The Winslow Boy By Terrence Rattigan

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The Winslow Boy "It is easy to do justice - very hard to do right". A father battles to prove the innocence of his son, accused of stealing a postal order at his Edwardian naval college. His stubborn quest sparks reverberations at the House of Commons. Arthur Winslow ...... Michael Aldridge Grace Winslow ...... Pauline Letts Catherine Winslow ...... Sarah Badel Dickie Winslow ...... Michael Maloney Ronnie Winslow ...... John McAndrew Violet ...... Peggy Page Attorney-General ...... Nicholas Courtney John Watherstone ...... David Timson Miss Barnes ...... Margaret Robertson Mrs Beggs ...... Gladys Spencer Desmond Curry ...... Michael Spice Herbert Ridgeley-Pearce ...... John Rye 1st Lord of the Admiralty ...... Patrick Barr Sir Robert Morton ...... Aubrey Woods Adapted and directed by Ian Cotterell First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1981   Do you enjoy the variety on Oldtuberadio? Like, Share and Subscribe to be notified of our new shows #radio #crime #thriller #drama To Support this channel please visit https://www.buymeacoffee.com/oldtuberadio https://ko-fi.com/oldtuberadio98 https://www.patreon.com/oldtuberadio https://locals.com/Oldtuberadio

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00:00:00Michael Aldridge, Sarah Bedell, Pauline Letts, John McAndrew, and Aubrey Woods in The Winslow Boy by Terence Rattigan.

00:00:18A house in Caulfield Gardens, South Kensington, London, on a morning in July, at some period not long before the First World War.

00:00:38Master Ronnie!

00:00:40Hello, Violet.

00:00:41Well, aren't you coming in? We weren't expecting you back to Tuesday.

00:00:47Yes, I know.

00:00:48Where's your luggage?

00:00:52They're sending it on.

00:00:54Why ever didn't you let us know you were coming, you silly boy? What your father and mother will say, I don't know.

00:01:01Where are they, Violet?

00:01:02A church, of course.

00:01:05Oh, yes. It's Sunday, isn't it?

00:01:08What's the matter with you? What have they been doing to you at Osborne?

00:01:12What do you mean?

00:01:13Well, they seem to have made you a bit soft in the head or something.

00:01:16Well, don't I get a kiss? Or are you too grown up for that now?

00:01:23Sorry, Violet.

00:01:26That's better. My, what a big boy you're getting. Quite the little naval officer, aren't you?

00:01:33Yes. That's right.

00:01:36Well, I must be getting on.

00:01:40Oh, they'll be so pleased to see you.

00:01:43Oh, dear. What am I to do?

00:01:51Oh, here they are. I can't face them. I'll go into the garden.

00:01:57But he's so old, dear. From the back of the church, you really can't hear a word he says.

00:02:05He's a good man, Grace.

00:02:06Oh, but what's the use of being good if you're inaudible?

00:02:09A problem in ethics for you, father.

00:02:11There's a draft, Grace. The French window is open.

00:02:14Oh, yes, of course.

00:02:16Oh, dear, this brain.

00:02:18Well, I'm on mother's side. The old boy's so doddery, he can hardly finish the course at all.

00:02:22I don't think that's very funny, Richard.

00:02:24Oh, don't you, father?

00:02:25Doddery, though Mr. Jackson may seem now, I very much doubt if he failed in his past mods when he was at Oxford.

00:02:31Oh, dash it. Father, you promised not to mention that again, this fact.

00:02:34You did, you know, Arthur. But old Dickie, I wish you were as good about work as Ronnie.

00:02:39I know. He got into Osborne and I failed. That's going to be brought up again?

00:02:43Nobody's bringing it up, dear.

00:02:44Oh, yes, they are. It's going to be brought up against me all my life.

00:02:48Ronnie's the good little boy. I'm the bad little boy.

00:02:50They've just stuck a couple of labels on us that nothing on earth is ever going to change.

00:02:56Oh, how stupid of him to say that about labels.

00:02:59There's no truth in it at all, is there, Kate?

00:03:02No, mother.

00:03:04Oh, dear, it's simply pelting.

00:03:10What are you reading, Kate?

00:03:12Len Rogers' memoirs.

00:03:14Who's Len Rogers?

00:03:16A trades union leader.

00:03:18Does John know you're a radical?

00:03:20Oh, yes.

00:03:21And a suffragette?

00:03:22Certainly.

00:03:23And he still wants to marry you?

00:03:25He seems to.

00:03:26Oh, by the way, I've asked him to come early for lunch so that he can have a few words with Father first.

00:03:32Good idea.

00:03:34I hope you've been primed, have you, Father?

00:03:36What's that?

00:03:37You know what you're going to say to John, don't you?

00:03:40You're not going to let me down and forbid the match or anything, are you?

00:03:43Because I warn you, if you do, I shall elope.

00:03:44Never fear, my dear.

00:03:45I'm far too delighted at the prospect of getting you off our hands at last.

00:03:49I'm not sure I like that, at last.

00:03:53Do you love him, dear?

00:03:55John?

00:03:55Yes, I do.

00:03:56You're such a funny girl.

00:03:59You never show your feelings much, do you?

00:04:02You don't behave as if you were in love.

00:04:04How does one behave as if one is in love?

00:04:06One doesn't read Len Rogers.

00:04:07One reads Byron.

00:04:08I do both.

00:04:09An odd combination.

00:04:10A satisfying one.

00:04:11No, I meant you don't talk about him much, do you?

00:04:15No, I suppose I don't, Mother.

00:04:17I love John in every way that a woman can love a man, and far, far more than he loves me.

00:04:22Does that satisfy you?

00:04:23Well, really, Kate, darling, I didn't ask for anything quite like that.

00:04:31Oh, just look at that rain.

00:04:36Kate, darling, does Desmond know about you and John?

00:04:40I haven't told him.

00:04:42On the other hand, if he hasn't guessed, he must be very dense.

00:04:45He is very dense.

00:04:46Oh, no, he's quite clever.

00:04:48Kate, you will be kind to him, won't you?

00:04:50Yes, Mother, of course I will.

00:04:52He's really a very good sort.

00:04:54Hello.

00:04:56There's someone in the garden.

00:04:58Where?

00:04:59Over there, do you see him?

00:05:02No.

00:05:03He's just gone behind that bush.

00:05:05It was a boy, I think.

00:05:06Probably Mrs. Williamson's awful little Dennis.

00:05:09Well, whoever it is must be getting terribly wet.

00:05:11Why can't he stick to his own garden?

00:05:15Oh, was that John?

00:05:16It sounded like it.

00:05:18Yes, it's John.

00:05:19Quick, in the dining room.

00:05:20Very well, Mother.

00:05:21What on earth is going on?

00:05:22We're leaving you alone with John.

00:05:25When you've finished, cough or something.

00:05:27What do you mean, or something?

00:05:28Shh.

00:05:31Captain Weatherstone.

00:05:33How are you, John?

00:05:34I'm very glad to see you.

00:05:35How do you do, sir?

00:05:36Will you forgive me not getting up?

00:05:37My arthritis has been troubling me rather a lot lately.

00:05:39Yes.

00:05:40Do you smoke?

00:05:41Yes, sir, I do.

00:05:43In moderation, of course.

00:05:44Of course.

00:05:45Mother, I understand you wish to marry my daughter.

00:05:47Um, yes, sir.

00:05:50That's to say, I've proposed to her,

00:05:52and she's done me the honor of accepting me.

00:05:54I see.

00:05:55Now, just when you corrected yourself,

00:05:56your second statement wasn't a denial of your first.

00:05:59Sir?

00:05:59I mean, you do really wish to marry her.

00:06:02Of course, sir.

00:06:03Perhaps you won't mind if I ask you a few rather personal questions.

00:06:06Naturally not, sir.

00:06:07It's your duty.

00:06:08Quite, sir.

00:06:08Now, your income.

00:06:10Are you able to live on it?

00:06:12No, sir.

00:06:12I'm in the regular army.

00:06:13Yes, of course.

00:06:14But my army pay is supplemented by an allowance from my father.

00:06:17So I understand.

00:06:18Now, your father's would be, I take it, about £24 a month?

00:06:22Yes, sir.

00:06:23That's exactly right.

00:06:23So that your total income with your subletons' pay and allowances

00:06:26plus the allowance from your father would be, I take it, about £420 a year?

00:06:30Again, exactly the figure.

00:06:32Very well.

00:06:33It all seems to be perfectly satisfactory.

00:06:35I really don't think I need delay my congratulations any longer.

00:06:40Thank you, sir, very much.

00:06:41I must say it was very good of you to be so frank and informed.

00:06:43No, not at all.

00:06:44Your answers to my questions deserve an equal frankness from me about Catherine's own affairs.

00:06:50I'm afraid she's not, just in case you thought otherwise, the daughter of a rich man.

00:06:54I didn't think otherwise, sir.

00:06:56Good.

00:06:56Well, now, to continue about my own financial affairs.

00:06:59The Westminster Bank pay me a small pension, £350 to be precise, and my wife has about £200 a year of her own.

00:07:05Apart from that, we have nothing except such savings as I've been able to make during my career at the bank,

00:07:11the interest from which raises my total income to approximately £800 per annum.

00:07:16Ah.

00:07:16Now, in addition to the ordinary expenses of life, I have to maintain two sons, Ronnie at Osborne and Dickie at Oxford,

00:07:24neither of whom, I'm afraid, will be in a position to support themselves for some time to come.

00:07:28One, because of his extreme youth, and the other, because of, um, other reasons.

00:07:34So, you see, I'm not in a position to be very lavish as regards Catherine's done.

00:07:38No, sir, I quite see that.

00:07:40I propose to settle on her one-sixth of my total capital,

00:07:44which, worked out to the final fraction, is exactly £833, six shillings and eight pence.

00:07:51But let us deal in round figures and say £850.

00:07:55I call that very generous, sir.

00:07:57Not as generous as I would have liked, I'm afraid.

00:07:59However, as my wife would say, beggars can't be choosers.

00:08:03Exactly, sir.

00:08:04Well, then, if you're agreeable to that arrangement,

00:08:08I don't think there's anything more we need discuss.

00:08:10No, sir.

00:08:11Splendid.

00:08:13Oh, John.

00:08:14Ah, well, imagine that.

00:08:15My wife and daughter are in here, of all places.

00:08:18Come in, Grace.

00:08:19Come in, Catherine.

00:08:20John's here.

00:08:21Why, John, how nice.

00:08:25Well?

00:08:26Well, what?

00:08:27How did your little talk go?

00:08:28I understood you weren't supposed to know we were having a little talk.

00:08:32Oh, you are infuriating.

00:08:34Is everything all right, John?

00:08:35Mm-hmm.

00:08:36Oh, I'm so glad.

00:08:38I really am.

00:08:39Well, thank you, Mrs. Wisley.

00:08:40May I kiss you?

00:08:41After all, I'm practically your mother now.

00:08:43Yes, of course.

00:08:45Oh, Grace, I think we might allow ourselves a little modest celebration at luncheon.

00:08:49Will you find me the key of the service?

00:08:50Oh, yes, dear.

00:08:52I don't suppose you two will mind being left alone for a few minutes.

00:08:57Will you?

00:08:57Was it an ordeal?

00:09:03I was scared to death.

00:09:05My poor darling.

00:09:06My annoying thing was that I had a whole set of neatly turned phrases ready for him, and

00:09:10he wouldn't let me use them.

00:09:12Such as?

00:09:13Oh, how proud and honoured I was by your acceptance of me, and how determined I was to make you

00:09:18a loyal and devoted husband.

00:09:19Anything about loving me a little?

00:09:22Well, that I thought we could take for granted.

00:09:25So did your father, incidentally.

00:09:28What about your father?

00:09:30How did he take it?

00:09:31All right.

00:09:32I bet he didn't.

00:09:34He disapproves of me, doesn't he?

00:09:35He has a way of looking at me through his monocle that shrivels me out.

00:09:38He is just being a colonel, darling.

00:09:40That's all.

00:09:41All colonels look at you like that.

00:09:43Anyway, what about the way your father looks at me?

00:09:46Tell me, are all your family as scared of him as I am?

00:09:48Well, Dickie is, of course, and Ronnie, though he doesn't need to be.

00:09:51Father worships him.

00:09:53I don't know about Mother being scared of him.

00:09:56Sometimes, perhaps.

00:09:57I'm not.

00:09:58Ever.

00:09:59You're not scared of anything, are you?

00:10:01Oh, yes.

00:10:03Heaps of things.

00:10:03Such as?

00:10:05Oh, they're nearly all concerned with you.

00:10:08Oh, you might be a little more explicit.

00:10:12Ronnie!

00:10:13What on earth?

00:10:14Where's father?

00:10:16I'll go and tell him.

00:10:18No, don't.

00:10:19Please, Kate, don't.

00:10:20What's the trouble, Ronnie?

00:10:23Oh, you're wet through.

00:10:24You'd better go and change.

00:10:25No.

00:10:26What's the trouble, darling?

00:10:28You can tell me.

00:10:29Well, I'll disappear.

00:10:33In the dining room.

00:10:34Do you mind?

00:10:34No, of course not.

00:10:38Now, darling, tell me, what is it?

00:10:40Have you run away?

00:10:43No.

00:10:44What is it, then?

00:10:45There's this letter.

00:10:48Show me.

00:10:53Oh, God.

00:10:54I didn't do it, Kate.

00:10:56I didn't.

00:10:57Really, I didn't.

00:10:57No, darling.

00:10:58This letter is addressed to father.

00:11:01Did you open it?

00:11:02Yes.

00:11:02You shouldn't have done that.

00:11:03I was going to tear it up.

00:11:05And I heard you come in from church.

00:11:08Kate, shall we tear it up now?

00:11:09No, darling.

00:11:10Oh, no, bonnie, old lad.

00:11:12How's everything?

00:11:12You knew he was here?

00:11:13Oh, yes.

00:11:14Violet told me.

00:11:14A little trouble?

00:11:15Yes.

00:11:16I'm sorry.

00:11:17You stay here with him.

00:11:19I'll find mother.

00:11:20All right.

00:11:21Oh.

00:11:22What's up, old chap?

00:11:24Nothing.

00:11:24Come on, tell me.

00:11:27It's all right.

00:11:28Have you been sacked?

00:11:31Yes.

00:11:32Bad luck.

00:11:34What for?

00:11:36Stealing.

00:11:37Oh, is that all?

00:11:39Good Lord, I didn't know they sacked chaps for that these days.

00:11:41I didn't do it.

00:11:42Oh, believe me, old chap, pinching's nothing.

00:11:44Nothing.

00:11:44I see you're a bit damp, aren't you?

00:11:46I've been out in the rain.

00:11:48So you're shivering a bit, too, aren't you?

00:11:50Why don't you go and change?

00:11:51I mean, we don't want you catching new moaning.

00:11:53I'm all right.

00:11:54Oh, run, my push.

00:11:56Mum.

00:11:56Oh, darling, darling, it's all right now.

00:11:59I didn't do it, Mum.

00:12:00No, no, of course you didn't.

00:12:02We'll go upstairs now, shall we, and get out of these nasty wet clothes.

00:12:05Just don't tell Father.

00:12:07No, darling, not yet, I promise.

00:12:08Come along now.

00:12:09Oh, your new uniform, too.

00:12:12What a shame.

00:12:13I'd better go and keep K.V. for them.

00:12:15Ward off the old man if he looks like going upstairs.

00:12:17Yes, do.

00:12:18What do you say?

00:12:20Who's going to break the news to him eventually?

00:12:21I mean, someone will have to.

00:12:23Oh, don't let's worry about that now.

00:12:24You can count me out.

00:12:26In fact, I don't want to be within a thousand miles of that explosion.

00:12:28Oh.

00:12:35John?

00:12:36Bad news?

00:12:38Yes, I'm afraid so.

00:12:40That's rotten for you.

00:12:41I'm awfully sorry.

00:12:42How can people be so cruel?

00:12:44Expelled, I suppose.

00:12:46Yes.

00:12:47Hmm.

00:12:47Oh, God, how little imagination some people have.

00:12:50Why should they torture a child of that age, John?

00:12:52What's the point of it?

00:12:53What's he supposed to have done?

00:12:55Stolen some money.

00:12:57Oh.

00:12:58Ten days ago, it said in the letter.

00:13:00Why on earth didn't they let us know?

00:13:01It does seem pretty heartless, I admit.

00:13:03Heartless?

00:13:04Just think what that poor little creature has been going through these last ten days down there,

00:13:08entirely alone, without anyone to look after him,

00:13:10knowing what he had to face at the end of it.

00:13:12Is it any wonder he's nearly out of his mind?

00:13:14It's cold, calculated inhumanity.

00:13:18God, how I'd love to have that commanding officer here for just two minutes.

00:13:21Darling, darling, it's quite natural you should feel angry about it,

00:13:23but you must remember, he's not really at school.

00:13:27He's in the service.

00:13:28Well, what difference does that make?

00:13:31I'm sorry, Catherine, darling.

00:13:34I'd have done better to keep my mouth shut.

00:13:37No.

00:13:38What you said was perfectly true.

00:13:40Believe me, I'm awfully sorry.

00:13:42How will your father take it?

00:13:46He might kill him.

00:13:48Oh, heavens, we've got Desmond to lunch, I've forgotten.

00:13:51Who?

00:13:52Desmond Curry, our family solicitor.

00:13:54Oh, Lord.

00:13:55Darling, be polite to him, won't you?

00:13:57Why?

00:13:58Am I usually so rude to your guests?

00:13:59No, but he doesn't know about us yet.

00:14:01Who does?

00:14:02Yes, but he's been in love with me for years.

00:14:03It's a family joke.

00:14:04Oh.

00:14:06Mr. Curry.

00:14:08Hello, Desmond.

00:14:10Catherine.

00:14:10I don't think you know John Wutherstone.

00:14:14No.

00:14:16But, of course, I've heard a lot about him.

00:14:18How do you do?

00:14:19Well, well, well.

00:14:21I, uh, I trust I'm not early.

00:14:24No, dead on time, Desmond, as always.

00:14:26Ah.

00:14:27Capital.

00:14:28Capital.

00:14:31Tell me, Desmond, I...

00:14:32Oh, I'm so sorry.

00:14:33That's quite all right.

00:14:35I was only going to ask how you did in your cricket match yesterday, Desmond.

00:14:39Ah.

00:14:39Uh, not too well, I'm afraid.

00:14:41My shoulder's still giving me trouble.

00:14:43Oh.

00:14:45Well, well, I, uh, here I am to congratulate you both.

00:14:49Desmond, you know.

00:14:51Violet told me just now in the hall.

00:14:54Yes, I must congratulate you both.

00:14:57Oh, thank you so much, Desmond.

00:14:59Oh.

00:15:00Hello, Desmond, dear.

00:15:01Hello, Mrs. Winslow.

00:15:03I've got him to bed, Kate.

00:15:04Oh, good.

00:15:05Nobody ill, I hope?

00:15:06Oh, no, no, no, nothing wrong at all.

00:15:09Violet, bring in some glasses, do you?

00:15:10Yes, sir.

00:15:12Grace, when did we last have the cellars seen to...

00:15:14Oh, I can't remember, dear.

00:15:17Well, they're in a shocking condition.

00:15:19Well, Desmond, how are you?

00:15:21You're not looking well.

00:15:22Am I not?

00:15:23I have strayed my shoulder, you know.

00:15:26Well, why don't you play these ridiculous games of yours?

00:15:29Resign yourself to the onrush of middle age and abandon them, my dear Desmond.

00:15:33No, I could never do that.

00:15:34Not give up cricket, not altogether.

00:15:37Um, are you in a relation of D.W.H. Curry, who used to play for Middlesex?

00:15:42I am D.W.H. Curry.

00:15:44Didn't you know we had a great man in the room?

00:15:47Gosh.

00:15:49Do you know you used to be a schoolboy hero of mine?

00:15:52Did I?

00:15:53Did I, indeed.

00:15:54Gosh.

00:15:55D.W.H. Curry in person.

00:15:57Well, I'd never have thought it.

00:16:00Yes, I know.

00:16:00Very few people would nowadays.

00:16:03I thought we'd try a little of the Madeira before luncheon.

00:16:06We're celebrating, you know, Desmond.

00:16:08Arthur.

00:16:08Ah, my wife's 54th birthday.

00:16:12Oh, Arthur, really?

00:16:13All right, Father.

00:16:14Desmond knows.

00:16:15Yes, indeed.

00:16:16Indeed, it's wonderful news, isn't it?

00:16:18I'll most gladly drink a toast to the, um, uh, to the, uh...

00:16:23Happy pear, I think, is the phrase that is eluding you.

00:16:27Oh, well, as a matter of fact, I was looking for something new to say.

00:16:30A forlorn quest, my dear Desmond.

00:16:32Arthur, really, you mustn't be so rude.

00:16:34I meant, naturally, that no one, with the possible exception of Voltaire,

00:16:39could find anything new to say about an engaged couple.

00:16:41Ah, my dear Dickie.

00:16:45Just in time for a glass of Madeira in celebration of Kate's engagement to John.

00:16:49Good glasses, sir.

00:16:51Oh, thank you, Violet.

00:16:51Oh, is that all finally spliced up now?

00:16:54Kate definitely being entered for the marriage, Dix?

00:16:56Good egg.

00:16:57Oh, Dickie.

00:16:57Quite so.

00:16:59I should have had it just now, with the possible exception of Voltaire and Dickie Winsler.

00:17:04Uh, take these round, will you, Violet?

00:17:06Yes.

00:17:08Oh, are we allowed to drink our own health?

00:17:10I think it's permissible.

00:17:11Oh, no, no, it's bad luck.

00:17:12Oh, we defy augury, don't we, Kate?

00:17:15Thank you, Violet.

00:17:15You mustn't say that, John, dear.

00:17:18I know you can drink each other's healths.

00:17:20That's all right.

00:17:21Are my wife's superstitious terrors finally allayed?

00:17:25Good.

00:17:26Catherine and John.

00:17:28Catherine and John.

00:17:31Ah, Violet.

00:17:32We mustn't leave you out.

00:17:34You must join this toast.

00:17:35Well, thank you, sir.

00:17:38Oh, not too much, sir.

00:17:39Please, just a sip.

00:17:41Quite so.

00:17:41Your reluctance would be more convincing if I hadn't noticed you'd brought an extra glass.

00:17:47Oh, I didn't bring it for myself, sir.

00:17:50I brought it for Master Ronnie.

00:17:51Oh.

00:17:53Master Ronnie isn't due back from Osborne until Tuesday, Violet.

00:17:56Well, I saw him with me own two eyes, sir.

00:17:59As large as life.

00:18:01Just before you come in from church.

00:18:03And then I heard Mrs. Winslow talking to him in his room.

00:18:07Grace, what does this mean?

00:18:09Well, I...

00:18:09All right, Violet.

00:18:10You can go.

00:18:12Yes, miss.

00:18:15Catherine, did you know Ronnie was back?

00:18:18Yes.

00:18:19And you, Dickie?

00:18:20Yes, Father.

00:18:21Grace?

00:18:22Well, we...

00:18:23We thought it best you shouldn't know for the time being.

00:18:26Only for the time being, Arthur.

00:18:29Is the boy ill?

00:18:31No, Father.

00:18:32He's not ill.

00:18:35Well, someone tell me what has happened, please.

00:18:37He brought this letter for you, Arthur.

00:18:41Read it to me, please.

00:18:43Oh, Arthur.

00:18:43Not in front of me.

00:18:44Read it to me, please.

00:18:46It's all right, Mother.

00:18:47Confidential.

00:18:51I am commanded by my Lord Commissioners of the Admiralty to inform you that they have received a communication from the commanding officer of the Royal Naval College at Osborne reporting the theft of a five-shilling postal order at the College.

00:19:02Investigation of the circumstances of the case leaves no other conclusion possible than that the postal order was taken by your son, Cadet Ronald Arthur Winslow.

00:19:17My Lords deeply regret that they must therefore request you to withdraw your son from the College.

00:19:24It's signed by someone.

00:19:25I can't quite read his name.

00:19:29Desmond, be so good as to call Violet.

00:19:32Yes, of course.

00:19:35Violet, could you come in for a moment?

00:19:38Yes, sir.

00:19:39Violet, will you ask Master Ronnie to come down and see me, please?

00:19:42Arthur, he's in bed.

00:19:43You told me he wasn't ill.

00:19:44Well, he's not at all well.

00:19:46Do as I say, please, Violet.

00:19:47Very good, sir.

00:19:49Perhaps the rest of you would go into luncheon.

00:19:52Grace, would you take them in?

00:19:53I, oh, Arthur, don't you think...

00:19:55Dickie, will you decant that bottle of claret I brought up from the cellar?

00:19:59I put it on the sideboard in the dining room.

00:20:00Yes, Father.

00:20:00Oh, will you go in, Desmond and John?

00:20:03Yes, sir.

00:20:06Arthur.

00:20:07Yes, Grace?

00:20:09Please don't...

00:20:11Please don't...

00:20:12What mustn't I do?

00:20:14Please don't forget he's only a child.

00:20:17Come along, Mother.

00:20:18Oh, dear.

00:20:19Come in.

00:20:34Father.

00:20:36Come in and shut the door.

00:20:42Come over here.

00:20:42Why aren't you in your uniform?

00:20:49It got wet.

00:20:50How did it get wet?

00:20:52I was out in the garden in the rain.

00:20:54Why?

00:20:57I was hiding.

00:20:59From me?

00:21:01Yes.

00:21:01Do you remember once you promised me that if ever you were in trouble of any sort, you

00:21:06would come to me first?

00:21:09Yes, Father.

00:21:10Why didn't you come to me now?

00:21:12Why did you have to go and hide in the garden?

00:21:15I don't know, Father.

00:21:17Are you so frightened of me?

00:21:20I...

00:21:20In this letter, it says you stole a postal order.

00:21:25Now, I don't want you to say a word until you've heard what I've got to say.

00:21:31If you did it, you must tell me.

00:21:33I shan't be angry with you, Ronnie, provided you tell me the truth.

00:21:38But if you tell a lie, I shall know it.

00:21:41Because a lie between you and me can't be hidden.

00:21:44I shall know it, Ronnie.

00:21:46So remember that before you speak.

00:21:48Did you steal this postal order?

00:21:53No, Father, I didn't.

00:21:55Did you steal this postal order?

00:21:59No, Father, I didn't.

00:22:03Go on.

00:22:05Back to bed.

00:22:07Yes, Father.

00:22:08And in future, I trust that a son of mine will at least show enough sense to come in out of the rain.

00:22:15Yes, Father.

00:22:18I don't know.

00:22:19I don't know.

00:22:20I don't know.

00:22:21I don't know.

00:22:27Hello?

00:22:29Are you there?

00:22:31Ah, I want to put a trunk call through, please.

00:22:35A trunk call?

00:22:37Yes.

00:22:37The Royal Naval College, Osborne.

00:22:45That's right.

00:22:47I'll replace the receiver.

00:22:49The same.

00:22:49The daily news, Mr. Winslow.

00:23:08So good of you to see me.

00:23:10How do you do?

00:23:11Oh, you're surprised to see a lady report, I know.

00:23:14Everyone is.

00:23:16And yet, why not?

00:23:17What could be more natural?

00:23:18What, indeed.

00:23:20Pray sit down.

00:23:22My paper usually sends me out on stories which have a special appeal to women.

00:23:27Stories with a little heart, you know.

00:23:29Like this one.

00:23:31A father's fight for his little boy's armor.

00:23:33I venture to think this case has rather wider implications than that.

00:23:38Oh, yes.

00:23:38The political angle, I know.

00:23:40Very interesting, but not quite my line of country.

00:23:43Where is your little boy?

00:23:46My son is arriving from school in a few minutes.

00:23:48His mother has gone to the station to meet him.

00:23:50From school?

00:23:51How interesting.

00:23:53So you've got to school to take him.

00:23:55I mean, they didn't mind the unpleasantness.

00:23:59No.

00:23:59And why is he coming back this time?

00:24:02He hasn't been expelled again, if that is what you were implying.

00:24:06He is coming to London to be examined by Sir Robert Morton, whom we are hoping to brief.

00:24:10Sir Robert Morton?

00:24:12Well.

00:24:12I understand that he is the best advocate in the country.

00:24:16He is certainly the most expensive.

00:24:17Oh, yes.

00:24:18I suppose if one is prepared to pay his fee, one can get him for almost any case.

00:24:24Madam, this is not almost any case.

00:24:27Oh, no, no, no, no, no.

00:24:28Of course not.

00:24:30Well, now, perhaps you wouldn't mind giving me a few details.

00:24:35When did it all start?

00:24:36Nine months ago.

00:24:37Nine months ago.

00:24:38The first I knew of the charge was when my son arrived home with a letter from the admiralty

00:24:43informing me of his expulsion.

00:24:45Admiralty?

00:24:46I telephoned Osborne to protest and was referred by them to the lords of the admiralty.

00:24:52My solicitors then took the matter up and demanded from the admiralty the fullest possible inquiry.

00:24:58For weeks we were ignored, then met with a blank refusal,

00:25:02and only finally got reluctant permission to view the evidence.

00:25:06Really?

00:25:06My solicitors decided that the evidence was highly unsatisfactory

00:25:09and fully justified the reopening of proceedings.

00:25:13We applied to the admiralty for a court-martial.

00:25:15They ignored us.

00:25:16We applied for a civil trial.

00:25:19They ignored us again.

00:25:20They ignored you?

00:25:21Yes.

00:25:22But after tremendous pressure had been brought to bear,

00:25:24letters to the papers, questions in the house,

00:25:27and other means open to private citizens of the country,

00:25:30the admiralty eventually agreed to what they called an independent inquiry.

00:25:34Oh, good.

00:25:35It was not good, madam.

00:25:37At that independent inquiry, conducted by the judge advocate of the fleet,

00:25:41against whom I am saying nothing, mind you,

00:25:44my son, a child of 14, was not represented by counsel, solicitors, or friends.

00:25:51Oh.

00:25:51And what happened at the inquiry?

00:25:54What do you think happened?

00:25:56Inevitably, he was found guilty again,

00:25:58and thus branded for the second time before the world as a thief and a forger.

00:26:03What a shame.

00:26:04I need hardly tell you, madam, that I am not prepared to let the matter rest there.

00:26:07I shall continue to fight this monstrous injustice with every weapon and every means at my disposal.

00:26:13Now, it happens I have a plan.

00:26:16Oh.

00:26:17What?

00:26:18What charming curtains.

00:26:20What are they made of?

00:26:22Madam, I fear I have no idea.

00:26:28Ah.

00:26:29Do I hear the poor little chap himself?

00:26:32Dear God.

00:26:33Hello, Father.

00:26:34Hello, Ronnie.

00:26:35I say, Father, Mr. Moore says I'm to tell you I needn't come back until Monday, if you like.

00:26:40So that gives me three whole days.

00:26:41Oh, mind my legs.

00:26:42Sorry, Father.

00:26:44How are you, my boy?

00:26:45Oh, I'm absolutely top-hole, Father.

00:26:47Mother says I've grown an inch.

00:26:49Grace, dear, this lady is from the Daily News.

00:26:51She is extremely interested in your curtains.

00:26:54Oh, yes, really.

00:26:55I'm nice.

00:26:55I was wondering what they were made of.

00:26:57Well, it's an entirely new material, you know.

00:26:59I'm afraid I don't know what it's called, but I got them at Barker's last year.

00:27:02Apparently it's a sort of mixture of wild silk.

00:27:05Oh, just a second, Mrs. Winslow.

00:27:06I'm afraid my shorthand isn't very good.

00:27:09I must just get that done.

00:27:11Wild silk.

00:27:11Father, are we going to be in the Daily News?

00:27:13It appears so.

00:27:14Oh, good.

00:27:15Well, they get the Daily News in the school library, so everyone's bound to see it.

00:27:19Goodbye, Mr. Winslow.

00:27:21And the very best of good fortune in your inspiring fight.

00:27:26Goodbye, little chap.

00:27:28Remember the darkest hours just before the dawn.

00:27:31Oh, just look at him.

00:27:35You're going to be a very famous little boy now, aren't you?

00:27:38The Winslow boy.

00:27:41Oh, that's it.

00:27:44The Winslow boy.

00:27:46Now, do let me see you out.

00:27:47Oh, yes, of course.

00:27:49The Winslow boy.

00:27:54What's she talking about?

00:27:55The case, I imagine.

00:27:57Oh, the case.

00:27:58Father, do you know the train had 14 coaches?

00:28:01Did it, indeed?

00:28:02Yes.

00:28:03All corridor.

00:28:04Remarkable.

00:28:05I had your half-turn report, Ronnie.

00:28:08Oh, yes.

00:28:09On the whole, it was pretty fair.

00:28:10Oh, good.

00:28:11I'm glad you seem to be settling down so well.

00:28:14Very glad indeed.

00:28:16What a charming woman, Arthur.

00:28:18Charming?

00:28:19I trust you gave her full details about our curtains.

00:28:22Oh, yes, I told her everything.

00:28:24I'm so glad.

00:28:25I do think women reporters are a good idea.

00:28:27I say, Father, will it be all right for me to stay till Monday?

00:28:30I mean, I won't be missing any work, only divinity.

00:28:32Oh, please mind my leg.

00:28:34Oh, sorry, Father.

00:28:35Is it bad?

00:28:36Yes, it is.

00:28:37Grace, take him upstairs and get him washed.

00:28:39Sir Robert will be here in a few minutes.

00:28:41Come on, darling.

00:28:42All right.

00:28:43Violet?

00:28:44Violet, I'm back.

00:28:45Oh, good.

00:28:46Did the doctor say anything, dear?

00:28:48A great deal, but very little to the purpose.

00:28:51Well, Ronnie's back, judging by the noise.

00:28:54Oh.

00:28:55I must say that old crock has come out very well.

00:28:59John will never know that it isn't brand new.

00:29:01It's late, curse him.

00:29:03Grace, go on up and attend to Ronnie.

00:29:04Oh, very well, dear.

00:29:09Oh.

00:29:11Kate.

00:29:12Are we both mad, you and I?

00:29:16What's the matter, Father?

00:29:17I don't know.

00:29:19I suddenly feel suicidally inclined.

00:29:22A father's fight for his little boy's honour.

00:29:26Special appeal to all women.

00:29:29A description of Mrs. Winslow's curtains.

00:29:31The Winslow boy.

00:29:33Is there any hope for the world?

00:29:36I think so, Father.

00:29:38Shall we drop the whole thing, Kate?

00:29:40I don't consider that a serious question, Father.

00:29:44You realise that if we go on, your marriage settlement must go?

00:29:49Oh, yes.

00:29:49I gave that up for lost weeks ago.

00:29:51Things are all right between you and John, aren't they?

00:29:54Oh, yes, Father.

00:29:54Of course.

00:29:55Everything's perfect.

00:29:56I mean, it won't make any difference between you, will it?

00:29:58Good heavens, no.

00:30:01Very well, then.

00:30:02Let us spin our faith to Sir Robert Morton.

00:30:07I see I'm speaking only for myself in saying that.

00:30:09You know what I think of Sir Robert Morton, Father.

00:30:11Don't let us go into it again now.

00:30:13It's too late, anyway.

00:30:14It's not too late.

00:30:15He hasn't accepted the brief yet.

00:30:16But I'm rather afraid I hope he never does.

00:30:18And that has nothing to do with my marriage settlement, either.

00:30:20I made inquiries about that fellow you suggested.

00:30:23I'm told he's not nearly as good an advocate as Morton.

00:30:26Well, he's not nearly so fashionable.

00:30:27I want the best.

00:30:28The best, in this case, certainly isn't Morton.

00:30:31Then why does everyone say he is?

00:30:33Because if one happens to be a large monopoly attacking a trade union,

00:30:37or a Tory paper libeling a Labour leader, he is the best.

00:30:40But it utterly defeats me how you or anybody else could expect a man of his record

00:30:44to have even a tenth of his heart in a case where the boot is entirely on the other foot.

00:30:48Well, I believe you are prejudiced because he spoke against women's suffrage.

00:30:52I am.

00:30:53I'm prejudiced because he's always speaking against what is right and just.

00:30:56Did you read his speech in the House on the trade disputes, Bill?

00:30:59Arthur, could you come up a moment?

00:31:02Oh, well, in the words of the Prime Minister, let us wait and see.

00:31:08You're my only ally, Kate.

00:31:10Without you, I believe I should have given up long ago.

00:31:13Oh, rubbish.

00:31:14It's true.

00:31:15Still, you must sometimes allow me to make my own decisions.

00:31:21I have an instinct about Morton.

00:31:23We'll see which is right, my instinct or your reason.

00:31:28I'm afraid we will.

00:31:31Hello, Kate.

00:31:33Hello, Dickie.

00:31:34What's the matter?

00:31:36Haven't you heard?

00:31:37I'm to leave Oxford at the end of the year.

00:31:39Oh, Dickie.

00:31:41I'm awfully sorry.

00:31:43Did you know it was in the wind?

00:31:44I knew there was a risk.

00:31:46Well, you might have warned a fellow.

00:31:47My gosh, I could just about murder that little brother of mine.

00:31:50What's he have to go about pinching postal orders for?

00:31:53Why the hell does he have to get himself nabbed for it?

00:31:55Silly little blighter.

00:32:02It's all right, Violet.

00:32:04It's only Mr. Weatherstone.

00:32:05I'll get it.

00:32:06Very well, Miss.

00:32:09Catherine.

00:32:10Oh.

00:32:12I'm so sorry.

00:32:12I was expecting a friend.

00:32:14May I introduce Sir Robert Morton, Miss Catherine Winster?

00:32:17How do you do?

00:32:19Won't you come in, Sir Robert?

00:32:21Yes, ma'am.

00:32:21My father's upstairs.

00:32:24He won't be long.

00:32:25Ah, Sir Robert has a most important dinner engagement, so we came a little early.

00:32:29I see.

00:32:30I'm afraid he can only spare us a very few minutes of his most valuable time this evening.

00:32:34Of course, it is a long way for him to come, and very good of him to do it, too.

00:32:38I know.

00:32:39I can assure you we're very conscious of it.

00:32:41Yes, well, perhaps I had better advise your father of our presence.

00:32:44Yes, do, Desmond.

00:32:46Won't you come through to the drawing room?

00:32:52Er, do sit down, Sir Robert.

00:32:55Is there anything I can get you?

00:32:57A whiskey and soda, or a brandy?

00:32:59No, thank you.

00:33:01At what time are you dining?

00:33:03Eight o'clock.

00:33:04Far from here?

00:33:05Devonshire House.

00:33:07Oh, then of course you mustn't on any account be late.

00:33:09No.

00:33:10I suppose you know the history of this case, do you, Sir Robert?

00:33:15I believe I have seen most of the relevant documents.

00:33:19I'm rather surprised that a case of this sort should interest you.

00:33:22Are you?

00:33:23It seems such a very trivial affair compared to most of your great forensic triumphs.

00:33:28I was in court during your cross-examination of Len Rogers in the trades union embezzlement case.

00:33:32Really?

00:33:33It was masterly.

00:33:35I suppose you heard that he committed suicide a few months ago?

00:33:38Yes, I had heard.

00:33:39Many people believed him innocent, you know.

00:33:42So I understand.

00:33:43As it happens, however, he was guilty.

00:33:46Sir Robert, I am Arthur Winslow.

00:33:48How do you do, sir?

00:33:49My wife.

00:33:50How do you do, Mrs. Winslow?

00:33:52Sir Robert is dining at Devonshire House, mother.

00:33:54Oh, really?

00:33:56Oh, then you have to be punctual.

00:33:57Of course I do see that.

00:33:59It's the politeness of princes, isn't it?

00:34:02So they say.

00:34:03Oh, in this case, the other way round, of course.

00:34:06My son will be down in a minute.

00:34:08I expect you will wish to examine him.

00:34:09No, just a few questions.

00:34:11I fear that's all I will have time for this evening.

00:34:13I'm rather sorry to hear that.

00:34:15He has made the journey especially from school for this interview,

00:34:18and I was hoping by the end of it I should know definitely yes or no if you would accept the brief.

00:34:23If a further examination should prove necessary, it will have to be sometime next week.

00:34:27I see.

00:34:29Will you forgive me if I sit down?

00:34:33Of course.

00:34:35Carrie has been telling me you think it might be possible to proceed by petition of right.

00:34:40What's a petition of right?

00:34:42Well, granted the assumption that the Admiralty as the Crown can do no wrong.

00:34:45I thought that was exactly the assumption we refused to grant.

00:34:48In law, I mean.

00:34:50Now, a subject can suit the Crown, nevertheless, by petition of right.

00:34:54Right, redress being granted as a matter of grace,

00:34:56and the custom is for the Attorney General on behalf of the King

00:34:59to endorse the petition and allow the case to come into court.

00:35:03It is interesting to note that the exact words he uses on such occasions are

00:35:07let right be done.

00:35:11Let right be done.

00:35:13I like that phrase, sir.

00:35:15Yes, it has a certain ring about it, has it not?

00:35:17Let right be done.

00:35:19This is my son, Ronald.

00:35:21Ronnie, this is Sir Robert Morton.

00:35:23How do you do, sir?

00:35:24He is going to ask you a few questions.

00:35:26You must answer them all truthfully, as you always have.

00:35:29I expect you would like us to leave.

00:35:31No, provided, of course, that you don't interrupt.

00:35:33Would you all please sit down?

00:35:36And, Ronald, will you stand at the table facing me?

00:35:41Yes, sir.

00:35:42That's right.

00:35:44Now, how old are you?

00:35:48Fourteen and seven months.

00:35:49You were then thirteen and ten months old when you left Osborne, is that right?

00:35:54Yes, sir.

00:35:55Now, I would like you to cast your mind back to July the 7th of last year.

00:35:58Will you tell me, in your own words, exactly what happened to you on that day?

00:36:03All right.

00:36:05Well, it was half holiday, so we didn't have any work after dinner.

00:36:09Dinner at one o'clock?

00:36:10Yes.

00:36:11At least until prep at seven.

00:36:12Prep at seven.

00:36:13Just before dinner, I went to the chief petty officer and asked him to let me have fifteen

00:36:18and six out of what I had in the college bank.

00:36:20Why did you do that?

00:36:22I wanted to buy an air pistol.

00:36:23Which cost, fifteen and six?

00:36:25Yes, sir.

00:36:26And how much money did you have in the college bank at the time?

00:36:29Two pounds, three shillings.

00:36:31So you see, sir, what incentive could there possibly be for him to steal five shillings?

00:36:34I must ask you to be good enough not to interrupt me, sir.

00:36:37After you had withdrawn the fifteen and six, what did you do?

00:36:44I had dinner.

00:36:45Then what?

00:36:46I went to the locker room and put the fifteen and six in my locker.

00:36:50Yes.

00:36:51Then?

00:36:52I went to get permission to go down to the post office.

00:36:55Then I went to the locker room again, got out my money, and went down to the post office.

00:37:00I see.

00:37:01Go on.

00:37:02I bought my postal order.

00:37:03For fifteen and six?

00:37:04Yes.

00:37:06Then I went back to college.

00:37:08Then I met Elliot Miner, and he said,

00:37:10I say, isn't it rot?

00:37:11Someone's broken into my locker and pinched a postal order.

00:37:14I reported it to the PO.

00:37:15Those were Elliot Miner's exact words?

00:37:17Oh, he might have used another word for rot.

00:37:19I see.

00:37:21Continue.

00:37:22Well, then just before prep, I was told to go along and see Commander Flower.

00:37:27The woman from the post office was there, and the commander said,

00:37:30Is this the boy?

00:37:31And she said,

00:37:32It might be.

00:37:33I can't be sure they all look so much alike.

00:37:35You see, she couldn't identify him.

00:37:36Oh, sir.

00:37:37I'm sorry.

00:37:40Go on.

00:37:41Well, then she said,

00:37:42I only know that the boy who bought a postal order for fifteen and six was the same boy

00:37:46that cashed one for five shillings.

00:37:49So the commander said,

00:37:50Did you buy a postal order for fifteen and six?

00:37:53And I said yes.

00:37:55And then they made me write Elliot Miner's name on an envelope,

00:37:58and compared it to the signature on the postal order.

00:38:01Then they sent me to the sanatorium, and ten days later I was sacked.

00:38:04I mean expelled.

00:38:05I see.

00:38:09Did you cash a postal order belonging to Elliot Miner for five shillings?

00:38:14No, sir.

00:38:14Did you break into his locker and steal it?

00:38:17No, sir.

00:38:18And that is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth?

00:38:21Yes, sir.

00:38:22Right.

00:38:25When the commander asked you to write Elliot's name on an envelope,

00:38:28how did you write it, with Christian name or initials?

00:38:30I wrote Charles K. Elliot.

00:38:32Charles K. Elliot.

00:38:34What made you choose that particular form?

00:38:37That was the way he usually signed his name.

00:38:39How did you know?

00:38:41Well, he was a great friend of mine.

00:38:43That is no answer.

00:38:43How did you know?

00:38:44I'd seen him sign things.

00:38:46What things?

00:38:47Ordinary things.

00:38:48I repeat, what things?

00:38:51Bits of paper.

00:38:52Bits of paper?

00:38:53Why did he sign his name on bits of paper?

00:38:56I don't know.

00:38:56You do know?

00:38:57Why did he sign his name on bits of paper?

00:39:00He was practising his signature.

00:39:02And you saw him?

00:39:03Yes.

00:39:04Did he know you saw him?

00:39:05Well, yes.

00:39:06In other words, he showed you exactly how he wrote his signature.

00:39:09Yes, I suppose he did.

00:39:10Did you practise writing it yourself?

00:39:12I might have done.

00:39:13What do you mean, you might have done?

00:39:16Did you or did you not?

00:39:18Yes.

00:39:19Ronnie, you never told me that.

00:39:20Well, it was only for a joke.

00:39:21Never mind whether it was for a joke or not.

00:39:24The fact is, you practised forging Elliot's signature.

00:39:26It wasn't forging.

00:39:27What do you call it, then?

00:39:28Writing.

00:39:29Very well.

00:39:30Writing.

00:39:31Whoever stole the postal order and cashed it also wrote Elliot's signature, didn't he?

00:39:37Yes.

00:39:37And oddly enough, in the exact form in which you had earlier been practising writing Elliot's signature.

00:39:43I say, which side are you on?

00:39:44Don't be impartinent.

00:39:46Are you aware that the Admiralty sent up the forged post-lauder to Mr. Ridgely Pearce, the greatest handwriting expert in England?

00:39:56Yes.

00:39:57And you know that Mr. Ridgely Pearce affirmed that there was no doubt whatever that the signature on the post-lauder and the signature you wrote on the envelope were by one and the same hand?

00:40:06Yes.

00:40:06And you still say that you did not forge that signature?

00:40:09Yes, I do.

00:40:09In other words, Mr. Ridgely Pearce doesn't know his job?

00:40:12Well, he's wrong anyway.

00:40:15When you went to the locker room after dinner, were you alone?

00:40:20I don't remember.

00:40:20I think he do.

00:40:21Were you alone in the locker room?

00:40:24Yes.

00:40:24And you knew which was Elliot's locker?

00:40:26Yes, of course.

00:40:27Why do you go there at all?

00:40:28I've told you to put my 15 and 6 away.

00:40:30Why?

00:40:31I thought it would be safer.

00:40:32Why safer than in your pocket?

00:40:34I don't know.

00:40:35You had it in your pocket at dinner time by the sudden fear for its safety.

00:40:38I tell you, I don't know.

00:40:40Was it because you knew you would be alone in the locker room at that time?

00:40:43No.

00:40:44What was Elliot's locker in relation to yours?

00:40:47Next to it but one.

00:40:48Next to it but one.

00:40:49Now, what time did Elliot put his postal order in his locker?

00:40:52I don't know.

00:40:53I didn't even know he had a postal order in his locker.

00:40:56I didn't know he had a postal order at all.

00:40:58Did you see?

00:40:58He was a great friend of yours.

00:40:59He didn't tell me he had one.

00:41:00How very secretive of him.

00:41:04What time did you go to the locker room?

00:41:06I don't remember.

00:41:07Was it directly after dinner?

00:41:09Yes, I think so.

00:41:10What did you do after leaving the locker room?

00:41:12I've told you I went for permission to go to the postal.

00:41:14What time was that?

00:41:16About a quarter past two.

00:41:19The dinner is over at a quarter two, too.

00:41:21Which means that you were in the locker room for half an hour.

00:41:24Well, I wasn't there all that time.

00:41:25How long were you there?

00:41:26About five minutes.

00:41:26What were you doing for the other 25?

00:41:28Perhaps I waited outside the CO's office.

00:41:31Perhaps you waited outside the CO's office.

00:41:35Perhaps no one saw you there either.

00:41:37No, I don't think they did.

00:41:38What were you thinking about outside the CO's office for 25 minutes?

00:41:42Well, I don't even know if I was there.

00:41:44I can't remember.

00:41:45Perhaps I wasn't there at all.

00:41:46No, perhaps you were still in the locker room rifling Elliot's locker.

00:41:49Sir Robert, I must go.

00:41:50Quiet!

00:41:50I remember now.

00:41:51I remember.

00:41:53Someone did see me outside the CO's office.

00:41:55A chap called Casey.

00:41:56I remember.

00:41:57I spoke to him.

00:41:59What did you say?

00:42:00I said, come down to the post office with me.

00:42:03I'm going to cash a postal order.

00:42:04Cash!

00:42:05A postal order.

00:42:05I mean get.

00:42:06You said cash.

00:42:07Why did you say cash if you meant get?

00:42:08I don't know.

00:42:09I suggest cash was the truth.

00:42:10No, it wasn't.

00:42:11It wasn't really.

00:42:12You're muddling me.

00:42:12You seem easily muddled.

00:42:14How many other lies have you told?

00:42:15None, really.

00:42:16I suggest your entire testimony is a lie.

00:42:18No, it's the truth.

00:42:19I suggest there is barely one single word of truth in anything you have said,

00:42:21either to me or to the judge advocate or to the commander.

00:42:24I suggest that you broke into Elliot's locker,

00:42:27that you stole the postal order for five shillings belonging to Elliot,

00:42:30that you cashed it by means of forging his name.

00:42:33I didn't.

00:42:33I did.

00:42:34I suggest that you did it for a joke,

00:42:35meaning to give Elliot the five shillings back,

00:42:37but when you met him and he said he had reported the matter,

00:42:40you got frightened and decided to keep quiet.

00:42:41No, no, no.

00:42:42It isn't true.

00:42:43And I suggest that by continuing to deny your guilt,

00:42:45you are causing great hardship to your own family

00:42:48and considerable annoyance to high and important persons in this country.

00:42:52That was a disgraceful thing to say.

00:42:54I suggest that the time has at last come for you to undo some of the misery you have caused

00:42:58by confessing to us all now that you are a forger, a liar, and a thief.

00:43:03I'm not, I'm not, I'm not.

00:43:05I didn't do it.

00:43:06This is outrageous.

00:43:07Can I drop you anywhere, Carrie?

00:43:09My car is at the door.

00:43:10No, I thank you.

00:43:12Well, send all this stuff round to my chambers tomorrow morning, will you?

00:43:15But will you need it now?

00:43:17Need it.

00:43:18Oh, yes.

00:43:18The boy is plainly innocent.

00:43:22I accept the brief.

00:43:26Good night.

00:43:27Stardew Stadium.

00:43:35Robbock.

00:43:36Thank the Winslow case to the House of Commons.

00:43:37Read all about a fireball post-order case.

00:43:40House of Commons Winslow debate.

00:43:42Winslow debate.

00:43:44Personal replies.

00:43:47The Admiralty, during the whole of this long-drawn-out dispute,

00:43:51have at no time acted harshly or ill-advisedly.

00:43:56And it is a matter of mere histrionic hyperbole

00:44:00for the right honourable and learned gentleman opposite

00:44:02to characterise the conduct of my department

00:44:05as that of callousness so inhuman

00:44:08as to amount to deliberate malice towards the boy Winslow.

00:44:13Such unfounded accusations I can well choose to ignore.

00:44:18You can't try it.

00:44:19Kiss a face of shame.

00:44:21The chief point of the criticism against the Admiralty

00:44:25appears to centre in the purely legal question

00:44:28of the petition of right brought by Mr. Arthur Winslow

00:44:32and the Admiralty's demurrer thereto.

00:44:36The right honourable gentleman opposite has made great play

00:44:39with his eloquent reference to the liberty of the individual,

00:44:42menaced, as he puts it,

00:44:44by the new despotism of bureaucracy.

00:44:47I was as moved as any honourable member opposite

00:44:52by his resonant use of the words,

00:44:54let right be done.

00:44:57Nevertheless, the matter is not nearly as simple

00:44:59as he appears to imagine.

00:45:02Cadet Ronald Winslow was a servant of the Crown

00:45:05and has, therefore, no more right than any other members

00:45:08of his majesty's forces to sue the Crown in open court.

00:45:14To allow him to do so would undoubtedly raise the most dangerous precedence.

00:45:20There is no doubt whatever in my mind

00:45:22that in certain cases, private rights may have to be sacrificed

00:45:27for the public.

00:45:29I trust my reading isn't keeping you awake, Ronnie.

00:45:37Oh, my poor sleepy little lamb.

00:45:39It's long past his bedtime, Arthur.

00:45:42Ronnie.

00:45:43Ronnie.

00:45:45Yes, Father?

00:45:45I was reading the account of the debate.

00:45:48Would you like to listen or would you rather go to bed?

00:45:51Oh, I'd like to listen, of course, Father.

00:45:54I was listening, too, only...

00:45:57only I had my eyes shut.

00:45:58Oh, but he'd be much more comfy in his little bed.

00:46:01I dare say, but the debate continues until it's ended.

00:46:03The cause of it all will certainly not make himself comfy in his little bed.

00:46:09There are three more reporters in the hall,

00:46:11so I want to see you very urgently.

00:46:14Shall I let them in?

00:46:14No, certainly not.

00:46:16I issued a statement yesterday.

00:46:17Until the debate is over, I have nothing more to say.

00:46:19Yes, sir.

00:46:20That's what I told them, but they wouldn't go.

00:46:21Well, make them.

00:46:22Use force, if necessary.

00:46:24Yes, sir.

00:46:25And shall I cut some sandwiches for Miss Catherine, as she's missed her dinner?

00:46:30Oh, yes, Violet.

00:46:31Good idea.

00:46:34It's no good.

00:46:35No more statements.

00:46:38Grace, dear.

00:46:40Yes?

00:46:41I fancy this might be a good opportunity of talking to Violet.

00:46:44No, dear.

00:46:45Meaning that it isn't a good opportunity,

00:46:47or meaning that you have no intention at all of ever talking to Violet?

00:46:49Yes, I'll do it one day, Arthur.

00:46:52Tomorrow, perhaps, but not now.

00:46:53I believe you'd do better to grasp the nettle.

00:46:55Delay only adds to your worries.

00:46:57My worries?

00:46:58What do you know about my worries?

00:47:00A good deal, Grace,

00:47:01but I feel they would be a lot lessened if you faced the situation squarely.

00:47:04It's easy for you to talk, Arthur.

00:47:06You don't have to do it.

00:47:07It's a brutal thing to do.

00:47:10Facts are brutal things.

00:47:11Facts?

00:47:12I don't think I know what facts are anymore.

00:47:15The facts at this moment are that we have half of the income we had a year ago,

00:47:20and we are living at nearly the same rate.

00:47:22However, you look at that, it's bad economics.

00:47:24I'm not talking about economics, Arthur.

00:47:27I'm talking about ordinary, common or garden facts.

00:47:30Things we took for granted a year ago,

00:47:32and which now don't seem to matter anymore.

00:47:34Such as?

00:47:35Such as a happy home,

00:47:37and peace and quiet,

00:47:38and an ordinary, respectable life,

00:47:40and some sort of future for us and our children.

00:47:43In the last year, you've thrown all that overboard, Arthur.

00:47:47I can only pray to God that you know what you're doing.

00:47:50I know exactly what I'm doing, Grace.

00:47:52I'm going to publish my son's innocence before the world,

00:47:55and for that end, I am not prepared to weigh the cost.

00:47:58Oh, I wish I could see the sense of it all.

00:48:02Look at him.

00:48:03He's perfectly happy at a good school, doing very well.

00:48:07No one need ever have known about Osborne

00:48:09if you hadn't gone and shouted it out to the whole world.

00:48:11And when he's grown up,

00:48:13he won't thank you for it, Arthur.

00:48:16Even though you've given your life to...

00:48:17to publish his innocence, as you call it.

00:48:22You're destroying yourself, Arthur,

00:48:24and me and your family beside,

00:48:26and for what, I'd like to know.

00:48:29I've asked you and Kate to tell me a hundred times,

00:48:31but you never will.

00:48:32For what, Arthur?

00:48:33For justice, Grace.

00:48:36For justice?

00:48:39That sounds very noble.

00:48:41Are you sure it's true?

00:48:43Are you sure it isn't just plain pride and self-importance

00:48:46and sheer brute stubbornness?

00:48:48No, Grace, I don't think it is.

00:48:49I really don't think it is.

00:48:50No.

00:48:52This time I'm not going to cry and say I'm sorry

00:48:54and make it all up again.

00:48:56I can stand anything if there's a reason for it.

00:49:00But for no reason at all.

00:49:02It's unfair to ask for so much of me.

00:49:05It's unfair.

00:49:06Grace.

00:49:07No.

00:49:08It's no good.

00:49:11Oh.

00:49:13Oh.

00:49:13Well, what's the matter, Father?

00:49:16Your mother is a little upset.

00:49:18Why?

00:49:19Aren't things going well?

00:49:21Oh, yes.

00:49:23Very well.

00:49:24Very well, indeed.

00:49:29You'd better go to bed now, Ronnie,

00:49:30and you'll be more comfortable.

00:49:32Oh.

00:49:33All right-o, Father.

00:49:38Good night, my dear boy.

00:49:40Good night, Father.

00:49:42Good night, Violet.

00:49:43Good night, Master Ronnie.

00:49:49Some sandwiches for Miss Kate, sir.

00:49:51Thank you, Violet.

00:49:52And a letter for you, sir.

00:49:55Oh, Violet.

00:49:57Yes, sir?

00:49:58How long have you been with us?

00:49:5924 years come April, sir.

00:50:01As long as I have.

00:50:02Yes, sir.

00:50:03Miss Kate was only that high when I first came,

00:50:06and Mr. Dickie hadn't even been thought of.

00:50:08I remember you coming to us now.

00:50:10I remember it well.

00:50:12What do you think of this case?

00:50:13Violet.

00:50:14A fine old rumpus, that is, and no mistake.

00:50:18It is, isn't it?

00:50:18A fine old rumpus.

00:50:20And when you think it's all because of our master, Ronnie,

00:50:24I have to laugh about it sometimes.

00:50:26I really do.

00:50:28Well, would that be all, sir?

00:50:31Yes.

00:50:32Violet, that will be all.

00:50:34Thank you, sir.

00:50:37Good evening, Violet.

00:50:39Good evening.

00:50:42Hello, Father.

00:50:44What's happened, Kate?

00:50:46Is the debate over?

00:50:47As good as.

00:50:48The First Lord gave an assurance that in future there'd be no inquiry at Osborne or Dartmouth without informing the parents first.

00:50:56That seemed to satisfy most members.

00:50:58What about our case?

00:51:00Is he going to allow us a fair trial?

00:51:01Apparently not.

00:51:02But that's iniquitous.

00:51:05But didn't Sir Robert make any protest when the First Lord refused a trial?

00:51:09Not a verbal protest.

00:51:10Something far more spectacular and dramatic.

00:51:13He'd had his feet on the treasury table and his hat over his eyes during most of the First Lord's speech.

00:51:17And he suddenly got up very deliberately, glared at the First Lord, threw a whole bundle of notes on the floor and stalked out of the house.

00:51:25It made a magnificent effect.

00:51:28If I hadn't known, I could have sworn he was genuinely indignant.

00:51:31Oh, were those sandwiches for me?

00:51:32Yeah.

00:51:32Oh, good.

00:51:35Don't you fool yourself about him, Father, for all that.

00:51:37The man's a fish.

00:51:38A hard, cold-blooded, supercilious, sneering fish.

00:51:43Sir Robert Morton.

00:51:45Good evening.

00:51:47Oh, good evening.

00:51:49Oh, something gone down the wrong way.

00:51:50Yes.

00:51:51May I assist?

00:51:52Oh, thank you.

00:51:53Good evening, sir.

00:51:54I thought I would call and give you an account of the day's proceedings, but I see your daughter has forestalled me.

00:51:59Did you know I was in the gallery?

00:52:01With such a charming hat, how could I have missed you?

00:52:03Please, sit down, sir.

00:52:04Thank you very much, indeed.

00:52:07Will you betray a technical secret, Sir Robert?

00:52:10What happened in that first examination to make you so sure of Ronnie's innocence?

00:52:14Three things.

00:52:16First of all, he made far too many damaging admissions.

00:52:19A guilty person would have been much more careful on his guard.

00:52:22Secondly, I laid him a trap.

00:52:23Thirdly, I left him a loophole.

00:52:25Anyone who was guilty would have fallen into the one and darted through the other.

00:52:30He did neither.

00:52:30The trap was to ask him suddenly what time Elliot put the postal order in his locker, wasn't it?

00:52:35Yes.

00:52:35And the loophole?

00:52:36Well, I then suggested to him that he had stolen the postal order for a joke, which, had he been guilty, he would surely have admitted to, as being the lesser of two evils.

00:52:45I see.

00:52:46It was very cleverly thought out.

00:52:49May we offer you some refreshments, Sir Robert?

00:52:51A whiskey and soda?

00:52:52No, thank you.

00:52:53Nothing at all.

00:52:54My daughter has told me of your demonstration during the First Lord's speech.

00:52:58She described it as magnificent.

00:53:00Did she?

00:53:01That was very good of her.

00:53:03It's a very old trick, you know.

00:53:05I've done it many times in the courts.

00:53:07It's nearly always surprisingly effective.

00:53:10Was the First Lord at all put out by it, did you notice?

00:53:13How could he have failed to be?

00:53:15I wish you could have seen it, Father.

00:53:16It was...

00:53:17When did this letter come?

00:53:19A few minutes ago.

00:53:20Do you know the right?

00:53:22Yes.

00:53:22Whose is it?

00:53:23I shouldn't bother to read it if I were you.

00:53:25All the same I will.

00:53:26Will you forgive me, Sir?

00:53:28Of course.

00:53:31Will, what do you think the next step should be?

00:53:33I have already been considering that, Miss Winslow.

00:53:36I believe that perhaps the best plan would be to renew our efforts to get the Director

00:53:40of Public Prosecutions to act.

00:53:42Father?

00:53:44What?

00:53:45We were discussing how to proceed with the case, Sir.

00:53:49The case?

00:53:51Yes, we must think of that, mustn't we?

00:53:55How to proceed with the case.

00:53:59I'm afraid I don't think, all things considered,

00:54:01that much purpose would be served by going on.

00:54:04What?

00:54:04Show me that letter, Father.

00:54:07Of course we must go on.

00:54:09It is not for you to choose, sir.

00:54:10The choice is mine.

00:54:11Then you must reconsider it.

00:54:13Why give up?

00:54:14Why in heaven's name, man?

00:54:16Why?

00:54:16I have made many sacrifices for this case.

00:54:19Some of them I had no right to make, but I made them nonetheless.

00:54:23There is a limit, and I have reached it.

00:54:26I'm sorry, Sir Robert.

00:54:28More sorry, perhaps, than you are, but the Winslow case is now closed.

00:54:33Balderdash!

00:54:33Sir.

00:54:34My father doesn't mean what he says, Sir Robert.

00:54:35I am very glad to hear it.

00:54:37Perhaps I should explain this letter.

00:54:39No, Kate.

00:54:39Sir Robert knows so much about our family affairs, Father.

00:54:41I don't see it will matter much if he learns a little more.

00:54:45This letter is from a certain Colonel Weatherstone,

00:54:48who is the father of the man I'm engaged to.

00:54:50We've always known he was opposed to the case,

00:54:52so it really comes as no surprise.

00:54:54In it, he says that our efforts to discredit the Admiralty

00:54:57in the House of Commons today have resulted merely

00:54:59in our making the name of Winslow a nationwide laughingstock.

00:55:03I think that's his phrase.

00:55:05Yes, that's right.

00:55:06A nationwide laughingstock.

00:55:09I don't care for his English.

00:55:10It's not very good, is it?

00:55:13He goes on to say that unless my father will give him

00:55:15a firm undertaking to drop this whining and reckless agitation,

00:55:18I suppose he means the case,

00:55:20he will exert every bit of influence he has over his son

00:55:23to prevent him marrying me.

00:55:25I see an ultimatum.

00:55:27Yes, but a pointless one.

00:55:30Well, sir?

00:55:31I'm afraid I can't go back on what I have already said.

00:55:34Your daughter seems prepared to take the risk.

00:55:36I am not.

00:55:37Not at least until I know how great a risk it is.

00:55:39How do you estimate the risk, Miss Winslow?

00:55:43Negligible.

00:55:44I see.

00:55:46I really must apologize to you, sir,

00:55:49for speaking to you as I did just now.

00:55:50It was unforgivable.

00:55:51Not at all, sir.

00:55:52You were upset at giving up the case,

00:55:54and to be frank, I like you for it.

00:55:55It has been rather a tiring day.

00:55:57The House of Commons is a peculiarly exhausting place, you know.

00:56:01Too little ventilation, far too much hot air.

00:56:03I really am most truly sorry.

00:56:05Please.

00:56:05Of course, you must decide about the case as you wish.

00:56:10That really is a most charming hat, Miss Winslow.

00:56:14I'm glad you like it.

00:56:16It seems decidedly wrong to me

00:56:17that a lady of your political persuasion

00:56:19should be allowed to adorn herself

00:56:21with such a very feminine allurement.

00:56:23It really looks so awfully like

00:56:25trying to have the best of both worlds.

00:56:27I'm not a militant, you know, Sir Robert.

00:56:28I don't know about breaking shop windows with a hammer

00:56:31or pouring acid down pillar boxes.

00:56:32I am truly glad to hear it.

00:56:34Both those activities would be highly unsuitable

00:56:37in that hat.

00:56:42Mr. Weatherstone is in the hall, Miss.

00:56:44Says he would like to have a word with you in private,

00:56:47most particularly.

00:56:47Oh.

00:56:49I'll come out to him.

00:56:50Would you excuse me, please?

00:56:51But of course.

00:56:57Hello, John.

00:56:58Catherine.

00:57:00Yes?

00:57:03My father's written your father a letter.

00:57:05I know.

00:57:05I've read it.

00:57:06Oh.

00:57:07Did you?

00:57:09Yes.

00:57:09He showed it to me.

00:57:12Well, what's his answer?

00:57:14My father?

00:57:15I don't suppose he'll send one.

00:57:17You think he'll ignore it?

00:57:18Well, isn't that the best answer to blackmail?

00:57:22That was damned high-handed of the old man, I admit.

00:57:24High-handed?

00:57:24I tried to get him not to send it.

00:57:26I'm glad.

00:57:26The trouble is, he's perfectly serious.

00:57:28I never thought he wasn't.

00:57:29If your father does decide to go on with the case,

00:57:31I'm very much afraid he'll do everything he threatens.

00:57:34Forbid the match?

00:57:34Yes.

00:57:36Isn't that rather an empty threat, John?

00:57:39Well, there's always the allowance.

00:57:42The allowance.

00:57:44Yes, I see.

00:57:45Dash it all.

00:57:46I can't even live on my pay as it is, but with the two of us...

00:57:48I've heard it said the two can live as cheaply as one.

00:57:50Don't you believe it?

00:57:53Well, this is the way I see it.

00:57:56I'm going to be honest now.

00:57:57I hope you don't mind.

00:57:58No.

00:57:58No, I should welcome it.

00:58:00Your younger brother pinches...

00:58:02Oh, please.

00:58:03Well, or doesn't pinch.

00:58:04A five-bob postal order.

00:58:06For over a year, you and your father fight a magnificent fight on his behalf,

00:58:09and I'm sure everyone admires you for it.

00:58:12But now look.

00:58:13You've had two inquiries.

00:58:14The petition of right case, which the Admiralty had thrown out of court,

00:58:17and the appeal.

00:58:18And now, good heavens, you've had the whole damned House of Commons

00:58:20getting themselves worked up into a frenzy about it.

00:58:23Surely, darling, that's enough for you?

00:58:25My God, surely the case can end there.

00:58:27Yes, I suppose the case can end there.

00:58:30But Ronnie's innocence or guilt aren't important to me.

00:58:32They are to my father, but not to me.

00:58:35All that I care about is that people should know

00:58:37that a government department has ignored a fundamental human right

00:58:40and that it should be forced to acknowledge it.

00:58:42Well, now, look.

00:58:43There's a European war blowing up.

00:58:45There's a coal strike on.

00:58:47There's a fair chance of civil war in Ireland.

00:58:48And there's 101 other things on the horizon at the moment

00:58:51that I think you genuinely could call important.

00:58:54And yet, with all that on its mind,

00:58:56the House of Commons takes a whole day

00:58:57to discuss the Winslow boy and his Bally Postal Order.

00:59:01Surely you must see that that is a little out of proportion.

00:59:04All I know is, John, that if ever the time comes

00:59:06that the House of Commons has so much on its mind

00:59:08that it can't find time to discuss a Ronnie Winslow

00:59:10and his Bally Postal Order,

00:59:12this country will be a far poorer place than it is now.

00:59:14I don't know whether you realize

00:59:16that all this publicity you're getting

00:59:17is making the name of Winslow a bit of a...

00:59:18A nationwide laughingstock, your father said.

00:59:22Well, that is pulling it a bit steep.

00:59:25But people do find their case a bit ridiculous, you know.

00:59:27Yes, I see.

00:59:30Do you still want to marry me, John?

00:59:33What?

00:59:34I said, do you still want to marry me?

00:59:38Well, of course I do.

00:59:40You know I do.

00:59:41We've been engaged for over a year now.

00:59:43Even if we gave up the case,

00:59:45would you still want to marry the Winslow girl?

00:59:47All that would blow over in no time.

00:59:49And we'd have the allowance?

00:59:51Yes, we would.

00:59:52And that's so important?

00:59:53It is, darling.

00:59:55I'm sorry, but you can't shame me into saying it isn't.

00:59:58I didn't mean to shame you.

00:59:59Oh, yes, you did.

01:00:00I know that tone of voice.

01:00:02I'm sorry.

01:00:03Well, now, what's the answer?

01:00:08I love you, John, and I want to be your wife.

01:00:11Well, then, that's all I want to know.

01:00:17Darling, I was sure nothing so stupid and trivial could possibly come between us.

01:00:22Excuse me, John.

01:00:29Hello?

01:00:31Yes.

01:00:32Will you wait a moment?

01:00:36Sir Robert, someone wants you on the telephone.

01:00:38Oh, thank you.

01:00:40I'm so sorry to interrupt.

01:00:41Oh, you didn't.

01:00:42We've finished our talk.

01:00:44Hello?

01:00:46Yes, Michael.

01:00:48Good evening, John.

01:00:48Good evening, sir.

01:00:49F.E.

01:00:51I didn't know he was going to speak.

01:00:53I see.

01:00:55Oh, go on.

01:00:56Oh, thank you, Michael.

01:01:08There has been a most interesting development in the house, sir.

01:01:11What?

01:01:11Well, my secretary tells me that a barrister friend of mine who, quite unknown to me, was

01:01:16interested in the case, got to his feet shortly after 9.30 and delivered one of the most scathing

01:01:21denunciations of a government department ever heard in the house.

01:01:25What a shame we missed it, Miss Winslow.

01:01:27His style is quite superb.

01:01:28What happened?

01:01:29Well, the debate revived, of course, and the First Lord, who must have felt himself fairly

01:01:33safe, suddenly found himself under attack from all parts of the house.

01:01:37It appears that rather than risk a division, he has this moment given an undertaking that

01:01:41he will instruct the Attorney General to endorse our petition of right.

01:01:47The case of Winslow versus Ricks can now, therefore, come to court.

01:01:54Well, sir, what are my instructions?

01:01:57The decision is no longer mine, sir.

01:01:59You must ask my daughter.

01:02:01What are my instructions, Miss Winslow?

01:02:05Well, Catherine?

01:02:06Do you need my instructions, Sir Robert?

01:02:08Aren't they already on the petition?

01:02:10Doesn't it say, let right be done?

01:02:13Kate.

01:02:17Good night.

01:02:20Well, then.

01:02:22We must endeavour to see that right is done.

01:02:27No, I'm terribly sorry.

01:02:32I can't hear things.

01:02:33I've been in Reading.

01:02:34Thank you very much.

01:02:35I must...

01:02:36Baba!

01:02:40Violet?

01:02:42Anyone about?

01:02:43Oh, hello, darling.

01:02:44When did you get here?

01:02:46Well...

01:02:47Everyone out.

01:02:50You're thinner.

01:02:51Oh, I like your new suit.

01:02:52That's straight from Reading Savile Row.

01:02:53Off the peg at three and a half guineas.

01:02:55I say, does that phone go on all the time?

01:02:57Oh, the blessed day.

01:02:58The last four days, it simply hasn't stopped.

01:03:00I had to fight my way in through an army of reporters and people.

01:03:03Yes, I know.

01:03:04You didn't say anything, I hope, Dickie dear.

01:03:05It's better not to say a word.

01:03:07Oh, I don't think I said anything much.

01:03:09Oh, yes, I did say that.

01:03:10I personally thought he did.

01:03:11Dickie, you didn't.

01:03:12Ha-ha.

01:03:12Oh, I see.

01:03:14It's a joke.

01:03:16You mustn't say things like that even in fun, Dickie dear.

01:03:19How's it all going?

01:03:20I don't know.

01:03:21I've been there all four days now and I've hardly understood a word that's going on.

01:03:25Kate says the judge is against us, but he seems a charming old gentleman to me.

01:03:28Sir Robert's so rude to him.

01:03:31Oh.

01:03:33Nobody in.

01:03:36Arthur?

01:03:38Lunch.

01:03:38I'll come straight up.

01:03:40Dickie's here.

01:03:41Good.

01:03:42Kate takes the morning session and then she comes home and relieves me with your father

01:03:45and I go to the court in the afternoon, so you can come with me as soon as she's in.

01:03:49How did Ronnie get on in the witness box?

01:03:50Two days he was cross-examined.

01:03:52Two whole days.

01:03:53Imagine it, the poor little pet.

01:03:55I must say he didn't seem to mind much.

01:03:57He said two days with the Attorney General wasn't nearly as bad as two minutes with Sir Robert.

01:04:02Kate says he made a very good impression with the jury.

01:04:05Yes, how is Kate, Mother?

01:04:06Oh.

01:04:07All right.

01:04:09You heard about John, I suppose.

01:04:10Yes.

01:04:10Yes, that's what I meant.

01:04:12How has she taken it?

01:04:13You can never tell with Kate.

01:04:14She never lets you know what she's feeling.

01:04:16We all think you behave very badly.

01:04:19Oh, Arthur, you shouldn't have come down the stairs by yourself.

01:04:22I had little alternative.

01:04:24Oh, I'm sorry, dear.

01:04:25I was talking to Dickie.

01:04:28How are you, Dickie?

01:04:29Very well, thank you, Father.

01:04:31You look very well.

01:04:32A trifle thinner, perhaps.

01:04:34Hard work, Father.

01:04:35Or late hours.

01:04:36Yes, you can't keep late hours in Reading.

01:04:38You could keep late hours anywhere.

01:04:40I've had quite a good report about you from Mr. Lamb.

01:04:44He tells me that you've joined the Territorials.

01:04:46Yes, Father.

01:04:48Why have you done that?

01:04:50Well, from all accounts, there's a fair chance of a bit of a scrap quite soon.

01:04:53If there is, I don't want it to be all over before I can get in on it.

01:04:56If there is what you call a scrap, you'll do far better to stay in the bank.

01:05:01Catherine's late.

01:05:03She was in at half past yesterday.

01:05:04Well, perhaps they're taking the lunch interval later today.

01:05:07Ah.

01:05:08Did you say my lunch was ready?

01:05:09Yes, dear.

01:05:10It's only cold.

01:05:11I did the salad myself.

01:05:12Violet and Corker at the trial.

01:05:14Is Violet still with you?

01:05:15She was under sentence last time I saw you.

01:05:17She's been under sentence for the last six months, poor thing.

01:05:19Only she doesn't know it.

01:05:21Neither your father nor I have the courage to tell her.

01:05:23I have the courage to tell her.

01:05:25It's funny that you don't, then, dear.

01:05:27I will.

01:05:28No, no, no, no.

01:05:28You mustn't.

01:05:29When it's to be done, I'll do it.

01:05:31You see, Dickie, these taunts of cowardice are daily flung at my head.

01:05:35But should I take them up, I'm forbidden to move in the matter.

01:05:38Such is the logic of women.

01:05:40Now, eat your lunch.

01:05:41Don't peck at it.

01:05:45How is he?

01:05:47Not too well, I'm afraid.

01:05:49Will you take him away after the trial?

01:05:50He's promised to go into a nursing home.

01:05:52Do you think he will?

01:05:53How do I know?

01:05:53Well, he'll probably find some new excuse.

01:05:56But surely if he loses this time, he's lost for good, hasn't he?

01:05:59So they say, Dickie, dear.

01:06:02I can only hope it's true.

01:06:03How did you keep him away from the trial?

01:06:05Kate and Sir Robert together.

01:06:06He wouldn't listen to me.

01:06:07You're the doctor.

01:06:09Oh, Lord, the heat.

01:06:11Mother, can't you get rid of those reporters?

01:06:13Hello, Dickie.

01:06:14Hello, Kate.

01:06:15Come to be in at the death?

01:06:17Is that what it's going to be?

01:06:18Looks like it.

01:06:19I could cheerfully strangle that old brute of a judge, Mother.

01:06:22He's dead against us.

01:06:23Oh, dear.

01:06:24Sir Robert's very worried.

01:06:26He said the Attorney General's opening speech made a great impression on the jury.

01:06:29I must say it was very clever.

01:06:31To listen to him, you would have thought that a verdict for Ronnie would simultaneously cause a mutiny in the Royal Navy and triumphant jubilation in Berlin.

01:06:37I think I shall come down to court today.

01:06:40Now, Arthur, we go through this every day.

01:06:43Father, you know what the doctor said.

01:06:45Grace, I know that you do not agree with me, that you never have, but I think you'll admit that however the case may end, I have the right to be what you call in at the death.

01:06:58Very well, dear.

01:06:59Thank you, Grace.

01:07:01Shall we go?

01:07:02Mrs. Betts, you are the postmistress at the Naval Academy at Osborne?

01:07:12That is correct.

01:07:13And you were on duty on the afternoon of June the 7th, 1901?

01:07:17Yes, sir, I was.

01:07:18Do you remember the accused cadet Ronald Winslow coming in to buy a postlauter?

01:07:22Yes, very well.

01:07:23For what amount was that postlauter?

01:07:25Fifteen and sixpence.

01:07:27And while you were making out his postlauter, did you get a good look at him?

01:07:31Very clearly.

01:07:32Oh, yes, sir.

01:07:33You were there all the time he was signing the postal order, were you not?

01:07:37Well, not all the time, sir.

01:07:39Oh.

01:07:39Well, as a matter of fact, I was called to the telephone.

01:07:44How long were you at the telephone?

01:07:46Well, I don't remember.

01:07:49Two or three minutes, I suppose.

01:07:50Two or three minutes.

01:07:52Well, in that case, you would not have had much time to observe cadet Winslow, would you?

01:07:56Well, I suppose not, really.

01:07:59Later that day, you were called to the commander's office.

01:08:02You were unable positively to identify cadet Winslow.

01:08:05Your exact words were...

01:08:08I can't be sure they all look alike.

01:08:11Is that not so?

01:08:12Yes.

01:08:13Why did you say that?

01:08:14Well, they do with their uniforms and all that.

01:08:17I see.

01:08:18Might it not then quite easily have been another cadet who cashed the postal order for five shillings?

01:08:25Well?

01:08:27Well, it might have been.

01:08:29Thank you, Mrs. Beggs.

01:08:31No further questions.

01:08:32Mrs. Beggs, I have only one question to ask you.

01:08:39Search your mind carefully.

01:08:40Yes.

01:08:41Are you absolutely positive that the same boy who bought the fifteen and six postal order

01:08:46also cashed the one for five shillings?

01:08:50Yes, sir.

01:08:51Why?

01:08:52Because cadet Winslow was such a nice-looking little boy, I couldn't help noticing him.

01:08:59No further questions.

01:09:02I would like to call Herbert Ridgely Pierce to the stand.

01:09:09And you were positive that the handwriting on that postal order was that of Ronald Winslow?

01:09:16Quite positive.

01:09:17Mr. Ridgely Pierce, you have been described as the greatest handwriting expert in England,

01:09:25have you not?

01:09:26I believe I have, yes.

01:09:26And I am sure quite correctly so described.

01:09:29That's very good of you.

01:09:30Not at all.

01:09:31It was your evidence that brought the poisoner Mason to justice, wasn't it?

01:09:35Yes, it was.

01:09:35And the forger Cartwright?

01:09:37Yes.

01:09:37One, if I remember, had a very distinctive way of writing his capital I's, did he not?

01:09:42Was that Mason?

01:09:42No, it was Cartwright.

01:09:43I stand correct.

01:09:44Mason gave himself away by the letter J, which he forged with a very distinctive squiggle.

01:09:49If you'll forgive, so very un-technical an expression.

01:09:52But, of course, in this matter I'm necessarily very un-technical myself.

01:09:58Now, this squiggle was presumably habitual with Mason, was it not?

01:10:02Certainly.

01:10:02Over how long a period?

01:10:03Oh, all his life.

01:10:04Oh, hardly all his life.

01:10:07He would hardly have been writing his J's with a squiggle at birth.

01:10:11I meant all his adult life, of course.

01:10:14All his adult life.

01:10:16Well, since he learned to write.

01:10:18You said adult life, Mr. Ridgely Pierce.

01:10:22I think that point is not without importance.

01:10:24What system did you use to identify the handwriting of the child, Ronald Winslow?

01:10:30What system?

01:10:31My own, of course.

01:10:32The Ridgely Pierce system.

01:10:34That is what it is called.

01:10:35The same system that you used to convict Mason and Cartwright?

01:10:38Yes.

01:10:38How old were they?

01:10:40I can't remember.

01:10:41One was 44, the other 63.

01:10:43Am I right?

01:10:44Yes, I've no doubt.

01:10:45How often have you had to identify a child's handwriting?

01:10:48Well, I...

01:10:49This is the first time, is it not?

01:10:52Yes.

01:10:53After all, children are often convicted of forgery.

01:10:56My lord.

01:10:57Sir Robert.

01:10:58This child has not been convicted of forgery, Mr. Ridgely Pierce.

01:11:05And that for the last two years he has stood accused of it is due almost entirely to you and the Ridgely Pierce system,

01:11:12used until now on middle-aged murderers and elderly forgers.

01:11:17The Ridgely Pierce system.

01:11:25Now, this has, of course, been a mandate to cover the research work on children's handwriting done recently by Professor Schwitzbarker of Zurich.

01:11:33By whom?

01:11:33Professor Schwitzbarker of Zurich.

01:11:36I never heard of him.

01:11:38What?

01:11:39My lord, must I accept that?

01:11:42It would seem so, Sir Robert.

01:11:44That this great expert has never heard of Professor Schwitzbarker.

01:11:47I've never heard of Professor Schwitzbarker.

01:11:52Well, Dr. Sharp of Princeton.

01:11:55I haven't heard of him either.

01:11:57No doubt my learned friend will be asking leave to call these gentlemen in rebuttal.

01:12:01I am not asking leave to call these gentlemen for the reason that I am not asking leave to call Isaac Newton to prove the law of gravity,

01:12:08or Galileo to prove that the earth is round.

01:12:11That a handwriting expert so described should not even have heard of the work of the two most eminent scholars on the subject in the world.

01:12:18That is not good.

01:12:19I mean the subject of the handwriting of children.

01:12:21Work that shows conclusively that children's handwriting must march hand in hand with the development of character,

01:12:29and that as a child of 13 can hardly be presumed to have...

01:12:32Sir Robert, you are not supposed to be addressing the jury, but cross-examining the witness.

01:12:38There seems little point in continuing to cross-examine this witness, my lord.

01:12:43The expert witness on the handwriting of children.

01:12:48However, Mr. Ridgely Pierce,

01:12:53when you were Ronald Winslow's age, if you can remember so many years ago,

01:12:58had you formed distinctive squiggles in your J's?

01:13:02No.

01:13:02Or in any other letter.

01:13:05Ah, but then you see, it's not just a question of...

01:13:07Thank you, Mr. Ridgely Pierce.

01:13:10That is all.

01:13:13Despite my learned friend's obscure references to certain impressively named authorities,

01:13:21Mr. Ridgely Pierce,

01:13:22Have you still any doubt at all about that signature being in Ronald Winslow's handwriting?

01:13:30None whatsoever.

01:13:37Sir, excuse me.

01:13:38Yes, sir.

01:13:42My lord, I'm sorry, but may I request a brief adjournment?

01:13:47Certainly.

01:13:48The court will rise.

01:13:50Very clever, no doubt.

01:13:57But it didn't shake the jury.

01:13:59I'm not so sure, father.

01:14:00All right, mother?

01:14:01Yes, dear.

01:14:02I'll wait here.

01:14:03There's much more to look at than in that draughty waiting room.

01:14:06Come along, father.

01:14:07I'm all right.

01:14:09Catherine.

01:14:10Catherine, may I speak to you for another?

01:14:12Oh, of course, Desmond.

01:14:14I'll wait in the visitor's room.

01:14:16Shall we sit down?

01:14:17Well, Kate...

01:14:20How do you think it's going, Desmond?

01:14:22Oh, pretty well.

01:14:24He is a strange man, Sir Robert.

01:14:27Times so cold and distant and...

01:14:29Fish-like.

01:14:31Fish-like.

01:14:32Exactly.

01:14:33Yes.

01:14:34And yet he has a real passion about this case.

01:14:37A real passion.

01:14:38I happen to know...

01:14:40Of course, this must on no account go any further.

01:14:43But I happen to know that he has made a very, very great personal sacrifice in order to bring it to court.

01:14:48Sacrifice?

01:14:49Yes, he was...

01:14:50You really must promise to keep this to yourself, but he was offered...

01:14:54What was he offered, Desmond?

01:14:55The appointment of Lord Chief Justice.

01:14:58He turned it down simply in order to be able to carry on with the case of Winslow versus Rex.

01:15:05Strange are the ways of men, are they not?

01:15:07Yes.

01:15:10Kate, I have a question to put to you, which if I had postponed putting until after the verdict,

01:15:15you might, who knows, have thought to have been prompted by pity if we had lost.

01:15:20Or if we had won, your reply might have been influenced by gratitude.

01:15:25Do you follow me, Kate?

01:15:27Yes, Desmond, I think I do.

01:15:29Ah.

01:15:29Then possibly you have some inkling of what the question is I have to put to you.

01:15:34Yes, I think I have.

01:15:36Ah.

01:15:37I need hardly tell you how grateful I am, Desmond.

01:15:40Oh, there's no need, Kate.

01:15:42No need at all.

01:15:44Forgive me, Kate, but you see, I know very well what your feelings for me really are.

01:15:49You do?

01:15:50Oh, yes, Kate.

01:15:52I know quite well they have never amounted to much more than sort of, well, shall we say, friendliness.

01:15:59A warm friendliness, I hope.

01:16:01That's true, isn't it?

01:16:04Yes, Desmond.

01:16:05I know, I know.

01:16:07Of course, even if I proved the most devoted and adoring husband that ever lived, your feelings for me would never, could never amount to more than that.

01:16:17When I was a young man, it might perhaps have been a different story.

01:16:23Oh, and I played cricket for England.

01:16:28No, perhaps even that would not have made so much difference.

01:16:31Well, the athletic prowess is fading, I'm afraid, with the ears and the stiffening of the muscles.

01:16:37Of course, but my love for you will never fade.

01:16:42That's very charmingly said, Desmond.

01:16:45Don't make fun of me, Kate, please.

01:16:48I meant it every word.

01:16:50No matter what you feel, or don't feel for me, no matter what you feel for anybody else, I want you to be my wife.

01:16:59I see.

01:17:00Thank you, Desmond.

01:17:01That makes everything much clearer.

01:17:03Will you, will you give me a few days to think it over?

01:17:07Oh, of course, of course.

01:17:09Oh, um, I must get back to court.

01:17:12Oh, Catherine.

01:17:18Ah, Kate.

01:17:23I've been a fool, Father.

01:17:25Have you, my dear?

01:17:26An utter fool.

01:17:27In default of further information, I can only repeat, have you, my dear?

01:17:33There can be no further information.

01:17:35I'm under a pledge of secrecy.

01:17:37Oh.

01:17:39What did Desmond want?

01:17:40To marry me.

01:17:42I trust the folly you were referring to wasn't your acceptance of him?

01:17:46No, Father.

01:17:47Would it be such folly, though?

01:17:49Lunacy.

01:17:50Well, I'm nearly thirty.

01:17:52I shall have to think it over.

01:17:53Think it over by all means, but decide against it.

01:17:57Better far to live and die an old maid than to marry Desmond.

01:18:02Even an old maid must eat.

01:18:05I'm leaving you and your mother everything, you know.

01:18:09Everything?

01:18:11There is still a little left.

01:18:14John's going to get married next month.

01:18:17It's a girl I know slightly.

01:18:18She'll make him a good wife.

01:18:20Is he in love with her?

01:18:21No more than he was with me.

01:18:22Perhaps even a little less.

01:18:24Why is he marrying her so soon after...

01:18:26After jilting me?

01:18:27Because he thinks there's going to be a war.

01:18:30If there is, his regiment will be among the first to go overseas.

01:18:33Besides, his father approves strongly.

01:18:35She's a general's daughter.

01:18:37Very, very suitable.

01:18:40Poor Kate.

01:18:41How I've messed up your life, haven't I?

01:18:44No, Father.

01:18:45Any messing up that's been done has been done by me.

01:18:47I'm so sorry, Kate.

01:18:49I'm so sorry.

01:18:51Don't be, Father.

01:18:52We both knew what we were doing.

01:18:55If you could go back and choose again, would your choice be different?

01:19:01Perhaps.

01:19:02I don't think so.

01:19:03Well, I don't think so either.

01:19:05I say again, we both knew what we were doing.

01:19:08And we were right to do it.

01:19:10Dear Kate, thank you.

01:19:14So you aren't going to marry Desmond, are you?

01:19:17In the words of the Prime Minister, Father, wait and see.

01:19:21What's that?

01:19:25It sounds as though...

01:19:26But it couldn't be, not yet.

01:19:28Go and see.

01:19:29Yes, I will.

01:19:32Mother!

01:19:33Come through, brother.

01:19:35I can't believe you ought to wait for my car.

01:19:38Thank you so much.

01:19:39Arthur, oh, my dear.

01:19:41Oh, my dear, I didn't know.

01:19:42I didn't understand what they meant until all the cheering started.

01:19:45And then the whole courtroom.

01:19:47Well, it was like an explosion.

01:19:48The cheering and screaming and Dickie caught hold of my hand and he was crying and I still couldn't take it in.

01:19:54And then I looked at Sir Robert and he was standing by the table with his wig on, all crooked.

01:19:59And Arthur, the tears were running down his face and he couldn't speak because of the noise.

01:20:03And there were people climbing up over seats and trying to shake his hand.

01:20:06And some women caught hold of me and embraced me.

01:20:08And some of the people were yelling, good old Winslow, and singing for he's a jolly good fellow.

01:20:13Just for you, Arthur.

01:20:14Just for you.

01:20:15It would appear that we've won.

01:20:19Oh, yes, darling.

01:20:20We've won.

01:20:22The Attorney General conceded the case.

01:20:25Isn't that what they said, Dickie?

01:20:26Oh, yes, Father.

01:20:27Father, I'm so very, very proud of you.

01:20:31Kate, we've won.

01:20:33Yes, Father.

01:20:34God bless you, Father.

01:20:37Look, Father, it is the reporter's.

01:20:39I think I want to have a word with you outside.

01:20:40What?

01:20:41What shall I say, Kate?

01:20:42Oh, you'll think of something, Father.

01:20:44Oh, Mr. Winslow.

01:20:46May we have a few words?

01:20:47A quick reaction.

01:20:48Please, please.

01:20:49What are you going to get out of the case?

01:20:51Please.

01:20:53Sir Robert.

01:20:58Huh?

01:21:00Miss Winslow.

01:21:05Well, well.

01:21:07Pity you were not in the court.

01:21:10The verdict appeared to cause quite a stir.

01:21:12Why did the Attorney General throw up the case?

01:21:15On instructions from his clients, the Lords of the Admiralty.

01:21:18Why did they throw it up?

01:21:20I would say in one word, shame.

01:21:24Their Lordships can feel shame.

01:21:25Anyone can feel shame at having done a wrong, once that wrong has been made public.

01:21:32Obviously, perhaps they were a little worried about Mr. Ridgely Pierce.

01:21:35Is there a Professor Schruzbacher of Zurich?

01:21:39Well, there must be.

01:21:41Don't you think?

01:21:42Sir Robert, I'm afraid I have a confession and an apology to make to you.

01:21:46Dear lady, I am sure the one is rash and the other superfluous.

01:21:49I would far rather hear neither.

01:21:51I'm afraid you must.

01:21:52I have entirely misjudged your attitude to this case.

01:21:55And if in doing so I have ever seemed to you either rude or ungrateful, I am sincerely and humbly sorry.

01:22:02My dear Miss Winslow, you have never seemed to me either rude or ungrateful.

01:22:06And my attitude to this case has been the same as yours.

01:22:10A determination to win at all costs.

01:22:14Only when you talk of gratitude, you must remember that those costs were not mine but yours.

01:22:19Haven't you too made a certain sacrifice for the case?

01:22:22The robes of that office would not have suited me.

01:22:26Wouldn't they?

01:22:27For I must ask you never to divulge it to another living soul, even to forget it yourself.

01:22:32I shall never divulge it.

01:22:33I'm afraid I can't promise to forget it myself.

01:22:38Very well.

01:22:38If you choose to endow an unimportant incident with a romantic significance, you are perfectly at liberty to do so.

01:22:44Now I must go.

01:22:45Why are you always at such pains to prevent people knowing the truth about you, Sir Robert?

01:22:50Am I indeed?

01:22:50You know you are.

01:22:52Why?

01:22:53Perhaps because I do not know the truth about myself.

01:22:56That is no answer.

01:22:58My dear Miss Winslow, are you cross-examining me?

01:23:00On this point, yes.

01:23:02Why are you so ashamed of your emotions?

01:23:04Because to fight a case on emotional grounds, Miss Winslow, is the surest way of losing it.

01:23:10Emotions muddy the issue.

01:23:12Cold, clear logic.

01:23:14Buckets of it should be the lawyer's only equipment.

01:23:17Was it cold, clear logic that made you weep today at the verdict?

01:23:22Your mother, of course, told you that.

01:23:25Oh, it doesn't matter.

01:23:26It'll be in the papers tomorrow anyway.

01:23:27Very well, then, if you must have it.

01:23:30Here it is.

01:23:31I wept today because right had been done.

01:23:37Not justice?

01:23:38No, not justice.

01:23:40Right.

01:23:41It's easy to do justice.

01:23:44Very hard to do right.

01:23:45Unfortunately, while the appeal of justice is intellectual, the appeal of right appears, for some odd reason, to induce tears in court.

01:23:56That is my answer and my excuse.

01:23:58Now, may I leave the witness box?

01:23:59No.

01:24:00One last question.

01:24:02How can you reconcile your support of Winslow against the Crown with your political beliefs?

01:24:06Very easily.

01:24:07No one party has a monopoly of concern for individual liberty.

01:24:12On that issue, all parties are united.

01:24:14I don't think so.

01:24:15You don't?

01:24:15No, not all parties.

01:24:17Only some people from all parties.

01:24:20That is a very wise remark.

01:24:24We can only hope, then, that those some people will always prove enough people.

01:24:31You would make a good advocate.

01:24:32Oh, would I?

01:24:33Yes.

01:24:34Why do you not canalise your feministic impulses towards the law courts, Miss Winslow, and abandon the lost cause of women's suffrage?

01:24:41Because I don't believe it is a lost cause.

01:24:43It's a pity.

01:24:43In the House of Commons, in days to come, I shall make a point of looking up at the gallery in the hope of catching a glimpse of you in that provocative hat.

01:24:52One day, Sir Robert, but not in the gallery, across the floor.

01:24:58Perhaps.

01:24:58And finally, gentlemen, I could say that the victory is not mine, but the people's.

01:25:07They have triumphed, as they always will, over despotism.

01:25:09Does that strike you as a trifle pretentious?

01:25:13Perhaps, sir.

01:25:15Perhaps.

01:25:16I'd better say what I really feel, which is merely, thank God we beat him.

01:25:21Yes, sir.

01:25:22Thank you, sir.

01:25:22Congratulations.

01:25:24All of it.

01:25:24Thank you, gentlemen.

01:25:26Ronnie, where have you been?

01:25:28Oh, I say.

01:25:29I'm most awfully sorry.

01:25:31I didn't know anything was going to happen.

01:25:33Where were you?

01:25:34I had the pictures.

01:25:35Pictures?

01:25:35What is that?

01:25:36The cinematograph show.

01:25:38I'm most awfully sorry.

01:25:40I say, we won, didn't we, Sir Robert?

01:25:43Oh, yes.

01:25:44We won.

01:25:45Sir Robert, it's hard for me to find the words I should speak to you.

01:25:50Pray do not trouble yourself to search for them, sir.

01:25:52Let us take these rather tiresome and conventional expressions of gratitude for granted, shall we?

01:25:58Oh, I thought you might like to hear the actual terms of the Attorney General's statement.

01:26:02So I jotted it down for you.

01:26:06I say now, on behalf of the Admiralty, that I accept the declaration of Ronald Arthur Winslow,

01:26:11that he did not write the name on the postal order, that he did not take it, that he did not cash it,

01:26:16and that consequently he was innocent of the charge which was brought against him two years ago.

01:26:22I make that statement without any reservation of any description,

01:26:25intending it to be a complete acceptance of the boy's statements, sir.

01:26:29Now, on the question of damages and costs, I fear we are going to find the Admiralty rather niggardly.

01:26:37You are likely still to be left considerably out of pocket.

01:26:40However, doubtless, we can apply a slight spur to the First Lord's posterior in the House of Commons.

01:26:45Oh, please, no more trouble, I beg.

01:26:49Let the matter rest here.

01:26:51This statement is all I have ever asked for.

01:26:55Right has been done.

01:26:56The Winslow Boy by Terence Rattigan

01:27:03Arthur Winslow was played by Michael Aldridge

01:27:06Grace Winslow by Pauline Letts

01:27:09Catherine Winslow by Sarah Bedell

01:27:11Dickie Winslow by Michael Maloney

01:27:14and Ronnie Winslow by John McAndrew

01:27:17John Watherstone was played by David Timpson

01:27:21Desmond Curry, Michael Spice

01:27:23Miss Barnes, Margaret Robertson

01:27:26and Violet by Peggy Page

01:27:28The First Lord of the Admiralty was played by Patrick Barr

01:27:32The Attorney General, Nicholas Courtney

01:27:34Mrs. Beggs, Gladys Spencer

01:27:37Herbert Ridgely Pierce, John Rye

01:27:40and Sir Robert Morton by Aubrey Woods

01:27:43The play was adapted from Terence Rattigan's stage and television scripts

01:27:48and was directed by Ian Cotterell

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