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  • He said he was a member of parliament so I trusted him.

  • He told me he wished me to meet another member.

  • His member for love.

  • He locked the door,

  • I pleaded for my maidenhood, but...

  • The words are common place but they deserve the frontest piece.

  • Show them Maud.

  • The execution for the member of love.

  • The delicate rendering

  • of the crimson tip.

  • I don't have to borrow, very rare.

  • I had it as a young man, it was sold in difficultly.

  • For a shilling.

  • I would not part with it now for fifty pounds.

  • But having slipped the bolt off the door..

  • A curator of poisons, as my uncle described himself to me.

  • I was twelve years old when he began inoculating me with poison.

  • Grain by grain, scruple by scruple.

  • So I should be immune to what I read.

  • Be his librarian.

  • And when he lost his sight, his eyes.

  • So they came together.

  • The romance might have been somewhat unusual,

  • but that gave it all the charm of the unexpected.

  • And there, as the red sun tinges the sky,

  • and the chatter of birds heralds the coming night,

  • we must leave them.

  • You don't care for your uncles subjects?

  • I'm his secretary, it's a matter of total indifference to me.

  • I find it rather curious to find a lady so cool

  • and unmoved by something designed to stir the emotions.

  • Most ladies in those books and paintings seem to me to be singularly unmoved by it.

  • You are very uncommon, Miss Lilly.

  • So I understand Sir.

  • Miss Lilly.

  • Dear Miss Lilly, we need to talk. It's about your mother's will.

  • I know nothing of what I read from those books, Sir.

  • I've not come for that, Miss Lilly.

  • I can get that in the street corner.

  • I'm here to help you.

  • How much do you think you'll receive when you marry?

  • A few hundred.

  • Forty thousand pounds.

  • Who told you such nonsense?

  • Hawtrey.

  • You're the talk of the shady book shops in London and in Paris.

  • Your readings

  • and the favors men imagine follow them.

  • Your uncle is a villain, Miss Lilly!

  • And you are not?

  • I came here to seduce you.

  • Secure your fortune.

  • But I saw what life has made of you and I knew it wouldn't work.

  • To a woman like you it would be an insult.

  • Instead I want to free you.

  • You are very gallant, Mr. Rivers.

  • Suppose I don't care to be freed.

  • I think you long for it.

  • Go please, go!

  • Good afternoon, Miss Lilly.

  • Good afternoon, Mr. Rivers.

  • Will you marry me?

  • How dare you?

  • He's lively today, ain't he Mr. Rivers?

  • Not as lively as me, Charles.

  • I swear I will not touch you after the ceremony,

  • we will go our separate ways.

  • Why would you do such a thing?

  • For half your fortune.

  • I'd tell him his idea was nonsense.

  • My uncle would pursue me.

  • Not if he thinks you're in the mad house he whispers.

  • But it would not be me who was locked up.

  • His plan is to install a new maid

  • a compliant chaperon. A thief

  • who will think she's cheating me.

  • Instead, we will cheat her.

  • She will take with her into the mad house all the taint of my mothers madness,

  • my uncles filth,

  • my very name.

  • He is right.

  • I would be free.

  • I return to London in three days.

  • I must secure the maid when I go back.

  • We will never have this chance again! Will you?

  • No. It would be foul.

  • Putting a girl in the mad house.

  • The girl's despicable, a thief.

  • She would do it to you.

  • My uncle will be here at any moment.

  • You must not open that.

  • You belong out there!

  • Not locked up here with this filth!

  • Go!

  • Go!

  • There was an obstacle to Mr. Rivers plan.

  • My maid Agnes.

  • The way he painted that fruit, Miss.

  • You could eat it.

  • He has an eye for it.

  • And for you Miss.

  • Are you all right, Miss Lilly?

  • I think she may have twisted her ankle, Sir.

  • Really, Agnes.

  • I have not.

  • Oh well, we must take no chance of that, Miss Lilly.

  • It's treacherous ground here.

  • Allow me to assist you.

  • I cannot just dismiss Agnes.

  • Leave it to me.

  • Agnes, every time that I've looked into her eyes,

  • I was thinking of you!

  • Mr. Way, Mr. Way!

  • Agnes!

  • I was shaken by what we had done to Agnes.

  • But my uncle had trained me to well to feel it for long.

  • Mr. Rivers returned to London.

  • Recommending the new maid,

  • whose character was as false as her courtesy.

  • Here is the evil little fingersmith who's going to make us rich.

  • Remember, she has to become you. And you her.

  • You have one month until I return.

  • Is it all right, Miss?

  • Very satisfactory.

  • She has come to Briar to swallow me up.

  • Like clutch of eggs.

  • What do London ladies do this time of day?

  • Make visits, to other ladies like you Miss.

  • Ladies like me?

  • There are no ladies like me.

  • But I grew used to her,

  • to her life, her warmth.

  • She was not the gullible girl of a villaineers plot.

  • But a girl with a history, with hates and likings.

  • Yet to escape from Briar

  • I must despise her. Must deceive her.

  • Miss.

  • It's not bad news, is it Miss?

  • Mr. Rivers is coming tomorrow.

  • Oh lord!

  • I must change our dresses.

  • This one for sure.

  • I want you to have that.

  • Me Miss? But this is your best dress?

  • I want to show Mr. Rivers that...

  • That I do so much approve of you. Of his choice.

  • Oh Miss!

  • That's one of the nicest things any one's ever said to me.

  • But really, I can't.

  • I can't, really, Sue.

  • She looked so beautiful.

  • I had to keep telling myself, over and over again, what she planned to do to me.

  • To go on.

  • Oh my goodness, Miss!

  • I look like a real lady.

  • She changed even my uncles books for me.

  • I thought them dead

  • but the words came suddenly alive.

  • Full of meaning.

  • She must think we love one another!

  • Oh damn it, Maud!

  • There's another hour gone.

  • In two days I will leave.

  • And I will never see you again.

  • Wake her up, she'll burn.

  • Let go of me.

  • I've lost half for this.

  • Lost it to a wretched little fingersmith.

  • Let me..

  • She'd laugh in your face if she knew.

  • If I told her.

  • You mustn't.

  • I agree.

  • Do you want to stay here forever?

  • Appear to love me. Marry me!

  • I can't.

  • Maud!

  • - Miss Maud? - Please.

  • Miss Maud?

  • She's coming.

  • Tell me..

  • Tell me a way..

  • Tell you what, Miss?

  • Tell me,

  • on her wedding night, what must a wife do?

  • Aren't you a pearl.

  • Everything I say to myself is changed.

  • She has touched the life of me.

  • The quake of me.

  • But she is ashamed.

  • He'll be leaving here tonight Miss.

  • She didn't love me.

  • her feelings were false, part of a trap.

  • Why should I not trap her to escape from this foul place.

  • The night I escaped, I needed to do one last thing.

  • How fast your heart beats Maud.

  • I told you I don't want to hurt you.

  • But we must show the marks of true love.

  • Are you by any chance bleeding

  • to save me the pain?

  • Do you mean to insult me in every possible way?

  • Hold out the sheet.

  • The fashionable couple on their wedding night.

  • Sit down here Susan.

  • Miss Smith.

  • Were you ever a maid with Lady Stonely of Mayfair?

  • No Sir.

  • That's one of poor Mrs. Rivers fantasies.

  • Ever since the wedding night she's made up these stories.

  • Fiction... Yes.

  • Does she read books?

  • Her passion is books.

  • There you have it Graves.

  • The over exposure of women to literature breeds unnatural fantasies.

  • - Indeed. - Unnatural?

  • Oh Sir, you don't know the worst of it.

  • It's not your shame, Susan, your guilt.

  • You did nothing to invite the gross intentions

  • my wife and her madness tried to force upon you.

  • Is this true?

  • Please, these tears speak themselves.

  • Come on Susan!

  • You are not to blame.

  • I'm so sorry you were exposed to such horrible things.

  • Speak, damn you, speak!

  • Oh my own poor Mistress.

  • My heart was breaking.

  • That is my story.

  • That is what brought me here.

  • You were very convincing Maud.

  • Don't speak to me or I shall kill you.

  • I have betrayed her.

  • Mrs. Rivers.

  • Sit Mrs. Rivers over there, if you will.

  • You see, they tricked me.

  • She's fit, can't do it.

  • Hold her steady, man! She may pull off her joints!

  • We will not have you lying here, Mrs. Rivers.

  • You can choke yourself and it's no business of ours.

  • Chew off your tongue if you like.

  • We prefer them quite here.

  • Welcome to London.

  • How could we have done this to her?

  • Believe me,

  • she'll be better taken care of than where she came from.

  • Are we here?

  • Is this our house?

  • I thought for a moment that was the Briar bell.

  • We're near the river.

  • Chelsea?

  • Not quite.

  • Lant Street.

  • Wow...

  • Come on or I shall leave you here.

  • We cannot live grandly, Maud, until we have your money.

  • We'll just wait for the lawyers to release it.

  • Do you want to stay out here and freeze?

  • Mr. Ibbs.

  • Mrs. Maud Rivers.

  • Very pleased to meet you, Mrs. Rivers.

  • Do come in, make yourself at home.

  • Couldn't you imagine a better night than this, Mr. Ibbs?

  • This is a very good night, gentleman.

  • A very good night indeed.

  • Let me take the ladies cloak.

  • Do beg me a pardon.

  • Who's she?

  • How much are you going to pop that for, Mr. Ibbs.

  • Richard, Richard?

  • Good boy!

  • Marry him, Miss. Mr. Rivers loves you.

  • What kept me alive was the thought that Mrs. Sucksby would find me.

  • And then I would find Maud.

  • And kill her.

  • She lived here, Sue, didn't she?

  • Will you stop touching me!

  • What a fool I've been. What an idiot.

  • This is Sue's house of thieves, isn't it?

  • Honest thieves, dear.

  • Get me a cab.

  • Handsome or haggeny?

  • Don't you dare talk to me like that!

  • Oh she's got a dander, ain't she?

  • If you don't get me a cab

  • I shall walk.

  • I shall find a policeman.

  • Never there when you want them, my dear.

  • Not in this fog.

  • Come on.

  • - John. - Give us the bag.

  • Gentleman, throw it.

  • - Get her! - That's enough!

  • If you don't let me go

  • I will kill your baby.

  • I have come too far for... this.

  • John!

  • I mean it.

  • I will.

  • Get me a cab.

  • I will do it.

  • My dear.

  • I've been caring for unwanted babies for years.

  • At the moment I'm looking after seven babies.

  • Now you can make it six if you like.

  • Or five.

  • No one would miss them.

  • Come on, come on.

  • Go see to the fire, John.

  • Make some tea, Dainty.

  • Strengthen her up a bit.

  • Go on with the mark there, Betty.

  • My poor hands have suffered so much recently.

  • Mrs. Furbisher, Mrs. Furbisher?

  • Do you want the kirk?

  • Where you from?

  • London.

  • I'm a little out of touch.

  • And the season's only just beginning.

  • Are you out?

  • No I ain't.

  • So young.

  • I'm not much in.

  • In...

  • That is the first two word I've heard you say, Mrs. Rivers.

  • In.

  • Keep telling the truth like that, Mrs. Rivers,

  • and you may well be out.

  • Before the end of the season.

  • In! In! In!

  • I couldn't bare to wake you, dear.

  • Feed the babies upstairs, Dainty.

  • Now... Oh... Come on now.

  • I can see you're a spirited girl.

  • But you can't imagine we mean you any harm.

  • I can't imagine you mean me any kind of good...

  • when you insist on keeping me here when I so clearly wish to leave!

  • Just hear the grammar in that, Mr. Ibbs.

  • Here, let me take your glove.

  • Her uncle taught her to be very particular about her fingers.

  • Made you read a lot of filthy French books.

  • Did he touch dear, were he oughtn't?

  • Oh never mind.

  • Better your own than a stranger I always say.

  • I'll get you a nice cup of tea.

  • You plan to kill me, don't you?

  • It would mean nothing to me, but she would not allow it.

  • But has she got to do with this?

  • She sent me to Briar.

  • This is her plan, she controls everything.

  • How does she know about my fortune?

  • From some servant?

  • From her.

  • You're liars. You're cheats.

  • How could you know my mother?

  • I was born in an asylum.

  • Dear, oh dear.

  • We're not going to put that together again, are we?

  • No you weren't born in the asylum dear.

  • You was born here.

  • Marianne, that was the ladies name,

  • wasn't it dear?

  • She ran away from Briar just like you did

  • only her gentleman didn't do the decent thing, not like your husband.

  • She got my name from a woman in the Borough that did the girls in their complaints.

  • Did she ever have complaints, Mr. Ibbs?

  • Too far gone to get rid of the poor creature.

  • She was terrified, poor lamb.

  • It was her father and her brother, your uncle Lilly, they were after her.

  • It's why I made up a bed in front of the fire, like I did for you.

  • And she had her baby right here.

  • Oh! How Marianne loved her little baby girl!

  • Poor little scrap!

  • Then we heard it, didn't we?

  • - The carriage. - Your uncle had found her.

  • He was hammering at the door. And Marianne, she was sobbing.

  • I must name her, I must!

  • But not with a name like I've been cursed with

  • But a plain name.

  • I shall call her..

  • Maud.

  • Susan.

  • As God as my witness.

  • She cried

  • I don't want to put my baby through what I've been through.

  • Take my baby Susie

  • and bring her up yourself, Mrs. Sucksby.

  • Poor, and honest.

  • She begged and pleaded and

  • It would have tightened her heart to stone to refuse her so...

  • before Mr. Ibbs opened the door

  • I gave her the baby that I was holding.

  • Because she was born on the same day.

  • Take her, quick!

  • That's it.

  • So your brother thinks she's yours.

  • She has the name of a lady after all.

  • Her name is Maud.

  • My name is Ethel.

  • My name is...

  • You must believe me!

  • Susan!

  • Susan!

  • I believe you,

  • Thank you!

  • That's a lot of comfort, Mrs. Rivers.

  • Miss Wilson believes there are creatures on the moon.

  • Damn you!

  • I told you that in strict confidence!

  • I'm not Maud Rivers,

  • I'm Susan Smith!

  • There you are, back with us.

  • I hope you don't oppose this sherry;

  • miss Lilly, sherry in a ladies chamber

  • I could never agree to it but,

  • a bit of honest brandy is a bracer.

  • She's got a good mouth for spirits.

  • I know you are lying.

  • No, you haven't heard anything yet, Maud.

  • I'm an orphan.

  • My mother was mad.

  • And her pa and brother...

  • preferred the madhouse to shame.

  • She went mad when they put her in there.

  • I'll say..

  • I knew then I was mad...

  • only the maddest... who's brains were over heated

  • were given the plunge.

  • I'm her husband, she'll do as I tell her!

  • Leave it to me, gentleman.

  • We'll do it my way. She'll do it, believe me.

  • Well,

  • I always say brandy is the best sleeping draft

  • Here.

  • If Marianne wasn't my mother

  • then who was?

  • God alone knows, dear.

  • I took foundlings you see, I have the goodness of my heart

  • and you was one of them.

  • This!

  • is Sue's mother.

  • Then,

  • how do I have a fortune?

  • Sit down.

  • Marianne took pity on you,

  • a poor foundling

  • came to a lonely old place like Briar.

  • There was plenty for both she said.

  • Poor woman might have needed it, wouldn't change her mind.

  • She left half to you

  • and half to her own daughter Susan.

  • Due on yours and Susan’s twenty-first birthdays

  • in one month's time.

  • And you planned to get all of it?

  • Oh, no no, it's Mrs. Sucksbys scheme.

  • She gets the major share,

  • I get a mere three thousand pounds.

  • Did Sue know what you've planned?

  • No dear.

  • You're not any villains, you're fools!

  • I won't sign anything and Susan's in no position to.

  • No, you're right.

  • Sue, or should I say your poor mistress...

  • my wife Mrs. Rivers

  • is in no condition to sign for her, is she?

  • I'll be forced to sign for her.

  • Thanks to your help.

  • What have I done?

  • Damn you, I told you to keep away from me!

  • Leave her!

  • And what do you want with me?

  • Well, we still have to collect Susan’s half of the money.

  • You want me to be Sue.

  • Oh, she's sharp Mr. Ibbs.

  • I don't believe you.

  • It's because I'm nothing.

  • I don't even know my name.

  • After I've signed

  • you're planning to kill me, don't you?

  • No dear.

  • You're one of us now.

  • And you're a lady.

  • You would be my companion.

  • Because I need a real lady like you

  • to show me how to become one.

  • When you have the money.

  • You are ridiculous.

  • You should both be in the mad house.

  • Pass me off as Sue?

  • Mr. Ibbs will tell the lawyer he's know you all his life.

  • She is your legal guardian.

  • The doctors knows you was a maid,

  • you have no friends in London, no money, no name even.

  • You, as you say, are nothing.

  • And you will do as I say.

  • I will tell the lawyer.

  • How you plotted to swindle an innocent girl?

  • Are you truly so wicked?

  • So vile?

  • That is vile!

  • Poverty.

  • You think life is hard with money?

  • Well, you should try it without.

  • It is one month before your twenty-first birthday

  • one week of barely living will help you make up your mind.

  • Two weeks after the plunge

  • I was prepared to be anyone they wanted me to be.

  • Only the thought of Mrs. Sucksby kept me going.

  • Mrs. Sucksby used to say

  • people ain't never interested in the truth, Sue.

  • But in what they want to hear.

  • I am Mrs. Maud Rivers.

  • This is truly remarkable.

  • I've got you to thank, doctor.

  • You've looked after me so well.

  • You would like to see Mr. Rivers?

  • I need to see him,

  • oh, my poor husband,

  • and my maid.

  • What...

  • Who has put up with so much.

  • How I long to see them both again!

  • And so you shall.

  • Dr Graves...

  • A little test, Mrs. Rivers.

  • Please...

  • write your name.

  • I think it begins with a different letter, doesn't it?

  • Remarkable!

  • the delusion even extends to her motor functions,

  • it is there we will break her.

  • Once your own writing comes back to you,

  • your husband will be here to sign you out.

  • Rivers?

  • He has to sign me out?

  • Rivers?

  • I thought about Sue every day,

  • as Mrs. Sucksby stroke off the days

  • to my twenty first birthday.

  • If only I could escape and get to Sue.

  • There you are, Mrs?...

  • Rivers.

  • Well done.

  • Did you like her?

  • Sue?

  • She turned out bad, didn't she, but?

  • I don't know. I miss her sometimes.

  • She was fun.

  • We used to have a good laugh.

  • Here, you do it.

  • What is it?

  • I don't feel very well.

  • You never do!

  • Is that what they call

  • a ladies constitution?

  • I suppose it must.

  • Ahh!

  • I need to go to the privy.

  • I don't want to bother you.

  • It's no bother, madam.

  • It will be if you're not here when Mrs. S gets back.

  • Dainty, I'm really not well.

  • Come out then.

  • It's my time of the...

  • It rushes!

  • I can't leave you.

  • Open the door.

  • The men might come.

  • But Mrs. Sucksby told me not to leave you.

  • Maud?

  • Please.

  • Help!

  • Please help me!

  • What's happened?

  • I need to go to a hotel.

  • Come on.

  • Rotner Street!

  • O dear, just look at you!

  • Such pretty little feet.

  • And such finely turned ankles.

  • - Let me go. - Now, now.

  • Help!

  • - Don't be silly. - Help!

  • I'm only trying to..

  • Ahh!

  • Don't think that I wasn't only trying to help you!

  • I walked through the night.

  • Running away if anyone approached me.

  • My thin slippers tore,

  • and my feet were cut and bleeding

  • before I found what I was looking for.

  • The only street that I had heard of in London.

  • The one my uncle's books came from.

  • Miss! Miss!

  • You can't go in there!

  • Mr. Halltree!

  • Maud!

  • Please help me.

  • What are you doing here?

  • You were always saying...

  • That was at Briar

  • before what happened.

  • You mustn't come here.

  • You came through the shop,

  • did the police see you?

  • I won't faint. I promise you.

  • Your feet!

  • Good God!

  • Mrs. Rivers!

  • You have a visitor.

  • Are you here today or not?

  • Don't you recognize him?

  • We didn't know each other from Adam.

  • Then,

  • it was the little boot boy from Briar.

  • It was that look what saved me.

  • He recognized me! He knew who I was.

  • And I knew what I must do in that instant.

  • Oh Charles!

  • Charles, how wonderful to see you!

  • Don't say who I am, and don't go.

  • Oh Miss!

  • I'm not Miss Lilly anymore.

  • You're..

  • This is a mad house, ain't it?

  • Do you know who I am?

  • It's Miss Smith, ain't it?

  • Bless you!

  • Miss Smith who's..

  • You mustn't call me that here!

  • That was Briar, Charles..

  • Mr. Lilly had a stroke after what happened.

  • I'm so sorry to hear that.

  • Gave me the creeps, he did.

  • Mr. Wader Stuart beat me so much I ran away.

  • I've got no job, no character.

  • I wanted to find Mr. Rivers who was so kind to me also.

  • He said I polished his boots better than anyone else in the whole world.

  • And my auntie told me that Mrs. Rivers was living here...

  • and I thought this was a grand house.

  • Your auntie?

  • Mrs. Cream.

  • Where Mr. and Mrs. Rivers stayed after their wedding.

  • Five minutes to tea ladies!

  • Do you want to see Mr. Rivers?

  • - More than anything. - Anything else in the world?

  • So do I.

  • And Mrs. Rivers.

  • Ladies, ladies, ladies!

  • Have you money?

  • Five shillings and..

  • Locksmith.

  • Get one inch black key. And a file.

  • ONE INCH BLACK KEY!

  • Bring it when you next visit.

  • And I do hope Mr. Lilly improves.

  • I must go in file now.

  • Do come again soon, Charles.

  • Thank you.

  • Rivers keeps you without shoes?

  • So I should not have run away.

  • You cannot run away from your husband.

  • There is someone here he's done a great wrong too.

  • I must save her!

  • I thought if I can stay at your house..

  • My house?

  • That is impossible, my dear.

  • I have wife and children.

  • I see.

  • Not now!

  • Rivers is entirely to blame.

  • Having taken you he might at least have kept you close.

  • He saw what you were.

  • And what am I?

  • Mr. Halltree?

  • Ah, Thomas.

  • Really, you must not.

  • You seem to forget.

  • I've seen much worse at Briar.

  • Whip your backside until the blood runs down your...

  • Second part down wrong font.

  • They set it in Clarandon, and the rest is in Garamond I think.

  • You're right, so it is.

  • I could work here for you.

  • Impossible.

  • Please.

  • You have been kind.

  • I think you are kind.

  • I beg you, if you could find me some room, at a hotel.

  • - Anywhere. - It's out of the question.

  • Lant street was foul,

  • it was the last place I wanted to go.

  • But I had nowhere else.

  • Mrs. Sucksby!

  • Nobody say a word, but a word.

  • Find gentleman, tell him she's been found.

  • Mr. Ibbs, kettle.

  • Oh my!

  • Dear girl, come on. Come in!

  • Come in get warm.

  • Get gentleman! Be quick!

  • Come here.

  • I knew you'd come home.

  • Please don't touch me, stifle me, smother me...

  • pretend to love me.

  • Pretend?

  • When...

  • Sue's...

  • mother came here...

  • People will tell you that...

  • that I had a baby of my own which died.

  • At least...

  • that's the story around here.

  • Nobody questioned it.

  • Babies do die in Lant Street in particular.

  • Many of time I've sat here...

  • thinking how I last held you when you was a few days old.

  • Imagining how you'd grown.

  • Your eyes.

  • The shape of your nose I'd pictured exact.

  • The paleness of the skin

  • but the hair...

  • the hair I...

  • I always thought...

  • would be fairer.

  • Dear girl.

  • My own...

  • My own dear girl.

  • To have you back...

  • after all these years.

  • Ladies, ladies!

  • Remember, meet me at the wall and don't be late.

  • Of all the burglars' mates God could have sent me...

  • Charles was the worse by a long chalk.

  • Here we are, people want to get to sleep.

  • She said your hands are like poor jobes.

  • - I never! - That makes it swell or what?

  • I never!

  • After all my kindness, Betty.

  • I never, nurse Bacon.

  • She did!

  • Oh God help us, look at what you've done now!

  • And my flesh's blazing.

  • I'll put the cream on your hands, nurse Bacon.

  • I'll do it, I will.

  • It's a small key.

  • Shut up Betty!

  • You'll hurt, Mrs. Wittshire, if you sing another bleeding verse!..

  • Where are you hurrying?

  • Pee!

  • Charles, Charles, Charles!

  • You said two o'clock!

  • Come on!

  • What kept me going

  • was the thought of Mrs. Sucksbys face when I turned up at Lant Street.

  • And then I thought of Maud... wherever she was.

  • I must go on Miss, or your luck will desert you...

  • A journey of the heart.

  • Oh! Sue, forgive me!

  • Stay here.

  • Miss. Come back Miss!

  • Hello?

  • Hoy, you there! Stop, thief!

  • What are you doing?

  • Come back here!

  • What's going on?

  • Turn around.

  • You took them clothes without asking.

  • I had to, didn't I?

  • Would you rather I got picked up?

  • And never saw Mr. Rivers again?

  • Don't look at me like that.

  • I've never done anything like that before in my life.

  • Don't you think I feel terrible?

  • Stealing from poor people like that?

  • Oh! damn her!

  • Damn her!

  • I don't suppose you want a piece of this pie, then?

  • Charles?

  • There are times in this life when we have to do things that we don't want to do.

  • I'll ask Mr. Rivers to go back to that very cottage...

  • and pay back every penny for the things we've taken and more.

  • Will you?

  • Yeah, that's just the sort of thing that Mr. Rivers would do.

  • Here.

  • Can't believe that in a few days time you will be twenty one years old.

  • I'll make myself a cup..

  • Oh thank you. Thank you dear.

  • Who was my father?

  • Mr. Ibbs?

  • No dear.

  • Your father was a sailor

  • lost at sea, well,

  • lost to me, dear.

  • Smell it!

  • Smell it, Miss?

  • London!

  • Oh, the rotten, horrible, bleeding, stink of it.

  • - Miss Smith? - I ain't Miss Smith.

  • I ain't Miss bleeding Rivers.

  • I'm Susan Trinder!

  • I thought you said that we were going to see Mr. Rivers?

  • This is horrible!

  • This isn't horrible, the country is horrible.

  • - This is where I live. - This place? Where does Mr...

  • Tommy Joslin.

  • Conindrent, always a good poke.

  • Go on, get in.

  • What is it?

  • Miss Trinder, what is it?

  • Don't cry, Miss.

  • There.

  • Happy birthday!

  • Did you take that from the cottage?

  • Why did you take it?

  • Why?

  • It's because that's what I am.

  • You're kind, you're a ladies maid.

  • I'm a fingersmith, you stupid idiot!

  • A thief!

  • Well, I don't want to be a thief.

  • I want to be with Mr Rivers.

  • You said you promised.

  • Mr. Rivers?

  • Mr. Rivers is the biggest prick unhung!

  • Mr. Rivers,

  • Mr. Rivers got me put in a mad house.

  • Happy birthday Maud!

  • And to our absent friend Sue,

  • might the day bring good fortune to us all.

  • Leave her alone, can't you? Stop beating her.

  • Get out.

  • I will order madam's carriage.

  • Dear Mrs. Sucksby,

  • gentleman and that... bitch has cheated me

  • and put me in the mad house.

  • Send a signal with this boy and help me.

  • Go on, remember what you've got selling.

  • Wait, wait. Put...

  • I love you...

  • as I always will...

  • like a daughter.

  • Half a sovereign, son.

  • No, it's got to be the works.

  • I'll open it up, hang on.

  • She took it.

  • Mrs. Sucksby?

  • Miss Maud.

  • And she gave me this.

  • She's mocking me.

  • What is it? The two of hearts?

  • I'll mock her.

  • Well, he gave me a pound for the watch.

  • Come on.

  • Look who's here.

  • Mrs. Sucksby, visitor.

  • Someone who's fingersmithing cutlery and jewellery!

  • Is that what you've told him?

  • That I stole your jewellery?

  • You've got some bleeding cheek!

  • You nearly broke Mrs. Sucksbys heart!

  • Give me the knife!

  • Give it to me!

  • I've got no argue with you John,

  • or you Dainty.

  • Sue, dear, you ain't yourself.

  • I ain't Mrs. Sucksby,

  • not after what they did to me.

  • Sue, leave now.

  • You'd like me to do that, wouldn't you?

  • Before the gentleman gets back.

  • You don't know what's really happened.

  • I know you've got my clothes.

  • Even got my bleeding bangles!

  • Why? Isn't your fortune enough?

  • Isn't what you did to me enough?

  • Please go!

  • You put me in the mad house.

  • You planned to put me there!

  • I wish I had!

  • To cheat me, to kill me!

  • I will, I will kill you!

  • You old cow! You've been down on me ever since the day I was born!

  • Touch me again and you'll know it.

  • I never, I never

  • I never believed you cut with the jewellery.

  • I went along with the others

  • because they'd thought me a sentimental old fool,

  • But I knew deep down..

  • Give me the knife.

  • - Did you? - I did, I did!

  • I thought no, not my Sue.

  • You brought me up as your own daughter.

  • I thought I'd never see you again.

  • But I had a man out looking for you.

  • I knew you would!

  • Sue!

  • Your carriage awaits.

  • Hello Charles.

  • My boots have never been the same.

  • Sue?

  • She's just told me what you've done to her.

  • So you'd better go.

  • You found me out, I'm a villain Charles.

  • Honest to god, Mr. Rivers, I never meant to.

  • Get out.

  • Don't let him go.

  • He'll only go to Dr Christie!

  • Stay, stay.

  • Stay, stay.

  • There, there. You're alright now. There, there...

  • Oh damn it, tell the poor bitch

  • how we used her.

  • Richard don't say any more.

  • Oh my dear wife.

  • Have you no feelings at all?

  • Not that I know of.

  • But I know you have.

  • Damn it Maud, what does it matter to you?

  • You're a fully fledged villain now,

  • you don't have to care about either of them!

  • Gentleman, enough! Will you...

  • Now I see the resemblance.

  • No, you see nothing. Nothing.

  • Why did I never suspect it?

  • No wonder you kicked and cursed and she let you.

  • Oh, this is rich!

  • Did you know Mr. Ibbs?

  • No he knows nothing.

  • Stop it. Stop it!

  • Grace?

  • My heart!

  • Your heart?

  • You have a heart Mrs. Sucksby?

  • Feel it here!

  • I should get your daughter to do that.

  • Grace! Grace!

  • She hit me.

  • Get me a surgeon!

  • No surgeons!

  • God damn you!

  • Charlie?

  • Murder, murder! Help, help me!

  • Stop the boy!

  • He's gone.

  • Who did this?

  • She's done it. I saw her.

  • Wait...

  • What happened was the knife was on the table...

  • Maud started to say something else.

  • But nobody heard her.

  • I've done it.

  • Lord knows I'm sorry for it right now.

  • But I've done it.

  • And these girls here, they're innocent girls

  • that never harmed no one.

  • Maud said she'd killed him.

  • But nobody believed her.

  • Because she was a lady.

  • And a lunatic.

  • Gentleman weren’t a gentleman after all.

  • But a draper's son.

  • Frederick Bunt.

  • The papers said he had been brutally cut down in his manhood.

  • And girls put his picture next to their hearts.

  • I didn't see Maud before she disappeared.

  • Good job.

  • Or I had probably ended up with Mrs. Sucksby.

  • Mrs. Sucksby was so game

  • when the judge put on the black cap,

  • and sentenced her to death.

  • She always looked behind me.

  • As if she was expecting someone else to be with me.

  • But I wanted her for myself.

  • Quite alone.

  • That's good.

  • Just you and me... as it used to be.

  • Oh! Mrs. Sucksby!

  • How shall I do without you?

  • Better dear girl.

  • How can you say that?

  • Watch me tomorrow.

  • Don't cover your eyes.

  • And Sue,

  • should you ever hear hard things of me when I am gone,

  • think back too.

  • We had a collection.

  • It's not very much but...

  • Thank you.

  • How is she?

  • Game...

  • Thanks Tommy.

  • A lady to see you.

  • She won't give me her name.

  • No one will listen to me.

  • You must tell them.

  • If you only came to say that, then go.

  • I've done what I've done and that's the end of it.

  • You must tell them I killed him.

  • No.

  • I was wrong to send you away.

  • And I was wrong to do that to a girl like Sue,

  • a jewel.

  • I hope she never finds out.

  • I will never tell her.

  • I came to see you as well as...

  • Did you?

  • Of course I did.

  • Oh dear.

  • Mother, mother.

  • I wish...

  • Never mind.

  • Just is.

  • Mrs. Sucksby's daughter, isn't it?

  • Sue... Sue?

  • S - U...

  • I, Marianne Lilly of Bear Court...

  • Briar Court

  • sound of mind though feeble of body...

  • commit my infant daughter Susan...

  • to the guardianship of Mrs. Grace Sucksby.

  • In exchange for which

  • Mrs. Sucksby commits into my care her dear daughter Maud.

  • Get some water Dainty!

  • Bit of a shock, is it, Sue?

  • I should says so, Tommy.

  • I should say so.

  • Look at me, Sue.

  • Come here.

  • I heard that Mr. Lilly had died.

  • And so I returned to Briar,

  • to see if I could find something to show me where Maud had gone.

  • Have you come to kill me?

  • No Maud!

  • How could I harm you?

  • I know everything.

  • No...

  • you know nothing.

  • You don't know me at all.

  • How delicious was the glow on her ivory shoulders,

  • as I forced her back on the couch.

  • I scarcely knew what I was about

  • everything, now, was in active exertion.

  • Tongues, lips, bellies, thighs, arms, legs, bottom.

  • Every part in a voluptuous motion...

  • Are they all like that?

  • Every single one.

  • I'm at it myself now.

  • I must earn a living some how.

  • I'm not the good, sweet girl you thought I was.

  • This... is what I am.

  • I know you must hate me... hate me.

  • I don't hate you.

  • I'm..

  • I'm so sorry for what I did to you, Sue!

  • I'm sorry...

  • True to us both then.

  • I found this in her dress.

  • Someone read it out to me.

  • The money is yours.

  • Did you know who my mother was from the very beginning?

  • No. Not till I got to London.

  • And Mrs. Sucksby never wanted you to find out.

  • She loved you.

  • She did, Sue, she...

  • She said...

  • how wrong she was to... try and turn... a jewel like you and...

  • A jewel?

  • Turn a girl like you into a common place girl.

  • I killed her.

  • I pleaded with Mrs. Sucksby to tell the truth...

  • but all she would say was...

  • that she had done it and...

  • and that was the end.

  • I know.

  • What a mess you're making of yourself, ay?

  • What does it say?

  • They're full of words saying...

  • How I want you.

  • How..

  • I love you.

He said he was a member of parliament so I trusted him.

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