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Seeking Persephone Episode 3
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00:00I consider Adam my brother.
00:02He is so hostile toward you.
00:04Adam is hostile toward everyone.
00:06Don't you want to even see her try?
00:07I've seen enough people quit in my lifetime without witnessing the same thing again.
00:11I think she'll surprise you.
00:12I am attempting to find my place here and claim a degree of equanimity with my new husband.
00:18I am for Hoyk in the morning.
00:20Is something the matter with Harry?
00:21He's taken exceedingly ill as an in-between here and Hoyk.
00:24What are you intending to do?
00:25Go retrieve him, of course.
00:28Why did you not allow a physician to be summoned?
00:30This gentleman is clearly ill.
00:33I run in a charity, Gough.
00:35He's hoping we can do business again in the future.
00:38We will.
00:39He is so confusing.
00:41All part of his charm, Persephone.
00:44The blazes is wrong with me.
00:46This has arrived for you as well.
00:48Persephone?
00:50Evander is dead.
01:01Harry was as impertinent as ever when I saw him an hour or so ago.
01:06Take that as an indication that he is recovering.
01:12I received a letter from my sister today.
01:15Which one?
01:17Artemis.
01:18The youngest?
01:20Yes.
01:24She dislikes her governess.
01:26Not for any legitimate reason.
01:29She feels weighed down by the continued state of mourning around the house.
01:34And she has asked again to be able to come here to visit.
01:44I suggested spring or summer.
01:52Of course nothing has actually been planned.
01:57We will have to go to London in the spring.
02:00After enduring society and the season, we get to return here, where it's quiet.
02:09Yes.
02:12It is decidedly quiet.
02:16Yes.
02:28It is decidedly quiet.
02:34How are you feeling?
02:36Hmm.
02:38Much improved.
02:40Being away from the boar and dagger has contributed greatly to my welfare.
02:44Then you'll be pleased to know it will not be a source of misery any longer.
02:48It is to be shuttered.
02:50Immediately.
02:54Shuttered?
02:55Hmm.
02:56A closer look at Smith's history and practices made closing the place absolutely necessary.
03:01Any man who would withhold food, warmth, medical aid, and the ability to send for help when a person is
03:07in distress, and has done so, time and again, ought not be running an inn.
03:12Hmm.
03:15First you rush to my rescue.
03:19Then you vanquish the villain who tortured me.
03:23Watch yourself, Adam.
03:25Hmm.
03:30People will begin to think you care.
03:32Shut up, Harry.
03:32Hmm.
03:33Hmm.
03:45Hmm.
03:54Hmm.
03:57Hmm.
04:00No doubt the vicar is here as well.
04:02No doubt.
04:04Are you feeling quite yourself today, Barton?
04:06I hear you. I feel better than I have in years, Your Grace.
04:10It sounds as though Faustin is infested with birds.
04:17A full tea?
04:20I believe Cook was exceptionally excited at the prospect of preparing a tea tree once more.
04:26It's been a while here, Grace.
04:29How is it, Barton, that the vicar and his wife came to be in my drawing room?
04:34I do not recall altering the requirement that all guests be informed that I am not at home.
04:40The vicar was quite specific about seeing her, Grace.
04:44When I presented the Duchess with Mr Poynter's card, I thought she'd actually run down the stairs.
04:50She was so pleased to have called us.
04:53How long have the Poynter's been here?
04:55Only a few minutes, Your Grace.
04:57A few minutes is more than most get.
05:05Of course.
05:07Would you like a cup of tea, Adam?
05:09No.
05:10It is a pleasure to see you again, Your Grace.
05:12I doubt that.
05:13What precisely is the reason for your visit here?
05:16Social call, of course.
05:17Of course.
05:18When in the fifteen years that you have served as vicar, has Faustin Castle ever received visitors?
05:23Not once, Your Grace.
05:24Not once.
05:25What has led you to believe that that has changed?
05:29Wishful thinking?
05:30There will be no callers at Faustin Castle.
05:33Not today.
05:34Not in the future.
05:36Faustin Castle is not receiving, Your Grace.
05:39Or you are not receiving?
05:42It is the same.
05:44Forgive me.
05:45It is not.
05:47Thank you for your hospitality, Your Grace.
05:52Do you come again?
05:58I will see you on Sunday.
06:00Do not lose hope.
06:02Happiness can be found even in dark times.
06:05Persephone doesn't get to be happy.
06:07That is the ending of the myth according to my youngest sister.
06:10Ah, but it is the ending of the tale according to you that matters most.
06:13You might as well stay and finish your tea.
06:20Cook will be offended if the tray is sent back untouched.
06:24Do sit, dear.
06:26Do try the lemon cake.
06:30Pardon?
06:35Are you sure you wouldn't care for some tea?
06:41I didn't know I was supposed to turn them away.
06:46They might as well finish their tea.
06:49I thought no one wanted to meet me.
06:51I doubt anyone in the neighborhood even made the attempt.
06:55So I could visit the neighbors?
06:57No.
07:00No.
07:01They may attempt to return the favor.
07:04But I...
07:04I will not have Faustin Castle overrun with people.
07:11Of course not.
07:13Thank you for allowing the pointers to remain.
07:16I have been enjoying their visit.
07:22You, of course,
07:24will owe Mrs. Pointer a visit.
07:26I understand she entertains half the county on a regular basis.
07:31I could...
07:32meet the neighbors that way then.
07:34If you want to.
07:46If you want to.
08:04If you want to.
08:10Who else was at the vicarage?
08:11Mrs. Milston and her daughter.
08:13Lady Hattisham.
08:14Miss Greenborough.
08:16What did you think of our resident spinster?
08:19She was very quiet so I was not able to form much of an opinion of her.
08:23Persephone.
08:28It's for me.
08:29You should read it.
08:33Your grace, Lord, your Empress Lord of the Amorality,
08:36has relayed to me your inquiries regarding two midshipmen aboard the HMS Triumphant.
08:43Evander Lancaster, as you've been informed, succumbed to entry sustained at Travolta Grunas.
08:47With most lost at that time, he's been buried in a cemetery on Travolta alongside his fallen shipmates.
08:54Go on, Persephone.
08:57There's not bad news.
09:01Midshipman Linus Lancaster.
09:05Sustained only minor wounds in that battle and remains aboard the Triumphant.
09:20The other missive is from Linus.
09:25Linus has written to me.
09:30I don't know how you managed this, Adam.
09:33You needed answers.
09:35I simply ensured you received them.
09:38This is by far the kindest thing any person has ever done for me, Adam.
09:42Thank you so, so much.
10:02You do that very well.
10:15I just kissed Persephone.
10:18Hmm.
10:19I noticed.
10:22And, um...
10:26I think Persephone noticed as well.
10:29Which is a good thing, really.
10:31If she hadn't even realized we were kissing her, one would begin to wonder about your technique.
10:36Oh, shh.
10:37I know.
10:38Shut up, Harry.
10:52They're getting louder.
11:02Thank you for my letter, Adam.
11:07Linus sounds happy.
11:09He didn't mention Evander, which worries me a little.
11:13It was always his way to avoid topics that were upsetting.
11:20But he did promise to keep writing.
11:28You don't like it when I thank you for the things that you do.
11:35But I really am grateful.
11:41If only you could do something about the wolves.
12:07You done my time with a pretty nice child.
12:30I just logo and hands through a accent
12:30Oh, fuck, George.
12:30Yes ma'am, I'm glad I could do something outside.
12:36J'instrum's door's door, it's already closed.
12:37Juicy amour high, Werner.
12:37What the zwivierg I have it to do?
12:37what happened you were thrown from a horse are you hurt can you sit up i don't know
12:48let me help you careful
12:57does anything hurt you asked me that already a person can be killed being thrown from a horse
13:04until i'm certain you are not hurt i'm going to keep asking you questions
13:12what happened i can't explain it you grace it's almost like something spoke the horse
13:18we were fortunate she didn't come to serious harm yes your grace
13:27your abigail can have a hot bath prepared that should help with any stiffness there
13:32really is no need for this much fuss when you're too stiff to come down for dinner
13:37you'll disagree careful
13:41there you are
13:45that is very kind of you adam
13:47you were thrown from a horse persephone
13:51i can have the kitchen send up a tray if you would rather not come down for dinner
14:01i really am feeling fine already i think i was more startled than anything else
14:10when i'm a little more sure of myself might i come riding with you and harry
14:18atlas can't keep pace with zeus
14:21can't you reign zeus in a little or let me join you at the end of your ride once zeus
14:26has slowed down
14:30zeus is impatient he might make atlas nervous
14:35i couldn't i atlas try
14:40i would rather you not take that chance
14:44but you would be there
14:48yes but but that is no guarantee
15:04i'm sorry
15:07no
15:10adam
15:35it is too blasted quiet in here
15:58oh
15:59what the blazes is taking so
16:00so you are awake adam are you stiff from your fall does it hurt to walk
16:11they are loud tonight
16:17how long do you plan to sit at that window and worry about wolves until they stop
16:24you should have come in when they first started come in and curled up on the bed wrapped up in
16:31that blanket
16:33you knew i thought you were asleep asleep asleep oh i can't sleep you've ruined the room for me what
16:43do you mean i've ruined it my bedchamber used to be quiet and then you started coming in and making
16:49all those noises while you're sleeping i make noises and you move constantly loud noises what no no no like
16:58a puppy
17:02little noises
17:04and that doesn't bother you
17:06i've grown
17:07i've grown used to it
17:08i don't want to bother you
17:13i don't want to bother you
17:13you won't
17:28you won't
17:30if the pack ever actually makes it into the castle they'll eat you first
17:44good night adam
17:47good night persephone
17:58adam
18:00yes
18:03why did you decide to get married
18:11at the time it seemed like a good idea
18:19does it now
18:28mrs adcock said you would
18:31said i would what
18:33regret
18:33marrying me
18:42when i visited the vicarage several days ago
18:48mrs adcock said that most gentlemen who pay for a wife regret the purchase in the end
18:55it was blatantly obvious she was referring to our marriage settlement
19:00mrs adcock had mentioned her sizable dowry at least a dozen times so i
19:06happened to ask lady headersham loudly enough for mrs adcock to hear
19:12whether or not it seemed odd that some ladies found it necessary to offer money to prospective bridegroom
19:19in order to bring him up to scratch
19:22no gentleman would accept a horse so ill-recommended that he had to be bribed to accept it
19:31i thought mrs adcock's tea would come flying out her ears she looked so livid
19:38were you compared her to a horse
19:42i doubt even i could produce such a cunning retort while done for something
19:46i have not pulled caps with anyone in years i'm not ashamed to admit that i enjoyed it
19:53i felt like a regular warrior perhaps before i next call at the vicarage i should try on one of
20:00the suits of armor for size i could check the armory for a jousting lance and simply unseat my
20:05adversary as she rides up to the vicarage i would be the terror of the neighborhood
20:13well if it comes to full combat let me know i'm rather handy with a crossbow maybe harry could be
20:19our page and we could go conquer adcock manor oh harry would make an abysmal page
20:25so you might you might be trusted with a battle axe though
20:30we would make a wonderfully fearsome team you see adam marriage to me might not be such a terrible
20:39thing for you after all
20:42so
21:22are you wishing a ride today your grace his alibi is still unhappy you said he doesn't like the cold
21:28no it's not just the cold he was treated badly before doesn't trust people
21:35because they treated him bad before they'll treat him bad again but no one here would ever hurt him
21:41nah it doesn't matter they'll not give you a chance to they'll fight you till holy perdition that one
21:50seems like a lost cause why keep trying there's no lost causes you grace
21:57every creature needs someone who can save them if they'll only try
22:02there's many hope when you're the sort who tries
22:07this poor creature seems so angry
22:13i'm more afraid than furious
22:16been afraid for years
22:19why
22:22what happened
22:24got torn apart and left behind
22:28decided to bite before anyone bit first if nobody gets close
22:35nobody can hurt him
22:53welcome back
22:54good morning to you persephone
22:55good morning
22:56good morning adam
22:59good morning
23:01are you wanting to ride
23:02i was thinking about it
23:03if you do i fear we'll be forced to postpone our siege
23:08you two are planning a siege
23:15why do i get the feeling my presence is not particularly appreciated just now
23:19i would think harry that you would feel that way often if you go now you'll have plenty of time
23:24to pack
23:25but you'll miss me i never miss anyone
23:52look at that the
23:54lips of every member of the tour. Some are saying that Persephone has left you already.
24:01Thank you, Mother.
24:05Adam? May I talk with you for a moment?
24:15Mrs. Smithson skipped this room when she gave me my tour. I haven't ever been in here.
24:23No one ever comes into this room.
24:26I am overstepping myself.
24:27No. No.
24:43Who is this you're standing beside, Adam?
24:46My father.
24:48I thought he must be.
24:50You look very much like him.
24:53Do I?
24:55You have the same eyes.
24:57And there is something similar about your mouth and the shape of your face.
25:01And of course you both have dark hair.
25:05I suppose there is a resemblance.
25:10Your nose is your mother's.
25:12I noticed that when I first saw the two of you together.
25:19Are you like him in other ways?
25:22My father?
25:23I hope so.
25:37You wanted to speak to me about something.
25:42The Triumphant will make port the last week of November.
25:46Linus will be granted three weeks, surely.
25:48Isn't that wonderful?
25:49Yes.
25:50The Triumphant will be docking at Newcastle.
25:52I could be there and see him before he departs for Shropshire.
25:56Be there?
25:58In Newcastle?
25:59I wouldn't be gone more than a day or two.
26:01Of course, I would want to see him off as well, which would mean going back when the Triumphant sets
26:06out again.
26:08You cannot go.
26:14Please, Adam.
26:17It would only be a few days.
26:19I...
26:22I need to see him for myself.
26:24I need to know that he is well and whole.
26:27To have even a moment with the only brother I have left.
26:30This is important to me, Adam.
26:34Things of importance to me should matter.
26:44What if he came here?
26:45But you don't allow visitors.
26:47It makes more sense than you journeying to Newcastle twice.
26:51Linus could come to Fauston before going to see your family.
26:54Do you mean it?
26:56I don't say anything.
26:57I don't mean.
26:59It wouldn't be too much of an imposition.
27:02No.
27:03I'd very much like to meet the boy myself.
27:06Really?
27:08Linus might make a great addition to our siege.
27:12Harry would probably faint dead away at the first battle cry.
27:15Oh.
27:20Thank you, Adam.
27:36Why do you never leave?
27:39Good afternoon to you, too.
27:44Answer the question.
27:46Is this a pointed interrogation?
27:48More of an intellectual discussion.
27:50Intellectual discussion.
27:55Why do I never leave?
27:59Because I like Fauston.
28:00Why?
28:01Free food.
28:01I'm in earnest.
28:02I need you to be as well.
28:03The food is nothing to disregard.
28:04Cook is a miracle worker.
28:10Aside from that, Fauston is familiar.
28:15It's comfortable.
28:17So you feel the same way about the house in London?
28:20You spend a lot of time there as well.
28:22And you've come with me to Kent a few times.
28:24This is a pointed interrogation, isn't it?
28:28Look, if you're trying to tell me to make myself scarce now that you're married, I completely understand.
28:32No, it's not that at all.
28:37Then what is it?
28:42I want to know why you've stayed around all these years.
28:48We're friends, Adam.
28:50Friends don't just jump ship.
28:53I think your answer about the food was more honest.
28:56Did it ever occur to you that I sincerely consider you a friend?
29:04My best friend, in fact.
29:09Because of her, oh?
29:12It may have started that way.
29:14You saved my skin.
29:17So I worshipped you for a while.
29:19A bit like an idol who could ward off evil spirits, I suppose.
29:26But then...
29:28Then you landed me a facer for something stupid I did.
29:32Or said.
29:34I remember that quite well, but not what we were scuffling up.
29:37And we were sent down.
29:39My parents were away, so...
29:41We came here.
29:44In those two weeks of our expulsion,
29:48I met...
29:50Adam Boyce.
29:51The Duke of Kilda?
29:53Still scared the guts out of me.
29:56But Adam Boyce...
29:58Was just a boy.
30:00Like me.
30:04Why the sudden interest...
30:07In our colourful childhood?
30:35It looks bridging up there, doesn't it?
30:38It looks bridging up there, doesn't it?
30:38It looks bridging up there, doesn't it?
30:38It does.
30:43Persephone looks cold, Adam.
30:46You should go and keep her warm.
30:49Keep her...
30:51The fact that my suggestion confuses you...
30:54Does not bode well.
30:58My friend.
31:01It didn't...
31:05It didn't confuse me.
31:23She is lonely...
31:25In this empty castle.
31:29Just as Mother was.
31:37Persephone.
31:42I heard them, Adam.
31:43The walls, they're inside Falston.
31:45They are still outside the castle walls.
31:46They're so loud.
31:47They sound so much closer.
31:49They are not inside the castle walls, Persephone.
31:52Are you certain?
31:54Absolutely.
31:57Have tea sent up to my book room.
31:59Yes, he agrees.
32:02No.
32:11I know I shouldn't be so afraid of them,
32:14but the howling sends chills through me.
32:20I will have my steward check on the pack
32:22so you can breathe more easily.
32:24I had always been told
32:25that there were no more wolves in England.
32:28Our pack is descended from the last of the wolves
32:31that roamed the area
32:34and the wild dogs that called the forest home.
32:36Are they less vicious than true wolves, then?
32:43They are more wolf than anything else,
32:46but they always give the castle a wide berth.
33:00I think...
33:05I think we should hold a ball.
33:07A ball?
33:08Unless you don't want to.
33:09I assumed you wouldn't want to.
33:11It would mean a lot of people in the castle.
33:18Every bride should have a ball.
33:23We are still in mourning.
33:27I think a wedding ball would be permissible.
33:33Do you mean...
33:39You don't say things you don't mean.
33:44No.
33:47No, I don't.
33:52Yes.
33:53Adam.
33:54We should host a ball at Fauston.
34:00Adam suggested it.
34:02Adam!
34:05Adam is in the Adam I know.
34:06I am as surprised as you are.
34:10He's been doing a lot of uncharacteristic things lately.
34:13Barton says Cook is in tears.
34:15What did you do to her?
34:17I didn't do anything to her.
34:18She's informed about the upcoming ball.
34:20She's that upset about it.
34:21She's that pleased about it.
34:23She's been reduced to weeping at the kitchen work table.
34:26How has the rest of the staff reacted?
34:28Mrs. Smithson is rushing about as though the ball is this evening instead of three weeks from now.
34:33And Barton has simply begun grinning when he thinks I'm not looking.
34:36Three weeks from now?
34:37But Adam Linus is coming in three weeks' time.
34:40Please tell me you haven't changed your mind about his visit.
34:43Of course not, Persephone.
34:45He can be here for the ball.
34:50Why the sudden urge to entertain, Adam?
34:53First, you invite Persephone's brother.
34:56And the ball will bring every family of consequence in the northern half of England to Falstern at the same
35:01time.
35:02That is precisely the sort of thing that makes you miserable.
35:05I don't want you to be miserable.
35:07I will not be miserable.
35:09He will simply make the rest of us miserable.
35:12Perhaps you should put an end to the entire thing and save us the suffering.
35:15Shut up, Harry.
35:19Harry is not nearly persuasive enough to convince me to cancel Linus' visit.
35:24There is no need to worry over that.
35:26But there is.
35:28You tell me to trust you, but I don't know that I can.
35:31There is so much I don't know about you, Adam.
35:34So much I don't understand.
35:36And that frightens me.
35:40I frighten you?
35:41That isn't what I said.
35:43It really isn't.
35:44Shut up, Harry!
35:47I am happy to see I am a unifying force.
35:50At the moment, Harry Windover, you are a frustrating force.
35:53Harry, now would be a perfect opportunity for a timely exit.
35:55It's taken.
36:03I have faults, Persephone.
36:06Like any other man.
36:08But I am not a liar.
36:12I was raised by a man who valued honesty and loyalty and keeping one's word.
36:21Now I have promised you that your brother will visit you here.
36:24And that Fauston Castle will host a ball.
36:26And no one, not Harry, not anyone else, will browbeat me into going back on that promise to you.
36:34On any promise to you.
36:37I want to believe that.
36:40And your happiness does matter.
36:43You should believe that, too.
36:47I'm beginning to.
37:11Good afternoon.
37:13You look a bit unwell, poor boy.
37:17I'm fine.
37:18I was just telling Persephone of all the wonderful balls we used to have here at the castle.
37:24Even the London papers were full of every detail of the evening.
37:28Who attended, the decorations, the menu.
37:35Fauston balls were positively legendary.
37:39I'm certain our ball will be far less elaborate.
37:41Well, that's why I've rushed back.
37:43It could be extraordinary.
37:46A few changes to the menu.
37:48Perhaps a more dramatic decorating scheme.
37:51It is enough that there will be people here.
37:53That should be plenty to fill the London papers with pages of shocked commentary.
38:00The castle's always been more pleasant when it's been festive.
38:05Mrs. Smithson and I have discussed the menu and the preparations.
38:08I am quite satisfied with what we've chosen.
38:11Hmm.
38:12Satisfied and pleased are not the same thing.
38:16You'll be desperate to leave before long if something's not done to liven the place.
38:21We are holding a ball, Mother.
38:23That has always been enough festiveness for you to return to Fauston.
38:28It sounds to me like it's hardly a ball.
38:35I suppose the arrangements could be made a bit more extensive.
38:41I sound just like Father.
38:42I assure you both, I am satisfied and pleased with our current arrangements.
38:48They suit my preferences.
38:50You really must let me help with future entertainments.
38:54We could hold ever so many, both here and in London.
38:58You'll have far too much fun to be unhappy.
39:04If you'll please excuse me.
39:14All of the balls you held for Mother weren't enough to keep her here.
39:17So why the blasted blazes am I trying the same approach?
39:22Dukes don't need people, you said.
39:24We're better off without her.
39:27Persephone will leave too.
39:28In the end, everyone does.
39:36You will hurt your hand if you keep doing that.
39:41Go eat your dinner, Persephone.
39:45I intend to.
39:49On the desk will be fine.
39:54I'm not hungry.
39:56Perhaps not, but I am.
40:07Mother...
40:07Is taking her meal with Harry.
40:10I am eating here.
40:12No one eats in this room.
40:14You would rather I starve?
40:16If you are truly on the verge of expiring, then by all means...
40:21Take some nourishment.
40:34Blasted.
40:36It does smell good, doesn't it?
40:37What a shame you aren't hungry.
40:39Is that a hint, Persephone?
40:41A hint?
40:43You are trying to convince me to join you.
40:47This is for me.
40:48If you want something, you will have to send to the kitchen for it yourself.
40:54You plan to eat an entire chicken?
40:56It is not an entire chicken.
40:58I'm not such a very large one at that.
41:00In fact, it is a very good thing.
41:03There is plenty to go with it.
41:04Otherwise, I would be in very real danger of wasting away.
41:07Okay.
41:17You didn't expect me to eat an entire chicken, did you?
41:33Thank you for the dinner, Persephone.
41:37Thank you for allowing the ball.
41:40For inviting Linus to visit.
41:44It is nice having something to look forward to.
42:02Would you like having more balls and entertainments?
42:08I would now and then.
42:12But I miss my family more than I miss company.
42:17They are so very far away, it sometimes feels as though I'll never see them again.
42:26They may very well go to London for the season.
42:29You could see them there.
42:31You could see a lot of people there.
42:34That should tide you over for a while.
42:38I will have to get my fill then, I suppose.
42:40I will have to get my fill then.
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