1 00:00:37,442 --> 00:00:40,036 (BELLS RINGING) 2 00:00:40,082 --> 00:00:43,154 (MAN YELLING IN DISTANCE) 3 00:00:46,442 --> 00:00:47,841 Amy? 4 00:00:47,882 --> 00:00:49,634 Yes? 5 00:00:49,682 --> 00:00:52,116 Has it ever struck you that Papa and Mrs General 6 00:00:52,162 --> 00:00:54,835 are becoming very fond of each other's company? 7 00:00:54,882 --> 00:00:56,361 What do you mean, Fanny? 8 00:00:56,402 --> 00:01:00,554 I mean that Mrs General has designs upon Papa 9 00:01:00,602 --> 00:01:03,241 and he is not adverse to being designed upon! 10 00:01:03,282 --> 00:01:06,001 How should you like Mrs General for a mama, Amy? 11 00:01:06,042 --> 00:01:07,521 I... 12 00:01:07,562 --> 00:01:10,440 I don't think I should like it very much. 13 00:01:10,482 --> 00:01:13,792 I shouldn't like it at all. I couldn't bear it! 14 00:01:13,842 --> 00:01:16,640 I wouldn't bear it. I'd marry Sparkler first. 15 00:01:16,682 --> 00:01:19,150 Oh, Fanny. You said you'd never marry Mr Sparkler! 16 00:01:19,202 --> 00:01:21,591 Circumstances alter cases. 17 00:01:21,642 --> 00:01:25,078 Consider! You may be wrong about Father and Mrs General. 18 00:01:25,122 --> 00:01:27,352 I may be... 19 00:01:27,402 --> 00:01:28,721 but I am not. 20 00:01:38,922 --> 00:01:42,119 AMY: Dear Mr Clennam, we are still in Venice 21 00:01:42,162 --> 00:01:46,155 and my dear father and Fanny have adapted themselves to our new fortune 22 00:01:46,202 --> 00:01:47,555 with wonderful ease, 23 00:01:47,602 --> 00:01:49,558 I, however, have not been able to do so, 24 00:01:49,602 --> 00:01:53,561 Mrs General is always with us and takes great pains to teach me, 25 00:01:53,602 --> 00:01:56,241 but I find my mind wandering to my old cares, 26 00:01:56,282 --> 00:01:59,115 Then I remember that there are no such cares left 27 00:01:59,162 --> 00:02:00,675 and I feel strangely lost, 28 00:02:00,722 --> 00:02:04,556 I have found great solace in Mrs Gowan 's company during these recent times, 29 00:02:04,602 --> 00:02:07,116 and I visit her almost every day in her confinement, 30 00:02:09,162 --> 00:02:11,198 (DISTRESSED PANTING) 31 00:02:12,242 --> 00:02:13,960 (PET SCREAMS) 32 00:02:14,002 --> 00:02:14,991 The cloth, please. 33 00:02:15,042 --> 00:02:17,510 (SCREAMING CONTINUES) 34 00:02:39,842 --> 00:02:41,434 (PET SCREAMS) 35 00:02:43,162 --> 00:02:46,791 We have no idea what women go through in these times, Gowan. 36 00:02:46,842 --> 00:02:48,195 So I understand, yes. 37 00:02:48,242 --> 00:02:51,359 Yes, I know that you feel as I do. 38 00:02:51,402 --> 00:02:54,280 We wish we could bear the pain for them, but we can't. 39 00:02:54,322 --> 00:02:56,961 Absolutely, absolutely. 40 00:02:57,002 --> 00:03:02,679 Fatherhood! What a potent mixture of joy and anxiety it is. 41 00:03:02,722 --> 00:03:04,041 Oh, Pet... 42 00:03:04,082 --> 00:03:07,154 You'll discover that for yourself, and it'll be the making of you as a man. 43 00:03:07,202 --> 00:03:09,238 (WHISPERING) Pompous buffoon! 44 00:03:09,282 --> 00:03:10,681 Sorry? 45 00:03:10,722 --> 00:03:13,111 (BABY CRIES) 46 00:03:13,162 --> 00:03:16,154 A little boy! And both well! 47 00:03:16,202 --> 00:03:19,274 Oh, thank God! Thank God! 48 00:03:40,642 --> 00:03:44,601 AMY: Mrs Gowan has had a little boy, to be called Henry, after his father, 49 00:03:44,642 --> 00:03:48,351 He is a beautiful child, as you would expect, 50 00:03:48,402 --> 00:03:50,074 Mrs Gowan likes me to be near her 51 00:03:50,122 --> 00:03:53,398 and help her look after little Henry, which gives me great pleasure, 52 00:03:53,442 --> 00:03:57,355 So your Little Dorrit is a great deal happier now 53 00:03:57,402 --> 00:04:00,838 and content to still be in Italy for the time being, 54 00:04:08,362 --> 00:04:10,512 Amy! 55 00:04:10,562 --> 00:04:12,041 I have a bone to pick with you. 56 00:04:12,082 --> 00:04:15,552 Oh? Could it wait till this evening, Fanny? I was just going out. 57 00:04:15,602 --> 00:04:18,321 - Where, may I ask? - To meet Mrs Gowan. 58 00:04:18,362 --> 00:04:21,354 That is just what I wanted to mention to you. 59 00:04:24,762 --> 00:04:29,392 Now, you may not realise it, dear, but you're letting us all down again. 60 00:04:29,442 --> 00:04:33,230 You've turned yourself into a nursemaid for that Gowan family 61 00:04:33,282 --> 00:04:35,273 and it's reflecting upon us. 62 00:04:35,322 --> 00:04:38,917 You'll have everybody thinking you're a common servant! 63 00:04:38,962 --> 00:04:42,238 - Would it be so very bad if they did? - Yes, it would. 64 00:04:42,282 --> 00:04:45,718 I am determined Mrs Merdle shouldn't have anything to sneer about. 65 00:04:45,762 --> 00:04:48,560 But Mrs Gowan likes to have me near her. 66 00:04:48,602 --> 00:04:51,435 I'm not saying you should never go to them. 67 00:04:51,482 --> 00:04:55,555 Just don't let them take advantage of you, dear. We're ladies of leisure now. 68 00:04:55,602 --> 00:04:58,912 I don't think I shall ever learn to be a lady of leisure, Fanny. 69 00:04:58,962 --> 00:05:02,955 Now, that is not the spirit, is it?! Of course it is hard. 70 00:05:03,002 --> 00:05:07,200 It's downright boring sometimes, but one just has to work at it. 71 00:05:07,242 --> 00:05:10,075 Do you not think I sometimes long to go back to my dancing 72 00:05:10,122 --> 00:05:12,590 and do my high kicks in the grand people's faces? 73 00:05:12,642 --> 00:05:14,075 Do you really, Fanny? 74 00:05:15,122 --> 00:05:16,396 Do I ever?! 75 00:05:17,442 --> 00:05:19,717 One, two, three, kick! 76 00:05:19,762 --> 00:05:23,038 Five, six, seven, kick! 77 00:05:23,082 --> 00:05:25,391 Right in their silly, astonished faces! 78 00:05:25,442 --> 00:05:26,431 (SIGHS) 79 00:05:26,482 --> 00:05:29,076 But it wouldn't do, so I don't do it. 80 00:05:30,802 --> 00:05:34,590 So, you see, we all have to make sacrifices. 81 00:05:34,642 --> 00:05:36,997 Even Sparkler's making sacrifices. 82 00:05:37,042 --> 00:05:38,760 I'm teaching him not to say, 83 00:05:38,802 --> 00:05:40,952 "I'm a damn fine girl with no biggod nonsense about me", 84 00:05:41,002 --> 00:05:42,321 and he's getting a job. 85 00:05:42,362 --> 00:05:44,318 What? Here, in Italy? 86 00:05:44,362 --> 00:05:48,116 No, in England. Mr Merdle's going to get him one. 87 00:05:48,162 --> 00:05:51,120 Mr Merdle, he can do anything. 88 00:05:51,162 --> 00:05:53,630 MAN: The first Lord ofthe Treasury, 89 00:05:56,242 --> 00:05:58,392 The Lord Chancellor. 90 00:05:59,442 --> 00:06:02,195 The Bishop of Southwark. 91 00:06:02,242 --> 00:06:06,633 Mr Eustace Barnacle of the Circumlocution Office. 92 00:06:06,682 --> 00:06:11,358 Mr Septimus Barnacle of the Circumlocution Office. 93 00:06:11,402 --> 00:06:17,193 Mr Tite Barnacle, Principal of the Circumlocution Office. 94 00:06:17,242 --> 00:06:21,520 Lord Decimus Barnacle, First Lord of the Circumlocution Office. 95 00:06:21,562 --> 00:06:24,599 Mr Ferdinand Barnacle... 96 00:06:24,642 --> 00:06:26,234 A lot of Barnacles tonight. 97 00:06:26,282 --> 00:06:28,318 They all come out for Merdle. 98 00:06:28,362 --> 00:06:32,674 I understand this evening is about a little bit of jobbery. 99 00:06:32,722 --> 00:06:37,113 Mrs Merdle's son by her previous marriage, name of Sparkler. 100 00:06:37,162 --> 00:06:39,596 - Do you know the boy? - Nice young fellow. 101 00:06:39,642 --> 00:06:42,156 Absolutely nothing between the ears at all. 102 00:06:42,202 --> 00:06:44,238 - A total blank. - They're fixing him up 103 00:06:44,282 --> 00:06:46,671 with something at the Circumlocution Office. 104 00:06:46,722 --> 00:06:48,713 Well, I suppose he'll do no harm there. 105 00:06:48,762 --> 00:06:51,481 No good either. Come on. 106 00:06:54,082 --> 00:06:56,073 (MEN LAUGHING, CUTLERY CLATTERING) 107 00:06:59,922 --> 00:07:04,120 And so we pass, gentlemen, through various changes of life, 108 00:07:04,162 --> 00:07:07,518 from Eton pears to Parliamentary pairs! 109 00:07:07,562 --> 00:07:11,840 Excellent, sir, never heard you on such good form! 110 00:07:12,922 --> 00:07:15,595 We are all sorry not to have the pleasure 111 00:07:15,642 --> 00:07:17,872 of Mrs Merdle's company this evening. 112 00:07:17,922 --> 00:07:19,275 She is in Italy, sir. 113 00:07:19,322 --> 00:07:24,680 Ah, Mrs Merdle's son has been spoken of...Mr Sprinkler? 114 00:07:24,722 --> 00:07:28,920 - Mr Sparkler, sir. - Sparkler, of course. 115 00:07:28,962 --> 00:07:32,477 He was mentioned in the context of a possible opening? 116 00:07:33,522 --> 00:07:36,355 If you please, sir. 117 00:07:36,402 --> 00:07:38,074 Is he here this evening? 118 00:07:38,122 --> 00:07:40,033 In Italy, with Mrs Merdle. 119 00:07:40,082 --> 00:07:42,642 Ah, well... 120 00:07:42,682 --> 00:07:46,561 It's not indispensable that he should actually be on the spot. 121 00:07:46,602 --> 00:07:49,355 The magic name of Merdle will suffice. 122 00:07:49,402 --> 00:07:52,121 Quite so. 123 00:07:56,402 --> 00:07:58,154 I think we may consider it settled. 124 00:07:58,202 --> 00:08:00,079 Thank you, sir. 125 00:08:16,402 --> 00:08:18,870 (STRINGED INSTRUMENTS PLAYING) 126 00:08:30,962 --> 00:08:33,840 (MUSIC STOPS) 127 00:08:33,882 --> 00:08:36,271 Bravo! 128 00:08:37,882 --> 00:08:42,000 Yes! Dear Edmund is to be one of the Lords of the Circumlocution Office. 129 00:08:42,042 --> 00:08:44,602 I expect you may have seen the notice in the Times. 130 00:08:44,642 --> 00:08:47,315 What a pity it will take him away from us all. 131 00:08:47,362 --> 00:08:49,751 Congratulations, old fellow! 132 00:08:49,802 --> 00:08:51,952 Feet under the table now, eh? Well done! 133 00:08:52,002 --> 00:08:56,120 Well, point of fact, didn't actually do anything. Thing just happened. 134 00:08:56,162 --> 00:08:57,754 It's a total mystery to me. 135 00:08:57,802 --> 00:08:59,554 It will keep him in town a good deal 136 00:08:59,602 --> 00:09:02,833 and he prefers the country, don't you, Edmund? 137 00:09:02,882 --> 00:09:05,794 Well, I am fond of ratting with a couple of good terriers. 138 00:09:05,842 --> 00:09:09,551 Not much ratting in Venice. Lot of rats, though. Odd, that. 139 00:09:09,602 --> 00:09:10,751 - Edmund. - Yes? 140 00:09:10,802 --> 00:09:11,837 - Be quiet. - Right. 141 00:09:11,882 --> 00:09:16,512 Still, though the Circumlocution may not be ideally suited to Edmund's talents, 142 00:09:16,562 --> 00:09:17,961 it is a position 143 00:09:18,002 --> 00:09:20,596 - and not a disagreeable one. - Quite. 144 00:09:20,642 --> 00:09:24,157 And without wishing to disparage Mr Sparkler's abilities, 145 00:09:24,202 --> 00:09:25,954 I think we must see the appointment 146 00:09:26,002 --> 00:09:30,041 as a compliment to Mr Merdle - the man of the age! 147 00:09:30,082 --> 00:09:33,279 Thank you, Mr Dorrit, that may well be so. 148 00:09:33,322 --> 00:09:36,632 (POLITE CHATTER) 149 00:09:36,682 --> 00:09:39,480 - How we do fret about our children. - How indeed. 150 00:09:45,562 --> 00:09:48,315 I wish you joy, my dear old fellow! 151 00:09:48,362 --> 00:09:51,274 There will be nothing to do and you will do it charmingly! 152 00:09:51,322 --> 00:09:54,837 There'll be a handsome salary to draw and you'll draw it charmingly! 153 00:09:54,882 --> 00:09:59,478 Eh? I'm delighted to see my dear old donkey so admirably stabled! 154 00:09:59,522 --> 00:10:01,114 Well, you know, I... 155 00:10:01,162 --> 00:10:04,199 I dare say you wouldn't say no to such a stable yourself, Mr Gowan. 156 00:10:04,242 --> 00:10:07,712 Indeed, no, but my relations seem to have sadly overlooked my talents. 157 00:10:07,762 --> 00:10:11,641 Leaving you to sponge off the in-laws you affect to despise. 158 00:10:11,682 --> 00:10:15,880 I say! You know, Fanny, draw it mild! 159 00:10:15,922 --> 00:10:20,234 I'm not sure Miss Dorrit knows how to draw it mild but I am rebuked. 160 00:10:20,282 --> 00:10:22,398 I don't suppose it'll make you change your ways, though. 161 00:10:22,442 --> 00:10:24,831 No, Miss Dorrit, I don't suppose I will. 162 00:10:35,202 --> 00:10:37,716 I suppose I should congratulate you, Mr Sparkler. 163 00:10:37,762 --> 00:10:42,472 I've spent a good deal of time at the Circumlocution Office 164 00:10:42,522 --> 00:10:45,559 and I never heard one word of sense in all that time. 165 00:10:45,602 --> 00:10:49,834 They seem to me the very epitome of how not to do it! 166 00:10:49,882 --> 00:10:52,760 Well, you know, I've not got in there yet. 167 00:10:52,802 --> 00:10:55,316 It's not as if I'm up to the mark yet. 168 00:10:55,362 --> 00:10:58,752 You'll have to forgive me, but all I've seen anyone do at that place 169 00:10:58,802 --> 00:11:02,715 is pushing pieces of paper around and giving each other jobs for life 170 00:11:02,762 --> 00:11:05,993 and letting the country go to wrack and ruin in the meantime. 171 00:11:06,042 --> 00:11:09,000 Barnacles, yes, a well-named family! 172 00:11:09,042 --> 00:11:10,555 Steady, Mr Meagles. 173 00:11:10,602 --> 00:11:13,878 I must insist, sir, that you do not speak disrespectfully 174 00:11:13,922 --> 00:11:15,833 of a very distinguished family. 175 00:11:15,882 --> 00:11:19,192 I don't mean to offend anybody, but I speak as I find, Mr Dorrit, 176 00:11:19,242 --> 00:11:21,915 and your good friend, Mr Clennam, will say the same. 177 00:11:21,962 --> 00:11:23,759 He spent day after day at that place, 178 00:11:23,802 --> 00:11:27,033 trying to get some sense out of them about your tangled affairs 179 00:11:27,082 --> 00:11:29,437 and precious little good it did him, 180 00:11:29,482 --> 00:11:30,961 or you, sir! 181 00:11:31,002 --> 00:11:34,756 (VOICES ECHO) Private gentlemen, Well put, You're very good, sir, 182 00:11:34,802 --> 00:11:38,795 We should have made each other's acquaintance in London society long since, 183 00:11:38,842 --> 00:11:40,321 Aitchoo! 184 00:11:40,362 --> 00:11:42,557 (KEYS JANGLING) 185 00:11:42,602 --> 00:11:45,400 (DOOR LOCKING) 186 00:11:48,682 --> 00:11:51,640 FANNY: Poor Pa, he does suffer so, 187 00:11:53,202 --> 00:11:55,477 I felt sorry for Mr and Mrs Meagles too. 188 00:11:55,522 --> 00:11:57,877 The Meagleses are all very well. 189 00:11:57,922 --> 00:11:59,913 They're happy, they know their place 190 00:11:59,962 --> 00:12:03,159 and they don't care tuppence for what the world thinks of them. 191 00:12:03,202 --> 00:12:06,638 We, on the other hand, labour under peculiar disadvantages. 192 00:12:06,682 --> 00:12:09,355 Don't tell me you don't know what I'm talking about. 193 00:12:09,402 --> 00:12:12,792 I'm sure I shall, after a few more words. 194 00:12:14,362 --> 00:12:16,956 We're not quite the thing, are we? 195 00:12:17,002 --> 00:12:18,515 Some of us look the thing. 196 00:12:18,562 --> 00:12:20,871 Pa is very gentlemanly 197 00:12:20,922 --> 00:12:24,881 but he's terrified of people knowing what he once was. 198 00:12:24,922 --> 00:12:28,835 And Uncle, though a dear creature, is altogether unpresentable. 199 00:12:28,882 --> 00:12:33,194 Edward is frightfully expensive and dissipated. 200 00:12:33,242 --> 00:12:37,838 He isn't even any good at it - the, um...dissipation, I mean. 201 00:12:37,882 --> 00:12:40,157 Then there's you and me. 202 00:12:41,722 --> 00:12:44,282 And we don't have a mother 203 00:12:44,322 --> 00:12:45,994 but we do have a Mrs General, 204 00:12:46,042 --> 00:12:49,921 who goes about like a cat in gloves and she WILL catch a mouse 205 00:12:49,962 --> 00:12:51,873 and the mouse she'll catch IS Papa. 206 00:12:51,922 --> 00:12:53,241 Fanny! 207 00:12:53,282 --> 00:12:56,479 I refuse to be step-mothered by Mrs General. 208 00:12:56,522 --> 00:12:59,116 The sooner I become Mrs Sparkler, the better. 209 00:12:59,162 --> 00:13:01,198 He has a good position now 210 00:13:01,242 --> 00:13:03,392 and I don't think a clever husband should suit me. 211 00:13:03,442 --> 00:13:05,558 I shouldn't be able to defer to him enough. 212 00:13:05,602 --> 00:13:09,277 But Fanny, if you loved someone, that feeling would change. 213 00:13:09,322 --> 00:13:11,153 I know it would. 214 00:13:11,202 --> 00:13:15,320 Oh! You know that, do you? Oh, bless me! 215 00:13:15,362 --> 00:13:18,274 How much some people know about some subjects! 216 00:13:18,322 --> 00:13:21,871 Well, they say everybody has a subject, and we've hit upon yours! 217 00:13:21,922 --> 00:13:23,992 Don't tease me, Fanny. 218 00:13:24,042 --> 00:13:26,715 It's only in fun, little one. 219 00:13:27,922 --> 00:13:32,154 Fanny... you do deserve someone you love. 220 00:13:32,202 --> 00:13:34,033 Well... 221 00:13:34,082 --> 00:13:36,073 maybe I do, 222 00:13:36,122 --> 00:13:38,682 but there he is. 223 00:13:39,762 --> 00:13:44,438 And as Mrs Sparkler, I shall be able to torment his mother - 224 00:13:44,482 --> 00:13:47,042 that piece of insolence - for the rest of her life. 225 00:13:47,082 --> 00:13:49,118 That little dancer she gave her old bangle to, 226 00:13:49,162 --> 00:13:51,198 she'll dance through her life. 227 00:13:51,242 --> 00:13:54,996 Now, there is a face I'd like to land a good high kick on! 228 00:13:55,042 --> 00:13:58,512 Fanny, you wouldn't marry Mr Sparkler just to annoy Mrs Merdle? 229 00:14:01,522 --> 00:14:02,750 Don't look so anxious. 230 00:14:02,802 --> 00:14:06,795 We've talked it over comfortably. Now it's time for bed. 231 00:14:08,362 --> 00:14:12,037 Oh, you are the best and dearest little mouse, Amy. 232 00:14:14,682 --> 00:14:16,434 Good night. 233 00:14:19,122 --> 00:14:21,636 (WILLIAM DORRIT MUTTERING) 234 00:14:36,842 --> 00:14:39,037 I refuse to know you, sir. 235 00:14:41,322 --> 00:14:42,755 I refuse to know you. 236 00:14:42,802 --> 00:14:43,791 Father? 237 00:14:46,522 --> 00:14:50,640 - Not in bed yet? - No, no, I, er... 238 00:14:50,682 --> 00:14:52,240 Let me help you to bed, Father. 239 00:14:52,282 --> 00:14:53,874 Help me? 240 00:14:53,922 --> 00:14:56,436 - I am perfectly capable. - I know, Father. 241 00:14:56,482 --> 00:15:00,316 But I should like to help you... as I used to. 242 00:15:00,362 --> 00:15:03,911 You should say "Papa", you know. 243 00:15:03,962 --> 00:15:06,795 I know. I keep forgetting. 244 00:15:06,842 --> 00:15:12,280 Miss Amy Dorrit, what are we to do with you? 245 00:15:12,322 --> 00:15:13,641 I don't know, Papa. 246 00:15:13,682 --> 00:15:16,435 I'm a disgrace, aren't I? 247 00:15:16,482 --> 00:15:18,552 I fear you are. 248 00:15:25,002 --> 00:15:28,472 But you're a good girl, Amy, for all that. 249 00:15:28,522 --> 00:15:30,319 You're a good girl. 250 00:15:43,522 --> 00:15:48,312 Ah, Mr Blandois! Very prompt. Very punctual. 251 00:15:48,362 --> 00:15:51,991 Always, for you, my dear little Flintwinch. 252 00:15:52,042 --> 00:15:55,637 Let's go in here and have a few glasses and talk it over. 253 00:15:55,682 --> 00:15:57,274 They know me here. 254 00:15:58,322 --> 00:16:00,882 They don't know me here. 255 00:16:00,922 --> 00:16:03,390 Well, let's put that right, shall we? 256 00:16:15,482 --> 00:16:18,280 (DOG BARKING) 257 00:16:19,562 --> 00:16:21,996 Have you seen this, Mr Clennam? 258 00:16:22,042 --> 00:16:24,237 I know that man! 259 00:16:24,282 --> 00:16:25,556 Blan-doys. 260 00:16:25,602 --> 00:16:27,877 Blandois, a Frenchman. 261 00:16:27,922 --> 00:16:30,482 Last seen at Clennam & Co. 262 00:16:30,522 --> 00:16:33,480 Surely they don't suspect my mother of foul play, do they? 263 00:16:33,522 --> 00:16:36,434 They wouldn't issue a handbill like this if they didn't. 264 00:16:36,482 --> 00:16:38,632 My God. 265 00:16:38,682 --> 00:16:40,240 On your way! 266 00:16:41,722 --> 00:16:43,440 How did it seem to you, Mr Clennam, 267 00:16:43,482 --> 00:16:45,791 when you saw this man at your mother's house? 268 00:16:45,842 --> 00:16:50,358 - She said she had some business with him. - Any idea what this business was? 269 00:16:50,402 --> 00:16:53,872 My mother has never in her life taken me into her confidence. 270 00:16:53,922 --> 00:16:57,039 Try her again, Mr Clennam. She's in trouble now. 271 00:16:57,082 --> 00:16:59,835 The old girl will have to swallow her pride and accept your help. 272 00:16:59,882 --> 00:17:02,635 - Well, we'll see. - Signore! Signore! 273 00:17:03,682 --> 00:17:06,674 Signore! This is him! The bad man! 274 00:17:06,722 --> 00:17:08,872 You know him? You know Blandois? 275 00:17:08,922 --> 00:17:10,480 No, no, no, no. No Blandois! 276 00:17:10,522 --> 00:17:13,275 He is called Rigaud and he is a killer! 277 00:17:19,322 --> 00:17:20,801 Good day, Constable. 278 00:17:29,882 --> 00:17:33,875 Flintwinch, what's going on here? What did the constable want to know? 279 00:17:33,922 --> 00:17:38,120 No need to worry, Arthur. We're right as rain here, we are. 280 00:17:39,802 --> 00:17:41,793 Here he is. 281 00:17:41,842 --> 00:17:43,116 How are you, Mother? 282 00:17:43,162 --> 00:17:46,313 I am exactly as I was the last time you called here, Arthur. 283 00:17:46,362 --> 00:17:49,672 I'm relieved to hear it, after your visit from that Frenchman. 284 00:17:49,722 --> 00:17:53,317 You were right to suspect him. He is not as he presented himself. 285 00:17:53,362 --> 00:17:55,637 - And now he has disappeared? - Yes. 286 00:17:55,682 --> 00:17:58,435 And what did he want here? What does he have to do with you? 287 00:17:58,482 --> 00:18:02,555 That is not your concern. You have severed all connections with the firm. 288 00:18:02,602 --> 00:18:05,241 I am still your son, Mother. 289 00:18:06,282 --> 00:18:07,954 I am concerned about you. 290 00:18:08,002 --> 00:18:10,516 There is no need to be. 291 00:18:12,962 --> 00:18:16,875 Monsieur Blandois, if that is indeed his real name, 292 00:18:16,922 --> 00:18:20,801 came to Clennam & Company with a business proposition 293 00:18:20,842 --> 00:18:23,595 which, after consideration, we declined. 294 00:18:23,642 --> 00:18:26,714 He left. That is all. And that is what I told the constable. 295 00:18:26,762 --> 00:18:30,994 I have been told that this man is a notorious criminal. 296 00:18:31,042 --> 00:18:33,033 I'm glad I have nothing to do with him. 297 00:18:33,082 --> 00:18:34,800 Mother, this is a serious matter. 298 00:18:34,842 --> 00:18:37,197 The authorities believe this man has been murdered. 299 00:18:37,242 --> 00:18:39,119 Do they indeed? 300 00:18:39,162 --> 00:18:42,154 And I am suspected, am I? 301 00:18:43,202 --> 00:18:47,559 Then let them produce the body and show how a woman paralysed, 302 00:18:47,602 --> 00:18:51,436 confined to this chair, could have committed the crime. 303 00:18:51,482 --> 00:18:54,679 Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm rather tired. 304 00:18:54,722 --> 00:18:56,713 Yes, of course. 305 00:18:58,002 --> 00:19:01,677 Mother...I worry about you, 306 00:19:01,722 --> 00:19:04,714 trapped up here in this room. 307 00:19:06,282 --> 00:19:09,319 I've hardly seen you since I got back from China. 308 00:19:10,882 --> 00:19:14,955 I'd like to call on you more often, make sure that you're well. 309 00:19:18,602 --> 00:19:20,479 That won't be necessary. 310 00:19:22,682 --> 00:19:25,674 I may be paralysed... 311 00:19:25,722 --> 00:19:30,432 but I'm not a weakling, like your father was. 312 00:19:31,962 --> 00:19:34,112 Goodbye, Arthur. 313 00:19:35,882 --> 00:19:38,032 Shut the doors. 314 00:20:12,962 --> 00:20:15,954 (CHURCH BELLS RINGING) 315 00:20:24,762 --> 00:20:26,161 (COUGHS SOFTLY) 316 00:20:30,322 --> 00:20:32,199 - Oh! - Oh, indeed! 317 00:20:32,242 --> 00:20:35,234 I suppose you know what this means, little sister? 318 00:20:35,282 --> 00:20:36,476 You mean you...? 319 00:20:36,522 --> 00:20:38,353 She's as beautiful as she's doted on 320 00:20:38,402 --> 00:20:41,553 and there's no nonsense about her. It's all arranged. 321 00:20:41,602 --> 00:20:43,593 - No need to explain, Edmund. - No, my love. 322 00:20:43,642 --> 00:20:44,961 In short, we're engaged. 323 00:20:45,002 --> 00:20:47,675 We just tell Papa and there's nothing more to say about it. 324 00:20:47,722 --> 00:20:51,920 My dear Fanny, I should like to say a word to Amy. 325 00:20:51,962 --> 00:20:53,600 Must you? 326 00:20:53,642 --> 00:20:56,156 I think I must, my love! 327 00:20:56,202 --> 00:20:57,681 Well, go on, then. 328 00:20:59,762 --> 00:21:03,721 My dear Amy, if ever there was a girl, 329 00:21:03,762 --> 00:21:07,516 next to your highly endowed and beautiful sister, 330 00:21:07,562 --> 00:21:10,634 - who had no nonsense about her... - Edmund! 331 00:21:10,682 --> 00:21:12,354 -...not one atom of... - Edmund! 332 00:21:12,402 --> 00:21:14,962 I know it's a habit of mine, for which I apologise, 333 00:21:15,002 --> 00:21:17,800 but she really hasn't got the least little bit... 334 00:21:18,842 --> 00:21:21,959 What I wished to declare is that, 335 00:21:22,002 --> 00:21:26,917 though I may not be up to the mark on some subjects, 336 00:21:26,962 --> 00:21:30,511 on the subject of Amy, I am up to the mark. 337 00:21:30,562 --> 00:21:36,717 And when we are at home in London, a knife and, er... 338 00:21:36,762 --> 00:21:43,554 fork and an apartment will always be at Amy's disposal. 339 00:21:43,602 --> 00:21:44,830 There... 340 00:21:44,882 --> 00:21:47,237 So... 341 00:21:49,602 --> 00:21:51,081 Ah. Yes. 342 00:21:55,722 --> 00:21:57,678 There, there. 343 00:21:57,722 --> 00:22:00,520 It'll be all right. I promise. 344 00:22:06,642 --> 00:22:09,839 My dear Fanny, I am delighted. 345 00:22:10,882 --> 00:22:13,032 On the arm of Mr Sparkler, 346 00:22:13,082 --> 00:22:17,280 you will move in circles at the very pinnacle of society. 347 00:22:19,802 --> 00:22:23,920 Your noble ambition finds harmonious echoes in my heart. 348 00:22:26,082 --> 00:22:31,952 You are a child brimful of duty and good principle. 349 00:22:32,002 --> 00:22:34,755 Thank you, Papa. 350 00:22:36,482 --> 00:22:38,518 Mark and learn, Amy. 351 00:22:38,562 --> 00:22:41,360 Mark and learn. 352 00:22:48,402 --> 00:22:50,677 AMY: Dear Mr Clennam, 353 00:22:50,722 --> 00:22:53,794 I received some news last night which allows me to hope 354 00:22:53,842 --> 00:22:57,232 that I may soon be leaving Italy and returning to London, 355 00:22:57,282 --> 00:23:01,116 My sister Fanny and Edmund Sparkler are to be married, 356 00:23:01,162 --> 00:23:04,871 Mr Sparkler has secured a position at the Circumlocution Office, 357 00:23:04,922 --> 00:23:06,514 and as soon as they are married, 358 00:23:06,562 --> 00:23:09,599 he and Fanny will travel to England to start their new life, 359 00:23:09,642 --> 00:23:12,361 It is my dearest wish to travel with them 360 00:23:12,402 --> 00:23:15,678 but I think I must wait so that I may travel with my father, 361 00:23:15,722 --> 00:23:20,113 In nomine Patris et Filii et Spiritus Sancti. Amen. 362 00:23:44,482 --> 00:23:48,191 Now that your sister is married, 363 00:23:48,242 --> 00:23:51,712 she and her husband will travel to London 364 00:23:51,762 --> 00:23:56,199 to take up residence in the Merdle household. 365 00:23:56,242 --> 00:23:58,119 I myself intend to travel with them. 366 00:23:58,162 --> 00:24:01,438 I've some affairs to settle in London - investments and so forth. 367 00:24:01,482 --> 00:24:05,191 Indeed, I hope to consult with Mr Merdle about them. 368 00:24:05,242 --> 00:24:06,960 So we shall all go back together? 369 00:24:07,002 --> 00:24:11,359 No. Edward is going to do some exploring, I believe, 370 00:24:11,402 --> 00:24:14,758 and you and your uncle, Frederick, will stay here. 371 00:24:14,802 --> 00:24:19,273 You will, of course, be under the excellent supervision of Mrs General. 372 00:24:19,322 --> 00:24:23,076 Couldn't I travel with you and look after you on the journey and...? 373 00:24:23,122 --> 00:24:26,239 Whatever makes you think I need looking after? 374 00:24:26,282 --> 00:24:28,352 (CHUCKLES) 375 00:24:28,402 --> 00:24:32,441 No, no, no. Much better that you stay here. 376 00:24:32,482 --> 00:24:38,159 It is to be hoped, Amy, that one day, you too will find a husband 377 00:24:38,202 --> 00:24:40,033 but Mrs General and I agree 378 00:24:40,082 --> 00:24:44,121 that you have some way to go yet before that may be possible. 379 00:24:44,162 --> 00:24:48,758 To be frank, my dear, you're not yet quite presentable... 380 00:24:48,802 --> 00:24:51,362 in society. 381 00:24:51,402 --> 00:24:53,120 Mrs General has a little more... 382 00:24:53,162 --> 00:24:57,041 a little more forming to do, in your case. 383 00:24:57,082 --> 00:24:59,755 Isn't that so, Mrs General? 384 00:24:59,802 --> 00:25:02,157 I fear it is, Mr Dorrit.