1 00:00:01,180 --> 00:00:06,164 http://www.addic7ed.com 2 00:00:14,600 --> 00:00:16,960 In the last year of the 18th century, 3 00:00:16,960 --> 00:00:21,080 Colonel John Herncastle plundered from India 4 00:00:21,080 --> 00:00:24,400 a priceless and most sacred yellow diamond. 5 00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:29,440 Vishnu, the preserver, laid his curse on the thief, 6 00:00:29,440 --> 00:00:34,320 commanding three priests to search forever for his moonstone. 7 00:00:34,320 --> 00:00:38,040 But the wicked colonel smuggled the stone to England. 8 00:00:39,520 --> 00:00:41,680 In his will, he bequeathed the diamond 9 00:00:41,680 --> 00:00:44,720 to his beautiful young niece, Miss Rachel Verinder. 10 00:00:45,800 --> 00:00:48,440 Rachel's gallant cousin, Mr Franklin Blake, 11 00:00:48,440 --> 00:00:50,600 was charged with the gem's delivery. 12 00:00:54,760 --> 00:00:59,520 Rachel was bewitched by her diamond, but the next morning, it was gone. 13 00:00:59,520 --> 00:01:04,400 A year later, Franklin and celebrated detective, Sergeant Cuff, 14 00:01:04,400 --> 00:01:08,120 reopened the case and learned that Rosanna Spearman, 15 00:01:08,120 --> 00:01:10,200 Rachel's housemaid and former thief, 16 00:01:10,200 --> 00:01:12,960 had left a letter for Franklin before her death. 17 00:01:12,960 --> 00:01:15,000 They turned straight back for London, 18 00:01:15,000 --> 00:01:19,600 hoping at last to trace the moonstone and its thief. 19 00:01:19,600 --> 00:01:22,360 Coachman is readying the horses now. 20 00:01:28,800 --> 00:01:31,800 - Were you expecting visitors ? - Oh, no. 21 00:01:35,960 --> 00:01:39,320 Oh ! It has been a long, arduous journey. 22 00:01:39,320 --> 00:01:41,880 Miss Clack, you did not receive my telegram. 23 00:01:41,880 --> 00:01:44,120 I hoped to speak to you in London. 24 00:01:44,120 --> 00:01:45,840 Then you hoped in vain. 25 00:01:45,840 --> 00:01:49,240 I am but a poor relation, a church mouse. 26 00:01:49,240 --> 00:01:52,240 I do not have the wherewithal for permanent lodgings in the city. 27 00:01:52,240 --> 00:01:55,200 I agreed to pay, Miss Clack. Handsomely, I might add. 28 00:01:55,200 --> 00:01:58,120 And it cost me a hard struggle 29 00:01:58,120 --> 00:02:01,360 before Christian humility conquered sinful pride 30 00:02:01,360 --> 00:02:04,760 and self-denial forced me to accept your cheque. 31 00:02:04,760 --> 00:02:08,760 But I accepted it on the grounds that we speak in Yorkshire. 32 00:02:08,760 --> 00:02:12,120 If you wish for my testimony, we do it here. 33 00:02:15,873 --> 00:02:18,073 - I could go on. - Better that I abandon this interview. 34 00:02:18,116 --> 00:02:20,590 The ground we have to cover in London, you cannot cover alone. 35 00:02:20,615 --> 00:02:22,168 But what about... ? 36 00:02:22,245 --> 00:02:25,520 My contacts are already tracing Lucy Yolland. 37 00:02:25,520 --> 00:02:28,840 When they find her, I could cable you, if need be. 38 00:02:28,840 --> 00:02:31,720 And we must watch the jewel broker, Septimus Luker, also. 39 00:02:31,720 --> 00:02:34,400 And he knows your face, so that must needs be me. 40 00:02:34,400 --> 00:02:38,240 Mr Luker figures in your investigation. How curious ! 41 00:02:38,240 --> 00:02:40,720 I have news of Septimus Luker. 42 00:03:26,440 --> 00:03:30,760 You have not heard of the outrage perpetrated on the jewel broker ? 43 00:03:30,760 --> 00:03:33,400 - No. - Of course, I know the intimate detail 44 00:03:33,400 --> 00:03:37,040 as an identical attack was committed on an esteemed friend of mine. 45 00:03:37,375 --> 00:03:38,840 And who might that be ? 46 00:03:40,990 --> 00:03:42,870 Mr Godfrey Ablewhite. 47 00:03:44,282 --> 00:03:45,985 Cousin Godfrey ?! 48 00:03:46,345 --> 00:03:49,440 I do not understand you. What happened ? 49 00:03:49,440 --> 00:03:51,960 Some 10 months since, 50 00:03:51,960 --> 00:03:55,520 not long after the events of dear Rachel's birthday 51 00:03:55,520 --> 00:03:57,560 and the loss of the diamond, 52 00:03:57,560 --> 00:04:00,960 I had cause to visit Mr Godfrey's lodgings. 53 00:04:00,960 --> 00:04:02,960 What business did you have with him ? 54 00:04:04,280 --> 00:04:06,240 I do not expect you to be aware of 55 00:04:06,240 --> 00:04:09,400 the Mothers' Small Clothes Conversion Society, 56 00:04:09,400 --> 00:04:13,200 but I am on the select committee of that excellent charity. 57 00:04:13,200 --> 00:04:16,760 And my precious, admirable friend, Mr Godfrey Ablewhite, 58 00:04:16,760 --> 00:04:21,160 is associated with the work of moral and material usefulness. 59 00:04:21,160 --> 00:04:23,760 You have dedicated meetings for such matters ? 60 00:04:23,760 --> 00:04:25,240 Well, of course. 61 00:04:25,240 --> 00:04:30,120 I had noticed that Mr Godfrey had been missing some meetings of late, 62 00:04:30,120 --> 00:04:32,560 and I was concerned for his health. 63 00:04:32,560 --> 00:04:34,760 And I was right to be so. 64 00:04:37,360 --> 00:04:38,880 Mr Godfrey ? 65 00:04:41,102 --> 00:04:42,666 Mr Godfrey ? 66 00:04:44,360 --> 00:04:47,200 Oh ! Oh, my dear Mr Godfrey ! 67 00:05:00,280 --> 00:05:02,960 Oh, my dear Mr Godfrey, what has occurred ?! 68 00:05:02,960 --> 00:05:06,200 Free my hands and pass me my clothes, Miss Clack. 69 00:05:08,000 --> 00:05:09,320 Miss Clack ! 70 00:05:12,360 --> 00:05:14,720 How came Godfrey to be bound and gagged ? 71 00:05:14,720 --> 00:05:17,320 It transpires that earlier that day, 72 00:05:17,320 --> 00:05:21,120 Mr Godfrey had cause to visit a banking house on Lombard Street. 73 00:05:21,120 --> 00:05:24,120 On gaining the door, he encountered a gentleman, 74 00:05:24,120 --> 00:05:27,600 a perfect stranger to him, who was accidentally leaving 75 00:05:27,600 --> 00:05:30,240 the office exactly at the same time as himself. 76 00:05:30,240 --> 00:05:33,440 A momentary contest of politeness ensued between them 77 00:05:33,440 --> 00:05:36,440 as to who should be the first to pass through the door. 78 00:05:36,440 --> 00:05:39,960 The stranger insisted on making Mr Godfrey precede him. 79 00:05:39,960 --> 00:05:42,720 Mr Godfrey said a few civil words, 80 00:05:42,720 --> 00:05:45,920 they bowed and parted in the street. 81 00:05:48,440 --> 00:05:50,320 But before he had gone many paces, 82 00:05:50,320 --> 00:05:53,040 he was apprehended by an unseen hand ! 83 00:05:55,240 --> 00:05:58,400 And he awoke some hours later, in his own rooms, 84 00:05:58,400 --> 00:05:59,920 in the state as discussed. 85 00:05:59,920 --> 00:06:02,440 His lodgings had been turned over, 86 00:06:02,440 --> 00:06:05,000 and Mr Godfrey himself has been searched, 87 00:06:05,000 --> 00:06:08,400 if, as a lady, I may venture to use the expression without ceremony, 88 00:06:08,400 --> 00:06:10,680 through and through to his skin. 89 00:06:10,680 --> 00:06:14,440 - So, what did they take ? - Oh, nothing. 90 00:06:14,440 --> 00:06:16,840 They had acted in error, making a false association 91 00:06:16,840 --> 00:06:19,400 between our friend and the man in the bank. 92 00:06:19,400 --> 00:06:21,360 'Twas but a mistake. 93 00:06:21,360 --> 00:06:23,640 So if I understand you correctly, that man must've been 94 00:06:23,640 --> 00:06:25,720 the jewel broker, Septimus Luker himself ? 95 00:06:25,720 --> 00:06:27,280 That is correct. 96 00:06:27,280 --> 00:06:29,720 He, too, was followed from the bank. 97 00:06:33,280 --> 00:06:35,840 But his kidnappers profited more by Luker's abduction 98 00:06:35,840 --> 00:06:38,240 than by poor, dear Mr Godfrey's. 99 00:06:38,240 --> 00:06:41,000 So, what did they take from Luker ? 100 00:06:41,000 --> 00:06:45,200 The papers say the receipt was for a valuable of great price 101 00:06:45,200 --> 00:06:49,280 that Mr Luker had that day placed in the care of his bankers. 102 00:06:49,280 --> 00:06:50,600 The moonstone ? 103 00:06:50,600 --> 00:06:52,760 Perhaps. Perhaps not. 104 00:06:52,760 --> 00:06:55,120 It stated a valuable only. 105 00:06:55,120 --> 00:06:57,480 Do they have it, then ? 106 00:06:57,480 --> 00:07:00,440 Did the kidnappers collect the gem ? 107 00:07:00,440 --> 00:07:03,200 Oh, no. There, the infidels fell down. 108 00:07:03,200 --> 00:07:06,000 The document was useless for the purposes of fraud 109 00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:09,240 as it provided that the valuable must be given up 110 00:07:09,240 --> 00:07:12,200 only on the personal application of Mr Luker himself. 111 00:07:12,200 --> 00:07:13,560 You say infidels. 112 00:07:13,560 --> 00:07:15,960 Who were these kidnappers ? Have they been identified ? 113 00:07:15,960 --> 00:07:18,760 Mr Luker's landlord could say only 114 00:07:18,760 --> 00:07:22,600 that they appeared to be gentlemen of eastern derivation. 115 00:07:22,600 --> 00:07:25,880 Ah ! Sergeant Cuff's exact prediction, sir. 116 00:07:25,880 --> 00:07:29,200 The guardians closing in on the jewel broker. 117 00:07:29,200 --> 00:07:33,520 But he did not foresee them closing in on cousin Godfrey Ablewhite. 118 00:07:33,520 --> 00:07:35,200 Indeed not ! 119 00:07:35,200 --> 00:07:38,520 Because it was a trifle, a chance encounter with Mr Luker 120 00:07:38,520 --> 00:07:42,600 that led those heathens to make a false association with him. 121 00:07:42,600 --> 00:07:45,320 The sergeant said the thief would have a link to Luker, 122 00:07:45,320 --> 00:07:47,240 but I never expected this ! 123 00:07:47,240 --> 00:07:51,520 Can it be it could be Mr Godfrey who stole the moonstone ? 124 00:07:51,520 --> 00:07:53,560 It all seems to point to Mr Godfrey. 125 00:07:53,560 --> 00:07:55,720 Our Christian hero, 126 00:07:55,720 --> 00:08:01,240 a gentleman of independent wealth with modest outgoings. 127 00:08:01,240 --> 00:08:04,600 A barrister, a true friend to the poor. No. 128 00:08:04,600 --> 00:08:09,200 I would ask you to look upon more specific predictions than that. 129 00:08:10,520 --> 00:08:12,320 What else did the sergeant say ? 130 00:08:13,560 --> 00:08:15,520 I see you have heard the rumours, Miss Clack. 131 00:08:15,520 --> 00:08:19,160 I had the whole story from the mouth of my aunt herself. 132 00:08:19,160 --> 00:08:22,920 And I understood there was not a shadow of a suspicion 133 00:08:22,920 --> 00:08:26,040 on anybody but dear Rachel. 134 00:08:29,160 --> 00:08:31,160 In the mind of Sergeant Cuff. 135 00:08:31,160 --> 00:08:33,040 He did not know her as we do. 136 00:08:34,520 --> 00:08:35,960 Really ? 137 00:08:35,960 --> 00:08:40,760 I am but a...dispassionate observer. 138 00:08:40,760 --> 00:08:45,400 Knowing Rachel's spirit to be essentially unregenerate 139 00:08:45,400 --> 00:08:48,520 from childhood upwards, there is very little in this world 140 00:08:48,520 --> 00:08:51,160 that would shock me as regards my cousin. 141 00:08:51,160 --> 00:08:53,640 Events might pass from bad to worse, 142 00:08:53,640 --> 00:08:55,560 till they end in murder. 143 00:08:56,560 --> 00:08:58,680 And yet I might say to myself, 144 00:08:58,680 --> 00:09:00,880 "Ah, the natural result. 145 00:09:00,880 --> 00:09:04,800 "Oh, dear, dear. The natural result." 146 00:09:04,800 --> 00:09:08,880 Nothing of what you have told us is pointed towards Rachel as thief. 147 00:09:08,880 --> 00:09:12,400 Everything, shocking and upsetting as that may be, 148 00:09:12,400 --> 00:09:14,480 points towards Godfrey. 149 00:09:19,280 --> 00:09:20,680 I have not finished yet. 150 00:09:27,320 --> 00:09:28,800 You might change your view 151 00:09:28,800 --> 00:09:32,440 when you hear dear Rachel's response to the events in question. 152 00:09:34,080 --> 00:09:35,600 I do not understand. 153 00:09:35,600 --> 00:09:39,320 I thought you should know before you next saw dear Mr Godfrey. 154 00:09:40,520 --> 00:09:44,520 You imagine that the jewel this broker was depositing, 155 00:09:44,520 --> 00:09:47,800 the motivation for these kidnappings, 156 00:09:47,800 --> 00:09:50,040 you believe it to be my diamond ? 157 00:09:50,040 --> 00:09:52,240 Oh, it is not I who believes. 158 00:09:52,240 --> 00:09:56,040 The whole of London is abuzz with talk of the moonstone. 159 00:09:56,040 --> 00:09:59,280 But cloistered as you are, dear cousin, 160 00:09:59,280 --> 00:10:02,840 I...I suspected that news might not have reached you. 161 00:10:04,160 --> 00:10:07,040 I imagined you would want to know that the diamond, 162 00:10:07,040 --> 00:10:09,240 and, perchance, its thief, 163 00:10:09,240 --> 00:10:11,400 seem close to being found out. 164 00:10:15,160 --> 00:10:17,840 Thank you, Mr Bruff. I'm sure those arrangements will be... 165 00:10:19,120 --> 00:10:20,840 How did that come to be here ?! 166 00:10:20,840 --> 00:10:23,800 It doesn't matter, Mama. You need protect me no longer. 167 00:10:23,800 --> 00:10:27,360 Please send word to Godfrey, I must see him today. 168 00:10:28,840 --> 00:10:31,120 What to make of this reaction from Rachel. 169 00:10:31,120 --> 00:10:33,800 Like us, she hopes to find her moonstone. 170 00:10:33,800 --> 00:10:37,280 Like us, she's in consternation and panic at the thought 171 00:10:37,280 --> 00:10:41,480 that the thief could be someone as close as her cousin Godfrey. 172 00:10:41,480 --> 00:10:44,680 I am sure it does you great credit, Mr Betteredge, 173 00:10:44,680 --> 00:10:46,600 that you view it thus. 174 00:10:46,600 --> 00:10:49,560 But I can tell, Mr Franklin Blake, 175 00:10:49,560 --> 00:10:52,200 like your great London detective, 176 00:10:52,200 --> 00:10:54,760 can see quite a different reading of it. 177 00:10:54,760 --> 00:10:57,040 'I'll wager the diamond is in London.' 178 00:10:57,040 --> 00:10:58,680 Pledged to Septimus Luker. 179 00:10:58,680 --> 00:11:01,600 And it was Miss Rachel herself that took it there 180 00:11:01,600 --> 00:11:03,680 'and pledged it.' 181 00:11:09,440 --> 00:11:13,080 I don't presume to argue with a clever man like you, 182 00:11:13,080 --> 00:11:17,400 but is it quite fair, sir, to pass over the opinion 183 00:11:17,400 --> 00:11:20,280 of the famous detective who investigated this case ? 184 00:11:20,280 --> 00:11:22,320 I judge the sergeant, brilliant though he is, 185 00:11:22,320 --> 00:11:23,720 to have been utterly wrong. 186 00:11:23,720 --> 00:11:25,840 Had he but known Rachel's character as I know it, 187 00:11:25,840 --> 00:11:28,636 he would've suspected everybody in the house but her. 188 00:11:28,713 --> 00:11:30,833 If you'll excuse my interruption, 189 00:11:30,880 --> 00:11:32,480 Miss Rachel has her faults, 190 00:11:32,480 --> 00:11:36,840 she can be secret and self-willed, odd and wild, 191 00:11:36,840 --> 00:11:39,880 but I have known her since birth, 192 00:11:39,880 --> 00:11:42,440 and she's true as steel. 193 00:11:42,440 --> 00:11:46,000 High-minded and generous to a fault. 194 00:11:46,000 --> 00:11:48,760 If the plainest evidence in the world pointed one way 195 00:11:48,760 --> 00:11:51,320 and nothing but Rachel's word of honour pointed the other, 196 00:11:51,320 --> 00:11:53,440 I would take her word before the evidence. 197 00:11:53,518 --> 00:11:56,815 She is so absolutely to be relied on as that ? 198 00:11:56,840 --> 00:11:57,800 She is. 199 00:11:57,800 --> 00:12:00,600 Then permit me to inform you 200 00:12:00,600 --> 00:12:04,120 that Mr Godfrey Ablewhite's entire innocence 201 00:12:04,120 --> 00:12:05,960 was declared that day 202 00:12:05,960 --> 00:12:09,480 during my visit by Miss Verinder herself 203 00:12:09,480 --> 00:12:11,000 in the strongest language 204 00:12:11,000 --> 00:12:14,080 I ever heard used by a young lady in my life. 205 00:12:18,080 --> 00:12:21,720 Tell me...word for word, 206 00:12:21,720 --> 00:12:23,840 what exactly did Rachel say ? 207 00:12:25,200 --> 00:12:29,040 My Lady, Mr Godfrey Ablewhite. 208 00:12:29,040 --> 00:12:32,400 Godfrey. I am charmed to see you. 209 00:12:32,400 --> 00:12:35,160 I wish you had brought Mr Luker with you. 210 00:12:35,160 --> 00:12:39,480 It seems that you and he, as long as our present excitement lasts, 211 00:12:39,480 --> 00:12:41,760 are the most interesting men in London. 212 00:12:43,840 --> 00:12:46,040 I think I should take my leave, My Lady. 213 00:12:46,040 --> 00:12:48,560 - No. Stay. - Yes, stay. 214 00:12:48,560 --> 00:12:50,240 I am unfortunate, Rachel. 215 00:12:51,760 --> 00:12:54,280 No man knows less of Mr Luker than I. 216 00:12:54,280 --> 00:12:57,360 And yet I learn that you were both kidnapped in identical circumstances. 217 00:12:57,360 --> 00:13:01,040 It is thought, is it not, that these kidnappers are the same as 218 00:13:01,040 --> 00:13:03,640 those entertainers that came to our house in the country ? 219 00:13:03,640 --> 00:13:05,040 Some people think so. 220 00:13:05,040 --> 00:13:07,760 Please, Rachel, leave the matter be. 221 00:13:07,760 --> 00:13:09,280 I cannot, Mama. 222 00:13:09,280 --> 00:13:11,960 Tell me plainly, Godfrey, do these people also say 223 00:13:11,960 --> 00:13:14,920 that Mr Luker's valuable gem is the moonstone ? 224 00:13:14,920 --> 00:13:16,240 They do. 225 00:13:17,920 --> 00:13:20,680 Mr Luker has, over and over, solemnly declared 226 00:13:20,680 --> 00:13:23,760 that until this scandal assailed him, he'd never heard of the moonstone. 227 00:13:23,760 --> 00:13:27,200 And these vile people reply without a shadow of proof 228 00:13:27,200 --> 00:13:29,280 that he has his reasons for concealment, 229 00:13:29,280 --> 00:13:31,840 and decline to believe him on his oath. 230 00:13:31,840 --> 00:13:33,160 Shameful ! 231 00:13:34,640 --> 00:13:36,360 Shameful. 232 00:13:36,360 --> 00:13:41,240 An unlucky accident has associated you in people's minds with Mr Luker. 233 00:13:41,240 --> 00:13:45,000 You have told me what scandal says of him, 234 00:13:45,000 --> 00:13:47,280 what does scandal say of you ? 235 00:13:47,280 --> 00:13:49,480 Don't ask me. 236 00:13:49,480 --> 00:13:51,240 It is better forgotten, Rachel, it is. 237 00:13:51,240 --> 00:13:53,960 - I will hear it ! - Oh, tell her, Godfrey. 238 00:13:53,960 --> 00:13:57,480 Nothing can do her such harm as you do by your silence now. 239 00:13:57,480 --> 00:14:00,120 If you will have it, Rachel. 240 00:14:01,680 --> 00:14:05,440 Scandal says the gem in pledge to Mr Luker is the moonstone 241 00:14:05,440 --> 00:14:07,840 and that I am the man who's pawned it. 242 00:14:09,240 --> 00:14:11,240 This gossip, 243 00:14:11,240 --> 00:14:13,280 this stain on your name, 244 00:14:13,280 --> 00:14:15,200 Godfrey, it is my fault. 245 00:14:15,200 --> 00:14:16,800 I have sacrificed myself. 246 00:14:16,800 --> 00:14:18,520 I had the right to do that if I liked 247 00:14:18,520 --> 00:14:22,280 but to let an innocent man be ruined, that I cannot bear. 248 00:14:22,280 --> 00:14:24,840 Dear Rachel, you exaggerate. 249 00:14:26,040 --> 00:14:28,280 My reputation stands too high to be destroyed 250 00:14:28,280 --> 00:14:30,640 by a miserable passing scandal like this. 251 00:14:30,640 --> 00:14:32,880 Let us never speak of it again. 252 00:14:32,880 --> 00:14:34,400 I must and will stop it. 253 00:14:36,400 --> 00:14:40,800 Mama, Mr Bruff, Miss Clack, hear what I say. 254 00:14:44,000 --> 00:14:46,960 I know the hand that took the moonstone. 255 00:14:46,960 --> 00:14:48,560 What ? 256 00:14:48,560 --> 00:14:49,760 Who ? 257 00:14:49,760 --> 00:14:52,840 The very question on the lips of all who heard her speak, Mr Blake. 258 00:14:52,840 --> 00:14:56,800 Well, then, Rachel, you must tell us who he is. Give us a name. 259 00:14:58,120 --> 00:15:00,080 I cannot. 260 00:15:00,080 --> 00:15:01,280 But I know... 261 00:15:01,280 --> 00:15:05,000 I know Godfrey Ablewhite is innocent. 262 00:15:05,000 --> 00:15:08,440 Mr Bruff, please draw up a declaration of Godfrey's innocence 263 00:15:08,440 --> 00:15:10,280 on paper and I will sign it. 264 00:15:10,280 --> 00:15:13,120 Do as I say or I'll write it to the newspapers. 265 00:15:13,120 --> 00:15:15,200 I'll go out and cry it in the streets. 266 00:15:25,320 --> 00:15:27,800 Aunt Verinder, let me comfort you. 267 00:15:27,800 --> 00:15:30,320 It is not comfort that I need. 268 00:15:30,320 --> 00:15:32,160 Quick, six drops in water. 269 00:15:35,480 --> 00:15:38,200 You have surprised a secret, Drusilla. 270 00:15:38,200 --> 00:15:41,320 But I trust once I tell you the circumstance 271 00:15:41,320 --> 00:15:43,200 that I can be sure of your discretion ? 272 00:15:43,200 --> 00:15:47,320 Oh, dear aunt, you can trust me absolutely. 273 00:15:52,120 --> 00:15:56,080 The truth of the matter is that I have been seriously ill 274 00:15:56,080 --> 00:15:58,360 for some time past 275 00:15:58,360 --> 00:16:01,120 and, strange to say, without knowing it myself. 276 00:16:02,240 --> 00:16:06,640 When I came to London, I consulted a doctor on Rachel's health. 277 00:16:06,640 --> 00:16:11,240 However, he proved more seriously concerned with my own. 278 00:16:11,240 --> 00:16:14,040 For some years, it transpires, 279 00:16:14,040 --> 00:16:17,280 I have been suffering under an insidious form of heart disease 280 00:16:17,280 --> 00:16:19,200 which has fatally broken me down. 281 00:16:20,400 --> 00:16:21,720 Oh, dearest aunt. 282 00:16:21,720 --> 00:16:24,320 I have come to realise I am lucky 283 00:16:24,320 --> 00:16:27,880 to have the chance with Mr Bruff 284 00:16:27,880 --> 00:16:29,400 to set my affairs in order. 285 00:16:30,680 --> 00:16:31,800 I may not have long... 286 00:16:33,240 --> 00:16:36,320 ..but my one great anxiety is that Rachel 287 00:16:36,320 --> 00:16:37,920 should not learn the truth. 288 00:16:40,000 --> 00:16:43,960 You do promise not to tell her, don't you, my dear ? 289 00:16:43,960 --> 00:16:45,320 Oh, yes. 290 00:16:45,320 --> 00:16:46,760 Oh, dear aunt, I do. 291 00:16:46,760 --> 00:16:49,600 If she should learn of my condition, 292 00:16:49,600 --> 00:16:54,640 she should at once attribute it to anxiety over the diamond 293 00:16:54,640 --> 00:16:57,920 and would reproach herself bitterly, poor child, 294 00:16:57,920 --> 00:17:02,040 for whatever secret she has burdened herself with these past weeks. 295 00:17:02,040 --> 00:17:03,920 Please do not worry, aunt. 296 00:17:03,920 --> 00:17:06,920 Rachel shall remain in absolute ignorance. 297 00:17:08,000 --> 00:17:12,840 You have me here now to tend your soul. 298 00:17:20,000 --> 00:17:24,360 'I left my aunt recovering there with a helpful tract 299 00:17:24,360 --> 00:17:27,920 'and re-joined Rachel and her heathen lawyer.' 300 00:17:27,920 --> 00:17:29,600 Show it everywhere. Don't think of me. 301 00:17:31,120 --> 00:17:35,760 I'm afraid, Godfrey, I have not done you justice hitherto in my thoughts. 302 00:17:35,760 --> 00:17:38,800 You are a better man than I believed you to be. 303 00:17:38,800 --> 00:17:40,000 Come here when you can 304 00:17:40,000 --> 00:17:42,200 and I will try to repair the wrong I have done you. 305 00:17:46,680 --> 00:17:48,120 Rachel... 306 00:17:48,120 --> 00:17:50,160 I know I am over anxious. 307 00:17:50,160 --> 00:17:52,040 I must go calm myself with a book. 308 00:17:53,520 --> 00:17:56,200 I fear I have made you anxious too. 309 00:17:56,200 --> 00:17:58,840 Ooh, you have no need to worry about me. 310 00:18:05,880 --> 00:18:07,120 Mr Godfrey... 311 00:18:11,800 --> 00:18:14,560 You wish me to go against dear Rachel's wishes. 312 00:18:14,560 --> 00:18:17,960 Well, let's just call it a pious fraud if you will. 313 00:18:18,960 --> 00:18:23,840 Let Rachel suppose that you accept the generous self-sacrifice 314 00:18:23,840 --> 00:18:26,240 with which she signed that letter. 315 00:18:40,000 --> 00:18:41,320 Mr Godfrey ! 316 00:18:51,440 --> 00:18:55,720 A trifling inconvenience that I may suffer is as nothing 317 00:18:55,720 --> 00:18:58,720 compared to the importance of preserving that pure name 318 00:18:58,720 --> 00:19:01,840 from the contaminating contact of the world. 319 00:19:01,840 --> 00:19:05,920 You've reduced it to a harmless little heap of ashes. 320 00:19:05,920 --> 00:19:09,680 And our dear impulsive Rachel will never know what we have done. 321 00:19:09,680 --> 00:19:13,400 Why would Godfrey burn a document exonerating him, even under duress ? 322 00:19:13,400 --> 00:19:15,520 Well, a true gentleman always protects 323 00:19:15,520 --> 00:19:17,480 a lady's honour above his own. 324 00:19:17,480 --> 00:19:21,440 Begging your pardon, sir, what lady, whose honour ? 325 00:19:21,440 --> 00:19:24,840 What Miss Clack implies, Betteredge, is that if Rachel can state 326 00:19:24,840 --> 00:19:27,200 absolutely that the thief was not Godfrey, 327 00:19:27,200 --> 00:19:29,680 if she admits she knows the identity of the thief... 328 00:19:29,680 --> 00:19:31,240 There must be a reason, surely, 329 00:19:31,240 --> 00:19:35,320 for this extraordinary conduct on Rachel's part. 330 00:19:35,320 --> 00:19:38,800 She admits she is keeping a sinful secret. 331 00:19:38,800 --> 00:19:42,240 She admits she is guilty of allowing an innocent man 332 00:19:42,240 --> 00:19:44,120 to be painted a thief. 333 00:19:44,120 --> 00:19:47,640 She is horrified by and yet obsessed 334 00:19:47,640 --> 00:19:50,280 with every detail of Mr Luker's abduction. 335 00:19:50,280 --> 00:19:53,920 Could this be because HER secret is threatened with discovery ? 336 00:19:55,240 --> 00:19:56,840 When first you arrived, Miss Clack, 337 00:19:56,840 --> 00:19:58,760 I thought your need for money drove you 338 00:19:58,760 --> 00:20:02,920 and then perhaps your admiration for Godfrey led you 339 00:20:02,920 --> 00:20:06,520 to imagine yourself closer to him by means of being his defence. 340 00:20:06,520 --> 00:20:07,560 I do not understand. 341 00:20:07,560 --> 00:20:08,600 But now... 342 00:20:09,920 --> 00:20:11,680 ..I see that it is hatred of Rachel 343 00:20:11,680 --> 00:20:13,800 that makes you seek to bring her down. 344 00:20:14,920 --> 00:20:16,160 Why do you hate her so ? 345 00:20:17,160 --> 00:20:20,360 Is it jealousy that eats at you ? 346 00:20:20,360 --> 00:20:22,120 Jealousy ? 347 00:20:22,120 --> 00:20:23,160 Hatred ? 348 00:20:23,160 --> 00:20:27,080 Oh, I wish I could find the words to describe the... 349 00:20:27,080 --> 00:20:31,360 the compassion I feel for this miserable and misguided girl, 350 00:20:31,360 --> 00:20:35,920 but, alas, I am almost as poorly provided with words 351 00:20:35,920 --> 00:20:37,040 as with money. 352 00:20:37,040 --> 00:20:40,080 It was not I, but the great London detective who said it 353 00:20:40,080 --> 00:20:42,920 - and now the evidence plainly bears it out. - No. 354 00:20:42,920 --> 00:20:48,353 Everything suggests that dear Rachel stole her own diamond. 355 00:20:48,405 --> 00:20:49,605 We are not finished. 356 00:20:58,960 --> 00:21:00,280 What happened next ? 357 00:21:01,280 --> 00:21:04,803 'The next event of any note occurred some months later.' 358 00:21:08,720 --> 00:21:11,000 Is there something you want, Drusilla ? 359 00:21:11,000 --> 00:21:16,720 Give your attention, dear aunt, to this precious tract 360 00:21:16,720 --> 00:21:19,040 and you will give me all I ask. 361 00:21:19,040 --> 00:21:22,040 I'm afraid, my dear, you will have to wait 362 00:21:22,040 --> 00:21:25,240 until I'm a little better before I can read that. 363 00:21:25,314 --> 00:21:28,549 The doctor tells me I am not so well this morning. 364 00:21:28,986 --> 00:21:34,600 "Do nothing to weaken your head or to quicken your pulse." 365 00:21:36,440 --> 00:21:39,744 Those were his words before he left me today. 366 00:21:39,800 --> 00:21:42,360 Then I will leave it with you. 367 00:21:42,360 --> 00:21:44,920 It is my own precious copy, 368 00:21:44,920 --> 00:21:46,920 turned down at all the right pages 369 00:21:46,920 --> 00:21:50,200 and marked in pencil where you are to stop 370 00:21:50,200 --> 00:21:53,800 and ask yourself, "Does this apply to me ?" 371 00:21:56,680 --> 00:21:59,360 I will do what I can to please you, my dear. 372 00:21:59,360 --> 00:22:02,080 Oh, it is not for my pleasure, dear aunt. 373 00:22:02,080 --> 00:22:03,520 No indeed. 374 00:22:03,520 --> 00:22:09,200 I only seek to redeem you from your life of sin. 375 00:22:09,200 --> 00:22:12,640 I only seek to save you from your certain fate, 376 00:22:12,640 --> 00:22:16,000 the burning pains of everlasting hell fire. 377 00:22:17,560 --> 00:22:19,720 Water, please, Drusilla. 378 00:22:27,440 --> 00:22:28,480 Miss Clack. 379 00:22:30,560 --> 00:22:33,520 I must to the afternoon service now, dear. 380 00:22:33,520 --> 00:22:36,000 I'll return this evening at our usual time. 381 00:22:45,520 --> 00:22:46,640 Miss Clack... 382 00:22:48,160 --> 00:22:52,080 The doctor asked you to give Lady Verinder some peace. 383 00:22:52,080 --> 00:22:55,160 Eternal peace is what I seek to give her. 384 00:22:55,160 --> 00:22:57,760 Mr Bruff, is Mama no better ? 385 00:22:57,760 --> 00:23:01,880 Well, she's... She's rather out of sorts today. 386 00:23:01,880 --> 00:23:04,480 This must be worse than the doctors imagine. 387 00:23:04,480 --> 00:23:06,280 She shows no improvement in weeks. 388 00:23:06,280 --> 00:23:09,400 She is due to improve any day now, dear Rachel. 389 00:23:09,400 --> 00:23:14,000 I give you my word, your poor mama will be perfectly better any day. 390 00:23:22,800 --> 00:23:24,050 Mama. 391 00:23:29,964 --> 00:23:32,280 What's wrong with her, why doesn't she wake ? 392 00:23:32,280 --> 00:23:33,720 Oh, Rachel, I'm so sorry. 393 00:23:36,840 --> 00:23:38,920 I will go and fetch the doctor back. 394 00:23:38,920 --> 00:23:40,280 Better that you stay. 395 00:23:47,200 --> 00:23:48,600 "Perfectly better." 396 00:23:50,120 --> 00:23:51,360 I understand you now. 397 00:23:52,480 --> 00:23:55,200 You kept this from me. Both of you. 398 00:23:56,011 --> 00:23:58,560 We did exactly as your mother requested. 399 00:24:00,229 --> 00:24:01,469 I mistook you. 400 00:24:02,720 --> 00:24:03,960 At last I see it. 401 00:24:05,000 --> 00:24:06,760 I thought you a fool, 402 00:24:06,760 --> 00:24:08,480 but you are a devil. 403 00:24:12,160 --> 00:24:14,280 Leave us. 404 00:24:14,280 --> 00:24:15,480 Leave us ! 405 00:24:17,160 --> 00:24:18,480 (Rachel...) 406 00:24:20,960 --> 00:24:22,000 Mama. 407 00:24:24,880 --> 00:24:25,920 Mama. 408 00:24:28,720 --> 00:24:29,920 I am sorry. 409 00:24:35,760 --> 00:24:38,520 I did not know you were so ill. 410 00:24:38,520 --> 00:24:40,320 I have been so selfish. 411 00:24:41,400 --> 00:24:44,840 I should not have kept you from my innermost thoughts. 412 00:24:47,320 --> 00:24:49,120 I should have told you... 413 00:24:50,520 --> 00:24:51,960 ..about the moonstone. 414 00:24:56,760 --> 00:24:58,560 'Tis no matter. 415 00:25:00,040 --> 00:25:01,240 No matter. 416 00:25:11,080 --> 00:25:14,920 'The moonstone ? What about the moonstone ?' 417 00:25:16,400 --> 00:25:18,160 What was she about to say ? 418 00:25:18,160 --> 00:25:20,200 I have worked wonders with murderesses 419 00:25:20,200 --> 00:25:23,640 but I have never advanced an inch with cousin Rachel. 420 00:25:23,640 --> 00:25:24,840 Praise the Lord. 421 00:25:24,840 --> 00:25:26,000 Praise him indeed. 422 00:25:26,000 --> 00:25:28,160 What could she have possibly known about the theft 423 00:25:28,160 --> 00:25:31,400 that she would want so to tell her mother on her deathbed ? 424 00:25:34,509 --> 00:25:36,032 From Cuff. 425 00:25:36,305 --> 00:25:38,440 He's arrived in London to learn his contacts have 426 00:25:38,440 --> 00:25:41,200 a lead on Lucy Yolland. He hopes to track her down within days 427 00:25:41,200 --> 00:25:43,320 and Rosanna's dying secrets with her. 428 00:25:43,320 --> 00:25:44,720 You must make haste, sir. 429 00:25:45,920 --> 00:25:49,720 Was the moonstone never mentioned in the aftermath of my aunt's death ? 430 00:25:49,720 --> 00:25:51,720 I could not say. 431 00:25:52,960 --> 00:25:56,920 'Rachel became quite inaccessible after her mother's death. 432 00:25:56,920 --> 00:25:59,720 'She dropped all pretence of social nicety 433 00:25:59,720 --> 00:26:04,080 'and gave in to her grief in a most selfish and indulgent manner.' 434 00:26:12,120 --> 00:26:14,002 GODFREY : My deepest condolences. 435 00:26:22,200 --> 00:26:23,240 It is my fault. 436 00:26:26,320 --> 00:26:28,600 I should never have kept her in the dark. 437 00:26:30,200 --> 00:26:33,360 Worry about the moonstone killed her. 438 00:26:33,360 --> 00:26:35,560 Dear Rachel, I am sure that isn't true. 439 00:26:39,680 --> 00:26:42,640 Do not think that you are all alone in the world. 440 00:26:43,640 --> 00:26:45,400 I will always stand by you. 441 00:26:52,520 --> 00:26:54,400 Drusilla. 442 00:26:54,400 --> 00:26:56,200 I'm so glad you came. 443 00:26:58,560 --> 00:27:02,200 I have been in the habit of speaking very foolishly 444 00:27:02,200 --> 00:27:05,600 and very rudely to you on former occasions. 445 00:27:05,600 --> 00:27:07,880 I hope you will forgive me. 446 00:27:07,880 --> 00:27:10,240 I don't know what to say. 447 00:27:10,240 --> 00:27:12,600 In my poor mother's lifetime, 448 00:27:12,600 --> 00:27:15,960 her friends were not always my friends too. 449 00:27:15,960 --> 00:27:20,120 Now I have lost her, my heart looks for comfort to the people she liked. 450 00:27:22,200 --> 00:27:23,240 She liked you. 451 00:27:24,440 --> 00:27:27,560 Try to be friends with me, Drusilla, if you can. 452 00:27:27,560 --> 00:27:32,320 My dear, dear cousin, it is a terrible sight 453 00:27:32,320 --> 00:27:34,520 here in Christian England 454 00:27:34,520 --> 00:27:39,320 to see a young woman with so little idea of where to find true comfort. 455 00:27:40,640 --> 00:27:44,200 Your suckle lies here, dear Rachel. 456 00:27:44,200 --> 00:27:46,520 Take these pamphlets to your heart. 457 00:27:47,520 --> 00:27:50,000 I'm sorry, Drusilla, it would be falsehood to take these. 458 00:27:50,000 --> 00:27:52,120 - I shall not read them. - Rachel. 459 00:28:02,600 --> 00:28:04,640 Don't concern yourself, Penelope. 460 00:28:04,640 --> 00:28:05,800 I can find my way out. 461 00:28:42,280 --> 00:28:43,480 You should go home. 462 00:28:44,680 --> 00:28:47,080 But I would not leave you alone. 463 00:28:47,080 --> 00:28:49,080 Who else do you have to support you now ? 464 00:28:49,080 --> 00:28:51,040 There is family. 465 00:28:51,040 --> 00:28:52,800 Miss Clack ? 466 00:28:52,800 --> 00:28:53,880 I am serious. 467 00:28:53,880 --> 00:28:56,000 Better you stay away from this cursed house. 468 00:28:56,000 --> 00:28:57,520 Oh, don't say that, Rachel. 469 00:28:57,520 --> 00:29:00,120 Oh, if only you knew how much happier I am here with you. 470 00:29:00,120 --> 00:29:02,040 It's hard to get over one's bad habits, Godfrey, 471 00:29:02,040 --> 00:29:06,480 but do try to get over the habit of paying compliments. 472 00:29:06,480 --> 00:29:07,840 Do, to please me. 473 00:29:07,840 --> 00:29:10,320 I've never paid you a compliment, Rachel, 474 00:29:10,320 --> 00:29:11,920 in my life. 475 00:29:11,920 --> 00:29:17,000 A successful love may sometimes use the language of flattery, I admit. 476 00:29:17,000 --> 00:29:21,720 But a hopeless love, dearest, it always speaks the truth. 477 00:29:21,720 --> 00:29:24,520 Have you forgotten ? We agreed to be cousins and then nothing more. 478 00:29:24,520 --> 00:29:27,400 Oh, I break that agreement every time I see you. 479 00:29:27,400 --> 00:29:28,440 Then don't see me. 480 00:29:31,800 --> 00:29:32,840 Oh, Rachel... 481 00:29:34,080 --> 00:29:37,640 ..how kindly you told me only weeks ago that my place in your estimation 482 00:29:37,640 --> 00:29:41,400 was in a higher place than it has ever been yet. 483 00:29:42,600 --> 00:29:45,280 Am I mad to build the dreams I do on those dear words ? 484 00:29:45,404 --> 00:29:47,819 No. No, don't tell me so if I am. 485 00:29:49,760 --> 00:29:51,920 Leave me my delusions. 486 00:29:51,920 --> 00:29:54,520 I must have that to comfort me if I have nothing else. 487 00:29:54,520 --> 00:29:57,640 Are you really sure you are so fond of me as that ? 488 00:29:57,640 --> 00:30:01,360 I have lost every interest in my life but my interest in you. 489 00:30:01,360 --> 00:30:05,160 My charitable business is an unendurable nuisance to me. 490 00:30:06,440 --> 00:30:08,160 When I see a ladies' committee now, 491 00:30:08,160 --> 00:30:11,160 I wish myself at the uttermost ends of the earth. 492 00:30:11,160 --> 00:30:13,240 You have made your confession. 493 00:30:13,240 --> 00:30:14,840 I wonder whether it would cure you 494 00:30:14,840 --> 00:30:18,040 of your unhappy attachment to me if I made mine. 495 00:30:18,040 --> 00:30:19,120 Your confession ? 496 00:30:20,720 --> 00:30:26,160 Would you think to look at me that I am the wretchedest girl living ? 497 00:30:26,160 --> 00:30:27,920 What greater wretchedness can there be 498 00:30:27,920 --> 00:30:31,000 than to live degraded in your own estimation ? 499 00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:32,200 She confessed ? 500 00:30:34,400 --> 00:30:36,520 She cannot truly have been confessing to the theft of 501 00:30:36,520 --> 00:30:38,640 the moonstone. What did she go on to say ? 502 00:30:38,640 --> 00:30:43,920 She admitted to dear Godfrey, in the teeth of his declaration of love, 503 00:30:43,920 --> 00:30:45,200 that she loved another. 504 00:30:47,480 --> 00:30:48,520 Who ? 505 00:30:48,520 --> 00:30:51,440 She did not say, but since he yet claimed her affections, 506 00:30:51,440 --> 00:30:53,960 then despite the futility of her devotions, 507 00:30:53,960 --> 00:30:56,440 she could not find any love for poor Godfrey. 508 00:31:00,200 --> 00:31:02,640 Am I mad to dream that she might refer to me ? 509 00:31:02,640 --> 00:31:04,120 Is there hope yet ? 510 00:31:04,120 --> 00:31:07,040 I shall relate what remains of their conversation, 511 00:31:07,040 --> 00:31:08,800 and let you be the judge of that. 512 00:31:11,800 --> 00:31:15,600 I have dropped to my right place in your estimation, haven't I ? 513 00:31:15,600 --> 00:31:18,880 Oh, don't pity me, for God's sake. Go away. 514 00:31:20,280 --> 00:31:21,560 Noble creature. 515 00:31:26,760 --> 00:31:29,800 A woman who will sacrifice her pride, 516 00:31:29,800 --> 00:31:33,920 rather than sacrifice an honest man who loves her. 517 00:31:33,920 --> 00:31:36,400 A most priceless of all treasures, 518 00:31:36,400 --> 00:31:39,200 and you judge on your place in my estimation is 519 00:31:39,200 --> 00:31:40,880 when I implore you, 520 00:31:40,880 --> 00:31:45,080 on my knees, to let the cure of your poor, wounded heart be my care. 521 00:31:47,240 --> 00:31:50,720 Rachel, will you honour me, will you bless me by being my wife ? 522 00:31:51,960 --> 00:31:53,240 Godfrey, you must be mad. 523 00:31:53,240 --> 00:31:55,280 No, I have never spoken more reasonably, dearest, 524 00:31:55,280 --> 00:31:57,080 in your interest as well as in mine. 525 00:31:57,080 --> 00:32:00,200 - How so ? - But look for a moment to the future. 526 00:32:00,200 --> 00:32:03,600 Is your happiness to be sacrificed to a man who has never known how 527 00:32:03,600 --> 00:32:06,840 you feel towards him, and whom you have resolved never to see again ? 528 00:32:06,840 --> 00:32:10,680 Is it not your duty to yourself to forget this ill-fated attachment ? 529 00:32:10,680 --> 00:32:11,800 Perhaps, but... 530 00:32:11,800 --> 00:32:14,240 Forgetfulness cannot be found in the life you are leading now, 531 00:32:14,240 --> 00:32:16,000 my point precisely. 532 00:32:16,000 --> 00:32:19,880 You've tried that life. You're wearying of it already. 533 00:32:19,880 --> 00:32:22,840 Surround yourself with nobler interests than the wretched 534 00:32:22,840 --> 00:32:28,880 interests of the world, a... A heart... that loves none as you. 535 00:32:28,880 --> 00:32:31,960 A home whose peaceful claims and happy duties win gently 536 00:32:31,960 --> 00:32:36,520 on you day by day, try consolation that is to be found there. 537 00:32:38,960 --> 00:32:40,400 Did you not hear me ? 538 00:32:43,040 --> 00:32:45,000 Godfrey, I do not love you. 539 00:32:52,280 --> 00:32:53,720 I do not ask for your love. 540 00:32:54,960 --> 00:32:57,400 I would be content with your respect and admiration. 541 00:32:57,400 --> 00:33:01,760 Let the rest be confidently left to your husband's devotion, and... 542 00:33:01,760 --> 00:33:05,720 - at a time that heals all wounds. - Don't tempt me, Godfrey. 543 00:33:05,720 --> 00:33:08,960 I am wretched and reckless enough as it is. 544 00:33:08,960 --> 00:33:12,320 Do not tempt me to be more wretched and more reckless still. 545 00:33:13,720 --> 00:33:18,440 Just one question, Rachel. Have you any personal objection to me ? 546 00:33:20,280 --> 00:33:21,760 I always liked you. 547 00:33:22,880 --> 00:33:25,880 After what you have just said to me, it should be insensible 548 00:33:25,880 --> 00:33:30,240 indeed if I didn't respect and admire you as well. 549 00:33:30,240 --> 00:33:35,400 Then marry the man, dearest, who is now at your feet, 550 00:33:35,400 --> 00:33:37,800 who prizes your respect and admiration over the love of 551 00:33:37,800 --> 00:33:39,560 any other woman on the face of the earth. 552 00:33:39,560 --> 00:33:45,000 Gently, Godfrey, I tell you again : I am miserable enough 553 00:33:45,000 --> 00:33:47,720 and desperate enough, if you say another word, 554 00:33:47,720 --> 00:33:49,480 to marry you on your own terms. 555 00:33:49,480 --> 00:33:53,000 - Take the warning and go. - I... 556 00:33:53,000 --> 00:33:56,120 I will not even rise from my knees till you've said yes. 557 00:33:56,120 --> 00:34:00,520 If I agree, you will repent, and I shall repent when it is too late. 558 00:34:00,520 --> 00:34:04,640 No, we shall both bless the day, darling, I pressed and you yielded. 559 00:34:08,920 --> 00:34:10,760 You won't hurry me, Godfrey. 560 00:34:12,440 --> 00:34:13,720 Time shall be yours. 561 00:34:15,080 --> 00:34:17,280 And you won't ask me for more than I can give. 562 00:34:17,280 --> 00:34:18,560 My angel... 563 00:34:21,400 --> 00:34:23,600 ..I only ask that you give me yourself. 564 00:34:24,920 --> 00:34:26,120 Then take me. 565 00:34:41,480 --> 00:34:43,160 It has... It has not been announced. 566 00:34:43,160 --> 00:34:45,360 I've heard nothing from Bruff, Betteredge. 567 00:34:46,480 --> 00:34:49,200 I've heard nothing of this from Penelope, sir. 568 00:34:50,320 --> 00:34:54,600 Due to her mother's recent death and last year's terrible scandal, 569 00:34:54,600 --> 00:34:58,200 of course, the engagement's for family ears only. 570 00:34:58,200 --> 00:35:00,000 Then why reveal it now ? 571 00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:03,000 Mr Blake, I am under oath. 572 00:35:03,000 --> 00:35:06,600 And, of course, I suppose you are family. 573 00:35:08,280 --> 00:35:09,440 When is the wedding ? 574 00:35:12,200 --> 00:35:13,440 Tomorrow. 575 00:35:25,800 --> 00:35:26,960 Why Brighton ? 576 00:35:26,960 --> 00:35:29,960 The Ablewhites have taken a house there for the season. 577 00:35:29,960 --> 00:35:32,160 It is a very quiet event, 578 00:35:32,160 --> 00:35:35,560 as you see, or I would be attending myself. 579 00:35:35,560 --> 00:35:37,240 My solicitor meets us in London tonight. 580 00:35:37,240 --> 00:35:39,440 He will see you on your onward journey. 581 00:35:42,080 --> 00:35:46,840 You will miss the last train and travel on at first light. 582 00:35:48,440 --> 00:35:50,000 Even if you arrive before the wedding, 583 00:35:50,000 --> 00:35:52,800 you shall not be able to prevent it, you know that. 584 00:35:53,880 --> 00:35:56,760 Why are you glad to see me too late ? 585 00:35:58,320 --> 00:36:01,480 You do not want them married any more than I. 586 00:36:01,480 --> 00:36:04,000 Or is it just that misery loves company ? 587 00:36:06,240 --> 00:36:07,720 I pity you, Miss Clack. 588 00:36:21,141 --> 00:36:22,000 Bruff. 589 00:36:22,800 --> 00:36:24,680 - You received my cable ? - I did. 590 00:36:24,680 --> 00:36:26,160 I entrust Miss Clack to your care. 591 00:36:26,160 --> 00:36:27,840 Please see her to a respectable hotel, 592 00:36:27,840 --> 00:36:29,480 and book her safe passage home tomorrow. 593 00:36:29,480 --> 00:36:32,240 Mr Franklin, may I have a few words with you ? 594 00:36:32,240 --> 00:36:34,920 Did you know about the wedding ? 595 00:36:34,920 --> 00:36:37,880 How many times since my return from Italy have I asked you about Rachel ? 596 00:36:37,880 --> 00:36:38,920 Mr Franklin... 597 00:36:38,920 --> 00:36:42,320 Why did you not tell me she was marrying Godfrey Ablewhite ? 598 00:36:42,320 --> 00:36:44,840 Miss Clack, would you please excuse us ? 599 00:37:01,960 --> 00:37:03,240 It was not my secret to give. 600 00:37:03,240 --> 00:37:05,360 Is there anything else you've been keeping from me ? 601 00:37:05,360 --> 00:37:06,400 No, I swear it. 602 00:37:08,600 --> 00:37:11,520 I shall find another solicitor for my business. 603 00:37:12,560 --> 00:37:14,560 Well, that is your prerogative. 604 00:37:14,560 --> 00:37:17,400 But, Mr Franklin, I did not come halfway across London 605 00:37:17,400 --> 00:37:19,200 merely to chaperone Miss Clack. 606 00:37:19,200 --> 00:37:21,320 - I have important news. - About the moonstone ? 607 00:37:21,320 --> 00:37:23,120 - No, it is... - Well, then, I bid you goodnight. 608 00:37:23,120 --> 00:37:25,360 News concerning Rachel. 609 00:37:25,360 --> 00:37:28,640 Believe me, Mr Franklin, you WILL want to hear it. 610 00:37:28,640 --> 00:37:31,320 Today, on behalf of another client, I happened to find myself 611 00:37:31,320 --> 00:37:33,800 in the doctors' commons, to examine a will. 612 00:37:35,960 --> 00:37:38,280 There, in the ledger, I spied a familiar name 613 00:37:38,280 --> 00:37:40,000 in the list of wills viewed. 614 00:37:44,720 --> 00:37:47,040 Someone has examined my Aunt Verinder's will ? 615 00:37:47,040 --> 00:37:48,960 Three months since. 616 00:37:48,960 --> 00:37:52,000 The very day of her funeral, before her body was cold in the ground. 617 00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:53,160 For what reason ? 618 00:37:53,160 --> 00:37:55,720 Well, there's nothing in the will that can be contested, 619 00:37:55,720 --> 00:37:59,320 so no-one would have the slightest LEGAL interest in examining it. 620 00:37:59,320 --> 00:38:01,080 Were you able to discover who it was ? 621 00:38:01,080 --> 00:38:04,360 I have come directly from the solicitor's office. 622 00:38:04,360 --> 00:38:05,760 I managed... Well, I... 623 00:38:06,960 --> 00:38:10,080 I persuaded them to release the name of their client. 624 00:38:10,181 --> 00:38:11,939 Who, man ? Who ?! 625 00:38:12,160 --> 00:38:13,440 Godfrey Ablewhite. 626 00:38:14,960 --> 00:38:18,800 Godfrey looked at the will on the morning of my aunt's funeral ? 627 00:38:18,800 --> 00:38:22,480 And then proposed to her daughter that very afternoon. 628 00:38:24,880 --> 00:38:26,960 I take it Rachel is the sole beneficiary ? 629 00:38:26,960 --> 00:38:29,120 She owns everything. 630 00:38:29,120 --> 00:38:30,640 Until she takes a husband. 631 00:38:32,440 --> 00:38:34,400 He wants her for her money alone. 632 00:38:34,400 --> 00:38:36,840 At least we know that Godfrey is not our thief. 633 00:38:36,840 --> 00:38:39,880 If he had taken the moonstone, he wouldn't need to marry for money. 634 00:38:39,880 --> 00:38:41,920 I must ensure Rachel knows before she marries him. 635 00:38:41,920 --> 00:38:44,080 We have no need to wait for the morning train. 636 00:38:44,080 --> 00:38:45,680 I have a coach outside. 637 00:38:45,680 --> 00:38:49,040 The driver has sworn to me he can get us there in four hours. 638 00:38:49,040 --> 00:38:51,240 We can talk to Rachel at first light. 639 00:38:52,880 --> 00:38:55,440 That is, if you're willing to travel with me. 640 00:38:58,200 --> 00:38:59,400 Well, where are you going ? 641 00:38:59,400 --> 00:39:01,280 We cannot stop to talk. 642 00:39:01,280 --> 00:39:02,560 What am I to do ? 643 00:39:02,560 --> 00:39:04,720 You have your money, Miss Clack. 644 00:39:04,720 --> 00:39:06,800 I should let dear Godfrey know it. 645 00:39:06,800 --> 00:39:09,760 It is possible he may yet be in search of a bride. 646 00:39:09,760 --> 00:39:10,880 Miss Clack. 647 00:39:16,142 --> 00:39:17,642 Wait ! 648 00:39:17,840 --> 00:39:20,960 By Jupiter, Mr Blake, you are a hard man to track down. 649 00:39:20,960 --> 00:39:22,560 You received my telegram ? 650 00:39:22,560 --> 00:39:24,760 To say I had a clue as to the whereabouts of Lucy Yolland. 651 00:39:24,760 --> 00:39:26,560 - Have you found her ? - I have. 652 00:39:26,560 --> 00:39:28,360 And Rosanna Spearman's letter with her, 653 00:39:28,360 --> 00:39:30,360 but she will only hand it to you in person. 654 00:39:30,360 --> 00:39:32,920 I must to Brighton tonight. 655 00:39:32,920 --> 00:39:36,160 And pass up the opportunity to solve this mystery ? 656 00:39:36,160 --> 00:39:37,400 It will wait. 657 00:39:37,400 --> 00:39:40,560 No, no, no, no. The news that I have for Rachel 658 00:39:40,560 --> 00:39:43,440 may well drive her away from Godfrey, but were you to solve 659 00:39:43,440 --> 00:39:47,280 the mystery of the moonstone, that could drive Rachel towards you. 660 00:39:48,720 --> 00:39:51,640 Sir, you have to come with me. 661 00:39:52,800 --> 00:39:54,320 I will go and see Rachel. 662 00:39:54,320 --> 00:39:57,400 I will do everything in my power to stop this marriage. 663 00:40:11,160 --> 00:40:14,080 Lucy, I present Franklin Blake. 664 00:40:16,240 --> 00:40:17,360 Miss Yolland, I... 665 00:40:20,000 --> 00:40:21,200 Stand there. 666 00:40:22,920 --> 00:40:24,200 I want to look at you. 667 00:40:26,480 --> 00:40:29,160 I think you have got a letter to give me. 668 00:40:29,160 --> 00:40:31,160 Say that again. 669 00:40:31,160 --> 00:40:34,000 You... You have a letter for me ? 670 00:40:37,000 --> 00:40:39,520 No, can't see it. 671 00:40:41,280 --> 00:40:42,520 Can't see what ? 672 00:40:44,040 --> 00:40:45,800 - Murderer. - That is slander. 673 00:40:45,800 --> 00:40:48,680 He has been the death of Rosanna Spearman. 674 00:40:48,680 --> 00:40:49,960 You cannot blame me for that. 675 00:40:49,960 --> 00:40:53,280 I was not even present when she made her fatal slip into the sands. 676 00:40:56,080 --> 00:40:58,400 And they call me crippled. 677 00:40:58,400 --> 00:41:00,840 You are blind, Franklin Blake. 678 00:41:00,840 --> 00:41:03,000 You do not deserve her explanations. 679 00:41:03,000 --> 00:41:06,480 Go back to your denial, and your privilege. 680 00:41:06,480 --> 00:41:09,720 - I have nothing for you here. - Miss Yolland, 681 00:41:09,720 --> 00:41:13,080 I do not know the contents of the letter Rosanna sent you, and I... 682 00:41:13,080 --> 00:41:14,840 I can't imagine the reason why she sent it, 683 00:41:14,840 --> 00:41:16,960 but it is her last communication. 684 00:41:16,960 --> 00:41:20,080 A missive, as it were, from the grave. 685 00:41:20,080 --> 00:41:23,680 If it were Rosanna's last wish for Mr Blake to receive the letter... 686 00:41:23,680 --> 00:41:25,360 Then she was a fool ! 687 00:41:25,360 --> 00:41:29,080 The finger of suspicion fell on Rosanna in her lifetime. 688 00:41:29,080 --> 00:41:31,120 I was always kind to her. 689 00:41:31,120 --> 00:41:34,160 Were you now ? What a gent (!) 690 00:41:35,481 --> 00:41:39,825 Mr Blake, the day is not far off when the poor will rise against the rich 691 00:41:39,872 --> 00:41:43,395 and I pray heaven it may begin with you. 692 00:41:45,600 --> 00:41:48,640 You speak as if I have wronged her. 693 00:41:48,640 --> 00:41:50,960 Let me assure you, I did Rosanna no wrong. 694 00:41:52,800 --> 00:41:54,480 I was mistaken. 695 00:41:55,640 --> 00:41:57,840 You DO need to hear what she has to say. 696 00:42:02,440 --> 00:42:03,520 Take it. 697 00:42:04,520 --> 00:42:06,360 I never set eyes on you afore. 698 00:42:07,440 --> 00:42:11,120 God Almighty forbid I should ever see you again. 699 00:42:27,240 --> 00:42:29,960 You were right. She did keep a memorandum. 700 00:42:31,320 --> 00:42:32,640 A map. 701 00:42:34,120 --> 00:42:35,600 And instructions. 702 00:42:35,600 --> 00:42:37,960 To where she sank the box in the sands. 703 00:42:37,960 --> 00:42:42,000 The diamond is yet within my grasp, and Rachel's heart with it. 704 00:42:42,000 --> 00:42:44,040 I go to Yorkshire at first light. 705 00:43:27,320 --> 00:43:30,440 Rosanna Spearman had a hiding place, and here it is. 706 00:43:30,440 --> 00:43:31,560 Have we met before ? 707 00:43:31,560 --> 00:43:33,520 It's a strange thing about the diamond, sir. 708 00:43:33,520 --> 00:43:35,600 It's a cruel trap ! 709 00:43:35,600 --> 00:43:37,160 We are about to meet our thief. 710 00:43:37,160 --> 00:43:39,200 Who is it, sir ? Who is our thief ?