"~ Francis today staked the mine... on a game of cards." "~ He lost." "Matthew's a cousin." "George may feel obliged to respond." "~ Did Verity send you?" "~ She's no idea I've come." "No-one does." "~ And you're set on this girl, Mark?" "~ Truly, she's my heart's desire." "There's talk of Keren and Dwight." "Folks say she's brazen." "That she'll fling herself at other men." "Has Verity said anything about Andrew Blamey?" "What's given in confidence isn't fair to repeat." "Wheal Busy ore sold to the Carnmore Copper Company..." "Who stands guarantor for it?" "Who is its agent?" "Well, his company's a threat." "But if we knew the names of its shareholders..." "Let's begin with the one name we DO know, Jonathan Tresidder." "The question is, will that be enough to ruin them?" "GULLS SCREECH DISTANTLY" "(Thank you.)" "VERITY WHISPERS CONSPIRATORIALLY" "DEMELZA LAUGHS" "And one more thing, Mr Tresidder." "Your mill provides rolling and cutting services" "~ for the Carnmore Copper Company?" "~ Yes." "In these difficult times, we urge all who bank with us to consider where their best interests lie." "Particularly when they have several outstanding loans with us." "Still building your empire, Ross?" "And you bought all the copper." "All we could afford while the price was low." "Next time, they'll be wise to us and the price will rise." "That is good news for the mines, and your shareholders." "In the short term, yes." "And in the long term, anything which breaks the Warleggans' stranglehold and stops them keeping prices artificially low..." "Benefits Leisure and Carnmore." "Benefits miners, smelters and shareholders alike." "The Warleggans only seem to benefit themselves, Francis." "I hope you know what you're taking on." "I would I had your support." "I know I have your discretion." "Of course." "I've been too busy to bake." "How's that?" "I told you." "I've been helping Dr Enys with his work." "Enys... ain't your husband." "But people hereabout depend on him." "I'm proud to serve him." "HE COUGHS" "Damp and dust, no friend to the lungs." "Fresh air and exercise." "A little sea bathing." "Fennel root and ginger in warm water." "Come and see me in a month." "HE COUGHS" "Trencrom's finest!" "Need you inform half of Cornwall?" "Tucked her away, I did, in your father's old mine!" "~ Wheal Grace?" "~ Best hiding place there be." "Take a brave man to venture down there." "Folk say it's haunted." "You'll be haunted if that barrel's not intact when I return home." "Aye, sir." "You know me, sir - honest as the day is short." "ROSS LAUGHS" "~ Trencrom?" "~ Suppliers of fine goods, direct from France." "Without troubling the excisemen?" "THEY BOTH LAUGH" "Will you break even this month?" "With luck... and a fair auction." "You must be relieved." "Yes." "I should get back to my patients." "Dwight... .. have a care." "Of course." "You look weary, Mark." "Keren." "She do have me up all hours, mending the roof." "Mind you don't exhaust yourself." "'Tisn't I who wants minding, Ross." "Ross, I bring word from Tresidder's Mill." "As of next week we must look elsewhere for our rolling and cutting." "ROSS SIGHS" "So be it." "We shall take our business elsewhere." "BIRDSONG" "Shall we walk to Prudie?" "Hmm?" "Come on." "Ready?" "BABY GURGLES" "JUD SINGS DRUNKENLY" "~ That be Master Ross's rum." "~ 'Twas." "Now it be Master Jud's." "Out now!" "'Fore I give you such a skat in the chacks!" "I'm away!" "I'm away." "HE SINGS DRUNKENLY" "SHE GASPS" "BIRDSONG" "SIGHING" "SHE SNORES SOFTLY" "JUD SINGS DRUNKENLY" "♪ And a strange woman be a narrow pit" "♪ For she lieth in wait for a man" "♪ Those that tarry too long at the wine" "♪ Their eyes shall behold strange sights. ♪" "I know that fizzogg." "'Twould make milk curdle." "Cap'n Poldark'll fetch ye such a colloppin'!" "Cap'n Poldark." "Who be Cap'n Poldark giving himself airs?" "Everyone do know he's had half the maids from here to Truro!" "~ Keep your voice down afore the child!" "~ The child." "That child?" "What about Jinny Carter's child?" "~ What about it?" "~ Everybody do know that Cap'n Ross be its father!" "BABY WHINES 'Tis a lie!" "~ Ignore him." "~ 'Tis a wicked, wicked lie!" "No wonder he went to Bodmin to see Jim Carter in the ground!" "And don't ye bend ye brows at me, girl." "He ain't naught but a trull from Luggan!" "~ Go." "~ Go where?" "I neither know nor care." "But if you're still in this house by daybreak" "I will personally horsewhip you from here to Truro!" "BABY CRIES" "Where's Verity?" "Is she not in her room?" "If Jud goes, so will Prudie." "And I'm sorry for that." "For you'll miss her." "But what he said, I cannot think he meant it." "You know how he is when the liquor's upon him." "MY liquor was upon him!" "He's lucky it wasn't my foot!" "Liquor or not, he's disrespected you and this house once too often." "Best place I ever know'd." "And now, thanks to thee," "'Tisn't right, 'tisn't fair, 'tisn't just, 'tisn't fitting." "Hold your clack, you black worm, or I'll crown thee meself!" "Where's Verity?" "Little Verity?" "Out, I believe." "Did she say where?" "Not as I recall." "Left something, though." "What?" "Sealed, it was." "As if I care to know her secrets." ""I've known and loved you all my life, dear Francis," ""so I pray you will understand the grief and loss I feel that this should be our parting."" "ELIZABETH SIGHS" "You will lie here tonight, my dear." "I've arranged to sleep onboard my ship." "And tomorrow... .. we shall be wed." "So this is how she cares for us?" "To sneak away under our very noses and marry that wife-murdering drunkard." "But how was it arranged?" "She must have had help." "FRANCIS SIGHS" "Has anyone been calling unbeknown to us?" "Or been seen about the grounds?" "Someone that knew Miss Verity and might have carried a message?" "~ I knew this was Ross's doing!" "~ Why would you think that?" "Because he has helped them before!" "I can see it all." "~ He's encouraged Verity." "~ We do not know this." "He's been acting as agent to Blamey, keeping the skunk's interest warm, and using Demelza as a go-between." "You're too hasty!" "We've no proof Demelza's involved, let alone Ross." "Oh, yes, of course, you will always stand up for Ross!" "I stand up for no-one." "But it is the merest justice not to condemn people unheard." "There is no other way this could have been managed." "She has no post, I have seen to that." "Damn Ross!" "Damn this family, damn this entire pitiful excuse for an existence!" "DOOR SLAMS" "SHE GASPS" "I hope I'm not intruding." "But I see that I am." "Is something amiss?" "Forgive me, but it may be within my power to offer assistance." "I suspect not." "But that is precisely the reason I'm here." "BIRDSONG" "So there you have our predicament." "That's extraordinary." "What I despise most is the deceit." "And from someone I trusted." "~ Your sister..." "~ My cousin." "You blame Ross?" "Entirely." "You mentioned a reason for your visit?" "No doubt I've... omitted some payment." "On the contrary." "We, our family, find ourselves indebted to YOU." "How?" "You're aware that substantial gaming losses were accrued by Francis to my cousin Matthew?" "It's possible... .. probable, that you were a victim of Matthew's dishonesty." "That being so, we wish to make amends." "~ How?" "~ By cancelling some of your debts to our bank." "We cannot accept charity, George." "Charity be damned." "Our family's integrity has been compromised and we wish to recover it." "I insist you accept our apology." "And...£1,200." "12...?" "!" "HE LAUGHS" "HE LAUGHS" "SHE LAUGHS NERVOUSLY" "And now we need detain you no longer." "Erm... ~ Do not keep Francis up too late." "~ I have his best interests at heart." "You see..." "I did mend your smile, after all." "THEY BOTH LAUGH" "Aniseed..." "Hartshorn..." "Senna..." "Aqua Mirabilis." "What are they for?" "I've a thirst for learning." "Some are nature's remedies, others..." "I concoct myself." "All are as efficacious as any Thomas Choake prescribes, but... infinitely more affordable." "~ You'll not make a living like that." "~ HE LAUGHS SOFTLY" "I came here to heal my patients, not bankrupt them." "You've already made ME whole again." "This must stop, Keren, this coming here." "Your husband does not like it." "Do YOU like it?" "~ I have work to do." "My purpose here is..." "~ Kiss me." "No." "Just the once." "Keren, you and I know it would not be just the once." "Would that matter?" "What matters is..." "where it would lead." "Shall I go on?" "And on?" "Till you tell me... to stop?" "'Tisn't just Jud." "'Tis Carnmore do trouble you." "There are forces... opposing us." "Warleggan forces?" "With what aim?" "To put us out of business." "Well, if Tresidder won't have you, where will you go?" "We'll find somewhere." "The whole of Cornwall doesn't yet knuckle to George." "Nor will it, if I can help it." "What could George do?" "For now, nothing." "He's leaned on Tresidder, but unless he discovers these names..." "If he did?" "He'd realise that, barring myself and Henshawe, all bank at Warleggan's." "BABY GURGLES" "What are you doing?" "Hiding it." "HE LAUGHS" "BELL STRIKES" "BABY CRIES" "HUBBUB" "MAN COUGHS" "HE COUGHS" "'Twas a rockfall." "The charge was damp, we thought it dead" "~ and then out of nowhere..." "~ Are you badly hurt?" "~ Get Dr Enys to look at that." "~ I'd sooner bleed to death!" "It's galling for the family but your sister will realise her mistake and soon come crying home." "Well, then, let Ross take her in, since he encouraged her treachery." "Damn it!" "I expect more loyalty from my only cousin." "What did I ever do that he should go behind my back like this?" "Well..." "I suppose you married the girl he loved, didn't you?" "Yes." "Yes, that." "Hmm." "No, that was long ago, and he's happily married himself now." "More happily, in fact, than..." "No... it's not on that score, I assure you." "Keren?" "Keren?" "FIRE CRACKLES" "I sympathise." "I, too, find Ross unfathomable." "In some ways... you and I are in the same boat." "DOG BARKS DISTANTLY" "What's perplexed me of late has been Ross's attitude towards ME." "When he opened his mine, the other venturers were for banking with Warleggan's yet he fought tooth and nail to go with Pascoe's." "No, I doubt that was personal." "And then this wildcat copper-smelting scheme." "It's clearly directed against us." "I don't think against you precisely, the aim is to get fairer prices for the mines." "It's not the scheme which upsets me, for it will fail for lack of money." "But it demonstrates an enmity towards me... which I don't feel I deserve." "~ Any more than you deserve his betrayal... of your family." "~ FRANCIS SIGHS" "Where have you been?" "Oh..." "Mark." "You're back early." "Why did you...?" "~ You're hurt!" "What happened?" "Let me see." "~ Where have you been?" "I couldn't sleep, I had a pain." "~ I thought maybe a walk would ease it." "~ You've been with Enys." "~ I've not!" "~ You've been lying with Enys!" "I went to see him." "He's a doctor, isn't he?" "I needed something for the pain." "~ How long?" "~ What?" "~ How long were you there?" "About an hour." "I waited three." "'Twas nothing, Mark." "'Twas only a kiss." "'Twas only the once." "It was him, he... he pestered me, he wouldn't let me be." "'Tis you that's to blame." "You left me alone overmuch." "~ You never loved me enough!" "~ I loved ye more than life!" "~ I did." "I loved ye, Keren." "~ You don't know what love is!" "You don't know!" "~ No..." "~ You don't know!" "You don't know!" "You don't know!" "You don't know!" "~ You don't know!" "~ SHE WHIMPERS" "SHE GROANS BONE CRACKS" "HE SOBS" "HE SOBS" "Oh...!" "HE MOANS" "Keren?" "Keren..." "Don't ye fool with me, Keren." "Wake up now." "Wake up, Keren." "Wake up!" "No..." "Oh, no." "Oh, no." "Keren!" "I..." "I never meant..." "I..." "I..." "I never meant..." "I..." "HE SOBS" "Damn Ross!" "Damn his scheming!" "HE LAUGHS He has married my sister to a wife-beater and he has disgraced my family name." "You know, if he cares so little for my interest why should I care for his?" "HE SIGHS" "~ You were saying you thought Carnmore was well supported." "~ Mmm." "Surely no man of sense would invest in such a scheme." "FRANCIS LAUGHS" "What would you say to Lord Devoran?" "Or Sir John Trevaunance?" "Or Richard Tonkin?" "Henry Blewitt?" "Thomas Johnson?" "William Aukitt?" "BIRDSONG" "What I said, 'twas nothing worse than usual." "'Tis he." "Getting soft since he did wed her." "And since the blathering' child come." "And there be another." "Cakey as custard." "BIRDSONG" "Mr Daniel?" "I regret this intrusion, but..." "I believe I've wronged you." "I have no excuse, but I was..." "I wish to make amends." "Oh, God." "No!" "We had it from surgeon hisself." "'Twas maybe an accident." "~ Where's Mark?" "~ Haven't seen him since he went home last night." "'Tis never Mark's doing." "He did love her." "Little as she deserve it." "I must speak with him, Paul." "Your brother's in serious trouble." "~ If you know where he is..." "~ How would I?" "Surgeon needs to watch his back though." "He's no more than a boy." "Mark could snap him easy as a twig." "And Keren?" "We all know his strength." "We know he wouldn't mean to hurt her." "You'd never turn him in?" "!" "I've known him since I was a boy." "I've no wish to see him hunted down and hung from a gibbet." "~ But if he's done this thing..." "~ He'll get no justice!" "You know that!" "Just ask Jim Carter." "How did she die?" "Broken neck." "Deliberate?" "I could not say... beyond all doubt." "What will happen now?" "If you take my advice, you'll leave." "Without delay." "There's a warrant out for Mark's arrest." "~ Dear God!" "~ Every villager is bound by law to help in his capture but I don't believe a single one will do so." "~ They'd take his side." "And rightly so." "~ Not against you, Dwight." "Within a week, he'll be found and brought to justice." "It will then be safe for your return." "What do you take me for?" "To skulk away to safety while the man I wronged is hunted down like an animal?" "No." "I'd sooner meet him face to face and take the consequence." "Which could be fatal." "I'll take my chance." "Besides... .. I cannot leave these people." "I have been met with nothing but kindness here and to repay them like this..." "No." "I thank you for your concern, but I will stay." "Then your blood be on your own head." "Keren's is there already." "Is it true about Keren?" "Folk are saying her neck was broke." "On purpose?" "!" "I doubt it." "But the magistrates will think otherwise." "~ And what of Mark?" "~ The constables are out in force." "And your admirer, Sir Hugh, has called in the soldiers." "~ How?" "~ They were in the area looking for smugglers." "As a magistrate, he has the power to commandeer them." "And if Mark is found?" "He'll hang." "And well deserve it." "RUMBLE OF THUNDER" "BIRDSONG" "I killed her." "I didn't mean to, but I did." "You know as well as I she brought him to it." "Her and Enys." "The courts will never accept that." "I must give myself up." "~ No!" "~ I ain't safe." "If I see Enys I'll swing for him, as I'll rightly swing for her." "No, Mark." "One life's already lost." "What would it serve to waste another?" "If it's to happen, it must be tonight." "~ And from Nampara Cove." "~ And in our boat?" "She's not fit for ocean going when the seas are rough, but a resolute man could do worse in fair weather." "And go where?" "!" "Ireland?" "Brittany?" "And the oars?" "Might find their way to the cove after dark... .. together with enough supplies to keep a man alive." "'Tisn't lawful." "No." "But some might say it is a... kind of justice." "We must keep Mark away from Dwight." "~ Mmm." "~ We don't want more blood on his hands." "DOGS BARK OUTSIDE" "Go upstairs and change." "And prepare to be the lady." "My dear, this is Captain McNeil." "Captain McNeil, may I present my wife, Demelza." "The pleasure is mine, ma'am." "Captain Poldark and I are old comrades." "~ We were together at James River in '81." "~ Oh, I see." "I understood he was acquainted with the murderer, and wondered if he could give me any pointers as to where the felon might hide." "None that spring to mind." "~ Though I don't imagine he'll linger." "~ Mmm." "Any suitable boats hereabouts whereby he might make his escape?" "A few, I suppose." "~ I have one myself." "~ Where is it kept?" "In a cave down by the shore." "But it couldn't be handled by a single man." "Can I persuade you to stay for supper, Captain?" "My wife has made kidney pudding." "Another occasion I'd be delighted." "But if you'll oblige me by pointing out the coves hereabouts," "I could search for the smugglers and murderer at the same time." "Two birds with one stone, you might say." "May I offer you some brandy, Captain?" "I trust you'll be able to tell by the flavour" "~ whether or not the duty's been paid." "~ MCNEIL LAUGHS" "BIRDSONG" "You were so good." "No-one would've guessed you knew a thing." "Don't underestimate him." "He's smarter than he looks." "Now I must fetch the oars." "Oh, Ross..." "I clean forgot, this came from Trenwith." "What does it say?" ""As you may know, Verity left us yesterday for Captain Blamey." ""They are to be married today." "Elizabeth."" "So she's done it at last." "I rather feared she might." "Well, why should they not be happy together if they do love each other?" "Why "As you may know"?" "Why should she think we would know?" "Well... perhaps the news is already about?" "I must go to Trenwith." "This letter is abrupt, they must be upset." "I'll call there on my way back from the cove." "You'll be well enough here with Garrick to guard you?" "This is our very first meal together." "Does it seems strange to you?" "No." "'Tis only that... in all our lives, we've not met more than two dozen times." "Tonight we close the book on our old lives." "Tomorrow, we open a new one." "And write it together." "If you should ever feel unhappy, my love," "I swear... it'll not be of my doing." "GULL SCREECHES" "DOG BARKS" "Judas!" "~ SHE LAUGHS ~ You gave me such a fright!" "Forgive me." "I did not mean..." "Ross counselled me to leave." "For your own safety." "I cannot contemplate such a thing." "But I'm sick of my own company tonight." "May I avail myself of Ross's?" "He isn't here." "I came as soon I could." "How's Francis?" "He's half a mind to go after her." "Persuade him against." "He's no match for Blamey." "Or Verity." "For I think she's now the bolder of the two." "Certainly the most reckless." "She has the courage of her convictions." "Which I applaud even if I seem to disapprove." "FOOTSTEPS" "Well, Ross..." "Are you pleased with your handiwork?" "Clearly, it was you who helped her." "I?" "Arrange Verity's elopement?" "Have you taken leave of your senses?" "Erm..." "I don't think that Ross would want you here." "Have I forfeited his good opinion?" "Or his trust?" "No, no, it's not that, it's just... he has business tonight, and maybe visitors." "KNOCK AT DOOR DOG GROWLS" "~ I'll see who it is." "~ No, no!" "I must." "'Tis maybe the soldiers." "Wait here." "There be soldiers everywhere." "We couldn't think where else to come." "You've helped them before." "You allowed them to meet secretly at Nampara." "To my eternal regret." "You were nearly killed!" "~ Do you imagine I want a repetition of that?" "~ No, no, no, no, you cannot abide to lose face!" "~ Francis!" "~ You were defeated then, and this is your revenge." "~ Francis, stop!" "~ I think you must be drunk, Francis." "I think you must leave, Ross." "Ross is down at the cove." "You can wait in here till he comes back and tells you it's clear." "Verity could not have managed it on her own." "It must be your doing!" "You and that impudent brat you married!" "~ Francis!" "~ You've been using her to carry letters between Verity and that skunk!" "When I say I have not, I expect to be believed." "If you continue to doubt my word..." "Dwight, go back to the kitchen." "'Tis a trap. 'Tis a bloody trap!" "How dare you say that?" "Mark, have you no sense?" "!" "Dwight, go back into the kitchen." "You bastard..." "You should've come for me." "Not broken a girl who couldn't defend herself." "~ I'll break YE soon enough!" "~ Stop this!" "Are you mad?" "!" "Do you want to bring the soldiers down upon us?" "I gave you credit for more intelligence!" "I gave you credit for more loyalty." "But perhaps your choice of wife has coarsened your finer instincts!" "Enough!" "Enough!" "Both of you!" "Have you forgot you are family?" "!" "You would fight and kill each other in our house?" "!" "~ Does friendship mean nothing to you?" "!" "~ Let me finish him!" "~ 'Tis finished already." "~ It isn't!" "Don't you see?" "Dr Enys can't betray you without betraying us." "You can trust him." "I'd as lief trust a snake." "What you did is on your conscience." "As what I did is on mine." "You have my word." "I won't betray anyone." "Call him back, Francis." "He's your cousin." "I have no cousin!" "And I have no sister!" "I have a wife, a son, and an estate in considerably less debt today than it was yesterday." "So I'm content." "Ross!" "What in God's name...?" "!" "Go home and sleep." "And tomorrow..." "Tomorrow, I will tend to my patients and try, God knows how, to make amends." "I've been hiding down that old mine of your father's." "~ Wheal Grace?" "~ Wheal Grace." "To keep from going off my head I went all over her." "There's money in that mine." "Copper." "~ I never see'd a more keenly load." "~ Where is it?" "~ On the east face." "~ 'Twill be underwater most times." "~ Soldiers!" "MEN SHOUT" "I never meant to hurt her, Ross." "~ We know that, Mark." "~ MEN SHOUT" "I must pay for what I've done." "MAN SHOUTS" "~ Get in the boat, Mark!" "~ Mark, get in the boat!" "This way!" "By the surf!" "There's a boat!" "~ Mark, take the oars!" "~ Make haste!" "Make haste!" "GROANING" "MEN SHOUT" "Can you see anything?" "~ Lights in the distance, heading this way." "~ Help me with the boots!" "Quick!" "Ross, your hand!" "It must've happened when I hit the soldier." "Hide my clothes away." "Hurry!" "KNOCK AT DOOR" "Gently now, love." "Let them knock again before we make light." "Get into bed." "We mustn't wake Julia." "KNOCK AT DOOR" "HE SIGHS" "HE GRUNTS" "Oh, damn it!" "This is a fine time to call!" "Mark Daniel escaped." "Is that certain?" "And in your boat." "I see." "You do not seem very distressed." "I'm becoming philosophical in my old age." "Not that I'm happy to lose a good boat but sighing will not bring it back, any more than it will bring back yesterday's youth." "Your attitude does you credit, Captain." "May I, as a man a year or so your senior, offer ye a word of advice?" "By all means." "Have a care for the law." "'Tis a cranky and twisty old thing." "And you may flout it half a dozen times, but let it once come to grips with ye and you'll find it harder to be loose from than a great... black... squid." "I'd welcome your assurance that my advice has been heeded." "You may rest easy on that score, Captain." "In that case, I look forward to calling upon you and your charming wife when I'm next in the county." "Have you hurt your hand somewhere, Captain?" "Oh..." "Caught it in a rabbit trap." "CHEERING AND APPLAUSE" "First Jim, now Mark." "My band of brothers is shrinking." "At least Mark got clean away and McNeil suspected nothing." "It was a good night in the end." "Not entirely." "You forget I went to Trenwith." "Was it dreadful?" "Suffice it to say Francis and I have broken." "Possibly for good." "KNOCK AT DOOR" "SHE SIGHS" "MAN:" "A letter for you, Master Poldark." "~ I've been called to a meeting." "~ What manner of meeting?" "An extraordinary one, to be called at such short notice, all partners summoned." "BIRDSONG" "Elizabeth's not down yet." "'Tis you I wish to see." "What is it?" "BIRDSONG" "The meeting went well?" "In a word... no." "~ Tell me." "~ I'd rather hear your news." "I'd rather you did not." "What happened?" "I went to see Francis." "What the devil for?" "Did Ross send you?" "Why would he?" "Cos he's too craven to face me himself?" "I came here of my own accord to tell you that you are mistook about Ross." "He had no hand in Verity's elopement." "When I did not believe him, why would I believe you?" "Because I know who DID arrange it." "You've been passing letters between them these last three months?" "!" "Tell me you're joking." "No, Ross, I wish I were, but..." "SHE SIGHS" "There's more." "'Twas I who first sought Captain Blamey out." "I wanted to see if he still had feelings for Verity or was as wicked as people did say." "And you were able to divine that in a single meeting?" "Not in a single meeting." "I brought them together again." "I encouraged Verity." "What have you done?" "!" "I don't understand - all I did was bring two people together who loved each other." "No, Demelza, that is not all you did." "I had yesterday a letter from the Warleggans' bank... .. telling me they could no longer support my loan, and that I must make immediate arrangements to repay it." "I too had such a letter, word for word." "That's unheard of, to suddenly withdraw credit." "I called upon George Warleggan today to ask him to reconsider." "~ He declined." "~ And to me." "~ And when I asked him the reason..." "~ He suggested you look to your connection with Carnmore." "I regret to announce that not only do I have no more capital to contribute..." ".. I expect any day to be declared bankrupt." "~ For months you lied to me." "~ No." "~ Gone behind my back." "~ I thought you'd be angry, but..." "At what?" "Your ignorance?" "Your arrogance?" "Your... utter disregard for truth and consequence?" "!" "All I've done is make two people happy." "Oh, Demelza, do not underestimate the scale of your achievement." "What do you mean?" "What now?" "For me?" "Debtors' prison." "Or the poor house." "'Twas was a glorious scheme." "And I'll never regret the impulse behind it." "But it has cost us dear." "It has cost us everything." "Someone has betrayed us." "Someone close to us." "How did it end with Francis?" "What I did, perhaps it WAS wrong" "~ but I did it for love of Verity." "~ Get out." "I came here to take the blame, and so I have." "Be angry with me, but not with Ross," "~ he had nothing to do with it." "~ Will you go?" "!" "And never enter this house again!" "And the same goes for Ross - if he will marry such an ignorant trull as you, well, then he must take the consequences." "Good men reduced to poverty." "Their families - our family, everything we've built." "Our very lives together!" "Now do you understand?" "I have betrayed you." "And been the cause of a greater betrayal." "I've ruined everything!" "And this?" "Have I ruined this too, have I lost your trust?" "Is it for ever?" "It is." "I can see it in your eyes." "Can I ever win it back?" "I don't know." "I'd be lying if I said I did." "You've married into a peculiar family, Demelza." "We Poldarks are hasty... sharp tempered... .. strong in our likes and dislikes." "Perhaps yours WAS the more reasonable view - if two people love each other, why shouldn't they marry?" "And be damned to the consequences." "~ I only meant to help." "~ I know that." "~ I know you could not have foreseen." "~ Can you forgive me?" "I will try." "But Francis will not." "~ No." "~ And you will not forgive HIM," "~ and I have caused a rift between the two sides of our family." "~ Yes." "I will never be happy until it is healed." "Then I'm afraid you'll be unhappy for a very long time." "SHE SIGHS" "You know, one of these days you'll find yourself without means, without colleagues, without friends, and no-one to blame but yourself." "Choake has been summoned to Trenwith." "~ The putrid throat?" "~ The symptoms are unmistakable." "You can pray I do not lose the love of my life." "Zacky!" "There's a wreck!" "Enough to fill your bellies for a month!" "~ He will be caught in the act." "~ We are armed!" "Perhaps he will throw himself upon your mercy?" "~ He may try!" "~ The demise of the Carnmore Copper Company, and its chief architect." "~ Will he die?" "~ Not if I can help it." "Poldark should hang!"