0:00:26 > 0:00:29CLOCK TICKS
0:00:29 > 0:00:32ALARM RINGS
0:00:32 > 0:00:34Eunice. It's six o'clock.
0:00:34 > 0:00:36ALARM CONTINUES TO RING
0:00:39 > 0:00:41ALARM STOPS
0:00:48 > 0:00:51Johnny! You're on duty, dozy drawers!
0:00:59 > 0:01:01Hurry up with that coffee!
0:01:01 > 0:01:03Sir Hallam wants it at half past!
0:01:03 > 0:01:05My routine's all out since this riding lark!
0:01:05 > 0:01:07What about the tea for Mrs Thack and Mr P?
0:01:07 > 0:01:12Why can't they be like theatrical people? Noel Coward is in bed till lunchtime.
0:01:18 > 0:01:20It's a good job I'm about to take myself in hand.
0:01:20 > 0:01:22In what way?
0:01:22 > 0:01:26I start classes with the Women's League Of Health And Beauty today.
0:01:26 > 0:01:28Lavinia Godfrey finally persuaded me.
0:01:28 > 0:01:29Physical culture?
0:01:29 > 0:01:32I have gained a little weight.
0:01:32 > 0:01:36But Lavinia believes it empowers women, generally.
0:01:36 > 0:01:38Can't you coax Persie to go with you?
0:01:38 > 0:01:41I find her such a dispiriting presence.
0:01:41 > 0:01:45No friends, no charitable interests. No occupation of any kind.
0:01:45 > 0:01:48I suppose that's what happens when a love affair ends badly.
0:01:48 > 0:01:50I invited her to join me at the museum.
0:01:50 > 0:01:53I'm sorry to say she merely glared at me and smoked.
0:01:57 > 0:02:01Damn you, when I want the curtains open, I'll ring the bell and ask!
0:02:01 > 0:02:04I hope you don't speak to my staff like that.
0:02:04 > 0:02:06I can't bear grapefruit.
0:02:06 > 0:02:11Be a sport. I went without a cherry so that you could have the last one.
0:02:18 > 0:02:19Budge up.
0:02:26 > 0:02:28It's just like old times.
0:02:28 > 0:02:32Do you remember when we used to cling to each other in bed, for warmth?
0:02:32 > 0:02:35It really was the very worst type of castle.
0:02:35 > 0:02:38I once made Friedrich cry with laughter,
0:02:38 > 0:02:41just by describing our sanitary arrangements.
0:02:41 > 0:02:44Darling, I don't want to hear that man's name again.
0:02:44 > 0:02:46Because he's married?
0:02:46 > 0:02:48Because he treated you abominably!
0:02:48 > 0:02:50And because he's married.
0:02:54 > 0:02:57Persie, it's time for a fresh start.
0:02:57 > 0:03:02It's time to leave the past behind and make your life anew.
0:03:02 > 0:03:04That's easy for you to say.
0:03:13 > 0:03:16"I met a traveller from an antique land
0:03:16 > 0:03:22"Who said two vast and trunkless legs of stone stand in the desert
0:03:22 > 0:03:27"Near them, on the sand, half sunk, a shattered visage lies."
0:03:27 > 0:03:31I rather think you're the traveller from the antique land, Portia.
0:03:31 > 0:03:33So many years have passed.
0:03:33 > 0:03:35Three. Nearer to four.
0:03:35 > 0:03:37I wrote to you, Blanche! I wrote last autumn.
0:03:37 > 0:03:39I know.
0:03:40 > 0:03:41Did you burn it?
0:03:42 > 0:03:43I thought you might.
0:03:43 > 0:03:46I thought it would be just like you to consign it to the flames,
0:03:46 > 0:03:49without reading it first.
0:03:49 > 0:03:51Mama! Mama!
0:03:51 > 0:03:55I don't know what Nanny would say if she saw you running in a museum!
0:03:55 > 0:04:00Viola, will you take Gawain to look at the Rosetta Stone? It's indescribably interesting.
0:04:00 > 0:04:02It won't be to them.
0:04:02 > 0:04:06Motherhood has made the most enormous fibber of me, and the children swallow everything I say.
0:04:06 > 0:04:10I've another at home in the nursery now.
0:04:10 > 0:04:12Did you hear?
0:04:12 > 0:04:13Yes.
0:04:13 > 0:04:15I called her Isis.
0:04:17 > 0:04:18I heard that, too.
0:04:23 > 0:04:27- Zip fastener's all mended, your ladyship.- Thank you, Beryl.
0:04:29 > 0:04:32Would you help me with my hair, before you go back to Nanny?
0:04:32 > 0:04:34Of course, your ladyship.
0:04:34 > 0:04:36I need something more robust than usual.
0:04:36 > 0:04:39I'm told the exercises at the Women's League can be vigorous.
0:04:39 > 0:04:44I've seen them on the newsreels. They reckon Lady Prunella is the perfect specimen of womanhood.
0:04:44 > 0:04:47She certainly has an extremely trim waist.
0:04:47 > 0:04:51Perhaps if I apply myself, I'll stop breaking my zip fasteners!
0:04:51 > 0:04:56Beryl, it seems to me that you're rather wasted, tucked up in the nurseries with Nanny,
0:04:56 > 0:05:00so it might suit all of us if you and Eunice reversed your roles.
0:05:00 > 0:05:04- If she became nursery maid?- Yes. And you took on looking after me, along with parlour duties.
0:05:04 > 0:05:06I see...
0:05:06 > 0:05:09You're right for the drawing room. Eunice is fond of the children.
0:05:09 > 0:05:12- I've noticed that on your afternoons off.- Very well, your ladyship.
0:05:12 > 0:05:16I'll see Mr Pritchard and sort out the finer points before my class.
0:05:17 > 0:05:20Embalming jars. is there anything in them?
0:05:20 > 0:05:25Kidneys and livers and hearts, in the main. All very desiccated.
0:05:26 > 0:05:29Desiccated hearts? I rather like that.
0:05:31 > 0:05:34Portia, much as I would relish giving you a guided tour,
0:05:34 > 0:05:36I am drawing up an inventory of...
0:05:36 > 0:05:40Blanche, The Golden Blaze is to be published.
0:05:41 > 0:05:45- You always said that was the one story you would never show to anyone!- I meant it.
0:05:45 > 0:05:48But nothing else I wrote was going to make the grade.
0:05:48 > 0:05:53I'm not like you, with your definitive lexicon of Upper Nile dialects.
0:05:53 > 0:05:57- Your monograph on the tomb of Rameses The Third!- The Second.
0:05:57 > 0:05:59I tried to tell you!
0:05:59 > 0:06:03You are Evelyn on those pages, just as much as I am Rosalinde! It's your story, too.
0:06:03 > 0:06:05And your novel.
0:06:05 > 0:06:09I did consider making Evelyn into a man.
0:06:09 > 0:06:13Evelyn can be a man's name! All I would have had to do was change the pronouns.
0:06:13 > 0:06:16But we never could change the pronouns, could we?
0:06:16 > 0:06:18No.
0:06:20 > 0:06:25No-one will know it's you. They won't even know it's me.
0:06:25 > 0:06:27Edmund made me swear that I'd use a pseudonym.
0:06:27 > 0:06:30I was going to ask what Edmund thought.
0:06:30 > 0:06:34He left for Donegal this morning. A fishing trip with friends.
0:06:34 > 0:06:36He always understood, you know.
0:06:36 > 0:06:40Yes, and I was glad.
0:06:43 > 0:06:44My book...
0:06:45 > 0:06:47Will you read it?
0:06:48 > 0:06:50I don't have to.
0:06:53 > 0:06:55Well, I knew Eunice's days were numbered
0:06:55 > 0:06:59when Lady Agnes found potato peel in the pocket of her peignoir.
0:06:59 > 0:07:04I was hired for kitchen work! Miss Buck did all the lady's maiding, till she got TB.
0:07:04 > 0:07:07Lady Agnes said nothing to me about kitchen work.
0:07:07 > 0:07:11Beryl is to be entirely relieved of nursery responsibilities.
0:07:11 > 0:07:15Her position is to be redefined as senior house parlour maid,
0:07:15 > 0:07:17with all duties thereby implied,
0:07:17 > 0:07:21along with providing care for Lady Agnes' wardrobe and person.
0:07:21 > 0:07:22SHE SIGHS
0:07:22 > 0:07:25Will I be working longer hours?
0:07:25 > 0:07:28If I am, I ought to have a pay rise.
0:07:28 > 0:07:31No change in remuneration was mentioned.
0:07:31 > 0:07:35Eunice, meanwhile, is to have her time apportioned across the day.
0:07:35 > 0:07:39In the morning, two hours with Nanny, then she will aid Mrs Thackeray in the kitchen
0:07:39 > 0:07:43and return to the nursery from two till six.
0:07:43 > 0:07:48In the evening, she will assist in the preparation, serving and clearing away of dinner.
0:07:48 > 0:07:50That doesn't any make sense!
0:07:50 > 0:07:51It's murder in the nursery of an evening!
0:07:51 > 0:07:55- Baths for both of them! Miss Veronica's had colic! - I'm good with colic.
0:07:55 > 0:07:58You're good with dishes, too.
0:07:59 > 0:08:02I will say who's going to do the dishes!
0:08:06 > 0:08:07Agnes! Such luck that you came!
0:08:07 > 0:08:10There's a torchlight display in Hyde Park looming,
0:08:10 > 0:08:13and our section can't quite rustle up the numbers.
0:08:13 > 0:08:15My word, what perfectly delicious pins you have!
0:08:15 > 0:08:18I was quite surprised by how brief the shorts are.
0:08:18 > 0:08:22Well, no point in all this kicking and marching if the nethers don't get aired!
0:08:22 > 0:08:25- Exactly.- We're all wearing as little as each other, that's the main thing.
0:08:25 > 0:08:28The League Of Health And Beauty isn't just a system of exercise,
0:08:28 > 0:08:31it's about equality for women from every walk of life!
0:08:31 > 0:08:34Now, let's trot along, and you can take the plunge.
0:08:34 > 0:08:37I think it all sounds perfectly marvellous.
0:08:37 > 0:08:39We have a duty to cherish our bodies.
0:08:39 > 0:08:43Shop-girls benefit just as much as duchesses.
0:08:45 > 0:08:48Right, then, ladies, let's get started!
0:08:48 > 0:08:49PIANO PLAYS
0:08:50 > 0:08:53Swing those shoulders...
0:08:55 > 0:08:57Chin up, Petronella!
0:08:57 > 0:09:01And remember - accept your bodies, liberate your lives!
0:09:04 > 0:09:07You can't touch her knickers with your hands!
0:09:08 > 0:09:11Use the silk - like this.
0:09:11 > 0:09:14Is that because of germs?
0:09:14 > 0:09:17No, we just aren't allowed to touch 'em, they're personal.
0:09:18 > 0:09:21Left leg, right arm... right leg, left arm!
0:09:28 > 0:09:31That's the ticket, Lady Agnes!
0:09:32 > 0:09:37If anyone's perspiring, there's some eau de cologne on top of the piano.
0:09:38 > 0:09:41Feel your heart beat!
0:09:41 > 0:09:42Breathe! Breathe!
0:09:43 > 0:09:45Breathe...
0:10:35 > 0:10:37KNOCK AT DOOR
0:10:37 > 0:10:40Dr Mottershead, I have some urgent papers from the Refugee Committee.
0:10:40 > 0:10:43Places are sought for another 400 children,
0:10:43 > 0:10:47and the applications must be processed quickly.
0:10:47 > 0:10:48Leave them over here. Please.
0:10:48 > 0:10:52I'll...I'll read them later.
0:10:53 > 0:10:57Dr Mottershead, is there any service I might render you?
0:10:57 > 0:11:01No. No, I...I thought I'd filed some things away.
0:11:01 > 0:11:05But it transpired... that I had failed.
0:11:17 > 0:11:19Are we driving you to drink?
0:11:19 > 0:11:21No. I just rather thought a gin might hit the spot.
0:11:21 > 0:11:26I'd be on more than gin if I was shut up in these four walls all day.
0:11:27 > 0:11:32Why don't you come out riding? You used to be a perfect Valkyrie on horseback.
0:11:32 > 0:11:35Don't. You can't imagine how appalling Wagner is
0:11:35 > 0:11:38until you've sat through five hours of caterwauling
0:11:38 > 0:11:41with a Standartenfuhrer's hand placed lightly on your thigh.
0:11:41 > 0:11:45I suppose you're talking about this Friedrich.
0:11:45 > 0:11:47He sounds like a bounder, if you ask me.
0:11:47 > 0:11:50He was. That's why I liked him.
0:11:50 > 0:11:52To begin with.
0:11:52 > 0:11:58He's the reason I came in for the gin.
0:11:58 > 0:12:00I was going to drink it sitting in a hot bath.
0:12:03 > 0:12:06That's what girls do, isn't it? When they get in trouble.
0:12:08 > 0:12:10You're...expecting?
0:12:13 > 0:12:14Does Agnes know?
0:12:14 > 0:12:16No.
0:12:16 > 0:12:20And don't you bloody dare tell her! I've made it right with her at last.
0:12:20 > 0:12:24If you told her what an idiot I've been, we'd be lost to each other all over again.
0:12:27 > 0:12:29What do you want me to do?
0:12:29 > 0:12:32An abortion costs 60 guineas.
0:12:32 > 0:12:36I don't care if an abortion costs sixpence! It's against the law.
0:12:36 > 0:12:39You can get one on Harley Street. Well, just off.
0:12:39 > 0:12:42It's a filthy game, and I'm not playing it.
0:12:42 > 0:12:45Hallam...I need your help.
0:13:16 > 0:13:21'Chapter One. It was the hair that Rosalinde saw first.
0:13:21 > 0:13:25'Coiled like wire beneath its heavy metal pins...
0:13:25 > 0:13:27'All Egypt was in her glance.
0:13:27 > 0:13:31'The dry heat of the sands, the deep green of the malachite in amulets...
0:13:31 > 0:13:35'There was no one word with which to brand the moment.
0:13:35 > 0:13:38'Rosalinde's body was being filled with spices...
0:13:38 > 0:13:44'This was a journey beyond the map. A road they intended to travel for eternity...'
0:13:46 > 0:13:50It would be a shame if there weren't enough ladies to represent our troupe by torchlight.
0:13:50 > 0:13:54So I told Mrs Godfrey that 165 would make up the shortfall.
0:13:55 > 0:13:58I'm afraid we have duties in the afternoons, Your Ladyship.
0:13:58 > 0:14:00That's very diligent of you, Beryl -
0:14:00 > 0:14:04but the wonderful thing about the League is it runs classes throughout the working week.
0:14:04 > 0:14:07So there'll always be one to coincide with your time off.
0:14:08 > 0:14:11We may well go to some of them together.
0:14:11 > 0:14:14Everyone's treated the same and dressed the same.
0:14:14 > 0:14:17The classes put us all on a completely equal footing.
0:14:20 > 0:14:23Bare legs? In broad daylight?!
0:14:23 > 0:14:27You're just jealous, Mrs Thack. You could fancy yourself in black satin bloomers.
0:14:27 > 0:14:29It's just tawdry exhibitionism.
0:14:29 > 0:14:32And I don't like seeing Eunice made a game of.
0:14:32 > 0:14:35I'm being made a game of, too! I came here to work and save,
0:14:35 > 0:14:38not prance around Hyde Park doing high kicks in me knickers.
0:14:38 > 0:14:40Maybe I could just bang the drum.
0:14:40 > 0:14:43I always banged the drum in country dancing at Barnardo's.
0:14:43 > 0:14:45I know whose drum I'd like to bang!
0:14:47 > 0:14:49Come on, Bee. Swallow your pride.
0:14:49 > 0:14:51You don't want to get the sack any more than I do.
0:15:14 > 0:15:16DOOR OPENS
0:15:17 > 0:15:20CONVIVIAL LAUGHTER
0:15:24 > 0:15:26That's exactly what I told them!
0:15:31 > 0:15:33I read the book.
0:15:38 > 0:15:39Could you bear it?
0:15:52 > 0:15:54I was enthralled by it.
0:15:55 > 0:15:58I couldn't believe your courage.
0:16:05 > 0:16:07Come into the drawing room.
0:16:07 > 0:16:10It's not a party as such - the publisher's budget couldn't stretch to one.
0:16:10 > 0:16:12- Just a few friends come to wish me well.- I daren't.
0:16:13 > 0:16:14They'd wish you well, too.
0:16:14 > 0:16:19No, I... I didn't realise you had guests.
0:16:19 > 0:16:21I just wanted to see you.
0:16:23 > 0:16:26After I came to you at the museum,
0:16:26 > 0:16:29I thought, if I never see her again, I shall die.
0:16:29 > 0:16:32Will you promise to come to me another day?
0:16:32 > 0:16:35When I'm alone, and the babies are in bed?
0:16:35 > 0:16:38KNOCK AT DOOR
0:16:38 > 0:16:43Portia, darling, I simply have to fly. I have a meeting to attend at the Factory Inspectorate.
0:16:43 > 0:16:45Nothing if not a man of contrasts, Your Highness.
0:16:47 > 0:16:49You know Blanche Mottershead, don't you?
0:16:51 > 0:16:52But of course.
0:16:53 > 0:16:55A bientot.
0:16:57 > 0:17:03The Golden Blaze will be widely reviewed. It's the most exquisitely wrought little tale.
0:17:03 > 0:17:05It's rather like Lady Alresford herself -
0:17:05 > 0:17:09all curlicued pallor - like ormolu -
0:17:09 > 0:17:12with just a hint of musk and roses when you rub it in your hands.
0:17:12 > 0:17:14I never have time to read fiction nowadays.
0:17:16 > 0:17:18Now, listen, old chap.
0:17:18 > 0:17:24The Golden Blaze isn't fiction, and it's really...it's very short.
0:17:24 > 0:17:26I must urge you to read it.
0:17:26 > 0:17:29Sounds like the sort of book Agnes would ban.
0:17:29 > 0:17:32Servants getting hold of it, all of that. Sir...
0:17:32 > 0:17:34They'll get hold of it one way or another.
0:17:34 > 0:17:38One suspects it might become a sort of...cause celebre.
0:17:38 > 0:17:42Sir, I was hoping to pick your brains about Czechoslovakia.
0:17:42 > 0:17:46Halifax is sending me to Germany, to support negotiations at the British Embassy.
0:17:48 > 0:17:50Very well.
0:17:51 > 0:17:55The worst thing Czechoslovakia ever did was to create the Second Republic.
0:17:55 > 0:17:58The new border is militarily indefensible,
0:17:58 > 0:18:01and President Hacha is not a healthy man.
0:18:01 > 0:18:06His heart is almost giving out. He's on a ticking clock, just like his country.
0:18:06 > 0:18:09Those twin facts colour everything he does,
0:18:09 > 0:18:12and your trip to Berlin is very likely to prove fruitless.
0:18:12 > 0:18:15Now, may we return to the topic of The Golden Blaze?
0:18:15 > 0:18:20Sir, why are you hell-bent on discussing this lurid novel?
0:18:22 > 0:18:29Because tonight, when you return to your blameless and elegant town house...
0:18:29 > 0:18:32you'll need to have a little tete a tete with your Aunt Blanche.
0:18:37 > 0:18:38LAUGHTER
0:18:38 > 0:18:41Darling. Perfect time for a nightcap.
0:18:41 > 0:18:45- I don't want a nightcap. Pritchard, you may leave us.- Sir.
0:18:45 > 0:18:47- Well, Hallam... - Don't you "Well, Hallam" me!
0:18:47 > 0:18:49You've evidently heard about the book.
0:18:49 > 0:18:53What book? Are you writing another dictionary?
0:18:53 > 0:18:56No. A friend of hers has written a novel!
0:18:56 > 0:18:59Not a friend. A lover.
0:18:59 > 0:19:02Oh, how perfectly thrilling! Is it anyone we know?
0:19:02 > 0:19:08I think...you might have been debutantes in the same year.
0:19:09 > 0:19:11Portia St Clair.
0:19:15 > 0:19:18But she's married, to Viscount Alresford...
0:19:18 > 0:19:21She still is. And when the newspapers strip her of her pseudonym,
0:19:21 > 0:19:24there'll be hell to pay - in this house as well as theirs.
0:19:24 > 0:19:27Because they'll strip Blanche of her pseudonym too.
0:19:27 > 0:19:30Well, Hallam, you must talk to the papers, you must try to intervene!
0:19:30 > 0:19:32It's too late to intervene.
0:19:32 > 0:19:36According to the Duke of Kent, at least one gossip columnist is running the story tomorrow.
0:19:36 > 0:19:40For God's sake, Blanche, there's a picture in the Tate of Lady Alresford
0:19:40 > 0:19:43posing with her children, called Radiant Motherhood!
0:19:43 > 0:19:45Her husband's the MP for Lymewold!
0:19:45 > 0:19:47It's a bloody good job my mother's dead.
0:19:47 > 0:19:49And it's a bloody good job my father's dead!
0:19:49 > 0:19:53He was a Bishop. Who thought all inverts should be horsewhipped.
0:19:55 > 0:19:58It's in the Express.
0:20:01 > 0:20:03"Smart circles are humming with speculation
0:20:03 > 0:20:07"that The Golden Blaze, a torrid tale of unnatural female passions,
0:20:07 > 0:20:11"actually details the friendship between Viscountess Alresford,
0:20:11 > 0:20:15"the book's true author, and the noted Egyptologist Dr Blanche Mottershead,
0:20:15 > 0:20:19"former amanuensis to the late 5th Earl of Caernarvon."
0:20:19 > 0:20:20Aunt Blanche is a lesbian?!
0:20:20 > 0:20:21SHE GIGGLES
0:20:24 > 0:20:28This is the sort of talk that spreads like influenza!
0:20:28 > 0:20:33- Hallam, is this in any way likely to affect the current state of play in European politics?- No.
0:20:33 > 0:20:35Then I suggest you calm down and read a different paper.
0:20:36 > 0:20:39Agnes, the social humiliation is going to be appalling.
0:20:39 > 0:20:41I shall ensure we weather it somehow.
0:20:41 > 0:20:43We'll have more coffee, please, Pritchard.
0:20:45 > 0:20:48I can't imagine why you're trying to defend her.
0:20:48 > 0:20:50'I'm simply refusing to pass judgement,
0:20:50 > 0:20:53'because I'm learning that others are entitled to respect...'
0:20:53 > 0:20:55DOOR CLOSES
0:21:06 > 0:21:10I'd like to welcome two new members of the class today -
0:21:10 > 0:21:13Beryl Ballard and Eunice McCabe.
0:21:13 > 0:21:17They've been kindly brought to us by Lady Agnes Holland, on whose staff they serve.
0:21:17 > 0:21:22Splendidly, we're now sufficient in number to make up a torchlight troupe!
0:21:28 > 0:21:29Thank you, Mrs Davis!
0:21:29 > 0:21:33We'll start with knee kick, high kick, arms raised to the bust...
0:21:33 > 0:21:35And one! And two!
0:21:35 > 0:21:36And three! And four!
0:21:36 > 0:21:38And one! And two!
0:21:38 > 0:21:42And three! and four! Splendid, ladies.
0:21:45 > 0:21:48This feels like quite the assignation.
0:21:48 > 0:21:51I'm surprised you don't have a carnation in your buttonhole.
0:21:51 > 0:21:53It's hardly a discussion we can have at home.
0:21:53 > 0:21:57I don't care whether we have it here, in the house or on the number 23 bus.
0:21:57 > 0:21:59I'm not going to be hidden away at the seaside
0:21:59 > 0:22:02with some ghastly couple who are only out to make a profit from me!
0:22:02 > 0:22:05It's the only respectable way around it.
0:22:06 > 0:22:09I would also hope that once you've adjusted to the circumstance,
0:22:09 > 0:22:11you will agree that I can inform Agnes.
0:22:11 > 0:22:14- No.- This is an adult dilemma, Persie!
0:22:14 > 0:22:16It's time you stopped behaving like a child.
0:22:16 > 0:22:19I have no intention of having a baby.
0:22:20 > 0:22:23I don't see anything childish about that.
0:22:25 > 0:22:28I will not have Dr Mottershead embarrassed.
0:22:28 > 0:22:32None of the junior servants will be allowed to see any of this.
0:22:32 > 0:22:36And anything that refers to the affair will not be allowed to go upstairs.
0:22:36 > 0:22:39I don't know how the papers can print such smut.
0:22:39 > 0:22:43I have to say, this Lady Alresford takes a lovely photograph.
0:22:43 > 0:22:47To her credit, Dr Mottershead does not deny the allegations.
0:22:47 > 0:22:51I'm inclined to say, a lady's private life is her own concern.
0:22:51 > 0:22:54Well, it's not her private life, is it?
0:22:54 > 0:22:57Not if it's in the London Illustrated News.
0:22:58 > 0:23:01Harry, would you have a look at the workings of this vacuum?
0:23:01 > 0:23:04It seems to be spitting out more fluff than it swallows.
0:23:04 > 0:23:06It's probably the belt drive. Give it here.
0:23:10 > 0:23:12Take a pew.
0:23:15 > 0:23:17SHE SIGHS
0:23:20 > 0:23:24So...what's the latest with Dr Mottershead?
0:23:24 > 0:23:28She's quiet in front of Sir Hallam, but then cheerful when he's out.
0:23:28 > 0:23:30Johnny heard her whistling this morning.
0:23:30 > 0:23:32Whistling women and crowing hens, eh?
0:23:32 > 0:23:35Lady Agnes has had two invitations cancelled.
0:23:35 > 0:23:37One of them a private view, the other a dinner.
0:23:37 > 0:23:39- Ouch.- The dinner was for tonight.
0:23:39 > 0:23:43I'd just pressed her lavender chiffon, and that would try the patience of a saint.
0:23:43 > 0:23:45Are you not enjoying this swapping round lark?
0:23:45 > 0:23:50Not really. Eunice is struggling. We're both worn to a thread.
0:23:50 > 0:23:53You'll have to do something nice on your afternoon off.
0:23:53 > 0:23:55I don't get an afternoon off!
0:23:55 > 0:23:58I get to play at being equal with her Ladyship.
0:23:58 > 0:24:00PHONE RINGS
0:24:02 > 0:24:04Good afternoon. The garage.
0:24:04 > 0:24:06Beryl? What are you doing in the garage?
0:24:06 > 0:24:09I need Spargo to take me to Selfridge's.
0:24:11 > 0:24:15You once told me about the beauty of things that were incomplete.
0:24:16 > 0:24:18Do you remember?
0:24:18 > 0:24:19I'm an archaeologist.
0:24:19 > 0:24:23I live the beauty of things that are incomplete.
0:24:23 > 0:24:25Tell me again.
0:24:26 > 0:24:30There's a visceral thrill,
0:24:30 > 0:24:33when you stumble on a find.
0:24:36 > 0:24:43Whether you roll away a stone and discover a ransacked tomb,
0:24:43 > 0:24:49or dredge the sands and bring up a shattered cup.
0:24:53 > 0:24:56In all the years that we were apart,
0:24:56 > 0:25:00I thought of you every time I saw a broken statue,
0:25:00 > 0:25:02or a marble fragment.
0:25:02 > 0:25:04Things could have been otherwise.
0:25:04 > 0:25:07Things SHOULD have been otherwise.
0:25:09 > 0:25:11I don't mind you putting it all on account -
0:25:11 > 0:25:13I'm just not sure about that cut of jacket.
0:25:13 > 0:25:16You've been looking so much bigger in the bosom.
0:25:16 > 0:25:17Stop looking at my bosom!
0:25:17 > 0:25:20I'm on my guard already with an invert in the house!
0:25:20 > 0:25:22Persie, why must you say such provocative things?
0:25:22 > 0:25:26Why don't you throw her out? She's brought this entire address into disrepute,
0:25:26 > 0:25:28and Hallam's like a bear with a wasp up its nose.
0:25:28 > 0:25:31He's been like that since last September.
0:25:31 > 0:25:34People have quite stopped thinking there might be a war.
0:25:34 > 0:25:38But Hallam hasn't. His department haven't.
0:25:38 > 0:25:40He has such strong principles.
0:25:42 > 0:25:44Yes. I know he has.
0:25:50 > 0:25:53Persie? What are you doing on horseback?
0:25:53 > 0:25:55You invited me to join you for a ride.
0:25:55 > 0:25:59When I wasn't aware of your state of health!
0:25:59 > 0:26:01Persie!
0:26:01 > 0:26:05Persie...! For Christ's sake, Persie!
0:26:07 > 0:26:09Persie, slow down!
0:26:11 > 0:26:14HORSE WHINNIES
0:26:14 > 0:26:18You could have been thrown!
0:26:20 > 0:26:21Well, I wasn't, was 1?
0:26:29 > 0:26:32You'll go blind doing that.
0:26:32 > 0:26:36Yeah - and get hairs on the palms of my hands(!) I don't think.
0:26:36 > 0:26:39I can't see why they're all making such a fuss!
0:26:39 > 0:26:41Do you reckon it's about old Mottershead?
0:26:41 > 0:26:44Well, one of 'em's got glasses.
0:26:44 > 0:26:46Have you ever come across one of these you-know-whats?
0:26:46 > 0:26:50I met someone who thought she was. Turns out, she made a mistake.
0:26:50 > 0:26:52They all just come falling at your feet, don't they?
0:26:52 > 0:26:57- Not all. No.- Not Beryl. You want to stop sidling around her.
0:26:57 > 0:27:00Take her by surprise, ask her somewhere swanky.
0:27:00 > 0:27:03- Dancing?- No. She needs a sit-down.
0:27:03 > 0:27:05Pictures, and none of your fleapits.
0:27:05 > 0:27:10Curzon Mayfair's got purple velvet seats. Or so I've heard.
0:27:10 > 0:27:14D'you want a go of this, before I put it back upstairs?
0:27:14 > 0:27:16Not really.
0:27:24 > 0:27:27Going to have nightmares about them star jumps.
0:27:27 > 0:27:29People laughing at me falling over.
0:27:29 > 0:27:33- You ought to get an ice pack round that ankle.- It'd be cold. It would keep me awake.
0:27:35 > 0:27:37Nothing could keep me awake.
0:27:38 > 0:27:41This is going to make me even slower, Beryl.
0:27:41 > 0:27:42The kitchen AND the nursery.
0:27:42 > 0:27:46I can't get stuff done quick enough, even without a bloomin' gammy foot!
0:27:55 > 0:27:57Shaving cream.
0:27:57 > 0:27:59You do smell divine.
0:27:59 > 0:28:04Mrs Thackeray made up a hamper, so you can breakfast on the way. I'll make sure Spargo puts it in the car.
0:28:04 > 0:28:06Back to Berlin? I thought it had gone quiet.
0:28:08 > 0:28:10It will never go quiet.
0:28:10 > 0:28:13What are you doing wearing riding clothes?
0:28:13 > 0:28:15I should have thought that was perfectly obvious.
0:28:17 > 0:28:19When I come back,
0:28:19 > 0:28:23I'm going to raise the notion of the seaside one more time.
0:28:23 > 0:28:25And if you don't agree with that,
0:28:25 > 0:28:27I'll have no choice but to involve your sister.
0:28:27 > 0:28:31Hallam, how much do you want to distress her?
0:28:31 > 0:28:33She can't have any more children.
0:28:33 > 0:28:36She'd want to pretend it was hers and bring it up as if this was a penny novelette.
0:28:36 > 0:28:41Given that you're behaving more and more like a character from a penny novelette,
0:28:41 > 0:28:45I don't think that would be entirely inappropriate.
0:28:46 > 0:28:49Oh - Beryl, there you are.
0:28:49 > 0:28:53I desperately need to have my hair washed, and I can't get an appointment at the salon.
0:28:53 > 0:28:57- Could you pop upstairs to the bathroom with half a dozen eggs? - Eggs, Your Ladyship?
0:28:57 > 0:29:00All the best salons offer a protein rinse.
0:29:00 > 0:29:03I shall show you how they do it. You'll find it rather interesting.
0:29:09 > 0:29:13Lady Agnes seems to think eggs grow on trees!
0:29:13 > 0:29:16She was the same with cucumbers when she fancied she had eyebags -
0:29:16 > 0:29:20then when there was none left for sandwiches, she read the riot act.
0:29:23 > 0:29:25Don't forget to change.
0:29:25 > 0:29:28You wear your afternoon dress for lady's maiding.
0:29:48 > 0:29:51I do think it's more effective when the eggs are absolutely fresh.
0:29:57 > 0:29:58DOOR OPENS
0:30:14 > 0:30:17Come on. You're carrying on as if they've got you beat.
0:30:17 > 0:30:18They have got me beat.
0:30:18 > 0:30:21And my tooth hurts now as well as my ankle.
0:30:38 > 0:30:41So - you began your employment as a nursery maid?
0:30:41 > 0:30:44Yes. You said this would be confidential.
0:30:44 > 0:30:47But you were then assigned housemaid duties, and expected to
0:30:47 > 0:30:51perform those of a lady's maid without any additional remuneration?
0:30:51 > 0:30:53Yes. You're taking notes.
0:30:53 > 0:30:54I always take notes.
0:30:54 > 0:30:58I like to make a dispassionate record of girls' complaints.
0:30:58 > 0:30:59So many come to us in tears.
0:31:01 > 0:31:04It's not so much me. It's Eunice, Miss...
0:31:04 > 0:31:05Poulson.
0:31:06 > 0:31:10And that would be... Eunice McCabe, aged 15,
0:31:10 > 0:31:12formerly of Dr Barnardo's Girls' Village at Epping.
0:31:12 > 0:31:15Yes. She's got no-one, Miss Poulson.
0:31:15 > 0:31:17No-one to go to, nowhere to turn.
0:31:17 > 0:31:20It's what the Girls' Friendly Society is for.
0:31:22 > 0:31:25I wasn't sure, I thought you might only help girls on the streets.
0:31:25 > 0:31:29For girls like Eunice, with limited education, and no family,
0:31:29 > 0:31:32it's sometimes service OR the streets.
0:31:35 > 0:31:37Is there a housekeeper at this address?
0:31:37 > 0:31:39There was a Miss Buck, but now she's in the sanatorium.
0:31:39 > 0:31:42Help yourself to a Garibaldi, dear.
0:31:45 > 0:31:48I'm tired of snatching moments together.
0:31:48 > 0:31:52All these fragmentary hours and half-hours.
0:31:52 > 0:31:55It's more than we've had in a very long time.
0:31:56 > 0:31:58Did I tell you that Edmund's mother died,
0:31:58 > 0:32:01and we took over Flandermayne at last?
0:32:01 > 0:32:05I suppose we've had other things to discuss.
0:32:05 > 0:32:08It's almost the oldest house in England.
0:32:09 > 0:32:13I'm certain you'll love it just as much as I. I want us to go there together.
0:32:14 > 0:32:16Alone?
0:32:16 > 0:32:17Quite alone.
0:32:21 > 0:32:23I don't know.
0:32:35 > 0:32:39Poulson. Miss. Girls' Friendly Society.
0:32:45 > 0:32:47- If you would care to step into my pantry...- No, thank you,
0:32:47 > 0:32:50I've come to inspect the working conditions of the girls
0:32:50 > 0:32:53and the girls themselves. Where is Eunice McCabe?
0:32:53 > 0:32:56She spends the afternoon in the nursery, helping with the children.
0:32:58 > 0:33:00This light isn't bright enough for close work.
0:33:01 > 0:33:05If I may introduce Beryl, our senior house parlour maid...
0:33:05 > 0:33:08Beryl and I are already acquainted.
0:33:09 > 0:33:12- Is that the servants' lavatory? - Yes, it is,
0:33:12 > 0:33:16and none of us cares to use it, it's riddled with black-beetles.
0:33:16 > 0:33:18That is sufficient, Mrs Thackeray.
0:33:18 > 0:33:21I should like to speak to the mistress of the house.
0:33:21 > 0:33:24But the maids didn't seem to mind the switch of duties,
0:33:24 > 0:33:28- and the actual terms of engagement didn't change... - I know they didn't change.
0:33:28 > 0:33:33Still low wages, still excessive duties, and still insufficient time at leisure!
0:33:33 > 0:33:36But they all have an afternoon free each week - not to mention alternate Sundays.
0:33:36 > 0:33:38It was what Miss Buck suggested.
0:33:46 > 0:33:49I take it Miss Buck suggested they both sleep in the one bed?
0:33:50 > 0:33:53It's not hygienic. Physically, or morally.
0:33:53 > 0:33:55Morally?
0:33:55 > 0:33:59There's been speculation about this household in recent popular publications.
0:33:59 > 0:34:01I won't respond to that remark.
0:34:01 > 0:34:04You'll respond to the need to improve these maids' conditions,
0:34:04 > 0:34:06or be placed on the blacklist.
0:34:06 > 0:34:08I'm not afraid of any blacklist.
0:34:08 > 0:34:11But I am afraid of my conscience if I haven't done what's fair.
0:34:11 > 0:34:15Of course I'll arrange separate beds, and look at their afternoons off...
0:34:15 > 0:34:18You can look at cancelling those foolish classes.
0:34:18 > 0:34:23And I would like to have a look at Eunice.
0:34:29 > 0:34:31Take your spectacles off, dear.
0:34:37 > 0:34:40Your record at Barnardo's said you have a lazy eye, which needed treatment.
0:34:40 > 0:34:42Have you seen an oculist since you've been here?
0:34:42 > 0:34:46No, miss. These were the glasses that I came in.
0:34:48 > 0:34:50Open wide, please.
0:34:56 > 0:34:59There's a molar in there that's as black as a spade.
0:34:59 > 0:35:02And an abscess starting, unless I'm much mistaken.
0:35:06 > 0:35:08I don't want to go, I don't want to go!
0:35:08 > 0:35:10A South Audley Street dentist?!
0:35:10 > 0:35:14You should count your lucky stars. Shouldn't she, Mr Pritchard?
0:35:14 > 0:35:17There'll be flowers in the foyer and I don't know what.
0:35:17 > 0:35:20I imagine anaesthesia will be deployed.
0:35:20 > 0:35:22I don't want gas!
0:35:22 > 0:35:25I hate you, Beryl Ballard!
0:35:27 > 0:35:30I have never witnessed such behaviour!
0:35:30 > 0:35:34If I had my way, you would be dismissed for disloyalty to Her Ladyship!
0:35:34 > 0:35:38We are all staff together, it's Eunice and me you should be siding with.
0:35:38 > 0:35:41I'm not taking sides! I am showing respect.
0:35:41 > 0:35:46Respect cuts both ways, Mr Amanjit! Lady Agnes was treating us like domestic appliances.
0:35:46 > 0:35:48Beryl! You are in service.
0:35:48 > 0:35:51You are here to fulfil Her Ladyship's requirements.
0:35:51 > 0:35:53Servants have requirements too.
0:35:53 > 0:35:55This is absurd!
0:35:55 > 0:35:58What about MY requirements? The old bat never inspected my room -
0:35:58 > 0:36:00and my mattress has got more lumps than a slag heap!
0:36:00 > 0:36:03It obviously doesn't matter because I'm not a girl.
0:36:03 > 0:36:05Johnny, get on with the bottles.
0:36:05 > 0:36:06This isn't my job!
0:36:06 > 0:36:11This is Belgravia. Not Leningrad.
0:36:11 > 0:36:14A cottage suite.
0:36:14 > 0:36:15What?
0:36:15 > 0:36:18We're getting a cottage suite.
0:36:18 > 0:36:22I complained to Miss Poulson about the lack of upholstery in the cosy corner.
0:36:33 > 0:36:35You look almost funny standing there.
0:36:35 > 0:36:39As though you're wondering whether you ought to pounce.
0:36:39 > 0:36:43Strictly for old times' sake, of course.
0:36:43 > 0:36:45I'm not going to be doing anything.
0:36:45 > 0:36:48Not for old times' sake or any other reason.
0:36:50 > 0:36:53It was hot that summer, wasn't it?
0:36:56 > 0:36:59I think of it every time I smell motor oil.
0:37:03 > 0:37:04Which isn't very often, obviously.
0:37:04 > 0:37:08Are you looking for something, Lady Persie?
0:37:09 > 0:37:12You keep the old newspapers down here, don't you?
0:37:12 > 0:37:14In the crate under the work bench.
0:37:19 > 0:37:21Take as many as you like.
0:37:28 > 0:37:30Oh - hello, Blanche.
0:37:30 > 0:37:32I was waiting to be called to dinner.
0:37:32 > 0:37:36There is no dinner. I gave the whole of the staff the evening off.
0:37:39 > 0:37:42- Whisky?- I thought it looked an easy drink to mix.
0:37:42 > 0:37:45But Pritchard obviously has some sort of knack.
0:37:47 > 0:37:50Agnes, I know you've had a depleting afternoon, but er...
0:37:50 > 0:37:55- I ought to mention that Pamela is due home.- When?
0:37:56 > 0:38:01Friday. It's her recreation week, it had entirely slipped my mind.
0:38:01 > 0:38:04I'd like to book myself a room at that asylum.
0:38:04 > 0:38:06Don't you think it would be marvellous?
0:38:06 > 0:38:10People speaking slowly and kindly, and supper on a tray...
0:38:10 > 0:38:15I don't set much store by people speaking slowly or kindly -
0:38:15 > 0:38:18but I wouldn't object to supper on a tray.
0:38:20 > 0:38:22I feel quite frayed.
0:38:23 > 0:38:26I think you're rather wonderful.
0:38:26 > 0:38:30- And I hope you won't back down and run away.- From what?
0:38:30 > 0:38:32From Portia Alresford.
0:38:32 > 0:38:36Sometimes, simply by trying to do the right thing,
0:38:36 > 0:38:39one can do the wrong thing.
0:38:39 > 0:38:42And no amount of whisky in the world can set it straight.
0:39:15 > 0:39:17Three gold fillings?
0:39:17 > 0:39:18I wouldn't go flashing them about.
0:39:18 > 0:39:21You'll be worth more dead than you are alive.
0:39:21 > 0:39:26I've spoken to Mrs Godfrey, girls. Told her you're withdrawing from the class. She understands.
0:39:26 > 0:39:29- Thank you, your Ladyship. - What about the display?
0:39:29 > 0:39:31That's not for you to worry about.
0:39:32 > 0:39:36Miss Buck's methods were exceedingly highly honed.
0:39:36 > 0:39:40But they perhaps became entrenched across the decades.
0:39:40 > 0:39:46It's 1939, not 1899. We need to adjust our principles to suit.
0:39:46 > 0:39:49It also seems that Miss Buck signed guardianship papers for Eunice,
0:39:49 > 0:39:52- because she was only 14 when she came.- Should I take them to her
0:39:52 > 0:39:55and arrange for responsibility to be transferred?
0:39:55 > 0:39:58No, Mr Amanjit. I shall see to this.
0:40:06 > 0:40:08You first.
0:40:08 > 0:40:09No. You.
0:40:09 > 0:40:12THEY GIGGLE EXCITEDLY
0:40:31 > 0:40:33Miss Buck?
0:40:34 > 0:40:37Oh, your Ladyship?
0:40:37 > 0:40:40Don't move a muscle. You must stay exactly where you are.
0:40:40 > 0:40:43Besides, this room is freezing!
0:40:43 > 0:40:46Yes, I'm on the fresh air cure.
0:40:46 > 0:40:48Well, it must be doing you good.
0:40:48 > 0:40:52- You look very much better than when you were first taken ill.- Do I?
0:40:52 > 0:40:53Yes.
0:40:53 > 0:40:57I wondered what you'd do, for a lack of a lady's maid.
0:40:58 > 0:41:01But that skirt...
0:41:01 > 0:41:04it's beautifully pressed.
0:41:16 > 0:41:21I must say, I think a sweet sherry is order.
0:41:21 > 0:41:22If you would oblige.
0:41:24 > 0:41:27I'm on my break. 11 till half-past.
0:41:33 > 0:41:36Thank you, Miss Buck. That puts everything in order.
0:41:36 > 0:41:39The Girls' Friendly Society will want to see the documents.
0:41:39 > 0:41:41Joan Poulson was always a meddler.
0:41:41 > 0:41:46I spent my whole life in service, and I've no complaints.
0:41:46 > 0:41:49Eunice didn't have any complaints.
0:41:49 > 0:41:52She didn't realise she deserved better.
0:41:54 > 0:41:57In the drawer, your Ladyship.
0:41:59 > 0:42:00There's a key.
0:42:07 > 0:42:09This is the key to 165.
0:42:09 > 0:42:14I shouldn't have it any more. It isn't right.
0:42:16 > 0:42:18It's absolutely right.
0:42:19 > 0:42:23How else will you let yourself in when you come home?
0:42:29 > 0:42:34Mitsouko. You used to wear Shalimar.
0:42:54 > 0:42:56You must be Sir Hallam Holland.
0:42:56 > 0:42:59Standartenfuhrer Erlichmann?
0:42:59 > 0:43:01Oberfuhrer now, as a matter of fact.
0:43:01 > 0:43:04Forgive me. Thank you for responding to my note.
0:43:06 > 0:43:09You have nothing to accompany your whisky.
0:43:09 > 0:43:12You should ask for some ham and dill pickle, perhaps.
0:43:12 > 0:43:13It is very good here.
0:43:13 > 0:43:17I didn't come here for small talk, Oberfuhrer Erlichmann.
0:43:17 > 0:43:19A figure of speech, I presume.
0:43:20 > 0:43:23We can speak German, if you prefer.
0:43:23 > 0:43:26But I understand your relationship with Lady Persephone
0:43:26 > 0:43:29was conducted entirely in English.
0:43:29 > 0:43:31Darling Persephone!
0:43:31 > 0:43:35She never seemed to see the sense in mastering the foreign tongue.
0:43:35 > 0:43:38Seeing sense has never been her strong point.
0:43:38 > 0:43:41She's with child, Oberfuhrer Erlichmann.
0:43:41 > 0:43:44And it falls to me to defend her interests.
0:43:45 > 0:43:46I wish you well with that.
0:43:46 > 0:43:50Half the men in Munich tried to defend her interests,
0:43:50 > 0:43:54and she slipped through the fingers of each one of us like mercury.
0:43:54 > 0:43:59Persie once said to me that all a bad girl needs is one good mink
0:43:59 > 0:44:01and the love of a decent man.
0:44:01 > 0:44:03You obliged her with the mink, at least.
0:44:03 > 0:44:08She threw it into the canal outside the Lustheim Palace.
0:44:08 > 0:44:11You are doubtless familiar with that type of gesture.
0:44:11 > 0:44:14I'm her brother-in-law, not her lover.
0:44:15 > 0:44:17Nevertheless...
0:44:20 > 0:44:24..I leave it to you to play the role of a decent man.
0:44:35 > 0:44:38Electricity always did blow in and out on the wind at Flandermayne.
0:44:38 > 0:44:40Here, let me.
0:44:40 > 0:44:43But I always thought it was made for candlelight.
0:45:20 > 0:45:23We're going for a walk.
0:45:30 > 0:45:32You rang, Lady Persie?
0:45:32 > 0:45:35I'm surprised you came. I imagined it was going to be all cushions
0:45:35 > 0:45:37and barley sugar for you lot.
0:45:37 > 0:45:40I need the car. Tell Spargo, would you?
0:45:40 > 0:45:42Of course, your Ladyship.
0:46:00 > 0:46:03Are you sure this is the address, your Ladyship?
0:46:03 > 0:46:05I was told to go in the back way.
0:46:05 > 0:46:08The front is probably a great deal smarter.
0:46:16 > 0:46:19Are you wondering why I've walked you all this way?
0:46:19 > 0:46:22No. I'd be content to walk with you for ever.
0:46:22 > 0:46:26Follow me, or you won't see your surprise!
0:46:29 > 0:46:30See?
0:46:38 > 0:46:40Who lives there?
0:46:40 > 0:46:42No-one. Yet.
0:46:42 > 0:46:45But wait until you see inside.
0:46:45 > 0:46:47There are fireplaces older than the house itself,
0:46:47 > 0:46:51and alcoves we'll cram with shelving for your books.
0:46:51 > 0:46:52My books?
0:46:54 > 0:46:55And your books?
0:46:55 > 0:46:57Perhaps just one shelf,
0:46:57 > 0:47:00with The Golden Blaze sitting on it on a cushion.
0:47:00 > 0:47:03I very much doubt I have another in me.
0:47:03 > 0:47:07But I'll always be grateful to it, because it brought you back.
0:47:09 > 0:47:11I was never far away from you in my heart.
0:47:11 > 0:47:13I know that, now.
0:47:14 > 0:47:16We can forget the years that have passed.
0:47:16 > 0:47:21You can forget Belgravia, and that starchy nephew.
0:47:21 > 0:47:25That's where we'll sit. That's where we'll talk, where we'll love.
0:47:32 > 0:47:34The Dorchester, Spargo.
0:47:34 > 0:47:35The Dorchester?
0:47:37 > 0:47:40I'm not going dancing but I am in need of a brandy.
0:47:49 > 0:47:52Your Ladyship, I would prefer to take you home.
0:47:54 > 0:47:56I've made a reservation here.
0:47:56 > 0:48:01- Give my bag to the bellboy and then go.- I've been ordered to collect Sir Hallam at the aerodrome,
0:48:01 > 0:48:03but I can give a message to Lady Agnes.
0:48:03 > 0:48:06- Don't you dare give a message of any kind to Lady Agnes!- Persie...
0:48:06 > 0:48:08You're not well.
0:48:09 > 0:48:11You can give a message to Hallam.
0:48:20 > 0:48:23Do you really believe you'll never write again?
0:48:23 > 0:48:26The secret house would be the perfect place to try.
0:48:30 > 0:48:33I did my best work on The Golden Blaze when I was miserable.
0:48:36 > 0:48:38After you left.
0:48:38 > 0:48:41After you decided to stay with Edmund.
0:48:46 > 0:48:49I'll never be so unhappy again.
0:48:49 > 0:48:51With you just a walk away through the woods.
0:48:53 > 0:48:56A walk away...?
0:49:03 > 0:49:05KNOCK ON DOOR
0:49:14 > 0:49:15INSISTENT KNOCKING
0:49:24 > 0:49:28It doesn't happen like this in penny novelettes.
0:49:35 > 0:49:36She was highly experienced.
0:49:38 > 0:49:40She washed her hands with carbolic soap.
0:49:41 > 0:49:45In fact, one way or another, there was quite a lot of carbolic soap involved.
0:49:48 > 0:49:52For God's sake, Persie! I'm ringing for a doctor.
0:49:52 > 0:49:53I've broken the law, Hallam!
0:49:56 > 0:49:58She said it would just come away.
0:49:59 > 0:50:04- And what if it doesn't?- I'll be in frightful trouble, won't I?
0:50:08 > 0:50:12No, No! You mean to keep me in the woods, like a tame fox?
0:50:12 > 0:50:14Like some sort of mistress?
0:50:14 > 0:50:18Blanche, I can't understand what you're so upset about.
0:50:18 > 0:50:21I'll be in the main house with the family and I'd visit all the time.
0:50:21 > 0:50:23I could stay with you for days on end!
0:50:23 > 0:50:26It'd be like today and yesterday, but it would last for years!
0:50:26 > 0:50:28And you'd be happy?
0:50:30 > 0:50:32Mundy would be happy.
0:50:32 > 0:50:35And what, precisely, does that signify?
0:50:35 > 0:50:40He wouldn't divorce me. I have three children, Blanche!
0:50:41 > 0:50:45I didn't just find them under hedges! I made them. With him.
0:50:45 > 0:50:49They're more his than they are mine. If we divorced, I'd lose them.
0:50:49 > 0:50:51You're in thrall to him.
0:50:53 > 0:50:56No. I love him.
0:50:56 > 0:50:58I love you.
0:50:58 > 0:51:03- And if I can only have part of each of you...- No, Portia.
0:51:03 > 0:51:05We can each only have a part of you.
0:51:06 > 0:51:09But that's the beauty of incomplete things.
0:51:10 > 0:51:11Isn't it?
0:51:13 > 0:51:16Did Friedrich speak kindly of me?
0:51:17 > 0:51:19Not really.
0:51:22 > 0:51:25Is it feeble of me to wish that he had?
0:51:25 > 0:51:27Everyone wants to be thought well of.
0:51:29 > 0:51:30Do you?
0:51:36 > 0:51:38When I was at prep school...
0:51:40 > 0:51:44..I won the prize for Most Helpful Boy In The House.
0:51:44 > 0:51:48At least, I shared it, with a boy called Franklin Minor.
0:51:48 > 0:51:50What did you win?
0:51:52 > 0:51:57A box of Huntley and Palmer's Afternoon Tea biscuits.
0:51:59 > 0:52:02We decided we would split the prize in two.
0:52:02 > 0:52:06Franklin Minor got the biscuits, and I got the box.
0:52:08 > 0:52:12And I was glad... because I knew it would last longer.
0:52:16 > 0:52:20I used to keep it on our dressing table,
0:52:20 > 0:52:22with my brushes in.
0:52:22 > 0:52:24Cufflinks.
0:52:26 > 0:52:28But Agnes never could embrace its charms and...
0:52:31 > 0:52:34..one day I came home and it was gone.
0:52:35 > 0:52:40Replaced by a smart leather caddy from Hermes.
0:52:42 > 0:52:45You'll have to be the Most Helpful Boy In The House again
0:52:45 > 0:52:47and take me to the bathroom.
0:52:56 > 0:52:58Persie?
0:53:01 > 0:53:02Do you need me to come in?
0:53:06 > 0:53:07Persie?
0:53:24 > 0:53:25Is it over?
0:53:36 > 0:53:37Yes.
0:53:45 > 0:53:48SHE SOBS
0:53:51 > 0:53:54Ssh, it's all right. It's all right.
0:54:52 > 0:54:55SHE SOBS
0:54:55 > 0:54:57Careful.
0:54:59 > 0:55:02Pamela, go up to Nanny, there's a good girl.
0:55:03 > 0:55:06I'm sorry, Blanche, should I leave you alone?
0:55:06 > 0:55:08I am alone.
0:55:10 > 0:55:12No, you're not.
0:55:12 > 0:55:15SHE SOBS
0:55:17 > 0:55:20Yes, she suffered a miscarriage.
0:55:20 > 0:55:22In the small hours.
0:55:23 > 0:55:26I'd like the doctor to attend her.
0:55:27 > 0:55:29Thank you.
0:55:49 > 0:55:50I thought I'd wait, sir.
0:55:50 > 0:55:53Thank you, Spargo.
0:55:53 > 0:55:55We'll say the flight was delayed.
0:56:06 > 0:56:07You rang, your Ladyship?
0:56:07 > 0:56:10Miss Pamela will be dressing for dinner this evening.
0:56:10 > 0:56:13She has a new gown, which will require ironing,
0:56:13 > 0:56:14if you would be so kind.
0:56:14 > 0:56:16Of course, your Ladyship.
0:56:16 > 0:56:19Would Miss Pamela be needing help with her hair?
0:56:20 > 0:56:21If you can spare the time.
0:56:21 > 0:56:24Eunice and I have been thinking, your Ladyship,
0:56:24 > 0:56:26and we don't like to think that we've let you down
0:56:26 > 0:56:29- by dropping out of the troupe for Hyde Park.- Beryl...- It's wrong,
0:56:29 > 0:56:32and you did what was right by us.
0:56:32 > 0:56:36We'll do it. Although you'll have to make allowances for Eunice.
0:56:36 > 0:56:39I shall always make allowances for Eunice.
0:56:42 > 0:56:43Thank you.
0:56:51 > 0:56:55- RADIO:- 'A meeting has taken place this morning between Herr Hitler
0:56:55 > 0:56:58'and the Czechoslovakian President Emil Hacha.
0:56:58 > 0:57:02'President Hacha has since agreed to the free movement of German troops
0:57:02 > 0:57:04'within Czechoslovakia.'
0:57:04 > 0:57:08Well, it'll knock Dr Mottershead out of the headlines.
0:57:08 > 0:57:13'It is believed that German troops have already entered several Czech provinces.
0:57:15 > 0:57:18'The move has been denounced as an audacious gesture
0:57:18 > 0:57:20'on the part of Herr Hitler,
0:57:20 > 0:57:22'and one that might be seen as leading Europe
0:57:22 > 0:57:24'one step further towards war.
0:57:28 > 0:57:30'Meanwhile, in the capital,
0:57:30 > 0:57:34'preparations are under way for a display of perfect womanhood.
0:57:34 > 0:57:38'Tomorrow evening, Hyde Park will play host to a torchlight rally
0:57:38 > 0:57:41'of the Women's League of Health and Beauty.'
0:57:42 > 0:57:48MILITARISTIC MUSIC PLAYS
0:58:21 > 0:58:24CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:58:26 > 0:58:27Happy Birthday, Johnny.
0:58:27 > 0:58:29Military training.
0:58:29 > 0:58:31You're scared.
0:58:31 > 0:58:32Yeah.
0:58:32 > 0:58:36- The world's going to hell, but as long as you save Persie. - Don't tease me.
0:58:37 > 0:58:42I've a model coming over to take pictures for the advertising.
0:58:42 > 0:58:43You're infatuated with him.
0:58:43 > 0:58:46He's the sort of man who wouldn't forbid me anything.
0:58:46 > 0:58:51Two tickets in the stalls and some butterscotch.
0:58:51 > 0:58:55How do you allow yourself to be robbed of all your opinions?
0:58:55 > 0:58:57I'm a servant, and before that, I'm a man.
0:58:57 > 0:59:00Then you have no place downstairs.
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