" 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." "In three weeks." "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." " 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." "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." "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!" " Francis!" " Francis, no!" " Come outside." " Don't be a fool, man!" " Come outside!" " Francis, Francis!" "Come outside!" "Or is it only women you're not afraid of?" "is it only women you kill?" "Andrew, no!" "No." " No, Francis!" " Verity, Veri..." " Oh, Verity." " Father!" "Oh, Verity..." "Get Dr Choake." "Run." "Run!" "Whoa!" "Help me into the house with him!" "Blamey, for God's sake!" "Father's inside, he's collapsed." "Ross, I think he's dying." "I've sent for Dr Choake." "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." " It's hot." " Yes, very hot fire." "Come and give your grandfather a kiss." "Oh, you're a clever boy." "Hello." "I'm going out." "Father." "What a lovely day." "It's windy up in these cliffs." "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?" " 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?" "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... 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." "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... #" " 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 #" "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." "'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?" "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." "I have brought Dr Choake, a distinguished mining surgeon." "We are acquainted with Dr Choake." "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." "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." "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." "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." "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." "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!" "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." "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..." "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." "Will one bottle be enough, sir, or shall I get you another?" "Bring me another glass." "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." "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." "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." "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?" " 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 yours." "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."