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00:00This gentleman is clearly ill.
00:03I run in a charity, Guff.
00:05Here's hoping we can do business again in the future.
00:08We will.
00:09Adam, why did you decide to get married?
00:12At the time, it seemed like a good idea.
00:15I just kissed Persephone.
00:17I noticed.
00:18She is lonely in this empty castle.
00:22I heard them, Adam! The walls! They're inside Fauston!
00:24They are not inside the castle walls, Persephone.
00:27I want to know why you've stayed around all these years.
00:31We're friends, Adam.
00:32All of the balls you held for Mother weren't enough to keep her here,
00:35so while the blasted blazes am I trying the same approach?
00:39I have promised you that your brother will visit you here,
00:42and that Fauston Castle will host a ball,
00:44and no one, not Harry, not anyone else,
00:47will browbeat me into going back on that promise to you.
00:50I want to believe that.
01:24John?
01:27Please have Atlas saddled. I wish to ride to the Vicarage.
01:30First ride outside the castle gate.
01:32I'm ready.
01:34Very good, Eugress.
02:19It's getting cold.
02:23Zeus, steady Zeus.
02:27Oh.
02:28Have you found her?
02:30Her?
02:31Her Grace.
02:32We were riding to the Vicarage and Atlas bolted without warning.
02:36She's not that good a rider yet and I'm afraid she might have become unseated.
02:40And what with that pack sound as so close and angry?
02:42Persephone!
02:43She's not answering.
02:47Persephone!
02:48Yah! Yah!
03:06Yah! Yah!
03:09We need to find the pack!
03:11Now, figure that meself, Eugress!
03:26Whoa!
03:27Whoa!
03:27Steady Zeus.
03:28Steady.
03:29Steady.
03:30I heard that too, you, Grace.
03:33We're getting closer.
03:37Yah!
03:38Yah!
03:40Yah!
03:49What do you have to find?
03:54We're getting closer
04:10I don't know.
04:52To me, Persephone!
04:56Stay next to me.
04:57Stay next to me.
05:05John, interrupt me.
05:07Take Atlas back if you can.
05:09We'll be quick about it.
05:09The pack won't stay spooked for long.
05:13Is that me?
05:14Or drown me.
05:15Hold fast.
05:16When we reach the road,
05:17we are going to run.
05:39Everyone has to be armed.
05:41The pack's within the eyes of the castle.
05:42When John Hanley is through that gate,
05:44they have to be closed immediately.
05:46Yes, you can.
05:46I'm so dizzy.
05:47Can you walk?
05:48I think so.
05:56She was thrown from a horse out in the forest.
05:58It's a possibility she's broken her ankle.
06:00Should I have a surgeon sent for?
06:01No.
06:02The wolves are prowling just outside the gate.
06:04It isn't safe for anyone to go in or out.
06:06They have never done that before.
06:07Persephone?
06:09Where is Mother?
06:10Drawing room, I think.
06:12Send her up to Persephone's room.
06:26Are we safe now?
06:28Yes.
06:30I was afraid no one would find me.
06:36That's the four elements.
06:37Mother, I need your help.
06:38There's blood on her riding habit.
06:42Mother?
06:44Help her to a seat, Harry.
06:48Adam?
06:51Can you take my boot off?
06:54It's too tight.
07:04Adam, she needs a surgeon.
07:05I know.
07:08Bring me boiling water and the strongest brandy Barton can find.
07:11Go.
07:13Help me, Harry.
07:17You'll have to cut it.
07:19Mother, could you find me some scissors?
07:21Look.
07:30Hold her still.
07:30I don't want to accidentally cut her.
07:34I don't want to accidentally cut her.
07:48Here.
07:53I'm sorry, Persephone.
07:54I'm trying to be gentle.
07:57I'm trying to be gentle.
08:08I don't know.
08:28I don't know.
09:00I don't know.
09:13Yes, dear?
09:17Please stay with me.
09:25If you'll stay with me.
09:27I don't know.
09:52I don't know.
09:56I have an idea why the pack attacked Atlas.
09:59And I thought you might want to know sooner than later, even if telling you means overstepping
10:04myself a bit.
10:04You aren't overstepping.
10:06What have you discovered?
10:08Well, while we were cleaning Atlas' wounds, we couldn't help but notice that she smelled
10:13strongly of bacon.
10:16Of bacon?
10:17It might be why the wolves attacked Atlas, but weren't so intent on getting a mate on my
10:21horse or at Ewan's house.
10:25Grace might have picked up some of that smell.
10:28That'd be why they were hunting her.
10:32Talk with your staff.
10:35See what you can find out.
10:37If it played any role in this attack, any, I do not want the same mistake to occur again.
10:43Yes, you do?
10:47John...
11:05Adam...
11:08May I speak with you?
11:10Please.
11:14Perhaps you should sit down.
11:16I'm so sorry, Adam.
11:19I know you wished me to help with Persephone.
11:21You must be so disappointed.
11:23Sit down, Mother.
11:28Sometimes you're so like your father.
11:31Dear man.
11:33Are you unwell?
11:36I'm so mortified.
11:40You see, I've always been hopeless in a sick room.
11:43Even as a child, when anyone in the household would get so much as a cold,
11:47I would fret our dear nurse into a fit of nerves.
11:52And my mother always told me
11:55it would be different when I was a mother.
12:01You must be so ashamed of me.
12:05Being so utterly useless when you were depending on me.
12:08There was a great deal of blood earlier with Persephone.
12:11I do not blame you for not being up to the task.
12:17Well, I'm certain I only made the situation worse.
12:21I always did.
12:25The second surgeon actually sent me to the vicarage for two days.
12:30Banished from my own home.
12:34From my poor boy.
12:35Banished.
12:36The second surgeon.
12:38I'm certain I made it worse.
12:41I was so nervous, so concerned through the first one.
12:45The first surgery.
12:46And I didn't get better.
12:49Worse, in fact.
12:52The next few surgeons insisted I be gone before they even arrived.
12:55You are referring to the surgeons who did this.
13:04What kind of an unnatural mother wishes to leave her child at such a time?
13:25Persephone is asking for you.
13:27She seems anxious.
13:50What is it, Persephone?
13:54I've been thinking back on my ride.
13:56Surely that can wait until you're more fully rested.
13:59What happened today, I don't believe, was an accident.
14:07What has led you to that suspicion?
14:10John didn't help me mount.
14:14Usually the stable hand waits for him, but this time he didn't.
14:18And the stable hand who helped me smelled like...
14:22Bacon?
14:24How did you know?
14:26Was it a faint aroma?
14:28No.
14:30At first I thought perhaps he'd been helping in the curing house or...
14:34Had slipped in a lard spiel in the kitchen.
14:36The scent was so strong I could still smell it.
14:39While you were riding.
14:42Exactly.
14:45The groom who helped you mount, does he assist you often?
14:49Occasionally.
14:49Do you know his name?
14:51Um, he wears a green handkerchief round his neck.
14:55None of the others do.
14:58John Henley will know who it is.
15:00You're going to talk to him?
15:02That groom, I mean?
15:03If he had any hand in this, I plan to do far more than just talk.
15:09What's the name of the groom who has a green handkerchief round his neck?
15:13Uh, Jimmy.
15:13He's a newer one.
15:15Quiet lake.
15:15Keeps to himself.
15:16Any idea where I might find this Jimmy?
15:18Last I saw out of him, he was at the back of the stable.
15:21Where he helped to craze mount this morning.
15:23She said he reeked of bacon more than could have been accidental.
15:25What on purpose then?
15:26That's what I mean to find out.
15:28Oh, there he is.
15:29Jimmy!
15:32Smith!
15:33Do not let him get past the gate!
15:35Stupid!
16:02This woman is Mr. Smith.
16:05Who tried to kill my wife!
16:09You took the only thing that mattered to me.
16:12Just trying to repay the favor, Gav.
16:14You'll end for this.
16:16Oh, no.
16:16I have a better idea.
16:21Put him in the gibbet.
16:23What?
16:25You can't do that!
16:26You have to consult the law!
16:28I am the duke of Kilda.
16:31I am the law!
16:39I am the law!
17:20Dukes aren't supposed to need people, Persephone.
17:25I am the law!
17:32Let's go.
18:17I like Boston.
18:19So do I, Linus.
18:21Then why don't you look happy?
18:25Probably because I'm in pain.
18:28I had no idea how long a few simple cuts could take to heal.
18:32I understand.
18:33They weren't simple at all.
18:35Considering it might have befallen me, I think of my injuries as comparatively simple.
18:43It is so good to have you here.
18:49I am happy to see you again.
18:53Though I already missed a C.
18:58Evander only ever missed home.
19:06I believe he is home now.
19:08And he is with Mama.
19:20Midshipman Lancaster, if I had known that your intention in visiting here was to make your
19:25sister cry, I would not have invited you.
19:28You guessed why Divus flocked with alarming precision, Your Grace.
19:32Every young navy man wishes to bring their female relatives into varying states of hysteria
19:37on every possible occasion.
19:39And apparently, you are also intent on bringing Persephone down to her deathbed.
19:44Alas, it is true.
19:46Though I have momentarily forgotten how I intend to do this.
19:50By keeping her out of doors, and in the cold, instead of inside, warm and off her feet.
19:56Ah yes, I remember now.
19:58But I suppose, since you have guessed my plot, I shall have to abandon my ill-fated scheme.
20:04It was inevitable.
20:13Oh, thank you.
20:23I will see you inside, Linus.
20:29You seem pleased.
20:31I've missed my brother.
20:34He's not at all what I expected.
20:37Your description was of an infant.
20:40Imagine my shock when he walked out of the carriage.
20:43No leading strings or nursemaids in sight.
20:46Adam Boyce, are you teasing me?
20:48I never tease.
20:50You also, apparently, never host balls.
20:54Yet you are doing exactly that tomorrow.
20:57Clearly, I have begun a descent into senility.
21:01You are in the oddest mood this evening.
21:06You have no idea.
21:20You are in the oddest mood.
21:22I am in the oddest mood.
21:24I am in the oddest mood.
21:46Go see when your eyes are out of the door.
21:48You are in the oddest mood.
21:48To be here on the TR-ine and in the oddest mood.
21:50Has she asked after me?
21:54Just her look on her face.
21:56We could always tell growing up when she was worrying about one of us.
22:01She must have worried a lot.
22:03She was definitely...
22:04How old was the family together?
22:06After Mumar died.
22:08How old was she?
22:11Twelve.
22:13She very suddenly lost what was left of her childhood.
22:17You did as well.
22:19Her life these past eight years has been one unending sacrifice for the sake of the family.
22:27Including her marriage?
22:32Do you know why my papa named Persephone as he did?
22:36Obsession with all things Greek?
22:38Other than that.
22:40The story of Persephone is his favourite.
22:45Seems an odd favourite to me.
22:47Not when you look at it as he does.
22:50Mark counts himself amongst the scholars of the classics who believe that Hades didn't trick Persephone at all.
22:56And that they both decided together that she'd eat the pomegranate seeds.
23:00Because it meant that nothing could prevent Persephone from returning to him.
23:06But why would she return?
23:08It was the reason for her return.
23:10That endeared the goddess to my father.
23:13The seeds?
23:15The seeds are symbolic.
23:16Symbolic of what?
23:31I know disappearing balls is one of your particular talents.
23:36But it does not reflect well on your wife.
23:39You really ought to go and sit beside her.
23:40What I really ought to do is hang you out your bedchamber windows by a bed sheet wrapped around your
23:45ankles.
23:48Welcome back, old friend.
23:50You've been shockingly soft lately.
23:52Harry!
23:52Oh, shut up!
23:53Harry!
23:54three.
24:24What do the pomegranate seeds symbolize?
24:27What?
24:28In the Persephone myth, Linus said the seeds are symbols.
24:33Has he been waxing philosophical? That is the one trait he inherited from Papa.
24:41What do they symbolize?
24:44According to Papa, the seeds are symbolic of love.
24:48Hades' love for Persephone, her love for him.
24:52How could she love someone who kept her prisoner?
24:57Papa always believed she came to know him beyond his fearsome demeanor and came to love him.
25:02Hades fell in love with Persephone as well. She was his match.
25:08But if they were so in love, then why did she leave at all?
25:13If she had eaten all the seeds, she would have stayed forever.
25:17Hades did not force her to remain because her family needed her.
25:21Hades never let anyone leave his realm.
25:25Hades loved Persephone.
25:33He let her go because he loved her.
25:37She returned because she loved him.
25:49He could have loved her.
25:50She was saved-
25:50He knew what she loved her.
25:53And she was saved-
26:09The first time she left.
26:09This was a young age.
26:22Thank you for the ball, Adam.
26:26It was wonderful.
26:29And you were happy?
26:32You weren't disappointed?
26:36What?
26:40What more were you hoping for?
26:45I've never danced at a ball, though I've often imagined doing so.
26:52I had no intention of asking you to do yet another unpleasant thing today, and yet I...
27:00I would enjoy dancing with you.
27:04You would endure it, I'm certain.
27:19I want to dance with you.
27:23The musicians have all left.
27:26We don't need them.
27:34My leg is still too weak to hold me for long.
27:41Then allow me to hold you?
27:57If you miss them first, I just tend to stand up.
27:58I'll explore the wrestlers of love.
27:58I'm sure you only will know me.
28:01And I can share there.
28:02It's all I know.
28:03I love you.
28:03I can share there.
28:03I know.
28:06I wanna love you.
28:07Maybe, maybe I'll be wrong.
28:08I'm sorry Iму.
28:11I'm sorry.
28:25Linus leaves for Shropshire in the morning to visit your family.
28:31Yes, I know.
28:32You will be leaving with him.
28:35That was not the plan.
28:36It should have been.
28:38It should always have been.
28:41The two of you can depart immediately following breakfast in the morning.
28:47Will you be journeying with us?
28:52I belong at Falston Castle.
29:00And where do I belong?
29:11Your family needs you.
29:14And what about you, Adam?
29:21Dukes don't need people.
29:30We'll walk here and walk in.
29:42I don't know.
29:43It's okay.
29:44I'm a friend.
29:48You won't smoke all the night.
29:49Ciudadaki hands up as lunches.
29:51There she was in the Reggie.
30:03You'd best not keep the horses standing, Mother.
30:06It'll only take a moment, and it is more important than me making a timely departure.
30:14Your father and I had an arranged marriage.
30:18No accounting was made for the differences in our dispositions.
30:23I was raised in town, among society.
30:29London, the tonne, it's what I knew and needed.
30:35Your father was raised here, in quiet and solitude.
30:42We wanted very different things in life.
30:48We tried to compromise, to blend our preferences.
30:55But he begrudged the balls and gatherings held here, and came to rather despise my need for company.
31:04He wouldn't have...
31:05I will admit, I likewise began to view my relationship to Fulston, and by extension him, through a lens of
31:17bitterness.
31:18I do not wish to hear this.
31:19Resentment grows quickly, Adam.
31:25Your father was a good man, despite his implacableness.
31:31I held out hope for so long, in my foolishly romantic heart, that he would come for me while I
31:40was away.
31:42He never did.
31:44Did you tell him that that was what you were hoping for?
31:50I was so young.
31:52Only 17 when we married.
31:55In my naivete, I believed that if he truly cared, he would meet me partway.
32:06You are more willing to compromise than your father ever was.
32:11And Persephone is more suited to quiet and solitude than I ever will be.
32:18She is your match, Adam.
32:22Do not throw away this chance by making her guess at your feelings.
32:52She has a point, you know.
32:57Every other guest has left the castle, Harry.
33:00Why haven't you?
33:04I am here to be your conscience.
33:07To save you from yourself.
33:14She will come back.
33:18When Linus returns to his ship, Persephone will return to Fulston.
33:24And I know you well enough to predict that you will act as though you couldn't care less whether she
33:28is here or not.
33:31Do you really want her to wonder about that?
33:34This is none of your concern, Harry.
33:43You miss her.
33:45And she deserves to know that.
33:49She is happy with her family.
33:51Then go be part of her family.
33:54Go to Shropshire.
33:55That isn't how it works.
33:57How what works?
34:02Persephone receives her reprieve.
34:04And Hades stays in the underworld, waiting to see if the seeds work.
34:10Obviously you were sleeping during that lecture at Harrow.
34:16Hades did not sit back and wait for Persephone.
34:20When the time came, Hades slipped past the hellhounds and ventured into the realm of the living to reclaim his
34:27bride.
34:29I do not remember that.
34:33Hades was no Pamsey Fribble, Adam.
34:37And I'd bet a pony his Persephone knew exactly how her husband felt about her.
35:08Hades was no Pamsey Fribble.
35:24Hades was no Pamsey Fribble.
35:24Are you sure you're warm enough?
35:26I'm dressed as warmly as I am at home.
35:29It is far colder there.
35:31You speak very fondly of Fullstone Castle.
35:34I've come to love it, Athena.
35:37More than just the castle.
35:40I hope I'm not out of lying and saying that you seem to miss the castle.
35:50I do.
35:52Then why do you seem so sad whenever anyone mentions you going back?
35:55Do you not merely think it is because you'll miss us?
35:59Probably because I'm not entirely certain what I will find when I return.
36:06You could always just stay here.
36:09My heart is there.
36:13I hope the castle knows how fortunate he is.
36:16I hope the castle knows how it is.
36:47I hope the castle knows how it is.
36:48When you are ready.
36:50But I wanted to see Shropshire.
36:55To see where you grew up.
36:58You did?
37:02And get to know your family.
37:07And I…
37:08I…
37:12Hades always went after Persephone.
37:17Yes, he did
37:22He waited as long as he had to
37:26And then he left his kingdom and he did not come back until he found her
37:31I think Hades must have missed his wife
37:36I think he knew to the very minute how long she'd been gone
37:41But was Persephone as anxious to return as he was to have her with him again?
37:46Yes, she was
38:02Why did Hades go after her?
38:08He must have loved her
38:09Oh, he did
38:12He did more than he could even express
38:20But
38:23But did Persephone love him
38:25In spite of his flaws
38:28In spite of deserving so much better than he could ever offer
38:33Oh, Adam
38:34Am I too late?
38:36Is there nothing that I can...
38:38You said you belong at Fauston
38:42Only at Fauston
38:44I belong with you
39:07I do love you, Adam
39:20The Tom would not believe it, even if they heard you say that
39:25We shall have to convince them
39:28I may enjoy London yet
39:31Does this mean I can come to your castle?
39:35Our castle
39:36Our castle
39:37Is in need of a good exploration
39:41Perhaps if you have no other plans for Christmas
39:44You could undertake one then
39:48Athena!
39:49Daphne!
39:51You realise she will bring the rest of the family
39:54And Fauston will be overrun with people
40:00Well
40:01And there is probably a chance I will be in a foul mood from time to time
40:09You may once again have to save me from myself
40:15You have done that, do you know?
40:18Saved you?
40:22Oh my Persephone
40:26Do you know that I would have come for you
40:29No matter how far you've gone
40:34Hades always came for Persephone
40:41And she always returned home
40:47Always
41:16Please
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