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 see you, Grace.
03:04Oh, my God.
03:42To me, Persephone!
03:44Adam!
03:45Stay next to me. Stay next to me.
03:53John, interrupt me.
03:55Hey, take Atlas back if you can.
03:58We'll be quick about it. The pack wants to spook for long.
04:02Seven, box 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.
04:30When John Hanley is through that gate,
04:32they have to be closed immediately.
04:33I'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 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 row.
04:52They've never done that before.
04:54Persephone?
04:55Where is Mother?
04:56Drawing room.
04:57Okay.
04:57Send 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 all what happens.
05:22Mother, I need your help.
05:23There's blood on her.
05:24Writing 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 and the strongest brandy Barton can find.
05:55Go.
05:56Help me, 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.
06:16I don't want to accidentally cut her.
06:17I don't want to accidentally cut her.
06:19Move me.
06:29Go.
06:34I'm sorry.
06:35I'm trying to be gentle.
06:37I don't know.
07:07I don't know.
07:38I don't know.
07:48Adam?
07:50Yes, dear.
07:54Please stay with me.
08:02If you'll stay with me.
08:04I don't know.
08:13I don't know.
08:54I don't know.
08:58I don't know.
08:59I don't know.
09:02I don't know.
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.
09:15Yes, you could.
09:18John?
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.
09:58Sometimes 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?
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.
11:27And I was grateful to go.
11:31Happy to.
11:34What kind of an unnatural mother wishes to leave her child at such a time?
11:39But...
11:50Persephone is asking for you.
11:52She seems anxious.
12:15What is it, Persephone?
12:18I've been thinking back on my ride.
12:20I'm sure that can wait until you're more fully rested.
12:23What happened today...
12:26I 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.
12:41And...
12:41The 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.
13:08Does he assist you often?
13:10Occasionally.
13:11Do you know his name?
13:12Um...
13:14He wears a green handkerchief round his neck.
13:16None of the others do.
13:18John 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...
13:25I plan to do far more than just talk.
13:30What's the name of the groom who has a green handkerchief round his neck?
13:33Uh, Jimmy.
13:34He's a newer one.
13:35Quiet lake. Keeps to himself.
13:36Any idea where I might find this Jimmy?
13:38Last I saw of him, he was at the back of the stable.
13:41Where he helped to craze mount 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.
13:49Jimmy!
13:51Smith!
13:52Do not let him get past the gate!
13:54Stop it!
13:55Who has the fault!
14:13Boom!
14:16Come on.
14:17Oh, I'm so sorry!
14:19What about you see?
14:19Crushing up once.
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.
14:32You'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.
14:57I am the law.
15:34Dukes aren't supposed to need people for suffering.
15:37I am the law.
15:41I am the law.
16:03I am the law.
16:06I am the law.
16:13I am the law.
16:14I am the law.
16:15I am the law.
16:30I am the law.
16:41I am the law.
16:47I am the law.
16:59I am the law.
17:02I am the law.
17:09I am the law.
17:14I am the law.
17:19I am the law.
17:20I am the law.
17:47I am the law.
17:53I am the law.
17:55Dr. Burton, how do 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 inside, Linus.
18:34You seem pleased.
18:36I'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 the 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.
19:09You have no idea.
19:32All right.
19:35I'll see you.
19:37Yes, sir.
19:40Great joy.
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.
20:04Persephone held with the family together after 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 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.
20:37Other 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.
20:48Farcans 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.
21:36What I really ought to do is hang you out your bedchamber windows by a bedsheet wrapped around your ankles.
21:43Welcome back, old friend.
21:46You've been shockingly soft lately.
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 afar.
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.
23:57It was his time.
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...
24:47I 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.
25:18But my leg is...
25:22It's still too weak to hold me for long.
25:26Then allow me to hold you?
25:29It was a second.
25:57But don't do it.
26:07Linus leaves for Stropfer 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?
27:02Do you have any purpose?
27:07I don't know.
27:41You'd best not keep the horses standing, mother.
27:44It'll only take a moment, and it is more important than me making a timely departure.
27:51Your father and I had an arranged marriage.
27:56No accounting was made for the differences in our dispositions.
28:00I was raised in town, among society.
28:06London, the tonne, it's what I knew and needed.
28:11Your father was raised here, in quiet and solitude.
28:18We wanted very different things in life.
28:24We tried to compromise, to blend our preferences.
28:31But he begrudged the balls and gatherings held here, and came to rather despise my need for company.
28:39He wouldn't have...
28:40I will admit, I likewise began to view my relationship to Fulsternan, by extension him, through a lens of bitterness.
28:52I do not wish to hear this.
28:54Resentment grows quickly, Adam.
28:59Your 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.
29:18Did you tell him that that was what you were hoping for?
29:22I was so young, only seventeen when we married.
29:27In my naivete, I believed that if he truly cared, he would meet me partway.
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'm 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
30:53that 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, Harry.
31:10You miss her.
31:12And she deserves to know that.
31:16She is happy with her family.
31:18How then could I be part of her family?
31:21Who disrupts her?
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
31:49and 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 bet if only his Persephone
32:05knew exactly how her husband
32:07felt about her.
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.
32:54You 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 you 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 really 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.
33:36I hope the castle knows how fortunate he is.
33:58Adam.
33:59Adam.
34:02Have you come to take me home?
34:05When you're ready.
34:08But I...
34:10I wanted to see Shropshire.
34:13To see where you grew up.
34:16You did?
34:19And...
34:20And get to know your family.
34:25And I...
34:29Hades always went off to Persephone.
34:34Yes.
34:35He 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.
35:03She was.
35:17Why did Hades go after her?
35:22He must have loved her.
35:24No.
35:25He did.
35:27He did more than he could even express.
35:29Yes.
35:30Yes.
35:31Yes.
35:33Yes.
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.
36:19I do love you, Adam.
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, you could undertake one then.
36:58Athena!
36:59Daphne!
37:01You realize she will bring the rest of the family and Fauston will be overrun with people?
37:10Well, there is probably a chance I 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?
37:26Safe, dear.
37:31Oh, my Persephone.
37:34Do you know that I would have come for you, no matter how far you've gone?
37:42Hades always came for Placephanie.
37:48And she always returned home.
37:54Always.
38:02And I
38:04I
38:04I
38:10I
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