1 00:01:03,804 --> 00:01:04,850 Ah! 2 00:01:08,444 --> 00:01:10,384 Mrs Rose! Mrs Rose! 3 00:01:10,424 --> 00:01:12,444 Yes! Yes! 4 00:01:12,484 --> 00:01:14,064 Is something amiss? 5 00:01:14,104 --> 00:01:16,684 I have slept too long. I will be late for Matins! 6 00:01:16,724 --> 00:01:21,624 But Dr Morgan gave me to understand that you were not prone to religious observance! 7 00:01:21,664 --> 00:01:24,934 I am a doctor in this community, I have connections to maintain! 8 00:01:26,484 --> 00:01:29,644 9 00:01:29,684 --> 00:01:34,824 10 00:01:34,864 --> 00:01:39,804 and joyful rise 11 00:01:39,844 --> 00:01:45,447 12 00:01:47,004 --> 00:01:52,064 that's past... 13 00:01:52,104 --> 00:01:54,931 CONGREGATION LOSE TRACK OF THE SONG 14 00:01:56,664 --> 00:02:01,564 15 00:02:01,604 --> 00:02:07,127 16 00:02:08,764 --> 00:02:14,144 17 00:02:14,184 --> 00:02:19,264 18 00:02:19,304 --> 00:02:25,064 thy ways 19 00:02:25,104 --> 00:02:31,845 20 00:02:32,904 --> 00:02:38,244 21 00:02:38,284 --> 00:02:40,690 BELL CHIMES 22 00:02:43,144 --> 00:02:45,264 I see you have hired the chair again, Mrs Jamieson. 23 00:02:45,304 --> 00:02:46,784 Is your carriage still on blocks? 24 00:02:46,824 --> 00:02:53,184 Indeed it is not on blocks! It is being got in trim by the saddler, ready for Lady Ludlow's party. 25 00:02:53,224 --> 00:02:56,064 Did your invitation come by post? 26 00:02:56,104 --> 00:02:58,584 Or was it brought by hand from Hanbury Court? 27 00:02:58,624 --> 00:03:00,744 A footman in livery delivered it. 28 00:03:00,784 --> 00:03:03,929 Or so Mr Mulliner, my butler, said. 29 00:03:06,384 --> 00:03:08,224 Come along. 30 00:03:08,264 --> 00:03:11,384 There is a deal of excitement about this garden party. 31 00:03:11,424 --> 00:03:13,304 It is always a wonderful occasion. 32 00:03:13,344 --> 00:03:19,064 A platform is erected, and there is a band, and the most incomparable refreshments. 33 00:03:19,104 --> 00:03:22,944 For the past two years, there has even been ice cream! 34 00:03:22,984 --> 00:03:25,423 Ice cream!? Miss Jenkyns! 35 00:03:25,424 --> 00:03:30,463 Forgive me. I crave your kind indulgence once again. 36 00:03:30,464 --> 00:03:32,844 Crave nothing. Only ask. 37 00:03:32,884 --> 00:03:35,944 We give our friendship gladly. Are you called away once more? 38 00:03:35,984 --> 00:03:37,544 Oh, no, Miss Matty. 39 00:03:37,584 --> 00:03:39,264 Jessie and I must entertain a guest. 40 00:03:39,304 --> 00:03:44,064 We would be poor company, just the two of us. 41 00:03:44,104 --> 00:03:47,744 I have not heard that you have ever been in Cranford, Major Gordon. 42 00:03:47,784 --> 00:03:51,864 That has been my misfortune, Miss Jenkyns. It is an altogether delightful place! 43 00:03:51,904 --> 00:03:54,704 A legacy from an uncle brought me to the county, 44 00:03:54,744 --> 00:03:57,744 and I could not resist the pleasure of calling on my friends. 45 00:03:57,784 --> 00:04:01,124 We saw a deal of one another when we were at Barnard Castle. 46 00:04:01,164 --> 00:04:05,904 We were, of course, a somewhat larger family then. 47 00:04:05,944 --> 00:04:08,844 My sister loved to hear the Major read aloud! 48 00:04:08,884 --> 00:04:16,124 She had a great fondness for the verse of Robert Burns, which always sounds better when spoken in Scotch! 49 00:04:16,164 --> 00:04:19,263 And were you acquainted with the late Mrs Brown, Major Gordon? 50 00:04:19,264 --> 00:04:23,164 I had that privilege, Miss Jenkyns. We had a most amiable friendship. 51 00:04:23,204 --> 00:04:25,155 They were very happy times. 52 00:04:29,764 --> 00:04:34,344 Jessie, dear, perhaps you would oblige us with some music. 53 00:04:34,384 --> 00:04:37,544 Oh, no, I could not. I have played very little of late! 54 00:04:37,584 --> 00:04:39,604 And I have sung less! 55 00:04:39,644 --> 00:04:41,464 Come, then, 56 00:04:41,504 --> 00:04:42,844 play... is... 57 00:04:42,884 --> 00:04:46,428 Loch Lomond and we can make shift together. 58 00:04:50,724 --> 00:04:53,164 THEY WARM UP THEIR VOICES 59 00:04:53,204 --> 00:04:54,904 Capital baritone. 60 00:04:58,164 --> 00:05:04,443 and by yon bonny braes 61 00:05:04,444 --> 00:05:10,164 on Loch Lomond 62 00:05:10,204 --> 00:05:16,404 will never meet again 63 00:05:16,444 --> 00:05:23,164 of Loch Lomond 64 00:05:23,204 --> 00:05:27,964 and I'll take the low road 65 00:05:28,004 --> 00:05:32,044 66 00:05:32,084 --> 00:05:37,244 will never meet again 67 00:05:37,284 --> 00:05:42,944 of Loch Lomond. 68 00:05:47,084 --> 00:05:49,587 Dear Deborah's always been extremely musical! 69 00:05:52,304 --> 00:05:54,364 That was a most entertainment, Major Gordon. 70 00:05:54,404 --> 00:05:57,164 I think it helped that you beat time with your spoon. 71 00:05:57,204 --> 00:06:00,372 I generally do so when a piece transports me. 72 00:06:02,004 --> 00:06:06,963 Well, Major Gordon, I do hope Cranford continues to delight you. 73 00:06:06,964 --> 00:06:09,171 Madam, I am sure it shall. 74 00:06:12,464 --> 00:06:18,124 I always think the garden party shows Hanbury off at its very best. 75 00:06:18,164 --> 00:06:23,575 It is a pity that my son's health will not permit him to witness it. 76 00:06:23,615 --> 00:06:26,058 Has Lord Septimus sent word? 77 00:06:26,098 --> 00:06:29,502 I received a letter just this morning. 78 00:06:29,542 --> 00:06:32,185 Most regretfully expressed. 79 00:06:32,225 --> 00:06:36,790 Perhaps next year we might commission an artist to record the event. 80 00:06:36,830 --> 00:06:39,393 An engraving could be sent to Italy. 81 00:06:39,433 --> 00:06:45,070 Next year, Mr Carter, I am certain that Lord Septimus will be with us. 82 00:06:46,949 --> 00:06:50,794 Oh, Mary! Chairs with their legs in the air! 83 00:06:52,529 --> 00:06:54,369 LAUGHTER Oh! 84 00:06:54,409 --> 00:06:57,270 We must not let my sister go in there! 85 00:06:58,329 --> 00:07:03,329 Oh, Deborah! Matilda, the uproar is temporary, you must calm yourself! 86 00:07:03,369 --> 00:07:08,589 I suggest we all repair to the kitchen to take tea. Tea? In the kitchen? 87 00:07:08,629 --> 00:07:14,429 But, um... that is not our custom! We will come to no harm if we do so this morning. 88 00:07:14,469 --> 00:07:18,029 But, Deborah, Mr Johnson's men are in the kitchen. And Jem Hearne! 89 00:07:18,069 --> 00:07:20,149 And where is Martha? 90 00:07:20,189 --> 00:07:21,869 Well, she is in the kitchen too. 91 00:07:21,909 --> 00:07:23,768 The men complained of thirst. 92 00:07:23,769 --> 00:07:25,714 Indeed? 93 00:07:27,869 --> 00:07:33,669 Well, I suggest you both go out, and find for yourselves some constructive occupation. 94 00:07:33,709 --> 00:07:36,409 Jem Hearne, what are you are doing here? 95 00:07:36,449 --> 00:07:40,175 It is as well we do not have a new carpet every day of the week! 96 00:07:43,309 --> 00:07:49,569 Defective! Miss Galindo, have you nothing that will elongate my face? 97 00:07:49,609 --> 00:07:53,509 If you will wait, I shall seek some wired ribbon. And the feather box. 98 00:07:53,549 --> 00:07:58,349 What is the difference between Italian straw and ordinary straw? 99 00:07:58,389 --> 00:08:01,209 It is twice the price, and there is much less of it! 100 00:08:01,249 --> 00:08:03,608 It is altogether more superior, Mrs Forrester. 101 00:08:03,609 --> 00:08:07,309 Not least because it is lighter, and less injurious to the hair. 102 00:08:07,349 --> 00:08:10,009 What is the view in Manchester on turbans, Mary, dear? 103 00:08:10,049 --> 00:08:11,709 Are they out or are they in? 104 00:08:11,749 --> 00:08:16,249 They have been in these past three years. 105 00:08:16,289 --> 00:08:18,429 I think I could quite like myself in a turban. 106 00:08:18,469 --> 00:08:20,189 Had you a particular colour in mind? 107 00:08:20,229 --> 00:08:23,569 Scarlet. Scarlet? For a garden party? 108 00:08:23,609 --> 00:08:27,749 You will look like a blackamoor! Why this mania for the Oriental? 109 00:08:27,789 --> 00:08:31,209 We are not performing in a pantomime! 110 00:08:31,249 --> 00:08:37,049 I swear, Miss Galindo lacks all appetite for stimulating intercourse! 111 00:08:37,089 --> 00:08:41,770 For all her father was a baronet, I have never seen her wearing lace of any note. 112 00:08:50,229 --> 00:08:52,470 BABY CRIES 113 00:08:56,149 --> 00:08:57,275 Mam? 114 00:09:02,069 --> 00:09:03,491 Mam? 115 00:09:06,869 --> 00:09:08,949 Dadda'll get a surprise when he sees the baby. 116 00:09:08,989 --> 00:09:12,339 He went to try his luck maybe Northwich way. 117 00:09:14,629 --> 00:09:18,629 He could be gone another week. He'll bring something when he comes. 118 00:09:18,669 --> 00:09:21,028 The baby needs milk now. 119 00:09:21,029 --> 00:09:22,633 I'm not well. 120 00:09:26,429 --> 00:09:29,389 We should've gone to Manchester last fortnight. We've so little time! 121 00:09:29,429 --> 00:09:32,149 There is nothing there that cannot be got in Cranford! 122 00:09:32,189 --> 00:09:35,149 And I daresay we shall be the first since the delivery. 123 00:09:35,189 --> 00:09:40,669 This is the most appealing colour! Oh, Miss Pole. You are very prompt. 124 00:09:40,709 --> 00:09:43,399 Would you call it sage or loden? 125 00:09:44,949 --> 00:09:50,149 I would call it rhubarb - there is a red glint to it when it moves beneath the light. 126 00:09:50,189 --> 00:09:54,149 We are both planning gowns for Lady Ludlow's party. 127 00:09:54,189 --> 00:09:57,629 I hear your new bonnet will refresh you altogether. 128 00:09:57,669 --> 00:10:00,749 Oh, Augusta! Have you seen this? 129 00:10:00,789 --> 00:10:04,269 Two flounces to the skirt, each with a scalloped edge. 130 00:10:04,309 --> 00:10:08,349 Oh, dear Sophy Hutton would look very well in that. 131 00:10:08,389 --> 00:10:12,479 She has the youthfulness to carry it and a waist like a wand! 132 00:10:14,989 --> 00:10:19,229 I cannot remember the last 133 00:10:19,269 --> 00:10:22,929 It takes 25 yards... Are you saying it cannot be afforded? 134 00:10:22,969 --> 00:10:26,399 Because if you are even thinking that, I wish you to speak plainly! I am not thinking it! 135 00:10:30,089 --> 00:10:32,549 Your cheeks are looking very hot. 136 00:10:32,589 --> 00:10:37,129 You are not yourself. My heart is suddenly battering in my chest! 137 00:10:37,169 --> 00:10:39,369 It is the strangest sensation. 138 00:10:39,409 --> 00:10:41,749 Mrs Johnson, fetch a chair! This could be apoplexy. 139 00:10:41,789 --> 00:10:44,728 Does she need a glass of water? I need the doctor. 140 00:10:44,729 --> 00:10:46,569 Dr Morgan is an hour's ride off! 141 00:10:46,609 --> 00:10:50,269 The corn factor's niece has the quinsy. On both sides! 142 00:10:50,309 --> 00:10:52,749 Then I'll have to have the other doctor. 143 00:10:56,589 --> 00:10:58,889 It is completely unaccountable. 144 00:10:58,929 --> 00:11:01,109 She has always been so strong. 145 00:11:01,149 --> 00:11:04,069 I detect no serious illness, but I will investigate. 146 00:11:04,109 --> 00:11:09,489 These palpitations are at the very least injurious to your mother's nerves. 147 00:11:09,529 --> 00:11:13,550 Dr Harrison! We are sisters! Oh, I am so sorry. 148 00:11:15,569 --> 00:11:19,929 I would like to listen to the patient's heart. With my stethoscope. 149 00:11:19,969 --> 00:11:22,352 If you would be so kind, Miss Tomkinson. 150 00:11:46,209 --> 00:11:48,369 It seems perfectly sound. 151 00:11:48,409 --> 00:11:50,529 I feel it beating very fast. 152 00:11:50,569 --> 00:11:53,169 I find that quite common in the fairer sex. 153 00:11:53,209 --> 00:11:54,809 But you are a little pale. 154 00:11:54,849 --> 00:11:57,609 I should like to see some roses in those cheeks. 155 00:11:57,649 --> 00:11:59,554 You are most attentive. 156 00:12:01,649 --> 00:12:06,169 I have seen cats crouching in this manner! Poised to pounce on mice! 157 00:12:06,209 --> 00:12:10,289 Only cats do not have to keep their eye on heaven, to see where the sunbeams will fall next. 158 00:12:10,329 --> 00:12:14,237 It will be out from behind that cloud at any moment. 159 00:12:16,609 --> 00:12:17,894 Oh, there! 160 00:12:18,929 --> 00:12:21,009 Quick Mary, another piece! 161 00:12:21,049 --> 00:12:24,249 Unless we are thorough, the carpet will fade and spoil in weeks! 162 00:12:24,289 --> 00:12:27,569 Wait, I have not quite stitched these two together. 163 00:12:27,609 --> 00:12:29,434 There! Oh! 164 00:12:30,969 --> 00:12:32,300 It is such an enterprise! 165 00:12:36,609 --> 00:12:38,729 Jessie. 166 00:12:38,769 --> 00:12:40,529 Convey your news. 167 00:12:40,569 --> 00:12:43,529 I have been sent anemones. And a note - 168 00:12:43,569 --> 00:12:46,429 "With the compliments of Major Gordon!" 169 00:12:46,469 --> 00:12:50,249 Anemones? We must look them up in the Language of Flowers! 170 00:12:50,289 --> 00:12:53,889 Mary, it is a diminutive volume to the left of the shelf. 171 00:12:54,929 --> 00:12:58,068 It is so difficult to know what is intended. 172 00:12:58,069 --> 00:13:00,809 Every species of bloom is supposed to mean something! 173 00:13:00,849 --> 00:13:04,448 Although whether men make a study of it is another matter! 174 00:13:04,449 --> 00:13:08,294 Anemones - "Love Ever Steadfast"! 175 00:13:10,449 --> 00:13:11,495 Oh! 176 00:13:13,529 --> 00:13:16,289 That is apt! Apt? 177 00:13:16,329 --> 00:13:21,369 Oh, Major Gordon paid me a degree of attention once before, in Yorkshire. 178 00:13:21,409 --> 00:13:24,749 A very marked degree of attention. 179 00:13:24,789 --> 00:13:29,777 After my mother died, he asked me to marry him! 180 00:13:32,269 --> 00:13:37,669 But then my sister fell ill, and I was forced to tell him that I was not free. 181 00:13:37,709 --> 00:13:40,829 I told no-one, and Father never guessed. 182 00:13:40,869 --> 00:13:43,013 And now... 183 00:13:44,049 --> 00:13:45,429 ...anemones. 184 00:13:45,469 --> 00:13:47,533 You are quite the dark horse! 185 00:13:53,049 --> 00:13:55,489 You've got to fill the jug and take it home. 186 00:13:55,529 --> 00:13:57,059 The baby's starving. 187 00:14:03,969 --> 00:14:06,649 I don't like touching udders! 188 00:14:06,689 --> 00:14:11,129 If you fetch milk for the baby, every night, I'll get you a bun of your own on a Friday. 189 00:14:11,169 --> 00:14:13,609 Every Friday? Just do it. 190 00:14:17,009 --> 00:14:18,692 I'm going to go and check the traps. 191 00:14:38,129 --> 00:14:40,336 SQUEALING 192 00:14:47,809 --> 00:14:49,811 SQUEALING STOPS 193 00:15:31,789 --> 00:15:33,393 Bessie! 194 00:15:37,189 --> 00:15:41,869 You must understand, Captain Brown, that that cow is not an animal to me. 195 00:15:41,909 --> 00:15:46,469 It is capable of human feeling! She smoothes its muzzle with a chamois leather. 196 00:15:46,509 --> 00:15:51,156 Do you think it likely, Captain Brown, that the beast has been taken by robbers? 197 00:15:52,709 --> 00:15:58,749 Before we leap to the most severe conclusion, I suggest we scour all likely woods and copses. 198 00:15:58,789 --> 00:16:01,749 I will direct the search myself. 199 00:16:01,789 --> 00:16:02,869 Ah! 200 00:16:02,909 --> 00:16:04,869 Here's Major Gordon! 201 00:16:04,909 --> 00:16:08,532 I am sure he will be only too pleased to assist us. 202 00:16:10,429 --> 00:16:13,229 Bessie! Bess! 203 00:16:13,269 --> 00:16:15,949 Bessie! Bessie! 204 00:16:15,989 --> 00:16:18,348 Bess! 205 00:16:18,349 --> 00:16:19,508 Major Gordon! 206 00:16:19,509 --> 00:16:26,472 Mrs Forrester informs me that she'll be more likely to come if you call out, "Bessie, dearest!" 207 00:16:32,749 --> 00:16:34,829 Bessie, dearest! 208 00:16:34,869 --> 00:16:37,036 LOWING 209 00:16:44,069 --> 00:16:53,009 She's fallen in the lime pit! Mrs Forrester, remain on the bank! 210 00:16:53,049 --> 00:16:55,909 Major Gordon, fetch ropes, and two strong men! 211 00:16:55,949 --> 00:16:57,749 At once. 212 00:16:57,789 --> 00:17:01,089 Jessie dear, take him to Jem Hearne's yard! Oh! 213 00:17:01,129 --> 00:17:04,189 Oh! The smell is abominable. Matilda, come away! Bess! 214 00:17:04,229 --> 00:17:07,009 I think the odour is the burning of the poor thing's hair. 215 00:17:07,049 --> 00:17:09,549 The lime has singed it off. 216 00:17:09,589 --> 00:17:12,149 What care I if she lives on bald? 217 00:17:12,189 --> 00:17:15,849 She will not be bald if she cannot recover - she will be naked! 218 00:17:15,889 --> 00:17:20,888 It pains me to say so, Mrs Forrester, but the poor bare beast will have to be destroyed 219 00:17:20,889 --> 00:17:25,348 unless you are prepared to dress it in pyjamas. 220 00:17:25,349 --> 00:17:27,969 I think perhaps we need the smelling bottle! 221 00:17:28,009 --> 00:17:30,392 Oh, this has gone beyond smelling bottles! 222 00:17:33,789 --> 00:17:35,916 Deborah, dear? 223 00:17:36,929 --> 00:17:41,332 Major Gordon has his arm about Jessie Brown's waist! 224 00:17:43,069 --> 00:17:45,196 And that is exactly where it ought to be. 225 00:18:04,649 --> 00:18:06,769 Oh, Major Gordon! 226 00:18:06,809 --> 00:18:08,657 Scabious? 227 00:18:17,289 --> 00:18:21,555 Oh, do not take fright. What is in here will not harm you. 228 00:18:25,729 --> 00:18:29,729 I've carried this with me these three years. 229 00:18:29,769 --> 00:18:31,769 It is a modest little thing, 230 00:18:31,809 --> 00:18:34,729 and I could rise to something grander now my uncle has died. 231 00:18:34,769 --> 00:18:37,254 But I thought... 232 00:18:38,289 --> 00:18:41,918 ...the ring that held all my old hopes with it was the best. 233 00:18:42,929 --> 00:18:45,159 It has waited so long for its turn. 234 00:18:54,729 --> 00:18:57,009 Have you spoken to my father? 235 00:18:57,049 --> 00:18:58,852 I shall... 236 00:19:00,429 --> 00:19:03,057 Once I am sure of your answer. 237 00:19:12,469 --> 00:19:14,269 We must marry quickly. 238 00:19:14,309 --> 00:19:17,829 It will make for a quiet celebration. 239 00:19:17,869 --> 00:19:19,589 Can we not wait? 240 00:19:19,629 --> 00:19:24,349 I am still in mourning. The regiment has had its orders. 241 00:19:24,389 --> 00:19:25,929 For India. 242 00:19:25,969 --> 00:19:29,513 India! In three weeks, we sail for Chunderayabad. 243 00:19:34,809 --> 00:19:37,169 I cannot accept this. 244 00:19:37,209 --> 00:19:39,509 But I thought you had encouraged me. 245 00:19:39,549 --> 00:19:41,929 I did encourage you! I did. 246 00:19:41,969 --> 00:19:44,009 But now the consequence of that is plain. 247 00:19:44,049 --> 00:19:47,669 Now that you give me news of India, I can see that I was being selfish. 248 00:19:47,709 --> 00:19:50,728 There is not one selfish bone in your body, Jessie Brown! 249 00:19:50,729 --> 00:19:52,769 First your mother. 250 00:19:52,809 --> 00:19:55,429 I waited. 251 00:19:55,469 --> 00:19:58,149 Then your sister, and I waited still. 252 00:19:58,189 --> 00:20:00,231 What is there to keep you from me now? 253 00:20:02,149 --> 00:20:04,449 Not everyone I love has been taken, Major Gordon. 254 00:20:04,489 --> 00:20:06,569 Jessie! 255 00:20:06,609 --> 00:20:09,929 My father dreads solitude more than he fears the grave! 256 00:20:09,969 --> 00:20:12,249 It is not in his nature to live alone! 257 00:20:12,289 --> 00:20:14,689 What if it is not in my nature to live alone? 258 00:20:14,729 --> 00:20:19,592 I do not wish to speak harshly, but it seems you do not care what you ask of me! 259 00:20:24,089 --> 00:20:26,249 I cannot make both of you happy. 260 00:20:26,289 --> 00:20:28,171 Do not force me to choose! 261 00:20:30,289 --> 00:20:32,814 What would you have me do, Jessie? 262 00:20:34,369 --> 00:20:36,735 Make you a prisoner to my will? 263 00:21:17,589 --> 00:21:23,812 You weren't planning on playing this evening, were you? No, Father. I wasn't. 264 00:21:36,509 --> 00:21:39,689 Put down that romance and close your eyes. 265 00:21:39,729 --> 00:21:42,157 At once, I bid you! 266 00:21:46,649 --> 00:21:48,249 What is this? 267 00:21:48,289 --> 00:21:50,369 It is silk. 268 00:21:50,409 --> 00:21:52,569 And it is red... 269 00:21:52,609 --> 00:21:55,729 and there is a great deal of it! 270 00:21:55,769 --> 00:21:57,378 How's this been afforded? 271 00:21:59,209 --> 00:22:03,008 Oh, Augusta, we were to have had a gown apiece! It was agreed. 272 00:22:03,009 --> 00:22:07,569 Well, you needed a tonic, and I can wear an extra brooch or two. 273 00:22:07,609 --> 00:22:11,369 There are plenty in my trinket box that get insufficient outings. 274 00:22:14,609 --> 00:22:17,889 I cannot imagine what Mrs Forrester is going to wear. 275 00:22:17,929 --> 00:22:23,816 She was ahead of me in Johnson's, and purchased a very great quantity of grey flannel. 276 00:22:28,669 --> 00:22:30,969 What about the milk? 277 00:22:31,009 --> 00:22:32,857 There's a flap underneath. 278 00:22:42,549 --> 00:22:45,649 And how is your stepmother's health, Mary dear? 279 00:22:45,689 --> 00:22:48,589 Oh, it is exceedingly abundant! 280 00:22:48,629 --> 00:22:52,308 In fact, so abundant that she will attend Lady Ludlow's garden party 281 00:22:52,309 --> 00:22:56,069 even though my father will be detained by business in town. 282 00:22:56,109 --> 00:22:59,379 She will drive out to Cranford from Manchester that morning. 283 00:23:01,189 --> 00:23:05,349 Are you looking forward to the party at Hanbury Court, Dr Harrison? 284 00:23:05,389 --> 00:23:07,529 It is quite an honour to be invited. 285 00:23:07,569 --> 00:23:10,309 I haven't given it much thought. 286 00:23:10,349 --> 00:23:15,429 Oh, but you must! I understand it to be the social event of the year. 287 00:23:15,469 --> 00:23:18,309 Of course, I cannot possibly go. 288 00:23:18,349 --> 00:23:22,632 So recently widowed. It would not be seemly for me to attend. 289 00:23:26,609 --> 00:23:32,935 That was a fine repast, Mrs Rose. But if you will excuse me, I have some business to attend to. 290 00:23:38,029 --> 00:23:41,748 Are you looking forward to the garden party, Mrs Johnson? 291 00:23:41,749 --> 00:23:47,210 Mr Johnson is. I shall be up till all hours, polishing the mayoral chain. Dr Harrison! 292 00:23:49,189 --> 00:23:50,998 Hello, Walter. 293 00:23:53,389 --> 00:23:55,229 Hello, Miss Hutton. 294 00:23:55,269 --> 00:24:00,069 We've come for whitening paste for my sisters' shoes. Kid is such a trial to keep clean. 295 00:24:00,109 --> 00:24:02,709 And where will you be going looking so spotless? 296 00:24:02,749 --> 00:24:06,269 Oh, the garden party at Hanbury Court. We all are. 297 00:24:06,309 --> 00:24:08,389 Are you going? 298 00:24:08,429 --> 00:24:10,829 Most certainly. 299 00:24:10,869 --> 00:24:14,789 On the day itself, all riders and carriages meet by the heath at noon. 300 00:24:14,829 --> 00:24:18,149 It is always done so, and I am sure you'd be welcome to follow the party. 301 00:24:18,189 --> 00:24:19,949 If you didn't want to ride there alone, that is... 302 00:24:19,989 --> 00:24:23,109 Noon it is, then! Miss Hutton. 303 00:24:23,149 --> 00:24:24,918 Thank you. 304 00:24:29,509 --> 00:24:31,636 What can I get for you, Doctor? 305 00:24:33,049 --> 00:24:37,149 A... brush. Pastry, yard, hearth, scrubbing or hair? 306 00:24:37,189 --> 00:24:39,151 If you want hair, they're in Fancy Goods. 307 00:24:48,069 --> 00:24:50,117 INAUDIBLE VOICES 308 00:24:51,109 --> 00:24:57,308 ...I don't want to be marked out. You cannot help it that your clothes are smart. 309 00:24:57,309 --> 00:24:59,329 No. 310 00:24:59,369 --> 00:25:04,549 My stepmother took me in hand this spring, when she was between confinements. 311 00:25:04,589 --> 00:25:06,609 Is she to be confined again? 312 00:25:06,649 --> 00:25:09,157 She is always to be confined. 313 00:25:10,189 --> 00:25:12,809 And it is always everybody else's fault. 314 00:25:12,849 --> 00:25:14,548 LAUGHTER 315 00:25:14,549 --> 00:25:19,229 Walter! I told you, you are not supposed to listen in to 316 00:25:19,269 --> 00:25:22,869 You said conversations in the drawing room. 317 00:25:25,269 --> 00:25:27,609 When did your mother die? When I was eight. 318 00:25:27,649 --> 00:25:30,588 My mother died when Walter was born. 319 00:25:30,589 --> 00:25:35,749 I sometimes feel she is still right by my side. I am doing her work, 320 00:25:35,789 --> 00:25:39,569 looking after her house, bringing up her children. 321 00:25:39,609 --> 00:25:42,209 I should find it hard, to bear your burden. 322 00:25:42,249 --> 00:25:43,809 Oh, do not mistake me! 323 00:25:43,849 --> 00:25:47,809 I love them all dearly, but I am so very tied to them. 324 00:25:47,849 --> 00:25:52,369 Walter is still only six, and the girls will be at home for years... 325 00:25:52,409 --> 00:25:55,129 before they marry. 326 00:25:55,169 --> 00:25:59,969 Should you like to marry? I don't think I should get the chance. 327 00:26:00,009 --> 00:26:05,809 I am too busy at home to go into society, and if I did I would have no conversation! 328 00:26:05,849 --> 00:26:11,009 What man wants to hear Lizzie has grown out of her dresses again, or Walter has broken his slate? 329 00:26:11,049 --> 00:26:14,409 Men wouldn't want you to talk, Sophy. 330 00:26:14,449 --> 00:26:16,775 They only require that you should listen! 331 00:26:29,969 --> 00:26:32,269 YEAH! 332 00:26:32,309 --> 00:26:33,649 Happy Birthday, Harry. 333 00:26:33,689 --> 00:26:35,849 Dadda! 334 00:26:35,889 --> 00:26:38,169 Do you like the new baby? 335 00:26:38,209 --> 00:26:39,689 He looks like a Gregson. 336 00:26:39,729 --> 00:26:41,759 He'll do me. 337 00:26:44,729 --> 00:26:46,014 Open it. 338 00:26:51,009 --> 00:26:52,209 Boots! 339 00:26:52,249 --> 00:26:54,169 You're ten year old. 340 00:26:54,209 --> 00:26:57,509 A growing boy. You've been doing a man'sjob, looking after this lot. 341 00:26:57,549 --> 00:27:01,275 I reckon you deserve some decent leather on your feet. Thank you. 342 00:27:06,449 --> 00:27:08,268 What are you looking at? 343 00:27:08,269 --> 00:27:09,889 The letters. 344 00:27:09,929 --> 00:27:12,069 I know this word. 345 00:27:12,109 --> 00:27:14,769 It says "James". 346 00:27:14,809 --> 00:27:16,817 That's the baby's name. 347 00:27:21,169 --> 00:27:23,729 Don't you go dallying around with that. 348 00:27:23,769 --> 00:27:26,669 Learning's not for everyone. We do all right without. 349 00:27:26,709 --> 00:27:29,289 BABY CRIES 350 00:27:29,329 --> 00:27:32,929 Now, go and do the rabbit traps, go on. 351 00:28:49,149 --> 00:28:52,858 What the hell d'you think you're playing at? I never touched anything! 352 00:28:58,769 --> 00:29:01,129 It is of no consequence whether you touched anything! 353 00:29:01,169 --> 00:29:04,809 You committed a trespass, and a magistrate would view it severely. 354 00:29:04,849 --> 00:29:07,095 The Lord's Prayer says, "Forgive us our trespasses." 355 00:29:09,989 --> 00:29:12,909 How do you know? I have been in a church. 356 00:29:12,949 --> 00:29:16,189 Boys as young as you can be sent to gaol, and are! 357 00:29:16,229 --> 00:29:18,509 Once you go down that road, there is no turning back. 358 00:29:18,549 --> 00:29:21,349 You have the chance, now, to choose a different path. 359 00:29:21,389 --> 00:29:22,850 Do you understand me? 360 00:29:25,669 --> 00:29:29,849 What are you doing? My mam says there's salt on the palm of your hand. 361 00:29:29,889 --> 00:29:31,869 People need salt. 362 00:29:31,909 --> 00:29:34,497 If you go giddy, you should suck on it. 363 00:29:44,629 --> 00:29:46,869 I never touched that fruit. 364 00:29:46,909 --> 00:29:48,097 Here. 365 00:29:52,989 --> 00:29:54,138 Better? 366 00:29:55,149 --> 00:29:59,469 It's a bit soft. I shouldn't think your wife would like me eating this. 367 00:29:59,509 --> 00:30:02,469 My wife isn't here to like it or not like it. She died. 368 00:30:02,509 --> 00:30:05,279 Besides, this is my office, not my home. 369 00:30:06,469 --> 00:30:08,829 I wouldn't mind an office. 370 00:30:08,869 --> 00:30:12,310 I like the way everything's covered in words. 371 00:30:14,989 --> 00:30:19,358 . 372 00:30:20,909 --> 00:30:22,900 Come on, let's wash that face. 373 00:30:27,269 --> 00:30:31,109 The preparations are going well, Mr Carter? 374 00:30:31,149 --> 00:30:33,429 Very well, my lady. 375 00:30:33,469 --> 00:30:35,272 And who is that boy? 376 00:30:38,109 --> 00:30:40,709 His name is Harry. 377 00:30:40,749 --> 00:30:44,589 He is the son of... of a village family. 378 00:30:44,629 --> 00:30:48,228 I have hired him temporarily, to run messages for me. 379 00:30:48,229 --> 00:30:50,869 And what of the little white Shetland? 380 00:30:50,909 --> 00:30:53,417 Has it been re-shod? Indeed. 381 00:31:00,669 --> 00:31:04,389 Harry, ask the gardener if he's ready for the plants. Bring me word. 382 00:31:19,869 --> 00:31:23,316 Put the tables here. We need five dozen chairs. 383 00:31:26,869 --> 00:31:29,633 No, not here. The west terrace. 384 00:31:43,169 --> 00:31:44,636 Harry! 385 00:31:50,849 --> 00:31:53,889 Run to the dairy and tell the maids to make ready. 386 00:31:53,929 --> 00:31:56,209 The ice for the ice cream will arrive in 20 minutes. 387 00:31:56,249 --> 00:32:03,689 What's ice cream? I want you to come to my office tomorrow. At sunset. I want to speak with you. 388 00:32:03,729 --> 00:32:08,069 Have I done wrong? No, not at all. You have done very well. 389 00:32:09,589 --> 00:32:14,276 Just the sixpence, then? Go on with you. Sorry, sir. 390 00:32:17,249 --> 00:32:20,689 As you are first, Miss Matty, you may take your choice. 391 00:32:20,729 --> 00:32:23,237 EXCITED CHATTERING 392 00:32:27,049 --> 00:32:29,711 Miss Jenkyns, let me assist you! 393 00:32:37,649 --> 00:32:39,689 Move along, my dear. 394 00:32:39,729 --> 00:32:45,810 Mary, dearest! Is that Mary's stepmother? Why didn't you curl your hair? Yes, Mrs Clara Smith. 395 00:32:46,869 --> 00:32:48,529 Hello, mamma. 396 00:32:48,569 --> 00:32:53,329 Hello, everyone! I cannot bear to hear you calling me "mamma"! 397 00:32:53,369 --> 00:32:56,776 It is absurd, since our ages do not differ very greatly. 398 00:32:58,529 --> 00:33:00,609 Hold Ralph. 399 00:33:00,649 --> 00:33:04,511 Your face will look much pleasanter with a baby held up next to it. 400 00:33:07,989 --> 00:33:12,569 That was efficiently done, Captain Brown. Oh, I have commanded one hundred men. 401 00:33:12,609 --> 00:33:17,369 Five ladies give... little more trouble. 402 00:33:17,409 --> 00:33:20,809 He is not ill, only a little hoarse. 403 00:33:20,849 --> 00:33:25,529 I think it would be best if he did not have to sit on damp grass and be exposed to breezes! 404 00:33:25,569 --> 00:33:28,409 Well, I'm not staying at home with him! Lizzie? 405 00:33:28,449 --> 00:33:31,060 Oh, Sophy, he never listens to a single word I say! 406 00:33:32,929 --> 00:33:35,500 Oh, Dr Harrison. Good afternoon, ladies. 407 00:33:39,189 --> 00:33:42,215 Come along, I think the air will do you good. 408 00:33:46,129 --> 00:33:50,529 It is such a comfort to know that you are joining our party today. 409 00:33:50,569 --> 00:33:55,009 My sister has not been in society since her health declined. 410 00:33:55,049 --> 00:33:57,193 Dr Harrison! At your command. 411 00:33:59,069 --> 00:34:01,572 I hope we shall take tea together later. 412 00:34:02,589 --> 00:34:04,929 Sophy dear, your cart looks very full! 413 00:34:04,969 --> 00:34:09,629 We have room for someone to ride bodkin! It would make for such a merry party! 414 00:34:09,669 --> 00:34:11,989 Helen, go and sit with Miss Deborah! 415 00:34:12,029 --> 00:34:16,892 Perhaps young Walter would like to ride with me? Yes, please! 416 00:34:21,609 --> 00:34:25,375 Oh, I see someone doesn't crush her silk. 417 00:35:04,009 --> 00:35:06,689 That's a smart little pony. 418 00:35:06,729 --> 00:35:10,729 And it's the only day of the year he earns his keep! 419 00:35:10,769 --> 00:35:13,989 I fear I am very sentimental, Charles, 420 00:35:14,029 --> 00:35:17,788 but I cannot bear not to keep a Shetland. 421 00:35:17,789 --> 00:35:20,155 Septimus learned to ride on one. 422 00:35:21,769 --> 00:35:25,909 And they remind me of a time when there were children in the house. 423 00:35:25,949 --> 00:35:29,009 Although I cannot help but recall how Septimus loathed all equestrian pursuits! 424 00:35:29,049 --> 00:35:31,869 He was always more than happy to let me take his turn! 425 00:35:31,909 --> 00:35:33,669 Do you remember how he complained? 426 00:35:33,709 --> 00:35:39,349 How he said that rising in the saddle always put his hat askew? 427 00:35:39,389 --> 00:35:41,294 None of his brothers cared. 428 00:35:42,869 --> 00:35:44,749 God rest their souls. 429 00:35:44,789 --> 00:35:46,956 Dear Septimus. 430 00:35:47,949 --> 00:35:53,749 I still hope that he may find a suitable bride whilst living out in Italy. 431 00:35:53,789 --> 00:35:58,269 That there may yet be an heir for all of this. 432 00:35:58,309 --> 00:36:00,929 I think, 433 00:36:00,969 --> 00:36:04,369 perhaps, that you should not hope too hard. 434 00:36:04,409 --> 00:36:05,996 No. 435 00:36:08,129 --> 00:36:10,154 CHATTERING 436 00:36:13,129 --> 00:36:14,653 Mmm. 437 00:36:17,369 --> 00:36:21,578 It relieves me to see that your collar took no harm. 438 00:36:23,329 --> 00:36:30,349 I saw Puss giving me a look "Only we know where that has been!" 439 00:36:32,049 --> 00:36:35,649 If it is a secret now, it will not be for long, 440 00:36:35,689 --> 00:36:37,719 banded about all over the ice cream! 441 00:36:42,089 --> 00:36:45,593 I want you each to take one egg and one spoon. 442 00:36:50,969 --> 00:36:53,409 I should have liked a little brother of my own. 443 00:36:53,449 --> 00:36:56,929 I was an only child, I always longed to have a bigger family. 444 00:36:56,969 --> 00:36:59,009 It is harder work than it appears! 445 00:36:59,049 --> 00:37:01,089 Are you all lined up? YES! 446 00:37:01,129 --> 00:37:05,089 Is everybody ready? YES. Come and 447 00:37:05,129 --> 00:37:08,409 Dr Harrison! My sister has had another strange collapse. 448 00:37:08,449 --> 00:37:14,289 Now, I want you all to give me your very best attention because when I clap my hands, 449 00:37:14,329 --> 00:37:17,649 it's time to... GO! 450 00:37:17,689 --> 00:37:20,129 EXCITED SHOUTING 451 00:37:31,929 --> 00:37:33,489 Go, Walter! 452 00:37:33,529 --> 00:37:35,559 Oh, Walter! Well done! 453 00:37:39,929 --> 00:37:44,869 Look, your favourite! Remember your manners, Walter, what do you say? Thank you very much, Miss Matilda. 454 00:37:44,909 --> 00:37:46,649 Have you had one? 455 00:37:46,689 --> 00:37:49,015 CHATTERING 456 00:37:53,209 --> 00:37:55,370 Miss Matilda Jenkyns? 457 00:38:05,269 --> 00:38:07,689 I should never have known you! 458 00:38:07,729 --> 00:38:10,658 I could never have mistaken you, Mr Holbrook. 459 00:38:13,589 --> 00:38:17,049 You are well and happy, I hope? 460 00:38:17,089 --> 00:38:22,349 I am always well and happy. And your sister, too? 461 00:38:22,389 --> 00:38:24,533 She is well and happy, too. 462 00:38:29,929 --> 00:38:32,739 I shouldn't keep you. No. 463 00:38:49,989 --> 00:38:56,709 Should I send for the gig? I think the patient might rally after a morsel of luncheon. 464 00:38:56,749 --> 00:39:01,533 Do please go back to our friends, Augusta - I am properly supervised. 465 00:39:06,629 --> 00:39:07,914 Oh! 466 00:39:16,189 --> 00:39:17,736 Mmm. 467 00:39:18,949 --> 00:39:23,511 What is next? Oh, the display of the orphans' worsted work? 468 00:39:25,709 --> 00:39:29,349 It is all such a sequence of continuous delights. 469 00:39:31,549 --> 00:39:33,176 One moment, dear. 470 00:39:34,189 --> 00:39:38,909 How this girl would suit your house! Such compressed proportions! 471 00:39:38,949 --> 00:39:40,989 Are you full grown, my child? 472 00:39:41,029 --> 00:39:43,229 I am 13, madam. 473 00:39:43,269 --> 00:39:46,469 And your mother and your father, were they tall? 474 00:39:46,509 --> 00:39:49,829 I might just manage another merry thought of chicken. 475 00:39:49,869 --> 00:39:55,549 Right. Or possibly not. I find the wine quite fortifying. 476 00:39:55,589 --> 00:39:58,349 Um, Dr Harrison! 477 00:39:58,389 --> 00:40:04,969 Mary wishes to go on the lake, and insists she can row... I can! ...but her father is so careful of her. 478 00:40:05,009 --> 00:40:08,749 I know he would want her to be with somebody who can swim. 479 00:40:08,789 --> 00:40:11,389 Can you swim? 480 00:40:11,429 --> 00:40:13,909 Like a fish. Oh! 481 00:40:13,949 --> 00:40:15,957 Well! 482 00:40:18,389 --> 00:40:21,429 I do not encourage her behaviour, Dr Harrison. 483 00:40:21,469 --> 00:40:25,629 I am sure you would be the first to own there is not the smallest spark of attraction between us. 484 00:40:25,669 --> 00:40:28,200 Miss Smith, I'm dismayed that you feel you must apologise. 485 00:40:30,149 --> 00:40:33,409 I am constantly forced to make light of it. 486 00:40:33,449 --> 00:40:39,189 But it is so hard to be reminded that my absence from home is desired so very earnestly! 487 00:40:39,229 --> 00:40:41,949 I am so sorry. Do not even think to take my hand! 488 00:40:41,989 --> 00:40:45,350 She has the eyes of a hawk and will imagine an engagement! 489 00:40:54,769 --> 00:40:59,529 Do you think you will settle in Cranford, Dr Harrison? 490 00:40:59,569 --> 00:41:03,189 There is no dark purpose to my question. I am only being polite. 491 00:41:03,229 --> 00:41:07,469 It is a town unlike any other I have known before. 492 00:41:07,509 --> 00:41:11,209 It attracted me at first because it was my mother's home. 493 00:41:11,249 --> 00:41:15,469 But I find I love it for its own sake now. 494 00:41:15,509 --> 00:41:19,089 All around us, England shifts and changes, 495 00:41:19,129 --> 00:41:21,557 but Cranford stands fast. 496 00:41:22,789 --> 00:41:25,109 Its women are like Amazons, 497 00:41:25,149 --> 00:41:29,955 and to those that live here, it is the world entire. 498 00:41:31,309 --> 00:41:33,849 And it has one great attraction I could never find elsewhere! 499 00:41:33,889 --> 00:41:38,789 Now, that is what I call an intriguing remark. 500 00:41:38,829 --> 00:41:40,789 Are you a man in love? 501 00:41:40,829 --> 00:41:42,909 Perhaps. With Sophy Hutton? 502 00:41:42,949 --> 00:41:45,709 Is it very plain? 503 00:41:45,749 --> 00:41:50,309 Only to me, I think. Do you suppose I have a chance? 504 00:41:50,349 --> 00:41:55,009 I have not known her long, but I think you will find her quite kindly disposed. 505 00:41:55,049 --> 00:41:58,479 And I wish you well. 506 00:42:06,629 --> 00:42:10,049 Laurentia, I had hoped to speak with you today. 507 00:42:10,089 --> 00:42:13,052 I have had reason to write to Septimus. 508 00:42:15,009 --> 00:42:19,289 Well, I trust you have plenty 509 00:42:19,329 --> 00:42:23,449 He writes Lady Ludlow the most delightful letters, but they are always such an age in coming. 510 00:42:23,489 --> 00:42:26,549 I sought his view on a transaction of mine. 511 00:42:26,589 --> 00:42:30,249 I have agreed to sell a portion of land. 512 00:42:30,289 --> 00:42:33,449 To the Grand Junction Railway Company. 513 00:42:33,489 --> 00:42:39,049 A railway company? The railway will be brought within a mile or two of Cranford. 514 00:42:39,089 --> 00:42:43,389 Before the year is out, Lady Ludlow will be asked to name her price. 515 00:42:43,429 --> 00:42:47,249 For Hanbury Court? No, just part of it. 516 00:42:47,289 --> 00:42:51,089 To allow the railway to be brought into Cranford itself. 517 00:42:51,129 --> 00:42:53,939 Lady Ludlow will never sanction it. 518 00:42:53,979 --> 00:42:55,741 She agrees with the Duke of Wellington. 519 00:42:55,781 --> 00:42:58,744 That the railway will encourage the lower orders to move about! 520 00:42:58,745 --> 00:43:01,508 Well, the company will not be easily rebuffed. 521 00:43:01,548 --> 00:43:05,353 I will be candid with you, Laurentia... 522 00:43:07,795 --> 00:43:09,786 ...I am one of its directors. 523 00:43:31,115 --> 00:43:34,115 What ever is amiss with you, Matilda? 524 00:43:34,155 --> 00:43:36,514 I am quite as I should be, sister. 525 00:43:36,515 --> 00:43:39,755 There has just been such a superfluity of dainties. 526 00:43:39,795 --> 00:43:45,595 Put no further pastries to your lips for you will choke when you hear the news I must report! 527 00:43:45,635 --> 00:43:51,874 This is more shocking than when Wombwell's lions came and the little child's arm was bit clean off! 528 00:43:51,875 --> 00:43:54,195 The railroad is to come to Cranford! 529 00:43:54,235 --> 00:43:57,275 I rehearsed those words all the way from the worsted work! 530 00:43:57,315 --> 00:44:03,435 I am not remotely sure that we should give this credence. 531 00:44:03,475 --> 00:44:08,715 Miss Galindo turned as white as paint, and she has a most disciplined cast of countenance. 532 00:44:08,755 --> 00:44:11,275 Did you question Sir Charles? Did you ascertain the facts? 533 00:44:11,315 --> 00:44:14,334 I can tell you all the facts that are required! 534 00:44:14,335 --> 00:44:17,275 The railway will cut across Sir Charles's estate 535 00:44:17,315 --> 00:44:23,316 and power towards us like a bull that cannot be stopped and by 1845 we shall be utterly undone! 536 00:44:30,635 --> 00:44:34,815 Tea?! Tea?! With such calamity before us?! 537 00:44:34,855 --> 00:44:38,095 Allow me to proceed if you please. Captain Brown! Captain Brown! 538 00:44:38,135 --> 00:44:45,675 Captain Brown, I am sure, as our neighbour, you will agree that the railway will be the end of Cranford? 539 00:44:45,715 --> 00:44:48,695 I think it will be the end of Cranford as we know it. 540 00:44:48,735 --> 00:44:52,515 It will bring opportunities for the labourer and the tradesman, 541 00:44:52,555 --> 00:44:56,735 it will be easier to move farm goods, and bring people in and out. 542 00:44:56,775 --> 00:45:00,275 The pace of life will quicken, we will join the modern age! 543 00:45:00,315 --> 00:45:04,175 Captain Brown, do you consider that acceptable? 544 00:45:04,215 --> 00:45:08,135 Well, I am afraid of neither change nor progress. I cannot afford to be. 545 00:45:08,175 --> 00:45:12,255 Why reduce this debate to a discussion of your means? 546 00:45:12,295 --> 00:45:16,255 I am an Army Captain on half-pay, with a daughter to support. 547 00:45:16,295 --> 00:45:20,335 And I am about to enter the Company's employ. 548 00:45:20,375 --> 00:45:24,535 When construction of the new line starts, I shall be Head of Works. 549 00:45:24,575 --> 00:45:27,135 This is startling news. 550 00:45:27,175 --> 00:45:29,375 It is more than startling to me, 551 00:45:29,415 --> 00:45:33,255 There are still some matters to be clarified. 552 00:45:33,295 --> 00:45:37,714 But I am likely to be away a great deal, my dear. 553 00:45:37,715 --> 00:45:40,595 It will be all change for us! 554 00:45:40,635 --> 00:45:45,275 You are the architect of our community's destruction! 555 00:45:45,315 --> 00:45:47,835 You have betrayed your daughter, your neighbours and your town, 556 00:45:47,875 --> 00:45:51,655 and you've wilfully kept your machinations secret! 557 00:45:51,695 --> 00:45:54,035 I did not mean to deceive you. 558 00:45:54,075 --> 00:45:55,835 I am sorry if I have offended you. 559 00:45:55,875 --> 00:45:58,255 Oh, do not think that you owe us an apology. 560 00:45:58,295 --> 00:46:03,055 Apologies are required only when friends cause vexation to friends. 561 00:46:03,095 --> 00:46:05,535 Our acquaintance is clearly at an end. 562 00:46:19,775 --> 00:46:23,415 I do all this with your happiness in mind! 563 00:46:25,775 --> 00:46:29,855 I cannot believe you have made such plans and told me nothing of them! 564 00:46:29,895 --> 00:46:34,335 I had determined to remain at home and care for you in your old age! I am not in my dotage yet! 565 00:46:34,375 --> 00:46:38,975 It would appear you are not, if you are to be gadding about all over the country on railway business! 566 00:46:39,015 --> 00:46:42,055 You plainly have no need of my attentions! I must work. 567 00:46:42,095 --> 00:46:45,456 You have nothing and no-one but me. 568 00:46:46,475 --> 00:46:52,255 When I die, I cannot leave you destitute. 569 00:46:52,295 --> 00:46:54,337 I might have had a husband, Father. 570 00:46:57,755 --> 00:46:59,494 My dear girl. 571 00:46:59,495 --> 00:47:02,075 You spent your youth nursing others. 572 00:47:02,115 --> 00:47:04,578 You never had any chance of such a thing. 573 00:47:06,335 --> 00:47:09,042 If ever I did, then I do not now. 574 00:47:24,775 --> 00:47:29,475 You once said to me that if there was a school in Cranford, you would not go. 575 00:47:29,515 --> 00:47:31,975 Do you stand by that? 576 00:47:32,015 --> 00:47:35,114 There ain't no school, only a housework school. 577 00:47:35,115 --> 00:47:35,195 There is a world out there that is full of books and figures and words and rules and symbols 578 00:47:35,235 --> 00:47:42,044 that make all of the parts of our society move together like one great and glorious machine! 579 00:47:47,175 --> 00:47:49,860 Learning's not for everybody. 580 00:47:52,055 --> 00:47:55,335 We are all born knowing nothing, 581 00:47:55,375 --> 00:47:58,375 and we can die that way should we so choose. 582 00:47:58,415 --> 00:48:00,495 Ignorance is not a crime. 583 00:48:00,535 --> 00:48:02,035 But it is a waste. 584 00:48:02,075 --> 00:48:05,135 And waste is sinful. 585 00:48:05,175 --> 00:48:07,865 I don't know. What don't you know? 586 00:48:09,375 --> 00:48:11,457 Where to start. 587 00:48:13,255 --> 00:48:15,255 I'll show you where to start. 588 00:48:15,295 --> 00:48:18,195 Stop pushing, Helen. Be careful. 589 00:48:18,235 --> 00:48:19,696 Oh, Caroline. 590 00:48:21,835 --> 00:48:23,041 Ooh. 591 00:48:24,195 --> 00:48:26,995 I do believe there are roses in your cheeks. 592 00:48:27,035 --> 00:48:29,175 It is Dr Harrison who put them there. 593 00:48:29,215 --> 00:48:33,835 Perhaps we will be dispensing with his services. Do not be so swift! 594 00:48:33,875 --> 00:48:37,384 I am not that well recovered. Good evening, ladies. 595 00:48:40,955 --> 00:48:44,094 Come on now, you'll be warm in a moment. 596 00:48:44,095 --> 00:48:47,995 That's it. Would Walter like to ride with me again? 597 00:48:48,035 --> 00:48:52,595 You are very kind, but he is so tired, which means he is likely to become quite cross. 598 00:48:52,635 --> 00:48:54,595 I am not tired! 599 00:48:54,635 --> 00:48:56,096 Walk on. 600 00:49:01,515 --> 00:49:05,555 Captain Brown's conduct is not to be tolerated. 601 00:49:05,595 --> 00:49:09,075 To insinuate himself into our society like a... snake! 602 00:49:09,115 --> 00:49:10,635 Oh, sister, not a snake! 603 00:49:10,675 --> 00:49:14,235 That is very harsh! He is at the very least a wolf in sheep's attire! 604 00:49:14,275 --> 00:49:17,275 To make us take him into our trust so 605 00:49:17,315 --> 00:49:20,665 and have us all think he is so sensible and wise! 606 00:49:25,115 --> 00:49:28,995 I am sure Captain Brown would have told us all in good time! 607 00:49:29,035 --> 00:49:32,475 It is only because of Miss Pole that it has all come out in such a way. 608 00:49:32,515 --> 00:49:37,155 You will neither of you be so tender when Cranford is overrun with noise and disease and the Irish! 609 00:49:37,195 --> 00:49:39,195 When there are more streets and strangers, 610 00:49:39,235 --> 00:49:42,585 and we can neither know our neighbours nor keep anything in check! 611 00:49:43,595 --> 00:49:46,655 I suddenly have a headache of phenomenal dimension. 612 00:50:12,955 --> 00:50:14,877 THUD! 613 00:50:24,675 --> 00:50:27,678 I cannot open the door! I think she has fallen behind it! 614 00:50:36,995 --> 00:50:38,835 Miss Matty, 615 00:50:38,875 --> 00:50:43,443 I want you to go downstairs and wait there until I say to come. 616 00:50:48,755 --> 00:50:50,035 Fetch the doctor. 617 00:50:50,075 --> 00:50:53,004 KNOCK AT DOOR Doctor, you've been sent for! 618 00:50:55,395 --> 00:50:57,375 Where am I to go? 619 00:50:57,415 --> 00:50:59,435 KNOCK AT DOOR 620 00:50:59,475 --> 00:51:00,675 Sorry. 621 00:51:02,115 --> 00:51:06,757 Thank you for coming so swiftly. Who is my patient? Show him to Sophy's room. 622 00:51:11,735 --> 00:51:13,760 GROANING 623 00:51:16,715 --> 00:51:19,535 I think it is the croup. 624 00:51:19,575 --> 00:51:22,475 When did this begin? Over an hour ago. 625 00:51:22,515 --> 00:51:24,761 Is it the croup? 626 00:51:27,335 --> 00:51:29,599 Children die from croup! 627 00:51:34,255 --> 00:51:37,995 We need a fire and a bath before it, a shallow one, not a hip bath. 628 00:51:38,035 --> 00:51:39,575 Is the range lit in the kitchen? Yes. 629 00:51:39,615 --> 00:51:43,874 We will need as much hot water as can be got up here. When you have seen to that, I will need leeches. 630 00:51:43,875 --> 00:51:48,323 Dr Morgan has some in supply. Please say if he can bring them himself, it will be much the better. 631 00:51:51,675 --> 00:51:53,835 This is all my fault! 632 00:51:53,875 --> 00:51:58,615 I knew that he was hoarse! I made him come out, I let him sit on the damp grass and... Miss Hutton! 633 00:51:58,655 --> 00:52:00,755 Miss Hutton, look at me. 634 00:52:00,795 --> 00:52:03,575 I was with both of you today. I watched you all the afternoon. 635 00:52:03,615 --> 00:52:07,415 I saw none of the neglect of which you speak. 636 00:52:07,455 --> 00:52:09,015 You are not to blame for this! 637 00:52:09,055 --> 00:52:13,015 Now, go and wring out a bedsheet in cold water. 638 00:52:13,055 --> 00:52:15,655 We must hang it before the fire so that it steams. 639 00:52:15,695 --> 00:52:17,615 Go! 640 00:52:17,655 --> 00:52:19,196 Go! 641 00:52:25,375 --> 00:52:29,960 All right, my little friend. You must do just what I tell you now. 642 00:52:44,415 --> 00:52:46,645 Are you praying, Sophy? 643 00:52:47,755 --> 00:52:50,215 I am not sure. 644 00:52:50,255 --> 00:52:52,455 I think I am begging. 645 00:52:52,495 --> 00:52:54,059 For God's mercy? 646 00:52:55,615 --> 00:52:59,414 For any outcome other than the one I fear will be. 647 00:52:59,415 --> 00:53:02,066 Sophy, what if God has willed this? 648 00:53:03,095 --> 00:53:07,775 Does it console you to think this might fulfil some plan? 649 00:53:07,815 --> 00:53:12,055 I have no choice but to be consoled by it. 650 00:53:12,095 --> 00:53:15,255 Otherwise my heart would break. 651 00:53:15,295 --> 00:53:18,495 Stay with me, for a moment's prayer. 652 00:53:18,535 --> 00:53:22,215 Father, I would sooner fight for his life than pray for his soul. 653 00:53:32,755 --> 00:53:34,757 LATCH OPENS 654 00:53:59,955 --> 00:54:02,685 I am so very grieved, Miss Matty. 655 00:54:21,335 --> 00:54:23,775 WHEEZING 656 00:54:23,815 --> 00:54:27,655 We'll get your boat from and you can sail it all about this bath, 657 00:54:27,695 --> 00:54:31,659 and tell me all the places you will go when you are grown and join the navy. 658 00:54:32,675 --> 00:54:38,022 There you are. Dr Harrison knows just what to do to make it better. 659 00:54:41,955 --> 00:54:43,536 We need more hot water. 660 00:54:45,095 --> 00:54:46,619 Upstairs, Doctor. 661 00:54:54,955 --> 00:54:58,959 More lovely steam! It is quite like the tropics in this bath. 662 00:55:02,595 --> 00:55:04,755 Is this the crisis? Keep talking to him! 663 00:55:04,795 --> 00:55:10,102 Hold tight. I think your boat has come to the equator. You must hold tight now. 664 00:55:32,555 --> 00:55:35,297 I suppose you may open the window now. 665 00:55:41,595 --> 00:55:43,540 The catch sticks. 666 00:56:11,795 --> 00:56:17,119 There is no need to come on tiptoe. You cannot disturb him now. 667 00:56:52,075 --> 00:56:54,475 CLOCK CHIMES 668 00:57:03,475 --> 00:57:07,400 Martha asks if you would like a cup of tea, Miss Matty? 669 00:57:08,435 --> 00:57:10,118 No, thank you, Mary dear. 670 00:57:14,355 --> 00:57:19,679 I suppose now there will be nobody to call me "Matilda" any more. 671 00:57:21,155 --> 00:57:25,075 Deborah did not care for my name being shortened, 672 00:57:25,115 --> 00:57:27,855 but everybody did it. 673 00:57:27,895 --> 00:57:29,356 Except she. 674 00:58:23,095 --> 00:58:26,415 Haste has never been our hallmark, Miss Matilda. 675 00:58:26,455 --> 00:58:29,535 Job Gregson, I am arresting you on a charge of robbery and assault. 676 00:58:29,575 --> 00:58:32,915 What is it that you want me to do, Mr Carter? 677 00:58:32,955 --> 00:58:35,735 Send her snowdrops. She's got that sort of face. 678 00:58:35,775 --> 00:58:38,214 There is a plot to rob my house tonight. 679 00:58:38,215 --> 00:58:42,823 Have there been any men in the vicinity? Three... and one of them had a hump!