0:03:07 > 0:03:11'There's something delicious about writing the first words of a story.'
0:03:11 > 0:03:15'You can never quite tell where they'll take you.'
0:03:17 > 0:03:19'Mine took me here.'
0:03:25 > 0:03:29'Looking back, the city and I never much liked each other.'
0:03:29 > 0:03:32'An unmarried woman, after all, was expected to behave
0:03:32 > 0:03:36in very particular ways, which did not include
0:03:36 > 0:03:39traipsing from publisher to publisher with a gaggle of friends.'
0:03:43 > 0:03:48Now, listen to me. You must not be afraid.
0:03:48 > 0:03:51And don't talk too much.
0:03:54 > 0:03:59'Friends who, sadly, others were not so keen to meet.'
0:04:02 > 0:04:05Well... Hmm.
0:04:07 > 0:04:11I've been selling my drawings for greeting cards, place cards, etc,
0:04:11 > 0:04:14for seven years.
0:04:14 > 0:04:17A-ha.
0:04:17 > 0:04:20Hmm.
0:04:26 > 0:04:28Hmm.
0:04:38 > 0:04:40Bunnies in jackets with brass buttons.
0:04:40 > 0:04:44- However do you imagine such things? - I don't imagine. They're quite real.
0:04:44 > 0:04:49- They're my friends.- Ah, you base the animal characters on your friends.
0:04:49 > 0:04:51No. The animals are my friends.
0:04:51 > 0:04:54Before Peter Rabbit, there was Benjamin Bunny.
0:04:54 > 0:04:58And then Sir Isaac the Newt. I have their drawings as well if you'd...
0:04:58 > 0:05:03- That's not necessary, Miss Potter. It is- Miss- Potter, is it not?
0:05:03 > 0:05:06Yes, of course. How silly of me. Unfortunately the market...
0:05:06 > 0:05:10Of course. I completely understand. It was silly of me.
0:05:10 > 0:05:15F Warne and Company would like to publish your book, Miss Potter.
0:05:15 > 0:05:19But best not to get overly hopeful. I know publishing your book
0:05:19 > 0:05:23will not sell a lot of copies, but I think we can turn a small profit.
0:05:24 > 0:05:30My dear Mr Warne. Well, I'm pleased. Very pleased indeed.
0:05:30 > 0:05:35I shall do everything possible to ensure you've not made a mistake.
0:05:35 > 0:05:37Miss Wiggin, I believe we can go.
0:05:37 > 0:05:41Thank you very much indeed, Messrs Warne, for your time.
0:05:41 > 0:05:43Our pleasure.
0:05:43 > 0:05:46My brother always knows what he's doing.
0:05:47 > 0:05:52Oh! I'm quite particular about book size and price,
0:05:52 > 0:05:57and I'd like to avoid that dreadful gothic typeface
0:05:57 > 0:05:59your children's books usually have.
0:05:59 > 0:06:02Everything will be to your satisfaction.
0:06:03 > 0:06:05Miss Potter.
0:06:05 > 0:06:07- Your... - (GASPS)
0:06:07 > 0:06:10Of course. (CHUCKLES)
0:06:10 > 0:06:13Portfolio. (CHUCKLES)
0:06:13 > 0:06:15Come along, Peter.
0:06:26 > 0:06:29- Sir Isaac the Newt. - You can't be serious.
0:06:29 > 0:06:32- That book won't sell ten copies. - Of course not!
0:06:32 > 0:06:35However, the thought did occur to me...
0:06:35 > 0:06:38- Norman.- We promised our little brother a project.
0:06:38 > 0:06:42If he makes a muck of it, what will it matter?
0:06:42 > 0:06:44Miss Potter may turn out to be a godsend.
0:06:44 > 0:06:46Home, Miss Potter?
0:06:46 > 0:06:50No, Saunders. Drive me through the park.
0:06:50 > 0:06:54- Through all the parks! - I beg your pardon, Miss Potter?
0:06:54 > 0:06:56Drive!
0:06:56 > 0:06:58Walk on.
0:06:59 > 0:07:03We did it! Did you hear my heart? It was a kettle drum!
0:07:03 > 0:07:06You see? We cannot stay home all our lives.
0:07:06 > 0:07:08We must present ourselves to the world
0:07:08 > 0:07:11and we must look upon it as an adventure.
0:07:28 > 0:07:30Faster, Saunders!
0:07:31 > 0:07:35- Faster, Saunders, if you please. - No, Miss Beatrix. No.
0:07:35 > 0:07:37- Fast as you can, old boy. - Go on!
0:07:42 > 0:07:45Oh! I say!
0:07:54 > 0:07:56Whoa.
0:08:01 > 0:08:04Saunders.
0:08:12 > 0:08:16Beatrix, where have you been? It's after four o'clock.
0:08:16 > 0:08:19I'm not a child. I can do things without my mother's permission.
0:08:19 > 0:08:23I hoped to use the carriage myself this afternoon. Where were you?
0:08:23 > 0:08:26I took a drive. With my friends.
0:08:48 > 0:08:52- You don't have any friends. - Yes, I do, Mother.
0:08:52 > 0:08:55Every time I draw.
0:08:57 > 0:09:01Some of your paintings are quite pretty, Beatrix,
0:09:01 > 0:09:04but I'm not going to deceive you as your father does
0:09:04 > 0:09:06and call them great art.
0:09:15 > 0:09:18Well, my friend, when I am a published author,
0:09:18 > 0:09:21then you shall see.
0:09:37 > 0:09:39Beatrix, Bertram, time for good nights.
0:09:39 > 0:09:43- But I haven't finished yet! - Come on. Hurry up. Bertram!
0:09:43 > 0:09:47- There! I got him! - Bertram, you're barbaric.
0:09:47 > 0:09:50- Come on, you two. Hurry up. Down you go.- (MOUTHS)
0:09:51 > 0:09:53Slowly.
0:09:56 > 0:10:00Hurry, Rupert! It won't do to be late to the Hydes'!
0:10:00 > 0:10:02Doesn't Mama look beautiful, Beatrix?
0:10:02 > 0:10:06- Being in a temper puts such a rose into her cheeks.- When you grow up,
0:10:06 > 0:10:09and you have to run a household, keep a social calendar
0:10:09 > 0:10:13and put up with a man who's never been introduced to a clock,
0:10:13 > 0:10:17your cheeks will glow, too. Look at this ribbon! That's unsightly.
0:10:17 > 0:10:21Change her into something decent, and give this night dress away.
0:10:21 > 0:10:25- (MUMBLES)- You're impossible, Rupert. We are so late!
0:10:25 > 0:10:29- What have you drawn today, Beatrix? - Benjamin Bunny having a rest.
0:10:29 > 0:10:31Oh! His ears are getting better and better.
0:10:31 > 0:10:35- This shading here is very good, Beatrix.- Rupert...
0:10:35 > 0:10:38Say your good nights now, children.
0:10:38 > 0:10:40- Good night, Mother. - Good night, Beatrix.
0:10:40 > 0:10:42- Good night, Father. - Good night, Beatrix.
0:10:42 > 0:10:46- Good night, Mother. - Good night, Bertram.- Father.
0:10:46 > 0:10:50- Come on. Mustn't make Mama and Papa...- Later than they are.
0:10:50 > 0:10:53- Children!- What now? - On my way home,
0:10:53 > 0:10:57I walked down Piccadilly. What do you think jumped into my pockets?
0:10:57 > 0:11:00Something very special for the young entomologist.
0:11:00 > 0:11:04(MAKES BUZZING NOISE) And something very suitable for the young lady
0:11:04 > 0:11:08who's very soon to grow up to run a fine home just like her mother.
0:11:08 > 0:11:11- We'll open them upstairs. Come on. - Thank you, Father.
0:11:11 > 0:11:13- Thank you, Father. - Come on!
0:11:20 > 0:11:25- Late, late, late.- We are not. - We'll never be invited again!
0:11:25 > 0:11:28It's polite to be a little late. Now, get in the cab.
0:11:28 > 0:11:31This isn't polite late. This is late.
0:11:34 > 0:11:37Right, wee ones. One story and then bed.
0:11:37 > 0:11:40I want Beatrix to tell a story. Hers are funny.
0:11:40 > 0:11:44Indeed they are, and I know exactly what it'll be about.
0:11:44 > 0:11:46- Tom Thumb and Hunca Munca! - Precisely.
0:11:46 > 0:11:49Tom, Hunca, are you ready to play in a story?
0:11:49 > 0:11:51"Oh, yes, we're excellent actors."
0:11:51 > 0:11:56Well, we shall see about that. This will be your test. Over there.
0:11:58 > 0:12:01Once upon a time those two excellent housekeepers,
0:12:01 > 0:12:05Lucinda and Jane, bought some shiny new porcelain food
0:12:05 > 0:12:09which they set out on their perfectly appointed dining-room table.
0:12:09 > 0:12:12Then they decided to go for a walk. (HUMS MERRY TUNE)
0:12:12 > 0:12:16Suddenly, there came a scuffling noise from the kitchen.
0:12:16 > 0:12:19Tom Thumb and Hunca Munca crept out.
0:12:19 > 0:12:23The two mice saw that the dining table was set for dinner.
0:12:23 > 0:12:27Tom Thumb leapt up and took a big bite from the first plate
0:12:27 > 0:12:29and broke his tooth. "Ow!"
0:12:29 > 0:12:34- (KNOCK AT DOOR)- Were we expecting someone?- It's my publishers.- Oh.
0:12:34 > 0:12:38It's not a social call. In fact, I'm rather dreading it.
0:12:38 > 0:12:41I wish you wouldn't invite tradespeople into the house.
0:12:41 > 0:12:45- They carry dust.- Well, next time I shall go to their office.
0:12:49 > 0:12:52Mr Norman Warne.
0:12:52 > 0:12:56Miss Potter. I hope you will forgive my intrusion into your routine.
0:12:56 > 0:13:01- I was expecting one of the...- Yes. I am Harold and Fruing's brother.
0:13:01 > 0:13:04I have recently joined the firm and they have done me the great honour
0:13:04 > 0:13:08of assigning your book to me. Thank you.
0:13:08 > 0:13:11- It's most gracious of you to invite me to...- Tea.
0:13:11 > 0:13:15Yes, I would love some. Thank you. Er, lemon. Thank you.
0:13:23 > 0:13:25Oh! How funny! (CHUCKLES)
0:13:25 > 0:13:29Delightful and magical and so beautifully drawn.
0:13:29 > 0:13:31I am utterly, utterly speechless.
0:13:31 > 0:13:35Perhaps we should discuss our business, Mr Warne.
0:13:35 > 0:13:39I put your drawings aside with the greatest reluctance.
0:13:39 > 0:13:42Your brother's letter makes two proposals
0:13:42 > 0:13:45which I find quite unacceptable.
0:13:45 > 0:13:48First, they'd like the drawings to be in colour.
0:13:48 > 0:13:50I'm adamant they be in black and white.
0:13:50 > 0:13:54But Peter Rabbit's blue jacket and the red radishes.
0:13:54 > 0:13:58- Surely you'd like these drawings reproduced as they are?- Of course,
0:13:58 > 0:14:01but colour will make the book cost more than little rabbits can afford.
0:14:01 > 0:14:05I'm adamant. Which brings us to your brother's second point.
0:14:05 > 0:14:09They wish to reduce the number of drawings by nearly a third.
0:14:09 > 0:14:12- Totally unacceptable. - Let me explain.
0:14:12 > 0:14:16The idea of reducing the number of drawings was actually my idea.
0:14:16 > 0:14:19If we can reduce the number to 31 precisely,
0:14:19 > 0:14:23the illustrations for the whole book can be printed on one sheet of paper
0:14:23 > 0:14:26using the three-colour process you desire
0:14:26 > 0:14:30and at a relatively low level of cost, yes.
0:14:30 > 0:14:34- Oh.- I've given your book a great deal of attention, truly.
0:14:34 > 0:14:37I'd like it to look colourful on the shelf
0:14:37 > 0:14:39so that it stands out from ordinary books.
0:14:39 > 0:14:42You have given it some thought!
0:14:42 > 0:14:46- What other books have you supervised, Mr Warne?- Personally?- Yes.
0:14:46 > 0:14:50- This will be my first. - Ah.
0:14:50 > 0:14:54Miss Potter, I have recently informed my brothers and my mother
0:14:54 > 0:14:58that I'm no longer content to stay at home and play nursemaid
0:14:58 > 0:15:01solely because I'm the youngest son. No. I would like a proper job
0:15:01 > 0:15:05working for my family's firm and they have assigned me you.
0:15:05 > 0:15:08Does that make things clearer?
0:15:08 > 0:15:12In other words, you have no experience whatsoever
0:15:12 > 0:15:16but, because you've made a nuisance of yourself, demanding a chance,
0:15:16 > 0:15:19- they've fobbed you off on me. - Miss Potter,
0:15:19 > 0:15:23I know all too well that my brothers intended giving me your...
0:15:23 > 0:15:25..your bunny book, as they call it,
0:15:25 > 0:15:29but I find your book quite enchanting. Delightful.
0:15:29 > 0:15:33And if they intended to fob me off, as you say, we shall show them.
0:15:33 > 0:15:36We shall give them a bunny book to conjure with,
0:15:36 > 0:15:41in colours mixed to your satisfaction at the printer.
0:15:41 > 0:15:44At the printer? Oh, I could never...
0:15:44 > 0:15:49I will escort you there myself, if you will allow me the honour.
0:15:49 > 0:15:52Why would I never? Of course I'll go.
0:15:52 > 0:15:55I'm a grown woman, Miss Wiggin will be there.
0:15:55 > 0:15:59I see absolutely no reason why an artist shouldn't visit her printer.
0:15:59 > 0:16:03Excellent, Miss Potter. Jolly good. Thank you.
0:16:03 > 0:16:05I shall make all the arrangements
0:16:05 > 0:16:09- and I am in every way, my dear lady, at your service.- Oh!
0:16:09 > 0:16:13You and rabbits. Extraordinary. Excuse me.
0:16:29 > 0:16:33'When I was ten, my mother badgered my father into spending the summer
0:16:33 > 0:16:36in the Lake District, as did other fashionable families.'
0:16:36 > 0:16:40'Like an animal released from its cage, I fell under its spell.'
0:16:42 > 0:16:46Mind your frocks, now. Come here.
0:16:46 > 0:16:48The woods are full of fairies
0:16:48 > 0:16:52and folk that look for children that get their clothes dirty.
0:16:52 > 0:16:55And when they find them, they send the fairy beasts at night
0:16:55 > 0:16:59with sharp teeth and ready appetite for young flesh.
0:16:59 > 0:17:01- Coming to get you, Bea! - No!
0:17:25 > 0:17:28- Hello!- Bertram, no! Don't integrate with the farmer's children.
0:17:28 > 0:17:32Their hands! Germs. Come on. Bertram! Bertram!
0:17:50 > 0:17:53Catch him, Bea!
0:17:55 > 0:17:57- There he is! - Oh, yeah!
0:17:57 > 0:17:59Come on!
0:18:01 > 0:18:04Out! Out of the way!
0:18:07 > 0:18:09There!
0:18:15 > 0:18:17There!
0:18:35 > 0:18:38I don't think a thrashing will be necessary.
0:18:38 > 0:18:40I'll just leave the nursery window unlatched.
0:18:40 > 0:18:44- The fairy beasts will take care of the rest.- No! I'll stay clean!
0:18:44 > 0:18:46(LAUGHS) Bertram.
0:18:46 > 0:18:50Really, what young man will marry a girl with a face full of mud?
0:18:50 > 0:18:54- Well, I shan't marry, so it doesn't matter.- Of course you'll marry.
0:18:54 > 0:18:58All girls marry. I did, your grandmother did.
0:18:58 > 0:19:01Even Fiona will one day.
0:19:01 > 0:19:04- Well, I shan't. I shall draw. - Oh, those silly drawings.
0:19:04 > 0:19:08- Then, who will love you? - My art and my animals.
0:19:08 > 0:19:11- I won't need more love than that. - Perhaps not at 11,
0:19:11 > 0:19:15but see if you feel the same at 18. I drew Mama when we first met
0:19:15 > 0:19:19and she married me. And, Fiona, doesn't mud wash off?
0:19:19 > 0:19:21Bertram, come with me.
0:19:24 > 0:19:27- Die, you little devil! - Yuk.
0:19:27 > 0:19:31Right. Even Prince Charming himself couldn't resist such a bonny girl.
0:19:31 > 0:19:35- Not when he meets my brother, Vlad the Impaler.- Got you!
0:19:35 > 0:19:38Bed time, my young reprobates.
0:19:38 > 0:19:42- Now, shall I leave a window open or...?- No!
0:19:42 > 0:19:46- I don't like fairy beasts! - Well, it is a well-known fact
0:19:46 > 0:19:50that fairy beasts never eat a child when he's tucked up in is own bed.
0:19:50 > 0:19:53The fairies have been in the north country for hundreds of years
0:19:53 > 0:19:56and have had many adventures.
0:19:56 > 0:19:59- Have I told you about the changeling child?- No!
0:19:59 > 0:20:03- Yes. Several times. - I want to hear it!
0:20:03 > 0:20:06Oh, go ahead, Fiona. I'll tell myself a story.
0:20:06 > 0:20:08Right.
0:20:09 > 0:20:12Once upon a time, there was a king and a queen.
0:20:12 > 0:20:16Once upon a time, there were four little rabbits.
0:20:16 > 0:20:20Their names were Flopsy, Mopsy...
0:20:20 > 0:20:22..Cotton-tail and Peter.
0:20:22 > 0:20:26"'Now, my dears,' said old Mrs Rabbit one morning,
0:20:26 > 0:20:28you may go into the fields, or down the lane,
0:20:28 > 0:20:32but don't go into Mr McGregor's garden.'"
0:20:32 > 0:20:36"'Why not, Mother?'" Because your father had an accident there.
0:20:36 > 0:20:40He was put in a pie by Mrs McGregor.
0:20:42 > 0:20:47"Peter, who was very naughty, ran straight to Mr McGregor's garden...
0:20:47 > 0:20:50..and squeezed under the gate."
0:20:51 > 0:20:53I like it.
0:21:04 > 0:21:08"But round the end of the cucumber frame, whom should he meet
0:21:08 > 0:21:11but Mr McGregor."
0:21:11 > 0:21:14"Peter was out of breath and trembling with fright
0:21:14 > 0:21:18and he had not the least idea which way to go." It's muddy, actually.
0:21:18 > 0:21:21- One more. Lighten it up, would you. - "Mr McGregor caught sight of him
0:21:21 > 0:21:25but Peter did not care. He slipped underneath the gate
0:21:25 > 0:21:28and was safe at last in the wood outside."
0:21:28 > 0:21:31Not quite. See here...
0:21:39 > 0:21:42"When Peter came home, his mother put him to bed
0:21:42 > 0:21:45with a tablespoonful of camomile tea,
0:21:45 > 0:21:48but Flopsy, Mopsy and Cotton-tail
0:21:48 > 0:21:53had bread and milk and blackberries for supper."
0:21:57 > 0:22:02- This book, it's changed things for me, Mr Warne.- How so?
0:22:03 > 0:22:08Well, for one thing, it's given me the chance to prove to my mother
0:22:08 > 0:22:11that an unmarried woman of 32
0:22:11 > 0:22:16can do more than attend tea parties and smile at dull conversations.
0:22:16 > 0:22:20Yes, indeed. My family never wanted me to get into publishing, either.
0:22:20 > 0:22:24- We do make rather a good team, don't you think?- Mmm.
0:22:25 > 0:22:28Provided, of course, we prove them wrong.
0:22:38 > 0:22:41Mother. This is Miss Potter.
0:22:42 > 0:22:46Oh! At last. We poor, forgotten folk in Bedford Square
0:22:46 > 0:22:49get to share some of Norman's excitement.
0:22:49 > 0:22:52Mrs Warne, it's so kind of you to invite me.
0:22:52 > 0:22:54Nonsense. It was the desperate act
0:22:54 > 0:22:58- of a woman who is starting to forget what her son looked like.- Mother!
0:22:58 > 0:23:02- My sister, Amelia.- Hello.- Norman allowed us a peek at Peter Rabbit.
0:23:02 > 0:23:06We found it utterly charming. So we absolutely insisted
0:23:06 > 0:23:10that Norman bring you round for tea. I have decided that you and I
0:23:10 > 0:23:13- are going to be friends. - Have you?
0:23:13 > 0:23:17Well, Norman tells me that you're unmarried, as am I,
0:23:17 > 0:23:20and that you're not unhappy about it. That pleases me greatly!
0:23:20 > 0:23:24Why can't you talk about the weather like other girls?
0:23:24 > 0:23:27Well, all the other unmarried daughters in our circle
0:23:27 > 0:23:31sit around all day gossiping and unaccountably bursting into tears.
0:23:31 > 0:23:34But you have done something. You've written a book!
0:23:34 > 0:23:38- I warn you, I am prepared to like you very much.- Well, in that case,
0:23:38 > 0:23:42- I shall have to like you, too, Miss Warne.- Call me Millie.
0:23:42 > 0:23:45- And there'll be no more Miss Potter. - Absolutely. Beatrix, by all means.
0:23:45 > 0:23:49Thank goodness. I'm starting to feel quite ill with all this bonhomie.
0:23:49 > 0:23:53Oh, do let's have tea in the garden. It's too beautiful a day
0:23:53 > 0:23:55not to share it with the flowers.
0:23:56 > 0:24:00Well, I love gardening. Mother disapproves, but I can't help it.
0:24:00 > 0:24:04- I love flowers shockingly.- That's why you have a greengrocer's hands.
0:24:04 > 0:24:08- I do not!- Thanks heavens Norman sometimes deigns to read to me.
0:24:08 > 0:24:12If I only had you for companionship, I'd expire of loneliness.
0:24:12 > 0:24:17Mother's taste in books and in life runs to the, erm, melodramatic.
0:24:17 > 0:24:21Oh, nonsense! I like good, English biographies and you know it.
0:24:21 > 0:24:25I loathe silly romances. Such as the ones your brothers publish.
0:24:25 > 0:24:29My brothers and I, Mother. I am part of the firm now, too, you know.
0:24:29 > 0:24:32A sweet-natured boy like you does not need to work.
0:24:32 > 0:24:36Your brothers provide quite well for all of us. I need your smile here.
0:24:36 > 0:24:41But then no-one listens to a crotchety old lady in a wheelchair.
0:24:41 > 0:24:43Indeed they don't. My mother may be crotchety,
0:24:43 > 0:24:47but she does have an eye for beauty. She was fascinated by your artwork.
0:24:47 > 0:24:51- Oh! Oh. - Utterly unique.
0:24:51 > 0:24:54Oh! (CHUCKLES) When I see something unusual,
0:24:54 > 0:24:58I'm not content just to look at it. I must capture it.
0:24:58 > 0:25:01Last summer, in the farmyard,
0:25:01 > 0:25:04I was drawing something that was quite lovely in the sun.
0:25:04 > 0:25:08Then suddenly I realised I was drawing the pig's swill bucket.
0:25:08 > 0:25:11I had to laugh at myself! (LAUGHS)
0:25:11 > 0:25:15- I feel a bit of a chill, Norman. Can you take me inside?- Of course.
0:25:15 > 0:25:19- Please excuse me. It was delightful meeting you, Miss Potter.- And you.
0:25:19 > 0:25:24- Do stay longer. And teach Minnie how to behave!- Mummy!
0:25:24 > 0:25:28- I think that means she likes you. - Ah!
0:25:28 > 0:25:31Did she say she likes to draw swill buckets?
0:25:31 > 0:25:35Indeed she did, Mother. Indeed she did.
0:25:35 > 0:25:39I think by Wednesday you could hang the lace curtains upstairs.
0:25:39 > 0:25:42Then at least it'll look like summer even if it doesn't feel like it.
0:25:42 > 0:25:46- Yes, madam.- Oh, Beatrix, what is this stain on your blouse?
0:25:46 > 0:25:49- Jane says it won't wash out and she's tried everything.- It's ink.
0:25:49 > 0:25:53- Ink.- I must have brushed against something at the printers.
0:25:53 > 0:25:57- Jane, I'm very sorry for causing you extra work.- Take the blouse away.
0:25:57 > 0:25:59Give it to the poor.
0:25:59 > 0:26:03- This behaviour shows scant regard for your father's money.- Well,...
0:26:03 > 0:26:06..one day I shall make enough money to buy my own clothes.
0:26:06 > 0:26:09I'm too old to live off my father's generosity.
0:26:09 > 0:26:13You're too old to be spending so much time in the company of a man
0:26:13 > 0:26:16who takes you to printers. Your father does not approve. Nor do I.
0:26:16 > 0:26:20- Mr Warne is publishing my book. - (SCOFFS) That book!
0:26:20 > 0:26:23I can hardly wait till it's finished and forgotten.
0:26:23 > 0:26:26I don't understand you. Your father and I introduced you
0:26:26 > 0:26:30to so many suitable young men of your class. Young men of fortune
0:26:30 > 0:26:33- and impeccably good family. - Certainly!
0:26:33 > 0:26:35Like that charming fellow Lionel Stokely.
0:26:35 > 0:26:39Lionel is a particular favourite of his uncle, the earl,
0:26:39 > 0:26:42who we visit every summer at Stokely Hall.
0:26:42 > 0:26:46Oh, and I do regret terribly that I didn't accept Harry Haddon-Bell.
0:26:46 > 0:26:50Harry's great-grandfather went to Sandhurst, as did his grandfather
0:26:50 > 0:26:55- and his father.- And so I went to Sandhurst. (SNORTS)
0:26:55 > 0:26:59Father and I go out riding in the morning and shoot breakfast.
0:26:59 > 0:27:01- Ashton's a crack shot. - (LAUGHS)
0:27:01 > 0:27:04But, no, you're just a pig-headed girl.
0:27:04 > 0:27:08- Mr Warne is asking for you at the door, miss.- Mr Warne?
0:27:08 > 0:27:12- He's not expected. - Unannounced. Perfection.
0:27:38 > 0:27:41Two sold while we were at the booksellers.
0:27:41 > 0:27:44That amounts to 40 in a week, which is 160 in a month and...
0:27:44 > 0:27:48I'm trying to remember my 12 times table.
0:27:48 > 0:27:51..1,920 in a year!
0:27:51 > 0:27:54- I can't breathe. - And that's just in one shop.
0:27:54 > 0:27:56My dear Miss Potter, you are an author.
0:27:56 > 0:27:59We have achieved what we set out to do.
0:27:59 > 0:28:01We have created a book.
0:28:01 > 0:28:03Yes.
0:28:03 > 0:28:08What's the matter? A cloud just passed across your face.
0:28:09 > 0:28:13You've been very generous with your time, Mr Warne.
0:28:13 > 0:28:16Shown me things that I never would have seen.
0:28:16 > 0:28:19Printing houses! (CHUCKLES)
0:28:19 > 0:28:22- I shall miss your company. - Are you losing my company?
0:28:22 > 0:28:27Well, it just occurred to me that the book is out
0:28:27 > 0:28:30and our association is coming to an end.
0:28:30 > 0:28:32Miss Potter, I,...
0:28:33 > 0:28:38- ..I had hoped that you might have other stories.- Really?
0:28:38 > 0:28:40Really?!
0:28:41 > 0:28:46Do you know, I recently remembered one, I thought I'd forgotten it,
0:28:46 > 0:28:48about a duck.
0:28:48 > 0:28:50A very stupid duck.
0:28:50 > 0:28:55- Based on one of your friends? - Based on myself, I think.
0:28:55 > 0:28:58- It's a story I told a friend once. - Yes?
0:28:58 > 0:29:03My family summers in the Lake District and there was someone there.
0:29:03 > 0:29:06The groundsman's son, who was always interested in my stories.
0:29:10 > 0:29:14Ah! Miss Beatrix. Are you skulking?
0:29:14 > 0:29:18No such thing! No, I was drying off my sketchbook.
0:29:24 > 0:29:28Not bad, Miss Beatrix. Do you have any animal stories for me today?
0:29:28 > 0:29:31I don't. Sorry. Nothing new.
0:29:33 > 0:29:37Oh. That's Jemima. She doesn't have a story yet.
0:29:37 > 0:29:41- Not a proper one. - Jemima a duck?- Jemima Puddleduck.
0:29:41 > 0:29:45- And a stupider duck the world has never seen.- (LAUGHS)
0:29:45 > 0:29:48She goes looking for a safe place to lay her eggs,
0:29:48 > 0:29:52then meets a charming gentleman with a long bushy tail and sharp teeth.
0:29:52 > 0:29:54A-ha! (GROWLS)
0:29:54 > 0:29:58Precisely. The gentleman offers her his shed,
0:29:58 > 0:30:02and Jemima is surprised to find that there are so many feathers in it.
0:30:02 > 0:30:07- But then, as I told you, she's a very stupid duck.- I like it.
0:30:09 > 0:30:12I'd love to paint every view in this valley,
0:30:12 > 0:30:14but I'm not very good at landscapes.
0:30:14 > 0:30:19- Wait too long and it won't be here to paint.- Really! That's ridiculous.
0:30:19 > 0:30:23No, I'm serious. The large farms are being broken up into small plots
0:30:23 > 0:30:28- and sold off.- Well, you can't stand in the way of progress.- So they say.
0:30:28 > 0:30:33But I say it is worth preserving.
0:30:33 > 0:30:37I know you do, but nobody could disagree with you about that.
0:30:37 > 0:30:39(CHUCKLES)
0:30:39 > 0:30:42- Well, I'll see you soon, then. - Perhaps not, Miss Beatrix.
0:30:42 > 0:30:46- I'm leaving for Manchester next week.- To study the law?
0:30:46 > 0:30:51- Yes, indeed. Have to better meself somehow.- Good luck.
0:30:51 > 0:30:54- Send me some drawings. - I will.
0:30:57 > 0:30:59'He encouraged me to take my writing seriously.'
0:30:59 > 0:31:03We must start on the new stories straight away. Jemima Puddleduck.
0:31:03 > 0:31:07The public will like it. Tom Thumb, Hunca Munca. What do you think?
0:31:07 > 0:31:11- Well, if you think.- Your book has been very important in my life.
0:31:11 > 0:31:14- You have been very important in my life.- And you in mine.
0:31:14 > 0:31:17- You must do it again and again. - And again!
0:31:17 > 0:31:20I promise you, I intend to be a nuisance.
0:31:42 > 0:31:44'When did you decide you wouldn't marry?'
0:31:44 > 0:31:48Just before my 20th birthday. Mother came to my room
0:31:48 > 0:31:52and announced that Lionel Stokely was to marry Gwendolyn Alcott
0:31:52 > 0:31:56and they would live at Stokely Hall, which Lionel had just inherited.
0:31:56 > 0:32:00And I knew right then that she would bring no more suitors
0:32:00 > 0:32:03and that I would never marry.
0:32:03 > 0:32:06- And that shocked me. - Mmm.
0:32:06 > 0:32:09But I felt relieved.
0:32:09 > 0:32:11- And that shocked me. - (CHUCKLES)
0:32:11 > 0:32:15So I went into the garden and filled up an entire notebook with sketches.
0:32:15 > 0:32:20Men are bores. They are useful for only two things in life,
0:32:20 > 0:32:23- financial support and procreation. - Millie!
0:32:23 > 0:32:26- You say outrageous things! - (CHUCKLES)
0:32:26 > 0:32:30- Ah, but the price. - What price?
0:32:30 > 0:32:35Domestic enslavement, childbirth. Terrifying.
0:32:35 > 0:32:39No, unmarried women have a better life. I swear, it's true.
0:32:39 > 0:32:43No houses, no babies, no husbands demanding things all the time.
0:32:43 > 0:32:46As long as one's lucky enough in life to have a good friend...
0:32:46 > 0:32:49I'm so glad Norman found you, Beatrix.
0:32:49 > 0:32:52I was missing something I didn't even know.
0:33:04 > 0:33:07'Dear Miss Potter, I enclose with great pleasure
0:33:07 > 0:33:11the latest in what I hope will be a long line of tales.'
0:33:11 > 0:33:14- 'Yours affably, Norman Warne.' - Mr Warne,
0:33:14 > 0:33:17would you and Millie like to come to a Christmas party?
0:33:17 > 0:33:21My parents hold one every year and I think it's time I invited someone.
0:33:21 > 0:33:25Yes, we'd be delighted to attend. Thrilled, in fact.
0:33:39 > 0:33:42Be still, little imps!
0:33:42 > 0:33:46Peter, you naughty boy. Look what an example you're setting.
0:33:49 > 0:33:53That's better. Any more of that and I'll paint you out.
0:33:53 > 0:33:57(CLEARS THROAT) Your father is home.
0:34:02 > 0:34:07- How was your day at the club, Father? - Interesting, as always.
0:34:07 > 0:34:10We seem to have a situation. We need your resolution.
0:34:10 > 0:34:14- I'd like Norman and Millie to come to our party.- With Lady Armitage!
0:34:14 > 0:34:17And Sir Nigel and Sybil! A tradesman, Rupert!
0:34:17 > 0:34:20- How will anyone have fun?- He's the gentleman who publishes my books.
0:34:23 > 0:34:26- Rupert... - I have something here, Beatrix.
0:34:26 > 0:34:31I went into Hatchards bookshop and I purchased this with good money.
0:34:31 > 0:34:35Well, Hugh Whitteford bearded me in the club. He rattled on for hours.
0:34:35 > 0:34:38You know Hugh, jowls all aflutter.
0:34:38 > 0:34:40"Wife's bought three of your girl's books."
0:34:40 > 0:34:44"Sending some to chums in Bombay." Soon the whole club was telling me
0:34:44 > 0:34:48of some purchase they had made of our daughter's creations,
0:34:48 > 0:34:50so I thought it was time I bought one.
0:34:50 > 0:34:54- I went into Hatchards and got one. - I would've given you one.
0:34:54 > 0:34:57But I wanted to buy one, like everyone else.
0:34:57 > 0:35:01I owe you an apology, Beatrix.
0:35:01 > 0:35:04When you showed me your books, all I saw was my little girl
0:35:04 > 0:35:08bringing me clever drawings for me to comment on.
0:35:08 > 0:35:12You're not a little girl any more. You're an artist.
0:35:12 > 0:35:14The genuine article.
0:35:14 > 0:35:18I would have been proud to use that word about myself.
0:35:18 > 0:35:22- And now I'm proud of you, Beatrix. - Thank you, Father.
0:35:22 > 0:35:26So I don't see any reason why we cannot make a little social effort
0:35:26 > 0:35:30to welcome the gentleman responsible for this blessing into our home.
0:35:30 > 0:35:33Thank you, Father.
0:35:34 > 0:35:35Thank you!
0:35:36 > 0:35:40I think it will be good for all of us.
0:35:43 > 0:35:45Merry Christmas, Rupert.
0:35:52 > 0:35:55Don't serve Sir Nigel punch with brandy unless he demands it.
0:35:55 > 0:35:58- Yes, ma'am. - And after dinner he'll take port.
0:35:58 > 0:36:02- Come and give me a little signal if he's had four glasses.- Yes, ma'am.
0:36:02 > 0:36:06The house shimmers, my darling. You've done it again.
0:36:06 > 0:36:09- Oh! - (DOOR SLAMS)
0:36:09 > 0:36:12- Good evening. - Mr Warne! Millie!
0:36:12 > 0:36:15How wonderful! Thank you, Jane.
0:36:17 > 0:36:19Thank you. Thank you.
0:36:22 > 0:36:26Mother, Father, I would like you to meet Miss Amelia
0:36:26 > 0:36:28and Mr Norman Warne.
0:36:28 > 0:36:32How charming of you to be so punctual.
0:36:32 > 0:36:35(STRING QUARTET PLAYS CHRISTMAS MUSIC)
0:36:35 > 0:36:38(ALL CHATTER)
0:36:50 > 0:36:54- Go on. One wouldn't hurt. - (CHUCKLES)
0:36:54 > 0:36:58I think Wiggin is under strict orders never to leave our side.
0:36:58 > 0:37:00How festive(!)
0:37:14 > 0:37:16(ALL CONTINUE TO CHATTER)
0:37:27 > 0:37:31- Such scintillating conversation. - Oh, mine as well.
0:37:31 > 0:37:34The weather in Amsterdam in July.
0:37:34 > 0:37:37Could I interest you two ladies in an after-dinner coffee?
0:37:37 > 0:37:41Some of the gentlemen wish to play cards, but they need a fourth.
0:37:41 > 0:37:45- I don't suppose you play whist? - I never had an aptitude for cards.
0:37:45 > 0:37:49- Oh, that is a pity.- I play.- This is to play with Sir Nigel, Miss Warne.
0:37:49 > 0:37:53- Sir Nigel takes his whist seriously. - I play rather well, actually.
0:37:53 > 0:37:55Do you, Millie?!
0:37:55 > 0:37:59Well, I'm sure you two have plenty to talk about without me
0:37:59 > 0:38:02and if they can't play without a fourth...
0:38:02 > 0:38:04Come along, Miss Warne.
0:38:05 > 0:38:09Carols in the music room, my dears.
0:38:10 > 0:38:14- Perhaps I could show you your Christmas present.- Yes!
0:38:14 > 0:38:16It's upstairs.
0:38:16 > 0:38:19I will bring the coffee.
0:38:35 > 0:38:38- Mrs Wiggin. - Miss.- Miss Wiggin.
0:38:38 > 0:38:41I have taken the liberty of adding a splash of brandy to our coffees.
0:38:41 > 0:38:44- Oh? - Well, it is Christmas.
0:38:44 > 0:38:47- Is this where you paint, Miss Potter?- Yes.
0:38:47 > 0:38:51And it's where we shall find your Christmas present.
0:38:54 > 0:38:56Oh, my!
0:38:56 > 0:39:00Other than Bertram and Father, you're the first man to come in here.
0:39:00 > 0:39:03- Would you like me to leave? - No, no. Wiggin is here.
0:39:03 > 0:39:07And if this is the best I can do for scandal at my age,
0:39:07 > 0:39:11- I'm hardly worthy of my reputation for creativity!- (CHUCKLES)- Here.
0:39:12 > 0:39:15My, that is beautiful.
0:39:15 > 0:39:19Is it the new story? Miss Potter, is it the new story?
0:39:19 > 0:39:21- Is it...? - I'm not going to tell you!
0:39:22 > 0:39:24Come over here.
0:39:24 > 0:39:28- Ah, this is Jemima Puddleduck.- Mmm. The first drawing I ever did of her.
0:39:28 > 0:39:32I was, er, eight, I think. (Jemima, stop that!)
0:39:34 > 0:39:37- Stop what? - Just some silliness.
0:39:39 > 0:39:43- And what's this? - Oh, it's a music box.
0:39:43 > 0:39:47My father gave it to me for my sixth birthday. He did the painting himself.
0:39:47 > 0:39:51- Your father is an artist, too. - He always wanted to be an artist,
0:39:51 > 0:39:54but the family disapproved so he took up law.
0:39:54 > 0:39:57The joke is, I've never once heard him discuss a case.
0:39:57 > 0:40:00He goes to his club every day and never his office.
0:40:00 > 0:40:04- I don't really know what he does. - (LAUGHS)
0:40:04 > 0:40:07- Oh, dear. - Oh! Wiggin is fallible!
0:40:07 > 0:40:11I'm afraid, Miss Potter, your reputation is now officially dented.
0:40:11 > 0:40:15- (GENTLE MUSIC)- Ah, let me teach you how to dance. Do you dance?
0:40:15 > 0:40:17No. Well, not well.
0:40:17 > 0:40:21I make a terrible hash of it, too, when I try, but the words are sweet.
0:40:21 > 0:40:25You know the words? Will you sing the words?
0:40:26 > 0:40:27Well...
0:40:27 > 0:40:31# Let me teach you how to dance
0:40:32 > 0:40:36# Let me lead you to the floor
0:40:36 > 0:40:40# Simply place your hand in mine
0:40:40 > 0:40:45# And think of nothing more
0:40:45 > 0:40:49# Let the music cast its spell
0:40:49 > 0:40:54# Give the atmosphere a chance
0:40:54 > 0:40:59# Simply follow where I lead
0:40:59 > 0:41:04# Let me teach you how to dance #
0:41:08 > 0:41:11Miss Potter...
0:41:11 > 0:41:14..I know you have decided not to marry.
0:41:14 > 0:41:17All my life I've thought that I would not marry, either,
0:41:17 > 0:41:21- but something has happened that has caused me to change my mind.- Mr...
0:41:21 > 0:41:25No, if I do not say what I have to say now, I fear I never will.
0:41:25 > 0:41:28Miss Potter, I would like you to consider...
0:41:28 > 0:41:31- Mr Warne... - ..doing me the honour,
0:41:31 > 0:41:35- and I do not expect an immediate answer...- Beatrix?
0:41:35 > 0:41:39I was just showing Mr Warne his Christmas presents.
0:41:40 > 0:41:43I'm an impeccably genteel unmarried lady.
0:41:43 > 0:41:46I haven't begun to invite men to my room. Mr Warne.
0:41:57 > 0:41:59Wiggin!
0:42:10 > 0:42:13What is the picture, Beatrix?
0:42:13 > 0:42:16Oh! Erm,... er,...
0:42:16 > 0:42:20..I've, er, written and drawn little children's books
0:42:20 > 0:42:24which have been published. The man who published them is here,
0:42:24 > 0:42:30Mr Norman Warne. To thank him for his assistance and generosity,
0:42:30 > 0:42:33er... well...
0:42:33 > 0:42:36..I'm writing him a Christmas story.
0:42:36 > 0:42:39- Can we hear it? - Oh, it isn't finished.
0:42:39 > 0:42:42- Oh, go on! - Ohhh!
0:42:42 > 0:42:46I suppose, before we part for the evening,
0:42:46 > 0:42:51I could share a glimpse of the unfinished tale
0:42:51 > 0:42:55of... the Rabbits' Christmas Party. (ALL CHUCKLE)
0:42:59 > 0:43:02One particularly snowy Christmas Eve,
0:43:02 > 0:43:06a young rabbit and his fearsome older brothers
0:43:06 > 0:43:10and fiercely brave sister set out on a journey
0:43:10 > 0:43:14they make every year to celebrate with their friends.
0:43:14 > 0:43:17Now, rabbits are highly sociable creatures and legend has it
0:43:17 > 0:43:21that wherever they find themselves on Christmas Eve,
0:43:21 > 0:43:23they get together and throw a jolly party.
0:43:23 > 0:43:28Now, I know such a legend exists because I made it up.
0:43:28 > 0:43:30(ALL CHUCKLE)
0:43:30 > 0:43:33The rabbits travelled through the woods
0:43:33 > 0:43:36to the well-appointed burrow of their cousins,
0:43:36 > 0:43:39where a warm fire was waiting for them.
0:43:39 > 0:43:45They take off their frosty coats and the party begins!
0:43:45 > 0:43:49Now, I know on this night that they will eat and talk and dance
0:43:49 > 0:43:52and laugh and roast apples on the fire,
0:43:52 > 0:43:57but I'm not certain how the story ends,
0:43:57 > 0:44:01because I haven't made that part up yet.
0:44:01 > 0:44:06But, in any case, Mr Warne will have to read it first
0:44:06 > 0:44:08as he is my strict censor.
0:44:08 > 0:44:12And, well, it is his present.
0:44:12 > 0:44:16- Merry Christmas, Mr Warne.- Thank you, Miss Potter. It's so beautiful.
0:44:16 > 0:44:18- (ALL CHATTER) - Thank you.- Here, here!
0:44:18 > 0:44:22There'll be no problem with presents for the grandchildren next year.
0:44:22 > 0:44:27- Oh, you must be very proud, Helen! - It's just a children's story.
0:44:27 > 0:44:30Outstanding!
0:44:30 > 0:44:32- Can I talk to you? - Of course.
0:44:37 > 0:44:40- What is it? Is there something wrong?- No.
0:44:40 > 0:44:45- As my confidante...- Oh! You have something to confide? Delicious!
0:44:46 > 0:44:49Your brother has asked me to marry him.
0:44:49 > 0:44:55And I feel, quite irrationally, that I may say yes!
0:44:56 > 0:44:58I'd like your approval.
0:45:01 > 0:45:03My approval?
0:45:03 > 0:45:07Beatrix, don't be a fool.
0:45:07 > 0:45:10Marry him!
0:45:10 > 0:45:14Tomorrow. Don't waste a moment. How could you hesitate?!
0:45:14 > 0:45:17- You're not upset? - Why would I be upset?
0:45:17 > 0:45:22Well, both Norman and I... You will be alone.
0:45:22 > 0:45:25You have a chance for happiness and you're worried about me?
0:45:25 > 0:45:27I wouldn't worry about you...
0:45:27 > 0:45:30If someone came along who loved me and whom I loved,
0:45:30 > 0:45:34- I would trample my mother. Do you love Norman?- (Yes.)
0:45:34 > 0:45:38Then, marry him! Don't you dare think about anyone else.
0:45:38 > 0:45:42- But what about all the blessings of being alone?- Hogwash.
0:45:42 > 0:45:45What else is a woman on her own supposed to say?
0:45:45 > 0:45:48You have a chance to be loved.
0:45:48 > 0:45:50Take it!
0:45:50 > 0:45:54And leave me happy knowing that the two people I love are happy.
0:45:54 > 0:45:58That is the most thought you should ever have for me.
0:45:58 > 0:46:01There you are, Beatrix. The guests!
0:46:01 > 0:46:03Yes, Mother.
0:46:03 > 0:46:05Millie...
0:46:08 > 0:46:10(Go.)
0:46:13 > 0:46:15What is going on tonight?
0:46:15 > 0:46:19Why do I feel like a... stranger in my own home?
0:46:19 > 0:46:23- You have a clever daughter, Rupert. You must be very proud.- Yes, we are.
0:46:23 > 0:46:27- To write and draw like that! - Beatrix should meet my niece, Anne.
0:46:27 > 0:46:30- She makes pots. - Ceramics, Nigel.
0:46:30 > 0:46:33- Well, they look like pots to me. - (ALL LAUGH)
0:46:33 > 0:46:37Yes. As for you, madam, I suggest you take up knitting.
0:46:37 > 0:46:41- Merry Christmas! - (ALL) Merry Christmas!
0:46:45 > 0:46:49- What was all that about?- Sir Nigel disapproves of the way I play whist.
0:46:49 > 0:46:53- I'm afraid I won two guineas from him.- Mr Warne!
0:46:53 > 0:46:56- Your painting. - Oh, yes. My Christmas present.
0:47:01 > 0:47:03Yes.
0:47:06 > 0:47:08(ALL CHATTER INDISTINCTLY)
0:47:10 > 0:47:12- Goodbye, Mr Warne. - Goodbye, Mr Warne.
0:47:34 > 0:47:37(GENTLE MUSIC)
0:48:12 > 0:48:16- Sir?- I have an appointment to see Mr Rupert Potter in the Eagleton Room.
0:48:16 > 0:48:18- He's expecting you, sir. - Thank you.
0:48:30 > 0:48:33Come along, Norman. It's only her father.
0:48:35 > 0:48:37Come in.
0:48:45 > 0:48:48Thank you very much for taking the time out of your very busy day.
0:48:48 > 0:48:51Goodbye, Mr Warne.
0:48:55 > 0:48:59(INDISTINCT CHATTER, BUILDING INTO A HEATED ARGUMENT)
0:49:06 > 0:49:09Oi! Go!
0:49:11 > 0:49:15- I've said that I'll do it and I will. - Norman Warne is a tradesman.
0:49:15 > 0:49:18- No Potter can marry into trade. - And what are we?
0:49:18 > 0:49:21Our money comes from Grandfather's printing works in Lancashire!
0:49:21 > 0:49:25A trade, Mother. And if Grandfather hadn't run for parliament,
0:49:25 > 0:49:28we'd still be living in the shadow of his factories.
0:49:28 > 0:49:32Your legacy came from Grandfather Leech's cotton trade.
0:49:32 > 0:49:35When did we become so high and mighty?
0:49:35 > 0:49:38We've parvenus, mother. Social climbers.
0:49:38 > 0:49:42Your father and I will not allow this marriage for your own good!
0:49:42 > 0:49:45- And there's no reason to become insulting!- It's the truth!
0:49:45 > 0:49:49Our lives are pretension and social aspiration.
0:49:49 > 0:49:51Sir this and Lady that.
0:49:51 > 0:49:54Norman Warne is a gentleman of comfortable means
0:49:54 > 0:49:59and not one bit beneath us, and I intend to marry him.
0:49:59 > 0:50:03Not if you expect to take one penny of your inheritance.
0:50:03 > 0:50:05You haven't disinherited Bertram
0:50:05 > 0:50:08for going off with a wine-merchant's daughter! I'm a published author.
0:50:08 > 0:50:12I have means of my own. This discussion is over.
0:50:23 > 0:50:26(KNOCK AT DOOR) Come in, Father.
0:50:27 > 0:50:31Why is that after any difficult situation she always sends you?
0:50:31 > 0:50:34Your mother didn't send me.
0:50:34 > 0:50:39I don't like tension in my home, and I want to resolve this matter.
0:50:39 > 0:50:41Well, you can't. I've made my decision.
0:50:41 > 0:50:45Your mother wants what is best for you, as do I, Beatrix.
0:50:45 > 0:50:49An impulsive, inappropriate marriage is something you will regret.
0:50:49 > 0:50:52You can't allow me to marry and leave.
0:50:52 > 0:50:56- Who would take care of you?- You don't think we would deny you happiness
0:50:56 > 0:50:59because we needed a nursemaid? That is a knife in my heart.
0:50:59 > 0:51:03- Then, what is it? I can't understand. - You cannot make us the villains.
0:51:03 > 0:51:07Your mother trotted out countless suitors, all of them acceptable.
0:51:07 > 0:51:10- You rejected every one. - I know that, Father.
0:51:10 > 0:51:12I didn't want to be a silly woman marrying a man
0:51:12 > 0:51:16simply because he was acceptable or rich enough to take care of me!
0:51:16 > 0:51:20But does that mean that I'm never to be loved?!
0:51:21 > 0:51:23Father!
0:51:26 > 0:51:30Wiggin, wait here, please.
0:51:34 > 0:51:38I'd like to enquire about my royalty earnings, Mr Copperthwaite,
0:51:38 > 0:51:41and whether...
0:51:41 > 0:51:47..I might at some stage, afford a house of my own in the country.
0:51:47 > 0:51:49You have enough to buy an estate.
0:51:49 > 0:51:52Several estates. And a house in town.
0:51:52 > 0:51:55You're quite a wealthy woman, Miss Potter.
0:51:55 > 0:51:58- Am I truly?! - Yes.
0:51:58 > 0:52:01Your income has become quite regular.
0:52:01 > 0:52:03If your fortune continues to grow,
0:52:03 > 0:52:07you should have no financial worries for the rest of your life.
0:52:11 > 0:52:13Extraordinary.
0:52:26 > 0:52:29- Beatrix. - Beatrix.
0:52:29 > 0:52:33- Come and sit with us, please. - I'd rather not, Father.
0:52:33 > 0:52:36We have something to discuss. A proposition.
0:52:36 > 0:52:40And for heaven's sake, Beatrix, let the servants carry your dishes.
0:52:43 > 0:52:47- Tea?- No, thank you. - Nonsense. You always take tea.
0:52:47 > 0:52:52Contrary to what you think and what you have so vehemently expressed,
0:52:52 > 0:52:55your mama and I want you to be happy.
0:52:55 > 0:52:58We simply doubt that this marriage will do the trick.
0:52:58 > 0:53:01Helen, please, sit down, Beatrix.
0:53:03 > 0:53:06What we don't want is for you to rush into something
0:53:06 > 0:53:10- you may later wish to reconsider. - I won't want to reconsider.
0:53:10 > 0:53:13- We are not convinced. - Helen, please.
0:53:13 > 0:53:15We are not convinced.
0:53:15 > 0:53:18Yet neither have we hearts of stone.
0:53:18 > 0:53:21Therefore, this is what we propose.
0:53:22 > 0:53:25You may accept Mr Warne,
0:53:25 > 0:53:29but must remain a complete secret, even from his own family.
0:53:29 > 0:53:34This summer, you, Mama and I will go, as always, to the Lake District.
0:53:34 > 0:53:39If at the end of the summer you still wish to proceed,
0:53:39 > 0:53:42then, we will announce your engagement
0:53:42 > 0:53:46and you can marry with our blessing and our love.
0:53:48 > 0:53:52- Why must no-one know?- So there'll be no public embarrassment when you...
0:53:52 > 0:53:56- If. If you change your mind. - (If.)
0:53:56 > 0:54:00Beatrix, if you care for this man as much as you say you do,
0:54:00 > 0:54:04then, in a few months, the ardour will still be there.
0:54:04 > 0:54:09If your mother and I are correct and this emotion cools in time,
0:54:09 > 0:54:14then, we will have protected you against humiliation and unhappiness.
0:54:14 > 0:54:18- It will not cool. - Beatrix, listen to me.
0:54:18 > 0:54:22- A woman at your age...- Mother, the only thing true at my age
0:54:22 > 0:54:26is that at my age every day matters.
0:54:31 > 0:54:36Very well, Mother, Father, I accept your terms.
0:54:36 > 0:54:40Norman and I may decide to wait in any case.
0:54:41 > 0:54:46But make plans. There will be a wedding in this house by October.
0:55:44 > 0:55:47Beautiful.
0:56:23 > 0:56:27Which carriage, Rupert? Saunders?
0:56:29 > 0:56:32Four carriages down. This way.
0:56:45 > 0:56:49- This is the Potters for Windermere. - Right you are, sir.
0:56:55 > 0:56:58Beatrix!
0:57:05 > 0:57:08Mr Warne!
0:57:08 > 0:57:11Oh! Oh, I do apologise.
0:57:24 > 0:57:26- Miss Potter! - Mr Warne!
0:57:26 > 0:57:30I was beginning to fear you wouldn't come. You're soaked!
0:57:30 > 0:57:33I brought you the proof of the new book!
0:57:33 > 0:57:36- Oh, you'll catch cold. - I couldn't miss seeing you off.
0:57:36 > 0:57:40- You know nothing would stop me. - This is going to be
0:57:40 > 0:57:43- the longest summer I've ever spent. - But it's only the summer.
0:57:43 > 0:57:46- Yes!- And this time is not for us, but your parents.
0:57:46 > 0:57:50How can they know what we're feeling? They've never felt it.
0:57:50 > 0:57:54- We can afford them this three months.- I suppose. (WHISTLE)
0:57:54 > 0:57:57- Oh!- This is not how I wish to say goodbye to you.
0:58:13 > 0:58:17Goodbye, Miss Potter. I look forward to your speedy return.
0:58:17 > 0:58:19As do I, Mr Warne! (TRAIN TOOTS)
0:58:19 > 0:58:22- Quickly! - Yes!- Here.
0:58:28 > 0:58:32- Goodbye, Miss Potter. - Goodbye, Mr Warne.
0:58:34 > 0:58:37Goodbye, Norman.
0:59:06 > 0:59:10'Dear, dear, Norman, this absurd false separation
0:59:10 > 0:59:14is surely a kind of madness, most notably that of my mother.'
0:59:14 > 0:59:17'But you are here, my dear, for me.'
0:59:17 > 0:59:20'The beauty of this place seems magnified somehow
0:59:20 > 0:59:23with you in my mind. In my occasional lonely moments,
0:59:23 > 0:59:26I imagine conversations between us,
0:59:26 > 0:59:29and yesterday startled a duck with my declaration of love for you.'
0:59:29 > 0:59:33'All of my thoughts are with you, my darling.'
0:59:33 > 0:59:36'I know that you find Harold and Fruing terribly boring,
0:59:36 > 0:59:39but I am having what I could almost describe as wild enjoyment
0:59:39 > 0:59:43working with them. You may wake up one day to find yourself
0:59:43 > 0:59:45married to a businessman!'
0:59:45 > 0:59:49'Praise the day when I can wake up to find you beside me.'
0:59:49 > 0:59:52'I took one of the boats out on to the lake at sunset
0:59:52 > 0:59:55to watch the water hens feeding.'
0:59:55 > 0:59:59'They made noises like kissing. I closed my eyes and pictured you.'
0:59:59 > 1:00:02'I find I love my heart more now,
1:00:02 > 1:00:05because that is where I know I can find you.'
1:00:05 > 1:00:09'Amelia sends her love and wishes for us all to be together again,
1:00:09 > 1:00:12as do I, multiplied a hundred fold.'
1:00:19 > 1:00:23Sir? Hill Top Farm. May I ask, is it a working farm?
1:00:23 > 1:00:27Aye. Another great one falls.
1:00:27 > 1:00:31- But this one breaks your heart. - Really? Why?
1:00:32 > 1:00:37Ah, Miss, a body would have to be a poet, which I certainly am not.
1:00:38 > 1:00:41Excuse me, but I'd swear you were someone I once knew.
1:00:41 > 1:00:44- Good heavens! Willie Heelis. - Miss Beatrix! Er, Miss Potter.
1:00:44 > 1:00:48- Is that you?!- How good to see you! - Well, hello!
1:00:48 > 1:00:51I see you've given up on the law.
1:00:51 > 1:00:55- Have you decided to make an honest living?- Ah, yes. The law.
1:00:55 > 1:00:58Well, not exactly. No. No. A country solicitor needs to be proficient
1:00:58 > 1:01:01- in many skills. - Oh! Of course.
1:01:01 > 1:01:05And it suits me to be out of the office now and again.
1:01:05 > 1:01:08I could show you Hill Top if you have the time.
1:01:08 > 1:01:13Erm,... yes! Yes, time is exactly what I have.
1:01:13 > 1:01:15Good.
1:01:23 > 1:01:28- Not a bad outlook, Miss Potter. - It's sublime.
1:01:29 > 1:01:33'I met an old friend today, who showed me a beautiful farm for sale.'
1:01:33 > 1:01:36'It would be a perfect country home,
1:01:36 > 1:01:39but though I know we'll live mainly in the city,
1:01:39 > 1:01:42I'm very keen to share my favourite places with you.'
1:01:55 > 1:01:59The post has arrived and, once again, no letter from Mr Warne.
1:01:59 > 1:02:03Is it time for me to start getting just a little hopeful?
1:02:03 > 1:02:07He did mention he might take a few days' holiday.
1:02:07 > 1:02:10The post is no doubt slow from wherever he's gone.
1:02:10 > 1:02:12But there is something
1:02:12 > 1:02:16- that appears to be from that interesting sister of his.- Millie?
1:02:16 > 1:02:19How delightful.
1:02:20 > 1:02:23Excuse me.
1:02:47 > 1:02:49Norman is ill.
1:03:15 > 1:03:19- I'm Beatrix Potter. - Please come in.
1:03:22 > 1:03:25- Ah, Miss Potter. - Hello.
1:03:25 > 1:03:28- Please, come in. - Thank you.
1:03:28 > 1:03:32- I came as soon as I heard. - Yes, it's very kind of you.
1:03:32 > 1:03:33Very kind indeed.
1:03:33 > 1:03:36How is he?
1:03:37 > 1:03:39Beatrix.
1:03:41 > 1:03:44- Millie. - (Beatrix!)
1:03:44 > 1:03:46Millie?
1:03:52 > 1:03:55I'm too late.
1:04:04 > 1:04:06He was so happy.
1:04:06 > 1:04:09(TEARFULLY) He sang songs.
1:04:09 > 1:04:12He made me dance with him in the parlour.
1:04:12 > 1:04:15He laughed all the time. Everyone noticed the change in him.
1:04:15 > 1:04:18Only I knew the reason.
1:04:19 > 1:04:22But all summer he had a cough
1:04:22 > 1:04:25and then the cough got worse,
1:04:25 > 1:04:27and then one night he was gone.
1:04:28 > 1:04:32It was so sudden. I keep thinking that it hasn't happened.
1:04:32 > 1:04:35I keep expecting to see him in the garden.
1:04:35 > 1:04:38Oh, er, when's the funeral?
1:04:38 > 1:04:40It was yesterday.
1:04:41 > 1:04:44It was only the immediate family
1:04:44 > 1:04:48and I couldn't think of a reason to ask them to delay it for you.
1:04:52 > 1:04:56It was considerate of you to come and pay your respects, Miss Potter.
1:04:56 > 1:04:58Our mother is particularly moved
1:04:58 > 1:05:02and is sorry she isn't well enough to come down to greet you.
1:05:02 > 1:05:06I'll be taking over our late brother's business affairs.
1:05:06 > 1:05:08Fine.
1:05:08 > 1:05:12I want to assure you that F Warne will do everything in its power
1:05:12 > 1:05:17to ensure our tragic loss causes you the least possible inconvenience.
1:05:17 > 1:05:21Please accept the gratitude of the entire family.
1:05:31 > 1:05:35- (They want me to go.) - I'm sorry.
1:05:35 > 1:05:37(MOUTHS SILENTLY)
1:05:57 > 1:06:00Miss Beatrix! What are you doing in London? Is something wrong?
1:06:00 > 1:06:03- A friend died. - Oh, sorry, miss.
1:06:03 > 1:06:06Was she a close friend?
1:06:40 > 1:06:42Miss Beatrix?
1:06:44 > 1:06:46Miss Beatrix?
1:06:48 > 1:06:51I'll leave your dinner outside your door, then, miss.
1:07:12 > 1:07:16Saunders is here, Miss Potter, to take you to the station.
1:07:16 > 1:07:18I shan't be going back to the Lakes.
1:07:18 > 1:07:21Can I get you anything, then?
1:07:21 > 1:07:23Nothing, Hilda.
1:07:23 > 1:07:26Very well, Miss Potter.
1:09:04 > 1:09:06(KNOCK AT DOOR)
1:09:06 > 1:09:08Beatrix, it's Millie.
1:09:11 > 1:09:15Look, I know I'm unannounced, but they sent back all my messages.
1:09:16 > 1:09:18Please, please, please let me in.
1:09:40 > 1:09:43We've got to get you out of here.
1:09:43 > 1:09:45Come on. Come on.
1:09:45 > 1:09:49Let's get you washed and dressed and out of this room.
1:09:52 > 1:09:54(TEARFULLY) I can't.
1:09:57 > 1:09:59(SOBBING) Millie!
1:09:59 > 1:10:01I can't!
1:10:14 > 1:10:17I've been torturing myself.
1:10:17 > 1:10:20I should never have encouraged you with Norman.
1:10:20 > 1:10:23I'd have saved you all this terrible grief.
1:10:23 > 1:10:26I loved him!
1:10:26 > 1:10:29I loved him, too.
1:10:30 > 1:10:32But he's gone.
1:10:38 > 1:10:40I must leave this house.
1:10:44 > 1:10:47I will leave this house.
1:11:05 > 1:11:08Congratulations, Miss Potter.
1:11:08 > 1:11:12You are now the proud owner of Hill Top Farm. Thanks, George.
1:11:13 > 1:11:16Well, I'm sure you'll be very happy at Hill Top.
1:11:16 > 1:11:19- I spent some time there as a child. - Is that so?
1:11:19 > 1:11:22I did have other plans for it,
1:11:22 > 1:11:25but I'm sure that I will love it in any case.
1:11:25 > 1:11:28Yes. If you need any other assistance or help...
1:11:28 > 1:11:32Thank you very much, Mr Heelis. Good day.
1:11:32 > 1:11:34Good day, Miss Potter.
1:11:47 > 1:11:51What I don't understand is how you're going to pay for this farm.
1:11:51 > 1:11:54I'm a writer, Mother. People buy my work.
1:11:54 > 1:11:58Our daughter is famous. You're the only person who doesn't know it.
1:12:04 > 1:12:09What I don't understand is why you find it necessary to leave home.
1:12:09 > 1:12:11It is not a choice, Father.
1:12:11 > 1:12:14Beatrix, if I could undo anything...
1:12:14 > 1:12:19There's nothing to undo. This has nothing to do with you or Mother.
1:12:20 > 1:12:22I must make my own way.
1:12:25 > 1:12:27So you must.
1:12:27 > 1:12:29So you must.
1:12:55 > 1:12:58Everybody out.
1:12:58 > 1:13:03You see? I told you we could not know where our journey would lead.
1:13:03 > 1:13:06It has led us here.
1:13:06 > 1:13:08This is your new home.
1:13:18 > 1:13:20No tears!
1:13:28 > 1:13:31(SOBS QUIETLY)
1:15:08 > 1:15:10Miss.
1:15:11 > 1:15:13Millie!
1:15:15 > 1:15:20- It's wonderful to see you! - Oh, this place is perfect.
1:15:20 > 1:15:22Millie!
1:15:22 > 1:15:25- Well, what have you brought? - Oh.
1:15:25 > 1:15:28Er, I thought it best not to bring this,
1:15:28 > 1:15:32but then it jumped into my hand as I walked out the door.
1:15:43 > 1:15:45I'm sorry.
1:15:49 > 1:15:52Thank you.
1:15:56 > 1:15:59It's getting easier.
1:15:59 > 1:16:01It's getting easier for me, too.
1:16:03 > 1:16:05- I'm painting again. - (GASPS)
1:16:05 > 1:16:08My mind's going mad with the story.
1:16:08 > 1:16:11- I've got pigs running amuck up there! - (CHUCKLES)
1:16:12 > 1:16:15Well, it's this place, isn't it?
1:16:15 > 1:16:19Who'd want to be cooped up in London when they could be up here?
1:16:19 > 1:16:21- I'm so glad you came. - Me, too.
1:16:21 > 1:16:24I've been so lucky with visitors.
1:16:24 > 1:16:27First my brother, Bertram, then my mother.
1:16:27 > 1:16:30You think that's lucky? Your mother is a monster!
1:16:30 > 1:16:34No, it's fine! My mother and I have come to an understanding.
1:16:34 > 1:16:38- We've agreed to not understand each other.- (LAUGHS)
1:17:00 > 1:17:04Look, if some city slicker wants to offer me a half-decent price
1:17:04 > 1:17:06for a derelict property
1:17:06 > 1:17:11and then pay me and my lads good money to knock the place down...
1:17:11 > 1:17:14- (ALL SHOUT / CHATTER) - Let him build what he likes.
1:17:14 > 1:17:17If we allow these city developers to buy up our land,
1:17:17 > 1:17:20there'll be no more farming. And all you're left with
1:17:20 > 1:17:24- is a ruined landscape and no community.- (ALL) Yes!
1:17:28 > 1:17:30Miss Potter.
1:17:30 > 1:17:32Ah, Mr Heelis!
1:17:33 > 1:17:36I see you've found me.
1:17:36 > 1:17:39I played here so often as a child.
1:17:39 > 1:17:42- I know your farm very well. - Oh!
1:17:42 > 1:17:46Swam in the stream, played hide and seek with cousin Charles.
1:17:47 > 1:17:52- I brought you the executed deed for the farm.- At last! Thank you.
1:17:53 > 1:17:56- Busy. - Yes. Yes, I've asked Mr Cannon
1:17:56 > 1:17:59to stay on and run Hill Top as a working farm.
1:17:59 > 1:18:01I'm learning a great deal.
1:18:01 > 1:18:07I wish everyone who bought land up here could be so... enlightened.
1:18:07 > 1:18:11You've bought a farm, kept the workers on, you're working the land
1:18:11 > 1:18:14- and you're preserving this place. - Yes. It makes me happy.
1:18:16 > 1:18:19Mr Cannon says the two farms adjoining mine are for sale.
1:18:19 > 1:18:24I'd hate to see the developers get them. Know anything about them?
1:18:27 > 1:18:29- Morning, Mr Cannon. - Miss Potter.
1:18:32 > 1:18:34My, they've grown!
1:18:34 > 1:18:37- Handsome lot, wouldn't you say? - Yes!
1:18:37 > 1:18:41- Have you named them?- We don't often give 'em names, Miss Potter.
1:18:41 > 1:18:44Makes it a bit hard, come slaughtering time.
1:18:44 > 1:18:47Hello, Miss Potter!
1:18:47 > 1:18:51Hello yourself, Mr Heelis. To what do I owe this pleasure?
1:18:51 > 1:18:54I've come with a message. Mr Hubbard is ill
1:18:54 > 1:18:58- and will be unable to show you the neighbouring farms today.- Oh, dear.
1:18:58 > 1:19:02- Not serious, I hope.- Chronic illness. Recurs several times a month,
1:19:02 > 1:19:05usually after a night at the Rose And Crown.
1:19:05 > 1:19:07I see!
1:19:07 > 1:19:11Mr Hubbard wondered if I might show you the properties instead.
1:19:11 > 1:19:15I'd be pleased to have so knowledgeable a guide.
1:19:15 > 1:19:17I'll just get my shawl.
1:19:17 > 1:19:21Well, it's prime land. There's a lot of profit in building houses on it.
1:19:21 > 1:19:24Ah, but more value as a working farm, surely.
1:19:24 > 1:19:28- Spoken like a true Lakes woman, Miss Potter.- Indeed, Mr Heelis.
1:19:28 > 1:19:31- You do realise I've never been to an auction.- Well, it's simple enough.
1:19:31 > 1:19:34Don't bid too early and stick to your limit.
1:19:34 > 1:19:37I know my limit, Mr Heelis!
1:19:37 > 1:19:41Craven's Mill Farm. 40 acres of splendour.
1:19:41 > 1:19:45£1,100 anywhere? 1,100 I'm bid.
1:19:45 > 1:19:501,150? Come along, gentleman. A splendid little farm, this.
1:19:50 > 1:19:53Lots of development potential. £1,150.
1:19:53 > 1:19:561,200 anywhere? 1,200.
1:19:56 > 1:20:001,300 anywhere? Bidding, Madam? £1,300.
1:20:00 > 1:20:04Seated at £1,300.
1:20:04 > 1:20:07£1,400. £1,500.
1:20:07 > 1:20:091,600. 700.
1:20:09 > 1:20:13800. 1,900.
1:20:13 > 1:20:16At one thousand... £2,000 at the back.
1:20:16 > 1:20:20£2,000. Any more. At £2,000.
1:20:20 > 1:20:232,300.
1:20:23 > 1:20:26Thank you, sir. £2,300.
1:20:26 > 1:20:29At £2,300.
1:20:29 > 1:20:32Any more, then, at £2,300?
1:20:32 > 1:20:35£2,500.
1:20:35 > 1:20:40The lady at £2,500 against you, sir. 2,500. 2,800.
1:20:40 > 1:20:43(Miss Potter, you've bid more than that farm is worth!)
1:20:43 > 1:20:48£3,000. At £3,000 seated, with the lady,
1:20:48 > 1:20:53against you, sir. Are we all done at £3,000?
1:20:53 > 1:20:56Going once, going twice...
1:20:56 > 1:20:59Sold to the lady. £3,000.
1:21:01 > 1:21:04Sir, you should control your client.
1:21:04 > 1:21:08- She has allowed her emotions to get the better of her.- Really!
1:21:08 > 1:21:11She has squandered any possibility of profit from that farm.
1:21:11 > 1:21:15- It was prime development land. - This community is an inspiration!
1:21:15 > 1:21:19It should be conserved for future generations and not destroyed.
1:21:19 > 1:21:22- It deserves protection. - Your observations are woefully...
1:21:22 > 1:21:26Please, sir, I am no longer in the habit of being lectured to
1:21:26 > 1:21:30and, thankfully, I do not require your approval, or anyone else's.
1:21:30 > 1:21:34So, if you'll excuse us. Mr Heelis.
1:21:42 > 1:21:45I hope you're not going to make a habit of this, Miss Potter.
1:21:45 > 1:21:48Do you know, Mr Heelis, I think I might.
1:21:48 > 1:21:52Now, will you have time tomorrow to show me those other farms?
1:21:52 > 1:21:54- I certainly will. - Excellent.
1:22:06 > 1:22:07Come in.
1:22:11 > 1:22:13Oh, my!
1:22:13 > 1:22:16- Goodness me! - I'll just be a moment.
1:22:40 > 1:22:44Now, then, young man, how are you taking to your new home?
1:22:45 > 1:22:50I know it's not London, but Hill Top might suit a young rabbit better.
1:22:52 > 1:22:56- He seems to be taking to the place. - As am I, Mr Heelis.
1:22:56 > 1:23:01- Now, the road.- Oh, yes. Yes, of course, Miss Potter.
1:23:05 > 1:23:08How would you feel about calling me William
1:23:08 > 1:23:12instead of this infernal Mr Heelis? I sound like an undertaker!
1:23:12 > 1:23:17Of course, William. I believe Beatrix might be perfectly appropriate, too.
1:23:35 > 1:23:39'There's something delicious about writing those first few words
1:23:39 > 1:23:40'of a story.
1:23:41 > 1:23:43'You can never quite tell where they'll take you.
1:23:45 > 1:23:47'Mine took me here,
1:23:47 > 1:23:49'where I belong.'
1:25:32 > 1:25:37# When you taught me how to dance
1:25:37 > 1:25:43# Years ago, with misty eyes
1:25:44 > 1:25:49# Every step and silent glance
1:25:50 > 1:25:55# Every move, a sweet surprise
1:25:55 > 1:26:01# Someone must have taught you well
1:26:01 > 1:26:07# To beguile and to entrance
1:26:07 > 1:26:13# For that night you cast your spell
1:26:13 > 1:26:19# And you taught me how to dance
1:26:19 > 1:26:25# Like reflections in a lake
1:26:25 > 1:26:31# I recall what went before
1:26:31 > 1:26:36# As I give, I'll learn to take
1:26:36 > 1:26:42# And will be alone no more
1:26:42 > 1:26:48# Other lights may light my way
1:26:48 > 1:26:54# I may even find romance
1:26:54 > 1:27:00# But I won't forget that night
1:27:00 > 1:27:06# When you taught me how to dance
1:27:06 > 1:27:11# Cold winds blow
1:27:11 > 1:27:14# But up on those hills
1:27:14 > 1:27:19# You'll find me
1:27:19 > 1:27:23# And I know
1:27:23 > 1:27:25# You're walking
1:27:25 > 1:27:30# Right behind me
1:27:30 > 1:27:35# When you taught me how to dance
1:27:35 > 1:27:41# Years ago, with misty eyes
1:27:41 > 1:27:47# Every step and silent glance
1:27:47 > 1:27:53# Every move, a sweet surprise
1:27:53 > 1:27:59# Someone must have taught you well
1:27:59 > 1:28:05# To beguile and to entrance
1:28:05 > 1:28:11# For that night you cast your spell
1:28:11 > 1:28:17# And you taught me how to dance
1:28:17 > 1:28:20# And you taught me
1:28:20 > 1:28:24# How to dance. #