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Betrayed and humiliated by her fiancé on her wedding day, the plus-sized Elara flees to Mistcliff Manor. Under Severin’s guidance, she strengthens her body and masters business tactics. She returns as "Sofía" and lures her ex-fiancé into a trap. After exacting her revenge, Elara founds the Iron Rose School to empower women. She discovers a love built on mutual respect and builds a brilliant life of her own.
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00:00A woman's worth is measured on a scale.
00:03176 pounds is proof that I am unworthy of love.
00:08Miss Alera, your measurements don't match what they were at the fitting.
00:12A wedding that cost 300,000 crowns.
00:15And she couldn't even lose the weight.
00:19Alera, just came to see how you're doing.
00:22Such a grand gown for so little grace.
00:25Last night, in the West Wing, we slept together three times.
00:30It doesn't matter whether you lose weight or not.
00:32He chose me.
00:46The night before the wedding, they slept together three times.
00:50Just because I weighed 176 pounds, I couldn't even zip up my wedding dress.
00:55I need to lose weight, and it is not just to look good.
01:00First time.
01:02Lead the mare around the outer track three times.
01:05Let her learn you are not afraid.
01:06Are you an instructor?
01:08I own this place.
01:16Slow it down.
01:18I'm fine.
01:19One more lap.
01:26What time do lessons begin tomorrow?
01:28At dawn.
01:29But the yard is open whenever you have the herve to ride.
01:33What's your name?
01:37Last night, we slept together three times.
01:40It doesn't matter whether you lose weight or not.
01:42He chose me.
01:43Let's try it today.
01:49Engage your core.
01:50Pull your shoulders back.
01:53I can't do it.
01:57People don't need to be carried.
01:59They need to be pushed.
02:07See?
02:10I can't.
02:11You always could.
02:12Why are you helping me?
02:14The meal plan.
02:15Six pages, handwritten, updated every day.
02:18When I was 13, I fell off a cliff.
02:20Broke my wrist.
02:2246 stitches in my back.
02:24A coach found...
02:25Sagen Sie Ihnen, der Preis steht fest.
02:27Wenn er Ihnen zu hohe ist, können Sie zu Kronberg gehen.
02:30Aber ich bin sicher, Sie kommen zurück.
02:32Nein.
02:33Ich verhandel nicht.
02:34Ich informiere Sie.
02:38You were speaking German.
02:41You said Kronberg.
02:45You served on the Julia Exchange?
02:48I did.
02:49Not anymore.
02:50Then what are you now?
02:52A man who runs a horse estate.
02:57I took over my family's holdings at 23.
03:00By 25, I was one of the three most powerful men on the Julia Exchange.
03:03At 26, I realized I had nothing but money.
03:07No friends, no life, no one worth waking up for.
03:10So I walked away and opened this place outside the capital.
03:13I wanted to see what a person could become beyond money and power.
03:16And have you seen it?
03:19Lesson one.
03:20The most important thing at a negotiating table isn't what you say.
03:23It's whether the person across from you believes you deserve to be sitting there.
03:28We start tomorrow.
03:29One hour after training every day.
03:32Miss Elaria, your offer is 15% below the combustible price.
03:36Give me one reason to accept it.
03:37Our product has room for continued improvement.
03:39Wrong.
03:40That was an excuse.
03:41Business people don't give excuses.
03:43They give terms.
03:44Again.
03:4415% below the combustible rate because...
03:47At that price, Miss Cliff gains an exclusive supply partner.
03:50And I'll put the exclusive supply clause in writing.
03:54You've done well.
03:56What do you think destroys an arrogant man the most?
03:59Failure?
04:00No.
04:01Being ignored.
04:03When you completely ignore him,
04:05he becomes nothing more than a footnote in your life.
04:08I want you to chase me.
04:10And then I'll personally destroy everything you have.
04:14Hello.
04:14My name is Sophia.
04:18See you Friday.
04:20You want to get close to him in a way he won't recognize you?
04:22Not want.
04:24I've already decided.
04:25You know the risks.
04:26If you lose control emotionally in the middle of it...
04:28I won't.
04:32Nine months ago,
04:34he looked at me like I was a piece of trash.
04:36Now he's going to look at the same woman
04:39and beg her for a second glance.
04:42I don't just want him to regret it.
04:44I want him to throw Katarina out himself
04:46and then realize he just threw away the only thing he had left.
04:49Then you need more than just a new look.
04:52You need a complete...
04:54Are you here alone?
04:56So far.
04:57I'm Eric.
05:00Sophia.
05:01Sophia.
05:02It means wisdom.
05:03The name suits you.
05:07Do you say that to every woman you meet?
05:09Eric.
05:12Katarina, this is Sophia.
05:13Sophia, this is my friend Katarina.
05:16Nice to meet you.
05:19Eric was just telling me about the history of this tavern.
05:22Fascinating stuff.
05:25Who are you?
05:29Eric.
05:30It's one in the morning.
05:32Work matters.
05:33Go back to sleep.
05:38He took the bait.
05:40Not yet.
05:42Sorry.
05:43This is a private writing lesson,
05:45so I can't share the address.
05:46By the way,
05:47do you train too?
05:49I trained for a while before,
05:51and I've been meaning to return to it lately.
05:53Could you possibly give me some advice?
05:59Eric, what a coincidence.
06:02Sophia, you come here too.
06:04Every Tuesday and Thursday,
06:05before training.
06:06So, about that training advice,
06:09what would you recommend for someone
06:10just getting back into it?
06:12That depends.
06:14Are you the type who quits after two weeks,
06:16or the type who keeps showing up?
06:18I don't quit.
06:19We'll see.
06:23Come home for supper tonight.
06:25Don't make me wait again.
06:28Sorry.
06:31You know,
06:32when a man keeps looking at his watch during coffee,
06:34it usually means one of two things.
06:38Where are you going?
06:39A client dinner.
06:41Boring business.
06:42On a Friday night?
06:44Which client?
06:45A new military horse account.
06:47You wouldn't know them.
06:50You've been different lately.
06:52You're imagining things.
06:53Don't wait up.
07:10Sofia,
07:11I was hoping you'd be here.
07:17Are you all right, boss?
07:19Fine.
07:21Don't lose yourself through that door.
07:24Everyone has a story.
07:26Most people just don't know how to tell it.
07:29Try me.
07:30I used to be someone else.
07:32Someone who let people walk all over her.
07:34Someone who thought love meant saying yes to everything.
07:37And someone taught me love
07:38can also mean being thrown away like yesterday's trash.
07:41Whoever did that to you, he's an idiot.
07:44Is he?
07:45I mean it.
07:46I would never.
07:47Never what?
07:49Never let someone like you go.
07:52Can I see you again?
07:53Not just Fridays.
07:55You have someone, Eric.
07:56It's complicated.
07:58Complicated usually means someone's waiting at home while you're here.
08:03I told you before, I don't do second place.
08:06Figure out what you want.
08:11Now he worships his correspondence.
08:13He changed the lock on his writing desk.
08:16He comes home at two in the morning smelling like a tavern.
08:20Tracy, he called me his friend in front of her.
08:24Who is she?
08:26Some writing instructor who calls herself Sophia.
08:28She looks like a Greek statue and I can't even compete with that.
08:32You need to fight back.
08:33Find out everything about her.
08:35I've already tried.
08:36The registry has nothing on her.
08:38No photograph, no address, no family.
08:40She's either a ghost or she knows exactly what she's doing.
08:48Katarina has checked your registry entry 17 times in the past three days.
08:51I know.
08:52I saw the inquiry slips.
08:55She's going to dig deeper.
08:56She might find something.
08:58Let her dig.
08:59Every hour she spends obsessing over me is an hour she spends pushing Eric further away.
09:04You thought this through.
09:06I had nine months to think.
09:08Every saddle, every fall, every turn around the outer track.
09:11Follow that carriage.
09:13You planned every single moment.
09:20Don't wait up.
09:20I might run late.
09:25Follow that carriage.
09:27Lady, are you sure?
09:28I'm sure.
09:30You planned every single moment.
09:35What now?
09:37Nothing.
09:38Take me home.
09:42Sophia, I can't stop thinking about what you said.
09:45Figure out what you want?
09:46I thought I knew what I wanted.
09:48I thought I had it all figured out.
09:51But every time I see you, everything I thought I knew goes out the window.
09:55You're unlike anyone I've ever met.
09:57You don't need me.
09:59You don't chase me.
10:00You just exist.
10:01And that's the most terrifying and incredible thing about you.
10:04I know I'm a mess.
10:06Eric.
10:07What the hell are you doing here?
10:09A client dinner?
10:10That's what you said, right?
10:11Some military horse account I wouldn't know?
10:13Let me guess.
10:14She's the client.
10:17Katarina.
10:18This is not the place.
10:19Not the place?
10:20Then where is the place?
10:21At home?
10:22Where you lock your desk?
10:24Where exactly do I get to ask why you've been lying every Friday for a month?
10:27I'm not leaving until you tell me who she is.
10:30I think you have something to sort out.
10:31I'll go.
10:33No.
10:34Stay.
10:35You had my carriage followed.
10:36You tracked me.
10:37You stormed into a tavern and screamed at a woman you've never met.
10:40Do you have any idea how crazy you look right now?
10:43Go home.
10:44We'll talk tomorrow.
10:45Right now, I don't want to look at you.
10:49That was cruel.
10:50She had no right.
10:52The way you just spoke to her, that wasn't anger.
10:54That was contempt.
10:56And contempt is what a man shows when he's already decided someone is beneath him.
10:59Right now, the woman you just humiliated in public is walking home alone.
11:04Happy now?
11:05You embarrassed me in front of half the capital.
11:07I embarrassed you?
11:08You've been lying to me for a month.
11:10You called me your friend in front of her.
11:12You humiliated me in front of 30 strangers.
11:15You had my carriage followed.
11:17You know what the funniest part is?
11:19Nine months ago, I was her.
11:21I was the woman waiting at the tavern while you were at your wedding.
11:24I wore that white dress into the dressing room.
11:27I...
11:27Don't!
11:28Why not?
11:29I handed Eliza that brass key and smiled while I did it.
11:33And now someone else is smiling at me.
11:34And you're standing there pretending you're the victim, like I'm the one who...
11:37I said don't!
11:38Don't you dare bring Eliza into this.
11:40That was different!
11:41She was what?
11:43Fat?
11:44Disposable?
11:46Like I am now?
11:47Where are you going?
11:49I don't know.
11:50A friend's place?
11:51Anywhere that's not here.
11:54I spent nine months making him my whole life and now I don't even recognize myself!
12:03You can stay as long as you need.
12:07He didn't even try to stop me.
12:09He just stood there.
12:12Did you want him to stop you?
12:14I don't know.
12:16I don't know what I want anymore.
12:18I spent nine months making him my whole life and now I don't even recognize myself!
12:23Maybe that's the problem.
12:25You made him your whole life.
12:27When you do that, when a person becomes your everything, you stop being anything on your own.
12:34I used to look at Alara and thought she deserved it.
12:38Being fat meant being ugly.
12:39It meant being...
12:43You're distracted.
12:44I saw her last night.
12:46Katerina.
12:47At the tavern.
12:48He called her crazy in front of 30 people.
12:51He grabbed her arm.
12:52And I just sat there watching like it was a play!
12:54Wasn't that the plan?
12:56The plan was to make him suffer, not her.
12:59Nine months ago, she walked into my wedding dressing room and smiled while she destroyed my life.
13:03I hated her for nine months.
13:06Every rep, every mile, every time I wanted to quit, I thought about her face in that mirror.
13:10But last night, when he grabbed her arm, I didn't feel satisfaction.
13:13I felt sick!
13:15That's because you're not her.
13:16You never were.
13:19Then why does it feel like I'm becoming her?
13:21Being ignored.
13:22That's worse than death for a man like him.
13:26I'm not doing this to become her.
13:28I'm doing this to become someone she could never be.
13:33What's this?
13:42That's your seventh set.
13:43Your program says five.
13:45I know.
13:45You're not training.
13:47You're punishing yourself.
13:49He gave me a necklace today.
13:51Three thousand crowns.
13:52I sent it back.
13:54And?
13:55And nothing.
13:57It felt like a bribe.
13:59Like he was trying to buy his way past my walls.
14:02And the worst part is, for a split second, I actually liked it.
14:05Not the necklace.
14:07The feeling.
14:08The feeling of being wanted by him.
14:11Close your eyes.
14:12What?
14:14Just do it.
14:20Training gloves?
14:22You tore the seam again.
14:23I had these made for you.
14:24You noticed my gloves.
14:26Why did you walk away from the Duker exchange, really?
14:28Because I woke up one morning and realized I had 500 people working.
14:31I did it.
14:33Katarina's lease is in her name now.
14:35I paid the deposit.
14:36She's gone.
14:37How do you feel?
14:38Honestly relieved.
14:40She'd become exhausting.
14:42Every conversation turned into an interrogation.
14:45Every glance at my letters was a betrayal.
14:47I couldn't breathe.
14:49And now you can breathe.
14:52Now I can breathe.
14:53Because of you.
14:55It was.
14:56Listen.
14:57Look.
14:57Sophia.
14:58That sounded final.
14:59I've spent the last month chasing you.
15:02And every time I think I'm getting closer, you pull back.
15:06I don't mind the chase.
15:07I actually like it.
15:09But I need to know, are we going somewhere?
15:11Or am I just running in circles?
15:14There's a place.
15:15The White Elm House in the city center.
15:17The banquet hall on the third floor.
15:19I want to meet you there next Saturday, 7 o'clock.
15:23Wear a suit.
15:24The best one you have.
15:26White Elm House.
15:27That's where...
15:28That's where I want to tell you my whole story.
15:30No more walls.
15:31No more pulling back.
15:33Just the truth.
15:36Saturday, 7 o'clock.
15:37I'll be there.
15:38Eric, one thing.
15:40Whatever happens that night, remember.
15:42You chose to come.
15:46You said she was your friend.
15:47The two of you at the tavern.
15:48Katerina.
15:49Do you really think you're in a position to question me?
15:51Think about how you got into my life in the first place.
15:53I just came to get my things.
15:55They're already packed.
15:56You packed my things?
15:57You couldn't even let me do that myself?
16:00I have a busy week.
16:00I need the apartment cleared out.
16:02A busy week.
16:03Right.
16:04Let me guess.
16:05She finally said yes?
16:07Sophia?
16:08The woman who looks like a Greek statue and talks like a philosophy professor?
16:11She actually wants you?
16:14This isn't about Sophia.
16:15It's about the fact that there's no trust between us anymore.
16:18You had my carriage followed.
16:20You went through my letters.
16:21Because you were lying!
16:22You said she was your friend.
16:24The two of you at the tavern.
16:25Katerina.
16:26Do you really think you're in a position to question me?
16:28Think about how you got into my life in the first place.
16:30You know exactly.
16:32The wedding day.
16:34The dressing room.
16:35When I handed Elia that brass key.
16:37Were you thinking about trust then?
16:38Enough!
16:41Leave.
16:49How does it feel?
16:50It's you.
16:52Nine months ago.
16:53In the wedding dressing room.
16:55You whispered in my ear.
16:56He chose me.
16:59So who did he choose now?
17:02Saturday.
17:03Seven o'clock.
17:04I'll be the one in the best suit you've ever seen.
17:08Sir.
17:09Hasn't your guest arrived yet?
17:11She will.
17:21Sir.
17:21We're closing for the night.
17:23She said she'd come.
17:25I'm sorry, sir.
17:26You need to leave now.
17:31Sophia.
17:33Why here?
17:34Why this place?
17:35You picked this place nine months ago today.
17:37You stood in the ballroom.
17:39I was in the dressing room upstairs.
17:41My wedding dress wouldn't zip up.
17:44Your mistress walked in, placed a brass key on the counter, and whispered in my ear.
17:50No.
17:51It's impossible.
17:53You're...
17:54You're a larder.
17:56Hello, Eric.
17:58Nine months.
17:59The look on your face just now.
18:01Were you expecting a kiss?
18:03You set this whole thing up.
18:05From the beginning.
18:07The tavern.
18:08The letters.
18:09Every single moment.
18:09It was all a setup.
18:11Yes.
18:11And every step of it you walked into on your own.
18:14I didn't force you to dump Katerina.
18:16I didn't force you to...
18:17When I found out Sophia was you, I thought I was shattered because I had lost Sophia.
18:23But that wasn't it.
18:24I was finally seeing what I did to Elaza.
18:27You didn't disappear because you weren't enough.
18:29You disappeared because I made you believe you weren't.
18:32You're right.
18:34You did make me believe that.
18:36And it took me nine months to stop believing you.
18:39But I didn't become this woman so you'd want me back.
18:42I didn't get stronger so you could choose me again.
18:45I did it so I'd never need your choice again.
18:47You once said I'd always love you.
18:49You said that on the rooftop.
18:51I don't love you anymore.
18:53I don't even hate you.
18:55To me, you're just a chapter that's finally over.
19:05Bad night?
19:07Bad life?
19:09A woman?
19:11A woman, business, everything.
19:14Do you know what it feels like to think you're the hunter,
19:16then turn around and realize you've been the prey the whole time?
19:19I've been a bartender for 30 years.
19:22You know how many men have sat where you're sitting and said exactly the same thing?
19:26Hundreds.
19:27You want to know the difference between the ones who got back up and the ones who didn't?
19:30What?
19:31The ones who got back up stopped blaming the hunter
19:34and started asking themselves why they were so easy to catch.
19:40Hey, are you all right?
19:42Do you need me to call someone?
19:45There's no one to call.
19:47She was right.
19:47I'm a clown.
19:51Nine months later, Ilara returned transformed,
19:53and he did not recognize the woman he had cast aside.
19:57He believed he was courting a dazzling stranger.
20:00Then she told him,
20:02I don't love you anymore.
20:04I don't even hate you.
20:11Eric, have you anything to say for yourself?
20:13Gentlemen, the scoundrel himself has appeared!
20:18Buy the extradition.
20:19Read what he did to both women.
20:21What do you want to hear?
20:23That I'm a bitch?
20:24Fine.
20:25I am.
20:26I walked into someone's wedding day and handed her a brass key.
20:30I thought I'd won.
20:32Nine months later, he handed me a suitcase and sent me away.
20:35Karma, isn't it?
20:36Print it if you like.
20:37The truth is ugly enough.
20:39But here's something you don't know.
20:42Eric keeps a sham trading house in Romania.
20:44The papers are in his mother's name.
20:46And I was not the only woman.
20:48Search his ledgers and correspondence.
20:50You have enough for a month of columners.
20:52Eric.
20:54I was here when your father first took his seat on this guild council.
20:58Aunt.
20:58Not aunt.
20:59Madam Chair.
21:00I never thought I would place the founder's son's resignation before the council myself.
21:05Your conduct made our military horse contracts collapse in a single week.
21:09The buyers say a house that humiliates its own bride
21:12cannot be trusted to honor a contract for warhorses.
21:15Three estate owners have withdrawn their orders until the inquiry is settled.
21:19The council's confidence in you is gone.
21:22Sign and leave with what dignity remains
21:25or refuse and face a formal expulsion before the council.
21:33Eric.
21:34Are you all right?
21:36Fine.
21:38Your former office is currently under investigation
21:41and your name is being discussed far too freely in the papers.
21:47We may need some more time to consider.
21:50Your record of service is excellent.
21:52Our patrons are mostly women who keep shops, farms and household accounts.
21:57Your recent public image, frankly, if any of...
22:04You once managed a military horse office.
22:06Why seek a post in an estate counting house?
22:09I need a job.
22:11Honest.
22:12I like that.
22:14You are used to a certain life.
22:16The stipend here may feel meable.
22:18A modest yearly stipend.
22:20No extra stipend.
22:21No share of the estate.
22:36All aboard, eastbound train departing.
22:45You used to smile like that at me.
22:48Katarina, thank you for receiving the morning news.
22:51Thanks for having me, I guess.
22:54Let us begin with the moment you learned Sophia was Alara.
22:57What did you feel?
22:58I laughed because he threw me out exactly the way he threw her out.
23:01And the whole time she was training.
23:04Literally.
23:04She was in the academy while I was in his bed.
23:06And now her portrait fills the illustrated paper.
23:09He's been doing it for years.
23:12Also, he wasn't just cheating on Alara with me.
23:14There was another woman before me.
23:16A junior clerk in his office.
23:19He paid her off to keep quiet.
23:21I found the agreement in his desk drawer once.
23:23I should have left then.
23:25That's a lot, Katarina.
23:27Why are you telling us this now?
23:28Because I'm done protecting him.
23:31I protected his secrets for nine months.
23:33While he was protecting his image.
23:35You know what he said to me the night he kicked me out?
23:37He said, think about how you got into my life in the first place.
23:40Like I was the only one who did something wrong.
23:43Like he was the victim.
23:44He is not the victim.
23:45He never was.
23:50Eric, I found you something.
23:52A mid-sized counting house under Miss Cliff Estate.
23:56Your record is impressive, but I must ask about the affair that has filled the papers.
24:00It was a personal failure.
24:01It does not change what I can do with a ledger.
24:03I know this trade inside out.
24:05I can make your estate counting house more than it is.
24:08The estate master approved this meeting himself.
24:11He believes a man may earn a second chance.
24:14Without his word, your papers would never have reached my desk.
24:18Your estate master is severed.
24:19He is in the house today.
24:21You may speak with him after this.
24:27You knew who I was from the very beginning that day at the academy.
24:31That day, you were looking for a Lyra.
24:33I sent you to the rooftop.
24:35I knew exactly who you were then.
24:37I'm giving you this job not out of sympathy.
24:40It's because I want you to see something with your own eyes.
24:43First, we welcome our new ledger clerk, Eric.
24:47Second, I'd like to introduce someone.
24:50She is not only the estate's new advisor on trade and accounts.
24:54She's also my fiancé.
24:57Welcome to the counting house, Eric.
24:59From now on, Eric's ledgers will be placed before a Lyra for review.
25:04She will direct your work.
25:09You win.
25:10You've won completely.
25:12My employer is your fiancé.
25:14You examine every ledger I write.
25:17Every raise and stipend, every recommendation bears your hand.
25:21What else do you want?
25:24I don't want anything, Eric.
25:27To me, you are simply a clerk.
25:30From the figures before us, I recommend renewing the military horse supply contracts.
25:35Your figures on page three are copied from last year's estate ledger.
25:38Three new trade ordinances took effect this season.
25:41You have accounted for none of them.
25:42And your fifth page estimate is contradicted by this year's market prices.
25:46Redo it.
25:47Place it on my desk tomorrow.
25:49Yes.
25:51Yes what?
25:53Yes, Miss Lyra.
26:00New guy, right?
26:01Have you heard our estate master and his fiancé's story?
26:04I heard a man abandoned her when she weighed 176 pounds.
26:07Then she transformed from 176 pounds to 110 pounds in nine months.
26:12The papers call the man who left her the clown of the year.
26:15Can you imagine meeting her now?
26:17Yeah.
26:19Must be hell.
26:21Close the door.
26:23Sit down.
26:27This isn't about work.
26:29Are you going to be a problem?
26:33A problem?
26:35No problem.
26:39I hired you because I believe people can change.
26:42You're falling apart.
26:43You don't know what it's like to feel like furniture in your own life.
26:47And whose fault is that?
26:49Mine.
26:50All of it.
26:52Katerina.
26:53The wedding.
26:55Everything.
26:55When I was 13, I learned one thing.
26:58Get up and get moving.
27:00What if I don't know how?
27:02Why are you helping me after everything I did to her, to both of you?
27:06Then learn.
27:07It's what I do.
27:15To Miss Alara at Iron Rose.
27:17Please see that she receives it.
27:19I am sorry.
27:20Not to make you forgive me, but because the apology is owed.
27:24When you were 22, you saved me a seat in the reading room.
27:29I remember the three dishes you cooked and the suppers you kept warm for me.
27:33I remember it all.
27:35But I took it for granted, because I believed you deserved no better, and that you would
27:39never leave.
27:40You left me behind and became someone I can...
27:43Lead the mare around the outer track three times.
27:45Let her learn you are not afraid.
27:47The hunger passes.
27:49The sorriness passes.
27:50The hard part is getting up the next morning when no one is watching.
27:54That voice tells me every single day, you deserve this.
27:58That voice isn't yours.
28:00Someone else put it there.
28:01You have to drown it out.
28:04Do you hate me?
28:06I did.
28:07Then I realized hating someone is like swallowing a spoonful of poison every day and expecting
28:11the other person to die.
28:12Then how did you let it go?
28:15I didn't let it go.
28:17I grew so strong that the hate became too light to hold on to.
28:20It wasn't worth carrying anymore, that brass key.
28:24I wanted you to beg for it.
28:25I wanted to be the woman he chose.
28:27In the end, I won nothing.
28:30And now, what do you want to win?
28:33This buckle will not hold.
28:36You command...
28:41Six people.
28:42Less than I expected, but more than zero.
28:45The day Miss Cliff Horse Estate opened, there wasn't a single person.
28:48The next day, one person showed up, and her wedding dress was shredded.
28:53You're that?
28:54You have?
28:55Oh, yeah.
28:56It's really you, Miss Alara!
28:59Uh, yeah.
29:00Hi.
29:02You too.
29:03My friend and I have read every one of your illustrated lessons.
29:07We began running after our lessons every day.
29:10Hey, we can't run as fast as you, but can we get your autograph?
29:19How far are you running every day?
29:23We have 47 people on the waiting list, and more letters are still coming.
29:29The current schoolhouse can only take 18 at a time.
29:32If we hire more instructors and keep the same fee, our costs will outrun us.
29:39So what do you do?
29:41We do not raise the basic fee.
29:43Add small group writing in the morning and advance private lessons in the afternoon.
29:46The private lessons carry the margin.
29:48The basic classes stay affordable.
29:50You already did the numbers.
29:54Three times.
29:55The townhouse near the station is the cleanest, but the rent is almost double.
30:00No, we are not selling shandiers.
30:04Take the old stable in the East District.
30:07We need space, light, and a floor people can fall on without breaking their neck is.
30:11It needs repairs.
30:12Then make that part of the terms.
30:15Offer six months.
30:16The first month rent free if we...
30:18Miss Clough Estates' offer of partnership.
30:21200,000 crowns.
30:22For a silent share and no say in your management.
30:25No.
30:27200,000.
30:28No conditions beyond the share.
30:31I know.
30:32But Iron Rose does not need another patron right now.
30:35Each of the five schoolhouses now covers its own costs.
30:38If I take Miss Clough's coin now,
30:40people will say Iron Rose was built by Miss Clough.
30:43I want them to say,
30:45Ilara built that herself.
30:47Do you know how many owners would bargain for months to secure 200,000 crowns?
30:52Do you know how long I trained to lose those 66 pounds?
30:56Money can wait.
30:57The name of Iron Rose cannot.
31:00Your school ledgers are sound and your receipts are steady,
31:03but you have no...
31:06Did the Saving Society approve it?
31:09Approved.
31:10300,000.
31:12No guarantee from you.
31:13No endorsement from you.
31:14Just me.
31:15Better than clearing a fence on horseback.
31:18That feeling?
31:19Nobody gave it to me.
31:21I lifted it myself.
31:24In all the time I've known you,
31:25that's the heaviest thing you've ever said.
31:28What, tired already?
31:31No.
31:32Just thinking.
31:34Nine months ago,
31:36a woman in a torn wedding dress
31:37walked into my academy at two in the morning.
31:40I told her to lead a mare around the outer track.
31:43She went for 45.
31:45I told her to train five days a week.
31:47She trained seven.
31:49I told her she could do anything.
31:51When did you know?
31:52The day you first climbed to the hayloft.
31:54You looked down at me and said,
31:56I can.
31:56And I thought,
31:57yeah, you can.
31:58You can do anything.
32:00That was the moment I realized I'd follow this woman anywhere.
32:05I still don't know how to let someone stay.
32:10Then don't decide it tonight.
32:12Sit here a while.
32:13Today we're not talking about training plans.
32:15Today we're telling stories.
32:18Who wants to go first?
32:21My name is Maria.
32:23Nine months ago,
32:24my ex-husband abused me.
32:27After the divorce,
32:28I weighed 182 pounds
32:29and I was afraid to leave the house.
32:31My daughter said,
32:32Mom,
32:33you walk like you're apologizing.
32:35Then I saw your photograph in the illustration.
32:39My wife says I gave you one ride.
32:42And I've been bragging about it for nine months.
32:45Not one ride.
32:47A lifetime.
32:49I already gave you one.
32:51I want to keep this second one,
32:53so we both have one.
32:54Remember when you asked me
32:55what money and power say
32:56about what a person can become?
32:58I see it every day
33:00in this academy,
33:01in these women,
33:02in you.
33:03I've driven 100,000 rides in my life
33:06and the proudest one
33:08was driving this bride for one trip.
33:11From a count's house
33:12to a horse estate.
33:14From a 176 pound girl
33:16to an iron rose.
33:18You didn't quit
33:19and I wasn't wrong.
33:22You once told me not need to be
33:32to stop fence.
33:32You go to a 1000 Travis
33:32on the street.
33:33You
33:33didn't quit,
33:33Though maybe