1 00:00:01,480 --> 00:00:04,120 I don't think you understand the strength of feeling in the town, ma'am, 2 00:00:04,200 --> 00:00:05,360 against the blues. 3 00:00:05,440 --> 00:00:09,160 I've got this architect coming to take a look at Northgate House. 4 00:00:09,240 --> 00:00:11,160 - Oh, that's still our plan? - Oh, yes. 5 00:00:11,240 --> 00:00:13,800 Have you had a letter from your sister, ma'am? 6 00:00:13,880 --> 00:00:14,640 No. 7 00:00:14,720 --> 00:00:17,440 She's sent instruction for evictions. 8 00:00:17,520 --> 00:00:20,800 The Rawsons have now had between four and five acres of your coal. 9 00:00:20,880 --> 00:00:22,200 How could you know a thing like that? 10 00:00:22,280 --> 00:00:24,800 "The marriage of captain Tom Lister, of Shibden Hall, 11 00:00:24,880 --> 00:00:26,400 "to Miss Ann Walker of Crow Nest." 12 00:00:26,480 --> 00:00:28,880 It's a joke. It's a skit. 13 00:00:45,600 --> 00:00:47,960 I think it's genuine, the apology. 14 00:00:48,040 --> 00:00:50,240 I think the editor really had no idea 15 00:00:50,320 --> 00:00:53,880 he was reprinting anything other than a bona fide 16 00:00:53,960 --> 00:00:56,440 marriage announcement. 17 00:00:56,520 --> 00:00:58,120 Mm. 18 00:00:58,200 --> 00:01:01,120 Internal inquires were made at the newspaper office 19 00:01:01,200 --> 00:01:04,080 about how the item came to be reprinted. 20 00:01:04,160 --> 00:01:05,440 It was inconclusive, 21 00:01:05,520 --> 00:01:09,360 but the editor apologises for not being more rigorous 22 00:01:09,440 --> 00:01:12,360 before it went into print a second time and for the... 23 00:01:13,800 --> 00:01:16,440 ...embarrassment it caused. 24 00:01:16,520 --> 00:01:18,200 Oh, I wasn't embarrassed. 25 00:01:19,680 --> 00:01:21,800 But this will satisfy Miss Walker at least, 26 00:01:21,880 --> 00:01:25,840 who did not expect to see it reprinted in the Halifax Guardian. 27 00:01:25,920 --> 00:01:27,640 Moving on... 28 00:01:27,720 --> 00:01:30,000 Bradley has assessed Northgate House. 29 00:01:30,080 --> 00:01:32,320 He thinks I need to spend another £1,000 30 00:01:32,400 --> 00:01:33,400 to turn it into a good inn. 31 00:01:33,480 --> 00:01:36,440 And then Thomas Greenwood's all for leasing it at £200 a year, 32 00:01:36,520 --> 00:01:39,320 although Bradley thinks I should be asking nearer 300. 33 00:01:39,400 --> 00:01:40,880 Would it not be wise, 34 00:01:40,960 --> 00:01:42,600 at the risk of repeating myself, 35 00:01:42,680 --> 00:01:45,920 to sell it and settle some of your borrowing? 36 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:48,080 No! Good Lord, no. We've had this conversation. 37 00:01:48,160 --> 00:01:50,360 Oh, and I've decided to accept Mawson's offer 38 00:01:50,440 --> 00:01:51,680 for the tenancy of the Stump Cross Inn. 39 00:01:51,760 --> 00:01:53,720 Oh, well, he seems to be... 40 00:01:53,800 --> 00:01:56,400 Good. I'll tell him to come and see you about signing the lease. 41 00:01:56,480 --> 00:01:59,760 And Mytholm, it looks like Aquilla Green might take it. 42 00:01:59,840 --> 00:02:01,520 Oh, I thought that Mallinson... 43 00:02:01,600 --> 00:02:03,000 Mallinson is a yellow. 44 00:02:04,360 --> 00:02:05,720 I spoke to him about it, 45 00:02:05,800 --> 00:02:08,760 and he admitted he would never dare give a blue vote, 46 00:02:08,840 --> 00:02:11,680 so that's that. I told him until he could we couldn't agree. 47 00:02:11,760 --> 00:02:14,440 You do need to be careful. 48 00:02:14,520 --> 00:02:17,640 Oh, yes. Electoral intimidation. 49 00:02:17,720 --> 00:02:19,760 Yes, I suppose they'll have me up before the select committee 50 00:02:19,840 --> 00:02:22,520 before long, and believe you me, I would go, and with pleasure. 51 00:02:22,600 --> 00:02:23,360 Yes, it's... 52 00:02:23,440 --> 00:02:25,760 The yellows are the authors of this repugnant practice 53 00:02:25,840 --> 00:02:28,280 of exclusive dealing, Mr Parker, not me, 54 00:02:28,360 --> 00:02:31,560 for all Mr William Briggs's efforts to disclaim it in the Guardian. 55 00:02:31,640 --> 00:02:35,240 And well may he do so, for the yellows are the losers. 56 00:02:35,320 --> 00:02:39,080 I had to be really quite sharp with Mr Nicholson the other day, 57 00:02:39,160 --> 00:02:41,680 due to the want of civility shown Miss Walker 58 00:02:41,760 --> 00:02:43,240 by one of his young men. 59 00:02:43,320 --> 00:02:47,120 We may shop there again because we pride ourselves 60 00:02:47,200 --> 00:02:49,640 in rising above such nonsense, but others won't, 61 00:02:49,720 --> 00:02:52,120 not if they're addressed so impertinently. 62 00:02:52,200 --> 00:02:54,400 And then where would Mr Nicholson be, hm? 63 00:02:54,480 --> 00:02:56,000 - Out of business. - I agree. 64 00:02:56,080 --> 00:02:58,720 In a trading town like Halifax, we all depend on... 65 00:02:58,800 --> 00:03:01,040 And what was that idiotic marriage announcement, 66 00:03:01,120 --> 00:03:05,160 if not some feeble attempt to intimidate, to humiliate me? 67 00:03:05,240 --> 00:03:08,520 Some cowardly effort to point a finger because they don't like 68 00:03:08,600 --> 00:03:11,520 my opinions or the cut of my jib, or any of it. 69 00:03:11,600 --> 00:03:13,240 Yes, that's... 70 00:03:13,320 --> 00:03:17,540 How dare anyone speak to me about intimidation. 71 00:03:22,960 --> 00:03:29,000 Sync and corrections by btsix www.addic7ed.com 72 00:03:57,840 --> 00:04:00,000 How are you getting on? 73 00:04:00,080 --> 00:04:01,680 We've had some very bad news. 74 00:04:01,760 --> 00:04:03,560 Is that Anne? 75 00:04:03,640 --> 00:04:05,080 Mr Sunderland's dead. 76 00:04:05,160 --> 00:04:07,480 We've just had a note from Dr Kenny. 77 00:04:07,560 --> 00:04:09,640 He was with him all last night, 78 00:04:09,720 --> 00:04:12,280 him and Dr Jubb, and then he died, 79 00:04:12,360 --> 00:04:14,560 just gone midnight, just like that. 80 00:04:14,640 --> 00:04:15,720 Well, what was the matter with him? 81 00:04:15,800 --> 00:04:17,720 Gout of the stomach, apparently. 82 00:04:17,800 --> 00:04:19,720 Although... 83 00:04:19,800 --> 00:04:21,600 - Aunt. - Oh... 84 00:04:21,680 --> 00:04:23,560 Apparently, he was knocked down, 85 00:04:23,640 --> 00:04:25,880 in Halifax, in some skirmish. 86 00:04:25,960 --> 00:04:29,200 And this was after the election result was declared. 87 00:04:30,640 --> 00:04:32,240 Well, he must've got caught up in the throng 88 00:04:32,320 --> 00:04:34,120 and banged his head and... 89 00:04:35,280 --> 00:04:37,040 They think he was trampled on. 90 00:04:37,120 --> 00:04:40,760 - No. - Where will it end, all this nastiness? 91 00:04:40,840 --> 00:04:41,960 You're perfectly safe, Aunt. 92 00:04:42,040 --> 00:04:44,240 Yes, I am, but what about you? You're never in. 93 00:04:44,320 --> 00:04:46,120 Well, I'm never very far away, 94 00:04:46,200 --> 00:04:48,320 and I have a lot of business on hand so... 95 00:04:48,400 --> 00:04:49,800 Oh, poor, poor Mr Sunderland. 96 00:04:49,880 --> 00:04:52,400 Dr Kenny's offered to visit Aunt Anne if she... No! 97 00:04:52,480 --> 00:04:53,800 No. No, no, no. 98 00:04:54,520 --> 00:04:57,120 No. We'll send for Dr Jubb 99 00:04:57,200 --> 00:04:58,680 when we need someone. 100 00:04:58,760 --> 00:05:00,840 - But Dr Kenny's offering... - Anne? 101 00:05:00,920 --> 00:05:02,000 Is that her? 102 00:05:02,080 --> 00:05:03,280 Oh, yes. 103 00:05:03,360 --> 00:05:04,800 - Father wants to see you. - Mm. 104 00:05:06,280 --> 00:05:07,840 I'd rather see Dr Jubb. 105 00:05:07,920 --> 00:05:09,880 I don't know what's the matter with Dr Kenny. He's perfectly... 106 00:05:10,720 --> 00:05:12,600 - Yes, Father? - Where have you been? 107 00:05:12,680 --> 00:05:14,000 Nowhere. Well, Halifax. 108 00:05:14,080 --> 00:05:15,840 Now I'm going to the pit to see Hinscliffe. 109 00:05:15,920 --> 00:05:18,560 This arrived. Shut the door! 110 00:05:19,080 --> 00:05:20,120 Oh! 111 00:05:20,200 --> 00:05:22,080 This came. I opened it. 112 00:05:22,160 --> 00:05:24,920 I assumed it was for me, Captain Lister. 113 00:05:26,040 --> 00:05:27,320 But clearly not. 114 00:05:27,880 --> 00:05:29,900 Some wit, some wag, 115 00:05:30,540 --> 00:05:32,400 begging to "congratulate the parties 116 00:05:32,480 --> 00:05:33,840 "on their happy connection". 117 00:05:34,400 --> 00:05:35,560 Who's seen this? 118 00:05:35,640 --> 00:05:36,740 Nobody. 119 00:05:37,820 --> 00:05:39,000 Has Miss Walker seen this? 120 00:05:39,080 --> 00:05:40,600 - No! - Has Aunt Anne seen this? 121 00:05:40,680 --> 00:05:42,240 No. Just me. 122 00:05:43,600 --> 00:05:44,960 It'll be the Briggses. 123 00:05:45,560 --> 00:05:47,160 10-to-1 it's the Briggses. 124 00:05:47,240 --> 00:05:51,120 You know, if you didn't draw attention to how odd you are, 125 00:05:51,200 --> 00:05:53,100 they wouldn't do these things. 126 00:05:55,760 --> 00:05:58,080 You'd better get up and get dressed and get some fresh air. 127 00:05:58,860 --> 00:06:00,880 You won't recover lying in bed all day. 128 00:06:06,960 --> 00:06:09,080 I'm amazed you've been at it this long and not got it sunk. 129 00:06:09,160 --> 00:06:10,760 Well, we've been unlucky. 130 00:06:10,840 --> 00:06:13,600 It collapsed at one point, and then we had to put everything on hold 131 00:06:13,680 --> 00:06:15,040 to build the drift. 132 00:06:15,120 --> 00:06:19,320 Oh, and there was another pantomime finding a horse fit to turn the gin. 133 00:06:19,400 --> 00:06:20,800 That was Holt. 134 00:06:20,880 --> 00:06:22,760 But we're at 90 yards now, 135 00:06:22,840 --> 00:06:24,960 and they're confident they can reach the lower bed 136 00:06:25,040 --> 00:06:27,880 by June, July... August. 137 00:06:27,960 --> 00:06:31,600 But, yes, this is why a second opinion wouldn't go amiss. 138 00:06:31,680 --> 00:06:34,440 I can't afford any more delays. I need good advice. 139 00:06:34,520 --> 00:06:36,120 I do like Holt, but... 140 00:06:37,313 --> 00:06:39,520 What's the plan once it's sunk? 141 00:06:39,600 --> 00:06:41,920 Where will you sell it, up here or down in Halifax? 142 00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:43,040 Both. 143 00:06:43,120 --> 00:06:46,400 Pickles is building a new road along the top to join the Old Bank, 144 00:06:46,480 --> 00:06:47,680 just below Whiskham. 145 00:06:47,760 --> 00:06:50,160 Then I can cart it down into Halifax, sell it there 146 00:06:50,240 --> 00:06:52,760 for a shilling more than I can at the pit mouth. 147 00:06:52,840 --> 00:06:54,240 But... 148 00:06:55,520 --> 00:07:01,400 ...getting and selling coal is just one part of the scheme. 149 00:07:01,480 --> 00:07:03,680 - Mm-hm. - The other would be... 150 00:07:03,760 --> 00:07:07,800 ...to be in a position where I could throw water on Rawson's pit. 151 00:07:07,880 --> 00:07:11,920 Not just to stop the trespass, but to prove it. 152 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:13,720 And soon. 153 00:07:13,800 --> 00:07:16,840 Well, like I said, we might have fallen out over that business 154 00:07:16,920 --> 00:07:18,520 up at Willy Hill pit, 155 00:07:18,600 --> 00:07:21,640 but when it comes to dealing with the Rawsons 156 00:07:21,720 --> 00:07:24,280 I'll be a friend to anyone who'll be a friend to me. 157 00:07:35,200 --> 00:07:36,800 Thank you. 158 00:07:36,880 --> 00:07:38,680 Did you know I've bought Staups? 159 00:07:38,760 --> 00:07:41,040 So you've got Spiggs colliery? 160 00:07:41,120 --> 00:07:43,280 There's a little complication that needs dealing with, 161 00:07:43,360 --> 00:07:46,560 but, yes, strategically, potentially, 162 00:07:46,640 --> 00:07:48,360 it gives me more options 163 00:07:48,440 --> 00:07:52,160 and a lot more control over the coal across the whole of my estate. 164 00:07:52,240 --> 00:07:53,800 Oh, I can see that. 165 00:07:53,880 --> 00:07:55,560 If it's handled well. 166 00:07:57,880 --> 00:08:02,920 I don't know that I can rely on Holt to come up with a good, solid, 167 00:08:03,000 --> 00:08:06,320 coordinated plan and see it through without me having to manage 168 00:08:06,400 --> 00:08:07,840 the thing myself. 169 00:08:10,680 --> 00:08:12,100 But if you helped me... 170 00:08:13,560 --> 00:08:18,040 I've been thinking for a while about opening a new pit, 171 00:08:18,120 --> 00:08:19,520 further down this way. 172 00:08:20,880 --> 00:08:22,720 Sounds like you've got a plan. 173 00:08:23,380 --> 00:08:24,800 Why would you need me? 174 00:08:24,880 --> 00:08:26,600 Because I don't know enough. 175 00:08:27,760 --> 00:08:30,000 I learn more and more every day, and the more I learn 176 00:08:30,080 --> 00:08:32,600 the more I realise how much can go wrong 177 00:08:32,680 --> 00:08:34,280 and how much I don't know, 178 00:08:34,360 --> 00:08:37,400 and just what a slippery business it all is. 179 00:08:37,480 --> 00:08:40,080 See, this is why I don't dislike Holt. 180 00:08:40,880 --> 00:08:42,480 For all of his faults, I... 181 00:08:43,480 --> 00:08:46,080 I do believe he's as straight as a die. 182 00:08:46,160 --> 00:08:48,400 Whereas you, Hinscliffe, 183 00:08:48,480 --> 00:08:53,160 I'm not really sure I could trust you any further than I could spit. 184 00:08:54,640 --> 00:08:56,000 Not that I ever would. 185 00:08:56,080 --> 00:08:58,720 You can think what you like about me, Miss Lister, 186 00:08:58,800 --> 00:09:02,640 but the bottom line is I'm hoping, if I do you a favour, 187 00:09:02,720 --> 00:09:05,120 happen next time I need one back, 188 00:09:05,200 --> 00:09:08,760 you'd be more inclined to oblige me than you were last time. 189 00:09:08,840 --> 00:09:14,480 What's this "little complication" that needs dealing with? 190 00:09:16,753 --> 00:09:19,840 William Keighley and John Oates and Jack Green 191 00:09:19,920 --> 00:09:23,120 believe they have some kind of claim to the loose coal 192 00:09:23,200 --> 00:09:26,000 underneath Spiggs' land, which, to be clear, I already owned, 193 00:09:26,080 --> 00:09:29,000 but which they can only access via my newly acquired colliery. 194 00:09:29,080 --> 00:09:31,320 But there's nothing about it in my uncle's records, 195 00:09:31,400 --> 00:09:33,800 which there would be if he'd have come to an arrangement with them 196 00:09:33,880 --> 00:09:35,320 about the loose. 197 00:09:35,400 --> 00:09:37,920 So I'm wondering about flooding Spiggs, 198 00:09:38,000 --> 00:09:40,080 which I can do because I own it, 199 00:09:40,160 --> 00:09:42,440 and stopping them taking the loose. 200 00:09:42,520 --> 00:09:46,840 Except, then, the worry is I might flood Walker pit 201 00:09:46,920 --> 00:09:50,480 at the same time, before I've bottomed it 202 00:09:50,560 --> 00:09:52,120 and got to the trespass. 203 00:09:52,200 --> 00:09:53,600 You wouldn't. 204 00:09:55,860 --> 00:09:56,920 Really? 205 00:09:57,000 --> 00:09:59,840 If you flooded Spiggs, it wouldn't touch Walker pit. 206 00:10:00,800 --> 00:10:01,880 Oh? 207 00:10:02,960 --> 00:10:06,000 Now, will you tell Holt you're getting rid of him, 208 00:10:06,080 --> 00:10:07,280 or shall I? 209 00:10:14,200 --> 00:10:15,480 Holt. 210 00:10:16,440 --> 00:10:18,440 I-I won't come in. 211 00:10:18,520 --> 00:10:20,680 So I need to talk to you about... 212 00:10:20,760 --> 00:10:22,000 How are you, ma'am? 213 00:10:22,080 --> 00:10:26,280 Very well. So the thing is... Thank you. The thing is... 214 00:10:26,360 --> 00:10:27,520 What it is... 215 00:10:27,600 --> 00:10:29,680 I was going to pop over and see you today 216 00:10:29,760 --> 00:10:33,600 about Mr Walker Priestley's coal and Mrs Machin's coal. 217 00:10:33,680 --> 00:10:34,720 What about them? 218 00:10:34,800 --> 00:10:38,400 Well, he will sell his coal at £160 an acre. 219 00:10:38,480 --> 00:10:40,400 Both beds, hard and soft, upper and lower. 220 00:10:40,480 --> 00:10:43,160 I've offered him 140. He's asked for ten days to think about it, 221 00:10:43,240 --> 00:10:46,760 but between you and me I'd go up to 160 rather than miss the deal, 222 00:10:46,840 --> 00:10:49,120 because he'll be tempted to go to Rawson otherwise. 223 00:10:49,200 --> 00:10:51,200 And we don't want that, do we? 224 00:10:51,280 --> 00:10:52,840 Not down there! 225 00:10:52,920 --> 00:10:54,480 Same at the Machins'. 226 00:10:54,560 --> 00:10:56,440 Now, they've promised me first refusal. 227 00:10:56,520 --> 00:10:59,160 And it's more complicated again with them, like. 228 00:10:59,240 --> 00:11:01,120 - You know she drinks. - Who does? 229 00:11:01,200 --> 00:11:03,160 - She does, Mrs Machin. - No, I didn't know that, 230 00:11:03,240 --> 00:11:05,560 but how... How would I know that? 231 00:11:05,640 --> 00:11:09,800 Thing is the land was left half to her 232 00:11:09,880 --> 00:11:11,160 and half to her children, 233 00:11:11,240 --> 00:11:12,400 and they don't all get on. 234 00:11:12,480 --> 00:11:15,720 Well, there's one daughter in York Castle for debt. 235 00:11:15,800 --> 00:11:19,840 So they all have to agree who they sell their coal rights to, 236 00:11:19,920 --> 00:11:21,440 and they can hardly agree which way is up, 237 00:11:21,520 --> 00:11:22,960 never mind who they might sell their coal to. 238 00:11:23,040 --> 00:11:25,520 Now, I'm well in with 'em... 239 00:11:26,840 --> 00:11:28,240 Well enough. As well as anybody. 240 00:11:28,320 --> 00:11:32,160 ...and they'd sell it to me rather than him, Rawson, by choice, 241 00:11:32,240 --> 00:11:35,360 me buying on your behalf, of course, not that they need know that. 242 00:11:35,440 --> 00:11:38,520 But if he offers them a premium, 243 00:11:38,600 --> 00:11:41,320 one of 'em might get it into their heads to go with him. 244 00:11:41,400 --> 00:11:44,160 And you can't let that happen, 245 00:11:44,240 --> 00:11:45,800 not down there, 246 00:11:45,880 --> 00:11:49,840 otherwise Rawson's got another back door straight onto your beds. 247 00:11:50,520 --> 00:11:52,440 - Do you see that? - Mm. 248 00:11:56,200 --> 00:12:01,240 If I was to flood Spiggs colliery to stop access to the loose coal, 249 00:12:01,320 --> 00:12:03,920 there's no danger that I could accidentally flood Walker pit 250 00:12:04,000 --> 00:12:05,160 at the same time, is there? 251 00:12:05,240 --> 00:12:06,560 Oh, yes. 252 00:12:06,640 --> 00:12:08,280 Well, it's highly probable you wou... 253 00:12:09,360 --> 00:12:11,160 Who's told you different? 254 00:12:13,960 --> 00:12:16,480 I don't know who to believe. 255 00:12:16,560 --> 00:12:20,120 I was going to let Holt go, but I... I need him. 256 00:12:20,200 --> 00:12:22,880 I just need to manage them all better. 257 00:12:22,960 --> 00:12:26,360 I told Holt that he must take care of Mr Walker Priestley's coal 258 00:12:26,440 --> 00:12:30,000 for me, and the Machins, and then I explained that I'd instructed 259 00:12:30,080 --> 00:12:33,480 Hinscliffe to work up a plan to look after Walker pit for me. 260 00:12:33,560 --> 00:12:35,360 How did he take that? 261 00:12:35,440 --> 00:12:36,840 Badly, but... 262 00:12:38,000 --> 00:12:41,240 ...I need to glean what I can from them all, 263 00:12:41,320 --> 00:12:43,280 and then... 264 00:12:43,360 --> 00:12:45,000 ...make my own judgments. 265 00:12:45,080 --> 00:12:46,920 Mm. 266 00:12:47,000 --> 00:12:49,720 They say that Holt drinks, but... 267 00:12:49,800 --> 00:12:52,240 ...I've never smelt it on him. 268 00:12:52,320 --> 00:12:55,200 Well, he's getting on a bit, isn't he? 269 00:12:55,280 --> 00:12:57,960 Perhaps he's just... forgetting. 270 00:13:03,720 --> 00:13:06,600 I'm sorry if I upset you, 271 00:13:06,680 --> 00:13:08,300 this morning. 272 00:13:09,400 --> 00:13:11,720 I've always tried to do my best for you, 273 00:13:11,800 --> 00:13:13,520 one way and another. 274 00:13:13,600 --> 00:13:15,440 It's just I... 275 00:13:15,520 --> 00:13:17,440 I haven't always known how. 276 00:13:18,360 --> 00:13:20,500 And I'm sorry if I said the wrong thing. 277 00:13:26,800 --> 00:13:30,120 Are you sure about this Northgate business, 278 00:13:30,200 --> 00:13:32,840 turning it into a hotel? 279 00:13:32,920 --> 00:13:35,440 It'll cost money. 280 00:13:35,520 --> 00:13:36,920 And... 281 00:13:37,000 --> 00:13:38,720 ...what if it fails? 282 00:13:38,800 --> 00:13:40,920 You don't want to get yourself laughed at. 283 00:13:46,880 --> 00:13:48,200 Goodnight. 284 00:13:49,000 --> 00:13:50,240 Goodnight. 285 00:14:04,280 --> 00:14:05,360 Adney? 286 00:14:05,440 --> 00:14:06,720 Stop leaning on me. 287 00:14:08,080 --> 00:14:09,840 What's the matter, hm? 288 00:14:10,720 --> 00:14:12,760 My little Adney. 289 00:14:12,840 --> 00:14:14,000 You need to brush your teeth. 290 00:14:17,080 --> 00:14:19,060 I read your letter, 291 00:14:19,140 --> 00:14:21,360 to Lady Harriet in Copenhagen. 292 00:14:22,760 --> 00:14:25,280 Was there something the matter with it? 293 00:14:25,360 --> 00:14:28,240 Was it not elegantly expressed? 294 00:14:28,320 --> 00:14:29,440 Hm? 295 00:14:29,520 --> 00:14:31,040 Adney, I thought you'd like it. 296 00:14:31,120 --> 00:14:33,200 I thought you'd be charmed by it. 297 00:14:35,800 --> 00:14:38,040 Was it the bit about you? 298 00:14:41,040 --> 00:14:42,520 Adney? 299 00:14:42,600 --> 00:14:46,720 I did ask if I might mention you and you were delighted. Did I... 300 00:14:46,800 --> 00:14:48,400 Did I misread that? 301 00:14:50,800 --> 00:14:51,960 Adney, I've had a long day. 302 00:14:52,040 --> 00:14:54,720 I've been dealing with men all day. 303 00:14:54,800 --> 00:14:57,120 Tiresome, inarticulate men. 304 00:14:57,200 --> 00:14:58,720 Read it. 305 00:14:58,800 --> 00:14:59,840 Aloud. 306 00:14:59,920 --> 00:15:01,120 The bit about me. 307 00:15:14,760 --> 00:15:16,040 Ah. 308 00:15:16,120 --> 00:15:19,280 "You used to wonder who would be my companion. 309 00:15:19,360 --> 00:15:22,080 "I think I have provided one you will like. 310 00:15:22,800 --> 00:15:25,520 "She is little and amiable with a great deal of common sense 311 00:15:25,600 --> 00:15:26,960 "and good feeling. 312 00:15:27,040 --> 00:15:29,120 "She is now with me here at Shibden, 313 00:15:29,200 --> 00:15:32,040 "and I have never before been so comfortable at home." 314 00:15:33,040 --> 00:15:34,360 What's not to like? 315 00:15:35,800 --> 00:15:37,120 It's in brackets. 316 00:15:37,200 --> 00:15:39,520 You've put me in brackets! 317 00:15:39,600 --> 00:15:42,400 It's a clause, an aside, in a bigger paragraph 318 00:15:42,480 --> 00:15:44,320 about when she and I hope... 319 00:15:45,480 --> 00:15:47,400 ...when we all will next meet. 320 00:15:47,480 --> 00:15:49,600 Yes, I'm a clause. I'm an aside. 321 00:15:49,680 --> 00:15:51,760 Nonsense. It's an elegant interjection. 322 00:15:51,840 --> 00:15:52,920 I've been canvassed over. 323 00:15:53,000 --> 00:15:54,760 No, you've been elegantly introduced. 324 00:15:54,840 --> 00:15:56,320 As an afterthought. 325 00:15:56,400 --> 00:15:58,280 Well, I'm sorry if you think that's how it reads. 326 00:15:58,360 --> 00:16:00,360 "I'm sorry if you think..." Oh, I hate that, 327 00:16:00,440 --> 00:16:01,720 that's what men say. 328 00:16:01,800 --> 00:16:04,760 "I'm sorry if YOU'RE so stupid that YOU'VE misunderstood." 329 00:16:04,840 --> 00:16:07,360 I never said anything about stupid, nor would I. 330 00:16:07,440 --> 00:16:09,280 - It's an ugly word. - It's implicit. 331 00:16:11,360 --> 00:16:14,440 Well, then, I shall go and rewrite my letter. 332 00:16:14,520 --> 00:16:15,800 No. 333 00:16:15,880 --> 00:16:18,760 You needn't do that. I wouldn't wish to put you to the trouble. 334 00:16:18,840 --> 00:16:21,240 You could merely delete any reference to me. 335 00:16:21,320 --> 00:16:22,720 That would answer. 336 00:16:23,800 --> 00:16:25,720 Useful to know where I am... 337 00:16:25,800 --> 00:16:27,200 ...in the pecking order. 338 00:16:28,040 --> 00:16:29,240 Now, that's just... 339 00:17:17,640 --> 00:17:19,840 My bowels are all wrong again. 340 00:17:44,040 --> 00:17:45,280 Adney? 341 00:17:47,200 --> 00:17:48,960 Can I come in? 342 00:17:50,480 --> 00:17:51,760 It's your house. 343 00:17:57,240 --> 00:17:58,880 Don't say that. 344 00:18:02,840 --> 00:18:05,160 I'm sorry if I... 345 00:18:05,240 --> 00:18:06,360 ...hurt you. 346 00:18:06,440 --> 00:18:07,880 That's the last thing I'd... 347 00:18:07,960 --> 00:18:09,080 It's just... 348 00:18:09,160 --> 00:18:12,360 ...striking the right note in a letter like that... 349 00:18:12,440 --> 00:18:14,240 People are laughing at us. 350 00:18:14,320 --> 00:18:16,760 No... No, they're not. 351 00:18:16,840 --> 00:18:20,840 Lady Harriet would never be so cruel or vulgar... 352 00:18:20,920 --> 00:18:22,600 In Halifax, they are. 353 00:18:22,680 --> 00:18:26,360 That idiotic marriage announcement, 354 00:18:26,440 --> 00:18:30,520 reprinted twice, and then that humiliating business at Nicholson's. 355 00:18:30,600 --> 00:18:35,040 Oh, I think if anyone's humiliated at Nicholson's, it's not us, 356 00:18:35,120 --> 00:18:37,480 it's Nicholson's silly lads. 357 00:18:37,560 --> 00:18:39,120 I shan't go back there. I know you want us to... 358 00:18:39,200 --> 00:18:41,040 No, we must. 359 00:18:41,120 --> 00:18:44,720 We must make a point of going in there again and again. 360 00:18:46,480 --> 00:18:51,600 We must be consistently clear that we have nothing to hide, 361 00:18:51,680 --> 00:18:53,400 nothing to be ashamed of. 362 00:18:57,000 --> 00:18:58,660 I'm not strong like you. 363 00:19:00,780 --> 00:19:02,380 I dwell on things. 364 00:19:07,920 --> 00:19:09,760 Do you remember at Crow Nest 365 00:19:09,840 --> 00:19:13,000 when Mrs Priestley walked in on us, 366 00:19:13,080 --> 00:19:15,040 and you laughed? 367 00:19:15,120 --> 00:19:17,360 I was mortified, and you... 368 00:19:17,440 --> 00:19:18,720 You laughed. 369 00:19:20,080 --> 00:19:22,160 I think, in that moment, 370 00:19:22,240 --> 00:19:25,200 I saw for the first time the real you. 371 00:19:27,400 --> 00:19:29,880 Who is as brave as anyone. 372 00:19:42,640 --> 00:19:44,720 You're stronger than you think. 373 00:19:59,360 --> 00:20:00,520 What I'm wondering, Miss Lister, 374 00:20:00,600 --> 00:20:02,160 is if we've been thinking too small. 375 00:20:02,240 --> 00:20:04,720 I had expected ground plans and elevations, Mr Bradley, 376 00:20:04,800 --> 00:20:07,640 based on our last conversation, not more sketches. 377 00:20:07,720 --> 00:20:09,480 Oh, they're well under way. 378 00:20:09,560 --> 00:20:11,580 But you've got all this land. 379 00:20:12,720 --> 00:20:14,280 And I know that you want your inn, 380 00:20:14,360 --> 00:20:15,600 casino, whatever you want to call it, 381 00:20:15,680 --> 00:20:17,120 up and running by March next year, 382 00:20:17,200 --> 00:20:19,680 but within that same timescale, frame... 383 00:20:19,760 --> 00:20:22,040 This all depends how ambitious you want to be. 384 00:20:22,120 --> 00:20:25,440 Oh, I don't think anyone can accuse me of lacking ambition, Mr Bradley. 385 00:20:25,520 --> 00:20:27,080 So... Exactly. 386 00:20:27,160 --> 00:20:31,400 So what if... And this is something you could easily accommodate 387 00:20:31,480 --> 00:20:33,840 in the available space, it all depends upon how much capital 388 00:20:33,920 --> 00:20:35,040 you've got to play with. 389 00:20:35,120 --> 00:20:38,600 But what if we were to build new premises here too, 390 00:20:38,680 --> 00:20:41,400 for, say, a bank? 391 00:20:42,720 --> 00:20:44,040 And a news room? 392 00:20:45,480 --> 00:20:48,240 And instead of four or five houses, 393 00:20:49,200 --> 00:20:53,000 you've enough land here for 28 brand-new houses. 394 00:20:55,160 --> 00:20:58,000 This entire area could become a whole new commercial 395 00:20:58,080 --> 00:20:59,740 enclave within the town. 396 00:21:00,820 --> 00:21:04,880 And think of the income that that could generate in rent. 397 00:21:05,800 --> 00:21:07,360 Hmm. 398 00:21:11,840 --> 00:21:15,520 You're going to need a licence for this, ah, inn, 399 00:21:15,600 --> 00:21:18,640 casino, whatever we're calling it this week. 400 00:21:18,720 --> 00:21:21,200 And if you're serious, I'd apply for it now. 401 00:21:21,280 --> 00:21:22,800 There's no point in throwing money at the thing 402 00:21:22,880 --> 00:21:24,600 and then finding the magistrates won't license it. 403 00:21:24,680 --> 00:21:26,680 Well, why wouldn't they? 404 00:21:26,760 --> 00:21:29,400 Well, it's just with Christopher Rawson 405 00:21:29,480 --> 00:21:30,840 being the chief magistrate... 406 00:21:30,920 --> 00:21:32,240 Well, he'd have no reason. 407 00:21:32,320 --> 00:21:35,200 I mean, such an establishment could only be an asset to the town. 408 00:21:35,280 --> 00:21:37,640 Yes, but we both know what he's like. 409 00:21:39,800 --> 00:21:41,880 - Leave it with me. - Yeah. 410 00:21:41,960 --> 00:21:45,760 Mr Bradley thinks I'd need to spend another £4,000 411 00:21:45,840 --> 00:21:48,400 on this new scheme. 412 00:21:48,480 --> 00:21:51,560 - Miss Lister... - Oh, I've been meaning to ask. 413 00:21:51,640 --> 00:21:55,160 If I were a man, for which I have 1001 reasons 414 00:21:55,240 --> 00:21:57,120 to thank heaven and providence that I'm not, 415 00:21:57,200 --> 00:22:02,320 would you even think to question the amount of money I'm borrowing? 416 00:22:20,160 --> 00:22:21,680 All right? 417 00:22:36,880 --> 00:22:39,080 - Mr Booth. - Dr Jubb. 418 00:22:39,160 --> 00:22:41,280 - Have you heard the news, sir? - Which, sir? 419 00:22:41,360 --> 00:22:43,640 Parliament, sir. Dissolved. 420 00:22:43,720 --> 00:22:46,680 Oh, yeah. We all know about it. Miss Lister's... 421 00:22:51,280 --> 00:22:53,440 So we must endure an indifferent Melbourne 422 00:22:53,520 --> 00:22:54,480 once again. 423 00:22:54,560 --> 00:22:57,320 And we might've had the intellect and integrity of appeal. 424 00:22:57,400 --> 00:23:01,000 And you'll have heard the latest, in Halifax. 425 00:23:01,080 --> 00:23:02,560 If Charles Wood is offered high office 426 00:23:02,640 --> 00:23:04,560 in the new Whig administration, 427 00:23:04,640 --> 00:23:06,280 which they seem to think he will be, 428 00:23:06,360 --> 00:23:07,560 it'll trigger a by-election. 429 00:23:07,640 --> 00:23:09,200 Another election? Oh... 430 00:23:09,280 --> 00:23:11,400 And people are saying Mr Rawson himself 431 00:23:11,480 --> 00:23:12,560 will stand this time. 432 00:23:12,640 --> 00:23:15,200 Mr Rawson? Mr Christopher Rawson? 433 00:23:15,280 --> 00:23:17,760 So vexed was he by the attack on his property 434 00:23:17,840 --> 00:23:19,240 a few short weeks ago. 435 00:23:19,320 --> 00:23:21,120 Is that a good idea? 436 00:23:21,200 --> 00:23:24,720 Would not Mr Henry Edwards 437 00:23:24,800 --> 00:23:26,800 be a better choice of candidate for Halifax? 438 00:23:26,880 --> 00:23:28,800 Mr Henry Edwards? 439 00:23:28,880 --> 00:23:31,680 I doubt he has either the money or the stomach for it. 440 00:23:31,760 --> 00:23:34,120 I think Mr Henry Edwards might surprise us all, 441 00:23:34,200 --> 00:23:36,560 given the chance. Hm, Aunt? 442 00:23:36,640 --> 00:23:38,680 Would you not support Mr Rawson, Miss Lister, 443 00:23:38,760 --> 00:23:40,320 with your great influence? 444 00:23:41,600 --> 00:23:42,700 Yes. 445 00:23:43,600 --> 00:23:45,400 Without doubt, without question. 446 00:23:45,480 --> 00:23:50,680 If he was the chosen Tory candidate and I had influence over 1000 votes, 447 00:23:50,760 --> 00:23:53,200 then he should have every one of them. 448 00:23:53,280 --> 00:23:56,720 I just question whether a man who has... 449 00:23:56,800 --> 00:24:01,000 ...offended members of some of the oldest families in Halifax 450 00:24:01,080 --> 00:24:03,280 is best placed to unite the Tory vote in a way that's 451 00:24:03,360 --> 00:24:06,600 necessary in such difficult times? 452 00:24:06,680 --> 00:24:08,960 Has he? Has he? 453 00:24:09,040 --> 00:24:14,280 - Whereas Mr Henry Edwards... - Mm. Well, Mr Rawson is... 454 00:24:14,360 --> 00:24:16,480 He can be, erm... 455 00:24:16,560 --> 00:24:17,760 ...abrasive. 456 00:24:20,600 --> 00:24:21,920 Is Miss Lister... 457 00:24:22,000 --> 00:24:24,720 There's a Mr William Keighley downstairs, ma'am. 458 00:24:24,800 --> 00:24:26,880 He says Mr Hinscliffe's sent him to... 459 00:24:26,960 --> 00:24:30,040 Something about Staups, Spiggs colliery. 460 00:24:31,480 --> 00:24:34,680 Perhaps, Dr Jubb, when you do your rounds, 461 00:24:34,760 --> 00:24:38,360 you could intimate to anyone who's concerned 462 00:24:39,240 --> 00:24:42,240 that others, such as Mr Henry Edwards, 463 00:24:42,320 --> 00:24:44,760 might be better placed to lead the way 464 00:24:44,840 --> 00:24:46,720 and unite the blue vote. 465 00:24:46,800 --> 00:24:49,600 No need to say from whence the thought sprang. 466 00:24:49,680 --> 00:24:51,360 My aunt and I would hate to be thought of 467 00:24:51,440 --> 00:24:54,640 as intermeddlers in anything political. 468 00:25:07,240 --> 00:25:08,520 Mr Keighley! 469 00:25:08,600 --> 00:25:09,720 Miss Lister. 470 00:25:09,800 --> 00:25:10,880 Come through. 471 00:25:19,520 --> 00:25:21,720 So it's a record of all the expenses I've had 472 00:25:21,800 --> 00:25:23,800 driving the drift through Well Royd Holmes. 473 00:25:23,880 --> 00:25:27,840 Totals £507, 16 shillings and five pence, 474 00:25:27,920 --> 00:25:29,880 which you'll appreciate I'd not have spent 475 00:25:29,960 --> 00:25:32,080 had I not had this agreement with your uncle over the Spiggs coal 476 00:25:32,160 --> 00:25:33,840 in the first place. 477 00:25:33,920 --> 00:25:35,600 Now, if you look in the back... 478 00:25:37,440 --> 00:25:39,440 ...you'll see there's a memorandum. 479 00:25:39,520 --> 00:25:44,320 £100, paid by me to your Uncle James to get all the coal in Spiggs land. 480 00:25:44,400 --> 00:25:47,240 But the fact is there's no record to corroborate any of this 481 00:25:47,320 --> 00:25:48,680 in my uncle's accounts. 482 00:25:48,760 --> 00:25:50,040 Well, I know nowt about that. 483 00:25:50,120 --> 00:25:52,280 I just know I've spent a lot of money in good faith. 484 00:25:52,360 --> 00:25:56,480 Why is this memorandum at the back and not in the correct chronology 485 00:25:56,560 --> 00:25:58,580 with the earlier parts of the accounts? 486 00:25:59,680 --> 00:26:00,760 It... It's just... 487 00:26:00,840 --> 00:26:01,840 It's just the way I did it. 488 00:26:03,880 --> 00:26:06,000 I know it wouldn't stand up in a court of law, 489 00:26:06,080 --> 00:26:09,640 but, you know, let's hope it doesn't go that far. 490 00:26:09,720 --> 00:26:12,160 It's just the only record I've got of what we agreed. 491 00:26:12,240 --> 00:26:14,720 The problem, from my point of view, 492 00:26:14,800 --> 00:26:18,360 and I only ever wish to do that which is fair, 493 00:26:18,440 --> 00:26:21,280 I've just bought Staups for a significant sum 494 00:26:21,360 --> 00:26:23,720 and I need some return on my investment. 495 00:26:23,800 --> 00:26:26,520 If you try and get Spiggs coal, 496 00:26:26,600 --> 00:26:28,760 I will flood the pit to prevent access 497 00:26:28,840 --> 00:26:30,600 and try the matter at York. 498 00:26:30,680 --> 00:26:33,120 I'm sorry, but there it is. 499 00:26:33,840 --> 00:26:36,560 Not only did my uncle make no record of it, 500 00:26:36,640 --> 00:26:39,120 but he never mentioned anything of the matter to me 501 00:26:39,200 --> 00:26:42,000 at the time, and nothing of this arose in the last 502 00:26:42,080 --> 00:26:44,840 however many months it's taken to complete the purchase of Staups, 503 00:26:44,920 --> 00:26:47,120 with the searches and so forth, so... 504 00:26:53,520 --> 00:26:54,960 You do know, if you flood Spiggs 505 00:26:55,040 --> 00:26:56,600 you'll flood your little pit up here. 506 00:26:56,680 --> 00:26:57,840 Not necessarily. 507 00:26:57,920 --> 00:26:59,120 Almost certainly you would. 508 00:26:59,200 --> 00:27:02,480 There seems to be some difference of opinion on that. 509 00:27:02,560 --> 00:27:03,880 Who's told you otherwise? 510 00:27:04,880 --> 00:27:06,040 Hinscliffe? 511 00:27:08,160 --> 00:27:09,920 Well, he would say that. 512 00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:12,680 He would say the opposite and then happily watch it flood. 513 00:27:13,680 --> 00:27:14,940 And do you know why? 514 00:27:15,820 --> 00:27:18,840 Because he's had more of your coal than the Rawsons have. 515 00:27:34,920 --> 00:27:36,120 Morning, ma'am. 516 00:27:36,200 --> 00:27:37,800 Has Mr Hinscliffe been up to see you today? 517 00:27:37,880 --> 00:27:39,600 He popped up this morning. 518 00:27:39,680 --> 00:27:42,000 I suppose you and your brothers think I'm foolish 519 00:27:42,080 --> 00:27:43,840 to trust him above Holt? 520 00:27:45,360 --> 00:27:47,200 Who's to say? 521 00:27:47,280 --> 00:27:49,520 I don't necessarily trust him. 522 00:27:49,600 --> 00:27:52,480 I'm just using him to get some information from him. 523 00:27:53,340 --> 00:27:55,240 If I was to stop the loose at Spiggs, 524 00:27:55,320 --> 00:27:57,160 how would it affect this pit, 525 00:27:57,240 --> 00:27:58,600 in your opinion? 526 00:27:58,680 --> 00:28:00,760 Oh, I... 527 00:28:00,840 --> 00:28:03,640 Would it flood it, or would it not flood it? 528 00:28:03,720 --> 00:28:05,400 Well, our Robert'd have an opinion. 529 00:28:05,480 --> 00:28:06,600 He'd certainly know about Spiggs. 530 00:28:06,680 --> 00:28:08,640 He's worked all t'mines round here. 531 00:28:08,720 --> 00:28:09,840 Where is Robert? 532 00:28:13,080 --> 00:28:15,000 He's... digging. 533 00:28:15,080 --> 00:28:16,040 Ah. 534 00:28:16,120 --> 00:28:18,720 So was it right, then, what Mr Hinscliffe said? 535 00:28:18,800 --> 00:28:21,360 You're thinking of sinking another pit further down nearer t'Hall? 536 00:28:21,440 --> 00:28:23,960 Only I hope you'd consider us, ma'am, 537 00:28:24,040 --> 00:28:25,360 to sink it, if you did. 538 00:28:25,440 --> 00:28:26,720 For the right price. 539 00:28:27,640 --> 00:28:29,080 What's the plan, then? 540 00:28:29,160 --> 00:28:30,560 The plan... 541 00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:36,120 ...would be to sink this other pit somewhere, 542 00:28:36,200 --> 00:28:38,760 50 or 60 yards Shibden Hall side of Walker pit, 543 00:28:38,840 --> 00:28:41,960 and drive two drifts up to it from such a place in the lower land 544 00:28:42,040 --> 00:28:44,440 as I could build a water-wheel to power a pit engine. 545 00:28:48,960 --> 00:28:50,080 Speak to Robert. 546 00:28:50,160 --> 00:28:53,280 Tell him to come and see me if he thinks he can be useful, hm? 547 00:29:11,240 --> 00:29:14,160 - Anne! - Ah. There you are. 548 00:29:14,240 --> 00:29:16,240 I've found something, in my family papers. 549 00:29:16,320 --> 00:29:19,080 Well, two things, actually. One I half-knew 550 00:29:19,160 --> 00:29:21,400 but I'd half-forgotten, and the other, I had no idea. 551 00:29:21,480 --> 00:29:22,520 What? 552 00:29:22,600 --> 00:29:25,560 Well, it would... It would appear that, erm... 553 00:29:25,640 --> 00:29:26,520 What? 554 00:29:26,600 --> 00:29:30,520 Well, erm, that in 1831 my sister, legally, 555 00:29:30,600 --> 00:29:34,320 through lease and re-lease and some sort of deed of sale, 556 00:29:34,400 --> 00:29:37,160 conveyed all of her property onto Captain Sutherland. 557 00:29:37,240 --> 00:29:39,920 All of it, everything. All her share of the estate. 558 00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:42,440 And that's contrary, directly contrary, 559 00:29:42,520 --> 00:29:44,960 to a provision set out by my father in his will, 560 00:29:45,040 --> 00:29:46,920 which protects us both from having to submit 561 00:29:47,000 --> 00:29:48,360 our fortunes to any husbands. 562 00:29:48,440 --> 00:29:49,440 Does it? 563 00:29:49,520 --> 00:29:50,720 I mean, why would she do that? 564 00:29:50,800 --> 00:29:52,640 Why would she give up that protection? 565 00:29:52,720 --> 00:29:55,080 And why would she not tell me that's what she was doing? 566 00:29:55,160 --> 00:29:57,360 So... Hang on. So your father... 567 00:29:57,440 --> 00:29:59,200 So my father made provision in his will, 568 00:29:59,280 --> 00:30:00,720 in the event of my brother's death, 569 00:30:00,800 --> 00:30:02,960 for me and Elizabeth to jointly inherit everything. 570 00:30:03,040 --> 00:30:05,160 But he also made what I was always given 571 00:30:05,240 --> 00:30:06,840 to believe was an unshakeable clause... 572 00:30:06,920 --> 00:30:08,640 contrary to the normal way of doing things, 573 00:30:08,720 --> 00:30:10,800 that stated that, should we ever get married, 574 00:30:10,880 --> 00:30:12,800 we must, and would, retain ownership 575 00:30:12,880 --> 00:30:14,440 in our own share of the estate, but... 576 00:30:14,520 --> 00:30:17,280 - That was interesting of him, to do that. - Yes, but in 1831... 577 00:30:17,360 --> 00:30:20,040 He never mentioned this when Ainsworth was sniffing about. 578 00:30:20,120 --> 00:30:21,800 Yes, no. Exactly. 579 00:30:21,880 --> 00:30:24,120 He did it to deter fortune hunters like him. 580 00:30:24,200 --> 00:30:26,720 But then, in 1831, three years after they were married, 581 00:30:26,800 --> 00:30:30,120 she submitted everything to him, to Captain Sutherland. 582 00:30:30,200 --> 00:30:31,920 And, Anne, I just... 583 00:30:32,000 --> 00:30:34,800 I can't believe she would've done that willingly. 584 00:30:34,880 --> 00:30:38,080 He must've bullied and cajoled and coerced her 585 00:30:38,160 --> 00:30:41,720 into signing away her half of the family's... Everything. 586 00:30:41,800 --> 00:30:44,640 Knowing that it's contrary to what my father intended. 587 00:30:44,720 --> 00:30:46,320 Anne, she'd never hurt me. 588 00:30:46,400 --> 00:30:48,760 And there are few things in this world I have the confidence 589 00:30:48,840 --> 00:30:51,200 to state so boldly, but one thing I know for sure is 590 00:30:51,280 --> 00:30:53,800 that Elizabeth would never willingly cheat me out of 591 00:30:53,880 --> 00:30:55,840 what's ours, but she has because of him. 592 00:30:55,920 --> 00:30:56,920 Cheated you how? 593 00:30:57,000 --> 00:30:59,760 Some of its property that on her death would've reverted 594 00:30:59,840 --> 00:31:01,560 to the estate, to me. 595 00:31:01,640 --> 00:31:04,320 They don't know that I might not still have children. 596 00:31:04,400 --> 00:31:08,120 He's found a legal loophole to make a mockery of it all, 597 00:31:08,200 --> 00:31:10,820 and to, well, to steal it. 598 00:31:11,920 --> 00:31:13,800 What was the other thing? 599 00:31:13,880 --> 00:31:16,400 So, John, my John, always used to complain 600 00:31:16,480 --> 00:31:18,120 that Mr Priestley and his brother John 601 00:31:18,200 --> 00:31:20,160 had worked their way into my uncle's affections 602 00:31:20,240 --> 00:31:22,160 till he ended up leaving them things in his will 603 00:31:22,240 --> 00:31:24,600 that should've remained entailed to my father. 604 00:31:24,680 --> 00:31:26,600 I never thought of it as my business 605 00:31:26,680 --> 00:31:28,320 but then here it is in black and white. 606 00:31:28,400 --> 00:31:30,800 They have had three properties from us, 607 00:31:30,880 --> 00:31:32,320 substantial properties. 608 00:31:32,400 --> 00:31:35,160 Blackcastle, which is an allotment to High Sunderland, 609 00:31:35,240 --> 00:31:36,840 Hall End in Halifax 610 00:31:36,920 --> 00:31:39,200 and Longley Farm over in Norland. 611 00:31:39,280 --> 00:31:41,640 My uncle had no right to give them away, 612 00:31:41,720 --> 00:31:44,760 and it galls me even more since the Priestleys have been 613 00:31:44,840 --> 00:31:46,760 so objectionable to us. 614 00:31:46,840 --> 00:31:48,480 Parker drew this up. 615 00:31:48,560 --> 00:31:50,440 But who did the legal work on this other business 616 00:31:50,520 --> 00:31:52,280 with Captain and Mrs Sutherland? 617 00:31:52,360 --> 00:31:53,400 Erm... 618 00:31:55,840 --> 00:31:56,920 Parker and Adam. 619 00:31:57,000 --> 00:31:58,360 I've never liked Parker. 620 00:31:58,440 --> 00:32:00,360 I don't know why you put so much faith in him. 621 00:32:01,640 --> 00:32:03,160 Maybe it's not irreversible. 622 00:32:03,240 --> 00:32:06,480 Let's go and consult Mr Gray in York on both matters. 623 00:32:07,720 --> 00:32:09,760 Do you think my family have any clue about what 624 00:32:09,840 --> 00:32:11,360 Captain Sutherland's done? 625 00:32:12,800 --> 00:32:14,320 Of course we knew. 626 00:32:14,400 --> 00:32:15,600 We all knew. 627 00:32:15,680 --> 00:32:16,640 All but me! 628 00:32:16,720 --> 00:32:19,440 Oh, well, you weren't well. We kept it from you. 629 00:32:19,520 --> 00:32:21,720 All your cousins and uncles and aunts knew. 630 00:32:21,800 --> 00:32:25,360 And it's precisely because of it that we've been so zealous in trying 631 00:32:25,440 --> 00:32:27,320 to protect you and your fortune. 632 00:32:27,400 --> 00:32:29,240 But, no, Elizabeth wouldn't've... 633 00:32:29,320 --> 00:32:31,000 Elizabeth did it without scruple! 634 00:32:31,080 --> 00:32:32,880 I don't believe for a second... 635 00:32:32,960 --> 00:32:34,480 He ran rings around her. 636 00:32:34,560 --> 00:32:36,400 She'd have done anything he asked. 637 00:32:36,480 --> 00:32:38,400 Sense was out of the window, 638 00:32:38,480 --> 00:32:41,240 and she might well regret it now, now it's too late. 639 00:32:42,120 --> 00:32:45,640 And that weak, odious Robert Parker... 640 00:32:45,720 --> 00:32:47,720 He was meant to be acting for the family 641 00:32:47,800 --> 00:32:49,520 but no, no... 642 00:32:49,600 --> 00:32:52,160 No, Sutherland ran rings round him too. 643 00:32:54,160 --> 00:32:56,480 I'm half-minded to change my will. 644 00:32:58,080 --> 00:32:59,920 I thought you already had. 645 00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:02,840 No. When? No. 646 00:33:02,920 --> 00:33:06,320 You made Miss Lister your executor instead of your cousin, 647 00:33:06,400 --> 00:33:07,640 Mr Priestley, last year. 648 00:33:09,560 --> 00:33:10,960 Who told you that? 649 00:33:11,040 --> 00:33:12,400 Well, she did. 650 00:33:12,480 --> 00:33:13,840 Last spring. 651 00:33:13,920 --> 00:33:18,600 When you went missing, when you absented yourself in York. 652 00:33:18,680 --> 00:33:21,680 She used to come over here, laying the law down. 653 00:33:21,760 --> 00:33:23,680 I made her my executor, yes, 654 00:33:23,760 --> 00:33:25,840 but the contents remain unchanged. 655 00:33:25,920 --> 00:33:27,800 I certainly wouldn't change it without telling you, 656 00:33:27,880 --> 00:33:30,680 even if others have behaved as they have. 657 00:33:31,740 --> 00:33:32,920 What? What's the matter? 658 00:33:33,000 --> 00:33:34,480 I... 659 00:33:35,960 --> 00:33:37,040 Oh. 660 00:33:37,120 --> 00:33:38,800 Aunt? 661 00:33:38,880 --> 00:33:41,000 I, erm... 662 00:33:41,080 --> 00:33:43,440 Well, I had imagined... 663 00:33:43,520 --> 00:33:45,920 with all this talk of a formal division of the estate, 664 00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:49,840 that you had already changed the will itself. 665 00:33:49,920 --> 00:33:51,440 How? No. 666 00:33:51,520 --> 00:33:52,960 In Miss Lister's favour. 667 00:33:56,280 --> 00:33:57,400 Well, that's... 668 00:34:00,640 --> 00:34:01,840 ...a possibility. 669 00:34:03,000 --> 00:34:04,800 And, yes, if I never have children, 670 00:34:04,880 --> 00:34:07,360 and if Miss Lister and I were to continue 671 00:34:07,440 --> 00:34:09,400 as such kind companions, well, 672 00:34:09,480 --> 00:34:11,920 yes, I hope we would think to make some provision 673 00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:14,360 for one another, but as things stand, 674 00:34:14,440 --> 00:34:16,400 no, it still all goes to Elizabeth 675 00:34:16,480 --> 00:34:18,080 and then to Sackville. 676 00:34:18,160 --> 00:34:19,240 Well... 677 00:34:20,400 --> 00:34:23,840 ...I changed mine when you moved into Shibden Hall. 678 00:34:23,920 --> 00:34:25,960 I removed you from it, 679 00:34:26,040 --> 00:34:27,440 in Elizabeth's favour. 680 00:34:49,280 --> 00:34:51,180 There was a letter for you this morning, 681 00:34:52,080 --> 00:34:53,280 in the post-bag. 682 00:34:54,200 --> 00:34:55,520 From Washington. 683 00:34:56,760 --> 00:34:58,080 Where is it? 684 00:34:59,400 --> 00:35:00,880 Oh, do you want to see it? 685 00:35:00,960 --> 00:35:02,960 I don't know. Is it interesting? 686 00:35:03,800 --> 00:35:07,240 The distresses you requested have all been carried out. 687 00:35:09,720 --> 00:35:11,240 I didn't request anything. 688 00:35:11,320 --> 00:35:14,680 A Mrs Greaves went to Shibden Hall begging 689 00:35:14,760 --> 00:35:18,440 not to be evicted, but apparently your sister wouldn't hear of it. 690 00:35:18,520 --> 00:35:20,600 She was determined to carry out the, ah... 691 00:35:20,680 --> 00:35:22,880 Your... our... 692 00:35:22,960 --> 00:35:24,560 ...request to the very letter. 693 00:35:26,080 --> 00:35:28,560 What a cruel time of year to evict people. 694 00:35:28,640 --> 00:35:30,560 Well, yes, I agree. 695 00:35:30,640 --> 00:35:33,160 But if she wants a division of the estate, 696 00:35:33,240 --> 00:35:35,460 things must be put in order. 697 00:35:36,960 --> 00:35:40,720 Washington tells me he's submitted a proposal to her, to Ann, 698 00:35:40,800 --> 00:35:44,440 for what he believes to be a fair division of the various lots 699 00:35:44,520 --> 00:35:47,280 of the estate, based partly on contiguity 700 00:35:47,360 --> 00:35:48,960 and partly on value, so... 701 00:35:49,040 --> 00:35:50,960 We shall see what she sends us, 702 00:35:51,860 --> 00:35:53,080 when she's gone through it. 703 00:35:53,940 --> 00:35:55,500 Although, I'm tempted... 704 00:35:56,160 --> 00:35:58,120 Oh, I don't know. What? 705 00:35:58,720 --> 00:36:00,720 I still don't know why there's this great urgency 706 00:36:00,800 --> 00:36:02,440 for the thing. 707 00:36:02,520 --> 00:36:05,800 There's something in her last few letters. 708 00:36:05,880 --> 00:36:07,920 This... 709 00:36:08,000 --> 00:36:10,720 ...litigious tone. 710 00:36:11,920 --> 00:36:16,280 She's suddenly become so confident, so well informed. 711 00:36:17,800 --> 00:36:19,680 I'm wondering whether you shouldn't write to her 712 00:36:19,760 --> 00:36:24,960 and say that, whilst in principle we... you're happy with the division, 713 00:36:25,040 --> 00:36:27,920 you think it might be better to wait until we can visit them, 714 00:36:28,800 --> 00:36:30,320 when the weather's better for travelling. 715 00:36:32,400 --> 00:36:34,040 That would be... 716 00:36:34,120 --> 00:36:35,240 Yes, I'd like that. 717 00:36:35,320 --> 00:36:36,960 Good. Good! 718 00:36:38,440 --> 00:36:40,640 I think, before we sign off on the thing, 719 00:36:40,720 --> 00:36:41,880 we should satisfy ourselves 720 00:36:41,960 --> 00:36:44,760 there's nothing nefarious going on 721 00:36:44,840 --> 00:36:46,680 with your family. 722 00:36:46,760 --> 00:36:50,000 Although, as I say, I always imagined Miss Lister would 723 00:36:50,080 --> 00:36:52,680 protect her from any nonsense. Mm. 724 00:36:52,760 --> 00:36:54,680 Yes, curious woman... 725 00:36:56,080 --> 00:36:57,400 ...Miss Lister. 726 00:36:58,840 --> 00:37:01,840 Well, I'm delighted Miss Walker's gone to see her aunt. 727 00:37:01,920 --> 00:37:04,200 Not that I dislike her, not for a moment. 728 00:37:04,280 --> 00:37:06,880 I'm thrilled for her and just jealous that she has you 729 00:37:06,960 --> 00:37:08,880 to gaze at all day. 730 00:37:09,960 --> 00:37:12,080 When I'm in. 731 00:37:12,160 --> 00:37:15,160 This is the second time in three months. 732 00:37:15,240 --> 00:37:16,720 What are you after? 733 00:37:17,760 --> 00:37:19,400 Only to gaze upon you. 734 00:37:20,840 --> 00:37:24,040 I was telling you about my planned developments at Northgate House. 735 00:37:24,120 --> 00:37:25,920 Oh, yes. 736 00:37:26,000 --> 00:37:28,080 Your Uncle Joseph would be livid! 737 00:37:28,160 --> 00:37:29,320 Yes. 738 00:37:29,400 --> 00:37:32,240 Yes, but the world moves forward, and sometimes 739 00:37:32,320 --> 00:37:33,880 we have to move with it. 740 00:37:33,960 --> 00:37:35,520 And don't you agree, Mrs Rawson, 741 00:37:35,600 --> 00:37:39,160 that this whole enterprise could be a huge boon for the town? 742 00:37:39,240 --> 00:37:40,480 Oh, yes, yes. 743 00:37:40,560 --> 00:37:43,000 Well, the town gets bigger by the week. 744 00:37:43,080 --> 00:37:46,760 Precisely, and this could create a whole new enclave. 745 00:37:46,840 --> 00:37:49,600 And I'm not such a noodle as to refuse what would pay 746 00:37:49,680 --> 00:37:51,720 such good returns. 747 00:37:51,800 --> 00:37:53,920 A whole new quarter. 748 00:37:54,000 --> 00:37:57,000 As long as no-one were to obstruct me 749 00:37:57,080 --> 00:38:00,160 in getting a licence for my casino... inn. 750 00:38:00,240 --> 00:38:03,520 - Hotel. - Oh, is that what you're after? 751 00:38:03,600 --> 00:38:05,400 My influence. 752 00:38:05,480 --> 00:38:09,240 Well, I would hope I wouldn't need it. 753 00:38:09,320 --> 00:38:12,200 As I say, I would hope that such a venture 754 00:38:12,280 --> 00:38:14,080 would be eloquent of its own merits. 755 00:38:14,160 --> 00:38:17,720 But, certainly, one word from you, 756 00:38:17,800 --> 00:38:19,520 in the right ear, 757 00:38:19,600 --> 00:38:22,240 would be worth 1000 from anybody else. 758 00:38:24,080 --> 00:38:25,600 Mr Rawson. 759 00:38:25,680 --> 00:38:26,880 Mrs Rawson. 760 00:38:28,040 --> 00:38:29,880 Mother! 761 00:38:29,960 --> 00:38:32,000 - Oh, hello. - Mr Rawson. 762 00:38:33,240 --> 00:38:36,800 Christopher, is it true what Miss Lister tells me, 763 00:38:36,880 --> 00:38:38,480 that you're standing for Parliament? 764 00:38:38,560 --> 00:38:39,760 Oh, you've heard! 765 00:38:39,840 --> 00:38:41,426 Is it wise? 766 00:38:41,506 --> 00:38:44,040 Yes, I've put my name forward and expect to be adopted 767 00:38:44,120 --> 00:38:46,960 - at the next committee meeting. - You have too many trades. 768 00:38:47,040 --> 00:38:49,520 - Who said that? - Me. I said it. 769 00:38:49,600 --> 00:38:51,320 No point in looking at Miss Lister. 770 00:38:51,400 --> 00:38:54,160 And it's what your father used to say too. 771 00:38:54,240 --> 00:38:58,000 What a shame you can't stand for Parliament, Miss Lister. 772 00:38:58,080 --> 00:39:02,040 With your superior intellect and your powers of diplomacy 773 00:39:02,120 --> 00:39:04,880 and persuasion, you would've stood 774 00:39:04,960 --> 00:39:07,600 head and shoulders above anyone else! 775 00:39:07,680 --> 00:39:09,280 Good Lord, look at the time. 776 00:39:09,360 --> 00:39:10,880 She should be running the country. 777 00:39:10,960 --> 00:39:12,920 Yes, what a shame. 778 00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:15,040 Oh, she's not leaving? 779 00:39:15,840 --> 00:39:17,560 I was very sorry, Mr Rawson... 780 00:39:17,640 --> 00:39:20,040 to hear about the mindless vandalism 781 00:39:20,120 --> 00:39:21,480 at Hope Hall. 782 00:39:21,560 --> 00:39:26,720 Yes, well... And to assure you, as I told Dr Jubb, that, 783 00:39:26,800 --> 00:39:29,400 if you are to be Tory candidate for the town 784 00:39:29,480 --> 00:39:32,400 and I had influence over 1000 votes, 785 00:39:32,480 --> 00:39:34,920 you would have every one of them. 786 00:39:38,800 --> 00:39:39,840 Au revoir. 787 00:39:39,920 --> 00:39:41,200 À bientôt. 788 00:39:41,280 --> 00:39:42,600 Mr Rawson. 789 00:39:42,680 --> 00:39:44,160 Miss Lister. 790 00:39:51,040 --> 00:39:53,920 Ugh. That colour's never suited you. 791 00:39:56,200 --> 00:39:57,880 "Dearest Freddy... 792 00:39:57,960 --> 00:40:00,360 "It is something new to feel that I write 793 00:40:00,440 --> 00:40:03,200 "for two sets of eyes instead of one. 794 00:40:03,280 --> 00:40:05,840 "Now that my mind is more at ease, 795 00:40:05,920 --> 00:40:08,280 "I hope to get into better health. 796 00:40:08,360 --> 00:40:11,320 "Either you or the medicines have done me good. 797 00:40:11,400 --> 00:40:13,480 "And, as you have often said, 798 00:40:13,560 --> 00:40:15,840 "knowing the worst is often the best means 799 00:40:15,920 --> 00:40:17,680 "of reconciling ourselves to it. 800 00:40:19,040 --> 00:40:20,640 "Come what may, 801 00:40:20,720 --> 00:40:23,040 "however at variance with my wishes, 802 00:40:23,120 --> 00:40:27,320 "there is one subject left in which I will never disappoint you. 803 00:40:29,160 --> 00:40:30,640 "I will always... 804 00:40:32,040 --> 00:40:36,240 _ 805 00:40:37,440 --> 00:40:40,480 "I once wronged my own heart to please my family, 806 00:40:40,560 --> 00:40:42,520 "but this was not doing right, 807 00:40:42,600 --> 00:40:44,320 "and dearly I have paid for it. 808 00:40:45,640 --> 00:40:47,600 "But the scale is now turned, 809 00:40:47,680 --> 00:40:49,200 "and my thoughts are now set upon... 810 00:40:49,280 --> 00:40:51,920 "deserving your good opinion to the last, 811 00:40:52,000 --> 00:40:55,440 "and I will not put it in your power to find fault 812 00:40:55,520 --> 00:40:56,600 "with me again." 813 00:40:56,680 --> 00:40:57,920 Hmm. 814 00:41:00,800 --> 00:41:01,800 Where's Miss Walker? 815 00:41:02,640 --> 00:41:03,720 Hmm? 816 00:41:03,800 --> 00:41:05,760 Oh, she's not well. 817 00:41:05,840 --> 00:41:07,240 Again? 818 00:41:08,480 --> 00:41:11,320 It's this... nonsense with her aunt. 819 00:41:11,400 --> 00:41:14,360 Every time she goes over there, she says something cruel 820 00:41:14,440 --> 00:41:18,320 and unnecessary, and it always knocks her for six. 821 00:41:18,400 --> 00:41:19,600 Oh, I'm sorry. 822 00:41:20,520 --> 00:41:22,680 "When you speak of your 'little friend', 823 00:41:22,760 --> 00:41:24,600 "write her name in full. 824 00:41:24,680 --> 00:41:26,560 "I dislike the initial. 825 00:41:26,640 --> 00:41:29,280 "Indulge my fancy and let the name you write 826 00:41:29,360 --> 00:41:30,840 "be the one you call her by. 827 00:41:30,920 --> 00:41:32,760 "And tell me, Freddy..." 828 00:41:32,840 --> 00:41:34,480 Is that Mrs Lawton's handwriting? 829 00:41:35,280 --> 00:41:36,800 It is, yes. 830 00:41:36,880 --> 00:41:38,920 - "Tell me, Freddy..." - Has she got anything fresh? 831 00:41:39,000 --> 00:41:40,920 Well, let's see, shall we? 832 00:41:41,000 --> 00:41:43,520 "Tell me, Freddy, do you see the York papers? 833 00:41:43,600 --> 00:41:46,760 "And do you know anything of a paragraph that appeared in one 834 00:41:46,840 --> 00:41:48,760 "respecting yourself and Miss Walker? 835 00:41:49,480 --> 00:41:51,880 "I long to know what it was. 836 00:41:51,960 --> 00:41:53,680 "Tell me if you've heard..." 837 00:41:59,840 --> 00:42:01,880 If you'll excuse me, 838 00:42:01,960 --> 00:42:05,800 I'm going to take Miss Walker her letters and some tea. 839 00:42:05,880 --> 00:42:10,760 Oh, and Mr Abbott's due this evening. 840 00:42:10,840 --> 00:42:13,440 As usual. Just to remind you. 841 00:42:13,520 --> 00:42:15,360 Just so you know to... 842 00:42:18,520 --> 00:42:20,520 ...stay out of the way. 843 00:42:25,840 --> 00:42:29,440 She wants to defer the division of the estate again. 844 00:42:29,520 --> 00:42:31,920 "Until we can travel more comfortably." 845 00:42:32,000 --> 00:42:33,120 This is him. 846 00:42:33,200 --> 00:42:35,720 He'll put it off and put it off until it doesn't happen. 847 00:42:35,800 --> 00:42:37,200 Who's this one from? 848 00:42:38,440 --> 00:42:41,720 Perhaps we should instruct Mr Gray to write to him 849 00:42:41,800 --> 00:42:43,360 rather than her in future, 850 00:42:43,440 --> 00:42:46,800 stop this pretence that it's her who's being difficult, hm? 851 00:42:48,400 --> 00:42:49,640 Ann? 852 00:42:55,520 --> 00:42:57,160 Ann? 853 00:43:05,640 --> 00:43:06,840 What is it? 854 00:43:09,120 --> 00:43:11,320 "Dear Miss Walker. I fear this may not reach you, 855 00:43:11,400 --> 00:43:13,560 "but if it does I urge you, under no circumstances, 856 00:43:13,640 --> 00:43:15,120 "to show it to Miss Lister." 857 00:43:16,320 --> 00:43:17,320 Bad luck. 858 00:43:18,200 --> 00:43:20,800 "However much you may believe this woman to be your friend, 859 00:43:20,880 --> 00:43:23,320 "I tell you plainly she is not." 860 00:43:25,440 --> 00:43:26,760 Do you recognise the hand? 861 00:43:26,840 --> 00:43:28,080 No. 862 00:43:30,280 --> 00:43:34,200 "Are you really unaware of the unspeakable reputation 863 00:43:34,280 --> 00:43:36,080 "this woman has? 864 00:43:36,160 --> 00:43:39,520 "I see that she has already cut you off from your family 865 00:43:39,600 --> 00:43:42,040 "and friends and, though you may not understand it, 866 00:43:42,120 --> 00:43:43,520 "please believe me when I tell you 867 00:43:43,600 --> 00:43:46,600 "that you are in the gravest danger." 868 00:43:46,680 --> 00:43:48,600 Ooh-la-la! 869 00:43:48,680 --> 00:43:51,960 "She will beguile you and, before you know it, 870 00:43:52,040 --> 00:43:54,400 "she will have tricked you out of all you have, 871 00:43:54,480 --> 00:43:57,680 "your reputation, your wealth, your peace of mind. 872 00:43:58,640 --> 00:44:01,040 "Ask her to tell you about Eliza Raine." 873 00:44:07,840 --> 00:44:10,240 "I urge you to get away from her and Shibden Hall 874 00:44:10,320 --> 00:44:11,840 "as quickly as you can." 875 00:44:13,440 --> 00:44:17,120 "Be assured that you will hear from me again soon, 876 00:44:17,200 --> 00:44:20,520 "and that I will not be at ease until I know that you are 877 00:44:20,600 --> 00:44:22,840 "in a place of greater safety. 878 00:44:23,680 --> 00:44:25,840 "I am, madam, a well-wisher." 879 00:44:29,280 --> 00:44:30,560 Anne? 880 00:44:35,200 --> 00:44:36,360 Things like this. 881 00:44:37,220 --> 00:44:38,260 All my life. 882 00:44:39,200 --> 00:44:40,320 Who's Eliza Raine? 883 00:44:42,760 --> 00:44:45,080 I'll tell you about... 884 00:44:45,160 --> 00:44:46,480 ...Eliza Raine. 885 00:44:46,560 --> 00:44:48,880 Is she another Mrs Lawton or another Tib? 886 00:44:48,960 --> 00:44:52,520 We were at school together in York, 13-year-olds! 887 00:44:52,600 --> 00:44:54,040 And then... 888 00:44:56,080 --> 00:44:57,760 ...when she was older... 889 00:44:59,280 --> 00:45:01,920 ...she had problems, 890 00:45:02,000 --> 00:45:03,880 properly, not like... 891 00:45:08,000 --> 00:45:12,160 She's been in an asylum in York for the last 20-odd years. 892 00:45:13,560 --> 00:45:17,040 And I visit her, occasionally, for old time's sake, 893 00:45:17,120 --> 00:45:19,920 but she's violent and she... 894 00:45:21,160 --> 00:45:23,400 She spits and swears and she's attacked me 895 00:45:23,480 --> 00:45:24,960 more than once, and others. 896 00:45:26,120 --> 00:45:28,720 She could never live independently, the way she is. 897 00:45:30,480 --> 00:45:33,280 So the person who sent this knows about her? 898 00:45:35,680 --> 00:45:38,680 Eliza used to come and stay with us in Halifax, 899 00:45:38,760 --> 00:45:40,760 over the summer. 900 00:45:40,840 --> 00:45:43,160 Her parents were in India, so she couldn't go home. 901 00:45:43,240 --> 00:45:45,720 So it could be anyone in Halifax that remembers her. 902 00:45:45,800 --> 00:45:47,320 She's... 903 00:45:47,400 --> 00:45:50,240 She was very striking to look at. She's half Indian. 904 00:45:50,320 --> 00:45:51,920 Were you in love with her? 905 00:45:53,280 --> 00:45:54,560 I loved her, yes. 906 00:45:54,640 --> 00:45:55,760 In love? 907 00:45:57,720 --> 00:46:00,760 This has been sent to cause division and upset. 908 00:46:00,840 --> 00:46:02,080 Will you let it? 909 00:46:02,160 --> 00:46:03,360 Was she in love with you? 910 00:46:03,440 --> 00:46:04,800 Well, we were very young! 911 00:46:04,880 --> 00:46:07,760 And the tawdry implication here is that she ended up 912 00:46:07,840 --> 00:46:09,040 the way she did because of me. 913 00:46:09,120 --> 00:46:10,880 It's just... It's just nonsense. 914 00:46:13,640 --> 00:46:15,960 I did everything I could to help her. 915 00:46:23,240 --> 00:46:24,320 Burn it. 916 00:46:44,280 --> 00:46:46,000 Please get up and get dressed, 917 00:46:46,080 --> 00:46:47,560 for my sake, 918 00:46:47,640 --> 00:46:49,600 for your own sake. 919 00:46:49,680 --> 00:46:51,800 We can't give in to these people. 920 00:46:51,880 --> 00:46:53,880 We must be better than them. 921 00:47:01,000 --> 00:47:03,000 That'll be the men about the pit. I... 922 00:47:05,560 --> 00:47:06,800 I've got to go. 923 00:47:35,960 --> 00:47:38,000 Robert agrees with Mr Holt, ma'am. 924 00:47:38,080 --> 00:47:40,880 He thinks you should bottom Walker pit before you flood Spiggs. 925 00:47:44,720 --> 00:47:48,160 And, as regards another pit 50, 60 yards this way, 926 00:47:48,240 --> 00:47:49,520 I'd say it were a very good thing, ma'am, 927 00:47:49,600 --> 00:47:51,360 if you're willing to spend t'money. 928 00:47:51,440 --> 00:47:53,200 Here. You dropped your... 929 00:47:53,280 --> 00:47:55,520 Because then you could loose a whole sweep of coal 930 00:47:55,600 --> 00:47:58,560 lying on the Shibden Hall side of Pump, and upwards in 931 00:47:58,640 --> 00:48:00,720 a line parallel to the present old waterhead 932 00:48:00,800 --> 00:48:02,320 hold under Cunnery houses. 933 00:48:02,400 --> 00:48:04,160 Where would you sink this new pit? 934 00:48:05,520 --> 00:48:07,960 Well, if you're putting the water wheel 935 00:48:08,040 --> 00:48:09,480 down at Tillyholme stile, 936 00:48:09,560 --> 00:48:11,280 I'd say here, 937 00:48:11,360 --> 00:48:13,480 at Pump, where you suggested. 938 00:48:14,720 --> 00:48:16,960 And then if we drove two heads up from Tillyholme stile, 939 00:48:17,040 --> 00:48:19,840 - that's t'idea? - Yeah. - Which we could do easily enough 940 00:48:19,920 --> 00:48:21,640 if we made a vent hole in t'corner of Dolt, 941 00:48:21,720 --> 00:48:23,160 then this pit at Pump, 942 00:48:23,240 --> 00:48:25,600 you'd have it working just as soon as it were bottomed, 943 00:48:25,680 --> 00:48:27,800 and it'd serve as a vent to Walker pit. 944 00:48:27,880 --> 00:48:29,640 This way, all the coal above the Wakefield Road 945 00:48:29,720 --> 00:48:32,480 and between the two pits could be pulled at Walker pit, 946 00:48:32,560 --> 00:48:34,200 and all t'coal below Wakefield Road could be pulled at 947 00:48:34,280 --> 00:48:35,480 this new pit at Pump. 948 00:48:35,560 --> 00:48:37,160 And then you'd be left with a good barrier of coal 949 00:48:37,240 --> 00:48:40,640 all along this side up here. So in fact you could stop Spiggs colliery 950 00:48:40,720 --> 00:48:42,960 any time you liked after this second one's sunk, 951 00:48:43,040 --> 00:48:45,760 and let all that face of coal stand, covered in water, 952 00:48:45,840 --> 00:48:47,960 ready to throw it on Mr Rawson's works 953 00:48:48,040 --> 00:48:50,200 any time you wanted, which, if he hadn't have trespassed, 954 00:48:50,280 --> 00:48:52,200 you'd never have been able to do, so... 955 00:48:52,280 --> 00:48:54,800 It'd be a way of proving his trespass too. 956 00:48:54,880 --> 00:48:56,480 And anyone else's. 957 00:49:12,000 --> 00:49:14,520 How long do they say it'll take to construct it? 958 00:49:14,600 --> 00:49:17,560 To dig the drifts and sink the pit, eight months. 959 00:49:17,640 --> 00:49:19,360 As to the dam... 960 00:49:19,440 --> 00:49:22,080 You'd have to give Carr notice to quit the Well Royd land 961 00:49:22,160 --> 00:49:23,720 if you're going to turn it into a dam. 962 00:49:23,800 --> 00:49:25,920 His tenancy's up in eight months, so... 963 00:49:26,800 --> 00:49:29,160 I've calculated that, for the volume of water needed to turn 964 00:49:29,240 --> 00:49:33,160 an 18-foot-diameter water wheel, the dam needs to be four-foot deep 965 00:49:33,240 --> 00:49:36,720 across two acres, so with that and the dam goit 966 00:49:36,800 --> 00:49:39,240 we could be up and running in 12 months. 967 00:49:42,080 --> 00:49:44,240 Do you know anyone with a theodolite? 968 00:49:54,200 --> 00:49:55,600 Mr Priestley. 969 00:49:57,680 --> 00:49:58,840 Miss Lister. 970 00:49:59,720 --> 00:50:01,160 Were you at the hall? 971 00:50:01,900 --> 00:50:03,020 Ah, yes, I... 972 00:50:03,900 --> 00:50:05,440 Yes, I went to see your father. 973 00:50:06,160 --> 00:50:07,240 And your sister. 974 00:50:08,360 --> 00:50:10,920 And my cousin. But she wasn't in. 975 00:50:11,000 --> 00:50:13,880 No. She's in Huddersfield, visiting her cousin Catherine. 976 00:50:13,960 --> 00:50:15,680 Yes. 977 00:50:15,760 --> 00:50:18,040 - So you've missed her. - Yes. 978 00:50:18,120 --> 00:50:20,720 Well, then, you've missed her and you've caught me. 979 00:50:20,800 --> 00:50:23,160 That probably wasn't the plan at all, hm? 980 00:50:23,240 --> 00:50:24,680 Plan? 981 00:50:25,680 --> 00:50:28,040 I was hoping she might like to make a subscription 982 00:50:28,120 --> 00:50:30,320 to the clergyman's widows fund. 983 00:50:32,920 --> 00:50:34,920 It's not beyond the realms of possibility. 984 00:50:36,280 --> 00:50:38,120 - Well, then. - Well, then. 985 00:50:38,200 --> 00:50:40,240 You'll have to try again another time. 986 00:50:42,560 --> 00:50:43,680 Miss Lister. 987 00:50:46,960 --> 00:50:48,040 Mr Priestley. 988 00:51:04,480 --> 00:51:06,000 My dear Mary. 989 00:51:06,080 --> 00:51:08,280 I can't at the moment turn to the item from the newspaper 990 00:51:08,360 --> 00:51:12,320 that you refer to, and so I must send it another time, 991 00:51:12,400 --> 00:51:15,120 but the announcement was, in substance, 992 00:51:15,200 --> 00:51:18,720 "The marriage of Captain Tom Lister, of Shibden Hall, 993 00:51:18,800 --> 00:51:22,440 "and Miss Ann Walker, late of Crow Nest." 994 00:51:22,520 --> 00:51:24,920 On discovery of the hoax, 995 00:51:25,000 --> 00:51:27,280 a handsome volunteer apology was sent by the editor 996 00:51:27,360 --> 00:51:30,280 of one of the papers, and here the matter ended, 997 00:51:30,360 --> 00:51:34,160 for nobody was annoyed and nobody cared about it. 998 00:51:34,240 --> 00:51:36,440 - Ma'am? - Yes, thank you. 999 00:51:50,080 --> 00:51:51,920 Thank you, Rachel. 1000 00:51:52,000 --> 00:51:53,800 Thank you, Hemingway. 1001 00:51:53,880 --> 00:51:56,680 We should start packing for tomorrow. 1002 00:51:56,760 --> 00:51:58,360 I ordered the horses for nine. 1003 00:51:58,440 --> 00:52:00,320 We should be in York by one. 1004 00:52:01,960 --> 00:52:04,240 I'm not sure about this Mr Bradley. 1005 00:52:04,320 --> 00:52:07,560 I'm not convinced his intellect matches his ambition. 1006 00:52:09,000 --> 00:52:10,720 Shall I do the duty? 1007 00:52:12,960 --> 00:52:15,480 I didn't tell you this because... 1008 00:52:16,480 --> 00:52:18,640 ...I don't know. 1009 00:52:18,720 --> 00:52:22,360 But when you went to see Catherine the other day, 1010 00:52:22,440 --> 00:52:25,960 and Mr Priestley called, 1011 00:52:26,040 --> 00:52:29,080 he was flustered and, I don't know, 1012 00:52:29,160 --> 00:52:33,000 I wondered whether it was him who wrote that letter, 1013 00:52:33,080 --> 00:52:36,120 or her, or both of them, 1014 00:52:36,200 --> 00:52:39,280 and he was calling to see what effect it'd had. 1015 00:52:43,440 --> 00:52:46,040 I don't care who sent it. 1016 00:52:46,120 --> 00:52:47,440 It's irrelevant. 1017 00:52:47,520 --> 00:52:49,400 I don't think we should mention it again. 1018 00:52:56,840 --> 00:53:00,160 I told Catherine about what Elizabeth had done. 1019 00:53:01,040 --> 00:53:02,560 Did she know? 1020 00:53:02,640 --> 00:53:03,640 No. 1021 00:53:03,720 --> 00:53:05,640 I think she'd have told me if she did. 1022 00:53:08,160 --> 00:53:09,520 We will sort this out. 1023 00:53:14,760 --> 00:53:16,840 It just saddens me. 1024 00:53:16,920 --> 00:53:18,440 What does? 1025 00:53:21,160 --> 00:53:23,040 Thinking about what it's all for. 1026 00:53:24,520 --> 00:53:25,760 And... 1027 00:53:28,000 --> 00:53:29,480 ...without children... 1028 00:53:30,800 --> 00:53:32,880 ...I'm not sure what it is all for. 1029 00:53:35,160 --> 00:53:36,520 And is it not... 1030 00:53:39,440 --> 00:53:40,600 Not? 1031 00:53:43,160 --> 00:53:46,040 ...God's purpose that we... 1032 00:53:47,800 --> 00:53:49,400 ...people... 1033 00:53:49,480 --> 00:53:50,880 ...have children? 1034 00:53:53,000 --> 00:53:56,320 I just regret that it will all go to them, 1035 00:53:56,400 --> 00:53:58,600 ultimately, to Sackville. 1036 00:53:58,680 --> 00:54:01,460 I never did before, before this, but... 1037 00:54:03,680 --> 00:54:05,680 ...it's just made me dwell on it all. 1038 00:54:05,760 --> 00:54:09,260 And I suppose I had always imagined that... 1039 00:54:11,000 --> 00:54:12,440 ...one day... 1040 00:54:13,920 --> 00:54:15,240 ...I would have.. 1041 00:54:16,600 --> 00:54:18,880 ...children of my own. That's all. 1042 00:54:21,080 --> 00:54:24,040 You once told me you felt a kind of repugnance... 1043 00:54:25,640 --> 00:54:29,320 ...to forming any sort of connection 1044 00:54:29,400 --> 00:54:31,240 with the opposite sex. 1045 00:54:31,320 --> 00:54:32,480 It's not the same thing. 1046 00:54:32,560 --> 00:54:33,880 Isn't it? 1047 00:54:34,960 --> 00:54:39,920 You mean, you'd imagined children but not marriage? 1048 00:54:40,000 --> 00:54:41,800 To a man. 1049 00:54:41,880 --> 00:54:44,240 I don't know. Yes. 1050 00:54:44,320 --> 00:54:45,680 Somehow, I... 1051 00:54:46,720 --> 00:54:48,480 ...had imagined being... 1052 00:54:50,080 --> 00:54:55,240 ...a mother, but not being, you know, with a man. 1053 00:54:57,360 --> 00:55:00,280 So you haven't given up all thought 1054 00:55:00,360 --> 00:55:01,520 of ever having children? 1055 00:55:01,600 --> 00:55:04,000 It's not... It doesn't signify, does it? I'm with you. 1056 00:55:04,080 --> 00:55:05,600 It does signify. 1057 00:55:05,680 --> 00:55:07,680 Because I need to have the confidence 1058 00:55:07,760 --> 00:55:09,720 that this thing between us is truly settled 1059 00:55:09,800 --> 00:55:13,560 and I'm not just keeping you warm until some man comes along. 1060 00:55:14,840 --> 00:55:17,040 It's much the same as I told Marian over Mr Abbott, 1061 00:55:17,120 --> 00:55:19,800 you'll not find me any obstacle to something you have 1062 00:55:19,880 --> 00:55:21,240 very much at heart. 1063 00:55:21,320 --> 00:55:22,360 Don't say that. 1064 00:55:22,440 --> 00:55:24,640 Because I can be as a meteor in your life, 1065 00:55:24,720 --> 00:55:26,840 if that's what you'd like, a meteor that burns 1066 00:55:26,920 --> 00:55:29,840 more brightly than anything you could ever imagine. 1067 00:55:29,920 --> 00:55:31,520 And then is gone. 1068 00:55:31,600 --> 00:55:33,160 Forever. 1069 00:55:41,280 --> 00:55:42,520 Things like this. 1070 00:55:42,600 --> 00:55:43,800 All my life! 1071 00:55:43,880 --> 00:55:45,560 I pretend it gets easier, but it doesn't. 1072 00:55:45,640 --> 00:55:47,560 - Anne... - We do things for us. 1073 00:55:47,640 --> 00:55:49,440 That's who it's for. 1074 00:55:49,520 --> 00:55:53,140 So that we can have a life together. WE matter. 1075 00:55:53,220 --> 00:55:56,400 Having children isn't the only reason to strive and do well 1076 00:55:56,480 --> 00:55:58,160 and better oneself and be happy. 1077 00:55:58,240 --> 00:56:00,120 I'm sorry. 1078 00:56:00,200 --> 00:56:03,280 It is, I've said it before, 1079 00:56:03,360 --> 00:56:06,400 a great sadness that we can never have children. 1080 00:56:06,480 --> 00:56:09,360 But if you're not certain it isn't something 1081 00:56:09,440 --> 00:56:11,200 you'll want in the future, then... 1082 00:56:12,840 --> 00:56:14,480 ...I need to know about that now. 1083 00:56:15,720 --> 00:56:18,720 Because it's something that I can never give you. 1084 00:56:18,800 --> 00:56:20,960 Just as we can never have a piece of paper that says 1085 00:56:21,040 --> 00:56:24,000 we have any kind of legal union to bind us, 1086 00:56:24,080 --> 00:56:27,760 neither can we have the bond a child would give us. 1087 00:56:27,840 --> 00:56:29,520 So we have to be certain... 1088 00:56:29,600 --> 00:56:31,560 - You're frightening me. - I'm frightening you? 1089 00:56:31,640 --> 00:56:34,400 - I'm sorry. - You have to be certain... 1090 00:56:34,480 --> 00:56:36,440 ...before we set off for York, 1091 00:56:36,520 --> 00:56:39,720 before we think any further about changing our wills, 1092 00:56:39,800 --> 00:56:44,280 that this, here, with me, is what you want. 1093 00:56:44,360 --> 00:56:45,760 I want to be with you, 1094 00:56:45,840 --> 00:56:48,040 more than anything in the whole world. 1095 00:56:48,120 --> 00:56:50,720 - You know that. - Nevertheless... 1096 00:56:50,800 --> 00:56:53,600 ...it is a great sacrifice, 1097 00:56:53,680 --> 00:56:57,240 and if you're not sure it's one you can make, 1098 00:56:57,320 --> 00:56:59,000 well, then... 1099 00:57:30,320 --> 00:57:32,320 I'm going to start packing for York. 1100 00:57:59,500 --> 00:58:05,500 Sync and corrections by btsix www.addic7ed.com