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1976 PERIOD DRAMA "A feisty, determined, kind hearted young woman embarks on her career 'to be the best cook in England,' when she's employed in the London home of a well connected aristocrat." Starring Gemma Jones, Christopher Cazenove, Donald Burton.
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00:00The End
00:47Oh, wait!
01:02Oh, wait!
01:57Oh, wait!
02:27Oh, wait!
02:33Oh, wait!
02:34Miss Layton?
02:38Miss Layton, ma'am.
03:08Miss Layton?
03:51Miss Layton?
03:55No, ma'am.
03:55You're not in any way attached?
03:57No, ma'am.
03:59Nor do I intend to be.
04:00Good.
04:12Yes, ma'am.
04:13Well, I'm not Muslim or anything, I know that.
04:29Yes, ma'am.
04:38Yes, ma'am.
04:43Yes, ma'am.
04:44Very well.
05:18Yes, ma'am.
05:24I understand.
05:25I know you don't, ma'am.
05:26You never have.
05:27I doubt you ever will.
05:28Anyway, I got the job, didn't I?
05:29I went out and got it.
05:30Assistant cook?
05:31That's not much to write home about.
05:32There was plenty of others, but they chose me.
05:34Well, you was a proper cook in your own right in your last job.
05:37It's a pipsqueak of a dentist in Muswell Hill.
05:40They ain't got no class, nothing.
05:41They have IT.
05:42Well, we have IT.
05:43Oh, for pity's sake, the bleeding last supper was IT for all I know.
05:47Ain't the IT.
05:48It's getting on in the world.
05:49Pig-headed.
05:49That's what you are.
05:51It's no use arguing with you.
05:52It never was.
05:52Why bother, then?
05:53Oh, look, Louisa, you've grown up into a very nice-looking girl.
05:57Oh, you think I should go up the West End, do you?
05:58If you don't shut up, I'll clip you one.
06:01Now, there's at least three or four highly respectable young men who'd marry you.
06:04And you know it.
06:04Frank Belling's been to see us.
06:06Never told me that.
06:07Well, we told him it was no use.
06:08Bleeding right in old Frank Belling.
06:10Oh, he's a nice boy.
06:11He's not bad-looking.
06:12The sort of thing you find under a stone.
06:13That's a very old family, the Belling's.
06:15Your father says that's a good business south up Old Street.
06:18That's a good trade there.
06:19I don't want to get married to Frank Belling and no one.
06:21Don't you want to improve yourself?
06:22Of course I do, but not in that stick-in-the-mud way.
06:25I want to get by by working for the best people there is.
06:28Rich people.
06:29Lords and ladies have big houses and jewels and lovely clothes and the best food.
06:34And I want to see it all and be part of it.
06:37Well, you know what they say.
06:38Rub against gold a bit may stick to you.
06:40Must have done already by the look of things.
06:42New boots.
06:43And a new dress, if you want to know.
06:45This place I'm going to, everything's got to be proper.
06:47And I mean proper.
06:48Marvellous thing!
06:49You bloody duchess already splashing your money around.
06:51And all the time getting less than you got before.
06:53You'll get your money regular, same as you do now.
06:55That's all you worry about.
06:56Money, innit?
06:57That ain't fair.
06:58It is fair.
06:59You may not like it, but it's fair.
07:00It's all you've ever worried about with me.
07:02That's why you made me into a skivvy and not let me stay on a school and be a teacher
07:05like I wanted to.
07:06You wanting me off your hands?
07:08Well, now I'm going to do what I want to do and no one's going to stop me.
07:12Let's go.
07:13Let's go.
07:25Let's go.
07:30Let's go.
07:45What's she making?
07:47Creme caramel like he always tests them with.
07:50I bet she had the first idea.
07:52Anyone could see that.
07:53I mean look at them clothes.
07:56Boots.
07:57Button up boots in the kitchen.
08:03I don't know why you didn't get the job, Creme.
08:05I really don't.
08:06Monsieur Alex must have gone soft in the head.
08:09Nothing to do with Monsieur Alex.
08:10Nothing at all.
08:12He's very upset about it as it happens.
08:15It was all influence if you ask me.
08:18Secret influence.
08:19For what influence?
08:21How would I know?
08:22Do you think they discuss it with Kitchen Maid?
08:24It's obvious, isn't it?
08:26I mean just look at the girl.
08:27She looks like a proper little troll up to me.
08:29I've no doubt that's exactly what she is.
08:31I think she looks nice.
08:33No one asked her opinion, Mary.
08:34Don't you speak till you're spoken to.
08:36Get out of my way.
08:50You're right.
08:51All right.
08:52No one asked me if you had to do,
08:52I'm sorry about the Trask.
08:52You're not too close.
08:52All right, one, three.
08:54I am sorry.
08:54I'm sorry.
08:54You're not wrong.
08:56I'm sorry.
08:56You're sorry about the Trask.
08:56No one, three.
08:56No One, two, three.
08:59You're sorry, Lord.
09:03No one, two, three.
09:05I'm sorry?
09:10who taught you to do this oh i just picked it up you know from other cooks
09:16it'll be all right it will not be all right it will be degoutant disgusting well give us a chance
09:23monsieur alex wait till it's cool my dear young lady i don't have to wait until it's cold to say
09:28that it will be uneatable like leather too many whites of egg overcooked will you please go to
09:37the scullery and help ivy with the washing up no i will not i didn't come here to wash up
09:44if you wish it i'll go but if i stay i'll stay as your assistant cook not as a scullery
09:48mate
10:03i thought she was gonna wait in for a minute she'll be out on the street by dinner time
10:09that's where she should have been in the first place on the street
10:47yeah who is it miss yeah you packing miss no
10:55i brought you this up i know i'm not supposed to the others would kill me if they caught me
10:59but i
10:59caught it up the stairs without anybody seeing oh thanks ever so much maisie mary miss oh sorry
11:05mary it's really mary but nobody knows that name here i'd better go now miss before they start
11:10looking for me dear oh you're so brilliant frightened of mary what do you think they do to you
11:18it's that ivy miss she'd been at me all the time since i started here sometimes i could just run
11:24away except i've got nowhere to run to now don't you ever run away mary you wait till they chuck
11:29you
11:29out no hopes for the likes of you and me without they give you a character have they given you
11:34your
11:34notice miss no one said nothing to no one far as i know i think that's terrible what are they
11:41saying
11:41in the kitchen oh you know what they like they say you'll get the boot sir alex has gone up
11:46to see
11:47the housekeeper has been gone ages it's all my own fault can't keep me bleeding trap shut i need a
11:51clothes peg i know i'm in the right me me temper gets the better of me i'm an idiot mary
11:56i thought
11:57it was marvelous the way you stood up yourself great bully of a man no right to treat you like
12:01that yeah look where he got me fighting gets you nowhere not in this life i don't know so much
12:06i remember one day my uncley working room drunk swearing he'd knock my aunt gwynn's block off
12:10and she stood up to him and gave him what for and he just sat down in the chair quiet
12:15as a little dog
12:15and he's a big man my uncle played rugby for me yeah oh well you just remember your auntie next
12:20time arvie tries to get the bearer of you oh i wouldn't dare i'll remember you
12:29so
12:38so
12:39so
12:40so
13:04Layton, come into my office, please.
13:17Frankly, I do not understand why I should waste my valuable time trying to teach you
13:22to do something for which you have no talent, but I am told I must.
13:32Well, have you something to say?
13:35Well, I'm sorry you feel like that about it.
13:37Well, I do.
13:39All I want is a chance, like I was promised when I come here.
13:42I never promised anything.
13:45I was promised I'd be given a month's trial.
13:47Of that I'm aware.
13:51Do tell me, Layton, what do you personally consider the most important piece of equipment of a cook?
13:59I don't know, the stove, I suppose.
14:01No, no, no, no.
14:04It is this.
14:07And after smell, taste the tongue, and then the eyes.
14:11I see.
14:12I don't believe you see.
14:13I don't believe you see at all.
14:16You're a good-looking girl.
14:18Why don't you try and find something else to do?
14:21Why do you want to be a cook?
14:23I don't know, I do.
14:26I don't know why exactly, I just do.
14:29I may be a lousy cook now, but I want to learn.
14:31I work myself to the bone, I won't stint nothing if you'll teach me.
14:35I love cooking, I really do.
14:37Phew.
14:38Please sit down.
14:44The first thing to learn is that cooking is not just a job, a metier.
14:51It is an art.
14:53The kitchen is as important as an artist's studio.
14:57To be a cook needs hard work, perseverance, but it also needs talent.
15:06There is nothing worse than to be a bad cook.
15:09It is better to wash dishes than to cook badly.
15:12So first, you must wipe your mind clean.
15:17Forget everything you learned, yes?
15:20Yes, Monsieur Alex.
15:21First principle, everything must be clean, exact, planned.
15:26Plain, simple food.
15:28Well cooked is the best.
15:30But, always the best materials.
15:34Michelangelo always used the best marble.
15:37The only way possible is to go out and choose everything yourself.
15:42Even a potato.
15:43A potato.
15:49Have you nothing to do?
15:51Now I shall show you how to lay my table.
15:54Maison Place.
15:55Each item must be exactly the correct place.
15:59Salt box, pepernel, cook's knife, my fork, the pallet knife, and my wallet.
16:10Also, you will check that my clean aprons and my cloths are brought down from the housekeeper's room and put
16:17ready.
16:19Soup box, peppermil, chocolate bowl, knives, celery stalks, thyme, parsley, bay leaves.
16:27No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
16:28Bookie Garni goes here.
16:30How many times must I tell you?
16:32And forgot the bay leaves.
16:33I was just gonna get it.
16:34Good morning, Monsieur Alex.
16:35Oh, good morning, Mr. Trotter.
16:37Now, for the menu for this evening.
16:40There are twelve to dine.
16:41I've just received some excellent quail from Essex.
16:45Ah, well, with the soup and caille, I suggest a white wine.
16:49Something quite good-bodied.
16:51Oui, d'accord. Quelque chose de Bourgogne.
16:53More Rocher.
16:55Possibly the 89.
16:57And for the Peche was the...
16:59More Rocher.
17:04For the dessert, Peche Rose de Mead, Mr. Trotter.
17:08I beg your pardon.
17:10The E.O. is very good for the American house-lays.
17:12That is very much the Lord's taste.
17:14Yes.
17:14Very bien.
17:19Par mal.
17:21Par mal.
17:23Only one thing missing.
17:24The freezing salt.
17:26You've forgotten the freezing salt!
17:27Sorry, forget it.
17:28No, no, leave it.
17:29We are not going to make ice cream now.
17:32For the next few weeks, you're going to learn how to make pastry.
17:36I expect you think you know how to make pastry, huh?
17:40No, Monsieur Alex.
17:41Bon.
17:42Now, for pastry, everything must be cool.
17:45You have cool hands?
17:49Yes.
17:49That's a good start.
17:51It is necessary to use marble slab for pastry, for it is also cool.
17:56And the water and the fat must also be cool.
18:00Now.
18:11Oh, Jean, would you be so kind to fetch me a cooling tray for these cheese straws?
18:15You've got two arms and two legs the same as everyone else, haven't you?
18:18Yeah, I have.
18:19I just happened to be using all four of them just at this very minute.
18:23Let's get one thing clear, Miss Layton.
18:25I am Monsieur Alex's kitchen maid and no one else's.
18:28If you want someone to fetch and carry for you, ask one of the others.
18:57Oh, hello, use that, Charlie.
18:59dear Jean how nice to see you again how is the fair maid of death I came down to
19:07congratulate Monsieur Alex on that delicious lemon sorbet we had last night at dinner
19:13I'm sure he'd be pleased excuse me sir for me what made the sorbet last night did
19:27you did you indeed my compliments
19:45who's he when he's at home the Honourable Mr. Charles Tyrrell son and heir to Lord
19:49Hazel miller not Henry's favorite nephew nice looker if you take my advice I
19:55wouldn't start trying any of your tricks on mr. Charlie
20:37forgive me Miss Leighton I was looking for Mr. Alex he's gone out Mr. Trotter with the
20:50Blanche me if you tell me what that word is because I can't read his writing
20:55Blancheye Miss Leighton oh Blancheye what sort of wine would you have with a Blancheye
21:00perhaps a Montrachet I think we could risk something a little lighter
21:05Chablis perhaps or something fresh and gay from the banks of the Moselle
21:11Peaceport a Goldtrochen or a Trittenheimer Falconbird
21:15Blimey how do you remember all them long names practice experience and I think I was born with a certain
21:22an interest in wine of course traveling abroad with his lordship has somewhat
21:27sharpened that interest did you take his butler abroad with him
21:30I go as his valet and loader it's really by wearing a holiday for me
21:33what do you loan then I look after his lordship's guns
21:38most years when you shoot partridge with a dim to no eye near parrots
21:42then on to count Mitterich for the boar shooting in the Eiffel
21:46at home of course it's pheasants mainly at
21:49Sandringham Chatsworth Welbeck
21:52we don't miss much oh perhaps not quite up to the standard of
21:56Lord Crewe or Lord Ripon but mostly his lordship hits his birds at the beak
22:00I'm a fair shot myself come to that oh yeah well in my opinion that's an inherited talent as well
22:05did your father teach you it's not talked about but I think it is generally known in this
22:13household that my parentage is somewhat veiled in mystery
22:17it's very certain that my mother was of noble birth
22:22I don't like to seem to boast about it but it does make a difference
22:25oh yeah I can see that Mr Trotter
22:28well I ain't got much to boast about I'm afraid
22:31though me mother's dad did help to make the crown jewels with his own hands
22:35and he was an engraver too and all
22:37perhaps that accounts for his granddaughter's beautiful handwriting
22:40oh no I taught myself to do that from one of them copy books
22:44oh excuse me Mr Trotter
22:50oh it's Mary poor little beast
22:52she don't know if I've had a rotten life
22:55still that's it innit
22:57yeah I used to cry when I was after the whole boy
23:00some nights I was so tired I could hardly stand up
23:02oh I never cried when I was a bleeding tween
23:04he could have had me murdered someone most days
23:06better go and get me anky out
23:10hey yeah what's the matter Mary
23:13nothing's the matter miss
23:14what was your evening off
23:16it is
23:17I broke another plate at breakfast time
23:19and Ivy said I was to stay and do the washing
23:21now she's gone to my place
23:23has she
23:24and that jumpy thing seemed just to drop through my hands
23:27yeah
23:28are you gonna tell me what's up
23:30was it just Ivy
23:31eh
23:33come on out with it
23:35it's my auntie Gwen
23:37she'd be took poorly with failings of her lungs
23:39she's in hospital
23:40well you gonna see her tonight
23:41well so you shall
23:43here I'll finish this
23:44oh no miss that would never do
23:46anyway the hospital's only other side of the river
23:49then you should go in a cab
23:51here
23:52oh no miss I couldn't eat that for you
23:54oh of course you could
23:54it's only money ain't nothing valuable
23:56here go and get yourself tidy
23:58yes
24:00oh you're a saint
24:01you really are
24:02here would your auntie like a pie or jelly or anything
24:05well I'm sure she would
24:06well you go and get ready
24:07I'll see what I can find
24:08well I'm sure she would
24:43there you are then
24:44off you go
24:45don't talk to no strange gentleman
24:47oh no I never would I swear it
24:49thank you very so much miss
25:18Louise oh monsieur Alex
25:20why are you doing with this
25:22we've got two girls to do this
25:24well Mary's night off
25:25and either we took Paulie
25:27anyway there we are now I'm done
25:29it is a question of principle and dignity
25:31you're a cook you do not do menial tasks
25:34oh someone had
25:36no monsieur Alex well happened again
25:38good
25:40hello bonsoir
25:43bonsoir monsieur Alex
25:46Nathan
25:47yes monsieur Alex
25:48who has cut this
25:51I have
25:52what for I want to know why
25:56I gave it to Mary
25:57to take her arm to you still in the hospital
25:59so it was Mary
26:00no it was me it was my idea
26:02this is stealing from your employer
26:05I didn't think a little bit of pie would matter
26:07well it does matter
26:08all food must be accounted for
26:11we'll have to see about this in the morning
26:26I don't know why
26:28I don't know why
26:28I don't know why
26:28I don't know why
26:28I don't know why
26:28I don't know why
26:28I don't know why
26:53I don't know.
27:10my dear miss assistant cook i just came to congratulate you on your cheese straw yeah i'm
27:17sure you did and to sample some on the other way there's no doubt what a percipient young lady you
27:22are here is a little token of my admiration for you and your cooking i don't want nothing from
27:29you sir thank you very much now i think you're a sensible experienced girl what do you take me for
27:37now keep off i'm sorry if i frightened you please forgive me make nothing to forgive there's not
27:43going to be neither so push off i'm as much to my parents as you are to yours if you
27:48so much as
27:49touch me i'll scream i'll keep on screaming till lord henry himself hears me shh yourself and get
27:54out i mean it and i'm sure you don't really you just try me
28:06you
28:12you
28:23you
28:24you
28:25you
28:28you
29:16You look like a princess.
29:18You've got a blooming cheek, haven't you?
29:20I'm not going to touch you, I promise.
29:24Cross my heart and hope to die.
29:26May I sit down?
29:28Well, you seem to do what you're blooming like in here, Liberty Hall, innit?
29:37I'm disappointed in you.
29:39And I'm disappointed in you.
29:41The Honorable Mr. Charlie Tyrrell, I thought you was a nice sort of bloke.
29:44Well, I hope I'm not.
29:45You're the same, aren't you?
29:47Think we're just here for your pleasure like animals.
29:49Have you ever thought what happens when a servant gets put in a family way by one of you lot?
29:53That's a rule.
29:53Some arrangement, isn't it?
29:54Arrangement, my bleeding foot.
29:56Chucked out with a week's wages.
29:57No reference, no hope.
29:59If she gets over the baby, which a lot of them don't, there's only one thing left for on the
30:02streets.
30:03You go out and ask any type you like, and even money she'll tell you she started life in service.
30:07Me last place, there was an housemaid.
30:09She went with a soldier called the Scarlet Fever.
30:10Next thing, they found a body in the river at Whoppin.
30:12I really didn't come here to be lectured on the problems.
30:15Well, it's ones like you that cause the problems.
30:19I want to talk to you.
30:22I mean, seriously.
30:26Well, it's a funny time.
30:27It's a funny place and in funny clothes, if you ask me.
30:30Which I don't.
30:36You see, I'm at a bit of a loose end.
30:40I thought of going out to the war.
30:41That's a good idea.
30:42Give you something to do.
30:43Take your mind off other things.
30:48Well, the trouble is,
30:50well, all the world and his wife's gone off to South Africa.
30:52And they don't want any more amateur soldiers.
30:55Of course, they have to dance with the general's daughter.
30:58Of course, there's this new Chinese rebellion that looks quite amusing,
31:00but Peking's a long way to go just for luck.
31:04So, the long and the short of it is,
31:06I'm thinking of setting up an establishment in London.
31:10Well, there is a moment when even a favourite nephew outstays his welcome.
31:14If I did, I would need someone.
31:18Well, you know, look after it for me.
31:21And look after me, come to that.
31:23I wonder if that someone might be you.
31:30Blimey, that's a bit quick, isn't it?
31:31Don't know me.
31:32Don't even know me name.
31:34That's Louisa, isn't it?
31:37Louisa Layton.
31:39Well, Miss Layton, I'm quite quick at making decisions.
31:41It would be a little house, somewhere secluded,
31:44carriage at your disposal, clothes, servants.
31:47Here, look.
31:49Well, don't think that...
31:51I don't understand that a gentleman like you doesn't need that sort of place.
31:54Something's right and proper, isn't it?
31:55And of course, you'll need a lady to...
31:57Well, you know, I mean, I'm very honoured to be asked.
32:01I'm more than delighted that your choice should have fought.
32:03Oh, look here, I wouldn't be no good to you.
32:05How do you know?
32:07I do.
32:07That's not what I want.
32:10You'll think I'm barmy, I expect, but I know what I want to be.
32:13I just want to be the best cook in England.
32:15That's all I want to be.
32:19What a good idea.
32:32Keep this.
32:34Or from one friend to another.
32:38All right.
32:41Thanks, Mr. Charlie.
32:45Goodbye, Louisa.
32:51Good luck.
33:26You need your head looking at, Louisa Leighton.
33:28That's what's wrong with you.
33:41Will you go in now, please, Miss?
33:48Morning, Leighton.
33:50Morning, ma'am.
33:51We have a very serious matter to discuss with you, Leighton.
33:53Oh, I'm sorry, ma'am.
33:54I didn't know I was doing wrong, honest.
33:57I explained to Monsieur Alex.
33:58You didn't know it was doing wrong to admit a man to your bedroom?
34:02Oh, yes, ma'am.
34:04Then you don't deny there was a man in your room last night?
34:06No, of course I don't.
34:08It was Mr. Tyrrell.
34:09Sitting there bold as brass when I went up to bed and I chucked him out.
34:13From what I hear, it's not the first time he's been caught in a servant's room in this house.
34:16We have heard he was in your room by your invitation and that you made an assignation with him in
34:21the kitchen.
34:23Then you heard wrong, ma'am, if you don't mind my censor.
34:27You've been told a pack of lies and I can just guess by you.
34:30Creeping and crawling about and spying on people.
34:32That's what she was doing, wasn't it?
34:34Poking her nose in where it's not wanted as usual.
34:36And you believe her?
34:37Jean has been with us for some years.
34:39So it's her word against mine, is it?
34:42Right.
34:43You can have me notice here and now.
34:45Or we'll go out and see Lord Henry and let him decide.
34:47What's more, we'll take Jean with us and ask Lord Henry to fetch Mr. Tyrrell and then we'll see what's
34:52what.
34:54Now, Leighton.
34:56Let's not get all hot and bothered about this.
34:59We all know that even in the best-run establishments, they're bound to be upsets from time to time.
35:04And it's up to us to try and settle them in the most sensible way.
35:08Monsieur Alex was saying to me only yesterday that he felt quite happy to leave the running of the kitchen
35:12in your hands
35:13when his lordship is away and he himself is on his holidays.
35:18In view of the circumstances, and in the light of your own honesty,
35:22I think the best thing would be for us to forget the entire business.
35:28Thank you, ma'am.
35:30I'm quite prepared to forget all about it, on one condition.
35:34On condition that Jean apologises to me in front of Monsieur Alex.
35:48Here she is now.
35:53I'm sorry I made a mistake about you, Miss Leighton.
35:58I wish to apologise.
36:01Oh, do you? That's nice.
36:04Thank you, Jean.
36:14Well, I never did.
36:16Wonders will never cease.
36:25Every week you will take the account book for the housekeeper to see,
36:29and you will present to her the menu for each day at ten o'clock.
36:32Even now I'm only cooking for the servants, or?
36:34Ah, oui. You will be very economical.
36:37No delicacies, no extravagance.
36:39Except if Mrs. Ketchpole asks for it, you understand?
36:43Yeah, I understand. I'll be all right.
36:45I wish I had the confidence in you that you evidently have in yourself.
36:51The incident of the pie has been forgiven, but not forgotten.
36:56It was all we all talk. We'll get at him again.
36:59And with the others, with Ivy and Jean.
37:03Use your brain, not your tongue, huh?
37:05You fight well for yourself.
37:07You won the battle with Jean.
37:08Hmm. So, don't get any folly de grandeur.
37:13Be more sympathetic, human.
37:16You're not just going to be a cook, but a general.
37:22His lordship coming back from Scotland in the middle of August.
37:25Would someone like his lordship, whatever can have happened?
37:27I know no more than you do, Mr. Trotter.
37:29He's coming home on the train tomorrow.
37:34The chandelier in the drawing room is going to be mended.
37:38Half the house is under dust sheets.
37:40I'm sure you'll manage, Mr. Trotter.
37:42But, good heavens, what about this dinner?
37:44We haven't got a chef.
37:47Perhaps we could borrow the hazelbears.
37:48They've taken him to Yorkshire with them.
37:51We must consult his lordship.
37:52No time.
37:54Neither is there any necessity.
37:56We have the answer under our very roof.
37:58Come in.
38:00You wish to see me, Mrs. Catchpole?
38:02Oh, I really don't think so, Mrs. Catchpole.
38:03She has no experience.
38:04Yes, we do.
38:06Lord Henry is returning from Scotland earlier than expected, Leighton.
38:10There's to be an important dinner party for ten on Thursday night.
38:14We would like you to cook that dinner.
38:18Oh, my lord.
38:21Well, couldn't you get Mr. Ranney?
38:22I expect...
38:23Not in the time.
38:24Monsieur Alex is visiting his sister in Spain.
38:28Oh, well, I'll have to then, won't I?
38:30I wouldn't want to let him down.
38:34Well, that will never do.
38:35Not this time of year.
38:37Oh, my lord.
38:39Cream of oyster.
38:41You see, an hour in the month, wasn't it?
38:42Oh, bleak, then.
38:43It's August.
38:44Oh, Evans.
38:46Oh, dear.
38:47Excuse me, miss.
38:48Mary, what do you want?
38:49I've got something rather important to see.
38:51Oh, not now.
38:52It's just...
38:53I've been saving up from over ages to pay you back.
38:55Oh, I didn't mean it.
38:57Oh, thank you.
38:58Thank you very much, Mary.
38:59My aunt grin's a lot better, no thank you.
39:01Not now, Mary.
39:01Op it like a good girl.
39:06Almond.
39:07That's it.
39:08Almond.
39:19There you are, Mr. Trotter.
39:20Take a look at that.
39:21What do you think?
39:28Well, Mr. Alex says always to keep it simple.
39:32Very good.
39:34I suggest Madeira with soup.
39:41Champagne with a turbot.
39:43Of course, you could have champagne all the way through the meal.
39:46However, uh...
39:47Richebourg with a grouse.
39:50Richebourg?
39:51That's a nice name.
39:52It's a small vineyard.
39:54Not the finest in Burgundy.
39:56Hey, what's that, Mr. Trotter, with the pears?
39:59Chateau d'Iquem.
40:01Chateau de Quem.
40:02Oh.
40:03It's a soté.
40:04Sweet wine for the dessert.
40:06Full of the warmth of the sun.
40:08Nice foil to the pears, poached in lemon juice, if I may say so.
40:11We'll need five menus.
40:13Here.
40:13I won't be able to manage it all in French.
40:15What's wrong with English?
40:18Well, it's up with the lark tomorrow, no mistake.
40:21Why so early?
40:22Well, I've got to get to market, don't I?
40:23Get all this stuff.
40:24You see, Mr. Trotter, for this kind of dinner, you've got to have the best.
40:26And the only way to get the best is to go out and get it yourself,
40:29even down to the last potato.
40:37Don't you go to Briggs.
40:39Come down here.
40:42Here.
41:10I'm going to go to Briggs.
41:39I'm going to go to Briggs.
41:51I'm going to go to Briggs.
41:51I'm going to go.
41:51Really?
41:51I like it.
41:56I like it.
42:02But I can only cool it.
42:06I like it.
42:40I've brought the menus up, Mr. Trotter.
42:42I hope you don't mind me having a peep round while I'm here.
42:45Of course not, Miss Layton.
42:46Every cook should see the setting in which the food is to be served.
42:50Do you approve?
42:51Oh, my lord, yeah.
42:52Yeah, I do.
42:54Who's coming?
42:55I gather just a few of Lord Henry's more intimate friends.
42:58Would you care to try a sip at the Chateau d'Iquem?
43:01Oh, yeah, yeah, I would. Thank you.
43:03We're trying the 79, which will be new to his lordship.
43:19It's good, isn't it?
43:22It's like honey.
43:23I could just taste that sun you was talking about.
43:25It will need well chilling.
43:39Miss Layton, I wanted to ask you something.
43:42Yes, Mr. Trotter?
43:43How would you wish the boiled truffles to be served?
43:47Oh, just in a clean white napkin, thank you, Mr. Trotter.
43:52Good.
43:53So it shall be done, Miss Layton.
44:05Right, Jean, here you are.
44:26Dinner's been announced.
44:43All right, Jean, here you are then, Ivy.
44:46Good girl.
45:36I hear the Billy Tempest shot 16 brace of grouse, two beaters and his own sister-in-law in one
45:43drive last week.
45:44And Daisy Warwick's taken to flying the stars and stripes over the castle in order to please the American tourists.
45:52I suppose you heard what happened on the last day of Cow's Week?
45:57No.
45:57I say, I'd better be careful.
46:00I shall find myself thrown into the tower.
46:14I'm sorry.
46:15You stupid, clumsy, fool of a gun.
46:19Mary, you stop calling me names.
46:21Now, stop that, both of you.
46:22It was an accident.
46:23Mary, clear that up.
46:25Ivy, clean the dish, please.
46:26Jean, take the other one up.
46:28Thank God I've got more than we needed.
46:31Oh!
46:39Hello.
46:49Didn't need much today.
46:52Oh, I must have been hungry.
46:54Look for the puddings and eat, eh?
46:55That's what they say.
46:57Yeah, a bit ordinary, I'm afraid.
47:00Well, up to Monsieur Alex's standard.
47:02Well, he wouldn't have done much better, I don't think.
47:05Oh, thank you, Mary.
47:06It's nothing like me doing her best this morning, everything.
47:10You're wanted in the dining room, Miss Layton.
47:13Oh, my lord, I can't be.
47:16What's gone wrong?
47:16They haven't all been poisoned, have they?
47:18Shall we go up?
47:19Here, it's not my fault if things have gone wrong.
47:22It's Mrs Catchpole.
47:23You go and fetch her.
47:24They want to see whoever cooked the dinner.
47:27Oh, lord.
47:28I don't know, I feel a mess.
47:30Well, what about me barnet?
47:32Oh, hang on a mo'.
47:33Miss Layton, you do.
47:35You do very well.
47:41I wonder what'll happen to her, Avie?
47:43She'll have her head chopped off most late.
47:48Oh, my god.
47:50You look like I've been dragged through a stack backwards.
48:02He followed her to the house.
48:04It was someone near Notre Dame.
48:06He went in, up the stairs, and eventually got to her room.
48:08When he opened the door, he nearly had a fit.
48:11So you really won't believe.
48:15Ready, Miss Layton?
48:26My chef's away, sir.
48:28So, his assistant, Miss Layton, cooked for dinner.
48:32Oh, Miss Layton.
48:33Come a little nearer.
48:37I sent for the chef to congratulate him.
48:40And now I find it's you instead.
48:43So I must congratulate you.
48:46And I do congratulate you.
48:48Here's my hand upon it.
48:52Well, Miss Layton.
48:55Here is a little something.
48:57Let me show you how much we enjoyed your dinner.
49:02The present sovereign, from your future sovereign.
49:13You most graciously express, sir, if I may say so.
49:17Yes, indeed.
49:33Oh, my God, Mr. Trotter.
49:40One-earth, didn't you tell me before?
49:43Mrs. Catchpole thought it might put you off your cooking.
49:45She was bleeding right and all.
49:47I nearly died of shock.
49:48Yeah, but why am I when you got it in there?
49:49Did he speak to you?
49:50Let me...
49:51Wait a minute.
49:52He said, uh, thank you all for his lovely dinner.
49:55And he gave me that.
49:57How about that?
49:58Come on, look at that.
49:58Isn't that lovely?
49:59This will make you feel better?
50:01Oh, Mr. Trotter.
50:02Should you pay me?
50:03Oh, thank you.
50:04Come on, then.
50:05Don't be shy.
50:06Right.
50:07To Miss Leighton and her staff, may I add my congratulations to those of his royal highness, the Prince of
50:13Wales.
50:14Shut up.
50:17Oh!
50:18Who's gone up my nose?
50:19Have you drank champagne before?
50:21No, have I neither.
50:22I might get a taste for it, no?
50:23Oh, yeah, I think I am.
50:24Oh, I think.
50:25Oh, yeah, I think I am.
51:22Oh, yeah, I think I am.
51:25Oh, yeah, I think I am.
51:54Oh, yeah, I think I am.
51:57Oh, yeah, I think I am.
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