1. As such, we can expect
to finish our full supply of coalCopy !req
2. by November next,Copy !req
3. unless we begin stepping down
the ship's heating plans now.Copy !req
4. And that's without
any future daysCopy !req
5. making way under steam
factored in.Copy !req
6. Of salt beef,
we've a combined total of 750 lbs.Copy !req
7. Salt pork, 210.
Flour, 902.Copy !req
8. Cheese, 87.Copy !req
9. Dried fruits, 9 lbs...
only after making the menCopy !req
10. Lady Jane's Christmas pudding
last week.Copy !req
11. Hear, hear.Copy !req
12. Of lemon juice,
not quite 200 gallons remain.Copy !req
13. Though Dr. MacDonald suspectsCopy !req
14. it's lost most of its
antiscurvy properties by now.Copy !req
15. As for the tins,
we've now inspected every oneCopy !req
16. and tossed out the putrid.Copy !req
17. It's clear now why the
Stephan Goldner Tinned Foods CompanyCopy !req
18. was the low bidder.Copy !req
19. I'd like to run that man through.Copy !req
20. What's left number
1,402 tins preserved meats,Copy !req
21. 1,163 preserved vegetables,Copy !req
22. 911 preserved soup,Copy !req
23. 1,182 potatoes.Copy !req
24. And when is the point
of no return?Copy !req
25. If we reduce
to three-quarter rations,Copy !req
26. we'll reach the end of our
provisions midwinter next year,Copy !req
27. if we're stuck in again
with no game.Copy !req
28. That, with our current roster
of 116 men.Copy !req
29. Why mention the number of men,
Lieutenant?Copy !req
30. We've not seen hide nor even a hair
of Mr... teeth and claws.Copy !req
31. I think we can be confidentCopy !req
32. that Mr. Blanky here,
along with Mr. Hodgson,Copy !req
33. killed it or ran it off for good.Copy !req
34. Now, the men will notice that large
a reduction in what they eat.Copy !req
35. They'll begin with four-fifth
rations and we will discussCopy !req
36. how to reduce further
in a month's time.Copy !req
37. And, finally, advise Mr. Wall
and Mr. DiggleCopy !req
38. that they should emphasize
salt meats in their menus now,Copy !req
39. not the tins.Copy !req
40. We must...Copy !req
41. We must start to preserve
all things portable now.Copy !req
42. And not a word of this yet
to anyoneCopy !req
43. who is not around this table,Copy !req
44. excepting the Captain,
of course.Copy !req
45. I pray he is with us again soon.Copy !req
46. Thank you, gentlemen.
That completes our business for today.Copy !req
47. Mr. Blanky, a word in private.Copy !req
48. The rest of you Terrors can suit up.
We won't be long.Copy !req
49. Gentlemen...Copy !req
50. We always feel worse
in the darker months, don't we?Copy !req
51. First sunrise
is just a week away now.Copy !req
52. Try to encourage the men with that.Copy !req
53. Please, sit down.Copy !req
54. You make that contraption work
like a ballet.Copy !req
55. If this is about Captain Crozier, sir,Copy !req
56. Jopson's a regular mongoose.Copy !req
57. Keeps us all out most of the day.Copy !req
58. No, it's not that.Copy !req
59. You said to Francis
the night of your attack,Copy !req
60. what happened to John Ross at Fury BeachCopy !req
61. could happen to him, too.Copy !req
62. I've had a chance to read Ross's memoir,Copy !req
63. and I found nothing self-critical there.Copy !req
64. You... refute the truth of his account.Copy !req
65. Someone's gonna have to think
of a new kind of memoir, sir,Copy !req
66. if truth is what you're after.Copy !req
67. I'm interested in what actually
happened, Mr. Blanky.Copy !req
68. In... in your words.Copy !req
69. You read the book.Copy !req
70. So you know we spent
three winters on the Victory.Copy !req
71. Yes. Nearly the same as we.Copy !req
72. Captain would have tried for a fourthCopy !req
73. if we hadn't run out of food.Copy !req
74. We shouldn't have waited to start walking.Copy !req
75. By the time we got to it,
the scurvy was in us...Copy !req
76. and Captain Ross,
he had no sympathy for illness.Copy !req
77. What do you mean?Copy !req
78. We sledged the boats with us.Copy !req
79. We were carrying half a load
a day's march,Copy !req
80. then doubling back for the other half.Copy !req
81. I finally begged Ross
to drop the boats altogetherCopy !req
82. but he replied he'd rather
leave our sick to die.Copy !req
83. This from his position
riding atop one of the sledges.Copy !req
84. It was 300 miles to Fury Beach.Copy !req
85. We were barely standing.Copy !req
86. What little love we had amongst usCopy !req
87. was the only thing keeping us civil.Copy !req
88. We had one day's provisions left. One.Copy !req
89. Were it not for the cache
of stores left thereCopy !req
90. from the wreck of the Fury,Copy !req
91. we'd still be on that beach,
bleaching in the wind.Copy !req
92. We tried to row out
to the whaling channelsCopy !req
93. but the ice kept us back.Copy !req
94. This is where you built Somerset House?Copy !req
95. Aye.Copy !req
96. Somerset House.Copy !req
97. Even there, Ross kept rank.Copy !req
98. The officers kept their stewardsCopy !req
99. and their wolf blankets,
and what salmon we could catch.Copy !req
100. The rest of us just slept in ice ditchesCopy !req
101. and fought over year-old biscuits.Copy !req
102. And once it's past all hope,
the mind goes...Copy !req
103. unnatural with thoughts.Copy !req
104. What... what kind of thoughts?Copy !req
105. Like splitting open Sir John Ross's head
with a boat axe.Copy !req
106. You said you wanted the truth, sir,
in my own words.Copy !req
107. Trust you won't court martial me
for them now?Copy !req
108. Would you have done it?Copy !req
109. Leads opened up in the August.Copy !req
110. We got picked up by the Isabella.Copy !req
111. We'd been taken for dead for two years.Copy !req
112. Mr. Blanky, most of the men survived.Copy !req
113. If that's the point
you want me to get to, sir,Copy !req
114. then, yes, we survived.Copy !req
115. But if we're gonna
walk out of here ourselves,Copy !req
116. and almost three times as far,
you need to understandCopy !req
117. it wasn't sickness or hungerCopy !req
118. that most mattered to our chances.Copy !req
119. It's what went on up here.Copy !req
120. Notions.Copy !req
121. A darkness.Copy !req
122. With no fair man to stem it.Copy !req
123. I know many were thinking what I was.Copy !req
124. Sir John Ross,
he never knew how close he came.Copy !req
125. This kind of darkness...Copy !req
126. do you see it among us here?Copy !req
127. I don't need to see it to know it's here.Copy !req
128. You've time enough to vent it.Copy !req
129. How?Copy !req
130. First of all, if you're gonna
keep things from the men,Copy !req
131. you'd better give them
something in return now.Copy !req
132. Something to keep their minds on,
other than what lies ahead.Copy !req
133. There'll be a tally for it,
later, when things get hard.Copy !req
134. There always is.Copy !req
135. Leave it to you, Sir John.Copy !req
136. Why are you doing that?Copy !req
137. Dr. MacDonald will be here soon.Copy !req
138. Dr. MacDonald won't mind
if I have hair astray.Copy !req
139. Turmoil on the inside
needn't show on the out, sir.Copy !req
140. You forget, I've gotten turmoil
all over you,Copy !req
141. and the bed, in the last hour alone.Copy !req
142. Just let me lie in it. It'll teach me.Copy !req
143. It is you, sir, who is teaching
the rest of us.Copy !req
144. Jopson...Copy !req
145. yours is the only companyCopy !req
146. that I don't completely hate right now.Copy !req
147. Now don't push it.Copy !req
148. How do you feel?Copy !req
149. like Christ...Copy !req
150. with more nails.Copy !req
151. Sir?Copy !req
152. Here.Copy !req
153. Only sips, sir.Copy !req
154. - More.
- No.Copy !req
155. The doctor is the captain
in this matter, sir. Full stop.Copy !req
156. You've done this before.Copy !req
157. Who was it?Copy !req
158. Every word I say hurts.Copy !req
159. Don't get mysterious, Jopson.Copy !req
160. It was my mother, sir.Copy !req
161. Your mother?Copy !req
162. Yeah.Copy !req
163. Ohh.Copy !req
164. She, uh, she took my brother
to a circus in Marylebone.Copy !req
165. The crowd was seated up on risers.Copy !req
166. You know how they pack them in
to sell more seats.Copy !req
167. My brother dropped his shoe beneath him.Copy !req
168. But they were sitting low enoughCopy !req
169. that my mother could
reach down and get it.Copy !req
170. And that's when the whole
contraption collapsed.Copy !req
171. Her hand was smashed.Copy !req
172. She kept it but it was too maimed
to ever use again.Copy !req
173. And the only thing that would
take away the painCopy !req
174. was Laudanum.Copy !req
175. You were a boy?Copy !req
176. No, this was just before we set sail
to the Antarctic in '39.Copy !req
177. She wanted me to go.Copy !req
178. She didn't want me
to miss the opportunity.Copy !req
179. But she was a different woman
by the time we got back.Copy !req
180. Pardon me, sir.Copy !req
181. No, go on.Copy !req
182. Well, problem was...Copy !req
183. it made her happy.Copy !req
184. She would stop breathing in the night.Copy !req
185. She'd soil herself.Copy !req
186. She'd get mesmerizedCopy !req
187. to the point where she would
forget to feed my brother,Copy !req
188. or herself, for days.Copy !req
189. But it took away her pain
and it made her laugh.Copy !req
190. Hmm.Copy !req
191. I don't like to hear a woman
laughing now, sir.Copy !req
192. Our neighbor was a nursemaid
from the workhouseCopy !req
193. and she helped me taper Mother
off it for three weeks.Copy !req
194. How did she fare...Copy !req
195. when she was through it?Copy !req
196. Hello.Copy !req
197. Shooting the cuff, eh, sir?Copy !req
198. You look ready to dance a polonaise.Copy !req
199. Thomas...Copy !req
200. I've got you, Captain.Copy !req
201. You can count on that, sir.Copy !req
202. Lieutenant Irving seems busy
since he got back.Copy !req
203. With the Purser.Copy !req
204. The usual accounting, I'd imagine.Copy !req
205. No, they've done that.Copy !req
206. Now they're moving all the canned foodCopy !req
207. to the back of the storeroom. Why?Copy !req
208. I've not heard a reason.Copy !req
209. But I did see an odd list
on Lieutenant Hodgson's desk.Copy !req
210. An inventory to be filled out.Copy !req
211. - An inventory of what?
- Empty things. Trunks, crates.Copy !req
212. Gather round, everyone. Men, up.Copy !req
213. Lieutenant Le Vesconte
has a message from Captain FitzjamesCopy !req
214. that's going to put a beam
in all your steps.Copy !req
215. Christ, they're counting
the luggage, Billy.Copy !req
216. Luggage for what?
Luggage for what, Cornelius?Copy !req
217. We've got a bit of a benjo
planned for first sunrise.Copy !req
218. Captain Fitzjames has proposed a carnival.Copy !req
219. A worse case of gastritis
surely there never was.Copy !req
220. Mr. Armitage.Copy !req
221. Always wanted to be a marine, that one,Copy !req
222. but for his dumb ear.Copy !req
223. He longs for it.Copy !req
224. What about you, Mr. Hickey?Copy !req
225. Did you always wanna be a caulker?Copy !req
226. That man owes you one too, you know.Copy !req
227. Who, Armitage? Yeah? How's that?Copy !req
228. For not pointing him out...Copy !req
229. being part of grabbing that Eski girl.Copy !req
230. You'd have been in your rights to.Copy !req
231. I didn't see the point in it.Copy !req
232. Even still? After getting flogged?Copy !req
233. That sort of thing can change your senseCopy !req
234. of what the point is.Copy !req
235. It did.Copy !req
236. I'm grateful... is the point.Copy !req
237. Reformed you, did it?Copy !req
238. I shouldn't have listened to you.Copy !req
239. And I deserved to be flogged.Copy !req
240. Yeah, and by ordering it,
the Captain, he's given me a chanceCopy !req
241. to clean my record and start anew.Copy !req
242. Do you think Crozier sees it like that?Copy !req
243. A new Mr. Hartnell?Copy !req
244. I do, yeah.Copy !req
245. And I intend to use that charter well.Copy !req
246. What about you, Mr. Hickey, eh?Copy !req
247. Why didn't you turn Armitage in?Copy !req
248. That's it, lads.Copy !req
249. There it is. We've not heard
that sound in far too long.Copy !req
250. We're using a lot of supplies, sir.Copy !req
251. We can't possibly carry
all this come Spring.Copy !req
252. So it's settled, then? We're walking?Copy !req
253. Well, Francis will decide.Copy !req
254. Yes, it does seem inescapable now.Copy !req
255. He was right all along.Copy !req
256. And we were deaf to him.Copy !req
257. Listen, Lieutenant...Copy !req
258. we need to give the men
a last hurrah before...Copy !req
259. before we open their ears.Copy !req
260. Have you chosen a disguise?Copy !req
261. I gave our trunk to the men.Copy !req
262. Most of the officers are making their own.Copy !req
263. Don't wait to choose until all
the best ideas are snapped up.Copy !req
264. I was, er, looking for Dr. Goodsir.Copy !req
265. Mr. Goodsir is I know not where.Copy !req
266. Helping with construction, perhaps,Copy !req
267. as I thought you would be, Mr. Collins.Copy !req
268. Are you ill?Copy !req
269. I've been in a bad way. Yes.Copy !req
270. - Are you with fever?
- No, it isn't that.Copy !req
271. It's my thoughts, sir, they're...Copy !req
272. flurried somehow.Copy !req
273. Flurried thoughts?
I do not know what that means.Copy !req
274. Do you ever feel like
your mind is against you?Copy !req
275. I sign up for all the extra work I can.Copy !req
276. I holystone the deck
like a ship's boy.Copy !req
277. I can't really stand to be alone.Copy !req
278. No man is alone on a ship.Copy !req
279. I know it.Copy !req
280. But I do feel alone.Copy !req
281. All the time now.Copy !req
282. Every day, it's like a...Copy !req
283. a trap door, sir.Copy !req
284. Like I feel something's
about to open upCopy !req
285. and pull me into some hidden space
I won't get back from.Copy !req
286. What is that, Doctor?Copy !req
287. All the men's spirits are low.
It is winter. We expect that.Copy !req
288. I don't believe the others feel
as I do, sir.Copy !req
289. You do not know how the others feel.Copy !req
290. Mr. Collins, does your gut hurt you?Copy !req
291. - My gut, sir?
- Are you dyspeptic?Copy !req
292. With blisters? Dropsical about the knee?Copy !req
293. Do you require camphor
or a Dover's powder?Copy !req
294. No, sir.Copy !req
295. I am a doctor of medicine, Mr. Collins.Copy !req
296. Do you understand what that means?Copy !req
297. But I think what you need to do
is keep busy,Copy !req
298. to keep putting your energy
to positive use.Copy !req
299. Which is exactly why Captain FitzjamesCopy !req
300. has ordered a party made.Copy !req
301. It is a prescription I support
for all the men.Copy !req
302. Look forward to the party, Mr. Collins.Copy !req
303. A little fun is what is needed.Copy !req
304. - Fun?
- Yes.Copy !req
305. A sense of fun.Copy !req
306. Is that your daughter, sir?Copy !req
307. Yes.Copy !req
308. Good night, Mr. Collins.Copy !req
309. Does she love birds?Copy !req
310. Think of the carnival.Copy !req
311. It will sort us all out. I have no doubt.Copy !req
312. Ah.Copy !req
313. Mr. Goodsir. There's trouble
in the orlop you need to see.Copy !req
314. Immediately.Copy !req
315. Move, lads. Out of the way.Copy !req
316. Wait, wait, wait, wait.Copy !req
317. Mr. Hoar said you were looking for me.Copy !req
318. I've got used to being on
the same ship together.Copy !req
319. Reminds me of our seasons
on The Gannett.Copy !req
320. I didn't volunteer to berth hereCopy !req
321. because I'm afraid
of the ice hassling Terror, John.Copy !req
322. Glad to hear that...
for more reasons than one.Copy !req
323. But I haven't finished with Voltaire.Copy !req
324. Put that aside.Copy !req
325. Has something happened?Copy !req
326. This is Xenophon.Copy !req
327. In Greek, the title is Anabasis.Copy !req
328. Which translates to
The March of the 10,000.Copy !req
329. - Do you know the story?
- No.Copy !req
330. When Cyrus the YoungerCopy !req
331. wanted to seize the throne
of Persia from his brother,Copy !req
332. he hired an army of hoplite
to accompany him.Copy !req
333. They won the battle,Copy !req
334. but during the fighting, Cyrus was killed,Copy !req
335. which rendered the expedition obsolete.Copy !req
336. His army found themselves
in hostile country.Copy !req
337. Most of their officers were dead.Copy !req
338. They had to choose.
They could either stayCopy !req
339. and fight against
clearly unwinnable odds,Copy !req
340. or they could walk out.Copy !req
341. They walked for hundreds
and hundreds of milesCopy !req
342. through desert and snow,Copy !req
343. with no food,
and attacked on their flanks.Copy !req
344. But they made it, Henry.Copy !req
345. Read it.Copy !req
346. Begin to imagine how you'd
prepare for such a journey.Copy !req
347. Jopson? Are you there?Copy !req
348. Where's the fire, Mr. Goodsir?Copy !req
349. We need to talk. Now. Please.Copy !req
350. I didn't hear the bell, sir.Copy !req
351. sounds as though there's...Copy !req
352. no one on board.Copy !req
353. No-one is, sir.Copy !req
354. It's Captain Fitzjames' Carnivale.Copy !req
355. We've just a single watch tonight.Copy !req
356. Everyone else is attending.Copy !req
357. - That's tonight?
- Yes, sir. All night.Copy !req
358. Until the sunrise.Copy !req
359. See if you can borrow a shotgun
off somebody on watch.Copy !req
360. I wanna see it.Copy !req
361. Well, it's a half-mile from the ship, sir.Copy !req
362. I will eat whatever that is on your tray.Copy !req
363. Make sure it stays put.Copy !req
364. And then you're gonna help me
get into my slops.Copy !req
365. Yes, sir.Copy !req
366. We've been fishing bits of it
out of our food,Copy !req
367. out of our mouths, this entire journey.Copy !req
368. It's a constant ingestion
of lead over years.Copy !req
369. This could explain David Young's passing,Copy !req
370. the men on Beechey...Copy !req
371. Why we've seen so many menCopy !req
372. come to us with these odd complaints.Copy !req
373. This is gonna get worse and worse.Copy !req
374. We need to let Command know
immediately.Copy !req
375. I will think it through
and decide on a plan.Copy !req
376. What is there to think through?Copy !req
377. Your energy is full of panic, Mr. Goodsir.Copy !req
378. And that will not help anyone here.Copy !req
379. I cannot stand by while...Copy !req
380. It is not yours to decide.Copy !req
381. I will do. You will not.Copy !req
382. Worse and worse, Doctor.Copy !req
383. Leave it with me.Copy !req
384. Welcome home, boys!Copy !req
385. Now, let's get our hair good and powderedCopy !req
386. before that damn sun finds us again.Copy !req
387. How did they manage all this?Copy !req
388. Wa-hoo!Copy !req
389. Captain...Copy !req
390. What do you mean? To where?Copy !req
391. Francis, you're back with us.Copy !req
392. Thomas.Copy !req
393. Aagh!Copy !req
394. Come on!Copy !req
395. Run! Run! Run! Run!Copy !req
396. Oi! Oi! Oi! Oi!Copy !req
397. Are we going, then, sir?
The men are saying...Copy !req
398. Step back, Mr. Reid.Copy !req
399. Let me take you back, sir.Copy !req
400. Sir?Copy !req
401. Is that the Captain?Copy !req
402. Come out of that pot.
Get dressed. I'm ending this now.Copy !req
403. Francis, this was my idea. All of it.Copy !req
404. To get the men ready.Copy !req
405. I see now, I... I should...
I should have been more vigilant.Copy !req
406. Ready?Copy !req
407. To walk out.Copy !req
408. Gather the men, James.Copy !req
409. They deserve to know.Copy !req
410. Men! Captain wishes to speak!Copy !req
411. Men, gather round!Copy !req
412. Come along!Copy !req
413. The captain wishes to speak!Copy !req
414. Silence, men!Copy !req
415. The Captain wishes to speak!Copy !req
416. Mr. Hickey. You're not in a stable.
Take it outside.Copy !req
417. Unless you want that ripped off?Copy !req
418. Remove your masks.Copy !req
419. Let us look one another
in the face... as men.Copy !req
420. Frozen ships are good shelters.Copy !req
421. But they are not our homes.Copy !req
422. We've got homes we need
to find our way back to.Copy !req
423. That is what you men are feeling
the call of out here tonight,Copy !req
424. not in daydreams, but in this
temple that you've built...Copy !req
425. to honor all that we miss...Copy !req
426. out of nothing and in little time...Copy !req
427. with only... vision...Copy !req
428. and good work.Copy !req
429. I marvel at what you men have made.Copy !req
430. All this is more important than you know
for what lies ahead.Copy !req
431. Let us speak plainly.Copy !req
432. In a few hours we welcome
the first sunrise of the year.Copy !req
433. It will mark the end of...Copy !req
434. the worst of a long and...Copy !req
435. strange winter.Copy !req
436. Strange in ways we will find...Copy !req
437. impossible to recount
when we are safe and home.Copy !req
438. To get there,
we can hope for a thaw come summer,Copy !req
439. but we no longer have
the luxury to wait for one.Copy !req
440. So as soon as there are enough
hours of light in the dayCopy !req
441. for safe travel, and there are
no signs of a break-up,Copy !req
442. we will be abandoning both shipsCopy !req
443. and walking out of here.Copy !req
444. South, for the mainland
and up Back's Fish River,Copy !req
445. to the Hudson Bay Company's
Fort Resolution.Copy !req
446. This will take us
overland across the lengthCopy !req
447. of King William Island.Copy !req
448. It is not inhabited year-roundCopy !req
449. but... we will be crossing it
during hunting monthCopy !req
450. and stand a good chance of
running into Netsilik people.Copy !req
451. They are a good peopleCopy !req
452. who we can greet as friends.Copy !req
453. Despite our shortfalls with them,Copy !req
454. they will help us, I am certain.Copy !req
455. It is an 800-mile journey.Copy !req
456. But by then, Lieutenant FairholmeCopy !req
457. and the party we sent out last year,Copy !req
458. will be on their way back
from Fort ResolutionCopy !req
459. with help and supplies.Copy !req
460. And we have several veterans
of overland expeditionsCopy !req
461. upon whose expertise we can rely.Copy !req
462. Dr. MacDonald, Mr. Blanky,
Captain Fitz...Copy !req
463. Make way! Make way!Copy !req
464. Let a man in.Copy !req
465. Doc.Copy !req
466. Stop him. Hold him!Copy !req
467. Hold him!Copy !req
468. Watch out!Copy !req
469. Stay back! Stay back!Copy !req
470. Put it out!Copy !req
471. Quickly!Copy !req
472. Fire! Men!Copy !req
473. Men! Fire! There's a fire!Copy !req
474. Get back!Copy !req
475. Ship's company, to the ice now!Copy !req
476. Ship's company, to the ice.
Calmly, men!Copy !req
477. To the ice, men, to the ice!Copy !req
478. This way! Through the kitchen!Copy !req
479. Go through the kitchen!Copy !req
480. It's blocked.
We can't get through this way!Copy !req
481. We need a lever! A spar, an oar!Copy !req
482. Bring an oar!Copy !req
483. Argh! No! No, no, no, no!Copy !req
484. No! No!Copy !req
485. Get back or I'll drop the bloody thing!Copy !req
486. Get back!Copy !req
487. Oar coming through!Copy !req
488. On my count. Three, two, one.Copy !req
489. You're crushing him!
Don't crush him!Copy !req
490. Stand back, I'm cutting through!
Stand back!Copy !req
491. Give him room!Copy !req
492. Stand back!Copy !req
493. Hurry up!Copy !req
494. Come on!Copy !req
495. James... go back.Copy !req
496. Others can do this.Copy !req
497. Come on. They need you on Erebus.Copy !req
498. These men need names yet.Copy !req
499. I'll have a tally later.Copy !req
500. Sir, I've been sending half
to Erebus, half to Terror,Copy !req
501. so we can be sure of having
enough supplies.Copy !req
502. Lady Silence I've sent to you.
She should be there by now.Copy !req
503. Thank you, Dr. Goodsir.Copy !req
504. I should be going, too,
only I don't know if Dr. Peddie'sCopy !req
505. gone to Terror or Erebus.
I didn't see him to ask.Copy !req
506. Captain...Copy !req
507. I heard Tom Hartnell
say we lost Dr. Peddie as well.Copy !req
508. I can help Mr. Goodsir, if he'll have me.Copy !req