1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,480 LAURA: Hamlet folk often said that you could see gossip coming out of Mrs Mullins's mouth, like steam. 2 00:00:11,040 --> 00:00:15,520 The local wives dreaded the sight of her keys on her finger, 3 00:00:15,520 --> 00:00:17,160 for if her door was locked, 4 00:00:17,160 --> 00:00:20,480 it meant she was all set for a morning's tittle-tattle. 5 00:00:20,480 --> 00:00:21,600 Oh, Queenie, Queenie... 6 00:00:21,600 --> 00:00:23,920 If nothing worth reporting had happened, 7 00:00:23,920 --> 00:00:28,440 Mrs Mullins was quite capable of inventing something. 8 00:00:28,800 --> 00:00:30,400 Another one? 9 00:00:31,560 --> 00:00:34,800 Now keep your eyes on the button... 10 00:00:34,800 --> 00:00:39,920 The locals found gossip and scandal mostly to be harmless entertainment. 11 00:00:39,920 --> 00:00:41,320 Where's it gone? 12 00:00:42,320 --> 00:00:45,440 Now...Emily, 13 00:00:45,440 --> 00:00:49,120 it comes back...as a shilling! 14 00:00:50,560 --> 00:00:54,200 Teach me that trick, Daniel. I might never have to work again. 15 00:00:54,200 --> 00:00:57,640 If I was 17, I'd be swooning with the rest of them. 16 00:00:57,640 --> 00:01:00,040 Ain't I glad my swooning days are over! 17 00:01:00,040 --> 00:01:06,160 But sometimes it could spill over into something more dangerous. 18 00:01:41,320 --> 00:01:44,120 I know it for a fact! Two boyfriends! 19 00:01:45,160 --> 00:01:46,520 Oh, Bessie! 20 00:01:46,520 --> 00:01:49,080 Lord Strumpshaw he might be, up in his big house, 21 00:01:49,080 --> 00:01:51,640 but he cusses like a ruffian. I know it for a fact! 22 00:01:51,640 --> 00:01:54,640 He drinks like a ruffian an' all! Falling down drinking. 23 00:01:54,640 --> 00:01:56,960 Bessie, you do like to exaggerate. 24 00:01:56,960 --> 00:01:59,920 He treats his servants like they were slaves. 25 00:01:59,920 --> 00:02:01,480 Shouting at 'em, cussing. 26 00:02:01,480 --> 00:02:03,440 Poor Lord Strumpshaw. 27 00:02:03,440 --> 00:02:06,920 I expect his gout is tormenting him again. 28 00:02:06,920 --> 00:02:08,520 Miss Lane, I ain't one to gossip, 29 00:02:08,520 --> 00:02:11,720 but I heard they found him in the garden, nose in the flower beds. 30 00:02:11,720 --> 00:02:14,880 I wonder what you say about me, Bessie, 31 00:02:14,880 --> 00:02:17,720 after you have been for a visit to the post office. 32 00:02:17,720 --> 00:02:20,200 Do I gorge cake in the parlour? 33 00:02:20,200 --> 00:02:23,160 Am I cruel and unforgiving to my staff? 34 00:02:23,160 --> 00:02:26,120 I wouldn't say a word about you, Miss Lane, now, would I? 35 00:02:26,120 --> 00:02:28,320 Oh, you do look heavenly in white. 36 00:02:28,320 --> 00:02:32,600 I always say to my Emily, don't Miss Lane look like the Angel Gabriel herself! 37 00:02:32,600 --> 00:02:33,920 Gabriel was a man. 38 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:37,880 Perhaps I meant his sister. 39 00:02:37,880 --> 00:02:39,160 One of them angels. 40 00:02:41,640 --> 00:02:46,360 Oh, Mr P! Oh, I have something you ought to know. 41 00:02:46,360 --> 00:02:50,720 My Emily works up at the Strumpshaw house, and the things she tells me, 44 00:02:57,600 --> 00:02:59,640 Drinks like a ruffian an' all. 45 00:02:59,640 --> 00:03:02,160 Mrs Mullins, I'm not sure that I can print hearsay 46 00:03:02,160 --> 00:03:04,640 about such a well-regarded local family. 47 00:03:04,640 --> 00:03:07,880 Regarded? Oh, that's why you should print it. 48 00:03:07,880 --> 00:03:10,720 There's poor scullery maids bawled at the day long. 49 00:03:11,800 --> 00:03:16,680 Poor family, his wife and children. Such a father. 50 00:03:16,680 --> 00:03:20,440 Now, Bessie, I am heading over to the grocer's. 51 00:03:20,440 --> 00:03:23,520 Walk with me and tell me all about Lord Strumpshaw. 52 00:03:23,520 --> 00:03:26,240 Miss Lane, where you lead, I shall follow. 53 00:03:54,400 --> 00:03:57,120 Ain't you at work today, Emily? I heard you'd found a daily place 54 00:03:57,120 --> 00:04:00,000 as a scullery maid up at the Strumpshaw house. 55 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:02,600 I been feeling out of sorts. 56 00:04:02,600 --> 00:04:06,280 Oh, Emily, you ain't too out of sorts to admire your own reflection, are you? 57 00:04:06,280 --> 00:04:09,160 Your mother coddles you, child. 58 00:04:09,160 --> 00:04:12,080 Can't you see she needs you to help her? 59 00:04:12,080 --> 00:04:16,160 Why, Emily, there's many a girl out there would jump at the chance 60 00:04:16,160 --> 00:04:17,400 of such a position. 61 00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:20,520 Emma! 62 00:04:23,840 --> 00:04:26,800 When Mrs Herring comes by, 63 00:04:26,800 --> 00:04:29,240 you're not to say you've seen me. 64 00:04:29,240 --> 00:04:34,320 I ain't asking you to lie - just don't tell her what you don't need to tell her. 65 00:04:34,320 --> 00:04:36,400 Have you no rent money to give her, Queenie? 66 00:04:36,400 --> 00:04:39,680 Ssh, ssh! And no way of knowing where to find it neither. 67 00:04:46,800 --> 00:04:51,800 Laura...what is an accountant? 68 00:04:51,800 --> 00:04:54,520 He's the man who comes in to look at Miss Lane's books 69 00:04:54,520 --> 00:04:56,920 to tell her how the post office is prospering. 70 00:04:56,920 --> 00:05:01,000 Oh. Only, Miss Lane do look fretted by what he is saying to her. 71 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:02,280 She does, doesn't she? 72 00:05:02,280 --> 00:05:05,200 If things is bad, we'll all be turned out and have nowhere to live. 73 00:05:05,200 --> 00:05:07,000 Miss Lane might end up in the workhouse. 74 00:05:07,000 --> 00:05:08,560 Oh, Minnie, really! 75 00:05:08,560 --> 00:05:11,920 Ask yourself, is that at all likely? 76 00:05:17,640 --> 00:05:19,160 And that Dorcas Lane... 77 00:05:19,160 --> 00:05:21,840 I know for a fact she's ordered another new outfit. 78 00:05:21,840 --> 00:05:24,040 The life of cakes and gooses! 79 00:05:24,040 --> 00:05:26,640 She enjoys the luxuries and who is it does all the work? 80 00:05:26,640 --> 00:05:31,760 Oh, there's a sight. Queenie Turrill toadying up to the tallyman. 81 00:05:31,760 --> 00:05:36,800 Oh, she's likely just passing the time of day, is all. 82 00:05:36,800 --> 00:05:39,760 Queenie ain't the sort to have dealings with the tallyman. 83 00:05:42,240 --> 00:05:44,800 The need of a few pennies can make folks do things 84 00:05:44,800 --> 00:05:46,760 that ain't even in their own nature. 85 00:05:46,760 --> 00:05:48,160 Our Emily! 86 00:05:48,160 --> 00:05:52,880 Look at you sitting there when there's tatties to scrub and floors to peel! 87 00:05:52,880 --> 00:05:53,920 Oh! 88 00:05:54,880 --> 00:05:57,240 How is it you're home so early? 89 00:05:57,240 --> 00:05:59,480 Has the old Lord been bawling at you? 90 00:05:59,480 --> 00:06:01,920 I'll soon set him to rights, Lord or no Lord. 91 00:06:01,920 --> 00:06:04,120 I just been feeling out of sorts, that's all. 92 00:06:04,120 --> 00:06:06,360 Then you have a lie down, my petal. 93 00:06:06,360 --> 00:06:08,000 I'll fetch you some supper. 94 00:06:14,520 --> 00:06:17,360 Minnie, why have you given me such a small portion? 95 00:06:18,720 --> 00:06:22,040 Oh, I see that we all have small slices. 96 00:06:22,040 --> 00:06:23,480 It is half a portion of cake, ma'am, 97 00:06:23,480 --> 00:06:26,720 which means the cake will last twice as long, which means the ingredients 98 00:06:26,720 --> 00:06:29,880 will cost half as much, which means we'll be twice as well off. 99 00:06:29,880 --> 00:06:32,640 Are we economising, Minnie? 100 00:06:32,640 --> 00:06:34,640 We are, ma'am. And cutting our clothes as well. 101 00:06:34,640 --> 00:06:37,320 Cutting our cloth. But why are we? 102 00:06:37,320 --> 00:06:39,600 For the books, ma'am. For the accountant. 103 00:06:39,600 --> 00:06:42,280 So we don't land on the street. Oh, Minnie. 104 00:06:42,280 --> 00:06:46,360 I saw your face, ma'am, so full of worries at the numbers and the adding up. 105 00:06:46,360 --> 00:06:48,560 Ma'am, if times are hard for the post office... 106 00:06:48,560 --> 00:06:52,040 Listen to the two of you! Times have never been better, 107 00:06:52,040 --> 00:06:54,320 which is what has so unsettled me. 108 00:06:54,320 --> 00:06:59,280 I look around me and I see... such struggle everywhere. 109 00:06:59,280 --> 00:07:03,600 Yet post offices up and down the country are thriving of late. 110 00:07:04,600 --> 00:07:08,600 My problem is I have all I could wish for in this world. 111 00:07:08,600 --> 00:07:13,560 So perhaps the best thing I can do is spread the boon around. 112 00:07:14,480 --> 00:07:17,480 I have a small bonus here for each of you. 113 00:07:23,520 --> 00:07:25,200 Thank you, ma'am. 114 00:07:25,200 --> 00:07:29,800 I shall buy a hat and a ribbon and a frock and shoes and a petticoat. 115 00:07:29,800 --> 00:07:32,320 I don't think it will go that far, Minnie. 116 00:07:32,320 --> 00:07:34,720 Well, perhaps not the petticoat. 117 00:07:34,720 --> 00:07:37,320 No-one will ever see the petticoat, only me. 118 00:07:41,120 --> 00:07:43,480 Keep still, won't you? 119 00:07:43,480 --> 00:07:46,120 Now a bit of salt. 120 00:07:46,120 --> 00:07:49,800 Look after your teeth, and they'll look after you. 121 00:07:53,040 --> 00:07:54,800 What is it, my flower? 122 00:07:54,800 --> 00:07:56,720 Is it a fever coming? 123 00:07:56,720 --> 00:08:00,720 Or a pain or an ache or a sickness? 124 00:08:00,720 --> 00:08:03,480 I ain't never known you so quiet. 125 00:08:03,480 --> 00:08:06,320 You're like your ma - talking makes the world go round. 126 00:08:06,320 --> 00:08:10,960 Only time I ever went silent was when I found out I was pregnant with you! 127 00:08:10,960 --> 00:08:14,880 And I was in such a shock, I could hardly open my mouth to make any sense. 128 00:08:21,200 --> 00:08:23,600 Tell me it ain't true. 129 00:08:25,840 --> 00:08:28,440 How could you?! 130 00:08:29,880 --> 00:08:33,320 We can hardly afford to feed the four of us on what I make in the fields. 131 00:08:37,840 --> 00:08:41,160 Having children with no man, it is hard. 132 00:08:41,160 --> 00:08:45,000 Ain't your ma's own life enough to make you see? 133 00:08:47,000 --> 00:08:50,240 Well, he shall marry you, whoever he is. He can't. 134 00:08:50,240 --> 00:08:52,280 Can't? Can't, is it? 135 00:08:52,280 --> 00:08:54,720 Oh, is he married? 136 00:08:54,720 --> 00:08:56,480 Oh, Ma, stop this, please. 137 00:08:56,480 --> 00:08:59,000 He ain't married. Well, who is he, then? 138 00:08:59,000 --> 00:09:01,320 I can't say. It can't be no hamlet boy. 139 00:09:01,320 --> 00:09:03,000 There ain't one you so much as like the look of. 140 00:09:03,000 --> 00:09:05,560 Oh, Ma, stop this, please! Don't ask me. 141 00:09:37,600 --> 00:09:39,520 I saw the lights on 142 00:09:39,520 --> 00:09:42,680 and thought I'd find you here, toiling away into the night. 143 00:09:45,480 --> 00:09:48,600 I left the light on to entice you. 144 00:09:48,600 --> 00:09:50,720 Am I so easily hooked? 145 00:09:55,800 --> 00:10:00,280 I cannot shake off the fear that you will find Candleford too quiet, 146 00:10:02,120 --> 00:10:04,200 not exciting enough for you. 147 00:10:06,800 --> 00:10:08,600 You will become restless and... 148 00:10:10,360 --> 00:10:14,320 When will you see what is right in front of you, Laura Timmins? 149 00:10:15,560 --> 00:10:19,280 I am here because I have found what I... 150 00:10:22,960 --> 00:10:24,480 Don't say it. 151 00:10:27,640 --> 00:10:29,160 Show me. 152 00:10:46,360 --> 00:10:48,920 My easy chair... 153 00:10:48,920 --> 00:10:50,320 it ain't there. 154 00:10:50,320 --> 00:10:52,240 That's because it's gone. 155 00:10:52,240 --> 00:10:56,960 The tallyman took it. He gave me �2. 156 00:10:56,960 --> 00:11:02,120 That'll see us through the winter. But...that is the seat I sit on. 157 00:11:02,120 --> 00:11:07,600 You can take my chair. I had my own dear chair all my life. 158 00:11:07,600 --> 00:11:11,720 My chair ain't worth no money, or I'd have sold that first. 159 00:11:11,720 --> 00:11:15,040 We need food, Twister. 160 00:11:15,040 --> 00:11:17,080 Winter is coming. 161 00:11:17,080 --> 00:11:19,120 Look down the lane. 162 00:11:19,120 --> 00:11:21,920 It's the old folk who can't pay the rent 163 00:11:21,920 --> 00:11:24,200 who get taken away to the workhouse. 164 00:11:24,200 --> 00:11:26,200 Is that what you want? 165 00:11:26,200 --> 00:11:29,440 Your chair is all we have worth something. 166 00:11:29,440 --> 00:11:32,720 We might have decided together. 167 00:11:32,720 --> 00:11:35,440 You would have fought me, 168 00:11:35,440 --> 00:11:37,120 resisted. 169 00:11:37,120 --> 00:11:39,280 It had to be done! 170 00:11:39,280 --> 00:11:41,760 Not even told. 171 00:11:41,760 --> 00:11:43,440 Not even asked. 172 00:11:51,800 --> 00:11:54,920 Daniel. Daniel Parish. 173 00:11:54,920 --> 00:11:57,440 Daniel?! Surely not! 174 00:11:57,440 --> 00:11:59,080 Bessie, you can't throw around such accusations. 175 00:11:59,080 --> 00:12:02,080 I know it for a fact! But Daniel's our Laura's boy. 176 00:12:02,080 --> 00:12:04,200 Edmund, Ethel, Frank - upstairs. Go on with you. 177 00:12:04,200 --> 00:12:06,600 That is why I am here to tell you the kind of man he is. 178 00:12:06,600 --> 00:12:11,080 How can you stand there and say such things in front of my children? 179 00:12:11,080 --> 00:12:14,040 Is that all you can think of?! What about my girl? 180 00:12:14,040 --> 00:12:17,960 Her whole life is ruined! I will not have him getting away with this. 181 00:12:17,960 --> 00:12:20,840 Ain't we all seen how he is such a charmer with all the girls? 182 00:12:20,840 --> 00:12:22,920 That means nothing. Do we know him? 183 00:12:22,920 --> 00:12:25,480 Know him properly? He ain't a local boy. 184 00:12:25,480 --> 00:12:29,840 And neither am I. We cannot damn the man on the say of a girl like your Emily. 185 00:12:29,840 --> 00:12:33,040 She hardly knows what day it is half the time. 186 00:12:33,040 --> 00:12:36,680 See how you turn it back?! Blame us, blame Emily... 187 00:12:36,680 --> 00:12:39,680 There's something wrong here. I cannot believe this is true. 188 00:12:39,680 --> 00:12:41,040 But why would she say such a thing? 189 00:12:41,040 --> 00:12:43,880 Em... Why would she say his name unless...? 190 00:12:43,880 --> 00:12:47,000 Emma, hold your tongue. You've said your piece. 191 00:12:47,000 --> 00:12:50,200 I feel for you. It must be a torment, your girl pregnant, 192 00:12:50,200 --> 00:12:53,480 but you be careful where you throw such charges, for your own sake, Bessie. 193 00:12:53,480 --> 00:12:56,600 You don't want it to be true, that's what. 194 00:12:56,600 --> 00:13:00,040 Well, I must do right by Emily. 195 00:13:00,040 --> 00:13:01,640 And I intend to. 196 00:13:06,880 --> 00:13:09,480 Em, I am sorry I snapped at you. 197 00:13:09,480 --> 00:13:13,360 But we must stand together in this. We cannot add our doubts to hers 198 00:13:13,360 --> 00:13:16,920 until we know more, until Daniel has had his chance to answer. 199 00:13:16,920 --> 00:13:19,600 Our Laura... 200 00:13:19,600 --> 00:13:21,920 what will this do to her? 201 00:13:43,320 --> 00:13:45,160 Emily! 202 00:13:45,160 --> 00:13:46,480 Why? 203 00:13:46,480 --> 00:13:48,440 How could you say such a thing about Daniel? 204 00:13:48,440 --> 00:13:51,520 I ain't said nothing about Daniel. 205 00:13:51,520 --> 00:13:54,120 But your ma came to our house last night. 206 00:13:54,120 --> 00:13:58,520 My ma has decided. I can't stop her, no matter what I say. 207 00:13:58,520 --> 00:14:02,960 Where is she? Where is your ma? She's away to Candleford. 208 00:14:02,960 --> 00:14:04,880 Nothing I say will hold her. 209 00:14:04,880 --> 00:14:07,800 If you tell her, 210 00:14:07,800 --> 00:14:10,400 if you tell your ma who the boy is... 211 00:14:12,360 --> 00:14:14,920 Don't you see what you're doing to Daniel? 212 00:14:14,920 --> 00:14:20,560 To all of us. Can you only ever think of Emily Mullins? 213 00:14:20,560 --> 00:14:25,280 It ain't your life in pieces, is it, Laura Timmins? 214 00:14:25,280 --> 00:14:27,560 Emily... 215 00:14:27,560 --> 00:14:29,040 please... 216 00:14:29,040 --> 00:14:32,640 Anyway, everything will be just right. 217 00:14:34,720 --> 00:14:35,920 Why will it? 218 00:14:35,920 --> 00:14:39,560 I have an idea it will. 219 00:14:39,560 --> 00:14:43,000 Emily, my dear, can you see? 220 00:14:43,000 --> 00:14:48,840 If you hold this a secret, then your ma is going to chase after her own notions. 221 00:14:48,840 --> 00:14:51,160 It's the way your ma is. 222 00:14:51,160 --> 00:14:56,280 She can't let something like this go. 223 00:15:05,560 --> 00:15:06,920 Come on. 224 00:15:08,360 --> 00:15:10,280 I must get back to Candleford. 225 00:15:10,280 --> 00:15:12,920 Do you suppose Mr Paxton might let me have the loan of his cart? 226 00:15:12,920 --> 00:15:15,640 Did you hear what she said? "Everything will be just right." 227 00:15:15,640 --> 00:15:19,120 Whoever the father of her child is, she is in love with him. 228 00:15:19,120 --> 00:15:21,560 She believes in him. 229 00:15:21,560 --> 00:15:24,240 Mrs Mullins will be there by now. 230 00:15:25,280 --> 00:15:28,480 I ain't accusing, I'm asking. Did you do this to my daughter? 231 00:15:28,480 --> 00:15:32,120 Mrs Mullins, I... Answer me. Is it your child? 232 00:15:35,960 --> 00:15:37,480 I have done nothing wrong. 233 00:15:38,440 --> 00:15:41,440 I am not to blame for this. I knew you would deny it. 234 00:15:41,440 --> 00:15:44,080 That is the kind of man you are. Bessie... 235 00:15:44,080 --> 00:15:46,520 wouldn't you rather come in off the street to discuss this? 236 00:15:46,520 --> 00:15:49,080 I wouldn't care if this was Candleford or Windsor Castle. 237 00:15:49,080 --> 00:15:53,000 I shall stand here and say my piece! These are serious, damaging allegations. 238 00:15:53,000 --> 00:15:55,280 If you make them before the whole town and you are wrong... 239 00:15:55,280 --> 00:15:56,520 Is this yours? 240 00:15:57,720 --> 00:15:59,240 I... 241 00:16:00,000 --> 00:16:02,880 It looks like... 242 00:16:04,760 --> 00:16:05,800 It could be. 243 00:16:05,800 --> 00:16:08,000 How did our Emily come to have it, then? 244 00:16:08,000 --> 00:16:10,640 It means nothing. 245 00:16:10,640 --> 00:16:13,480 It's not as though... 246 00:16:13,480 --> 00:16:19,040 I must have dropped it. I use it in a silly trick I do sometimes. 247 00:16:19,960 --> 00:16:23,960 A trick. How can you stand there so heartless? 248 00:16:23,960 --> 00:16:28,960 It is you! I know it! I can see the guilt of it in your face! 249 00:16:28,960 --> 00:16:32,320 Do you not have a care for my Emily? 250 00:16:32,320 --> 00:16:35,520 How can you? How can any man? 251 00:16:35,520 --> 00:16:38,120 Bessie, come on, with me, inside. 252 00:16:38,120 --> 00:16:40,480 (BESSIE GASPS) 253 00:16:49,280 --> 00:16:50,360 Alfie! 254 00:16:51,520 --> 00:16:56,760 You must store my banjo away for me, out of sight, hidden up. 255 00:16:56,760 --> 00:16:59,120 Twister, there ain't no need for you to think like that. 256 00:16:59,120 --> 00:17:01,080 Queenie would never sell your banjo. 257 00:17:01,080 --> 00:17:04,200 Would she not? A woman who can do such a thing as she did? 258 00:17:04,200 --> 00:17:06,840 I've known her all these years, and now... 259 00:17:06,840 --> 00:17:08,240 I don't know her. 260 00:17:08,240 --> 00:17:10,880 You'll see. When the cold nights come in, you'll see she was right. 261 00:17:10,880 --> 00:17:13,880 A man ought to be able to come home and find his easy chair where it should be. 262 00:17:13,880 --> 00:17:16,160 Why must you make so much of it? 263 00:17:16,160 --> 00:17:20,040 Because, if your chair is gone... 264 00:17:20,040 --> 00:17:21,680 nothing is safe. 265 00:17:21,680 --> 00:17:26,040 Queenie ain't doing this to hurt you, so why must you take it so hard? 266 00:17:26,040 --> 00:17:27,280 But that's just it, see. 267 00:17:27,280 --> 00:17:30,560 She knew this would break my heart and she went and did it anyway. 268 00:17:30,560 --> 00:17:33,520 If that ain't the betrayal of a man, then I don't know what is. 269 00:17:33,520 --> 00:17:35,840 Betrayal is so...big. 270 00:17:35,840 --> 00:17:37,120 I know. 271 00:17:38,680 --> 00:17:40,160 I feel it. 272 00:17:45,240 --> 00:17:49,800 But, Bessie, if Emily is telling you that it is not Daniel's... 273 00:17:49,800 --> 00:17:55,040 She is only saying that to protect him. He has told her to deny it. 274 00:17:55,040 --> 00:18:00,880 Emily will doubtless be afraid of what might happen, what you might say or do. 275 00:18:00,880 --> 00:18:03,600 She is right to be anxious if your first reaction 276 00:18:03,600 --> 00:18:06,800 is to come to Candleford to confront Daniel on the street. 277 00:18:07,800 --> 00:18:10,040 If you can make Emily feel safe... 278 00:18:10,040 --> 00:18:13,680 It is him. I know it. He will not get away with this, you will all see. 279 00:18:13,680 --> 00:18:16,080 Bessie, please. 280 00:18:16,080 --> 00:18:19,160 I have no vested interest in this matter. 281 00:18:19,160 --> 00:18:22,680 Can you trust that all I want is to help you? 282 00:18:22,680 --> 00:18:24,440 Can you? 283 00:18:26,360 --> 00:18:27,920 Good. 284 00:18:29,440 --> 00:18:31,640 That is a start. 285 00:18:35,000 --> 00:18:41,400 This is a delicate situation, which requires delicate unpicking. 286 00:18:41,400 --> 00:18:43,200 Would you agree? 287 00:18:43,200 --> 00:18:45,720 Miss Lane, where you lead, I shall follow. 288 00:18:45,720 --> 00:18:51,440 Bessie, if you fix on the idea that Daniel is to blame, you might not... 289 00:18:52,960 --> 00:18:55,160 It might prevent you from seeing, well... 290 00:18:56,960 --> 00:18:58,520 your daughter's... 291 00:18:58,520 --> 00:19:01,440 How shall I put this? 292 00:19:02,960 --> 00:19:05,160 Emily is an attractive girl. 293 00:19:05,160 --> 00:19:08,640 There may be many boys who take a fancy to her. 294 00:19:08,640 --> 00:19:11,640 Didn't I know it! You are saying my Emily is a flirt and a harlot. 295 00:19:11,640 --> 00:19:13,920 I am saying no such thing. I am asking you... 296 00:19:13,920 --> 00:19:16,600 He is a charmer. 297 00:19:16,600 --> 00:19:19,600 He's charmed you, same as he's charmed all the girls. 298 00:19:19,600 --> 00:19:23,680 But I ain't fooled by him. I will hound him till he admits it, 299 00:19:23,680 --> 00:19:26,440 till he is shamed and ruined and made to pay! 300 00:19:26,440 --> 00:19:29,240 You are determined to make things worse. 301 00:19:32,920 --> 00:19:35,240 I am alone. 302 00:19:35,240 --> 00:19:38,040 I always have been. 303 00:19:38,040 --> 00:19:40,000 I always will be. 304 00:19:41,000 --> 00:19:42,760 But that ain't going to stop me. 305 00:19:51,520 --> 00:19:54,960 It ain't true, is it, Daniel? No, Minnie, it isn't true. 306 00:19:54,960 --> 00:19:59,400 I believe you, don't I? Thank you, Minnie. 307 00:19:59,400 --> 00:20:01,880 No-one could do such a thing to Laura, could they? 308 00:20:01,880 --> 00:20:05,600 Then why's she saying it? She's upset. 309 00:20:05,600 --> 00:20:07,720 Mrs Mullins is the kind of woman who needs to lash out. 310 00:20:07,720 --> 00:20:09,360 But why is she saying it's you? 311 00:20:09,360 --> 00:20:12,040 It's a mistake. 312 00:20:12,040 --> 00:20:13,320 That is all. 313 00:20:14,880 --> 00:20:16,840 It was kind of you to come, Minnie. 314 00:20:24,040 --> 00:20:28,400 You know that no part of me believes this, don't you, Daniel? 315 00:20:31,280 --> 00:20:34,600 Yes, I see it. But the whole town will be doubting me. 316 00:20:34,600 --> 00:20:36,360 Daniel! 317 00:20:36,360 --> 00:20:38,480 You're a journalist, ain't you? 318 00:20:38,480 --> 00:20:42,200 So you could find out who the true pa is, and no-one will blame you any more. 319 00:20:43,120 --> 00:20:45,240 How could I do that? 320 00:20:45,240 --> 00:20:48,080 Only one person knows - Emily. 321 00:20:48,080 --> 00:20:50,000 Two persons knows. 322 00:20:50,000 --> 00:20:51,520 The pa knows. 323 00:20:51,520 --> 00:20:54,360 You're right, Minnie. We must discover who it is. 324 00:20:54,360 --> 00:20:57,040 Someone might have seen Emily with a boy. 325 00:20:59,200 --> 00:21:02,280 If Emily won't say, then all we would achieve would be to make accusations. 326 00:21:02,280 --> 00:21:05,920 We'd be no better than Mrs Mullins. But if this foolish girl won't help you 327 00:21:05,920 --> 00:21:09,800 by telling the truth, then you have every right to try and clear your name. 328 00:21:11,480 --> 00:21:13,720 Yes. Perhaps that's true. 329 00:21:13,720 --> 00:21:15,680 Someone always knows something. 330 00:21:15,680 --> 00:21:18,120 Then, of course, we must. 331 00:21:20,440 --> 00:21:21,760 ROBERT: You read it, Frank. 332 00:21:21,760 --> 00:21:24,640 Everyone at work knows about Emily Mullins. They're all talking, 333 00:21:24,640 --> 00:21:27,000 saying it must be Daniel. 334 00:21:28,080 --> 00:21:29,400 Is that so? 335 00:21:33,000 --> 00:21:35,520 And what do you believe... 336 00:21:35,520 --> 00:21:37,400 Edmund? 337 00:21:37,400 --> 00:21:38,840 I don't know. 338 00:21:40,400 --> 00:21:44,800 I want to believe...him, but... Look at me. 339 00:21:45,320 --> 00:21:48,600 We must decide who we trust 340 00:21:48,600 --> 00:21:51,200 and who we don't. 341 00:21:51,200 --> 00:21:54,600 And once we have made that decision, 342 00:21:54,600 --> 00:21:57,440 we must live by that until we know different. 343 00:21:58,640 --> 00:22:02,080 Life will bring along things that will make us doubt. 344 00:22:02,080 --> 00:22:05,320 But if we let our faith in each other slip away, 345 00:22:05,320 --> 00:22:07,880 then we are no more than weaklings. 346 00:22:07,880 --> 00:22:11,160 Trust someone, hold on to it, 347 00:22:11,160 --> 00:22:13,120 and it will give you peace. 348 00:22:15,400 --> 00:22:18,480 Now, about Daniel... 349 00:22:20,760 --> 00:22:23,120 you must decide. 350 00:22:25,840 --> 00:22:27,440 Pa... 351 00:22:27,440 --> 00:22:29,040 if you believe that... 352 00:22:29,040 --> 00:22:32,240 don't you have to do something about it? 353 00:22:38,200 --> 00:22:40,480 (KNOCKING) 354 00:22:42,440 --> 00:22:45,520 EMMA: Queenie! What's happened? 355 00:22:48,960 --> 00:22:51,760 There is such a look in Twister's face. 356 00:22:51,760 --> 00:22:55,200 I ain't never seen the like in him before. 357 00:22:55,200 --> 00:22:58,160 I'm a stranger to my own husband. 358 00:22:58,160 --> 00:23:00,480 Twister will come back to you. 359 00:23:00,480 --> 00:23:02,520 He always does. 360 00:23:02,520 --> 00:23:05,960 I can't bear what I see in his eyes. 361 00:23:05,960 --> 00:23:08,280 It ain't anger, Emma. 362 00:23:08,280 --> 00:23:10,560 It is such hurt. 363 00:23:10,560 --> 00:23:13,760 I don't know how I shall ever win his trust again. 364 00:23:13,760 --> 00:23:15,640 I know Twister. 365 00:23:15,640 --> 00:23:17,560 If he could get his chair back, 366 00:23:17,560 --> 00:23:22,280 he would forget his ill feelings the second his behind hit the cushion. 367 00:23:36,600 --> 00:23:40,000 I was told that Emily was friendly with one of the footmen 368 00:23:40,000 --> 00:23:43,720 up at the Strumpshaw house. And the baker boy's been flirting with her for months. 369 00:23:43,720 --> 00:23:45,320 It's all hearsay. 370 00:23:45,320 --> 00:23:46,880 We might never know. 371 00:23:46,880 --> 00:23:49,320 Ma says whoever it is, she's still in love with him, 372 00:23:49,320 --> 00:23:52,320 so likely she'll go to see him or make some contact. 373 00:24:02,120 --> 00:24:05,040 We can't have folks go on wondering about you, Daniel. 374 00:24:05,040 --> 00:24:08,040 I have you, Laura. 375 00:24:08,040 --> 00:24:10,560 You believe me. 376 00:24:10,560 --> 00:24:12,080 That is all I need. 377 00:24:13,440 --> 00:24:15,960 Alfie! 378 00:24:15,960 --> 00:24:18,200 I have an envelope. 379 00:24:18,200 --> 00:24:19,920 So I see. 380 00:24:19,920 --> 00:24:23,120 No. What I mean is, the envelope is for you. 381 00:24:23,120 --> 00:24:25,680 What I mean is, there is money in it. 382 00:24:25,680 --> 00:24:28,000 For you. What money? 383 00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:31,120 It is mine. Now it is yours. 384 00:24:31,120 --> 00:24:34,440 Minnie, you ain't making no sense. 385 00:24:34,440 --> 00:24:36,160 The post office is rich. 386 00:24:36,160 --> 00:24:39,080 So Miss Lane give some money to me, because I am deserving. 387 00:24:39,080 --> 00:24:42,480 And I'm giving it to you, because you're poor, and I don't need a petticoat. 388 00:24:45,600 --> 00:24:49,200 Who do you think you are to pity me, to give me money?! 389 00:24:49,200 --> 00:24:51,200 Yes, I am poor. 390 00:24:51,200 --> 00:24:53,040 I am sick of being poor. 391 00:24:53,040 --> 00:24:56,200 And I am sick of people barging into my life as if they have the right! 392 00:25:19,760 --> 00:25:22,440 You look as if you have had a shock, Laura. 393 00:25:23,760 --> 00:25:27,440 A shock? No, ma'am. 394 00:25:28,960 --> 00:25:32,000 I saw you on the street with Daniel. 395 00:25:32,000 --> 00:25:34,160 I was very proud of you. 396 00:25:35,160 --> 00:25:36,680 Has something happened? 397 00:25:36,680 --> 00:25:38,840 No, ma'am. 398 00:25:40,400 --> 00:25:42,040 If you'll excuse me... 399 00:25:58,680 --> 00:26:01,680 First I thought I'd buy a petticoat. 400 00:26:01,680 --> 00:26:05,080 Then I thought, but I do love the one Laura gave me for my best. 401 00:26:06,600 --> 00:26:09,280 So then I decided I would buy a dress 402 00:26:09,280 --> 00:26:12,240 and I would go over to Lark Rise, 403 00:26:12,240 --> 00:26:15,160 and Alfie would see me in the prettiest dress. 404 00:26:16,680 --> 00:26:18,560 But then I started to think, 405 00:26:18,560 --> 00:26:22,920 what if he thinks I'm all hoity in new clothes and he's so poor? 406 00:26:25,040 --> 00:26:28,600 So I took up the idea that I might give the money to him. 407 00:26:29,960 --> 00:26:31,800 That seemed like the best notion, 408 00:26:31,800 --> 00:26:34,600 because he has such a need with his sisters and all. 409 00:26:35,720 --> 00:26:38,480 So I did try to give it to Alfie. 410 00:26:39,920 --> 00:26:41,920 But he was... 411 00:26:44,280 --> 00:26:46,600 like he'd been struck. 412 00:26:48,040 --> 00:26:53,840 Minnie...I'm sure Alf knew you meant well. 413 00:26:55,880 --> 00:26:58,240 Perhaps, for a working man, 414 00:26:58,240 --> 00:27:00,760 the idea of charity from... 415 00:27:00,760 --> 00:27:03,120 Ma'am, I am decided I must give this money back to you. 416 00:27:03,120 --> 00:27:06,080 Don't rush to such a decision. 417 00:27:06,080 --> 00:27:09,320 Consider... I'm afraid of it, ma'am. 418 00:27:37,880 --> 00:27:40,840 What are you doing out here, Emily? Alfie... 419 00:27:42,720 --> 00:27:44,920 You love Patience, don't you? 420 00:27:44,920 --> 00:27:48,680 Patience is the best thing that's ever happened in my life. 421 00:27:48,680 --> 00:27:53,160 But taking care of a baby's hard. I have my ma. 422 00:27:53,160 --> 00:27:57,960 You do. But still I have a man's wages, and it's hard enough to keep us going. 423 00:27:57,960 --> 00:28:00,360 People think I'm a foolish, silly girl, but I ain't. 424 00:28:00,360 --> 00:28:03,440 I don't think you're foolish, Emily. 425 00:28:03,440 --> 00:28:04,760 I think you're afraid. 426 00:28:04,760 --> 00:28:08,520 I'm thinking, but I ain't going to tell anyone what I'm thinking. 427 00:28:08,520 --> 00:28:10,840 And I'm waiting. 428 00:28:11,880 --> 00:28:14,480 We're all waiting. 429 00:28:14,480 --> 00:28:18,880 But what comes along ain't usually what you're waiting for, that's all. 430 00:28:21,920 --> 00:28:26,680 Emily, girl, you are the talk on every gossip's tongue. 431 00:28:26,680 --> 00:28:29,520 And it is thanks to your ma. 432 00:28:31,040 --> 00:28:35,520 There ain't a soul I passed all day wants to hear about my easy chair. 433 00:28:35,520 --> 00:28:38,360 Ain't you going home to sit down? 434 00:28:38,360 --> 00:28:40,040 A log is only a log. 435 00:28:40,040 --> 00:28:42,640 Ain't no-one going to wait till my back is turned 436 00:28:42,640 --> 00:28:44,760 and give no lump of wood to no tallyman. 437 00:28:50,360 --> 00:28:54,320 This ain't one of your tales to take from door to door to prove you are right. 438 00:28:54,320 --> 00:28:58,560 I might expect such talk from Candleford, but even in Lark Rise I am alone. 439 00:28:58,560 --> 00:29:01,800 Soft words ain't no good to you, Bessie. I'll tell you what I see. 440 00:29:01,800 --> 00:29:04,080 You have no proof of anything, no real cause, 441 00:29:04,080 --> 00:29:06,360 but you go at it like you've been bitten by the Devil himself. 442 00:29:06,360 --> 00:29:08,760 Why is that, do you suppose? 443 00:29:08,760 --> 00:29:11,280 I have three children, 444 00:29:11,280 --> 00:29:13,640 and each man has left me to struggle. 445 00:29:13,640 --> 00:29:16,560 All I have is their sweet words ringing in my ears - 446 00:29:16,560 --> 00:29:18,800 promises. 447 00:29:18,800 --> 00:29:22,000 I have had enough of believing men. 448 00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:24,400 But not this time. 449 00:29:24,400 --> 00:29:28,120 You might not admit it, Bessie, but you are so angry. 450 00:29:28,120 --> 00:29:33,400 A whole history of men, and now you have someone to point your anger at. 451 00:29:33,400 --> 00:29:37,560 Daniel Parish, a charmer. Handsome, a man life has been kind to. 452 00:29:37,560 --> 00:29:41,320 The injustice of it, in your mind, makes you blind to what is true. 453 00:29:41,320 --> 00:29:46,200 And you know what is true, do you, Robert Timmins Almighty? 454 00:29:46,200 --> 00:29:48,760 I know reason. 455 00:29:48,760 --> 00:29:51,320 When I met Daniel Parish, I doubted him. 456 00:29:51,320 --> 00:29:54,080 But as I got to know him, I believe him. 457 00:29:54,080 --> 00:29:56,680 Let me ask you this - 458 00:29:56,680 --> 00:29:58,760 did your Emma ever doubt you? 459 00:29:58,760 --> 00:30:01,320 The very man you are? Why? 460 00:30:01,320 --> 00:30:04,080 Ain't a true man always a true man? 461 00:30:04,080 --> 00:30:06,600 Ain't there a reason we have doubts? 462 00:30:06,600 --> 00:30:10,280 Suppose you let go of your own fixed ideas? 463 00:30:10,280 --> 00:30:13,600 Suppose you took in the possibility? 464 00:30:15,920 --> 00:30:20,480 I'll tell you why you are so determined to prove me wrong. 465 00:30:20,480 --> 00:30:24,200 Because if you stand still for long enough, you will have to admit it. 466 00:30:24,200 --> 00:30:26,360 You doubt. 467 00:30:30,320 --> 00:30:32,080 Alfie, 468 00:30:32,080 --> 00:30:34,200 I'll tell you what I know. 469 00:30:36,600 --> 00:30:42,920 Emily Mullins ain't no more than a foolish, feather-haired girl! 470 00:30:42,920 --> 00:30:44,080 (BABY CRIES) 471 00:30:44,080 --> 00:30:48,240 Let me tell you what I know - she was waiting. 472 00:30:55,040 --> 00:30:56,560 Gentlemen. 473 00:31:02,440 --> 00:31:06,440 Emily, you might think you have to protect him, but you don't. 474 00:31:06,440 --> 00:31:10,080 Whoever the man is, you owe it to yourself, 475 00:31:10,080 --> 00:31:13,000 you owe it to your ma, to speak out. 476 00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:16,440 You are young. Your whole life hangs on this moment. 477 00:31:16,440 --> 00:31:21,360 You must find the courage to speak. You think it will help. 478 00:31:21,360 --> 00:31:24,840 You all think it will mend everything if I say. 479 00:31:24,840 --> 00:31:26,200 It won't. 480 00:31:26,200 --> 00:31:29,200 I know what this means. 481 00:31:29,200 --> 00:31:31,920 I know what I am doing to my ma, 482 00:31:31,920 --> 00:31:33,800 the pain I've caused. 483 00:31:33,800 --> 00:31:38,640 Emily, you were seen waiting up by the spinney. 484 00:31:40,080 --> 00:31:42,160 Who were you waiting for? 485 00:31:44,080 --> 00:31:47,800 I will never say who the pa is, do you hear me? 486 00:31:47,800 --> 00:31:50,120 I cannot! 487 00:31:50,120 --> 00:31:54,120 And if you want me to leave, I will. 488 00:31:54,120 --> 00:31:55,720 I will go. 489 00:31:55,720 --> 00:31:59,200 No, my darling. No. This is your home. 490 00:32:12,920 --> 00:32:16,080 EMMA: What are you doing out here at this time, Queenie? 491 00:32:16,080 --> 00:32:18,800 I might ask you the same question. 492 00:32:21,120 --> 00:32:24,840 Robert is turning in his bed like a two-year-old. 493 00:32:28,880 --> 00:32:33,760 I know I did the right thing, selling that chair. 494 00:32:33,760 --> 00:32:35,720 I had no choice. 495 00:32:35,720 --> 00:32:39,480 But still I doubt myself. 496 00:32:39,480 --> 00:32:44,320 When that tallyman comes by again, I shall buy it back from him. 497 00:32:45,960 --> 00:32:47,560 What about the rent? 498 00:32:51,600 --> 00:32:53,600 What is she up to now? 499 00:32:56,640 --> 00:33:00,320 I shall tell her ma she is skulking about at night. 500 00:33:00,320 --> 00:33:01,840 I shall go after her. 501 00:33:01,840 --> 00:33:05,640 No, Emma. Emily is beyond reaching. 502 00:33:05,640 --> 00:33:10,840 Only she herself can undo this business. Leave her be. 503 00:33:44,320 --> 00:33:48,160 Money? I saw him give it Emily. 504 00:33:48,160 --> 00:33:52,440 Ma'am, I asked Daniel, and he promised me it weren't him, and I believed him. 505 00:33:52,440 --> 00:33:56,600 It seems we have no choice but to accept that Daniel has a charge to answer. 506 00:33:56,600 --> 00:33:59,520 I ain't never going to believe no-one ever again. 507 00:33:59,520 --> 00:34:02,440 But it still doesn't make sense to me. 508 00:34:02,440 --> 00:34:04,720 It isn't quite clear. 509 00:34:04,720 --> 00:34:08,800 Ma'am, if I may, it can't be much clearer than money in the night, 510 00:34:08,800 --> 00:34:12,440 in secret, from him to her, in secret. 511 00:34:12,440 --> 00:34:15,200 I think it could be clearer. 512 00:34:15,200 --> 00:34:16,880 Something is missing... 513 00:34:16,880 --> 00:34:18,400 still. 514 00:34:18,400 --> 00:34:20,840 (DOOR OPENS) 515 00:34:22,440 --> 00:34:25,480 Laura. What are you doing up? 516 00:34:25,480 --> 00:34:30,720 I can't seem to sleep, ma'am. I thought I might take a walk. 517 00:34:32,240 --> 00:34:36,160 There is such a chill in the air, I will not permit you to go out. 518 00:34:36,160 --> 00:34:39,360 Sit with us and have some toast with lashings of hot butter. 519 00:34:40,880 --> 00:34:42,960 Why are you two up at this hour? 520 00:34:42,960 --> 00:34:44,560 The money. 521 00:34:47,520 --> 00:34:49,600 I mean, my money. 522 00:34:49,600 --> 00:34:53,640 It has been keeping me awake what I should do about it. 523 00:34:53,640 --> 00:34:56,160 So I am going to keep it until I am more wise. 524 00:35:03,480 --> 00:35:06,400 Is it the shovel that's vexed you or is it the earth? 525 00:35:06,400 --> 00:35:08,480 I'd as well be on my own today, Twister. 526 00:35:08,480 --> 00:35:10,040 I've been thinking, 527 00:35:10,040 --> 00:35:14,880 a person betrays you, the reason it hurts so bad is because... 528 00:35:14,880 --> 00:35:16,760 you love them...perhaps. 529 00:35:16,760 --> 00:35:20,000 Twister, I ain't in the mood for you to stand there and tell me 530 00:35:20,000 --> 00:35:24,280 every little twitch of a thought you might have about feelings or love or... 531 00:35:24,280 --> 00:35:26,800 I ain't in the mood. 532 00:35:26,800 --> 00:35:30,920 Ain't the shovel or the earth that's nettled you, is it? 533 00:35:31,960 --> 00:35:37,800 A kindness. A simple, well-meant kindness from a kind person. 534 00:35:37,800 --> 00:35:41,000 I snapped and I snarled. 535 00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:42,880 Why is that? 536 00:35:42,880 --> 00:35:46,680 So much emotion, and I have no notion where it come from. 537 00:35:46,680 --> 00:35:48,080 (TWISTER CHUCKLES) 538 00:35:48,080 --> 00:35:49,440 What? 539 00:35:49,440 --> 00:35:52,280 Would it be a girl? 540 00:36:01,840 --> 00:36:07,360 Daniel, I have always considered myself a good judge of character... 541 00:36:07,360 --> 00:36:08,920 mostly. 542 00:36:10,440 --> 00:36:14,440 Where my daughter is concerned, I am so protective, 543 00:36:14,440 --> 00:36:16,880 my wife says I am impossible to please. 544 00:36:16,880 --> 00:36:19,760 Is that the reason for your visit, Mr Timmins? 545 00:36:19,760 --> 00:36:23,320 Emily Mullins was seen waiting in a quiet spot until she was disturbed. 546 00:36:23,320 --> 00:36:26,400 Seems like she was...waiting for someone. 547 00:36:26,400 --> 00:36:29,560 Then you came along. 548 00:36:29,560 --> 00:36:34,760 Well, I can understand how people might make something of a coincidence like that, 549 00:36:34,760 --> 00:36:36,160 under the circumstances. 550 00:36:36,160 --> 00:36:38,880 Are you saying you were not there to meet with her? 551 00:36:38,880 --> 00:36:43,760 If I were meeting Emily, would I arrange a spot where we could be so easily found 552 00:36:43,760 --> 00:36:45,000 by Twister and Alf? 553 00:36:45,000 --> 00:36:47,360 That sounds to me like the answer of a man 554 00:36:47,360 --> 00:36:49,560 who can turn a button into a shilling. 555 00:36:53,760 --> 00:36:57,120 I'm asking you to accept that I am honourable in this, Mr Timmins. 556 00:36:57,120 --> 00:37:01,200 Interesting word - honourable. 557 00:37:01,200 --> 00:37:03,200 Not quite the same as innocent. 558 00:37:08,840 --> 00:37:12,080 If you were the father of Emily Mullins's child, 559 00:37:12,080 --> 00:37:13,880 you would not sit before me now 560 00:37:13,880 --> 00:37:16,880 without every bone in your body shaking with fear. 561 00:37:16,880 --> 00:37:20,520 You would not dare look me in the eye as you do now. 562 00:37:20,520 --> 00:37:24,480 But you do hold a secret about you. 563 00:37:24,480 --> 00:37:28,400 So I decided... it must be something else. 564 00:37:30,080 --> 00:37:33,440 Am I right? I cannot say. 565 00:37:33,440 --> 00:37:35,120 You must. 566 00:37:36,640 --> 00:37:38,080 I cannot say. 567 00:37:38,080 --> 00:37:40,120 Let me warn you - 568 00:37:40,120 --> 00:37:42,760 I know my daughter. 569 00:37:42,760 --> 00:37:44,800 If you lose her trust, 570 00:37:44,800 --> 00:37:47,520 you will not get it back. 571 00:37:57,520 --> 00:38:01,520 I realise how this must feel, our Laura. 572 00:38:01,520 --> 00:38:04,720 No matter how much you believe in Daniel, 573 00:38:04,720 --> 00:38:07,160 it creeps in - 574 00:38:07,160 --> 00:38:08,600 fear and doubt... 575 00:38:08,600 --> 00:38:10,400 Ma, I have no doubts about Daniel. 576 00:38:10,400 --> 00:38:12,000 I know, I know that. 577 00:38:12,000 --> 00:38:15,560 But still, it can haunt the best of us. 578 00:38:15,560 --> 00:38:19,800 It can be so disturbing. I can see it in your face. 579 00:38:19,800 --> 00:38:21,880 Ma, please, stop. Stop talking. 580 00:38:21,880 --> 00:38:24,880 Stop saying, "Daniel, Daniel, Daniel". I cannot bear it. 581 00:38:24,880 --> 00:38:27,280 This is not about Daniel. This is not what you think. 582 00:38:27,280 --> 00:38:29,120 You all suppose you know me. 583 00:38:29,120 --> 00:38:31,080 You do not know me. 584 00:38:31,080 --> 00:38:33,200 I am more than Daniel's girl. 585 00:38:33,200 --> 00:38:35,360 I am more than your daughter. 586 00:38:35,360 --> 00:38:39,520 I am more than Miss Lane's assistant. I have my own life. 587 00:38:39,520 --> 00:38:41,440 My own emotions. 588 00:38:41,440 --> 00:38:44,400 I cannot abide one more day with you supposing that... 589 00:38:46,040 --> 00:38:47,680 Well! 590 00:38:47,680 --> 00:38:50,040 Where did that come from? 591 00:38:54,920 --> 00:38:56,760 I received a letter. 592 00:38:58,360 --> 00:38:59,800 From Fisher. 593 00:39:00,840 --> 00:39:03,640 Fisher Bloom. I know which Fisher. 594 00:39:03,640 --> 00:39:06,200 There aren't many Fishers out there. What did he say? 595 00:39:09,080 --> 00:39:11,400 Oh, lordy! 596 00:39:24,800 --> 00:39:26,440 Ah! 597 00:39:31,160 --> 00:39:34,120 Lord and Lady Strumpshaw have received a telegram. 598 00:39:34,120 --> 00:39:35,800 Shall I fetch Laura, ma'am? 599 00:39:37,320 --> 00:39:40,160 I believe I will deliver it myself, Minnie. 600 00:39:43,080 --> 00:39:48,040 Laura, your pa seems to think that I am at risk of losing your trust in me. 601 00:39:48,040 --> 00:39:50,040 I would never do anything... 602 00:39:50,040 --> 00:39:52,200 I hope that you see that. 603 00:39:52,200 --> 00:39:54,720 I don't know what your pa might have said to you. 604 00:39:54,720 --> 00:39:56,840 Has he said anything to you? 605 00:39:56,840 --> 00:39:59,680 Because there is nothing I cannot explain. 606 00:40:00,800 --> 00:40:03,880 Laura, you have no reason to doubt me. 607 00:40:06,120 --> 00:40:08,120 I don't doubt you, Daniel. 608 00:40:08,120 --> 00:40:11,840 I can feel something. You're not the same. 609 00:40:11,840 --> 00:40:15,440 Has your pa spoken to you about this? It might be that you are concerned... 610 00:40:15,440 --> 00:40:18,400 Why must it be? Why must everything I feel be about you? 611 00:40:21,360 --> 00:40:23,600 I am only trying to impress upon you 612 00:40:23,600 --> 00:40:27,400 that whatever you might hear, I am true to you in this. 613 00:40:27,400 --> 00:40:29,520 Do you see? 614 00:40:29,520 --> 00:40:32,200 In all of this, I am always true to you. 615 00:40:35,520 --> 00:40:38,080 I... 616 00:40:38,080 --> 00:40:39,600 I must get back. 617 00:40:41,280 --> 00:40:43,600 Please, tell me what is troubling you 618 00:40:43,600 --> 00:40:46,600 and I promise you, whatever it is, I can answer it. 619 00:40:48,200 --> 00:40:50,360 You are wrong, Daniel. 620 00:40:52,000 --> 00:40:53,800 You cannot answer it. 621 00:41:08,600 --> 00:41:11,920 Master Raymond is gone, Emily. 622 00:41:11,920 --> 00:41:13,960 His parents have sent him abroad. 623 00:41:13,960 --> 00:41:16,840 The carriage has taken him to London. 624 00:41:16,840 --> 00:41:19,040 He boards a ship tomorrow. 625 00:41:19,040 --> 00:41:21,040 Raymond is hardly more than a boy. 626 00:41:21,040 --> 00:41:23,640 He must do as his parents say. 627 00:41:25,640 --> 00:41:27,560 It is him, isn't it? 628 00:41:32,360 --> 00:41:36,040 I do not know why you cannot tell your mother. 629 00:41:37,120 --> 00:41:40,760 But it is not for anyone else, certainly not for me to tell her. 630 00:41:40,760 --> 00:41:43,360 Can't you speak with her about it? 631 00:41:48,040 --> 00:41:50,360 What is Daniel's part in this, Emily? 632 00:41:50,360 --> 00:41:53,480 Why would you go to see him in the night? 633 00:41:56,920 --> 00:42:02,120 Child, the only way to mend this is to talk. 634 00:42:02,120 --> 00:42:05,000 Let those around you help. (DOOR OPENS) 635 00:42:06,120 --> 00:42:12,280 Mrs Mullins, excuse me intruding, but I wanted to see how Emily was faring. 636 00:42:12,280 --> 00:42:14,160 Is that so? 637 00:42:14,160 --> 00:42:17,320 Well, you ain't never called in before to see how we was faring, has you? 638 00:42:17,320 --> 00:42:20,720 It occurred to me if there was anything I could do to help. 639 00:42:20,720 --> 00:42:23,880 Why do you suppose we would want your help? 640 00:42:23,880 --> 00:42:27,080 Sitting here in my cottage like you own the place. 641 00:42:27,080 --> 00:42:28,520 Mrs Mullins...Bessie. 642 00:42:28,520 --> 00:42:31,160 It's all very well for the likes of Dorcas Lane. 643 00:42:31,160 --> 00:42:33,240 The life you live. 644 00:42:33,240 --> 00:42:35,200 And you sit in judgement on us. 645 00:42:35,200 --> 00:42:39,120 You have no idea what it means. 646 00:42:40,640 --> 00:42:42,800 My wish to help is genuine. 647 00:42:45,080 --> 00:42:48,440 But I cannot tell you what is the truth of all this. 648 00:42:48,440 --> 00:42:51,320 Only your daughter can do that. 649 00:42:51,320 --> 00:42:54,400 You know something, don't you? 650 00:42:55,840 --> 00:42:59,680 You know it is him. Is that why you're here? Did he send you? 651 00:42:59,680 --> 00:43:01,640 No-one sent me. You know, I can see it! 652 00:43:01,640 --> 00:43:04,880 Ma, stop this, please. 653 00:43:04,880 --> 00:43:06,920 I hope your conscience torments you. 654 00:43:06,920 --> 00:43:09,440 I can only repeat... 655 00:43:10,960 --> 00:43:13,680 My wish to help is genuine. 656 00:43:16,040 --> 00:43:19,760 How many years have I done right by you? 657 00:43:21,160 --> 00:43:24,840 Now I make one mistake. 658 00:43:24,840 --> 00:43:27,800 I am 'uman. I have failings. 659 00:43:29,280 --> 00:43:31,520 I never intended to hurt you. 660 00:43:33,920 --> 00:43:36,720 The tallyman will come back this way 661 00:43:36,720 --> 00:43:40,160 and we will get your chair returned to you. 662 00:43:41,680 --> 00:43:45,480 Then perhaps I can have your head where it ought to be. 663 00:43:45,480 --> 00:43:47,600 Next to mine. 664 00:43:53,720 --> 00:43:54,920 MRS MULLINS: Emily? 665 00:44:01,680 --> 00:44:04,000 What are you doing, our Emily? 666 00:44:06,560 --> 00:44:09,320 Show me. 667 00:44:09,320 --> 00:44:11,120 You show me, girl! 668 00:44:32,680 --> 00:44:35,480 I know what this is. 669 00:44:35,480 --> 00:44:37,760 So-called help. 670 00:44:44,320 --> 00:44:48,000 What is it, ma'am? A savings book, and it is yours. 671 00:44:49,840 --> 00:44:51,280 And is my money in it? 672 00:44:51,280 --> 00:44:52,440 It is. 673 00:44:52,440 --> 00:44:56,080 Ma'am, a savings book is more exciting than a petticoat, ain't it? 674 00:44:56,080 --> 00:44:57,800 I wouldn't go that far, Minnie. 675 00:44:57,800 --> 00:45:01,720 And I kept a little aside so you might buy yourself some toffee. 676 00:45:01,720 --> 00:45:03,960 Savings AND toffees?! 677 00:45:03,960 --> 00:45:05,320 (BELL TINKLES) 678 00:45:07,280 --> 00:45:09,240 We don't want your money. 679 00:45:09,240 --> 00:45:12,440 I don't quite follow. 680 00:45:12,440 --> 00:45:14,240 This is not my money. 681 00:45:14,240 --> 00:45:17,520 It ain't for the likes of you to meddle in my business. 682 00:45:17,520 --> 00:45:19,960 It isn't money that we want. 683 00:45:19,960 --> 00:45:22,760 It is a bit of justice. 684 00:45:22,760 --> 00:45:24,320 Believe me, 685 00:45:24,320 --> 00:45:26,600 much as it might make me feel a little better 686 00:45:26,600 --> 00:45:30,240 to use my own good fortune to try to ease your burden, 687 00:45:30,240 --> 00:45:33,360 giving money is not what I meant by help. 688 00:45:33,360 --> 00:45:35,680 It ain't from you? 689 00:45:35,680 --> 00:45:37,200 I promise you it is not. 690 00:45:39,200 --> 00:45:42,960 But this money might tell us something. 691 00:45:42,960 --> 00:45:47,000 How many people could afford to do this? Not Daniel Parish. 692 00:45:47,000 --> 00:45:49,520 Consider... 693 00:45:49,520 --> 00:45:52,680 Who could afford this kind of money? 694 00:45:54,920 --> 00:45:58,920 Someone who has been in contact with Emily these past months? 695 00:46:10,080 --> 00:46:11,280 (GASPS) 696 00:46:13,680 --> 00:46:15,040 Oh. 697 00:46:18,720 --> 00:46:21,120 Oh! 698 00:46:21,120 --> 00:46:22,920 Twister, it's the tallyman. 699 00:46:31,000 --> 00:46:34,000 Not gone once, but twice. 700 00:46:39,400 --> 00:46:42,320 But you know I'd have bought it back for you. 701 00:46:44,560 --> 00:46:46,600 You do know that now? 702 00:46:51,040 --> 00:46:57,080 Twister is hurting so much because I didn't tell him what I was planning. 703 00:46:57,080 --> 00:47:01,640 I kept him in the dark till it was too late for him to do anything. 704 00:47:01,640 --> 00:47:08,320 I felt I had to or he would stop me from doing what was needed, 705 00:47:08,320 --> 00:47:10,960 because of how he is. 706 00:47:10,960 --> 00:47:14,440 I was right. He would. 707 00:47:14,440 --> 00:47:15,640 (DOOR OPENS) 708 00:47:15,640 --> 00:47:18,600 Then we'd have no money to pay the rent. 709 00:47:20,120 --> 00:47:23,280 And I was wrong, 710 00:47:23,280 --> 00:47:28,400 because if you can't be true to the one you live with, 711 00:47:28,400 --> 00:47:30,840 and the one you love, 712 00:47:30,840 --> 00:47:33,280 your ma, 713 00:47:33,280 --> 00:47:35,440 if you keep this hid from her, 714 00:47:35,440 --> 00:47:37,880 she will be tormented. 715 00:47:39,560 --> 00:47:42,800 And how she is... 716 00:47:42,800 --> 00:47:45,400 she will never let it be. 717 00:47:45,400 --> 00:47:49,360 You could give her some peace 718 00:47:49,360 --> 00:47:51,360 by telling her, 719 00:47:51,360 --> 00:47:54,960 whoever the boy is. 720 00:47:54,960 --> 00:47:56,880 There's no shame in this, Emily. 721 00:48:00,600 --> 00:48:04,400 How could I say... 722 00:48:04,400 --> 00:48:07,720 it were Master Raymond? 723 00:48:12,080 --> 00:48:16,760 My ma would charge up to the big house, rail at the gates, cussing. 724 00:48:18,440 --> 00:48:20,680 Did you tell Master Raymond about this? 725 00:48:23,120 --> 00:48:27,640 There was such fear in his eyes when I told him. 726 00:48:27,640 --> 00:48:29,600 Truly terrified. 727 00:48:31,120 --> 00:48:35,160 He said he would come meet with me the next day, 728 00:48:35,160 --> 00:48:36,960 but he didn't come. 729 00:48:39,120 --> 00:48:41,040 I had to tell someone, 730 00:48:41,040 --> 00:48:43,600 ask where Raymond was. 731 00:48:43,600 --> 00:48:45,760 I knew Daniel was a friend of his. 732 00:48:45,760 --> 00:48:48,600 He said he would speak with him. 733 00:48:48,600 --> 00:48:51,760 But the message he came back with... 734 00:48:53,040 --> 00:48:56,360 (SOBS) 735 00:48:58,120 --> 00:48:59,960 ...it was impossible. 736 00:49:02,000 --> 00:49:05,360 His family insisted... 737 00:49:05,360 --> 00:49:08,880 on denying everything. 738 00:49:10,320 --> 00:49:12,760 So I realised 739 00:49:12,760 --> 00:49:19,880 if I said that Master Raymond were the pa and no-one believed me, 740 00:49:19,880 --> 00:49:25,240 what would that be like for this child, to live their whole life with that? 741 00:49:28,360 --> 00:49:31,320 I couldn't let you do that to the child, Ma. 742 00:49:31,320 --> 00:49:34,640 If everyone knew, I'd have had to run away. 743 00:49:34,640 --> 00:49:40,200 I had to hide it from you in order to stay here, to be with you. 744 00:49:41,720 --> 00:49:43,240 Oh, my petal. 745 00:49:45,720 --> 00:49:48,120 Look what I have done to you... 746 00:49:49,360 --> 00:49:52,320 with my need to take on the whole world. 747 00:49:58,040 --> 00:49:59,680 Mr Parish. 748 00:50:16,200 --> 00:50:19,440 I want to apologise to you 749 00:50:19,440 --> 00:50:22,800 for saying the things that I said, 750 00:50:22,800 --> 00:50:26,200 accusing you here on the street. 751 00:50:27,800 --> 00:50:29,560 I know better now. 752 00:50:30,760 --> 00:50:33,800 All you ever wanted to do was help my daughter 753 00:50:33,800 --> 00:50:36,160 and I caused you nothing but woe and trouble. 754 00:50:38,080 --> 00:50:40,160 And other folks too. 755 00:50:45,920 --> 00:50:49,800 So, Daniel, it seems Master Raymond has gone away. 756 00:50:49,800 --> 00:50:52,680 Abroad, on a boat, I hear. 757 00:50:53,840 --> 00:50:56,880 Quite...sudden, like. 758 00:50:58,000 --> 00:51:01,040 I believe it is considered good for his education. 759 00:51:01,040 --> 00:51:05,000 You gave that money to Emily from the Strumpshaws, didn't you? 760 00:51:05,000 --> 00:51:06,920 The family wanted to help. 761 00:51:06,920 --> 00:51:10,720 Without admitting responsibility, that is usually the way. 762 00:51:10,720 --> 00:51:13,120 It is something. 763 00:51:13,120 --> 00:51:14,960 Yes, I can see that. 764 00:51:17,080 --> 00:51:19,640 Daniel, come for a meal at the End House. 765 00:51:19,640 --> 00:51:24,840 Our children are keen to learn that trick with the button and the shilling. 766 00:51:24,840 --> 00:51:28,480 For once in my life I have come to ask advice... 767 00:51:29,680 --> 00:51:33,720 before I do what my temper is telling me to do. 768 00:51:33,720 --> 00:51:36,440 And what is your temper telling you to do? 769 00:51:41,840 --> 00:51:47,160 To take this money up to the big house and throw it through those gates. 770 00:51:50,520 --> 00:51:54,800 And why would you do such a thing? Because I feel bought. 771 00:51:54,800 --> 00:51:56,600 My whole family, bought. 772 00:51:56,600 --> 00:52:00,000 Nothing more than... slop to be disposed of. 773 00:52:00,000 --> 00:52:02,320 You'd be right. You are being bought. 774 00:52:03,520 --> 00:52:06,920 That's the way of things, no denying it. 775 00:52:09,520 --> 00:52:10,760 Come here. 776 00:52:15,560 --> 00:52:16,680 Sit. 777 00:52:18,240 --> 00:52:20,320 Listen... 778 00:52:20,320 --> 00:52:23,280 If you decide to throw that money back at them, Bessie, 779 00:52:23,280 --> 00:52:24,880 I will stand beside you 780 00:52:24,880 --> 00:52:27,200 and I will shout louder than you do 781 00:52:27,200 --> 00:52:29,640 of all the wrongs in this. 782 00:52:29,640 --> 00:52:31,120 Then what? 783 00:52:33,640 --> 00:52:35,720 You've had your moment's glory. 784 00:52:35,720 --> 00:52:38,120 What about Emily? 785 00:52:40,600 --> 00:52:42,200 What about that child? 786 00:52:42,200 --> 00:52:47,880 That little one's life, their needs, what about that? 787 00:52:47,880 --> 00:52:50,360 You keep the money or you throw it back, 788 00:52:50,360 --> 00:52:53,920 it won't make any difference to them up in the big house. 789 00:52:53,920 --> 00:52:59,680 It might... stir their conscience for a while. 790 00:53:02,240 --> 00:53:04,280 But their actions will remain the same. 791 00:53:07,040 --> 00:53:08,640 Swallow your pride, Bessie. 792 00:53:08,640 --> 00:53:10,040 Hold your tongue. 793 00:53:10,040 --> 00:53:13,360 Take the injustice 794 00:53:13,360 --> 00:53:17,760 and don't let it taint your love for that little one, one ounce. 795 00:53:17,760 --> 00:53:23,160 If it helps, think of it as the child's money, 796 00:53:23,160 --> 00:53:24,760 not yours. 797 00:53:35,600 --> 00:53:39,520 Twister, your chair is gone. 798 00:53:39,520 --> 00:53:45,080 The whys and hows of it might be right and might be wrong, 799 00:53:45,080 --> 00:53:46,760 but for now... 800 00:53:48,600 --> 00:53:51,440 it just is. 801 00:54:25,520 --> 00:54:27,920 You ain't still angry with me, is you, Alfie? 802 00:54:27,920 --> 00:54:29,400 I only meant to interfere. 803 00:54:29,400 --> 00:54:31,160 I mean, not to interfere. 804 00:54:31,160 --> 00:54:33,960 I mean, to interfere but not mean to interfere. 805 00:54:33,960 --> 00:54:35,960 Minnie... 806 00:54:35,960 --> 00:54:38,080 I'm sorry... 807 00:54:38,080 --> 00:54:41,760 for saying what I said. 808 00:54:41,760 --> 00:54:44,920 What... What I want to say is... 809 00:54:44,920 --> 00:54:48,040 why did I speak so to you? 810 00:54:49,640 --> 00:54:55,000 It was like my feelings... was more than my reason. 811 00:54:56,840 --> 00:54:58,680 Am I making sense? 812 00:54:58,680 --> 00:55:00,200 No. 813 00:55:02,960 --> 00:55:05,120 Because... 814 00:55:05,120 --> 00:55:08,720 looking at you... 815 00:55:08,720 --> 00:55:10,200 Minnie... DORCAS: Minnie? 816 00:55:22,800 --> 00:55:24,240 (KNOCK AT DOOR) 817 00:55:24,240 --> 00:55:25,760 Laura... 818 00:55:25,760 --> 00:55:27,600 Laura? 819 00:55:27,600 --> 00:55:29,640 Minnie, are you in there? 820 00:55:31,160 --> 00:55:34,240 (KNOCK AT DOOR) Goodness! 821 00:55:34,240 --> 00:55:38,560 Laura, aren't you supposed to be going over to Lark Rise for lunch? 822 00:55:38,560 --> 00:55:40,800 I thought that I could do it, but I can't. 823 00:55:40,800 --> 00:55:43,120 Daniel is knocking at the door for you. 824 00:55:43,120 --> 00:55:44,720 I cannot face it. 825 00:55:46,240 --> 00:55:48,360 To walk over there with him, 826 00:55:48,360 --> 00:55:50,440 to sit with him and my family. 827 00:55:52,080 --> 00:55:53,880 I feel dishonest. 828 00:55:56,760 --> 00:55:59,280 I am in such a confusion of feelings. 829 00:56:04,160 --> 00:56:07,480 And I am right to imagine it has nothing to do with Emily Mullins? 830 00:56:13,480 --> 00:56:17,080 "It seems Inglestone have lived too long in the shadow of Candleford. 831 00:56:17,080 --> 00:56:19,360 "They have decided they want a town clock." 832 00:56:20,840 --> 00:56:23,160 Oh. (RAP ON DOOR) 833 00:56:23,160 --> 00:56:25,080 Oh, dear. 834 00:56:25,080 --> 00:56:26,840 "They so admire the Candleford clock 835 00:56:26,840 --> 00:56:29,320 "that they insist on employing the same clockmaker. 836 00:56:30,680 --> 00:56:32,120 Fisher Bloom? 837 00:56:33,440 --> 00:56:34,720 When? 838 00:56:34,720 --> 00:56:37,520 He is on his way. 839 00:56:49,400 --> 00:56:51,600 You know something about this, don't you? 840 00:56:53,320 --> 00:56:54,840 I wish I didn't. 841 00:57:09,920 --> 00:57:11,520 LAURA: Hamlet folk often said 842 00:57:11,520 --> 00:57:15,880 that you could see gossip coming out of Mrs Mullins's mouth like steam. 843 00:57:19,320 --> 00:57:23,080 Her own troubles weren't to stop her from doing what she did best. 844 00:57:23,080 --> 00:57:26,800 And she only went and sold his easy chair without so much as asking him. 845 00:57:26,800 --> 00:57:28,240 I know if for a fact! 846 00:57:30,280 --> 00:57:33,160 Candleford was a small town. 847 00:57:33,160 --> 00:57:38,600 In a small town, the slightest of disturbances does not go unnoticed, 848 00:57:38,600 --> 00:57:42,480 and this little world of ours had surely been disturbed. 849 00:57:44,280 --> 00:57:45,960 Hello, Fisher. Laura. 850 00:57:45,960 --> 00:57:48,280 She's the reason you came back. 851 00:57:48,280 --> 00:57:51,560 Nothing matters more to Fisher than the road. Some things matter more. 852 00:57:51,560 --> 00:57:52,840 A challenge. 853 00:57:52,840 --> 00:57:54,960 The railway on our doorstep? 854 00:57:54,960 --> 00:57:57,800 I seen what happens to a town when it gets a railway. 855 00:57:57,800 --> 00:57:59,880 I seen post offices die. 856 00:57:59,880 --> 00:58:05,320 Miss Lane says Mischief Night is when we should cast off all our cares. Is that so? 857 00:58:05,320 --> 00:58:09,520 Show the world Laura Timmins ain't buttoned up. 858 00:58:09,520 --> 00:58:12,080 Can you not see what Fisher coming here has done to us? 859 00:58:38,200 --> 00:58:41,000 Subtitles by Red Bee Media Ltd 860 00:58:41,000 --> 00:58:43,920 E-mail subtitling@bbc.co.uk