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All right Garry?

Fine thanks.

Good, right, Andrew check her over,

she's off again in 90 minutes.

Hello, yes, what?

He flew under a bridge.

It's a bit dated Daphne, that vamp look,

you're not Theda Bara on a leopard skin you know,

think freshness, health.

If you wanted freshness and health dear, why ask me?

You don't think you overdo the decadence a bit?

All right, freshness.

Damn, don't break your concentration, don't move.

Nonsense, where are my ciggies?

Hello, oh Mrs Arbuthnot.

Can they change your fitting to three o'clock?

Of course I won't forget, I didn't last time did I?

No, I'd be delighted, bye-bye.

Beatrice.

Maddox studios, oh hello Fifi.

Well, I did pass the message on,

they're usually quite efficient.

Here's Miss Beatrice now, mademoiselle Merlo

and there's a message there from Mrs Arbuthnot,

may I go now please?

Do you think we could get on?

Darling, second thoughts and all that,

it seemed such a lark, society girl as model,

especially as mother doesn't approve.

Daphne, this is not a game to me,

it's supposed to be my business.

Hello Daphne, Jack I am sorry,

where's your receptionist?

Mary is ill, again.

Do talk to him, I need the break.

Beatrice, a simple suggestion,

you and Eve seem to be in demand,

why not have your own phone put on in the flat?

No, no, we can't afford it.

Sometimes one has to take risks.

Are you just amateurs, fiddling about, or are you serious?

Jack, naturally we do our very best.

But you won't take that final step will you?

Well it's your life.

Come on, you have talent, you should use it.

It's Eve who has the ideas, I can only do so much, but I.

You're better at actually running the show, precisely,

you have a head for business, so make it a business.

An expert on women's fashion are you?

No, of course not, but a great deal of women

do pass through this studio, I hear the gossip.

Gossip, and we can build a business on gossip can we?

Very well, please yourself.

Jack I'm sorry, I know I get prickly,

I still haven't got you over Duroque sacking us

so publicly and so shamefully.

Bea, the man was exploiting you.

And we're better off on our own, I know,

everyone keeps telling us so.

Well, I've made my suggestion.

I don't know, it seems awfully premature

to be talking as full scale business woman, but, all right.

I shall get a telephone installed,

though the moment I do, not as so will ring.

Mrs Arbuthnot will ring.

Mr Maddox's studio, yes.

Jack, it's for you.

You are the most unbalanced, irresponsible idiot.

And the best pilot you're ever likely to have.

Thank you Mrs Hammond, we shall have that ready for you

by the 31st, I think the Mayuri silk will looks superb.

Excellent.

-Thank you. -Thank you.

-Goodbye. -Goodbye.

Sign here please.

-Thank you, we're connected. -Indeed.

-Oh. -Thank you very much.

Thank you.

Hello, this is Flaxman.

I beg your pardon, a funeral parlour?

Yes, I definitely rang the Virtues funeral parlour.

Oh no, there must be some mistake,

this is Flaxman one, one, nine, three.

Good heavens, they've given you

the same number as Virtues.

No, a funeral parlour, that will be so embarrassing.

Eve.

Oh don't, do you think we should have done?

Your sister does take things so seriously.

Precisely why we have to tweak her nose occasionally,

isn't that right Jack?

I refuse to be implicated, how are you Tilly?

They're not working you too hard?

Oh no, they couldn't.

Oh, we're not going.

But we've seen the whole programme.

Oh I want to sit it round again, please Penn,

it's continuous, no one will notice.

The chap is not that enticing, come on.

I feel damn guilty about being here at all,

a whole Saturday afternoon wasted.

And piles of work to be done at the mission.

Oh, do shut up Penn, think of yourself for once.

If you don't ever have any fun,

you'll get all dried up and horrid and lose to anyone.

Do you never go out?

You know, dancing or dining with a man.

I like to wait until one is asked, what about you?

Besotted with some idiotic fellow?

Of course not, Rudolph Valentino

is the only man in my life.

I'm dying for a cup of tea.

I won't come up.

Whyever not?

I don't feel like Beatrice or brother Jack.

But I actually wanted to talk to you.

Some other time.

Penelope, I need some advice.

Well you have your sister haven't you?

There are some things one can't even

talk about with sisters.

Beatrice thinks I influence you enough already.

Oh tosh, Penn, Sebastian, he said he'd keep in touch

but we haven't seen him in months.

Well, well, I'm not sure how I can help.

I just wondered if he was all right,

I'd like to see him.

Well he is your half-brother,

there is some family obligation after all.

Beatrice doesn't seem to think so,

and she doesn't like me going out alone, so I.

Oh heavens, you are grown up.

We just know so little about him.

I don't know what his job is, or if he has one.

The man is a mystery.

Well he must have some good qualities.

He's very good looking.

Do you have his address, well bite the bullet,

pay the man a call, work to be done,

I must wend my weary way, take care.

Penn, you're very understanding.

Me, oh yes of course, pay the man of visit.

What harm can possibly come of it?

-But you said for the 17th. -That kind of look.

-A week before is really. -Well of course,

we'd our own designs, but something similar to that.

Well yes, I'm sure, but everyone wants things immediately.

You see, it's the severity of it,

you cut the cuff on the bias,

you see just that much more of the arm.

-Damn. -It's rather dashing really.

It's a bit funny though,

'cause it doesn't give you that much room to move.

Tilly, this is no time to sit looking at magazines,

were absolutely swamped.

For heaven sake Bea, we have to look at magazines

to keep up with what's going on, besides,

Tilly's helping this sleeves.

We will never get things done in time.

Of course we will, we won't let you down.

I'll get it, the Mrs Eliott establishment,

Miss Watkins speaking, can I help you?

Everything's going to be all right you know.

I had no idea there were so many parties.

Really we knew nothing, buried in that house,

while father was out enjoying himself, my blood still boils.

It's time we forgot all that Bea.

-Who was it? -Mrs Arbuthnot.

Not Mrs Arbuthnot, my head is splitting.

Well you did work half the night.

I'd love some fresh air,

can I deliver those blouses to the Smithingtons?

Well all right, but don't be too long,

Fifi Melro's appointment is for midday.

-Fine. -Tilly,

can you manage those sleeves?

I'll have a shot at it won't I?

You'll put me right if I'm wrong.

The point being, that she never gets it wrong.

She's a natural couturier.

No, am I, sounds posher in French doesn't it?

Eve, what are you doing here?

You're not come to see me?

Well, yes.

I'm not sure that's a very good idea.

You once said you wanted to.

Come on then.

Sebastian, slow down.

Why, are you scared?

I didn't say that.

Why haven't you been in touch?

Not here, not now,

just forget everything for the time being.

I had absolutely no idea, flying.

You must be very brave.

Well, maybe we were in the war,

now it's just a business.

Like working in a bank, except you fly every day.

Every day, to France and back, you've gotta be joking,

I'm freelance, I fly two or three times a week,

when they need me or when I feel like it.

I'm sure I can do it,

but she says her appointment is with Miss Evangeline.

It's so unlikely Eve, something must have happened.

Do you wanna go up?

No, I'd love to, but I shouldn't even be here.

Oh, no one has any sense of adventure anymore.

I really must get back.

Wait, there's something I wanna show you, it's important.

Beautiful isn't she?

Air speed 120 miles an hour, soars like an eagle.

I'd stake my life on her.

There was this boy, growing up in a provincial town,

not exactly poor, but,

mama pretty obviously watching every penny.

And no father.

They say what you don't have, you don't miss.

All the time, I had this sense of need.

Other boys talked about their fathers.

And then you found out.

And how I resented you and Beatrice,

there had been a father after all,

and you two had grown up with him.

We resented you, you had the education

he wouldn't give us, we were shut up in the house,

and we were taught nothing of the world.

The way you suddenly appeared.

I was not out to fleece you Eve,

I just wanted what I thought was rightfully mine.

What were you expecting, tonnes of money?

I was, but now.

The time, Bea will kill me.

-Eve. -Please, drive me back.

Come on Penn, Bea and Eve didn't have your education,

they've gotta earn a living somehow.

Well I'm all for that Jack,

it's just that it seems so frivolous,

what these society brats spend on new gowns

just to show off at parties,

would feed half the East End For three months.

My dear solemn sister,

people with money will always find a way of spending it.

At least they don't exploit people,

like the Duroques of this world.

Jack, Jack I'm so sorry.

Bea, what's the matter?

And you encouraged her?

I do you think you're making a lot of fuss about nothing.

We just don't know enough about this half-brother of ours,

Arthur thinks there's something almost shady about him.

I just don't want Eve to get mixed up with the man.

She is not a child.

In some things that's exactly what Eve is.

Are you doubting my word Beatrice?

I have no address for Sebastian.

I'm sure Evangeline will return soon,

and you'll feel quite foolish to have worried so.

All right, goodbye.

Thank you, I really must be getting back.

You can't go yet Eve, I haven't told you everything.

I'm not your brother, half brother even.

I'm no relation at all.

It was my mothers idea, whoever my real father was,

he deserted her as soon as she told him she was expecting.

I suppose I shouldn't blame her,

she had to bring me up somehow.

So she told all father that.

That the child was his, and kept up the pretence

as long as Henry Eliott sent her money.

When he died, she told me that he was my father,

but then when she realised we'd get nothing from the estate,

she told me, quite coldly, that he was not my father.

I haven't seen her for weeks,

I don't care if I never see her again.

Eve, can we still see one another?

-Evangeline. -Arthur.

Get up, come with me,

your sister's extremely anxious about you,

and with some cause, it's not at all a suitable place.

Do not tell me what is suitable Arthur.

This is my own business.

I will not allow you to compromise yourself in this way.

I'm your legal guardian, it's my responsibility

to protect you, as well as your interests, come.

You don't have to listen to him.

What on earth possessed you to visit that young man?

He was upset, he wanted to talk about things.

He's practically criminal.

I think he's very sensitive.

Well I'm sure he did everything to arouse your sympathies.

That's the way such fellows work.

Evangeline, I'm not sure why you should treat me

as the villain in all this, everyone was worried about you,

I always worry about you.

Well you shouldn't, Bea and I have learned an awful lot

about looking after ourselves since father died.

Beatrice is older my dear, you're still my ward.

I've missed a luncheon appointment,

it's one o'clock, care to join me?

No, thank you, I think I've played truant

for far too long already.

May I speak to you in private please?

So Arthur did know Sebastian's address.

Yeah, well why didn't you tell Arthur

what Sebastian had told you?

Look, I didn't dare,

besides that's for him and Sebastian to sort out.

Eve, how could you have gone off and left us?

Especially now?

I know, I'm sorry, time just got away from me.

-I felt so. -Free?

I didn't realise I was your jailer.

-Bea. -It's all right.

Every now and then one sees oneself as others do,

the spinster sister, the older one.

When all this rush is over,

we're going to have such a good time, I promise you.

We do now, Piggy asked you out.

Oh yes, there's always Piggy.

-Peter. -Arthur, you're early.

What's all this?

Oh, just some whiskey.

It seems an extraordinarily large amount.

Now Arthur, gotta stock up for Christmas haven't we?

Oh yes, of course.

You just worry about the profits my dear fellow,

leave the mechanics of the business to me.

Here's your copy of the agreement.

Splendid, coming in for a little celebratory drink?

Well I shouldn't, why not?

Now those two little words, rather sum up

my general attitude to life, why not?

Excuse me, Tilly.

Are you sure that we have enough of this fabric

for lady HayCock's outfit.

Oh positive.

Arthur.

You're not still working at this hour on Christmas Eve?

One can overdo things.

Well, if we are to finish in time, do come in.

Afraid I'm sorry, I can't offer you tea or anything.

We really daren't stop.

How you can live and work in the same place,

it's like a junk shop.

I'm sure your father would never have approved.

Well that evens things up nicely,

a lot of what he did, we decidedly disapproved of.

Arthur, presents.

Mother is still upset

that you're not coming to us for Christmas dinner.

Well, we just wish to have Christmas by ourselves really,

to recover from all this, thank you.

-Is Evangeline too busy to. -Yes, she is.

I do wish to see her.

Arthur, how is she ever to grow up

with you fussing over her like an old hen?

Oh all right.

Hello Arthur, oh.

-Merry Christmas. -Thank you.

Do open it.

No, Bea and I will open our presents together tomorrow.

Well this is rather special, it's from me to you.

Oh, but that's not fair to Bea.

Beatrice is different.

And, I bring out your protective instincts, I know.

Please, open it when you're alone,

and there's no need to mention it to anyone else.

I don't feel at all comfortable about that Arthur.

Besides, Christmas is rather boring all round.

Evangeline, it's the greatest of family celebrations,

and the family is after all,

the foundation of everything we hold sacred.

How can you say that to me Arthur?

After the absolute sham that father made a family life.

Oh, Mother asked me to remind you

about her little party on New Year's Eve.

Well she didn't actually invite us,

besides, we're otherwise committed.

Are you deliberately avoiding us?

I have to get back Arthur.

Have dinner with me one evening,

just us, just to talk.

I don't think so Arthur, but thank you for my present.

I better be off then.

Oh all right Tilly, thank you.

You finished those off beautifully Tilly.

Yeah, well, have a nice Christmas.

Yes, you too.

-Night. -Oh, Tilly.

Haven't you forgotten something?

No, I haven't forgotten nothing.

What about these?

This is for you,

and these are for your brothers and sisters.

And this is for your mother.

Oh I don't know what to say.

Oh, and there's a little bonus for you,

for all your hard work.

We couldn't have managed without you Tilly.

-Thank you. - Thank you.

Have a nice Christmas,

those on the sewing machine are for you.

Good morning Eve, Eve come along,

rise and shine, it's Christmas, come along.

I should be doing this for you.

Thank you, what about the goose?

It's half done, I think I've mastered that oven.

Isn't it good to have everything finished right on the dot.

We shall get a reputation for reliability if nothing else.

Nothing else, we're already the divine

and talented Eliott sisters, Fifi says so,

Daphne says so, even Mrs Arbuthnot.

-Mm, thank you. -I really proud of us.

We've made a very good start.

-We'll show them. -Show who?

Aunt Lydia, Arthur.

Eve, is that nice?

We will, we will show them.

Gosh, the goose, presents later.

-Charles. -Sir?

-Go on. -Thank you sir.

And who are you?

I'm Mrs Lovett, mate of Sweeney Todd's.

Ah, the demon barber of Fleet Street.

And I think you'd make a very juicy meat pie.

Oh, what and not blood pudding?

Oh, is it time Jack?

Oh not yet Piggy, it's no where near midnight,

give me your glass.

Penelope, come and dance.

Oh no, no, no, look I should go,

I promised some of my lads

I would see the new year in with them at the mission.

Penn, what a boring thing to do, you're incorrigible.

And we all know Penny would rather be

with her poor homeless ones that here,

still, it would be nice if you saw in just one new year

with your wayward brother.

Oh, well good idea at that,

think of one as indispensable, feeds the vanity,

but doesn't necessarily help the helpless.

Penn, you're hopeless.

Piggy, as a city gent and man of the world,

what do you think of the present business climate right now?

Ah, well, that new treaty seems to have settled

the Irish mess once and for all,

so things should be a little more stable economically,

and well, I really don't know Bea,

if we could predict the stock market,

we'd all be millionaires, anyway,

I thought this was supposed to be fun?

Lovely, that really is the best of the new songs.

You have such good taste Lydia, it's the best of the new

because it sounds just like one of the old.

How boring,

but I suppose that is the way to succeed in England.

Anyone else for a drink?

Oh you might get me something,

my glass has been empty for quite half an hour.

I do beg your pardon.

I'd like a widows kiss, I mean the cocktail of course.

What else could you have meant?

Not what, but who?

-Arthur? -Mother,

I wish you wouldn't bark at me in that veneering fashion.

You are leaving my party?

I'm not staying to watch you make a fool of yourself

with that old man.

I doubt you'd prefer me to make a fool of myself

with a young man.

Mother, what you do is,

I suppose, your own business.

Thank you dear, my sentiments exactly.

The new year is a time for taking stock,

I unfailingly meet my social obligations,

but this year I intend to enjoy myself a little.

You're not contemplating a liaison

with that senile old fool?

You'll be the laughing stock of London.

Well that senile old fool has a much better

sense of humour than you, my son.

And is, consequently, rather good company.

I'm delighted for you.

Oh Arthur, do stop scowling, he's a friend of Dolly's,

I may never see the man again after tonight,

as usual you're making a mountain out of a molehill.

You have never before, walked out on one of my evenings,

where will you go?

I too, am tired of being dutiful.

I've no idea where I'll go.

We've always seen the new year in together.

Time for a change, Happy New Year Mother.

Arthur darling, what a delightful surprise.

Suzy, you look very glamorous.

Just trying to see the new year in right dear.

Marceline, company for you Arthur.

Marceline, this gentlemen has an interest in the club,

so, it's on the house dear.

Quiet now please.

I would like to hear from everyone,

I would like to hear what was the most significant event,

what was the most significant event

of this soon to be departed year, 1921.

Einstein winning the Nobel prize.

Mr Einstein downstairs,

who plays the fiddle at the Pavilion?

No, the other Einstein.

Oh well, everything's relative.

Awful, Bea and I cut our hair and started to live.

No, no, the best thing to happen this year,

we got the sack.

And everything flowed thereafter.

Bully for you, both of you.

Cheers!

Very happy New Year!

What's she had?

With Daphne who knows, could be booze or.

I want a drink, please?

Daphne, this is the third disturbance

you've caused here in a fortnight.

Don't be such a meany mouth, any little fuss I make

is nothing compared, somebody give me a light?

Oh what are you doing here?

Should you be having any more?

Five, four, three, two, one.

dear, for auld lang syne

of kindness yet

auld lang syne

Happy new year.

Eve, I wish to make an announcement,

I wish to make an announcement.

Quiet everyone, please, quiet for a momant.

Ladies and gentlemen, I wish to make an announcement,

rightly or wrongly, madly or sanely,

I believe we ought to go into business on our own.

Not copying others, but creating our own designs.

And Tilly, when we do, you have to be with us full time.

Definitely.

We couldn't do it without you.

Ladies and gentlemen, to the House of Eliott.

To the House of Eliott.

Perhaps that's a little premature,

I mean we need cash to get set up, buy equepment.

-I'll invest. -Staff.

Something anyway.

Well I'll double if not treble anything Jack puts in.

Oh Piggy!

It's gonna be a very happy new year.

This is not the sort of proposition

the bank can support, I am sorry.

Well you've set this out very nicely for me,

but I'm afraid I'm not convinced.

I'm sorry Miss Eliott, but no.

I'm sorry Miss Eliott.

I'm sorry.

The banks will not take the risk,

because I'm a woman of course.

A woman is useless in business.

I see, look I meant it when I said I'd invest something.

It's not very much I'm afraid, but.

Oh Jack, are you sure?

I'm just sorry it's not more.

I'd gladly be your guarantor,

but I'm rather small fry I'm afraid.

-Jack, I can't. -You must.

-Please. -Thank you.

What about Piggy?

I haven't dared ask, he wasn't exactly sober that night.

Bea, Piggy could provide your total investment

and not even miss it.

Isn't it unfair to make someone honour a promise

they made drunk at a party?

I know the man, leave it to me.

-Daphne? -Darling.

-That'll be all Charles. -Yes sir.

Just been returning your lighter,

you don't know how lucky you are, I almost flogged it dear.

You wouldn't have?

25 carrot gold.

Could have had quite a few cases of old bubbly darling.

I never know whether you're being dead serious,

or just trying to take a rise out of me.

You're such fun tease, Arthur, you are really so naive.

Not that I can lecture anyone,

all that fuss and bother about one song.

I've decided I must drink less, my doctor agrees.

Did you, did you mention the club to mother?

Thank you Arthur, for being so concerned about me.

Very well, I'm concerned, but did you or didn't you?

What is the 25 club?

They have my lighter?

A drinking club, where the management,

your friends no less, give parties with,

obviously far greater attractions

than we can ever offer here.

Oh look it's just a private place.

Who is Marceline?

Daphne I see, left no stone unturned.

And some very peculiar creatures crawled out.

I'll not discuss it with your mother,

it's my private affair.

I do hope it remains so,

for the sake of the family's good name.

Eve, how do I look?

-Piggy will be speechless. -Eve.

Well actually I think you look terrible,

the color's wrong, far too dowdy.

Oh Eve, I know I can always rely on you

for an honest opinion.

You look lovely, Piggy's a very lucky chap.

I think it's time you stopped for the evening,

I feel guilty enough about going out and enjoying myself.

Don't be silly, I'll just finished this.

Piggy is early for once, I'll get it.

Daphne.

-Beatrice, is Jack with you? -No.

I've been down to the studio, but it's all locked up.

Well it's after seven, he usually leaves at six.

Is it, doesn't time fly.

Did you have an appointment with him?

No, I just popped in.

Daphne come in for a moment.

-No, I'm fine. -Please.

-Oh Daphne. -Eve.

It's so cosy in here, it's like a little doll's house,

I wish I lived in a little doll's house.

Another wonderful Eliott creation,

you are both so lucky and so clever, it's too sick making.

I'll make coffee.

Sorry.

There is nothing to apologise for.

-I like that. -Thank you.

-Do you know, I admire you. -Really?

You're trying to do something with your life,

you seem to know what you want.

That what you think?

Always so assured and confident, and strong.

-Not like me. -Oh Daphne.

I know I've had a bit too much champagne,

but I do know what I'm saying.

Daphne, sometimes I don't know where I am,

but I just hide it well, you must believe that.

I still envy you, and what you've done.

I'm wasting my life, I've never had to fend for myself,

I've had everything given to me and I've just taken it.

I'll get it.

Things can change for you, if you really want them to.

Can they?

Hello, hello, ah Daphne.

Darling Piggy, I'd better go.

Piggy, we could drop Daphne

on the way to the restaurant, couldn't we?

Well of course.

Oh no, no, no, no, no, no,

I shall be fine, I shall walk.

But you can't walk all the way home.

I'm not going home dear,

nothing to do there, except get lectured by Mommy.

I shall go to my favourite place, the 25, home.

Well, shall we eat?

Oh, it you.

Piggy, do buck up,

I've never seen you so down in the mouth.

Well Jack told me about your little financial difficulty.

Oh I'm sorry.

Well, no, no, no, I understand.

It's just that, well, you discussed the stock market

with a certain man of the world.

Well, he put everything he had on one sure thing,

and sure enough, the thing went plop.

Can you believe, I actually wrote this cheque out for you?

Piggy, what are you doing?

I'm sorry Bea, but I'm broke, absolutely flat out, broke.

I expected Beatrice to be here.

I hardly know where to begin.

Evangeline, Eve, I appreciate my position as your guardian

is difficult for us both.

If sometimes I've upset you, I didn't mean to.

I'd do anything to make you happy, anything.

There is also much that a man in my position can do for you,

not only in legal and practical matters,

but a guardian feels a moral responsibility too.

I tried to use my greater knowledge of the world

and its ways to help you, guide you.

I know that may sometimes seem like interfering.

Arthur, what are you trying to say?

Can you ever forgive me, for raising your hopes?

I meant what I said, it's just that,

I'm not only broke, I owe money.

And what will you do?

Well, I always hated the city, family bullied me into it,

always wanted to be an actor,

well I'm jolly well going to be.

Can one just become an actor?

Apparently, anyway I help with this friend

that runs a rap up in Birmingham, and he has offered me a,

well it's a very small part actually,

but it's in The Taming of the Shrew, the tailor,

one whole scene, a couple of laughs.

I think you might just be very good at it.

Well I shall of course go on to bigger and better things.

Will you come with me Bea?

I don't mean marriage, all that rot,

it's just we'd have so much fun together.

You know, living together, maybe working together,

what do you say Bea?

You're the nicest man I've ever met, but I don't love you.

Well, that isn't strictly necessarily,

I mean you could be wardrobe mistress.

And I couldn't leave Eve, not now,

not when we've made such plans.

You do understand, don't you?

-You do forgive me? -Of course.

Arthur, We've been working very hard, I'm tired, what.

I could see to it, that you didn't have to work again.

Not work, what do you mean?

Surely it's obvious.

You're very young.

I want you to marry me, please.

Please Eve, marry me?

Never, in a million years, would I marry you Arthur.

I think it's best if you leave.