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I think of all the things
that have been written about me...

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that I am an inhuman female demon,

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that I am an innocent victim
of a blackguard,

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forced against my will
and in danger of my own life,

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that I was too ignorant to know how to act

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and that to hang me
would be judicial murder,

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that I am well and decently dressed,
that I robbed a dead woman to appear so,

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that I am of a sullen disposition
with a quarrelsome temper,

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that I have the appearance of a person
rather above my humble station,

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that I am a good girl
with a pliable nature

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and no harm is told of me,

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that I am cunning and devious,

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that I am soft in the head
and little better than an idiot.

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And I wonder, how can I be
all these different things at once?

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I  have been an inmate of the
Kingston Penitentiary for 15 long years.

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I was convicted of murder
when I was a young girl,

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though at the time,
I thought of myself as a grown woman.

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Every day I am brought
to the governor's house.

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They say I am there
to do light housework.

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Come, come, ladies.

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Though mostly I am there to be
an object of curiosity.

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They stare without appearing to, Doctor,
out from under their bonnets.

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The reason they want to see me
is that I am a celebrated murderess.

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For that is what has been written down.

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When I first saw it, I was surprised,

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because they say "celebrated singer"
and "celebrated poetess"

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and "celebrated actress,"

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but what is there to celebrate
about a murder?

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All the same, "murderess" is a strong word
to have attached to you.

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It has a smell to it, that word,
musky and oppressive,

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like dead flowers in a vase.

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Sometimes at night,
I whisper it over to myself:

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"Murderess! Murderess!"

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It rustles like a taffeta skirt
across the floor.

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"Murderer" is merely brutal.
It's like a hammer, or a lump of metal.

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I'd rather be a murderess than a murderer,
if those are the only choices.

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There was much excitement
about you coming to Kingston, Dr. Jordan.

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Those who wanted to see me pardoned

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believed that a report from you
could set me free.

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You were much better regarded
than the other doctors

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who came to examine me over the years.

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Hold still, Grace. Dr. Smith needs
to get a proper measurement.

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There's nothing to be afraid of.

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They thought you could find answers
where others could not.

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I'd be careful if I were you.
She's murdered two people in cold blood.

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She's in here for good reason.

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Good morning, Grace.

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I understand you're afraid of doctors.

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I must tell you right away
that I myself am a doctor.

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My name is Dr. Jordan.
Dr. Simon Jordan.

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I suppose you're here to measure my head.

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I would not dream of it.

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Are you American,
the doctor they brought to write a report?

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-Yes.
-Do you have a bag with knives in it?

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No. I'm not the usual kind of doctor.
I do no cutting open.

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Are you afraid of me, Grace?

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It's too early to tell.

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This is for you.

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I'm not a dog.

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No, Grace, I can see you're not a dog.

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What is it, Grace?

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It has such an odor of the outdoors.

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Can you tell me what it is?

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-An apple.
-And what does an apple remind you of?

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Who shall we marry?

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I beg your pardon, sir.
I don't understand you.

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I think you understand me well enough.

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Apple pie.

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-Ah. Something you eat.
-Well, I should hope you would, sir.

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That's what an apple is for.

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And is there any kind of apple
you should not eat?

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A rotten one, I suppose.

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Are you a preacher?

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No. I'm not a preacher.

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I am a doctor that works not with bodies,
but with the mind.

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Diseases of the mind and the brain,
and the nerves.

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No. I won't go back there to the asylum.

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--Flesh and blood cannot stand it.

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They took liberties, sir.

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They don't listen to reason there, sir.

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And that is what I am here for.
To listen to reason.

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But if I am to listen to you,
you will have to talk to me.

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You won't believe me, sir.

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Anyway, it's all been decided,
and what I say will not change anything.

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You should ask the lawyers and judges
and the newspaper men,

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they seem to know my story
better than I do myself.

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In any case, I've lost that part
of my memory entirely.

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They must have told you that.

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I would like to help you, Grace.

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If you will try to talk,
I will try to listen.

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My interest is purely scientific.

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It is not only the murders
that should concern us.

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-Perhaps I'll tell you lies.
-Perhaps you will.

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Perhaps you will tell them
without meaning to,

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perhaps you will tell them deliberately.
Perhaps you are a liar.

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There are those who said I am one.

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That is a chance we'll have to take.

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Will they take me back to the asylum?

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Or will they keep me in solitary
confinement with nothing to eat but bread?

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You have my word that as long as you
continue to talk with me

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and do not become violent,
you will remain as you were.

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I have the governor's promise.

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Till tomorrow then.

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The apple of the Tree of Knowledge
is what you meant, Dr. Jordan.

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Good and Evil.
Any child could guess it.

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I thought, he wishes to go home
and say to himself,

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"I stuck in my thumb and pulled out
a plum, what a good boy am I."

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But I will not be anybody's plum.

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You're a doctor's whore now,
aren't you, Grace Marks?

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A doctor's whore.

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Quiet!

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What did you discover today
when you examined Grace?

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I believe in pursuing the patient's
sublimated dreams and memories.

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It is important to build trust
and this does not happen in one sitting.

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Mm. There are a great number of us,

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especially those of us on the committee
to pardon Grace Marks,

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who are anxious to see Grace released
as soon as possible.

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She has languished too long in prison
for one so young

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and vulnerable at the time
of her conviction.

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When can our committee
expect to see your report?

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I have some questions
about the trial itself.

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I went to the pump, and on turning around,
I saw McDermott

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dragging Nancy along the yard leading from
the back kitchen to the front kitchen.

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Grace said
at the time of her arrest

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that she didn't know where Nancy was.

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-But at the trial itself...
-He said, "Better to get it done with.

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Open the trap door
and I'll throw her down in the cellar."

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...she claimed to have seen McDermott
dragging Nancy by the hair

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and tossing her down the stairs.

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Did she? I don't recall.

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She did say she was sorry
that Nancy was dead.

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-Anyone might say that.
-I suppose.

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Also we have McDermott's statement,
made just before he was hanged.

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He claimed that Grace strangled Nancy
with her own kerchief.

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The man had already told
several different stories

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and was a notorious liar
into the bargain.

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Grace Marks made me do it!
She's a whore.

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Murderer!

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- To turn Devil's advocate...
- Hang her!

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...just because a man is known to lie,
it does not always follow that he does so.

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Is this type of inquiry bothering you?

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Hm. Not at all, Dr. Jordan.

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But we are hoping you will write a report
favorable to Grace Marks.

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That is why we have brought you here.

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-Yes, I appreciate that.
-So when can we see your report?

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It would be helpful
if I could meet with Grace

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in a setting that implied more trust.

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You mentioned she'd been doing housework
for the governor of the penitentiary.

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How did this come about?

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Her behavior in prison
was exemplary

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and the governor's wife allowed her
to spend her days there.

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But recently she did have a fit there,
which terrified the family.

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Would it be possible to persuade them
to allow her back into the house?

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- I could meet with her there.
- I shall try.

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She has a liking for Grace,
and no doubt she enjoys

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the curiosity that Grace arouses
in the ladies of the spiritualist circle.

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-I feel something coming.
-Shh, shh, shh.

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We will wait
for your dear son William.

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So I'll meet Grace tomorrow
at the governor's house?

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I'm sure I can arrange it.
And how are your accommodations?

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Very satisfactory.
Thank you for all your efforts, Reverend.

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We feel certain it will be worth
our while. I'll see you tomorrow.

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Mrs. Humphrey.

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Good evening.
I have made you some tea.

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How very kind of you.

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-Good night, Dr. Jordan.
-Good night, Reverend.

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Well, Grace, I see you've got
a new sweetheart, a doctor no less.

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He'd better keep a sharp eye out
or you'll have him flat on his back.

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Flat on his back in the cellar with his
boots off and a bullet through his heart.

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If you really thought that of me,
you should hold your dirty tongues,

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or one dark night I'll have them
out of your mouths,

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and I won't need a knife, I'll just
take hold with my teeth and pull.

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I'll thank you to keep
your filthy screw's hands to yourself.

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There are some that take pleasure

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in the distress
of a fellow mortal, Doctor,

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and most especially if they think
that fellow mortal has committed a sin,

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which adds an extra relish.

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As lively as a rooster
with its neck fresh wrung.

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But which among us has not sinned,
as the Bible tells us?

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I should be ashamed of myself to take
such delight in the suffering of others.

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It's difficult for me to begin talking.

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I've not talked very much in 15 years.
I don't know what you want me to say.

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It's what you want to say to yourself
that's of interest to me.

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I have no wants of that kind.
It isn't my place to want to say anything.

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Tell me about the quilt you're making.

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It's for Lydia, the governor's daughter.
It's a log cabin quilt.

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Every young woman
should have one before marriage.

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It means the home,

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and at the center there's always
a red square, which means the hearth fire.

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This one's for everyday,
not as fancy as marriage quilts.

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What are the marriage quilts?

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Well, according to my friend,

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there are three quilts every woman
should make before her marriage:

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the Tree of Paradise, the Flower Basket
and the Pandora's Box.

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Sometimes, in my days as a maid,
I would hang them up to dry all in a row.

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They'd look like flags
hung out by an army as it goes to war.

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What else does that
make you think of, Grace?

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Well, since that time, I've thought,

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why have women chosen to sew such flags
and lay them on the tops of beds?

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For they make the bed
the most noticeable thing in a room.

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And then I thought, it's for a warning.

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Because you may think a bed
is a peaceful thing, sir.

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To you it may mean rest and comfort
and a good night's sleep.

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But it isn't so for everyone.

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There are many dangerous things
that may take place in a bed.

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It's where we are born,
that's our first peril in life.

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It's where women give birth,
which is often their last.

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And it's where the act takes place
between men and women, sir,

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that I will not mention to you,
but I suppose you know what it is.

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Some call it love, others despair,

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or merely an indignity
they must suffer through.

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And finally beds are what we sleep in,
and where we dream,

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and often where we die.

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But I did not have these fancies about
quilts until after I was in prison...

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where you have a lot of time to think,
and no one to tell your thoughts to,

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and so you tell them to yourself.

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So, Grace, you consider a bed to be
a dangerous place?

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-Are you laughing at me, sir?
-No.

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Of course I don't think it's a dangerous
place every time you get into it, sir.

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Only on those occasions
which I have mentioned.

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Have I offended you somehow?
I did not intend to.

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Then I will take you at your word and hope
such will be returned in the future.

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Of course.

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Can you tell me what this is, Grace?

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-It's a beet.
-Does it remind you of anything?

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A Sunday roast, I suppose.

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Always best to peel beets after they come
out of the oven and not before.

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They can be very hard to clean.

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Boiled beets don't have
the same flavor at all.

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They're a hard vegetable
to clean a stain from.

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00:18:34,154 --> 00:18:38,325
If you could make a quilt for yourself,
which pattern would you make?

232
00:18:41,120 --> 00:18:42,871
I don't know, sir.

233
00:18:42,955 --> 00:18:46,333
Perhaps it would be a Job's Tears,
or a Tree of Paradise.

234
00:18:46,416 --> 00:18:50,337
Or maybe an Old Maid's Puzzle, because
I am an old maid, wouldn't you say, sir,

235
00:18:50,420 --> 00:18:52,965
and I've certainly been very puzzled.

236
00:18:59,138 --> 00:19:01,306
You must have thought about what pattern
you would make,

237
00:19:01,390 --> 00:19:04,935
having spent so many years
making them for others.

238
00:19:05,018 --> 00:19:08,730
Saying what you want brings bad luck, sir;
then the good thing will never happen.

239
00:19:08,814 --> 00:19:11,733
You should be careful wanting anything,
as you may be punished for it.

240
00:19:11,817 --> 00:19:14,236
-This is what happened to Mary Whitney.
-Who's Mary Whitney?

241
00:19:14,319 --> 00:19:16,613
-A friend.
-And how did you know her?

242
00:19:18,365 --> 00:19:20,576
It was a long time ago.
It isn't important, really.

243
00:19:20,659 --> 00:19:22,202
Grace, you may be frank with me.

244
00:19:22,286 --> 00:19:24,329
I have no reason not to be frank, sir.

245
00:19:25,289 --> 00:19:30,002
A lady may conceal things, as she has her
reputation to lose, but I am beyond that.

246
00:19:30,878 --> 00:19:34,339
I can say anything, or if I don't wish to,
I needn't say anything at all.

247
00:19:35,632 --> 00:19:38,552
You don't care
about my good opinion of you, Grace?

248
00:19:38,635 --> 00:19:42,014
I've already been judged, sir.
Whatever you may think, it's all the same.

249
00:19:42,097 --> 00:19:43,265
Judged rightly, Grace?

250
00:19:43,348 --> 00:19:47,728
Rightly or wrongly does not matter.
People want a guilty person.

251
00:19:48,437 --> 00:19:51,607
If there has been a crime,
they want to know who did it.

252
00:19:51,690 --> 00:19:53,734
-Then you've given up hope?
-Hope of what, sir?

253
00:19:55,903 --> 00:19:59,156
Well, hope of being set free.

254
00:20:00,324 --> 00:20:02,534
Now, why would they want to do that, sir?

255
00:20:02,618 --> 00:20:04,786
A murderess is not an everyday thing.

256
00:20:04,870 --> 00:20:07,206
I save my hopes for smaller matters,

257
00:20:07,289 --> 00:20:09,791
in hopes of having a better breakfast
tomorrow than I had today.

258
00:20:11,168 --> 00:20:13,879
They said at the time they were
making an example of me.

259
00:20:13,962 --> 00:20:17,424
That's why it was the death sentence,
and then the life sentence.

260
00:20:17,507 --> 00:20:20,636
But what does an example do afterwards?
The story is over.

261
00:20:20,719 --> 00:20:24,723
How do you fill in the rest of your time?
Do you feel you've been treated unjustly?

262
00:20:27,643 --> 00:20:29,561
I don't know what you mean, sir.

263
00:20:34,233 --> 00:20:36,443
Well, there's more than one way
to skin a cat.

264
00:20:37,653 --> 00:20:39,655
An odd choice of words, sir,
I'm not a cat.

265
00:20:39,738 --> 00:20:42,241
-I remember, nor are you a dog.
-I beg your pardon, sir.

266
00:20:42,991 --> 00:20:45,035
-Let us begin at the beginning.
-Of what, sir?

267
00:20:45,118 --> 00:20:48,038
-The beginning of your life.
-I was born, sir, like anyone else.

268
00:20:49,248 --> 00:20:53,001
I have your confession here.
Let me read what you said in it.

269
00:20:53,085 --> 00:20:54,461
That is not really my confession.

270
00:20:55,170 --> 00:20:58,715
It's what lawyers told me to say,
and the things made up by the newspapers.

271
00:20:59,383 --> 00:21:01,385
The first time I set eyes
on a newspaper man,

272
00:21:01,468 --> 00:21:03,470
I thought, "Does your mother
know you're out?"

273
00:21:03,553 --> 00:21:05,639
They wouldn't know the truth
if they fell over it.

274
00:21:05,722 --> 00:21:07,182
Grace, who is Mary Whitney?

275
00:21:07,266 --> 00:21:10,811
It is written underneath your portrait
at the front of your confession.

276
00:21:10,894 --> 00:21:13,897
"Grace Marks, alias Mary Whitney."

277
00:21:14,481 --> 00:21:17,234
-Oh, yes. It's not a good likeness of me.
-And Mary Whitney?

278
00:21:17,317 --> 00:21:19,987
That was the name I gave when McDermott
was running away with me.

279
00:21:20,070 --> 00:21:22,281
You gave any name
that came into your head?

280
00:21:23,407 --> 00:21:27,077
Oh, no, sir. Mary Whitney was once
a particular friend of mine.

281
00:21:27,869 --> 00:21:31,540
She was dead, sir, and I did not think
she would mind if I used her name.

282
00:21:31,623 --> 00:21:33,458
She sometimes lent me her clothing too.

283
00:21:34,918 --> 00:21:36,878
She was always very kind to me.

284
00:21:37,754 --> 00:21:40,132
And without her, it would have been
a different story entirely.

285
00:21:40,215 --> 00:21:41,591
Will you tell me your story, Grace?

286
00:21:41,675 --> 00:21:45,429
The real one is not in your confession,
as you say. Will you tell me?

287
00:21:45,512 --> 00:21:48,265
-What part of it, sir?
-From the beginning.

288
00:21:59,318 --> 00:22:01,987
What it says at the beginning
of my confession is true enough.

289
00:22:02,821 --> 00:22:04,781
I did indeed come
from the north of Ireland,

290
00:22:05,699 --> 00:22:08,076
though I thought it very unjust
when they wrote down

291
00:22:08,160 --> 00:22:10,871
that "both of the accused were
from Ireland by their own admission."

292
00:22:11,455 --> 00:22:15,584
That made it sound like a crime, and I
don't know being from Ireland is a crime,

293
00:22:15,667 --> 00:22:17,252
though I've seen it treated as such.

294
00:22:19,254 --> 00:22:22,591
But our family were Protestants,
and that is different.

295
00:22:25,343 --> 00:22:27,387
We left Ireland with little warning.

296
00:22:28,096 --> 00:22:31,933
My father was English and while in Ireland
he got into the company

297
00:22:32,017 --> 00:22:33,602
of some Orangemen of bad reputation,

298
00:22:34,394 --> 00:22:36,855
and there was a house burnt down
of a Protestant gentleman

299
00:22:36,938 --> 00:22:38,607
that had taken the side
of the Catholics...

300
00:22:38,690 --> 00:22:40,317
Get up. Be quick about it.

301
00:22:40,400 --> 00:22:42,569
...and another one found
with his head bashed in.

302
00:22:43,695 --> 00:22:44,863
We left rather quickly.

303
00:22:44,946 --> 00:22:48,492
Why did God saddle me with such a litter
of thieving Irish scoundrels?

304
00:22:48,575 --> 00:22:50,118
The world doesn't need more of you.

305
00:22:50,202 --> 00:22:53,163
You should all have been drowned
like kittens in a sack.

306
00:22:56,416 --> 00:22:57,459
Stupid woman!

307
00:22:59,795 --> 00:23:00,837
Michael, Claire.

308
00:23:06,927 --> 00:23:08,053
Come, pick it up!

309
00:23:15,560 --> 00:23:17,187
I will confess to a wicked thought.

310
00:23:18,647 --> 00:23:21,108
When I had the young ones
all lined up, I thought,

311
00:23:21,858 --> 00:23:24,611
I might just push one or two of them over,

312
00:23:24,694 --> 00:23:28,281
and then there would not be so many
to feed, nor so many clothes to wash.

313
00:23:30,784 --> 00:23:33,787
I thought maybe I could spare them
this life with this man.

314
00:23:35,914 --> 00:23:38,917
But it was just a thought,
put into my head by the Devil, no doubt.

315
00:23:39,709 --> 00:23:44,172
Or more likely by my father, for at
that age I was still trying to please him.

316
00:24:01,022 --> 00:24:02,816
Three crows in a row mean death.

317
00:24:04,484 --> 00:24:06,403
My foot will never touch land again.

318
00:24:08,113 --> 00:24:09,865
Mother, why do you say that?

319
00:24:11,700 --> 00:24:13,451
I feel it in my bones.

320
00:24:16,288 --> 00:24:17,372
And so it turned out.

321
00:24:37,392 --> 00:24:40,478
My father spent most of the voyage
passed out from drink.

322
00:24:41,271 --> 00:24:44,566
Through the storms and sickness,
we barely knew where he was.

323
00:24:44,649 --> 00:24:45,775
Which was just as well.

324
00:24:46,526 --> 00:24:48,528
There was more than enough suffering
without him.

325
00:25:25,190 --> 00:25:27,692
I thought of Jonah
in the belly of the whale,

326
00:25:28,610 --> 00:25:31,238
but at least he only had
to stay there three days,

327
00:25:31,321 --> 00:25:33,365
and we had eight weeks ahead of us.

328
00:25:34,699 --> 00:25:36,785
And he was in the belly all by himself

329
00:25:36,868 --> 00:25:39,454
and did not have to listen
to the moaning of others.

330
00:25:43,750 --> 00:25:46,628
I did not mean to offend
your sensibilities, sir.

331
00:25:47,379 --> 00:25:51,091
The ship was, after all, only a slum
in motion, though without the gin shops.

332
00:25:51,758 --> 00:25:54,219
And I hear they have better ships now.

333
00:25:54,302 --> 00:25:55,887
Perhaps you'd like to open a window.

334
00:26:04,604 --> 00:26:07,649
O come hither
and behold the works of God.

335
00:26:11,653 --> 00:26:15,907
He turned the sea into dry land so that
they went through the water on foot.

336
00:26:15,991 --> 00:26:17,325
There did we rejoice.

337
00:26:17,409 --> 00:26:19,869
The passengers were Catholics
and Protestants mixed.

338
00:26:19,953 --> 00:26:23,790
In health, they would have squabbled
and fought, as there is no love lost.

339
00:26:23,873 --> 00:26:27,544
A sea voyage may be God's reminder to us
that we are all flesh,

340
00:26:27,627 --> 00:26:29,254
and all flesh is weak.

341
00:26:29,337 --> 00:26:31,631
There is no way to avoid
attending both, I suppose.

342
00:26:34,592 --> 00:26:37,095
No one seems to object
while they're on water.

343
00:26:43,643 --> 00:26:48,606
...for thou, O God, hath proved us.
Thou hast also tried us.

344
00:26:57,157 --> 00:26:58,783
My stomach, Grace.

345
00:27:23,725 --> 00:27:26,186
It is not cholera,
which will be a relief to the captain.

346
00:27:26,269 --> 00:27:28,104
Most likely a tumor.

347
00:27:28,938 --> 00:27:32,859
There's no telling without cutting her
open, and that will kill her for certain.

348
00:27:32,942 --> 00:27:35,737
Can we carry her up on deck for the air?

349
00:27:37,572 --> 00:27:39,407
It would be a mistake to move her.

350
00:27:40,950 --> 00:27:44,954
The air is so foul down here,
I am half choked.

351
00:28:35,338 --> 00:28:36,840
There there.

352
00:28:38,341 --> 00:28:39,801
There there.

353
00:28:39,884 --> 00:28:42,929
Here are some spirits I have for medicine.

354
00:28:47,308 --> 00:28:49,644
It would do you good to cry, girl.

355
00:28:49,728 --> 00:28:53,857
She's in Heaven now with the blessed
saints, even though she was a Protestant.

356
00:28:55,608 --> 00:28:58,319
We have not opened a window
to let the soul out.

357
00:29:01,072 --> 00:29:04,075
Perhaps it will not be counted
against your poor mother.

358
00:29:04,159 --> 00:29:06,578
There are none to be opened down here.

359
00:29:07,704 --> 00:29:09,581
I have never heard of a custom like that.

360
00:29:18,840 --> 00:29:21,092
Each of you, kiss mother goodbye.

361
00:29:26,347 --> 00:29:30,351
We therefore commit this body
to the deep, to be turned into corruption,

362
00:29:31,269 --> 00:29:33,271
looking for the resurrection of the body

363
00:29:33,354 --> 00:29:37,025
and the life of the world to come,
through our Lord Jesus Christ,

364
00:29:37,609 --> 00:29:40,278
who at his coming shall change
our vile body,

365
00:29:40,361 --> 00:29:44,741
that it may be like his glorious body,
according to the mighty working

366
00:29:44,824 --> 00:29:48,995
whereby he is able to subdue
all things to himself.

367
00:30:31,329 --> 00:30:34,999
Imagine that. Your teapot breaks now,
when the waves have calmed down.

368
00:30:35,917 --> 00:30:40,046
My Auntie Pauline gave it to us
just before we left.

369
00:30:40,129 --> 00:30:43,550
No doubt it came untied
when someone tried to steal it.

370
00:30:44,843 --> 00:30:49,097
She's trapped because we couldn't open
a window, just like you said.

371
00:30:49,973 --> 00:30:52,684
Now she'll be caught down here
forever and ever,

372
00:30:52,767 --> 00:30:56,396
sailing back and forth
across this hideous dark ocean.

373
00:31:03,486 --> 00:31:06,072
You see what queer ideas a person can get?

374
00:31:08,867 --> 00:31:11,786
But I was only a young girl at the time,
and very ignorant.

375
00:31:11,870 --> 00:31:15,874
Can you continue, Grace?
What happened when you arrived?

376
00:31:45,153 --> 00:31:48,573
We arrived in Toronto
and the people appeared to be very mixed

377
00:31:48,656 --> 00:31:51,910
as to the kinds of them,
with skins of all hues,

378
00:31:51,993 --> 00:31:53,661
which was very new to me;

379
00:31:53,745 --> 00:31:56,706
and you could never tell what
speech you were going to hear.

380
00:31:56,789 --> 00:31:59,208
Altogether, it was just like
the Tower of Babel.

381
00:32:35,620 --> 00:32:38,206
Get the bloody breakfast on,
you lazy witch.

382
00:32:38,998 --> 00:32:42,961
Unfortunately, it soon became clear that
my father's character would not improve

383
00:32:43,044 --> 00:32:44,837
without my mother there to temper it.

384
00:32:45,755 --> 00:32:47,382
What's taking so long?

385
00:32:54,138 --> 00:32:56,474
You stupid ugly whore!

386
00:33:27,922 --> 00:33:29,340
I'm sorry, Grace.

387
00:33:32,719 --> 00:33:34,220
I wasn't myself.

388
00:33:37,390 --> 00:33:39,308
I don't know what got into me.

389
00:34:41,412 --> 00:34:44,165
I did not want to be led
into sin of that kind,

390
00:34:45,291 --> 00:34:47,668
though I was afraid that
the fiery red anger

391
00:34:47,752 --> 00:34:49,837
in my heart would drive me to it.

392
00:35:04,852 --> 00:35:08,147
It's time you went out to earn
your own bread and send your wages back.

393
00:35:09,148 --> 00:35:11,901
You're eating me out of house and home,
you ungrateful slut.

394
00:35:11,984 --> 00:35:14,112
I've asked the landlady
to find a job for you.

395
00:35:14,195 --> 00:35:15,780
Who will look after the little ones?

396
00:35:15,863 --> 00:35:16,948
Katey.

397
00:35:18,032 --> 00:35:19,075
Katey?

398
00:35:19,158 --> 00:35:22,620
Yes. Now get out and send money back.

399
00:35:22,703 --> 00:35:25,081
Before I box your ears so hard
you can't hear a thing.

400
00:36:23,389 --> 00:36:25,349
I told them I would come back for them.

401
00:36:27,185 --> 00:36:28,603
And at the time, I meant it.

402
00:36:31,689 --> 00:36:33,357
Forgive me, sir, I'm a little tired.

403
00:36:34,192 --> 00:36:36,444
Yes. No wonder.

404
00:36:37,570 --> 00:36:39,238
We'll begin again tomorrow.

405
00:36:40,990 --> 00:36:44,911
Before I go, could you tell me
a little more about Mary Whitney?

406
00:36:44,994 --> 00:36:46,078
You mentioned her earlier.

407
00:36:47,455 --> 00:36:50,416
Well, sir, that will bring me
to a happier part of my story.

408
00:36:51,667 --> 00:36:54,378
And you will see
why it was her name I used.

409
00:36:58,341 --> 00:37:02,053
Our landlady secured me employment
at a fine house in Toronto.

410
00:37:04,013 --> 00:37:08,142
You must be Grace, the new girl.
I'm Mary.

411
00:37:09,018 --> 00:37:12,146
You shouldn't stand here.
I'll take you in the servants' entrance.

412
00:37:14,774 --> 00:37:17,109
You must have had a very long journey.

413
00:37:22,281 --> 00:37:24,700
You won't see much
of Mr. Alderman Parkinson.

414
00:37:24,784 --> 00:37:27,620
When you do, you might be blinded.

415
00:37:27,703 --> 00:37:32,333
He has so many gold pins and snuff boxes
and gold watch chains,

416
00:37:32,416 --> 00:37:35,002
you could get five necklaces
if he were melted down,

417
00:37:35,086 --> 00:37:37,171
with the earrings to match.

418
00:37:38,089 --> 00:37:40,383
Serve cheese biscuits warm.

419
00:37:40,466 --> 00:37:44,595
And give this room
a little more going over.

420
00:37:45,471 --> 00:37:49,892
And make sure that there are four bottles
of good claret for after lunch.

421
00:37:50,726 --> 00:37:52,144
That's Mrs. Parkinson.

422
00:37:54,272 --> 00:37:57,441
She ought to be the alderman herself,
she is a better man.

423
00:37:59,193 --> 00:38:00,778
This is the parlor.

424
00:38:02,947 --> 00:38:04,323
They have two sons.

425
00:38:04,407 --> 00:38:09,287
They're both away in the States
at college, which is just as well.

426
00:38:09,370 --> 00:38:11,414
Mrs. Honey, cook.

427
00:38:11,497 --> 00:38:13,040
This is Grace Marks.

428
00:38:18,045 --> 00:38:21,257
Now I'll show you to your bed,
which is the same as mine.

429
00:38:28,222 --> 00:38:31,225
-Agnes, Effie, this is Grace Marks.
-Hello.

430
00:38:34,687 --> 00:38:36,522
Effie is quite melancholic.

431
00:38:37,231 --> 00:38:40,776
Her young man was transported to Australia
for being in the rebellion

432
00:38:40,860 --> 00:38:42,570
and he died there.

433
00:38:42,653 --> 00:38:45,239
She tried to hang herself
with her apron strings and they broke,

434
00:38:45,323 --> 00:38:48,617
and they found her out of her mind
and she had to be put away.

435
00:38:48,701 --> 00:38:49,785
What rebellion?

436
00:38:49,869 --> 00:38:53,289
What rebellion?
You must have just arrived.

437
00:38:54,874 --> 00:38:57,626
It was against the gentry
who run everything here

438
00:38:57,710 --> 00:39:00,046
and keep all of the land
and the money for themselves.

439
00:39:00,129 --> 00:39:03,007
Mr. William Lyon Mackenzie,
he led the rebellion but it failed,

440
00:39:03,090 --> 00:39:07,178
so he escaped in women's clothing
over the lake and into the States.

441
00:39:07,261 --> 00:39:09,680
He could have been betrayed many times,
but he wasn't,

442
00:39:09,764 --> 00:39:12,641
because he was a fine man
who stood up for the ordinary farmers.

443
00:39:13,351 --> 00:39:16,437
Anyway, it's best not to mention politics.
Except amongst friends.

444
00:39:17,313 --> 00:39:20,858
I don't know anything about politics
so I wouldn't mention it in any case.

445
00:39:23,486 --> 00:39:25,029
Are you a radical?

446
00:39:25,863 --> 00:39:30,034
You're not to tell the Parkinsons.
They've heard a different story from me.

447
00:39:30,951 --> 00:39:32,536
But my father lost his farm.

448
00:39:32,620 --> 00:39:37,291
The government troops burnt the log cabin
that he built while fighting off bears.

449
00:39:38,334 --> 00:39:41,170
And then he died while hiding
in the winter woods,

450
00:39:41,253 --> 00:39:42,755
and my mother died of grief.

451
00:39:43,631 --> 00:39:47,385
But our time will come,
we will be revenged.

452
00:39:48,344 --> 00:39:51,472
She had a very fierce look
when she said this.

453
00:39:56,852 --> 00:40:00,314
Grace, when you get your wages,
you must hide them.

454
00:40:00,398 --> 00:40:04,026
-Made a pocket in the mattress here.
-My wages go directly to my father.

455
00:40:04,110 --> 00:40:08,572
Didn't you say your father was a drunk?
You can't give him your wages.

456
00:40:08,656 --> 00:40:11,534
But what about the children?
How will they survive?

457
00:40:11,617 --> 00:40:13,744
It won't benefit your brothers
and sisters.

458
00:40:13,828 --> 00:40:17,665
-He'll just drink it away.
-I'm afraid of him.

459
00:40:19,834 --> 00:40:24,672
He won't get at you here, and if he tries,
I'll speak with Jim in the stables.

460
00:40:24,755 --> 00:40:26,173
He's a large man with friends.

461
00:40:27,425 --> 00:40:30,469
You may be very young
and as ignorant as an egg,

462
00:40:31,887 --> 00:40:34,682
but you're bright as a new penny,
Grace Marks.

463
00:40:35,266 --> 00:40:38,978
And the difference between ignorant
and stupid is that ignorant can learn.

464
00:40:40,020 --> 00:40:42,398
I think we're gonna get along
just fine together.

465
00:40:43,858 --> 00:40:47,069
In the morning I'll have Miss Honey
advance you your wages

466
00:40:47,153 --> 00:40:49,029
so we can get you a proper dress.

467
00:41:09,842 --> 00:41:12,219
Very sorry to interrupt, Dr. Jordan.

468
00:41:12,303 --> 00:41:14,555
I wanted to know if I could bring
any refreshment.

469
00:41:14,638 --> 00:41:17,391
No, we're fine. Thank you.
We're in the middle of...

470
00:41:24,106 --> 00:41:25,274
Um...

471
00:41:25,357 --> 00:41:26,942
I'm sorry, Doctor. Are we not done?

472
00:41:28,861 --> 00:41:32,198
Yes, yes, of course.
That was quite a lot for one day.

473
00:41:33,199 --> 00:41:34,700
Shall we begin again tomorrow?

474
00:41:54,178 --> 00:41:56,680
I went to the pump,
and on turning around,

475
00:41:56,764 --> 00:41:59,016
I saw McDermott dragging Nancy
along the yard,

476
00:41:59,099 --> 00:42:01,435
leading from the back kitchen
to the front kitchen.

477
00:42:01,519 --> 00:42:03,687
This was about seven o'clock.

478
00:42:03,771 --> 00:42:06,982
I said to McDermott, "I didn't think
you were going to do it that minute."

479
00:42:07,816 --> 00:42:10,486
He said it was better
to get it done with...

480
00:42:10,569 --> 00:42:14,615
In the courtroom, and in the asylum,
every word that came out of my mouth

481
00:42:14,698 --> 00:42:17,368
was as if it was burnt into the paper
they were writing it on.

482
00:42:17,451 --> 00:42:21,205
He said, "Open the trap door
and I'll throw her down in the cellar."

483
00:42:21,288 --> 00:42:24,875
And once I said a thing, I knew
I could never get the words back,

484
00:42:24,959 --> 00:42:26,502
only they were the wrong words...

485
00:42:26,585 --> 00:42:30,381
I gave him a piece of white cloth
and followed him to the trap door.

486
00:42:30,464 --> 00:42:32,967
...'cause whatever I said
would be twisted around,

487
00:42:34,969 --> 00:42:36,804
even if it was the plain truth
in the first place.

488
00:42:41,642 --> 00:42:44,728
But now I feel as if everything
I say is right.

489
00:42:44,812 --> 00:42:47,648
As long as I say something,
anything at all,

490
00:42:47,731 --> 00:42:50,359
you smile and write it down.

491
00:42:51,860 --> 00:42:55,322
When you write, I feel as if you are
drawing on me,

492
00:42:55,406 --> 00:42:59,201
drawing on my skin with the feather end
of an old-fashioned goose pen.

493
00:43:00,119 --> 00:43:03,664
As if hundreds of butterflies
have settled all over my face

494
00:43:03,747 --> 00:43:06,000
and are softly opening
and closing their wings.

495
00:43:09,211 --> 00:43:11,463
But underneath that is another feeling,

496
00:43:12,381 --> 00:43:15,843
a feeling of being wide-eyed awake
and watchful.

497
00:43:21,015 --> 00:43:23,934
It's like being wakened suddenly
in the middle of the night,

498
00:43:24,018 --> 00:43:27,938
by a hand over your face, and you sit up
with your heart going fast,

499
00:43:28,022 --> 00:43:29,690
and no one is there.

500
00:43:39,074 --> 00:43:41,619
And underneath that
is another feeling still...

501
00:43:44,079 --> 00:43:46,081
a feeling of being torn open,

502
00:43:46,832 --> 00:43:52,421
not like a body of flesh, it is not
painful as such, but like a peach.

503
00:43:52,880 --> 00:43:58,177
And not even torn open but too ripe
and splitting of its own accord.

504
00:43:58,260 --> 00:44:02,389
And inside the peach there's a stone.

505
00:44:12,191 --> 00:44:14,985
♪ Come all you fair ♪

506
00:44:15,069 --> 00:44:18,864
♪ And tender girls ♪

507
00:44:18,947 --> 00:44:22,910
♪ That flourish in your prime ♪

508
00:44:22,993 --> 00:44:25,120
♪ Prime ♪

509
00:44:25,204 --> 00:44:27,748
♪ Beware, beware ♪

510
00:44:27,831 --> 00:44:32,127
♪ If you're good and fair ♪

511
00:44:32,211 --> 00:44:36,965
♪ Let no man steal your time ♪

512
00:44:37,049 --> 00:44:39,468
♪ Time ♪

513
00:44:39,551 --> 00:44:42,971
♪ Let no man steal ♪

514
00:44:43,055 --> 00:44:46,350
♪ Your time ♪

515
00:44:46,433 --> 00:44:53,023
♪ For when your time
It is passed and gone ♪

516
00:44:53,107 --> 00:44:57,361
♪ He'll care no more for you ♪

517
00:44:57,444 --> 00:44:59,363
♪ You ♪

518
00:44:59,446 --> 00:45:05,828
♪ And every place
Where your time was waste ♪

519
00:45:05,911 --> 00:45:10,416
♪ Shall spread all o'er with rue ♪

520
00:45:10,499 --> 00:45:12,167
♪ Rue  ♪