0:00:02 > 0:00:04And what's your heart's desire, Mr Landry?
0:00:04 > 0:00:06I'd rather like to dance with you.
0:00:07 > 0:00:10- Was that quite proper? - No such word in my vocabulary.
0:00:10 > 0:00:13I hold you in too much regard to see you throw your reputation away.
0:00:13 > 0:00:16What could you possibly gain from this?
0:00:16 > 0:00:19He's the sort of man who wouldn't forbid me anything.
0:00:19 > 0:00:21I can never see you again.
0:00:21 > 0:00:24There are things that are dearer to you, I know. I understand.
0:00:25 > 0:00:28You're a good man,
0:00:28 > 0:00:30good men are few and far between.
0:00:35 > 0:00:37Did you tell her that we'd kissed?
0:00:37 > 0:00:41I have no intention of having a baby.
0:00:41 > 0:00:43The German Ambassador's been crowing.
0:00:43 > 0:00:46The Germans have ears everywhere.
0:00:52 > 0:00:54We can get ourselves visas
0:00:54 > 0:00:58and passage on a boat and get as far away from this as possible.
0:00:58 > 0:00:59We couldn't do that.
0:00:59 > 0:01:00Why not?
0:01:00 > 0:01:04Of course, it should really be pink champagne.
0:01:04 > 0:01:07But as neither of us are drinkers...
0:01:07 > 0:01:09I chose to work on the ambulances
0:01:09 > 0:01:11as a matter of conscience.
0:01:11 > 0:01:13You're not the man I thought you were.
0:01:15 > 0:01:19- Pritchard, are you quite well?- No.
0:01:47 > 0:01:50BELL RINGS REPEATEDLY
0:02:18 > 0:02:19What's that?
0:02:19 > 0:02:20Orange juice.
0:02:22 > 0:02:24We need to get you in practice.
0:02:24 > 0:02:26Oranges are ten a penny, where we're going.
0:02:36 > 0:02:37John!
0:02:38 > 0:02:40Is something amiss, your ladyship?
0:02:40 > 0:02:43Straight downstairs, both of you, as quickly as you can.
0:02:43 > 0:02:44Mr Pritchard's unwell.
0:02:44 > 0:02:47I had to fetch the salts for Mrs Thackeray in the night.
0:02:47 > 0:02:48She reckons it was cooked meats.
0:02:48 > 0:02:51It isn't food that made him ill. It's drink.
0:02:52 > 0:02:55- She never said she was coming! - Just shift!
0:02:55 > 0:02:56What the...?
0:02:57 > 0:02:59Agnes is home. DOOR CLOSES
0:03:02 > 0:03:05- Oh, my God.- Hallam. Can you get up? I'll explain in a moment.
0:03:07 > 0:03:10This is at an end. It was at an end last night.
0:03:10 > 0:03:14- Why, Hallam? Why do you say that? - Because last night I realised
0:03:14 > 0:03:15that I can't trust you!
0:03:15 > 0:03:19You don't have to trust me, Hallam!
0:03:19 > 0:03:21We break rules together.
0:03:21 > 0:03:22Not any more.
0:03:26 > 0:03:28We had a matron did this at Barnardo's once.
0:03:28 > 0:03:30She was heavier than him.
0:03:30 > 0:03:32Agnes? When did you arrive?
0:03:32 > 0:03:35And what in the name of God is wrong with Pritchard?
0:03:35 > 0:03:37It's all under control, sir.
0:03:39 > 0:03:42- I thought he was teetotal! - Well, he clearly isn't any more.
0:03:42 > 0:03:44THEY LAUGH
0:03:56 > 0:03:59PHONE RINGS
0:04:05 > 0:04:10Holland. We are to sign the Defence Pact with the Poles.
0:04:12 > 0:04:14Appeasement is at an end.
0:04:14 > 0:04:17Then war is inevitable, Foreign Secretary.
0:04:17 > 0:04:22I fear that is the case. Our country needs the best that we can give.
0:04:22 > 0:04:27And we shall not fail it. I will be with you directly. Sir.
0:04:28 > 0:04:31Is there really no stopping it? No turning back?
0:04:34 > 0:04:37I always said that conflict could only be postponed.
0:04:41 > 0:04:43Then we shall face it together.
0:04:51 > 0:04:55This isn't your responsibility, your ladyship! Where's Mrs Thackeray?
0:04:55 > 0:04:57Indisposed! Sir Hallam must have breakfast,
0:04:57 > 0:04:59and it would seem that Beryl is still asleep.
0:04:59 > 0:05:01- She was snoring when I left her! - Go back upstairs,
0:05:01 > 0:05:04and if she isn't out of bed, pull the covers off her!
0:05:04 > 0:05:07Ah. It would seem that Beryl requires no help
0:05:07 > 0:05:09with her waking arrangements.
0:05:09 > 0:05:12Harry, take the car round as soon as possible, please.
0:05:12 > 0:05:14- Don't keep Sir Hallam waiting. - Your ladyship.
0:05:16 > 0:05:17Beryl, it's perfectly obvious
0:05:17 > 0:05:20where you spent the night. And I'm afraid I don't approve.
0:05:20 > 0:05:23I'm very sorry, your ladyship, but if you don't approve,
0:05:23 > 0:05:24that's because you've made assumptions.
0:05:24 > 0:05:26I'm obliged to make assumptions!
0:05:26 > 0:05:28I'm your mistress, I'm responsible for your moral welfare!
0:05:28 > 0:05:32Well you aren't going to be my mistress for much longer!
0:05:32 > 0:05:34When our special licence comes through,
0:05:34 > 0:05:36I'm getting married to Harry and we're going to America!
0:05:36 > 0:05:40Ah. And were you planning on giving formal notice at any point?
0:05:40 > 0:05:44I always work two weeks in hand.
0:05:44 > 0:05:46I could forgo my wages if you want me to.
0:05:46 > 0:05:47It's not a question of what I want.
0:05:47 > 0:05:51This is my house and I am entitled to know what goes on under its roof!
0:05:51 > 0:05:54You don't know the half of what goes on under its roof!
0:05:54 > 0:05:58And I don't just mean below stairs, either.
0:06:01 > 0:06:04I don't like the tone of that remark.
0:06:04 > 0:06:06There's a lot you wouldn't like the tone of.
0:06:06 > 0:06:08But it's not up to me to tell you.
0:06:14 > 0:06:16You can't cut me off. You can't shove me away
0:06:16 > 0:06:18just because your wife's come home!
0:06:20 > 0:06:21My wife? Or your sister?
0:06:21 > 0:06:23I'm not shoving you away.
0:06:23 > 0:06:26I'm walking away from a lethal situation.
0:06:26 > 0:06:28Persie, who have you been talking to?
0:06:28 > 0:06:30Who have you been passing information to?
0:06:30 > 0:06:31I haven't!
0:06:31 > 0:06:32"Admiral Acronym" -
0:06:32 > 0:06:36a nickname only used inside the Foreign Office.
0:06:36 > 0:06:39Does that mean anything to you?
0:06:39 > 0:06:42Should it?
0:06:47 > 0:06:48I've drawn my own conclusions.
0:06:52 > 0:06:55You wanted this.
0:06:59 > 0:07:02Now you can leave for America. I just want to know when.
0:07:06 > 0:07:10- Agnes?- Blanche! - When did you get back?- This morning.
0:07:10 > 0:07:12I couldn't stay away - the situation's so much worse.
0:07:12 > 0:07:14Where are you? Where have you been?
0:07:14 > 0:07:17The children's refuge camp at Pakefield. It's overflowing.
0:07:17 > 0:07:19I've been trying to get to Pamela.
0:07:19 > 0:07:22- Are they going to requisition her asylum?- They already have.
0:07:22 > 0:07:24I've hired a car, but some of the roads have been blocked off.
0:07:24 > 0:07:27Do your utmost. I want the family home.
0:07:27 > 0:07:30I rather think Hallam had hoped I'd make a home elsewhere.
0:07:30 > 0:07:33The family. And that includes you.
0:07:33 > 0:07:34I need us all to be together.
0:07:47 > 0:07:51Hadleigh, I want a review of all surveillance information.
0:07:51 > 0:07:54If the Germans have started calling Drax "Admiral Acronym",
0:07:54 > 0:07:56they've been talking in back rooms
0:07:56 > 0:07:58to someone with connections to this office.
0:07:58 > 0:08:00I'm sorry, Sir Hallam, but we're about to go war!
0:08:00 > 0:08:02My department's stretched thinner than cat gut.
0:08:02 > 0:08:04I need to see if we can trace that leak!
0:08:04 > 0:08:06Why now, sir? Why today?
0:08:06 > 0:08:07Because Britain is aligned with Poland.
0:08:07 > 0:08:10Germany looks to Russia. The clock is ticking,
0:08:10 > 0:08:14and I don't want the blood of my country on my hands.
0:08:15 > 0:08:17Any particular names, sir?
0:08:19 > 0:08:22Persephone Anne Towyn. Lady.
0:08:22 > 0:08:24Start with the Ribbentrop files. Autumn,'36.
0:08:35 > 0:08:41Has her ladyship indicated how I might be disciplined?
0:08:42 > 0:08:43No.
0:08:43 > 0:08:45But she will.
0:08:47 > 0:08:50I should think Miss Whisset'll have an opinion and all.
0:08:52 > 0:08:56Miss Whisset and I parted company
0:08:56 > 0:08:59somewhat earlier in the evening.
0:08:59 > 0:09:01Because you had a drink?
0:09:01 > 0:09:03Or before you had a drink?
0:09:05 > 0:09:07In the days when I was in my current condition
0:09:07 > 0:09:10rather more often than I have been of late,
0:09:10 > 0:09:14I used to find black coffee had but limited effect.
0:09:17 > 0:09:19Was there anything that had...
0:09:19 > 0:09:22- unlimited effect?- Water.
0:09:23 > 0:09:28We used to joke about it on the Aquitania.
0:09:28 > 0:09:31- Water, water, everywhere... - I'm not joking, Mr Pritchard!
0:09:31 > 0:09:32And you wouldn't be either,
0:09:32 > 0:09:37- if you were thinking clear! - Perhaps I don't want to think clear!
0:09:37 > 0:09:40I thought you had everything so tidy in your mind!
0:09:40 > 0:09:42I thought it was neat, like you keep the cellar.
0:09:42 > 0:09:46You showed me how to do things, Mr P. How to keep the mess at bay.
0:09:46 > 0:09:48And off the drink.
0:09:48 > 0:09:50You taught me self-respect.
0:09:50 > 0:09:52And I want to say, "Look at you."
0:09:52 > 0:09:54I want to grab the mirror and put it to your face
0:09:54 > 0:09:56so you can see what I'm seeing now.
0:09:56 > 0:09:58But I don't want to upset you.
0:10:03 > 0:10:05I looked up to you, Mr Pritchard!
0:10:08 > 0:10:10I'm sorry, Persie. I don't think you should go out.
0:10:10 > 0:10:14- Not until the situation's clearer. - I'll loop the loop if I stay indoors!
0:10:14 > 0:10:16Taking tea, and waiting for Armaggedon to arrive!
0:10:16 > 0:10:20Why didn't you stay in the country, playing croquet while London burns?
0:10:20 > 0:10:23Because Hallam needs me! How was he, whilst I was away?
0:10:25 > 0:10:28Preoccupied by the looming conflagration.
0:10:28 > 0:10:31He saw all of this coming, he's like the Gypsy Petulengro of Whitehall.
0:10:31 > 0:10:33I shouldn't have gone.
0:10:35 > 0:10:37It did him good to miss you!
0:10:37 > 0:10:40You ought to grab your babies and go to Pa in Wales.
0:10:40 > 0:10:42Oh Lord, Persie! I'd rather die than set foot
0:10:42 > 0:10:44in that mould-ridden castle!
0:10:45 > 0:10:47I thought I might head for Ireland.
0:10:47 > 0:10:50Ireland? You don't know a soul in Ireland!
0:10:50 > 0:10:52There are racing stables everywhere.
0:10:52 > 0:10:55If you fork out for my passage, I'll soon find work.
0:10:55 > 0:10:57Persie. That's the most foolhardy thing I've ever heard
0:10:57 > 0:11:00and we're not going to fund it.
0:11:00 > 0:11:01Well, I can't fund it myself!
0:11:01 > 0:11:04I know you can't. You're staying here.
0:11:04 > 0:11:05So it would appear!
0:11:05 > 0:11:08Here, in perfect, untouchable Eaton Place,
0:11:08 > 0:11:11where nothing bad happens, and everyone is safe!
0:11:16 > 0:11:19Ugh. Every time I let the iron warm this through
0:11:19 > 0:11:21I get a blast of her Mitsouko!
0:11:21 > 0:11:23Horrible, clinging scent.
0:11:23 > 0:11:25I hope they don't have this in America,
0:11:25 > 0:11:28I'll think of her bloomin' ladyship every time I smell it.
0:11:28 > 0:11:30Spanish Leather'll remind me of Sir Hallam.
0:11:30 > 0:11:33I get punched in the nose with it every single morning.
0:11:33 > 0:11:35It'd be Lady Agnes punching him in the nose
0:11:35 > 0:11:38if she knew he was at it with a fancy piece.
0:11:38 > 0:11:40She should just get off her high horse.
0:11:40 > 0:11:42She's got no right making assumptions about me!
0:11:42 > 0:11:44Bee.
0:11:44 > 0:11:47She's not like us. She's never widened her horizons,
0:11:47 > 0:11:49never had a look at how other people live.
0:11:49 > 0:11:52To her, the rest of the world is all the same.
0:11:53 > 0:11:57Do you think I'm daft, wanting her to respect me?
0:11:58 > 0:12:01I respect you. Isn't that what counts?
0:12:03 > 0:12:07Put her out of your mind. We're getting married.
0:12:07 > 0:12:08We're getting out of here.
0:12:08 > 0:12:10Oh, look at love's young dream!
0:12:10 > 0:12:14Fetch me the peppermint essence, Beryl,
0:12:14 > 0:12:18that luncheon meat's repeating on me something shocking.
0:12:20 > 0:12:23Mickey and Minnie seem to have survived our absence.
0:12:23 > 0:12:25I never missed feeding them, your ladyship.
0:12:25 > 0:12:27I didn't like to think of Master Hector's face
0:12:27 > 0:12:30if he came home and found them floating on the top.
0:12:30 > 0:12:33Was everything quite all right, whilst I was gone?
0:12:34 > 0:12:37Everything was...just as it usually is, your ladyship.
0:12:39 > 0:12:42As long as there was no change to the usual routines.
0:12:42 > 0:12:44I shouldn't like to think that the staff had been put out.
0:12:44 > 0:12:48Oh, no. Lady Persie kept some funny hours.
0:12:48 > 0:12:50But Sir Hallam always came home. Every night.
0:12:54 > 0:12:57All I'm saying is, I reckon she's got wind of it.
0:12:57 > 0:12:58Him, and carrying-on.
0:12:58 > 0:13:01She looks like she's got the weight of the world on her.
0:13:01 > 0:13:03We've all got the weight of the world on us,
0:13:03 > 0:13:05it'll be raining bombs by Friday teatime.
0:13:07 > 0:13:10I shall need 40 pounds of flour, plain white,
0:13:10 > 0:13:12and another 25 of wholemeal.
0:13:12 > 0:13:15Hitler's not planning to bomb the bakeries!
0:13:15 > 0:13:18You'll change your tune when we're all huddled
0:13:18 > 0:13:20in that refuge room,
0:13:20 > 0:13:23eating the sawdust out of Miss Buck's pincushion.
0:13:24 > 0:13:28Letters for Johnny and Harry, from the table in the hall.
0:13:28 > 0:13:31I am venturing out for some fresh air.
0:13:31 > 0:13:32You can bring me back
0:13:32 > 0:13:35a tin of treacle while you're at it.
0:13:35 > 0:13:39- I thought I might boil up a fruit cake for the wedding.- Lyle's Black?
0:13:39 > 0:13:42Large. And mind that mop-head when you're walking by,
0:13:42 > 0:13:46it's still wearing a dollop of your you-know-what.
0:14:14 > 0:14:15DOOR CLOSES
0:14:20 > 0:14:21Writing's on the wall, then.
0:14:21 > 0:14:23In what way?
0:14:23 > 0:14:25Been sent for.
0:14:25 > 0:14:28Armed Forces medical, this Saturday.
0:14:30 > 0:14:32Same.
0:14:32 > 0:14:34Only not till the ninth.
0:14:39 > 0:14:40Are you going to be called up?
0:14:42 > 0:14:44No. I'm not.
0:14:44 > 0:14:48Because by this time next week, we are not going to be here!
0:14:58 > 0:15:00How are we for semolina, Mrs Thack?
0:15:02 > 0:15:04Order me five pounds.
0:15:04 > 0:15:06And the same for pudding rice.
0:15:10 > 0:15:12Trust me, we are going to get out in time.
0:15:12 > 0:15:13How are we going to get out in time?
0:15:13 > 0:15:18We have to be married! You put in for visas for a married couple.
0:15:18 > 0:15:20You said it yourself, you can't book our passage
0:15:20 > 0:15:21if the papers aren't straight!
0:15:21 > 0:15:23We've got money. I'll grease palms if I have to!
0:15:23 > 0:15:26We shouldn't have to grease palms!
0:15:30 > 0:15:33I just wanted things to be perfect.
0:15:33 > 0:15:35We can have perfect once we're on that boat.
0:15:35 > 0:15:37I haven't been called up yet, no-one is going to shoot me
0:15:37 > 0:15:39for desertion.
0:15:39 > 0:15:41You're wanted, Harry! Shift yourself!
0:15:41 > 0:15:43Don't you come out yelling at me like that!
0:15:43 > 0:15:46Well, some bugger's got to run this flaming house!
0:15:59 > 0:16:01What's the news?
0:16:02 > 0:16:05The stand-off with Hitler is absolute.
0:16:05 > 0:16:09If he invades Poland, there's no turning back.
0:16:09 > 0:16:12Cabinet sat till after two.
0:16:13 > 0:16:16- I thought you might sleep at the office.- They've brought in camp-beds
0:16:16 > 0:16:19for the secretaries. People who missed the last train.
0:16:19 > 0:16:21But most of us can walk home.
0:16:23 > 0:16:25And you're here.
0:16:27 > 0:16:30Night was when I missed you most.
0:16:30 > 0:16:32The Kents' sheets smell of roses.
0:16:32 > 0:16:34Ours smell of your cologne.
0:16:36 > 0:16:38They smell of yours, I always think.
0:16:38 > 0:16:40Mitsouko.
0:16:41 > 0:16:42Even when I was gone?
0:16:43 > 0:16:45Especially when you were gone.
0:16:45 > 0:16:48SHOUTING AND MARCHING FEET OUTSIDE
0:16:48 > 0:16:49What's that?
0:16:51 > 0:16:53The Territorials are mobilised.
0:16:53 > 0:16:55I saw them marching towards Green Park.
0:16:55 > 0:16:57Is war just a matter of time now?
0:16:57 > 0:16:58Yes.
0:16:58 > 0:17:00It's a matter of days.
0:17:19 > 0:17:22- MR AMANJIT:- Mr Pritchard? - KNOCKING
0:17:22 > 0:17:23JOHNNY: Is he still not back?
0:17:23 > 0:17:24- KNOCKING - Mr Pritchard!
0:17:24 > 0:17:26Mr Amanjit, is he still not back?
0:17:26 > 0:17:28Mr Pritchard!
0:17:33 > 0:17:36I hoped he would creep home in the small hours,
0:17:36 > 0:17:37whatever his condition was.
0:17:37 > 0:17:39I want to say, at least he took his wallet,
0:17:39 > 0:17:42but I don't think that's the best state of affairs.
0:17:42 > 0:17:43Come on. Downstairs.
0:17:43 > 0:17:45He'll be on a right bender.
0:17:47 > 0:17:49Hello, darlings.
0:17:49 > 0:17:52You must be exhausted.
0:17:52 > 0:17:54Blanche - you did it!
0:17:55 > 0:17:59- Pamela, darling. - I've brought my gas mask.- Good.
0:18:01 > 0:18:02Pamela's ball.
0:18:12 > 0:18:16Excuse me, sir! Where do I apply for a marriage licence?
0:18:16 > 0:18:19- Would that be a Standard or a Special Licence, sir?- Special.
0:18:19 > 0:18:23- Directly up the stairs, round the corner to the left.- Thank you.
0:18:29 > 0:18:32- Is this for marriage licences?- Yes.
0:18:40 > 0:18:43- Blanche? May I come in? - It's not locked.
0:18:44 > 0:18:46I'm sorry.
0:18:46 > 0:18:48I need to talk where we can't be overheard.
0:18:49 > 0:18:51You can help me with this. I have head lice.
0:18:51 > 0:18:54Caught from the children at the Kinder camp.
0:18:57 > 0:19:00- And what did Persie say? - Nothing of any use.
0:19:00 > 0:19:04Do you think I'm wrong, or hysterical, to suspect him?
0:19:04 > 0:19:07I will think you wrong and hysterical,
0:19:07 > 0:19:10unless there's concrete evidence. Present me with some facts.
0:19:10 > 0:19:14He wears more cologne than he used to.
0:19:14 > 0:19:17Well...the weather is warm. He spends long days at Whitehall.
0:19:19 > 0:19:22When I came home, he held me as though he'd never let me go.
0:19:22 > 0:19:25It's been a calendar month since you flounced out.
0:19:25 > 0:19:28He was overjoyed by your return.
0:19:29 > 0:19:31I am being an utter fool.
0:19:31 > 0:19:34These are dark times, Agnes.
0:19:34 > 0:19:37People think dark thoughts.
0:19:37 > 0:19:40Do you think dark thoughts?
0:19:41 > 0:19:45I try to fix my mind on some constructive purpose.
0:19:45 > 0:19:48If I didn't, I'd feel as hysterical as you.
0:19:48 > 0:19:50I've never had a constructive purpose.
0:19:50 > 0:19:53You've brought up your madam of a sister,
0:19:53 > 0:19:55and built a family and a home.
0:19:55 > 0:19:58And now it's all slipping through my fingers!
0:19:59 > 0:20:02When times change, we have to change with them.
0:20:02 > 0:20:04You will find something you can do.
0:20:04 > 0:20:06And however you find it,
0:20:06 > 0:20:08you will do it well.
0:20:23 > 0:20:25I remain unconvinced by this!
0:20:25 > 0:20:28Incendiary bombs are light, they will be flung into high places.
0:20:28 > 0:20:32We cannot direct the water with the pressure so low!
0:20:32 > 0:20:35We'll need to order two more lengths of this, and a pair of connectors,
0:20:35 > 0:20:38- brass if possible.- That will do nothing to increase pressure!
0:20:38 > 0:20:40I know what I'm about, Mr Amanjit!
0:20:40 > 0:20:43I was in the college fire brigade at Girton! An all-female enterprise,
0:20:43 > 0:20:46and very competent it was!
0:20:46 > 0:20:49- Did somebody ring?- Fill the bucket. We require more water.
0:20:49 > 0:20:52- You're spilling it on the floor!- Blanche!
0:20:52 > 0:20:55The British Museum on the telephone. Something about embalming jars.
0:20:55 > 0:20:58Tell them that from now on, the only embalming jars I'm interested in
0:20:58 > 0:21:00are those containing Hitler's vital organs!
0:21:00 > 0:21:03- WATER SPURTS - Oh!
0:21:05 > 0:21:08Can you get a move on, Eunice? This black-out performance starts
0:21:08 > 0:21:11at 8 o'clock, and we still haven't organised the drawing room!
0:21:11 > 0:21:13We'll have to do them hems with the pinking shears,
0:21:13 > 0:21:15we're nearly out of time.
0:21:15 > 0:21:17I don't know why they're turning the lights out now!
0:21:17 > 0:21:18The war hasn't started yet!
0:21:18 > 0:21:21I reckon there's something they've not told us.
0:21:21 > 0:21:24I don't fancy your chances of getting on a boat.
0:21:46 > 0:21:49- HALLAM:- ...Air raids could start as soon as war is declared.
0:21:49 > 0:21:51- London is vulnerable to attack.- Sir.- >
0:21:51 > 0:21:54I'll be working long hours, I need to know my family are looked after.
0:21:54 > 0:21:56Especially in Pritchard's absence.
0:21:56 > 0:22:00Everything is taken care of, sir. John is being particularly diligent.
0:22:00 > 0:22:03Petty cash is running low. Take what remains
0:22:03 > 0:22:05to pay for sandbags, I'll speak to the bank
0:22:05 > 0:22:09- about appropriate arrangements. - Very good, sir.- Clean this,
0:22:09 > 0:22:14make sure it is in order and then replace it in the safe.
0:22:14 > 0:22:16- You know the drill.- Sir.
0:22:16 > 0:22:18I see we're prepared for all eventualities.
0:22:18 > 0:22:20This is not the time for levity.
0:22:20 > 0:22:21I am at your service, sir.
0:22:24 > 0:22:27I was being serious.
0:22:27 > 0:22:29Can I do anything to help?
0:22:29 > 0:22:32- Ask Agnes. Or Aunt Blanche.- I tried.
0:22:32 > 0:22:34They can't make a single sensible suggestion.
0:22:34 > 0:22:37- I find that hard to credit. - You speak as though
0:22:37 > 0:22:40they're quite your favourite people all of a sudden.
0:22:40 > 0:22:42Persie, I'm too busy to play games.
0:22:46 > 0:22:49COUGHING
0:23:01 > 0:23:04He'll be underneath the arches somewhere.
0:23:05 > 0:23:10Drink's a curse for Mr Pritchard. Always was.
0:23:11 > 0:23:15But, Miss Buck, he didn't drink! He warned me off drink...
0:23:15 > 0:23:19Is it any wonder? It was the end of him at Cunard.
0:23:19 > 0:23:24- But he made out he had troubles with his mastoid...- Why do you think
0:23:24 > 0:23:28he kept his eye on you?
0:23:28 > 0:23:30He kept his eye on everything.
0:23:30 > 0:23:33And now he's gone, I don't know what to do.
0:23:35 > 0:23:37I wish you'd come home.
0:23:38 > 0:23:42It's not that simple, Johnny!
0:23:42 > 0:23:46The Matron said you're going to be discharged.
0:23:46 > 0:23:49There's a war kicking off now.
0:23:49 > 0:23:52Lady Agnes might make other plans.
0:23:55 > 0:23:57The Army might make other plans for me.
0:23:59 > 0:24:02Someone's got to look after 165, Miss Buck.
0:24:04 > 0:24:07You find Mr Pritchard...
0:24:07 > 0:24:08and bring him home.
0:24:10 > 0:24:14This is it now, Hallam. Off with the motley.
0:24:14 > 0:24:17Away with the dinner jacket and the tie and tails.
0:24:17 > 0:24:20I've been appointed Rear Admiral by my brother.
0:24:20 > 0:24:22Back in the Senior Service?
0:24:22 > 0:24:24Desk job.
0:24:24 > 0:24:26View of Horse Guards Parade.
0:24:26 > 0:24:28Is that what you want?
0:24:28 > 0:24:31What I want is of no consequence whatever.
0:24:31 > 0:24:33I have a duty to fulfil.
0:24:35 > 0:24:38If they want a figurehead, they can lash me to the mast.
0:24:38 > 0:24:42If they want a plaster saint, I will climb on a plinth
0:24:42 > 0:24:44and I will not move a muscle.
0:24:48 > 0:24:51I'm told you asked for the Acronym leak to be examined.
0:24:51 > 0:24:55I thought it wise to try to snare the little bird, sir.
0:24:55 > 0:24:58The fact is, old chap, there are little birds all over London,
0:24:58 > 0:25:02each more diminutive and shrieking than the last.
0:25:04 > 0:25:07The Acronym leak isn't massive in the scheme of things.
0:25:07 > 0:25:10It is to me, sir. I have to get my house in order,
0:25:10 > 0:25:14to clear up every mess I've made, be it personal or professional...
0:25:16 > 0:25:19..and make sure I haven't done more damage than I knew.
0:25:19 > 0:25:22I have duties too, sir.
0:25:22 > 0:25:25I advise you to attend to those which are most pressing -
0:25:25 > 0:25:28namely, Whitehall and the war.
0:25:28 > 0:25:30Leave all else alone.
0:25:31 > 0:25:34There are vexations you don't need to have.
0:25:36 > 0:25:37Sir.
0:25:42 > 0:25:44They've already stopped the television sets,
0:25:44 > 0:25:46in case people use them to signal to the enemy
0:25:46 > 0:25:48and now they're going to close the cinemas.
0:25:48 > 0:25:50That means we'll never get the Wizard Of Oz!
0:25:50 > 0:25:53Outside! Or you will miss something you will never see again.
0:25:53 > 0:26:02# ..That you dare to dream, really do come true
0:26:02 > 0:26:05# Some day I'll wish upon a star
0:26:05 > 0:26:12# And wake up where the clouds are far behind me
0:26:14 > 0:26:17# Where troubles melt like lemon drops
0:26:17 > 0:26:19# Away above the chimney tops
0:26:19 > 0:26:27# That's where you'll find me... #
0:26:30 > 0:26:33They really mean it, don't they?
0:26:34 > 0:26:36I am afraid they do.
0:26:36 > 0:26:40# ..Bluebirds fly
0:26:40 > 0:26:46# Birds fly over the rainbow
0:26:46 > 0:26:54# Why then, oh, why can't I? #
0:26:56 > 0:26:58I know where you're going.
0:26:58 > 0:27:01And I know what's in those sandwiches.
0:27:01 > 0:27:03Nasty, tough bits of brisket. Here.
0:27:03 > 0:27:07Some coconut sponge in it. Mr Pritchard's favourite.
0:27:07 > 0:27:08Thanks, Mrs Thack.
0:27:08 > 0:27:11# ..little bluebirds fly
0:27:11 > 0:27:13# Beyond the rainbow... #
0:27:13 > 0:27:21DOOR CLOSES # Why, oh, why can't I? #
0:27:26 > 0:27:28COUGHING
0:27:31 > 0:27:35SNORING
0:27:43 > 0:27:44Get out of it!
0:27:52 > 0:27:53JOHNNY: Mr Pritchard!
0:27:55 > 0:27:57Mr Pritchard!
0:28:02 > 0:28:03Mr Pritchard!
0:28:06 > 0:28:09I can't believe you're doing that! As if everything was ordinary.
0:28:09 > 0:28:12There were cameras lined up down Whitehall yesterday.
0:28:12 > 0:28:13Can't have Sir Hallam on the newsreel
0:28:13 > 0:28:15getting out of a mucky car.
0:28:17 > 0:28:21I wonder sometimes if you'll be able to leave service.
0:28:21 > 0:28:24It's too ingrained in you. You still put the job first.
0:28:24 > 0:28:27I just want everything on an even keel until we're out of this house.
0:28:27 > 0:28:30Once I've got his nibs to work this morning,
0:28:30 > 0:28:32I'm off queuing down the Registry again.
0:28:32 > 0:28:34I'm not putting the job first,
0:28:34 > 0:28:36I'm putting us first.
0:28:44 > 0:28:46- Do you know what?- What?
0:28:48 > 0:28:49I'm going to do the same.
0:29:00 > 0:29:02Johnny wants you downstairs.
0:29:02 > 0:29:05He says not to put your black on, you've got to go to the shops.
0:29:05 > 0:29:08I'm going to the shops. I'm going to buy my wedding dress.
0:29:08 > 0:29:13- Yes, but he's banging on about a dozen tins of salmon.- £5.- Five?
0:29:13 > 0:29:16As a matter of fact, I think I'll make it guineas.
0:29:16 > 0:29:19The best establishments always deal in guineas.
0:29:20 > 0:29:22RINGING
0:29:22 > 0:29:24Ja, wer ist das?
0:29:24 > 0:29:28- Friedrich?- Persie? Why are you calling me?
0:29:28 > 0:29:31- Old times' sake.- No.
0:29:31 > 0:29:34This is a new chapter. We are in separate countries.
0:29:34 > 0:29:36On separate sides.
0:29:36 > 0:29:39Actually, that's a matter for discussion.
0:29:39 > 0:29:42No. No, it isn't.
0:30:13 > 0:30:14Can I help you, your ladyship?
0:30:14 > 0:30:17Not at all. I've come to see if I can help you.
0:30:17 > 0:30:21- I'm packing the silver ready for the bank. It's in hand. - This must be the laundry.
0:30:21 > 0:30:25- Let me unpack it, put things away. - There's no need. - Please. I need to be of use.
0:30:29 > 0:30:32Your ladyship. I went to visit Miss Buck the other day.
0:30:32 > 0:30:36- Oh, is she well? - Very well. At least, well enough.
0:30:38 > 0:30:42Something the matter with Sir Hallam's shirts, your ladyship?
0:31:08 > 0:31:10DOORBELL RINGS
0:31:14 > 0:31:16Good afternoon, sir.
0:31:16 > 0:31:19Who are you? I don't believe we've met.
0:31:19 > 0:31:21I'm Miss Pamela Holland.
0:31:21 > 0:31:22Pamela, you're not a maid.
0:31:22 > 0:31:25And I'm Caspar Landry. She's just thinking ahead.
0:31:25 > 0:31:29Like the poster says, "Train While There's Time!"
0:31:34 > 0:31:37Am I right in thinking this is Assam?
0:31:37 > 0:31:38Yes, it is.
0:31:38 > 0:31:41When I first came to England, I thought tea was just tea.
0:31:41 > 0:31:43I thought I'd pass as British
0:31:43 > 0:31:45just because I knew you put the milk in last.
0:31:45 > 0:31:49But now I can tell by just the smell of it whether it's Lapsang
0:31:49 > 0:31:56or Broken Orange Pekoe. Whether it's from Kenya or India, even Ceylon.
0:31:56 > 0:32:00The entire Empire runs like a river through these drawing rooms.
0:32:02 > 0:32:05- Do you take sugar? - I'll take it from you, sweetie.
0:32:11 > 0:32:14I shall miss it when I'm gone.
0:32:14 > 0:32:15Gone?
0:32:15 > 0:32:18Back to the States. I've more to go home for
0:32:18 > 0:32:21than I have to keep me here.
0:32:25 > 0:32:28Pamela, darling. I've just remembered that Mickey and Minnie
0:32:28 > 0:32:30haven't been given any crumbs today.
0:32:30 > 0:32:33Would you go and feed them a tiny piece of bread?
0:32:33 > 0:32:36- Quickly?- No. Not quickly.
0:32:36 > 0:32:40They have very small stomachs and they mustn't get a shock.
0:32:45 > 0:32:46I shouldn't have called.
0:32:46 > 0:32:49- You have much to concern you. - No, it's all right.
0:32:49 > 0:32:50These are testing times.
0:32:50 > 0:32:52Yes. But if a servant had answered the door
0:32:52 > 0:32:54and you'd sent up your card on a salver...
0:32:54 > 0:32:55Like a gentleman.
0:32:55 > 0:32:58..I would have said that I wasn't at home. Like a lady.
0:32:58 > 0:33:01Agnes. Nobody's going to send us to hell.
0:33:03 > 0:33:05Open your present.
0:33:15 > 0:33:17Nylons.
0:33:18 > 0:33:20Landry Caresse. Fully fashioned.
0:33:20 > 0:33:25144 pairs. You're going to need it. It will be a long war.
0:33:25 > 0:33:27Is it going to last forever?
0:33:34 > 0:33:36Your nylons are always so astonishingly durable.
0:33:39 > 0:33:41Very few things last forever.
0:33:41 > 0:33:45And when they do, it's because they're meant to be.
0:33:46 > 0:33:50If you run out, write me. Or just write me.
0:33:50 > 0:33:54- Where?- Care of the Ritz.
0:33:56 > 0:34:00I can't. I need to be the best person I can be.
0:34:02 > 0:34:03For a little while.
0:34:06 > 0:34:10I said it once before. You're good as well as beautiful.
0:34:10 > 0:34:14One of those things, I can't change.
0:34:14 > 0:34:17The other, I never shall.
0:34:43 > 0:34:46The dossier you asked for, sir.
0:34:46 > 0:34:49About the Admiral Acronym leak.
0:34:49 > 0:34:51Thank you, Hadleigh.
0:34:51 > 0:34:53Your instincts were correct, sir.
0:34:55 > 0:34:56Lady Persephone?
0:34:58 > 0:35:01She's been in contact with London-based agents of the Reich.
0:35:01 > 0:35:03They were known to be staying at a hotel,
0:35:03 > 0:35:06and she was seen arriving at their quarters. It's all in there.
0:35:09 > 0:35:13There's no suggestion of any wrongdoing on your part, sir.
0:35:13 > 0:35:18Your conduct has been impeccable. Your records were checked, too.
0:35:20 > 0:35:23Lady Persephone will be off your hands by Sunday.
0:35:23 > 0:35:25Off my hands?
0:35:25 > 0:35:30The Emergency Powers Act contains a special sub-clause,
0:35:30 > 0:35:33Defence Regulation 18B. It enables the Government to intern anyone
0:35:33 > 0:35:36whose conduct endangers national safety.
0:35:36 > 0:35:38You'll arrest her?
0:35:38 > 0:35:39And imprison her.
0:35:39 > 0:35:41And what must I do, in the meantime?
0:35:41 > 0:35:45Say nothing, sir.
0:35:45 > 0:35:46Nothing at all.
0:35:46 > 0:35:49Strain getting to you, Agnes?
0:35:49 > 0:35:52You look frightfully pale.
0:35:52 > 0:35:55War. Perfectly vile to the complexion.
0:35:55 > 0:35:58I'll be rather entertained when there's a run on rouge.
0:35:58 > 0:36:00I might stage a one-woman run on lipstick.
0:36:00 > 0:36:04You'll have to ask Caspar Landry to send you some from New York.
0:36:04 > 0:36:07No. American lipsticks are always indelible.
0:36:07 > 0:36:09I just tried Dorothy Gray's Daredevil Red,
0:36:09 > 0:36:11but my lips looked bloody.
0:36:11 > 0:36:14I lost count of all the handkerchiefs I ruined.
0:36:48 > 0:36:50Night was when I missed you most.
0:36:50 > 0:36:53The Kents' sheets smell of roses. Ours smell of your cologne.
0:37:04 > 0:37:06Did you, Persie? Tell me!
0:37:06 > 0:37:09Did you, Persie? You tell me!
0:37:09 > 0:37:11- You tell me!- I think you ought to be asking, "Did he?"
0:37:11 > 0:37:14Go to your bedroom now, Pamela. Go on.
0:37:14 > 0:37:17You too, Persie. You've said enough.
0:37:17 > 0:37:22No, she hasn't said enough! She can never say enough! When did it start?
0:37:22 > 0:37:26Munich, to my mind. Though he may take a different view.
0:37:26 > 0:37:29Ask him! He might tell you everything.
0:37:29 > 0:37:32And if he doesn't, that will tell you something.
0:37:36 > 0:37:40See if he tells you about the abortion!
0:37:45 > 0:37:46Agnes!
0:37:55 > 0:37:57If you've nothing to occupy you,
0:37:57 > 0:37:59you might bring a tray of tea to my bedroom!
0:38:01 > 0:38:03I can't breathe.
0:38:05 > 0:38:08I can't breathe, Blanche. I...
0:38:08 > 0:38:10I don't care if they sack me!
0:38:10 > 0:38:12I'm not taking tea to that evil trollop's room!
0:38:12 > 0:38:15- And you're not making it either! - Her own sister's husband!
0:38:15 > 0:38:17She should be tarred and feathered.
0:38:17 > 0:38:20What about Sir Hallam? None of you are criticising him.
0:38:20 > 0:38:21Wait till he orders refreshments.
0:38:23 > 0:38:25Don't ask about the licence, or the tickets for the boat.
0:38:25 > 0:38:28- I've no news to tell you. - Well, we have.
0:38:45 > 0:38:47Sir.
0:38:48 > 0:38:50Pritchard?
0:38:51 > 0:38:53No.
0:38:53 > 0:38:55Stay where you are.
0:39:01 > 0:39:05I'm afraid my behaviour has caused some inconvenience.
0:39:07 > 0:39:10Now is not the time for me to comment.
0:39:10 > 0:39:14Is everything as it ought to be, sir?
0:39:14 > 0:39:16Because I couldn't help but notice as you approached
0:39:16 > 0:39:19the strap on your attache case is not secure.
0:39:21 > 0:39:25No. And it would appear to be too late to do anything about it.
0:39:28 > 0:39:32It is a desperate matter when the clock can't be turned back.
0:39:32 > 0:39:33Yes.
0:39:35 > 0:39:36It is.
0:39:41 > 0:39:45If you will excuse me, there are things to be restored.
0:39:59 > 0:40:03I walked out. Cleared my desk. It was the only decent thing to do.
0:40:05 > 0:40:08She's been peddling petty secrets for three months.
0:40:08 > 0:40:10Things she overheard at dinner,
0:40:10 > 0:40:13things she might have pilfered from my bag.
0:40:13 > 0:40:16They tell me now they've had her card marked for months,
0:40:16 > 0:40:20she'd never fully severed her link to Ribbentrop.
0:40:20 > 0:40:22I'm surprised she still gives Ribbentrop the time of day.
0:40:26 > 0:40:30They'll come at some point in the next 24 hours.
0:40:30 > 0:40:31Where will they take her?
0:40:33 > 0:40:35Holloway Prison.
0:40:35 > 0:40:37Good.
0:40:41 > 0:40:43I know, Hallam.
0:40:48 > 0:40:49Agnes!
0:40:51 > 0:40:53Agnes!
0:40:53 > 0:40:57Agnes, you have to help me.
0:40:57 > 0:40:59Please!
0:41:04 > 0:41:06I'm sorry.
0:41:08 > 0:41:10I'm so sorry.
0:41:14 > 0:41:17Don't you remember, Agnes, when we were growing up,
0:41:17 > 0:41:19and we'd make up a game.
0:41:19 > 0:41:21It would go on and on, until we'd exhausted its every corner
0:41:21 > 0:41:23and still couldn't let it go.
0:41:26 > 0:41:27Do you remember?
0:41:28 > 0:41:31And we'd look at each other and we'd say...
0:41:31 > 0:41:34"Shall we go back to the beginning?"
0:41:39 > 0:41:41Please, Agnes! Please.
0:41:43 > 0:41:45Please can we go back to the beginning?
0:41:53 > 0:41:56We can't. Because it's not a game.
0:42:00 > 0:42:02I'll have to formally resign from Whitehall.
0:42:02 > 0:42:05My marriage to Agnes is in ruins.
0:42:05 > 0:42:07Then we can run away together.
0:42:07 > 0:42:09Persie.
0:42:09 > 0:42:11You can't run anywhere.
0:42:44 > 0:42:45Operator speaking.
0:42:45 > 0:42:48I've been waiting for a connection to Berlin.
0:42:48 > 0:42:50The person you requested will not accept your call.
0:43:00 > 0:43:02Next, please.
0:43:17 > 0:43:18Next.
0:43:19 > 0:43:23# Wish me luck as you wave me goodbye...
0:43:23 > 0:43:26Breathe.
0:43:28 > 0:43:30Breathe.
0:43:31 > 0:43:33Breathe.
0:43:39 > 0:43:42Next, please.
0:43:45 > 0:43:48Horace Peters. Fail. Grade C3.
0:43:48 > 0:43:51James Colclough. Pass. Grade A3.
0:43:51 > 0:43:53John Proude. Pass. Grade A1.
0:43:56 > 0:43:59# Wish me luck, here I go on my way...#
0:44:11 > 0:44:13DIALLING TONE
0:44:34 > 0:44:35Can you cut another inch off?
0:44:35 > 0:44:37It'll go all frayed again.
0:44:37 > 0:44:41I need the pinking shears. I think they're in the drawing room from when we did the blackouts.
0:44:45 > 0:44:48- Guess what I got?! - Get away! Get away!
0:44:48 > 0:44:51- You're not allowed to see her!- Don't be daft! It's silly superstition!
0:44:51 > 0:44:54I'm not looking. I'm not looking. Can I just show her?
0:44:54 > 0:44:58Excuse me! She's in her wedding dress, seeing her's bad luck!
0:44:58 > 0:45:01- Is it the tickets or the licence? - It's the tickets and the licence!
0:45:01 > 0:45:03Bridegroom, make yourself useful.
0:45:03 > 0:45:07Go up to the drawing room and fetch the pinking shears!
0:45:15 > 0:45:19- Excuse me, Lady Persephone. I was sent up for the pinking shears. - This lighter's empty.
0:45:19 > 0:45:22Why hasn't it been refilled?
0:45:22 > 0:45:24I'll tell Beryl, your ladyship.
0:45:24 > 0:45:26Do you tell Beryl everything?
0:45:28 > 0:45:32Will you go downstairs and tell her you saw me in tears, and desperate for a cigarette?
0:45:32 > 0:45:35No...your ladyship.
0:45:42 > 0:45:45I have matches on me, if you want a light.
0:45:47 > 0:45:50- Would you mind awfully?- Not at all.
0:45:58 > 0:46:02You've no idea how unendurable it is, sitting here entirely on one's own.
0:46:07 > 0:46:08Your ladyship?
0:46:15 > 0:46:17As I said, it's unendurable.
0:46:20 > 0:46:23Did I ever mean anything to you, Harry?
0:46:31 > 0:46:34Oh, honestly. I might as well go up and get it myself!
0:46:34 > 0:46:37- What about your dress? - Well, he's seen it now!
0:46:47 > 0:46:52Come on, it's OK. Come on. SHE SOBS
0:46:54 > 0:46:57- Come on. Shhh.- Harry...? - FOOTSTEPS APPROACH
0:46:57 > 0:47:01GUNSHOT No, no!
0:47:02 > 0:47:04Oh, God!
0:47:04 > 0:47:06Oh.
0:47:06 > 0:47:08Look at me, look at me.
0:47:32 > 0:47:34What do I do? What do I do?
0:47:34 > 0:47:37Call the police, if they haven't already been sent for.
0:47:37 > 0:47:38- Lady Persie...- Harry?
0:47:38 > 0:47:42I can't help Lady Persie, but I can help Beryl.
0:47:42 > 0:47:44SHE MOANS
0:48:18 > 0:48:21BIRDS CHIRP OUTSIDE
0:48:52 > 0:48:54Better late than never, I suppose.
0:49:14 > 0:49:17Excellent! Straighten that collar, please, Johnny.
0:49:17 > 0:49:20And Eunice, put your apron on.
0:49:22 > 0:49:25- We have work to do.- Yes, Mr P.
0:49:27 > 0:49:29Is there a war yet?
0:49:30 > 0:49:31Almost.
0:49:36 > 0:49:41- WIRELESS:- I am speaking to you from the Cabinet Room at 10 Downing Street.
0:49:43 > 0:49:47This morning, the British Ambassador in Berlin
0:49:47 > 0:49:50handed the German Government a final note...
0:49:52 > 0:49:57..stating that unless we heard from them by 11 o'clock
0:49:57 > 0:50:02that they were prepared at once to withdraw their troops from Poland,
0:50:02 > 0:50:05a state of war would exist between us.
0:50:05 > 0:50:07I have to tell you now...
0:50:08 > 0:50:13..that no such undertaking has been received,
0:50:13 > 0:50:20and that consequently, this country is at war with Germany.
0:50:41 > 0:50:44CROWS CAW
0:50:54 > 0:50:56So few people came.
0:50:56 > 0:51:00It's standing-room only, usually, when one so young dies.
0:51:03 > 0:51:08I've just found a pair of my earrings, and one coral dress clip.
0:51:09 > 0:51:11Persie must have lost the other one.
0:51:12 > 0:51:16Everything she ever had was snatched or hand-me-down.
0:51:17 > 0:51:21Filched, or half of what by rights she should have had.
0:51:21 > 0:51:24I'm not going to encourage you in this.
0:51:25 > 0:51:30I loved her. But never enough.
0:51:30 > 0:51:34Nobody ever could love her enough.
0:51:34 > 0:51:36We should have done this when she died.
0:51:38 > 0:51:43- What?- Opened the window to let her wretched soul out.
0:51:51 > 0:51:54SHE SOBS
0:51:54 > 0:51:59Nanny will take the children to stay with my father at St Cadog. Pamela can go with them.
0:52:00 > 0:52:02That's very kind of you.
0:52:02 > 0:52:04I've arranged for Miss Buck to go as a companion.
0:52:04 > 0:52:08She's being discharged from her sanatorium, but can only do light work.
0:52:08 > 0:52:11She can sit and sew with Pamela in the afternoons.
0:52:12 > 0:52:14What about you, Agnes?
0:52:14 > 0:52:18I'll settle them in, and then I'll come back here.
0:52:20 > 0:52:23- I'm glad. - I won't be doing it for you.
0:52:25 > 0:52:28Do you want a divorce?
0:52:29 > 0:52:32I think this whole thing's been quite sordid enough.
0:52:34 > 0:52:36Do YOU want a divorce?
0:52:36 > 0:52:39Don't ever ask me what I want. It doesn't matter.
0:52:39 > 0:52:42Everything that brought us to this room now was because of what you wanted.
0:52:42 > 0:52:45It was in spite of what I wanted!
0:52:45 > 0:52:47I don't disbelieve that.
0:52:47 > 0:52:51But there were things I could have done and didn't, in spite of what my heart was telling me to do.
0:52:53 > 0:52:55Then this marriage isn't equal.
0:52:55 > 0:52:57- SHE SCOFFS - What marriage is?
0:53:03 > 0:53:09Everything you ask of me, I will do. Everything you need from me, I promise I will give you.
0:53:11 > 0:53:13Can we go back to the beginning?
0:53:19 > 0:53:24- No ring.- I'll wear it, if you like.
0:53:26 > 0:53:28But it'll only be for show.
0:53:31 > 0:53:34# Times are hard and getting harder
0:53:34 > 0:53:36# Still we have fun
0:53:36 > 0:53:39# There's nothing surer
0:53:39 > 0:53:42- # The rich get rich - And the poor get poorer
0:53:42 > 0:53:45# In the meantime, in between time
0:53:45 > 0:53:48- # Ain't we got fun? #- Come on!
0:53:48 > 0:53:50# Every morning, every evening
0:53:50 > 0:53:53# Ain't we got fun?
0:53:53 > 0:53:56# Not much money, oh, but, honey
0:53:56 > 0:53:58# Ain't we got fun?
0:53:58 > 0:54:01# The rent's unpaid, dear
0:54:01 > 0:54:04# We haven't a sou
0:54:04 > 0:54:06# But smiles were made, dear
0:54:06 > 0:54:09# For me and for you... # BELL RINGS
0:54:09 > 0:54:14Everybody, ignore it! We are on holiday till half-past!
0:54:14 > 0:54:16# Times are hard... #
0:54:16 > 0:54:20I don't believe I've ever seen you answer your own door.
0:54:20 > 0:54:23You'll be seeing stranger things than this, I don't doubt.
0:54:24 > 0:54:27Our chauffeur married our housemaid today.
0:54:27 > 0:54:30Agnes insisted that we should allow a party.
0:54:30 > 0:54:31< APPLAUSE, CHEERING
0:54:31 > 0:54:35I'm assured the normal scheme of things will resume this evening.
0:54:35 > 0:54:37There is now no normal scheme of things.
0:54:39 > 0:54:42For as long as this war lasts, we are all each other's servants.
0:54:45 > 0:54:50- Have courage.- I've made such a godawful mess of everything.
0:54:52 > 0:54:54I don't know what I'm going to do.
0:54:54 > 0:54:56I do, old chap.
0:54:59 > 0:55:02So I'll go in as an equerry, based at Buckingham Palace.
0:55:02 > 0:55:06I've been vetted and I am not considered wanting.
0:55:06 > 0:55:09It borders on the miraculous...
0:55:10 > 0:55:12..with relatives like me.
0:55:16 > 0:55:20You will stay, won't you? For Agnes' sake, if not for mine.
0:55:20 > 0:55:24I was actually rather planning to. I've joined the Fire Brigade.
0:55:29 > 0:55:33- 'SOMEWHERE OVER THE RAINBOW' ON PIANO - # La-da-dah, di
0:55:33 > 0:55:37# Di-di, di-di... #
0:55:37 > 0:55:40I love that song. I love it!
0:55:41 > 0:55:44We could dance, if you wanted.
0:55:45 > 0:55:46There's no-one here.
0:55:48 > 0:55:51If we did, I'd miss you when you go.
0:55:51 > 0:55:54- I'll miss you anyway.- Will you?
0:55:59 > 0:56:03- Will you write?- I'm stopping here. I won't have much to tell you.
0:56:03 > 0:56:09That's why I want you to. You can be my bit of home.
0:56:34 > 0:56:37What's this?
0:56:37 > 0:56:41Something I owe you, sir. Something I shouldn't have taken.
0:56:41 > 0:56:44I thought you were using it to travel to America.
0:56:44 > 0:56:47Beryl wasn't well enough to sail. We missed our passage.
0:56:48 > 0:56:51- I see.- Lady Agnes wrote to Mr Landry, asked him to help us,
0:56:51 > 0:56:54but I've been passed fit for the forces now,
0:56:54 > 0:56:57so we don't know what we're going to do.
0:56:58 > 0:57:00We won't speak of this again.
0:57:00 > 0:57:02Sir.
0:57:06 > 0:57:11Do you like Mummy's outfit, Hector? It's a St John's Ambulance uniform.
0:57:11 > 0:57:16And while you're in the country, Mummy is going to be helping people who've been hurt.
0:57:23 > 0:57:28SIREN WAILS
0:57:32 > 0:57:37We would appear to have an air-raid warning, your ladyship, Dr Mottershead.
0:57:37 > 0:57:40- I advise you to take cover, if you would be so kind. - Yes, of course, Pritchard.
0:57:40 > 0:57:43The refuge is prepared. This way, if you please.
0:57:43 > 0:57:47SIRENS CONTINUE TO WAIL
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