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After precipitating the death of a tenant with whom he has been feuding, Squire Fairfield brings the dead man's young daughter to live in Wyvern Manor. Alice grows up thinking the squire is her kind benefactor, and falls in love with one of his two sons. When the squire makes his romantic intentions known to Alice, she and Charles elope, incurring the wrath of his father. They avoid the squire by living in an outlying estate where their baby is born. Charles is attacked by a mysterious woman who literally comes out of the woodwork, and the baby is moved to the home of an acquaintance of Harry, the squire's other son. Alice faces the loss of her child and possible loss of her husband amid the gloomy home she feels trapped in, surrounded by secrets and mysteries and wondering who she can really trust. Written by
Ron Kerrigan <mvg@whidbey.com>
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Some family secrets can kill.
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Quotes
Squire Fairfield:
So, what news of London?
Alice Fairfield:
Yes, I would love to hear.
Charles Fairfield:
All the same, thieves everywhere, but the worst wear wigs and practice law.
Harry Fairfield:
Well said Charley, there are more thieves in the courts than the filthiest alehouse.
Squire Fairfield:
What do you want with lawyers?
Charles Fairfield:
As little as possible.
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"Early One Morning"
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She's young, she's blonde, she's beautiful, she's embroiled in the kind of eerieness only an English manor with a grim, tight-lipped housemistress and a deep, dark secret can muster. If you want romance, mystery, twisted plots and equally twisted people--not to mention one of the best reasons ever filmed for not placing one's bed against a wall--this will not disappoint. Grand performances all around; definitely not for the younger kiddies.