1 00:01:06,960 --> 00:01:09,320 The story so far... 2 00:01:09,320 --> 00:01:12,480 Two friends left school together. 3 00:01:12,480 --> 00:01:14,480 Two girls became women, and wives, 4 00:01:14,480 --> 00:01:16,960 till jealousy tore their friendship apart. 5 00:01:16,960 --> 00:01:19,640 Read it. I mean every word. 6 00:01:19,640 --> 00:01:21,960 As Miss Sharp escaped her lowly start... 7 00:01:21,960 --> 00:01:22,960 I've arrived. 8 00:01:22,960 --> 00:01:26,960 ..so Miss Sedley sank to the depths of misery. 9 00:01:26,960 --> 00:01:29,960 Till the day Becky flew too high. 10 00:01:31,480 --> 00:01:34,960 Tonight, Becky is lost and then she is found 11 00:01:34,960 --> 00:01:36,960 but does she have a happy ending? 12 00:01:36,960 --> 00:01:39,960 Well, this is Vanity Fair. 13 00:01:39,960 --> 00:01:43,960 A world where everyone is striving for what is not worth having. 14 00:01:53,640 --> 00:01:55,960 Woo! 15 00:02:14,960 --> 00:02:15,960 Vicky. 16 00:02:19,960 --> 00:02:21,960 Vicky. 17 00:02:21,960 --> 00:02:22,960 Vicky! 18 00:02:41,960 --> 00:02:43,960 Oh, that it should come to this. 19 00:02:43,960 --> 00:02:45,960 To lose our shop to the bailiffs 20 00:02:45,960 --> 00:02:48,960 because my husband wouldn't stand up to her. 21 00:02:48,960 --> 00:02:50,160 Men! 22 00:03:14,960 --> 00:03:16,960 I don't want more money. 23 00:03:16,960 --> 00:03:18,960 I might as well have offered to pay off the national debt. 24 00:03:18,960 --> 00:03:20,960 I said I don't want money. What, then? 25 00:03:22,960 --> 00:03:23,960 What? 26 00:03:23,960 --> 00:03:24,960 Rawdon. 27 00:03:26,960 --> 00:03:27,960 It is the boy. 28 00:03:34,640 --> 00:03:36,960 Go to your room! 29 00:03:46,960 --> 00:03:49,960 Mother is the name for God in the minds of little children, 30 00:03:49,960 --> 00:03:51,960 and my boy worships a stone. 31 00:03:53,320 --> 00:03:54,960 Or he did. 32 00:03:54,960 --> 00:03:55,960 He got over it. 33 00:03:58,160 --> 00:03:59,960 We both got over it. 34 00:04:06,960 --> 00:04:08,960 There's 600 here. 35 00:04:09,960 --> 00:04:10,960 Give it to Paul Briggs. 36 00:04:11,960 --> 00:04:13,960 I should never have taken it off her. 37 00:04:15,960 --> 00:04:16,960 Listen, Bute. 38 00:04:18,160 --> 00:04:20,960 I think you'd agree that the old place could do with a housekeeper. 39 00:04:20,960 --> 00:04:23,800 Queen's Crawley? Could swallow a whole army of them. 40 00:04:23,800 --> 00:04:24,960 Take Briggs. 41 00:04:25,960 --> 00:04:26,960 She loves Rawdy. 42 00:04:27,960 --> 00:04:29,160 As his mother don't. 43 00:04:31,960 --> 00:04:32,960 I beg you. 44 00:04:34,160 --> 00:04:35,960 Be a friend to them both. 45 00:04:41,960 --> 00:04:43,160 Don't do anything foolish. 46 00:05:07,640 --> 00:05:08,960 What's the meaning of this? 47 00:05:10,480 --> 00:05:11,960 Did some little rodent squeak? 48 00:05:13,960 --> 00:05:18,960 How dare you... servants sit in my presence, on my sofa? 49 00:05:18,960 --> 00:05:22,960 This here is Mrs Raggles' sofa. Get out. 50 00:05:22,960 --> 00:05:24,960 Pay our wages and you won't see us for dust. 51 00:05:28,960 --> 00:05:31,000 Mr Raggles, do you permit these insults to me, 52 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:33,960 a poor defenceless woman? 53 00:05:34,960 --> 00:05:37,960 You lived five years in this house. 54 00:05:37,960 --> 00:05:39,960 And paid just a third of the rent due to me. 55 00:05:39,960 --> 00:05:42,960 Without that money, I am bankrupt. 56 00:05:42,960 --> 00:05:44,960 And I trusted you because you are a Crawley. 57 00:05:44,960 --> 00:05:46,960 Exactly. So soon as the colonel comes home... 58 00:05:46,960 --> 00:05:49,960 Why would he ever come home to such as you? 59 00:05:57,960 --> 00:05:59,960 We shall lose this house as well as the shop. 60 00:05:59,960 --> 00:06:02,960 Mrs Crawley, my family has no roof over its head! 61 00:06:08,960 --> 00:06:10,800 Rawdon. 62 00:06:10,800 --> 00:06:11,960 Rawdon! 63 00:06:11,960 --> 00:06:13,960 This is not a good idea! 64 00:06:20,960 --> 00:06:23,160 Does he mean to challenge you? 65 00:06:23,160 --> 00:06:24,960 To a duel. 66 00:06:24,960 --> 00:06:29,320 He'll have to learn to shoot from a surprisingly long distance. 67 00:06:34,960 --> 00:06:37,960 I have a plan for the dashing colonel. 68 00:06:40,160 --> 00:06:41,640 Brother. 69 00:06:41,640 --> 00:06:43,960 Dear brother, this is not the way. 70 00:06:53,960 --> 00:06:55,960 My Lord Steyne gives notice 71 00:06:55,960 --> 00:06:59,960 that you may expect a communication laying out his terms. 72 00:06:59,960 --> 00:07:02,960 Terms? I want satisfaction! 73 00:07:04,960 --> 00:07:08,960 Such as you are insects, sir, 74 00:07:08,960 --> 00:07:11,960 to be crushed beneath his Lordship's feet. 75 00:07:15,960 --> 00:07:17,960 Does he know who we are? 76 00:07:36,160 --> 00:07:37,960 Sir Bute. 77 00:07:37,960 --> 00:07:38,960 Rebecca. 78 00:07:38,960 --> 00:07:40,960 A word? 79 00:07:44,960 --> 00:07:47,960 I have received Lord Steyne alone 100 times, it's true. 80 00:07:47,960 --> 00:07:52,000 But I'm only guilty of too much devotedness to Rawdon's service. 81 00:07:52,000 --> 00:07:54,960 Our family's service. 82 00:07:54,960 --> 00:07:57,320 I looked for a peerage for you. 83 00:07:58,960 --> 00:08:01,960 Oh, my God, reconcile us, 84 00:08:01,960 --> 00:08:02,960 dear brother. 85 00:08:02,960 --> 00:08:04,960 Pity me. 86 00:08:04,960 --> 00:08:07,960 And bring my cruel, cruel Rawdon home. 87 00:08:08,960 --> 00:08:11,000 For I am innocent as the day is long. 88 00:08:21,960 --> 00:08:24,800 Your soul is black with vanity. 89 00:08:24,800 --> 00:08:26,960 You won't forget me, though, will you? 90 00:08:26,960 --> 00:08:28,800 It'll be so boring when I'm gone. 91 00:08:43,960 --> 00:08:47,960 "Congratulations are due to Colonel Rawdon Crawley who, 92 00:08:47,960 --> 00:08:50,960 upon the recommendation of Lord Steyne, 93 00:08:50,960 --> 00:08:54,960 is appointed Governor-General of Coventry Island." 94 00:08:55,960 --> 00:08:57,960 A promotion? 95 00:08:59,960 --> 00:09:00,960 Coventry Island. 96 00:09:02,960 --> 00:09:03,960 I don't know either. 97 00:09:03,960 --> 00:09:06,640 Somewhere off the Ivory Coast, I think. 98 00:09:06,640 --> 00:09:07,960 Africa? 99 00:09:08,960 --> 00:09:09,960 Hot, then. 100 00:09:09,960 --> 00:09:11,960 And wet. 101 00:09:12,960 --> 00:09:14,960 Mosquitoes the size of parrots. 102 00:09:16,960 --> 00:09:21,960 Ah, the last Governor-General died within six months, I believe. 103 00:09:25,320 --> 00:09:26,960 Don't go. 104 00:09:28,160 --> 00:09:29,960 Rawdon, I beg you. 105 00:09:31,160 --> 00:09:32,960 No wife. 106 00:09:33,960 --> 00:09:35,640 No home. 107 00:09:37,800 --> 00:09:38,960 No honour. 108 00:09:41,960 --> 00:09:43,960 What else is there left? 109 00:09:50,960 --> 00:09:52,960 It's the end of the line. 110 00:10:03,960 --> 00:10:05,480 Ahoy. 111 00:10:36,960 --> 00:10:38,960 Major Dobbin? 112 00:10:39,960 --> 00:10:41,960 Miles away, as usual. 113 00:10:41,960 --> 00:10:44,960 Did you try some of that chamomile tea? 114 00:10:44,960 --> 00:10:47,960 For sure, the best cure for melancholy in a gentleman 115 00:10:47,960 --> 00:10:49,800 is not chamomile tea. 116 00:10:49,800 --> 00:10:50,960 Dobbin! 117 00:10:50,960 --> 00:10:52,960 Dobbin. 118 00:10:52,960 --> 00:10:55,000 A letter from my mother. You'll never guess. 119 00:10:59,960 --> 00:11:01,320 What on earth? 120 00:11:03,320 --> 00:11:04,960 My sister, she is... 121 00:11:04,960 --> 00:11:05,960 Dead? 122 00:11:05,960 --> 00:11:08,960 ..to be married! To the vicar. 123 00:11:11,960 --> 00:11:13,320 Put that face away now. 124 00:11:23,000 --> 00:11:26,960 If nothing else will ever truly make you happy, William, 125 00:11:26,960 --> 00:11:31,960 you must fly away home now and prevent that wedding. 126 00:11:32,960 --> 00:11:34,960 Peggy O'Dowd. 127 00:11:34,960 --> 00:11:36,960 Mother of all the regiment. 128 00:11:38,480 --> 00:11:39,960 Your blessing means all the world. 129 00:11:53,960 --> 00:11:56,800 "Louisa Grace Sedley. 130 00:11:56,800 --> 00:11:58,960 "Loving wife and mother." 131 00:11:59,960 --> 00:12:01,160 Hmm. 132 00:12:02,480 --> 00:12:04,960 Not so loving towards the end. 133 00:12:06,960 --> 00:12:09,960 She endured many trials, Father. 134 00:12:09,960 --> 00:12:10,960 Which I caused. 135 00:12:12,960 --> 00:12:15,320 And you bore, my patient dear. 136 00:12:17,800 --> 00:12:20,960 Ah, Reverend Binney. Good morning. Good to see you. 137 00:12:20,960 --> 00:12:22,960 Good morning. 138 00:12:22,960 --> 00:12:24,960 Shall we walk together? Oh, pleasure. 139 00:12:32,960 --> 00:12:33,960 Why all the rush? 140 00:12:37,960 --> 00:12:41,960 Five months' travelling and barely a lunch to restore our wits. 141 00:12:41,960 --> 00:12:44,960 Let alone our poor suffering stomachs! 142 00:12:49,960 --> 00:12:52,160 Fine year for the rosehips, Mrs Osborne. 143 00:12:52,160 --> 00:12:54,960 Yes, I shall make syrup for the harvest supper. 144 00:12:56,960 --> 00:12:58,960 You know, I think it may be coming on to rain. 145 00:12:58,960 --> 00:13:01,960 But we have our butterfly hunt! Oh! 146 00:13:03,000 --> 00:13:05,960 Mr Sedley, do you know these gentlemen? 147 00:13:08,960 --> 00:13:09,960 William? 148 00:13:12,960 --> 00:13:13,960 Jos! 149 00:13:15,960 --> 00:13:17,960 Oh, my dear boy! 150 00:13:17,960 --> 00:13:20,960 Major Dobbin, Mr Sedley. We'll leave you to your guests. 151 00:13:20,960 --> 00:13:22,960 Yes. Thank you. 152 00:13:23,960 --> 00:13:25,160 My dear Amelia. 153 00:13:25,160 --> 00:13:26,960 My darling brother. 154 00:13:26,960 --> 00:13:29,960 Come on. Let's get you inside. 155 00:13:29,960 --> 00:13:31,960 You must be hungry. 156 00:13:35,960 --> 00:13:39,960 Um... Was I wrong to imagine I should be congratulating you 157 00:13:39,960 --> 00:13:41,960 on your engagement? 158 00:13:41,960 --> 00:13:44,960 Oh! Happily, I was saved further embarrassment 159 00:13:44,960 --> 00:13:47,960 by the arrival of that very charming new teacher. 160 00:13:47,960 --> 00:13:48,960 Oh! 161 00:13:48,960 --> 00:13:53,160 But... where is your lady wife? You were to marry Miss O'Dowd. 162 00:13:53,160 --> 00:13:55,960 I'm known throughout India as a hopeless old bachelor. 163 00:13:55,960 --> 00:13:57,960 Oh. 164 00:14:00,960 --> 00:14:01,960 Oh! 165 00:14:03,960 --> 00:14:04,960 The English summer! 166 00:14:04,960 --> 00:14:06,960 It's purest heaven to me. 167 00:14:07,960 --> 00:14:09,960 Run. 168 00:14:10,960 --> 00:14:11,960 Ooh! 169 00:14:13,960 --> 00:14:17,480 So you see, none of my investments was unwise, 170 00:14:17,480 --> 00:14:19,960 not really. Look at this. 171 00:14:19,960 --> 00:14:21,800 Yes, there will be tea. 172 00:14:21,800 --> 00:14:23,960 Georgie has grown so tall, you must go and visit him 173 00:14:23,960 --> 00:14:25,960 while you're in London! 174 00:14:29,960 --> 00:14:31,960 You still play it? The piano. 175 00:14:33,960 --> 00:14:34,960 Of course. 176 00:14:35,960 --> 00:14:38,960 The kindest man in the world. 177 00:14:38,960 --> 00:14:41,960 To seek it out, return it to me, 178 00:14:41,960 --> 00:14:43,960 knowing how much it meant. 179 00:14:46,640 --> 00:14:49,960 It was the greatest pleasure of my life, 180 00:14:49,960 --> 00:14:51,960 I assure you, Amelia. 181 00:14:54,640 --> 00:14:55,960 What...? 182 00:14:58,800 --> 00:14:59,960 No! 183 00:15:01,000 --> 00:15:02,960 No, that's... 184 00:15:03,960 --> 00:15:05,960 I thought someone else. 185 00:15:10,960 --> 00:15:13,960 Amelia. 186 00:15:13,960 --> 00:15:14,960 Amelia, please! 187 00:15:18,640 --> 00:15:19,960 How could it not be me? 188 00:15:19,960 --> 00:15:22,480 I must seem very ungrateful, I do beg your pardon! 189 00:15:22,480 --> 00:15:24,960 I have loved you since the very first moment that I saw you. 190 00:15:24,960 --> 00:15:26,960 Stop, I can't! 191 00:15:26,960 --> 00:15:28,800 That day in Vauxhall 13 years ago, 192 00:15:28,800 --> 00:15:30,480 since then, no hour in the day has passed 193 00:15:30,480 --> 00:15:31,960 that I have not thought of you. 194 00:15:31,960 --> 00:15:32,960 Please, stop! 195 00:15:32,960 --> 00:15:35,960 I came to tell you before I left for India, 196 00:15:35,960 --> 00:15:38,160 but you didn't care, so I left. But I'm here now! 197 00:15:38,160 --> 00:15:39,320 Now?! 198 00:15:39,320 --> 00:15:41,640 What use is now? 199 00:15:41,640 --> 00:15:43,160 You are too late! 200 00:15:44,960 --> 00:15:47,960 I prayed and prayed for a friend to come 201 00:15:47,960 --> 00:15:50,160 when they took away my little boy and it nearly killed me! 202 00:15:50,160 --> 00:15:52,960 That's when you should have come! 203 00:15:52,960 --> 00:15:54,480 I am sorry. George is my husband! 204 00:15:55,160 --> 00:15:57,960 Here and in heaven. 205 00:15:57,960 --> 00:15:59,960 And for ever. 206 00:16:04,960 --> 00:16:06,160 I am sorry, too! 207 00:16:22,800 --> 00:16:25,480 I'm no fool, Major Dobbin. 208 00:16:25,480 --> 00:16:27,960 I can read an accounts sheet, 209 00:16:27,960 --> 00:16:29,960 which is how I know that most of the fund 210 00:16:29,960 --> 00:16:34,160 which kept mother and child afloat came from you. 211 00:16:36,960 --> 00:16:39,960 I could do no less when she was left without resources. 212 00:16:41,000 --> 00:16:45,640 You still mean to make me feel guilty. 213 00:16:45,640 --> 00:16:47,640 Not at all. 214 00:16:47,640 --> 00:16:50,960 A father in his grief is not master of himself. 215 00:16:50,960 --> 00:16:53,320 But, sir, you are a grandfather now. 216 00:16:54,960 --> 00:16:56,960 And a fine life I give the boy. 217 00:16:56,960 --> 00:17:00,960 And how much finer if it included a mother's love. 218 00:17:02,800 --> 00:17:07,320 She took your son away from you, but she gave you hers in return. 219 00:17:08,800 --> 00:17:10,960 And however much you loved your George, 220 00:17:10,960 --> 00:17:13,960 I can tell you, sir, she worships him still. 221 00:17:20,960 --> 00:17:22,960 There are other women, man. 222 00:17:23,960 --> 00:17:24,960 Hm? 223 00:18:39,480 --> 00:18:41,960 Welcome to my house, Mama. 224 00:18:42,960 --> 00:18:43,960 Darling Georgie! 225 00:18:45,960 --> 00:18:47,960 It's rather a dark old place, isn't it? 226 00:18:50,160 --> 00:18:51,960 You and your mama can change all that now. 227 00:18:51,960 --> 00:18:53,960 Jane... 228 00:18:53,960 --> 00:18:55,960 I have half my father's fortune 229 00:18:55,960 --> 00:18:59,960 and an old school friend with a house on the Royal Crescent in Bath. 230 00:18:59,960 --> 00:19:02,960 Bath! Oh... 231 00:19:03,960 --> 00:19:06,960 So I may cross you off my list of things to worry about. 232 00:19:06,960 --> 00:19:08,960 Most certainly. 233 00:19:11,960 --> 00:19:13,480 Goodbye, Amelia. 234 00:19:13,480 --> 00:19:14,960 Goodbye, Jane. 235 00:19:28,160 --> 00:19:30,960 Tear down those dusty curtains, Amelia. 236 00:19:30,960 --> 00:19:33,960 Employ some painters, and then go on holiday. 237 00:19:50,960 --> 00:19:52,480 A holiday? 238 00:19:52,480 --> 00:19:54,960 Can Uncle Dob come? 239 00:20:12,960 --> 00:20:16,960 I must most extravagantly admire that musical gentleman's waistcoat. 240 00:20:22,800 --> 00:20:24,640 That rug's rather pretty. 241 00:20:24,640 --> 00:20:25,960 I can find you much better. 242 00:20:25,960 --> 00:20:29,960 The lace is so fine and so white and half the price it is in London. 243 00:20:29,960 --> 00:20:31,960 May I make a present of it for you? 244 00:20:31,960 --> 00:20:33,960 Oh, I have no use of white lace, William. 245 00:20:34,960 --> 00:20:36,960 The Pumpernickel Assembly Rooms... 246 00:20:36,960 --> 00:20:37,960 Uncle Dob, no! 247 00:20:37,960 --> 00:20:39,960 The Pumpernickel Museum. 248 00:20:39,960 --> 00:20:40,960 Bleurgh. 249 00:20:40,960 --> 00:20:43,960 Will there be suits of armour and thumbscrews? 250 00:20:43,960 --> 00:20:45,960 I have my hopes so. 251 00:20:45,960 --> 00:20:48,960 Oh, bliss. Whiskers galore! 252 00:20:50,960 --> 00:20:52,960 Oh, dear. 253 00:20:52,960 --> 00:20:54,960 I shall accompany your brother 254 00:20:54,960 --> 00:20:56,960 to prevent further crimes against the mode. 255 00:21:01,480 --> 00:21:04,960 Ah. I don't think I'm on the right page. 256 00:21:04,960 --> 00:21:05,960 What? 257 00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:18,320 You have never played, petit monsieur. 258 00:22:19,960 --> 00:22:20,960 Never. 259 00:22:22,960 --> 00:22:24,960 Play for me. 260 00:22:24,960 --> 00:22:26,960 Bring me luck. 261 00:22:26,960 --> 00:22:28,960 Choose a part, even or odds. 262 00:22:35,320 --> 00:22:37,960 You are very much like your father. 263 00:22:39,000 --> 00:22:41,000 How do you know about my father? 264 00:22:41,000 --> 00:22:42,960 What happened to your French accent? 265 00:22:50,960 --> 00:22:52,960 Madame gagne. The lady wins. 266 00:22:52,960 --> 00:22:54,960 You may take one kiss. 267 00:22:54,960 --> 00:22:55,960 But shush! 268 00:22:55,960 --> 00:22:57,960 Just a little one. 269 00:23:05,640 --> 00:23:06,960 Come away. 270 00:23:06,960 --> 00:23:07,960 My apologies, madam. 271 00:23:09,960 --> 00:23:11,800 Did you play? 272 00:23:11,800 --> 00:23:12,960 No. 273 00:23:12,960 --> 00:23:14,960 Your word as a gentleman, you never will? 274 00:23:14,960 --> 00:23:16,160 Yes, sir. 275 00:23:19,960 --> 00:23:20,960 Come along, Sedley. 276 00:23:20,960 --> 00:23:23,960 I'll follow. Goodbye, Dobbin. 277 00:23:48,640 --> 00:23:49,960 I don't play to win. 278 00:23:49,960 --> 00:23:52,800 I don't play at all. No good at it. 279 00:23:52,800 --> 00:23:54,960 I play to forget. 280 00:23:55,960 --> 00:23:57,960 But it doesn't work. 281 00:23:57,960 --> 00:23:59,960 I cannot forget... 282 00:23:59,960 --> 00:24:01,960 old times. 283 00:24:01,960 --> 00:24:04,960 Everyone else changes, everyone forgets. 284 00:24:04,960 --> 00:24:05,960 No-one has any heart. 285 00:24:07,960 --> 00:24:09,960 Oh, Miss Rebecca, don't be sad. 286 00:24:11,800 --> 00:24:15,960 Are you not also wallowing in fond memories, Mr Joseph? 287 00:24:16,960 --> 00:24:19,960 Of a fairy-tale evening in Vauxhall, perhaps? 288 00:24:19,960 --> 00:24:24,160 I think perhaps a veil is better drawn over that night, Mrs Crawley. 289 00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:28,160 It was one of the loveliest moments of my life. 290 00:24:29,960 --> 00:24:32,320 Oh, the mistakes of our youth do haunt us! 291 00:24:34,960 --> 00:24:36,960 I imagine Pumpernickel is darn provincial 292 00:24:36,960 --> 00:24:39,960 compared to life in Boggly Wallah, Mr Joseph. 293 00:24:40,960 --> 00:24:43,960 Boggly Wallah! I, madam, am magistrate of Bundlegunch. 294 00:24:43,960 --> 00:24:45,640 Bundlegunch! 295 00:24:45,640 --> 00:24:48,960 How utterly marvellous. 296 00:25:05,960 --> 00:25:08,960 This is really where you live? 297 00:25:10,960 --> 00:25:13,960 You have brought a little joy tonight 298 00:25:13,960 --> 00:25:18,800 to a life become sad and... so lonely. 299 00:25:49,640 --> 00:25:51,960 A little more bacon, Georgie? 300 00:25:51,960 --> 00:25:53,480 No, don't take it all! 301 00:25:53,480 --> 00:25:54,960 Morning. 302 00:25:54,960 --> 00:25:57,960 Good heavens, Jos, I can smell your Cologne water from here! 303 00:25:57,960 --> 00:25:59,960 I may see you at luncheon. 304 00:25:59,960 --> 00:26:01,960 Missed two meals running! 305 00:26:01,960 --> 00:26:02,960 Is he ill? 306 00:26:30,800 --> 00:26:32,000 Nein. Verboten. 307 00:26:36,960 --> 00:26:37,960 No idea, sorry. 308 00:26:38,960 --> 00:26:40,960 Won't stay long. 309 00:26:40,960 --> 00:26:42,960 Won't steal anything. 310 00:26:42,960 --> 00:26:43,960 Just... 311 00:27:11,960 --> 00:27:12,960 Mr Sedley. 312 00:27:13,960 --> 00:27:15,640 Mrs Crawley. 313 00:27:23,960 --> 00:27:26,960 I dare say you're sorry to find me in reduced circumstances. 314 00:27:26,960 --> 00:27:28,960 Well... 315 00:27:28,960 --> 00:27:32,960 But not, I hope, sorry to find me at all. 316 00:27:35,960 --> 00:27:37,960 No, indeed. 317 00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:43,960 Dear heavens. To be reminded there was once such a thing in the world 318 00:27:43,960 --> 00:27:45,320 as an honest man! 319 00:27:49,640 --> 00:27:50,960 I say, that's me! 320 00:27:50,960 --> 00:27:52,000 Oh, that? 321 00:27:53,640 --> 00:27:57,960 Mr Joseph, that is one of my most treasured possessions. 322 00:28:03,960 --> 00:28:05,960 Mrs Crawley, allow me. 323 00:28:10,960 --> 00:28:12,960 'She is a most injured and virtuous female' 324 00:28:12,960 --> 00:28:14,960 in sore need of a friend! 325 00:28:14,960 --> 00:28:18,960 Promise me, Jos, you will not think of bringing that little minx here. 326 00:28:19,960 --> 00:28:21,960 What little mix? 327 00:28:21,960 --> 00:28:24,960 Marooned in Pumpernickel without a friend in the world, Amy. 328 00:28:24,960 --> 00:28:26,640 An honest woman always has friends. 329 00:28:26,640 --> 00:28:29,960 The agonies Mrs Crawley has endured are quite frightful to hear. 330 00:28:31,160 --> 00:28:32,960 Rebecca? Here? 331 00:28:34,960 --> 00:28:36,960 I can't see her. 332 00:28:36,960 --> 00:28:37,960 Don't make me see her, William. 333 00:28:37,960 --> 00:28:41,800 There's your answer, Jos. She had a child. 334 00:28:41,800 --> 00:28:44,960 The same age as Georgie. An angel, apparently. 335 00:28:44,960 --> 00:28:48,480 And he adored his mama, as she adored him. 336 00:28:49,640 --> 00:28:52,800 And they tore the babe shrieking out of her arms. 337 00:28:52,800 --> 00:28:55,000 Oh, but that's... Awful. 338 00:28:56,320 --> 00:28:57,960 Yes. 339 00:28:57,960 --> 00:29:01,960 Oh, Amy, her tender heart is broken. 340 00:29:09,960 --> 00:29:11,960 Amelia. 341 00:29:12,960 --> 00:29:15,960 I mean, what exactly is she living on? 342 00:29:15,960 --> 00:29:19,960 I am astonished at your lack of charity. She is my oldest friend! 343 00:29:20,960 --> 00:29:23,960 Miss Sharp was not always a good friend to you. 344 00:29:23,960 --> 00:29:26,960 And she is a mother. As I am. 345 00:29:26,960 --> 00:29:29,480 I don't expect you to understand. 346 00:30:21,960 --> 00:30:22,960 Get to the back of the queue. 347 00:30:41,960 --> 00:30:44,160 God brought him back to me. 348 00:30:44,160 --> 00:30:45,960 Have faith, dear Becky. 349 00:30:47,960 --> 00:30:48,960 I live only for the moment 350 00:30:48,960 --> 00:30:52,320 when I too should be reunited with my darling son. 351 00:30:53,960 --> 00:30:56,960 Show me his hair. Is it blond or dark? 352 00:30:56,960 --> 00:30:57,960 What? 353 00:30:57,960 --> 00:31:00,960 You must have a lock of his precious hair. 354 00:31:00,960 --> 00:31:01,960 In a locket, or... 355 00:31:04,960 --> 00:31:05,960 Good morning! 356 00:31:05,960 --> 00:31:09,320 Lovely day, we were thinking a walk through the woods. 357 00:31:09,320 --> 00:31:10,960 May I speak privately, Amelia? 358 00:31:10,960 --> 00:31:11,960 No, you may not. 359 00:31:13,800 --> 00:31:17,960 Speak, sir, we are only two women and can be easily intimidated. 360 00:31:19,160 --> 00:31:21,960 It is not a pleasure for me to perform this duty. 361 00:31:21,960 --> 00:31:23,960 Pray, proceed quickly, then. 362 00:31:26,960 --> 00:31:31,960 A woman who is separated from her husband, 363 00:31:32,960 --> 00:31:36,000 who lives in a hovel and frequents public gaming tables, 364 00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:38,960 is not a fit companion for a lady. How dare you! 365 00:31:38,960 --> 00:31:40,800 Or for a ten-year-old child. 366 00:31:43,800 --> 00:31:46,480 If the charge is unfaithfulness to my husband, 367 00:31:46,480 --> 00:31:49,960 I scorn it, I defy you or anybody else to prove it. 368 00:31:49,960 --> 00:31:53,640 If the charge is that I am poor, forsaken, wretched, then, yes, 369 00:31:53,640 --> 00:31:56,640 I am guilty of those faults and punished for them every day. 370 00:31:56,640 --> 00:32:00,000 If I have any authority here... Authority? You have none! 371 00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:01,960 I choose my own friends. 372 00:32:01,960 --> 00:32:03,960 Then, do you choose her or me? 373 00:32:07,960 --> 00:32:09,800 Rebecca, we are leaving. 374 00:32:15,960 --> 00:32:19,800 Will you stay a moment and speak to me Amelia, please! 375 00:32:19,800 --> 00:32:21,960 Upon my honour, it is not about you. 376 00:32:23,960 --> 00:32:26,000 This is your authority, William? 377 00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:28,640 I have no claim to authority, 378 00:32:28,640 --> 00:32:30,960 but I do have a claim to be heard. 379 00:32:30,960 --> 00:32:32,960 That woman betrayed you on the night before the battle... 380 00:32:32,960 --> 00:32:34,960 You insult my friend! 381 00:32:34,960 --> 00:32:37,960 And now you insult the blessed memory of my husband. 382 00:32:38,960 --> 00:32:40,960 Your language is crude 383 00:32:40,960 --> 00:32:42,000 and violent. 384 00:32:42,000 --> 00:32:44,000 It disgusts me. 385 00:32:45,960 --> 00:32:48,960 You don't mean that. Yes, I do. 386 00:32:48,960 --> 00:32:50,960 Your conduct is unworthy, sir. 387 00:32:58,960 --> 00:33:03,000 All these years, I have loved and watched you. 388 00:33:04,320 --> 00:33:06,960 Now I wonder, did I always know 389 00:33:06,960 --> 00:33:10,320 that the prize I'd set my life on 390 00:33:10,320 --> 00:33:11,960 was not worth winning? 391 00:33:13,960 --> 00:33:17,960 Your heart clings so faithfully to a memory 392 00:33:17,960 --> 00:33:19,960 because that is all you are capable of. 393 00:33:19,960 --> 00:33:23,960 Your soul is shallow. 394 00:33:25,960 --> 00:33:28,960 You cannot feel a love as deep as mine. 395 00:33:30,960 --> 00:33:33,960 As real as mine. 396 00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:40,000 The truth is, you are not worthy. 397 00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:43,960 You never were worthy of the lifetime of foolish love 398 00:33:43,960 --> 00:33:44,960 I have devoted to you. 399 00:33:45,960 --> 00:33:50,160 Goodbye, Amelia. Let it end. We are both weary of it. 400 00:33:57,960 --> 00:33:59,960 I'm sorry. 401 00:34:17,960 --> 00:34:21,960 Uncle Dob! 402 00:34:21,960 --> 00:34:23,320 Don't go! 403 00:34:23,320 --> 00:34:24,960 No! 404 00:34:24,960 --> 00:34:26,960 Uncle Dob! 405 00:35:49,960 --> 00:35:50,960 Becky? 406 00:36:02,640 --> 00:36:03,960 Becky! 407 00:36:03,960 --> 00:36:05,960 Becky. 408 00:36:13,960 --> 00:36:16,320 So many eligible gentlemen here. 409 00:36:16,320 --> 00:36:18,960 Not all good husband material, I grant you. 410 00:36:18,960 --> 00:36:19,960 I have my brother. 411 00:36:19,960 --> 00:36:21,960 Jos needs even more looking after than you do. 412 00:36:21,960 --> 00:36:22,960 And my father. 413 00:36:22,960 --> 00:36:25,960 Hopeless! And you can't hang on to Georgie forever, either. 414 00:36:25,960 --> 00:36:28,960 He'll have to go to school, then what will you do? 415 00:36:28,960 --> 00:36:29,960 You must have a husband! 416 00:36:32,960 --> 00:36:33,960 Mrs Crawley. 417 00:36:35,960 --> 00:36:37,960 Dear lady, I scarcely know what to say to you. 418 00:36:39,320 --> 00:36:42,160 The Governor of Coventry Island, your poor husband... 419 00:36:43,960 --> 00:36:46,000 ..has fallen victim to yellow fever. 420 00:36:51,960 --> 00:36:54,960 Even though your married life was not, um... 421 00:36:59,960 --> 00:37:02,960 Please accept my most sincere condolences. 422 00:37:03,960 --> 00:37:05,480 Oh, your poor little boy. 423 00:37:21,960 --> 00:37:27,480 "And so, Mother, upon the death of both my father and his brother, 424 00:37:27,480 --> 00:37:31,960 "and in consequence of the unmarried situation of my female cousins, 425 00:37:31,960 --> 00:37:36,960 "the estate now devolves upon me, Sir Rawdon Crawley Bart. 426 00:37:36,960 --> 00:37:40,960 "I write to appraise you of this unexpected state of affairs 427 00:37:40,960 --> 00:37:43,480 "and to advise you that, as duty demands, 428 00:37:43,480 --> 00:37:45,960 "I shall make you a small allowance. 429 00:37:45,960 --> 00:37:49,960 "I do not wish you to imagine this changes anything between us. 430 00:37:49,960 --> 00:37:51,960 "I do not wish to see you. 431 00:37:51,960 --> 00:37:53,960 "I do not wish you to write to me. 432 00:37:53,960 --> 00:37:57,960 "On no account should you ever attempt to make contact again. 433 00:37:57,960 --> 00:38:01,960 "I remain, madam, your obedient servant." 434 00:38:03,960 --> 00:38:04,960 Becky Sharp's son. 435 00:38:06,640 --> 00:38:07,960 Lord of the Manor. 436 00:38:12,640 --> 00:38:15,960 Can you really call yourself Lady Crawley now? 437 00:38:15,960 --> 00:38:17,960 I don't see why not. 438 00:38:17,960 --> 00:38:20,960 As the mother of the baronet, I must count as some sort of dowager. 439 00:38:21,960 --> 00:38:24,960 I'm not sure it works like that. 440 00:38:25,960 --> 00:38:27,960 Oh, God, look at this. 441 00:38:27,960 --> 00:38:30,960 Oh, Father, please, not another death, nobody's nerves can stand it. 442 00:38:32,480 --> 00:38:37,160 "The Regiment embarks with Colonel and Mrs O'Dowd for Calcutta 443 00:38:37,160 --> 00:38:38,960 "within the fortnight." 444 00:38:38,960 --> 00:38:44,960 So, Major Dobbin returns to India. 445 00:38:45,960 --> 00:38:48,960 No doubt, ladies, we will all wish him luck there. 446 00:38:54,960 --> 00:39:01,960 How did my sweet little daughter grow so stubborn and so proud? 447 00:39:07,960 --> 00:39:10,160 Amelia, do not say my husband is in heaven 448 00:39:10,160 --> 00:39:12,960 or I won't be responsible for my actions. 449 00:39:22,320 --> 00:39:23,960 Amelia! 450 00:39:23,960 --> 00:39:24,960 Women must have husbands! 451 00:39:24,960 --> 00:39:28,960 And one of the best gentlemen I ever saw has offered to you 100 times 452 00:39:28,960 --> 00:39:31,960 and you have rejected him, you silly, heartless little creature! 453 00:39:31,960 --> 00:39:34,320 I tried to love him, I did try. 454 00:39:35,960 --> 00:39:38,320 Dear heaven, Amelia, if I had had the chance of a man with a heart 455 00:39:38,320 --> 00:39:41,960 as big as his, and brains to match, I'd overlook his big feet! 456 00:39:45,640 --> 00:39:47,960 I was 100 times on the point of yielding. 457 00:39:49,960 --> 00:39:51,960 But every time, the memory... 458 00:39:51,960 --> 00:39:54,960 The memory of a selfish humbug, with neither wit nor manners nor heart. 459 00:39:54,960 --> 00:39:56,320 George was not as he painted! 460 00:39:56,320 --> 00:39:58,960 A man who was weary of you, who would have jilted you, 461 00:39:58,960 --> 00:40:00,960 but Dobbin forced him to keep his word! 462 00:40:00,960 --> 00:40:02,960 Why would anybody do that? 463 00:40:02,960 --> 00:40:04,960 Heavens above, Amelia, because he loves you! 464 00:40:04,960 --> 00:40:06,960 Because he wants your happiness above his own! 465 00:40:08,960 --> 00:40:10,640 You always think you're so much wiser than me. 466 00:40:10,640 --> 00:40:11,960 Because I am. 467 00:40:11,960 --> 00:40:14,960 Because you need love in your life and I do not. 468 00:40:14,960 --> 00:40:19,320 And because, although you'll soon be 30, you are still a child. 469 00:40:19,320 --> 00:40:22,960 Whereas I... I have been a woman since I was eight years old. 470 00:40:25,960 --> 00:40:27,960 How do you think I learnt to be a survivor? 471 00:40:32,960 --> 00:40:34,960 George told me himself he never cared for you. 472 00:40:37,960 --> 00:40:40,960 And the week after he married you, he chased after me. 473 00:40:40,960 --> 00:40:42,960 You were there, Amelia, you saw. 474 00:40:45,960 --> 00:40:47,960 You know his handwriting. 475 00:40:47,960 --> 00:40:50,960 He gave that to me. Wanted me to run away with him. 476 00:40:50,960 --> 00:40:53,000 He gave it to me under your nose at the ball, 477 00:40:53,000 --> 00:40:54,960 the day before the battle. 478 00:40:54,960 --> 00:40:57,640 The day before he was shot. Which, by the way, served him right. 479 00:40:57,640 --> 00:40:59,960 I don't need to read it. 480 00:40:59,960 --> 00:41:02,960 I know you're right. I've always known. 481 00:41:02,960 --> 00:41:08,800 I was just too proud to ever admit that I could be such a fool. 482 00:41:11,960 --> 00:41:13,960 If I can persuade you 483 00:41:13,960 --> 00:41:15,960 to marry the major, 484 00:41:15,960 --> 00:41:19,960 well, in my whole life, that is my one good deed done. 485 00:41:21,960 --> 00:41:24,960 So let's go home, let's find pen and ink, 486 00:41:24,960 --> 00:41:27,960 let's write the major a letter to bring him back across the sea. 487 00:41:27,960 --> 00:41:29,960 I'll help. I'm good at letters. Too late. 488 00:41:29,960 --> 00:41:32,960 It's never too late! I wrote to him this morning. 489 00:41:35,320 --> 00:41:39,960 You shameless, forward hussy, you're worse than me! 490 00:41:55,960 --> 00:41:56,960 Can you see anything? 491 00:41:56,960 --> 00:41:58,960 Yes. 492 00:41:58,960 --> 00:42:00,960 What? 493 00:42:00,960 --> 00:42:01,960 No. 494 00:42:01,960 --> 00:42:03,000 Too dark. 495 00:42:04,960 --> 00:42:06,000 What if he doesn't come? 496 00:42:06,000 --> 00:42:07,960 Then it shall be no more than I deserve. 497 00:43:11,960 --> 00:43:13,960 Forgive me. 498 00:43:13,960 --> 00:43:16,960 Dearest William, dearest friend of my heart, 499 00:43:16,960 --> 00:43:18,960 forgive me if ever you can. 500 00:43:19,960 --> 00:43:21,320 There is nothing to forgive. 501 00:43:26,960 --> 00:43:27,960 Georgie. 502 00:43:59,960 --> 00:44:01,960 Brave soldier! 503 00:44:01,960 --> 00:44:03,960 Good shot, Georgie. 504 00:44:05,960 --> 00:44:06,960 Oh! 505 00:44:06,960 --> 00:44:08,960 Such a clever boy! 506 00:44:08,960 --> 00:44:09,960 Briggs! 507 00:44:09,960 --> 00:44:11,960 Sorry, Rawdy. 508 00:44:12,960 --> 00:44:14,320 I cannot help it. 509 00:44:14,320 --> 00:44:16,480 I'm so proud. 510 00:44:27,960 --> 00:44:30,000 He waited a very long time. 511 00:44:30,000 --> 00:44:32,960 And won his heart's desire. 512 00:44:34,960 --> 00:44:36,160 As did I. 513 00:44:42,960 --> 00:44:43,960 My dear. 514 00:44:47,960 --> 00:44:50,000 He never says a word to me that is not kind or gentle. 515 00:44:51,960 --> 00:44:54,960 Nor thinks of a desire of mine without trying to gratify it. 516 00:45:02,960 --> 00:45:05,480 But our daughter is the love of his life now. 517 00:45:16,640 --> 00:45:19,960 None of us is ever happy in this world. 518 00:45:19,960 --> 00:45:22,960 Except, of course, the major, content at last. 519 00:45:24,960 --> 00:45:26,960 And he deserves it, doesn't he? 520 00:45:26,960 --> 00:45:30,960 But what of us? None of us ever gets what we want. 521 00:45:30,960 --> 00:45:33,320 And when we do, it's not enough. 522 00:45:33,320 --> 00:45:37,320 I have no other moral than this to tag to my story. 523 00:45:38,960 --> 00:45:40,960 What's this? 524 00:45:40,960 --> 00:45:42,960 Nobody is supposed to be enjoying themselves! 525 00:45:42,960 --> 00:45:45,960 Nobody is supposed to come out well from my Vanity Fair! 526 00:45:45,960 --> 00:45:47,960 Becky, get back here! 527 00:45:51,960 --> 00:45:53,960 Oh... It's going too fast! 528 00:45:53,960 --> 00:45:54,960 What nonsense. It's fun! 529 00:45:54,960 --> 00:45:56,800 What if you fall off? I've got nine lives. 530 00:45:56,800 --> 00:45:58,960 What if I fall off?! 531 00:45:58,960 --> 00:46:00,000 We've got life insurance.