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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.
01:45I've seen it.
01:55Yes.
01:57I was like this.
02:00Yes, it is.
02:00Yes.
02:02Yes.
02:03Yes.
02:13Yes, yes.
02:15you've learned today? It's ever so interesting and terribly useful. Cannot wait. Thank you,
02:21Persephone. Call Stephanie. You did say this might happen. Yes, I did. And what has brought
02:37you to such a horrible end this time? My 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? That was tragic.
02:47But not the reason you're expiring on the floor. I 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. Is this the friend
02:57I can't see? The friend you don't see. Ah. Do you think your friend would visit you again
03:03if we had bread pudding tonight? Bread pudding? I have a bit of stale bread and Mrs. Sanford
03:09gave me some cream. I think we should have bread pudding tonight. It's not even my birthday.
03:14Bread pudding is quite possibly my favourite thing in all the world. Of course, if you
03:20are dead on the floor, you won't be able to have any. I'm all better. It is a miracle.
03:27Thank you, thank you, thank you. You're very welcome, my darling little otteress.
03:36How do you like the latest fashions? They're not the latest. Mrs. Upton gave me these because
03:41she received the most recent version, but they are very nearly the latest. That is gorgeous.
03:48Isn't it? I've added it to my list of dreams. That must be quite the list by now. Isn't that
03:54what dreaming is for? Believing in those things you feel you'll never have and want to continue
03:58hoping are possible, like 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. Certainly, I do. Artemis' spirits not being dampened by the heaviness
04:13of life. Daphne finding a friend who helps to feel seen and cared about. Evander and Linus
04:19returning home to us whole. Far from guarantee for too much shipment in the Navy during all
04:25time. I should have done more to keep them home and safe. There's nothing more you could
04:29have done. I could have taken in more laundry or reduced my portions at mealtime so I could
04:33have gone without fires in my room. And 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.
04:47Yeah, seeing this family happy is dream enough for me.
04:52Fetch Daphne and Artemis and take them to the kitchen. I do not know how frustrating
04:56he might be this time.
05:02Have you received a letter?
05:08We have a very significant problem.
05:11What has happened, Papa? Evander? Linus?
05:14Oh, no, I haven't heard anything about your brothers.
05:22I 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 is settled on you, though he cannot even be remotely acquainted
06:05with our family.
06:06The Duke?
06:07Of course, dear. The 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. After all, I do not know his grace, or any grace for
06:24that matter.
06:32Mr. Lancaster.
06:35I am requesting the hand of your eldest daughter in marriage.
06:39I am prepared to settle upon your three remaining daughters, 20,000 each for their dowries, and
06:4550,000 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.
07:00Gilda.
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 defined.
07:15This offer amounts to more than £100,000.
07:28What is the Duke of Kilda like?
07:31Like?
07:34Well, I couldn't say I have not met the current Duke.
07:38What was his father like?
07:43Dull as dishwater.
07:47But his mother is an active soul.
08:06One hundred thousand pounds?
08:08I can hardly comprehend such a sum.
08:12It is more than five hundred years worth our current income.
08:16It is more than five times the income of the Duke of Sussex, and he is son of the King.
08:20Good heavens, we would have food enough to eat.
08:23We would not need to wash laundry for pennies.
08:27The 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.
08:37It would save generations of our family.
08:40Duke of Kilda might be prone to anger or unkindness.
08:44What if he mistreats you?
08:45What if being married to him makes you miserable for the rest of your life?
08:48It is also possible he will be kind and considerate.
08:52You don't know anything about him?
08:55Only that he clearly has a tremendous amount of money and wishes to marry me.
08:59He gave no indication why.
09:00You needn't simply accept this offer.
09:02One may yet come from someone that you at least know won't treat you abominably.
09:06There will be no other offers.
09:09If I do not accept this one, our family will sink further.
09:12Even the simple hopes we currently have will be out of reach.
09:15Then all of your hopes will be snatched away.
09:17This family's happiness is worth every sacrifice.
09:20Isn't your happiness worth something as well?
09:23Artemis has always told the tale of Hades and Persephone quite accurately.
09:27Persephone doesn't get to be happy.
09:30And you mean to accept the Duke's offer?
09:52Who invited all of these people?
09:56I did.
09:57It is not every day my poor boy takes a bride.
10:01This was supposed to be a quiet ceremony.
10:04I do not believe Miss Lancaster has invited anyone beyond her own immediate family.
10:09I did not intend to cause awkwardness, Adam.
10:12I only wish to celebrate.
10:27I wonder if the chit will actually turn off.
10:29Try to resist the urge to run through any of the wedding guests.
10:39What the devil is she?
10:41Another five minutes and I'll go retrieve for myself.
10:58When is this going to start?
11:00I'm hungry.
11:01I'm hungry, Artemis.
11:02Oh my god, you'll be fine.
11:11It's starting to come after all.
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,
12:04an honorable estate instituted of God in the time of man's innocence,
12:09signifying unto us the mystical union betwixt Christ and his 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 kingdom?
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.
13:03I, Adam Richard Boyce, Duke of Kilda, Marquess of Faustin, Earl of Faustin,
13:18and thereto I plight thee my troth.
13:27I, Persephone,
13:28Ridiculous.
13:32Lancaster,
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13:41To take thee to be my wedded husband,
13:44to have and to hold from this day forward for better or worse,
13:49for richer, for poorer, in sickness and health,
13:52to love and to cherish, till death do us part, according to God's holy ordinance,
13:59and thereto I give thee my truth.
14:02Is that everything?
14:03Not usually.
14:05Can it be?
14:06I suppose all the truly essential bits have been seen to.
14:11Those whom God hath 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, if you want to see.
15:29Are 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?
15:39Athena 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.
16:03Did 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?
16:23It sounds as though I am accusing you of a crime.
16:28You would no doubt prefer Agamemnon or Apollo or 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.
16:54No one acquiesce.
17:22So please do.
17:57Calling me Adam will be fine, but Stephanie?
18:14Mrs. 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,
20:09but 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,
20:33should you require anything.
20:35you Aaah, you fare to get connected.
21:04You, he should have to walk away.
21:04You road that you don't need your bedchamber with people.
21:04You should have to walk away
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.
28:13Be case.
28:15I do not want to go!
28:17Let me speak with her.
28:23Oh, my dear girl, you're crying.
28:25He could not make you stay here.
28:28No one is making me stay here, dearest.
28:31Folsom Castle is my home now.
28:33I will send you letters.
28:35Perhaps with the gimme under the seal, you could come here.
28:39We could explore the castle together.
28:41He won't let me.
28:43Of course, you know.
28:44We will have grand adventures.
28:48Perhaps there is a tower room where we can imagine all sorts of wonderful stories,
28:53the way we always did at home.
28:54Do you promise?
28:56I promise.
28:58Who will take care of me when you're gone?
29:01Papa will engage a governess.
29:03For both you and Daphne.
29:05A companion for Athena when you're all in town.
29:09Will you visit us there?
29:11Of course.
29:12Daphne.
29:13Yes, my dear.
29:15We will take care of you.
29:17We'll be happy even though we're gone.
29:24I will.
29:28When have you known me to be unhappy?
29:31Then I will be happy too, but if I don't leave now I will cry again and I do not
29:35want to cry anymore.
29:37Then let us promise each other not to cry.
29:41Yes.
29:43Good.
29:43I will see you soon.
29:45Be good for Papa.
29:46I will.
29:47I love you, dearest.
29:49I love you too, Persephone.
29:51You're the best mama I've ever had.
30:19You're the best mama I've ever had.
30:29I thought you weren't supposed to cry.
30:33Artemis is crying as well, I'm certain of it.
30:36Then why make the promise?
30:38To lessen her pain.
30:42If my sister knew I was crying it would break her heart.
30:47But you know she is crying.
30:51I know her better than she knows me.
30:54I know her better than she knows me.
31:00Best mama she ever had.
31:29I know her better than her.
31:33I love you, Peter.
31:35I know her better than her better than you.
31:36I know her better than her.
31:37In her womb, it was a lifelong hair.
31:39I don't know her better than her.
31:40I know her better than her.
31:41I know her better than her.
31:46Maybe I'll see you soon, as soon as she married.
31:47I could not rest at her.
32:0924 hours into this ill-conceived marriage and my wife is already in the back of a guard
32:15and sobbing
32:27how long until your marriage did mother start crying
32:37and when did that stop making you feel like a monster
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38:09You really ought to think about employing pitchforks when you...
38:13Stephanie.
38:15Come.
38:16Break your fast, dear.
38:18Kidneys? Eggs? Yes, please.
38:21Harry, 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.
39:09I have never been to London.
39:11Well, then you absolutely must come as soon as possible.
39:15I should 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. How 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, and
39:55will 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, and offer my insights into
40:05your 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 realization.
40:26Your Grace.
40:29Your Grace.
40:33Your Grace.
40:34Your Grace.
40:38This could be confusing.
40:40You really ought to think of names for the three of you.
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