Now, with her madam
going off to Market Weighton,
it would look very bad
if I left her with just the servants
all night.
Sorry.
It's
bad timing, I know,
but I will still come to dinner,
and stay for a little
while, if that's
And then, another time,
when the dust's settled
- and soon, we can
- I'd like that.
Um, there was something else
I wanted to, um
tell you.
I've had a letter.
It's about you.
Married?
Apparently, so would you tell Caligula?
Well, Eugénie speaks no English,
and he surely doesn't speak any French.
I agreed to be the messenger.
Anne will no doubt get to the nub of it,
effortlessly and in her own manner.
Oh, I wish you and Anne wouldn't argue.
- She's the one that
- I know, I know.
Eh, might you get married?
Is there someone?
I have twice been invited to tea
at Dr.
and Mrs.
Kenny's
when Mr.
John Abbott has
been invited, too, and
he and I have become, well, friendly.
- John Abbott?
- Yes.
Is he not something in wool?
Yes, but he's also a founder member
of the Halifax Joint
Stock Banking Company,
and he owns property in
Australia and New Zealand.
Nothing's been said,
but he has intimated to Mrs.
Kenny
that he's, well
really rather fond of me.
Anyway, look,
I shan't be gone for
more than two weeks,
and if you need me, write.
I'll come straight back.
Oh, and please,
don't tell Anne about Mr.
Abbott.
I shouldn't have said
what I said this morning,
but she just makes me so cross!
Are you all right?
This is written by someone
who knows nothing about me.
It's so poisonous.
It's so cowardly.
I suppose it wasn't meant for your eyes,
but I wanted you to see it,
because I wanted you to know
that I don't care what
anyone says about you,
not least someone who
daren't even put their name
to their work.
Got to go see how my aunt is.
I'll see you this evening.
Can I take this?
Mm.
James,
were you riding on the back
of Miss Walker's carriage
the other week, when
that accident happened
- above my house?
- Yes, ma'am.
So you were facing the gig, then?
As I understand it, the gig
that forced its way through
and caused all the bother.
Yes, ma'am.
The boy lost a leg.
Any information would be useful.
Well, the only thing:
after it all happened,
William Bell, our groom,
said he could swear blind
that the driver was Mr.
Rawson himself.
It's Mr.
Rawson, Mr.
Parker.
- Mr.
Parker.
- Mr.
Rawson.
There's a problem.
I have come to terms, Parker,
with Miss Lister's ridiculous price,
and I will even sign to say
she can go down my Law Hill pit,
under certain conditions,
- so surely now
- It's
there's this other thing.
I had assumed
that we were talking about the upper bed
and the lower bed for the named price,
but here, it seems
that we're buying just the lower bed,
and that is the richest seam,
but obviously, it's
the upper bed we're
interested in as well.
Has your client any real intention
of sealing this deal, Mr.
Parker,
or is she just playing
some impenetrable game,
the point of which is to vex me?
We're men of business.
We like to shake hands and move forward,
not jump through endless hoops
of her whimsical, idiotic,
and ill-informed construction.
I think of all the criticisms
one might level at
Miss Lister, that, um,
"whimsical, idiotic, and ill-informed"
are rather wide of the mark.
Was this not clarified
in all these conversations
you've been having with her?
I was talking about
whole surface measure,
which normally would mean the upper bed
and the lower bed.
She has specified in this lease
"sufficient measure,"
which, when you read it closely,
she's talking just about the lower bed.
Both beds, or no deal.
Your client, Mr.
Parker,
needs to learn to stop wasting my time.
Perhaps you could spell that out to her.
Welly!
- He's messed his pants.
- Has he?
He offered me sixpence to untie him.
He hasn't got sixpence.
No, I know.
Mr.
Pickels was grateful
to have the cart back,
you'll be thrilled to learn.
You'd better untie me.
How do we know you won't start throwing
your weight around again?
Someone comes along here
and finds me like this,
you ain't gonna last two minutes, lad.
Thing is, no one ever
does come out here,
do they?
I mean, not out here.
Nobody visits us, do they?
'Cause nobody likes us.
Miss Lister is expecting
me at the hall tomorrow.
I mean, you think she ain't gonna come
snooping around here
if I don't turn up, huh?
Aye.
Never thought about that, did you?
Elsie.
Amy!
A note just arrived, ma'am,
from Mr.
Jeremiah Rawson's servant.
Madam, I am at a loss to account
for the misunderstanding between us.
I considered by "sufficient measure,"
you meant both the lower and upper bed,
and that was the only consideration
that induced me to offer
such an enormous price.
I'm off.
- 10:00.
- I'm going to send John.
You're not going to send John.
I'm going to send John.
I do not like you walking home alone.
Fine, send John, but
tell him not to arrive
any earlier than 9:35.
You cannot walk back from
Lightcliffe in 25 minutes.
I can walk anywhere in 25 minutes.
Well, John can't!
Well, then, I shall be
approximately five minutes
later than 10:00, and
only because of John.
Try not to lose any
more colonies, Captain.
- What'd she say?
- Nothing.
- Where's she going?
- John, just to warn you,
is getting married.
John?
We'll have this conversation later.
This John? Our John?
- Who to?
- And, um
Who's John getting married to?
There's something worse.
Well, not
Worse?
Um, Marian.
Marian?
Marian's getting married? Who to?
Not to John, I trust
or maybe they are.
What do I know?
Marian.
Does Marian even
Really?
- Marian's getting married?
- No, no, no.
Who is John getting married to?
Look, I said I wouldn't say anything.
I want you to have a nice evening,
so off you pop, and we'll
talk about this later.
No, we set off at 5:00 a.
m.
We didn't get back
until 20 past midnight.
- No!
- I'm afraid I tired my poor friend,
Miss McLaine, out.
Not a morsel of food to eat all day,
but yes, I'd quite happily spend
so much more time in the highlands.
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