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A new postal inspector, Mr. Rushton, arrives in Candleford to conduct the annual inspection. It's the man's first visit and his no-nonsense approach does not sit well with Dorcas Lane, who is convinced he doesn't approve of a woman running a postal station. Starring: Julia Sawalha, Olivia Hallinan, Claudie Blakley, Brendan Coyle.
A new postal inspector, Mr. Rushton, arrives in Candleford to conduct the annual inspection. It's the man's first visit and his no-nonsense approach does not sit well with Dorcas Lane, who is convinced he doesn't approve of a woman running a postal station. Starring: Julia Sawalha, Olivia Hallinan, Claudie Blakley, Brendan Coyle.
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00:00We are expecting a parcel, Miss Lane, dispatched with haste from Paris.
00:08Dress designs, the latest.
00:13Candleford's standing stands to be greatly enhanced.
00:17I do hope the good people of Candleford can properly appreciate your efforts to advance
00:22civilisation, ladies.
00:25Perhaps you will ensure that the parcel is delivered the minute it arrives, Miss Lane.
00:30You can rest assured that I will stake my reputation on it.
00:34We could not know how severely Miss Lane's reputation was about to be tested, and mine.
00:40Every year a telegram would arrive announcing the post office inspector's surprise visit.
00:46Advance warning was required for Zilla to prepare a sumptuous table for Mr Drinkwater.
00:51Miss Lane insisted that though an inspection must be scrupulous and thorough, it must also be civilised.
00:56But this year, we were to have an altogether different kind of inspector.
01:04Ma'am, it's not him.
01:06It's just somebody else.
01:08settings that might help make it happen.
01:21So do you see that?
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01:24Yeah
01:25yeah
01:25yeah
01:25yeah
01:25yeah
01:26question
01:26Ma'am, ma'am, tis the time, tis the time, it's not Mr. Drinkwater.
01:51I would like to speak with the postmaster, Mr. Lane.
01:58There is no master. There is a mistress. That is me, Dorcas Lane.
02:04My name is Rushton. I'm here to conduct an unannounced audit.
02:10Then please do come through, Mr. Rushton.
02:15We usually have the pleasure of Arnold Drinkwater.
02:18Mr. Drinkwater. So I see.
02:23Mr. Drinkwater is taken ill.
02:26I'm not sure I can conduct a spot check under these circumstances.
02:30If you would prefer to come back and surprise us tomorrow, I could put all of the ledgers away.
02:35A post office inspection is not a cause for frivolity, Miss Lane.
02:40Mr. Drinkwater has been inspecting us since my father's day.
02:43I'm glad to say we've always found a little time for frivolity amongst the serious business of making sure that the pennies and pounds were in good order.
02:52Well, these days we must take a more modern and efficient approach.
02:57Since I'm here, I will go ahead with the audit.
03:00Some nice hot tea, sir.
03:05After your tiresome journey.
03:07No, thank you.
03:08It might be considered an enticement.
03:12I am paid by the post office to come here for a purpose.
03:16If I might be left alone now to examine the books.
03:19There was some mail you were anxiously awaiting.
03:37No, it is you.
03:39Would you consider what I mean is I have my father's consent.
03:43You speak so passionately.
03:46What I mean is perhaps you would, would you?
03:49You must be wondering why I am full of good cheer today.
03:56Well, it's no mystery.
03:57There's only two things make Thomas Brown chirp and that's garden cakes.
04:01So what is it, Thomas?
04:03The Lord has called me.
04:05Well, that's a relief because I'm not making any cakes today.
04:08God has asked Thomas Brown to carry his message.
04:11Does Miss Lane know you're leaving to take up the cloth?
04:15You're leaving us, Thomas.
04:16Zilla, you know full well what I mean.
04:18I've been asked to lead a service as a lay preacher this coming Sunday.
04:22I want to be finished work on the school today.
04:33Reverend Anderson pays in full and on time.
04:35Even you have to grant him that.
04:37So he should.
04:39For a job well done.
04:40What's that for?
04:47You'll never know.
04:48Hey.
04:49How's a man supposed to face a three-mile walk with that on his lips?
04:53There's your answer.
05:04Do you have any posts with Sir Timothy this morning, Laura?
05:09I have.
05:10But that's at the end of my round.
05:13But we could work together if you go the other way around.
05:15No, I can't.
05:17I mustn't.
05:20Come on.
05:25Zilla said he called it an enticement.
05:28A cup of tea?
05:30It is a slur on the good name of Candleford.
05:33It's an affront to your own estimation, Miss Lane.
05:36I take no offence, ladies.
05:38It's only right and proper that an inspector should remain untouchable.
05:42How green they are.
05:48The fields.
05:51It's like they're dreaming in the sunshine.
05:54Waiting for a future they know nothing of.
05:59Don't mind me, Philip.
06:01It's just my way.
06:05Better deliver my post or Miss Lane will be giving me one of her looks.
06:08Give that back to me.
06:13You've got to catch me first.
06:14You do.
06:15Come on.
06:16You're welcome.
06:29You're welcome.
07:01Ah-ha!
07:06The rheumatism.
07:07There weren't no rheumatism last night when you was hopping round the wagon and horses at the bare end of a fiddle.
07:12I'll take the nuts out tomorrow.
07:14The sniff of a few shillies is more than I'll ever get out of you, you slack-twisted critter.
07:18Now get over to Canglerford and don't come home till you've sold all them nuts.
07:31You seem to be finished the work we asked you to do, Mr. Timmons.
07:41To your satisfaction, I hope, Miss Ellison?
07:44Yes, indeed, but the decoration...
07:47I hope we have not misled you about the extent of the assignment.
07:51I hear what you're saying, Miss Ellison.
07:54Because...
07:55...my father would never undertake, if you follow.
07:57You won't find me asking any more on the price. We agree.
08:00You won't find me asking any more on the price. We agree.
08:12What can I do for you, Amos?
08:28All I'm after is to see how lovely you're looking today, Miss Lane.
08:33And to pass a morning hour.
08:36I'm sure Zilla will have the water boiling.
08:39You'll need to put it high.
08:51That's it. To the left. That's it.
08:57Straight.
09:00I'm not sure if this one is straight.
09:09Hello there.
09:21Hey you guys.
09:24Take care.
09:29PIANO PLAYS
09:59Morning, cake. My one weakness.
10:08How did you come to be postmistress here, Miss Lay?
10:12Do you mean how did a woman come to be in charge?
10:15It is rather unexpected.
10:18That very much depends upon your expectations.
10:22I inherited from my father.
10:25I seem to have a natural instinct for it.
10:29I'm not sure that what I've witnessed here is a well-oiled business.
10:33We are not highly trained in order to waste valuable time
10:37passing a morning hour.
10:41Our post office is more than the dispensing of stamps and postal orders.
10:46It is the soul of the community.
10:48You may want to write in the bottom of your report that I love my work.
10:52Do you suppose there will be room in your report for love, Mr. Rushton?
10:57Good morning, Laura.
11:20It certainly is not.
11:22I'm sorry, Alf.
11:25It's just I've lost a parcel.
11:27I'm in terrible trouble if I don't find it.
11:29Well, then we'll just have to find it.
11:31It could be anywhere on the whole of my round.
11:33Well, then we'll look along the whole of your round.
11:35If I don't get back, Miss Lane will be asking where I've been our morning.
11:39Well, you get back, and I'll look.
11:42I'm all done digging ditches for today.
11:43Oh, Alfie, what would I do without you?
11:52I hope you're not seeking to provoke the man, are you, Dorcas?
11:55He needs no provocation.
11:58I can see it in his eyes that what he objects to is a woman in my position.
12:02He is one of those men who wants a woman in her place,
12:05looking after the food and her dresses and decorating the house.
12:08Then the man's a fool as well as a porcupine.
12:11Sir Timothy, I wasn't aware you were such a modern thinker.
12:15Well, I'm not saying I approve of a woman running the post office.
12:18I'm saying I enjoy it.
12:20They're not at all the same thing.
12:24As I'm sure most of your customers might agree.
12:28But not nearly so convincingly.
12:35All that Mr. Rushton will achieve today
12:37is to miss out on Zilla's prize-winning pastry.
12:40You seem to be enjoying this flirtation with danger.
12:44There is something about him which makes me want to vex him.
12:48Your confidence makes me nervous, Dorcas.
12:50Can't you show at least a sprinkling of concern?
12:52That would be quite pointless and false-hearted
12:55since I pay a private auditor to check over the books
12:59long before a post office inspector
13:00even thinks of setting off from Oxford each year.
13:02Let me know.
13:14It's been a pleasure.
13:15I shouldn't have walked with you this morning, Philip.
13:41It's only a walk.
13:45I had a parcel for the Pratt sisters, and I should have delivered it first, but now it's gone.
13:51You must have dropped it, that's all. We'll go back over your route.
13:54If it was anyone else, I'd be in trouble, but the Pratt's.
13:57I'm bound to lose my position at the post office.
14:00We won't let that happen. I'll find it for you.
14:03Thank you, Philip.
14:06We must be getting back.
14:08Hello, Mr McCarthy. Mr O'Grady.
14:17What are you doing, Randor?
14:32Passing the time of day.
14:34What are you doing?
14:34That's why I shouldn't have out.
14:39I hope you're not straying onto private land.
14:42I ain't.
14:43Well, don't.
14:44I won't.
14:45We thought invitations to the finest ladies from Bicester to Banbury would enhance the anticipation.
14:58Perhaps it might be best to wait until your parcel arrives.
15:01Oh, no, Miss Lane.
15:02There is no time.
15:03The whole point is for us to be seen to be exclusive.
15:07And we have every faith in you, Miss Lane.
15:09Every faith.
15:14Good morning.
15:34Nuts?
15:36Nuts?
15:37Nuts?
15:40Loasty.
15:41Toasted.
15:43Tastier than a hung pheasant.
15:46Nuts?
15:47Robert! Why do you take such dedicated care with your work?
16:07A man can take pride in his craft, can't he?
16:10You may call it a man's pride, Robert, but what I see is divine love.
16:15I don't doubt that you do, Thomas Brown.
16:18And let them give it to the doers of the work which is in the house of the Lord
16:22to repair the breaches of the house.
16:33Miss Ellison, good day.
16:45I notice that you have yet to implement the new Sunday collection.
16:58We don't have the staff to do it.
17:01You have the senior postman.
17:03What is he called?
17:04Thomas Brown.
17:06Thomas has other commitments on a Sunday, I'm afraid.
17:09Has he refused to do it?
17:10We discussed the matter when the notification came through.
17:13We make these initiatives in order to improve our service.
17:16We certainly don't want to be held back by unenlightened attitudes.
17:20If Brown objects, then head office might consider it a dereliction of his duties.
17:25Thomas has worked for us for many years,
17:27and I have never had cause to question his dedication.
17:31I will speak to him myself.
17:33Get to the ABC of the matter.
17:35The ABC of the matter is right before our eyes.
17:40He is a devout Christian.
17:42Why must you continually rub up against my authority?
17:46I am the inspector,
17:47and I intend to impose my will here.
17:50I warned the mistress's grandfather about that,
18:13and it's still a menace.
18:14That well was never covered up properly.
18:20There's a peril awaiting some poor, unsuspecting soul
18:24to vanish and go down and down and down.
18:30I expect it'll be me.
18:34I hear that you object
18:36to taking on the new Sunday collection.
18:40Yes, sir.
18:42I do object.
18:43Your colleagues across the county have agreed.
18:47It is your place, man,
18:48to obey the duties laid down for you by the department.
18:52That's true, sir.
18:53Not when those duties
18:55conflict with my calling.
19:00Worship.
19:01Another emotional crutch.
19:03Backwards thinking.
19:05You'd be better advised to join the modern world
19:07and attend the calling that provides you with your bread and butter.
19:10Before I leave today,
19:11I want to hear from you
19:14that you will take on the new collection
19:16this coming Sunday.
19:17What is it, Zilla?
19:37I've been in the garden, ma'am.
19:40Yes?
19:40I think I'll go and hang out in the washing, ma'am.
19:45I just thought you'd like to know that.
19:47Thank you, Zilla.
19:49Ah, Laura.
19:51They've been wondering where you've got to.
19:53You're looking very pale.
19:55Those long walks and country air are supposed to put some colour into your complexion.
19:58I have something to tell you, ma'am.
20:01If I may.
20:02What is it?
20:02I saw the Irish labourers on the road
20:04and they were wondering if they might start by tonight.
20:07But of course.
20:08I know it's all right.
20:10Tell them they can come in every night or day or night.
20:13If the inspector's here.
20:16Oh, simply tell them to keep an eye out for him leaving
20:18and then come around the back as usual.
20:20If you're sure, ma'am.
20:21Why shouldn't I be?
20:23Rashton will admit defeat
20:24and be on his way before the moon is up.
20:29Nuts!
20:31Nuts!
20:31BASALONIS!
20:55BASALONIS BIGGEST PONIES!
20:58BASALONIS!
21:11BASALONIS BIGGEST PONIES!
21:28BASALONIS BIGGEST PONIES!
21:44Thank you, sir.
21:46I do appreciate a bit of help from a gentleman with the hard work.
21:51I don't mind the heaving, but it's the terrible back pain I have had for the last 20 years.
21:59Just tell me where you want it. Let's get it done.
22:01I'm so grateful I didn't have to ask.
22:05This way, sir.
22:07Up there.
22:09You just have to go to the bottom end, sir.
22:13Down there. Across there.
22:21I would like to speak with the young miss.
22:40Miss Lane is a fine example to a young girl like you, learning the ways of the post office.
22:45I don't doubt that she's come to rely on an apprentice as bright and quick-witted as you, Laura.
22:55I'm only just learning, sir.
22:57Of course. Yes.
23:01But I imagine you will have your secrets between you, don't you?
23:09An intelligent girl like you, Laura.
23:11You could do well as a learner in the head office.
23:16They are much sought-after positions.
23:20I have the ear of the postmaster general.
23:24I'm sure you won't always want to be bogged down in a backwater place like Candleford.
23:35You do have secrets.
23:38You and Miss Lane.
23:39I'm not sure what you mean, sir.
23:43I saw you whispering together.
23:46Your loyalty to Miss Lane is admirable, but you must be aware, Laura, that you owe your true allegiance to the post office.
23:53You were whispering with the postmistress.
23:56If you keep something from the inspector, you're placing yourself in a perilous position.
24:03You were whispering, sir.
24:06Go on.
24:07What about?
24:09I'd rather not say, sir.
24:11I am instructing you to tell me, whatever it is.
24:15Concerns you, sir.
24:16You must tell me.
24:18I demand it.
24:21Miss Lane said we are to be kindly to you, sir.
24:24Because you have a lonesomeness about you that can only be cured by love.
24:28I will, of course, do everything I can to protect your position here, but it seems that Mr. Rushton has taken against us.
24:55And I'm afraid if we send him back to Oxford with your refusal as his only prize, then he will go at it with a vengeance.
25:02You said, ma'am, protect my position?
25:05Yes.
25:06If it is considered a dereliction of your duties, then Mr. Rushton could have a case for your dismissal.
25:12Ma'am, how many years have I turned out fair weather and foul?
25:14And the loss of your pension.
25:17So before he leaves, I ask you to perhaps present a more even-tempered response to give us some time to gather our forces.
25:26Are you saying, ma'am, I should tell him that I will do the collection this Sunday?
25:32I suppose I am, yes.
25:35Perhaps now that you are satisfied there are no hobgoblins in our books,
25:58you might like to join us in some refreshment before you leave, Mr. Rushton.
26:02There is still the unresolved matter of this Sunday's collection.
26:08Thomas?
26:12It's not for me to decide, ma'am.
26:16It is the Lord who dictates my obligations on the holy day.
26:22Thomas means no harm, Mr. Rushton.
26:24We place ourselves at your mercy on this matter.
26:27Mercy does not make for a professional postal service.
26:32If I discover that this man has failed to take up the collection this Sunday,
26:38I will bring a dereliction charge and I will not let it go until he is removed.
26:44Good day to you.
26:49We all knew that was not the end of Mr. Rushton.
26:53He was more impatient to trap Miss Lane than we dared imagine.
26:56The Irish farm workers could not afford to lose one daylight hour.
27:08So Miss Lane bent the rules and let them use the post office after closing.
27:11Mr. Rushton, you're back.
27:28Mr. Rushton, you're back.
27:42And you're trading outside of licensed hours.
27:45You realise what this means, Miss Lee?
27:47I know too well.
27:50It means that good men who work every hour of daylight
27:52are able to send home a little something for their loved ones.
27:55It is a flagrant disregard of the statutes of your office.
27:59You have forfeited your right to practise.
28:02I think it is rather undignified for a man
28:04to threaten a woman in such a brutish fashion.
28:07I have watched you.
28:10I know you.
28:11You think because you dress so fine and you talk so fine
28:14because you're born to it,
28:15that you're above post-office regulations,
28:17above everything and everyone.
28:19I am here to show you
28:21that you are nothing compared to the rule
28:23of post-office command and decree.
28:26If I have given the impression of being aloof,
28:28I apologise.
28:31I promise you I have no such intention.
28:34I merely consider it my duty
28:36to be a human being before a servant to my office.
28:39I have watched you, too.
28:44And what I have seen is a man
28:46who has not exchanged a civil word with anyone
28:49in the hours that you have been here.
28:51A man who does not even have the grace
28:53to accept a cup of tea without taking and giving offence.
28:57You prop up your self-importance with rules, rules, rules.
29:01It is a sorry sight.
29:02I will be reporting you in full.
29:08Oh, I would expect nothing less than in full
29:11from a ticks-and-crosses man like you, Mr Rushton.
29:14Any man who must puff up his own worth
29:17with the ruination of others
29:18is not welcome in my parlour.
29:21Now, if you will excuse us,
29:23Mr McCarthy has the rather more pressing concern
29:26of providing for his family.
29:27And that goes for me, too.
29:57Let me in, my darling!
30:19Did you sell them nuts?
30:20No.
30:21I ain't, but I got something out of there.
30:25A parcel.
30:26Did you get any money for food?
30:28No, I ain't, but I got a parcel.
30:33Then you can sleep in the pigsty.
30:35And that's all that you deserve.
30:38Oh, Queenie.
30:40Queenie, my dear.
30:41Queenie!
30:50Oh, hey.
30:53Beautiful morning.
30:56Oh.
30:57Oh, my feet.
31:13Oh, my God.
31:21Oh, shit.
31:22Adelaide, what is it?
31:37You're not to get excited, because it's just a feeling,
31:41but I've been looking at the calendar,
31:44and, um, but you're not to make any assumptions
31:47until I've seen Dr Ingram's.
31:49And you must promise me you mustn't tell a soul.
31:52So many things I'm not allowed to do.
31:56Am I allowed to kiss you?
31:57I think that might be exactly what I need.
32:08But you said you'd be finished yesterday.
32:10I said perhaps yesterday.
32:12The job takes as long as it takes if it's to be done right.
32:15Well, at least we know they will pay when it's completed.
32:20So what's your next job?
32:22Miss Peebles' front wall needs repairing.
32:26When do you start that?
32:27When this one's finished.
32:28Why do you keep going on about it?
32:30Because it's not just this month's rent we need to think about.
32:33Have we ever missed a rent?
32:34Robert, I know that mending fint walls is not what you want to be doing.
32:40But it's work.
32:45You're too quiet.
32:48I know you.
32:51What is it that you're not saying?
32:53Go on, go on out.
33:01Oh, boy.
33:03Go on, say it.
33:05I've worked hard to better myself.
33:07Give myself a skill.
33:09And here I am mending flint walls and school buildings.
33:11And you'll be telling me your usual story of how we're stuck here in this God-forgotten place.
33:16Well, that's true.
33:16Only concerned with yourself again.
33:19When we have four children to feed and clothe and raise.
33:22Five.
33:23We have five children to raise.
33:24Laurie's gone.
33:26And if you think I am holding you back...
33:28You see how it's always turned against me.
33:31I just want to feel the blood in my veins.
33:34Pour myself into my work.
33:35And you cast me as a villain.
33:38Selfish.
33:38Ready to run away from my responsibilities.
33:40Robert.
33:41Sorry.
33:43It was wrong of me to say that.
33:50It's what I fear, that's all.
33:54That this life is not enough for you.
33:58I'm not enough for you.
34:03You're supposed to say it is.
34:06I am enough.
34:09It is.
34:13Then why don't I feel it?
34:20Sunday morning came and no one could have been more surprised than I to find Thomas in his uniform.
34:25He looked to be in such anguish.
34:29Here it was, his great day.
34:32Thomas Brown was to preach to his own congregation.
34:36Yet he was nowhere to be seen.
34:37You saw him in his uniform.
34:50You saw him in his uniform.
34:53You saw him in his uniform.
34:56Six days shall you labor.
35:18But the seventh day is the holy day.
35:22A man cannot claim to serve God unless he overcomes all of his petty fears and selfish desires.
35:34I copied those sentiments from a book.
35:42I can quote you any manner of chapters and verses.
35:47And I won't deny that I love that book.
35:49But what if those fears don't feel petty now, here, today, what then?
36:03What if a man's desire is to do his work, take his day of rest,
36:09and then use that day in whatever way he chooses?
36:12He says, I choose this place.
36:19I know that I go about preaching devotion and sacrifice.
36:24Perhaps God saw fit to put me to the test.
36:32My heart tells me that I have failed.
36:36My courage snapped in the night.
36:39I couldn't put it back together again.
36:42But I stand here now because I want my devotion back.
36:51If we believe, then we must live by that belief, no matter what the cost.
36:57Today is the Sabbath day.
37:02And what I see before me is your faith.
37:08You give me strength.
37:16Why did I not simply tell Laura to ask Mickey McCarthy to come back another night?
37:32I think you know why, Dorcas.
37:33Yes.
37:35I was determined to take Mr. Rushen on.
37:38And look where it's got me.
37:41And that's not the worst of it.
37:42It isn't?
37:44I have done something far worse to him than he has to me.
37:49I don't understand.
37:50I crushed him, Timothy.
37:55Quite deliberately.
37:57I saw something in him.
38:00A wound.
38:01A need.
38:02And I taunted him at every opportunity.
38:07I humiliated the man without mercy.
38:10Well, he certainly seems to have got beneath your skin.
38:13And do you think that people were moved?
38:16Oh, yes.
38:17I was moved.
38:19It was very moving.
38:21Oh?
38:21I see you have an admirer of Thomas.
38:51Miss Ellison.
38:53Tis the sermon she rightly admires, ma'am.
38:55I'm not so sure.
38:56She was hanging on your every word with that certain twinkle in her eye.
39:00I can assure you, ma'am, I gave her no cause to twinkle.
39:04You may not have intended it, Thomas,
39:06but your passion seems to have put some colour in Miss Ellison's cheeks.
39:21Philip, what happened?
39:42I found them in a ditch, ma'am.
39:44Get him inside, quickly.
39:54Take him straight up to my room.
39:57Laura, quickly fetch Dr Ingrams.
39:59Tell me again, Philip.
40:05It was the strangest thing.
40:07He was lying there.
40:09It was his eyes.
40:10It seemed to be open,
40:13but he made no sound
40:15and no effort to get up.
40:17It was like...
40:19Go on, say it.
40:20It was like he was wasting away there in the ditch
40:22and he knew it.
40:31I don't know.
40:36I don't know.
40:37It's beautiful.
40:51But when did beauty ever pay the rent?
40:59I am sorry, Em.
41:01I just got caught up in the passion of it.
41:03It's like it was there on the stone waiting, calling to me.
41:05And you'll be telling me you can't leave the poor thing unfinished?
41:07I can and I will.
41:08Oh, no, you won't.
41:10If you think I'm going to have the whole county
41:11pointing at that thing for a hundred years
41:14and saying Emma Timmons was the harridan
41:17who had the charming angel killed in the making...
41:19Well, finish it, then.
41:21And have your children sit down
41:22to a plate of cabbage for their supper...
41:24You've already killed the beauty of it.
41:28So go on, say some more.
41:30Kill a bit more of the heart in me.
41:37Why did you marry me, huh?
41:46Why does a woman choose a man for what he is?
41:48His passions, his strengths
41:50and then one by one take these things away from her?
41:52It's beautiful.
42:02It's beautiful.
42:06Please, finish it.
42:08Helena.
42:21Helena.
42:27Helena.
42:29I'm not Helena, Mr. Rushton.
42:31I'm Dorcas.
42:33Dorcas Lane.
42:35You're in the Candleford post office.
42:38You had an accident.
42:41Helena.
42:43I tried to stop loving you.
42:48I can't.
42:49I can't do it.
42:50Shh.
42:53If only you knew how I've been living every day.
42:57It's an agony of need for you.
42:59I believed your promises.
43:04I gave my whole life and soul over to believing that you would one day be with me.
43:09Shh.
43:10Helena.
43:10Shh.
43:11Helena.
43:12I can't stop wanting you.
43:26Helena.
43:29Miss Lane, I have something I must tell you.
43:47I have been waiting for the right moment.
43:50So much has happened.
43:52If I don't tell you soon, I fear I will burst with the dread of it.
43:55I don't know if it's about what you said to Mr. Rushton.
43:58No, ma'am.
43:58It's the parcel.
44:00The Mrs. Pratt.
44:02I took out their parcel.
44:04It came two days ago.
44:07I took it out and I lost it.
44:12And I take full responsibility, ma'am.
44:14And I've searched.
44:17And I know it was unforgivable because the post office's reputation...
44:20The Pratt sisters will have to be told.
44:25And I must tell them.
44:29I have failed you, Laura.
44:31You deserve more guidance than I have given you.
44:33Taking on a postal round is more than learning a route and knowing the names of your customers.
44:39You deserve to be taught the pitfalls that come your way.
44:43Just as my father taught them to me.
44:46The thing of it is, you're young.
44:48And young people do young things.
44:50Make young mistakes.
44:53I should make my apologies to Ruby and Pearl at once.
44:56They need to know the parcel is lost so they can send out notices to their customers.
45:08Oh, Miss Lane.
45:09Oh, Miss Lane.
45:10Miss Lane.
45:12You were as good as your word.
45:14Delivered the minute it arrived.
45:15Yes, we were most impressed to find the parcel waiting for us on the doorstep.
45:19It's supreme service.
45:20The best.
45:21Yes, just as you promised.
45:23Your reputation for dependability is well-deserved.
45:26Although the parcel did smell rather peculiar.
45:28It did smell.
45:29Those French, they're like a different race.
45:37They're like a different race.
45:39They're like a different race.
45:42A different race.
45:47Come along now, this way.
45:49Mr. Rushton, am I allowed to say how well you look today?
45:55You are.
45:56If I am allowed not to believe you.
46:00You are.
46:02Perhaps we could have a pot of tea in the garden, Zilla.
46:04Consider the water boiled, ma'am.
46:08Tea in the garden is my one weakness.
46:10Miss Lane.
46:34Dorcas, please.
46:38Dorcas.
46:38I want to explain.
46:42I think...
46:43Last night, in my delirium, I made some...
46:49deranged utterances.
46:53When I was a young girl, I fell in love with a man I had no right to fall in love with.
46:59I convinced myself that a miracle was possible.
47:03That love was enough to overcome all difficulties.
47:06You're telling me this to show me it's possible to recover.
47:11A broken heart can take on many forms.
47:16Loneliness can wear a smile.
47:21Dorcas.
47:23It can be unappealing for a woman to always be the fount of wisdom.
47:28And I always say that.
47:36I always say that.
47:43What's that for?
47:45The parcel.
47:47Ruby and Pearl were delighted to find it on their doorstep.
47:50You didn't even tell me you'd found it.
47:51Because, because I didn't reckon that needed any more fuss about it.
48:11A month's work.
48:16More than a month.
48:18Top wages.
48:19What are you talking about, man?
48:21Sir Timothy, the manor.
48:23He wants me to repair statues, carvings, everything.
48:26And new ones.
48:28He saw the angel. A month's work.
48:30And fine work.
48:32I was mistaken.
48:45I was mistaken.
49:03I'm sorry.
49:04Please don't be sorry.
49:06Not for my sake. You mustn't feel any need to apologize.
49:10You, um, kept your promise to me, didn't you, Timothy?
49:15To tell no one.
49:17It's humiliating enough without everybody...
49:19Adelaide.
49:20The joys of marriage one shares with the world.
49:26The sorrows one shares with each other.
49:28Yes, I kept my promise.
49:30Yes.
49:31How long will you wait?
49:43There are rumours at head office that this illness has put thoughts of retirement in Arnold Drinkwater's mind.
49:58Perhaps that will mean we will see you next year then, Mr. Rushton.
50:01I will send a telegram in advance, if that is appropriate.
50:06That would be appreciated.
50:08Zilla does need plenty of warning to prepare a sumptuous table.
50:11It is in front of an appendix.
50:13There might be any thoughts in font size.
50:31eties are very beautiful.
50:34We have given the form to restore the public land.
50:40Philip teased me that I saved a man's life by losing a parcel.
50:47Perhaps he was right?
50:53However, it found its way to the Pratt store.
50:56Our reputation was restored,
50:59and Mr. Rushton could file his report confirming the good name of the Candleford Post Office.
51:06Some visitors came back to us, others never returned.
51:16Perhaps we were all like those fields, dreaming in the sunshine,
51:23waiting for a future we knew nothing of.
51:36That in fact, I don't want to make a plan.
51:38I told him the time, he took me many days after I met him.
51:40And our entire world has been set.
51:42If we need to get to the full moon,
51:45here's the Cadillac,
51:46I'll tell you the next day.
51:48It's lived a day or the개발,
51:49which is our goal.
51:53Stop breaking.
51:54I can't be pédiated.
51:56I've been enemies and enemies.
51:58I can't be a man's life.
51:59I want to live my life.
52:00Have you ever seen嗎?
52:01I can't be a man's life.