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00:00:00Grandmother's moriel dinner.

00:00:02Everyone had a seat.

00:00:03Only I.

00:00:04Eight weeks pregnant.

00:00:05Pouring tea for my husband and his mistress.

00:00:08Thorn Manus was lit like a palace.

00:00:10White linen, cold silver.

00:00:12Everything shining too bright.

00:00:14The ash birds sat on both sides.

00:00:16They said they came to mourn,

00:00:18but their eyes were already carving up my home.

00:00:20They thought once grandmother was gone I was nothing.

00:00:23Push me out, and the estate was theirs.

00:00:25But these six months I kept this manor running.

00:00:28I checked the books.

00:00:29Paid the wages.

00:00:31Fixed the roof.

00:00:32Even tonight's plates were set by my hands.

00:00:34When grandmother fell ill, the Ashfords moved in.

00:00:37They called it helping me keep up appearances.

00:00:39Then they cut me off, piece by piece.

00:00:41I was a Winterbury Grand Arthur.

00:00:43Tonight, they made me the quietest maid in the room.

00:00:46No one saw me as the mistress here.

00:00:48Eleanor, this tea is weak.

00:00:50Brew it again.

00:00:51I reached for the teapot.

00:00:53It burned my fingers, but I didn't make a sound.

00:00:56Yes, madam.

00:00:57And the wine moved faster.

00:00:58Everyone here has status.

00:01:01Don't embarrass the Winterville name.

00:01:03He said Winterbrook, but he sounded like this manor was already Ashford property.

00:01:07At Edmund's feet, a wax-sealed letter sat on top of a black leather suitcase.

00:01:11I ignored it, thinking it was just another creditor's letter.

00:01:14Emma tried to take the teapot from me, but I shook my head and kept pouring.

00:01:19Miss, let me.

00:01:20I'm fine.

00:01:21Check the soup.

00:01:22Then carriage wheels sounded in the hall.

00:01:25Wilkins opened the door, and cold wind swept in.

00:01:28Without you before she died, she sounded gentle, but I understood.

00:01:32She wasn't praising me.

00:01:33She was saying I was only good for serving people.

00:01:36Cecilia walked around the table and stopped at the seat that should have been mine.

00:01:40Cecilia, that's my seat.

00:01:42Oh, is it?

00:01:43I didn't know.

00:01:44Nathaniel told me no seat was arranged for you tonight.

00:01:47I looked at Nathaniel, and the room went quiet for a second.

00:01:51Eleanor, stop it.

00:01:52Tonight is the will dinner, not a fight over a chair.

00:01:55I'm not fighting over a chair.

00:01:57That seat was for family.

00:01:58Cecilia is my guest.

00:02:00Standing for a while won't kill you.

00:02:01My hand pressed my lower belly, then quickly moved away.

00:02:04What, you can't even stand for a little while?

00:02:07She didn't know I was pregnant, but those words cut exactly where it hurt.

00:02:12Cecilia slowly sat down and raised her glass.

00:02:15Eleanor, hot water, and don't spill it.

00:02:18This dress is expensive.

00:02:20She sat.

00:02:21I stood.

00:02:22She held out her glass, and I poured.

00:02:25My husband sat beside her, warning her it was hot, but he never saw my burnt fingers.

00:02:31Eleanor, fix your face.

00:02:33A wife should have grace in front of guests.

00:02:37What grace?

00:02:38Grandmother's dead.

00:02:39Her last backer is gone.

00:02:41Enough!

00:02:42Let the lawyer begin.

00:02:43We're not dragging this dinner to midnight.

00:02:46Nathaniel called me to the fireplace and lowered his voice.

00:02:49After tonight, we divorce.

00:02:50Take your share and stop clinging to the Ashford name.

00:02:53You have to say this here, in grandmother's dining room.

00:02:57I'm giving you dignity.

00:02:59Behave, and you'll still get some money.

00:03:01I instinctively pressed my lower belly.

00:03:03I was eight weeks pregnant.

00:03:04He didn't know, and right then, I didn't want him to.

00:03:07He didn't look at me like his wife.

00:03:09He looked at me like a problem in his way.

00:03:11Behind the manian seat hung a massive portrait of Lady Augusta's.

00:03:15Beneath it stood an old brass gramophone, with one black record beside it.

00:03:20Everyone, by Lady Augusta Winterbury's final instructions.

00:03:24Before the will is read, we must play her final message, recorded by the lady herself.

00:03:28What's worth hearing from a dead woman?

00:03:30Stop wasting time.

00:03:31Read the will.

00:03:32The lady's instructions are not up for debate.

00:03:34Pritchett put on white gloves and placed the record on the gramophone.

00:03:37The needle dropped, static crackled.

00:03:40Then grandmother's old but clear voice filled the room.

00:03:43Good evening, everyone.

00:03:44If you're hearing this, I'm already dead.

00:03:46Everyone looked up.

00:03:48I stood there holding the teapot, my eyes burning red.

00:03:50It also means my little Eleanor may have been standing there alone for a very long time.

00:03:55Child, don't be afraid.

00:03:57Grandmother can't hold your hand anymore, but I can still speak for you.

00:04:02Every plate you set with your head down, I know.

00:04:05Every insult you swallowed, I know.

00:04:07Cecilia's smile froze.

00:04:09Nathaniel frowned.

00:04:10Beatrice shifted uneasily in her chair.

00:04:13Mr. Pritchett, don't read the will yet.

00:04:15Do one thing for me first.

00:04:17Yes, madam.

00:04:18Let Eleanor sit in my seat.

00:04:20Dead silence.

00:04:22The main seat was empty.

00:04:23Its back carved with a winter-born thorncrest.

00:04:25That's inappropriate.

00:04:26She's too young.

00:04:28She should sit on the side.

00:04:30I suppose Nathaniel is saying it's inappropriate right now.

00:04:33Nathaniel stopped cold.

00:04:35Then let me tell you in advance, child.

00:04:38There is nothing inappropriate about it.

00:04:41When she managed this manner, it was appropriate.

00:04:44When she cared for me through my final night, it was appropriate.

00:04:49When she served you tea and water, it was appropriate too.

00:04:56But now I ask her to sit in my seat and suddenly it is inappropriate.

00:05:02Grandmother.

00:05:03My throat tightened.

00:05:05Grandmother wasn't here, but it felt like she heard every word.

00:05:08Miss Winterberg, please take your seat.

00:05:11Mr. Wilkins came to my side, took the teapot from my hand and bowed.

00:05:15Miss, please.

00:05:16Cecilia instinctively pulled her chair back, like she was afraid I'd really walk past her.

00:05:20Nathaniel reached out and stopped me.

00:05:22Eleanor, don't make this ugly.

00:05:24When you made me stand and serve you, you never cared how ugly it was for me.

00:05:28For the first time tonight, I didn't lower my head.

00:05:31I walked to the main seat, step by step, under everyone's eyes.

00:05:34Cecilia sat in my old chair, her face dark.

00:05:37I sat in grandmother's chair.

00:05:38Candlelight hit my face as I hid my burned fingers in my palm.

00:05:42Good.

00:05:42Now Thor Manor finally has someone sitting where she belongs.

00:05:45Pritchard picked up the silver bell on the dining table.

00:05:48I spent my life as an inheritance lawyer.

00:05:51I've seen too many people rush to split houses, deeds, jewels, and money before the dead are even buried.

00:05:59So tonight, I will not read the will.

00:06:02I will show each of you what you truly deserve.

00:06:06Pritchard rang the silver bell.

00:06:07Two maids pushed in a silver dining cart with five plates, each covered by a silver dome.

00:06:13On the lower shelf sat a smaller silver dome, covered in black cloth, like an eye not ready to open.

00:06:18I finally understood.

00:06:19Tonight wasn't dinner.

00:06:20It was grandmother's courtroom.

00:06:21They came for inheritance.

00:06:23Grandmother served them their crimes.

00:06:24Edmund slammed the table.

00:06:26I didn't come here to let a dead old woman waste my time.

00:06:29Bring out that dead old woman's will, now!

00:06:33Edmund, I suppose you're about to make a scene at my dinner.

00:06:37I know exactly what you are, a vile plunderer.

00:06:41Edmund snapped toward the gramophone, panic flashing in his eyes.

00:06:45Edmund, sit through this dinner quietly.

00:06:48If you dare move, the Ashford's will have no reason to exist.

00:06:52I may be dead, but the Winterberg's are still far beyond your fallen Ashford's.

00:06:59Edmund trembled all over, fists clenched, then collapsed back into his seat.

00:07:03Good.

00:07:04Mr. Pritchard, continue.

00:07:06Yes, madam.

00:07:08The first dinner course is for Lady Beatrix Ashfield.

00:07:13The maid carried the first silver dome to Beatrix.

00:07:15Beatrix stared at it, her hands twisting together.

00:07:18Dear Beatrix, you always said you took care of me.

00:07:22Then let's start with the night you were best at caring.

00:07:26The maid gripped the dome handle.

00:07:28In that moment, Beatrix's face went white as the table crossed.

00:07:31The silver dome slowly lifted.

00:07:37The silver dome was lifted.

00:07:39No stakes sat on the plate.

00:07:41Only a piece of sickbed bell rope, cut short and rough at the end.

00:07:45My pupils tightened.

00:07:47I knew that rope.

00:07:48It was from grandmother's bed.

00:07:50Grandmother used to have a long bell rope by her sickbed.

00:07:52One pull, and the bell at the end of the hall would ring.

00:07:55But in the days before she died, every time I went in, that rope was pitifully short.

00:08:00I asked Beatrix about it.

00:08:02She said the doctor feared grandmother might grab it at night and hurt herself, so they shortened it.

00:08:08Back then, she even mocked me, saying I didn't know how to care for the elderly.

00:08:12Beatrix, that night I was so thirsty I couldn't speak.

00:08:15But when I reached for the bell rope, all I touched was a cut-off string.

00:08:20Ridiculous! Can you trust the memory of a dying woman?

00:08:23I guess you'll say I was senile, or that I wanted to frame you.

00:08:31Don't rush, dear Beatrix.

00:08:33I was a lawyer all my life. I never convict anyone on memory alone.

00:08:37Beatrix's face stiffened. Her mouth opened, then slowly closed.

00:08:41Miss Emma Reed, please step forward.

00:08:44Emma stepped out from the wall, gripping her apron with both hands.

00:08:48That night, I heard the sickroom bell ring once.

00:08:52Very softly.

00:08:54But when I was about to go to the old lady's room,

00:08:57Lady Ashford stopped me.

00:08:59You're lying!

00:09:00Emma flinched. She looked at Beatrix, then anxiously at Pritchard.

00:09:04Dear Beatrix, are you scared? Are you threatening my witness?

00:09:09Emma, don't worry. The winter broads will protect you.

00:09:13Emma took a deep breath and steadied herself, while Beatrix flared at her.

00:09:18Madam said the old lady was just acting pitiful.

00:09:20If I went in, she'd throw my mother and me out the next day.

00:09:24When Emma said mother, her voice shook.

00:09:26I suddenly remembered Emma avoiding me during those days.

00:09:29I thought she hated how strict I was.

00:09:32Turns out, she was afraid.

00:09:34So Grandmother really did call for help that night.

00:09:36Yes, miss. I'm sorry. I was too scared.

00:09:43Emma, you're not the one who should apologize.

00:09:45My eyes moved from Emma's face to Beatrix's.

00:09:48For six months, I was afraid that speaking up would make the Ashfords punish the servants.

00:09:53But tonight, I finally understood.

00:09:55Swallowing my anger didn't protect them.

00:09:57It only told the abusers they could go further.

00:09:59Mr. Wilkins, from now on, no one in this manner will be fired for testifying tonight.

00:10:05Yes, miss.

00:10:06Emma looked up at me, her eyes instantly filling with tears.

00:10:10Pritchard opened the nursing records.

00:10:12The doctor's records state that Lady Augusta required water and care throughout the night.

00:10:18But once the bell rope was cut short, the patient couldn't call the nurses properly.

00:10:24I only stopped her from ringing non-stopping.

00:10:27She was restless all night. I needed rest too.

00:10:32Suppressed gasps spread through the dining room.

00:10:35Only then did Beatrix realize she had exposed herself.

00:10:38She reached for the bell rope.

00:10:40Don't touch it.

00:10:42My voice wasn't loud, but her hand froze in the air.

00:10:45Grandmother couldn't pull it. Now you don't get to touch it.

00:10:48Beatrix's face turned ashen.

00:10:50Dear Beatrix, I imagine you've already told the truth.

00:10:55It wasn't that you didn't know I needed help.

00:10:58You just thought I was a nuisance.

00:11:01My tears fell, but I didn't make a sound.

00:11:04So Grandmother once called for help in a room so close to me, while I thought she was being cared

00:11:09for.

00:11:10Eleanor, good child, don't blame yourself.

00:11:13Don't take her cruelty as your failure.

00:11:15You weren't in that room.

00:11:17You believed them because they lied to you.

00:11:20I sat in the main seat, fingers digging into the armrest.

00:11:24Beatrix, that rope isn't all I left you.

00:11:28Mr. Pritchard, give her the bill.

00:11:31Pritchard placed a folded bill in front of Beatrix.

00:11:34It was tied with black ribbon.

00:11:36Beside it were the nursing rehiring contracts, night patrol records, and proof that the rope had been preserved.

00:11:44Grandmother wasn't throwing a fit.

00:11:46She was doing what she knew best, turning my humiliation into evidence.

00:11:52What is this?

00:11:54The cost of rehiring Lady Winterbirth's nursing team, investigating the sick room incident, and preserving evidence, 47,000 pounds.

00:12:05Are you insane?

00:12:07Why should I pay?

00:12:08Beatrixie reached to tear the bill.

00:12:10Pritchard didn't stop her.

00:12:12He only watched.

00:12:13Madam, the original is in the firm's safe.

00:12:16Tear this copy, and you only add destruction of evidence.

00:12:20Beatrix's hand froze.

00:12:22Her nails scraped across the paper with an ugly sound.

00:12:25If you're asking why, I'll answer you in advance.

00:12:31Because you cut off a patient's call for help.

00:12:34Because you thought once I died, no one would settle accounts for Eleanor.

00:12:39Nathaniel stood and looked at Pritchard.

00:12:42Mother didn't mean it.

00:12:44Grandmother was already very ill.

00:12:46That sentence was colder than Beatrix's excuses.

00:12:49A dying patient could lose her call for help.

00:12:52A humiliated wife could lose her tears.

00:12:55The Ashford's dignity was always built on other people enduring pain.

00:13:01Nathaniel.

00:13:02She cut a call for help rope, not a rose branch in the garden.

00:13:07Nathaniel choked on his words.

00:13:08According to my will, Beatrix Ashford inherits nothing from Thorn Manor.

00:13:16The bills will be pursued by the law firm.

00:13:19If she refuses to pay, the evidence goes to the magistrate and the medical association.

00:13:24Beatrix collapsed into her chair, fingers shaking.

00:13:28Minutes ago, she ordered me to brew tea like she owned the place.

00:13:34Now all she had was a cut rope and a bill.

00:13:37Lady Beatrix, after tonight, Grandmother's sick room will be sealed.

00:13:42You will not step inside again.

00:13:44What right do you have to keep me out?

00:13:46I'm her family too.

00:13:48The moment you cut her bell rope, you stopped being family.

00:13:51That room is not your stage to perform dignity.

00:13:56The last color dregged from her face.

00:13:59Everyone at the long table finally understood.

00:14:02Grandmother's recording wasn't a farewell.

00:14:05It was a knife, and now the handle was in my hand.

00:14:10The second dish is for Sir Edmund Ashford.

00:14:13The silver bell rang again, and the maid pushed the second dome towards Edmund.

00:14:31The silver dome stopped before Edmund.

00:14:34He forced himself to stay calm, but sweat seeped from his temple.

00:14:39For the first time, he was afraid, and I didn't soften just because they were afraid.

00:14:45The silver domes weren't done yet.

00:14:48Grandmother didn't put me in the main seat to watch them play victims.

00:14:52The maid gripped the dome handle.

00:15:00The silver dome was lifted.

00:15:02On the plate lay an old leather wage bag, sealed with wax and marked Martha Reed.

00:15:07Martha Reed was Emma's mother.

00:15:09She had worked in the laundry room for 20 years.

00:15:12Last winter, she fell ill, and everyone called it bad luck.

00:15:15Back then I didn't know it wasn't bad luck.

00:15:18Her money to survive had been stolen.

00:15:19I lost sleep over that for an entire night.

00:15:22Emma begged me in the hallway for an advance on her wages.

00:15:26I checked the ledgers until dawn, but couldn't find where the money went.

00:15:30The next day, the kitchen staff looked at me differently.

00:15:33They thought I had withheld her medicine money.

00:15:35Edmund, you made the whole manor think Eleanor was harsh and useless.

00:15:39But the one who stole the servants' wages was you.

00:15:42Edmund wiped the cold sweat from his temple, forcing himself to stay calm.

00:15:46What can that old bag prove?

00:15:49Thorn Manor's accounts are complicated.

00:15:52Delays happen.

00:15:53Mr. Edmund, please look at this transfer record.

00:15:56Pritchard spread out several bank papers, dates, signatures, account names clear as day.

00:16:02That same day, estate funds went into the Ashford temporary account.

00:16:05The wages due that day never reached the servants.

00:16:08That was temporary cash flow.

00:16:10I would have paid it back sooner or later.

00:16:12I knew you'd call it temporary cash flow, Edmund.

00:16:15You took life-saving money to fill your debts, then expected praise for being clever.

00:16:21Edmund's face turned deathly pale.

00:16:23I finally understood why the kitchen staff stopped smiling at me.

00:16:27Why Tom from the stables lowered his hat whenever he saw me.

00:16:30Why Emma knelt in the hallway for an advance when her mother was dying.

00:16:33Emma, your mother didn't get paid that month, because this money was moved away.

00:16:39Yes.

00:16:40I thought you refused to pay it.

00:16:42I even blamed you behind your back.

00:16:45Miss, I'm sorry.

00:16:46Don't apologize.

00:16:48This isn't your fault.

00:16:49It's my failure.

00:16:51Mr. Wilkins, grandmother prepared the list of unpaid wages, didn't she?

00:16:55Yes, miss.

00:16:56The lady prepared it long ago.

00:16:58He placed a grey ledger by my hand.

00:17:00With trembling hands, I opened the first page.

00:17:03There it was, Martha Reed.

00:17:06My finger landed on that line, and suddenly it stopped shaking.

00:17:09I looked up at Edmund.

00:17:11You knew Mrs. Martha was ill.

00:17:13You knew that money was for her medicine.

00:17:16Is a wash woman's wage more important than the honor of the Ashford family?

00:17:21I nodded lightly.

00:17:22Yes.

00:17:23Far more important than your so-called honor.

00:17:26My answer was quiet, but it silenced the whole table.

00:17:29Her wages were her medicine, her dinner, and her daughter's dignity.

00:17:33If your honor needs stolen wages to stand, then it was worthless from the start.

00:17:39Eleanor, how can you say that?

00:17:41Shut up.

00:17:42Nathaniel opened his mouth, then said nothing.

00:17:45The dining room went silent.

00:17:47You hear that, Eleanor?

00:17:48This is what they call noble dignity.

00:17:51Dignified enough to use servant's medicine money to plug their own holes.

00:17:55Then still call others lowborn.

00:17:57My father was just under too much pressure.

00:17:59What about me?

00:18:00When they misunderstood me, avoided me, and saw me as a cruel mistress, where were you?

00:18:05I didn't know about these accounts.

00:18:07Of course you didn't.

00:18:09You only knew how to tell me not to embarrass you.

00:18:12Nathaniel lowered his head and avoided my eyes.

00:18:14Also, Lady Augusta had already used the trust to buy up the main mature debts of the Ashford family.

00:18:20Sir Edmund, tonight you are not here to inherit Thorn Manor.

00:18:23You are here to meet your creditor.

00:18:26What did you say?

00:18:28Within 30 days, the debts will be collected.

00:18:31If you cannot pay, Ashford properties enter receivership.

00:18:35Edmund suddenly looked at the suitcase by his feet.

00:18:37Inside it was a wax-sealed letter.

00:18:40Edmund jumped up and reached to snatch the document from Pritchard's hand.

00:18:43Mr. Wilkins stepped forward and blocked him.

00:18:45Sir, return to your seat.

00:18:47Edmund raised his hand high.

00:18:49You dare stop me!

00:18:51Mr. Edmund, this is the Winterbury house, not the Ashford house.

00:18:55It was the first time I heard those words.

00:18:57This was my home.

00:18:58Not Nathaniel's.

00:18:59Not the Ashford's mine.

00:19:01Edmund's hand froze in the air as if that sentence had slapped him.

00:19:04The servants stood along the wall watching the table.

00:19:07Not one of them lowered their head.

00:19:09From tonight on, all unpaid wages will be repaid double.

00:19:12Mrs. Martha's medical fees will be advanced by the estate, then deducted from Sir Edmund's debt recovery.

00:19:19Edmund was about to speak, but I pushed the ledger straight in front of him.

00:19:23Sign it.

00:19:24Now.

00:19:25You dare order me!

00:19:27No.

00:19:28I'm asking a debtor to confirm what he owes.

00:19:31Emma covered her mouth, tears falling onto her apron.

00:19:34This time she wasn't crying out of fear.

00:19:36Eleanor, child, stop treating other people's theft as your failure.

00:19:40You have been holding this manor together.

00:19:42I saw it all.

00:19:43My eyes were red, but I slowly straightened my back.

00:19:45The third dish is for Miss Lydia Ashford.

00:19:48Lydia panicked as the maid carried the plate toward her.

00:19:53Me!

00:19:53I did nothing!

00:19:55I only came here to eat!

00:19:57Foolish little Lydia, you must be desperately claiming you did nothing right now.

00:20:00But people who did nothing don't get a silver dome placed in front of them.

00:20:04The third silver dome stopped before Lydia, and her face grew even paler.

00:20:08She stared at it like it was a door about to open.

00:20:11Don't look at me!

00:20:12I only entertained the guests because my brother told me to!

00:20:15Lydia, your so-called just helping, was never innocent.

00:20:19You handed over the knife, then pretended you weren't the one who used it.

00:20:23Lydia's lips moved, but no words came out.

00:20:25Lydia was Nathaniel's younger sister.

00:20:27For three years, she called me sister, in law in the sweetest voice, while gently pushing me out the door.

00:20:34The serving dome slowly lifted.

00:20:42The silver dome opened.

00:20:44On the plate lay a brass key.

00:20:46The tag read, East Wing, Lady Charlotte's bedroom.

00:20:50Charlotte's my mother's name.

00:20:52Grandmother had always kept that room locked.

00:20:54She said, when I truly missed my mother one day, I could open it myself.

00:20:59The moment that key appeared, my heart felt seized by a cold hand.

00:21:03After my mother died, Grandmother never let me enter that room.

00:21:07She said grief was not a display, Hacy's.

00:21:10Only when I was ready, could I open that door.

00:21:12But the first person to open it was not me.

00:21:16Lydia, you did nothing.

00:21:18You only made another woman's bed in Eleanor's mother's room.

00:21:22Cecilia's hand clamped around her glass stem, and Nathaniel's face changed.

00:21:27I don't know what you're talking about.

00:21:28Thorn Manor has so many guest rooms.

00:21:31How could I remember every one?

00:21:34On the night the lady was gravely ill, Miss Winterbury kept watch outside the sick room,

00:21:39while Miss Cecilia stayed in the east wing.

00:21:41The guest book is in your handwriting.

00:21:43I was just arranging a room for a guest.

00:21:45Thorn Manor had 37 empty guest rooms that night, yet you chose Lady Charlotte's bedroom.

00:21:51Pritchard spread out a hand-drawn floor plan.

00:21:5437 empty rooms were circled in blue.

00:21:56The east wing bedroom was marked heavily in red.

00:21:59That wasn't careless.

00:22:01That was planned.

00:22:03Then Pritchard took out a key register.

00:22:09At 11.40 that night, Mr. Nathaniel took the spare key from your hand.

00:22:14At 2.07, it was returned.

00:22:19In that instant, every sound went far away.

00:22:22I remembered that night.

00:22:24I sat outside Grandmother's door with a blanket, waiting for Nathaniel to come back to me.

00:22:29I thought he was busy.

00:22:31I thought Cecilia was sleeping in a guest room.

00:22:34I didn't know they were one hallway away.

00:22:37Sleeping in my mother's room.

00:22:39Cecilia.

00:22:41Was my mother's bed comfortable?

00:22:44Cecilia went pale, her body trembling slightly.

00:22:49Eleanor, I really didn't know it was your mother's room.

00:22:52Linda took me there.

00:22:54And Nathaniel.

00:22:55Did you also not know whose husband he was?

00:22:57Cecilia pressed her lips tight and said nothing.

00:23:00I was just being nice.

00:23:02She said she felt sick.

00:23:04How was I supposed to know Nathaniel would go there?

00:23:06When you handed Nathaniel the spare key, you told a maid not to let Miss Eleanor know.

00:23:11A maid stepped out with her head lowered, then nodded.

00:23:14Yes, Miss.

00:23:15I heard it.

00:23:19Lydia shot up and reached for the register.

00:23:22She knocked over a silver cup, spilling wine across the white tablecloth.

00:23:26You all set me up!

00:23:27You planned this together to ruin me!

00:23:30I pressed my hand on the register before she could touch it.

00:23:33Don't touch it.

00:23:35You don't deserve to.

00:23:37Her hand froze.

00:23:38Lydia, I guessed you'd say there weren't enough rooms, so I counted them for you.

00:23:45Thorn Manor had 37 empty rooms, yet you chose the dead mistress's bedroom.

00:23:53It's not that you don't know manners.

00:23:55You know exactly how to humiliate someone.

00:23:58Lydia looked at Nathaniel.

00:24:00Nathaniel, say something!

00:24:02I did it all for you!

00:24:03Nathaniel stayed silent.

00:24:05He didn't dare look at Lydia.

00:24:07The quieter he was, the clearer the answer became.

00:24:11I used to fear that questioning him would destroy this marriage.

00:24:15Now I knew it had already been destroyed.

00:24:17Nathaniel, are you not answering because you forgot?

00:24:20Or because that night was too memorable?

00:24:23Nathaniel turned away, not daring to look at me.

00:24:28Eleanor, don't ask this here.

00:24:29Isn't this the perfect place?

00:24:32If you did it, why won't you admit it?

00:24:35Nathaniel looked at me once, then quickly looked away.

00:24:38His throat moved, but he didn't speak right away.

00:24:42That night, Lydia arranged the room.

00:24:45I didn't know it was your mother's bedroom.

00:24:47Lydia snapped her eyes to him, all color draining from her face.

00:24:53Nathaniel!

00:24:54Nathaniel didn't look at her.

00:24:56He only set down his glass.

00:24:58As if that could separate him from that night.

00:25:00Lydia finally understood.

00:25:02The Ashfords only protected each other when there was profit in it.

00:25:06Once things went wrong, every one of them pushed someone else forward.

00:25:10Eleanor, I kept your mother's room so one day, when you missed her, you could go in and remember her.

00:25:18Not so others could use it to prove you couldn't even protect your memories.

00:25:21I slowly tightened my grip on the key.

00:25:25Child, I came late, but I did not forget.

00:25:29Tears gathered in my eyes.

00:25:31I lifted my head, breathed deep, and held them back.

00:25:36Lydia, you are no sister of mine.

00:25:39You've desecrated my memories.

00:25:42Lydia's tears fell at once.

00:25:44In the past, whenever she cried,

00:25:47Nathaniel would frown at me, as if I must be the one at fault.

00:25:50But this time, Nathaniel said nothing.

00:25:53He had no reason to.

00:25:55Lydia sobbed out loud, but no one comforted her.

00:25:59According to the will,

00:26:01Miss Lydia Ashfield inherits nothing from the Winterberg family.

00:26:05Her unauthorized use of a private room and transfer of the key will be formally recorded.

00:26:11Lydia suddenly looked up at Pritchard through her tears.

00:26:14No, no, you can't do this to me.

00:26:17I'm only a child.

00:26:19I silently watched Lydia lose control at the table.

00:26:23When you opened that door for them, you didn't look like a child.

00:26:27Lydia choked, lowered her head, and kept sobbing.

00:26:32The silver bell rang again.

00:26:34The fourth dish is for Mr. Nathaniel Ashfield.

00:26:38The largest silver dome was pushed in front of Nathaniel.

00:26:43Cecilia instinctively touched the sapphire necklace on her neck.

00:26:47At last, I saw it.

00:26:50The sabbifier at the center looked exactly like the one in my memory of mother.

00:26:56Nathaniel slowly buttoned his suit jacket,

00:26:58like he was walking into a trial.

00:27:01The silver dome still gleamed on the table,

00:27:04like an open eye.

00:27:13The silver dome was lifted.

00:27:15On black velvet lay an empty old necklace holder,

00:27:18a jeweler's receipt,

00:27:20and a photo from an old album.

00:27:22In the photo, my mother Charlotte wore that old necklace,

00:27:25the sapphire resting against her heart.

00:27:27When I was little,

00:27:28Grandmother placed it in my palm,

00:27:30and said it was the light my mother left me.

00:27:32I remembered the sunlight falling across Grandmother's knees that day.

00:27:36She told me Charlotte wore that sapphire when she married into Winterpurg,

00:27:39and when she first held me as a baby.

00:27:42The necklace on Cecilia's neck splashed.

00:27:44The sapphire at its center was the very stone from my mother's necklace in the photo.

00:27:49Nathaniel,

00:27:49I thought you were only greedy.

00:27:52Then I learned you even dared to take what Charlotte left her daughter,

00:27:57and use it to please your mistress.

00:28:00Nathaniel!

00:28:01That was my mother's keepsake!

00:28:03Eleanor,

00:28:04it's not what you think.

00:28:06I stood up in rage and stared him down.

00:28:09Then tell me what it is.

00:28:13The jeweler's testimony and reset receipt are here.

00:28:17Mr. Nathaniel,

00:28:18you asked the jeweler to dismantle Lady Charlotte's old necklace and resign it for a young lady.

00:28:24And the woman you meant to give it to was Miss Cecilia Valentine.

00:28:28The receipt had the jeweler's note,

00:28:31original item,

00:28:32widow's memorial necklace,

00:28:33client warned of irreversible damage before dismantling.

00:28:37Nathaniel's signature sat beside it,

00:28:39clean and firm,

00:28:40like he never hesitated.

00:28:41I didn't know.

00:28:44He said it was old jewelry no one used at home.

00:28:47You didn't know it was my mother's necklace,

00:28:49but why did you accept a gift from my husband?

00:28:52Cecilia fubbled with the clasp,

00:28:54but the more anxious she got,

00:28:55the harder it was to open.

00:28:58I only borrowed it.

00:29:00I'll give you a better one later.

00:29:02I let out a cold laugh.

00:29:03It was almost too absurd to bear.

00:29:06You tore apart my mother's keepsake

00:29:08and gave it to the woman sleeping in my mother's room.

00:29:12And you call that borrowing?

00:29:14Nathaniel,

00:29:14what do you think I am?

00:29:15Nathaniel went silent.

00:29:17Then he reached for the receipt.

00:29:18Mr. Wilkins stepped forward and blocked his hand.

00:29:21Wilkins,

00:29:23this is our family matter.

00:29:25Mr. Wilkins didn't move.

00:29:26He only looked at me.

00:29:28No,

00:29:29what you stole was the keepsake

00:29:31of the former mistress of Winterberg.

00:29:33What you wounded

00:29:34was my mother's name.

00:29:36Besides,

00:29:37he stopped being family long ago.

00:29:39The dining room went dead silent.

00:29:40In that moment,

00:29:42what hurt more than the affair

00:29:43was that he had stolen

00:29:44my last link to my mother.

00:29:46My marriage was fake.

00:29:47My friendship was fake.

00:29:49Even my mother's keepsake

00:29:50had been taken apart

00:29:51and hung on another woman's neck.

00:29:53I suddenly remembered

00:29:54the first time

00:29:55Cecilia wore that necklace

00:29:56and asked me if it looked good.

00:29:57I had even smiled

00:29:58and told her it looked beautiful.

00:30:00Only now did I know

00:30:02what hung on her neck

00:30:03wasn't jewelry.

00:30:04It was the last dignity

00:30:05my mother left me.

00:30:07My little Eleanor,

00:30:08you recognized it.

00:30:10Don't be sad.

00:30:11Grandmother took that gem back for you.

00:30:13What your mother left you

00:30:15is not for anyone to wear

00:30:16and show off.

00:30:17My tears fell,

00:30:19but I did not lower my head.

00:30:21Eleanor,

00:30:22I admit I was wrong,

00:30:23but Cecilia didn't know.

00:30:25Don't take it out on her.

00:30:27Even now,

00:30:28you're still protecting her.

00:30:30I just want to handle this

00:30:31with dignity.

00:30:33Dignity?

00:30:34Did you think about dignity

00:30:36when you stole my mother's keepsake?

00:30:38Grandmother's recording

00:30:39kept playing.

00:30:40Nathaniel,

00:30:42I suppose you'll say

00:30:43you only borrowed it,

00:30:45that you would

00:30:45return it later.

00:30:46But if a man cannot cherish

00:30:48his wife's mother's keepsake,

00:30:50what can he cherish?

00:30:52The maid lifted the black cloth

00:30:54beside the velvet,

00:30:55revealing an empty plate.

00:30:57So I left you

00:30:58an empty plate.

00:31:00Since you came with an empty heart,

00:31:02leave with empty hands.

00:31:04The empty plate was pushed

00:31:06in front of Nathaniel.

00:31:07Its silver surface

00:31:09reflected his face

00:31:10and Cecilia's trembling hands.

00:31:12He finally understood

00:31:13Grandmother had left him

00:31:14no excuse at all.

00:31:15According to the will,

00:31:17Mr. Nathaniel Ashford

00:31:18inherits nothing.

00:31:19Evidence of marital transfer

00:31:21and damage to

00:31:22Winterberg family keepsakes

00:31:24will be handed

00:31:25to the divorce lawyers.

00:31:27Divorce lawyers?

00:31:28Yes.

00:31:29The lady hired them

00:31:31for Miss Winterbury

00:31:31before she died.

00:31:33For the first time,

00:31:34Nathaniel truly panicked.

00:31:36Eleanor,

00:31:37we can talk.

00:31:38Can we both calm down?

00:31:40I am calm.

00:31:42You can't destroy our marriage

00:31:44over one necklace.

00:31:46One necklace?

00:31:47That was my mother's keepsake.

00:31:50You turned my mother

00:31:51into a gift for your mistress.

00:31:53I'm not the one

00:31:54who destroyed this marriage.

00:31:55I took a breath

00:31:56and looked at Pritchard.

00:31:58Mr. Pritchard,

00:32:00send the divorce papers

00:32:01to the Ashford house tomorrow.

00:32:03They're already prepared, miss.

00:32:05Nathaniel's face changed.

00:32:06He thought I would only cry,

00:32:08make a scene,

00:32:09or beg for an explanation.

00:32:11But now,

00:32:12I only wanted to cut him

00:32:13out of my future.

00:32:15Child,

00:32:15don't soften.

00:32:17He doesn't regret hurting you.

00:32:18He's afraid he can't take more.

00:32:20I took a deep breath

00:32:21and my gaze grew firmer.

00:32:24The silver bell rang.

00:32:28The fifth dish

00:32:29is for Miss Cecilia Valentine.

00:32:32The color slowly drained

00:32:33from Cecilia's face.

00:32:35The necklace still hung on her neck,

00:32:37its sabbifier shining

00:32:38like stolen goods,

00:32:40finally exposed.

00:32:41Nathaniel looked at the gem

00:32:43like it was his last chance

00:32:44to leave this room intact.

00:32:46The silver dome was carried

00:32:47in front of Cecilia.

00:32:57The silver dome was lifted.

00:32:59On the plate was my old diary,

00:33:01worn smooth,

00:33:02with several pages cleanly cut out.

00:33:04It was my diary,

00:33:05grandmother's gift,

00:33:06for my 18th birthday.

00:33:07I wrote my weakest,

00:33:08ugliest,

00:33:09most private thoughts in it.

00:33:10My diary!

00:33:12You stole my diary!

00:33:13I didn't,

00:33:14I never stole it!

00:33:15Cecilia,

00:33:16you didn't steal the whole book.

00:33:17Just the pages you needed.

00:33:19Pratchett placed several yellowed pages

00:33:21beside the diary.

00:33:23These pages were found

00:33:24in Miss Cecilia's suitcase lining.

00:33:26Eleanor's handwriting,

00:33:27Cecilia's pencil marks.

00:33:29I looked at the marks,

00:33:30and my palm went cold.

00:33:32She circled my fear of being left,

00:33:34my longing for mother,

00:33:35and the letters I never sent Nathaniel.

00:33:38She even wrote notes.

00:33:39Likes white roses,

00:33:41afraid of the dark,

00:33:42presses her lips before speaking.

00:33:44She stole my softest parts,

00:33:46page by page,

00:33:47then wore them as tenderness for Nathaniel.

00:33:49You read her diary,

00:33:51you learned her flowers,

00:33:52her posture,

00:33:53even her mother's smile.

00:33:54Cecilia,

00:33:55you don't love Nathaniel,

00:33:56you envy everything Eleanor had.

00:33:59No,

00:33:59I wanted to help her,

00:34:00she was unhappy.

00:34:01I wanted to understand her.

00:34:04By sleeping in my mother's room,

00:34:05wearing her necklace,

00:34:07and studying how to replace me,

00:34:09Cecilia shook her head,

00:34:11tears in her eyes,

00:34:12still playing innocent.

00:34:14Eleanor,

00:34:15we're friends.

00:34:16I was confused.

00:34:17I love Nathaniel.

00:34:18I couldn't stop myself.

00:34:20I looked at her and found it all ridiculous.

00:34:23If you loved him,

00:34:24why did you need my diary to become me?

00:34:26Because he always mentioned you.

00:34:29He called you cold,

00:34:31but his eyes stayed on you.

00:34:32I wanted to know why.

00:34:34At that moment,

00:34:35I finally understood.

00:34:36She didn't steal Nathaniel because he was worth it.

00:34:39She just wanted to take everything from me.

00:34:42Eleanor,

00:34:42my good child,

00:34:43remember this.

00:34:44Being fragile is not a sin.

00:34:46Trusting wrong is not a sin.

00:34:48Betraying that trust is.

00:34:49I picked up the diary and slowly closed it.

00:34:52Cecilia,

00:34:52you don't love him.

00:34:53You want to become me.

00:34:55But you stole my husband,

00:34:58my room,

00:34:59my necklace,

00:35:00and my diary.

00:35:01Cecilia's sweet mask finally cracked.

00:35:04She grabbed a glass and threw it at the gramophone.

00:35:06Enough!

00:35:07Shut her up!

00:35:08I stood and blocked the brass horn.

00:35:11The glass hit the table

00:35:12and shards cut my hand.

00:35:13Eleanor!

00:35:14None of you can come near it.

00:35:16None of you deserves to touch grandmother's message.

00:35:19Everyone in the dining room stared at me.

00:35:21In that moment,

00:35:22I wasn't just in grandmother's seat.

00:35:24I was protecting my own trial.

00:35:25Cecilia looked at Nathaniel like he was her last lifeline.

00:35:28Nathaniel,

00:35:29say something!

00:35:30Tell her I didn't do this alone!

00:35:32Nathaniel lowered his head and refused to look at her.

00:35:35Cecilia finally saw it.

00:35:36She thought she had stolen a man,

00:35:38but she only helped him decide who was easier to throw away.

00:35:41Cecilia,

00:35:42I left you coffees.

00:35:44The originals were returned to Eleanor long ago.

00:35:48And you,

00:35:50someone who lives by stealing,

00:35:52deserves nothing.

00:35:53Pritchard came to stand before Cecilia.

00:35:56Miss Cecilia,

00:35:57remove the necklace.

00:35:58Return the winter-burned keepsake.

00:35:59I walked behind Cecilia.

00:36:01Don't let her take her time.

00:36:03Emma.

00:36:04Scissors.

00:36:05Emma froze,

00:36:06then handed me silver scissors.

00:36:08Cecilia screamed and clutched her neck.

00:36:09You didn't ask me before wearing it.

00:36:12I don't need your permission to take it back.

00:36:14The clasp snapped.

00:36:15The necklace fell into the silver plate,

00:36:17sealing the end of our friendship.

00:36:19The maid stepped forward and took the necklace away.

00:36:21The sapphire lay back in the velvet box,

00:36:24finally rescued from humiliation.

00:36:26Restore it.

00:36:28Exactly as my mother wore it.

00:36:30Yes, miss.

00:36:31Cecilia nearly collapsed in her chair.

00:36:33Enough, Eleanor!

00:36:34Tonight is ugly enough!

00:36:36Is the evidence ugly?

00:36:38Or what you did?

00:36:39Do you have to make everyone lose face?!

00:36:43When I served you standing up,

00:36:45no one asked if I had any face left.

00:36:47Nathaniel looked terrible,

00:36:49but said nothing.

00:36:50The room went quiet again.

00:36:51Miss Winterbridge,

00:36:52the old lady left one final message for you.

00:36:55Pritchard didn't ring the bell.

00:36:56He gently moved the needle back.

00:36:58The gramophone crackled.

00:36:59Eleanor,

00:37:01tonight,

00:37:01they'll call me cruel.

00:37:03They'll say I'm dead

00:37:04and still disturbing this house.

00:37:06A child,

00:37:08the one who ruins a table,

00:37:09is never the one who lifts the dome.

00:37:11I raised my head

00:37:12and saw the open silver plates

00:37:14at the end of the table.

00:37:15Cut rope,

00:37:16bill,

00:37:17wage bag,

00:37:18key,

00:37:18sapphire,

00:37:19diary.

00:37:20None of them looked like knives.

00:37:22All of them cut deeper.

00:37:23Now promise me,

00:37:25be yourself.

00:37:26Don't serve people who despise you.

00:37:29Beatrice's cup was empty.

00:37:31She pushed it forward by habit,

00:37:33then froze.

00:37:34Emma,

00:37:35water.

00:37:35Emma,

00:37:36they are no longer welcome here.

00:37:38I pushed the teapot

00:37:39to the center of the table.

00:37:40No one dared reach for it.

00:37:42I sat in the main seat

00:37:43and did not move.

00:37:44The Ashford said nothing.

00:37:46The dining hall was so quiet,

00:37:47only the gramophone kept crackling.

00:37:49Grandmother exposed their crimes.

00:37:51I guarded the evidence,

00:37:53commanded the servants

00:37:54and refused them.

00:38:03The dinner had fallen into chaos.

00:38:05Beatrice saw.

00:38:06Edmund kept white on sweat.

00:38:07Lydia shrank in her chair.

00:38:09Cecilia trembled under a coat.

00:38:11Nathaniel stood by the main seat,

00:38:13still trying to take control.

00:38:15All five silver domes had been lifted.

00:38:17Everything they tried to hide

00:38:19was now under the light.

00:38:20But grandmother's dinner

00:38:21was not over.

00:38:23Now,

00:38:23I will read

00:38:24Lady Augustus Winterburne's

00:38:26official will.

00:38:27Everyone at the table

00:38:28looked stripped bare.

00:38:29No one rushed him now.

00:38:31No one dared call

00:38:32a dead woman's words useless.

00:38:34Because tonight,

00:38:35the clearest mind

00:38:36belonged to the old Lady Winterbow

00:38:37lying in her grave.

00:38:39Pritchick opened

00:38:39the red wax seal document.

00:38:41Thorn Manor,

00:38:42the Winterberg Family Trust,

00:38:43the estate lands,

00:38:45the East Wing Study,

00:38:46and all legal files

00:38:47shall belong solely

00:38:48to Miss Eleanor Winterberg.

00:38:49The word trust

00:38:50made Edmund turn even paulder.

00:38:52Beatrice grabbed his sleeve.

00:38:54Nathaniel looked at me

00:38:55like he finally understood.

00:38:56The wife he looked down

00:38:57at was never

00:38:58some orphan he married.

00:38:59I was the true

00:39:00Winterberg heir.

00:39:02Impossible!

00:39:04She already married

00:39:05into the Ashford family!

00:39:07The lady stated clearly,

00:39:09Marriage does not change

00:39:10Winterberg inheritance rights.

00:39:12No spouse,

00:39:14no in-law

00:39:14may claim a share

00:39:16through marriage.

00:39:17How can one woman

00:39:18manage such a large estate?

00:39:20I've managed it

00:39:21for half a year.

00:39:21You just pretended

00:39:22not to see it.

00:39:23Well said, child.

00:39:24We all startled

00:39:25and looked at the gramophone.

00:39:26Grandmother's voice

00:39:27came from it again.

00:39:28I knew they would ask

00:39:30what gives you the right,

00:39:31so I'll answer for you.

00:39:33Because while everyone

00:39:34waited for me to die,

00:39:35only you stayed

00:39:36and helped me live.

00:39:37Because every account book

00:39:39in this manner

00:39:39carries your handwriting.

00:39:41Because you never treated

00:39:42a weak person's tears

00:39:43as numbers to ignore.

00:39:45Emma and several servants

00:39:46lowered their heads,

00:39:47wiping their tears.

00:39:47Also, the Ashfords

00:39:49may no longer live

00:39:51in Thorn Manor.

00:39:52All guest rooms

00:39:53must be cleared

00:39:53by nine tomorrow morning.

00:39:55Mr. Wilkins,

00:39:57seal the East Wing tonight.

00:39:58No one enters

00:39:59except me,

00:40:00Mr. Pritchard,

00:40:01and you.

00:40:02Yes, miss.

00:40:02I spoke slowly,

00:40:04letting every word

00:40:05land on the table.

00:40:06They used my silence

00:40:07to take every room.

00:40:08Now I would use my orders

00:40:09to close every door.

00:40:11You're throwing us out!

00:40:14Yes.

00:40:15We're your family!

00:40:17Family doesn't treat me

00:40:18like a maid.

00:40:20Eleanor, calm down.

00:40:21We're husband and wife.

00:40:23Before dinner,

00:40:24weren't you the one

00:40:25who said we'd divorce

00:40:26after tonight?

00:40:27Nathaniel had no words.

00:40:29He finally realized

00:40:30words are easy to say,

00:40:32but never free.

00:40:33Miss Winterfield,

00:40:34this is the master key.

00:40:36The lady left you.

00:40:37Mr. Wilkins

00:40:38stepped forward

00:40:39with a silver tray.

00:40:39On it lay

00:40:40Thorn Manor's master key,

00:40:42the thorn crest

00:40:43engraved at the end.

00:40:44Eleanor,

00:40:45I give you this key

00:40:46not to guard an old house

00:40:47for me,

00:40:48but to guard yourself

00:40:49from today on.

00:40:50I took the key.

00:40:51It felt heavy in my hand.

00:40:52Thank you, Grandmother.

00:40:53One more thing,

00:40:55Mr. Pritchard.

00:40:55Give her the second box.

00:40:57Pritchard took out

00:40:58a black document box.

00:40:59On the lid was a seal

00:41:00for my eyes only.

00:41:02The lady instructed

00:41:03that this box

00:41:04must not be opened tonight.

00:41:05When you are ready

00:41:06to face the truth

00:41:07about your parents,

00:41:08come to me.

00:41:09The truth about my parents.

00:41:11Those words cut through

00:41:12the room like cold wind.

00:41:13When I was four,

00:41:14my parents died

00:41:15in a carriage accident.

00:41:16Everyone told me

00:41:17it was just an accident.

00:41:19That accident

00:41:19was the Winterbourne

00:41:20family's deepest wound.

00:41:22Grandmother locked

00:41:23father's study

00:41:23for 20 years,

00:41:24mother's bedroom

00:41:25for 20 years

00:41:26and her own tears

00:41:27for 20 years.

00:41:28She hadn't let go.

00:41:30She had been waiting

00:41:30for me to grow up.

00:41:32My parents' deaths

00:41:33weren't an accident.

00:41:34The gramophone kept turning.

00:41:36Through the static,

00:41:37grandmother's voice

00:41:37dropped low.

00:41:38Child,

00:41:39grandmother investigated

00:41:40for years.

00:41:42The truth is cruel,

00:41:44but you have

00:41:44the right to know.

00:41:45Nathaniel suddenly

00:41:46looked at Edmund.

00:41:47Edmund avoided

00:41:48his eyes.

00:41:49Father,

00:41:50what do you know?

00:41:52Shut up!

00:41:53Edmund's reaction

00:41:54was too strange.

00:41:55Strange enough

00:41:56for even Nathaniel

00:41:57to notice.

00:41:58I stood up

00:41:59and all the servants

00:42:00bowed their heads to me.

00:42:01Tonight ends here.

00:42:03Yes, Miss Winterbridge.

00:42:04Mr. Wilkins,

00:42:05starting tomorrow,

00:42:06pay all unpaid wages.

00:42:08Emma's mother's medical fees

00:42:09come from the estate account first.

00:42:11Yes, Miss.

00:42:12Emma covered her mouth

00:42:13and cried.

00:42:14Eleanor, wait!

00:42:15Let's talk!

00:42:16Talk through my lawyer tomorrow.

00:42:18Holding the key

00:42:19in the black box,

00:42:20I turned and left

00:42:21the main dining hall.

00:42:22Nathaniel chased after me,

00:42:23but Wilkins blocked him.

00:42:25Sir, you heard

00:42:26the mistress's order.

00:42:27That night,

00:42:28for the first time,

00:42:29I did not leave

00:42:29from the edge

00:42:30of the dining hall.

00:42:30I left

00:42:31from the main seat.

00:42:32The gramophone needle

00:42:34reached the end

00:42:34with a soft scrape.

00:42:35As I reached the door,

00:42:37Richard's voice

00:42:37came from behind me.

00:42:38Miss,

00:42:39the lady left

00:42:40one more message.

00:42:41I turned back.

00:42:42She said the person

00:42:43behind all this

00:42:44will not wait

00:42:45until you are ready.

00:42:46And Sir Edmund's

00:42:47black leather suitcase

00:42:48must stay here.

00:42:49The lady said

00:42:50it is not something

00:42:51an ordinary creditor

00:42:51would use.

00:42:52The wind outside

00:42:53suddenly rushed in.

00:43:00The wind outside

00:43:08The corridor lights

00:43:09were dim and yellow.

00:43:11I held the black box

00:43:12and walked past

00:43:13grandmother's portrait.

00:43:15Nathaniel caught up,

00:43:17staying a few steps

00:43:18behind me.

00:43:19The dining hall candles

00:43:21still burned,

00:43:22but the long table

00:43:23looked like a body

00:43:24cut open.

00:43:25Every silver plate

00:43:27exposed evidence.

00:43:29No Ashford dared

00:43:30look at me now.

00:43:31Only Nathaniel

00:43:32was still the same.

00:43:33He thought if he

00:43:34caught up,

00:43:34I had to listen.

00:43:36Eleanor,

00:43:36let's talk.

00:43:38If it's about divorce,

00:43:39talk to my lawyer

00:43:40tomorrow.

00:43:41No,

00:43:42I mean tonight.

00:43:43I didn't know

00:43:44it would turn out

00:43:44like this.

00:43:45So if grandmother

00:43:47hadn't left evidence,

00:43:48you would have kept

00:43:48pretending not to know.

00:43:50I admit I hurt you,

00:43:53but a lot of things

00:43:54aren't what they look like.

00:43:57Then what did it look like

00:43:58when you took apart

00:44:00my mother's necklace?

00:44:02Cecilia influenced me.

00:44:04I thought it was just

00:44:04old jewelry.

00:44:06She didn't influence you.

00:44:08You just thought

00:44:08anything mine didn't matter.

00:44:11Nathaniel had no answer.

00:44:12For three years,

00:44:13I waited for him

00:44:14too many times.

00:44:15I waited for him

00:44:17to come home,

00:44:18to explain,

00:44:19to see I was hurting.

00:44:22Now he finally

00:44:23wanted to speak,

00:44:24but I no longer

00:44:25wanted to listen.

00:44:27I can make it up to you!

00:44:29The necklace,

00:44:30the room,

00:44:31the money,

00:44:32everything!

00:44:33You can't repay

00:44:34that night

00:44:35outside grandmother's

00:44:36sick room.

00:44:37You can't repay

00:44:38using my mother

00:44:38to humiliate me.

00:44:39And you can't repay

00:44:41every piece of love

00:44:42you killed

00:44:43when you ordered

00:44:44me around.

00:44:46Eleanor.

00:44:49I suddenly held

00:44:50the wall,

00:44:51my face turning pale.

00:44:52Nathaniel stepped

00:44:53forward to help me.

00:44:55What's wrong?

00:44:59Don't touch me.

00:45:01Emma ran from

00:45:02the end of the corridor

00:45:03with medicine.

00:45:04Miss,

00:45:04the doctor said

00:45:05your pregnancy sickness

00:45:06can't be delayed anymore.

00:45:08Nathaniel froze.

00:45:11Pregnancy?

00:45:11He found out after all.

00:45:13Not as a gift,

00:45:14not as a bargaining chip.

00:45:16a child he never

00:45:17cared enough to know.

00:45:18You're pregnant!

00:45:20Eight weeks.

00:45:22Why didn't you tell me?

00:45:25Tonight,

00:45:26you brought your mistress here

00:45:27and made me pour water

00:45:28for her.

00:45:29When was I supposed

00:45:30to tell you?

00:45:31Nathaniel's face

00:45:32went deathly pale.

00:45:34That's my child too!

00:45:36No.

00:45:38He is my child first.

00:45:42Only after saying it

00:45:43did I truly feel

00:45:44that quiet life

00:45:45inside me.

00:45:46He was not Nathaniel's

00:45:48reason to repent.

00:45:49Not the Ashfield's

00:45:50bargaining chip.

00:45:51Not part of

00:45:52grandmother's inheritance.

00:45:53He was simply

00:45:54my child.

00:45:55I'll take responsibility!

00:45:57I'll stay and

00:45:58take care of you!

00:45:59You couldn't even

00:46:01take care of your

00:46:02own marriage.

00:46:04For the first time,

00:46:05Nathaniel lost control

00:46:07in front of me.

00:46:08He reached out,

00:46:09but didn't dare touch me.

00:46:11He opened his mouth,

00:46:13but had nothing

00:46:13worth saying.

00:46:15I was wrong,

00:46:16Eleanor!

00:46:16I really was!

00:46:17Give me one more chance!

00:46:19You don't think

00:46:20you were wrong.

00:46:21You think you lost.

00:46:22That sentence

00:46:23nailed him in place.

00:46:25He used to win

00:46:26too easily.

00:46:27With my tolerance,

00:46:29with grandmother's

00:46:30silence,

00:46:31with everything

00:46:31the Ashrooms took,

00:46:32now he finally

00:46:33tasted losing

00:46:34and restook it

00:46:35for love.

00:46:36Nathaniel's knees

00:46:37weakened.

00:46:38He almost

00:46:39knelt before me.

00:46:43What if I kneel?

00:46:44I'll return everything

00:46:45the Ashwords

00:46:46owe you.

00:46:49Can you...

00:46:50Don't kneel.

00:46:51He looked up

00:46:52for one second

00:46:53hope flashed

00:46:54in his eyes.

00:46:56I don't need

00:46:56a husband on

00:46:57his knees.

00:46:58I don't need

00:47:05I need the man

00:47:06who made me

00:47:07stand there

00:47:07in shame

00:47:08to stop blocking

00:47:09my way.

00:47:10Nathaniel's face

00:47:10went completely

00:47:11white.

00:47:13Go back.

00:47:14Before nine

00:47:15tomorrow morning

00:47:16every Ashfield

00:47:17leaves.

00:47:18I turned,

00:47:19entered my room,

00:47:21and shut the door.

00:47:23Nathaniel stood

00:47:24in the rain,

00:47:24looking up

00:47:25at my second

00:47:26floor window.

00:47:27Rain ran

00:47:27down his hair.

00:47:28He once had

00:47:29countless chances

00:47:30to walk toward me.

00:47:31every time

00:47:32he chose

00:47:33someone else.

00:47:35Now he finally

00:47:36stood beneath

00:47:37my window,

00:47:38but I had

00:47:39already closed it.

00:47:40After that night,

00:47:42Nathaniel sent

00:47:43flowers,

00:47:44letters,

00:47:45and doctors

00:47:46every day.

00:47:47Every letter

00:47:48said sorry,

00:47:49but a late apology

00:47:50is cold soup.

00:47:52Even if it served

00:47:54no one loves it.

00:47:55In the morning,

00:47:56Pritchard entered

00:47:56the study

00:47:57and placed

00:47:58the black box

00:47:59on the desk.

00:47:59Miss Winterbrack,

00:48:00are you sure

00:48:01you want to

00:48:01open it today?

00:48:04Grandmother said

00:48:05I had the right

00:48:06to know.

00:48:06I've been ready

00:48:07for a long time.

00:48:08The seal was

00:48:10cut inside

00:48:10lay an old photo.

00:48:12Young Charlotte

00:48:12David

00:48:13and Sir Percival

00:48:14Hale

00:48:14standing behind them.

00:48:16Hale stood

00:48:17at the back,

00:48:17cane on the floor,

00:48:19smiling like

00:48:19a trusted elder.

00:48:21On the edge,

00:48:22Grandmother had

00:48:23written,

00:48:24three days before

00:48:25the Northbridge

00:48:26accident.

00:48:26The year my

00:48:27parents died,

00:48:28Sir Hale had been

00:48:29right beside them.

00:48:31I saw the words

00:48:32on the back

00:48:33of the photo,

00:48:33do not trust Hale.

00:48:35The box also held

00:48:36burnt axle wood,

00:48:37an old telegram draft,

00:48:39and half a letter

00:48:39father never sent

00:48:40Grandmother.

00:48:41Each piece was light.

00:48:43In my hand,

00:48:44it weighed

00:48:44like the whole manor.

00:48:46Why didn't

00:48:47Grandmother expose

00:48:48this at the dinner?

00:48:49Because Hal

00:48:50is not an Ashford.

00:48:52Humiliation

00:48:53wouldn't break him.

00:48:54He would strike back

00:48:55with the law.

00:48:56The lady wanted you

00:48:57to regain control

00:48:58first,

00:48:59then seek the truth.

00:49:01When the old lady

00:49:02found this much,

00:49:03Hale had already

00:49:04controlled several

00:49:05trust directors.

00:49:06She feared tipping

00:49:07him off,

00:49:07so she sealed

00:49:08the evidence separately.

00:49:10So that dinner

00:49:11was also to force

00:49:12the Ashford's

00:49:13to reveal their link

00:49:13to Hale?

00:49:17Yes.

00:49:18The lady said

00:49:19greedy people slip

00:49:20when they think

00:49:21they're about to win.

00:49:30morning light

00:49:31filled Grandmother's

00:49:32lawyer's study.

00:49:33Law books

00:49:34lined the walls.

00:49:36The black box

00:49:37evidence lay

00:49:37across the desk.

00:49:39When I was four,

00:49:40my parents died

00:49:41in a rainy night

00:49:42carriage accident.

00:49:44Everyone called it

00:49:44an accident.

00:49:46Grandmother never

00:49:47told me the details.

00:49:48I thought she was

00:49:49protecting me.

00:49:50only after opening

00:49:51that box

00:49:52did I understand.

00:49:54She hadn't stayed

00:49:55silent because

00:49:56she forgot.

00:49:57She had been

00:49:58investigating.

00:49:59This letter was

00:50:00written to the lady

00:50:01by your father,

00:50:02David Winterbury,

00:50:02the day before he died.

00:50:04She kept the original

00:50:05all these years.

00:50:07One corner was

00:50:08scorched.

00:50:09Like someone had

00:50:10tried to burn it,

00:50:11Grandmother had

00:50:12backed the burned

00:50:12part with thin paper.

00:50:14On the back,

00:50:15she wrote four words,

00:50:17Do not hand it over.

00:50:20I unfolded the letter.

00:50:22Some of the ink

00:50:22had blooded.

00:50:24Mother,

00:50:25if anything happens

00:50:26to Charlotte and me,

00:50:27investigate

00:50:27Perkwell Hale.

00:50:29He tampered

00:50:30with the trust documents.

00:50:31He is not

00:50:32our advisor.

00:50:34He is stealing

00:50:35the roots of

00:50:36Winterberg

00:50:36for someone else.

00:50:38My fingers stopped.

00:50:41Sir Hale was

00:50:43grandmother's

00:50:43old friend.

00:50:45He was also

00:50:46the outside

00:50:47legal advisor

00:50:48to the

00:50:48Winterberg

00:50:49Family Trust.

00:50:52Why would he

00:50:53hurt my parents?

00:50:54To control the trust.

00:50:57Your father

00:50:57found forged

00:50:58signatures

00:50:59and planned

00:50:59to challenge him

00:51:00publicly.

00:51:01The next day,

00:51:02his carriage

00:51:03fell from North Bridge.

00:51:04I gripped the desk

00:51:05and steadied myself.

00:51:07North Bridge

00:51:07dragged me back

00:51:08to the rain

00:51:09when I was four.

00:51:10That night,

00:51:11I sat on the stairs

00:51:12waiting for my parents

00:51:13to come home.

00:51:14I waited until dawn.

00:51:16Only grandmother

00:51:17came back

00:51:18soaked in black.

00:51:20There was a knock

00:51:21at the door.

00:51:25Miss,

00:51:26Mr. Alexander Blackwood

00:51:27has arrived.

00:51:29Alexander entered

00:51:30the study.

00:51:31He was in his thirties

00:51:32in a dark suit

00:51:33calm and steady.

00:51:36Miss Wintonbury,

00:51:38Lady Augusta

00:51:39entrused me

00:51:39to keep investigating

00:51:40Sir Hale

00:51:41while she was alive.

00:51:44Why didn't

00:51:45grandmother tell me?

00:51:46She said the Ashford's

00:51:48had already dragged

00:51:48you into the mud.

00:51:49Without evidence,

00:51:50she wouldn't drag you

00:51:51into another swamp.

00:51:55Is the evidence

00:51:56enough now?

00:51:58Not enough

00:51:59to finish him,

00:52:00enough to scare him.

00:52:02Alexander wasn't here

00:52:03to comfort me.

00:52:04He laid out

00:52:05the evidence

00:52:06calmly like knives

00:52:07on a table.

00:52:08father's letter

00:52:09proved suspicion.

00:52:11The accounts

00:52:12proved transfers.

00:52:14The switchboard records

00:52:16proved Hale

00:52:17was still using

00:52:18the Ashford's.

00:52:20There was also

00:52:21a wax cylinder list

00:52:22in the black box.

00:52:23Alexander

00:52:24said the real

00:52:25wax cylinder

00:52:26was locked beneath.

00:52:27Grandmother's

00:52:28final silver dome,

00:52:29it could only be opened

00:52:30at a public hearing.

00:52:31But even father's voice

00:52:33could only prove

00:52:33what he accused

00:52:34before death.

00:52:35To bring Hale down,

00:52:37we still needed

00:52:38something that nailed

00:52:39the Northbridge accident.

00:52:40Alexander took out

00:52:41a board meeting notice.

00:52:45In three days,

00:52:47the Winterbrook Trust

00:52:48will hold an emergency

00:52:49board meeting.

00:52:50Hale will challenge you.

00:52:52He'll claim you just

00:52:53inherited,

00:52:54you're unstable,

00:52:55and you're unfit

00:52:55to control the Trust.

00:53:05Mentally unstable,

00:53:07such light words.

00:53:08Yet they can drag

00:53:09a woman down

00:53:10from her place.

00:53:11Her husband betrays her,

00:53:13so she is emotional.

00:53:14Her family hurts her,

00:53:16so she is improper.

00:53:17She is pregnant,

00:53:19so even her child

00:53:20becomes proof against her.

00:53:22He wants to pull me down

00:53:24while the humiliation

00:53:26is still fresh.

00:53:28Yes.

00:53:29Nathaniel rushed in

00:53:31from outside,

00:53:31his clothes still wet

00:53:33with rain.

00:53:34Eleanor,

00:53:35I heard Hale

00:53:36is moving against you.

00:53:37I can help.

00:53:38Where did you hear that?

00:53:40My father took

00:53:41a long-distance call

00:53:42from Hale

00:53:43at the town switchboard

00:53:44last night.

00:53:46The operator recognized him

00:53:48and recorded

00:53:48the transfer time.

00:53:49Pritchard and I

00:53:50exchanged a look.

00:53:51So the Ashfords

00:53:52are connected to Hale too.

00:53:54I don't know

00:53:55what happened back then,

00:53:56but I can testify

00:53:58that my father

00:53:58contacted him last night.

00:54:00What do you want

00:54:01in exchange?

00:54:04Nothing.

00:54:06I just want to do

00:54:07something right.

00:54:08Doing something now

00:54:09does not mean

00:54:09I have to forgive you.

00:54:11I know.

00:54:12He said he knew,

00:54:13but his face looked like

00:54:15he had only just understood

00:54:16what those words meant.

00:54:18If the Ashfords

00:54:19are linked to Hale,

00:54:21hand over the call records now.

00:54:25I'll get them.

00:54:26The switchboard

00:54:27will provide

00:54:28the transfer record.

00:54:30My father's

00:54:31shorthand notes

00:54:31are in his study safe.

00:54:33I know where the key is.

00:54:35Stop making decisions for me.

00:54:37Get the evidence

00:54:38and give it to my lawyer.

00:54:40Other than that,

00:54:42stay away from me.

00:54:43Hurt flashed in his eyes

00:54:45as he nodded.

00:54:46I didn't feel sorry for him.

00:54:48He deserved it.

00:54:51Nathaniel nodded

00:54:53and left.

00:54:55He had finally begun

00:54:56to repent,

00:54:57but repents

00:54:58was only a late receipt.

00:55:00I looked back

00:55:01at Father's old letter.

00:55:03If Sir Hale wants

00:55:04a board meeting,

00:55:05I'll go to the board meeting.

00:55:08He will humiliate you.

00:55:10I just took the main seat

00:55:12at my own inheritance dinner.

00:55:14Humiliation

00:55:15no longer scares me.

00:55:16Alexander looked at me

00:55:17for a long time,

00:55:19then closed the file.

00:55:22Lady Augusta was right.

00:55:23You are more like her

00:55:25than you think.

00:55:25I didn't answer.

00:55:27I only pressed

00:55:28Father's letter

00:55:28to my chest.

00:55:30Grandmother sent me

00:55:31to the main seat.

00:55:32Father's letter

00:55:33sent me

00:55:33to the battlefield.

00:55:38I stood by the window

00:55:40and saw an unfamiliar

00:55:41carriage outside

00:55:42the manor gates.

00:55:43The driver's hat

00:55:44was pulled low.

00:55:46No crest

00:55:46on the carriage door.

00:55:48Alexander glanced at it

00:55:50and his face

00:55:51turned cold.

00:55:53Hale's people

00:55:54are already watching

00:55:54this place.

00:55:56Then let him see clearly.

00:55:58I won't hide.

00:56:00I folded Father's letter

00:56:02and placed it

00:56:02in the pocket

00:56:03over my heart.

00:56:04on the hand story.

00:56:05I'll bring in on him

00:56:06there.

00:56:12I will bring in on him

00:56:22the цен Municipal

00:56:23Ancestor portraits

00:56:24hung in the tall

00:56:25meeting room.

00:56:26Directors filled

00:56:27both sides

00:56:28of the long table.

00:56:30Sir Percival Harle

00:56:31sat beside

00:56:32the head seat.

00:56:33Sous-titrage MFP.

00:57:03If you truly felt that, you wouldn't call a board meeting three days after her death.

00:57:09Sharpness is good in the young, but a trust is not managed with sharpness.

00:57:15He gently pushed over a document.

00:57:18These are written opinions from two physicians.

00:57:21Lady Augustus was weak in her final months.

00:57:25Whether she had full judgment when changing the will and trust should be reassessed.

00:57:30He pushed over another document.

00:57:32The cover read, Temporary Guardianship Proposal.

00:57:36As for you, Miss Wintermore, after last night's marital scandal and with your pregnancy,

00:57:41I do not believe you can manage to trust alone.

00:57:44He didn't attack me first.

00:57:46He attacked Grandmother.

00:57:48If he proved Grandmother was confused, everything she left me could be overturned.

00:57:54So my husband betrays me, and it's my fault.

00:57:59My family deceives me, and it's my fault.

00:58:03Now my pregnancy is your excuse to push me out.

00:58:07The director's eyes shifted.

00:58:09Hale's smile faded.

00:58:12The lady's mental evaluations, correspondence records, and physician testimony are all prepared.

00:58:19Mr. Pritchard, you were her lawyer.

00:58:20Of course you would speak for her.

00:58:23Then let an independent physician speak.

00:58:25Alexander presented an independent physician certificate and the meeting record from that day.

00:58:30On the day Lady Augusta recorded her grandphone message, she was clear-minded and fully capable.

00:58:37One certificate, that's all.

00:58:40Then what are the papers in your hand?

00:58:43Hale's smile tightened.

00:58:45If my grandmother was confused, how did she predict everyone's excuses?

00:58:50How did she leave the cut bell rope, the wage bag, the key, the sapphire, and the diary?

00:58:58Can a confused woman be clearer than everyone in this room?

00:59:02The directors began to waver.

00:59:04Hale wanted to call Grandmother a confused old woman.

00:59:07But last night's dinner had already spread through London society.

00:59:11Every silver dome, every piece of evidence, proved otherwise.

00:59:14The directors started whispering.

00:59:17Miss Winterberg, emotional stories can move people.

00:59:21But a pregnant woman, publicly humiliated by her husband and rushing into divorce may confuse revenge with management.

00:59:28I agree.

00:59:30That's why I brought evidence.

00:59:31I took out a copy of father's old letter.

00:59:35This is the letter my father left before he died.

00:59:38He accused you of forging trust documents.

00:59:41A dead man's letter can be forged too.

00:59:45Then test the handwriting, the ink, and the notifies records from that year.

00:59:49For the first time, Hale's face darkened.

00:59:52Do you know whom you are accusing?

00:59:55Yes.

00:59:56A man who hides behind the law while stealing another family's keys.

01:00:01The meeting room door opened.

01:00:04Nathaniel walked in with an envelope.

01:00:06And this.

01:00:16Mr. Ashford, this is not your place.

01:00:18Last night, my father spoke with you about trading Ashford debts for Winterbill Trust voting prize.

01:00:24The switchboard record and my father's shorthand notes from his study safe are all here.

01:00:29He handed the envelope to Pritchard, not to me.

01:00:32I know you don't want me near you, so I'm giving the evidence only to your lawyer.

01:00:37Pritchard opened the notes.

01:00:39The switchboard operator waited outside as a witness.

01:00:43The paper was silent, but stronger than any shout.

01:00:47Sir Edmund's exact words, remove Eleanor from the trust, and I'll have Nathaniel recover Ashford's old debts from her.

01:00:56Sir Hale's exact words, first destroy her credibility.

01:01:00A pregnant woman betrayed by her husband is easiest to call unstable.

01:01:05The board erupted.

01:01:06Hale's face turned livid.

01:01:09So even my pregnancy is a weapon to you.

01:01:13Unauthorized switchboard records are not formal evidence.

01:01:17But they are enough for the board to suspend your proposal.

01:01:20Hal tried to laugh, but couldn't.

01:01:22The operator's record might not jail him, but it cracked his respectable mask.

01:01:27Directors don't fear villains.

01:01:29They fear being dragged into a villain scandal.

01:01:33Grandmother knew that well.

01:01:34The chairman struck the gavel.

01:01:36Sir Hale's proposal is suspended.

01:01:38Trust control remains unchanged.

01:01:41Miss Eleanor Winterbray shall continue exercising authority.

01:01:44I won the first round, but Hal's eyes told me he would not stop.

01:01:49Hale stood and walked to my side.

01:01:53Your grandmother taught you how to begin, not how to survive to the end.

01:01:59She did.

01:02:01Don't fear respectable people when they show their claws.

01:02:05Hale tapped his cane softly on the floor.

01:02:08The sound pulled me back to the photo, where he stood behind my parents, holding that same cane.

01:02:15I won the board meeting, but now Hale knew I truly had something.

01:02:22Next time, he wouldn't sit at a table and reason with me.

01:02:26As I left the meeting room, Nathaniel chased me to the corridor hut, clenched in his hand.

01:02:34I didn't mean to make you owe me anything.

01:02:37I know.

01:02:50Heavy rain pressed down on the manor roof.

01:02:52Mr. Wilkins rushed into the study.

01:02:56Miss, a temporary is in court junction has arrived.

01:03:00Hale didn't even wait until morning.

01:03:03He struck back fast.

01:03:05He claimed grandmother's will was manipulated, so the trust had to be frozen.

01:03:09At the board meeting, he kept his mask on.

01:03:12But in the rain, he sent a chain.

01:03:15Every word carried a court seal.

01:03:18Fair.

01:03:19Clean.

01:03:20Impossible to define.

01:03:22But I knew what it was.

01:03:24Another lock.

01:03:26Bailiffs and Hale's assistants stood outside, rain dripping from their hats like cold nails.

01:03:31Until the injunction is lifted, Mess Winterbury may not dispose of estate assets or enter the East Wing archive.

01:03:37The East Wing study is now sealed by the court.

01:03:40Please leave.

01:03:41Thank you.

01:03:45You came fast.

01:03:47The law waits for no one.

01:03:49No.

01:03:49Hale waits for no one.

01:03:52His face stiffened.

01:03:53That tiny reaction told me I was right.

01:03:57The East Wing archive holds evidence about my parents' case.

01:04:03Exactly why it must be sealed.

01:04:05The seal went onto the archive door.

01:04:08I reached out, but Alexander stopped me.

01:04:12Red wax pressed against the door like frozen blood.

01:04:15Behind it was the truth grandmother hunted for twenty years.

01:04:19And the thing Hale feared most.

01:04:21Tear the seal now.

01:04:23And you fall right into their trap.

01:04:25They want me to lose control.

01:04:27I knew that.

01:04:29But knowing didn't make me less angry.

01:04:31Last night I took grandmother's main seat.

01:04:34Tonight I was humiliated at my own study door.

01:04:37They sealed my desk, my pen, grandmother's notes, and father's photo behind that door.

01:04:46Nathaniel came through the rain.

01:04:49My father is missing.

01:04:51Hal blamed everything on the Ashfords.

01:04:55He wants to destroy you and silence the witnesses.

01:04:59He handed me an anonymous article he had intercepted from the newspaper office.

01:05:04The headline was vicious.

01:05:06Pregnant heiress unstable.

01:05:09Noble inheritance may be manipulated.

01:05:12It prints tomorrow.

01:05:13He's already writing you as a mad woman.

01:05:16You only see it now, deal with wolves, and you get bitten.

01:05:20I should have seen it sooner.

01:05:22You should have seen me sooner.

01:05:25Nathaniel lowered his head.

01:05:27Yes.

01:05:28My mistake wasn't failing to see Hale.

01:05:30It was failing to look at you.

01:05:32Three months ago, that might have made me cry.

01:05:35Now I only felt tired.

01:05:37Emma ran in.

01:05:41Miss, someone tampered with the old East Wind staircase.

01:05:43One of Hale's men went in before the seal.

01:05:47What were they looking for?

01:05:49Father's original documents.

01:05:51We rushed to the East Wing.

01:05:53The wall panel by the old stairs had been pried open.

01:05:56The hidden space was empty.

01:05:58Fresh wood chips lined the edge.

01:06:00Emma crouched and wrapped a black wax fragment in her handkerchief.

01:06:07Miss, it's the Hale family seal.

01:06:10Her voice no longer shook like it had at dinner.

01:06:14Grandmother's hidden compartment had been emptied before we came.

01:06:18Maybe I know where the original is.

01:06:21How would you know?

01:06:22Last night, my mother let something slip.

01:06:25Hale doesn't fear your father's letter.

01:06:27He fears a carriage repair bill from that year.

01:06:37That bill proves someone tampered with the axle before the accident.

01:06:42Where is the bill?

01:06:44My father has it.

01:06:46He's led to Northport.

01:06:47Northport was the nearest exit from London.

01:06:50If Edmund got that bill onto a ship,

01:06:53Hale could sink the truth into the sea.

01:06:56Can you find him?

01:06:58Yes.

01:06:59I'll bring the evidence back.

01:07:02He turned and ran into the rain.

01:07:04I watched him vanish and did not call him back.

01:07:09Later,

01:07:10Nathaniel told me he found Edmund

01:07:12in a damp Northport hotel.

01:07:15Edmund was packing a suitcase

01:07:16when Nathaniel pushed the door open.

01:07:20Where's the bill?

01:07:22Are you insane?

01:07:23You chased me here for that woman!

01:07:26She is my wife.

01:07:28Now you remember.

01:07:30When I told you to keep her steady

01:07:32until the inheritance was ours,

01:07:34where was your conscience?

01:07:35Nathaniel's face went grey.

01:07:37So you knew what Hale did from the start.

01:07:42So what?

01:07:43Winterberg had to fall for Ashford to survive.

01:07:47You traded her parents' lives for a chance!

01:07:51Every family rise needs someone to die.

01:07:54Nathaniel looked at his father

01:07:55like he was seeing him for the first time.

01:07:58But really,

01:07:59he should have known.

01:08:00Every sneer at the table,

01:08:02every silence,

01:08:03every stolen coin

01:08:04had already shown him the answer.

01:08:06He just refused to look.

01:08:09Nathaniel slammed his fist on the table.

01:08:12Give me the bill.

01:08:13You want to be a good man now?

01:08:16Too late!

01:08:17Nathaniel's eyes reddened,

01:08:18but he didn't argue.

01:08:20That's why I have to bring the evidence back.

01:08:22They fought over the suitcase.

01:08:24The bill slipped from a hidden layer.

01:08:27Then footsteps sounded outside the door.

01:08:31Hale's men had arrived.

01:08:33The footsteps stopped.

01:08:35A man's voice cut through the rain.

01:08:37Sir Edmund,

01:08:38Sir Hale says old debts should be settled.

01:08:41Edmund's face lost all color.

01:08:43Nathaniel hid the bill inside his coat lining.

01:08:46Give me the bill.

01:08:48You can't fight Hale!

01:08:49Then at least she won't be alone.

01:08:51The lock was smashed open.

01:08:53The candle flame shook hard,

01:08:55and Northport's rain flooded the room.

01:09:09Sir Hale's thugs shoved the door open.

01:09:12Nathaniel stuffed the bill into his coat and blocked the way.

01:09:15Sir Hale wants that bill.

01:09:16Then tell him to come get it himself.

01:09:19Chaos broke out.

01:09:20The suitcase flipped.

01:09:22Glass shattered.

01:09:24Nathaniel was knocked down,

01:09:25but still guarded the bill.

01:09:27He was never naturally brave.

01:09:29I knew that too well.

01:09:31He used to stand somewhere safe while others paid the price.

01:09:35But tonight,

01:09:36for that thin bill,

01:09:38he fell to his knees and still got back up.

01:09:42Only later did I learn.

01:09:43He almost didn't make it up that night.

01:09:46But then,

01:09:47I was still at Thorn Manor,

01:09:48watching the rain grow heavier.

01:09:50I sat at the desk.

01:09:52Grandmother's gramophone rested quietly in the corner.

01:09:55Nathaniel is out of contact.

01:09:57Hale's men found him.

01:09:59Possibly.

01:10:00I was silent for a moment,

01:10:02then picked up my coat.

01:10:04You're going.

01:10:06I need the evidence.

01:10:08And to save him?

01:10:09I won't let Hale bury evidence with another life.

01:10:12Nathaniel is a separate matter.

01:10:13I slipped Grandmother's master key into my glove.

01:10:16It pressed into my palm,

01:10:17like a reminder.

01:10:18Saving someone is not forgiveness.

01:10:21Taking evidence is not turning back.

01:10:23I'm going because Hale cannot win again.

01:10:26A carriage stood outside the warehouse.

01:10:29Alexander,

01:10:30the police,

01:10:30and I arrived.

01:10:31Nathiel was tied to a chair,

01:10:33blood on his face.

01:10:34The warehouse smelled of damp wood and kerosene.

01:10:37A lamp swung in the corner,

01:10:39turning every shadow into a monster.

01:10:41When Nathaniel saw me,

01:10:43he didn't ask for help.

01:10:44He shifted left,

01:10:45blocking his coat lining.

01:10:48Miss Winterbury,

01:10:49the baronet says you are braver than your mother.

01:10:52Hand over the bill.

01:10:54You still think one piece of paper can change anything?

01:10:57Your parents died over 20 years ago.

01:10:59Witnesses scattered.

01:11:01The coachman died.

01:11:03The repair shop is gone.

01:11:04Hale wasn't there,

01:11:06but this man spoke with Hale's voice.

01:11:08The dim warehouse light made that strange face look cold and vicious.

01:11:12Then why did Hal send you to steal it?

01:11:14Hale's assistant's face changed.

01:11:17Eleanor,

01:11:18the bill is in my coat lining.

01:11:20Left side.

01:11:21Shut up!

01:11:30No,

01:11:31I've been silent too long.

01:11:33He raised his head and looked at me.

01:11:36I knew they looked down on you.

01:11:37I knew they wanted to use you.

01:11:39I pretended not to know because it helped me.

01:11:43This is not the time.

01:11:44For me,

01:11:45it is.

01:11:46Every time you cried,

01:11:48I said later.

01:11:49Every later became my excuse to run.

01:11:52I have to say it now.

01:11:54If I die tonight,

01:11:56I don't want to die with lies.

01:11:59Hale's assistant signaled the thugs forward.

01:12:01I have no right to ask you to forgive me.

01:12:04When you were pregnant,

01:12:05I hurt you.

01:12:06When you guarded grandmother,

01:12:08I betrayed you.

01:12:09I damaged your mother's necklace.

01:12:11I walked into your mother's room.

01:12:15When they humiliated you,

01:12:17I hurt it.

01:12:18I just thought it would make you lower your head faster.

01:12:22Those words finally came from him.

01:12:24Not explanations.

01:12:26Not excuses.

01:12:27Admissions.

01:12:28Eleanor,

01:12:28I don't deserve to say I love you.

01:12:30I can only say I'm guilty.

01:12:32My eyes reddened,

01:12:33but I did not cry.

01:12:35Then stay alive and testify.

01:12:37If I testify,

01:12:39will you hate me a little less?

01:12:41Testimony is not a trade.

01:12:43His eyes turned red.

01:12:45He finally understood.

01:12:47Atonement has no discount.

01:12:49No return ticket.

01:12:50Right.

01:12:51This is not a deal.

01:12:53That sounded more human

01:12:54than all his sweet words before,

01:12:56but I did not soften.

01:12:58Admitting guilt does not earn a place back in my life.

01:13:00The police rushed in.

01:13:02The thugs were subdued.

01:13:03Hale's assistant tried to run,

01:13:05but Alexander stopped him.

01:13:07Tell Sir Hale he will fail soon.

01:13:09I took the bill from Nathaniel's coat lining.

01:13:12It read,

01:13:12carriage repair shop.

01:13:14Replaced axle locking bolts.

01:13:16Payer initials,

01:13:17PH.

01:13:18Initials don't prove it was the baronet!

01:13:20But they proved

01:13:21the so-called accident was tampered with.

01:13:26You don't have the original register?

01:13:28We do!

01:13:30Nathaniel!

01:13:30Nathaniel coughed blood

01:13:31and gave a small smile.

01:13:34My father kept a copy to blackmail you later.

01:13:38Now it's in my hands.

01:13:40The police brought Edmund in,

01:13:42his face deathly pale.

01:13:44Nathaniel!

01:13:45You're insane!

01:13:46I'm your father!

01:13:48I was once her husband, too.

01:13:50I didn't protect her.

01:13:51At least tonight,

01:13:53tonight,

01:13:53I want to help her.

01:13:57Edmund cursed him,

01:13:59called him stupid,

01:14:00said a woman had ruined him.

01:14:02Nathaniel didn't turn back.

01:14:04Maybe only now

01:14:05had he truly stood up

01:14:06from the Ashford table.

01:14:07Before Hale's assistant

01:14:08was taken away,

01:14:09he looked at me coldly.

01:14:11The baronet says this.

01:14:12You think this is over.

01:14:14See you in court.

01:14:15As they took him away,

01:14:16his suit was still neat.

01:14:18Not even his cuffs were messy.

01:14:20But I knew the real man

01:14:21gripping the cane

01:14:22was still far away.

01:14:23What Hale feared

01:14:24was not the bill.

01:14:25It was grandmother's

01:14:26was final silver donor.

01:14:27Good.

01:14:28See you in court.

01:14:29The police helped Nathaniel

01:14:30into the carriage.

01:14:31He looked at me,

01:14:32lips moving.

01:14:34Can I still go testify?

01:14:36You can.

01:14:37Then I'll go.

01:14:38I nodded and gave him

01:14:40no more words.

01:14:46The hearing hall was packed

01:14:48with reporters and spectators.

01:14:50Sir Hale wore dark formal wear,

01:14:52still looking perfectly respectable.

01:14:54I sat beside the witness stand,

01:14:56holding grandmother's master key.

01:14:58Hale said he'd see me in court,

01:15:00so I came.

01:15:01I came with father's letter,

01:15:02the repair bill,

01:15:04the register copy,

01:15:05and grandmother's

01:15:05final silver dome.

01:15:07I did not wear morning black.

01:15:08I wore dark blue,

01:15:10with mother's sapphire

01:15:11pinned at my chest.

01:15:13The gem had been restored,

01:15:14resting against my heart.

01:15:16Miss Winterberg,

01:15:18please present the final item

01:15:19according to the

01:15:20documented record list.

01:15:21Mr. Wilkins pushed

01:15:22a small silver dining cart

01:15:24into the hearing hall.

01:15:25Everyone started whispering.

01:15:27Your Honor,

01:15:28this theatrical display

01:15:29is unnecessary.

01:15:31This is evidence sealed

01:15:32by Lady Augusta

01:15:33before her death.

01:15:34It was filed in advance.

01:15:35She requested it be opened

01:15:36only at a public hearing.

01:15:38Allowed.

01:15:39The silver dome was placed

01:15:40on the evidence table.

01:15:42I held the handle myself.

01:15:43Someone laughed softly,

01:15:45thinking it was a show.

01:15:46I ignored them.

01:15:47Women's lives are often watched

01:15:49like a show

01:15:49until evidence turns the show

01:15:51into a case.

01:15:52At the dinner,

01:15:53the maids lifted the domes

01:15:55for grandmother

01:15:55and exposed their crimes.

01:15:58Today,

01:15:58I would lift the final dome myself.

01:16:01The dome rose.

01:16:02On the plate lay no bill,

01:16:04no jewel,

01:16:05but an old wax cylinder

01:16:06and father's signed statement.

01:16:08This is testimony recorded

01:16:10by Mr. David Winterbrook

01:16:12before his death.

01:16:13Alone,

01:16:14it cannot convict anyone,

01:16:16but it supports the repair bill,

01:16:17the register copy,

01:16:18and the payment lobber.

01:16:20Lady Augusta

01:16:21did not release it earlier

01:16:22because witnesses

01:16:22were still under threat.

01:16:24This must be forged!

01:16:26You haven't even heard it,

01:16:28yet you already know it's fake.

01:16:29The wax cylinder

01:16:30was set into

01:16:31the portable gramophone.

01:16:33After the static,

01:16:34a young man's voice

01:16:35came through.

01:16:36My name is David Winterbury.

01:16:38If anything happens

01:16:38to my wife Charlotte and me,

01:16:40investigate Percival Hole.

01:16:43He forged trust signatures

01:16:44and moved funds

01:16:45through the Ashton

01:16:46debt channels.

01:16:47He has noticed me.

01:16:48I know he will come for us.

01:16:51The hearing hall erupted.

01:16:53Charlotte is frightened,

01:16:54but she says Eleanor

01:16:55cannot grow up

01:16:56in a house left by thieves.

01:16:58Mother,

01:16:59if you hear this,

01:17:00protect her for us.

01:17:01When I heard Mother's name,

01:17:03my vision blurred.

01:17:04Before I could even remember them,

01:17:06my parents were already

01:17:07fighting for my future.

01:17:09I was not abandoned.

01:17:10They had hidden me away

01:17:11with their lives.

01:17:12At last,

01:17:13I heard Father's voice.

01:17:15He was no longer

01:17:16a shadow in a photo.

01:17:17He was a man

01:17:18still protecting me

01:17:19before death.

01:17:20Tears fell,

01:17:21but I stood straight.

01:17:22Eleanor,

01:17:23if one day you hear this,

01:17:25don't be afraid.

01:17:26You are not an orphan.

01:17:28We are behind you.

01:17:29So is your grandmother.

01:17:38The recording ended.

01:17:40Hale's cane shook hard.

01:17:42Sir Hale,

01:17:43do you have any explanation?

01:17:45An old recording

01:17:46cannot prove

01:17:47I killed anyone.

01:17:48So you admit

01:17:49that is my father's voice.

01:17:51Hale's face darkened,

01:17:52gasps spread through the hall.

01:17:54Alexander lowered his head,

01:17:56a faint smile in his eyes.

01:17:57Grandmother taught me this,

01:17:59where respectable men

01:18:00fear their own words most.

01:18:02We have also submitted

01:18:03the register copy,

01:18:04the payment ledger,

01:18:06the repair shop air's

01:18:07written statement,

01:18:08and switchboard transcripts

01:18:09between the Ashfords

01:18:10and Sir Hale.

01:18:11Nathaniel sat in the witness stand,

01:18:13pale-faced.

01:18:14Mr. Ashford is trying

01:18:15to win back his wife.

01:18:17His testimony is not credible.

01:18:18I do want her back,

01:18:20but today,

01:18:21I'm not here to ask her to return.

01:18:23I'm here to admit

01:18:24my family and I

01:18:25helped hurt her.

01:18:26Do you admit

01:18:27you have selfish motives?

01:18:29I admit I'm guilty,

01:18:31but my guilt

01:18:32does not make

01:18:33Sir Hale innocent.

01:18:35Are you pretending

01:18:36to repent

01:18:37because you want to be

01:18:39Miss Winterbale's

01:18:40husband again?

01:18:41No!

01:18:43He paused,

01:18:44then looked around

01:18:45the hearing hall.

01:18:46I lost that right

01:18:47long ago.

01:18:48This time,

01:18:49Nathaniel did not

01:18:50look at me.

01:18:51He finally understood.

01:18:53Testifying was not

01:18:54a performance for me.

01:18:55It was facing the crimes

01:18:56he had joined.

01:18:57I did not look at him.

01:18:58I looked only at the judge.

01:19:00This court finds

01:19:01the current evidence

01:19:02sufficient to open

01:19:03a criminal investigation

01:19:04and suspend

01:19:05all trust authority

01:19:06of Sir Perk of Hale.

01:19:07The bailiff took Hale away.

01:19:09When he passed me,

01:19:10he stopped.

01:19:11Your grandmother

01:19:12made you too much like her.

01:19:14Thank you for the compliment.

01:19:15He wanted to use

01:19:17grandmother to scare me,

01:19:18but to me,

01:19:19that was no curse.

01:19:20Being like grandmother

01:19:21meant I could be pushed

01:19:22to the edge of the table

01:19:23and still take back

01:19:25the main seat.

01:19:26Hale's face went dark

01:19:27and he was taken

01:19:28from the hearing hall.

01:19:29I thought victory

01:19:30would feel good,

01:19:31but all I felt

01:19:32was twenty years

01:19:32of delayed exhaustion.

01:19:34Nathaniel stood by the door.

01:19:36He wanted to come closer,

01:19:37then stopped.

01:19:38Eleanor,

01:19:39I'll keep cooperating

01:19:39with the investigation.

01:19:41I'll repay what the Ashfords

01:19:42owe you bit by bit.

01:19:44Repay the law,

01:19:45not me.

01:19:46Then what can I still do

01:19:47for you?

01:19:47Repay your own mistakes.

01:19:48That's all.

01:19:50Nathaniel's eyes

01:19:51reddinged.

01:19:51He slowly nodded.

01:19:53All right.

01:19:54This time,

01:19:55he did not stop me.

01:19:56Holding the final silver dome,

01:19:58I walked out of the hearing hall.

01:20:00Sunlight fell on me.

01:20:01Reporters rushed over,

01:20:03asking if I would

01:20:04forgive the Ashvans,

01:20:05accept Nathaniel's regret,

01:20:07or leave the child

01:20:08with his father.

01:20:09Today's case

01:20:10is not about forgiveness.

01:20:11It is about truth.

01:20:13They still wanted to ask

01:20:14about the child's surname.

01:20:15I stopped.

01:20:17This child will be

01:20:18a Winterbury.

01:20:18The crowd fell silent.

01:20:20Then shutters,

01:20:21pens,

01:20:21and whispers rose together.

01:20:23I did not look back.

01:20:24I held the silver dome tight

01:20:26and walked through the crowd.

01:20:27Grandmother's trial

01:20:28was finally completed

01:20:29by my own hands.

01:20:38Early the next summer,

01:20:39Thorn Manor opened its doors again.

01:20:41The Thorn Crest on the Iron Gate

01:20:43had been polished bright.

01:20:44A new sign hung at the entrance.

01:20:47Winterbrook Women's Legal Aid Office.

01:20:49Seven months later,

01:20:50Hal's case entered

01:20:51criminal investigation.

01:20:53The injunction was lifted.

01:20:54The board confirmed

01:20:55my authority.

01:20:56Thorn Manor was no longer

01:20:58just an old estate,

01:20:59and no longer just

01:21:00Winterbrook property.

01:21:01I turned grandmother's law study

01:21:03into a legal aid office.

01:21:05Some people called me mad.

01:21:06A noble lady

01:21:07should not open her manor

01:21:08to strange women,

01:21:09let servants sit in the study,

01:21:11or put family scambles

01:21:13in a glass case.

01:21:14I did not explain.

01:21:15Grandmother taught me

01:21:16with one dinner.

01:21:17Shame covers nothing.

01:21:19Women trapped by husbands,

01:21:21fathers, brothers,

01:21:22inheritances and debts

01:21:24could start here

01:21:25and learn to protect themselves.

01:21:27A young maid sat at the desk

01:21:28learning to sign her name.

01:21:31Mr. Wilkins handed them

01:21:32old account books.

01:21:33Emma brought tea,

01:21:35smiling easily now.

01:21:36Miss,

01:21:37three women came for help today.

01:21:39One more only wanted

01:21:40to see the silver domes.

01:21:41Let her see them.

01:21:43Then tell her the domes

01:21:44did not reveal scandal.

01:21:45They revealed

01:21:46a way out.

01:21:47Emma smiled and nodded.

01:21:49She was no longer

01:21:50just the maid who served tea.

01:21:51She was learning legal papers

01:21:53and registering new girls

01:21:54who came for help.

01:21:55Her mother was getting better.

01:21:57Sometimes she sat in the garden,

01:21:59taking the sun.

01:22:00The main dining hall

01:22:01stayed as it was.

01:22:02Grandmother's portrait

01:22:03hung behind the main seat.

01:22:05The gramophone stood beside it.

01:22:07In the glass cabinet

01:22:08sat the five dinner domes

01:22:09and the final silver dome.

01:22:11Beneath them

01:22:12laid the cut bell rope,

01:22:13the wage bag,

01:22:14the east wing key,

01:22:16the sabivire,

01:22:17the diary pages,

01:22:18and the empty plate.

01:22:19I did not hide

01:22:20that night away.

01:22:21Once humiliation is seen,

01:22:23it no longer belongs

01:22:24only to the victim.

01:22:25It becomes evidence,

01:22:27a warning,

01:22:27courage for the next woman.

01:22:29Holding my newborn child,

01:22:31I walked into the dining hall.

01:22:33He slept quietly.

01:22:34The young master

01:22:35sleeps so peacefully.

01:22:36Yes.

01:22:37I did not give him

01:22:39the Ashford name.

01:22:40Not to punish Nathaniel,

01:22:42to tell my child

01:22:42he was born

01:22:43when a woman

01:22:44finally took back

01:22:45her own name.

01:22:45I smiled.

01:22:47Nathaniel never forced

01:22:48his way in again.

01:22:49He wrote one letter

01:22:50every week.

01:22:51The first said

01:22:52he had paid

01:22:53Emma's mother's

01:22:53medical fees.

01:22:54The second said

01:22:55the Ashford's

01:22:56had entered

01:22:56bankruptcy liquidation.

01:22:58The third said

01:22:58he had left London

01:22:59and started unpaid work

01:23:01for people

01:23:02crushed by family debt.

01:23:03Mr. Wilkins

01:23:04brought over

01:23:05a stack of

01:23:05unopened letters.

01:23:07They sat neatly

01:23:08on a silver tray.

01:23:09No perfume,

01:23:10no excuses,

01:23:11just line after line

01:23:13of late regret.

01:23:14In the past,

01:23:15I would have read

01:23:16every word until dawn,

01:23:18searching for proof

01:23:19he had loved me.

01:23:20Now I only checked

01:23:21whether they carried

01:23:22proof of real repayment.

01:23:24Shall I put them

01:23:25in the old drawer again?

01:23:26Yes.

01:23:27You won't read them?

01:23:28Not now.

01:23:29Then I'll keep them safe.

01:23:31Keeping them

01:23:31doesn't mean

01:23:32waiting for him.

01:23:33Some debts

01:23:34must be tracked

01:23:35to see if they're

01:23:36truly paid.

01:23:37Mr. Wilkins

01:23:38lowered his head,

01:23:39a small smile

01:23:40in his eyes.

01:23:40I no longer

01:23:41hated Nathaniel,

01:23:42but not hating him

01:23:43did not mean

01:23:44going back.

01:23:45Forgiveness

01:23:45is not a prize.

01:23:47It is not a ticket

01:23:48to remarry.

01:23:53Nathaniel stood

01:23:53outside the iron gate,

01:23:55holding a letter

01:23:56he had not delivered.

01:23:57He saw me walking

01:23:58in the garden

01:23:58with the child,

01:23:59but he did not come in.

01:24:02Eleanor.

01:24:02I stopped and looked

01:24:03at him through the gate.

01:24:04I only came to see

01:24:05if you were both well.

01:24:07We are well.

01:24:09That's good.

01:24:10He tried to smile,

01:24:11but his eyes were red.

01:24:12I used to think

01:24:13I lost you

01:24:13because of that dinner.

01:24:15Later I understood.

01:24:17I lost you

01:24:17the first time

01:24:18I made you stand

01:24:20and pour water.

01:24:21You finally understand.

01:24:23Too late.

01:24:24Yes.

01:24:25Nathaniel nodded

01:24:26and placed the letter

01:24:26in the mailbox

01:24:27by the gate.

01:24:28I won't ask you

01:24:29to come back again,

01:24:31but if the child

01:24:32asks about me one day,

01:24:33tell him I was terrible,

01:24:34and I'm trying

01:24:35to become less terrible.

01:24:36I'll tell him the truth.

01:24:38Not to punish you.

01:24:39To teach him

01:24:40not to love people

01:24:41the way you did.

01:24:42After saying it,

01:24:44I did not feel

01:24:44the pleasure I imagined,

01:24:46only the quiet

01:24:47of finally closing a door.

01:24:49Nathaniel stood

01:24:49outside the gate.

01:24:50For once,

01:24:51he did not force

01:24:52his way in.

01:24:53Tears fell from

01:24:54Nathaniel's eyes.

01:24:55He turned and left

01:24:56without looking back.

01:24:58Holding my child,

01:24:59I sat in grandmother's

01:25:00main seat.

01:25:01Sunset fell across

01:25:02the gramaphoth's

01:25:03brass horn.

01:25:04Grandmother said

01:25:05the law cannot make

01:25:05people good,

01:25:06but it can make

01:25:07bad people pay.

01:25:09She also said

01:25:09a woman pushed

01:25:10to the edge of the table

01:25:11was not born to stand there.

01:25:13I reached out

01:25:14and touched the master key

01:25:15beneath grandmother's

01:25:16heart rate.

01:25:17Grandmother,

01:25:18I'm doing well now.

01:25:20Outside,

01:25:20wind moved

01:25:21through the roses,

01:25:22like someone gently

01:25:23nodding.

01:25:24I once thought

01:25:25Thorn Manor trapped me.

01:25:26Later I understood.

01:25:27It was the door

01:25:28grandmother left me.

01:25:30I walked out

01:25:31through that door.

01:25:32Now I will open it

01:25:33for more women.

01:25:34The first woman

01:25:35seeking help

01:25:35sat in the study.

01:25:36twisting an old

01:25:38handkerchief.

01:25:38She said her husband

01:25:39had taken the deed

01:25:40her father left her.

01:25:42She asked me

01:25:42if her whole family

01:25:44said she should not

01:25:44fight,

01:25:45could she still fight?

01:25:46You can.

01:25:48She looked up at me.

01:25:49If it's yours,

01:25:50it isn't fighting,

01:25:51it's taking it back.

01:25:52Holding my child,

01:25:54I looked toward

01:25:54the long table.

01:25:56Six silver domes

01:25:57shone quietly

01:25:58in the glass cabot.

01:25:59That final dinner

01:26:00was over,

01:26:01but my life

01:26:02had only just begun.

01:26:03Grandmother's gramophone

01:26:04no longer played

01:26:05that night's recording.

01:26:07It stood quietly

01:26:08beneath the portrait,

01:26:09like an old woman

01:26:10finally able to rest.

01:26:12And if one day

01:26:13I forgot where

01:26:13I should sit,

01:26:14I only had to look

01:26:15at that long table

01:26:16and remember

01:26:17grandmother's voice.

01:26:18Child,

01:26:19you only need

01:26:20to be yourself.

01:26:21I held my child tighter

01:26:22and answered with a smile.

01:26:24I remember grandmother.

01:26:36I was to have a

01:26:36I

01:26:37I

01:26:39I

01:26:40I

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