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Ladybird, Ladybird: Hannah narrowly stops her son's grandmother from kidnapping him. She offers Hannah £500 to allow her to adopt him but Hannah refused, remembering what William had told her about his childhood. Lady Harmonsworth blames Hannah for her son's death. Elspeth and Nathaniel Hutchinson go abroad as he has a post in India. Lydia meets Lord Hugh, eldest son of Lord Lamson-Scribener, and thinking he is a member of staff, confides that she is curious about a room that is kept locked. Lord Hugh shows her around but a pot is accidentally broken. She apologises and when Lord Lamson-Scribener learns that Lydia can cook, asks her to help prepare a meal for people celebrating the coronation of King Edward VII. Nanny Collins is upset by the accolades Lydia receives. Matty finds herself strongly attracted to newly hired footman, Ned Jones, unaware he is Mrs. McClusky's son and is wanted by the police for killing a man in a fight.
Starring:
Clare Wilkie
Victoria Smurfit
Tabitha Wady
Transcript
00:41Enjoy your weekend.
00:43Good morning, children.
00:45Good morning, Miss Turner.
00:49We did Australia today.
00:51Miss Turner said I could draw a picture of a placidus because I couldn't spell it.
00:55We're very lucky to have such a good governess.
00:57Now then, last one to clear away has to sing
00:59and God save the king without laughing.
01:02Well, what have you been up to, I wonder?
01:04I beg your pardon.
01:05Name in the newspaper and everything.
01:08Nanny Simpson's just teasing.
01:10Now then, wash your hands before luncheon.
01:11Go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go.
01:14Easy, eh?
01:15If Miss Hannah Randall, last heard of in the service of Lady Harmonsworth of Linthorpe, near Halifax,
01:22would contact Mrs. Scott and Mackay, solicitors of Knightsbridge,
01:26she will hear something to her advantage.
01:30Let me see.
01:31I may not have been a lady's maid, but I can read every bit as well as you.
01:35I'm sure you can, Nanny Simmons.
01:36I'd just like to see for myself.
01:41Funny, that.
01:43I had the impression you left there under a bit of a cloud, as it were,
01:46being you never speak about them or anything.
01:48I know as much as you do, Nanny Simmons.
01:51I'll ask Mrs. Hutchinson if you can use a telephone if you like,
01:54or I could telephone for you if you're a bit nervous.
01:59No, thank you.
02:05The Master and Mrs. seem well enough pleased with him.
02:08The boy hasn't said anything.
02:10Still thinks we're playing spies.
02:11Where are you going with him?
02:12You told me to clean the cantors, so I'm going to clean him.
02:15Calm down there.
02:17Now, are you getting on with Nanny now?
02:19I'm OK.
02:20All I'm doing is being nice as pie, all round.
02:23Anyway, I've hardly seen Nanny.
02:24Good.
02:25Just you behave yourself.
02:27I know what you're like with the girls.
02:28Don't we're just?
02:30Newspaper.
02:31What?
02:32Look, I'm a big boy now.
02:35Hey, kick me head down.
02:37Staying a safe distance from everyone.
02:39Just as long as you don't seem standoffish,
02:41you don't want to put anyone's back up.
02:42Right, mother.
02:43When I need up to stand on the tightrope, I'll ask for it, all right?
02:47Buddy, have you ever met a spy?
02:49How should I know the whole point of being a spy
02:52is that you don't tell anyone?
02:54Go and put your good suit on, Master Albert.
02:57Why?
02:58Because I say so.
03:00You've a very special surprise in store.
03:03You're going to visit your brothers at school this afternoon
03:05with Mama and Papa.
03:07Am I a widow?
03:08So there's absolutely no reason she shouldn't go, is there?
03:12I shall look after baby Charles.
03:14It's nothing I expect.
03:15Just my old employer is trying to contact me.
03:19You've probably left something behind.
03:21Yes.
03:22Then if they've gone to all the trouble of placing the advertisement,
03:25you're duty-bound to answer it.
03:27I'll go and speak to Madam.
03:34I'll go and say goodbye to Bertie.
03:39What's the matter?
03:40Why don't you want to go?
03:46Mattie, I was dismissed from my last job without references.
03:50I had to forge a letter to get the job here.
03:53You never did.
03:55Please don't think ill of me.
03:57I had very good reasons.
03:59If you say so.
04:01Goodness.
04:03Do you think that's what the advertisement's about?
04:06Well, I can't think of anything else.
04:09Is that for a service Sunday dinner?
04:12No, it is not.
04:13It's for upstairs Sunday lunch.
04:16Staff are eating cold Sunday night.
04:18What?
04:19Me and Cook are off out Sunday.
04:22His Majesty King Edward is paying for our dinner, isn't he?
04:24I'm surprised they're going there with the King's dinner.
04:26Seeing the coronation's off till he's better.
04:28They wouldn't dare.
04:30We're off to the one in Covent Garden.
04:33Kirby the Greengrocer says they've got Chinese lanterns,
04:36flowers, the lot.
04:40Don't worry.
04:41Cook will leave you something nice on a plate.
04:46Yeah, the white bonnet with the white trim.
04:48I think, Lydia, now we're in July.
04:50Yes, Nanny.
04:53Will your friends be in the park?
04:56I expect so, if that's all right.
04:59I hear very satisfactory reports of Nanny Wickham.
05:02Very highly spoken of.
05:03She's nice.
05:05Nobody seems to know anything about nursemaid Randolph, mind.
05:09She's nice too.
05:12I'm told she was seen cuddling the infant.
05:17In that nursery, we feel it's an encouraging start.
05:36I was told I might expect a prompt response to our advertisement.
05:42Now then, you are Miss Hannah Randall, currently residing at...
05:50Why do you need to know that?
05:53So that the postman will know where to deliver any correspondence.
05:57Number five, Barclay Square, London.
06:03Now, Miss Randall, what sits in the smallest drawer on the left-hand side of Lady Harmonsworth's dressing table?
06:14A small silver box chased with ivy leaves containing a lock of her own mother's hair.
06:19Good.
06:20That confirms your identity.
06:26Now, I am given to understand that you are the mother of William John Randall, born on the second day
06:32of February, 1902.
06:36And fathered by the late William Albert Harmon, Viscount Stebbins of Linthorpe, near Halifax.
06:44Miss Randall, I'm not here to pass judgment.
06:49Is my information correct?
06:53Yes.
06:55What is all this about?
07:01I am instructed to offer this for your inspection.
07:14£500, which is yours, on signature of this document.
07:24Allow me.
07:27In consideration of £500, I hereby relinquish all parental, legal and moral rights in the infant, William John Randall,
07:37and give him for all time into the care and keeping of his paternal grandmother, the Countess of Harmonsworth.
07:44I pledge on oath that I will make no attempt to see, speak or make contact...
07:48She wants to buy my baby.
07:52Miss Randall.
07:54She wants to buy my baby.
07:58She had me dismissed from service.
08:01She threatened to disinherit her only son for his association with me.
08:06She instructed the local doctor not to deliver my child.
08:10The local parson not to christen my child.
08:12She had me cast out of my home.
08:15And now, she wants to buy my baby.
08:18Miss Randall.
08:18Never, not till hell freezes over, will I let that woman near my son.
08:24Good afternoon, Randall.
08:33Come on.
08:35Just one mint humbug, please.
08:37They're my favourites.
08:38No, there's so many.
08:43Givens, what's in there?
08:45What's in where?
08:46In there.
08:48Three times I've seen his lordship going in and coming out.
08:51Always when you don't think anyone's there.
08:54Always locking the door ever so carefully.
08:56Aha.
08:57Well, he would, wouldn't he?
08:58Considering what's in there.
09:00What?
09:00I'm not saying.
09:01You won't give me a mint humbug.
09:02I'm not telling you anything.
09:10Well, you know, Lady Constance is his lordship's second wife.
09:16Well, that's where he keeps the first one.
09:18No.
09:19True.
09:20All wrapped up and embalmed like one of them Egyptian mummies.
09:24Only he didn't do it as well as the Egyptian sea.
09:26She's in there, falling to pieces.
09:29You.
09:30How can you say such disgusting things in front of his little ears?
09:35Not listening to any more of his nonsense, are we?
09:43With respect, Lady Harmonsworth, I think that any mother is entitled to be reassured
09:49as to the secure and continued welfare of her child before giving it up.
09:54I am not giving him up.
09:56Then you are more selfish and self-serving than I thought.
10:02The child will be brought up by accomplished nurses and governesses.
10:06At the appropriate time, he will be sent to his father's old school.
10:10If he shares my son's intelligence, he will be sent up to Oxford.
10:14If not, he will be found suitable employment on the estate.
10:21What can you offer him?
10:23His own mother.
10:25Then let us hope he is grateful to his own mother
10:28when he learns what she has turned down on his behalf.
10:41Why?
10:43Why now?
10:45Why were there no generous gestures a year ago
10:48when they were so sorely needed?
10:50A year ago, I still had my son
10:52and thought to have him till my death, not his.
10:55There was a future
10:59which might have...
11:00would have held the prospect of reconciliation.
11:03You robbed me of that future
11:05as you robbed me of mine.
11:07How dare you?
11:09You seduced William from his virtue
11:11and from the goodwill of his parents.
11:13I did not.
11:14Had it not been for you,
11:16he would never have taken part in that ridiculous race.
11:19Had it not been for you,
11:21my son would be alive and well.
11:23That is a lie.
11:24You owe me a son!
11:26Ladies,
11:27I beg you.
11:32Now I understand.
11:35You want to buy a child
11:36to keep him hidden out of sight and a mind.
11:39You tell me that you do want a son,
11:42that he shall have all the love
11:43and favours of a son,
11:45that he shall inherit titles and estates as a son.
11:48Then we may have grounds for a discussion.
11:55Until then,
11:56Lady Harmonsworth,
11:58we do not.
12:00Good day to you, sir.
12:09Calm me yourself,
12:10Lady Harmonsworth.
12:13Intense grief
12:14breeds a terrible kind of madness,
12:16Mr. Scott.
12:22I must apologise.
12:35I told Cook you lot needed sweetening up,
12:38so she made a cake specially.
12:40Her kind.
12:42No,
12:42I don't suppose I could have Sunday night off, could I?
12:45Sorry, Pringle.
12:46I'm off to the King's Dinner down my house.
12:49What will it be like?
12:51I tell you,
12:52they've got pianos, singers,
12:53everything like that.
12:54Everyone in London's going somewhere north on Sunday
12:57to have their King's Dinner.
12:59Except me.
13:01I'm having something cold
13:02on a plate.
13:03Oh,
13:04never mind.
13:06I'll keep you company.
13:09There.
13:10Now she'll keep you going for a bit.
13:18What would it entail,
13:19Mr. Scott?
13:21Well,
13:22one can appoint whoever one wishes
13:24as an heir to the estate.
13:26It would be a question
13:26of Lord Harmonsworth
13:27making the appropriate change
13:28in his will.
13:30But to inherit a title
13:33would mean
13:33a legal adoption
13:35of the child.
13:36How many would know
13:38of his true parentage?
13:39As many as you choose to tell
13:40outside this room.
13:43I see.
13:45Lady Harmonsworth,
13:48is this a course of action
13:50you would seriously
13:51wish to consider?
13:54He is my grandson.
13:57If the girl is adamant.
13:59Well,
14:00I could put a new proposal
14:02to her
14:04if Lord Harmonsworth...
14:05Mr. Scott,
14:06my husband knows nothing
14:07of my visit to London.
14:09If I am to go
14:10to the considerable effort
14:11of persuading him
14:12that this is a right
14:13and proper course of action,
14:14I myself must be certain
14:16that this is indeed
14:17my grandchild.
14:19One never knows
14:20with these girls.
14:22I wish to see the baby.
14:25Now then,
14:26what happened
14:27at the solicitor's office?
14:30Come in.
14:34Good afternoon,
14:36Nanny Simmons.
14:38Sorry to interrupt
14:40your tea.
14:41This was delivered
14:42by hand
14:43five minutes ago.
14:47Thank you,
14:48Mr. Bowles.
14:49Yes, of course.
14:58Tea, please, Randall.
15:07My principal wishes
15:09to advance negotiations
15:10begun today
15:11in a manner
15:12satisfactory to all parties.
15:14What's that supposed to mean?
15:18Is that letter
15:19addressed to me?
15:23Nanny Simmons,
15:24this is a private letter.
15:25In this nursery,
15:27my girl,
15:27I decide what's private.
15:38order
15:58to emerge
15:59from the
15:59moment
15:59by the
15:59here
15:59to
15:59can I help you Weston no thank you mr. Fowler it's Gibbons you see sir he was
16:06young footmen are notorious for their juvenile sense of humor I'm afraid they
16:10mean no harm as a rule but in your position I would take steps to
16:14establish a firm line what do you mean a line between acceptable teasing and
16:21taking liberties Lydia oh right oh you've really had me coming for a minute
16:27mr. Fowler he's awful with those stories as Gibbons
16:32mr. Fowler we're off now I won't detain you long as most of you know mrs. Hutchinson
16:48and I had intended to leave for India at the end of the summer however your
16:54circumstances dictate that I now must take up my posting at the earliest
16:58possible moment therefore we shall be departing for Southampton tomorrow and
17:03sailing from there first thing on Monday morning as it's a relatively short
17:09posting of one year we have decided that master Albert should remain here and that
17:16the households would function as normal we have every confidence that things will
17:21run smoothly under mr. Bowles's supervision and our solicitor mr. Thorndike
17:26here is authorized to deal with any queries or problems that may arise during our
17:32absence that is all on behalf of the household staff sir may I wish you and
17:40mrs. Hutchinson on a splendid voyage and the very best of good fortunes in your new appointment
17:49thank you I didn't say I didn't want to go I merely said I was little surprised by your sudden
17:56affection for the Hutchinson's I've always enjoyed her company besides you'll enjoy the gardens at the club
18:08and would I want to work with you oh yeah what about you lied to me you know to spy
18:16at all
18:16I
18:51is that how you regard the King's dinner George it'll be quite jolly Lord Chief Justice told me he'd never
18:57peeled a potato in his life
18:59but it's more symbolic I suppose you know the highest in the land dishing up supper to the lowest absolutely
19:06right and proper
19:10it would be a wrench for mrs. Hutchinson to leave the boys surely more of a wrench to see him
19:15popping off with cholera or beriberi or whatever
19:19no place for nippers India no no let's just hope the lowest in the land don't see it as an
19:26excuse for idle mockery
19:27well I shall don a pinafore and wield a ladle with a stout heart and if anyone cares to laugh
19:33at me they're jolly welcome to
19:37of course it'll suit mrs. Hutchinson down to the ground she's been dying to be a men's eye for years
19:43excuse me a moment
19:53this engine delight from surprise John Harding this is mrs.
19:56engine
19:56right
19:59frightful bounder this one and that tells me has to be on duty or some such nonsense
20:04I should have to race on my own now shan't I
20:08in which case you'll be certain to win
20:11won't you
20:11bye all right not me
20:14what are you doing in the storeroom
20:16are you trying to steal things
20:18excuse me master Tom I've my duties to attend to
20:21I want to know
20:23if you don't tell me
20:24I'll tell papa about your hiding
20:30I can't talk here
20:32right
20:34come with me
20:39Mr. Randall your conversation of yesterday led Lady Harmers was to understand that she had approached the question of her
20:48grandson in a rather simplistic way
20:52she would consider adopting Billy as a legal heir
20:54if terms can be arranged that are acceptable to all sides
20:58well she can't cut me out of his life
21:01nobody needs noam his mother but I have to be near him
21:03Miss Randall
21:05Lady Harmers with has Billy's best interests at heart
21:09if your presence contributes to his welfare she'll go along with that
21:12well she never did before
21:13she wasn't a lonely frightened old woman before
21:17I propose that Miss Thomas and myself take young Billy to Lady Harmers with her to a hotel
21:22allow her to satisfy herself that it is indeed her grandson
21:25and then return him to you in no more than a couple of hours
21:29now perhaps tomorrow would be suitable if you can make the afternoon available
21:37I'm not sure
21:39Miss Randall
21:40you have my word that all will be conducted with absolute propriety
21:46I shall be personally responsible for Billy's safety
21:49I'm good with children Miss Randall
21:52I'll see he comes to know how
21:55you took my place as her new lady's maid
21:57that's right
21:59how do you get on with her?
22:01I'm thick skinned
22:03it helps
22:08give me a piece of paper
22:11I'll write down the address
22:14no skin off my nose if the old man wants to go on jollifications
22:18you'll look after me, won't you?
22:20indeed, Master Hugh
22:22your trunk's in your room, sir
22:24Riley's unpacking it for you now
22:26oh, Riley's still here, is she?
22:28good, eh?
22:30don't go away
22:31I've got something for you
22:34an anarchist track from the Paris revolutionaries
22:36should be just up your street, eh, Fowler?
22:39and, um, something
22:42a little more pictorial for you
22:45most thoughtful, sir
22:46my pleasure
22:49right
22:51nice to see you both
22:53I'll go up and say hello to Riley
22:58what does he think I am?
23:01a servant
23:03I'm gonna ban jam roly-poly
23:06between April and September
23:08what nanny wants, nanny gets
23:14Mrs. McCluskey
23:16has Tom been down here?
23:17I sent him down ages ago
23:19to fetch the makings for peppermint creams
23:20what you done?
23:21lost him?
23:22I searched the entire house
23:24he didn't go out through here
23:25we wouldn't have let him do that, dear
23:28not on his own
23:29oh, Lord
23:31what time are the master and mistress, Joanne?
23:33not for a bit yet
23:34I shouldn't think
23:37you look in the master's study
23:38we'll search down here
23:44I'm bound to be somewhere
23:52I've never done this before
23:54no
23:55and you never do again without me, her old nunchuck
23:59understood
24:00understood, thank you
24:02welcome
24:04so, we're friends then?
24:05I didn't mean to be horrid
24:07yeah
24:08my fault for telling fibs
24:10when you're somewhere you shouldn't be
24:12you say the first thing that comes into your head sometimes, don't you?
24:15especially because I was scared
24:16scared?
24:17yeah
24:18being caught hiding in a strange house
24:22but you knew you were going to have a job here
24:24there was only a bed out of the cold for one night
24:26even if he did break in
24:29even so
24:31I think it's awful that people don't have beds to go to
24:35is your bed here all right?
24:36it's just fine
24:38listen, Tom
24:40you've been very nice to me
24:41but
24:42I'd still like you to keep all of this under your hat
24:44if that's all right
24:45and I'd like you to keep this place under your hat
24:51nobody knows I come here
24:53only you
24:54spit and shake
25:12they're back
25:14what?
25:15are you sure?
25:16they're early
25:19are you going to tell them?
25:20I don't see I have any choice
25:25look after her here, please
25:32I can't
25:34Tom?
25:36now what rhymes with mate?
25:38Thomas St. John
25:38where on earth have you been?
25:40I've been looking everywhere for you
25:42I've spent the last hour and 30 minutes
25:44I've been worried after death
25:45aye, aye, aye
25:46he's here now
25:47don't frighten the boy
25:48don't frighten the boy
25:48what do you think he's been doing to me
25:50for the last two hours?
25:52a moment ago
25:52it was only an hour and 30 minutes
25:53don't you split hairs with me
25:55it is not funny
25:57I was just about to tell the master and mistress
25:59yeah, all right
26:01all right
26:02sorry
26:02just calm down
26:06where did you find him?
26:08we was
26:10in there
26:11the boy was showing me his old toys
26:12I looked in there 20 minutes ago
26:14then we were probably in the garden
26:15look
26:16I haven't had time to find my way round half the house
26:18I found him in this gallery
26:19and asked him to show me the stables
26:21don't go on at him
26:22it's my fault
26:23not his
26:25go to the nursery please, Tom
26:29his sister's been most anxious about you as well
26:32aye, aye
26:33I'm sorry you were worried
26:36he's a boy
26:37let him off the leash a bit
26:39I'm not paid to let my children off the leash
26:42I'm paid to look after him
26:44and I will do it as I see fit
26:46yeah
26:47I'm sure you will
26:50poor little blighters
27:13gibbons you
27:15you're not gibbons
27:16no, I know
27:17what are you doing giving me frights like that for?
27:20sorry, Nanny
27:21I couldn't resist it
27:22well, make more of an effort next time
27:24if you please
27:24yes, Nanny
27:28new here, are you?
27:29yes, Nanny
27:31well
27:32I'll let it go this time
27:33as seeing as you knew
27:34but don't you try taking liberties with me again
27:38no, Nanny
27:43and don't go telling anyone I was peeking where I shouldn't either
27:47no, all right
27:47I won't
27:53so it wasn't about your reference then?
27:55no
27:58is there anything I can do?
28:00I nearly wish there were
28:05well, you could look after Bertie for me tomorrow
28:07that would help a bit
28:09yeah, of course
28:12well, Mr Farrell says I don't have to put up with it
28:15so I'm not going to
28:16and that's that
28:18I know you all think I'm country, friends
28:20but I'm learning very fast indeed
28:24so, Nanny
28:24which King's Dinner are you going to?
28:26I'm not going to any
28:27no?
28:28you want to come to the one in Our Street?
28:29it'll be fun
28:30proper dinner
28:30mug of beer
28:31a bit of a sing-song
28:32it's all free
28:33it'll be a laugh
28:33I can't really
28:35of course you can
28:35Matty will be there, won't you, doll?
28:37yeah
28:37I will
28:38come on
28:39we'll make a party of it
28:41I'd like that
28:43come on, Anna
28:43we'll all go
28:44I think Anna might have other things to attend to
28:47her family's going abroad tomorrow
28:49there'll be lots to do
28:50oh, never mind
28:52we can still go, though, can't we?
29:10hello
29:11oh, you too
29:14come on
29:26see?
29:30the finest treasures of the Orient, Nanny
29:32but it's just a lot of old pots
29:35oh, very pretty pots and all that, but
29:39but just pots
29:43I thought it was going to be something extraordinary
29:46but
29:48thank you very much for showing me
29:49and I'd best get these back to the nursery
29:53you stupid girl
29:54oh, no, it couldn't have been very valuable, could it?
29:59so you're not too sad about my mum and papa going away for a bit, then?
30:02no, I've still got you
30:05and me
30:07everything will be perfectly all right while your parents are gone
30:10wash your hands for dinner now, please, Master Albert
30:13off you go
30:17well, what happened?
30:19now that they've found you
30:20will you go back and housekeep for your uncle?
30:23oh, I don't think so
30:27I'd much rather stay here
30:30oh, by the way
30:31Mrs St. John has invited Master Albert over
30:33to spend the day with Tom and Harriet tomorrow
30:35to cheer him up
30:36so may I take my day off
30:38after Master and Mistress have left
30:40naturally
30:48a stupid joke on my part, father
30:50and it went dreadfully wrong
30:52I can only apologise
30:54how did you get in?
30:56I took the spare key from the pantry
31:00Shung
31:02over 3,000 years old
31:05Lydia
31:06it's not the girl's fault
31:08I told you
31:11Lydia, please take Ivo back to the nursery
31:13his lordship will speak with you later
31:16fella, can you help Lydia upstairs?
31:20I always did know how to make an entrance
31:22eh, pal?
31:24you're a complete ass, Hugh
31:25always were
31:30welcome home
31:34I don't know if you'll be dismissed
31:38when you go down to see his lordship
31:41you'll tell the truth
31:42and shame the devil
31:43you admit to folly
31:45and insolence
31:46and apologise
31:48with humility
31:49but it was Lord Hugh
31:50Master Hugh
31:52is the young gentleman
31:53of the house
31:56now go along
32:02actually, Connie
32:05even the ancient Chinese
32:06sometimes threw rotten pots
32:08he wasn't that special
32:09the value is not the point
32:11the point is
32:12that Hugh took advantage
32:13of a young girl's
32:14ignorance and naivety
32:15to make a fool of her
32:17now you two may laugh it off
32:19but how do you think
32:19she's feeling right now?
32:21I held up my hands
32:23what more do you want?
32:25I want you to make it right with her
32:27what were you saying yesterday
32:29about the highest in the land
32:30having a duty of service
32:31to the lowest?
32:32well how's she to recognise value
32:34unless it's taught to her?
32:35Weston is waiting to see you, sir
32:37is she now?
32:38rightio, thank you
32:42won't be a tick
32:44we're not a republican
32:46are we, Connie?
32:53be the very best of boys
32:54for Mama
33:01leave everything safe
33:02in your capable hands
33:03what?
33:04that's the spirit
33:20was he a lady from Rite
33:22who ate a green apple
33:23and died
33:23the apple fermented
33:25inside the lemon
33:25and made cider
33:26and cider
33:27and cider
33:45was that piece I broke
33:47really 3,000 years old?
33:50only it didn't look like much
33:53well this particular
33:54Chinese emperor
33:55used to eat off
33:56rough clay plates
33:58that were made that morning
33:59and broken that night
34:01to stop any lesser mortal
34:02using them
34:03well there's a thing
34:06trick is, Weston
34:07never judge a book
34:08by its cover
34:10I think that's what
34:11we all need to remember
34:12from this little episode
34:13yes, sir
34:15nor a pot by its colour
34:18oh yes
34:19that's the ticket
34:21you seem to know
34:22an awful lot about
34:22history in that, sir
34:23everyone has something
34:25they're good at
34:26yes
34:27that's what
34:28nunny Collins says
34:30that's where I first
34:31heard it
34:33well I'm certainly
34:34more at home
34:35among ancient pots
34:36than cooking pots
34:37I'll tell you that
34:38I'm preparing dinner
34:39for a hundred people
34:40this evening
34:41I'm quite out of my depth
34:43I know
34:43that's what I'm good at
34:44see
34:45I've been making
34:46Irish supper
34:46since I was ten
34:47meat and potato pie
34:48the lot
34:50have you by Jove
34:54what happened, girl?
34:56have you been dismissed?
34:58look, I'll talk to him
34:59I can't be expected
35:00to manage on my own
35:01at such short notice
35:02I haven't been dismissed
35:05oh
35:07first he showed me
35:07round the china room
35:08so I wouldn't need
35:10to be curious anymore
35:11oh
35:12and then
35:13he said I could
35:14make up for the breakage
35:15by helping him
35:16and all the other lords
35:17make a big supper
35:18down the East End
35:19tonight
35:20oh
35:25I don't know
35:26what to say, hon
35:26I
35:28oh, my heart
35:28will be sore tools
35:31not as sore as yours
35:32of course
35:33but
35:33but
35:34on the other hand
35:35to
35:35think of Billy
35:37grown up
35:37as a great lord
35:38with everything
35:39her desires
35:40and you and me
35:41with easy life
35:43it's hard to say now
35:44well, that's just it
35:45isn't it
35:46oh, I don't know
35:48what to do
35:50let's play a game
35:53yes
35:55let's play a game
35:56to make it easier
35:57pretend
35:59Billy is his father
36:00and imagine
36:01imagine in your head
36:03whatever your William
36:04said about
36:05family
36:06school
36:07all things
36:08and then
36:09see if you'd like it
36:10for Billy
36:16he said that
36:17I was the
36:18first person
36:19to ever say
36:20I love you
36:21help
36:25I can't
36:26I can't
36:27do it
36:27Mrs. P
36:27oh well
36:34goodbye
36:35easy life
36:43I have no excuses
36:45Harry
36:46I simply
36:46lost my nerve
36:48it just
36:49suddenly
36:49seemed so
36:50cold and
36:50calculating
36:52not treacherous
36:54to you
36:55to your husband
36:57I'm ashamed
36:58to say that
36:58wasn't the first
36:59thought in my mind
37:01don't laugh
37:02at me
37:02Harry
37:04I'm not
37:06matter of fact
37:06I'm smiling
37:07with relief
37:15I didn't like
37:15the idea
37:16of severing
37:16relations
37:17quite yet
37:20I seem
37:21to have got
37:21rather attached
37:22Victoria
37:25is it so wrong
37:26to hanker
37:27after a little
37:27romance
37:28no my dear
37:29it is not
37:31but you have
37:32to forgive me
37:32I tend to go
37:33like a bull
37:33at a gate
37:35get out of the
37:36habit of being
37:37tender
37:41I feel very
37:42foolish
37:45I think
37:46you're a delight
37:49son ?
38:02oh
38:12he's a lie
38:13son he's a no
38:14son he's a no
38:16son he's a
38:17Don't just wait here, will you? We won't be long.
38:23So, I'm ever so sorry, but I shan't be able to come with you tonight.
38:27Well, I should think not, not if you're ob-nobbing with all the bigwigs.
38:29It's really exciting for you, Lydia. Do you know where you'll be?
38:33St Mark's Hall, Inkeman Street, Lomas.
38:39What? Why are you laughing?
38:42What have I done wrong now?
38:46I'm so sorry to have dragged you all the way down here just to say I've changed my mind.
38:51Well, better now than when it's too late, Miss Randall.
38:54That's the way that tragedies are made.
38:56Well, no matter how hard it is for me and Billy, I can't part with them.
39:00Well, I can't say I blame you. I wouldn't part with him if he was mine.
39:04I wish you the best of fortune.
39:06Thank you. Gareth cake.
39:10Speciality of Poland. Ah, how splendid.
39:12I won't, thank you.
39:14Oh, sure. May?
39:16Oh, of course.
39:18There you go.
39:21There you go.
39:23Oh, he could take as much of that as he can give him.
39:25No, I take him out to see all the flags and he waves his little hand.
39:30Shall we go and look at all the pretty flags?
39:32Shall we?
39:38Oh, what do you think?
39:41Splendid.
39:42It's my mother's recipe.
39:47For what it's worth, Miss Randall, I think you've made the right decision.
39:57Half a noon we out, China.
39:59Hello, Skipper.
39:59Tom.
40:01You two upstairs, please.
40:02I'll take Bertie in.
40:03Bye, Bertie.
40:04Bye, Bertie.
40:07I would be most grateful if you kept your slang to yourself in future.
40:13Off's a new money.
40:14Such a fine day.
40:23I really must get back to Berkeley Square, Mrs. B, or they'll wonder where I've got to.
40:27Miss Thomas and I will take you in the cab.
40:30Enjoy your king's dinner tonight.
40:32I have excellent appetite.
40:43Lily, did you see a young lady with a baby passing bag?
40:47What, in a fancy grey frock?
40:49That's her.
40:50Where is she?
40:51Well, she just got in a big carriage up the end of the street.
40:54Why?
40:56I swear I was not party to this.
40:58Where is my baby?
41:00The Halifax train leaves St. Pancras on the hour.
41:06Excuse me.
41:12You can manage without Lydia this evening, Mrs. Collins.
41:15Perfectly well, thank you, Your Ladyship.
41:18Are you sure you won't join your father for the king's dinner here?
41:21Lord, no.
41:22You put up new wallpaper, Connie.
41:25Do you object?
41:26No.
41:27Why on earth should I?
41:31If anyone's going to the company of power and outing, it should be you.
41:36One merely feels that it should take longer than a few weeks to earn such a favour.
41:41Mama would never have allowed a nursemaid to go.
41:45Americans have such strange ideas sometimes, don't you think?
41:54I should never have trusted her.
41:57I should never have allowed you to.
42:06They haven't even been peeled yet.
42:09Apparently the woman who was organising this side of things has gone down with colic.
42:14Wow.
42:16Best done with it then, aren't we?
42:25What is it?
42:26Why have we stopped?
42:28The streets are made up for a party.
43:13We're just seeing someone off.
43:20We're just seeing someone off.
43:26What is it, Mrs. B?
43:27It's starting in a sec.
43:29You go on.
43:33Well, at least come in and have your photograph, Tuck.
43:36You might never have another chance.
43:44Give me my baby.
43:46Never.
43:49Give him to me.
43:51No.
43:52Don't you understand?
43:54He's all I have.
43:56Lady Harmonsworth, this won't bring back your son.
44:00Now, please.
44:02William is gone.
44:04And I am going to have to live with that for a lot longer than you are.
44:08Now give me my child.
44:09No.
44:11Make her a contract.
44:13Give her whatever she wants.
44:16And I shall take that contract.
44:18And I shall show it to everyone I can.
44:20And to the newspapers, dignitaries.
44:23Do you really think Mr. Scott would give it to you?
44:27No, I shan't give it to her.
44:29I'll take it to the papers myself.
44:33And I suspect I know a great many more influential editors
44:36than Miss Randall does.
44:43Another two minutes, your worship, then drain the sink, mash them,
44:47and put in a bit of butter about the size of a Cox's orange picking.
44:54Is there any salt on the table?
44:55Don't think so.
44:56Best put in another tea spoon since then, I think.
44:58Right you are, Weston.
45:00And a hell of a carriage, your lordship.
45:11Five minutes and we'll be there.
45:12Save some for me, eh?
45:13Of course.
45:14My best girls, Lydia.
45:15I'm going with you.
45:18I'm going with you.
45:20I'm going with you.
45:44Um, could we have that lovely young lady up on stage at the band, do you think?
46:04Hannah!
46:04Hannah!
46:28How long did your ladyship say the journey was?
46:34As long as it takes, Clarissa.
46:40Mrs Branowski was my landlady when I first came to London.
46:44She's been very kind to me.
46:46How do you do?
46:48Hannah is so stupid.
46:49She takes my only grandchild for a walk and doesn't come back for hours and hours.
46:54Richie Scott.
46:55I'm an old friend of the family.
46:58Mrs Branowski's family.
47:01How did you do?
47:02So, Richie, let's take a place before there's no place left.
47:08Everything all right?
47:10Yes.
47:17Great.
47:19Everyone raise your glasses, please.
47:24Now, a rousing cheer.
47:27God save the king.
47:28After three.
47:29Everybody ready?
47:31You're smiling.
47:32One.
47:34One.
47:34Two.
47:36Three.
47:37God save the king.
47:39Two.
47:42One.
47:43One.
47:44Two.
47:46One.
47:50One.
47:53One.
47:57Two.
47:58Two.
48:04Aria.

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