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The new "school mistress" is an attractive man, causing emotional upheaval among the ladies of Candleford and some concern at the manor. Starring: Julia Sawalha, Olivia Hallinan, Claudie Blakley, Brendan Coyle.
The new "school mistress" is an attractive man, causing emotional upheaval among the ladies of Candleford and some concern at the manor. Starring: Julia Sawalha, Olivia Hallinan, Claudie Blakley, Brendan Coyle.
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00:00As sweet Paulie Oliver lay muted in bed, a sudden strange fancy came into her head.
00:18Nor father nor mother shall make me false prove. I'll list for a soldier and follow my love.
00:31They say a storm in summer clears the air. And that may be so.
00:37Shh, it's only a storm. Storms can't hurt you.
00:42Maybe that wind blowing Pa's ship closer, bringing him home with a pocket full of gold to fetch Mara out of prison.
00:52You think of that, you close your eyes.
00:58But a real storm can stir the world so about that even when it has passed, things can't be set back as they were.
01:08Come sleep. Might as well work.
01:12It's those gargoyles for Reverend Harrison.
01:20What?
01:22The face you've given it. That's Laura's Philip.
01:27Yes. It's your imagination.
01:36You know, there's nothing gives a lad a glow than being told he's all wrong for you.
01:42Believe me.
01:46He is all wrong.
01:47Then let her discover it for herself.
01:49You know, I'm back a guy.
01:57You know.
01:59You know, there's nothing.
01:59I know.
02:00You know,
02:02I don't want you to hear it for now.
02:04I know.
02:05Well,
02:07you know,
02:07I don't think that's why.
02:08I want you to hear it for myself.
02:09Why in heaven's name did Thomas Brown put it all the way up here?
02:36I have it.
02:37I love the penny reading, sitting in the school after dark, hearing stories read.
02:44It's like being a child again.
02:46I just hope the new schoolmistress knows the proper way of doing things.
02:50Miss Holmes was an excellent woman, but rather too fond of sentimental passages.
02:55I'm afraid I need a little grit in my literary diet.
02:58Look, Mr Tim, before he became a sir, he read one of Shakespeare's sonnets.
03:05I can't imagine that.
03:06Go carefully on your rounds, Laura.
03:11There may be slates and branches loose after the storm.
03:13Ladies.
03:24Ah, a large person.
03:26A Paris post-mast.
03:28What's that one?
03:28That's the one.
03:29Ladies, I must ask.
03:32Ladies.
03:33Ladies.
03:34That's for the new teacher at the National School.
03:37New teacher.
03:38Oh, the other one was such a dry little thing.
03:40Now, what could such a person possibly mean by having a parcel delivered?
03:43Such a bucket.
03:44Ladies, ladies, I must ask you.
03:47Ladies.
03:48Ladies, let's see the property.
03:49Oh.
03:50Oh.
03:52Oh.
03:53Now then.
03:53There is a spectre haunting Europe.
04:05The spectre of communism.
04:08French romances.
04:13Horror stories.
04:15What kind of person is this to have the charge of young minds?
04:18Thomas, I wondered if you could...
04:21The damage to the parcel was none of our doing, but the fact that you allowed the contents to become public.
04:27Yet they were on me before I knew what they were doing, ma'am.
04:30I shall deliver this myself, along with the sincere apologies of the post office.
04:34And we shall just have to hope that...
04:36Miss Delafield chooses not to take this matter any further.
04:42If you had set out to earn my displeasure, Thomas Brown, you could not have done a more thorough job.
04:47Miss Delafield, Miss Delafield, Miss Delafield, Miss Delafield.
05:17Miss Delafield, Miss Delafield, Miss Delafield, Miss Delafield, Miss Delafield, Miss Delafield, Miss Delafield.
05:21Woo-hoo!
05:26Woo-hoo!
05:30I'm sorry.
05:32I didn't mean to startle you.
05:34Um, I have a parcel for the new teacher.
05:38Right.
05:39Oh, I really should deliver it personally.
05:43Post office regulations.
05:45Be my guest.
05:47I'm James Delafield the new teacher
05:51but maybe you're expecting somebody more genteel
05:55actually I was expecting someone more female
05:58I'm afraid they've been somewhat damaged
06:05I see that
06:05on behalf of the post office
06:07there's an item missing
06:08a French to English dictionary
06:15but maybe you think somebody of my kind
06:18should be seen and not heard
06:20trying to master foreign tongues
06:21I'm sure my thoughts are of no interest
06:25to someone so satisfied
06:27with their own moral superiority
06:29I shall make inquiries
06:32as to the whereabouts of your dictionary
06:34that might be wise
06:35what with all those regulations
06:38good day to you sir
06:42and to you madam
06:44you are not missing the first week of school
07:04to go and work in the fields
07:05why not
07:06now sit down
07:07everyone else will be
07:09farmers offering a shilling a day
07:11just to put right the stone damage
07:13when is this boy coming again
07:15I don't know pop it
07:16I don't care what everyone else is doing
07:18oh boy
07:19flower's friend
07:21Philip
07:21it looks nothing like Philip
07:24it's a gargoyle
07:26what are you going to learn in the fields
07:29nothing
07:29you want a job
07:31with pay and prospects
07:32you need an education
07:34now who's laying down the bar
07:35don't back me up
07:36you know I'm right
07:37if the farmer wants to use cheap labour
07:39he can take his own sons out of school
07:41I said no Edmund
07:42now come on all of you
07:43you'll be late
07:44bye
07:44bye
07:48bye
07:49Ethel
07:50Ethel
07:51I grew up in the shadow of this tree Laura
08:05for now it's old and sick
08:08the storm has weakened it
08:11it must be filled
08:13but I wouldn't have lost it for the world
08:16I love every stone of luck rise
08:23if I was to go back and find some of it gone
08:28I think it might break my heart a little
08:30and yet the world turns Laura
08:33the world turns
08:37thank you
08:40there are some letters to be sent up at the house
08:44I'm sure the footman will see you get them
08:45good day sir
08:49yes and
08:50your ladyship
08:51Laura
08:52not still in the doldrums over your tree
08:55I have had a very pretty notion
09:01we should cut the timber
09:03and our little ones will have a rocking horse
09:05made from its stoutest branches
09:07what do you say
09:09oh dear lady adelaide
09:23when she came to us
09:24she was just a virginal lily
09:26but now she's a rose
09:28in full bloom
09:30Laura
09:33we are to make inquiries
09:36for a French to English dictionary
09:38that should have been in the parcel
09:39for the new school teacher
09:40Mr. Delafield
09:40Mr. Delafield
09:42the new schoolmistress
09:44is a man
09:45certainly he is a man
09:47the most
09:48self-satisfied
09:50self-righteous
09:51insufferable specimen
09:53I have ever met
09:54in my life
09:56a new schoolmaster
10:00with an overbearing character
10:02and unsuitable books
10:05well I must confess
10:15I was expecting rather more of you
10:17the other boys are in the fields
10:19clearing up after the storm
10:21it's a shilling a day
10:22but not you
10:24my mother says education
10:26is important
10:27sir
10:27well
10:29your mother's right
10:30Lizzie Arliss sir
10:36her mother's away
10:38and her father's at sea
10:40she's been teased
10:41about going to the workhouse
10:42trap the man
10:48we've searched the stores
10:50and this place
10:50inside out
10:51there's no sign
10:51for his dictionary
10:52it must be somewhere
10:54indeed
10:55but until it is found
10:56he has the moral victory
10:58but no dictionary
11:00a little comfort I grant
11:03I cannot abide to be at fault
11:07and to be seen to be at fault
11:09by such a one as Mr. Delafield
11:11Mr. Delafield
11:23we were just speaking of you
11:25I'm afraid that you're ditching us
11:27no no no
11:27I've come on another matter
11:28I'm told that you work very closely
11:31with my predecessor
11:32Miss Holmes
11:33on the organisation of the penny reading
11:35and I was wondering
11:36and I was wondering
11:36whether you might not
11:37perhaps consider
11:38continuing that tradition
11:40forgive the intrusion
11:46we have so wanted to make your acquaintance
11:49those three books
11:50the man of letters
11:51yes French
11:51we have been in raptures
11:53please say your favour
11:54with some excerpts
11:56at the penny reading
11:56is there anything
11:58I can help you with ladies
11:59it's just a courtesy call
12:03a welcome to the bosom
12:05of candle
12:05lady Adelaide
12:11how very well you are looking
12:13oh don't say so
12:14I shall grow fat and foul
12:16and no one shall bear to look at me
12:18can you believe my foolishness
12:23I have a letter for the physician
12:25who is to attend my confinement
12:26and I forgot to give it to Laura this morning
12:28the urgency is all in Adelaide's mind
12:31of course
12:31you could easily have waited until tomorrow
12:32Tim would keep me at home
12:35wrapped in cotton wool
12:36if you could
12:37but as you can see
12:38I'm quite well
12:39I suppose you heard our misfortune
12:44a tree on Sir Timothy's estate
12:47was weakened in the storm
12:49it has to be felled
12:50a beautiful old oak
12:52I'm very sorry to hear that
13:05perhaps I'm not quite as well
13:06as I thought after all
13:07I have a headache
13:10wish to go home
13:11Laura
13:26will you tell Zilla that Mr. Delafield and I
13:31are going to take tea in the parlour
13:33with Banbury cake
13:36last night in the storms
13:42the little ones were crying
13:43I went to them
13:45but it weren't me they wanted
13:47when your mum was took
13:50there were plenty of folks saying
13:52it was only a matter of time
13:53before you all ended up in the workhouse
13:55there is no one saying that now
13:58let's do that
13:59ask me you're a natural
14:01born to raise a family
14:03ever had any thoughts in that direction
14:07well I have sometimes wondered if
14:10one day me and Laura might
14:12she's got that fillet now
14:14ain't she
14:15maybe
14:16or maybe she just needs to be shown
14:19there's an alternative
14:20supposing someone wanted to read something
14:25in the penny reading
14:26something that would really speak to Laura
14:29what would they choose
14:30her favourite poems
14:33owed to a nightingale
14:35I think
14:35first line
14:38my heart aches
14:41my heart aches
14:43Alf
14:44you do know that
14:46Laura likely be going to the penny reading with Philip
14:50well maybe so Mrs. Timmons
14:52or maybe
14:53she just needs to know there's an alternative
14:56oh come on
15:01what's wrong with a bit of competition
15:04Alf's trying to keep his family out of the workhouse
15:07he's no time for wooing
15:10besides he can't read more in his own name
15:13how is he going to do it a penny reading
15:15if he can learn a song he can learn a poem
15:18he may not have his letters
15:19but he's a better man than you take him
15:21he's a better man than almost anyone
15:23I know
15:23but Laura's got choices
15:25what to do with her life
15:26Alf hasn't
15:29will you keep this ledger
15:41on the counter
15:42and those wanting to take part
15:56enter their names
15:58and the texts
15:59from which they wish to read
16:00it is then your task
16:03to arrange the various passages
16:05into a pleasing bill of fare
16:08you are staring Mr. Delafield
16:12do you mind
16:14I think I've offended your housekeeper
16:20oh
16:21only include a murder in the penny reading
16:24and you will be forgiven anything
16:26Zilla loves a good bloody death scene
16:29unfortunately your predecessor's tastes
16:33ran to the more romantic
16:34and you
16:37where do your tastes run Miss Lane
16:40do you take sugar
16:45you're a great reader
16:51my father was
16:55never knew my father
16:56nor did my mother
16:58which is probably more of the moment
17:00are you trying to shock me Mr. Delafield
17:03I'm being honest with you
17:04I'd not have you think me other than I am
17:07not if we're to work together
17:10when we met earlier
17:15I thought you were not
17:18could not
17:19be the new teacher
17:21that assumption was based wholly on prejudice
17:26and I'm very sorry for it
17:29am I redeemed
17:31only I do like to think well of myself
17:35it's my one weakness
17:37come
17:40let us start again as friends
17:42static electricity
17:47yes charged
17:50perhaps we should expect another storm
17:53half the best place friend
18:19you visiting these parts are you
18:22oh no no no
18:24no I'm the new teacher at the national school
18:26first day today
18:27class was a bit thinner than expected
18:31well if you're here to tell them
18:34that their sons shouldn't have been kept out of school
18:36then don't
18:38Lark Royce folk don't take kindly to lectures
18:40well who does
18:41and who blame a man for putting his boy in the fields
18:46when there's extra money to be got
18:47poverty
18:49it's no disgrace
18:51it's a great inconvenience
18:54my question is this
18:57without an education
18:59how do you ever expect your sons to stand up fight for more
19:02so
19:04I have a proposal for you
19:05if you'll hear it
19:06and after our school
19:09here in the wagon and horses
19:10you make sure your boys attend
19:11make sure of it
19:12and I'll not report this mass truancy to the school board
19:16what do you say
19:20I say
19:22I say we should buy this man a drink
19:28so early next morning
19:35she softly arose
19:38and dressed herself up in her dead brother's clothes
19:45she cut her hair close
19:48and she stained her face brown
19:51and went for a soldier
19:54in fair London town
19:57Lizzie Oralus was very young
20:05and what little she knew of the world
20:07came from stories
20:08and the ballads
20:10herself sang
20:11and who knows
20:13perhaps her plan might have worked
20:16had she not been distracted
20:17by a display of nautical finery
20:19in the window of Pratt's store
20:20oh
20:27that's a new frog
20:31and
20:33get out
20:44you
20:44pay for that
20:45you still
20:46you
20:48your parents
20:49can be ashamed
20:50little wretch
20:51hey
20:51stop it
20:53stop it
20:55enough
20:56enough
20:57Stevie
20:58get out of my way
21:00come here
21:01now on
21:03it's Lizzie isn't it
21:10can you watch it through Lizzie
21:13then I think you should both come with me
21:15did you mean to take the hat Lizzie
21:31it was just to borrow
21:33to be like Polly Oliver in the song
21:36Polly Oliver
21:38you were going to dress as a boy
21:40and run away
21:41no
21:43not run away
21:45it was a sailor's hat
21:48that Lizzie took
21:49her father's at sea
21:52she was going to fetch him
21:55weren't you Lizzie
21:55so he can get mamma out of prison
21:58and we don't have to worry about the workhouse no more
22:01you will not get to school on time walking at Lizzie's pace
22:12Matthew is readying the trap
22:14Mr. Delafield
22:18sorry
22:21you're very kind Miss Lane
22:26I am very practical
22:29and
22:34my name is Dorcas
22:37we wish to bring charges
22:58for criminal damage
23:00battery
23:00and assault
23:01Mr. Delafield
23:04pulled Pearl off the child
23:06and he broke the stick
23:08with which she was beating her
23:10that is all
23:11he was angry
23:13I would say rather
23:15upset
23:15both sisters are calling it an assault
23:19if there was an assault
23:22Mr. Delafield
23:23was not the perpetrator
23:25I see
23:26well thank you
23:29you've been very clear
23:31my regards to Lady Adelaide
23:34oh I'm not sure I'm quite the person
23:35to convey those
23:36good wishes at present
23:38Adelaide is
23:39angry with me
23:40or disappointed
23:42I'm not quite sure which
23:43but perhaps I have been
23:46negligent
23:48my mind has been elsewhere
23:49we felled the tree today
23:57it is natural to mourn
24:06the loss of an old friend
24:08perhaps I fear that
24:11all it is meant to be
24:13has been lost with it
24:14Timothy
24:15I kissed you under that tree
24:19so many times
24:20we parted under that tree
24:21maybe this
24:26loss
24:27is for the best
24:28we have both lived
24:31too long
24:32surrounded by
24:33monuments
24:34of what might have been
24:36and you are soon
24:38to be a father
24:39and I
24:41I have a life
24:47perhaps it's time
24:51I started living it
24:52So you didn't strike her?
25:16No.
25:18They say the child was stealing.
25:19I believe there was a genuine misunderstanding.
25:23Lizzie was guilty of foolishness, nothing else.
25:28With your account of the incident tallies with that of Miss Lane's,
25:31I shan't be taking the matter any further.
25:33And her word sufficient?
25:34Always.
25:37Sir, sir, come put your higher.
25:40Excuse me.
25:41Put me higher.
25:44Sir, here's one broken.
25:46I've won.
25:46Sir, but my conduct.
25:48Come on.
25:49Come on.
25:49Come on.
25:50Come on.
25:58Goodbye, Mrs. Grundy.
26:00Bye-bye.
26:01Yes.
26:01Goodbye.
26:06There are insufficient grounds to proceed with charges of any sort against Mr. Delafield.
26:10But I am bruised from head to toe.
26:14Well, if you would care to present your own person as evidence, then...
26:18Modesty forbids.
26:20In that case, I think it would be best for all concerned if we put this unfortunate incident
26:24behind us, ladies.
26:25He is unfit to have charge of young children.
26:28You have no evidence.
26:48Sister.
26:48It will take more than a death scene to appease her now.
27:05You bore witness for me today.
27:08It seems your word carries great weight with Sir Timothy.
27:11My father's dictionary.
27:16I thought you might like to borrow it until yours has been found.
27:20You put me in your debt.
27:23Again.
27:24What else to that?
27:25I merely told Sir Timothy what I saw.
27:27This morning with Lizzie.
27:30There's this idea held by some that mistreatment is somehow character building.
27:35But in my experience, if a person is brutalised, he breaks.
27:40Or he becomes a brute himself.
27:43I cannot see children beaten.
27:47You've steadied me.
27:54When I first came here, about the penny reading, you didn't want to see me.
27:59What made you change your mind?
28:01A whim.
28:02And this morning when you told me your name?
28:06Why?
28:08I wished you to know what my friends call me.
28:13I'm not your friend, then.
28:16Are you not?
28:19Miss Lane.
28:21Dorcas, forgive me if I'm speaking out of turn, but you seem to me to be a woman holding her breath.
28:25And I cannot tell if that's because you're waiting for something to end.
28:32Or for something to begin.
28:40Dorcas.
28:48Yes.
28:49Such a wicked little child, and he's so brutal.
29:15And so strong, he just wrenched me off and clung me aside.
29:19You've been dashed to pieces for all he cared.
29:22He should be prosecuted.
29:24Without the...
29:25Oh, proper evidence.
29:28I thought Miss Lane had witnessed all.
29:29Ah, Miss Lane seems only to see as she chooses.
29:33They do say love is blind.
29:37Love?
29:38Miss Lane and the schoolmaster?
29:39Well, why not, after all?
29:48I hear he's a handsome fellow.
29:50And I suppose even spinsters have hearts.
29:54As for his being handsome, I really cannot say.
29:59But he is a menace to society.
30:01Well, I've heard nothing but good about the man.
30:10He's got the Lark-Roy's children fair bursting, we're learning.
30:14And he's running extra classes in the wagon and horses in his own time and without charge.
30:21Here is the lace trimming you ordered.
30:24I shall collect payment next time I am passing.
30:27I bid you all good day.
30:28You were right all along, Thomas Brown.
30:38About Mr. Delafield.
30:39The man is stewing in corruption.
30:42He is teaching children in a public house.
30:44And there's nothing, nothing we can do to prevent him from tainting, perhaps forever,
30:50the young minds in his care.
30:53Nothing that is without evidence.
30:58If I paid for ten tuppery stamps, with half a guinea, how much change might I then expect?
31:15Depends on the character of the postmistress.
31:17You won't allow for calling out in class.
31:20You're going to have to raise your hand, Mr. Twister, like all the other boys.
31:24Learning, learning, learning.
31:26Too much damn learning going on round the area these days.
31:30You're entitled to your opinion, friend, but I'd say that an uneducated working man is a gift to those who hang on to their privilege.
31:37Whereas an educated working man is a threat to their comfort.
31:39He's a challenge to their status.
31:41I know which I'd rather be.
31:42No, let's not have this turn impolitical.
31:46There was a tankard broken last time.
31:48That's because I missed his head.
31:50Each to his own estate.
31:53And leave B.
31:54Right, good.
31:54Here's a question about estate.
31:56When Adam delved and Eve span, who was then the gentleman?
32:00Will you cite the scriptures, sir, in defence of revolution?
32:04Well, why not?
32:05They're recruited often enough in favour of the other side.
32:07The scriptures are the word of God.
32:10They are not to be bent to the will of man.
32:14I dispute that.
32:17You dispute the word of the Almighty?
32:19A man's faith, or lack of it, is a matter for his own conscience.
32:23I'm saying that if the word of the Almighty seems always to be used in support of one privileged class,
32:31it must be worth asking if someone's putting those words in his mouth.
32:40I saw the sisters Pratt today.
32:44They are most disappointed that the feral schoolteacher is to escape the long arm of the law.
32:50There is no evidence against him.
32:52So I gathered.
32:57Women scorned are nasty, vengeful creatures.
33:02In what way are they scorned?
33:04Well, by the schoolmaster seeming to prefer Dorcas Lane to them, I imagine.
33:11They were suggesting that she had been rather partial in her defence of him.
33:19Did you find her, sir?
33:22I found her to be a sure-wizard.
33:27Nothing but gossip and idle tittle-tattle, then.
33:32But it does make me think I would like to attend this penny reading.
33:37You would be brought to death.
33:38On the contrary, I think I shall find it vastly illuminating.
34:07The penny reading was not just entertainment, it was a place to be seen, and when the good
34:25people of Candleford heard what Mr. Delafield had done to Pearl Pratt, the tide of public
34:30opinion turned against him, a fact which Dorcas was all too well aware.
34:35Ladies and gentlemen, if you'd like to take your seats, please.
34:54Mr. Delafield. How kind of you to save me a place.
35:05See, I'm enjoying myself already.
35:12Well, I shall tell Alf you're fit to dine with the Queen of England.
35:18Now, how about a little honeycomb treat from Queenie's Bees?
35:23Yes, please.
35:24Yes, please.
35:25You mind twist her while I go and fetch it. And you mind your language in front of them.
35:30Do you know any games?
35:45You know a story about a family. It was froze to death. Every last one. Should I telly?
36:14That was Master Edmund Timmons reading from Vanity Fair. Thank you, Edmund. And now, in
36:26a last-minute addition to the programme, we have Mr. Philip White, who will be reading
36:30from Game Birds and their Habits. It's said that the guinea hen makes a remarkably poor mother. For though prolific in her laying, she is prone to forget or abandon whole clutches of eggs.
36:57And that's how they found them in the morning. Frozen solid. The little baby still clamped to its mother. Her milk turned to ice in her breast. And it happened right here. In Larkerice. The year the old King died.
37:20The bitterest winter I've ever known. Cold in the grave, it was. Cold in the grave. She's been gone a while, hasn't she? It's turning chill. Don't you feel it mortal? Chill.
37:48Don't you feel it mortal? Chill.
37:58Thus, the provident gamekeeper must find a foster mother to keep the abandoned eggs warm, ensuring the survival of the clutch, good sport for his master's gun, and plentiful foul for his table.
38:12Thank you. Thank you very much.
38:20Thank you very much.
38:22It wasn't my intention to read to you this evening, but in the light of certain recent events, I've changed my mind.
38:38This is from Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist. I've always had a certain fondness for Oliver because, like him, I was born in the workhouse.
38:50But unlike him, I managed to get away before I was apprenticed to a coffin maker, as happens in this following passage.
38:57Here we are, my lovelies.
39:00Twister?
39:02Twister?
39:03Twister?
39:04Children?
39:05Oh, you little wretch, screamed Charlotte, seizing Oliver with her utmost force, which was about equal to that of a moderately strong man in particularly good training.
39:22You ungrateful, murderous, horrid villain. And between every syllable, Charlotte gave Oliver a blow with all her might.
39:30Poor Noah! He was all but killed when I come in.
39:34Noah, whose top waistcoat button might have been somewhere on a level with the crown of Oliver's head, rubbed his eyes with the insides of his wrists and performed some affecting tears and sniffs.
39:45Well, we're gonna have to leave Oliver there, I'm afraid, which I think is perhaps just as well as I don't think any of us like to hear of such a small boy being so ill-treated.
39:56However affecting the tears and sniffs of their abuser.
40:00And now we'll hear from Mr. Alfred Arliss, who'll recite John Keats' Ode to a Nightingale.
40:30My heart aches. A drowsy numbness pains my sense as though of hemlock I had drunk.
40:38Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains. One minute passed and lethe words...
40:44Please, I need your help. It's the children. They're gone.
40:49What?
40:50Come, bring me. Bring lanterns.
40:53Don't speak to me.
40:56I have it.
41:00Have what, Thomas Graham?
41:05I have your evidence.
41:16Don't worry, they can't have gone far.
41:19Ralph and I will take the ditches.
41:22Mr. Pexton, you and the others take the fars and the...
41:25Shh.
41:28Children.
41:30Oh, my dear.
41:32Oh, you must be frozen to the bone.
41:37Come here, then, one. Come here.
41:41Is that my brandy?
41:43Isn't it the spirit to keep out the cold?
41:48Are they my curtains?
41:50That old winter ain't gonna get them.
41:52Not with Twister in charge. Too damn clever for it, isn't I? Just too damn clever.
42:02Mr. Delafield holds strong opinions.
42:05That is not, however, against the law.
42:08He preaches atheism, revolution and the overthrow of the natural social order.
42:16Well, if I were in his shoes, perhaps I would do the same.
42:20I doubt that the other members of the school board will share your tolerance.
42:24No, you're right. They won't.
42:29And it is precisely for that reason that I would ask you to examine your motives.
42:34Do you truly wish for a man to lose his position over an incident which, after all, reflects badly upon everyone involved?
42:42Duty is a stern taskmaster.
42:46And now that Miss Lane's testimony is thrown into doubt.
42:50How is it thrown into doubt?
42:54Due to the intimacy of her relationship with Mr. Delafield.
43:12I will see myself out.
43:14I will see myself out.
43:15I will see myself out.
43:18I will see myself out of my mouth.
43:35Pearl and Ruby Pratt have a dossier detailing certain statements made by Mr. Delafield.
43:40by Mr. Delafield.
43:42His religious and political opinions
43:45are of a radical bent.
43:47And when the school board hears of this,
43:49it will cost him his job.
43:53He must mount a defense.
43:56He will lose.
43:58Not only this position, but any hope
43:59of gaining a teaching post in the future.
44:02They also seek to reinvestigate the incident
44:05with the Arliss child.
44:06I don't understand.
44:11They suggest that the nature of your relationship
44:13with Mr. Delafield renders you an unreliable witness.
44:16They will not be believed.
44:17But the public anatomizing of your relationship
44:20will not help him.
44:25Or you.
44:32Let's go.
44:33Mr. Delafield is a good man, eh?
44:36Well, listen, as you said, I think
44:38it is time we both moved on with our lives.
44:53No!
44:54Come on!
44:55Oi!
45:01So quainy this morning.
45:03Says Twister don't remember nothing about it.
45:05Well, the children don't look any of the worst for it.
45:08I'm sorry you have to suffer, so...
45:10I'm not.
45:12If it brought you here.
45:14I didn't say that.
45:16Why not?
45:17It's true.
45:20You don't know how I feel for you, darling.
45:22I don't want you to feel for me.
45:23I can't help it.
45:24It's like breathing to me.
45:25Well, then you must stop.
45:26I must stop breathing.
45:27I have a suspicion I'd die.
45:28Don't joke about it.
45:29Please.
45:30Please.
45:31But you came back.
45:32I'm your friend.
45:33Only that.
45:34Alf, I've known you longer than I've known myself.
45:37And you being my friend.
45:38I'm your friend.
45:39I'm your friend.
45:40I'm your friend.
45:41Only that.
45:42Alf, I've known you longer than I've known myself.
45:45And you being my friend is everything to me.
46:09It's everything to me.
46:15Not quite everything, eh?
46:20I've got to go.
46:35Dorcas!
46:36Dorcas, how long have you been standing there?
46:40When I sat next to you at the penny reading,
46:43I thought to help,
46:45to show that you had friends, supporters.
46:48But I've done you so much more harm than good.
46:51The gossip mongers are saying that
46:53I bore false witness on your behalf because I...
46:58because there's a fondness between us.
47:00We're right about half of that.
47:02Tomorrow, the Pratt sisters will give me a letter
47:06addressed to the school board.
47:09It contains statements that you have made.
47:12Political statements.
47:14It will cost you your job.
47:17And if you fight it, your reputation.
47:20Now, there... there is another position.
47:23Teaching the children of factory workers in...
47:25in Manchester, it's yours for them.
47:27By whose agency?
47:33Sir Timothy was never one to stand by when...
47:36this pipe carries the danger.
47:37Sir Timothy?
47:40You don't think I got the stomach for a fight?
47:44I think you have no idea what that fight would mean.
47:47Despite the two bitter women, what should I care?
47:49Why should you?
47:50Our affections do not exist in a faction.
47:56The saints share the disgust of those around us,
47:59however undeserved.
48:01Will wear the best of us down in the end.
48:06So that's why it never happened between you and him.
48:09Because he was too afraid...
48:10He was too afraid to marry below his class.
48:13I think you make it all so very simple.
48:15Too simple.
48:17I'm going to stay and I'm going to fight.
48:19But you will lose everything.
48:21Your vocation, your passion, your purpose.
48:24I'd have you.
48:26You will wake up one morning...
48:28and you will no longer recognise yourself.
48:33I would hate myself for it.
48:38I can't...
48:38I can't...
48:40I can't...
48:41I can't presume to understand the nature of the ties that bind you here,
48:44but I...
48:45I know that you...
48:46You of all people, you deserve more than this.
48:48You deserve more than what's left over.
48:53You deserve everything.
48:56You held your breath long enough.
48:57You deserve...
48:58You deserve...
49:06Lord...
49:06I'd love you...
49:07You deserve...
49:07I'm gonna be...
49:08I don't see...
49:09You deserve...
49:10Burn this one.
49:12You deserve...
49:12Burn this one up.
49:25I've come to say goodbye.
49:52But I can't.
49:55I mean, I go because you ask it of me, but I would return for the same reason.
50:03I'm sorry.
50:10Good morning, could I send that please?
50:35Good morning.
50:36See you.
50:40A delivery's arrived for Miss Midwinter.
50:46I think she has another admirer.
50:49They say a storm in summer clears the air and leaves the world peaceful.
50:55But there are some storms that can stir the world so about that when they have passed,
51:02things can never be set back quite as they were.
51:07It's so cold.
51:11I'm afraid of a storm.
51:12I'm afraid of a storm.
51:13If you don't, I'm afraid of a storm.
51:15How can I help you?
51:45How can I help you?