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00:21We'll be there, Artemis.
00:23I don't know why we have to do this.
00:26Because we like to eat.
00:27But we only pay pennies.
00:29Things that keep our family from dire straits.
00:31I do not enjoy washing the neighbourhood's laundry any more than you do,
00:34but being upset about it won't change our situation.
00:37Ah.
00:51Open the door, sweetheart.
00:52I have had an attraction today.
00:54Now I have to open the door.
00:56I'm sorry you've suffered so much.
00:58I fear you'll simply have to continue in your wretched state a bit longer.
01:02I will open the door, but do not be surprised if I lie in the floor and die.
01:06I will be many things if that happens, my sweet little Artemis, but above all I will not be surprised.
01:13She has died far less than this in the past.
01:18Yes.
01:24Yes.
01:35Yes.
01:37Yes.
01:37Yes.
01:39Yes.
01:44Yes.
01:48Yes.
01:50Yes.
01:54Yes.
01:56Yes, Mrs.
01:57Yes.
01:58Yes?
01:59Yes.
02:00Thank you for all.
02:09Yes, my dear friend.
02:11Yes, of course.
02:11Yes.
02:12started our meal then i very much wish to talk with you about whatever you've learned today
02:16it's ever so interesting and terribly useful cannot wait thank you stephanie call stephanie
02:33you did say this might happen yes i did and what has brought you to such a horrible end this
02:38time
02:38my suffering is too great no words can possibly describe it is this because i could not buy you a
02:44suite from the confectionery shop that was tragic but not the reason you're expiring on the floor
02:48i didn't see my friend i watched for him and he didn't come he hasn't ever so long and it's
02:55deeply
02:55devastating is this the friend i can't see friend you don't see ah do you think your friend would
03:03visit you again if we had bread pudding tonight bread pudding i have a bit of stale bread and
03:09mrs sanford gave me some cream i think we should have bread pudding tonight it's not even my birthday
03:14bread pudding is quite possibly my favorite thing in all the world of course if you are dead on the
03:21floor you won't be able to have any i'm all better it is a miracle thank you thank you thank
03:28you you're
03:29very welcome my darling little artist how do you like the latest fashions they're not the latest
03:39mrs upton gave me these because she received the most recent version but they are very nearly the
03:45latest that is gorgeous isn't it i've added it to my list of dreams that must be quite the list
03:52by now
03:53isn't that what dreaming is for believing in those things you feel you'll never have
03:57want 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 you must have dreams too certainly i do
04:11artemis's spirits not being dampened by the heaviness of life
04:14daphne finding a friend who hopes to feel 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 there's nothing more you could have done
04:30i could have taken in more laundry or reduced my portions at mealtimes i could have gone without
04:33fires in my room and it likely still would not have been enough
04:38i suppose that is my version of hoping for impossible things
04:43none of the hopes that you've mentioned have been a dream for yourself
04:47yeah seeing this family happy is dream enough for me
04:52fetch staphne and artemis and take them to the kitchen i do not know how frustrating he might be this
04:57time
05:02have you received a letter
05:08we have a very significant problem
05:11what has happened papa evander linus oh no i haven't heard anything about your brothers
05:17i have however received the most befuddling letter
05:31you my dear i received an offer of marriage a what an offer from an incredibly wealthy gentleman with
05:41an old and prestigious title
05:52good heavens
05:53what i cannot fathom is why the duke is settled on you
06:02they cannot even be remotely acquainted with our family the duke of course dear the duke of kilda
06:10the duke of kilda has asked for my hand in marriage quite specifically
06:18i do not believe a word of it after all i do not know his grace or any grace for
06:24that matter
06:34i am requesting a hand of your eldest daughter in marriage i am prepared to settle upon your three
06:41remaining daughters twenty thousand each for their dowries and fifty thousand upon yourself for the
06:47sake of your sons the ceremony will take place october the first at the falston chapel please reply as
06:54to your intentions yours etc
07:00killed her
07:02it's certainly not the most romantic nor flattering of proposals to be sure
07:07the ceremony will take place
07:09there's not the slightest acknowledgement the unforeseen offer might be declined
07:15this offer amounts to more than a hundred thousand pounds
07:28what is the duke of kilda like like well couldn't say i've not met the current duke what was his
07:39father like
07:42dull as dishwater
08:07i can hardly comprehend such a son
08:12it is more than 500 years worth our current income
08:16it is more than five times the income of the duke of sussex and he is son of the king
08:20good heavens we would have food enough to eat we 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 it would save generations of our family
08:40you could have killed her you might be prone to anger or unkindness what
08:44what if he mistreats you what 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 he gave no indication why
09:00you needn't simply accept this offer one may yet come from someone that you at least know won't
09:05treat you abominably there will be no other offers if i do not accept this one our family will sink
09:11further even the simple hopes we currently have will be out of reach then all of your hopes
09:16will be snatched away this family's happiness is worth every sacrifice isn't your happiness worth
09:21something as well artemis has always told the tale of hades and persephone quite accurately
09:27and persephone doesn't get to be happy and you mean to accept the duke's offer
09:52who invited all of these people i did
09:57it is not every day my poor boy takes a bride this was supposed to be a quiet ceremony
10:04i do not believe miss lancaster's invited anyone beyond her own immediate family
10:09i did not intend to cause awkwardness adam i only wish to celebrate
10:27i wonder if the chit will actually turn off try to resist the urge to run through any of the
10:32wedding guests
10:39what the devil is she another five minutes and i'll go retrieve for myself
10:58when is this going to start i'm hungry
11:11it's starting to come after all
11:19so
11:27so
11:29so
11:52Dearly beloved,
11:53we are gathered here together
11:55in the sight of God
11:57and the face of this congregation
11:58to join together this man
12:01and this woman in holy matrimony,
12:04an honourable estate
12:05instituted of God
12:07in the time of man's innocence,
12:09signifying unto us
12:10the mystical union
12:11betwixt Christ and his Church.
12:14Therefore,
12:15if any man can show any just cause
12:18why they should not
12:19lawfully be joined together,
12:21let him speak,
12:23or else hereafter
12:24forever hold his peace.
12:28Do you ship lost in my keep?
12:34Go on.
12:36Who giveth this woman
12:37to be married to this man?
12:49Apparently I give it myself.
12:55Take her right hand in yours.
13:04I, Adam Richard Boyce,
13:05Duke of Kilda,
13:05Marquess of Faustin,
13:06Earl of Faustin,
13:07Vicampinus,
13:08Baron Faustin,
13:08Baron Whiteley,
13:09take thee to be my wedded wife,
13:10to have and to hold
13:11from this day forward
13:12for better for worse,
13:13for richer for poorer,
13:14in sickness and in health,
13:15to love and to cherish
13:16till death to his part
13:17according to God's holy ordinance,
13:18and thereto I plight thee my troth.
13:27I, Persephone,
13:28Ridiculous.
13:33Lancaster,
13:35do.
13:41Do take thee to be my wedded husband,
13:44to have and to hold
13:45from this day forward
13:47for better for worse,
13:48for richer for poorer,
13:50in sickness and health,
13:52to love and to cherish
13:54till death do us part
13:56according to God's holy ordinance,
13:58and thereto I give thee my truth.
14:02Is that everything?
14:03Not usually.
14:05Can it be?
14:06I suppose all the truly essential bits
14:08have been seen to.
14:11Those whom God
14:12hath joined together,
14:13let 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,
15:20choosing a name like that?
15:23My father is a scholar.
15:25He's particularly fond of Greek mythology.
15:27Entirely too fond,
15:28don't seem.
15:30Are the rest of your siblings
15:31similarly afflicted?
15:32In what way afflicted?
15:34What absurd names did your parents
15:36assign the other members of your family?
15:38Athena is just younger than I.
15:40Bander is 14,
15:41Lion is 13.
15:43Daphne will be 12
15:43toward the end of the year.
15:44The youngest is Artemis.
15:47Fate save us
15:48from short-sighted scholars.
15:50Do you have a middle name?
15:52I do.
15:53I suppose it is entirely too much
15:55to hope that it is something common.
15:58Iphigenia.
16:01Persephone Iphigenia.
16:03Did no one ever call you anything else?
16:06Only Miss Lancaster.
16:08I cannot call you that.
16:10I suppose I will have to consign myself
16:12to Persephone.
16:13It would seem so.
16:18You, of course,
16:19will call me Kilda.
16:20I will not call you Kilda.
16:21Everyone calls me Kilda.
16:22Kilda.
16:23It sounds as though I am accusing you of a crime.
16:28You would no doubt prefer Agamemnon
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
16:43and closest friends would.
16:47Harry does.
16:48Who is Harry?
16:49A friend.
16:51One who allows himself
16:52far too much freedom.
17:11One who wants to call me Kilda.
17:12One who wants to call me Kilda.
17:25One who wants to call me Kilda.
17:26One who wants to call me Kilda.
17:27One who wants to call me Kilda.
17:28One who wants to call me Kilda.
17:29One who wants to call me Kilda.
17:57Calling me Adam will be fine.
18:14Mrs. Barton, the butler, Mrs. Smithson, the housekeeper, Duchess of Kilden.
18:41Mrs. Smithson will seat to whatever you need.
19:05I am likely meant to be shown all of the castle, but I would very much like to rest.
19:11Perhaps you could simply point out the rooms I need to know today and save the rest for tomorrow?
19:15Of course, Your Grace.
19:23The drawing room.
19:25A 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?
20:03Unslocks.
20:05Was there no room in the dark foreboding dungeon?
20:07There's ample room, Your Grace, but the Duke says displaying 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?
20:30Is there not for the moment?
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 poor man?
21:54Six.
21:56Seven.
21:57Every time he sulks away like a lily-livered coward.
22:03You didn't pull your pistol on him this time, did you?
22:06I have never pulled a pistol on Josiah Jones.
22:09I may have held an epee to his throat once or twice, but he's never in any real danger.
22:15Well, 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 do you wonder why Jones thinks the worst whenever you're angry with him?
22:29I always reinstate his employment and he never makes the same mistake twice.
22:40Sir, what was his transgression this time?
22:42Hmm?
22:43No, no, don't tell me.
22:45He smiled too much while discussing the estate investments.
22:49No.
22:51Did not include enough threats in the business correspondence he sent on your behalf.
22:55He recommended a means of preventing my distant cousin from one day inheriting Fauston.
23:01Ah.
23:03Jones 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 book room with one's friend on one's wedding night.
23:24Because that, Adam, is a level of idiocy far and above ordinary stupidity.
23:29I stood through the wedding and just spent an interminable dinner with my flock of new sisters-in-law.
23:37Did they stare at you?
23:41It would have been understandable, you know, having not been warned.
23:43I ought to have written then.
23:44Hmm?
23:45Perhaps I could have included a postscript with the proposal.
23:48By the way, I have a mutilated face you'll be forced to look at day in and day out for
23:54the rest of your life.
23:55Hope that's not a problem.
23:59Hmm.
24:01Perhaps not those precise words.
24:03She wasn't exactly forthcoming either.
24:05I will have you know.
24:07I forgot to mention something important.
24:09Another husband, Pats.
24:12Extraneous limb.
24:13Her name is Persephone.
24:17A man ought to know a thing like that about his future wife.
24:22Persephone Iphigenia.
24:24Oh, what an inexcusably ridiculous thing to call a child.
24:36I had the chance to speak briefly with your new bride, Adam.
24:41She was delightful.
24:46Perhaps a little quiet, but that is to be expected considering the upheaval in her life.
24:52I'll confess, I had expected someone rather long in the tooth.
24:59Rather long in the face, in all honesty.
25:02So had I.
25:04So had I.
25:04But she's a fetching thing.
25:07Young and quite pretty.
25:14Oh.
25:18You expected someone desperate, and ugly, and undesirable.
25:26Instead, your bride turned out to be a vast deal more than possible.
25:32Not quite what you'd bargain for, I guess.
25:36A lady who was too intolerable to have any other options would be content with a curmudgeon
25:41in a draughty castle 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.
25:56Alone.
25:57Probably wondering what she's done wrong.
25:59While you are down here brooding.
26:04Adam.
26:06You are completely bacon-brained.
26:08I should call you out for that.
26:10No.
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.
26:27Good night, Adam.
26:29Good night.
26:30Good night.
26:31You're sumptuous loved.
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.
26:56Oh, god.
27:00Oh.
27:02What?
27:04What?
27:08What?
27:12What?
27:14What?
27:35Are you going to be lonely
27:36without us, Persephone?
27:38I will miss you terribly
27:42but you will have each other
27:44so you are unlikely to be lonely
27:46I do not know that anyone will remember
27:49to talk to me when you're not here
27:52I'm certain everything will be fine
27:54You don't need to worry about us
27:59Write and tell me about
28:00all the things you're reading
28:09I love you
28:10I love you too
28:13My case
28:15I do not want to go
28:16Let 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
28:31Folsom Castle is my home now
28:33I will send you letters
28:35Perhaps with a gimme under the seal
28:37You could come here
28:39We could explore the castle together
28:41You won't let me
28:43Of course you know
28:44We will have grand adventures
28:47Perhaps
28:48There is a tower room
28:50Where we can imagine all sorts of wonderful stories
28:53The way we always did at home
28:54Do you promise?
28:55I promise
28:57I promise
28:58Who will take care of me when you're gone?
29:01Papa will engage a governess
29:03For both you and Daphne
29:05A companion for Athena
29:07When you're all in town
29:08Will you visit us there?
29:11Of course
29:12Daphne
29:12Stephanie
29:13Yes, my dear
29:14We will take care of you
29:16Will you be happy even though we're gone?
29:24I will win
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 anymore
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, Persephone
29:51You're the best mama I've ever had
30:29I thought you weren't supposed to cry
30:33Artemis is crying as well, I'm certain of it
30:36Then why make the promise?
30:38To lessen her pain
30:42If my sister knew I was crying
30:43It would break her heart
30:47But you know she is crying
30:51I know her better than she knows me
31:00Best mama she ever had
31:02Best mama she ever had
31:21Oh, my God.
31:44Oh, my God.
32:15Oh, my God.
32:45Oh, my God.
33:31Your grace.
33:37Good evening.
33:38Are you feeling well, child?
33:42I am excessively tired.
33:45Do not fret yourself over dinner, dear.
33:48I'll have a tray sent to your room.
33:50You rest.
34:19I'll have a tray.
34:19I'll have a tray.
34:23I'll have a tray.
34:37you told me you'd call me out today never did I've decided to shoot you first thing in the
34:43morning go to sleep so I can load my pistols in peace your mother said the new duchess was
34:52indisposed this evening any idea what you meant by that as mother said she was indisposed she wouldn't
35:00be the first person to hide from you she you mean Persephone well I certainly don't mean your mother
35:05you could shoot a man dead in the drawing room and she'd just smile indulgently and say my poor boy
35:10yes and the woman will still be calling me that when I'm 80 when you're 80 she'll be dead oh
35:14shut
35:14up Harry is that any chance Persephone's locked in the dungeon I am not a monster and she chose to
35:24accept me ah yes but without the benefit of the rather ingenious postscript you composed last night
35:30I don't think she realized you 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 so 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 she could avoid you for years
35:57where are you going
36:00my wife is indisposed I'm going to see for myself that she is well
36:05Adam I am NOT going to hurt the blasted woman you know me better than that
36:39is
37:00so
37:01I don't know.
37:06I don't know.
37:37I don't know.
37:38I got lost a few times when I first started working here.
37:40Fauston Castle is quite a big place.
37:43Enormous.
37:44New rivals really ought to be provided with a map.
37:48This way, Your Grace, and I'll not tell anyone you were lost.
37:53Mother, explain to Harry that you're not leaving Fauston Castle because I forced you to do so.
37:57It seems to think that I drive every person who ever comes here away with a scythe in one hand
38:01and a flaming torch in the other.
38:03You're a regular one-person blood-dusty mob.
38:07That's what you are.
38:09You really ought to think about employing pitchforks when you...
38:13Stephanie.
38:15Come.
38:16Break your fast, dear.
38:18Kidneys?
38:19Eggs?
38:20Yes, please.
38:21Harry, will you please?
38:22I will prepare a plate for her mother.
38:24You need an inconvenience yourself?
38:27Please.
38:53Should I sit somewhere else?
38:55No, you can stay where you are.
38:59Will you be coming to town at Christmas time?
39:01I never go to town until absolutely necessary.
39:04You must convince my poor boy of the delights of London.
39:08I have never been to London.
39:11Well, then you absolutely must come as soon as possible.
39:15I should positively love taking you round town and introducing you to just everyone.
39:22I'm certain you can pack quickly, Adam, and I could delay my departure by a day or so,
39:26and we could all...
39:27I shall be forced to take her in the spring as it is.
39:30Forced?
39:32The season is such fun.
39:34How can you say forced?
39:35I despise London.
39:38But the Queen will be vexed if Persephone is not presented, and there is one bother I could do without.
39:42Thus, I shall be forced to town.
39:46Do not let him burden you with even the tiniest amount of guilt, Your Grace.
39:49By spring, he will have gone months without insulting members of the Cabinet or any of the royal family, and
39:55will be itching for the opportunity.
39:58That is good to know.
40:00I suppose, as a good friend of the family, I ought to remain here indefinitely, and offer my insights into
40:05your grumbly husband.
40:07That is simply the sort of selfless person I am.
40:11Even selfless people can be thrown from the south parapet.
40:17I am beginning to suspect, Adam, that you do not like me very much.
40:21I will simply have to ponder the sorrow of this realization.
40:26Your Grace.
40:29Your Grace.
40:33Your Grace.
40:37Your Grace.
40:38Your Grace.
40:38Your Grace.
40:38This could be confusing.
40:40You really ought to think of names for the three of you.
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