0:00:02 > 0:00:10This film contains some scenes of a sexual nature.
0:00:47 > 0:00:49WAVES CRASHING
0:01:11 > 0:01:13SEAGULL CALLS
0:01:32 > 0:01:34BREATHING HEAVILY
0:02:06 > 0:02:09INSTRUMENTS TUNING
0:02:09 > 0:02:11CREAKING
0:02:11 > 0:02:12FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING
0:02:20 > 0:02:22TUNING
0:02:23 > 0:02:25SIGHING
0:02:39 > 0:02:41- GEORGE: - Our boys' curriculum is very wide.
0:02:41 > 0:02:44They perform a short play at the end of every term.
0:02:44 > 0:02:46theatre's an abiding interest of my wife.
0:02:46 > 0:02:48- Ah, Mary, tea if you please. - Yes, sir.
0:02:48 > 0:02:50Through the open door.
0:02:50 > 0:02:52Nelly, where were you?
0:02:52 > 0:02:55- Mr Benham has been here since three o'clock.- I'm so sorry.
0:02:55 > 0:02:57Mr Lambourne has been organising the boys as best he can.
0:02:57 > 0:02:59I lost all sense of time.
0:02:59 > 0:03:01Careful with those corners, boys.
0:03:01 > 0:03:03- Yes, ma'am.- Yes, ma'am.
0:03:07 > 0:03:08Thank you, Mary.
0:03:08 > 0:03:11Ah, Mrs Wharton Robinson. At last.
0:03:11 > 0:03:12I'm so sorry, Mr Benham.
0:03:12 > 0:03:15I just kept walking. Forgive me.
0:03:15 > 0:03:17Dear boys, let's go from the third act.
0:03:17 > 0:03:19Everyone get into positions.
0:03:19 > 0:03:21- ALL:- Yes, ma'am. - Thank you, Mr Lambourne.
0:03:21 > 0:03:24Mr Benham must not see all our tricks quite yet
0:03:24 > 0:03:26or there'll be nothing left to show him tomorrow.
0:03:26 > 0:03:30- It is cold outside? - It is, but it clears the mind.
0:03:30 > 0:03:32It would be good to decide on the readings before the end of term.
0:03:32 > 0:03:35Of course. Perhaps later.
0:03:35 > 0:03:38- Laurenson and Tanner, are you ready? BOTH:- Yes, ma'am.
0:03:38 > 0:03:42Geoffrey dear, don't forget, you come in on the final line.
0:03:42 > 0:03:44Sit there.
0:03:44 > 0:03:46Coates, Watson, take those.
0:03:46 > 0:03:48- Thank you, ma'am. - Thank you, ma'am.
0:03:49 > 0:03:51I recall no lion in Mr Dickens
0:03:51 > 0:03:53and Mr Collins' play, Mrs Wharton Robinson.
0:03:53 > 0:03:55A little dramatic license.
0:03:55 > 0:03:57I'm confident that Mr Dickens would have let it pass.
0:03:57 > 0:03:59HE CHUCKLES
0:03:59 > 0:04:00Yates, if you could drop the backing.
0:04:00 > 0:04:02Yes, ma'am.
0:04:04 > 0:04:06Musicians.
0:04:07 > 0:04:11- Is everyone ready?- I think so. - ALL:- Yes, ma'am.
0:04:11 > 0:04:13Boys, remember your positions.
0:04:14 > 0:04:15Let's begin.
0:04:15 > 0:04:17ORCHESTRA MUSIC PLAYING
0:04:28 > 0:04:31Well, my lads, the day is breaking at last.
0:04:31 > 0:04:34- "Has broken," Hadley. Mr Dickens was very particular.- Yes, ma'am.
0:04:34 > 0:04:37Well, my lads, the day has broken at last.
0:04:37 > 0:04:39What do you say to the weather now?
0:04:39 > 0:04:41- BOY 1:- I am ready to cross the Mountain with the gentleman,
0:04:41 > 0:04:43if the others will go with me.
0:04:43 > 0:04:46- BOY 2:- I can see for myself there's a storm coming.
0:04:46 > 0:04:50I smell the snow. I feel the hurricane in the air.
0:04:50 > 0:04:52No money those gentlemen can offer
0:04:52 > 0:04:54will tempt me to cross the Mountain with them today.
0:04:56 > 0:04:59- BOY 3:- Tanner, your cue.
0:04:59 > 0:05:02- BOY 4:- Well, are you ready at last? - BOY 5:- My patience is at an end.
0:05:02 > 0:05:05I'm sick and weary of all this doubt and delay.
0:05:05 > 0:05:08- BOY 4:- I'm your man. I will guide you to your journey's end.
0:05:08 > 0:05:09- Say when.- Now.
0:05:09 > 0:05:12- Are you ready? - I'm ready. Come along.
0:05:26 > 0:05:28Pull it taut.
0:05:30 > 0:05:32Upright like a brigadier.
0:05:32 > 0:05:34And thread it through.
0:05:34 > 0:05:36Thank you.
0:05:44 > 0:05:46Were you on the beach again today?
0:05:46 > 0:05:49Miss Brooke thought she saw you.
0:05:49 > 0:05:50Yes.
0:05:57 > 0:06:00PEOPLE LAUGHING
0:06:00 > 0:06:04- Look. See? It is signed. - GOVERNOR:- Really?
0:06:04 > 0:06:06Apparently, he modelled the character of Lucie Manette on Nelly.
0:06:06 > 0:06:09- Oh?- The families were very close when Nelly was a child.
0:06:09 > 0:06:11I'm sure he drew inspiration from many people.
0:06:11 > 0:06:12My wife adores his novels.
0:06:12 > 0:06:15Of course, he's often very funny, but I find a little bleak.
0:06:15 > 0:06:17One wonders what demons raged in his mind.
0:06:17 > 0:06:20- Indeed. - Thackeray, there's a writer.
0:06:20 > 0:06:21George, you cannot compare them.
0:06:21 > 0:06:23- MR BENHAM:- Oh, I agree. I am for Mr Dickens.
0:06:23 > 0:06:26There are times that I have envied Mrs Wharton Robinson
0:06:26 > 0:06:28to have known him even as a child.
0:06:28 > 0:06:30A writer.
0:06:30 > 0:06:34Yes, at times bleak, but one who makes us laugh at our own absurdity.
0:06:34 > 0:06:37We see ourselves clearly in all our folly.
0:06:37 > 0:06:38ALL CHUCKLE
0:06:38 > 0:06:42He's been dead for some years, but, yes, he is still with us.
0:06:42 > 0:06:44Thank you, Mr Benham.
0:06:44 > 0:06:47Oh, it is a subject in which I sometimes run away with myself,
0:06:47 > 0:06:50as Mrs Wharton Robinson knows only too well.
0:06:50 > 0:06:52Run away. Run away.
0:06:52 > 0:06:55I, for one, am determined to revisit him immediately.
0:06:55 > 0:06:56Where would you suggest I begin?
0:06:56 > 0:06:59- MR LAMBOURNE: Martin Chuzzlewit. - Any novel, but for brief pleasure,
0:06:59 > 0:07:01I would suggest browsing through a copy of.
0:07:01 > 0:07:03Dickens' weekly literary magazine.
0:07:03 > 0:07:04Oh?
0:07:07 > 0:07:08Household Words.
0:07:08 > 0:07:11A collection of many of his writings,
0:07:11 > 0:07:13and indeed, chapters of his novels.
0:07:13 > 0:07:14And I'm sure Mrs Wharton Robinson
0:07:14 > 0:07:17- would not mind if you cared to borrow?- Of course.
0:07:17 > 0:07:20My wife has nearly every edition. We have run out of shelves.
0:07:20 > 0:07:21ALL LAUGHING
0:07:21 > 0:07:22MARY: Sir.
0:07:22 > 0:07:25Ah, good. Thank you, Mary.
0:07:25 > 0:07:27The Frozen Deep.
0:07:28 > 0:07:32- You have the text of Mr Collins' play?- Yes. It is not a good play.
0:07:33 > 0:07:35But I shall find you one.
0:07:36 > 0:07:38- David Copperfield. - David Copperfield?
0:07:38 > 0:07:41- For our readings.- Oh, yes.
0:07:42 > 0:07:45Will you walk again tomorrow?
0:07:45 > 0:07:46Perhaps.
0:07:49 > 0:07:51May I join you?
0:07:51 > 0:07:53I walk at quite a pace.
0:07:59 > 0:08:02WAVES CRASHING
0:08:08 > 0:08:10BREATHING HEAVILY
0:08:50 > 0:08:52INDISTINCT CHATTER
0:08:59 > 0:09:02- Welcome. Welcome, Mrs Ternan. - Thank you, Charley.
0:09:02 > 0:09:03Oh, dear.
0:09:03 > 0:09:06Um, yes, do be careful now.
0:09:06 > 0:09:07MARIA: Oh, my!
0:09:07 > 0:09:10- Oh, Miss Maria. Come inside. - Thank you.
0:09:10 > 0:09:11- Come inside.- Thank you. Ooh!
0:09:11 > 0:09:13- Miss Ellen, welcome. - PANTING
0:09:15 > 0:09:16- Oh, your glove.- Thank you.
0:09:16 > 0:09:20- I'm Charley Dickens. Welcome to Manchester.- It's so wet.
0:09:20 > 0:09:23My father is waiting. The others are already here.
0:09:24 > 0:09:27- Nelly, look. See?- There we are.
0:09:27 > 0:09:28Come on.
0:09:36 > 0:09:38PIANO PLAYING
0:09:41 > 0:09:43HAMMER BANGING
0:09:43 > 0:09:44THUDDING
0:09:44 > 0:09:47- INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS MARIA:- Look, Nelly.
0:09:49 > 0:09:50- CHARLEY:- Father? - CHARLES:- Ah!
0:09:50 > 0:09:53At last we have a full company.
0:09:53 > 0:09:55Mrs Ternan, welcome.
0:09:55 > 0:09:58What a beautiful theatre you've built.
0:09:58 > 0:09:59Thank you. I'm glad, we have tried.
0:09:59 > 0:10:02- Miss Maria, welcome.- Thank you. - You had a good journey, I hope.
0:10:02 > 0:10:04- Yes, thank you, Mr Dickens. - Quite comfortable.- Good. Good. Good.
0:10:04 > 0:10:07- And you must be Miss Ellen Ternan? - I am.
0:10:07 > 0:10:09You've met my eldest son, Charley, of course?
0:10:09 > 0:10:13- He kindly rescued my glove, yes. - Ah. The gallant chevalier.
0:10:13 > 0:10:15Ladies and gentlemen, may I introduce Miss Ellen
0:10:15 > 0:10:17who is helping us in our hour of need.
0:10:17 > 0:10:19We wish your sister, Fanny, well.
0:10:19 > 0:10:21Is it the Haymarket or the Phoenix theatre we've lost her to?
0:10:21 > 0:10:23The Haymarket. She's so sad not to be here.
0:10:23 > 0:10:26- No, Nelly will give you a wonderful performance.- I have no doubt.
0:10:26 > 0:10:29Now, Mrs Ternan, Maria, you've met everyone on our previous rehearsals.
0:10:29 > 0:10:32Miss Ellen, may I introduce our family of actors?
0:10:32 > 0:10:34- We have Mr Lemon.- Delighted.
0:10:34 > 0:10:36- And Mr Egg.- Welcome.
0:10:36 > 0:10:39- And our composer, Mr Berger.- Hello.
0:10:39 > 0:10:42And Mr Pigott. Miss Sabine. Mr Charles.
0:10:42 > 0:10:44And I'd like to introduce our author, Mr Collins,
0:10:44 > 0:10:48but as ever, he is late. But here are some of my own family.
0:10:48 > 0:10:50My daughters, Mamey, Katey.
0:10:50 > 0:10:52My sister-in-law, Miss Georgina Hogarth.
0:10:52 > 0:10:56Assorted sons - Frank, Alfred, Sydney, Henry.
0:10:56 > 0:10:58And where is youngest boy?
0:10:58 > 0:11:00Don't hide there, Plorn. Come here.
0:11:00 > 0:11:02And that is it, I think.
0:11:02 > 0:11:05Uh, yes, of course, and my wife. And half an hour.
0:11:05 > 0:11:08Is that time enough, ladies, for you to settle your bonnets?
0:11:08 > 0:11:10I'd like to rehearse, but without our author,
0:11:10 > 0:11:13Mr Collins, who is at last here.
0:11:13 > 0:11:16Why am I always waiting, Wilkie? Why must you always be late?
0:11:16 > 0:11:18Because it irritates you, Charles.
0:11:18 > 0:11:21And it amuses me to see you in bad temper.
0:11:21 > 0:11:22Charles, I don't think we can afford to cut it.
0:11:22 > 0:11:24But it's too long. It'll bore if it's too long.
0:11:24 > 0:11:27It was too long in London, it'll be too long in Manchester.
0:11:27 > 0:11:29Though it pains, Wilkie. Cut, cut, cut.
0:11:29 > 0:11:32It is done. You can tell Mr Egg he's lost his last soliloquy.
0:11:32 > 0:11:34No, you must do it as author. I shall not deny you that.
0:11:34 > 0:11:38- HE LAUGHS:- You are insufferable. And this?- And here and here.
0:11:38 > 0:11:40- Now, everyone, please be careful. - TO HIMSELF:- (Butcher!)
0:11:40 > 0:11:42Our little theatre's not yet complete.
0:11:42 > 0:11:44Remember, we are rehearsing Miss Ellen in today,
0:11:44 > 0:11:47so let's be considerate. Now, I'm keen to review the last act,
0:11:47 > 0:11:49just the final entry of Wardour and Aldersly.
0:11:49 > 0:11:50So places, friends.
0:11:50 > 0:11:52- Now, Maria. Maria.- Yes?
0:11:52 > 0:11:54We should have you just here, I think.
0:11:54 > 0:11:56Then Mrs Ternan and the girls. And Miss Ellen...
0:11:56 > 0:11:59Mr Dickens, may I suggest that the ladies are slightly further upstage?
0:11:59 > 0:12:01- Yes. Of course.- Have your officers trimmed to your satisfaction?
0:12:01 > 0:12:02Yes, excellent, excellent. Very good.
0:12:02 > 0:12:05Um, do you think I ought to stand a little wider for the entrance?
0:12:05 > 0:12:06Yes, but not too much for it's your face and not mine
0:12:06 > 0:12:09that'll be holding the attention of our audience, I feel sure.
0:12:09 > 0:12:10Uh, Wilkie, are you ready?
0:12:10 > 0:12:12I need you standing at the back if I'm to carry you in.
0:12:12 > 0:12:15- Are you ready?- No.
0:12:15 > 0:12:17- Yes, come on, come on. - Yes, yes.
0:12:17 > 0:12:20Charley. Just relax the arms.
0:12:20 > 0:12:22Just a little less stiff.
0:12:22 > 0:12:23- Yeah?- Hmm.
0:12:23 > 0:12:25(That's good, yes.)
0:12:25 > 0:12:27Should you not come? I cannot carry myself.
0:12:27 > 0:12:29Yes, yes, of course.
0:12:29 > 0:12:30Do I speak after the gun?
0:12:30 > 0:12:33After the gun and you move downstage to the middle.
0:12:33 > 0:12:34MARIA: Frank! Frank!
0:12:34 > 0:12:37Then my line, "Saved, saved for you."
0:12:37 > 0:12:39- Then you've put me down here? - Yes, I have.
0:12:39 > 0:12:43And I am footsore and weary, Clara, but I have saved him.
0:12:43 > 0:12:46Yes. That's good. Then your line, Wilkie.
0:12:46 > 0:12:48Where is Wardour? Help him. Never mind me.
0:12:48 > 0:12:51- Mark, that's when you come down. - Wardour. Dear Wardour.
0:12:51 > 0:12:54Old friend whom I have wronged, remember and forgive me.
0:12:54 > 0:12:56- Very good, you're forgiven. - ALL LAUGHING
0:12:56 > 0:12:59Don't be afraid to project. We have nearly a thousand seats.
0:12:59 > 0:13:01Catherine, do say if you cannot hear us.
0:13:01 > 0:13:03- What? - We can hear you very well, Charles.
0:13:03 > 0:13:05Very good. Everyone, speak up.
0:13:05 > 0:13:07Then, Maria, that's when you come over here
0:13:07 > 0:13:08and take me gently in your arms.
0:13:08 > 0:13:12- Here.- Sorry.- Richard. Richard, look upon your old playmate.
0:13:12 > 0:13:13- And then music... - PIANO PLAYING
0:13:13 > 0:13:15No, Berger... Berger, not yet. I'm just marking through the cues.
0:13:15 > 0:13:17It plays until the curtain has fallen
0:13:17 > 0:13:19by which time we kiss, then gun.
0:13:19 > 0:13:21Bang. Then I'm dead.
0:13:21 > 0:13:23And then epilogue.
0:13:29 > 0:13:33This is a tale of woe. This is a tale of sorrow.
0:13:33 > 0:13:37A love denied. A love restored to live beyond tomorrow.
0:13:37 > 0:13:40Lest we think silence is the place to hide a heavy heart,
0:13:40 > 0:13:44remember, to love and be loved is life itself,
0:13:44 > 0:13:46without which we are nought.
0:13:50 > 0:13:52And then the curtain closes. Loud applause.
0:13:52 > 0:13:56Yet audible the crying of 2,000!
0:13:56 > 0:13:59Thank you. Bravo. Bravo.
0:13:59 > 0:14:00Ladies, gentlemen. Thank you, Maria.
0:14:00 > 0:14:04Charles, your last speech I think could benefit from cutting.
0:14:04 > 0:14:05- You do?- I do.
0:14:05 > 0:14:08- Shall we discuss it? - Uh, yes, yeah. Later.
0:14:10 > 0:14:11She has something.
0:14:16 > 0:14:19Come nearer.
0:14:19 > 0:14:20Clara.
0:14:23 > 0:14:25Kiss me.
0:14:25 > 0:14:28Sister, kiss me...
0:14:30 > 0:14:32- ..before I die. - SOBBING: No.
0:14:35 > 0:14:37SOBBING
0:14:40 > 0:14:42PIANO PLAYING
0:14:51 > 0:14:52APPLAUSE
0:14:55 > 0:14:57CHEERING
0:15:04 > 0:15:06PIANO PLAYING EERIE MUSIC
0:15:06 > 0:15:10# Queen Victoria
0:15:10 > 0:15:13# Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gothenburg... #
0:15:13 > 0:15:14ALL LAUGHING
0:15:14 > 0:15:17# Leopold the First of Belgium... #
0:15:17 > 0:15:20William Thackeray!
0:15:20 > 0:15:22POUNDING PIANO KEYS
0:15:22 > 0:15:26No, no, no. It is not enough that we play before these mere mortals.
0:15:26 > 0:15:29Friends, it is Manchester who has given us the highest accolade.
0:15:29 > 0:15:32It is Manchester whose approval I have looked for,
0:15:32 > 0:15:36and it is Manchester who has bestowed tonight's success.
0:15:36 > 0:15:39Friends, we are victorious!
0:15:39 > 0:15:40ALL CHEERING
0:15:40 > 0:15:43Sir Roger de Coverley, Mr Berger, please.
0:15:43 > 0:15:45LIVELY DANCE MUSIC PLAYING
0:15:46 > 0:15:48PEOPLE LAUGHING
0:16:00 > 0:16:01And again!
0:16:01 > 0:16:03Strip the willow!
0:16:03 > 0:16:05MUSIC CONTINUES
0:16:11 > 0:16:13Back-to-back!
0:16:20 > 0:16:23Gentlemen, change for the British Grenadiers.
0:16:25 > 0:16:26ALL LAUGHING
0:16:26 > 0:16:29# Three corpse lay out on the shining sand
0:16:29 > 0:16:31# In the morning gleam as the tide went down
0:16:31 > 0:16:35# And the women are weeping and wringing their hands
0:16:35 > 0:16:38# For those who will never come back to the town
0:16:38 > 0:16:41ALL: # For men must work and women must weep
0:16:41 > 0:16:43# The sooner it's over, the sooner to sleep
0:16:43 > 0:16:48# And goodbye to the bar and it's moaning... #
0:16:48 > 0:16:52- SOFTLY:- Raise your arms higher like a bird.
0:16:52 > 0:16:55And then, when you are ready, give me your hands.
0:16:55 > 0:16:56(It's remarkable.)
0:16:56 > 0:16:58- CHARLES:- Give me your hands.
0:16:58 > 0:17:01There. Now you are safe with me.
0:17:01 > 0:17:04One of his magic tricks.
0:17:04 > 0:17:05SHE CHUCKLES
0:17:05 > 0:17:08- Where are you? - ALL CHUCKLING
0:17:08 > 0:17:10SHUSHING
0:17:10 > 0:17:11I'm on my own.
0:17:13 > 0:17:16You are an admirer of my husband's work, Miss Ellen?
0:17:16 > 0:17:17Of course.
0:17:17 > 0:17:20At the moment, I'm lost in Little Dorrit.
0:17:20 > 0:17:22Until now, I thought Bleak House
0:17:22 > 0:17:24would be the novel that would stay with me the most.
0:17:24 > 0:17:26It has this alarming spirit of unease.
0:17:26 > 0:17:29Lady Dedlock haunted by her past.
0:17:29 > 0:17:32I keep coming back to those pages again and again.
0:17:34 > 0:17:36SOFTLY: Yet there's so much that makes me smile.
0:17:36 > 0:17:39'Tis a fiction designed to entertain.
0:17:39 > 0:17:42Surely it's more than that. It changes us.
0:17:42 > 0:17:45Now you are, you are back with us.
0:17:45 > 0:17:46ALL LAUGHING
0:17:48 > 0:17:50He will be up all night.
0:17:52 > 0:17:53And cross all day.
0:17:53 > 0:17:54SHE CHUCKLES
0:17:57 > 0:17:59Katey. Mamey.
0:17:59 > 0:18:03Now, someone else. Who is next?
0:18:03 > 0:18:04Hmm?
0:18:04 > 0:18:06- Who is next?- Good night.
0:18:06 > 0:18:10- MRS TERNAN:- Hold the baby. Hold the baby. She's gone.
0:18:10 > 0:18:14Where is she? Where is she? Is she safe? Please tell me she's safe.
0:18:14 > 0:18:17And now you are back with us, Mrs Ternan.
0:18:19 > 0:18:22- Back where? - MARIA:- Mother.
0:18:22 > 0:18:26Mother, I think you were remembering Fanny on the boat.
0:18:26 > 0:18:27Oh. What did I say?
0:18:27 > 0:18:30- You were trying to save her, Mother.- Oh.
0:18:30 > 0:18:31I'm sorry, Mr Dickens.
0:18:31 > 0:18:34I think I may have strayed into some family history.
0:18:34 > 0:18:35Oh?
0:18:36 > 0:18:40My eldest daughter, Fanny, was, um, thrown from her cot.
0:18:40 > 0:18:45My husband and I were travelling around America some years ago,
0:18:45 > 0:18:49and, um, our paddle steamer was rammed by another boat,
0:18:49 > 0:18:53and Fanny was thrown up into the air
0:18:53 > 0:18:56and saved, miraculously, by a mattress.
0:18:56 > 0:18:58The angels were watching.
0:18:58 > 0:19:00- Yes.- They were.- Yes.
0:19:00 > 0:19:02Extraordinary story.
0:19:04 > 0:19:06I am done, Mr Dickens.
0:19:06 > 0:19:08As am I. I must go.
0:19:08 > 0:19:09Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow.
0:19:09 > 0:19:11- Good night, Wilkie.- Good night.
0:19:12 > 0:19:14Five o'clock.
0:19:14 > 0:19:16- Bed.- Or breakfast?
0:19:16 > 0:19:18MAN: Good night.
0:19:19 > 0:19:21- Thank you, gentlemen. - WOMAN: Good night.- Good night.
0:19:21 > 0:19:23Maria, you broke all our hearts tonight.
0:19:23 > 0:19:26CHUCKLING Everyone was weeping.
0:19:26 > 0:19:29I couldn't hold back the tears. You were so good.
0:19:29 > 0:19:31I did try to console her in a hushed aside,
0:19:31 > 0:19:34but all she could say was, "Oh, so sad, so sad."
0:19:34 > 0:19:37Such a good, dear, pale little face.
0:19:37 > 0:19:39- You won't find a better Clara. - Thank you, Mother.
0:19:39 > 0:19:41I must get my angels to bed.
0:19:41 > 0:19:44I'm too awake to sleep.
0:19:44 > 0:19:46- It's daylight.- Nelly.
0:19:46 > 0:19:49Everyone needs sleep, Nelly dear.
0:19:57 > 0:19:59This is my favourite time.
0:19:59 > 0:20:01When the day is creeping up on us
0:20:01 > 0:20:04and we must put in order the chaos of the night.
0:20:04 > 0:20:07Stand guard once more, ready for life.
0:20:09 > 0:20:13A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature
0:20:13 > 0:20:16is a profound secret and mystery to every other.
0:20:17 > 0:20:21Until that secret is given to another to look after.
0:20:22 > 0:20:25And then perhaps two human creatures may know each other.
0:20:30 > 0:20:32Do you not think?
0:20:35 > 0:20:36Yeah.
0:20:40 > 0:20:43Has Mrs Dickens gone to bed?
0:20:43 > 0:20:44Some time ago.
0:20:44 > 0:20:46Mmm, yeah, well...
0:20:47 > 0:20:49She has terrible headaches.
0:20:51 > 0:20:54Sleep. Sleep.
0:21:00 > 0:21:03FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING
0:21:04 > 0:21:05DOOR OPENS
0:21:11 > 0:21:14Why must you do that?
0:21:14 > 0:21:16- GEORGE:- Do what, Nelly?
0:21:16 > 0:21:18Flaunt my connection?
0:21:18 > 0:21:21- It is dull.- Dull?
0:21:21 > 0:21:23To have known Dickens?
0:21:23 > 0:21:24I was a child.
0:21:26 > 0:21:28Yet to refer to him as bleak.
0:21:30 > 0:21:31It is a misconception.
0:21:31 > 0:21:32What?
0:21:32 > 0:21:35I do not understand what you are talking of, Nelly.
0:21:35 > 0:21:37This constant agitation.
0:21:41 > 0:21:42MOANING
0:22:06 > 0:22:08BREATHING HEAVILY
0:22:12 > 0:22:16- CHARLES:- "As we struggled on, nearer and nearer to the sea
0:22:16 > 0:22:19"from which this mighty wind was blowing dead on shore,
0:22:19 > 0:22:23"it's force became more and more terrific.
0:22:24 > 0:22:27"When we came within sight of the sea,
0:22:27 > 0:22:31"the waves on the horizon, caught at intervals above the rolling abyss,
0:22:31 > 0:22:36"were like glimpses of another shore with towers and buildings.
0:22:36 > 0:22:39"As the high watery walls came rolling in,
0:22:39 > 0:22:41"and at their highest tumbled into surf,
0:22:41 > 0:22:46"they looked as if the least would engulf the town.
0:22:46 > 0:22:52"As the receding wave swept back with a hoarse roar,
0:22:52 > 0:22:55"it seemed to scoop out deep caves in the beach,
0:22:55 > 0:23:00"as if its purpose were to undermine the earth.
0:23:01 > 0:23:05"Ham watched the sea, standing alone,
0:23:05 > 0:23:08"until there was a great retiring wave.
0:23:08 > 0:23:11"When, with a backward glance at those who held the rope
0:23:11 > 0:23:16"which was made fast around his body, he dashed in after it.
0:23:16 > 0:23:20"And, in a moment, was buffeting with the water,
0:23:20 > 0:23:25"rising with the hills, falling with the valleys, lost beneath the foam,
0:23:25 > 0:23:30"borne in towards the shore, borne on towards the ship.
0:23:30 > 0:23:32"At last, Ham neared the wreck.
0:23:32 > 0:23:35"He was so near that, with one more of his vigorous strokes,
0:23:35 > 0:23:37"he would be clinging to it
0:23:37 > 0:23:43"when a high, green, vast hillside of water
0:23:43 > 0:23:45"moving on shoreward from beyond the ship,
0:23:45 > 0:23:51"he seemed to leap up into it with a mighty bound.
0:23:52 > 0:23:59"And...the ship...was gone."
0:23:59 > 0:24:02Truly, Mr Dickens, it is never so alive
0:24:02 > 0:24:04as when it is spoken by its author.
0:24:04 > 0:24:06Thank you. Thank you. Will you excuse me?
0:24:06 > 0:24:08- HE CHUCKLES - Ah, Mrs Ternan.- Mr Dickens.
0:24:08 > 0:24:10It was remarkable.
0:24:10 > 0:24:13Such control, such mastery in your performance.
0:24:13 > 0:24:16Thank you. I am told these readings double sales.
0:24:16 > 0:24:18It was quite brilliant, Mr Dickens.
0:24:18 > 0:24:19- It was?- Yes. Yes.
0:24:19 > 0:24:21- Absolutely.- Miss Fanny!
0:24:21 > 0:24:25- CHUCKLES:- We've missed you. - Well, not enough, it would seem.
0:24:25 > 0:24:28- Mrs Dickens isn't here? - Uh, no, not today.
0:24:28 > 0:24:31- Oh, what a pity to have missed it. - Mm-hm.
0:24:31 > 0:24:35Oh, such a storm. We were quite blown off course.
0:24:35 > 0:24:37- So, it did not disappoint? - MARIA:- No.
0:24:37 > 0:24:40- Well...- Well?
0:24:40 > 0:24:43Nelly has read every chapter twice.
0:24:43 > 0:24:45I may have read every chapter twice,
0:24:45 > 0:24:49but I didn't really hear it until now.
0:24:49 > 0:24:54Hearing it spoken, I felt I was in the storm.
0:24:54 > 0:24:59I was there with Copperfield seeing his friend drowned.
0:24:59 > 0:25:01It was unbearable.
0:25:01 > 0:25:03Yes, I...
0:25:03 > 0:25:05- I am glad. - ALL CHUCKLE
0:25:05 > 0:25:07Charles, do please come and talk to these gentlemen.
0:25:07 > 0:25:10I've been entertaining them for several minutes now,
0:25:10 > 0:25:13- but ultimately, I feel I am a poor substitute.- Wilkie, I am coming.
0:25:13 > 0:25:14ALL LAUGHING
0:25:14 > 0:25:15Where are you playing next?
0:25:15 > 0:25:17They're engaged to play Doncaster for three weeks.
0:25:17 > 0:25:20- And what are you playing? - Uh, two tragedies and a farce.
0:25:20 > 0:25:23- Ah, a farce. What farce? - The Pet of the Petticoats.
0:25:23 > 0:25:25- LAUGHING - The Pet of the Petticoats?- Yes.
0:25:25 > 0:25:26What a terrible title!
0:25:26 > 0:25:27Yes.
0:25:27 > 0:25:29ALL CHUCKLING
0:25:29 > 0:25:30Well, um...
0:25:30 > 0:25:34But very good races, Doncaster. Excuse me. Don't go away.
0:25:47 > 0:25:49DOOR CLOSES
0:25:49 > 0:25:51Catherine?
0:25:51 > 0:25:52Yes?
0:25:54 > 0:25:56Shall we sit together?
0:25:57 > 0:25:59If you wish.
0:25:59 > 0:26:01Well, no, if you'd prefer not, I, um...
0:26:01 > 0:26:04I did not sleep well last night. Perhaps I will go to bed now.
0:26:04 > 0:26:07Yes, of course, yes.
0:26:07 > 0:26:09Wilkie has an idea for Household Words.
0:26:09 > 0:26:11A trip to the North.
0:26:11 > 0:26:13He's calling it A Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices.
0:26:13 > 0:26:15HE CHUCKLES
0:26:15 > 0:26:17It might be a couple of pages in it.
0:26:17 > 0:26:19- Where will you start?- Um...
0:26:19 > 0:26:22- Doncaster, I think. - Hmm. Turn up the lamp.
0:26:22 > 0:26:24You cannot write in this light.
0:26:44 > 0:26:46DISTANT SHOUTING
0:27:10 > 0:27:12ALL CHEERING
0:27:12 > 0:27:14HORSES APPROACHING
0:27:20 > 0:27:23She won! She won!
0:27:23 > 0:27:25Nelly, victory.
0:27:25 > 0:27:27CHUCKLING
0:27:27 > 0:27:29Nelly, you've won!
0:27:29 > 0:27:31- How much?- 5 shillings.
0:27:31 > 0:27:325 shillings?
0:27:32 > 0:27:34It was fixed. It was fixed.
0:27:34 > 0:27:36I hope you're not a bad sport, Mr Collins.
0:27:36 > 0:27:38- I am a very bad sport. - Then you must win.
0:27:38 > 0:27:41So, what will you do with your winnings, Nelly?
0:27:41 > 0:27:43I shall spend it all at once.
0:27:43 > 0:27:46No, I may spend a half a shilling on a copy of Household Words
0:27:46 > 0:27:48just to be sure the two apprentices
0:27:48 > 0:27:50returned safely from their lazy tour.
0:27:50 > 0:27:52They did, though they did not want to go home.
0:27:52 > 0:27:53But what of their families?
0:27:53 > 0:27:57Well, they missed them of course, but they did so enjoy being away.
0:27:57 > 0:27:59- MAN 1:- Charles Dickens.
0:27:59 > 0:28:01Charles, you've been rumbled.
0:28:01 > 0:28:02- MAN 2:- Mr Dickens!
0:28:02 > 0:28:04Hello. Good day. Yes. Thank you.
0:28:04 > 0:28:06How very unexpected.
0:28:06 > 0:28:08- Thank you. Thank you. - MEN CLAMOURING
0:28:08 > 0:28:11Welcome to Yorkshire. Will you write a book about us?
0:28:12 > 0:28:15Mr Dickens, great talking to you.
0:28:15 > 0:28:16Miss Ellen.
0:28:16 > 0:28:18- WOMAN:- Mr Dickens. - Thank you.
0:28:18 > 0:28:21- MAN:- I've read all your stories. - Thank you.
0:28:21 > 0:28:23CLAMOURING CONTINUES
0:28:28 > 0:28:31SHE SIGHS
0:28:31 > 0:28:33Through there, please. Thank you.
0:28:33 > 0:28:36- Watch it!- Yes, ma'am.
0:28:36 > 0:28:38- Give me that, Maria dear. - Thank you, Mother.
0:28:38 > 0:28:41- Nearly there. - SIGHING
0:28:42 > 0:28:43- MARIA:- Oh, home!
0:28:43 > 0:28:45- Home! - CHUCKLES
0:28:45 > 0:28:46That's yours.
0:28:48 > 0:28:50- MARIA:- Does that need washing, do you think?- I'll put it in.
0:28:50 > 0:28:52HUMMING
0:28:56 > 0:28:57- FANNY:- This will not stretch to another season.
0:28:57 > 0:29:00I cannot mend another sleeve again.
0:29:00 > 0:29:02- MARIA:- The cuffs are still good.
0:29:02 > 0:29:04And there's lace on the collar I can save. Yes, I'll unpick it.
0:29:04 > 0:29:07Maria, also this hem.
0:29:07 > 0:29:09Thank you. Look.
0:29:09 > 0:29:13ALL: # To pine on the stem
0:29:13 > 0:29:17# Since the lovely are sleeping
0:29:17 > 0:29:22# Go sleep thou with them
0:29:22 > 0:29:25# Thus kindly I scatter
0:29:25 > 0:29:31# Thy leaves o'er the bed... #
0:29:31 > 0:29:35- ALL LAUGHING MRS TERNAN:- I'm collecting washing.
0:29:35 > 0:29:36Here.
0:29:36 > 0:29:40# And from love's shining circle
0:29:40 > 0:29:42# The gems drop away... #
0:29:42 > 0:29:43This signed?
0:29:44 > 0:29:47- A souvenir. MARIA:- Where are my scissors?
0:29:47 > 0:29:49FANNY: They're in the drawer.
0:29:49 > 0:29:51It's to be treasured.
0:29:51 > 0:29:56FANNY: # When true hearts are withered
0:29:56 > 0:30:00# And fond ones are flown... #
0:30:14 > 0:30:16Oh, Catherine.
0:30:16 > 0:30:18Um, excuse me.
0:31:03 > 0:31:04HE SNIFFLES
0:31:15 > 0:31:17Why are you up so early?
0:31:18 > 0:31:21- I must go to London.- Now?
0:31:21 > 0:31:24- There will be no train. - Well, then I shall walk.
0:31:24 > 0:31:28- It will take you all day. - Then it will take me all day.
0:31:31 > 0:31:33DOOR CLOSES
0:31:52 > 0:31:55- SIR PETER:- So, here's perverseness.
0:31:55 > 0:31:56ALL LAUGHING
0:31:56 > 0:32:00No, no, 'tis Charles only whom you would prefer.
0:32:00 > 0:32:03'Tis evident his vices and follies have won your heart.
0:32:03 > 0:32:07I have obeyed you, both in neither seeing nor corresponding with him.
0:32:07 > 0:32:09Yet I cannot think it culpable if,
0:32:09 > 0:32:13though my understanding severely condemns his vices,
0:32:13 > 0:32:16my heart professes some...
0:32:17 > 0:32:21STAMMERS: ..suggests some pity for his distresses.
0:32:21 > 0:32:24ALL LAUGHING
0:32:24 > 0:32:26- BUCKSTONE:- Egad, we'll have the wedding tomorrow morning.
0:32:26 > 0:32:28- ARNOTT:- Thank you, dear Uncle.
0:32:28 > 0:32:31What, you rogue, don't you ask the girl's consent first?
0:32:31 > 0:32:33- ARNOTT:- I have done that a long time...
0:32:33 > 0:32:36- A minute ago and she looked... - (Be hard to believe she was so bad.)
0:32:36 > 0:32:38- Yes.- For shame, Charles.
0:32:38 > 0:32:40I protest, Sir Peter. There has not been a word.
0:32:40 > 0:32:42Because we can't hear a word!
0:32:42 > 0:32:43ALL LAUGHING
0:32:43 > 0:32:45- BUCKSTONE: - Well, then the fewer the better.
0:32:45 > 0:32:48May your love for each other never know abatement.
0:32:48 > 0:32:50And may you live as happily together
0:32:50 > 0:32:54as Lady Teazle and I intend to do.
0:32:54 > 0:32:58- That was very good, Nelly! - Really, Mother?
0:32:58 > 0:33:00There is such clarity in your performance, Nelly.
0:33:00 > 0:33:02Oh, thank you, Fanny.
0:33:02 > 0:33:04- You looked so beautiful. - Thank you, Maria.
0:33:04 > 0:33:06Mr Dickens, why didn't you tell us you were coming?
0:33:06 > 0:33:07A last minute impulse.
0:33:07 > 0:33:09- Mr Dickens!- My dear Buckstone.
0:33:09 > 0:33:11Always a pleasure to have you grace our theatre.
0:33:11 > 0:33:12Thank you. A memorable night.
0:33:12 > 0:33:15Miss Ellen, you were simply splendid.
0:33:15 > 0:33:18Oh, thank you, Mr Arnott. As were you.
0:33:18 > 0:33:20And how is the writing, Mr Dickens?
0:33:20 > 0:33:21My writing is ferocious.
0:33:21 > 0:33:24I'm up at seven, cold bath before breakfast,
0:33:24 > 0:33:26then I blaze away until three o'clock.
0:33:26 > 0:33:28I fight not to be distracted.
0:33:28 > 0:33:30Won't you sit?
0:33:30 > 0:33:32No, I don't think.
0:33:32 > 0:33:35It's very late. You must be tired, Mr Dickens.
0:33:35 > 0:33:38There's so much to do, I don't know whether my head is on or off.
0:33:38 > 0:33:40Nelly, you must come and meet my very good friends.
0:33:40 > 0:33:43Thank you. Yes, Mr Arnott, I'd be delighted to.
0:33:45 > 0:33:47- This is Ambrose.- Hello.
0:33:47 > 0:33:49- She is much in demand.- Mmm, indeed.
0:33:49 > 0:33:51DOOR CLOSES
0:33:51 > 0:33:54- Come through. Come through. - Thank you, Mrs Ternan.
0:33:54 > 0:33:56MATCH LIGHTING
0:33:56 > 0:33:58- Fanny, Maria, we need to feed our guest.- Yes, Mother.
0:33:58 > 0:34:00Please do not trouble yourself, Mrs Ternan.
0:34:00 > 0:34:03There is some meat in the larder. And some fruit. And bread.
0:34:03 > 0:34:05Nelly, would you bring a drink for Mr Dickens?
0:34:07 > 0:34:08HE CHUCKLES
0:34:08 > 0:34:10This is enchanting.
0:34:12 > 0:34:16Ah, I see you have Mr Keene as the Moor.
0:34:16 > 0:34:18I played his Desdemona.
0:34:18 > 0:34:20- May I take your coat, Mr Dickens? - I know. Thank you, Mrs Ternan.
0:34:20 > 0:34:23And my husband was Iago.
0:34:23 > 0:34:26Indeed. "Farewell the tranquil mind."
0:34:28 > 0:34:30- Thank you. - Uh, would you sit?
0:34:30 > 0:34:32It is the only chair in the house that doesn't sag
0:34:32 > 0:34:33should you shift in search of comfort.
0:34:33 > 0:34:35Well, I am warned. Thank you.
0:34:42 > 0:34:46- We have ham and plums. - And some bread and some cheese.
0:34:46 > 0:34:48This is charming.
0:34:48 > 0:34:50And wine.
0:34:50 > 0:34:51Then I shall never leave.
0:34:51 > 0:34:53- Oh, watch the...- Sorry.
0:34:53 > 0:34:55And I didn't know how I could get rid of him.
0:34:55 > 0:34:58- And then what did you say? - Well, what I should have said was,
0:34:58 > 0:35:01"Mr Andersen, though your Ugly Duckling has delighted,"
0:35:01 > 0:35:05"you've slept in this room for five weeks now and you must go home."
0:35:05 > 0:35:07- But you did not.- I did not.
0:35:07 > 0:35:10- Why didn't you? - He doesn't understand English.
0:35:10 > 0:35:13He only speaks Danish, and I'm not sure he understands Danish.
0:35:13 > 0:35:15I was tempted to learn his language, so I could say to him,
0:35:15 > 0:35:18"May you never outstay your welcome so long again."
0:35:18 > 0:35:20ALL LAUGHING
0:35:22 > 0:35:25And now it seems that I have done the same.
0:35:25 > 0:35:26- FANNY:- No, never.
0:35:26 > 0:35:29I will thank you, ladies, for a pleasurable night.
0:35:29 > 0:35:32Life is nothing without good company.
0:35:32 > 0:35:34Congratulations, Nelly, on your performance.
0:35:34 > 0:35:36Thank you.
0:35:36 > 0:35:40Good night, ladies. Ladies, good night.
0:35:40 > 0:35:41- Good night.- Good night.
0:35:43 > 0:35:45This is a very pretty cottage.
0:35:45 > 0:35:47Thank you. If a little small.
0:35:47 > 0:35:49SHE CHUCKLES
0:35:49 > 0:35:51The rewards of our profession are rarely monetary.
0:35:51 > 0:35:53But I would have it no other way.
0:35:53 > 0:35:55No-one is entirely useless in this world
0:35:55 > 0:35:58if they may lighten the burden.
0:35:58 > 0:36:01(I didn't know he was going to be there.)
0:36:01 > 0:36:03My daughters are fine young women.
0:36:05 > 0:36:08Sometimes, I... I'm anxious for their future.
0:36:09 > 0:36:11I understand.
0:36:11 > 0:36:14If I may be of assistance in any way?
0:36:16 > 0:36:19I cannot risk Nelly's reputation.
0:36:21 > 0:36:25I hope that nothing I could offer would compromise her.
0:36:28 > 0:36:30Good night, Mrs Ternan.
0:36:30 > 0:36:32Good night, Mr Dickens.
0:36:32 > 0:36:36- Good night, ladies. - ALL: Good night.
0:36:36 > 0:36:37DOOR OPENS
0:36:39 > 0:36:40DOOR CLOSES
0:36:44 > 0:36:46INDISTINCT CHATTER
0:36:49 > 0:36:51- MAN:- # Oh, my name is Sam Hall
0:36:51 > 0:36:53# And I've robbed both rich and poor
0:36:53 > 0:36:56# And my neck shall pay for all
0:36:56 > 0:36:59# When I die, when I die... #
0:36:59 > 0:37:01CARRIAGE APPROACHING
0:37:03 > 0:37:05WHINNYING
0:37:09 > 0:37:10- MAN:- Come on out.
0:37:12 > 0:37:15Shilling a blow, sir? Shilling a blow?
0:37:19 > 0:37:24I shall give you 5 if you go home safely tonight.
0:37:24 > 0:37:28I can play house, sir. Want me as your wife, sir?
0:37:29 > 0:37:31Where is your mother?
0:37:31 > 0:37:33CHUCKLING
0:37:48 > 0:37:50BABY CRYING
0:38:04 > 0:38:08'Last night, I sat next to a gentleman at dinner,
0:38:08 > 0:38:12'and he asked me in some fury why it was that our city
0:38:12 > 0:38:17'should help those who do not help themselves.
0:38:17 > 0:38:20'By "those" he meant the many fallen women
0:38:20 > 0:38:23'that we see around us every day,
0:38:23 > 0:38:28'and their offspring, many who rely on this hospital today.
0:38:28 > 0:38:30'I replied,
0:38:30 > 0:38:34' "The two grim nurses - poverty and sickness -
0:38:34 > 0:38:38' "bring these children before you and preside over their births,
0:38:38 > 0:38:43' "rock their wretched cradles, nail down their little coffins,
0:38:43 > 0:38:45' "pile up the earth above their graves.'
0:38:45 > 0:38:50"Their unnatural deaths form one third
0:38:50 > 0:38:54"of the annual deaths in this great town."
0:38:54 > 0:38:58"But what of God?" he piously replied.
0:38:58 > 0:39:01"What Of him?" I said.
0:39:01 > 0:39:05"I feel sure God looks leniently on all vice
0:39:05 > 0:39:10"that proceeds from human tenderness and natural passion."
0:39:10 > 0:39:14I hope we will, too, and give generously tonight.
0:39:14 > 0:39:15Thank you.
0:39:21 > 0:39:23MUSIC PLAYING
0:39:27 > 0:39:29INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS
0:39:30 > 0:39:33- MARIA:- Thank you, ma'am. - Good night, sir.
0:39:33 > 0:39:35Thank you, ma'am.
0:39:36 > 0:39:38- Good night. - Thank you, My Lord.
0:39:40 > 0:39:42- Thank you. - Thank you very much.
0:39:43 > 0:39:45- Good night.- Thank you.
0:39:45 > 0:39:48Oh, I'm sure you can do better than that, sir.
0:39:48 > 0:39:50CHUCKLING
0:39:50 > 0:39:53Maria. Fanny. Nelly. Have we fleeced them?
0:39:53 > 0:39:57- MARIA:- With every ounce of our souls, Mr Dickens.
0:39:57 > 0:39:58Thank you. Thank you.
0:39:58 > 0:40:00I did not believe we would raise so much money. Where does one begin?
0:40:00 > 0:40:02They'll take some counting.
0:40:02 > 0:40:03Yes. Yes.
0:40:03 > 0:40:05- Such an achievement. - We must celebrate.
0:40:05 > 0:40:07Yes! We must!
0:40:07 > 0:40:08We shall!
0:40:08 > 0:40:12Here we are. Please, Mrs Ternan, come through.
0:40:12 > 0:40:14Are you moving in or out, Mr Dickens?
0:40:14 > 0:40:16I'm thinking of letting it.
0:40:16 > 0:40:19My wife prefers to live outside of the public glare. London tires her
0:40:19 > 0:40:21and Gad's Hill is where she likes to retreat with the children.
0:40:21 > 0:40:25- Gad's Hill near Rochester?- Indeed, very close. Walking distance.
0:40:25 > 0:40:28- Nelly was born in Rochester. - Ah, I was schooled in Chatham.
0:40:28 > 0:40:30But my earliest memories are of Newcastle.
0:40:30 > 0:40:33Newcastle I do not know so well.
0:40:33 > 0:40:35Please, sit down. Make yourselves at home.
0:40:35 > 0:40:37- We have champagne. - CHUCKLES
0:40:37 > 0:40:40Thank you, John. Please, on the piano.
0:40:46 > 0:40:50Now did you ever see Mr Keene's Corsican Brothers?
0:40:50 > 0:40:54Interesting. I saw that melodrama many, many years ago...
0:40:59 > 0:41:02CONVERSATION CONTINUES DISTANTLY
0:41:40 > 0:41:42Nelly?
0:41:42 > 0:41:44Thank you for your hospitality, Mr Dickens. We must leave you.
0:41:44 > 0:41:47Fanny has an audition in the morning and must rest her voice.
0:41:47 > 0:41:48But, of course, of course.
0:41:48 > 0:41:51- MARIA:- We have a wager, Mr Dickens, on how much we collected tonight.
0:41:51 > 0:41:53I think 400 pounds, but Fanny thinks more.
0:41:53 > 0:41:56Then I shall count it right away. It must be banked tomorrow.
0:41:56 > 0:41:59- You'll be up all night. - Well, I don't sleep well anyway.
0:41:59 > 0:42:01Why don't we help you? Together it will take us no time.
0:42:01 > 0:42:03- We have a rehearsal in the morning. - No.
0:42:03 > 0:42:05I could stay and help, Mr Dickens, with Nelly.
0:42:05 > 0:42:08- If you have no objection. - No, I...
0:42:09 > 0:42:10STAMMERING
0:42:10 > 0:42:13- Well, yes, thank you. Thank you. - ALL LAUGHING
0:42:13 > 0:42:15Well, then, I shall walk home with Fanny.
0:42:15 > 0:42:17- Very well.- Thank you, Mr Dickens. - Good night.- Thank you.
0:42:17 > 0:42:20- Good night, Maria. Good night, Fanny.- We shan't be long.
0:42:33 > 0:42:36£507...
0:42:36 > 0:42:41six shillings and thruppence.
0:42:41 > 0:42:43- We are rich.- Yes!
0:42:43 > 0:42:46And they will be delighted...
0:42:46 > 0:42:48until the next time.
0:42:54 > 0:42:57Do you like this life?
0:42:58 > 0:43:00Constantly on show.
0:43:02 > 0:43:04Constantly watched.
0:43:04 > 0:43:07Well, it is not always of my own making, but...
0:43:10 > 0:43:12I do not think I would. SHE CHUCKLES
0:43:14 > 0:43:17Well, I have my work.
0:43:17 > 0:43:19It is a great foil.
0:43:19 > 0:43:24They try, but they cannot always find you there.
0:43:24 > 0:43:26"They"?
0:43:26 > 0:43:28Mmm, the hawkers,
0:43:28 > 0:43:31the men who need to make money who look to trip you up.
0:43:31 > 0:43:34And then there are the admirers.
0:43:34 > 0:43:40Those who wish you to be more than you can possibly be.
0:43:40 > 0:43:42And what is that?
0:43:42 > 0:43:45Good, I suppose.
0:43:45 > 0:43:47SHE CHUCKLES
0:44:00 > 0:44:06My father was sent to a debtor's prison when I was 12.
0:44:06 > 0:44:09I worked in a blacking factory thereafter,
0:44:09 > 0:44:12sealing bottles and sticking labels.
0:44:14 > 0:44:17It was hateful.
0:44:17 > 0:44:21- Were you fond of your father? - Well...
0:44:21 > 0:44:23He was my first audience.
0:44:23 > 0:44:25I honed my comic lines on him.
0:44:28 > 0:44:30- Mmm... - HE CHUCKLES
0:44:30 > 0:44:33I've told you too much.
0:44:33 > 0:44:36You're too good at this. You, now, you.
0:44:38 > 0:44:41My father was an actor.
0:44:41 > 0:44:45The son of a Dublin grocer. Also in debt. Also dead.
0:44:45 > 0:44:46When I was seven.
0:44:47 > 0:44:49In an asylum.
0:44:51 > 0:44:53I had a brother.
0:44:55 > 0:44:57He died at ten months.
0:44:57 > 0:45:01Though how a boy would have fit with three girls.
0:45:09 > 0:45:11She is devoted to us.
0:45:14 > 0:45:16Our life is unpredictable.
0:45:24 > 0:45:26You are...
0:45:26 > 0:45:28What?
0:45:29 > 0:45:31You are so free.
0:45:39 > 0:45:42She will sleep all night if we leave her.
0:45:42 > 0:45:44I will ask John to bring the carriage around.
0:45:44 > 0:45:46Nelly?
0:45:46 > 0:45:48Nelly?
0:45:53 > 0:45:55Tell me a secret.
0:45:57 > 0:46:00What kind of secret?
0:46:00 > 0:46:01Anything.
0:46:01 > 0:46:03Something that you've never told anyone
0:46:03 > 0:46:05or perhaps never even thought of telling.
0:46:08 > 0:46:10My middle name is Lawless.
0:46:14 > 0:46:16Now your turn.
0:46:16 > 0:46:17Hmm.
0:46:22 > 0:46:25Ellen Lawless Ternan.
0:46:28 > 0:46:30That is my secret.
0:46:39 > 0:46:40SHE EXHALES
0:46:45 > 0:46:47SCRAPING
0:46:49 > 0:46:51She's barely 18.
0:46:55 > 0:46:59I've never had to concern myself about you and Maria.
0:47:00 > 0:47:04There's always a tour for you and your younger sister.
0:47:04 > 0:47:08Mr Buckstone's already enquired if Maria is free for pantomime.
0:47:10 > 0:47:12But Nelly...
0:47:14 > 0:47:16Nelly is different.
0:47:17 > 0:47:19Her talent lies elsewhere.
0:47:21 > 0:47:23I love her.
0:47:24 > 0:47:26I love her dearly.
0:47:27 > 0:47:34Charles Dickens is not merely some opportunist, some adventurer.
0:47:34 > 0:47:39I am thinking about what this life can offer her.
0:47:39 > 0:47:41I'm thinking about her future.
0:47:41 > 0:47:43What future would that be, Mother?
0:47:47 > 0:47:49Our profession is hard enough, even if you have talent.
0:47:49 > 0:47:51FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING
0:47:57 > 0:48:00SOBBING
0:48:11 > 0:48:12SNIFFLES
0:48:12 > 0:48:13Go away, Fanny.
0:48:13 > 0:48:16I will stay out here all day if I have to.
0:48:16 > 0:48:18Nelly?
0:48:20 > 0:48:22- Did no-one think of telling me? - Nelly.
0:48:22 > 0:48:25You are the truest person I know in life,
0:48:25 > 0:48:27but you are not an actress.
0:48:27 > 0:48:30And what other arrangements have been made which I do not know about?
0:48:30 > 0:48:32It's only because we care so.
0:48:35 > 0:48:36Do you love him?
0:48:36 > 0:48:37SHE SIGHS
0:48:41 > 0:48:44He is married.
0:48:44 > 0:48:47That has not stopped him falling in love with you.
0:48:52 > 0:48:54WAVES CRASHING
0:48:56 > 0:48:58We discussed Hard Times,
0:48:58 > 0:49:02but it just doesn't feel quite right.
0:49:02 > 0:49:05I don't know. They're quite lost.
0:49:05 > 0:49:08So I thought Great Expectations might be a choice for our readings.
0:49:08 > 0:49:10David Copperfield is, of course, a contender,
0:49:10 > 0:49:15but for me, Great Expectations wins out in the end.
0:49:17 > 0:49:19Do you agree?
0:49:20 > 0:49:22'Tis a fine novel.
0:49:28 > 0:49:30Mrs Wharton Robinson,
0:49:30 > 0:49:36I see you are soulful, distracted.
0:49:37 > 0:49:39There is some...
0:49:39 > 0:49:41As if...
0:49:43 > 0:49:48..a part of you is absent. I do not wish to intrude.
0:49:48 > 0:49:50You talk, I am sure, to your husband.
0:49:52 > 0:49:53No.
0:49:53 > 0:49:56Not all wives do.
0:49:56 > 0:50:00To confide in the person you love the most,
0:50:00 > 0:50:03- well, sometimes that is hard. - George is a good man.
0:50:04 > 0:50:06- A very good man.- Of course.
0:50:06 > 0:50:08But you are troubled.
0:50:09 > 0:50:12Comes and then it goes.
0:50:13 > 0:50:14But it returns.
0:50:18 > 0:50:19I wish to help you.
0:50:21 > 0:50:22I hope I can be someone you can trust.
0:50:22 > 0:50:25- Really, I'm quite well. - You are not.
0:50:27 > 0:50:29Please, Mr Benham.
0:50:32 > 0:50:33I will listen without judgment.
0:50:38 > 0:50:40I am always here.
0:50:55 > 0:50:57- Come on, boys! - SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY
0:50:57 > 0:50:58Come on, Plorn.
0:50:58 > 0:51:00The whole point of the third leg is to give you more speed.
0:51:00 > 0:51:02HE CHUCKLES
0:51:02 > 0:51:04Oh! Useless boy.
0:51:05 > 0:51:08- WOMAN:- It's time to get you undone.
0:51:08 > 0:51:09What's happened here?
0:51:09 > 0:51:12- Do you have enough to eat? - Thank you, Mr Dickens.- Good.
0:51:18 > 0:51:19HE SNIFFLES
0:51:20 > 0:51:23More gossip in The London Diary?
0:51:28 > 0:51:32You could not keep it quiet forever, Charles.
0:51:32 > 0:51:35No matter. You must deny it.
0:51:35 > 0:51:38Rumours can always be denied.
0:51:38 > 0:51:41Do not worry, it will pass.
0:51:41 > 0:51:43And then you must stop this.
0:51:45 > 0:51:47What if I do not want to?
0:51:47 > 0:51:49Don't be foolish.
0:51:49 > 0:51:51You cannot keep her a secret.
0:51:52 > 0:51:54Yes, I can.
0:51:57 > 0:51:59Plorn! We'll do a hopping race.
0:51:59 > 0:52:01Mamey. Katey. Come on. Come on.
0:52:01 > 0:52:03One leg. Come on, are you ready?
0:52:03 > 0:52:05Come here, come here, come here.
0:52:05 > 0:52:08Come on. Quickly, come on, Plorn. You're so slow.
0:52:08 > 0:52:11And ready, steady, go!
0:52:11 > 0:52:15Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes!
0:52:15 > 0:52:18- MAN:- Ladies, can I interest you in some of this?
0:52:20 > 0:52:24- Close your eyes.- Don't turn around, Nelly. Don't turn around.
0:52:24 > 0:52:26Close your eyes.
0:52:26 > 0:52:30Keep them closed until I say...
0:52:30 > 0:52:33Open your eyes! Happy Birthday.
0:52:36 > 0:52:38- FANNY:- Happy Birthday.
0:52:38 > 0:52:41That's lovely. Oh, look.
0:52:41 > 0:52:43INDISTINCT CHATTER
0:52:43 > 0:52:46Ma'am, there's a Mrs Dickens to see Miss Ellen.
0:52:50 > 0:52:52Mother?
0:52:55 > 0:52:57- MARIA:- I shall cut the cake.
0:52:57 > 0:53:00- MAN:- He never went home again. That was the first and last time.
0:53:00 > 0:53:02Mr Ambrose? Have you ever took to the stage?
0:53:11 > 0:53:12Mrs Dickens.
0:53:13 > 0:53:16I thought this was the right house.
0:53:19 > 0:53:20Won't you sit?
0:53:22 > 0:53:24Such attention to detail.
0:53:24 > 0:53:27NELLY CHUCKLES It's all just paste and glass.
0:53:27 > 0:53:29You find us in disarray.
0:53:30 > 0:53:34I'd heard that he'd found you somewhere close on the square.
0:53:34 > 0:53:37My mother and sister are to go to Italy.
0:53:37 > 0:53:41Fanny is to be a governess to the Trollope family.
0:53:41 > 0:53:42Really?
0:53:42 > 0:53:46Mr Dickens, um, kindly made the introduction.
0:53:51 > 0:53:54- My husband's always been very generous.- Mmm.
0:54:08 > 0:54:10Happy Birthday, Miss Ternan.
0:54:17 > 0:54:18Won't you open it?
0:54:21 > 0:54:24It is a gift from Charles.
0:54:24 > 0:54:29It was mistakenly delivered to me. The jewelers naturally believing.
0:54:37 > 0:54:40Charles insisted that I delivered it to its rightful recipient.
0:54:49 > 0:54:51He is fond of you.
0:54:54 > 0:54:55And you of him?
0:54:57 > 0:54:59Silly question.
0:55:00 > 0:55:02He is Mr Charles Dickens.
0:55:07 > 0:55:09In those early years together,
0:55:09 > 0:55:11I could not fail to be impressed.
0:55:13 > 0:55:17But you will find that you must share him with his public.
0:55:18 > 0:55:20They will be the constant.
0:55:22 > 0:55:25And, in truth, you will never absolutely know
0:55:25 > 0:55:27which one he loves the most.
0:55:30 > 0:55:32You.
0:55:32 > 0:55:34Or them.
0:55:36 > 0:55:38I do not believe he knows himself.
0:55:46 > 0:55:48CLICKS TONGUE
0:55:48 > 0:55:52- I'm interrupting your party. - I'm far too old for parties.
0:55:52 > 0:55:56There's not a soul under 20 in attendance.
0:55:56 > 0:55:59Well, Charles will be here soon.
0:56:00 > 0:56:02And he's nothing if not youthful.
0:56:16 > 0:56:18Keep these for later.
0:56:18 > 0:56:20MEN IMITATING FANFARE
0:56:20 > 0:56:21Ah.
0:56:24 > 0:56:25LAUGHING
0:56:25 > 0:56:27- Good evening. - Happy Birthday.
0:56:27 > 0:56:30- Are we too late? We're too late. - You've missed Maria's cake.
0:56:30 > 0:56:33Oh, no! Say it's not so. We haven't missed all the fun, have we?
0:56:33 > 0:56:35We thought you might provide the fun.
0:56:35 > 0:56:36Well, then there's only one thing for it.
0:56:36 > 0:56:38We must whisk the birthday girl away.
0:56:38 > 0:56:40Yes.
0:56:40 > 0:56:41Nelly.
0:56:43 > 0:56:44Say you'll come.
0:56:50 > 0:56:52Where are we going?
0:57:02 > 0:57:04DOOR CLOSES
0:57:05 > 0:57:08Come through. Come in, come in.
0:57:08 > 0:57:10Caroline?
0:57:12 > 0:57:15Nelly, follow me.
0:57:15 > 0:57:17Caroline?
0:57:17 > 0:57:19We have visitors.
0:57:20 > 0:57:23Wilkie, why did you not say?
0:57:24 > 0:57:27We are celebrating a very special birthday.
0:57:27 > 0:57:30Caroline, may I present Miss Ellen Ternan?
0:57:30 > 0:57:32It's her birthday today.
0:57:32 > 0:57:34Happy Birthday. I've heard only good things.
0:57:36 > 0:57:37Caroline!
0:57:37 > 0:57:40- A new painting. - HE CHUCKLES
0:57:40 > 0:57:42It's unusual. It's quite slap-up.
0:57:42 > 0:57:43Is The Butler about?
0:57:43 > 0:57:46Yes, yes, she's about. Ah, here she is.
0:57:46 > 0:57:48LAUGHTER
0:57:48 > 0:57:50Wine - I shall find wine.
0:57:50 > 0:57:52- Squeals! There she is. - LAUGHING
0:57:52 > 0:57:54Squeals. And she squeals.
0:57:54 > 0:57:56May I take your wrap and gloves?
0:57:58 > 0:58:01Thank you. I prefer to keep them on.
0:58:01 > 0:58:03Please.
0:58:08 > 0:58:13- What a lovely home. - Yes. Yes. Wilkie found it.
0:58:14 > 0:58:15HARRIET GIGGLING
0:58:15 > 0:58:17CAROLINE CHUCKLING
0:58:17 > 0:58:20Charles christened her "The Butler" on their first meeting.
0:58:20 > 0:58:22It is all a game with him.
0:58:24 > 0:58:25She's very dear.
0:58:28 > 0:58:31Does this offend you, Miss Ternan?
0:58:38 > 0:58:43Wilkie despises marriage and, as a widow, this suits me well.
0:58:44 > 0:58:47We live very happily.
0:58:50 > 0:58:52But you do disapprove, I see.
0:58:59 > 0:59:03We have fallen in love with men of standing, Miss Ternan.
0:59:03 > 0:59:04I am not in love.
0:59:04 > 0:59:08- CHARLES ROARS - The giant's coming.
0:59:08 > 0:59:10It is late. Really.
0:59:11 > 0:59:15It is too, too late. I must leave. Please excuse me, Miss Graves.
0:59:15 > 0:59:17Charles, will you stay for dinner?
0:59:18 > 0:59:20Nelly?
0:59:23 > 0:59:24Mmm.
0:59:30 > 0:59:34And still she is silent.
0:59:34 > 0:59:37Mr Buckstone has offered me The World and The Stage.
0:59:40 > 0:59:43It has a ridiculous plot.
0:59:43 > 0:59:46A titled lady saved from debt by her sister, an actress.
0:59:46 > 0:59:48Yes, but a very amusing final scene.
0:59:48 > 0:59:50And it was you that secured me the role.
0:59:53 > 0:59:55Did you mean to deliberately humiliate me tonight?
0:59:55 > 0:59:57You did not like Miss Graves?
0:59:57 > 0:59:59You cannot expect me to associate with a woman
0:59:59 > 1:00:02living so openly with a man outside of marriage.
1:00:02 > 1:00:04- Oh, Nelly... Nelly... Nelly! - Entertaining guests as if she...
1:00:04 > 1:00:07HE LAUGHS I do not wish to appear ungrateful.
1:00:09 > 1:00:11You have been generous.
1:00:12 > 1:00:16Some might say too generous to my family.
1:00:19 > 1:00:22But I did not realise that I was to be your whore.
1:00:25 > 1:00:27Nelly.
1:00:27 > 1:00:29Nelly!
1:00:29 > 1:00:32Nelly, it was a mistake.
1:00:32 > 1:00:35- Did you send Catherine to me?- Yes.
1:00:35 > 1:00:36She is the mother of your children.
1:00:36 > 1:00:38How could you be so cruel to her?
1:00:38 > 1:00:40And, for that, I shall always be grateful,
1:00:40 > 1:00:42but I do not love her.
1:00:42 > 1:00:45She comprehends nothing.
1:00:45 > 1:00:47She sees nothing.
1:00:47 > 1:00:49I thought, if she saw you, then she would understand
1:00:49 > 1:00:51that I have nothing with her.
1:00:51 > 1:00:54- I wanted her to see it.- "It"?
1:00:54 > 1:00:57What is "it," Charles?
1:00:59 > 1:01:01What is it that we are?
1:01:01 > 1:01:03SOBBING
1:01:03 > 1:01:07When your wife asked me if I was fond of you...
1:01:09 > 1:01:12..I could not honestly reply.
1:01:17 > 1:01:19I wanted to say no!
1:01:19 > 1:01:21FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING
1:01:21 > 1:01:23Can I be of assistance, sir?
1:01:23 > 1:01:24Is this young lady troubling you, sir?
1:01:24 > 1:01:28Uh, thank you. She is not troubling me at all. All is well.
1:01:28 > 1:01:30Very good. Good night, sir.
1:01:31 > 1:01:33Nelly?
1:01:33 > 1:01:34Nelly.
1:01:38 > 1:01:40May I come in?
1:02:09 > 1:02:10Nelly.
1:02:58 > 1:03:00BREATH TREMBLING
1:04:18 > 1:04:19DOOR OPENS
1:04:21 > 1:04:23DOOR CLOSES
1:04:23 > 1:04:26HAMMER BANGING
1:04:59 > 1:05:02I used to walk from the Aldwych to Highgate,
1:05:02 > 1:05:05then back to Westminster, then on to Millbank.
1:05:05 > 1:05:06You've London in your blood.
1:05:06 > 1:05:09I do. I walk at quite a pace.
1:05:11 > 1:05:13- Good day.- Good day.
1:05:16 > 1:05:19And I'd walk to Putney and...
1:05:19 > 1:05:21LAUGHING
1:05:22 > 1:05:25- I've done that walk.- Yes.
1:05:25 > 1:05:26You don't believe me?
1:05:26 > 1:05:28Father?
1:05:28 > 1:05:29Charley?
1:05:31 > 1:05:34What are you doing here?
1:05:34 > 1:05:36I walk this way if I've taken an earlier train.
1:05:36 > 1:05:38You remember Miss Ellen?
1:05:38 > 1:05:41- Of course. - Charley, you look well.
1:05:41 > 1:05:43I am quite well. Thank you, Miss Ternan.
1:05:43 > 1:05:45Charley is working in the city.
1:05:45 > 1:05:47- How clever.- Not really.
1:05:47 > 1:05:49It's a friend of Father's.
1:05:49 > 1:05:52I still have the glove which you rescued for me.
1:05:52 > 1:05:55I would have been most unhappy to have lost it.
1:05:55 > 1:05:56They're my favourite pair.
1:05:56 > 1:05:58I am sure you would have found another.
1:06:00 > 1:06:03- Well, I am already late... - Yes, yes.
1:06:03 > 1:06:05Father...
1:06:05 > 1:06:07Will we see you at home?
1:06:07 > 1:06:09Yes.
1:06:11 > 1:06:12Good day, Charley.
1:06:25 > 1:06:27FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING
1:06:30 > 1:06:32Charley.
1:06:36 > 1:06:38What is it?
1:06:38 > 1:06:40It's a letter in The Times.
1:06:41 > 1:06:43It's from Father.
1:06:51 > 1:06:53I can't read it.
1:06:55 > 1:06:57Would you read it?
1:06:58 > 1:07:00Read it to me.
1:07:06 > 1:07:09"There is some domestic trouble of mine,
1:07:09 > 1:07:11"longstanding,
1:07:11 > 1:07:13"on which I will make no further remark,
1:07:13 > 1:07:16"it being of a sacredly private nature.
1:07:17 > 1:07:19"However,
1:07:19 > 1:07:21"it has lately been brought to an arrangement
1:07:21 > 1:07:24"which involves no anger or ill will of any kind.
1:07:24 > 1:07:29"My wife, Catherine, and I have decided to separate.
1:07:29 > 1:07:31"The whole origin,
1:07:31 > 1:07:33"progress and surrounding circumstances
1:07:33 > 1:07:37"have been throughout within the knowledge of my children.
1:07:37 > 1:07:39"It is amicably composed,
1:07:39 > 1:07:43"and its details have now but to be forgotten by those concerned in it.
1:07:44 > 1:07:48"I most solemnly declare that all the lately whispered rumors
1:07:48 > 1:07:50"touching upon my association
1:07:50 > 1:07:54"with a certain young lady are abominably false.
1:07:54 > 1:07:56"Upon my soul and honour,
1:07:56 > 1:07:58"there is no-one on earth more virtuous
1:07:58 > 1:08:00"and spotless than this young creature.
1:08:02 > 1:08:06"And whoever says otherwise, after this denial,
1:08:06 > 1:08:09"will lie as willfully and as foully as it is possible
1:08:09 > 1:08:14"for any false witness to lie before heaven and earth."
1:08:22 > 1:08:24- SOFTLY:- Thank you.
1:08:35 > 1:08:37SOBBING
1:09:27 > 1:09:29He's an honourable man.
1:09:33 > 1:09:36And you, Nelly, are a beautiful...
1:09:36 > 1:09:39- Mother. - ..clever, wonderful young woman.
1:09:40 > 1:09:43- But he cannot marry me.- No.
1:09:44 > 1:09:45He cannot.
1:09:51 > 1:09:53But I have been married...
1:09:55 > 1:09:58..and it is at times the loneliest place.
1:10:02 > 1:10:04What do I do?
1:10:07 > 1:10:09Um...
1:10:13 > 1:10:16Fanny and I leave for Italy at the end of the month.
1:10:16 > 1:10:19You could come with us.
1:10:19 > 1:10:20Um...
1:10:20 > 1:10:23I can arrange a passage. It's easily done.
1:10:25 > 1:10:27He's burnt a lifetime's correspondence, Nelly.
1:10:27 > 1:10:31Nelly, listen. He's even asked me to burn all our correspondence.
1:10:31 > 1:10:33There is an insanity to his behaviour.
1:10:33 > 1:10:36No, he's not insane. He's distraught.
1:10:36 > 1:10:37And I am not?
1:10:37 > 1:10:41You have a choice. You can distance yourself from him.
1:10:41 > 1:10:44You could find a new life, a different life.
1:10:44 > 1:10:47A different life? What different life?
1:10:47 > 1:10:49What life is there for me?
1:10:51 > 1:10:53He is a good man...
1:10:53 > 1:10:56trying to be a good man.
1:10:57 > 1:10:59But he is a great man.
1:11:01 > 1:11:03You see him, Nelly.
1:11:03 > 1:11:08I watch you together. You see him, he sees you.
1:11:08 > 1:11:10What more does one want in life?
1:11:11 > 1:11:14- CAROLINE:- Wilkie? - I'm coming.
1:11:14 > 1:11:17We have to break these conventions.
1:11:17 > 1:11:20Smash them up.
1:11:20 > 1:11:24- We're the pioneers.- Pioneers?
1:11:24 > 1:11:29You men, you live your lives while it is we who have to wait.
1:11:30 > 1:11:32You see a freedom which I do not see.
1:11:32 > 1:11:34Wilkie?
1:11:36 > 1:11:39The Butler will not sleep if I don't read to her.
1:12:09 > 1:12:12My name is whispered with yours.
1:12:13 > 1:12:15Yet I have nothing.
1:12:15 > 1:12:17Nelly.
1:12:19 > 1:12:21- I have no regrets. - Charles...
1:12:21 > 1:12:24I have broken something which needed breaking.
1:12:25 > 1:12:26I have finished it.
1:12:26 > 1:12:28Yes, it is finished.
1:12:28 > 1:12:31No, no, no. The book.
1:12:32 > 1:12:34I have finished the book. Here.
1:13:04 > 1:13:06You do not like it?
1:13:07 > 1:13:08No.
1:13:11 > 1:13:13I like it.
1:13:14 > 1:13:15I like it very much.
1:13:17 > 1:13:21- Wilkie thinks I should change the ending.- No, you must not.
1:13:21 > 1:13:24To bring Estella and Pip together at the end, but not to unite them.
1:13:24 > 1:13:26- She is changed. That is enough? - Yes.
1:13:26 > 1:13:29It is a sad ending, but Estella finds her heart.
1:13:29 > 1:13:31- She finds an understanding at last. - Exactly.
1:13:31 > 1:13:34And at times...
1:13:34 > 1:13:36- Pip is not heroic. - He is filled with the vanities,
1:13:36 > 1:13:40- the ambitions, the flaws in all of us.- Yes.
1:13:40 > 1:13:43I know what I have done,
1:13:43 > 1:13:48but to stay as it was, I cannot when my heart...
1:13:58 > 1:14:00Nelly.
1:14:01 > 1:14:04In an earlier chapter, Pip said,
1:14:04 > 1:14:08"You are part of my existence, part of myself."
1:14:10 > 1:14:11I remember.
1:14:11 > 1:14:15"You have been in every line I have ever read.
1:14:15 > 1:14:18"You have been in every prospect I have ever seen,
1:14:18 > 1:14:22"on the river, on the sails of the ships,
1:14:22 > 1:14:26"on the marshes, in the clouds, in the light,
1:14:26 > 1:14:29"in the darkness, in the wind, in the woods,
1:14:29 > 1:14:32"in the sea, in the streets.
1:14:32 > 1:14:37"You have been the embodiment of every graceful fancy
1:14:37 > 1:14:40"that my mind has ever become acquainted with.
1:14:42 > 1:14:44"Estella.
1:14:45 > 1:14:47"To the last hour of my life...
1:14:49 > 1:14:53"..you cannot choose but remain part of my character.
1:14:54 > 1:14:57"Part of the little good in me.
1:14:58 > 1:14:59"Part of the evil."
1:15:06 > 1:15:08Let us go away.
1:15:32 > 1:15:34PLAYING PIANO SCALE
1:15:36 > 1:15:39DISTANT MURMURING
1:16:21 > 1:16:23HE GRUNTS
1:16:23 > 1:16:25BREATHING HEAVILY
1:17:36 > 1:17:39" 'Now, touch my face with yours
1:17:39 > 1:17:41" 'in case I should not hold out till you come back.
1:17:41 > 1:17:44" 'I love you, Mortimer'...
1:17:44 > 1:17:47"..the discovery was hers. 'Observe, my dear Eugene,
1:17:47 > 1:17:50" 'while I am away, you will know that I have discharged my trust'...
1:17:50 > 1:17:53" '..so much, John dear, and since you do,
1:17:53 > 1:17:55" 'I am sorry that these shoes are a full size too large.
1:17:55 > 1:17:58" 'But I don't want a carriage, believe me.' "
1:18:31 > 1:18:33ENQUIRING IN FRENCH
1:18:37 > 1:18:39CHARLES REPLYING
1:18:41 > 1:18:43'I have agreed to 50 more readings.'
1:18:43 > 1:18:46In Manchester, Glasgow and Dublin.
1:18:46 > 1:18:50And I've been asked to give a reading in Paris.
1:18:50 > 1:18:53- Shall I come with you?- Well...
1:18:54 > 1:18:57There are whisperings, Nelly.
1:18:59 > 1:19:00- Where?- In Paris.
1:19:00 > 1:19:04And if they're in Paris, then they will soon be in London.
1:19:04 > 1:19:06I've been out of circulation.
1:19:09 > 1:19:11Then you must go.
1:19:11 > 1:19:13Yes. It is what I am.
1:19:20 > 1:19:21No, I shall not go.
1:19:21 > 1:19:23- No, you shall.- No, no, no.
1:19:23 > 1:19:25- My mind is made up. I shall not go. - No, you will.
1:19:25 > 1:19:27SHE CHUCKLES
1:19:51 > 1:19:54- Sorry, ma'am. I didn't see you there.- It is quite all right, Mary.
1:19:54 > 1:19:58- I will do it. - Is there anything else, ma'am?
1:19:58 > 1:20:02- The guests will be arriving shortly. - That is everything. Thank you, Mary.
1:21:06 > 1:21:08DOCTOR SPEAKING FRENCH
1:22:27 > 1:22:29FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING
1:22:31 > 1:22:34Nelly, have you left the keys on the table?
1:22:36 > 1:22:40I believe an English family wish to take the house for the winter.
1:22:42 > 1:22:44Nelly?
1:22:51 > 1:22:53Say something.
1:22:58 > 1:22:59Say something!
1:23:02 > 1:23:03We shall miss our train.
1:23:14 > 1:23:15SOBBING
1:23:51 > 1:23:55All passengers arrived from France. This train for London.
1:23:55 > 1:23:59I think we're in the last compartment here, Nelly.
1:23:59 > 1:24:01- Ah! - MAN:- It's Mr Dickens.
1:24:01 > 1:24:03- Thank you. We're in here, I think. - Mr Dickens, sir.
1:24:03 > 1:24:06My wife says she should marry Rokesmith and be done.
1:24:06 > 1:24:07- Perhaps the next chapter. - I'll tell her.
1:24:07 > 1:24:09That's for you. Thank you very much.
1:24:09 > 1:24:10WHISTLE BLOWS
1:24:10 > 1:24:12Thank you.
1:24:54 > 1:24:55HE CHUCKLES
1:25:00 > 1:25:04Sleep, Nelly, and when you wake, we shall be home.
1:25:14 > 1:25:15HE SIGHS
1:25:16 > 1:25:18CRASHING
1:25:48 > 1:25:49DISTANT SCREAMING
1:25:56 > 1:25:57WOMAN SOBBING
1:26:01 > 1:26:05- PORTER:- Gentlemen, please. Someone open these carriages here.
1:26:05 > 1:26:08And your wife? Is anyone else in this carriage?
1:26:08 > 1:26:10Excuse me.
1:26:10 > 1:26:13- MAN 1:- Help! - MAN 2:- Over here!
1:26:13 > 1:26:15- MAN 3:- Please, they are hurt. - BOY:- Help!
1:26:15 > 1:26:18- MAN 3:- Take the weight on your other leg. That's it.- PORTER:- Sir?
1:26:18 > 1:26:21Sir? We're asking everyone able-bodied
1:26:21 > 1:26:23if they could help with the most injured.
1:26:23 > 1:26:25We need all the hands we can get.
1:26:27 > 1:26:29Nelly.
1:26:30 > 1:26:31Nelly.
1:26:33 > 1:26:35Sir?
1:26:35 > 1:26:38Excuse me, sir. Could you come and assist me?
1:26:38 > 1:26:42- Is it Mr Dickens, sir?- Yes. - Were you travelling alone, sir?
1:26:42 > 1:26:43SOFTLY: Go.
1:26:47 > 1:26:49Mr Dickens.
1:26:49 > 1:26:51- Were you travelling alone?- Go.
1:26:51 > 1:26:53Go. Go.
1:26:53 > 1:26:54Sir?
1:26:54 > 1:26:57Yes, quite alone. This young woman is in need of assistance.
1:26:57 > 1:26:59- We are dealing with the most injured first.- Yes, I'll do what I can,
1:26:59 > 1:27:00but you must attend to this young woman.
1:27:00 > 1:27:03Madam, I will get one of these ladies to attend to you.
1:27:03 > 1:27:05- Ladies, please. This way, sir. - Yes, we're with her.
1:27:05 > 1:27:08- Please, will you attend to her? - We're with her.- I have Brandy here.
1:27:08 > 1:27:11- Uh...- Sir? - WOMAN:- Don't worry. Stay here.
1:27:11 > 1:27:13- Check who's inside.- Ah.
1:27:15 > 1:27:18Sir, press down as hard as you can to stop the blood flow.
1:27:19 > 1:27:21Sir, this is Brandy.
1:27:21 > 1:27:23We will find assistance for you as soon as possible.
1:27:23 > 1:27:25WOMAN SCREAMS
1:27:27 > 1:27:29Porter, we need to release all passengers
1:27:29 > 1:27:32from the train above, so they may help with the injured.
1:27:32 > 1:27:36All able-bodied gentlemen, bring their hats to this tree.
1:27:43 > 1:27:45BREATHING HEAVILY
1:28:21 > 1:28:22- BENHAM:- Ellen Ternan?
1:28:25 > 1:28:26Yes.
1:28:32 > 1:28:34That was my name.
1:28:43 > 1:28:45You have always known this?
1:28:46 > 1:28:48Suspected.
1:28:48 > 1:28:50Things you said.
1:28:50 > 1:28:52Comments.
1:28:52 > 1:28:56Memories of Mr Dickens that were not a child's memories.
1:29:00 > 1:29:02I saw him read once.
1:29:03 > 1:29:05It was magical.
1:29:08 > 1:29:11One forgets that he was more than writer, more than actor.
1:29:14 > 1:29:18I have lived my life in the pages of those novels.
1:29:20 > 1:29:21I should not have expected their author
1:29:21 > 1:29:23to have lived so quiet a life.
1:30:00 > 1:30:02- CHARLES:- The house is to your liking?
1:30:02 > 1:30:03Yes.
1:30:04 > 1:30:08I'm happy to see the castle from the window.
1:30:08 > 1:30:10There's a fire in every room. And I've taken the liberty
1:30:10 > 1:30:12of employing a nurse who will attend to you.
1:30:12 > 1:30:14She's a local woman, but of good kind.
1:30:17 > 1:30:20It's a sleepy market town with a very fine butchers.
1:30:20 > 1:30:24And the church is newly restored, which you must visit.
1:30:27 > 1:30:29The fast train from Paddington takes 18 minutes.
1:30:29 > 1:30:33Or alternatively, there's a train to Windsor from Victoria or Waterloo,
1:30:33 > 1:30:35which also serves well.
1:30:49 > 1:30:50Nelly?
1:30:51 > 1:30:53It's as if it's floating.
1:30:58 > 1:31:01You will come to see me?
1:31:01 > 1:31:03Yes. Of course.
1:31:03 > 1:31:04Weekly?
1:31:04 > 1:31:06Mmm, twice weekly. More.
1:31:06 > 1:31:10- And if I should need anything? - You need only ask.
1:31:10 > 1:31:14And should I expect you at weekends and holidays?
1:31:14 > 1:31:18- Yes, but my family...- Of course.
1:31:21 > 1:31:23When you can.
1:31:24 > 1:31:25Yes.
1:31:28 > 1:31:30And shall we keep Tringham?
1:31:31 > 1:31:33Yes.
1:31:34 > 1:31:37Then this is how it is to be now.
1:31:42 > 1:31:44Whatever I have tried to do in life,
1:31:44 > 1:31:47I have tried with all my heart to do it well.
1:31:48 > 1:31:51- Whatever I've devoted myself to, I...- Don't, Charles.
1:31:53 > 1:31:55Don't explain.
1:32:00 > 1:32:02There's nothing to say.
1:32:05 > 1:32:07Everyone has their secret.
1:32:09 > 1:32:11And this is ours.
1:32:13 > 1:32:14Yes.
1:32:41 > 1:32:44'I was not a child when I met Mr Dickens.'
1:32:45 > 1:32:47I was 18.
1:32:48 > 1:32:52It wasn't easy, our friendship.
1:32:52 > 1:32:57Yet there were days of such joy, such celebration.
1:32:59 > 1:33:02And we'd talk and laugh together.
1:33:07 > 1:33:09He knew he'd leave me first.
1:33:12 > 1:33:15That he would die first.
1:33:19 > 1:33:23Charles understood that, however painful it is...
1:33:26 > 1:33:27..we're alone.
1:33:30 > 1:33:33Whoever we're with,
1:33:33 > 1:33:35we're alone.
1:33:38 > 1:33:40He was right.
1:33:43 > 1:33:45Great Expectations.
1:33:47 > 1:33:52He wrote an ending. It was his first instinctive ending.
1:33:52 > 1:33:53A good ending.
1:33:55 > 1:33:58Pip and Estella do not come together.
1:34:02 > 1:34:05Pip sees that she will never be his.
1:34:07 > 1:34:09Later they wanted him to change it.
1:34:09 > 1:34:12Some people thought it too brutal.
1:34:12 > 1:34:13So instead...
1:34:17 > 1:34:20..Pip's final words are...
1:34:24 > 1:34:28"I saw the shadow of no parting from her."
1:34:34 > 1:34:36He ends the book in shadows.
1:34:41 > 1:34:43In uncertainty.
1:34:47 > 1:34:49In haunting.
1:34:54 > 1:34:57And that is where I have been living.
1:34:59 > 1:35:00Do you see?
1:35:02 > 1:35:03Yes.
1:35:07 > 1:35:09I will not live there any more.
1:35:16 > 1:35:18Nelly.
1:35:18 > 1:35:20You're late. It's nearly dark.
1:35:20 > 1:35:23- Where have you been?- George.
1:35:24 > 1:35:26I am here.
1:35:31 > 1:35:33I am here.
1:35:34 > 1:35:37- Are you quite well?- Yes, George.
1:35:37 > 1:35:39Are you sure?
1:35:45 > 1:35:48I walked with Mr Benham today.
1:35:49 > 1:35:51We talked about Mr Dickens.
1:35:51 > 1:35:53Yes.
1:35:54 > 1:35:56George...
1:36:00 > 1:36:03The memories of a child, Nelly.
1:36:06 > 1:36:08ROARS
1:36:08 > 1:36:10Geoffrey!
1:36:10 > 1:36:12Oh, Geoffrey.
1:36:13 > 1:36:15You will frighten our guests.
1:36:15 > 1:36:18- I think he was trying to frighten his mother.- Geoffrey.
1:36:20 > 1:36:23- Go on, take your place. - Yes, Mama.
1:36:25 > 1:36:27MUSIC PLAYING
1:36:31 > 1:36:32Nelly?
1:36:49 > 1:36:51INDISTINCT CHATTER
1:36:59 > 1:37:00INAUDIBLE
1:37:03 > 1:37:06- HADLEY:- Well, my lads, the day has broken at last.
1:37:06 > 1:37:08What do you say to the weather now?
1:37:08 > 1:37:10I say the weather will do.
1:37:10 > 1:37:11I say doubtful.
1:37:11 > 1:37:13ALL CHUCKLE
1:37:13 > 1:37:15I can see for myself there's a storm coming.
1:37:15 > 1:37:19I smell the snow. I can feel the hurricane in the air.
1:37:19 > 1:37:21No money those gentlemen can offer
1:37:21 > 1:37:23will tempt me to cross the Mountain with them today.
1:37:25 > 1:37:28- BOY 1:- Well, are you ready at last
1:37:28 > 1:37:31to cross the Mountain with us or not?
1:37:31 > 1:37:33- BOY 2:- I say yes, if the others will say yes, too.
1:37:33 > 1:37:35I say no!
1:37:35 > 1:37:39I am Mountain boy. I know the pass up there as I know my ABC.
1:37:39 > 1:37:41You know the Mountain. If you risk it, I will.
1:37:41 > 1:37:44I'm your man. I will guide you to your journey's end.
1:37:44 > 1:37:46- Say when.- Now!
1:37:46 > 1:37:50- Are you ready? - I am ready. Come along.
1:37:50 > 1:37:52WAVES CRASHING
1:37:58 > 1:38:00WAVES LAPPING
1:38:03 > 1:38:05SEAGULLS SQUAWKING
1:38:17 > 1:38:18APPLAUSE
1:38:44 > 1:38:46INAUDIBLE
1:38:50 > 1:38:52This is a tale of woe.
1:38:52 > 1:38:55This is a tale of sorrow.
1:38:55 > 1:38:57A love denied, a love restored,
1:38:57 > 1:38:59to live beyond tomorrow.
1:38:59 > 1:39:03Lest we think silence is the place to hide a heavy heart,
1:39:03 > 1:39:07remember, to love and be loved is life itself
1:39:07 > 1:39:10without which we are nought.
1:39:17 > 1:39:22- WOMAN:- # 'Tis the last rose of summer
1:39:22 > 1:39:27# Left blooming alone
1:39:27 > 1:39:31# No flower of her kindred
1:39:31 > 1:39:40# No rosebud is nigh
1:39:40 > 1:39:46# To reflect back her blushes
1:39:46 > 1:39:51# And give sigh for sigh
1:39:53 > 1:39:58# I'll not leave thee, thou lone one
1:39:58 > 1:40:03# To pine on the stem
1:40:03 > 1:40:08# Since the lovely are sleeping
1:40:08 > 1:40:14# Go sleep thou with them
1:40:14 > 1:40:19# Thus kindly I scatter
1:40:19 > 1:40:28# Thy leaves o'er the bed
1:40:28 > 1:40:33# Where thy mates of the garden
1:40:33 > 1:40:39# Lie scentless and dead
1:40:41 > 1:40:46# So soon may I follow
1:40:46 > 1:40:52# When friendships decay
1:40:52 > 1:40:57# When true hearts lie withered
1:40:57 > 1:41:08# And fond ones are flown
1:41:08 > 1:41:14# Oh, who would inhabit
1:41:14 > 1:41:20# This bleak world alone? #