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This film contains some scenes of a sexual nature. | 0:00:02 | 0:00:10 | |
WAVES CRASHING | 0:00:47 | 0:00:49 | |
SEAGULL CALLS | 0:01:11 | 0:01:13 | |
BREATHING HEAVILY | 0:01:32 | 0:01:34 | |
INSTRUMENTS TUNING | 0:02:06 | 0:02:09 | |
CREAKING | 0:02:09 | 0:02:11 | |
FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING | 0:02:11 | 0:02:12 | |
TUNING | 0:02:20 | 0:02:22 | |
SIGHING | 0:02:23 | 0:02:25 | |
-GEORGE: -Our boys' curriculum is very wide. | 0:02:39 | 0:02:41 | |
They perform a short play at the end of every term. | 0:02:41 | 0:02:44 | |
theatre's an abiding interest of my wife. | 0:02:44 | 0:02:46 | |
-Ah, Mary, tea if you please. -Yes, sir. | 0:02:46 | 0:02:48 | |
Through the open door. | 0:02:48 | 0:02:50 | |
Nelly, where were you? | 0:02:50 | 0:02:52 | |
-Mr Benham has been here since three o'clock. -I'm so sorry. | 0:02:52 | 0:02:55 | |
Mr Lambourne has been organising the boys as best he can. | 0:02:55 | 0:02:57 | |
I lost all sense of time. | 0:02:57 | 0:02:59 | |
Careful with those corners, boys. | 0:02:59 | 0:03:01 | |
-Yes, ma'am. -Yes, ma'am. | 0:03:01 | 0:03:03 | |
Thank you, Mary. | 0:03:07 | 0:03:08 | |
Ah, Mrs Wharton Robinson. At last. | 0:03:08 | 0:03:11 | |
I'm so sorry, Mr Benham. | 0:03:11 | 0:03:12 | |
I just kept walking. Forgive me. | 0:03:12 | 0:03:15 | |
Dear boys, let's go from the third act. | 0:03:15 | 0:03:17 | |
Everyone get into positions. | 0:03:17 | 0:03:19 | |
-ALL: -Yes, ma'am. -Thank you, Mr Lambourne. | 0:03:19 | 0:03:21 | |
Mr Benham must not see all our tricks quite yet | 0:03:21 | 0:03:24 | |
or there'll be nothing left to show him tomorrow. | 0:03:24 | 0:03:26 | |
-It is cold outside? -It is, but it clears the mind. | 0:03:26 | 0:03:30 | |
It would be good to decide on the readings before the end of term. | 0:03:30 | 0:03:32 | |
Of course. Perhaps later. | 0:03:32 | 0:03:35 | |
-Laurenson and Tanner, are you ready? BOTH: -Yes, ma'am. | 0:03:35 | 0:03:38 | |
Geoffrey dear, don't forget, you come in on the final line. | 0:03:38 | 0:03:42 | |
Sit there. | 0:03:42 | 0:03:44 | |
Coates, Watson, take those. | 0:03:44 | 0:03:46 | |
-Thank you, ma'am. -Thank you, ma'am. | 0:03:46 | 0:03:48 | |
I recall no lion in Mr Dickens | 0:03:49 | 0:03:51 | |
and Mr Collins' play, Mrs Wharton Robinson. | 0:03:51 | 0:03:53 | |
A little dramatic license. | 0:03:53 | 0:03:55 | |
I'm confident that Mr Dickens would have let it pass. | 0:03:55 | 0:03:57 | |
HE CHUCKLES | 0:03:57 | 0:03:59 | |
Yates, if you could drop the backing. | 0:03:59 | 0:04:00 | |
Yes, ma'am. | 0:04:00 | 0:04:02 | |
Musicians. | 0:04:04 | 0:04:06 | |
-Is everyone ready? -I think so. -ALL: -Yes, ma'am. | 0:04:07 | 0:04:11 | |
Boys, remember your positions. | 0:04:11 | 0:04:13 | |
Let's begin. | 0:04:14 | 0:04:15 | |
ORCHESTRA MUSIC PLAYING | 0:04:15 | 0:04:17 | |
Well, my lads, the day is breaking at last. | 0:04:28 | 0:04:31 | |
-"Has broken," Hadley. Mr Dickens was very particular. -Yes, ma'am. | 0:04:31 | 0:04:34 | |
Well, my lads, the day has broken at last. | 0:04:34 | 0:04:37 | |
What do you say to the weather now? | 0:04:37 | 0:04:39 | |
-BOY 1: -I am ready to cross the Mountain with the gentleman, | 0:04:39 | 0:04:41 | |
if the others will go with me. | 0:04:41 | 0:04:43 | |
-BOY 2: -I can see for myself there's a storm coming. | 0:04:43 | 0:04:46 | |
I smell the snow. I feel the hurricane in the air. | 0:04:46 | 0:04:50 | |
No money those gentlemen can offer | 0:04:50 | 0:04:52 | |
will tempt me to cross the Mountain with them today. | 0:04:52 | 0:04:54 | |
-BOY 3: -Tanner, your cue. | 0:04:56 | 0:04:59 | |
-BOY 4: -Well, are you ready at last? -BOY 5: -My patience is at an end. | 0:04:59 | 0:05:02 | |
I'm sick and weary of all this doubt and delay. | 0:05:02 | 0:05:05 | |
-BOY 4: -I'm your man. I will guide you to your journey's end. | 0:05:05 | 0:05:08 | |
-Say when. -Now. | 0:05:08 | 0:05:09 | |
-Are you ready? -I'm ready. Come along. | 0:05:09 | 0:05:12 | |
Pull it taut. | 0:05:26 | 0:05:28 | |
Upright like a brigadier. | 0:05:30 | 0:05:32 | |
And thread it through. | 0:05:32 | 0:05:34 | |
Thank you. | 0:05:34 | 0:05:36 | |
Were you on the beach again today? | 0:05:44 | 0:05:46 | |
Miss Brooke thought she saw you. | 0:05:46 | 0:05:49 | |
Yes. | 0:05:49 | 0:05:50 | |
PEOPLE LAUGHING | 0:05:57 | 0:06:00 | |
-Look. See? It is signed. -GOVERNOR: -Really? | 0:06:00 | 0:06:04 | |
Apparently, he modelled the character of Lucie Manette on Nelly. | 0:06:04 | 0:06:06 | |
-Oh? -The families were very close when Nelly was a child. | 0:06:06 | 0:06:09 | |
I'm sure he drew inspiration from many people. | 0:06:09 | 0:06:11 | |
My wife adores his novels. | 0:06:11 | 0:06:12 | |
Of course, he's often very funny, but I find a little bleak. | 0:06:12 | 0:06:15 | |
One wonders what demons raged in his mind. | 0:06:15 | 0:06:17 | |
-Indeed. -Thackeray, there's a writer. | 0:06:17 | 0:06:20 | |
George, you cannot compare them. | 0:06:20 | 0:06:21 | |
-MR BENHAM: -Oh, I agree. I am for Mr Dickens. | 0:06:21 | 0:06:23 | |
There are times that I have envied Mrs Wharton Robinson | 0:06:23 | 0:06:26 | |
to have known him even as a child. | 0:06:26 | 0:06:28 | |
A writer. | 0:06:28 | 0:06:30 | |
Yes, at times bleak, but one who makes us laugh at our own absurdity. | 0:06:30 | 0:06:34 | |
We see ourselves clearly in all our folly. | 0:06:34 | 0:06:37 | |
ALL CHUCKLE | 0:06:37 | 0:06:38 | |
He's been dead for some years, but, yes, he is still with us. | 0:06:38 | 0:06:42 | |
Thank you, Mr Benham. | 0:06:42 | 0:06:44 | |
Oh, it is a subject in which I sometimes run away with myself, | 0:06:44 | 0:06:47 | |
as Mrs Wharton Robinson knows only too well. | 0:06:47 | 0:06:50 | |
Run away. Run away. | 0:06:50 | 0:06:52 | |
I, for one, am determined to revisit him immediately. | 0:06:52 | 0:06:55 | |
Where would you suggest I begin? | 0:06:55 | 0:06:56 | |
-MR LAMBOURNE: Martin Chuzzlewit. -Any novel, but for brief pleasure, | 0:06:56 | 0:06:59 | |
I would suggest browsing through a copy of. | 0:06:59 | 0:07:01 | |
Dickens' weekly literary magazine. | 0:07:01 | 0:07:03 | |
Oh? | 0:07:03 | 0:07:04 | |
Household Words. | 0:07:07 | 0:07:08 | |
A collection of many of his writings, | 0:07:08 | 0:07:11 | |
and indeed, chapters of his novels. | 0:07:11 | 0:07:13 | |
And I'm sure Mrs Wharton Robinson | 0:07:13 | 0:07:14 | |
-would not mind if you cared to borrow? -Of course. | 0:07:14 | 0:07:17 | |
My wife has nearly every edition. We have run out of shelves. | 0:07:17 | 0:07:20 | |
ALL LAUGHING | 0:07:20 | 0:07:21 | |
MARY: Sir. | 0:07:21 | 0:07:22 | |
Ah, good. Thank you, Mary. | 0:07:22 | 0:07:25 | |
The Frozen Deep. | 0:07:25 | 0:07:27 | |
-You have the text of Mr Collins' play? -Yes. It is not a good play. | 0:07:28 | 0:07:32 | |
But I shall find you one. | 0:07:33 | 0:07:35 | |
-David Copperfield. -David Copperfield? | 0:07:36 | 0:07:38 | |
-For our readings. -Oh, yes. | 0:07:38 | 0:07:41 | |
Will you walk again tomorrow? | 0:07:42 | 0:07:45 | |
Perhaps. | 0:07:45 | 0:07:46 | |
May I join you? | 0:07:49 | 0:07:51 | |
I walk at quite a pace. | 0:07:51 | 0:07:53 | |
WAVES CRASHING | 0:07:59 | 0:08:02 | |
BREATHING HEAVILY | 0:08:08 | 0:08:10 | |
INDISTINCT CHATTER | 0:08:50 | 0:08:52 | |
-Welcome. Welcome, Mrs Ternan. -Thank you, Charley. | 0:08:59 | 0:09:02 | |
Oh, dear. | 0:09:02 | 0:09:03 | |
Um, yes, do be careful now. | 0:09:03 | 0:09:06 | |
MARIA: Oh, my! | 0:09:06 | 0:09:07 | |
-Oh, Miss Maria. Come inside. -Thank you. | 0:09:07 | 0:09:10 | |
-Come inside. -Thank you. Ooh! | 0:09:10 | 0:09:11 | |
-Miss Ellen, welcome. -PANTING | 0:09:11 | 0:09:13 | |
-Oh, your glove. -Thank you. | 0:09:15 | 0:09:16 | |
-I'm Charley Dickens. Welcome to Manchester. -It's so wet. | 0:09:16 | 0:09:20 | |
My father is waiting. The others are already here. | 0:09:20 | 0:09:23 | |
-Nelly, look. See? -There we are. | 0:09:24 | 0:09:27 | |
Come on. | 0:09:27 | 0:09:28 | |
PIANO PLAYING | 0:09:36 | 0:09:38 | |
HAMMER BANGING | 0:09:41 | 0:09:43 | |
THUDDING | 0:09:43 | 0:09:44 | |
-INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS MARIA: -Look, Nelly. | 0:09:44 | 0:09:47 | |
-CHARLEY: -Father? -CHARLES: -Ah! | 0:09:49 | 0:09:50 | |
At last we have a full company. | 0:09:50 | 0:09:53 | |
Mrs Ternan, welcome. | 0:09:53 | 0:09:55 | |
What a beautiful theatre you've built. | 0:09:55 | 0:09:58 | |
Thank you. I'm glad, we have tried. | 0:09:58 | 0:09:59 | |
-Miss Maria, welcome. -Thank you. -You had a good journey, I hope. | 0:09:59 | 0:10:02 | |
-Yes, thank you, Mr Dickens. -Quite comfortable. -Good. Good. Good. | 0:10:02 | 0:10:04 | |
-And you must be Miss Ellen Ternan? -I am. | 0:10:04 | 0:10:07 | |
You've met my eldest son, Charley, of course? | 0:10:07 | 0:10:09 | |
-He kindly rescued my glove, yes. -Ah. The gallant chevalier. | 0:10:09 | 0:10:13 | |
Ladies and gentlemen, may I introduce Miss Ellen | 0:10:13 | 0:10:15 | |
who is helping us in our hour of need. | 0:10:15 | 0:10:17 | |
We wish your sister, Fanny, well. | 0:10:17 | 0:10:19 | |
Is it the Haymarket or the Phoenix theatre we've lost her to? | 0:10:19 | 0:10:21 | |
The Haymarket. She's so sad not to be here. | 0:10:21 | 0:10:23 | |
-No, Nelly will give you a wonderful performance. -I have no doubt. | 0:10:23 | 0:10:26 | |
Now, Mrs Ternan, Maria, you've met everyone on our previous rehearsals. | 0:10:26 | 0:10:29 | |
Miss Ellen, may I introduce our family of actors? | 0:10:29 | 0:10:32 | |
-We have Mr Lemon. -Delighted. | 0:10:32 | 0:10:34 | |
-And Mr Egg. -Welcome. | 0:10:34 | 0:10:36 | |
-And our composer, Mr Berger. -Hello. | 0:10:36 | 0:10:39 | |
And Mr Pigott. Miss Sabine. Mr Charles. | 0:10:39 | 0:10:42 | |
And I'd like to introduce our author, Mr Collins, | 0:10:42 | 0:10:44 | |
but as ever, he is late. But here are some of my own family. | 0:10:44 | 0:10:48 | |
My daughters, Mamey, Katey. | 0:10:48 | 0:10:50 | |
My sister-in-law, Miss Georgina Hogarth. | 0:10:50 | 0:10:52 | |
Assorted sons - Frank, Alfred, Sydney, Henry. | 0:10:52 | 0:10:56 | |
And where is youngest boy? | 0:10:56 | 0:10:58 | |
Don't hide there, Plorn. Come here. | 0:10:58 | 0:11:00 | |
And that is it, I think. | 0:11:00 | 0:11:02 | |
Uh, yes, of course, and my wife. And half an hour. | 0:11:02 | 0:11:05 | |
Is that time enough, ladies, for you to settle your bonnets? | 0:11:05 | 0:11:08 | |
I'd like to rehearse, but without our author, | 0:11:08 | 0:11:10 | |
Mr Collins, who is at last here. | 0:11:10 | 0:11:13 | |
Why am I always waiting, Wilkie? Why must you always be late? | 0:11:13 | 0:11:16 | |
Because it irritates you, Charles. | 0:11:16 | 0:11:18 | |
And it amuses me to see you in bad temper. | 0:11:18 | 0:11:21 | |
Charles, I don't think we can afford to cut it. | 0:11:21 | 0:11:22 | |
But it's too long. It'll bore if it's too long. | 0:11:22 | 0:11:24 | |
It was too long in London, it'll be too long in Manchester. | 0:11:24 | 0:11:27 | |
Though it pains, Wilkie. Cut, cut, cut. | 0:11:27 | 0:11:29 | |
It is done. You can tell Mr Egg he's lost his last soliloquy. | 0:11:29 | 0:11:32 | |
No, you must do it as author. I shall not deny you that. | 0:11:32 | 0:11:34 | |
-HE LAUGHS: -You are insufferable. And this? -And here and here. | 0:11:34 | 0:11:38 | |
-Now, everyone, please be careful. -TO HIMSELF: -(Butcher!) | 0:11:38 | 0:11:40 | |
Our little theatre's not yet complete. | 0:11:40 | 0:11:42 | |
Remember, we are rehearsing Miss Ellen in today, | 0:11:42 | 0:11:44 | |
so let's be considerate. Now, I'm keen to review the last act, | 0:11:44 | 0:11:47 | |
just the final entry of Wardour and Aldersly. | 0:11:47 | 0:11:49 | |
So places, friends. | 0:11:49 | 0:11:50 | |
-Now, Maria. Maria. -Yes? | 0:11:50 | 0:11:52 | |
We should have you just here, I think. | 0:11:52 | 0:11:54 | |
Then Mrs Ternan and the girls. And Miss Ellen... | 0:11:54 | 0:11:56 | |
Mr Dickens, may I suggest that the ladies are slightly further upstage? | 0:11:56 | 0:11:59 | |
-Yes. Of course. -Have your officers trimmed to your satisfaction? | 0:11:59 | 0:12:01 | |
Yes, excellent, excellent. Very good. | 0:12:01 | 0:12:02 | |
Um, do you think I ought to stand a little wider for the entrance? | 0:12:02 | 0:12:05 | |
Yes, but not too much for it's your face and not mine | 0:12:05 | 0:12:06 | |
that'll be holding the attention of our audience, I feel sure. | 0:12:06 | 0:12:09 | |
Uh, Wilkie, are you ready? | 0:12:09 | 0:12:10 | |
I need you standing at the back if I'm to carry you in. | 0:12:10 | 0:12:12 | |
-Are you ready? -No. | 0:12:12 | 0:12:15 | |
-Yes, come on, come on. -Yes, yes. | 0:12:15 | 0:12:17 | |
Charley. Just relax the arms. | 0:12:17 | 0:12:20 | |
Just a little less stiff. | 0:12:20 | 0:12:22 | |
-Yeah? -Hmm. | 0:12:22 | 0:12:23 | |
(That's good, yes.) | 0:12:23 | 0:12:25 | |
Should you not come? I cannot carry myself. | 0:12:25 | 0:12:27 | |
Yes, yes, of course. | 0:12:27 | 0:12:29 | |
Do I speak after the gun? | 0:12:29 | 0:12:30 | |
After the gun and you move downstage to the middle. | 0:12:30 | 0:12:33 | |
MARIA: Frank! Frank! | 0:12:33 | 0:12:34 | |
Then my line, "Saved, saved for you." | 0:12:34 | 0:12:37 | |
-Then you've put me down here? -Yes, I have. | 0:12:37 | 0:12:39 | |
And I am footsore and weary, Clara, but I have saved him. | 0:12:39 | 0:12:43 | |
Yes. That's good. Then your line, Wilkie. | 0:12:43 | 0:12:46 | |
Where is Wardour? Help him. Never mind me. | 0:12:46 | 0:12:48 | |
-Mark, that's when you come down. -Wardour. Dear Wardour. | 0:12:48 | 0:12:51 | |
Old friend whom I have wronged, remember and forgive me. | 0:12:51 | 0:12:54 | |
-Very good, you're forgiven. -ALL LAUGHING | 0:12:54 | 0:12:56 | |
Don't be afraid to project. We have nearly a thousand seats. | 0:12:56 | 0:12:59 | |
Catherine, do say if you cannot hear us. | 0:12:59 | 0:13:01 | |
-What? -We can hear you very well, Charles. | 0:13:01 | 0:13:03 | |
Very good. Everyone, speak up. | 0:13:03 | 0:13:05 | |
Then, Maria, that's when you come over here | 0:13:05 | 0:13:07 | |
and take me gently in your arms. | 0:13:07 | 0:13:08 | |
-Here. -Sorry. -Richard. Richard, look upon your old playmate. | 0:13:08 | 0:13:12 | |
-And then music... -PIANO PLAYING | 0:13:12 | 0:13:13 | |
No, Berger... Berger, not yet. I'm just marking through the cues. | 0:13:13 | 0:13:15 | |
It plays until the curtain has fallen | 0:13:15 | 0:13:17 | |
by which time we kiss, then gun. | 0:13:17 | 0:13:19 | |
Bang. Then I'm dead. | 0:13:19 | 0:13:21 | |
And then epilogue. | 0:13:21 | 0:13:23 | |
This is a tale of woe. This is a tale of sorrow. | 0:13:29 | 0:13:33 | |
A love denied. A love restored to live beyond tomorrow. | 0:13:33 | 0:13:37 | |
Lest we think silence is the place to hide a heavy heart, | 0:13:37 | 0:13:40 | |
remember, to love and be loved is life itself, | 0:13:40 | 0:13:44 | |
without which we are nought. | 0:13:44 | 0:13:46 | |
And then the curtain closes. Loud applause. | 0:13:50 | 0:13:52 | |
Yet audible the crying of 2,000! | 0:13:52 | 0:13:56 | |
Thank you. Bravo. Bravo. | 0:13:56 | 0:13:59 | |
Ladies, gentlemen. Thank you, Maria. | 0:13:59 | 0:14:00 | |
Charles, your last speech I think could benefit from cutting. | 0:14:00 | 0:14:04 | |
-You do? -I do. | 0:14:04 | 0:14:05 | |
-Shall we discuss it? -Uh, yes, yeah. Later. | 0:14:05 | 0:14:08 | |
She has something. | 0:14:10 | 0:14:11 | |
Come nearer. | 0:14:16 | 0:14:19 | |
Clara. | 0:14:19 | 0:14:20 | |
Kiss me. | 0:14:23 | 0:14:25 | |
Sister, kiss me... | 0:14:25 | 0:14:28 | |
-..before I die. -SOBBING: No. | 0:14:30 | 0:14:32 | |
SOBBING | 0:14:35 | 0:14:37 | |
PIANO PLAYING | 0:14:40 | 0:14:42 | |
APPLAUSE | 0:14:51 | 0:14:52 | |
CHEERING | 0:14:55 | 0:14:57 | |
PIANO PLAYING EERIE MUSIC | 0:15:04 | 0:15:06 | |
# Queen Victoria | 0:15:06 | 0:15:10 | |
# Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gothenburg... # | 0:15:10 | 0:15:13 | |
ALL LAUGHING | 0:15:13 | 0:15:14 | |
# Leopold the First of Belgium... # | 0:15:14 | 0:15:17 | |
William Thackeray! | 0:15:17 | 0:15:20 | |
POUNDING PIANO KEYS | 0:15:20 | 0:15:22 | |
No, no, no. It is not enough that we play before these mere mortals. | 0:15:22 | 0:15:26 | |
Friends, it is Manchester who has given us the highest accolade. | 0:15:26 | 0:15:29 | |
It is Manchester whose approval I have looked for, | 0:15:29 | 0:15:32 | |
and it is Manchester who has bestowed tonight's success. | 0:15:32 | 0:15:36 | |
Friends, we are victorious! | 0:15:36 | 0:15:39 | |
ALL CHEERING | 0:15:39 | 0:15:40 | |
Sir Roger de Coverley, Mr Berger, please. | 0:15:40 | 0:15:43 | |
LIVELY DANCE MUSIC PLAYING | 0:15:43 | 0:15:45 | |
PEOPLE LAUGHING | 0:15:46 | 0:15:48 | |
And again! | 0:16:00 | 0:16:01 | |
Strip the willow! | 0:16:01 | 0:16:03 | |
MUSIC CONTINUES | 0:16:03 | 0:16:05 | |
Back-to-back! | 0:16:11 | 0:16:13 | |
Gentlemen, change for the British Grenadiers. | 0:16:20 | 0:16:23 | |
ALL LAUGHING | 0:16:25 | 0:16:26 | |
# Three corpse lay out on the shining sand | 0:16:26 | 0:16:29 | |
# In the morning gleam as the tide went down | 0:16:29 | 0:16:31 | |
# And the women are weeping and wringing their hands | 0:16:31 | 0:16:35 | |
# For those who will never come back to the town | 0:16:35 | 0:16:38 | |
ALL: # For men must work and women must weep | 0:16:38 | 0:16:41 | |
# The sooner it's over, the sooner to sleep | 0:16:41 | 0:16:43 | |
# And goodbye to the bar and it's moaning... # | 0:16:43 | 0:16:48 | |
-SOFTLY: -Raise your arms higher like a bird. | 0:16:48 | 0:16:52 | |
And then, when you are ready, give me your hands. | 0:16:52 | 0:16:55 | |
(It's remarkable.) | 0:16:55 | 0:16:56 | |
-CHARLES: -Give me your hands. | 0:16:56 | 0:16:58 | |
There. Now you are safe with me. | 0:16:58 | 0:17:01 | |
One of his magic tricks. | 0:17:01 | 0:17:04 | |
SHE CHUCKLES | 0:17:04 | 0:17:05 | |
-Where are you? -ALL CHUCKLING | 0:17:05 | 0:17:08 | |
SHUSHING | 0:17:08 | 0:17:10 | |
I'm on my own. | 0:17:10 | 0:17:11 | |
You are an admirer of my husband's work, Miss Ellen? | 0:17:13 | 0:17:16 | |
Of course. | 0:17:16 | 0:17:17 | |
At the moment, I'm lost in Little Dorrit. | 0:17:17 | 0:17:20 | |
Until now, I thought Bleak House | 0:17:20 | 0:17:22 | |
would be the novel that would stay with me the most. | 0:17:22 | 0:17:24 | |
It has this alarming spirit of unease. | 0:17:24 | 0:17:26 | |
Lady Dedlock haunted by her past. | 0:17:26 | 0:17:29 | |
I keep coming back to those pages again and again. | 0:17:29 | 0:17:32 | |
SOFTLY: Yet there's so much that makes me smile. | 0:17:34 | 0:17:36 | |
'Tis a fiction designed to entertain. | 0:17:36 | 0:17:39 | |
Surely it's more than that. It changes us. | 0:17:39 | 0:17:42 | |
Now you are, you are back with us. | 0:17:42 | 0:17:45 | |
ALL LAUGHING | 0:17:45 | 0:17:46 | |
He will be up all night. | 0:17:48 | 0:17:50 | |
And cross all day. | 0:17:52 | 0:17:53 | |
SHE CHUCKLES | 0:17:53 | 0:17:54 | |
Katey. Mamey. | 0:17:57 | 0:17:59 | |
Now, someone else. Who is next? | 0:17:59 | 0:18:03 | |
Hmm? | 0:18:03 | 0:18:04 | |
-Who is next? -Good night. | 0:18:04 | 0:18:06 | |
-MRS TERNAN: -Hold the baby. Hold the baby. She's gone. | 0:18:06 | 0:18:10 | |
Where is she? Where is she? Is she safe? Please tell me she's safe. | 0:18:10 | 0:18:14 | |
And now you are back with us, Mrs Ternan. | 0:18:14 | 0:18:17 | |
-Back where? -MARIA: -Mother. | 0:18:19 | 0:18:22 | |
Mother, I think you were remembering Fanny on the boat. | 0:18:22 | 0:18:26 | |
Oh. What did I say? | 0:18:26 | 0:18:27 | |
-You were trying to save her, Mother. -Oh. | 0:18:27 | 0:18:30 | |
I'm sorry, Mr Dickens. | 0:18:30 | 0:18:31 | |
I think I may have strayed into some family history. | 0:18:31 | 0:18:34 | |
Oh? | 0:18:34 | 0:18:35 | |
My eldest daughter, Fanny, was, um, thrown from her cot. | 0:18:36 | 0:18:40 | |
My husband and I were travelling around America some years ago, | 0:18:40 | 0:18:45 | |
and, um, our paddle steamer was rammed by another boat, | 0:18:45 | 0:18:49 | |
and Fanny was thrown up into the air | 0:18:49 | 0:18:53 | |
and saved, miraculously, by a mattress. | 0:18:53 | 0:18:56 | |
The angels were watching. | 0:18:56 | 0:18:58 | |
-Yes. -They were. -Yes. | 0:18:58 | 0:19:00 | |
Extraordinary story. | 0:19:00 | 0:19:02 | |
I am done, Mr Dickens. | 0:19:04 | 0:19:06 | |
As am I. I must go. | 0:19:06 | 0:19:08 | |
Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow. | 0:19:08 | 0:19:09 | |
-Good night, Wilkie. -Good night. | 0:19:09 | 0:19:11 | |
Five o'clock. | 0:19:12 | 0:19:14 | |
-Bed. -Or breakfast? | 0:19:14 | 0:19:16 | |
MAN: Good night. | 0:19:16 | 0:19:18 | |
-Thank you, gentlemen. -WOMAN: Good night. -Good night. | 0:19:19 | 0:19:21 | |
Maria, you broke all our hearts tonight. | 0:19:21 | 0:19:23 | |
CHUCKLING Everyone was weeping. | 0:19:23 | 0:19:26 | |
I couldn't hold back the tears. You were so good. | 0:19:26 | 0:19:29 | |
I did try to console her in a hushed aside, | 0:19:29 | 0:19:31 | |
but all she could say was, "Oh, so sad, so sad." | 0:19:31 | 0:19:34 | |
Such a good, dear, pale little face. | 0:19:34 | 0:19:37 | |
-You won't find a better Clara. -Thank you, Mother. | 0:19:37 | 0:19:39 | |
I must get my angels to bed. | 0:19:39 | 0:19:41 | |
I'm too awake to sleep. | 0:19:41 | 0:19:44 | |
-It's daylight. -Nelly. | 0:19:44 | 0:19:46 | |
Everyone needs sleep, Nelly dear. | 0:19:46 | 0:19:49 | |
This is my favourite time. | 0:19:57 | 0:19:59 | |
When the day is creeping up on us | 0:19:59 | 0:20:01 | |
and we must put in order the chaos of the night. | 0:20:01 | 0:20:04 | |
Stand guard once more, ready for life. | 0:20:04 | 0:20:07 | |
A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature | 0:20:09 | 0:20:13 | |
is a profound secret and mystery to every other. | 0:20:13 | 0:20:16 | |
Until that secret is given to another to look after. | 0:20:17 | 0:20:21 | |
And then perhaps two human creatures may know each other. | 0:20:22 | 0:20:25 | |
Do you not think? | 0:20:30 | 0:20:32 | |
Yeah. | 0:20:35 | 0:20:36 | |
Has Mrs Dickens gone to bed? | 0:20:40 | 0:20:43 | |
Some time ago. | 0:20:43 | 0:20:44 | |
Mmm, yeah, well... | 0:20:44 | 0:20:46 | |
She has terrible headaches. | 0:20:47 | 0:20:49 | |
Sleep. Sleep. | 0:20:51 | 0:20:54 | |
FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING | 0:21:00 | 0:21:03 | |
DOOR OPENS | 0:21:04 | 0:21:05 | |
Why must you do that? | 0:21:11 | 0:21:14 | |
-GEORGE: -Do what, Nelly? | 0:21:14 | 0:21:16 | |
Flaunt my connection? | 0:21:16 | 0:21:18 | |
-It is dull. -Dull? | 0:21:18 | 0:21:21 | |
To have known Dickens? | 0:21:21 | 0:21:23 | |
I was a child. | 0:21:23 | 0:21:24 | |
Yet to refer to him as bleak. | 0:21:26 | 0:21:28 | |
It is a misconception. | 0:21:30 | 0:21:31 | |
What? | 0:21:31 | 0:21:32 | |
I do not understand what you are talking of, Nelly. | 0:21:32 | 0:21:35 | |
This constant agitation. | 0:21:35 | 0:21:37 | |
MOANING | 0:21:41 | 0:21:42 | |
BREATHING HEAVILY | 0:22:06 | 0:22:08 | |
-CHARLES: -"As we struggled on, nearer and nearer to the sea | 0:22:12 | 0:22:16 | |
"from which this mighty wind was blowing dead on shore, | 0:22:16 | 0:22:19 | |
"it's force became more and more terrific. | 0:22:19 | 0:22:23 | |
"When we came within sight of the sea, | 0:22:24 | 0:22:27 | |
"the waves on the horizon, caught at intervals above the rolling abyss, | 0:22:27 | 0:22:31 | |
"were like glimpses of another shore with towers and buildings. | 0:22:31 | 0:22:36 | |
"As the high watery walls came rolling in, | 0:22:36 | 0:22:39 | |
"and at their highest tumbled into surf, | 0:22:39 | 0:22:41 | |
"they looked as if the least would engulf the town. | 0:22:41 | 0:22:46 | |
"As the receding wave swept back with a hoarse roar, | 0:22:46 | 0:22:52 | |
"it seemed to scoop out deep caves in the beach, | 0:22:52 | 0:22:55 | |
"as if its purpose were to undermine the earth. | 0:22:55 | 0:23:00 | |
"Ham watched the sea, standing alone, | 0:23:01 | 0:23:05 | |
"until there was a great retiring wave. | 0:23:05 | 0:23:08 | |
"When, with a backward glance at those who held the rope | 0:23:08 | 0:23:11 | |
"which was made fast around his body, he dashed in after it. | 0:23:11 | 0:23:16 | |
"And, in a moment, was buffeting with the water, | 0:23:16 | 0:23:20 | |
"rising with the hills, falling with the valleys, lost beneath the foam, | 0:23:20 | 0:23:25 | |
"borne in towards the shore, borne on towards the ship. | 0:23:25 | 0:23:30 | |
"At last, Ham neared the wreck. | 0:23:30 | 0:23:32 | |
"He was so near that, with one more of his vigorous strokes, | 0:23:32 | 0:23:35 | |
"he would be clinging to it | 0:23:35 | 0:23:37 | |
"when a high, green, vast hillside of water | 0:23:37 | 0:23:43 | |
"moving on shoreward from beyond the ship, | 0:23:43 | 0:23:45 | |
"he seemed to leap up into it with a mighty bound. | 0:23:45 | 0:23:51 | |
"And...the ship...was gone." | 0:23:52 | 0:23:59 | |
Truly, Mr Dickens, it is never so alive | 0:23:59 | 0:24:02 | |
as when it is spoken by its author. | 0:24:02 | 0:24:04 | |
Thank you. Thank you. Will you excuse me? | 0:24:04 | 0:24:06 | |
-HE CHUCKLES -Ah, Mrs Ternan. -Mr Dickens. | 0:24:06 | 0:24:08 | |
It was remarkable. | 0:24:08 | 0:24:10 | |
Such control, such mastery in your performance. | 0:24:10 | 0:24:13 | |
Thank you. I am told these readings double sales. | 0:24:13 | 0:24:16 | |
It was quite brilliant, Mr Dickens. | 0:24:16 | 0:24:18 | |
-It was? -Yes. Yes. | 0:24:18 | 0:24:19 | |
-Absolutely. -Miss Fanny! | 0:24:19 | 0:24:21 | |
-CHUCKLES: -We've missed you. -Well, not enough, it would seem. | 0:24:21 | 0:24:25 | |
-Mrs Dickens isn't here? -Uh, no, not today. | 0:24:25 | 0:24:28 | |
-Oh, what a pity to have missed it. -Mm-hm. | 0:24:28 | 0:24:31 | |
Oh, such a storm. We were quite blown off course. | 0:24:31 | 0:24:35 | |
-So, it did not disappoint? -MARIA: -No. | 0:24:35 | 0:24:37 | |
-Well... -Well? | 0:24:37 | 0:24:40 | |
Nelly has read every chapter twice. | 0:24:40 | 0:24:43 | |
I may have read every chapter twice, | 0:24:43 | 0:24:45 | |
but I didn't really hear it until now. | 0:24:45 | 0:24:49 | |
Hearing it spoken, I felt I was in the storm. | 0:24:49 | 0:24:54 | |
I was there with Copperfield seeing his friend drowned. | 0:24:54 | 0:24:59 | |
It was unbearable. | 0:24:59 | 0:25:01 | |
Yes, I... | 0:25:01 | 0:25:03 | |
-I am glad. -ALL CHUCKLE | 0:25:03 | 0:25:05 | |
Charles, do please come and talk to these gentlemen. | 0:25:05 | 0:25:07 | |
I've been entertaining them for several minutes now, | 0:25:07 | 0:25:10 | |
-but ultimately, I feel I am a poor substitute. -Wilkie, I am coming. | 0:25:10 | 0:25:13 | |
ALL LAUGHING | 0:25:13 | 0:25:14 | |
Where are you playing next? | 0:25:14 | 0:25:15 | |
They're engaged to play Doncaster for three weeks. | 0:25:15 | 0:25:17 | |
-And what are you playing? -Uh, two tragedies and a farce. | 0:25:17 | 0:25:20 | |
-Ah, a farce. What farce? -The Pet of the Petticoats. | 0:25:20 | 0:25:23 | |
-LAUGHING -The Pet of the Petticoats? -Yes. | 0:25:23 | 0:25:25 | |
What a terrible title! | 0:25:25 | 0:25:26 | |
Yes. | 0:25:26 | 0:25:27 | |
ALL CHUCKLING | 0:25:27 | 0:25:29 | |
Well, um... | 0:25:29 | 0:25:30 | |
But very good races, Doncaster. Excuse me. Don't go away. | 0:25:30 | 0:25:34 | |
DOOR CLOSES | 0:25:47 | 0:25:49 | |
Catherine? | 0:25:49 | 0:25:51 | |
Yes? | 0:25:51 | 0:25:52 | |
Shall we sit together? | 0:25:54 | 0:25:56 | |
If you wish. | 0:25:57 | 0:25:59 | |
Well, no, if you'd prefer not, I, um... | 0:25:59 | 0:26:01 | |
I did not sleep well last night. Perhaps I will go to bed now. | 0:26:01 | 0:26:04 | |
Yes, of course, yes. | 0:26:04 | 0:26:07 | |
Wilkie has an idea for Household Words. | 0:26:07 | 0:26:09 | |
A trip to the North. | 0:26:09 | 0:26:11 | |
He's calling it A Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices. | 0:26:11 | 0:26:13 | |
HE CHUCKLES | 0:26:13 | 0:26:15 | |
It might be a couple of pages in it. | 0:26:15 | 0:26:17 | |
-Where will you start? -Um... | 0:26:17 | 0:26:19 | |
-Doncaster, I think. -Hmm. Turn up the lamp. | 0:26:19 | 0:26:22 | |
You cannot write in this light. | 0:26:22 | 0:26:24 | |
DISTANT SHOUTING | 0:26:44 | 0:26:46 | |
ALL CHEERING | 0:27:10 | 0:27:12 | |
HORSES APPROACHING | 0:27:12 | 0:27:14 | |
She won! She won! | 0:27:20 | 0:27:23 | |
Nelly, victory. | 0:27:23 | 0:27:25 | |
CHUCKLING | 0:27:25 | 0:27:27 | |
Nelly, you've won! | 0:27:27 | 0:27:29 | |
-How much? -5 shillings. | 0:27:29 | 0:27:31 | |
5 shillings? | 0:27:31 | 0:27:32 | |
It was fixed. It was fixed. | 0:27:32 | 0:27:34 | |
I hope you're not a bad sport, Mr Collins. | 0:27:34 | 0:27:36 | |
-I am a very bad sport. -Then you must win. | 0:27:36 | 0:27:38 | |
So, what will you do with your winnings, Nelly? | 0:27:38 | 0:27:41 | |
I shall spend it all at once. | 0:27:41 | 0:27:43 | |
No, I may spend a half a shilling on a copy of Household Words | 0:27:43 | 0:27:46 | |
just to be sure the two apprentices | 0:27:46 | 0:27:48 | |
returned safely from their lazy tour. | 0:27:48 | 0:27:50 | |
They did, though they did not want to go home. | 0:27:50 | 0:27:52 | |
But what of their families? | 0:27:52 | 0:27:53 | |
Well, they missed them of course, but they did so enjoy being away. | 0:27:53 | 0:27:57 | |
-MAN 1: -Charles Dickens. | 0:27:57 | 0:27:59 | |
Charles, you've been rumbled. | 0:27:59 | 0:28:01 | |
-MAN 2: -Mr Dickens! | 0:28:01 | 0:28:02 | |
Hello. Good day. Yes. Thank you. | 0:28:02 | 0:28:04 | |
How very unexpected. | 0:28:04 | 0:28:06 | |
-Thank you. Thank you. -MEN CLAMOURING | 0:28:06 | 0:28:08 | |
Welcome to Yorkshire. Will you write a book about us? | 0:28:08 | 0:28:11 | |
Mr Dickens, great talking to you. | 0:28:12 | 0:28:15 | |
Miss Ellen. | 0:28:15 | 0:28:16 | |
-WOMAN: -Mr Dickens. -Thank you. | 0:28:16 | 0:28:18 | |
-MAN: -I've read all your stories. -Thank you. | 0:28:18 | 0:28:21 | |
CLAMOURING CONTINUES | 0:28:21 | 0:28:23 | |
SHE SIGHS | 0:28:28 | 0:28:31 | |
Through there, please. Thank you. | 0:28:31 | 0:28:33 | |
-Watch it! -Yes, ma'am. | 0:28:33 | 0:28:36 | |
-Give me that, Maria dear. -Thank you, Mother. | 0:28:36 | 0:28:38 | |
-Nearly there. -SIGHING | 0:28:38 | 0:28:41 | |
-MARIA: -Oh, home! | 0:28:42 | 0:28:43 | |
-Home! -CHUCKLES | 0:28:43 | 0:28:45 | |
That's yours. | 0:28:45 | 0:28:46 | |
-MARIA: -Does that need washing, do you think? -I'll put it in. | 0:28:48 | 0:28:50 | |
HUMMING | 0:28:50 | 0:28:52 | |
-FANNY: -This will not stretch to another season. | 0:28:56 | 0:28:57 | |
I cannot mend another sleeve again. | 0:28:57 | 0:29:00 | |
-MARIA: -The cuffs are still good. | 0:29:00 | 0:29:02 | |
And there's lace on the collar I can save. Yes, I'll unpick it. | 0:29:02 | 0:29:04 | |
Maria, also this hem. | 0:29:04 | 0:29:07 | |
Thank you. Look. | 0:29:07 | 0:29:09 | |
ALL: # To pine on the stem | 0:29:09 | 0:29:13 | |
# Since the lovely are sleeping | 0:29:13 | 0:29:17 | |
# Go sleep thou with them | 0:29:17 | 0:29:22 | |
# Thus kindly I scatter | 0:29:22 | 0:29:25 | |
# Thy leaves o'er the bed... # | 0:29:25 | 0:29:31 | |
-ALL LAUGHING MRS TERNAN: -I'm collecting washing. | 0:29:31 | 0:29:35 | |
Here. | 0:29:35 | 0:29:36 | |
# And from love's shining circle | 0:29:36 | 0:29:40 | |
# The gems drop away... # | 0:29:40 | 0:29:42 | |
This signed? | 0:29:42 | 0:29:43 | |
-A souvenir. MARIA: -Where are my scissors? | 0:29:44 | 0:29:47 | |
FANNY: They're in the drawer. | 0:29:47 | 0:29:49 | |
It's to be treasured. | 0:29:49 | 0:29:51 | |
FANNY: # When true hearts are withered | 0:29:51 | 0:29:56 | |
# And fond ones are flown... # | 0:29:56 | 0:30:00 | |
Oh, Catherine. | 0:30:14 | 0:30:16 | |
Um, excuse me. | 0:30:16 | 0:30:18 | |
HE SNIFFLES | 0:31:03 | 0:31:04 | |
Why are you up so early? | 0:31:15 | 0:31:17 | |
-I must go to London. -Now? | 0:31:18 | 0:31:21 | |
-There will be no train. -Well, then I shall walk. | 0:31:21 | 0:31:24 | |
-It will take you all day. -Then it will take me all day. | 0:31:24 | 0:31:28 | |
DOOR CLOSES | 0:31:31 | 0:31:33 | |
-SIR PETER: -So, here's perverseness. | 0:31:52 | 0:31:55 | |
ALL LAUGHING | 0:31:55 | 0:31:56 | |
No, no, 'tis Charles only whom you would prefer. | 0:31:56 | 0:32:00 | |
'Tis evident his vices and follies have won your heart. | 0:32:00 | 0:32:03 | |
I have obeyed you, both in neither seeing nor corresponding with him. | 0:32:03 | 0:32:07 | |
Yet I cannot think it culpable if, | 0:32:07 | 0:32:09 | |
though my understanding severely condemns his vices, | 0:32:09 | 0:32:13 | |
my heart professes some... | 0:32:13 | 0:32:16 | |
STAMMERS: ..suggests some pity for his distresses. | 0:32:17 | 0:32:21 | |
ALL LAUGHING | 0:32:21 | 0:32:24 | |
-BUCKSTONE: -Egad, we'll have the wedding tomorrow morning. | 0:32:24 | 0:32:26 | |
-ARNOTT: -Thank you, dear Uncle. | 0:32:26 | 0:32:28 | |
What, you rogue, don't you ask the girl's consent first? | 0:32:28 | 0:32:31 | |
-ARNOTT: -I have done that a long time... | 0:32:31 | 0:32:33 | |
-A minute ago and she looked... -(Be hard to believe she was so bad.) | 0:32:33 | 0:32:36 | |
-Yes. -For shame, Charles. | 0:32:36 | 0:32:38 | |
I protest, Sir Peter. There has not been a word. | 0:32:38 | 0:32:40 | |
Because we can't hear a word! | 0:32:40 | 0:32:42 | |
ALL LAUGHING | 0:32:42 | 0:32:43 | |
-BUCKSTONE: -Well, then the fewer the better. | 0:32:43 | 0:32:45 | |
May your love for each other never know abatement. | 0:32:45 | 0:32:48 | |
And may you live as happily together | 0:32:48 | 0:32:50 | |
as Lady Teazle and I intend to do. | 0:32:50 | 0:32:54 | |
-That was very good, Nelly! -Really, Mother? | 0:32:54 | 0:32:58 | |
There is such clarity in your performance, Nelly. | 0:32:58 | 0:33:00 | |
Oh, thank you, Fanny. | 0:33:00 | 0:33:02 | |
-You looked so beautiful. -Thank you, Maria. | 0:33:02 | 0:33:04 | |
Mr Dickens, why didn't you tell us you were coming? | 0:33:04 | 0:33:06 | |
A last minute impulse. | 0:33:06 | 0:33:07 | |
-Mr Dickens! -My dear Buckstone. | 0:33:07 | 0:33:09 | |
Always a pleasure to have you grace our theatre. | 0:33:09 | 0:33:11 | |
Thank you. A memorable night. | 0:33:11 | 0:33:12 | |
Miss Ellen, you were simply splendid. | 0:33:12 | 0:33:15 | |
Oh, thank you, Mr Arnott. As were you. | 0:33:15 | 0:33:18 | |
And how is the writing, Mr Dickens? | 0:33:18 | 0:33:20 | |
My writing is ferocious. | 0:33:20 | 0:33:21 | |
I'm up at seven, cold bath before breakfast, | 0:33:21 | 0:33:24 | |
then I blaze away until three o'clock. | 0:33:24 | 0:33:26 | |
I fight not to be distracted. | 0:33:26 | 0:33:28 | |
Won't you sit? | 0:33:28 | 0:33:30 | |
No, I don't think. | 0:33:30 | 0:33:32 | |
It's very late. You must be tired, Mr Dickens. | 0:33:32 | 0:33:35 | |
There's so much to do, I don't know whether my head is on or off. | 0:33:35 | 0:33:38 | |
Nelly, you must come and meet my very good friends. | 0:33:38 | 0:33:40 | |
Thank you. Yes, Mr Arnott, I'd be delighted to. | 0:33:40 | 0:33:43 | |
-This is Ambrose. -Hello. | 0:33:45 | 0:33:47 | |
-She is much in demand. -Mmm, indeed. | 0:33:47 | 0:33:49 | |
DOOR CLOSES | 0:33:49 | 0:33:51 | |
-Come through. Come through. -Thank you, Mrs Ternan. | 0:33:51 | 0:33:54 | |
MATCH LIGHTING | 0:33:54 | 0:33:56 | |
-Fanny, Maria, we need to feed our guest. -Yes, Mother. | 0:33:56 | 0:33:58 | |
Please do not trouble yourself, Mrs Ternan. | 0:33:58 | 0:34:00 | |
There is some meat in the larder. And some fruit. And bread. | 0:34:00 | 0:34:03 | |
Nelly, would you bring a drink for Mr Dickens? | 0:34:03 | 0:34:05 | |
HE CHUCKLES | 0:34:07 | 0:34:08 | |
This is enchanting. | 0:34:08 | 0:34:10 | |
Ah, I see you have Mr Keene as the Moor. | 0:34:12 | 0:34:16 | |
I played his Desdemona. | 0:34:16 | 0:34:18 | |
-May I take your coat, Mr Dickens? -I know. Thank you, Mrs Ternan. | 0:34:18 | 0:34:20 | |
And my husband was Iago. | 0:34:20 | 0:34:23 | |
Indeed. "Farewell the tranquil mind." | 0:34:23 | 0:34:26 | |
-Thank you. -Uh, would you sit? | 0:34:28 | 0:34:30 | |
It is the only chair in the house that doesn't sag | 0:34:30 | 0:34:32 | |
should you shift in search of comfort. | 0:34:32 | 0:34:33 | |
Well, I am warned. Thank you. | 0:34:33 | 0:34:35 | |
-We have ham and plums. -And some bread and some cheese. | 0:34:42 | 0:34:46 | |
This is charming. | 0:34:46 | 0:34:48 | |
And wine. | 0:34:48 | 0:34:50 | |
Then I shall never leave. | 0:34:50 | 0:34:51 | |
-Oh, watch the... -Sorry. | 0:34:51 | 0:34:53 | |
And I didn't know how I could get rid of him. | 0:34:53 | 0:34:55 | |
-And then what did you say? -Well, what I should have said was, | 0:34:55 | 0:34:58 | |
"Mr Andersen, though your Ugly Duckling has delighted," | 0:34:58 | 0:35:01 | |
"you've slept in this room for five weeks now and you must go home." | 0:35:01 | 0:35:05 | |
-But you did not. -I did not. | 0:35:05 | 0:35:07 | |
-Why didn't you? -He doesn't understand English. | 0:35:07 | 0:35:10 | |
He only speaks Danish, and I'm not sure he understands Danish. | 0:35:10 | 0:35:13 | |
I was tempted to learn his language, so I could say to him, | 0:35:13 | 0:35:15 | |
"May you never outstay your welcome so long again." | 0:35:15 | 0:35:18 | |
ALL LAUGHING | 0:35:18 | 0:35:20 | |
And now it seems that I have done the same. | 0:35:22 | 0:35:25 | |
-FANNY: -No, never. | 0:35:25 | 0:35:26 | |
I will thank you, ladies, for a pleasurable night. | 0:35:26 | 0:35:29 | |
Life is nothing without good company. | 0:35:29 | 0:35:32 | |
Congratulations, Nelly, on your performance. | 0:35:32 | 0:35:34 | |
Thank you. | 0:35:34 | 0:35:36 | |
Good night, ladies. Ladies, good night. | 0:35:36 | 0:35:40 | |
-Good night. -Good night. | 0:35:40 | 0:35:41 | |
This is a very pretty cottage. | 0:35:43 | 0:35:45 | |
Thank you. If a little small. | 0:35:45 | 0:35:47 | |
SHE CHUCKLES | 0:35:47 | 0:35:49 | |
The rewards of our profession are rarely monetary. | 0:35:49 | 0:35:51 | |
But I would have it no other way. | 0:35:51 | 0:35:53 | |
No-one is entirely useless in this world | 0:35:53 | 0:35:55 | |
if they may lighten the burden. | 0:35:55 | 0:35:58 | |
(I didn't know he was going to be there.) | 0:35:58 | 0:36:01 | |
My daughters are fine young women. | 0:36:01 | 0:36:03 | |
Sometimes, I... I'm anxious for their future. | 0:36:05 | 0:36:08 | |
I understand. | 0:36:09 | 0:36:11 | |
If I may be of assistance in any way? | 0:36:11 | 0:36:14 | |
I cannot risk Nelly's reputation. | 0:36:16 | 0:36:19 | |
I hope that nothing I could offer would compromise her. | 0:36:21 | 0:36:25 | |
Good night, Mrs Ternan. | 0:36:28 | 0:36:30 | |
Good night, Mr Dickens. | 0:36:30 | 0:36:32 | |
-Good night, ladies. -ALL: Good night. | 0:36:32 | 0:36:36 | |
DOOR OPENS | 0:36:36 | 0:36:37 | |
DOOR CLOSES | 0:36:39 | 0:36:40 | |
INDISTINCT CHATTER | 0:36:44 | 0:36:46 | |
-MAN: -# Oh, my name is Sam Hall | 0:36:49 | 0:36:51 | |
# And I've robbed both rich and poor | 0:36:51 | 0:36:53 | |
# And my neck shall pay for all | 0:36:53 | 0:36:56 | |
# When I die, when I die... # | 0:36:56 | 0:36:59 | |
CARRIAGE APPROACHING | 0:36:59 | 0:37:01 | |
WHINNYING | 0:37:03 | 0:37:05 | |
-MAN: -Come on out. | 0:37:09 | 0:37:10 | |
Shilling a blow, sir? Shilling a blow? | 0:37:12 | 0:37:15 | |
I shall give you 5 if you go home safely tonight. | 0:37:19 | 0:37:24 | |
I can play house, sir. Want me as your wife, sir? | 0:37:24 | 0:37:28 | |
Where is your mother? | 0:37:29 | 0:37:31 | |
CHUCKLING | 0:37:31 | 0:37:33 | |
BABY CRYING | 0:37:48 | 0:37:50 | |
'Last night, I sat next to a gentleman at dinner, | 0:38:04 | 0:38:08 | |
'and he asked me in some fury why it was that our city | 0:38:08 | 0:38:12 | |
'should help those who do not help themselves. | 0:38:12 | 0:38:17 | |
'By "those" he meant the many fallen women | 0:38:17 | 0:38:20 | |
'that we see around us every day, | 0:38:20 | 0:38:23 | |
'and their offspring, many who rely on this hospital today. | 0:38:23 | 0:38:28 | |
'I replied, | 0:38:28 | 0:38:30 | |
' "The two grim nurses - poverty and sickness - | 0:38:30 | 0:38:34 | |
' "bring these children before you and preside over their births, | 0:38:34 | 0:38:38 | |
' "rock their wretched cradles, nail down their little coffins, | 0:38:38 | 0:38:43 | |
' "pile up the earth above their graves.' | 0:38:43 | 0:38:45 | |
"Their unnatural deaths form one third | 0:38:45 | 0:38:50 | |
"of the annual deaths in this great town." | 0:38:50 | 0:38:54 | |
"But what of God?" he piously replied. | 0:38:54 | 0:38:58 | |
"What Of him?" I said. | 0:38:58 | 0:39:01 | |
"I feel sure God looks leniently on all vice | 0:39:01 | 0:39:05 | |
"that proceeds from human tenderness and natural passion." | 0:39:05 | 0:39:10 | |
I hope we will, too, and give generously tonight. | 0:39:10 | 0:39:14 | |
Thank you. | 0:39:14 | 0:39:15 | |
MUSIC PLAYING | 0:39:21 | 0:39:23 | |
INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS | 0:39:27 | 0:39:29 | |
-MARIA: -Thank you, ma'am. -Good night, sir. | 0:39:30 | 0:39:33 | |
Thank you, ma'am. | 0:39:33 | 0:39:35 | |
-Good night. -Thank you, My Lord. | 0:39:36 | 0:39:38 | |
-Thank you. -Thank you very much. | 0:39:40 | 0:39:42 | |
-Good night. -Thank you. | 0:39:43 | 0:39:45 | |
Oh, I'm sure you can do better than that, sir. | 0:39:45 | 0:39:48 | |
CHUCKLING | 0:39:48 | 0:39:50 | |
Maria. Fanny. Nelly. Have we fleeced them? | 0:39:50 | 0:39:53 | |
-MARIA: -With every ounce of our souls, Mr Dickens. | 0:39:53 | 0:39:57 | |
Thank you. Thank you. | 0:39:57 | 0:39:58 | |
I did not believe we would raise so much money. Where does one begin? | 0:39:58 | 0:40:00 | |
They'll take some counting. | 0:40:00 | 0:40:02 | |
Yes. Yes. | 0:40:02 | 0:40:03 | |
-Such an achievement. -We must celebrate. | 0:40:03 | 0:40:05 | |
Yes! We must! | 0:40:05 | 0:40:07 | |
We shall! | 0:40:07 | 0:40:08 | |
Here we are. Please, Mrs Ternan, come through. | 0:40:08 | 0:40:12 | |
Are you moving in or out, Mr Dickens? | 0:40:12 | 0:40:14 | |
I'm thinking of letting it. | 0:40:14 | 0:40:16 | |
My wife prefers to live outside of the public glare. London tires her | 0:40:16 | 0:40:19 | |
and Gad's Hill is where she likes to retreat with the children. | 0:40:19 | 0:40:21 | |
-Gad's Hill near Rochester? -Indeed, very close. Walking distance. | 0:40:21 | 0:40:25 | |
-Nelly was born in Rochester. -Ah, I was schooled in Chatham. | 0:40:25 | 0:40:28 | |
But my earliest memories are of Newcastle. | 0:40:28 | 0:40:30 | |
Newcastle I do not know so well. | 0:40:30 | 0:40:33 | |
Please, sit down. Make yourselves at home. | 0:40:33 | 0:40:35 | |
-We have champagne. -CHUCKLES | 0:40:35 | 0:40:37 | |
Thank you, John. Please, on the piano. | 0:40:37 | 0:40:40 | |
Now did you ever see Mr Keene's Corsican Brothers? | 0:40:46 | 0:40:50 | |
Interesting. I saw that melodrama many, many years ago... | 0:40:50 | 0:40:54 | |
CONVERSATION CONTINUES DISTANTLY | 0:40:59 | 0:41:02 | |
Nelly? | 0:41:40 | 0:41:42 | |
Thank you for your hospitality, Mr Dickens. We must leave you. | 0:41:42 | 0:41:44 | |
Fanny has an audition in the morning and must rest her voice. | 0:41:44 | 0:41:47 | |
But, of course, of course. | 0:41:47 | 0:41:48 | |
-MARIA: -We have a wager, Mr Dickens, on how much we collected tonight. | 0:41:48 | 0:41:51 | |
I think 400 pounds, but Fanny thinks more. | 0:41:51 | 0:41:53 | |
Then I shall count it right away. It must be banked tomorrow. | 0:41:53 | 0:41:56 | |
-You'll be up all night. -Well, I don't sleep well anyway. | 0:41:56 | 0:41:59 | |
Why don't we help you? Together it will take us no time. | 0:41:59 | 0:42:01 | |
-We have a rehearsal in the morning. -No. | 0:42:01 | 0:42:03 | |
I could stay and help, Mr Dickens, with Nelly. | 0:42:03 | 0:42:05 | |
-If you have no objection. -No, I... | 0:42:05 | 0:42:08 | |
STAMMERING | 0:42:09 | 0:42:10 | |
-Well, yes, thank you. Thank you. -ALL LAUGHING | 0:42:10 | 0:42:13 | |
Well, then, I shall walk home with Fanny. | 0:42:13 | 0:42:15 | |
-Very well. -Thank you, Mr Dickens. -Good night. -Thank you. | 0:42:15 | 0:42:17 | |
-Good night, Maria. Good night, Fanny. -We shan't be long. | 0:42:17 | 0:42:20 | |
£507... | 0:42:33 | 0:42:36 | |
six shillings and thruppence. | 0:42:36 | 0:42:41 | |
-We are rich. -Yes! | 0:42:41 | 0:42:43 | |
And they will be delighted... | 0:42:43 | 0:42:46 | |
until the next time. | 0:42:46 | 0:42:48 | |
Do you like this life? | 0:42:54 | 0:42:57 | |
Constantly on show. | 0:42:58 | 0:43:00 | |
Constantly watched. | 0:43:02 | 0:43:04 | |
Well, it is not always of my own making, but... | 0:43:04 | 0:43:07 | |
I do not think I would. SHE CHUCKLES | 0:43:10 | 0:43:12 | |
Well, I have my work. | 0:43:14 | 0:43:17 | |
It is a great foil. | 0:43:17 | 0:43:19 | |
They try, but they cannot always find you there. | 0:43:19 | 0:43:24 | |
"They"? | 0:43:24 | 0:43:26 | |
Mmm, the hawkers, | 0:43:26 | 0:43:28 | |
the men who need to make money who look to trip you up. | 0:43:28 | 0:43:31 | |
And then there are the admirers. | 0:43:31 | 0:43:34 | |
Those who wish you to be more than you can possibly be. | 0:43:34 | 0:43:40 | |
And what is that? | 0:43:40 | 0:43:42 | |
Good, I suppose. | 0:43:42 | 0:43:45 | |
SHE CHUCKLES | 0:43:45 | 0:43:47 | |
My father was sent to a debtor's prison when I was 12. | 0:44:00 | 0:44:06 | |
I worked in a blacking factory thereafter, | 0:44:06 | 0:44:09 | |
sealing bottles and sticking labels. | 0:44:09 | 0:44:12 | |
It was hateful. | 0:44:14 | 0:44:17 | |
-Were you fond of your father? -Well... | 0:44:17 | 0:44:21 | |
He was my first audience. | 0:44:21 | 0:44:23 | |
I honed my comic lines on him. | 0:44:23 | 0:44:25 | |
-Mmm... -HE CHUCKLES | 0:44:28 | 0:44:30 | |
I've told you too much. | 0:44:30 | 0:44:33 | |
You're too good at this. You, now, you. | 0:44:33 | 0:44:36 | |
My father was an actor. | 0:44:38 | 0:44:41 | |
The son of a Dublin grocer. Also in debt. Also dead. | 0:44:41 | 0:44:45 | |
When I was seven. | 0:44:45 | 0:44:46 | |
In an asylum. | 0:44:47 | 0:44:49 | |
I had a brother. | 0:44:51 | 0:44:53 | |
He died at ten months. | 0:44:55 | 0:44:57 | |
Though how a boy would have fit with three girls. | 0:44:57 | 0:45:01 | |
She is devoted to us. | 0:45:09 | 0:45:11 | |
Our life is unpredictable. | 0:45:14 | 0:45:16 | |
You are... | 0:45:24 | 0:45:26 | |
What? | 0:45:26 | 0:45:28 | |
You are so free. | 0:45:29 | 0:45:31 | |
She will sleep all night if we leave her. | 0:45:39 | 0:45:42 | |
I will ask John to bring the carriage around. | 0:45:42 | 0:45:44 | |
Nelly? | 0:45:44 | 0:45:46 | |
Nelly? | 0:45:46 | 0:45:48 | |
Tell me a secret. | 0:45:53 | 0:45:55 | |
What kind of secret? | 0:45:57 | 0:46:00 | |
Anything. | 0:46:00 | 0:46:01 | |
Something that you've never told anyone | 0:46:01 | 0:46:03 | |
or perhaps never even thought of telling. | 0:46:03 | 0:46:05 | |
My middle name is Lawless. | 0:46:08 | 0:46:10 | |
Now your turn. | 0:46:14 | 0:46:16 | |
Hmm. | 0:46:16 | 0:46:17 | |
Ellen Lawless Ternan. | 0:46:22 | 0:46:25 | |
That is my secret. | 0:46:28 | 0:46:30 | |
SHE EXHALES | 0:46:39 | 0:46:40 | |
SCRAPING | 0:46:45 | 0:46:47 | |
She's barely 18. | 0:46:49 | 0:46:51 | |
I've never had to concern myself about you and Maria. | 0:46:55 | 0:46:59 | |
There's always a tour for you and your younger sister. | 0:47:00 | 0:47:04 | |
Mr Buckstone's already enquired if Maria is free for pantomime. | 0:47:04 | 0:47:08 | |
But Nelly... | 0:47:10 | 0:47:12 | |
Nelly is different. | 0:47:14 | 0:47:16 | |
Her talent lies elsewhere. | 0:47:17 | 0:47:19 | |
I love her. | 0:47:21 | 0:47:23 | |
I love her dearly. | 0:47:24 | 0:47:26 | |
Charles Dickens is not merely some opportunist, some adventurer. | 0:47:27 | 0:47:34 | |
I am thinking about what this life can offer her. | 0:47:34 | 0:47:39 | |
I'm thinking about her future. | 0:47:39 | 0:47:41 | |
What future would that be, Mother? | 0:47:41 | 0:47:43 | |
Our profession is hard enough, even if you have talent. | 0:47:47 | 0:47:49 | |
FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING | 0:47:49 | 0:47:51 | |
SOBBING | 0:47:57 | 0:48:00 | |
SNIFFLES | 0:48:11 | 0:48:12 | |
Go away, Fanny. | 0:48:12 | 0:48:13 | |
I will stay out here all day if I have to. | 0:48:13 | 0:48:16 | |
Nelly? | 0:48:16 | 0:48:18 | |
-Did no-one think of telling me? -Nelly. | 0:48:20 | 0:48:22 | |
You are the truest person I know in life, | 0:48:22 | 0:48:25 | |
but you are not an actress. | 0:48:25 | 0:48:27 | |
And what other arrangements have been made which I do not know about? | 0:48:27 | 0:48:30 | |
It's only because we care so. | 0:48:30 | 0:48:32 | |
Do you love him? | 0:48:35 | 0:48:36 | |
SHE SIGHS | 0:48:36 | 0:48:37 | |
He is married. | 0:48:41 | 0:48:44 | |
That has not stopped him falling in love with you. | 0:48:44 | 0:48:47 | |
WAVES CRASHING | 0:48:52 | 0:48:54 | |
We discussed Hard Times, | 0:48:56 | 0:48:58 | |
but it just doesn't feel quite right. | 0:48:58 | 0:49:02 | |
I don't know. They're quite lost. | 0:49:02 | 0:49:05 | |
So I thought Great Expectations might be a choice for our readings. | 0:49:05 | 0:49:08 | |
David Copperfield is, of course, a contender, | 0:49:08 | 0:49:10 | |
but for me, Great Expectations wins out in the end. | 0:49:10 | 0:49:15 | |
Do you agree? | 0:49:17 | 0:49:19 | |
'Tis a fine novel. | 0:49:20 | 0:49:22 | |
Mrs Wharton Robinson, | 0:49:28 | 0:49:30 | |
I see you are soulful, distracted. | 0:49:30 | 0:49:36 | |
There is some... | 0:49:37 | 0:49:39 | |
As if... | 0:49:39 | 0:49:41 | |
..a part of you is absent. I do not wish to intrude. | 0:49:43 | 0:49:48 | |
You talk, I am sure, to your husband. | 0:49:48 | 0:49:50 | |
No. | 0:49:52 | 0:49:53 | |
Not all wives do. | 0:49:53 | 0:49:56 | |
To confide in the person you love the most, | 0:49:56 | 0:50:00 | |
-well, sometimes that is hard. -George is a good man. | 0:50:00 | 0:50:03 | |
-A very good man. -Of course. | 0:50:04 | 0:50:06 | |
But you are troubled. | 0:50:06 | 0:50:08 | |
Comes and then it goes. | 0:50:09 | 0:50:12 | |
But it returns. | 0:50:13 | 0:50:14 | |
I wish to help you. | 0:50:18 | 0:50:19 | |
I hope I can be someone you can trust. | 0:50:21 | 0:50:22 | |
-Really, I'm quite well. -You are not. | 0:50:22 | 0:50:25 | |
Please, Mr Benham. | 0:50:27 | 0:50:29 | |
I will listen without judgment. | 0:50:32 | 0:50:33 | |
I am always here. | 0:50:38 | 0:50:40 | |
-Come on, boys! -SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY | 0:50:55 | 0:50:57 | |
Come on, Plorn. | 0:50:57 | 0:50:58 | |
The whole point of the third leg is to give you more speed. | 0:50:58 | 0:51:00 | |
HE CHUCKLES | 0:51:00 | 0:51:02 | |
Oh! Useless boy. | 0:51:02 | 0:51:04 | |
-WOMAN: -It's time to get you undone. | 0:51:05 | 0:51:08 | |
What's happened here? | 0:51:08 | 0:51:09 | |
-Do you have enough to eat? -Thank you, Mr Dickens. -Good. | 0:51:09 | 0:51:12 | |
HE SNIFFLES | 0:51:18 | 0:51:19 | |
More gossip in The London Diary? | 0:51:20 | 0:51:23 | |
You could not keep it quiet forever, Charles. | 0:51:28 | 0:51:32 | |
No matter. You must deny it. | 0:51:32 | 0:51:35 | |
Rumours can always be denied. | 0:51:35 | 0:51:38 | |
Do not worry, it will pass. | 0:51:38 | 0:51:41 | |
And then you must stop this. | 0:51:41 | 0:51:43 | |
What if I do not want to? | 0:51:45 | 0:51:47 | |
Don't be foolish. | 0:51:47 | 0:51:49 | |
You cannot keep her a secret. | 0:51:49 | 0:51:51 | |
Yes, I can. | 0:51:52 | 0:51:54 | |
Plorn! We'll do a hopping race. | 0:51:57 | 0:51:59 | |
Mamey. Katey. Come on. Come on. | 0:51:59 | 0:52:01 | |
One leg. Come on, are you ready? | 0:52:01 | 0:52:03 | |
Come here, come here, come here. | 0:52:03 | 0:52:05 | |
Come on. Quickly, come on, Plorn. You're so slow. | 0:52:05 | 0:52:08 | |
And ready, steady, go! | 0:52:08 | 0:52:11 | |
Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! | 0:52:11 | 0:52:15 | |
-MAN: -Ladies, can I interest you in some of this? | 0:52:15 | 0:52:18 | |
-Close your eyes. -Don't turn around, Nelly. Don't turn around. | 0:52:20 | 0:52:24 | |
Close your eyes. | 0:52:24 | 0:52:26 | |
Keep them closed until I say... | 0:52:26 | 0:52:30 | |
Open your eyes! Happy Birthday. | 0:52:30 | 0:52:33 | |
-FANNY: -Happy Birthday. | 0:52:36 | 0:52:38 | |
That's lovely. Oh, look. | 0:52:38 | 0:52:41 | |
INDISTINCT CHATTER | 0:52:41 | 0:52:43 | |
Ma'am, there's a Mrs Dickens to see Miss Ellen. | 0:52:43 | 0:52:46 | |
Mother? | 0:52:50 | 0:52:52 | |
-MARIA: -I shall cut the cake. | 0:52:55 | 0:52:57 | |
-MAN: -He never went home again. That was the first and last time. | 0:52:57 | 0:53:00 | |
Mr Ambrose? Have you ever took to the stage? | 0:53:00 | 0:53:02 | |
Mrs Dickens. | 0:53:11 | 0:53:12 | |
I thought this was the right house. | 0:53:13 | 0:53:16 | |
Won't you sit? | 0:53:19 | 0:53:20 | |
Such attention to detail. | 0:53:22 | 0:53:24 | |
NELLY CHUCKLES It's all just paste and glass. | 0:53:24 | 0:53:27 | |
You find us in disarray. | 0:53:27 | 0:53:29 | |
I'd heard that he'd found you somewhere close on the square. | 0:53:30 | 0:53:34 | |
My mother and sister are to go to Italy. | 0:53:34 | 0:53:37 | |
Fanny is to be a governess to the Trollope family. | 0:53:37 | 0:53:41 | |
Really? | 0:53:41 | 0:53:42 | |
Mr Dickens, um, kindly made the introduction. | 0:53:42 | 0:53:46 | |
-My husband's always been very generous. -Mmm. | 0:53:51 | 0:53:54 | |
Happy Birthday, Miss Ternan. | 0:54:08 | 0:54:10 | |
Won't you open it? | 0:54:17 | 0:54:18 | |
It is a gift from Charles. | 0:54:21 | 0:54:24 | |
It was mistakenly delivered to me. The jewelers naturally believing. | 0:54:24 | 0:54:29 | |
Charles insisted that I delivered it to its rightful recipient. | 0:54:37 | 0:54:40 | |
He is fond of you. | 0:54:49 | 0:54:51 | |
And you of him? | 0:54:54 | 0:54:55 | |
Silly question. | 0:54:57 | 0:54:59 | |
He is Mr Charles Dickens. | 0:55:00 | 0:55:02 | |
In those early years together, | 0:55:07 | 0:55:09 | |
I could not fail to be impressed. | 0:55:09 | 0:55:11 | |
But you will find that you must share him with his public. | 0:55:13 | 0:55:17 | |
They will be the constant. | 0:55:18 | 0:55:20 | |
And, in truth, you will never absolutely know | 0:55:22 | 0:55:25 | |
which one he loves the most. | 0:55:25 | 0:55:27 | |
You. | 0:55:30 | 0:55:32 | |
Or them. | 0:55:32 | 0:55:34 | |
I do not believe he knows himself. | 0:55:36 | 0:55:38 | |
CLICKS TONGUE | 0:55:46 | 0:55:48 | |
-I'm interrupting your party. -I'm far too old for parties. | 0:55:48 | 0:55:52 | |
There's not a soul under 20 in attendance. | 0:55:52 | 0:55:56 | |
Well, Charles will be here soon. | 0:55:56 | 0:55:59 | |
And he's nothing if not youthful. | 0:56:00 | 0:56:02 | |
Keep these for later. | 0:56:16 | 0:56:18 | |
MEN IMITATING FANFARE | 0:56:18 | 0:56:20 | |
Ah. | 0:56:20 | 0:56:21 | |
LAUGHING | 0:56:24 | 0:56:25 | |
-Good evening. -Happy Birthday. | 0:56:25 | 0:56:27 | |
-Are we too late? We're too late. -You've missed Maria's cake. | 0:56:27 | 0:56:30 | |
Oh, no! Say it's not so. We haven't missed all the fun, have we? | 0:56:30 | 0:56:33 | |
We thought you might provide the fun. | 0:56:33 | 0:56:35 | |
Well, then there's only one thing for it. | 0:56:35 | 0:56:36 | |
We must whisk the birthday girl away. | 0:56:36 | 0:56:38 | |
Yes. | 0:56:38 | 0:56:40 | |
Nelly. | 0:56:40 | 0:56:41 | |
Say you'll come. | 0:56:43 | 0:56:44 | |
Where are we going? | 0:56:50 | 0:56:52 | |
DOOR CLOSES | 0:57:02 | 0:57:04 | |
Come through. Come in, come in. | 0:57:05 | 0:57:08 | |
Caroline? | 0:57:08 | 0:57:10 | |
Nelly, follow me. | 0:57:12 | 0:57:15 | |
Caroline? | 0:57:15 | 0:57:17 | |
We have visitors. | 0:57:17 | 0:57:19 | |
Wilkie, why did you not say? | 0:57:20 | 0:57:23 | |
We are celebrating a very special birthday. | 0:57:24 | 0:57:27 | |
Caroline, may I present Miss Ellen Ternan? | 0:57:27 | 0:57:30 | |
It's her birthday today. | 0:57:30 | 0:57:32 | |
Happy Birthday. I've heard only good things. | 0:57:32 | 0:57:34 | |
Caroline! | 0:57:36 | 0:57:37 | |
-A new painting. -HE CHUCKLES | 0:57:37 | 0:57:40 | |
It's unusual. It's quite slap-up. | 0:57:40 | 0:57:42 | |
Is The Butler about? | 0:57:42 | 0:57:43 | |
Yes, yes, she's about. Ah, here she is. | 0:57:43 | 0:57:46 | |
LAUGHTER | 0:57:46 | 0:57:48 | |
Wine - I shall find wine. | 0:57:48 | 0:57:50 | |
-Squeals! There she is. -LAUGHING | 0:57:50 | 0:57:52 | |
Squeals. And she squeals. | 0:57:52 | 0:57:54 | |
May I take your wrap and gloves? | 0:57:54 | 0:57:56 | |
Thank you. I prefer to keep them on. | 0:57:58 | 0:58:01 | |
Please. | 0:58:01 | 0:58:03 | |
-What a lovely home. -Yes. Yes. Wilkie found it. | 0:58:08 | 0:58:13 | |
HARRIET GIGGLING | 0:58:14 | 0:58:15 | |
CAROLINE CHUCKLING | 0:58:15 | 0:58:17 | |
Charles christened her "The Butler" on their first meeting. | 0:58:17 | 0:58:20 | |
It is all a game with him. | 0:58:20 | 0:58:22 | |
She's very dear. | 0:58:24 | 0:58:25 | |
Does this offend you, Miss Ternan? | 0:58:28 | 0:58:31 | |
Wilkie despises marriage and, as a widow, this suits me well. | 0:58:38 | 0:58:43 | |
We live very happily. | 0:58:44 | 0:58:47 | |
But you do disapprove, I see. | 0:58:50 | 0:58:52 | |
We have fallen in love with men of standing, Miss Ternan. | 0:58:59 | 0:59:03 | |
I am not in love. | 0:59:03 | 0:59:04 | |
-CHARLES ROARS -The giant's coming. | 0:59:04 | 0:59:08 | |
It is late. Really. | 0:59:08 | 0:59:10 | |
It is too, too late. I must leave. Please excuse me, Miss Graves. | 0:59:11 | 0:59:15 | |
Charles, will you stay for dinner? | 0:59:15 | 0:59:17 | |
Nelly? | 0:59:18 | 0:59:20 | |
Mmm. | 0:59:23 | 0:59:24 | |
And still she is silent. | 0:59:30 | 0:59:34 | |
Mr Buckstone has offered me The World and The Stage. | 0:59:34 | 0:59:37 | |
It has a ridiculous plot. | 0:59:40 | 0:59:43 | |
A titled lady saved from debt by her sister, an actress. | 0:59:43 | 0:59:46 | |
Yes, but a very amusing final scene. | 0:59:46 | 0:59:48 | |
And it was you that secured me the role. | 0:59:48 | 0:59:50 | |
Did you mean to deliberately humiliate me tonight? | 0:59:53 | 0:59:55 | |
You did not like Miss Graves? | 0:59:55 | 0:59:57 | |
You cannot expect me to associate with a woman | 0:59:57 | 0:59:59 | |
living so openly with a man outside of marriage. | 0:59:59 | 1:00:02 | |
-Oh, Nelly... Nelly... Nelly! -Entertaining guests as if she... | 1:00:02 | 1:00:04 | |
HE LAUGHS I do not wish to appear ungrateful. | 1:00:04 | 1:00:07 | |
You have been generous. | 1:00:09 | 1:00:11 | |
Some might say too generous to my family. | 1:00:12 | 1:00:16 | |
But I did not realise that I was to be your whore. | 1:00:19 | 1:00:22 | |
Nelly. | 1:00:25 | 1:00:27 | |
Nelly! | 1:00:27 | 1:00:29 | |
Nelly, it was a mistake. | 1:00:29 | 1:00:32 | |
-Did you send Catherine to me? -Yes. | 1:00:32 | 1:00:35 | |
She is the mother of your children. | 1:00:35 | 1:00:36 | |
How could you be so cruel to her? | 1:00:36 | 1:00:38 | |
And, for that, I shall always be grateful, | 1:00:38 | 1:00:40 | |
but I do not love her. | 1:00:40 | 1:00:42 | |
She comprehends nothing. | 1:00:42 | 1:00:45 | |
She sees nothing. | 1:00:45 | 1:00:47 | |
I thought, if she saw you, then she would understand | 1:00:47 | 1:00:49 | |
that I have nothing with her. | 1:00:49 | 1:00:51 | |
-I wanted her to see it. -"It"? | 1:00:51 | 1:00:54 | |
What is "it," Charles? | 1:00:54 | 1:00:57 | |
What is it that we are? | 1:00:59 | 1:01:01 | |
SOBBING | 1:01:01 | 1:01:03 | |
When your wife asked me if I was fond of you... | 1:01:03 | 1:01:07 | |
..I could not honestly reply. | 1:01:09 | 1:01:12 | |
I wanted to say no! | 1:01:17 | 1:01:19 | |
FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING | 1:01:19 | 1:01:21 | |
Can I be of assistance, sir? | 1:01:21 | 1:01:23 | |
Is this young lady troubling you, sir? | 1:01:23 | 1:01:24 | |
Uh, thank you. She is not troubling me at all. All is well. | 1:01:24 | 1:01:28 | |
Very good. Good night, sir. | 1:01:28 | 1:01:30 | |
Nelly? | 1:01:31 | 1:01:33 | |
Nelly. | 1:01:33 | 1:01:34 | |
May I come in? | 1:01:38 | 1:01:40 | |
Nelly. | 1:02:09 | 1:02:10 | |
BREATH TREMBLING | 1:02:58 | 1:03:00 | |
DOOR OPENS | 1:04:18 | 1:04:19 | |
DOOR CLOSES | 1:04:21 | 1:04:23 | |
HAMMER BANGING | 1:04:23 | 1:04:26 | |
I used to walk from the Aldwych to Highgate, | 1:04:59 | 1:05:02 | |
then back to Westminster, then on to Millbank. | 1:05:02 | 1:05:05 | |
You've London in your blood. | 1:05:05 | 1:05:06 | |
I do. I walk at quite a pace. | 1:05:06 | 1:05:09 | |
-Good day. -Good day. | 1:05:11 | 1:05:13 | |
And I'd walk to Putney and... | 1:05:16 | 1:05:19 | |
LAUGHING | 1:05:19 | 1:05:21 | |
-I've done that walk. -Yes. | 1:05:22 | 1:05:25 | |
You don't believe me? | 1:05:25 | 1:05:26 | |
Father? | 1:05:26 | 1:05:28 | |
Charley? | 1:05:28 | 1:05:29 | |
What are you doing here? | 1:05:31 | 1:05:34 | |
I walk this way if I've taken an earlier train. | 1:05:34 | 1:05:36 | |
You remember Miss Ellen? | 1:05:36 | 1:05:38 | |
-Of course. -Charley, you look well. | 1:05:38 | 1:05:41 | |
I am quite well. Thank you, Miss Ternan. | 1:05:41 | 1:05:43 | |
Charley is working in the city. | 1:05:43 | 1:05:45 | |
-How clever. -Not really. | 1:05:45 | 1:05:47 | |
It's a friend of Father's. | 1:05:47 | 1:05:49 | |
I still have the glove which you rescued for me. | 1:05:49 | 1:05:52 | |
I would have been most unhappy to have lost it. | 1:05:52 | 1:05:55 | |
They're my favourite pair. | 1:05:55 | 1:05:56 | |
I am sure you would have found another. | 1:05:56 | 1:05:58 | |
-Well, I am already late... -Yes, yes. | 1:06:00 | 1:06:03 | |
Father... | 1:06:03 | 1:06:05 | |
Will we see you at home? | 1:06:05 | 1:06:07 | |
Yes. | 1:06:07 | 1:06:09 | |
Good day, Charley. | 1:06:11 | 1:06:12 | |
FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING | 1:06:25 | 1:06:27 | |
Charley. | 1:06:30 | 1:06:32 | |
What is it? | 1:06:36 | 1:06:38 | |
It's a letter in The Times. | 1:06:38 | 1:06:40 | |
It's from Father. | 1:06:41 | 1:06:43 | |
I can't read it. | 1:06:51 | 1:06:53 | |
Would you read it? | 1:06:55 | 1:06:57 | |
Read it to me. | 1:06:58 | 1:07:00 | |
"There is some domestic trouble of mine, | 1:07:06 | 1:07:09 | |
"longstanding, | 1:07:09 | 1:07:11 | |
"on which I will make no further remark, | 1:07:11 | 1:07:13 | |
"it being of a sacredly private nature. | 1:07:13 | 1:07:16 | |
"However, | 1:07:17 | 1:07:19 | |
"it has lately been brought to an arrangement | 1:07:19 | 1:07:21 | |
"which involves no anger or ill will of any kind. | 1:07:21 | 1:07:24 | |
"My wife, Catherine, and I have decided to separate. | 1:07:24 | 1:07:29 | |
"The whole origin, | 1:07:29 | 1:07:31 | |
"progress and surrounding circumstances | 1:07:31 | 1:07:33 | |
"have been throughout within the knowledge of my children. | 1:07:33 | 1:07:37 | |
"It is amicably composed, | 1:07:37 | 1:07:39 | |
"and its details have now but to be forgotten by those concerned in it. | 1:07:39 | 1:07:43 | |
"I most solemnly declare that all the lately whispered rumors | 1:07:44 | 1:07:48 | |
"touching upon my association | 1:07:48 | 1:07:50 | |
"with a certain young lady are abominably false. | 1:07:50 | 1:07:54 | |
"Upon my soul and honour, | 1:07:54 | 1:07:56 | |
"there is no-one on earth more virtuous | 1:07:56 | 1:07:58 | |
"and spotless than this young creature. | 1:07:58 | 1:08:00 | |
"And whoever says otherwise, after this denial, | 1:08:02 | 1:08:06 | |
"will lie as willfully and as foully as it is possible | 1:08:06 | 1:08:09 | |
"for any false witness to lie before heaven and earth." | 1:08:09 | 1:08:14 | |
-SOFTLY: -Thank you. | 1:08:22 | 1:08:24 | |
SOBBING | 1:08:35 | 1:08:37 | |
He's an honourable man. | 1:09:27 | 1:09:29 | |
And you, Nelly, are a beautiful... | 1:09:33 | 1:09:36 | |
-Mother. -..clever, wonderful young woman. | 1:09:36 | 1:09:39 | |
-But he cannot marry me. -No. | 1:09:40 | 1:09:43 | |
He cannot. | 1:09:44 | 1:09:45 | |
But I have been married... | 1:09:51 | 1:09:53 | |
..and it is at times the loneliest place. | 1:09:55 | 1:09:58 | |
What do I do? | 1:10:02 | 1:10:04 | |
Um... | 1:10:07 | 1:10:09 | |
Fanny and I leave for Italy at the end of the month. | 1:10:13 | 1:10:16 | |
You could come with us. | 1:10:16 | 1:10:19 | |
Um... | 1:10:19 | 1:10:20 | |
I can arrange a passage. It's easily done. | 1:10:20 | 1:10:23 | |
He's burnt a lifetime's correspondence, Nelly. | 1:10:25 | 1:10:27 | |
Nelly, listen. He's even asked me to burn all our correspondence. | 1:10:27 | 1:10:31 | |
There is an insanity to his behaviour. | 1:10:31 | 1:10:33 | |
No, he's not insane. He's distraught. | 1:10:33 | 1:10:36 | |
And I am not? | 1:10:36 | 1:10:37 | |
You have a choice. You can distance yourself from him. | 1:10:37 | 1:10:41 | |
You could find a new life, a different life. | 1:10:41 | 1:10:44 | |
A different life? What different life? | 1:10:44 | 1:10:47 | |
What life is there for me? | 1:10:47 | 1:10:49 | |
He is a good man... | 1:10:51 | 1:10:53 | |
trying to be a good man. | 1:10:53 | 1:10:56 | |
But he is a great man. | 1:10:57 | 1:10:59 | |
You see him, Nelly. | 1:11:01 | 1:11:03 | |
I watch you together. You see him, he sees you. | 1:11:03 | 1:11:08 | |
What more does one want in life? | 1:11:08 | 1:11:10 | |
-CAROLINE: -Wilkie? -I'm coming. | 1:11:11 | 1:11:14 | |
We have to break these conventions. | 1:11:14 | 1:11:17 | |
Smash them up. | 1:11:17 | 1:11:20 | |
-We're the pioneers. -Pioneers? | 1:11:20 | 1:11:24 | |
You men, you live your lives while it is we who have to wait. | 1:11:24 | 1:11:29 | |
You see a freedom which I do not see. | 1:11:30 | 1:11:32 | |
Wilkie? | 1:11:32 | 1:11:34 | |
The Butler will not sleep if I don't read to her. | 1:11:36 | 1:11:39 | |
My name is whispered with yours. | 1:12:09 | 1:12:12 | |
Yet I have nothing. | 1:12:13 | 1:12:15 | |
Nelly. | 1:12:15 | 1:12:17 | |
-I have no regrets. -Charles... | 1:12:19 | 1:12:21 | |
I have broken something which needed breaking. | 1:12:21 | 1:12:24 | |
I have finished it. | 1:12:25 | 1:12:26 | |
Yes, it is finished. | 1:12:26 | 1:12:28 | |
No, no, no. The book. | 1:12:28 | 1:12:31 | |
I have finished the book. Here. | 1:12:32 | 1:12:34 | |
You do not like it? | 1:13:04 | 1:13:06 | |
No. | 1:13:07 | 1:13:08 | |
I like it. | 1:13:11 | 1:13:13 | |
I like it very much. | 1:13:14 | 1:13:15 | |
-Wilkie thinks I should change the ending. -No, you must not. | 1:13:17 | 1:13:21 | |
To bring Estella and Pip together at the end, but not to unite them. | 1:13:21 | 1:13:24 | |
-She is changed. That is enough? -Yes. | 1:13:24 | 1:13:26 | |
It is a sad ending, but Estella finds her heart. | 1:13:26 | 1:13:29 | |
-She finds an understanding at last. -Exactly. | 1:13:29 | 1:13:31 | |
And at times... | 1:13:31 | 1:13:34 | |
-Pip is not heroic. -He is filled with the vanities, | 1:13:34 | 1:13:36 | |
-the ambitions, the flaws in all of us. -Yes. | 1:13:36 | 1:13:40 | |
I know what I have done, | 1:13:40 | 1:13:43 | |
but to stay as it was, I cannot when my heart... | 1:13:43 | 1:13:48 | |
Nelly. | 1:13:58 | 1:14:00 | |
In an earlier chapter, Pip said, | 1:14:01 | 1:14:04 | |
"You are part of my existence, part of myself." | 1:14:04 | 1:14:08 | |
I remember. | 1:14:10 | 1:14:11 | |
"You have been in every line I have ever read. | 1:14:11 | 1:14:15 | |
"You have been in every prospect I have ever seen, | 1:14:15 | 1:14:18 | |
"on the river, on the sails of the ships, | 1:14:18 | 1:14:22 | |
"on the marshes, in the clouds, in the light, | 1:14:22 | 1:14:26 | |
"in the darkness, in the wind, in the woods, | 1:14:26 | 1:14:29 | |
"in the sea, in the streets. | 1:14:29 | 1:14:32 | |
"You have been the embodiment of every graceful fancy | 1:14:32 | 1:14:37 | |
"that my mind has ever become acquainted with. | 1:14:37 | 1:14:40 | |
"Estella. | 1:14:42 | 1:14:44 | |
"To the last hour of my life... | 1:14:45 | 1:14:47 | |
"..you cannot choose but remain part of my character. | 1:14:49 | 1:14:53 | |
"Part of the little good in me. | 1:14:54 | 1:14:57 | |
"Part of the evil." | 1:14:58 | 1:14:59 | |
Let us go away. | 1:15:06 | 1:15:08 | |
PLAYING PIANO SCALE | 1:15:32 | 1:15:34 | |
DISTANT MURMURING | 1:15:36 | 1:15:39 | |
HE GRUNTS | 1:16:21 | 1:16:23 | |
BREATHING HEAVILY | 1:16:23 | 1:16:25 | |
" 'Now, touch my face with yours | 1:17:36 | 1:17:39 | |
" 'in case I should not hold out till you come back. | 1:17:39 | 1:17:41 | |
" 'I love you, Mortimer'... | 1:17:41 | 1:17:44 | |
"..the discovery was hers. 'Observe, my dear Eugene, | 1:17:44 | 1:17:47 | |
" 'while I am away, you will know that I have discharged my trust'... | 1:17:47 | 1:17:50 | |
" '..so much, John dear, and since you do, | 1:17:50 | 1:17:53 | |
" 'I am sorry that these shoes are a full size too large. | 1:17:53 | 1:17:55 | |
" 'But I don't want a carriage, believe me.' " | 1:17:55 | 1:17:58 | |
ENQUIRING IN FRENCH | 1:18:31 | 1:18:33 | |
CHARLES REPLYING | 1:18:37 | 1:18:39 | |
'I have agreed to 50 more readings.' | 1:18:41 | 1:18:43 | |
In Manchester, Glasgow and Dublin. | 1:18:43 | 1:18:46 | |
And I've been asked to give a reading in Paris. | 1:18:46 | 1:18:50 | |
-Shall I come with you? -Well... | 1:18:50 | 1:18:53 | |
There are whisperings, Nelly. | 1:18:54 | 1:18:57 | |
-Where? -In Paris. | 1:18:59 | 1:19:00 | |
And if they're in Paris, then they will soon be in London. | 1:19:00 | 1:19:04 | |
I've been out of circulation. | 1:19:04 | 1:19:06 | |
Then you must go. | 1:19:09 | 1:19:11 | |
Yes. It is what I am. | 1:19:11 | 1:19:13 | |
No, I shall not go. | 1:19:20 | 1:19:21 | |
-No, you shall. -No, no, no. | 1:19:21 | 1:19:23 | |
-My mind is made up. I shall not go. -No, you will. | 1:19:23 | 1:19:25 | |
SHE CHUCKLES | 1:19:25 | 1:19:27 | |
-Sorry, ma'am. I didn't see you there. -It is quite all right, Mary. | 1:19:51 | 1:19:54 | |
-I will do it. -Is there anything else, ma'am? | 1:19:54 | 1:19:58 | |
-The guests will be arriving shortly. -That is everything. Thank you, Mary. | 1:19:58 | 1:20:02 | |
DOCTOR SPEAKING FRENCH | 1:21:06 | 1:21:08 | |
FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING | 1:22:27 | 1:22:29 | |
Nelly, have you left the keys on the table? | 1:22:31 | 1:22:34 | |
I believe an English family wish to take the house for the winter. | 1:22:36 | 1:22:40 | |
Nelly? | 1:22:42 | 1:22:44 | |
Say something. | 1:22:51 | 1:22:53 | |
Say something! | 1:22:58 | 1:22:59 | |
We shall miss our train. | 1:23:02 | 1:23:03 | |
SOBBING | 1:23:14 | 1:23:15 | |
All passengers arrived from France. This train for London. | 1:23:51 | 1:23:55 | |
I think we're in the last compartment here, Nelly. | 1:23:55 | 1:23:59 | |
-Ah! -MAN: -It's Mr Dickens. | 1:23:59 | 1:24:01 | |
-Thank you. We're in here, I think. -Mr Dickens, sir. | 1:24:01 | 1:24:03 | |
My wife says she should marry Rokesmith and be done. | 1:24:03 | 1:24:06 | |
-Perhaps the next chapter. -I'll tell her. | 1:24:06 | 1:24:07 | |
That's for you. Thank you very much. | 1:24:07 | 1:24:09 | |
WHISTLE BLOWS | 1:24:09 | 1:24:10 | |
Thank you. | 1:24:10 | 1:24:12 | |
HE CHUCKLES | 1:24:54 | 1:24:55 | |
Sleep, Nelly, and when you wake, we shall be home. | 1:25:00 | 1:25:04 | |
HE SIGHS | 1:25:14 | 1:25:15 | |
CRASHING | 1:25:16 | 1:25:18 | |
DISTANT SCREAMING | 1:25:48 | 1:25:49 | |
WOMAN SOBBING | 1:25:56 | 1:25:57 | |
-PORTER: -Gentlemen, please. Someone open these carriages here. | 1:26:01 | 1:26:05 | |
And your wife? Is anyone else in this carriage? | 1:26:05 | 1:26:08 | |
Excuse me. | 1:26:08 | 1:26:10 | |
-MAN 1: -Help! -MAN 2: -Over here! | 1:26:10 | 1:26:13 | |
-MAN 3: -Please, they are hurt. -BOY: -Help! | 1:26:13 | 1:26:15 | |
-MAN 3: -Take the weight on your other leg. That's it. -PORTER: -Sir? | 1:26:15 | 1:26:18 | |
Sir? We're asking everyone able-bodied | 1:26:18 | 1:26:21 | |
if they could help with the most injured. | 1:26:21 | 1:26:23 | |
We need all the hands we can get. | 1:26:23 | 1:26:25 | |
Nelly. | 1:26:27 | 1:26:29 | |
Nelly. | 1:26:30 | 1:26:31 | |
Sir? | 1:26:33 | 1:26:35 | |
Excuse me, sir. Could you come and assist me? | 1:26:35 | 1:26:38 | |
-Is it Mr Dickens, sir? -Yes. -Were you travelling alone, sir? | 1:26:38 | 1:26:42 | |
SOFTLY: Go. | 1:26:42 | 1:26:43 | |
Mr Dickens. | 1:26:47 | 1:26:49 | |
-Were you travelling alone? -Go. | 1:26:49 | 1:26:51 | |
Go. Go. | 1:26:51 | 1:26:53 | |
Sir? | 1:26:53 | 1:26:54 | |
Yes, quite alone. This young woman is in need of assistance. | 1:26:54 | 1:26:57 | |
-We are dealing with the most injured first. -Yes, I'll do what I can, | 1:26:57 | 1:26:59 | |
but you must attend to this young woman. | 1:26:59 | 1:27:00 | |
Madam, I will get one of these ladies to attend to you. | 1:27:00 | 1:27:03 | |
-Ladies, please. This way, sir. -Yes, we're with her. | 1:27:03 | 1:27:05 | |
-Please, will you attend to her? -We're with her. -I have Brandy here. | 1:27:05 | 1:27:08 | |
-Uh... -Sir? -WOMAN: -Don't worry. Stay here. | 1:27:08 | 1:27:11 | |
-Check who's inside. -Ah. | 1:27:11 | 1:27:13 | |
Sir, press down as hard as you can to stop the blood flow. | 1:27:15 | 1:27:18 | |
Sir, this is Brandy. | 1:27:19 | 1:27:21 | |
We will find assistance for you as soon as possible. | 1:27:21 | 1:27:23 | |
WOMAN SCREAMS | 1:27:23 | 1:27:25 | |
Porter, we need to release all passengers | 1:27:27 | 1:27:29 | |
from the train above, so they may help with the injured. | 1:27:29 | 1:27:32 | |
All able-bodied gentlemen, bring their hats to this tree. | 1:27:32 | 1:27:36 | |
BREATHING HEAVILY | 1:27:43 | 1:27:45 | |
-BENHAM: -Ellen Ternan? | 1:28:21 | 1:28:22 | |
Yes. | 1:28:25 | 1:28:26 | |
That was my name. | 1:28:32 | 1:28:34 | |
You have always known this? | 1:28:43 | 1:28:45 | |
Suspected. | 1:28:46 | 1:28:48 | |
Things you said. | 1:28:48 | 1:28:50 | |
Comments. | 1:28:50 | 1:28:52 | |
Memories of Mr Dickens that were not a child's memories. | 1:28:52 | 1:28:56 | |
I saw him read once. | 1:29:00 | 1:29:02 | |
It was magical. | 1:29:03 | 1:29:05 | |
One forgets that he was more than writer, more than actor. | 1:29:08 | 1:29:11 | |
I have lived my life in the pages of those novels. | 1:29:14 | 1:29:18 | |
I should not have expected their author | 1:29:20 | 1:29:21 | |
to have lived so quiet a life. | 1:29:21 | 1:29:23 | |
-CHARLES: -The house is to your liking? | 1:30:00 | 1:30:02 | |
Yes. | 1:30:02 | 1:30:03 | |
I'm happy to see the castle from the window. | 1:30:04 | 1:30:08 | |
There's a fire in every room. And I've taken the liberty | 1:30:08 | 1:30:10 | |
of employing a nurse who will attend to you. | 1:30:10 | 1:30:12 | |
She's a local woman, but of good kind. | 1:30:12 | 1:30:14 | |
It's a sleepy market town with a very fine butchers. | 1:30:17 | 1:30:20 | |
And the church is newly restored, which you must visit. | 1:30:20 | 1:30:24 | |
The fast train from Paddington takes 18 minutes. | 1:30:27 | 1:30:29 | |
Or alternatively, there's a train to Windsor from Victoria or Waterloo, | 1:30:29 | 1:30:33 | |
which also serves well. | 1:30:33 | 1:30:35 | |
Nelly? | 1:30:49 | 1:30:50 | |
It's as if it's floating. | 1:30:51 | 1:30:53 | |
You will come to see me? | 1:30:58 | 1:31:01 | |
Yes. Of course. | 1:31:01 | 1:31:03 | |
Weekly? | 1:31:03 | 1:31:04 | |
Mmm, twice weekly. More. | 1:31:04 | 1:31:06 | |
-And if I should need anything? -You need only ask. | 1:31:06 | 1:31:10 | |
And should I expect you at weekends and holidays? | 1:31:10 | 1:31:14 | |
-Yes, but my family... -Of course. | 1:31:14 | 1:31:18 | |
When you can. | 1:31:21 | 1:31:23 | |
Yes. | 1:31:24 | 1:31:25 | |
And shall we keep Tringham? | 1:31:28 | 1:31:30 | |
Yes. | 1:31:31 | 1:31:33 | |
Then this is how it is to be now. | 1:31:34 | 1:31:37 | |
Whatever I have tried to do in life, | 1:31:42 | 1:31:44 | |
I have tried with all my heart to do it well. | 1:31:44 | 1:31:47 | |
-Whatever I've devoted myself to, I... -Don't, Charles. | 1:31:48 | 1:31:51 | |
Don't explain. | 1:31:53 | 1:31:55 | |
There's nothing to say. | 1:32:00 | 1:32:02 | |
Everyone has their secret. | 1:32:05 | 1:32:07 | |
And this is ours. | 1:32:09 | 1:32:11 | |
Yes. | 1:32:13 | 1:32:14 | |
'I was not a child when I met Mr Dickens.' | 1:32:41 | 1:32:44 | |
I was 18. | 1:32:45 | 1:32:47 | |
It wasn't easy, our friendship. | 1:32:48 | 1:32:52 | |
Yet there were days of such joy, such celebration. | 1:32:52 | 1:32:57 | |
And we'd talk and laugh together. | 1:32:59 | 1:33:02 | |
He knew he'd leave me first. | 1:33:07 | 1:33:09 | |
That he would die first. | 1:33:12 | 1:33:15 | |
Charles understood that, however painful it is... | 1:33:19 | 1:33:23 | |
..we're alone. | 1:33:26 | 1:33:27 | |
Whoever we're with, | 1:33:30 | 1:33:33 | |
we're alone. | 1:33:33 | 1:33:35 | |
He was right. | 1:33:38 | 1:33:40 | |
Great Expectations. | 1:33:43 | 1:33:45 | |
He wrote an ending. It was his first instinctive ending. | 1:33:47 | 1:33:52 | |
A good ending. | 1:33:52 | 1:33:53 | |
Pip and Estella do not come together. | 1:33:55 | 1:33:58 | |
Pip sees that she will never be his. | 1:34:02 | 1:34:05 | |
Later they wanted him to change it. | 1:34:07 | 1:34:09 | |
Some people thought it too brutal. | 1:34:09 | 1:34:12 | |
So instead... | 1:34:12 | 1:34:13 | |
..Pip's final words are... | 1:34:17 | 1:34:20 | |
"I saw the shadow of no parting from her." | 1:34:24 | 1:34:28 | |
He ends the book in shadows. | 1:34:34 | 1:34:36 | |
In uncertainty. | 1:34:41 | 1:34:43 | |
In haunting. | 1:34:47 | 1:34:49 | |
And that is where I have been living. | 1:34:54 | 1:34:57 | |
Do you see? | 1:34:59 | 1:35:00 | |
Yes. | 1:35:02 | 1:35:03 | |
I will not live there any more. | 1:35:07 | 1:35:09 | |
Nelly. | 1:35:16 | 1:35:18 | |
You're late. It's nearly dark. | 1:35:18 | 1:35:20 | |
-Where have you been? -George. | 1:35:20 | 1:35:23 | |
I am here. | 1:35:24 | 1:35:26 | |
I am here. | 1:35:31 | 1:35:33 | |
-Are you quite well? -Yes, George. | 1:35:34 | 1:35:37 | |
Are you sure? | 1:35:37 | 1:35:39 | |
I walked with Mr Benham today. | 1:35:45 | 1:35:48 | |
We talked about Mr Dickens. | 1:35:49 | 1:35:51 | |
Yes. | 1:35:51 | 1:35:53 | |
George... | 1:35:54 | 1:35:56 | |
The memories of a child, Nelly. | 1:36:00 | 1:36:03 | |
ROARS | 1:36:06 | 1:36:08 | |
Geoffrey! | 1:36:08 | 1:36:10 | |
Oh, Geoffrey. | 1:36:10 | 1:36:12 | |
You will frighten our guests. | 1:36:13 | 1:36:15 | |
-I think he was trying to frighten his mother. -Geoffrey. | 1:36:15 | 1:36:18 | |
-Go on, take your place. -Yes, Mama. | 1:36:20 | 1:36:23 | |
MUSIC PLAYING | 1:36:25 | 1:36:27 | |
Nelly? | 1:36:31 | 1:36:32 | |
INDISTINCT CHATTER | 1:36:49 | 1:36:51 | |
INAUDIBLE | 1:36:59 | 1:37:00 | |
-HADLEY: -Well, my lads, the day has broken at last. | 1:37:03 | 1:37:06 | |
What do you say to the weather now? | 1:37:06 | 1:37:08 | |
I say the weather will do. | 1:37:08 | 1:37:10 | |
I say doubtful. | 1:37:10 | 1:37:11 | |
ALL CHUCKLE | 1:37:11 | 1:37:13 | |
I can see for myself there's a storm coming. | 1:37:13 | 1:37:15 | |
I smell the snow. I can feel the hurricane in the air. | 1:37:15 | 1:37:19 | |
No money those gentlemen can offer | 1:37:19 | 1:37:21 | |
will tempt me to cross the Mountain with them today. | 1:37:21 | 1:37:23 | |
-BOY 1: -Well, are you ready at last | 1:37:25 | 1:37:28 | |
to cross the Mountain with us or not? | 1:37:28 | 1:37:31 | |
-BOY 2: -I say yes, if the others will say yes, too. | 1:37:31 | 1:37:33 | |
I say no! | 1:37:33 | 1:37:35 | |
I am Mountain boy. I know the pass up there as I know my ABC. | 1:37:35 | 1:37:39 | |
You know the Mountain. If you risk it, I will. | 1:37:39 | 1:37:41 | |
I'm your man. I will guide you to your journey's end. | 1:37:41 | 1:37:44 | |
-Say when. -Now! | 1:37:44 | 1:37:46 | |
-Are you ready? -I am ready. Come along. | 1:37:46 | 1:37:50 | |
WAVES CRASHING | 1:37:50 | 1:37:52 | |
WAVES LAPPING | 1:37:58 | 1:38:00 | |
SEAGULLS SQUAWKING | 1:38:03 | 1:38:05 | |
APPLAUSE | 1:38:17 | 1:38:18 | |
INAUDIBLE | 1:38:44 | 1:38:46 | |
This is a tale of woe. | 1:38:50 | 1:38:52 | |
This is a tale of sorrow. | 1:38:52 | 1:38:55 | |
A love denied, a love restored, | 1:38:55 | 1:38:57 | |
to live beyond tomorrow. | 1:38:57 | 1:38:59 | |
Lest we think silence is the place to hide a heavy heart, | 1:38:59 | 1:39:03 | |
remember, to love and be loved is life itself | 1:39:03 | 1:39:07 | |
without which we are nought. | 1:39:07 | 1:39:10 | |
-WOMAN: -# 'Tis the last rose of summer | 1:39:17 | 1:39:22 | |
# Left blooming alone | 1:39:22 | 1:39:27 | |
# No flower of her kindred | 1:39:27 | 1:39:31 | |
# No rosebud is nigh | 1:39:31 | 1:39:40 | |
# To reflect back her blushes | 1:39:40 | 1:39:46 | |
# And give sigh for sigh | 1:39:46 | 1:39:51 | |
# I'll not leave thee, thou lone one | 1:39:53 | 1:39:58 | |
# To pine on the stem | 1:39:58 | 1:40:03 | |
# Since the lovely are sleeping | 1:40:03 | 1:40:08 | |
# Go sleep thou with them | 1:40:08 | 1:40:14 | |
# Thus kindly I scatter | 1:40:14 | 1:40:19 | |
# Thy leaves o'er the bed | 1:40:19 | 1:40:28 | |
# Where thy mates of the garden | 1:40:28 | 1:40:33 | |
# Lie scentless and dead | 1:40:33 | 1:40:39 | |
# So soon may I follow | 1:40:41 | 1:40:46 | |
# When friendships decay | 1:40:46 | 1:40:52 | |
# When true hearts lie withered | 1:40:52 | 1:40:57 | |
# And fond ones are flown | 1:40:57 | 1:41:08 | |
# Oh, who would inhabit | 1:41:08 | 1:41:14 | |
# This bleak world alone? # | 1:41:14 | 1:41:20 |