1 00:00:00,010 --> 00:00:03,750 - I wish Drake and Sam would find contentment. - Have you found it? 2 00:00:03,800 --> 00:00:06,990 The old smith died last month. It's yours. 3 00:00:07,040 --> 00:00:10,190 I think ye still pine for the girl who be lost to ye. 4 00:00:10,240 --> 00:00:12,470 - I've missed you, sister! - Rowella! 5 00:00:12,520 --> 00:00:15,030 I did not know what the obligations of marriage would be. 6 00:00:15,080 --> 00:00:16,390 Is he unkind to you? 7 00:00:16,440 --> 00:00:17,950 He is a monster. 8 00:00:18,000 --> 00:00:19,630 Truro lacks an MP. 9 00:00:19,680 --> 00:00:21,950 Sir Francis intends to put up his own candidate 10 00:00:22,000 --> 00:00:23,230 to challenge Falmouth's. 11 00:00:23,280 --> 00:00:24,950 I regret I must decline. 12 00:00:25,000 --> 00:00:27,110 Your stubbornness will be your undoing. 13 00:00:27,160 --> 00:00:29,750 I'm no Leonardo, but you are surely Mona Lisa. 14 00:00:29,800 --> 00:00:32,710 That was no eight-month baby, George. 15 00:00:32,760 --> 00:00:35,990 So maybe somebody got there before ye! 16 00:00:36,040 --> 00:00:38,070 I should not have told him. 17 00:00:38,120 --> 00:00:40,960 My great aunt is dead. 18 00:01:45,880 --> 00:01:48,590 Bury her in a pauper's grave with no headstone? 19 00:01:48,640 --> 00:01:50,200 She WILL have a headstone. 20 00:01:51,920 --> 00:01:54,440 She was the last of the Trenwith Poldarks. 21 00:01:57,960 --> 00:01:59,360 Barring Geoffrey Charles. 22 00:02:14,840 --> 00:02:16,630 What is my offence, George? 23 00:02:16,680 --> 00:02:20,910 Since Aunt Agatha's death, there's scarce been two words between us. 24 00:02:20,960 --> 00:02:23,350 Of course I was unhappy that she was buried in haste, 25 00:02:23,400 --> 00:02:24,550 without due ceremony... 26 00:02:24,600 --> 00:02:25,790 We do not know what she died of -- 27 00:02:25,840 --> 00:02:28,110 my concern was solely about possible infection. 28 00:02:28,160 --> 00:02:31,710 .. and perhaps I was wrong in challenging you so vigorously -- 29 00:02:31,760 --> 00:02:34,750 but why should your displeasure extend to Valentine? 30 00:02:34,800 --> 00:02:36,760 You've barely looked at him for weeks. 31 00:02:38,320 --> 00:02:40,790 I've been occupied with other matters... 32 00:02:40,840 --> 00:02:43,320 and expect to be so till after the election. 33 00:02:44,560 --> 00:02:45,600 And then? 34 00:02:46,800 --> 00:02:48,000 I will go to London. 35 00:03:15,600 --> 00:03:17,790 Will you take tea? 36 00:03:17,840 --> 00:03:20,670 I thank you, ma'am. This is not a... 37 00:03:20,720 --> 00:03:21,760 social call. 38 00:03:23,880 --> 00:03:24,960 Ah. 39 00:03:39,400 --> 00:03:40,630 I have... 40 00:03:40,680 --> 00:03:41,720 called... 41 00:03:42,720 --> 00:03:44,040 .. on a personal matter. 42 00:03:45,480 --> 00:03:49,470 Therefore, what I have to say must be utterly confidential. 43 00:03:49,520 --> 00:03:51,830 Everything between doctor and patient is confidential. 44 00:03:51,880 --> 00:03:55,680 Yes, but this pertains not to me, but to my son, Valentine. 45 00:03:56,800 --> 00:03:57,840 Yes? 46 00:04:00,680 --> 00:04:01,720 He was... 47 00:04:03,480 --> 00:04:05,230 .. an eight-month child, correct? 48 00:04:05,280 --> 00:04:06,950 Born premature because of my wife's fall. 49 00:04:07,000 --> 00:04:08,070 And from what I could tell, 50 00:04:08,120 --> 00:04:10,680 suffered no ill-effects for coming a month early. 51 00:04:12,240 --> 00:04:13,280 I believe... 52 00:04:17,320 --> 00:04:18,960 I am told... 53 00:04:20,320 --> 00:04:21,590 That... 54 00:04:21,640 --> 00:04:24,590 an eight-month child has no nails. 55 00:04:24,640 --> 00:04:26,390 Not necessarily the case. 56 00:04:26,440 --> 00:04:28,310 - Or hair. - It's usually sparse. 57 00:04:28,360 --> 00:04:29,870 And that the skin is wrinkled. 58 00:04:29,920 --> 00:04:31,710 So is that of many at full term. 59 00:04:31,760 --> 00:04:34,630 My son, if you recollect, had nails, smooth skin, 60 00:04:34,680 --> 00:04:36,120 and a goodly head of hair. 61 00:04:41,640 --> 00:04:45,430 I observed nothing at the time of his birth 62 00:04:45,480 --> 00:04:48,630 which might lead me to speculate that anything... 63 00:04:48,680 --> 00:04:50,110 was not as it should be. 64 00:04:50,160 --> 00:04:51,590 In other words, you will not tell me. 65 00:04:51,640 --> 00:04:52,630 In other words, 66 00:04:52,680 --> 00:04:54,630 I cannot categorically say one way or another. 67 00:04:54,680 --> 00:04:56,360 Were I able, I would do so. 68 00:05:01,160 --> 00:05:03,880 I would remind you, you are pledged to secrecy. 69 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:07,870 And I would remind you that I am a gentleman, sir... 70 00:05:07,920 --> 00:05:08,960 as well as a doctor. 71 00:05:33,480 --> 00:05:35,790 Warleggan's cut wages at three of their mines. 72 00:05:35,840 --> 00:05:37,710 Again? 73 00:05:37,760 --> 00:05:40,640 12 mile these have walked on the off-chance of work. 74 00:05:42,640 --> 00:05:43,840 Shall I send 'em away? 75 00:05:47,160 --> 00:05:50,590 The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak. 76 00:05:50,640 --> 00:05:54,750 Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation. 77 00:05:54,800 --> 00:05:57,310 Put on the armour of God, 78 00:05:57,360 --> 00:06:00,160 that ye may be able to withstand the wiles of the devil. 79 00:06:05,000 --> 00:06:07,960 For straight is the gate, and narrow is the way... 80 00:06:08,920 --> 00:06:12,440 .. which leads to virtue and purity of heart. 81 00:06:31,480 --> 00:06:34,550 - My dear, what an age it's been! - Hmm! 82 00:06:34,600 --> 00:06:36,470 You and George must dine with us. 83 00:06:36,520 --> 00:06:40,150 I would have asked him today, but he left in such haste. 84 00:06:40,200 --> 00:06:41,830 George has been to visit? 85 00:06:41,880 --> 00:06:44,110 Oh, not me. My husband. 86 00:06:44,160 --> 00:06:45,510 A social call? 87 00:06:45,560 --> 00:06:46,990 A private matter. 88 00:06:47,040 --> 00:06:48,710 Concerning? 89 00:06:48,760 --> 00:06:51,360 Oh, you know Dwight. Never discusses his patients. 90 00:07:54,040 --> 00:07:55,720 I've examined your wife, sir. 91 00:07:58,400 --> 00:08:02,590 She is within a month of her time, and I have some concern. 92 00:08:02,640 --> 00:08:04,430 What's she complained of now? 93 00:08:04,480 --> 00:08:05,510 Of nothing, sir. 94 00:08:05,560 --> 00:08:07,550 She merely answered my question about the nature 95 00:08:07,600 --> 00:08:09,040 of your marital relations. 96 00:08:10,160 --> 00:08:11,470 What?! 97 00:08:11,520 --> 00:08:13,430 She's no right to discuss such matters with you! 98 00:08:13,480 --> 00:08:15,030 She has every right, as do I, 99 00:08:15,080 --> 00:08:17,280 to ensure the safety of your unborn child. 100 00:08:19,720 --> 00:08:23,070 You have, if I may say so, a substantial physique. 101 00:08:23,120 --> 00:08:25,190 Unless you wish to risk crushing the child... 102 00:08:25,240 --> 00:08:27,430 You're suggesting I forgo my... 103 00:08:27,480 --> 00:08:29,630 My conjugal rights? 104 00:08:29,680 --> 00:08:32,880 To a man of God, abstinence can surely be no hardship. 105 00:08:39,440 --> 00:08:40,720 Not in the least, sir. 106 00:08:54,680 --> 00:08:59,550 Those men we took on when George shut Leisure -- they're at 40 level. 107 00:08:59,600 --> 00:09:01,800 Could we make use of the new arrivals there? 108 00:09:03,320 --> 00:09:05,670 'Tis not down to you to feed half the county. 109 00:09:05,720 --> 00:09:06,710 True -- 110 00:09:06,760 --> 00:09:10,070 but then the tiresome creatures sicken and starve, 111 00:09:10,120 --> 00:09:13,520 and it's damned expensive, mopping up corpses, digging new graves. 112 00:09:14,480 --> 00:09:16,350 Cheaper to find 'em a pitch? 113 00:09:16,400 --> 00:09:18,680 For my own convenience, I see no other way. 114 00:09:23,040 --> 00:09:26,950 Ah, Zacky. Will you tell my patients I'll be with them directly? 115 00:09:27,000 --> 00:09:28,950 Thank you. 116 00:09:29,000 --> 00:09:32,310 Forgive me. I was disagreeably detained. 117 00:09:32,360 --> 00:09:33,590 By whom? 118 00:09:33,640 --> 00:09:36,030 George Warleggan. And Reverend Whitworth. 119 00:09:36,080 --> 00:09:38,790 I can't decide which encounter was the more unpleasant. 120 00:09:38,840 --> 00:09:39,880 In what regard? 121 00:09:41,160 --> 00:09:43,560 Mmm... Nothing I'm at liberty to disclose. 122 00:09:44,880 --> 00:09:45,920 Regrettably. 123 00:10:16,080 --> 00:10:17,120 A rare bloom... 124 00:10:18,320 --> 00:10:20,160 .. for one still rarer. 125 00:10:30,560 --> 00:10:32,790 The Reverend Philip Webb is lately deceased, 126 00:10:32,840 --> 00:10:37,350 and the parish of St Sawle is worth £200 a year. 127 00:10:37,400 --> 00:10:41,070 I feel it an excellent opportunity to add to my portfolio. 128 00:10:41,120 --> 00:10:42,110 You live in Truro. 129 00:10:42,160 --> 00:10:44,470 Reverend Webb lived in London, God rest his soul, 130 00:10:44,520 --> 00:10:47,710 and paid Odgers £40 a year to manage the parish. 131 00:10:47,760 --> 00:10:48,880 I would do the same. 132 00:10:49,920 --> 00:10:51,110 I... 133 00:10:51,160 --> 00:10:54,150 might even preach there occasionally. 134 00:10:54,200 --> 00:10:57,430 I've applied to the Dean of Exeter, in whose gift the living lies, 135 00:10:57,480 --> 00:11:02,350 emphasising my Godolphin credentials and connection to Lord Falmouth. 136 00:11:02,400 --> 00:11:03,950 Oh, forget Falmouth. 137 00:11:04,000 --> 00:11:06,750 Since I intend to vanquish his nominee on election day, 138 00:11:06,800 --> 00:11:09,040 you'd do better to apply to Sir Francis and I. 139 00:11:10,520 --> 00:11:11,800 Oh, well, in that case... 140 00:11:13,080 --> 00:11:17,630 .. I feel sure your support would sway the decision in my favour. 141 00:11:17,680 --> 00:11:18,720 Mmm? 142 00:11:37,720 --> 00:11:39,830 Oh! Erm... 143 00:11:39,880 --> 00:11:43,510 Lieutenant Armitage brought me a plant from his uncle's garden. 144 00:11:43,560 --> 00:11:45,910 It seems we share a love of flora. 145 00:11:45,960 --> 00:11:47,030 And fauna? 146 00:11:48,200 --> 00:11:50,470 Of the mangy, flea-ridden variety? 147 00:11:50,520 --> 00:11:52,310 Oh! Garrick! Down! 148 00:11:52,360 --> 00:11:55,110 Down! Out! Out! 149 00:11:55,160 --> 00:11:56,270 - Out! - He's charming. 150 00:11:56,320 --> 00:11:57,750 Like his mistress. 151 00:11:57,800 --> 00:12:01,590 - Although when he first came, he was wholly uncouth. - Like his mistress? 152 00:12:01,640 --> 00:12:03,310 Will you stay to dinner? 153 00:12:03,360 --> 00:12:05,870 I'm expected at the Teagues'. 154 00:12:05,920 --> 00:12:08,680 Mrs Teague has four unmarried daughters. 155 00:12:10,160 --> 00:12:13,790 Well, having escaped one prison, I'm in no haste to enter another. 156 00:12:13,840 --> 00:12:16,310 You take a very sour view of marriage. 157 00:12:16,360 --> 00:12:17,710 But not of love. 158 00:12:17,760 --> 00:12:20,870 For, in love, we keep company with the gods. 159 00:12:20,920 --> 00:12:23,790 I don't think Mrs Teague will be thinking along those lines. 160 00:12:38,760 --> 00:12:39,750 Hmm. 161 00:13:07,560 --> 00:13:09,350 He lives in a dream. 162 00:13:09,400 --> 00:13:11,630 Armitage. 163 00:13:11,680 --> 00:13:13,280 You know his sight is failing? 164 00:13:14,560 --> 00:13:15,670 Pity. 165 00:13:15,720 --> 00:13:17,000 He's an able navigator. 166 00:13:21,320 --> 00:13:22,800 Yet he isn't a dream. 167 00:13:24,440 --> 00:13:25,480 He's very real. 168 00:13:30,000 --> 00:13:32,960 And I rely on your wonderful common sense to remember that. 169 00:13:37,040 --> 00:13:38,080 I'll take him to bed. 170 00:13:46,800 --> 00:13:49,670 My wonderful common sense. Mind I don't box your ears with it! 171 00:13:49,720 --> 00:13:50,750 If ye had any sense, maid, 172 00:13:50,800 --> 00:13:54,070 ye'd be roughin' and tumblin' about the meadow with that pretty boy! 173 00:13:54,120 --> 00:13:56,030 - Oh, Prudie! - Well... 174 00:13:56,080 --> 00:13:58,830 Make's the blood boil to hear Mr Ross 175 00:13:58,880 --> 00:14:02,110 talkin' like there's none to compare with he. 176 00:14:02,160 --> 00:14:03,280 Perhaps there ain't. 177 00:14:04,880 --> 00:14:05,870 Never know till ye try! 178 00:15:07,320 --> 00:15:09,990 Fire and iron, fire and brimstone. 179 00:15:10,040 --> 00:15:11,270 Both possessed. 180 00:15:11,320 --> 00:15:13,670 'Tis as good a way as any to drive off heartache. 181 00:15:13,720 --> 00:15:15,680 A well-chosen wife would do the same. 182 00:15:17,080 --> 00:15:18,600 For thee, also, brother? 183 00:15:20,560 --> 00:15:22,150 Good day, all. 184 00:15:22,200 --> 00:15:25,190 My brothers sing in praise of wedded bliss. 185 00:15:25,240 --> 00:15:26,270 Do you think 'em right? 186 00:15:26,320 --> 00:15:29,110 Do I look the marryin' kind? 187 00:15:29,160 --> 00:15:31,030 As I see it, a girl's only power be 188 00:15:31,080 --> 00:15:33,790 when she have men danglin' on a string. 189 00:15:33,840 --> 00:15:37,190 Once they get her, string's round her neck. 190 00:15:37,240 --> 00:15:38,960 Choose wisely, and it needn't be. 191 00:15:40,560 --> 00:15:43,640 Hmm. Can ye fettle this? I'll return tomorrow. 192 00:15:59,440 --> 00:16:02,270 Valentine, my sweet, shall we ask Papa 193 00:16:02,320 --> 00:16:04,950 if he'd like us to accompany him to Truro? 194 00:16:05,000 --> 00:16:07,270 Imagine him as a Member of Parliament! 195 00:16:07,320 --> 00:16:09,150 Papa is... 196 00:16:09,200 --> 00:16:10,440 going to Tregothnan. 197 00:16:12,000 --> 00:16:13,120 To see Lord Falmouth? 198 00:16:14,120 --> 00:16:16,310 To inform him of the burgesses' decision, 199 00:16:16,360 --> 00:16:17,590 and thence to Truro -- 200 00:16:17,640 --> 00:16:19,760 and an election is no place for children. 201 00:16:21,200 --> 00:16:22,950 May we wish you luck? 202 00:16:23,000 --> 00:16:24,120 Unnecessary. 203 00:16:31,080 --> 00:16:35,430 Ah, gentlemen! Apologies -- I had business with my steward. 204 00:16:35,480 --> 00:16:38,360 Now, erm... you'll be wishing to know the name of your new member. 205 00:16:39,520 --> 00:16:42,830 It is Mr Jeremy Salter of Exeter -- a distant cousin of mine. 206 00:16:42,880 --> 00:16:45,590 Here are his credentials. He is the man to vote for. 207 00:16:45,640 --> 00:16:48,790 You'll wish to circulate them in time for the voting this afternoon. 208 00:16:48,840 --> 00:16:52,360 Your Lordship, the burgesses met last night. 209 00:16:53,920 --> 00:16:55,270 Oh, good. 210 00:16:55,320 --> 00:16:56,390 Good. 211 00:16:56,440 --> 00:16:59,710 And, as Your Lordship knows, have always voted as you directed. 212 00:16:59,760 --> 00:17:01,390 Naturally. 213 00:17:01,440 --> 00:17:04,070 And if they ever felt bereft of choice, 214 00:17:04,120 --> 00:17:07,190 the promise of favours, or the threat of their withdrawal, 215 00:17:07,240 --> 00:17:09,870 has made them sensible of the need for compliance. 216 00:17:09,920 --> 00:17:11,160 So the issue is...? 217 00:17:13,680 --> 00:17:17,720 They now wish to vote according to their own inclination. 218 00:17:20,320 --> 00:17:23,120 Do they presume to suggest some candidate of their own? 219 00:17:25,960 --> 00:17:28,790 I myself have been asked to stand. 220 00:17:28,840 --> 00:17:31,560 Ah. An entirely disinterested party! 221 00:17:33,040 --> 00:17:35,270 And from trade, like your... 222 00:17:35,320 --> 00:17:36,990 your sponsor, Basset. 223 00:17:37,040 --> 00:17:38,230 We are not in France, sir -- 224 00:17:38,280 --> 00:17:41,990 your pitiful attempt at a revolution is doomed to fail. 225 00:17:42,040 --> 00:17:44,910 So commend me to your friends, gentlemen. 226 00:17:44,960 --> 00:17:47,470 All have received favours from me. 227 00:17:47,520 --> 00:17:50,080 As I'll remind them when I see them this afternoon. 228 00:17:51,080 --> 00:17:52,120 Good day. 229 00:18:08,320 --> 00:18:10,510 Garrick, get down! 230 00:18:10,560 --> 00:18:11,990 Garrick, get down! 231 00:18:12,040 --> 00:18:14,190 Jeremy, why do you have to do that? 232 00:18:14,240 --> 00:18:16,990 Is this what Caroline and I have to look forward to? 233 00:18:17,040 --> 00:18:18,390 I somehow doubt it. 234 00:18:18,440 --> 00:18:20,190 Truro will be worse -- it's election day. 235 00:18:20,240 --> 00:18:21,720 And the voting begins at two. 236 00:18:22,840 --> 00:18:23,870 Shall we go together? 237 00:18:23,920 --> 00:18:27,030 My husband wants me to join him at the Red Lion for the results. 238 00:18:27,080 --> 00:18:29,990 I believe he dislikes me entertaining while he's away. 239 00:18:30,040 --> 00:18:32,480 No guest would give me a moment's disquiet. 240 00:18:33,600 --> 00:18:35,120 Except perhaps Hugh. 241 00:18:38,120 --> 00:18:39,400 Bodrugan. 242 00:18:41,320 --> 00:18:43,350 I'll get my hat. 243 00:18:43,400 --> 00:18:46,990 Gentlemen, the voting to elect Truro's next Member of Parliament 244 00:18:47,040 --> 00:18:48,080 will now commence. 245 00:18:55,720 --> 00:18:57,270 Oh, Mr Buscombe! 246 00:18:57,320 --> 00:19:01,470 Erm... Now, that contract I obtained for you last month... 247 00:19:01,520 --> 00:19:02,920 It may have to be cancelled. 248 00:19:06,040 --> 00:19:09,270 Mr Noye! Your purchase of land at St Clement... 249 00:19:09,320 --> 00:19:10,600 It may now not go through. 250 00:19:12,520 --> 00:19:14,150 Disgraceful. 251 00:19:14,200 --> 00:19:15,990 Quite so. 252 00:19:16,040 --> 00:19:17,160 Yet the alternative... 253 00:19:22,640 --> 00:19:25,280 I sympathise. Your dilemma is acute. 254 00:19:30,280 --> 00:19:31,670 Gentlemen. 255 00:19:34,760 --> 00:19:36,870 Sister? 256 00:19:36,920 --> 00:19:37,960 What is it? 257 00:19:51,200 --> 00:19:53,150 Mrs Whitworth? 258 00:19:53,200 --> 00:19:54,440 Tell her I'll come at once. 259 00:19:55,520 --> 00:19:59,320 And if we run into George, don't tease him on his defeat. 260 00:20:00,280 --> 00:20:01,720 I may not be able to resist. 261 00:20:06,920 --> 00:20:09,550 Mrs Whitworth's labours have taken a dangerous turn. 262 00:20:09,600 --> 00:20:10,910 She's fallen into convulsions. 263 00:20:10,960 --> 00:20:12,150 But the child will live? 264 00:20:12,200 --> 00:20:15,230 At present, I'm concerned for the safety of mother AND child. 265 00:20:19,920 --> 00:20:21,030 Oh... 266 00:20:21,080 --> 00:20:22,550 Dear Lord... 267 00:20:22,600 --> 00:20:25,270 I begin to comprehend your purpose, 268 00:20:25,320 --> 00:20:29,230 for you see now that my present wife is unsuited to this life... 269 00:20:29,280 --> 00:20:33,150 and if you ordain that I should be widowed again... 270 00:20:35,240 --> 00:20:37,990 .. guide thou my footsteps toward a... 271 00:20:38,040 --> 00:20:39,640 suitable replacement. 272 00:20:43,840 --> 00:20:46,070 - Mr Fawcett! - Yes, Lord Falmouth. 273 00:20:46,120 --> 00:20:49,200 The loan of £35 I made to you... It have to be repaid. 274 00:20:55,480 --> 00:20:56,520 Vicar? 275 00:20:57,960 --> 00:20:59,590 Forgive me. 276 00:20:59,640 --> 00:21:01,400 Dr Enys thought you should know. 277 00:21:03,000 --> 00:21:04,910 You have a son. 278 00:21:10,600 --> 00:21:12,480 A travesty. Unbelievable! 279 00:21:13,560 --> 00:21:16,030 You will shortly see a different result, 280 00:21:16,080 --> 00:21:18,150 affecting your finances and trade... 281 00:21:18,200 --> 00:21:20,510 Let us leave this despot to his rantings. 282 00:21:20,560 --> 00:21:23,760 .. where your contracts are cancelled, and your loans revoked! 283 00:21:29,440 --> 00:21:31,750 Six and a half pounds! 284 00:21:31,800 --> 00:21:33,790 My mother will be delighted. 285 00:21:33,840 --> 00:21:35,110 I've already chosen a name -- 286 00:21:35,160 --> 00:21:40,310 John Conan Godolphin Osborne -- as a nod to the family connection. 287 00:21:40,360 --> 00:21:42,350 Mrs Whitworth is sleeping. 288 00:21:42,400 --> 00:21:44,150 She survived?! 289 00:21:44,200 --> 00:21:45,550 Your prayers have been answered. 290 00:21:45,600 --> 00:21:46,760 Oh, indeed, yes. 291 00:21:47,920 --> 00:21:50,030 God be praised! 292 00:21:50,080 --> 00:21:51,640 When can I see my son? 293 00:21:56,040 --> 00:21:57,950 - He won? - Judas! 294 00:21:58,000 --> 00:21:59,430 It's lunacy! 295 00:21:59,480 --> 00:22:02,510 Dear me, Ross -- you've placed me in a deuced awkward position. 296 00:22:02,560 --> 00:22:06,790 I enjoy cordial relations with Basset, despite our banking rivalry, 297 00:22:06,840 --> 00:22:09,630 and I fully support his wish for reform... 298 00:22:09,680 --> 00:22:11,830 yet I voted against him. 299 00:22:11,880 --> 00:22:13,110 The devil you did! 300 00:22:13,160 --> 00:22:16,590 I need hardly add, had you accepted the nomination... 301 00:22:16,640 --> 00:22:18,510 I would not have been suitable. 302 00:22:18,560 --> 00:22:21,510 Basset's second choice is far less so. 303 00:22:21,560 --> 00:22:24,240 Yet Sir Francis seems a decent man at heart. 304 00:22:29,760 --> 00:22:30,830 Ross! 305 00:22:30,880 --> 00:22:32,390 This is well met. 306 00:22:32,440 --> 00:22:33,830 Are you here to congratulate me? 307 00:22:33,880 --> 00:22:35,830 I came to town with no other purpose. 308 00:22:37,240 --> 00:22:38,910 When do you take your seat? 309 00:22:38,960 --> 00:22:41,950 Er... next week. I shall take a house in London. 310 00:22:42,000 --> 00:22:43,750 Then we'll no longer be neighbours. 311 00:22:43,800 --> 00:22:46,800 Oh, during summer recess. If I cannot avoid it. 312 00:22:49,760 --> 00:22:52,310 But if Trenwith becomes surplus to requirements, 313 00:22:52,360 --> 00:22:54,510 - I may think of selling. - You should make him an offer. 314 00:22:54,560 --> 00:22:57,030 Don't waste your time -- it will never become available to you. 315 00:22:57,080 --> 00:22:58,990 Now, now, sir. 316 00:22:59,040 --> 00:23:01,630 How does Geoffrey Charles at his new school? 317 00:23:01,680 --> 00:23:05,550 I fear he's inherited his father's idle habits. 318 00:23:05,600 --> 00:23:09,030 At school, as you recall, his father was cleverer than either of us. 319 00:23:09,080 --> 00:23:10,990 A promise he did not fulfil. 320 00:23:11,040 --> 00:23:13,990 I, of course, pay the whole cost of the boy's schooling, 321 00:23:14,040 --> 00:23:16,590 when he should by rights have sufficient income of his own. 322 00:23:16,640 --> 00:23:18,270 - From what? - His shares in your mine. 323 00:23:18,320 --> 00:23:19,990 Elizabeth sold his shares. 324 00:23:20,040 --> 00:23:23,080 Under pressure, to you, at a fraction of their worth. 325 00:23:24,760 --> 00:23:27,150 And what news of Aunt Agatha's headstone? 326 00:23:27,200 --> 00:23:28,670 Could I possibly care less? 327 00:23:28,720 --> 00:23:30,800 I'll call and discuss it with Elizabeth. 328 00:23:32,840 --> 00:23:34,190 You will do no such thing. 329 00:23:34,240 --> 00:23:36,230 Since it's a Poldark family matter... 330 00:23:36,280 --> 00:23:38,030 Elizabeth is not a Poldark. 331 00:23:38,080 --> 00:23:39,120 She was... 332 00:23:42,000 --> 00:23:43,040 .. and so is her son. 333 00:23:44,840 --> 00:23:47,080 Damn you, Ross. Damn your blood! 334 00:23:48,960 --> 00:23:51,150 This is not seemly. 335 00:23:51,200 --> 00:23:54,120 It does not become a gentleman, nor a Member of Parliament. 336 00:24:02,840 --> 00:24:04,400 My apologies, sir. 337 00:24:15,240 --> 00:24:17,040 My regards to Westminster. 338 00:24:30,800 --> 00:24:32,830 To Mr Warleggan! 339 00:24:32,880 --> 00:24:35,150 Our new Member of Parliament. 340 00:24:35,200 --> 00:24:37,040 Oh, but, then, what do that make thee? 341 00:24:38,200 --> 00:24:39,240 Not to be crossed... 342 00:24:41,680 --> 00:24:44,310 .. and useful to know. 343 00:24:44,360 --> 00:24:47,070 Think on that, maid! 344 00:24:56,360 --> 00:24:58,280 Parson Carne! 345 00:24:59,360 --> 00:25:01,080 Have you been here all this time? 346 00:25:02,360 --> 00:25:05,470 Why would ye not come and have a drink with us? 347 00:25:05,520 --> 00:25:07,630 The Lord hath forbid it. 348 00:25:07,680 --> 00:25:10,000 What do ye hope to gain from stalkin' me? 349 00:25:11,560 --> 00:25:13,470 A soul for God. 350 00:25:13,520 --> 00:25:14,840 And naught for thyself? 351 00:25:18,640 --> 00:25:19,760 Walk me home... 352 00:25:20,840 --> 00:25:23,400 .. and mind ye don't lay your hands on me behind a hedge. 353 00:25:25,200 --> 00:25:26,190 I... I never would. 354 00:25:27,280 --> 00:25:29,240 For the Lord forbid it. 355 00:25:31,120 --> 00:25:32,440 What a killjoy he be. 356 00:25:33,960 --> 00:25:35,160 Come on, bufflehead. 357 00:26:00,920 --> 00:26:03,110 And you are...? 358 00:26:03,160 --> 00:26:05,630 Ah... Begging your pardon, Vicar. 359 00:26:05,680 --> 00:26:07,630 Arthur Solway from the library. 360 00:26:07,680 --> 00:26:09,470 I brought these books for Miss Rowella. 361 00:26:09,520 --> 00:26:11,790 I disapprove of libraries. 362 00:26:11,840 --> 00:26:16,870 The danger of exposing uninstructed minds to ideas beyond their scope. 363 00:26:16,920 --> 00:26:19,150 These are histories, sir, of France and Greece. 364 00:26:19,200 --> 00:26:20,240 Be off with you! 365 00:26:38,640 --> 00:26:41,710 So, my dear, you're to go to Westminster. 366 00:26:41,760 --> 00:26:42,990 Where shall we take a house? 367 00:26:43,040 --> 00:26:44,870 Caroline speaks highly of Hatton Garden, 368 00:26:44,920 --> 00:26:46,910 but Lady Whitworth favours Fitzroy Square. 369 00:26:46,960 --> 00:26:48,120 I shall be going alone. 370 00:26:54,280 --> 00:26:55,920 Why did you go to speak to Dwight? 371 00:27:01,240 --> 00:27:03,590 What a peculiar question. 372 00:27:03,640 --> 00:27:04,680 Is it? 373 00:27:08,040 --> 00:27:11,230 Every husband needs time away from his wife and children. 374 00:27:11,280 --> 00:27:14,470 It makes them more appreciative when he returns. 375 00:27:14,520 --> 00:27:17,830 And I shall have much to do in my first weeks in London. 376 00:27:17,880 --> 00:27:20,270 Forging connections with those that matter 377 00:27:20,320 --> 00:27:23,070 must come before family distractions. 378 00:27:23,120 --> 00:27:24,400 So, I'm to remain here. 379 00:27:25,880 --> 00:27:26,920 For both our sakes. 380 00:28:09,600 --> 00:28:11,950 You have my list of instructions? 381 00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:13,470 Yes, sir. 382 00:28:13,520 --> 00:28:14,950 Only... 383 00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:18,590 regarding Mrs Warleggan... 384 00:28:18,640 --> 00:28:22,310 Yes? What part of my orders is unclear? You will watch her. 385 00:28:22,360 --> 00:28:23,880 Where she goes, who she meets. 386 00:29:10,880 --> 00:29:12,950 This just come from Tregoth... what's it? 387 00:29:13,000 --> 00:29:14,160 Tregothnan? 388 00:29:15,280 --> 00:29:17,000 I wondered how long it would take. 389 00:29:20,680 --> 00:29:24,640 Lord Falmouth invites us to visit before his nephew returns to sea. 390 00:29:25,920 --> 00:29:27,630 Of course, that's merely the pretext. 391 00:29:27,680 --> 00:29:30,230 - His real motive.... - Is what? 392 00:29:30,280 --> 00:29:31,320 We'll soon see. 393 00:29:34,800 --> 00:29:36,230 And Lieutenant Armitage? 394 00:29:36,280 --> 00:29:37,390 Do he have another motive? 395 00:29:37,440 --> 00:29:38,550 Oh, shush! 396 00:29:50,600 --> 00:29:51,630 There he goes. 397 00:29:51,680 --> 00:29:54,070 Cornwall's hope for democracy. 398 00:29:54,120 --> 00:29:55,390 And are you content? 399 00:29:55,440 --> 00:29:56,630 That he speaks for Cornwall 400 00:29:56,680 --> 00:29:58,550 while you stay home and plough your fields? 401 00:29:58,600 --> 00:30:00,870 Entirely content. 402 00:30:00,920 --> 00:30:02,280 I like to be out of doors. 403 00:30:03,560 --> 00:30:06,160 The climate of Westminster would not agree with me. 404 00:30:24,880 --> 00:30:26,560 What do ye want, Sam? 405 00:30:27,560 --> 00:30:28,990 To bring ye to God. 406 00:30:29,040 --> 00:30:31,430 I don't believe thee. 407 00:30:31,480 --> 00:30:33,720 I suspicion what ye wants... 408 00:30:35,400 --> 00:30:36,440 .. is me. 409 00:30:38,840 --> 00:30:40,320 If I want ye, Emma... 410 00:30:41,280 --> 00:30:42,630 ..'tis in purity of heart, 411 00:30:42,680 --> 00:30:45,480 in the belief that your soul could turn to Christ. 412 00:30:50,640 --> 00:30:52,990 And if I want ye in another way... 413 00:30:53,040 --> 00:30:54,800 'tis not from carnal lust... 414 00:30:57,720 --> 00:31:00,680 .. but from a wish to sanctify our union. 415 00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:03,790 Yer askin' I... 416 00:31:03,840 --> 00:31:05,240 to wed ye? 417 00:31:07,000 --> 00:31:08,120 I am. 418 00:31:10,600 --> 00:31:12,830 I've rolled in the hayfields with many a man. 419 00:31:12,880 --> 00:31:14,550 I've... 420 00:31:14,600 --> 00:31:17,390 drunk... and cavorted, and cussed... 421 00:31:17,440 --> 00:31:18,670 And I've prayed for ye. 422 00:31:18,720 --> 00:31:20,120 'Tis a waste of breath, Sam. 423 00:31:21,920 --> 00:31:23,950 For I'm happy in my sin. 424 00:31:24,000 --> 00:31:26,240 As you're happy in your goodness. 425 00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:32,160 Right. 426 00:31:35,160 --> 00:31:37,350 You're a rare good man, Sam. 427 00:31:37,400 --> 00:31:38,750 But... 428 00:31:38,800 --> 00:31:40,280 not for the likes of me. 429 00:32:01,320 --> 00:32:02,760 How do you do, ma'am? 430 00:32:04,840 --> 00:32:06,390 You're quite the young gentleman. 431 00:32:06,440 --> 00:32:07,550 Is Uncle George here? 432 00:32:07,600 --> 00:32:08,630 In London. 433 00:32:08,680 --> 00:32:10,360 So it's just we two? 434 00:32:11,560 --> 00:32:13,350 And Valentine. 435 00:32:13,400 --> 00:32:14,520 Well, in that case... 436 00:32:16,840 --> 00:32:18,440 .. can we have cakes by the fire? 437 00:32:20,920 --> 00:32:22,110 And jellies. 438 00:32:22,160 --> 00:32:23,150 And cream! 439 00:32:30,920 --> 00:32:32,150 Do you not love him? 440 00:32:34,400 --> 00:32:35,440 I must find a way. 441 00:32:37,560 --> 00:32:39,360 It's no fault of his that I struggle. 442 00:32:44,440 --> 00:32:45,480 What is it? 443 00:32:46,640 --> 00:32:47,680 This morning... 444 00:32:50,600 --> 00:32:51,840 .. Osborne came to me... 445 00:32:52,880 --> 00:32:54,240 .. demanding... 446 00:32:55,480 --> 00:32:56,520 .. that I... 447 00:32:58,000 --> 00:32:59,230 That he... 448 00:32:59,280 --> 00:33:02,950 But did not Dr Enys advise at least six weeks of abstinence? 449 00:33:03,000 --> 00:33:04,280 He did. 450 00:33:05,840 --> 00:33:08,040 I wish he had advised six centuries. 451 00:33:14,520 --> 00:33:16,160 Try to rest, sister. 452 00:33:22,880 --> 00:33:25,000 I'll return when I've taken a bath. 453 00:34:12,840 --> 00:34:14,190 We will say a prayer. 454 00:34:14,240 --> 00:34:16,230 No, Ossie, Please! I cannot! 455 00:34:16,280 --> 00:34:17,550 It'll soon be over. 456 00:34:17,600 --> 00:34:20,000 - Just close your eyes and submit. - No, please! 457 00:34:49,520 --> 00:34:52,070 I confess, cousin, I'd hoped to see you stronger. 458 00:34:54,640 --> 00:34:55,680 I will be soon. 459 00:34:58,280 --> 00:35:01,630 It grieves me that I cannot nurse my baby. 460 00:35:01,680 --> 00:35:04,480 I wanted to, but Osborne insisted on a wet nurse. 461 00:35:06,920 --> 00:35:09,510 Rowella, can you take me to visit the child? 462 00:35:09,560 --> 00:35:10,920 Of course. 463 00:35:18,600 --> 00:35:19,670 I've missed you, Wenna. 464 00:35:20,320 --> 00:35:21,310 And I you. 465 00:35:21,360 --> 00:35:24,630 School is very diverting, but it doesn't compare 466 00:35:24,680 --> 00:35:28,390 to the beach at Hendrawna, and our days there together. 467 00:35:31,080 --> 00:35:32,360 Do you still think of him? 468 00:35:35,040 --> 00:35:36,960 You mustn't ask me that. 469 00:35:38,200 --> 00:35:39,360 I shall visit him soon. 470 00:35:40,480 --> 00:35:42,710 May I tell him that I've seen you? 471 00:35:42,760 --> 00:35:43,800 No. 472 00:35:45,440 --> 00:35:47,510 Yes. 473 00:35:47,560 --> 00:35:48,600 Tell him... 474 00:35:52,000 --> 00:35:53,560 Tell him I do not forget him... 475 00:35:54,760 --> 00:35:55,800 .. and never will. 476 00:35:59,120 --> 00:36:01,390 If anything, she grows worse. 477 00:36:01,440 --> 00:36:03,270 What treatment has she had? 478 00:36:03,320 --> 00:36:05,270 Since the birth, none at all. 479 00:36:05,320 --> 00:36:10,470 The vicar believes it's a nervous complaint, which must be ignored. 480 00:36:10,520 --> 00:36:12,030 Ah! 481 00:36:12,080 --> 00:36:14,190 Cousin Elizabeth! 482 00:36:14,240 --> 00:36:16,390 You find us in excellent health? 483 00:36:16,440 --> 00:36:19,270 On the contrary, I find Morwenna failing. 484 00:36:19,320 --> 00:36:21,670 Why has Dr Enys not been sent for? 485 00:36:21,720 --> 00:36:23,470 Expense, for one thing. 486 00:36:23,520 --> 00:36:27,630 For another, I wonder if it's wise to pander to hysterics. 487 00:36:27,680 --> 00:36:31,360 Osborne, if you do not send for Dr Enys, I will. 488 00:36:32,320 --> 00:36:33,360 Mmm... 489 00:36:34,720 --> 00:36:37,800 I must again ask you a delicate question, Mrs Whitworth. 490 00:36:42,840 --> 00:36:45,070 Good God, sir -- the impertinence! 491 00:36:45,120 --> 00:36:46,870 Of course I've resumed marital relations! 492 00:36:46,920 --> 00:36:49,350 - Then you must cease forthwith! - How dare you suggest... 493 00:36:49,400 --> 00:36:52,630 As her physician, I insist. Her body is not healed. Nor her nerves. 494 00:36:52,680 --> 00:36:55,590 If, after a month, my treatment has brought no improvement, 495 00:36:55,640 --> 00:36:57,110 you may dispense with my services. 496 00:36:57,160 --> 00:36:58,750 Er... 497 00:36:58,800 --> 00:37:00,080 I beg your pardon, vicar. 498 00:37:04,440 --> 00:37:06,190 A month, then. 499 00:37:06,240 --> 00:37:07,280 For my wife's sake. 500 00:37:16,920 --> 00:37:19,030 Prudie! 501 00:37:19,080 --> 00:37:21,630 What do we think for Tregothnan? The scarlet or the green? 502 00:37:21,680 --> 00:37:23,830 It's only a small gathering. 503 00:37:23,880 --> 00:37:25,160 No need to get fligged up. 504 00:37:26,200 --> 00:37:27,920 I have some business to attend to. 505 00:37:29,560 --> 00:37:30,750 Might as well wear sackcloth -- 506 00:37:30,800 --> 00:37:32,920 'twould have the same effect on some folk! 507 00:37:57,320 --> 00:37:58,520 Elizabeth! 508 00:38:00,680 --> 00:38:02,280 I came to see Agatha's grave. 509 00:38:04,400 --> 00:38:05,440 I, too. 510 00:38:12,160 --> 00:38:15,110 I gather from George there's to be no headstone. 511 00:38:15,160 --> 00:38:16,510 When did you speak to George? 512 00:38:16,560 --> 00:38:17,750 On election day. 513 00:38:17,800 --> 00:38:18,920 We met at the Red Lion. 514 00:38:22,480 --> 00:38:23,520 Is something amiss? 515 00:38:25,560 --> 00:38:27,430 Newly amiss, you mean? 516 00:38:27,480 --> 00:38:29,840 You know how it vexes him every time he sees you. 517 00:38:31,120 --> 00:38:34,360 He cannot STILL be jealous of our former attachment? 518 00:38:35,720 --> 00:38:38,560 Whatever was between us is long past. 519 00:38:41,160 --> 00:38:42,800 Its consequences may not be. 520 00:38:46,240 --> 00:38:49,320 - What does he imagine? - Oh, Ross, what do you think he imagines? 521 00:38:51,040 --> 00:38:53,000 That Valentine is not his child. 522 00:38:55,760 --> 00:38:56,800 And is he? 523 00:38:59,600 --> 00:39:01,560 - I cannot say. - You WILL not say. 524 00:39:04,280 --> 00:39:05,640 I WILL not say. 525 00:39:07,880 --> 00:39:08,920 What... 526 00:39:10,280 --> 00:39:11,510 .. does George suspect? 527 00:39:11,560 --> 00:39:13,080 Have you never hinted? 528 00:39:15,240 --> 00:39:16,520 Do you think me a monster? 529 00:39:17,560 --> 00:39:19,310 To injure the woman I once loved? 530 00:39:19,360 --> 00:39:21,790 - Demelza, then. - It would destroy her to speak of it. 531 00:39:21,840 --> 00:39:22,880 Then who? 532 00:39:29,280 --> 00:39:31,360 Well, who else was in the house that night? 533 00:39:34,600 --> 00:39:35,680 Agatha. 534 00:39:39,240 --> 00:39:40,280 Dear God! 535 00:39:41,840 --> 00:39:45,710 Since the day of her death, he's been icy towards me. 536 00:39:45,760 --> 00:39:49,280 She must have told her suspicions, for she could not know for sure. 537 00:39:54,840 --> 00:39:57,840 Precisely what does George suspect? 538 00:39:59,120 --> 00:40:00,960 He will not say. 539 00:40:01,880 --> 00:40:06,870 Make him say, then deny it. 540 00:40:06,920 --> 00:40:08,150 Lie, if necessary. 541 00:40:08,200 --> 00:40:11,310 He has no proof that Valentine is mine. 542 00:40:11,360 --> 00:40:12,600 There is no proof. 543 00:40:15,560 --> 00:40:18,520 You're the one person who can do this, Elizabeth. 544 00:40:20,920 --> 00:40:22,430 I know George. 545 00:40:22,480 --> 00:40:25,190 He would do anything to keep you. 546 00:40:25,240 --> 00:40:28,310 He's wanted you from the moment he met you. 547 00:40:28,360 --> 00:40:30,870 I saw how he looked at you then. 548 00:40:30,920 --> 00:40:32,720 I never dreamed he stood a chance. 549 00:40:35,000 --> 00:40:36,240 Nor did he. 550 00:40:39,000 --> 00:40:40,080 Nor did I. 551 00:40:42,440 --> 00:40:45,110 Can you imagine how I felt when I learned he was to have you? 552 00:40:45,160 --> 00:40:46,880 You left me in no doubt that night! 553 00:40:51,080 --> 00:40:52,200 Forgive me. 554 00:40:53,720 --> 00:40:55,190 And thereafter? 555 00:40:55,240 --> 00:40:57,110 Leaving me with no word, 556 00:40:57,160 --> 00:40:58,710 making no attempt to see me? 557 00:40:58,760 --> 00:41:02,510 Oh, how could I? To break up your life afresh? 558 00:41:02,560 --> 00:41:04,270 My life? 559 00:41:04,320 --> 00:41:05,440 Our families? 560 00:41:08,080 --> 00:41:09,150 And now? 561 00:41:09,200 --> 00:41:11,750 Is it not perverse to try and save a marriage 562 00:41:11,800 --> 00:41:13,630 you did your best to prevent? 563 00:41:13,680 --> 00:41:15,400 For the sake of your son... 564 00:41:17,320 --> 00:41:19,120 .. do you not wish to save it? 565 00:41:27,200 --> 00:41:28,640 I wish to save it. 566 00:41:30,920 --> 00:41:33,390 Then there's one thing you can do, 567 00:41:33,440 --> 00:41:35,550 which would put a seal on George's trust 568 00:41:35,600 --> 00:41:37,440 which no-one could ever dispute. 569 00:41:39,000 --> 00:41:40,510 Give him another child. 570 00:41:40,560 --> 00:41:42,630 That cannot alter what's gone before. 571 00:41:42,680 --> 00:41:48,110 It could... if there were some confusion over the dates, 572 00:41:48,160 --> 00:41:51,960 if it could seem to him another eight-month child... 573 00:41:57,800 --> 00:41:58,880 I must go. 574 00:42:01,360 --> 00:42:02,640 Yes. 575 00:42:32,920 --> 00:42:34,240 Goodbye, Ross. 576 00:42:46,040 --> 00:42:49,470 I'd sooner make a wheel than learn stupid Latin declensions! 577 00:42:49,520 --> 00:42:51,070 It ain't only Latin, though. 578 00:42:51,120 --> 00:42:53,190 You're learnin' how to be a gentleman. 579 00:42:53,240 --> 00:42:56,590 And when I inherit Trenwith, you'll come and live there as my steward, 580 00:42:56,640 --> 00:42:58,510 and we'll make wheels together! 581 00:43:03,840 --> 00:43:04,960 I saw her today. 582 00:43:07,040 --> 00:43:08,480 She's had her child. 583 00:43:13,720 --> 00:43:15,440 She asked me to give you a message. 584 00:43:35,680 --> 00:43:38,870 You went to visit Aunt Agatha's grave? 585 00:43:38,920 --> 00:43:40,320 And what did you find there? 586 00:43:43,120 --> 00:43:46,150 Things I needed to attend to. 587 00:43:53,560 --> 00:43:55,440 I met Elizabeth. 588 00:43:58,400 --> 00:44:02,040 For the first time in years, we talked. 589 00:44:03,480 --> 00:44:06,680 At first she was hostile, but then she softened. 590 00:44:12,720 --> 00:44:14,280 I kissed her. 591 00:44:16,400 --> 00:44:19,630 I love her, Demelza. 592 00:44:19,680 --> 00:44:25,950 Not as I did, but with fondness -- 593 00:44:26,000 --> 00:44:27,760 the ghost of a love. 594 00:44:31,560 --> 00:44:33,270 I pity her. 595 00:44:33,320 --> 00:44:35,390 I want to help her. 596 00:44:35,440 --> 00:44:39,640 My conscience is sore, for I treated her ill. 597 00:44:43,320 --> 00:44:48,550 15 years ago I would have given the earth for her, 598 00:44:48,600 --> 00:44:51,590 and she hasn't changed. 599 00:44:51,640 --> 00:44:53,680 She's no less lovely... 600 00:44:56,400 --> 00:44:59,910 .. but I have. 601 00:44:59,960 --> 00:45:04,600 I have changed because of you. 602 00:45:08,640 --> 00:45:12,200 Ross, what things needed attending to? 603 00:45:17,120 --> 00:45:20,350 I thought granite for the headstone. 604 00:45:20,400 --> 00:45:22,790 Nothing else will survive the elements. 605 00:45:22,840 --> 00:45:26,440 Now, if you've finished asking questions, may I dress for dinner? 606 00:45:37,800 --> 00:45:39,120 My dear friends! 607 00:45:42,560 --> 00:45:44,710 Welcome. 608 00:45:44,760 --> 00:45:46,830 Ross, my uncle would esteem it a favour 609 00:45:46,880 --> 00:45:49,430 if you'd join him in his study. 610 00:45:49,480 --> 00:45:51,320 You may trust your wife to my care. 611 00:45:54,400 --> 00:45:55,760 I would hope so. 612 00:45:58,400 --> 00:46:01,830 I assume Falmouth has some proposal for Ross. 613 00:46:01,880 --> 00:46:05,510 To put a sack over the head of his beautiful wife? 614 00:46:05,560 --> 00:46:08,440 So his nephew doesn't make a complete fool of himself. 615 00:46:12,280 --> 00:46:15,800 Tell me, Poldark, what are your ambitions? 616 00:46:18,520 --> 00:46:21,350 To live as I want, 617 00:46:21,400 --> 00:46:23,550 to raise a family, 618 00:46:23,600 --> 00:46:26,110 care for the people around me, 619 00:46:26,160 --> 00:46:27,390 to be unencumbered of debt... 620 00:46:27,440 --> 00:46:29,470 I think you underestimate your talents. 621 00:46:29,520 --> 00:46:32,120 I am wholly aware of my capabilities. 622 00:46:33,480 --> 00:46:35,880 I am also aware they are not for sale. 623 00:46:39,720 --> 00:46:42,870 You and I have something in common. 624 00:46:42,920 --> 00:46:46,200 We dislike George Warleggan. 625 00:46:47,640 --> 00:46:49,190 And? 626 00:46:49,240 --> 00:46:51,430 His friend Sir Francis Basset. 627 00:46:51,480 --> 00:46:56,190 George and Sir Francis are not that alike, despite current appearances. 628 00:46:56,240 --> 00:46:57,710 True, they're both wealthy, 629 00:46:57,760 --> 00:47:01,070 and their power has been generated through the labour of others, 630 00:47:01,120 --> 00:47:04,750 but whilst Sir Francis values his menials, 631 00:47:04,800 --> 00:47:07,040 George despises them... 632 00:47:09,080 --> 00:47:12,320 .. as do many who enjoy inherited powers. 633 00:47:17,600 --> 00:47:20,150 Basset is the new order. I am the old. 634 00:47:20,200 --> 00:47:22,270 He seeks to overthrow me. 635 00:47:22,320 --> 00:47:24,360 I would like you to help me prevent him. 636 00:47:25,640 --> 00:47:27,910 And how would I do that? 637 00:47:38,520 --> 00:47:41,630 I'm the unhappiest of men. 638 00:47:41,680 --> 00:47:43,070 The woman I love more than life 639 00:47:43,120 --> 00:47:45,720 is married to the man to whom I owe my life... 640 00:47:47,720 --> 00:47:52,470 .. and now I'm going away, I can't bear the thought of losing her. 641 00:47:52,520 --> 00:47:54,190 How can you lose what you've never had? 642 00:47:54,240 --> 00:47:56,870 I've had her company, 643 00:47:56,920 --> 00:47:59,950 her conversation, 644 00:48:00,000 --> 00:48:02,400 the sound of her voice, the touch of her hand... 645 00:48:04,160 --> 00:48:08,510 I suspect what you think you've had -- 646 00:48:08,560 --> 00:48:13,830 the woman you think you see -- is not really there at all. 647 00:48:13,880 --> 00:48:15,600 You think I idealise her? 648 00:48:17,640 --> 00:48:19,480 It is not perfection that I seek. 649 00:48:23,760 --> 00:48:27,360 It is flesh and blood. 650 00:48:33,760 --> 00:48:36,040 I think I should like some more port. 651 00:48:50,960 --> 00:48:54,190 When George's course is set, it's hard to unseat him. 652 00:48:54,240 --> 00:48:56,230 Nonetheless, I invite you to try. 653 00:48:58,240 --> 00:49:01,150 Well, there's one possible way to obstruct his parliamentary progress. 654 00:49:01,200 --> 00:49:02,190 Which is? 655 00:49:02,240 --> 00:49:04,630 Reconcile your aims with those of Sir Francis. 656 00:49:04,680 --> 00:49:06,630 Our views are totally opposed! 657 00:49:06,680 --> 00:49:11,510 I see that. You're a hereditary peer who exists to command. 658 00:49:11,560 --> 00:49:14,710 You take governance as your right. 659 00:49:14,760 --> 00:49:17,150 For you, the common man has no rights. 660 00:49:17,200 --> 00:49:21,190 And never will -- he would not know what to do with them! 661 00:49:21,240 --> 00:49:23,630 No, it is for we, the aristocracy, to govern -- 662 00:49:23,680 --> 00:49:26,390 who better to uphold the traditions that made our country great? 663 00:49:26,440 --> 00:49:28,790 And the tradition of governing through promised favours 664 00:49:28,840 --> 00:49:30,200 and purchased influence? 665 00:49:33,680 --> 00:49:37,390 Your exploits in France impressed me. 666 00:49:37,440 --> 00:49:43,270 I assumed you'd gone there to strike a blow against revolution. 667 00:49:43,320 --> 00:49:47,390 I now find you are one of its advocates. 668 00:49:47,440 --> 00:49:51,950 You are mistaken, my lord. I do not endorse bloodshed and lawlessness. 669 00:49:52,000 --> 00:49:58,070 But liberty, equality, fraternity -- these I can put my name to. 670 00:49:58,120 --> 00:50:00,230 Well, I have no intention of so doing. 671 00:50:00,280 --> 00:50:02,390 No, power must exist -- 672 00:50:02,440 --> 00:50:04,390 someone must possess it, 673 00:50:04,440 --> 00:50:07,950 and since man is not perfect, sometimes it is misused, 674 00:50:08,000 --> 00:50:10,510 but who is more likely to misuse it? 675 00:50:10,560 --> 00:50:12,870 The man who newly finds it in his grasp, 676 00:50:12,920 --> 00:50:15,310 like one who has never before tasted liquor? 677 00:50:15,360 --> 00:50:19,630 Or the man who by heredity, like you and I, 678 00:50:19,680 --> 00:50:21,950 has learnt to take it in his stride, 679 00:50:22,000 --> 00:50:27,400 who may taste the heady brew without becoming drunk on it? 680 00:50:32,920 --> 00:50:35,790 I think I must rejoin my wife. 681 00:50:35,840 --> 00:50:37,880 She will think I've abandoned her. 682 00:50:47,040 --> 00:50:52,270 ? Do not ask me for a smile 683 00:50:52,320 --> 00:50:57,430 ? Life is short but love is long 684 00:50:57,480 --> 00:51:02,430 ? Let me not your heart beguile 685 00:51:02,480 --> 00:51:07,430 ? Pray content you with a song 686 00:51:07,480 --> 00:51:12,070 ? Do not ask me for a kiss 687 00:51:12,120 --> 00:51:17,070 ? Life is short but love is long 688 00:51:17,120 --> 00:51:21,910 ? You may never know that bliss 689 00:51:21,960 --> 00:51:27,150 ? So I offer you this song 690 00:51:27,200 --> 00:51:31,870 ? Do not ask me for my heart 691 00:51:31,920 --> 00:51:36,830 ? Life is short but love is long 692 00:51:36,880 --> 00:51:42,390 ? Knowing we are soon to part 693 00:51:42,440 --> 00:51:48,920 ? Consolation be my song. ? 694 00:52:09,400 --> 00:52:10,790 I must go up and rest. 695 00:52:10,840 --> 00:52:13,280 Before you do, sister, this came for you. 696 00:52:18,480 --> 00:52:19,920 Going to bed, my dear? 697 00:52:21,600 --> 00:52:23,430 Take all the time you need. 698 00:52:23,480 --> 00:52:25,910 Nothing matters more than your wellbeing. 699 00:52:25,960 --> 00:52:27,320 Thank you, Osborne. 700 00:52:43,200 --> 00:52:46,640 Excuse me, Vicar. I'm going to my room. 701 00:53:08,240 --> 00:53:09,600 My love... 702 00:53:29,040 --> 00:53:30,470 Did you want me, Vicar? 703 00:53:30,520 --> 00:53:32,510 Ah, yes! 704 00:53:32,560 --> 00:53:38,470 I want to speak with you about... your reading. 705 00:53:38,520 --> 00:53:40,230 The Iliad? 706 00:53:40,280 --> 00:53:42,670 At which part are you now? 707 00:53:42,720 --> 00:53:45,150 Patroclus has just been slain by Hector, 708 00:53:45,200 --> 00:53:48,520 and now there is a terrible fight about his body. 709 00:53:52,560 --> 00:53:53,790 For as you know, Vicar, 710 00:53:53,840 --> 00:53:56,110 it is of great importance to the Greeks 711 00:53:56,160 --> 00:54:00,150 that the funeral rites be performed in full upon the body. 712 00:54:00,200 --> 00:54:03,150 The body, y-yes... 713 00:54:03,200 --> 00:54:06,750 Why do I not think you're very interested in this story, Vicar? 714 00:54:06,800 --> 00:54:09,430 Call me Osborne, would you? 715 00:54:09,480 --> 00:54:11,390 Should you like to sit down, Vicar? 716 00:54:11,440 --> 00:54:13,430 Oh, er... 717 00:54:13,480 --> 00:54:14,840 I think you would. 718 00:54:17,880 --> 00:54:20,230 Should you like me to sit on your lap? 719 00:54:20,280 --> 00:54:21,430 I'm not sure I... 720 00:54:21,480 --> 00:54:23,080 But of course you would. 721 00:55:06,800 --> 00:55:10,000 You seem far away. 722 00:55:13,720 --> 00:55:17,080 No more than you, when you returned from Sawle churchyard. 723 00:55:18,520 --> 00:55:21,310 We swore we'd keep no more secrets from each other, Ross. 724 00:55:21,360 --> 00:55:24,150 I have nothing to tell. 725 00:55:24,200 --> 00:55:25,480 Do you? 726 00:55:27,960 --> 00:55:32,510 Yes, though I think you will find it hard to hear. 727 00:55:32,560 --> 00:55:33,880 Try me. 728 00:55:37,640 --> 00:55:44,190 I want to tell you that I wish I could be two people. 729 00:55:44,240 --> 00:55:47,310 One, your loving wife, the mother of your children, 730 00:55:47,360 --> 00:55:50,870 content in our life, as I am, and as I ever wish to be. 731 00:55:50,920 --> 00:55:52,360 And the other? 732 00:55:55,240 --> 00:55:59,240 Someone else, someone new... 733 00:56:00,840 --> 00:56:02,830 .. who could love another just for a day. 734 00:56:02,880 --> 00:56:03,870 "Another"? 735 00:56:03,920 --> 00:56:06,630 Laugh with him, kiss him, love him, just for a day, 736 00:56:06,680 --> 00:56:09,240 without feeling disloyal to the man I truly love. 737 00:56:19,440 --> 00:56:24,600 And do you think "another" would be content with that? 738 00:56:27,480 --> 00:56:29,120 I don't know. 739 00:56:31,320 --> 00:56:32,840 Would you? 740 00:56:34,240 --> 00:56:36,630 I think so, 741 00:56:36,680 --> 00:56:39,480 for I know who it is who truly owns my heart. 742 00:56:41,440 --> 00:56:42,960 Do you doubt it? 743 00:56:50,520 --> 00:56:52,080 Not till tonight... 744 00:56:54,360 --> 00:56:56,320 .. till I saw you look at him... 745 00:56:58,720 --> 00:57:00,640 .. the way you once looked at me. 746 00:57:05,240 --> 00:57:07,360 I will look at you that way again, Ross. 747 00:57:09,120 --> 00:57:11,080 Just be patient with me... 748 00:57:12,280 --> 00:57:14,360 .. as I have been patient with you. 749 00:57:38,200 --> 00:57:41,230 - One. - You have responded to the call to defend your country. 750 00:57:41,280 --> 00:57:42,710 - Two. - Can he be trusted? 751 00:57:42,760 --> 00:57:44,590 More to the point, can you? 752 00:57:44,640 --> 00:57:46,910 - Three. - There is no kindness in giving false hope. 753 00:57:46,960 --> 00:57:48,510 Four. 754 00:57:48,560 --> 00:57:49,950 You will do as I command. 755 00:57:50,000 --> 00:57:51,310 I'll kill your son! 756 00:57:51,360 --> 00:57:53,190 - Five. - Is the matter handled? 757 00:57:53,240 --> 00:57:54,510 Well and truly, sir. 758 00:57:54,560 --> 00:57:56,030 - Six. - I love you. 759 00:57:56,080 --> 00:57:57,870 - Seven. - Is he my son? 760 00:57:57,920 --> 00:58:00,310 - Eight. - Who else's could he be? 761 00:58:00,360 --> 00:58:01,390 Nine. 762 00:58:01,440 --> 00:58:04,190 I may soon have a real battle to fight. 763 00:58:04,240 --> 00:58:05,680 Spare me this one! 764 00:58:08,080 --> 00:58:09,070 Ten.