1 00:00:02,553 --> 00:00:06,506 (gentle instrumental music) 2 00:00:19,503 --> 00:00:24,066 (gentle instrumental music swells) 3 00:00:39,064 --> 00:00:40,616 - Will you pick that up, Artemis? 4 00:00:40,649 --> 00:00:43,201 - I don't know why we have to do this. 5 00:00:43,235 --> 00:00:45,329 - [Persephone] Because we like to eat. 6 00:00:45,362 --> 00:00:47,164 - But we're only paid pennies. 7 00:00:47,197 --> 00:00:49,333 - Pennies that keep our family from dire straits. 8 00:00:49,366 --> 00:00:50,534 - [Persephone] I do not enjoy 9 00:00:50,567 --> 00:00:52,336 washing the neighborhood's laundry any more than you do. 10 00:00:52,369 --> 00:00:55,631 But being upset about it won't change our situation. 11 00:00:55,664 --> 00:00:57,174 (Artemis sighs) 12 00:00:57,207 --> 00:01:01,103 (dramatic instrumental music) 13 00:01:07,301 --> 00:01:08,644 (gate squeals) 14 00:01:08,677 --> 00:01:09,645 (birds chirping) 15 00:01:09,678 --> 00:01:11,480 - Open the door, sweetheart. 16 00:01:11,513 --> 00:01:13,357 - I have had an atrocious day, 17 00:01:13,390 --> 00:01:15,359 and now I have to open the door. 18 00:01:15,392 --> 00:01:18,070 - [Persephone] I'm sorry you've suffered so much. 19 00:01:18,103 --> 00:01:19,488 I fear you will simply have to continue 20 00:01:19,521 --> 00:01:21,365 in your wretched state a bit longer. 21 00:01:21,398 --> 00:01:22,532 - I will open the door, 22 00:01:22,566 --> 00:01:26,370 but do not be surprised if I lie on the floor and die. 23 00:01:26,403 --> 00:01:28,205 - I will be many things if that happens, 24 00:01:28,238 --> 00:01:29,106 my sweet little Artemis, 25 00:01:29,139 --> 00:01:31,842 but above all I will not be surprised. 26 00:01:33,118 --> 00:01:34,252 (Artemis sighs) 27 00:01:34,286 --> 00:01:37,097 - She has "died" from far less than this in the past. 28 00:01:39,583 --> 00:01:44,438 (dramatic instrumental music continues) 29 00:01:55,599 --> 00:01:59,653 (door creaks) (Persephone grunts) 30 00:01:59,686 --> 00:02:01,405 (shoe clatters) 31 00:02:01,438 --> 00:02:06,243 (dramatic instrumental music continues) 32 00:02:06,276 --> 00:02:07,661 - Was father wandering again? 33 00:02:07,694 --> 00:02:12,507 (dramatic instrumental music continues) 34 00:02:17,454 --> 00:02:18,672 Daphne. 35 00:02:18,705 --> 00:02:20,257 - Persephone. You're home. 36 00:02:20,290 --> 00:02:21,258 (Persephone chuckles) 37 00:02:21,291 --> 00:02:23,427 - Was father wandering again? 38 00:02:23,460 --> 00:02:24,261 - Until a letter came. 39 00:02:24,294 --> 00:02:26,555 Then he went back up to his study. 40 00:02:26,588 --> 00:02:28,557 - Did he say whom the letter was from? 41 00:02:28,590 --> 00:02:31,184 - You know father doesn't usually talk to me. 42 00:02:31,218 --> 00:02:33,729 - Well, once I've cleared the clutter he spread, 43 00:02:33,762 --> 00:02:36,273 sorted the laundry, and started our meal, 44 00:02:36,306 --> 00:02:37,607 then I very much wish to talk with you 45 00:02:37,641 --> 00:02:39,443 about whatever you've learned today. 46 00:02:39,476 --> 00:02:42,446 - It's ever so interesting and terribly useful. 47 00:02:42,479 --> 00:02:44,197 - I cannot wait. 48 00:02:44,231 --> 00:02:46,158 - Thank you, Persephone. 49 00:02:46,191 --> 00:02:47,668 - Of course, Daphne. 50 00:02:50,737 --> 00:02:53,507 (cheeky music) 51 00:02:57,244 --> 00:02:59,296 You did say this might happen. 52 00:02:59,329 --> 00:03:00,464 - Yes, I did. 53 00:03:00,497 --> 00:03:01,264 - And what has brought you 54 00:03:01,298 --> 00:03:03,175 to such a horrible end this time? 55 00:03:03,208 --> 00:03:04,634 - My suffering is too great, 56 00:03:04,668 --> 00:03:07,471 no words can possibly describe it. 57 00:03:07,504 --> 00:03:08,597 - Is this because I could not buy you a sweet 58 00:03:08,630 --> 00:03:09,723 from the confectionery shop? 59 00:03:09,756 --> 00:03:11,349 - That was tragic. 60 00:03:11,383 --> 00:03:13,226 - But not the reason you're expiring on the floor? 61 00:03:13,260 --> 00:03:15,312 - I didn't see my friend. 62 00:03:15,345 --> 00:03:18,315 I watched for him, and he didn't come. 63 00:03:18,348 --> 00:03:21,526 He hasn't in ever so long, and it's deeply devastating. 64 00:03:21,560 --> 00:03:23,653 - This is the friend I can't see? 65 00:03:23,687 --> 00:03:24,780 - The friend you don't see. 66 00:03:24,813 --> 00:03:26,206 - Ah. 67 00:03:26,840 --> 00:03:29,284 Do you think your friend would visit you again 68 00:03:29,317 --> 00:03:31,411 if we had bread pudding tonight? 69 00:03:31,445 --> 00:03:33,205 - Bread pudding? 70 00:03:33,238 --> 00:03:34,331 - I have a bit of stale bread. 71 00:03:34,364 --> 00:03:37,334 And Mrs. Sanford gave me some cream. 72 00:03:37,367 --> 00:03:38,627 I think we should have bread pudding tonight. 73 00:03:38,660 --> 00:03:39,694 - It is not even my birthday. 74 00:03:39,728 --> 00:03:43,340 Bread pudding is quite possibly my favorite thing 75 00:03:43,373 --> 00:03:44,391 in all the world. 76 00:03:44,825 --> 00:03:47,427 - (sighs) Of course, if you are dead on the floor 77 00:03:47,461 --> 00:03:49,346 you won't be able to have any. 78 00:03:49,379 --> 00:03:50,555 - I am all better! 79 00:03:50,589 --> 00:03:52,691 - It is a miracle! 80 00:03:53,125 --> 00:03:55,811 - Thank you, thank you, thank you. 81 00:03:55,844 --> 00:03:58,772 - You're very welcome, my darling little Artemis. 82 00:03:58,805 --> 00:04:02,284 (lighthearted music) 83 00:04:03,852 --> 00:04:06,363 How do you like the latest fashions? 84 00:04:06,396 --> 00:04:07,697 - These are not the latest. 85 00:04:07,731 --> 00:04:08,665 Mrs. Upton gave me these 86 00:04:08,698 --> 00:04:09,533 because she received the most recent version. 87 00:04:09,566 --> 00:04:13,503 But they are very nearly the latest. 88 00:04:14,738 --> 00:04:16,414 - [Persephone] That is gorgeous. 89 00:04:16,448 --> 00:04:17,791 - Isn't it? 90 00:04:17,824 --> 00:04:19,417 I've added it to my list of dreams. 91 00:04:19,451 --> 00:04:21,378 - Mm, that must be quite a list by now. 92 00:04:21,411 --> 00:04:23,380 - Isn't that what dreaming is for? 93 00:04:23,413 --> 00:04:24,840 Believing in those things you fear you'll never have 94 00:04:24,873 --> 00:04:27,342 but want to continue hoping are possible? 95 00:04:27,375 --> 00:04:32,272 Like having money enough and happiness, falling in love. 96 00:04:33,240 --> 00:04:35,809 - I want you to have all of those things, Athena. 97 00:04:35,842 --> 00:04:37,394 - You must have dreams too. 98 00:04:37,427 --> 00:04:38,612 - Certainly I do. 99 00:04:39,721 --> 00:04:41,481 Artemis' spirits not being dampened 100 00:04:41,515 --> 00:04:43,567 by the heaviness of life. 101 00:04:43,600 --> 00:04:45,610 Daphne finding a friend who helps her feel seen 102 00:04:45,644 --> 00:04:46,661 and cared about. 103 00:04:47,262 --> 00:04:50,332 Evander and Linus returning home to us whole. 104 00:04:52,400 --> 00:04:53,368 - That is far from guaranteed 105 00:04:53,401 --> 00:04:55,829 for two midshipmen in the navy during wartime. 106 00:04:55,862 --> 00:04:58,415 - I should've done more to keep them home and safe. 107 00:04:58,448 --> 00:04:59,875 - There was nothing more you could've done. 108 00:04:59,908 --> 00:05:01,418 - I could've taken in more laundry, 109 00:05:01,451 --> 00:05:02,836 or reduced my portions at meal times. 110 00:05:02,869 --> 00:05:04,504 I could've gone without fires in my room. 111 00:05:04,538 --> 00:05:06,890 - And it likely still would not have been enough. 112 00:05:08,625 --> 00:05:09,759 - I suppose that is my version 113 00:05:09,793 --> 00:05:11,645 of "hoping for impossible things." 114 00:05:14,339 --> 00:05:15,599 - None of the hopes that you've mentioned 115 00:05:15,632 --> 00:05:17,359 have been of dreams for yourself. 116 00:05:17,893 --> 00:05:21,438 - Seeing this family happy is dream enough for me. 117 00:05:21,471 --> 00:05:22,647 (door creaks) 118 00:05:22,681 --> 00:05:23,815 (footsteps approaching) 119 00:05:23,849 --> 00:05:26,610 Fetch Daphne and Artemis and take them to the kitchen. 120 00:05:26,643 --> 00:05:28,828 I do not know how frustrating he might be this time. 121 00:05:33,942 --> 00:05:35,544 Have you received a letter? 122 00:05:38,488 --> 00:05:42,509 - We have a very significant problem. 123 00:05:43,660 --> 00:05:44,844 - What has happened, papa? 124 00:05:45,829 --> 00:05:47,505 Evander? Linus? 125 00:05:47,539 --> 00:05:50,634 - Oh, no, I haven't heard anything about your brothers. 126 00:05:50,667 --> 00:05:51,685 - Oh. 127 00:05:54,546 --> 00:05:55,939 - I have, however, 128 00:05:57,465 --> 00:06:00,610 received the most befuddling letter. 129 00:06:04,389 --> 00:06:08,693 You, my dear, have received an offer of marriage. 130 00:06:08,727 --> 00:06:09,728 - A what? 131 00:06:09,761 --> 00:06:13,365 - An offer from an incredibly wealthy gentleman 132 00:06:13,398 --> 00:06:17,961 with an old and, um, prestigious title. 133 00:06:18,820 --> 00:06:21,840 (disquieting music) 134 00:06:26,870 --> 00:06:27,888 - Good heavens! 135 00:06:28,705 --> 00:06:29,723 - Yeah. 136 00:06:31,708 --> 00:06:36,146 What I cannot fathom is why the duke has settled on you. 137 00:06:36,880 --> 00:06:40,684 He cannot even be remotely acquainted with our family. 138 00:06:40,717 --> 00:06:41,935 - The duke? 139 00:06:41,968 --> 00:06:45,397 - Of course, dear, the Duke of Kielder. 140 00:06:45,430 --> 00:06:48,942 - The Duke of Kielder has asked for my hand in marriage? 141 00:06:48,975 --> 00:06:50,860 - Quite specifically. 142 00:06:50,894 --> 00:06:53,530 (Persephone chuckles) 143 00:06:53,563 --> 00:06:54,998 - I do not believe a word of it. 144 00:06:55,532 --> 00:06:57,993 After all, I do not know His Grace, 145 00:06:58,026 --> 00:06:59,878 or any Grace, for that matter. 146 00:07:06,868 --> 00:07:08,962 (Richard clears throat) 147 00:07:08,995 --> 00:07:10,472 - "Mr. Lancaster, 148 00:07:11,581 --> 00:07:12,549 I am requesting 149 00:07:12,582 --> 00:07:15,719 the hand of your eldest daughter in marriage. 150 00:07:15,752 --> 00:07:18,638 I am prepared to settle upon your three remaining daughters 151 00:07:18,672 --> 00:07:20,598 20,000 each for their dowries 152 00:07:20,632 --> 00:07:25,654 and 50,000 upon yourself for the sake of your sons. 153 00:07:25,854 --> 00:07:28,440 The ceremony will take place October the first 154 00:07:28,473 --> 00:07:30,567 at the Falstone chapel. 155 00:07:30,600 --> 00:07:32,619 Please reply as to your intentions. 156 00:07:33,603 --> 00:07:38,500 Yours, et cetera, Kielder. 157 00:07:40,610 --> 00:07:41,870 - That is certainly not the most romantic 158 00:07:41,903 --> 00:07:43,922 nor flattering of proposals, to be sure. 159 00:07:44,906 --> 00:07:46,800 "The ceremony will take place." 160 00:07:47,334 --> 00:07:49,002 There's not the slightest acknowledgment 161 00:07:49,035 --> 00:07:51,638 that the unforeseen offer might be declined. 162 00:07:53,498 --> 00:07:56,810 - This offer amounts to more than 100,000 pounds. 163 00:07:58,962 --> 00:08:00,764 (Persephone exhales softly) 164 00:08:00,797 --> 00:08:04,651 (disquieting music continues) 165 00:08:07,595 --> 00:08:09,531 - What is the Duke of Kielder like? 166 00:08:10,640 --> 00:08:11,658 - Like? 167 00:08:13,518 --> 00:08:15,028 Well, couldn't say. 168 00:08:15,061 --> 00:08:16,830 I've not met the current duke. 169 00:08:17,814 --> 00:08:19,249 - What was his father like? 170 00:08:20,650 --> 00:08:23,837 - Uh, dull as dishwater. 171 00:08:27,574 --> 00:08:29,634 But his mother is an active sort. 172 00:08:30,827 --> 00:08:34,723 (disquieting music continues) 173 00:08:36,958 --> 00:08:39,853 (sheep bleating) 174 00:08:41,004 --> 00:08:44,899 (disquieting music continues) 175 00:08:45,842 --> 00:08:46,935 (footsteps approaching) 176 00:08:46,968 --> 00:08:49,104 - 100,000 pounds? 177 00:08:49,137 --> 00:08:51,731 - I can hardly comprehend such a sum. 178 00:08:51,765 --> 00:08:52,866 (Athena laughs) 179 00:08:52,899 --> 00:08:56,986 It is more than 500 years' worth our current income. 180 00:08:57,020 --> 00:09:00,532 It is more than five times the income of the Duke of Sussex, 181 00:09:00,565 --> 00:09:01,825 and he is the son of the king. 182 00:09:01,858 --> 00:09:03,118 - Good heavens. 183 00:09:03,151 --> 00:09:05,537 - We would have food enough to eat. 184 00:09:05,570 --> 00:09:07,714 We would not need to wash laundry for pennies. 185 00:09:08,381 --> 00:09:11,718 The boys could soon leave the navy and return home. 186 00:09:13,036 --> 00:09:14,546 All of your impossible dreams 187 00:09:14,579 --> 00:09:16,306 would suddenly be entirely possible. 188 00:09:16,773 --> 00:09:18,842 This would not merely save our family; 189 00:09:18,875 --> 00:09:22,554 it would save generations of our family. 190 00:09:22,587 --> 00:09:23,888 - But the Duke of Kielder 191 00:09:23,922 --> 00:09:25,974 might be prone to anger or unkindness. 192 00:09:26,007 --> 00:09:27,684 What, (inhales sharply) what if he mistreats you? 193 00:09:27,717 --> 00:09:29,853 What if being married to him makes you miserable 194 00:09:29,886 --> 00:09:31,020 for the rest of your life? 195 00:09:31,054 --> 00:09:34,908 - It is also possible he will be kind and considerate. 196 00:09:35,375 --> 00:09:38,111 - You don't know anything about him? 197 00:09:38,144 --> 00:09:40,864 - Only that he clearly has a tremendous amount of money 198 00:09:40,897 --> 00:09:42,115 and wishes to marry me. 199 00:09:42,148 --> 00:09:43,700 He gave no indication why. 200 00:09:43,733 --> 00:09:45,869 - You needn't simply accept this offer. 201 00:09:45,902 --> 00:09:47,912 One may yet come from someone that you at least know 202 00:09:47,946 --> 00:09:49,998 won't treat you abominably. 203 00:09:50,031 --> 00:09:51,758 - There will be no other offers. 204 00:09:52,292 --> 00:09:55,762 If I do not accept this one, our family will sink further. 205 00:09:56,229 --> 00:09:58,173 Even the simple hopes we currently have 206 00:09:58,206 --> 00:10:00,008 will be out of reach. 207 00:10:00,041 --> 00:10:01,718 - But then all of your hopes would be snatched away. 208 00:10:01,751 --> 00:10:04,679 - This family's happiness is worth every sacrifice. 209 00:10:04,712 --> 00:10:07,599 - Isn't your happiness worth something as well? 210 00:10:07,632 --> 00:10:08,700 - Artemis has always told 211 00:10:08,733 --> 00:10:10,944 the tale of Hades and Persephone quite accurately. 212 00:10:12,053 --> 00:10:13,863 Persephone doesn't get to be happy. 213 00:10:15,640 --> 00:10:17,784 - Then you mean to accept the duke's offer? 214 00:10:18,977 --> 00:10:21,830 (poignant music) 215 00:10:26,151 --> 00:10:28,962 (dramatic music) 216 00:10:41,166 --> 00:10:43,059 - Who invited all these people? 217 00:10:44,294 --> 00:10:45,478 - I did. 218 00:10:45,879 --> 00:10:49,849 It is not every day my poor boy takes a bride. 219 00:10:49,883 --> 00:10:52,777 - This was supposed to be a quiet ceremony. 220 00:10:53,278 --> 00:10:55,897 I do not believe Miss Lancaster has invited anyone 221 00:10:55,930 --> 00:10:58,024 beyond her own immediate family. 222 00:10:58,057 --> 00:11:00,869 - I did not intend to cause awkwardness, Adam. 223 00:11:01,936 --> 00:11:03,246 I only wish to celebrate. 224 00:11:05,315 --> 00:11:09,752 (guests chattering indistinctly) 225 00:11:16,951 --> 00:11:19,754 - [Guest] I wonder if the chit'll actually turn up. 226 00:11:19,787 --> 00:11:20,688 (sword clinks) - Try to resist the urge 227 00:11:20,722 --> 00:11:23,841 to run through any of the wedding guests. 228 00:11:23,875 --> 00:11:25,760 (Harry chuckles) 229 00:11:25,793 --> 00:11:28,229 (sword clangs) 230 00:11:30,215 --> 00:11:32,850 - Where the devil is she? 231 00:11:32,884 --> 00:11:35,895 Another five minutes and I'll go retrieve her myself. 232 00:11:35,929 --> 00:11:39,157 (footsteps approaching) 233 00:11:50,109 --> 00:11:51,786 - When is this going to start? 234 00:11:51,819 --> 00:11:52,787 I'm hungry. 235 00:11:52,820 --> 00:11:53,329 - Shh. 236 00:11:53,363 --> 00:11:54,539 - Artemis. 237 00:11:54,572 --> 00:11:59,002 (Athena whispers indistinctly) 238 00:11:59,035 --> 00:11:59,919 (guest coughs) 239 00:11:59,953 --> 00:12:01,212 (guest clears throat) 240 00:12:01,246 --> 00:12:03,965 (gentle music) 241 00:12:03,998 --> 00:12:05,883 - She's decided to come, after all. 242 00:12:05,917 --> 00:12:09,187 (gentle music continues) 243 00:12:46,624 --> 00:12:50,136 - Dearly beloved, we are gathered here together 244 00:12:50,169 --> 00:12:53,598 in the sight of God and the face of this congregation 245 00:12:53,631 --> 00:12:58,861 to join together this man and this woman in holy matrimony, 246 00:12:58,995 --> 00:13:01,856 an honorable estate, instituted of God 247 00:13:01,889 --> 00:13:03,941 in the time of man's innocence, 248 00:13:03,975 --> 00:13:06,861 signifying unto us the mystical union 249 00:13:06,894 --> 00:13:08,955 betwixt Christ and His church. 250 00:13:09,389 --> 00:13:13,910 Therefore, if any man can show any just cause 251 00:13:13,943 --> 00:13:17,205 why they should not lawfully be joined together, 252 00:13:17,238 --> 00:13:22,260 let him speak, or else hereafter forever hold his peace. 253 00:13:25,038 --> 00:13:27,423 - Deuced, blasted muck heap. 254 00:13:27,457 --> 00:13:30,426 (guests whispering indistinctly) 255 00:13:30,460 --> 00:13:32,178 Go on. 256 00:13:32,211 --> 00:13:34,939 - Who giveth this woman to be married to this man? 257 00:13:46,351 --> 00:13:47,994 - Apparently, I giveth myself. 258 00:13:52,231 --> 00:13:54,250 - Take her right hand in yours. 259 00:14:01,366 --> 00:14:02,233 - I, Adam Richard Boyce, 260 00:14:02,266 --> 00:14:04,210 Duke of Kielder, Marquess of Falstone, 261 00:14:04,243 --> 00:14:05,378 Earl of Falstone, Viscount Byrness, 262 00:14:05,411 --> 00:14:06,921 Baron Falstone, Baron Whitelee, 263 00:14:06,954 --> 00:14:08,464 take thee to be my wedded wife, 264 00:14:08,498 --> 00:14:10,216 to have and to hold, from this day forward, 265 00:14:10,249 --> 00:14:11,968 for better for worse, for richer for poorer, 266 00:14:12,001 --> 00:14:14,220 in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, 267 00:14:14,253 --> 00:14:15,021 'till death do us part, 268 00:14:15,054 --> 00:14:16,389 according to God's holy ordinance; 269 00:14:16,422 --> 00:14:18,399 and thereto I plight thee my troth. 270 00:14:22,512 --> 00:14:26,232 (disquieting music) 271 00:14:26,265 --> 00:14:27,150 - I, Persephone- 272 00:14:27,183 --> 00:14:28,201 - [Adam] Ridiculous. 273 00:14:32,146 --> 00:14:33,664 - Lancaster, do... 274 00:14:40,530 --> 00:14:43,424 Do take thee to be my wedded husband, 275 00:14:43,858 --> 00:14:46,711 to have and to hold, from this day forward, 276 00:14:46,744 --> 00:14:50,298 for better for worse, for richer for poorer, 277 00:14:50,331 --> 00:14:54,060 in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, 278 00:14:55,002 --> 00:14:57,096 'till death us do part, 279 00:14:57,130 --> 00:14:59,515 according to God's holy ordinance; 280 00:14:59,549 --> 00:15:01,484 and thereto I give thee my troth. 281 00:15:03,136 --> 00:15:04,270 - Is that everything? 282 00:15:04,303 --> 00:15:05,321 - Not usually. 283 00:15:06,139 --> 00:15:07,039 - Can it be? 284 00:15:07,073 --> 00:15:08,524 - I suppose all the truly essential bits 285 00:15:08,558 --> 00:15:09,992 have been seen to. 286 00:15:12,311 --> 00:15:14,989 Those whom God hath joined together, 287 00:15:15,022 --> 00:15:17,166 let no man put asunder. 288 00:15:19,068 --> 00:15:20,995 - To the castle, then. 289 00:15:21,028 --> 00:15:22,997 (footsteps retreating) 290 00:15:23,030 --> 00:15:23,539 (Persephone speaks indistinctly) 291 00:15:23,573 --> 00:15:24,999 - I... 292 00:15:25,032 --> 00:15:27,510 (poignant music) 293 00:15:30,788 --> 00:15:33,349 (bell tolling) 294 00:15:46,053 --> 00:15:47,146 - Thank you. 295 00:15:47,180 --> 00:15:50,491 (bell continues tolling) 296 00:15:54,520 --> 00:15:56,113 (Harry laughs) 297 00:15:56,147 --> 00:15:59,542 (poignant music continues) 298 00:16:15,416 --> 00:16:18,269 - Is your name really Persephone? 299 00:16:19,420 --> 00:16:20,438 - It is. 300 00:16:21,464 --> 00:16:23,566 Did you not think to ask? 301 00:16:25,176 --> 00:16:26,269 - [Adam] What were your parents thinking, 302 00:16:26,302 --> 00:16:27,486 choosing a name like that? 303 00:16:29,555 --> 00:16:31,524 - [Persephone] My father is a scholar. 304 00:16:31,557 --> 00:16:33,568 He's particularly fond of Greek mythology. 305 00:16:33,601 --> 00:16:35,870 - Entirely too fond, it would seem. 306 00:16:36,370 --> 00:16:39,448 Are the rest of your siblings similarly afflicted? 307 00:16:39,482 --> 00:16:41,534 - In what way afflicted? 308 00:16:41,567 --> 00:16:43,411 - What absurd names did your parents assign 309 00:16:43,444 --> 00:16:45,213 the other members of your family? 310 00:16:46,239 --> 00:16:48,124 - Athena is just younger than I. 311 00:16:48,157 --> 00:16:50,334 Evander is 14. Linus, 13. 312 00:16:50,368 --> 00:16:52,670 Daphne will be 12 toward the end of the year. 313 00:16:52,703 --> 00:16:54,672 The youngest is Artemis. 314 00:16:54,705 --> 00:16:58,217 - Fates save us from short-sighted scholars. 315 00:16:58,251 --> 00:16:59,477 Do you have a middle name? 316 00:17:00,461 --> 00:17:01,888 - I do. 317 00:17:01,921 --> 00:17:03,431 - I suppose it is entirely too much to hope 318 00:17:03,464 --> 00:17:04,899 that it is something common. 319 00:17:07,218 --> 00:17:09,854 - Iphigenia. 320 00:17:09,887 --> 00:17:11,530 - Persephone Iphigenia? 321 00:17:12,064 --> 00:17:15,276 Did no one ever call you anything else? 322 00:17:15,309 --> 00:17:17,153 - Only Miss Lancaster. 323 00:17:17,186 --> 00:17:18,537 - Well, I cannot call you that. 324 00:17:19,071 --> 00:17:23,159 I suppose I will have to consign myself to Persephone. 325 00:17:23,192 --> 00:17:24,502 - [Persephone] It would seem so. 326 00:17:27,488 --> 00:17:29,707 - You, of course, will call me Kielder. 327 00:17:29,740 --> 00:17:30,374 - I will not call you Kielder. 328 00:17:30,408 --> 00:17:31,626 - Everyone calls me Kielder. 329 00:17:31,659 --> 00:17:33,294 - Kielder? 330 00:17:33,327 --> 00:17:35,680 It sounds as though I am accusing you of a crime. 331 00:17:38,666 --> 00:17:41,928 - You would, no doubt, prefer Agamemnon or Apollo 332 00:17:41,961 --> 00:17:44,180 or something along that vein. 333 00:17:44,213 --> 00:17:45,439 - My papa certainly would. 334 00:17:46,040 --> 00:17:48,935 - What do you propose to call me, then? 335 00:17:48,968 --> 00:17:50,528 - Adam? - No one calls me Adam. 336 00:17:51,637 --> 00:17:52,638 - No one? 337 00:17:52,672 --> 00:17:55,366 Certainly your family and closest friends would. 338 00:17:57,643 --> 00:17:59,195 - Harry does. 339 00:17:59,228 --> 00:18:00,613 - Who is Harry? 340 00:18:00,646 --> 00:18:01,664 - A friend, 341 00:18:02,098 --> 00:18:05,284 one who allows himself far too much freedom. 342 00:18:05,318 --> 00:18:07,962 (dramatic music) 343 00:18:47,735 --> 00:18:51,380 (dramatic music swells) 344 00:19:11,592 --> 00:19:13,652 Calling me Adam will be fine. 345 00:19:15,054 --> 00:19:16,280 Persephone. 346 00:19:29,735 --> 00:19:31,462 This is Barton, the butler. 347 00:19:32,863 --> 00:19:34,673 Mrs. Smithson, the housekeeper. 348 00:19:36,325 --> 00:19:37,343 Duchess of Kielder. 349 00:19:43,791 --> 00:19:45,593 (Adam clears throat) 350 00:19:45,626 --> 00:19:48,479 (poignant music) 351 00:19:57,805 --> 00:20:00,366 Mrs. Smithson will see to whatever you need. 352 00:20:02,643 --> 00:20:06,414 (poignant music continues) 353 00:20:23,497 --> 00:20:25,808 - I'm likely meant to be shown all of the castle, 354 00:20:26,834 --> 00:20:29,345 but I would very much like to rest. 355 00:20:29,378 --> 00:20:30,554 Perhaps you could simply point out 356 00:20:30,588 --> 00:20:31,680 the rooms I need to know today, 357 00:20:31,714 --> 00:20:33,099 and save the rest for tomorrow? 358 00:20:33,132 --> 00:20:34,483 - Of course, Your Grace. 359 00:20:36,135 --> 00:20:39,697 (poignant music continues) 360 00:20:42,475 --> 00:20:47,496 The Drawing Room, a favorite of Queen Elizabeth 361 00:20:47,663 --> 00:20:51,417 when she stayed at Falstone Castle in 1580. 362 00:20:53,486 --> 00:20:56,547 - Do, do members of the royal family still visit Falstone? 363 00:20:57,615 --> 00:21:00,134 - Heavens, no. They wouldn't dare. 364 00:21:02,495 --> 00:21:05,422 This is the Grand Banquet Hall, 365 00:21:05,456 --> 00:21:06,674 which has hosted feasts 366 00:21:06,707 --> 00:21:08,509 for some of the most significant 367 00:21:08,542 --> 00:21:10,719 and influential people in the kingdom 368 00:21:10,753 --> 00:21:12,646 over the past 500 years. 369 00:21:14,715 --> 00:21:17,651 I believe your family will be dining in here this evening. 370 00:21:20,846 --> 00:21:22,114 - Is that a gibbet? 371 00:21:23,766 --> 00:21:25,609 - And stocks. 372 00:21:25,643 --> 00:21:28,529 - Was there no room in the dark, foreboding dungeon? 373 00:21:28,562 --> 00:21:31,157 - There's ample room, Your Grace. 374 00:21:31,190 --> 00:21:33,576 But the duke says displaying weapons 375 00:21:33,609 --> 00:21:35,127 makes them more effective. 376 00:21:40,783 --> 00:21:43,511 All of the family bedchambers are on this floor. 377 00:21:45,538 --> 00:21:47,681 This is your bedchamber, Your Grace. 378 00:21:49,208 --> 00:21:51,886 Is there anything else you wish me to do, Your Grace? 379 00:21:51,919 --> 00:21:53,512 - Not at the moment. 380 00:21:53,546 --> 00:21:55,514 - The bell pull is beside the fireplace 381 00:21:55,548 --> 00:21:57,191 should you require anything. 382 00:22:04,765 --> 00:22:07,860 (door creaks) 383 00:22:07,893 --> 00:22:10,538 (soft music) 384 00:22:31,792 --> 00:22:32,726 (Persephone exhales heavily) 385 00:22:36,589 --> 00:22:38,899 (duck quacks) 386 00:22:44,680 --> 00:22:48,242 (Persephone sighs heavily) 387 00:22:50,978 --> 00:22:53,622 - This is never going to work. 388 00:23:00,029 --> 00:23:02,673 - This is never going to work. 389 00:23:08,621 --> 00:23:10,547 (door creaks) 390 00:23:10,581 --> 00:23:13,017 - I just saw your man of business leaving the castle. 391 00:23:14,627 --> 00:23:16,303 What did you do to him? 392 00:23:16,337 --> 00:23:17,605 - I fired him. 393 00:23:18,589 --> 00:23:19,607 - Again? 394 00:23:20,374 --> 00:23:22,726 How many times have you fired the poor man? 395 00:23:22,760 --> 00:23:24,820 - Six, seven. 396 00:23:25,287 --> 00:23:28,907 Every time he sulks away like a lily-livered coward. 397 00:23:32,019 --> 00:23:34,571 - You didn't pull your pistol on him this time, did you? 398 00:23:34,605 --> 00:23:37,291 - I have never pulled a pistol on Josiah Jones. 399 00:23:38,192 --> 00:23:40,995 I may have held an épée to his throat once or twice, 400 00:23:41,028 --> 00:23:43,998 but he was never in any real danger. 401 00:23:44,031 --> 00:23:45,624 - Perhaps his fear has something to do 402 00:23:45,658 --> 00:23:47,843 with your less-than-pristine reputation, Adam. 403 00:23:48,310 --> 00:23:51,338 Rumor has it you've run through a few men in your time. 404 00:23:51,372 --> 00:23:54,308 - Rumor has it I've done quite a few things. 405 00:23:55,918 --> 00:23:57,261 - And you wonder why Jones thinks the worst 406 00:23:57,294 --> 00:23:58,804 whenever you're angry with him. 407 00:23:58,837 --> 00:24:01,015 - I always reinstate his employment. 408 00:24:01,048 --> 00:24:03,108 And he never makes the same mistake twice. 409 00:24:09,932 --> 00:24:12,952 - So what was his transgression this time, mm? 410 00:24:13,811 --> 00:24:14,953 No, no, don't tell me. 411 00:24:15,487 --> 00:24:18,958 Smiled too much while discussing the estate investments? 412 00:24:20,776 --> 00:24:21,794 No. 413 00:24:22,820 --> 00:24:23,921 Did not include enough threats 414 00:24:23,954 --> 00:24:26,081 in the business correspondence he sent on your behalf? 415 00:24:26,115 --> 00:24:30,085 - He recommended a means of preventing my distant cousin 416 00:24:30,119 --> 00:24:32,338 from one day inheriting Falstone. 417 00:24:32,371 --> 00:24:36,809 - Ah, Jones was the one who suggested you marry. 418 00:24:37,343 --> 00:24:39,928 - He knew of a penniless family in Shropshire, 419 00:24:39,962 --> 00:24:42,931 with an eldest daughter of the appropriate age 420 00:24:42,965 --> 00:24:45,851 who had no other prospects. 421 00:24:45,884 --> 00:24:48,645 His enthusiastic recommendation 422 00:24:48,679 --> 00:24:50,823 has proven intolerably stupid. 423 00:24:51,290 --> 00:24:53,984 - As stupid as sitting up in one's book room 424 00:24:54,018 --> 00:24:56,820 with one's friend on one's wedding night? 425 00:24:56,854 --> 00:25:00,115 Because that, Adam, is a level of idiocy 426 00:25:00,149 --> 00:25:02,326 far and above ordinary stupidity. 427 00:25:02,359 --> 00:25:04,745 - I stood through the wedding 428 00:25:04,778 --> 00:25:07,790 and just spent an interminable dinner 429 00:25:07,823 --> 00:25:10,008 with my flock of new sisters-in-law. 430 00:25:10,993 --> 00:25:13,011 - Did they stare at you? 431 00:25:14,413 --> 00:25:15,672 It would've been understandable, you know. 432 00:25:15,706 --> 00:25:16,540 Having not been warned. 433 00:25:16,573 --> 00:25:19,134 - I ought to have written, then? Mm? 434 00:25:19,168 --> 00:25:22,012 Perhaps I could've included a postscript with the proposal. 435 00:25:22,046 --> 00:25:25,140 "By the way, I have a mutilated face 436 00:25:25,174 --> 00:25:27,434 you'll be forced to look at day in and day out 437 00:25:27,468 --> 00:25:29,028 for the rest of your life. 438 00:25:30,012 --> 00:25:31,739 Hope that's not a problem." 439 00:25:34,016 --> 00:25:37,161 - Mm, perhaps not those precise words. 440 00:25:37,728 --> 00:25:40,406 - She wasn't exactly forthcoming, either, 441 00:25:40,439 --> 00:25:41,865 I will have you know. 442 00:25:41,899 --> 00:25:44,701 - Forgot to mention something important? 443 00:25:44,735 --> 00:25:46,412 Another husband, perhaps? 444 00:25:46,445 --> 00:25:48,872 An extraneous limb? 445 00:25:48,906 --> 00:25:52,050 - Her name is Persephone. 446 00:25:53,202 --> 00:25:54,878 A man ought to know a thing like that 447 00:25:54,912 --> 00:25:56,922 about his future wife. 448 00:25:56,955 --> 00:25:58,932 Persephone Iphigenia. 449 00:25:59,600 --> 00:26:03,437 What an inexcusably ridiculous thing to call a child. 450 00:26:13,430 --> 00:26:14,773 - I had the chance to speak briefly 451 00:26:14,807 --> 00:26:16,074 with your new bride, Adam. 452 00:26:17,476 --> 00:26:18,786 She was... 453 00:26:20,479 --> 00:26:21,497 delightful. 454 00:26:23,816 --> 00:26:25,200 Perhaps a little quiet, 455 00:26:25,234 --> 00:26:26,068 but that is to be expected 456 00:26:26,101 --> 00:26:28,212 considering the upheaval in her life. 457 00:26:29,905 --> 00:26:32,749 I'll confess I had expected 458 00:26:32,783 --> 00:26:35,094 someone rather long in the tooth; 459 00:26:35,527 --> 00:26:40,757 rather long in the face, in all honesty. 460 00:26:40,791 --> 00:26:41,925 - So had I. 461 00:26:41,959 --> 00:26:43,852 - But she's a fetching thing. 462 00:26:44,962 --> 00:26:48,023 Young and quite pretty. 463 00:26:52,261 --> 00:26:53,487 Oh. 464 00:26:55,806 --> 00:26:58,867 You expected someone desperate, 465 00:27:00,102 --> 00:27:04,164 and ugly, and undesirable. 466 00:27:05,816 --> 00:27:07,075 Instead, your bride turned out to be 467 00:27:07,109 --> 00:27:09,044 a vast deal more than passable. 468 00:27:10,237 --> 00:27:11,238 (tongue clicks) 469 00:27:11,271 --> 00:27:13,966 Not quite what you'd bargained for, I'd guess. 470 00:27:14,733 --> 00:27:17,503 A lady who was too intolerable to have any other options 471 00:27:17,536 --> 00:27:21,131 would be content with a curmudgeon in a drafty castle 472 00:27:21,165 --> 00:27:22,891 in the wilds of Northumberland. 473 00:27:23,492 --> 00:27:28,263 And now, because she is young and fine-looking, 474 00:27:28,297 --> 00:27:32,150 seems to be good-natured and potentially enjoyable company, 475 00:27:33,969 --> 00:27:37,231 the poor girl is upstairs, alone, 476 00:27:37,264 --> 00:27:39,983 probably wondering what she's done wrong, 477 00:27:40,017 --> 00:27:42,953 while you are down here brooding. 478 00:27:44,897 --> 00:27:49,034 Adam, you are completely bacon-brained. 479 00:27:49,067 --> 00:27:50,878 - I should call you out for that. 480 00:27:51,904 --> 00:27:53,580 - Do. (yawns) 481 00:27:53,614 --> 00:27:55,591 But not tonight. I'm tired. 482 00:28:00,078 --> 00:28:00,946 Call me out tomorrow, would you? 483 00:28:00,979 --> 00:28:03,131 - I ought to lock you in the dungeon. 484 00:28:03,165 --> 00:28:04,182 - You should. 485 00:28:05,209 --> 00:28:06,109 No point having a dungeon 486 00:28:06,143 --> 00:28:08,312 if no one's ever consigned to suffer in it. 487 00:28:10,047 --> 00:28:11,139 Good night, Adam. 488 00:28:11,173 --> 00:28:14,518 - Good night. Presumptuous lout. 489 00:28:14,551 --> 00:28:17,271 (door creaks) 490 00:28:17,304 --> 00:28:18,146 - And Adam? 491 00:28:18,180 --> 00:28:19,198 - What? 492 00:28:20,307 --> 00:28:22,075 - Give the poor girl a chance. 493 00:28:22,709 --> 00:28:24,987 It's not her fault you've ended up 494 00:28:25,020 --> 00:28:27,122 with every man's idea of a perfect wife. 495 00:28:28,190 --> 00:28:31,076 (Harry laughs) (book clatters) 496 00:28:31,109 --> 00:28:34,212 (Adam sighs heavily) 497 00:28:38,075 --> 00:28:42,337 (Persephone breathing nervously) 498 00:28:42,371 --> 00:28:45,974 (footsteps approaching) 499 00:28:55,384 --> 00:28:57,561 (Adam blows candle) 500 00:28:57,594 --> 00:29:00,572 (Persephone sighs) 501 00:29:05,227 --> 00:29:08,246 (disquieting music) 502 00:29:18,198 --> 00:29:21,009 (duck quacking) 503 00:29:22,661 --> 00:29:25,631 - Are you going to be lonely without us, Persephone? 504 00:29:25,664 --> 00:29:27,432 - I will miss you terribly. 505 00:29:29,459 --> 00:29:31,103 But you will have each other. 506 00:29:32,129 --> 00:29:34,640 So you are unlikely to be lonely. 507 00:29:34,673 --> 00:29:37,392 - I do not know that anyone will remember to talk to me 508 00:29:37,426 --> 00:29:38,610 when you're not here. 509 00:29:40,762 --> 00:29:42,648 I'm certain everything will be fine. 510 00:29:42,681 --> 00:29:43,448 - [Persephone] Mm. 511 00:29:43,482 --> 00:29:45,075 - You don't need to worry about us. 512 00:29:47,728 --> 00:29:51,657 - Write and tell me about all the things you're reading. 513 00:29:51,690 --> 00:29:54,459 (poignant music) 514 00:29:58,447 --> 00:30:00,123 I love you. 515 00:30:00,157 --> 00:30:01,383 - Love you, too. 516 00:30:02,701 --> 00:30:03,760 - Make haste. 517 00:30:05,078 --> 00:30:06,296 - I do not want to go! 518 00:30:06,330 --> 00:30:07,639 - Let me speak with her. 519 00:30:08,140 --> 00:30:12,185 (poignant music continues) 520 00:30:13,337 --> 00:30:16,014 Oh, my dear girl. You're crying. 521 00:30:16,048 --> 00:30:18,100 - He cannot make you stay here! 522 00:30:18,133 --> 00:30:21,061 - No one is making me stay here, dearest. 523 00:30:21,094 --> 00:30:24,022 Falstone Castle is my home now. 524 00:30:24,056 --> 00:30:25,691 I will send you letters, 525 00:30:25,724 --> 00:30:28,151 perhaps with a guinea under the seal. 526 00:30:28,185 --> 00:30:29,778 You could come here, 527 00:30:29,811 --> 00:30:32,030 we could explore the castle together. 528 00:30:32,064 --> 00:30:33,699 - He won't let me. 529 00:30:33,732 --> 00:30:35,450 - Of course he will. 530 00:30:35,484 --> 00:30:38,161 We will have grand adventures. 531 00:30:38,195 --> 00:30:41,164 Perhaps there is a tower room 532 00:30:41,198 --> 00:30:44,334 where we can imagine all sorts of wonderful stories, 533 00:30:44,368 --> 00:30:46,044 the way we always did at home. 534 00:30:46,078 --> 00:30:48,088 - Do you promise? 535 00:30:48,121 --> 00:30:49,506 - I promise. 536 00:30:49,539 --> 00:30:52,184 - Who will take care of me when you're gone? 537 00:30:52,684 --> 00:30:56,772 - Papa will engage a governess for both you and Daphne, 538 00:30:57,239 --> 00:31:00,726 a companion for Athena when you're all in town. 539 00:31:00,759 --> 00:31:02,277 - Will you visit us there? 540 00:31:03,553 --> 00:31:05,063 - [Persephone] Of course. 541 00:31:05,097 --> 00:31:06,064 - Persephone? 542 00:31:06,098 --> 00:31:07,357 - Yes, my dear? 543 00:31:07,391 --> 00:31:09,359 - Who will take care of you? 544 00:31:09,393 --> 00:31:13,405 Will you be happy even though we're gone? 545 00:31:13,438 --> 00:31:17,367 (poignant music continues) 546 00:31:17,401 --> 00:31:18,418 - Oh. 547 00:31:21,238 --> 00:31:23,749 When have you known me to be unhappy? 548 00:31:23,782 --> 00:31:25,167 - [Artemis] Then I will be happy, too. 549 00:31:25,200 --> 00:31:27,377 But if I don't leave now, I will cry again, 550 00:31:27,411 --> 00:31:30,380 and I do not want to cry anymore. 551 00:31:30,414 --> 00:31:33,558 - Then let us promise each other not to cry. 552 00:31:35,127 --> 00:31:37,387 Yes, good. 553 00:31:37,421 --> 00:31:38,764 I will see you soon. 554 00:31:38,797 --> 00:31:40,515 Be good for papa. 555 00:31:40,549 --> 00:31:41,767 - I will. 556 00:31:41,800 --> 00:31:43,268 - [Persephone] I love you, dearest. 557 00:31:43,301 --> 00:31:44,394 - I love you, too, Persephone. 558 00:31:44,428 --> 00:31:47,114 You're the best mama I ever had. 559 00:31:48,140 --> 00:31:51,576 (poignant music continues) 560 00:32:17,461 --> 00:32:21,273 (Persephone cries silently) 561 00:32:24,843 --> 00:32:26,862 - I thought you weren't supposed to cry. 562 00:32:29,306 --> 00:32:31,616 - Artemis is crying as well, I'm certain of it. 563 00:32:32,601 --> 00:32:34,244 - Then why make the promise? 564 00:32:35,312 --> 00:32:36,496 - To lessen her pain. 565 00:32:38,857 --> 00:32:41,626 If my sister knew I was crying, it would break her heart. 566 00:32:43,612 --> 00:32:45,213 - But you know she is crying. 567 00:32:48,617 --> 00:32:50,552 - I know her better than she knows me. 568 00:32:58,502 --> 00:33:00,637 - The best mama she ever had. 569 00:33:00,670 --> 00:33:04,399 (poignant music continues) 570 00:33:11,348 --> 00:33:14,317 (Persephone gasping) 571 00:33:14,351 --> 00:33:17,954 (dramatic orchestral music) 572 00:33:30,408 --> 00:33:33,553 (Persephone sobbing) 573 00:34:10,323 --> 00:34:13,593 - 24 hours into this ill-conceived marriage 574 00:34:14,227 --> 00:34:19,925 and my wife is already in the back of a garden sobbing. 575 00:34:19,958 --> 00:34:22,519 (sullen music) 576 00:34:29,342 --> 00:34:31,945 How long into your marriage did mother start crying? 577 00:34:39,394 --> 00:34:42,614 And when did that stop making you feel like a monster? 578 00:34:42,647 --> 00:34:46,334 (sullen music continues) 579 00:34:48,737 --> 00:34:51,631 (sheep bleating) 580 00:34:53,742 --> 00:34:56,761 (thunder rumbling) 581 00:35:19,476 --> 00:35:22,370 (poignant music) 582 00:35:36,534 --> 00:35:37,794 - Your Grace. 583 00:35:37,827 --> 00:35:39,012 - Mm. 584 00:35:42,457 --> 00:35:43,475 - Good eve... 585 00:35:44,459 --> 00:35:45,810 Are you feeling well, child? 586 00:35:47,045 --> 00:35:50,357 - I am excessively tired. 587 00:35:51,549 --> 00:35:54,352 - Do not fret yourself over dinner, dear. 588 00:35:54,386 --> 00:35:56,479 I'll have a tray sent to your room. 589 00:35:56,513 --> 00:35:57,530 You rest. 590 00:35:58,807 --> 00:36:00,992 - [Persephone] Thank you. 591 00:36:06,690 --> 00:36:09,034 (Persephone gasps) 592 00:36:09,067 --> 00:36:11,753 (poignant music) 593 00:36:24,749 --> 00:36:26,935 (thoughtful music) 594 00:36:27,877 --> 00:36:30,772 (Harry whistling) 595 00:36:32,590 --> 00:36:33,600 (door clicks) 596 00:36:33,633 --> 00:36:34,851 (door creaks) 597 00:36:34,884 --> 00:36:37,779 (Harry whistles) 598 00:36:43,143 --> 00:36:45,787 (Harry whistles) 599 00:36:47,897 --> 00:36:51,117 - (tongue clicks) You told me you'd call me out today. 600 00:36:51,151 --> 00:36:52,318 Never did. 601 00:36:52,352 --> 00:36:55,130 - I've decided to shoot you first thing in the morning. 602 00:36:55,797 --> 00:36:59,751 Go to sleep so I can load my pistols in peace. 603 00:36:59,784 --> 00:37:01,878 - Your mother said the new duchess 604 00:37:01,911 --> 00:37:04,464 was indisposed this evening. 605 00:37:04,497 --> 00:37:06,132 Any idea what she meant by that? 606 00:37:06,166 --> 00:37:09,227 - As mother said, she was indisposed. 607 00:37:11,129 --> 00:37:12,764 - She wouldn't be the first person to hide from you. 608 00:37:12,797 --> 00:37:14,557 - She? You mean Persephone? 609 00:37:14,591 --> 00:37:17,143 - Well, I certainly don't mean your mother. 610 00:37:17,177 --> 00:37:18,178 You could shoot a man dead in the drawing room, 611 00:37:18,211 --> 00:37:20,688 and she'd just smile indulgently and say, "My-" 612 00:37:20,722 --> 00:37:21,890 - "Poor boy," yes. 613 00:37:21,923 --> 00:37:23,775 And the woman will still be calling me that when I'm 80. 614 00:37:23,808 --> 00:37:25,902 - When you're 80, she'll be dead. 615 00:37:25,935 --> 00:37:27,203 - Oh, shut up, Harry. 616 00:37:29,647 --> 00:37:33,910 - Is there any chance Persephone is locked in the dungeon? 617 00:37:33,943 --> 00:37:36,162 - I am not a monster. 618 00:37:36,196 --> 00:37:37,789 And she chose to accept me. 619 00:37:37,822 --> 00:37:39,023 - Ah, yes. 620 00:37:39,057 --> 00:37:40,834 But without the benefit of the rather ingenious postscript 621 00:37:40,867 --> 00:37:42,177 you composed last night. 622 00:37:43,203 --> 00:37:44,170 I don't think she realized- 623 00:37:44,204 --> 00:37:46,556 - You think I've made her miserable already? 624 00:37:47,090 --> 00:37:50,560 - She took this morning's farewells particularly hard. 625 00:37:51,194 --> 00:37:54,180 You ought to have insisted her family stay longer. 626 00:37:54,214 --> 00:37:55,857 - So I'm the villain, am I? 627 00:37:57,842 --> 00:37:58,643 - I wouldn't be surprised 628 00:37:58,676 --> 00:38:00,186 if you never saw the poor woman again 629 00:38:00,220 --> 00:38:01,187 as long as you lived. 630 00:38:01,221 --> 00:38:04,616 In a place as enormous as this pile of rock, 631 00:38:05,767 --> 00:38:07,243 she could avoid you for years. 632 00:38:11,272 --> 00:38:12,290 Where are you going? 633 00:38:14,859 --> 00:38:16,953 - My wife is indisposed. 634 00:38:16,986 --> 00:38:19,956 I'm going to see for myself that she is well. 635 00:38:19,989 --> 00:38:20,924 - Adam. 636 00:38:20,957 --> 00:38:23,593 - I am not going to hurt the blasted woman. 637 00:38:26,579 --> 00:38:28,890 You know me better than that. 638 00:38:31,876 --> 00:38:34,220 (Harry chuffs) 639 00:38:34,254 --> 00:38:37,690 (footsteps approaching) 640 00:38:39,759 --> 00:38:42,278 (door clicks) 641 00:38:47,600 --> 00:38:50,745 (Adam exhales heavily) 642 00:39:02,282 --> 00:39:04,759 (soft music) 643 00:39:19,757 --> 00:39:20,892 (door creaks) 644 00:39:20,925 --> 00:39:23,611 (door clicks) 645 00:39:33,813 --> 00:39:36,791 (Persephone sighs) 646 00:39:41,779 --> 00:39:44,882 (footsteps thudding) 647 00:39:48,286 --> 00:39:48,953 (Mable exclaims) 648 00:39:48,987 --> 00:39:50,922 - Oh, forgive me, Your Grace. 649 00:39:50,955 --> 00:39:53,641 - I'm attempting to find the breakfast room. 650 00:39:54,042 --> 00:39:56,928 Please tell me you know how to reach it from here. 651 00:39:56,961 --> 00:39:59,931 - I got lost a few times when I first started working here. 652 00:39:59,964 --> 00:40:02,934 Falstone Castle is quite a big place. 653 00:40:02,967 --> 00:40:04,068 - Enormous. 654 00:40:04,102 --> 00:40:07,063 New arrivals really ought to be provided with a map. 655 00:40:07,096 --> 00:40:07,939 (Mable laughs softly) 656 00:40:07,972 --> 00:40:08,873 - This way, Your Grace. 657 00:40:08,907 --> 00:40:11,818 And I'll not tell anyone you were lost. 658 00:40:11,851 --> 00:40:13,069 - Thank you. 659 00:40:13,102 --> 00:40:13,937 - Mother, explain to Harry 660 00:40:13,970 --> 00:40:15,697 that you're not leaving Falstone Castle 661 00:40:15,730 --> 00:40:17,782 because I forced you to do so. 662 00:40:17,815 --> 00:40:18,816 He seems to think 663 00:40:18,850 --> 00:40:20,285 that I drive every person who ever comes here 664 00:40:20,318 --> 00:40:22,662 away with a scythe in one hand 665 00:40:22,695 --> 00:40:24,956 and a flaming torch in the other. 666 00:40:24,989 --> 00:40:27,834 - A regular one-person bloodthirsty mob, 667 00:40:27,867 --> 00:40:28,885 that's what you are. 668 00:40:30,119 --> 00:40:30,920 You really ought to think 669 00:40:30,954 --> 00:40:32,714 about employing pitchforks when you- 670 00:40:32,747 --> 00:40:34,966 (door creaks) 671 00:40:34,999 --> 00:40:39,721 - Persephone, come break your fast, dear. 672 00:40:39,754 --> 00:40:41,347 Kidneys? Eggs? 673 00:40:41,381 --> 00:40:42,765 - Yes, please. 674 00:40:42,799 --> 00:40:43,766 - Harry, will you please- 675 00:40:43,800 --> 00:40:46,102 - [Adam] I will prepare a plate for her, mother. 676 00:40:46,135 --> 00:40:48,154 - Oh, you needn't inconvenience yourself. 677 00:40:49,722 --> 00:40:50,740 - Please. 678 00:40:51,274 --> 00:40:54,452 (chinaware clinking) 679 00:41:09,909 --> 00:41:10,927 - Thank you. 680 00:41:16,916 --> 00:41:18,009 Should I sit somewhere else? 681 00:41:18,042 --> 00:41:20,353 - No, you can stay where you are. 682 00:41:22,422 --> 00:41:25,391 - Will you be coming to town at Christmastime? 683 00:41:25,425 --> 00:41:28,144 - I never go to town until absolutely necessary. 684 00:41:28,177 --> 00:41:32,857 - You must convince my poor boy of the delights of London. 685 00:41:32,890 --> 00:41:34,409 - I have never been to London. 686 00:41:34,876 --> 00:41:39,739 - Well, then you absolutely must come as soon as possible. 687 00:41:39,772 --> 00:41:42,158 I should positively love taking you around town 688 00:41:42,191 --> 00:41:44,961 and introducing you to just everyone. 689 00:41:46,779 --> 00:41:48,873 I'm certain you can pack quickly, Adam. 690 00:41:48,906 --> 00:41:51,042 And I could delay my departure by a day or so, 691 00:41:51,075 --> 00:41:52,243 and we could all- 692 00:41:52,276 --> 00:41:55,421 - I shall be forced to take her in the spring as it is. 693 00:41:55,455 --> 00:41:56,472 - Forced? 694 00:41:57,457 --> 00:41:59,175 The season is such fun. 695 00:41:59,208 --> 00:42:01,052 How can you say forced? 696 00:42:01,085 --> 00:42:04,055 - I despise London. 697 00:42:04,088 --> 00:42:05,056 But the queen will be vexed 698 00:42:05,089 --> 00:42:06,432 if Persephone is not presented, 699 00:42:06,466 --> 00:42:07,975 and that is one bother I could do without. 700 00:42:08,009 --> 00:42:09,944 Thus, I shall be forced to town. 701 00:42:11,846 --> 00:42:12,914 - Do not let him burden you 702 00:42:12,947 --> 00:42:15,525 with even the tiniest amount of guilt, Your Grace. 703 00:42:15,558 --> 00:42:16,943 By spring, he will have gone months 704 00:42:16,976 --> 00:42:18,778 without insulting the members of the Cabinet 705 00:42:18,811 --> 00:42:20,780 or any of the royal family 706 00:42:20,813 --> 00:42:22,957 and will be itching for the opportunity. 707 00:42:25,109 --> 00:42:26,911 - That is good to know. 708 00:42:26,944 --> 00:42:28,413 - I suppose, as a good friend of the family, 709 00:42:28,446 --> 00:42:30,206 I ought to remain here indefinitely 710 00:42:30,239 --> 00:42:32,967 and offer my insights into your grumbly husband. 711 00:42:33,401 --> 00:42:36,137 That is simply the sort of selfless person I am. 712 00:42:38,498 --> 00:42:40,466 - Even selfless people 713 00:42:40,500 --> 00:42:42,435 can be thrown from the south parapet. 714 00:42:44,253 --> 00:42:46,472 - Mm, I am beginning to suspect, Adam, 715 00:42:46,506 --> 00:42:49,016 that you do not like me very much. 716 00:42:49,050 --> 00:42:50,143 I will simply have to ponder 717 00:42:50,176 --> 00:42:53,154 the sorrow of this realization. 718 00:42:54,180 --> 00:42:55,198 Your Grace. 719 00:42:57,850 --> 00:42:58,868 Your Grace. 720 00:43:02,271 --> 00:43:03,289 Your Grace. 721 00:43:05,983 --> 00:43:08,002 This could get confusing. 722 00:43:08,569 --> 00:43:12,248 We really ought to think of names for the three of you. 723 00:43:12,281 --> 00:43:14,926 (soft music) 724 00:43:16,911 --> 00:43:19,472 (gentle music) 725 00:43:28,297 --> 00:43:31,567 (gentle music swells) 726 00:43:43,980 --> 00:43:47,041 (gentle music fades)