Good.
I just got a new set, actually.
I'm very excited to start using it.
It's got a yellow in it that
it's sort of a bit more
Oh, here she is.
- Miss Lister.
- Mr.
Rawson.
Sorry I kept you waiting.
Not at all.
So many jobs on hand around the estate,
and I do like to keep an eye on the men.
What can I do for you?
I understand you're
leasing out your coal,
and if that is the case,
my brother and I would like
to ask you how much you'd take for it.
- What will you offer?
- Oh.
You must set the price, madam.
- Per acre?
- Yes, that would be
226 pounds, 17 shillings, and 6 pence.
- S sorry?
- Per acre.
That's
That's ridiculous.
Mm, it isn't.
I asked Mr.
Holt, the coal agent.
He advised me it was worth 200 an acre.
Why, even that's pretty steep.
I asked him to calculate
how much it costs you
to get your coal and
then how much it sold for,
which he did.
But I think he got
his calculations wrong.
Either that, or he
was trying to dupe me.
I think he underestimated
me, Mr.
Rawson,
with me being the gentler sex,
which I know is something
you and your brother won't do.
The price you have
named is, with respect
Ridiculous? Hmm, it isn't.
Let me explain why.
You sell your coal down in Halifax
at eight pence per coal.
It's actually seven pence.
I asked a number of
people who buy it from you.
- No one said seven pence.
- Some we sell at eight pence, yes.
So I'm reliably informed
that the cost of getting
and hurrying to the
surface 20 corves of coal
is six shillings.
That's 72 pence divided by 20,
and, well, that's thruppence
ha'penny per corve,
which means you make four-pence
ha'penny clear gain per corve.
Now, let's times that by five,
and we have one shilling,
tenpence ha'penny
or 22 pence per square yard.
4,840 square yards in an acre times 22,
and your clear gain
is 453 pounds and 15 shillings
per acre.
Now, if the getter and the proprietor
were to share their profits equally
which, again, I'm told is the custom
that divides into 226 pounds,
17 shillings, and 6 pence.
We never make that kind
of profit, Miss Lister.
Well, then, I suggest
you look narrowly into it,
because I could.
What you should know,
Mr.
Rawson, is that I'm
What's the word, Marian?
- Uh, I
- "Indifferent.
" Thank you.
I'm indifferent about
leasing my coals because
Shibden is rich in coal, madam.
You'd be ill-advised not
to do anything with it.
I'm indifferent about
leasing my coals, Mr.
Rawson,
because if I don't get my price,
I shall sink my own pits.
Well, that that would
Well, open a new one
at the top of the hill
and then reopen Listerwick at
the bottom, down at Mytholm.
That would be an incredibly
expensive undertaking.
Mm, in the short term, maybe.
In all seriousness, Miss Lister,
150 pound per acre would
be much nearer the mark.
I think I've explained to you
as simply as I can why it isn't.
226 pounds, 17 shillings, and 6 pence,
Mr.
Rawson, is what I shall
take for my coal per acre,
in all seriousness,
and I shall offer it to the other party
at the same price.
Well, I should have
to speak to my brother
before I offered you anything
resembling that figure.
Of course.
Was there anything else?
I knew she'd run rings round you.
Yes, well, maybe you
should have come with me.
It'd have made no difference anyhow.
She keeps herself very well informed.
I need to keep working
those beds, Christopher.
I can't stop production.
I
have contracts to fulfill.
I used to know her, socially,
years ago, when she first
started coming to Halifax.
Has she not always lived here?
No, no, no.
They're from East Yorkshire,
her side of the family.
Poor relations.
She adopted
her Uncle James and Aunt Anne
up at Shibden when she was
16?
Younger? 15?
They couldn't cope with her at home,
so she came to live here.
- "Couldn't cope" how?
- I'm not sure.
Bit of an handful, I imagine.
She was at the Manor School in York,
only she'd been expelled.
Never knew what for.
I mean, I could guess.
- Is that true?
- Oh, yes.
She likes the ladies,
does Miss Lister.
I think she's bluffing.
Nobody'd pay 226 pounds an acre.
And she'll not sink her own pit.
She can't afford to, not without
borrowing money.
Big money.
And anyway, she never stays around here
any longer than she has to.
I think her tastes have become
rather more refined and exotic
than anything she could
pick up in Halifax.
And she'll not shit on her own doorstep.
She's too clever.
She knows
there'd be repercussions.
I wonder if we shouldn't just
gird our loins
and bide our time
and see what happens.
- This your sister?
- Mm-hmm.
You're very good.
These are very good.
Maybe one day you could paint me.
I'd love to paint you.
Oh.
What?
Before you set off, I have
something for you to wear.
What is it? You shouldn't have.
Oh
I bought it in Venice two years ago.
Look, it's a little gondola.
Oh
Not as useful as a paper knife, but
It's beautiful, Anne.
I wish I wasn't going.
I always like the idea
of travel, but then
you know, my brother died in Naples.
You are not going to
die in the Lake District.
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