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00:21We'll be there, Artemis.
00:23I don't know why we have to do this.
00:26Because we like to eat.
00:27But we only pay pennies.
00:29Things that keep our family from dire straits.
00:31I do not enjoy washing the neighbourhood's laundry any more than you do,
00:34but being upset about it won't change our situation.
00:37Ah.
00:51Open the door, sweetheart.
00:52I have had an attraction today.
00:54Now I have to open the door.
00:56I'm sorry you've suffered so much.
00:58I fear you'll simply have to continue in your wretched state a bit longer.
01:02I will open the door, but do not be surprised if I lie in the floor and die.
01:06I will be many things if that happens, my sweet little Artemis, but above all I will not be surprised.
01:13She has died far less than this in the past.
01:18Yes.
01:24Yes.
01:35Yes.
01:37Yes.
01:37Yes.
01:39Yes.
01:44Yes.
01:50Yes, yes.
01:54Yes, yes.
01:56Yes.
01:56Stephanie, you're home.
01:58Was father wandering again?
02:00Until a letter came. Then he went back up to his study.
02:04Did he say from the letter was from?
02:06You know father doesn't usually talk to me.
02:08Well, once I cleared the clutter he spread, sorted the laundry and started our meal,
02:13then I very much wish to talk with you about whatever you've learned today.
02:16It's ever so interesting and terribly useful.
02:19Cannot wait.
02:21Thank you, Persephone.
02:22Of course, Daphne.
02:33You did say this might happen.
02:35Yes, I did.
02:36And what has brought you to such a horrible end this time?
02:39My suffering is too great. No words can possibly describe it.
02:42Is this because I could not buy you a suite from the confectionery shop?
02:45That was tragic.
02:47But not the reason you're expiring on the floor.
02:48I didn't see my friend. I watched for him.
02:52And he didn't come. He hasn't ever so long and it's deeply devastating.
02:56Is this the friend I can't see?
02:58The friend you don't see.
03:00Ah.
03:01Do you think your friend would visit you again if we had bread pudding tonight?
03:06Bread pudding?
03:07I have a bit of stale bread and Mrs. Sanford gave me some cream.
03:11I think we should have bread pudding tonight.
03:13It's not even my birthday.
03:14Bread pudding is quite possibly my favourite thing in all the world.
03:18Of course, if you are dead on the floor you won't be able to have any.
03:23I'm all better.
03:24It is a miracle.
03:26Thank you, thank you, thank you.
03:29You're very welcome my darling little arduous.
03:36How do you like the latest fashions?
03:38These are not the latest.
03:40Mrs. Upton gave me these because she received the most recent version.
03:43But they are very nearly the latest.
03:47That is gorgeous.
03:48Isn't it?
03:49I've added it to my list of dreams.
03:51That must be quite the list by now.
03:53Isn't that what dreaming is for?
03:55Believing in those things you feel you'll never have but want to continue hoping are possible.
03:59Like, having money enough and happiness, falling in love.
04:04I want you to have all of those things Athena.
04:07You must have dreams too.
04:08Certainly I do.
04:11Artemis' spirits not being dampened by the heaviness of life.
04:14Daphne finding a friend who helps to feel seen and cared about.
04:18Evander and Linus returning home to us whole.
04:22Far from guarantee for too much shipment in the navy during all time.
04:26I should have done more to keep them home and safe.
04:28There's nothing more you could have done.
04:30I could have taken in more laundry or reduced my portions at mealtimes.
04:33I could have gone without fires in my room.
04:34And it likely still would not have been enough.
04:38I suppose that is my version of hoping for impossible things.
04:43None of the hopes that you've mentioned have been a dream for yourself.
04:47Seeing this family happy is a dream enough for me.
04:52Fetch Daphne and Artemis and take them to the kitchen.
04:55I don't know how frustrating he might be this time.
05:02Have you received a letter?
05:08We have a very significant problem.
05:11What has happened, Papa? Evander? Linus?
05:15Oh no, I haven't heard anything about your brothers.
05:21I have, however, received the most befuddling letter.
05:31You, my dear, have received an offer of marriage.
05:35A what?
05:36An offer from an incredibly wealthy gentleman with an old and prestigious title.
05:53Good heavens!
05:57What I cannot fathom is why the Duke has settled on you.
06:02Though he cannot even be remotely acquainted with our family.
06:06The Duke?
06:07Of course, dear.
06:09The Duke of Kilda!
06:10The Duke of Kilda has asked for my hand in marriage.
06:14Quite specifically.
06:18I do not believe a word of it.
06:20After all, I do not know his grace.
06:22Or any grace for that matter.
06:32Mr. Lancaster, I am requesting the hand of your eldest daughter in marriage.
06:38I am prepared to settle upon your three remaining daughters.
06:4220,000 each for their dowries and 50,000 upon yourself for the sake of your sons.
06:49The ceremony will take place October the 1st at the Fulston Chapel.
06:53Please reply as to your intentions.
06:57Yours, etc.
07:00Kilda.
07:02It is certainly not the most romantic and off-battering of proposals, to be sure.
07:07The ceremony will take place.
07:09There is not the slightest acknowledgement the unforeseen offer might be declined.
07:15This offer amounts to more than a hundred thousand pounds.
07:28What is the Duke of Kilda like?
07:31Like?
07:34Well...
07:35Couldn't say I have not met the current Duke.
07:38What was his father like?
07:41Hmm?
07:43Dull as dishwater.
07:44Yeah.
07:47But his mother is an active son.
08:06One hundred thousand pounds!
08:08I can hardly comprehend such a son.
08:12it is more than 500 years worth our current income it is more than five times the income
08:18of the duke of sussex and he is son of the king good heavens we would have food enough to
08:23eat
08:23we would not need to wash laundry for pennies the boys could soon leave the navy and return home
08:31all of your impossible dreams would suddenly be entirely possible
08:35this would not merely save our family it would save generations of our family
08:40you could have killed it you might be prone to anger or unkindness what if he mistreats you
08:45what if being married to him makes you miserable for the rest of your life it is also possible he
08:50will be kind and considerate you don't know anything about him only that he clearly has a
08:56tremendous amount of money and wishes to marry me he gave no indication why you needn't simply accept
09:01this offer one may yet come from someone that you at least know won't treat you abominably there will
09:06be no other offers if i do not accept this one our family will sink further even the simple hopes
09:14we currently have will be out of reach then all of your hopes will be snatched away this family's
09:18happiness is worth every sacrifice isn't your happiness worth something as well artemis has
09:23always told the tale of hades and persephone quite accurately persephone doesn't get to be happy
09:30you mean to accept the duke's offer
09:52who invited all of these people
09:56i did it is not every day my poor boy takes a bride this was supposed to be a quiet
10:03ceremony
10:04i do not believe miss lancaster's invited anyone beyond her own immediate family
10:09i did not intend to cause awkwardness adam i only wish to celebrate
10:27i wonder if the chit will actually turn up try to resist the urge to run through any of the
10:32wedding guests
10:39the devil is she another five minutes and i'll go retrieve for myself
10:58when is this going to start i'm hungry
11:01what is this
11:11it's starting to come after all
11:18you
11:26you
11:28you
11:29you
11:52Dearly beloved, we are gathered here together in the sight of God and the face of this congregation
11:58to join together this man and this woman in holy matrimony, an honorable estate instituted
12:06of God in the time of man's innocence, signifying unto us the mystical union betwixt Christ and
12:13his church.
12:14Therefore, if any man can show any just cause why they should not lawfully be joined together,
12:21let him speak, or else hereafter forever hold his peace.
12:28Do you ship lost in my keep?
12:34Go on.
12:36Who giveth this woman to be married to this man?
12:49Apparently I give it myself.
12:55Take her right hand in yours.
13:04I, Adam Richard Boyce, Duke of Kilda, Marquess of Fauston, Earl of Fauston, Vicampinus,
13:08Baron Fauston, Baron Whiteley, take thee to be my wedded wife, to have and to hold from
13:11this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health,
13:15to love and to cherish till death to his part according to God's holy ordinance, and thereto
13:19I plight thee my troth.
13:26I, Persephone...
13:28Ridiculous.
13:32I, Persephone...
13:34I, Persephone...
13:39I, Persephone...
13:43Ridiculous.
13:44I, Persephone...
13:46I, Persephone...
13:47...I, Persephone...
13:48...for richer, for poorer, in sickness and health, to love and to cherish till death
13:55do us part according to God's holy ordinance, and thereto I give thee my truth.
14:02He had everything?
14:03Not usually.
14:05Can it be?
14:06I suppose all the truly essential bits have been seen to.
14:11Those whom God has joined together, let no man put asunder.
14:17To the castle, then.
15:09Is your name really Persephone?
15:12It is.
15:14Did you not think to ask?
15:18What were your parents thinking, choosing a name like that?
15:23My father is a scholar.
15:25He's particularly fond of Greek mythology.
15:27Entirely too fond, don't you see?
15:30Are the rest of your siblings similarly afflicted?
15:32In what way afflicted?
15:34What absurd names did your parents assign the other members of your family?
15:38Athena is just younger than I.
15:40Bander is 14, Linus 13.
15:43Daphne will be 12 toward the end of the year.
15:45The youngest is Artemis.
15:47Fate save us from short-sighted scholars.
15:50Do you have a middle name?
15:52I do.
15:53I suppose it is entirely too much to hope that it is something common.
15:58Iphigenia.
16:01Persephone Iphigenia.
16:04Did no one ever call you anything else?
16:06Only Miss Lancaster.
16:08I cannot call you that.
16:10I suppose I will have to consign myself to Persephone.
16:14It would seem so.
16:18You, of course, will call me Kilda.
16:20I will not call you Kilda.
16:21Everyone calls me Kilda.
16:22Kilda.
16:23Sir, it sounds as though I am accusing you of a crime.
16:29You would no doubt prefer Agamemnon.
16:31Or Apollo.
16:32Or something along that vein.
16:34Magvapar certainly would.
16:36Would you propose to call me then?
16:38Adam?
16:39No one calls me Adam.
16:41No one?
16:42Certainly your family and closest friends would.
16:47Harry does.
16:48Who is Harry?
16:49A friend.
16:51One who allows himself far too much freedom.
16:57One who does not know that.
16:57One who has written.
17:04Oh, my.
17:09Tom.
17:57Calling me Adam will be fine, but Stephanie?
18:14This is Barton, the butler.
18:17Mrs. Smithson, the housekeeper.
18:20Duchess of Kilden.
18:41Mrs. Smithson, we'll see to whatever you need.
19:05I'm likely meant to be shown all of the castle, but I would very much like to rest.
19:11Perhaps you could simply point out the rooms I need to know today and save the rest for tomorrow?
19:15Of course, Your Grace.
19:23The Drawn Room.
19:26A favourite of Queen Elizabeth, when she stayed at Falston Castle in 1580.
19:34Do members of the royal family still visit Falston?
19:38Heavens no!
19:40They wouldn't dare.
19:42This is the Grand Banquet Hall,
19:45which has hosted feasts for some of the most significant and influential people in the kingdom
19:50over the past 500 years.
19:54I believe your family will be dining in here this evening.
20:00Is that a gibbet?
20:03Unstocks.
20:05Was there no room in the dark foreboding dungeon?
20:08There's ample room, Your Grace,
20:10but the Duke says display and weapons makes them more effective.
20:19All of the family bedchambers are on this floor.
20:23This is your bedchamber, Your Grace.
20:27Is there anything else you wish for me to do, Your Grace?
20:30Not for a moment.
20:31The bell pull is beside the fireplace, should you require anything.
20:34It's your bedchamber.
21:24This is never going to work.
21:33I just saw your man of business leaving the castle.
21:46What did you do to him?
21:48I fired him.
21:50Again?
21:52How many times have you fired poor man?
21:54Six.
21:56Seven.
21:57Every time he sulks away like a lily-livered coward.
22:03You didn't pull your pistol on him this time, did you?
22:06I have never pulled a pistol on Josiah Jones.
22:09I may have held an epee to his throat once or twice, but he's never in any real danger.
22:15Or perhaps his fear has something to do with your less than pristine reputation, Adam.
22:19Rumor has it.
22:20You've run through a few men in your time.
22:22Rumor has it I've done quite a few things.
22:25And you wonder why Jones thinks the worst whenever you're angry with him.
22:29I always reinstate his employment and he never makes the same mistake twice.
22:40Sir, what was his transgression this time?
22:42Hmm?
22:43No, no.
22:43Don't tell me.
22:45Smiled too much while discussing the estate investments.
22:49No.
22:51Did not include enough threats in the business correspondence he sent on your behalf.
22:55He recommended a means of preventing my distant cousin from one day inheriting Fauston.
23:01Ah.
23:02Jones was the one who suggested you marry.
23:05He knew of a penniless family in Shropshire with an eldest daughter of the appropriate age who had no other
23:12prospects.
23:13His enthusiastic recommendation has proven intolerably stupid.
23:19The stupid is sitting in one's book room with one's friend on one's wedding night.
23:24Because that, Adam, is a level of idiocy far and above ordinary stupidity.
23:29I stood through the wedding and just spent an interminable dinner with my flock of new sisters-in-law.
23:37Did they stare at you?
23:41It would have been understandable, you know, having not been warned.
23:43I ought to have written then.
23:44Hmm?
23:45Perhaps I could have included a postscript with the proposal.
23:48By the way, I have a mutilated face you'll be forced to look at day in and day out for
23:54the rest of your life.
23:55Hope that's not a problem.
23:59Hmm.
24:01Perhaps not those precise words.
24:03She wasn't exactly forthcoming either.
24:06I will have you know.
24:07I forgot to mention something important.
24:09Another husband, perhaps.
24:12Extraneous limb.
24:13Her name is Persephone.
24:17A man ought to know a thing like that about his future wife.
24:22Persephone Iphigenia.
24:24What an inexcusably ridiculous thing to call a child.
24:37I had the chance to speak briefly with your new bride, Adam.
24:42She was...
24:44delightful.
24:46Perhaps a little quiet, but that is to be expected considering the upheaval in her life.
24:52I confess, I had expected someone rather long in the tooth.
24:59Rather long in the face, in all honesty.
25:02So had I.
25:04So had I.
25:04But she's a fetching thing.
25:07Young and quite pretty.
25:14Oh.
25:18You expected someone desperate, and ugly, and undesirable.
25:26Instead, your bride turned out to be a vast deal more than possible.
25:32Not quite what you'd bargain for, I guess.
25:36A lady who was too intolerable to have any other options would be content with her
25:40in a draughty castle in the wilds of Northumberland.
25:44And now, because she is young and fine-looking, seems to be good-natured and potentially enjoyable company,
25:53the poor girl is upstairs.
25:55Alone.
25:57Probably wondering what she's done wrong.
25:59While you are down here brooding.
26:04Adam.
26:05You are completely bacon-brained.
26:08I should call you out for that.
26:10You.
26:12Not tonight.
26:13I'm tired.
26:18Call me out tomorrow, would you?
26:20I ought to lock you in the dungeon.
26:22You should.
26:23No point having a dungeon if no one's ever consigned to suffer in it.
26:28Goodnight, Adam.
26:29Goodnight.
26:30You're so sure as loud.
26:35And Adam.
26:36What?
26:38Give the poor girl a chance.
26:40It's not her fault.
26:42You've ended up with every man's idea of a perfect wife.
26:45Ha!
26:49Ha!
26:52Ha!
26:54Ha!
26:56Ha!
26:57Ha!
26:58Ha!
26:59Ha!
27:00Ha!
27:01Ha!
27:02Ha!
27:10Ha!
27:34Are you going to be lonely without us, Persephone?
27:37I will miss you terribly.
27:42But you will have each other.
27:44So you are unlikely to be lonely.
27:47I do not know that anyone will remember to talk to me when you're not here.
27:52I'm certain everything will be fine.
27:54You don't need to worry about us.
27:59write and tell me about all the things you're reading.
28:09I love you.
28:10I love you too.
28:13You need to go.
28:15I do not want to go.
28:17I do not want to go.
28:30dearest. Alston Castle is my home now. I will send you letters. Perhaps with the gimme under
28:37the seal you could come here. We could explore the castle together. You won't let me. Of course,
28:44you know. We will have grand adventures. Perhaps there is a tower room where we can imagine all
28:51sorts of wonderful stories the way we always did at home. Do you promise? I promise. You will take
28:59care of me when you're gone. Papa will engage a governess for both you and Daphne. A companion
29:06for Athena when you're all in town. Will you visit us there? Of course. Daphne. Yes, my dear. We will
29:15take care of you. Will you be happy even though we're gone? I will.
29:25Will. When have you known me to be unhappy? Then I will be happy too but if I don't leave
29:33now I will cry again and I do not want to cry anymore. Then let us promise each other not
29:39to cry.
29:42Yes. Good. I will see you soon. Be good for Papa. I will. I love you dearest. I love you
29:50too,
29:50for Stephanie. You're the best mama I've ever had.
30:29I thought you weren't supposed to cry. Artemis is crying as well. I'm certain of it.
30:36Then why make the promise? To lessen her pain.
30:42If my sister knew I was crying it would break her heart. But you know she is crying.
30:51I know her better than she knows me.
31:00I know her better than she knows me.
31:04Oh, my God.
31:32Oh, my God.
32:0924 hours into this ill-conceived marriage
32:13and my wife is already in the back of a garden sobbing.
32:27How long into your marriage did Mother start crying?
32:37And when did that stop making you feel like a monster?
32:42Mother?
32:45Mother?
32:48Mother?
32:51Mother?
33:03Mother?
33:31You'll grease.
33:37good evening are you feeling well child i am excessively tired
33:45do not fret yourself over dinner dear i'll have a tray sent to your room you rest thank you
34:07so
34:13so
34:17so
34:38you told me you'd call me out today never did I've decided to shoot you first thing in the
34:43morning go to sleep so I can load my pistols in peace your mother said the new duchess was
34:52indisposed this evening any idea what you meant by that as mother said she was indisposed she'll
35:00be the first person to hide from you she you mean Persephone well I certainly don't mean your mother
35:05you could shoot a man dead in the drawing room and she'd just smile indulgently and say my poor boy
35:10yes and the woman will still be calling me that when I'm 80 when you're 80 she'll be dead oh
35:14shut
35:14up Harry is that any chance Persephone's locked in the dungeon I am not a monster and she chose to
35:24accept me ah yes but without the benefit of the rather ingenious postscript you composed last night
35:30I don't think she realized you think I've made her miserable already
35:34she took this morning's farewells particularly hard you ought to have insisted her family stay
35:40longer so I'm the villain am I I wouldn't be surprised if you never saw the poor woman again
35:46as long as you lived in a place as enormous as this pile of rock she could avoid you for
35:52years
35:57where are you going my wife is indisposed I'm going to see for myself that she is well
36:05Adam I am not going to hurt the blasted woman you know me better than that
36:23am I am not going to hurt her if you just kill me but I'm feeling the only one thing
36:30that
36:30he was listening to me I have to say why she means her mother she emailed me so I am
36:31going to
36:31the right dog she wants to pray for her but she is okay this video for me and I am
36:31going to
36:31I am going to pray and let her know that her mother she was wondering what we have
36:31her mother she is saying yes and I can't do that
36:32her mother she is lying to her father and she wasn't able to pray for her
36:33as she had to pray for her I am the father and I have to pray for her
36:34this baby she almost as if why her mother she is asking her husband
36:34she is like her husband I have to pray for her then and she is saying I'm just
36:40a woman and I am going to pray for you you
37:30Oh, forgive me, Your Grace. I'm attempting to find the breakfast room. Please tell me you know how to reach
37:36it from here.
37:37I got lost a few times when I first started working here. Fauston Castle is quite a big place. Enormous.
37:44New rivals really ought to be provided with a map. This way, Your Grace, and I'll not tell anyone you
37:50were lost. Thank you.
37:53Mother, explain to Harry that you're not leaving Fauston Castle because I forced you to do so. It seems to
37:58think that I drive every person who ever comes here away with a scythe in one hand and a flaming
38:02torch in the other.
38:04A regular one-person blood-dusty mob. That's what you are. You really ought to think about employing pitchforks when
38:11you...
38:13Stephanie, come. Break your fast, dear. Kidneys? Eggs? Yes, please. Harry, will you please?
38:22I will prepare a plate for her mother.
38:24You need an inconvenience yourself.
38:27Please.
38:53Should I sit somewhere else?
38:55No. You can stay where you are.
38:59Will you be coming to town at Christmas time?
39:01I never go to town until absolutely necessary.
39:04You must convince my poor boy of the delights of London.
39:08I have never been to London.
39:11Well, then you absolutely must come as soon as possible.
39:15I shall positively love taking you round town and introducing you to just everyone.
39:22I'm certain you can pack quickly, Adam, and I could delay my departure by a day or so and we
39:26could all...
39:27I shall be forced to take her in the spring as it is.
39:30Forced?
39:32The season is such fun.
39:34How can you say forced?
39:36I despise London.
39:38But the Queen will be vexed if Persephone is not presented and there is one bother I could do without.
39:42Thus, I shall be forced to town.
39:46Do not let him burden you with even the tiniest amount of guilt, Your Grace.
39:49By spring, he will have gone months without insulting members of the Cabinet or any of the Royal Family.
39:54And will be itching for the opportunity.
39:58That is good to know.
40:00I suppose, as a good friend of the family, I ought to remain here indefinitely.
40:03And offer my insights into your grumbly husband.
40:07That is simply the sort of selfless person I am.
40:11Even selfless people can be thrown from the south parapet.
40:17I am beginning to suspect, Adam, that you do not like me very much.
40:21I will simply have to ponder the sorrow of this realisation.
40:26Your Grace.
40:29Your Grace.
40:33Your Grace.
40:38This could be confusing.
40:40You really ought to think of names for the three of you.
40:45All right.
40:45You.
40:47You.
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