get angry, please.
00:05:04I see no harm in what I did.
00:05:05I went into your surgery and I looked it up.
00:05:07I mean, well, why should I not?
00:05:11Well, I suppose as one bruise, one must bake.
00:05:19I don't know what you mean.
00:05:22So this is why you've changed your conduct towards Roger.
00:05:25Yeah.
00:05:27I noticed you've been more civil to him of late.
00:05:30Well, if you mean that I like him more than Osborne, you're very much mistaken.
00:05:34It's just that as Roger was the younger son, I thought it best to discourage him.
00:05:39But now that you consider him to be the proximate heir to the Hamley estate, you've made it more welcome
00:05:43here.
00:05:45Well, I don't know what you mean by proximate.
00:05:47Well, go into the surgery and look it up, then.
00:05:51You overheard a professional conversation.
00:05:54Now, don't you know that professional conversations are confidential?
00:05:59That it would be the worst thing I could do to betray secrets that I learn in the exercise of
00:06:04my profession and trade on them.
00:06:06Yes, yes, of course you.
00:06:08And a husband and wife not one in these respects.
00:06:10I just thought that you would be glad to see Cynthia well-married and of your hands.
00:06:17I don't know what to say to you.
00:06:18You either can't or won't see what I mean.
00:06:22But had you bothered to consult me, I could have told you that Dr. Nicholl's opinion was decidedly opposed to
00:06:28mine.
00:06:28He thinks that Osborne is as likely as any other man to live, to marry and to beget children.
00:06:40Yes, well, let us review this misfortune, since I see that you now consider it as such.
00:06:47Well, not exactly a misfortune, but had I known Dr. Nicholl's opinion...
00:06:54Well, comfort yourself, my dear.
00:06:57Roger Hamley is as fine a young man as ever breathed, with money or without.
00:07:04I only wish my Molly could meet with such another.
00:07:08I will try for Molly. I will indeed.
00:07:11No, no, no, no, no, no, no. That is one thing that I forbid. I will have no trying for
00:07:15Molly.
00:07:22Don't be angry, dear.
00:07:25For a minute there, I thought you were going to lose your temper.
00:07:29It would have been of no use.
00:07:41Breakfast is ready, sir.
00:07:43No breakfast, thank you, Maria.
00:07:45And I won't be back for dinner.
00:07:56How are we getting on the thing you made, Mrs. Reynolds?
00:07:58Oh, well, thank you.
00:08:31Thank you, Mrs. Gibson. Looking very well indeed, if I may say so. I was just urging upon Miss Kirkpatrick
00:08:36the merits of a long walk in the country's life.
00:08:37Come, Molly. We shall be late.
00:08:57Cynthia, I understand I am to congratulate you on your engagement to Roger Hamley.
00:09:03You've won the heart of a very fine young man, and I hope you'll both be very happy.
00:09:12We had all pledged ourselves to keep it secret, Mama included, but I'm glad that you should know it.
00:09:19You've always been a very kind friend to me.
00:09:22It truly is hardly an engagement, though.
00:09:24He wouldn't allow me to bind myself by any promise till his return.
00:09:27I hope you're worthy of him, Cynthia.
00:09:29I've never known a truer or a warmer heart than Roger's, and I've known him since he was a little
00:09:34boy.
00:09:35You're not very complimentary, are you, Mr. Gibson?
00:09:39Still, he finds me worthy, I suppose.
00:09:43If you think so highly of him, you ought to respect his judgment of me.
00:09:54Why does your father have to speak to me like that?
00:10:00Cynthia, I'm afraid I must speak to the squire about this.
00:10:04But I gave him my word that I would, if anything of the kind, arose.
00:10:08It was the one thing I stipulated for secrecy.
00:10:10But why keep it secret from the family?
00:10:13Surely in any case, Roger will tell his father.
00:10:15No. No, he won't, because I made him promise.
00:10:19I think he's one to respect a promise.
00:10:20Well, let's give him a chance then, shall we?
00:10:23I won't go over to the hall till the end of the week.
00:10:25He may have written and told his father by then.
00:10:28So a man's promise is to override a woman's wish then, is it?
00:10:30I don't see why it shouldn't.
00:10:33Mr Gibson, will you please trust me when I tell you
00:10:35this will cause me a great deal of distress if it gets known?
00:10:39Telling the boy's father is not making it public.
00:10:41I don't like this exaggerated desire for secrecy, Cynthia.
00:10:45Seems to me as if something more than as apparent is concealed behind it.
00:10:50Come on, Molly.
00:10:52Let's play that new duet I taught you.
00:11:06Go!
00:11:19Go!
00:11:21Go!
00:11:22Go!
00:11:41It seems that Patrick has entered into an understanding of Roger.
00:11:46Cynthia Cat Patrick, you say?
00:11:48I was hoping Roger would have told you in a letter.
00:11:51It shows you have no sons.
00:11:53Half of these sons are mysteries to their fathers.
00:11:55Look at Osborne.
00:11:56I've got no more idea what goes on in his head than the man in the moon.
00:12:00I thought Roger would be different.
00:12:01He's a good lad.
00:12:03It's thanks to him I'm able to put these drainage works back into commission, you see.
00:12:08Miss Kirkpatrick.
00:12:10Not the match I've been hoping for.
00:12:12I suppose she's no money.
00:12:14About £20 a year at my pleasure.
00:12:17Oh, well.
00:12:18It's good it's not Osborne.
00:12:19But what family is she of?
00:12:22She's not a trade, her beings are poor.
00:12:24I understand her father was the grandson of a baronet.
00:12:29That's something, that's something.
00:12:31But what sort of girl is she, Gibson?
00:12:35I don't know what you mean.
00:12:36Yes, you do.
00:12:37You're offended with me.
00:12:37Or you'd have answered me straight.
00:12:39You know what I mean.
00:12:40Is she like Molly?
00:12:41Sweet-tempered and sensible and ready to do anything one asked her?
00:12:44Well, she's very pretty.
00:12:47She's prettier than Molly, I have to admit.
00:12:50She has very winning ways.
00:12:51I'm not sure that she feels things quite so keenly as Molly does.
00:12:56But all in all, I think she's one in a hundred.
00:12:59Oh, well, Molly's one in a thousand.
00:13:01But she's of no family, you see.
00:13:04No money either.
00:13:05Otherwise, she'd make the perfect wife to either of my two lads.
00:13:09Well, as there's no question of Molly in this business,
00:13:12then there's no need to bring her name into it, is there?
00:13:14I must get off.
00:13:14Good day to you, sir.
00:13:15Hang on.
00:13:16You silly little old friends don't take offence.
00:13:18You're a fool to take offence.
00:13:20Look, bring her round to the hall.
00:13:22We'll have lunch.
00:13:23And bring her mother and Molly.
00:13:24And let me see the girl in this house.
00:13:27Here you go.
00:13:28Madam, your wife and I didn't hit it off the only time I ever saw her.
00:13:32I'm not saying she was very silly, but one of us was really silly,
00:13:35and it wasn't me.
00:13:37Thursday suits you.
00:13:38Yes, you wish.
00:13:57Got it?
00:13:58You've got it.
00:13:59Hold it properly, sir.
00:14:00I'm not too tired.
00:14:01It's all in the wrists, you know?
00:14:04The move.
00:14:05A sort of arch, and then I'll get a little flick.
00:14:07Quick, like you see.
00:14:09That's right.
00:14:10You look close, man.
00:14:12We'll make a fisherman together.
00:14:15Fine, you're too.
00:14:20Archie, sir.
00:14:22Archie, sir.
00:14:23Archie, sir.
00:14:24Archie, sir.
00:14:24Archie, sir.
00:14:24And forever we are.
00:14:26Archie, sir.
00:14:27Archie, sir.
00:14:29Archie, sir.
00:14:29Archie, sir.
00:14:30Archie, sir.
00:14:38Archie, sir.
00:14:40Archie, sir.
00:14:41Archie, sir.
00:14:45Archie, sir.
00:14:46Archie, sir.
00:14:48Archie, sir.
00:14:49Archie, sir.
00:14:53Archie, sir.
00:14:54Archie, sir.
00:14:56Archie, sir.
00:15:00Archie, sir.
00:15:00Archie, sir.
00:15:00I don't know.
00:15:36So, how did it go off?
00:15:38It got on very well, I think.
00:15:41How could anyone not like Cynthia?
00:15:43Well, she puts herself out to please.
00:15:46Do you think that she's...
00:15:47Do you think that she's right for him, Molly?
00:15:51Right for Roger?
00:15:52She's a very charming young girl,
00:15:54but somehow I don't quite understand her.
00:15:57Why should she want all this secrecy?
00:16:01I don't know.
00:16:03I don't think I understand her either, but I do love her.
00:16:07Well, who is Osborne? Was he there?
00:16:09No, I think he had to go and see...
00:16:14Do something else.
00:16:16Molly, this business with Cynthia and Roger took me by surprise.
00:16:20If there's anything else of the sort in the offing,
00:16:23I think you'd better tell me at once.
00:16:26If you mean you're afraid that Osborne thinks of me as Roger does of Cynthia,
00:16:30you're quite mistaken.
00:16:32Osborne and I are friends.
00:16:33We could never be anything more.
00:16:36Well, that's all I can tell you.
00:16:39That's quite enough, little one.
00:16:41It's a great relief.
00:16:42Oh, Papa.
00:16:43Oh, there, there, there.
00:16:46There's nothing the matter, is there?
00:16:49No.
00:16:50Only I wish I could have you all to myself more often.
00:16:55Yes, well.
00:16:58Run on home now.
00:17:00I'm very glad to hear that you won't be carried off by any young man just yet a while.
00:17:39Good pair of English legs here.
00:17:47My dearest Cynthia,
00:17:49it's just as well I was as strong as an ox when I set off.
00:17:51This country is extraordinary and a constant challenge.
00:17:56Every day, new hazards and new adventures.
00:18:00I'm learning the language,
00:18:02and more importantly,
00:18:03how to survive in this wonderful land.
00:18:10Miss Kirkpatrick!
00:18:12A letter from Africa!
00:18:33He sends you his best regards
00:18:35and his compliments to you, Mama.
00:18:39Where is he, Cynthia?
00:18:40What does he say?
00:18:41Where?
00:18:42I didn't look exactly.
00:18:44Somewhere in Abyssinia.
00:18:45Um,
00:18:47Huron?
00:18:48Does that make you any of the wiser?
00:18:50Well, Harron.
00:18:51Harron, perhaps.
00:18:52Yes, I think you're right.
00:18:53Oh, Molly, you are clever.
00:18:55How did you guess?
00:18:55Fancy knowing anything about Abyssinia?
00:18:57I looked in the world atlas.
00:18:58I wanted to make some sort of picture for myself of where he was.
00:19:02Is he well, Cynthia?
00:19:04Well enough.
00:19:05He says he has a touch of fever, but...
00:19:06Fever?
00:19:07Yes, but he thinks he'll be quite acclimatised soon.
00:19:09But who will take care of him?
00:19:11I don't think he gets much caring for.
00:19:13I think it's pretty much sink or swim in Abyssinia.
00:19:17No, no doctors or nurses there.
00:19:20Still, he has plenty of quinine with him.
00:19:23But anyway, he thinks he's not the man now, so that's all right.
00:19:26But what if he isn't?
00:19:28Oh, no, we mustn't think that.
00:19:30Oh, Cynthia, how you must have been worrying about him.
00:19:33Well, as a matter of fact, I haven't been worrying about him.
00:19:36You see, I made my mind up before he went not to worry.
00:19:40I mean, if anything did, well, you know, go wrong,
00:19:44it'll all be over before I even heard a word say that, Cynthia.
00:19:47Oh, moderate your tone, dear.
00:19:48What Cynthia's saying is only common sense after all,
00:19:51and what is the point of worrying about something one can't help and may never happen?
00:19:54And he does say he's feeling better now, Molly.
00:19:59What else does he say?
00:20:01I mean, things that I may hear.
00:20:03Lovers' letters are so silly, and I think this is sillier than usual.
00:20:08Um, ah.
00:20:11Here's a piece you may read.
00:20:13Couldn't get on with this myself.
00:20:14It's all about Aristotle and Pliny and some beetle he's found that proves something or another.
00:20:21Yes, do take it with you if you like.
00:20:23I must get this hat made up before I go out.
00:20:36Oh, God, let him live.
00:20:38Let him live.
00:20:40Even if I never set eyes on him again.
00:20:43Grant him he come home safe.
00:20:46And be happy.
00:20:51I'm happy.
00:21:23A former pupil of mine, a Mr. Cox, wants to pay us a visit, Hyacinth.
00:21:29Oh.
00:21:30He's relinquished the profession. I'm relieved, yeah. And it's come into a great deal of money.
00:21:37Oh.
00:21:40It's such a pleasure to meet my husband's former pupils, Mr. Cox. He's spoken to me so often about you.
00:21:47Indeed, ma'am. Well, I was very happy here.
00:21:53Um, is Miss Gibson still at home? I should very much like to...
00:21:58Yes, yes. You'll be coming directly, along with my own daughter, Cynthia.
00:22:02Mr. Cox.
00:22:05Is it you?
00:22:06Yes.
00:22:07You remembered me. I was so afraid that you wouldn't.
00:22:10Well, you're so much grown. You're so much from...
00:22:13Um, well, I suppose I mustn't say what I was...
00:22:21This is Miss Kirkpatrick, my stepsister.
00:22:25Mr. Cox.
00:22:26Um, how'd you do?
00:22:29How'd you do, Mr. Cox?
00:22:36Mr. Gibson, I dare say you'll be surprised, sir, at what I want to say.
00:22:41But I think it's the part of an honourable man, as you said yourself, sir, a year or two ago,
00:22:46to speak to the father first.
00:22:49And as you, sir, stand in the place of a father to Miss Kirkpatrick, I should like to express my
00:22:55feelings, my, er, hopes.
00:22:58Miss Kirkpatrick?
00:23:00I do assure you, sir, that I came here with a heart as faithful to your daughter as ever beat
00:23:05in a man's breast.
00:23:06But it soon became clear to me that her manner towards me, though friendly, was in no way...
00:23:12Well, it was... wasn't...
00:23:15While Miss Kirkpatrick...
00:23:18Um, while Miss Kirkpatrick?
00:23:22Er, I was only going to say, sir, that I think that I may venture to hope that Miss Kirkpatrick
00:23:27welcomes my attentions.
00:23:29I don't believe that Miss Kirkpatrick could ever have meant to encourage you.
00:23:32Oh, I think, sir, if you could have seen her.
00:23:36At any rate, you won't mind me taking my chance and speaking to her.
00:23:41No, but if you take my advice, you'll spare yourself the pain of her refusal.
00:23:45I think I ought to tell you that her affections are otherwise engaged.
00:23:49Oh, I cannot believe that, no.
00:23:51There must be some mistake.
00:23:53I don't see how she could have misunderstood my meaning.
00:23:57Perhaps her affections may have been engaged before,
00:24:00but isn't it possible that she might come to prefer another?
00:24:05Well, by another, you mean yourself, I suppose.
00:24:09I can believe in such inconstancy,
00:24:12but I'd be very sorry to think that Miss Kirkpatrick could be guilty.
00:24:16But you will allow me to ask for her answer?
00:24:18Certainly, my poor fellow.
00:24:20If you must.
00:24:22Oh, thank you, sir.
00:24:23Thank you. God bless you for a kind friend.
00:24:43I must tell you I'm engaged to Paris.
00:24:56Someone else.
00:25:08Molly, you must never trifle with the love of an honest man.
00:25:13If you don't know what pain you may get.
00:25:19Molly, you'll never guess.
00:25:22Oh, Mr. Cox asked me to give you both his kind regards.
00:25:28I believe he's leaving Hollingford this afternoon.
00:25:30I trust this will never occur again, Cynthia.
00:25:34What am I to think of a young woman in your position?
00:25:38Engaged and yet accepting the overtures of another man.
00:25:41Do you realise what unnecessary pain you have given that young man
00:25:45by your thoughtless behaviour?
00:25:46I call it thoughtless.
00:25:48I could call it something worse.
00:25:50Well, please, Mr. Gibson, hear my side of the story
00:25:52before you speak so severely to me.
00:25:55I didn't mean to flirt.
00:25:57I only meant to be agreeable.
00:25:58I can't help doing that, can I?
00:26:01That goose for Mr. Cox.
00:26:02Imagine that I was encouraging him.
00:26:04What do you mean that you weren't aware
00:26:05that he was falling in love with you?
00:26:10I suppose, to speak truly,
00:26:12I did think once or twice he might be,
00:26:13but I do hate throwing cold water on people.
00:26:16I never imagined he could take it into his silly head
00:26:18to imagine himself seriously in love
00:26:20and to make such a fuss.
00:26:22You seem to have been pretty well aware of his silliness.
00:26:24You should have considered what it might lead to
00:26:26and what it has led to.
00:26:27Well, perhaps.
00:26:29I dare say I'm all wrong and he's all right.
00:26:31Well, really, it seems to me...
00:26:35In any case, I'm not finally engaged.
00:26:38Roger wouldn't allow it.
00:26:39I would have done it, but it wouldn't let me.
00:26:41I don't want to hear anyone about this.
00:26:42I've said all that I mean to say.
00:26:44I'm willing to believe that you were only thoughtless.
00:26:47But don't let it happen again.
00:26:56Well...
00:26:57Not proven, but we recommend the prisoner not to do it again.
00:27:01It's pretty much that, isn't it, Molly?
00:27:15Cynthia?
00:27:17Cynthia?
00:27:25I do believe your father might make a good woman of me yet.
00:27:28If he'd only take the pains, it was not quite so severe.
00:27:32I was afraid poor Mr. Fox was becoming very fond of you.
00:27:35I wish I had said something now.
00:27:37Oh, it wouldn't have made any difference if you had.
00:27:39I knew he'd like me.
00:27:42Well, I like to be liked.
00:27:43He just shouldn't have carried it too far.
00:27:46I shall hate red-haired people for the rest of my life.
00:27:50Oh, I knew he came here to propose to you.
00:27:53Well, you were disagreeable, so I took pity on him.
00:27:59Shall you tell Roger about it?
00:28:00Oh, no.
00:28:03Well, I don't know.
00:28:04Perhaps if we're ever married.
00:28:06Do you know...
00:28:08I have a feeling I shan't ever get married to him.
00:28:10I don't know why.
00:28:12Still, best not to tell him all my secrets.
00:28:14Imagine if he knew them and then it never came off.
00:28:15I think it would break his heart.
00:28:18Only there's no need to be so dreadfully serious about everything.
00:28:22It's not my nature to go into ecstasies.
00:28:25I don't think I shall ever be in love.
00:28:29But I'm glad he loves me.
00:28:31And I like his face ten thousand times more than Mr. Preston's handsomeness.
00:28:36Mr. Preston?
00:28:37What should you think of me if I married him after all?
00:28:40Married Mr. Preston?
00:28:45Well, has he ever asked you?
00:28:47More unlikely things have happened.
00:28:54Have you never heard of...
00:28:55of strong wills,
00:28:58mesmerising weaker ones
00:28:59until they...
00:29:00until they can't even think for themselves?
00:29:10Cynthia.
00:29:14Well...
00:29:15He's not a man to be easily thrown off, I can tell you.
00:29:19Oh, I wish...
00:29:20I wish Roger were rich
00:29:22and could marry me at once
00:29:23and carry me away from that man.
00:29:25Cynthia, what is this all about?
00:29:26I don't.
00:29:28Oh.
00:29:31Money matters are at the root of it.
00:29:35Corrin, poverty.
00:29:38Oh, dear, let's talk about something else.
00:29:41You all make me feel so...
00:29:46I've never lived with good people before.
00:29:48I don't quite know how to behave.
00:29:49I don't believe that's really true,
00:29:50nor does Roger, I'm sure.
00:29:53Of course he thinks I'm good.
00:29:54But he's in love with me.
00:29:55Yes.
00:29:56He's in love with you.
00:29:58And he...
00:29:59he depends upon you,
00:30:01so you should...
00:30:02you should try to deserve him.
00:30:17I don't know.
00:30:46It is sundown, Cynthia.
00:30:49They are singing outside my tent.
00:30:52The men say it's about a chap
00:30:53who pines for a girl
00:30:55in a distant land.
00:30:57They're teasing me, of course.
00:30:58They often do.
00:31:02Thank Molly for her letter.
00:31:04Tell her I had a sighting today
00:31:06of a glorious lizard
00:31:07and have found more
00:31:09of the great black bugs
00:31:10that I told her about.
00:31:12A species of Reduvius.
00:31:14She'll know which I mean.
00:31:20The Abyssinian wilds
00:31:22would not suit you,
00:31:23dear Cynthia.
00:31:24But your love
00:31:26sustains me
00:31:26in this savage land.
00:31:30Act원
00:31:30of the Greatak
00:31:32of the Wild
00:31:32and the G니
00:31:32in this savage land.
00:31:44And the witness
00:31:45of the dead
00:31:45of the Wood
00:31:45of the World
00:31:45of the Wild
00:31:45and the wild
00:31:57of of the Wild
00:32:07I think they might have remembered that I'm a generation closer to them than she is but no
00:32:12one thinks about family affection nowadays do they if you want us to sympathize as you will
00:32:22have to tell us what the matter is well I dare say it was meant as a kind attention I
00:32:26just think
00:32:27that he should have asked me first before Cynthia and who is he and what is meant for a kind
00:32:32attention
00:32:33mr. Kirkpatrick to be sure my brother-in-law Cynthia's uncle he wants Cynthia to go and stay
00:32:39with them in London but he hasn't even mentioned you and me and I think he should have asked us
00:32:44first that's all as I couldn't possibly go it makes very little difference to me no no but I could
00:32:50have
00:32:50gone at any rate could have paid me the compliment I have a great mind not to let her go
00:32:56well I can't
00:32:57go in any case mama I've nothing to wear my my gowns are also shabby and I remember my aunt
00:33:02was
00:33:02very particular about dress please write at once and refuse it lossless child nothing to wear why
00:33:09what's happened to all your money you've 20 pounds a year thanks to mr. Gibson and me well however it's
00:33:13come about I have no money to spend now so that's that you couldn't spend more than 10 pounds so
00:33:17where's it gone mama it may sound very cross but I must tell you once and for all that as
00:33:21I didn't
00:33:21ask for and don't want any more than my allowance I shan't answer any questions as to what I do
00:33:25with
00:33:25it well I don't understand that at all do you model no no she's not at all extravagant she may
00:33:37have
00:33:37given it away to someone who wants it it is very clear that she has neither the dress nor the
00:33:43money
00:33:43for this London trip and she doesn't want any further inquiries into the subject she likes mysteries in
00:33:49fact I detest them but as I think it is desirable for her to keep up a friendship with her
00:33:54father's
00:33:55family I would gladly give her 10 pounds oh what a generous man you are mr. Gibson to my poor
00:34:02fatherless daughter and I think maybe I should accompany her and stay for a day or two you know
00:34:10a lady cumbers in town are not at all in good health and yes it would ease my spirits if
00:34:15I were
00:34:15to see her and offer her what comfort I can well that's if if you think that you could bear
00:34:20to fend
00:34:20for yourselves just for a day or two oh no we shouldn't mind at all should we papa looking after
00:34:26ourselves no no no no no we shall bear it as best we can my dear
00:34:49oh I don't think it's a very wicked and flight of me to want to go to London do I
00:34:53mean on account of
00:34:53Roger and everything. no of course you should go.
00:34:58I do think Mr Gibson lives. I hope you're not those growing crazy the pair of you.
00:35:05what's all this about I pray? I'm just glad we're going to London.
00:35:10I think you might try and express your happiness in a more ladylike manner
00:35:14darling. Osborne Hamley is down in the consulting room with Mr Gibson and I
00:35:18don't know what he'd think if he heard you.
00:35:21how ill that poor young man looks. your father thinks it may not be very
00:35:26grievous after all but I don't think he has long to live.
00:35:31oh but what will happen if he dies? well he'd be sad of course and I'm sure we'd
00:35:37all feel it very much I've no doubt but we mustn't forget the living Molly and if
00:35:43the worst were to happen then our own dear Roger would do everything in his
00:35:47power to step into Osborne's place and Cynthia's marriage need not be so long
00:35:52delayed.
00:35:54Mama how can you speak of Osborne's death and my marriage in the same breath?
00:35:58well it's a very natural thought dear.
00:36:00a young man strikes us all as looking very ill and I'm sure I'm sorry for it but
00:36:04illness often leads to death and I'm sure you'd agree with me so what's the harm in
00:36:09saying so. and then Molly asks the question what happens if he dies and I
00:36:13try to answer her. I mean I don't want to talk about death any more than anyone
00:36:17else but one has to look forward to the consequences. indeed I think we're
00:36:22commanded to do so somewhere. aren't we? in the Bible or in the prayer book? do you look
00:36:29forward to the consequences of my death mother? oh Cynthia you really are the
00:36:34most unfeeling girl I've ever met with. oh I was hoping to speak to him. what about
00:36:42Gussie? nothing in particular is he really very ill? it's one of those cases where it's
00:36:53not possible to be certain but I am anxious about him yes. but I haven't told him that and nor
00:37:00should
00:37:00you. but if he is really in danger he'd want to arrange his affairs wouldn't he? I consider that
00:37:07but the fear and anxiety could itself precipitate a crisis. surely he has the
00:37:12right to know. no no best to leave him in ignorance and to hope for a complete
00:37:16recovery. now I say this in absolute confidence Molly because I trust you
00:37:22completely you at any rate understand how to keep your counsel. don't make
00:37:27yourself over anxious about Osborne. he may be well yet.
00:38:13look here Osborne. do you know anything about this engagement of Rogers? a pretty girl. very pretty.
00:38:22not one I'd have chosen. miss Kirkpatrick. aye that's the one. I wonder he never told me.
00:38:29well he never told me either. Gibson come over there and made a clean breast of it. like a man
00:38:35of honour.
00:38:36well I let it go on. it was only Roger. and you if it had been you I'd have broken
00:38:40with
00:38:41Gibson and every mother's son of him. so I told Gibson. father I beg your pardon but I claim the
00:38:45right
00:38:45of choosing my wife for myself with no one's interference. do you now? then you'll keep your
00:38:50wife with no one's interference for you won't get a penny from me unless you marry to please me a
00:38:55little as well as yourself a great deal. that's all I ask. and she can be pretty or not and
00:39:02I don't mind if
00:39:03she's a bit older than you. but she must be well born. and the more money she brings to the
00:39:09old place the
00:39:09better. I say again father. I must choose my wife myself and I won't be dictated to even by you
00:39:16sir.
00:39:17well if I'm not to be father thou shan't be son. go against me in this and you'll find there's
00:39:22a devil to pay. I mean it Osborne.
00:39:24you're the only marriageable one left in the market and I want to hoist the old family up again.
00:39:33don't go against me Osborne. it really will break my house if you do. father don't say that.
00:39:41I will do anything I can to oblige you. anything. except. except the one thing I've set my heart on
00:39:49you doing.
00:40:12Oh God.
00:40:16Oh God.
00:40:16Oh God.
00:40:19Oh God.
00:40:21What am I going to do?
00:40:27Oh God.
00:40:29Oh God.
00:40:36Oh God.
00:40:48You girls be good.
00:40:51Don't move.
00:40:52Don't move away.
00:40:54Don't move away.
00:41:00Don't forget the back of the floor.
00:41:04Now, Papai, I shall have it to myself for a whole week.
00:41:06You'll have to be very obedient.
00:41:08Shall I, indeed?
00:41:10Well, now, here's a rare sight.
00:41:14Mr Gibson and his daughter walking together in the middle of the day.
00:41:17All right, ladies, yes. We've just been seeing my wife and her daughter off to London.
00:41:20Mrs Gibson has gone up for a week.
00:41:22Only a week?
00:41:23Hey, dearie, dear. I can remember when it was a three-day journey to London.
00:41:27She'd scared some time to go and come back.
00:41:30Will it be very lonely for you, Molly, without your young companion?
00:41:33Yes, I shall miss her very much.
00:41:34But Papai and I...
00:41:36You, Mr Gibson, it'll be like being a widower again.
00:41:39You must come and drink tea with us some evening. And Molly, too.
00:41:42Oh, yes, and you must come to our house as well.
00:41:45We must try and cheer you up a bit amongst us.
00:41:47Shall it be Tuesday?
00:41:49Well, that's very kind.
00:41:50I have one or two pressing cases, but I'll see what I can do.
00:41:55But I think I can promise for Molly.
00:41:57Good day to you, ladies.
00:41:58Oh, thank you.
00:42:01Ah, could you waste one of our evenings?
00:42:03We have but six evenings altogether, and I reckon you're us doing all sorts of things.
00:42:06Just the two of us.
00:42:07What sort of things?
00:42:08Oh, I don't know.
00:42:09Everything that's unrefined and un-genteal.
00:42:12Well, by toil and labour, I've reached a fair height of refinement, and I won't be pulled down again.
00:42:15Oh, yes, just for a week, you will.
00:42:18We'll have bread and cheese for dinner and eat it on our knees,
00:42:21and we'll put our knives into our mouths until we cut ourselves,
00:42:24and you shall pour your tea into a sauce and a sauce.
00:42:27Oh, yes.
00:42:53Two letters in a week.
00:42:55Well, that's very proper.
00:42:58When it'd lump and tape me postage any more, we'd be extravagant.
00:43:02And what does Cynthia say? Is she enjoying herself?
00:43:05Oh, yes, very much, I think.
00:43:07I've been to a dinner party, and one night when Mama was at Lady Cumberland,
00:43:11Cynthia went to the play with her cousins.
00:43:12Upon my word. And all in one week.
00:43:16I do call that dissipation.
00:43:19Because Thursday will be taken up with the travelling,
00:43:21and Friday will be resting.
00:43:23And Sunday is Sunday all over the world.
00:43:27Well, I hope she won't find Ollingford dull when she comes back.
00:43:30I don't think that's likely, Sally.
00:43:32Not now Mr Preston's moving to town.
00:43:35I've seen a great deal of Mr Preston, haven't you, Molly?
00:43:39Mr Preston?
00:43:40No, what should make you think so?
00:43:42Oh, a little bird told us.
00:43:44What do you mean? Who told you?
00:43:46Oh, little birds don't have names, I think you'll find.
00:43:49But this little bird was flying about one day in Heath Lane.
00:43:53And it saw Mr Preston with a young lady.
00:43:56We won't say who.
00:43:57Walking together in a very friendly manner.
00:44:00Well, that is to say, he was on horseback.
00:44:02Because just there, the path is raised above the ridge.
00:44:05No, no, perhaps Molly is in the secret.
00:44:07And we ought not to ask her about it.
00:44:10It can be no great secret, sister.
00:44:11Miss Hornblower says that Mr Preston owns to being engaged.
00:44:16Well, if he is engaged, it's not to Cynthia.
00:44:17That I know for certain.
00:44:20And I do wish you'd put a stop to any such reports.
00:44:23You don't know what mischief they may do.
00:44:25I do so hate that kind of chatter.
00:44:27Toity, toity.
00:44:29Kindly remember, I'm old enough to be your mother, Miss Molly.
00:44:33Chatter.
00:44:34To be sure.
00:44:38I beg your pardon, Miss Browning.
00:44:41Oh, but don't you see how bad it is to talk of such things in that way?
00:44:45Supposing...
00:44:45Supposing one of them cared for somebody else.
00:44:48And that might happen, you know.
00:44:50Mr Preston, for example, he may be engaged to somebody else.
00:44:54Well, if he is, I pity the young lady. Indeed I do.
00:44:58He's a great flirt.
00:45:01And young ladies better not have too much to do with him.
00:45:04Miss Browning, I beg you would not talk about it any more.
00:45:07I have my reasons for asking.
00:45:23Phoebe!
00:45:27It was Molly herself that was with Mr Preston in Heath Lane.
00:45:31Goodness gracious, how do you know?
00:45:32By putting two and two together.
00:45:34Didn't you notice how pale she went?
00:45:36And how she said she knew for a fact that Mr Preston and Miss Kirkpatrick were not engaged.
00:45:41Oh, perhaps not engaged.
00:45:43But Mrs Goodenough saw them loitering together.
00:45:45Mrs Goodenough saw us in none of the best.
00:45:47No, I'll answer for it.
00:45:48But she saw Molly and Tuca for Cynthia.
00:45:51Well, perhaps it wouldn't be so very bad a match, Sally.
00:45:55About as bad a match as it could be.
00:45:57He plays billiards, you know.
00:45:59And he bets at the races.
00:46:00And Miss Hornblower told me that he was engaged to a very pretty Miss Gregson before.
00:46:04And her father made inquiries.
00:46:06And what he heard made him make her break off the match.
00:46:09And she's dead since.
00:46:11Oh, sorry.
00:46:13Now, we might do for Cynthia.
00:46:14She's been brought up in France, so she might not be too particular.
00:46:18But he mustn't have Molly.
00:46:20We must keep on the lookout, Phoebe.
00:46:22I'll be her guardian angel in spite of herself.
00:46:42I wonder how you are, dear Cynthia.
00:46:45I often picture you walking in the garden.
00:46:48I've had a bit of a fall, but I believe I shall soon be on the mend again.
00:46:53How is Molly?
00:46:55Has she been to the hall to see my father?
00:46:58He's so, so fond of her.
00:47:02I long to hear from you.
00:47:04The rains must have made the post from England slower than usual, I suppose.
00:47:10Write soon and tell me how you are and what you're thinking and doing.
00:47:14Good evening.
00:47:35What is going to happen?
00:48:09Oh, most delightful visit.
00:48:11I should have been so sorry to come away, but I knew how you'd be missing me.
00:48:15Yes, indeed.
00:48:16Oh, they live in great style.
00:48:18The Lord Chancellor himself could hardly do better.
00:48:21And Mr. Kirkpatrick's career has been most successful.
00:48:24A Queen's Council, you know, and Head of Chambers.
00:48:27And they couldn't do enough for Cynthia.
00:48:30Two new ballgowns.
00:48:31But if I say so myself, she had more admirers than any of her cousins.
00:48:37Young Mr. Henderson was quite smitten with her, I believe.
00:48:41He's the most promising young man in Mr. Kirkpatrick's chambers.
00:48:45So, all in all, they're so fond of her, I don't know when we'll see her back.
00:48:49A letter came from Africa two days ago, and I sent it on.
00:48:52Did she say anything about what was in it?
00:48:54Yes, yes.
00:48:55Yes, it made her very uneasy, poor child.
00:48:58And then she was inclined not to go to Mr. Rawson's ball that evening,
00:49:01and I told her there was nothing to get fidgety about.
00:49:03That he was laid up after a fall.
00:49:06He's had a fall.
00:49:07Yes.
00:49:08But he was better by the time he wrote.
00:49:10And he's got a very strong constitution, hasn't he, Mr. Gibson?
00:49:13Ah, yes, yes.
00:49:14And where he is, he has need of one.
00:49:16And after all, it's not a formal engagement.
00:49:18And Cynthia could hardly excuse herself by saying,
00:49:21Oh, a young man I know took a tumble two months ago in Africa,
00:49:24and now I can't go to the ball this evening.
00:49:27That would seem just like an affectation of sentiment.
00:49:30If there's one thing I hate, it's that.
00:49:34Quaid.
00:49:36Good morning, Miss Gibson.
00:49:47Good morning, Miss Gibson.
00:49:49Miss Kirkpatrick returns today, does she not?
00:49:52Yes.
00:49:54We'll be happy to see her, I think.
00:49:56Yes, good morning.
00:50:07There, now, will you look at that.
00:50:11You had no call for arse, Mr. Sheepshanks,
00:50:14when you were Lord Cumnor's land agent.
00:50:16Ah, well, young Preston reckons himself to be a bit above a land agent.
00:50:21A gentleman and a ladies' man, and a gambling man and all.
00:50:24I wouldn't trust him any further than I could throw him.
00:50:27Well, that's not fair.
00:50:29Good day to you.
00:50:34Oh, Molly.
00:50:43She missed me.
00:50:46Excuse me.
00:50:47Can I have my back?
00:50:50He's feeling much better.
00:50:52Learning another new dialect.
00:50:55What about Beatles?
00:50:57I think I'll save this one up for later.
00:51:01Look what they gave me, Molly.
00:51:07They were so good to me.
00:51:14Do you wish you were still there?
00:51:17In some ways, I do.
00:51:19There's something rather oppressive about the Hollingford somehow.
00:51:25Nothing to do with you, Molly, of course,
00:51:26but one does feel more carefree in London.
00:51:30Does that sound very wicked of me?
00:51:35You might be interested in this paragraph here, Cynthia.
00:51:46Well, what is it?
00:51:48May I see?
00:51:50Yes, of course.
00:51:51There's nothing private about it.
00:51:54Proceedings of the Geographical Society.
00:51:57Lord Hollingford read a letter he'd received from Mr. Roger Hamley.
00:52:02Oh, Cynthia, isn't it wonderful?
00:52:05Yes, I suppose it is.
00:52:07It's not news to me, though.
00:52:09I heard about the meeting before I left London.
00:52:10It was a good deal talked about in my uncle's set.
00:52:12You mean you could have gone?
00:52:14Yes, I suppose I could.
00:52:15But I think they'd have been rather astonished
00:52:17by my sudden turn for science.
00:52:20Well, if you'd told your uncle how things really stood.
00:52:23With Roger, I mean.
00:52:24Molly, once and for all, please do learn to understand
00:52:26I don't want my relation to Roger mentioned or talked about.
00:52:31If I'm pushed to it,
00:52:32I'd rather break it off altogether at once
00:52:34than have done with it.
00:52:40Oh, Miss Browning, they were so fond of Cynthia
00:52:43you would hardly believe it.
00:52:45And do you know that she has had three letters from London
00:52:47this week already, Marquise?
00:52:49Three letters?
00:52:51Fancy that.
00:52:52It must almost be as good as living there.
00:52:54Oh, a great deal better, I should think.
00:52:57As far as I can judge of London,
00:52:59it's no better than a pickpocket in a robber
00:53:01dressed up in the spoils of honest folk.
00:53:04No, I've no patience with London.
00:53:07In my opinion, Cynthia's much better out of it.
00:53:10And if I were you, Mrs Gibson,
00:53:12I'm not sure I wouldn't stop up those London letters.
00:53:15They'll only be unsettling.
00:53:17But perhaps she may live in London
00:53:20one of these days, Miss Browning.
00:53:23Well, I wish you an honest country husband
00:53:26with enough to live upon and a little to lay by
00:53:28and a good character, Cynthia.
00:53:31Well, thank you, Miss Browning.
00:53:32Mind that, Molly.
00:53:33I wish Cynthia a husband with a good character.
00:53:37She's got a mother to look after her
00:53:38and you've none.
00:53:40I beg your pardon, Miss Browning.
00:53:42And when your mother was alive,
00:53:43she was a dear friend of mine.
00:53:45So I'm not about to let you throw yourself away
00:53:47upon anyone whose life is not clear and above board.
00:53:50You may depend upon it.
00:53:51I'm sure you're very much mistaken, Miss Browning,
00:53:54if you think that any mother
00:53:55could take more care of Molly than I do.
00:53:57Oh, I didn't mean to offend you, Mrs Gibson.
00:54:00As stepmothers go, I think you try and do your duty.
00:54:03No, I'm just meant to give Molly a hint.
00:54:06She understands what I mean.
00:54:07I'm sure I do not.
00:54:09I haven't a notion what you mean
00:54:11if you were alluding to anything more
00:54:12than you said straight out.
00:54:14I'm not thinking of marrying at all.
00:54:16But if I did and if you were not a good man,
00:54:18then I should thank you for coming and warning me of it.
00:54:20You shan't stand on warning you, Molly.
00:54:22I shall forbid the bans in church, if need be.
00:54:25Do.
00:54:31Trying to do my duty, indeed.
00:54:35Everybody knows I have always done my duty
00:54:38without talking about it before my face in that rude manner.
00:54:43I have that deep feeling about duty
00:54:45that I think it ought only to be talked about
00:54:46in church and sacred places like that.
00:54:50Not in someone's sitting room,
00:54:52with everyone drinking tea.
00:54:54As if I didn't look after you
00:54:55quite as well as I do, Cynthia.
00:54:59I think perhaps Miss Browning
00:55:00has got some notion about Mr. Preston.
00:55:03She spoke to me about him once before.
00:55:07What could have put that into her head?
00:55:09Well, I may not always approve of Mr. Preston,
00:55:12but if it was him that she was thinking of,
00:55:14he's far more agreeable than she is,
00:55:16and I would rather keep his company than hers any day.
00:55:28Where's Cynthia, Molly?
00:55:29She's gone out.
00:55:31Oh, that's a pity.
00:55:32I've got old Simpson's dog cart,
00:55:34and I was going to offer you both a drive out
00:55:35on my way to the lodge.
00:55:37Would you like to come?
00:55:39I'll get my bullet.
00:55:42Means you'd have to walk home on your own.
00:56:06I guess to bring your mother here.
00:56:13Hi, Mum.
00:56:14Jump down, lassie.
00:56:15Make the best of your way back
00:56:16before it gets dark.
00:56:18You'll find the cut over crossing heath
00:56:21is quicker than the road we came by.
00:56:46You don't know your own mind.
00:56:48Why won't you leave me?
00:56:50Why?
00:56:51Come here.
00:56:52Don't go.
00:56:53Oh, no, please.
00:56:54Just let me take it.
00:56:56No.
00:56:57Please.
00:56:58You gave your promise freely enough.
00:57:00Why should you not keep it?
00:57:01Because I can't bear it.
00:57:03Let me go.
00:57:04Please.
00:57:06Molly!
00:57:07What is it?
00:57:07What's the matter?
00:57:09I think you should let her go now.
00:57:16As Miss Gibson sees fit to interrupt a private conversation,
00:57:20perhaps we can fix a time, a place where we can meet again
00:57:22without the presence of a third party.
00:57:24I'll go now if Cynthia wants me to.
00:57:27No, stay.
00:57:28I want you to hear it.
00:57:30I should have told her sooner.
00:57:33Miss Kirkpatrick is referring to our engagement.
00:57:36She promised long ago to be my wife.
00:57:38I don't believe him.
00:57:39Don't cry, Cynthia.
00:57:40I don't believe what he said.
00:57:41Molly, it's true.
00:57:42Oh, don't cry.
00:57:43Please don't.
00:57:45You can't imagine how it distresses me.
00:57:47Leave me alone.
00:57:48Go away.
00:57:48Don't you see you make her worse?
00:57:52I think since Miss Gibson has acquainted herself with this much,
00:57:54she had better hear the whole truth.
00:57:56That you were engaged to marry me as soon as you were 20.
00:58:00I'm sure you must have thought it strange that we should meet in secret
00:58:02and by appointment.
00:58:04Well, now you know.
00:58:05I don't know anything of the kind.
00:58:07I do know that Cynthia is engaged to another man,
00:58:09so you can hardly expect me to believe what you say.
00:58:12Molly, I am not engaged to Roger.
00:58:16I think some letters in my possession would convince Miss Gibson
00:58:19I'm telling the truth.
00:58:21I'm Mr. Roger Hamley, if he is the gentleman she's alluding to.
00:58:25And I should be happy to make everything clear to Mr. Gibson as well.
00:58:28Well, then that's what you should do.
00:58:30Speak to my father like a gentleman, not make assignations in secret.
00:58:34Let's go home now, Cynthia.
00:58:36I never wanted it to be a secret.
00:58:38Can you deny that it's only been at your request
00:58:40that I've kept the secret for so long?
00:58:42If you will have it out, yes.
00:58:44Yes, it's true.
00:58:45When I was a girl of 15, you lent me money
00:58:47and made me promise to marry you in return.
00:58:49Made you?
00:58:50Made wasn't the right word.
00:58:52I liked you then.
00:58:53I know you better now, though, and I'd never marry you.
00:58:56I've done everything you asked me to.
00:58:58I've waited for years.
00:58:59I've put up with jealousy and neglect.
00:59:02Cynthia, I've loved you.
00:59:05And I still love you.
00:59:08And I can't give you up
00:59:10if you'll just keep your word and marry me.
00:59:12I swear I'll make you love me in return.
00:59:14Oh, I wish I'd never borrowed that money.
00:59:17I've scrimped and saved to give it back Molly
00:59:19and he won't take it.
00:59:20He won't set me free.
00:59:22You make it sound as if you sold yourself for 20 pounds.
00:59:25I didn't sell myself.
00:59:28I liked you then.
00:59:30The hell do I hate you now?
00:59:38Molly, don't say any more just now.
00:59:40Come to my room tonight and I'll tell you everything.
00:59:43I know you'll blame me terribly, but I will tell you.
01:00:06I was on my own all that summer.
01:00:10Well, it was always like that.
01:00:12As soon as the holidays came around,
01:00:14Mama was off to some great house or other.
01:00:17Never seemed to care to take me with her.
01:00:21And while I was used to him coming,
01:00:24he and Mama were friends
01:00:25and I believe that Mama thought...
01:00:32Don't know about that.
01:00:33But anyway,
01:00:35he was kind and...
01:00:38and sympathetic, I thought.
01:00:41So, yes,
01:00:43I did like him then.
01:00:49So this day,
01:00:50he found me in the deserted schoolroom.
01:00:57The Donaldsons had invited me to a festival,
01:01:00you see,
01:01:01and although Mama had said I could go,
01:01:03she hadn't said how I could get any money
01:01:05for the journey
01:01:07and had grown out of all my old summer dresses.
01:01:13We were always poor,
01:01:15you see.
01:01:18And yet we were never to speak of it
01:01:21because of the shame and the disgrace of it.
01:01:27All that worry about money
01:01:29made me sick of my life.
01:01:31All alone.
01:01:35Mr. Preston noticed I was sad
01:01:38and I was grateful to him
01:01:40for kind words and sympathetic looks.
01:01:47Little by little,
01:01:48he made me tell him all my troubles.
01:01:51I do sometimes think he was very nice in those days.
01:01:57He had 20 pounds in his pocket, he said,
01:02:01and shouldn't want it for months
01:02:02and I could repay it.
01:02:05Mama must have known I would need money, he said,
01:02:07and most likely assumed I should ask him for it.
01:02:10And I did so want to go and not be ashamed of my shabbiness.
01:02:21It doesn't sound so very wrong, does it, Molly?
01:02:35And so I went to the festival
01:02:38and I think I did look very pretty in my fine new clothes.
01:02:41I saw that other people thought so too
01:02:43and it was pleasant to feel my power.
01:02:52And then, on the last day, he joined us.
01:02:58I suppose he really did fall in love with me then.
01:03:02I don't think he'd done so before.
01:03:03I don't think he'd done so well.
01:03:59Well, the end of it
01:04:00was that he began to talk violent love to me
01:04:02and he said that the money should not be a debt
01:04:04but an advance against when I should be his.
01:04:07I don't quite know how it was, but...
01:04:10but I did give him my promise to marry him when I was 20
01:04:13but asked that it should be a secret until then.
01:04:33After that, I wrote him some very silly letters, Molly.
01:04:38But it was all so long ago, and I did think I loved him then.
01:04:45Somehow, as soon as I felt pledged to him,
01:04:47I started to hate him.
01:04:49I've just never been able to extricate myself.
01:04:53But how could you go and engage yourself to Roger, Cynthia?
01:04:56Well, why not?
01:04:58I was... I was free.
01:05:00I was free in my own heart.
01:05:04I was... I was touched by his loves.
01:05:07So tender and unselfish and not like Robert Preston's love at all.
01:05:13Oh, Molly, I...
01:05:15I know you feel I'm not good enough for Roger.
01:05:19And sometimes I think I'll... I'll give him up.
01:05:23And sometimes I think I'll...
01:05:25I'll marry Robert Preston out of pure revenge
01:05:28and then I'll have him in my power.
01:05:33But I'd be the worst off for it.
01:05:36For he is cruel in his very soul.
01:05:41Tiger-ish.
01:05:43With his beautiful striped skin and his relentless heart.
01:05:56He says...
01:05:57He will show my letters to your father
01:05:59unless I consent to acknowledge the engagement.
01:06:02He shan't do that.
01:06:03We won't let him do that.
01:06:05I'm not afraid of him.
01:06:07I'll ask him to give the letters back.
01:06:08Let's see if he dares refuse me.
01:06:10What if you were seen?
01:06:12Oh, Molly, you...
01:06:13You don't know him.
01:06:15He has made so many appointments with me,
01:06:17just as if he was going to take back the money and...
01:06:21Molly, I've had it saved up for four months now.
01:06:27He says he's sure he can make me love him.
01:06:31And I think perhaps he could...
01:06:35He could make me do anything.
01:06:38And I should really be lost.
01:06:42I will get those letters for you.
01:06:45We're in the right.
01:06:47And he's in the wrong and he knows it.
01:06:49He must give up those letters.
01:06:51And you must never tell anyone about this.
01:06:54Not even your father...
01:06:55Well, especially not your father.
01:06:56I just couldn't bear it if he knew.
01:06:58As if I would, for any reason, short of...
01:07:00Not for any reason at all.
01:07:02I would leave Hollingford and never come back
01:07:04if ever he found out about this affair.
01:07:06You must promise me.
01:07:07I promise.
01:07:40You must be who saw him.
01:07:42Bye.
01:07:48Bye.
01:07:50Let's go.
01:08:21Is Cynthia not able to come?
01:08:23I didn't know you were expecting her.
01:08:25Yes.
01:08:26She said she would be here.
01:08:30Well, she sent me here to meet you.
01:08:37She's told me exactly how things stand between you.
01:08:41Has she?
01:08:43She's always the most open or reliable person in the world.
01:08:46If you really love her, you shouldn't speak of her in that way.
01:08:52You have some letters of hers that she wishes to have back.
01:08:54I dare say.
01:08:55And that you have no right to keep.
01:08:57No legal and no moral right. What do you mean?
01:09:01Simply, you have no right at all as a gentleman to keep a girl's letters when she asks for them
01:09:05back.
01:09:05Still less to hold them over as a threat.
01:09:08I see you do know all Miss Gibson.
01:09:11But you have heard the story from her point of view. Now you must hear mine.
01:09:15She promised me as solemnly as ever a woman did in this.
01:09:18She wasn't a woman. She was only a girl of 15.
01:09:20She was old enough to know what she was doing.
01:09:24She promised to be my wife and made me wait for her and to keep it secret.
01:09:28And I kept my promise.
01:09:30Though I might have married two or three girls with money and connections,
01:09:33one of them was handsome enough and not at all reluctant.
01:09:35I beg your pardon, but I don't want to hear about other young ladies.
01:09:38I'm here for Cynthia, who doesn't like you and doesn't wish to marry you.
01:09:43Then I must make her like me, as you put it.
01:09:48She did like me once.
01:09:51She loved me.
01:09:54And she'll love me again when we're married.
01:09:56She won't ever marry you.
01:09:59Then if she honours anyone else with her preference, he may read her letters to me.
01:10:03No honourable man would read your letters. What use can they be to you?
01:10:06They contain her repeated promises of marriage.
01:10:09But she doesn't love you.
01:10:10If she ever did, she hates you.
01:10:13She says she would rather leave Hollingford forever and earn her own living than marry you.
01:10:22Young ladies are very fond of words such as hate and detest.
01:10:27I've known some who applied them to men they were secretly hoping to marry.
01:10:32Well, I can't tell about other people.
01:10:35But I do know that Cynthia as nearly hates you as anybody like her does hate.
01:10:40Like her?
01:10:42I mean, I should hate worse.
01:10:49So, now would you mind sending her back the letters by me?
01:10:56I do assure you that you cannot make her marry you.
01:11:00You are very simple, Miss Gibson, aren't you?
01:11:03I don't suppose you know of any other feeling that can be gratified but love.
01:11:07Have you never heard of revenge?
01:11:08She has cajoled me with promises of love and I won't let her go unpunished.
01:11:12You may tell her that.
01:11:14I shall keep the letters and make use of them as I see fit.
01:11:17Mr. Roger Hamley shall hear of their contents even if he's too honourable to read them.
01:11:21Your father shall hear of them and what Miss Kirkpatrick says about her mother in them.
01:11:26Perhaps you care to read their contents yourself.
01:11:27No, I won't hear another word.
01:11:30They were written to you.
01:11:31Only to you when she thought you were her friend.
01:11:34But I have thought what to do next.
01:11:36I should have told my father but Cynthia made me promise not to.
01:11:39So I will tell it all to Lady Harriet.
01:11:41And ask her to speak to her father about it.
01:11:45And I am sure that she will.
01:11:47And I don't think you'll dare refuse Lord Cumnor.
01:11:52Miss Gibson, consider your position for a moment.
01:11:59Keep still, Mullen.
01:12:01You must be seen.
01:12:03You've done nothing to be ashamed of at any rate.
01:12:10Morning, Miss Gibson.
01:12:11Your servant.
01:12:13Be too early in the day to be meeting the sweetheart.
01:12:15Here, Preston.
01:12:17Yes.
01:12:19I'm afraid I've kept you standing here too long, Miss Gibson.
01:12:24Good day.
01:12:27Good day.
01:12:35Sorry about that, Preston.
01:12:36Disturbing your little tete-a-tete.
01:12:38Oh, there'll be another time, I'm sure.
01:12:40I don't doubt it.
01:12:48I don't doubt it.
01:12:50I don't doubt it.
01:12:57I don't doubt it.
01:13:04I don't doubt it.
01:13:09I don't doubt it.
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