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This image is from the 1999 BBC miniseries Wives & Daughters, adapted from the 1864 novel by Elizabeth Gaskell. Wives and Daughters tells the story of the protagonist Molly Gibson, daughter of a country doctor, as she comes of age in their rural community. The scene pictured is from the end of the series when Molly runs through the rain to catch up with Roger Hamley, her friend/love interest before he leaves on a scientific expedition to Africa. They are standing apart from each other because Roger's nephew has had scarlet fever and he can't risk exposing Molly to it because she's just getting over being ill herself and is still weak. In this series**SPOILERS** they confess their love for each other, marry, and then Molly goes to Africa with Roger. This doesn't actually happen in the novel; Gaskell died before penning the final chapters of the book, which ends with Molly and Roger gazing at each other through the window of the doctor's house. She doesn't run through the rain after him when he leaves. Gaskell apparently related to a friend how she was going to end her book: Roger would go to Africa and finish his scientific expedition, then propose to Molly when he got back. The miniseries ending is fine, though the running through the rain seems a bit cliched.
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