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A handsome stranger rides into Candleford, giving away silver three-penny coins. He has come from London to open his new hotel in the town, and Pearl and Ruby Pratt are delighted to welcome such a sophisticated incomer. However, he is actually James Dowland, a former Lark Rise orphan fostered by the Turrills who, on advice from Dorcas' father, left the area to make his fortune in the capital. Starring: Julia Sawalha, Olivia Hallinan, Claudie Blakley, Brendan Coyle.
A handsome stranger rides into Candleford, giving away silver three-penny coins. He has come from London to open his new hotel in the town, and Pearl and Ruby Pratt are delighted to welcome such a sophisticated incomer. However, he is actually James Dowland, a former Lark Rise orphan fostered by the Turrills who, on advice from Dorcas' father, left the area to make his fortune in the capital. Starring: Julia Sawalha, Olivia Hallinan, Claudie Blakley, Brendan Coyle.
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00:00There were those who said that Lark Rise was like the Outer Wilds, beyond the bounds of
00:14civilization. So a child caught up in this time of so much change, a child with dreams,
00:23might need to escape. But sometimes we feel the need to return, because there are some
00:34things from the past that can only be resolved at home.
00:43What's your hurry, boy?
00:45Late for school.
00:46It's never too late for school. Here.
00:53Is that your ma coming?
00:59I'm my sister.
01:00She's a pocket Venus, your ma.
01:06A silver throppence can change a boy's life, if he knows how to use it well.
01:18Edmund?
01:20Who is that?
01:22You didn't say.
01:23Give me this.
01:25A silver throppence?
01:27That's considered good luck.
01:29That same man was looking down into the hamlet as I arrived.
01:33Well, who is he?
01:35What does he want at Lark Rise?
01:36He's a
01:57Just what Candleford needs.
02:18Enterprise.
02:20Modernisation.
02:21I do wonder if there is a call for such a grand hotel in Candleford.
02:25Who is going to stay here?
02:26Miss Lane, you might show a little enthusiasm for the amelioration of our town.
02:30Yes, we must ameliorate.
02:36Well, yes, I suppose this is a certain kind of betterment.
02:40But it's not so much enthusiasm that overcomes me, ladies,
02:43as curiosity about who our new neighbour is to be.
02:47The gang master says our wages are to be paid by a London concern.
02:51All correspondence in the name of Mr J.D.
02:54Mr J.D.
02:56It's obvious some fine city developer has at last realised the potentialities of Candleford.
03:02We'll know soon enough.
03:03Mr J.D.'s on his way here now.
03:06Inspect the work, ready for the hotel opening.
03:09We must go once, Ruby.
03:10We must finish our leg of mutton sleeves.
03:13It's beautiful, Mr Timmons, the carving.
03:16Quite what this town needs.
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03:48Miss Lane, for more than 15 years, I have taken out the early delivery,
03:56and I believe that entitles me to a breakfast on my return.
03:59What on earth is making you so irritable, Thomas Brown?
04:02Have you fallen out with Miss Ellison?
04:03Ma'am, I have not fallen out with Miss Ellison.
04:06My irritation is entirely to do with a lack of breakfast.
04:16Minnie, is breakfast ready?
04:18It surely will be, Mum, in a minute.
04:35Horozilla would turn in her grave if she could see this.
04:38Nonsense.
04:39If Zilla felt there was a problem, she would come back from the afterlife to sort it out.
04:42Thank you, Minnie.
04:48Eggs.
04:49Soft.
04:54Just as I prefer them.
04:55Food is my one weakness.
05:17Oh, Pearl and Ruby Pratt over the stores.
05:38We are so pleased, indeed gratified, to see that you are bringing such London sophistication and refinement to Candleford.
05:45Oak panelling, we have been trying our best to introduce London standards.
05:50We're quite a lonely outpost of cosmopolitania.
05:52When we heard you were from London, I said to my sister Ruby at last, a boulevardier, who can take this town by the horns.
06:01It is our intention to expand the prats of London, Paris, and Candleford.
06:07May we offer you a small piece of advice, Mr?
06:12Mr. J.D.
06:16You may want to hang a sign on your front door.
06:19Of only refined custom.
06:22There are, shall we say, lower orders who pass along the street.
06:26He may wander in out of curiosity.
06:29Hardly likely they've ever seen a chandelier.
06:32They are to be actively discouraged.
06:35Yes, ladies.
06:37I am well aware of the impertinent ways of the lower orders.
06:42I'm sure that hole is following me around, trying to get me when I ain't looking.
07:07Duffer, that's just getting bigger.
07:09Oh, here you are.
07:16All our life together, you've been bringing other people's noisy chits into our home.
07:21Didn't we say that's enough now?
07:24Don't I deserve a bit of quiet after a life of mine and time?
07:28You might, if you've never done any proper work.
07:32And litterns deserve a home.
07:35No matter whose sprigs they are.
07:38Now!
07:39Who's hungry?
07:42I am!
07:43I suddenly remembered I had belongings in the ender's cupboard.
07:48It ain't right, her keeping a key, walking in and out when it suits her to fetch from her own locked cupboard.
07:56It's her house, Robert.
07:57It's our home.
07:59The deaf old goat wouldn't listen to our complaints, even if she could hear us.
08:04I thought we were the squire's tenants.
08:05Well, we live on his patch, so we're our squire's pastoral tenants, but Mrs. Herring owns the house, so we pay rent to her.
08:14She's keen to exercise our landlady's privileges.
08:17What about her responsibilities?
08:18What about Twister's roof?
08:20Sister?
08:20Sister?
08:21I don't have no sister.
08:23The roof can be easily fixed.
08:24You could do it.
08:25Oh, and let her shirk her duties.
08:27Oh, she would like that, wouldn't you, you old penny piker?
08:30Ma, what's her pocket venus?
08:36Oh, it's you since I heard that phrase.
08:39Your pa call you that as a girl.
08:41Since I'm here, I might as well collect the rent, save me a trip.
08:46Where did you hear that, Edmund?
08:48The stranger said it.
08:49The one that gave me a silver throppence.
08:51What stranger?
08:53What silver throppence?
09:00Host!
09:01Hello there.
09:02I have your post.
09:05Hello?
09:06Thomas Brown.
09:09Good morning.
09:10You have the advantage on me there, sir.
09:12Is that the mail for the hotel?
09:13It's for the proprietor, sir.
09:15Would that be you?
09:15I'll take it from you.
09:16Good man.
09:18Please tell Miss Lane that I shall call on her on a matter of post office business.
09:22I'm certain that hole's out to get me.
09:36I could fix a bit of thatch over it.
09:39Robert said we ain't to touch it because Mrs. Herring herself has to repair it.
09:44She ain't no thatcher.
09:46She's just a miserable rent-snatching hag.
09:49Face uglier than an old potato.
09:52No.
10:00Perhaps Twister is right, Queenie.
10:02There ain't room for so many of us here.
10:06Don't take no notice of him, Alfie.
10:10I want you all to think of this cottage as your home now, till such time as your ma comes back.
10:18I have never been so disoblised in all my days in Her Majesty's service.
10:26Threppence.
10:26A tip from the new proprietor of the Golden Lion.
10:29Is that why we have no more than a footman or a scullery maid?
10:33The stranger gave a silver threppence to my brother just yesterday.
10:36That must have been Mr. J.D.
10:38A silver threppence?
10:41Well, this is the oddest coincidence.
10:43It's an affront against the very uniform.
10:46Where is Minnie?
10:47Laura, go and fetch her, please.
10:48Did this man say anything when he gave you the money?
10:53Tell Miss Lane I shall call on her.
10:56Nothing about the coin itself?
10:58Well, I shall return it to him at the first opportunity,
11:01and I shall make clear to him that I am a servant of Her Majesty,
11:04and therefore deserving of the respect that my uniform deserves.
11:12Minnie wasn't able to come down, ma'am.
11:15She seems to have blessed her clothes.
11:17I dread to imagine how that is possible.
11:21She said she washed her clothes last night and she hung them from the window to dry.
11:26They seem to have blown away.
11:27Minnie, take a look at the kitchen.
11:38Tell me what you see.
11:41That's a disgrace, Mum.
11:43I ain't never seen such a mess before.
11:44Oh, I'm afraid you have seen such a mess before.
11:47You saw it yesterday.
11:49We all did.
11:50And look at that stack of washing.
11:52Let me explain once more, child.
11:56It is your responsibility not only to clean up such a mess,
12:00but to prevent it from happening in the first place.
12:02Do you understand what responsibility is, Minnie?
12:06It's doing your work so you don't get scolded like you scold me.
12:10Miss Leen?
12:11Miss Leen?
12:12Go and clean the attic.
12:13I want you out of my sight.
12:14Miss Leen?
12:15We would like to know how these...
12:16One can hardly call them garments.
12:17...came to be strewn across our doorstep.
12:18Miss Leen?
12:19Miss Leen?
12:20We would like to know how these...
12:22One can hardly call them garments.
12:24...came to be strewn across our doorstep.
12:31Lara!
12:33Take a look at this.
12:41Minnie!
12:42Don't you think you ought to be concerning yourself with tidying up the attic?
12:45I surely will in a minute.
12:47It's such a beautiful thing.
12:55I wonder who it belonged to.
12:58No, no, Minnie, I don't think you should.
13:01I shall find me a boy who wants to marry me.
13:03And that will be the gladest day of my life.
13:06Because then I shall belong.
13:10We all belong, Minnie.
13:13No.
13:14Not me.
13:16People get tired of Minnie.
13:19Miss Leen will become tired of me and then she will turn me out and send me back.
13:23Minnie, perhaps you're not ready for a place yet.
13:25It might be best for you to go home.
13:35What is it, Minnie?
13:37We have a stepfather.
13:38He has such a temper.
13:47Just the sound of his footsteps coming up the path.
13:49Laura, are you up there?
13:50Laura, are you up there?
13:51Yes, ma'am.
13:52What are you two girls doing with me?
13:56It's not a plaything, Minnie.
13:57It's a family heirloom.
13:58More importantly, it's a treasured part of my past.
13:59My life.
14:00And you must treat such things with the respect that they deserve.
14:01Yes, ma'am.
14:02The braid is worn.
14:03I must have the Mrs Pratt look at it for me.
14:04I'd forgotten how beautiful it was.
14:05It was my mother's.
14:06Did you keep it for you, ma'am?
14:07Yes, ma'am.
14:08Did she keep it for you, ma'am?
14:22Yes.
14:23Yes, she did.
14:25It was my mother's.
14:26Did she keep it for you, ma'am?
14:27Yes.
14:28Yes, ma'am.
14:29Yes.
14:32Yes, she did.
14:35Yes, she did.
14:39She would have liked to see me wearing it.
14:41It's not too late, Mum.
14:43Minnie?
14:47I don't mind.
14:51I would have liked to have fulfilled my mother's dream.
14:55Or girl wouldn't.
15:05Forgive me. I did not hear the door. The bell...
15:16We found the dress in the attic. We were just admiring it.
15:21There is no need for you to explain yourself to me, Miss Lane.
15:25I consider myself fortunate to have wandered in on such an unexpected delight.
15:30But I would not like you to think I was about to be married.
15:33Neither would I.
15:36Allow me to introduce myself.
15:39I'm the owner of the Golden Lion.
15:42Ah! The mysterious Mr. J.D.
15:46There is no mystery.
15:47Indeed, I have here some invitations to the official opening,
15:50which I would like to post.
15:52Then the whole town can meet me.
15:56And I'm right at the top, I see.
15:59And you, Thomas Brown and Mrs. Pratt.
16:06Mr. and Mrs. Tarman. One for you, Laura.
16:11Dr. Ingrams.
16:13Constable Patterson.
16:14Promises to be quite an occasion.
16:18Queenie and Twister Turrell.
16:20The Brabies.
16:22And my ma and pa.
16:25Everyone in luck cries.
16:27You are looking at me most strangely, Miss Lane.
16:32Am I?
16:34I do apologize, Miss...
16:36I feel as though I know your face.
16:39That is not so surprising.
16:41I watched you ride up Fordlow Lane many times as a boy.
16:45You did?
16:47I hardly suppose you noticed me.
16:49James Dowland.
16:51Lately of London.
16:52Now of Candleford.
16:53She still has a hold of his hand.
16:57Maybe.
17:00I hope you have noticed me now.
17:02I have.
17:03I mean...
17:05Welcome to Candleford, Mr. Dowland.
17:08Thank you, Miss Lane.
17:10I already feel as if I belong here.
17:13Good day.
17:23This is the only way to go.
17:24Everyone on the road is so far, but...
17:27I'm not sure to take any time and celebrate.
17:30I have found a new vision.
17:32I'm not sure to take a new vision.
17:34Because if I've never been to myself, my group of participants,
17:36I will take a new vision.
17:38The people I'm behind the wheel
17:40is because of the distance to the distance.
17:41I'm so inspired by my friend.
17:43I've never had a new vision for the age.
17:44I've never met him at the age.
17:46I've never had a vision for him.
17:48But there's a new vision for them,
17:49I wonder who has a new vision for him.
17:51It's a new vision for him,
17:51what is it seems we have all been invited to the grand opening of the golden lion hotel in
18:12camp oh you shan't go what kind of grand opening is it invoiced any old folk how is it ever possible
18:23what is it emma it's james it's james dowland his own hotel matchstick james rag and bone james no
18:36matchstick now if you ask me the man's rather too full of himself full of himself wow that's
18:44marvellous i think i met him he looked grand and he's from our hamlet queenie took little james in
18:52when his ma died and he had no one them days queenie had a whole trail of little hen she took him
18:58i took a tip from a lark rise boy if he's back why is he not show his nose here himself
19:07he did that's just james's way stay in the shadows and fend a gift a lark rise boy
19:17he must have made a proper fortune to have hotel in candelford
19:20so why does he want to come back
19:24being as he is from london mr jd will so obviously bring a much needed degree of city professionalism
19:39and sophistication to candelford oh how pleasing to have a neighbor whose background is something
19:47to look up to one knows when one is in the presence of breeding
19:51how must it have felt to wear such a dress on your wedding day to be so in love that you give
19:59your whole life to a man
20:00if you can restore it as best you can please
20:15a labor of love i assure you miss what a fine piece of bridal work
20:22ladies ladies i need your absolute assurance that my gown will be ready for the grand opening
20:32oh mrs herring perhaps we could let you have your account send it send it
20:39how are the basooms i need your absolute assurance that you will make the most of the basoom
20:46only an act of god could save that basoom we have sent your account mrs herring three times
20:55what three times i believe is that not so miss lane send it again i do not carry cash
21:02i so look forward to trying on my dress a grand opening i'd do so like a bit of society
21:11i'm sure we will all be vitalized by the bit of society mr jd has planned for us
21:17why it is bees bees look who it is
21:26twister is little james on a girth big door
21:33at least we know he's still being in god's air after all these years
21:37i always trusted that you knew i'd come back queen
21:46no
21:49and that my gratitude for all that you'd given me was never in any doubt
21:55of course
21:57it's only a blessing to see you looking so fine
22:02i'm a champion quite the regular gentleman now and us with a hole in our roof shivering
22:10at the mercy of the wind and the rain the biting rain
22:15james
22:16emma
22:18what ever has become of you you look so different
22:23emma you don't look a day older than that little pocket venus that dragged her feet
22:28all the way to school and skipped all the way home
22:37i love this old cottage
22:39it will be my pleasure to have the roof restored
22:42kind words mr darlin charity is not what's needed here
22:47more like a tenant's rights to live in a sound and safe property
22:51robert is not the practical course to take some initiative here
22:55well the old hag ain't minded to do nothing about it you said jokes yourself robert
22:58we're not shy of initiative sir
23:01but those of us who pay rent in larkrise appreciate that what is needed
23:05is to fix the hole in our landlady's thinking or our problems will go on returning
23:10will principle keep an old couple warm and dry at night
23:13it will sir
23:15if we hold together show mrs herring she must accept her responsibilities
23:21i am most grateful to you mr timmons for showing me the way of things
23:26queenie
23:28how about a cup of that penny royal tea
23:31how often did that restore me as a boy
23:34what about our hole
23:38you see you have put down my bible somewhere and it won't be found
23:46perhaps so much pining has left you distracted thomas
23:49ma'am i do not pine and i am not distracted
23:55not everything in my life can be accounted for by miss ellison
23:58i have simply mislaid my bible
24:01and when i find it normality will be restored
24:04i managed to get us some spice double sauce cake laura
24:14what is he doing out there
24:20he seems to be hammering something over the door
24:23why don't you go and take a look ma'am
24:28i have no intentions of doing any such thing
24:31going out at night to pry on our neighbours
24:34james dowland
24:56james dowland
24:58james dowland
24:59lately of london
25:01now of candleford
25:03and once of larkrice
25:06my father used to give these to local boys
25:12it was one of his peculiarities
25:16he gave that one to me
25:18and what he said as he handed it to me
25:21gave me the conviction to leave
25:23to go and make my fortune
25:25A silver threepence can change a boy's life.
25:29If he knows how to use it well.
25:32My father was a journeyman smith when he arrived in Candleford.
25:37By the time he died, he owned a post office and a forge.
25:42Your father was an inspirational man.
25:46The one and only time I spoke to him, he set me on the course of my whole life.
25:50When I had to look after the post office while he was sick for nine days,
25:54I have often wondered.
25:57I suspected he was well enough to get up from his bed in a day or two.
26:03He left me in charge of the men.
26:07It was only his faith which gave me courage.
26:10I can't help thinking that being in charge of men comes naturally to you, Miss May.
26:16And I can't decide if that is an insult or a compliment.
26:22I think I would rather it was an insult.
26:24I have missed the opportunity of thanking your father.
26:29I hope you will allow me to show my appreciation to his beautiful daughter instead.
26:37Mr. Dowland, I suspect that the night and stars have gone to your head a little.
26:42I should go.
26:43The first thing my guests will see each day is your post office.
26:52Then no doubt if your guests are in need of a stamp or two, they will know where to find us.
26:57Miss Slane, would you agree with me that the post office frontage does not present a picture of loveliness?
27:02Perhaps that is because we have no wish and no need to be a picture of loveliness, even to please your guests.
27:12The post office has looked exactly the same since my father's day.
27:15That is my point.
27:16When you live with something for a long while, you do not notice that it has lost its luster.
27:23Fresh eyes see things as they are now.
27:26Well, I am sorry to be a disappointment to your fresh eyes, Mr. Dowland.
27:31Let me apologise, Miss Slane.
27:32My entreaty came out all wrong.
27:35Permit me to explain.
27:36Please do.
27:36If the post office is so drab and displeasing, might I suggest that your guests look the other way?
28:06I have a letter from Mrs. Herring.
28:36I would like it officially delivered by the post office so that she cannot deny receiving it.
28:41Oh, I'm afraid Mrs. Herring denies even receiving her accounts from the stores, no matter how officially delivered they are.
28:47There's no use speaking to the woman.
28:49She ignores all appeals to fix the roof, mend the walls, anything at all that might cost her a penny.
28:54Well, it seems so long as Mrs. Herring is receiving her rent, the hole in Mrs. Turrell's roof will be allowed to survive and multiply.
29:01And if we were to stop paying our rent, it would take no more than the blink of an eye for her to have the bailiffs upon us and see us evicted.
29:08I'd be grateful if you could deliver the letter anyway, Miss Slane.
29:11Let her see that we mean to press our grievance.
29:14We ain't letting it go this time.
29:16Focus.
29:16Mrs. Herring will ignore his letter and my par will confront her.
29:27He'll say something.
29:29Laura, we don't know that's what...
29:30No, ma'am. I know my par, the way his temper works.
29:33I can see it in his face how close he is to exploding.
29:36He sets his whole pride by such things.
29:39What will happen if he insults her?
29:42Perhaps...
29:44Rather than deliver the letter, we wait till she pops in to make her deposit and we ambush her.
29:52I have always believed, Laura, that the most effective method to resolve a dispute is to appeal to the better nature of people.
30:00A cake or two also helps, of course.
30:05Mrs. Herring, how is your lemon sponge?
30:08Oh, heavenly.
30:10Might I have another slice?
30:14Well, this is an unexpected delight.
30:18Tea at the post office.
30:21I do so like a bit of society.
30:23Well, since you are here, Mrs. Herring, and since you and I have so much in common, I have my staff to take care of and you have your tenants.
30:35My point is, your tenants have written you a letter, I believe to express their anxieties concerning the condition of their homes.
30:43Oh, this tea is cold.
30:48And since I am sure you would not wish your good reputation to be tarnished in any way...
30:53That gypsy lot over there.
30:55If I spend money solving one problem, they will only find another.
30:59I have no intention of reading that letter.
31:01I have found if I put off repairs, it only results in a greater cost.
31:09The truth is, Mrs. Herring, your tenants cannot afford to pay for the restoration.
31:14So the only outcome is further damage to your property and your purse.
31:18Miss Lane, what concern is it of yours to meddle in my affairs?
31:33Well, since our squire is away in London and his brother seems to show very little interest in his pastoral duties,
31:42I feel we all must do what we can to take a care for one another in our community.
31:47Oh, my Lord!
31:52My Bible!
31:54It's my Bible!
31:56I have had this dear book for more than 30 years!
32:02How you ever came to be under Miss Lane's Ruth, girl, I have no comprehension.
32:07But as the Lord's my witness, if you remain here, you will be the bane of us all!
32:12Oh, my Lord!
32:17Miss Lane, they are lucky to have a roof over their heads.
32:22But the point is, they do not have a roof over their heads.
32:25Good day, Miss Lane, and thank you.
32:29Oh, my Lord!
32:30He did this, didn't he?
32:50I was always fond of little James.
32:55The old cottage has had a bit of a spruce up.
32:59That looks better than it ever did.
33:01Can't anyone see?
33:04This lets Mrs. Erring believe she can disregard us.
33:06Me and Queenie took little James in, see?
33:11Fed him up.
33:13Gave him a steer in life.
33:15I always said if you look out for others, you'll get your reward.
33:20You know, my dear?
33:21Robert, perhaps it's best if we let James show a little bit of kindness and gratitude.
33:26Is that right?
33:28James.
33:28James.
33:31James.
33:33You all think James is the returning hero.
33:36What does that make us?
33:37Living on charity?
33:39He is one of our own.
33:40The hand of kindness might take away more than it gives.
33:45They need a drink.
33:47Lofty Collins, lost her jaws, would you kindly lend her yas?
33:52Ta-ra-ra-bum-tee, ta-ra-ra-bum-tee.
33:56Lofty Queenie, how can you be so cheery?
33:59The girl needs to remain cheery and have a curl or two if she has to find a boy to marry her.
34:05Oh, Minnie.
34:08You must make a real effort with your duties before it's too late.
34:13Perhaps you could scrub the kitchen floor before Miss Lane comes down.
34:16I shall do it.
34:17Just as soon as I found the soap.
34:20Minnie, how is it possible to lose the soap?
34:22Would you help me to find it, Laura, would you?
34:25Oh, Minnie.
34:26Minnie, can't you just try harder?
34:31I know what Miss Lane is thinking now.
34:33She must turn me out.
34:35But I shan't go home.
34:36Not this time.
34:38I shall do as my sisters have done.
34:40I'll vanish away.
34:44Where have they gone?
34:45No-one knows.
34:49Not a word.
34:50Not a note.
34:57Come on.
34:59Let's find the soap.
35:00Thomas, I wonder if you would allow me to give you my father's old Bible.
35:17I can't say it gets the attention it deserves from me.
35:20That is most kind, ma'am.
35:28I'm truly sorry, Thomas.
35:31Unfortunately, Minnie, sometimes sorry is not enough.
35:35As we all go to the party today,
35:37you will remain behind to catch up on your duties, child.
35:40That stack of washing needs doing before it reaches the ceiling.
35:44Yes, Mum.
35:47You and I will speak tonight.
35:59That's like a whole other world.
36:01You ain't never seen the loig.
36:04That makes you wonder.
36:05What does it make you wonder, Alf?
36:07If a Lartrise boy can open up a grand hotel in the middle of Candleford.
36:11You've got your head turned by that man.
36:12Well, Dowland's gone off and made his fortune.
36:15Proved himself in London.
36:17I could do the same.
36:18Send out money for the keep of the Littlands.
36:20Do you think a man like Dowland goes off to London
36:23and by honest, hard labour, he makes himself a property owner?
36:26A businessman?
36:28Don't work like that, Alf.
36:30Robert, you don't even know the man.
36:32I know this much.
36:33To get where he is, a man needs a ruthless street.
36:36A desire so great, he'll do whatever is needed to win.
36:40If he is that kind of man,
36:42you have to wonder what he wants coming back here.
37:00James.
37:00I don't know where I am to thank you.
37:05Oh.
37:06Our cottage is cosier than ever it was.
37:12Emma.
37:13Hello, James.
37:16All's well that ends well, Robert.
37:22I meant no offence by what I did.
37:23I don't hold much with words and argument.
37:28I prefer to get on with life.
37:30I hope now that it is resolved.
37:33I'm sure there will be work that you can do for me.
37:37So, you and I can be friends.
37:39Friendship, sir.
37:41It's best earned, not bought.
37:43Robert.
37:44I can't help but notice how long it is since Miss Ellison has been into the post office.
38:00And how long it is since you've visited the rectory.
38:02Am I allowed to ask if there is a problem?
38:10There is a...
38:12Ma'am.
38:13Miss Ellison has developed a certain impatience.
38:18Oh.
38:19Oh.
38:23May I ask, Thomas, have you contemplated the thought of marriage?
38:30I contemplate it night and day, ma'am.
38:37Simply do not wish to discuss it.
38:40What is the cause of your hesitancy?
38:42To be blunt, ma'am, it is her impatience.
38:45patience. Perhaps you might like to contemplate, Thomas, what it would be like to lose Miss
38:53Ellison altogether. How would that feel? Minnie told me, Mar. She intends to run away
39:05if she's turned out by Miss Lane. But if she won't perform her duties? Then she'll vanish
39:09like her sisters. I know that girl's family. No of them, anyway. I've heard stories of
39:14what became of Minnie's sisters when they ran away. A tale that would turn your blood.
39:19Well, you must speak with Cousin Dorcas, Laura, and tell her all you know.
39:40Excuse me.
39:41Miss Lane, I fear I offended you the last time we spoke. I perhaps was too overbearing
39:52in my proposal to renew the post office frontage. Well, at least in this instance you did not
39:58go ahead and do the work without my consent. Are you saying I was wrong to have the roof
40:04fixed, Miss Lane? The truth is, Mr. Darlan, you have outmanoeuvred us all. Where my best
40:11interventions have failed, you have simply taken the challenge head on.
40:16I do so prefer to meet a challenge head on.
40:19How about
40:26old Twister gives you a bit of a tune?
40:29There's songs I know
40:31can lift any soul
40:33no matter how sorrowful.
40:35The spring is here and the long nights grow less bitterly cold than a while.
40:47Now then, everything is in the best of order, as you can see. All nearly gussied up. I hope you'll be happy here. The rent's due weekly in advance.
41:01Friends, as a boy in Larkrise, we would enjoy a dance handed down long before living memory.
41:11Dropping the handkerchief.
41:14Please, help me to clear the tables.
41:18I'm not sure we can remain here.
41:20No, of course.
41:23But it does appear to be rather taken with Miss Lane.
41:27We will remain five more minutes.
41:34Laura, I can't see Thomas anywhere.
41:36He left a while ago, ma'am.
41:39Ma'am,
41:40I know it is unforgivable how Minnie ruined Thomas' Bible.
41:44And I know she shows no sign of mastering her chores.
41:48But I think there's something you should know.
41:50Her stepfather and her runaway sisters.
41:52You know.
41:56Why else do you think I might have taken Minnie on?
41:59are you in the night now?
41:59Are you OK?
42:00Let's see.
42:25Are you OK?
42:26That's good.
42:27you
42:57Whoo!
43:02Hey! Hey! Hey!
43:12Hey!
43:21Whoo!
43:27What are you doing here?
43:32We had to get right away.
43:33Why have you come all the way over to Canterford?
43:35The old witch is turning us out.
43:37And all these years we've paid good rent.
43:39Turn us out?
43:41She's putting in a family who can pay more rent.
43:44Now the cottage is spruced as new.
43:46You were right, Robin.
43:47The hand of charity might take away more than it gives.
43:51All that matters is what we do now.
43:53I shall let the woman know she is not welcome here.
44:00I suspect that is not our best option.
44:02What are you thinking, Dorcas?
44:03It is.
44:04It seems to me that Mrs Herring has one weakness.
44:08Mr Dowland, if you wish to put right Mrs Darrell's predicament...
44:11I wish nothing more.
44:13There is something you can do.
44:23We had intention.
44:30We had intention.
44:34We had intention.
44:35Let's go.
45:05Herring seems just fine now.
45:08He has explicit instructions to flatter her and flirt with her as publicly as possible.
45:14It is our only hope.
45:17I can't help thinking it is also his punishment.
45:21Emma, you can't believe I would do such a thing.
45:25And since you and I both understand, Mrs Herring, these matters cannot be settled on mere sentiment.
45:31And were I to pay you the increased rent, then Queenie and Twister could remain happily in their cottage.
45:39Are we agreeing?
45:41Yes.
45:41Oh, Mr. Dowland, you dance so firmly.
45:48It was no more than a pipe dream to think that I could go off and make my fortune like Dowland.
46:07I shall do as your powers do.
46:09Stay.
46:10I have to better myself here.
46:12Find myself a wife.
46:15Please.
46:16No, no.
46:17I see it now.
46:19If that is the life I want, I know it ain't for you.
46:23But don't you see?
46:24I will find myself a girl.
46:27I was under a spell.
46:29But now I'm out of it.
46:34Mutuality, Miss Lang.
46:36What is right for me can also be good for you, if only you would admit it.
46:42I simply wish to express my opinion on your...
46:44Oh, I suspect that not a thought passes across your mind that does not get expressed.
46:49The world must be kept informed of the opinions of Mr J.D.
46:52I'm sorry.
46:59That was uncalled for.
47:02I have no idea why I insist on speaking to you in such a callous manner.
47:07The past is a safe place, Miss Lang.
47:09Nothing changes there.
47:12If we do not dare, here, now, then what kind of life is it?
47:20It is a perfectly contented life.
47:22It goes on the same today as it did yesterday, and there is nothing wrong with that.
47:28The choice is not between progress and no progress, Miss Lang.
47:31The choice is whether we join the journey or not.
47:49Where's Minnie?
47:52Of course you don't know.
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47:58To have their Arty doesn't grow up to you, the poor person.
48:00What kind of Dad do you use according to me?
48:01Π±ΡΠΊΠ²ΠΎΠΉty in school?
48:03Milk.
48:03This house is my mom.
48:04My mom.
48:04The mother has to drink your friends.
48:05The mother and my mom.
48:06The mother and her mother.
48:07The mother .
48:08The mother.
48:09Tell her.
48:10My mom.
48:10Your mother and her.
48:13My mom.
48:15My mom.
48:16Karen Sue how many beans.
48:18My mom.
48:19AS'D
48:19My mom.
48:21So lots of her.
48:22herself harm people to her.
48:22Minnie, Miss Lane wants to see you.
48:27You must come now.
48:29What happened, Minnie?
48:36What always happens?
48:40Minnie happened.
48:42No one will ever take me on now.
48:45You can blame them.
48:47If I ask you something, Laura, do you promise to tell the truth?
48:51I'll try.
48:54Am I bad luck?
48:56Or am I just bad?
48:58Minnie, you aren't bad.
49:00Wouldn't it be better for Miss Lane? Wouldn't it be better for the whole world if I'd just vanished?
49:14Come closer, Minnie.
49:21Now look at me.
49:27What have you to say for yourself, girl?
49:30Let me thank you for the trunche you've given me, Mum.
49:33I would say I am sorry, but I know that all you want is to have me out of your sight.
49:37You were playing with the dress, weren't you?
49:43I was, Mum.
49:44My mother's dress.
49:47She wore it on the greatest day of her life.
49:51And she kept it safe for all these years from me.
49:54You knew that, Minnie.
49:57I warned you not to play with it again, and you chose to ignore me.
50:03You put your own selfish pleasures before anything and anyone else.
50:09Can't you see it's not just a Bible?
50:15It's not just a dress.
50:17Have you no respect for the love that is in these things?
50:20You can't see it.
50:32No one has ever taught you respect.
50:37I am not going to send you away, Minnie.
50:54I took you on.
50:57And that means you are one of us now.
51:02It is not your fault that you weren't ready for the burdens I put upon you.
51:08You need to be taught.
51:12So that is what we will do.
51:18I intend to scold you when you deserve to be scolded.
51:23I may at times be unforgiving.
51:28But I will never turn you out.
51:34The post office is your home.
51:38Do you understand that?
51:40I do, ma'am.
51:41Good.
51:43Now get out of my sight.
52:07Good.
52:08I will never die.
52:09I will never burn you.
52:10Good.
52:11Good.
52:12Good.
52:13Good.
52:14Good.
52:15Good.
52:16Good.
52:20Good.
52:21My father said there were two kinds of men in the world,
52:35the ones who left and the ones who stayed.
52:39Mr. Dine, I was suddenly taken by the most wonderful notion
52:43to renew the post office.
52:46Inspired indeed.
52:47I am teeming with ideas for it.
52:49I have hardly slept.
52:51Don't you think it is rather daring of me?
52:53I do.
52:55I often wondered, as I observed Miss Lane,
52:58if there were two kinds of women,
53:01the ones who married.
53:20Have a great day.
53:37You