"You go across the other side, Abel." "Come on, come on." " (Neighing)" " Get down!" "Ahhh!" "(Neighing)" "(Groans)" "Cap'n Poldark!" "Don't shoot, Abel!" "It's Cap'n Poldark." "You're Isaac Ward." "We never knew." "Better not." "You damn fools!" " Do you want to swing at Bodmin jail?" " If so be." "What's happened?" "What made you take to the road?" "These times." "What makes any man do it?" "You were handyman at my aunt's house, Penrice." "'Tain't Miss Poldark's no more." "What's that you say?" "'Tis Mr George Warleggan's house now." "When did this happen?" "Few month back, after you went to the army." "We was all turned off, all of us." " Why, for God's sake?" "Why?" " l don't know." "You'd best ask Mr Warleggan." "We was all turned off." " And my aunt?" " Didn't even see her." "It were Mr Warleggan." "He did it." "Here." "And keep yourself out of mischief until I can find you something." "Thank ee, sir." "Giddup." "Ross, you're back from the war!" "But why...?" "That can wait." "Verity..." " What has happened at Penrice?" " Penrice?" "Aunt Agatha's house is now the property of George Warleggan." " Didn't Demelza tell you?" " l haven't been home." "What are you doing here?" "When I went to the war, I left a situation behind me." "I know." "Ross..." "George and Elizabeth live there, that's all." "That's all?" "Where is Aunt Agatha?" "She's still there." " You look tired." " Never mind that." "She was an old lady, on her own, bedridden." "She could still get about." "She is 98." "She can only leave her bed when she's carried." "It's good for her to have Elizabeth there." " Ross, you must wash and rest." " Go on, Verity, go on." "(Sighs) Well..." "George and Elizabeth had nowhere to go when Trenwith burnt down." "Not in the district, that is." "Here, drink this." "You know how it was at Penrice." "Aunt Agatha has lived alone since Uncle Benjy died." "She had nothing to do with the running of the house." "I know." "Francis' father was trustee." "And then Francis, till his death." " Then it passed to the bank." " Bank?" "The estate ran into debt." "Father had to mortgage it." "Oh, for God's sake!" "Not with Warleggan's bank?" "No." "Though he might have, they're well-regarded." "It was a bank that Warleggans took over, only last year." "And George used the mortgage to dispossess Aunt Agatha." "It was Elizabeth's idea." "She said it would give them a house and Aunt Agatha some company." "Aunt Agatha must be pleased to have a Poldark living there." " Elizabeth is not a Poldark." " Well, Geoffrey Charles is." "George has done miracles with the house!" "Everyone goes there." "After what happened at Trenwith?" "Oh, Ross." "What did happen at Trenwith?" "A seditious mob burnt a gentleman's house down." " Oh, George is a gentleman now?" " He is accepted." " You'll have to accept that." " Of course." "The working people are starving, the war, corn prices..." "So they have to be kept down." "I'm sure George had the rioters punished firmly." " Yes." " Everyone with money to protect is on his side." "I just saw what poverty and Warleggan can drive a man to do." " Did Aunt Agatha have any say?" " She couldn't." " The house passed quite legally." " No one asked if she was happy?" "I tried to. I only saw her once, I couldn't get a clear answer, she was bewildered." "I think she came to regard it as an act of God." "How are they treating her?" "Oh, I'm sorry, Ross, I haven't been there since the move." "I can't see that Elizabeth did wrong." "She asked me as Aunt Agatha's nearest relative and I approved." "Ross, did I do wrong?" "I don't know." "I shall have to go and find out!" " Mr Warleggan." " Miss Poldark." "I have just seen William Dawlish turned away from this house." "Dawlish?" "Who may that be?" "My gardener for 60 years!" "Started when he were 12, scaring birds." "Good Lord, I must have paid him off long ago." "You got rid of all my old servants." "I have explained on numerous occasions, Miss Poldark, they were old or unfit for the standards I expect." " Get out." " Yes, sir." "I be old." "My dear lady, that is a different case." "This is your house." " Yours." " Just a matter of title deeds." "An employee is entitled to nothing more than his wage per month or per annum." "He renders work in return and then both parties are free." "Aye, one party's free to starve." "I pay the best wages in the district." "Some complain that I spoil the market." "May I not demand a fair return?" "You could've given Dawlish a crust." "In these times?" "I'd have a procession of the hungry here." "More shame to you for putting folk out of work!" "It is economics, Miss Poldark, not a matter for a lady." "I command capital and create work." "Aye, babies live or die by your yea or nay." "Supply and demand." "William Dawlish had a right to come and see me." "I do appreciate your kindness, Miss Poldark." "'Tain't kindness, 'tis friendship!" "Do ye know the word?" "I will not have you carried down to a draughty kitchen to see every beggar that calls and neither will I allow such creatures above stairs." "Ah!" "Whose house is it now?" "I never thought I'd see the moneylenders get Penrice." "After all we've done for you, Miss Poldark." "Ah!" "There's nothing like a good fire." "I didn't say you could sit down." "I beg your pardon?" "You be in the company of a lady, MISTER Warleggan." " Your pardon indeed." " (Laughs) I remember you when you were a ragged-arsed lad, George Warleggan, with dewdrops from your nose." "Maybe Elizabeth will make a gentleman of you yet." "Elizabeth and me." "You may sit down." "Thank you, it does not please me to." "Oh, suit yourself." "You may turn my old servants away but I trust you'll admit my kinsfolk." "Why don't none of the Poldarks come to see me?" "(Jud) Quick!" "(Demelza) What is all this, Jud?" "Who do you think you are running through my door..." " It better be important." " There." "(Jud) Welcome home, Cap'n!" "(Jud) Come on." "Come on, girl." " Jeremy's grown." " Oh, they do shoot up at three." "He knows his numbers, to ten." "What's this?" "Johnson's Dictionary?" "Have you been using this?" "Been trying to improve myself." " Oh." " (Giggling)" "Oh, it's you, all right, you big lump!" "I never dreamt you'd get a furlough." " It's not a furlough." " What, then?" " l'm out of the army." " For good?" "Unless Boney invades and they enlist the cripples." " Are you hurt?" " Not a scratch on me." " Then you got into trouble." " No trouble." "For God's sake, what, then?" "It turned out that my sovereign was not King George Ill" " but King Ague." " l'm in no mood for riddles." "I have ague, marsh fever, I caught it in America." " You see, you are ill." " That's the bad joke, I'm not!" "Not now." "We were besieging towns, swamps all around us." "I spent the last few months in bed." " Oh, my love." " My colonel sent me home," " unfit for service, damn him." " God bless him." "As long as I keep away from marshes I'm fine." "I'll keep you away from marshes." "And God bless King Ague." " What about the humiliation?" " Humiliation?" "Ross Poldark back with his tail between his legs." " l can hear them laughing now." " Damn their eyes." "And since when have you cared what fools said about you?" "I'm laughing for happiness and joy." "Ooh, where are we going?" "To get this lot off and into honest clothes." "I'm all for you getting this lot off." " Mm." " l shan't fly away, my love." "I don't wanna let go." "I looked after everything." "All Zacky's reports from the mine are on your desk." "You didn't tell me about Aunt Agatha." " You know about it?" " A little." "Why didn't you write?" "I wrote as best I could." "I didn't need long letters to let me know." "I didn't wanna worry you." "I had a right to know what was going on here." "Well, I knew you were in danger." "I'd heard talk and read the newspapers." "Thousands killed, twice as many dying of the fever, I didn't wanna add to your troubles." " l relied on you." " l did what I thought was best." " And I think you were wrong!" " Already?" "You and me, we're like a couple of game cocks, feathers flying." " What about you?" " What have I done wrong?" "You kept it from me that you had the ague." " l tried to cheer you up." " Oh, thank you!" "is that all you think of me?" " You're a woman." " Great discovery(!" ")" "Women aren't idiots and I knew what was going on out there." "You should've told me to stop me from worrying and worrying!" "Anyway, I thought what you'd want me to do and I went to see your aunt." " How was she?" " They wouldn't let me in." "Who wouldn't?" "George?" "Elizabeth?" "Did you ask for Elizabeth?" "You're not still jealous of her?" "No, I'm not!" "And don't start another quarrel." "I did ask for Elizabeth." "The servant said Mr Warleggan's compliments and would our household please keep away." "This is beyond endurance." "They've closed the footpaths across Penrice land." "Half the ways to the village go over it." "They have keepers like mad dogs." "Well, he can't refuse to let me in." "Penrice is a Poldark house." " It was." " Agatha is my aunt." "Ross, the last time you met George Warleggan he tried to kill you, and me." " l saved his life." " So he'll hate you more." "Oh, Ross, you haven't come back to fight with George Warleggan, you've come back to me and Jeremy and the farm and your mine." "Agatha Poldark is my aunt." "Elizabeth." " Where shall I put them?" " Oh, by the window." "George, Ross Poldark was seen on the road to Nampara." "I know." " Must be on furlough." " l hear it's for good." " Oh, no." " My dear, what is he to us?" "After that dreadful night when he put us on horses we never wanted to see each other again." "And now we're closer to him than before, mm?" " Not amusing." " It was your idea to come here." "He'd gone to the war." "It is none of his business where we choose to live." " l hope he won't bother us." " He'd better not." "(Sighs)" "My dear, do you realise how thoughtless you were to lift that vase?" " Thoughtless?" " It was heavy." "I cannot understand your rashness." "I have to stop you from riding, find you teetering on a ladder." "You're carrying our child." " l'm well aware of that." " Then why do you act as if you forget it?" "We have servants." "Will you risk our child sooner than ring for a servant?" " l'm sorry." " My dear Elizabeth, you are precious to me as well as the son you bring me." " It may not be a son." " Oh, it shall be a son." "Then you will have two sons." "I know Geoffrey Charles is but a stepson..." " l do not use that word." " ..but he does need a father." "The firm hand, eh?" "I must get back to my study." "Rest, my dear." "I love you very much." "(Wind whistling, men singing)" "# While the tempest still is high" "# Hide me, O my saviour, hide" "# Till the storm of life be passed... #" "(Both whistling The British Grenadiers)" "Here." "(Mouths)" "Oi!" "Gentle Jesus!" "I were guided." "Lost a day's yield there, when a pump went." " You sent the men home?" " l had 'em clean the boiler." " You don't need me, Zacky." " Oh, yes, we do, sir." " The wages book?" " It's all here, sir." " 101 men above and below grass." " Not bad, these are wicked times." " Mines closing everywhere." " l saw Isaac Ward on the road." " Any chance?" " Not unless you wanna pay for nought." "Find him something." "At least our debts are paid off." "Glad to hear it." "Don't you wanna make the most profit working the least men?" "Find him something." " This must be it." " Aye." "(Cow lowing)" "(Sheep bleating)" "(Snoring)" " (Knocking)" " Eeeeyah!" "Mornin'!" "Who the hell be ee, sneaking' up on a man at work?" "Do ee work for Mistress Demelza Poldark?" "What does it look like?" "!" "Wastin' me time." "We'd like to see your mistress." "What do you want with she?" "Just tell her two friends has called." " Friends?" " Friends." "(Grumbles)" " It is a fine house." " Aye, Poldarks is gentry." " Looks like it." " Not big gentry." "Big enough for we." "My..." "Judas!" "I'll see you down there at two." " Right, sir." " Ross!" "Look who's here." " Day, ma'am." " Day, Zacky." "My brothers, they've walked from Illogan!" " You would be..." "Samuel?" " Aye." "The eldest." "And Drake, the youngest." " 'Tis a pleasure, Cap'n." " Been a long time." " Six year." " How you've grown." "Well, come in!" "Now, what do you drink?" "Rum?" "Geneva?" "Thank ee, we don't touch spirits." "Not that we mind drink in others." "That's kind of you." "Well, sit down." "You boys must be tired out." " It was a tidy stroll." " Haven't you got long legs?" "Like yours, sister!" "How's your family?" "The most high God was pleased to take Father last month." "We come to tell ee, sister." "I'm sorry." "Not heartbroken but sorry, truly sorry." "He left me no good memories of him but..." "He died in Christ at the end." "So you're of the Methodist connection?" " Yes." "Are you?" " Er, no." "We have a new spirit and walk in the path of Christ" " according to His statutes." " Upon times I fall from grace." "Don't we all." " All the rest at home are well." " Good." " Stay for supper." " Stay the night." " Well, brother..." " Well?" " We have hopes not to go back." " Indeed?" " We heard tell there's work here." " l see." " There's rare poverty in Illogan." " And here too." "I'm a miner, Drake's a carpenter." "We have no work." " Nor have many men here." " We wouldn't take others' work." "We'd live on tea and barley bread and pilchards." "That's not to complain, mind." "Jesus saves us from any hunger of the soul." "You don't mind us asking', brother?" "Boys, 'tis proper to call me sister but my husband be Cap'n Poldark." " l ask your pardon." " We call all men brother." "I must go to the mine." "I can promise you nothing." "Cap'n, is Mr George Warleggan a friend of yours?" " Why do you ask?" " We took same path I used last time I came, gate was closed." " That's George Warleggan." " Drake nearly walked into a man trap." "God's blood." " l'll see about that." " Ross, keep away from him." "Cap'n, maybe it's best we go." "You've been asked for supper." "Stay." "Sorry, sister." "Oh, say no more." "Do as he says, stay for supper." "Now, tell me about Father." "The villagers have had a right of way over this land for a thousand years, Mr Warleggan." "You should not have closed the footpath." "Aunt Agatha, George knows what is best." "To such as us a walk is pleasant but not for a tired miner who must walk three miles extra to visit his kin." "Miss Poldark, a mob of miners burned us out of our last house." "I shall take no chances at Penrice." "The law permits me to keep strangers off my land." "I ask your pardon, Mr Warleggan." "'Twas foolish of me to forget the land is yours now." "Everyone else knows it too well." "It's for your protection too, Aunt." "I never had cause to be frightened." "I want my bed now, Mr Warleggan." "(Bell rings)" "Oh, Elizabeth, I hear Ross Poldark is back." "Isn't that good news?" "Eh, Mr Warleggan?" "Isn't that the best news ever, eh?" "(Laughs)" "Easy, you dogs." "I know you don't like me but if you jolt me, I've got this." "(Laughs) Oh, they'll be rejoicing hereabouts now that Ross is back. (Laughs) I expect you'll see that as you go around, Mr Warleggan." "(Laughs)" "That woman is driving me to the end of my patience." " She's an old lady." " Not one I'd wish to have in my house." "She's part of it." "Be patient, she hasn't long." "You have a sneaking regard for her." "Not sneaking, George, I am fond of her." "You take her side about the footpaths after what we've been through?" "From that, one might decide that work people, like animals, are best not goaded too far." "Oh, you join my critics, do you?" "No, George, never but..." "Oh, my God." "(Horse snorts)" "I do not wish to see that man." "Go upstairs and rest, my dear." "You must look after yourself." "You two, there's a man coming." "Bring him to me and stay close." "(Ross) I wish to see Miss Agatha Poldark." "(Man) In here, sir." "I did not ask to see you." "Strangers seeking admittance are brought to me." "Thank you, gentlemen." "I wish to see my aunt, Agatha Poldark." "You were not invited." "I have not seen her since my return." " Oh, your return, yes." " May I see her?" "There are notices warning against trespass." "I wish to see my aunt." "You come uninvited, that is trespass." "I came by your gate. I ask you decently." "And I tell you decently that Miss Poldark is well." " That is what you wish to know." " What harm can it do to see her?" "If you succeed now, you come as you please. I don't want that." " l did not come to quarrel." " That's a novelty." "I only ask - ask - if I may visit my kinswoman in her own house." " You appear not to know..." " l know it's legally yours." "I hoped you'd respect her in her lifetime." "She has every attention." "And now you have no business here." " Are you trying to provoke me?" " l'm trying to rid myself of bad company." " This is senseless." " You've a short memory." "I remember that night when we almost died. I saved your life." "Because you repented of having incited the mob" " and rode over to warn me?" " Incited, I?" " You threatened me with a mob." " l warned you." "Warned?" "You're a rebel, a living incitement to malcontents." "There is a limit to what I can swallow." "You swallowed your courage in the face of the French." "You heard the guns at Dunkirk and remembered you had more pressing affairs in Cornwall." "Will you at least inform my aunt that I have called?" "Will you leave like a gentleman or be thrown out like a lout?" "Your bullies don't frighten me, George, but you do." "Does that please you?" "You scare me witless, what you've become." "I will leave, of my own accord." "This time." "Promise me you won't go again." " How can I?" "She's my aunt." " Ross..." "Look, forget about George Warleggan." "With Drake working here I want you to think about this room." " This room?" " l want new carpets, new furniture, new curtains." "But they are new curtains." "Cost a fortune." "We're making one out of the mine." " Oh, rich now, are we?" " Say respectable." "Ouch!" "Call that respectable?" "Ross, what with one thing and another I do ask a lot of you but..." "Anything in my power." "Penrice." "Now, promise me you won't go there again." " l promise." " (Banging upstairs) I'll wait." "I'll wait a while." " Jud Paynter?" " Yeah?" " Lend us a hand." " (Grunts)" "What, wi' my rupture?" "Master said help, that's all." "Help." "(Grunts) Captain's given Wreath Cottage to me and Sam." "That ruin?" " That do need dusting'." " We'll make it good." "Dust." "Bah!" "Disgrace!" "That-that-that-that-that Prudie, she..." "Sam's gonna give meetings when we got it straight." "I hear you be Methody." "I be a Methody." "Ee be a boozy Methody!" "Jud Paynter!" "Now, go outside and do some work!" "Freezin' cold." "Man might die!" "(Jud) She don't care!" "(Door slams)" " Sister." " Yes?" "Sam wishes you would turn to Christ." "Sam wishes a lot." "Don't you ever long to find your saviour?" "I'm not learned in such things." " No more are we." " Ah, but you think you know." " l believe so." " Only believe?" "Well, Sam knows." "Well, I go to church Christmas Day with Cap'n Poldark, I try to behave like a Christian, I love all I can see and touch with my hands but first comes my man and my child." " Don't you love your neighbours?" " l try to." "Excepting one." "Christ is amongst us all the time." "Love Him first and all the rest will be made over again!" "But I don't want it made over again, I like it as it is." "But I promised..." "Well, I promised Sam I'd try." " Might have guessed it was Sam." " Sister..." "Don't ask me to convert Cap'n Poldark." "I wouldn't dare!" "I shouldn't ask this neither." " But I expect you will." " Well... I can read if I go slow and careful but I can't write except to pen my name." "Well, you must practise." "Copy from a book, that's what I did." " l want you to help me." " Me?" "I'm no scholar." "You write a good hand, I admire you." "Teach me." " Oh, I..." " Ten minutes a day." "I won't come to the house otherwise to bother ee." " Who says you're a bother?" " l think Cap'n Poldark do." " He's given you work and a house." " Well, I know how ee do feel." "All right, I will." " Thank you, sister." " Now I've one thing to say to you." "Keep off Warleggan land." "I'll kill ee." " l'll kill ee!" " Will you, Tom Harry?" "Young master." " (George) Do you know what this is?" " A cane, sir." " And what is it used for?" " Flogging, sir." "When a boy behaves as you have, what does he receive?" "Hm?" " A flogging, sir." " Until he's black and blue." " That is my duty, is it not?" " Yes, sir." "You little fool." "I have to protect you from a murderous rabble from which your mother and I barely escaped with our lives." "For that protection I employ murderous men." "Your son might have had his skull smashed for a prank." "For your mother's sake, I spare you." "Now, go to your room." "Wait!" "Stay there until the morning." "You'll be brought a crust and water." "Now go." "Yes, sir." "Have I said or done anything of which you disapprove, Elizabeth?" " You were lenient to him." " Perhaps wrongly so." "It is my duty to train him." "I was wrong in permitting you to bring him home from school." " But I need him." " l took account of your shock when Trenwith was burned but he must go back." "But he was bullied. I knew nothing about it till he came home." "All boys are bullied, they learn from it." " From cruelty?" " From life, the way of the strong with the weak." " He must learn." " When he's older." "He will not learn at your apron strings." "Soon you'll have another son to take care of." " Just for another year." " My dear, I wish to deny you nothing, especially at this time." "He shall have a tutor until he is 11." "A man, who will teach him with one of these?" "Education demands discipline as well as instruction." "I could not see him beaten." "Well, what else do you propose?" "I shall spare no expense." "A governess!" "My cousin Morwenna." "Let me send for her." "The boy has been spoiled, he needs a firm hand." "Oh, in good time, George." "Just for another year, please." "Look." "My cousin, Morwenna Chynoweth." "Do you remember her father, the Dean?" "He died last year." "A dean's daughter as a governess." "Her mother has little money, she would be happy if we sent for her." "(George) A dean's daughter." "It would sound well in the county." " (Wind howling)" " Brothers, sister." "I have asked thee here cos the time has come to start a Methodist congregation in Nampara." " Praise the Lord." " Ee be too late, boy." " Never too late for a beginner." " We haven't seen a preacher for years!" "The flock scattered for want of a shepherd. I be one." "There be a power of backsliding." "It be the drink." "Be it, Jud Paynter?" "Let him who is without sin cast the first stone." " That's right." " We are all sinners. I am." "I lived for 20 year in the bond of iniquity." "But now God has set my soul at liberty." " Amen." " We shall increase the flock." "Not round here you won't." "Brother, has the Lord informed you that our meeting house has fallen down?" "We shall build it up again." "What with, brother?" "We've got no money." " We got prayer." " And hard work." "The Lord has been pleased to afflict me with a rupture." "Well?" "Well?" "You're hungry, your lives are hard." "Will you refuse the bread of hope?" "Hope." "Aye, the Lord did see fit to bring down a fall of rock upon me in the mine." "But He was merciful, otherwise I'd have been in the riot and I would've been pressed into the fleet with my brother and the other lads." " l'll help." " Amen." "(Sniffs) Aye." " (All) Hallelujah!" " Hallelujah." "One thing more. 'Tis our way to worship with fellow Christians in parish church." "That be Sawle church." "When we've met here a few more times, there we shall go." "Oh, the gentry won't like it." "Warleggan won't like it, it's his church." "All men are brothers in the sight of Jehovah." "'Tain't Jehovah we got to deal with, 'tis Warleggan." "Christ will soften his heart." "Eh?" "Ha!" "Ee wait till he sees us!" "(Laughs wheezily) I still look like a dead crow." "98." "We'll all be at your 100th birthday party." "I be still as cold as death." " Here, let me put you..." " Stop it!" "Call a servant." "Ye be in your eighth month!" "Girl?" "Elizabeth?" "Aunt?" " Ee be early." " Early?" "Down here." "'Tis low for just eight month." "Oh, the vagaries of nature." "Don't you like your shawl?" " Nearer the fire, please." " 'Tis a fine gift." "Thank ee." " Ee be a good woman." " No." " And for all I be wicked..." " You're not." ".# twas part on account of you I stayed." " Thank you." " And Geoffrey Charles." "A Poldark sprig." "1 I think of ee as a Poldark still though by marriage." " l am Mrs George Warleggan now." " Mrs Nobody." "Why doesn't Ross come?" "I should think he's a busy man." "He always came before." "Aunt, he will not come to my husband's house." " Well, I want to see him." " He will not come!" " Well, send for him to come." " That is not possible." "Ee tell me that, girl, in my own house?" "'Tis mine, after a fashion." "Aunt, too much has happened." "But Ross Poldark is my only kinsman." "You have Geoffrey Charles." "There be only one Ross." "Ross'll be here for my 100th birthday, won't he?" "Won't he?" "Well, we shall see." "What do you mean, we shall see?" " Don't you want him to come?" " l'm sure you can have whoever..." "You could've had him, girl, Ross wanted ee." "But first you took Francis and then George." "At least Francis was a Poldark but George..." " Aunt, say no more." " Oh, that cold fish." " l shan't stay." " You could've had Ross in your bed, a real man." " (Running footsteps)" " In your bed... (Elizabeth shrieks)" "(Crashing)" "Oh, dear!" "She tripped at the top!" "I saw her." "Don't move her!" "Go for the master." "Quick, you whore!" "The cordial contained laudanum." "Your wife will sleep." "What can you tell me?" "A turned ankle, a bruised elbow, nothing worse." "My wife is eight months pregnant." "You must hope for the best." "So careless." "Always careless. I told her." "But the pains, the pains here." "Birth pangs of a nature that we refer to as "wandering"." " But the child?" " Is alive." " And well?" "Is it well?" " Who can know until it appears?" "You mean my child may die in birth, Doctor?" "It will be premature, that's certain." " And there is danger?" " Childbirth is always dangerous." "But if it is premature, more so?" "At eight months, I hope I shall bring your wife through." " But the child." " And perhaps the child." "Normal, healthy?" "That is not in mortal hands." "Behenna, listen to me." "Give me my son, give me a healthy son." "Name your fee, I'll pay anything." "Money will not serve, sir." "I recommend prayer." "Father." "News travels." "You sent a servant to fetch Behenna, didn't you?" "I felt it my duty." "Your mother's ailing." " (Screaming)" " Master, the bad pains are coming on." "(Groans)" " (Moaning)" " What's happening, Doctor?" " Sir, I am busy." " Tell me, man!" " The next stage has begun." " The child?" "If there is no issue shortly I shall use forceps." "The irritation of these..." " Can you save them?" " You should have called earlier." "I sent for you the moment it happened." "I mean earlier in the pregnancy." "I prefer to attend throughout a lady's time." " l wanted that but she did not." " (Moaning loudly)" " Sir, you delay me!" " Will my child be alive?" " Excuse me, sir!" " (Elizabeth moaning)" "There, madam, it's not the first time." "You'll forget the pain when it's over." "(Moaning)" "(Footsteps on stairs)" "He tells me nothing." "She's a delicate thing." "How old is she?" "30?" "Oh, I know she's got a pedigree but these fine families soon get exhausted." "Bad breeding stock." "No!" "No!" "No!" "I hate you!" "I hate you!" "I hate you!" "No!" "(Moans)" "No!" "(Moans, echoing)" "(Wind howling)" "(Elizabeth moaning)" " Nothing new?" " (Shrieking)" "They say Pellew is doing well at sea." "I'm getting better prices for tin and copper now." "One good thing about this war." "(Grunting and moaning)" "You wanna hold back stock." "Push up prices." "(Chuckles) But then I don't need to tell you." "Duke of York doesn't know whether he's coming or going with the army out there." "Corn is in short supply." "That spells more riots to me." " Eclipse." " What's that?" "There's a total eclipse of the moon due at quarter past eight." "I spoke too hardly, dear George." "After all, you're still a young man." "Your one thought day and night is getting on, getting power." "If..." "If she goes... I know you'll make good choice of another." "Shut your mouth!" "(Groans)" "(Panting and moaning)" "(Wind howls, Elizabeth moans)" "(Baby crying)" "They say you are well." " God be thanked." " Your son." "(Wind whistling)" "(Wind strengthening)" "My boy, my boy!" "What a girl you got there!" "One in a thousand, eh?" "She did the job, she did the job." "What more can we ask?" "At last." "At last an heir to all I've worked for." "35 years of fortune for nothing, all for him, all for him." "I had some hand in creating the fortune not to mention the heir." "(Laughs)" "And she is out of a good stable." "You're far-seeing, George, far-seeing." "Her kinfolk can be got to do a lot for us." "Perhaps." "But I don't need them." "I don't need anybody." "My son will see them all eating out of my hand." "Aye, money, my boy, money." " George?" " Father?" "Touching on names, you two must have thought about it." "We have some good ones in the family." "I decided a few hours ago." "You might have had a girl." "The name would have served for either." "Elizabeth's accident might have killed her and my son." " Now I think it was providence." " That's a new word for you." "It was God's will that he was born on St Valentine's Day, he shall be Valentine." "Valentine?" "There has been no such name in the family." "There has been no one such as my son will be in any family." " Does Elizabeth like it?" " She will when I tell her." "Ours is a union of old gentry and new." "We need a new name." "You won't get away from Warleggan." "I shall never wish to." "It is too respected and feared." "Fear can be bad for business." "Respect and fear are one." "You could name him Robert or Joshua, we've had three in our family." "The last one was a bad lot." "Or Ross." "What do you say to Ross?" "(Chuckles)" "My wife is well, ma'am, if you're interested." "Oh, been up to see that she be, have ee?" "A regular little spud, I'll wager." "His mother's family through and through." "It'll be some time before you can see him." "Tied him up against the convulsions, I suppose." "Poor little crim." "I'd leave him free if I had the ordering of it." "But you do not." "Now, if you'll excuse me, my father and I have business to discuss." "Well, Mr Warleggan, I trust you feel that you're a bigger man now that you're the father of an eight-month brat." "(Coughing) Fire, Smeech." "Your own room will be more comfortable." "I shall go up and see the baby." "Take Miss Poldark to her room and tell Miss Pipe she will not leave it today." " l shall see the baby first." " You shall not, ma'am." "My wife must rest." "Carried up like a spire of driftwood." "Stop a minute, you brutes." "There'll be one thing amiss with your little son, George Warleggan." "Good seldom comes to a child born under a black moon." "I only knew two and they both came to bad ends." "(George) Move!" "I should like to smother that hag." " She smells of the grave." " l wish she were in it." "Thank ee." "What was that about a black moon?" "The eclipse." "Some damn peasant superstition." "Demelza." "And Ross. I had to see you." "How are you settling down?" "It seems the army survives without me." "But how about the navy in the person of Surgeon Dwight Enys?" "How I wish this war would end." " Has Verity heard nothing?" " No." "I had one letter from him and that was two weeks old." "He's on a ship called the Travail." "I go to Falmouth." "I'll see if there's news of him." "Oh, Ross." "You're determined to be our guardian angel." "I brought you two together." " How is your uncle?" " Dying." "It was only Dwight's treatment that was keeping him alive." "What a grand christening it was at Penrice." "I know you're at feud with George, Ross, but I had to go." "Such a horde of Warleggans." "Dreadful people." "And George as proud as Lucifer." "Demelza, what beautiful brocade." "You've transformed this room." " She chose everything." " George has transformed Penrice." "And the baby is all Elizabeth." "I must confess, I loathe small babies." "I shall have to have my children at least three years old." "Dwight will have to arrange that somehow." "Ross, I was talking to your Aunt Agatha." "She kept asking when she was going to see you." "Oh, my dears, I have a feeling I must have said something very tactless." "(Demelza) You have." "Miss Caroline be lookin' well." "Come on, you old slug." "Turn this mattress over." "(Groans) It don't do me gut no good." "Ain't nothin' the matter with your gut but too much ale." "She come from the Warleggan christening." "Let's hope it'll do a bit of good maybe." "Here, catch this sheet." "Tuck it in." "A babby do bring out the love in folk." "Mr Warleggan could do with a bit of that." "Babby be always welcome, even at eight month." "Nine." "'Tis an eight-month babby, they do say." "Catch." " Nine?" " Tuck it in." "Nine month?" "Why'd you say nine?" "I never." " You did." " Did I?" "Well, I wasn't certain." "Warleggan wed Mrs Elizabeth when I were cleaning out the Wallflower." "That were May." "How many month be that?" "If you're not gonna help, get out and leave me be." "Eight." "They were wed eight month ago." "Well, then. 'Tis all nonsense." " Eight, nine..." " Shut up or go." "Ninth be the month before." "Cap'n told me off for not planting the early chrysanths, I mind that." "He ain't no right to talk after all the trouble he caused." "That were when he were away all night!" "He's been out all night more times than I can remember, you fool." "Ee told me, missus was upset and ee comforted her." "Ee said it must be another woman, I mind that." " It's all nonsense." " Ah!" "Captain Poldark, Mistress Eliz..." "That were when George Tabb saw the Captain's horse one night near her house." "And George Tabb's a bigger liar and drunkard than you." " Maybe." " Will you shut up, you mad old man?" "You're gonna make mischief." "Missus has been good to us." " 'Tis all lies." " Maybe." "But that babby was born under a black moon." "I don't care what it were born under." "Unlucky for babby." "Unlucky for child, dam and sire." "(Jud) Missus!" "Missus!" "Captain?" "Anyone around?" "(Demelza) Prudie!" " Oh." "What's it say?" " Morning, missus." "What shall we have, world news or local gossip?" "No, I know." "Market prices." "Read me the market prices." " l were just..." " l know what ee were just." "George Rundell from Sawle rode by and said to give this to Captain Poldark." " Read me the market prices." " l be not literate." "Ee knows that." "Ee be a great play-actor, I'll give ee that." " Give him what?" " Morning, Captain." " Bit early, even for you." " He spent the night in Sawle." "He told Prudie he'd be back by eight o'clock and not a minute later." " l got held up." " Aye, by how many?" "By the look of you, you spent the night in a ditch." "George Rundell said to give you this, Cap'n." "I stayed up hoping not to miss you." " And that's the truth!" " What devotion." "He put a ring round the bit that he wanted you to read." "Thank you, Jud." "Go out and brush yourself down." "I done me duty." "And that's something no man can tell a woman." "Poor hard-done-by old wreck." "Imbecile." " Ross." " Yes?" " Know what today is?" " No." "You do know. I'm regular as the moon." " Where the devil is this piece?" " Ross." " What?" " Listen to me." "It's important." " l've missed the second month." " You missed?" "Oh." " Oh." " Don't know why you're surprised." "Been nothing else since you come back." "I should have guessed." "I knew there was something." " If you don't know, who does?" " You complaining?" " Not me." "You?" " l'm delighted." " Boy or girl?" " Girl." "But not another like you." " One Demelza is more than I can handle." " What a lovely thing to say." "What a lovely thing to do." "Breakfast, love." "Come on, woman." "We've a day to begin." "Prudie!" "Demelza." "Come and look at this." "News of an action." "Dwight's ship." " l'd like Dwight to attend you." " If he's back." "I must get news of him." "I promised Caroline." "Ross." " Are you well?" " Blooming, am I not?" " Some refreshment." " Brandy." "A brandy for Captain Poldark." "How is your uncle?" "No better." " You have news?" " Yes." "Thank God. I see a scarecrow in my mirror." "Ridiculous." "There was a battle off the French coast last week." "The western squadron." " Dwight?" " One ship was lost." "The Travail." "Drink." "Listen, Caroline, she was not sunk." "She was wrecked off the French coast." "A gale." " There's a report in this." " Much nicer to be wrecked than sunk." "It says she was seen to beach, so there will be survivors." " Does it say if there are?" " It's a brief report." "We must wait." " Wait?" " Caroline, he may be a prisoner." "It's the waiting I can't stand." "I have to know if he's alive." "I'm sorry, Ross." "I've not been myself lately." "I can see that." "What can I do?" "I can't leave." "I'm tied to a dying man." " l'll find out." " How?" "There are ways." "Don't just speak to comfort me, Ross." "That would be unkind." "If you do offer, I shall rely on you." "# My saviour high" "# Though the storm of life me pass" "# Safe into... #" "Look." "Come on." " Demelza said not to." " 'Tis a mile less this way." " Mantraps." " l'll keep a lookout." "OK." " No." " My shoulder's fair cracking." " Warleggan's keepers." " They can't be everywhere." "Them keepers got guns." " l got no sprawl to move yet." " Come on." "All right, you old woman." "I suppose." "Shh." "(Geoffrey) This way." "I say, what's this?" "It might be from a ship." "Come on." " What's it doing here?" " l don't know." "Look." "Someone's just been here." "Who's there?" "Who's there?" "Come on." " How you doing?" " What are you doing?" " Are you my stepfather's men?" " No, sir, if you mean Mr Warleggan." "This is private property." "You can be locked up for trespass." "Beg pardon." "We be carrying that to make a new roof beam for our meeting house." "We meant no harm." "'Tis a short cut, ma'am." "You'll explain to young Mr Warleggan?" " My name's not Warleggan." " Beg pardon again." "My name is Poldark." "If your name is Mr Poldark, young sir, maybe you'll forgive us." "For we're related to Captain Ross Poldark." "(Geoffrey) Why, so am I!" "Captain Poldark's wife, Mistress Demelza Poldark, be our sister." "(Geoffrey) Mon Dieu, c'est incroyable!" "Geoffrey Charles, we need more flowers." "This is heavy." "Two fields over there is a public path." "Please do not loiter." "Thank you, ma'am." "There are keepers in the field mending a fence." "They will soon be gone." "Thank you, ma'am." "Geoffrey, we'll be late for dinner." "She's left her bluebells." "You see, La Fontaine is telling us the grass is greener on the other side." "(Geoffrey) Oh, flowers!" "There's a note." "It says "Miss Morwenna"." "It's in an atrocious hand." "The impertinence!" "Governess, where did your nice flowers come from?" "Um...from the woods, Miss Poldark." "We'll put them in water in the school room, Geoffrey." "Excuse us, Miss Poldark." "(Chuckles)" " (Church bells) - # Jesus, lover of my soul" "# Let me to thy bosom fly" "# While the nearer waters... #" " Morning, sir." "God's blessing on ee." " You are new here!" "Yes, sir." "We're the Methodist connection." "'Tis proper we attend church." "We decided yours was most fit." "Indeed!" "They're very late!" "(Lively chatter)" "Morning, Jud." " Careful." " Ah, my relatives." "'Tis not right to sit mum in God's house." "We must praise Him!" "All together!" "(Raucously) # Lord, I believe a rest remains" "# To all Thy people known" " Shh!" " # A rest where pure enjoyment reigns" "# And Thou art loved alone # l rest where all our souls' desire" "# Is fix'd on things above Where fear... #" "What is going on?" "Has the service begun?" " No, Mr Warleggan." " What's that singing?" "A newcomer, sir." "Canting Methodists." "Utterly lacking in respect." "(Singing continues, Jud shouting)" " Rise!" " Sing up for our friends!" "# Oh that I now the rest may know" "# Believe and enter in" "# Now, Saviour, now Thy power bestow" "# And let me cease from sin #" "(Clearing throat)" "When a wicked man turneth away from the wickedness that he hath committed, and doeth that which is lamul and right, he shall save his soul alive." "Amen." " (Jud grunts)" " Dearly beloved brethren..." "Yes, Mr Warleggan. I shall, I shall indeed." "Go to the kitchen." "Cook has a basket your family." "Thank you, Mrs Poldark." "Warleggan." "Poor, starveling worm." " You know who these Methodists are?" " Miners?" "Fishermen?" "I don't mean that." "The ringleaders are Demelza Poldark's brothers." " Yes?" " Well, don't you see?" " See what?" " Don't you want to see?" "My dear, thy people are my people, thy God my God." "The sect was dying out before he brought them here." "They are poor fanatics who bawl hymns." "It starts with hymns, it ends with revolution." "Jack's as good as his master before the Lord." "It's treason." "We're at war with a country governed by such doctrines." "Such a mob burned our house down and once more, Ross Poldark is behind it." " Their sister might have brought them." " The man is the master." "Any gentleman would have sent them packing." "True, who'd like to be disgraced by such relations?" "Exactly." "He sent them to that church to defy me." "Well, if he wants to fight through them, so shall I." " You sent for me, sir?" " You came to my church yesterday." "You sang and chatted as if it were an alehouse!" "God's act, sir." "We did but sing a hymn." "You show brazen contempt for authority!" "We attend church as Mr Wesley said." "That renegade preacher!" "We do love and worship Christ, that's all." "Well, yes, so you do." "I'm sorry if we displeased Mr Warleggan." "'Tis nothing to do with Mr Warleggan!" "It is my church you dishonoured!" "I'm bound to tell ee, sir, 'tis not such a wonde_ul church." " Then keep away!" " Women gossiping, men haggling." "'Tis Satan, not God, is in 'em!" "Satan is in you!" "Sir, I shall pray for ee every day of my life!" " l forbid you to enter my church." " Sir, be that possible?" " l shall forbid my flock to listen to you!" " Where shall we go to church then?" " Go back where you came from!" " l bid ee good day, sir." "You will not preach your vile doctrines here!" "We shall preach the word, sir." "We built up our meeting house." "Come along, sir." "God's light is for you as for all sinners." "(Grunts)" " Yes?" " Two men is here, sir." " Show them in." " l don't like the look of them, sir." "I don't think they like the look of you, either." "Show them in." "I'll stay here, just in case." " You'll do no such thing." "Show them in!" " Yes, sir." "Harris!" "Harris Pascoe!" "What the devil are you doing out this far?" "Looking at property for a client. I thought I'd kill two birds with one stone." "I'm delighted to see you." "Demelza is out, everyone is, except Jud and me." " Can I offer you something?" " No, perhaps later." "You asked me listen for news of France." "Of Dwight Enys, yes. I've offered a reward, I asked a number of people." "I have something for you." "John Trelawney, a seaman in the French trade." " Trade?" " What would we do without contraband?" "Be that as it may, he was in Roscoff." "He learnt that the Travail went aground along that coast." "I know that." "Is that all he knows?" "Let him tell you himself." "Come in, John." "Good God, man." "What happened to you?" "Show him, John." "John and his brother Dan were arrested on suspicion and locked in a barn with 50 others." " Women and kids, mostly." " The barn caught fire." " It was done deliberate, sir." " Dan died." "He was 15." "Dear God, I'm sorry." "I never knew it was that bad. I'd heard tales but our ships still trade over there." "Greed for gain is stronger than fear." "Trelawney, did you learn anything else?" "Were there prisoners?" "I don't know, sir." "They let ee come and go but ask questions and ee be a dead 'un." " Yes." "Thank you." " Wait outside, John." "Jud!" "See that Mr Trelawney has some refreshment." " Thank you, sir." " Yes, sir." "This way, sir." "Can men born of women do such things?" " You fought in the American War." " Oh, yes." "Yes. I saw what savage Indians can do but this is civilised France, a few miles across the Channel." " It is what war makes of men." " And revolution." "A revolution you and I hailed at first as being the dawn of liberty." "Alas, the butchers have taken over." "Maybe they always will." "I'll support Trelawney financially." "He endangered himself at my instigation." "At mine, Harris!" "It should be at my charge!" "I am responsible!" "Very well." "But I didn't bring him to claim recompense or to reproach you." " l came to warn you." " Warn me?" "You see what happens to those who ask questions in France." " It isn't worth it, Ross!" " l must help Caroline Penvenen." " There's a limit to what you can do!" " Is there?" "That is what I feared, if you cannot find what you seek through others, you'll do something foolhardy yourself!" "I know you!" "I can't tell Caroline to forget Dwight." "Brave girl but all nerves, like every thoroughbred." " Think of your wife and child!" " l've promised Caroline." "Well, I can say no more." "Your account prospers, by the way." "Call in at the bank." " When are you next in Truro?" " l'm coming in for the Whit Fair!" "(Man) Hey!" "(2nd Man) Well done!" " For the war, sir." " The war, eh?" "Yes, sir." "Thank you, sir." "Where are you?" "Where are you, you bastard?" " Ha!" "Steel, is it?" " Go home!" "I'll swing for ee first!" "(Laughs)" "(Crowd gasps)" "(Crowd) Oh!" "(Grunting)" "Let go!" " Clear off!" " Let go, will you?" "Why, young Cap'n Poldark!" "Bartholomew Tregirls!" "I suppose you'd been at his wife?" "(Laughs)" " You haven't changed neither, Captain!" " l'll buy you a drink!" "Well, been a long time!" "Eleven years, when the regiment came back from America." "You were a young devil in them days, you were!" " l thought you'd be dead by now." " l've seen enough of it!" "But come up smiling!" "Well, sit down here." " Why have I not seen you?" " l went to sea, I did." " And now?" "Drink!" " Trading." " What sort of trade?" " This and that." " Can I sell you a bull pup?" " No." "Do you ever trade at sea?" "Maybe." "Can I sell you a horse?" "Maybe." "Ever go across to France?" "That's asking, that is." "I got a splendid mare, only three year old." " Here's to ee." " To your health, Tholly." " l'm interested in France." " Are ye?" " You're wed, I suppose?" " Married, one son." "I follows me fancy." "Come here, girlie." " You like me?" " France, Tholly!" "Look, I've got a silver in here!" "Do you want to have a look at him?" "When are you going to France?" "Now, I'll show you Judith." "Damn your women." "Come see Judith." "Come on." "(Man) If you buy me one, I'll have one!" " Here, Judith." " This isn't a horse, it's a pony!" "She'll grow." "Fine stock." "(Ross) Come on, boy." " So, you're also a smuggler, eh?" " Bit of everything." "Six or seven years old if she's a day." "You was ever one with an eye, horses or women." " You used to speak a bit of French." " Still do." " You can have her for 35 guineas." " Twenty." "I want information from France." "I can bring you spirits, scents, silks for the little wife." "Information." "The Frenchies leave me alone cos l mind my business and they mind theirs." "I want a pony for my wife." "Help me, and I'll take her. 25 guineas." "I have no wish to leave my head in a basket." "That is carrying old acquaintance too far." "And 50 guineas for the job." "25 it is." "For the beast." " And the job?" " l might be fool enough, one day." " Where can I find you?" " There's a lot of folks asking that." "I'll come and see you." "Maybe." "(Laughter)" "Look!" " Good day to ee both." " Hello!" "Go for a stroll?" "Might I walk with ee?" "Oh, yes." "Did that roof beam fit?" " You must come see it sometime." " Can we, Wenna?" "Geoffrey, I should hear your Latin lesson." "But we never do lessons when we're out." "Proper weather this, eh?" "I wish I was dressed like you." " You going to the Holy Well?" " What's that?" "You mean you do live here and you don't know?" "I've heard of it." "The Christian pilgrims once used it." "It is just there, beyond that point." " Mr..." " Carne." "Drake Carne, Miss Chynoweth." "I don't think Geoffrey's mother would approve." "Why tell her?" "You said not to last time." "Geoffrey... lt would be a pity if you were not to come to this fine beach no more." "It is of historical interest." "Thank you, Mr Carne." "Come." "It's this way." "Master Geoffrey." "Miss Chynoweth." "It's fresh water." "Lovely." "'Twas consecrated a thousand year gone." "'Tis a wishing well too." " A wishing well?" " Look." "Father, Son, Holy Ghost." " l wished." " It's sacrilegious." "Oh no, it is a holy place." "is this right?" "Father, Son, Holy Ghost." " l wished, Wenna." "Guess what for." " You mustn't tell!" "Go on, Wenna, you wish." "Don't be a spoilsport." "Father, Son, Holy Ghost." "(Geoffrey) Wenna?" "(French accent) It gives me great pleasure to talk to you, Madame Pol..." " Dark!" " Pol-dark." " No, Poldark." " Poldark?" "You must pardon, English names are... I never catch French names either." "I'm the Vicomte de Maresi capitaine in the royal army of Fr!" "ance." "My friend is colonel." "The Comte de Sombreuil." "I did not forget your name, madame." "Mademoiselle Penvenen speaks very warmly of your husband." " l'm sure she does." " It was only your name I forgot, your person is unforgettable." "Not to my husband." "(Coughs)" "Those damned doctors, none of them is any good." " Dr Enys did you good." " Oh, Dr Enys, Dr Enys." "Why do you keep talking about him?" "One damn quack's the same as another." "Pill pushers, setting themselves up as if they were gentlemen!" "Don't tire yourself, uncle." "You want to worry less about doctors and more about making a good marriage, my girl." "You know, she can have 10,OOO a year for the asking." "I'm so delighted to at last see England for myself." "There are so many stories that we know are not true, that English food is bad, English ladies are cold..." "Oh, it's the weather that's cold." "We keep ourselves warm." "I know, I know." "Are you tempted to embrace the cause?" " Why not." " It is a good cause, Capitaine." " Indeed." "You should talk to Uncle Ray." " And be a good girl?" " May I accompany you, madame?" " S'il vous plaît." "Have you been here long?" "Four weeks, Capitaine." "We are seconded from the army in Holland." " You fought in Holland last year." " For a while." "I know I can rely on your honour and your secrecy." "We are preparing for a military operation based on the south coast of England." " What chance do you have?" " We have the troops." "All we need is ships, weapons and gold." "English ships, weapons and gold." " You speak ironically." " l believe I do." " Our cause is yours, monsieur." " And our gold is yours." "My country today is drowning in blood." "That has to be stopped." "Agreed." "But not to put back useless kings and bloodsucking nobles." "Do you know who started the revolution?" "Aristocrats, who thought as you do." "I was one of them." "I'm sorry." "Unless it is stopped, it will end in a military dictatorship." "Either that will conquer you or you will occupy France." " l don't want either and nor should you." " No." "And it is not a hopeless cause." "Thousands of royalists are fighting on in Brittany." " And you'll land to join them?" " And start a blaze that will burn tyranny out of France." "Monsieur, we need gentlemen like you to press your government to support us." " Will you?" " Could be a disaster." " Have you made a convert, M. Ie Comte?" " l would like to." "Ross, M. Ie Comte says that if Dwight has been taken prisoner, that he will be accorded the privileges of his rank." "You really think I will have news soon?" "I hope so, mademoiselle." "I never believed in borrowing." "Now the country is borrowing money..." "to pay for this damn war." "(Coughs) Imagine that." "Great Britain living like a sponger." "Oh, where is it all going to end?" "(Drowsily) Where is it all going to end?" " Madame..." " Shh." "Let him sleep." "Poor man." "It's the nature of his illness." "What...beautiful flowers, madame." "How smooth those petals are." "Like the skin of a beautiful woman." "Like yours, madame." "We use tired water in these parts." "You should trade." "I've had interesting experiences with ladies... I'm sure you've had a very busy four weeks." "I have learnt that it is better to be direct." "You always believe in coming to the point?" "Madame, we understand each other." "If we don't now, we soon shall." "Very soon, madame." "You are a divine creature!" " When and where shall we meet?" " Meet?" "To have delicious experiences together." "Oh, monsieur, I must add something to your knowledge of English women, by being the first, I'm sure, to decline your kind offer." "Excuse me, I must talk to Demelza." "Were you just being kind to Caroline?" " Capitaine?" " You said you had hopes for Enys." "What else could I say?" "Could I say that last week in Brest British prisoners were stoned by the mob?" "Could I tell her that this officer, who is obviously her lover, is probably dead?" "Thank you, Demelza." "And you, Ross." "Caroline... I shall go to France." " l don't want you to risk your life, Ross." " You want Dwight. I'll find him." "That Frenchie said he were dead." "He said "probably"." "You showed me the navy report." "Dwight's ship was shot to pieces." "She was seen to beach." "And no one was seen to come ashore." "Nor would in that sea." " Dwight is my best friend." " He's my friend too!" "But he may be dead, and this one isn't." "There's little risk." "Joe Nanfan's gone over on Trencrom's ship." " Smugglers won't do it for you!" " l'll be careful." "What about coming back with a cargo of contraband, that's a risk too!" " You might not get off!" " Having a baby is a risk!" "Then stay with me!" "Oh, Ross, you got money." "Use it." "Pay someone to go." "Lots of men would do anything for money." "I'd found a cutthroat, Bartholomew Tregirls." "But he's disappeared." " Then wait." " Dwight may die if I wait too long." " You should put me first!" " l do!" " Then promise me you won't go!" " l've already said I will!" "Judas!" "You'll do anything for anyone, except me." " Look!" "What will Mother say?" " Perhaps she won't see." "It's like a great church." " We must go." " Will you come again?" " We shouldn't." " Why not?" "Because of the enmity between your house and ours?" "I know there's bad feeling." "It's not my place to ask why." " l have no bad feeling." " Nor have I." "You two be friends." "Perhaps they will make it up." "The world's not like that, Geoffrey Charles." "Please, Drake, it must be terribly late." " Where on earth were you?" " On the beach." "Geoffrey Charles' shoe was soaked." "You better give him a hot bath at once." " Yes, Elizabeth." " How did that happen?" " Oh, we climbed to a cave..." " You climbed?" " Do you forget that you are a lady?" " No, cousin." "Yet you clamber about like a village whore and let my boy behave like a lout?" "He's strong-willed, don't let him lead you." " l don't, Elizabeth." " Remember my husband's position." "You have a place to maintain." "Suppose you were seen!" " No one will see me do anything amiss!" " l hope not!" "Those caves are dangerous, you might have been cut off by the tide." " l'm deeply sorry, cousin." " No!" "Being sorry is not enough!" "You are responsible for my boy's safety." "You will not go to the beach again this year." "Joe Nanfan, master!" "I made him clean his boots!" "Joe, glad to see you safe." "Aye, sir, we got in from Roscoff today. I got news." "Man." "Is Dr Enys alive?" " l can't tell ee, sir." "But look here." " Here." "The Travail beached here, near a town called Quimper." "Nearby is a fort, Fort Baton they call it." "'Tis full of English prisoners." " He is there, if he's alive." " Who told you?" "A Frenchie in Roscoff a merchant by the name of C!" "lisson." " He speaks English." " Is there more?" "I promised him 50 guineas for a list of prisoners." " Good man." " l had to say 50 because of the danger." "'Tis bad in Roscoff." "Everyone do spy on everyone else." "If you set one foot out of the town, or ask something suspicious, you'll be axed." " Tell Trencrom I'm coming." "Next trip." " l've already done that." "He says he won't risk his neck." "He'll set you ashore, that's all." " That's understood." " Except for me, I'll be with ee." "Good fellow." "Here's for what you've done." "There'll be more." " 'Tain't for that, sir." " l know. I'll see to it." "Well, thank you, sir." "I'll be off to fix it with Trencrom, then." "Clisson said 'tis bad at that fort." "Them that don't get shot get starved." "You may be going a fool's errand." "Strange these boundaries were not legally drawn before." "The Poldarks didn't bother, sir." "No one can question my rights now." "Nothing else?" "Yes, Mr Warleggan." "That meeting house." " Oh, the Methodist place." " Yes, sir." " They did a good job repairing it." " So I see." "Since they were forbid the church, they got a fair crowd going." "The church was three parts empty on Sunday." "Rank rebellion, sir. I looked it up - they be operating on an expired lease." "What's that?" "Fell in four years ago." "They allege that Mr Francis Poldark told 'em to stay on." "He told them there was no new deed?" "It was all word of mouth." "Poldark-fashion, sir." "But word of mouth is no agreement." "'Tis if there be witnesses, sir, and there were three of them heard Mr Francis say it." " And you find that amusing?" " Yes, sir." "For Mr Francis have died." "So have two of the witnesses." "There be only Joe Nanfan left." "His word against ours." "And he'd stand no chance in court..." "against a gentleman." "I'll leave for Truro for the winter as soon as Valentine is well." " He be sickly?" " My wife says he'll be better in a week." "Get those heretics out by then." " Morning, ma'am." " Good day, ma'am." "My husband is away." "You ask for me?" " 'Tis you we wish to see, ma'am." " What can I do for you?" " You know about our meeting house?" " Yes." "We thought, as Mr Francis Poldark had given us the land..." " Well?" " And ye are his widow, we thought ye'd see fair play." "I never knew he'd made this agreement." " Do you doubt us?" " That piece of land is not my property." "No, the heir be Mr Geoffrey Charles Poldark but he be underage." "You fancy yourself as an attorney?" "No, ma'am, a simple sinner seeking God's grace." " If you save our house..." " You should not preach to me." "Sorry, ma'am." "You may feel your beliefs put you on an equal footing." "We're all equal before the heavenly throne." "Unfortunately for you, we live in a society which does not see it that way." "No, ma'am." "But Jesus Christ be our master." " Then what is it you want?" " Justice, ma'am." "Nothing more." "I am not my son's only guardian." "Mr Warleggan decides these matters." "We asked but Mr Taggart said he were too busy." " He is a busy man." " So we've come to see you." "Drake!" "What are you doing here?" "Waiting for Sam." "He's got business." "What's wrong?" "Are you afraid of Tom Harry?" "I know you'll like me to pretend that." "Our meetings were secret." "I meet whom I like." " How's Miss Morwenna?" " Bravely." "Why have you not been on the beach?" "I waited." " We mustn't." " Oh?" "It's all right." "Nobody knows." "I do miss...both of ee." "Mother and Father are going to Truro for three months." " Ee and Miss Morwenna?" " Not us." " Where do they let ee walk?" " We're not allowed outside the grounds." "What's the matter?" "You do look sad." "(Whistling) I'm off before someone sees us." "Sir." " (George) Curse their impudence!" " They asked politely and I saw them." " Sneaking in when my back is turned." " They thought I'd have a softer heart." " And have you?" " It's a small piece of land." "Shouldn't we let them have it?" "It would make you popular." "Who wants to be popular with that rabble?" "Francis gave his word, Joe Nanfan was there." "He says he was." "He says that Francis gave his word." " Did he ever tell you of this?" " No, I don't remember." "If I believed every rogue that imagined claim to my property, I'd soon be in the poorhouse." " The other one, who was he?" " Demelza's brother, the older one." " Demelza." " He was very convincing." "He was coached and we can guess who coached him." "He still thinks this is Poldark land." "Well... he'll have to be taught that it is not." "Elizabeth, it would give me great joy if you were to show the world where you stand in this." "This is my land and part of the inheritance of our son." "You are a joint trustee." "I want you to sign the order of eviction against these people, it would show them just how much they were mistaken." "George never surprises me." "Think of a mean thing and he does it." " Your Elizabeth signed it." " She's not "my Elizabeth"." "I shall be away at least seven days." "You must not worry." "Must I not?" "Zacky knows what to do at the mine." "Jud's to dig a patch in the kitchen garden." "See he keeps at it." "The account books are in the study, with notes where needed." " Why tell me all this?" " Business matters." " Oh." "Well, since we're talking business..." " Well?" "Now George has evicted the Methodists, they've nowhere to go." " The boys' cottage?" " Too many now." " They must build." " That's what they want." " It's not my business." " Oh, yes, it is." "Sam and Drake have...have asked if they can build on our land." " Oh, this is too much, now of all times." " You wanted to talk business." "I'm sick of your brothers." "They may be my brothers but I left you free to send them away." "I didn't want to talk of such things now but they came to me." "If they had self-respect, they'd have gone to anyone but us." "Who else has got land here?" "Anyway, it's not just them." "I've no sympathy for Methodism." " It's all your old friends, Jud..." " Jud!" "A Methodist?" " Joe Nanfan, Zacky Martin..." " Zacky?" "That's his wife's doing." "At least someone listens to his wife." " This is coercion." " What's that?" "You don't want me to go." "I'd do anything to please you." " 'Cept stay." " l can't." " Very well." " l have to go. I don't want to, I have to." "I'm gonna say goodbye to Jeremy." "I didn't wake Jeremy." "Tell him I'll come back from Roscoff with a toy for him, eh?" " My love to this one." " Oh, Ross." "Don't worry, I'll be careful." "Here, for Drake and Sam." "A bit of land near the mine." "They can use the stone from the old engine house." "You're only doing this cos you think you won't come back." "Does Clisson know this place?" " 'Twas he who fixed it." " (Muffled singing)" "They seem to like the revolution downstairs." "Some be for the revolution, some be doubtful." "Tell me which is more dangerous for you and the likes of us." " (Gunshots)" " Somebody's firing off." "Sometimes all quiet, sometimes not." " It don't do to ask why." " You'd better go now." " Oh, I'll find a bed here." " One's enough for this job." "Go on." "As you say." "Be aboard in time." "Trencrom won't wait for ee." "(Muffled rowdiness)" "(Footsteps)" "Jacques Clisson." "A votre service." " Have you got the list?" " You don't know what you ask." "2,OOO prisoners heavily guarded." " Money talks." " So does Madame la guillotine." " Have you done nothing?" " Mais oui, but it take time." "Take enough time and all the prisoners will be dead." " l have made a contact." " A guard?" "Mais non, a clerk." "The list are in the office, uh." " Offer him 50 guineas." " Too small." "One must, er, feel one's way." "Were it too soon... lt has to be soon." "My ship sails in five days." "Well, 50 for him but, er, 50 is not enough for me." " l have expenses." " 100 for you." "In advance?" "I have no reason to trust you." "Nor I you, eh, monsieur?" " Uh, wait here for me." " How long?" " For as long as it take." " l cannot miss my ship." "That is your affair." "If you want the names, you wait." "(Chatting, laughing)" " Monsieur?" " l'll take 12 rolls, er, douze." " Oui." "C'est bien, douze?" " Delivered to mon bateau, the Phoenix." "Pardon monsieur, vous avez dit le..." "Er, s'il vous plaît..." "deliver...pour moi...er..." "Allow me, sir." "ll faut livrer la soie tout de suite au bateau..." " The Phoenix." " Le Phoenix." "Oh, mais oui, certainement." "Merci, monsieur." "Your servant, sir." "Alexander Craig, merchant of this town." "Mr Craig." "This is well met, I have heard much of you." "I intended to call on you tomorrow." "My name is Ross Poldark of Nampara in Cornwall." "We could make it today but, er... unfortunately, I have business in the country." "Tomorrow would be fine." "Do you know where l live?" " l have your address." " Uh-huh." "Well, shall we say nine o'clock for breakfast?" " Business afterwards." " It shall be my pleasure." "And mine, Mr Poldark." "Vite!" " (Man) Au nom de la République!" " What the devil's this about?" "Do you speak English?" "I am commissaire of the republic." "Your name?" "Ross Poldark of Nampara, Cornwall." " Your ship?" " The Phoenix." "Mr Trencrom, master." " Your business here?" " Trade. I've just bought this." "I realise you have these formalities but I have several merchants to see." " Length of stay?" " Five days." "Foreign nationals, enemies of the republic, are liable to summary arrest." "I am not an enemy." "I'm spending gold here that you need." "You're on a mission...of espionage." "That is ridiculous." "Our traders have been coming..." "There is nothing against anyone but you." "You are the spy." " You people see spies everywhere." " The republic is in danger." "You haven't got a jot of evidence." "Faites entrer le citoyen." "Drive trade away and you'll harm your republic." " C'est lui?" " Oui." " Merci, citoyen." " Merci." "Vive la République, uh." "You have attempted to bribe a citizen for information concerning fortifications." "Concerning a prison." "I want news of one man." "For his wife." "You admit the offence, you have been identified." " No further proof is needed." " For what?" "To put me on trial?" "You have been tried." "You are guilty." "(Commissaire) The penalty is mandatory." "(Marching)" " (Man) Halte!" " (Marching stops)" "Chargez!" "Visez!" " Feu!" " (Gunshots)" "(Soldier) Les prisonniers contre le mur!" "Allez!" "Dépêchez-vous!" "Vite!" "Vite!" "Allez!" "Allez, messieurs." "Dépêchez-vous." "Vite!" "Eh!" " Mais non." " You're making a mistake." "Non." "English?" "Tell them I wasn't one of you." "We have all say that, they don't listen." "Our group was betrayed." "We failed." "Others will take our place." " Royalists?" " Be glad, you can die for something." "(Soldier) Peloton d'exécution!" "Rassemblez!" "Attention." "Citoyens soldats, mort aux ennemis de la République!" "Chargez vos fusils!" "Visez!" "Ya!" "Ya!" "(Man) Halte là!" "Sergent, ne tirez pas!" "Bien sûr, monsieur." "(Discussion in French, indistinct)" "(Soldier) Excusez-moi, monsieur, mais ce n'est pas de ma faute." "You will wish to apologise for wasting the good breakfast I had for you five days ago, Captain Poldark." "How, er..." "How did you know?" "In this place, when an acquaintance fails to appear," " one makes inquiries." " (Soldier) Peloton d'exécution!" "Rassemblez!" " l owe you my life." " l share the honour with your captain and your man." "They told me what you were about." " Where are they?" " They sailed yesterday." " They had to." " Did they know I was in prison?" "Only that you were missing." "God." "They would have told my wife." " And she's pregnant." " Then you should not have come, sir." "How did you manage it?" "Oh, I've been trading in Roscoff for 12 years, Captain Poldark." "I would have been a dead man long since but for certain papers I have, safely lodged in Paris." "You see, the commissaire has been feathering his nest in the name of the revolution." "I have the proof in those papers." "He's well aware that if I lose my head, he will lose his very soon after." "He can be persuaded to do me a favour, as he did today." "You know my business." "Would he...?" "No, no, a little at a time." "(Soldier) Visez!" "Feu!" "If you are to survive in this country, you must steel yourself." "You'll see worse sights than that, I promise you." "My man is imprisoned at Fort Baton." "I need a map of northern Brittany." "Come back with me." " Mon Dieu, c'est terrible ici!" " Non." "(Twig cracks)" "(Wood clacking)" "Miss Caroline Penvenen be here, missus." "Thank you, Prudie." " Have you been waiting?" " No, no, no." "Oh, you barely show." "How long is it?" "Six weeks." " Are you well?" " Yes." " And Jeremy, how is he?" " Well." "He has his little ailments but..." "Your uncle?" "Oh, still no change." "He simply won't allow himself to die." " 'Tis no wonder you're so thin." " Is there any news?" " No." " Can't the ship go back?" "Trencrom won't go." " Hasn't Nanfan any clue to Ross's..." " None." "Oh, Demelza, I'm sorry." "So am I." "Doesn't help Ross." "If I could pay someone to go..." "Money won't get him back." "Ross away three weeks." "And you carrying his child." "I know how you must feel." "Do you?" "You must hate me, Demelza." "Oh, not you." "It's Ross I hate for leaving me like this." "What's the use?" "Your man's missing, so is mine." "We're two in the same boat, you and me." "Oh, Demelza." "Caroline." "Oh." "'Twas nothing to do with you." "'Twas a need in him." "Oh, it is wrong of me to be bitter." "I should have known, it was all part of being Mrs Ross Poldark." "For better or for worse." "# ..pluck a rare rose for my love # l do pluck a red rose blowing" "# Love in my heart" "# A-trying so to prove" "# What your..." " # What your heart #" " Missus." " Missus." " Yes?" "Missus..." "Oh, Ross!" "You're back." "I was going to surprise you." "Then I thought of our friend, here." "Thought better of it." " Oh, you..." " How is he?" " She." " It." " Oh, heavy." " You're not a bit bigger." "Well, I feel enormous." "Oh, Ross, what happened?" "Three weeks." "The ship was driven into Roscoff by a storm, I got away in her." " Before that. I know nothing." " Oh, I'll tell you later." " Dwight's alive." " Oh, thank God." " My love, I'm starving." " You must ride over and tell Caroline." "I tell you, I'm starving." "I'm weary and saddle-sore and you turn me out of the house?" "I'll get you some food before you go." "Oh, what's that?" "I said I'd bring a toy for Jeremy." "Oh." "(Chirps)" "Oh, you fool." " l saw Dwight." " They let you?" "From a distance." "It was all I could do." " Caroline'll be so happy." " Not at what I saw." " He was dying on his feet." " You won't tell her that?" " No." " Oh, Ross." " What are we going to do about Dwight?" " What can we do?" " Try to get him ransomed." " If we can't?" " Ross?" " That food, my love." "I don't like what you're thinking." " And what is that?" " That you can't just let him die." "You wanna go out there again." "Don't worry. I'm home now." "And Dwight's alive." "That's the important thing." " Drake!" " Quiet, lad." "It's safe." "No one's about." "I thought you'd never come." "I never been this way before." " It's ages since I've seen you." " How's Miss Morwenna?" "When Papa was alive, this pond was full of lovely toads." "Your mother and Mr Warleggan gone to Truro?" "Yes." "They weren't ordinary toads." "Aunt Agatha says they were huge and they had yellow stripes and they went "rrr-rrr" ever so loud." "You'll be going soon, I reckon..." "Uncle George had all the toads killed." " It's ornamental now, he says." " ..and Miss Morwenna." "Aunt Agatha was terribly upset when they killed all the toads." " l'll show you the house." " No, 'tis not safe." " It is." " Take these to Miss Morwenna." "It is safe." "There's no one there except Morwenna." "Come on." " This way." " (Whispers) Geoffrey." " Isn't it dark?" "Wait a minute." " Geoffrey!" "(Bang)" " Drake." " Miss Morwenna, l-l never..." " Well, but the boy..." " You mustn't stay here." " l picked these for you." " Oh, they're beautiful." "They was in the wood where we first met." "Remember?" " l remember." " l'll mind that day all my life." "I wonder if it was a good thing." "What?" "'Twas like no other I ever known." "Perhaps it was wrong of us to meet." "I know I have no proper right but I'll never own it was wrong." "There is no right or wrong in this world, just what they allow." "Look what I've got." "Hello." "I'm showing Drake the house." " You mustn't, Geoffrey." " But the servants are drunk." " l think Drake should go now." " l say he shall not." "He is my guest and I am the man of this house." "Come on." "Come along, I say." "You too, Morwenna." "These are all my ancestors." "See this one, this is..." " Are you going to Truro?" " Tomorrow." " How long?" " l don't know." " (Geoffrey) ..and this is his dog." "This is..." " When will I see you again?" "There were more but Uncle George had them cleared away." "Oh." "As he had the toads cleared from the pond." " l'd better..." " The toads drove him mad." "Come along." "I'll show you my secret room." "Well, come on, or I'll yell and someone will hear." " It's never used. I play here." " l think we should go down." "Be quiet." "My aunt is in the next room." "She's not as deaf as she seems." "Oh, God's life." "Now we're in trouble." " Have you any tinder?" " No." " We'd better go." " No, I'll get a light." "You'll write to me when you're gone?" "No." "Are you cold, Morwenna?" "No." "I thought you shrimmed." "Don't, Drake." "You can't go away from me like this." " (Footsteps) - l wasn't long, was I?" "Have you thought what we're to do with your cousin Morwenna?" " Do?" "She's coming here tomorrow." " l mean in the long-term." "She's happy with us and we with her." "Indeed but she was only to be with us for a year." " Time is passing." " There's no hurry, surely." "Geoffrey Charles was also to go back to school in a year." "Oh, she's a good teacher, George." " He's making excellent progress." " That is not the point." "A boy needs schooling, not a governess." "I deferred to you because..." "my concern is always to please you." "But it was for one year." "And we are to pack the girl off home?" "She need not be sent home." "I was thinking along other lines." " She is of marriageable age." " George!" "She's of a good family and appearance." " Well, in time, yes, but..." " But she has no money." "No." "Oh...go on." "There are men who would be glad of a young wife." " Older men." " She might prefer a young man." "Or younger men who would be glad to ally themselves with the house of Warleggan." " That's her affair." " No." "Family alliances are a matter for us." "For us?" "But we're not her parents." "Her mother can do nothing for her." "I shall find her a husband and provide her with a dowry." "After all, she is your cousin." "And you have thoughts as to whom?" " Some names." " Wait. I shall make a list." " You find this amusing." " l do a little, yes." "Vulgar, perhaps." "Like the offices here which pay for your luxuries." "Why are you so sensitive?" "Well, who is there?" "I had considered Sir John Trevaunance." " Sir John?" "He's an old man." " He is 58." "Your other thoughts?" " Sir Hugh Bodrugan." " Oh, he is the most loathsome lecher." "And you would not like so coarse a person in your family." " Thank you." "Do go on." " l think I tire you." "We ought to consider Morwenna's happiness." "I could not propose either of these men to the girl." "Very well." "There is a younger man..." "of 30 years old." "Osborne Whitworth, a clergyman." "But he is married with two little girls." "His wife died in childbirth last week." "It's a little soon, is it not?" "He'll be out of mourning by the end of the month." "He has two young children and debts so he must put himself on the market." "A dean's daughter should attract him." "You are a remarkable man but let us not press the child." "There's no haste." "Ross, do you remember a girl called Morwenna Chynoweth?" " Elizabeth's cousin." " We saw her at church last Michaelmas." " Tall girl, spectacles." " That's right." "I got news for you." "Drake's in love with her." "What?" "Are you telling me...?" " Oh!" "Judas." " Demelza." " Is it coming on?" " No, no, it's only light." "Sam told me." "Drake has been meeting Geoffrey Charles and so met Morwenna." "This is madness." "She's far above his station." " Have you spoken to him?" " No." "The girl, is...is she fond of him?" "I suspicion so, from what Sam says." " Does Elizabeth know?" " Course not." "It's bad enough between George and me, does Drake have to worsen it?" " l thought you should know." " What shall I do?" " Send them both away?" " Judas, no." "I won't lecture him." "He can take the consequences." "I thought he might get at cross with George and his gamekeepers." "Serve him right." "A pest on your brothers." " Ooh!" "Judas." " l'm going to get you to bed." "No, no, no, it's only light." "Oh, I'm a lump." "I'll be glad when I've had this baby and back to size." " l'll get the doctor." " Oh, Ross, don't fidget." "I'll tell you when." "I still won't be much use to you when I've had this baby," " feeding and smelling of milk." " You'll do." "Perhaps I'll ask Caroline to oblige." "Go on, admit it." "You are a bit in love with her." " Not in the way you mean." " And she with you." "What's she gonna do about Dwight?" "Go to London." "Ask the Admiralty to ransom him." " Can they?" " It was easy a few years ago, not now." " The whole system's broken down." " And so?" "Well, she's been helping that French colonel, de Sombreuil, to win support in Parliament for a landing in Brittany." " Then?" " It may set Dwight free." "And where do you come in?" "Oh, Judas." " Judas!" " Demelza." "Prudie!" "You're gonna meet your daughter soon." "Help me get her upstairs." "And then for God's sake go and get Dr Choake!" "I baptise thee in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost." "Amen." " (All) Amen." " (Chatting, indistinct)" "(Vicar) There you are." "(Man) Very, very nice." "Thank you for coming." "Thank you so much." "Will you come and visit us at the house?" "It ain't right." "Ain't proper." "Clarence." "Clarence is for a boy. 'Tis a bad omen." "'Tis Clowance, not Clarence." "No, best you skeat out your earhole." "Can hear as well as you can." "You shut that gurt hole in your face and come on." "Get your hands off me, you daft..." "Dr Choake." "You attend my great aunt, Agatha Poldark." " How is she?" " Miss Poldark?" "Oh, we attended her in the middle of last month." "She's little changed." "Her condition is one of age..." "The family's in Truro." "Is she being looked after?" "I could not say." "If there were a crisis, we'd be sent for." " l sincerely hope..." " Thank you...for everything." "I'm worried about Agatha." "I'll call, as I'm so near." "Not today." "You can do without bruises and broken teeth today." "Take the children home." "I don't fear the servants." "The Harry brothers are there and Sid Rowse, he's meant to be worse." "They can't refuse to let me see my aunt." "Oh, please don't go, Ross." "If Ross must go, then so shall I." "I am welcome in that house." "No one dare raise a hand." " You go back with Demelza." " l refuse." "What are you gonna do about it?" "(Breathless) Why...it's Ross, ain't it?" "(Loudly) Aunt." "Damn it, you should have telled me who 'twas." "I'd have been ready, sir." "I told maid to ask you to wait." "It's a good thing I didn't." "This is not your wife, Ross." "This is Miss Caroline Penvenen." "We met at Valentine's christening." "Eh?" "Eh?" "I thought he was whoring again, like when he was young. (Laughs) I've come to tell you that Demelza's had a girl." " We've named her Clowance." " Oh, a girl, eh?" "A bud off my little Ross. (Coughs)" "The air is bad." "Will you wait downstairs?" "You forget, I am used to sick rooms." "This room be a midden now that George is away." "You're a skunk, Lucy Pipe." "Look at it, not even a proper fire." " Slattern reeks of gin." " l'll have you..." "Hold your tongue, slut!" " Can you hear me, Aunt?" " Oh, yes, boy." "You shall come home with us." "Our house is not so grand but you'll be with your own." "Come and live with us." "Oh...nay...my boy." "Nay." "It's not right that you should be among strangers." "Live with you, at Nampara?" "That's what you said." "That's what I said." "Boy...that drawer..." "The first one." "Open it." "Give me that." "Oh, I was pretty, wasn't I?" "You, Miss whatever-your-name-is, can you believe this is me?" "'Twas painted in this house." "A present for your little girl." "Nay, 'tis kind and brave of you but I've lived in this house for nine and 90 year and no one shall put me out till my pass comes." "'Tis kind and brave of you, Aunt, but think." "It's difficult for me to come here when George is home." " You can't stay here alone." " Oh, aye...alone." "When you're my age, wherever you live you be alone." "Perhaps, but not lonely also." "All the Poldarks dead, except you." "There's no one to talk to me." "But not half so much alone as I shall be in a year or two." "Then come now, I'll get a carriage." "No, I must stay where l belong." "Miss Poldark of Penrice." " You know why?" " Why?" "Well, though I be sick and weary and scrump with the cold, I mean to stay till my 100th birthday next year." "And to torment George." "Oh, Ross, I real torment him." "I do love to get him all riffled up with anger like a rams-cat." "He hate me and I hate him." "At least come until George and Elizabeth return." "Oh, if I left this house I'd not live the month." "Not even with all your care and your dozy little bud to attend me." "She know where she be well off." "Get off your fat rump." "I want a good fire and this room clean." "Or I'll have Mrs Warleggan turn you out." "God bless you, boy." "And God bless ee, ee thin rake of a girl." "Back to your childer and leave me be." "May I ask what ee do want, sir?" "None of your business." "I did ask polite." "I know you." "Sid Rowse." "You were underkeeper at Trenwith." "My position's improved since them days, sir." "But not your efficiency." "I had to wake that slut upstairs." "Now, you get the servants busy." "Look after Miss Poldark." "I need no telling, sir, what to do in this house." "Then do it. I'll be back in a week with a horsewhip." "Now, out of my way." "I give you one more chance." "Door be this way, sir." "You'll not see us out." "About your business." "Quickly." "Quickly!" "I'm feared for ee, going to that place." " Haven't seen a keeper yet." " 'Tis your soul I'm feared for." "Long as I keep my body in one piece." "I fear you've turned away from God to follow after a woman." "Now, that ain't true." "Your heart's not with us, it's with that girl." "You always say God is love." " God is heavenly love." " And be earthly love sinful?" "Nay, earthly love between man and woman is not sinful, if it be sanctified by marriage." "There must be a time before that when you do first meet the girl." " You do know what I mean." " And me - you'd rather think bad on us." " l only..." " l been happyjust knowing her." "I don't like seeing you bang your head against a wall." "You can't marry a girl of her class and that's it." " Others have, sister has." " That's different!" "'Tis the other way round." "Tell me, who puts love there?" " If it be love." " Who puts it there?" "God." "Then it don't matter which way round it be." "Let me present the Reverend Osborne Whitworth." "Your admiring servant, ma'am." "Charmed." "It was so good of you to come to tea." "I was desolated to hear of your bereavement." "Ma'am, grief itself is vanity, one must put it off." " As I see from your attire." " No, the outer garment." "The heart." "Indeed." "Your parish keeps you busy?" "One scatters the seed." "One scatters and hopes." "Tea." "And let Miss Morwenna know that tea is served." "My wife's cousin, Miss Morwenna Chynoweth." " Her father was Dean Chynoweth." " A pillar of the establishment." " She's a charming girl, devout." " Indeed." "And cultivated." "Devoted to the education of our boy." "It will be a pleasure to meet the daughter of a fellow cleric." " And how are your little girls?" " Utterly bereft." "Children need a mother's care." "I pray that the Lord may send them a comforter." "And a helpmeet for your labours." "Ah, here is the young lady." "Morwenna, please meet the Reverend Osborne Whitworth." "Miss Chynoweth, modesty itself, a subject for a painter." " Your new dress becomes you." " Thank you, cousin." "It was a surprise to find it on my bed." "A little gift from my wife." "May I, Miss Chynoweth?" "Privilege of the cloth." "Sit by me." "I shall have much in common with Dean Chynoweth's daughter." " Here is Dwight's letter." " Thank you." ""l am writing this, altogether unsure whether it will reach you" ""or whether the rogue whom I have bribed will tear it up." " "l am safe and not unwell..."" " Thank God." ""..though our treatment has been barbarous." ""There is no contact with Paris" ""and the commandant freely indulges his unpleasant whims." ""l have been fortunate, in that there is much work for a doctor." ""2,OOO men to care for, packed into this den like herrings in a barrel," ""riddled with fevers and scrofula" ""caused by bad food and close confinement." ""My own Caroline..." The rest is personal." "He says nothing of parole or exchange?" "No, and your trip to London yielded nothing?" "No." "They were polite at the Admiralty but quite adamant." "They said a ransom would disappear into someone's pocket." " Your French friend." " The Count de Sombreuil?" " How go his landing plans?" " In Brittany." "Well advanced." "If the British would decide." "Pleasant fellow." "Will he be coming this way any time?" "Yes, I believe so." "Quite soon." "Will you send him an invitation?" "I'd like him to dine here." "(Caroline) Yes. I'm glad you liked him." "(Ross) As soon as possible." "His enterprise fascinates me." "Thank you for coming, Whitworth." "You have been a frequent and welcome visitor since Christmas." "I have remarked your attentions to Miss Chynoweth." " She is much in my thoughts." " Thank you for being frank." " l stand in loco parentis." " My intentions are serious." "Quickly to the point is how I like to deal." "Man to man. I didn't see Miss Chynoweth when I came in." "I've sent her and Geoffrey Charles to Penrice." "The boy needs coaching before leaving for school, you do understand?" " Pe_ectly." "Let me continue to be frank." " Please." "The young lady has aroused in my bosom a pure devotion." " Admirable." " Which one must set aside when one discusses the condition of marriage between gentlefolk." " The settlement." " Her father was not a man of means." " No, Mr Whitworth. I am." " Precisely, Mr Warleggan." "I'm under no moral obligation." "She's not my daughter." "But as she's my wife's cousin, it's not inappropriate to make some gift." " A generous one." " N...?" "f2,OOO." "The regard I feel for Miss Chynoweth can bloom, I feel sure, into true Christian love," " if the seed is tended." " A nice parable." " l have no mercenary motive." " Certainly not." "But it would degrade your family for a cousin to marry and not keep the condition of a lady." "I am f1,OOO in debt." "It is my business to know such facts." " 2,OOO will put you in credit." " That is not enough." "If we were to live in a cramped style, it would reflect on you." "I shall need a safe capital of not less than f6,OOO." "Mr Whitworth, I can get a title for that money." "Then I will not stand in her way." "You are getting the daughter of a dean and of a noted family." "She's devout, healthy, submissive, fond of motherless children - you have two, have you not?" " Angels." " She's a good housekeeper, and she is but 18." "It is because of my two orphan chicks that I am compelled to ignore my own feelings and be practical." "Let us say f5,OOO." "Remember I act only to please my wife." "There are plenty of young men about." " Then I fear I must look elsewhere." " Of course." "The choice of a debt-ridden clergyman is limited but look, look by all means." "My love for Miss Chynoweth urges me to make yet a further concession." "Let us say 4,OOO." "You appear not to be aware that I closed a mine recently." "Business is bad." "The war, you know." "Two-five is my limit." " 3,OOO." " 2,750." "Plus 250 for repairs to my vicarage." "A man who can bargain is worth his price." "Bless you. I am happy we've come to an agreeable understanding." "Sir, Miss Chynoweth, with true maidenly modesty, has given me no hint of a response." " l hope she welcomes the match." " She will... when she is told." "This is the last time I can visit you, Aunt." "Eh?" "They won't let me in again." "George is coming back." "Shame on him." "Cess to him." "Shite take him!" "I'll ask Miss Penvenen to see you." "Oh, Ross, boy, I've a thing to say to you before you go." "Mind you the 10th of August." "The 10th?" "Oh, it's your birthday." "Yes, my 100th." "That's what I've been living for." "No Poldark ever reached it afore." "No, none beyond 90, as far as I know." "And now Agatha Poldark's going on for 100." "Four months more, that's all I got to stay." " So you think on that." " You'll stay, Aunt, for years." "Oh, nay." "But..." "I'm going to have a party." "A party?" "Does, er, does George...?" "George?" "Huh!" "'Twill cost no money to that tight-fisted rogue, no." "I've got money." "Not much but enough..." " Now, don't get excited." " George can't stop me." "'Twould get all about the county if he stopped me." "I'm going to have all my friends and I'm going to have the neighbours, all the neighbours," " and a big cake." " (Ross laughs)" "And you and your little bud and the childer... I want to see your childer afore I die." " Of course you will." " So you mind that, now." " Mind that day." "August..." " (Both) ..the 10th." "(Knock on door)" "Come in, Morwenna." "Sit down, my dear." "I asked you up here because what I have to say is..." "Well, it's between women." "Have you any idea what it is?" "No." "The Reverend Osborne Whitworth is calling here tomorrow." " Does that enlighten you?" " No, Elizabeth." "Oh." "You are very young." "He has asked for your hand in marriage." "Mr Warleggan has agreed to the match." "is that not wonde_ul news?" "You must have had some idea." "He's a good-looking young man." "You'll have an excellent position and Mr Warleggan has promised a handsome dowry." "Well, does our thought for you displease you, my dear?" "Oh, come, Morwenna." " l do not care for him." " He cares for you." "How can he?" "We have talked so little." "It seems words were not needed." "What can he know of me or...or I of him?" "Enough to wish to make you his wife." "I don't want to be his wife." "This has obviously come as a great shock to you." " Do you want to get rid of me?" " Far from it, but think." "Osborne is in holy orders, as your father was." " Does my mother know?" " l have written." "She will be delighted, as a widow, to settle an elder daughter." "Did you tell her that we loved each other?" "I told her that an engagement would be announced shortly." "And if I write and tell her that I don't even like him, will she still be delighted?" "Pray think this over before you write and upset your mother." "You seem to have a false, romantic idea of marriage." "is it wrong to want love?" "Was it false and romantic when you married Francis Poldark?" "Was not that for love?" "When you are young, it is natural to expect romance." "But you must accept the guidance of older people." " Was it not for love?" " Since you ask, it was." "And within a 12 month, it meant nothing to me." "is that what you wanted to hear?" "No." "It is time you grew up." "I married Mr Warleggan because it was a sensible thing." "It has been much more successful." "Marry Osborne Whitworth and though there seems to be no love, it may grow, that's how it is." "You both mean to be kind... but I can't." "I can't feel... I can't." "Do you play whist, Miss Morwenna?" "I had extraordinary luck last night." "Our opponents held ace, king of hearts and ace of diamonds." "My partner and I drew trumps and made 12 tricks between us." "The moment I set eyes on you, I was determined to make you my own." "I felt I was guided to come to tea that afternoon." "It was a happy day when Mr Warleggan assured me my sentiments were returned." "Ah, you will be my new helpmeet." "My wife and the new mother that little Sarah and Anne need." "You'll find the vicarage sadly neglected." "There's dry rot and one chimney smokes but we'll soon put that right." "I don't..." "I don't think..." "Do not fear me, Miss Chynoweth, I will teach you how to love me." "I haven't any feelings at all." "That is because you are a good woman." "Good women are modest, they fear the duties of matrimony." " And I love you all the more for it." " No." "We are betrothed, you must not refuse me a chaste salute." "No!" "Excuse me." "My dear, I am a patient man." "Take your time." "I shouldn't have let you in." "Geoffrey Charles has cut his ankle badly." " l know." " He's in bed." " Can I go to him?" " There's someone with him." "What did you bring me here for?" "I..." "I'd better see you out." " Won't you talk a little?" " No." "I've got a feeling you don't want me to come here no more." "That would be best for both of us." "Why?" "What's changed, Morwenna?" "Nothing." "We shouldn't see each other, that's all." "Am I to see naught of Geoffrey Charles?" "He'll go to school, he'll forget." "I won't." "And you?" "I will." " That ain't true." " Yes it is." "This acquaintance should never have begun." "Forgive me." "Now, go." "I'll go if you look at me when you tell me." "These last months I've thought of naught else." "Working, eating, sleeping, praying - you've never been absent." "You're everything in the world." "The sun, moon... day, night... without you, 'tis nothing." "Nothing." "Please, go." "Tell me, then." "Look at me and tell me to go." "I have told you." "I want to see the truth in your eyes, look at me." "I can't!" "Look at me." "All right, look..." "Look..." "No, no, my love, not yet." "But we belong to each other, don't we?" "Say it." "We belong to each other." "Did you know Ross Poldark's been here while we've been away?" " No." " Lucy Pipe just told me." " He won't come now we're here." " Is that all you can say?" "Lucy says he forced his way in, threatened the other servants..." " My dear." " Yes?" "We did leave Aunt Agatha unattended." "She has her own maid." "No, I mean unattended by any relative or friend." "That man has been using my house as if it were his own - looking in my desk, I don't doubt!" "I detest him but he would not pry." "He's been coming here since he was a boy, he regards this as a Poldark house." " A Poldark house?" "!" " Even though it is your house." " (Croaking outside)" " Listen." " What is that?" " Curious noise." "This is the last straw." "Hey, you there!" "Fetch me Tom Harry, Sid Rowse, anyone!" "I just don't understand, sir." "You cleaned out that lake, why are there frogs?" "Toads, sir." "Frogs, toads, why are they there?" "Sir, I don't know." "We did clear out that lake good and proper." "You made half a job of it and now they've bred again." "They did go away in the fields." "We did hunt 'em but it's not possible to find all." "How many other jobs have you half done?" "Tell Tom Harry I want that lake cleaned out." "Yes, sir." "I want every one of those creatures killed." "There be one there, Harry." "You get him first." "Right, Tom." "(Yelps)" "Fool." "Wait here." "I can see one here." "(Yells)" "(Tom) Give us a hand!" " (Geoffrey giggling) - (Yelling)" "(Tom and Harry arguing)" "(Geoffrey's giggles echoing)" "(Aunt Agatha cackling)" " Do you hear?" " Sir, these are not our toads." "They're not the toads we got rid of last year." "I been talking it over with Tom Harry and Zeke Mason." " Mason do know all about toads..." " What is this nonsense?" "Zeke Mason do say our yellowback toads was a special breed." "Now, he's looked at these and he do say these come from the ponds of Marazanvose." "Marazanvose?" "Tom Harry's gone to make sure." "They've migrated?" "Toads be queer creatures but not that queer." "Marazanvose be three mile away." "These have been brought here for your devilment." "Devilment?" "Who would do such a thing?" "It's not for me to say, sir." "Wait outside." "Devilment." "Elizabeth, we were talking of the devil." "Who?" "Remember when we got rid of all the old toads?" "Agatha Poldark cursed me for it, said they'd been here as long as the family." "She told Ross when he visited." " That would be too childish." " Oh, would it?" "Now, pay attention." "I want a day and night watch kept on that lake." "I'll instruct Tom Harry to take on extra men if need be." "Five men on each turn." "Understood?" " Understood, sir." " l want him caught." "And taught a lesson." "He is to be treated as a trespasser." "Trespasser, aye, sir." " And if we do catch him?" " If?" "When we do catch 'e, Cap'n Poldark's a powe_ul strong man, sir." "He might not see it same way as we." "I pay you to do a job." "See that you do it." "He's not likely doing this by himself." "Does he fill you with such terror?" "He's trespassing and I want him stopped, do you understand?" "And let me tell you one other thing." "If this trespass continues, you can both look for new employment." "Is that clear?" " Yes, sir." " Yes, sir." " Drake, please don't go." " 'Tis only a bit of fun." "I been there twice and haven't seen a soul." "Warleggan got no dogs, he don't like 'em." " Drake, listen to me." " Look, you're makin' a noise." "I'll be back in an hour." "Drake!" "The landing is on." "Your government has said yes." " When?" " June." "As long as that?" "It takes time to prepare." "6,OOO soldiers put aboard British transports, enough weapons to arm our supporters and a British escort fleet to be assembled." "I cannot wait. I'll go myself if I have to." "lmpossible." "Our bridgehead includes the territory of the prison." " We will release your friend." " And if you fail?" "In that prison, they shoot men for being slow to obey an order." "A Frenchwoman tried to pass in a bowl of soup - she got a bayonet in the belly." "The commandant congratulated the guard that did it." "The officers are treated worse - the ruling class." " Savages." " Your countrymen." "My friend, there is evil in all men." "War lets it loose." "I will tell you something in confidence." "De Maresi and I are taking a party of volunteers over a week before the main landing." "We'll organise a force of supporters to take certain beaches from the rear and assist the landing." "A reception committee?" " Come with us." " That's very generous." "We will see you safely ashore but after that you will be on your own." "Just put me ashore." " Madame Poldark knows of this?" " She accepts it, not gladly." " l must be leaving." " You won't stay the night?" "No, I must be in Truro by morning." "There's a quick way, I'll find you a guide." "(Knocking)" " Cap'n Poldark." " Sorry to disturb you so late." "This is the Comte de Sombreuil, a good friend." "I want a guide to take him to the Truro road." "Where's Drake?" "Not here, Cap'n, but I know that way. I could go." "I'd be most grateful." " Cap'n?" " Yes?" "Oh, it's nothing." " Out with it, man." " It's Drake." " What about him?" " l'm afeared for him." " Why, where is he?" " It might all be foolishness and I shouldn't really tell you but..." " l begged him not to go!" " They'll break his neck." " l'll go after him." " You escort the Comte." "I'll look after Drake." "(Croaking)" "Gotcha!" "Ha!" "I got him!" "Come here!" "I got him!" "(Yelling)" "After him!" "I'll cut him off by the gate!" "(Gunshot)" "(Panting)" " Where 'e be?" " Over here!" " Colin!" " Run!" "Come on!" "That way!" "Get after them!" "(Drake) 'Twas not but a graze, sir." "You came on Harry from behind, didn't you?" "And that keeper couldn't have seen me, I reckon." "Nor did t'other one who jumped me." "That makes everything all right?" " l am sorry." " Till the next time." "There won't be no next time." "Cap'n, you've been very good to us but I reckon Drake and me should go." "I've nothing against you." "But your preaching - your chapel's not finished." "I'm afeared of that." "But you want to be rid of us, don't you?" "I wish the Lord would guide me." "(Sighs) You should go back to Illogan." "You'd be out of Warleggan's way." "(Sighs)" "Cap'n, he won't leave." "Though he's eaten up with shame." "He wants to be near her." "That girl at Warleggan's has bewitched him." " You wanted to see me?" " Sit down, my dear." "I am most distressed by what Elizabeth tells me." "I had hoped this could be settled between ladies... I'm sorry." "You cannot be as sorry and as deeply hurt as I am." " After all I've done for you." " Yes, I'm grateful." "You have an unusual way of showing gratitude." "I have found you a splendid young man - a clergyman, ambitious too." "And I've provided you with a dowry." " l know." " His mother is Lady Whitworth." "Lady Whitworth." "Morwenna, I want you to be truthful." "What do you want?" "Tell me, don't be afraid. I insist." "Time." "More time." "My dear girl, I know you." "I've watched you for a year, you would daydream your life away." "Now, there's a simple, practical, businesslike matter to decide." "is it a good match or not?" "Morwenna?" " Yes, but..." " Very well, then." "It remains only to decide a date." "(Knocking)" " Drake!" " Geoffrey boy!" " Surprised?" " Yes." " l knew I'd surprise you." " You didn't ought to come here." "I wanted to surprise you." "It was you, wasn't it?" " The toads, Drake." " Leave it, boy." "It was such fun." "You can tell me." "I said leave it." "Tell me about yourself." "I'm trying to make a bow - l came to ask you." "Oh, see me standing here." "I came to give you this as well." " What is it?" " A present." " l don't want no presents." " You must." "I shall be upset if you don't." " Let's see what it is." " It's a going-away present." " Going away?" " l'm going back to school soon." " When are you going?" " After Morwenna is wed." " What's that?" " Morwenna, she's getting married." "I don't understand." "What do you mean?" "Oh, it happened while we were in Truro." "A parson named Whitworth." "I didn't like him." "About making a bow..." "Morwenna said she'd marry this man?" "Mama and my stepfather fixed it up." "You know." " What did Morwenna say?" " l don't suppose she minds." "Girls want to get married, don't they?" "Do you think I could fire a 60-pound bow?" "Geoffrey, when are they to be wed?" "Morwenna?" "Oh, I don't know." "There's a lot of talk." "They don't tell me." "If you could find me a piece of yew..." "Would you do something special for me?" "Of course." "What?" "I want you to take a message to Miss Morwenna." "Yes?" "Tell me." "I'll write it." "No one's to see it." "What fun." "Now, it'll take me a bit." "You wait outside." "Morwenna." "Morwenna, thank God you could come." "Was you prayin'?" "Morwenna, is it true that you're to marry this man?" "So they tell me." "is it your wish to wed him?" "It seems I must." "You love me." "I am told that marriage has nothing to do with love." "You're different, you can't have changed." "What we did was wrong." "We did nothing wrong." " This ain't wrong either." " Not here." " l don't mind God seeing'." " l do." " Why?" " l've been deceitful." " To whom?" " Those who took me in." " Damn 'em!" " And I've deceived you, Drake." " Me, love?" "How could you?" " l encouraged you." "Although I knew it was hopeless." "(Creaking)" " What was that?" " These old places are never quiet." " Love." " Love has to go on." "Or it has to stop." "You can't stop it no more than you can stop the tides." "Morwenna, you must not wed this man." "I'll not leave you go." "Please, Drake, don't hold me." "Please." "If you love me, let me go." "Don't follow." "I'm sorry. I'm sorry." " (Drunken laughter)" " Is Tholly here?" " He's over there." " Thank you." "(Raucous laughter)" "(Yells)" "Why, young Cap'n!" " (Chuckles) I weren't asleep." " l've been looking for you." "You were supposed to be getting me some information from France." " Ah, so I were." " (Woman shrieks)" " l were...diverted." " In the end I went myself." " That's my young Cap'n." " l still want you." " If you're not too busy." " You knows me, always pots coming to the boil somewhere." "I'm going back again." "I want a fearless man who can navigate a boat, cross land with an entire army after him and speak French." "There be 100 such men in Cornwall." "Well?" "You ain't named a price, Cap'n." " 20 guineas." " What?" "!" "For risking my neck and all them other things?" " And the whole army..." " 25, no more." "Hey, Sally girl, 'ere!" "Whatever he's drinking, the same for me." "I tell ee...make it 15 and I'll come." "Mr Warleggan... the invitation list to my party." "Why have you struck these names out?" "Those individuals are dead, ma'am." "Ah." "Then the living must enjoy themselves more." "Send out to the rest, will you?" "There is no hurry." "But 'tis but a few weeks more to my 100th birthday." "Send out, I say." "Miss Poldark, you may command my servants but please remember, I am head of this house." "And are you not gentleman enough to remember I was lady of this house and to treat me so?" "If only for this occasion." " It shall be done." " l haven't finished with you yet." " Now, listen..." " (Bell) I want a big cake for my birthday to cut..." "Yes, ma'am." "And a breakfast at 2pm, nothing lavish..." " That's too good of you, ma'am." " 'Tis I that am paying." "And I want brandy wine, hot chocolate, gingerbread" " and things like that." " Yes, ma'am." "I want a real good spread for the cold collation." "Enough, Miss Poldark!" "All shall be seen to, spare me the rest!" "George." "Wait." "Oh, we shall have a real good time on my birthday, eh?" "A real good time. (Chuckles) I am insulted in my own house, treated like a lackey by a foul old witch!" "There is someone here you must see immediately." "Come in." "Sir, er-er..." "Mr Warleggan." " What is it, Odgers?" " Sir..." " Miss Chynoweth..." " What about her?" "At my church, sir, on Sunday, I saw her." "You see her every Sunday." "It was not at the service, sir." "It was late in the day, the church was deserted." " l came out of the vestry..." " Well?" "Mr Odgers saw Morwenna in the church with a young man." "Drake Carne." "Carne?" "Poldark's brother-in-law?" " Go on." " Sir..." "Miss Chynoweth has always been high in my esteem," " a zealous helper at the church." " What did you see?" "!" " Nothing, sir." " Nothing?" "Mr Odgers was afraid of being seen, he glimpsed them together." "And heard them, sir." "They murmured in a most intimate fashion." " Are you sure it was her?" " Oh, yes, Mr Warleggan." "I left the vestry and saw her walking away from the church." "Alone, sir, but she appeared much distressed." " It was the same young man..." " You've seen them before?" "During your winter stay in Truro, I visited Miss Agatha Poldark from time to time." "I saw the young man about the premises." " One can only conclude..." " Yes, thank you, Mr Odgers." "I want to see every servant in the house." "Carne, sir?" " (George) Drake Carne." " Drake Carne?" "Do not prevaricate, he was seen several times by servants in your company." "Did he meet Morwenna when he was here?" "Boy, I stand here as your father - answer." "My father was a man of honour, sir." " And Drake is my friend." " Be quiet!" " Drake is my friend!" " Go to your room!" "He's my friend!" "That boy leaves for school at once." "Drake Carne is my friend." "Yes, yes, he is." "Your friend?" "is that all?" "He is fond of me, and I of him." "You stand there and tell us that, a young woman engaged to be married?" "I'm sorry, I did not ask to be engaged." "Ask?" "Ask?" "!" "I took you into my house." "I entrusted you with my stepson." " You betrayed my trust." " No!" "You taught him deceit." "You introduced him to a ruffian and made him party to a base amorous intrigue." "It was not!" "We did nothing wrong." "God help me, you must believe me, I can't help loving Drake." "I know it's wrong. I love him." "But we did nothing." "And you were ready to deceive your fiancé, an upright young man of God, and go to him used, soiled, second-hand." "I don't want to go to him at all." "But I am pure." "I hoped for nothing with Drake." "I kept trying to end it." "You have ended it with Whitworth." "George!" "I could not be party to this deception." "The Warleggan name is more valuable than your future!" " George!" " Get out of my sight!" "There's the fort." "That's my plan." "Well?" "Are ee telling me that five men can do what ee just said?" "Six, including me." "You always was a joker, young Cap'n." "But ee'll grin the same as me when we're gibbet meat." " Want to back out?" " What?" "!" "Just getting interesting, young Cap'n." "Well, if ee wants me, I'll be at Sally's kiddley." "In her bed, you mean." "I likes to keep warm, young Cap'n." "I likes to keep warm!" "(Chuckling)" "Look at that, now." "Enough fare for a whole ship's crew!" "(Laughing) I could 'ave ee for breakfast and still be hungry." "Well, tickle me fancy with your feather!" " l'll tickle ee!" " Cap'n, Cap'n!" " What is it?" " They took Drake!" " What is it, Sam?" " Go in there, calm him down." " 'Tis you I want to see." " Do as you're told." " Stay here." " Ah." "I didn't mean a whole ship's crew, my dear..." " (Prudie protesting)" " Now... I got back to the cottage from work - Joe Nanfan was waiting." "He saw Drake took not an hour since." "He went off with Constable Vage." "Joe asked what for, Constable said stealing'." " Stealing what?" " l don't know." "I only know Drake's in jail at St Ann's." "Who brought the charge?" " Vage say it were Mr Warleggan." " So that's it." "Drake's no thief." " There must be some grounds." " Drake's not a thief." "How can you be against him?" "It's Warleggan." " l know." " Well, he's a magistrate." "What chance has Drake got?" "Cap'n, 'tis good of ee." "Tell me what happened." " The constable came..." " From the beginning." "A little while back, Geoffrey Charles came to the cottage - he's my friend, well, he says I'm his - came with a going-away present, so he said." "But when he told me Morwenna was to wed, I forgot about it." " Some parson, I know she don't..." " Forget the girl." "Well, after he'd gone I unwrapped it." "'Twas a little Bible, Geoffrey's own." "It had his name on it - well, I couldn't accept that, could I?" "So I put it under my bed." "You couldn't accept it and yet you hid it?" "'Twas not hiding it." "I couldn't take it to the door of Penrice and leave it for him." "I'd get him into trouble." "I had to wait my chance to give it back before he went away." "And Vage found it there." "You believe me, Cap'n?" "You do believe me?" "Will the magistrates?" "With Warleggan one of them?" "(Ross) I wish to see your master." "Tell him I come in peace." "The matter is urgent, I will not be turned away." "Send him in." " Well?" " l come in peace. I want 10 minutes." " Do not waste them." " Drake is in prison." "You know why." "The magistrates sit tomorrow." " You are on the bench." " That is correct." "Drake says the boy brought the Bible as a gift." "And that he meant to return it." "He meant to return it?" "That is as clumsy a tale as my stepson would tell in his defence if permitted." "If permitted?" "My wife and I have agreed to call Dr Behenna to declare the boy unfit to testify." "He would gabble nonsense that would do your friend no good." " My brother-in-law." " If you claim him as such." "You hate his association with your stepson?" "Naturally." " A man of lower class." " Yes." "Others have aspired to rise above their class." "You did." " l'll have you shown out." " l haven't done." " l have." " l take back what I said." "And I ask your pardon." "I had hoped, even between you and me, for the sake of our children, there might be a settlement out of court and unwelcome notoriety avoided." "None of this can reflect on my family." "What of Miss Chynoweth's marriage to Osborne Whitworth?" "is it worth ruining that by revealing her indiscretions?" "You cannot blackmail me. I've ended it." "It was my duty to tell Mr Whitworth that Miss Chynoweth has compromised herself." " l have no interest in her." " Let him go." "The boy must face the charge." "You can't imprison him because of a feeling against me." " It's more than imprisonment." " What do you mean?" "A theft of over 40 shillings is punishable by death." "The Bible in question had a silver clasp and silver work upon the covers." "It's worth more than 40 shillings." "Let me have this clear." " You would hang this boy?" " That would be up to the jury." "But you would suppress evidence so that they would hang Drake Carne because he has the misfortune to be my brother-in-law?" "This is the declaration of war I'd been trying to avoid." "When you closed Wheal Leisure and threw hundreds out of work, you became the most hated man in the district." "You try to intimidate me." "I was always hated by the mob." "The mob were crushed." "They learnt their lesson." "But what of that man somewhere with his hungry children, so far in despair, not caring if he dies for it, that would put a bullet in your back?" " And you would incite him?" " If you kill this boy I shall not feel obliged to utter one word in your protection and I have some influence." "I shall abandon you." " Do it, that's all." "Just do it." " George!" "Neither of us are cowards." "But there is a difference between us - l am a gambler, you are not." "Ignore my words and you risk your own life in order to take that of an ignorant boy." " You act the gambler." " Have you done?" "I've done." "I hope you make the reasoned choice, for both our sakes." " Any luck?" " There's nothing I can do now." "Nothing." "We sail on Tuesday." "On the morning tide." "Drake!" "Drake!" "They've set me free." "Bless God be thanked, God be thanked." "Ee made the justices see the truth." " Thank God." " The justices have not met." "'Twas withdrawn." "Warleggan withdrew the charge." "Here's ee good stuff, boys." " Where's Sally tonight?" " Sent her to her sister's." "We don't want no women's gossip around here." "Here you are." "Have you all got your drinks?" "Now remember, this is mainly a French expedition, preparing for a royalist invasion later." "We're passengers, so we keep our heads down and mind what we say." "Tholly, get them aboard and below decks." "Stay there and I'll join you later." "I'll make no speeches now." "I know you all. I trust you." " l hope you trust me." " Aye, we do." "To Dr Enys, our friend." "We shall bring him back." " That we will." " The doctor, sir." "Here, Tholly, this'll pay the score." "Have a good drink but remember - a drunk man is soon a dead man." "Have a care." " Thank ee, Cap'n." " Oh, Tom, no... (All shouting)" " Good luck." " Thank you, madame." "Some day you must come and stay at my chateau." " One happy day." " Thank you." "I love you, Ross." "What you did for Drake... lt's George I worry about now." "What have I started with him?" " And I've got to leave you." " You mustn't worry about it." "You mustn't think of it." "You must think only of yourself, for my sake and the children." "God be with you, my darling." "I can't promise to bring a toy back this time." "Bring yourself back safely."