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Seeking Persephone S01E01 (2026) | English Subtitles | Drama Romance | HD
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00:21We're with Anna, Artemis?
00:23I don't know why we have to do this.
00:26Because we like to eat.
00:27But we only pay pennies.
00:29Pennies that keep our family from dire straits.
00:31I do not enjoy washing the neighborhood's laundry any more than you do,
00:34but being upset about it won't change our situation.
00:51Open the door, sweetheart.
00:52I have had an attrition stay. Now 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.
01:07I will be many things if that happens, my sweet little Artemis.
01:09But above all, I will not be surprised.
01:14She has died for far less than this in the past.
01:43I was father wondering again.
01:55Stephanie, you're home.
01:58Was father wondering again?
02:00Until a letter came. Then he went back up to his study.
02:03Did he say whom the letter was from?
02:06You know father doesn't usually talk to me.
02:08Well, once I cleaned the clatter 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.
02:20Thank you for Stephanie.
02:22Call Stephanie.
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 sweet from the confectionery shop?
02:45That was tragic.
02:46But not the reason you're expiring on the floor.
02:48I didn't see my friend.
02:50I watched for him and he didn't come.
02:53He hasn't been ever so long and it's deeply devastating.
02:57Is 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.
03:19Of 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.
03:27Thank you, thank you, thank you.
03:29You're very welcome, my darling little otteress.
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.
03:49Isn'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.
03:57I want to continue hoping a 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.
04:08Certainly, I do.
04:11Artemis's spirit's not being dampened by the heaviness of life.
04:14Daphne finding a friend who helps if you're 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 do not 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?
05:13Evander? Linus?
05:15Oh, no. I haven't heard anything about you 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.
05:58The 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.
06:33Mr. Lancaster, I 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 50,000 upon
06:47yourself for the sake of your sons.
06:48The ceremony will take place October the 1st at the Fulston Chapel.
06:53Please reply as to your intentions.
06:56Yours, etc.
07:00Kilda.
07:02It is certainly not the most romantic nor flattering of proposals, to be sure.
07:07The ceremony will take place.
07:10There is not the slightest acknowledgement.
07:11The 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, I couldn't say I have not met the current Duke.
07:38What is his father like?
07:41No.
07:42Dull as dishwater.
07:47But his mother is an active soul.
08:06One hundred thousand pounds?
08:08I can hardly comprehend such a son.
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!
08:22We 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.
08:40The Duke 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.
09:08If 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.
09:30What do you mean to accept the Duke's offer?
09:53Who 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.
10:30Try to resist the urge to run through any of the wedding guests.
10:39The devil is she.
10:42Another five minutes and I'll go retrieve for myself.
10:58When is this going to start?
11:00I'm hungry.
11:01Artemis.
11:03It's okay.
11:03You'll be fine.
11:12It's time to come after all.
11:13It's time to come after all.
11:18I'm hungry.
11:24It's time to come after all.
11:27Baby.
11:28I need to know.
11:29I know.
11:30I know.
11:33You're ready.
11:34I know.
11:40I know.
11:41I know.
11:43I know.
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,
12:08signifying 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 giveth myself.
12:55Take her right hand in yours.
13:04I, Adam Richard Boyce, Duke of Kilda, Marquess of Faustin, Earl of Faustin, Vicampinus, Baron Faustin, Baron Whiteley,
13:09take thee to be my wedded wife, to have and to hold from this day forward, for better, for worse,
13:13for richer, for poorer,
13:14in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish till death do us part according to God's holy ordinance,
13:18and thereto I plight thee my troth.
13:27I, Persephone...
13:28Ridiculous.
13:35Lancaster, do you take thee to be my wedded husband, to have and to hold from this day forward, for
13:47better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and health,
13:52to love and to love and to cherish till death do us part according to God's holy ordinance, and thereto
14:00I give thee my troth.
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.
15:24He's particularly fond of Greek mythology.
15:27Entirely too fond, you don't 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.
15:40Founder is fourteen, Linus thirteen.
15:43Daphne will be twelve 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.
15:58Iphergenia.
16:00Iphergenia.
16:01Persephone Iphergenia.
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.
16:13It 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.
16:29You 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.
17:10Who is Harry?
17:16The world.
17:23Is you ever when?
17:57Calling me Adam will be fine.
18:00It's happening.
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.
19:08But 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.
19:24The Drawn Room.
19:26A favourite of Queen Elizabeth, when she stayed at Fauston Castle in 1580.
19:34Do members of the royal family still visit Fauston?
19:38Heavens no!
19:40They wouldn't dare.
19:42This is the Grand Banquet Hall, which has hosted feasts for some of the most significant and influential people in
19:50the kingdom over 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 a permit.
20:31The bell pull is beside the fireplace, should you require anything.
21:24This is never going to work.
21:42I 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 the 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.
22:10I may have held an ebbe to his throat once or twice, but he's never in any real danger.
22:15Well, perhaps his fear has something to do with your less than pristine reputation, Adam.
22:19Rumor has it, you've run through a few men in your time.
22:22Rumor has it, I've done quite a few things.
22:26And 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?
22:43No, no, don't tell me.
22:45Smiled too much while discussing the estate investments.
22:49No, did 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 stupidest sitting in one's bookroom 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, Pat.
24:12Extraneous limb.
24:13Her name.
24:16Is Persephone.
24:18A man ought to know a thing like that about his future wife.
24:22Persephone Iphigenia.
24:24Oh, what 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.
24:48But that is to be expected considering the upheaval in her life.
24:52I'll confess.
24:54I had expected someone rather long in the tooth.
24:58Rather long in the face.
25:01In all honesty.
25:02So had I.
25:04But she's a fetching thing.
25:07Young and...
25:09quite pretty.
25:16You expected someone desperate and ugly and undesirable.
25:27Instead, 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 curmudgeon in a draughty
25:41castle in the wilds of Northumberland.
25:43And now, because she is young and fine-looking, seems to be good-natured and potentially enjoyable company,
25:53the poor girl is upstairs, alone, probably wondering what she's done wrong, while you are down here brooding.
26:04Adam.
26:06You 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 suffering it.
26:28Good night, Adam.
26:29Good night.
26:30Your song shows loud.
26:35And Adam.
26:36What?
26:38Give the poor girl a chance.
26:40It's not her fault you've ended up with every man's idea of a perfect wife.
27:35Are you going to be lonely without us, Persephone?
27:38Are you going to be lonely without us, Persephone?
27:42I don't know.
27:42I am going to be lonely without you.
27:43I am going to be lonely without you.
27:44I am going to be lonely without you.
27:47I do not know that anyone will remember to talk to me when you are not here.
27:52I am certain everything will be fine.
27:54you don't need to worry about us
27:59write and tell me about
28:00all the things you're reading
28:09I love you
28:10I love you too
28:13hey Kays
28:15I do not want to go
28:17let me speak with her
28:23oh my dear girl you're crying
28:25he did not make you stay here
28:28no one is making me stay here dearest
28:31Alston Castle is my home now
28:33I will send you letters
28:35perhaps with the gimme under the seal
28:37you could come here
28:39we could explore the castle together
28:41he won't let me
28:43of course he will
28:44we will have grand adventures
28:47perhaps
28:48there is a tower room
28:50where we can imagine
28:51all sorts of wonderful stories
28:53the way we always did at home
28:54do you promise?
28:56I promise
28:58you will take care of me
29:00when you're gone
29:01Papa will engage a governess
29:03for both you and Daphne
29:05a companion for Athena
29:07when you're all in town
29:08will you visit us there?
29:11of course
29:12Daphne?
29:13yes my dear
29:14we will take care of you
29:16we will be happy
29:17even though we're gone
29:24oh we're
29:28when have you known me to be unhappy?
29:30then I will be happy too
29:32but if I don't leave now
29:33I will cry again
29:34and I do not want to cry
29:36anymore
29:36then let us promise each other
29:39not to cry
29:41yes
29:43good
29:43I will see you soon
29:44be good for Papa
29:46I will
29:47I love you dearest
29:49I love you too
29:50Persephone
29:51you're the best mama
29:52I've ever had
29:57you're the best mama
30:01you're the best mama
30:04you're the best mama
30:16you're the best mama
30:21you're the best mama
30:22you're the best mama
30:22you're the best mama
30:22you're the best mama
30:23you're the best mama
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?
30:39To 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.
31:00The best mom was she ever had.
31:41The best mom was she ever had.
32:0924 hours into this ill-conceived marriage and my wife is already in the back of a god and sobbing.
32:27How long into your marriage did mother start crying?
32:37And when did that stop making you feel like a monster?
32:53The End
32:53The End
33:31Your Grace.
33:37Good evening. Are you feeling well, child?
33:42I am excessively tired.
33:45Do not fret yourself over dinner, dear. I'll have a tray sent to your room. You rest.
34:38You told me you'd call me out today. Never did.
34:41I've decided to shoot you first thing in the morning. Go to sleep so I can load my pistols in
34:48peace.
34:49Your mother said the new Duchess was indisposed this evening. Any idea what you meant by that?
34:55As mother said, she was indisposed.
34:59She wouldn't be the first person to hide from you.
35:01She? You mean Persephone?
35:03Well, I certainly don't mean your mother. You could shoot a man dead in the drawing room and she'd just
35:07smile indulgently and say,
35:09My poor boy.
35:10Yes, and the woman will still be calling me that when I'm 80.
35:12When you're 80, she'll be dead.
35:14Oh, shut up, Harry.
35:17Is there any chance Persephone's locked in the dungeon room?
35:21I am not a monster. And she chose to accept me.
35:25Ah, yes. But without the benefit of the rather ingenious postscript you composed last night.
35:30I don't think she realized...
35:31You think I've made her miserable already?
35:34She took this morning's farewells particularly hard.
35:38You ought to have insisted her family stay longer.
35:41So I'm the villain, am I?
35:44I wouldn't be surprised if you never saw the poor woman again as long as you lived.
35:47In a place as enormous as this pile of rock.
35:51She could avoid you for years.
35:57Where are you going?
36:00My wife is indisposed.
36:02I'm going to see for myself that she is well.
36:05Adam, I am not going to hurt the blasted woman.
36:11You know me better than that.
36:59You know me better than that.
37:10I'm going to let myself see you tonight.
37:30oh forgive me your grace i'm attempting to find the breakfast room please tell me you know how
37:36to reach it from here i got lost a few times when i first started working here faustin castle is
37:41quite a big place enormous new rivals really ought to be provided with a map
37:48this way your grace and i'll not tell anyone you were lost thank you mother explain to harry that
37:54you're not leaving faustin castle because i forced you to do so it seems to think that i drive every
37:59person who ever comes here away with a scythe in one hand and a flaming torch in the other a
38:04regular
38:05one-person bloodthirsty mob that's what you are you really ought to think about employing pitchforks
38:11when you
38:14dislephony come break your fast yeah kidneys eggs yes please harry will you please i will prepare
38:23a plate for her mother you needn't inconvenience yourself please
38:46thank you
38:53should i sit somewhere else no you can stay where you are
38:59will you be coming to town at christmas time i never go to town until absolutely necessary
39:04you must convince my poor boy of the delights of london i have never been to london
39:11well then you absolutely must come as soon as possible i should positively love taking you
39:17around town and introducing you to just everyone i'm certain you can pack quickly adam and i could
39:25delay my departure by a day or so and we could all i shall be forced to take her in
39:28the spring
39:29as it is forced the season is such fun how can you say forced i despise london but the queen
39:39will be vexed if persephone is not presented and there is one bother i could do without thus
39:43i shall be forced to town do not let him burden you with even the tiniest amount of guilt your
39:48grace
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 that is good to know i suppose as a good friend of the
40:02family i ought to remain here indefinitely and offer my insights into your grumbly husband
40:07that is simply the sort of selfless person i am even selfless people can be thrown from the south
40:14parapet i am beginning to suspect adam that you do not like me very much i will simply have to
40:22ponder
40:23the sorrow of this realization your grace your grace your grace
40:38this could be confusing you really ought to think of names for the three of you
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