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Esther keeps her secret refusing to tell Ada what happened with Lady Dedlock. Richard Carstone returns and admits he is unsettled by the never ending court case. Richard has decided to rely on Mr. Skimpole's advice and seek his own legal counsel in the form of Mr. Vholes, but expenses prove quite high. Ada thinks he should give up any hope of winning and they should just be happy. Smallweed finds the packet of letters addressed to Capt. Hawdon. Tulkinghorn buys them from him and subtly lets Lady Dedlock know he is aware of her secret. Jarndyce confides in Boythorm telling him of his plan to marry Esther.
Starring:
Denis Lawson
Anna Maxwell Martin
Patrick Kennedy
Carey Mulligan
Gillian Anderson
Charles Dance
Alun Armstrong
Timothy West
Burn Gorman
Harry Eden
Esther keeps her secret refusing to tell Ada what happened with Lady Dedlock. Richard Carstone returns and admits he is unsettled by the never ending court case. Richard has decided to rely on Mr. Skimpole's advice and seek his own legal counsel in the form of Mr. Vholes, but expenses prove quite high. Ada thinks he should give up any hope of winning and they should just be happy. Smallweed finds the packet of letters addressed to Capt. Hawdon. Tulkinghorn buys them from him and subtly lets Lady Dedlock know he is aware of her secret. Jarndyce confides in Boythorm telling him of his plan to marry Esther.
Starring:
Denis Lawson
Anna Maxwell Martin
Patrick Kennedy
Carey Mulligan
Gillian Anderson
Charles Dance
Alun Armstrong
Timothy West
Burn Gorman
Harry Eden
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00:46Is there anything you want, my lady?
00:51No.
00:52Thank you, Rosa.
00:54Nothing at all.
01:24Esther?
01:26Are you well?
01:27Yes, well enough now, Ada.
01:30But you were upset.
01:31I'm denied.
01:32I saw you as you ran into the house.
01:34I was a little upset.
01:35But now I'm fine.
01:37It was Lady Deadlock, wasn't it?
01:39What did she say?
01:40Was she very angry with us for trespassing?
01:42No.
01:43What then?
01:44I can't tell you, Ada.
01:46It's a secret?
01:47Yes, it's a secret.
01:51It's so secret you can't tell your best friend in all the world.
01:54Well, we gave my word.
01:56Perhaps one day I shall be able to tell you.
01:59But for now, you must have promised to never ask me about it.
02:04I thought we would never have secrets from each other, Esther.
02:07I hope that this will be the only one.
02:14I was going to tell you one of mine.
02:16But now I'm not sure that I shall.
02:19Esther!
02:20Ada!
02:24Later.
02:42My dear young ladies, what can I say?
02:45What a wretched dog I am, to be sure.
02:47Invite you to stay, then abandon you to your fate like the babes in the wood.
02:52Yet it must be done.
02:53John, and my friend John now says he will forgive me.
02:56Why, Mr. Boythorn, whatever is it?
02:57All my friend means, that he's been called away on urgent business,
03:00that I'm to accompany him to witness a document.
03:02I've assured him you'll be able to survive our absence very well.
03:05It'll only be for a day or two.
03:07Yes, indeed.
03:08Being as you are to very sensible and competent young women?
03:12I hope we are, sir.
03:14Well, I am most prodigiously obliged to you both.
03:18Fair.
03:19What a bit of luck.
03:20I couldn't think I was going to manage it.
03:22And it's what, Ada?
03:30Ladies.
03:32Ladies.
03:32Yes, please.
03:34No, you mustn't be crump, Zaster.
03:36There's someone staying here that wants to see you.
03:38He wants to see me.
03:39Here we are, ladies.
03:43Richard.
03:45Nesta.
03:50Come, let me see you.
04:03Much changed, as you see.
04:05No.
04:07No, still our same dear, Esther.
04:10What a joy it is to be together again, all three of us.
04:14Let's sit down.
04:25So, let's say those two young people marry.
04:28What about Esther?
04:31That she has been Ada's companion.
04:33Will she go with Ada when Ada is Mrs. Carsten?
04:38I would hope that she will want to stay on at Bleak House.
04:42As your housekeeper?
04:47Not necessarily.
04:49As my housekeeper.
04:52Well, then, as what, man?
04:59Of course.
05:01Why didn't I think of it before?
05:04You mean to marry her.
05:07You mean to marry her.
05:09Is it so very ridiculous, Boythorne?
05:12Ridiculous?
05:13Of course not.
05:15One hears of such things every day.
05:17Old men marrying their young housekeepers.
05:21Tell me, if you don't think I'm being over-curious,
05:25when did you first conceive this plan?
05:27When you first put her to school?
05:28Was that what it was all along?
05:30Were you bringing her up to be your bride?
05:32No.
05:34Boythorne, I beg of you.
05:36She knows nothing of this, not yet.
05:37Now, I've spoken more than I meant to.
05:40You'll respect my confidence, old friend.
05:42Absolutely.
05:43Though I were dragged apart by horses
05:45until I was torn in pieces,
05:47I wouldn't breathe a word of it.
05:53So this is your secret?
05:55Do you think it's very bad of us
05:56to see each other in secret?
05:58No.
06:00But you could have come to the house, Richard.
06:02You'd have been very welcome.
06:04I'm not so sure of that.
06:06Things are a little awkward at present
06:07between our guardian and me.
06:10All my fault, I dare say,
06:11but here we all are.
06:14I hope you'll both stay for supper.
06:15Mr. Grable is engaged to do his best for us.
06:17Foul, chops, cutlets, and I don't know what.
06:23Esther,
06:24it's so good to see you again.
06:27I, um,
06:29I came as soon as I could.
06:35And how does army life suit?
06:37Oh, well enough, I suppose.
06:41But I find it hard to settle.
06:44The thing is, Esther,
06:45it's very difficult to settle to anything
06:46until our chancery suit is decided.
06:48But our guardian says the case could run on
06:51for years and years without ever seeing a settlement.
06:55He says it's the family curse, Richard.
06:57What Mr. John Jarndyce says
06:58and what might be the case
06:59can be two very different things.
07:03Besides, I'm not accountable to Mr. Jarndyce
07:04or to Mr. Anybody.
07:12But we won't go into that now.
07:14He and I must agree to differ, that's all.
07:18So, are you looking after
07:19your own legal affairs now?
07:20No, no, Voles is the man.
07:22And what a man for putting his shoulder to the wheel.
07:26Mr. Skimpole introduced us, you know.
07:28I'm eternally grateful to him for doing so.
07:30You won't be joining your friend for supper,
07:32Mr. Skimpole?
07:33Not this evening, Mr. Grable.
07:34Best not.
07:35Ah, right, you are, sir.
07:39Fresh glass, Mr. Grable.
07:41Right, you are, sir.
07:43Is Mr. Skimpole
07:45the best person to advise
07:47on matters of business, do you think?
07:49Well, I was surprised myself at first, you know,
07:51but if you met Voles,
07:52you'd settled out aside.
07:54We're all action now.
07:56There's more expense, of course,
07:58but that's only to be expected
08:00if we're to see results.
08:03Ada understands all that, don't you, Ada?
08:06I mean, it's for your sake as much as mine, you know.
08:08But, Richard,
08:11what if nothing were to come of it after all?
08:14What if you've been wearing yourself out
08:16with waiting and anxiety
08:19and false hopes and expense?
08:23I never wanted to be rich,
08:24and I'm sure you didn't either.
08:26No, of course not.
08:27Then why not give it up?
08:29Give it up?
08:31Then we could be poor and happy.
08:37Ada, I would.
08:39I'd do it like a shot.
08:40The money's nothing to me.
08:42Then?
08:45Justice.
08:48Justice for me and for Ada.
08:49That's all I want.
08:51I won't be done out of my rights
08:52by Mr. John Jandice or by anybody.
08:57Well, let's leave all that.
08:59Seize the moment.
09:01I can't tell you how happy I am
09:03to be with you both again.
09:09And he will spend all day with us tomorrow.
09:12You see, what I was thinking,
09:14if we can keep him here,
09:15away from all his cares in London,
09:17then he'll remember himself.
09:19The old Richard,
09:20he never really went away.
09:22He certainly loves you
09:23as much as he ever did.
09:25Do you think so?
09:27I think he does.
09:30And I shall never give him up,
09:31no matter what happens.
09:35Lester, do you think
09:36we could persuade him to stay here
09:37until Mr. Jandice comes back?
09:39Then we could all be friends again?
09:41We could try.
09:51Now!
09:52Hey, Ed.
09:54That's for the rag and bow man.
09:56Those are for the rag and bow man.
09:58Grandfather?
09:59And you're for the rag and bow man.
10:00You give me back answers.
10:01What's that?
10:02Give it here.
10:03I thought it might be
10:03what Kendra's boy was talking about.
10:05Pink ribbons.
10:05They was under your chair.
10:08It's them.
10:09The letters to Captain Alden
10:11from a lady.
10:13There's money in this.
10:15Who's there?
10:15Who's there?
10:16Get out!
10:16Get out!
10:17Trespassers!
10:18Spies!
10:19Miss Smallweed,
10:20I reside in this house
10:22and I have a perfect right
10:23to be here.
10:24Only on my say-so.
10:25Who's the landlord here?
10:26Me!
10:27And we're putting the rents up
10:28to get some proper tenants in, eh?
10:30Queen's councils,
10:31members of Parliament,
10:32younger sons of the aristocracy.
10:35Younger sons of the aristocracy.
10:37Here?
10:38I don't think so,
10:39Mr Smallweed.
10:40Good day to you.
10:42Now that you turn your nose up on me,
10:43I'll see you in the gutter!
11:03I hate it.
11:04If only life could be like this all the time.
11:09Well, it could, couldn't it?
11:13One day.
11:17Perhaps.
11:26Ah, Miss Summerson!
11:28How delightful!
11:29A thousand pardons for this intrusion
11:31upon the Sylvan scene.
11:33And this...
11:35Well, can it be...
11:37poor Mr Cobbins' eldest daughter?
11:39Yes, sir.
11:40If you please, sir.
11:41It's Charlie, sir.
11:43Charlie!
11:44And grown so fine!
11:46You're a credit to your poor father, my dear.
11:48Thank you, sir.
11:50You know,
11:50I was able to give him
11:51a good deal of employment
11:52while he lived.
11:53And if one of your little brothers
11:54should set up in the same profession,
11:56I dare say I could do the same for him.
11:57Yes, very likely.
11:59Miss Summerson,
12:00always so sharp.
12:03Oh, dear.
12:06Oh, dear.
12:09I'm so.
12:13But...
12:14If only John and I said
12:15he did my advice.
12:18The, um...
12:20The...
12:20But not still contagious,
12:22I hope.
12:23Not in the least,
12:24Mr Skimpole.
12:25You needn't fear.
12:29May I ask who your friend is,
12:31Mr Skimpole?
12:32Well, you may indeed,
12:33Miss Summerson.
12:34This is Mr Voles,
12:35Mr Carstone's indefatigable attorney.
12:37Just come down from London
12:38on urgent business
12:39for his client.
12:40And now you understand
12:41the reason for our visit.
12:43I hope we don't disturb you,
12:45Miss Summerson.
12:46Mr Carstone gave
12:47express instructions
12:48that he was to be informed
12:49whenever his case is up
12:51before the Chancellor.
12:52And as I find it is
12:53in the paper for tomorrow,
12:54I am come down
12:55by the express coach
12:56to confer with him.
12:58I expect he will want
12:59to go straight
13:00back to London.
13:02Is his presence
13:03really necessary tomorrow, sir?
13:04Well, no.
13:06Can it do any good?
13:08No, I'm not aware
13:08that it can.
13:11Then why all this
13:12travelling up and down,
13:14which I suppose
13:15is at Mr Carstone's expense?
13:17You suppose correctly,
13:19Miss Summerson.
13:20But Mr Carstone
13:21has laid down the principle
13:22of watching his own interests.
13:24And when a client
13:26lays down his own principle,
13:27I am obliged
13:28to carry it out.
13:30Am I not?
13:31Of course I am.
13:32My conscience
13:33is quite clear.
13:35Ah, I believe
13:37I see my client now.
13:39Excuse me, Miss Summerson.
13:43There you are, Miss Summerson.
13:44Common sense,
13:45responsibility
13:46and respectability
13:47all united.
13:49What a man he is
13:50to be sure.
13:50And what a pleasure
13:51to be able to introduce him
13:52to our young friend.
13:53And how did that come about?
13:55Why,
13:56Bowles asked for the introduction
13:57and I, uh,
13:59I gave it.
14:01Did any money
14:02change hands,
14:03Mr Skimpole?
14:05Why, now,
14:06you mention it, yes.
14:07I believe it did.
14:08Hmm.
14:09Indeed.
14:10I think you might say
14:11that Bowles
14:13bribed me.
14:15Well,
14:15he gave me something
14:16at any rate.
14:17Call it commission.
14:20Was it a five-pound note?
14:22Do you know?
14:23I think it must have been.
14:24I understand.
14:25Ah, Miss Summerson,
14:26you understand everything.
14:28So young.
14:30Whereas I,
14:33I understand nothing.
14:35Child.
14:37Child.
14:45Mr Small, wait.
14:46Chop shot.
14:46No admittance.
14:47Get out for her.
14:48Set the dogs on you.
14:49Ruff, ruff, ruff.
14:51Down, sir, down.
14:52Better get out quick.
14:52I can't hold them.
14:53Mr Small, wait.
14:54It's me.
14:55Guppy.
14:55Kenji Carboys.
14:56Guppy, is it all right?
14:58Come forward.
14:59Stand to be recognised.
15:00Shake me up, Judy.
15:05Oh.
15:07What do you want?
15:08I was wondering
15:09whether you'd come across
15:10those letters
15:11I was mentioning,
15:12Mr Small, wait.
15:12Letters?
15:13What letters?
15:13We're up to our throats
15:14in letters here.
15:15Tied with pink ribbon
15:17in a lady's hand
15:18addressed to a
15:19Captain Holden.
15:20Ah, those letters.
15:22Now I recall.
15:24So what if I had found them?
15:25Then my client
15:26would be very interested
15:27in purchasing them.
15:28Your lady client?
15:30That's right.
15:31For a nominal sum?
15:33That's right.
15:33What sort of sum?
15:36Ten pounds?
15:39Ten pounds?
15:41Do you think
15:42I'm a newborn baby,
15:43Mr Guppy
15:44of Kenji and Carboys?
15:47If I was to have
15:48a sight of them,
15:49Mr Smallweed,
15:50I may be able
15:51to offer something
15:52a little bit more handsome.
15:54So,
15:55have you got them
15:55or not?
15:58Mr Guppy.
16:00Oh.
16:02Mr Talkinghorn, sir.
16:03How do you do, sir?
16:04Here on business,
16:05Mr Guppy.
16:06I am, sir.
16:07Kenji and Carboys business?
16:09No, sir.
16:10Oh.
16:11Set up chambers
16:12of your own,
16:12have you, Mr Guppy?
16:13No, sir.
16:14I am here
16:16on behalf of a
16:16private client.
16:18In Kenji and Carboys time.
16:22Mr Kenji will be
16:23interested to hear of it
16:24when I tell him.
16:25Really, sir?
16:26Begging you wouldn't?
16:28Name of your
16:29private client.
16:33Not liberty
16:34to disclose it, sir.
16:36Quite sure about that.
16:39Wild horses
16:40wouldn't drag it
16:41from me,
16:41Mr Talkinghorn.
16:43Wouldn't they now?
16:47All right, Mr Guppy.
16:48Take yourself off.
16:49I was talking
16:50to Mr Smallweed.
16:52Good day,
16:54Mr Guppy.
16:57Right.
17:12He was after them
17:13letters.
17:15Did you let him
17:16see them?
17:17No, Mr Talkinghorn.
17:18Or let him know
17:18that you had them?
17:19No, Mr Talkinghorn.
17:21Soon as I saw
17:21the name Horton,
17:22I thought,
17:23Mr Talkinghorn
17:24will want to see these.
17:26Hmm.
17:28Quite right.
17:31I shall once
17:32let me for them,
17:33Mr Talkinghorn.
17:46I will pay you
17:47250 pounds
17:48for these letters.
17:49on condition
17:51that you deny
17:52ever having seen them
17:53or any knowledge
17:54of Captain Horton
17:55in connection
17:57with a lady
17:59or with anything else.
18:01Do you agree?
18:03Yes.
18:04And that concludes
18:05our business.
18:07my clerk
18:08will bring you
18:08the money
18:08before close
18:09of business today.
18:10Good day to you.
18:13And then
18:14the search fees
18:15and the attendance fees
18:17and the various
18:18disbursements
18:19and attending
18:20upon your good self.
18:21Yes, yes,
18:21of course,
18:22but we are
18:24making progress.
18:25We are very active,
18:26Mr Carston.
18:27We have our shoulders
18:29to the wheel.
18:30No stone is left
18:32unturned.
18:34Yes.
18:36Good.
18:38Good.
18:41If it weren't
18:42all so juiced expensive.
18:44That is the way
18:45of things,
18:45Mr Carston.
18:47Nothing is for nothing,
18:48as they say.
19:03Mr Lester and Lady Deadlock
19:04still in town, Clamp?
19:06No, sir.
19:07They have returned
19:07to Chesney World.
19:09Then I shall have
19:10to visit them there.
19:16You have a gentle touch,
19:18Rosa.
19:20Thank you,
19:20my lady.
19:21I find it soothing.
19:24And I am in need
19:25of soothing.
19:29We are all out of sorts
19:31today, Rosa.
19:33So Lester is out of sorts
19:34because his candidate
19:35has lost the election.
19:37Are you interested
19:38in politics, Rosa?
19:39No, my lady.
19:40Nor am I.
19:42But it seems
19:43he was defeated
19:44by Mr Rouncewell's candidate.
19:47So Lester is very angry
19:48with Mr Rouncewell.
19:50He thinks Mr Rouncewell
19:51is trying to bring down
19:52the aristocracy.
19:55I don't care
19:56tuppence about it.
19:58But I am sorry
20:00to see Sir Lester
20:01so distressed.
20:02Is that why
20:03you're out of sorts,
20:04my lady?
20:06The hut
20:07and the fact
20:08that Mr Tolkienhorn
20:10is coming to dinner.
20:12You don't care
20:13for Mr Tolkienhorn,
20:14my lady?
20:14No,
20:15I do not.
20:19I care for you,
20:20though, Rosa.
20:22Very much.
20:26Home again,
20:27home again,
20:28jiggity-jig.
20:29And I find my house
20:30in very good order.
20:32No robbers, then.
20:33No ghosts.
20:35No hobgoblins.
20:38We did have one visitor.
20:40Richard.
20:42Mr Carsten came to see us.
20:43Rick?
20:44Was Rick here?
20:45You're not angry?
20:46No, indeed.
20:46I'm only sorry
20:47that I missed him.
20:50I do not think
20:51he would have come
20:52to the house
20:52if he had known
20:53you were here.
20:55Still in that tech,
20:56is he?
20:57The wind is in the east there.
20:59Oh, Rick, Rick.
21:02We tried to persuade him
21:03to stay,
21:05but he was called away.
21:07Army business?
21:08Unfortunately not.
21:11Court business?
21:12Yes.
21:13He has a new lawyer,
21:15a Mr Volz,
21:17introduced to him
21:18by Mr Skimpole.
21:20And they are making
21:20a meal of him,
21:21I have no doubt.
21:24Poor Rick.
21:31Ada.
21:35I believe I've done you wrong
21:36and done Rick wrong.
21:38No, I don't think that.
21:40Even if Richard does.
21:42And he doesn't believe
21:43you've done him wrong exactly.
21:46Only that his interests
21:47conflict with yours
21:48in the Chancery Court.
21:49Ada, my dear,
21:50I gave up all my claims
21:51to an interest in that case
21:52many years ago.
21:52When I say,
21:53did you wrong,
21:54I mean when I refuse
21:55my consent to your engagement.
21:58It would have been better
21:59if I had consented.
22:03Well,
22:05I consent now.
22:08Rick's love for you
22:08is the best
22:09and steadiest thing about him.
22:10You are his best hope now,
22:12Ada.
22:15Yes.
22:16Yes.
22:17Yes.
22:18Yes.
22:19Yes.
22:20All right, Mr Bunce.
22:21In the matter
22:22of John Dice and John Dice,
22:24yes, Mr Brownlow.
22:26Application for costs, my lad.
22:27Yes, I dare say.
22:29Any more?
22:30Very well,
22:31I'll hear them now.
22:32As for the rest,
22:34the several depositions
22:36and representations
22:37waiting to be heard,
22:39the meat of the matter,
22:41as one might say,
22:42postponed
22:43to Wednesday fortnight.
22:51And this man,
22:52Rouncewell,
22:54who has been a guest
22:55in my house,
22:55a guest under my roof,
22:56Tolkienhorn,
22:58has sided against me
22:59with the rubble.
23:00Most regrettable.
23:01And this was the man
23:02who wanted to take
23:03my lady's maid away
23:04and educate her,
23:06if you please.
23:07As if Chesney Well
23:08were not good enough for her.
23:09No, I have no intention
23:10of parting with her.
23:12But these people
23:13are very proud in their way.
23:15If they felt the girl,
23:17Rosa,
23:18is it,
23:19had been tainted
23:19by the association.
23:21Tainted?
23:21Ridiculous.
23:22I heard a story
23:23very lately
23:24of a townsman
23:25of Mr. Rouncewell's,
23:27whose daughter
23:28attracted the attention
23:29of a great lady.
23:34Yes, yes, go on.
23:36The great lady I speak of
23:38treated the girl
23:38with great kindness.
23:40Kept her always near her.
23:43And so far, so good.
23:45But the great lady
23:46had a secret.
23:48She had in early life
23:49been engaged
23:50to marry a young rake.
23:53A captain in the army.
23:55She never did marry him.
23:58But she gave birth
23:59to a child
24:01of which he was the father.
24:03Shocking, shocking.
24:05Here's later,
24:06the truth emerged.
24:08And when Mr. Rouncewell's
24:10townsman heard of it,
24:11he took his daughter
24:12away from the great lady.
24:15Saying that she had been
24:16tainted by the disgrace
24:17of the association.
24:22Well, in such circumstances,
24:24of course,
24:25if such a thing were possible,
24:26one could understand it.
24:28But the fact of the matter is
24:30that such a set of circumstances
24:32could not possibly happen.
24:34The behavior you speak of
24:36would never have taken place.
24:38Well, yes, quite exactly.
24:40The story must, I suppose,
24:42be apocryphal.
25:06that's not me.
25:06I probably don't know.
25:06You know.
25:18How long have you known?
25:20I have suspected for a long while.
25:23Fully known it a little while.
25:25Months?
25:26Days.
25:29And now you are going to expose me?
25:32I have not yet decided what I'm going to do.
25:36You can save yourself the trouble.
25:39I shall leave Chesney-Walt tonight and forever.
25:43No, you will not.
25:45You will hear what I have to say.
26:05Go on.
26:06You must understand, Lady Deadlock, that my sole consideration in this unhappy case is Celesta.
26:14Then why do you keep me from going away?
26:17Because your flight would spread the whole truth far and wide.
26:20It would be impossible to save the family credit for a day.
26:24It is not to be thought of.
26:29When I speak of Celesta being the sole consideration, he and the family credit are one.
26:36Celesta and the baronetcy.
26:39Celesta and his ancestors.
26:41Celesta and Chesney Wold.
26:45So, this is to be hushed up, if it can be.
26:48And how can it be if Celesta is driven out of his wits or laid on his deathbed?
26:56Celesta and Chesney Wold.
27:06Celesta and Chesney Wold.
27:23What we both know.
27:25And I will keep mine.
27:27I am to drag my present life out, holding its pains at your pleasure, day by day.
27:36I am afraid so, Lady Deadlock
27:40I am not sure that I could do that, Mr. Talking Horn
27:44You must, Lady Deadlock
27:46For your husband's sake
27:49For the sake of the family honor
27:52You must
28:21I am sorry, Lady Deadlock
28:35I am sorry, Lady Deadlock
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