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<i>She told me once:</i>

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<i>"When we read a story,
we inhabit it;</i>

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<i>the covers of the books
are like a roof and four walls:</i>

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<i>a house."</i>

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<i>She, more than anything else
in the world,</i>

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<i>loved the moment
when you've finished a book</i>

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<i>and the story keeps playing</i>

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<i>like the most vivid dream
in your head.</i>

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<i>And after that,
she loved taking long walks</i>

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<i>to clear her mind
of all the emotions and feelins</i>

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<i>the book had started within her.</i>

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<i>That very morning,</i>

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<i>after hazy years
of reading, walking</i>

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<i>and mourning
the death of her husband,</i>

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<i>Florence Green woke up,</i>

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<i>knowing exactly
what she wanted to do.</i>

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<i>She was going to open a bookshop</i>

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<i>in the little village
where she had ended up living.</i>

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I am convinced
this new bookshop will be

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everything you say it is,
Mrs. Green.

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But, of course, for now
I can give you

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no definite commitment
on behalf of the bank.

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The decision
does not depend upon me.

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And I have your honest assurance

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that you've had ample experience
in the trade?

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I learned the trade
very thoroughly

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when I was a girl,

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and I don't believe it's changed
greatly since then.

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And more importantly, I know...

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I love reading.

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Well, it would do little harm

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to let you know
one or two things.

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Consider them words of advice,
if you prefer.

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This is the way I...

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<i>She had a great heart,</i>

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<i>and enormous patience.</i>

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<i>But not even these two virtues
were strong enough</i>

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<i>to bear the grandiloquent
and patronizing tones</i>

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<i>of Mr. Keble,
the Hardborough banker,</i>

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<i>whom everyone called
Mr. Potatohead behind his back.</i>

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<i>I should tell you
that there are those who beliee</i>

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there are other possible uses
for the Old House.

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Though of course there's always
the possibility of a resale...

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But I've no intention
of reselling, Mr. Keble.

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Not in the slightest.

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What else do people think
the Old House could be used for?

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Why have they
done nothing about it

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in the past seven years?

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There were birds nesting in it,

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half the tiles were off the roof
and it stank of rats.

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Wouldn't it be better
to fill the place with books

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for people to look at?

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I read before going to sleep,

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and usually drift off
to the Land of Nod

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by about the third page.

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So you see?

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Don't you realize
how useful books can be?

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<i>The weather in this part of
the world was totally unpredictable.</i>

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<i>Sometimes all four seasons
could be present</i>

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in a single morning.

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<i>That sunny day she left the bak
feeling angry, proud,</i>

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<i>impatient, and terribly alive.</i>

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<i>She was going
to pursue her dream</i>

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<i>and nobody,
not even Mr. Potatohead,</i>

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<i>was going to stop her.</i>

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Hello, Mrs. Green,
are you busy?

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Hello, Mr. Raven.
Not at the moment, why?

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Can I, uh,
throw the rope to you?

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Yes, of course!

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Watch out!
It's very slippery,

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that's how Ethan broke his leg
yesterday but I'm well aware...

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that you are a woman
who don't frighten easily.

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How do you know that?

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Rumor has it that you're about
to open a bookshop here.

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Why do you feel
it's something daring?

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The only person here
who reads is Mr. Brundish.

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And I don't think
he's gonna be

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leaving home
to be your customer.

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I think I saw him yesterday
on the hill.

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Well, caught a glimpse of him,
anyway.

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I imagine
you had a long conversation.

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Oh yes, never stopped talking!

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Farewell.

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Good luck, Mrs. Green!

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Do you not read, Mr. Raven?

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I don't.

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Books leave me exhausted.

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Real life is enough for me.

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<i>Mister Brundish lived alone</i>

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<i>in the oldest house
in Hardborough.</i>

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<i>He didn't particularly like
his own company,</i>

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<i>but after long years of battle</i>

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<i>he had reached
a lasting truce with himself.</i>

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<i>He adored books
with the same passion</i>

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<i>with which he detested
his fellow men.</i>

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<i>He often cherished the fantasy</i>

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<i>that the volumes he devoured
from morning to night</i>

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<i>hadn't been written by
human beings,</i>

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<i>but had appeared
through spontaneous generation.</i>

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<i>There was nothing
that bothered him more</i>

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<i>than the portraits of writers</i>

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often included
in certain editions.

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It's not red.

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It's a... very deep maroon,

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or a... rust.

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Anyway, how is the Old House?

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Hmm? How are you coping?

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Well, Sam Wilkins was in, and fixed
the bath, and tiled the roof

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and repaired the cistern
as best as he could, anyway.

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That place is...
like an old fossil.

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Even the straw is 500 years old.

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All right. Arms up!

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There.

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You are still
gonna move in there, aren't you?

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I spent my first night there
last night.

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What? So soon?

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I told everyone to watch out.

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But nobody actually thought you
were gonna move into the Old House,

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- what with the damp and all.
- Oh, yes, I know they didn't,

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but it was fine.

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A bit creepy in the night,
but that's...

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because I'm not used to it yet,
I suppose.

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I should think the wood in an old
house like that creaks everywhere.

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I'm afraid red
isn't really for me.

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And it doesn't look very good
on me from behind, but...

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Perhaps
if I stand against the wall

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most of the time I'm there...

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- Too red, don't you think?
- It's not...

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It's not red.

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It's a very deep maroon.

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Yes.

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You'll get used to it, in time.

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Need a bit of jewelry.

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- Make it stand out.
- Yes. Yes.

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- Are you sure?
- Well, of course I'm sure.

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It's not every day that
the General and Mrs. Gamart

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- invite you to a party, is it?
- No.

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Oh, stop agonizing!

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You look...

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lovely.

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Anyway, when you get there, you won't
have to worry about how you look.

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No one'll mind you.

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You'll probably know
all the guests, anyhow.

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I... I'm Florence Green.

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I'm the one
opening the little bookshop.

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That's it, of course!

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Got it right away!

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Ah! Of course!

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Violet was very interested
in that matter. Mm...

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She wanted one of
those conversations of hers...

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...with you about the bookshop.
Hmm.

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She's rather caught up
right now,

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but I believe she wishes
to talk to you later.

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So, uh...

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What sort of stuff are you going
to have in your shop?

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Well, um...

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- Basically books.
- Mmm.

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They don't publish many books
of poetry these days, do they?

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I... I don't see too many about.

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Well, I... I shall have
some poetry, of course,

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but it doesn't sell
quite so well as other things,

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like novels and essays.

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It... It'll take me some time
to find out

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what kind of stock
I'll be bringing in...

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Of course. Mmm.

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For the moment
I've mainly ordered classics,

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Thackeray, Dickens, Keats...
That sort of thing.

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"It is easy to be dead.

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Say only this...

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they are dead."

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Do you know who wrote that?

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No.

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I'm... I'm so sorry, I don't.

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I know who you are.

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You must be Mrs. Green.

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Yes.

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And I know who you are,
of course, Mr. North.

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Ah-ha!

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Though I... I've never had an
invitation to The Stead before,

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- I expect you come here often.
- Oh, yes.

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I do get invited
frequently.

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Oh, thank you.
You're very kind.

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Ooh, Not very.

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Here you go.

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You live on your own, don't you?

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You've just moved
into the Old House.

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All by yourself?

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War widow.

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I know.

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Have you never thought of
marrying again?

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No.

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No.

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The problem is
I was very happily married.

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How odd.

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I was always
under the impression

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that it is precisely
when a woman is widowed

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that she starts to get happy.

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Are you sure you've received the
proper advice to run a business?

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I've never met you
before now, Mr. North,

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but I assume,
because of your work,

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you would be someone
who would appreciate

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having a bookshop
in Hardborough.

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Uh...

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I am sure you know writers
at the BBC,

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and... and thinkers,
and so forth.

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And I trust they come down here
from time to time

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to...
see you, and get some fresh air.

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Ha!

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If they did come...

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I wouldn't quite know
what to do with them.

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I mean, writers will go anywhere
where there is free drink.

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I'm not so sure about thinkers.

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Anyway, I think that Kattie,
my so-called girlfriend,

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would look after them.

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Well, at any rate,
you must both come to my shop.

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I shall rely on you.

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On no account.

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Madam,
would you like some canapes?

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Why are you wearing red?

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Red's a color that
only looks good on housemaids

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out on their day off.

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It's not red, it's a...
It's a deep maroon.

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My dear lady.

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Florence, isn't it?

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Yes.

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I have been wanting to speak
to you since you arrived,

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but my guests seem to have
nothing better to do

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than steer me away from
my priorities.

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Thank you so much for coming!

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- Thanks... for inviting me.
- It's such a pleasure!

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It's such a lovely party,
really.

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Everyone is talking
about your new venture.

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You have such a great nose
for business!

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- Well, yes, but it's...
- Bruno!

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Have you been introduced
to my husband?

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Come and tell Mrs.

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- Miss...
- Green.

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...how delighted we are
to see her.

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And to think
we've all been praying

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for a good bookshop
in our little town,

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haven't we, Bruno?

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Of course, my dear.
There's no harm in praying.

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Things would probably go
much better

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if we all prayed more.

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Just one thing, Mrs. Green,
and a very small one at that.

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You haven't actually moved
into the Old House, have you?

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Yes, I've been there
over a week.

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But there's no water.

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Sam Wilkins connected the pipes
for me.

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Don't forget, Violet, you've been
in London a good deal lately,

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and you haven't been able
to control everything.

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Why shouldn't I have moved in?

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I believe I can spare you
many disappointments,

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and maybe even a bit of money.

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I... In fact, I hope to help you.

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There are other much more
appropriate locations

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in Hardborough,
especially for a bookshop.

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I'm afraid we are all so used
to seeing the Old House empty

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that we've procrastinated
year after year...

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You have practically
showed us all up

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by being in such a hurry,
Mrs. Green.

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But the fact is that many of us
are not at all convinced

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by the sudden transformation
of the Old House into a shop.

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Many of us believe
it should be a kind of...

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local arts center.

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Fine, Violet,
you could pray for that also.

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Chamber music in summer,
lectures in winter...

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There is simply no other old
house that has the right...

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ambience.

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I've been negotiating this sale
for over six months, so...

00:17:12.888 --> 00:17:15.947
You see, it's hard for me
to believe

00:17:16.084 --> 00:17:18.691
there's anyone left in Hardborough
who doesn't know about it.

00:17:18.829 --> 00:17:21.507
In fact, I'm sure they all know.

00:17:21.749 --> 00:17:24.843
And we have one great advantage,

00:17:24.983 --> 00:17:27.034
it would be a shame to just...

00:17:27.693 --> 00:17:28.979
throw it away,

00:17:29.292 --> 00:17:32.802
which is that now we have
exactly the right person

00:17:32.941 --> 00:17:36.175
to take charge of the matter... I
mean to take charge of the Center.

00:17:36.522 --> 00:17:38.642
You do understand, don't you?

00:17:38.781 --> 00:17:41.563
Why don't you think it over
for a bit?

00:17:43.821 --> 00:17:46.427
- Ah! Sonia!
- Mrs. Gamart...

00:17:46.567 --> 00:17:48.130
How wonderful you look!

00:17:49.103 --> 00:17:51.328
<i>Her feet
and head ached</i>

00:17:51.779 --> 00:17:55.046
<i>and she regretted having taken
the seamstress's advice</i>

00:17:55.185 --> 00:17:57.376
<i>as to the color of her dress.</i>

00:17:58.105 --> 00:17:59.288
<i>That was all.</i>

00:17:59.878 --> 00:18:02.415
<i>Not for one moment did she thik
about the consequences</i>

00:18:02.554 --> 00:18:06.065
<i>that her modest act of inhabiting
Old House would bring upon her.</i>

00:18:12.078 --> 00:18:14.233
You look radiant.

00:18:15.866 --> 00:18:17.396
Isn't that Lord Gosfield?

00:18:17.604 --> 00:18:21.290
My word! What a guest list
this evening, Violet.

00:18:21.915 --> 00:18:23.375
Thank you.

00:18:26.293 --> 00:18:27.927
- Lord Gosfield.
- How do you do?

00:18:28.275 --> 00:18:31.264
How difficult it has been to try
to reach you this evening!

00:18:31.402 --> 00:18:35.156
I hope Bruno has told you about
our new Hardborough Center...

00:18:35.296 --> 00:18:37.695
- Oh, yes.
- ...for music and the arts?

00:18:37.972 --> 00:18:39.605
We were just talking about it.

00:18:48.573 --> 00:18:49.964
Mrs. Green!

00:18:50.798 --> 00:18:52.258
- Hello.
- Mr. Deben.

00:18:52.396 --> 00:18:54.065
- Good morning.
- I'm glad I caught you.

00:18:54.204 --> 00:18:56.950
- How are you?
- Very well, thanks. Very well.

00:18:57.089 --> 00:19:00.182
Um, I wanted to ask you
about my shop.

00:19:00.320 --> 00:19:02.579
I want to speak to you
about my shop. Um...

00:19:03.067 --> 00:19:04.492
- It's up for auction.
- Yes.

00:19:04.631 --> 00:19:08.664
Not until April.
Could be later, still...

00:19:09.046 --> 00:19:12.034
Um... Well, the fact is, I...

00:19:12.728 --> 00:19:17.317
I'd much prefer to reach
a private agreement before that.

00:19:18.325 --> 00:19:21.140
As you've expressed a certain
interest in the property

00:19:21.660 --> 00:19:25.555
and since you are not going
to remain in the Old House...

00:19:26.771 --> 00:19:30.350
Well, I trust that you'll
appreciate that I'm too busy

00:19:30.491 --> 00:19:33.306
to pay attention
to any rumors I hear.

00:19:35.633 --> 00:19:39.979
Well, it stands to reason you'll be
making an offer on other premises.

00:19:42.446 --> 00:19:45.367
There's been a misunderstanding,
Mr. Deben, but...

00:19:45.678 --> 00:19:49.258
Yes, but it doesn't matter
in the slightest, and I, um...

00:19:49.572 --> 00:19:52.353
I... I should like to be able
to help you.

00:19:53.430 --> 00:19:55.690
Mrs. Gamart was, um...

00:19:55.897 --> 00:19:59.824
kind enough to tell me about
her idea for an arts center.

00:19:59.964 --> 00:20:02.570
From which, I am sure,
every one of us

00:20:02.708 --> 00:20:04.551
living here in Hardborough
would benefit.

00:20:04.690 --> 00:20:09.556
And I believe she is the one who
was searching about for premises,

00:20:10.043 --> 00:20:12.964
and what could be better than
your fish shop?

00:20:16.856 --> 00:20:19.046
Yeah... I see.

00:20:20.157 --> 00:20:22.243
Well...
You've been extremely kind.

00:20:22.869 --> 00:20:25.963
- Thank you for your help.
- You're welcome, Mr. Deben.

00:20:26.588 --> 00:20:28.951
- Well, good morning.
- Yeah. Thank you, Mrs. Green.

00:20:29.439 --> 00:20:32.809
<i>Florence had managed
to live life thus far</i>

00:20:32.947 --> 00:20:36.457
<i>by pretending that human beings
were not divided</i>

00:20:36.598 --> 00:20:40.768
<i>into exterminators
and exterminated,</i>

00:20:41.220 --> 00:20:44.278
<i>with the former at any moment
predominating.</i>

00:20:56.652 --> 00:20:58.043
Ah-ha!

00:20:58.216 --> 00:21:00.476
I... I didn't know if you'd
be down in London or...

00:21:00.615 --> 00:21:04.196
London? No, I'm here.
Well, I think I am.

00:21:07.078 --> 00:21:08.401
- May I?
- Yeah.

00:21:08.992 --> 00:21:11.249
Um... Nescafé?

00:21:11.494 --> 00:21:13.857
Oh, I... I've never tried it.

00:21:14.481 --> 00:21:16.221
I have heard of it, but I...

00:21:16.533 --> 00:21:19.070
I'm told it's not made
with boiling water.

00:21:19.348 --> 00:21:21.364
Yeah.

00:21:30.472 --> 00:21:32.070
This is all
much too small for you.

00:21:32.208 --> 00:21:34.260
Oh, I know, I know.

00:21:37.039 --> 00:21:40.446
You know? I'm glad
that you've, uh, dropped in.

00:21:41.802 --> 00:21:44.688
No one else compels me
to face the truth.

00:21:46.631 --> 00:21:49.760
Well, that's fortunate, because
I've come to ask you a question.

00:21:51.047 --> 00:21:53.028
When Mrs. Gamart was talking
at her party

00:21:53.168 --> 00:21:55.496
about the ideal person
to run an arts center,

00:21:55.635 --> 00:21:58.485
it was you, of course,
that she had in mind, wasn't it?

00:21:59.180 --> 00:22:00.466
It wasn't me.

00:22:00.986 --> 00:22:02.239
Sorry. Violet's party?

00:22:06.686 --> 00:22:08.738
Did she expect me just to move
out of my house

00:22:08.877 --> 00:22:12.144
and, probably, for that matter,
out of the town altogether

00:22:12.666 --> 00:22:16.350
assuming that you would come
to the Old House to...

00:22:17.322 --> 00:22:19.095
manage everything?

00:22:19.860 --> 00:22:21.425
If she'd been referring me,

00:22:21.598 --> 00:22:24.134
I doubt very much that she would
have used the word "manage".

00:22:29.904 --> 00:22:30.982
Ah...

00:22:32.199 --> 00:22:34.284
Do you fancy Nescafé or...

00:22:36.788 --> 00:22:37.692
not?

00:22:37.933 --> 00:22:39.777
No. No, neither, thank you.

00:22:40.019 --> 00:22:41.583
- Are you sure?
- Yes.

00:22:42.141 --> 00:22:44.606
- Do you mind if I...?
- Oh, no, please.

00:22:45.372 --> 00:22:47.875
I should probably get going.

00:22:48.013 --> 00:22:49.577
Are you? Really?

00:22:50.481 --> 00:22:52.775
Yes. Thank you anyway.

00:22:53.575 --> 00:22:55.730
Well, it's, um...
It's lovely to see you.

00:23:02.124 --> 00:23:04.557
<i>Well,
from what I've heard,</i>

00:23:04.697 --> 00:23:07.373
<i>and practically by chance,
you were starting to think twie</i>

00:23:07.548 --> 00:23:09.111
about the whole
bookshop operation.

00:23:09.424 --> 00:23:10.883
Well,
then you've heard wrong,

00:23:11.023 --> 00:23:12.204
Mr. Thornton.

00:23:12.620 --> 00:23:14.776
I am here to demand
that all unresolved matters

00:23:14.916 --> 00:23:16.861
be resolved
as quickly as possible,

00:23:17.000 --> 00:23:19.502
so that I might set up the
bookshop without further delay.

00:23:20.059 --> 00:23:22.319
- But I... I was told that you...
- What?

00:23:22.805 --> 00:23:24.057
That I'd be leaving
the Old House,

00:23:24.196 --> 00:23:25.932
which is, by the way,
my only home?

00:23:26.454 --> 00:23:29.513
There are many other vacant
properties in Hardborough

00:23:29.653 --> 00:23:33.338
and, as it happens, I have a list of
some of the more out of the way ones.

00:23:33.475 --> 00:23:35.386
I expect no further delays,
Mr. Thornton.

00:23:35.526 --> 00:23:37.299
Please have all pending papers
sent to me.

00:23:37.438 --> 00:23:39.802
And once again, I am
ever so grateful for your help.

00:24:45.318 --> 00:24:47.195
Is there something
I can help you with, boys?

00:24:47.370 --> 00:24:50.496
- We are Sea Scouts, ma'am.
- Yes, so I see.

00:24:50.775 --> 00:24:52.583
And just what is it
that you are doing here?

00:24:52.721 --> 00:24:54.668
Mr. Raven told us
to stop around.

00:24:54.843 --> 00:24:56.475
What would you like us to do?

00:24:59.186 --> 00:25:01.550
Well, I want all the bookshelves
put up in there.

00:25:01.690 --> 00:25:02.905
Do you think
you can manage that?

00:25:03.115 --> 00:25:05.304
How many hand drills can you get
us, ma'am?

00:25:06.832 --> 00:25:09.336
How long have you been waiting
here, in the pouring rain?

00:25:11.456 --> 00:25:12.950
If I can find the keys...

00:25:13.505 --> 00:25:15.315
Okay, hurry up!

00:25:33.561 --> 00:25:38.079
<i>When Mrs. Green opened the
first box of books she had ordered,</i>

00:25:38.947 --> 00:25:43.048
<i>all the problems and obstacles of
those past few days simply vanished.</i>

00:25:44.126 --> 00:25:48.853
<i>With each edition, the faces
and the words of Mrs. Gamart,</i>

00:25:49.340 --> 00:25:50.382
<i>the banker,</i>

00:25:50.870 --> 00:25:52.085
<i>her lawyer,</i>

00:25:52.607 --> 00:25:54.032
<i>and Milo North</i>

00:25:54.519 --> 00:25:56.431
<i>all faded away.</i>

00:25:58.273 --> 00:25:59.628
<i>And for a moment,</i>

00:25:59.977 --> 00:26:04.182
<i>she felt that her late husband,
whom she had loved so dearly,</i>

00:26:04.598 --> 00:26:06.753
<i>was with her once again.</i>

00:26:15.511 --> 00:26:19.127
<i>And this was her happiest momet
in the bookshop.</i>

00:26:56.075 --> 00:26:59.968
Very, uh, lonely job, yours.

00:27:00.418 --> 00:27:03.581
Oh. Sorry about the waders.

00:27:04.694 --> 00:27:06.744
I don't feel
in the least bit lonely.

00:27:11.853 --> 00:27:14.634
That shelf in there is a fifth
of an inch crooked.

00:27:15.502 --> 00:27:18.318
And that plastering
looks hideous.

00:27:19.744 --> 00:27:21.968
You can let them know
the next time you see them.

00:27:22.559 --> 00:27:25.303
No. No, it all looks wonderful,
Mr. Raven.

00:27:25.444 --> 00:27:27.565
I couldn't be happier with
the work the boys have done,

00:27:27.703 --> 00:27:28.919
honestly.

00:27:29.441 --> 00:27:32.046
Is that you, Wally?
Were your ears burning?

00:27:32.498 --> 00:27:34.063
What are you doing here, boy?

00:27:34.202 --> 00:27:35.557
I've a message for Mrs. Green.

00:27:35.697 --> 00:27:38.443
- From whom?
- From Mr. Brundish, Mr. Raven.

00:27:38.825 --> 00:27:39.903
What?

00:27:40.494 --> 00:27:43.031
He just came out of Holt House
and handed you a note?

00:27:43.170 --> 00:27:44.629
No, he leaned out of the window

00:27:44.768 --> 00:27:47.966
and told me to go and give this
to Mrs. Green.

00:27:49.149 --> 00:27:51.164
I don't see how
this can be for me.

00:27:51.685 --> 00:27:53.666
I've never spoken
to Mr. Brundish, ever.

00:27:53.805 --> 00:27:55.161
I can't believe
he even knows my name.

00:27:55.300 --> 00:27:57.143
And whenever I run into him
on the headland

00:27:57.281 --> 00:28:00.235
he always goes off like a shot,
as if he's just seen a ghost!

00:28:00.374 --> 00:28:02.043
I'm certain
he'll know who you are.

00:28:02.391 --> 00:28:04.267
He finds out about everything
that happens in town.

00:28:04.406 --> 00:28:05.621
I don't know how he does it.

00:28:06.039 --> 00:28:08.369
Don't you worry about
the envelope's black edges?

00:28:08.508 --> 00:28:10.246
He ordered those envelopes
back around 1919,

00:28:10.385 --> 00:28:13.130
when they were all returning
from the First War, and...

00:28:13.581 --> 00:28:15.772
Mrs. Brundish died...

00:28:16.466 --> 00:28:18.205
during their honeymoon.

00:28:18.378 --> 00:28:20.951
Oh, yes. How did she die?

00:28:21.888 --> 00:28:23.522
She was drowned...

00:28:24.669 --> 00:28:26.060
crossing the marshes.

00:28:27.069 --> 00:28:29.015
She had gone to pick
some blackberries

00:28:29.153 --> 00:28:31.169
to bake a pie for Mr. Brundish.

00:28:42.395 --> 00:28:43.473
"Dear Madam..."

00:28:43.681 --> 00:28:45.419
I would like to wish you well.

00:28:46.532 --> 00:28:48.339
Back in
my great grandfather's day,

00:28:48.477 --> 00:28:50.215
there was a bookseller
in the High Street,

00:28:50.355 --> 00:28:53.101
who, if my memory
serves me correctly,

00:28:53.308 --> 00:28:56.159
knocked out one of his customers
with a desk pad

00:28:56.299 --> 00:28:58.245
when he became annoying.

00:28:59.322 --> 00:29:01.128
There'd been some delay
in the arrival

00:29:01.267 --> 00:29:04.883
of the latest instalment
of a new novel, I believe...

00:29:06.029 --> 00:29:08.220
I believe it was
<i>Dombey and Son.</i>

00:29:09.504 --> 00:29:10.999
As of that day,

00:29:11.140 --> 00:29:12.913
no one has plucked up
courage enough to sell books

00:29:13.050 --> 00:29:15.588
in this forsaken coin
of the world.

00:29:16.840 --> 00:29:18.334
This is a great honor you do us.

00:29:19.376 --> 00:29:24.068
I should undoubtedly visit your
shop one day if I ever went out,

00:29:24.834 --> 00:29:28.657
but nowadays I rather make
a point of never doing that.

00:29:29.525 --> 00:29:31.576
In spite of everything,

00:29:31.785 --> 00:29:34.497
should you deem
some literary novelty worthy,

00:29:34.634 --> 00:29:37.206
please, don't hesitate
to send it to me.

00:29:38.215 --> 00:29:42.317
In the case of biographies,
it's better, I find,

00:29:42.455 --> 00:29:44.853
if they are about good people,

00:29:44.993 --> 00:29:48.330
whereas novels are much more interesting
if they are about nasty people.

00:29:49.024 --> 00:29:52.500
Please have the same boy who delivered
this letter bring them to me

00:29:52.640 --> 00:29:56.011
with a note, obviously,
indicating their price.

00:29:56.532 --> 00:29:57.680
Yours...

00:29:59.000 --> 00:30:00.354
respectfully..."

00:30:00.945 --> 00:30:02.301
"...Edmund Brundish".

00:30:04.211 --> 00:30:05.707
My first customer.

00:30:11.963 --> 00:30:14.224
Come round later and I'll give
you a package for Mr. Brundish.

00:30:14.363 --> 00:30:15.753
Thank you, Mrs. Green.

00:30:23.086 --> 00:30:24.511
You'll probably need
a bright young helper

00:30:24.651 --> 00:30:27.118
in the afternoons,
in case it gets busy.

00:30:28.856 --> 00:30:31.046
I was thinking of
one of the Gipping girls.

00:30:31.184 --> 00:30:33.408
Mrs. Gipping is more or less
up to date on the matter,

00:30:33.547 --> 00:30:36.883
and I thought about asking her which of
her daughters might suit you the best.

00:30:37.614 --> 00:30:41.577
I think her youngest, Christine,
is the cleverest,

00:30:41.717 --> 00:30:44.114
but she probably wouldn't
give her up to you

00:30:44.253 --> 00:30:45.714
for that precise reason.

00:31:14.040 --> 00:31:15.640
Good afternoon, Mr. Thornton.
Welcome.

00:31:15.778 --> 00:31:16.995
Thank you.

00:31:56.548 --> 00:31:58.669
<i>Fahrenheit 451.</i>

00:31:59.850 --> 00:32:02.040
What kind of book is this?

00:32:13.093 --> 00:32:15.281
You're Christine Gipping,
aren't you?

00:32:16.290 --> 00:32:18.965
I would have thought
your older sister would...

00:32:19.104 --> 00:32:20.807
My elder sister
spends all her time

00:32:20.947 --> 00:32:21.989
with Charlie Cutts.

00:32:22.128 --> 00:32:24.283
In fact, on my way over here,

00:32:24.422 --> 00:32:27.411
I saw their bikes hidden under fallen
leaves, over by the crossroads.

00:32:27.933 --> 00:32:30.227
You won't have any trouble
like that with me, though.

00:32:30.749 --> 00:32:32.591
Those things aren't happening
to me yet.

00:32:32.903 --> 00:32:34.642
And I find boys to be repulsive.

00:32:37.525 --> 00:32:38.499
Um...

00:32:38.847 --> 00:32:40.723
And what about
your other sister?

00:32:41.036 --> 00:32:43.609
She spends all her time at home,
minding Margaret and Peter.

00:32:43.922 --> 00:32:45.207
They're the little ones.

00:32:46.701 --> 00:32:50.107
You mustn't think I don't want
to consider you for the job.

00:32:50.246 --> 00:32:52.993
It's just that you don't really
look old enough...

00:32:53.860 --> 00:32:54.903
or strong enough.

00:32:55.703 --> 00:32:57.443
That's hard to say
after first glance.

00:32:57.858 --> 00:33:00.396
You look old,
but you don't look strong.

00:33:00.604 --> 00:33:03.420
It's all the same anyway.
We're all available.

00:33:04.149 --> 00:33:07.313
But my elder sister will be
absent from work half the time

00:33:07.452 --> 00:33:09.572
and the middle one
won't show up.

00:33:09.710 --> 00:33:11.205
Just a warning.

00:33:11.378 --> 00:33:13.603
And I should also let you know
I don't like reading.

00:33:13.742 --> 00:33:15.551
I like Geography and Maths.

00:33:22.188 --> 00:33:25.385
I'll come round this afternoon and
discuss things with your mother.

00:33:25.978 --> 00:33:28.860
And don't worry,
I won't force you to read.

00:33:28.863 --> 00:33:30.078
As you wish.

00:33:30.808 --> 00:33:33.728
All she'll is that I can work every day
after school, and all day Saturday.

00:33:33.867 --> 00:33:37.169
And you can't pay me less than twelve
shillings and six pence a week.

00:33:38.384 --> 00:33:40.886
Oh, and to tell me to shut up if
I speak too much.

00:33:41.026 --> 00:33:42.347
What about your homework?

00:33:42.521 --> 00:33:44.745
Oh,
I can do that when I get home,

00:33:44.990 --> 00:33:46.102
after tea.

00:33:49.507 --> 00:33:50.969
I like your cardigan.

00:33:52.531 --> 00:33:53.886
Did you knit that yourself?

00:33:54.026 --> 00:33:55.486
It looks like it would've been
very difficult.

00:33:55.625 --> 00:33:57.120
It was in the magazine
<i>Women's Issue,</i>

00:33:57.328 --> 00:33:59.657
but the instructions were
for short sleeves.

00:34:00.734 --> 00:34:03.166
You have no children,
Mrs. Green?

00:34:03.168 --> 00:34:04.072
No.

00:34:06.365 --> 00:34:08.380
- Should I have?
- I don't know.

00:34:08.901 --> 00:34:12.169
People always say life's passed
by women who have no children.

00:34:14.325 --> 00:34:15.993
There aren't enough cards
on display.

00:34:16.341 --> 00:34:17.904
Shall I put some more out?

00:34:18.355 --> 00:34:19.607
Hm.

00:34:22.944 --> 00:34:28.505
They really should be ordered into
romance and nature, or something.

00:34:32.676 --> 00:34:34.622
Um, is this what
you call romance?

00:34:34.865 --> 00:34:36.638
Oh, my God.

00:34:36.776 --> 00:34:37.889
What are these?

00:34:38.654 --> 00:34:40.323
I haven't even see them before.

00:34:40.461 --> 00:34:43.450
Those sales reps really don't
know what they're sending you!

00:34:43.591 --> 00:34:44.946
We've got to throw them away.

00:34:45.084 --> 00:34:47.065
I'm sure there's a few people
in this village

00:34:47.203 --> 00:34:49.533
who wouldn't mind getting these
posted through their letterbox!

00:34:49.673 --> 00:34:51.723
You're right.

00:34:52.070 --> 00:34:54.398
- What...?
- Stop looking at them!

00:34:54.539 --> 00:34:55.754
You'll be corrupted!

00:34:56.345 --> 00:34:59.056
- Where's the bin?
- Don't throw them in the bin!

00:35:01.350 --> 00:35:03.367
Come on,
have a cup of tea.

00:35:08.718 --> 00:35:10.908
Why's Christine so late?

00:35:11.359 --> 00:35:13.864
Because she's been working
for this lady.

00:35:14.142 --> 00:35:15.115
Why?

00:35:15.878 --> 00:35:17.477
Because she has a shop
full of books

00:35:17.617 --> 00:35:18.868
for people to read.

00:35:19.007 --> 00:35:20.224
Why?

00:35:21.648 --> 00:35:23.143
I don't know.

00:35:30.929 --> 00:35:32.701
Good afternoon, Mrs. Gipping.

00:35:33.257 --> 00:35:34.578
Come in, Mrs. Green.

00:35:34.718 --> 00:35:36.351
Let's have a talk.

00:35:36.871 --> 00:35:39.965
I'm not sure if Christine has already
spoken to you about the 12 shillings.

00:35:40.174 --> 00:35:42.432
Yes. Yes, yes, she did.

00:35:54.076 --> 00:35:55.258
"Dear Madam,

00:35:55.780 --> 00:35:57.829
Spare yourself the trouble
of sending more books of poetry

00:35:57.969 --> 00:36:00.054
or spuriously
complicated novels.

00:36:00.264 --> 00:36:02.731
Please,
at your earliest convenience,

00:36:02.870 --> 00:36:04.851
send more books by
Ray Bradbury.

00:36:05.511 --> 00:36:08.360
Yours respectfully,
Edmund Brundish."

00:36:22.195 --> 00:36:25.635
<i>Very soon, Mrs. Green's
business began to thrive.</i>

00:36:26.089 --> 00:36:29.458
<i>Her days were fully occupied
from morning to night.</i>

00:36:29.909 --> 00:36:33.802
<i>And for a short time she forgot about
everything concerning Mrs. Gamart</i>

00:36:33.942 --> 00:36:38.289
<i>and her plans to turn Old House
into an arts center.</i>

00:36:56.014 --> 00:36:57.681
- Good morning, Mrs. Green.
- Hello, Wally.

00:36:57.960 --> 00:37:00.150
Thank you for doing me
this favor.

00:37:00.810 --> 00:37:01.678
Here you are.

00:37:02.999 --> 00:37:05.398
Would you like to come on
an outing, Christine?

00:37:06.266 --> 00:37:08.874
I can't, we've got a new stock
arriving tomorrow.

00:37:09.602 --> 00:37:10.716
Okay, then.

00:37:10.925 --> 00:37:11.863
Goodbye.

00:37:19.960 --> 00:37:22.290
Wouldn't you like
to go on an outing?

00:37:24.097 --> 00:37:26.703
No. I like Wally, but...

00:37:27.641 --> 00:37:30.353
Yes, I know. You did tell me
you find boys repulsive.

00:37:31.360 --> 00:37:32.959
But, believe me...

00:37:34.836 --> 00:37:36.471
you'll get over it.

00:37:37.478 --> 00:37:38.973
Yeah, I suppose.

00:37:39.286 --> 00:37:41.928
It's just that I prefer
to be here,

00:37:42.589 --> 00:37:44.083
in the bookshop, with you.

00:37:44.604 --> 00:37:46.028
It's fun working here.

00:37:46.967 --> 00:37:48.741
Even if I don't like reading.

00:38:24.748 --> 00:38:27.146
Mrs. Green,
they're dirtying the cards.

00:38:28.920 --> 00:38:30.275
We must let them browse.

00:38:30.413 --> 00:38:32.464
It's part of the tradition
of a bookshop.

00:38:32.603 --> 00:38:35.593
Yes, but they leave everything in
such a mess, and don't buy anything!

00:38:36.183 --> 00:38:37.435
Miss?

00:38:47.896 --> 00:38:49.044
Florence.

00:38:49.739 --> 00:38:52.276
Mr. North. What a surprise.

00:38:53.561 --> 00:38:55.820
Hmm...

00:38:56.480 --> 00:38:58.844
It seems Violet isn't going
to get her own way.

00:38:59.714 --> 00:39:02.495
- Has she stopped by here yet?
- We haven't been open very long.

00:39:02.632 --> 00:39:05.343
She will.
She'll appear, eventually.

00:39:05.552 --> 00:39:07.499
She's far too much self-respect
not to.

00:39:07.950 --> 00:39:13.477
Ah! I'm sure she is simply dying
of curiosity.

00:39:13.930 --> 00:39:16.605
- She'll be quite welcome.
- Are you making any money, yet?

00:39:16.744 --> 00:39:17.995
Not yet.

00:39:18.133 --> 00:39:19.733
You really need something
like this.

00:39:21.438 --> 00:39:22.375
This is volume one.

00:39:23.035 --> 00:39:25.052
Is there a volume two?

00:39:26.198 --> 00:39:29.014
Yes, but I've, um,
lent it to someone,

00:39:29.153 --> 00:39:30.230
or left it somewhere.

00:39:30.613 --> 00:39:33.568
You should keep them together,
as a set.

00:39:40.483 --> 00:39:41.839
<i>Lolita.</i>

00:39:42.708 --> 00:39:44.027
Have you read it?
Is it any good?

00:39:44.167 --> 00:39:45.941
It'll make you rich, Florence.

00:39:46.426 --> 00:39:49.102
Yes but, is it any good? I only stock good
novels. They don't move fast, you know?

00:39:49.242 --> 00:39:51.223
According to Graham Greene,
it is a master piece.

00:39:51.883 --> 00:39:54.282
Although there are those
who think otherwise.

00:39:55.916 --> 00:39:58.209
Thank you
for suggesting it, I...

00:39:58.731 --> 00:40:01.859
sometimes feel the need of
good advice. You're very kind.

00:40:03.700 --> 00:40:05.718
You're always
making that mistake.

00:40:09.645 --> 00:40:11.069
Until next time.

00:40:25.284 --> 00:40:28.483
We have the blue one at home.
It has Westminster Abbey on it.

00:40:29.074 --> 00:40:31.091
But it goes all the way
round the tin.

00:40:33.488 --> 00:40:34.913
I'll put the heater on.

00:40:36.338 --> 00:40:38.735
Mum says those paraffin heaters
aren't very safe.

00:40:39.744 --> 00:40:44.088
They're not dangerous, as long as you
remember to clean them out properly

00:40:45.167 --> 00:40:48.329
and don't pour the liquid
in from both sides at once.

00:40:48.919 --> 00:40:52.222
You must never do that, ever,
do you hear me?

00:40:54.619 --> 00:40:57.643
I like this old tray. You could
leave it to me in your will.

00:40:57.818 --> 00:40:59.208
What?

00:40:59.869 --> 00:41:02.301
I don't think I really want to start
thinking about my will just yet.

00:41:04.386 --> 00:41:06.298
But when I do
I'll try to remember that.

00:41:06.506 --> 00:41:08.661
You will? Are you sure?

00:41:10.399 --> 00:41:11.754
Is the tray from Japan?

00:41:12.171 --> 00:41:13.528
No, it's...

00:41:14.015 --> 00:41:15.682
Chinese lacquer.

00:41:16.934 --> 00:41:19.367
My grandfather brought it back
from Nanking.

00:41:20.478 --> 00:41:22.355
He was a great traveler.

00:41:22.982 --> 00:41:26.631
I don't think they even make lacquer
like this in China anymore.

00:41:28.611 --> 00:41:29.759
Thank you.

00:41:43.072 --> 00:41:46.755
I was wondering if you'd like me to help
you with your school work or something?

00:41:47.936 --> 00:41:50.959
- We could read things together, maybe, or...
- There's nothing to read.

00:41:51.099 --> 00:41:54.053
They give you some pictures and say:
"Which one is the odd one out?"

00:41:54.193 --> 00:41:56.869
Or they give some numbers
like, um...

00:41:57.218 --> 00:42:02.708
...eight, five, eleven,
nine, twenty-two and sixteen,

00:42:02.917 --> 00:42:04.968
and you have to say
which one comes next.

00:42:08.340 --> 00:42:10.877
Can't begin to know
which one came next.

00:42:13.588 --> 00:42:16.229
- You're not cold, are you?
- No.

00:42:17.898 --> 00:42:19.358
That Milo is a ferret.

00:42:19.705 --> 00:42:22.381
He smiles just like a ferret.
I wish he'd just go to hell.

00:42:22.521 --> 00:42:24.258
Stop it, Christine!

00:42:24.953 --> 00:42:28.047
You're too nice.
He's a nasty piece of work.

00:42:28.184 --> 00:42:30.444
When I'm older I'm gonna try
and be like him.

00:42:30.584 --> 00:42:32.045
It's much more practical.

00:42:38.127 --> 00:42:40.282
I know you don't like reading,

00:42:40.420 --> 00:42:44.451
but there's a book I'm afraid
you must read.

00:42:45.147 --> 00:42:46.433
What's it about?

00:42:46.781 --> 00:42:47.998
It is about...

00:42:49.457 --> 00:42:52.169
good pirates and evil children.

00:42:52.654 --> 00:42:54.460
Promise me you'll just
at least just...

00:42:54.670 --> 00:42:56.200
open it one day.

00:42:56.444 --> 00:42:59.502
Well, if you let me have the
Chinese tray in your will,

00:42:59.640 --> 00:43:00.927
I can try.

00:43:02.629 --> 00:43:03.533
Deal!

00:44:04.080 --> 00:44:05.715
<i>"Dear Mr. Brundish.</i>

00:44:06.339 --> 00:44:09.849
<i>Enclosed you will find a copy of a
novel that has just been published:</i>

00:44:10.128 --> 00:44:10.893
<i>Lolita.</i>

00:44:11.414 --> 00:44:13.707
<i>I must confess
my bewilderment with it.</i>

00:44:14.472 --> 00:44:18.885
<i>I would like to know your sincere opinion
of it and ask for a bit of advice:</i>

00:44:20.069 --> 00:44:23.371
<i>do you think it is a suitable
book to be sold in my bookshop?</i>

00:44:24.274 --> 00:44:26.881
<i>Yours sincerely, Florence Green.</i>

00:44:27.472 --> 00:44:29.488
<i>P.S.
If you do not like the book,</i>

00:44:29.625 --> 00:44:31.192
there's no need to pay for it."

00:44:48.811 --> 00:44:49.995
Stop it!

00:44:51.697 --> 00:44:53.748
Stop it! I surrender!

00:45:33.371 --> 00:45:35.526
Hello, Mrs. Gipping.
Is everything alright?

00:45:40.740 --> 00:45:42.859
I thought you should know
as soon as possible.

00:45:43.797 --> 00:45:47.308
Mr. Brundish has asked me to deliver
him a fruit cake on Sunday.

00:45:48.628 --> 00:45:50.505
And he has also asked me
to ask you

00:45:50.819 --> 00:45:54.017
if you would like to stop by Holt
House for tea that same afternoon.

00:45:56.797 --> 00:45:57.944
This Sunday?

00:45:58.082 --> 00:45:59.299
Why, yes.

00:46:00.724 --> 00:46:01.593
Yes.

00:46:02.219 --> 00:46:03.923
Yes, all right, I...

00:46:04.270 --> 00:46:06.702
Yes, I'll send him a note. Thank
you for the message, Mrs. Gipping.

00:46:06.842 --> 00:46:09.136
I've never delivered a cake
to Mr. Brundish before.

00:46:11.569 --> 00:46:13.238
I hope this doesn't become
a habit.

00:46:19.979 --> 00:46:21.614
Mrs. Green! Is it true?

00:46:21.752 --> 00:46:24.010
Are you having tea at Holt House
this Sunday?

00:46:24.150 --> 00:46:26.305
- Yes, Mrs. Keble, it is true.
- Oh!

00:46:26.515 --> 00:46:28.947
Is there something I should know
before I go there?

00:46:29.084 --> 00:46:32.074
- Mrs. Green.
- Mrs. Deben, how's Mr. Deben?

00:46:32.388 --> 00:46:34.543
Still having trouble finding
a buyer for the fish shop,

00:46:34.682 --> 00:46:36.106
- I gather?
- Poor thing.

00:46:36.697 --> 00:46:40.000
I bet the General and Mrs. Gamart
are seething about the matter.

00:46:40.451 --> 00:46:42.710
They've never been invited to
Holt House, you know.

00:46:42.919 --> 00:46:44.761
Oh, no, yes, I've heard.

00:46:45.144 --> 00:46:47.439
So, Holt House for tea, eh?

00:46:47.680 --> 00:46:49.661
He so jealously
guards his privacy

00:46:50.080 --> 00:46:52.582
after the tragic death of
his beloved wife.

00:46:57.378 --> 00:47:01.827
Well, I sell him
some books, and, um...

00:47:02.278 --> 00:47:04.468
ask for advice
about the bookshop.

00:47:04.884 --> 00:47:06.554
- Did you, now?
- Oh, right.

00:47:08.049 --> 00:47:09.405
Well...

00:47:09.544 --> 00:47:12.116
Well, I should get back there,
I suppose.

00:47:12.323 --> 00:47:15.973
- Well, it's tipping down, innit?
- Cats and dogs!

00:47:16.286 --> 00:47:18.442
- Good afternoon.
- Good afternoon.

00:47:18.579 --> 00:47:20.074
"Advice about the bookshop"?

00:47:20.317 --> 00:47:22.159
What does she need advice for?

00:48:21.560 --> 00:48:23.576
Hello?

00:48:24.793 --> 00:48:26.288
Mr. Brundish?

00:48:52.701 --> 00:48:54.682
Come into the dining room.

00:50:03.363 --> 00:50:05.379
You asked me a question.

00:50:06.350 --> 00:50:07.742
Yes, I did.

00:50:08.471 --> 00:50:09.931
About a new novel.

00:50:10.975 --> 00:50:14.763
You were thoughtful enough
to ask me a serious question,

00:50:15.005 --> 00:50:17.544
thinking I would be impartial.

00:50:18.411 --> 00:50:22.478
You undoubtedly thought I was
quite alone in the world.

00:50:23.105 --> 00:50:25.642
Never! I did not
for one second...

00:50:25.781 --> 00:50:29.257
I imagine you've been told all
kinds of things about me.

00:50:29.395 --> 00:50:31.516
- All bad.
- No.

00:50:32.280 --> 00:50:33.357
Really!

00:50:33.776 --> 00:50:36.034
I am a widower, I'm sure
you've been told.

00:50:36.173 --> 00:50:38.642
I imagine you've also been told
that my wife died

00:50:38.779 --> 00:50:41.351
whilst gathering blackberries
to make me a pie,

00:50:41.491 --> 00:50:45.871
which is the latest version
going around town.

00:50:46.008 --> 00:50:47.366
Well, uh,

00:50:47.503 --> 00:50:50.736
none that have been
circulating are true.

00:50:53.170 --> 00:50:54.803
- She didn't drown?
- No.

00:50:56.436 --> 00:50:57.793
Um...

00:50:58.278 --> 00:51:00.989
In the sixth month
of our marriage,

00:51:01.128 --> 00:51:04.152
we both, having been
best of friends,

00:51:04.881 --> 00:51:06.410
decided that

00:51:06.551 --> 00:51:09.819
a friendly separation
would be for the best.

00:51:10.618 --> 00:51:11.729
She lives in London.

00:51:12.390 --> 00:51:14.545
I haven't seen her for 45 years,

00:51:14.684 --> 00:51:18.126
but according to my information,
she's still in very good health.

00:51:19.549 --> 00:51:21.357
Although apparently...

00:51:21.739 --> 00:51:25.110
she's put on quite
a lot of weight.

00:51:26.710 --> 00:51:28.656
She always loved sweets,

00:51:28.970 --> 00:51:34.495
although I can ever remember her
baking a cake in her life.

00:51:36.824 --> 00:51:39.640
I suppose for the people of
Hardborough it is more picturesque

00:51:39.777 --> 00:51:44.574
to imagine Holt House inhabited
by a mourning widower.

00:51:44.888 --> 00:51:49.161
As you already know, literature
has done a lot of damage.

00:51:50.205 --> 00:51:53.124
Those damned Bronte sisters,
for example,

00:51:53.438 --> 00:51:56.357
by whom you have not included
a single copy

00:51:56.495 --> 00:52:00.006
in those packages to me,
for which I am ever so grateful.

00:52:00.633 --> 00:52:03.205
I imagined you would have read
them already.

00:52:05.254 --> 00:52:09.425
One of the Gipping girls,
the third one,

00:52:09.948 --> 00:52:12.067
lends you a hand in your shop,
I believe.

00:52:12.206 --> 00:52:14.848
And that is all the assistance
you have at your disposal.

00:52:15.301 --> 00:52:18.533
I have a bookkeeper who comes in
from time to time, and...

00:52:18.742 --> 00:52:20.130
then there's my solicitor.

00:52:20.340 --> 00:52:23.225
Tom Thornton. You won't get
very far with that one.

00:52:24.580 --> 00:52:27.327
I can't say I'm very fond of
Mr. Thornton.

00:52:31.149 --> 00:52:32.539
You know, Mr. Brundish,

00:52:33.511 --> 00:52:39.213
there is a certain responsibility
about trying to run a bookshop.

00:52:41.438 --> 00:52:42.689
I imagine there is.

00:52:43.279 --> 00:52:46.059
Especially if not everyone
approves of it.

00:52:46.721 --> 00:52:49.432
There are certain people,

00:52:49.571 --> 00:52:52.838
who are rather put out
by your bookshop.

00:52:53.359 --> 00:52:57.321
Mrs. Green,
I refer to Violet Gamart,

00:52:57.947 --> 00:53:00.068
who had other plans
for the Old House,

00:53:00.206 --> 00:53:04.482
and who now, it seems, has taken
further offence to something.

00:53:05.628 --> 00:53:07.156
I'm sure that she...

00:53:07.921 --> 00:53:10.319
means well.

00:53:10.668 --> 00:53:14.040
Means well? Violet Gamart?

00:53:15.533 --> 00:53:16.680
That harpy?

00:53:18.315 --> 00:53:20.122
What she wants is an...

00:53:20.400 --> 00:53:22.242
arts center.

00:53:23.214 --> 00:53:27.594
Now I ask you, what the hell does this
damned village need with an arts center?

00:53:27.733 --> 00:53:30.027
And how could art have a center?

00:53:30.166 --> 00:53:32.321
But she's got it into her head
that it does,

00:53:32.460 --> 00:53:36.040
and that's the reason she wants to get
rid of you, and she won't stop...

00:53:36.527 --> 00:53:37.848
until she does.

00:53:40.661 --> 00:53:42.019
She can't do that.

00:53:43.061 --> 00:53:45.460
It's my bookshop. It's my home.

00:53:47.509 --> 00:53:50.672
People like Violet Gamart...

00:53:51.472 --> 00:53:54.045
have made me
what I am, Mrs. Green.

00:53:54.808 --> 00:53:57.693
Thanks to her connections
and acquaintances,

00:53:57.902 --> 00:54:02.421
Mrs. Gamart is a very powerful
woman, does that not concern you?

00:54:09.094 --> 00:54:10.345
No.

00:54:15.002 --> 00:54:17.783
May I get back to the reason
for my visit?

00:54:20.424 --> 00:54:24.838
I am thinking of making
a first order of <i>Lolita...</i>

00:54:25.534 --> 00:54:29.183
of 250 copies, which would be
a considerable risk.

00:54:30.297 --> 00:54:34.361
Of course I'm not consulting you in a
business sense, that would quite wrong.

00:54:34.535 --> 00:54:36.865
All I want to know
before I put in the order

00:54:37.004 --> 00:54:39.888
is whether you think
it is a good book,

00:54:40.757 --> 00:54:46.041
and whether you think it is right
that I should sell it in Hardborough.

00:54:48.266 --> 00:54:52.436
I do not attach as much
importance as you do, I dare say,

00:54:52.957 --> 00:54:55.355
to the notions of
right and wrong.

00:54:56.294 --> 00:54:59.421
I have read <i>Lolita,</i>
as you asked me to.

00:55:00.013 --> 00:55:01.611
It is a good book,

00:55:02.098 --> 00:55:04.704
and therefore I think you should try and
sell it to the people of Hardborough.

00:55:04.844 --> 00:55:07.485
They won't understand it,
but that's all for the best.

00:55:07.973 --> 00:55:10.094
Understanding
makes the mind lazy.

00:55:36.438 --> 00:55:37.411
Thank you.

00:55:47.839 --> 00:55:49.784
Thank you, Mr. Brundish.

00:55:53.191 --> 00:55:55.102
Well, I've given you my opinion.

00:55:56.771 --> 00:55:59.864
Let me tell you what it is
I admire

00:56:00.420 --> 00:56:01.984
about human beings.

00:56:02.889 --> 00:56:04.938
What I value most

00:56:05.738 --> 00:56:09.144
is the one virtue they share
with gods and animals,

00:56:09.527 --> 00:56:14.880
and which I will therefore no
longer refer to as a virtue.

00:56:15.019 --> 00:56:15.956
I mean...

00:56:17.972 --> 00:56:18.876
courage.

00:56:20.857 --> 00:56:22.701
And you, Mrs. Green...

00:56:24.333 --> 00:56:28.366
possess that quality
in abundance.

00:56:32.953 --> 00:56:34.240
I would like...

00:56:36.220 --> 00:56:37.784
I would like to help.

00:56:42.719 --> 00:56:44.216
You make me believe...

00:56:45.814 --> 00:56:48.004
once more, in things...

00:56:51.166 --> 00:56:54.433
things I thought forgotten.

00:57:19.005 --> 00:57:22.204
Thank you for the tea, Mr. Brundish.
Everything was delicious.

00:57:23.002 --> 00:57:24.602
Well, please...

00:57:25.401 --> 00:57:27.764
come again when you wish.

00:57:28.217 --> 00:57:29.851
And good luck with, um...

00:57:30.928 --> 00:57:31.935
<i>Lolita.</i>

00:57:33.430 --> 00:57:34.821
Yes, thank you.

00:57:35.342 --> 00:57:38.088
I mustn't let myself worry. "Where
there's life, there's hope."

00:57:38.227 --> 00:57:41.633
God! What a horrifying thought.

00:57:47.750 --> 00:57:49.246
Yes.

00:57:52.580 --> 00:57:53.868
Thank you...

00:57:54.909 --> 00:57:56.925
for your advice, Mr. Brundish.

00:57:57.272 --> 00:57:58.525
My pleasure.

00:58:01.167 --> 00:58:04.710
Do you think <i>Dandelion Wine</i>
will be coming soon?

00:58:05.580 --> 00:58:09.613
I must say I can't thank you enough
for introducing me to Ray Bradbury.

00:58:10.516 --> 00:58:12.602
I'll have Wally bring it round.

00:58:15.799 --> 00:58:18.858
Or maybe I will bring it...

00:58:20.873 --> 00:58:21.811
to you.

00:58:25.565 --> 00:58:26.713
Well...

00:58:27.720 --> 00:58:29.250
I would like that very much.

00:59:12.663 --> 00:59:15.130
We've never had
so many of the same one before.

00:59:17.457 --> 00:59:19.023
Such a long one!

00:59:20.169 --> 00:59:22.079
This book is already famous,
Christine.

00:59:22.219 --> 00:59:24.026
Everybody has heard of it.

00:59:24.477 --> 00:59:28.823
Though I don't suppose they ever expected
to be able to buy it here in Hardborough.

00:59:30.074 --> 00:59:33.550
What they won't expect is to find
two hundred and fifty copies.

00:59:39.076 --> 00:59:41.197
You've really lost your head
over this one.

00:59:43.143 --> 00:59:46.028
<i>"4th of September, 1959:</i>

00:59:46.271 --> 00:59:48.114
<i>Dear Mrs. Green,</i>

00:59:49.434 --> 00:59:53.744
I have in my possession a letter
from John Drury &amp; Co..."

00:59:55.655 --> 00:59:59.271
"...legal representatives of Mrs.
Violet Gamart of The Stead,

01:00:00.347 --> 01:00:04.867
<i>to the effect that the current
state of your window display</i>

01:00:05.006 --> 01:00:08.273
<i>is attracting rather
undesirable attention</i>

01:00:08.446 --> 01:00:12.060
<i>from both potential
and actual customers.</i>

01:00:13.033 --> 01:00:15.328
Their client likewise assures

01:00:15.468 --> 01:00:18.318
that she feels
personally affronted

01:00:18.455 --> 01:00:22.800
by the fact that she, in her
position as Justice of the Peace

01:00:22.941 --> 01:00:26.138
and Chairman of numerous committees,
list enclosed herewith,

01:00:26.311 --> 01:00:30.448
must carry out her shopping
expeditiously."

01:00:32.253 --> 01:00:33.645
<i>"Dear Mr. Thornton,</i>

01:00:34.236 --> 01:00:36.425
<i>You have been my solicitor now
for several years,</i>

01:00:36.564 --> 01:00:38.893
<i>which allows me to infer that
'acting for me'</i>

01:00:39.102 --> 01:00:42.542
<i>means 'acting energetically
on my behalf.'</i>

01:00:42.925 --> 01:00:45.602
<i>Have you even seen the window
display for yourself?"</i>

01:00:47.131 --> 01:00:48.869
"Dear Mrs. Green,

01:00:49.007 --> 01:00:51.509
in response to your missive of
the 5th of September,

01:00:52.240 --> 01:00:54.672
I have attempted
on two occasions

01:00:54.811 --> 01:00:56.480
to approach your shop window,

01:00:57.348 --> 01:01:00.094
but found it impossible.
People from all around..."

01:01:00.233 --> 01:01:02.109
- Understood?
- Yes, Mrs. Green.

01:01:02.492 --> 01:01:03.989
<i>"Dear Mr. Thornton,</i>

01:01:04.786 --> 01:01:06.836
<i>What exactly
is your advice, then?</i>

01:01:07.567 --> 01:01:10.034
<i>Yours truly, Florence Green."</i>

01:01:11.252 --> 01:01:13.964
<i>"I think we should
eliminate the agglomeration.</i>

01:01:14.103 --> 01:01:17.266
Stop your customers
from assembling

01:01:17.404 --> 01:01:19.836
in the narrowest part
of the High Street

01:01:19.976 --> 01:01:22.096
<i>before any formal complaint
is made.</i>

01:01:22.478 --> 01:01:25.084
<i>And I also think
we should put an end</i>

01:01:25.224 --> 01:01:30.576
<i>to the sale of this banal and
sensationalistic novel by V. Nabokov</i>

01:01:30.716 --> 01:01:33.948
<i>that has given rise
to so many complaints."</i>

01:01:34.818 --> 01:01:36.452
Yes, Mrs. Green.

01:01:39.822 --> 01:01:41.560
<i>"Dear Mr. Thornton,</i>

01:01:41.942 --> 01:01:44.271
<i>a good book is the precious
distillation of a master's spirit,</i>

01:01:44.409 --> 01:01:48.269
<i>embalmed and preserved for the purpose
of achieving a life beyond life,</i>

01:01:48.406 --> 01:01:52.579
<i>which is why it is undoubtedly
a necessary commodity.</i>

01:01:52.717 --> 01:01:55.428
<i>Yours sincerely,
Florence Green."</i>

01:01:56.714 --> 01:01:58.173
<i>"Dear Madam.</i>

01:01:58.555 --> 01:02:01.754
<i>With regard to your request
for an express prohibition</i>

01:02:01.894 --> 01:02:04.118
<i>concerning
Mrs. Florence Green..."</i>

01:02:04.256 --> 01:02:08.497
"Dear Madam,
with regard to your request..."

01:02:09.088 --> 01:02:14.545
"...we regret to inform you that,
after having been duly advised...

01:02:14.718 --> 01:02:17.080
It would be best
to drop this matter,

01:02:17.984 --> 01:02:22.781
as the reported crowds seem to have
been curbed by the local police."

01:02:25.667 --> 01:02:28.066
<i>"My deepest,
deepest apologies, Mrs. Gamart".</i>

01:02:50.171 --> 01:02:51.976
Why won't you
come to London?

01:02:52.429 --> 01:02:53.854
I can't think of
anything worse than living in London!

01:02:53.994 --> 01:02:55.767
You know how I feel
about people.

01:02:55.905 --> 01:02:57.470
I mean, look at this,
look at this!

01:02:57.609 --> 01:02:59.972
- It's absolutely stunning!
- Well, I'm not staying here.

01:03:00.318 --> 01:03:01.813
What do you mean
you're not staying...

01:03:01.953 --> 01:03:02.927
Where are you going?

01:03:03.065 --> 01:03:04.524
Oh, for goodness sake!

01:03:04.664 --> 01:03:08.035
Do you have to just
keep storming off like a...?

01:03:20.026 --> 01:03:22.216
I'm just sick
of people like Violet!

01:03:22.356 --> 01:03:24.267
- What?
- I can't take it anymore, Milo!

01:03:24.509 --> 01:03:27.603
Wait. Just be careful,
otherwise you're gonna slip!

01:03:27.882 --> 01:03:28.994
Hold on. Wait!

01:03:29.201 --> 01:03:30.488
Oh!

01:03:30.905 --> 01:03:33.268
What on earth are you doing
sitting there, Florence?

01:03:34.138 --> 01:03:36.849
I... I don't know why
I go out for walks.

01:03:36.988 --> 01:03:39.385
Walks are for pensioners,
and I should get to work.

01:03:39.525 --> 01:03:40.846
Is there room on that step
for me?

01:03:40.985 --> 01:03:43.315
- Oh, yes, of course.
- I'm Kattie, Mrs. Green.

01:03:43.486 --> 01:03:45.677
- Florence.
- Milo's told me so much about you.

01:03:45.817 --> 01:03:49.535
Kattie wouldn't believe that there
were any nice spots in Hardborough,

01:03:49.674 --> 01:03:53.046
so I brought her out here
to see for herself.

01:03:53.531 --> 01:03:56.417
And what is it that you do
at the BBC, Kattie?

01:03:56.556 --> 01:03:58.502
- I work for the RPD...
- Oh.

01:03:58.642 --> 01:04:00.553
Recorded Programs Department.

01:04:00.763 --> 01:04:03.368
Monitoring expenses...
Not exactly exciting.

01:04:03.506 --> 01:04:04.933
Well...

01:04:05.071 --> 01:04:07.469
We've just been for lunch
with Violet Gamart.

01:04:08.096 --> 01:04:10.772
We gave her a chance to not
disapprove of us.

01:04:11.258 --> 01:04:13.553
Mrs. Gamart was very kind.

01:04:14.628 --> 01:04:15.881
Well, not really.

01:04:16.195 --> 01:04:18.767
I don't like kind people.

01:04:19.357 --> 01:04:21.304
Yeah, except for Florence.

01:04:22.624 --> 01:04:24.050
Don't flatter me.

01:04:31.173 --> 01:04:34.580
I get the feeling that you work
less and less every day.

01:04:35.242 --> 01:04:36.700
Don't forget the BBC
is a Corporation,

01:04:36.840 --> 01:04:39.481
and that your salary is paid for
with public funding.

01:04:39.621 --> 01:04:40.871
Kattie deals with that.

01:04:41.183 --> 01:04:43.373
She is in charge of
my expenses sheet.

01:04:46.468 --> 01:04:48.379
Well...

01:04:49.179 --> 01:04:50.847
Are you not cold, my darling?

01:04:51.125 --> 01:04:54.323
Perhaps it's time we ought to
tootle off back to our humble abode

01:04:54.844 --> 01:04:57.764
and leave Florence alone,
lost in her thoughts.

01:04:59.501 --> 01:05:01.552
I think I'll stay here
a little longer.

01:05:01.970 --> 01:05:03.394
As long as
I'm not bothering you.

01:05:03.532 --> 01:05:05.480
No, not at all.

01:05:24.282 --> 01:05:26.159
Milo told me you're a widow.

01:05:26.438 --> 01:05:28.349
Yes. Yes, I am.

01:05:28.974 --> 01:05:30.295
"A Widow".

01:05:31.374 --> 01:05:35.788
Such a strange, dark word,
don't you think?

01:05:37.491 --> 01:05:39.540
My husband died, um...

01:05:39.749 --> 01:05:41.175
sixteen years ago.

01:05:43.990 --> 01:05:45.414
How did you meet?

01:05:46.110 --> 01:05:49.552
We met at a bookshop, actually.
In London.

01:05:53.479 --> 01:05:55.842
We were in love
from the first moment,

01:05:56.329 --> 01:05:58.102
We had to organize the, um...

01:05:58.345 --> 01:06:02.724
Organize and classify the poetry
section together at Muller's.

01:06:09.083 --> 01:06:11.066
He used to read aloud to me
every night.

01:06:12.178 --> 01:06:15.515
Pepys and George Eliot,
and Thackeray...

01:06:16.626 --> 01:06:19.754
"Never give a lady
a restive horse".

01:06:22.952 --> 01:06:24.656
We loved that one.

01:06:27.645 --> 01:06:29.313
We were very happy...

01:06:30.147 --> 01:06:33.310
Busy doing a million things
and... Nothing.

01:06:34.492 --> 01:06:35.880
And then the war came.

01:06:36.403 --> 01:06:39.775
But I still have his letters,
all his letters, and I...

01:06:40.226 --> 01:06:42.206
I can still...

01:06:43.389 --> 01:06:46.934
hear his voice in my head
when I read them.

01:06:50.861 --> 01:06:53.540
Milo didn't do you justice when
he described you to me.

01:06:53.781 --> 01:06:56.874
Oh, dear.
Spare me from Milo's appraisal,

01:06:57.014 --> 01:06:59.169
I don't think I want to know
what he thinks of me.

01:06:59.342 --> 01:07:01.845
I still don't know
what he thinks of me.

01:07:04.000 --> 01:07:06.156
Or if he feels something for me.

01:07:07.683 --> 01:07:10.256
Or, for that matter, if he feels
anything at all.

01:07:13.246 --> 01:07:15.054
I guess that's part of
his thing.

01:07:16.686 --> 01:07:18.703
Keeping you guessing
all the time.

01:07:21.240 --> 01:07:22.281
You know what they say:

01:07:23.116 --> 01:07:24.853
with that kind of man,
you'll never know whether

01:07:24.993 --> 01:07:27.218
he's hiding
a rich inner world, or...

01:07:28.956 --> 01:07:30.417
absolutely nothing.

01:07:36.323 --> 01:07:38.131
He will never read aloud to me.

01:07:50.678 --> 01:07:52.035
Aunt Vi!

01:08:00.029 --> 01:08:04.164
So your bill is already having
its third reading. Excellent!

01:08:04.303 --> 01:08:07.919
And I have you to thank for
all your inspiration, Aunt Vi.

01:08:08.230 --> 01:08:09.656
Whatever do you mean?

01:08:09.866 --> 01:08:12.090
The idea came to me
during your party last spring.

01:08:12.332 --> 01:08:15.008
Your wonderful campaign in
favor of an arts center

01:08:15.148 --> 01:08:17.336
could become a reality
with a bill like this.

01:08:17.580 --> 01:08:20.326
And other communities could
benefit as well from...

01:08:20.673 --> 01:08:22.968
philanthropists
such as yourself.

01:08:23.628 --> 01:08:26.619
Well, I've only done
what I felt was right.

01:08:29.084 --> 01:08:31.448
The Access to Places
of Public Value Bill

01:08:31.586 --> 01:08:35.583
will make sure that town councils can
acquire their historic properties

01:08:35.723 --> 01:08:37.808
by compulsory purchase
for public use.

01:08:38.157 --> 01:08:40.069
- Isn't it wonderful?
- Oh,

01:08:40.346 --> 01:08:42.571
I'm sure your father is smiling
down on us from heaven

01:08:42.710 --> 01:08:44.588
with great pride at this very
moment.

01:08:44.726 --> 01:08:47.575
I'm so glad we arranged
to meet today, of all days.

01:08:47.716 --> 01:08:50.218
Precisely when the bill
has been approved.

01:08:51.606 --> 01:08:53.449
Do you fancy fish for lunch?

01:08:53.624 --> 01:08:55.396
I know a wonderful place
around the corner.

01:08:55.603 --> 01:08:58.453
I'm afraid living in Hardborough puts
you off eating fish anywhere else.

01:08:58.594 --> 01:09:00.227
It's so fresh down there!

01:09:00.366 --> 01:09:01.688
It's so true.

01:09:01.965 --> 01:09:03.321
A spot of tea, then?

01:09:03.876 --> 01:09:05.094
Perfect.

01:09:05.406 --> 01:09:07.561
Then I shall continue
with what I was doing.

01:09:07.839 --> 01:09:10.654
I have a sick friend
who needs my attention.

01:09:10.932 --> 01:09:13.818
You're such a wonderful
and generous woman, Aunt Vi.

01:09:20.699 --> 01:09:23.376
- -MRS.
- Carry on with your work.

01:09:23.515 --> 01:09:24.905
Heads down.

01:09:26.295 --> 01:09:29.632
Eyes down.
Keep... On with your work.

01:09:34.324 --> 01:09:36.202
No need to get up, children.

01:09:37.104 --> 01:09:38.321
I'm the Inspector.

01:09:38.460 --> 01:09:39.781
No, you're not.

01:09:40.997 --> 01:09:44.126
I'm sorry, I...
I don't believe I know you.

01:09:44.439 --> 01:09:45.411
Mrs. Traill.

01:09:45.724 --> 01:09:47.010
The name is Sheppard.

01:09:47.601 --> 01:09:49.930
If you would be so kind,
you may examine my certificate

01:09:50.070 --> 01:09:52.049
from the Ministry
of Education Authority,

01:09:52.293 --> 01:09:55.178
which authorizes me,
under the Shops Act of 1950,

01:09:55.629 --> 01:09:59.035
to visit any school where
I have cause to believe

01:09:59.175 --> 01:10:00.566
that there are children studying

01:10:00.703 --> 01:10:03.032
who also engage in
some sort of work.

01:10:03.172 --> 01:10:04.424
Work?

01:10:04.667 --> 01:10:06.648
I can assure you
they'd all love to have a job,

01:10:07.308 --> 01:10:10.088
but outside of family businesses
and newspaper deliveries,

01:10:10.227 --> 01:10:12.417
you tell me what else
awaits them out there.

01:10:12.800 --> 01:10:14.017
And by the way,

01:10:14.398 --> 01:10:17.318
I don't remember you ever
visiting here before.

01:10:17.630 --> 01:10:20.759
Well, due to staff shortages, our
visits are not quite as frequent

01:10:20.897 --> 01:10:22.394
as we would like them to be.

01:10:23.089 --> 01:10:25.140
So who suggested
you come this time?

01:10:33.236 --> 01:10:37.894
There is only one who
has a steady job after school.

01:10:39.319 --> 01:10:41.997
Christine Gipping,
who works regularly.

01:10:42.760 --> 01:10:43.629
Where?

01:10:46.201 --> 01:10:48.113
At the Old House bookshop.

01:10:49.921 --> 01:10:51.484
Stand up, Christine.

01:10:54.891 --> 01:10:56.907
If you'll excuse me.

01:10:57.636 --> 01:10:58.819
This is the girl.

01:10:58.958 --> 01:11:00.800
Miss, would you mind
coming with me?

01:11:11.886 --> 01:11:13.173
Good day.

01:11:13.625 --> 01:11:14.633
Good day.

01:11:32.845 --> 01:11:35.522
I don't want you to think
I hold anything against you.

01:11:36.077 --> 01:11:37.258
The law is the law.

01:11:37.398 --> 01:11:39.136
That's the main thing
I came to say.

01:11:44.420 --> 01:11:46.088
Experience is important.

01:11:46.713 --> 01:11:49.841
The dropouts all say they won't hire us
without experience, but where can we get it?

01:11:50.084 --> 01:11:52.831
But we always tell Christine
that if she needs references

01:11:52.970 --> 01:11:54.534
she only has to come to you.

01:11:55.298 --> 01:11:58.426
Yes, of course.
All she has to do is ask.

01:11:59.399 --> 01:12:02.527
Christine's a wonderful girl,
Mrs. Gipping, and I'm...

01:12:03.570 --> 01:12:06.317
very, very, very fond of her.

01:12:08.298 --> 01:12:12.642
But now she'll have an opportunity
to concentrate on her studies.

01:12:13.720 --> 01:12:15.666
She doesn't want to give up
earning money.

01:12:15.944 --> 01:12:17.717
No, of course not, but...

01:12:18.481 --> 01:12:20.775
I suppose after what happened
at the school, it's...

01:12:20.915 --> 01:12:22.826
Well, we've been
looking round a bit.

01:12:23.104 --> 01:12:25.780
And we hope they'll be hiring her to
work on Saturdays at the new bookshop.

01:12:31.584 --> 01:12:32.941
New bookshop?

01:12:33.252 --> 01:12:36.139
Yes, they will open very soon,
you know, in Deben's.

01:12:37.424 --> 01:12:38.780
The fish shop.

01:12:49.970 --> 01:12:52.056
I had no idea.

01:12:52.194 --> 01:12:54.907
You really must keep an eye on
the competition, Mrs. Green.

01:12:56.886 --> 01:12:59.007
You'll give Christine those
references, won't you?

01:13:01.335 --> 01:13:03.734
<i>She had no way
of knowing this,</i>

01:13:04.359 --> 01:13:08.600
<i>but the new bookshop was not
an enterprise like her own,</i>

01:13:09.191 --> 01:13:10.859
<i>but an investment,</i>

01:13:11.104 --> 01:13:13.676
<i>by the simple-minded
Lord Gosfield,</i>

01:13:13.814 --> 01:13:18.263
<i>on the advice of the General
and Mrs. Gamart.</i>

01:13:30.358 --> 01:13:33.974
- Thank you for coming, Mrs. Green.
- No need to thank me, Mr. Keble.

01:13:35.780 --> 01:13:38.353
Do you realize how
very little working capital

01:13:38.527 --> 01:13:39.952
- you have at present?
- Yes.

01:13:40.091 --> 01:13:41.550
It's rather difficult
not to notice.

01:13:41.690 --> 01:13:43.566
I'd dare say things have taken
quite a dip

01:13:43.704 --> 01:13:45.511
in your business of late,
haven't they?

01:13:46.555 --> 01:13:48.571
But I thought
you might like to know

01:13:48.709 --> 01:13:51.144
there's a possible buyer
for your shop.

01:13:53.958 --> 01:13:55.315
Thank you very much.

01:14:01.918 --> 01:14:02.892
Mr. Keble...

01:14:03.552 --> 01:14:06.332
The shop is not for sale.

01:14:07.201 --> 01:14:08.626
Message received.

01:14:09.285 --> 01:14:10.432
Thank you for coming.

01:14:10.711 --> 01:14:13.563
It has been
an incalculable help.

01:14:30.002 --> 01:14:30.906
Well...

01:14:34.206 --> 01:14:35.805
I really shall miss you.

01:14:37.648 --> 01:14:39.350
I don't want to go, you know?

01:14:40.010 --> 01:14:42.097
I don't want to work
in that other bookshop.

01:14:43.034 --> 01:14:45.121
My mother, she simply doesn't
understand...

01:14:45.259 --> 01:14:48.526
No, please.
You mustn't worry about that.

01:14:49.082 --> 01:14:50.229
How can I not worry?

01:14:50.473 --> 01:14:52.870
You can't run this place
by yourself.

01:14:53.393 --> 01:14:55.444
And no one in this village
will help you.

01:14:57.736 --> 01:14:58.779
No, I...

01:14:59.127 --> 01:15:02.466
I shall manage, absolutely.
I... I shall manage.

01:15:05.836 --> 01:15:07.573
I do hope you'll come by

01:15:08.060 --> 01:15:10.493
from time to time,
in the evenings, and...

01:15:10.771 --> 01:15:12.232
I won't have the time.

01:15:14.976 --> 01:15:16.367
Yes. No.

01:15:17.618 --> 01:15:19.914
No, of course you'll be...
You'll be busy.

01:15:23.318 --> 01:15:26.099
I... I've got something for you.

01:15:31.625 --> 01:15:33.990
Now you won't have to wait
until my funeral.

01:15:37.985 --> 01:15:39.551
You're so kind, Mrs. Green.

01:15:43.617 --> 01:15:45.077
You're so bloody kind!

01:16:14.759 --> 01:16:17.992
Good afternoon, Florence...
Mrs. Green.

01:16:18.340 --> 01:16:19.730
Mr. Brundish.

01:16:21.327 --> 01:16:24.004
How are things coming along,
down there?

01:16:25.603 --> 01:16:27.098
Um...

01:16:30.539 --> 01:16:33.285
I... I think you know
as well as I do, don't you?

01:16:34.570 --> 01:16:37.107
Indeed, I do know. Some of it.

01:16:39.193 --> 01:16:40.896
What do you intend to do?

01:16:41.452 --> 01:16:42.600
Do?

01:16:46.178 --> 01:16:48.299
Is there anything I can do?

01:16:49.516 --> 01:16:50.629
Yes.

01:16:59.004 --> 01:16:59.908
No.

01:17:02.202 --> 01:17:03.176
Carry on.

01:17:04.809 --> 01:17:06.721
That's what I was going to do.

01:17:09.815 --> 01:17:11.517
Florence...

01:17:12.664 --> 01:17:16.278
I would very much like to have met
you at another time in my life.

01:17:17.181 --> 01:17:19.372
In another life, altogether.

01:17:23.264 --> 01:17:25.141
But I'm going to do what...

01:17:25.836 --> 01:17:28.895
small thing is in my power
to help you.

01:17:34.144 --> 01:17:38.384
Mr. Brundish, it's...

01:17:40.191 --> 01:17:42.798
It's very warming to hear
and I...

01:17:43.980 --> 01:17:46.761
so appreciate. I, um...

01:17:48.324 --> 01:17:49.436
You mustn't...

01:17:49.888 --> 01:17:51.696
- There's nothing you...
- I...

01:17:51.974 --> 01:17:55.727
I will have a word with her.
I will talk to that woman.

01:17:56.076 --> 01:17:58.161
She might just listen.
She might...

01:18:00.072 --> 01:18:02.854
put an end to this loathsome
harassment.

01:18:06.190 --> 01:18:07.754
You'd really do that?

01:18:09.109 --> 01:18:10.430
Really?

01:18:11.228 --> 01:18:13.627
Come out of your seclusion
for me?

01:18:14.463 --> 01:18:16.166
Indeed I will.

01:18:18.320 --> 01:18:22.420
I don't know that it shall be
of much use, but I'm willing.

01:18:23.638 --> 01:18:26.140
I could just put a bullet
through her, but...

01:18:33.265 --> 01:18:35.802
...I'm not sure that would be
to your liking.

01:18:40.843 --> 01:18:43.101
I don't know how to ever
thank you. That's...

01:18:44.421 --> 01:18:46.229
That's the most, um...

01:18:49.774 --> 01:18:51.895
noble gesture...

01:18:52.972 --> 01:18:55.127
anyone has ever made for me.

01:20:12.669 --> 01:20:15.034
You work too hard, Florence.

01:20:15.659 --> 01:20:18.231
I try to concentrate.
Please, put these down.

01:20:18.370 --> 01:20:20.907
They've only just come in
and I haven't checked them yet.

01:20:23.550 --> 01:20:26.504
Surely you have to succeed
if you give everything you have.

01:20:27.406 --> 01:20:28.553
I can't see why.

01:20:29.145 --> 01:20:31.716
Everyone gives everything
they have, eventually.

01:20:32.482 --> 01:20:35.400
We all die.
Dying is hardly success.

01:20:35.540 --> 01:20:37.869
You're too young
to bother about dying.

01:20:39.710 --> 01:20:42.040
I believe Kattie might snuff it.

01:20:42.631 --> 01:20:45.169
She...
She wastes so much energy.

01:20:45.376 --> 01:20:46.802
How is Kattie?

01:20:48.747 --> 01:20:49.964
No idea.

01:20:51.842 --> 01:20:54.448
As a matter of fact,
she's left me.

01:20:55.802 --> 01:20:58.409
She's, uh... She's gone to live
with someone else.

01:20:58.689 --> 01:20:59.731
In Wantage.

01:21:00.981 --> 01:21:02.199
She's...

01:21:03.138 --> 01:21:04.805
He works in the World Service.

01:21:09.672 --> 01:21:12.696
I'm opening my heart to you.

01:21:16.518 --> 01:21:18.326
We are having a special moment,
aren't we?

01:21:22.914 --> 01:21:25.869
I expect you've told everyone else
in Hardborough who'd listen to you.

01:21:26.007 --> 01:21:28.509
But it affects you particularly,

01:21:28.649 --> 01:21:31.500
because I'll have so much more
free time as of now.

01:21:31.813 --> 01:21:35.879
I'll be able to work here,
part time, as your assistant.

01:21:37.059 --> 01:21:39.285
I guess you must miss
that little girl.

01:21:45.471 --> 01:21:47.452
Christine learned a great deal
while she was here,

01:21:47.591 --> 01:21:49.989
and she was extremely nice
with the customers.

01:21:50.129 --> 01:21:51.728
Not as nice as I can be.

01:21:54.403 --> 01:21:55.585
So, um...

01:21:56.489 --> 01:21:59.026
How much can you pay me?

01:22:06.117 --> 01:22:08.168
I gave Christine twelve
shillings and six pence a week,

01:22:08.306 --> 01:22:11.331
and I don't feel able to offer any
more than that at the moment.

01:22:11.643 --> 01:22:13.554
If you're interested in the job,
you may come by

01:22:13.693 --> 01:22:16.022
in the afternoons
for a few weeks and try it out.

01:22:16.163 --> 01:22:17.414
Trial period.

01:22:17.830 --> 01:22:19.881
But please only remember
I didn't offer you the job.

01:22:20.019 --> 01:22:22.486
- You asked yourself.
- Has anyone ever told you

01:22:22.626 --> 01:22:24.851
you have
a marvelous pair of ankles?

01:22:25.373 --> 01:22:26.831
Oh, do shut up.

01:22:27.805 --> 01:22:29.160
Go home!

01:22:51.405 --> 01:22:55.472
"Shower down thy love,
O burning bright!

01:22:56.480 --> 01:23:01.206
For one night or the other night
Will come the Gardener in white,

01:23:02.596 --> 01:23:06.038
and Gathered flowers are dead."

01:23:06.558 --> 01:23:08.122
Christine!

01:23:08.505 --> 01:23:10.070
You'd better watch out,
Mr. North.

01:23:14.622 --> 01:23:18.968
What unpleasant expressions
they teach you in that school!

01:23:19.315 --> 01:23:21.261
I didn't come here
to see people of...

01:23:21.643 --> 01:23:22.965
your sort.

01:23:27.135 --> 01:23:28.388
Why, um...?

01:23:29.985 --> 01:23:32.454
Why are you not helping
Mrs. Green anymore?

01:23:33.288 --> 01:23:34.574
She misses you.

01:23:35.963 --> 01:23:38.849
She's got you, hasn't she?
You're always in and out.

01:23:43.644 --> 01:23:45.694
They say they won't let her keep
the bookshop.

01:23:46.007 --> 01:23:48.302
"They say"? Who say? You say?

01:23:48.442 --> 01:23:49.902
You know very well who.

01:23:50.596 --> 01:23:52.298
They have other plans
for the Old House.

01:23:52.473 --> 01:23:55.358
Why do you even care,
you little shrimp?

01:23:56.296 --> 01:23:57.896
They say she can't keep it,

01:23:59.180 --> 01:24:00.361
they'll go after her.

01:24:00.606 --> 01:24:01.927
They'll take her to court.

01:24:02.274 --> 01:24:04.151
She'll have to swear
to tell truth,

01:24:04.360 --> 01:24:07.002
the whole truth
and nothing but the truth.

01:24:07.244 --> 01:24:11.138
Hm. Well, we must hope that
it doesn't come to that.

01:24:12.597 --> 01:24:15.517
I never had time to sit around
when I was her assistant.

01:24:16.107 --> 01:24:19.271
No wonder. You're a child.

01:24:20.208 --> 01:24:21.252
Or a woman.

01:24:22.259 --> 01:24:25.144
Neither of them have any idea
how to relax.

01:24:25.909 --> 01:24:27.299
You'd just better watch out.

01:24:27.439 --> 01:24:30.184
I've come to get this.
It belongs to my mum.

01:25:24.857 --> 01:25:26.214
Thank you.

01:25:34.135 --> 01:25:35.598
Give me a moment.

01:26:01.873 --> 01:26:05.002
What a pleasant surprise,
Mr. Brundish.

01:26:05.697 --> 01:26:07.922
Um, please, have a seat.

01:26:10.979 --> 01:26:12.093
Thank you.

01:26:16.680 --> 01:26:18.314
I have come to ask you
something.

01:26:18.452 --> 01:26:20.572
I don't know if this is
the proper way to do so,

01:26:20.711 --> 01:26:22.242
but I can't think of
a better one.

01:26:22.484 --> 01:26:24.674
If you're not in the mood
for questions,

01:26:24.813 --> 01:26:26.482
you should say so now.

01:26:27.802 --> 01:26:29.715
Would you like some tea?

01:26:30.965 --> 01:26:33.919
I... I don't want your tea.

01:26:34.613 --> 01:26:37.569
I want you to leave
Florence Green alone.

01:26:38.820 --> 01:26:41.844
- Did she ask you to come see me?
- Certainly not.

01:26:42.991 --> 01:26:46.848
She's simply a woman who wants
to keep a bookshop.

01:26:47.961 --> 01:26:49.873
If Mrs. Green has reason
to complain,

01:26:50.010 --> 01:26:52.167
I suppose she should
turn to a solicitor.

01:26:52.515 --> 01:26:55.642
Though I believe she's rather given
to changing her legal advisors.

01:26:55.780 --> 01:26:58.908
The bookshop is draughty, impossible
to mortgage a second time,

01:26:59.048 --> 01:27:00.543
and, from what I've heard, damp.

01:27:00.681 --> 01:27:02.663
Leave her alone. The woman has
done nothing to you.

01:27:03.914 --> 01:27:05.304
Has it not occurred to you,

01:27:05.617 --> 01:27:08.258
as someone who must be
extremely concerned

01:27:08.572 --> 01:27:10.866
about the welfare
and the future of this place,

01:27:11.177 --> 01:27:14.724
that a building of such historical
interest could be put to a better use?

01:27:15.106 --> 01:27:18.164
Old age is not the same thing
as historical interest.

01:27:18.302 --> 01:27:21.189
Otherwise you and I would be far
more interesting than we are.

01:27:21.397 --> 01:27:24.908
I repeat, I want you to leave my
friend Florence Green alone.

01:27:25.046 --> 01:27:26.542
Alone!

01:27:32.518 --> 01:27:38.289
Well it appears your friend has failed
to take the law into consideration,

01:27:38.949 --> 01:27:42.077
something which I have observed
on several occasions.

01:27:42.250 --> 01:27:44.997
If that is the case, I can have
nothing to say in the matter.

01:27:45.276 --> 01:27:47.013
The law will have to take
its course.

01:27:47.152 --> 01:27:49.585
Are you referring to a law that
didn't exist a year ago,

01:27:49.724 --> 01:27:52.539
and that Parliament approved
behind our backs?

01:27:52.955 --> 01:27:55.458
I'm talking about an order for
compulsory purchase.

01:27:55.598 --> 01:27:57.648
Or an eviction,
which is the proper term.

01:27:57.788 --> 01:28:00.602
Did you put your precious nephew
up to drafting that bill?

01:28:00.847 --> 01:28:04.530
I won't deny my nephew's bill
may affect the bookshop,

01:28:04.670 --> 01:28:08.528
as it is essential the premises must
have remained empty for five years.

01:28:08.666 --> 01:28:11.621
That would undoubtedly apply
to the Old House.

01:28:11.898 --> 01:28:17.076
But there are so many regulations
to be considered, Mr. Brundish.

01:28:17.876 --> 01:28:21.283
Ordinary mortals like myself,
and of course like you,

01:28:21.769 --> 01:28:23.646
would hardly know
where to begin.

01:28:23.925 --> 01:28:26.427
I am in politics,
and subsequently,

01:28:26.567 --> 01:28:28.755
am fairly familiar with
bureaucracy,

01:28:28.894 --> 01:28:30.632
but this goes way beyond me.

01:28:30.980 --> 01:28:35.360
We wouldn't even know how to find
the right person to write to.

01:28:35.568 --> 01:28:38.591
Madam, I know perfectly well
who to write to.

01:28:38.939 --> 01:28:41.685
Over the past years, if I hadn't
made it my business to know,

01:28:41.825 --> 01:28:44.258
I would have lost several
hundred acres of marshes,

01:28:44.397 --> 01:28:46.551
some farming land and two
pumping mills.

01:28:46.932 --> 01:28:50.514
This is why I am certain that,
if nothing has been done so far,

01:28:50.652 --> 01:28:53.710
we can still form a common front
against them.

01:28:55.102 --> 01:28:58.543
We can certainly think of ways
of making the move easier,

01:28:58.682 --> 01:29:00.038
if it is actually made.

01:29:00.557 --> 01:29:03.339
There are still plenty of other
places to let

01:29:03.478 --> 01:29:06.257
in larger towns than
Hardborough.

01:29:06.398 --> 01:29:07.927
That's not what I'm talking...

01:29:08.066 --> 01:29:10.847
You should be talking about
what I am talking about!

01:29:24.957 --> 01:29:26.904
I wish I could do
something more.

01:29:30.589 --> 01:29:33.127
I assume, then,
that you intend to do nothing.

01:29:41.780 --> 01:29:44.839
But you mustn't speak to me
that way, Mr. Brundish.

01:29:48.454 --> 01:29:50.851
You don't realize
what you are saying.

01:29:51.756 --> 01:29:54.328
You seem to think
I'm an outrageous person.

01:29:54.952 --> 01:29:56.100
Is that it?

01:29:59.435 --> 01:30:01.661
I can't answer that question
"yes" or "no."

01:30:02.461 --> 01:30:06.006
I suspect that by "outrageous" you
mean "unexpectedly offensive."

01:30:06.145 --> 01:30:09.308
And the truth is that you have
been fairly offensive, but also...

01:30:11.741 --> 01:30:14.278
repulsive, Mrs. Gamart.

01:30:15.286 --> 01:30:18.553
That is, you have behaved
exactly as I expected.

01:34:02.492 --> 01:34:04.334
Good afternoon, General.

01:34:05.515 --> 01:34:07.568
You wouldn't like a book,
would you?

01:34:10.173 --> 01:34:12.017
Not exactly. Um...

01:34:13.440 --> 01:34:15.108
I just came to say...

01:34:17.577 --> 01:34:19.316
A good man has left us.

01:34:25.049 --> 01:34:26.579
I believe...

01:34:26.892 --> 01:34:29.881
you knew Edmund Brundish
quite well, did you not?

01:34:31.410 --> 01:34:32.696
I feel as though I did, but...

01:34:32.834 --> 01:34:35.823
Well I never crossed words
with him at all.

01:34:36.867 --> 01:34:39.023
He was in the first mess,
of course.

01:34:40.447 --> 01:34:42.011
But not in the Suffolks.

01:34:45.000 --> 01:34:47.677
He signed up for the Air Force,
I believe.

01:34:50.073 --> 01:34:51.569
He wanted to fly.

01:34:52.751 --> 01:34:53.897
How odd.

01:34:57.825 --> 01:35:01.578
It was also odd that he came
to see us that very morning.

01:35:02.308 --> 01:35:06.132
He wanted to speak to your wife,
I imagine.

01:35:06.931 --> 01:35:08.148
Yes, you're quite right.

01:35:08.285 --> 01:35:10.442
Violet told me all about it.

01:35:13.709 --> 01:35:17.706
He made a great effort
to go see her...

01:35:19.131 --> 01:35:21.807
to congratulate her on her idea.

01:35:25.178 --> 01:35:29.036
I'm referring to
the arts center.

01:35:34.145 --> 01:35:35.850
Hm. I'm sorry I...

01:35:36.196 --> 01:35:38.456
didn't get a chance to
speak to him.

01:35:41.445 --> 01:35:45.059
I must say, I would never
have imagined him

01:35:45.338 --> 01:35:48.015
being interested in art.

01:35:50.342 --> 01:35:51.734
But, well...

01:35:54.722 --> 01:35:57.017
A good man has left us. Hm.

01:36:01.986 --> 01:36:05.393
Anyone could suffer an attack
like that, if you, uh...

01:36:06.123 --> 01:36:08.696
If you think about it. Hm.

01:36:14.081 --> 01:36:17.001
You mustn't be late
for your lunch party, General.

01:36:20.269 --> 01:36:22.459
Leave my house
and don't ever come back.

01:36:25.169 --> 01:36:26.558
And please...

01:36:27.394 --> 01:36:30.730
don't you or your wife
ever again malign

01:36:31.148 --> 01:36:33.339
a man who had more dignity...

01:36:34.658 --> 01:36:36.501
sensitivity...

01:36:38.064 --> 01:36:39.177
and compassion,

01:36:39.420 --> 01:36:42.131
than either of you will have
in your entire...

01:36:47.831 --> 01:36:49.674
Don't ever say his name again.

01:36:54.329 --> 01:36:55.790
And forget mine.

01:37:02.117 --> 01:37:03.229
But she...

01:37:04.861 --> 01:37:06.914
- Violet...
- Leave!

01:37:17.688 --> 01:37:20.328
So it seems that
I have been evicted

01:37:20.606 --> 01:37:22.622
by the city of Flintmarket.

01:37:22.831 --> 01:37:25.717
As we mentioned during
our last phone conversation,

01:37:25.994 --> 01:37:27.975
it seems there is
a new Parliament bill

01:37:28.114 --> 01:37:29.886
l which allows
Flintmarket Council

01:37:30.025 --> 01:37:32.945
to take over ownership
of the Old House.

01:37:33.224 --> 01:37:33.953
Yes.

01:37:34.544 --> 01:37:37.047
And I should like to know,
if I may,

01:37:37.358 --> 01:37:40.730
where the Council obtained
the funds necessary

01:37:40.870 --> 01:37:42.191
to throw me out.

01:37:42.954 --> 01:37:45.771
They apparently
found a benefactor.

01:37:45.909 --> 01:37:48.969
What concerns me
is if the Old House is

01:37:49.106 --> 01:37:50.914
considered to be
habitable or not.

01:37:51.332 --> 01:37:54.565
If it turns out that it is unfit
for human habitation,

01:37:54.738 --> 01:37:56.963
or indeed subsidence
is threatened...

01:37:57.345 --> 01:38:00.126
Well, then it will be impossible
to demand compensation.

01:38:00.647 --> 01:38:01.723
You won't see a penny.

01:38:02.349 --> 01:38:06.243
I'm inhabiting it,
and I'm still human.

01:38:08.745 --> 01:38:10.343
It's not even as damp
as all that.

01:38:10.482 --> 01:38:13.783
In the summer it's really quite
dry, and in midwinter it's...

01:38:13.924 --> 01:38:16.253
Here is an inspection
of the cellars,

01:38:16.531 --> 01:38:17.990
according to which,

01:38:18.580 --> 01:38:21.257
the property is standing
in half an inch of water.

01:38:23.899 --> 01:38:26.576
Sorry, wh...
What inspection? I...

01:38:28.800 --> 01:38:31.546
I wasn't informed of any
inspection, I don't think.

01:38:31.683 --> 01:38:33.840
Apparently on several occasions

01:38:33.979 --> 01:38:35.785
when you were absent
from the property,

01:38:35.925 --> 01:38:37.975
an expert in masonry
and plastering,

01:38:38.115 --> 01:38:40.131
a Mr. John Gipping,

01:38:40.617 --> 01:38:45.135
was sent by the council to inspect the
condition of the walls and the cellars.

01:38:46.005 --> 01:38:49.028
John Gipping?
Christine's father?

01:38:49.792 --> 01:38:52.433
We assume he entered peaceably.

01:38:52.573 --> 01:38:54.938
I don't remember
letting him in myself.

01:38:55.320 --> 01:38:58.900
Oh, your assistant,
Mr. Milo North.

01:38:59.698 --> 01:39:01.854
Everyone will assume
he acted as your servant,

01:39:01.993 --> 01:39:04.044
and was following
your instructions.

01:39:05.816 --> 01:39:07.103
Have you any...

01:39:08.179 --> 01:39:09.256
comments?

01:39:23.230 --> 01:39:25.315
- No.
- What leaves us in a difficult position

01:39:25.454 --> 01:39:29.277
is the fact that Mr. North has
also signed a statement,

01:39:29.450 --> 01:39:30.771
according to which,

01:39:31.016 --> 01:39:32.822
the level of dampness
in the property

01:39:32.960 --> 01:39:34.526
has affected his health,

01:39:35.186 --> 01:39:40.295
making him unable to accept
any type of ordinary employment.

01:40:16.999 --> 01:40:18.076
Why?

01:40:20.855 --> 01:40:22.281
There is no why.

01:40:23.881 --> 01:40:27.704
They asked me persistently,
so, you know...

01:40:27.947 --> 01:40:30.763
I just simply thought...
I'd best do it.

01:40:32.950 --> 01:40:34.933
Oh, if you're looking for
a new assistant,

01:40:35.489 --> 01:40:37.052
I understand
Christine is available.

01:40:37.192 --> 01:40:40.147
She, uh... She's no longer
working at the new bookshop.

01:40:40.668 --> 01:40:42.163
She...

01:40:43.031 --> 01:40:45.847
She tried to sell <i>Lolita</i>
to... to the vicar!

01:40:48.489 --> 01:40:49.531
Florence!

01:44:03.404 --> 01:44:05.491
Mrs. Green!
Mrs. Green!

01:44:05.733 --> 01:44:07.645
- Christine.
- Mrs. Green.

01:44:09.661 --> 01:44:11.017
Mrs. Green.

01:44:11.155 --> 01:44:12.338
Bye.

01:44:16.056 --> 01:44:17.099
Mrs. Green...

01:44:17.238 --> 01:44:18.141
<i>For years to come,</i>

01:44:18.801 --> 01:44:20.888
<i>I will remember
how she tried to smile</i>

01:44:21.027 --> 01:44:23.148
<i>looking at the book
I had in my hands.</i>

01:44:28.882 --> 01:44:30.829
<i>Then, she realized</i>

01:44:31.036 --> 01:44:32.705
<i>what I had done.</i>

01:44:57.034 --> 01:44:59.572
<i>She had fulfilled the dream</i>

01:45:00.164 --> 01:45:02.423
<i>and they'd snatched it
away from her.</i>

01:45:03.672 --> 01:45:06.071
<i>But what she possessed deep down</i>

01:45:06.210 --> 01:45:09.618
<i>was something no one
could ever take away from her:</i>

01:45:10.659 --> 01:45:11.947
<i>her courage.</i>

01:45:18.480 --> 01:45:22.720
<i>And it was that courage
and her passion for books</i>

01:45:23.103 --> 01:45:24.979
<i>that she bequeathed to me,</i>

01:45:25.778 --> 01:45:28.734
<i>along with the Chinese lacquerd
tray.</i>

01:45:43.260 --> 01:45:48.371
<i>How right she was when she said
that no one ever feels alone</i>

01:45:49.136 --> 01:45:50.596
<i>in a bookshop.</i>

01:45:54.845 --> 01:46:15.845
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