1 00:00:23,335 --> 00:00:27,567 999, indeed. I never heard of such a number for a house. 2 00:00:31,977 --> 00:00:33,069 Yes? 3 00:00:33,879 --> 00:00:36,177 Forgive my boldness, sir, but wooden leg or no wooden leg... 4 00:00:36,381 --> 00:00:39,077 you are this child's last surviving relative. 5 00:00:39,284 --> 00:00:42,151 Her father named you as guardian in his will. 6 00:00:42,354 --> 00:00:44,117 I don't dispute that. 7 00:00:44,323 --> 00:00:47,190 I merely point out that this house is a shrine to paleontology. 8 00:00:47,593 --> 00:00:50,494 There is no corner in it for a small girl, or her nurse. 9 00:00:50,696 --> 00:00:53,927 We require two rooms, that is all. Some of these stones can go to a museum. 10 00:00:54,132 --> 00:00:56,498 My fossils? In a public museum? 11 00:00:56,702 --> 00:00:58,602 This has got nothing to do with fossils. 12 00:00:58,804 --> 00:01:00,965 If you don't want the child, you should say it straight out. 13 00:01:01,173 --> 00:01:03,471 - She'd be miserable here. - My parents are dead. 14 00:01:05,911 --> 00:01:07,572 I'd be miserable anywhere. 15 00:01:11,550 --> 00:01:14,075 Smilodon popularis. 16 00:01:14,286 --> 00:01:17,153 Why don't you just stick a knife in my heart? 17 00:01:17,356 --> 00:01:21,190 They're all magnets for dust, and that big cat was plain unpleasant. 18 00:01:21,393 --> 00:01:24,191 It 's a sabre-toothed tiger, Nana. 19 00:01:26,298 --> 00:01:28,129 It 's lovely. 20 00:01:32,504 --> 00:01:34,028 Gum, a skeleton! 21 00:01:38,210 --> 00:01:39,700 Bye! 22 00:02:07,305 --> 00:02:08,636 I keep a pack of women in this house... 23 00:02:08,840 --> 00:02:09,932 and there isn't one of them about anywhere... 24 00:02:10,142 --> 00:02:11,609 when they are wanted! 25 00:02:11,810 --> 00:02:13,801 Oh, darling Gum! 26 00:02:15,213 --> 00:02:18,205 - We weren't expecting you! - Ship sank. Iceberg. 27 00:02:18,417 --> 00:02:21,352 If you don't mind my asking, sir, what have you got in the bag? 28 00:02:21,953 --> 00:02:24,513 - Ah, a surprise. - Let 's hope it 's not a fossil. 29 00:02:24,723 --> 00:02:28,124 The world is full of entrancements, woman! Not all of them made of stone! 30 00:02:32,030 --> 00:02:33,827 - A baby? - Found it. 31 00:02:34,032 --> 00:02:35,056 Floating on a lifebelt. 32 00:02:35,267 --> 00:02:37,030 Both parents drowned, awful bloody shame. 33 00:02:37,235 --> 00:02:39,567 A baby! Came in just like that, what will people say? 34 00:02:39,938 --> 00:02:42,031 Have you no regard for your great-niece's reputation? 35 00:02:42,240 --> 00:02:45,141 I'll put a notice in the Times! 36 00:02:45,343 --> 00:02:48,176 "Professor Matthew Brown adopts entirely unrelated child!" 37 00:02:48,380 --> 00:02:50,814 - But, Gum... - I thought women liked babies! 38 00:02:51,016 --> 00:02:54,076 They like babies that are in good order! Babies with names. 39 00:02:54,586 --> 00:02:57,749 Well, I thought perhaps Pauline. 40 00:02:59,691 --> 00:03:00,953 And surnames. 41 00:03:02,294 --> 00:03:03,318 Fossil! 42 00:03:05,964 --> 00:03:08,296 It 's not as though we've got an empty room to put her in! 43 00:03:10,469 --> 00:03:11,834 You don't mind, do you? 44 00:03:12,037 --> 00:03:14,130 Gum, I came here with nothing, once. 45 00:03:14,339 --> 00:03:16,500 That 's the spirit. 46 00:03:17,375 --> 00:03:18,637 Where are you actually going? 47 00:03:18,844 --> 00:03:21,677 Siberia. I'll bring you back a souvenir! 48 00:03:34,326 --> 00:03:36,692 No, not another one? 49 00:03:36,995 --> 00:03:39,088 Red Cross hospital, outside Vladivostok. 50 00:03:39,331 --> 00:03:40,923 Mother died when it was born. 51 00:03:41,133 --> 00:03:42,225 What about the father? 52 00:03:42,434 --> 00:03:45,335 Salt mines, worked to death. Awful bloody end. 53 00:03:45,537 --> 00:03:48,768 They called her Petrova. Needs feeding up a bit. 54 00:03:50,842 --> 00:03:52,833 It 's to be hoped this one has brains... 55 00:03:53,445 --> 00:03:56,278 for it 's easy to see who's going to be Miss Plain in my nursery. 56 00:04:06,057 --> 00:04:09,549 "Dearest Niece, another small fossil from your great-uncle Matthew. 57 00:04:10,529 --> 00:04:14,590 Daughterof a dancer, mother has no money and no time for heroffspring. 58 00:04:14,800 --> 00:04:17,826 She sends a pair of ballet shoes, enclosed." 59 00:04:18,036 --> 00:04:21,597 He says: "I regret not delivering the child myself... 60 00:04:21,807 --> 00:04:24,571 but I ran into a friend about to leave for the Galapagos. 61 00:04:25,177 --> 00:04:28,635 There's enough money in the bank to last you for 5 years. 62 00:04:28,847 --> 00:04:33,682 P. S: Child's name Posy. Unfortunate, but true." 63 00:04:34,653 --> 00:04:37,816 Ballet shoes indeed. A change of clothes would be more useful. 64 00:04:38,023 --> 00:04:40,355 Or a feeding bottle. 65 00:04:41,493 --> 00:04:42,960 "To the little Fossils"? 66 00:04:45,530 --> 00:04:48,761 "Turquoise for Pauline, pearls for Petrova... 67 00:04:49,568 --> 00:04:51,365 coral for Posy." 68 00:04:51,570 --> 00:04:52,594 Make the most of it. 69 00:04:52,804 --> 00:04:55,329 It 's the last we'll hear of him for quite some time. 70 00:04:58,143 --> 00:04:59,576 I bet Gum had a car. 71 00:04:59,778 --> 00:05:01,973 Only a man with a car would have bought a house at the far end... 72 00:05:02,113 --> 00:05:04,308 of the longest road in London. 73 00:05:04,583 --> 00:05:06,949 Garnie says he used to come and go in taxis. 74 00:05:07,152 --> 00:05:08,346 I wish we could. 75 00:05:08,553 --> 00:05:10,748 I'd be happy if they let us get the bus. 76 00:05:10,956 --> 00:05:12,423 The Professor may have had his faults, Petrova... 77 00:05:12,624 --> 00:05:14,558 might I remind you he had but a single leg? 78 00:05:14,759 --> 00:05:15,885 You 3 have got a full pair each... 79 00:05:16,094 --> 00:05:18,528 so you can save the penny and walk, and be thankful. 80 00:05:18,730 --> 00:05:20,357 The Rockefeller family we are not. 81 00:05:20,832 --> 00:05:22,424 At least you get to go to school. 82 00:05:22,634 --> 00:05:24,158 I still have to do lessons with Garnie... 83 00:05:24,369 --> 00:05:27,634 and take an extra walk at lunchtime every day. 84 00:05:27,906 --> 00:05:30,431 If I have to look at the dolls houses in the museum one more time... 85 00:05:30,642 --> 00:05:32,576 ...I shall be sick. - That 's enough, Miss Madam. 86 00:05:32,777 --> 00:05:36,873 All over my outdoor shoes. Then I shan't be able to go anywhere. 87 00:05:42,921 --> 00:05:46,084 We've had more fuss from Miss Posy about her education. 88 00:05:46,391 --> 00:05:48,359 Cromwell House is out of the question, isn't it? 89 00:05:49,094 --> 00:05:51,654 It 's not just that I can't send Posy to Cromwell House. 90 00:05:55,567 --> 00:05:57,501 I'm having to take the other two away. 91 00:05:58,336 --> 00:06:01,999 I'll have to give notice to Clara. There's no money left. 92 00:06:02,207 --> 00:06:04,198 Nothing in the bank at all. 93 00:06:05,777 --> 00:06:08,837 - I'm so sorry. - Why are you apologising? 94 00:06:09,047 --> 00:06:11,914 - It 's not news. - Isn't it? 95 00:06:12,117 --> 00:06:15,416 You've been looking through Situations Vacant in the papers. 96 00:06:15,620 --> 00:06:17,588 I didn't think you'd notice. 97 00:06:17,789 --> 00:06:20,019 I brought you up. I notice everything. 98 00:06:20,225 --> 00:06:21,556 The trouble is, Nana... 99 00:06:21,893 --> 00:06:24,862 unless somebody advertises for a paleontologist 's assistant... 100 00:06:25,063 --> 00:06:26,360 I'm not qualified for anything! 101 00:06:27,732 --> 00:06:30,166 There's a way round everything, if you stop and think. 102 00:06:47,719 --> 00:06:49,949 - I've finished my fractions. - Already? 103 00:06:50,588 --> 00:06:51,987 They were the hardest in the book! 104 00:06:52,324 --> 00:06:53,689 She'll have to sit there quietly with her magazine. 105 00:06:54,092 --> 00:06:55,423 You can't be setting anymore sums. 106 00:06:56,194 --> 00:06:59,254 You've got to go to Selfridge's and get those eiderdowns. 107 00:06:59,664 --> 00:07:02,531 Petrova, darling, would you go? You're only reading. 108 00:07:06,538 --> 00:07:08,403 - Good afternoon. - I like your car! 109 00:07:09,674 --> 00:07:11,505 How are you finding the acceleration? 110 00:07:11,710 --> 00:07:14,508 Terrific. Nought to 4O in about 3 minutes. 111 00:07:16,081 --> 00:07:19,050 - Is your mother at home? - We haven't got a mother. 112 00:07:19,250 --> 00:07:21,013 It 's all right, you don't have to say you're sorry. 113 00:07:22,687 --> 00:07:25,315 How do you do? I've just come about the room. 114 00:07:25,523 --> 00:07:26,512 Do come in. 115 00:07:26,725 --> 00:07:29,523 Forgive me, I was trying to clean a fireplace. 116 00:07:32,764 --> 00:07:35,324 I don't know how long I'd stay. 117 00:07:35,533 --> 00:07:38,593 I've only just got back from Kuala Lumpur. 118 00:07:38,803 --> 00:07:44,366 Well, there's no minimum agreement. 119 00:07:44,642 --> 00:07:47,110 This is nice. 120 00:07:49,914 --> 00:07:51,7...
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