1:57:00
The boy's mother, that is,
not my dear wife.
1:57:14
- You've kept this all these years?
- Why should I not?
1:57:17
Didn't it occur to you that it might provide
the answer to the boy's parentage?
1:57:21
- His identity! His name!
- He had none. The mother was unmarried.
1:57:25
It is your clear duty to show this evidence
to some higher authority.
1:57:29
- Your behavior, madam, was shameful.
- How dare you speak to me so!
1:57:32
I only came here to help you.
1:57:34
You came here to profit
from your own greed and dishonesty.
1:57:37
- You don't think it belongs to my wife?
- Be quiet.
1:57:40
Your reward and something for the locket.
Your lucky you're not in the law's hands.
1:57:45
- Show these people out.
- There's gratitude for you!
1:57:50
I hope this unfortunate circumstance
won't deprive me of my parochial office?
1:57:54
My hope, sir, is that it will.
1:57:56
But it was all Mrs. Bumble.
I knew nothing till yesterday.
1:57:59
No excuse. In the eyes of the law
you are the more guilty of the two.
1:58:02
The law supposes your wife acts
under your direction.
1:58:05
If that's what the law supposes, sir,
then the law's an ass.
1:58:08
If that's the eye of the law, sir,
then law's a bachelor.
1:58:11
The worst I wish the law is that it's eye
be opened by experience. By experience!
1:58:26
Sir, the locket, I didn't really see it.
1:58:30
I recognized it at once. I gave it
to my niece, Emily, on her 18th birthday.
1:58:35
So it wasn't just her young man jilting her
that made her run away?
1:58:39
No.
1:58:41
She must have made her way to that
workhouse and had her baby there.