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.
02:57I'll be right back.
03:00Oh, my God.
03:42To me, Persephone!
03:44Adam!
03:45Stay next to me. Stay next to me.
03:53John, interrupt to me.
03:56Take Atlas back if you can.
03:58We'll be quick about it. The pack wants to spook for long.
04:02Seven, arms around me.
04:04Hold fast. When we reach the road,
04:05we are going to run.
04:27Everyone is to beyond. The packs in the yards of the castles. When John Hanley is through that gate, they
04:32have to be closed immediately. Yes, sir.
04:34I'm so dizzy. Can you walk?
04:35I think so.
04:43She was thrown from a horse out of the forest.
04:45There's a possibility she's broken her ankle.
04:47Should 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 a route.
04:52They've never done that before.
04:54Persephone?
04:55Where is Mother?
04:57Drawing 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.
05:24Riding her bed.
05:26Mother?
05:28Help her to a seat, Harry.
05:32Madam?
05:35Can you take my boot off?
05:38It'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.
06:12Hold her still.
06:13I don't want to accidentally cut her.
06:29Yeah.
06:34I'm sorry, listen.
06:35I'm trying to be gentle.
06:38I'm trying to be gentle.
07:19I'm trying to be gentle.
07:26I'm trying to be gentle.
07:27I'm trying to be gentle.
07:39Adam?
07:51Yes, dear?
07:54Please stay with me.
08:02If you'll stay with me.
08:15Barton said you wanted to speak with me.
08:19How is it, Grace?
08:21Sleeping.
08:23I know it didn't seem to me talking to you in 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?
08:43While 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'd 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're Chris.
09:19John?
09:36Adam?
09:40May I speak with you, please?
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.
10:21And 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?
11:04The 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.
11:30What kind of an unnatural mother wishes to leave her child at such a time?
11:50Persephone is asking for you.
11:52She seems anxious.
12:14What is it, Persephone?
12:18I've been thinking back on my ride.
12:20I'm sure 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.
12:52At first I thought perhaps he'd been helping in the curing house or...
12:56Had slipped in a lard spiel in the kitchen.
12:58The scent was so strong I could still smell it.
13:01While you were riding.
13:04Exactly.
13:07The 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 has a green handkerchief round his neck?
13:33Jimmy.
13:34He's a newer one.
13:35Quiet lake.
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.
13:41He 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.
13:47There he is.
13:48Jimmy!
13:51Smith!
13:52Do not let him get past the gate!
13:54Stop it!
14:20This woman is Mr. Smith who tried to kill my wife.
14:26You took the only thing that mattered to me.
14:29Just trying to repay the favor, Gav.
14:32You'll answer this?
14:33Oh, no.
14:34I have a better idea.
14:38Put him in the gibbet.
14:40What?
14:41What?
14:42You 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!
14:51Ugh!
15:03I don't know.
15:34Dukes aren't supposed to need people to suffer.
16:05Dukes aren't supposed to suffer.
16:35Dukes aren't supposed to suffer.
16:53It is so good to have you here
16:58I am happy to see you again
17:01Don't
17:03I already missed a C
17:07If I don't
17:08I never missed home
17:15I believe he is home now
17:17And he is with me more
17:28Midshipman Lancaster
17:30If I had known that your intention in visiting here was to make your sister cry
17:34I would not have invited you
17:36You guessed why devious flocked with alarming precision, Your Grace
17:39Every young navy man wishes to bring their female relatives
17:42Into varying states of hysteria on every possible occasion
17:46And apparently you are also intent on bringing Persephone down to her deathbed
17:51Alas, it is true
17:53Though I have momentarily forgotten how I intend to do this
17:57By keeping her out of doors
17:59And in the cold
18:00Instead of inside, warm and off her feet
18:03Oh yes, I remember now
18:04Well I suppose, since you have guessed my plot
18:07I should have to abandon my ill-fated scheme
18:10It was inevitable
18:19Oh thank you
18:28I will see you inside, Linus
18:34You seem pleased
18:37I've missed my brother
18:39It'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
19:58When she was worrying about one of us
20:02She must have worried a lot
20:04Persephone held the family together
20:06After Mumar 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
20:21Unending 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
20:37Other than that
20:39The story of Persephone is his favourite
20:43Seems an odd favourite to me
20:46Not when you look at it as he does
20:48The park counts himself amongst the scholars of the classics
20:51Who believe that Hades didn't trick Persephone at all
20:54And that they both decided together
20:56That she'd eat the pomegranate seeds
20:58Because it meant that
20:59Nothing could prevent Persephone from returning to him
21:04But why would she return?
21:06It was the reason for her return
21:07That indeed the goddess of my father
21:11The seeds
21:12The seeds were symbolic
21:13Symbolic 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
21:36What I really ought to do
21:38Is hang you out your bedchamber windows
21:39By a bed sheet wrapped around your ankles
21:43Welcome back, old friend
21:46You've been shockingly softening
21:47Oh, shut up
21:49Harry
22:17What's the pomegranate thing?
22:19Don't that seed symbolize?
22:20What?
22:22In the Persephone myth
22:24Linus said the seeds are symbols
22:26Has 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
22:42Her love for him
22:45How could she love someone
22:46Who kept her prisoner?
22:49Papa always believed she came to know him
22:51Beyond his fearsome demeanor
22:52And came to love him
22:54Hades fell in love with Persephone as well
22:56She was his match
23:00But if they were so in love
23:02Then why did she leave at all?
23:05If she had eaten all the seeds
23:06She would have stayed forever
23:08Hades did not force her to remain
23:10Because her family needed her
23:13Hades never let anyone leave his realm
23:17Hades loved Persephone
23:23He let her go
23:25Because he loved her
23:27She returned because she loved him
23:30Hades never let anyone leave her
23:32Hades never let anyone leave 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
24:36Very often imagined doing so
24:39I had no intention of asking you to do yet another unpleasant thing today
24:43And yet
24:46I would enjoy dancing with you
24:50You would endure it, I'm certain
25:05I want to dance with you
25:08The musicians have all left
25:11We don't need them
25:19My leg is
25:22It's still too weak to hold me for long
25:26Then allow me
25:27To hold you
25:28I'm going 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 Fauston Castle.
26:41And where do I belong?
26:51Your family needs you.
26:54And what about you, Adam?
27:00You're listening to me.
27:21You're listening to me.
27:41you'd best not keep the horses standing mother
27:43it'll only take a moment
27:45and it is more important than me
27:47making a timely departure
27:51your father and I
27:53had an arranged marriage
27:56no accounting was made
27:57for the differences in our dispositions
28:00I was raised in town
28:02among society
28:06London
28:07the ton
28:08it's what I knew and needed
28:11your father was raised here
28:14in quiet and solitude
28:18we wanted very different things in life
28:24we tried to compromise
28:27to blend our preferences
28:31but he begrudged the balls and gatherings held here
28:34and came to rather despise my need for company
28:39he wouldn't have
28:40I will admit
28:42I likewise began to view my relationship to Halston and
28:46by extension him
28:50through a lens of bitterness
28:52I do not wish to hear this
28:54resentment grows quickly
28:55Adam
28:59your father was a good man
29:00despite his implacableness
29:05I held out hope for so long
29:08in my foolishly romantic heart
29:11that he would come for me while I was away
29:15he never did
29:18did you tell him
29:19that that was what you were hoping for
29:23I was so young
29:25only seventeen when we married
29:27in my naivete
29:30I believed that if he truly cared
29:32he would
29:33meet me part way
29:37you
29:38are more willing to compromise
29:40than your father ever was
29:43and Persephone is more suited
29:45to quiet and solitude
29:46than I ever will be
29:49she is your match
29:51Adam
29:53do not throw away this chance
29:55by making her guess
29:56at your feelings
30:22she has a point
30:23you know
30:27every other guest has left the castle
30:28Harry
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 Falstern
30:52and I know you well enough to predict
30:53that you will act as though
30:54you 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
31:20who disrupts it
31:21that isn't how it works
31:24how it works
31:28Persephone receives her reprieve
31:31and Hades stays in the underworld
31:33waiting to see if the seeds work
31:36obviously you were
31:37sleeping during that
31:39lecture at Harrow
31:42Hades does not sit back
31:43and wait for Persephone
31:45when the time came
31:46Hades slipped past
31:48the hellhounds
31:49and ventured into the realm
31:50of the living
31:51to reclaim his bride
31:54I do not remember that
31:58Hades was no
31:59Pamsi Fribble
32:00Adam
32:02and I'd bet
32:03that only his Persephone
32:05knew exactly how her husband
32:07felt about her
32:10tickets
32:11how it was
32:11seems to be
32:22and I feel the one
32:23like
32:23and that
32:27can be
32:27can be
32:27thankfully
32:35I'm�latsky
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 lying and saying that
33:05you seem to miss the castle.
33:11I do.
33:13Then why do you seem so sad
33:14whenever anyone mentions you going back?
33:16I do not really think it is because you'll miss us.
33:20Probably because I'm not entirely certain
33:22what I will find when I return.
33:26You could always just stay here.
33:30My heart is there.
33:33I hope the castle knows how fortunate he is.
33:57Adam.
34:02How have you come to take me home?
34:06When you're ready.
34:09But I...
34:10I wanted to see Shropshire.
34:14To see where you grew up.
34:16You did?
34:17and get to know your family.
34:24And I...
34:26I...
34:29Hades always went off to Persephone.
34:33Yes.
34:35He did.
34:39He waited as long as he had to.
34:42And then he left his kingdom
34:44and he did not come back
34:45until he found her.
34:48I think Hades must have missed his wife.
34:52I think he knew to the very minute
34:54how long she'd been gone.
34:57But was Persephone as anxious to return
34:59as he was to have her with him again?
35:01Yes.
35:02She was.
35:03Yes.
35:04No.
35:17Why did Hades go after her?
35:22He must have loved her.
35:24No.
35:24He did.
35:27He did more than he could even express.
35:29Yes.
35:30Yes.
35:31Yes.
35:33Yes.
35:33Yes.
35:34But...
35:37But did Persephone love him
35:38in spite of his flaws?
35:42In spite of deserving so much better
35:44than 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.
36:19I do love you, Adam.
36:23Oh.
36:32The Tom would not believe it
36:33even 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!
36:59Daphne!
37:01You realize she will bring the rest of the family
37:03and Fauston will be overrun with people?
37:10Well, there is probably a chance
37:13I will be in a foul mood
37:14from time to time.
37:17You may once again have to save me from myself.
37:23You have done that, do you know?
37:26Safety.
37:29Oh, 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.
37:55Always.
38:03Always.
38:05Always.
38:06Always.
38:07Always.
38:09Always.
38:09Always.
38:11Always.
38:12Always.
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