4. Most Women Are Dull and Stupid (第1季)【完整台词】

Father says I can.

In fact - Really? - He'd like me to.

Well, then do you need my permission? It was more your blessing and an undertaking that you'd be civil to him.

You'll find me no obstacle to something you have very much at heart, Marian, as long as it's an intelligent choice, but one would only be doing one's duty as an elder sister to question the pedigree of a man who makes rugs.

[ROUSING MUSIC] Anne! - Miss Lister! - Mr.

Holt.

I have the figures for you, ma'am, both for sinking a new pit at the top of the hill and for reopening Listerwick.

What's that? That's just an occupational hazard.

The ceiling's low in places, and they will forget their caps, and then they graze their skulls.

Either that, or they bust their ankles letting the carts catch up with their heels.

How old is That one? Uh pfft, don't know.

Six, seven, eight.

It's better if they don't get too big.

Track's narrow in places and low, so it's just easier for them all round if they don't fill out too much.

Are you still determined to go down there yourself, ma'am? [ENERGETIC MUSIC] Keep your 'ead down, mister.

[WATER DRIPPING, TOOLS CLANGING] How many people do you employ? This pit? 14.

Five men, three women, six boys, except some of them are girls.

And how do the shifts work? Two 12-hour shifts, ma'am.

Round the clock.

Demand is insatiable, and of course, down here, it don't matter whether it's 10:00 in the morning or 10:00 at night.

And that model would work for my pit? Once it's sunk.

This is a horizontal shaft.

Yours would be vertical with a winding engine, which is what makes your setup costs that much more expensive.

£2,000 is a lot of money.

It is indeed, ma'am, but you'll be laughing when profits come in and for years to come.

[SIGHS] So there I am, knee-deep in water, and it struck me that I ought to add another clause to the lease with the Rawsons to stop them from turning the water back on me when they've finished loosening my coal.

Might I ask, Miss Lister, what is your strategy as regards this business with the Rawsons, just to be clear? I want them to know that I know that they've been stealing my coal, even if we can't name it as such - Hmm.

- And for them to pay for it fairly, and I want them to know that I'm not someone who will turn a blind eye or be intimidated, and as soon as I can, I shall get down there myself and deal with them properly, but that's going to take time.

Christopher Rawson is a bully and an opportunist.

He's certainly no gentleman.

Doesn't surprise me they've been stealing from your beds.

Oh, Jeremiah's decent enough, left to his own devices, but he's terrified of Christopher.

If anyone's equal to him, it's you.

- [SOFT LAUGH] - But, uh, he will play dirty.

Word has it that he caused the accident above the hall where the boy lost his leg.

Five weeks ago, he had a new gig, and then he decided very suddenly that he didn't like it anymore, sent it back to the manufacturer in Liverpool.

No witnesses? None that will testify.

[SCOFFS] Ah.

Sadly, sending a gig back to the manufacturer isn't really proof of very much.

No.

Oh, and another thing, nothing to do with Christopher Rawson not that I know of.

I've heard a tenant disappeared.

Mm.

He's left his family behind.

Samuel Sowden, over at Upper Sowden Farm.

I need to know what to do about the tenancy.

[SPEAKING FRENCH] [SPEAKING FRENCH] [BELL JINGLES] Miss Lister.

- Is she - No, ma'am.

She's in the library.

What's the matter? I came as quickly as I could.

[KISSES] I I've had a letter from [CLEARS THROAT] Mr.

Ainsworth.

And? An account of Mrs.

Ainsworth's last day and how kind she was to some poor people, and then the accident.

I think he wants to marry me, and I think he wants to propose to me.

Can I see it? - What? - The letter.

Oh, no.

[SIGHS] What do you mean, you think he's going to propose to you? The intention's clear.

Can I not see it? It's marked private.

Well, I won't tell him.

Well, he's quick off the mark, with his wife not yet buried.

An offer of marriage it's not something to be sniffed at or treated lightly, and a curate too, a man of God! What more could any woman want? - You're cross.

- Am I? I don't I don't want to marry him.

I want to be with you.

Well, then No, it's An offer of marriage isn't something to be sneezed at.

And obviously, it needs some consideration.

[SIGHS] A clergyman's wife.

And who knows? A mother in the fullness of time and then maybe one day a grandmother, and then you really would have fulfilled your destiny on this planet as a woman.

I I've been so in love with you.

I always have been, ever since the first time I saw you when I was 18 younger! I think the first time I ever saw you, I was 14, and then I knew then.

I just I knew, and It's just utterly clear to me now.

So often, whenever I've thought of it, I've just felt a repugnance towards forming any sort of connection with a man, but I [SOBS] [MELANCHOLY MUSIC] She was a lot older than him.

Sorry? Mrs.

Ainsworth, she she was 15 years older than him, and Once or twice, she would joke at least I always thought it was a joke that she would die first, and then who would look after Thomas? And she'd say, "It'll have to be you, Annie.

" Why won't you let me see the letter? Because What? I told you, it's marked private.

Anne? You're going to have to make a decision.

There's clearly more to it than you're able or willing to tell me.

So he will require an answer, I assume, as much as I do to this alleged proposal.

No, he hasn't actually asked me yet.

No, but for some reason, it would appear to be on the cards, and it would be good to have an answer ready, so Ah, today's Friday.

I propose you have the weekend to think it over, and instead of giving me your yes or no on the 3rd of April, I'd like it first thing Monday morning, and then we both of us know what we're doing.

I can't make such a big decision so quickly! Do you think I should marry him? That [SIGHS] Only you can decide something like that.

Most people would think I'd be foolish not to at my age, wouldn't they? [SIGHS] Yes.

Yes, they would.

Would we still see each other? No.

I think if you take him, you'd have to give me up.

No, but not as friends.

Only as this, Anne.

How could we go back to common friendship now? [POIGNANT MUSIC] No.

You must think it through carefully, because you'll have to live with the consequences, whichever way you decide.

We both will.

And there'll be no going back on it once it's made, but I think it would be very unlikely that we could remain friends after all that's passed between us.

I think it would be too painful.

Why do I have to decide on Monday? [SNIFFLES] Because we have to know what we're doing.

I have to know what I'm doing.

I behaved as well as I could.

Though perpetually saying to myself, "Well, I care not how she decides; I care not much for her; the whole thing was only ever a game," as I left, she hung upon me and cried and sobbed aloud at parting, saying, "I hope we shall meet under happier circumstances.

" "Well," said I to myself as I walked off, "a pretty scene we have had, but surely I care not much, and I shall take my time of suspense very quietly and be easily reconciled either way.

" [SIGHS] Don't do this to me.

Don't you dare do this to me again.