And, of course, they all have opinions,
even when I barely see any of them.
Miss Walker.
You are an intelligent
29?
29-year-old woman of substantial
seriously substantial independent means.
Which doctor you choose to patronize
- is a matter for yourself
- Yes.
And yourself alone.
You're right, but
all I was going to say is that
when one has been an
invalid
or at least seen as
one by the whole family
for so long, it's
it's hard to shake off
some people's idea that
they have the right to
interfere in one's life.
An invalid.
How?
You don't look very invalid to me.
Good Lord.
I haven't been here four hours.
How did that happen?
There's nothing wrong with her.
Can I call again tomorrow?
Really?
At least, nothing that a little spice
of matrimony wouldn't cure.
All she needs to do now
is realize that the nature
of what she feels for me
is love.
Miss Lister!
Good afternoon, ma'am.
I I called at the hall.
Twice.
No one seemed to know where you were.
So, coal.
Uh, James Holt is the man to talk to.
Very knowledgeable.
Very
interesting, actually.
What is he?
Oh, he's a local coal agent, ma'am.
So he knows all the pits in the area
and the markets, as well.
He, uh he says you'd
no doubt do very well
if you reopened the old Listerwick pit,
as, uh, suggested,
or, indeed, sunk a new one higher up.
But, uh, he says you should understand
that it's an expensive business,
time-consuming, and
there are alternatives.
Now, ma'am,
since I was approached
by Mr.
Washington on your behalf,
I have been doing a
bit of asking around,
discreetly.
I assumed you wouldn't mind.
And Mr.
Hinscliffe
the coal merchant
would be very keen to offer you
100 pound an acre for your coal.
But, this is the thing:
at present, he only wants
the one acre down at Mytholm.
Now, really,
if the coal were mine,
I'd be wanting nearer 200 an acre,
and the Rawsons
are in a position to pay that.
I understand you don't
want to do business
with the Rawsons, ma'am, and
Mr.
Washington thinks
they're stealing my coal.
I think they very probably are,
given that your beds
abut directly onto theirs.
But how do you prove it?
I apply to the Lord
Chancellor for an order
to go down into the Rawsons' works.
And by the time you got it,
they'd have turned the water against you
and flooded your coal,
and nobody'd be able
to get down there to prove
anything one way or the other.
Water is the enemy, ma'am, in a mine.
Controlling the flow is half the job.
And the rivalry is bitter and lawless,
and people will use the
water against each other.
The object would be to
surprise them on the day
Do you think that Christopher Rawson
wouldn't get wind of that before then?
He's a justice of the
peace.
He's a magistrate.
He's Lord Lieutenant of the county.
I'll not be bullied on my own land.
Not by anyone, above ground or under it.
No, of course not, but
If you'll give Mr.
Holt
a moment, Miss Lister,
he has a suggestion.
I was saying, the
Rawsons are in a position
to offer more than Hinscliffe,
which, if they think you
are going to sell to him,
they'd have to.
Wouldn't they?
Otherwise they'd be worried
that he'd get down there
and see what he's
paid for already taken.
They don't know that he
only wants that one acre
to access this other bed.
And what'd be to stop the
Rawsons turning this water
on Hinscliffe if that's
what they're capable of,
and I'd sold to him and not to them?
Oh, I don't think it would get that far.
They want your coal,
even if they have to pay for it fairly.
And, do you see,
that if this was negotiated skillfully,
it'd be a way of upping the price.
So they'd end up paying for
what they've already stolen.
I'd like a breakdown
of the Rawsons' costs.
How much coal they get from an acre
and how much they can
sell it for in Halifax.
Can you do that for me?
Mr.
Rawson.
Welly.
Afternoon.
Not in the gig again today, sir?
No, not, as you see,
nor any other day.
I've sent it back to the manufacturer
in Liverpool per canal.
It rattled and shook like
the devil had a hold of it.
- The thing was a death trap.
- Oh, dear.
And overpriced.
And you spoke so highly of
it just after you got it, sir.
No, I didn't.
Your brother's here, sir.
Afternoon, Christopher.
Jeremiah.
- How are you?
- Busy.
I'll be brief.
Can I?
What's up?
You all right?
What can I do for you?
Miss Lister is back.
- Did you know?
- She was in here two weeks since,
depositing her rents.
Collected her own rents.
And she drove the
high-flier over from Wibsey,
someone was telling me.
You
couldn't invent it, could you?
Right, well, I've got wind
of a rumor that Holt's been
talking to another company on her behalf
over her signing a lease over her coal.
I need to go and talk
to her, Christopher.
I need to be in a
position to offer her more,
more than whatever this
other one's offering,
because if I don't, if it's true,
then whoever it is
is gonna go down there
and find out what we've been doing.
What you've been doing.
Well, only because you told me to!
You know, it's never
sat comfortably with me,
even when she wasn't
here and didn't seem
to be doing anything with her coal.
We ought to do the proper
thing and make her an offer.
And then we can mine
the stuff legally and
Cover up any trespass
that might have accidentally occurred.
It was accidental.
To start with, yes, perhaps.
Don't let her run rings
around you over a price.
Because she will.
Afternoon, Hardcastle.
Oh, good afternoon, Miss Lister.
- Thomas.
- Miss Lister.
- This yours?
- Well, yeah.
Oh, cart.
Yeah, it were me father's,
and his father before him.
Seen a fair few years of work,
but we keep fettling it,
and it keeps on going.
And how is your other son?
Doctor said he'll be all right.
But he's more in himself.
He's not spoke since it happened.
How are things at home, Thomas?
All right, ma'am.
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