Winter. The first time (Part 3 of 4)
I was meant to be helping out at church making tea and coffee for a group using the premises this premises. But I’m not. As it’s the first time I’d helped, I need to be shown how to use the equipment. The person who offered to do this is ill so I’ve got a free evening. So I am using the unexpected time profitably and watching N&S.
Plot summary from the lovely Wiki as before:
“To provide a distraction for Mrs Hale, and for herself, Margaret visits the Great Exhibition with her Aunt Shaw, her cousin Edith and Edith's husband. Margaret meets Thornton at the exhibition, where he is discussing the machinery with a group of gentlemen, all of whom are listening with great respect and admiration for his simple good sense. Margaret is embarrassed to meet Thornton so soon after her rejection but defends him when Henry Lennox, Edith's brother-in-law and an admirer of Margaret, tries to belittle him for being in trade. Henry's sophistication and reliance on fashionable wit and sarcasm compares unfavourably with Thornton's honesty when Margaret sees them together.
When Margaret returns home, her mother has taken a turn for the worse and might not live long. Margaret's brother arrives just in time to see his mother on her death-bed. While Frederick is still in the house, Thornton comes to visit his friend Mr Hale, but he cannot be allowed in, in case he sees Fred. Thornton interprets this as Margaret refusing to see him. The family's elderly servant, Dixon, sees a former member of Frederick's crew in Milton town, and it is decided that Frederick must leave at once, before he is discovered and arrested. He and Margaret are seen together at the railway station by Thornton, who draws the wrong conclusion”.
Pass the tissues someone, part 3 was really depressing. Death, misunderstandings and general misery all round. And More Death. Followed by A Bit More Death. I missed huge chunks of it as There Was Something in My Eye. (I cried when Bessy died. And remained Highly Over Emotional for the rest of the hour).
The only glimmer of happiness was Margaret finally realizing that Mr Thornton has his virtues after all. (Finally!) And then Mr Thornton tells her where she can Stick It. (Not good).
Stunning … absolutely stunning … Each and every aspect perfect … Who would have thought that someone could do misery quite so convincingly during the opening credits … And someone demonstrate that they finally Got It with just a turn of the head …Let alone the bits that followed … Bessy … Higgins … Belcher and the purple dye … Need more tissues to prepare self for Part 4. Which will be starting shortly.