1 00:00:03,280 --> 00:00:05,720 The Durbeyfields are the greatest gentlefolk in the county. 2 00:00:05,720 --> 00:00:08,680 A family vault in Kingsbere is the extent of your legacy. 3 00:00:08,680 --> 00:00:10,520 What you've got to do is go claim kin. 4 00:00:10,520 --> 00:00:13,680 What would I have to do to win your affections? 5 00:00:13,680 --> 00:00:19,200 Why should I be scared? Well, the ladies need partners and I'm inclined to have a fling. 6 00:00:19,200 --> 00:00:24,760 You'll never love me, will you, Tess? I have never loved you, Alec, and I never will. 7 00:00:43,200 --> 00:00:47,760 O merciful God, have pity upon my poor baby. 8 00:00:47,760 --> 00:00:51,800 I know how I have sinned and I must be punished, 9 00:00:51,800 --> 00:00:52,920 but I beg you. 10 00:00:55,920 --> 00:00:58,640 Heap your anger on me 11 00:00:58,640 --> 00:01:00,240 and spare my child. 12 00:01:03,720 --> 00:01:05,800 He will get well again, won't he? 13 00:01:13,640 --> 00:01:15,640 BABY SCREAMS 14 00:01:15,640 --> 00:01:17,160 He won't suckle. 15 00:01:17,160 --> 00:01:20,920 He won't stop crying. 16 00:01:20,920 --> 00:01:22,480 Mother, please! 17 00:01:22,480 --> 00:01:28,320 John, I am begging you, please, let us call Parson Tringham. 18 00:01:28,320 --> 00:01:31,520 We'll do no such thing! But if baby's not baptised, John... 19 00:01:31,520 --> 00:01:35,360 No parson shall come inside this door, prying into my affairs. Father, please! 20 00:01:35,360 --> 00:01:39,440 Good God, girl, haven't you brought enough shame 21 00:01:39,440 --> 00:01:43,400 onto our good name as it is? 22 00:01:43,400 --> 00:01:50,720 There'll be no parson beneath my roof! From now on, we keep our business to ourselves! 23 00:02:11,760 --> 00:02:18,960 I baptise thee, Sorrow, in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost. 24 00:02:18,960 --> 00:02:21,480 Say, "Amen," children. 25 00:02:21,480 --> 00:02:28,520 Amen. Our father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Join in. 26 00:02:28,520 --> 00:02:32,240 Thy kingdom come, thy will be done. BABY SCREAMS 27 00:02:32,240 --> 00:02:35,120 On earth as it is in heaven. 28 00:02:35,120 --> 00:02:40,560 Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses 29 00:02:40,560 --> 00:02:43,120 as we forgive them that trespass against us... 30 00:02:43,120 --> 00:02:46,160 BABY CONTINUES TO SCREAM 31 00:03:11,640 --> 00:03:14,320 It will be just the same for Sorrow, won't it, sir? 32 00:03:14,320 --> 00:03:15,880 In the next life? 33 00:03:17,720 --> 00:03:20,000 Well, it's hard to say. 34 00:03:20,840 --> 00:03:24,520 But I have baptised him, just as you would have. 35 00:03:26,080 --> 00:03:29,480 Yes, I understand you, Tess, 36 00:03:29,480 --> 00:03:33,560 but ecclesiastically you lack the necessary qualifications. 37 00:03:33,560 --> 00:03:36,120 But you will give him a Christian burial? 38 00:03:36,120 --> 00:03:39,000 I'm afraid that is not in my power. 39 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:40,760 But a child, 40 00:03:40,760 --> 00:03:45,560 a little baby, who's never sinned in his little life, 41 00:03:45,560 --> 00:03:49,880 to hide him away in the night with the suicides and the drunks and the sinners, 42 00:03:49,880 --> 00:03:52,480 it's...it's wicked! 43 00:03:52,480 --> 00:03:55,200 There are rules, Tess, there are principles! 44 00:03:55,200 --> 00:03:57,760 I can't understand them, I don't know what they mean! 45 00:03:57,760 --> 00:04:03,760 If it just concerned the two of us, I would gladly give your child a Christian burial, but I cannot. 46 00:04:05,400 --> 00:04:11,040 Perhaps it will be just the same for him, even if you don't. Will it? 47 00:04:13,360 --> 00:04:16,920 Please don't speak to me as saint to sinner. 48 00:04:16,920 --> 00:04:19,920 Speak to me as you yourself, to me myself. 49 00:04:21,520 --> 00:04:25,360 In God's eyes, will it be the same? 50 00:04:29,000 --> 00:04:31,920 In God's eyes, 51 00:04:31,920 --> 00:04:34,880 it will be just the same. 52 00:04:37,120 --> 00:04:41,960 But I will not, cannot give your child a Christian burial. 53 00:04:41,960 --> 00:04:47,280 Then I do not like you, and I do not like your God, and I will not set foot in your church again. 54 00:04:52,760 --> 00:04:55,120 DOOR SLAMS 55 00:05:00,200 --> 00:05:01,760 TESS CRIES 56 00:06:07,880 --> 00:06:10,560 Send Mr Crick our best wishes. 57 00:06:10,560 --> 00:06:12,560 You'll do well there. 58 00:06:16,520 --> 00:06:19,400 Promise me that you'll tell no-one of your troubles. 59 00:06:19,400 --> 00:06:24,000 What's past is past. I know. Promise me, Tess. 60 00:06:24,960 --> 00:06:26,680 I promise. 61 00:07:25,600 --> 00:07:27,120 COW MOOS 62 00:07:44,800 --> 00:07:48,040 You found us easy enough? I followed your herd. 63 00:07:48,040 --> 00:07:50,400 I've never seen such fine beasts. 64 00:07:50,400 --> 00:07:51,960 Finest animals in the world. 65 00:07:51,960 --> 00:07:54,440 Finest pastures too. You know these parts? 66 00:07:54,440 --> 00:07:59,000 No, sir. Though my ancient ancestors come from around here. Is that right? 67 00:07:59,000 --> 00:08:02,960 It's a long time ago. It's all forgotten now. 68 00:08:02,960 --> 00:08:07,080 You're awful pale, girl. You sure you can stand the work? 69 00:08:07,080 --> 00:08:12,040 'Tis comfortable enough here for us rough folk, but we don't live in a cowcumber frame. 70 00:08:12,040 --> 00:08:15,520 I've been indoors a great deal this past winter, that's all. 71 00:08:15,520 --> 00:08:17,840 And can you milk 'em clean, my maidy? 72 00:08:17,840 --> 00:08:20,000 I don't want my cows running dry on me. 73 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:23,280 I'll show you now, sir, if you wish. 74 00:08:23,280 --> 00:08:26,280 Some milks easy, some milks hard. 75 00:08:26,280 --> 00:08:29,680 I'll start you off on Old Pretty here. 76 00:08:29,680 --> 00:08:32,680 Don't you want some victuals first? A dish of tea? 77 00:08:32,680 --> 00:08:35,720 Oh, I'll just have some of this if I may, sir. 78 00:08:40,240 --> 00:08:41,240 HE LAUGHS 79 00:08:42,640 --> 00:08:46,520 I don't know how you can swallow it. I haven't touched it in years. 80 00:08:46,520 --> 00:08:48,040 Lies in my innards like lead. 81 00:09:00,920 --> 00:09:04,760 To my thinking, the cows don't give down their milk today as usual. 82 00:09:04,760 --> 00:09:08,160 It's because there's a new hand come among us. 83 00:09:08,160 --> 00:09:11,360 I've heard that their milk goes up into their horns. It's true! 84 00:09:11,360 --> 00:09:14,200 Well, that's one possibility. What d'you reckon, sir? 85 00:09:14,200 --> 00:09:17,440 Well, from an anatomical point of view, I confess I'm sceptical. 86 00:09:17,440 --> 00:09:20,040 Folks, we must lift a stave or two, see if that helps. 87 00:09:20,040 --> 00:09:22,520 Perhaps you could go and get your harp, sir! 88 00:09:22,520 --> 00:09:25,360 I fear that would have the opposite effect, Izzy. 89 00:09:25,360 --> 00:09:28,160 A song, then. Sing it out, ladies. Good and strong. 90 00:09:28,160 --> 00:09:33,200 # Oh, the snow, it melts the soonest 91 00:09:33,200 --> 00:09:37,400 # When the winds begin to sing 92 00:09:37,400 --> 00:09:41,280 # And the corn, it ripens fastest 93 00:09:41,280 --> 00:09:44,920 # When the frosts are setting in 94 00:09:44,920 --> 00:09:49,280 # And when a young man tells me that 95 00:09:49,280 --> 00:09:54,320 # My face he'll soon forget 96 00:09:54,320 --> 00:09:58,480 # Before we part, I'll tell him now 97 00:09:58,480 --> 00:10:02,240 # He'd be fain to follow it yet. # 98 00:10:09,440 --> 00:10:12,080 HARP PLAYS 99 00:10:17,120 --> 00:10:19,200 His name's Mr Angel Clare. 100 00:10:19,200 --> 00:10:20,880 Angel, Angel, Angel. 101 00:10:20,880 --> 00:10:22,720 A parson's son from Emminster way. 102 00:10:22,720 --> 00:10:25,680 He's here to learn farming. 103 00:10:25,680 --> 00:10:29,840 He's a deep sort. He's too taken up with his own thoughts to notice us girls. 104 00:10:29,840 --> 00:10:31,760 Speak for yourself, Izz Huett. 105 00:10:31,760 --> 00:10:34,240 Listen! 106 00:10:31,760 --> 00:10:34,240 HARP CONTINUES TO BE PLAYED 107 00:10:34,240 --> 00:10:36,400 He sleeps upstairs. 108 00:10:36,400 --> 00:10:38,240 Angel's in his heaven. 109 00:10:38,240 --> 00:10:41,520 So near and yet so far. 110 00:10:41,520 --> 00:10:46,400 I tell you, I love Angel Clare with all my heart, 111 00:10:46,400 --> 00:10:48,880 but he still can't play that rotten bloody harp. 112 00:10:48,880 --> 00:10:50,400 THEY LAUGH 113 00:11:10,040 --> 00:11:11,880 What brings you all this way, Tess? 114 00:11:14,200 --> 00:11:19,040 Just...felt like a change, s'all. 115 00:11:20,040 --> 00:11:21,320 Trouble at home? 116 00:11:22,360 --> 00:11:28,960 No matter. Work's hard, but Crick's a good sort. 117 00:11:28,960 --> 00:11:32,080 You'll be happy here. I hope so. 118 00:11:39,520 --> 00:11:42,480 And some say that when the moon is full 119 00:11:42,480 --> 00:11:47,400 you can still see the figure of the white lady gliding across the water meadow, 120 00:11:47,400 --> 00:11:51,440 her severed head tucked neatly underneath her arm. 121 00:11:51,440 --> 00:11:54,080 You come out with some nonsense, Marian Lewell. 122 00:11:54,080 --> 00:11:56,880 It's true! True as I'm sitting here. 123 00:11:56,880 --> 00:11:58,520 I don't know about ghosts, 124 00:11:58,520 --> 00:12:02,960 but I do know that our souls can be made to go out of our bodies when we're alive. 125 00:12:07,320 --> 00:12:09,200 Really now? 126 00:12:09,200 --> 00:12:11,480 How so, maidy? 127 00:12:11,480 --> 00:12:15,640 A very good way to feel 'em go is to lie on the grass at night 128 00:12:15,640 --> 00:12:22,480 and look straight up at some big, bright star, and by fixing your mind upon it you'll soon find that 129 00:12:22,480 --> 00:12:25,840 you are hundreds and hundreds of miles away from your body, 130 00:12:25,840 --> 00:12:28,080 which you don't seem to want at all. 131 00:12:28,080 --> 00:12:30,840 Is that right, maidy? 132 00:12:30,840 --> 00:12:32,480 It's just... 133 00:12:32,480 --> 00:12:34,200 just a fancy. 134 00:12:34,200 --> 00:12:38,720 Here's one. Has anyone heard of the Ghostly Carriage of Egdon Slope? No! 135 00:13:07,040 --> 00:13:09,080 PLAYS DISCORDANT NOTE 136 00:13:09,080 --> 00:13:12,360 Damn, damn and blast it! Bloody thing! 137 00:13:12,360 --> 00:13:14,120 TESS LAUGHS 138 00:13:15,040 --> 00:13:18,280 Tess? Tess! Wait a moment, Tess! 139 00:13:18,280 --> 00:13:23,320 Stop! I wasn't spying, I was just walking, getting some air, and I heard the harp. 140 00:13:23,320 --> 00:13:27,440 There's nothing to be afraid of, Tess. You seem afraid of so many things. 141 00:13:27,440 --> 00:13:29,200 Me? 142 00:13:29,200 --> 00:13:32,880 Oh, no, sir. Not of outdoor things. 143 00:13:32,880 --> 00:13:34,480 You have indoor fears? 144 00:13:35,560 --> 00:13:37,400 Well, yes, sir. 145 00:13:37,400 --> 00:13:39,800 I suppose so. 146 00:13:39,800 --> 00:13:41,040 What of? 147 00:13:42,000 --> 00:13:43,960 Well, I couldn't quite say. 148 00:13:45,520 --> 00:13:48,000 Ah, life in general? 149 00:13:48,000 --> 00:13:49,760 Yes. I suppose so. 150 00:13:51,320 --> 00:13:53,120 It is all rather serious, isn't it? 151 00:13:53,120 --> 00:13:55,160 This business of being alive. 152 00:13:59,520 --> 00:14:03,160 Sometimes I see the numbers of tomorrows all in a line, 153 00:14:03,160 --> 00:14:07,000 the first of them the biggest and the clearest, 154 00:14:07,000 --> 00:14:12,160 the others getting smaller and smaller as they stand further away, 155 00:14:12,160 --> 00:14:14,800 but they all seem so fierce to me. 156 00:14:14,800 --> 00:14:19,120 It's as if they're saying, "Beware of me! I'm coming!" 157 00:14:22,200 --> 00:14:24,400 And sometimes... 158 00:14:24,400 --> 00:14:26,640 it's a silly thought. 159 00:14:26,640 --> 00:14:28,120 Go on. 160 00:14:31,280 --> 00:14:33,800 Sometimes I note the days of the year... 161 00:14:35,560 --> 00:14:38,040 ..the birthdays, 162 00:14:38,040 --> 00:14:41,760 the anniversaries of events, both good and bad... 163 00:14:43,480 --> 00:14:47,120 ..and I think that there is another date greater than all of those... 164 00:14:49,640 --> 00:14:51,240 the date on which I shall die... 165 00:14:53,200 --> 00:14:54,760 ..just lying there... 166 00:14:56,360 --> 00:14:59,960 ..sly and quiet among all the other days... 167 00:15:02,560 --> 00:15:04,120 ..waiting for me. 168 00:15:08,000 --> 00:15:09,840 Who knows? Perhaps it is today. 169 00:15:15,840 --> 00:15:18,720 Well, Tess, I think that I can safely say that that's... 170 00:15:18,720 --> 00:15:20,920 quite the gloomiest thing I've ever heard. 171 00:15:23,440 --> 00:15:26,920 Good God, that's depressing. 172 00:15:37,320 --> 00:15:38,880 CLOCK RINGS 173 00:15:57,480 --> 00:16:02,080 Heavens' sake, Marian, I've told you enough times! Sorry! It won't happen again! 174 00:16:02,080 --> 00:16:04,840 That's what you said last time! It's nearly six, the day's half gone! 175 00:16:04,840 --> 00:16:08,240 If you can't get up, someone else'll have to do. I'd be happy to do it. I'll do it. 176 00:16:08,240 --> 00:16:12,640 Well, that's settled, then. As of tomorrow, it's Tess and Mr Clare. 177 00:16:22,720 --> 00:16:22,840 Don't push! You can see just as well as I! It's no use being in love with him any more, Retty Priddle. 178 00:16:22,840 --> 00:16:28,000 Don't push! You can see just as well as I! It's no use being in love with him any more, Retty Priddle. 179 00:16:28,000 --> 00:16:31,840 His thoughts are of other cheeks than thine! 180 00:16:32,880 --> 00:16:36,600 You needn't laugh, Izz. I saw you kissing his shade. 181 00:16:36,600 --> 00:16:39,280 What did you see her doing? 182 00:16:39,280 --> 00:16:45,320 He was standing over the whey tub and the shadow of his face came upon the wall behind, close to Izz, 183 00:16:45,320 --> 00:16:49,320 and she put her lips against the wall and kissed the shadow of his mouth! 184 00:16:49,320 --> 00:16:51,760 Oh, Izz Huett! 185 00:16:51,760 --> 00:16:53,440 So? There's no harm in it! 186 00:16:54,360 --> 00:16:56,760 I'd marry him tomorrow. 187 00:16:56,760 --> 00:17:01,280 I too. I'd marry him and more. 188 00:17:01,280 --> 00:17:05,000 Well, we can't all marry him. We shan't none of us marry him. Why not? 189 00:17:06,800 --> 00:17:10,120 Because he likes Tess Durbeyfield best. 190 00:17:10,120 --> 00:17:15,000 So silly, all this is. He won't marry any of us, or Tess either. 191 00:17:15,000 --> 00:17:17,120 A gentleman's son marry a milkmaid? 192 00:17:17,120 --> 00:17:20,240 He might ask us to milk his herd, but nothing more. 193 00:17:20,240 --> 00:17:22,680 The sooner we get that into our heads the better. 194 00:18:58,400 --> 00:18:59,960 TESS KNOCKS 195 00:18:59,960 --> 00:19:02,600 Mr Clare? 196 00:19:06,600 --> 00:19:10,080 It's like we're the only people on Earth, Tess. Adam and Eve, Tess. 197 00:19:10,080 --> 00:19:11,800 Adam and Eve. 198 00:19:11,800 --> 00:19:16,240 They say there are tremendous opportunities for farmers in Brazil, 199 00:19:16,240 --> 00:19:18,560 if you have the courage and drive. 200 00:19:18,560 --> 00:19:22,040 Fertile land as far as the eye can see. 201 00:19:22,040 --> 00:19:25,120 I'll live like some new Abraham, 202 00:19:25,120 --> 00:19:27,600 just myself, my flocks and herds. 203 00:19:27,600 --> 00:19:30,360 It sounds very lonely. 204 00:19:30,360 --> 00:19:32,320 Just the sheep to talk to. 205 00:19:34,080 --> 00:19:36,080 Perhaps I'll take a wife with me. 206 00:19:37,960 --> 00:19:41,560 What about you, Tess, do you have no ambitions? 207 00:19:41,560 --> 00:19:44,520 Ambitions? 208 00:19:44,520 --> 00:19:46,880 I wanted to be a teacher once. 209 00:19:46,880 --> 00:19:48,680 Really? 210 00:19:48,680 --> 00:19:52,280 What happened? It came to nothing. 211 00:19:55,520 --> 00:19:58,560 You seem very sure of what the future holds, Tess. 212 00:19:59,560 --> 00:20:01,840 Perhaps you'll be happy. 213 00:20:03,880 --> 00:20:05,280 I hope so. 214 00:20:07,840 --> 00:20:10,320 I know I'm happy now. 215 00:20:12,920 --> 00:20:14,400 So am I. 216 00:20:32,640 --> 00:20:34,040 What say you, Mr Clare? 217 00:20:35,920 --> 00:20:36,920 Garlic. 218 00:20:38,000 --> 00:20:40,160 THEY GROAN 219 00:20:38,000 --> 00:20:40,160 It tastes of garlic. Garlic! 220 00:20:40,160 --> 00:20:43,200 I thought there wasn't a blade left. We must start again. 221 00:20:43,200 --> 00:20:45,280 What, the whole mead? 222 00:20:45,280 --> 00:20:48,080 The whole mead. This can't continue! 223 00:21:01,640 --> 00:21:05,440 How are you, Tess? Very well, sir. 224 00:21:19,320 --> 00:21:21,040 Concentrate, Mr Clare. 225 00:21:28,080 --> 00:21:30,400 Quite right. Concentrate. 226 00:21:35,720 --> 00:21:37,520 THUNDER CRASHES 227 00:22:11,920 --> 00:22:14,200 BELLS CHIME 228 00:22:24,680 --> 00:22:27,640 We can't get there without walking through it. 229 00:22:27,640 --> 00:22:29,680 We could go the turnpike way. 230 00:22:29,680 --> 00:22:31,840 Service'll be started by then. 231 00:22:31,840 --> 00:22:34,520 Whole congregation staring at us. 232 00:22:34,520 --> 00:22:37,840 That's that, then. I'm going back to bed. 233 00:22:43,280 --> 00:22:45,960 Marian! Get back here now! 234 00:22:51,480 --> 00:22:53,840 Forgive him, Lord, he knows not what he does. 235 00:22:53,840 --> 00:22:55,800 Marian! That's Scripture! 236 00:22:55,800 --> 00:22:59,360 Good morning, ladies! And how lovely you all look. 237 00:22:59,360 --> 00:23:01,600 You'll forgive my lack of formal attire, 238 00:23:01,600 --> 00:23:05,200 I was curious to see the extent of the flooding, but all seems well. 239 00:23:07,280 --> 00:23:12,000 Now I see the problem. Perhaps I can be of assistance. Who's first? 240 00:23:12,920 --> 00:23:15,760 First for what, sir? I'll carry you. Across the water. 241 00:23:21,800 --> 00:23:23,560 Don't go away! 242 00:23:25,600 --> 00:23:32,560 And I'm supposed to put my arms around his neck, 243 00:23:32,560 --> 00:23:35,800 and put my face against his, and feel his arms around me, 244 00:23:35,800 --> 00:23:40,280 and put my face against his? I don't think I can. There's nothing in it, Retty. 245 00:23:40,280 --> 00:23:42,800 That's what you say. I think I'm going to burst. 246 00:23:44,960 --> 00:23:46,480 Thank you, Mr Clare. 247 00:23:50,640 --> 00:23:56,040 As Scripture says, "There's a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing." 248 00:23:57,960 --> 00:24:00,840 It's time to embrace. 249 00:24:00,840 --> 00:24:04,080 Retty, a nice easy one this time. 250 00:24:06,320 --> 00:24:08,240 Whoa! 251 00:24:12,320 --> 00:24:16,760 I'm going to kiss him. I don't care what happens, I'm going to kiss him. 252 00:24:16,760 --> 00:24:19,200 You wouldn't mind, would you? If I tried? 253 00:24:19,200 --> 00:24:21,640 I know that you're his favourite and all. Izzy. 254 00:24:21,640 --> 00:24:24,680 I've got to try, haven't I? I might never get another chance. 255 00:24:28,440 --> 00:24:30,880 How do I look? Do I look pretty? 256 00:24:30,880 --> 00:24:33,680 Tell me, Tess? Very pretty, Izz. 257 00:24:33,680 --> 00:24:35,400 Here I go. 258 00:24:35,400 --> 00:24:36,640 Wish me luck. 259 00:25:05,480 --> 00:25:06,480 Hmm. 260 00:25:16,880 --> 00:25:18,040 What are you doing? 261 00:25:18,040 --> 00:25:21,400 I think I can climb along the bank after all. 262 00:25:21,400 --> 00:25:25,800 Tess, no! Really, I'm quite all right. Tess! And you must be so tired. 263 00:25:25,800 --> 00:25:27,720 Oh! 264 00:25:29,880 --> 00:25:32,360 Three Leahs to get one Rachel. 265 00:25:32,360 --> 00:25:34,200 What d'you mean? 266 00:25:34,200 --> 00:25:38,760 I've undergone three-quarters of the labour just for this moment. 267 00:25:38,760 --> 00:25:41,400 They are a lot better women than I, all of them. 268 00:25:41,400 --> 00:25:43,480 Not to me. 269 00:25:45,400 --> 00:25:47,240 I'm not too heavy? 270 00:25:47,240 --> 00:25:51,960 Compared to Marian, you're like gossamer. You're a billow warmed by the sun. 271 00:25:52,680 --> 00:25:54,480 That's very pretty, 272 00:25:54,480 --> 00:25:56,080 if I seem like that to you. 273 00:26:03,680 --> 00:26:05,800 I didn't expect an event like this today. 274 00:26:05,800 --> 00:26:07,840 Nor I. 275 00:26:07,840 --> 00:26:10,480 The water came up so quickly. 276 00:26:12,720 --> 00:26:15,880 That's not what I meant at all. 277 00:26:22,080 --> 00:26:23,320 Ladies. 278 00:26:24,240 --> 00:26:26,240 Come on, we'll be late. 279 00:26:31,320 --> 00:26:34,960 I was sure he was going to kiss me. 280 00:26:34,960 --> 00:26:40,360 I lay still, hoping and hoping that he'd kiss me. But he didn't. No, he didn't. 281 00:26:45,080 --> 00:26:47,200 I wish I was dead. Don't say that! 282 00:26:47,200 --> 00:26:49,800 It's true. If he were to marry you... 283 00:26:49,800 --> 00:26:53,520 He won't! It's a summer fancy is all, Retty. 284 00:26:53,520 --> 00:26:58,080 Marrying is not in his mind, and even if he were to ask, I would refuse him. 285 00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:05,080 You would? I would have to refuse him. Why? 286 00:27:10,720 --> 00:27:13,600 She says she won't marry him, even if he asks. 287 00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:16,880 Too late for that now anyway. 288 00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:19,840 Why? 289 00:27:19,840 --> 00:27:23,920 She's a young lady, a doctor of divinity's daughter, out Emminster way. 290 00:27:23,920 --> 00:27:26,560 Mercy something-or-other. 291 00:27:26,560 --> 00:27:29,040 Very pretty, they say, very proper. 292 00:27:29,040 --> 00:27:33,280 And they're engaged? Not engaged as such, not yet, 293 00:27:33,280 --> 00:27:36,760 though she is of his own rank and of his family's choosing. 294 00:27:36,760 --> 00:27:38,400 Four more months he's with me. 295 00:27:38,400 --> 00:27:43,400 Come Christmas he'll be moving on, starting a new life. I just thought it best you know. 296 00:27:50,160 --> 00:27:52,000 I don't care what I do any more. 297 00:27:52,000 --> 00:27:56,120 I was going to marry a dairyman at Stickleford. 298 00:27:56,120 --> 00:27:58,120 He's asked me twice, but... 299 00:27:58,120 --> 00:28:02,040 my soul, I think I'd rather die than be his wife. 300 00:28:02,040 --> 00:28:03,840 I really am going to kill myself. 301 00:28:03,840 --> 00:28:05,320 Retty! That's enough. 302 00:28:25,560 --> 00:28:27,200 Mr Clare? 303 00:28:32,520 --> 00:28:34,360 Mr Clare? 304 00:28:32,520 --> 00:28:34,360 TESS OPENS THE DOOR 305 00:28:53,400 --> 00:28:55,360 Miss Mercy Chant? 306 00:28:56,960 --> 00:28:58,680 Angel! 307 00:28:59,560 --> 00:29:02,080 You're back! 308 00:29:02,080 --> 00:29:04,840 I had no idea. It was an impulse. 309 00:29:04,840 --> 00:29:06,880 I thought I'd surprise my parents. 310 00:29:09,440 --> 00:29:10,960 How are you, Mercy? 311 00:29:10,960 --> 00:29:13,840 You look very well. Thank you. 312 00:29:13,840 --> 00:29:16,600 You look very... 313 00:29:17,680 --> 00:29:19,240 ..brown. 314 00:29:20,040 --> 00:29:22,640 From my labours in the fields! 315 00:29:22,640 --> 00:29:23,960 Look at my hands! 316 00:29:28,800 --> 00:29:32,000 Oh, some black puddings, some mead. 317 00:29:32,000 --> 00:29:35,480 Gifts for my parents. Mead? 318 00:29:35,480 --> 00:29:37,080 Goodness gracious. 319 00:29:37,080 --> 00:29:39,120 What has happened to you, Angel Clare? 320 00:29:40,760 --> 00:29:42,880 I will see you at church, I'm sure. 321 00:29:42,880 --> 00:29:44,640 I hope so. 322 00:29:44,640 --> 00:29:46,360 Goodbye, Angel. 323 00:29:46,360 --> 00:29:48,960 GIGGLING 324 00:29:46,360 --> 00:29:48,960 That's enough now! 325 00:30:15,880 --> 00:30:17,560 < Hallowed be Thy name. 326 00:30:17,560 --> 00:30:23,520 Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. 327 00:30:23,520 --> 00:30:25,680 Give us this day our daily bread 328 00:30:25,680 --> 00:30:30,800 and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. 329 00:30:30,800 --> 00:30:32,200 Excuse me. 330 00:30:33,360 --> 00:30:35,840 Of course. Angel? 331 00:30:40,280 --> 00:30:43,440 Angel? Is it really you? 332 00:30:43,440 --> 00:30:45,760 The prodigal returns! 333 00:30:54,640 --> 00:30:56,960 'He's an old adversary of mine,' 334 00:30:56,960 --> 00:30:59,760 a notorious and dissolute young man, 335 00:30:59,760 --> 00:31:01,520 Mr Alec D'Urberville. 336 00:31:01,520 --> 00:31:04,520 It seems he took exception to a sermon of mine, 337 00:31:04,520 --> 00:31:06,840 he felt was aimed in his direction. 338 00:31:06,840 --> 00:31:09,320 As I'm sure it was. Indeed. 339 00:31:09,320 --> 00:31:12,200 Afterwards, we came to blows. 340 00:31:12,200 --> 00:31:16,760 Not literally, I hope. Not quite, but he came close. 341 00:31:16,760 --> 00:31:20,640 Soon afterwards his mother died. 342 00:31:20,640 --> 00:31:22,960 Poor man took it rather harder than expected. 343 00:31:22,960 --> 00:31:26,800 He comes to see me quite often now, to discuss spiritual matters. 344 00:31:28,680 --> 00:31:31,240 I know a Durbeyfield, on the farm. 345 00:31:31,240 --> 00:31:32,920 A distant relation perhaps? 346 00:31:32,920 --> 00:31:35,720 Not possible. The family's real name was Stoke. 347 00:31:35,720 --> 00:31:38,560 Made their money in chocolate, I believe! 348 00:31:38,560 --> 00:31:40,360 They bought the name. 349 00:31:40,360 --> 00:31:43,040 Pure vanity and affectation. 350 00:31:43,040 --> 00:31:44,840 No, no, 351 00:31:44,840 --> 00:31:48,320 the last of the true D'Urbervilles 352 00:31:48,320 --> 00:31:50,640 died out long, long ago. 353 00:31:57,480 --> 00:32:00,480 # I see the stars 354 00:32:00,480 --> 00:32:05,200 # I hear the mighty thunder 355 00:32:05,200 --> 00:32:08,000 # My path throughout 356 00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:12,400 # The universe's plain 357 00:32:12,400 --> 00:32:14,960 # Then sings my soul 358 00:32:14,960 --> 00:32:20,040 # My saviour come to thee... # 359 00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:32,160 Come along, we must be getting home now. 360 00:32:32,160 --> 00:32:35,520 I suppose it is farming or nothing with you now? 361 00:32:35,520 --> 00:32:38,280 It seems so, Felix. In England? 362 00:32:38,280 --> 00:32:40,000 The Colonies. 363 00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:42,480 Brazil, possibly. Brazil? 364 00:32:42,480 --> 00:32:45,440 But aren't they all Roman Catholics? 365 00:32:45,440 --> 00:32:47,280 Are they? I hadn't thought of it. 366 00:32:47,280 --> 00:32:50,960 I do entreat you, Angel, to keep in touch with moral ideals. 367 00:32:50,960 --> 00:32:54,280 Clearly farming means roughing it externally, 368 00:32:54,280 --> 00:32:57,560 but high-thinking may go with plain living nevertheless. 369 00:32:57,560 --> 00:33:00,600 Felix, why should you think I've lost my moral ideals? 370 00:33:00,600 --> 00:33:06,200 Well, we just thought, didn't we, Cuthbert, from your letters, that you were somehow losing... 371 00:33:06,200 --> 00:33:08,400 well, intellectual grasp. 372 00:33:08,400 --> 00:33:11,840 Well, perhaps you're right, Felix. 373 00:33:16,560 --> 00:33:19,160 I daresay you are looking for the black puddings. 374 00:33:19,160 --> 00:33:22,920 I suggested to your father that we take Mrs Crick's kind present 375 00:33:22,920 --> 00:33:27,040 to the children of the poor man in the village who cannot find work at present, 376 00:33:27,040 --> 00:33:30,360 and he agreed with me that it would be a great pleasure to them. 377 00:33:30,360 --> 00:33:32,360 So we did! 378 00:33:32,360 --> 00:33:34,360 I see. Of course. 379 00:33:34,360 --> 00:33:41,080 The mead I found so intensely alcoholic, it was quite unfit for use as a beverage. 380 00:33:41,080 --> 00:33:43,080 I've put it in my medicine chest. 381 00:33:43,080 --> 00:33:44,320 For emergencies. 382 00:33:44,320 --> 00:33:47,960 Well, I had rather hoped to tell her that we'd enjoyed her gifts. 383 00:33:47,960 --> 00:33:51,520 Well, you cannot, if we did not. 384 00:33:52,760 --> 00:33:55,720 It's a shame. That mead was a spot of pretty tipple. 385 00:33:55,720 --> 00:33:58,040 A what? 386 00:34:12,040 --> 00:34:16,840 I've taken the trouble of putting aside a sum of money every year 387 00:34:16,840 --> 00:34:20,120 towards the purchase or lease of some land. 388 00:34:21,760 --> 00:34:27,240 Thank you, Father. Though I remain sceptical as to the purpose of this labour, 389 00:34:27,240 --> 00:34:29,480 if not for the honour and glory of God. 390 00:34:29,480 --> 00:34:32,440 I hope for the honour and glory of Man. 391 00:34:37,240 --> 00:34:39,280 Then we should discuss the terms. 392 00:34:39,280 --> 00:34:41,880 Before we do so, Father, 393 00:34:41,880 --> 00:34:46,200 I wonder, do you agree that in this venture, whether here or in the Colonies, 394 00:34:46,200 --> 00:34:48,840 I will need some assistance? A bailiff? A wife. 395 00:34:52,200 --> 00:34:53,800 That seems not unreasonable. 396 00:34:53,800 --> 00:34:57,640 And what sort of wife do you think would be best for me 397 00:34:57,640 --> 00:35:01,000 as a thrifty, hard-working farmer? 398 00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:04,000 A truly Christian woman. 399 00:35:04,000 --> 00:35:07,240 Indeed, the daughter of my good-friend Doctor Chant. 400 00:35:07,240 --> 00:35:10,760 But ought she not to be able to milk cows, churn butter, rear chickens? 401 00:35:10,760 --> 00:35:14,200 Perhaps, but for a pure and saintly woman, 402 00:35:14,200 --> 00:35:19,000 you will find no-one more to your advantage than your friend Mercy. 403 00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:21,760 Yes, yes, Mercy Chant, but Father... 404 00:35:21,760 --> 00:35:24,560 Mother should hear this. 405 00:35:24,560 --> 00:35:27,240 Mother! Mother! 406 00:35:27,240 --> 00:35:28,720 Yes? 407 00:35:42,240 --> 00:35:45,840 I came here today to tell you that fate, 408 00:35:45,840 --> 00:35:52,080 or Providence, or God if you wish, has placed in my path a woman, 409 00:35:52,080 --> 00:35:55,440 a regular church-goer of simple faith, honest-hearted, 410 00:35:55,440 --> 00:36:02,200 receptive, intelligent, graceful, pure, virtuous as a Vestal. 411 00:36:02,200 --> 00:36:04,680 She is also, I might add, exceptionally beautiful. 412 00:36:04,680 --> 00:36:06,680 But Angel, 413 00:36:06,680 --> 00:36:09,800 is she from...a good family? 414 00:36:09,800 --> 00:36:12,800 Is she, in short...a lady? 415 00:36:12,800 --> 00:36:18,160 She is not what in common parlance is called a "lady", but a lady nevertheless, in feeling and nature. 416 00:36:18,160 --> 00:36:19,720 But in common parlance? 417 00:36:19,720 --> 00:36:22,120 She's a milkmaid. 418 00:36:28,920 --> 00:36:31,080 Mercy Chant is of a good family! 419 00:36:31,080 --> 00:36:33,160 Oh, pooh to good families! Angel! 420 00:36:33,160 --> 00:36:35,720 What is the use of a good family in the life I shall lead? 421 00:36:35,720 --> 00:36:39,640 Mercy is accomplished, and accomplishments have their charm. 422 00:36:39,640 --> 00:36:43,360 And Tess has accomplishments. She has many accomplishments, Mother! 423 00:36:43,360 --> 00:36:46,400 True, she has no formal education, but she is an apt pupil, 424 00:36:46,400 --> 00:36:49,560 brim full of poetry, and actualised poetry! 425 00:36:49,560 --> 00:36:52,000 She lives what paper-poets only write! 426 00:36:52,000 --> 00:36:57,480 She's also a devote, unimpeachable God-fearing Christian, precisely of the species you desire to propagate! 427 00:36:57,480 --> 00:37:02,680 Angel, please! I beg your pardon, Mother, but all this talk of Mercy Chant. Can Mercy milk a cow? 428 00:37:02,680 --> 00:37:04,960 Or cook? Perhaps not. 429 00:37:04,960 --> 00:37:08,400 But Mercy Chant is our choice, Angel. 430 00:37:08,400 --> 00:37:11,400 There was a time she seemed to be your choice too. 431 00:37:16,080 --> 00:37:18,160 Goodbye, Mother. I will write soon. 432 00:37:18,160 --> 00:37:19,640 Be sure that you do. 433 00:37:26,000 --> 00:37:29,680 Angel... You know, of course, that no-one 434 00:37:29,680 --> 00:37:33,760 could be less concerned with worldly wealth and status than myself. 435 00:37:33,760 --> 00:37:37,640 It makes no difference to me if she's penniless or well-provided, 436 00:37:37,640 --> 00:37:41,400 a milkmaid or a lady, 437 00:37:41,400 --> 00:37:43,760 providing... 438 00:37:43,760 --> 00:37:46,800 she is pure 439 00:37:46,800 --> 00:37:49,840 and of good faith. 440 00:37:49,840 --> 00:37:55,560 Of course, legally you're at liberty to do as you please. 441 00:37:55,560 --> 00:38:01,480 We simply ask that you pay the closest possible attention to her faith, 442 00:38:01,480 --> 00:38:04,160 her virtue, her history 443 00:38:04,160 --> 00:38:07,800 and morality before you make what will no doubt be 444 00:38:07,800 --> 00:38:11,200 the most important decision of your life. 445 00:38:25,520 --> 00:38:30,360 Mr Clare, I'd wondered where... Tess, you will not Mr Clare me ever again! 446 00:38:30,360 --> 00:38:36,160 I'm devoted to you, Tess, with all my heart, and I love and adore you 447 00:38:36,160 --> 00:38:41,680 in all sincerity, and I shall need a wife, Tess, someone by my side. 448 00:38:41,680 --> 00:38:46,920 And I can think of no-one better, more beautiful, more virtuous than you. 449 00:38:50,240 --> 00:38:52,360 Marry me, Tess. 450 00:38:52,360 --> 00:38:53,880 Be my wife! 451 00:38:55,520 --> 00:38:58,600 Mr Clare, I cannot be your wife. 452 00:39:04,280 --> 00:39:07,040 But Tess... No, it cannot be. 453 00:39:07,040 --> 00:39:09,000 But you love me, Tess? Yes! 454 00:39:09,000 --> 00:39:13,480 And I would rather be yours than anybody's in the whole world. 455 00:39:13,480 --> 00:39:15,960 But I cannot marry you! 456 00:39:15,960 --> 00:39:18,640 You are engaged to someone else? No! 457 00:39:18,640 --> 00:39:21,080 You love another man? How can you ask that? 458 00:39:21,080 --> 00:39:22,680 Then why do you refuse me? 459 00:39:22,680 --> 00:39:26,160 Your parents would not like me. They will when they meet you, Tess. 460 00:39:26,160 --> 00:39:29,720 That's why I went home, to tell them all about you. You have someone else! 461 00:39:29,720 --> 00:39:33,400 In Emminster, I know all about her. Mercy? 462 00:39:33,400 --> 00:39:36,200 How did...? 463 00:39:36,200 --> 00:39:41,440 Mercy Chant is a friend, Tess. An old childhood friend, nothing more. 464 00:39:41,440 --> 00:39:44,440 I love...have only ever loved you. 465 00:39:44,440 --> 00:39:47,680 And I love you. 466 00:39:47,680 --> 00:39:50,160 I only ever want to love you. 467 00:39:51,680 --> 00:39:54,160 But I will not... 468 00:39:54,160 --> 00:39:57,600 I cannot marry you. 469 00:40:14,000 --> 00:40:16,040 You didn't come for me this morning. 470 00:40:16,040 --> 00:40:18,640 I've started to wonder if you're avoiding me, Tess. 471 00:40:18,640 --> 00:40:21,920 Perhaps I spoke too soon? Perhaps you need time to reconsider. 472 00:40:21,920 --> 00:40:24,800 Do you need more time, Tess? 473 00:40:24,800 --> 00:40:27,600 It's because of Retty. 474 00:40:27,600 --> 00:40:32,040 I swore to her that I would never be your wife. It would break her heart. 475 00:40:32,040 --> 00:40:36,960 You cannot tie our future happiness to that of Retty Priddle's, Tess. It's absurd. I made a promise! 476 00:40:36,960 --> 00:40:39,080 I will not break my word. 477 00:40:40,880 --> 00:40:44,120 I promised myself I would never kiss you until you were mine, 478 00:40:44,120 --> 00:40:46,480 but I can't help myself, Tess. 479 00:40:46,480 --> 00:40:48,160 This is torture. 480 00:40:48,160 --> 00:40:53,800 I can't sleep, I can't eat, I can't read, I can do nothing until I hear that some day you'll be my wife. 481 00:40:55,880 --> 00:40:58,960 Then I will tell you. 482 00:40:58,960 --> 00:41:03,600 I will tell you my experiences and all about myself, everything. 483 00:41:03,600 --> 00:41:07,080 I will give you a complete answer. A complete and final answer? Yes. Soon? 484 00:41:07,080 --> 00:41:08,360 This week. 485 00:41:08,360 --> 00:41:10,240 Tomorrow. Sunday. 486 00:41:10,240 --> 00:41:11,720 Sunday, then. 487 00:41:13,840 --> 00:41:16,760 But I may hope, Tess? 488 00:41:16,760 --> 00:41:19,040 Say I may hope. 489 00:41:41,320 --> 00:41:46,880 The London train's a quarter of four. You're sure you don't want me to go instead? We'll be fine. 490 00:41:46,880 --> 00:41:49,400 Be careful then. The two of you. 491 00:41:52,120 --> 00:41:53,600 Walk on. 492 00:42:12,440 --> 00:42:16,120 Your hands are like cold marble. Come here, come closer. 493 00:42:39,240 --> 00:42:43,200 I was born in Marlott, about 25 miles from here. 494 00:42:44,800 --> 00:42:49,840 I have little to say of my childhood, except that it was happy...in places. 495 00:42:49,840 --> 00:42:53,600 But there was trouble in my family. 496 00:42:53,600 --> 00:42:56,720 My father wasn't very industrious. 497 00:42:56,720 --> 00:42:58,760 He drank. 498 00:42:58,760 --> 00:43:02,160 He drinks a little... 499 00:43:02,160 --> 00:43:04,840 and one day 500 00:43:04,840 --> 00:43:08,600 he was told something very peculiar... 501 00:43:08,600 --> 00:43:11,560 about us. 502 00:43:11,560 --> 00:43:14,040 About me. 503 00:43:14,040 --> 00:43:19,040 Go on. I am not in fact a Durbeyfield, 504 00:43:19,040 --> 00:43:20,480 but a D'Urberville, 505 00:43:20,480 --> 00:43:24,760 a direct descendant of that great family 506 00:43:24,760 --> 00:43:26,800 and we are gone to nothing. 507 00:43:26,800 --> 00:43:29,640 A D'Urberville? 508 00:43:29,640 --> 00:43:32,480 Yes. 509 00:43:32,480 --> 00:43:34,520 And is that all the trouble, Tess? 510 00:43:36,440 --> 00:43:38,800 I was told you hated old families. 511 00:43:38,800 --> 00:43:45,040 I do! I hate the aristocratic principle, but if you take my name, you'll escape yours. 512 00:43:45,040 --> 00:43:46,560 TRAIN WHISTLE BLOWS 513 00:43:46,560 --> 00:43:49,240 I suppose I will. Then do it. 514 00:43:50,800 --> 00:43:54,480 One word, Tess. Say yes! 515 00:43:56,720 --> 00:44:00,080 If you're sure it will make you very happy to have me as your wife. 516 00:44:00,080 --> 00:44:02,120 It will. And if you want me, 517 00:44:02,120 --> 00:44:04,560 all of me, 518 00:44:04,560 --> 00:44:06,120 whatever my past offences. 519 00:44:06,120 --> 00:44:07,520 I do. 520 00:44:10,160 --> 00:44:11,760 Then... 521 00:44:15,000 --> 00:44:16,600 ..yes. 522 00:44:16,600 --> 00:44:19,480 Yes, you will? Yes! Oh, yes! 523 00:44:27,760 --> 00:44:31,000 This doesn't look much like gladness, Tess. 524 00:44:31,000 --> 00:44:33,760 Because I've broken my vow. 525 00:44:33,760 --> 00:44:37,160 I promised myself I would never marry. 526 00:44:37,160 --> 00:44:38,760 But you are glad? 527 00:44:38,760 --> 00:44:40,880 Tess, you do care for me? 528 00:44:52,600 --> 00:44:54,080 Now do you believe me? 529 00:44:59,160 --> 00:45:03,280 We must keep it secret, even from Crick, until we can name the day. 530 00:45:03,280 --> 00:45:05,400 But I must write to my mother. 531 00:45:05,400 --> 00:45:08,040 You don't mind me doing that? Of course not. 532 00:45:08,040 --> 00:45:10,680 Where did you say she lives? Marlott. 533 00:45:10,680 --> 00:45:14,200 The other side of Blackmore Vale. I know Marlott. 534 00:45:14,200 --> 00:45:16,480 You danced there once. 535 00:45:16,480 --> 00:45:18,520 A May Day, some years ago. 536 00:45:20,680 --> 00:45:22,920 You? 537 00:45:22,920 --> 00:45:24,400 That was you! 538 00:45:26,240 --> 00:45:29,320 I knew it! I knew I'd seen you somewhere before! 539 00:45:31,520 --> 00:45:33,000 Good night. 540 00:45:43,040 --> 00:45:45,800 "Dear Tess... 541 00:45:45,800 --> 00:45:49,480 "We are all so glad here to hear your news. 542 00:45:49,480 --> 00:45:51,160 "But Tess, 543 00:45:51,160 --> 00:45:55,640 "I say between ourselves, quite private, but very strong, 544 00:45:55,640 --> 00:46:00,360 "that on no account, do you say a word about your bygone trouble. 545 00:46:00,360 --> 00:46:03,720 "Many a woman, some the highest in the land, 546 00:46:03,720 --> 00:46:09,680 "have had a trouble in their time, and why should you trumpet yours when they don't trumpet theirs? 547 00:46:09,680 --> 00:46:14,280 "Especially as it was long ago and not your fault at all. 548 00:46:14,280 --> 00:46:16,760 "I know it is in your childish nature 549 00:46:16,760 --> 00:46:19,120 "to tell all that is in your heart, 550 00:46:19,120 --> 00:46:23,840 "but remember you did solemnly promise me never to let it out. 551 00:46:23,840 --> 00:46:27,280 "What's past is past. 552 00:46:27,280 --> 00:46:30,160 "Your affectionate mother, Joan." 553 00:46:30,160 --> 00:46:33,560 This is what I wanted you to see. What is it? 554 00:46:33,560 --> 00:46:38,040 It's your ancestral seat, Tess, the House of the D'Urberville! 555 00:46:39,600 --> 00:46:42,240 To think I'm marrying into nobility! 556 00:46:42,240 --> 00:46:43,800 Lady Teresa D'Urberville. 557 00:46:43,800 --> 00:46:46,160 No Lady. Just dairymaid Tess. 558 00:46:46,160 --> 00:46:50,720 Not that I approve, of course, politically speaking, but at least my mother will be pleased. 559 00:46:50,720 --> 00:46:54,360 You must revert to the old spelling while you still can. D'Urberville! 560 00:46:54,360 --> 00:46:56,760 I like the other way best. No, you must! 561 00:46:56,760 --> 00:47:01,680 You must stop all these arrivistes snapping it up, passing themselves off as the real thing. 562 00:47:01,680 --> 00:47:06,600 What do you mean? I met a counterfeit D'Urberville. In Emminster. 563 00:47:08,160 --> 00:47:10,080 I don't understand. 564 00:47:10,080 --> 00:47:12,360 Who...who did you meet? 565 00:47:12,360 --> 00:47:14,120 A Mr Alec D'Urberville! 566 00:47:14,120 --> 00:47:16,760 Sinister chap, didn't like him at all. 567 00:47:16,760 --> 00:47:19,920 And the cheek of the man, claiming to be your blood relation 568 00:47:19,920 --> 00:47:25,400 when in fact he's no such thing, just a jumped-up chocolate millionaire from Bradford of all places. 569 00:47:28,480 --> 00:47:30,520 What is it, Tess? 570 00:47:30,520 --> 00:47:33,160 I'm only teasing you. It's no good. 571 00:47:33,160 --> 00:47:36,280 I didn't mean any harm. I will never, ever make you happy. 572 00:47:36,280 --> 00:47:39,880 Tess. I will not have you talk like that! Come here. Sssh! 573 00:47:46,040 --> 00:47:51,800 I thought perhaps New Years Eve. Then we can begin the New Year as husband and wife. 574 00:47:51,800 --> 00:47:56,560 Then in the spring we can set out on our great adventure. 575 00:47:56,560 --> 00:47:59,120 Argentina, Brazil. 576 00:48:02,680 --> 00:48:05,000 You don't like the plan? 577 00:48:05,000 --> 00:48:07,720 I think it's a fine plan. 578 00:48:07,720 --> 00:48:11,680 I just wish that we could stay here, that's all. 579 00:48:11,680 --> 00:48:13,960 I just wish that this could go on forever. 580 00:48:16,280 --> 00:48:20,040 That it could always be summer and autumn, 581 00:48:20,040 --> 00:48:24,400 and you were always courting me, and always thinking of me as you do now. 582 00:48:25,960 --> 00:48:27,440 As I always will. 583 00:48:42,240 --> 00:48:43,560 A-hem! 584 00:48:43,560 --> 00:48:45,600 We were just talking! 585 00:48:45,600 --> 00:48:48,200 Oh, talking, is it? I see. Talking. 586 00:48:50,640 --> 00:48:53,000 We're going to be married! 587 00:48:53,000 --> 00:48:58,320 I knew it! Didn't I say? Oh, she's too good for a dairymaid, I said. 588 00:48:58,320 --> 00:49:01,720 Oh, she's a prize for any man. 589 00:49:01,720 --> 00:49:06,840 Soon as I set eyes on her. A lady she is, I said, a proper lady. 590 00:49:06,840 --> 00:49:10,320 But who'll do my skimming now, Tess? I'm losing my best milker! 591 00:49:28,400 --> 00:49:30,400 I'm so proud of you. 592 00:49:30,400 --> 00:49:35,640 Proud, why? Because no-one else is going to marry him. 593 00:49:35,640 --> 00:49:37,920 No fine lady, 594 00:49:37,920 --> 00:49:40,840 nobody in jewels and gold, just you, Tess. 595 00:49:40,840 --> 00:49:43,840 You who lives just like we do. 596 00:49:55,920 --> 00:49:59,680 Was that for love of her, because other lips have been there? 597 00:49:59,680 --> 00:50:01,360 I never thought of that! 598 00:50:02,960 --> 00:50:06,200 We're so happy for you, Tess. Are you happy? 599 00:50:06,200 --> 00:50:08,000 More than I can say! 600 00:50:09,440 --> 00:50:11,000 Retty? 601 00:50:11,000 --> 00:50:12,640 Come here, my love. 602 00:50:23,760 --> 00:50:27,120 Retty, I'm so sorry. 603 00:50:27,120 --> 00:50:29,480 I should hate you. 604 00:50:29,480 --> 00:50:31,760 I want to hate you. 605 00:50:31,760 --> 00:50:35,760 I've tried. But I can't. 606 00:51:05,840 --> 00:51:08,760 Tess? 607 00:51:08,760 --> 00:51:11,080 Yes, Retty? 608 00:51:11,080 --> 00:51:13,160 When you are married, 609 00:51:13,160 --> 00:51:16,120 would you tell him all about me? 610 00:51:17,680 --> 00:51:20,640 How I loved him, 611 00:51:20,640 --> 00:51:23,800 and tried to hate you for marrying him, 612 00:51:23,800 --> 00:51:25,520 but couldn't, 613 00:51:25,520 --> 00:51:27,520 because you were his choice. 614 00:51:29,920 --> 00:51:32,240 You will tell him that, won't you, Tess? 615 00:51:45,720 --> 00:51:47,360 So, what do you think? 616 00:51:47,360 --> 00:51:49,120 It's perfect! 617 00:51:49,120 --> 00:51:52,400 You're so kind. I never want to take it off. 618 00:51:52,400 --> 00:51:55,000 Well, you must, I'm afraid, it's getting late. 619 00:51:55,000 --> 00:51:59,200 I'll see to the horse and gig and I'll meet you at the inn. 620 00:51:59,560 --> 00:52:02,280 Just one little look. No, you mustn't! It's bad luck. 621 00:52:21,720 --> 00:52:27,480 Well, if it isn't that little whore from Trantridge! 622 00:52:32,640 --> 00:52:34,440 Apologise. Get off me! 623 00:52:34,440 --> 00:52:36,480 Apologise at once, damn it! 624 00:52:37,520 --> 00:52:40,360 Beg pardon...sir. 625 00:52:42,520 --> 00:52:44,360 It was a mistake. 626 00:52:44,360 --> 00:52:47,600 I thought that she was someone else. 627 00:52:50,280 --> 00:52:52,240 My mistake. 628 00:52:54,040 --> 00:53:00,280 "I have wanted to tell you by word of mouth, many times, and each time my courage has failed me. 629 00:53:00,280 --> 00:53:05,440 "Not because I fear you will not understand and forgive, 630 00:53:05,440 --> 00:53:08,000 "but because my love for you is so great. 631 00:53:08,000 --> 00:53:09,800 "My Angel! 632 00:53:09,800 --> 00:53:12,520 "Yet, it seems as if, 633 00:53:12,520 --> 00:53:17,760 "even if we were to travel to the ends of the earth, my past would follow me there. 634 00:53:17,760 --> 00:53:24,120 "Today's encounter has confirmed this in my mind, and I fear that I can never be happy, 635 00:53:24,120 --> 00:53:28,840 "never at rest, until I tell you the whole truth. 636 00:53:30,200 --> 00:53:33,960 "Some time ago, when I was just 17 years old, 637 00:53:33,960 --> 00:53:37,920 "and shortly after our first encounter on that May Day, 638 00:53:37,920 --> 00:53:40,560 "I met a man. 639 00:53:40,560 --> 00:53:43,200 "His name was Alec D'Urberville." 640 00:54:30,600 --> 00:54:32,280 Tess! 641 00:54:38,680 --> 00:54:41,120 I've been waiting for you all night. 642 00:54:42,680 --> 00:54:44,960 I wanted to know that... 643 00:54:44,960 --> 00:54:46,440 What, Tess? 644 00:54:48,520 --> 00:54:50,280 Nothing has changed. 645 00:54:52,280 --> 00:54:54,040 Everything is just as it was. 646 00:54:55,600 --> 00:54:57,640 Of course it is. 647 00:54:59,200 --> 00:55:01,720 I knew it! I knew it! 648 00:55:04,000 --> 00:55:05,960 At last, I can be happy. 649 00:55:42,280 --> 00:55:45,720 I think that's everything. Except one last thing. What's that? 650 00:55:45,720 --> 00:55:49,520 You'll be pleased to hear I've forgotten my harp. I'll get it. 651 00:55:50,560 --> 00:55:52,840 You're a lucky man. 652 00:56:47,480 --> 00:56:49,760 There you are, Tess. 653 00:56:53,200 --> 00:56:55,720 You must get changed. We'll be late. 654 00:56:55,720 --> 00:56:59,480 There has been a mistake, a most terrible mistake. 655 00:56:59,480 --> 00:57:03,480 I must tell you all my faults and blunders. No faults today. Today you're perfect. 656 00:57:03,480 --> 00:57:08,400 I'm not! You think I am, but I am not! There'll be plenty of time to discover each other's failings. 657 00:57:08,400 --> 00:57:12,840 We can both confess after the wedding. Take it in turns. Liven up a dull evening. 658 00:57:14,040 --> 00:57:15,560 Come here. 659 00:57:15,560 --> 00:57:17,720 What's wrong? 660 00:57:20,960 --> 00:57:22,680 I must get dressed. 661 00:57:25,720 --> 00:57:27,520 Yes. Of course. 662 00:57:27,520 --> 00:57:29,640 Don't keep me waiting. 663 00:58:02,920 --> 00:58:05,600 It's all my fault, Angel. I broke my word and now I must pay. 664 00:58:05,600 --> 00:58:08,160 I take it you forgive me. Now you can forgive me. 665 00:58:08,160 --> 00:58:10,840 You're D'Urberville's tart. 666 00:58:10,840 --> 00:58:13,440 You're still a beauty, Tess. He's such a good man. 667 00:58:13,440 --> 00:58:15,880 He's a man, Tess. Just like the other one. 668 00:58:15,880 --> 00:58:17,080 Father, she's spotless. 669 00:58:17,080 --> 00:58:20,000 There is one thing, Tess. I will have you. 670 00:58:20,000 --> 00:58:24,440 If either of you know any impediment, why you may not be joined in matrimony, 671 00:58:24,440 --> 00:58:26,640 ye do now confess it. 672 00:58:24,440 --> 00:58:26,640 SHE SOBS 673 00:58:37,520 --> 00:58:40,880 Subtitles by Red Bee Media Ltd