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You weren't fathers. You were someone else's. An affair. Father, do you?

I think dear Lady Trenshoot has been spending a little too much time with a certain group of gentlemen.

Frederick, I believe I know you rather well and I think you would wish to know if things were being said about Clara.

From now on, relations between us are an end.

I love you. I would have loved you forever. You broke in my heart.

Clara. Clara. Your Grace's Mayor presents Dr. Kerry.

It's a pleasure to welcome you to Darrow A Park. Can you tell me a little about your son?

I do not want to have to look at it. I will not have people. Witness is a imbecility. I want it gone.

What if I told you something? Something about your husband and why he gets up to you while he's in your back?

It's not what you think of when you've got him within the hour.

Shut that up, her!

What do you want from Z

I'm not sure.

Bloody joke.

You English?

That's right.

Lemme guess.

Is Cela.

Royal Navy.

Purser.

Purser.

Mm.

Mm.

The self-sury of leathery just passing through.

Well, that's a strangely complicated question.

I think I shall answer both.

Hmm.

I suppose you believe, Ant, huh?

21.

No, sir. Not a gambling man.

Drink?

I won't say no to that.

Excellent.

Doesn't care all suit blue.

You may give the sum, sir, don't you?

Try in two.

The fact is they don't.

Not for me.

The first part of my pay is meant to come from profit,

so I make buying in supplies.

I got tricked.

Hmm.

Something I thought was a good deal.

So I've worked for what I've made for the past six months.

Makes you wonder what it's all for.

Yes.

Yes, I can see that it would.

Now, see?

Sorry, sir. You've caught me in a philosophical mood.

It's amazing.

It's embarrassing.

I'm right.

And is there a Mrs. Josiah Enroy?

Anybody back in Dover?

No.

I've been seeing her earlier.

English girl, uh-huh.

Thought about asking for her, Rand.

But what can I offer her?

Light a settled life on land.

I reckon I might stand a chance.

No, no, no.

No, I'm a regular Casanova.

Ah.

Do you have a son?

Yes. Yes.

I've never seen him five years old.

I heard that he was born.

Lips with his mother in England and the man who I assume

pretends to be his father's nivening excuse for a manhood.

I feel it in here.

You can't go see the boy then, meet him.

No, no, not possible, not without harming him or...

Damaging his chances in life, and that I will not do.

Yeah.

Hmm.

I'm not going to do anything.

I'm not going to do anything.

I'm not going to do anything.

Hmm.

Oh, look at us.

Bearing our souls.

I have a couple of condemned men.

I like you, Josiah, and Wright.

I don't feel I can trust you.

Because you can.

Hmm.

And Wright.

I need to speak with you, Master James.

I really need to speak with you.

John Bellisis, you're saying...

You're saying...

John Bellisis is Frederick's father.

I am.

Bellisis was the man...

The man who tried to kill our cousin.

I didn't know that when I met him.

Though I did hear Telavid long after when I was working at Glanville.

But you believed him.

But he said that he was Frederick's father.

I did, sir.

And he asked you to...

To watch my brother.

He told me that he couldn't return to England.

Later on I understood why.

He paid for me to resign from the Navy.

Enabled me to marry.

Payed me a small yearly fee.

I was to secure a job at Glanville House and send him reports from time to time about the boy.

His progress.

How he was being treated.

And that's what I did.

Started as a footman.

Worked my way up.

There was...

There was never any malice in it, sir.

I kept an eye on him.

Loved him.

I'll say that.

And I sent off my reports to a post office outside Paris and I never received a reply.

Until today.

You see why I've come.

You know his lordship has dismissed me.

I'm quite sure he won't see me, he's so...

You won't see me.

I've tried.

I've written to him many times since I had of his present difficulties.

Then I think we must make him see us, sir.

We ought to go to my brother and tell him this...

This villain was his father.

But the letter, sir, there is so little time.

Reverend.

Mr. Enright, Mr. Fletcher.

Mr. Fletcher, I need to see his lordship.

I'm afraid he's not seeing anyone.

This is imperative.

Please say to him that it's a matter of life and death.

Your lordship, the Reverend Mr. Trenchard is here.

He's asking to see you.

He says it's imperative.

No. Just for a moment.

He seems...

He says it's imperative.

No.

I'm sorry.

His spirits are very low.

It's all I can do to get into dress since the day her lady shit left.

I must write it down then, what I have to say.

Do you have pen, paper I can use?

She hasn't been back then.

No. He's had nothing for two months.

No one knows where she is.

Podrick.

What do you want?

I need to speak to you alone.

If you never want to lay eyes on me again, so be it.

But please, please listen to what I have to say.

I need you to read this.

There's a story, but let this last of you at the beginning.

It's a great deal to...

But you deserve to see it.

You deserve to make a choice.

No, I don't understand.

He's your father.

And whatever else he's done, whatever else he is, it comes down to this.

His care for you, clearly written on the page.

He's dying.

He's desperate to see you, Freddy.

We have lived with lies for so long.

And look what it's done to us.

This is your one chance.

Your one chance is the truth, to let the light of truth shine into all of this darkness.

F Moof

How brings more

Yeah.

We're in Dermiuil, half an hour.

Lord Trenchard, Mr. John Balesis.

I've caught your hands, son.

I've caught your...

...whore hands on that me and that's saying something.

I shall leave you.

Would you like me to leave?

No.

Who's this?

My brother.

Reverend James Trenchard.

James.

James.

You changed the game, your man.

The one who wasn't meant to be.

I mean, think about your mother.

It wasn't especially nice to her.

But then she wasn't especially nice.

I've been wondering if she used me for the studs that I am.

Trenchard had failed her.

She wanted her child.

I wonder if you even fathered you.

It's alright.

Where did you meet her, mother?

Good old Belgrade, yeah.

Small circles. All of us are going round and round.

When did you meet her?

Ah.

1841.

How long did your affair last?

Was it just a coupling?

I'm going to answer the question, please.

Months.

Many misspent afternoons between the sheets.

Ah.

Now see some Pascal.

Lavel Pascal.

See, that's what I like.

We have an understanding, don't we?

Oh, she's wild about me.

You know, it plays hard to guess.

Freddy.

We don't have to stay.

Wait for me.

What do you want?

Why did you want to see me?

I haven't done a great deal with my life that I'm proud of.

In fact, you're the only thing reading of your achievements.

You're many, many achievements that has been mine.

It has made my life.

When I read, you jumped your first three foot friends on Gala.

That was a day.

Only yourself to spur you on.

And then your tutor said he'd never taught a word of such an aptitude for numbers.

That was a day.

I opened a bottle of chateau, d'afite.

And I tried to you, my boy.

It was a nacity.

Oh, my God.

The empire you built.

I know you were cherished.

And a door would have been in the way you should have been.

And for that, I am sorry.

I had dreams.

Actual dreams where I would stride into that damn house.

And I would lift you in my arms.

And tell you, you were mine and then you were wonderful.

Enright tells me the third thing is I've not gone so far for your place.

When you are made to feel worthless, of course, of course you want to be better than anybody else.

I spent many years on the outside looking in my face pressed against the glass.

It stalks you.

Cripples you.

Only stop looking in.

cultural will receive you whittle giggle

Get up and get up.

Ooh whoo!

Thank you.

No.

Mm-mm.

No TELEIT.

Have you found your wife?

She sounded very beautiful.

And it sounded like she loved you.

I wasn't worthy of her.

No one could be.

I don't know where she is.

Or if I'll ever see her again.

Can you ever forgive me for not being there?

No.

Oh, you're not down.

It's fair enough.

It's fair enough.

Please come again soon.

Just a few minutes.

Bring some cards.

I don't suppose anyone ever told you to play.

Is it troubling you who he is?

Because it doesn't mean that you're like him.

It doesn't trouble me.

The dates.

They work, don't they?

Yes.

It's probably true what he said about mother.

About me.

I once saw her with one of the groundsmen.

So did I.

No one will ever know.

It will remain our secret.

Poor father, he wasn't equal to any of it.

Extraordinary.

All those years.

And writing your story.

Bales is loving you from afar.

As you deserve to be loved.

You forgive me so sadly.

But I've come to see my father.

I'm sorry, Miss.

I'm sorry.

Thank you.

You're welcome.

Nice to see you pretty face.

Oh, I do beg your pardon, sir.

It's my father's birthday today.

He would have been 60.

My mother would have woken up and cried.

But then she and Emily would have had a cup of tea together.

And talked about all the happy times.

Hope.

What if they aren't in the house anymore?

What if their allowance was stopped?

Perhaps you should put this address in.

If you decide to send them a note.

My father made me feel like it's the most important person in the world.

Better than I am.

If I hadn't had his love, I would have

fed a great deal worse than Frederick.

I've been thinking that.

It's a powerful thing that need to be cherished to matter.

Perhaps that's all any of us are really after in life.

Did you feel cherished when you were a child?

I...

You knew my mother loved me.

My father died before I was four.

I did think I was lost by a man once.

I've just gone into service.

One of the older servants.

He said his cup at me.

Made me feel the concern.

Bright light shining all through my head.

It turned out I was a wager.

All the men in the house,

a crown on which of them would bet me first.

He won.

They all treated me like nothing after that.

I learned to keep my guard up, I suppose.

I've settled for that.

There are things you lose.

I will pretend they're on.

It was the first time you've said a snake.

The best gets them sleep.

I'm not sure.

Crittling!

That's it!

Such a long time!

You look well!

So do you.

Will you come in?

I won't.

If you don't mind.

Come in.

Just for a minute.

Percy tells me the Eton Square House has been sold.

It has.

First week of January I shall be gone.

I still can't believe what's happened.

That dreadful woman,

tricking us all.

And not just us, people all over France as well.

The authorities are searching in America, did you hear?

They think it's likely she went there.

You haven't lost everything, have you?

Not quite.

How are you?

How is little Lord Chatham?

He's leaving in a few days.

Switzerland.

I don't know.

I wake up before dawn every morning, my heart pounding.

I have to go and look at him.

It's a strange world, isn't it?

Where the love between a mother and her child

must be secondary to anything.

Titles reputation, money.

How do we come to be like this?

I must go.

I don't suppose Clara's been there.

Ah.

I don't suppose you have any idea where she is.

I'm afraid not.

I feel so guilty about-

I was responsible for driving her away.

No one else.

I live and breathe that fact.

Please won't you come inside.

Percy would be delighted to see you.

No, but thank you, Barry.

I don't know how to any ill world towards him.

It's really not that.

Please make sure he knows that, would you?

I don't know.

Frederick, good lord.

How did he seem?

Different.

Yes, well, I suppose he wouldn't be

effacing what amounts to ruin.

He said a curious thing.

That he wants you to know he isn't cross with you.

Why would he say that?

Ah.

I think he's referring.

I mentioned to him that I had an early warning

about the Marquise and hadn't shared it.

I know now that I should have gone day-min once.

Well, I didn't know how much he was investing.

That was his own fault.

Really?

Percy, you can be so obnoxious sometimes.

I pick a part.

He said something else.

He said it's a strange world we're living in.

Where a mother's love isn't deemed the most important thing.

What has that got?

Peter.

Yes.

Peter.

Compaining to him about that,

I suppose painting near some sort of ochre.

I simply told him the facts,

and he made me see them for what they are.

You know, I'm not a little too much.

You know why we are doing what we are doing for the twin's sake,

for Edgar's sake, for the sake of our good name.

No, if it were only that, we have another choice.

We have dear Dr. Kerry,

who is more than ready to take him.

For God's sake.

He'd be near Maywood.

We can see.

No, we have been through this.

You would rather he died.

You don't want him to thrive.

And in a clinic,

far away in a distant land,

deprived of us, deprived of me, he will languish.

And hopefully he will die before you.

And so Randolph will inherit the Duke,

and all will be right with the world.

Have you two?

You can leave of your senses.

Yes, it was a date.

Thank you.

Oh.

Sorry, hi.

Oh, good, right.

You are such a dear.

inkling.

Hmm.

I feel like I've hit you super hot.

You and I are, are you okay?

I can't bear a table.

Who is this?

Oh, Emily.

Shout!

Oh, Clara.

Oh, my goodness.

Oh, my goodness.

Oh, my goodness.

Am I dreaming of you?

I'm dreaming of you.

That Christmas angel.

Where did you go, dear?

To the north.

Evans.

I will be going back after Christmas.

We can talk about that another day.

I was worried I wouldn't find you here.

I thought that your allowance might have been stopped.

No, dear. Our allowance has increased.

Although we hear that Frederick has lost a small fortune,

and will have to sell the house on Eden Square.

Because of what the Marquis did.

Yes.

I hate to think of what he's depriving himself of,

but we are very grateful nonetheless.

Have you spoken to him, dear?

Mother.

No.

Will you go and see him, will you?

No.

I won't.

I'm here to see you two.

No one else.

Oh.

She's sleeping.

Peace at last.

I'm so sorry, I am.

I run away.

I've teach you to do it with everything.

You are so more about that.

Dealing with things is my full day.

Tell me how you've been.

How's James?

He's extremely well.

We work well together at the church.

He says we're a good team.

I'm the one who should be sorry.

I was far too quick to think the worst of you.

I am ashamed.

Don't be.

Everyone acknowledges that it was the Marquis who was fielding the rumors

for whatever twisted motives of her own.

I was to blame him part.

I've had time to think about everything that happened.

Why it happened?

The distance is good for me.

If you ever want to talk about it, I'm here.

Thank you.

Why don't we make some cocoa?

Like we used to.

I've seen one without now.

Yes.

She married a doctor.

She's really rather touching.

They knew each other from in her hometown.

Confidentially, I suspect you made me the father of her child.

I'm truly happy for her.

But what of us?

At this rate we should have to enter an honorary.

No.

I'm going to go.

What are these?

Flettuce, Frederick has been sending.

Asking if we know where you are.

I thought you should see them.

What do you think, your ladyship?

Would you like me to go in and speak to the Reverend?

Ask him if he'll come out?

No.

Sorry.

It's all right.

Now.

Your ladyship.

I heard about your marriage.

I couldn't be more pleased for you.

Thank you.

I'm going to see my baby.

Would you like to come?

Richard and Annie designed it for us.

It's beautiful.

Stephen told me about how much he adored you.

It's all right.

He has a large and restless heart.

He always will have.

Nothing happened between us.

Not in any real way.

I was grateful.

I always will be for the friendship he showed me.

I admit I was flattered by some of the words he said to me.

But I know now that it was only because I was desperate to hear those words from someone else.

He fears you must think badly of him.

I don't.

He didn't know about the baby. He left long before I even knew.

If my parents had encouraged him, but they didn't.

Not rich enough. Not devout enough.

The only thing I find difficult to forgive is that he didn't see how much he meant to me.

How much I would suffer when he left.

But you forgive him now.

Yes, none of it was intentional. People being human.

Imperfect.

That's it darling. That looks even better, isn't it?

I wonder if you might look at this for me before I ascend it.

It was so much better at these things than I am.

Dear Dr. Carey, the Duchess and I have reconsidered your kind offer.

Oh, I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry, Father.

For what?

For the trouble I've caused.

For obsessing my ma.

And you.

No trouble.

Peter.

Peter, no trouble at all.

I hardly need to tell you how good it is to see you.

Please.

I thought of coming before, but I've hesitated to put you in a position where you must keep something from Frederick.

Emily told me that you're speaking again.

We are.

But you do understand that he can't know.

May I at least tell him that you've been in touch with your family and that you're safe.

It would mean a very great deal to him.

Yes.

I've seen the letters he's written.

I certainly don't want him to feel so concerned.

I'm so sorry about what's happened to him.

I can hardly believe he has to sell the house.

Actually, I think he rather wants to sell it.

He was bequeathed to some of money recently.

Not a fortune, but it would have been enough to prevent the sale.

But he gave the money to me to help the poor.

He has changed, Clara. His whole view of the world and of his place in it is different.

I believe he would find some sort of contentment, but he can't because he doesn't have you.

It breaks my heart.

James.

He deeply regrets the way he bears.

He doesn't need to.

Please, please. Will you see him talk with him?

No.

No.

He hasn't lost my love.

He couldn't.

But even talking about this is...

My life now isn't happy, but it's simple and clear.

I long for him.

I do.

But we're better off apart.

You're wrong.

Forgive me, but I know, I know you aren't better off apart.

You need only there to believe me.

A recrymsmial shoe or a chip?

Merry Christmas, Enright.

I love you.

I love you.

Just relax.

He's coming, Mother. Ready yourself.

I shall spurtle out. That she's here. I know I shall.

I can sink. I wonder if there's such a thing as a chest you've built for the tongue.

Leave all the talking to me.

Yes. Oh, Frederick. Frederick. Oh, Merry Christmas.

And to you, Mrs. Dunn. Miss Dunn. I trust you're both well.

Yes. Thank you. Yes, we're very, very well. Well, especially now.

But now, it's Christmas day. He...

I wanted to thank you for allowing my brother to tell me that you'd heard from Clara.

Well, we were glad to.

Yes. We know how dreadful it is to be worrying.

You had a letter, I assume.

It's a Christmas card.

A Christmas card.

From where, do you know?

A shop.

We must go. Yes. Lunch.

Of course. You will tell me.

Please.

Have you heard anything more?

Yes. Come on, Mother. Have you had a good day?

Yes.

Are you all right, Your Lordship?

Yes. You and Fletcher take a cab.

Let's you'll walk back. Very good.

Happy Christmas, brother.

Happy Christmas.

You spoke so well.

Great heart and great purpose.

I'm immensely proud of you.

We're having a small gathering at the vicarage later today.

A few dear friends, glass of punch.

I should warn you that the Duns will be there.

But I would love it if you could come. And Enright.

And Mr. Fletcher, of course.

I won't.

But thank you.

I'm struggling to do.

We'll have been our first Christmas together.

I could cancel the event.

Come stay with you if dear James.

Don't worry.

Your Lordship.

That smells good.

Doing our best, your lordship.

We thought.

Glass of Sherry in the drawing room.

That's it's Christmas.

The drawing room.

I can take one down here with you.

No, no. I shall bring it up.

The fire is lit in there. Roaring.

And for Christmas.

For old times sake.

Very well.

Thank you.

Are they not working for you?

Hello, Frederick.

Clara.

Are you real?

Yes.

I'm real.

And right let me in.

I hope you don't mind.

Clara, will you allow me to apologise?

I've learned a great deal these last few months.

I understand a great deal more like why I behaved as I did.

And what it must have been like for you.

How much of it was fear and desperation and anger.

You know, I'm not excusing it for a moment,

but at least in understanding I've found the possibility of change.

You were trying to show me the way.

I know that now.

I wasn't strong enough to do that.

I ended up losing my own way.

I'm sorry.

I'm truly sorry.

I know that can never be enough.

How do you know?

I've been thinking too.

Up how little chance we stood.

I've been thinking that it was a sort of miracle.

That even with so much ranged against us,

we shared moments of the purest joy and the deepest love.

Love dear precious to be thrown away.

It isn't half the ill story.

It isn't half.

I understand.

It isn't half.

It's half the time.

It's half the time.

I'm sorry.

Merry Christmas.

Merry Christmas.

If we're not too late, Mr. James...

I know means welcome.

Thank you.

Merry Christmas.

Miss Davidson.

Freddie.

Freddie.

Do you still mean to sell the house?

Yes.

Will you go to Glanville?

We thought we would do some travelling.

See more of the world together.

Sorry by sight.

Traveling, oh dear.

But she will come back.

We will always come back to all of you.

Perhaps we will go to Glanville eventually.

Settle there.

Live our life the way we want to live it.

Looks like we shall be travelling, Mr Fletcher.

Well, that suits me.

Happy as Christmas imaginable.

Yes.

I believe it is.

Emily, I just want to say you are exceptionally excellent.

Oh.

And if I didn't consider myself married to God,

it could only have been you.

That is really very sweet of you.

Who's that?

A nephew of the Mrs White.

He's just returned from a spell in the army.

Nice that he was able to join us.

Yes.

You should say it is.

It's snowing.

Where's snow it is?

I have so much to tell you.

And I hear.

We have all the time we could wish for.

Ask that.

Ask.

Ask.

Ask.

Ask.

Ask.