"(Wind howling)" "(Horses trotting)" "Looks like a storm." "We should be in Truro before it breaks." "I don't like storms, especially on the road." " You have to go on from there?" " Not far, a mile or two." "I'll be all right if the rain holds off." "No, thank you." "I'll have a carriage waiting for me, you're welcome to share it." "Thank you, sir." "And you too, if you're not similarly provided." "Thank you, I've got further to go." "I'll hire a horse in Truro." " Have you come far, sir?" " From New York." "Good heavens." "All the way from the New World?" "May I ask what you were doing there?" " l was a soldier." " A soldier?" "Oh, yes, yes, of course, the war." " But that's over now." " Yes." "May I introduce myself?" "My name is Reverend Johns." " And you, sir?" " Captain Poldark." "(Thunder rumbles)" "(Loud knocking)" " Mr Pearce?" "It's Mr Poldark." " Who?" " Poldark?" "What's he want?" " How should I know?" " Well, ask him!" " He's here." "Ross?" " Yes, Mr Pearce." " Ross!" "Bless my soul, we thought 'im were dead, didn't we, Ellen?" "You told me, Mr Pearce, I didn't tell you." "I didn't think one way or the other." " What'd she say?" " How are you?" "Speak up, I've got a blockage in that ear." " (Shouting) How are you?" " Ooh, I'm well, yes." "Course I am." "But you'm supposed to be dead." "Look here, I had a letter from your regiment." "Now, where is it?" "Erm..." "Ellen, you been clearing' up again?" "Do you want me any more, Mr Pearce?" "I'd like to go to bed." "What'd she say?" "Ellen, you can go." "I had a letter all the way from America." "I wrote to you telling of your father's death and your colonel wrote back saying you were dead too." " Damn it, where is that..." " It doesn't matter!" " Eh?" " l saw the letter." "It's a long story, I'll tell you another time." "But, damn it, they told me you were dead." "First your father and then you." " Did he suffer much?" " Eh?" " (Shouts) Father, did he suffer much?" " Ooh, a little bit, Ross." "No use saying he didn't." "What are you looking for?" "Where's the port?" "I got a bottle here somewhere." " What was Father's estate?" " Oh, nothing, Ross, nothing." "Nampara, of course, the house." "The land and the two mines, Wheal Leisure and Wheal Grace." "But they're no good without any money." " Are there debts?" " A_ew." "One largish amount to your Uncle Charles - 300...or was it 400?" "I've got the papers here somewhere..." " Never mind now." "Here." " Ah." " To you!" " No, no, to you, Ross, boy!" "Mmm, not bad port, eh?" "Come, pour another." " Did Father leave a will?" " No." "You were his only heir, I don't suppose he thought he needed it." "I know someone who'll get a shock." " Who?" " (Chuckles) Your Uncle Charles." "He thinks he's inherited everything." "I'd like to see his face when you walk in." " (Laughs)" " Why did Father borrow money?" "Eh?" "Father!" "What did he borrow the money for from Uncle Charles?" "Oh, well, Ross, you know..." " A woman?" " Well, he was an active man." "He liked to enjoy himself now and again." "And your mother died so long ago." " It's a lot of money." " Well, there was more than one." "And it soon goes." "Damn it, now, don't go criticising him, Ross." "You weren't such a saint yourself." "And now he's gone." "(Church bells)" " l need a horse." " Huh?" "Mine's in the stable, boy." "Take it, take it." "Send Jud back with it tomorrow." "Jud and Prudie still at the house?" "Pair of rogues, don't know why your father ever kept 'em." "Never did any work and they drank all his port." " (Ross chuckles)" " Will you be staying?" " You ought to get married." " l have it in mind." "Oh, yes, I remember now." "There was a girl afore you went away..." " Elizabeth Chynoweth." " That's right, Chynoweth." " Have you seen her lately?" " No. I never go out, Ross." "I still do a little legal work but I don't see much of anybody." "Will you be calling on your uncle on the way home?" " Yes, it'll save another journey." " Oh, I'd like to be there when you meet." "(Laughing) I'd give me right arm to be there when you walk in!" "Now, mind how you ride." "Roads are worse than when you went away." "Nothing's been done." "Parish won't spend any money on 'em." "I'll call in again - later in the week." "(Loud knocking, dog barking)" " Well, damn." " (Knocking continues)" "Mrs Tabb!" "Confounded woman, can you not hear the door?" "(Mrs Tabb) I hear it, sir, I can't be everywhere." "Do the figures of this mine not interest you at all?" "Of course they do, Father, I was...just thinking." "Why is it when you're thinking, you appear to others to be asleep?" "I take it from the irritation in your voice that the figures won't come out, hm?" " Look, sir, look who's here." " What, what?" "Hello, Uncle." "Francis." "(Francis) Ross..." " Ross!" "Father, look who it is!" " l can see..." "Mrs Tabb, go and tell Verity that Ross is here!" " (Mrs Tabb) Miss Verity..." " You must forgive me, my boy, but this is something of a shock." "Somebody blundered, we had reports..." "The regiment thought me dead and reported it so." "Well, well, not dead." "Not dead at all!" "Thank heaven you were spared." " We were distraught when we heard." " There's justice in heaven after all!" "We'd have met you if we'd known you were coming." " l'd have arrived with the mail." " Look." " Mercy me!" "Mercy me!" " Oh, Verity!" "Cousin Ross!" " How thin you look." " l was a year in a prison camp." "I escaped and walked for two months to New York." "The regiment was leaving for England." "It's nothing." " l like it." " Damn it, it wasn't put there for fun." "Nevertheless, I'd say it adds a touch of romance." "Perhaps we should all get one." "I was hit by a shell - the French patched me up." "The limp, I'm told, will disappear." "The scar, I'm afraid, will not." " Mrs Tabb, bring some supper." " Let's see, girl, it's here." "Haven't I got eyes in me head?" "Can't I see the man's hungry?" "Mrs Tabb, it's only him, he hasn't brought the regiment!" "Oh, that's to be going on with while I carve the chicken." "It's more than enough, Mrs Tabb." "Ah, get on with you, sir, you be as thin as a stick." "I'll carve it anyway." "I'm sure Mr Francis will pick at some." "Sit down, sit down." "This is, as you can see, a great surprise to us all." "I know someone else who will be surprised" " Elizabeth." " Have you seen her?" " Yes, we've seen her." "(Charles) You keep him talking." "Let the boy get to his meal." "You've...seen no one, I suppose, since you've arrived?" " l called in on Mr Pearce, that's all." " Ah." "You know about your father, then?" "Oh, it was a sad business." "I did what I could but he could be stubborn as a mule." " He let the place go to rack and ruin..." " Father." "The truth never hurt anyone." "He was my brother, I've a right to speak." "He wanted no help from me except money and I knew better than to lend him money." "Though, in the end, I let my heart rule my head and I shouldn't have done." "In a crisis, sentiment rules me but it doesn't pay in the end." " When did the loan fall due, Uncle?" " Who knows when it fell due?" "Do I pay attention to such things when they concern me own family?" "I've got the papers somewhere..." "Oh, a month ago, perhaps two months." " Was it secured?" " He insisted." "Everything was drawn up legally, he wanted no favours." " What was it secured on?" " On Wheal Leisure." "Not that that mattered, or wouldn't have done in the normal way of things but, of course..." "Here we are, some chicken..." "That's a good bird." "Here, let me help." "We've got to fatten you up." "You'll be going down with a sickness, this weather's damned inclement." "There'll be no food at the house, not if I know Jud and Prudie." "Sloth and Slut!" "That's what I call them." "Take my advice, get rid of them tomorrow." "And don't pay them anything either." "They'll have drunk a year's wages in advance, I'll be bound." "What did you mean "in the normal way of things"?" "Father has sold Wheal Leisure to Nicholas Warleggan." "(Charles) Hold your tongue!" "If there are explanations to be made, I'll make them." " Sold?" " (Charles) Of course not." "Leisure wasn't mine to sell but your father left no will." "Everyone thought you were dead, so, as next of kin, I was the heir to your father's estate." " (Thunder)" " Go on." "Remember the Warleggans - the most powe_ul banking family in Truro?" "Not so powe_ul as I remember." "They've become so." "Not landed people like us, they used to be blacksmiths." "Though that's not important." "The point is, the father" " Nicholas - heard your father's estate was coming to me and he wanted the mine so he made me an offer." "Very handsome too, I may say." "And, frankly, I didn't want it, I've trouble enough with me own." "Copper being the price it is, I was only too happy to sell." "So, it was agreed when the estate was legally handed over" "Warleggan should get Wheal Leisure." "Well, it's no longer for you to say." "No." "No, indeed, and I'm delighted." "Ross, it was a great grief to us when we heard of your death." "Verity here cried for two days and nights." "She nearly floated us out to sea on her tears." "Well, well, well." "God works in strange ways." "Of course, Ross, it's...it's a good offer." "You might still like to sell it, it'd give you money to start farming." "And Warleggan can be a very good friend." "I don't think so." "(Thunder crashes)" " Well, it's worth thinking about." " l am thinking, Uncle." "I'm thinking that if the mine seems worthwhile to Warleggan, and he being such an astute entrepreneur, that's a good recommendation to work it myself." "(Francis) Why not, indeed?" "It would be a millstone around your neck." "I'm not sure Warleggan means to work it." "It may pay him to keep it closed." "He can affect the price of tin and copper by withholding the supply." "We can't." "Take a lot of capital to get it working." "Warleggan's not the only one with access to capital." "Unless he prints his own money." " (Charles sighs) - l'll look at the mine." " Wheal Grace too, perhaps." " It was worked out in your father's day." "But not Wheal Leisure." " Would Francis like to see it?" " l'd be glad to, Ross." "Why?" "What's it to us?" "(Ross) If it's worth working, you could come in, convert your loan into a share." "Why not?" "It seems to me the Warleggans own enough as it is - multiplying like locusts and eating everything as they go." "Hold your tongue!" "I'm prompted only by consideration for your interests." "Malice is the only thing that prompts you!" "Malice borne of idleness!" "You do little on your own behalf and resent others' efforts." "I just think it worth looking at." "(Charles) You may look at what you like but investments are for me to decide." "Well, there's no need to decide now, Uncle." "Let us wait and see." "I'm in no position to take a part share in the mine, even if it was worth it." "It would offend Warleggan greatly if after agreeing to sell him the place, I bought a share in it meself." "It's not for me to say what Warleggan will take offence at." "Or to care, for that matter. I must go." "Stay the night, things will be so uncomfortable there." "I would, but I'm anxious to get home and see just how uncomfortable things are." "Wasn't there something you had to tell Ross, Francis?" "No, nothing that can't wait until tomorrow." "Ross, you know, you look tired, I'll see you out." "There's a lantern you can take." "Thank you, Uncle, for the meal." "And for all you did for Father." "Oh, it was very little, I won't pretend otherwise." "I could have done more if he'd let me." "You'd have had more if he'd listened to me." " l'll come to see you soon." " Do." "Oh, we are glad to see you back, Ross." "I count myself fortunate to be back." "Well, that's deuced awkward." " Deuced awkward!" " But he's back." "Oh, come girl, don't preach - the boy's alive and thank God for it." "But I'd be a hypocrite to pretend it won't be awkward." " Mr Warleggan will understand." " He won't let it rest there." "Once he's set on something, it takes the devil's own shoulder to shift him." "Why didn't you tell him you were engaged to Elizabeth?" "What affair is that of Ross?" "Only that there was an understanding between them." "There was nothing hard and fast." "Any understanding ended when he stopped writing." "That was no fault of his, as it turns out." "Elizabeth has pledged herself to your brother - they shall marry." "Do you suggest it was in want of Ross that she did so?" "(Verity) Why not ask him?" "(Charles) Very well." "Do you?" "Are you telling me you're so spineless you think you were chosen at second-best?" "She was in love with him before he left." "How do I know what goes on inside a woman's head?" "Have you no confidence in yourself at all?" "When did you ever allow me to have?" " Where are you going?" " To see Elizabeth." "I'd rather she weren't caught off guard by him tomorrow." "It seems to me the answer to your question is yes." "It was in want of Ross that she took me but... we'll try to keep her." "(Thunder crashes)" "(Thunder crashes)" "(Gasping for breath)" "(Both groaning and yelling)" "(Screams) Have mercy on us!" "It's the master back from his grave!" "lt-lt never is!" "is this how you repay my father?" "Letting his home go to rack and ruin?" "Th-There's nothing but a few things here and there." "Pr-Prudie and me, we been sick." "Terrible sick." "Drunk sick!" "It were from Master, 'tis well known..." " Get up!" " ..a drop o' liquor... I want you to clean from top to bottom before you go to bed." " Before bed!" " My horse needs taking care of." "Put her in the stables and feed her." " (Garbled mumbling)" " And don't take all night!" "Now, Pru, you take care of yourself while we is gone." "Master, he don't want no deaths his first day home." "I'll take good care of Prudie." "She'll be too busy to pass out tonight." "Tomorrow, perhaps." "Now, go and see to that horse!" "(Thunder crashes)" "Take this lantern and start in my bedroom." "Ain't nothing wrong with your room, Master Ross." "Nobody set foot inside since you left." "Then there's three years of dirt in it, Prudie!" "To say nothing of a pool of water on the floor." "I see thee brought mighty strange ways home with thee." "If the Lord should spare me long enough, I dare say I shall get used to 'em!" "(Birds twittering, ducks quacking)" "The horse you stabled last night belongs to Mr Pearce." "Take it back to him this morning." "What, to Truro?" "Unless he moved in the night, that's where you'll find him." "Be a devil of a hard walk back, Master." "Not so hard as the boot I'll kick you with if you're not back by two." "And start on that roof when you return." "Giddup!" "Come on." " Hello, Ross." " Elizabeth." "You seem...unsurprised that I'm here." "Francis rode over last night to tell me you'd come back." "Ah." "That was good of him." "I'd have preferred to have brought you the news myself." "Perhaps he thought it would be too cruel if you simply walked in on us." "We heard you were dead." "I was as near dead as made no difference." "It's a mercy, then, you're alive and the horrid war is over." "Yes." "So many died, we hear, it all seems rather pointless now." "To us perhaps but not to them." "The colonists?" "You must tell me what it was like in the New World." "It must have been very interesting." "I might have stayed, had it not been for you." "I'll have some ale brought in" " or would you prefer port?" " l want neither." "I lay a year in a French prison camp and thought of only you." "I walked over the Appalachians to New York with only one thought - to see you again." "Now it's, "Hello, Ross, tell me all about the New World."" "Have you been reading up on the art of polite conversation?" "Leave the bell alone." "It was foolish to imagine that everything would remain..." "Ross, I'm engaged to Francis." "We're to be married at the end of the month." "I would've thought he'd have told you, it would've seemed kinder but..." "Well, he always was a little in awe of you, we must forgive him for that." "I don't understand." "It happened about six months ago, we discovered we liked each other and began seeing more of each other." "Francis?" "(Scoffs)" "Well, you can't be serious." "If you take that tone, I'd rather not discuss it." "In the name of God, what tone do you expect me to take?" "You were in love with me." "That was some time ago." "Not so long as I remember." "We promised to wait." " l did wait." " Not long enough!" "I didn't tell you to go away." "You thought little of my feelings when you left." " We could have married." " l was just of age." "Father asked only that I wait for two years." "Was I to go against his wishes?" "Don't talk to me of your father's wishes - thinly disguised hopes you'd change your mind." "Oh, I think that's unfair." "You had a reputation." "He was worried for me." " All he said was wait." " Well, I waited!" "Not here, perhaps, but did you?" "We heard you were dead, was I to go into a nunnery?" "!" "Oh, Elizabeth." "Perhaps I was wrong to go away." "It was impulsive but I went." "Now I'm back!" "That changes things, doesn't it?" "You could break off this engagement, no one will think the worse of you for it." "I don't want to break it." "Are you in love with him?" " Are you in love with him?" "!" " Yes!" " l don't believe you." " You may believe it, Ross." " So you've come back to us." " Mrs Chynoweth." "We were so glad to get the news last night that you were alive." "Did you not offer Ross some refreshment?" " l was about to..." " No, I must be on my way." "Will you be settling down now or will you be off on your travels again soon?" "I must see how things turn out." "I warn you, your return will excite great interest among the young ladies hereabouts." "The game has been very thin on the ground all the season." "Really?" "I intend to remain in the hunt myself, ma'am." " Goodbye, Elizabeth." " Goodbye, Ross." "We shall see something of you when you're settled again?" "Oh, before then, I think." "Don't come out, I know my way." "I'm glad he came back." "For his sake and yours." "And mine?" "So you may see for yourself there is nothing to regret." "He's not for you, Elizabeth." " Francis!" " Mr Warleggan." " This is my cousin, Ross." " l thought it was." "How do you do, sir?" "I heard you were back." "Seems you cheated the devil of his due, from what I hear." "Ah, you shouldn't believe all he tells you, Mr Warleggan." "Bless me, sir, you're a man after my own heart." "You give and take with the best!" "I like your cousin, Francis, he's a man to do business with." "This meeting could not have been better arranged." "I was on my way to see your uncle to ask him to introduce us." "Could we...talk, Captain Poldark?" "I've got something I think you'd like to hear." " We're off to Wheal Leisure." " l want to talk about the mine." "We can better talk when I've seen it." "Oh, I can save you a journey." "You'll find nothing there to give you much joy." "I had one of my mine captains over it a while back." "He was trespassing, then?" "Damn me, but you're sharp!" "Of course, it was unknowing, we thought the mine was coming to your uncle." "Well, we'll not press charges this time." " Eh, Francis?" " Now, look here, sir." "Let's be practical." "The mine'll take a lot of money to work." "I have money, sir. I hear you need it." "What more sensible than we get together and talk?" "You'll not find me ungenerous." "You've got mines, Mr Warleggan." "It's not good for one man to have so many." "'Tis good business sense, sir." "Good business sense for you too." "Farming needs capital as well as mines." "Good of you to be so concerned about my interests." "I like the frank way you go about things, it deserves a frank response so here you have it - l've no intention of selling the mine but if I had, it would not be to you." "I disapprove of one man owning so much." "It puts others at a disadvantage through no fault of their own." "So, let's have no more talk of it and I'm sure we'll get along famously." "Good day, sir." "Good day, Mr Warleggan." "(Water dripping)" "(Ross) Be careful, this ladder's not safe." "(Francis) Yes, so I can see." "We've got new ones at Grambler." "All iron." "I've reached the second level." "They worked it out." " l'm going on to the next." " All right." "(Francis groaning)" "What a nasty stench." "I wonder how many unwanted brats were dropped down here?" "(Water running steadily)" "It's the old pumping gear." "We might be able to get it working again." "That's the tunnel to the lower seam." "Let's go and look at it." "Tin." "If that's all, we could've saved ourselves the trouble." "We're not in the main lode yet." "I found samples at home that Father brought out of the mine." "There's copper here somewhere." "The question is how much?" "And how easy will it be to bring out?" "Ross... look, about Elizabeth..." "Well, I never really meant to come between you, it..." " It simply happened." " No blame to you, Francis." "But it's for her to decide." "Decide?" "!" "What the devil do you mean "decide"?" "Ross!" "Ross?" "Wait a minute." "What do you mean "for her to decide"?" "She's decided." "Women have been known to change their minds, Francis." "Damn you!" "You can't inte_ere, we're engaged!" "I don't accept that, nor do I wish to talk about it." "Ross, listen... (Screams)" "(Gurgling)" "Ross!" "(Francis gasping, spluttering)" "You took your time!" "I forgot you couldn't swim." "Or did you...think to let me drown?" "No, damn it, I didn't." "What a fool." "See, it's you has all the clever ideas, Francis, not me." "Pass me my hat." "I want to go and look at that lode." "Can you avoid falling in while I'm gone?" "Look here, sir. I've overstayed my time." "I'm not used to that." "Your objections astound me, sir." "Astound me!" " He is my dead brother's son!" " Your sentiments do you proud." "I have a great family feeling myself." "But I wouldn't let it make a liar of me in business." "I resent your implication!" "Well, I put it, perhaps, a little strongly." "But then, that's just the measure of my feeling." "Do you blame me, sir?" "We had an arrangement." "It was contingent upon the estate coming to me." " l couldn't know he'd return." " That is not my complaint." "The letter of the agreement is dead, 'tis true." "But the spirit requires that you use your best endeavours to purchase the mine for me." "I have said I will do what I can!" " l'll speak to my nephew again." " You owe it to me to do more." "You have a debt against the estate." "You can...press it." "Since there's no money, something will have to be sold." "What can he sell but one of the mines?" "Wheal Grace is next to worthless, so it has to be Wheal Leisure." "Y-You must let me think it over." "The ethics of business today do not come easily to me." "You've been wanting the practice." "Let me do it." "Sell me the note." "I'll buy it at its face value and throw in some shares in the Warleggan mines." "What say you, eh?" "l-l must think on it." "Good." " Why, Mr Warleggan." " Why, sir!" "Would I be correct in assuming the mine has more water in it than tin?" "But I like that young man - your cousin." "I'm sure we shall end up doing business." "Good day, sirs, to you both." "I look forward to our next meeting." "Well?" "There's a good, rich vein of copper there." "It would take a lot of money to get it out but we could work it ourselves - with Ross." "I'm not anxious to make an enemy of Warleggan for life." "What happened to you?" "I fell into the water." " It was rather deep." " Yes." "If there's deep water to be found, you'll find it." "Confound and damn it, I had it here a minute ago!" " Blast it, it must have wings!" " Here it is." "Ah, that's it." "Now, my boy, the terms are hard." "90/o to be compounded half-yearly and the first capital repayment to begin in two year." "That's not so bad." "I got the best terms l could out of old Pascoe." "I said, "l'll guarantee this loan meself if you want."" ""Oh, no, Mr Pearce," he says, "it's enough you know the young man"." ""Know him?" l said." ""You old skinflint, you know him yourself!" ""His father kept his money here long enough," ""you could afford to give him a loan for nothing."" "I told him, Ross, I said, "You miserable old beggar!" ""You greedy old skinflint!" ""l keep my money in your bank, Pascoe - clients' money," ""and by God I'll take the whole lot out" ""and put it into Warleggan's if I hear '140/o' again."" "The terms are fair, you did well for me." "The loan will buy pumps and haulage gear and there'll soon be willing investors." " Let me sign it." " Right, sign down the bottom there." "Ellen, come you here!" "I'll get this to the bank and you can draw on it." " What do you want?" " Come you here and witness this." "Ooh, witness, is it?" "I better go tidy myself up a bit." "Blast it, woman, come back here." "You're witnessing a signature, not going to a ball." "If you don't care how I look, I'm sure it's of no matter to me." "I thought it was important." " Now, where's the port?" " l must go, Mr Pearce." " Thank you for everything." " But the port." " Next time!" " Oh..." "How do you sign my name, Mr Pearce?" "(Pounding above)" " More tea?" " No." "I think I'll go before Jud comes through the roof." "You will come and see us, Ross?" "You won't stay away when they get married?" "They're not married yet." "She won't change her mind, Ross." "She's given her word to Francis, that makes it hard, but she gave it thinking I was dead." "There's no honour that will hold her to it." "(Knocking on roof continues)" "She's in love with me, Verity." "I saw it in her face." "There's something else you should know." "She's deeply devoted to her parents." " Don't I know that!" " There's something more." "They're heavily in debt, the house and the land, some f400." "My father has offered to help if the marriage takes place." "So that's it." " That's very generous." " Well, why not?" "The property will come to Elizabeth when her parents die." "Francis will benefit from it." "It makes sense to keep it in the family." "I wish you'd told me before." "I only tell you now to show you that even if she loves you, she will not marry you." "You must let her go." "Let Francis have her, they'll be happy." "Make up your mind to it and look elsewhere." "Oh, Ross!" "I can't let her go." "Ross, how very nice." "Were you passing this way?" "I came to see you." "Oh." "That's kind." "I know how busy you must be at the house." " l don't care about the house." " That's not what I hear." "Verity said you were busy putting it in order." "I didn't come here to talk about the house." "It is nothing to me." "If I put it right it's because I don't like living in a pigsty, that's all." "Listen to me." "The reasons for your marrying Francis do you credit" " but there's no need for it." " l don't understand." "Your parents are afraid of losing the house and land." " l don't think..." " Don't deny it." "Verity told me." " Well, she had no right to." " But she did." "And it's the best thing." "You should've told me yourself." "I'd have raised hell and high water to get the money." "I have money - l raised a loan in Truro." "It was for the mine but I'll find partners and offer shares." "The point is, I can pay off your father's debts." "It will be hard but it can be done, and we'll be together." "Don't you see?" "It's what we used to talk about." "No." " No." " l don't understand." " l intend to marry Francis." " But why?" "Why?" "Because I love him." "No, you don't love him." "Not as you did me." " Not as you did me!" " Ah!" "Let go of me!" "I don't want to marry you, Ross, please understand that." "I thought about it so much - we're not right for each other." " But why?" " Because you frighten me." "There's a side of you that's unknown to me, a dark side, a side I..." "I can't get near." "No, don't ask me to explain it, I can't, but it's there and it frightens me." "It's not a life I see for myself." " You see a life for yourself with Francis?" " Yes." "Yes, I do." "I know him, better than he knows himself." "There's no part of him he keeps hidden from me." "I can see what my life with him would be." "But not with you." "I'm afraid of you and that's the truth." "You're not afraid of me." "It's life you're afraid of!" "You say you know Francis but then I thought I knew you and here I see a side of you I never suspected." "Can people be known to each other so fully, even Francis?" "Well, if you think they can, I suppose that's all that matters." "But is being safe more important than being loved regardless?" "If everything about a man is to be known, what's left to be discovered?" "I'll discover my children." "My husband is another matter." "Well, marry whom you like, then." "But don't ask me to bow out of your life because I won't." "Don't ask me to wish you luck, either." "I don't bless your marriage, I curse it." "You've thrown three lives away for the sake of an idea." "An idea you have of yourself which is as false as the idea you have of me." "But I'll never give you up." "There'll come a day when you'll want me... as much as I want you now." "Pray God it's not too late, for it'll be your only salvation." "Walk on, go on." "Whoa." "Whoa." "Wipe him down, Jud, I've driven him hard." "Your uncle's here, been waiting half an hour." " (Ross) Prudie?" "Prudie!" " Yes, sir!" "Coming, sir!" " Fetch the rum." " Ah, Ross." "Hello, Uncle." "is this a social call or is there something on your mind?" "It's both, Ross." "We haven't seen much of you lately." "No." "That's not why you've been waiting for half an hour." "I wasn't busy." "Jud said you'd be back soon." "Ah." "Are the glasses clean?" "Master Ross, you will have your little joke in front of guests!" "Oh, he come home a real tartar, Mr Poldark, and he was such a tender-hearted youth when he went off to war." "Ah." "Your health, Ross, and good fortune." "Thank you, Uncle." "Thank you." "Well?" "Don't press me, Ross, it's a...it's a little difficult, really." "The fact is, Ross, I'm a little short of ready cash, what with the wedding and one thing and another." "The crops weren't good last year, it rained all summer and ruined the harvest." "Anyhow, I have this note of your father's." "I'm not pressing it, Ross, not for a month or two, that's not my way." "But I just wanted to tell you, to give you plenty of time, if in a month or so you can't meet it then I shall have to discount it at a bank, that's all." "Warleggan's?" "Well, he's an old friend." "Probably Warleggan's, yes." "I'd give a further extension, Ross, before I sold it." "That'll reduce its value a bit but never mind that." "Little enough to do for my own nephew and of course, it seems to solve problems all round." "Gives you a little extra time and, er, me some ready cash." "Any..." "Oh, what's that?" "A draft on Pascoe's bank." "You can return the note when you've cashed it." "Well... I don't know what to say." "You've raised a loan, eh?" "Oh, well, that's splendid." "That's splendid." "Of course, I don't suppose you raised it to pay off the note." "No." "I hope it's not putting you into difficulty, Ross." "I'd think about that offer of Warleggan's if I were you." "There's not much you can do without capital and, er... if I can be of any help..." "Well..." "Well, I'll say goodbye, Ross." "You'll, er..." "You'll come and see us again soon, eh?" "Goodbye, Uncle." "(Bells ringing)" "(Waves crashing)" "Elizabeth Jane Sarah, wilt thou have this man to thy wedded husband, to live together after God's ordinance in the holiest state of matrimony?" "Wilt thou obey him and serve him, love, honour and keep him, in sickness and in health, and, forsaking all other, keep thee only unto him so long as ye both shall live?" "I will." "(Seagulls crying)" "When shall I see you again, Cap'n?" "When the spirit moves me, Margaret." "I'd have thought you have business enough." "I was talking of pleasure, Cap'n, not business." "If it be money..." "When there's no money I shan't come." "Oh, that'd be cruel." "I could get you money." "I do know some rich people." "Sometimes a little bit of money can help a man." "You're full of goodness in more ways than one." " What time is it?" " Past midnight." " l'll go and play the tables." " It's time you were married." "You need a wife to go home to." "If wives kept their husbands at home, you'd be poor." "Oh, not that snivelling lot, can't even keep the cat at home." "No, yours'll be different." "She be more'n a match for you." "I'll chose none at all and please myself." "Been disappointed, Cap'n?" "She were a fool, then." "Well, plenty more pebbles on the beach." "No need to hanker after one alone." " l hanker after none at all." " Better that way." "Pebble you stumble across always prettier than one you look for." "Anyway..." "I shouldn't go marrying you off." "I'd be losing you for good." "Perhaps not." "Perhaps you'd be keeping me." "No, not you." "There's some men who's made to wander and some not." "When you find yours, you'll stick with her." "(Quiet chatter)" " (Ross) Stand." " Buy one." "Sir?" "Sir?" "Ah, monsieur!" "Talbot at your service." "Monsieur Talbot, they tell me you can play anything here." "If it is known, we can play it." "Faro, backgammon, vingt-et-un, bezique, any game you like." " All is here for your enjoyment." " That to your taste, gentlemen?" " Indeed!" " First of all, rum!" "A bottle a man at the least crowded table, it makes no difference where." "The backgammon table is empty, sir, perhaps you'd like that?" "Thank you, Talbot." "Now, then." "Mr Poldark?" "I'll buy another." "First of all, gentlemen, a wager." "We break the house or we walk home." "I doubt whether you'll still be standing, Iet alone walking!" "Mr Poldark, are you playing, sir?" "No, I've had enough." " Sir?" " Good night, gentlemen." " My horse, Talbot." " Let me get you a carriage." "When I can't ride a horse, order me a hearse." "I'll have your horse brought round." " Soon?" " Soon." "Isn't that your cousin, Francis?" "Damn it, I didn't know he came here." " Who is it?" " 'Tis Miss Verity, Master Ross." "What time is it?" "Ten o'clock." "What's wrong with the bedroom?" "The stairs." "Stairs make no concession as to how a man comes home at night." "Leave them, Prudie'll clean up." " Prudie's busy." " That's a change." "Prudie's busy." "I'll have it announced in church!" "I'm sorry, I had a late night last night." "What I do with my life is my concern!" "You're doing nothing, that's my complaint." "There are gates swinging on the outhouses for want of nails." "Garden fences are down, there's no corn in the barns and Jud sits whittling for a want of master's voice to tell him what to do." "Do you intend to sell and go away again?" "I don't know." "Perhaps." "(Groans) I've no interest here." " Will you find it elsewhere?" " l may." "It's not the place you've lost interest in, it's yourself." "Would that be different elsewhere?" "My head is bursting, I'm in no mood for discussion." "And whose fault is that?" "No one's but your own." "You spent all night at Talbot's drinking and playing cards." " Who told you I was there?" " l hear things." "I don't live in a convent." "From what I hear, you go too often for your own good." "What's good for me is for me to decide." "Oh!" "You don't do anything so grand as deciding." "That evidently is beyond you at the moment." "You drift from one day to the next." "You've neither oars nor rudder, nor the strength to work them if you did." "You're a very sorry sight, cousin." "Did you come all this way to tell me that?" " l did not." " What did you come for?" "I'm not ready for a change of subject yet!" " Why don't you sit down?" " Standing matches my mood more." "Sitting and holding your head seems to match yours." "If you must have your say could we not arrange a better time for it?" "No, we could not." "I should have mentioned it long ago except I hoped you'd discover it all for yourself." "But it seems I was wrong." "It seems Elizabeth was a better judge of character than I was." "Oh." "I hate waste." "My own life's a desert but at least not through any fault of mine." "Still, I hate to see it in others." "Ross... you must forget her." "You must put her aside." "There's no road that leads to her any more." "She's married to my brother and she's happy." "Master Ross?" "Master Ross, do her want summat to drink?" "I think it is I who needs something to drink, Prudie." "What did you come over for?" "Only to ask you if you still remember how to dance." "If I had a mind I could remember." "Why?" "There's a charity ball in Truro in two weeks' time." "I'd so like to go but want an escort." "I could go with Francis and Elizabeth but we'd look so bad." " Are they going, then?" " Yes." "Would you mind?" "No, I'd be enchanted." "You may regret it when you've danced with me all night." "I've no intention of it - you're just to make it look proper." "Oh, I see, I'm to be used?" "Well, what else are cousins for?" "There's a young man at the door looking for work, sir," " name of Jim Carter." " It's an omen!" "Hire him." "You need extra help, Prudie can't do it all." "Oh, now, there's a sympathetic soul." "It do take a woman to know what a woman's work be!" "Tell him to come in, Prudie, and send Jud in." "There's seed corn at home if you need it." "Father won't mind." "I'll get my own seed corn, woman." "Now, leave me in peace." "(Coughs)" " Where have you been working?" " At Grambler, sir." "'Tis your uncle's mine, I'm told." " Yes." "Have you been dismissed?" " No, sir." "Nothing like that." "I started coughing black phlegm and surgeon says I must work up in open a whiles." "Ain't much air in Grambler." " Can you farm?" " l can farm, sir, do anything." "I need the work, sir, bad." "I'm hoping to wed soon." "(Coughs) I can't pay what you'd earn in the mine." "I know that, sir, but 'tis work in the fresh air I'd want." "Jud, there's a new hand for you." "I want the barns weatherproofed and the plough mended." "Tomorrow, you and I will go into Truro for stock and seed." "Too late for sowing, sir." "Wouldn't risk it at this time o' year." "I've sowed as late as this, sir, bain't been too much rain, ground not sodden." "Get the plough mended, Jud, we'll chance it." "We don't want none of that toadying to master." "You watch it, lad." "(Man) Why, bless me." " Now, who's that?" " (Man) Come in!" "Look 'ere, Maudie, look who we met outside." "It's Cap'n Poldark." "Come in, sir." "Bless me, bless us all and me in such a terrible mess." "I'm rollin' this for a pasty." " Looks good." " Be better when it's done." "Pity you didn't come till later." "Look how he's changed, hardly recognised him." "I glimpsed you riding by but it's true you've changed - lot thinner." " l should've called before." " You're too busy to see tenants." "With good tenants, Zack, you don't need to." "Same goes for a good landlord, sir." "We had a right grieve when your father died, then some more when we heard you had." "It were like a miracle when we heard you was back, sir." " Won't you sit down?" " No, I'm off to Truro to buy stock." " Is this Jinny?" " Our eldest, 17 a month gone." "I don't remember her so pretty." "Stop blushing, child, say hello to Cap'n Poldark." " (Zack) Her has forgotten." " No, I haven't!" " (Baby crying)" " You've had another?" "Two, sir, since you've been gone." "There's nine all told now." "I need some help in the fields." "That's kind but them that's old enough work down the mine." "Would Jinny like to give Prudie a hand?" " She's a spaller at the mine." " That's hard work." "Well, she'll be wed soon, saving every penny." "Oh." "Who's it going to be?" "Jim Carter, Cap'n." "You took him on yesterday as a hand." "He's luckier than he allowed." "And I'm out of luck, it seems." "I'll ask round." "Some young'uns might want work." "Send them up to the house." "Goodbye, Mrs Martin." "Goodbye." "You've got a good one in Jim." " You've got some good ones there." " Bye, Cap'n." "Bye, Zack." "(Lively chatter)" "Look at the wool on that!" " That's a fine beast." " How much you want for him?" " How much?" " Twelve and a half, sir." "Guineas." "That's no haggling price." "I could ask more but I wanna get home, so I'll take no less." "Pounds." "Done, sir." "You've got a good ox." "He'll pull your plough to kingdom come." "(Drumming, women chatting)" "Ooh!" " Let me go!" " Come round my stall thieving?" "!" "(Thief) No!" "I found it!" "(Screaming)" "Take that, you blighter!" " (Screaming)" " Let 'em go!" "You..." "I've had enough of you for my liking." "I've had..." " Enough!" "Enough!" " You mind your business!" "You'll kill the boy!" "Enough!" "She ain't no boy!" "She's a mare, worse than all the rest." "Two days she's been around here." "I seen her. I know her ways." "Sneaking around and thieving from under me nose." "Here, here's for the cake." "And have some charity, man." "Charity?" "She'd want a good beating twice a day instead." "I should go home if I were you." "(Chanting rhyme)" "(Lively chatter, drumming, bells tinkling)" "(Laughter)" "(Seller) If you can't find it here, we'll turn over Italy." "(Men) # He used to wear an old grey coat" "# All buttoned down before" "# All buttoned down before All buttoned down before" "# He used to wear an old grey coat" "# All buttoned down before... #" "Ebeneezer?" "Bring another pasty." "What's your name?" "(Muffled) Demelza." "Demelza!" " Is that your first name?" " Mm." " Pretty name." " Think it is?" "Don't you?" " What's your last name?" " Carne, I think." " Don't you know?" " Father said he were called Carne." "Leastways, that's what he said." " Said he was called Carne?" " Said he was my father." " Is he dead?" " Mm." " Where's your mother?" " She's dead too." "Of a broken heart, I suppose." "A broken head - he killed her, hit her with an iron." "Said she fell." " How old are you?" " 1 6." "Well, nearly." " 15, then." " You're small for 15." "I don't get enough to eat, that's why!" " Where do you live?" " Illogan." " With whom?" " No one." " Where do you sleep, then?" " Where I can, of course." "Work a bit, here and there." "Ain't much work in Illogan though." "Done finished that ale?" "Don't you know it's wrong to steal?" "Why do you do it, then?" "Got no money, that's why." "Wouldn't you?" " Don't want your pasty." " What's wrong with it?" "'Tweren't big enough." "Ebeneezer, bring another one." "Why do you dress like that?" "It's better - boys leave you alone." "You look abominable." " Can't you grow your hair?" " 'Tis growing!" " Why's it so short?" " Man cut it off." " Man?" "Why?" " Said I stole his watch." "And did you?" "Course not!" "Fell out of his pocket when he were dressing." "Dressing?" "Cut my hair, he did." " Well, I must be riding back." " Which way?" "I live in Nampara, near Sawle." "That's past the turning to Illogan." " How did you come here?" " Walked." "Ooh." "I feel...queer." "I'll never walk back!" "All right, you can ride part of the way with me." "Come on." "This is as far as I can take you." "Nampara is over there." "Oh, I feel sick." " l'm not taking you further." " l feel sick!" "You walked all the way in, you can walk half the way back." "It'll be dark before I get there, I'm afraid." "No!" "No, don't!" "Don't!" "Oh!" "Oh." "Ooh, my leg." "Ooh." "Ooh, it hurts." "Ooh, my poor leg, I twisted it bad." "Oh, my poor leg!" "(Moaning and groaning)" "Well, let me see." "Does that hurt?" "Ooh!" " Or that?" " Mmm." "And there?" "Do you feel any pain there?" "Hm?" "I could take them off for a shilling, I done it before." "What are you laughing at?" "Stop it!" "Stop it!" "What's so funny?" "I done it before." "Stop laughing." " So you've done it before?" " Course I have, lots of times." "Men like it." "They don't laugh." " Where will you sleep tonight?" " In Illogan somewhere." "Look..." "Shall I take them off?" "Cost you none but a shilling." " Can you scrub and clean?" " Eh?" " Can you work?" " Ain't you got a shilling?" "Would you like to come home with me?" "That'd cost two." " Do you want some work?" " Work?" "I need help in the house." "You'll have bed, food and a guinea a year but you'll have to work for it and keep clean." " l am clean!" " Do you want to come or no?" "'Es." " Can't you say yes?" " 'Es." "Y-es." "Get up on the horse." "If you change your mind, you can go back to Illogan in the morning." "If I have any nonsense, I'll send you packing." "One, two, three..." "Walk on, boy, walk on." "(# Stately minuet)" "(# Lively dance)" "(Music stops)" "You dance well, Captain." "Your daughter is better - she's taught me new steps." "Ah, well, girls practise more." "You must ask her to show you others." "Your cousin seems to approve her partner's dancing, though he seemed to me to dance none too well." "Perhaps it's he who approves of hers." " (Music starts)" " Excuse me." "You're exciting comment." "Ooh, that's such a small thing to excite." " If it were scandal..." " That's better left to me." "You men have all the fun." "What do you think of him?" "Since you monopolise him all evening how shall I find out?" "You'll have your chance soon." "What do you think of the look of him?" "Sturdy, dependable." " l shan't take that for criticism." " Wasn't meant to be." "There." "Care for this lemonade, Captain Poldark?" "No, thank you, I'll have punch later." "Aren't the rest of your family coming?" "They've gone to dinner first with friends." " The Warleggans?" " Yes." "What route do you sail, Captain?" "Falmouth to Lisbon, sir." "We take out tea and bring back oranges." " Sometimes we go on to Algiers." " Biscay seas can be rough." " Rough as you'll find anywhere." " Here's Papa!" "Oh, Verity." "Has Ross danced all over your feet?" "He's better than he admits to." " Where are the others?" " Oh, they're dancing." "Now, who is this?" "May I introduce Captain Blamey, Father?" "He's a sea captain." "He's told me all about the sea and how to put ships in bottles." " l'm honoured, sir." " Excuse me." "Course, Ross." "Well, how big is this ship of yours, Captain?" "(# Lively dance)" " Are you not dancing?" " No." "I see Ruth Teague looking longingly at you across the room." "I may go home." "Would you mind?" "Only if you're not enjoying yourself." "You are enjoying yourself and that's why I came." " Now do you like him?" " Do you?" "Yes." "Yes, yes." "He's very straightforward, I think, and very kind and simple." "Father knows the ship he sails." "I could go home with Father if you wanted to leave." "Enjoy yourself." "Good night, Captain Blamey." "Good night, sir." " Are you leaving, Ross?" " Yes, Uncle." "Ross, erm...what do you make of this Blamey fellow, eh?" "He's asked if he may bring Verity home." "He's also asked if he may call upon her." "Seems very sound." "Yes, solid, I would say." "Wouldn't you?" "There may be nothing in it but Verity's not a youngster and I don't want to pass up any chances." "No." "Good night, Uncle." "Good night, Ross." " (Banging on door) - (Man) Mr Poldark!" "(Banging continues)" " Mr Poldark!" " (Prudie) Who wants him?" " Out of the way, woman!" " You can't go in there!" "He come bursting' in, Master Ross!" "What's the meaning of this?" " Mr Poldark." " Who the devil are you?" " Tom Carne, and my brothers." " What do you want?" "I hear you took my daughter." "She ain't been heard of since." "I wanna know what 'e done with her." " Your daughter?" " Demelza." "Ebeneezer told me you bought her food and left with her and we ain't leaving till we know." "Now, you can tell us peaceful or we can beat it out of you." "You're Demelza's father." "You don't look after her well." "What I do with me own's for me to say." "Now, where is she?" "Do 'e tell us... or do us smash your head in, eh?" "I've a mind to do it anyways." " She's here." " 'Tis no more'n I thought." "I'll fetch her for you." " Oh!" " (Tom) Ah." "is this man your father?" "I ain't never see'd him before." "You wicked heathen, denying your own father." "I ain't never see'd you before!" "I'll learn you to lie about me!" " What do you want with her?" " Take her home." " Demelza, get your things!" " Just a minute..." "You're gonna let him take me away?" "I ain't never see'd you before!" "You're a dirty old drunk..." " You said, "Get her things."" " You want her back?" " Course I does." " Take her." "Oh, oh. 'Tis like that, is it?" "Take her, is it?" "Oh." "Now you had your use from her!" "Eh?" "Ah, calm as you like, takes her from the fair, keeps her here a couple of days." " And nights." " And nights!" "Then says take her back." "And her not but 14 year old." " She said she was older." " They all say that." "She told me you were dead, and her mother." "Well, her mother is but I ain't." "It be a terrible crime to take a young girl away." "Call the constable, then." "Perhaps you'd rather take a beating, eh?" "(Demelza) Oh, pigs!" "Of course, compensation as I heard it called, will sometimes appease a father's natural wrath." "Get out." "(Men laughing)" "(Door opening)" " Stay out of this, son." " This is the master's parlour!" "(Demelza yells, man grunts)" "(Brother grunts)" "Tom Carne, shall you and I settle this outside?" "l-l didn't come here looking for no trouble, sir." "It's compensation that I want." "Here's two guineas, wages for two years when she'll be of age and owe you nothing." " That's my money!" " Have some respect for your elders!" "This is between me and this gentleman." "He knows the law." "Your wages be due to me till you be 16." "You beat her if'n she don't work and if'n you don't want to, send for me and I'll thrash her." "As for 'e..." "Out, out, the pair of you!" " (Moans and groans)" " You're soft as pudding!" "Out!" "I've words to say to 'e outside." "Oh, messing up these gentlemen's papers, it's..." "I... I told 'em, I told 'em not to touch anything, sir." "They're just clumsy oafs." "Good day to you, sir." "You give him my money!" " It's not yours, it's his." " Then let him work for it!" "You'll work for it and you'll work hard." "You'll be polite and clean and you'll stop telling me lies!" "Or by God I'll thrash you twice a day." "Now, go help Prudie!" "(Sobs) Oh!" "'Tisn't fair!" "A woman's got no rights, no nothing." "Men, you're all the same - when it come it you stick together." "You can't keep a woman 'gainst her will!" "(Jud bellowing wildly, drowning out Demelza)" "Prudie says there's murder going on!" "Where be 'em all?" "I'll learn 'em!" " You're too late, Jud." " Eh?" " You must have passed them." " Oh, that were them, huh?" "Ooh, I wish I'd known." "I'd have given them a good beating." "I wish I'd known!" "Jim." " l've a mind to thank you." " 'Twasn't nothing, sir." "It was to me." "How are you finding the work?" "It's good, sir." "The open'll do me good." "I don't cough nights any more." "Wish I could get Jinny to leave the mine." " Can she not work elsewhere?" " But it don't pay as well." "The only way to get her out is to marry her." " Why don't you?" " Can't afford rent yet, sir, not until I'm well enow to go back down the mine." " l'll get back to the fields." " Jim." "There's an empty cottage at Mellin." "Brings in nothing." "Needs some repairing but you could have it rent-free" " if you put it right." " Rent-free, sir?" " Mm-hm." " l don't know what to say." " You mean pay nothing?" " If you and Jinny want it." "I'll go and tell her, sir." "I'll go tell her!" "This means we can set our wedding date!" "I'll go and tell her right away." "(Lively chatter)" "(Fiddle stops, people cheer)" "Little bit of quiet!" "I beg ye, a little bit of quiet!" "Now, has all got mugs filled?" "I'm about to toast the bride and groom." "When I say toast, that's what I mean, so bottoms up, raise drinks and put down empty mugs." "Make sure there's no cheating." "Cap'n Poldark, I can see the daylight out the top of yours." "Roy, make sure Cap'n Poldark's got a full'un." " That's it." " Whoa." "Now..." "I'll keep this short cos it ain't no day for wasting good drinking time." "Jud just brought in a keg of brandy he's been keeping in Cap'n Poldark's rainwater barrel... unbeknowest to him and the revenue men, who thought we went out looking for pilchards." "That's the finest French brandy." "Two barrels already gone where no revenue man can follow and this last'un is about to go in the same direction!" "Begging your pardon, we thank you for the use of your barrel." " You're lucky l never found it." " (Laughter)" "Now to the bride and groom." "I don't have to tell any of you here what Jinny means to us, she being our eldest." "She's been a good girl and a true'un." "She's very dear to us." "I expect Jim Carter to treat her right, and he will, for he's a good lad." ", Since he come here, well he's come like one of us." "We couldn't wish for no better son-in-law." "So God go with you, and if you'll be as happy as Maudie and me, you won't have no cause for complaint." "The bride and groom." "(All) The bride and groom!" "Come on, Jim, it's your turn!" "(Cheering)" "Fact is, I didn't nearly get married today so I wouldn't have to do this!" "It fair nearly isn't worth it." "Still, it only happen once, thank God, so here goes." "Come on, Jim." "Three month ago, weren't no sign of this day." "Could have been a year from now or two." "Captain Poldark offers Jinny and me our cottage, free of rent, and we set a date and that date is here now." "No good thanking him for that so I ain't gonna try." "I'll just say if you want anything at all, just ask." "(Cheering)" "And last, I'll say this - l know Jinny's dear to all her family but she isn't less dear to me." "If Mr Martin couldn't wish for a better son-in-law, I couldn't hope for better parents to my bride. I love 'em as I did my own." "And to all you good friends, thanks one and all for being here today." "(Cheering)" "Let's open that brandy!" "Cap'n Poldark first!" "I must be on my way, Zack." "Good luck, Jinny." "May God grant happiness to you both." "Thank you, sir." "If the liquor runs dry, there's mead at the house." "We will, Cap'n!" " Night, Zack!" " Good night." "(Whooping and laughter)" "Right, now let's get to that brandy!" "Here's to good French brandy." "Nothing like it!" "Especially when it be fell off a boat in the dark of night and floated in duty-free!" "I'll give you a toast, Zacky." "(# Fiddle)" "Hey!" "(Coughs)" "(Coughs and splutters)" "What's wrong, Zacky?" "This tastes a bit weak, this'un." "(Jud) Tastes all right to me." "Not as good as the others but it seems all right." "It is the same." "Leastways it were." "We bought three keg off Frenchy and every one's the same." "Damn the little frog, he's cheated us!" "Wouldn't you know?" "They're all the same, them Frenchies." "He ain't never cheated us afore, Jud." "(Man) We've always got our brandy from Jean-Pierre." "That's right." "There's always a first time for everything." "Eurgh." "I'll tell you something, Zack - you're right." "I'll tell you something else - there's rainwater got into that keg." "Seeped in, it did." "I knew we should never have kept it hidden in that rainwater barrel." "Some of that fine, old brandy seeped out." "(Shrieks of laughter)" "(Shouting)" "No!" "No!" "It weren't me, it weren't!" "No!" "I only took a nip now and then!" "We'll give you a nip more!" "Help you finish off the whole barrel!" "(Whooping, fiddle playing)" "(Door opening)" "Hello, Ross." "I came as soon as I got your note." "is something wrong?" "Yes, very wrong." "Won't you sit down?" "Francis and his father are at the mine, they should be back soon." "Don't think I'm using your friendship when it suits me..." "Are you in trouble?" "Is it Francis?" "No." "Oh, you thought..." "No, it's not on my behalf I asked you to call." " On whose, then?" " Verity's." "Verity?" "What has happened to Verity?" " Do you remember Captain Blamey?" " The man she met at the dance." "He's been calling on her regularly." "Your uncle gave his permission, he was quite glad, he'd like to see Verity married." "Does she not like the captain?" "She likes him well enough - she likes him too much." "I don't understand." "When your uncle saw the drift of things and hoped for an outcome, he made inquiries about Blamey." "He has connections in Falmouth so it wasn't difficult." "And he found something to the captain's detriment?" " Yes." " Why tell me?" "Shouldn't Verity hear it?" "Verity's been told." "That's the trouble, it makes no difference to her." "Well, I can hardly see that this is any of my business." "It would seem to be hardly any of yours." "You don't quite understand." "What we have heard is not silly gossip, it's something quite frightful." "It seems he's been married before." "It seems also he was a notorious drunkard." "One night some years ago, he came home very much the worse for drink." "He and his wife had a quarrel, he struck her and then apparently kicked her." "She fell down the stairs and died." "He was charged and tried and sentenced to three years for manslaughter." "His reputation as a drunkard saved him from the gallows, for he was acquitted on a charge of murder." "It's a horrible story which your uncle confronted him with and which the captain did not deny." "You'll see we're not being oversensitive about it." "And you say Verity knows?" "Yes, but she says it makes no difference." "Your uncle has forbidden them to meet so she shuts herself away and will speak to no one." "Your uncle thought since she is so very fond of you, that she might listen to you." "He felt unable to ask you so I wrote to you myself." " Will you speak to her?" " (Door opening)" "Ross, has she told you?" "Did you ever hear such a story?" "What do you make of it?" "Am I right or am I wrong?" "You'll talk to her, Ross, she'll listen to you." "I don't think I can do that." "Verity is no child, she's a grown woman." "She knows the facts, she has a right to make up her own mind," " just as you make up yours." " That's a damned odd attitude." "Would you have gentle Verity married to that man?" "It's not for me to say." "Seems people make odd choices when it comes to marriage." "She may live to regret it or she may not but it's not for me to advise her." "Well, I call that damned unfriendly!" "If that's your attitude, then there's no more to be said." "I am surprised, Ross, I would've thought you might have helped." "I might also have harmed." "The best results don't always follow from listening to others." "Goodbye." "(Birdsong)" "Ross!" "Ross!" "Whoa." " Did they tell you?" " Yes." "I must talk to you." "Come on, boy." "I knew you were here and I knew why they'd sent for you." "What did you say to them?" "They wanted me to talk to you." "I said you were old enough to decide for yourself." " l take it the story is true." " Yes." "Well, nearly so." "It wasn't as brutish as they make out." " How do you know?" " He told me the story of his own free will before Father ever found out." " All the same." " l know." "I know what you think when you say little." "I was shocked when he told me." "So much so that I refused to see him again." "But he kept writing and pleading with me so in the end I did." "I wasn't sure how long a man must be made to pay for one mistake." "And he has paid, Ross." "He spent three years in prison." "He lost his rank in the navy." "When he came out he worked hard to obtain his present position." "He's never forgiven himself and I know he never will." "Ross." "I love him." "And you love someone for better or ill, you know that." "He never touches drink now, not even at a wedding or a dance." "But do you think he'll keep to that?" "Yes, I do." "He wants to marry me." "But even as I love him, I'm not a fool and I need to know him better." "For that, we must see each other." "Ross." "Can we meet at your house?" "I know that's asking a great deal but my alternative is to pack my things and go now." "And I'm not ready for that yet." "Please, Ross." "Do this for me." "Come whenever you please." "(Horse neighing)" "(Knocking)" " Cap'n Poldark!" " Hello, Jinny." " l wasn't expecting no company." " l'm not staying." "I was on my way back from Truro and saw this cheese on a stall." " Thought you might like it." " That's kind, sir!" "Oh, it is ripe." "Won't you sit down?" "No, I won't stay." "How are you keeping?" "Fine, sir. I've got this'un tucked up safe." " Won't slip away like the last." " When's it due?" " Four months." " Fine weather then." "Hope so." "Put him in the sun, give him a good start." " It's a boy, then, is it?" " l been thinking of it as that." "Wouldn't make no difference to me." "Everything OK at the house?" "I saw Demelza, she brought some eggs down." "She's growin' fast, like rhubarb in a pail." "She's mistress of the kitchen now - tells Prudie when to get up and go to bed!" "Felt bad about Jim going back to the mine." "You been good to us and I didn't want him to go." "His chest aren't good anyway." " He said he had to earn more now." " l'd have done the same." "I hope my own mine will be going soon, he can work for me then." "Oh. 'Scuse me." " Cap'n Poldark." " Hello, Nick." " l were looking for Jim." " He's not back yet." "Oh, I'll walk on up and meet him on the way." " What did you want, Nick?" " Oh, this and that." "Just wanted a word with him." "I'll walk on up." "Cap'n." "I didn't know Jim and Nick Vigus were so friendly." "They've been seeing a bit of each other." " Well, I'll be getting back." " Cap'n Poldark." " l wish you'd have a word with Jim." " About what?" "Fact is, Nick Vigus has been taking Jim poaching some nights." " Well, it worries me." " Have you spoken to Jim?" "Yes, sir." "He says he'll stop as soon as the baby's born but he likes me to have something different." "I can't make him understand it ain't worth the worry to me." "Tell him to come up to the house for some eggs, we'll talk then." " Thank you, sir." " Goodbye, Jinny." "Goodbye, sir." "How long must we go on meeting like this?" "Come away with me?" " Are you afraid?" " No." "I wouldn't blame you." "I've been honest, I've told you everything." "I expect no special favours for being honest." "If you come to me, you come knowing all, with no illusions about the man you'd be marrying." "I have no illusions, I need none." "Whatever sort of man I am now, whatever sort of man I may be, if you come to me, you'll be coming to a man who did that terrible thing, however I explain it." "However you understand it, that man is standing before you now." "I will come to you, Andrew." "But when?" "We've been meeting here for nine months, thanks to your cousin." "I feel that we meet like criminals." "Will your father have a change of heart?" "No, he'll not change his mind nor his heart." "Then what profit is there in waiting longer?" "I've been waiting only to feel sure." "Normally, we would have got to know each other through an engagement and discovered if we really liked each other." "Do you love me?" "Yes, Andrew." "I've loved you almost from the first." "But I'm not so foolish as to think love is everything, I could've been mistaken." "Love is more likely to deceive a woman than a man, so... I had to be sure." "I am sure." "I'll come away with you." "I'll have my things ready here for you the next time you come." "Love..." "Master's coming." "Oh, thank you, Demelza." " Get you something, can I?" " There's no need, child." "I must be leaving." "I've a tide to sail with in the morning." "Oh, I wish I were a man." "I'd be a seafarer too, go to all them countries." "To Africa and the Indies." "Captain Blamey sails only as far as Lisbon." "Not me, I'd go farther - America where Captain Poldark's been." "And then on to China, mayhap Japan." "She's been looking at the atlas again." "The thing is, I'd be feared of falling off the edge." "The world is round, child." "So they say but ain't no one seen it round." "No, but no one's fallen off the edge, either." "Seems to me that if they did they wouldn't live to tell, so we wouldn't know nothing about it." "You'd expect sailors to have seen the edge or sailed near it." "Mayhap they have and haven't known it." "Surrounded by mist and fog, I reckon 'tis." "Captain Blamey's going only as far as Lisbon so I'm sure he'll be safe." "I'd keep a sharp lookout all the same, Cap'n." " Captain Poldark?" "I was just leaving." " Stay for supper." "Thank you, but I've a tide to catch at Falmouth - that waits for no man." "There's a package outside for you." "For me?" "Ooh!" "She has looked after us well all these months." "Sounds as if your visits are coming to an end." "Will you come out with me?" "Yes." " Goodbye, Poldark." " Goodbye, Captain." "Hey!" "'Tis handsome!" "Good." "You can wear it when you serve guests." "Like to see it on, would 'e?" ""You"!" "Can you not say "would you"?" "Like to see it on, would you?" "No, not now." "What did you buy it for, then, if you don't want to see me in it?" "I'll see it when you have occasion to wear it." "Ain't no pleasure getting nothin' from you, might as well be something for the cat!" "Why, Demelza, it's beautiful!" "Aye, it is." "I can wear it when the guests come." "And when they don't, I might as well wear sacks for all he cares!" "I think you've hurt her feelings, Ross." "What did you say?" "Nothing but I'll be damned if I'll be spoken to like that!" "Why are you smiling?" "I think she's in love with you." "Oh, don't be foolish, she's a child." "She's turned 16, hardly a child." "She'll get over it, I'm sure, but you shouldn't be so rough." "I merely bought her a dress so she may look decent for guests." " How are you?" " l'm going away with him." "There's no reason to wait longer." " You're sure?" " Yes, I'm sure." "Thanks to you." "I shall never be able to repay you." "You'll repay me by being happy." " l wish you too could be happy." " l am happy." "Or at least I'm content." "The farm is working and the mine soon will be." "Elizabeth gave birth to a son yesterday morning." "They are both well." "I've been asked to invite you to the christening." "It's in six weeks." "I should tell you that George Warleggan is to be the boy's godfather." "Nicholas's son?" "Will you come?" " Yes, why not?" " Why not?" "I shall not be there." "I shall bring a few things in a case the next time I come here." "I shall go back with Andrew to Falmouth." "Jim Carter's here, sir." "Says you told 'im to come up for some eggs." "I did, tell him to come in." "Don't bother to come out." " Thank you again." " (Prudie) Come in now, Jim." " Evenin', Miss Verity." " Good evening, Jim." "I got the eggs, sir. 'Tis kind of 'e." "Nick Vigus came looking for you a while ago." "Oh, that's right." "He met me coming down from the mine." "I didn't know you two were such good friends." "Well, not exactly good friends." "Y'see..." "Have you been out poaching with him?" "Well?" "Once or twice, sir." "Nothin' much." "It's a fool's game to play!" "Nick makes it look easy but he's got no wife or child." "If he's caught only he will suffer." " What does Jinny say?" " Same as you, sir." "Well, she's got a better head on her shoulders than you!" "Combing wreckage on a beach is one thing." "Poaching is another matter." "All right, sir. I'll see to it." "Goodbye, sir." "But what's this here...and here?" "The limits of the old Trevorgy mine, as far as is known." "These workings were old when my great-grandfather came 100 years ago." "Ah, they knew what they were about in those days." " What do you mean, sir?" " What do I mean?" "Damn it, Dr Choake, 'tis as plain as your nose." "If the old men were working a-here and here, they were workin' the back of Leisure lode before it was found on Poldark land." "Bless me, can you read all that from these drawings?" "I never could follow a plan on paper." "How, then, does that assist us?" "It means the old miners would not have driven so far for nothing." "They'd avoid all but the shallowest underground work." "Why, Captain Henshawe?" "Damn it, Choake, the pumps weren't good enough then." "Captain Poldark is right - if they went that far, right across Treneglos land, they must've found something." "I'd guess they were following tin and struck copper." "Aye, 'tis very possible." "It might just join up with your copper lode - if so, 'tis very rich." "Ah, I've a great respect for the ancients." " Some snuff, Henshawe?" " No, thank you." "Yes, sir, a very great respect." "We've been talking for nearly 18 months and we've had all the advice we're going to get." "When I first came home l raised a loan from Pascoe's to do some preliminary work on the mine." "Part of it I used for that purpose and part for other things but that's neither here nor there." "I have been paying interest ever since." "I mention it to show how heavily I am committed." "I must now find partners who are ready to risk capital." "We must make a decision today, and preferably within the next half-hour, since I have another appointment." "Hmm." "Henshawe, you've the most experience, what do you say?" "The mine looks promising but this venture does not depend entirely on working the lode." "Market conditions must determine our course." "Precisely what I would say." "I attended a patient last week who holds shares in Dollycoath and he let it fall that they are closing all the lower levels." "I heard much the same about Wheal Wreath and Wheal Fortune." "Well, Poldark, what do you say to that?" "If the largest copper mine in the country is reducing output, what chance has our small venture?" "Our overheads are smaller too." "But the price of copper may fall even lower, sir." " Or it may rise." " But it may fall." "I cannot guarantee your money, Dr Choake, this is a venture in trade." "It's true two large mines have closed this year but this will halve the output of the Cornish industry." "Eventually the price will rise again." "I agree with Poldark." "By the time the mine is working again, conditions may have changed." "In any case, the risk is well worth f100 apiece." "It will take more than that." "To be sure we're not short of capital, it's more like 150." "Half as much again." "We could raise the balance from the bank." "Nick Warleggan's the man for that." "I'm a good friend of his." " l'll get it from him." " That's settled, then." "Pass the port." "Not quite." "Mr Renfrew may be a friend of the Warleggans but I am not." "It is not a good idea to borrow from them - they own too much mining property hereabouts." "What do you mean by that?" "I think it better for all if more than one bank is involved in mining." "It promotes healthy competition and will get us better terms." "I can guarantee good terms from Warleggan." " Guarantee?" " l've already discussed it." "You had no right to do that, Mr Renfrew!" "And pray why not, sir?" "It was a general conversation, I was not told the venture was secret." "Business matters are best kept to ourselves." "Until decisions are agreed upon." "I hope you were not rash enough to promise him an involvement." "I merely said we should probably bank with them." "I should prefer Pascoe's." "Let's take a vote on it, that's the easiest way." "Very well." "All those in favour of the Warleggans, please show." "Three, four...five." "All those in favour of Pascoe's?" "We have a tie." "Since we are equally divided and I've already discussed with..." "You're a little in haste." "As chairman, I have a casting vote." "And I'm casting mine in favour of Pascoe's." "(Henshawe) Ah." "Now you see why Verity's been paying so many calls on my cousin." "Well?" " Then we can leave?" " As soon as Ross returns, he's meeting his mining partners." " We must wait to say goodbye." " Yes, yes, of course." " You'll not regret it." " Nor you, I hope, Andrew." "Oh, I'm getting the better of the bargain." "House is all ready, just needs a woman's touch." " (Door slams)" " Oh, there's my cousin." "So!" "This is why you visit your cousin so often, is it?" "If you've anything to say... I have nothing to say to you, you wife-murdering swine!" "You go sneaking behind my back, I'll have you whipped..." " Leave her be!" " You scoundrel!" "Stop it!" "Stop it!" "For God's sake, Francis!" "(Charles) Francis!" "(Verity) Francis, no!" " Come outside." " Don't be a fool, man!" " (Francis) Come outside!" " Francis, Francis!" "Come outside!" "Or is it only women you're not afraid of?" "is it only women you kill?" "(Verity, sobbing) Andrew, no!" "No." " No, Francis!" " Verity, Veri..." " Oh, Verity." " Father!" "Oh, Verity..." " (Gasping)" " Get Dr Choake." "Run." "Run!" "(Two gunshots)" "Whoa!" "(Choking and spluttering)" "Help me into the house with him!" "(Ross) Blamey, for God's sake!" "Father's inside, he's collapsed." "Ross, I think he's dying." "I've sent for Dr Choake." "(Ross) On the table." "Lie still." "The ball passed right through, it's just bleeding a lot." "Dr Choake is coming." "Sp-Spite." "Spite, Ross." "You let them meet out of spite... because of Elizabeth." "(Verity weeping)" "(Tapping on window)" " It's hot." " Yes, very hot fire." "Come and give your grandfather a kiss." "Oh, you're a clever boy." "(Whispers) Hello." "I'm going out." "Father." "(Sighs)" "What a lovely day." "(Seagulls calling, waves crashing)" "It's windy up in these cliffs." "(Ross groans)" "(Groans)" "What's the summer gonna be, Jud?" "Ahh..." "Well, fair, I reckon." "What you ask 'im for?" "He ain't no farmer." "Might as well ask a pickle in a barrel as ask 'im." "There." "I found them old boots you flung away." "What you fling 'em away for?" "Them's good boots." "Just a crack here and there, upper's come away a bit." "I polished them up." "Good as new they are now." "You just waste money, you do." " Jud?" " (Chuckling) Yeah." "Sir?" "Prudie's washing bedclothes." "Don't know what's got into her." "Something in there spring, I reckon." "You wanna watch out tonight, Jud." "When Prudie starts washing bedclothes, you wanna watch out." "Haven't had to watch out for Prudie for a long time." "You wanna watch out tonight." "I ain't ever seen her washing clothes like that before." "Spring's nipping at her real sharp." "Ain't it nipping you, then, Jud?" "(Sighing) Poor old Prudie." "Ha!" "Ain't no doubt where 'e's going." "All dressed up like a turkey." "Mind you, I don't blame 'im." "Ain't much to stay home for, I reckon." "I don't want your comments on your betters." "Only some's opinion whose better she be. 'Tain't mine." "Just keep your opinions to yourself." "Ha!" "So we mustn't say nothing about Mrs Poldark, must us?" "Mayhap she's better than all of us." " Haven't you work to do at the house?" " Aye, and better company." "Why, here come Jinny Carter, runnin' like the devil's chasin' her!" "Cap'n Poldark!" "Cap'n Poldark!" "Jim was caught poaching." "They've arrested him." " It had been months." " Was he with Nick Vigus?" "Yes. I told 'im not to." "Nick got away." "Oh, God, what are we gonna do?" " Whose land was he on?" " Mr Treneglos." "Why in God's name did...?" "!" "Go back to the cottage, I'll see what I can do." "Blame fool, that Jim Carter." "No worse than some for sayin' it, Jud Paynter." "Well, you're too late for dinner but have some port." " Thank you, no." " Sit you down, leastways." "You're not here for more money for that damn mine?" " No. I want a favour from you." " Oh?" "Your men caught a poacher on your land last night" " Jim Carter." "Now, I know what we all feel about poaching but I know this fellow, he's a good man." "It was damn foolishness and I promise it won't happen again." "I'd be in your debt if you wouldn't press charges." "You're too late." "I had him up before me this morning, he'll be tried at the next sessions." "That was swift justice - his wife didn't even know." "Not justice." "That'll be done at the trial." "But it was my turn at duty and I happened to be holding a court." "Oh, look here, Poldark, I'm sorry, I'm damn sorry." "Though you will agree it's a disgrace the amount of game lost this year." "But still, if I'd known, I... (Sighing) lt's his first offence?" "Hmm... I dare say if you speak up for him at the trial, perhaps they'll let him off with a warning." " Well, my thanks, anyway." " Yes." "I wish I'd known...earlier." "So do I." "Goodbye." "(Knocking)" "He's been committed for trial by the magistrate this morning, it was Mr Treneglos himself." "They won't..." "they won't send him to prison?" "He'd never live through it!" "I'll go to the trial myself and take Dr Choake to testify to Jim's bad health." "Don't worry." "It's his first offence." "They won't be hard on him." "I told him not to go." "I told him." "# There...were... # ..three sis..." "# ..sis...ter... # No." "# Sis...ters fair...and bright" " # Jennifer gentle... # - (Ross) Demelza!" " # Rosemar..." "Rose... #" " Demelza!" "Why aren't my boots clean?" "!" "It's trial day." "Do I pay you to murder that clavichord?" "You don't pay me at all!" " l paid your father, that's the same." " 'Tain't to me." "They be the wrong boots." "There be the boots I cleaned." " What time will you be back?" " l don't know." "Well, you watch that road home if'n you come home in the dark." "There's plenty of rogues laying in wait for innocent folk." "How do you think I managed before you came?" "I don't know, 'tis a mystery to me." "# They all three loved" "# One valiant knight" "# As the dew fell" "# On the mulberry tree #" "(Man) They hid in a tree, sir." "They dogs sniffed 'em out." "His friend got away now, see, but I've a shrewd idea who it is and I shall be keeping watch directly." "We want no opinions as to his friend, Mr Saul." "Was any game found in the prisoner's possession?" "No, not on him, sir, Your Worship." "But he dropped two pheasants while he was running, so there's no doubt he had them on him." "You may step down." "(Murmuring in gallery)" "'Tis a pity it's Warleggan, he being no friend of yours." " There's no defence offered?" " No, nor a previous conviction." "You have entered a plea of guilty." "is there something you wish to say before we pass sentence?" "No, sir, excepting I'm very sorry." "Will the court hear me?" " Captain Poldark, isn't it?" " Mr Warleggan." "Are you connected with the case?" "I'd like to give evidence of the accused's character." "I know him, he's worked for me." "Will you step up to the witness stand, Captain Poldark?" "(Murmuring)" "You may proceed." "I have known Jim Carter for some time and his wife, Jinny, who now has a child." "He's a hard-working man, a man I would trust absolutely." "He has erred here and his punishment is seen on his face - shame and humiliation that he has fallen in this way." "But that we may all do from time to time." "I also know his companion, an older man, who has more reason to be in this dock than Jim Carter." "Knowing them both, I have no hesitation in saying that Jim has been led astray by a very plausible rogue." "Your Worships cannot be unaware that times have been hard and the price of food has risen high." "It's not difficult for a man, even of good character, to be tempted out one night in search of some extra food for his family." "Poaching is a crime, whatever you say of the character of those committing it." "I know that and I do not excuse it." "But a court should not take account only of the crime." "You must not teach us our business, sir." "We are well aware that other factors may be taken account of." "Please confine yourself to the evidence you have asked to give." "Your opinions on the conduct of the courts are better expressed in letters to the newspapers." "(Murmuring) I have brought Dr Choake, a distinguished mining surgeon." "(Warleggan) We are acquainted with Dr Choake." "(Ross) Dr Choake has examined the accused." "He found him suffering from a putrid inflammation of the lung, a disease which often proves fatal." "When was this examination?" "When Carter left my employ and went back to the mine." "Economic pressures forced him down, where he became ill again." "Dr Choake will testify to this." "Are you implying that a term of imprisonment may prove fatal?" " It should not be ruled out." " Too ill to go to prison." "But well enough to go poaching!" " That puts it very harsh." " It puts it very well." "Taking into account all the factors, there is a case for leniency." " 'Tis for us to determine that." " Naturally." "It would not appear so natural, the way you state your opinions." "It was my sole intention to plead on behalf of the accused." "Perhaps pleading does not come naturally to you." "Perhaps by temperament you're more inclined to instruct." "We shall overlook it." "However, we cannot overlook that a crime was committed." " It is a first offence." " A first conviction." "is it proper for a court to speculate on crimes unproven?" "It is for us to determine what is proper, not you." "I may add that I resent your coming here to instruct us in the administration of the laws, in which we have a very great experience." "There are God's laws too, I'm told." "Do you take no account of those?" "You go too far, sir!" "Step down before you are held in contempt." "I think it is not I who am held in contempt in this court." "(Warleggan) Just a minute, sir!" "You are fortunate, Captain Poldark." "My colleagues believe you've allowed your heart to outrun your head and will overlook your last remark." "You may step down." "(Murmuring)" "(Warleggan) Carter." "We have taken account of everything said on your behalf but it weighs not at all in the seriousness of the crime." "Poaching is a crime." "It is theft as much as robbing a house is." "'Tis worse, for the animals often suffer horribly before death." "'Tis a crime whose incidence rises every year." "We are determined to put it down." "Yet we shall not impose the maximum sentence allowed." "You are sentenced to two years' imprisonment." "No." "No!" "How much longer do you reckon to go on polishing this room?" "You is raising more dust than you cleans." "No, I ain't." "No, I am not." "I just want it to look nice when he come home." "When he COMES home, if'n you wanna talk like a lady." "I don't want to talk like a lady." "I just want to talk right, that's all." "Well, he won't notice if you've polished." "Men don't." "He do." "Does." "If'n a room ain't tidy, he might not notice all at once but he gets cross and him don't know why." "Him DOESN'T know why." "Well, then, doesn't." "What'll you do when he takes a wife, huh?" " Takes a wife?" " Aye, he's gotta get married someday." "Then you'll have another woman in the house." "(Laughing) That'll rub the skin off of your nose!" "I won't stay here if'n he do." "Why?" "He got to have a wife." "Can't go on calling on that woman Margaret when he feels it coming on him." "No one hereabout's good enough for him." "Well, there's always someone." "Be married now to that Mrs Francis Poldark if'n she'd let him." "Married his cousin instead." "Reckon she kicks herself twice a day." "Still in love with her, he is too." "(Horse approaching)" "That's the master." "I'd best get back to the kitchen or else he'll think I've just been sitting here doing nothing." "(Door closing)" "How's Jim Carter, sir?" "They sentenced him to two years." "Fetch me the rum." "What good'll that do?" "Fetch me the rum, damn it, and stop asking damn fool questions!" "(Horse approaching)" "(Door closing)" "Mrs Poldark, sir." "Do you still want the rum, sir?" " Have I called at a bad moment?" " l just returned from Truro." "They sentenced Jim Carter to two years." "I doubt he'll live through them." "I am sorry. I'd forgotten the trial was today." "Savages." "They think their finery makes them civilised people but they treat their animals better than their labourers!" "One day the knives will be out and then God help them." "And whose side will you be on, Ross?" "Not on the side of the gentry!" "I despair of my own class sometimes." "(Sighing) I'm sorry." " Is something wrong?" " No, why should there be?" "It's been such a long time." "Well, that's what's been wrong, then." "I was passing near and I thought," ""lt's too long since we've seen Ross, Iet's end this nonsense."" " The nonsense wasn't mine." " Whose ever it was, or is." "Won't you come and see us now?" "The quarrel was made in my house and not by me." "It's for your husband to approach me." "He will. I come only to pave the way." "How is my uncle?" "He's recovered well but he takes things easy now and leaves more to Francis." "I wish you would come and see us." "It would be good for Francis." "He tries hard but..." "You're looking very beautiful." "Thank you. I'm happy." "No, you're not happy, you wouldn't be here if you were." "Oh, Ross, I have a husband and a child..." "(Door opening)" "Would you like another glass, sir?" "I should not have come here." "Believe me, I did not come here looking for this." "Not looking, no. I believe that." "But you've found something here you haven't lost, only mislaid." "Never tell me again that you're happy." "We are not." "We can live our lives and not die because of it, but happy?" "No, that's something different." "That's something only you and I can find together, Elizabeth." "I must go." "All the same, you will come and visit us?" "I know it would make Verity happy and your uncle has forgotten the quarrel." "(Door closing)" "(Horse departing)" "Will one bottle be enough, sir, or shall I get you another?" "(Glass shattering)" "Bring me another glass." "(Door opening)" "Shall I lay your supper now, sir?" "No." "You ain't ate all day." "Haven't." "You can go to bed." "I planted them marigolds today, them'll look nice when they come up." "Poor Jinny." "I'll go and see her tomorrow, take some things for'er." "(Enunciating) Take some things for her." " Go to bed." " l ain't tired." "Tell me about the trial." "I think it were real handsome of you to speak up for him." "Many wouldn't have done it." "He'd have been better off if I'd stayed at home." "I didn't do it right. I should've... flattered them more, talked of "us gentlemen"." "The fact is, I made a mess of it." "I've made a mess of everything." "You ain't." "You have not." "What are you laughing at?" "You." "I should not, though." "I like to see you laugh, you look different." "(Sighing) It's time I paid you some wages, you're 16 now." "Seventeen." "Don't matter, though." "But you mustn't pay any more to my father." "He don't need it now he's married that widow." "Got real respectable, so they say." "All the same..." "What's the matter, do I look funny?" "I thought I did, the way you were staring." "No, you don't look funny any more." " You did once." " (Laughing)" "But not any more." "Do you...think I look pretty at all?" "Yes, very pretty." " Prettier than some?" " Prettier than most." "Not the prettiest you've ever known ever before?" "Well, just now..." "Must be the firelight." "Ooh, see, I put on some stockings." "Found them in an old trunk." "Can I keep them or shall I take them off?" "I could take them off for a shilling." "Go to bed." "Why?" "Why?" "Take me to bed, then." "Take me." "Oh, I love you." "I love you, I love you." "It hurts, I love you so." "(Sighing)" "(Sighing)" " Come inside." " Yes, sir." "Shall I get breakfast, sir?" "There's porridge and eggs." "No." "You can't stay here." " What?" " You must leave. I'll find you a post." "You're a fine young woman, many houses would love to have you." "I don't understand." "You're sending me away?" " Yes." " Why, what have I done?" "Nothing." "But it must be plain to you that you cannot stay." "No, it ain't plain." "It ain't plain at all." "Why must I go?" " Is it cos of last night?" " It's not simply that." "I never thought I'd do that but... well, it were nothing." "It just happened, that's all." "Don't spoil it, it were lovely." "You were sad and... I won't do it again, I promise, only don't send me away." "It wasn't your fault." "Well, then." "Please." "Please don't send me away." "I couldn't bear it!" "Oh, please!" "Please don't send me away!" " Demelza." " No, no!" "I won't go, I won't!" "I won't!" " Listen." " You're gonna send me away!" "You must go, I can't have you here, can't you see?" "It is not right." "I would use you." "I wouldn't trust myself." " l don't care." " But you would come to, and rightly so." "It's better to put an end to it now." "I'll find you a place, a good place." "You won't lose by it." " So I'm to be punished, am I?" " No, no." "What else is it, then?" "I'm happy here, I don't want to go." "But I'm to be sent away like I stole something." "I'm doing this for you." "Don't you see?" "No!" "I'm to be punished cos l got above myself." "I should've been like Margaret and asked for money." "That would've been fine, you'd have thought nothing of it." "But I did it for nothing!" "And said I loved you and gave myself airs cos of it." " That isn't so." " Oh, yes, it is so!" "Well, you can keep your places, I want nothing from you!" "I never asked for nothing, not even wages." "Cos I was happy and you were kind to me." "So you don't owe me anything, you needn't worry on that score." "I haven't lost by being here, that I know." "I done my work and given nothing short." "So we're equal and that's fair." " Where are you going?" " l'm leaving." "That's what you said to do." " l don't mean this minute." " It's as good as any other." " But you can't go now." " Oh, yes, I can!" "There ain't nothing here for me." " Where will you go?" " Ain't no concern of yourn." "Do you think I'd let you go with just the clothes on your back?" "The clothes on my back I made myself and they'll do me fine." "What makes you think I got nowhere to go?" "Ain't only you in the world ever spared a thought for me." "No need to worry about me." "You worry about yourself, Captain Poldark." "This time next week I'll have forgot I was ever here." "(Door slams)" " Ah!" " Come along, children." "Now, where's that daughter of mine?" "She's making the beds, my love." "She don't get up early enough." "If'n she were up an hour afore, she'd come hear the preacher." "Do her a power of good, like it's done me." "She works well enough, my pet." "I ain't making no complaints." "She helps in the house, in the shop and don't get no money." "So she should, my love." "We keeps her here, we took her in like good Christian folk when she had nowhere to go." "Even putting on weight, she is." "It's your cooking." "Well, breakfast is ready, my pet." "You sit down." " There." " Ah." "Demelza?" "Demelza, breakfast be on the table!" "There, girl." "You noticed her putting on weight, then?" "Course I have." "Skinny little thing she were at first." "It's all that good food these last three months." "And the work 'tain't so hard as 'tis on the farm." "She's mighty fortunate to find her old father wed to as saintly a woman as ever lived." "And a good cook besides." "Go on with you, Tom Carne, you'd flatter a waistcoat off a bee." "Come along, girl." "Your father's waiting to say grace." " No, wait." " Grace now." "For what us are about to receive, may the good Lord make us truly thankful." "(All) Amen." "I was just saying to Mrs Carne that if'n you got up an hour early, you could come to prayers." "Well?" "Leave her be, Tom." "Let her eat her breakfast." "She's my daughter, I've got to think of her soul." "I should never have let her live with strangers." "Too young she were but I were evil then and knew no better." "You've made up for it since." "She got a good home here." "She's got you to thank." "Isn't many a stepmother'd want a full-grown girl to come live, give her a good home and good food besides." " What's the matter with you?" " l feel sick." "That's evil thoughts." "Mayhap you took cold the other day, I told you to wrap up." "(Retching)" "Sinful wickedness, how young girls go out with too little on, just so they boys can fill their eyes with them." "No thought of the illness it causes." "So much trouble!" "Mayhap it's not illness, not cold she took but summat else?" "What do you mean by that?" "What I say, Tom Carne, what I say!" "Putting on weight?" "Sick of a morning?" "You've brought five children into the world, you ought to know." "Her?" "That daughter of mine?" "But she isn't wed nor nothing!" "That don't signify, as well you know." "She's a good-looking girl." "Ain't you seen the way the boys all stare at her?" " What's the matter?" " (Tom) You tell I, my girl." "Nothing. I was sick, that's all." "I ain't sick no more." "Oh, well, it's got to come out." "Ah." "That's putting it exactly, innit?" "!" "You got yourself stuck up, didn't you?" "I won't have such miner's talk in my house!" "The talk's not as coarse as the facts." "We've got a real slut sitting with us at this table." "Whose brat is it, eh?" "Tom Salter's maybe?" "Or George Nester's?" "Which is it?" "I'd better know who cos there's gonna be a marriage afore long." " It ain't neither." " Who, then?" "None of your business." "Ow!" "(Tom) Now, whose brat is it?" "Jimmy Daniels'?" "Vic Calker's?" "(Mrs Carne) Even Cap'n Poldark, maybe." "Here we are, sir." "Here's a lovely piece of beef with pickle on the side." "Now, sit up, sir." "Mr Poldark, sir, I brought your dinner." "Mr Poldark?" "Mr Poldark?" "(Gasps)" "Mr Poldark!" "Mistress!" "Mistress, come here, quick!" " Mistress Poldark!" " What is it, Mrs Tabb?" "It's him, the master. I think..." " l think he's gone!" " Father?" "Father?" " Where are his smelling salts?" " He had 'em a while ago." "Look in his pockets." " Here they be." "Quick!" " Father?" " Father!" " Mercy on us, he's gone." "Send Tom for Dr Choake, tell him to hurry." "And run up to the mine for Mr Francis." "Hurry!" "Ma'am, aye." "(Sobbing) Oh, dear God." "Mercy on us." "(Door closes)" "(Woman) "'My darling Francis," ""'how can I bear the long days when you do not come to me?" ""'You said you could not live without me" ""'but every day that passes makes me doubt it." ""'l know I shall see you in a week" ""'but please, please write to me before." ""'Oh, my dearest Francis," ""'l shall be desolate until I hear from you." ""'Your devoted, Anna."'" ""Man that is born of a woman hath but a short time to live" ""and is full of misery." ""He cometh up and is cut down like a flower." ""He fleeth as it were a shadow" ""and never continueth in one stay." ""ln the midst of life, we are in death." ""Of whom may we seek for succour but of Thee, O Lord," ""who for our sins are justly displeased?" ""Yet O Lord God most holy," ""O Lord most mighty," ""O holy and most merciful saviour," ""deliver us not into the bitter pains of eternal death." ""Thou knowest, Lord, the secrets of our hearts." ""Shut not Thy merciful ears to our prayer" ""but spare us, Lord most holy, O God most mighty," ""O holy and merciful saviour," ""Thou most worthy judge eternal," ""suffer us not at our last hour" ""for any pains of death to fall from Thee." ""For as much as it hath pleased almighty God," ""of His great mercy, to take unto Himself" ""the soul of our dear brother here departed," ""we therefore commit his body to the ground." ""Earth to earth," ""ashes to ashes," ""dust to dust," ""in sure and certain hope of the resurrection to eternal life" ""through Our Lord Jesus Christ," ""who shall change our vile body," ""that it may be like unto His glorious body..."" "(Bell tolling)" "(Reading echoes and fades)" "(Reverend) Amen." "(All) Amen." "Amen." "Mistress Poldark?" "(Hushed conversations)" "I remember when we first met him." "Long before you and Elizabeth were engaged, you were young." "It was at a dinner at Truro, at the Warleggans'." "He seemed such a gruff man." "But I soon saw that beneath all that there was a heart of gold." "No, thank you." "I'm glad you saw him before he died." "He was fond of you." " What will you do now?" " Now?" "Why, I shall go on as before." "I shall live here and become an old maid." "I shall start coming to see you more often." "Old maids have a lot of free time and now Father's gone..." "You may come as often as you like." "And don't settle too soon for being a maiden aunt, it won't suit you." "I must go." "Francis is taking his father's death very hard." "There's more to it than that." "Something has happened with Elizabeth." "I don't know what it is but it worries me." " Think of your own life a little more." " l will." " What has happened?" " Nothing." "It's to do with Francis." "What is it?" "I don't wish to talk about it." "Goodbye, Ross." "Thank you for coming." "Come and see me." " Where are they, Blewitt?" " Down the lower level." "Near the old working." "They're swimming about in water." "I'd stay here, Cap'n." " Passed anything back?" " Yeah." "Here, look at it - she's loaded with copper." " Good, rich copper." " It's rich." "Who found it?" "(Chuckles) Jedediah, who else?" "Foxy old mole." "Something in copper draws him to it." "He branched off from the old working, says he could sniff it." "'Tis impossible but he found it." "Well done, Blewitt." "Look out for yourself, Cap'n." "Load of water came down with it, swimming about they are!" " Where is it, Jedediah?" " Over 'ere, Cap'n." "Mind how 'e comes - deeper in some parts than others." " Oh..." " Whoops!" " Gets a bit deeper there." "That's it." " l'm all right." "Look at her." "Can you see her?" "She's loaded with it!" " How far does she stretch?" " Ooh, 'tis hard to say." "A fair ways, I reckon." "There's more pound to the ton of this than you're seein', Cap'n." "Good strike, Jedediah." "But that pump will never get rid of this water." "We'll need a much bigger one." " l been thinking about that." " Huh?" "If we can raise it 20 feet then dam 'em up we can release it down a leat to turn a water wheel which could work a pump." "He'd be pumping out more water than he'd be usin'." "Horse whims would do it, if there's enough room." "This calls for a keg of brandy!" "I'll send one over from the house." "When the pump's working, tell the men to break." "Yes, sir!" " Ah!" " Careful." "I'm all right, Jedediah." "(Blewitt) Come on, then, you lazy lot!" "Looks a good one, Blewitt." "I'm going back to the house for brandy." "The men can break when the pump is working." "(All cheer)" "There'll be no more work done this day, then, Cap'n?" "Let the devil do it!" "I've waited a long time for this." "(Ross) Prudie?" "Prudie, tell Jud to bring up the brandy from the cellar." "The, er, keg of brandy in the cellar - tell Jud to take it to the mine" " and put these out to dry." " Yes, sir." " Celebration?" " We found a rich lode of copper." " That's wonde_ul." " l'd given up expecting you." " l wasn't sure if I should come." " But you did come." "Yes, I... had to talk to someone." "What has happened?" "I found a letter, by accident, in his pocket." "He's been seeing another woman." "I don't know what to do." "Have you told him that you know?" "Yes." "He didn't deny it." "Oh, he couldn't, after all." "He simply said it hadn't meant anything to him." " Perhaps it doesn't." " It does to me this time." " There have been others?" " Oh, yes, twice before." "There were quarrels and I forgave him but not for this." "Oh, Ross, I've never read anything so humiliating." "You must leave him." "Leave him?" "How can I?" "How can you not?" "Do you love him?" "No." "Then come to me." " To you?" " Yes." " Oh, Ross, if only I..." " Are you afraid?" " Yes!" " Of what?" " Well, I don't know..." " What is the alternative?" "To go on living as man and wife but strangers to each other, or to go back to your father's house?" "Elizabeth..." "Do you love me?" " Yes." " Then what else matters?" " Oh, I must think." " Not too long." " Oh, Ross, don't press me." " l must." "You were afraid once before and I lost you." "I'll not let that happen again." " We'll meet in a few days but not here." " Does he know you're here?" "Yes, I told him, I saw no reason not to but...in future..." "How strange life is, Ross." "You said once there would come a time when I wanted you as much as you wanted me." "And you said it would be my salvation." "is this my salvation, Ross?" "And mine too." "Cap'n Poldark!" "By God, if you were ten years younger and I ten years older." "(Chuckling) Age don't matter in the dark, Cap'n." "What would Jud say if he heard that?" "He trusts you." "Of course he do, I wouldn't be sayin' it if I didn't know that." "(Laughs) You're in fine spirits, sir, I can see that." " l am." " That were brung this morning." " From Jim Carter, innit, sir?" " Yes, it's from Jim." "'Tisn't right that poor lad to be in prison." "He's not strong enough." "(Tuts) Oh, I'll fetch the pie in." "Oh, you didn't find no one yet to put in place of Demelza?" "No." "Have you heard anything of her?" "No, sir, not a word." "'Tis a mystery to me why she up and left like that without a word to no one and takin' nothing wi' her." "(Tuts) Anyway, 'tis too much work for one, sir." "I need some help in the house." "There, there, my boy." "That's it, my Benjy." "Who's my boy, then?" "There you are, my darlin'..." " (Knocking)" " Come in." "Cap'n Poldark, I didn't hear your horse." "No, I walked over." "How are you, Jinny?" " How's the little one?" " He's comin' on a treat, sir." "Will you sit down, sir?" "Can I get you a mug of water?" "No, thank you, Jinny." "Are you expecting someone?" " No, sir." " Oh." "I received a letter from Jim." " Oh, is he all right?" " Yes." "He enclosed a letter for you." "Oh, well, I don't read too well, sir, could you read it for me?" ""My dearest Jinny," ""this be written by a man in my cell who writes letters, a good friend." ""l am well, my dear." "And you?" "And the little one?" ""l am sending this to Captain Poldark, for l know he'll pay the post," ""him being kind and done so much already." ""l cannot say for truth how much I miss you, for l think I should cry." ""They are moving me to Launceston, which is further and worse, I'm told." ""At least the food here ain't bad." ""Best of all is night." ""l close my eyes and I see you and the little one and our dear home." ""Then I do sleep." ""Hoping this letter finds you well, my dearest Jinny." "Jim."" "The time will soon go." "Four months has gone already." "'Tis his chest that worries me." "They say it's damp in prison and he won't see the sun much." " If you won't take money..." " Oh, no, sir." "My mother helps with the food." "'Tis enough." "And you send things from the house." "I need someone to help Prudie." "She has too much work, even if she were energetic." "She loves work the way the devil loves holy water." "Would you like to help her?" "For wages, of course." " l weren't thinking of that." " What, then?" "Bring the child with you, he'll be no trouble." "Well, think about it." "There's no need to decide now." "I'll write to Jim, tell him I've seen you and that all is well." " Goodbye, Jinny." " Goodbye, sir." "She's been staying with me, sir, a month since." "You should've let me know." "Where did you go when you left the house?" " To Father." " Stayed with him?" "Yes." "We didn't get on, though, so I left." "Sittin' too close to the Lord for my taste, too much praying' and preaching'." "Wouldn't let me go out, wouldn't let me look at anyone." "That were no good, I weren't ready to be an old maid." " Could've told me, Jinny." " l didn't want her to." "I'll be movin' on soon, I wasn't staying' long." " Where will you go?" " l got somewhere to go." "In Illogan. I met this man." "A gentleman." "He's offered me marriage, I've been thinking about it." "Well, goodbye." " Goodbye, Jinny." " Goodbye, sir." " (Door closes) - (Gasps) I didn't know he was here, I didn't see his horse outside." " What did he come for?" " He brought a letter from Jim." " How is he?" " Oh, all right, I think." "Cap'n Poldark asked if I'd work at the house." "I said I'd think about it." " You ought to." " l didn't like to." "Felt funny taking your place." "Oh, I didn't have no place there." "Leastways none I wouldn't mind anyone filling'." "Why don't you tell him?" "He'd help, I know he would." "I don't want his help." "I want nothin' from him, nothin'." "Do you know how hard it'll be bearing a child alone, caring for it alone?" "And it growin' up in the world without a name?" "It'll have to fight all the harder." "If'n it's a girl?" "Fight like a man all her life?" "I'll find someone." "Someone who'll take care of us both." "And if'n he don't, what then?" "And mayhap..." "mayhap the child'll live and you won't." "A child born without a name, alone, without father or mother, brother or sister - 'tis a sin, Demelza." "It's worse than the life you had." "Tell him." "You must tell him!" " Jinny Carter's here, sir." " Hm?" " Says her's come to help in the house." " Oh, come in, Jinny." "I thought about it, sir, and I'd like to work here." "Good." "Thank you, Prudie." " Where's the babe?" " Left him with Demelza, sir." "Ah, yes." "I was, er..." "I was surprised to see her there." "I was surprised when she came." "Glad to have her, though." "Were a bit lonely when Jim went." "It's none of my business but..." " ..is she...?" " Yes, sir, she is." "No use asking, I don't know who the father be." "Some lad in Illogan, I think." "I see." "Perhaps that's why she quarrelled with her father?" "Yes, sir, perhaps that's why." " Well, that's a shame." " Yes. 'Twas foolish too, perhaps." "Yes." "Prudie will tell you what to do." "Don't let her gossip all day!" "No, sir." "(Demelza) What a good boy!" "Eating all his food." "Grow big and strong, he will." "Where's Mama gone?" "Say "Mama"." " Go on. "Mama"..." " (Knocking)" "Come in. "Mama"..." "May I come in?" " Jinny's up at house." " l know." "I came to see you." "(Cooing softly)" "He's a fine fella." "Jinny tells me you're expecting a child." " (Continues cooing) - l'd like to help you." " No need for that." " But I'd like to." "Will you, er..." " Will you be married?" " Course I shall." "The father is in Illogan, Jinny says." " What is his work?" " He's a miner." "Would he work for me?" "There's an empty cottage down by the stream." "If he'll come and work here, you can have it." "I'll find some furniture." "He's not just a miner, him's a mining cap'n." "He's a mining cap'n." "He's a gentleman, like I said, and he's desperate to marry me." "Perhaps I will, perhaps I won't." "But if I do, he'll take care of me and he won't want no help from anyone else." "So no need for you to fret for me." "You seem to hesitate to accept his offer." "That's because I met someone else after him, he wants to marry me too." "I see." " You love him and not the first?" " Exactly." " Does he know about the child?" " l ain't told him yet." "Won't make no difference when I do, though." "You've led a very full life since you left." "I haven't hid myself under a barrel, if that's what you mean." "(Softly) Let's have a little sleep, my darlin'." " Come on, come on." " l can't help you, then?" "You can give me those wages I didn't take before I left." "(Softly) I'll buy you somethin' nice, won't I?" "Just wages." "Don't want no pay for anything else." "Well, if you change your mind." "Sleepy, sleepy, sleepy." "Sleepy, sleepy..." "Shall I take the port, sir?" "Yes, I've finished, thank you." "Mrs Tabb, I'm going back to the mine." "Will you ask Tom to saddle my horse?" " Aye, sir." " Thank you." "Shall I take Geoffrey for a little walk?" "Yes, he'd like that." "Wrap him up, though, the wind is cold." "I'll get him ready." "I'd like to talk to you, Francis." " l was hoping you'd want to talk again." " l'm leaving you." "(Drunkenly) You can't be serious." "I've thought about it - l no longer want to live with you." "Oh, Beth..." "Beth, you mustn't be so hard, I know this foolishness must have upset you... I won't discuss it!" "My mind is made up, I wanted only to tell you." "You mean everything is just to be thrown away for a piece of folly?" " Answer me." " There is nothing to throw away." "It's all gone." "I feel nothing for you any more." "I don't blame you entirely, I was not perhaps the right wife for you." "I won't live with this mistake forever, nor need you." "Beth!" "Beth, you're saying this to frighten me." "Make of it what you will but I shall not change my mind." "is it my cousin?" "Oh, Beth." "I've broken with this woman, I'll never see her again, nor any other." "l-l don't know why or how it all began, I've no excuses... I know it may sound absurd to you, perhaps, but I think it was because I was lonely." "W-Well perhaps that does sound absurd, perhaps it is, I... I find it very hard to explain!" "Whatever I say will just sound like feeble excuses but I know I haven't been the best of husbands." "Perhaps I'll never make a good one but I love you enough to try if you'll let me." "I'm sure you would try, Francis, and I do believe in your own way that you love me." "But the fact is I no longer love you." "The ill will I felt when I read that letter is gone but I feel nothing any more so what is the profit of..." "Damn it!" " You have a duty, then!" " So did you!" "Which it has pleased you to ignore on more than one occasion." "Must my duty go on forever while you are to forget yours when it suits you?" "What about..." "little Geoffrey, then?" "I shall take him." "You know he'd be unhappy without me." "Oh, yes." "Yes, you've seen to that." "Oh, that's not fair." "You had time enough to spare for him had you chosen to." "But you had other interests." "I..." "I thought there was more forgiveness in a woman." "Only where she loves." "What is happening between you and Francis?" "I'm leaving him." "You know why." "Yes, he told me." "You've talked with Ross, haven't you?" " Do you think to begin again?" " That's my affair." "Yes, it's your affair." "But when it was mine you were quick with advice." "That was different." "Then it was a matter of the family - your family." "Isn't it now a matter of your family?" " Will you not consider the child?" "!" " l do consider him." "A child shouldn't grow up in a house where his father has such contempt for his mother." " Francis loves you." " No, Francis does not!" "He thinks that he does but I know better." "He valued me more for being prized by his cousin than for what I was." "He does so again now and makes the same mistake." " Then why did you marry him?" " Because I didn't know it then." "And because... I was afraid of life then and I no longer am." "Yes, you were afraid, you've always been and you are still." "You think in choosing Ross now you have found your strength." "But it is cowardice, not courage." "Love is not everything!" "Except for the weak." "There's duty too!" "Are you glad of the duty you chose?" "I have never believed I had an unassailable right to happiness." "Do I?" "You were involved with a man we thought might do you harm." "We were not so far from wrong." "The harm he did was to your brother and father, who tried to protect you." "If you see our two cases as comparable, I cannot." "I love him." "I love your cousin." "If it's strength that's needed to give him up, I haven't got it." "If it's weakness that drives me to him... I'll give up wanting to be strong." "I'm very fond of you, Verity, and I would not easily do anything to hurt you except I cannot live the rest of my life in a barren waste, which is what you ask." "Can you understand?" "I told him." "I took all my courage in my hands and I told him." " Oh, Ross." " What did he say?" "He wants to try again but it's too late." " Does he know?" " About us?" "I think he guesses, but he also knows it's not the cause, only the outcome." "You won't change your mind?" "I made one mistake, I shall not make another." "Oh, Ross, I feel free!" "Free, for the very first time!" "Why, 'tis the little'un!" " What's he doin' here, then?" " Demelza brought him." " Where's her gone?" " Oh, Prudie, I don't know what to do." "Oh, come on, now, let me have him!" "Well, well, well, well, well look who's got you now, the!" "n!" "'Tis Prudie." "And if you're not good, I'll put you in the horse trap, you little monkey!" " When will he be back?" " Cap'n?" "Oh, soon, I expect." "Well, what's fretting' you?" "She's gone." "I tried to stop her but she's gone." " Gone where?" " Truro." " Walking?" " Yes." "(Prudie groans)" "There's a madwoman - for her'll give birth to a dead'un on the way." "Pray she do, that's what she's gone for." " To get rid o' it?" " Says she knows this woman in Truro." " Says she does it regular." " Aye, I heard o' her." "Doesn't stay round long enough to find out what happens." "Takes her money and leave it all in the lap of the Almighty." "Like as not, there'll be two dead afore morning'." "May as well put her money in the poor box and jump off a cliff." " She wouldn't listen." " No." "Take wild horses to hold Demelza when she's made her mind up." "Oh, what she wanna do it for, though?" " l thought she were gonna get married." " No, Prudie, there were no one." " Wasn't there some man in Illogan?" " No." "No, never is when it comes to it." "Oh, they're all the same." "Have their pleasure and go and leave her take care of herself." "Oh, the poor little mite." "# Poorest mite as ever were born" "# Poor little maiden all forlorn" "# Poor little lamb so cruelly shorn" "# Poor little maiden all forlorn... #" "What's this?" "A wake?" "Aye, could be, who knows?" "What's the babe doing here?" "You didn't have him with you this morning." " Demelza bring 'im." " Demelza?" "We'll leave if that's all 'e can say to a poor babe that's never done 'e no harm." " Oh, for heaven's sake!" " It don't do no good cursing'!" "Him can curse all 'e likes but us knows best, don't us, my petal?" "Nurse Prudie knows best." "(Huffs in exasperation)" " What's the matter with her?" " Don't know, sir." "Mayhap she's upset." "Why did Demelza bring the baby?" " Has she left?" " Yes, sir." " Where has she gone?" " Truro." "Truro?" "I thought her destiny lay in Illogan." "Why has she gone to Truro?" "What is it?" "What's happened?" "Why did she go?" " Who took her?" " No one, she walked." "What has she gone for, is she mad?" " Tell me, woman!" "Why has she gone?" " To get rid o' it." " Why?" " Cos she got no one." " But I offered to help." " She didn't want no help." "Well, she must do as she must." "Cannot help someone who will not be helped." "She's a grown woman, her life is her own." " She ought to be brought back." " It's not for me to do." "You couldn't stop her, how can I?" "Someone ought to bring her back." "'Tisn't pretty what'll happen." "'Tisn't something I'd like done to me." "I'm not her keeper." " What of the man in Illogan?" " There weren't one." "Well, the other one?" "The man she met after?" "Well, there must have been someone." "Where is he?" "Where is the father?" "Well, tell me." "It's mine, isn't it?" "The child is mine." "Whoa!" "Whoa, boy, whoa!" "Demelza!" "We're going back." "Demelza!" "Demelza!" " Let go, let go!" " You're coming back!" "I'm not!" "Let go of me!" "Let go!" "Demelza!" "Demelza!" "Let me go!" "No, I won't go!" "Let me go!" " Ow!" " Oh!" "Ah!" "Let me go!" "No!" " Let me go!" " For God's sake!" " You've got no right!" " Demelza!" " Let me go!" " You're coming back!" "I don't want to." "I won't come back, I won't!" "Oh, let me go!" "You're hurting me!" "Oh, please, let me go." "Please, please." "Oh, God, oh, God." "(Sobbing)" " l'm taking you back." " You got no right." " l think I have." " 'Tain't yours." "I know Jinny said but she don't know." "'Tain't yours, 'tis somebody else's." "Whose?" " l ain't sayin'." " Look at me." "Look at me!" "Tell me the child is not yours and mine." "Tell me." "'Tweren't nothin'." "It just happened." "'Tweren't made out of love." "It was made out of yours." " Come on." " Oh, please, Ross." "Let me go. 'Tain't nothin' to do with you." "'Tain't nothin' you should think of." "Tomorrow it'll be gone." "And you too." "Take more than that to see me off." "Oh, Ross, please." "That's the first time I called you Ross." "'Tain't nothin' to do with you." "'Tisn't your fault, 'tis mine." " What would I do with a babe all alone?" " You won't be alone." "We'll be married." "No." "No, you don't want that." "I will come back but not for that." "The child's mine too." "It'll have a name." "My name." "Now, there'll be no more arguing."