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Reverend Ellison dies and at his funeral Margaret is extremely hostile when her long-lost younger brother George appears. He is a qualified doctor who believes in science, not God, and she will not give him house room. Starring: Julia Sawalha, Olivia Hallinan, Claudie Blakley, Brendan Coyle.
Reverend Ellison dies and at his funeral Margaret is extremely hostile when her long-lost younger brother George appears. He is a qualified doctor who believes in science, not God, and she will not give him house room. Starring: Julia Sawalha, Olivia Hallinan, Claudie Blakley, Brendan Coyle.
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00:00It had taken many months for Miss Ellison to secure an invitation to the rectory for
00:16a humble postman, however devout. Miss Margaret had been praying that her father would make
00:23Thomas Brown feel welcome, but families have a habit of never quite behaving as to plan.
00:33Are you ready?
00:40Father, Mr. Brown is here.
00:45He's a little hard of hearing.
00:53Father?
01:23Father?
01:30Father?
01:35PIANO PLAYS
02:05I'm busy, love. It's a funeral.
02:18Shouldn't you work with her, Thomas?
02:20That would not be appropriate. I'm not a relative.
02:24No, but you're her.
02:30She just seems so alone.
02:32Those who have faith are never alone, Nora.
02:37No. Of course not.
02:44What's she going to do, Mara?
02:46She's going to have to leave the wet tree.
02:50Well, she might stay on as housekeeper,
02:53if the new vicar ain't married.
02:56He will be, surely.
02:58Only most men are married.
02:59Oh, careful, Thomas.
03:01Thank you, ma'am. I just lost my...
03:03It's disgraceful.
03:07The Toys want to take them Arla searchens in hand.
03:10I don't know. That didn't sound like larkin' around to me.
03:12You go on.
03:17Sally!
03:18Her arm's a little funny.
03:19Can you feel your fingers? Can you move your fingers?
03:24Do you think it's broken?
03:26It could be a dislocation.
03:28Sally, is it?
03:30Do you mind if I have a look?
03:33Ow!
03:34Excuse me, sir.
03:35Yes, dislocated.
03:37Sir?
03:38Ow!
03:41You'll be fine. Keep your arm like that.
03:44You'll need to put something cold on it.
03:45Say, love, I'm going to carry you home, all right?
03:51I'll lift you up.
03:56I've got her. You go ahead.
03:58Thank you, sir.
03:59Will you be coming back to the rectory?
04:17Back to the rectory?
04:19I have laid on a few light refreshments.
04:23Emma, you have been such a kind friend to me.
04:27I hope you'll both come.
04:32I take it Thomas Brown will be there also.
04:35Oh, yes.
04:37Mr Brown has been a tower of strength.
04:44Miss Margaret?
04:48Miss Margaret.
04:49Miss Margaret.
04:49Miss Margaret.
04:54Miss Margaret.
04:55Miss Margaret.
04:55Miss Margaret.
04:55Miss Margaret.
04:56Miss Margaret.
04:56Miss Margaret.
04:56Miss Margaret.
04:56Miss Margaret.
04:57Miss Margaret.
04:57Miss Margaret.
04:58Miss Margaret.
04:58Miss Margaret.
04:58Miss Margaret.
04:59Miss Margaret.
04:59Miss Margaret.
04:59Miss Margaret.
05:00Miss Margaret.
05:00Miss Margaret.
05:00Miss Margaret.
05:01Miss Margaret.
05:01Miss Margaret.
05:02Miss Margaret.
05:02Miss Margaret.
05:03Miss Margaret.
05:03Miss Margaret.
05:04Miss Margaret.
05:04Miss Margaret.
05:05Miss Margaret.
05:05Miss Margaret.
05:06Miss Margaret.
05:06Miss Margaret.
05:07Miss Margaret.
05:07Miss Margaret.
05:08Miss Margaret.
05:08Miss Margaret.
05:09Miss Margaret.
05:10Miss Margaret.
05:10Miss Margaret.
05:11Miss Margaret.
05:12Miss Margaret.
05:13Miss Margaret.
05:13Miss Margaret.
05:14Miss Margaret.
05:15That was him, Mar.
05:22The man on the road.
05:26Master George.
05:33It is most kind of you to make room for me in your carriage, councillor.
05:39And since I am enjoying your comfort,
05:41there is a council matter I would like to raise.
05:44Oh, dear.
05:45Our last exchange on a council matter left me rather out of pocket.
05:56Actually, this is what I wanted to talk to you about.
05:59The road between Larkrise and Fordlow is in a terrible state.
06:03Look what just happened to Sally Arliss.
06:05It isn't council land.
06:07The maintenance of the path is a matter for the landlord.
06:10But as the landlord is absentee.
06:12Exactly. Our hands are tied.
06:13Oh, for goodness sake!
06:14I will bring the subject up at the next meeting.
06:17We can draft him a letter.
06:19And how long will that take?
06:21How many children could be hurt between now and then?
06:25Could you stop here, please?
06:26What are you doing?
06:35I am going to Larkrise to visit Sally Arliss.
06:39I brought you some ginger cordial.
07:01Are many people still here?
07:07A few.
07:08A few.
07:08A few.
07:09All concerned for you.
07:13If you're ready, I could accompany you.
07:16What can they think of me after such an outburst?
07:22They think, as I do, that you have borne your loss with great dignity and fortitude.
07:28No one can be surprised.
07:30There are moments when you're overcome.
07:33There is, of course, a little curiosity in certain quarters as to the identity of the gentleman.
07:48I expect there is.
07:49There's been some talk, some speculation that he is your...
07:54My brother, as you may have gathered, we are estranged.
08:01Well, I'm sure you have good reasons.
08:13I am so afraid you will think less of me.
08:18I would never do that, Margaret.
08:20Oh, Thomas, George Ellison is a sinner and a reprobate, and he broke my father's heart.
08:28He is a man who...
08:30I can hardly even say it.
08:34A man who denies the very existence of God.
08:41Oh, my.
08:44I ain't never met anyone who don't believe in God before.
08:47Not that I know of, anyhow.
08:51God, I know God.
08:52I'd shake his hand for what he did for our savvy.
08:55You're right there, Alfie.
08:57We ought to do something about that road.
08:59A footpath or a walkway or something.
09:02Just to make it safe for the little ones.
09:04And the old ones.
09:06I don't much like walking it myself.
09:09What do you say, Twister?
09:13I reckon I'll be next.
09:16That old Parson was younger than I am.
09:18Oh, don't start that, you old goat.
09:21Parson didn't have Queenie's fine mead to keep his strength up.
09:26He didn't have to go out digging no stones out of old Monday's field in all weathers, neither.
09:30With rheumatics.
09:31There ain't much sign of rheumatics when old Monday was looking for someone to dig a new lat trench.
09:36I ain't never seen a man move so fast the other way.
09:42What does he do with all them stones you dig out of his field?
09:45I reckon he goes out there at night and puts them back.
09:49There's one big bugger I'm sure I've dug up ten times over.
09:53What do you want to know?
09:55He's thinking, wouldn't they be just the thing for the footpath?
10:00That's my Laura.
10:02How the Reverend could ever cast aside a child of his, I'll never know.
10:06I reckon his Bible must have had a page missing.
10:10The one with the prodigal son.
10:13Perhaps he turned over to it once.
10:15Oh, Master Georgie.
10:17Sorry to intrude.
10:18Miss Lane told me I might find young Sally here.
10:21Sir, and right as rain she is too after what you've done for her, sir.
10:27Robert Timmons, we meant no disrespect for the dead, sir.
10:30None of us did.
10:31No, sir.
10:33Nor did I.
10:38It's a fine piece of Forest of Dean Granite.
10:41Your sister chose well.
10:44Must be good to have such skill in your hands.
10:47There's quite a skill in yours, the way you've fixed up Sally.
10:51Half-baked, Robert.
10:52Half-finished.
10:54No real use to anyone.
10:59Never really thought it was come to this.
11:03I mean, I always expected I would see him again.
11:07I had a few run-ins with your father.
11:10On matters of principle.
11:13He was a formidable opponent.
11:15He was a bully, Robert.
11:17I know that.
11:19And yet he was still my...
11:22I should be paying you for this work.
11:26I have no money.
11:27I should have...
11:27You owe me nothing.
11:29I've been paid in full.
11:30No, it should not only be my sister who...
11:32Please.
11:34Look, I have no money, but I have a strong back and I'm not afraid of work.
11:38Look, you need a path from here to Fordlow.
11:41Let me lay it.
11:42There is no need.
11:43The men of Loch Rise can lay a path.
11:45I need to do something.
11:48Please.
11:50He was my father, too.
11:53No, Robert.
11:54Emmy, he has offered to work on the road.
11:56All he needs is space for a few nights to lay his head.
11:59We can do that.
12:00No, we can't.
12:01Master George.
12:07You are a welcome visitor here.
12:10And your offer is most generous.
12:14But I'm afraid we cannot have you stay in this house.
12:17For God's sake, Emma.
12:19The man is grieving.
12:20Miss Margaret is my friend.
12:21And the way things are between you,
12:27if she were to come tomorrow and find you here,
12:30it would hurt her dreadfully.
12:32And I cannot do that to her.
12:34No, I wouldn't want you to.
12:37The Oralist cottage is empty.
12:39And I've cabbaged Paterson, cart him off for squatting.
12:42Laura, are you ready to leave?
12:44Yes, ma'am.
12:46George, it's getting terribly late.
12:48Do you have somewhere to stay?
12:51Do you have somewhere to stay?
12:52Do you have somewhere to stay?
12:53Do you have something...
12:54This is the best dish.
12:58Just eat.
13:01I want to mix.
13:03I love it.
13:06This is a good dish.
13:09I love it.
13:12I love it.
13:15I love it.
13:21Father, what would you want me to do?
13:51You've read Mr. Darwin?
13:56I have his letters on geology in my bag.
13:59I haven't read those.
14:02He wrote them to his great friend and mentor.
14:06Theologian, believe it or not.
14:08I do believe it.
14:10I don't think his ideas have to be incompatible with faith,
14:13as I have tried to tell my chief postman many times.
14:16But I see you are also a student of Herbert Spencer.
14:20Psychology does intrigue me, yes.
14:24With all of Candleford to study, no doubt.
14:27Not at all.
14:29And I read a great many things.
14:31Indeed.
14:33There's a rather well-thumbed copy of Don Juan here.
14:40Bookmarked.
14:42Laura.
14:43She thinks I don't know that she reads it.
14:45I've told her she's too young,
14:47but I suspect the illicit nature of it is part of the appeal.
14:51It certainly was for me when I was young.
14:54And I'm sure my father was just as aware as I am.
14:57My father wouldn't have had such a book within a mile of the rectory.
15:00No.
15:01And possibly not much house room for Mr. Darwin either.
15:05The thing is, I don't think it was the atheism that angered my father so much.
15:15He probably could have lived with that if I kept quiet about it.
15:18The refusal to go to church, though.
15:23I suppose I humiliated him.
15:27Toby found it necessary to do the same to me.
15:30How?
15:32I was more than halfway through my medical degree.
15:35Loving it.
15:37But a university education costs money,
15:40and my father did not consider my behaviour worthy of the considerable financial sacrifice that he had to make.
15:47He cut you off?
15:49I think all he wanted was my capitulation.
15:53Had I come back suitably humble and acquiescent.
15:58But the day after I received his letter, I left Oxford.
16:03Ten days after that, I was on a ship to Malacca.
16:05The one thing my father did bequeath me was his stubborn nature.
16:11And you never saw him again?
16:13I read about his death in a newspaper in the public library in Bristol.
16:21Oh, George, I'm so sorry.
16:27Minnie left the spare bedding outside the men's dorm, Mr. Ellison.
16:31I'll try not to wake them up.
16:33I'm off to bed myself, ma'am.
16:35If I could just take something to read.
16:39Of course, Laura.
16:48Night, ma'am.
16:50Night.
16:51Night.
16:55Thank you for this, Dorcas.
16:57I have the opportunity to work my passage to Brazil.
17:01Try my luck there.
17:03You can stay as long as you like, George.
17:06I'm glad you will have another chance to make things right with your sister.
17:10There's nothing in the world that I would like more.
17:12Good morning.
17:30Miss Fargaret, this is early for you.
17:33Lots to do, Emma. Lots to do.
17:35Robert, I passed your yard.
17:37That piece of Forest of Dean.
17:39Your father's.
17:40I've begun work on it already.
17:42Oh, thank you. Thank you.
17:44Now, Miss Margaret.
17:47Yesterday, Master...
17:49I do not wish to talk about yesterday, Emma.
17:52This morning, I am looking to the future.
17:55Very soon, Fordlow Church will have a new vicar.
17:58And I must prepare for his arrival.
18:00But...
18:01To that end, I have begun clearing out my father's things.
18:05He had good quality clothing with many years' wear left in it.
18:09Now, I am being scrupulously fair in dividing it equally among the men of the Hamlet.
18:15But, Robert, I wanted to give you first choice.
18:24I believe I'm a slightly larger bill than your late father.
18:29Thank you, Miss Ellison.
18:30Miss Ellison.
18:32Oh.
18:34Oh, dear. What a shame.
18:38Edmund!
18:43Ah! George.
18:44I don't think you two gentlemen have been properly introduced.
18:49I know who he is, Miss Lane.
18:50He's not someone I would dignify with the word gentleman.
18:53Thomas.
18:54A good Christian woman has been brought low with grief,
18:57plunged into the very depths of despair by the wicked nature of this man.
19:01May I remind you, Thomas, that George is also bereaved.
19:04Bereaved?
19:05This is a man who's made a mockery of everything his father stood for.
19:08This is a man who denies the very existence of God.
19:12Tell me, have I been misled, sir?
19:26No, sir. You have not.
19:30Then I would say, Thomas, that he is even more deserving of our sympathy.
19:35For he bears the heavy burden of grief without the comforting promise of an afterlife.
19:39I cannot break bread with such a man, Miss Lane.
19:49I awake to find the godless heathens been given lodging in my own dormitory.
19:56Well, a pious man like Thomas Brown being made to lodge with a Catholic.
20:01He isn't even a Catholic, Miss Ruby.
20:05Oh, no, Ruby. That is not what it means.
20:09Is there any mail for me, Thomas?
20:12Ladies?
20:14Yes, Mr. Dowland, sir.
20:16Mr. J.D., what is your opinion of Miss Ellison's brother?
20:20You must remember him from lard cries.
20:23The rector's son and myself did not move in the same circles.
20:27No. No, of course not.
20:28He's a little younger, too.
20:32But considerably less refined. He was dressed as a common labourer.
20:38Miss Ellison must stand firm.
20:41I am sure that the diocese will not want a person of that persuasion loitering round the rectory.
20:47She has her own position to consider.
20:50Poor woman.
20:51Her father gone.
20:53A new vicar at Fordlow.
20:54Her future uncertain.
20:56I don't know how she can bear it.
20:58Certainly, if there was something I could do to ameliorate the situation, I would not hesitate.
21:02Yes, Thomas Brown, isn't it about time?
21:05Ruby, shh.
21:07You did say...
21:08Shhh.
21:10What?
21:11Nothing.
21:19Oh, good lord, the royal mail must not be late.
21:26Some work.
21:36Remember that heron you found as a boy?
21:40How you fixed its wing, fed it up again till it was ready to fly.
21:52Isn't that different, really, is it?
21:57Still fixing things?
21:59Fixing what I can.
22:03What you ask is impossible, Miss Lane.
22:06My father is barely cold in his grave.
22:09But had your father lived, he might have softened towards your brother.
22:13Had George not broken his heart, he might have lived longer.
22:16He might not have been so...
22:19Things might have been different.
22:21In a week, George sails for Brazil.
22:26Perhaps for good.
22:28This opportunity may not come again.
22:31You have both lost so much.
22:34My brother had a choice about what he lost, Miss Lane.
22:38Did he really?
22:40Miss Margaret, surely one cannot believe to order
22:43any more than one can force oneself to love.
22:56I think Brazil is for the best.
23:03Is this correct, Thomas?
23:04It seems a little more than usual.
23:05That is the amount I intend to put by for the foreseeable future, Miss Lane.
23:10Oh.
23:12Are you saving up for something special?
23:15A rainy day is all, ma'am.
23:18Of course.
23:25Thomas.
23:28Miss Lane.
23:30The rainy day might come sooner if you were to actually...
23:35I know there is some sense of expectation.
23:40But if you are unsure in any way about your feelings for Miss Ellison,
23:44you should not let her...
23:45I am not unsure.
23:47My feelings are not in doubt, Miss Lane.
23:49I want...
23:51I w... I will.
23:53Soon.
23:54When you have saved a little more.
23:56Yes.
23:58Thomas.
23:59Ma'am?
24:01I do think you would make Miss Ellison the most excellent husband.
24:07I... I hope...
24:09And I do hope the arrival of Mr Ellison has not in any way...
24:15What I mean is...
24:17I am not my brother's keeper.
24:20Genesis 4 and 9.
24:22I think you will find it is a question, ma'am.
24:24Am I my brother's keeper?
24:26Huh.
24:38I ain't gonna wear them.
24:40You don't have to.
24:42Well, can't you give them back then?
24:43It would hurt our feelings.
24:44It would hurt our feelings.
24:54You reckon that's it for tonight, boys?
24:56Working out tomorrow, eh?
25:00Looks good.
25:01There's a fine pair of long drawers you got there, young boy chap.
25:06Do you want them?
25:08No.
25:09I don't wear them in the summer.
25:11I just like to let the air, you know, circumnavigate.
25:15Alf?
25:16No, thank you.
25:18There's a fella standing in the west field might be glad of him though.
25:21The sight of those will keep the crows off the peas for months.
25:24In all the years I have known your sister, I have found her to be the most reasonable, generous-spirited woman.
25:37To see her like this, refusing even to consider to listen, she must be in great torment.
25:45Are you saying I shouldn't do this? I shouldn't stay?
25:54I don't know, George.
25:57I am beginning to feel this might not be the best time.
26:01Perhaps a more gradual approach.
26:04Some letters.
26:06Then you could return another time and...
26:09From Brazil?
26:11Surely there could be an opportunity for you nearer home.
26:13Home.
26:15Home.
26:19There are so many memories in Lark Rice today.
26:23My father.
26:25Margaret.
26:27She and I used to play cricket in the wheat field.
26:30Cricket, Miss Ellison?
26:32My sister had an excellent bowling action at her, you know.
26:37It's strange to feel part of a place, I suppose.
26:40I hadn't felt like that in a long time.
26:44I liked it.
26:46I can understand that.
26:49I don't mean to add to your burden.
26:53But your sister has a future.
26:56I wouldn't like to think her hopes, Thomas' hopes...
27:00Hopes that have been nurtured for some time now.
27:05Or that they were jeopardized by...
27:07I wouldn't want that either.
27:11But Dorcas, what if I were to leave it too long again?
27:18Anyway.
27:19I have made an undertaking about the road.
27:25I know.
27:27Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.
27:33Beautiful words then.
27:35Thy kingdom come, thy will be done...
27:39Thomas.
27:40On earth, as it is in heaven.
27:42Thomas.
27:44Give us this day our daily bread.
27:46Thomas!
27:48I grew up in a vicarage.
27:50That isn't going to work.
28:07Morning.
28:09I'm looking for Miss Lane.
28:11She'll be down soon.
28:13It's a bit early for Dorcas.
28:16George Ellison.
28:18James Dowland.
28:19Ah, the Golden Lion.
28:21I've heard much about you.
28:23And are you?
28:25I believe you are building a footpath at Larkrise.
28:28Helping with it, yes.
28:30Good heavens, councillor.
28:32This is an early call.
28:33I'm writing to Banbury on business.
28:36It might be wiser to leave it to the landlord.
28:39You could pay a gang of men to complete the work quickly.
28:42Using modern methods, proper materials.
28:45Not stones from the fields.
28:47I see the whole town is conspiring to have me gone.
28:50The councillor doesn't know when these up-to-date methods and materials might arrive, George, or if.
28:55We are writing.
28:56Well, in the meantime...
28:58I have building projects of my own.
29:01I know people.
29:03I am meeting a supplier today who, once we have the landlord's agreement, would be eager...
29:07Mr Dowland.
29:08I have spent my whole life leaving work undone.
29:11Things unresolved.
29:13Not this time.
29:15This time I will see it through.
29:20Why is he so involved in all of this?
29:23He is a good man.
29:26And I suppose I am not.
29:28I didn't say that, Mr Dowland.
29:30Believe it or not, I wasn't talking about you.
29:33But...
29:34But what?
29:36Well...
29:38Frankly, I find your attitude to this rather puzzling.
29:41Since your arrival in Candleford, you have made much of the benefits of improvement.
29:45And have been impatient in your desire to bring it about.
29:49Indeed. Often in the face of considerable opposition from yourself.
29:53Yet here we have genuine need for improvement as a matter of some urgency.
29:57And you are not only dragging your own feet, but advising those who are addressing the issue to do the same.
30:02I am merely following the correct...
30:03Which does lead me to wonder whether your enthusiasm for the benefits of improvement...
30:08Only exists when there is also a benefit for James Dowland.
30:15It doesn't really matter what I do, does it, Miss Lang?
30:19In your eyes, my motivations will never be anything other than base.
30:26I had thought better of you than that.
30:28Alright.
30:29Let's go.
30:59It's beautiful, isn't it?
31:01Mr Ellison!
31:03How funny, I was just thinking about you.
31:06Oh dear.
31:08Nothing bad.
31:10Just...
31:13Well...
31:16How...
31:17How can I look at all this and not believe in God?
31:21Is that a very silly question?
31:24Not at all.
31:25It's one I sometimes ask myself.
31:28It must be extremely erudite.
31:32Strange thing is, I remember standing around here when I was...
31:38Well, probably about your age.
31:40And...
31:42Suddenly knowing that the thing I felt here in nature was the thing I was supposed to feel in church and didn't.
31:49The thing my sister clearly felt so keenly.
31:53That's when you stopped believing.
31:55Not exactly.
31:57I stopped believing when I was at university.
32:01The study of medicine.
32:03All that disease.
32:05Where was God in this?
32:07And then I realised...
32:09Nowhere.
32:11It seems so random because it is.
32:15Isn't it frightening?
32:17The idea that there's no plan.
32:19No justice in the end.
32:21I mean, do you know down deep in your heart of hearts that you ain't never gonna see your pa again?
32:29That's why it's so important that I see my sister.
32:33Miss Lane.
32:34Thomas.
32:35Yes, Miss Lane.
32:36There is a telegram to go out.
32:38For Miss Ellison.
32:58It would appear that the new vicar is a marriage partner.
33:00Well, you've never ditunft was good.
33:02For Miss Ellison.
33:04Alison, it would appear that the new vicar is a married man.
33:09He has no need of a housekeeper.
33:13She would have to find a position in another parish.
33:19No.
33:20No, she cannot.
33:22She must not.
33:24I could not bear that, ma'am.
33:26Then, Thomas, I think the rainy day has dawned.
33:30Yes, and a man with responsibilities could do with another shillin' awake.
33:42Thomas, are you taking...?
33:45Faint heart, ne'er one fair maid.
33:56Margaret!
34:00This is silly, Miss Margaret.
34:05Let me answer the door.
34:08You'll go in a minute.
34:11Please!
34:20He ain't a bad man, Miss Margaret.
34:23No matter what he believes, look what he's doing for Larkrise.
34:28I have spent my whole life doing work for Larkrise.
34:32Yet he wins everyone's heart in two days.
34:36Sorry.
34:37I know I sound petulant.
34:39We all appreciate what you do.
34:41Appreciate?
34:42Not like, not...
34:44You're the only one who...
34:47I know they laugh at me.
34:49No.
34:52Not half as much as they laugh at him and his monkeys.
34:56But yes, they like him.
35:01And they like you.
35:04It don't have to be one or the other, does it?
35:07Miss Margaret.
35:08Miss Margaret.
35:10You are as much a part of Larkrise as any of us.
35:14Really?
35:16Of course.
35:20Emma.
35:21I think my father kept some sherry.
35:29Have you ever tried it?
35:32Miss Margaret.
35:33Miss Margaret.
35:49Miss Margaret, what is it?
35:54Oh, it's all right, Emma.
35:56Miss Margaret.
35:59I'd best get on, that's...
36:13This is yours.
36:15I found it among his things.
36:19My medical bag.
36:21There are other things.
36:22Some books, certificates, letters.
36:25Your property.
36:28Why did he keep them?
36:30Isn't it obvious, George?
36:32He hoped you'd come back.
36:34On his terms?
36:36Those terms are very bad.
36:38Salvation.
36:40Margaret, even you cannot believe our father was in the position to offer that.
36:48It's very good to hear that sound again.
36:50You always could make me laugh.
36:53There was little enough of that when you went.
36:57We can make up for it now.
37:00No.
37:02George.
37:05I want you to leave.
37:07Why?
37:09My argument was never with you.
37:11I know your beliefs are dearly held.
37:13Can't you see that mine are also?
37:15You left me with him.
37:17You knew what he was like and you left me to cope with him alone.
37:21In these fifteen years, did you ever once think about what my life would be like?
37:28And now he's gone.
37:30And you think you could just walk back in and we'll be Georgie and Margaret playing cricket in the wheat field again?
37:39I did think of you.
37:42I thought of you often.
37:45I thought of him.
37:46Go, George.
37:48Please.
37:50If that's what you want.
37:52I thought you would marry.
37:54I didn't know that you would.
37:55I'm selling his books.
37:56His library.
37:58I will give you the money, but please just go.
38:00You think I came here for money?
38:01I am simply trying to do the decent, the Christian thing.
38:02You're behaving exactly like he did.
38:03I didn't mean.
38:04I didn't mean.
38:05Do you know what, Margaret?
38:06Do you know what, Margaret?
38:07I thought you would marry.
38:09I didn't know that you would.
38:11I'm selling his books.
38:13His library.
38:15I will give you the money, but please just go.
38:18You think I came here for money?
38:20I am simply trying to do the decent, the Christian thing.
38:25You're behaving exactly like he did.
38:31I didn't mean.
38:33Do you know what, Margaret?
38:34If you don't like me being here, you go.
38:37In case you hadn't noticed, I'm building a road.
38:47You look very smart, Thomas.
39:07One day someone shall wound me up on a bicycle.
39:10All this fuss isn't making it any easier, ladies.
39:12I'm sorry.
39:14Thomas, wait.
39:17The gallant blade.
39:23Make the ladies of Candleford proud.
39:30Now.
39:47Seems God's purpose for me is elsewhere.
40:03I hope not, Miss Margaret.
40:06I hope.
40:07That will please my brother, no doubt.
40:10Miss Ellison.
40:12It would be.
40:14I would be.
40:16I have waited so long to show him how it feels, Thomas.
40:19To be rejected, abandoned.
40:21So why don't I feel any better?
40:25Right.
40:27Miss Ellison.
40:28Oh, Thomas.
40:29I spoke to him so cruelly.
40:32I fear I am a very wicked person.
40:36No, no. Far from it.
40:38You are the least wicked.
40:39Miss Margaret.
40:41Miss Margaret, you are the person.
40:44The lady that I...
40:46The look on his face when I told him to leave.
40:48Miss Margaret.
40:49The terrible thing is, I wanted him to feel like that.
40:52Miss Margaret, could we perhaps not talk about your brother for just a few moments?
40:56Miss Margaret.
41:03I was just so angry, so jealous.
41:07My father had kept no keepsakes from my childhood.
41:11He needed none. He had you here.
41:13Oh, yes. He had me here.
41:15Stuck in an endless round of duty and responsibility
41:20while the opportunities that might have been mine slipped by.
41:24Opportunities slipped by.
41:33How tragic.
41:37Opportunities, no doubt, which would have thrown up more welcome suitors than a humble postman.
41:55Suitors?
42:00Thomas?
42:03Just a postman.
42:05Yeah, all of my odds need to...opportunities slipped by.
42:09I'm tragic.
42:16Thomas!
42:18Thomas! I don't understand!
42:25Thomas! I don't understand!
42:47Mr. Brown!
42:53Thomas!
42:57Please!
43:17Let's go!
43:47Come in!
44:14Wait the children.
44:17James.
44:21It's Miss Ellison.
44:28I was running across country from Banbury.
44:31I found her in the road.
44:32She didn't want to go home.
44:34She would only come here.
44:36I think, Emma, that I have lost it all.
44:39My home.
44:42My own baby brother.
44:45I've lost him forever.
44:49And it's my own stupid, jealous fault.
44:54I should go.
44:57Thank you, James.
44:59Come on, Miss Margaret.
45:01It'll be better in the morning.
45:03But, Emma, you don't know what I've done.
45:07Mum?
45:08Thomas's bed haven't been slept in.
45:13The weather was bad.
45:16Rep's yet to stay in Fordlow.
45:18Thomas Brown is never late for the morning delivery.
45:22Well, I don't think it'll be ready before school starts now, is it?
45:31I am so sorry.
45:33I think the rain has done most of it.
45:35I'll put it right.
45:37Oh, be careful, Miss Margaret.
45:39You haven't been too well this morning.
45:42When does my brother get here?
45:46To be honest, Miss Margaret, he is usually here by now.
45:52Pa! Pa!
45:55What's happened here?
45:56Oh, Miss Lane, is my brother with you?
46:00Your brother?
46:03Miss Ellison, your brother has gone.
46:08Brazil.
46:14Um, Miss Ellison, have you seen Thomas Brown?
46:17We have been to the rectory.
46:19No, not since last night.
46:24Oh, dear.
46:25It is all a little hazy.
46:28But I fear I may have unwittingly offended him.
46:33Oh.
46:36Oh, you didn't turn him down.
46:40What?
46:42Miss Ellison,
46:43Thomas Brown came out here to propose.
46:48And now, ma'am,
46:51Thomas Brown is missing.
46:53Run on up to the farm.
46:55Tell old Monday that postman is missing.
46:57And see if he can send out any more men.
46:59I am noturfing,
47:04I will find out any more men.
47:06I will find out any more men.
47:09I will find out any more men.
47:15Well, my Lord lands at you of officers at boats.
47:48Oh Lord, I beseech thee for deliverance.
48:08Thomas?
48:11Oh Lord, did it have to be him?
48:15I can go, if you like.
48:16No, no, I, I'm back, I can't, oh, oh Lord, I'm back, I'm back.
48:26I am bound by my face to thank you, sir.
48:30Remember that chap hanged his cell from the dead oak?
48:46Weeks before they found him.
48:48Plague of flies we had that summer.
48:50Shall we go?
48:51A scarecrow's drawers and a wheelbarrow.
48:58May I serve them your majesty?
48:59Stop complaining.
49:01No, no children, go away, away.
49:04Just something living down there.
49:09Miss Ellison.
49:10Of course.
49:19Oh dear, dear boy.
49:22I thought you'd gone forever.
49:25How can you ever forgive me?
49:26I'm the one who should be asking that.
49:28Lord, save us.
49:29It's like a miracle.
49:40And you have brought me my Thomas Brown.
49:44The man I hope to marry.
49:51What do you say, Mr. Brown?
49:53Miss Ellison, it would be an honour.
50:09Where is he?
50:10Oh, no, my back.
50:11Oh, no.
50:14Sir.
50:15It's all right, Twister, we got him.
50:22Who?
50:22Postman, you old duffer.
50:25Get back to work.
50:26I am at work.
50:28We'll sit down and fix the road.
50:31Old Monday's paying wages for this?
50:34Instead, you're boogering paying himself.
50:42I think it's just wonderful, ma'am.
50:47Yes, Laura.
50:48Yes, it is.
50:52I hope there was a time that he was happy.
51:03I think he's happy now.
51:06He's in a better place.
51:08I'm too mature to rise to that.
51:10You will feel very stupid when I meet you there
51:13and prove you wrong, George Ellison.
51:15If I meet you there, Margaret,
51:19it will be worth it.
51:26Don't forget this.
51:27You'll need it.
51:29I will.
51:31I'll pay you back, I promise.
51:33Look what you've done for me already.
51:37Doctor.
51:37Thomas and Miss Ellison did not rush into marriage.
51:56And Doctor George Ellison never did make it to Brazil.
52:05For though our new vicar did not want a housekeeper,
52:11he was, it seemed,
52:14sorely in need of a governess.
52:16So George's letters flew once more between Oxford and the rectory.
52:24And every so often,
52:25there would be another that we didn't have to take out on the round.
52:32For George had forged a friendship that would last a lifetime.
52:35And in those shifting, changing times we lived through,
52:42we were going to need our friends.
53:05We were going to need our friends.
53:06We were going to need our friends.
53:07We were going to need our friends.
53:08We were going to need our friends.
53:09We were going to need our friends.
53:10We were going to need our friends.
53:11We were going to need our friends.
53:12We were going to need our friends.
53:13We were going to need our friends.
53:14We were going to need our friends.
53:15We were going to need our friends.
53:16We were going to need our friends.
53:17We were going to need our friends.
53:18We were going to need our friends.
53:19We were going to need our friends.
53:20We were going to need our friends.
53:21We were going to need our friends.
53:22We were going to need our friends.
53:23We were going to need our friends.
53:24We were going to need our friends.
53:25We were going to need our friends.
53:26We were going to need our friends.