We must do what we can,
since the perpetrator of the accident,
despite being one of the
wealthiest men in Halifax,
has failed to acknowledge
his part in it.
Who?
I haven't mentioned this school
business to the Hardcastles.
I didn't know whether you'd have room.
I'd hate to disappoint them.
They're good people.
Well,
I imagine we can sort something out.
Who are you talking about?
Ask him to come along to the schoolroom
at 8:00 on Monday morning.
I'll tell Mr.
Wilkinson to expect him.
Anne, who caused the accident?
I can't prove it.
None of the witnesses will testify.
They're too frightened of
who they'd be accusing
On the bench.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
Mr.
Rawson?
I'll see myself out.
Mr.
Ainsworth,
sorry to have disturbed you.
Miss Lister!
Miss Lister!
Oh, hello.
I, um so, uh, first of all,
you must allow me to apologize
for for for
being rather too insistent with
with with your friend Miss Walker.
- Mm.
- However
- When are you leaving?
- In my defense Sorry?
When's your meeting
with the church trustees?
This afternoon, 2:00.
Good.
So you're leaving when?
Tomorrow morning.
But so the thing is
the thing I need to explain,
the thing you should understand
What you need to
understand, Mr.
Ainsworth,
is, even if you were
offered the position,
it would be very unwise
of you to accept it.
Sorry?
I don't wish to embarrass you any more
than you've embarrassed
yourself already, but
When I wrote that first
letter to Miss Walker
I imagine that's what this is about
the wording was,
I accept, somewhat overfamiliar.
And I may have been rather too
quick off the mark as well.
But the thing is,
I was under the influence of
[WHISPERING] Opium,
which is not not
something I would normally do,
but I had had a toothache
and my wife had just died.
Yes, but we're not just talking about
a crudely worded letter, are we,
Mr.
Ainsworth?
Miss Walker has been very
explicit
about what went before the letter.
And knowing all the
circumstances as I do,
I hope you would
appreciate the propriety
and necessity of abstaining from
any further communication with her.
No, no, no.
The thing the thing
Otherwise, you will be
exposed, Mr.
Ainsworth
As an adulterer
and a fornicator.
All right.
All right.
All right, then.
Now, the thing you must
appreciate, Miss Lister,
is that there is always
more than one side
to such such a thing.
No, Mr.
Ainsworth, not in this case.
You took advantage of a
vulnerable young woman.
You inflicted yourself on her.
- No.
- And those
Yes.
And those advances were
unlooked for and unwanted.
No, that's no, that
With your wife in the next room,
you repeatedly, calculatedly preyed
on her vulnerabilities
and insecurities until
Don't.
Do not tell me she was complicit in it.
You preyed on her
insecurities to the point
where she believed
she deserved no better.
She wanted it more than I did.
If you weren't so insignificant,
Mr.
Ainsworth, I would horse-whip you
until you were black and blue.
As it is,
I'm mortally sorry you are
not worth knocking down.
Yes, well, if you expose
me, you expose her.
Mm.
And that is the only reason
I am giving you the opportunity
to leave here and return to Northwich
with something you barely
deserve, Mr.
Ainsworth:
your reputation intact.
And once more,
I urge you
to appreciate the
propriety and necessity
of neither Miss Walker nor myself
ever hearing anything about
you in this world ever again.
And I trust we have no reason
to fear bumping into you in the next.
All right, then.
I've dwelt on Holt's
figures for sinking this pit,
and I think we can do it.
Really?
Really?
I've heard nothing back from the Rawsons
since I said I wanted £160 and
10 shillings for the upper bed.
And I asked them to get
back to me within a week,
which they haven't done, so
let's get down there ourselves,
find out what's going on.
Who will you get to sink the pit?
Holt wants to put it out to tender
and invite people to bid for it.
Well, do you want me to organize that,
put the word about?
Let's do it.
How about a fortnight
on Friday for the bidding?
That'd give 'em chance
to get their bids costed.
Fortnight on Friday
down at the Stags Head?
Mm.
Oh, and I've got a message
for the Hardcastles,
if you're going
anywhere near Roydelands.
[JAUNTY MUSIC]
Argus.
- [WATER SPLASHES]
- Morning.
- Morning, ma'am.
- Morning.
Good morning, Madame.
- Good morning.
- Ma'am.
- Oh, I need to talk to you.
- Hmm?
Not now.
- How's Miss Walker?
- On the mend.
Tomorrow Mr.
Abbott is coming to tea.
- What time?
- 4:00.
Will you be here?
No.
[SOFT MUSIC]
Dear sir, last time I was in York,
you had a French onyx
cabochon and rose-cut
diamond engagement ring
in your display cabinet
which I would like to purchase
and for which I enclose
a banker's draft of £30.
Miss Lister.
I'd like a banker's draft for £30
made payable to Messrs.
Barber & Cattle in York.
Yes, ma'am.
[PIGS SNORTING]
She's very engaging,
Miss Lister.
Do you like her?
You're lucky
to know someone so clever
and interesting and who cares about you.
You hardly need me here
when she's so close by.
I do wonder if you should
consider this marriage proposal, though,
if that's what it is.
I'm not
What?
In love with Mr.
Ainsworth.
Does that matter?
Could you not be happy enough with him?
A clergyman.
What if
I was in love with someone else?
Who?
[SIGHS]
[KNOCK AT DOOR]
Ma'am.
Mrs.
Priestley's at the door.
I didn't hear the bell ring.
She came to the back door, ma'am.
[GROANS] She sneaks in.
She says her call's on Miss Parkhill
as well as yourself, ma'am.
You make it known that you're ill
and not receiving visitors,
and they turn up anyway.
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