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She told me once,

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when we read a story, we inhabit it.

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The covers of the books are like a roof
and four walls, a house.

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She, more than anything else in the
world, loved the moment when you

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finished a book and the story keeps
playing like the most vivid dream in

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your head.

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And after that, she loved taking long
walks to clear her mind of all the

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emotions and feelings the book had
started within her.

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That very morning, after hazy years of
reading and walking and mourning

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the death of her husband, Florence Green
woke up knowing exactly what she wanted

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to do.

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She was going to open a bookshop in the
little village where she had ended up

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living.

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I am convinced this new bookshop will be
everything you say it is, Mrs. Green.

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But of course, for now, I can give you
no definite commitment on behalf of the

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bank. The decision does not depend upon
me.

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And I have your honest assurance that
you have ample experience in the trade.

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I learned the trade very thoroughly when
I was a girl, and I don't believe it's

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changed greatly since then.

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And more importantly, I know I love
reading.

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Well, it will do little harm to let you
know one or two things.

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Consider them words of advice, if you
prefer.

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She had a great heart and enormous
patience.

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But not even these two virtues were
strong enough to bear the grandiloquent

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and patronising tones of Mr. Kebbell,
the harbourer banker, whom everyone

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called Mr. Potato Head behind his back.

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I should tell you that there were
those...

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Who believe there are other possible
uses for the old house?

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Though, of course, there's always the
possibility of a resale.

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But I had no intention of reselling, Mr.
Kebbell, not in the slightest.

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What else do people think the old house
could be used for?

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Why have they done nothing about it in
the past seven years? There were birds

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nesting in it. Half the tiles were off
the roof and it stank of rats.

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Wouldn't it be better to fill the place
with books for people to look at?

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I read before going to sleep.

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And I usually drift off to the land of
Nod by about the third page.

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So you see, don't you realize how useful
books can be?

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The weather in this part of the world
was totally unpredictable.

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Sometimes all four seasons could be
present in a single morning.

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That sunny day she left the bank feeling
angry, proud, impatient

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and terribly alive.

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She was going to pursue her dream, and
nobody, not even Mr Potato Head, was

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going to stop her.

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Hello, Mrs Green.

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Are you busy?

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No, Mr Raven.

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Not at the moment. Why?

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Can I throw the rope to you?

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Yes, of course.

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Watch out.

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It's very slippery. That's how Ethan
broke his leg yesterday, but I'm well

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aware. That you are a woman who don't
frighten easily. How do you know that?

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Rumor has it that you're about to open a
bookshop here.

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Why do you feel it's something daring?

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The only person here who reads is Mr
Brundish.

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And I don't think he's going to be
leaving home to be your customer.

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I think I saw him yesterday on the hill.
Well, I caught a glimpse of him anyway.

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I imagine you had a long...
conversation.

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Never stop talking.

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Good luck Mrs. Green.

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Do you not read Mr. Raven?

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I don't.

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Books leave me exhausted.

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Real life's enough for me.

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Mr. Brundish lived alone in the oldest
house in Hardborough.

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He didn't particularly like his own
company, but after long years of battle,

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he had reached a lasting truce with
himself.

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He adored books with the same passion
with which he detested his fellow men.

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He often cherished the fantasy that the
volumes he devoured from morning to

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night hadn't been written by human
beings.

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but had appeared through spontaneous
generations.

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There was nothing that bothered him more
than the portraits of writers often

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included in certain editions.

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Not red.

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A very deep maroon or red.

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Anyway, I was the old officer.

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How are you coping?

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Well, Sam Wilkins was in and fixed the
bath and tiled the roof and repaired the

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system as best he could anyway.

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That place is... It's an old fossil.

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Even the straw is 500 years old.

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Arms up.

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But you are still going to move in
there, aren't you? I spent my first

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night there last night.

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What? So soon?

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I told everyone to watch out.

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But nobody actually thought you were
going to move into the old house. What

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with the damp and all.

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No, yes, I know they didn't, but it was
fine.

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A bit creepy in the night, but that's
because I'm not used to it yet, I

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suppose.

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I should think there wouldn't be an old
house like that. Cricks everywhere.

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I'm afraid red isn't really for me.

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It doesn't look very good on me from
behind, but perhaps if I stand against

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the wall most of the time while I'm
there.

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Too red, don't you think?

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Not red.

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A very deep maroon.

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You'll get used to it in time.

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Need a bit of jewellery. Make it stand
out. Yeah, yeah.

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You sure?

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Well, of course I'm sure. It's not every
day the General and Mrs Gamow invite you

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to a party.

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Stop agonising.

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You look lovely.

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Anyway, when you get there, you won't
have to worry about how you look. No one

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will mind you.

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You'll probably know all the guests
anyhow.

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I'm Florence Green.

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I'm the one opening the little bookshop.

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That's it, of course.

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Got it right away.

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Of course.

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Violet was very interested in that
matter.

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She wanted one of those conversations of
hers with you about the

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bookshop.

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She's rather caught up right now.

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But I believe she wishes to talk to you
later.

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So, what sort of stuff are you going to
have in your shop?

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Well, basically books.

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They don't publish many books of poetry
these days, do they? I don't see too

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many about.

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Well, I shall have some poetry, of
course, but it doesn't sell quite so

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well as other things like novels and
essays.

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It'll take me some time to find out what
kind of stock I'll be bringing in. Of

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course. For the moment, I've mainly
ordered classics, Zachary, Dickens,

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Keats. It is easy to be dead.

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Say only this.

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They are dead.

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Do you know who wrote that?

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No.

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I'm so sorry, I don't.

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I know

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who

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you are.

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Yes, I know who you are. Of course, Mr.
North.

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So I have never had an invitation to the
Stead before. I expect you come here

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often. Oh, yeah.

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I do get invited frequently.

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Oh, thank you. Very kind.

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Not very.

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You've just moved into the old house.

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All by yourself?

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You're a widow.

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I know.

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Have you never thought of marrying
again?

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No.

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No.

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The problem is, I was very happily
married.

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Oh.

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I was always under the impression that a
perfectly normal woman is a widow.

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Don't forget that.

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Are you sure you've received the proper
advice to run a business?

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I've never met you before now, Mr. Nice,
but I assume because of your words,

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you'd be someone who would appreciate
having a bookshop in Hartford.

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I'm sure you know writers at the BBC and
thinkers and so forth, and I

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trust they come down here from time to
time to see you and get some fresh air.

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If they did come, I wouldn't find out
what to do with them. And writers will

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go anywhere where there is a free drink.

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I'm not so sure about things like that.

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I think Cathy, my so-called girlfriend,
would look after us.

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Well, at any rate, you must both come to
my shop. I shall rely on you.

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On no account.

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Why are you wearing red?

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Red's a colour that only looks good on
housemaids on their day off.

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It's not red. It's a deep maroon.

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My dear lady.

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Florence, isn't it?

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I've been wanting to speak to you since
you arrived, but I don't think there's

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nothing better to do than steer me away
from my partner. Thank you so much for

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coming. Thanks for inviting me. It's
such a lovely party. Everyone is talking

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about your new venture. You have such a
great news for business.

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Well, yes, but it's... Have you been
introduced to my husband?

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Eh?

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Come and tell Mrs Scream how delighted
we are to see you.

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And to think we've all been praying for
a good book in our little town, haven't

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we, Bruno?

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Of course, my dear. There's no harm in
praying.

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Things would probably go much better if
we all prayed more.

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Just one thing, Mrs Scream, and a very
small one at that.

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You haven't actually moved into the old
house.

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Have you? Yes, I've been there over a
week.

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But there's no water.

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Sam Wilkins connected the pipes for me.

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Don't forget, Violet, you've been in
London a good deal lately and you

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haven't been able to control everything.

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Why shouldn't I have moved in?

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I believe I can spare you many
disappointments and maybe even a bit of

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money.

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In fact, I hope to help you.

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There are much more appropriate
locations in Hartborough, especially for

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a bookshop.

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I'm afraid we are all so used to seeing
the old house empty that we've

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procrastinated year after year.

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You've practically showed us all up by
being in such a hurry, Mrs Green.

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But the fact is, many of us are not at
all convinced by the sudden

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transformation of the old house into a
shop.

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Many of us believe it should be a kind
of local art centre.

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Fine, Violet. You could pray for that
also.

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Chamber music in summer, lectures in
winter.

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Very simply, no other old house that has
the right to that.

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And the end.

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I've been negotiating this sale for over
six months.

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You see, it's...

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Hard for me to believe there's anyone
left in Harborough who doesn't know

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about it. In fact, I'm sure they all
know. And we have one great advantage.

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It would be a shame to just throw it
away.

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Which is that now we have exactly the
right person to take charge of the

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matter. I mean to take charge of the
centre.

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You do understand, don't you? Why don't
you think it over for a bit?

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Ah.

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How wonderful.

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Her feet and head ached, and she
regretted having taken the seamstress's

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advice to the colour of her dress.

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That was all.

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Not for one moment did she think about
the consequences that her modest act of

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inhabiting Old House would bring upon
her.

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You look radiant.

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Isn't that Lord Godfield?

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My word.

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What a deathless evening.

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Lord Godfield.

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How difficult it has been to try to
reach you this evening. I hope Bruno has

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told you about our new hardware.

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The music and the art.

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We were just talking about that.

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Hello. Good morning.

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Glad I caught you.

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How are you?

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Very well, thanks. Very well.

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I wanted to ask you about my shop. I
wanted to speak to you about my shop.

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It's up for auction.

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Yes. Not until April.

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Well, it could be later still.

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Well, the fact is, I'd much prefer to
reach a private agreement before

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that.

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Well, as you've expressed a certain
interest in the property, and since

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you're not going to remain in the old
house, I trust that you

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appreciate that I'm too busy to pay
attention to any rumours that I hear.

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Well, it stands to reason you'll be
making an offer on other premises.

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There's been a misunderstanding, Mr
Devon, but it... Yes, but it...

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It doesn't matter in the slightest, and
I should like to be able to help you.

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Mrs Gamart was kind enough to tell me
about her idea for an arts centre, from

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which I'm sure every one of us living
here in Harborough would benefit, and I

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believe she is the one who is searching
about for premises, and what could be

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better than your fish shop?

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I see.

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You've been extremely kind.

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Thank you for your help. You're welcome.

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Well,

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good morning. Thank you, Miss Green.

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Florence had managed to live life thus
far by pretending that human beings were

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not divided into exterminators and
exterminated, with the former at any

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moment predominating.

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Aha. I didn't know if you'd be down in
London or... London? No, I'm here.

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Well, I think I'm... Yeah? Yeah.

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Um, Nescafe?

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Oh, I've never tried it.

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I have heard of it, but I'm told it's
not made with boiling water.

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Yeah.

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This is all much too small for you. I
know, I know.

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I'm glad that you've dropped in.

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No one else compels me to face the
truth.

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Well, that's fortunate, because I've
come to ask you a question.

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When Mrs. Gamart was talking at her
party about the ideal person to run an

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arts centre, it was you, of course, that
she had in mind, wasn't it?

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It wasn't me.

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Sorry, Violet's party.

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Did she expect me just to move out of my
house and probably for that matter out

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of the town altogether, assuming that
you would come to the old house to

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manage everything?

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If she'd been referring to me, I doubt
very much that she would have used the

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word manage.

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Do you fancy Nescafe or... Not?

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No. No, neither, thank you. Are you
sure?

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Yes.

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Do you mind if I... No, please.

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I should probably get going.

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Are you?

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Really?

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Yes.

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Thank you, anyway.

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Well, it's lovely to see you.

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Well, from what I've heard, and
practically by chance, you were starting

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to think twice about the whole bookshop
operation.

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Well, then you've heard wrong, Mr.
Thornton.

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I am here to demand that all unresolved
matters be resolved as quickly as

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possible so that I might set up the
bookshop without further delay.

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But I was told that you... What?

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That I'd be leaving the old house, which
is, by the way, my only home.

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Well, there are many other vacant
properties in Harborough.

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And as it happens, I have a list of some
of the more out-of-the-way ones. I

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expect no further delays, Mr Thornton.
Please have all pending papers sent to

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me. And once again, I'm ever so grateful
for your help.

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Take me in your arms And if I did

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Just take me in your arms.

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Is there something I can help you with,
boys?

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We are sea scouts, ma'am.

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Yes, I see.

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And just what is it that you're doing
here? Mr Raven told us to stop around.

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What would you like us to do?

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Well, I want all the bookshelves put up
in there.

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Do you think you can manage that?

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How many hand drills can you get us,
ma'am?

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I've been waiting here in the polling
race.

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If I can find my key.

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When Mrs. Green opened the first box of
books she had ordered, all the problems

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and obstacles of those past few days
simply vanished.

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With each addition, the faces and the
words of Mrs. Gamert, the banker,

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her lawyer, and Milo North all faded
away.

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And for a moment,

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She felt that her late husband, whom she
had loved so dearly, was with her once

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again.

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And this was her happiest moment in the
bookshop.

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Very lonely job yours.

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Oh, sorry about the waiters.

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I don't get in the least bit lonely.

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That shelving there is a fifth of an
inch crooked.

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And that plastering?

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Look at their ears.

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You can let them know the next time you
see them.

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No. No, it all looks wonderful, Mr
Raven. I couldn't be happier with the

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work the boys have done, honestly.

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Is that you, Wally? Are your ears
burning?

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What are you doing here, boy?

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I have a message for Mrs Green.

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From who?

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From Mr Brungish, Mr Raven.

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What?

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He came out of Hothouse and handed you a
note?

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00:27:43,150 --> 00:27:47,310
No, he leaned out of the window and told
me to go and give this to Mrs Green.

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I don't see how this can be for me.

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I've never spoken to Mr. Brundish, ever.
I can't believe he even knows my name,

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and whenever I run into him on the
headland, he always goes off like a

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shot, as if he's just seen a ghost.

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00:28:00,420 --> 00:28:01,620
Well, I certainly know you are.

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Finds out about everything that happens
in town. Don't know how he does it.

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Don't you worry about the envelopes'
black edges?

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You ordered those envelopes back around
1919, when they were all returning from

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the First War, and... Mrs.

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Brundish died.

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During their honeymoon.

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Oh, yes.

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How did she die?

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She was down crossing the marshes.

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She'd gone to pick some blackberries to
bake a pie for Mr Brundish.

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Dear Madam.

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I would like to wish you well.

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Back in my great-grandfather's day,
there was a bookseller in the high

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street who, if my memory serves me
correctly, knocked out one of his

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customers with a desk pad when he became
annoying.

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There'd been some delay in the arrival
of the latest instalment of a new novel.

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I believe, I believe it was Dombey and
Son.

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As of that day, no one has plucked up
courage enough to sell books in this

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forsaken coin of the world.

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00:29:16,430 --> 00:29:18,210
It is a great honour you do us.

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I should undoubtedly visit your shop one
day if I ever went out, but nowadays I

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rather make a point of never doing that.

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In spite of everything, should you deem
some literary novelty worthy, please

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don't hesitate to send it to me.

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00:29:37,810 --> 00:29:44,510
In the case of biographies, it's better,
I find, if they're about good people.

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Whereas novels are much more interesting
if they're about nasty people.

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Please have the same boy who delivered
this letter bring them to me with a

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note, obviously, indicating their price.

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00:29:56,120 --> 00:30:01,800
Yours, respectfully, Edmund Brandish.

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00:30:03,720 --> 00:30:04,960
My first customer.

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Come round later and I'll give you a
package for Mr. Brundage. Thank you,

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Mrs. Green.

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You'll probably need a bright young
helper in the afternoons in case it gets

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busy.

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I was thinking of one of the Giffen
girls.

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Mrs. Giffen is more or less up to date
on the matter and I thought about asking

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her which of her daughters might suit
you the best.

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I think her youngest, Christine.

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00:30:40,510 --> 00:30:44,430
They're clever, but she probably
wouldn't give her up to you for that

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precise reason.

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00:31:13,750 --> 00:31:15,350
Get off the thing. Close the mouth.

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Fahrenheit 451.

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What kind of book is this?

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You're Christine Gipping, aren't you?

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00:32:16,000 --> 00:32:20,440
I would have thought your older sister
would have... My elder sister spends all

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her time with Charlie Cutts. In fact...

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00:32:23,180 --> 00:32:26,740
On my way over here, I saw their bikes
hidden under fallen leaves over by the

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crossroads. You won't have any trouble
like that with me, though.

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00:32:30,520 --> 00:32:32,220
Those things aren't happening to me yet.

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00:32:32,460 --> 00:32:34,240
And I find boys to be repulsive.

387
00:32:37,380 --> 00:32:40,340
Um, and what about your other sister?

388
00:32:40,780 --> 00:32:43,480
She spends all her time at home, minding
Margaret and Peter.

389
00:32:43,780 --> 00:32:44,780
They're the little ones.

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00:32:46,740 --> 00:32:51,340
You mustn't think I don't want to bother
you for the job. It's just... That you

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don't really look old enough.

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00:32:53,520 --> 00:32:54,520
Or strong enough.

393
00:32:55,640 --> 00:32:57,140
That's hard to say after first glance.

394
00:32:57,800 --> 00:32:59,880
You look old, but you don't look strong.

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00:33:00,400 --> 00:33:01,540
It's all the same anyway.

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00:33:01,900 --> 00:33:02,900
We're all available.

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00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:08,080
But my eldest sister will be absent from
work half the time, and the middle one

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won't show up.

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00:33:09,320 --> 00:33:10,320
Just a warning.

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00:33:10,920 --> 00:33:14,480
And I should also let you know, I don't
like reading. I like geography and

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maths.

402
00:33:22,159 --> 00:33:25,020
I'll come round this afternoon and
discuss things with your mother.

403
00:33:25,800 --> 00:33:28,000
And don't worry, I won't force you to
read.

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00:33:28,500 --> 00:33:29,500
As you wish.

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00:33:29,820 --> 00:33:33,560
All she'll say is that I can work every
day after school and all day Saturday.

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00:33:33,880 --> 00:33:36,820
And you can't pay me less than 12
shillings and six pence a week.

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00:33:38,220 --> 00:33:40,680
Oh, and to tell me to shut up if I speak
too much.

408
00:33:40,940 --> 00:33:42,020
And what about your homework?

409
00:33:42,740 --> 00:33:44,360
Oh, I can do that when I get home.

410
00:33:44,760 --> 00:33:45,760
After tea.

411
00:33:49,160 --> 00:33:50,300
Is that your cardigan?

412
00:33:52,430 --> 00:33:53,430
Did you knit it yourself?

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00:33:53,670 --> 00:33:54,910
It looks like it would have been very
difficult.

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00:33:55,250 --> 00:33:58,790
It was in the magazine Women's Issue,
but the instructions were for short

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sleeves.

416
00:34:00,550 --> 00:34:02,130
You have no children, Mrs Green?

417
00:34:02,870 --> 00:34:03,870
No.

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00:34:06,010 --> 00:34:07,010
Should I have?

419
00:34:07,290 --> 00:34:08,290
I don't know.

420
00:34:08,810 --> 00:34:11,489
People always say life is passed by
women who have no children.

421
00:34:13,929 --> 00:34:17,230
There aren't enough cards on display, so
I put some more out.

422
00:34:18,190 --> 00:34:19,190
Hmm.

423
00:34:22,889 --> 00:34:28,090
They really should be ordered into
romance and nature, don't they?

424
00:34:32,570 --> 00:34:34,969
Um, is this what you call romance?

425
00:34:35,250 --> 00:34:36,089
Oh, God.

426
00:34:36,090 --> 00:34:37,170
What are these?

427
00:34:38,469 --> 00:34:42,310
I haven't seen them before. Those sales
reps really don't know what they're

428
00:34:42,310 --> 00:34:43,310
sending you.

429
00:34:43,330 --> 00:34:44,570
But we've got to throw them away.

430
00:34:44,909 --> 00:34:48,070
I'm sure there's a few people in this
village who wouldn't mind getting these

431
00:34:48,070 --> 00:34:49,290
posted through their letterbox.

432
00:34:50,370 --> 00:34:52,350
Right. A what?

433
00:34:52,840 --> 00:34:53,980
Stop looking for things.

434
00:34:54,920 --> 00:34:55,920
Corrupted.

435
00:34:56,440 --> 00:34:57,440
Where's the bin?

436
00:34:57,560 --> 00:34:58,640
Don't throw them in the bin.

437
00:35:01,140 --> 00:35:01,600
Why

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is

439
00:35:09,120 --> 00:35:10,380
Christine so late?

440
00:35:11,200 --> 00:35:12,900
Because she's been working for this
lady.

441
00:35:13,880 --> 00:35:14,880
Why?

442
00:35:15,620 --> 00:35:18,100
Because she has a shop full of books for
people to read.

443
00:35:18,900 --> 00:35:19,900
Why?

444
00:35:21,300 --> 00:35:22,300
I don't know.

445
00:35:31,020 --> 00:35:32,100
Good afternoon, Mrs. Gimping.

446
00:35:32,840 --> 00:35:34,000
Come in, Mrs. Green.

447
00:35:34,720 --> 00:35:35,720
Let's have a talk.

448
00:35:36,540 --> 00:35:39,500
I'm not sure if Christine's already
spoken to you about the 12 shillings.

449
00:35:40,040 --> 00:35:42,140
Yes, yes, yes, she did.

450
00:35:53,580 --> 00:35:58,040
Dear Madam, spare yourself the trouble
of sending more books of poetry or

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spuriously complicated novels.

452
00:36:00,360 --> 00:36:04,620
Please, at your earliest convenience,
send more books by Ray Bradbury.

453
00:36:05,120 --> 00:36:07,760
Yours respectfully, Edmund Brundage.

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00:36:21,740 --> 00:36:25,000
Very soon, Mrs Green's business began to
thrive.

455
00:36:25,560 --> 00:36:29,000
Her days were fully occupied from
morning to night.

456
00:36:29,870 --> 00:36:33,930
And for a short time, she forgot about
everything concerning Mrs. Gamert and

457
00:36:33,930 --> 00:36:37,570
her plans to turn an old house into an
art center.

458
00:36:43,350 --> 00:36:44,350
Good morning, Miss.

459
00:36:56,700 --> 00:36:59,540
Hello, Wally. Thank you. Do me this
favour.

460
00:37:00,280 --> 00:37:01,280
Here you are.

461
00:37:02,940 --> 00:37:04,720
Would you like to come on an outing,
Christine?

462
00:37:06,120 --> 00:37:08,560
I can't. We've got new stock arriving
tomorrow.

463
00:37:09,600 --> 00:37:10,920
Okay, then. Goodbye.

464
00:37:19,720 --> 00:37:21,680
Wouldn't you like to go on an outing?

465
00:37:25,290 --> 00:37:29,990
I like Wally, but... Yes, I know, you
did tell me you find boys repulsive.

466
00:37:31,270 --> 00:37:35,810
But believe me, you'll get over it.

467
00:37:37,150 --> 00:37:38,390
Yeah, I suppose.

468
00:37:39,110 --> 00:37:43,550
It's just, I prefer to be here, in the
bookshop with you.

469
00:37:44,310 --> 00:37:45,530
It's fun working here.

470
00:37:46,530 --> 00:37:48,050
Even if I don't like reading.

471
00:38:24,810 --> 00:38:26,370
Miss Green, there's dirt on the car.

472
00:38:28,710 --> 00:38:32,030
We must let them browse. It's part of
the tradition of a bookshop.

473
00:38:32,270 --> 00:38:35,110
Yes, they leave everything in such a
mess and don't buy anything.

474
00:38:36,130 --> 00:38:37,130
Miss?

475
00:38:42,690 --> 00:38:43,690
Florence?

476
00:38:49,610 --> 00:38:50,610
It's the North.

477
00:38:50,770 --> 00:38:51,770
What is the pride?

478
00:38:56,620 --> 00:38:58,660
Seems Violet isn't going to get her own
way.

479
00:38:59,660 --> 00:39:00,880
Has she stopped by here yet?

480
00:39:01,220 --> 00:39:03,060
We haven't been open very long. She
will.

481
00:39:03,940 --> 00:39:04,980
She'll appear eventually.

482
00:39:05,320 --> 00:39:07,180
She's far too much self-respect not to.

483
00:39:09,440 --> 00:39:13,240
I'm sure she is simply dying of
curiosity.

484
00:39:13,720 --> 00:39:14,780
She'll be quite welcome.

485
00:39:15,060 --> 00:39:16,220
Are you making any money yet?

486
00:39:16,620 --> 00:39:17,538
Not yet.

487
00:39:17,540 --> 00:39:18,980
You really need something like this.

488
00:39:20,920 --> 00:39:21,960
This is volume one.

489
00:39:23,050 --> 00:39:24,270
Is there a volume two?

490
00:39:25,970 --> 00:39:29,830
Yes. But I've, um, lent it to someone.
Or left it somewhere.

491
00:39:30,390 --> 00:39:31,590
You should keep them together.

492
00:39:32,170 --> 00:39:33,170
It's a set.

493
00:39:40,770 --> 00:39:41,770
Lolita.

494
00:39:41,950 --> 00:39:43,950
Have you read it? Is it any good?

495
00:39:44,150 --> 00:39:45,570
It'll make you rich, Florence.

496
00:39:45,790 --> 00:39:48,830
Yes, but is it any good? I only stop
good novels. I don't move fast, you

497
00:39:48,830 --> 00:39:50,750
know. What is Graham Greene to the
masterpiece?

498
00:39:51,880 --> 00:39:53,580
There are days you think otherwise.

499
00:39:55,700 --> 00:40:00,860
Thank you for suggesting it. I sometimes
feel the need of good advice. You're

500
00:40:00,860 --> 00:40:01,860
very kind.

501
00:40:03,260 --> 00:40:04,780
You're always making that mistake.

502
00:40:09,300 --> 00:40:10,340
Until next time.

503
00:40:25,320 --> 00:40:28,340
We have the blue one at home. It has
Westminster Abbey on it.

504
00:40:29,100 --> 00:40:30,520
But it goes all the way round the tin.

505
00:40:33,240 --> 00:40:34,240
I'll put the heat on.

506
00:40:36,120 --> 00:40:38,220
Mum says those power from heat sound
very safe.

507
00:40:39,620 --> 00:40:41,300
They're not dangerous, as far as you
remember.

508
00:40:42,300 --> 00:40:43,440
Clean them out properly.

509
00:40:45,060 --> 00:40:47,860
And you don't pour the liquid in from
both sides at once.

510
00:40:48,720 --> 00:40:50,020
You must never do that.

511
00:40:50,860 --> 00:40:51,860
Ever. Do you hear me?

512
00:40:54,890 --> 00:40:55,890
I like this old tray.

513
00:40:55,910 --> 00:40:57,230
You could leave it to me in your will.

514
00:40:57,550 --> 00:40:58,550
What?

515
00:40:58,770 --> 00:41:01,850
I don't think I really want to start
thinking about my will just yet.

516
00:41:04,170 --> 00:41:05,930
But when I do, I'll try to remember
that.

517
00:41:06,270 --> 00:41:07,269
You will?

518
00:41:07,270 --> 00:41:08,270
Are you sure?

519
00:41:09,950 --> 00:41:11,170
Is the tray from Japan?

520
00:41:11,990 --> 00:41:14,950
No, it's Chinese lacquer.

521
00:41:16,650 --> 00:41:18,610
My grandfather brought it back from
Nanking.

522
00:41:20,110 --> 00:41:21,490
He was a great traveller.

523
00:41:22,870 --> 00:41:26,230
I don't think they even make... lacquer
like this in China anymore.

524
00:41:40,170 --> 00:41:46,290
I was wondering if you'd like me to help
you with your schoolwork or something.

525
00:41:47,830 --> 00:41:51,770
We could read things together maybe.
There's nothing to read. They gave you

526
00:41:51,770 --> 00:41:53,730
some pictures and say which one's the
odd one out.

527
00:41:54,040 --> 00:42:00,540
Or they give you some numbers like 8, 5,
11, 9,

528
00:42:00,760 --> 00:42:02,240
22 and 16.

529
00:42:02,740 --> 00:42:04,220
And you have to say which one comes
next.

530
00:42:08,220 --> 00:42:10,140
I'm beginning to know which one came
next.

531
00:42:13,540 --> 00:42:14,740
You're not cold, are you?

532
00:42:15,100 --> 00:42:16,100
No.

533
00:42:17,460 --> 00:42:18,860
That mine is a ferret.

534
00:42:19,380 --> 00:42:22,400
He smiles just like a ferret. I wish
he'd just go to hell.

535
00:42:24,660 --> 00:42:25,740
You're too nice.

536
00:42:26,360 --> 00:42:30,060
He's a nasty piece of work. When I'm
older, I'm going to try and be like him.

537
00:42:30,140 --> 00:42:31,360
It's much more practical.

538
00:42:37,620 --> 00:42:43,860
I know you don't like reading, but
there's a book I'm afraid you must read.

539
00:42:44,820 --> 00:42:45,820
What's it about?

540
00:42:46,380 --> 00:42:51,380
It is about good pirates and evil
children.

541
00:42:52,360 --> 00:42:57,860
Promise me you'll just at least open it
one day. Well, if you let me have the

542
00:42:57,860 --> 00:43:00,060
Chinese tray in your world, I can try.

543
00:43:02,420 --> 00:43:03,420
Deal.

544
00:44:03,600 --> 00:44:08,500
Dear Mr. Brandis, In close, you will
find a copy of a novel that has just

545
00:44:08,500 --> 00:44:09,500
been published.

546
00:44:09,880 --> 00:44:10,880
Lolita.

547
00:44:11,160 --> 00:44:13,600
I must confess my bewilderment with it.

548
00:44:14,520 --> 00:44:18,280
I'd like to know your sincere opinion of
it and ask for a bit of advice.

549
00:44:19,780 --> 00:44:22,860
Do you think it's a suitable book to be
sold in my bookshop?

550
00:44:24,060 --> 00:44:26,380
Yours sincerely, Florence Green.

551
00:44:27,240 --> 00:44:30,600
Here. If you don't like the book,
there's no need to pay for it.

552
00:44:51,380 --> 00:44:53,040
Stop it, stop it, stop it.

553
00:45:33,080 --> 00:45:34,780
Hello, Mrs. Giffing. Is everything all
right?

554
00:45:40,440 --> 00:45:42,500
I thought you should know as soon as
possible.

555
00:45:43,880 --> 00:45:46,860
Mr. Brandish has asked me to deliver my
fruitcake on Sunday.

556
00:45:48,240 --> 00:45:52,480
And he's also asked me to ask you if
you'd like to stop by Hothouse for tea

557
00:45:52,480 --> 00:45:53,480
that same afternoon.

558
00:45:56,440 --> 00:45:57,440
This Sunday?

559
00:45:57,800 --> 00:45:58,800
Why, yes.

560
00:46:00,400 --> 00:46:01,400
Yes.

561
00:46:01,960 --> 00:46:02,960
Yes, all right.

562
00:46:03,220 --> 00:46:04,220
Yes,

563
00:46:04,440 --> 00:46:07,280
I'll send him a note. Thank you for the
message, Mrs Keble. I've never delivered

564
00:46:07,280 --> 00:46:08,480
a cake to Mr Brandish before.

565
00:46:11,220 --> 00:46:12,640
I hope this doesn't become a habit.

566
00:46:19,680 --> 00:46:24,620
Mrs Green, is it true? Are you having
tea at Holt House this Sunday? Yes, Mrs

567
00:46:24,620 --> 00:46:25,620
Keble, it is true.

568
00:46:26,200 --> 00:46:29,580
Is there something I should know before
I go there? Mrs Green?

569
00:46:30,200 --> 00:46:31,880
Mrs Devon, how's Mr Devon?

570
00:46:32,440 --> 00:46:36,640
Still having trouble finding a bar for
the fish shop, I gather. I think. I bet

571
00:46:36,640 --> 00:46:39,620
the General and Mrs Gamart are seething
about the matter.

572
00:46:40,320 --> 00:46:42,280
They've never been invited to Holt's
house, you know.

573
00:46:42,760 --> 00:46:44,320
Oh, yes, I've heard.

574
00:46:44,800 --> 00:46:46,520
So, Holt's house for tea, eh?

575
00:46:47,120 --> 00:46:52,060
He so jealously guards his privacy after
the tragic death of his beloved wife.

576
00:46:57,380 --> 00:46:58,740
Well, I...

577
00:46:59,210 --> 00:47:05,690
Sent him some books and asked for advice
about the bookshop. Did you know? Oh,

578
00:47:05,730 --> 00:47:06,730
right.

579
00:47:07,550 --> 00:47:08,550
Wow.

580
00:47:09,410 --> 00:47:11,990
Well, I should get back there, I
suppose.

581
00:47:13,050 --> 00:47:15,310
Tipping down at him. Cats and dogs.

582
00:47:15,930 --> 00:47:16,930
Good afternoon.

583
00:47:17,130 --> 00:47:18,130
Oh, good afternoon.

584
00:47:18,490 --> 00:47:19,810
Why is there a bookshop?

585
00:47:20,170 --> 00:47:21,170
What do you mean, advice?

586
00:48:34,089 --> 00:48:40,310
Come into the dining room.

587
00:50:03,020 --> 00:50:04,760
You asked me a question.

588
00:50:05,920 --> 00:50:07,020
Yes, I did.

589
00:50:07,900 --> 00:50:09,360
About a new novel.

590
00:50:10,560 --> 00:50:16,180
You were thoughtful enough to ask me a
serious question, thinking I would be

591
00:50:16,180 --> 00:50:17,180
impartial.

592
00:50:18,020 --> 00:50:22,020
You undoubtedly thought I was quite
alone in the world.

593
00:50:23,080 --> 00:50:28,400
Never. I did not for one second. I
imagine you've been told all kinds of

594
00:50:28,400 --> 00:50:29,820
things about me. All bad.

595
00:50:30,280 --> 00:50:31,280
No.

596
00:50:32,040 --> 00:50:33,040
Really?

597
00:50:33,360 --> 00:50:37,480
I am a widower, I'm sure you've been
told. I imagine you've also been told

598
00:50:37,480 --> 00:50:41,960
that my wife died whilst gathering
blackberries to make me a pie, which is

599
00:50:41,960 --> 00:50:48,800
the latest version going around town.
Well, none that have been

600
00:50:48,800 --> 00:50:50,100
circulating are true.

601
00:50:52,640 --> 00:50:53,720
She didn't drown?

602
00:50:53,940 --> 00:50:54,940
No.

603
00:50:57,720 --> 00:50:58,720
In the...

604
00:50:58,890 --> 00:51:05,330
sixth month of our marriage we both,
having been best of friends, decided

605
00:51:05,330 --> 00:51:09,230
that a friendly separation would be for
the best.

606
00:51:09,950 --> 00:51:11,230
She lives in London.

607
00:51:11,850 --> 00:51:16,630
I haven't seen her for 45 years but
according to my information she's still

608
00:51:16,630 --> 00:51:17,630
in very good health.

609
00:51:19,130 --> 00:51:24,510
Although apparently she's put on quite a
lot of weight.

610
00:51:26,010 --> 00:51:28,070
She always loved sweets.

611
00:51:28,780 --> 00:51:34,040
Although I can never remember her baking
a cake in her life.

612
00:51:36,340 --> 00:51:40,600
I suppose for the people of Harborough,
it's more picturesque to imagine Holt

613
00:51:40,600 --> 00:51:47,200
House inhabited by a mourning widower.
As you already know, literature

614
00:51:47,200 --> 00:51:48,740
has done a lot of damage.

615
00:51:49,760 --> 00:51:52,840
Those Dan Bronte sisters, for example.

616
00:51:53,400 --> 00:51:58,300
by whom you have not included a single
copy in those packages to me, for which

617
00:51:58,300 --> 00:51:59,540
I am ever so grateful.

618
00:52:00,400 --> 00:52:02,800
I imagined you would have read them
already.

619
00:52:05,140 --> 00:52:11,740
One of the Gipping girls, the third one,
lends you a hand in your shop, I

620
00:52:11,740 --> 00:52:14,360
believe, and that is all the assistance
you have at your disposal.

621
00:52:15,080 --> 00:52:19,220
I have a bookkeeper who comes in from
time to time and then there's my

622
00:52:19,220 --> 00:52:22,700
solicitor. Tom Thornton, you won't get
very far with that one.

623
00:52:24,460 --> 00:52:26,760
Can't say I'm very fond of Mr. Thornton.

624
00:52:30,580 --> 00:52:37,540
You know, Mr. Brandish, there is a
certain responsibility about

625
00:52:37,540 --> 00:52:38,820
trying to run a bookshop.

626
00:52:40,820 --> 00:52:45,580
I imagine there is, especially if not
everyone approves of it.

627
00:52:46,140 --> 00:52:52,460
There are certain people who are rather
put out by your bookshop,

628
00:52:52,580 --> 00:52:53,820
Mrs. Green.

629
00:52:54,410 --> 00:53:01,230
I refer to Violet Gamert, who had other
plans for the old house and who now, it

630
00:53:01,230 --> 00:53:03,830
seems, has taken further offences,
hasn't he?

631
00:53:05,290 --> 00:53:08,650
I'm sure that she means well.

632
00:53:10,210 --> 00:53:11,390
Means well.

633
00:53:12,150 --> 00:53:13,310
Violet Gamert.

634
00:53:14,930 --> 00:53:16,050
That harpy.

635
00:53:17,810 --> 00:53:21,590
What she wants is an arts centre.

636
00:53:23,009 --> 00:53:27,390
Now, I ask you, what the hell does this
damn village need with an arts centre?

637
00:53:27,550 --> 00:53:32,030
And how could art have a centre, but
she's got it into her head that it does,

638
00:53:32,110 --> 00:53:36,810
and that's the reason she wants to get
rid of you. And she won't stop until she

639
00:53:36,810 --> 00:53:37,810
does.

640
00:53:40,190 --> 00:53:41,310
She can't do that.

641
00:53:42,530 --> 00:53:43,550
It's my bookshop.

642
00:53:43,830 --> 00:53:44,830
It's my home.

643
00:53:47,270 --> 00:53:52,550
People like Violet Gamert have made me
what I am.

644
00:53:52,880 --> 00:53:53,880
Mrs Green.

645
00:53:54,640 --> 00:53:59,140
Thanks to her connections and
acquaintances, Mrs Gammett is a very

646
00:53:59,140 --> 00:54:01,920
powerful woman. Does that not concern
you?

647
00:54:08,840 --> 00:54:09,840
No.

648
00:54:14,820 --> 00:54:16,960
May I get back to the reason for my
visit?

649
00:54:20,810 --> 00:54:27,790
I'm thinking of making a first order of
Lolita of 250 copies, which

650
00:54:27,790 --> 00:54:29,230
would be a considerable risk.

651
00:54:30,130 --> 00:54:33,570
Of course, I'm not consulting you in a
business sense. That would be quite

652
00:54:33,570 --> 00:54:38,790
wrong. All I want to know, before I put
in the order, is whether you think it is

653
00:54:38,790 --> 00:54:45,230
a good book and whether you think it is
right that I should sell it in

654
00:54:45,230 --> 00:54:46,230
Hartborough.

655
00:54:47,870 --> 00:54:49,010
I do not attach.

656
00:54:49,710 --> 00:54:54,650
as much importance as you do, I dare
say, to the notions of right and wrong.

657
00:54:55,870 --> 00:54:58,790
I have read Lolita, as you asked me to.

658
00:54:59,510 --> 00:55:04,110
It is a good book, and therefore I think
you should try and sell it to the people

659
00:55:04,110 --> 00:55:07,110
of Harvard. They won't understand it,
but that's all for the best.

660
00:55:07,850 --> 00:55:09,410
Understanding makes the mind lazy.

661
00:55:35,980 --> 00:55:36,980
Thank you.

662
00:55:47,040 --> 00:55:49,080
Thank you, Mr. Brandish.

663
00:55:52,540 --> 00:55:54,400
Well, I've given you my opinion.

664
00:55:56,180 --> 00:56:01,300
Let me tell you what it is I admire
about human beings.

665
00:56:02,380 --> 00:56:04,220
What I value most.

666
00:56:05,450 --> 00:56:10,910
is the one virtue they share with gods
and animals and which I will therefore

667
00:56:10,910 --> 00:56:15,230
no longer refer to as a virtue. I mean

668
00:56:15,230 --> 00:56:17,930
courage.

669
00:56:20,370 --> 00:56:26,390
And you, Mrs. Green, possess that
quality in

670
00:56:26,390 --> 00:56:27,430
abundance.

671
00:56:32,210 --> 00:56:33,590
I would like...

672
00:56:42,960 --> 00:56:47,300
You make me believe once more in things.

673
00:56:50,640 --> 00:56:53,300
Things I thought...

674
00:57:19,470 --> 00:57:21,230
for the team and to punish everything
was delicious.

675
00:57:22,470 --> 00:57:27,150
Well, please, come again when you wish.

676
00:57:27,690 --> 00:57:31,210
And good luck with Lolita.

677
00:57:32,970 --> 00:57:34,050
Yes, thank you.

678
00:57:34,830 --> 00:57:37,870
I mustn't let myself worry. Well,
there's life, there's hope.

679
00:57:38,230 --> 00:57:41,130
God, what a horrifying thought.

680
00:57:52,270 --> 00:57:53,270
Thank you.

681
00:57:54,470 --> 00:57:56,250
Pure advice, Mr. Brundish.

682
00:57:56,810 --> 00:57:57,810
My pleasure.

683
00:58:00,570 --> 00:58:04,090
Do you think dandelion wine will be
coming soon?

684
00:58:05,050 --> 00:58:09,090
I must say, I can't thank you enough for
introducing me to Ray Bradbury.

685
00:58:10,130 --> 00:58:11,970
We'll have Wally bring it round.

686
00:58:15,370 --> 00:58:18,270
Or maybe I will bring it.

687
00:58:27,690 --> 00:58:28,750
I would like that very much.

688
00:59:12,660 --> 00:59:14,440
We've never had so many of the same one
before.

689
00:59:17,080 --> 00:59:18,200
Such a long one.

690
00:59:19,760 --> 00:59:21,860
This book is already famous, Christine.

691
00:59:22,400 --> 00:59:23,420
Everybody's heard of it.

692
00:59:24,120 --> 00:59:27,800
Well, I don't suppose they ever expected
they'd be able to buy it here in

693
00:59:27,800 --> 00:59:28,800
Harvard.

694
00:59:29,780 --> 00:59:32,780
What they won't expect is to find 250
copies.

695
00:59:38,680 --> 00:59:40,600
You really lost your head over this one.

696
00:59:42,920 --> 00:59:45,280
4th of September, 1959.

697
00:59:45,780 --> 00:59:52,680
Dear Mrs. Green, I have in my possession
a letter from John Drury

698
00:59:52,680 --> 00:59:58,680
and Co., legal representative of Mrs.
Violet Garmick of the Stead,

699
00:59:58,800 --> 01:00:05,360
to the effect that the current state of
your window display is attracting

700
01:00:05,360 --> 01:00:10,960
rather undesirable attention from both
potential and actual customers.

701
01:00:12,400 --> 01:00:19,200
Their client likewise assures that she
feels personally affronted by the fact

702
01:00:19,200 --> 01:00:23,660
that she, in her position as Justice of
the Peas and Chairman of numerous

703
01:00:23,660 --> 01:00:28,220
committees, list and close to you with,
must carry out her shopping

704
01:00:28,220 --> 01:00:29,660
expeditiously.

705
01:00:31,740 --> 01:00:36,700
Dear Mr. Thornton, you have been my
solicitor now for several years, which

706
01:00:36,700 --> 01:00:41,840
allows me to infer that acting for me...
means acting energetically on my behalf.

707
01:00:42,460 --> 01:00:44,700
Have you even seen the window displayed
for yourself?

708
01:00:46,780 --> 01:00:52,560
Dear Mrs. Green, in response to your
message on the 5th of September, I have

709
01:00:52,560 --> 01:00:58,020
attempted on two occasions to approach
your shop window, but found it

710
01:00:58,020 --> 01:01:01,620
impossible. People from all around
the... Yes, Mrs. Green.

711
01:01:02,280 --> 01:01:03,640
Dear Mr. Thornton,

712
01:01:04,340 --> 01:01:06,420
what exactly is your advice, then?

713
01:01:07,220 --> 01:01:09,460
Yours truly, Florence Green.

714
01:01:10,780 --> 01:01:16,520
I think we should eliminate the
agglomeration. Stop your customers from

715
01:01:16,520 --> 01:01:21,100
assembling in the narrowest part of the
high street before any formal complaint

716
01:01:21,100 --> 01:01:21,939
is made.

717
01:01:21,940 --> 01:01:27,660
And I also think we should put an end to
the sale of this banal and

718
01:01:27,660 --> 01:01:32,580
sensationalistic novel by V. Nabokov
that has given rise to so many

719
01:01:32,580 --> 01:01:33,580
complaints.

720
01:01:34,360 --> 01:01:35,460
Yes, Miss Green.

721
01:01:39,500 --> 01:01:44,220
Dear Mr Thornton, a good book is the
precious distillation of a master spirit

722
01:01:44,220 --> 01:01:48,560
embalmed and preserved for the purpose
of achieving a life beyond life, which

723
01:01:48,560 --> 01:01:52,120
is why it is, undoubtedly, a necessary
commodity.

724
01:01:52,520 --> 01:01:54,600
Yours sincerely, Florence Green.

725
01:01:56,420 --> 01:02:02,340
Dear Madam, with regard to your request
for an express prohibition concerning

726
01:02:02,340 --> 01:02:05,340
Mrs Florence Green... Dear Madam...

727
01:02:06,220 --> 01:02:12,780
With regard to your request, we regret
to inform you that after having been

728
01:02:12,780 --> 01:02:16,460
duly advised, it would be better to talk
this matter.

729
01:02:17,560 --> 01:02:22,580
As a reported crowd, things have been
curbed by the local police.

730
01:02:24,300 --> 01:02:27,420
Deepest apologies, Mrs. Gamert.

731
01:02:50,190 --> 01:02:53,490
Why won't you come to London? Oh, I
can't think of anything worse than

732
01:02:53,490 --> 01:02:55,050
living in London. You know how I feel
about people.

733
01:02:55,850 --> 01:02:57,990
I mean, look at this. Look at this. It's
absolutely stunning.

734
01:02:58,510 --> 01:02:59,550
Well, I'm not staying here.

735
01:03:00,390 --> 01:03:02,270
What do you mean you're not staying?
Where are you going?

736
01:03:02,710 --> 01:03:06,590
Oh, for goodness sake, you have to just
keep storming off.

737
01:03:23,190 --> 01:03:26,830
What? Wait, just be careful, otherwise
you're going to flip.

738
01:03:27,570 --> 01:03:28,570
Hold on, wait.

739
01:03:29,010 --> 01:03:32,770
What on earth are you doing sitting
there, Florence?

740
01:03:33,930 --> 01:03:39,030
I don't know why I go for walks. Walks
are for pensioners, and I should get to

741
01:03:39,030 --> 01:03:40,570
work. Is there room on that step for me?

742
01:03:41,310 --> 01:03:42,950
I'm Cathy, Mrs Green.

743
01:03:43,410 --> 01:03:45,070
Florence told me so much about you.

744
01:03:45,810 --> 01:03:50,030
Cathy, I wouldn't believe that there are
any nice spots in Harbour, so...

745
01:03:50,350 --> 01:03:52,430
I brought her out here to see for
herself.

746
01:03:53,170 --> 01:03:55,950
And what is it that you do at the BBC,
Cathy?

747
01:03:56,550 --> 01:03:58,330
I work for the RPD. Oh.

748
01:03:58,670 --> 01:03:59,750
Recorded Programme Department.

749
01:04:00,610 --> 01:04:01,610
Monitoring expenses.

750
01:04:01,890 --> 01:04:03,130
Not exactly exciting.

751
01:04:04,090 --> 01:04:06,830
Well... We've just been for lunch with
Violet Gamart.

752
01:04:07,770 --> 01:04:10,410
Yeah, gave her a chance to not
disapprove of us.

753
01:04:10,910 --> 01:04:12,570
Mrs Gamart is very kind.

754
01:04:14,190 --> 01:04:18,230
Well, not... I like kind people.

755
01:04:19,150 --> 01:04:20,310
Yeah, except for Florence.

756
01:04:22,370 --> 01:04:23,370
Don't flatter me.

757
01:04:30,570 --> 01:04:33,610
I get the feeling you work less and less
every day.

758
01:04:34,950 --> 01:04:38,570
Don't forget the BBC's a corporation and
your salary is paid for with public

759
01:04:38,570 --> 01:04:40,290
funding. Catty deals with that.

760
01:04:40,870 --> 01:04:42,670
She's in charge of my expenses, she.

761
01:04:48,880 --> 01:04:50,100
You're not cold, my darling.

762
01:04:50,820 --> 01:04:54,980
Perhaps it's time we also pootle off
back to our humble abode and leave

763
01:04:54,980 --> 01:04:56,980
Florence alone, lost in her thoughts.

764
01:04:59,180 --> 01:05:00,980
I think I'll stay here a little longer.

765
01:05:01,600 --> 01:05:04,760
As long as I'm not bothering you. No,
not at all.

766
01:05:24,210 --> 01:05:25,530
Myler told me you're a widow.

767
01:05:26,070 --> 01:05:27,890
Yes. Yes, I am.

768
01:05:28,710 --> 01:05:29,710
A widow.

769
01:05:31,290 --> 01:05:35,110
That's a strange, dark word, don't you
think?

770
01:05:37,370 --> 01:05:40,570
My husband died, um, 16 years ago.

771
01:05:43,830 --> 01:05:44,830
How did you meet?

772
01:05:45,790 --> 01:05:47,510
We met at a bookshop, actually.

773
01:05:48,110 --> 01:05:49,110
In London.

774
01:05:53,260 --> 01:05:55,080
We were in love from the first moment.

775
01:05:55,800 --> 01:06:02,380
We had to organize and classify the
poetry section together at Muller's.

776
01:06:08,580 --> 01:06:10,540
He used to read aloud to me every night.

777
01:06:11,960 --> 01:06:14,520
Peeps and George Eliot and Thackeray.

778
01:06:16,360 --> 01:06:18,940
Never give a lady a restive horse.

779
01:06:22,600 --> 01:06:24,000
We loved that one.

780
01:06:27,240 --> 01:06:28,540
We were very happy.

781
01:06:29,880 --> 01:06:32,560
Busy doing a million things and nothing.

782
01:06:34,060 --> 01:06:35,200
And then the war came.

783
01:06:36,100 --> 01:06:41,300
But I still have his letters, all his
letters, and I can still

784
01:06:41,300 --> 01:06:46,300
hear his voice in my head when I read
them.

785
01:06:50,910 --> 01:06:53,230
Milo didn't do you justice when he
described you to me.

786
01:06:53,790 --> 01:06:54,790
Oh, dear.

787
01:06:55,170 --> 01:06:58,390
Spare me from Milo's appraisal. I don't
think I want to know what he thinks of

788
01:06:58,390 --> 01:07:00,710
me. I still don't know what he thinks of
me.

789
01:07:03,690 --> 01:07:05,530
Or if he feels something for me.

790
01:07:07,490 --> 01:07:09,490
Or, for that matter, if he feels
anything at all.

791
01:07:12,730 --> 01:07:14,430
I guess that's part of his thing.

792
01:07:16,490 --> 01:07:17,870
Keeping you guessing all the time.

793
01:07:20,780 --> 01:07:21,780
You know what they say?

794
01:07:22,980 --> 01:07:26,180
With that kind of man, you'll never know
whether he's hiding a rich inner world

795
01:07:26,180 --> 01:07:29,700
or... absolutely nothing.

796
01:07:36,060 --> 01:07:37,140
He'll never read it out.

797
01:07:59,220 --> 01:08:03,880
Aardvay! So your bill is already having
its third reading. Excellent.

798
01:08:04,280 --> 01:08:07,260
And I have you to thank for all your
inspiration, Aardvay.

799
01:08:07,780 --> 01:08:08,920
Whatever do you mean?

800
01:08:09,180 --> 01:08:11,600
The idea came to me during your party
last spring.

801
01:08:11,860 --> 01:08:16,240
Your wonderful campaign in favor of an
art center could become a reality with a

802
01:08:16,240 --> 01:08:17,240
bill like this.

803
01:08:17,430 --> 01:08:22,390
And other communities could benefit as
well from philanthropy such as yourself.

804
01:08:23,229 --> 01:08:25,689
Well, I've only done what I felt was
right.

805
01:08:28,630 --> 01:08:33,029
The Access to Places of Public Value
Bill will make sure that town councils

806
01:08:33,029 --> 01:08:37,430
can acquire their historic properties by
compulsory purchase for public use.

807
01:08:37,870 --> 01:08:38,870
Isn't it wonderful?

808
01:08:39,270 --> 01:08:43,550
Oh, I'm sure your father's smiling down
on us from heaven with great pride at

809
01:08:43,550 --> 01:08:44,550
this very moment.

810
01:08:44,800 --> 01:08:47,080
I'm just so glad we arranged to meet a
day of all days.

811
01:08:47,819 --> 01:08:49,399
Precisely when the bill has been
approved.

812
01:08:51,100 --> 01:08:52,819
Do you fancy fish for lunch?

813
01:08:53,220 --> 01:08:54,840
I know a wonderful place round the
corner.

814
01:08:55,100 --> 01:08:58,620
I'm afraid living in Hardborough puts
you off eating fish anywhere else. It's

815
01:08:58,620 --> 01:08:59,939
so fresh down there.

816
01:09:00,160 --> 01:09:01,160
So true.

817
01:09:01,600 --> 01:09:02,600
Spot of tea, then?

818
01:09:03,740 --> 01:09:04,740
Perfect.

819
01:09:04,920 --> 01:09:09,720
Then I shall continue with what I was
doing. I have a sick friend who needs my

820
01:09:09,720 --> 01:09:13,420
attention. You're such a wonderful and
generous woman, aren't I?

821
01:09:21,770 --> 01:09:22,770
Hurry on with your work.

822
01:09:23,229 --> 01:09:24,229
Heads down.

823
01:09:26,410 --> 01:09:29,210
Eyes down. Come on with your work.

824
01:09:34,029 --> 01:09:35,229
No need to get up, children.

825
01:09:36,790 --> 01:09:37,790
I'm the inspector.

826
01:09:38,029 --> 01:09:39,029
No, you're not.

827
01:09:40,750 --> 01:09:43,710
I'm sorry. I don't believe I know you.

828
01:09:44,069 --> 01:09:45,069
This is Trill.

829
01:09:45,510 --> 01:09:46,510
The name is Shepard.

830
01:09:47,399 --> 01:09:50,740
If you'd be so kind, you may examine my
certificate from the Ministry of

831
01:09:50,740 --> 01:09:51,740
Education Authority.

832
01:09:51,939 --> 01:09:58,100
It authorises me, under the Shocks Act
of 1950, to visit any school where I

833
01:09:58,100 --> 01:10:01,740
have cause to believe that there are
children studying who also engage in

834
01:10:01,740 --> 01:10:02,780
some sort of work.

835
01:10:03,080 --> 01:10:06,240
Work? I can assure you they'd all love
to have a job.

836
01:10:07,100 --> 01:10:10,880
Outside of family businesses and
newspaper deliveries, you tell me what

837
01:10:10,880 --> 01:10:11,900
else awaits them out there.

838
01:10:12,360 --> 01:10:13,480
And by the way...

839
01:10:14,120 --> 01:10:16,740
I don't remember you ever visiting here
before.

840
01:10:17,300 --> 01:10:21,000
Well, due to staff shortages, our visits
are not quite as frequent as we would

841
01:10:21,000 --> 01:10:22,000
like them to be.

842
01:10:22,540 --> 01:10:24,320
So who suggested you come this time?

843
01:10:32,980 --> 01:10:37,080
There is only one who has a steady job
after school.

844
01:10:39,080 --> 01:10:41,440
Christine Gipping, who works regularly.

845
01:10:42,260 --> 01:10:43,260
Where?

846
01:10:45,740 --> 01:10:47,300
The old house bookshop.

847
01:10:49,340 --> 01:10:50,740
Stand up, Christine.

848
01:10:54,940 --> 01:10:56,220
If you'll excuse me.

849
01:10:57,120 --> 01:10:58,120
This is the girl?

850
01:10:58,600 --> 01:11:00,200
Yes. Would you mind coming with me?

851
01:11:11,400 --> 01:11:12,400
Good day.

852
01:11:12,960 --> 01:11:13,960
Good day.

853
01:11:32,650 --> 01:11:34,750
I don't want you to think I hold
anything against you.

854
01:11:35,730 --> 01:11:38,350
The law is the law. That's the main
thing I came to say.

855
01:11:44,330 --> 01:11:45,330
Experience is important.

856
01:11:46,010 --> 01:11:48,850
The dropouts will say they won't hire us
for that experience, but where can we

857
01:11:48,850 --> 01:11:49,709
get it?

858
01:11:49,710 --> 01:11:53,830
But we always tell Christine that if she
needs references, she only has to come

859
01:11:53,830 --> 01:11:54,830
to you.

860
01:11:55,170 --> 01:11:56,170
Yes, of course.

861
01:11:56,510 --> 01:11:58,030
All she has to do is ask.

862
01:11:59,360 --> 01:12:05,460
Christine's a wonderful girl, Mrs.
Gipping, and I'm very, very, very fond

863
01:12:05,460 --> 01:12:06,460
of her.

864
01:12:08,020 --> 01:12:12,120
But now she'll have an opportunity to
concentrate on her studies.

865
01:12:13,380 --> 01:12:14,920
She doesn't want to give up her own
money.

866
01:12:15,660 --> 01:12:20,740
No, of course not, but I suppose after
what happened at the school... Well,

867
01:12:20,800 --> 01:12:24,040
we've been looking around a bit, and we
hope they'll be hiring her to work on

868
01:12:24,040 --> 01:12:25,180
Saturdays at that new bookshop.

869
01:12:31,950 --> 01:12:32,769
New bookshop.

870
01:12:32,770 --> 01:12:35,870
Yeah, they all open very soon, you know.
In Devon's.

871
01:12:36,990 --> 01:12:37,990
The fish shop.

872
01:12:46,470 --> 01:12:50,430
I had no idea.

873
01:12:51,930 --> 01:12:54,210
You really must keep an eye on the
competition, Mrs Green.

874
01:12:56,590 --> 01:12:58,650
You will give Christine those
references, won't you?

875
01:13:01,100 --> 01:13:07,520
She had no way of knowing this, but the
new bookshop was not an enterprise like

876
01:13:07,520 --> 01:13:14,140
her own, but an investment by the
simple-minded Lord Godfield on the

877
01:13:14,140 --> 01:13:17,540
advice of the General and Mrs. Gamut.

878
01:13:30,060 --> 01:13:33,160
Thank you for coming, Mrs Green. No need
to thank me, Mr Keble.

879
01:13:35,440 --> 01:13:39,120
Do you realise how very little working
capital you have at present? Yes.

880
01:13:39,880 --> 01:13:41,440
It's rather difficult not to notice.

881
01:13:41,780 --> 01:13:44,580
I dare say things have taken quite a dip
in your business of late, haven't they?

882
01:13:46,300 --> 01:13:50,340
Well, I thought you might like to know
there's a possible buyer for your shop.

883
01:13:53,460 --> 01:13:54,460
Thank you very much.

884
01:14:01,450 --> 01:14:05,870
Mr. Cabell, the shop is not to sell.

885
01:14:06,770 --> 01:14:07,770
Message received.

886
01:14:08,690 --> 01:14:09,850
Thank you for coming.

887
01:14:10,110 --> 01:14:12,710
It has been an incalculable help.

888
01:14:29,590 --> 01:14:30,590
Well.

889
01:14:33,840 --> 01:14:35,060
I really shall miss you.

890
01:14:37,300 --> 01:14:38,660
I don't want to go, you know.

891
01:14:39,680 --> 01:14:41,440
I don't want to work in that other
bookshop.

892
01:14:42,640 --> 01:14:45,740
My mother, she simply doesn't
understand. No, please.

893
01:14:46,620 --> 01:14:48,180
You mustn't worry about that.

894
01:14:48,740 --> 01:14:49,820
How can I not worry?

895
01:14:50,540 --> 01:14:52,100
You can't run this place by yourself.

896
01:14:53,040 --> 01:14:54,820
And no one in this village will help
you.

897
01:14:57,200 --> 01:15:01,740
No, I... I shall manage. I absolutely...
I shall manage.

898
01:15:05,420 --> 01:15:09,580
I do hope you'll come by from time to
time in the evenings.

899
01:15:10,260 --> 01:15:11,500
I won't need the time.

900
01:15:14,680 --> 01:15:15,680
Yeah, no.

901
01:15:17,240 --> 01:15:19,260
No, of course you'll be busy.

902
01:15:23,020 --> 01:15:25,300
I've got something for you.

903
01:15:31,360 --> 01:15:33,300
Now you won't have to wait until my
funeral.

904
01:15:37,640 --> 01:15:38,940
You're so kind, Mrs Grace.

905
01:15:43,180 --> 01:15:44,460
You're so bloody kind.

906
01:16:14,440 --> 01:16:15,820
Good afternoon, Florence.

907
01:16:16,620 --> 01:16:17,620
Mrs. Green.

908
01:16:17,940 --> 01:16:18,940
Mr. Brandish.

909
01:16:20,920 --> 01:16:23,360
How are things coming along down there?

910
01:16:25,480 --> 01:16:32,460
Um... I think you know as well as I do,
don't you?

911
01:16:34,320 --> 01:16:36,500
Indeed, I do know. Some of it.

912
01:16:38,560 --> 01:16:40,120
What do you intend to do?

913
01:16:40,940 --> 01:16:41,940
Do?

914
01:16:46,120 --> 01:16:47,120
Is there anything I can do?

915
01:16:49,240 --> 01:16:50,240
Yes.

916
01:16:58,520 --> 01:16:59,520
No.

917
01:17:01,780 --> 01:17:02,780
Carry on.

918
01:17:04,660 --> 01:17:05,920
That's what I was going to do.

919
01:17:10,280 --> 01:17:15,680
Florence, I would very much like to have
met you at another time in my life.

920
01:17:16,720 --> 01:17:18,500
in another life altogether.

921
01:17:22,840 --> 01:17:28,120
But I'm going to do what small thing is
in my power to help you.

922
01:17:35,500 --> 01:17:36,500
It's a foundation.

923
01:17:37,120 --> 01:17:42,440
It's very warming to hear and I so

924
01:17:42,440 --> 01:17:44,520
appreciate.

925
01:17:45,450 --> 01:17:52,170
I, um... You might... There's nothing
you... I will

926
01:17:52,170 --> 01:17:55,210
have a word with her. I will talk to
that woman.

927
01:17:55,610 --> 01:18:01,690
She might just listen. She might... put
an end to this loathsome harassment.

928
01:18:05,850 --> 01:18:07,010
You'd really do that?

929
01:18:08,690 --> 01:18:09,690
Really?

930
01:18:10,690 --> 01:18:12,950
Come out of your seclusion for me?

931
01:18:14,730 --> 01:18:15,730
Indeed I will.

932
01:18:18,190 --> 01:18:21,730
I don't know that it shall be of much
use, but I'm willing.

933
01:18:23,470 --> 01:18:26,230
I could just put a bullet through it,
but...

934
01:18:26,230 --> 01:18:33,310
I'm

935
01:18:33,310 --> 01:18:34,910
not sure that would be to your liking.

936
01:18:40,370 --> 01:18:42,190
I don't know how to ever thank you.

937
01:18:44,019 --> 01:18:50,760
That's the most noble gesture

938
01:18:50,760 --> 01:18:54,140
anyone's ever made for me.

939
01:20:12,360 --> 01:20:14,660
You work too hard, Florence.

940
01:20:14,940 --> 01:20:16,340
I try to concentrate.

941
01:20:16,980 --> 01:20:19,980
Please put those down. They've only just
come in. I haven't checked them yet.

942
01:20:23,260 --> 01:20:26,160
Surely you have to succeed if you give
everything you have.

943
01:20:26,700 --> 01:20:27,700
I can't see why.

944
01:20:28,640 --> 01:20:30,900
Everyone gives it everything they have,
eventually.

945
01:20:32,060 --> 01:20:33,060
We all die.

946
01:20:33,780 --> 01:20:34,980
Dying is hardly success.

947
01:20:35,420 --> 01:20:37,120
Too young to bother about dying.

948
01:20:39,180 --> 01:20:41,760
I believe Cathy might snuff it.

949
01:20:42,470 --> 01:20:44,630
She wastes so much energy.

950
01:20:44,930 --> 01:20:45,930
How is Kathy?

951
01:20:48,150 --> 01:20:49,150
No idea.

952
01:20:51,530 --> 01:20:54,190
Matter of fact, she's left me.

953
01:20:55,430 --> 01:20:58,910
She's gone to live with someone else. In
Wantage.

954
01:21:00,530 --> 01:21:04,210
He works in World Service.

955
01:21:10,730 --> 01:21:12,090
I'm opening my heart to you.

956
01:21:13,850 --> 01:21:17,890
So... We're having a special moment,
aren't we?

957
01:21:22,570 --> 01:21:25,450
I suspect we've told everyone else in
Harborough who lives in here.

958
01:21:25,790 --> 01:21:30,510
Yeah, but it affects you particularly
because I'll have so much more free time

959
01:21:30,510 --> 01:21:31,349
as of now.

960
01:21:31,350 --> 01:21:35,190
I'll be able to work here part-time as
your assistant.

961
01:21:36,490 --> 01:21:38,490
I guess you must miss that little girl.

962
01:21:45,350 --> 01:21:49,090
Christine had a great deal while she was
here and she was extremely nice with the

963
01:21:49,090 --> 01:21:51,090
customers. Not as nice as I can be.

964
01:21:54,090 --> 01:21:58,410
So, um... How much can you pay me?

965
01:22:05,010 --> 01:22:09,130
I gave Christine 12 shillings and
sixpence a week. I don't feel able to

966
01:22:09,130 --> 01:22:10,530
offer any more than that at the moment.

967
01:22:11,310 --> 01:22:14,510
If you're interested in the job, you may
come by in the afternoons for a few

968
01:22:14,510 --> 01:22:15,510
weeks and try it out.

969
01:22:16,130 --> 01:22:17,130
Trial period.

970
01:22:17,370 --> 01:22:20,570
But please only remember I didn't offer
you the job, you asked yourself.

971
01:22:21,170 --> 01:22:24,090
Has anyone ever told you you have a
marvellous pair of ankles?

972
01:22:24,870 --> 01:22:26,050
Oh, do shut up.

973
01:22:51,790 --> 01:22:54,690
Shower down thy love, oh burning bright.

974
01:22:55,890 --> 01:23:00,370
For one night or the other night will
come the gardener in white.

975
01:23:01,990 --> 01:23:05,310
And gathered flowers are dead.

976
01:23:06,330 --> 01:23:07,330
Christine!

977
01:23:07,870 --> 01:23:09,510
You better watch out, Mr. Noss.

978
01:23:14,170 --> 01:23:18,510
What unpleasant expressions they teach
you in that school.

979
01:23:18,910 --> 01:23:20,750
I didn't come here to see people of...

980
01:23:21,280 --> 01:23:22,280
Your thought.

981
01:23:26,760 --> 01:23:31,620
Why, um... Why are you not helping Mrs
Green anymore?

982
01:23:32,940 --> 01:23:33,940
She misses you.

983
01:23:35,620 --> 01:23:36,660
She's got you, hasn't she?

984
01:23:37,120 --> 01:23:38,200
You're always in and out.

985
01:23:43,380 --> 01:23:45,180
They say they won't let her keep the
bookshop.

986
01:23:45,680 --> 01:23:46,499
They say?

987
01:23:46,500 --> 01:23:47,500
Who say?

988
01:23:47,540 --> 01:23:49,200
You say? You know very well who.

989
01:23:50,350 --> 01:23:51,830
You have other plans for the old house.

990
01:23:52,150 --> 01:23:54,390
Why do you even care, you little shrimp?

991
01:23:55,890 --> 01:23:57,270
They say she can't keep it.

992
01:23:58,610 --> 01:23:59,830
He'll go after her.

993
01:24:00,110 --> 01:24:01,270
He'll take her to court.

994
01:24:01,970 --> 01:24:03,470
She'll have to swear to tell the truth.

995
01:24:04,070 --> 01:24:06,570
The whole truth and nothing but the
truth.

996
01:24:07,930 --> 01:24:10,630
Well, we must hope that it doesn't come
to that.

997
01:24:12,330 --> 01:24:14,830
I never had time to sit around when I
was her assistant.

998
01:24:15,730 --> 01:24:16,730
No wonder.

999
01:24:17,510 --> 01:24:18,510
You're a child.

1000
01:24:19,840 --> 01:24:20,840
Or a woman.

1001
01:24:22,160 --> 01:24:24,360
Neither of them have any idea of how to
relax.

1002
01:24:25,680 --> 01:24:26,780
You'd just better watch out.

1003
01:24:27,400 --> 01:24:29,760
I've come to get this. It belongs to my
mum.

1004
01:25:33,770 --> 01:25:34,650
Give me a moment

1005
01:25:34,650 --> 01:25:52,350
What

1006
01:25:52,350 --> 01:26:02,110
a

1007
01:26:02,110 --> 01:26:04,330
pleasant surprise Mr. Brandeis.

1008
01:26:05,350 --> 01:26:07,230
Oh, please, have a seat.

1009
01:26:10,710 --> 01:26:11,710
Thank you.

1010
01:26:16,450 --> 01:26:20,170
I have come to ask you something. I
don't know if this is the proper way to

1011
01:26:20,170 --> 01:26:21,750
do so, but I can't think of a better
one.

1012
01:26:22,050 --> 01:26:25,750
If you're not in the mood for questions,
you should say so now.

1013
01:26:27,470 --> 01:26:28,750
Would you like some tea?

1014
01:26:32,010 --> 01:26:33,170
I don't want your tea.

1015
01:26:34,250 --> 01:26:36,650
I want you to leave Florence Green
alone.

1016
01:26:38,430 --> 01:26:41,290
Did she ask you to come see me?
Certainly not.

1017
01:26:42,730 --> 01:26:46,390
She is simply a woman who wants to keep
a bookshop.

1018
01:26:47,470 --> 01:26:51,810
If Mrs. Green has reason to complain, I
suppose she should turn to a solicitor.

1019
01:26:52,250 --> 01:26:56,270
though I believe she's rather given to
changing her legal advice. The bookshop

1020
01:26:56,270 --> 01:26:59,710
is drafty, impossible to mortgage a
second time, and from what I've heard,

1021
01:26:59,770 --> 01:27:02,130
damp. Leave her alone. The woman's done
nothing to you.

1022
01:27:03,430 --> 01:27:08,530
Has it not occurred to you, as someone
who must be extremely concerned about

1023
01:27:08,530 --> 01:27:12,470
the welfare and future of this place,
that a building of such historical

1024
01:27:12,470 --> 01:27:14,770
interest could be put to a better use?

1025
01:27:15,030 --> 01:27:19,030
Old age is not the same thing as
historical interest, otherwise you and I

1026
01:27:19,030 --> 01:27:21,650
would be far more interesting than we
are. I repeat.

1027
01:27:22,010 --> 01:27:24,650
I want you to leave my friend Florence
Green alone.

1028
01:27:25,110 --> 01:27:26,110
Alone!

1029
01:27:30,030 --> 01:27:36,950
Well, it appears your friend has failed
to take the law into

1030
01:27:36,950 --> 01:27:41,390
consideration, something which I've
observed on several occasions.

1031
01:27:41,890 --> 01:27:44,530
If that is the case, I can have nothing
to say on the matter.

1032
01:27:44,790 --> 01:27:48,510
The law will have to take its course.
Are you referring to a law that didn't

1033
01:27:48,510 --> 01:27:51,970
exist a year ago and that Parliament
approved behind our backs?

1034
01:27:52,690 --> 01:27:56,270
I'm talking about an order for
compulsory purchase or an eviction,

1035
01:27:56,290 --> 01:28:00,090
which is the proper term. Did you put
your precious nephew up to drafting that

1036
01:28:00,090 --> 01:28:05,510
bill? I won't deny my nephew's bill may
affect the bookshop. As it is essential,

1037
01:28:05,670 --> 01:28:08,070
the premises must have remained empty
for five years.

1038
01:28:08,390 --> 01:28:11,330
That would undoubtedly apply to the old
house.

1039
01:28:11,590 --> 01:28:13,570
But there are so many regulations.

1040
01:28:14,600 --> 01:28:20,600
To be considered, Mr. Brandish, ordinary
mortals like myself, and of course like

1041
01:28:20,600 --> 01:28:23,000
you, would hardly know where to begin.

1042
01:28:23,480 --> 01:28:28,900
I am in politics and subsequently am
fairly familiar with bureaucracy, but

1043
01:28:28,900 --> 01:28:30,360
this goes way beyond me.

1044
01:28:30,680 --> 01:28:36,280
We wouldn't even know how to find the
right person to write to. Madam, I know

1045
01:28:36,280 --> 01:28:38,140
perfectly well who to write to.

1046
01:28:38,800 --> 01:28:42,400
Over the past years, if I'd not made it
my business to know, I would have lost

1047
01:28:42,400 --> 01:28:46,720
several hundred acres of marshes and
farming land and two bumping mills.

1048
01:28:46,720 --> 01:28:51,640
That's why I'm certain that if nothing
has been done so far, we can still form

1049
01:28:51,640 --> 01:28:53,080
a common front against them.

1050
01:28:54,760 --> 01:28:59,680
We can certainly think of ways of making
the move easier if it is actually made.

1051
01:29:00,220 --> 01:29:03,080
There are still plenty of other places
to let.

1052
01:29:03,680 --> 01:29:08,160
In larger towns than Hartford. That's
not what I'm talking about. You should

1053
01:29:08,160 --> 01:29:10,040
be talking about what I'm talking about.

1054
01:29:18,440 --> 01:29:25,420
I wish I could

1055
01:29:25,420 --> 01:29:26,420
do something more.

1056
01:29:30,160 --> 01:29:32,280
I assume then that you intend to do
nothing.

1057
01:29:54,440 --> 01:29:55,440
You get it?

1058
01:29:58,860 --> 01:30:01,220
I can't answer that question, yes or no.

1059
01:30:02,020 --> 01:30:06,560
I suspect that by outrageous you mean
unexpectedly offensive, and the truth is

1060
01:30:06,560 --> 01:30:13,240
you have been fairly offensive, but
also... repulsive, Mrs

1061
01:30:13,240 --> 01:30:14,240
Gamert.

1062
01:30:14,660 --> 01:30:17,760
That is, you've behaved exactly as I
expected.

1063
01:32:40,650 --> 01:32:41,650
Thank you.

1064
01:34:02,380 --> 01:34:03,380
Good afternoon, General.

1065
01:34:05,100 --> 01:34:06,720
You couldn't like a book, would you?

1066
01:34:09,580 --> 01:34:10,580
Not exactly.

1067
01:34:11,500 --> 01:34:18,440
I just came to say... a good man has
left

1068
01:34:18,440 --> 01:34:19,440
us.

1069
01:34:20,560 --> 01:34:27,560
I believe you knew

1070
01:34:27,560 --> 01:34:29,340
Edmund Brundage quite well, did you not?

1071
01:34:31,400 --> 01:34:35,000
I feel it, though, I did. Well, I never
crossed words with him at all.

1072
01:34:36,440 --> 01:34:38,260
He was in the First Mess, of course.

1073
01:34:39,980 --> 01:34:41,340
But not in the Suffolks.

1074
01:34:44,780 --> 01:34:46,880
He signed up for the Air Force, I
believe.

1075
01:34:49,480 --> 01:34:50,600
He wanted to fly.

1076
01:34:52,300 --> 01:34:53,300
How odd.

1077
01:34:57,450 --> 01:35:01,090
It was also odd that he came to see us
that very morning.

1078
01:35:02,010 --> 01:35:05,230
He wanted to speak to your wife, I
imagine.

1079
01:35:06,390 --> 01:35:07,590
Yes, you're quite right.

1080
01:35:08,090 --> 01:35:09,890
Violet told me all about it.

1081
01:35:13,170 --> 01:35:17,150
He made a great effort to go see her.

1082
01:35:18,270 --> 01:35:21,130
To congratulate her on her idea.

1083
01:35:24,810 --> 01:35:27,090
I'm referring to the...

1084
01:35:27,340 --> 01:35:28,340
Art Centre.

1085
01:35:34,180 --> 01:35:37,800
I'm sorry I didn't get a chance to speak
to him.

1086
01:35:40,940 --> 01:35:47,300
I must say, I would never have imagined
him being interested in art.

1087
01:35:49,680 --> 01:35:56,000
But well, a good man has left us.

1088
01:36:01,870 --> 01:36:06,770
Anyone could suffer an attack like that
if you think about it.

1089
01:36:08,110 --> 01:36:15,050
You mustn't be late for your

1090
01:36:15,050 --> 01:36:16,170
lunch party, General.

1091
01:36:19,730 --> 01:36:21,750
Leave my house and don't ever come back.

1092
01:36:24,610 --> 01:36:30,050
And please, don't you or your wife ever
again malign.

1093
01:36:30,650 --> 01:36:36,490
A man who had more dignity, sensitivity
and

1094
01:36:36,490 --> 01:36:41,510
compassion than either of you will have
in your time.

1095
01:36:47,270 --> 01:36:48,930
Don't ever say his name again.

1096
01:36:53,550 --> 01:36:54,890
And forget mine.

1097
01:37:01,520 --> 01:37:05,800
But she... Violet... Leave!

1098
01:37:16,900 --> 01:37:22,180
So it seems that I have been evicted by
the city of Flintmarket.

1099
01:37:22,400 --> 01:37:26,900
As we mentioned during our last phone
conversation, it seems there is a new

1100
01:37:26,900 --> 01:37:27,900
Parliament Bill.

1101
01:37:28,010 --> 01:37:32,170
which allows Flint Market Council to
take over ownership of the old house.

1102
01:37:32,650 --> 01:37:33,650
Yes.

1103
01:37:34,090 --> 01:37:39,190
And I should like to know, if I may,
where the council obtained the funds

1104
01:37:39,190 --> 01:37:41,630
necessary to throw me out.

1105
01:37:42,450 --> 01:37:45,370
They apparently found a benefactor.

1106
01:37:45,590 --> 01:37:50,390
What concerns me is if the old house is
considered to be habitable or not.

1107
01:37:50,830 --> 01:37:55,610
If it turns out that it is unfit for
human habitation, or indeed subsidence

1108
01:37:55,610 --> 01:37:56,750
is threatened...

1109
01:37:57,130 --> 01:37:59,090
Well, then it will be impossible to
demand compensation.

1110
01:38:00,050 --> 01:38:01,130
You won't see a penny.

1111
01:38:02,050 --> 01:38:05,390
I'm inhabiting it, and I'm still human.

1112
01:38:08,350 --> 01:38:12,390
It's not even as damp as all that. In
the summer, it's really quite dry, and

1113
01:38:12,390 --> 01:38:17,030
in midwinter, it's... Here is an
inspection of the cellars, according to

1114
01:38:17,030 --> 01:38:20,530
which the property is standing in half
an inch of water.

1115
01:38:23,470 --> 01:38:25,310
Sorry, what... What inspection?

1116
01:38:25,710 --> 01:38:26,710
I...

1117
01:38:28,490 --> 01:38:31,170
I wasn't informed of any inspection, I
don't think.

1118
01:38:31,390 --> 01:38:35,870
Apparently, on several occasions, when
you were asking from the property, an

1119
01:38:35,870 --> 01:38:41,850
expert in masonry and plastering, a Mr
John Gipping, was sent by the council to

1120
01:38:41,850 --> 01:38:44,550
inspect the condition of the walls and
the cellars.

1121
01:38:45,510 --> 01:38:46,510
John Gipping?

1122
01:38:47,490 --> 01:38:48,490
Christine's father?

1123
01:38:49,270 --> 01:38:54,290
We assume he entered peaceably. I don't
remember letting him in myself.

1124
01:38:54,850 --> 01:38:56,390
Oh, your assistant.

1125
01:38:56,940 --> 01:38:58,180
Mr. Milo North?

1126
01:38:59,180 --> 01:39:02,780
Everyone would assume he acted as your
servant and was following your

1127
01:39:02,780 --> 01:39:03,780
instructions.

1128
01:39:05,200 --> 01:39:08,060
Have you any comments?

1129
01:39:23,020 --> 01:39:25,060
What leaves us in a difficult position?

1130
01:39:25,470 --> 01:39:31,430
the fact that Mr North has also signed a
statement according to which the level

1131
01:39:31,430 --> 01:39:37,390
of dampness in the property has affected
his health, making him unable to accept

1132
01:39:37,390 --> 01:39:39,410
any type of ordinary employment.

1133
01:40:16,440 --> 01:40:17,440
Why?

1134
01:40:20,300 --> 01:40:21,480
There is no why.

1135
01:40:23,520 --> 01:40:30,140
They asked me persistently, so, you
know, I simply thought, let's do it.

1136
01:40:32,500 --> 01:40:36,360
Well, if you're looking for a new
assistant, I understand Christine is

1137
01:40:36,360 --> 01:40:39,520
available. She's no longer working at
the new bookshop.

1138
01:40:40,720 --> 01:40:45,000
She tried to sell Lolita to the vicar.

1139
01:40:47,920 --> 01:40:48,920
Lauren.

1140
01:44:15,960 --> 01:44:21,560
For years to come, I will remember how
she tried to smile looking at the book I

1141
01:44:21,560 --> 01:44:22,560
had in my hands.

1142
01:44:28,260 --> 01:44:31,880
Then, she realized what I had done.

1143
01:44:56,590 --> 01:45:01,790
She had fulfilled the dream, and they'd
snatched it away from her.

1144
01:45:03,110 --> 01:45:08,470
But what she possessed, deep down, was
something no one could ever take away

1145
01:45:08,470 --> 01:45:09,470
from her.

1146
01:45:10,010 --> 01:45:11,030
Her courage.

1147
01:45:17,950 --> 01:45:24,250
And it was that courage, and her passion
for books, that she bequeathed to me.

1148
01:45:25,390 --> 01:45:27,910
along with a Chinese lacquered tray.

1149
01:45:42,530 --> 01:45:49,270
How right she was when she said that no
one ever feels alone in a

1150
01:45:49,270 --> 01:45:50,270
bookshop.

1151
01:46:31,530 --> 01:46:32,530
Horace.

1152
01:49:39,760 --> 01:49:45,860
Go with the flow of the river, but if I
shiver,

1153
01:49:46,240 --> 01:49:50,860
just take me in your arms.

1154
01:49:51,600 --> 01:49:58,020
Show me the steps of the mambo, but if I
stumble,

1155
01:49:58,480 --> 01:50:03,200
just take me in your arms.

1156
01:50:30,960 --> 01:50:36,720
Baby, don't tell me stories of ancient
glory.

1157
01:50:37,060 --> 01:50:41,980
Just take me in your arms.

1158
01:50:42,400 --> 01:50:49,320
There's a whole world to discover, my
precious lover.

1159
01:50:49,760 --> 01:50:53,100
Just take me in your arms.