"I've arranged for the bells to be rung at three o'clock on the great day." "Dudley." "You are taking your best man's duties rather earnestly!" "As you did last time." "I've been informed that since there are to be four bridesmaids you'll need another groomsman." "{\1cHFFFFFF}" " We'll ask Arthur." " Arthur?" "!" "We can't have Arthur!" "Arthur is..." "He was born in the holding bay!" "I envy him." "He was born here in The Paradise." "He's more part of this place than I am." "but you are to marry a Glendenning." "Arthur is an errand boy." "All the more reason why he should be here." "I never want to forget what I am." "{\1cHFFFF00}" " I'll have him fitted for a suit." " Dudley!" "You were the same last time." "there would be no Paradise!" "and I am decided that you are going to enjoy it." "I've arranged for the bells to be rung at three o'clock." "if we asked her." "She will not cross the street again." "What if she were to approach us?" "She will not abandon her uncle after all that has happened." "so why do you pretend you don't?" "I never said I don't want to come back." "Your bed's still free." "And I still snore!" "looking for a job." "It makes him look all-conquering." "Sam." "You've lost the last ten hands already!" "What was I then?" "so that is where my good fortune will come from." "Mr Moray likes you." "Your work." "He's always favoured you." "Ask him while he's in good spirits." "Wedding cheer all over the place." "after all we've been through." "There's an end to it." "I've won!" "Sam?" "We make a pair!" "{\1cHFFFFFF}" " DUDLEY:" " The whole street." "How is that possible?" "Lord Glendenning became aware of efforts to purchase the Tollgate Street freehold." "He alerted me and agreed to provide me with the funds to acquire it." "Funds?" "{\1cHFFFFFF}" " A loan." " Quite a loan." "Dudley." "We can move with absolute confidence now." "The street will be ours." "outright." "The land as well as the building." "We can plan ahead for years." "Expand as we sense there is enough custom to warrant it." "If the man you owe money to is your father-in-law... ..I suppose the situation is hardly precarious." "Look out of the window." "It is ours to make happen what we imagined as boys." "{\1cHFFFFFF}" " Will you do something for me?" " Mm-hm." "just accept it without argument." "You must go back to The Paradise." "It's where you belong." "You're young." "It's good work." "They'll take you back." " They're not fools." "{\1cH00FFFF}" " Uncle..." " You're not allowed to challenge me on this." "please." "You tried to help me." "You tried." "My trouble is I spend so much time thinking about myself." "My own woes." "I looked at you stood on that street selling neck-ties without complaint when I know you're the best at your job in that place." "My dear uncle." "I can see you love it there and that is all that matters." "Denise!" "sir." "{\1cH00FFFF}" " You must be wondering why I'm here." " I know why you're here." "Are you still working at this hour?" "It's where I belong." "Don't you ever wish for some other life?" "perhaps time to go walking or visit friends or go fishing?" "No." "No." "HE HEARS SOUNDS OF SWIRLING WATER" "sir?" "It's nothing to worry about." "You'll find Miss Audrey in her room." "I was wondering when you might turn up at my door." "My uncle said that he would not object." "He would be obliging if I were to return to The Paradise." "now?" "That is gracious of him." "ma'am." "We must not be shy in declaring the obvious." "Mr Moray is to be married." "There is a reason for that." "It is rightful." "Your part in putting to rest any past indiscretions is simple." "You will make clear to Mr Moray that you know your place." "I see." "then do not come back." "romantic feelings seem to be what the world is built on." "But they pass." "and that will give you the strength." "And I'm to escort the guests to their seats!" "you might find a rich girl of your own!" "Arthur." "They can be trouble." "Arthur." "That's what makes us such fun!" "I've never been to a wedding before." "no fancy nonsense." "or propping up the bar in the pub for the rest of his life." "they'll break your heart." "Arthur." "then run away." "but they're the canny ones." "The rest of us are just mugs." "Some days I feel there's not a boy in the world who understands girls." "the more my thirst is growing!" "Come on!" "'Veils?" "'" "Wedding veils." "Festooned across the whole of ladies' wear." "enticingly in all quarters." "Won't it look rather...curious?" "sir." "The veil is the shroud itself beyond which lies Adam and Eve." "I was told that the veil was to protect the bride." "Evil spirits are attracted to them." "it would confuse them." "My own understanding is less diabolical than that." "chastity and modesty." "Denise!" "sir." "Miss Audrey." "Mr Jonas." "I take it you haven't come to admire our displays?" "I was hoping to ask..." "Denise." "Moray and I spoke about such a possibility recently sir." "before we can even consider the matter we must seek Miss Audrey's approval." "A little humbling is no bad thing for a girl with aspirations." "Denise?" "ma'am." "And I'm grateful for your consideration." "So be it." "You can start today." "We are busy with wedding fever." "Moray." "I wanted to tell you myself." "Denise has returned to the fold." "do you?" "We discussed it." "Miss Audrey's given her approval." "of course." "That is good news." "Perhaps she might start next week." "I asked her to start today." "I saw no reason to delay." "you're right." "Thank you." "the prodigal daughter returns!" "Clara." "and presentable." "Miss Audrey." " But standing still when there is work to be done... {\1cH00FFFF}" " I was waiting..." " Waiting is idleness." "And idleness... ..is a sin." "Miss Audrey." "Then step to it." "It was true - you're back!" "Pauline." "I sometimes think you're better suited to a circus than a department store." "Have mercy on us and learn to walk." "Miss Audrey!" "Clara." "{\1cH00FF00}" " You never did say why you left." "{\1cH00FFFF}" " My uncle." "It was... do you?" "Clara there's no cause for us to be at odds with one another." " You were kind to me when I had troubles..." "{\1cH00FFFF}" " Cos I like you." "{\1cH00FFFF}" " I want us to be..." " But there's something about you tells me it's not done yet." "before the store opens this morning we are to gather in the great hall." "Mr Moray wishes to address us as a body." "A congregation." "I wish I could invite every one of you to the wedding." "That is not possible." "I'm sure you appreciate the store must remain open and so I need you here to take care of things for me in my absence." "You will be represented at the service by Dudley" "Miss Audrey who I'm sure has told every one of you!" "A dress suit and a favour!" "But let no man call me cold-hearted." "You'll have your own celebration... ..on Saturday..." "..On Saturday when the store closes there will be drinks and food for all." "I hope you will toast to my future." "sir.'" "The staff will be delighted to have their own occasion." "sir to make Arthur your groomsman." "It's truly benevolent of you." "sir." "It is the bride who must shine." "sir." "What I wish to say is..." "Well done." "To see a man marry lifts the spirit." "Regret chokes the soul." "no." "I have nothing to lament." "in true fulfilment." "Forgive me if my efforts at congratulations sir." "I did not mean to butter my words so thickly." "Weddings seem to bring out the philosopher in me!" "Miss Audrey." "Your words are most welcome." "{\1cH00FFFF}" " At least give me a hint." " Then it would not be a surprise." "{\1cH00FFFF}" " I'm unlikely to guess it correctly anyway." " Then what is the point of me giving you a clue?" "Because it is such fun for me to occupy my mind of notions of where we might be going to." "Very well." "They make liquorice there." "You would not dare to take me to Pontefract for my honeymoon!" "Stop it!" "perhaps?" "I need to know how I should pack." "Your maid has her instructions." "knowing that soon you will live here with us." "Look out on the street and there all tall boys and handsome boys and jolly boys." "There's hundreds of them." "So why's it so hard to find one?" "Pauline." "Depends what you want the boy for." "you have to set out to catch him." "And that takes cunning." "I used to think I wanted some fine gentleman to come into the store and carry me away." "I'd say yes in half a wink!" "{\1cHFFFFFF}" " KNOCK AT DOOR" " Come in." "I have a note for Denise." "Denise!" "A note for you." "sent to your room?" "It's from my uncle." "I have to go across the street to see him." "Your uncle never sent you notes before." "Arthur?" "Arthur." "Do you think it's a boy?" "no." "Thank you for coming." "I..." "I thought it best that we spoke somewhere... ..away from the store." "if you do not want me to return to The Paradise..." "I cannot marry Katherine." "I've said it to myself 100 times." "But when I saw your face today..." "I..." "You know why." "You see it every time I look at you." "Isn't that so?" "Yes." "it is." "but I..." "I just can't make myself stop." "To hear you say those words" "I can barely believe it." "I have decided that I..." "I must face everyone." "And tell them the truth." "but... ..it will be worse if I go on." "These moments that we have together... ..it's so easy between us." "If we let this moment pass we will live with such regret." "I cannot endure that." "I have been told that the feelings fade with time." "But I did not want to believe it." "I did not want to accept it." "I will tell Katherine." "no doubt." "But it will pass." "When all this settles down" "Katherine will see that this is for the best." "dear!" "my darling is almost always the preamble to a troubling conversation." "this time it isn't." "It is a kiss." "long-suffering papa." "Because you have made me happy." "too!" "Now I'm worried to my bones!" "stop it." "Every friend I have spoken to tells me the days before the wedding are fraught with all manner of crisis." "Our preparations are passing so smoothly" "{\1cH00FFFF}" " I do believe the occasion must be blessed." " Money helps." "And a title!" "affected cynicism does not become you." "I wish you wouldn't conceal what a romantic you truly are." " I'm a banker!" "{\1cH00FFFF}" " A romantic banker!" " An impossibility!" "the body was half-eaten by the fishes." "to lie in the water." "a drunk's fallen in." "The thing to do is stay away from bridges when you've had too much beer." "Perhaps the thing to do is not get so very drunk!" "Denise." "No." "I'm the same." "Your face has changed." "Why are you different?" "It's Burrows." "{\1cH00FF00}" " The man found in the river." " Burrows?" "Bradley Burrows." "Arthur." "son." "You'll be there to carry all our best wishes to Mr Moray and his bride." "Quite a responsibility." "Mr Moray has chosen well." "sir." "to hear about Burrows." "sir." "He was a drinker." "He must have fallen into the river." "Burrows getting into my carriage - you and me know that it means nothing." "sir?" "We must keep what we know to ourselves." "to misunderstand." "They would use this to bring Mr Moray down." "Arthur?" "Eh?" "What would become of Arthur?" "I was wondering if someone were to send a note to the constable about Burrows." "Telling them to speak to Mr Jonas." "Pauline." "I'm not saying I would." "And I'm not saying I wouldn't." "JONAS CLEARS HIS THROAT" "I'm sure you're all as sad as I am to hear the news of Bradley Burrows." "I realise that he was not a friend to any one of us here but I hope that some of you may pay your respects at his funeral." "I spoke to the constable today to tell him about Burrows' time here at The Paradise." "He knew the man well enough." "He'd found Burrows drunk on the street more than once." "Constable Mellor is something of a friend of mine." "that they found stones in his pockets?" "I'm sure the constable would have told me about it." "eh?" "indeed." "I'm sorry." "you've missed her." "She's too excited to settle." "I expect." " Oh." "I see." "My daughter tries to convince me that I'm a romantic." "for me the best part of any nuptial ceremony is the wedding breakfast." "Has Katherine gone to The Paradise?" "the service itself I find tedious and over-emotional." "Not to say thoroughly tense." "but hymns!" "They make me tense." "Do they make you tense?" "Hymns?" "{\1cHFFFF00}" " Hmm." " No." "{\1cHFFFFFF}" " No." " Perhaps it's the vows that do it to me." "for poorer." "and until death us do part." "They make it sound like the Sword of Damocles." "I bought the Fee Simple for Tollgate Street." "Kept me in the bank all hours yesterday." "sir but am I to understand that you have purchased the Tollgate Street freehold yourself?" "{\1cHFFFF00}" " I have." " I see." "My understanding was that you were going to loan me the money so that I might acquire them." "but I thought better of it." "But what use is the freehold to you?" "you can do as you wish." "I'm only trying to grasp what... does that mean that..." " Moray." "you're going to marry my daughter." "What could be better?" "Family." "Katherine is utterly devoted to you." "And I'm convinced that you will make her happy." "what does it matter if it's my name on the document or yours?" "I see." "Yes." "The wedding breakfast is where everyone relaxes." "and all that's left is to celebrate." "wearing a veil?" "I was told that if a girl looks at herself in the mirror wearing a veil before the morning of her marriage then her husband would die on their wedding day." "Pauline." "Go on." "I'd like to see how it suits you." "I just want to know what it feels like!" "How do I look?" "You look..." "like a bride." "Glorious and happy." "The world does feel different from in here." "and I say things when I'm drunk!" "I wish that Sam would love me." "then there would be happiness." "eh?" "Clara." "standing there wearing a veil." "then." "I'll tell you this." "I will find a man to marry me if I have to put a rope round his neck!" "Are you going to marry him or take his prisoner!" "Aren't they both the same thing?" "Denise." " No." "I know my luck." "Miss Audrey will come back." "We did it." "Go on." "Is there anything in the world more romantic than a wedding veil?" "Yes." "The wedding night!" "I can't wait!" "Pauline." "It does feel different in here." "It feels heavenly." "I do." "Miss Glendenning." "We were just..." "You're back." "ma'am." "What have we here?" "might I speak with you?" "I don't want to go back in there." "Tell me about Denise." "Denise?" "She has returned to The Paradise." "yes." "But didn't she stand against you?" "but... here she is." "Moray?" "Katherine." "I must ask you to free me from the promise I made to you." "you cannot say any more." "I can't bear to hear it." "{\1cHFFFFFF}" " I need you to hear me." " You love me." "You are mine." "Katherine." "A girl." "A shop girl?" "No." "no." "I will not..." "{\1cHFFFFFF}" " Would you rather I lied to you?" " You are mine." "I want my wedding." "You cannot take that away from me she is!" "It must be." "It has to be." "I promise you." "I have waited for you and I have loved you." "And I will not let you go." "I am asking you to accept... it is your turn to accept that we are bound now." "We are one." "that is all." "That is what men do." "We will marry." "Listen to me." "I'm sorry but it is done." "There can be no wedding." "Denise?" "I saw the look on Katherine Glendenning's face." "it was the way she looked at you." "is it not enough that you bring shame on my department with your escapades?" "Now you are crouching in the corner like conspirators." "What are you up to?" "ma'am." "look at me." "I can always see in your face when there is mischief." "Back to work." "if I may." "Sir..." "Burrows has been found." "His body." "It was in the river." "I'm sorry." "{\1cHFFFFFF}" " Who knows that he has been found?" " They identified him this morning." "Everyone knows it's him." "What are they saying?" "sir." "But I can assure you that nothing of this will come to your door." "eh?" "Arthur." "Why is that?" "Arthur if you know something about Burrows or Mr Jonas and you say nothing..." "..you put The Paradise at risk." "Do you understand?" "sir." "What do you mean?" "You know me." "I'm Moray's closest friend." "You cannot hide this for one more day." "It was the carriage." "What about the carriage?" "Mr Lovett." "I can't sleep for the thought of old Burrows face-down in the water." "A picture of that keeps a man awake." "Clara?" "no." "Not nasty old Burrows." "to be out of it all." "Don't speak like that." "You're a young girl with everything to live for." "Why would you say such a thing?" "Oh... love." "Drink." "It's only talk." "It's only self-pity." "It'll be gone in the morning." "Mr Lovett." "She needs the work." "She'll do well for herself." "I don't mean that." "I mean letting her go back in there when she's in love with Moray." "Surely you knew?" "Did I say the wrong thing?" "I tried to tell her how it was for me but she was beyond listening." "Tell me no more." "I hope I haven't said the wrong thing." "I saw them." "in the carriage." "Tell Mr Moray what Mr Jonas said to you." "Never mention this to anyone." "It's a secret for Mr Moray." "Arthur." "You have done the right thing." "Moray?" "We must fetch the constable." "I have sensed for some time that something was wrong." "{\1cHFFFF00}" " That man is beyond conscience." " I knew." "Jonas told me." "Why did you say nothing?" "I suppose." "And now it is impossible to call a constable because you are complicit." "He did it for me." "To save me." "Burrows was intent on telling...wild tales" "{\1cHFFFFFF}- about Helene's death." " Did you ask him to do this?" "Did you want him to kill a man in your name?" "{\1cHFFFFFF}" " No!" " Would you bring down the store and everyone who works here for one man?" "We don't even know who he is or why he came here." "He came here because he needed somewhere to belong." "And look how he has rewarded you." "What matters is what we do now." "There is a body found." "he is a danger to us - to you." "We must be rid of Jonas." "you will never have him off your back." "He will drag us all down into his mire." "Let me do it." "He'll be gone before the wedding." "SHOP BELL RINGS" "Barley sugars." "for what you did for Denise." "It can't have been easy for you." "It takes a strong man to do something so selfless." "And it takes a devious woman to betray a man to his very soul." "I'm talking about what you're doing to me now." "didn't you?" "You knew my Denise had fallen for that devil." "Nothing will become of it." "Moray is to marry." "They are nothing more than a young girl's immature feelings." "It will pass." "Until the day comes when he preys on her weakness." "You knew." "And you hid it from me." "Audrey?" "If you are forever looking for betrayal then you are sure to find it." "I must get back." "you have convinced yourself that the reason I did not marry you was out there." "in this room?" "And it is here now." "Still." "DOOR CLOSES" "Jonas." "sir." "sir" "{\1cHFFFFFF}- observed by who?" " You know who." "If you attempt to cause any harm to Arthur..." "No harm will ever come to Arthur while I'm here to prevent it." "Jonas." "You are finished." "sir." "It is not a life I intend to go back to." "It took some time to find a place to belong." "Mrs Moray gave me that." "It is not up to you to take it away." "You are finished." "I will not believe that Mr Moray wishes me gone until I hear it from his own mouth." "{\1cHFFFFFF}" " He knows well enough my loyalty..." " Go soon." "And go quietly." "Uncle?" "Denise." "Is it true?" "Is it true?" "Do you love him?" "Uncle." " You would do this to me?" "I haven't done it to hurt you." "You were in love once." "Tell me nothing's come of this." "{\1cHFFFF00}" " Let me hear you say there is nothing between you." " I cannot tell you that." "I would not distress you for all the world." "You have been my family all that I have." "What I feel for John" "I cannot deny it." "it's some while since I've seen a look on your face quite as black as this." "She's back in the store." "The girl." "Denise." "my darling?" "She was wearing a veil." "A wedding veil." "As if to mock me." "And I could see... ..she wants to take him from me." "Katherine... the veil none of it would hurt you like this if you truly believed that Moray loved you." "Moray loves me." "I have seen it." "Felt it." "She is a shop girl who imagines she can seduce her employer." "Have you spoken to Moray about it?" "Asked him about her?" "I know what I must do." "If there is anything of her in his heart... ..I will dig it out." "another note." "ma'am." "{\1cH00FFFF}" " I realise how terrible..." " Do not speak to me as your equal." "You are a child." "My father always told me that I'm a child of God and that makes me the same as any person on this earth." "I will not permit you to try to take Moray away from me." "then you must speak to John." " I have spoken to Moray." "To John." "I can see how a girl like you might bewitch a man with your simple innocence and your clever-girl talk." "{\1cHFFFFFF}" " I have seen how your ideas for the store beguile him." " I cannot make any man love me." "nor to reason." "I can see what kind of creature I am faced with." "So I am clear how I must deal with you." "We own everything now." "The freehold to every property on this street belongs to my family." "all of it." "Do you know what that means?" "It means that we decide who will remain and who will lose everything." "Moray has built his Paradise from nothing." "{\1cHFFFFFF}" " Would you take that away from him?" " I'd not be the one who... but you would." "You may tell yourself that you are the victim in this." "with all of your heart." "But I know this." "If you persist... ..it will torment you." "I know Moray." "I have seen his ways." "He will be brave." "But The Paradise is his life his purpose." "Robbed of that and you will watch him wither and die and every day you will know that you had the opportunity this moment now to stop it." "never blame you but you will blame yourself." "Because you will know that you had the power to stop it." "You will know that you are the true cause of his suffering." "Why..." "Why would you want to marry a man who has told you that he does not love you?" "Does no-one understand?" "Can no-one see how simple it is?" "I have taught him to love me once." "I can do it again." "mighty decision to make." "Pay day tomorrow." "do I pay the landlord of the pub what I owe him or do I go dancing?" "I'll go dancing." "I'm in love!" "I fell down and I fell in love." "I've forgotten his name!" "He's been looking at me all week and I didn't even know it." "I'm going to tell Sam." "Jonas." "I know that." "{\1cHFFFFFF}" " I am complicit." " How can you imagine that I could do such a thing?" "I can see it in your face." "{\1cHFFFF00}" " Have I not told you..." " You stalk me." "What is it you want?" "sir." "I wanted to tell you that I see there are whispers." "Talk." "Suspicion." "The talk is all about me." "then the talk goes with me." "It is done." "There is no stain on your reputation." "sir." "I acted without your permission." "I thought I was doing good." "Perhaps I was wrong." "You have known Katherine." "You were together for some time." "{\1cHFFFFFF}" " Of course." "But..." " There must have been a reason for that." "There must have been something between you." "that was before I met you." "But you felt affection and attraction." "Denise." "To ask her to marry you... ..some part of you must have felt it was right." "You might feel that again." "No." "Not now." "What if you were to marry her?" "How can you say that?" "{\1cH00FFFF}" " She can give you a life that I cannot..." " This is our life." "The Paradise." "What if there is no Paradise?" "Tell me the truth." "Please." "Tell me about the Glendennings." "It is true." "I have debts." "Great debts that I owe Lord Glendenning." "And I have learned that he now owns the freehold to The Paradise." "But if they take this away from me" "I can start again." "I can see that you would do that for me." "But I cannot do that to you." "I can't do that to those people who work here" "{\1cH00FFFF}- live here." " The store will manage without me." "They will put Dudley in charge." "Do you suppose Dudley would want that?" "To see The Paradise taken away from you and him be part of that?" "Him take your place?" "It would destroy him." "I cannot marry Katherine." "I say that you can." "You know that I love you." "I have seen that you would sacrifice everything." "Perhaps that means that you do not have to." "You will see my eyes looking at you." "Then you will know." "We will always know." "CHURCH BELLS PEAL OUT" "What a picture!" "A man's heart might stop!" "don't be silly!" "as you always do!" "I can't bear weddings." "I've never been to one." "I make an excuse." "I say I'm unwell." "weddings!" "Love terrifies me." "Edmund?" "Why did you choose a woman so afraid of love?" "Can you ever forgive me?" "When you love someone as I love you there is no room for blame." "The feelings never fade." "KNOCKING" "No bride ever looked more radiant." "Papa." "You always find the perfect thing to say." "Are you ready?" "we have to go." "Are you ready?" "Denise!" 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