"(Gasping)" "(Groaning, laboured breathing)" "My son, Jeremy Poldark." "Jeremy Poldark." "With the help of providence." "God bless him, sir." "And missus." "And may he be spared to grow up a man." "And may his glass be filled to ove_lowing." " (Rattling)" " Demelza!" " (Crying)" " Prudie." " Prudie, damn you!" " (Jud) She ain't here!" "Well, Jud." "Come on, boy." " There we are." " (Crying)" "Shh." "Jud, get yourself in here." "Where the devil is everyone?" "Mistress isn't back from Sawle." "What do you reckon ee be doing to that little 'un?" "What does it look like?" "Murder!" " Fetch Prudie." " Can't." "I ain't seen Prudie this last half hour." "(Crying continues)" "Faced with the enemy, an Englishman proceeds with coolness and courage." "Er, get hold of the other end of this towel." "There, Jeremy." "There we are." "There's a good boy." "There." "Shh." "There we are." "Come on, boy." " (Crying)" " Just cleaned you up." "There." "There." "There we are." "What now?" "Take it away." "What you got there, then?" "Baby!" "And you're murdering him." "Ah." "Why be you fiddling with him, anyway?" "The poor little mite." "Cos you weren't here and, er, it needed it." "Ha!" "You'll wash 'un away!" "Mm." "Come on, little thing." "There." " Jeremy all right?" " Of course he's all right." "Why were you so long in Sawle?" "Stayed a while with Jacka Hoblyn's little girl." "She be sick." "I'll get Dwight to go and see them." "Didn't go to touch her, though." "You can kiss me if you like." "You're kind to people, aren't you?" " No more than they deserve." " Do I deserve something?" " You've just had it." " Is that all I get?" "What else do you want?" " A new dress, maybe?" " No." "You ain't kind at all." "There's lots of men kinder than you." "That man Caroline Penvenen's gonna marry will be kind." "Reckon he will." "He'll be living on her money." "(Francis) Am I near?" "(Geoffrey) No, Papa." "No." "Oh." "Am I getting nearer?" "No." "Tell me where to look." "It's near Mama." "It's near Mama?" "Well, now, is it, for instance... ls it in Mama's chair?" " Don't be childish." " l'm sorry." "We're only playing." "Isn't it time you stopped?" " Have you found it?" " No." "What do you mean?" " It's time Geoffrey was in bed." " It's early." "If I could find my watch, I could tell you the time." "It's five o'clock." "We have to be at Kilwarren before seven." " Oh, you spoilt it." " It's time you were in bed." "Tell Mrs Tabb to take you up and I'll see you before we leave." "Good night, young fella." "I wish I didn't have to go to this damn party." " So do I." " What do you mean?" "You're always complaining how few people you meet." "is that my fault?" "Every time I go out I'm embarrassed not to be able to return the hospitality" " and to wear the same dress." " But you wear it very well." "Will you have a drink?" " There'll be plenty to drink." " No." "I want you to have a drink with me." "To the new dress." "(Distant chatter and laughter)" "Well, at least they haven't come to blows yet." " Who?" " Ross and George Warleggan." "I've always found Mr Warleggan extremely civil." "Your husband didn't give him a bloody nose." " That was ages ago." " Less than a year ago." "Plenty of time for Ross to have made it up." "You don't know Ross." "But I do." "Miss Penvenen." "I must congratulate you." "Mr Trevaunance is quite the most interesting man." "But he's a Member of Parliament." "If he's a sample of Parliament, God help us." "As opinionated as a parson in a pulpit." "Lady Constance!" "She's going to marry him." "Marry him?" "!" "A barnyard capon?" "All crow and cockscomb?" "Marry him?" "I'd as soon as..." "Got you!" "(McNeil) War with France?" "(George) Within a year." "I don't like to contradict you, but in the House of Commons Mr Pitt assured us there'd be no war with France in the foreseeable future." "Damn it, then it's certain!" "We must look to our defences." "And our profits." "War is good for business." "Copper was up again yesterday." "Perhaps that's why Captain Poldark reopened Wheal Grace." "No, Mr Penvenen, I cannot look so far ahead." "Or wish so great a disaster on my country." "Some of us know what war means." "There's no profit in death." "There's none in fine sentiments." "McNeil, you're a soldier." "Would you rather die in battle or in some blackguard affray with smugglers?" "I agree with Captain Poldark and with your permission, I'll die in my bed." "It isn't my permission that you need." "You would not have reopened the old workings without a reason." " Have you discovered something?" " Yes." "An old friend." "And a new partner." "I'll drink to that." "Sir Hugh, will you pass the decanter?" "The more a man drinks, the more a man sinks." "Wheal Grace." "An old mine's like an old woman, you put more in than you get out." "I'm fit to burst." "Where do you keep your pot?" "Behind the screen." "I raised the case of the Cornish mine-owners to Parliament and the president of the Board of Trade..." "This is a damn fine claret, where did you get it?" "From my cellar, sir." "Come on, we're all gentlemen." "What's the secret?" "I have no secret." "If you told Mr Poldark, it wouldn't be a secret any more." "There's far too much talk in the House. I made a speech about it." "Mr Speaker was good enough to say it was the finest speech on not speaking he'd heard." "Are you, erm...are you here on duty again, Captain?" "On duty?" "No, sir. I'm staying with our talking friend." "But I must tell you, if I see it, I'll do it." "I will see that you don't see it." "You pay your duty and I won't have to do mine." " It was a sharp exchange." " Was it reported in the newspapers?" " l never read them." " You should, Mr Trevaunance, or you won't know what crimes are being committed." " Or what lies are told about you." " Lies, my dear George, lies." "More wine?" "Gentlemen!" "This is a neighbourly occasion." "Let me remind you that you are here to celebrate the engagement of my niece, Miss Caroline Penvenen, and Mr Trevaunance." "MP." "Gentlemen, let us drink to them." "Unwin and Caroline." "(All) Unwin and Caroline." "(Men laughing in the next room) I wish I were a man." "I'd drink port and claret till me eyes popped out." " Really!" "Demelza." " Really, Elizabeth." "Why should they get all the fun whilst we sit and wait for them?" "That's the way it is in a civilised society." "Then it's time we changed it." "How strange you are." "What will Miss Penvenen think of you?" "Miss Penvenen agrees wholeheartedly." " Tea, Lady Bodrugan?" " Never touch it." "What do you call it?" " (Caroline) Horace." " That's a damn silly name." "Then, it's a damn silly dog." "I could have sworn that were its face." " Thank you, Demelza." " l suppose after you're married you'll live mostly in London." "Yes, I suppose so." "(Elizabeth) I wish my husband had entered politics." "Down here there's so very little decent society." "It's a wild country." "Wild... passionate...and strange." "Come, come, my dear." "You'll soon be in your own drawing room in Portman Square." "It's a pleasure to see you again." "I hardly ever see anyone, Mr Warleggan." "Elizabeth, have I not repeatedly asked you to call me George?" "Don't let him bring his quarrels home." "I'm a better friend to him than he knows, to both of you." "I very much value your friendship." "He is much with Ross these days." "A word of advice." "I've heard that your cousin is in considerable debt." "I wouldn't be too close if I were you." "I only mention this for your sake, Elizabeth." "Mistress Poldark, will you stir me tea with your little finger?" "Oh!" "She has better things to do with it." "And what are here for?" "You won't find any smugglers." "Not for the smugglers, for the fishing." "Caroline, when we're married, we'll come to Cornwall as little as possible." "There's nothing more boring than these country people with their petty squabbles which are nothing to us." "I intend to live here." "Live here, my dear?" "!" "We're not going to live here." "Why not?" "I was born here, where else should I live?" "With me, I presume, when we're married." "You presume too much, sir." "Friends, the time has come for me to announce the engagement of my niece and Mr Unwin Trevaunance." "No, Uncle!" "The time has not come." "Not yet." "There's a woman who knows her own mind." " l wanted to ask you something." " Poor Unwin." "Or is it lucky Unwin?" " Are you badly in debt?" " What?" "Er, no more than usual." "Why?" "I heard you were. I'm glad it's not true." "So am I." "That was a short engagement." "Why do you think she broke it off?" "Perhaps she's met someone who can offer her more than he can." "Like you did once." "Or have you forgotten?" "I was ready to give up everything for you once." "Have you forgotten?" "(Demelza) Ross?" "Ross, what did Elizabeth say?" "In a few weeks our loan falls due." " Ross?" " We can't meet the interest." "When I spoke with Trencrom, he offered me money if I let him store goods at Nampara." " Store them?" "Where?" " In the house." "He suggested a cache under the floorboards." "I thought in here might be the best place." "It'd only be for a day or two after each run." "You know what I do think." "We need the money." "It is 20 times more dangerous to be in possession than just drawing your curtains and that be dangerous enough." "It's dangerous to be alive." "Dr Enys." "Miss Penvenen." "I trust you are in good health." " And your dog." " Yes, thanks to you." "I believe I have to congratulate you on your engagement." "You may congratulate me on ending it." "Where are you going?" " To Sawle village." "Good day." " l'll come with you." "You will not." "There is sickness there." "It could be infectious." " l forbid it." " You should know me better." " l may be of some help." " It is no place for you." "You have nothing to do with disease and death." "We all suffer from the same fatal disease, Doctor." "It's called life." "Now, will you argue with me in the road?" "(Coughing)" "What you doing walking in here like that?" "You know me, Hoblyn." "Go outside till I've finished." " What does she want?" " To help your daughter." "Do people live like this?" "What's the matter with the poor girl?" "is she very bad?" "Dr Enys, you think I'm a rich, spoilt young woman, maybe I am." "But I ask you to believe that I am trying not to be." "She has scrofula." "Oh!" "God." "Is it certain?" "Swelling, the sores." "Don't come too close." "The breathing." "Can you do anything for her?" "50 years ago I would have sent her to London to be touched by the King." " The king's evil." " Little good it would've done." "We've advanced since then." "With proper warmth, food, dryness - the things that kings take for granted." "Poor child." " That's my doll!" " Oh!" "Oh, I'm sorry!" "God knows, I'm sorry." "I'll send them some money." "That is your answer for everything." "You can't blame me for this, I didn't even know it existed." "But that's it, isn't it?" "People like me don't know." "I don't blame you more than anyone else, Miss Penvenen." " How much longer, Zacky?" " About another hour maybe, ma'am." "Just line her with wood, keep out the damp." "Not a word of what you been doing, mind." "No need to caution us, we be old hands at this!" "There be soldiers!" "Coming up the road." "I done nothing!" "Ain't lifted a shovel." "'Tis a closet." "You tell them 'tis a closet." "I'll go." "Not a sound, anyone." "Oh!" "Cap'n McNeil." "Your servant, ma'am." "I walked from Trevaunance's with a letter for Captain Poldark." "It was dropped off the night stage from Truro." " Thank you." " Is the Captain at home?" "He's at Wheal Grace as usual." " Been there all night." " All night!" " Hm." " Oh, If I was him, all the copper in the world would not keep me from your bed." "It's a braw morning for a walk." " It's early yet." " There's an old Scots saying, it's never too early for a glass or a lass." " Oh?" " But I'll settle for the glass this time." " l'm alone in the house, Cap'n." " Oh!" "Then I'll see you come to no harm." "How is Mr Trevaunance?" "MP!" "(Both laugh)" "Please." "He's forever giving himself votes of confidence and making speeches about the advantage of being single." "Him and Mr Pitt." "And you?" "Oh, aye!" "And I'll drink to it." "It has an advantage to a soldier in more ways than one." "If I didn't know you, Cap'n, I'd think you were flirting with me." "Ah, but you don't know me, ma'am." "But you're Scots." "As staid and sober as a church on Sunday." "A Scotsman at home, he may be cold and cautious, for have you ever seen Scots women?" " Oh, Cap'n!" " But with women of the south, we're as hot as any Frenchman." " Cap'n." " Don't tempt me." "Mademoiselle Demelza, je vous en prie." " (Clattering)" " Oh..." " l thought you were alone." " l am." "It is said, Cap'n, that we Cornish folk have a drop of French blood in us, too." "Ooh, if I thought you meant that..." "Je vous adore avec tout mon coeur." "Je voudrais coucher avec toi." "Do you, er, get my drift?" "I think I know the way the wind's blowing." "Ah." "Well, then..." " (Thud)" " What the devil's that?" " Well..." " There's someone in there!" "Allow me, ma'am." " (Baby wailing)" " Oh, my God." "Ah!" "It's just the baby." "Got himself in a scrape." " Takes after his father." " (Door bangs)" "There's Ross now." " (Baby crying)" " Let's go and see Prudie." "Prudie!" "Pru..." "Ah." "Take master Jeremy." "Yes, missus." "Jeremy, my lovely." "You come to your Prudie." "There you are, Captain Poldark." "You've a fine baby." "Do you, er...have some business with me, sir?" "Oh, nothing in particular." "Unless it be to learn the fate of the man who murdered his wife." "What was his name..." "Mark Daniel?" " l haven't heard a word of him." " Oh." "Then I'll leave you to your rest." "Good day, Mistress Demelza." "You've a brave, bonny boy." "(Demelza) Goodbye, Cap'n." " Did he see anything?" " No." "Why did he want to know about Mark Daniel?" "He brought this letter." "We've been over almost the whole mine and nothing yet Mark swore he saw a rich lode there." "The night he hid from the soldiers." "It doesn't make..." "Ross?" "What is it?" "Who's the letter from?" "Pascoe. I thought we might have gone on for two or three months." "What is it?" "Ross, it concerns me, too." "My bond for f1 ,OOO." "With interest it's worth 1 ,400 by now." "It was put up for renewal." "The Warleggans bought it." " Pascoe's certain they'll foreclose." " What will that mean?" "They'll demand the full sum when it falls due." "Three weeks from now." " What will they do?" " Take the mine." " Take Nampara." " Take everything?" "If only Mark Daniel had told me where he saw the lode." "Well, ask his brother Paul where he be." "Find Mark and make him tell you where it is." "Oh, he's drowned." "Or in France, which is as good as drowned." "Trencrom's got men in France." "Send Charlie Kempthorne to him at once and you go and see Pascoe." " Oh, Ross." " Demelza, I'm tired." "Well, I'm tired!" "I won't let George Warleggan get me down." "The whole world's tired but if it didn't stand up for itself, we'd all be owned by blacksmiths." "Oh, Ross." "And you're a miner's daughter." "I'm a gentleman's wife." "I'll go and saddle Darkie." "Good morning, Miss Penvenen." "Good morning." "I stayed to thank ee for what ee be doing for Rosina." " You should thank Dr Enys." " Him?" "He has his reasons." " And what are his reasons?" " She ain't the first girl he helped here." "Don't ee worry, Miss, I'm keeping an eye on she." "Thank you, Miss." "God be with ee." " Who's he?" " Charlie Kempthorne." " What does he do?" " He be a fishermen but he don't catch much fish!" " What was he doing here?" " Courting." "Courting!" "Rosina, how old are you?" "I don't know." "Old enough, I reckon." " Do you love this man?" " (Laughs)" "A straight 'un would be better, ma'am." "What did he mean about Dr Enys?" "Everyone knows that, ma'am." "Him and Daniel's wife." "It ain't true about me and him." "That's just Charlie." "We do know that, ma'am." "Do we?" "Who is Daniel's wife?" "Dead." "Daniel did for her, didn't he?" "Oh, what lives you simple country people lead." "I'm not at all interested." "Once again, Miss Penvenen." "She's making good progress." "I must congratulate you on your perseverance." "Not for much longer I'm afraid." "My uncle has become impossible since I upset his plans." "He thinks that as I am to inherit his fortune, I should accept his authority." "I say he can keep both." "I shall have my own fortune when I come of age." "Do you think I'm right?" "It is no concern of mine." "I have no fortune." "You have no money." "But that's not the same thing." "Captain Poldark has no money but he's the most fortunate man I know." "He's the most unfortunate man I know." "Apart from one other." "The power of healing means nothing to you?" "I cannot heal everyone." "Perhaps you should take a second opinion." "You're not sick, Doctor, you're sorry for yourself." "As you say, you can't heal everyone." "Shall I prescribe for you?" "What does Kempthorne do when he comes courting?" " Drinks gin." " Do you like gin?" "Where do the village boys take their girls?" "Oh!" "Up to tor country where they can't see them!" " And what do they do?" " Oh-ho-ho!" "Oh-ho-ho." "Well, one can't be clearer than that." "I don't understand you." "What do you want me to say?" "Goodbye would seem appropriate." "Miss Penvenen, will you come riding with me tomorrow?" "No, Dr Enys." "The day after tomorrow." "Wait for me at the foot of the high tor." "Ross!" "Ross!" "Ross." "Where's Ross?" " He's gone to Truro." " Damn it!" "Never mind." "Demelza, I have found copper!" "All the copper in the world." "Demelza, all our fortunes are made!" "You found copper when nobody else..." " Like a drink, would ee?" " Who wants a drink?" "I have found copper in Wheal Grace!" "Damned if it's not pure." "Oh!" "Do you know what this means?" "We can keep Nampara." " How did you find it?" " Luck." "I went down the old level on my own, I don't know why!" "I moved some rocks and saw an opening going straight down." " A gunnis." " They must have missed it." "Or it happened in a blast." "I could just squeeze myself through the opening and there was a tunnel." "The air was foul, it was dripping wet..." " Oh!" "Go on!" "Go on!" " l worked myself around and there was a roof of copper!" "I..." "l-l don't know how I got back." "It's..." "It's really..." " It's wonde_ul." " It is!" "It gives me a chance to make up for the harm I've done you two." "Francis, you've never done us any harm!" "You forget the Carnmore Copper Company." "I was responsible for ruining Ross." "We knew about that long ago and forgot it long ago." "Ross knew yet he still took me into partnership." "Oh, Ross don't change so easy." "Old loyalties and old loves." "He don't bear no grudge against you." "Not for that nor nothing." "I've always envied Ross but no more than I do now." " But you've got everything!" " No." "You've got Trenwith, your boy." "You've got Elizabeth." "Demelza, I would exchange it all for this." "And someone who loved me." " Ross would change with you." " Then he'd be a fool and Ross is no fool, I'm the only fool in the family." "I must get back to the mine." "You fear Elizabeth." "Don't." "You think that because Ross and Elizabeth were once engaged that they still love each other." "I can't speak for Ross but I promise you that Elizabeth has never loved... or will ever love anyone... but herself." "Your humble... and very wealthy servant..." "Francis Poldark." "Oh, please, God." "Ah, good day, Paul Daniel." "You want a man to go down with ee?" "Be off the day shift soon." "No, I shall be up before then." "Give me a hat, would you?" "Thank you." "(Child singing)" "# It carried me to London, niddety nod" "# And when we got to London we heard a great shout" "# Down fell my hobbyhorse and I cried out" "# Up again, hobbyhorse, if thou be a beast" "# When we get to our town we will get a feast" "# And if there is but little, why, thou shalt have some" "# And dance to the bagpipes and beating of the drum #" "Ah!" "Ah!" "# l had a little hobbyhorse, it was well shod" "# It carried me to London, niddety nod" "# And when we got to London we heard a great shout" "# Down fell my hobbyhorse and I cried out... (Echoing) #" "Oh, God." "Oh, Ross!" "I've told you, I'll go and see tomorrow." "Francis knows nothing about copper, except how to spend it." " Just look at the samples!" " After dinner." " Aren't you going to eat?" " How could I eat?" "Warleggan won't take anything but cash and Pascoe can't raise that much on what I can offer." "If half what Francis said be true..." "Ross!" "I'm worried sick." "You've got to look at the samples." "Su_ace deposit." "Water running down through the old lode picked up copper traces and deposited them below." " Poor old Francis." " What a fool!" "Prudie!" "Where's that lump?" "Prudie!" "It's an easy enough mistake to make." "Easy enough to ruin us." "Prudie!" "Eli's here from Trenwith asking for Master Francis." "Come on." "Excuse me, sir, but Mr Francis' horse came home without him." " Have you searched?" " Along the road." "He went back to Wheal Grace two hours ago." "Said he was going down the old workings." "What the devil's he doing down there?" "I suppose I'd better go and see." "It's like a rabbit warren." "Zacky knows it best." "Eli, come with me." "Zacky, has Mr Francis come up yet?" "He ain't down, sir." " When did you come up?" " About two hour back." " Paul was on afore that." " Oh, my God, I forgotten." " At shift change I forgotten." " He been down there two hour?" " God forgive me." " You can pray later." "Zacky, show me the old workings." " And me, sir." " All right." "But quickly." "Look, sir." "(Ross) Careful, there might have been a fall." "Francis?" " That's what he saw." " Fool's copper." "Oh, my God." "Bring him out." "I'll race you!" "There's something you should know about yourself." "You cannot tell me anything about myself." " You don't know about..." " Daniel's wife?" "But I do." "And I don't care what may have happened in the past." "It is impossible." "Look around you." "Was this ever possible?" "I am responsible for a woman's death." "And a woman's life." "You're as responsible for what happens to me as you are for what happened to her." "And I'm here." "Now." "Forgive me." "Help me." "Caroline..." "Poor Francis Poldark." "Ross has closed Wheal Grace." "Now he has nothing." "I was in Truro last week and Pascoe the banker said he will have to sell Nampara." "Men are so stupid about money." "My dear, we are stupid about everything." "# ..hobbyhorse, it was well shod" "# It carried me to London, niddety nod" "# And when we got to London we heard a great shout... #" "Captain Poldark to see you, ma'am." "Show the Captain in, Mrs Tabb." "Geoffrey, go play in your room." "Hello, Geoffrey." "How are you?" " l see the boy's well." " He's too young to understand." "I wish it might not have happened." "And in that way." "Since we were boys he..." "feared drowning." "He drank enough." " He's gone, let that be enough." " And we're still here." "I've brought you the last accounts for Wheal Grace." "I'll keep it open until the coal is finished, then close it for good." "As half the shares are in your son's name, I need your approval." "There's no money." "I'd sell the land but it's mortgaged." "It'll be gone soon enough." "And Nampara." "How happy we were once together, when it seemed that nothing could ever change." "Were we?" " Weren't we, Ross?" " l can't remember." "Summers without clouds, winters without sorrows." "I wonder if everyone looking back sees the same bright morning, when all the obstacles looked like lost opportunities." "Our life is full of lost opportunities." "Ours?" "We have no life together, you chose Francis." "And you Demelza." "Yes." "We've made a pretty parcel of it all." "But it is made and there's no unmaking it." "My house, my land, my living, they're all gone." " What will you do now?" " What can I do?" "Find somewhere for my wife and child to live." "As for myself..." "What?" "I still have my commission." "I don't give a curse what happens to me." "What will you do now?" "Care for my son," "Trenwith." "I don't know if I'll be able to keep Trenwith." "Warleggan?" "He'll have it all if he can." " l wish you didn't hate him." " l wish I didn't owe him." "He's offered to help me." "What can I do?" "Can you help me, Ross?" "Hah!" "I can't help anyone." "I could once." "Yes, I remember the summers and the winters but why?" "What we have is hard enough without adding what we might have had." "One consolation - it's not you I'm dragging into poverty." " l wouldn't care." " l would." "I do." "That I brought you so far down." "The damned Poldarks." "My God, we are." "Francis damned with too much and I with too little and what there is ready to be sold up around me." "Damned in luck and damned in love." "Love?" "I once knew the meaning of that word." "Tell me." "The sun warming her... the sea washing her... the air caressing her... the earth embracing her." "The child in her arms... the pure joy of living in her heart." "And who is she?" "Ross, who is she?" "I won't ask George Warleggan to help me if you tell me not to." "How can I tell you what to do?" "Do what's best for the boy, he must have the best." "Like Francis." "No, wait." "I have to go to Truro, I'll see Pascoe again, if you'll wait till I return?" "Will you wait, Elizabeth, this time?" "Will you wait for me... this time?" "What am I worth, lock, stock and barrel?" "You're worth nothing until you let me finish." "Now, the probability of war and the consequent rise in the price of copper has interested a client of mine in your situation." "This client proposes to advance you money." "How much?" "A sum to settle your debt, capital and interest to Warleggan." "By God." "And to cover the cost of reopening Wheal Grace and to give you income for an initial period." "I don't believe it." "Would you like me to say it again?" "Very well." " A client..." " l don't believe it." "Who is he, this client?" "It will take all of f2,OOO." " Do you believe it?" " l believe this, sir." "A bond for f2,500 secured against the future profits of Wheal Grace." "So I'm..." "I'm free from the Warleggans?" " Completely free." " Who's done this?" " Is it you?" " Not I, sir." "No, not I." "I wish it might have been." "A client." "A client who does not give a name." "On the bond?" "No name?" "Well, whom am I to thank?" "Providence, sir." "Providence." "I think it's you." "But never mind, I shall thank providence." "Now I'm free, I want to use some money for my cousin's widow." " f600 at once." " No, no, no." "To buy her son's shares." "Say the offer comes from an anonymous client." "And Pascoe, next time you talk to providence, thank him with all my heart." "(Tuts)" "Well, be theys for keeping or for selling?" " Master Charles, Master Joshua." " Mm." "Well, he were a mean old lummox and he weren't much better." " l'd sell 'em both." " Oh, Prudie." "Well, 'tis the ups and downs of life." "They be going down and so be you." "Well, I ain't going anywhere I ain't been before." "But Ross..." "What will I do if he leaves me?" "If he goes back the regiment?" "There ain't nowhere else he can go." " (Dog barking)" " Oh, drat that dog." "(Prudie) Murder that dog." "All these past years." "A-ha!" "What you doing up there?" "What's it look like?" "Full moon. (Laughs)" "You know what they say if you look at one." " You go silly in the head." " l'll take the head, my dear." "I called to ask you to the hunt ball come Martinmas." "Won't be here at Martinmas." " Can't you see we're packing up to go?" " Oh, what for?" "Everything has to be sold up, that's what's for." "Nampara and all." "Ross got himself ruined." "Ruined himself, has he?" "Selling up, is he?" " l might put in a bid." " What for?" "You." "I mean it, Demelza." "I think you do, Sir Hugh." " Well, you could do worse." " l think I could." "Mistress of Werry House." "Not at first, you understand, there's Connie, but in time." "When I became mistress of its master?" "What do you think Ross would think of that?" "If he were looking over Trenwith way, he might say you were doing him a favour." "Think about it." "(Owl hoots)" "(Quiet moaning)" "Mm." "Oh, Ross." "I waited and waited." "Oh." "I was dreaming about the first time you brought me here and I was afraid." "Oh, Ross." "I don't want to leave Nampara." "It's all right for you." "You can go away." "You can go back the regiment." "What about me and Jeremy?" "What's happened?" "Ross?" "Ross, what's happened?" "Something's happened." "If you don't tell me, I won't..." " (Ross laughs)" " Well, I won't." "Cap'n went out early and missus isn't up yet." "She's ruined him." "Lying abed this hour!" "No matter, won't take long to pick out what we want." "Tell your mistress that Sir Hugh's come to make his bid." "(Connie) Hughie." " What do you think about this?" " Nothing." " Won't have it, then." " 'Tis a fine table, me lady." "Might do for the stableboy to sleep under." "Mark it down." "Mark down the firedogs." " Chair any good to you, Hughie?" " What?" " Chair." " Got a chair." " Don't mark down the chair." " That's a settle." " It's bigger than the chair." " There's nothing here." " We've burnt better." " Then what are we here for?" "The livestock." "Go look at the horses." " Thinking about the gelding?" " No, the little mare." "I'll look at both." "Where's your stables?" " Oh, erm, this way, my lady." " Coming, Hughie?" "Sir Hugh." "What are you doing here?" " Come to see if you've decided." " At this hour?" " Connie couldn't wait." "Neither can I." " Ah, that's all over." " Haven't started yet." " Ross ain't ruined no more." "If a man's ruined, he's ruined..." "like a woman." " Well, Ross ain't." " Then why is he selling up?" " We're not selling up." " l've just bought a table." " Who from?" " That woman, what-d'you-call?" "She's selling Connie your horses at this minute." " Ooh, let me down." " Let me up." " She mustn't sell them." " Let's talk upstairs." "The parlour's the place for talking." "All right." "Kiss first, talk after." "Oh, all right." "Close your eyes." "Morning, Mistress Poldark." "Here, missus, sold both the horses and the cow." "Oh, you silly fool." "Why didn't you sell yourself?" "Well, I tried." "I don't know what she's been saying but we ain't selling up." "Neither the house, the horses nor nothing." "Ross ain't ruined no more." " Hughie?" " Well, they were yesterday." "Some people don't know their proper place." "In my day, when you were ruined, you stayed ruined." "Good day to you, ma'am." "Never you mind her." "You just remember, you're still in debt." " What for?" " You owe me a kiss..." " ..with interest." " (Connie) Hughie!" "Missus, what's going on?" "It's no concern o' yourn and you just put everything back." "Selling the horses!" "(Muttering) First we be going, now we be..." " What be these?" " Enough to drive you potty..." "Oh, Prudie." "Prudie, look." " What is it?" " l don't know." "Don't look proper to me." " You have it." " Doesn't fit me." " No, it's...for a man, I do reckon." " Mm." " Maybe Master bought 'em for himself." " Or Jud." "Can you see him in it?" "He'd look like a radish." " (Ross) Was that the Bodrugans?" " Aye." "Come to look us over." " Demelza, what are you doing?" " l don't know." "Are they yours?" "They're for you." "They're the latest fashion from France." " Ooh." " You wear them underneath." "What, where no one can see 'em?" "Trencrom sent word Mark Daniel's been found." "He's in Ireland but he'll come to the Scilly Isles to meet me." " Trencrom's cutter sails there tonight." " How long will you be gone?" "A week." "She'll land her cargo at the cove and we'll store it here." "That ain't safe, Ross." "It's pe_ectly safe." "Kempthorne says there hasn't been an excise man for months." "'Tis right, ma'am, be safe enough." "Must you go tonight?" "I have to see Mark Daniel." "You won't see me in my thing." "Bad weather, bad times." "You can't change the weather." "All else be of our own making and marring." "Been put upon us by providence." "So we be fools enough to believe." "I expect it's providence makes the laws that puts poor men in prison and lets the rich go free." "Providence made my brother Mark Daniel a murderer, not Enys." " No, not him." " Don't say a word against him." " Hold tha tongue, girl." " Well, they were good to me." "She said I might go to her house." " You'll marry Charlie Kempthorne." " Don't want to." "Ee be my daughter and ee'll do what I tell ee." "Oh." "Old Noah hisself never saw such rain." "What news?" "They'll be landing at Nampara Cove Saturday night." "We carry the goods and hide them in the house." "Tell Zacky." "And watch yourselves." "There's soldiers in Illogan." "Someone must have been talking." "Was a mistake to carry Poldark." "Ah, he's safe enough." "'Tis his skin as well as ours." "He helped your brother escape." "I do trust none of 'em." "Phew." "This cold gets into me." "I should see the doctor." "Thee wants a wife to keep thee warm." " Hear that?" "Charlie be cold." " Let him jump in the fire." "I'll have the hide off ee!" "I'll show ee what goes in fire." "Nay!" "Nay, she gave 'un me!" " Aye." "And I burn 'un." " My baby doll!" "Burn." "Let's burn 'em all." "You'll have to marry me now." "I'd have married you five minutes after I met you." "What?" "You were on your high horse because I asked you to look at poor Horace." "I don't think I would have married poor Horace." "Caroline, are you sure?" "It won't be an easy life." "But it will be a life with you, Dwight." "I've had what you call an easy life." "And what I call an empty life." "When there's no one to please but yourself you become very hard to please." "Are you sure?" "My love for you now and always is as fixed as fate." "I have accepted that when we are married and gone away from here, I shall be dependent on you." "We've been over that." "I must be honest. I don't want to run away like a thief." " The slightest deception..." " l hate deception." "Deceive others, you deceive yourself." "And what will they say?" "That I married you for money." "What?" "When I give up f40,OOO by marrying you?" "Dwight." "It's all arranged." "On Saturday night, we leave together in my coach." "We are married in London." "I write to my uncle..." " Let me speak to him now." " And he'll say no." "And I'll be watched." "And if I defy him openly, he'll never speak to me again." " Whereas if we..." " If we elope, in time, he will come round and leave you all his money." "(Sighs) lt may seem strange to you, but I care for the old gentleman." "I don't want to hurt him." "I will for you...but no more than I possibly can." "Poor Dwight." "You want everyone to think well of you and they won't." "You want everyone to be happy and they're not." "You want to be good but you can't be." "I don't want to be good now." "Then it's time I was going." "You may kiss me once, very passionately, then you must be patient, Doctor." "(Man) # A wind doth blow this way, my love" "# To fill thee from the main # l never had but one true love" "# In cold grave she was lain" "# In cold grave she was lain, my love" "# A thousand miles away # l never had but one true love" "# She was by my hand slain" "# She was by my hand slain, my love" "# Now lonely l remain" "# Till I go to my one true love" "# And Christ shall make us twain #" "(Laughter)" "# Our boots and clothes are all in pawn" "# Go down!" "Ye blood red roses, go down!" "# It's mighty draughty round Cape Horn" "# Go down!" "Ye blood red roses, go down!" "# Oh, you pinks and poses... #" "Mark Daniel." "I never thought to see you again." "I should have been dead by now." "God have mercy on me." " You paid for what you did." " Not in a thousand years." "Your brother sends his greetings and the Paynters," "Zacky Martin, my wife." "I have a son now, Mark." "Come, man, will you take a drink?" "Tell me what you've been doing." "I've killed her every moment since that moment." "Every hour since that hour." "I've killed her over and over again." "Whether 'twas one country or another, 'twas always the same." "Don't tell me of yourself or them others, tell me of her." " Did ee put a stone on her?" " Yes." "With her name, nothing else." "Ee should have put "Killed by Mark Daniel"." " For God's sake, man." " For God's sake?" "What do ee want of me?" "Whatever a dead man can do, I'll do for ee." "I must take you back to that day you hid down Wheal Grace." "You said you saw copper." "You remember?" "Mark, I've re-opened the mine." "Henshawe and I, Zacky and the others, we've been all over it and found nothing." "Now, I've money but it'll soon be gone." "I must strike copper or there'll be no mine, no work." "You know what that means." "I'm relying on you to tell me what you saw and where." " Do you understand?" " 'Tis over four year ago." " l were half out of my mind." " Well, think back." "You went down the main shaft." "I went down the main shaft." "There were a tunnel leading to the east, ground looked good." "That's where we sunk the new shaft." "There was copper but it was poor and barely worth working." " Was that all?" " Nay." " There were the big 'un." " Where?" "I had other things to think on. I had just... I went back to the main shaft." "And along her as far as she'd go." "(Mark) 'l had nothing to do but wait#" "(Echoing voices)" "'Then I heard soldiers." "'So I..." "I opened up the entrance to a gunnis." "'l had a bit of candle with me." "'l climbed through her." "Come out in a tunnel." ""Twas wide enough for a man and deep." ""Twere right under the old lode, I reckon." ""Twere dripping wet and winders was full of water." "'lt was dangerous ground and at the end..#" "Ee've been there." "Mr Francis found the same place." "He died there - drowned." "God rest him." "Did he strike copper?" "There are signs." "Good signs." "(Singing from within)" "Ee opened up the mine cos of me and it killed your cousin." "I've been cursing all them that know me." "I'm as much to blame as anyone." "If we could see the consequences of our actions..." "Mark, you can't go on living under this burden of guilt." "I pray God, no." "Leave me now by myself, I'll be no company for ee." "Do you need anything?" "Money?" "I shall be sailing on Saturday." "Do you have a message for anyone?" "Go to her - her as I killed." "Tell her..."Soon."" "Dwight." "Thank you, Prudie." " l came to see Ross." " Oh, he's not here." "He'll be back tomorrow, though." "Was it something important?" "We've known each other a long time, I can trust you." "There are no secrets between us." "Ross has gone to St Mary's, in the Scillies." "He's gone to see Mark Daniel." "It's about Wheal Grace, I'm sorry." "But he'll be coming back on Trencrom's boat tomorrow." " They land at midnight." " That's dangerous." " l've seen that officer there." " He's harmless enough." "Ross'll be back here on Sunday." "I shall be gone by then." "You see, I have a secret, too." "Demelza, I've come to say goodbye." "Tomorrow..." "You're going to marry Caroline Penvenen." " You know?" " There's not a rabbit pops its head out and somebody knows." "Two people on horseback, well." "Oh, Dwight, I'm so happy for you." "For both of you." "Well, I only hope your secret is safer than mine." "We meet at midnight at Kilwarren." "We travel to London and are married. I'll write to you." "You'll be back, though." "I'd like to, Demelza, but how can I?" "How can I ask her to live on the edge of her uncle's estate, the very man we're about to deceive?" " It's unthinkable." " Where will you go?" "I'll set up a practice in London or Bath." "I expect they'll have different illnesses there." "They suffer from too much instead of too little but I'll do my best to relieve them." "Will you tell Ross and all the people here who trust me?" "And we do trust you." "You've done so much to help us all." "You belong here and we love you." "I'll always remember that." "But you know I shan't come back." "Tomorrow, my life will change." "Nothing will be the same after tomorrow." "Thank you, Charlie." "You been here long, have ee?" "Came to see Rosina, didn't I?" "Been looking after him, have ee, girl?" "Got a good man there." "You don't want to lose him." "She won't lose me." "(Jacka) Be a cold night tonight." "Cold and dark, eh, Charlie?" " Too cold for me." " Too cold for the excise." " l reckon we'll have a clear run." " Aye." "You all right?" "You see the surgeon, did ee?" " l saw him." " What he say?" "Said I should stay in bed." "Said I had the fever coming on me." " The fever?" " Aye." "Ee shouldn't be coming out with us, man." "Ee should be home in a bed like ee told ee." "But Jacka, I lose my share if I ain't there." "Ee don't want to worry about that." "We look after ee, Charlie, ee do know that." "As I'd look after ee." "'Tis kind of you, Jacka." "Goodbye, Rosina, dear." " Ain't you gonna say goodbye?" " Goodbye." "I'll call and see you tomorrow, if I be well." "Take care of yourself." " Poor old Charlie." " (Coughing)" "He did ought to keep his fever to hisself." "He's a loving man, coming to see ee." "Give him that." " l'll give him nothing." " l've told ee." " l don't care." " You'll care what I tell ee." " l don't love him!" " You'll love who I tell ee to!" " l won't!" " You will!" "Uncle, why did you never marry?" "Well, my dear, not all pretty women have pretty fortunes." "Besides, I've had you to take care of these last 20 years." " Had I accepted Mr Trevaunance..." " No, no." "You were right to turn him down." "You deserve a better man." "If I should meet a better man and marry him, we should always want to come and see you and stay with you," " if you want." " Of course you will, my dear." "Nothing'll make me happier than to have you here." "And bring all my grandnephews and nieces with you." "Dear Uncle Pen." "You haven't called me that since you were a little girl." "I'm selfish, keeping you down here, out of the way of the things that young people enjoy." "Plays at the theatre, dances, riding in the park." "Oh, I don't want those things." "We'll go up to London and stay with your Uncle William." "I owe him a visit." "And you'll have the town at your feet." "I have several old friends who'll be only too glad to receive Miss Caroline Penvenen." "Uncle, don't make any plans for me." " Why ever not, my dear?" " Please, Uncle." "I know how you hate London." "You stay here and be happy and healthy by your own fireside." "And you, Caroline?" "I'll stay with you while I can." "And then forget whatever promises I've made and whatever hopes you've had of me and whatever comfort I might have been to you." "Remember Caroline, who loves her Uncle Pen." "What's this?" "I've made my will, my dear." "I'm not gonna change it now." "It'll all be yours." "I wasn't thinking of your will, I was making mine." "(Banging)" "Rosina." "Rosina, what has happened?" "Come in." "Sit there, put your head forward." "(Moans)" "Come on." "Sit up." "Who has done this to you?" "Hm?" "Rosina, you must tell me." " My father." " Why?" "Cos I said I wouldn't marry Charlie Kempthorne." "And he beat you like this." "Where is he now?" "Gone down to the beach." "'Tis the night the boat comes in." "Of course." "As soon as he'd gone, I slipped out." "And I ran all the way." "I would have gone to Kilwarren but 'tis too far." " Why there?" " Cos the lady said I could." "Isn't there somewhere else you could go, somewhere in Sawle?" "Rosina, Miss Penvenen and I are going away this evening." "I must leave soon." "What about Zacky Martin?" "He's a good man." "He be with t'others." "Well, who is in Sawle tonight?" "The women." "They won't take me in for fear of their menfolk." "There's none." "None but Kempthorne hisself." "Why isn't he down on the beach?" "He be sick with the fever, you do know that." "No, I don't know it." "He said ee told him to stay indoor, else he'd have been down to meet the captain." "Captain Poldark?" "Rosina, are you sure?" "That he said that, that he'd seen me?" "I heard him say so hisself." "Why?" "Why should he lie to keep out of the way tonight?" "Rosina, what are they going to do?" "They be taking goods to Nampara." "Let me come." "Was there talk of soldiers?" "Charlie says he'd seen some at Illogan." " Let me come with ee." " You'll come as far as Sawle." "There is just time." "Go back to your father's." " Oh, no, I don't..." " Hurry." "Rosina, you must." "Come with me, come on." "(Banging)" "(Enys) Kempthorne!" "(Banging)" "(Enys) Kempthorne, open the door!" "(Banging persists)" "(Enys) Let me in, Kempthorne." "Ee cannot come in. I've got the fever." "(Enys) This is Dr Enys, Kempthorne." "Open the door." "Or I'll wake the village." "They can hear what I have to say." "I be coming." "Did someone send ee cos l be sick?" "You're not sick, not of a fever, anyway." "You lied as an excuse not to go with the other men." "Why?" "What is going to happen?" " l be sweating with the fever." " Sweating with fear." "You've been found out." "What is going to happen tonight?" "Come on, I've no time to waste on you." "It's the soldiers, isn't it?" "They're not at Illogan, they're at Nampara." " How should I know?" " You told them to be there." "I be Trencrom's man." "I didn't ought to set a trap for him." "You would if you were paid enough." "Answer me!" "Ee be mad." "Mad, cos ee fancies Rosina Hoblyn." "Like t'other girl, Keren Daniel." "And I'd taken Rosina." "If I did earn a bit o' gold on the side, who's gonna know?" "I isn't gonna talk." "And you'll find it hard with your throat cut." "There be soldiers at Nampara." "They'll take the lot of them." " Your friends, too." " More for them that's left." "There's no way, Doctor." "I've killed a man afore and it ain't such a terrible thing." "When they find the body, I'll tell them it was ee that told the soldiers." "All round, 'tis lucky you came." "Oh!" "Oh, my leg." "I've broke my leg, Doctor." "Doctor!" "Argh!" "Oh!" " (Man) She be late." " Anchored round the point." "(Zacky) Can't see aught." "Should have a man on the cliff." "(Zacky) That be Charlie's post." "He be sick." "He bain't the only one is sick tonight." "Here she comes." "Soldiers!" "(Enys) Soldiers!" "Soldiers!" "Soldiers!" "(Footsteps)" "Pull, damn you, pull." "Get down, man." "Heave away." "Heave away." "(Captain) Heave." " (Man) Betrayed." " (2nd man) We be done for." "(Ross) God be with you." "Ah, curse the man that lit that fire." " We'll pick him up." " l wanted the smugglers," " not a handful of wretches." " One man came ashore, sir." "I think he's the last man I want to see behind bars." "They're foreigners, sir." "These Cornishers are all foreigners." "Has it occurred to you that here, you're the foreigner?" "(Shouting)" "(Gunshot)" "Come on, you'll get yours!" "(Coughs, breathing heavily)" "(Distant shouting)" " Damn you, let go!" " Shut up!" "You don't understand, what time is it?" " Time?" " Yes!" "It's near six o'clock." "You won't need to know the time for the next two years." " Shall we move the prisoners?" " Not yet." " You've not taken...?" " Not your Captain Poldark but we shall." "I know where he means to go to earth." "Right, Sergeant, assemble your men." "She be standing out to sea." "I reckon the Captain's still aboard." " Who else did you see?" " Soldiers." " Where?" " Most of 'em coming this way." "I wouldn't give the back end of a dog for his chances." "Missus." "Ross." "Oh, you're home." "You're soaking." "There be soldiers coming here." " l must hide." " The cache." " Jud, come and help." " Aye." " Watch it." " That's it." " Get it up." " Prudie." " The floor." " Oh." "Dear Lord, protect us." "Oh, we be only... only be little sinners." " You've no right..." " l've every right." " Your husband is a criminal." " My husband's in Truro" " and he'll make you answer..." " Search the house." " Put a guard in every room." " Upstairs." " You will not go into my child's room!" " Every room." " Bring the injured prisoners in here." " Come with me." " Injured?" " Aye." "If you want to make yourself useful, you can tend to them." "What have you done?" "Shot down poor, innocent men?" "One of my soldiers has been killed." "Seven or eight wounded." "My plan has been wrecked by one misguided gentleman and I've been up all night, and so have you it seems." "So I'm in no mood for your protestations of innocence." " l know Poldark is here." " l tell you, he's in Truro." "I've seen him within this last hour and so have you." " Come, ma'am, be sensible." " (Door closes)" "Tell me where he is and save trouble and bloodshed." "(Coughs)" "All right, I'll be sensible." "You're only doing your duty and I was doing mine by my husband." "Captain Poldark is not in Truro." " Missus." " Ah, that's better." "Och, he's not a bad man but he has a disregard for the law." "Well, let's be done with it - where is he?" " St Ives." " (Sniggers)" "Devil take you, ma'am." "The devil's a Cornishman and he'll take you first." "You there!" "Come back here." " What's your name?" " l'll mind it in a minute." " My men will mind it for you." " Jud Paynter." "Where is Captain Poldark?" "He be one place or t'other." "Neither above ground nor below it." "Aye, you've told me enough, you old fool." "Hey, you can't treat my house as if you own it." "Aye, can I not, mistress?" "Well, you see, I do." "And I make this my headquarters." "You there, bring me a chair." "Nah, put it...there." "You cannot make a fool of a Scotsman." "Here I am and here I stay, until I've got my man." "Aye, well, I'll have my wine now, ma'am, if you please." "(Moans)" "Dwight." "Are you all right?" "Ross?" " He's all right." " Thank God." " What about you and Caroline?" " Sh...she'll understand." " l pray God she'll understand." " (Man whispers) Missus." "We were betrayed." "They knew all there was to know." "Sit still." "The captain - do they know that, too?" "I don't know." "Maybe not." "There was Jud, Zacky, myself..." " and Charlie Kempthorne." " Shh." "Prudie, bring me a basin of cold water." "What has to be done will be done." "There be soldiers all about Nampara." "They've took Paul Daniel," ", Will Nanfan, Ned Bottrill" "Scobey Whitehead," "Ted Garkick, Pally Rogers..." " Dr Enys." " Oh, no." "'Twas he that lit the fire that give us the warning." "(Jacka) And the captain?" "I don't know." "But 'tis bad enough." "I spoke with one of the soldiers." "He told me they knowed all they wanted from an informer." "(Zacky) Has he said aught?" "Not a word." "But this says all." "Do we leave him for Trencrom or deal with him ourselves?" "Trencrom's men got away." "Ours was took." "It is for us to try him." " The old way?" " Aye." "The old way." "To mark the time and to give him a fair trial." "Them that wishes to speak against Kempthorne has till the candle be half gone." "Them that wishes to speak for him, has the other half." "For judgment, if the candle burn down to the water, he be innocent." "If it burn down afore that he be guilty." "God be the judge." "Who speaks first?" "Rosina." "Nay, girl, be not afeared." "I did wrong to ee." "Tell 'em what you told me." "Charlie said he were sick of fever but 'tweren't true." "My father beat me and I ran to the doctor's." "He said he hadn't seen Charlie and he'd come to Sawle with me." "Cap'n, the man shot in the leg must be taken to hospital." " Oh, he will be, ma'am." " But what if it's too late?" " What if it has to be cut off?" " That's not my responsibility." "Captain Poldark is here." "You tell me where and I'll be on my way." "If you're so sure, why don't you take him?" " You show me where he is." " You mean betray me husband." "You tried to make a fool of me," "Mademoiselle Demelza, and I don't forgive you that." "Now I'll show you which of us is the fool." " That is your duty, I suppose." " No, that's my pleasure." " Well, a pox on your pleasure!" " Not the language of a lady." "It was not for the ears of a gentleman." "(Moaning)" "Never." "Never!" "(Man) The soldiers was all round us." "They knowed the time, they knowed the place." "(Jacka) They knowed to go to Nampara after." "Now, who coulda told 'em that, eh?" "None but Kempthorne." " (All) Aye." " And who had a bag o' gold?" "None but Kempthorne." "Kempthorne!" "I beat this girl o' mine because she would not wed him." "The rat." "(Zacky) Is there anyone else to speak?" "The time be nearly gone." "Who speaks for him?" "Then let he speak for hisself." "Bring him to the table." "Man, 'tis thy life." "I done naught. I be innocent." "Speak up, man." "Where'd ee get the gold?" "Innocent." "Have ee naught else to say?" "(Kempthorne) I be innocent." "I be innocent." "(Gasping, sighing)" "'Tis so. 'Tis so. I did it." "So be it." " (Woman) Curse on ee, traitor!" " (All) Aye." "Curse ee for my man taken prisoner." " (All shouting) - (Woman) You Judas!" "Leave him be!" "'Tis enough, what will be done." "(Muttering)" "(Jeering)" "Be the old way." "When Zacky marked it, he cut right through the wick." "Come, daughter." " Sir." " What do you want?" "The wounded men are in the wagon." " To reach camp we should leave now." " We'll leave when I say so." " Yes, sir." "Only..." " Only nothing, Sergeant." "Prudie, the Captain will be hungry when he gets back." " Go and prepare his dinner." " Stay where you are." "You may think you're clever but I know you're not." "You think you're saving Poldark." "You're as likely killing him." "He may be in his grave already." "You think you've been fooling me, the only ones you've been fooling are yourselves." "Prudie, when you can go to the kitchen, prepare a warming pan for the master's bed." "It's a cold, long ride from St Ives." "(Seagulls crying)" "Sergeant!" " Sir?" " Bring two men and two guards for a prisoner and prepare to march." "Sir." "(Sergeant) You two men, upstairs!" "Take it up." "Take up the floorboards." "Captain Poldark, you must come up now!" "(Demelza) Ross!" "Ross?" "Where is he?" "Ross!" " Ross!" " They be goin'!" "Ross." "We be down as far as we can go without more drainage." "She be filling up faster than the pumps can empty her." "Besides, lode's finished near to nothing." "I do reckon we've only brought up enough ore to pay half wages this week." "Captain Henshawe said we should look again at the old workings." " Could be as I agree with him." " l don't." " It's that or bringing in a new pump." " l can't afford it." " We've got to do something." " You mean I have to do something." " You be the master." " Yes." "Who else is there for us to look to?" "It's not as if we ain't willing to do all we can." "I've been talking to the men." "We'd work for less if it'd help." "No, Zack." "It's good of you." "But you must think of your families." " Those without their menfolk." " Oh, aye." "Them that was left by them that was took by the soldiers." " Have we any word of them?" " l saw them in Bodmin jail." "All the wounded have recovered thanks to Dr Enys." "Bar Paul Daniel, his leg's worse." " What will happen to 'em?" " The assizes are next week." " No chance of them getting off." " None at all." " It'll be transportation for them." " At the worst." "Or ten years in some filthy prison like the one that killed Jim Carter." " If you were in my position..." " No." "No, Captain." "It's times like these I thank God for it." "What did Zacky want?" " Answers." " What answers?" " l don't have any." " You do, Ross!" "You've all the answers." "Do I?" "Am I a sort of Providence?" "If so, God help me." "There's only coal to run the pump for two weeks." "The money's finished!" "If there was more, what's the use?" " She'll flood." "If it goes on raining..." " You don't have to tell me." "That's the end of Wheal Grace." "The last working mine in the area." "Men and families driven away by poverty, Sawle a deserted village." " Crumbling chimneys in an empty land." " For God's sake, man." "Let me blast that old tunnel." "I saw a trace of copper." "I'd stake my reputation on it." "On a fool's dream." "Stay and have a bite with us." "I thought you'd take the chance." "You, of all people." "(Door closes)" "A starry-gazy pasty." "Well, eat it." "Ross, if Wheal Grace goes..." " It's my loss, Demelza." " It ain't only yours." "There's the man who lent you f2,OOO just to keep her open and somebody who owns half the shares." "Elizabeth?" "We held them in trust for Geoffrey Charles but I bought them back." " What with?" " l used f600 from the loan l was given." " You gave her f600?" " For Geoffrey Charles." "Francis put his last 600 into Wheal Grace and left them with nothing." " Trenwith!" " Mortgaged to Warleggan." "You owe her nothing!" "She was Francis' wife, the mother of his son." "I'm your wife, the mother of your son!" " She's a Poldark." " You mean, she's Elizabeth!" "Oh, eat your pasty." "I don't want it." "Why don't you just let Henshawe blast the tunnel?" " There may be..." " It's dangerous." "You can't tell with an old mine." "It's damned unpredictable." " Like a woman." " Not like a man, I suppose?" "A man acts straight and to the point." "Like Enys in the cove." "He did what had to be done." " But Caroline..." " She thought he'd changed his mind." "So she changed hers and went off and made them both miserable." "Men don't change their minds so easily." "She ruined his happiness." "He should be very happy he was only fined and not sent to Botany Bay like Paul Daniel and the rest." "Poor devils." "There's those men's wives and children, Ross." "The only living they've got is from Wheal Grace." "Oh, but as you say, it's dangerous." "And you won't let Henshawe blast the tunnel, will you?" "Very well." "He can blast his head off if he likes." "I'm going up to the mine." "Well, don't be late home." "(Door slams)" "Yes, I'm lonely sometimes." "It's kind of you." "You deserve more than kindness." "I wish I could do more to help." "Pascoe told me you'd sold your shares." "For little enough." "You can't imagine what it costs to run Trenwith, the interest on the mortgage." "is Warleggan pressing you for payment?" " No." " Do you see him?" "One can't help seeing people." "In other people's houses, in Truro sometimes." "Very occasionally." "Does he come here?" "Why would anyone come here?" "You're no longer in mourning, you're still a young, beautiful woman." "You sound like the old gossips in the village." " What do they say?" " That I'm looking for another husband." "Are you?" "Forgive me, Elizabeth." "There's a devil in me that makes me say and do the wrong things" " where you're concerned." " Oh, Ross." "That devil has the same effect on me." "Now, please..." "What would you make me do?" "Nothing. I can't make you do anything, can I?" "That devil isn't so devilish after all." "Here's a pe_ect opportunity to catch two souls for perdition." " Stop it, Elizabeth." " Perhaps we're already caught." "And our hell is each other." "And that unchristian gentleman laughs at us for fearing to do" " what we're already damned for." " Stop it!" "But it's too late." "Isn't it?" "Mr Warleggan to see you, ma'am." "I'm not your first visitor today." "Er..." "Ross advises me on how to run the estate." "He comes to see me occasionally." " Er..." "Did he see you?" " l took care that he shouldn't." "There's no point in a confrontation that could only cause you embarrassment." "Forgive me, but he's the last man to advise anyone on anything." "His own situation is desperate." "Ross likes to live on the edge of the pit." "Too hot a place for most of us." "I wish you'd take my advice." " l do. I couldn't manage without you." " Only in business matters." "I wish it might be in everything." " Elizabeth..." " Please, George." "Geoffrey wrote to me from his new school." "It seems he's made friends with Lord Redford's son." "He has servants and horses." "Geoffrey was overwhelmed..." " l've never pretended..." " He writes of going to London." "I've spent my life...making money." "I know it's fashionable to despise money but what if a man can trace his ancestors back to the ark, and find that Noah was a carpenter if he has no money?" "No title can buy servants and horses." "Money can buy both." "And a title." "Elizabeth, let me spend my money making a life for you." "No, don't answer me yet." "There's no need to answer me yet." "I have waited so long." "I have loved you so long, Elizabeth." "I have seen your brightness dimmed by poverty and your spirit dulled by neglect." "I've longed to give you that setting in society you deserve." "No, please, don't answer me yet." "But if you wish to be the greatest lady in the county, with a house in London where your boy might bring friends..." "No, please, don't answer me yet." "He would be my son, Elizabeth, and heir to all my money." "I've waited, my dear." "I've suppressed those instincts strong in a man like me to go to other women." "All my love is yours." "No, please, don't say a word." "All my wealth, my influence, and my power are yours." "Don't answer me yet." " Where did you go this afternoon?" " Nowhere." " Darkie came home in a sweat." " Trenwith." " Why?" " l had business with Elizabeth." "What business, Ross?" "I don't inte_ere with how you run the house and bring up Jeremy," " we each have our own lives." " More than that." "It's a poor person only lives for himself." "I have three lives." "The one least dear to me of the three is my own." " Tell me, Ross." " There's nothing to tell." "I went to Trenwith, I talked to Elizabeth, I came away." "Will you go again?" "Well?" "It's so peaceful." "That's what attracted me." "This is your land?" "We've been on my land for the last half-hour." "That's where l'll build my house." "Between the river and the woods." "The plans are ready." "They're only waiting for a word." "When I was a young girl... lt was not so long ago but it seems ages." "I had the same romantic dream that most girls have." "A castle, on the cliffs above the sea." "With some Sir Galahad?" "Most girls dream of Sir Lancelot." "And then they wake up in an empty house, on a cold rock above a cruel sea." "They don't dream again." "I'm not offering you a dream." "Elizabeth, will you marry me?" "Answer me." "Now." "Yes." "We killed up on Sawle Moor." "The vixen went to earth, so we thought we'd come here while they dig her out." "Where's your captain?" "He should have joined us." " The Scotsman did." " Ross don't hunt." "I hear he hunts the figgy pudding in the dark." "And her with a face like St Agnes." "Well, we all know where lambs come from." "Thank you, ma'am." "'Tis a pleasure to see you again." "Are you coming to the ball Saturday week?" " If Ross lets me out." " Let him let himself out and let me in." "I saw your kinswoman in Truro." "The one married to a captain." " Verity?" " She was as big as a barrel." "She was with Elizabeth Poldark, the widow." "I reckon she won't be a widow for long." "She was buying a wedding dress." " (Horn)" " They've dug out the vixen." "Come on." "We'll miss the sport." "Don't forget, I'm keeping a gallop for you." "Well, Mistress Poldark, have you not a word for me?" "You played me a fine trick but forgive and forget." "Here's my hand on it." "There's an old Scottish saying " ""Give a man a crumb, he'll try and take the whole loaf."" "What's Scottish about that?" " The pertinacity!" " (Horn)" " l cannot write to him." " You must tell Ross yourself." " How can I?" "It's the last..." " Simply and straightforwardly." "Yes, you're very simple and straightforward." " l hope so." " When it suits you, Verity." "But not when you ran off with Captain Blamey." "You asked me to stay here until the marriage." " Of which you obviously disapprove." " You're my brother's widow." "What feelings I have are second to my duty to be with you." " There must be one Poldark at the feast." " Write to Ross." "Or else you may find there is another." "I think he will accept the situation if you write to him." "Ross!" "As if there were some wild demon out there to be placated." "Shall we have a Helston Flurry and sacrifice a virginity to fetch the summer home?" "I would have done it once." "You're going to marry George Warleggan." "Yes!" "Oh, why don't you say what you're thinking?" "That I'm marrying for money?" "I thought, perhaps for your son." "You Poldarks are a pious lot of hypocrites." "Oh, I can marry Warleggan for my son's sake, he's a Poldark." "Francis can ruin himself, Ross can marry a kitchen wench and you can throw yourself away on a drunkard - you're all Poldarks!" "But I, I cannot gratify my desire for money or a man without you turn away your eyes for shame." "I must make my excuses and apologise to Ross." " l asked you merely..." " To beg for his forgiveness." " No!" " If I write to him at all I'll say I don't need him any more." "Do it gently." " Elizabeth, Ross is..." " Is what?" "A failed man angry with himself for not being greater than he is." "I'm going to marry a great man." "And, in time, a titled one." "You're all such little people." "I hope we are. I hope we know we are." "But we can love as well as lords and ladies and when we die, our loved ones weep real tears." "Aye, and your child will be born on a Friday." "Oh, what must I write?" "That Fate has been cruel to you." "That you must live in the world." "That you must consider the future and provide for Geoffrey Charles." "That Mr Warleggan made an offer of marriage which, taking all these things into account, you have accepted." "That you trust he will see the reason for this measure, and continue with his friendship which you value." " Are you writing that?" " No." "is that the letter you wrote when you ran off with Captain Blamey?" "No, I am a different woman." ""Ross. I will marry George Warleggan." ""Nothing but this can save me from a life of desolation." ""You cannot stop me." ""Your one-time cuz, Elizabeth."" "Are you so unhappy?" "I am ecstatic!" "Ma'am!" "Ma'am!" "There's someone to see you, ma'am!" "(Prudie) Missus..." "Missus!" "'Tis Mistress Blamey!" "Miss Verity as was!" "Prudie." "Oh, look at the mess." "Run down and tell her to wait." " l couldn't wait!" " Oh!" " Demelza." " Verity!" " Well, look!" " She be carrying high up." " Be a boy, I do reckon." " Go and make some tea." "Oh, it's the best thing in the world." " l think so." " Oh, not him, he's a monster." "Say something to your Aunt Verity." "Go on!" "Oh, go on!" "He never speaks when you ask him to." " Like Ross." " Mm." " How's Andrew?" " He's well." "Demelza, it's everything I hoped it would be." "And you made it possible." "Well, if we'd left it to Francis and Andrew..." " You staying at Trenwith?" " Mm." " How's Elizabeth?" " She seems well enough." "Oh." " Well, give me all your news." " Oh, it's ridiculous!" "I mean, my days are so full up and I can't remember what with!" "When Andrew's at home, we..." "Oh, Demelza, they're such little things yet they mean everything to me." "I never hoped to have a husband." "A family." "I know I'm happy." "That's happiness, isn't it?" " Something you know and can't say." " Mm." "Happiness and unhappiness." " Where's Ross?" " Oh, he's at Wheal Grace." "Well, I think he's at Wheal Grace." "They're blasting a new tunnel." " Verity..." " What is it, my dear?" "You can say it to me." "I've known Ross longer than you have." " So has Elizabeth." " Elizabeth?" "Ross and Elizabeth." "You know." "What is it?" "What do you think I know?" "That Ross and Elizabeth are lovers." " Oh no." "You're so wrong." " They are. I know they are." "Verity, I'm so unhappy." "What are you laughing for?" " George?" " Yes, George." " Warleggan?" " George Warleggan." " Mrs Warleggan?" " She thinks it's Lady Warleggan." "What?" "Are they giving knighthoods for shoeing horses?" " Please may I have my tea?" " Ross!" "What will Ross say?" " Tea!" " Who will tell him?" "Elizabeth's written a letter." "You can give it to him this evening." "Warleggan!" "Oh!" "What a fool!" " Elizabeth is not a fool." " Well, then, he is." "They're bound to be miserable." "She'll be rich and he'll be miserable." "Where will they live?" "At the Warleggans'?" "Trenwith, until George builds his house." " A Warleggan at Trenwith?" " Demelza!" "It's been Warleggan against Poldark, Poldark against Warleggan for years!" "My dear, Trenwith was once my home." "I've no feud with George, nor should you have." "Remember Francis and Andrew's feud." "What good did that do?" "George is not an enemy." "Well, you tell Ross." "You tell Ross that Elizabeth, his love, is going to marry George, his enemy." " He may have loved her once." " Well, where is he now?" " You said he was at Wheal Grace!" " Or Wheal Elizabeth." "I can't abide this hatred, Demelza." "I can't be reasonable when you are not and go on arguing." "Oh, I'm sorry, Verity." "I've got the blue devils, I've crossed them somewhere." "I shouldn't put it on to you." "Well, I have blue devils of my own." "If there's a war, if Andrew has to go far away." "If I'm alone." "There's enough trouble in the world without inventing it." "My dear, everything will be all right." "You'll see." "Here's the letter for Ross." "I'll see him before I return to Falmouth." "Tell him not to be too angry." "It'll be all right." " Kiss Jeremy for me." " Yes." "Everything will be all right." " What if I called it off?" " You couldn't do it, Cap'n." "The powder." "The taste and the smell gets into your brain." "And drives you to the devil's deed." "Aye." "Get back up the old shaft." "There'll be 30 seconds clear after the fuse is lit." "Gently, Zacky, or we'll all be singing hallelujah." "Aye." "Or crying, "Hell, it's hot!"" "God in His mercy, give us grace." "Give me two minutes." "Then I'll be coming up myself." "Fast." " l'll light the fuses." " Owner's privilege." " Oh, thank God for that." " 20 seconds to go." "Get through the back." "We can't be sure she'll hold." " Ten." " Here." "Now!" "(Wind whistling)" " Damn you!" " Them fuses were in tight." " Not you." " You lit them." "Are you accusing me?" "If you doubted my ability you could have taken that risk." " l don't know what's wrong either." " l suppose you want me to find out." " It'd be madness to go down there!" " The whole idea was mad." " Mad and bad." "Bad work, sir!" " It's my responsibility." "I said it was my responsibility." "I'm going back down." "Ah!" "No, sir." "No!" "It isn't safe yet." "Give it an hour or two!" "I'm going down." "Get back!" "Get back, it's going!" "(Coughing)" "(Ross) I'll tell Henshawe's people." "There'll be a service at the mine." " We could get him out." " The mine's closed, Zacky." " This is the last money they'll get." " We might salvage something." "Let it lie there." "Jud will go with you to Sawle." "There's something for every family." " Might see them through the winter." " You've given every last penny!" " Some won't take it." " They'll do me no favour by it." "(Zacky) Captain!" "You're right." "There's no time for fine words and favours." "I bid ee good night." "Henshawe's folk live in Truro." "Leave it for tonight, Ross." "You might write something they'll misunderstand and regret it." " It wasn't your fault." " What difference between killing a man" " and letting him kill himself?" " You couldn't have stopped it." "I could have stopped him." "Demelza, the money I was loaned, I kept back f200." "I'm going to send it to Henshawe's family." " It means we'll have nothing." " It means we'll have no money." "It's little enough for a man's life." "I could have stopped him." "There was a sort of compulsion." "As if what was to happen somehow took us over, possessed us." " As if some devil..." " Now, Ross." " He said I couldn't stop it..." " For God's sake, Ross." "Oh, that's nothing." "Verity brought it." "It's not important." "I didn't want you to see it tonight." " You know what she says?" " Verity told me." " l can't let it happen." " Ross." "I must stop her. I'm going to talk to her." " Tomorrow." " Now." " It's too late now." " She needs my advice." "Does she ask for your advice?" "In a letter saying she's going to marry George Warleggan?" " Don't go to her, Ross." " You don't understand." "I'm going to talk to her, to stop her." "I'm the only one who can stop her." "If you go to Elizabeth now... ls that you, Verity?" "Ross!" "What's happened?" "Where are Mrs Tabb and the servants?" "I didn't want to disturb them." "I climbed in." "What's the matter?" "Is Demelza ill?" "You can't just climb in." "Henshawe was killed in the mine today." " l'm sorry." " l could have stopped him but I didn't." " Understand what I'm saying?" " That Henshawe is dead." "That he's dead because of me." "I let him throw his life away." "I'm sorry, Ross, but you must go." "Wheal Grace is finished." "Torn apart." "Please go, Ross." "You mustn't throw your life away, Elizabeth. I won't let you." "Whatever he's offered you, it isn't worth it." "You didn't think me worth so much before." "It's too late now." "It's not too late." "You can go the way you came." "No one will know." "But if you insist on staying, I'll call out." " l came to talk to you." " Talk?" "Do you think you can talk me out of making something of my life?" "I'll stop you." "Ross." " l must stop you." " Oh, my God." "Ross." " (Sobbing)" " Missus." " Go to bed." " (Sobs)" "'Tis no use you waiting here in the dark." "You come to bed." "Oh, why, Prudie, why?" "It be all right." " Why did he do it?" "I loved him." " Come to bed, missus." "He's broken it, it's broken, he's ruined it, it's ruined." " Oh, Prudie." " l know." "Oh, Prudie." "Goings-on." " Did she see aught?" " No." "She hadn't." "He hadn't, neither." "Should think not." "Out all night?" " She were up all night." " So what do you reckon?" "(Laughs suggestively)" "Aye, ee be lucky, I be a home-loving man." "There's some as be lucky and some as hadn't." " He be coming." " Saddle Darkie." "We're just done, sir." "What you got?" "The devil's gallstone?" "Where's your mistress?" " Where's yourn?" " Damn you, woman!" "I'm going into Truro." "I may have to stay until Sunday." "You'll miss the Bodrugans' party, will you mind that?" "Some rocks thrown up by the explosion." "I'm taking them to be assayed." "Demelza?" "Haven't you got anything to do?" " No, miss." " Go and look after Jeremy." "Go on." " l was saying that I..." " l don't care." "Then it doesn't matter." "It doesn't matter." " l'm going." " Go!" "Go to her!" " (Door slams)" " Go to the devil." "I say, Con. Do we really hunt with these folk?" "I don't recognise half of them!" "You're looking at their top halves." "When you're on your horse, you're usually looking at their bottoms." "Good God, there's old Wentworth." "I thought he'd broke his neck." "He has." "Take more than that to keep him from a free dinner." "Oh, take care, ma'am, take care." "I do, Mr Wentworth!" "Now, don't move." "Move, Mrs Wentworth?" "I cannot move." "Osborne will bring your dinner." "Look at all the good things." "Osborne, fetch your father a fork." " Oh, not now, Mater." " Osborne, get me a bottle." " Already?" " Of port, ma'am." "Go on, boy." "Do you think you should, Mr Wentworth?" "Oh, there's Mrs Halse." "We're over here!" " Only pleasure left." " Over there!" "Shan't be a moment, my dear." "Come along, Osborne." "Ma'am!" "Ma'am!" " Well!" " Dr Halse." "Mrs Halse." "Squire and Mrs Wentworth." "I don't suppose you have a corkscrew?" "By St George, you'll have 'em riding cock-a-horse!" "With rings on her fingers and bells on her toes!" "And she shall have music wherever she goes." "Why, Captain!" "You look prettier than I do." "My dear Madam." "We're the two prettiest people in the room." "Black Man!" " Did you ever see such a charming girl?" " You covet your neighbour's ox, sir." "Not his ox, Parson." "His ass." " Has anybody got a...?" " Look, Mrs Halse." "Have you ever seen such a sight?" "For charity, ma'am. 'Tis only a Scotsman with a bag under his arm." "Ma'am, you dance like the wind on the heather." "You make a fair breeze yourself." " Demelza." " Ah!" "What's this?" " Osborne!" " Coming, Pater." " Oh, Miss Halse." " Oh, Mr Wentworth!" " Osborne!" "My dinner!" " Jolly good, wasn't it, Pater?" "Cuckolds all awry!" " Do you dance, Osborne?" " Oh, enthusiastically, Dorothy." "Madam, for pity's sake!" " Oh!" " Oh, I must sit down." "What a guzzler!" "Glad to see you enjoying yourself, Mr Wentworth!" "Dear Mrs Wentworth, ah..." "Do you see Mistress Poldark?" "I do not see Captain Poldark!" " Oh, Mr Clarence!" " You've had your bottle!" "Miss Tring?" "Mrs Halse." "Who's Miss Tring?" "(Groans)" " Ahem." " Who's that?" "is that you, Sir Hugh?" "I was looking for the privy." " Top of the stairs." "Behind you." " Oh." " Hm." " Damn it, what are you doing?" "Ah." "Well, I'll not deny it." "I have an assignation with the lady in this room." " So have I!" " You must be mistaken." "What, in my own house?" "It's you who are mistaken, sir." " To prove it, I'll tell you her name." " Would it being with a D, perhaps?" " Damn!" " (Tuts)" " It's my house!" " It's my assignation." "It would be a pity to lose an opportunity that might never occur again." "One of us shall go in first." "As gentlemen, we will toss a coin for it." "Have you a penny?" "Tails." "Mistress Poldark!" "Demelza!" " My darling." " (Groans) lt's me." "Malcolm." "I've come for my reward." "Here." "Let me help you." " What are you doing?" " Oh, mercy." " You invited me." " Did I?" "Oh." "Oh, yes." " l was going to do something." " Oh, you will, my dearest." " But I've forgotten..." " l'll remind you, D..." " Oh, quelles culottes!" " Ross did it, so I thought I'd do it too..." "Well, I've changed my mind." "Oh, Demelza." " l can't..." " Tu es belle!" "(Hiccups)" "Try holding your breath." "(lnhales deeply)" "(Hiccups)" " It's no good." " It's going to be wonde_ul!" "See, Captain, I..." "No, I was going to take a lover..." " Yeah, well, here I am." " It's no good being like he is." " Oh, baisez-moi!" " l'm better than he is." "Ow!" "Oh, it's too late now." "You brought me here to cuckold your husband and cuckold him I will!" " Captain!" "Oh!" " Ow!" "Aaah!" "Oh, oh, oh." " (China smashes)" " Ow!" "Oh, damn it!" "Ow!" "Ooh!" "It's stopped." "By George!" "It's heads." "Demelza." "(Birds singing)" "I don't have to ask you where you've been." "Nor I you." "What colour did Elizabeth choose for her wedding dress?" "Or now she's had the honeymoon, perhaps she'll forgo the wedding." "You know I've been to Truro." "I came back to take you to that damned dance but you went alone." "God knows what happened." " God knows I've nothing to hide." " And that you're not hiding it." "'Ere, what are they sayin'?" "Wheal Grace is rich in tin." "The rocks I took to be assayed." "Pascoe advanced me f200 on the strength of the report." " First-grade tin." " So, you were wrong." "And Mark Daniel, Henshawe and Francis were right." "We were all wrong." "We were looking for copper and found tin." "At least there'll be work in Sawle this winter." "Some of the mines are closing." "Food prices are up." "Pascoe expects trouble." "I rode through Hendrawna on my way back." "Half the men are out of work." "It's been a bad harvest..." "Demelza, are you listening?" "No." "Here, you!" "Get off this land." "We always do glean the fields." " Where are you from?" " Hendrawna." "We always glean." "Not any more." "This is private land." " It belongs to the village from time back!" " Aye." "Now the village belongs to Mr Warleggan." "There's orders for this land to be enclosed." "Move off or there'll be trouble." " Get on." " Get on." "War!" "Wa-a-a-rr!" "Wa-a-a-rrr!" "Have you seen the paper?" "The damned Frenchman has beheaded his king and he's calling on us to do the same!" " l'm glad to say it's war." " l am not, Mr Penvenen." "What?" "You're not a damned Jacobin, are you, who feigns interest in the poor to hide envy of the rich?" "If so, sir, I prefer my gout to your company." "I am not glad to say it's war." "I can relieve you of my company easier than the gout." "Oh, come down, sir, come down." "I apologise to ee." "And that toe would burn the charity out of a saint." "Look at it." "60 years I've cherished that toe and it turned on me like a dog." " In humanity's name..." " The French are human too." " Damned misbegotten monkeys." " And the poor." "They have every right to fight their oppressors." " (Grunting in pain)" " Careful, sir." "Your choler overheats the blood and swells the humours." "That's a damned ill-humoured toe." "They can no more be dismissed with a curse than your gout." " Who can't?" " The poor." "Oh, damn the poor!" "Ohhh!" "We have damned them - damned them to a life of poverty." "Now we expect them to fight a war for us to preserve the system that condemned them." " There." "How does that feel?" " It burns like hell." "Good." "The fire will put out the infection." "Your cure's worse than my malady." "We use one fire to put out another." "A war to put out a revolution." "Let's hope there isn't a revolution to put out the war." "Hope's a fool's paradise." "Oh, stay a moment, Doctor." "Since my niece dashed away to London and I've been laid up here, there's scarcely been a soul to see me." " l trust Miss Penvenen is well." " Eh?" "Oh, yes." "She wrote that she might return soon but there's no counting on it." "Unpredictable girl." "Goes her own way." "Pour yourself a glass of wine." " l'll take a glass." " l advise against that." "Oh, let me go my own way." "There's little enough left for me in this world." "Sit you down, sir." "Your health." "An old man's an old man and there's an end of it." "Your neighbours, do they visit you?" "Ross Poldark's too busy with his tin and Warleggan, since he wed his widow, has been..." "What shall I say?" "Capitalising her assets." "And enclosing his new estates, putting people out of their houses." "Well, he's a new man." "No roots in the land." "No responsibilities to anyone but himself." "Enys, are you an old family?" "Tobias Enys sailed with Drake." "Good old Toby." "I forgive you what you said about the war." "You may be right." "It could cause more trouble than it cures, like Warleggan." "You'll fight for old England, won't you?" "I'll serve my country, sir." "Dr Enys!" "Dwight?" "Your servant, ma'am." "(Metallic tapping)" "(Jacka) Keep a watch out!" "Steady, man, or I'll have your leg off." "Will, Ned and the others, all chained together below decks in the transport ship." "Some hundred of us, I reckon." "Women condemned for taking a yard o' cloth, a little boy who'd stolen a pie to keep himself alive." " Like animals... (Grunts)" " Hold ee still!" "..lying there, waiting to set sail for Botany Bay." " We heard the signal guns." " A man be coming!" "(Hooves passing)" " He be gone." " (Sighing) I'll be gone afore morning." "Can ee not shift 'em, Jacka?" "In a while." "Ee said ee heard guns." "Aye, we reckon they were a signal for us to set sail." "Then the officer came aboard and said as... we were at war with France and there'd be no sailing this year." "And the poor fools cheered him." "He said the men'd be pressed into the fleet and the women and children taken to Bodmin jail." " The poor fools fell a-weepin'." " And ee?" "They didn't know what to do with me." "I were no use to any of 'em." "Can you not shift the gyves, Jacka?" "There be one way." " l'll tell ee when." " (Laughing outside)" "'Tis the men coming from the kiddley." "Then they dragged me up on deck." "A seaman had heard an officer say I was for the gallows." "So while they was they rowing me ashore, I slipped over the side." "With one leg crippled and one in chains?" "It was swim for it or swing for it." "The seaman lay on the oars and the officer was too drunk to shoot straight." "The sea was good to me." "Aye, and the land, too, since I been hunted." "Man would have been my murderer." "I'll give ee my clothes." "Ee can lay up here as long as ee will." " Not ee, Jacka." " Now listen afore ee says that." "We must have they chains off ee." " Ee can't, Father!" " Do ee trust me?" "Do ee trust me?" "When I was a little lad, my father took me down the old Grambler and he puts a pick in my hand and he marks a spot on the old face." "If I could hit that spot first time, he said, I'd make a miner." "(Clanking)" "I hit it." "What does it mean?" " What does it mean?" " What does what mean?" "The war." "We can talk about the war, I suppose." "It'll be different from the last war." "I think it'll be fought in Europe." "We'll probably send an army into Flanders to stop the French from taking the Channel ports." " The navy will be..." " Us." "What does it mean to us?" "I don't know." "Well, will you go away?" "Back to your regiment?" "Very likely." "I've made arrangements for you and Jeremy." "Once I've settled my debts there should be..." " Demelza, are you interested?" " Of course I am." "I wondered." "There should be enough." "Strange that once all we needed was a little money and had none." " And now..." " We're rich and need nothing." "You'll go away." "You'll send Jeremy away to school." "I shouldn't think he'll want to come back." " Of course he will." " Oh?" "I'm still here." "Jeremy will be here for ten years." "I don't want him in the army." "It's safer at sea." "He can join Captain Blamey." " He's two years old." " If we're invaded..." " In God's name..." " l can make plans, can't I?" "You always think the worst." "When I went to Truro, you thought God knows what." "What you gave me very good reason to think!" " You went to her before." " So that was your reason for..." "To stop her." "Well, you didn't stop her!" "What about you and that drunken boor?" "She had to marry Warleggan after what you two did!" " That's a lie." " It's the truth!" "So you wallowed with that pig, Bodrugan!" " It wasn't him." " Then who was it?" "Who was it, Demelza?" "It doesn't matter, does it?" "It was Captain McNeil." "Nothing happened." "Nothing happened..." "You said we'd go to London for the winter." "George?" " My dear?" " When can we go away?" " Some people here pay no rent." " Oh, I know nothing about that." "Obviously." "The Poldarks were bad landlords." "I want to go away from here." " Trenwith will be quite profitable..." " l hate Trenwith!" "My dear Elizabeth." "Mine." "When, George?" "There are things to do here." "When I was a ragged boy, I used to walk a dozen miles just to look up at Trenwith," "the young Poldarks on their pampered ponies kicking up the dust." "Aye, they eat it now." "I had to swallow their despite." "Now they swallow mine." "Isn't that enough for you?" "I have yet to show them what a Warleggan can do, show them all." " One of them." " That one most of all." "Do you think he cares what you do?" "is that why you're putting up fences around empty villages?" "No one cares except the people you put out." "I care that everything I own shows me a profit." " Then where do they go?" " To the war, my dear." "Their country needs them more than I do." "This'll make him care - your son's shares in Wheal Grace." "Your friend Ross will have to part with half his profit." " No." " Yes, my dear." " The shares were sold." " There's no record of it here." "When?" "When Francis died." "Mr Pascoe offered me f600 for them." "600?" "They must be worth f6,OOO now." " Pascoe cheated you." " It was before they found the tin." "The shares were worthless." "Besides, Pascoe was only the agent." " l think somebody wanted to help me." " Who was it?" "I don't know." "I thought it might have been you." "I'll find out myself." "Oh, does it matter, George?" "Let's go away from here." "It matters very much, my dear." "If he was in a position to learn how much the shares were worth, he broke the law." "My dear Elizabeth, you let him take advantage of you." "It's providential you married me." "Why did you marry me?" "(Horse approaching)" "(Knocking)" "Who are you?" "This is Hoblyn's cottage." "Where's Rosina?" "Where's Jacka?" "Jacka be up at the mine." "The girl be gone for firewood." "A man from Sawle was captured smuggling a few months ago." "He escaped." "I read about it in the newspaper." "I have a particular interest in what happened that night." "There's a reward for him, and a description." "It could fit any man... with a wasted leg tied to a crutch." "I could be he." "There ain't many with a twisted leg." "Don't worry, Paul Daniel." "My interest is in everyone captured that night." "Now, tell me." "The report mentioned a Dr Dwight Enys." " What was his part in it?" " He got off." "No, he didn't get off." "His sentence was as harsh as yours and as unjust." "He found out the troopers was waiting and gave the alarm." "Saved the most of us." "He did all he could for me in prison." "Yes, he would." "Thank you." "You can't stay here." "You must leave the country." "When Rosina returns, tell her Miss Penvenen has something for you." " It'll be money for a passage." " When I need money, I'll take it!" "And if you're caught, they'll hang you." "When a rich man steals bread from the poor, who hangs him?" "When a master turns away his men and all their families, who hangs him?" "When a king murders men by thousands in war, who hangs him?" "You're a dangerous man, Paul Daniel." "You have a cause." "What use is that?" "I've lost the only thing in life worth having." "Hope." "That is a terrible loss for any man..." "Or woman." "Send Rosina to me." "I can do something for her... though nothing for you or myself." "(Door closing)" "You should know me better than to come to me for assurances." "And at this time in the morning." "We was going back to Sawle from a night shift and got to reckoning." "There'll be troubles here like never before." "Since Mr Warleggan became master of Trenwith, he's cleared over a hundred miners' families off the land - men that had worked all their lives, driven off like cattle." "You think I don't know what's been happening?" "Excuse me, I can't help asking." "Ee's sleeping here - be Mistress Poldark sick?" "Mind your own business." "All right, I assure you that your land and houses in Sawle are safe." "Now go to your beds." "And sleep better than I did." " Thank ee, Captain." " Thank ee." "I told you there was no need to bother him." " What did you show them in here for?" " It were only Zacky and Jacka." " They could've waited outside." " But sir..." " Is she in there?" " Aye." " Did she sleep well?" " Like a baby." "This came for ee, sir." "Be from Trenwith." "Garrick." "Wait, wait, wait..." "Wait." "I'm going to Trenwith." " It's from Warleggan." " Will you go?" "is there any reason why I shouldn't?" "After that, I shall be at the mine all day." "I tell you so that you can be sure I shall not surprise you." "Doing what?" "Whatever married women do when left alone." "They feed, clothe, look after their children." " And in the afternoons?" " They entertain their lovers(!" ")" "Very like." "I danced with him, Ross." "That's all." "In a room full of people, I danced with him." " And returned half-naked." " If you're determined to think that, I'd better go away." " You said it was McNeil." " l couldn't stand it." "You'd made up your mind I had a lover because you had!" "He would have been my lover." "He tried hard enough." "But I stopped him and I stopped myself." "But you did not stop her and you couldn't stop yourself so I'm better than you are and you can't bear it." "Well, neither can I!" "I wish I was as guilty as you are." "Then we could go on living on equal terms but I'm not and you know I'm not!" "And yet you go on and on accusing me, trying to say I'm to blame and that somehow makes you innocent!" "Well, I can't go on like that and I won't, I won't go on like that." "I'll go away." "If you go, what about Jeremy?" "He can go and live with his Aunt Verity and her family." "It would be better for him to grow up in a happy household." " Where will you go?" " Does it matter?" " You're my wife!" " That's my misfortune." "Go someplace for your health." "Bath is full of married women without husbands." "That would be for your health, Ross, not mine." "No, I shall go back to my own people." "They may be poor, ignorant and rough but at least they're honest." " l'm dishonest?" " Yes, you are." "Then there's no hope for us." " When will you leave?" " One day." "One day soon I shan't be here." "Garrick..." "Garrick?" "Ross, I must congratulate you on your good fortune." "Aye." "Providence would always have me swim against the tide." " There'll be few men left in Cornwall." " It is the times." "I myself leave at the end of the week to become a navy surgeon." " l give you credit for more sense." " l surprise myself." "But there is nothing to keep me here." "For you, it is different." "There is always a woman here who will love you." "I may have to join my regiment soon." "Miss Penvenen has come back to Kilwarren." "I shan't call on her but if you see her, tell her..." " Just tell her." " Where will you go?" "Falmouth." "Keep a hold of what you have, Ross." "Don't let go, whatever comes in the way." "I did and I will regret it all my life." "God be with you, Ross." "God be with you, Dwight." "Sir, Captain..." "My dear sir, welcome to Trenwith." "You asked me here to talk about Francis's estate so let's dispense with civilities that have no meaning." "As you can see, I've had no time to make improvements." "This is a particularly good Madeira I found in the cellar." "No?" "You know this room very well, of course." "You won't know it when I've finished." "If you're replacing my ancestors with yours, there'll be a good number of gaps on the wall." "You'll be pleased to know that Elizabeth is very well." "I have no business with her." "If I'm here to be shown an old house..." "You can't change what's in the past." "You can destroy what's here and now, break up communities, enclose the fields, pull down Trenwith, put up Warleggan Hall if you like, but your ghosts will be Poldarks to a man." "Now, do we have any business or not?" "If you insist." "Amongst the estate left by Francis Poldark to his son was a parcel of shares in Wheal Grace mine." " Francis had a share." " There was no dividend." "No surprise - Wheal Grace never made a penny." " It makes a pretty penny now." " The shares were sold before." " By whose authority?" " Mrs Poldark, for her son." " You mean Mrs Warleggan?" " She was Mrs Poldark then." "Who bought them?" "That is not a matter for me." "It was a private arrangement." "Very private." "Whoever bought those shares knew they were worth more than he paid." " The shares were worthless." " Yet someone paid f600." "You know the mine was finished." "I know that you discovered tin soon after the shares were sold." "Did you buy them?" "If you did, you abused your position as a trustee." "So I cheated Elizabeth?" "Either you paid f600 for worthless shares, which is the act of a madman, or you withheld information to buy them at less than their value, which is the act of a criminal." "Which are you, Captain Poldark?" "A madman or a criminal?" " l'm not on trial." " But you will be." "I've referred the whole matter to the county court." "You're a man at war with everyone around you - war against the defenceless, those you despise, those you envy." "Be careful, George." "You'll raise a war against yourself that'll make you wish you were in hell." "I've noted your threats." "I pity you." "Once I loved you." "(Shouting and weeping)" "And stay off!" " Sorry, I thought you'd gone." " Demelza... I, er..." "I can't see what I'm doing." "Will you..." "Will you help me?" "I want to talk to you before it's too late." "I want to ask you to... forgive me and not to go away." "Demelza, I was wrong." "When I saw Elizabeth at Trenwith with him, I knew that I was wrong." "If we must part, let it not be over her." "She isn't worth it." "Not all the years we've been together." "Julia, Jeremy, you..." "Do you understand what I'm saying?" "If that's what it is, don't go." "I don't love her." "That's all gone and in the past." "Don't let us go, Demelza." "For God's sake, I'm trying to tell you what I feel." " What do you feel for me?" " That we should be together." " That whoever else there was..." " Whoever else?" " l'm being honest for us both." " l never was dishonest!" "Not when you made me think you had a lover?" "You wanted to believe it." " Have you never done that?" " l believed you loved me." "You know I loved you. I love you now." "You'd better go or you'll be late for your meeting." "(Crowds cheering, beating drums)" "Captain Poldark!" "Welcome, sir!" "Stirring times, sir." "There are more red coats than black." "I'm meeting old friends here." "Could your clerk show them in?" "With pleasure, sir." "Travis..." "Thank you." "He'll be changing the colour of his coat ere long." "So shall I." "My regiment is to be sent to Flanders." "I've ten days to settle my affairs." "My dear boy, I know you and I know you would not have it otherwise." "Well, sir, one of your affairs has been settled for you." "The court rejected Warleggan's suit over the Wheal Grace shares." "They found no case to answer and made the rascal pay the costs." "That's one burden off my mind." "Here are my arrangements for the upkeep of Nampara." "For my son." "And a...separate arrangement for my wife." " Separate?" " Yes, sir." "To be paid during her lifetime wherever she may be." "I've made Zacky Martin manager of Wheal Grace and you chairman." "And finally... here is the last payment of the f2,OOO you obtained for me." " Without it, I would have been ruined." " That was providence, sir." "So you said at the time and I still thank you for it." "A lady here to see you, sir." " A lady?" " Is it Miss Penvenen?" " Yes, sir." " With your permission?" "Ask her to come in." "I have a surprise for Miss Penvenen." "Miss Penvenen." "Well, Captain Poldark, here I am, at your command." " Good day, Mr Pascoe." " Miss Penvenen." " You remember Rosina?" " Good day, Miss Hoblyn." "It's a fine day for the time of year." "Come, sir." "You didn't bring me to Truro to tell me what is evident." "No." "I, er, don't know what to say." " "Thank you" will suffice." " Thank you?" "Well...perhaps not." "I am not conversant with the, er..." "courtesies of commerce." " l shall not forgive you, sir." " Madam, I swear I did not say a word." "Captain Poldark will bear me out." "Well, sir, shall I, er, give the lady her surprise?" "You?" "Well..." "Well, you can't surprise her." "Oh?" "Well, then, you." " Nay, nay, it's not for me." " Surprise me, someone!" "Methinks the Captain's surprised himself." "He has repaid your debt with a handsome interest." "What?" "I thought he just wished to..." "Your debt?" "Do you mean that she..." "That you are providence?" "I do not aim so high, sir, nor so disinterested, but I did lend you f2,OOO." "My God!" "I'm floored." "Aye, sir." "And roofed, too, thanks to Miss Penvenen." " But I swear I did not..." " Oh, never mind." "I see it is I who must say thank you, though you've made me come a long way to say it." "No!" "You mustn't go." "I, er..." "I have a confession." "Two confessions." " Then I'm as lucky as two priests." " Pascoe didn't tell me." "You did the double kindness of saving me my life and my gratitude." "But they are both at your disposal now and for as long as I have them." "Your first confession was very pretty." "I demand no penance." "Now... I see this is more serious." "If you did not ask me here to discuss the money, what was it about?" " What should it be about?" " No, I am not in the box." "Excuse me, sir, were you expecting Dr Enys?" "I expect anything, Travis, anything." "Peccavi." "Te absolvo." "How do you do, sir?" "I am as you see." "Captain Poldark didn't tell me I..." "How do you do, Miss Penvenen?" "Well, thank you, sir." "Dwight, you look..." "Yes, it is absurd." "War is absurd." "For God's sake, say something, Caroline." "Mr Pascoe, erm..." " Come and dine with me." " It's a little early for dinner." "We must take our chances while we can." "Oh, er...dinner." "Yes, yes, capital, sir!" "Capital!" " Come on." " What for?" "Hidin' here smiling'." "Come on!" "(Jeremy crying, Prudie singing lullaby)" "(Sobbing)" "No." "No, stay, Garrick." "I can't take you away." "Oh, God." "You belong to me more than anyone." "Come on, then." "Come on, boy." "Come on." "Come on, Garrick." "(Gunshot)" "Garrick!" "Garrick..." "Nay, I know 'un." "'Tis Poldark of Nampara." "He be not our man." "The one who took our land and burned our houses..." "Warleggan be our man." "Come on, others are waiting." "Garrick?" "I don't understand." "I was going, I was leaving you." "And now Garrick's dead." "He didn't understand the new fences." "I'm going to Trenwith." "It's got to be settled once and for all." " It's late, Ross." "Don't go now." " l have to." "I must settle with Warleggan before I go away." "I've been recalled to my regiment." " l leave in ten days." " Oh, Ross... I'm to be broken bit by bit." "Demelza, I love you." " They armed!" " Zacky's just..." "Ma'am, where be the Captain?" " What's happened?" " The country be raised." "They're all marching on Trenwith." " Trenwith?" " They say they'll burn it, treat Warleggan like he treated them." "Oh, God, Ross has gone there!" "I must go to warn him." " (Ross) We'll see!" " Sir, it be Captain Poldark." " You treat visitors this way?" " Unwelcome ones." "I've come to settle with you, Warleggan." "Do you want these people to hear?" "You can go." "Well?" " Your men shot my dog." " A dog?" "You're here because of a dog?" " There are dogs enough." " They could have shot my wife." "And bitches!" "I'll meet you where and when you want!" "You've met me the last time!" "Come in!" " You call yourself a gentleman?" " Time enough when you're dead!" "(Elizabeth) George." "Not here." "Take him outside." "Throw him down one of the old mine shafts." " Why are you here?" "Be still." " l came to warn..." "Soon you'll be still forever!" " It's no affair of hers." " 'Tis mine." "Take 'em both out!" "Sir, there be men with torches!" "Great crowds, coming towards the house." "Watch them!" "Bar the doors." "Shutters over the windows." "Give me your gun." "Say your prayers, both of you." "May God forgive you cos l don't." " You'd better run." " They can't harm me!" "George!" "(Glass shattering)" " Take this..." " No!" " God damn you!" " Look!" "He murdered 'un." "He murdered 'un!" "Warleggan!" "The stable." "Burn 'em!" "Burn 'em!" "(Mob shouting, horses whinnying)" "Ross!" "You can't give them the horses." "Let them ride out of our lives." "If they die, they'll live with us forever." "They would have killed him." "Why did you do it?" "I didn't fancy you a rich widow." "I want him alive." "I want him to remember that he owes his life to me." "Go on." "Go." "Get away with ee." "There's many here still know ee." " Come with us, Mrs Tabb." " Oh, no, sir." "Nobody'll have an old body like me." "There be Trenwith." "I might be able to save something out of the old life." "The old life has gone, Demelza." "'Tis gone." "Ten days and you'll be gone." "Time will repay us and make them years." "Or would you have us go home and grow old round the fire?" "Then the years would go like days." "Poldark." "Gypsy." "I never did pay you for that first time." "Here, I have a shilling about me somewhere." "It won't be forever." "Nothing is forever." "Take it while we can." "Live it!" "Fight it!" "Laugh at it." "What, Ross?" "What?" "(Ross) Take whatever life gives and call it ours - what danger, what chance, what love, what happiness... I love you now." "I'm happy now." "Now?" "Oh, yes."