"(Chattering)" " l should like to return home." " But Ross..." " Now." " We've been invited to sup..." " l'll make our excuses." " But Ross." "I think it's better to go now, for everybody's sake." "Are you all right?" "You ride on. I'll see you later." " Where are you going?" " Sawle church." " Why?" " To see Aunt Agatha's grave." "I want to see if George has done anything yet about a headstone." "A graveyard, Elizabeth?" " Ross." " And alone?" "is it any business of yours where l go or what I do?" "None." "Though I can't say I blame you." "The company hereabouts is more stimulating than at Penrice." "I came to see Agatha's grave." "As George has no plans for a headstone, I thought to do it myself." "He has plans." "We have no need of you, so if you'll excuse me." " Where will it end?" " Where will what end?" "This hatred. I don't care about him but I care about you." "Caught between the Poldarks and the Warleggans, it cannot be easy." " l do not need your sympathy." " Can I do nothing?" "You?" "When each day, he hates you more than ever?" "He cannot still be jealous of our past?" "He now suspects the very nature of that past." " How?" " l've said enough." " You've said nothing." " Ross, let me go." "When you tell me what you mean." ""The very nature of that past."" "I believe he suspects Valentine is not his child." "Does that come as a surprise to you?" "Did you never wonder?" "is he?" "(Dog barking)" "Elizabeth." "For God's sake, Elizabeth." "Is he George's child?" "I cannot say." " Will not say." " Will not say." "Not to you, not to George, not to anyone, ever." "How could he have known about that night?" "I don't know." "If only he would bring it out into the open." "But he hints." "And for weeks now, he's avoided even the sight of Valentine." "There can be no other reason." "You want to save your marriage?" " Now more than ever." " For Valentine's sake?" "For both my sons." "For them I would risk anything." "Then the solution is simple." "Give him another child." "Another child at eight months." "For Valentine's sake, you must." "How?" "Do you imagine it can be arranged to order?" "You don't have to do anything." "You lie about your dates, that's all." "You keep the doctors at bay and let nature do the rest." "If the truth were known, there never was a premature birth in all of Cornwall." "Especially in Cornwall." " You are good for me." " Will you do it?" "(George) Well?" "What have you to say, sir?" "This is no criminal matter, I'm simply asking you for an explanation." "Ask him." "He's a spy." "Since Tom Harry's accident, Mr Rowse is my head gamekeeper." "It is his duty to protect my interests." "It was his duty to report that he saw you returning last night after darkness had fallen from the direction of St Ann's." "He knew your mother was worried and that I should not return from London till this morning." " He's always catching me out." " "Always" is an exaggeration." "For nine months of the year, you are at school at Harrow." "When you are here, you will accept his authority." "Now!" "Now, what were you doing at St Ann's?" "I went..." "I went to exercise my horse." "A long exercise." "I didn't think of the time." "I forgot Mother would be worried." "I do not wish you to stay out so late again." "Do you understand?" " Do you understand?" " Yes, sir." "I lay down no instruction." "I prefer your mother to be responsible for your disciplining but I..." "I wish you not to go." "Does that suit you?" "Very well." "That'll be all." "What is it at St Ann's that attracts him?" "Drake Carne, sir, runs a smithy there." "Him that gave trouble to Miss Morwenna afore she was wed." "But St Ann's is almost on my estate." "How did he gain possession of the smithy there?" "Rumour has it, sir, that his brother-in-law bought it him." "Ross Poldark?" "For what reason?" "Why should Poldark buy him a place almost on my land?" "I can't say, sir." "Very well." "You did right to tell me of Master Geoffrey." "See he doesn't go there again." "Oh, in the meantime, I shall speak to my lawyers." "If this Carne is out to make trouble, we must be prepared." "What shall I tell him, Wenna?" " l said, what shall I tell him?" " Shh." "I have to tell him something." "I don't want to get you into trouble." "But don't you see?" "This is adventure." "Then tell him I am happy for him in his new position." "Tell him I pray he will prosper but...he is not to send me anything." " He won't like that." " Tell him that..." " (Bell)" " Oh, you must go now." "That is Dr Enys come to see me." "I'll tell him how well you are looking." "Tell Drake that I will never forget him." "That will be enough." " OK, let's lift." " (Chickens clucking)" "Drop it." "(Chatting, indistinct)" " Not at church, praying, then?" " Not yet." "There's a Bible reading later." "Poor lot of 'tatoes you've got." "Last of the crop." "I drew 'em for me brother." "Still looking for lost souls, just so smart as ever?" "Salvation be the gate of everlasting life, Emma." "So you remembered my name." "But you not been so smart after my soul recent, I noticed." "I not seen you now for all of a month." "Found another soul to save, have ee?" "There's no soul as important to me as yours and well you know it." "Sid Rowse says you're afeared of him." "That's why you left off." " But I do tell him he's all wrong." " Why was that?" "I do tell him it was the devil you was afeared of, not Sid Rowse." "We all fight the devil within us, Emma." "You know I'm promised to Sid Rowse?" " Well, half promised." " That I did know." "Did you know 'tis said I'm a whore?" "I shan't believe it till I hear it from your own lips." "I been out in the hay fields with many a man." " Be that the same thing?" " You seen me drunk." "And I prayed for ee, every night." "Oh, Sam, what do praying do?" " You're a good man." " Let me help you find repentance." " Meaning you'd wed me, Sam?" " Yes." " Oh, yes." " Even if I didn't repent?" "I'd wed you in the hope that God's bountiful love would bring you to the light." "You're a rare man, Sam." "And good." "But not for the likes of me." "I'd be better wed to a hard-swearing, hard-drinking jack like Sid Rowse." "If I wed 't'all." "So I'll say goodbye... honest Sam, dear." "In truth, Vicar, I find your wife much improved." "But I believe it is imperative the treatment I recommended be continued." "Er, do you understand what I mean?" "Perhaps if we were to talk alone." "There is no need. I understand fully." "These things happen to women." "We must learn to put up with them." "inconvenient but of no real consequence." "I'm glad you see it like that." "I shall call again, shall we say," "Thursday?" "No, no." "There's no need." "I shall see myself out." "He had a call to make at the vicarage." "What's her name?" "Morwella?" "Rowella?" " (Laughs) Morwenna." " Oh." "Prudie, ask Jud to see to Mrs Enys's horse." "Ooh, he's out, talking to that cur." "Nasty, snarling beast." " You'll have tea?" " No, thanks." "We're taking tea at the Trevaunances' and I don't expect Dwight will be long." " Demelza?" " Mm?" "Why did you leave Tregothnan house so early that night?" "Was Lord Falmouth very offended?" "Well, he didn't say much but one is not blind." "Ross insisted. I could do nothing." "You're playing with fire, you know." " l, playing with fire?" " You know what I mean." "After you left there was dancing and games but it was quite clear the young man's heart was not in it." "I tried flirting with him myself." "I thought, "Why should Demelza have it all her own way?"" " l was totally unsuccessful." " l wish you had succeeded." "I do, I wish it with all my heart." "He's so intense." "Sometimes he frightens me." "He's returned to the Navy, though not to active duty." "It's his eyes." "He has to undergo a medical examination before they will allow him to go back to sea." "So he could return?" "He could be discharged." "That's what Dwight says." "So you may not be rid of him yet." "I don't want to be rid of him." "It's not like that." "Then what is it like?" "Tell me, for it worries me, Demelza." "There's hardly a wife in the county who does not envy you your husband." "Myself included." "There - that's an admission for you." "(Dog barking outside)" "And you would risk losing his love...for what?" "But that's nonsense." "I would not risk losing Ross's love." "I'd never do that." "(Dog barking)" "Ah, yah." "Yah, 'ere." "Stealing that boot, like." "It was the last chance of salvation." "Whorr, ye, ye, ye cur, you!" "Ergh." "(Low growling)" " (Barking)" " No need to take on so." "Just give me the boot or would ye rather... answer to Cap'n Ross!" "Cursed!" "Get out!" " (Screaming)" " What is happening?" "Sounds like a dog fight." "Prudie!" " (Jud moans)" " Prudie!" "What's happened?" "(Prudie) That new cur be savaging my Jud!" "(Wails) I been bit by a mad dog!" "'Tain't right, 'tain't proper." "Cur give me his boot and he made me a-drop it!" "He's got it in his jaws now, miserable limb of Satan." "What's amiss with ee?" "Ah!" "I've been bit." "Raving mad, 'twas, got..." "got me in his jaws." "See to him, Prudie." "I'll get a bowl of water." "On the table." "Best have a look before the poison gets to ee." " What, with her lookin' on?" " l'll help Demelza." " l don't want to see this." " Raving mad, 'twas." "Tongue hanging out like it were, were falling off." "Gis it along with ee, over the table." " (Grunting)" " Now, then." "(Moaning)" "Where's ee been bit?" "I don't see no bite." "Err, down there." "Been bit down there." "Maybe other places if the truth be known." "Ooh!" "Ten...sen..." "Send for surgeon!" "Oh, on your bum, is it?" " Huh!" "Is that it?" " Aarh!" "Rabies, is it?" "Mad rabies is...and...you're dead." "is he all right?" " 'Tis nought but a scratch." " (Whimpers)" "Gis along, ye miserable old doodah, bleating like a lambie." " 'Twas a mad dog, I tell ee." " Wait!" " (Pants) - l'll see to ee." "(Yells) What ee done?" " Aah!" " l casterised ee." " Oh." " Now, pull up tha britches." " (Moaning)" " Don't need no surgeon no more." "Oh, there's nought amiss with him." "Creening old gale, that's all." "We'll get Dwight to have a look at him." "Oh, no, there's no call for that." "He's fine now." "It weren't the first time it did go for me." "That time last week, he took the boot to the graveyard, the day Captain Ross met Mistress Warleggan." " (Prudie) Watch your claptrap." " Well..." "Ross met Mistress Warleggan in a graveyard?" "What day?" "Why, the day ee came home early from Tregothnan House." "Cur took the boot up to the graveyard and I chased 'im." "Captain Poldark met Mistress Warleggan in the graveyard?" "Uh." "And kissed her." " Oh, Jud, you lugsound!" " What's amiss with ee?" " She asking, wasn't she?" " Thank you, Jud!" "Dah!" "I found this boot in the yard." " (Jud grunts)" " What's been happening?" "You got a nice place here now." " 'Twill serve." " All set up proper." "Come on, my girl." " (Horse snorts)" " Have he asked to wed you?" " Comical, ain't it, him and me?" " Not so comical." "Oil and water." "He think to reform me." "I'd poison his godly life, honest I would." "Can you see me among the Methodies?" "That'd do for you." "You have told him no." "Is that not an end to it?" " Yes." " You'll do it no good that way." "I come to you cos there's no one other to talk to." "Do you love 'im?" "I don't know what love do mean." "But I can't be free the way I used to be." " How's that?" " People do say I'm a whore." "What is a whore?" "A woman that does sell her body." "I never sold nothing to no one." "I'm not so loose as folks say." "But what I've done, I don't regret." "Well then, what troubles you?" "Since I seen him, since we've talked, I've lost the pleasure of things." "That's the trouble." " l wish to God I'd never met him." " (Horse whinnies outside)" "What is it?" "I dunno." " Fetch buckets." " What caused it?" "Fetch buckets 'fore it spreads." "(Horse whinnies)" "Since then, there has been more trouble." "They broken his fences and his stream's run dry." "Last night, someone dropped a dead dog down his well." " Who's they?" " He don't know for sure." "But he has ideas?" "Why didn't he come and tell me this himself?" " Reckon he'd troubled ee enough." " The damned fool." " What's this about the stream?" " They cut into it higher up." " So he must depend on his well." " Aye." "That's not going to be easy when they're poisoning his water." "What's the local feeling?" "Is there resentment against him?" " Nay, not the locals." " Who then?" "He do say the locals come no more to the smithy." "Why not?" "We live in a world where malice do constantly arise in the souls of men." "Devil take your sermons." "You mean he's losing custom at the shop because locals have been told not to go." " That'd be the way." " Threats and persecution." " Who would want him out?" " He do say..." "Well, go on, man." "He do say he seen that Sid Rowse riding up the hill," " the day the hut was burned." " Sid Rowse?" "Warleggan's gamekeeper?" "But Warleggan land ends two miles from Pally's shop." "Give or take a step." " He's too close for comfort?" " Aye." "You think this is part of my feud with Warleggan." "You may be right." "Diverting the stream sounds like a trick that would appeal to George's devious mind." "Doubtless, he's investigated water rights." " There be other things." " Yes?" "He do say Geoffrey Charles did spend all his time at Pally's shop, when he was home." "But Mr Warleggan put a stop to it." " Well?" " The boy went on with his visiting." " Osborne?" " Yes, Morwenna?" "I have been thinking about my sister." " Yes?" " It may be time for her to go back home." "Home?" "But why?" "She has been with us for over a year now." "As long as that?" "I had no idea." "Nevertheless, she's no trouble and surely you have need of her." "Not really." "My health is much improved, the baby is no burden." "As for the girls, they barely see her." "She seems to spend most of her time with you." "A matter of her education." "I have her studying and copying the parish papers." "She has a quick mind, although undeveloped as yet." " Yes." "She has only just turned 16." " Exactly." "That is why I feel she needs companions of her own age." " Rowella, my dear." " (Osborne) Rowella." " l can leave tomorrow." " Tomorrow?" "(Morwenna) I did not mean so soon, my dear." " In the spring, perhaps." " Or summer." "(Rowella) As you wish." "(Morwenna) You look so tired." "I'm afraid we have been overworking you." "No, I am well, sister, thank you." "It is time I resumed at least some of my duties." "I shall begin tomorrow." "In the meantime, if you will excuse me, I shall go to my bed." "An excellent idea." "Dr Enys may have worked wonders but you must not overtax your strength." "Must she, Rowella?" " Indeed, no." " Thank you both." "You are so considerate." "There must be times when you find me a great burden." "Rowella, my dear." " Osborne." " Sleep well, my dear." " She knows." " Shh." "About you and me - she knows." "What is there to know?" "Oh, my girl." "My dear, dear girl." "Oh." "I feel as though I don't see you for days." "Tonight." "It must be tonight." "Do you understand?" " Yes. I will wait." " It may be late." " Whenever you say." " Oh, if only it could be now." " Yes, yes." " Do not." "You must not." "Now go." "Go to your room." "It is improper we should be so much alone." "I will see you later." "Osborne, there is just one thing." "I must tell you." "Yes, my dearest girl, what is it?" "I hope you will not be angry." "I am pregnant." "It's intolerable." "He's trying to ruin the boy." " Demelza, are you listening?" " Course I am." "I would think the fate of your brother was of interest to you." "So it is." "And my own fate and Sam's." "Has Sam been talking to you?" "No, he hasn't." "And what should it have been about if he had?" "Something I said to him about your family, half as a joke." "We got no sense of humour, you should know that by now." "I know, you blow hot and cold." "I never know where l am with you." " Nor I with you." " What does that mean?" " You won't tell me." " For God's sake, tell you what?" " l'm going to bed." " What shall I do about Drake?" "Don't ask me, I've got no influence with George Warleggan!" " Ask someone who has." " Demelza!" "Ask his wife." "Go away, do you hear, do not touch me!" "I knew it, I knew you'd be angry." "God preserve me, what have you done?" "I could take something." "There are nostrums on sale, I'm told." " Nostrums?" " To rid one of the child." "Yes, yes." "But sometimes they are dangerous to the mother as well." " No matter, no matter." " But how to purchase them?" "I could not seek them." "You would have to go." " Me?" " l could not." "A girl of 16?" "And you think I could?" "Me, a man of the cloth?" "Never!" " What are we to do?" " It has nothing to do with me." "With whom have you contracted this?" "Vicar!" "Osborne, there has been no one else. I swear." "How dare you!" "Why, half the men in the parish may be the father." " That's not true." " The desire to implicate me has been behind this affair from the beginning." "Yes." "Yes, that is it. I see it all now from the very beginning." " That's not true, how could you..." " Go to your room, Rowella!" "Shall I..." "Shall I see you later?" "Are you mad?" "Are you totally without shame?" "Later?" "As though nothing of this meant..." "Yes." "We have much to talk about, so..." "Yes, yes, now go...until later." "(Demelza) Prudie!" "(Cock crows) lt's half past nine, why didn't you wake me?" "You had a disturbed night." "Prudie's down with a summer fever, she sent Betsy Martin, Zacky's daughter." "She's in the kitchen." "It stinks in here." "Where are you going?" "I thought I'd ride over and see Drake, hear his side of this." "Oh, er, this came from the Bassets." "They're happy to dine with us next week, as invited." "The Bassets?" "Oh, I'd forgotten about it." "Well, they can't come now." "Why not?" " Because Prudie's ill." " She'll be better by then." "We'll ask Caroline and Dwight over." " Do I have no say?" " Every say, my love." " You will choose the menu..." " l am no society hostess!" " Ask Caroline to advise you." " Ooh." "I'm sorry, my dear, we are committed to receive them." "Well, I must be on my way." "Read the letter." "Lady Basset met Mrs Gower in Truro." "It seems Hugh Armitage is returning to his squadron." "I thought you'd like to know." "Drake!" "Drake!" "My God." "Drake?" "Drake?" " Drake?" " Over 'ere." "'Ere." "Who did this to you?" "I don't know, 'twas the middle of the night. (Sighing)" " Come and sit down." " (Gasping)" "Drink this." "Sam says you think it may be Sid Rowse." "I saw someone when the shed was set alight." "It looked like him but I didn't see his face." "Well, is there anything private between you, any reason?" " None that I can think of." " He's been put up to it." "Now, ee don't know that." "Captain, I don't want you having words with Mr Warleggan on my account." "You can't fight Warleggan on your own." " l don't intend to fight him." " What then?" "I'll think of something." "Turn the other cheek, that's what Sam'd do." " Then Sam's a fool." " Then Christ be a fool." " 'Twas His advice." " Oh, God, spare me from the Carnes." "I don't think ee means that, Cap'n." "No, I don't." "So, you're refusing my help?" "Not if it's to help straighten up here." "You have it." "But they'll be back again." "Whoever did this will be back again." "Cap'n, you put me here." "You gave me this place." "But it be my place and there is no one will take me from it." "Well, let's make a start." " (Knock at door)" " Yes, who is it?" "Oh, what do you want?" "I wanted just a word." "May I sit down?" "Sometimes I feel rather faint." "(Church bells tolling outside)" "I think, Vicar, I may have found a way out of our predicament." " Don't call it "our predicament"." " l'm sorry, my predicament." "What way?" "There is a man who would marry me." "He has shown an interest." " Who?" "Who is it?" " He knows nothing about us." "About my condition, I mean." "He might spurn me." "He may not wish to give his name to a..." "Who?" "What is his name?" "Mr Arthur Solway, from the county library." "How do you know he will marry you?" " He asked me last week." " And you said?" "That I could not without your consent and that of my mother, and that would not be forthcoming." " Why not?" " He is of lowly birth." " His father was a carpenter." " Lowly, indeed." "Beggars cannot be choosers." "He knows nothing of your condition?" "Not yet." "Of course, if you were to agree, I'd tell him." "Oh, not whose child it is." "Simply that I'm in dire distress." "I'd be a good wife." "And he would certainly gain the advantage of social improvement." "If I could tell him to come and see you." " Me?" " You are in loco parentis." "Of course, he may expect something in the way of a dowry," " to make the match attractive." " How much?" " He is not an ambitious man." " How much, how much?" "I had not thought of a figure but as a librarian, he's paid only f15 a year, so his demands would not be excessive." "Good, good, 20 guineas, perhaps, or 25 at most." "Very well, my dear." "If he agrees to your proposal, send him to see me and I will see that he gets a present to encourage him and to start you both off in life together." " What a fine..." " (Dwight) Demelza, did...?" " l'm sorry." " Please." "I wouldn't dream of it." "I was going to remark on the character of the room." "But this is not the addition to the house that you spoke of?" "No, this is part of the original building." " (Basset) Very fine." " Do not lick your thumb." " What ma'am?" " Oh, 'tis of no consequence." "We've confined our efforts to rebuilding the library." "And very successfully." "It's cost us dear in terms of delay and frustration." "It's the war." "You can't get labourers for love or money." "But is it the war, Sir Francis?" "All men make themselves scarce to exaggerate their own importance." "The French have been waiting for an opportunity to invade." "Only the gales have saved us." "My wife takes a determinedly flippant attitude towards politics." "And do you wonder?" "For years, we women of England have heard our men prophesying doom and disaster, and yet about us, life continues much as ever." "Mob riots and naval mutinies, are they much as usual?" " We don't see them, Dwight." " But they happen." "Your husband is right." "You heard of the attempt to invade Ireland?" " Yes, but that was months ago." " Two months, to be exact." "In spite of Sir Edward Pellew, most of the invasion fleet reached Bantry Bay and were landing their troops when the gales fortunately struck." "is that the Pellew who distinguished himself at the engagement where you were captured?" "Indeed, and a finer English gentleman never put to sea." "Perhaps the reason why we do not make progress in the war is that it is English gentlemen that lead us." "All these Frenchmen rose on merit alone and there's not a gentleman among them." "Do you suppose the English are inferior to the French?" "I warned you, my wife is a student of polemics." "And a serious student too." "I take her point, though I cannot agree with it." "(Caroline) I'm glad you see there is a point to be taken." "Why is it, with this talk of national emergency, that an officer of the calibre of Hugh Armitage has not yet returned to sea again?" "Caroline, have you heard from the lieutenant to that effect?" " Not directly, no." " l must say, Mrs Enys, that your information is at variance with mine." "Two weeks ago, I met his aunt in Truro." "She said he was to be returned to his squadron." "She is my informant also, three days ago." "It seems the naval surgeons cannot make up their minds." "He has returned to lodge with Lord Falmouth." "Strange, Demelza, I thought you would have heard." "Why should she have heard?" "(Osborne) Well, come in, come in." " Sit." " (Door closes)" " Well now, Mr Holloway..." " Solway." "You wish to marry my ward, I am told." "I had no idea she was your ward, Vicar." "During her stay, Miss Chynoweth has looked to me as her guardian." " Do you understand me?" " Indeed I do, Vicar." "Her fall from grace - she has told you, has she not?" " while filling me with chagrin, has not lessened my desire to see her brought to the safe harbourage of matrimony." "No, of course." "She herself comes from an unimpeachable stock." "Her late father was himself a man of the cloth." "Dean of Bodmin, to be exact." "And she is related by blood to the wife of our newly elected Member of Parliament, no less." " l trust you take my meaning?" " So I do understand, sir." "Your own father, I am told, is a carpenter." "However, I am not one to speak lightly of a true and Christian regard." "If you love her and she..." "loves you, then I think we can say, all things being equal," "We may come to some sort of agreement." "That's very kind of you, Vicar." "As a wedding present, a gift to start you off in life together, I am prepared to give you, outright - not lend - but give you the sum of 20 guineas." "Well?" "1 Well you see, Vicar... there is just one thing." "And when you drop a mince tart on the floor, you should not, oh, Betsy, you should not pick it up in view of everyone and put it on a plate to serve to someone else." "No, ma'am." "Sorry, ma'am." "Nevertheless, Betsy, you did well." "And only you, Prudie and I know what a battlefield the kitchen was before they arrived." "Oh, ma'am." "If they'd seen the things falling on the floor." " (Clears throat)" " Oh, Betsy." "Sir Francis, I though you were a-walking with the others." "I have no special likings for farmyards and cliffs." "Oh." "Er, thank you, Betsy." "No, I came in search of you, dear lady, to congratulate you on a delightful dinner." " Oh, thank you, Sir Francis." " Nampara beach troubles me." " Oh?" " It would make an easy landing for an invader, if he chose his weather." " l hadn't thought of it like that." " Alas, apathy reigns still." "I wish Ross had accepted my offer and stood for Parliament." "He would have roused the people." "He's the sort of man we need." "You found a replacement in our neighbour." " In George Warleggan?" " Mm." "Yes." "Mrs Poldark, would you permit me to ask a personal question?" "Sir?" "There is bad blood between your houses." "It troubles me." " What is its cause?" " Oh, Sir Francis, the cause lies too far back for me to explain." "And it's not for me to say, you should ask Ross." "Very well." "However, you may tell him from me, one should not wear soiled linen where it may be seen." "One should not wear soiled linen at all." "Precisely." "During war, these rivalries should be buried." "We have more important things to occupy our minds." "Well, if you tell Mr Warleggan... I am informed that the fault lies mainly with the Poldarks." "Then you are misinformed." "Whilst we are on the subject, is it not true that you enjoy a feud with Lord Falmouth?" " Touché." " And would it be true to say that the fault lie with the Falmouths, not with your family?" " You fight well." " Oh, Sir Francis." "Yes." "It is true that I have a feud with Falmouth but it is equally true that I have grown weary of it." "If a settlement could be found, I would not object, though I doubt he feels the same." "But isn't that the very fuel that feeds the fire?" "That we cannot credit our enemies with the same forgiving natures we have ourselves." "Oh, Sir Francis, forgive me if..." "No, it is you who must forgive me." "As well as being an excellent hostess, you also have the makings of a philosopher." "You mock me, Sir Francis." "Madam, I was never more serious in my life." "Nor have I spent a more delightful day." "(Osborne) Out, I say!" "Out!" "Out!" "Osborne, what has happened?" "I heard the door slam." " Did you put him up to this?" " Up to what?" "That insolent lickspittle." "Had he stayed a moment longer, I'd have given him the thrashing of his life." "Do you know what he asks, nay, demands, in order to marry you - a fallen girl of 16, penniless, pregnant, without hope or prospects?" " f1 ,OOO!" " f1 ,OOO?" "If ever that young jackanapes comes near this house again, I'll have him arrested for trespass." " But are you sure?" " Sure?" "When I thought f20 was being generous?" "Of course I'm sure." "Why, the impudence of the upstart." "The effrontery!" "Very well, Rowella, you may dismiss him from your mind." "That young man is not for you." "You do not marry him with any blessing or present from me." "But...but what will become of me?" "I had thought, knowing of your generosity, I thought, at the very least, you might give us f100." "Oh, you thought that, did you?" "Can I be sure you did not put the thought of f1,OOO into his head?" "Oh, yes, I swear it." "I would not do such a thing." "I wonder." "Sometimes, I think you're capable of anything." "Oh, let me talk to him." "I'm sure I can make him see reason." "Let me talk to him." "Why should I demean myself, bargaining for you?" "I've half a mind to pack you off to your mother now, fatherless child and all." "You would not do that, Osborne, you must not." "For my sake." "For both our sakes." " (Thunder)" " Damn the weather." "I rode with them as far as Barbitt's Cross." "They appeared to enjoy it." "Well, Sir Francis was much taken with you." "And I with him." "He said you made comment on his feud with Lord Falmouth." "What did you say to him?" "I told him to heal it, that's all." "I said that bad feeling shouldn't be between people if it's in their power to heal it." " That was brave of you." " Won't make no difference." " He's a man." " Oh." "Why shouldn't I have heard that Hugh Armitage was back?" "Why shouldn't he write to me, why shouldn't anyone?" " l'm sorry, all I said was..." " It was the way you said it." ""Why should she have heard?" Why shouldn't I have heard?" "I resented that Caroline seems to be party to the affection you have for this... I wish I'd never taken him out of prison." " You didn't!" "He took himself out." " l'm going to bed." " Yes, change the subject!" " Listen to me, my girl, for better, for worse, I love you." "If you choose to enjoy a mild flirtation with this spoilt aristocrat, it is your affair, but keep it private!" "I resent becoming a subject of gossip amongst my friends!" "What about my friends?" "Am I not allowed friends?" "You talk intimate things with your friends and never ask my permission!" "If you waited up for a fight, I am sorry to disappoint you." "Good night, Demelza." "Oh, Ross, Ross." "(Armitage) 'lf she whom I desire would stoop to love me, 'l would come heart in hand 'and, kneeling, ask that kindly she receive me 'and deign to understand that all I have is hers" "'and hers forever, 'forever and a day#" "(Osborne) f30." "A thousand." "f40." " A thousand." " f45." "A thousand." "Damn you!" "I have not got f1 ,OOO." "I've not got f500." "I barely have f100." "There!" "f100." "That is my final offer." "Take it or leave it." " A thousand." " (Seething)" "Vicar, you don't understand what poverty he has endured." "He thinks I'm made of money." "There are nine children living with them in a cottage." "One girl has fits, one boy is in service..." " These people breed like rats." " They live like rats." "Out of the pittance Arthur earns, he has to help his family." "Last year, his father fell ill." "They applied for parish relief." "You seem to know a lot about them." "I went to see them yesterday." "It made my heart ache." "I suppose you offered them some of my money." "f100, that's what I've gone to." "I feel sure he will see reason." "Try him once more." "Oh, Osborne, do!" "Very well, young man." "And this, understand, is my final word." "f120." "900. I cannot go below 900." "Are you mad?" "Damnation take you both." "Out!" "Get out of my house!" " Mr Whitworth, lower your voice." " This is extortion most flagrant." "Damn you!" " (Weeping)" " Don't cry." "This is a device you try far too often!" "I'm afraid, Vicar...you do not fully understand my position." "It will take f700, properly invested, to support the child." "Then there's the question of a cottage." "And the furniture." "The daughter of a dean." "I cannot see how she could live on less." "f200." "850." "210." "800." "Not a penny less." "I'm most terribly sorry, Vicar." "Take your sorrow and go." " Osborne?" " Out!" "Out, you hear!" "Consider, I beg you." "The children are asleep upstairs." "The devil take you both - you and Morwenna!" "(Whitworth, downstairs) Get out!" "Don't come back." "Take everything of yours." "Immediately, go." "Hey!" "Where do you think you're going?" "Well?" "I've come to ask a favour of Miss Warleggan" " that maybe she'll see me." " See you?" "What for?" "To ask her for a kindness on a matter which concerns me close." "If she says no, I'll come away." "You'll come away afore ever you get there." "Harry?" "Aye." "Well, if you'll not let me through, I'll bid ee good day." "Oh, no, you'll not." "Up-jumps like you ought to be punished for trespassing." "Go to jail for less." "Reckon we caught ourselves a poacher, lads." "Got to be a-dealt with." "What do ee say?" "I reckon he better be took up to the house." " Mistress'll look after him." " Nobody there." "They been in Truro." "I reckon it's all up to us." " Get him, Sid!" " Now, then!" "Get him, Sid!" " Harry, down that way!" " Right." "Harry!" "Right down." "Then to the left!" "Go get him, Harry." "There he is!" "Aaah!" "Stop, you'll kill him." " Sid, you'll kill him!" " l wouldn't mind that." "One... and two...and three...and five!" "That's for the toads." "Leave him be." "He'll be all right." "Mr Whitworth?" "You slept peaceably, I trust." "I have been continuing my work copying the parish records and I came across this letter." "It was writ to a Petherwin vicar for getting a young girl with child." "He was suspended for three years, I believe." "Get out." ""Dear Mr Boleyse," it reads," ""Aggravated as your guilt appears to be by many circumstances," ""l own I think little can be said in extenuation of it." ""For God's sake, sir," ""how could you so lose sight of the clergyman, the Christian, the gentleman" ""and violate the rules of religion..."" "I shall kill you." ""..and even of humanity itself?" ""How can you recommend to your flock..."" "Did you hear what I said?" "I have discussed the situation of last night with Mr Solway." "It would appear that he may be persuaded to accept a somewhat lower figure of some f600." "I'll see you dead first!" "Do you hear?" "I hear, Osborne, and I should think it quite likely Morwenna heard, too." " No, no." " Eat and don't talk." "They could have killed ee." "Do you know that?" "You could have died." "Of course he knows." "Think him senseless as you?" "Why are you here?" "I did think you was finished with Sam." "Come to see you." "Sam don't matter." " Finish your broth." " No, I got to get up." "I got to go to Truro. I got to speak with Mistress Warleggan." " l'll come with ee." " No, you stay here." "At least there be no gamekeepers at Truro." "There be footmen." "They be nigh as wicked." "But they don't know me." "Two of us, they'd suspicion." "You're both as crazy as calves." "Nobody'll see you in that state." "Why would Mistress Warleggan help?" "I have a feeling she want fair play." "When'll you go?" "As soon as I can walk." "(Knock at door)" "Close the door." "I have called you here to tell you of my decision." "I can do no more for you." "You'll be returned to your poor mother." "I leave it to her to try to effect a change." "And the baby, Vicar?" "I know nothing of any baby." "What luckless brat you may have conceived from your flaunting is entirely your own affair." "I shall accuse you, Vicar." "Nobody will listen to you." "I am a dean's daughter." "People will listen." "I will write to the bishop." "An hysterical child." "A boy you tormented at school made a scar on your belly." "I have seen it." "It was made by a knife." "I spoke of it once in jest." "Anyone could know." "And a mole on your left buttock of peculiar shape." " l will draw it for the bishop." " l will see you dead first, dead before I pay a penny to you or that snivelling yard of pump water you intend to marry!" ", Now, once and for all get out of my life!" "f500." "(Bell ringing)" "(Baby crying)" "Come on." "And tell Jud to saddle my horse." " Yes, master." " Take the saddlebags with you." " Yes..." " l must be gone in under the hour." "Have you seen the mistress?" " Master?" " The mistress, girl." "My wife." "Nay, she disappeared sudden." "I don't know where." "Then find her." "Tell her I have a list of addresses to give her." "Yes, master." "But Drake, what do you think she can do?" "She can talk to her husband, tell him to stop." " Wives is good at that, I hear." " Oh, Drake." "Don't tell Cap'n Poldark about this." "This is my war, not his." "He won't be able to help you, although he'd want to." "The Frenchies have invaded Ilfracombe." "He's been called to Falmouth with the volunteers." "He won't be back till God knows when." "Now, Drake, please take care of yourself in Truro." " l need you." " l'll be back, sister." "I was thinking, Osborne." "We have not seen Dr Enys for some time." "Did I not tell you?" "I had a letter from him some weeks ago." "Due to his own ill health, he has cut down on his patients." "No, you did not tell me." "I fear the good doctor is not long for this world." ""Physician, heal thyself" as the saying is." "Yet he cured me, Osborne." "He did indeed, my love, but we need not trouble him further." "It is peaceful, is it not?" " Just the two of us together again." " Peaceful, certainly." " Yet Rowella made little noise." " Oh, that girl." "Please, I'd prefer you not to do that." "Why not?" "A simple kiss." "You are my wife." "There is no one to see." " Things have changed." " What things?" " You say you are cured." " Just things." "I don't understand you." "Am I not your lamully wedded husband?" "Has it not been ordained by God that we should cleave?" " The vows we have sworn..." " You disgraced my sister." "Morwenna..." "Let us not waste breath beating about the bush." "I was conscious of what was happening every day, every minute of every night." "Do you think I am blind and deaf?" "It was nothing, my dear." "A momentary aberration." " Denied my natural feelings..." " Don't lie to me." " Morwenna, please!" " Kindly stay where you are." "I have only this to say." "If you should ever attempt just once - just once, I say - to resume your physical approaches to me," " l will kill your son." " Morwenna..." "That is how much you disgust me." "In all else, I shall attempt to be a good wife." "No one in the parish shall ever have cause to criticise me but once - simply once, I say - try to get into my bed or molest me in any way and I shall carry out my threat, I swear to you." "You are ill." "You do not know what you are saying." "It is your duty, a wife's duty." "I have done with that sort of duty, Osborne." "No, nor will I pray with you to seek God's guidance." "I have by now achieved my own guidance in this matter." "Morwenna..." "Do you know what you are saying?" "You are condemning me to a lifetime of purgatory..." "A lifetime of your own choosing and this is how it will be until the day death separates us." "How dare you?" "How dare you make such charges against my husband?" "I do not say that, ma'am." "Maybe someone else have told Mr Cope to cut off my water." "Or Sid Rowse and the others that beat me till I fainted." "I don't wish to hear about it." "They are employed to keep trespassers out." "I was only walking up the drive to see you, to offer not to see Master Geoffrey again." "What proof have you that these persecutions were carried out by Warleggan's men?" "You have proof, I suppose?" "They've been seen - not just by me." "Molly Vage seen 'em." "Jack Mullet do say they break what I repair." "And you think it was caused by my husband's resentment over your friendship with my son?" "It's not for me to say, ma'am." "There was the business of Miss Morwenna." "You remember that." "I don't wish to hear about it." "The affair is over." " Yes, ma'am." " Very well." "You may go." "I'll speak to my husband about it." "That's all I can say." "Thank you, ma'am." "What is this man doing in my house?" " He came to see me." " Get out!" " l said he came to see me." " Get out!" "By what right was he admitted to this house?" "I am going to my room." "When I have recovered sufficient calm, I will tell you why he came." "Do not forget that we leave for London in the morning." "For London?" "If what I just heard is true, I would rather go to hell first." "Demelza." "Hugh!" " Are you home on leave?" " In a manner of speaking." "Ross is in Falmouth." "He'll be sorry he's missed you." "I did not come to see Ross." "I came to beg a favour." "It's a day in a hundred." "Summer is here at last and here am I." " What do you mean?" " Have you forgotten?" " Last time, you promised..." " Visit the seals." "Is it that?" " Yes." " Hugh!" "I thought it was serious." "It is." "At least it is to me." "Anyway, what is so laughable about a promise?" "I'm sorry, I didn't mean..." "The seals aren't here at this time of year." " Show me." " But I've just told you." "There's no point in the expedition, the seals move away when the warm weather comes." "Do I mean so little to you?" "I am begging you." "To lead you to something that doesn't exist?" "To grant me a favour." "I have things to tell you." "They can be said here." "Oh, wait." "I'll have my horse saddled." "Whoa." "Down there but not that cove nor the next, nor the next but a place that looks like a cathedral." "For seals." "With rocks and the sea that booms and crashes." "I'll race you." "Are you sorry you came?" "I'm glad." "What did you want to ask me?" "I don't want to tell you now." "Perhaps it's better left unsaid." "Are you thinking of Ross?" "No." "Myself." "Hugh..." "Hugh?" "is it your eyes?" "I lied to you, Demelza." "Lied?" "I'm not on leave from the Navy." "I am discharged." "Your eyes?" "Is it your eyes?" "They're getting worse?" "There's still hope, isn't there?" "I didn't want to tell you." "You're going blind." "Is that it?" "Yes." "Come on." "Oh, it gets steeper down here." "Do you think we should risk it?" "Why not?" "It's only a momentary inconvenience." "Nevertheless, I shall hold your hand." "Come on." "Whoops." "Oh, look at my skirts." "Oh, God..." "Captain Poldark, Sir Francis." "Poldark, my dear fellow." "Good of you to come so quickly." "Armed men patrolling the grounds." "What is this?" "A military headquarters?" "Surely you saw the riots on your way?" "I saw rioters singing snatches of hymns." "At least, I assume they were rioters." "They looked more in need of a meal than a bullet." "As you know, I hold the King's authority to maintain order." " Yes, of course." " As the principal landowner, I also have the right and the duty to put down anarchy." "That is how you regard the riots - as anarchy?" "What else?" "When mobs threaten the laws of the land." "I agree it's not pretty but..." "Today, 6,OOO miners took by force from the millers corn which did not belong to them." "Corn they could not afford to buy." " They raided houses." " They were starving." " Attacked those stopping them." " Millers guarding their profits." "They are liable to repeat it tomorrow unless food arrives." " We must all eat." " Have you forgotten the war?" "We're all fighting for our lives!" "Their behaviour is little short of treachery." "The leaders must be arrested." "Yes, but we should not compound violence with violence." "Sir, you are a servant of the crown and I represent the crown." "In times of civil disorder, I may swear in whomsoever I choose as special constables." "And if I should be unwilling?" "Your divided loyalties in these matters are well known." "Nevertheless, in this affair, you have no choice at all." "Now, there is a man called John Hoskins who worked for you once, I am told." "I require him, sir." "You will take a party of men and bring him to me, at once." " What will happen to him?" " If innocent, nothing." "And if not?" "That will be for the judges to decide." "Oh, Caroline..." " Are you ill?" " A moment's giddiness." " It'll pass." " l'll get you something." " Stop fussing." " You rode over too fast." "Well, it seemed important you should know of these riots." "Didn't you tell me that Ross had been called for service?" "We're going to St Ann's." "I hope he's there." "I want to get home." "Why are you not packing?" "I told you, I'm not going to London." "No one speaks to me the way you spoke to me before Drake Carne." "He should not have been in my house." " He came to see me." " He's of no concern to you." "No concern... that my husband has been terrorising a young man, destroying his fences, poisoning his well, depriving him of his livelihood?" "No concern?" "If he wishes to accuse me, I shall answer him in court, not in my house through the agency of my wife." "Would you answer him in court, George?" "Of course." " Though it won't come to that." " Can you be so sure?" "I am not responsible for my servants' excesses." "Excesses?" "At what point do they become excesses?" "Where does your responsibility end?" "I cannot remember the details of my instructions." "That is not good enough!" "You know that that man is being harassed not for his own sake, but because he is the brother-in-law of Ross Poldark!" "is that not so?" "!" "Elizabeth, I'll make a bargain with you." "Come with me to London as arranged and I will see the harassment ends." "If only it were that simple." "I don't understand." "Can you not see?" "This matter of Drake Carne is but a symptom of our state..." "You are talking nonsense." "I question the wisdom not simply of travelling with you, but of staying with you another single night." "I am leaving you, George." "(Whinnying)" "(Banging at door)" "Hold him." "(Men) Let him go." " Sorry, John." " Damn you." "How did you find me?" "I've known you, John, all your life." "I know your every burrow." "I had to find you." "You run with the hunters now 'gainst hungry men?" "Put him on a horse." "Tie him if you have to." "The rest of you can go free." " What are you doing here?" " Just visiting'." "Go to your homes." "The excitement is over." "You were not serious in what you said?" "Elizabeth, I am in torment." "You cannot know what torment." "I believe you are still in love with that man." "Do you hear what I say?" "Do you deny it?" "And if I did, my denial would be as meaningless as your question." "My feelings for Ross are not the source of this suspicion, are they?" "Then you don't deny it." " You who command so many people..." " But I command you!" "You cannot accept the simple truth about your own son!" "is he my son?" "is he?" "Listen to me and hear what I say." "I swear on this Holy Bible, as a believing Christian and in the hope of my ultimate salvation, that I have never given my body to any man except my first husband, Francis, and after him, to you." "is that enough for you or is my sworn oath insufficient to convince you?" "I don't want to lose you." "I cannot live without you." "Suspicion and jealousy you may condemn, but they are a measure of my love." "Then you must cease to love me so well for l can bear the other no more." "Forgive me, forgive me." "You should have seen them, Dwight." "Poor, half-starved devils, shivering in the dark, and the children, rioters?" " Drink it up." " Haven't they the right to bread?" "Basset sent for me also but I didn't go." "I wish I had your courage." "No question of courage." "(Yawning) You were there, I wasn't." "I should have been helping them, not hounding them." "You?" "The man who never agreed with democracy?" "Decent sharing." " You must fight for that." " Politics again." "You still think I should've run for Parliament?" "Go home, Ross." "There's no point in blaming yourself." "Nampara is your life." " Concentrate all your feelings there." " That's easier said than done." "Why?" "You have a wife, your children." "You seek nothing more, you say." "Very well." "Hang on to what you've got." "is that your professional advice?" "I'm saying that what you have is more important than what you hanker for." "Carry on and I shall be tempted to play the physician myself." "Meaning what?" "I hide nothing from you, Ross." "What you see is what I am." "Just that in my case, marriage came too late." "I was too desperate to find what you already had." "You must have a child." "I think you would like a child more than anything else." "She says it is her fault." "Well, she may be right." "I believe her to be anaemic." "And these dizzy spells..." "She's not an easy patient." "Most of my potions are tipped into the flowerbed." "Take her away." "You've never had a honeymoon." " Perhaps next year." " Take her away, man, now." "And if you're saying you envy me... I'm not an envious man." "What I'm saying is that sometimes we must accept our limitations." "Your happiness lies in Demelza." "And yours in Caroline." "Perhaps we both need another adventure in France." "God forbid!" "I'm still repairing the ravages caused by our last stay there." "I have undertaken to examine Hugh Armitage next week." " Armitage?" "Is he back?" " The Navy has discharged him." "There seems to be a general agreement that he's going blind." "There's news from the magistrates in Bodmin." " Yeah?" " They'll get off with a talking-to." " John Hoskins included?" " All, they do say." "Thank Almighty God." "There be justice in the world after all." "Hey..." "Hey, where are you goin'?" "Hold hard, young Drake!" "Glory be, who's that?" "Tholly Tregirls." "He was with us in France." "Desert an old friend, would ee?" " Tholly, me brother, Sam." " Mr Tregirls." "Ah, Sam Carne." "Be ee the one my Emma's talked about - the preacher man?" " The same." " What went amiss wi' your face?" "Somethin's cut your eyebrow, has it?" "(Laughter)" " Sam, you wrestle, Emma says." " What of it?" "I got six lads taking part in Sawle Feast Thursday week." "I reckon you'd do well for what I have in mind." "If he be like his brother, he don't wrestle, he run away!" "Leave off, you stupid great loodle!" "How's my old preacher?" "Been praying much of late?" "Every day for all men, but especially for you." "Praying for she?" "!" "I'll have no praying..." " Give over!" " Ah, give over." "Well, Sam, my boy." "What do you say to it?" " Wrestlin'?" " Aye, there be prizes." " Money, an' all." " Not for me." "I did give over with the wrestling' years ago." "I reckon he's forgotten how." "All this praying' for lost souls." " What I had in mind..." " Not for me." "(Coughing and spluttering)" "Hey!" "Hey, Sam Carne!" "You don't wanna walk away while Tholly's talkin'." "What I had in mind was a real feast with wrestling' and racing'." "is your baby brother allowed to wrestle?" " l don't fight three to one." " l'll fight you any way you want." "Fists, sticks, knives, one to one." "Why don't ee show him who's master, Sam?" "You should come to meetings." "You'd be better off prayin' than thinking like that." "Maybe I would if you beat him." "Now, that's a prize." "The winner gets my daughter." "You mean that?" "You'll come to meetings if I win?" "How long?" "Three months - but you gotta win." "What about me?" "What happens if I win?" "You'll marry me?" "Maybe." "Maybe not." " That's your worry." " Come away." "They don't mean it." "They do mean it!" "Yes?" "Well, drown me!" "That's grand." "A real prizefight." " Best o' three falls." " It'll be that all right." "Heard what the magistrate's done to your friend, John Hoskins?" " Gave him a deserved lecturing'." " Oh, no." "Not John Hoskins." "He's for hangin'." "I'm gonna do the same for you with my bare hands." "What happened, Ross?" "Were things bad in Falmouth?" " Look, tell me about the riots." " l do not want to discuss it." " What do you want?" " 'Tain't right." "Comin' here this late, but he's here just the same." " What are you talking about?" " A visitor at this hour?" " 'Tain't right." " Sam, don't you know the time?" "It's all right." "I think we have something to say." " Can't it wait till tomorrow?" " Leave us." "Close up, Jud." "Don't hang about!" "Yes, sir." "Now explain to me what you were doing there last night." " John Hoskins be a friend." " Were you one of the rioters?" "I was minding me own business." "And I should have minded mine?" "This was my business, remember." "Any other officer finding you hiding would have taken you in." "We were not hiding." " Then what were you doing?" "!" " Praying." "His wife and youngest be dying of the fever." "Two days and three nights, he was on his knees." "So much prayin' be too much for one man." "I could have done something." "And for Luke's family?" "And for Jed's and William's also?" "Nay, but God would." "How is Hoskins' family now?" "Half-in, half-out this life." "He will be back soon." "I heard the magistrates let them all off." "Not John." "They take him." "Now they're going to hang him." " Hang him?" " l said you ought to know." "God in heaven, are you sure?" "He'll be in paradise afore his family." "No, he will not." "I'll go to Basset in the morning." "I'll stop this thing." "I'm sorry, I can do nothing." "The court has decided he must hang." "What difference will one man make?" "That one man was the ringleader." "He deserved arrest." " He's behind all the trouble." " His family is starving." "I am aware of the distress in the district but a man cannot take the law into his own hands." "Those administering the law should show compassion!" "My dear Poldark, this matter was considered at the trial and the sentence passed there." " You could commute it!" " l cannot!" "Nor would not if I could." "It is the law." "Law without justice." "It sickens me." "Justice is a changing thing." "It is never easily won." "Laws are made in Parliament." "There is to be another election in September." "Did you know?" "Pitt is dissolving this Parliament." "Empty words, empty talk." "What good does it do?" "If you think that, you must be content to remain powerless." "(Whispering)" "Why not?" "Ask him to step this way." "I am sorry a shadow seems to have come between us, Poldark." "I once thought we could have been of service to each other." " Mr George Warleggan." " You know our sitting Member?" "If you are seeking a pardon, it is useless to appeal to me." "That I believe." "Compassion was never your strongest point." "I am told my gamekeeper is to wrestle with your brother-in-law at Sawle Feast." "Does he not know that Sid Rowse is a champion?" " Past his best." " Carne may not find him so." " That remains to be seen." " Care for a wager?" "What would you suggest?" "100 guineas?" " Agreed." " On one condition." "That the money be used in some way to benefit the miners." "Bravo. I shall undertake the disposition myself." "Good." "It's time your gamekeeper was taught a lesson." "I was glad to find you at home." "I was told you intended to return to London." "Personal matters intervened." "Now..." "What do you wish to discuss with me?" "Would Lord Falmouth not help?" "No doubt he would consider himself above such matters." "We're to dine with him soon." "You could ask." "No, I've done with politicians." "My time will be best spent with the lawyers in Truro." "At least all they demand is money." "But I've accepted the invitation." " Then you must go alone." " What?" "No, you must." "The Falmouths will understand." "And it may help Armitage if you're there." "Dwight is to carry out his examination, I understand." " Well, if you really mean it." " Of course I mean it." "Demelza..." "There's something I've been meaning to tell you for months." "When you asked about Elizabeth, you were right. I have seen her." " When?" " Many months ago, at Sawle church." "It's the first time I've spoken to her in years." "Do you still love her?" " Our meeting was..." " Do you?" "Not in the way I love you." "But I do have an affection for her and always will." "Why did you not tell me this before?" "Would it have made a difference?" "I don't know." "I suppose I didn't want to cause you any anxiety." "Then why tell me now?" "Because I want you to know that I understand about Hugh." "We must try and trust each other." "That is why you must go to the Falmouths'." "Mrs Poldark, how good to see you again." " Mrs Gower." " And Caroline." "You look prettier than ever." " Wedlock agrees with her." " There speaks an authority." "I hope you'll have my nephew restored for the election." "I need a young and vigorous candidate to bring the constituency back to us." "Pe_ect health, my lord, is hard to attain." "We were jealous to hear of your visit to the great seal cove." "Unfortunately, Mrs Enys, there were no seals there." "Not one." " Then why ever did you go?" " To learn that for ourselves." "Ignore my nephew." "He's such a tease." "I am sorry your husband could not be here." " l hear he had other business." " Very important business." " Concerning a man's life." " So I have heard." " The agitator, John Hoskins." " Agitator, my lord?" "Rather a man in need of charity." "These are difficult times for charity." "Men have been hanged for mutiny in the Navy." "Should we be more lenient to a civilian?" "is it right you should hang a man merely for starving?" "Me?" " It has nothing to do with me." " Then I agree with Ross." "What use is political power if it leaves you as helpless as I?" "I do not know how Hugh will take to Parliament after being at sea even though he be elected." "I shall make the best of whatever life presents. I've had few complaints so far." "That makes an admirable change - an MP with few complaints." "Do you know whom Basset is putting up with Warleggan?" "I'm sure he has as little idea as I." "Good men are hard to find." "Well, you won't get my husband." "I'm not losing him to London." "Now, you can take Dr Behenna." "Nobody will miss him." "If good candidates are scarce, my lord, why not settle your feud with Sir Francis and agree on a mutual choice?" " Demelza, you've struck it." " This is hardly a suitable..." "Oh, Dwight." "Let Demelza speak, she has the answer." "Well, madam?" "Sir Francis dined with us some weeks ago." "He said he'd be willing to reach a settlement." " The devil he did!" " Well, well..." "Did he say what he meant?" " Not exactly." " But he is a man of his word." "We need an intermediary." " l would do it." " How could you as a candidate?" "Nor can I agree to your going out yet." " (Demelza) But time is so short, Dwight." " Wait." "My lord..." "Will you dine with Dwight and myself next week?" "That's very good of you, ma'am, but to what purpose?" "Do not enquire the purpose, then you will have no need to refuse." "I shall send my man round at the end of the week with an invitation." "Look to the ceiling." "Now to the left." "In France, when this business first started, I saw it as a sort of romantic accompaniment to my scribbling." "Now the other eye." "To go blind while versifying in prison was charged with the utmost romance." "To the ceiling." "Have you ever met a more sentimental wretch?" "To the...right." "Hmm." "Now, I confess, I am sick with apprehension." "Ah!" "There's no need to be." "Everything which seemed desirable then on paper pales beside the real thing." "is it true that we..." "we love most strongly only when we are in danger of losing everything?" "Don't ask me. I'm not a poet." "Shall I tell you what I desire more than anything?" "No... but I have a feeling you will nevertheless." "A settled life." "Wife, children." "I envy you, Dwight. I really do." "I have no children." "A clear view of what lies before you, not this muddled, confused discontent I've gone in for." "I see no sign of a cataract." "Give me ten years of happy married life to the woman I love and I'll tell all the poets in the world to go hang themselves." "Oh, that is too much!" "You should've warned me!" "Sorry." "Forgot you were my partner." "Forgive me." "I saw what you were planning but could not assist." "My brother plays cards as he does everything - with no thought for friends or enemies." "Ah, now this..." "Oh, is it your head?" "Perhaps it's the light." "Let us move." "No, then I could not see you so well." " l have little enough opportunity." " Shh." "Now, this is one of my favourite pictures." "See how the artist has suggested the light on the trees." "As a boy, I played in a wood very like this." "Did you?" "Ross!" " My dear boy." " Ross." "Captain Poldark, how good to see you." "Excuse the intrusion." "My meeting with my lawyers finished early." "That's unusual for lawyers!" "We were discussing the fate of John Hoskins." "Yes." "Well, we're delighted to see you, dear boy." "I will tell the servants to bring you some supper." "What happened?" " He is to hang." " Oh, Ross." "On the eve of Sawle Feast." "(Cheering)" "(Dogs barking)" "(# Jaunty fiddle and accordion)" "(Growling) lt's all right. I'm not really a lion." "I'm only a player." "(Cheering and booing)" "Urgh!" "What is this lying on the ground?" "A bloody mantelpiece I have found." "(Audience) Oh!" "'Tis her pe_ume, I can tell." "She's been killed, done in, oh, bloody hell!" "(Audience) Aw!" "But if she has gone to heaven's door, alone she shall not remain." "I draw out my trusty sword and I stab myself." "(Audience) Oh!" "Again." "(Audience) Ooh!" "Thank you very much." "(Cheering)" "(Cheering drowns voices)" "(Player) Thank you very much." "(Man) Oh, look at that!" "Mind your heads, there." "(Woman) Very good!" "(2nd woman) Very clever!" "(Crowd gasps)" "Mr Whitworth." "Mrs Whitworth." " It is indeed a great pleasure." " How nice to see you." " Rowella." " Dear Wenna." "You're looking very well." " Well, Rowella?" " Mr Whitworth." " l trust you're in good health." " Yes, I'm quite well." " And the, er...child?" " Child?" "The child, Rowella, that you carried before you left us." "Oh, you had no way of knowing." " It was all a terrible mistake." " Mistake?" "I was very stupid." "Being inexperienced in these matters, I mistook the signs." " l wasn't with child after all." " Not... I am grieved I caused you trouble." "But in the end, it has all turned out for the best." "Osborne." "(Man) Wrestling challenge contest!" "Best of three falls." "Three three-point falls for the prize of...two guineas!" "(Crowd gasps)" "He's as bulk-headed as a mule." "Watch when he hits you." "God'll decide it." "We're here to enjoy ourselves." "You did all you could for John." "Stand forward!" "(Booing)" "On my right, Sid Rowse." "(Cheering)" "On my left, Sam Carne!" "(Cheering)" "Now, you know the rules." "And no kicking!" "(Whistle)" "(Man) Get in there, Sid." "Get in there!" "Go, Sam!" "Go on, Sam!" "(Whistle)" "No wrestling on the ground!" "Up!" "Right, now, stand by." " (Whistle) - (Man) Go on!" "(Whistle)" "First fall, Sid Rowse!" "Right, stand by!" " (Whistle)" " We know you can do it, Sam." "(Ross) Come on, Sam!" "Watch his hands there, Sam!" "That's it, Sam!" "Hold him, now!" "Ow!" "(Whistle)" "Second fall, Sam Carne!" "(Cheering)" "Right!" "Go to it, my beauties!" "(Whistle)" " Come on, Sam!" " Come on, Sam!" " Tregirls!" " Come on, Sam!" "Someone should stop it." "(Woman) Get him now, Sam!" "You've got him now." "Come on now!" "You've got him!" "Come on!" " Come on, Sam!" " Sam!" "Come on!" "Come on, Sam!" "(Whistle) I won!" "Ha ha!" "(Woman) He could've won that." "He should've done." " What happened?" " He just seemed to give up." "I want my prize now!" "(Man) What I would've done..." "You owe me 100 guineas." "You forget the money is to be sent to Basset." "I asked him... I asked him, "Sam, why did you give up to Sid Rowse?"" "Do you know what he said?" "He said, "lt come to me when I was near to victory," ""it come to me to think of Christ" ""and how he was tempted by the devil and how he refused."" "Sam said that?" "Hm, sounds like Sam." "There's many in the village that says it's cheating Sid won by." "Well, it's too late now." "I was to go with his Connection for three months if he won." " Really?" " Well, now I be all in the air." "I don't know what you think I can do about it." "You be his sister." "When he's winning and he makes the choice to lose to Sid Rowse it is like he rejected me." "I know 'twas a joke but if he'd won, I'd have kept my side of the bargain." " You can still do that." " l know!" "But by not winning, it's like he's thrown it back in my face." "Oh, I see." "Yeah." "Hm." "'Tisn't true what they do say about me." " Eh?" " A man's never had me." "Yes, I've let 'em take liberties but a man's never had me." " Does Sam know that?" " l could tell him." " His flock'd never believe me." " You must talk to him." "Do he love me or just the chance of winning me to chapel?" "That's something you must discuss with him." "Oh, Jud, what do you want?" "There be a rider come all the way from Dr Enys with a message for you and the Captain." "Message?" ""What's awry?" l said. "What's amiss?"" ""important message," he said." ""ls it them Frenchies?" l said." ""Damn the Frenchies!" he said." "Jud, where's the master?" "The last I see him, he were playing with Master Jeremy." " Go and get him right away!" " Yes, miss." "Sorry, Emma..." "And ask Prudie to pack my night things." " Yes." " l'll be off anyway." "I ought not to be bothering you." "But love make folk do strange things." "is there anything I can do?" "I don't know." "I don't know if there's anything anyone can do." "The brain fever struck about three days ago." "Since then, it's hardly remitted at all." "As you can see, we're bleeding him as much as we dare but..." " You had knowledge of this?" " It was as I had feared." "The eyes were but a symptom." "Demelza...is it you?" "(Dwight) Your two dear friends have come to see you." "And Ross?" "Pretty picture, is it not?" "To cheat the French and then oneself be cheated." "Well...these little irritants decide the battle." "(Dwight) Those little irritants have already brought about an improvement." "Dear Dwight has been most wondrous kind." "Five minutes?" "I had hoped for ten years." "I'll settle now for that number of minutes." "(Door opens)" "Dr Enys has been a great comfort, a great comfort indeed." "And his wife as well." "I suppose you know it was through her good offices that Sir Francis and I have reconciled our differences." "Prompted by your wife, I might say." "Extraordinary woman." "We've already had our meeting to discuss the election next week." "Next week?" "I doubt Hugh will be well enough to play his part." "Yes. I had already raised the point to Basset." "It might interest you to know that Warleggan has been dropped." "George?" "Why?" "Basset never approved of some of his manoeuvres." " Well, George will take it hard." " No doubt." "No doubt." "He thought he was born for Westminster." "He can still stand for election, though without support from Basset or myself." "As the sitting member, he'll get a certain percentage of votes." "Much will depend on who I choose to oppose him." "We must retain a strong government." "Well, I'm sure you'll find some strong men in Truro." " Well, pray, help yourself." " l must see if my wife has returned." "I thought of offering you the nomination." "Oh, I know you've already turned it down once but Basset thought you might have changed your mind." " Basset!" " He suggested I talk to you." "I hardly think you can be serious, my lord." "We're in accord on the plight of England at war but we've argued many times about internal issues." "But we are at war, Poldark." "Do you not think it a time to bury our differences and direct our energies toward some service for the nation?" "(Hugh) "When I am gone, remember this of me," ""that earth of earth or heaven of heaven concealed" ""no greater happiness than was to me revealed" ""by favour of a single day with thee."" "(Approaching footsteps)" "Who are you writing to?" "Doesn't matter. I'll deliver the message in person." "I'm going to Truro tomorrow." "Oh, Ross, must you?" "You said nothing of it before." "I've only just decided." "Poldark?" "Poldark is to stand?" "That is my information." "But...how dare he?" "The man's a renegade and a criminal." "His French exploits have made people forget his reputation." "As for the other, he was acquitted." " Is he standing instead of you?" " No, Falmouth's sponsoring him." "No one will stand instead of me." "I'm the sitting member." "But you could be unseated." "And by a mountebank." "There are other candidates." "Poldark is not my only rival." "He's your most dangerous rival." "He's popular and influential." "That is why we must line up our supporters with great care." "I want you to take charge of this for me." "You must make sure where we stand with the Burgesses." "Ah." "How do you do?" "That's Trengrouse, Warleggan's other nomination." "Don't concern yourself." "It's not obligatory to shake hands with an opponent." "Excuse me." "You're in the mood for the contest, I fancy." "You do realise if you win, you'll go to London immediately and may not return for months." " l welcome the prospect." " And your wife?" " She will not accompany me." " There you are." "Ah!" "Have you met my brother-in-law, Captain Gower?" " Poldark." " Captain Gower." "My other nominee." "You and he will make a fine combination." "He with his experience of Westminster, you with your preference for a fight." "You make it sound like a marriage." "Who is, er..." "Basset sponsoring?" "No one." "That was part of his agreement with me." "You can see now how much you owe Mrs Enys and your wife." "(Gower) Warleggan's father's keeping busy." "They say he's brought pressure to bear on any of the Burgesses that owed them money or a favour." "That's something we all resort to on occasion." " (Bell tolls)" " Gentlemen, it is 1 1 o'clock!" "Will you please take your places in the council chamber?" "When the mayor has been sworn in as returning officer, the sponsors may talk on their candidates." "Then the votes will be taken verbally, as usual." " Good luck to you both." " My lord." "Good luck, Poldark. I'm glad we achieved you in the end." " Thank you, Sir Francis." " Gower." "(Clerk) I will now read the proclamation." "(Clerk) Hear ye, hear ye, hear ye." "(Caroline) You see how pleased Horace is you called." "The poor little thing's had his nose quite put out of joint and was in need of someone to cheer him up." "I'm glad for Horace's sake but I was hoping for someone to cheer me up." " You've had no news of Hugh?" " No." "(Sighs) Dwight's given me none either." "Well, I shall have to impart my devastating news." " Caroline, what's happened?" " Demelza, it's too amul." "Remember my giddiness and Dwight's theory of anaemia?" " You're not ill?" " Worse." "I'm with child." "Oh, Caroline, how wonde_ul!" "What good news." "Congratulations, my love." "Well, it's all very well for you but I think it's a dreadful mistake." "Can you imagine, if my own husband, a doctor, didn't know?" "He failed to diagnose it." "Oh, Caroline." "No wonder Horace looks so sulky." "You should have seen Dwight's face." "Well?" " Congratulations." " Do you mean we've done it?" "You and Poldark, 13 votes apiece." "Trengrouse and Warleggan, 12." "I had hoped for something more conclusive." "Had you indeed?" "Be content." "Warleggan won it by one vote last time." "He's lost it by the same amount today." "Oh, it's conclusive enough for me." "That one vote will send you to London as soon as you're packed." "Now, if you'll excuse me." "Will you not celebrate with us?" " Another time." " What is it?" "What's happened?" "(Ross) Demelza!" "Where the devil is she?" "(Sighs)" "(Prudie) What's all the shouting about?" "Anybody'd think..." "Oh, master Ross, ee be back." " Where's the mistress?" " She's gone out." " About two hour ago." " Out?" "Just after dinner, it were." "Did she say where she was going?" "No, not to me." "But she weren't riding." "I'd have thought she'd have been back afore dark." " Well, did she leave a message?" " No, not with me." "I just give her the letter and went back to the kitchen." " What letter?" " From Tregothnan, he said." "Right, Prudie, that'll be all." " You want anything to eat, sir?" " Later, later." "(Mrs Gower) "ln view of the kindness shown to my nephew" ""both by Captain Poldark and yourself," ""l feel it my sad duty to let you know Hugh died last night." ""His parents were with him." ""All that could be had been done..."" "(Door shuts)" "Where the hell have you been?" "Come on." "Giddup." "Hyah!" "Hyah!" "Has the House risen that you're returning home?" " Not for another six weeks." " How was Westminster?" "My uncle says it's a regular gossip shop." " It's what you make of it." " So cousin-in-law George used to say." "Bit of a blow you struck him when you took his seat." "Mind you, George is no laggard in furthering his own affairs." "That I have noticed." "I've been staying with the Carlyans." "You know them?" " By name." " They have a very fine cook." "Their spring lamb with asparagus and roast calf's heart." "Oh!" "As I tell my wife, it's the conjunction of dishes that matters." "How is your wife?" "Dr Behenna thinks she must have a disorder of the spleen." "The child, I am glad to say, is in fine fettle." "A handsome boy - very different from the Enys's weakling child." " Dr Enys's baby?" " Dribbles all day long, so they say." "This lurching is enough to turn a man's bile." "I was at sea only once but it was no worse than this." "I presume you know Viscount Falmouth well, since you sit in his pocket, or should I say, in his pocket borough." "Could you use your good offices with him on my behalf?" "I am seeking the living at Laxillion and he must be well in with the new Bishop of Exeter." " l'm sorry to hear you're leaving Truro." " l'm not." "I just wish to augment my sparse income." "These days, a man in holy orders must possess two livings." "You already have two livings - my own parish of Sawle is one of them." "The expenses there almost eat up the increment." "There could be such a thing as a quid pro quo in this." "My uncle, Colin Cadolfin, is a personal friend of the Prince of Wales." "Sometimes, a friend at court can be an advantage to a man in the Commons." "Especially a distant country member without title or connections." "What do you say, sir?" "At Sawle, you have a curate named Odgers." "On f45 a year, he lives no better than a farrier." "I am prepared to ask Lord Falmouth to intercede for you on condition you raise Mr Odgers' stipend to f100 a year." "That is the quid pro quo I envisage." "What do you say, sir?" " (Demelza) Have it." " Madam, I was only admiring it." "I have no use for it." "I can't find anywhere where it suits." " Take it while you can." " No, truly, Mrs Enys." "May I find Clowance to try on the bonnet?" "I've taken it in a little." "Just a tuck." "Oh, it's lovely." "Isn't she a clever milliner, Caroline?" "If ever you have any sewing to do, you must send for Mary Ann." "She shall make dresses for Sarah." "I'm sure she will when the time comes." "I shall not have her in swaddling bands for much longer." "I can't wait for the day when she will at least be recognisable as a female!" "I'm sure you can't wait for the day you send her out hunting!" "(Ross) Demelza!" " Ross!" " You didn't tell me!" "He didn't tell me." "Mary Ann, go and tell the children their father's home." "Ross!" " Ross." " Caroline." "We weren't expecting you for weeks yet." "How's your baby?" "What did you christen her?" " Sarah." " l wrote and told you." " Didn't you get my letter?" " She is just as I anticipated, lies in a cradle with the wickedest smile you can imagine and expects to be waited on." "My poor little dog is quite neglected." " You're not going on my account?" " No, on Demelza's." "Between them, she and Dwight spoil her dreadfully." " How long are you staying?" " Till Parliament reassembles in autumn." "The whole summer?" "Oh." "I thought you were just visiting." "How's Parliament?" "You spoke in the slavery debate." "Sir John Trevaunance saw it in the paper and sent it to me." "I've got it here somewhere." "I show it to everyone." "The children are in the long meadow?" "Yes." "Mary Ann's gone to get them." "They'll be here soon." "I'll go there myself and surprise them." "Yes, of course." "That impudent squireen Poldark was on the coach, coming home from Parliament early." "George was not so neglectful of his duties as an MP." " Well, where's the boy?" " In the garden." "How often have I said he's not to be left unattended?" " There's the hazard of the river." " His nurse is with him." "Will you eat now or wait till supper?" " What is there?" " We have spring chicken, tongue, the remains of a leg of mutton and some custard tart." "Custard tart?" "When one has dined in one of the great houses, one realises the uncouthness of what one has to eat at home." "Oh dear, Nat Pearce wants to see me urgently." "I'll wager the most urgent matter for lawyer Pearce is the delivery of his next cask of wine." "Very well, see if you can tempt me with some of your cold chicken." "(Rowella) "Dear Vicar, it is more than a year now" ""since I left your home to marry Arthur." ""At the time, I must have taken, inadvertently, some books of yours." ""l know if I bring them to you I shall be turned away." ""But should you call for them at 17 Callinick Street," ""l would see this as a special sign of your forgiveness." ""l remain, sir, your respectful servant and sister-in-law," ""Rowella Solway."" "The children are hoping you'll go and see them." " l've said good night to them once." " That's what I told them." "Did everything go well in the mine?" "You wasted no time going there." "The south lode is not yielding as we hoped it would." "I told you that in my last letter." "It's just a setback." "We can't afford another such failure." "The fireback's come away in the hearth." "I'll ask Drake to make it good." "It's nothing that need call for a blacksmith." "It'll do him good to get away from that forge." "Still pining for Morwenna?" "Mm." "He needs a wife." "How's Sam?" "Is he still crossed in love too?" "Well, Emma's gone to be a parlour maid and if they still feel the same about each other at the end of the year, they're to marry." " So all is not lost, then." " Hope not." "And you?" "What have you been doing while I've been away?" "Seeing to your affairs, bringing up your children, looking to the farm, waiting for your letters." "Living life as always but without you." "How often has Hugh Bodrugan tried to creep into your bed?" " Oh, Ross." " It's meant as a joke." " A poor joke." " Yes... but there was a time when we would've laughed." "Won't you ask how I lived without you?" "Or do you think I was a monk?" "Do I have a right to ask?" " London women are beautiful." " l'm sure." " Perhaps the most beautiful in the world." " Quite likely." "I asked one to my room one night." "She called me a trike!" "What's a trike?" " No matter." " l'll check the dictionary." " It won't be there." " What are you trying to say?" "I'll, er...go and see if the children are asleep." "You've come back a stranger." " That wasn't my doing." " Nor mine." "Nor mine!" "You didn't tell me you'd been nominated for Parliament" " till you'd been elected." " Your mind was elsewhere." "Oh, Ross!" "We should not let this come so much between us." "It is between us." "Like a barricade." "A barricade you've built in your mind all the months you've been away." "One I've been trying to get through but, because I cannot, I've come home." "The battle must be fought here." " What battle?" " With a ghost." "A shade, a memory." "A poem." "It's time we retired, Morwenna." "I would like to finish this chapter." "You must not strain your eyes." "Then I shall await you in the bedroom." " You will not be long." " Osborne." "You understand that nothing has changed." "Let us agree it's time it did." "I swear before God that if you force your attentions upon me, I will kill your son." " You are demented, woman!" " l mean it." "I am your husband!" "You've no right to deny me." "I would rather be hanged as a murderess." "I suppose he finds his affairs in Cornwall more pressing than his responsibilities at Parliament." "You can hardly berate him for that." "Poldark has attended the House more than most, I am told." " If with little effect." " l didn't expect him to make a mark." " Oh, forgive me..." " Come in, my dear." "Meet Captain Monk Adderley, MP for Shropshire." "I've heard that's a very beautiful county." "So have I, ma'am." "I always mean to visit it." "Not every MP lives in the county that returns him." "Monk represents the Lord Croft interest." "He is also related to Sir Christopher Hawkins." "When shall we see you in town, Mrs Warleggan?" "If by town, you mean London, that will depend entirely on my husband." "That may depend on the progress of our discussion." " Will you be dining with us?" " Thank you, but I'm promised at Sir Christopher Hawkins' place" " and that's two hours away." " Not so far." "We shall dine within the hour." "Then I should be very much obliged to you, Mrs Warleggan." "Thank you." "If you'll excuse me, I'll inform the kitchen." "Strikes me that you have everything a reasonable man could possibly want." "Perhaps a man is not reasonable when he has lost something he most valued." "I would've thought finding another seat in a Parliament that is barely seven months old presents difficulties." "Even in a county returning 44 members?" "Only three of them belong to Sir Christopher and he has no reason to complain at their behaviour." "So what would you advise?" "Dining out the other day, I was told that your grandfather was a blacksmith who worked a forge in Hale and hadn't a shilling to his name but that you'd acquired a fortune of f200,OOO." "The only misinformation there is that my grandfather's forge was not in Hale." "At election times, the government usually has seats to sell for f3,OOO." "I am not so much concerned to buy a seat as a borough." "I do not wish to dance for a patron, but be the patron myself." "That will certainly prove expensive." "Perhaps you could tell Sir Christopher that money I have, and I am prepared to lay it out as he advises." "Oh, Drake, you done it." "Anyone could've done it, sister." "Even Jud." "Take a smithy to make a proper job of it." "If there's nothing else, I'll be going now." "Right." "But you'll take this stool today." " Madam, are you sure?" " It'll go in the attic here." "Oh, Drake." "Do you know Mary Ann Tamblyn?" " She lives with a family at Sawle." " Miss Tamblyn, I've seen you about." "As you've finished, perhaps you'll carry this for her." "Madam, I can manage." "I'm used to fetching and carrying." "Oh, 'tis no trouble to Drake, is it?" " No." " Oh, Drake, will you come to the mine?" "I've got some tools I'd like your opinion on." "Drake's accompanying Miss Tamblyn home." " The mine can wait." " As you say." "I'll come to the mine tomorrow, then, Captain Ross." " Right, miss." " Bye, madam." "Glad I could be of help with the fireback, sister." "It's a pity Mary Ann's got that limp." "Your matchmaking will get you into mischief." "It's not matchmaking." "It's a question of propinquity." "You went to the dictionary for that one." "It means two things that just happen to be side by side." "At your invitation." "What a flagrant contrivance." "I can't abide to see my brother so unhappy." " You can't get Morwenna from his heart." " After all this time?" "Why not?" "I know you think eight months isn't long enough to get over the sorrow of a loved one." " Is it?" " Oh, Ross, don't you understand?" "What I felt for Hugh is over." "Hugh's dead." "Just as Morwenna should seem dead to Drake." "She's married to the vicar of St Margaret's." "Nothing can break that." "It puzzles me why you were called, Doctor." "As I keep telling my husband, I am in excellent health." "I am so sorry you were troubled." " Where are you going?" " To take John for a walk by the river." " By the river?" " He will come to no harm." "Why should he?" "Well, did she admit her threats to the boy?" " No, I..." " Did you ask about them?" "I'm convinced such threats are empty." "Should I ignore them?" "Can I take that risk?" "I confess your wife is of a highly nervous disposition." "She is demented, sir." "If she ever really did it..." "Am I to wait until the crime is committed?" "Surely the threat is enough?" "You say it's because she's not prepared to submit herself to your desires." "But why is she not?" "The very refusal is proof something is wrong with her." "I'm not an old man." "I'm in the prime of life." "I am her husband." "To deny me is in itself not natural." "But hardly proof she's not in her right mind." "There are other signs." "You must've observed spasms of excitement followed by periods of such melancholy she talks to no one." "I admit there are..." "some grounds for anxiety." "There are grounds for but one course of action, Dr Behenna - to have her committed." "Going too fast for you, am I?" " No, no. 'Tis just right." " Well, you have only to say." "Your sister's very good to me." "She gives me work at Nampara every week." "I expect she needs you." "I never seen Demelza meet with sewing." " Who learned you?" " Mostly myself." "Then I borrowed a book on it from Mrs Odgers." " You can read?" " Yes." "Mind, I don't read easy." " My sister learned me." " Mrs Poldark?" "I have only the one." "Several brothers." "Sam the preacher's your brother, isn't he?" " A good man." " Are you at the Connection?" "No. I just go to church Sundays." "I appreciate the strain that enforced celibacy must have on a man of your vigour." "Was not marriage ordained by St Paul for those who do not have the gift of continency?" "I do not... lf a man and a woman do not become of one flesh, the wedding service makes it plain what may come to pass." "I do not see how committing your wife is going to help." " You can hardly remarry." " Certainly not." "The marriage bond is indissoluble." "No, I would be forced to engage a housekeeper, some good woman who would know her place and see to my needs." "You yourself have a housekeeper, Dr Behenna." "Indeed." "But I could not be happy so knowing my wife was confined to a madhouse!" "Insanity is well understood to be a judgment on the wicked." "It is not that I wish to see her chained in an asylum." "I am thinking of some private retreat." "There is a place at St Neots." "She would be looked after by competent persons, away from the strain of life in a busy vicarage." "All it requires is a letter from you to carry sufficient weight with her relatives and the bishop." " The bishop?" " l would need his sympathy." "This is a very delicate matter." "It could not be my recommendation, you understand." "But from you, as her physician..." "This is a very grave step you're contemplating." "We must do nothing hasty." "Remember I am a man with all man's natural needs." "If my wife denies them... lf you'll excuse me, I have to attend on Mr Pearce." " Pearce?" " The notary." "He's hoping you might call on him soon." "He wrote to you." "There can be naught wrong with him that abstinence from wine will not cure." "When you're near Callinick Street, perhaps you could call on him." " Callinick Street?" " He lives at the upper end." "I know. I've played whist with him there many times." "It's just I do not know when I'll be near there." "Meantime, I suggest I call on your wife again...in a month or two." " A month or two?" " This matter needs thinking on." "Do not delay too long." "For I fear for what may... may come to pass." "Good day, Mr Whitworth." "Ross?" "Ross, Jud said you'd come here." "What on earth are you doing?" "George has no right to fence this land!" "It's been a right of way for centuries." " There's fences everywhere." " Legally, he can, I suppose." " Legally?" "What does that mean?" " Oh, Ross." "It's not George you're so bitter about at the moment, is it?" "You'd do better knocking down the barricades between us than George's fences." "When I saw you weeping at his bedside, I realised what he meant to you." "I felt excluded." "Well, you should not have felt so." "If Armitage had lived, I could've won you back in a fair fight." "How can I fight a ghost?" "You don't have to fight anyone." "It's over." "Because he's dead?" " It's over." " But not forgotten." "is Elizabeth forgotten?" "Ever since I've known you, I've had to compete with an ideal." "I know it's easier for me, fending off blows is second nature to me." "I had to learn that the moment I was born but you bleed more easy." "The tears I shed at Hugh's death were only partly for him." "All that youth and gentleness buried into the ground." "But I knew how you were suffering." "And all these months you've been away, it's not for Hugh Armitage I been grieving." "My tears are for us, Ross, for us." "Ah, Mr Whitworth, you'll regret to see me in this state." "I regret it meself." "Everyone regrets it." "(Loudly) In what way may I assist you, Mr Pearce?" "I know this gouty condition has, a little affected my hearing but curiously, I can always hear you, me boy." "I suppose it's being a cleric - used to preaching and the like." "I cannot stay long, I have other calls to make." "It seems no time at all since I was your age." "Life's like one of those hobbyhorses you ride on at a fair." "Suddenly, the music stops." "A little fasting and you'll soon be up again, playing whist." "Did you forswear any luxuries for Lent?" "Tell me that." "Help yourself, my boy." "Noblemen have congratulated me on my choice of canary wine." "Alas, I may not drink it meself before sundown, so Behenna says." "Though what difference it makes in the end, the good God knows." "And talking of the good God, I'd remind you - l live in your parish." "Job, in the time of his tribulation says," ""lf a man dies, shall he live again." ""All the days of my appointed time, will I wait till my change come."" "(Belches) I believe a glass of canary would be helpful to me, me boy." "You're a parson." "The bishop has laid hands on you." " You ought to know if anyone does." " Know what?" "If it's true, what you preach." "is there an afterlife?" "You see, I would wish to repent, if I believed there was something to it." "St James says, "Blessed is the man that endureth temptation," ""for he shall receive the crown of life."" "Alas, I've not altogether endured temptation." "I've yielded here and there." "I don't fancy meeting me maker with a burdened conscience." "But is there really such a being?" "Do you believe these tales of hellfire and eternal damnation?" "Upon me soul, I don't know what to think." "God is eternal, God is omnipresent." "If you travel down to the furthermost part of hell, he is there also." "There is no escaping him." "is it the sins of your youth that trouble you?" "Did I sin then?" "If so, I have forgot." "'Tis the sins of age that trouble me." "What sins can you possibly have on your mind, Mr Pearce?" "Gluttony?" "Sloth?" "I once detected you cheating at whist." "Ah, if it had only been at whist." "I have, from time to time, indulged in a little speculation." "It's difficult for a country lawyer to accumulate wealth though all his life, he attend on it." "Me speculations went astray." "Money was lost instead of made." "So you are less well off." "What is there to that?" "I have to tell you, me boy, some of the money I speculated with was... not my own." " (Coughing)" " Are you saying Nathaniel Pearce has been misusing monies entrusted to him?" "This is just what I'm saying." "And when he dies, as he seems like to at any moment, certain persons will be in something of a taking." "Not to mention Pascoes bank." " Pascoes are involved?" " Not directly but as a party to the trusts in question." "Could there be a risk to Pascoes?" "Certainly not." "Pascoe may have been vulnerable a few years ago" " but he must have big reserves." " Nobody in banking has, not even us." "The cards were called." "If Pascoe were under pressure..." " What are you saying, George?" " His son-in-law, St John Peter, is in debt to Warleggans for f12,OOO." "If we called that in, he'd have to go to Pascoes to pay us." "And if Pascoes were in difficulties and a run on the bank were started..." " Why are you so interested?" " (Coughs) I'll get something for your cough." "Some tea or even a glass of wine." "While you're about it, can you not have the fire lit in here?" " The room is as draughty as Penrice." " l'll have it seen to." "I never was troubled with any affection of the bronchia till the day your Valentine was born." "I caught a chill in that draughty bedroom you gave me." "And I believe that old witch, Agatha Poldark cast some spell upon me there that will not disperse." "Agatha cast an evil spell on all of us, even Valentine." "At least she will not be here if another child is born to us." " Is that in the wind?" " No." "One child is scarce enough to make sure the inheritance." "I was enough." "Not that there'll be much left the way you're laying out money at the moment, I hear." " Do you know what I'm laying it out on?" " Derelict properties in St Michael's." "Hoping to get control of a borough?" "Last year, because of an agreement between two of our so-called nobility, I lost my seat in Parliament to Ross Poldark." "With a borough, I get not only a seat but control." "lnfluence and power of a new kind altogether." "The costs do not finish when you buy the properties." "Sir Christopher Hawkins pointed out the pitfalls." "I'm in favour of your attempts to get back into Parliament but you will lose your way if you let yourself be distracted." " (Clock chimes)" " By what?" "Elizabeth and I both observed the look in your eye when you were talking about what could happen to Pascoe." "What do you expect from that?" "Ross Poldark has substantial balances in Pascoes." "Aiming at one bird, I might wing another." "You are too big to waste time and money paying off old scores." "Buy your borough, get back into Parliament, look ahead." "But Poldark - does it merit the trouble it'll take to wing him?" "Yes, Father, it does." "(Dwight) Ross!" "Riding home?" " We can go part of the way together." " How are you, Dwight?" "And in spite of her protestations, I hear Caroline dotes on the baby." " But pretends not to." " Of course." "They're always the same with the first." "Every whimper's a crisis." "And woe betide you, Dwight, if things go wrong." "How is it now between you and Demelza?" " If you mean Hugh Armitage..." " Armitage is dead, Ross." "What should I do about a young man, dead, as you say, but who, nevertheless, attempted to make a cuckold of me?" " Maybe succeeded." " Put it out of your mind." "Easily said." "Hold hard to what you've got, that's my advice." "And be grateful, Ross." "I hope Arthur hasn't taken them, by mistake, to the library." "(Sighs) What has become of them?" "Thank you." "I was dressing to go out when you knocked." "I'm afraid you took me quite by surprise." "is there anything I can get you, in the way of refreshment?" "No, thank you, I can stay but a few minutes." "There they are. I remember now." "I asked Arthur to purloin some paper from the library to wrap them." "Paper is so very expensive." "Latimer's Discourses and Jeremy Taylor's Sermons." "Did you ever read them?" "I have always appreciated anything you gave me, Vicar." "How is your husband?" "They've just raised his salary to f16 a year." "And he does copy work at night for Mr Pearce, the notary." "With the income from what you kindly gave us..." "Well, we live very frugally but I'm sure there are many worse off than ourselves." "Certainly." "I remember you nightly in my prayers, Vicar." " Every night I think of you." " l must take my leave." " How's Wenna?" " Well." "And the baby?" "Must be quite the little boy now." "I saw Morwenna in the street but she looked the other way." "is all well between you?" "I'm sure my sister is everything a good wife should be." "Will you come again?" "Perhaps one evening when Arthur is at home." "He's here every night except Thursdays." "Thursdays he visits his parents and is home late." "I'll remember." "Give my fondest affections to my sister, will you?" "Caroline, where are you?" "The baby asleep in her cot and no sign of her." " (Ross) She can't be far away." " (Bell rings)" "Even the servants aren't answering." "Dwight, what's the matter?" "I noticed something on the ride from Truro." "is all well between you and Caroline?" "Caroline has never been happier." "The baby is her achievement." "Justification for her patience in nursing me back to health." "Never giving up." "Something to show for it at last." "Caroline!" "Did you know he wrote poems?" "Hugh Armitage." " Did you?" " l knew he was a poet." "That last visit before he died," "Falmouth asked me to accept his nomination for Parliament." "I had it in mind to refuse." "But when we got home, I found a poem written to her by Armitage." "This had something to do with your acceptance?" "Victory meant going to London, getting away." "Well, why not?" "I felt so useless to her." "Irrelevant." "You were mistaken in that, I'm sure." " This poem?" " l don't know what it meant." "Perhaps it was just a poem." "But it spoke of "happiness revealed by favour of a single day."" "And there were images of the sea and wind and shore and of her heel-print in the sand." "Dwight!" "Oh, thank God you're back." "I went to look for you." "You're needed at the mine." "There's been an accident, Ross." "One of the lodes flooded." "..not dry after all." "Those old workings of Wheal Maiden must have been full nigh right up to the top." "Once the pick went through, well, by the time I called the others, what began as a trickle was shooting like a fountain." "Next thing, a great wall of water knocked us all down." " Who's missing?" " 'Tis hard to be sure." "Tom Sparrat got washed away." "And Sid Bunt and, well..." "Let's pray Bill Thomas be not taken, after all we did to get him to the shaft." "He'll come bravely, won't he, Dr Enys?" "He looks finished to me." "Turn him over." "Sam!" "Sam!" "What ee be doing, Dr Enys?" "He opened his eyes." "He's going to come brave." "Yes." "He'll recover now." "(Groaning)" "The men are saying Sam got them out." "He went down through the water to the lower level to warn them." "Aye, they'd all be drowned, if it hadn't been for Sam." " Sam." " Oh." "I didn't think to find you at home." " Why ain't you working, then?" " Why ain't you?" "Master's given most of us servants t'day off to celebrate." "Have y'heard the good news?" " News?" " A great victory for England." "Master was so excited." "Nile, ain't it?" "Admiral Nelson destroyed the French ships." "Blowed them all out to sea, he has." "Pray it'll end the war." "Bells be a-ringing, London way." "They'll peal at Sawle soon." "What brings you here, Emma?" "I done a letter for you, Sam." "Who learned you to write?" "I asked my friend Mary to put it down for me." "She say I give her some amul hard words to spell." "But I give her a shilling for doing it." "It be a good long letter, Sam." " Nothing more to be done, sir." " Thank you, Zacky." "Still here, Dwight?" "In case you brought anyone else up from below." "We lost two men, that's enough." "Demelza has helped Bill Thomas home." "She'll see you at Nampara." "That was a miracle - reviving Thomas." "I'd have sworn he was drowned." "Such knowledge must make you proud." "There's not so much pride from what a doctor can do as despair from what he can't." "I think of the hundreds of babies born where the clumsy midwife bites the cord with her teeth - and they thrive." "Yet a child, attended by her own father, given all the care and attention of a princess..." "Sarah?" "What's wrong with Sarah?" "Dwight?" "She has a congenital defect of the heart." "Possibly even a pe_oration." " You only have to listen to her chest." " What does it mean?" "She'll never go hunting with her mother." "She'll be a weakling." " Does Caroline know?" " Should I tell her?" " If she has an invalid child..." " Fathered by an invalid," " should I tell her that?" " Dwight." "I beg you not to mention this to Demelza." "She'd keep your confidence." "She'd give it away in her face." "Are you really sure, Dwight?" "There's no doubt." "Well, at least you'll soon have Bill Thomas to wield a pick for you again." "(Emma) 'You'm such a good man, Sam." "'You don't know the world so well as me." ""Tis reputation that you count among your praying folk." "'lf I wed you in chapel, folk'd point and say," ""'Look ye at that there brazen hussy." ""'Who does she think she be wed to?" ""'Our Sam, our preacher." ""'Her, what we've all seen arm in arm with half the fellas."" "'Ned Hartnell do love me truly, Sam." "'Second footman he is now." "'Ten year olderer than me but jolly and kind 'and thoughtful of me." "'Not a wild man, like Sid Rowse, 'nor yet a good man, like you." "'But he have good ways and quiet ways 'and do work honest." "'And I do say I will marry him, Sam." "'l do surely like him 'and he truly love me." "'So I be going to wed him." "'And that's the way it must be#" " What's the damage to the mine?" " According to Ross, it means loss of profit for three months." "Luckily, we've got just enough to cover it at Pascoes bank." " Caroline." " Ross." "It's a while since I've seen you." "I've had to quite forego my visiting these days." " How's Dwight?" " Working so hard, you'd think the devil were at his heels." "I don't know what came over him." "He's even seeing Morwenna again." " She's Dr Behenna's patient." " That's what I said." "Behenna's called on Dwight for a second opinion." "Can you picture them?" "Conferring in grave, medical discourse." " What's wrong?" " As if Dwight would betray a medical confidence to me." "(Caroline) Not that he's home enough to talk to me." " It doesn't seem to worry you." " l do have my consolation now." "That reminds me." "Consolation will be demanding to be fed" " unless I gallop home." " How is Sarah?" "Lazy, as ever." "She hardly moves a muscle in her cot." "When do they begin to talk?" "Caroline, don't be impatient, she's only four months old." "She'll be running round, asking questions in no time." " Bye, Ross." " Goodbye, Caroline." "And then you'll wish she was a baby again." "(Laughs) The Warleggans are having a big party next month." "(Demelza) We won't be invited." "(Caroline) These days, I care not if we are. I must be getting old." " Bye, Caroline." " Bye-bye, Demelza." "(Door closes)" "George and Elizabeth are having a party." " What Dwight said was true." " What?" "We have a lot to be thankful for." "That's easy for Dwight." "The incident at the mine." "Jeremy ill in bed." "I was going to ask Caroline if he could call but if he's as busy as she says..." " Jeremy only has a cold." " Feverish with it." "Forget Jeremy." "It's us." " Us?" " Me." "The ghost won't be laid." "But you're right - we mustn't spoil what's left." "You called me a stranger." "Perhaps." "But I'm a stranger that knows every inch of your skin." "I have no idea whether you and I will ever laugh together again." "There's anger and jealousy still." "But should we not try to begin again?" "Be thankful for what we have?"