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<i>Scarcely had the demon cast
his burning stare upon her.</i>

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<i>Scarcely had...</i>

3
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<i>...the demon cast
his burning stare upon her...</i>

4
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<i>...leaving his face
entirely without symmetry...</i>

5
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<i>...leaving his face entirely without form...</i>

6
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<i>...and as her fingertips
touched upon his lips...</i>

7
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<i>...he melted into her.</i>

8
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She's looking for you.

9
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Next time you run off to read
ghost stories, take me with you.

10
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Who says I was reading ghost stories?

11
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- It's thrilling, isn't it?
- My heart was racing, I was so scared.

12
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If I were you, I'd be more scared
of your father catching you reading it.

13
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I don't know how he vexes so.

14
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People liked his Gothic novels.

15
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Your father is in the bookshop working.

16
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Claire has been tending to the house.

17
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I have spent all hours
going through the ledgers.

18
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Where were you today that you couldn't
relieve your father for a few hours?

19
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I completed my work for today.
I just went out for some fresh air.

20
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I know where you were.

21
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Look who has returned, my dear.

22
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I just went out for a walk.

23
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Glad to see you devoting yourself
to these great works, Mary.

24
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"To love reading is to have
everything within your reach."

25
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Payment is over-due, Mr. Godwin.

26
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Need I remind you
of the conditions of your loan?

27
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Business has been very poor.

28
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Allow me one more month.

29
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Another month? It's six months already.

30
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Now, weren't you asking for a ghost story?

31
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- Is it a new one?
- Another month. Understand?

32
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I will rise from the grave...

33
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...to tell the tale of the treachery
I have suffered.

34
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And to seek my revenge!

35
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<i>Scarcely had the demon cast...</i>

36
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<i>...his burning stare upon her...</i>

37
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<i>...in her icy cheeks...</i>

38
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Claire, Claire. Claire!

39
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It's just a nightmare.

40
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It's all right.

41
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Go back to sleep.

42
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It's all right.

43
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Go back to sleep.

44
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You can't sleep?

45
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Do you miss her?

46
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She was so full of passion.

47
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So full of defiance.

48
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As if she were at war constantly
with everyone and everything.

49
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And enjoying every moment of the battle.

50
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Warriors like your mother
are never long for this world.

51
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<i>The Devil's claws lunged
at the maiden's neck.</i>

52
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<i>Sinking his talons...</i>

53
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<i>...deep, deep into her ripe, pale skin.</i>

54
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<i>Blood dripped...</i>

55
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<i>...like tracks in milky snow.</i>

56
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- Mary?
- <i>She screamed.</i>

57
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Where are you?

58
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No one watching the shop, and you
back here scribbling away like a child.

59
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Let's see what's so important that it's
kept you from your work, shall we?

60
00:08:01,832 --> 00:08:03,635
It is private.

61
00:08:04,545 --> 00:08:07,428
What thoughts haunt the daughter
of these esteemed writers?

62
00:08:07,508 --> 00:08:09,354
Let go!

63
00:08:12,828 --> 00:08:16,007
- Mary.
- She pushed me!

64
00:08:16,089 --> 00:08:18,919
- Did you not see her...
- I didn't do anything.

65
00:08:18,999 --> 00:08:23,058
- You all right?
- I can't live with someone like this.

66
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There's not a grain of respect in her.

67
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- I didn't do anything!
- That's enough. That's enough.

68
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<i>He's an old friend.</i>

69
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<i>Mr. Baxter is as firm a believer
in education as I am.</i>

70
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- <i>You'll find his house very comfortable.</i>
- <i>Scotland?</i>

71
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<i>I'm sending you away
because I love you, Mary.</i>

72
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<i>And because I sincerely hope that you'll
find the refuge that you need there.</i>

73
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Also that the solitude
will give you time for introspection.

74
00:09:00,041 --> 00:09:01,938
Your writing...

75
00:09:02,159 --> 00:09:04,336
...this is the work of an imitator.

76
00:09:04,417 --> 00:09:09,466
Rid yourself of the thoughts
and words of other people, Mary.

77
00:09:10,843 --> 00:09:12,654
<i>Find your own voice.</i>

78
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Mary! Welcome. Oh, my God,
you look so much like your mother.

79
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And, thank the Lord, not a thing
like your father. I'm William Baxter.

80
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This is my daughter Isabel.

81
00:10:01,186 --> 00:10:03,941
We'll do our best to keep you
amused out here, Mary.

82
00:10:04,021 --> 00:10:06,061
It may not be as bustling as London...

83
00:10:06,141 --> 00:10:09,005
...but I'm sure we can find
some ways to pass the time.

84
00:10:26,578 --> 00:10:28,584
The night is so different here.

85
00:10:28,664 --> 00:10:31,336
How do people sleep with all this silence?

86
00:10:32,217 --> 00:10:34,692
Come on, I know just where to go.

87
00:10:39,675 --> 00:10:42,489
I've thought of trying to summon my mother...

88
00:10:42,769 --> 00:10:44,632
...by séance.

89
00:10:46,832 --> 00:10:49,277
But she suffered so long with illness...

90
00:10:50,310 --> 00:10:53,165
...what if she has finally
found peace at last?

91
00:10:53,964 --> 00:10:56,034
Wouldn't it be cruel to disturb her?

92
00:10:57,675 --> 00:10:59,947
Do you think it could really work...

93
00:11:00,027 --> 00:11:01,338
...reaching the dead?

94
00:11:02,889 --> 00:11:04,977
I already feel her presence.

95
00:11:06,702 --> 00:11:08,506
I miss her so much.

96
00:11:10,071 --> 00:11:12,326
Not a day goes by when I don't think of her.

97
00:11:16,236 --> 00:11:19,476
Would you ever consider trying
to contact your mother?

98
00:11:21,558 --> 00:11:23,788
Maybe she wouldn't want me to.

99
00:11:24,720 --> 00:11:26,994
Given I was the one who killed her.

100
00:11:29,304 --> 00:11:31,979
She died just days after I was born.

101
00:11:35,046 --> 00:11:36,901
Oh, Mary.

102
00:11:58,028 --> 00:12:00,182
I love it in Scotland.

103
00:12:00,262 --> 00:12:02,953
Nothing is as I expected it would be.

104
00:12:03,434 --> 00:12:06,839
You've only been here
a few weeks. Give it time.

105
00:12:07,913 --> 00:12:11,509
In London it's not often we have
occasion to picnic by the river.

106
00:12:11,589 --> 00:12:14,475
Your mistake is waiting for an occasion.

107
00:12:29,460 --> 00:12:33,274
I looked upon the rotting sea
and drew my eyes away

108
00:12:33,354 --> 00:12:36,819
I looked upon the rotting deck
And there the dead men lay

109
00:12:36,899 --> 00:12:39,656
I looked to Heaven and tried to pray

110
00:12:40,236 --> 00:12:42,743
But before a prayer had gushed
A wicked whisper came...

111
00:12:42,823 --> 00:12:45,412
Come in. Come in. You must be freezing.

112
00:12:45,492 --> 00:12:47,805
If I could just give you
a couple of my essays.

113
00:12:48,970 --> 00:12:50,942
My contribution
to this evening's entertainment.

114
00:12:51,022 --> 00:12:52,644
- How are you?
- Good. How's the party?

115
00:12:52,724 --> 00:12:55,787
Isabel... who is that?

116
00:12:56,812 --> 00:12:59,683
Oh, that's Shelley.

117
00:13:00,106 --> 00:13:02,845
Beautiful, isn't he? He's a radical poet.

118
00:13:02,925 --> 00:13:06,248
He thinks poetry should reform society,
and so he's often in trouble.

119
00:13:06,328 --> 00:13:08,535
Sounds like quite a catch.

120
00:13:08,615 --> 00:13:12,197
- Let me introduce you to some friends.
- There's someone I'd like you to meet.

121
00:13:12,347 --> 00:13:14,174
Good luck.

122
00:13:14,254 --> 00:13:18,545
- Percy, may I present Mary. Mary...
- Baxter! Come and join us!

123
00:13:18,625 --> 00:13:23,090
Oh, it's Coleridge. Mary, could you
put these nameplates out, please?

124
00:13:26,674 --> 00:13:28,530
Let me get those for you.

125
00:13:30,543 --> 00:13:32,890
I'm Percy Bysshe Shelley.

126
00:13:34,750 --> 00:13:37,238
I am Mary Wollstonecraft-Godwin.

127
00:13:37,318 --> 00:13:41,725
Of course. Baxter mentioned
you'd be joining the family here.

128
00:13:42,515 --> 00:13:46,390
I am a great admirer
of both your parents' work.

129
00:13:52,700 --> 00:13:55,707
I hope I can entrust you
to this task, Mr. Shelley.

130
00:13:55,787 --> 00:14:00,086
- Or will you try to incite me to revolution?
- My reputation precedes me.

131
00:14:00,667 --> 00:14:03,840
Won't you welcome a change
from the deafening quiet?

132
00:14:03,920 --> 00:14:05,975
I've grown accustomed to it.

133
00:14:06,657 --> 00:14:10,105
In London I spend most
of my time in my father's bookshop.

134
00:14:10,686 --> 00:14:14,266
So the deafening quiet is not
as dramatic as you may think.

135
00:14:14,346 --> 00:14:18,289
Baxter does his best for these gatherings.
Any lover of poetry will surely find a...

136
00:14:18,369 --> 00:14:21,623
...great thrill in the work
that is being presented here.

137
00:14:23,815 --> 00:14:26,588
So surely you are a writer yourself?

138
00:14:28,704 --> 00:14:31,959
Not really. Nothing substantial.

139
00:14:32,499 --> 00:14:34,787
I hope to, someday.

140
00:14:35,367 --> 00:14:39,210
And what, may I ask, would you constitute
as "substantial" in your eyes?

141
00:14:40,857 --> 00:14:43,855
Anything that curdles the blood...

142
00:14:43,935 --> 00:14:46,918
...and quickens the beatings of the heart.

143
00:14:48,298 --> 00:14:50,687
Ah, perfect!

144
00:14:50,767 --> 00:14:54,165
Now may I steal Mr. Shelley away?

145
00:14:54,496 --> 00:14:57,977
- We would love a poem, sir.
- Certainly, sir.

146
00:14:59,742 --> 00:15:04,566
Without an audience,
ideas remain mere words on a page.

147
00:15:08,969 --> 00:15:12,526
- Mr. Shelley, your essay.
- Oh, I have no need for those.

148
00:15:12,606 --> 00:15:17,279
Thank you. I shall trust
in the spark of new found inspiration.

149
00:15:30,365 --> 00:15:34,330
Oh, not the visioned poet in his dreams...

150
00:15:34,411 --> 00:15:38,544
...when silvery clouds float
through the wildered brain...

151
00:15:38,624 --> 00:15:43,781
...when every sight of lovely,
wild and grand...

152
00:15:43,861 --> 00:15:45,492
...astonishes...

153
00:15:45,572 --> 00:15:47,510
...enraptures...

154
00:15:47,590 --> 00:15:49,202
...elevates...

155
00:15:50,217 --> 00:15:51,732
...so bright...

156
00:15:52,012 --> 00:15:55,092
...so fair, so wild a shape...

157
00:15:55,172 --> 00:15:59,321
...hath ever yet beheld as that
which reined the coursers of the air...

158
00:15:59,401 --> 00:16:02,693
...and poured the magic of her gaze...

159
00:16:02,773 --> 00:16:05,068
...upon the maiden's sleep.

160
00:16:34,805 --> 00:16:38,394
<i>Alone, alone, all alone...</i>

161
00:16:38,475 --> 00:16:41,138
<i>...upon the wide, wide sea...</i>

162
00:16:41,218 --> 00:16:43,489
...and God will not take pity...

163
00:16:43,569 --> 00:16:46,005
...on my soul in agony.

164
00:16:47,943 --> 00:16:50,991
- This weather.
- Ah, stop complaining.

165
00:16:51,071 --> 00:16:54,104
- It's Scotland, what do you expect?
- So I say to you...

166
00:16:54,184 --> 00:16:57,288
...if all things come from God
and we all come from God...

167
00:16:57,368 --> 00:16:59,432
...are we not part of God?

168
00:16:59,512 --> 00:17:02,653
When we think, do we not behold
the very thoughts of God?

169
00:17:02,733 --> 00:17:06,005
- Can't say I feel like much of a god.
- Your body is tired, Baxter...

170
00:17:06,085 --> 00:17:08,558
...but your spirit, it longs to soar.

171
00:17:10,924 --> 00:17:13,071
What of you, Miss Godwin?

172
00:17:13,151 --> 00:17:15,449
Do you think you are of God...

173
00:17:15,529 --> 00:17:17,783
...like the great poet Coleridge?

174
00:17:19,999 --> 00:17:21,746
I'll admit...

175
00:17:21,826 --> 00:17:26,396
...I thought Coleridge was much more
captivating when I was a child.

176
00:17:26,477 --> 00:17:27,461
There you go.

177
00:17:27,541 --> 00:17:29,650
I'm surprised you can remember back that far.

178
00:17:29,730 --> 00:17:31,490
Behold the majesty of God's creation...

179
00:17:31,570 --> 00:17:33,909
Well, just how old are you then...

180
00:17:33,989 --> 00:17:36,076
...dear ancient one?

181
00:17:36,156 --> 00:17:38,238
Old enough to know why you are asking.

182
00:17:38,318 --> 00:17:39,615
Ah.

183
00:17:39,695 --> 00:17:41,725
It's inspirational, don't you think?

184
00:17:41,805 --> 00:17:43,877
- I'm 16.
- Hmm.

185
00:17:43,957 --> 00:17:47,032
- How about you?
- 21.

186
00:17:48,253 --> 00:17:50,526
A wise old man indeed.

187
00:17:55,744 --> 00:17:59,142
<i>As mountain springs under the morning sun...</i>

188
00:17:59,222 --> 00:18:01,477
<i>...we shall become the same...</i>

189
00:18:01,557 --> 00:18:04,830
<i>...we shall be one spirit
within two frames...</i>

190
00:18:05,411 --> 00:18:08,293
<i>...oh, wherefore two?</i>

191
00:18:08,373 --> 00:18:11,404
<i>One passion in twin hearts
which grows and grew...</i>

192
00:18:11,485 --> 00:18:14,299
<i>...till like two meteors
of expanding flame...</i>

193
00:18:14,379 --> 00:18:18,103
<i>...those spheres instinct with it
become the same...</i>

194
00:18:18,183 --> 00:18:22,650
<i>...touch, mingle
are transfigured ever still...</i>

195
00:18:22,730 --> 00:18:26,344
<i>...burning, yet inconsumable...</i>

196
00:18:33,699 --> 00:18:35,244
Mary...

197
00:18:36,341 --> 00:18:39,147
...I'm afraid I have some
terrible news from London.

198
00:18:40,806 --> 00:18:42,827
It's your sister Claire.

199
00:18:47,102 --> 00:18:48,719
<i>May I ask you...</i>

200
00:18:48,799 --> 00:18:51,678
...could you tell Mr. Shelley I said goodbye?

201
00:18:53,351 --> 00:18:54,794
Of course.

202
00:19:13,889 --> 00:19:16,161
Was Scotland everything I said it would be?

203
00:19:16,241 --> 00:19:18,013
Were you happy?

204
00:19:18,093 --> 00:19:19,906
I was.

205
00:19:22,888 --> 00:19:25,954
You will live again, Mary.
You have your mother's spirit.

206
00:19:26,034 --> 00:19:28,094
You won't be confined for long.

207
00:19:38,028 --> 00:19:40,722
She's been like this for weeks.

208
00:19:56,522 --> 00:19:57,969
Claire?

209
00:19:59,217 --> 00:20:01,831
Thank God! You're finally back!

210
00:20:07,057 --> 00:20:09,005
So you aren't dying?

211
00:20:10,128 --> 00:20:12,224
Only from boredom.

212
00:20:14,149 --> 00:20:16,187
You mean you weren't sick at all?

213
00:20:18,003 --> 00:20:21,032
Well... maybe a little bit.

214
00:20:32,000 --> 00:20:34,297
<i>Poor captive bird!</i>

215
00:20:34,377 --> 00:20:37,417
<i>Who, from thy narrow cage
pourest such music...</i>

216
00:20:37,497 --> 00:20:41,897
<i>...that it might assuage the rugged hearts
of those who prisoned thee...</i>

217
00:20:42,678 --> 00:20:45,641
<i>...were they not deaf towards sweet melody...</i>

218
00:20:45,721 --> 00:20:48,118
<i>...this song shall be thy rose...</i>

219
00:20:48,198 --> 00:20:53,083
<i>...its petals pale are dead, indeed...</i>

220
00:20:53,163 --> 00:20:55,775
<i>...my adored Nightingale!</i>

221
00:21:02,731 --> 00:21:07,573
It seems my mother's latest reverie
is a young protégé for your father.

222
00:21:07,653 --> 00:21:11,316
We are all to be on our best behavior
at dinner tonight to win him over.

223
00:21:11,396 --> 00:21:14,010
He's wealthy, evidently.

224
00:21:14,485 --> 00:21:18,758
She's a woman of indomitable hope,
I can't deny her that.

225
00:21:27,656 --> 00:21:32,738
Mr. Percy Shelley,
may I present Mrs. Godwin, my wife.

226
00:21:33,479 --> 00:21:38,071
And our children, William, Claire and Mary.

227
00:21:38,692 --> 00:21:40,279
Delighted.

228
00:21:42,297 --> 00:21:44,535
My husband tells me
you're a poet, Mr. Shelley.

229
00:21:44,615 --> 00:21:47,012
He speaks very highly of your work.

230
00:21:47,092 --> 00:21:50,365
Well, I am humbled
by his praise, Mrs. Godwin.

231
00:21:50,446 --> 00:21:53,709
I must admit, though,
my work is not yet widely known.

232
00:21:53,789 --> 00:21:57,716
Although I have just completed my
second volume which awaits publication.

233
00:21:57,796 --> 00:22:00,486
Very impressive achievement
for such a young man.

234
00:22:00,566 --> 00:22:02,494
Any achievement of mine
falls within the shadow...

235
00:22:02,584 --> 00:22:05,105
- ...of your influence, Mr. Godwin.
- You flatter me.

236
00:22:05,185 --> 00:22:09,017
Hope you will consider my proposal
to take me on as your protégé.

237
00:22:09,097 --> 00:22:12,017
I have a considerable allowance
at my disposal...

238
00:22:12,558 --> 00:22:16,607
...and would gladly reimburse you
for any time you might spare.

239
00:22:17,187 --> 00:22:20,821
Well, I feel duty bound to...

240
00:22:20,901 --> 00:22:24,506
...foster such ability.

241
00:22:25,756 --> 00:22:27,479
Well, then, that's settled.

242
00:22:29,409 --> 00:22:33,508
How fortunate we are to be
in the presence of two great minds.

243
00:22:34,890 --> 00:22:37,413
You must see our bookshop, Mr. Shelley.

244
00:22:37,493 --> 00:22:40,774
I have a copy of "The Iliad"
in the original Greek.

245
00:22:41,505 --> 00:22:42,676
Hmm.

246
00:22:42,756 --> 00:22:45,787
Perhaps Mary will show it
to you after dinner.

247
00:22:49,104 --> 00:22:50,992
How are you here?

248
00:22:51,682 --> 00:22:56,217
Does it seem so strange that I would seek out
the tutelage of the great William Godwin?

249
00:22:58,889 --> 00:23:01,736
Clearly I'm not only here to see your father.

250
00:23:02,833 --> 00:23:04,863
Then why are you here?

251
00:23:06,987 --> 00:23:10,411
To once again feel
the curdling of my blood...

252
00:23:10,491 --> 00:23:13,895
...and the quickening
of the beatings of my heart.

253
00:23:17,808 --> 00:23:19,220
Mary?

254
00:23:20,125 --> 00:23:22,023
Mr. Shelley?

255
00:23:23,003 --> 00:23:25,467
Your father would like to see Mr. Shelley.

256
00:23:27,883 --> 00:23:29,680
Thank you.

257
00:23:29,760 --> 00:23:35,419
I will be with him momentarily.
I'm quite enjoying the, uh, collection.

258
00:23:36,710 --> 00:23:38,565
So I see.

259
00:23:42,733 --> 00:23:47,982
As I was saying, both your parents
are a great source of inspiration to me.

260
00:23:48,078 --> 00:23:50,502
My mother died when I was ten days old.

261
00:23:51,066 --> 00:23:53,162
I'm sorry, I had no idea.

262
00:23:54,159 --> 00:23:55,749
Don't be sorry.

263
00:23:55,829 --> 00:23:58,050
I love to talk about her.

264
00:23:58,248 --> 00:24:01,177
Even if I never truly knew her.

265
00:24:01,917 --> 00:24:05,591
All of the contradictions she embodied.

266
00:24:05,671 --> 00:24:07,894
All anyone ever talks about...

267
00:24:08,133 --> 00:24:10,681
...now is how she wanted to go off...

268
00:24:10,761 --> 00:24:14,017
...and live with a married man and his wife...

269
00:24:14,097 --> 00:24:16,318
...in a ménage à trois.

270
00:24:16,475 --> 00:24:18,404
And what do you think about...

271
00:24:18,852 --> 00:24:20,273
...all that?

272
00:24:20,353 --> 00:24:22,575
I have no problem with it.

273
00:24:23,732 --> 00:24:26,579
People should live and love as they wish.

274
00:24:27,778 --> 00:24:29,950
But one thing I've never understood is...

275
00:24:30,030 --> 00:24:32,743
...why did two radicals
such as your parents...

276
00:24:32,823 --> 00:24:34,413
...succumb to marriage?

277
00:24:34,493 --> 00:24:37,173
To legitimize me.

278
00:24:40,956 --> 00:24:42,569
Meet me...

279
00:24:42,876 --> 00:24:44,388
...tomorrow.

280
00:24:44,903 --> 00:24:46,774
Just tell me where.

281
00:24:50,008 --> 00:24:52,313
There is a place I go alone.

282
00:24:53,887 --> 00:24:55,976
I'm not sure what you'll make of it.

283
00:24:58,559 --> 00:25:01,155
<i>My sanctuary of sorts.</i>

284
00:25:02,978 --> 00:25:05,990
<i>Then it will be my sanctuary, too.</i>

285
00:25:19,244 --> 00:25:21,425
I come here whenever I can.

286
00:25:22,623 --> 00:25:25,136
Just to feel her embrace.

287
00:25:27,878 --> 00:25:29,843
My father taught me to read...

288
00:25:29,923 --> 00:25:32,095
...by tracing the letters of her name.

289
00:25:36,555 --> 00:25:39,401
I don't know what it is I'm waiting for here.

290
00:25:40,140 --> 00:25:44,405
Maybe you're just waiting
for someone to reach out and...

291
00:25:45,188 --> 00:25:47,657
...return your embrace.

292
00:25:56,199 --> 00:25:58,463
I thought we would never escape the rain.

293
00:25:59,620 --> 00:26:02,958
I think I'd rather suffer the deluge outside.

294
00:26:03,038 --> 00:26:04,835
If God is everywhere...

295
00:26:04,915 --> 00:26:07,673
...then why must Man erect temples to Him?

296
00:26:07,753 --> 00:26:09,465
Because it is your imagination...

297
00:26:09,545 --> 00:26:11,510
...that is the instrument of moral good...

298
00:26:11,590 --> 00:26:14,270
...not these four walls.

299
00:26:17,345 --> 00:26:20,060
Let's see if the Great Creator
strikes us down.

300
00:26:24,184 --> 00:26:28,819
You shall fear the Lord your God.

301
00:26:28,899 --> 00:26:30,986
Thrones, altars...

302
00:26:31,066 --> 00:26:32,698
...judgement seats, and prisons...

303
00:26:32,778 --> 00:26:37,077
...they are all part of one
gigantic, despotic system...

304
00:26:37,157 --> 00:26:41,756
...designed to crush the soul of Man.

305
00:26:42,746 --> 00:26:46,090
Their empty covenant has no power over us.

306
00:26:48,834 --> 00:26:50,881
I fear not of God...

307
00:26:50,961 --> 00:26:52,633
...or His henchmen on Earth.

308
00:26:52,713 --> 00:26:54,561
Hmm.

309
00:26:57,886 --> 00:26:59,224
Someone's here.

310
00:27:01,306 --> 00:27:03,018
Percy.

311
00:27:03,098 --> 00:27:04,653
Percy.

312
00:27:06,061 --> 00:27:08,933
So the Judgment Day is upon us already.

313
00:27:10,315 --> 00:27:11,714
Hello?

314
00:27:14,695 --> 00:27:16,623
Is anyone there?

315
00:27:52,232 --> 00:27:55,739
Oh, Mr. Shelley, it is a real book.

316
00:27:55,819 --> 00:27:59,993
Your name looks so good
in that gold typeface.

317
00:28:00,073 --> 00:28:01,161
I'm sure it will be more popular...

318
00:28:01,241 --> 00:28:04,170
...than your treatise
on the virtues of atheism.

319
00:28:04,995 --> 00:28:07,167
Ghost stories and romance
novels might sell, my dear...

320
00:28:07,247 --> 00:28:10,021
...but it's books that challenge
the common doctrine and superstition...

321
00:28:10,101 --> 00:28:12,297
...that will truly endure.

322
00:28:12,377 --> 00:28:14,990
We rely on brave works like this...

323
00:28:15,070 --> 00:28:18,028
...to push the world
out of its misery and delusion.

324
00:28:18,108 --> 00:28:19,954
Well done, sir.

325
00:28:20,531 --> 00:28:22,355
I hope you like it, Miss Godwin.

326
00:28:24,204 --> 00:28:26,084
I'm sure I will.

327
00:28:34,840 --> 00:28:36,895
Read it when you're alone.

328
00:28:50,706 --> 00:28:52,603
Oh, give it to me!

329
00:28:52,683 --> 00:28:55,772
Give it to me. Please, Mary. Mary.

330
00:28:57,155 --> 00:28:59,970
"The sunlight clasp the Earth...

331
00:29:00,050 --> 00:29:02,473
...and the moonbeams kiss the sea...

332
00:29:02,553 --> 00:29:04,665
...what are all these kissings worth..."

333
00:29:04,745 --> 00:29:06,758
"If thou kiss not me?"

334
00:29:07,941 --> 00:29:09,724
Miss Godwin?

335
00:29:10,143 --> 00:29:11,690
Yes?

336
00:29:13,063 --> 00:29:16,537
I am Mrs. Shelley. Harriet Shelley.

337
00:29:17,017 --> 00:29:20,449
And this is Ianthe, our daughter.

338
00:29:26,452 --> 00:29:29,550
How can I help you, Mrs. Shelley?

339
00:29:30,080 --> 00:29:32,018
I am searching for my husband.

340
00:29:35,068 --> 00:29:36,931
He's not here.

341
00:29:37,277 --> 00:29:39,185
My father works alone today.

342
00:29:40,265 --> 00:29:42,738
I cannot help you any further.

343
00:29:42,818 --> 00:29:44,671
Miss Godwin!

344
00:29:47,247 --> 00:29:49,125
Stay away from Percy.

345
00:29:51,767 --> 00:29:56,527
I have not seen him in weeks
but I have heard rumors.

346
00:29:56,607 --> 00:30:00,881
Surely a wife of Mr. Shelley
would be impervious to gossip?

347
00:30:00,961 --> 00:30:04,984
Evidently you are a stranger
to scandal, Miss Godwin.

348
00:30:07,200 --> 00:30:10,640
Did you know I ran away
with Percy when I was a girl?

349
00:30:11,997 --> 00:30:15,261
Idealism and love give us courage.

350
00:30:16,442 --> 00:30:20,692
But they do not prepare you for the sacrifice
required to love a man like Percy.

351
00:30:23,842 --> 00:30:26,661
Your husband is my father's student.

352
00:30:27,471 --> 00:30:29,560
Nothing more.

353
00:30:29,640 --> 00:30:33,569
If I see Mr. Shelley,
I will let him know you are looking for him.

354
00:30:34,309 --> 00:30:36,157
Goodbye, Mrs. Shelley.

355
00:30:49,793 --> 00:30:51,448
Claire?

356
00:31:05,966 --> 00:31:08,239
Your wife is very pretty, Mr. Shelley.

357
00:31:08,504 --> 00:31:10,750
Oh, I didn't know you were married.

358
00:31:12,307 --> 00:31:13,845
Yes.

359
00:31:15,994 --> 00:31:19,031
Yes, I've been married for five years now.

360
00:31:20,315 --> 00:31:22,143
Well, well.

361
00:31:23,233 --> 00:31:25,156
We look forward to meeting Mrs. Shelley.

362
00:31:26,196 --> 00:31:28,759
Perhaps she would like to join us
for dinner one evening?

363
00:31:28,839 --> 00:31:30,986
Your offer is most kind, Mrs. Godwin.

364
00:31:31,066 --> 00:31:35,484
However, Mrs. Shelley and I
are man and wife in name... only.

365
00:31:35,564 --> 00:31:39,950
I continue to provide for Harriet and my
daughter Ianthe financially but that is all.

366
00:31:40,751 --> 00:31:42,833
It is an intolerable tyranny...

367
00:31:43,213 --> 00:31:46,512
...to bind husband
and wife to cohabitation...

368
00:31:46,592 --> 00:31:49,315
...after the decay of their affection.

369
00:31:51,472 --> 00:31:53,024
Yeah.

370
00:31:53,699 --> 00:31:56,763
I remember saying something
like that when I was young.

371
00:32:04,535 --> 00:32:06,657
How could you do such a thing?

372
00:32:06,737 --> 00:32:09,384
- What did I do?
- You told her.

373
00:32:09,965 --> 00:32:11,768
I had to.

374
00:32:25,170 --> 00:32:28,358
How could you not speak
of Harriet and Ianthe?

375
00:32:28,439 --> 00:32:33,058
My marriage was a mistake. I believed
that I'd found in Harriet a kindred spirit.

376
00:32:33,138 --> 00:32:36,694
But time revealed only an empty, heartless
cynicism that consumed the both of us...

377
00:32:36,774 --> 00:32:39,379
...in a spiral of hate and anguish.

378
00:32:40,145 --> 00:32:42,125
But when I met you...

379
00:32:42,205 --> 00:32:45,706
...for the first time since
my marriage, I felt alive.

380
00:32:45,786 --> 00:32:49,675
And had you known I was married, propriety
would have gotten the better of you.

381
00:32:49,755 --> 00:32:51,830
Propriety has never been a concern of mine.

382
00:32:51,910 --> 00:32:56,381
I promise you it can be very easy to say that,
but it can be very different to live it.

383
00:32:56,462 --> 00:32:59,480
- Which is what I challenge you to do now.
- You challenge me to what?

384
00:32:59,560 --> 00:33:02,628
To do what your heart is telling you to do...

385
00:33:03,408 --> 00:33:05,390
...and to come away with me.

386
00:33:05,471 --> 00:33:07,298
And let us both find...

387
00:33:08,849 --> 00:33:12,030
...new air to fill our lungs.

388
00:33:15,055 --> 00:33:18,105
A new sun to warm our faces.

389
00:33:18,684 --> 00:33:23,751
See a new life that is actually
worth the living...

390
00:33:24,898 --> 00:33:26,461
...together.

391
00:33:37,828 --> 00:33:42,117
The air in this house was
stifling long before Shelley...

392
00:33:42,197 --> 00:33:46,035
...but the fact that he comes here
every day makes it even less bearable.

393
00:33:48,321 --> 00:33:50,577
Feels like I'm suffocating.

394
00:33:52,300 --> 00:33:54,363
I just want to get away.

395
00:33:56,937 --> 00:33:59,185
At least you went to Scotland.

396
00:33:59,708 --> 00:34:01,546
I've never been anywhere.

397
00:34:05,020 --> 00:34:07,468
Next time we'll go somewhere together.

398
00:34:09,801 --> 00:34:11,880
We'll set off around the world...

399
00:34:12,461 --> 00:34:14,298
...just you and me.

400
00:34:15,532 --> 00:34:17,829
And we'll meet amazing people...

401
00:34:18,510 --> 00:34:20,715
...and go to wonderful places.

402
00:34:21,730 --> 00:34:23,502
And none of this...

403
00:34:23,582 --> 00:34:26,437
...or any of these people,
will matter at all.

404
00:34:28,311 --> 00:34:30,382
They won't mean a thing.

405
00:34:32,115 --> 00:34:33,986
I promise.

406
00:34:34,633 --> 00:34:37,246
I can't imagine anything more wonderful.

407
00:34:46,144 --> 00:34:48,084
Done so soon, Mr. Shelley?

408
00:34:48,164 --> 00:34:51,670
I thought you and Mr. Godwin would
be working through the afternoon.

409
00:34:51,750 --> 00:34:55,248
I'm afraid I don't feel up to much
of anything today, Mrs. Godwin.

410
00:35:06,550 --> 00:35:10,620
Mr. Shelley seems to be suffering
from some sort of emotional anguish.

411
00:35:12,756 --> 00:35:15,303
Perhaps he was disappointed to find that...

412
00:35:15,383 --> 00:35:20,032
...you do not cultivate the same public feats
of wantonness as your dear departed mother.

413
00:35:21,473 --> 00:35:24,633
I would ask that you not
speak ill of my mother.

414
00:35:24,713 --> 00:35:26,539
Oh, but of course.

415
00:35:27,003 --> 00:35:29,735
How dare anyone utter one word out of turn...

416
00:35:29,815 --> 00:35:32,629
...about a deceased person
of such eminent merit?

417
00:35:33,694 --> 00:35:36,975
At least you have not inherited
that strange deficit of hers.

418
00:35:37,055 --> 00:35:40,928
That foolish impulsiveness which mistook
wretchedness with emancipation.

419
00:35:42,202 --> 00:35:46,084
I have inherited nothing
but a fire in my soul...

420
00:35:46,164 --> 00:35:50,338
...and I will no longer allow you,
or anyone else, to contain it.

421
00:35:50,419 --> 00:35:53,472
Are you really involved
with that whoremonger?

422
00:35:53,552 --> 00:35:55,777
I hope those rumors prove to be false.

423
00:35:56,257 --> 00:35:58,805
Just when we have found
an avenue for our salvation...

424
00:35:58,885 --> 00:36:02,065
...you go and turn our fortunes
into yet another scandal.

425
00:36:02,145 --> 00:36:05,729
Do you believe I care at all
for my reputation?

426
00:36:05,809 --> 00:36:08,723
Or yours? I fear nothing...

427
00:36:08,803 --> 00:36:13,636
...but letting your meaningless words
scare me away from my desires.

428
00:36:36,006 --> 00:36:38,762
<i>The sunlight clasps the Earth</i>

429
00:36:38,842 --> 00:36:41,915
<i>And the moonbeams kiss the sea</i>

430
00:36:42,596 --> 00:36:45,143
<i>What are all these kissings worth</i>

431
00:36:45,223 --> 00:36:48,095
<i>If thou kiss not me?</i>

432
00:37:01,448 --> 00:37:02,935
Mary.

433
00:37:19,883 --> 00:37:22,200
What do you mean? But you're already married.

434
00:37:22,280 --> 00:37:26,234
We love each other.
We don't need to be married.

435
00:37:26,314 --> 00:37:28,454
I told you your warped ideals
would come back to haunt us.

436
00:37:28,534 --> 00:37:29,928
Mrs. Godwin, please.

437
00:37:30,008 --> 00:37:33,884
- We are only living by your beliefs.
- What do you know of living your beliefs?

438
00:37:33,964 --> 00:37:36,227
You had no problem with my mother
wanting to live out of wedlock.

439
00:37:36,307 --> 00:37:40,147
<i>Do you really think you can
withstand the consequences of this?</i>

440
00:37:41,196 --> 00:37:44,601
Your mother was tortured by her impulses.

441
00:37:46,242 --> 00:37:49,244
The very passions she thought were
holding her together were working...

442
00:37:49,324 --> 00:37:52,636
...just as diligently to tear her apart.

443
00:37:53,366 --> 00:37:55,606
Don't let them get the better of you, Mary.

444
00:37:56,236 --> 00:37:58,957
And you, forget whatever fantasy
you've woven with my daughter.

445
00:37:59,037 --> 00:38:03,443
Are you really suggesting I could only be
with your daughter if we were married?

446
00:38:04,052 --> 00:38:08,705
How dare you? Come into my house,
you accept my hospitality...

447
00:38:08,785 --> 00:38:11,522
- ...and seduce my 16 year old daughter!
- Is it not you accepting my money?

448
00:38:11,602 --> 00:38:13,423
Go back to your wife!

449
00:38:13,937 --> 00:38:16,184
Never set foot in this house again.

450
00:38:16,565 --> 00:38:19,201
My love, I will return for you.

451
00:38:22,087 --> 00:38:25,527
If you ever see Mr. Shelley again...

452
00:38:26,007 --> 00:38:29,030
...prepare to lose
the love of a father, forever.

453
00:38:48,054 --> 00:38:49,340
Mary!

454
00:38:52,100 --> 00:38:53,788
Mary!

455
00:38:55,145 --> 00:38:59,595
Don't look back, Mary.
Remember, once you are gone...

456
00:39:00,400 --> 00:39:04,669
...none of this, or any
of these people, will matter at all.

457
00:39:06,415 --> 00:39:09,261
But please, Mary, take me with you.

458
00:39:10,360 --> 00:39:13,040
You promised next time we would go together.

459
00:39:35,631 --> 00:39:37,854
I hope I haven't kept you waiting long!

460
00:39:48,765 --> 00:39:51,980
- I guess you come as a pair.
- I couldn't leave her.

461
00:39:52,938 --> 00:39:55,166
- Come!
- Where are we going?

462
00:39:55,246 --> 00:39:57,107
To St. Pancras.

463
00:40:12,247 --> 00:40:14,052
It's down here.

464
00:40:20,163 --> 00:40:21,275
Thank you.

465
00:40:22,774 --> 00:40:23,919
Oh!

466
00:40:26,361 --> 00:40:29,050
It is temporary, of course.

467
00:40:29,731 --> 00:40:31,536
Well, where will I sleep?

468
00:40:32,968 --> 00:40:35,121
Try through there.

469
00:40:41,001 --> 00:40:43,030
I am going to find us a house...

470
00:40:43,820 --> 00:40:46,668
...and I intend it to be perfect.

471
00:40:47,716 --> 00:40:49,621
It already is perfect.

472
00:40:50,786 --> 00:40:52,682
I have you.

473
00:40:53,710 --> 00:40:56,218
Wherever we're together is where I belong.

474
00:41:08,003 --> 00:41:09,849
Are you sure, Mary?

475
00:41:10,989 --> 00:41:13,252
Only if you are ready, my love.

476
00:41:41,347 --> 00:41:43,634
<i>I'm free to write what I please.</i>

477
00:41:43,714 --> 00:41:46,903
<i>Like a torrent of light
poured into a dark world.</i>

478
00:41:46,983 --> 00:41:50,716
<i>All around me I see bliss,
'cause I now know what it is to love...</i>

479
00:41:50,796 --> 00:41:53,427
- <i>Its very essence is liberty.</i>
- <i>...and be loved.</i>

480
00:41:53,507 --> 00:41:57,197
<i>It is comparable neither
with obedience, jealousy nor fear.</i>

481
00:41:57,277 --> 00:42:01,101
<i>It is there, most pure,
perfect and unlimited.</i>

482
00:42:01,982 --> 00:42:04,480
...close round the dying girl.

483
00:42:06,837 --> 00:42:10,502
Out and in they hurry and spin...

484
00:42:11,182 --> 00:42:14,681
...and dance, through the dance.

485
00:42:14,761 --> 00:42:18,419
They dance through the weary Whirl.

486
00:42:18,819 --> 00:42:22,453
Patience, patience,
though my heart is breaking.

487
00:42:22,533 --> 00:42:25,158
God, there is no question-making...

488
00:42:25,238 --> 00:42:29,195
...of thy body thou art quit and free.

489
00:42:29,275 --> 00:42:33,015
Heaven keep thy soul eternally!

490
00:42:38,752 --> 00:42:41,549
I trust you've enjoyed
the last of the claret?

491
00:42:45,659 --> 00:42:49,532
Would it be unwise to ask how it went today?

492
00:42:51,898 --> 00:42:53,970
My publishers are fools.

493
00:42:56,177 --> 00:42:58,233
Don't let them upset you.

494
00:42:58,814 --> 00:43:00,185
They're not worth it.

495
00:43:00,265 --> 00:43:02,787
But their advance is worth everything, Mary.

496
00:43:07,355 --> 00:43:09,756
My father has cut me off.

497
00:43:10,651 --> 00:43:15,133
He says I've disgraced his name
because of the scandal that surrounds us.

498
00:43:18,183 --> 00:43:19,607
So now you know.

499
00:43:39,596 --> 00:43:42,574
This one. Is that of any interest?

500
00:43:43,459 --> 00:43:44,821
No?

501
00:43:44,901 --> 00:43:47,799
Not interested in those.
What else do you have?

502
00:43:49,272 --> 00:43:51,862
Well, 'Iliad' by Homer in the original Greek.

503
00:43:51,942 --> 00:43:53,588
Father?

504
00:43:54,686 --> 00:43:56,491
It's been weeks.

505
00:44:01,342 --> 00:44:03,148
You're selling it?

506
00:44:03,228 --> 00:44:04,660
Yes.

507
00:44:04,740 --> 00:44:08,349
There comes a time when we all have
to let go of the things we hold dear.

508
00:44:18,935 --> 00:44:22,534
It's your decision, Mary,
and you must live with it.

509
00:44:22,614 --> 00:44:25,620
He claims to love humanity
yet forsakes his child.

510
00:44:28,979 --> 00:44:31,784
I wish nothing more
than that you should thrive.

511
00:44:33,475 --> 00:44:36,138
But, look at you.

512
00:44:39,756 --> 00:44:42,845
So, do you want to sell it?

513
00:44:48,023 --> 00:44:49,569
No.

514
00:45:03,021 --> 00:45:06,327
- Erasmus Darwin once wrote...
- Who is Erasmus Darwin?

515
00:45:06,407 --> 00:45:09,373
A poet and a physician. He once wrote
that a man who has never tried...

516
00:45:09,454 --> 00:45:12,066
...an experiment in his life is a fool.

517
00:45:20,355 --> 00:45:24,104
- ...on my sister's cat.
- Oh, Shelley, you didn't!

518
00:45:24,184 --> 00:45:27,860
No, I didn't. I have
the claw marks to prove it.

519
00:45:29,531 --> 00:45:31,336
What's going on?

520
00:45:31,417 --> 00:45:35,536
I remembered a debt unpaid.
I know how much you love science, Mary.

521
00:45:35,616 --> 00:45:38,464
Watch this. Whoa!

522
00:45:42,611 --> 00:45:44,607
This is incredible.

523
00:45:45,889 --> 00:45:48,520
And this is for you.

524
00:45:48,600 --> 00:45:49,787
Shelley.

525
00:45:53,146 --> 00:45:55,736
You shouldn't have spent money on dresses.

526
00:45:55,816 --> 00:45:58,291
Don't be silly, Mary, it's beautiful.

527
00:45:58,702 --> 00:46:00,165
That is not all.

528
00:46:00,245 --> 00:46:04,217
Tomorrow we move
to our new house in Bloomsbury.

529
00:46:05,689 --> 00:46:08,682
- The servants will meet us there.
- Servants!

530
00:46:08,762 --> 00:46:13,378
Because how can we write if we are forced
to tend to such domestic mundanities...

531
00:46:13,459 --> 00:46:15,935
...as the shopping and the cleaning.

532
00:46:16,545 --> 00:46:19,626
You make everything seem possible.

533
00:46:28,223 --> 00:46:32,834
- It's a step up from St. Pancras.
- Welcome home, Mary.

534
00:46:32,914 --> 00:46:34,483
Stop.

535
00:46:36,364 --> 00:46:38,194
Wait for me!

536
00:47:01,873 --> 00:47:04,328
<i>A day devoted to love and idleness...</i>

537
00:47:04,885 --> 00:47:07,103
<i>...but despite my earthly paradise...</i>

538
00:47:07,810 --> 00:47:10,360
<i>...I feel a frustration born of guilt.</i>

539
00:47:10,441 --> 00:47:14,464
<i>A constant whisper that I am
no closer to achieving my dreams.</i>

540
00:47:16,396 --> 00:47:19,952
Excuse me, are you the poet Shelley?

541
00:47:20,976 --> 00:47:23,520
Yes. Yes, I am.

542
00:47:23,600 --> 00:47:26,241
- Would you sign my pocketbook?
- Of course.

543
00:47:26,532 --> 00:47:28,374
Our friends will be terribly jealous.

544
00:47:29,901 --> 00:47:31,489
There.

545
00:47:32,688 --> 00:47:34,576
Well, have a good day.

546
00:47:36,500 --> 00:47:39,121
My love, I have news.

547
00:47:42,072 --> 00:47:43,749
Oh, my Mary.

548
00:47:43,829 --> 00:47:46,474
Hey, a baby.

549
00:47:47,878 --> 00:47:49,332
What news!

550
00:47:49,413 --> 00:47:51,884
- You're happy?
- Of course I'm happy.

551
00:47:52,558 --> 00:47:54,454
Why? Aren't you?

552
00:47:56,186 --> 00:47:58,052
I've never had a mother.

553
00:47:58,641 --> 00:48:02,512
- What if I fail?
- You think we can only learn by example?

554
00:48:03,560 --> 00:48:05,679
What of pure instinct?

555
00:48:05,759 --> 00:48:07,809
Of the inherent good that lies in all of us?

556
00:48:07,889 --> 00:48:10,941
And that, my darling, you have in abundance.

557
00:48:11,301 --> 00:48:14,425
- As will our little girl.
- You think it's a girl?

558
00:48:14,505 --> 00:48:17,359
She will be our very own prodigy.

559
00:48:17,933 --> 00:48:19,871
Ianthe, come here.

560
00:48:21,119 --> 00:48:22,874
Good girl.

561
00:48:35,509 --> 00:48:37,313
Come, we have to go.

562
00:48:37,811 --> 00:48:39,356
Now.

563
00:48:50,381 --> 00:48:53,113
<i>Take me with you, please, take me.</i>

564
00:48:53,193 --> 00:48:55,999
<i>Please, Mary, take me with you.</i>

565
00:48:56,480 --> 00:48:58,357
<i>Take me with you.</i>

566
00:49:15,974 --> 00:49:17,754
There is someone in my room.

567
00:49:17,834 --> 00:49:19,922
Someone? Did you see him?

568
00:49:21,079 --> 00:49:23,284
No. They...

569
00:49:27,210 --> 00:49:30,451
- No one, nothing.
- It's one of your nightmares, Claire.

570
00:49:30,921 --> 00:49:34,830
- I will sit with her.
- No, no, I will take her to bed.

571
00:49:34,910 --> 00:49:37,451
You need to rest. Think of the baby.

572
00:49:37,531 --> 00:49:38,665
Claire, come on.

573
00:50:15,075 --> 00:50:18,039
She sleeps. Finally.

574
00:50:19,705 --> 00:50:21,568
And you should, too.

575
00:50:26,862 --> 00:50:28,758
I love you, Mary.

576
00:50:35,596 --> 00:50:37,476
Allow me to do it.

577
00:50:38,056 --> 00:50:40,125
Absolutely no clue.

578
00:50:40,506 --> 00:50:42,599
I can't tell if you're
telling the truth or not.

579
00:50:42,679 --> 00:50:46,076
- I am telling the truth.
- Who's paying for it? I'm paying for it?

580
00:50:46,156 --> 00:50:49,329
You're gonna ruin me,
Claire Clairmont. You're gonna ruin me.

581
00:50:49,409 --> 00:50:52,969
- What's all this for?
- Oh, there you are. Guess what?

582
00:50:53,049 --> 00:50:56,127
Tonight we are having a dinner party.

583
00:50:59,653 --> 00:51:02,959
Come here. Don't we deserve a little fun?

584
00:51:03,039 --> 00:51:05,834
My dear, dear friend
Thomas Hogg is in town...

585
00:51:05,914 --> 00:51:10,484
...and has just published his first book.
So I thought we would throw him a party...

586
00:51:10,564 --> 00:51:13,637
Ma'am, how many guests
are we expecting this evening?

587
00:51:14,217 --> 00:51:16,139
Maybe 10.

588
00:51:16,219 --> 00:51:18,020
10 or...

589
00:51:18,100 --> 00:51:20,534
...12? 12. 12.

590
00:51:20,614 --> 00:51:22,904
Did the publisher's advance come in?

591
00:51:26,162 --> 00:51:28,334
I borrowed against my father's estate.

592
00:51:28,415 --> 00:51:31,891
Percy, there's no way
we can afford to pay it back.

593
00:51:31,971 --> 00:51:35,066
Come on. Come here. Come.

594
00:51:49,978 --> 00:51:53,192
I'm sorry it's not much
of a celebration, Mr. Hogg.

595
00:51:54,958 --> 00:51:57,881
It appears we're even more
scandalous than we realized.

596
00:51:57,961 --> 00:51:59,478
Don't trouble yourself, Mary.

597
00:51:59,558 --> 00:52:02,494
Shelley and I have a long history
of courting trouble.

598
00:52:02,574 --> 00:52:06,940
We began writing a novel together back at
Oxford but publishers deemed it too subversive.

599
00:52:07,020 --> 00:52:10,051
We had more success with our treatise
which we wrote anonymously...

600
00:52:10,131 --> 00:52:13,665
- '...The Necessity of Atheism'.
- Because it was published?

601
00:52:13,745 --> 00:52:16,138
Because it resulted
in our expulsion from Oxford.

602
00:52:17,914 --> 00:52:20,696
I'm beginning to suspect you have
a penchant for being anonymous.

603
00:52:20,776 --> 00:52:25,059
What's the point of being published if you
don't have your name on it? Why bother?

604
00:52:25,139 --> 00:52:27,376
I assume you also write?

605
00:52:28,391 --> 00:52:30,461
It's not anything like my parents.

606
00:52:30,541 --> 00:52:34,191
Soon Mary will produce a work
that will surpass all of us.

607
00:52:35,832 --> 00:52:40,073
How about you, Miss Clairmont? Do you write
or are there other tricks you perform?

608
00:52:40,153 --> 00:52:42,623
I have my own talents.

609
00:52:42,703 --> 00:52:47,530
- Claire is an accomplished singer.
- So she says. I'm yet to hear it.

610
00:52:48,720 --> 00:52:50,608
Will you sing for us?

611
00:52:51,415 --> 00:52:53,770
I will sing, and...

612
00:52:53,850 --> 00:52:56,640
...if you happen to overhear...

613
00:52:56,720 --> 00:52:59,200
...I suppose, it can't be helped.

614
00:53:00,181 --> 00:53:03,254
She has spirit this one,
I can see why you keep her.

615
00:53:04,486 --> 00:53:09,064
<i># A sweet scented courtier
did give me a kiss #</i>

616
00:53:09,144 --> 00:53:13,615
<i># And promised me rightly
that I would be his #</i>

617
00:53:13,695 --> 00:53:17,100
<i># But I'll not believe him
for it is too true #</i>

618
00:53:17,180 --> 00:53:21,247
<i># Courtiers promise much more than they do #</i>

619
00:53:21,327 --> 00:53:26,186
<i># My thing is my own
that I'll keep it so still #</i>

620
00:53:26,266 --> 00:53:30,297
<i># Other young lassies can do what they will #</i>

621
00:53:35,175 --> 00:53:38,674
Ma'am, Mr. Hogg... is here to see you.

622
00:53:38,754 --> 00:53:40,509
Mr. Hogg?

623
00:53:40,589 --> 00:53:42,660
Thank you, Eliza.

624
00:53:44,345 --> 00:53:46,614
Shelley will be sorry to have missed you.

625
00:53:47,050 --> 00:53:50,333
- Would you care to wait?
- I should like that very much, Mary.

626
00:53:50,414 --> 00:53:53,162
- Are you hungry?
- I'm fine, thank you.

627
00:53:54,144 --> 00:53:55,807
You're writing?

628
00:53:55,896 --> 00:53:59,778
Ledgers. But it might as well be Latin.

629
00:53:59,858 --> 00:54:04,124
- Are you schooled in Latin?
- Yes, my father insisted upon it.

630
00:54:04,204 --> 00:54:05,859
Why don't you sit down?

631
00:54:05,939 --> 00:54:09,103
I fear my Latin is not
what it was when I was at Oxford.

632
00:54:10,852 --> 00:54:13,841
May I... practice upon you, Mary?

633
00:54:14,565 --> 00:54:17,036
I'm not sure I'd be of much use to you.

634
00:54:18,209 --> 00:54:21,024
My mind is all over the place these days.

635
00:54:23,339 --> 00:54:26,546
Perhaps you should practice upon me.

636
00:54:32,624 --> 00:54:35,814
I cannot believe you fired
the servant for that, Shelley.

637
00:54:35,894 --> 00:54:37,978
Who do you think you are?

638
00:54:45,921 --> 00:54:47,467
Mary?

639
00:54:48,932 --> 00:54:51,178
What's wrong? Is it the baby?

640
00:54:51,827 --> 00:54:54,947
Claire, could you please leave us?

641
00:55:04,072 --> 00:55:06,118
Hogg came to the house.

642
00:55:07,976 --> 00:55:09,789
And then...

643
00:55:11,580 --> 00:55:13,280
...he made an advance...

644
00:55:13,360 --> 00:55:15,464
- ...but I didn't, I...
- So you did not comply?

645
00:55:16,418 --> 00:55:19,722
Of course not. I would never...

646
00:55:20,872 --> 00:55:23,704
Mary. Hey.

647
00:55:24,284 --> 00:55:27,687
I have no quarrel with you
and Thomas becoming lovers.

648
00:55:29,155 --> 00:55:31,227
Isn't this what we believe in?

649
00:55:31,500 --> 00:55:34,105
Unconventional approaches to living?

650
00:55:34,911 --> 00:55:38,026
After all, why should we not have such
an arrangement? I do not own you.

651
00:55:38,106 --> 00:55:40,382
You are free to be with whomever you please.

652
00:55:41,777 --> 00:55:44,331
Oh, but I don't want to be with anyone else.

653
00:55:45,939 --> 00:55:48,787
Don't you believe that love is free?

654
00:55:49,017 --> 00:55:50,643
Yes.

655
00:55:50,723 --> 00:55:53,667
- Free to be with one person...
- That is poor logic, Mary.

656
00:55:55,566 --> 00:55:57,693
Your choice means nothing to me.

657
00:55:57,773 --> 00:56:01,182
What disappoints me is that you
wouldn't even consider it.

658
00:56:03,331 --> 00:56:05,512
Leads me to question how much
you value your beliefs...

659
00:56:05,592 --> 00:56:08,624
...when you will not even make
an attempt to live them.

660
00:56:10,305 --> 00:56:13,685
I believe, with all my heart...

661
00:56:13,765 --> 00:56:16,532
...there are all sorts of ways of living.

662
00:56:16,612 --> 00:56:20,435
And I will fight for
anyone's right to live accordingly.

663
00:56:21,958 --> 00:56:26,065
But my truth is that there
is no one else for me.

664
00:56:33,495 --> 00:56:36,092
Do you wish to be with someone else?

665
00:56:37,248 --> 00:56:41,858
I merely suggest that you do not offer me
the same freedoms I offer you.

666
00:56:44,656 --> 00:56:46,508
You're a hypocrite.

667
00:56:46,896 --> 00:56:48,761
Like your father.

668
00:56:50,596 --> 00:56:52,484
And you...

669
00:56:52,564 --> 00:56:56,168
...are nothing close to the man
that I thought you were.

670
00:57:07,763 --> 00:57:10,296
<i>Wanting for my 'happily ever after'...</i>

671
00:57:10,376 --> 00:57:12,546
<i>...I lowered my defenses...</i>

672
00:57:12,626 --> 00:57:14,864
<i>...forgetting the first lesson
I was taught...</i>

673
00:57:15,395 --> 00:57:18,251
<i>...that I was brought into
this world to be abandoned.</i>

674
00:57:18,331 --> 00:57:20,562
<i>That I am irrevocably alone.</i>

675
00:57:39,310 --> 00:57:40,840
Mary.

676
00:57:48,862 --> 00:57:50,908
Are you not cold, Mary?

677
00:57:52,574 --> 00:57:55,024
My hypocrisy keeps me warm.

678
00:57:55,285 --> 00:57:57,782
As does my cloak of disappointment.

679
00:57:59,280 --> 00:58:02,103
I'm going to tell Hogg
not to call here again.

680
00:58:02,183 --> 00:58:04,472
I already told him with my fist.

681
00:58:06,254 --> 00:58:08,676
You have to understand, Mary, that...

682
00:58:10,801 --> 00:58:12,805
...I have always lived this way...

683
00:58:13,733 --> 00:58:15,689
...to a fault.

684
00:58:18,383 --> 00:58:22,899
And I thought this was something
we both believed in.

685
00:58:26,274 --> 00:58:28,354
An ideal we shared.

686
00:58:29,970 --> 00:58:34,222
But had I truly considered it, and I let
myself fully understand what I was doing...

687
00:58:34,302 --> 00:58:36,784
...I would never let anything...

688
00:58:38,979 --> 00:58:41,010
...anything come between us.

689
00:58:46,587 --> 00:58:48,390
I have a surprise for you.

690
00:58:50,657 --> 00:58:52,331
We're going out.

691
00:58:57,981 --> 00:58:59,877
Well, what are you waiting for?

692
00:59:07,273 --> 00:59:09,214
Phantasmagoria.

693
00:59:09,294 --> 00:59:12,298
Starring Claire Clairmont, yours truly.

694
00:59:14,640 --> 00:59:16,503
It's Lord Byron.

695
00:59:18,343 --> 00:59:20,222
Let us go and talk to him.

696
00:59:22,405 --> 00:59:24,427
Lord Byron!

697
00:59:26,877 --> 00:59:32,235
My Lord... may I introduce to you
the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley...

698
00:59:32,315 --> 00:59:34,710
...and a great admirer of your work.

699
00:59:35,210 --> 00:59:37,081
I know Mr. Shelley.

700
00:59:37,165 --> 00:59:39,025
I enjoyed "Queen Mab".

701
00:59:39,646 --> 00:59:42,504
- Credit to you.
- Thank you.

702
00:59:49,450 --> 00:59:53,940
And now our final act,
Mr. Brycison the Galvanizer.

703
00:59:55,208 --> 00:59:59,412
Who amongst you has ever wondered
if the dead could return to life?

704
01:00:00,201 --> 01:00:02,468
Thanks to scientific discovery...

705
01:00:02,548 --> 01:00:06,836
...mankind is on the cusp
of conquering mortality.

706
01:00:11,004 --> 01:00:14,686
Using this frog and an electrical current...

707
01:00:19,830 --> 01:00:22,934
...I will demonstrate how muscular
stimulation is possible...

708
01:00:23,014 --> 01:00:25,293
...via electrical means.

709
01:00:26,538 --> 01:00:30,314
Ladies and gentlemen,
may I introduce you to the process of...

710
01:00:31,165 --> 01:00:32,668
...galvanism.

711
01:01:35,714 --> 01:01:39,974
Is that really possible?
That the dead could come back to life?

712
01:01:40,223 --> 01:01:42,298
There is every possibility.

713
01:01:43,054 --> 01:01:45,301
That has brought you back to life.

714
01:01:52,292 --> 01:01:55,523
Oh, Clara, you are so beautiful...

715
01:01:56,124 --> 01:02:00,177
...and tiny. Did you ever see
such tiny hands?

716
01:02:01,356 --> 01:02:02,998
She's so beautiful.

717
01:02:03,078 --> 01:02:05,555
Almost as beautiful as you, my love.

718
01:02:06,845 --> 01:02:08,925
Mary, can I get you anything?

719
01:02:09,531 --> 01:02:11,402
I have all I need.

720
01:02:13,054 --> 01:02:15,339
And what a trio we will be.

721
01:02:17,122 --> 01:02:19,026
Yes, she agrees.

722
01:02:20,050 --> 01:02:23,139
You agree? We're gonna be a trio.

723
01:02:23,512 --> 01:02:27,370
You're gonna be our special
little prodigy. Yeah.

724
01:02:53,942 --> 01:02:57,265
<i>I can scarcely believe that
one small being can be responsible...</i>

725
01:02:57,345 --> 01:02:59,158
<i>...for such joy.</i>

726
01:02:59,681 --> 01:03:03,872
<i>Is all that is truly required
is that we live well, be happy...</i>

727
01:03:03,952 --> 01:03:05,798
<i>...and make others so?</i>

728
01:03:07,347 --> 01:03:10,953
<i># Over the hills and far... #</i>

729
01:03:14,329 --> 01:03:16,217
She's sleeping.

730
01:03:38,854 --> 01:03:40,700
We must leave at once.

731
01:03:40,922 --> 01:03:42,369
What do you mean?

732
01:03:43,692 --> 01:03:45,447
What has happened?

733
01:03:46,412 --> 01:03:48,609
Creditors are coming.

734
01:03:48,689 --> 01:03:52,103
- Percy. Clara's not well.
- Mary, we do not have time to discuss this.

735
01:03:52,183 --> 01:03:54,565
It's raining outside. We can't take her.

736
01:03:54,645 --> 01:03:56,867
The doctor said she must keep warm.

737
01:03:56,947 --> 01:03:59,495
We have no choice. Claire, are you ready?

738
01:03:59,875 --> 01:04:01,413
Percy.

739
01:04:01,793 --> 01:04:04,015
Eliza, do not tell them anything.

740
01:04:04,596 --> 01:04:06,109
Claire.

741
01:04:07,658 --> 01:04:10,121
Mary. Come.

742
01:04:11,970 --> 01:04:13,591
Please.

743
01:04:19,144 --> 01:04:21,182
We must get back to St. Pancras.

744
01:04:22,122 --> 01:04:23,960
They won't find us there.

745
01:04:26,802 --> 01:04:27,947
Mary!

746
01:04:29,921 --> 01:04:31,758
Mary, please.

747
01:04:50,859 --> 01:04:52,939
She needs shelter now!

748
01:05:15,584 --> 01:05:17,088
Mary...

749
01:05:18,604 --> 01:05:21,701
...it breaks my heart to see you like this.

750
01:05:22,616 --> 01:05:24,511
The doctor told you...

751
01:05:24,985 --> 01:05:27,598
...Clara was never for this world.

752
01:05:30,131 --> 01:05:32,011
What about your books?

753
01:05:32,943 --> 01:05:36,160
I mean, surely there is something
you would like to read?

754
01:05:37,113 --> 01:05:38,885
The books?

755
01:05:39,833 --> 01:05:43,089
The books survived
the creditors, didn't they?

756
01:05:45,121 --> 01:05:47,636
I miss her, too, Mary.

757
01:05:47,716 --> 01:05:49,228
Desperately.

758
01:05:50,168 --> 01:05:53,812
Desperately.
But I don't want to lose you as well.

759
01:06:01,146 --> 01:06:03,175
Leave me alone.

760
01:06:44,548 --> 01:06:47,704
<i>Rose leaves, when the rose is dead</i>

761
01:06:48,485 --> 01:06:51,733
<i>Are heaped for the beloved's bed</i>

762
01:06:52,523 --> 01:06:54,667
<i>And so thy thoughts</i>

763
01:06:55,237 --> 01:06:57,481
When thou art gone

764
01:06:57,561 --> 01:07:01,618
Love itself shall slumber on

765
01:07:07,588 --> 01:07:12,783
<i># Tommy was a piper's son #</i>

766
01:07:12,863 --> 01:07:18,251
<i># He learned to play when he was young #</i>

767
01:07:18,331 --> 01:07:20,847
<i># The only tune #</i>

768
01:07:20,927 --> 01:07:24,331
<i># That he could play #</i>

769
01:08:31,169 --> 01:08:33,857
<i>You'll come to me in dreams, my love.</i>

770
01:08:34,381 --> 01:08:36,595
<i>I will not ask a dearer bliss.</i>

771
01:08:43,056 --> 01:08:45,267
<i>I dreamed of her last night.</i>

772
01:08:46,377 --> 01:08:48,900
<i>That we lit a fire in the fireplace...</i>

773
01:08:48,980 --> 01:08:52,407
<i>...and the fire's warmth
nursed her back to life.</i>

774
01:08:54,761 --> 01:08:58,693
My love, I haven't seen you
smile at me in weeks.

775
01:08:59,891 --> 01:09:01,746
Oh, Claire.

776
01:09:21,679 --> 01:09:26,256
- He invited you to Geneva?
- No, Mary. Lord Byron has invited us.

777
01:09:27,400 --> 01:09:30,858
- Us?
- You, me and Shelley. All of us.

778
01:09:31,589 --> 01:09:34,981
Do you think you are the only one
who can attract a poet?

779
01:09:36,377 --> 01:09:38,349
No, Claire.

780
01:09:38,430 --> 01:09:41,827
In fact I am very aware of your abilities.

781
01:09:45,444 --> 01:09:48,211
But... we have to go.

782
01:09:49,807 --> 01:09:51,636
I am pregnant.

783
01:09:55,654 --> 01:09:57,467
Who's the father?

784
01:09:59,692 --> 01:10:03,648
Mary. Mary, it is Byron's, of course.

785
01:10:06,592 --> 01:10:09,940
I've been meeting him in secret
for quite some time now.

786
01:10:10,020 --> 01:10:13,095
Don't you see? Geneva will give me
the chance to talk to him...

787
01:10:13,175 --> 01:10:15,011
...away from the crowds of London.

788
01:10:15,091 --> 01:10:19,106
I mean, you, of all people, should know
that this city loves a scandal.

789
01:10:20,572 --> 01:10:24,070
Shelley, we've been invited
to Geneva by Lord Byron.

790
01:10:25,385 --> 01:10:28,581
Lord Byron? Oh, my word!

791
01:10:28,921 --> 01:10:30,977
This is an unmissable opportunity.

792
01:10:31,057 --> 01:10:34,239
This could help us immensely. Um...

793
01:10:34,319 --> 01:10:37,174
- Well, he said...
- I'm not ready for this.

794
01:10:40,517 --> 01:10:41,779
Mary.

795
01:10:41,859 --> 01:10:46,082
Percy, I don't think
I'm ready for this. Please.

796
01:10:46,973 --> 01:10:49,987
- Not yet.
- Oh, Mary, I miss her too.

797
01:10:52,076 --> 01:10:54,325
Oh, I wish I could have saved her.

798
01:10:57,133 --> 01:10:59,614
I'm not asking you to let go of her, Mary.

799
01:11:00,603 --> 01:11:03,417
I'm just asking you
to raise above your grief.

800
01:11:04,156 --> 01:11:08,003
To raise her spirit
to the great heights she deserves.

801
01:11:56,684 --> 01:11:58,480
Thank you.

802
01:12:01,338 --> 01:12:03,861
I was surprised to hear
you were staying here?

803
01:12:03,941 --> 01:12:05,777
Most tourists come to gawk at the place.

804
01:12:05,857 --> 01:12:08,965
We've become accustomed to prying
eyes ourselves. I'm sure we'll manage.

805
01:12:09,045 --> 01:12:10,563
Mr. Shelley!

806
01:12:26,306 --> 01:12:30,260
It is a pleasure to make
your acquaintance once more.

807
01:12:32,513 --> 01:12:35,986
I received Miss Clairmont's letter yesterday
alerting me of this impending arrival.

808
01:12:37,167 --> 01:12:39,560
My Lord, it is an honor.

809
01:12:39,640 --> 01:12:42,989
And may I introduce Miss
Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin?

810
01:12:46,718 --> 01:12:48,596
Miss Godwin.

811
01:12:49,655 --> 01:12:53,870
Forgive me but there is a smile
hidden inside of you, I can see it.

812
01:12:54,334 --> 01:12:58,349
And it is beautiful and brutal.

813
01:12:59,230 --> 01:13:02,863
And I hope that before long
I can coax it outside of you.

814
01:13:04,344 --> 01:13:06,187
And there she is.

815
01:13:08,398 --> 01:13:11,337
- My Lord.
- Claire.

816
01:13:18,208 --> 01:13:21,739
Claire, I must remember next time
that to mention travel plans to you...

817
01:13:21,819 --> 01:13:23,850
...is tantamount to an invitation.

818
01:13:24,631 --> 01:13:28,228
My Lord, I apologize.
I fear there's been some confusion.

819
01:13:28,308 --> 01:13:31,241
If our visit is an imposition,
we will seek lodging elsewhere.

820
01:13:31,321 --> 01:13:33,644
Please, don't concern yourselves.
You must stay here as my guest.

821
01:13:33,724 --> 01:13:36,078
Things have been getting boring round here
and I will be grateful for the distraction.

822
01:13:36,158 --> 01:13:40,442
In fact there is the Duke
of Dulldom himself, Doctor Polidori.

823
01:13:41,222 --> 01:13:43,092
Come with me.

824
01:13:48,864 --> 01:13:52,217
Doctor Polidori, Miss Godwin.
She doesn't smile.

825
01:13:53,043 --> 01:13:54,854
Charmed, Miss Godwin.

826
01:14:04,086 --> 01:14:06,158
Don't embarrass the servants.

827
01:14:06,238 --> 01:14:09,621
Are you a Doctor of Science, Doctor Polidori?

828
01:14:09,701 --> 01:14:13,099
- I'm sorry, but I'm a physician.*
- Science fascinates Mary.

829
01:14:13,179 --> 01:14:17,294
Why is being a physician disappointing? You
save lives. You bring babies into the world.

830
01:14:17,374 --> 01:14:19,861
You help poets with their sleeping disorders.

831
01:14:19,941 --> 01:14:22,124
Doctor Polidori wrote
his thesis on the subject.

832
01:14:22,204 --> 01:14:25,560
And, conveniently, I've become quite
the somnambulist in his presence.

833
01:14:26,709 --> 01:14:29,632
Well, I hope we can liven
things up for you a little, My Lord.

834
01:14:29,712 --> 01:14:31,811
I'm sure you will try, Miss Clairmont.

835
01:14:34,134 --> 01:14:36,313
Would you like to join me
in the parlor, Mr. Shelley?

836
01:14:36,393 --> 01:14:38,222
Of course.

837
01:14:42,317 --> 01:14:46,791
Perhaps you'll be more comfortable conversing
with Claire and Doctor Polidori, my love.

838
01:14:52,903 --> 01:14:54,313
Byron...

839
01:15:08,444 --> 01:15:11,273
I must say, the decor is interesting.

840
01:15:11,754 --> 01:15:16,092
Byron likes to record his 'grand ideas'
on slips of paper...

841
01:15:16,172 --> 01:15:19,649
...and tack them up on the wall.
You should see the one in the parlor.

842
01:15:19,729 --> 01:15:24,129
Gets littered with paper when we have
company, or when he's stimulated.

843
01:15:38,469 --> 01:15:41,979
This is poetry, my brother.

844
01:15:42,059 --> 01:15:46,484
'On Death' by the incomparable yours truly.

845
01:15:46,564 --> 01:15:49,243
Third stanza! Summon the muse.

846
01:15:54,089 --> 01:15:57,995
The world is the nurse of all we know

847
01:15:58,075 --> 01:16:01,323
This world the mother of all we feel

848
01:16:01,403 --> 01:16:04,770
<i>And the coming of death is a fearful blow</i>

849
01:16:04,850 --> 01:16:08,474
<i>To the brain unencompassed
with nerves of steel</i>

850
01:16:08,554 --> 01:16:12,510
When all we know or feel or see

851
01:16:12,590 --> 01:16:15,870
Shall pass like an unreal mystery!

852
01:16:17,979 --> 01:16:20,068
I found this article...

853
01:16:20,148 --> 01:16:22,151
...and recalled your interest in science.

854
01:16:28,990 --> 01:16:30,956
Is this possible?

855
01:16:31,036 --> 01:16:32,826
Reanimation?

856
01:16:34,195 --> 01:16:35,849
That is the claim.

857
01:16:35,929 --> 01:16:39,333
Applying the principle of galvanism
to human corpses.

858
01:16:40,652 --> 01:16:43,230
Every lady in the land knows this.

859
01:16:44,422 --> 01:16:47,144
<i>She walks in beauty like the night</i>

860
01:16:47,224 --> 01:16:50,243
<i>Of cloudless climes and starry skies</i>

861
01:16:50,323 --> 01:16:53,367
<i>And all that's bright of dark and light</i>

862
01:16:53,448 --> 01:16:54,770
- What?
- Bright! Bright, bright...

863
01:16:54,850 --> 01:16:57,714
All that's best of dark and bright
meet in the aspect of her eyes

864
01:16:57,794 --> 01:17:01,809
<i>That's mellow to thy tender light
which heaven to gaudy day deny</i>

865
01:17:01,889 --> 01:17:04,283
<i>I was sorry to hear about your baby.</i>

866
01:17:08,689 --> 01:17:10,525
Her name was Clara.

867
01:17:11,583 --> 01:17:13,436
I don't mean to upset you.

868
01:17:14,285 --> 01:17:16,024
No.

869
01:17:16,104 --> 01:17:18,126
No, you haven't at all.

870
01:17:20,007 --> 01:17:22,301
I thank you for speaking of her.

871
01:17:26,657 --> 01:17:29,745
It's an unspeakable cruelty
for a woman to lose a child.

872
01:17:30,085 --> 01:17:32,772
<i>I've seen it more times
than I care to remember.</i>

873
01:17:35,031 --> 01:17:37,044
I'm in awe of you, Miss Godwin...

874
01:17:37,525 --> 01:17:39,551
...and your strength to survive it.

875
01:17:42,143 --> 01:17:43,636
Drink!

876
01:17:44,290 --> 01:17:46,652
Drink. Drink.

877
01:17:54,334 --> 01:17:57,196
Why? Why not? Why would I not be sure?

878
01:18:10,876 --> 01:18:14,104
It's called 'The Nightmare...

879
01:18:14,184 --> 01:18:16,358
...The Curse Of The Incubus'.

880
01:18:16,439 --> 01:18:21,591
The Angel fallen from grace
because of insatiable lust.

881
01:18:23,905 --> 01:18:25,983
You know the painter, don't you?

882
01:18:27,349 --> 01:18:29,228
Henry Fuseli.

883
01:18:31,021 --> 01:18:33,314
He was my mother's first love.

884
01:18:33,924 --> 01:18:37,088
She tried to kill herself
with an overdose of laudanum...

885
01:18:37,168 --> 01:18:38,888
...when he left her for another woman.

886
01:18:41,768 --> 01:18:45,456
I've never reconciled how someone
as strong as my mother...

887
01:18:45,536 --> 01:18:48,029
...was so vulnerable when it came to love.

888
01:18:49,230 --> 01:18:52,659
Love will find its way through paths...

889
01:18:52,739 --> 01:18:55,882
...where wolves would fear to prey.

890
01:18:55,962 --> 01:18:59,336
But if she wasn't impervious
to the pain of heartbreak...

891
01:19:00,116 --> 01:19:02,603
...what hope is there for the rest of us?

892
01:19:05,237 --> 01:19:09,645
The great art of life is sensation.

893
01:19:10,518 --> 01:19:13,979
To feel that you exist, even in pain.

894
01:19:14,059 --> 01:19:16,126
I mean, would you not die for love?

895
01:19:16,323 --> 01:19:21,209
After all, what is life
if it does not have love?

896
01:19:22,589 --> 01:19:25,175
Nothing, according to you poets.

897
01:19:27,409 --> 01:19:29,288
You are...

898
01:19:32,148 --> 01:19:34,220
I've always believed that a woman...

899
01:19:34,300 --> 01:19:37,815
...should be intelligent enough to
understand what I'm saying but...

900
01:19:37,895 --> 01:19:43,046
...not intelligent enough to be able
to form ideas or opinions of her own.

901
01:19:43,576 --> 01:19:46,843
You, Miss Godwin,
have the chance to prove me wrong.

902
01:19:51,126 --> 01:19:52,969
Play us a tune, Shelley.

903
01:20:14,165 --> 01:20:18,844
Oh, this infernal copying. I'm bored of it.

904
01:20:19,646 --> 01:20:23,451
I can't transcribe another
word of these poems.

905
01:20:30,072 --> 01:20:32,788
It's been raining like this for weeks.

906
01:20:32,868 --> 01:20:36,967
We're all going to go insane. Can't
anyone think of ways to pass the time?

907
01:20:37,047 --> 01:20:39,595
- Mary, please.
- No.

908
01:20:39,675 --> 01:20:41,317
She's right.

909
01:20:46,113 --> 01:20:47,650
Listen.

910
01:20:51,678 --> 01:20:54,557
There are witches in the wind.

911
01:20:56,977 --> 01:20:58,803
I have an idea.

912
01:21:02,213 --> 01:21:05,926
We are, each one of us...

913
01:21:06,427 --> 01:21:08,510
...to write a story.

914
01:21:10,262 --> 01:21:12,156
A ghost story.

915
01:21:14,250 --> 01:21:17,057
It's a competition, of course.

916
01:21:17,137 --> 01:21:19,639
Whoever writes the finest story...

917
01:21:20,780 --> 01:21:22,642
...shall win.

918
01:21:26,378 --> 01:21:28,392
Miss Clairmont...

919
01:21:29,765 --> 01:21:31,276
...you...

920
01:21:31,739 --> 01:21:33,557
...your job...

921
01:21:33,637 --> 01:21:35,353
...is to transcribe them.

922
01:21:37,182 --> 01:21:39,000
How dare you?

923
01:21:39,776 --> 01:21:42,647
What right do you have to treat me like this?

924
01:21:43,380 --> 01:21:44,830
Your lover.

925
01:21:46,148 --> 01:21:47,717
Claire...

926
01:21:50,095 --> 01:21:52,161
...you are not my lover.

927
01:21:53,865 --> 01:21:55,860
You are a dalliance.

928
01:21:56,459 --> 01:21:58,728
A lapse in judgment.

929
01:21:59,487 --> 01:22:03,543
A silly little girl.

930
01:22:13,018 --> 01:22:15,465
I'm sorry, have I caused a scene?

931
01:22:24,730 --> 01:22:28,087
Sir, I have an urgent message
arrived from London.

932
01:22:34,380 --> 01:22:35,370
Claire!

933
01:22:50,922 --> 01:22:52,767
Is everything alright, sir?

934
01:23:03,419 --> 01:23:04,929
Claire.

935
01:23:05,987 --> 01:23:08,674
Why... why must they be so vile?

936
01:23:16,072 --> 01:23:18,751
Don't let such cruelty wound you.

937
01:23:19,701 --> 01:23:22,316
You're stronger than you realize...

938
01:23:22,396 --> 01:23:24,806
...and you don't need anything from them.

939
01:23:25,998 --> 01:23:28,633
You don't need anything from them.

940
01:23:37,243 --> 01:23:39,238
Thank you, Mary.

941
01:24:10,251 --> 01:24:13,009
- No!
- I need to speak to you.

942
01:24:13,089 --> 01:24:14,599
No!

943
01:25:31,107 --> 01:25:33,634
<i>I no longer see the world...</i>

944
01:25:33,714 --> 01:25:37,147
<i>...and its works as they before
appeared to me.</i>

945
01:25:38,073 --> 01:25:40,309
<i>But now misery has come home...</i>

946
01:25:40,708 --> 01:25:43,996
<i>...and men appear to me as monsters...</i>

947
01:25:44,176 --> 01:25:46,580
<i>...thirsting for each other's blood.</i>

948
01:25:48,390 --> 01:25:51,614
<i>And I, a miserable spectacle
of wrecked humanity...</i>

949
01:25:51,694 --> 01:25:55,106
<i>...pitiable to others
and intolerable to myself.</i>

950
01:25:58,469 --> 01:26:00,272
Has Claire risen?

951
01:26:00,352 --> 01:26:03,848
She sent down word.
She is feeling unwell this morning.

952
01:26:04,707 --> 01:26:06,523
Where is Shelley?

953
01:26:08,085 --> 01:26:10,316
I had assumed he was with you.

954
01:26:13,451 --> 01:26:15,266
I think we've found him.

955
01:26:16,603 --> 01:26:18,814
Mr. Shelley.

956
01:26:20,641 --> 01:26:23,370
You look like you could do
with some breakfast.

957
01:26:23,451 --> 01:26:25,336
Do I?

958
01:26:26,362 --> 01:26:28,184
How were the taverns?

959
01:26:28,765 --> 01:26:30,635
Disgusting.

960
01:26:31,834 --> 01:26:33,700
I, uh...

961
01:26:33,937 --> 01:26:35,983
...I started upon my story.

962
01:26:36,381 --> 01:26:38,611
I've called it 'The Vampyre'.

963
01:26:38,691 --> 01:26:41,864
Very well. Well, we have our first story.

964
01:26:41,944 --> 01:26:43,838
A vampire.

965
01:26:44,389 --> 01:26:47,804
I thought the challenge
was a... was a ghost story?

966
01:26:48,284 --> 01:26:50,746
Not a childish superstition.

967
01:26:51,212 --> 01:26:53,591
You do not believe in vampires, Mr. Shelley?

968
01:26:53,671 --> 01:26:56,148
No more than I believe in physicians.

969
01:26:56,659 --> 01:26:58,688
Percy, that's quite enough.

970
01:27:05,392 --> 01:27:09,383
I thought you would know intimately
about the existence of nocturnal beings...

971
01:27:09,464 --> 01:27:11,756
...who exploit the vulnerable.

972
01:27:20,400 --> 01:27:24,070
- Did you just slap him?
- Madam, you have my sympathy.

973
01:27:26,306 --> 01:27:29,621
No story from Polidori.

974
01:27:29,701 --> 01:27:31,048
How disappointing.

975
01:27:32,119 --> 01:27:35,114
Whatever shall we do
to entertain ourselves now?

976
01:27:41,253 --> 01:27:43,314
Well, I'm going to go riding.

977
01:27:47,268 --> 01:27:50,009
I need something thick between my legs.

978
01:27:53,559 --> 01:27:55,446
What's wrong with you?

979
01:27:55,526 --> 01:27:57,413
You think I'm an idiot.

980
01:27:57,904 --> 01:28:01,769
Oh, you claim no interest in Hogg.
That's alright. But the good doctor...

981
01:28:01,849 --> 01:28:05,356
...oh, yes, he's more
to your liking, isn't he?

982
01:28:05,437 --> 01:28:07,297
Where were you all night?

983
01:28:07,377 --> 01:28:10,860
I do not have to justify myself
to you or to anyone!

984
01:28:11,518 --> 01:28:15,341
- You have no idea the responsibilities I bear.
- What responsibilities?

985
01:28:15,922 --> 01:28:17,833
She drowned herself, Mary.

986
01:28:19,767 --> 01:28:23,655
Threw herself in the filthy
water at Battersea.

987
01:28:23,735 --> 01:28:25,165
Who?

988
01:28:27,099 --> 01:28:28,510
Harriet.

989
01:28:30,161 --> 01:28:32,024
My wife.

990
01:28:44,551 --> 01:28:46,641
It's time that we left this place.

991
01:28:52,600 --> 01:28:53,949
Claire?

992
01:28:54,029 --> 01:28:56,271
He doesn't want me.

993
01:28:57,455 --> 01:28:59,194
He said...

994
01:28:59,274 --> 01:29:02,287
...he said that he will provide
for the baby...

995
01:29:03,075 --> 01:29:04,941
...but that is all.

996
01:29:14,096 --> 01:29:16,577
It's been such a mistake.

997
01:29:16,934 --> 01:29:18,487
Mary, it's...

998
01:29:19,552 --> 01:29:21,362
...a mistake.

999
01:29:53,920 --> 01:29:56,190
I wanted to say goodbye...

1000
01:29:57,833 --> 01:30:01,682
...to thank you for your hospitality.

1001
01:30:05,381 --> 01:30:07,477
I know what you must think of me...

1002
01:30:08,901 --> 01:30:12,381
...but I have never considered
myself one for fatherhood.

1003
01:30:13,540 --> 01:30:16,577
I am under no illusions about your situation.

1004
01:30:17,835 --> 01:30:21,493
- Claire, unfortunately...
- I never loved her.

1005
01:30:22,173 --> 01:30:26,378
Nor did I pretend to love her.
Nor do I believe she loved me.

1006
01:30:27,387 --> 01:30:31,293
But a man is a man...

1007
01:30:31,373 --> 01:30:32,876
...and a girl is a girl.

1008
01:30:32,975 --> 01:30:37,625
And when a young girl comes prancing
to an old man at all hours...

1009
01:30:37,705 --> 01:30:40,384
...there is but one way.

1010
01:30:41,993 --> 01:30:44,834
There is always another way.

1011
01:30:46,682 --> 01:30:49,469
And when we make such choices...

1012
01:30:49,549 --> 01:30:52,126
...there are inevitably consequences.

1013
01:31:14,309 --> 01:31:17,381
Always see.

1014
01:31:23,819 --> 01:31:25,680
Safe travels, Mary.

1015
01:31:26,822 --> 01:31:29,457
I look forward to reading your work some day.

1016
01:32:27,940 --> 01:32:31,836
<i>Rid yourself of the thoughts
and words of other people, Mary.</i>

1017
01:32:34,740 --> 01:32:36,751
<i>Find your own voice.</i>

1018
01:33:02,450 --> 01:33:05,894
<i>It was a dreary night of November...</i>

1019
01:33:05,974 --> 01:33:07,477
<i>...and...</i>

1020
01:33:08,348 --> 01:33:11,212
<i>It was a dreary night of November...</i>

1021
01:33:11,993 --> 01:33:15,490
<i>...that I beheld
the accomplishment of my toils.</i>

1022
01:33:19,676 --> 01:33:22,510
<i>Remember that I am thy creature.</i>

1023
01:33:23,746 --> 01:33:26,221
<i>I ought to be thy Adam...</i>

1024
01:33:26,301 --> 01:33:29,105
<i>...but I am rather the fallen angel...</i>

1025
01:33:29,627 --> 01:33:33,100
<i>...whom thou drivest from joy for no misdeed.</i>

1026
01:33:36,593 --> 01:33:38,936
<i>Everywhere I see bliss...</i>

1027
01:33:42,164 --> 01:33:43,970
<i>...from which...</i>

1028
01:33:45,802 --> 01:33:49,071
<i>...from which, from which I alone...</i>

1029
01:33:49,151 --> 01:33:51,775
<i>...am irrevocably excluded.</i>

1030
01:33:53,359 --> 01:33:55,976
<i>I was benevolent and good...</i>

1031
01:33:56,657 --> 01:33:59,085
<i>...misery made me a fiend...</i>

1032
01:33:59,165 --> 01:34:01,328
<i>Make me happy.</i>

1033
01:34:01,408 --> 01:34:04,814
<i>And I shall again be virtuous.</i>

1034
01:34:05,931 --> 01:34:08,818
<i>"But soon", he cried...</i>

1035
01:34:09,826 --> 01:34:11,849
<i>"...I shall die...</i>

1036
01:34:12,153 --> 01:34:14,674
<i>...and what I now feel be no longer felt.</i>

1037
01:34:18,744 --> 01:34:20,254
<i>Soon...</i>

1038
01:34:21,137 --> 01:34:23,384
<i>...these burning miseries...</i>

1039
01:34:23,866 --> 01:34:25,791
<i>...will be extinct.</i>

1040
01:34:35,242 --> 01:34:38,088
<i>I shall ascend my funeral pyre...</i>

1041
01:34:39,181 --> 01:34:40,795
<i>...triumphantly...</i>

1042
01:34:42,017 --> 01:34:45,676
<i>...and exult in the agony
of the torturing flames.</i>

1043
01:34:46,997 --> 01:34:50,434
<i>My spirit will sleep in peace...</i>

1044
01:34:50,514 --> 01:34:52,650
<i>...or if it thinks...</i>

1045
01:34:52,730 --> 01:34:55,154
<i>...it will not surely think thus.</i>

1046
01:34:57,189 --> 01:34:58,783
<i>Farewell."</i>

1047
01:35:05,482 --> 01:35:08,068
<i>The End.</i>

1048
01:36:12,499 --> 01:36:15,052
Mary. Mary.

1049
01:36:18,880 --> 01:36:20,670
It is magnificent.

1050
01:36:21,858 --> 01:36:25,331
It exceeds even
what I believed you capable of.

1051
01:36:25,412 --> 01:36:27,707
It has so much potential.

1052
01:36:28,323 --> 01:36:30,291
I just have one question.

1053
01:36:30,908 --> 01:36:33,999
The doctor, he gets all these body parts...

1054
01:36:34,179 --> 01:36:37,769
...and he sews them together in order
to make the most perfect creature...

1055
01:36:37,849 --> 01:36:41,195
...but when he brings it to life, essentially
what he has created is a kind of monster.

1056
01:36:41,912 --> 01:36:43,319
Yes.

1057
01:36:43,864 --> 01:36:47,679
Well, couldn't it be something more...
something more hopeful?

1058
01:36:47,759 --> 01:36:51,085
Imagine if he could create the perfect being.

1059
01:36:51,165 --> 01:36:53,168
Um, an angel.

1060
01:36:53,724 --> 01:36:54,961
An angel?

1061
01:36:55,041 --> 01:36:58,449
Yes, and in doing so,
he could show what man can be.

1062
01:36:58,829 --> 01:37:02,052
He creates a version of ourselves
that shines with goodness...

1063
01:37:02,132 --> 01:37:05,611
...and thus, thus delivers
a message for mankind.

1064
01:37:06,168 --> 01:37:08,448
It is a message for mankind.

1065
01:37:09,180 --> 01:37:12,613
Well, I mean a message
of hope and of perfection.

1066
01:37:12,693 --> 01:37:17,288
What would you... what would we
know of hope and perfection?

1067
01:37:21,677 --> 01:37:23,470
Look around you.

1068
01:37:24,796 --> 01:37:27,066
Look at the mess we've made.

1069
01:37:28,074 --> 01:37:29,960
Look at me.

1070
01:37:45,150 --> 01:37:47,186
It makes sense this way.

1071
01:37:50,472 --> 01:37:54,712
- I'll take it to my publisher and convince...
- No. I will go alone.

1072
01:38:07,489 --> 01:38:09,303
<i>You are how old, Miss Godwin?</i>

1073
01:38:11,884 --> 01:38:13,765
I am 18.

1074
01:38:13,845 --> 01:38:15,870
That really is quite young.

1075
01:38:17,098 --> 01:38:21,271
If I'm old enough to bear children,
I'm old enough to put pen to paper.

1076
01:38:21,351 --> 01:38:25,010
Curious subject matter
for a young lady, wouldn't you say?

1077
01:38:25,991 --> 01:38:29,736
And when that young lady
just happens to be the wife, uh...

1078
01:38:30,703 --> 01:38:32,327
...companion...

1079
01:38:33,455 --> 01:38:35,251
...of Mr. Shelley.

1080
01:38:37,327 --> 01:38:40,472
Are you suggesting the work
belongs to Mr. Shelley?

1081
01:38:40,872 --> 01:38:42,482
Well...

1082
01:38:42,562 --> 01:38:46,327
...perhaps there are some other writings
of yours that I could compare it to?

1083
01:38:46,407 --> 01:38:48,528
It is my story.

1084
01:38:48,608 --> 01:38:52,520
Did you ask this of Mr. Shelley
when he first presented his work to you?

1085
01:38:52,600 --> 01:38:55,673
Or do you save this insult for young women?

1086
01:38:55,813 --> 01:38:59,085
And you dare to question a woman's ability...

1087
01:38:59,165 --> 01:39:02,595
...to experience loss, death...

1088
01:39:03,094 --> 01:39:04,696
...betrayal.

1089
01:39:04,776 --> 01:39:07,566
All of which is present in this story.

1090
01:39:07,646 --> 01:39:09,456
In my story.

1091
01:39:11,211 --> 01:39:15,076
Which you would have realized if you'd
employed the time judging the work...

1092
01:39:15,156 --> 01:39:17,234
...instead of judging me.

1093
01:39:35,477 --> 01:39:37,425
Did you finish it?

1094
01:39:39,171 --> 01:39:40,690
Yes.

1095
01:39:41,699 --> 01:39:43,743
It chilled me to the bone.

1096
01:39:45,821 --> 01:39:48,808
It's good to enjoy
a ghost story now and then.

1097
01:39:49,982 --> 01:39:52,401
We both know this is no ghost story.

1098
01:39:55,622 --> 01:40:00,075
I've never read such
a perfect encapsulation...

1099
01:40:00,957 --> 01:40:03,578
...of what it feels to be abandoned.

1100
01:40:05,898 --> 01:40:08,217
I seethed with your monster's rage.

1101
01:40:09,827 --> 01:40:11,871
I lusted for his revenge.

1102
01:40:14,741 --> 01:40:16,829
Because it was my own.

1103
01:40:25,342 --> 01:40:26,748
I wonder...

1104
01:40:26,828 --> 01:40:30,692
...how many souls will sympathize
with your creature's torments?

1105
01:40:33,175 --> 01:40:36,262
More than should, I expect.

1106
01:40:42,002 --> 01:40:44,038
It is time I moved home.

1107
01:40:45,822 --> 01:40:48,659
You must get your story published, Mary.

1108
01:40:55,832 --> 01:40:58,846
<i>Dear Madam, thank you
for sending us your manuscript...</i>

1109
01:40:58,926 --> 01:41:01,332
<i>'...Frankenstein or A Modern Prometheus'.</i>

1110
01:41:01,413 --> 01:41:03,844
<i>Unfortunately, this is not
a piece that interests us.</i>

1111
01:41:03,924 --> 01:41:06,519
- <i>You regret to inform me...
- ...that we shall not be publishing...</i>

1112
01:41:06,599 --> 01:41:08,965
- <i>...your manuscript.</i>
- <i>...our taste in judgment alike...</i>

1113
01:41:09,045 --> 01:41:12,273
- <i>This subject is not to...</i>
- <i>...taste of our readers from a female author.</i>

1114
01:41:12,353 --> 01:41:16,297
<i>In fact, it strikes us as hardly an
appropriate subject for a young lady...</i>

1115
01:41:16,377 --> 01:41:22,062
<i>We do not deny that the work has merit
but we are cautious in proceeding.</i>

1116
01:41:22,142 --> 01:41:26,556
<i>The truth is you have
nowhere else to go with your story.</i>

1117
01:41:46,667 --> 01:41:51,368
The Lackington Group will publish it.
500 copies will be printed.

1118
01:41:52,072 --> 01:41:56,538
It will be published anonymously,
provided you write the introduction.

1119
01:41:57,318 --> 01:42:00,590
Well, of course. I'd be delighted.

1120
01:42:03,600 --> 01:42:05,262
So everyone will think you wrote it.

1121
01:42:05,342 --> 01:42:08,029
Provided it's published, what does it matter?

1122
01:42:09,897 --> 01:42:11,726
What does it matter?

1123
01:42:13,375 --> 01:42:16,871
How is it possible
that you still don't understand?

1124
01:42:17,464 --> 01:42:21,317
You want me to abandon my claim to it
because my gender might spoil its success.

1125
01:42:21,397 --> 01:42:24,040
- I never said that.
- You don't have to.

1126
01:42:24,130 --> 01:42:27,719
Not once do you ever think about
the consequences of your actions!

1127
01:42:27,799 --> 01:42:30,813
You bear just as much
responsibility for our life as I.

1128
01:42:30,893 --> 01:42:35,210
I'm not some grand architect
of our misery, Mary.

1129
01:42:35,290 --> 01:42:37,863
You bear the responsibility.

1130
01:42:37,943 --> 01:42:41,597
I bear the responsibility
of ever believing in you!

1131
01:44:18,851 --> 01:44:21,352
- Thank you.
- John!

1132
01:44:29,061 --> 01:44:32,732
- You look...
- Like I've seen better days?

1133
01:44:33,525 --> 01:44:35,588
Mr. Godwin said the same.

1134
01:44:35,668 --> 01:44:37,311
You saw my father?

1135
01:44:39,214 --> 01:44:42,677
Yes. His shop is stocking my work.

1136
01:44:43,610 --> 01:44:46,614
- You finished it.
- Not quite.

1137
01:44:48,754 --> 01:44:52,113
- Lord Byron?
- I'd all but forgotten about it until...

1138
01:44:52,193 --> 01:44:56,040
...Byron's publisher somehow
got ahold of it and printed it as his.

1139
01:44:57,357 --> 01:45:00,745
I tried to assert my rights as
the true author but in response...

1140
01:45:00,825 --> 01:45:02,583
...I've only been called a plagiarist.

1141
01:45:02,663 --> 01:45:05,802
I will write to Byron and appeal
to him to tell the truth.

1142
01:45:05,882 --> 01:45:07,715
He has already tried.

1143
01:45:07,795 --> 01:45:09,740
He despises the story.

1144
01:45:09,820 --> 01:45:12,664
The public just has no interest in the truth.

1145
01:45:13,606 --> 01:45:16,335
What about your mysterious masterpiece?

1146
01:45:16,416 --> 01:45:18,840
The absence of your name was notable.

1147
01:45:18,920 --> 01:45:20,566
It is ironic, isn't it?

1148
01:45:20,646 --> 01:45:23,138
I write a story lampooning Byron...

1149
01:45:23,218 --> 01:45:27,474
...the blood-sucking devourer
of souls and he gets all the credit.

1150
01:45:27,554 --> 01:45:31,728
While you wrote about a desperately
lonely and abandoned creature.

1151
01:45:31,808 --> 01:45:34,346
Abandoned by
an irresponsible narcissist and...

1152
01:45:34,427 --> 01:45:36,776
Shelley gets all the credit.

1153
01:45:38,915 --> 01:45:41,694
Nonetheless, congratulations.

1154
01:45:43,153 --> 01:45:45,132
Shelley must be pleased.

1155
01:45:45,212 --> 01:45:47,482
I haven't seen Shelley in months.

1156
01:45:54,747 --> 01:45:56,227
It's for you.

1157
01:46:00,696 --> 01:46:03,357
We have created monsters, Mary.

1158
01:46:04,716 --> 01:46:06,769
But let's not let them devour us.

1159
01:47:26,858 --> 01:47:29,494
Gentlemen, welcome. Thank you for coming.

1160
01:47:30,051 --> 01:47:33,160
We're here to celebrate the...

1161
01:47:33,240 --> 01:47:36,352
...the success of 'Frankenstein;
Or The Modern Prometheus'.

1162
01:47:36,433 --> 01:47:39,956
It's a remarkable story
asserting, as it does, the...

1163
01:47:40,036 --> 01:47:42,993
...absolute human necessity for connection.

1164
01:47:43,073 --> 01:47:46,697
From the moment Doctor Frankenstein's
creature opens its eyes...

1165
01:47:46,777 --> 01:47:49,326
...it seeks the touch of its creator.

1166
01:47:49,407 --> 01:47:51,378
But he recoils in terror...

1167
01:47:51,559 --> 01:47:56,423
...leaving the creature to its first
of many experiences of neglect...

1168
01:47:56,503 --> 01:47:58,399
...and isolation.

1169
01:47:58,480 --> 01:48:03,293
And if only Frankenstein had been
able to bestow upon his creation...

1170
01:48:04,520 --> 01:48:07,993
...a compassionate touch. A kind word.

1171
01:48:08,724 --> 01:48:10,985
What a tragedy might have been avoided.

1172
01:48:11,577 --> 01:48:14,243
But it is a credit to the writer...

1173
01:48:14,323 --> 01:48:18,524
...that it is these very thoughts
that continue to run through our minds...

1174
01:48:18,604 --> 01:48:22,014
...long after we've turned
the final page of this book...

1175
01:48:22,094 --> 01:48:27,702
...which I know you all agree
is one of the most complete and...

1176
01:48:28,585 --> 01:48:31,987
...certainly one of the most
original publications of our age.

1177
01:48:34,691 --> 01:48:35,915
As...

1178
01:48:43,750 --> 01:48:45,636
Thank you.

1179
01:48:46,293 --> 01:48:48,162
Thank you.

1180
01:48:50,641 --> 01:48:52,256
I know many of you wonder...

1181
01:48:52,336 --> 01:48:54,776
...who could have written
this horrific tale...

1182
01:48:54,856 --> 01:48:57,383
...and why was it published anonymously.

1183
01:48:57,764 --> 01:49:01,371
I see some of you suggest
that the work belongs to me.

1184
01:49:01,802 --> 01:49:06,646
Indeed, you could say that the work
would not even exist without my contribution.

1185
01:49:12,053 --> 01:49:13,898
But to my shame...

1186
01:49:15,823 --> 01:49:20,097
...the only claim I remotely
have to this work...

1187
01:49:20,177 --> 01:49:22,466
...is inspiring the desperate loneliness...

1188
01:49:22,546 --> 01:49:25,605
...that defines Frankenstein's creature.

1189
01:49:28,585 --> 01:49:33,962
The author of 'Frankenstein;
Or A Modern Prometheus' is, of course...

1190
01:49:34,042 --> 01:49:36,629
...Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin.

1191
01:49:43,701 --> 01:49:47,949
It is a work of singular genius
and she is indebted to no one...

1192
01:49:48,029 --> 01:49:50,074
...in its creation.

1193
01:50:03,163 --> 01:50:04,756
Percy.

1194
01:50:05,916 --> 01:50:07,326
Mary.

1195
01:50:13,055 --> 01:50:15,800
I really thought you'd left for good.

1196
01:50:22,398 --> 01:50:25,461
I never promised you a life without misery...

1197
01:50:27,003 --> 01:50:30,811
...but I underestimated
the depths of despair...

1198
01:50:31,291 --> 01:50:34,504
...and the weight of regret
we were to endure.

1199
01:50:36,588 --> 01:50:39,600
I lost everything to be with you, Percy.

1200
01:50:42,685 --> 01:50:45,922
Always set out to create
something wonderful...

1201
01:50:47,808 --> 01:50:49,731
...something beautiful.

1202
01:50:51,211 --> 01:50:54,456
But something volatile seethed within us.

1203
01:50:57,258 --> 01:50:58,836
Behold...

1204
01:51:00,803 --> 01:51:03,873
...the monster galvanized...

1205
01:51:06,668 --> 01:51:09,769
...but if I had not learned to fight...

1206
01:51:09,849 --> 01:51:11,807
...through the anguish...

1207
01:51:12,708 --> 01:51:15,160
I would not have found this voice again.

1208
01:51:16,994 --> 01:51:19,651
My choices made me who I am.

1209
01:51:22,650 --> 01:51:25,498
And I regret nothing.

1210
01:53:10,232 --> 01:53:12,855
<i>You were soon borne away by the waves...</i>

1211
01:53:13,335 --> 01:53:14,967
<i>...and lost...</i>

1212
01:53:15,047 --> 01:53:17,451
<i>...in darkness and distance.</i>