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When a new baby is born into the family, eldest daughter Laura Timmins is told by her parents that she will have to make her own way in the world. Starring: Julia Sawalha, Olivia Hallinan, Claudie Blakley, Brendan Coyle.
When a new baby is born into the family, eldest daughter Laura Timmins is told by her parents that she will have to make her own way in the world. Starring: Julia Sawalha, Olivia Hallinan, Claudie Blakley, Brendan Coyle.
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00:00There are always skylarks, their songs hanging over the fields of dark gold.
00:15As a child, it felt as though this quiet old country life had always been so.
00:22And would always be so.
00:30My father used to say that nobody ever came to Lark-Rise and nobody ever left.
00:41But he was wrong on both counts.
00:50Not lost.
00:53Take your little rest.
00:54Take your little rest.
00:55They're so close.
01:00The girl I was couldn't see how quickly the world was moving away from those slow summer days.
01:21This is Annie.
01:49Annie, this is Ethel, and Frank, and Edmund, and Laura.
02:00We'll have to get out of this left-behind place.
02:02No room for so many of us, not when another one comes.
02:06I could only half sense that my own life was about to be forever changed.
02:10Have a great day.
02:24No.
02:35Bees! Bees! I'm back, Kent!
02:58Don't you ever get tired of sitting there, Queenie?
03:00Never.
03:02Tending bees didn't work. That's a treat.
03:06You keep your brother close, young Laura.
03:10Brothers can get lost if you don't keep a careful eye on them.
03:15Be warned.
03:18Ethel! Stop that now! Ethel! Frank!
03:22Stop that fighting!
03:26Laura! You're not tend to the baby!
03:32I'm so sweet to everything myself.
03:35How can you have your head stuck in a book when there's so much to do?
03:39If you're no help to me, it is as well I have found a place for you.
03:43A place?
03:45I was intending to tell you when the moment was right, Laura.
03:49Cousin Dorcas has kindly agreed to take you on in the post office.
03:53In Candleford.
03:54Oh, Laura.
03:55I've never even been to her.
03:56I'm so excited to see all of us.
03:57We can't be that late.
03:58I've never been to him anymore.
03:59I've never been to her.
04:00I've never been to her, yet.
04:01I've never been to our mother.
04:02While I'm going to come in, you have to live out.
04:03I'm so happy to see you in the post office.
04:04I've never been to her, but I'm so happy to see you again.
04:16I've never been to her.
04:17Oh, I've never even been inside of a post office.
04:26It's decided, Laura.
04:28But I'll help you.
04:30I'll look after the baby, I promise.
04:32It's good work.
04:34You'll learn from Dorcas.
04:37She's made something of her life.
04:40A woman running a post office on her own.
04:43And a forge.
04:45Imagine it.
04:46Mark, please don't make me leave.
04:48Laura cries.
04:49Oh, shh.
04:53Come here.
04:54Shush, shush, shush.
04:58When I was about your age, Laura,
05:01some relatives came to visit us from Australia
05:04and they persuaded me to go back with them.
05:08I was so excited.
05:11It was going to be a whole new life.
05:14It was all arranged.
05:17To the night before I was due to go,
05:20they began to talk about snakes that infested their garden.
05:23So I said I shan't go.
05:27And I wouldn't.
05:28But the truth of it is, Laura,
05:31it was more than snakes I was afraid of.
05:37And I still find myself wondering what if.
05:41I've got a potato cake in a bag for you.
05:54A little bit of sugar can always be spared.
06:00No child of mine shall go out into this world without a good outfit.
06:04You're welcome.
06:05You're welcome.
06:24You've got to get rich, little Laura.
06:27Grab every penny stamp in your best-lark-lice mind.
06:30And don't take any nonsense from that oity-toity lot over there.
06:35And don't ever forget where you come from.
07:00To my eyes, a Hamlet girl's eyes, it all seemed so new and so different to the life I'd known.
07:22Walk on.
07:24Did I sense, then, that this was what I wanted?
07:29Perhaps I did.
07:31Oh, Thomas, I believe we have a parcel for Mr. Norker.
07:44Yes, ma'am.
07:45I'm sorry, Mrs. Glover. We have nothing for you today.
07:48Mrs. Macy will cash your postal order, Mr. Peel.
07:52Talkless.
07:54You remember our Laura?
07:56I picked these for email. Thank you, Laura.
08:01You've arrived at just the right time. You've had the most terrible rush.
08:04But it's all over now, so we can have a little something to eat.
08:11I can't say we lay on such a spread every day.
08:13It's a feast.
08:15We thought it would be a warm welcome for Laura. Didn't we, Zilla?
08:19Hmph.
08:26Are you a Christian, Missy?
08:29Even if that were any of your business, Thomas Brown, we should not discuss such lofty matters at my table.
08:36Laura, meet Matthew, who runs the forge for me.
08:42Perhaps tomorrow morning, Mrs. Macy and Thomas Brown here can show you how we sort the mail when it arrives from the head office.
08:49Food is my one weakness.
08:55Walker!
09:18So, Laura, it shall we begin.
09:25Form AB35, the Savings Bank form.
09:28K21, the postal order abstract.
09:30XY13, the cash account sheet.
09:32Don't worry.
09:33You'll soon get used to them.
09:35And the stamps here.
09:37The one penny and the half penny.
09:40Postal orders we will come to later.
09:42Thomas, telegram for Mrs. Arliss over in Larkrise.
09:59Did you hear me, Thomas?
10:01Telegram for Mrs. Arliss over in Larkrise.
10:03So it began.
10:06One little telegram bearing a few words of good news was about to set Hamlet against town, rich against poor, Larkrise against Candleford.
10:17Wouldn't it be splendid to have your very own nine-gallon cask of good ale in your pantry?
10:24Turn on the tap and fetch a glass for your husband.
10:27Well, better still. He can fetch one for me.
10:29And you'll have plenty of time to pay for it.
10:32Just put your instalment by each week for me to come and collect.
10:36Now, who's going to be the very first in Larkrise to own their own cask of best foaming beer?
10:59Who sleeps here?
11:08You do.
11:10Who else?
11:11No one else. Tess, your room.
11:14My own room?
11:16This is a home, not a farmyard.
11:19You're in Candleford now, Gil.
11:29Tess.
11:30Tess.
11:31Tess.
11:32Tess.
11:33Tess.
11:34Tess.
11:35Tess.
11:36Tess.
11:37Tess.
11:38Tess.
11:39Tess.
11:40Tess.
11:41Tess.
11:42Tess.
11:43Timothy.
11:44Oh, how sweet of you.
11:45Are they from the manor gardens?
11:48Ah, this is rather difficult.
11:50You see, I promised these to Zilla.
11:53She dropped the most enormous hint the other day.
11:55Yes.
11:56There's no missing Zilla's intimations.
11:58I saw Thomas setting off just now with a scowl from ear to ear.
12:04He has a telegram to deliver to lark cries.
12:06You know how he loves to suffer.
12:09I take it from your dress that you're not riding out with me today.
12:12The new girl has arrived, Laura.
12:14Emma Timmons' eldest child.
12:16She's very spirited and rather lovely with it.
12:20I'd like to see her properly settled in.
12:22I've left her to get acquainted with Zilla's brand of welcome.
12:26Well, tomorrow then.
12:29Yes, I'd love to.
12:39Telegram for Mrs Arliss.
12:41Telegram? Who are you from?
12:44Three and six for the hire of man and horse carriage.
12:48Well, I can see the horse carriage, but I can't see no man.
12:53I see you've not found Christ yet.
12:55No, and I've not found three and six neither.
12:58In which case, in accordance with post office regulations, I cannot deliver this telegram.
13:02Oh, don't be so heartless, man.
13:06Might be from my daughter, who's pregnant.
13:09When the young'uns begin, it's about time the old'uns stopped.
13:13Well, it's a bit late for that now, isn't it, Thomas?
13:16Oh, that might be about my Walter.
13:19That might be news of his ship.
13:20That might indeed.
13:21And if you hadn't wittered away the earnings he sent you on vices such as ale, you might
13:28have the means to find out.
13:30You stay here a while.
13:31I'll get your money for you.
13:32Ma, what are you doing?
13:33Well, we have to know what's in that telegram, don't we?
13:37Well, that's well enough me lending it, you.
13:39How are you going to find it to pay me back?
13:41Please, Mr. Paxton.
13:43They wouldn't be sending me no telegram unless it was terrible bad news, would they?
13:47Go on.
13:49Please.
13:51This is the last time.
13:52Well, I mean it.
13:54They're charging Amlet folk what amounts to a day and a half's wages for a few words on
13:58a piece of paper.
14:04They're charging for the distance.
14:07Candleford Post Office say we're outside of their eight-mile limit.
14:11No, well, ask them getting paid for it twice.
14:13They're as good as taking the food off our table and the clothes off our backs.
14:16They want to take us for no more than country fools.
14:18Somebody ought to ruffle their feathers and let them know they've been ruffled and all.
14:23We should write a letter.
14:25To the Postmaster General itself.
14:29What do you think, Robert?
14:40That's something about our Lucy.
14:42Oh.
14:42It won't cost me another three and six for you to read it, will it?
14:54Your daughter did give birth today to a fine baby girl.
14:59Mother and child are both in good health.
15:02Oh, Thomas Brown.
15:08We should raise a drop of ale in the blessedness of it.
15:12If you ask me, the blessed thing to do would be to abstain.
15:18Well, the beer's there.
15:20And this is certainly something worth celebrating.
15:22It may take a little while, but she'll settle.
15:32We'll settle too.
15:35We're not the first family to send our daughter out into the world.
15:39It's done, Robert.
15:45It is done, isn't it, Robert?
15:47I suppose it is, if you say it is.
15:58I wrote it all down.
16:00Everything I saw and heard.
16:03My mother always said even small things never passed unnoticed by me.
16:07Are you all settled in, Laura?
16:10Yes, I am.
16:11Good.
16:12Then you need your sleep.
16:14You have a big day tomorrow.
16:16Was that Lady Adelaide we saw today, ma'am?
16:19It was, yes.
16:21And impossibly beautiful, don't you think?
16:23Yes.
16:25I heard she was from London.
16:27Yes.
16:28But now she's married to Sir Timothy,
16:31whose family have given us our squire for hundreds of years.
16:35And tomorrow you may meet her.
16:38You will go along to the manor.
16:39You must go to see Sir Timothy and be sworn in.
16:44No one can work for the post office until they have signed the declaration.
16:55It wasn't so much the words she spoke about, Lady Adelaide,
16:59as a look in Miss Lane's eyes as she said them.
17:02I'm joining you today, Miss Lane.
17:16I'm curious what it is you two gossip about.
17:20If only it was so diverting.
17:22Timothy has engaged me in the same conversation since we were ten years old.
17:26Well, I am no rider, but I promised Timothy that I would make an effort after all this time.
17:34That poor horse knows when there's a city girl in the saddle.
17:38Timothy, you talk such backward nonsense.
17:41Well, you ride so well, Dorcas.
17:43I've watched you many times.
17:47Welcome.
17:47How about you?
18:17You see little case, then.
18:19I will not!
18:20All we did was trot around the countryside saying hello to your tenants.
18:24Yet you came back from those jaunts so much sunnier.
18:26Well, at least now you know you're not missing anything.
18:33What have you been up to, young lady?
18:35Poaching?
18:36Rick burning?
18:37Or is it petty larceny?
18:39I look gravely upon petty larceny.
18:40Forgive me, Laura.
18:46I couldn't resist.
18:46You look so full of dread standing there.
18:48Come in.
18:51Dorcas' son.
18:53Miss Lane has told me all about you.
18:55Please.
18:55I do solemnly promise and declare that I will not open or delay or cause or suffer to be opened
19:05or delayed any letter or anything sent by post.
19:08And do you?
19:13Solemnly promise to be a servant of Her Majesty's post office, bound by its many codes and statutes?
19:21I do, sir.
19:22Then now you may sign it.
19:27Very well read it was, too.
19:34You should do well with Miss Lane.
19:35She is an excellent woman.
19:39Uh, efficient, I mean.
19:42And respected.
19:46And kind to those of whom she approves.
19:48Your eyes are young, Laura.
19:56Let's hope they will never be dimmed by crying.
20:18You tell him.
20:19That letter is from all of Lark Rice.
20:22Mr. Paxton, I'm afraid there are regulations that govern even what the postmaster general can do.
20:27You ask him.
20:29How are folks supposed to afford it, eh?
20:31On ten shillings farm wages.
20:34Right's right and wrong ain't right.
20:38How can you be so sure Lark Rice is inside of the eight mile limit?
20:41First folk in the hamlet understands these things.
20:45It's in their feet, you might say.
20:47And that's for certain, that ain't no eight mile.
20:53Well, I will certainly forward this to the postmaster general for you.
20:57We're being treated as poor relations to Candleford's jumped-up ways.
21:02And that ain't right.
21:05But no one can ever say that Lark Rice is against her majesty.
21:09God bless her.
21:11Can they, Laura?
21:12Laura.
21:17Well, it ain't Candleford's fault.
21:23Those country savages send each other telegrams about every silly something or nothing
21:27without so much as a thought about how it's going to be paid for.
21:29Mrs. Arliss?
21:51Mrs. Arliss, see you at home.
21:56Sir, I'm looking for Mrs. Arliss.
22:18I've travelled over special from Oxford to collect a payment for the beer.
22:23Do you know where I might find Mrs. Arliss?
22:25Alfie, is old Monday he paid you your wages?
22:50Yes, sir, he has.
22:52Have a thought before you hand it over to your ma.
22:54Well, she'll be expecting something.
22:58There's a fair chance she'll spend it before the day's out.
23:01Now, it ain't the easy thing to refuse her, but it might be the right thing.
23:05Yes, sir.
23:06I've got that.
23:08I am your ma.
23:10You give your wages to me.
23:12But you will buy food with it.
23:14I'll buy food.
23:16Of course I'll buy food.
23:18You see if I don't.
23:28Thank you, Miss Lane.
23:31Laura, is there a letter for Miss Midwinter?
23:39There you are.
23:42Tis churning day on the farm today, Miss Lane.
23:45Thank you, Zilla.
23:46And I should like to take a bath tonight.
23:49Like I said, you're in Candleford now, girl.
23:52That young lady who came in to collect the letter, Miss Midwinter,
24:01she is a cousin of Sir Timothy's,
24:04and the letter is from a handsome farmer's boy.
24:08Intoxicatingly handsome.
24:11It'll never do, of course.
24:13Poor boy doesn't have so much as a penny to bless himself.
24:16Love rarely crosses the great divide of social class.
24:25So, you see, Laura,
24:28that declaration you signed before Sir Timothy,
24:32it means that you and I are the guardians of secrets
24:35that even he may not know of.
24:38Yes, maybe under some lace.
24:46I do think this would suit your ladyship.
25:03The style is the new favourite of Princess Louise.
25:06No, I don't think so.
25:08Perhaps the green.
25:09Satin does so suit your ladyship's comely complexion.
25:16Could I have a reel of blue cotton for Miss Lane?
25:21Ruby, would you?
25:24There's no service.
25:26Now, I know blue is not always your colour,
25:29but this one is a very special blue.
25:31Absolutely pinpoint sky for me.
25:36Aren't you the child from Lark Road?
25:39Yes, ma'am.
25:40Well, sure and don't touch anything in my shop, will you?
25:43You would wonder that Miss Lane could not find
25:47someone more genteel than a little country girl
25:49to assist her in her office.
25:51I can read and I can count.
25:53And I was brought up with proper manners,
25:55which is more than can be said for some people in Candleford.
25:59Oh, well, I can't see her lasting long
26:03under Miss Lane's standards.
26:05So how's your new girl, Laura, settling in?
26:09She's bright, spirited,
26:12more afraid than she likes to show,
26:15knows her own mind.
26:17I hear she made quite an impression
26:18with Pearl and Ruby Pratt.
26:20Yes, and for that, you should give her a medal
26:22and I should raise her allowance.
26:28Timothy, you're looking at me
26:29in that disconcerting way of yours.
26:32Am I?
26:32She just reminds me of you at that age.
26:39You're no good for me, Timothy.
26:42You bring out the sentimental in me.
26:45And sentiment is as unattractive as self-pity.
26:52I fear there's trouble brewing with Lark-Rise.
26:55The letter to the Postmaster General.
26:57Oh, word is out, I see.
26:59I have a suspicion Robert Timmons is behind it.
27:06I wish I could waive the charge,
27:07but he's in the wrong.
27:09They're in the wrong.
27:11They're outside of the limit
27:12and that's the end of it.
27:16If only life was so simple.
27:18My father would never back down.
27:27Not when he felt there was an injustice
27:28against poor people.
27:31But I felt torn.
27:33I couldn't help falling in love
27:34with the luxuries of Candleford.
27:36Your bath is prepared, Miss Lane.
27:43Then I shall take my canary din.
27:46Thank you, Scylla.
27:48Baths are my one weakness.
27:50A quart of buttermilk, I say.
27:57A quart of buttermilk she has
27:59to wash her face on churning day.
28:02And warm rainwater for the bath.
28:06Poor Queenie.
28:28Her brother's ill.
28:29You'd better fetch Thomas.
28:54Miss Terrell?
28:57Telegram?
28:59Thomas Brown says he ain't
29:05giving me the telegram
29:06till he's got the three and sixpence
29:08in his hands.
29:09No, I told him.
29:10I told that Dorcas Lane herself.
29:12I ain't paying and that's a fact.
29:14Sorry, Queenie.
29:16Wrong is wrong.
29:17If that's growing name on it,
29:19then it's our telegram.
29:21Ain't no Candleford muster
29:23gonna keep it from us.
29:25Come on, lad.
29:25We're very twisted.
29:27Come on.
29:29Gentlemen.
29:30There he is.
29:32Thomas Brown, that's our telegram.
29:35Yeah, Thomas.
29:36Relax.
29:36Come on.
29:36Come on.
29:37Come on.
29:37Come on.
29:38Come on.
29:39Come on.
29:39Come on.
29:40Come on.
29:40Come on.
29:41Come on.
29:42Give us our telegram.
29:43Hey.
29:43You talk about that.
29:44Go on.
29:45It ain't even last night.
29:46Come on.
29:47Come on.
29:47Come on.
29:48Come on.
29:48Come on.
29:48Come on.
29:49Thomas was unable to deliver it, I'm afraid.
30:09But it's for Queenie.
30:11Yes.
30:12Well, her brother's ill.
30:13She should be told.
30:14Why didn't he tell her?
30:16Well, because, Laura, it isn't as simple as that.
30:19The post office is built on rules and regulations.
30:22Can't rules and regulations be rung sometimes?
30:25And it is founded on these principles for very good and honourable reasons.
30:30You'll appreciate that when you're older and more experienced in the proportion of
30:33these things.
30:34I don't believe I will, Miss Lane.
30:36I don't think I'll ever appreciate what's cruel and heartless.
30:39Laura, that is enough.
30:41Your place is to work and not to question what you don't properly understand and that's
30:44exactly what you will do now.
30:55Edmund!
30:56Edmund!
30:57Edmund!
30:58Now go home.
31:07Steak and onions.
31:08Mmm.
31:09Oh, Caroline.
31:10How can you afford steak and onions?
31:14Alf has his wages.
31:16And I ain't gonna squander it paying my debts.
31:18But it's all gone on one meal.
31:20Oh, I shall feather the foam.
31:22I have a four and I shall again.
31:24Come and sit down, Emma.
31:26Have yourself a bite.
31:28Whoever said no to Reb, mate.
31:30Timothy, I thought we might ride our Dingleston way.
31:34What do you think?
31:35Well, to be quite frank, Dorcas, we always seem to ride out in whichever direction you
31:39take a fancy.
31:40How can you say such a thing?
31:42It's as much as I can do to keep up with you.
31:45What is it?
31:46Mrs. Turrell's brother.
31:47We had a telegram yesterday to say he was ill.
31:51But Thomas was unable to deliver it because Queenie couldn't afford to pay the three and sixpence.
32:06Now it seems he has passed away.
32:07The poor woman must have lain awake all night wondering what it was we were keeping from her.
32:21Dorcas, you're only the messenger.
32:31Don't punish yourself too much.
32:33My father always impressed upon me to put aside my feelings and do everything according to post office regulations.
32:39But it doesn't come easily when it means I have to stand by something I don't believe in.
32:48Well, perhaps you and I could ride over to Larkrise now.
32:51You could deliver the news to Mrs. Turrell yourself, offer her your apologies.
32:56I'm sure she would appreciate that.
33:09And I hear she was unmannerly to Miss Pearl and Miss Ruby on her first visit to the store.
33:19So you'd have to wonder what Miss Lane was thinking of bringing such a girl under her roof.
33:27Rain in the sky again?
33:30Better have just one more tart to see me through the second delivery.
33:39I felt I did not have a friend in Candleford.
33:45And don't you make the mistake of thinking I'm here at the beck and call of just anyone my girl.
33:51Cause I ain't having it.
33:54And after the troubles with the telegram about Queenie's brother, I felt I didn't want one.
34:05We're all sorry at the post office.
34:07Sorry that you didn't receive the message.
34:13If I have added to you suffering...
34:18He was such a beautiful boy.
34:23My mother always said Harry would even look handsome in his coffin.
34:28Mrs. Turrell, if there's anything I can do...
34:35Such a beautiful boy.
34:40Hey, Dorcas.
34:55Something in the matter?
34:58I just called on Mrs. Turrell...
35:00Because we had a telegram to say that her brother had been taken ill.
35:04But unfortunately, Thomas wasn't able to deliver it.
35:08And now the poor man has died.
35:13I thought perhaps I should tell her myself.
35:16That's very considerate of you.
35:17But if Queenie had known he was ill, she might have gone to be with him.
35:33Thomas should have told Mrs. Turrell that she could come into the post office to collect her message.
35:37Yes.
35:38And if she'd walked the distance, she'd know it wasn't eight miles.
35:42Emma, I would hope that you know...
35:43It shouldn't be at Candleford's favour that Queenie finds out whether her brother's living or not.
35:48Folk in Candleford don't pay no three and six for a man and horse, do they?
35:53No, Emma, they don't. But they don't live outside.
35:54It is an eight mile.
35:55Ladies, if I might suggest there does seem to be a fair and simple way to resolve a dispute about the distance, we'll measure it.
36:05And I'll oversee the operation to guarantee impartiality.
36:09That might be a fitting way to put this thing to rest.
36:13How does next Sunday sound?
36:15Measuring.
36:17Yes, to settle a dispute. I had to do something. It was my idea.
36:20You're measuring the distance between Candleford and Larcries.
36:25And that is why we will miss the most stunning ball of the summer.
36:29Adelaide, I am the squire. I'm sorry, but I must attend to this. This is what I do.
36:33As far as I can see, this is a post office dispute.
36:36It doesn't really call for the squire to resolve it.
36:39Yes, I suppose it is a post office matter, but these are my tenants, so it is my duty to see that justice is done.
36:45You can see that, can't you?
36:46Adelaide, the more I give myself to my obligation, the more I enjoy it.
36:54You could join me. We could do this together.
37:03Thomas, I think that perhaps on this one Sunday you might show a little pliancy.
37:07You may call it pliancy, ma'am. The Lord calls it dereliction. And dereliction leads to degradation. Keep holy the Sabbath day.
37:17We will have two penny stamps.
37:21We just wanted to let you know, Miss Lane, that we will be there to stand behind you come Sunday.
37:27I'm not sure that'll be necessary, ladies.
37:28Well, but it's our duty to defend the town's good name. It's a wonder you allowed such a challenge to your authority and integrity, Miss Lane.
37:35To the integrity of all of us. It is a slight on the standards of the whole of Candleford.
37:41Really, we mustn't let this thing blow. We will be there.
37:44And we have encouraged all our friends and customers to come to the cause.
37:48We will ensure that the whole of Candleford stands behind you, Miss Lane.
37:51Thank you, Miss Lane.
38:08Pa!
38:11What are you doing here?
38:13Enjoying the sights.
38:15My, don't you look the part, then.
38:18How is it for you here, Laura?
38:19I like having my own room.
38:22And the meals. And the baths. And there's books everywhere.
38:26You would tell me if you couldn't settle it, wouldn't you?
38:30Of course I would.
38:32Well, it's all for the best.
38:34Here's to you and your new home.
38:37What is it, Pa?
38:40I've walked that road a thousand times.
38:43Why is it today it seems further than eight miles?
38:45I feel as if I'm making a fool of myself, Laura.
38:49Said I knew things I didn't know, made others believe me, and now I just don't know.
38:54We'll all be fools. All a lot rise.
38:57But don't you worry, though.
38:59If I'm wrong, it might dent my pride, but that's not what matters.
39:03There's a chance we're right and we have to take it so that what happened to Queenie never happens again.
39:06Hopefully they'll be there next week.
39:07Laura?
39:12I have some clothes from when I was your age.
39:13Hopefully, they'll be there next week.
39:27Laura?
39:32I have some clothes from when I was your age.
39:37I thought you might like to have them to wear in the post office.
39:42I don't think I'll be needing them, ma'am.
39:49Do you feel that Candleford is not right for you?
39:53I feel as though I am not right for Candleford.
39:58I know it can be difficult to settle into a new home, a new town.
40:04But I must admit, I thought you were doing rather well.
40:07And there must be some things about Candleford that you quite like.
40:16So what is it that's really troubling you?
40:19I saw my pa today.
40:24He walked back from Larkrise.
40:27And he's convinced that the Hamlet is outside the eight mile limit.
40:31That the measuring will certainly prove Larkrise to be wrong.
40:35Don't be despondent.
40:40My father used to say that we should work with the regulations.
40:46But I have always rather enjoyed looking for ways to work around them.
40:50Are we ready, Matthew?
40:57Sir?
40:58Then lead on.
41:00William?
41:01So, as the church bells rang that Sunday morning, we set off to walk to Larkrise.
41:19I was heading homewards, but somehow I found myself on the wrong side of this little war.
41:49Thomas!
41:59Did the Lord give you the day off after all?
42:01It's not like this is work, though, is it, ma'am?
42:04No one can say that Thomas Brown did labour upon the Sabbath day.
42:07Have a stay.
42:09All right.
42:21Timothy, I'd like to thank you for doing this, whatever the outcome.
42:27I'm just doing what's right by my tenants.
42:30Yes, but you have been a constant friend to me.
42:33And I cannot let that go unmentioned today.
43:03I have to do more, I'm just doing all the time, and you can try a little bit.
43:10I know how the people have gone by the Sabbath day.
43:14I can try it.
43:16It's impossible to do.
43:17I can't do that.
43:19Here we go.
43:20I'm trying to take a little bit of a piece of the Sabbath day,
43:24what's left over there?
43:25So, Timothy, perhaps we could stop for something to eat now.
43:52Food is my one weakness.
43:55Matthew, luncheon break, I think.
43:58Have a wonderful surprise.
44:00Come and have some lunch.
44:01Come and have some lunch.
44:03Come and have some lunch.
44:05Come and have some lunch.
44:07Come and have some lunch.
44:09Come and have some lunch.
44:11Come and have some lunch.
44:13Come and have some lunch.
44:15Come and have some lunch.
44:17Come and have some lunch.
44:19Come and have some lunch.
44:21Come and have some lunch.
44:23What a wonderful surprise.
44:25Come and have some lunch.
44:27Come and have some lunch.
44:28You're ladyship.
44:29You've joined us just in time for the conclusion of our little odyssey.
44:31Excuse me for arriving so late.
44:33I imagined you could get along just fine without a city girl.
44:37Matthew, can you predict the result?
44:38Say, by the time we get the lark race, we'll be outside the eight mile limit.
44:57What's stalker saying to Matthew?
44:59Right.
45:00Time to bend the rots.
45:04Laura, I need you to take a message to your father.
45:08Why have they been feeding you over there in Candleford?
45:32Oh, Alf, there's so much to tell you.
45:33I don't know where to begin.
45:34Well, you might begin by sitting down beside me.
45:36I can.
45:37I have to talk to Miss Lane.
45:38I'll find you later.
45:39Excuse me, sir.
45:52If I might ask, which way are you proposing to travel?
45:59I think you'll find, sir, post office regulations say nothing about the main route, or the safest,
46:15or the most convenient.
46:16It says the distance from the post office must be no more than eight miles.
46:21You can't do this.
46:22What are you proposing, Mr. Timmins?
46:24We can go around the rise that way and into the hamlet there.
46:29Matthew, lead on.
46:30Matthew, lead on.
46:31Mr. Timmins will show you the way.
46:36William.
46:37Go on.
46:38William.
46:39Go on.
46:40Go on.
46:41Go on.
46:42Go on.
46:44William.
46:45Go on.
46:46Go on.
46:47Go on.
46:48Go on.
47:57Well, there are only a few yards in it, but a result is a result.
48:03Ladies and gentlemen, I believe that we have established today that according to post office statutes, the village of Larkrise lies within, I repeat, within the eight-mile limit.
48:18Therefore is not subject to charge for the delivery of telegrams.
48:23But I won't be delivering across no field.
48:33I think they say that's right.
48:35I think the Lord would want us to be magnanimous in defeat, Thomas.
48:38Well, I think the Squire could stand a beer for those with a thirst after our seven-mile walk.
48:44I don't know.
48:45I don't know.
48:46It's no use in worrying, you see.
48:48Things always turn out somehow.
48:49You keep your brother close, young Laura.
49:04Brothers can get lost if you keep a careful eye on them.
49:08Be warned.
49:10Be warned.
49:17Come on for the fiddler.
49:25Miss Lane.
49:26I hope you'll agree, ma'am, that what's been paid out should be returned.
49:36Right is right, Mr. Paxton, which is why I've already returned the three and sixpence to Mrs. Arliss.
49:42Mrs. Arliss?
49:45Now, now, hold hard there, Mrs. Arliss.
49:47And anyone else who has paid, if you will give your telegram to Thomas, I'll make sure that you're re-imbursed.
49:59Ah, this still ain't right.
50:01Canterford's still come out on top.
50:02Don't you dare start anything.
50:04Oh, I've got a Laura.
50:06I just want to tell them how lucky they are.
50:08Perhaps not today.
50:12Mr. Torrell is my name.
50:15England is my nation.
50:19Larkrise is my dwelling place.
50:22And Christ is my salvation.
50:26When I am dead and in my grave.
50:29And all my bones are rotten.
50:33Sing you the song and think of me.
50:35And mine, I'm not forgotten.
50:40Miss Lane, I just wanted to say that I know, Laura.
50:42Post office regulations have their advantages too, hmm?
50:49Miss Lane was certainly right about that.
50:52Life was infinitely more complicated than I thought.
51:01The little roar of the telegram had given me a glimpse of her love of mischief.
51:06Sir Timothy had called her an excellent woman.
51:08And I was about to find out just what he meant.
51:20I felt so proud of my friends in Larkrise.
51:26Poor beyond imagining.
51:28Yet they had never lost a secret of being happy on little.
51:32Back home, my journey will never lost.
51:33And for who did they know?
51:34Yes.
51:35Over the end.