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Seeking Persephone - Season 1 - Episode 02: Part 2
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00:00You, my dear, have received an offer of marriage.
00:03A what?
00:04From an incredibly wealthy gentleman with an old and prestigious title.
00:09Good heavens, I do not know his grace, or any grace for that matter.
00:13This family's happiness is worth every sacrifice.
00:16And you mean to accept the Duke's offer?
00:19Dearly beloved, we are gathered here together in the sight of God
00:23to join together this man and this woman in holy matrimony.
00:27Is your name really Persephone?
00:29It is. Did you not think to ask?
00:32I had expected someone rather bonk in the tooth.
00:35So had I.
00:36Give the poor girl a chance.
00:38It's not her fault you've ended up with every man's idea of a perfect wife.
00:4424 hours into this ill-conceived marriage and my wife is already sobbing.
00:50This is never going to work.
01:02Dear Persephone, we've been home for two days now and I am nearly dead with boredom.
01:07Athena spends all her time practicing country dances.
01:11I do not think she will find a husband dancing like she does.
01:15No gentleman would want to marry someone who dances like a cow.
01:18I am running around like a heathen and terrorizing the neighborhood.
01:23It's lovely.
01:24I wish you were here so we could be heathens together.
01:28When can I come explore your towers?
01:30You did promise.
01:32I will have my birthday in London, Daphne says.
01:35I will invite you.
01:37If the Duke wants to come he can too, even if he never did talk to me once while I
01:41was at his castle.
01:43Please write to me.
01:45Be sure to put the guinea under the seal.
01:48Your sister Artemis.
01:54You seem in good spirits this afternoon.
01:57I've been reading a letter from my younger sister, Mr Windover.
02:02We are practically brother and sister.
02:04We needn't be on such formal towns.
02:08Do you miss your family, Harry?
02:10Being here as long as you have been?
02:13I consider Adam my brother.
02:16Being here is being with family.
02:21How is it that the two of you are so close?
02:24He is so hostile towards you.
02:28Adam is hostile towards everyone.
02:30It is just the way he is.
02:33Does he never show any tenderness of feeling?
02:39Not in the two decades I've known him.
02:42Then you forged a friendship with someone who was already adversarial.
02:49Adam saved my skin.
02:52I was something of a runt.
02:54And the other boys at Harrow found that grounds for torturing me.
02:59Adam put a stop to that.
03:01They took orders from him.
03:03They were afraid of him.
03:05They still are.
03:08Everyone is.
03:11But he would have only been seven or eight years old.
03:14Seven.
03:15He was a force to be reckoned with.
03:18By the time he was a shell, he ran Harrow.
03:22Shell?
03:23The youngest year.
03:24Some of the boys, now grown gentlemen of course, still whimper when they see him.
03:28To be so utterly terrifying when he was only a child.
03:33Well, it wasn't that exactly.
03:37He was...
03:38Still is remarkably intelligent.
03:43And he is authoritative.
03:45Kind of man few people question.
03:47Even at seven he was very much that way.
03:51And he is utterly unafraid.
03:55There is nothing that frightens him.
03:58Nothing that intimidates him.
04:08Why won't he ever look at me?
04:12What do you mean?
04:14Never mind.
04:20He never looked at you.
04:25Huh.
04:27That is out of character for him.
04:29Adam usually faces problems directly.
04:32I'm a problem, then?
04:35Poor choice of words on my part.
04:38A great deal has changed lately.
04:41Adam does tend to get more...
04:43I don't know.
04:47Prickly.
04:48When he has a lot in his mind.
04:51So you're saying I shouldn't give up yet?
04:54If I had given up on Adam for being grumpy,
04:57we wouldn't be friends.
04:59How long did it take for him to stop being...
05:02prickly with you?
05:03He still is.
05:06Adam would never admit it.
05:08But he knows I refuse to be bullied.
05:11And I think he respects that.
05:13He keeps trying.
05:15But I think he hopes it'll never work.
05:18So he doesn't like people who are intimidated by him?
05:22He doesn't respect them.
05:24That is a little different.
05:26It is a great deal different to Adam.
05:29Adam likes his mother.
05:31But he doesn't respect her?
05:33Mother Harriet,
05:34I've called it that since I was a boy,
05:36has made something of a hobby out of pitying Adam.
05:41And he doesn't like that?
05:42Ha! Frustrates...
05:46Frustrates him.
05:50If Adam does not like people to be afraid of him,
05:53why does he go to such lengths to make certain they are?
05:59I have my theories.
06:02That Adam's motivations are not a topic I am willing to discuss.
06:07I am attempting to find my place here,
06:09and claim a degree of equanimity with my new husband.
06:16I need help if I am to have any hope of understanding Adam.
06:21Most people do not even try.
06:23But he is worth sorting out Persephone.
06:27I promise you.
06:30He is.
06:37He really never looks at you.
06:43Something about you has ruffled him.
06:48Nothing...
06:49ruffles Adam.
07:23Just saw you Grace, he is a bit skittish this morning.
07:25It has been so cold and all.
07:27Haven't you a horse that isn't skittish about cold?
07:29What?
07:30Atlas behaves in the cold?
07:32Who named the horse Atlas?
07:34His grace did.
07:37And his grace does not think it a ridiculous name?
07:39It being Greek and mythological.
07:42He named his own monk Zeus.
07:45That would be one of them heathen gods and all.
07:48Such names are not ridiculous for horses.
07:53Then I had best search the forest for a sorceress to transform me into a horse.
07:58Lest I spend the rest of my life doomed to a constant state of ridiculousness.
08:03You would make an atrocious horse, Persephone.
08:05On that we can agree.
08:15What brings you out this early?
08:17I was hoping to attempt to ride again.
08:20How long have you been out of the saddle?
08:22Ten years.
08:25And you were going to attempt to ride alibi?
08:29I know you Grace.
08:30The Duchess was just asking if you were ailing or upset.
08:34I was thinking Atlas would be good for a Grace.
08:38It's a good choice.
08:42Are you really going to try riding again?
08:45To be perfectly honest, I'm not certain one could accurately call my previous experience riding.
08:51Our neighbours, the Uptons, allowed me to ride a pony of theirs on occasion as a child.
08:55If memory serves, it was aged and did little more than shift its weight.
09:01Steady, steady.
09:03She's calm and steady, your Grace.
09:06She'll not hurt you.
09:07May I feed her a carrot?
09:10The Uptons' pony was fond of carrots.
09:12Well, perhaps the poor thing waddled so much because he was overfed.
09:17That's it, girl.
09:19That's it.
09:25If she and Atlas part company see to it that Joan has her brought up to the castle.
09:31Don't you want to even see her try?
09:32I've seen enough people quit in my lifetime without witnessing the same thing again.
09:36I think she'll surprise you.
09:48Heyyyyyy.
09:49I just went that way over on.
09:50I've been over?
09:51Yap.
10:37You have had quite a few riding lessons now.
10:39Are you feeling more confident in the saddle?
10:41Quite a bit more.
10:43Tomorrow I intend to attempt to jump the castle wall.
10:46Atlas doesn't know yet.
10:47Yeah.
10:51Just my luck, I'll miss that.
10:53Miss it?
10:54I am for Hoyk in the morning.
10:57Are you certain you couldn't leave tonight?
11:01Do you go to Scotland often?
11:04I have an aunt and uncle in Hoyk.
11:06They are always asking me to come for a visit.
11:07And I am always asking you to leave.
11:09How is it that their requests are adhered to and mine are ignored?
11:13Because I know you do not actually want me to go.
11:24I have never been to Scotland.
11:26You live a stone's throw from it now.
11:28Perhaps you and Adam could gad about Hadrian's Wall sometime.
11:31I do not gad about.
11:33I have not ever been to Shropshire.
11:35Though I hear it is beautiful.
11:38I admit to being very biased on the matter.
11:41But I think it is the most beautiful area of England.
11:44All my family does.
11:46Athena waxes poetic about it quite often.
11:49Evander's letters regularly mention missing Shropshire.
11:53Have you heard from either of your young Navy brothers recently?
11:58The last letter I had from Evander indicated the triumphant the ship they are serving on was not far from
12:04Spain.
12:07There's a great deal of activity in that part of the world just now.
12:13I worry over the boys almost constantly.
12:18And I worry about my sisters and my father.
12:22About quite a few people, truth be told.
12:28Well, rest assured, Persephone.
12:31You needn't worry about me while I am away.
12:33My aunt and uncle will fuss over me more than sufficiently,
12:37leaving you ample energy for gadding about with Adam.
12:41I do not gad about.
12:50I do not gad about.
12:51I do not gad with him.
12:53I do not gad with him.
12:57I do not gad with him anymore.
13:00I do not gad with him.
13:05I do not gad with him.
13:10It is the only one.
13:10I do not you have to gad with him.
13:18After his sister goes who he lives before him,
13:18I do not cat for a woman.
13:20He does not have a woman at all.
13:20I do notarez.
13:21That is получилось, sir.
13:49Good afternoon, Adam.
13:51I will not intrude on your solitude for long.
13:54This has arrived and I wish to explain.
13:57Please sit.
14:01I'm fine.
14:02I'm not asking for your comfort, but for my own.
14:05I have no desire to strain my neck looking up as you loom over me.
14:19Now will you open the parcel?
14:20You said you wanted to explain?
14:22After you open it.
14:41You cannot ride without a proper riding habit.
14:45I ordered it because you need one and I did not think you knew where to obtain it.
14:50You ordered this for me.
14:52I don't know that it is the color you would have chosen, but blue seemed a good option.
14:59You'll need it when you ride regardless of its color.
15:02You must have great faith in my ability to learn to ride.
15:06Thus far I am proving a very poor pupil.
15:10Quite a bit better yesterday.
15:12You watched me.
15:15With Harry gone, I have a lot of time on my hands.
15:18Your boots will take longer to arrive.
15:20Well, you've ordered boots for me as well.
15:21Well, yeah, house slippers are hardly appropriate for riding.
15:23I haven't been wearing slippers.
15:25You might as well have been.
15:32I don't know what to say, Adam.
15:35It's not necessary for you to say anything.
15:37I only wish to explain.
15:41Thank you, Adam.
15:43This is probably the most beautiful thing I've ever owned.
15:47And it'll be warm.
15:48You chose a good color.
15:49I do like blue.
15:53Oh, I, um, I nearly forgot.
15:57This has arrived for you as well.
16:01I shall leave you to your letter.
16:20Vissefni?
16:25There has been a battle at sea.
16:28You know, keep Trafalgar.
16:32The triumph sustained heavy losses.
16:38And your brothers?
16:41Linus' food is unknown.
16:51Evander is dead.
17:01Oh!
17:05dat�
17:09Oh...
17:10Zach!
17:15Don't deal a good money...
17:18Sorry, David.
17:21And Tyrony will take revenge and wait on us.
17:21Are you hoping forraum or woman to turn the knot at the monstrous end,
17:22the hysterial港, who st� in the trap,
17:22the safe space afterquestionbert?
17:22Oh.
17:22No!
17:22I think I'll never explain!
17:28She's in pain, and I can't do a blasted thing about it, having the first idea where to
17:37start.
17:40When Mother was distressed, she just left Faustin.
17:47The Sephanie hasn't left yet, so what do I do?
17:54I don't want her to be miserable.
17:57I need her.
18:03Dukes don't need people.
18:09Mother has always preferred being away from me.
18:14Persephone will as well.
19:05Adam?
19:14Adam, I think I hear wolves.
19:44I'm trying.
19:45I'm trying to be brave, Adam.
19:46I'm trying to be brave.
20:03I'm trying to be brave.
20:04I'm trying to be brave.
20:09I'm trying to be brave.
20:26I'm trying to be brave.
20:29I'm trying to be brave.
20:30I'm trying to be brave.
21:10I need my family.
21:26Didn't bring a coat.
21:33You'll contract an inflammation of the lungs.
21:36Everyone in London will accuse me of poisoning you.
21:43You'll be warmer inside.
21:50Look, Harry's still gone.
21:54The castle will be quiet.
21:55Then you can find a private spot to go and do whatever it is you do.
22:01Or do you cry?
22:06I usually sleep.
22:10And wake up with a headache.
22:14That was awful.
22:18Generally, I can't help myself.
22:25It's falling off.
22:27You're warmer if you just button it.
22:33You really don't want me to be cold.
22:40I don't want you to be miserable.
22:41I don't want you to be miserable.
23:42You've missed your riding lesson this morning.
23:45I'm afraid I overslept.
23:47And how was your head?
23:49My head?
23:50You said last night that your head hurts after you've been crying.
23:56Does egg a little?
23:59There is an apothecary in Sifton.
24:01He's quite competent.
24:03I could send one of the grooms for some powders.
24:08Don't need any powders just now, but thank you.
24:16John has indicated that Atlas can be saddled whenever you would like to have your riding lesson today.
24:23I'm not sure I'm up for a ride.
24:28Are you certain you do not wish for some powders?
24:31I could have some here before the weather changes.
24:36Rest is what I need most.
24:37But again, thank you for offering.
24:40Yes.
25:05Urgent message for your grace.
25:17Tell the stables to prepare my swiftest travelling coach and send someone to Sifton for Mr. Johns.
25:21Yes, Your Grace.
25:22Are you leaving, Adam?
25:22Almost on the instant.
25:24Tell Mrs. Smithson to prepare Mr. Windover's usual room.
25:26Is something the matter with Harry?
25:27He's taken exceedingly ill as an in-between here and Hoyk.
25:30What are you intending to do?
25:31Go retrieve him, of course.
25:33If the stables will ever send my carriage, that is.
25:36It looks like it might snow.
25:38That's precisely why I wish to make an immediate start.
25:40But is it safe?
25:41If the weather worsens, you might become stuck on the road.
25:44I can reach the inn before then.
25:45How will I know you're safe?
25:46If I do not return tonight, you can assume that I am waiting out the weather at whatever flea-infested
25:51hostelry Harry's decided to take ill in.
25:53I will assume no such thing.
25:56Simply not returning will tell me nothing.
25:58You could just as easily be half-frozen on the side of some road or devoured by wolves or ill
26:02yourself.
26:03I've driven these roads for years.
26:04I've never once broken down.
26:07You must promise me you will be careful.
26:10If you do not, I will worry.
26:15Why would you worry about me?
26:19Why wouldn't I?
26:23No one worries about me, Persephone.
26:28Someone does now.
26:33Don't.
26:34Afraid I can't help it.
26:36Like crying?
26:42Worrying will probably give you a headache as well.
26:45Then spare me the headache and promise me you will be cautious.
26:59I will be cautious.
27:02I promise.
27:07I won't.
27:08I won't.
27:11I won't.
27:25I won't.
27:35I'll be cautious.
27:58Where is the owner of this establishment?
28:12What can I do for you, Governor?
28:14There is a gentleman staying at this inn, Mr. Windover.
28:17Where is he?
28:24How much is no one worth here?
28:27You like your way of begging me pardon?
28:30I beg no one's pardon. Where is he?
28:33Set the cove's bill, then I'll tell you.
28:37His bill will be settled in the usual manner upon departure.
28:42I'm afraid I'll be adding to the bill then. Inconvenience, you see.
28:47If you're in mind to toss a few extra pounds, you might save yourself some blunt at the end.
28:52A few extra pounds. What do you feel you are currently holding?
28:57Can't say really. Goes higher all the time, doesn't it?
29:00I got a few shillings been added since we've been talking.
29:08Where is the gentleman who's staying here?
29:11I'll call your accountant due, Hooper.
29:15I ain't got a shilling.
29:19A half-crown?
29:20Where is the gentleman who's staying here?
29:23The first door on your right, governor.
29:25Step to Hooper!
29:42Step to Hooper!
29:54People will be trying to settle.
29:54If you're dead, don't expect me to eulogise you.
29:59Even to tell me to shut up when last die.
30:04What instructions did the physician leave?
30:08i haven't seen one was one not sinful i made repeated requests your grace but i was prevented
30:15at every turn by why did you not allow a physician to be summoned this gentleman is clearly ill i
30:24run
30:24in a charity guff ain't nothing to pay a doctor with and his manservant here is poorer than he is
30:31so you left him to grow more ill perhaps to the point of endangering his life people die all the
30:37time don't they how many have died in this inn waiting for help that was never going to come
30:45sick and dying don't fight back makes it easier to settle their bill by picking their pockets no doubt
30:56madam can i go back to the castle in the looks of you you'd do better to go directly to
31:01a cemetery
31:03likely a good idea let's get mr windover to the carriage of course
31:12how much do you imagine you are owed by mr windover considering everything i'd settle up for five
31:17pound five pounds nothing you have provided or could provide is worth a tenth of that i reckon
31:24you can afford it and do you demand such exorbitant sums from people who can't afford it someone will
31:29always walk away poorer guff i'm just making certain it ain't never me you're five pounds
31:40he's hoping we can do business again in the future we will
32:03you've taken ivanda please do not take my husband as well
32:27take him to his chambers
32:31is mr johns here yes your grace
32:46told you i'd be careful i suppose i should have believed you
32:54yes you should have you look cold time freezing you should change into something warm and dry
33:04mr johns will see dairy
33:07you were to be my voice of reason then
33:13your hand is cold
33:17so i'm
33:20my apologies
33:22if you'll excuse me i've been told i ought to change out of this cold wet cloth
33:29i'm glad you've returned adam
33:52does mr johns feel that mr windover will recover
33:56he does now that mr windover is here he had begun making a turn for the worst at that inn
34:04i i shudder to think of the outcome if his grace hadn't rescued him
34:09while his grace may have carried out the rescue your letter is the reason we knew it was necessary we
34:16are all indebted to you for that mr windover is a good man
34:22yes
34:24yes
34:25yes
34:39he is
34:45yes
34:46yes
34:47yes
34:47yes
34:49yes
34:49powders in a tisane. Aside from that, he says Mr. Windover needs rest.
34:55Then we will allow you to see to his comfort.
35:03I hadn't had a chance to check on Harry myself.
35:09Bringing Harry here was the best thing you could have done.
35:16Allowing him to sleep will be the next best thing.
35:24I suppose I should listen when offered such sage advice.
35:34I agree.
35:45You've been out in the cold all day, Adam.
35:49I should get some rest as well.
35:52Or you might very well end up as ill as Harry.
36:13I will have the kitchen send you up a tray.
36:23I will have the kitchen send you up a tray.
36:24I will have to do the next one before then.
36:25I will have to do the next one.
36:29Let's do this.
36:52I will have to do this again.
36:53I will have to do this again, Adam.
36:53I will have to do this again.
36:54That's my son of a fox.
37:04Oh, Adam, you've married a coward.
37:46At least she doesn't snore.
38:00Micheal!
38:05Micheal!
38:07Micheal!
38:08Micheal!
38:21Persephone!
38:23Adam!
38:32What?
38:48I'm behaving like a ridiculous Lackwood, panicking over a dream.
38:53Adam?
38:54What?
39:00Harry seems a little better this morning.
39:07I am glad he is improving.
39:11So am I.
39:15Are you planning on riding this morning?
39:18I am.
39:19I would rather you didn't.
39:20But I...
39:21I would rather you didn't.
39:26I won't if you really don't want me to.
39:29Good.
39:30I think it would be best if you did not.
39:34The blazes is wrong with me.
39:39Okay.
39:48Okay.
39:54And here we are going to.
39:55Okay.
40:13This is for you.
40:13Here we go, I have to do lips.
40:17Let's move.
40:17Okay?
40:22oh I get that a lot uh we've been worried about you it's all been a ploy to get attention
40:40why were you so displeased when you were looking in the mirror
40:44oh it was nothing
40:47that wasn't nothing
40:53do you think
40:57I'm ridiculous
40:59ah you lot of buckets
41:04Adam's been talking again hasn't he
41:08he looked me over studying me very closely
41:11then he said ridiculous
41:14he once described St James's palace as ridiculous
41:19it's his favorite word
41:23he is
41:25so confusing
41:28all part of his charm
41:30Persephone
41:37how did he come to have such extensive scars
41:48Adam was born with a stub
41:50where his right ear was meant to be
41:54a succession of surgeons came to the castle over the first few years of his life
41:58attempting to find it
42:01the scars then
42:02the scars then weren't the result of an accident
42:05they were attempting to fix him
42:09but
42:10in the end
42:12he still has no ear
42:14his
42:15hearing is still a little muffled on that side
42:18and he's been left scarred
42:21I'm always the one
42:26you need to rest
42:27I'm fine
42:27and I won't keep you from it
42:31if there is anything at all that he needs
42:33do not hesitate to ask
42:34thank you your grace
42:36thank you
42:41thank you
43:04for joining us
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