WEBVTT 00:00:51.871 --> 00:00:54.871 Of course, these things never happened. 00:00:54.871 --> 00:00:57.031 Not in this life. 00:00:58.871 --> 00:01:01.631 In this life there's a new baby. 00:01:01.631 --> 00:01:03.231 Jimmy. 00:01:04.231 --> 00:01:06.391 His brother, Teddy, is asleep. 00:01:08.631 --> 00:01:10.631 And so is Pamela. 00:01:17.151 --> 00:01:21.152 Ursula is trying not to sleep. 00:01:24.392 --> 00:01:26.152 Her dreams are... 00:01:27.992 --> 00:01:29.872 ..challenging. 00:02:12.393 --> 00:02:14.313 What are you doing up? 00:02:14.313 --> 00:02:16.153 Can't sleep. 00:02:17.393 --> 00:02:19.153 More bad dreams? 00:02:23.633 --> 00:02:25.153 Come here. 00:02:29.393 --> 00:02:34.393 You know, only very special people have powerful imaginations. 00:02:37.153 --> 00:02:39.153 You're extra interesting. 00:02:40.873 --> 00:02:44.153 It's a bit of a burden, but that's the way to think about it. 00:02:46.873 --> 00:02:50.153 I think I dream about dying... 00:02:51.633 --> 00:02:53.633 ..because I've already died. 00:02:55.153 --> 00:02:57.153 Lots of times. 00:02:57.153 --> 00:02:59.633 I assure you, you haven't. 00:02:59.633 --> 00:03:02.154 I would have definitely noticed. 00:03:07.874 --> 00:03:10.154 There's nothing to be afraid of. 00:03:28.874 --> 00:03:31.874 How was London? How were your friends? 00:03:31.874 --> 00:03:33.394 Boring. 00:03:39.634 --> 00:03:43.794 I want Ursula to see a psychiatrist. Why on earth do you say that? 00:03:43.794 --> 00:03:47.154 You talked me out of it before, when she pushed Bridget down the stairs. 00:03:47.154 --> 00:03:49.154 You are not talking me out of it again. 00:03:49.154 --> 00:03:50.955 There's something wrong with her. 00:03:50.955 --> 00:03:54.155 She's a little introspective, that's all. And it's no bad thing. 00:03:54.155 --> 00:03:57.635 She's always down in the dumps and she has these terrible dreams. 00:03:57.635 --> 00:04:00.875 We cannot assume this will just pass. She'll grow up soon enough 00:04:00.875 --> 00:04:03.875 and we need her mentally sound as she moves through the world. 00:04:04.875 --> 00:04:08.395 Let us not forget that unscrupulous men lie in wait, 00:04:08.395 --> 00:04:10.835 ready to take advantage of women 00:04:10.835 --> 00:04:12.475 who don't have their head *ed on correctly. 00:04:17.395 --> 00:04:20.035 How would we even locate a psychiatrist? 00:04:20.035 --> 00:04:23.635 Major Shawcross in the village recommends a chap up in London. 00:04:23.635 --> 00:04:26.235 Some of his men came back with very bad nerves. 00:04:26.235 --> 00:04:28.195 He mentioned it to me in passing. 00:04:28.195 --> 00:04:30.875 The way I heard it, it was Shawcross that came home 00:04:30.875 --> 00:04:32.975 with a bad case of nerves. 00:04:37.155 --> 00:04:39.155 I just want her to be happy. 00:04:45.156 --> 00:04:47.876 The psychiatrist recommended was in London. 00:04:47.876 --> 00:04:51.636 It was decided that Ursula could be put on the train by her mother 00:04:51.636 --> 00:04:54.876 and met at the other end by her aunt, Izzie, 00:04:54.876 --> 00:04:56.956 even though both Sylvie and Hugh doubted that Izzie 00:04:57.276 --> 00:04:59.916 Don't talk to anybody, especially to any men. 00:05:00.116 --> 00:05:02.396 If Izzie isn't waiting for you at the platform, 00:05:02.396 --> 00:05:04.756 you come straight back home, do you understand? 00:05:11.756 --> 00:05:13.656 Izzie had managed to get a job 00:05:13.656 --> 00:05:15.996 writing a weekly column for a newspaper. 00:05:15.996 --> 00:05:19.756 She wrote under the pseudonym Delphine Fox 00:05:19.756 --> 00:05:23.677 and called the column Adventures of a Modern Spinster. 00:05:28.477 --> 00:05:29.997 Ursula! 00:05:32.477 --> 00:05:34.237 Isn't this exciting? 00:05:34.237 --> 00:05:37.077 Two ladies alone in London. Whatever shall we do? 00:05:37.077 --> 00:05:38.837 What adventures lie in wait? 00:05:38.837 --> 00:05:40.917 You have to take me straight to the doctor. 00:05:41.917 --> 00:05:43.477 Delighted. 00:05:43.477 --> 00:05:45.237 So thrilling. 00:05:45.237 --> 00:05:48.197 The talking cure is quite the thing, you know. 00:05:48.197 --> 00:05:51.757 Perhaps don't mention to your father that I brought the motor. 00:05:51.757 --> 00:05:54.477 He seems to have very little confidence in my abilities, 00:05:54.477 --> 00:05:57.477 even though I managed to drive an ambulance throughout the war, 00:05:57.477 --> 00:05:59.797 sans mishap, in another country, no less. 00:05:59.797 --> 00:06:02.477 Of course, the real reason he doesn't like me driving 00:06:02.477 --> 00:06:04.757 is the little green eyed monster. Am I right? 00:06:04.757 --> 00:06:06.437 What? 00:06:06.437 --> 00:06:08.997 He's jealous. He wants an automobile himself. 00:06:08.997 --> 00:06:11.758 Your mother will not allow it. Am I right? 00:06:12.758 --> 00:06:14.478 I don't know. 00:06:15.758 --> 00:06:17.558 Very politic answer. 00:06:22.478 --> 00:06:25.278 I'm glad I've been tasked with the grave responsibility 00:06:25.278 --> 00:06:27.478 of shuttling you from A to B. 00:06:27.478 --> 00:06:31.238 I know that I am considered by your mother mad, bad and dangerous 00:06:31.238 --> 00:06:34.998 to know, but I thought we could be special chums. What do you think? 00:06:37.998 --> 00:06:40.858 Pamela is a little dull, all that tennis and cycling. 00:06:40.858 --> 00:06:42.938 No wonder she has such sturdy ankles... 00:07:08.159 --> 00:07:09.839 Cut it! Cut it! 00:07:25.519 --> 00:07:27.479 The baby nearly died. 00:07:27.479 --> 00:07:29.479 God wanted it back. 00:08:07.480 --> 00:08:08.960 Ursula? 00:08:14.480 --> 00:08:18.640 I think what we're saying, Izzie... Is that we'd prefer 00:08:18.640 --> 00:08:21.000 you don't reference our children in your column. 00:08:21.000 --> 00:08:23.760 They are not your children. For goodness' sake. 00:08:23.760 --> 00:08:26.340 They are imaginary children that I've invented 00:08:26.340 --> 00:08:28.240 in my persona as Delphine Fox, 00:08:28.240 --> 00:08:30.680 author of Adventures of a Modern Spinster. 00:08:30.680 --> 00:08:32.920 The column's most awfully popular, by the way. 00:08:32.920 --> 00:08:35.560 Don't even write about my imaginary children. 00:08:37.760 --> 00:08:39.760 Pamela, what are you doing with your feet? 00:08:39.760 --> 00:08:42.921 It's the way to shape the ankle, according to the Modern Spinster. 00:08:42.921 --> 00:08:46.601 The Modern Spinster is not a person from whom anyone 00:08:46.601 --> 00:08:47.761 with any sense would take advice. So glad I came. 00:08:47.761 --> 00:08:50.001 Besides, you're too young for shapely ankles. 00:08:50.001 --> 00:08:52.961 I'm nearly the same age as you were when you married Daddy. 00:08:52.961 --> 00:08:54.881 Children, go inside for tea, would you? 00:09:06.761 --> 00:09:10.321 Izzie, Sylvie and I were wondering if you might do us a small favour? 00:09:10.321 --> 00:09:12.761 Ursula needs to take a weekly trip to London. 00:09:12.761 --> 00:09:15.761 We thought if we put her on the train, you might take her off 00:09:15.761 --> 00:09:18.921 and deliver her to a Dr Kellet on Harley Street. 00:09:18.921 --> 00:09:21.681 What's wrong with the poor darling? Malade? 00:09:22.681 --> 00:09:24.241 She's fine. 00:09:31.762 --> 00:09:33.762 Lovely ankles. 00:09:33.762 --> 00:09:37.242 What else do you see in her? Sylvie is worried about Ursula. 00:09:38.242 --> 00:09:40.082 She seems to think that... 00:09:40.082 --> 00:09:43.402 I don't know how to explain it and I can't really, 00:09:43.402 --> 00:09:45.482 but that she has been here before. 00:09:45.482 --> 00:09:48.282 She suffers from an extraordinary amount of deja vu. 00:09:48.282 --> 00:09:49.762 Clairvoyant! 00:09:49.762 --> 00:09:52.242 We should set her up in a gypsy caravan. 00:09:52.242 --> 00:09:55.042 Crystal ball, Tarot cards. 00:09:58.482 --> 00:10:01.242 So who's Dr Kellet? He's a psychiatrist, is he? 00:10:01.242 --> 00:10:03.762 Apparently he helped a lot of men after the war. 00:10:07.642 --> 00:10:10.002 How did you hear about him? 00:10:10.002 --> 00:10:11.882 Were you a patient? No. 00:10:12.882 --> 00:10:14.562 A friend put us in touch. 00:10:18.242 --> 00:10:21.403 You must have seen some terrible things in France, Hugh. 00:10:23.003 --> 00:10:24.963 I know I did. 00:10:28.003 --> 00:10:31.003 I prefer to focus on the daffodils. 00:10:36.003 --> 00:10:37.643 Personally... 00:10:38.643 --> 00:10:41.663 ..I've thought Ursula should see a psychiatrist 00:10:41.663 --> 00:10:44.023 ever since she pushed the maid down the stairs. 00:10:44.523 --> 00:10:48.923 Do you... Do you think that we should mention that occurred? 00:10:48.923 --> 00:10:50.483 It is odd. 00:10:53.003 --> 00:10:55.523 Thrilling, but odd. 00:11:00.003 --> 00:11:02.323 Emancipated hem lines? 00:11:03.323 --> 00:11:05.643 What does it mean? She's a fool. 00:11:05.643 --> 00:11:08.283 It will be a miracle if she meets that child's train. 00:11:08.283 --> 00:11:11.244 She'll forget about it. She'll be off gallivanting. 00:11:11.244 --> 00:11:14.084 Do you know why they're really sending her to London? 00:11:14.084 --> 00:11:16.084 They want a doctor to look in her head? 00:11:16.084 --> 00:11:19.004 They've realised she's touched. What are you talking about? 00:11:19.004 --> 00:11:20.764 I overheard a discussion. 00:11:20.764 --> 00:11:23.764 She's not touched. She's a bit of a worrier. 00:11:23.764 --> 00:11:26.244 And so what? Some people are born that way. 00:11:26.244 --> 00:11:28.164 And it bespeaks great intelligence. 00:11:28.164 --> 00:11:30.244 I have a belief about Ursula. 00:11:30.244 --> 00:11:33.404 You remember she was born not meant for this Earth. 00:11:33.404 --> 00:11:36.884 The cord wrapped around her neck like a serpent. 00:11:36.884 --> 00:11:40.564 My belief is that Ursula is at least partly of the spirit world. 00:11:40.564 --> 00:11:43.564 Ha! How do you account for her pushing me down the stairs 00:11:43.564 --> 00:11:45.244 to save me from the influenza? 00:11:45.244 --> 00:11:47.644 That was an inventive excuse for mischief, 00:11:47.644 --> 00:11:50.644 and I will account for your nonsense right now. 00:11:50.644 --> 00:11:52.524 Irish fiddle-faddle. 00:11:52.524 --> 00:11:54.484 She has the sixth sense 00:11:54.484 --> 00:11:57.404 and there's no doctor in the world that can magic away that. 00:12:03.245 --> 00:12:04.565 Ursula! 00:12:05.845 --> 00:12:08.645 He seems to have very little confidence in my abilities, 00:12:08.645 --> 00:12:11.645 even though I managed to drive an ambulance throughout the war, 00:12:11.645 --> 00:12:13.865 sans mishap, in a foreign country, no less. 00:12:14.765 --> 00:12:16.245 Hang on. 00:12:22.765 --> 00:12:25.325 Nervous? I'm fine. 00:12:45.765 --> 00:12:47.245 So... 00:12:48.765 --> 00:12:51.806 ..I hear you tried to kill your maid. 00:12:57.246 --> 00:12:58.726 Tea? 00:13:01.646 --> 00:13:03.246 I'm not Russian. 00:13:03.246 --> 00:13:05.406 Far from it. I'm from Maidstone. 00:13:05.406 --> 00:13:08.486 I visited St Petersburg before the Revolution. 00:13:17.006 --> 00:13:19.766 When I spoke to your mother on the telephone, 00:13:19.766 --> 00:13:22.926 she told me that you often dream you're dying. 00:13:22.926 --> 00:13:25.246 She told me that you once confided in her 00:13:25.246 --> 00:13:27.246 that you had been here before. 00:13:28.246 --> 00:13:30.006 Is that right? 00:13:30.006 --> 00:13:33.006 Do you think you have been here before? 00:13:33.006 --> 00:13:35.006 Sometimes I think that. 00:13:35.006 --> 00:13:36.486 Tea? 00:13:37.726 --> 00:13:43.667 You see, I remember you saying "Tea?" to me before. 00:13:43.767 --> 00:13:45.607 Just like that. 00:13:45.607 --> 00:13:48.487 Yes, I said it last week. 00:13:51.007 --> 00:13:52.767 Of course. 00:13:58.727 --> 00:14:00.487 Snow? 00:14:00.487 --> 00:14:01.847 Yes. 00:14:01.847 --> 00:14:03.527 Interesting. 00:14:03.527 --> 00:14:06.647 Everything's familiar somehow... 00:14:07.647 --> 00:14:11.487 ..no matter where I am or what I'm doing. 00:14:12.487 --> 00:14:17.407 Inside, I have this terrible fear... 00:14:17.407 --> 00:14:19.007 ..all the time. 00:14:19.007 --> 00:14:20.767 A darkness within? 00:14:23.487 --> 00:14:27.007 From a scientific point of view, perhaps the part of your brain 00:14:27.007 --> 00:14:29.888 responsible for memory has a little flaw. 00:14:29.888 --> 00:14:32.248 A neurological problem 00:14:32.248 --> 00:14:35.808 that leads you to think you are repeating experiences. 00:14:36.808 --> 00:14:42.368 So I'm not really dying and being reborn. 00:14:42.368 --> 00:14:44.448 I have no idea. 00:14:44.448 --> 00:14:47.208 Perhaps there is a neurological blip in your brain 00:14:47.208 --> 00:14:49.768 that causes you to believe you have been here before. 00:14:49.768 --> 00:14:53.008 Perhaps you have been here before and your dreams are memories 00:14:53.008 --> 00:14:55.008 and reminiscences - premonitions. 00:14:55.008 --> 00:14:57.248 We may never know. 00:14:58.768 --> 00:15:00.848 Have you heard of Buddhism? 00:15:01.848 --> 00:15:04.088 Perhaps you're remembering another life. 00:15:05.488 --> 00:15:07.648 Of course, the disciples of the Buddha 00:15:07.648 --> 00:15:10.488 don't believe you keep coming back as the same person 00:15:10.488 --> 00:15:13.488 in the same circumstances, as you feel you do, but... 00:15:14.488 --> 00:15:20.369 ..most ancient religions adhered to an idea of circularity. 00:15:20.369 --> 00:15:23.769 The snake with its tail in its mouth and so on. 00:15:51.349 --> 00:15:53.349 Are you cured yet? 00:15:53.549 --> 00:15:55.869 Must be by now. It's been an age. 00:15:55.869 --> 00:15:58.789 Come on. I told your father you'd catch a later train. 00:15:58.789 --> 00:16:00.549 Let's have some fun. 00:16:11.350 --> 00:16:15.351 Listen, I know that I am considered by your mother 00:16:15.351 --> 00:16:18.111 mad, bad and dangerous to know, but... 00:16:19.111 --> 00:16:22.591 ..I thought we could be special chums. What do you think? 00:16:22.591 --> 00:16:25.591 Pamela is a little dull, all that tennis and cycling. 00:16:25.591 --> 00:16:28.111 No wonder she has such sturdy ankles. 00:16:28.111 --> 00:16:30.591 Tres sportif, I'm sure, but still. 00:16:30.791 --> 00:16:33.791 And the boys are... Well, boys. 00:16:35.071 --> 00:16:37.631 But you are interesting, Ursula. 00:16:39.791 --> 00:16:41.551 What do you think? 00:16:43.551 --> 00:16:44.991 Yes. 00:16:44.991 --> 00:16:47.311 Special chums. 00:17:03.071 --> 00:17:04.712 Nice time with Izzie? 00:17:04.712 --> 00:17:06.072 Yes. 00:17:16.312 --> 00:17:17.752 Ta-da. 00:17:18.752 --> 00:17:20.792 You did it. 00:17:20.792 --> 00:17:24.192 Your mother considers it ruinously expensive. 00:17:34.312 --> 00:17:36.472 She's not to be trusted, you know. 00:17:36.472 --> 00:17:38.552 Who? Izzie. 00:17:40.552 --> 00:17:42.072 Press that. 00:17:47.312 --> 00:17:48.632 Right. 00:17:48.632 --> 00:17:52.312 The war has made your mother parsimonious, I'm afraid. 00:17:52.312 --> 00:17:55.273 If she had her way, we'd live on her eggs and chickens. 00:17:55.273 --> 00:17:58.353 Whereas I, on the other hand, have seemed to become less prudent. 00:17:58.353 --> 00:18:01.073 Not an admirable trait for a banker, she says, 00:18:01.073 --> 00:18:03.793 but still, carpe diem and so on. 00:18:04.793 --> 00:18:06.553 Little bear? 00:18:06.553 --> 00:18:09.953 Ursula saw Dr Kellet for several years. 00:18:11.313 --> 00:18:15.313 Eventually, Sylvie and Hugh decided that paying a man 00:18:15.313 --> 00:18:18.073 to discuss life's mysteries with their daughter 00:18:18.073 --> 00:18:20.073 was no longer necessary. 00:18:20.073 --> 00:18:23.313 Ursula was noticeably more cheerful 00:18:23.313 --> 00:18:25.553 and so considered cured. 00:18:27.793 --> 00:18:30.553 On the morning of her 16th birthday, 00:18:30.553 --> 00:18:33.313 the world felt crisp and fresh. 00:18:34.313 --> 00:18:36.073 She was growing up. 00:18:39.633 --> 00:18:41.513 Ahoy! 00:18:42.793 --> 00:18:45.314 Maurice was down for the weekend. 00:18:46.314 --> 00:18:50.074 He was in his last year at Oxford, where he was reading law. 00:18:50.074 --> 00:18:52.554 Good show, coming for Ursula's birthday. 00:18:52.554 --> 00:18:54.714 Is it Ursula's birthday today? 00:18:54.714 --> 00:18:56.834 Isn't that why you're here? 00:18:56.834 --> 00:18:59.074 No. Coincidence. 00:19:00.554 --> 00:19:01.954 Right. 00:19:03.314 --> 00:19:05.034 Right, yes, do follow. 00:19:05.034 --> 00:19:08.954 Chaps, these are my brothers, Teddy and Jimmy. 00:19:08.954 --> 00:19:11.154 Gilbert, Howard, don't annoy them. 00:19:11.154 --> 00:19:13.074 Call me Howie. Everyone does. 00:19:13.074 --> 00:19:15.074 And there's my old mater. 00:19:15.074 --> 00:19:18.114 You are far too young to be anyone's mother. 00:19:18.114 --> 00:19:19.554 I know. 00:19:19.554 --> 00:19:21.874 Yet we have managed five children. 00:19:21.874 --> 00:19:23.994 Sisters? 00:19:23.994 --> 00:19:25.794 With names. 00:19:25.794 --> 00:19:28.594 I'm Pamela. This is Ursula. 00:19:28.594 --> 00:19:31.914 Gilbert and Howard, you'll have to double up in Mrs Glover's old room. 00:19:31.914 --> 00:19:34.795 Let me show you upstairs. Call me Howie. 00:19:34.795 --> 00:19:36.715 You can go top to tail. 00:19:38.555 --> 00:19:40.235 All right. 00:19:40.235 --> 00:19:42.155 Why are you so gimpy? 00:19:42.155 --> 00:19:44.675 Twisted my ankle. Hockey game. 00:20:04.315 --> 00:20:05.795 Slow down. 00:20:16.915 --> 00:20:19.075 I've seen a snail move quicker than that. 00:20:31.516 --> 00:20:33.596 That's actually my ball. 00:20:33.596 --> 00:20:34.996 Watch this! 00:20:34.996 --> 00:20:38.276 Hey, boys, you're playing like a little girl. Come on! 00:20:39.516 --> 00:20:41.996 I say, they're rather gorgeous, aren't they? 00:20:42.596 --> 00:20:44.036 Can I have one? 00:20:44.036 --> 00:20:47.756 It's the wrong kind of football! We are not in America. Here we go. 00:20:56.837 --> 00:20:59.877 Who's that? Ursula loves this music. 00:20:59.877 --> 00:21:02.357 Do you? I had no idea. 00:21:06.797 --> 00:21:08.557 St Louis Blues. 00:21:08.557 --> 00:21:10.717 Listen to that cornet. 00:21:15.677 --> 00:21:19.077 Joie de Femme, new by Clermont. Divine! 00:21:19.077 --> 00:21:22.217 Far too grown-up. Will Ursula be allowed to keep anything? 00:21:22.217 --> 00:21:23.957 I really don't know. 00:21:23.957 --> 00:21:26.557 Teddy, a dance? No. 00:21:26.557 --> 00:21:28.277 Jimmy? 00:21:32.557 --> 00:21:34.797 And she's definitely too young for that. 00:21:34.797 --> 00:21:37.157 Where did you get the money for all this? 00:21:37.157 --> 00:21:40.198 The column doesn't pay that well. Did you steal it? 00:21:41.198 --> 00:21:44.518 Ooh, the jive is jumping. 00:21:45.718 --> 00:21:47.278 We're hungry. 00:21:50.758 --> 00:21:54.158 Mrs Glover, could you facilitate nourishment for these young men? 00:22:03.758 --> 00:22:06.718 Essence of stag. Trucking mud everywhere. 00:22:06.718 --> 00:22:09.358 Well, they didn't fight in the war. That's a good thing. 00:22:09.358 --> 00:22:12.278 No matter how unsatisfactory they turn out. 00:22:20.078 --> 00:22:22.518 Happy birthday, little bear. 00:22:22.518 --> 00:22:24.358 Happy birthday! 00:22:24.358 --> 00:22:27.278 This present is for Teddy. 00:22:27.278 --> 00:22:29.559 Me? Yes, you, darling boy. 00:22:29.559 --> 00:22:32.079 Go on, unwrap it. It won't explode. 00:22:36.519 --> 00:22:38.919 "The Adventures of Augustus." 00:22:38.919 --> 00:22:40.999 By Delphine Fox. 00:22:40.999 --> 00:22:43.999 Mwah. Why is everything an adventure with you? 00:22:43.999 --> 00:22:46.159 Because life is an adventure, of course. 00:22:46.159 --> 00:22:48.359 I would say it's more of an endurance race 00:22:48.359 --> 00:22:50.439 or an obstacle course. 00:22:50.439 --> 00:22:53.239 All right, dear. Not that bad, surely. 00:22:53.239 --> 00:22:54.919 That's Augustus. 00:22:54.919 --> 00:22:56.759 I based him on you. 00:22:56.759 --> 00:22:58.279 Me?! 00:23:01.839 --> 00:23:03.759 I have a publisher. 00:23:04.759 --> 00:23:06.759 I have money, Hugh. 00:23:06.759 --> 00:23:09.559 You don't need to worry about me any more. 00:23:23.280 --> 00:23:25.520 Do you want to go for a walk? 00:23:25.520 --> 00:23:27.920 It's a bore with my crutches. 00:23:51.280 --> 00:23:54.280 I'm looking for the ball. It was your kid brother's. 00:23:54.280 --> 00:23:57.280 I think we lost it in the... Shrubbery. 00:24:03.600 --> 00:24:05.560 How old are you? 00:24:07.760 --> 00:24:09.281 16. 00:24:12.281 --> 00:24:13.761 It's my birthday. 00:24:16.081 --> 00:24:17.961 You ate cake. 00:24:19.001 --> 00:24:20.441 You're shivering. 00:24:21.441 --> 00:24:22.501 It's freezing out here. 00:24:23.681 --> 00:24:26.161 But she decided it didn't matter. 00:24:29.362 --> 00:24:31.802 Ursula thought of Howie quite often. 00:24:32.002 --> 00:24:35.322 It was not so much the physical Howie 00:24:35.322 --> 00:24:38.322 but the fact that he had been thoughtful enough 00:24:38.322 --> 00:24:40.602 to try and find Teddy's ball. 00:24:42.602 --> 00:24:43.962 Hey, kid! 00:24:50.362 --> 00:24:53.682 What are they doing here? I don't know. 00:24:55.282 --> 00:24:57.682 We're going to London to help with the strike. 00:24:57.682 --> 00:25:01.002 I didn't realise your politics put you on the side of the workers. 00:25:01.002 --> 00:25:03.322 What? No, no, no, no, no. 00:25:03.322 --> 00:25:05.722 We're going to drive buses and trains 00:25:05.722 --> 00:25:08.522 and whatever else it takes to keep the country running. 00:25:08.522 --> 00:25:11.363 I didn't know you could drive a train, Maurice. 00:25:11.363 --> 00:25:14.683 I'll be a stoker, then - put the coal in. It can't be that difficult. 00:25:17.283 --> 00:25:18.963 and it's a very skilled job. 00:25:19.963 --> 00:25:22.963 I hear you didn't get into Cambridge. Probably best. 00:25:22.963 --> 00:25:26.763 We don't have enough scones. For God's sake! 00:25:26.763 --> 00:25:28.883 We need warning, Maurice. 00:25:28.883 --> 00:25:30.883 I'm not hungry. 00:25:42.886 --> 00:25:44.526 Imbeciles. 00:25:44.526 --> 00:25:47.486 What happened to the good-looking one? Gilbert. 00:25:47.486 --> 00:25:51.326 Sent down, apparently, for an indiscretion. What indiscretion? 00:25:51.326 --> 00:25:53.886 Well, the definition of an indiscretion 00:25:53.886 --> 00:25:55.886 is you don't talk of it afterwards. 00:25:57.606 --> 00:25:59.606 Feel like going for a walk? 00:25:59.606 --> 00:26:01.366 No. Thank you. 00:26:04.366 --> 00:26:06.366 Are you all right? 00:26:15.126 --> 00:26:16.886 Weeks passed. 00:26:17.926 --> 00:26:20.406 Questions would have been intolerable. 00:26:21.086 --> 00:26:23.326 She took care to mask her misery. 00:26:38.367 --> 00:26:41.287 I need to talk to you about something uncomfortable. 00:26:47.887 --> 00:26:50.607 I know you've been out of sorts all summer 00:26:50.567 --> 00:26:52.687 Things will be different. 00:26:53.807 --> 00:26:56.967 and I expect you're probably nervous with Pamela going away. 00:26:55.887 --> 00:26:57.447 However... 00:26:58.687 --> 00:27:00.767 ..we mustn't eat our worries. 00:27:03.487 --> 00:27:06.007 It's just puppy fat. Even I had it. 00:27:06.007 --> 00:27:09.367 But it won't go away by itself. It has to be addressed. 00:27:07.983 --> 00:27:10.583 They're not called stokers, they're called firemen, 00:28:19.229 --> 00:28:21.389 I thought this was the express. 00:28:21.589 --> 00:28:23.509 This is the London train. 00:28:46.070 --> 00:28:48.510 I know it's odd, but... 00:28:48.510 --> 00:28:51.430 ..she just turned up on the doorstep, the lamb. 00:28:52.430 --> 00:28:54.870 I think she wanted to see me. 00:28:54.870 --> 00:28:56.430 Pay a visit. 00:28:57.710 --> 00:28:59.190 Nothing risque. 00:29:00.870 --> 00:29:04.110 I'll take her to see some museums and so on, and the theatre. 00:29:03.390 --> 00:29:06.670 Now, don't be such a mean old woman, Hugh. 00:29:12.590 --> 00:29:14.470 You're such a fool. 00:29:16.230 --> 00:29:18.470 There are ways, you know? 00:29:20.230 --> 00:29:21.710 Things one can do. 00:29:22.710 --> 00:29:25.071 Prevention better than cure and all that. 00:29:56.711 --> 00:30:00.231 No-one told Ursula what would happen next. 00:30:07.231 --> 00:30:09.991 Remove your shoes and undergarments. 00:30:12.711 --> 00:30:15.232 Ursula supposed the baby would come out 00:30:15.232 --> 00:30:17.472 with a certain amount of difficulty. 00:30:19.992 --> 00:30:24.232 She presumed it would be wrapped in a shawl and placed in a cradle 00:31:18.435 --> 00:31:20.435 I got it from a tin! Ha! 00:31:21.915 --> 00:31:23.435 Oxtail soup. 00:31:24.195 --> 00:31:25.595 ..there we are. 00:31:31.675 --> 00:31:33.195 God. 00:31:34.195 --> 00:31:37.275 You're not cut out for this sort of thing. It's all right. 00:32:08.298 --> 00:32:09.778 Ursula. 00:32:12.778 --> 00:32:14.538 How could you? 00:34:31.021 --> 00:34:33.301 We will tell people blood poisoning. 00:34:36.020 --> 00:34:38.780 We'll say no more about this, little bear. 00:35:00.821 --> 00:35:02.981 You get into bed and I'll bring them up. 00:35:04.061 --> 00:35:05.981 Devilled kidneys for strength? 00:35:06.181 --> 00:35:08.301 Yes, go to your room, Ursula. 00:35:15.781 --> 00:35:17.621 What's wrong with Mummy? 00:35:26.342 --> 00:35:28.942 And you remember the night she was born 00:35:28.942 --> 00:35:32.022 and the cord wrapped around her neck, and what did I say then? 00:35:32.022 --> 00:35:34.182 I said God surely wants that baby back 00:35:34.182 --> 00:35:36.302 and now He's poisoned her blood. 00:35:36.302 --> 00:35:39.022 He'll take her, you mark my words. 00:35:48.022 --> 00:35:51.302 I'll be off if there's nothing more I can do for you. 00:35:51.302 --> 00:35:53.302 That's fine, Mrs Glover. 00:35:58.302 --> 00:36:00.622 Good that she's home safe and sound. 00:36:15.543 --> 00:36:19.783 Now, you'd think with an illness like that and death at hand, 00:36:19.783 --> 00:36:21.823 And why would that be... 00:36:22.543 --> 00:36:24.783 but it's had the opposite effect. 00:36:24.783 --> 00:36:27.543 that it would make mother and daughter closer, 00:36:27.823 --> 00:36:29.423 ..George? 00:36:34.543 --> 00:36:36.183 A mystery. 00:36:49.543 --> 00:36:51.303 Blood poisoning? 00:36:51.303 --> 00:36:53.303 How did you get blood poisoning? 00:36:54.303 --> 00:36:55.863 I don't know. 00:36:57.023 --> 00:36:59.023 Why did you just disappear like that 00:36:59.023 --> 00:37:01.543 and then manifest at Izzie's of all places? 00:37:02.543 --> 00:37:04.184 I'm tired. 00:37:04.184 --> 00:37:06.104 Can you turn off the light? 00:37:20.584 --> 00:37:23.104 ..then you won't have anyone to talk to. 00:37:23.744 --> 00:37:25.984 I'm off to university soon... 00:37:34.784 --> 00:37:37.024 I was going to have a baby. 00:37:42.784 --> 00:37:44.304 Howie. 00:37:48.544 --> 00:37:49.944 Where? 00:37:51.544 --> 00:37:53.264 In our room? 00:37:54.545 --> 00:37:56.265 On the stairs. 00:38:00.545 --> 00:38:02.305 It was strange. 00:38:04.025 --> 00:38:07.305 There's really no use in talking about this, so... 00:38:09.025 --> 00:38:10.785 Strange how? 00:38:15.025 --> 00:38:17.025 Izzie helped me with the baby. 00:38:18.305 --> 00:38:21.025 An abortion? An illegal abortion? 00:38:23.785 --> 00:38:25.945 Gosh, no wonder Mummy's angry. 00:38:29.785 --> 00:38:31.545 Strange, how? 00:38:36.305 --> 00:38:38.185 It was very... 00:38:38.185 --> 00:38:39.785 ..quick. 00:38:43.305 --> 00:38:45.426 Did he force you? 00:38:49.786 --> 00:38:51.546 You should tell. 00:38:56.306 --> 00:38:58.026 What does it matter? 00:38:59.026 --> 00:39:01.026 He's gone back to America. 00:39:04.306 --> 00:39:05.786 Please. 00:39:09.306 --> 00:39:12.306 I don't want to think or talk about it any more. 00:40:20.547 --> 00:40:22.707 I'm not going back to school. 00:40:24.028 --> 00:40:25.708 I just can't. 00:40:30.227 --> 00:40:33.227 I may as well see what the chickens have left us. 00:40:33.227 --> 00:40:34.987 I'll go with you. 00:40:36.188 --> 00:40:38.348 I'll take a secretarial course. 00:40:46.308 --> 00:40:49.308 Also, I think I'd like to see Dr Kellet again. 00:40:50.308 --> 00:40:52.308 He's retired, I believe. 00:41:24.309 --> 00:41:26.629 Did he leave a forwarding address? 00:41:26.629 --> 00:41:28.109 I'm sorry. 00:41:35.509 --> 00:41:38.309 Iterate. 00:41:38.309 --> 00:41:41.189 Iterating. 00:41:41.189 --> 00:41:44.669 Reiteration. 00:41:44.669 --> 00:41:47.789 Reiterated. 00:41:47.789 --> 00:41:50.549 Reiterating. 00:41:52.029 --> 00:41:53.789 No peeking. 00:41:54.789 --> 00:41:58.629 The only way to stop looking at the keys 00:41:58.629 --> 00:42:02.029 and slowing down your speeds 00:42:02.029 --> 00:42:06.030 is to type blindfolded. 00:42:08.310 --> 00:42:11.750 Dear sir. 00:42:11.750 --> 00:42:15.790 I brought your letter before the board of directors 00:42:15.790 --> 00:42:19.310 at their meeting yesterday. 00:42:27.271 --> 00:42:30.791 She got a job as a secretary in a big importing company. 00:42:33.551 --> 00:42:35.311 She made no friends. 00:43:02.231 --> 00:43:05.751 Her first glass of wine was an experiment. 00:43:18.248 --> 00:43:20.488 I found one that's very reasonable. 00:43:21.488 --> 00:43:23.488 I think that's very wise. 00:43:24.992 --> 00:43:27.232 It was a private act. 00:43:27.232 --> 00:43:31.992 Intimate, solitary and enormously comforting. 00:43:34.512 --> 00:43:37.672 She was a secret drunk in a matter of weeks. 00:43:46.393 --> 00:43:50.633 The day Ursula met Derek Oliphant, she was stone-cold sober. 00:43:51.633 --> 00:43:54.633 She simply hadn't seen the pavement slab. 00:43:54.633 --> 00:43:59.153 and her instinct was to save the groceries rather than herself. 00:43:57.393 --> 00:43:59.633 acquired hastily in a lunch hour, 00:43:59.633 --> 00:44:02.393 Her hands were full of grocery shopping, 00:44:07.553 --> 00:44:09.233 Is that the colour? 00:44:09.233 --> 00:44:10.913 Or is it salmon? 00:44:23.914 --> 00:44:26.994 To love, cherish and obey. 00:44:30.394 --> 00:44:35.634 "She's mistaken gratitude for love," Sylvie thought as she watched them. 00:44:36.634 --> 00:44:39.394 Sylvie had married Hugh when she was 18, 00:44:39.394 --> 00:44:42.754 not long after her family descended into poverty. 00:44:44.154 --> 00:44:46.954 She had met him at the post office counter - 00:44:46.954 --> 00:44:50.394 a rising star in the prosperous world of banking. 00:44:51.394 --> 00:44:54.914 The epitome of bourgeois respectability. 00:44:55.914 --> 00:44:58.914 She was beautiful but penniless. 00:44:58.914 --> 00:45:01.914 Hugh had offered her a life. 00:45:02.353 --> 00:45:04.753 You have blood all over your nice peach scarf. 00:45:06.914 --> 00:45:10.394 - In sickness and in health. - In sickness and in health. 00:45:09.994 --> 00:45:13.474 To love, cherish and obey. 00:45:13.474 --> 00:45:16.355 Till death do us part. 00:45:16.355 --> 00:45:18.395 Till death do us part. 00:45:22.113 --> 00:45:25.594 Three months later, Ursula and Derek were married.