Anna of the Five Towns by Arnold Bennett | TV Miniseries Drama Episode 02 | Subtitles
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Anna and her father continue to exert pressure on the Prices for their back rent. Anna becomes a partner in a Pottery with Henry Mynors.
Anna and her father continue to exert pressure on the Prices for their back rent. Anna becomes a partner in a Pottery with Henry Mynors.
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03:01Miss Tellwright.
03:03Willie.
03:04I didn't know anything to say to you this morning.
03:06No, usually I'd be getting Father's breakfast,
03:08but this morning...
03:09Of course.
03:10I shall have to go.
03:13Just now, when the Reverend, he asked you to give thanks,
03:17I understood.
03:19I mean, I understood how you felt,
03:22speaking out in front of all them people.
03:25It's not anything I should like to do.
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04:03Agnes!
04:04What is the matter?
04:06Oh, sis, you forgot to buy bacon yesterday.
04:08Dear, a scrap.
04:10Feather's very angry.
04:11Give me six minutes.
04:12I'll run down to Lil's and get some as quick as ever I can.
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04:42God sanctify this food to our use and us to his service.
04:46For Christ's sake, amen.
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04:58How long must I wait?
05:00For what, Feather?
05:01For what?
05:03Inert enough, I'm kept here waiting
05:05more than half an hour for me breakfast.
05:07You have to keep me waiting longer for one word of apology.
05:10I'm sorry, Feather.
05:12Sorry? What good is that?
05:15I don't know what to say.
05:17I should thank you, Dana Winch.
05:20I... I cannot imagine what you were thinking on.
05:23Not thinking at all, more like.
05:25Not thinking of others.
05:27Only of this hen.
05:29Feather, I went to the prayer meeting.
05:31I know only too well you went to the prayer meeting.
05:35What I don't know is why.
05:38Why?
05:40You go off on some sudden whim
05:42and disarrange my household into the bargain
05:45and whatever made you forget to buy the bacon?
05:48What kind of nonsense was filling thy head yesterday
05:52for thee to be giving such a pretty example to thee sister?
05:57I'll tell thee what it is, my wench.
05:59Since this precious birthday of yours,
06:02you've gotten above yourself.
06:04Iron mighty, my wench, that's what it is.
06:08Iron mighty.
06:11Get on your foot.
06:17Agnes?
06:19Yes, Feather?
06:21Take this letter to Price.
06:23Don't wait for an answer.
06:32According to the signal, there was a mob
06:34running amuck in London, smashing windows and the like,
06:37and there was little the police could do to stop them.
06:39Maybe you've heard something on it.
06:41There was something in the Times about disturbances.
06:43Disturbances, you say? I mind. It wasn't so long ago.
06:45The West End was in the hands of the mob for two hours.
06:48Two hours! In the centre of London.
06:50I don't think we need worry.
06:52Rabble. Nothing but common rabble.
06:54They should take them, as they're stirring things up,
06:56and put them in jail. See an end on it.
06:58But they do seem to have legitimate grounds.
07:00Legitimate, you say?
07:02If it's work they want, why don't they go and find it
07:04instead of behaving like a crowd of...
07:06Frenchmen!
07:08Father?
07:10My wench. You called for me?
07:12I did. It's business.
07:14If Anna'd give you the message I told her to yesterday,
07:18it'd save you the trouble of calling.
07:22But since you are here, you'd best know...
07:27..it's Anna's money that'll go into this concern of yours.
07:30I've none by me.
07:32In fact, I'm almost fast for brass,
07:34but all I've is near 2,000,
07:36which makes no matter in a month's time.
07:38I've asked her about it, and she says she'll go in with you,
07:41on my recommendation.
07:44So, you know all about this business, then, Miss Tellwright?
07:48Father has told me something about it.
07:50And are you willing to be me partner?
07:52No, no. I didn't say that. Not exact.
07:56You're money in my name.
07:58I see.
08:00But then, if it is Miss Tellwright's money,
08:02why is she not the partner herself?
08:05Bury Father thinks it best.
08:07Ah!
08:09We must never forget you're a grown woman now, Wench.
08:12We must never forget that.
08:15Why don't you take the partnership in your own name?
08:18It'll be good experience.
08:20Just so.
08:22Would you care for that arrangement, Miss Tellwright?
08:25Yes.
08:28Then I will do my utmost to justify your confidence.
08:32I didn't say that I think you, you and your father
08:35will have no reason to be disappointed.
08:37Of course, 2,000 pounds is only a trifle to you.
08:40A trifle, you say?
08:42But it's a great deal to me.
08:44And I will be forever in your debt.
08:46No, no, not forever, miners. At least, let's hope not.
08:49It's a matter of interest on the capital,
08:52and we must have over 6%.
08:55But I thought we'd settled on 5.
08:57We'd settled you should have 5 on your 1,500,
09:00but we must have 6 on our 2,000.
09:02I certainly thought we'd thrashed this out fully
09:04and agreed the interest should be the same on either side.
09:06Oh, no, no, young man.
09:08We're taking the biggest risk.
09:11We must have our 6%.
09:18Very well.
09:20If that is the way you must have it.
09:22It is.
09:24So be it.
09:266%, Mr Tellwright.
09:28And now I must go.
09:30I have business in town. You will excuse me.
09:32Good day, Mr Tellwright.
09:34Mr Tellwright.
09:36I shall be in touch.
09:39Will you wait one moment?
09:41There are things I have to fetch from town.
09:43If you might just wait while I fetch my coat and hat.
09:45Of course.
09:47There are things we need, Father.
09:49If I'm late back, Agnes will say today.
09:52Don't wait for me.
10:08You must come down one afternoon and look over the works.
10:11I should like to.
10:13I've never been over a works in my life.
10:15What? You've lived all your life in the Five Towns?
10:18There seem so many things I've neither seen nor done.
10:22When you and Father talk of business...
10:24Well, now you're to be a partner in the best pop bank of its kind in Bursley.
10:28I'm glad of that, at least.
10:30For I do believe I own the worst.
10:32No. The prices, do you mean?
10:34Yes.
10:35It is not the best of properties.
10:37Titus has trouble making ends meet, by all accounts.
10:49I was listening to what you and Father were saying when I came into the parlour.
10:53About the unemployed.
10:55Are these really such hard times?
10:57For some, yes.
10:59If Price's works fail, what would that mean?
11:03For Titus, you mean?
11:04Titus, yes. And Willie.
11:06Oh, I dare say Willie would be all right.
11:08He's young and willing enough.
11:10Titus might just be too set in his ways.
11:14You must not worry about that.
11:16It's not your fault if they cannot make a go of things.
11:46Yes.
11:51Is it, Father, I watch?
11:52Yes.
11:57Young Mr Price is here to see you, Father.
12:01I'd best see to it, Anna.
12:03It's more thy business than mine.
12:07What did say in the note, Father?
12:09If you hadn't been so awkward, you'd have known.
12:13I told Price, as he must pay more than rent a day.
12:16Twenty pounds.
12:19Themers can pay ten pounds and banknotes can pay twenty.
12:23I suppose he says it common.
12:24Oh, he'll say it right enough.
12:26What if it's true?
12:27What if true when you maxed him for ten?
12:31I've been thinking about them works.
12:34All Titus isn't done for yet, for all he says, he's down that road.
12:37Us can squeeze another fifty out of him.
12:40That'll only leave six months' rent owe in.
12:42Fifty pounds?
12:43Get that out of him.
12:44Us can turn him out, he'll go bankrupt.
12:46Us can claim our rent ahead of the other creditors.
12:49Do that.
12:50Us'll have a hundred more in hand to do the old place up for the next tenant.
12:55Make him bankrupt, Father.
12:57Aha!
13:01It'll be the making of him.
13:11Will you come this way, Mr Price?
13:13Oh, yes, yes, of course.
13:16You're not at tonight's meeting, then, Miss Tellwright?
13:18No.
13:24I were anxious to be here, but the Dad asked me to come up here.
13:30Is that better?
13:34Can I see the feather, Miss Tellwright?
13:36Is it about the rent?
13:37Yes.
13:38Well, if you'll tell me.
13:39Oh.
13:42Oh, I beg your pardon, then.
13:45Cos, I know it's your property, but I thought Mr Tellwright always saw it for you.
13:49It were him who wrote the letter this morning, weren't it?
13:51Yes, that was favour.
13:53But the contents?
13:56They are your failings on the matter.
14:04You're insisting on another twenty pound on Monday?
14:06Yes.
14:07We peaked ten just last Monday.
14:08They're still over and under at Owen.
14:09I know, but, oh, Miss Tellwright, you mustn't have beat her out on us.
14:13Trade's that bad.
14:14Mr Miners says trade is improving.
14:16For Mr Miners, perhaps.
14:18His works is more modern than ours.
14:20And he has money behind him.
14:22He can afford to cut his prices and still make a profit.
14:24We're not all like him.
14:25Oh, me feather and me, we're having a hard struggle.
14:28Everything's against us, and the works in particular.
14:30You must know what they're like.
14:32I should like to help you.
14:33Yes.
14:34The arrears?
14:35Yes.
14:36If you can find a way, pay what you owe.
14:37If you pay what you owe, make up the arrears, then we may start afresh.
14:40I promise you, we will spend it all, every penny, on improving the works.
14:43Miss Tellwright!
14:46We can't pay.
14:53Maybe you've finished your business.
14:55Oh, we're just explaining to Miss Tellwright.
14:56Ah?
14:57We can't pay, not any more.
14:59Not now.
15:02I hope she was explaining to thee.
15:05There's no such thing as kind of pay.
15:06Not when there's debts to be seen to.
15:08Miss Tellwright!
15:09Go back to the Fae they use.
15:10You'll find a way.
15:12There's always a way, in the end.
15:36Dear Miss Tellwright,
15:37Mother gives tea to the Sunday school,
15:39so we meet in here tomorrow.
15:41Will you give us the pleasure of your company?
15:43Do come, will you?
15:44Excuse this short notice.
15:46Yours sincerely, Beatrice Sutton.
15:48P.S.
15:49We begin at 3.30.
15:51Oh, sis, how exciting!
15:53Shall I go, Father?
15:55Why, ask me.
15:56Please this end.
15:58It's not to do with me.
16:00It's not to do with me.
16:02It's not to do with me.
16:04It's not to do with me.
16:09Sis, do go.
16:12Father?
16:13Henry just told thee.
16:15It's thy coat, not mine.
16:19But if you're frightened of a deal of brass and polish,
16:21there shouldn't be.
16:23I can hold the head up amongst Mrs. Sutton's crew
16:25as well as anyone else.
16:28I should know what to wear.
16:31It's a sewing circle, innit?
16:33Make something for this end.
16:38David Fantago, I really must have a new dress.
16:42Make something for this end.
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17:24Miss Tellwright.
17:26My dear!
17:29We thought you were never coming.
17:31Everyone's here.
17:32Except the men, of course.
17:34I'm so glad you kept your promise.
17:36Did you think that I would break it?
17:38Oh, no, my dear, but you're such a shy little bird.
17:40Come along upstairs and take off your things.
17:50Won't you take off your things and put them on the bed?
17:59I hope your mother won't give me anything fancy to do.
18:02I'm not good at anything but plain sewing.
18:05Oh, that's all right. It's all plain sewing.
18:07Here, have one.
18:12I've never seen any like these before.
18:14Are they very expensive?
18:16Oh, no, just ordinary. Four shillings a pound.
18:19Papa buys them for me.
18:21I simply dote on them.
18:23I love to eat them in bed if I can't sleep.
18:25Don't you just adore chocolates?
18:27I really don't know.
18:29You don't know?
18:31I'm sorry.
18:33You're teasing me.
18:35Everyone eats chocolates.
18:37Everyone nowadays.
18:39And besides, I couldn't live without them.
18:49Your hair's lovely.
18:51I never saw such a brown.
18:53What wash do you use?
18:55Wash?
18:57Yes. Don't you put anything on it?
18:59No, never.
19:01I just wonder if you're not teasing me again.
19:11Oh, Anna, my dear.
19:13Oh, how are you?
19:15I'm so glad you could come.
19:17Beatrice, find Anna a chair.
19:19Here, Anna. Why don't you sit over here?
19:21You know Miss Dickinson, I'm sure.
19:23And Mrs Salt.
19:25Now we must find you something to do.
19:27Mother, what could Miss Talright be getting on with?
19:30How about those boys' nightgowns?
19:32Miss Dickinson has some at her feet.
19:40Here's one half finished.
19:42Perhaps you wouldn't mind finishing this, Miss Talright?
19:44I'll do my best.
19:47I hear you're going into partnership
19:49with Mr Miners, Miss Talright.
19:51Yes.
19:53Yes, that's right.
19:55I am.
19:57Rather a novelty, isn't it?
19:59An arrangement of that kind.
20:01I don't know.
20:03It's only a business arrangement.
20:05Father arranged it.
20:07Really, I've nothing to do with it.
20:09I certainly had no idea people were talking about it.
20:12Oh.
20:14Of course, I should never be the syllable.
20:16I make a practice of never talking
20:18about other people's affairs.
20:20I think it's best, don't you?
20:22Only, uh...
20:24I happened to hear it mentioned in the shop.
20:26That was all.
20:28It's funny how things get abroad, isn't it?
20:30Yes, indeed.
20:34Mr Miners hasn't been to our sewing meetings for some time.
20:37Though we've had a good time.
20:39But I'm sure he'll come today.
20:42Is this a special meeting, then?
20:44Oh, not at all.
20:46Only, we all have said just now while you were upstairs
20:49that he'd be sure to come.
20:55I expect you see a great deal of him at your house, don't you?
20:58He comes sometimes to see Father on business.
21:01Well, of course, on business.
21:03He's a very good man, isn't he?
21:05Yes.
21:07Well, of course, on business.
21:10Naturally.
21:21I might have known you'd not miss tea altogether, Papa.
21:24But you must come and meet Miss Towright first.
21:26Of course.
21:30Beatrice talks here often.
21:32It's so nice to see a fresh face at this little gathering.
21:35It's very kind of Beatrice to invite me.
21:37Mr Sutton.
21:53Didn't I tell you?
21:55What?
21:57That he would come today.
21:59That's a new frock Miss Sutton's wearing.
22:02It looks new, certainly.
22:04It was made at Brunt's at Anbridge.
22:06It's quite the fashion to go there now.
22:09Of course, she put it on for Mr Myler's.
22:14You know they were engaged once?
22:16No.
22:18At least people said they were. It were all over town.
22:20Oh, it must have been three years ago.
22:22I had not heard it.
22:24I'm afraid I lack an ear for gossip.
22:35Anna, my dear, you're not leaving?
22:37I'm afraid I think I must be going.
22:39Why?
22:41I'll be needed at home.
22:43Your favour?
22:45Yes.
22:47Very well, but Beatrice must help find your coat.
22:49Beatrice, Miss Towright is leaving.
22:51Oh, Anna, must you go?
22:53I'm sorry, but I must.
22:55Sure you cannot stay a while longer, Miss Towright?
22:57Well, sure.
22:59Then, if I may,
23:02then, if I may,
23:06I will walk down with you.
23:12How did you like the sewing meeting?
23:15I think Mrs Sutton is a splendid woman.
23:18And Beatrice, too?
23:20Of course. And Beatrice, too.
23:24In the house, is it not splendid?
23:26I've never seen anything like it.
23:29To live like that,
23:31it must cost a fortune.
23:33No more of a fortune
23:35than your father's.
23:37Father would never do...
23:39Oh, no, no, no, of course not.
23:41No, it's not his way.
23:43But he could easily move somewhere more comfortable,
23:45less cramped, without taking on something
23:47of the Sutton's proportions.
23:49Suits us well.
23:52Now, do you think we're being too critical
23:54of where we live?
23:56No, you must not think that.
23:58Why, this is just the nicest room,
24:00no matter how big or grand the house.
24:02Why, whatever do you mean?
24:04I mean, there's nothing to beat a clean, straight kitchen,
24:06and there never will be.
24:08It wants only the mistress and a white apron
24:10to make it complete.
24:12Oh!
24:14What's the matter, Agnes?
24:16Go away. Don't bother me.
24:18What's the matter, Agnes?
24:20Go away. Don't bother me.
24:22What's the matter? You're crying.
24:24No, I'm not, and do me sums.
24:26And I can't make it.
24:28I can't make it.
24:30Oh.
24:32Oh, shh.
24:34Where is it?
24:36Where is this sum that won't come right?
24:44Well, Agnes,
24:46let's see if we can't work this out together.
24:54Ah.
24:56Now, supposing
24:58we put this number here,
25:00like that,
25:02what do you have then?
25:04There.
25:14There.
25:16You have it now.
25:18Yes.
25:20Oh, yes.
25:28And now I must be going.
25:30Surely you'll stay and see Father?
25:32Good night, Miss Tellwright.
25:34You...
25:36You'll not forget your visit to the works.
25:38Of course not.
25:40Good. Good.
25:42I'll send word.
25:44Good night, Agnes.
25:56What's the other sewing meeting, sis?
25:58I never dreamed he'd be here.
26:00Here?
26:02In the house.
26:04I felt such a baby.
26:06Was he there?
26:08Yes.
26:10At least he came for tea.
26:12Why did he curl here like that?
26:14How can I tell?
26:22Twenty pounds from old Price.
26:26Crumpled and dirty.
26:28As if he'd found them
26:30buried in the sliphouse.
26:32Twenty pounds for all that.
26:34In Bank of England notes.
26:38What do you think of that, now, Wedge?
26:48But, Father...
26:50Well?
26:52Are these for me?
26:54Can you not read your own name on them, sis?
26:56If that's the case, they do say that some
26:58folk, when they get to a certain age,
27:00start going backwards.
27:02Maybe you've come to your second childhood,
27:04soon and most.
27:06Where are they, Father?
27:08We'd find our best for opening them.
27:16Is it money, Father?
27:18It's in a candle, Grace.
27:20It's hundreds of pounds.
27:22Aye, and more to come twice a year.
27:24But, Father...
27:26Hmm?
27:28I've done nothing.
27:30Whatever do you mean, you've done nothing?
27:32I've done nothing to earn all this money.
27:34Earn? Earn, you say?
27:36It's the money that's done the earning.
27:38The money in my brains.
27:40It don't seem right.
27:42Not right?
27:44My son does not agree with if it came down to breakfast
27:46or that kind of news. Thousands. You be thankful.
27:48I am, Father.
27:50Only... Only what?
27:52Well, shall you give it all away, then?
27:54Run into the marketplace and hand out banknotes
27:56to any as will have them?
27:58Or shall you send it away to one of these
28:00charitable institutions?
28:02Is that more to thy way of things?
28:04There was some woman here the other day, begging
28:06for the Lord Mayor of London's appeal
28:08for the unemployed. I told her,
28:10let the Lord Mayor give what he's a fancy
28:12and let other folk alone.
28:14Give them a few shilling for nothing.
28:16Let's spend it all on drink.
28:18Run them up in the streets again, I reckon.
28:22You come into the front parlour later
28:24and I'll show thee
28:26how to enter the money
28:28and pay it in the bank.
28:30All right.
28:32That's that.
28:34Now,
28:36do a sign sale and deliver this.
28:42She'll sign here, Father.
28:44Oh, you would, wouldn't you? Sign blind.
28:46Just like a woman.
28:48I left it to you.
28:50Read it.
28:56Seven years.
28:58Is that how long the partnership must last?
29:00Ah, but you can extend it to 14
29:02or 21 if you both are mind.
29:10Now,
29:12put your finger on that bit of wax
29:14and say, I deliver this as marked indeed.
29:16I deliver this
29:18as marked indeed.
29:20As soon as I give this to the lawyer, they're bound.
29:22Law's law and they're bound.
29:24Best sign the cheque,
29:26get it over.
29:30In amounts to be a doubt,
29:32you sign the name.
29:34Well, what are they waiting for?
29:36Ink to dry on nib?
29:40How much does this leave in me account,
29:42Father?
29:44About
29:46three pound.
29:48Never thee fear, wench.
29:50It'll squeeze
29:52the rest of that money out of old price.
29:54It'll be looking a sight healthier.
30:14Have you really never been round the pot bank before?
30:16Never.
30:18You must be the only one in the own of the five towns.
30:20We'll start at the beginning.
30:22We're going to the engine house.
30:44It's quite safe really.
30:46Ah.
30:48Please raise the bumper.
31:14See.
31:16There.
31:18Now,
31:20after the clay has been through the plunger,
31:22it goes down into the sump
31:24and then it's pumped up through
31:26into here
31:28where it's sifted
31:30and magnets remove any trace of iron.
31:32After that,
31:34it's pumped up again
31:36through all the way around here
31:38and down through the press.
31:40See, there.
31:42Ah, no, no, no.
31:44It's OK to get too close, not if you don't have to.
31:46The pressure is tremendous
31:48and it might want to burst.
31:52Come on.
31:54We'll go and see a pot maid.
31:56Aside from anything else, it's quieter.
32:12But it's...
32:14Miraculous.
32:16Almost.
32:18And it happens all the time the works is open.
32:20Doesn't it ever go wrong?
32:22Hardly ever.
32:26What if it does?
32:28Well, the clay can be reshaped and used again
32:30and he has wasted minutes of his time
32:32working on something for which he'll be paid nothing.
32:34Ah.
32:36Ah.
32:38Ah.
32:40Nothing.
32:44But if it were his fault...
32:46His work teaches the workers
32:48to be careful far better than standing over them
32:50wheeled in a big stick.
32:52Now,
32:54when all that is dried and smoothed,
32:56it's ready for the biscuit.
33:10They eat in there?
33:21Already it has been cooling for two days and still it is hotter than the equator.
33:24How can they stand it?
33:26Oh, they're used to it.
33:27It is what they do.
33:28It's still warm.
33:39The feeling of it, it sticks to the fingers as if it didn't want to let go.
33:46What happens to them now?
33:48Now we make them look fine and dandy.
33:51Afternoon, Mr. Myers.
34:44Isn't she skillful?
34:50She earns as much as 18 shillings a week sometimes.
34:52So much?
34:53There are not so many who can do as well.
34:58May I try?
35:00Certainly.
35:02Mary, let this lady have your seat for a moment, please.
35:13Take a full brush, miss.
35:18Now, turn the wheel.
35:29You have the gift, doesn't you, Mary?
35:32If you say so, Mr. Myers.
35:34I would never know it was your first time.
35:37I felt I could do it.
35:39Me mother's mother was a painteress.
35:41It must be in the blood.
35:49Surprise sent up.
36:02Sent up?
36:03Ah.
36:04I tired of hearing none of a sudden.
36:07I told him he was paying more than rent today, 25 pounds.
36:13He's not sent?
36:16I don't know.
36:18I was out this afternoon.
36:19Out, was she?
36:21Mr. Myers sent word to ask me to go down and look over the works.
36:25So I went.
36:26Thought it would be all right.
36:27Well, it weren't all right.
36:28Would you like to know what business thou hadst to be galling out as soon as me back
36:34was turned?
36:35How can I tell what the price sent?
36:39What's more, you know the owl sought not to be left.
36:42I'm sorry.
36:45Perhaps he didn't send.
36:48And if he sent and found the house locked, he should have sent again.
36:51Here, fetch the inkpot.
36:54I'll write a note as I must take down in the morning.
37:15They'll never be able to pay 25 pounds, Father.
37:18They've paid 30 already.
37:19Less gab.
37:20Here, write it this end.
37:33Tell Price he must pay 25 pounds this week, or else we'll put him bailiffs.
37:41Father.
37:42Set to wench.
37:44I've tried hard.
37:45I know it.
37:46Will he and his father both?
37:47Then they must try harder still.
37:4825 pounds or bailiffs.
37:52Wouldn't it come better from you, Father?
37:59Whose property is it?
38:05Be favored, he was business to attend to.
38:27I did not want to bring this, not to you.
38:34I must go.
38:45Young Price is in front parlour.
38:47You'd best take his money or set him packing.
38:49Me, Father?
38:50Surely he's come to see you.
38:53It's that note he's got in his hand.
38:59That demand.
39:02It was you that told me to write it, Father.
39:05If you're woman enough to go gallivanting off in the middle of the day,
39:10you're more than woman enough to see to the likes of Willie Price.
39:14Forget this despicable man.
39:26Go in peace and start afresh.
39:38It sickens me to see you so.
39:49Father says I must speak with you about the rent.
40:09You're rather hard on us, Miss Tellwright.
40:13You want to deny we're doing our best.
40:15Yet the rent is still owed you.
40:17Oh, yes.
40:18I do not deny that.
40:20I'll admit it.
40:21But to threaten us with the bailiffs.
40:23I would not.
40:24The letter was sound.
40:25And in your hand.
40:26I know.
40:27But I needn't tell you.
40:28I'm in Father's hands.
40:29I understand.
40:30It's just business.
40:31There is a debt and we must pay it.
40:32All we want is time.
40:33Yes.
40:34Yes, but Father means what he says.
40:36Might you say?
40:37Miss Tellwright.
40:38Perhaps I could say him.
40:39I'll fetch him.
40:40Please do.
40:41I'm sorry to see you.
40:42I'm so sorry to see you.
40:43I'm sorry to see you.
40:44What are you doing with your hand?
40:45I'm going back to the house.
40:46I'm going back to the house.
40:47I'm going back to the house.
40:48I'm going back to the house.
40:49What you say, Miss Talright.
40:57Perhaps a good say, eh?
40:59I'll fetch him.
41:01What?
41:20This note, Mr Talright.
41:23In all his business laughter, Father has never received such a letter.
41:26That Father's had dozens of such letters, youth.
41:33Don't tell me that Titus Price has never come face to face with a bum bailey for four.
41:41I was just telling him, Miss Talright.
41:43Oh, we want his time.
41:44Time is money.
41:45If we must give you time, you must give us money.
41:48That's reason.
41:49And you want to take back your threat?
41:50We want to.
41:55Then it's this.
41:59This is a bill of exchange drawn by us on Mr Sutton.
42:03And endorsed, barring for 30 pound.
42:05Comes payable in three months.
42:06Will you tack that against the 25 pound rent?
42:08Sutton, you say?
42:09So he still has dealings with you, does he?
42:11Oh, yes.
42:12As far as I was regular lark.
42:13I've done business for years.
42:14He pays his bills by the quater?
42:16Always.
42:19Let's see it, then.
42:21The bill.
42:24What else?
42:33Ah, that seems straight enough.
42:35And you want to negotiate it?
42:37Not head of town?
42:38Father will redeem it before it matures.
42:40You have our solemn word on that?
42:41Yeah.
42:42Us will tack it.
42:44And out it fast.
42:46But if that money isn't in our hands, inside of three months, it'll be cashed over.
42:50We'll be 30 pound to the good.
42:52You understand?
42:53Good day, Mrs. Tilroy.
42:56Good day, Mrs. Tilroy.
42:58And many thanks.
43:00Many thanks to you both.
43:10Oh, Agnes, at last.
43:11It's nearly four o'clock.
43:13Not only Agnes, my dear.
43:14Mrs. Sutton.
43:15Oh, you must excuse me.
43:16I had no idea.
43:17And Nancy.
43:18It's you who must excuse me.
43:20I've been coming in so unceremoniously.
43:23I was on my way to call and I saw Agnes hurrying home and hurried along with her.
43:27She's got such long legs.
43:29Oh, Mrs. Sutton, now can you?
43:31I could scarcely keep up with you.
43:34Well, in truth, my dear, I never could walk slowly.
43:36I'm one of those that go on till they drop.
43:38It's very silly.
43:39Agnes, set another cup and saucer and plate.
43:46You've got your kitchen like a new pin on her, if you'll excuse me saying so.
43:50Henry was very enthusiastic about this kitchen the other night up at our house.
43:54Oh, Mr. Miners.
43:56Yes, my dear, full of praise.
43:58He's a very particular young man, you know.
44:04We have tea at four.
44:06I'm sure Fay will be glad to see you.
44:08I wish I could be so sure.
44:10But a cup of tea is part of what I came for.
44:13A cup of tea I shall have.
44:15Won't you come through?
44:25Well, Mr. Tellwright, you see I've called to see you and to beg a cup of tea.
44:33I overtook Agnes on her way home from school.
44:35Overtook her, mind you, at my age.
44:38Well, sit you down.
44:42You're welcome.
44:44And what have you been tiring yourself with this afternoon
44:48apart from chasing this young girl along the road?
44:51What have I been doing?
44:53Well, for one, I saw to some inside repairs of the minister's house.
44:57We thankfully aren't a-circuits to his wife, am I?
44:59Then I rushed to a committee meeting with only minutes to spare.
45:03Ah, and are there schemes to save the poor from themselves or some such?
45:09It was to discuss ways in which we could make some contribution
45:13to the Lord Mayor of London's appeal for the unemployed.
45:16But I know you well enough, Ephraim Tellwright,
45:18not to waste my breath asking if you'd make a donation.
45:21I'm thankful for that.
45:23But there is another matter.
45:27I don't mind. There would be.
45:29The fund for the new Sunday School buildings is now open
45:33and in need of contribution to lift it on its way.
45:36What will you give?
45:38What are other folk giving?
45:40Well, my husband's giving £50.
45:44And you could buy him a block, stock and barrel.
45:47Aye, I'll not have a nape of the change.
45:49Oh, come now, Mr Tellwright, to the point.
45:52What'll you give?
45:54I'll think about it and let you hear.
45:56Oh, no. I want to do it all.
46:00I must tell you, Ephraim Tellwright, I, for one,
46:02am not going away from here without an effing promise.
46:06And as an old and a good Wesleyan,
46:09I know you'll feel it your duty to be generous with us.
46:15I'll tell you what I'll do.
46:17Titus Price is a big man at Sunday School.
46:21I'll give to the new buildings whatever he does.
46:25Well, I saw Mr Price yesterday.
46:28He promised £25.
46:33Did you hear that wench?
46:39Oh, come now, Mr Tellwright, a bargain's a bargain.
46:42Aye, and some is better than others.
46:45Has Price paid yet?
46:48No.
46:50Great. Come to me when he has.
47:03He's still not much of a man for holidays, Ephraim.
47:09There's no better way of relaxing,
47:11clearing the mind and the body ready for a new attack upon life.
47:15Unless, of course, it's prayer.
47:17If they didn't do so much gadding round after this and that,
47:21maybe you wouldn't feel the need for so much relaxation.
47:26We all choose to dedicate our lives in different ways,
47:30each to his or her own likes.
47:32Maybe so. I could be forever bustling in and out with them few pots.
47:35It was Anna who was in me thoughts.
47:38Mr Sutton and myself and Beatrice are going to the Isle of Man soon for a week or so,
47:43and we should very much like for Anna to come with us.
47:46Whatever for?
47:48I couldn't really.
47:50Why not?
47:52Well, the house and...
47:54The house?
47:55Beatrice, Agnes could do whatever bit of housekeeping your father would want.
47:59School's break up next week.
48:01I shouldn't waste my breath talking.
48:03What do young folk like Anna want with holidays?
48:05I never had one. I wouldn't thank you for one.
48:08I shall pig on in Bursley.
48:11If you've got a roof of your own,
48:13what's the sense of paying good money to stay under someone else's?
48:16But we really want Anna to go. Beatrice is very anxious about it.
48:19She's very short of suitable friends.
48:21I shouldn't have thought it.
48:23Well, she is.
48:27You'd best leave Anna out this year.
48:52I did not think it, er...
48:55strange, Ephraim.
48:57Strange?
48:59All the years we've known one another, you and I.
49:05This must be the first time in almost...
49:0920 of those years we've been alone.
49:12Ah.
49:14I'm sorry.
49:1620 of those years we've been alone.
49:19Ah.
49:24Do you ever think...? No.
49:26Doesn't do neighbours a good.
49:30You were a sprightly young man, Ephraim.
49:33It was a strut to your walk that said,
49:35I'm going to be somebody.
49:37That was a long time back.
49:42If you truly want me to believe
49:44that you've not wasted a thought on me all those years...
49:47Not a one.
49:56There I come, Ephraim.
49:59Don't keep her too close.
50:05Ah.
50:09Look and go if there's a mind.
50:15It's all right.
50:17You can come with us. Your fathers are great.
50:23You're so good.
50:25I'm so grateful, you can't think.
50:28And, Father, I never...
50:32Um...
50:34I've got to go.
50:36I've got to go.
50:38I've got to go.
50:40I've got to go.
50:43Um...
50:45There's something I forgot to tell you.
50:47Henry Marners will most likely be coming with us to the Isle of Man.
51:12What's this? What are you doing in a room?
51:14Of course there'll be a room, silly. Your place is reserved.
51:17I wish you were coming.
51:19I never been on a school trip like you.
51:23It's all right, Agnes. There's room here.
51:31Don't you wish you were coming now that you're here?
51:33Maybe I do.
51:34Then jump in.
51:35Old Titus Price will not turn you off for want of a shilling ticket.
51:38I can't.
51:39You mean your father.
51:41His dinner has to be got ready.
51:43Has he never fended for himself?
51:45No. No, I don't think so.
51:47Men. They like nothing more than to make a fuss.
51:50No woman to set the meal before him and they shout and scream like babbies.
51:54Most of them.
51:56Whatever is happening?
51:58I don't know.
52:00But Mr Price seems quite agitated.
52:02Well, the way he's been lately.
52:05You mean you haven't noticed?
52:07Why, he seems so worn down by worry.
52:09It's never each time I see him.
52:11I've rarely seen a man so nervous and preoccupied.
52:14And all that shouting. Why, that's just so much bluster.
52:17They do say money's at the root of it.
52:19They say he's deeply in debt.
52:37TITUS PRICE
52:53Your favour. I hope it were nothing too serious.
52:56One of our customers.
52:58Trouble. We're in order. I want a shill window.
53:01Oh, it's all right.
53:03It's never all right, Miss Talbot.
53:05Never.
53:16The data, may we get through one day to the next,
53:20and that's the best we know for...
53:23Sometimes I can't help thinking we're at Ogien End.
53:26You will pull through. You will.
53:29That's right, Miss Talbot, one way or another.
53:33In the end...
53:38Mr Price became so angry in the middle of Bobby Bingo,
53:41he stopped her altogether.
53:43He said that in all the 25 years he'd been playing it at school treats,
53:47he'd never come across children who were so slow to understand.
53:50And Brucose, that were only the infants.
53:53I was hoping Miss Sutton and Mr Marners would tease.
53:56Mr Marners? Surely he ain't one of the here.
53:58Oh, yes. He came halfway through the morning.
54:01Two slices of bread and butter, a currant cake, a nickels cake
54:05and a bath bomb in each bag.
54:07Mr Marners said there were too much and that little ones would bust.
54:10But Miss Sutton said after all the games they run around playing,
54:13they'd eat the paper bag and know.
54:15She's so nice, Miss Sutton.
54:17Don't you think so, sis?
54:20Sis?
54:22Yes, of course.
54:24You're so lucky to be getting away with her.
54:27Yes.
54:29Yes.
54:33You know what, sis?
54:35No.
54:37Do you know what I envy most of all?
54:39Agnes, you know it's wrong to envy others.
54:42I know. I do.
54:47Oh, what is it?
54:51You'll see the sea.
54:53Oh! Is that it, silly?
54:56Sis, ever since I knew you were going,
54:59I've laid in bed and felt what it must be like.
55:03Not paintings, but the real sea.
55:06Stretching forever and ever.
55:09Just see.
55:15You will go.
55:17One day.
55:20You'll see it the same as I.
55:22Shall I, sis?
55:24No, really.
55:26Sometimes I think I will.
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