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Dorcas gets flu and Laura runs the counter for her very ably but will not tell her that the telegraph machine is malfunctioning, Thomas has started to sleep-walk, and that threatening letters are arriving, in case Dorcas thinks she has failed her. Minnie runs away but Twister finds her and brings her home. Dorcas is still wary of Fisher because she thinks he will make Laura too fond of him and then go on his way. Starring: Julia Sawalha, Olivia Hallinan, Claudie Blakley, Brendan Coyle.
Dorcas gets flu and Laura runs the counter for her very ably but will not tell her that the telegraph machine is malfunctioning, Thomas has started to sleep-walk, and that threatening letters are arriving, in case Dorcas thinks she has failed her. Minnie runs away but Twister finds her and brings her home. Dorcas is still wary of Fisher because she thinks he will make Laura too fond of him and then go on his way. Starring: Julia Sawalha, Olivia Hallinan, Claudie Blakley, Brendan Coyle.
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00:00To Miss Lane, the business of the post office was not work, it was life, and all the threads
00:27of all the stories being played out around her, seemed to meet and cross in her hands, such
00:33clever, capable hands. It was impossible to imagine they could ever falter or fail.
00:39Requesting every detail of the princess's costume, including ornament, court view, and
00:50twilight. Stop, I've got a baby. Stop.
00:57Let's see.
01:27Oh, Minnie.
01:44I have influenza. It is not terminal.
01:46Merely...
01:47Thomas.
01:52It's late.
01:54You will have to manage Laura's round as well as your own.
01:57And could do so in my sleep, ma'am.
02:00And Laura.
02:03I'm so sorry to burden you like this.
02:06There's no burden.
02:08A privilege, Miss Lane.
02:11I won't fail you.
02:13You have all my confidence.
02:16And all my trust.
02:20Mr Dowland.
02:21I heard you were ill.
02:23Oh, forgive me.
02:25I merely wish to know how you fared.
02:28And I see you are in a wretched way.
02:32I assure you I merely look like death.
02:34I shall do very well.
02:36Thomas is to manage the deliveries and...
02:39Laura is going to take care of the business.
02:41And who is going to take care of you?
02:44Mr Dowland, the greatest risk I run is being bored to death.
02:48The doctor tells me I must remain where I am for at least a week.
02:51But then you must listen to him.
02:53Oh, if you were in this bed, you would not be so glib.
02:55Miss Lane, if I were in that bed...
02:59It's very kind of you to call Mr Dowland, but I'm afraid I'm feeling rather tired.
03:09Of course.
03:09Minnie, how much does Miss Lane pay you?
03:17Two shillings a week on the bed board, sir.
03:20I will pay you a further two shillings a week if you will nurse her for the duration of her illness.
03:25Sir.
03:25Two conditions.
03:26One, you take your orders regarding the sick bed from me.
03:30The two, neither Miss Lane nor anyone else will ever find out about this arrangement.
03:36Understood?
03:37Sir.
03:37Sir.
03:39Laura's most likely lying in her bed with her heart pounding at the thrill and the challenge and the excitement of it all.
03:55You remember what it was like at that age.
04:00Everything burned so bright.
04:05And it doesn't anymore.
04:07All right.
04:22All right.
04:27All right.
04:27The girl in the post office.
04:57Silly bitch.
05:27Good morning.
05:29Miss Margaret.
05:32Embrocation of my own making for Miss Lane.
05:39For Miss Lane's...
05:42And the collected sermons of John Henry Newman.
05:52Embrocation for the soul.
06:04Girded and ready.
06:07Do you suppose we'll do, Thomas Brown?
06:09I suppose we shall have to.
06:19They all want to buy a stamp of the acting post-mustress.
06:22But they can't afford it.
06:23Tell them they mustn't.
06:24You let them show their pride for you in the way they choose.
06:29Hmm.
06:30Miss Ellison called.
06:31Why did this incapacity have to strike me of all people?
06:32I am never ill.
06:33And at such a time, too.
06:34And at such a time, too.
06:35Lara and Fisher.
06:36Lara and Fisher.
06:37You don't take his eyes off.
06:38And she's all lit up and glowing like me.
06:39You don't take his eyes off and she's all lit up and glowing like smoke?
06:43They are almost done.
06:45I am never ill.
06:47Miss Ellison called.
06:53Why did this incapacity have to strike me, of all people?
06:57I am never ill.
07:00And at such a time, too,
07:03Lara and Fisher,
07:05you don't take his eyes off her,
07:07and she's all lit up and glowing like a candle.
07:09It is like I used to play with my dolls.
07:12Now, Miss Polly,
07:13should you like to marry Mr. Teapot,
07:15here he has come to call.
07:17Dolls cannot have their hearts broken.
07:22Minnie, I would like you to ask Mr. Fisher Bloom to call on me.
07:28Sphere chest.
07:29Miss Ellison made it herself.
07:31Open wide.
07:40For Miss Lane, with our best.
07:42And I should like a penny stamp,
07:46if you please, Lara.
07:47Yes.
07:48Don't suppose you can knock a bit off that,
07:50you know, for old friends.
07:52Must we really stand here all day
07:55while every cottager in the district
07:57buys a single stamp?
08:02Why, no, ma'am.
08:03We provide a chair for customers
08:05whose age makes standing a difficulty.
08:08You may sit the process out if you wish.
08:14I have it.
08:27Oh, they are beautiful.
08:37Miss Pearl, Miss Ruby, I believe this is for you.
08:55Princess wore gown of deepest...
08:58It's a four-letter word ending in E.
09:02Adorned with something gold.
09:04Somethings.
09:06It's a center four-letter word ending in E
09:08and a seven-letter word ending in S.
09:12I'm very much afraid our telegraphic instrument
09:14has developed a fault.
09:15If this don't work, I could get you a spoonful of sugar.
09:27An embrocation is for topical application, Minnie.
09:29One rubs it in.
09:31Well, I know that now,
09:32but Miss Ellison was not at all clear.
09:34That's a great deal, isn't it?
09:45Fisher.
09:46How kind of you to come.
09:47Please sit down.
09:47How does work on the clock progress?
10:04There was me thinking you wanted to talk about Laura.
10:07You watch me.
10:09And you watch Laura.
10:12Do you like her?
10:16Yes.
10:17When I say like, I mean...
10:20I know what you mean.
10:23Yes.
10:25But when the clock is finished, you will move on.
10:31I always move on.
10:34You are a plain speaker, I know.
10:37So, you will forgive my plain speaking.
10:44Laura's poise is deceptive.
10:46Laura, she is younger than she seems.
10:51And far more vulnerable than she looks.
10:56And if you cared about her as you say you do,
11:00you would not be trying to make her fall in love with you.
11:02I'm not trying to do anything.
11:05You are doing nothing to stop it.
11:07Why would it if I feel the same?
11:09Because you will move on and she will not...
11:11You will have new horizons with which to distract yourself.
11:18She will have nothing but reminders of what she has lost.
11:21There is a fine line between carefree and callous, Mr. Bloom.
11:30I ask only that you tread it carefully.
11:45Fisher.
11:46Miss Lane wanted to speak to me.
11:49Where'd the clock?
11:49You'll never guess.
11:50They all came.
11:51Mar, par, everyone.
11:53Almost the whole of luck, right?
11:56What?
11:58Nothing.
11:58It's been that busy.
12:00I haven't even been able to step outside the door.
12:01We could go for a walk later.
12:07Not today.
12:08Oh.
12:09Tomorrow, maybe.
12:11I don't think so.
12:17Something happened.
12:19Just don't think we need to be in each other's pockets all the time.
12:23That's all.
12:25Have I...
12:27Did I do something wrong?
12:30Of course not.
12:31Laura, you're a lovely girl, but a man can have too much of a good thing, you know?
12:51Shaminess like that, in front of everyone.
12:54If you're going to talk about shaming, what about them Pratt twins?
12:57Their faces were now a Laura showed up what for.
13:00They're not twins, you duffer.
13:04Miss Pearl can give Miss Ruby a good ten years.
13:08Well, what'd they go around dressing so alike for, then?
13:11Mutton dressed as lamb.
13:13And lamb dressed as mutton.
13:16Right.
13:16I'll see you back home, then.
13:21Oh, where are you going?
13:22I ain't going anywhere.
13:24I'm staying to watch Laura sort out these Candleford toffs.
13:28She's as good as a show.
13:33Good day to you.
13:35Do come again.
13:36For pity's sake, girl.
13:51It's simple enough.
13:53I am Miss Lane.
13:54You come in and...
13:56But you don't look nothing like her.
13:58And she don't swear at me, even after the embroidered occasion.
14:02Well, perhaps I won't, if you get it right.
14:05Now go again.
14:06This time, no noise.
14:12Don't believe it.
14:13Good.
14:23And then you say...
14:29Please, Miss, if you think you could fancy a little refreshment...
14:33Oh!
14:34Smell it!
14:35Golden seal tea!
14:40Hmm.
14:42Too much hyssop.
14:44And not enough, honey.
14:46You should have come to me.
14:49Let her have as much of the tea as she likes, Minnie.
14:53And take a pot of stew with you as well.
14:55That stew will never pass as mine, sir.
14:57Smells delicious.
14:59Then perhaps you might burn it a little for authenticity.
15:02Oh, yes, I'll do that, sir.
15:04And remember, Minnie, flowers on the tray.
15:06Always flowers.
15:07Your mother said that tea was the only thing eased her fevers.
15:14You used to watch me brewing it.
15:16I had to stand you on a stool so that you could reach the table.
15:22For Miss Lane, is it?
15:23Why do you always have to do your caring in secret, like there's something shaming in it?
15:34You were the same as a boy.
15:37Little presents left for me, but never a word from the giver.
15:41Maybe I didn't have the words for what I wanted to say.
15:45Maybe you don't know.
15:46Mrs. Rochford would like to speak with you, sir.
15:51Excuse me, will you?
15:57Four letters ending in E describing a colour.
16:00Princess, wore gown of deepest blue.
16:05Could be puce.
16:06Or lime.
16:07Trimmed with either five or nine gold ribbons or tassels.
16:18Or baubles.
16:19Oh, this is really quite ridiculous.
16:22Miss Lane should be informed, influenza or no influenza.
16:25One would think the princess too fair for lime and certainly too young for puce.
16:31But you are younger.
16:33And you are wearing puce.
16:34Well, yes.
16:38It is different for me.
16:41I am...
16:43I am...
16:47Lamb dressed as mutton.
16:51Ruby, bring me the bolt of blue silk and the little pearl buttons we purchased in Oxford.
16:56Well, come along. We haven't got all day.
17:04And the hat. Now, don't forget the hat.
17:12A working man like me has standards to maintain.
17:17Here, pocket full of pennies for holding the door for them Candleford toffs.
17:22And sixpence for taking a gentleman's horse while he answered the call of nature.
17:27You're in your keep at last, are you?
17:29Old maids when you're young, never well.
17:32And old maids...
17:34It'll do for me.
17:38What are you so heaven cheerful for anyway?
17:41Queenie, if someone has about, um, some feathers and, um, a silver sixpence and a sprig of rosemary, what might that mean?
18:01Black feathers, men, blessed innocence, everyone, that combination is the best thing women know for keeping grey hairs at bay.
18:32Czechoslovakian
18:34ler
18:34士
18:36士
18:37士
18:38士
18:39士
18:39士
18:40士
18:40士
18:41士
19:49What shall we do?
19:51Thomas, you can never wake a sleepwalker or they'll drop dead and never wake at all.
20:02Laura!
20:06Ask Miss Lane.
20:08She will know that no.
20:10She must not be troubled.
20:12Now follow Thomas.
20:14We must make sure he comes to no harm.
20:18Laura, I thought I heard noise.
20:20Laura, I thought I heard noise.
20:32Oh, it was just me.
20:34I was getting myself ready for tomorrow.
20:38I didn't mean to disturb you.
20:42Is there anything I can get you?
20:46Minnie is taking such good care of me.
20:52Tea and more tea.
20:56Flowers on my tray.
20:58Always flowers.
21:00It's a poor nurse.
21:04Who'd have thought it?
21:06And are you feeling any better?
21:10Why are you in such a rush to lose your new position?
21:16I am managing.
21:20Although I should not like to do so permanently.
21:26Oh, Laura.
21:28You remind me very much of myself at your age.
21:34You should get some rest now.
21:38Yeah.
21:40You have all my confidence.
21:44And all my trust.
21:46And a little of my envy.
21:50Because when you spread your wings for the very first time,
21:56and realise you really can fly.
22:02It is so magical, isn't it?
22:26Be yeah.
22:35Ellie?
22:36Ellie.
22:49What are we gonna do?
22:50Think of something some along.
22:51They need not a word of this to Miss Lane. Do you understand?
22:54Sending a word of this to Miss Lane, do you understand?
22:57Go after him.
22:59Make sure he's all right.
23:00I will.
23:08Do you not see?
23:10This way we show our clientele that we cater both for the ingenue and the woman of maturity.
23:16I have held you back long enough, Ruby.
23:21I shall do so no more.
23:24My dear, I think you have made a conquest already.
23:48I am so sorry, Mrs. Larkin.
23:51Our postman was unwell this morning.
23:53I assure you it won't happen again.
23:58Oh, Mr. Stokes.
24:00I believe some of your post was also misdelivered.
24:03I'm sure we have a letter for you here.
24:05It's considered customary to show your appreciation.
24:27Some people have no class.
24:36Twister, you cannot demand money for holding the door.
24:39I ain't demanded, I'm just saying it's a matter of common courtesy.
24:42Yesterday's lot understood.
24:44Made near on a shilling.
24:46You made...
24:47You...
24:49You can't!
24:51I mean, you mustn't!
24:52Why not?
24:54Ain't I doing a good job?
24:55It's not a job, Twister.
24:57It's...
24:58It's...
24:59It's not a job.
25:04But...
25:04I sat down with you for staff tea.
25:08I was bringing money home.
25:11I'm sorry.
25:12You should know that we have had another telegraphic communication.
25:28Mr. Dowland's stockbroker enjoins him to invest in a six-letter commodity, which might be copper,
25:34cotton or cobalt.
25:36He further suggests Mr. Dowland pays no more than what might be 13, 14, 18 or perhaps even 19 shillings for the hundredweight.
25:46The malfunctioning of our apparatus is a disaster that can be kept from Miss Lane no longer.
26:06No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
26:36I don't know how he...
26:41What is it?
26:44Don't touch it, please.
27:06Ladies, I'm looking for a gift.
27:20Something pretty that a woman might pin on her dress or in her hair.
27:29Mr. Dowland.
27:31Ladies, I have an item which I would like gift-wrapped.
27:38And even though I didn't purchase it in your fine establishment, I was...
27:41See no more.
27:43Ruby?
27:45How her young fingers do fly.
27:47The dexterity of youth.
27:52This gift.
27:54Would it be for a young lady and someone perhaps of my sister's age or for a woman of more mature years such as myself?
28:01I'd say somewhere between.
28:03What a soft item it is.
28:09A drape, perhaps, or a scarf?
28:11A small token for our sick neighbour.
28:15Poor Miss Lane.
28:16Such a dear old friend.
28:18She and I go back...
28:20Well, I hardly dare say how long.
28:22Ruby won't remember, of course.
28:25A ribbon now can be worn at any age.
28:27I myself would not scorn such an ornament.
28:30As to the colour...
28:32Scarlet.
28:34A bold choice.
28:36Anthropancy yard.
28:38I'll have two yards.
28:40Gift-wrapped.
28:41Miss Lane's indisposition leaves a sad gap in our society, but we must try and fill it.
28:54I wonder, would you care to take tea with us this afternoon?
28:59Shall we say four?
29:05How much do I...
29:07No, no.
29:11Let us hope Mr. Dowland delivers it himself.
29:19Influenza is ruinous to the complexion.
29:23Huh.
29:24Poor Miss Lane.
29:26Poor Miss Lane has had her chance.
29:28Now it's your turn.
29:29I cannot accept this.
29:42You must tell Mr. Dowland it is too extravagant.
29:47He said you'd say that.
29:49And I'm to tell you, it's not extravagant.
29:51It's advertising.
29:52Cars, he's got shares in the company, and when everyone sees you wearing it, the law will want themselves, and he'll make his fortune.
29:58Again.
30:01Cashmere is my one weakness.
30:03I don't know.
30:05I don't know.
30:07I'm too tired to think.
30:08That's what you get for sitting up all morning.
30:11You close your eyes, and I'll bring you some of that thingy CLT later.
30:16Open the window before you leave.
30:20I like to hear the noise from the street.
30:24And if I find you out of your bed, I shall invite Miss Ellison up to read those sermons to you.
30:28Allowed.
30:29It's not like she hasn't offered.
30:31You are taking such good care of me, Minnie.
30:36I'd do anything for you, Mum.
30:38I would.
30:48You don't know who sent them.
30:53Or why they might want to call them out, yeah.
30:59Perhaps you should tell Miss Lane.
31:00No, I will not tell Miss Lane.
31:02Miss Lane is ill.
31:03Why can no one see that?
31:05Were you not such children that we should be disturbing our mother on her sick bed?
31:11Then what were you doing?
31:21Did you just get bored?
31:24Is that what...
31:25Minnie!
31:25Oh!
31:26Oh!
31:26Oh!
31:26Oh!
31:26Oh!
31:27Oh!
31:27Oh!
31:27Oh!
31:28Oh!
31:28Oh!
31:29Oh!
31:29Oh!
31:30Oh!
31:30Oh!
31:31Oh!
31:31Oh!
31:32Oh!
31:32Oh!
31:33Oh!
31:34Oh!
31:34Oh!
31:35Oh!
31:35Oh!
31:36Oh!
31:36Oh!
31:37Oh!
31:37Oh!
31:38Oh!
31:38Oh!
31:39Oh!
31:39Oh!
31:40Oh!
31:40Oh!
31:41Oh!
31:42Oh!
31:43Oh!
31:44Oh!
31:44Oh!
31:45Oh!
31:46Oh!
31:46Oh!
31:47Oh!
31:48Oh!
31:48Oh!
31:49Oh!
31:49Oh!
31:50Oh!
31:50Oh!
31:51Oh!
31:51Oh!
31:52Oh!
31:52Oh!
31:53Oh!
31:53Oh! Oh!
31:54Passed through Candleford on my way home.
32:03Did you see Laura?
32:05Laura wasn't my business in Candleford.
32:11You were.
32:21Two yards.
32:22You might trim a hat or wrap it a few times around that little waist of yours.
32:31Have you done something?
32:33You have such a suspicious mind.
32:37It's a present, Emmy. No strings, no secrets.
32:41A gift.
32:42Ethel Fortnott fingers.
32:45It's beautiful.
32:47We can't afford it.
32:48All right.
32:51I got it because I thought you might need cheering up.
32:55Cheering up? Why?
32:57I haven't been gloomy.
32:58Have I been gloomy?
32:59If you must know, I found a certain little bag containing certain objects.
33:09And I asked Queenie what it might mean.
33:11And she told me.
33:20So now perhaps we might drop this subject so that certain little pitchers listening at this moment
33:24don't go around telling the whole of Lark Roy's your business.
33:29And for what it's worth, I can't say you've got any.
33:44No.
33:46I haven't.
33:47You. Let's not get up from the table.
34:02Where?
34:03There's only one or two.
34:05Where?
34:07Here.
34:09And there's one there.
34:12And there.
34:12They were all addressed to the girl in the post office.
34:24They thought they were for me.
34:27Look what he did to poor Miss Polly.
34:33Now he's coming for me.
34:35This man, your father...
34:37He ain't my father.
34:39He's my mother's husband.
34:40You fearful of him?
34:46Was he harsh?
34:49Did he...
34:51Hurt you?
34:54If I was bad...
34:57Beat you?
35:02If I was bad...
35:04He'd beat my ma or my sisters.
35:06And if one of them did something he didn't like, he'd beat me.
35:09He said you remember the lesson better than that, right?
35:17Listen, I...
35:18I can't take you away by force.
35:22If you're in service, your parents must have signed your indentures.
35:26Legally, you belong here.
35:28He's right.
35:29But they didn't sign them.
35:31I did.
35:32They never knew.
35:36Thought I just upped and went like my sisters.
35:39I have no right to beat you, and now he knows where I am.
35:44You're safe here.
35:47You're with us.
35:49He hurts the people I love, and he hurts me.
35:51And no one can stop him.
35:52No one can ever stop him.
35:54Miss Lane thinks I can do this.
36:15She thinks that I'm like her.
36:16But I'm not.
36:18I can't.
36:20I can't be the one responsible.
36:22It's too hard.
36:24Do you really think that?
36:26Or are you just saying that so that I tell you that you can?
36:29You've the wit and the will for anything.
36:32You think you can take people apart like clocks?
36:35It's an honest question, Laura.
36:36Why is your kind of honest always about finding fault?
36:42It's not true.
36:43It is when you're talking to me.
36:46Oh, I think I'm the catch.
36:48I've got an opinion of myself.
36:51I'm this.
36:52I'm that.
36:53Oh, I'm just looking for praise.
36:58You've never said one true thing to me that didn't hurt.
37:05I'll tell you one true thing.
37:10You're all I think about.
37:11All day, all night, all the time.
37:24You didn't say.
37:27I'm saying no.
37:28No.
37:28I don't understand.
37:47I have to go.
37:50In the end, I'll have to go.
37:51I'll tell you a true thing.
38:20I'm scared to tell Miss Lane about Minnie.
38:27About the telegraph apparatus being broken.
38:31That Thomas sleep works all night and cannot make his round in the day.
38:37I'm scared not only because she is ill and should be allowed to rest.
38:41But because it will mean that I have failed.
38:54And I cannot bear to fail.
39:01I think perhaps that's my one weakness.
39:04Miss Lane!
39:19Miss Lane!
39:26Mr. Dowland?
39:27Mr. Dowland.
39:28Ladies.
39:30Shall we go through?
39:34Ladies, I need your help.
39:35It's Miss Lane.
39:44The doctor's in Oxford.
39:46He's not expected back until tomorrow.
39:48She's so cold.
39:50Is there a doctor in Fordlow?
39:52If someone could ride?
39:55Not Fordlow.
39:56It would take too long.
39:59Lark rising.
40:05Miss Lane.
40:08Minnie.
40:10She screamed, where's Minnie?
40:12Is she here?
40:35I've checked out buildings.
40:36No, sorry.
40:37What if he came for her?
40:38The man who calls himself a stepfather.
40:40What if he came like a thief in the night and took her from us?
40:43We must telegraph the police in Oxford.
40:45It's broken, the telegraph apparatus.
40:47Then someone must ride to the nearest town.
40:49Mr. Dowland!
40:50Oh, he's going to Lark, right?
40:53It's a weight stone.
40:55The workings of this die was designed by a clockmaker.
40:59I can fix it, but I don't know how long it'll take.
41:05I'll stay with Miss Lane.
41:06You and Miss Ellison must go around Candleford.
41:08If Minnie's been taken, someone must have seen something.
41:11Someone must have heard.
41:13She wouldn't have gone quietly.
41:25It's little James.
41:27James.
41:28I need you to come with me.
41:32The doctor is in Oxford.
41:33And Miss Lane.
41:34She's worse.
41:36She must have fallen.
41:37The window was open.
41:38She is so cold.
41:39Is she flushed?
41:40Yes.
41:42Shaken or still?
41:43Still.
41:44Very still.
41:47And her breathing?
41:48Shallow.
41:49Like there's a weight on her chest.
41:53My Lane.
41:53I'm coming to Miss Lane.
42:00But you must tell me why.
42:02But I've just told you because she's sick.
42:04That's why I'm doing it for her.
42:07Why am I doing it for you?
42:08I've seen you.
42:15Boy and man.
42:17You've built yourself up.
42:19You made yourself strong.
42:21And you are strong.
42:24I'm telling you now, the words you don't speak will choke you in the end.
42:29So, come on.
42:31Here.
42:32Now.
42:33Well, there's just you and me.
42:35And not a soul else to hear us.
42:37You tell me, boy.
42:40I'm going to her.
42:44Because I know what it's like to wake up in a world when the sun's gone out of it.
42:50Your mother was a rare joy to know.
42:55But Miss Lane is stronger.
42:58She's stronger.
42:59Let's go.
43:00Let's go.
43:01Let's go.
43:01Let's go.
43:02Let's go.
43:02Let's go.
43:03Good day sir, madam.
43:32It's all in the wrist action, see.
43:42Not everyone can do that.
43:47I sat down with them, for starved tea, starved tea she called it, starved tea.
43:57Oh it's cold, why is it so cold?
44:09I asked Minnie to open the window, where is Minnie?
44:15She'll be back soon, she's only gone out on a delivery.
44:22Queenie!
44:23Oh look at you, you poor child.
44:27Mrs. Tarnall.
44:29That's right, and everything's gonna be alright.
44:34You can leave her with me now.
44:36If he had a horse, he could be anywhere with her by now.
44:53If that is the case, then we must mount a search party.
44:57Nothing.
45:06No one saw anything, no one heard anything.
45:09It's done.
45:10You can telegraph the police in Oxford.
45:13To thee will I cry, O Lord my rock, be not silent to me.
45:18Lest if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.
45:23Hear the voice of my plea for mercy, when I cry to you for help.
45:27When I lift up my hands.
45:29My Lord.
45:30Minnie!
45:31Minnie!
45:32Oh, we were so scared.
45:33So scared.
45:34I brought her home, see, but I ain't letting her in if he's here.
45:53That monster she's running away from had the notion if she'd stayed he'd have tried to hurt Miss Lane.
46:00That man is not under this roof and never shall be whilst Thomas Brown draws breath.
46:06When my mother and father forsake me, then the Lord will take me up.
46:11Psalm 27.
46:12You have the Lord, and you have the post office, and neither will fail you.
46:29I wonder if one of you might explain to me what exactly is going on here.
46:41I thought Mr Dowland showed a certain regard for you, but it seems it is and always has been Miss Lane to whom Dowland's thoughts turn.
47:10I can only say that for a man of discernment, he's a fool when it comes to matters of the heart.
47:17Pearl.
47:19Pearl.
47:20Pearl.
47:21Pearl.
47:22I do like Mr James Dowland, but I'm not sure I like him well enough to have him always about me.
47:30And if we'd married and he'd come to live with us, we should never have been rid of him.
47:36What can you mean?
47:39If you had married Mr Dowland, he would not have lived here.
47:45Where else should he have lived?
47:46Why, you would have lived with him, of course, in his home.
47:52But I always supposed if one of us were to marry, the gentleman would come and live with us, over the shop.
47:58Well, as did Papa.
48:02Ropi, what notions you do have.
48:05But I should not care to live with a husband and no sister.
48:09I should not care for that at all.
48:13I think I should die of loneliness.
48:28These belong in the fire.
48:43For the attention of...
48:45How should I address your stepfather?
48:48I know how I'd like to address him.
48:51John Mude.
48:52For the attention of Mr John Mude.
48:57Regarding the sending of malicious correspondence and items to...
49:03My given name is Winifred.
49:06Miss Winifred Mude.
49:08Of the post office.
49:11Candleford, stop.
49:11Under section 61, paragraph 12 of post office articles, it is an offence under law to dispatch such correspondence...
49:25Miss Lane.
49:27Through the auspices of the Royal Mail.
49:30And as such is punishable by up to two years in prison.
49:36And a fine of 100 pounds.
49:38Miss Lane.
49:38Yes, what is it, Thomas?
49:39There is no section 61, paragraph 12, ma'am.
49:46You are quite right.
49:49Why limit myself?
49:52Five years in prison and a fine of 200 pounds.
49:58Do you have that?
50:02And if that doesn't scare him, Thomas, you shall have to.
50:05Be my pleasure, ma'am.
50:06The indentures may be a little trickier, but my solicitor will attend tomorrow.
50:14Hopeful of taking my will, no doubt.
50:19I think we can put him to better use.
50:24Am I saved, then?
50:25Oh, Minnie.
50:32You are ours.
50:34And no one shall take you from us.
50:37Oh, Miss Lane.
50:38Miss Lane.
50:42And now I think I should return to my bed.
50:47I can manage quite well on my own.
50:50Good night, sir.
50:51Thank you, Slade.
50:59Well, I believe I shall take my leave of you as well.
51:02Oh.
51:04Good night.
51:05Good night, sir.
51:05Good night, James.
51:07Good night, James.
51:08Good night.
51:09Good night.
51:09Good night.
51:10Good night.
51:11Eavesdropping.
51:32I find myself more tired than I thought.
51:41I imagine such creativity must be draining.
51:47You think I acted improperly?
51:50Illegally even?
51:53I think you acted magnificently.
51:58I think you are magnificent.
52:04Mr Towland.
52:11James.
52:13I wonder would you give me the favour of your own?
52:19It seemed to me that all the threads of all the stories being played out around this
52:36lane met and crossed in her hands.
52:39Such clever, capable hands.
52:42It is you look very well.
52:45That colour is most becoming to both of you.
52:47So good to see you fully recovered, Miss Lane.
52:50It was easy to forget that fate was also busy spinning a story.
52:58And none of us knew how it would play out.
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