Episode 1 The Mystery of Edwin Drood


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Ned!

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Have another, dearie.

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Won't do you no harm.

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Smoke another pipe.

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Never make out a word them saying.

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Foreigners...

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English...

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Makes no odds.

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HE MUTTERS NONSENSICALLY

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Nonsense.

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It's just nonsense.

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We all talk nonsense, dearie, when the dream's upon us.

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When the wicked man turneth away

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from his wickedness that he hath committed...

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..and doeth that which is lawful and right...

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..he shall save his soul alive.

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I acknowledge my transgressions,

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and my sin is ever before me.

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Repent ye, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.

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# Oh, come, let us sing unto the Lord

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# Let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation... #

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Something to keep an eye on.

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-Mr Crisparkle!

-Thank you, Reverend.

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-Thank you for your forbearance.

-Not ill, Mr Jasper?

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Only that sleep is hard to find.

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My mother will be thrilled

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to offer you her famous medicine chest once again. Previously she only had me to experiment on.

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The lady's very kind. But I expect my nephew today.

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Ah, I'm very glad to hear it!

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Edwin will do you more good than a dozen medicine chests.

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If he does not come soon I will die of longing!

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Rosa has no idea how lucky she is.

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Oh, for heaven's sake, you know nothing about it.

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There he is! Oh, look at his lovely hair!

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Will you please be quiet?!

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It's so romantic I could faint.

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Mr Edwin Drood to see Miss Rosa Bud.

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THEY GIGGLE

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It is just so absurd.

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What is so absurd, Rosie?

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The whole thing. Girls and servants scuttling about giggling,

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when it's only you come to call.

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That's a nice way to welcome your fiance!

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Rosie...

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I can't kiss you, Eddy, because I've got a pear drop in my mouth.

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Miss Twinkleton.

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How do you do, Mr Drood?

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Very glad indeed to have the pleasure once more.

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Pray excuse me.

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Tweezers. Ah!

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Shall I just go?

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No. No, not so soon, the girls will only want to know why.

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So, how are you?

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I'd like to reply much the better for seeing you, Rosie.

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Jack?

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BELLS CHIME

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Jack?

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-Agh!

-Jack, you monster!

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-Ned!

-Put me down!

-Ned! Oh, Ned, at last.

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Are you wet? Cold? Hungry?

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Not wet, not cold. Hungry, yes, hungry as a horse.

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Don't mollycoddle me, Jack, there's a good fellow.

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Let me look at you.

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You're late.

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I looked in on Rosa first.

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Oh, that's a dreadful old picture, Jack. I've more skill now.

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I'd draw you another one tomorrow,

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but I can't be sure she'll ever show me that smile again.

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To a young bride, nervously awaiting her nuptial day.

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Nervous! Huh!

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Miss Rosa is all thorns and no petals.

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-Ned!

-Oh, but the girl provokes me so!

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Miss Pert. Miss Scornful.

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Nothing I say ever pleases her.

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That young lady is too good for you, boy.

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God, if only I could choose, Jack.

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The loveliest girl in the world is yours,

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and you should thank God as well as your father for it.

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Oh, you can say so, it's all very well for you.

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Your life's not mapped out for you, your work and your marriage,

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all to scale and lined and dotted out like some infernal surveyor's plan.

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-You can choose for yourself.

-Ha!

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Jack, you look ghastly.

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What is it? You're frightening me!

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Now, don't you mollycoddly me. My medicine's at my bed.

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My Jack's an opium eater!

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You disapprove?

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No, no, no. If laudanum helps to ease the pain...

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To forget. To forget the pain. To forget this place.

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You can't be unhappy here, Jack.

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Not when you've so exactly found your niche in life?

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You're so deeply respected in this queer old place.

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-And you've your heavenly music.

-I hate it, Ned.

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I hate the grinding monotony of it.

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What is a man's life,

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where his only choice is which hymn number to select today?

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See how even a poor choirmaster may suffer the itch of ambition,

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but these are private thoughts and this is a confidence between us.

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Of course. It shall be sacredly preserved.

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Take it as a warning, then.

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My dear fellow, you need never fear

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that I will give in to the same despair. Look at me, I'm smiling!

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For in a few months, I shall carry Rosa away from school

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as Mrs Edwin Drood, and she shall set sail with me

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for our new life in the east.

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And we shall be happy, because we shall have made up our minds to be.

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You won't be warned, then?

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Dear Jack!

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Hah! Surrender, wicked mirror! Your money or your life.

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While you're waiting for the poor item to decide,

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I have a job for you.

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That's far too many. Our poor guest will boil.

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On the contrary, Sept,

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our climate will be a freezing torment to a tropical soul.

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-Oh!

-What?

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What if the bellringers disturb his sleep?

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I'll move the cathedral, shall I?

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Ah!

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Come on, then.

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What we got today, Mr Durdles?

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Who's this "we" when he's at home?

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This is Durdles' dinner entirely,

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what he is sharing with a workhouse ragamuffin

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-out of the goodness of his heart.

-Cheese!

-Yeah.

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CHORISTERS SING

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Blooming racket's enough to put an honest man off his lunch.

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Ow!

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Stop, stop, stop, stop!

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I know there are a lot of low notes,

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but when did you hear me say you're allowed to growl

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like a pack of Bengal tigers?

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Keep it bright, keep that smile in your mouths.

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The key note is IS G, but it is an odd form of G minor,

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so don't root down in mud and boots, think upwards, think of heaven.

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And this time prove to me you can sing sharp as well as flat.

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# According to thy word

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# For mine eyes have seen

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# Thy salvation

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# Which thou hast prepared

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# Before the face of all people... #

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Ethelinda, reverential wife of Mr Thomas Sapsea.

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Mayor, estate agent, auctioneer, etc, etc, etc,

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of this very city, whose knowledge of the world,

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though somewhat extensive, never brought him acquainted

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with a spirit more capable of looking up to him.

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That spirit being your late wife?

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Stranger, pause, and ask thyself the question.

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Canst thou do likewise?

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If not, with a blush, retire.

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A fine tribute.

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I do not reproach myself, sir.

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A little long, perhaps?

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But there have been times when I have asked myself the question,

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what if her husband had not been so very superior to her?

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If she had not had to look up so high,

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what might have been the stimulating effect upon her liver?

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Durdles, what say you as to length?

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Hold it up for us.

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It'll fit within an eighth of an inch. Give us the key.

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Um, surely this fine inscription

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is not to be hidden from public view inside the crypt?

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When Durdles goes back to put a touch or a finish on his work,

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Durdles likes to check the whole job.

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Inside and outside.

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Key, Mr Mayor, if you please.

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Why, Durdles, you're overloaded with ironmongery.

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Weighed down by life, is Durdles.

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And I'm sure the mayor's key is the heaviest of all.

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Indeed, sir, it shall be.

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Oh, may I?

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Most impressive.

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You may retain the key, Durdles, for I have another,

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and how the cold is creeping into my bones.

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Good day to you both.

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Good day, Mr Sapsea.

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Yours is a curious existence.

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Yours is another.

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In as much as we both inhabit the same old earthy,

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chilly, never-changing place.

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But there's more mystery and interest in your work.

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Nobody knows this place like Durdles.

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Every corner of it has Durdles' handiwork upon it.

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Find his way round it blindfold.

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Day or night.

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You shall show me.

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Durdles got better things to do.

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Excuse me, boys.

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Miss Landless?

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Oh, welcome to Cloisterham.

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I'm Reverend Septimus Crisparkle. How do you do?

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How do you do, sir?

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-And this must be...

-My brother, Neville.

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Splendid.

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My dear children, such a dreadfully long voyage, but you're home now.

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100 miles south of Jaffna, I believe?

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Yes, sir.

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Dutch, and then French, till we British got hold of it.

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The harbour, you see. Very fine.

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Trincomalee! What a tongue-twister.

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It means Lord of the Sacred Hill in our mother's language.

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Yes, your mother...

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Was a Christian lady.

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Oh, of course.

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The letter from the mission school related to us

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the sad news of the death of your stepfather.

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To be orphaned twice...

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We have each other.

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"Trincomalee! What a tongue-twister?"

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It's like talking to a pair of brick walls.

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Perhaps in the company of other young people...

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Oh, round some up, Sept. Quick as you can!

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Boilers again. Boilers and pyramids and canals.

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How can you not take an interest in the triumphs of engineering that'll change an undeveloped country?

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Who cares about Egypt?! Talk about something else.

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-Next, you'll say you don't want to come.

-You're being ridiculous.

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Mr Neville Landless, Miss Helena Landless,

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may I present to you Miss Rosa Bud and Mr Edwin Drood?

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How do you do?

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I see I disappoint you.

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An unusual name, sir, but familiar to us,

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as a Mr Drood was among the kindly benefactors of our mission school.

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Not I, Miss Landless, I have not yet set foot in the tropics,

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nor my father either, who is dead these nine years.

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I am more than sorry to hear that.

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Miss Twinkleton, your new pupil.

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And you sir, to the piano if you please. And Rosa!

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Yes, yes, come along, now.

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Oh, some songs before tea, the rule on our alternate musical Wednesdays.

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Yes, sing for our suppers, Rosie, it's the least you can do.

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Miss Helena...

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If you care to sit here.

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# Believe me if all those endearing young charms

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# Which I gaze on so fondly today

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# Were to change by tomorrow

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# And fleet in my arms

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# Like fairy gifts fading away

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# Thou wouldst still be adored

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# As this moment thou art

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# Let thy loveliness fade as it will

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# And around the dear ruin

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# Each wish of my heart

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# Would entwine itself verdantly still. #

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APPLAUSE Charming, my dear. Most mellifluous.

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HE STARTS ANOTHER SONG

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-Please, that's enough.

-Oh, Rosie, what's the fuss?

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There'll be tears next, Jack, and for nothing, as usual.

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If a young lady wishes to stop, what gentleman would force her on?

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Oh, there are no gentlemen here, sir. Only a fiance and a music master.

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Shall she take orders from both of them?

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Orders? Never. But what if I beg?

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-Rosie Posie, be a dear...

-Stop it. Stop it!

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Come away, come away.

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There, Jack, Miss Landless agrees with me!

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-You are a monster and she's afraid of you, too.

-Never.

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Well, I think it's time for a drink...

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My guests are very young, my dear Mr Jasper, and very tired...

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I take no offence, madam, truly,

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it's only one of my sudden headaches, forgive me.

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I had already put this aside for you.

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You are most kind.

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Thank you.

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-HE LAUGHS

-Do that again and I'll kill you.

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You lie!

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Get off me! Get off me! Get off!

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I could turn you off like a tap.

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I am sure Miss Bud will make you very comfortable, Miss Landless.

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Good night!

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This is my bed, and that shall be yours.

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It's beautiful.

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I hope you shall not hate sharing it with me.

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Oh, the other girls are such geese!

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Come, let me take down your hair.

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I imagine we shan't be here together for very long.

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No, indeed.

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For come the summer, I shall be married and away.

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Married to a man who makes you cry in company.

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Oh, that's just Eddy's way!

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He doesn't mean it.

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You do love him, Rosa?

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ROSA LAUGHS

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What a question!

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I have been engaged to Eddy for ever. Of course I love him.

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You are so very young.

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17.

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Sometimes I wonder...

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..how can I be sure this is what love feels like?

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I only know what I HOPE it feels like.

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THEY GIGGLE

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The other gentleman...

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Don't speak of him.

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You do know he loves you?

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Oh, don't say that out loud.

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Good sir! Our agreement.

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Who's died?

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You were to conduct me on a tour.

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The mysterious world of Durdles.

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Not tonight. Durdles is going home for his supper.

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I have all the nourishment we need.

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Watch your step, Mr Jasper.

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As fine a choirmaster as you might be up there,

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down here is Durdles the presiding spirit.

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There's people hidden away in every corner down here, Mr Jasper.

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Old 'uns that's walled up...

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..and forgotten for ever by everyone excepting Durdles.

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You spoke of nourishment?

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Not frightened of ghosts, then?

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What rational man fears the dead?

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That's true, the dead can't hurt ya.

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Give you a fright, though.

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You're not going to claim you've seen a ghost, Durdles?

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You'll disappoint me if you do.

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Not seen one, no.

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Heard one, though.

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I was enjoying my 40 winks one night,

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though the nourishment was nowhere near as good as this is,

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Mr Jasper, thanking you kindly. When what should wake me?

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The ghost of a cry, that's what.

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The ghost of one terrific shriek...

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..with an echo like a long,

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dismal, woeful howl, such as a dog gives when a person's dead.

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You speak of long ago.

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No more than a year.

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It was just when we buried poor Mrs Sapsea.

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Not ashamed to confess I thought it was her.

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The lady mayoress, crying for release from her own fresh grave.

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Not ashamed to confess I ran all the way home

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and never came back to lock up until the morning.

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The ghost of one terrific shriek.

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He terrifies me.

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When he corrects me, and strikes a note, or a chord,

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his voice is in the music...whispering...

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that he pursues me as a lover.

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What words does he use, little one?

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I could argue with words.

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But he has made a slave of me with his music.

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He has forced me to understand him without his saying a word

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and he has forced me to keep silent without his uttering a threat.

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Is that why you don't tell Edwin?

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Oh, Eddy is devoted to him!

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John Jasper is more than an uncle to him, he is a guardian and protector.

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You must never breathe a word! Promise me, on your life.

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Of course.

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Good night, little one. I'm here now.

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There's no need to be scared.

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I'm sorry about your father.

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No need to feel sorry for me, Mr Neville. I hardly knew my father, he lived so much abroad.

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-He died in action?

-No! A mining accident in Upper Egypt.

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He died making money.

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Don't look so puzzled.

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He was an officer in the Royal Engineers, and no man got rich on army pay.

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Set up a pretty little construction business, which is left to me when I'm 21.

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I congratulate you. And on your other good fortune.

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-Miss Rosa?

-You ask a good too many questions already, Mr Neville,

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and this matter is none of your business.

0:28:240:28:26

The young lady is under one roof with my sister.

0:28:260:28:29

-Not for long, thank God.

-Your discourtesy does not become you.

0:28:290:28:33

What an odd little thing you are.

0:28:350:28:36

Ned! Ned!

0:28:390:28:43

Ned, dear boy!

0:28:430:28:44

You are the host in this town

0:28:440:28:46

and must respect the sacred rules of hospitality!

0:28:460:28:49

Ned will be off soon, Mr Neville,

0:28:510:28:54

sailing away with his lady love to a life of freedom and adventures.

0:28:540:28:59

Look at him lounging there like a lord.

0:28:590:29:01

The world is all before him. Where to choose?

0:29:010:29:04

Isn't that right, Mr Neville? Whereas we lesser mortals...

0:29:040:29:09

To Ned, my dearest fellow.

0:29:110:29:14

HE SPLUTTERS

0:29:180:29:19

-Lord Jack, this is strong stuff for our new friend.

-I can take it.

0:29:190:29:24

And now a toast to Mr Neville, newly-arrived from far-flung...?

0:29:240:29:29

Ceylon. Off the south coast of India.

0:29:290:29:32

Mr Neville, every schoolboy knows that.

0:29:320:29:34

Jack, you're quite right.

0:29:340:29:37

I understand you're orphans?

0:29:370:29:39

-Our mother died when we were 12 years old.

-I am a damn fortunate fellow.

0:29:390:29:42

I'm sorry to hear that. And your father?

0:29:420:29:44

And Rosie's a damn lucky girl, if she did but know it.

0:29:440:29:47

Too damn good for the likes of you.

0:29:470:29:49

Now, do speak up, sir.

0:29:490:29:50

You might be worth more, Mr Drood, if you had known hardship like other people.

0:29:500:29:55

I find I tire very easily of the wisdom of the East.

0:29:550:29:58

Hospitality, Ned...

0:29:580:29:59

You talk as if you were some kind of rare and precious prize,

0:29:590:30:02

but you're just a common boaster.

0:30:020:30:04

You may know a black common boaster when you see him, but you are no judge of white men.

0:30:040:30:08

Mr Neville, for shame!

0:30:090:30:11

Ned, I beg you, I command you, back away!

0:30:110:30:14

Mr Neville, I will have your weapon.

0:30:140:30:18

Open your hand, sir!

0:30:180:30:20

Mr Neville!

0:30:350:30:38

Last night, you were not sober.

0:30:400:30:43

KNOCK ON DOOR

0:30:430:30:44

Through the mercy of God I was swift and strong with him,

0:30:500:30:54

or he would have cut Edwin down on my hearth, murder in his heart.

0:30:540:30:57

No, no, there's no need for such strong words.

0:30:570:30:59

You, my dear sir, have accepted a dangerous charge into your house.

0:30:590:31:02

You are our foremost man of culture, Mr Jasper.

0:31:050:31:08

There is no reason why you should have known that natives

0:31:080:31:12

cannot be trusted with strong drink.

0:31:120:31:14

It is because I fear for your safety, dear madam,

0:31:140:31:17

that I now raise my concerns.

0:31:170:31:20

I appreciate the kindness of, er, of your intention.

0:31:200:31:24

-Um...

-Madam.

0:31:240:31:26

One is forced to wonder, Mr Jasper,

0:31:280:31:30

why the minor canon hadn't the courage to tell his mother himself?

0:31:300:31:33

"Horum omnium fortissimi sunt Belgae."

0:31:370:31:44

"Of all of these the bravest are the Belgians."

0:31:440:31:48

Not Belgians, Mr Neville. No such thing as Belgians in 55BC.

0:31:480:31:55

Mr Neville has begun his studies by jumping

0:31:550:31:57

straight into Caesar's Gallic Wars.

0:31:570:31:59

Means to lay waste to every tribe in Kent, does he?

0:32:010:32:05

Translate to the end of the chapter, please,

0:32:100:32:13

and we will meet again before luncheon to continue our discussion of your apology.

0:32:130:32:17

-I cannot apologise to Mr Drood.

-I do not present you with a choice.

0:32:170:32:20

Our lives have been hard, sir. Our stepfather was a brute.

0:32:230:32:28

If that is the reason for the anger in your soul, Mr Neville,

0:32:290:32:32

it will be your duty to fight it with forgiveness.

0:32:320:32:36

I am secretive and vengeful.

0:32:360:32:38

I have the manners of a heathen and a touch of the tiger in my blood.

0:32:380:32:41

Your stepfather speaks through you from beyond the grave.

0:32:420:32:45

Those were his opinions of me, yes.

0:32:450:32:48

It was a good thing he died when he did, or I might have killed him.

0:32:480:32:51

Mr Neville!

0:32:510:32:52

Nothing can justify such violent thoughts...

0:32:520:32:56

You never saw him beat your twin sister.

0:32:560:32:58

Not even a beloved and beautiful sister's tears.

0:32:590:33:02

She never cried.

0:33:020:33:04

My sister would have let him rip her to pieces

0:33:050:33:08

before she would let him believe he could make her shed a tear.

0:33:080:33:12

This was not idle gossip. This was the mayor of Cloisterham talking.

0:33:140:33:19

Don't try to make me laugh, I'm not in the mood.

0:33:190:33:22

-The difference between us is that I believe the two men were equally at fault.

-And I do not.

0:33:220:33:26

-But why not, Ma?

-Because I don't.

0:33:260:33:30

Though, of course, I am open to discussion.

0:33:300:33:33

That's exactly what you're not.

0:33:330:33:35

I had planned to suggest to you that we jointly hush the whole thing up

0:33:490:33:52

to save the reputations of all concerned.

0:33:520:33:54

Now you've discussed it with the mayor, which is to say the entire town...

0:33:540:33:58

-What do you know of Neville Landless and his sister?

-They are orphans in need of an education.

0:33:580:34:03

Jasper, they are strangers in a strange land.

0:34:030:34:07

Send them away before that boy does serious damage.

0:34:070:34:10

We cannot permit one mistake to turn into a destiny which cannot be escaped.

0:34:100:34:14

Such is life, surely.

0:34:140:34:16

Young ladies, you may set aside your sewing.

0:34:170:34:20

Miss Rosa, your guardian is here from London.

0:34:200:34:24

Come along, girls!

0:34:240:34:26

Ooh!

0:34:280:34:30

Sir.

0:34:300:34:32

My visits here are like those of the angels.

0:34:490:34:52

Not that I compare myself to an angel.

0:34:520:34:55

No, Mr Grewgious, sir.

0:34:550:34:58

I merely refer to my visits being few and far between.

0:34:580:35:02

The angels having, as we see, just run away upstairs.

0:35:030:35:08

Do take a seat, sir.

0:35:080:35:09

You are my guardian angel, Mr Grewgious, always.

0:35:120:35:16

I refer to the guiding memorandum which I prepared earlier.

0:35:200:35:24

So, my dear. "Well and happy."

0:35:260:35:30

Yes, indeed, sir, thank you.

0:35:300:35:32

"Pounds, shillings and pence."

0:35:350:35:38

A dry subject for a young lady, but...

0:35:380:35:40

I want for nothing.

0:35:400:35:42

"Marriage."

0:35:460:35:48

I remember how you love fresh air, Mr Grewgious.

0:35:530:35:56

Do I?

0:35:570:35:59

You like him, and he likes you.

0:35:590:36:02

I like him very much, sir.

0:36:020:36:04

-Capital.

-But what happens if we don't get married?

0:36:040:36:09

You haven't read your father's will?

0:36:090:36:11

Um...the legal language.

0:36:110:36:14

You will remain my ward for another 4 years, until you are 21,

0:36:140:36:19

and then come into your inheritance just the same.

0:36:190:36:22

You are really asking if you stand to lose your inheritance

0:36:240:36:27

if you go against your father's wishes.

0:36:270:36:31

-That sounds so dreadful.

-Rosa.

0:36:310:36:34

Do you suppose that if your dear father were here today

0:36:340:36:37

he would want you to be unhappy in any way that can be imagined?

0:36:370:36:41

Preposterous.

0:36:410:36:43

My dear, two young people can only be betrothed in marriage

0:36:440:36:48

of their own free will.

0:36:480:36:49

Lord, bless me!

0:36:520:36:53

You find me rather the worse for wear, I'm afraid.

0:36:550:37:00

Um...

0:37:070:37:08

May I offer you, er...

0:37:080:37:10

A glass of water will suffice, thank you.

0:37:100:37:13

Please, be...be seated. My manners are Pictish today.

0:37:200:37:23

This is a certified copy of Rosa's father's will.

0:37:450:37:49

Oh, thank you.

0:37:490:37:51

Keep it safe.

0:37:510:37:53

You are staying long in Cloisterham?

0:37:530:37:56

Oh, no, no. Back to London as soon as I can.

0:37:560:37:58

I am an awkward species of a man, with no experience of such delights,

0:38:040:38:12

but I figure to myself, subject to your correction, Mr Edwin,

0:38:120:38:18

that the true lover is ever impatient to be close to the object

0:38:180:38:23

of his affections, seeking her company as a bird seeks its nest.

0:38:230:38:29

I do write to her in between visits.

0:38:290:38:32

Although I'm an engineer, not a poet.

0:38:320:38:35

You will notice from your perusal of Rosa's father's will,

0:38:380:38:43

a kindly allusion to a little trust, confided to me in conversation,

0:38:430:38:50

to discharge at such time as I in my discretion may think best.

0:38:500:38:55

This ring was removed from the dead hand of Rosa's mother,

0:39:020:39:08

in my presence.

0:39:080:39:09

Your placing it on her daughter's finger...

0:39:130:39:16

..will be the most solemn seal upon your love.

0:39:180:39:22

Take it.

0:39:260:39:28

If anything should be even

0:39:320:39:34

slightly amiss between you,

0:39:340:39:37

if you should have even the slightest suspicion

0:39:370:39:42

that you are marrying for other than

0:39:420:39:45

the highest reasons of true love,

0:39:450:39:49

I charge you, Edwin Drood,

0:39:490:39:52

by the living and the dead,

0:39:520:39:55

to bring that ring back to me.

0:39:550:39:58

I give you my word.

0:40:020:40:05

What a fool you must think me, Jack.

0:40:120:40:16

What was it you said to me?

0:40:170:40:20

"The loveliest girl in the world

0:40:200:40:22

"is yours by will and testament, Ned."

0:40:220:40:25

To think I ever entertained any doubts

0:40:250:40:28

when it seems so real to me now.

0:40:280:40:31

So sacred.

0:40:310:40:32

I shan't wait until the summer.

0:40:340:40:37

I shall marry Rosa on the day that I turn 21.

0:40:380:40:41

Shake my hand on it.

0:40:410:40:43

Thank you, dearest Jack.

0:40:460:40:48

BIRDSONG

0:40:510:40:54

But if we are to stay here,

0:41:000:41:02

-even for a short while...

-I cannot do it.

0:41:020:41:05

I cannot. Now more than ever.

0:41:050:41:08

Can't you see?

0:41:080:41:09

I apologise if I intrude on a restorative walk.

0:41:290:41:33

This is a new pleasure for us, Mr Crisparkle. We do not come from a walking country.

0:41:330:41:37

I'm glad to see you become so very English so very soon.

0:41:370:41:40

Miss Landless, may I come straight to the point?

0:41:400:41:43

You have been not 48 hours in Cloisterham

0:41:430:41:45

and already there is a notion abroad that Mr Neville

0:41:450:41:48

is a dangerously passionate fellow

0:41:480:41:50

of an uncontrollable and vicious temper.

0:41:500:41:53

-Because we are strangers?

-No.

0:41:530:41:56

Well, yes, possibly.

0:41:570:41:59

-Sir, he cannot help it.

-His background is not an excuse.

0:41:590:42:02

Mr Neville, you are clenching your fist and I dislike it.

0:42:020:42:06

I cannot help it.

0:42:060:42:08

He treats that beautiful creature like a doll

0:42:080:42:10

and I despise him for it.

0:42:100:42:11

-You've only met Miss Rosa once.

-I've seen enough

0:42:130:42:16

to know that Edwin Drood is not worthy of her.

0:42:160:42:19

HE SIGHS

0:42:210:42:23

Who knows of this unfortunate attachment?

0:42:230:42:27

Only we three.

0:42:270:42:29

Good. I shall rely on you, Miss Landless, to keep it that way.

0:42:290:42:32

Miss Rosa is engaged to be married.

0:42:320:42:35

She's not available.

0:42:350:42:37

While you live under my roof, Mr Neville,

0:42:400:42:42

you will not see her,

0:42:420:42:43

nor contact her, nor even think about her.

0:42:430:42:47

I won't tell you it will be easy. I know it won't.

0:42:470:42:51

But in return, I promise I will find a way

0:42:510:42:53

to help you bury this foolish argument with Edwin Drood

0:42:530:42:56

before it ruins your happiness in your new home.

0:42:560:43:00

For me.

0:43:030:43:05

Praise the Lord. Miss Landless, you help your brother towards the light.

0:43:090:43:12

Thank you.

0:43:120:43:14

Oh, er...

0:43:170:43:19

Tut! I'm much overpaid.

0:43:190:43:21

Mr Jasper!

0:43:360:43:37

-Down from London, Mr Grewgious? Something wrong?

-Not at all.

0:43:370:43:40

I thought to consult my pretty ward

0:43:400:43:44

about her wedding plans,

0:43:440:43:46

but I discover she has some little delicate feminine instinct

0:43:460:43:50

that all arrangements should be made

0:43:500:43:53

between her and Mr Edwin in private.

0:43:530:43:56

In other words, Jasper,

0:43:560:43:58

she don't want us.

0:43:580:44:00

You mean me.

0:44:000:44:03

I mean us.

0:44:030:44:05

I understand the happy day may come sooner than we anticipated.

0:44:050:44:11

Really?

0:44:110:44:12

You surprise me.

0:44:120:44:15

I found my ward rather... Well, imagine, Jasper!

0:44:150:44:20

The dear girl believed her marriage to Edwin

0:44:200:44:23

to be legally inescapable.

0:44:230:44:25

I was glad to reassure her.

0:44:250:44:27

I'll wager she hinted no desire to be free of her engagement?

0:44:270:44:32

In truth, there was a moment

0:44:320:44:34

when I almost believed that was exactly what she does want.

0:44:340:44:38

Well! It's for the two young people to decide.

0:44:390:44:43

God bless them both.

0:44:430:44:45

Aye, God save them both.

0:44:450:44:48

Rock of ages...

0:44:560:44:59

..cleft for me...

0:45:010:45:03

# Let me hi-i-ide

0:45:050:45:08

# Myself in the-e-e. #

0:45:080:45:11

-Rosa...

-Eddy, let's be brave.

0:45:240:45:27

And kind.

0:45:280:45:30

Kind to one another, for once in our lives.

0:45:300:45:33

Starting today,

0:45:340:45:37

and for ever.

0:45:370:45:38

Let's change to brother and sister.

0:45:400:45:43

-Not get married?

-No.

0:45:470:45:50

In spite of our fathers' wishes?

0:45:520:45:55

Yes.

0:45:550:45:56

-If after all there is another young man...

-There is not, I promise you.

0:45:590:46:03

-But I love you, Rosa...

-And I love you.

0:46:030:46:05

With all my heart, but not...

0:46:050:46:10

as a wife should love a husband.

0:46:100:46:12

As I believe she should.

0:46:120:46:15

As I hope...

0:46:150:46:17

Oh, this is so hard!

0:46:170:46:20

-Don't hate me!

-No, no. You mistake me, my dear Rosa.

0:46:220:46:24

I mean your courage

0:46:240:46:29

and your clarity of thought. I am sorry, too.

0:46:290:46:33

Think, Eddy! How much better to be sorry now than later,

0:46:330:46:37

when it will be too late?

0:46:370:46:39

DISTANT CONVERSATION

0:46:390:46:41

..never be angry with one another again.

0:46:440:46:46

-How wonderful it will be!

-Yes, it will.

0:46:460:46:50

'Ere he is!

0:47:270:47:29

My little singin' bird!

0:47:290:47:32

-A choirmaster, eh?

-What are you doing here?

0:47:320:47:36

Not so loud, dearie,

0:47:360:47:37

I'm thinking more of a nice, quiet little chat

0:47:370:47:40

on a matter of mutual interest.

0:47:400:47:43

-There's a lot more I know about you!

-Leave me alone!

0:47:430:47:48

Oh! Watch out, you mischief-maker!

0:47:480:47:52

Get off me!

0:47:520:47:54

Look, no! No!

0:48:040:48:06

Has that child hurt you?

0:48:060:48:08

No, dearie.

0:48:080:48:10

Another one.

0:48:120:48:14

The one I had 'opes would put coals on my fires for many a day.

0:48:140:48:18

Ah!

0:48:180:48:19

Have you no home to go to?

0:48:250:48:28

My 'ome's in London. Oh, give us three and six!

0:48:280:48:32

I'll get straight back there.

0:48:320:48:34

Will you spend my three and six on a train ticket?

0:48:360:48:39

-Or on drink and opium?

-I haven't drunk in 16 year!

0:48:390:48:41

Thank ye and bless ye as a gentleman. What's your name, dearie?

0:48:470:48:51

Why, will you tell my fortune? It's Edwin.

0:48:510:48:55

Edwin.

0:48:550:48:56

Does your sweetheart call you Eddy?

0:48:580:49:00

I have no sweetheart.

0:49:030:49:05

Because your little rosebud's been picked by another.

0:49:050:49:09

Ned, innit?

0:49:090:49:10

Ooh, that's a bad name to 'ave just now, is Ned.

0:49:120:49:15

There's a threat to young men named Ned.

0:49:150:49:18

Only one man calls me Ned.

0:49:210:49:22

There's the man

0:49:220:49:25

who's picked your rosebud.

0:49:250:49:28

HE SOBS

0:49:300:49:32

GLASS SMASHES

0:49:390:49:41

Mr Neville?

0:49:580:50:00

A fine weapon.

0:50:000:50:02

Now I come into a walking country, I need a walking stick.

0:50:020:50:04

Cudgel, more like!

0:50:040:50:06

Oh, it's much too heavy. Is it ironwood?

0:50:070:50:10

Don't wave it in my direction.

0:50:100:50:12

If I walk all day tomorrow...

0:50:140:50:16

By tomorrow she'll be sweetness and light again.

0:50:160:50:19

By tomorrow she'll prob...

0:50:190:50:20

You are right, Mr Crisparkle. This foolishness has gone on long enough.

0:50:280:50:32

Mr Neville, please do me the honour of dining

0:50:320:50:35

with me and my nephew tonight,

0:50:350:50:36

and we shall become the friends we should have been from the beginning.

0:50:360:50:40

There, Mr Neville! What do you think of that?

0:50:400:50:44

Thank you, sir.

0:50:440:50:46

CLOCK CHIMING AND TICKING

0:51:070:51:09

This was to be part of my trousseau.

0:51:390:51:40

But now it's for you.

0:51:420:51:43

A gift from a heart which is free at last.

0:51:450:51:47

THUNDER RUMBLING

0:51:470:51:49

What is it, dear?

0:51:530:51:56

Oh, I am sorry, I'm just so anxious about my brother.

0:51:560:52:00

This supper tonight with Edwin and Mr Jasper...

0:52:010:52:05

Edwin said nothing to me about it.

0:52:050:52:06

You gave him too much else to think about!

0:52:060:52:09

THUNDER RUMBLES

0:52:090:52:11

What's this?

0:52:490:52:51

Ned, we are putting the past behind us and the present to rights.

0:52:510:52:54

And the future?

0:52:540:52:55

The future shall be as we make it.

0:52:550:52:58

What else are you not telling me, Jack?

0:53:000:53:03

Come, my bright boy, shake Mr Neville's hand and let us be friends.

0:53:030:53:08

# Yet all the lads, they smile on me When comin' through the rye. #

0:53:170:53:22

That was a good deal more fun than our alternate musical Wednesday.

0:53:230:53:28

Oh, whisper it! But listen to that wind.

0:53:280:53:32

It's a bad night to be out.

0:53:320:53:34

Dear heavens, I'm all done in. Kiss me, dear.

0:53:370:53:42

Good night, Ma. Sleep well.

0:53:420:53:45

In my country, when the monsoon comes,

0:54:050:54:07

the rain is like a river falling from the sky.

0:54:070:54:12

It brings the snakes crawling out from the jungle.

0:54:120:54:15

Our old people believe them to be the avatars of the dead.

0:54:150:54:18

Superstitious nonsense.

0:54:210:54:24

Don't the English love a ghost story, too?

0:54:240:54:27

Mr Jasper, thank you, but it's getting late.

0:54:270:54:30

I'll come with you.

0:54:310:54:33

Grab a breath of fresh air, chase a few ghosts.

0:54:330:54:36

I'll take you to the most haunted place in Cloisterham.

0:54:360:54:39

1,200 years old?

0:55:010:55:02

Time enough to accumulate an army of ghosts.

0:55:020:55:05

A pretty poor show if not!

0:55:050:55:07

How wonderful! Such majesty.

0:55:370:55:41

Such beauty frozen into stone.

0:55:430:55:45

See how it rises, so far above our heads, all the way to heaven.

0:55:450:55:52

Mr Edwin?

0:55:560:55:58

Mr Edwin?

0:56:040:56:06

Do you mean to jump out and frighten me?

0:56:120:56:16

I shall resist!

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Edwin?

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To be betrayed by someone you love is a bitter thing.

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All my life, I've known I would one day stand before this altar

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and marry Rosa.

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You are more than fortunate.

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Perhaps you don't know what it's like to suffer the failure of every dream and every expectation.

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I am an orphan born out of wedlock.

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Then at least you're used to disappointment.

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It is my constant companion.

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Jack!

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Ned!

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In the end, you will love me, Rosa!

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You have seen him with your own eyes, devouring her with his looks.

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Have you absolutely no shame?!

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You have poisoned her mind against me!

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This case has a generally dark look to me.

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Let the monster that killed him hear my vow -

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I devote myself to his destruction.

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