Sorry, sir.
As you say, she's confirmed
she's not receiving guests today.
You did say Ainsworth?
- Thomas Ainsworth?
- I did, sir.
Please assure her of my warmest regards.
Sir.
He's sent the drawing room scrapbook
and a biographical account of himself.
Aw!
What's the significance
of the scrapbook?
It's just something
we always did together
in the evenings when I visited
the three of us.
I wonder why he sent you
a biographical account of himself.
[GASPS]
You don't think he
intends to propose to you.
Would that not be a good thing,
surely?
I suppose it is rather soon, but
all the same.
A clergyman.
I think I might be better upstairs.
I'm glad you didn't say anything to him
when he called this afternoon.
I still intend to,
if it becomes necessary.
Do you think it will?
Well,
if they offer him this
position at Lightcliffe Church
and he hasn't got the message by then
and he lacks the wit to turn it down,
yes,
it may do.
Will you stay tonight?
I'll have to send James over to Shibden
with a note for Eugénie to put my
night things into a bag for me.
I'm glad I've told you what I told you,
but I feel so
humble and depressed
in my estimation of myself.
Yes, well, don't.
You are blameless.
I wouldn't be putting
Miss Parkhill's nose out of joint
if I stayed, would I?
I doubt it.
I think you fascinate her.
[CHUCKLES]
[CHUCKLES]
There are some things
I'd like you to get rid of for me,
if you would.
He gave them to me.
"To my dearest Ann,
the only one I may rest upon.
From your own Thomas Ainsworth.
"
"Rest upon"?
[SIGHS]
What a wretch.
You know, I've been
thinking for a while now
That this
Without a more formal tie between us,
is just as wrong as any
other casual connection.
Ah, but we said that
when we settle at Shibden,
when we come back from our travels,
that would be as good
as a marriage, didn't we?
Yes.
Yes, and it will be.
But
Would you have any objection
to taking the sacrament together
here or at Shibden
and swearing oaths
on the Bible?
And then I thought
we could give one another a ring each.
And then we could wear them always.
Swearing vows on the Bible?
Like a wedding?
Yes.
In front of people?
No.
No.
It would have to be a private matter
a private understanding.
But yes, in all other respects,
very much like a wedding.
[CHUCKLES]
You'll get fed up of me.
I wonder why you have
such a poor opinion of yourself.
I don't when I'm with you.
When I'm with you, I
could take on the world.
[CHUCKLES]
[SOFT MUSIC]
Well, then.
[CHUCKLES]
[PLUCKY MUSIC]
Dear sir,
I return your package containing
the drawing room scrapbook
and your biographical account
of yourself unopened.
I have given my friend Miss Lister
surveillance
Surveillance.
S-U-R-V-E-I-double-L.
Surveillance of all my
recent correspondence.
Any subsequent communication
you choose to make with me
should be sent via her
at Shibden Hall, Halifax.
Yours sincerely, A.
Walker.
Anything new, Mr.
Ainsworth?
Miss Walker feels it's too soon
- to be offered these things.
- [KNOCK AT DOOR]
Well, perhaps she's right.
How foolish of me.
Appears I've overstepped the mark.
Put it to one side for
the moment, Mr.
Ainsworth.
Concentrate on your
meeting this afternoon
with the church trustees.
I know.
why don't I pop into Crow Nest
and have a few words with Miss
Walker myself this afternoon?
Oh, no, that's I-I wouldn't
I don't think you should
go to any such trouble,
not not on not on my account.
It wouldn't be any trouble.
No trouble at all.
The problem
with my husband's cousin, Mr.
Ainsworth,
is that she often doesn't know herself
what's in her own best interests.
It's not her fault.
She's had rather a tragic life
full of losses I'm sure you know
and then she's been taken advantage of
by one unscrupulous person
or another as a result.
It's as I say,
- I think it might be best
- [KNOCK AT DOOR]
to leave well alone for the moment.
Ma'am, Miss Lister's here.
Should I ask her into the drawing room
till you've finished breakfast?
Is that Miss Lister of Shibden Hall?
You've heard of her?
How?
Miss Walker must've mentioned her
at some point in the past.
No, Harry, don't show
her into the drawing room.
- Show her in here.
- Ma'am.
Miss Lister is rather
eccentric, Mr.
Ainsworth.
But her family is one of
the oldest in Halifax, so
Of course.
Once I've said hello,
I might pop up to my room
and sort through a few of my
- Good morning.
- Miss Lister.
You have company.
I hope you'll forgive my intrusion.
This is the Reverend Thomas Ainsworth
from Northwich.
How do you do, Mr.
Ainsworth?
Mr.
Ainsworth whose wife died
in the carriage accident last week,
who was married to Miss Walker's friend.
You must be heartbroken, Mr.
Ainsworth.
Would you like me to ask Harry
to bring you in a teacup,
- Miss Lister?
- No, thank you.
I can't stop.
I came to ask you about
Sorry, Mr.
Ainsworth,
this must seem very banal
to a man that's just lost his wife.
But I came to ask you a favor.
- Me?
- Mm.
We had a carriage accident here
during the summer, Mr.
Ainsworth.
Not quite as tragic as the
one your wife was involved in,
but a seven-year-old boy lost a leg.
His father's one of my tenants,
and he'll never work on the farm, sadly.
But Mr.
Washington, my land steward,
one of his girls goes
over to read to Henry.
And apparently, he's a
very bright little boy.
So I wondered if you'd
have him in your day school,
Mrs.
Priestley,
so he can learn to read
and write and account
and thereby try to make
something of himself.
- Oh.
- I'd cover his fees.
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