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00:25John, please have Atlas saddled, I wish to ride to the vicarage.
00:29First ride outside the castle gates.
00:32I'm ready.
00:33Very good, you guys.
01:14Oh, where is this going to go?
01:24Oh, have you found her?
01:26Oh, Grace, we're riding to the vicarage, and Atlas bolted without warning.
01:32She's not that good a rider yet, and I'm afraid she might have become unseated.
01:36And what with that pack sound so close and angry?
01:38Missephanie!
01:39She's not answering.
01:43Missephanie!
02:04We need to find the pack!
02:06I'll stick with that myself, you Grace!
02:19Oh, steady, steady, steady, steady.
02:24I heard that too, you Grace.
02:26We're getting closer.
02:31Come on.
02:31Let's go now.
02:38Bootutter!
02:40Huh?
02:42I don't know.
03:14I don't know.
03:42I don't know.
03:42To me, Persephone!
03:44I don't know.
03:45Stay next to me.
03:46Stay next to me.
03:53John, interrupt me.
03:56Take Atlas back if you can.
03:57We'll be quick about it.
03:58The pack wants to spook for long.
04:02Seven.
04:03Bombs around me.
04:04Hold fast.
04:04When we reach the road, we are going to run.
04:06Come on.
04:26God, everyone is to beyond. The packs and the yards of the castles.
04:30But John Hanley is through that gate.
04:32They have to be closed immediately.
04:33Yes, sir.
04:34I'm so dizzy.
04:34Can you walk?
04:35I think so.
04:43She was thrown from a horse out in the forest.
04:45There's a possibility she's broken her ankle.
04:47Should I have a surgeon sent for?
04:48No, the wolves are prowling just outside the gate.
04:50It isn't safe for anyone to go in or out.
04:52They've never done that before.
04:54Stephanie?
04:55Where is Mother?
04:56Drawing room.
04:57Okay.
04:58Send her up to Persephone's room.
05:11Are we safe now?
05:13Yes.
05:15I was afraid no one would find me.
05:21That's what happens.
05:22Mother, I need your help.
05:23There's blood on her, riding her bed.
05:26Mother?
05:28Help her to a seat, Harry.
05:32Adam?
05:35Can you take my boot off?
05:37It's too tight.
05:47Adam, she needs a surgeon.
05:49I know.
05:51Bring me boiling water.
05:53And the strongest brandy Barton can find.
05:55Go.
05:56Don't be, Harry.
06:00You'll have to cut it.
06:02Mother, could you find me some scissors?
06:04Look.
06:07Look.
06:12Hold her still.
06:13I don't want to accidentally cut her.
06:34I'm sorry, I'm trying to be gentle.
07:08I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
07:14I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
07:44I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
07:50Yes, dear.
07:54Please stay with me.
08:02If you stay with me.
08:04If you stay with me.
08:18I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
08:24It's been seemingly me talking to you and here, but...
08:28Well, I think I know...
08:31I have an idea why the pack attacked Atlas.
08:34And I thought you might want to know sooner than later, even if telling you means overstepping yourself a bit.
08:39You aren't overstepping.
08:41What have you discovered?
08:43Well, while we were cleaning Atlas' wounds, we couldn't help but notice that she smelled strongly of bacon.
08:50Of bacon?
08:51That might be why the wolves attacked Atlas, but weren't so intent on getting the meat on my horse or
08:56at Ewan's house.
08:59Grace might have picked up some of that smell.
09:02That might be why they were hunting her.
09:06Talk with your staff.
09:08See what you can find out.
09:10If it played any role in this attack, any, I do not want the same mistake to occur again.
09:16Yes, you could.
09:19John?
09:36Adam.
09:40May I speak with you?
09:42Please.
09:45Perhaps you should sit down.
09:47I'm so sorry, Adam.
09:50I know you wished me to help with Persephone.
09:53You must be so disappointed.
09:54Sit down, Mother.
09:59Sometimes you're so like your father.
10:01Dear man.
10:04Are you unwell?
10:06I'm so mortified.
10:10You see, I've always been hopeless in a sick room.
10:14Even as a child, when anyone in the household would get so much as a cold, I would fret our
10:18dear nurse into a fit of nerves.
10:22And my mother always told me it would be different when I was a mother.
10:30You must be so ashamed of me.
10:34Being so utterly useless when you were depending on me.
10:37There was a great deal of blood earlier with Persephone.
10:40I do not blame you for not being up to the task.
10:45Well, I'm certain I only made the situation worse.
10:50I always did.
10:53The second surgeon actually sent me to the vicarage for two days.
10:58Banished.
10:59From my own home.
11:02From my poor boy.
11:03You banished? The second surgeon?
11:06I'm certain I made it worse.
11:08I was so nervous, so concerned through the first one.
11:13The first surgery.
11:13And I didn't get better.
11:16Worse, in fact.
11:19The next few surgeons insisted I be gone before they even arrived.
11:22You are referring to the surgeons who did this.
11:27And I was grateful to go.
11:31Happy to.
11:34What kind of an unnatural mother wishes to leave her child at such a time?
11:50Persephone is asking for you.
11:52She seems anxious.
12:15What is it, Persephone?
12:18I've been thinking back on my ride.
12:20Well, surely that can wait until you're more fully rested.
12:23What happened today, I don't believe, was an accident.
12:30What has led you to that suspicion?
12:33John didn't help me mount.
12:37Usually the stable hand waits for him, but this time he didn't.
12:40And the stable hand who helped me smelled like-
12:45Bacon?
12:46How did you know?
12:48Was it a faint aroma?
12:51No.
12:51At-
12:52At first I thought perhaps he'd been helping in the curing house or-
12:56Had slipped in a lard spill in the kitchen.
12:58The scent was so strong I could still smell it.
13:01While you were riding.
13:04Exactly.
13:06The groom who helps you mount, does he assist you often?
13:10Occasionally.
13:11Do you know his name?
13:14He wears a green handkerchief round his neck.
13:16None of the others do.
13:19John Henley will know who it is.
13:20You're going to talk to him?
13:22That groom, I mean?
13:24If he had any hand in this, I plan to do far more than just talk.
13:30What's the name of the groom who wears a green handkerchief round his neck?
13:33Uh, Jimmy.
13:34He's a newer one.
13:35Quiet like.
13:35Keeps to himself.
13:36Any idea where I might find this Jimmy?
13:38Last I saw out of him, he was at the back of the stable.
13:41Where he helped to craze him out this morning.
13:43He said he reeked of bacon more than could have been accidental.
13:45What on purpose then?
13:46That's what I mean to find out.
13:47Oh, there he is.
13:48Jimmy!
13:51Smith!
13:52Do not let him get past the gate!
13:54Stop it!
14:20This woman is Mr. Smith.
14:23Who tried to kill my wife.
14:26You took the only thing that mattered to me.
14:29Just trying to repay the favor, Gav.
14:31You'll answer this?
14:33Oh, no.
14:34I have a better idea.
14:38Put him in the gibbet.
14:41You can't do that!
14:43You have to consult the law!
14:45I am the Duke of Kilda!
14:47I am the law!
14:49No!
14:51No!
14:52No!
15:34Dukes aren't supposed to need people for suffering.
15:37Dukes aren't supposed to need people for suffering.
15:40Dukes aren't supposed to!
15:42It's the only thing you do you do!
15:42I have to do that!
15:42...
15:53I want you to be in here!
15:54Oh, no, I am so!
15:55I do not.
15:56Yeah.
16:04PPP, I need it.
16:05Oh, no, I am!
16:06I do not.
16:07Let me turn to the earth.
16:07You are the king of the sea.
16:07No, I am so.
16:28I like Fauston.
16:30So do I, Linus.
16:33Then why don't you look happy?
16:36Probably because I'm in pain.
16:39I had no idea how long a few simple cuts could take to heal.
16:42I understand they weren't simple at all.
16:46Considering it might befall in me, I think of my injuries as comparatively simple.
16:53It is so good to have you here.
16:59I'm happy to see you again.
17:02Don't...
17:03I already missed a C.
17:07Evander, I never missed home.
17:15I believe he is home now.
17:17And he is with me now.
17:28Midshipman Lancaster, if I had known that your intention in visiting here was to make your sister cry, I would
17:35not have invited you.
17:36You guessed why devious flocked with alarming precision, your grace.
17:40Every young navy man wishes to bring their female relatives into varying states of hysteria on every possible occasion.
17:46And apparently, you are also intent on bringing Persephone down to her deathbed.
17:52Alas, it is true, though I have momentarily forgotten how I intend to do this.
17:57By keeping her out of doors, and in the cold, instead of inside, warm and off her feet.
18:03Oh, yes, I remember now.
18:05Well, I suppose, since you have guessed my plot, I shall have to abandon my ill-fated scheme.
18:10It was inevitable.
18:19Oh, thank you.
18:28I will see you in side, Linus.
18:34You seem pleased.
18:37I've missed my brother.
18:39He's not at all what I expected.
18:42Your description was of an infant.
18:44Imagine my shock when he walked out of a carriage.
18:47No leading strings on nursemaids in sight.
18:50Adam Boyce, are you teasing me?
18:53I never tease.
18:54You also, apparently, never host balls.
18:58Yet you are doing exactly that tomorrow.
19:01Clearly, I have begun a descent into senulity.
19:05You are in the oddest mood this evening.
19:10You have no idea.
19:49Persephone seems to be wondering where you are.
19:51Has she asked after me?
19:55Just the look on her face.
19:57We could always tell growing up when she was worrying about one of us.
20:02She must have worried a lot.
20:03Persephone held with the family together after my mom died.
20:08How old was she?
20:11Twelve.
20:13She very suddenly lost what was left of her childhood.
20:17You did as well.
20:19Her life these past eight years has been one unending sacrifice for the sake of the family.
20:26Including her marriage?
20:31Do you know why my papa named Persephone as he did?
20:35Obsession with all things Greek.
20:37I remember that.
20:39The story of Persephone is his favourite.
20:44Seems an odd favourite to me.
20:46Not when you look at it as he does.
20:48Papa clans himself amongst the scholars of the classics who believe that Hades didn't trick Persephone at all.
20:54And that they both decided together that she'd eat the pomegranate seeds.
20:58Because it meant that nothing could prevent Persephone from returning to him.
21:04But why would she return?
21:06It was the reason for her return.
21:08That indeed the goddess of my father.
21:11The seeds?
21:12The seeds were symbolic.
21:14Symbolic of what?
21:28I know disappearing balls is one of your particular talents.
21:32But it does not reflect well on your wife.
21:35You really ought to go and sit beside her.
21:37What I really ought to do is hang you out your bedchamber windows by a bed sheet wrapped around your
21:41ankles.
21:43Welcome back, old friend.
21:46You've been shockingly softening.
21:48Oh, shut up.
21:49Harry!
21:50Harry!
21:54Harry!
22:18What do the pomegranate seeds symbolize?
22:20What?
22:22In the Persephone myth, Linus said the seeds are symbols.
22:27Has he been waxing philosophical?
22:29That is the one trait he inherited from Papa.
22:34What do they symbolize?
22:37According to Papa, the seeds are symbolic of love.
22:41Hades' love for Persephone, her love for him.
22:45How could she love someone who kept her prisoner?
22:49Papa always believed she came to know him beyond his fearsome demeanor and came to love him.
22:54Hades fell in love with Persephone as well.
22:56She was his match.
22:59But if they were so in love, then why did she leave at all?
23:04If she had eaten all the seeds, she would have stayed forever.
23:08Hades did not force her to remain because her family needed her.
23:13Hades never let anyone leave his realm.
23:17Hades loved Persephone.
23:24He let her go because he loved her.
23:28She returned because she loved him.
23:33Hades never let her go because she loved her.
24:10Thank you for the ball, Adam.
24:14It was wonderful.
24:17You were happy.
24:20You weren't disappointed.
24:24What?
24:27What more were you hoping for?
24:32I've never danced at a ball.
24:36There have often imagined doing so.
24:39I had no intention of asking you to do yet another unpleasant thing today.
24:43And yet...
24:47I would enjoy dancing with you.
24:51You would endure it, I am certain.
25:05I want to dance with you.
25:08The musicians have all left.
25:11We don't need them.
25:18My leg is still too weak to hold me for long.
25:26Then allow me to hold you?
25:40I want to dance with you.
25:41I want to dance with you.
25:41I want to dance with you.
25:42I want to dance with you.
25:43I want to dance with you.
25:43I want to dance with you.
25:45I want to dance with you.
25:46I want to dance with you.
25:47I want to dance with you.
25:47I want to dance with you.
25:48I want to dance with you.
25:49I want to dance with you.
25:50I want to dance with you.
25:51I want to dance with you.
25:54I want to dance with you.
25:56I want to dance with you.
26:07Linus leaves for structure in the morning to visit your family.
26:13Yes, I know.
26:15You will be leaving with him.
26:17That was not the plan.
26:18It should have been.
26:20It should always have been.
26:23The two of you can depart immediately following breakfast in the morning.
26:28Will you be journeying with us?
26:33I belong at Fawston Castle.
26:41And where do I belong?
26:51Your family needs you.
26:54And what about you, Adam?
26:57I'm not going to get you.
27:02I'm not going to need you.нь
27:41you'd best not keep the horses standing mother it'll only take a moment and it is more important
27:47than me making a timely departure your father and I had an arranged marriage no accounting was made for
27:57the differences in our dispositions I was raised in town among society London the ton it's what I knew
28:10and needed your father was raised here in quiet and solitude we wanted very different things in life
28:24we tried to compromise to blend our preferences but he begrudged the balls and gatherings held here
28:34and came to rather despise my need for company he wouldn't have I will admit I likewise began to view
28:44my relationship to Halston and by extension him through a lens of bitterness I do not wish to hear
28:53the resentment grows quickly Adam your father was a good man despite his implacableness
29:05I held out hope for so long in my foolishly romantic heart that he would come for me while I
29:13was away
29:15he never did did you tell him that that was what you were hoping for
29:23I was so young only 17 when we married in my naivete
29:30I believed that if he truly cared he would meet me part way
29:38you are more willing to compromise than your father ever was
29:43and Persephone is more suited to quiet and solitude than I ever will be
29:50she is your match Adam
29:53do not throw away this chance by making her guess at your feelings
30:22she has a point you know
30:27every other guest has left the castle Harry
30:30why haven't you
30:33I am here to be your conscience
30:36to save you
30:38from yourself
30:42she will come back
30:47when Linus returns to his ship
30:49Persephone will return to Foster
30:52and I know you well enough to predict that you will act as though you couldn't care less
30:55whether she is here or not
30:59do you really want her to wonder about that
31:02this is none of your concern
31:03Harry
31:10you miss her
31:12and she deserves to know that
31:16she is happy
31:17with her family
31:18I think I'll be part of her family
31:20no disruption
31:21that isn't how it works
31:24how it works
31:28Persephone receives her reprieve
31:31and Hades stays in the underworld waiting to see if the seeds work
31:36obviously you were sleeping during that lecture at Harrow
31:42Hades does not sit back and wait for Persephone
31:45when the time came
31:47Hades slipped past the hellhounds and ventured into the realm of the living
31:51to reclaim his bride
31:54I do not remember that
31:58Hades was no Pamsi Fribble, Adam
32:02and I'd better pony
32:03his Persephone
32:05knew exactly how her husband
32:07felt about her
32:09a pretty much
32:23and older
32:39and I'll be interested in that
32:39I'll be here
32:39until I think
32:46Are you sure you're warm enough?
32:49I'm dressed as warmly as I am at home.
32:51It is far colder there.
32:53You speak very fondly of Fullstone Castle.
32:56I've come to love it, Athena.
32:59More than just the castle.
33:02I hope I'm not out of line in saying that
33:06you seem to miss the castle.
33:11I do.
33:13Then why do you seem so sad whenever anyone mentions you going back?
33:16I do not nearly think it is because you'll miss us.
33:20Probably because I'm not entirely certain what I will find when I return.
33:26You could always just stay here.
33:30My heart is there.
33:34I hope the castle knows how fortunate he is.
33:57Adam.
34:02Adam.
34:03Have you come to take me home?
34:05When you're ready.
34:08But I... I wanted to see Shropshire.
34:14To see where you grew up.
34:16You did?
34:20And... and get to know your family.
34:25And I... I...
34:29Hades always went after Persephone.
34:34Yes, he did.
34:39He waited as long as he had to.
34:42And then he left his kingdom and he did not come back until he found her.
34:48I think Hades must have missed his wife.
34:52I think he knew to the very minute how long she'd been gone.
34:57But was Persephone as anxious to return as he was to have her with him again?
35:01Yes, she was.
35:17Why did Hades go after her?
35:22He must have loved her.
35:24Oh, he did.
35:26He did more than he could even express.
35:34But...
35:37But did Persephone love him?
35:39In spite of his flaws?
35:42In spite of deserving so much better than he could ever offer?
35:46Oh, Adam.
35:48Am I too late?
35:50Is there nothing that I can...
35:51You said you belong at Fauston.
35:55Only at Fauston.
35:57I belong with you.
35:59But I belong with you.
36:00I belong with you.
36:32And the Tom will not believe it even if they heard you say that.
36:36We shall have to convince them.
36:39I may enjoy London yet.
36:42Does this mean I can come to your castle?
36:46Our castle is in need of a good exploration
36:52Perhaps if you have no other plans for Christmas
36:54You could undertake one then
36:58Athena! Daphne!
37:01You realise she will bring the rest of the family
37:03And Thorsten will be overrun with people
37:10Well, there is probably a chance
37:13I will be in a foul mood from time to time
37:17You may once again have to save me from myself
37:23You have done that, do you know?
37:26Saved you?
37:31Oh, my Persephone
37:34Do you know that I would have come for you
37:37No matter how far you'd have gone?
37:42Hades always came for Persephone
37:48And she always returned home
37:54Always
37:54I don't know, what all the people are doing
37:55I will never let you know
38:05And I will never let you know
38:06Alright, peace
38:11In a minute
38:11Peace
38:12And when you wake up
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