1 00:00:00,220 --> 00:00:04,145 'The last few days of summer were a time of headiness and plenty. 2 00:00:04,680 --> 00:00:11,520 'And while the Lark Rise men brought home the harvest, in a Candleford, Constable Patterson was also toiling, 3 00:00:12,055 --> 00:00:17,300 'smug in the expectation of his annual triumph at the Candleford harvest show. 4 00:00:18,780 --> 00:00:25,940 'The annual show brought about another yearly episode, Mrs Patterson's deathbed.' 5 00:01:19,140 --> 00:01:20,540 "Cash prize..." 6 00:01:21,540 --> 00:01:23,860 "biggest...potato." 7 00:01:37,540 --> 00:01:39,780 Take it away. 8 00:01:40,700 --> 00:01:43,340 I can hardly bear to look at food. 9 00:01:43,375 --> 00:01:45,980 Just maybe a bite of Banbury cake. 10 00:01:46,015 --> 00:01:47,705 There you go, Lisbeth. 11 00:01:47,740 --> 00:01:49,705 You must rue the day you married 12 00:01:49,740 --> 00:01:52,660 such a poor weak apology for a woman. 13 00:01:52,695 --> 00:01:55,145 Not at all, Lisbeth. 14 00:01:55,180 --> 00:01:59,060 I'll be in the garden if you need me. Of course you will. 15 00:01:59,695 --> 00:02:01,957 I'll sit with you if you like. 16 00:02:01,992 --> 00:02:04,220 You'll only keep me awake. 17 00:02:04,255 --> 00:02:05,505 I'll just... 18 00:02:05,540 --> 00:02:10,380 At least... you'll have plenty of time for gardening when I'm gone. 19 00:02:10,415 --> 00:02:13,597 Now, Lisbeth... Of course, when I am, 20 00:02:13,632 --> 00:02:16,666 no need to waste your time grieving. 21 00:02:16,701 --> 00:02:19,665 A police constable must have a wife. 22 00:02:19,700 --> 00:02:25,260 And you've my permission to get yourself another without delay. 23 00:02:29,940 --> 00:02:32,980 Don't talk like that, Lisbeth. 24 00:02:53,740 --> 00:02:54,780 BICYCLE BELL RINGS 25 00:02:54,815 --> 00:02:56,265 Oi! 26 00:02:56,300 --> 00:02:58,420 Urgh.. Oh... 27 00:02:58,455 --> 00:02:59,860 Alf! 28 00:03:01,460 --> 00:03:03,305 What are you doing here? 29 00:03:03,340 --> 00:03:07,000 I thought you were out on the fields this week. Harvest is in now. 30 00:03:07,035 --> 00:03:10,660 I'm back with your Pa. Just waiting for him and you know, reading... 31 00:03:10,695 --> 00:03:13,265 about the Candleford harvest show 32 00:03:13,300 --> 00:03:17,825 and its best produce and preserves, its prizes, its home baking 33 00:03:17,860 --> 00:03:23,020 and I am particularly looking forward to the dancing, even if I do have two left feet. 34 00:03:23,055 --> 00:03:26,740 I'll bet Nan is looking forward to the dancing too. 35 00:03:26,775 --> 00:03:29,700 She is. And so must you be. 36 00:03:31,860 --> 00:03:33,505 Yes. 37 00:03:33,540 --> 00:03:37,660 There'll be plenty of handsome fellows queuing up to dance with you. 38 00:03:37,695 --> 00:03:38,980 WHISTLE BLAST 39 00:03:40,620 --> 00:03:42,540 Oi, you two. 40 00:03:42,575 --> 00:03:44,105 Arless! 41 00:03:44,140 --> 00:03:46,440 Got my eye on you. 44 00:03:50,895 --> 00:03:52,385 Reading?! 45 00:03:52,420 --> 00:03:54,940 Oh, yes? Thinking of entering, were you? 46 00:03:54,975 --> 00:03:57,625 I might, it's a free country. 47 00:03:57,660 --> 00:04:01,780 Might take one of them blue ribbons off you this year, as well. 48 00:04:01,815 --> 00:04:04,517 Two shillings cash prize for the biggest tater. 49 00:04:04,552 --> 00:04:07,220 A fellow from Lark Rise might find a use for that. 50 00:04:08,300 --> 00:04:10,705 Need a garden to grow taters in, young Arless. 51 00:04:10,740 --> 00:04:13,665 Last time I looked, your family didn't even have a house. 52 00:04:13,700 --> 00:04:18,100 There are plenty of fine gardens in Lark Rise, Constable Patterson. 53 00:04:18,135 --> 00:04:19,865 Is that so, miss? 54 00:04:19,900 --> 00:04:22,900 I've been watching you on that dandy horse of yours 55 00:04:22,935 --> 00:04:24,957 and you're a public hazard. 56 00:04:24,992 --> 00:04:27,046 I shall be filing a report. 57 00:04:27,081 --> 00:04:29,065 You ought to bring that vehicle 58 00:04:29,100 --> 00:04:32,940 to the police station now for a safety inspection. 59 00:04:32,975 --> 00:04:34,665 SCREAMING > 60 00:04:34,700 --> 00:04:36,460 SCREAMS CONTINUE > 61 00:04:40,500 --> 00:04:45,140 Mouse, mouse, mouse, mouse, mouse, mouse, mouse, mouse, mouse... 62 00:04:45,175 --> 00:04:48,540 Stop that excruciating noise. 63 00:04:49,780 --> 00:04:51,705 There, there. 64 00:04:51,740 --> 00:04:54,940 A hazard of the harvest season. 65 00:04:55,940 --> 00:04:58,860 That is all. WHACK! 66 00:05:00,900 --> 00:05:03,265 Oh, dear. 67 00:05:03,300 --> 00:05:06,780 A tedious addendum to provincial life. 68 00:05:10,580 --> 00:05:13,860 Can I help you, Constable Patterson? 69 00:05:13,895 --> 00:05:17,300 I... I... 70 00:05:19,860 --> 00:05:22,460 ..just wondered if I could be of any... 71 00:05:22,495 --> 00:05:24,700 SHE SNIFFS 72 00:05:25,980 --> 00:05:31,060 Oh! Oh, I beg pardon, ma'am. I was... 73 00:05:31,095 --> 00:05:32,460 Oh, I... 74 00:05:34,260 --> 00:05:35,780 Ladies. 75 00:05:38,220 --> 00:05:43,340 Now, Miss Ellison, was it four yards of the plain grey worsted? Ruby? 76 00:05:56,420 --> 00:06:01,600 And he was snapping away at Alfie and threatening me with a safety inspection. Oh, dear. 77 00:06:01,635 --> 00:06:06,780 I must prepare some calf's foot jelly before Constable Patterson confiscates your bicycle. 78 00:06:06,815 --> 00:06:09,740 Ma'am, what has calf's foot jelly got to do with my bicycle? 79 00:06:09,775 --> 00:06:11,505 It's that time of year. 80 00:06:11,540 --> 00:06:14,785 I must visit Mrs Patterson with treats and comforts. 81 00:06:14,820 --> 00:06:18,825 As the harvest show approaches, she goes into hibernation 82 00:06:18,860 --> 00:06:22,545 and her seasonal sickness brings out the worst in Constable Patterson. 83 00:06:22,580 --> 00:06:28,105 I woke up with his whistle whistling in my ear this morning. What kind of a sickness? 84 00:06:28,140 --> 00:06:33,020 Oh, don't worry, a little cajoling and some home-made fudge usually nudges her from her bed. 85 00:06:33,055 --> 00:06:35,540 Minnie, I need you to do some shopping. 86 00:06:37,020 --> 00:06:39,260 SHOP BELL RINGS 87 00:06:44,060 --> 00:06:50,020 A man that can reduce three women to silence, clearly has a gift that many men would pay for. 88 00:06:52,460 --> 00:06:54,265 The harvest show. 89 00:06:54,300 --> 00:06:59,500 Yes, quite a grand affair this year, I believe. No leaky old tent for us. 90 00:06:59,535 --> 00:07:02,585 The function room is free. Still, 91 00:07:02,620 --> 00:07:06,420 a generous gesture. Are you interested in being one of the judges? 92 00:07:08,820 --> 00:07:10,980 Some of the baking categories perhaps? 93 00:07:12,780 --> 00:07:17,120 Well, I'm flattered to be asked but I'm afraid I must decline. 94 00:07:17,155 --> 00:07:21,425 The invitation is from the council, Dorcas, it's not from me. Oh, 95 00:07:21,460 --> 00:07:26,180 it doesn't matter who asks, James, I simply have no wish to judge my neighbours' efforts. 96 00:07:26,215 --> 00:07:30,900 Nor do I want anyone to travel to Ingleston to shoe their horses or buy their stamps 97 00:07:30,935 --> 00:07:34,500 because I've failed to appreciate the glories of their Banbury cake. 98 00:07:34,535 --> 00:07:37,557 It is not a role for a businesswoman, believe me. 99 00:07:37,592 --> 00:07:40,580 Perhaps one of the councilmen's wives could... 100 00:07:43,220 --> 00:07:47,860 I'm sorry to have wasted your time. James, I'm sorry, that was tactless. 101 00:07:47,895 --> 00:07:51,185 I'll inform the council of your answer. 102 00:07:51,220 --> 00:07:55,220 Although I have to say, I hadn't noticed a reluctance to sit in judgment before. 103 00:08:01,460 --> 00:08:02,625 Hello there. 104 00:08:02,660 --> 00:08:05,540 Look who was waiting to meet us on the road... 105 00:08:05,575 --> 00:08:07,785 again. 106 00:08:07,820 --> 00:08:10,305 Evening, Nan. Evening, Mrs Timmins. 107 00:08:10,340 --> 00:08:14,420 Alf was just telling me about the harvest home dinner up at the Old Monday's farm. 108 00:08:14,455 --> 00:08:17,585 Sounds better than the one at ours. It was quite some spread. 109 00:08:17,620 --> 00:08:21,745 Twister went without his tea on Saturday night just so he could do it justice. 110 00:08:21,780 --> 00:08:26,240 Old Monday thinks one good meal makes up for paying starvation wages the rest of the year. 111 00:08:26,275 --> 00:08:30,700 Well, Mr Timmins, I'm hoping that next year, I'll be there to take advantage for myself. 112 00:08:30,735 --> 00:08:34,460 No, Nan, I told you, they don't make you bring your girl, just wives and... 113 00:08:40,700 --> 00:08:44,140 Alfie ain't planning on being in the fields next year, Nan. 114 00:08:45,180 --> 00:08:48,945 I got these today, indenture papers. 115 00:08:48,980 --> 00:08:51,860 We'll get you signed up as an official apprentice. 116 00:08:52,940 --> 00:08:55,540 No more fieldwork for you then, Alfie, eh? 117 00:08:55,575 --> 00:08:57,985 Um, no. 118 00:08:58,020 --> 00:09:02,600 Oh, well, looks I'll have to be content with a show in Candleford, 119 00:09:02,635 --> 00:09:07,180 Cabbage Patterson strutting around like a peacock with his prizes. 120 00:09:07,215 --> 00:09:10,780 You never know, it might be someone else's turn this year. 121 00:09:14,980 --> 00:09:19,580 I'm certain if the jelly doesn't restore you, then the fudge surely will. 122 00:09:19,615 --> 00:09:21,740 I told him I don't want no visitors. 123 00:09:23,420 --> 00:09:25,500 But as a neighbour I felt... 124 00:09:25,535 --> 00:09:28,665 < WHISTLE BLASTS 125 00:09:28,700 --> 00:09:33,020 You think that noise is bad, you want to hear him snoring. 126 00:09:35,540 --> 00:09:37,105 Please eat something, 127 00:09:37,140 --> 00:09:39,585 it'll make you feel better. 128 00:09:39,620 --> 00:09:42,040 I can't, I ain't got no appetite. 129 00:09:42,075 --> 00:09:44,460 Do you have any other symptoms? 130 00:09:44,495 --> 00:09:45,985 I'm tired. 131 00:09:46,020 --> 00:09:49,105 I'm... Oh, I don't know. 132 00:09:49,140 --> 00:09:53,740 I can't feel the blood in my feet. Neither can I, but I assume it's there. 133 00:09:59,100 --> 00:10:02,065 Mrs Patterson, I know 134 00:10:02,100 --> 00:10:06,100 you are feeling poorly and I know it must be difficult with your husband so busy... 135 00:10:06,135 --> 00:10:09,940 but perhaps a little fresh air and company would help? 136 00:10:10,580 --> 00:10:14,260 It would be wonderful if you were well to come to the show this year. 137 00:10:14,295 --> 00:10:18,020 And I'm sure your husband would... Oh, you're sure? 138 00:10:18,055 --> 00:10:20,420 You know... 139 00:10:21,940 --> 00:10:25,665 Why are you such an expert on my life, Dorcas Lane? 140 00:10:25,700 --> 00:10:30,580 It ain't like everything in yours is so perfect, you got time to stick your nose into mine. 141 00:10:35,460 --> 00:10:37,100 No, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to... 142 00:10:37,135 --> 00:10:38,305 < WHISTLE BLAST 143 00:10:38,340 --> 00:10:41,220 Oh, can't a woman even die in peace? 144 00:10:45,140 --> 00:10:48,500 I live in mortal fear of seeing another one. 145 00:10:48,535 --> 00:10:50,545 Of course, all this doesn't help. 146 00:10:50,580 --> 00:10:54,520 Next year we shall decorate with wax comestibles. Altogether more refined. 147 00:10:54,555 --> 00:10:58,460 Now what is the word on la saison nouvelle? Everything all right, ladies? 148 00:11:00,900 --> 00:11:02,145 Oh, good Lord! 149 00:11:02,180 --> 00:11:04,940 Constable Patterson, we are closed! 150 00:11:04,975 --> 00:11:08,097 Window dressing. Oh! Yes, ma'am. 151 00:11:08,132 --> 00:11:11,185 Sorry, I'm... I'm, er... Yes, um... 152 00:11:11,220 --> 00:11:16,160 it's unusual for your blinds to be drawn at this hour, that's all. 153 00:11:16,195 --> 00:11:21,100 I wanted to check nothing was amiss and, after this morning's upset... 154 00:11:21,135 --> 00:11:23,220 Oh, that's thoughtful of you. 155 00:11:23,255 --> 00:11:25,900 Isn't it, sister? 156 00:11:25,935 --> 00:11:28,025 Indeed. 157 00:11:28,060 --> 00:11:30,100 Oh, and I brought this. 158 00:11:38,140 --> 00:11:40,180 Oh, my! 159 00:11:45,540 --> 00:11:49,260 Um, got a lot of them this year. 160 00:11:51,220 --> 00:11:54,020 Wouldn't want it to go to waste. 161 00:12:04,060 --> 00:12:06,300 SHOP BELL RINGS 162 00:12:06,840 --> 00:12:08,645 Well! 163 00:12:08,680 --> 00:12:10,960 What a neighbourly gesture. 164 00:12:13,480 --> 00:12:17,020 Everything I say, he takes as some sort of personal slight. 165 00:12:17,055 --> 00:12:20,525 The most unrelated topic turns into the same old conversation. 166 00:12:20,560 --> 00:12:24,840 I offered him my friendship, but I don't know if it will be possible. 167 00:12:24,875 --> 00:12:27,560 He's bruised, Dorcas. 168 00:12:27,595 --> 00:12:29,885 Hurting. 169 00:12:29,920 --> 00:12:31,965 So everyone keeps telling me. 170 00:12:32,000 --> 00:12:35,880 They seem to forget that I, too, was bruised and hurt by this experience. 171 00:12:36,920 --> 00:12:40,125 I am the one whose trust was... 172 00:12:40,160 --> 00:12:43,980 Sorry, that sounds... Oh, Emma, I bore myself with this! 173 00:12:44,015 --> 00:12:47,800 I'm sorry to bring it to your door. Dorcas, don't be sorry! 174 00:12:47,835 --> 00:12:49,960 I'm glad you came to me. We're family. 175 00:12:51,000 --> 00:12:55,080 As if I ain't ever brought any of my troubles to yours! Me and all of Candleford! 176 00:12:55,115 --> 00:12:58,405 I think I prefer it that way round. 177 00:12:58,440 --> 00:13:01,840 Well, it's easier to keep a clear head on other people's problems. 178 00:13:01,875 --> 00:13:04,677 I don't even know if I have that any more. 179 00:13:04,712 --> 00:13:07,480 I've been to see the constable's wife today. 180 00:13:07,515 --> 00:13:10,285 Her seasonal sickness... 181 00:13:10,320 --> 00:13:13,320 I seem to have misjudged it very badly, Emma. 182 00:13:13,355 --> 00:13:14,400 How do you mean? 183 00:13:15,760 --> 00:13:18,405 I breezed in there thinking I had all the answers. 184 00:13:18,440 --> 00:13:23,360 Never imagining that there might be something really wrong. And is there? 185 00:13:23,395 --> 00:13:25,805 I don't know. 186 00:13:25,840 --> 00:13:31,000 I kept saying the wrong thing and I couldn't seem to ask the right questions. 187 00:13:31,035 --> 00:13:32,680 I'm sure you didn't, Dorcas. 188 00:13:34,200 --> 00:13:39,125 Perhaps sometimes you just have to wait until someone is ready to be helped. 189 00:13:39,160 --> 00:13:44,280 I've promised a dance each to two of the young smiths and three to the butcher's boy. 190 00:13:44,315 --> 00:13:46,080 That's nice. 191 00:13:47,800 --> 00:13:53,360 Yes, now we mustn't forget, Minnie, the Harvest Festival is primarily a religious occasion. 192 00:13:53,395 --> 00:13:55,520 A time of thanksgiving and contemplation. 193 00:13:55,555 --> 00:13:59,165 Although I must admit... 194 00:13:59,200 --> 00:14:03,240 I am rather looking forward to the dancing this year myself. 195 00:14:05,440 --> 00:14:08,080 Now take care. It is very, very hot. 196 00:14:13,960 --> 00:14:16,640 HE INHALES DEEPLY 197 00:14:22,880 --> 00:14:26,845 You see why I couldn't do this at the Rectory with all those children? 198 00:14:26,880 --> 00:14:31,680 The Harvest Show would not be the Harvest show without Miss Ellison's apple bramble jelly. 199 00:14:31,715 --> 00:14:35,800 Next year it shall be Mrs Brown's apple bramble jelly. 200 00:14:35,835 --> 00:14:39,000 I shall be making it in our very own kitchen. 201 00:14:47,320 --> 00:14:50,080 Laura, the butcher's boy has a brother in the army. 202 00:14:50,115 --> 00:14:51,645 He should be home for the show. 203 00:14:51,680 --> 00:14:54,880 He's ever so handsome and he's seen a tiger and everything! 204 00:14:54,915 --> 00:14:59,445 Oh, Minnie, I ain't even decided if I'm going yet. 205 00:14:59,480 --> 00:15:02,605 Oh, Laura! There was this story in Miss Ruby's magazine 206 00:15:02,640 --> 00:15:07,360 about this beautiful young woman, who was so broken-hearted, she shut herself away 207 00:15:07,395 --> 00:15:10,600 and didn't even notice when... Everything all right, ladies? 208 00:15:10,635 --> 00:15:12,720 Yes, ma'am. It's fine, Minnie. 209 00:15:14,280 --> 00:15:16,605 I'm just going upstairs to read my book. 210 00:15:16,640 --> 00:15:20,440 So am I, Laura, so am I. I've been looking forward to it all day. 211 00:15:20,475 --> 00:15:26,160 Now, your mother had wise words for me, and this for you. 212 00:15:28,880 --> 00:15:30,560 Oh, she's so good at making them. 213 00:15:33,000 --> 00:15:36,645 And did you see Mrs Patterson? Did she like the treats? 214 00:15:36,680 --> 00:15:40,925 Oh, I'm afraid I was wrong, Laura. It would appear that this year 215 00:15:40,960 --> 00:15:45,720 Mrs Patterson's illness is not something that can be cured with treats. 216 00:15:45,755 --> 00:15:48,200 I got something to show you. 217 00:15:49,800 --> 00:15:53,320 Something that'll wipe the smirk off Cabbage Patterson's face. 218 00:15:53,355 --> 00:15:56,205 You remember them taters everyone grew a while back? 219 00:15:56,240 --> 00:15:59,365 What were they called? They were massive things. When I was little 220 00:15:59,400 --> 00:16:04,040 they'd weigh 'em at the Wagon and Horses to see who'd grown the biggest. White elephants? 221 00:16:04,075 --> 00:16:05,245 Eugh! Terrible things. 222 00:16:05,280 --> 00:16:07,920 Tasted of nothing. Boiled to mush when you cooked 'em. 223 00:16:07,955 --> 00:16:09,485 Big, though. 224 00:16:09,520 --> 00:16:10,725 Yes, they were big. 225 00:16:10,760 --> 00:16:14,080 Well, my Pa never dug ours up. He went off to sea and... 226 00:16:14,115 --> 00:16:17,160 Ma weren't much of a gardener... Look! 227 00:16:17,195 --> 00:16:19,965 That's them all right. 228 00:16:20,000 --> 00:16:22,845 Em, look at the size of this one! 229 00:16:22,880 --> 00:16:26,485 I don't know why you're all excited about those things. 230 00:16:26,520 --> 00:16:31,960 A nice Ashleaf Kidney, or an Early Rose. Two shillings at the Candleford show, Emma. 231 00:16:31,995 --> 00:16:35,897 It says so on the poster. Satisfaction of seein' Cabbage lose, a bonus. 232 00:16:35,932 --> 00:16:39,800 Told you reading was worth it. If you just clear up around here and... 233 00:16:39,835 --> 00:16:42,965 Robert! This ain't Alf's garden any more. 234 00:16:43,000 --> 00:16:48,000 They're his taters! And people have been carrying off plants from this garden all year round. 235 00:16:48,035 --> 00:16:49,165 I know. 236 00:16:49,200 --> 00:16:51,565 But if the landlord comes? He never does. 237 00:16:51,600 --> 00:16:55,600 I'm just sick of the way that Peeler is with me, Emma. 238 00:16:55,635 --> 00:16:57,365 He talks to me like I'm nothin'. 239 00:16:57,400 --> 00:17:02,480 Less than that. Name's Arless so you never amount to nothin'. 240 00:17:05,080 --> 00:17:07,040 Just don't get yourself caught. 241 00:17:09,560 --> 00:17:12,920 And see if you can find anything in there actually worth cooking. 242 00:17:21,040 --> 00:17:22,440 Good day, sir. 243 00:17:24,800 --> 00:17:25,940 SHOP BELL RINGS 244 00:17:25,975 --> 00:17:27,080 Miss Pearl? 245 00:17:28,960 --> 00:17:32,240 Oh, stamps for these, please. 246 00:17:35,640 --> 00:17:37,600 Nine pence please, ma'am. 247 00:17:38,600 --> 00:17:40,360 Oh, yes. 248 00:17:41,360 --> 00:17:43,845 Miss Pearl, is everything all right? 249 00:17:43,880 --> 00:17:46,920 Constable Paterson. Have you noticed him behaving strangely? 250 00:17:46,955 --> 00:17:49,160 No more than usual! 251 00:17:50,880 --> 00:17:53,245 Thruppence back, ma'am. 252 00:17:53,280 --> 00:17:56,040 What exactly do you mean by strangely? 253 00:17:59,400 --> 00:18:02,400 Well, you know how he is when Mrs Patterson is ill. 254 00:18:02,435 --> 00:18:04,280 And it does seem worse this year. 255 00:18:04,315 --> 00:18:05,885 He must be worried. 256 00:18:05,920 --> 00:18:08,520 What is there to worry about there, but bone idleness? 257 00:18:08,555 --> 00:18:11,577 Lying in bed supping her neighbours' cooking all winter. 258 00:18:11,612 --> 00:18:14,600 We'd all like to take a rest when the weather turns but... 259 00:18:14,635 --> 00:18:16,365 Look at that! 260 00:18:16,400 --> 00:18:18,580 Oh, he's at it again! 261 00:18:18,615 --> 00:18:20,760 Oh, and I missed it! 262 00:18:26,600 --> 00:18:28,400 He's been here again, hasn't he? 263 00:18:28,435 --> 00:18:30,480 What is it this time? 264 00:18:31,960 --> 00:18:36,280 Damsons, Victorias, carrots and leeks, onions, potatoes. 265 00:18:36,315 --> 00:18:38,920 These plums are absolutely delicious. 266 00:18:38,955 --> 00:18:41,000 I might have another, actually. 267 00:18:41,035 --> 00:18:42,445 Oh, for goodness' sake! 268 00:18:42,480 --> 00:18:44,800 What are we supposed to do with all of this? 269 00:18:44,835 --> 00:18:47,680 And...look! 270 00:18:53,560 --> 00:18:56,120 THIS is too much. 271 00:18:57,400 --> 00:18:58,965 Pearl, what are you doing! 272 00:18:59,000 --> 00:19:03,760 You love dahlias! Oh, Ruby, my dear. You are such an innocent. 273 00:19:03,795 --> 00:19:07,160 What would you do without me to protect you from...? 274 00:19:07,195 --> 00:19:09,000 From what? 275 00:19:10,440 --> 00:19:12,600 From vegetables? 276 00:19:16,200 --> 00:19:17,725 What are you doing? 277 00:19:17,760 --> 00:19:21,400 I think it's time I made Elizabeth Patterson some soup. 278 00:19:30,480 --> 00:19:33,085 Just be gentle there. 279 00:19:33,120 --> 00:19:36,600 Too much weight behind your hand and the stone... 280 00:19:44,400 --> 00:19:47,280 Mind on that girl of yours instead of the job in hand, eh? 281 00:19:47,315 --> 00:19:49,005 Sorry, I... 282 00:19:49,040 --> 00:19:52,480 don't know what's the matter with me. Not to worry, son. 283 00:19:52,515 --> 00:19:55,920 You're bound to be rusty after time away in the fields. 284 00:19:57,240 --> 00:20:00,280 All the more reason to get these indenture papers signed 285 00:20:00,315 --> 00:20:03,040 for your apprenticeship and do this properly, eh? 286 00:20:04,600 --> 00:20:06,400 Reckon so. 287 00:20:08,000 --> 00:20:10,685 You know, it in't all on you with the family now, Alf. 288 00:20:10,720 --> 00:20:14,445 The little 'uns couldn't be in better hands than Queenie's. 289 00:20:14,480 --> 00:20:17,960 And Sal'll be off to a place soon. Someone else sending money home. 290 00:20:17,995 --> 00:20:21,440 You can afford this now. You can afford to get a trade. 291 00:20:21,475 --> 00:20:24,645 You're right. You're right. 292 00:20:24,680 --> 00:20:29,240 Can't think of a better way to show the likes of Cabbage Patterson what you're made of 293 00:20:29,275 --> 00:20:32,645 than a trade in your hands, can you? Maybe not. 294 00:20:32,680 --> 00:20:36,000 But takin' that two shilling off him's goin' to be a start! 295 00:20:36,035 --> 00:20:37,960 THEY CHUCKLE 296 00:20:39,680 --> 00:20:41,000 Come on. 297 00:21:01,400 --> 00:21:03,165 Miss Pearl. 298 00:21:03,200 --> 00:21:04,960 I brought some soup. 299 00:21:04,995 --> 00:21:07,000 For your wife. 300 00:21:09,240 --> 00:21:13,605 Constable. The gifts you have brought us - the produce. 301 00:21:13,640 --> 00:21:17,880 Don't mention it, ma'am. It's my pleasure. They have to stop. What? 302 00:21:17,915 --> 00:21:19,805 It is too much. It attracts mice. 303 00:21:19,840 --> 00:21:22,000 Well, no, er, what you need for that is... 304 00:21:22,035 --> 00:21:23,640 Constable Patterson! 305 00:21:31,480 --> 00:21:35,240 Everything my sister and I have here in Candleford, we have worked for. 306 00:21:35,275 --> 00:21:37,685 No husband, no family to help. 307 00:21:37,720 --> 00:21:41,520 We have achieved through diligence, hard work and spotless reputation. 308 00:21:41,555 --> 00:21:44,125 All the more admirable for that, ma'am. Thank you. 309 00:21:44,160 --> 00:21:49,720 But reputation for a woman is a precarious thing. And these gifts... These... Neighbourly gestures is all. 310 00:21:51,320 --> 00:21:54,045 I may be many things, Constable, but I am not stupid. 311 00:21:54,080 --> 00:21:57,420 I see no neighbourly gestures to the ironmonger's or the forge 312 00:21:57,455 --> 00:22:00,725 and there were none to us when your wife was hale and hearty. 313 00:22:00,760 --> 00:22:05,920 You may be capable of self-delusion, Constable Patterson, but there is no deluding me! 314 00:22:05,955 --> 00:22:10,245 A man cannot help his feelings, Miss Pearl. Perhaps not. 315 00:22:10,280 --> 00:22:15,720 But he can keep them to himself. I meant nothing dishonourable, ma'am. Nothing improper. 316 00:22:15,755 --> 00:22:19,537 Were you not a married man, no doubt my sister would be flattered 317 00:22:19,572 --> 00:22:23,320 by your attentions, but even if you mean nothing improper by it, 318 00:22:23,355 --> 00:22:26,000 I cannot allow you to risk Ruby's happiness. 319 00:22:26,035 --> 00:22:28,200 It ain't Miss Ruby, ma'am. 320 00:22:28,235 --> 00:22:30,125 What? 321 00:22:30,160 --> 00:22:33,125 Them feelings I spoke of. 322 00:22:33,160 --> 00:22:35,080 They ain't for Miss Ruby, ma'am. 323 00:22:36,600 --> 00:22:38,360 They're for you. 324 00:22:40,360 --> 00:22:43,125 Oh! 325 00:22:43,160 --> 00:22:44,760 That's disgusting! 326 00:22:47,400 --> 00:22:48,880 I forbid you to... 327 00:22:48,915 --> 00:22:50,520 I, I... Oh! 328 00:22:53,960 --> 00:22:55,880 HE SIGHS HEAVILY 329 00:23:12,320 --> 00:23:13,840 Oh! 330 00:23:26,400 --> 00:23:30,120 Thank heavens you're back! I've just seen two of them in the kitchen! 331 00:23:31,840 --> 00:23:33,600 Oh. I'll get the poker. 332 00:23:41,960 --> 00:23:44,405 Yes, White Elephants. 333 00:23:44,440 --> 00:23:48,045 What, them big, tasteless, mushy things? 334 00:23:48,080 --> 00:23:51,240 It's not the taste that matters, Laura. It's the weight. 335 00:23:51,275 --> 00:23:54,720 And White Elephants are heavy. Where do I sign up? 336 00:23:54,755 --> 00:23:59,000 Right here. Under Constable Patterson. 337 00:24:04,320 --> 00:24:06,245 Where'd you plant 'em? Queenie's? 338 00:24:06,280 --> 00:24:10,125 Been growing in our garden since I was a nipper. 339 00:24:10,160 --> 00:24:14,760 Don't tell the landlord. Your Ma thinks it might be trespass, but you know, morally... 340 00:24:14,795 --> 00:24:18,280 Oh, yes, morally... That'll help when he's collared by... 341 00:24:18,315 --> 00:24:20,240 Good morning, Constable Patterson. 342 00:24:21,560 --> 00:24:26,480 And I'll take a penny stamp with that, please, Laura. 343 00:24:26,515 --> 00:24:31,120 Can I help you? Er, my seed catalogues in yet? 344 00:24:31,155 --> 00:24:34,480 No, sorry, I haven't seen them yet. 345 00:24:34,515 --> 00:24:36,360 Constable Patterson? 346 00:24:37,640 --> 00:24:39,680 I hope your wife gets better soon. 347 00:24:41,360 --> 00:24:43,040 Oh, yes. 348 00:24:49,520 --> 00:24:52,000 And when they found her... 349 00:24:54,320 --> 00:24:57,800 CRYING:..quite dead and cold as stone... 350 00:24:57,835 --> 00:24:59,325 SNIFFING 351 00:24:59,360 --> 00:25:01,480 ..she was still there, 352 00:25:01,515 --> 00:25:03,437 by the window. 353 00:25:03,472 --> 00:25:05,360 Quite alone. 354 00:25:07,200 --> 00:25:10,600 Never to know that her one true chance of love... 355 00:25:10,635 --> 00:25:12,845 had passed her by. 356 00:25:12,880 --> 00:25:19,600 Oh, for goodness sake, Ruby. Stop filling the child's head with that codswallop. Minnie, 357 00:25:19,635 --> 00:25:22,045 doesn't Miss Lane have any work for you to do? 358 00:25:22,080 --> 00:25:24,920 Yes, ma'am. She sent me out for some tacking thread. 359 00:25:27,520 --> 00:25:30,880 But can you imagine it, ma'am? Not to know him when she saw him? 360 00:25:30,915 --> 00:25:34,560 SOBBING: To miss out her only chance of love! Minnie! 361 00:25:34,595 --> 00:25:36,480 SHE CONTINUES SOBBING 362 00:25:40,200 --> 00:25:42,240 Oh, no. 363 00:25:45,000 --> 00:25:48,325 It was the only one that survived, ma'am. 364 00:25:48,360 --> 00:25:53,680 Heartless so-and-so didn't even put a stone in. Not even the compassion to do it properly. 365 00:25:53,715 --> 00:25:56,885 Oh, dear. That's awful. But I, I... 366 00:25:56,920 --> 00:26:00,680 don't think my sister and I will be able to... 367 00:26:00,715 --> 00:26:03,725 Don't think we'll be able to what, Ruby? 368 00:26:03,760 --> 00:26:09,720 Constable? Ma'am. This lovely little kitten needs a home. 369 00:26:10,960 --> 00:26:16,365 I thought it might help with the mouse problem, ma'am. 370 00:26:16,400 --> 00:26:23,005 But I understand if you don't. Thank you. It's a very kind thought. 371 00:26:23,040 --> 00:26:28,160 Ruby, my dear, would you find that old blanket with the scorch mark on it? 372 00:26:29,480 --> 00:26:30,880 Pearl... 373 00:26:34,080 --> 00:26:36,600 I don't really like cats. 374 00:26:36,635 --> 00:26:39,440 Do you like mice? 375 00:26:39,475 --> 00:26:42,040 (No.) 376 00:26:48,400 --> 00:26:51,880 I wouldn't have come, ma'am, if I hadn't found them. 377 00:26:54,160 --> 00:26:57,520 But I wanted to apologise for my behaviour. 378 00:26:57,555 --> 00:26:59,357 My... 379 00:26:59,392 --> 00:27:01,125 outburst. 380 00:27:01,160 --> 00:27:05,200 We won't speak any more about it, Constable. It's forgotten already. 381 00:27:05,235 --> 00:27:07,525 Thank you, ma'am. 382 00:27:07,560 --> 00:27:11,085 This little fellow will give my poker a rest. 383 00:27:11,120 --> 00:27:14,320 Yes, your skills with the poker were most impressive, ma'am. 384 00:27:16,280 --> 00:27:19,520 Er... Sorry, I... 385 00:27:20,440 --> 00:27:22,280 Where did you find him? 386 00:27:25,640 --> 00:27:27,405 Oh... On the, er... 387 00:27:27,440 --> 00:27:32,020 The old mill stream on the road to Fordlow there, 388 00:27:32,055 --> 00:27:36,600 you know, by the little copse of trees there? 389 00:27:39,400 --> 00:27:41,880 I walk there most days to... 390 00:27:41,915 --> 00:27:44,045 point duty and back. 391 00:27:44,080 --> 00:27:48,800 I know it. I know it very well. By a coincidence, it is a way I sometimes walk myself. 392 00:27:52,160 --> 00:27:55,160 Seven years on apprentice wages? 393 00:27:56,680 --> 00:28:00,640 There ain't no chance of us getting a home is there? Starting a family. 394 00:28:00,675 --> 00:28:02,045 It's a long time, I know, 395 00:28:02,080 --> 00:28:06,520 but if I can better myself, get a craft, a stonemason like Robert, 396 00:28:06,555 --> 00:28:09,000 well, that's gotta be worth it. 397 00:28:09,035 --> 00:28:10,725 I s'pose. 398 00:28:10,760 --> 00:28:14,040 This is a chance to make something of myself. 399 00:28:15,560 --> 00:28:17,080 Build a better life. 400 00:28:18,760 --> 00:28:20,660 I like this life. 401 00:28:20,695 --> 00:28:22,447 I was born to it. 402 00:28:22,482 --> 00:28:24,200 Well, so was I but... 403 00:28:26,040 --> 00:28:28,360 ..this is my chance. 404 00:28:36,600 --> 00:28:38,245 Where are you goin'? 405 00:28:38,280 --> 00:28:40,080 I'll tell you when you catch me! 406 00:28:50,360 --> 00:28:52,000 And this one here? Mugwort? 407 00:28:52,035 --> 00:28:53,557 En Francais? 408 00:28:53,592 --> 00:28:55,156 Armoise. 409 00:28:55,191 --> 00:28:56,685 Armoise... 410 00:28:56,720 --> 00:28:59,360 Sounds nicer like that, don't it? 411 00:28:59,395 --> 00:29:02,000 It is a very elegant language. 412 00:29:02,035 --> 00:29:03,520 Indeed, ma'am, it is. 413 00:29:06,200 --> 00:29:08,120 Oh, I do love this time of year. 414 00:29:08,155 --> 00:29:09,640 Everything so... 415 00:29:11,120 --> 00:29:12,365 ..ripe. 416 00:29:12,400 --> 00:29:14,560 So do I, ma'am. 417 00:29:17,960 --> 00:29:20,885 I should go, my sister will be wondering where I am. 418 00:29:20,920 --> 00:29:25,520 But it has been a very pleasant chance encounter, Constable Patterson. 419 00:29:25,555 --> 00:29:29,197 Your knowledge of the local flora is unsurpassed. 420 00:29:29,232 --> 00:29:32,805 I'll walk back with you ma'am. I'm going back myself. 421 00:29:32,840 --> 00:29:37,200 Perhaps not. There are vicious tongues in Candleford who would take 422 00:29:37,235 --> 00:29:41,880 even the most innocent of encounters and... Ha-ha! 423 00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:45,485 Hey! What you up to? 424 00:29:45,520 --> 00:29:49,320 I was just looking' for... Poachin', is it? I know your type! 425 00:29:49,355 --> 00:29:51,685 No! Alfie? 426 00:29:51,720 --> 00:29:53,725 Is everything all right? 427 00:29:53,760 --> 00:29:56,840 Go on! Be off with you! Before I lock you up! 428 00:29:56,875 --> 00:29:59,965 And stay out of these woods. 429 00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:04,725 There's traps set in here that could have your leg off! 430 00:30:04,760 --> 00:30:08,560 Come away, now. We'll go somewhere a bit more private than this. 431 00:30:12,360 --> 00:30:17,920 It's all right, ma'am. They're gone. Just some Lark Rise riff-raff. 432 00:30:17,955 --> 00:30:20,120 Did they see me? I don't think so, ma'am. 433 00:30:22,600 --> 00:30:25,760 Thanks to your admirably quick reactions, ma'am. 434 00:30:25,795 --> 00:30:28,920 But I shall investigate further, if necessary. 435 00:30:28,955 --> 00:30:31,360 Oh dear, you're all... 436 00:30:34,560 --> 00:30:39,080 Some people have the most wicked minds, Constable Patterson. 437 00:30:39,115 --> 00:30:40,640 They would see wrongdoing... 438 00:30:42,200 --> 00:30:45,320 ..in any situation, even one as blameless as... 439 00:30:48,320 --> 00:30:52,520 Oh! Oh, my.. Oh, I can't believe I... 440 00:30:53,720 --> 00:30:55,680 I am so sorry... 441 00:30:55,715 --> 00:30:57,640 Oh, Miss Pearl... 442 00:31:15,160 --> 00:31:17,960 No, no! You don't! 443 00:31:17,995 --> 00:31:21,120 SHE SNIFFS 444 00:31:23,840 --> 00:31:26,245 You didn't?! 445 00:31:26,280 --> 00:31:31,200 Oh, you did, you horrible little beast! Go away! 446 00:31:31,235 --> 00:31:33,205 Oh! Oh! 447 00:31:33,240 --> 00:31:35,840 DOOR BELL DINGS AS DOOR OPENS Sorry, we're closed! 448 00:31:35,875 --> 00:31:36,920 CAT MIAOWS 449 00:31:39,200 --> 00:31:42,925 Oh, Pearl, we have got to get rid of that thing. 450 00:31:42,960 --> 00:31:46,160 You won't believe what it's done to the blue silk I cut... 451 00:31:46,195 --> 00:31:48,160 Oh, my word! What happened to you? 452 00:31:48,195 --> 00:31:50,405 Don't fuss, Ruby. 453 00:31:50,440 --> 00:31:53,720 I slipped by a bramble bush, that is all. 454 00:31:53,755 --> 00:31:56,880 Oh, dear. Poor you. 455 00:31:58,400 --> 00:32:01,880 You and nature have never really seen eye to eye, have you? 456 00:32:01,915 --> 00:32:05,360 I really can't think why you wanted to go for a walk in it. 457 00:32:06,320 --> 00:32:09,240 I'd put that thing down if I were you. 458 00:32:09,275 --> 00:32:11,805 Oh, I don't know. 459 00:32:11,840 --> 00:32:14,200 I think nature's rather growing on me. 460 00:32:30,600 --> 00:32:32,285 Be dark soon. 461 00:32:32,320 --> 00:32:37,160 You're right. I'll just stir round these a bit more. 462 00:32:37,195 --> 00:32:38,645 You're like my pa. 463 00:32:38,680 --> 00:32:41,840 He'd say you've got to tickle Mother Earth to make her yield. 464 00:32:41,875 --> 00:32:43,480 I reckon he's got a point. 465 00:32:47,240 --> 00:32:49,720 I had to tidy up bit myself. 466 00:32:49,755 --> 00:32:51,565 Don't know why. 467 00:32:51,600 --> 00:32:54,765 Landlord's job now, in't it? 468 00:32:54,800 --> 00:32:57,840 Well, it must be hard to see it all neglected. 469 00:32:59,360 --> 00:33:02,640 Breaks my heart, and that's the truth, Nan. Oh, Alfie. 470 00:33:04,440 --> 00:33:06,645 It's good seein' you here, though. 471 00:33:06,680 --> 00:33:10,480 Feels right somehow. Feels right bein' here. 472 00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:18,980 You'd want curtains in a nice cheerful colour, wouldn't you? 473 00:33:19,015 --> 00:33:22,960 I reckon you would. Maybe a nice honeysuckle round the door. 474 00:33:22,995 --> 00:33:24,565 My favourite! 475 00:33:24,600 --> 00:33:26,860 Get out of there! Quick! 476 00:33:26,895 --> 00:33:29,120 Landlord? Cabbage Patterson! 477 00:33:33,560 --> 00:33:36,925 You found 'em! Thank you. 478 00:33:36,960 --> 00:33:40,565 Oh, these children of mine. Honestly! 479 00:33:40,600 --> 00:33:44,440 You never know where they're going to hide things. Evening, Constable. 480 00:33:44,475 --> 00:33:45,645 Ma'am? 481 00:33:45,680 --> 00:33:47,765 Just a minute, young Arless. 482 00:33:47,800 --> 00:33:51,080 Wouldn't mind a chat. Man to man, as it were. 483 00:33:52,600 --> 00:33:54,805 It's all right, ladies, go on. I'll wait. 484 00:33:54,840 --> 00:33:59,245 Nothing to worry about, Miss, we won't be long. 485 00:33:59,280 --> 00:34:02,000 I'm not one to stand in the way of love's young dream. 486 00:34:02,035 --> 00:34:04,125 Come on, Nan. > 487 00:34:04,160 --> 00:34:06,005 Been doin' a spot of gardening? 488 00:34:06,040 --> 00:34:09,325 Lookin' for Mrs Timmins' things is all. 489 00:34:09,360 --> 00:34:12,940 Oh, it's lookin' good in here. Better than it's looked for a long time. 490 00:34:12,975 --> 00:34:16,520 In fact, better than it looked when your ma was livin' here! Is it? 491 00:34:16,555 --> 00:34:18,525 I don't take much notice of them things. 492 00:34:18,560 --> 00:34:23,400 Yet your name is in the book for the Candleford Harvest Show. 493 00:34:23,435 --> 00:34:26,685 Funny, that. Wonder what the landlord might think? 494 00:34:26,720 --> 00:34:30,840 Might get the wrong end of the stick. You can't prove nothin'. Me? 495 00:34:30,875 --> 00:34:33,137 Nothin' to do with me. 496 00:34:33,172 --> 00:34:35,400 Way I see it is...erm... 497 00:34:36,920 --> 00:34:38,480 I don't see it! 498 00:34:42,640 --> 00:34:45,600 Sometimes, that's best, don't you think? 499 00:34:48,000 --> 00:34:49,920 NOT to see it? 500 00:34:52,280 --> 00:34:54,920 Don't want to cause any upset, if you don't have to. 501 00:34:58,240 --> 00:35:00,100 Yes? 502 00:35:00,135 --> 00:35:01,960 Reckon. 503 00:35:04,080 --> 00:35:10,080 Good lad. Well, be nice to have some healthy competition. 504 00:35:10,115 --> 00:35:11,760 I'll see you at the show. 505 00:35:15,800 --> 00:35:19,640 How extraordinary! I think it should go in pride of place. 506 00:35:21,200 --> 00:35:24,880 Good morning. I have the entrants to the Harvest Show here. 507 00:35:24,915 --> 00:35:28,197 It should give you an idea of the numbers in each class, 508 00:35:28,232 --> 00:35:31,480 though there are always one or two extras. Thank you. 509 00:35:31,515 --> 00:35:34,200 Are you well? Yes. You? 510 00:35:34,235 --> 00:35:35,685 Of course. 511 00:35:35,720 --> 00:35:37,640 Morning, Miss Lane. 512 00:35:42,880 --> 00:35:45,005 Miss Ruby, good morning. 513 00:35:45,040 --> 00:35:48,200 Are you alone? I do hope Miss Pearl is not unwell. 514 00:35:48,235 --> 00:35:50,840 My sister is hale and hearty, Miss Lane. 515 00:35:50,875 --> 00:35:53,125 And taking breakfast with a cat. 516 00:35:53,160 --> 00:35:59,440 A cat? Constable Patterson rescued a kitten. He thought it might help with the harvest mice. 517 00:35:59,475 --> 00:36:03,880 Really? Well, yes, it will. It's the best thing for it. 518 00:36:03,915 --> 00:36:05,925 We have a cat who lives in the forge... 519 00:36:05,960 --> 00:36:08,685 Yes, Miss Lane the forge. Not the house. Not the shop. 520 00:36:08,720 --> 00:36:13,200 Not on the kitchen table at breakfast, hair everywhere, and I'm sure it has fleas. 521 00:36:13,235 --> 00:36:14,365 I couldn't eat a bite. 522 00:36:14,400 --> 00:36:18,445 I shall starve to death at this rate. 523 00:36:18,480 --> 00:36:23,480 Don't people surprise you? I must say I wouldn't have expected Pearl to become so attached. 524 00:36:23,515 --> 00:36:26,760 Hmmph! Who knows what to expect from her at the moment? 525 00:36:32,560 --> 00:36:37,480 I spoke to the young Lark Rise fellow. Nothing to worry about on his account, ma'am. 526 00:36:37,515 --> 00:36:39,537 Thank you. 527 00:36:39,572 --> 00:36:41,560 Tres galant. 528 00:36:54,560 --> 00:36:58,760 Might you be taking a walk out that way again? 529 00:36:58,795 --> 00:37:00,520 Well... 530 00:37:01,640 --> 00:37:03,640 ..it is a pleasant walk. 531 00:37:03,675 --> 00:37:05,200 Perhaps even... 532 00:37:06,960 --> 00:37:08,160 ..this afternoon? 533 00:37:15,720 --> 00:37:19,485 You're so beautiful, Miss Pearl. What? 534 00:37:19,520 --> 00:37:22,360 Oh, sorry. You must have heard it a million times. 535 00:37:22,395 --> 00:37:23,485 No. 536 00:37:23,520 --> 00:37:26,400 Not quite a million. 537 00:37:31,400 --> 00:37:32,960 Au revoir. 538 00:37:34,080 --> 00:37:35,720 Au revoir. 539 00:37:47,680 --> 00:37:49,960 Ruby. 540 00:37:51,480 --> 00:37:53,000 I didn't hear you come in. 541 00:37:53,035 --> 00:37:55,217 How could you, Pearl? 542 00:37:55,252 --> 00:37:57,400 How could I what? 543 00:38:02,160 --> 00:38:03,765 An assignation! 544 00:38:03,800 --> 00:38:09,000 Don't be silly, Ruby. Don't "Don't be silly, Ruby" me. That man is married! 545 00:38:10,680 --> 00:38:12,885 Do you know what this could do to us? 546 00:38:12,920 --> 00:38:16,480 What woman is going to want to buy a dress from a... 547 00:38:18,560 --> 00:38:23,485 From a husband stealer! Ruby! You, of all people! 548 00:38:23,520 --> 00:38:27,360 You have always been so careful, so afraid of scandal. 549 00:38:27,395 --> 00:38:31,200 Yet you are willing to risk everything we've worked for... 550 00:38:31,235 --> 00:38:32,965 ..for Cabbage Patterson! 551 00:38:33,000 --> 00:38:36,200 Don't call him that! Everyone calls him that and you know it. 552 00:38:36,235 --> 00:38:39,400 Although it seems his interests extend further than we thought. 553 00:38:39,435 --> 00:38:42,285 Don't be tawdry, Ruby. It isn't like that, not at all. 554 00:38:42,320 --> 00:38:47,040 A friendship. Elizabeth herself has said she wants him to remarry when she is gone. 555 00:38:47,075 --> 00:38:48,880 When she's gone? Pearl! 556 00:38:50,560 --> 00:38:53,605 Elizabeth Patterson is no older than you! 557 00:38:53,640 --> 00:38:58,400 She rests for two months a year eating soup and wine jelly! She will probably live for ever! 558 00:39:01,280 --> 00:39:03,120 Oh, what's happened to you? 559 00:39:04,280 --> 00:39:09,240 You're always telling me that I'm naive. But this? 560 00:39:09,275 --> 00:39:14,200 What's happened is that somebody cares for me, Ruby. 561 00:39:15,720 --> 00:39:17,400 Somebody makes me happy. 562 00:39:19,120 --> 00:39:23,800 I had resigned myself to a life without these feelings. 563 00:39:23,835 --> 00:39:26,480 But it is impossible. 564 00:39:28,520 --> 00:39:30,120 You must see that. 565 00:39:31,600 --> 00:39:33,440 Pearl... 566 00:39:35,400 --> 00:39:37,845 ..please don't go. 567 00:39:37,880 --> 00:39:40,400 Please, please give it up. 568 00:39:43,520 --> 00:39:45,040 I can't. 569 00:40:51,200 --> 00:40:53,860 DOOR OPENS AND CLOSES 570 00:40:53,895 --> 00:40:56,520 FOOTSTEPS APPROACH 571 00:41:03,520 --> 00:41:06,240 DOOR OPENS 572 00:41:10,520 --> 00:41:12,320 Need anything? 573 00:41:13,840 --> 00:41:16,040 Where have you been? 574 00:41:18,640 --> 00:41:20,160 Just the garden. 575 00:41:31,960 --> 00:41:34,320 DOOR OPENS 576 00:41:44,400 --> 00:41:46,000 Good morning, Ruby. Morning. 577 00:41:47,520 --> 00:41:49,325 I wonder, could I speak with Pearl? 578 00:41:49,360 --> 00:41:51,400 She's not here, I'm afraid. Can I help? 579 00:41:51,435 --> 00:41:52,920 Do you know where she is? No. 580 00:41:54,440 --> 00:41:57,680 We don't live in each other's pockets, you know. 581 00:41:57,715 --> 00:41:59,200 Oh, Ruby... 582 00:42:06,080 --> 00:42:09,000 Constable Patterson... 583 00:42:09,035 --> 00:42:10,520 Are you there? 584 00:42:12,160 --> 00:42:14,640 Hello? 585 00:42:17,560 --> 00:42:19,380 Mrs Patterson! 586 00:42:19,415 --> 00:42:21,200 You're better. 587 00:42:21,235 --> 00:42:23,725 Am I? 588 00:42:23,760 --> 00:42:26,440 I ain't decided about that yet. 589 00:42:30,720 --> 00:42:34,920 May as well give these some care and attention while I'm here. 590 00:42:34,955 --> 00:42:38,377 Don't look like anyone else is bothering. 591 00:42:38,412 --> 00:42:41,765 Seems to have had his mind elsewhere of late. 592 00:42:41,800 --> 00:42:44,520 Constable Patterson's been really worried about you. 593 00:42:46,200 --> 00:42:47,820 You think so? 594 00:42:47,855 --> 00:42:49,440 Of course. 595 00:42:55,400 --> 00:42:57,565 I've seen you, 596 00:42:57,600 --> 00:42:59,480 looking up at my window. 597 00:43:01,000 --> 00:43:02,600 Why do you do that? 598 00:43:04,560 --> 00:43:07,360 I suppose I was just wondering about you, that's all. 599 00:43:10,440 --> 00:43:12,885 I suppose I... 600 00:43:12,920 --> 00:43:14,680 I wondered if you were sad. 601 00:43:17,440 --> 00:43:18,960 Well... 602 00:43:21,760 --> 00:43:25,360 Ain't no-one ever asked me that one before. 603 00:43:28,560 --> 00:43:33,040 I used to love this garden when we first came here. 604 00:43:33,075 --> 00:43:35,840 I used to love pottering around in it. 605 00:43:35,875 --> 00:43:37,685 Don't you now? 606 00:43:37,720 --> 00:43:43,320 Oh, it loses its appeal when your husband never wants to do anything else. 607 00:43:48,640 --> 00:43:50,560 But now that I remember, 608 00:43:52,360 --> 00:43:55,400 there is something rather satisfying about it. 609 00:43:57,320 --> 00:43:59,485 The worst of it, 610 00:43:59,520 --> 00:44:02,760 Miss Lane, the very worst, is not the scandal, 611 00:44:04,680 --> 00:44:06,840 although we will be ruined when this gets out. 612 00:44:06,875 --> 00:44:10,165 The worst is knowing 613 00:44:10,200 --> 00:44:12,960 that my sister will be so hurt. 614 00:44:15,240 --> 00:44:17,965 For she will, won't she? 615 00:44:18,000 --> 00:44:21,600 There can be no happy outcome to this. 616 00:44:21,635 --> 00:44:23,360 It is hard to think of one. 617 00:44:23,395 --> 00:44:26,205 I want to help her, 618 00:44:26,240 --> 00:44:30,160 to save her from her folly, but she won't listen. 619 00:44:31,760 --> 00:44:33,765 I will talk to her. It's what I... 620 00:44:33,800 --> 00:44:37,040 No, Dorcas! She mustn't know I told you. She'd never forgive me. 621 00:44:40,680 --> 00:44:43,640 Very well. There is someone else to whom I can speak. 622 00:44:43,675 --> 00:44:45,885 Leave it to me. 623 00:44:45,920 --> 00:44:49,160 You try to rest and save your strength. 624 00:44:49,195 --> 00:44:51,845 I don't have any strength. 625 00:44:51,880 --> 00:44:54,960 Pearl has always been strong for both of us. 626 00:44:54,995 --> 00:44:57,525 Oh, Ruby, 627 00:44:57,560 --> 00:45:00,045 you do have strength. 628 00:45:00,080 --> 00:45:02,280 And your sister is going to need it. 629 00:45:13,000 --> 00:45:15,080 Going to the Harvest Show? 630 00:45:15,115 --> 00:45:18,277 I ain't decided yet. 631 00:45:18,312 --> 00:45:21,440 Oh. Missing your fella? 632 00:45:21,475 --> 00:45:23,080 The clock lad? 633 00:45:24,600 --> 00:45:27,565 Ain't much gets past me. 634 00:45:27,600 --> 00:45:30,880 We probably weren't right for each other. 635 00:45:30,915 --> 00:45:34,800 Well, better you see it now, love. 636 00:45:34,835 --> 00:45:37,085 It's better that than 637 00:45:37,120 --> 00:45:41,405 walking down the aisle with all your hopes and dreams 638 00:45:41,440 --> 00:45:47,000 and next you know you're standin' in a garden in your nightdress, wondering how you got there. 639 00:45:48,520 --> 00:45:52,320 And why you can't hardly remember the people that either of you were. 640 00:45:52,355 --> 00:45:56,040 But you must still be those people. 641 00:45:56,075 --> 00:45:58,537 Inside, I mean. 642 00:45:58,572 --> 00:46:00,965 Do you think so? 643 00:46:01,000 --> 00:46:04,120 I used to be so full of life. 644 00:46:04,155 --> 00:46:07,005 And look at me. 645 00:46:07,040 --> 00:46:10,125 A sad old shell that... 646 00:46:10,160 --> 00:46:15,720 curls up into a ball, because she can't bear the thought of another year gone by with nothing changed. 647 00:46:15,755 --> 00:46:18,077 You're not a sad old shell. 648 00:46:18,112 --> 00:46:20,400 You ain't even old. You're... 649 00:46:22,600 --> 00:46:24,120 I'll tell you what, Ma'am. 650 00:46:25,640 --> 00:46:28,280 I'll go to the Harvest Show if you will. 651 00:46:31,920 --> 00:46:34,080 Why not?! 652 00:46:37,520 --> 00:46:39,040 Oh. 653 00:46:40,560 --> 00:46:43,000 These came for your husband. 654 00:46:43,035 --> 00:46:44,520 Thank you. 655 00:46:48,560 --> 00:46:52,160 If you see him before I do, will you tell him something? 656 00:46:52,195 --> 00:46:53,805 Course. 657 00:46:53,840 --> 00:46:56,405 You tell him 658 00:46:56,440 --> 00:46:58,480 I ain't dead yet. 659 00:47:04,600 --> 00:47:07,120 It's gossip and slander, Miss Lane! 660 00:47:07,155 --> 00:47:10,525 Slander, Miss Lane, 661 00:47:10,560 --> 00:47:13,160 may I remind you, is a criminal offence! 662 00:47:13,195 --> 00:47:15,805 Constable Patterson, 663 00:47:15,840 --> 00:47:18,685 I am trying to be as sensitive as I can. 664 00:47:18,720 --> 00:47:22,840 But the fact remains, that, whether you choose to acknowledge here it or not, 665 00:47:22,875 --> 00:47:25,485 we both know the truth of this matter, 666 00:47:25,520 --> 00:47:29,640 and I am asking you to protect not only Miss Pratt's reputation, but your own. 667 00:47:29,675 --> 00:47:31,657 As a policeman you... 668 00:47:31,692 --> 00:47:33,640 KNOCK ON DOOR Yes? 669 00:47:35,800 --> 00:47:40,880 Sorry, Miss Lane, but I need your signature on this. Thank you, Laura. 670 00:47:40,915 --> 00:47:45,120 Constable Patterson. Ma'am. Did you get your catalogues? 671 00:47:45,155 --> 00:47:47,617 I left them with your wife. 672 00:47:47,652 --> 00:47:50,080 What? Ain't you been home? 673 00:47:51,760 --> 00:47:54,645 She seemed so much better, sir. 674 00:47:54,680 --> 00:48:00,400 She's up and about and she might be attending the Harvest Show and everything. 675 00:48:00,435 --> 00:48:04,720 She said that? Thank you, ma'am. 676 00:48:04,755 --> 00:48:06,485 What else did she say? 677 00:48:06,520 --> 00:48:10,440 Oh, she said to tell you that she ain't dead yet. 678 00:48:10,475 --> 00:48:12,520 She said you'd know what that meant. 679 00:48:22,480 --> 00:48:24,000 She knows. 680 00:48:30,440 --> 00:48:33,325 Constable Patterson, 681 00:48:33,360 --> 00:48:37,320 if you care anything for Pearl and her future at all, 682 00:48:38,840 --> 00:48:40,360 you know what you have to do. 683 00:49:17,760 --> 00:49:19,520 "Weekly Chronicle... 684 00:49:23,840 --> 00:49:26,400 "Tower of London." 685 00:49:31,840 --> 00:49:34,040 What are you doing in here? 686 00:49:34,075 --> 00:49:36,240 Just thought I'd take a look. 687 00:49:39,040 --> 00:49:41,680 When I lived here, this was just a pattern. 688 00:49:44,520 --> 00:49:47,360 Never really thought of it as words. 689 00:49:47,395 --> 00:49:50,000 You've achieved a lot, Alf. 690 00:49:53,120 --> 00:49:55,680 You should be proud of yourself. 691 00:49:55,715 --> 00:49:58,245 I can't do it, Robert. 692 00:49:58,280 --> 00:50:01,525 I can't wait seven years to be a stonemason. 693 00:50:01,560 --> 00:50:05,440 It was a nice dream, but I need to earn a living now. 694 00:50:07,600 --> 00:50:09,860 Earn a lot better if you wait. 695 00:50:09,895 --> 00:50:12,120 It's not just about that, Robert. 696 00:50:12,155 --> 00:50:14,365 It's who I am. 697 00:50:14,400 --> 00:50:18,320 I've been on the land since I was 12, 698 00:50:18,355 --> 00:50:21,965 and it seeps into you somehow. 699 00:50:22,000 --> 00:50:24,525 I hate the thought of never feeling 700 00:50:24,560 --> 00:50:29,840 the weight of a plough shaft as it cuts a clean, straight furrow again, 701 00:50:29,875 --> 00:50:33,805 or looking out across a field of grain 702 00:50:33,840 --> 00:50:39,920 and breathing in the weather and knowing that tomorrow is gonna be just the day to harvest. 703 00:50:42,920 --> 00:50:46,125 There are things I want to do, Robert. 704 00:50:46,160 --> 00:50:50,960 So many things, but I need a man's wage to do 'em on. 705 00:50:54,000 --> 00:50:56,360 I hope ain't disappointed you. 706 00:50:57,400 --> 00:51:00,760 I am truly grateful for all you've done for me. 707 00:51:04,000 --> 00:51:06,920 Of course you ain't. 708 00:51:14,640 --> 00:51:17,480 I respect a man who loves his craft. 709 00:51:21,200 --> 00:51:24,600 How are them white elephants coming along? 710 00:51:24,635 --> 00:51:27,400 Massive! Come and have a look. 711 00:51:27,435 --> 00:51:28,920 Now you're talking. 712 00:51:31,720 --> 00:51:34,240 What will you do if you win them two shillings? 713 00:51:36,520 --> 00:51:38,320 Save it. 714 00:51:57,680 --> 00:51:59,500 You wanted to see me, Miss Lane? 715 00:51:59,535 --> 00:52:01,320 Do you have something for me? 716 00:52:04,400 --> 00:52:06,140 Someone actually, 717 00:52:06,175 --> 00:52:07,880 not something. 718 00:52:10,000 --> 00:52:11,520 Please come through. 719 00:52:27,640 --> 00:52:29,480 We've had it, Pearl. 720 00:52:31,000 --> 00:52:36,600 She knows. I don't know how it happened, but she knows. 721 00:52:50,800 --> 00:52:55,500 You told her, didn't you? You told Lisbeth Patterson! My own sister! 722 00:52:55,535 --> 00:53:00,200 You just couldn't bear to let me have my one little moment of happiness! 723 00:53:00,235 --> 00:53:02,040 No, I didn't, Pearl, I promise. 724 00:53:02,075 --> 00:53:04,645 Pearl... 725 00:53:04,680 --> 00:53:06,600 You told her, too. 726 00:53:06,635 --> 00:53:08,285 Didn't you?! 727 00:53:08,320 --> 00:53:13,280 How many others? Did you place a notice in the Candleford News? 728 00:53:13,315 --> 00:53:17,040 Everything I've done for you, Ruby, 729 00:53:17,075 --> 00:53:18,645 and you do this to me. 730 00:53:18,680 --> 00:53:21,405 I didn't tell Lisbeth Patterson. 731 00:53:21,440 --> 00:53:26,000 Pearl, please, no-one has told Mrs Patterson, but she is at this very mo... 732 00:53:32,840 --> 00:53:36,240 Ladies. Mrs Patterson. 733 00:53:46,920 --> 00:53:51,640 You look very well, Mrs Patterson. 734 00:53:51,675 --> 00:53:53,160 Thank you. 735 00:53:55,160 --> 00:53:57,045 Miss Pearl... 736 00:53:57,080 --> 00:53:59,880 The soup was delicious. 737 00:53:59,915 --> 00:54:02,645 It did me a power of good 738 00:54:02,680 --> 00:54:04,960 and I've just come to return what's yours. 739 00:54:10,760 --> 00:54:15,040 And I'm trusting you'll be doing the same for me. 740 00:54:15,075 --> 00:54:17,120 We don't know what you mean by... Ruby... 741 00:54:22,760 --> 00:54:24,280 Thank you. 742 00:54:28,280 --> 00:54:31,045 Oh, Miss Lane. 743 00:54:31,080 --> 00:54:34,040 The calf's-foot jelly was a tonic. 744 00:54:47,680 --> 00:54:49,965 She must think I'm such a fool. 745 00:54:50,000 --> 00:54:56,000 Oh, Pearl. You are not the first woman who has loved where she should not. 746 00:54:58,320 --> 00:55:00,800 Nor the last. 747 00:55:05,680 --> 00:55:11,240 To have my head turned like a silly girl. 748 00:55:13,480 --> 00:55:15,440 I'm sorry, Ruby. 749 00:55:15,475 --> 00:55:17,677 Shhh, shhh. 750 00:55:17,712 --> 00:55:19,880 It's all right. 751 00:55:23,080 --> 00:55:24,600 I'm here. 752 00:55:49,760 --> 00:55:51,280 Hello, Lisbeth. 753 00:55:54,400 --> 00:55:56,680 Arthur. 754 00:56:00,600 --> 00:56:03,600 Let's do some work in the garden. 755 00:56:10,560 --> 00:56:13,720 Constable Patterson did win first prize 756 00:56:13,755 --> 00:56:15,840 for best cabbage. 757 00:56:35,720 --> 00:56:39,840 The Harvest Show did bring all of its usual triumphs, 758 00:56:39,875 --> 00:56:44,480 but there were others who were newer to success. 759 00:56:58,640 --> 00:57:01,920 And that year's show brought other changes too. 760 00:57:04,080 --> 00:57:08,120 Mrs Patterson never did take to her death bed again. 761 00:57:12,040 --> 00:57:17,160 And for some of us younger ones, it was time to move on, too, 762 00:57:17,195 --> 00:57:19,320 to let go of the past. 763 00:57:22,720 --> 00:57:24,240 To dance. 764 00:57:33,920 --> 00:57:37,100 Rainwater rendered the name and address illegible. 765 00:57:37,135 --> 00:57:40,245 I have only just discovered for whom it was intended. 766 00:57:40,280 --> 00:57:44,560 I would consider it a great favour if Robert were to give me away. 767 00:57:44,595 --> 00:57:46,525 He ain't even from Lark Rise! 768 00:57:46,560 --> 00:57:50,600 He's a family man and strong arm to lean on. 769 00:57:50,635 --> 00:57:53,760 That's all Miss Ellison means. 770 00:57:53,795 --> 00:57:57,320 I hear it so clearly. 771 00:57:59,480 --> 00:58:01,045 A child crying. 772 00:58:01,080 --> 00:58:03,085 Help! Alf's going to the farm. 773 00:58:03,120 --> 00:58:05,240 He says he's going to kill the farmer's son! 774 00:58:05,275 --> 00:58:06,897 You have a son? 775 00:58:06,932 --> 00:58:08,520 I have a son. 776 00:58:26,480 --> 00:58:32,520 www.addic7ed.com