0:00:16 > 0:00:21This film contains some strong language and scenes of a sexual nature.
0:00:44 > 0:00:45HE COUGHS
0:00:52 > 0:00:54You wish to speak to me.
0:01:03 > 0:01:05I will grant your wish,
0:01:05 > 0:01:08on the condition that you leave England at once...
0:01:09 > 0:01:12..and remain abroad in France for four years.
0:01:14 > 0:01:16You would send me into exile?
0:01:19 > 0:01:21Why do you complain so?
0:01:22 > 0:01:24I have lost everything.
0:01:27 > 0:01:29And only you?
0:01:42 > 0:01:43Shh...
0:01:47 > 0:01:49CARRIAGE WHEELS RATTLE
0:02:07 > 0:02:08HORSE WHINNIES
0:02:12 > 0:02:13CARRIAGE CLATTERS
0:02:31 > 0:02:32I love you, Captain Bisset.
0:02:55 > 0:02:56Seymour?
0:03:04 > 0:03:05Where is Lady Worsley?
0:03:06 > 0:03:08Where is she?
0:03:08 > 0:03:10BABY CRIES
0:03:28 > 0:03:29LAUGHTER
0:03:33 > 0:03:37They say she's worth 100,000 to the man she marries.
0:03:38 > 0:03:42I doubt there's a wealthier, more eligible heiress in the land.
0:03:51 > 0:03:54THEY LAUGH
0:03:54 > 0:03:55You are beautiful, madam.
0:03:57 > 0:03:58You are kind, sir.
0:03:59 > 0:04:03I have always believed, when I meet my match, I shall know it.
0:04:03 > 0:04:05I wish to marry for love.
0:04:06 > 0:04:09- I have had many offers, sir... - I'm sure you have!
0:04:11 > 0:04:14- And when you marry, you wish to marry only for love?- Yes.
0:04:14 > 0:04:17Well, then, why not marry a stable boy, or a footman?
0:04:17 > 0:04:19Perhaps I will, sir.
0:04:19 > 0:04:22A gentleman's title and connections are plainly no more than a trifle,
0:04:22 > 0:04:25as far as Miss Fleming is concerned! LAUGHTER
0:04:26 > 0:04:29If I am one day -
0:04:29 > 0:04:31and before too long -
0:04:31 > 0:04:34to promise myself to another, well...
0:04:35 > 0:04:39..then I would like him to pledge his love and undying devotion to me,
0:04:39 > 0:04:41for I will marry for no less.
0:04:41 > 0:04:44Yes, you have impressed the point upon me.
0:04:46 > 0:04:49What is it you wish for in a wife, sir?
0:04:51 > 0:04:53When I marry, one day -
0:04:53 > 0:04:56and before too long - SHE GIGGLES
0:04:56 > 0:05:01I must know in my heart that I can trust my wife to do her duty.
0:05:02 > 0:05:05I would do the bidding of any man I loved.
0:05:06 > 0:05:10I am sure, sir, you will meet your match soon.
0:05:10 > 0:05:13And what man, except a fool, would not love you, Seymour?
0:05:25 > 0:05:28Seymour's not home. What time did she leave?
0:05:28 > 0:05:32She left with Captain Bisset just after you did, sir.
0:05:32 > 0:05:33Lady Worsley!
0:05:36 > 0:05:38HAMMERS ON DOOR
0:05:44 > 0:05:46Where's that scoundrel's lodgings?
0:05:48 > 0:05:49SLAM
0:05:57 > 0:05:59Sir!
0:05:59 > 0:06:01Upon your honour, can you say she is not in your house?
0:06:01 > 0:06:03Sir, she is not in this house.
0:06:06 > 0:06:08She was here, sir - with Captain Bisset,
0:06:08 > 0:06:11but they was gone off, about five this morning.
0:06:11 > 0:06:12I did not see her, sir.
0:06:18 > 0:06:20They have eloped.
0:06:41 > 0:06:43We have been wed for three months, Richard.
0:06:45 > 0:06:46Are you weary?
0:06:47 > 0:06:49No.
0:06:49 > 0:06:50I...
0:06:52 > 0:06:55You are my brother starling, my love, my one.
0:06:57 > 0:07:00I am yours, sir, to do with as you please.
0:07:02 > 0:07:05Would you not wish for me to bear you a son?
0:07:05 > 0:07:08Seymour, I love you.
0:07:09 > 0:07:11I am convulsed with passion for you.
0:07:16 > 0:07:19How many unspoken desires toward you?
0:07:19 > 0:07:21Might I speak them?
0:07:31 > 0:07:33THEY GIGGLE
0:07:36 > 0:07:38You would not mind?
0:07:38 > 0:07:42- If it pleases you, then...- Oh, my dear, it would please me greatly.
0:08:32 > 0:08:33SHE GIGGLES
0:08:57 > 0:08:59My mother did not tell me
0:08:59 > 0:09:02that playing rantum-scantum would be thus.
0:09:02 > 0:09:04It did not please you?
0:09:04 > 0:09:06It was strange, but not unpleasant.
0:09:10 > 0:09:12Seymour, I'm sure before long,
0:09:12 > 0:09:15they will call me to serve His Majesty as Privy Counsellor.
0:09:16 > 0:09:20Perhaps it is my destiny that I might one day be Prime Minister.
0:09:22 > 0:09:26Well, if one day you are, I shall be very proud of you.
0:09:26 > 0:09:29You will be wreathed in the golden light that shines upon you
0:09:29 > 0:09:31from my honours and titles.
0:09:33 > 0:09:36I dare say when I achieve a rank within the Royal household,
0:09:36 > 0:09:38I shall be in court most of the time.
0:09:38 > 0:09:41And I shall be permitted to accompany you?
0:09:43 > 0:09:44When it is my wish.
0:09:48 > 0:09:51Madam, our marriage and our frolics
0:09:51 > 0:09:52are for us and us alone.
0:09:54 > 0:09:55Of course they are.
0:09:57 > 0:09:59I must know I can rely on you.
0:10:01 > 0:10:02Of course you can, Richard.
0:10:07 > 0:10:09FOOTSTEPS APPROACH
0:10:10 > 0:10:11- Where is she?- Sir?
0:10:11 > 0:10:13Where is she, damn you!
0:10:13 > 0:10:17My mistress made me take an oath on my life not to say.
0:10:17 > 0:10:19Let me be plain, madam.
0:10:20 > 0:10:23If you do not answer me truthfully, this moment...
0:10:24 > 0:10:28..you will be discharged from my service without a reference.
0:10:30 > 0:10:33You will be thrown out on to the street!
0:10:38 > 0:10:40I know not where they are -
0:10:40 > 0:10:41only that they are in London.
0:10:45 > 0:10:48I was awoken from my sleep at the midnight hour...
0:10:48 > 0:10:49Yes?
0:10:51 > 0:10:55..and I was instructed to bring the child to Lady Worsley
0:10:55 > 0:10:57at Viscount Deerhurst's home.
0:11:01 > 0:11:03Right. You are to come with me.
0:11:20 > 0:11:23We've done it, George. I'm free of him!
0:11:24 > 0:11:27Now then, Seymour - I will never let you down.
0:11:27 > 0:11:30The world will take me for a scoundrel,
0:11:30 > 0:11:32but my heart is in your hand -
0:11:32 > 0:11:34and I am a slave to your quim.
0:11:34 > 0:11:36SHE GIGGLES
0:11:39 > 0:11:41We will take breakfast privately -
0:11:41 > 0:11:44and a bedchamber for my husband and I.
0:11:53 > 0:11:55GASPS AND LAUGHTER
0:11:57 > 0:11:59KNOCKS AT DOOR
0:11:59 > 0:12:01Married, my arse!
0:12:08 > 0:12:11Forgive us, ladies. We were resting from our travels.
0:12:25 > 0:12:28Do not fret, my dear. He'll never find us here.
0:12:28 > 0:12:31I will be at ease when my Jane is with me.
0:12:31 > 0:12:33All will be well with the child.
0:12:33 > 0:12:35- Don't call her "the child".- Shh.
0:12:42 > 0:12:45Make up the bed chambers and be gone.
0:13:06 > 0:13:08Lady Worsley is unhappy.
0:13:09 > 0:13:11I'm sorry to hear that's so.
0:13:14 > 0:13:17Many ladies of rank are wont to selfishness.
0:13:17 > 0:13:20Lady Worsley is a magnificent woman -
0:13:20 > 0:13:21if I may say so.
0:13:24 > 0:13:26Yes, you may.
0:13:26 > 0:13:27You may.
0:13:34 > 0:13:36Nay, never would I have known that a woman of breeding
0:13:36 > 0:13:39could be so wanton and so desires fucking.
0:13:43 > 0:13:44Sir...
0:13:45 > 0:13:47..that is most extraordinary.
0:13:48 > 0:13:51She says it is love that fuels her passions.
0:13:51 > 0:13:53Ah.
0:13:53 > 0:13:56I jest not, my lord. The respite would be most welcome.
0:13:56 > 0:13:58DEERHURST LAUGHS
0:14:01 > 0:14:02She likes you.
0:14:05 > 0:14:07You have my permission to try with her.
0:14:12 > 0:14:14WORSLEY LAUGHS
0:14:15 > 0:14:16DEERHURST LAUGHS
0:14:29 > 0:14:31You ask too much of me, sir.
0:14:32 > 0:14:35I am your wife and I love you.
0:14:35 > 0:14:39It would not touch my love for you, nor yours mine.
0:14:40 > 0:14:42Richard, please...
0:14:42 > 0:14:43You know, unless you do as I wish,
0:14:43 > 0:14:46I suffer viciously with the horn colic.
0:14:46 > 0:14:49- But I don't... - Why will you not do my bidding?
0:14:49 > 0:14:51You are my wife.
0:14:54 > 0:14:58Are you not satisfied with looking upon me through the keyhole?
0:15:00 > 0:15:02No, I'm not.
0:15:05 > 0:15:07All I wish for, sir,
0:15:07 > 0:15:11is to be happy and in love and with my husband.
0:15:11 > 0:15:15All I wish for, madam, is that you do my bidding.
0:15:17 > 0:15:19You betray my love for you by asking...
0:15:19 > 0:15:21It is not betrayal -
0:15:21 > 0:15:23it is simply my wish.
0:15:25 > 0:15:27You should wish to please me.
0:15:32 > 0:15:34I won't.
0:15:36 > 0:15:37I won't.
0:15:40 > 0:15:41Then as you wish.
0:16:37 > 0:16:38BABY WAILS
0:17:33 > 0:17:34Why?
0:17:34 > 0:17:37I've promised Deerhurst that you are game.
0:17:38 > 0:17:39No.
0:17:44 > 0:17:45Why, I say?
0:17:48 > 0:17:49No.
0:17:52 > 0:17:54You see, my lord, what hurts me greatly
0:17:54 > 0:17:56is that she will not even try.
0:17:56 > 0:17:58To think, I married a sour-faced prig!
0:18:42 > 0:18:44I will be tender, madam.
0:18:45 > 0:18:47You are the purest pure.
0:18:51 > 0:18:52You are beautiful, madam.
0:18:52 > 0:18:56And you are fair handsome, sir - and that I am grateful.
0:18:56 > 0:18:58Your husband is a damned fool.
0:19:00 > 0:19:01But, fool such as he is...
0:19:03 > 0:19:04..this is his dearest wish.
0:19:07 > 0:19:09SHE GASPS
0:19:32 > 0:19:33Was Deerhurst not kind to you?
0:19:35 > 0:19:37He was very kind indeed, sir.
0:19:39 > 0:19:41And yet, you are displeased?
0:19:41 > 0:19:43No.
0:19:43 > 0:19:45I would not say I was displeased.
0:19:48 > 0:19:49Are you happy now?
0:19:51 > 0:19:53Yes. Yes.
0:19:55 > 0:19:58And if Deerhurst came to play rantum-scantum again,
0:19:58 > 0:19:59you would not mind?
0:20:02 > 0:20:04No, I would not mind, Richard -
0:20:04 > 0:20:07if it would make you happy and it would improve our union.
0:20:26 > 0:20:28Thank goodness, Deerhurst, it is you.
0:20:30 > 0:20:32Forgive my appearance, my dear.
0:20:35 > 0:20:37Captain Bisset, I presume.
0:20:37 > 0:20:39My Lord.
0:20:39 > 0:20:40Is my Mary here with Jane?
0:20:40 > 0:20:44Seymour, I'm sorry to bear bad news.
0:20:44 > 0:20:46Sir Richard is already in London.
0:20:56 > 0:21:00The Right Honourable Viscount Deerhurst.
0:21:01 > 0:21:02Mr Farrar, my attorney.
0:21:04 > 0:21:07- My lord.- Sir.
0:21:07 > 0:21:10So she sent you, we wondered where you were about.
0:21:12 > 0:21:13He always was her lap dog.
0:21:19 > 0:21:21I'm charged with a message, sir.
0:21:23 > 0:21:27Lady Worsley having for some time past received many...
0:21:27 > 0:21:30- slights and inattentions from Sir Richard.- My lord...
0:21:30 > 0:21:32Which she could bear no longer.
0:21:33 > 0:21:37As she has had for some time past a partiality for Captain Bisset,
0:21:37 > 0:21:39she has taken the opportunity of availing her self of it.
0:21:39 > 0:21:42She is so resolved to abide by it that,
0:21:42 > 0:21:44in case Sir Richard should force her back again,
0:21:44 > 0:21:47which as her husband he certainly has the right to do,
0:21:47 > 0:21:49Lady Worsley wishes you to know, sir,
0:21:49 > 0:21:52she would do the same again whenever she could.
0:21:59 > 0:22:02Punk.
0:22:02 > 0:22:03Common whore.
0:22:03 > 0:22:06Well, if that is her ladyship's fixed resolution,
0:22:06 > 0:22:08perhaps she should give her assistance
0:22:08 > 0:22:10towards obtaining a divorce.
0:22:10 > 0:22:13I believe a divorce is what Lady Worsley wishes for.
0:22:15 > 0:22:17There will be no divorce.
0:22:34 > 0:22:35Was Jane with him?
0:22:35 > 0:22:37- Did you see my Mary?- No, I did not.
0:22:39 > 0:22:40Perhaps they remain elusive.
0:22:40 > 0:22:42Seymour, he was with a lawyer.
0:22:44 > 0:22:45What?
0:22:47 > 0:22:48A lawyer?
0:22:50 > 0:22:51Speak to Richard.
0:22:53 > 0:22:56If you wish for a divorce, look him in the eye and ask him for one.
0:22:56 > 0:22:59I do not have to do anything Richard bids me to do any more.
0:22:59 > 0:23:01I do as I please.
0:23:06 > 0:23:07I am happy now.
0:23:08 > 0:23:12- He knows my wishes, you expressed them.- Seymour, please.
0:23:12 > 0:23:16I did my duty to him as his wife and I obliged his every whim.
0:23:16 > 0:23:20I will not go to him, sir, he must let ME go.
0:23:22 > 0:23:26Lady Worsley must understand she now has a clear choice.
0:23:26 > 0:23:30She may return home to us and we undertake to forgive her.
0:23:31 > 0:23:34If she does not, there will be a trial
0:23:34 > 0:23:36and I will prosecute Captain Bisset.
0:23:36 > 0:23:40He will pay and she will condemn them both to a life of penury.
0:23:42 > 0:23:43I see.
0:23:44 > 0:23:47If I may, surely given the...
0:23:47 > 0:23:51extraordinary intimacy of your friendship with Captain Bisset,
0:23:51 > 0:23:53you may meet with him and talk with him.
0:23:53 > 0:23:56She is my wife and she is mine and mine alone
0:23:56 > 0:24:00and yet she has been taken from me and fucked by that villain Bisset.
0:24:00 > 0:24:02- Richard...- Furthermore, I will seek compensation in law
0:24:02 > 0:24:04from that scoundrel.
0:24:04 > 0:24:06Compensation for all that he has done to me
0:24:06 > 0:24:09and the damage he's caused to my rightful property.
0:24:09 > 0:24:10In cases of this nature,
0:24:10 > 0:24:14one would expect to ask for 5,000 in compensation.
0:24:15 > 0:24:16I will ask for 20,000.
0:24:18 > 0:24:19£20,000, sir?
0:24:19 > 0:24:21- Why should the devil be left undisturbed?- Richard...
0:24:21 > 0:24:22We should ask for 20,000
0:24:22 > 0:24:25and then let's see how Captain Bisset likes it.
0:24:25 > 0:24:29Richard, litigation will not restore Seymour's affections
0:24:29 > 0:24:32and it will be as costly for you as well as for the scoundrel Bisset.
0:24:34 > 0:24:35It is my wish.
0:24:37 > 0:24:40There will be public scrutiny of your private affairs, Richard.
0:24:45 > 0:24:48It is my wish, sir.
0:24:48 > 0:24:49Well, sir...
0:24:51 > 0:24:53..if it your wish then we must apply our efforts to obtaining
0:24:53 > 0:24:55proof of adultery.
0:24:56 > 0:24:58We must catch them at it, sir.
0:25:05 > 0:25:07Sir Richard and Lady Worsley.
0:25:07 > 0:25:09APPLAUSE
0:25:14 > 0:25:17(Thank you for becoming my husband.)
0:25:17 > 0:25:21I should think you mean to thank me for taking you as my wife.
0:25:22 > 0:25:24I meant nothing by it.
0:25:25 > 0:25:28You will recall, Seymour, I made a vow to love and cherish
0:25:28 > 0:25:31and you made a vow to love, cherish and obey.
0:25:50 > 0:25:52Forgive me...
0:25:53 > 0:25:57I am Mr Bisset. George Bisset.
0:25:57 > 0:25:59I'm the new owner of Newton.
0:26:39 > 0:26:42- You say you heard them screwing? - Yes, I did, sir.
0:26:45 > 0:26:47And you kept the sheets as I asked you to.
0:26:47 > 0:26:49Yes, I have, Mr Farrar.
0:26:49 > 0:26:51Foul state they was in as well.
0:26:54 > 0:26:56Well, then...
0:27:01 > 0:27:03This is Lady Worsley's riding crop.
0:27:03 > 0:27:06See if she'll claim it and give her real name.
0:27:09 > 0:27:11KNOCKING
0:27:20 > 0:27:24Why do you housemaids knock but not await an answer?
0:27:24 > 0:27:29My lady, there's a riding crop left for a lady in this house
0:27:29 > 0:27:30and since there's no other ladies here,
0:27:30 > 0:27:33may I crave the favour of your name?
0:27:33 > 0:27:35- A riding crop.- Yes, my lady,
0:27:35 > 0:27:38a riding crop and some other effects.
0:27:38 > 0:27:41Is the person who left that a woman servant with a child?
0:27:41 > 0:27:44We're instructed not to part with the crop or any other belongings
0:27:44 > 0:27:46unless my lady gives her true name first.
0:27:46 > 0:27:49Why I am Seymour, Lady Worsley.
0:27:49 > 0:27:51Where did you get that from?
0:27:52 > 0:27:55'You are insinuated in the criminality.'
0:27:57 > 0:27:58Yes, sir.
0:27:58 > 0:28:03You are implicated in the desertion of your master...
0:28:03 > 0:28:08and the wicked plot to abduct the child that is rightfully his.
0:28:09 > 0:28:13You have any objection to seeing Lady Worsley again?
0:28:13 > 0:28:14No, sir.
0:28:15 > 0:28:17My loyalty is to my mistress.
0:28:17 > 0:28:20But I understand Sir Richard is my master.
0:28:20 > 0:28:22Good.
0:28:22 > 0:28:24Do you know enough of Captain Bisset...
0:28:24 > 0:28:27as to be certain of his person if you saw him?
0:28:29 > 0:28:32- Yes, sir.- Well, then, Miss Sotheby.
0:28:34 > 0:28:36'You are to go to Lady Worsley's bedchamber...
0:28:37 > 0:28:41'..and if you should see Captain Bisset,
0:28:41 > 0:28:42'you are to tell me.'
0:28:44 > 0:28:47- KNOCK AT DOOR - Enter.
0:28:58 > 0:28:59Why did you not come as I asked?
0:28:59 > 0:29:03Madam, I am come by Sir Richard's orders.
0:29:04 > 0:29:07- Mary?- Madam?
0:29:10 > 0:29:13You come by Sir Richard's orders?
0:29:13 > 0:29:14Yes, madam.
0:29:16 > 0:29:17Where is Jane?
0:29:19 > 0:29:21The infant is with her father.
0:29:21 > 0:29:23But you must bring her to me.
0:29:25 > 0:29:27So it's true then, madam.
0:29:31 > 0:29:33You know why I am here.
0:29:34 > 0:29:36I never believed you would've done it.
0:29:37 > 0:29:39Oh, Mary.
0:29:39 > 0:29:41You will not see me again, madam.
0:29:43 > 0:29:45Mary!
0:29:46 > 0:29:47Mary!
0:29:50 > 0:29:52He will not give up the child.
0:29:53 > 0:29:57He means to use Jane as a pawn to try and force your return.
0:29:57 > 0:30:02Seymour, you gave your actual name to the housemaids.
0:30:02 > 0:30:07- Mary has confessed to Richard.- No. No, no.- He'll have me prosecuted.
0:30:07 > 0:30:09Richard would never dare put himself and us
0:30:09 > 0:30:10through the humiliation of the courts.
0:30:10 > 0:30:13- We have humiliated him!- Hush now.
0:30:16 > 0:30:18Did you not mark how my Mary was with me?
0:30:18 > 0:30:22- If that bitch comes again I'll shoot her.- You'll do no such thing.
0:30:30 > 0:30:33BABY CRIES
0:30:33 > 0:30:36Sh, sh, sh.
0:30:38 > 0:30:40We have them.
0:30:44 > 0:30:46Mary.
0:31:10 > 0:31:13Does it not grieve you, you do not see our daughter?
0:31:13 > 0:31:17- Dear Seymour, please. - Does it not grieve you, sir?
0:31:17 > 0:31:18Sir?
0:31:18 > 0:31:20George.
0:31:21 > 0:31:25The infant was of our love begotten, my dear Seymour, is a fact.
0:31:25 > 0:31:29Richard took her for his own and now she belongs to him.
0:31:29 > 0:31:30A fact, George?
0:31:32 > 0:31:35It was you who foolishly asked your woman to bring her.
0:31:35 > 0:31:39And it is you that foolishly said we must leave without her.
0:31:40 > 0:31:43- The child is better off with Richard.- How can you say so?
0:31:43 > 0:31:46The scandal will be great. Richard knows it...
0:31:46 > 0:31:48and he has us by the nutmegs.
0:31:48 > 0:31:50We must be patient.
0:31:50 > 0:31:52Deerhurst will go to him again.
0:31:52 > 0:31:54He will be full of fury if Deerhurst goes to him again.
0:31:54 > 0:31:57- He will not, George.- If you provoke him further, he may suggest a duel.
0:31:57 > 0:32:00- SHE LAUGHS - He may.
0:32:00 > 0:32:02And I could not refuse.
0:32:04 > 0:32:05Oh, my love.
0:32:05 > 0:32:07DOOR OPENS
0:32:09 > 0:32:12- Sir, what do you mean by this? - Maurice George Bisset.
0:32:12 > 0:32:14Who is it that seeks him out?
0:32:17 > 0:32:21You are served with a writ from the Court of the King's Bench.
0:32:32 > 0:32:34We've been fooled.
0:32:34 > 0:32:36He has made a claim for £20,000.
0:32:38 > 0:32:40I'll become a bankrupt
0:32:40 > 0:32:42and live out my days in the Fleet Prison.
0:32:45 > 0:32:49I have valued your wise council and your unfailing loyalty
0:32:49 > 0:32:51but I begin to wonder.
0:32:51 > 0:32:55Wonder? Why, Prime Minister?
0:32:55 > 0:32:59Sometimes we must accept defeat.
0:32:59 > 0:33:01Accept it in its bitter entirety.
0:33:02 > 0:33:04You have been wronged and mightily so
0:33:04 > 0:33:08but every wall has unseen eyes and ears.
0:33:08 > 0:33:10What say you, then?
0:33:10 > 0:33:12All of London is in an uproar with talk of a cuckold
0:33:12 > 0:33:16in my government and a whore for a wife!
0:33:16 > 0:33:20I take it you are beyond reproach in all these terrible misfortunes.
0:33:20 > 0:33:22My reputation will remain intact.
0:33:24 > 0:33:26Then good.
0:33:26 > 0:33:30I will need every man of mine and every vote.
0:33:52 > 0:33:54SHE LAUGHS
0:33:57 > 0:34:01We must be married and live as one with our daughter.
0:34:01 > 0:34:02But you are already married.
0:34:02 > 0:34:07It is my fortune that has acquired all of this. My fortune.
0:34:08 > 0:34:11Why should I not determine how I am to live?
0:34:11 > 0:34:14We could live as four here.
0:34:14 > 0:34:17- As moderns, Seymour.- No. No.
0:34:18 > 0:34:23It is my dearest wish that you and I and our daughter live as one.
0:34:23 > 0:34:26How it is my dearest wish, George.
0:35:14 > 0:35:17Mr Farrar.
0:35:17 > 0:35:18Mr Wallace.
0:35:36 > 0:35:37She'll not be attending, will she?
0:35:37 > 0:35:39No, sir, of course not.
0:35:53 > 0:35:54All rise.
0:35:55 > 0:35:59The Right Honourable Lord Chief Justice Mansfield.
0:36:15 > 0:36:18COURT CHATTERS
0:36:22 > 0:36:25GAVEL BANGS
0:36:28 > 0:36:30Order! Order! Silence in court!
0:36:33 > 0:36:35Do you consent to her attending?
0:36:37 > 0:36:39I have no objection, my lord.
0:36:39 > 0:36:40Very well, then. We may proceed.
0:37:00 > 0:37:05Sir Richard Worsley is a selfless, God-fearing
0:37:05 > 0:37:08and dutiful public servant of the highest order.
0:37:09 > 0:37:14A doting father, a loving and dutiful husband
0:37:14 > 0:37:19who has been wronged and subject to an outrageous plot.
0:37:23 > 0:37:25Sir Richard has a seat in the House of Commons,
0:37:25 > 0:37:30he is a privy counsellor and governor of the Isle of Wight.
0:37:31 > 0:37:34Mr Bisset, as he was commonly known,
0:37:34 > 0:37:37became friends with the plaintiff at the time of his election
0:37:37 > 0:37:38to the House of Commons
0:37:38 > 0:37:42and the greatest intimacy grew between them there after.
0:37:42 > 0:37:46Indeed, Sir Richard gave the defendant
0:37:46 > 0:37:48a commission in his regiment.
0:37:48 > 0:37:53The defendant had the confidence and trust of the plaintiff,
0:37:53 > 0:37:58both in friendship, as neighbours and in military matters
0:37:58 > 0:38:03until, that is, the unhappy event took place.
0:38:03 > 0:38:06COURT CHATTERS
0:38:06 > 0:38:08The court calls Hannah Commander.
0:38:11 > 0:38:12DOOR OPENS
0:38:20 > 0:38:23'Did they desire you to prepare any bedchamber?'
0:38:23 > 0:38:26'Yes, as near to the dining room as possibly could be, sir.'
0:38:26 > 0:38:28And what else do you recall?
0:38:28 > 0:38:29Captain Bisset
0:38:29 > 0:38:33as I didn't know him then for I took him for her ladyship's husband.
0:38:33 > 0:38:36- He was a scoundrel, sir. - A scoundrel you say?
0:38:36 > 0:38:38A proper mutton monger. He give me a crown for my silence, sir.
0:38:38 > 0:38:42COURT LAUGHS, GAVEL BANGS
0:38:42 > 0:38:46- A mutton monger? - Yes, sir. A mutton monger.
0:38:46 > 0:38:49Will you kindly endeavour to speak in respectful English?
0:38:49 > 0:38:50I've kept the crown, my lord.
0:38:50 > 0:38:53COURT LAUGHS
0:38:53 > 0:38:55And how long did they stay?
0:38:55 > 0:38:57For four or five days, sir.
0:38:57 > 0:38:59And how did they pass?
0:38:59 > 0:39:01As man and wife, sir.
0:39:01 > 0:39:03But they was not a man and wife, sir,
0:39:03 > 0:39:06and the state of the bedchamber, sir, and the bedding, sir.
0:39:06 > 0:39:09- Had they only one bed?- Yes, my lord.
0:39:09 > 0:39:12And they was at it under the sheets when I came into the bedchamber
0:39:12 > 0:39:16and they was naked, my lord, at one o'clock in the afternoon as well.
0:39:16 > 0:39:18How do you know who they were?
0:39:18 > 0:39:22Because she answered to the name of Lady Worsley, sir.
0:39:22 > 0:39:24It was her.
0:39:24 > 0:39:26COURT CHATTERS
0:39:28 > 0:39:31The court calls Mary Sotheby.
0:39:55 > 0:39:57Do you solemnly swear by almighty God that the evidence
0:39:57 > 0:40:00you shall give to the court will be the truth,
0:40:00 > 0:40:02the whole truth and nothing but the truth?
0:40:04 > 0:40:08I was awoken at midnight, sir, and asked to do my lady's bidding.
0:40:08 > 0:40:09That is all.
0:40:11 > 0:40:15You were privy and party to this debauchery, madam.
0:40:15 > 0:40:18Yes, you were privy and party to the desertion of Sir Richard Worsley
0:40:18 > 0:40:21- and his infant daughter. - I was not, sir.
0:40:22 > 0:40:24Pray tell me,
0:40:24 > 0:40:27how old was the infant Jane
0:40:27 > 0:40:31at the time of this most heartless desertion?
0:40:31 > 0:40:33She was four months old.
0:40:33 > 0:40:38And yet you conspired to abduct the infant from her father and her home.
0:40:41 > 0:40:46Oh, you appear entirely deficient of any morality.
0:40:46 > 0:40:52Or of conscious, or of any loyalty at all to your master.
0:40:53 > 0:40:56Why, my lord, these are crocodile tears.
0:40:59 > 0:41:01My lady only loves Captain Bisset.
0:41:01 > 0:41:04COURT CHATTERS
0:41:04 > 0:41:06Love?
0:41:06 > 0:41:10And my lady loves her daughter Jane dearly.
0:41:12 > 0:41:16Then why, madam, did you lady desert her?
0:41:24 > 0:41:27The court calls Captain Leversuch.
0:41:41 > 0:41:44Do you recollect Captain Bisset and Lady Worsley at a party
0:41:44 > 0:41:48together which met at your house the very night of the elopement?
0:41:48 > 0:41:51Yes, my lord, I recall it with the utmost clarity.
0:41:51 > 0:41:54Captain Bisset played the piano for our entertainment.
0:41:57 > 0:41:59HE PLAYS PIANO
0:42:37 > 0:42:39Bravo!
0:42:45 > 0:42:47They make quite a pair, wouldn't you say?
0:42:47 > 0:42:51It does your husband much credit that he is no Othello.
0:42:51 > 0:42:56They are so dear to me, so very dear to me.
0:42:56 > 0:42:58What lady could be more fortunate
0:42:58 > 0:43:00to have a husband of such distinction
0:43:00 > 0:43:04and a friend of such devotion to both of us?
0:43:04 > 0:43:08And Sir Richard is the best and most generous kind of man.
0:43:08 > 0:43:11I dare say I thought no such friendship could exist.
0:43:11 > 0:43:12THEY LAUGH
0:43:12 > 0:43:15Oh, I've a terrible migraine.
0:43:15 > 0:43:17Ale afflicts me so.
0:43:17 > 0:43:19Sir, that is the claret.
0:43:19 > 0:43:21Oh...
0:43:21 > 0:43:24He is often afflicted with the migraine
0:43:24 > 0:43:28and none so often as in the bedchamber.
0:43:28 > 0:43:31You are wicked, madam. You are wicked.
0:43:31 > 0:43:35Why is it wicked, sir, to laugh and speak the truth?
0:43:39 > 0:43:43Pope is a duddering ninny who was fool enough to fall in love
0:43:43 > 0:43:45with a woman who did not love him
0:43:45 > 0:43:48and who was far his superior in every respect.
0:43:49 > 0:43:52I am familiar with the predicament, sir.
0:43:53 > 0:43:55But most cruel.
0:43:55 > 0:44:01It is said that Lady Montagu laughed at Pope as he unfolded his heart.
0:44:01 > 0:44:03SIR RICHARD BURPS
0:44:03 > 0:44:05LAUGHTER
0:44:07 > 0:44:10It is a cold heart that's not moved by the tragic beauty
0:44:10 > 0:44:12of Pope's two lovers stuck by lightning.
0:44:12 > 0:44:16Pope's work does not compare to the verses of Lady Montagu herself.
0:44:16 > 0:44:18"The man who feels the dear disease,
0:44:18 > 0:44:21"Forgets himself, neglects to please."
0:44:22 > 0:44:25Well, Pope is the greatest poet that's ever lived.
0:44:29 > 0:44:30HE LAUGHS
0:44:34 > 0:44:36I know they find me a terrible bore, Mrs Leversuch,
0:44:36 > 0:44:38but what I am to do but be myself?
0:44:40 > 0:44:42SIR RICHARD LAUGHS
0:44:42 > 0:44:43Huh?
0:44:47 > 0:44:49HE LAUGHS
0:44:54 > 0:44:55I'll see you out.
0:45:00 > 0:45:03I cannot spend another week in his company.
0:45:06 > 0:45:08Then why do we not leave tonight?
0:45:08 > 0:45:10Do you mean it, George?
0:45:10 > 0:45:13I do but if you want to go, we must go now.
0:45:13 > 0:45:15And what of Jane?
0:45:15 > 0:45:17We cannot take the child tonight, the risk is too great.
0:45:17 > 0:45:20- I cannot leave without her, George. - Then we cannot go.
0:45:20 > 0:45:22Listen to reason, Seymour.
0:45:23 > 0:45:26If we take the child tonight, he will know that we are leaving
0:45:26 > 0:45:28and he will never allow that.
0:45:28 > 0:45:32What are you two lovebirds twittering over?
0:45:36 > 0:45:38We must send word to Mary, she can bring Jane
0:45:38 > 0:45:42and all my belongings in the morning to us and send word to Deerhurst.
0:45:46 > 0:45:48Goodnight, my dears. Goodnight!
0:45:52 > 0:45:54And you had no knowledge of this affair?
0:45:54 > 0:45:56No.
0:45:56 > 0:46:00I heard not a whisper, my lord, of any relationship of that kind
0:46:00 > 0:46:03between Lady Worsley and Captain Bisset.
0:46:03 > 0:46:08And did Sir Richard Worsley know of this adulterous relationship
0:46:08 > 0:46:11- prior to the elopement? - No, none at all, my lord.
0:46:11 > 0:46:14He remained quite in the dark as did we all.
0:46:14 > 0:46:17Captain Bisset is a deceitful scoundrel
0:46:17 > 0:46:22and myself and Mrs Leversuch are entirely innocent of any knowledge
0:46:22 > 0:46:27or involvement in this most sordid elopement.
0:46:37 > 0:46:39My lord,
0:46:39 > 0:46:44far from being ignorant of Lady Worsley's intimate friendship
0:46:44 > 0:46:46with Captain Bisset,
0:46:46 > 0:46:51Sir Richard Worsley openly encouraged it, indeed, my lord,
0:46:51 > 0:46:56intimate relations between a great many gentlemen and ladies of rank
0:46:56 > 0:47:01in the Southampshire Militia were common knowledge.
0:47:01 > 0:47:03COURT LAUGHS
0:47:03 > 0:47:05GAVEL BANGS
0:47:10 > 0:47:12Sir...
0:47:12 > 0:47:15are you truthfully giving evidence to this court
0:47:15 > 0:47:19that you had no indication at all
0:47:19 > 0:47:23that Lady Worsley and Captain Bisset were, shall we say,
0:47:23 > 0:47:25intimate friends?
0:47:28 > 0:47:30No, sir.
0:47:30 > 0:47:35And if I may say, my lord, I was and remain deeply shocked
0:47:35 > 0:47:40and alarmed by this whole affair and if I may also say, my lord,
0:47:40 > 0:47:43Sir Richard and Lady Worsley were very happily married
0:47:43 > 0:47:47and until she made the acquaintance of Captain Bisset,
0:47:47 > 0:47:51she always did her husband's bidding.
0:47:51 > 0:47:55Thank you, Captain Leversuch, that will be all.
0:47:55 > 0:47:59COURT CHATTERS
0:48:03 > 0:48:06How is it just that Richard can paint such a false picture
0:48:06 > 0:48:07of our marriage?
0:48:07 > 0:48:11- Something must be done. - Madam, what is to be done?
0:48:11 > 0:48:15Captain Bisset is plainly proven to be guilty of adultery.
0:48:15 > 0:48:18We have put doubt in the jury's mind as to whether
0:48:18 > 0:48:21Sir Richard knew that the relations between you were
0:48:21 > 0:48:25established before the elopement and perhaps...
0:48:25 > 0:48:29the compensation could be reduced, by half, to 10,000.
0:48:29 > 0:48:32We have no means to pay such compensation, sir.
0:48:32 > 0:48:3610,000 and George still ends up in the fleet.
0:48:36 > 0:48:39And I...will never see my love again.
0:48:41 > 0:48:45Where the adultery is proven, the defendant cooperates fully
0:48:45 > 0:48:48in all of society, that is what is expected.
0:48:48 > 0:48:52Now, the scandal is reduced by default.
0:48:55 > 0:48:59Why can I not tell the whole truth?
0:48:59 > 0:49:00Madam?
0:49:02 > 0:49:04I am not worth £20,000.
0:49:06 > 0:49:09- No, Lady Worsley... - What if he may prove that
0:49:09 > 0:49:14I was not worth £20,000 long before I met Captain Bisset?
0:49:20 > 0:49:22George would need not confess to anything.
0:49:26 > 0:49:28But you would.
0:49:30 > 0:49:31How so, madam?
0:49:35 > 0:49:38I know what you're considering doing.
0:49:40 > 0:49:43Seymour, you have already lost much.
0:49:43 > 0:49:45As a consequence of your love affair and your elopement,
0:49:45 > 0:49:48you have lost your means, your place in society...
0:49:48 > 0:49:52You will never see your daughter again, of that I'm certain.
0:49:54 > 0:49:59If you choose this path, you may not win. But whatever the outcome...
0:50:01 > 0:50:03..you will be shamed forevermore.
0:50:05 > 0:50:07I do not want to lose George.
0:50:09 > 0:50:11It will not touch my love for you.
0:50:20 > 0:50:21I must have time to think.
0:50:21 > 0:50:22What else may I do?
0:50:26 > 0:50:27Go to Sir Richard.
0:50:29 > 0:50:31Reason with him.
0:50:58 > 0:51:01Lady Worsley is here.
0:51:01 > 0:51:03What does she want of me?
0:51:04 > 0:51:08She wishes to see the child, and if you wished it, speak with you,
0:51:08 > 0:51:09Sir Richard.
0:51:13 > 0:51:16Richard, do you not think it wise to hear her?
0:51:32 > 0:51:33DOOR OPENS
0:51:36 > 0:51:39Sir Richard Worsley wishes it to be known to Lady Worsley
0:51:39 > 0:51:40that the child is not here.
0:51:42 > 0:51:46And in any case, if the child were here,
0:51:46 > 0:51:50Lady Worsley would not be permitted to see the child.
0:51:50 > 0:51:54For Lady Worsley has forgone all her maternal rights
0:51:54 > 0:51:59and Sir Richard is no longer obliged, nor is he disposed
0:51:59 > 0:52:01to grant them.
0:52:01 > 0:52:05Furthermore, Sir Richard wishes it to be known that Lady Worsley's
0:52:05 > 0:52:09visitation is a further cruel and vicious act
0:52:09 > 0:52:11perpetrated upon his person
0:52:11 > 0:52:14and he will inform the Lord Justice in the morning.
0:52:28 > 0:52:30I will have you, Richard Worsley!
0:52:30 > 0:52:32I will have you for breakfast.
0:52:34 > 0:52:38You will see. The whole of London will know what you are!
0:52:50 > 0:52:52We must tell the truth.
0:52:56 > 0:52:59Then I will do as you wish, Seymour.
0:52:59 > 0:53:00Though man is a damn fool.
0:53:09 > 0:53:13The defendant is very ready to admit that the plaintiff is
0:53:13 > 0:53:15entitled to a verdict.
0:53:15 > 0:53:19But I will prove to the satisfaction of the jury
0:53:19 > 0:53:25that the plaintiff is not entitled to £20,000 of compensation.
0:53:25 > 0:53:31Lady Worsley is not worth the sum of £20,000.
0:53:31 > 0:53:33I will prove this to be a fact, my lord.
0:53:33 > 0:53:34CHATTER
0:53:36 > 0:53:40The court calls the right honourable Lord Deerhurst.
0:53:41 > 0:53:45'Madam, our marriage and our frolics are for us and us alone.'
0:53:47 > 0:53:49Of course they are.
0:53:50 > 0:53:53I must know that I can rely on you.
0:53:53 > 0:53:54Of course you can, Richard.
0:54:16 > 0:54:20On what year was your lordship first acquainted with Lady Worsley?
0:54:22 > 0:54:26We were introduced by Sir Richard Worsley in the year 1779.
0:54:29 > 0:54:31Hmm.
0:54:31 > 0:54:33And you became an intimate of hers?
0:54:38 > 0:54:41Yes, I was a most intimate friend.
0:54:45 > 0:54:48You have had an intimacy of friendship.
0:54:50 > 0:54:55But have you had any particularly intimate connection with her?
0:55:00 > 0:55:02In the bedchamber.
0:55:06 > 0:55:09With your lordship's permission, I decline that question.
0:55:11 > 0:55:16It is improper for a gentleman to admit whether he has had
0:55:16 > 0:55:22many prior and intimate connections with Lady Worsley, sir.
0:55:22 > 0:55:24CHATTER
0:55:26 > 0:55:28Certainly.
0:55:28 > 0:55:31You have no right to be asked that question.
0:55:40 > 0:55:44The court calls the right honourable Lord Peterborough.
0:55:50 > 0:55:55How did your lordship first make the acquaintance of Lady Worsley?
0:55:55 > 0:56:00I was first introduced to her by Sir Richard Worsley at Sadler's Wells.
0:56:06 > 0:56:08What about that fly fellow?
0:56:11 > 0:56:16How intimate were your relations with the Lady Worsley?
0:56:16 > 0:56:17Sir, you may decline that.
0:56:17 > 0:56:24Sir, how many a gentleman admit to the most intimate of relations
0:56:24 > 0:56:25with Lady Worsley?
0:56:32 > 0:56:34CHATTERING
0:56:34 > 0:56:39The court calls the honourable Charles Wyndham, Esquire.
0:56:48 > 0:56:49HE PANTS
0:57:02 > 0:57:06The court calls the right honourable the Marquess of Graham.
0:57:10 > 0:57:13CHATTERING
0:57:13 > 0:57:15HE PANTS
0:57:21 > 0:57:24The court calls Joseph Bouchier Smith, Esquire.
0:57:46 > 0:57:48CHATTER
0:57:50 > 0:57:51MAN IN GALLERY: Disgrace!
0:57:58 > 0:58:03"This indifference, Richard, so often you blame
0:58:03 > 0:58:05"is not owing to nature, to fear or to shame.
0:58:07 > 0:58:12"I hate to be abused and never will accept years of solitude
0:58:12 > 0:58:14"and pitiful neglect."
0:58:15 > 0:58:17They are mine, Richard.
0:58:17 > 0:58:20They are my most private things.
0:58:20 > 0:58:24It's no more than the trifling doggerel of an ungrateful shrew.
0:58:25 > 0:58:27Please leave me in peace.
0:59:29 > 0:59:30CHATTER
0:59:42 > 0:59:44JUDGE BANGS GAVEL
0:59:44 > 0:59:46The court calls Dr Osborn.
0:59:51 > 0:59:56Dr Osborn, in what condition did you find Lady Worsley?
1:00:01 > 1:00:04She had a number of complaints,
1:00:04 > 1:00:05all of which, I fancy,
1:00:05 > 1:00:08were the consequence of venereal disease.
1:00:08 > 1:00:11CROWD MUTTERING
1:00:11 > 1:00:15And were you ever employed by Sir Richard
1:00:15 > 1:00:18for complaints of a similar order, sir?
1:00:18 > 1:00:21No, sir, I was not.
1:00:22 > 1:00:25In your opinion, sir,
1:00:25 > 1:00:28did Sir Richard and Lady Worsley
1:00:28 > 1:00:31lie together as man and wife?
1:00:31 > 1:00:34No, sir.
1:00:34 > 1:00:37Not with any regularity, no.
1:00:37 > 1:00:41And what, then, of the child, Jane?
1:00:41 > 1:00:46In my opinion, sir, the child Sir Richard says belongs to him
1:00:46 > 1:00:47is a bastard.
1:00:47 > 1:00:49CROWD GASP
1:00:49 > 1:00:52The child is a bastard, you say?
1:01:03 > 1:01:04JUDGE BANGS GAVEL
1:01:04 > 1:01:07Order, I say! Order! Silence in court!
1:01:15 > 1:01:16I understood there was Deerhurst
1:01:16 > 1:01:19and then there were others to take the stand.
1:01:19 > 1:01:2026, Seymour?!
1:01:21 > 1:01:23I thought we lived as moderns, my love.
1:01:23 > 1:01:25As moderns.
1:01:27 > 1:01:28I see.
1:01:28 > 1:01:30You think me a whore, too.
1:01:53 > 1:01:56Forgive me, if I may.
1:01:56 > 1:02:02I am Mr Bisset, George Bisset. I am the new owner of Newton.
1:02:02 > 1:02:05So, you are Mr Bisset? Pleased to make your acquaintance, sir.
1:02:05 > 1:02:10I am Sir Richard Worsley. May I present to you my wife, Lady Worsley?
1:02:10 > 1:02:13Mr Bisset, I understand you have been our neighbour here a week,
1:02:13 > 1:02:16and you have neglected to call upon us.
1:02:16 > 1:02:19Forgive me, sir, madam.
1:02:19 > 1:02:23I have a card for you and was to deliver it to you tomorrow.
1:02:23 > 1:02:27- Do you believe this cheeky fellow? - I assure you, it is the truth.
1:02:27 > 1:02:31And you are to stand in the by-elections, for Newport?
1:02:31 > 1:02:35- What of it?- I wish you to know that you will have my vote.
1:02:37 > 1:02:38That is all.
1:02:45 > 1:02:46Hmm!
1:02:47 > 1:02:51Gentlemen, whilst some in Parliament
1:02:51 > 1:02:55may baulk to call themselves a Tory, I am proud to do so.
1:02:55 > 1:02:57CHEERING
1:02:57 > 1:03:00It has been an honour to offer myself for you as a candidate
1:03:00 > 1:03:03for your favour. And gentlemen, know this.
1:03:03 > 1:03:07If I should have the honour of being freely elected by you, I shall,
1:03:07 > 1:03:11when your service requires it, be at your service for ever more.
1:03:11 > 1:03:14CHEERING
1:03:16 > 1:03:18THEY LAUGH
1:03:18 > 1:03:22I give you, my lady, the honourable member for the seat
1:03:22 > 1:03:25of Newport in the county of Hampshire.
1:03:25 > 1:03:26Mm-hm!
1:03:31 > 1:03:34- I am most remiss, my dear.- Richard?
1:03:34 > 1:03:39- I've been keeping Mr Bisset from you. - Why, Richard!
1:03:39 > 1:03:41I wanted him for myself.
1:03:43 > 1:03:46I'm sure his talents know no bounds.
1:03:46 > 1:03:50I've been thinking of rewarding him, Seymour.
1:03:50 > 1:03:51Mm?
1:03:51 > 1:03:56Why, sir, you are too generous.
1:03:56 > 1:03:58I think you will look rather dashing,
1:03:58 > 1:04:01a commissioned officer of the South Hampshire Militia.
1:04:04 > 1:04:05Wh...
1:06:06 > 1:06:08SHE GASPS
1:06:08 > 1:06:10HE GASPS
1:06:22 > 1:06:25SHE LAUGHS
1:06:55 > 1:06:58I wish it could be so that Richard were away for a month.
1:06:58 > 1:06:59So do I.
1:07:05 > 1:07:08You are like no other woman I have ever met.
1:07:08 > 1:07:12Though some may say that what you do for your husband makes you
1:07:12 > 1:07:16no more than a common whore. But you are not.
1:07:16 > 1:07:19You're just doing your best for him.
1:07:19 > 1:07:21You have done your duty.
1:07:23 > 1:07:26It is how I have kept my husband happy.
1:07:28 > 1:07:32You make me feel as if a new kind of future may exist.
1:07:33 > 1:07:36A meeting not just of lovers,
1:07:36 > 1:07:41but of a new kind of love, based upon liberty, free will.
1:07:43 > 1:07:46That we may have a life together, as moderns.
1:07:48 > 1:07:50Am I your love?
1:07:50 > 1:07:53You are, George.
1:07:53 > 1:07:54My true love.
1:07:56 > 1:07:59Good. Because you are mine.
1:08:00 > 1:08:02I love you, Seymour.
1:08:04 > 1:08:08My lord, these 26 lovers are no more than a fiction,
1:08:08 > 1:08:12concocted by the defendant, Lady Worsley, and her friends.
1:08:12 > 1:08:16Not one independent witness has corroborated these
1:08:16 > 1:08:18implausible tales.
1:08:18 > 1:08:22For how much longer will Sir Richard Worsley be tormented in this manner?
1:08:23 > 1:08:27Sir, what say you?
1:08:27 > 1:08:29My Lord?
1:08:29 > 1:08:31Are we to hear any more evidence for the defence?
1:08:44 > 1:08:47- What is your name?- Mary, madam.
1:08:47 > 1:08:50My maid's name is Mary.
1:08:52 > 1:08:54'What is your name?
1:08:54 > 1:08:55'Mary Marriott, sir.
1:08:55 > 1:08:56'Uh-huh.
1:08:56 > 1:08:59- 'And you are a bathing woman? - Yes, sir.'
1:08:59 > 1:09:03Do you know Sir Richard and Lady Worsley?
1:09:03 > 1:09:06Yes, I do.
1:09:06 > 1:09:07How do you know them?
1:09:07 > 1:09:11Lady Worsley came to the bathhouse when they was in Maidstone, sir.
1:09:11 > 1:09:13Did she come on her own?
1:09:13 > 1:09:16No, sir, she came with Sir Richard and Captain Bisset.
1:09:16 > 1:09:18All three, together.
1:09:18 > 1:09:21SCANDALISED MURMURING
1:09:27 > 1:09:28- Sir! - Shh!
1:09:28 > 1:09:32- Richard!- Seymour, Seymour! Bisset would like to do something.- What?
1:09:32 > 1:09:34Bisset would like to watch you.
1:09:34 > 1:09:35SHE LAUGHS
1:09:35 > 1:09:37I would like Bisset to watch you.
1:09:37 > 1:09:39HE LAUGHS
1:09:54 > 1:09:57THEY LAUGH
1:09:57 > 1:10:04And you are sure that you heard Sir Richard suggest this?
1:10:04 > 1:10:06Yes, he did.
1:10:06 > 1:10:10And it was him that asked Lady Worsley to open her legs
1:10:10 > 1:10:12and place her hand upon her quim.
1:10:12 > 1:10:14SCANDALISED MUTTERING
1:10:14 > 1:10:18Pray, Mary, is this true?
1:10:18 > 1:10:20It is, my lord.
1:10:20 > 1:10:23Titled folk hop and skip around what they can
1:10:23 > 1:10:26and can't be expected to say, for the sake of manners.
1:10:26 > 1:10:30But I've always been a plain-speaking working woman and I tell the truth.
1:10:30 > 1:10:32So help me, God.
1:10:39 > 1:10:44It is proven that Sir Richard Worsley is not entitled
1:10:44 > 1:10:46to damages of £20,000.
1:10:46 > 1:10:51In fact, I would venture Sir Richard Worsley is not entitled
1:10:51 > 1:10:56to any compensation at all and that his litigation may be dismissed,
1:10:56 > 1:11:00for it was Sir Richard Worsley himself
1:11:00 > 1:11:04who debased and devalued his wife.
1:11:06 > 1:11:09My lord, gentlemen of the jury...
1:11:12 > 1:11:17"If a plaintiff encourages or is privy to, or consenting at all,
1:11:17 > 1:11:24"or contributing to the debauchery of his wife, or joined in it,
1:11:24 > 1:11:27"he will not recover a verdict."
1:11:27 > 1:11:29So says the law of this land.
1:11:29 > 1:11:31I rest my case.
1:11:31 > 1:11:33SHOUTS OF "HEAR, HEAR"
1:11:35 > 1:11:37Order, order!
1:11:37 > 1:11:38HE BANGS GAVEL
1:11:38 > 1:11:41I will have this court cleared if there is not order!
1:11:41 > 1:11:44Silence in court! Silence in court!
1:12:17 > 1:12:22Sir, does the plaintiff have your verdict?
1:12:25 > 1:12:27Yes, he does, my lord.
1:12:28 > 1:12:31A clear breach of legality occurred,
1:12:31 > 1:12:34when the defendant eloped to the Royal Hotel, London
1:12:34 > 1:12:36with the plaintiff's wife,
1:12:36 > 1:12:39and he shared her bed.
1:12:39 > 1:12:42Then, sir, there is the question of compensation.
1:12:42 > 1:12:46The plaintiff is making a claim of £20,000.
1:12:48 > 1:12:52What damages, sir, do you consider proper in this case?
1:12:52 > 1:12:57We consider, my Lord, that the defendant, Captain Bisset,
1:12:57 > 1:13:00should compensate the plaintiff, Sir Richard Worsley,
1:13:00 > 1:13:02the total sum of...
1:13:04 > 1:13:05..one shilling.
1:13:05 > 1:13:06CROWD GASP
1:13:08 > 1:13:11LAUGHTER
1:13:11 > 1:13:14Order, order!
1:13:16 > 1:13:17Order!
1:13:19 > 1:13:22JUDGE BANGS GAVEL
1:13:26 > 1:13:29Clear the court! Clear the court!
1:13:40 > 1:13:42Whore!
1:14:12 > 1:14:14We have done it, George.
1:14:14 > 1:14:16We have our life together now.
1:14:16 > 1:14:18How exactly is that, madam?
1:14:18 > 1:14:19Madam?
1:14:21 > 1:14:23He will let me go now. Richard...
1:14:23 > 1:14:26- Seymour...- Richard!
1:14:26 > 1:14:27You wish to speak to me?
1:14:28 > 1:14:31I wish for us to be divorced,
1:14:31 > 1:14:35and to have Jane - she belongs to George and I. She is our daughter.
1:14:37 > 1:14:40And I want all that rightfully belongs to me.
1:14:43 > 1:14:45You have...
1:14:45 > 1:14:47exposed and...
1:14:47 > 1:14:49humiliated me.
1:14:51 > 1:14:55- And you have wilfully betrayed the trust we shared.- Please, Richard.
1:14:57 > 1:15:00- After all that has happened and passed between us.- No.
1:15:02 > 1:15:05- Richard, I beg of you, let us put an end to this.- I said no.
1:15:07 > 1:15:10You are mine, Seymour, and you will always be mine.
1:15:10 > 1:15:11I will never do as you wish.
1:15:11 > 1:15:14I will never grant you a divorce.
1:15:14 > 1:15:17You belong to me and you will always belong to me.
1:15:20 > 1:15:25I may be your lawful property...
1:15:25 > 1:15:28but I will never be yours.
1:15:31 > 1:15:36Compensation has been ordered, and you, sir, shall have it!
1:15:36 > 1:15:37There!
1:15:37 > 1:15:39Have it!
1:15:41 > 1:15:43You bastard, George.
1:15:58 > 1:16:01Prime Minister.
1:16:01 > 1:16:05I do not require you to resign, sir.
1:16:05 > 1:16:07The government has not yet fallen.
1:16:07 > 1:16:09I must, my lord.
1:16:11 > 1:16:13I'm...filled with shame.
1:16:21 > 1:16:22Richard -
1:16:22 > 1:16:24torment yourself no further.
1:16:25 > 1:16:27Be done with her and divorce her.
1:16:29 > 1:16:33Lady Worsley will no more give up her pursuit of independence
1:16:33 > 1:16:35than will the American colonies.
1:16:44 > 1:16:48SHE HUMS A CHEERFUL TUNE
1:16:52 > 1:16:55These sweet williams are pretty, aren't they, George?
1:16:55 > 1:16:57Very pretty, I think.
1:16:57 > 1:17:00SHE CONTINUES TO HUM
1:17:02 > 1:17:03What is it, my love?
1:17:05 > 1:17:07Let us find a new home,
1:17:07 > 1:17:10away from England, where we may hold our heads up high,
1:17:10 > 1:17:15and there we can live a life free of all this oppression and gloom.
1:17:15 > 1:17:18No, I won't run away from him. I won't.
1:17:18 > 1:17:21- No?- No.
1:17:22 > 1:17:25SHE CONTINUES TO HUM
1:17:34 > 1:17:39"No, sir Thro' every change I went
1:17:39 > 1:17:42"But ne'er could find to keep content..."
1:17:45 > 1:17:48"All different, those poor garbage were
1:17:48 > 1:17:51"Some fat, some lean, some brown, some fair..."
1:17:55 > 1:17:57"Had you seen me on his breast reclined
1:17:57 > 1:18:01"Lips glued to lips and limbs with limbs entwined..."
1:18:04 > 1:18:07"With oft repeated acts of dalliance spent
1:18:07 > 1:18:10"My lust quite sated My heart content..."
1:18:13 > 1:18:15"Sir Richard Worse-than-sly
1:18:15 > 1:18:21"Cursed the charms that gave him once a virgin to his arms
1:18:21 > 1:18:25"But, sir, those charms you cannot justly blame
1:18:25 > 1:18:29"For were't not THOU the author of thy shame?"
1:18:35 > 1:18:38Wonderful. Wonderful...
1:18:38 > 1:18:41SHE CHATTERS - INDISTINCT
1:18:41 > 1:18:43Seymour, we have no money.
1:18:43 > 1:18:45George, we have lots of money.
1:18:45 > 1:18:47Richard has it, and I'm his lawful wife -
1:18:47 > 1:18:50so I can spend it as I wish.
1:18:52 > 1:18:53SHE GIGGLES
1:18:58 > 1:19:00You think?
1:19:00 > 1:19:01Blue?
1:19:03 > 1:19:05SHE GIGGLES
1:20:04 > 1:20:06Richard has asked me to go to him.
1:20:06 > 1:20:08Perhaps these verses shall be the last, my dear.
1:20:08 > 1:20:11What a triumph your love of poesy has become.
1:20:11 > 1:20:14Someone has to ensure we do not starve, George.
1:20:15 > 1:20:19When I'm finished with it, you can take me to bed if you wish.
1:20:22 > 1:20:24My love for you has declined.
1:20:35 > 1:20:38But Richard wishes to see me.
1:20:38 > 1:20:39I know he does.
1:20:47 > 1:20:49I did everything for you.
1:20:50 > 1:20:52I know you did.
1:20:55 > 1:20:58Why are you doing this, George?
1:21:00 > 1:21:03I thought I could live like this, but I can't.
1:21:03 > 1:21:06Are we not moderns?
1:21:07 > 1:21:10Not if living like this is being a modern.
1:21:16 > 1:21:19This is because I cannot give you a legitimate heir.
1:21:19 > 1:21:21No, Seymour...
1:21:27 > 1:21:28I do not love you any more.
1:21:33 > 1:21:34I'm very sorry.
1:21:36 > 1:21:39Very sorry indeed.
1:21:49 > 1:21:52My daughter was taken from me because of you.
1:22:02 > 1:22:03What will you do?
1:22:07 > 1:22:09I don't know, George.
1:22:11 > 1:22:13Go back to Richard.
1:22:15 > 1:22:17You were never mine.
1:22:17 > 1:22:19Nay...
1:22:19 > 1:22:21he'd take you back for a farthing.
1:22:24 > 1:22:27I belong to no man...
1:22:30 > 1:22:33and while it is my misfortune to live in an age of men,
1:22:33 > 1:22:36I will never belong to any man ever again.
1:22:51 > 1:22:53FOOTSTEPS RECEDE
1:22:55 > 1:22:56DOOR CLOSES
1:23:27 > 1:23:28HE COUGHS
1:23:37 > 1:23:38You wish to speak to me.
1:23:43 > 1:23:45I will grant you wish,
1:23:45 > 1:23:49and return your clothes and jewels...
1:23:49 > 1:23:51and I will pay you a generous allowance,
1:23:51 > 1:23:54on the condition that you cease all expenditure
1:23:55 > 1:23:57and that you leave England,
1:23:57 > 1:24:02at once, and remain abroad in France for four years.
1:24:02 > 1:24:04You would send me into exile?
1:24:04 > 1:24:06There is peace with France.
1:24:08 > 1:24:11I'm sure you'll be most content there.
1:24:11 > 1:24:14And what of Jane?
1:24:14 > 1:24:17I acknowledged her as mine, and she will remain with me.
1:24:17 > 1:24:20- But it's unfair to... - You left us, Seymour.
1:24:23 > 1:24:27It is the law. You have...forfeited all rights to her...
1:24:27 > 1:24:30- Richard, I'm her mother... - ..no more than a stranger to her.
1:24:42 > 1:24:45You're not too old to have another babe, Seymour.
1:24:45 > 1:24:47You have George -
1:24:47 > 1:24:50you are free to breed as many bastards with him as you wish.
1:24:57 > 1:24:59You wish me to depart for four years?
1:25:03 > 1:25:04Why do you complain so?
1:25:04 > 1:25:07I have lost everything.
1:25:11 > 1:25:13And only you?
1:25:15 > 1:25:17I'm tired.
1:25:17 > 1:25:19Of this.
1:25:23 > 1:25:24Yes.
1:25:26 > 1:25:27And so am I.
1:25:31 > 1:25:33Then we are agreed.
1:25:35 > 1:25:37I loved you, Richard...
1:25:38 > 1:25:42and I obeyed you, but you never cherished me.