1 00:00:20,997 --> 00:00:22,631 - Everything always happens at once. 2 00:00:23,035 --> 00:00:24,906 - Now, remember I'll be back by six o'clock. 3 00:00:25,037 --> 00:00:27,063 - Never you fear, Mr. Hudson. 4 00:00:27,578 --> 00:00:29,804 - Rose can help Alfred wait to see you. 5 00:00:29,839 --> 00:00:33,071 - Her ladyship hadn't been so particular. Take her some fruit up, so she says. 6 00:00:33,106 --> 00:00:34,306 - Poor old soul. 7 00:00:34,416 --> 00:00:36,739 May not be long for this world. 8 00:00:36,995 --> 00:00:39,418 - Well, I'd better away, then or I'll miss my train. 9 00:00:39,665 --> 00:00:43,636 - Now, mind Alfred, and you too Rose, I want everything just so 10 00:00:43,671 --> 00:00:44,965 - for Miss Elizabeth when she gets here. 11 00:00:45,052 --> 00:00:47,586 - And Lady Kasseltone's invited for tea, and I wouldn't be surprised if 12 00:00:47,621 --> 00:00:49,137 - Mr. James doesn't drop in as well. 13 00:00:49,172 --> 00:00:51,389 - Now, I want everything ship-shape and Bristol fashion. 14 00:00:51,445 --> 00:00:52,263 - Aye, Aye, sir. 15 00:00:52,772 --> 00:00:54,854 - Yes....well, I'd better away, then. 16 00:00:54,889 --> 00:00:56,901 Oh, I hope you get there in time. 17 00:00:56,936 --> 00:01:00,284 - Ah, couldn't it just be one of those wee (taros) most likely, Mrs. Bridges. 18 00:01:00,897 --> 00:01:03,254 - And, Rose, see that the cucumber sandwiches 19 00:01:03,289 --> 00:01:05,247 - are much (less) flavored on top of the cake stand. 20 00:01:05,282 --> 00:01:08,844 - Yes, Mr. Hudson, and I do hope you're mother ain't too poorly. 21 00:01:08,897 --> 00:01:10,824 - Thank you, Rose, and Alfred... 22 00:01:11,190 --> 00:01:12,201 - Yes, Mr. Hudson. 23 00:01:12,236 --> 00:01:14,138 - Eh, careful when you're handing 'round the teacups. 24 00:01:14,173 --> 00:01:18,136 - Lady Kasseltone is a wee bit absent- minded and none too steady with her hands. 25 00:01:18,793 --> 00:01:20,795 [ Emily coughs ] Emily, behave yourself. 26 00:01:21,014 --> 00:01:24,152 - Eh, well I don't like it, but I haven't got any choice. 27 00:01:24,187 --> 00:01:25,989 - Not when her ladyship was so particular. 28 00:01:26,466 --> 00:01:27,744 - Hey, he's forgot his grapes. 29 00:01:28,198 --> 00:01:31,501 - Oh, Mr. Hudson! - Yes 30 00:01:31,605 --> 00:01:33,237 - You forgot your grapes. 31 00:01:33,272 --> 00:01:34,870 - Dear me, thank you, Rose. 32 00:01:37,947 --> 00:01:38,800 [ Door closes ] 33 00:01:38,835 --> 00:01:41,354 She's a good age, old Mrs. Hudson. 34 00:01:41,389 --> 00:01:43,552 Ah, I don't so much need the grapes as hallelujahs. 35 00:01:43,608 --> 00:01:46,696 - So go to heaven and all. Sure...Sure, heaven's waiting for her. 36 00:01:46,731 --> 00:01:49,074 - That's enough of your religious mania. 37 00:01:49,109 --> 00:01:52,193 - Emily, when you die you die, and that's an end of it. 38 00:01:52,228 --> 00:01:54,085 Aw, Mrs. Bridges. 39 00:01:54,120 --> 00:01:57,088 Well, sparkle, girls. We're all alive in this house. 40 00:01:57,123 --> 00:01:59,504 And, there's work to be done. 41 00:01:59,538 --> 00:02:00,872 [ Slap ] 42 00:02:01,030 --> 00:02:04,842 Just because Mr. Hudson's out, that doesn't put you in charge. 43 00:02:04,873 --> 00:02:09,194 - And, Emily, when you've cleared up, start cutting the bread 44 00:02:09,229 --> 00:02:10,568 - for the cook and the family. 45 00:02:10,603 --> 00:02:13,886 - And mind, you're not cutting them for heroes. 46 00:02:14,089 --> 00:02:17,306 - Nice thin slices. - Yes, Mrs. Bridges. 47 00:02:17,421 --> 00:02:19,522 I wonder if we'll notice any difference in Miss Elizabeth 48 00:02:19,557 --> 00:02:21,608 now she's done her schooling and all that. 49 00:02:21,643 --> 00:02:23,492 Oh, I don't think nothing could change Miss Elizabeth 50 00:02:23,527 --> 00:02:25,016 for the worst, anyhow. 51 00:02:25,051 --> 00:02:27,375 Well, she's all right, Miss Elizabeth. Not one of your hoitsy-toitsy ones. 52 00:02:27,410 --> 00:02:28,475 What d'you say, Mrs. B? 53 00:02:28,510 --> 00:02:32,049 Oh, finicky with her food ever since she was a tiny mite. 54 00:02:32,084 --> 00:02:35,589 Aw, you must go to say better than that, Mrs. Bridges. 55 00:02:35,624 --> 00:02:36,959 [ Clock chimes ] I speak as I find. 56 00:02:37,849 --> 00:02:42,338 - Listen, it's gone three o'clock, you get around and up and change, Rose. 57 00:02:42,373 --> 00:02:43,944 - Here, I'll finish that for you. 58 00:02:54,149 --> 00:02:56,057 [ Front door bell rings ] 59 00:03:03,495 --> 00:03:05,317 [ Opens door ] 60 00:03:05,545 --> 00:03:07,299 - Good afternoon, my lady. 61 00:03:07,378 --> 00:03:10,020 - Good afternoon, Alfred. Where's Hudson? 62 00:03:10,471 --> 00:03:12,459 - He had to go out, my lady. 63 00:03:12,494 --> 00:03:15,109 - Indeed. - Mrs. Hudson was indisposed. 64 00:03:15,144 --> 00:03:16,595 - Mrs. Hudson? 65 00:03:16,630 --> 00:03:18,259 - Hudson's mother, my lady. - Oh. 66 00:03:18,294 --> 00:03:20,788 - Her ladyship's in the morning room. Shall I announce you, my lady? 67 00:03:20,823 --> 00:03:23,438 - Naturally, but not in that graveyard voice, 68 00:03:23,473 --> 00:03:25,051 - or you won't be heard across the room. 69 00:03:25,444 --> 00:03:26,977 - Very good, my lady. 70 00:03:31,045 --> 00:03:32,145 [ Opens door ] 71 00:03:32,982 --> 00:03:34,697 - Lady Kasseltone. 72 00:03:36,695 --> 00:03:38,978 - Marjorie. - Aunt Kate. 73 00:03:40,205 --> 00:03:41,529 [ Kiss ] What a pretty dress. 74 00:03:41,564 --> 00:03:43,925 - Now, my dear, you must teach that young footman 75 00:03:43,960 --> 00:03:44,931 - of yours to speak up. 76 00:03:44,966 --> 00:03:47,120 - He announced me as though I were tragic news 77 00:03:47,206 --> 00:03:49,334 - even if I am, which is quite possible, 78 00:03:49,562 --> 00:03:52,583 - the name should nevertheless be heard, and clear, 79 00:03:52,638 --> 00:03:55,291 - so that one is not to, uh, expected to be like 80 00:03:55,326 --> 00:03:57,918 - Lady Kasserel, Kasserussel or Kasselbridge. 81 00:03:58,370 --> 00:04:00,546 - James [ Kiss ] 82 00:04:00,581 --> 00:04:03,039 - You're looking thinner. You should eat more. 83 00:04:04,084 --> 00:04:04,850 - Ha. 84 00:04:04,885 --> 00:04:06,200 - And who is this? 85 00:04:06,235 --> 00:04:08,191 - Oh, may I present my friend, Lieutenant Watson, 86 00:04:08,226 --> 00:04:10,112 - my great aunt, Lady Kasseltone. [ Heel click ] 87 00:04:10,147 --> 00:04:13,374 - How do you do, Lady Kasseltone. James has often spoke of you. 88 00:04:13,409 --> 00:04:14,573 - Kindly, I hope. 89 00:04:14,608 --> 00:04:18,597 - No, not at all. Not unkindly. Ha. 90 00:04:19,262 --> 00:04:20,710 - Mo-Most kindly. 91 00:04:20,745 --> 00:04:21,482 - I say. 92 00:04:22,143 --> 00:04:22,809 Quite. 93 00:04:22,844 --> 00:04:24,885 - Sit down, Billy and you, too, James. 94 00:04:24,920 --> 00:04:26,527 - I do wonder what has happened to Elizabeth. 95 00:04:26,562 --> 00:04:27,944 - She should have been here by now. 96 00:04:28,302 --> 00:04:32,056 - So this is to, uh, welcome Elizabeth home from Germany? 97 00:04:32,435 --> 00:04:34,627 - Yes, Aunt Kate, we thought it would be nice for her. 98 00:04:34,747 --> 00:04:37,554 A tea party for Elizabeth, but no tea and no Elizabeth. 99 00:04:37,589 --> 00:04:39,488 - I have rung for the tea, Aunt Kate. 100 00:04:39,523 --> 00:04:42,210 - The boat train was due in at the Liverpool Street an hour ago. 101 00:04:42,245 --> 00:04:43,717 - Oh, was it? - Umm. 102 00:04:43,752 --> 00:04:45,315 - You were very punctual, Aunt Kate. 103 00:04:45,335 --> 00:04:48,794 Let's hope Elizabeth's train was, too. I'm playing bridge at seven-thirty. 104 00:04:49,039 --> 00:04:51,443 [ Bell ring ] Ah! There she is, thank heavens. 105 00:04:51,478 --> 00:04:52,467 For what? 106 00:04:53,200 --> 00:04:54,628 - Uhh, that Elizabeth has arrived. 107 00:04:54,957 --> 00:04:55,763 - Safely. 108 00:05:01,176 --> 00:05:02,316 [ Front door opens ] 109 00:05:02,351 --> 00:05:04,848 - Hello, Alfred. - Welcome back, Miss Elizabeth. 110 00:05:04,883 --> 00:05:06,484 - I'll help Pearce with the luggage. 111 00:05:06,519 --> 00:05:07,347 - Rose! 112 00:05:07,382 --> 00:05:09,176 - Oh, welcome home, Miss Elizabeth. 113 00:05:09,211 --> 00:05:10,935 - Oh, it's nice to see you back. 114 00:05:10,970 --> 00:05:12,758 - It's nice to be back. But where's mother? 115 00:05:12,793 --> 00:05:14,511 - They're all in the morning room, Miss. - Who? 116 00:05:14,546 --> 00:05:17,895 - Lady Kasseltone, Mr. James and another young gentleman. - Oh, dear. 117 00:05:17,930 --> 00:05:20,082 - Shall I take your hat and coat? They are waiting tea for you. 118 00:05:20,117 --> 00:05:21,796 - Oh, no, I must go upstairs first. - Oh. 119 00:05:21,831 --> 00:05:23,624 - Come with me, Rose. - Yes, Miss. 120 00:05:23,659 --> 00:05:26,074 - I'm done. - You'll go meet all them with me. 121 00:05:32,079 --> 00:05:35,229 Whew! Safe and sound, then. 122 00:05:35,587 --> 00:05:36,506 What d'you mean? 123 00:05:36,541 --> 00:05:38,985 I thought you might be mown down by the new motorcars. 124 00:05:39,020 --> 00:05:39,713 Ha! 125 00:05:39,714 --> 00:05:41,673 Are you ready to meet your maker, Mr. Pearce? 126 00:05:41,708 --> 00:05:44,352 Readier than you are, I daresay, Elijah. 127 00:05:44,387 --> 00:05:46,432 You' better take this luggage up to Miss Elizabeth. 128 00:05:46,467 --> 00:05:48,901 Who d'ya think I am, a common footman? 129 00:05:49,710 --> 00:05:51,855 I have the tea things to see to. 130 00:05:51,890 --> 00:05:53,681 Hudson's out. 131 00:05:54,365 --> 00:05:56,843 Oh, Rose, it's nice to be home. 132 00:05:57,148 --> 00:05:59,341 Yes, it is nice to be home. 133 00:05:59,376 --> 00:06:00,814 We all missed you, Miss Elizabeth. 134 00:06:00,849 --> 00:06:02,325 Oh, I missed you, too, Rose. 135 00:06:03,749 --> 00:06:05,046 I am to maid you. 136 00:06:05,515 --> 00:06:07,982 As Roberts is so busy with her ladyship. 137 00:06:08,017 --> 00:06:08,784 Oh, why? 138 00:06:09,032 --> 00:06:11,161 - Well, it's the London season. [ Knocking ] 139 00:06:11,661 --> 00:06:13,066 - [ Pearce ]: Your trunks, Miss Elizabeth. 140 00:06:14,720 --> 00:06:16,953 - Ah, put it by the bed. 141 00:06:16,988 --> 00:06:18,195 [ Door slams shut ] 142 00:06:21,569 --> 00:06:22,927 Thank you, Pearce. 143 00:06:22,962 --> 00:06:24,877 I'm afraid that was very heavy. 144 00:06:25,427 --> 00:06:26,899 - [ Breathing heavy ] Not too bad, Miss Elizabeth 145 00:06:29,743 --> 00:06:33,240 It's full of books we had to study. You've no idea of how many. 146 00:06:33,241 --> 00:06:35,786 Goethe, Schiller, Heine. Thank you, Rose. 147 00:06:36,251 --> 00:06:38,222 Ohhh. [ Sigh ] 148 00:06:38,472 --> 00:06:39,915 I'm in such a whirl. 149 00:06:40,497 --> 00:06:44,345 London seems so big and bustly after Dresden, and the traffic! 150 00:06:44,544 --> 00:06:47,480 All those smelly motorcars. I suppose I'll get used to it. 151 00:06:47,881 --> 00:06:51,914 Mr. Hudson says you father's thinking of getting a Daimler motorcar. 152 00:06:51,949 --> 00:06:53,483 How fashionable! 153 00:06:53,774 --> 00:06:55,522 How is father, anyway? Is he well? 154 00:06:55,557 --> 00:06:56,459 Oh, yes, Miss. 155 00:06:56,494 --> 00:06:58,076 Good, I'm so looking forward to seeing him. 156 00:06:58,111 --> 00:06:59,658 There's so much I can discuss with him, now. 157 00:07:01,178 --> 00:07:02,712 D'you read much, Rose? 158 00:07:02,783 --> 00:07:05,293 Well, I like a good read, but I don't get much time, Miss. 159 00:07:05,328 --> 00:07:07,022 Well, what do you consider a good read? 160 00:07:07,057 --> 00:07:09,636 Well, Mrs. Humphrey Ward, perhaps. 161 00:07:09,788 --> 00:07:11,292 Mrs. Humphrey Ward! 162 00:07:11,327 --> 00:07:14,678 - I see I must take you in hand, Rose. - Oh, it may not be worth the trouble, Miss. 163 00:07:14,713 --> 00:07:15,928 Now, don't you think we should go downstairs? 164 00:07:15,963 --> 00:07:17,556 'Cause Hudson's gone to see his mother. 165 00:07:17,686 --> 00:07:19,180 And I've got to help Alfred with the tea. 166 00:07:19,215 --> 00:07:21,720 Well, you go on down. Tell Mother I won't be a jiffy. 167 00:07:22,522 --> 00:07:25,051 Miss Elizabeth, it's so nice having you home. 168 00:07:25,087 --> 00:07:29,813 Thank you, Rose. And Rose... I'm glad you're going to look after me. 169 00:07:30,339 --> 00:07:31,483 Thank you, Miss. 170 00:07:34,684 --> 00:07:35,660 [ Door closes ] 171 00:07:38,408 --> 00:07:39,200 [ Sighs ] 172 00:07:40,054 --> 00:07:44,307 [ Outdoor serenade starts ] 173 00:07:55,614 --> 00:07:59,406 [ Shouting ] Here, catch! (You catch, from me.) 174 00:08:01,809 --> 00:08:03,704 [ Windows closes ] 175 00:08:09,903 --> 00:08:15,353 Oh, Ermintrude. Ermintrude. 176 00:08:17,530 --> 00:08:18,367 [ Kiss ] 177 00:08:19,850 --> 00:08:21,603 No, no, no, no, no. 178 00:08:22,614 --> 00:08:27,109 When you become a woman you must put away childish things. 179 00:08:27,900 --> 00:08:29,032 [ Kiss finger ] 180 00:08:37,267 --> 00:08:40,804 - (Love), darling. Welcome home. 181 00:08:41,360 --> 00:08:42,273 - Here's Aunt Kate. 182 00:08:42,400 --> 00:08:43,202 - Oh, sorry, Aunt Kate. 183 00:08:43,237 --> 00:08:45,292 - That's all right, my child. You may kiss me. 184 00:08:46,390 --> 00:08:47,906 - Now, let me look at you. 185 00:08:48,737 --> 00:08:52,348 - No. No, Germany has not done much for you. 186 00:08:52,383 --> 00:08:53,091 - Never mind. 187 00:08:53,126 --> 00:08:55,659 Oh, but it has, Aunt Kate. It has done so much. 188 00:08:55,694 --> 00:08:56,477 - Elizabeth. 189 00:08:56,652 --> 00:08:58,517 James, how lovely. 190 00:08:59,691 --> 00:09:02,656 - May I present my friend, Billy Watson. My sister, Elizabeth. 191 00:09:02,691 --> 00:09:04,233 How do you do, and what do you do? 192 00:09:04,268 --> 00:09:05,999 - I soldier, actually. 193 00:09:06,034 --> 00:09:08,721 Oh, how disappointing. I'd quite made up my mind you were a poet. 194 00:09:08,756 --> 00:09:10,874 - Had you really? I say. 195 00:09:10,909 --> 00:09:12,270 - Sit down, darling, and have your tea. 196 00:09:13,042 --> 00:09:14,746 - And how was the channel crossing? 197 00:09:14,839 --> 00:09:16,847 It was rough, very rough. 198 00:09:16,861 --> 00:09:17,930 But I didn't mind. 199 00:09:17,965 --> 00:09:20,934 I stayed on deck most of the time. It was so exciting. 200 00:09:20,969 --> 00:09:23,579 I trust, Miss Bellamy, you were not indisposed? 201 00:09:23,614 --> 00:09:26,189 Oh, no, no. No, I have an excellent stomach. 202 00:09:26,224 --> 00:09:27,253 - Tea, Aunt Kate? 203 00:09:27,288 --> 00:09:29,749 - Uh, thank you, and I will have another of those 204 00:09:29,784 --> 00:09:31,941 cucumber sandwiches, if there any left. 205 00:09:31,976 --> 00:09:32,939 - There are, Aunt Kate. 206 00:09:32,974 --> 00:09:35,500 - A handsome husband dauphin found them here. 207 00:09:35,501 --> 00:09:37,057 - Don't be so childish, James. 208 00:09:37,636 --> 00:09:38,330 - Thanks. 209 00:09:41,867 --> 00:09:47,159 Uh, how did you find Germany, Miss Bellamy? I believe they have a magnificent army there. 210 00:09:47,194 --> 00:09:49,995 I'm afraid I just don't notice the army, Mr. Watson. 211 00:09:50,030 --> 00:09:52,797 They have some wonderful musicians and philosophers. 212 00:09:53,176 --> 00:09:56,789 - Uh-huh, they only, well, that's not much in our line. Is it James? 213 00:09:56,824 --> 00:10:00,402 - We're very good at tennis though. Do you play tennis, Miss Bellamy? 214 00:10:00,437 --> 00:10:01,507 - I prefer the piano. 215 00:10:01,879 --> 00:10:05,711 Really, oh. Anyway, well that's a strum on the piano in the evening 216 00:10:05,746 --> 00:10:09,287 will be altogether delightful with a spot of chatter, or isn't it? 217 00:10:09,322 --> 00:10:13,272 To chatter through music does not strike me as very delightful, Mr. Watson. 218 00:10:13,971 --> 00:10:17,348 Frau Beck always said that music should be given one's full attention. 219 00:10:17,383 --> 00:10:19,730 The Germans were always a dogmatic people. 220 00:10:19,765 --> 00:10:22,776 If you remember, Marjorie, I suggested Switzerland. 221 00:10:22,811 --> 00:10:24,558 The Swiss are far more accommodating. 222 00:10:24,593 --> 00:10:27,395 The Germans are a little serious. I agree, Aunt Katie, but they are 223 00:10:27,430 --> 00:10:29,498 enormously good people and very learned. 224 00:10:29,533 --> 00:10:33,392 - Goodness and learning are all very well below a certain level of income. 225 00:10:33,427 --> 00:10:35,850 I'm sure Father is both very good and very learned. 226 00:10:35,957 --> 00:10:38,847 Oh, good chaga chata, try to trip up you're old Aunt Kate. 227 00:10:39,333 --> 00:10:43,671 Your father is an exemplary politician and wears his knowledge lightly. 228 00:10:43,941 --> 00:10:47,733 Now, get the child a cup of tea before she slaughters us all with German logic. 229 00:10:48,121 --> 00:10:49,895 - We were talking of your coming-out. 230 00:10:50,002 --> 00:10:53,232 - Oh, yes. Lady Landerndry is giving a ball at the end of the month. 231 00:10:53,423 --> 00:10:55,633 - Your father and I thought it would be an exciting occasion 232 00:10:55,668 --> 00:10:56,851 - for you to make your debut. 233 00:10:57,216 --> 00:10:59,819 - With the dance after the Prime Minister at Carlton Gardens. 234 00:11:00,369 --> 00:11:02,995 - Several important young conservatives will be there. 235 00:11:03,030 --> 00:11:05,852 Splendid, then we can have some good political conversations! 236 00:11:05,887 --> 00:11:08,675 Don't forget, Elizabeth, that too many opinions can prove 237 00:11:08,710 --> 00:11:10,497 indigestible at seventeen. 238 00:11:10,896 --> 00:11:13,901 Perhaps we will see you at Ranelagh next week for the polo. 239 00:11:14,079 --> 00:11:16,350 - I'm afraid we'll be too busy getting Elizabeth her new clothes. 240 00:11:16,385 --> 00:11:18,515 You'll have to do something about her hair. 241 00:11:18,705 --> 00:11:19,877 Why? 242 00:11:20,062 --> 00:11:23,209 - Well, if you can't see that, child, I'm afraid it's going to get up your 243 00:11:23,244 --> 00:11:24,361 business for your mother. 244 00:11:24,400 --> 00:11:26,332 What do you think, James. Am I a fright? 245 00:11:26,367 --> 00:11:29,756 [ Sigh ] Well, you have to, uh, make something of yourself, Elizabeth. 246 00:11:29,791 --> 00:11:30,552 - Will I? 247 00:11:30,587 --> 00:11:34,237 Won't I do it then? What do you think, Mr. Watson? 248 00:11:34,322 --> 00:11:39,676 Uh-huh, Miss Bellamy, I think you're perfect in your natural state. Uh-huh, ha. 249 00:11:41,125 --> 00:11:42,584 No, no, of course I could be wrong. 250 00:11:43,069 --> 00:11:44,493 You do think I'm a fright. 251 00:11:44,820 --> 00:11:47,154 - Oh, Miss Bellamy, you're just a too, too, t... 252 00:11:47,189 --> 00:11:49,195 Far too, Elizabeth, I fear. 253 00:11:49,230 --> 00:11:52,009 - James, tell Elizabeth about your polo match last Saturday. 254 00:11:52,044 --> 00:11:54,789 Oh, yes, yes, it was terrific. The best game of the season. 255 00:11:54,824 --> 00:11:56,563 D-Do you like polo, Miss Bellamy? 256 00:11:56,823 --> 00:11:58,464 No, no, not really. 257 00:11:58,499 --> 00:12:00,812 I think sport is awfully boring. 258 00:12:03,817 --> 00:12:06,863 Uh, uh, well, I...I think I'd better be going. 259 00:12:07,041 --> 00:12:09,536 [ Heel click ] Lady Marjorie thank you for allowing me to call. 260 00:12:09,950 --> 00:12:11,538 [ Heel click ] Lady Kasseltone. 261 00:12:12,217 --> 00:12:15,486 [ Weak hell click ] Miss Bellamy. 262 00:12:15,911 --> 00:12:17,307 - James. - I'll see you out, old chap. 263 00:12:17,564 --> 00:12:18,494 Thank you very much. 264 00:12:18,529 --> 00:12:22,355 Please excuse me, Mother... Aunt Kate...Elizabeth. 265 00:12:22,779 --> 00:12:26,223 - Well, I don't think you made much of a conquest there. 266 00:12:26,559 --> 00:12:27,423 - Should I have done? 267 00:12:27,602 --> 00:12:29,917 - Really, Mother, I know you're just off the train. 268 00:12:30,190 --> 00:12:32,758 - In any case he seemed a very wooden young man. 269 00:12:32,793 --> 00:12:35,291 - A man of wood can be very dependable. 270 00:12:35,489 --> 00:12:37,906 - Your late, great uncle was a man of wood. 271 00:12:38,261 --> 00:12:40,876 - You must learn to listen more and think less. 272 00:12:41,381 --> 00:12:43,366 Yes, Aunt Kate. Sorry, Mother. 273 00:12:43,812 --> 00:12:47,385 - German philosophy will not help you to fill your card at Londonderry House. 274 00:12:47,649 --> 00:12:49,037 - Remember that, my child. 275 00:12:49,349 --> 00:12:50,725 - And be warned. 276 00:12:50,760 --> 00:12:53,483 - Goodness, have they starved you at Frau Beck's? 277 00:12:53,518 --> 00:12:56,206 - On the contrary. They increased my capacity. 278 00:12:57,056 --> 00:12:59,469 How was the old lady, then, Mr. Hudson? 279 00:12:59,470 --> 00:13:02,579 Oh, not too spry, Mrs. Bridges. It's her chest, you know. 280 00:13:02,890 --> 00:13:04,476 Could you do with a nice cup of tea? 281 00:13:04,511 --> 00:13:06,468 - I certainly could, Mrs. Bridges. - Emily. 282 00:13:06,503 --> 00:13:09,980 - Get Mr. Hudson a cup and saucer and make a fresh pot of tea. 283 00:13:10,584 --> 00:13:11,832 Look sharp, now, Emily. 284 00:13:11,867 --> 00:13:13,359 - Yes, Mr. Hudson. 285 00:13:19,969 --> 00:13:21,899 - Everything go off without a hitch, Alfred? 286 00:13:21,934 --> 00:13:23,849 - No hitches on our side, Mr. Hudson. 287 00:13:25,008 --> 00:13:27,552 - And what does that enigmatic remark portend? 288 00:13:27,587 --> 00:13:30,161 - Miss Elizabeth had a few bricks in her hand which she proceeded 289 00:13:30,196 --> 00:13:32,072 - to drop on the drawing room carpet. 290 00:13:32,747 --> 00:13:35,123 - Finicky and fussing I'll be bound. 291 00:13:35,158 --> 00:13:37,126 - Far from it, Mrs. B. She walked through a lovely cake 292 00:13:37,161 --> 00:13:38,765 - as if she'd been shipwrecked for a month. 293 00:13:38,800 --> 00:13:40,735 - That'll be enough disrespect from you, young man. 294 00:13:40,828 --> 00:13:42,039 - Cup of tea, Miss Roberts? 295 00:13:42,508 --> 00:13:43,938 - Well, I wouldn't say no. 296 00:13:44,315 --> 00:13:45,560 - Where's Rose? 297 00:13:46,059 --> 00:13:47,901 - Unpacking for Miss Elizabeth. 298 00:13:47,936 --> 00:13:50,550 Some have greatness thrust upon them. 299 00:13:50,585 --> 00:13:53,019 [ Next: Little rose, little rose, little red rose on the heath. ] 300 00:13:53,203 --> 00:13:54,673 Listen to this, Rose. 301 00:13:55,035 --> 00:14:01,831 Röslein, Röslein, Röslein rot, Röslein auf der Heiden. 302 00:14:01,866 --> 00:14:04,627 - That's you, Rose. Röslein. - Very...Very pretty. 303 00:14:04,779 --> 00:14:06,746 German can be a very beautiful language, 304 00:14:06,781 --> 00:14:08,184 as in songs like this one. 305 00:14:08,523 --> 00:14:09,571 This is by Schubert. 306 00:14:09,606 --> 00:14:12,509 - Words by Goethe. Music by Schubert. - I say. 307 00:14:12,960 --> 00:14:15,283 - Have you heard of Schubert, Rose? - Yes, Miss. 308 00:14:15,750 --> 00:14:16,578 Good! 309 00:14:16,613 --> 00:14:18,830 - Oh, Miss Elizabeth. - Yes, Rose. 310 00:14:18,865 --> 00:14:21,013 - Do you really read all them books? 311 00:14:21,048 --> 00:14:23,683 Hm, hm, well, not always from cover to cover. 312 00:14:23,718 --> 00:14:26,263 We read the passages Frau Beck directed us to read. 313 00:14:27,867 --> 00:14:30,913 I think I shall improve your mind, Rose. 314 00:14:31,095 --> 00:14:32,337 Thank you, Miss Elizabeth. 315 00:14:32,372 --> 00:14:35,572 But not tonight. Tonight I'm all at sea, still. 316 00:14:35,855 --> 00:14:37,806 So strange to be home again. 317 00:14:39,570 --> 00:14:42,446 I think I could go to practice for half an hour on the drawing room piano. 318 00:14:42,481 --> 00:14:43,356 Oh, Miss Elizabeth. 319 00:14:43,391 --> 00:14:47,062 We've got to finish your unpacking and then change you and do your hair for dinner. 320 00:14:47,097 --> 00:14:48,457 No, I feel like practicing. 321 00:14:48,492 --> 00:14:52,706 Oh, dear Rose, YOU finish my unpacking, and don't worry. 322 00:14:53,023 --> 00:14:55,224 I can change and do my hair in a jiffy. 323 00:14:56,722 --> 00:15:00,669 [ Door opens and closes ] 324 00:15:04,624 --> 00:15:11,825 [ Sound of a Chopin waltz from the drawing room ] 325 00:15:18,133 --> 00:15:22,179 [ Music continues ] 326 00:15:22,904 --> 00:15:24,832 [ Door opens ] 327 00:15:28,450 --> 00:15:31,497 Listen...Elizabeth really plays quite nicely. 328 00:15:32,554 --> 00:15:34,979 Yes, yes, I suppose she does. 329 00:15:35,130 --> 00:15:37,584 I..I do she were more... 330 00:15:37,831 --> 00:15:38,736 More what? 331 00:15:38,771 --> 00:15:40,491 Well, more sensible. 332 00:15:40,526 --> 00:15:43,744 You can hardly expect seventeen year old sisters to be sensible. 333 00:15:43,779 --> 00:15:47,349 (Well that better than sex life.) I wish she were more like other girls. 334 00:15:47,384 --> 00:15:48,240 Be patient. 335 00:15:48,275 --> 00:15:50,032 I wish she were more stunning. 336 00:15:50,067 --> 00:15:52,240 I thought she'd stunned us all completely. 337 00:15:52,241 --> 00:15:53,655 Billy was very put out. 338 00:15:53,690 --> 00:15:55,034 - I could see that. 339 00:15:55,069 --> 00:15:57,045 - And so were you. I could see that. 340 00:15:57,643 --> 00:15:59,003 Aren't you dining at home tonight? 341 00:15:59,038 --> 00:16:01,030 No, I promised to dine with Billy in the mess. 342 00:16:01,458 --> 00:16:03,605 You don't think Elizabeth will mind her first night home? 343 00:16:03,640 --> 00:16:05,468 I'm sure she won't, darling. 344 00:16:05,469 --> 00:16:06,124 [ Kiss ] 345 00:16:06,543 --> 00:16:09,444 - I'm very fond of her. - Of course you are. 346 00:16:09,479 --> 00:16:12,882 And take that worried frown off your brow and get along with you. 347 00:16:13,593 --> 00:16:15,575 - Have a good time. - Thanks, Mother. 348 00:16:16,296 --> 00:16:17,599 - And James. - Huh? 349 00:16:17,600 --> 00:16:20,193 - You weren't so clever there yourself when seventeen. 350 00:16:20,228 --> 00:16:21,318 Huh-hu, No, I suppose not. 351 00:16:21,827 --> 00:16:25,559 (Why don't we put Elizabeth to found there.) 352 00:16:27,097 --> 00:16:29,624 [ Waltz plays on ] 353 00:16:31,010 --> 00:16:34,635 (And then our way) to the Black Forest, which is absolutely (devie). 354 00:16:34,670 --> 00:16:38,958 It makes you imagine witches and warlocks and all sorts of brothers Grimmsy. 355 00:16:38,993 --> 00:16:40,286 - Ow! - Well, I'm sorry Miss Lizzie. 356 00:16:40,321 --> 00:16:41,580 but you will keep bobbing about. 357 00:16:41,615 --> 00:16:43,134 No. Wretched, wretched hair. 358 00:16:43,169 --> 00:16:45,780 Let it just hang down or cut off or something. 359 00:16:45,815 --> 00:16:47,950 Like one does for an ordinary mortal. 360 00:16:47,985 --> 00:16:50,497 I don't know what you mean by that. I'm sure every shop girl 361 00:16:50,532 --> 00:16:52,009 is just as particular with her hair. 362 00:16:52,115 --> 00:16:54,075 The difference being that she does it herself. 363 00:16:54,110 --> 00:16:56,035 Oh, a nice mess you'd make of it, I'd be bound. 364 00:16:56,070 --> 00:16:57,562 Rose, don't be naughty. 365 00:16:57,597 --> 00:17:00,157 I did it myself almost every night in Dresden. 366 00:17:00,192 --> 00:17:03,012 Um, we needed no ghost from the grave to tell us that. 367 00:17:03,047 --> 00:17:05,062 What a funny expression. Where did you hear it? 368 00:17:05,097 --> 00:17:08,435 I don't know, Miss. Where that one hears expression and figures pop into you head. 369 00:17:08,470 --> 00:17:10,002 Yeah, but I think that is a quotation. 370 00:17:10,037 --> 00:17:12,779 Rose, get me my Bartlett's edition of quotations. It's by the bed. 371 00:17:12,881 --> 00:17:16,201 - Not now, Miss Lizzie, I've got to do your hair for dinner. - Oh, drat dinner! 372 00:17:16,236 --> 00:17:18,076 Drat hair! Drat, drat, drat! 373 00:17:19,299 --> 00:17:22,133 - Miss Elizabeth. I must do you hair! - Oh, for heavens sake, Rose, 374 00:17:22,168 --> 00:17:22,967 leave me alone! 375 00:17:23,869 --> 00:17:25,565 Oh, Miss Lizzie, what a temper. 376 00:17:25,600 --> 00:17:27,261 When we were such good friends. 377 00:17:27,262 --> 00:17:30,389 And so we are, Rose dear, if only you wouldn't fuss so. 378 00:17:30,424 --> 00:17:33,479 I'm sure you wouldn't wish to go to Lady Landerndery's beastly ball 379 00:17:33,514 --> 00:17:34,974 looking like a stuffed peacock. 380 00:17:35,009 --> 00:17:37,801 I'm sure I'd be lucky enough to get half the chance, Miss. 381 00:17:37,836 --> 00:17:38,633 Nonsense. 382 00:17:38,668 --> 00:17:40,878 I mean to do something with my life. 383 00:17:40,913 --> 00:17:43,088 - [ Knocking ] May I come in? - Father! 384 00:17:43,123 --> 00:17:45,759 - How's my (daughter)! - Daddy! 385 00:17:45,794 --> 00:17:49,404 Ha, ha, ha. Wild as ever. Uh, what are we gonna to make of her, Rose? 386 00:17:49,439 --> 00:17:52,416 - A flaming beauty? Eh? - It won't be for want of trying. 387 00:17:52,491 --> 00:17:55,324 Oh, Father, it's so good to see you! [ Kiss, kiss, kiss, kiss ] 388 00:17:55,359 --> 00:17:58,157 Ah, you too, my dear. Now Rose wants to get on with your hair. 389 00:17:58,192 --> 00:18:01,193 You look as though you've been dragged through a hed...hedge backwards. 390 00:18:01,194 --> 00:18:02,628 All right, but stay with me, please. 391 00:18:02,663 --> 00:18:03,319 But, of course. 392 00:18:04,834 --> 00:18:06,191 Well. [ Sigh ] 393 00:18:06,226 --> 00:18:08,154 And how was the good Frau Beck? 394 00:18:08,189 --> 00:18:09,361 Oh, we got on very well. 395 00:18:09,396 --> 00:18:11,764 She sends you her Recht herzlichen grüß. 396 00:18:11,765 --> 00:18:13,786 Danke schön, fräulein. 397 00:18:14,407 --> 00:18:16,896 So, work done, now it's play for a time, eh? 398 00:18:16,931 --> 00:18:18,252 Oh, not too much play, I hope, Father. 399 00:18:18,287 --> 00:18:19,927 Oh, nonsense, (lanolin) will be good for you. 400 00:18:20,156 --> 00:18:22,436 Even fun, I should think, after provincial Germany. 401 00:18:22,796 --> 00:18:25,529 Besides, I want my girl to shine in society. 402 00:18:25,857 --> 00:18:28,146 I won't be a junior minister forever, you know. 403 00:18:28,845 --> 00:18:32,515 In fact, if Rose weren't here, I might tell you there was hope of a cabinet post. 404 00:18:32,858 --> 00:18:34,660 Father, how wonderful! 405 00:18:34,695 --> 00:18:37,416 Oh, Rose is as secret as the tomb. 406 00:18:37,478 --> 00:18:38,762 But, it's not settled, of course. 407 00:18:38,797 --> 00:18:41,220 A great deal depends on one's family in these matters. 408 00:18:41,255 --> 00:18:43,257 No, Father, you're too important. 409 00:18:43,292 --> 00:18:47,411 Oh, no. No politician ever gets to the top on his own, Elizabeth. 410 00:18:48,022 --> 00:18:53,381 He has a brilliant wife behind him, or even...an enchanting daughter. 411 00:18:53,711 --> 00:18:56,438 [ Sigh ] I'm not very good enchanting. 412 00:18:56,861 --> 00:18:59,021 - You just wait until your mother and Rose 413 00:18:59,056 --> 00:19:01,181 - have finish teaching a few spells. [ Kiss ] 414 00:19:01,413 --> 00:19:03,338 - It won't come easily to you, you know. 415 00:19:03,373 --> 00:19:05,704 You're not your father's daughter for nothing. 416 00:19:05,739 --> 00:19:08,035 I've suffered greater agonies in the drawing room 417 00:19:08,070 --> 00:19:09,775 than ever in a House of Commons debate. 418 00:19:09,810 --> 00:19:11,450 - Really? - Oh, yes. 419 00:19:12,290 --> 00:19:14,875 - But, what I can stomach, you can. Of that I feel sure. 420 00:19:15,601 --> 00:19:16,613 - For my sake, (then). 421 00:19:18,132 --> 00:19:20,150 [ Kiss ] Well, I must go and change, or I shall be late. 422 00:19:20,898 --> 00:19:24,364 - I'm dining at home tonight, with the pride of the Bellamys. 423 00:19:24,399 --> 00:19:25,941 - Oh. - Huh, huh, huh. 424 00:19:26,856 --> 00:19:29,025 But, that's it, Rose. 425 00:19:30,486 --> 00:19:33,716 I am going to enchant. 426 00:19:34,393 --> 00:19:39,075 A scheme of pink chiffon, gold-spangled net and fine appliqué lace. 427 00:19:39,110 --> 00:19:42,136 A (keine) of line is imparted to the figure by the lace 428 00:19:42,171 --> 00:19:45,163 carried down the center-front flanked by clusters of 429 00:19:45,198 --> 00:19:48,221 pink chenille fringe sparkling with diamonte. 430 00:19:48,256 --> 00:19:50,620 - It sounds like a fireworks display at the Crystal Palace... 431 00:19:50,655 --> 00:19:52,782 Be serious and take an interest. 432 00:19:53,075 --> 00:19:54,807 What d'you think of this hair style, my lady? 433 00:19:54,842 --> 00:19:57,312 Oh, that's nice, Rose, that's very nice. 434 00:19:57,347 --> 00:19:58,708 You have excellent taste. 435 00:19:58,743 --> 00:20:00,690 (When I give enough what about this one?) 436 00:20:01,765 --> 00:20:03,586 Elizabeth, what are you doing? 437 00:20:03,732 --> 00:20:06,936 Darling, do try and put your mind to the business on hand. 438 00:20:07,279 --> 00:20:10,221 Madame Dubois wants the material for your ball dress in a week 439 00:20:10,256 --> 00:20:12,229 and we haven't even chosen a (style) yet. 440 00:20:12,408 --> 00:20:14,168 But, don't you think that's pretty? 441 00:20:14,203 --> 00:20:15,714 Yes, Mother. 442 00:20:20,416 --> 00:20:21,994 What are you grinning for? 443 00:20:22,029 --> 00:20:23,573 I want a tip, don't I? 444 00:20:24,328 --> 00:20:25,328 Saucy. 445 00:20:26,109 --> 00:20:27,168 [ Door closes ] 446 00:20:29,596 --> 00:20:33,578 Now that'll be the material for Miss Elizabeth's ball gown. 447 00:20:33,613 --> 00:20:34,952 Oh, say, can I see it? 448 00:20:34,987 --> 00:20:36,371 Now, keep your wet hands off it. 449 00:20:36,803 --> 00:20:38,694 - Alfred! - What is it? 450 00:20:38,729 --> 00:20:40,586 Take this parcel upstairs. 451 00:20:41,700 --> 00:20:43,304 Will you get on with the scrubbing? 452 00:20:44,929 --> 00:20:47,116 They shall have linen bonnets on their heads. 453 00:20:47,151 --> 00:20:50,979 They shall not gird themselves with anything that causes sweat. 454 00:20:53,978 --> 00:20:57,109 - Where's Rose? - Upstairs with zee dressmakeur. 455 00:20:58,578 --> 00:21:00,900 She hasn't changed the linen in the master's bedroom. 456 00:21:00,935 --> 00:21:02,665 The whole place is (tapsel-tiery). 457 00:21:04,397 --> 00:21:09,199 [ French dressmaker and Lady Marjorie discuss 458 00:21:09,234 --> 00:21:12,534 Miss Elizabeth's measurements in French and English ] 459 00:21:36,167 --> 00:21:37,667 - Ninety-two centimeters. 460 00:21:38,107 --> 00:21:39,774 [ Knock on door ] 461 00:21:42,670 --> 00:21:44,732 - Package from Soreses for your ladyship. 462 00:21:46,112 --> 00:21:46,944 [ Door closes ] 463 00:21:46,979 --> 00:21:48,755 - Thank you, Rose. Bring the scissors here. 464 00:21:54,283 --> 00:21:55,881 - Et maintenant, Madame Dubois. 465 00:21:57,160 --> 00:21:58,169 - Regardez. 466 00:21:58,204 --> 00:21:59,937 - Oh! - Like it? 467 00:22:00,025 --> 00:22:05,287 - Oh! Oh, c'est ravissant! - Isn't it? 468 00:22:05,807 --> 00:22:09,655 - Et qu'en suplesse. Oh, c'est magnifique! 469 00:22:09,656 --> 00:22:11,199 - C'est royale. 470 00:22:13,998 --> 00:22:15,060 Where's Rose again? 471 00:22:15,346 --> 00:22:16,376 Where d'you think? 472 00:22:16,411 --> 00:22:18,029 The drawing room grate has not been attended to. 473 00:22:18,064 --> 00:22:22,483 You can't expect a lady's maid to get down on her hands and knees to a grate. 474 00:22:22,518 --> 00:22:25,045 Lady's maid now approaches a head house parlor maid, Emily. 475 00:22:25,080 --> 00:22:26,515 - Yes, Mr. Hudson. 476 00:22:26,550 --> 00:22:29,111 Wash you hands and face and go and find Rose for me. 477 00:22:29,146 --> 00:22:30,669 - What, me go upstairs? 478 00:22:30,704 --> 00:22:31,878 Yes, and look sharp about it. 479 00:22:31,913 --> 00:22:33,948 - Oh, yes, Mr. Hudson. 480 00:22:36,395 --> 00:22:38,687 Are you engaged this dance, Miss Bellamy? 481 00:22:38,722 --> 00:22:39,676 Uh, no. 482 00:22:39,711 --> 00:22:42,347 No, no, consult your program. 483 00:22:42,382 --> 00:22:44,296 - She should pretend to be shortsighted. 484 00:22:44,331 --> 00:22:45,447 - Well, whatever for? - [ Elizabeth laughing ] 485 00:22:45,482 --> 00:22:46,951 - That's considered attractive. - [ Elizabeth laughing ] 486 00:22:47,206 --> 00:22:48,497 Says so, in my own chart. 487 00:22:48,532 --> 00:22:50,421 [ Elizabeth and James laughing heartily ] 488 00:22:51,438 --> 00:22:52,700 Now, once again. 489 00:22:52,771 --> 00:22:58,598 Uh, ho, ho, uh, ho, you people go up with the line? 490 00:22:58,633 --> 00:23:00,937 - Huh? - [Elizabeth laughs ] - Huh? - [Elizabeth laughs ] 491 00:23:01,578 --> 00:23:04,842 [ Indistinct ] That I have the pleasure? 492 00:23:04,877 --> 00:23:07,079 You may take the risk, Lord Chumbly. 493 00:23:07,114 --> 00:23:10,018 Ah, delightful. Now come on, Rose, the music. 494 00:23:10,053 --> 00:23:17,258 - Ah, right, now, come on. Here, right foot. - Tra la la 495 00:23:17,495 --> 00:23:20,424 boom di ay, tra la la boom di ay, 496 00:23:20,459 --> 00:23:23,649 tra la la boom di ay, tra la la boom di ay. 497 00:23:23,684 --> 00:23:26,966 tra la la boom di ay, tra la la boom di ay, 498 00:23:27,001 --> 00:23:30,249 tra la la boom di ay, - tra la la boom di ay, 499 00:23:30,250 --> 00:23:31,250 - tra la la boom di ay, - tra la la boom di ay. 500 00:23:33,124 --> 00:23:34,761 - [ Emily ] Rose! [ Laughter ] 501 00:23:35,591 --> 00:23:39,058 - Excuse me, Miss Elizabeth, but Mr. Hudson wants Rose, 502 00:23:39,093 --> 00:23:40,856 - And he told me to come up and get her. 503 00:23:40,997 --> 00:23:45,170 - [ Emily cries ] And even the... - I beg your pardon, Miss Elizabeth. 504 00:23:47,009 --> 00:23:50,888 Tra la la boom di ay, tra la la boom di ay. 505 00:23:50,923 --> 00:23:54,768 tra la la boom di ay, tra la la [ Laughing ] 506 00:23:55,564 --> 00:23:56,683 [ Knock on door ] 507 00:23:57,550 --> 00:24:00,299 Come in. [ Door opens ] 508 00:24:00,573 --> 00:24:01,934 You sent for me, Mr. Hudson? 509 00:24:01,985 --> 00:24:02,832 Yes. 510 00:24:05,260 --> 00:24:08,466 It is half past eleven, a-girl, and the drawing room grate is not done yet. 511 00:24:08,501 --> 00:24:10,657 I will not have you neglecting the work you're paid to do. 512 00:24:10,692 --> 00:24:12,673 I'm sorry, Mr. Hudson. It won't occur again. 513 00:24:13,152 --> 00:24:14,751 Where have you been since breakfast? 514 00:24:14,786 --> 00:24:18,603 I've been helping Mr. James teach Miss Elizabeth to galott. 515 00:24:18,638 --> 00:24:20,930 Good grief, did she not learn to galott in Germany. 516 00:24:20,965 --> 00:24:21,976 What did she go there for? 517 00:24:22,011 --> 00:24:23,384 It seems it was all book learning. 518 00:24:23,419 --> 00:24:25,527 Book learning is no use to a young lady. 519 00:24:25,655 --> 00:24:27,636 And another thing, Rose. I agreed with her ladyship 520 00:24:27,671 --> 00:24:29,618 that you should attend to Miss Elizabeth for a bit, 521 00:24:29,629 --> 00:24:31,385 seeing that Miss Roberts has got her work cut out, 522 00:24:31,420 --> 00:24:33,218 but don't abuse your privileges, mind. 523 00:24:33,275 --> 00:24:34,514 No, Mr. Hudson. 524 00:24:34,549 --> 00:24:36,619 It seems that Miss Elizabeth's coming out is worse than a 525 00:24:36,654 --> 00:24:39,096 censure debate in parliament for setting the whole house on edge. 526 00:24:39,299 --> 00:24:40,180 Yes, Mr. Hudson. 527 00:24:40,215 --> 00:24:41,646 That'll be all, Rose. 528 00:24:41,663 --> 00:24:43,626 And get that grate done immediately. 529 00:24:43,661 --> 00:24:44,627 Yes, Mr. Hudson. 530 00:24:45,123 --> 00:24:46,534 [ Humming ] Tra la la boom di ay, 531 00:24:46,569 --> 00:24:50,353 tra la la boom di ay, tra la la da ti da. 532 00:24:50,682 --> 00:24:51,693 Walk toward me. 533 00:24:54,442 --> 00:24:55,038 Turn. 534 00:24:55,673 --> 00:24:56,574 Walk away. 535 00:24:59,519 --> 00:25:00,302 Turn. 536 00:25:02,537 --> 00:25:03,490 Smile. 537 00:25:04,330 --> 00:25:05,359 Extend your hand. 538 00:25:05,762 --> 00:25:08,555 Two fingers for acquaintance. Three for a family friend. 539 00:25:08,648 --> 00:25:09,567 And now sit. 540 00:25:13,632 --> 00:25:15,821 Very good. You really are improving. 541 00:25:16,308 --> 00:25:17,695 And now what do you talk about? 542 00:25:18,214 --> 00:25:20,729 The weather. It's always safe to begin with the weather. 543 00:25:20,764 --> 00:25:22,337 I follow my partners lead. 544 00:25:22,372 --> 00:25:25,149 If he's interested in racing, I'm interested in racing. 545 00:25:25,205 --> 00:25:28,689 If cards, cards. No personalities no politics. 546 00:25:28,729 --> 00:25:30,004 Not even to politicians? 547 00:25:30,039 --> 00:25:33,112 Especially not to politicians. They want to enjoy themselves. 548 00:25:33,147 --> 00:25:35,806 I don't suppose any young man will come near my anyway. 549 00:25:35,841 --> 00:25:37,119 That we'll have to see. 550 00:25:37,154 --> 00:25:39,911 But if you are a wallflower, what do you do? 551 00:25:39,946 --> 00:25:42,968 I talk, animatedly, to my chaperone. 552 00:25:43,003 --> 00:25:45,764 And if a young man turns up, I keep talking and smiling. 553 00:25:45,799 --> 00:25:49,217 And don't forget. Let him think he's interrupted a scintillating conversation. 554 00:25:49,539 --> 00:25:52,209 You'd scarcely noticed you were not engaged for the dance. 555 00:25:52,244 --> 00:25:53,860 You'd been unaware of the music. 556 00:25:53,895 --> 00:25:57,775 And I accept him,...ha,... with delighted surprise. 557 00:25:57,810 --> 00:26:03,283 Oh, Mother. What is the difference between this and being in action? 558 00:26:03,557 --> 00:26:06,335 Don't try to be shocking, and do sit properly. 559 00:26:06,370 --> 00:26:08,241 - My dear! - We're in here, dear. 560 00:26:09,226 --> 00:26:11,321 - Wonderful news about the Landerndery's ball. 561 00:26:11,410 --> 00:26:13,393 The king and queen are going to be there. 562 00:26:13,428 --> 00:26:17,019 I've spoken to Frances Knowles, and Elizabeth is to be presented. 563 00:26:17,054 --> 00:26:18,879 Richard, how splendid. 564 00:26:18,914 --> 00:26:20,847 Frances suggests that Aunt Kate present her. 565 00:26:21,362 --> 00:26:23,229 Du lieber Gott! [ Good heavens! ] 566 00:26:23,729 --> 00:26:26,103 Haven't you finished yet, Rose? I want to see it. 567 00:26:27,474 --> 00:26:29,187 There. Go and have a look. 568 00:26:31,365 --> 00:26:34,083 [ Gasp ] Oh, what have you done? 569 00:26:34,118 --> 00:26:35,572 Is that really me? 570 00:26:35,607 --> 00:26:37,027 [ Laughing happily ] 571 00:26:37,520 --> 00:26:39,163 What on earth are you doing, Rose? 572 00:26:39,198 --> 00:26:40,289 Ah, practicing. 573 00:26:40,324 --> 00:26:44,008 Well, I'll not have the servant's hall turned into a hair dressing salon. 574 00:26:44,043 --> 00:26:44,880 [ Emily giggling ] 575 00:26:44,915 --> 00:26:46,620 Come down at once, Emily. 576 00:26:46,655 --> 00:26:49,556 - Take that bird's nest off your head. - Ha, ha, ha. 577 00:26:50,148 --> 00:26:52,444 [ Pearce ] - You're sure lookin' Cinderella. 578 00:26:52,918 --> 00:26:54,983 [ Emily ] Lead me to my coach, fella. 579 00:26:55,018 --> 00:26:55,984 [ Laughing ] 580 00:26:56,239 --> 00:27:00,126 You get on with the saucepan, or you might be finished before midnight. 581 00:27:00,161 --> 00:27:03,420 Poor little old cinders. Here, what's it all been made of then, Rose? 582 00:27:03,455 --> 00:27:06,435 I'm practicing Miss Lizzie's hairstyle for the Londonderry Ball. 583 00:27:06,470 --> 00:27:07,902 Come over here. Could you do one for me, 584 00:27:07,937 --> 00:27:10,966 so I could wear up the feathers on the secondary heights. [ Laughing ] 585 00:27:11,860 --> 00:27:13,990 Why aren't you waiting outside with the carriage? 586 00:27:14,025 --> 00:27:15,525 They ain't ready yet, that's why. 587 00:27:15,559 --> 00:27:18,163 Here, you ought to practice on Mrs. Bridges. [ Laughter ] 588 00:27:18,198 --> 00:27:19,704 Lovely head of hair, that. [ Laughter ] 589 00:27:19,719 --> 00:27:22,150 Plenty of scope. Something to get your hands into. 590 00:27:22,185 --> 00:27:23,307 Ha, ha, ha, ha. 591 00:27:23,895 --> 00:27:25,498 All right. All right. 592 00:27:25,556 --> 00:27:27,009 Keep your hair on. [ Laughter ] 593 00:27:27,010 --> 00:27:28,622 Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. 594 00:27:29,160 --> 00:27:31,706 You'd better get on with the mending, Rose. 595 00:27:31,741 --> 00:27:34,764 You're not a lady's maid all the time, you know. 596 00:27:34,799 --> 00:27:35,753 Yes, Mrs. Bridges. 597 00:27:35,788 --> 00:27:36,672 [ Bell rings ] 598 00:27:36,707 --> 00:27:39,074 Well, now, that's me. We're off. [ Pearce sighs ] 599 00:27:39,109 --> 00:27:40,624 Will you go tonight, then? 600 00:27:40,659 --> 00:27:44,606 Naw, one of them working class clothes men they're all closing Sloan's Square. 601 00:27:46,483 --> 00:27:48,841 - So long, gorgeous. - Oh, you....- Ha, ha, ha. 602 00:27:49,379 --> 00:27:52,654 [ Discussion of Elizabeth's ball gown in French and English ] 603 00:27:55,548 --> 00:27:57,385 Rose, put those against the skirt. 604 00:28:01,337 --> 00:28:04,331 [ Knock ] May I come in the work shop? - Sweat shop! 605 00:28:04,366 --> 00:28:05,572 Just a moment, Richard. 606 00:28:05,607 --> 00:28:07,634 Rose, quickly, Miss Elizabeth's tiara. 607 00:28:08,865 --> 00:28:09,801 Thank you. 608 00:28:10,365 --> 00:28:11,763 There. Lovely. 609 00:28:11,764 --> 00:28:13,550 All right, Richard, you can come in now. 610 00:28:14,893 --> 00:28:17,058 Well, [ Door closes ] what do you think? 611 00:28:17,093 --> 00:28:21,193 Oh, yes, yes. Very nice, indeed. 612 00:28:21,228 --> 00:28:25,351 [ French ] 613 00:28:25,915 --> 00:28:26,916 So tight! 614 00:28:29,765 --> 00:28:31,945 It's all very well, but don't expect me to breathe. 615 00:28:31,980 --> 00:28:34,031 Oh, of course not. You'll be carried into the ball, 616 00:28:34,066 --> 00:28:36,533 sat down on the wallflower's bench, and that'll be the end of you. 617 00:28:36,568 --> 00:28:37,732 It's no joking matter. 618 00:28:37,767 --> 00:28:40,326 The best I can manage at the moment is a stiff-legged hop. 619 00:28:40,361 --> 00:28:42,357 Well, the hop is all the rage this season. 620 00:28:42,392 --> 00:28:45,460 [ Humming and dancing ] 621 00:28:46,115 --> 00:28:47,647 Wha-What about the hair? 622 00:28:47,648 --> 00:28:48,732 Rose is in charge of that. 623 00:28:48,767 --> 00:28:50,613 Rose, show Mr. Bellamy the style we've chosen. 624 00:28:54,493 --> 00:28:55,358 Enchanting. 625 00:28:56,371 --> 00:28:59,463 I see I'm going to be a very proud father. 626 00:29:00,858 --> 00:29:02,338 Well, don't look so gloomy, lad. Ha. 627 00:29:02,373 --> 00:29:05,391 It's not the Second Coming, you know, only the Londonderry's Ball. 628 00:29:05,426 --> 00:29:07,554 You won't look so smug on the Day of Judgement. 629 00:29:07,589 --> 00:29:09,050 Is that right, cocker? Heh, heh, heh. 630 00:29:09,085 --> 00:29:11,551 Not when you smell the fires of Hell burning. 631 00:29:11,586 --> 00:29:14,146 Oh, I donno, the company there might be a darn sight more larky 632 00:29:14,181 --> 00:29:15,119 than the other place. 633 00:29:15,740 --> 00:29:18,329 I shouldn't like to carry your weight of sin. 634 00:29:18,364 --> 00:29:20,098 You don't like carrying nothing. 635 00:29:20,133 --> 00:29:22,623 - Now then, you two, look sharp. We'll be leaving any minute. 636 00:29:22,658 --> 00:29:24,193 Horses ready, Mr. Pearce? 637 00:29:24,228 --> 00:29:25,923 Groomed and shining like coal. 638 00:29:25,958 --> 00:29:28,187 [ Albert whinnies like a horse ] 639 00:29:28,222 --> 00:29:30,737 And we're ready to meet our maker, if need be. 640 00:29:30,772 --> 00:29:33,244 Well, that won't be necessary for the moment. Carry on Mr. Pearce. 641 00:29:33,279 --> 00:29:35,934 [ Alfred trips Pearce ] Alfred! 642 00:29:39,614 --> 00:29:41,234 You may call the rest of the staff. 643 00:29:48,497 --> 00:29:50,771 Are you sure you won't take a glass of sherry, Aunt Kate? 644 00:29:51,132 --> 00:29:53,204 Marge and Elizabeth may be a few minutes, yet. 645 00:29:53,239 --> 00:29:54,467 No, thank you, Richard. 646 00:29:54,502 --> 00:29:56,705 Since I'm to be seated on the Prime Minister's left, 647 00:29:56,740 --> 00:29:58,597 then I prefer to keep a clear head. 648 00:29:58,619 --> 00:30:01,003 Huh, maybe he'll fire an unexpected question at you. 649 00:30:01,392 --> 00:30:03,111 - Such as your views on the Irish question. 650 00:30:03,320 --> 00:30:06,538 Such as why my cousin Charles refuses to serve in his cabinet. 651 00:30:06,696 --> 00:30:09,519 I can hardly inform him, between mouthfuls of roast duck, 652 00:30:09,554 --> 00:30:12,342 that cousin Charles thinks he's the most ineffectual 653 00:30:12,377 --> 00:30:14,107 prime minister we've had since Lord North. 654 00:30:14,142 --> 00:30:15,017 - So how will you answer? 655 00:30:15,052 --> 00:30:18,021 Oh, I shall become very feminine, change the subject to the 656 00:30:18,056 --> 00:30:19,833 - Italian Gardens at Southwald. - Huh, huh. 657 00:30:19,868 --> 00:30:21,676 - Is he going on with the ball? - Who? 658 00:30:21,711 --> 00:30:23,350 - Mr. Balfour? - I doubt it. 659 00:30:23,385 --> 00:30:25,060 He doesn't care much for social functions. 660 00:30:25,095 --> 00:30:26,799 James, you must dance with your sister. 661 00:30:26,834 --> 00:30:28,503 - Oh, naturally. - And your Aunt Kate. 662 00:30:28,538 --> 00:30:29,803 Now, that'll be a pleasure. 663 00:30:29,838 --> 00:30:30,462 Fiddlesticks. 664 00:30:30,497 --> 00:30:33,258 - Are they ready, Hudson. - Shortly, sir, the carriages are at the door. 665 00:30:33,596 --> 00:30:37,158 [ Ahem ] I have taken the liberty of assembling the staff, sir. 666 00:30:37,294 --> 00:30:38,673 To see Miss Elizabeth, sir. 667 00:30:39,250 --> 00:30:40,444 Excellent idea. 668 00:30:40,479 --> 00:30:41,560 Well, come along, then. 669 00:30:42,253 --> 00:30:43,773 We'll go out and meet them in the hall. 670 00:30:46,196 --> 00:30:47,648 [ Door opens ] 671 00:30:51,125 --> 00:30:52,061 Good evening, Mrs. Bridges. 672 00:30:52,096 --> 00:30:53,252 Good evening, sir. 673 00:30:54,356 --> 00:30:56,638 They're just coming, and then it's beautiful! 674 00:30:57,195 --> 00:31:00,368 Why, I..I do beg your pardon, sir. 675 00:31:04,130 --> 00:31:06,015 I'm sorry to have kept you waiting. 676 00:31:06,050 --> 00:31:07,865 Oh, mademoiselle. Mademoiselle. 677 00:31:07,900 --> 00:31:10,947 [ Ohhs and ahhs while repairs are made ] 678 00:31:10,982 --> 00:31:14,835 [ Indistinct ] Disaster, isn't it? 679 00:31:14,870 --> 00:31:18,189 Very, very fine, dear. You look charming. 680 00:31:18,224 --> 00:31:19,613 Thank you, Aunt Kate. 681 00:31:19,648 --> 00:31:20,153 How shall we go? 682 00:31:20,188 --> 00:31:22,335 I shall go in Aunt Kate's carriage with, uh, James, 683 00:31:22,370 --> 00:31:24,066 and you and Elizabeth can go with (Kips). 684 00:31:24,101 --> 00:31:25,240 That'll give you more room. 685 00:31:25,275 --> 00:31:26,143 Come along, Kate. 686 00:31:26,178 --> 00:31:28,399 Yes, we've got quite a way you know to Covent Gardens. 687 00:31:28,434 --> 00:31:31,123 [ Party's cheerful chatter ] 688 00:31:40,133 --> 00:31:44,111 [ Staff's cheerful chatter ] 689 00:31:53,418 --> 00:31:55,757 Well, I think you did a very good piece of work there, Rose. 690 00:31:55,792 --> 00:31:56,900 Thank you, Mr. Hudson. 691 00:31:56,935 --> 00:31:59,836 I feel this calls for a small célébration, eh, Madame? 692 00:31:59,871 --> 00:32:01,135 Oh, Monsieur Hudson. 693 00:32:01,170 --> 00:32:03,369 Ah, Seeing that we have the honor of a guest from France, 694 00:32:03,672 --> 00:32:07,124 I dare say that we can lay our hands on a wee bottle of Château Lafite 91. 695 00:32:07,159 --> 00:32:08,791 [ More cheerful chatter ] 696 00:32:08,874 --> 00:32:11,212 Come along, then, let us all repair downstairs. 697 00:32:11,247 --> 00:32:13,471 [ More cheerful chatter ] 698 00:32:43,703 --> 00:32:45,871 I...I...Shall we sit down here? 699 00:32:46,466 --> 00:32:47,221 Why not? 700 00:32:49,609 --> 00:32:52,389 Uh...could I get a...(waterite)? 701 00:32:53,082 --> 00:32:54,072 No, thank you. 702 00:33:00,616 --> 00:33:02,831 Uh, uh, I believe this is our waltz. 703 00:33:03,151 --> 00:33:06,484 I'm still giddy from the polka. Will you excuse me, Mr. Watson? 704 00:33:06,519 --> 00:33:07,434 Gladly. 705 00:33:07,469 --> 00:33:09,159 Uh...i...i...if you insist. 706 00:33:09,331 --> 00:33:10,462 I do insist. 707 00:33:14,156 --> 00:33:17,431 Oh, please feel free to find another partner if you want to dance. 708 00:33:17,466 --> 00:33:18,766 I...i...if you're sure? 709 00:33:18,801 --> 00:33:19,749 Quite sure. 710 00:33:20,199 --> 00:33:22,792 I say, it's awfully decent of you. 711 00:33:31,697 --> 00:33:32,828 Elizabeth? 712 00:33:32,863 --> 00:33:34,507 What on earth? Where's Billy? 713 00:33:34,594 --> 00:33:35,420 Waltzing. 714 00:33:35,455 --> 00:33:36,473 How about you? 715 00:33:36,508 --> 00:33:37,456 Not waltzing. 716 00:33:37,491 --> 00:33:39,691 Ah, but I've engaged you for the first three dances. 717 00:33:39,726 --> 00:33:41,036 I relinquish the pleasure. 718 00:33:41,071 --> 00:33:42,676 Ah, uh, oh, Elizabeth. 719 00:33:43,072 --> 00:33:45,261 Why can't you take an interest in these? 720 00:33:45,296 --> 00:33:47,450 Instead of...sulking out here on your own. 721 00:33:47,485 --> 00:33:48,603 I prefer it out here. 722 00:33:48,638 --> 00:33:51,259 But you won't get another partner unless you show yourself. 723 00:33:51,294 --> 00:33:52,896 I don't want another partner, thank you. 724 00:33:53,282 --> 00:33:55,446 And I refuse to sit among those (Rafendell) dowagers 725 00:33:55,481 --> 00:33:56,858 listening to their vicious gossip. 726 00:33:56,893 --> 00:34:00,979 If you could only see your face. It's not a funeral, you know. 727 00:34:01,641 --> 00:34:03,142 Why can't you smile and be happy? 728 00:34:03,177 --> 00:34:05,872 Because I'm not happy, James. I'm hating every minute of it. 729 00:34:06,132 --> 00:34:09,193 - I don't think I can stand anymore. - You're not even trying. 730 00:34:09,228 --> 00:34:12,254 If I have to stay here much longer I shall screek out loud. 731 00:34:12,289 --> 00:34:14,542 Why can't you be more like other girls, eh? 732 00:34:14,897 --> 00:34:16,942 Ha. There you are. 733 00:34:16,977 --> 00:34:19,044 I do hope I haven't kept you waiting. 734 00:34:19,079 --> 00:34:20,707 You're like a flash of lightning. 735 00:34:21,393 --> 00:34:24,477 Right now, I present my sister Elizabeth, Miss Cynthia Cartwright. 736 00:34:24,512 --> 00:34:25,910 - How do you do? - How do you do? 737 00:34:25,945 --> 00:34:29,082 Isn't it a wonderful ball and such a (devie) band. 738 00:34:29,117 --> 00:34:31,440 - Well, it's a matter of... - Excuse us. Come on. 739 00:34:34,609 --> 00:34:37,204 There you are Elizabeth. Have you seen your father and Aunt Kate? 740 00:34:37,239 --> 00:34:38,750 - No. - This is (very) what you needed, isn't it? 741 00:34:38,785 --> 00:34:39,492 Yes, it is. 742 00:34:39,527 --> 00:34:42,055 - Mother, may I present Miss Cynthia Cartwright. 743 00:34:42,090 --> 00:34:43,066 - How do you do? 744 00:34:43,101 --> 00:34:44,255 - Good evening Lady Marjorie. 745 00:34:44,290 --> 00:34:46,500 - I believe we met at Cannes last year. 746 00:34:46,535 --> 00:34:48,135 - That was [ Indistinct ]. 747 00:34:48,170 --> 00:34:51,001 - Oh, yes, of course, I remember. You were wearing a very pretty hat. 748 00:34:51,036 --> 00:34:54,423 - [ Indistinct conversations ] 749 00:34:54,589 --> 00:34:56,163 - There you are. I was beginning to worry. 750 00:34:56,198 --> 00:34:59,435 - Don't fuss, Marjorie. The whole party has just arrived. 751 00:34:59,470 --> 00:35:00,499 - Where's Elizabeth? 752 00:35:01,067 --> 00:35:02,808 Oh, she was sitting there a moment ago. 753 00:35:06,588 --> 00:35:07,763 Bringing in the queen. 754 00:35:07,798 --> 00:35:10,697 They're going to start in. Now, we don't want to be late. 755 00:35:10,960 --> 00:35:12,835 James. Where's Elizabeth? 756 00:35:12,870 --> 00:35:14,711 She was here a moment ago. 757 00:35:14,746 --> 00:35:15,560 She's disappeared. 758 00:35:15,595 --> 00:35:17,555 The presentation's about to start. Go and find her. 759 00:35:17,590 --> 00:35:19,089 Where on earth could she have gone to? 760 00:35:19,124 --> 00:35:21,567 Oh, she probably had an attack of nerves and has gone to the cloak room. 761 00:35:21,602 --> 00:35:22,406 I'll go and see. 762 00:35:22,441 --> 00:35:23,173 Thank you. 763 00:35:24,157 --> 00:35:25,457 Tell her she must hurry. 764 00:35:25,492 --> 00:35:28,068 [ Announcement ] 765 00:35:28,103 --> 00:35:30,448 What could she be doing. Really it's too bad of her. 766 00:35:30,483 --> 00:35:32,800 Well, if she doesn't come in a moment, I'll have to go in without her. 767 00:35:32,835 --> 00:35:34,382 [ Announcement ] 768 00:35:34,882 --> 00:35:36,408 She's going to be late. The silly girl. 769 00:35:36,443 --> 00:35:37,848 She was sitting on that sofa a moment ago. 770 00:35:37,883 --> 00:35:39,253 She must have slipped away deliberately. 771 00:35:39,389 --> 00:35:40,734 I'll never forgive her. 772 00:35:40,769 --> 00:35:43,054 [ Announcement ] 773 00:35:43,812 --> 00:35:45,540 - She's not in the cloakroom, and I've looked everywhere. 774 00:35:45,575 --> 00:35:46,967 Richard, what shall we do? 775 00:35:47,002 --> 00:35:49,488 - The footman downstairs shed... said she left a few minutes ago. 776 00:35:49,523 --> 00:35:51,577 She had her cloak on, and ran out through the front door. 777 00:35:51,612 --> 00:35:54,177 - She left the ball by herself? - She can't have. 778 00:35:54,212 --> 00:35:56,590 [ Announcement ] 779 00:35:57,157 --> 00:36:01,025 I'll have to go in and explain. She must have taken leave of her senses. 780 00:36:04,353 --> 00:36:06,288 [ Announcement ] 781 00:36:06,323 --> 00:36:08,865 Oh, Richard, how could she let us down like this? 782 00:36:08,897 --> 00:36:10,162 How could she? 783 00:36:11,292 --> 00:36:14,345 [ Clock chimes; carriage arrives ] 784 00:36:17,479 --> 00:36:18,380 That's them. 785 00:36:18,941 --> 00:36:21,794 Come on, wake up a-girl, they're back. Your young lady will want undressing 786 00:36:21,829 --> 00:36:22,593 and put into bed. 787 00:36:22,628 --> 00:36:25,017 Oh, oh Lord. 788 00:36:25,052 --> 00:36:27,906 If the life of a lady's maid isn't (to your shillies). 789 00:36:27,941 --> 00:36:30,681 I know. I know. 790 00:36:31,229 --> 00:36:32,003 [ Door closes ] 791 00:36:36,833 --> 00:36:38,752 Hudson, where's Miss Elizabeth? 792 00:36:38,787 --> 00:36:39,551 Sir? 793 00:36:39,586 --> 00:36:41,027 She must have come home? 794 00:36:41,328 --> 00:36:44,488 I don't think so, my lady. I, I at least I didn't hear her. 795 00:36:44,523 --> 00:36:46,021 Did you, Miss Roberts? 796 00:36:46,056 --> 00:36:47,484 Oh, no, no, Mr. Hudson. 797 00:36:47,519 --> 00:36:50,678 - Well, Rose. - Yes, sir. - Go and find Miss Elizabeth. 798 00:36:50,713 --> 00:36:52,415 - Oh, but... - Do as you are told. 799 00:36:52,450 --> 00:36:53,691 Go and look in her room. 800 00:36:54,265 --> 00:36:55,677 Brandy in the morning room, Hudson. 801 00:36:55,678 --> 00:36:56,647 Very good, sir. 802 00:36:57,902 --> 00:36:59,679 Everything is all right, I trust? 803 00:36:59,714 --> 00:37:01,781 We're not sure, Hudson. Fetch the brandy. 804 00:37:02,701 --> 00:37:03,442 Yes, sir. 805 00:37:08,671 --> 00:37:10,439 Proper do, isn't it Mr. Hudson? 806 00:37:10,474 --> 00:37:12,935 It is neither proper nor a do, Mrs. Roberts. 807 00:37:15,476 --> 00:37:16,333 [ Knock on door ] 808 00:37:16,368 --> 00:37:17,190 Miss Elizabeth. 809 00:37:18,188 --> 00:37:19,214 [ Knock ] 810 00:37:19,249 --> 00:37:20,240 Miss Lizzie. 811 00:37:20,762 --> 00:37:22,023 [ Knocks and opens door ] 812 00:37:22,058 --> 00:37:22,817 Miss Elizabeth. 813 00:37:32,905 --> 00:37:33,608 Well. 814 00:37:35,376 --> 00:37:36,794 She's not in her room, sir. 815 00:37:37,204 --> 00:37:37,924 I see. 816 00:37:45,782 --> 00:37:47,844 That will do, Hudson. I think we'd better go to bed. 817 00:37:48,807 --> 00:37:49,761 Very good, sir. 818 00:37:51,263 --> 00:37:52,929 Rose can wait up for Miss Elizabeth. 819 00:37:53,451 --> 00:37:54,173 Yes, sir. 820 00:37:57,818 --> 00:38:00,324 After all you've done for her. To behave like this. 821 00:38:00,359 --> 00:38:01,918 Never mind that, now. Where is she? 822 00:38:01,953 --> 00:38:05,155 An innocent 17 year old girl loose in the streets of London. 823 00:38:05,190 --> 00:38:06,995 I think we ought to notify the police. 824 00:38:07,030 --> 00:38:09,241 Oh no, James. Suppose the newspapers got hold of it. 825 00:38:09,276 --> 00:38:11,172 What can she be thinking of? 826 00:38:11,207 --> 00:38:13,242 Has it occurred to you that something may have happened to her? 827 00:38:13,277 --> 00:38:15,278 Nonsense, she's more than capable of taking care of herself. 828 00:38:15,343 --> 00:38:16,972 No, she's just done this to annoy us. 829 00:38:17,007 --> 00:38:18,600 Elizabeth is not like that. 830 00:38:18,635 --> 00:38:20,147 No? What about her behavior at dinner? 831 00:38:20,553 --> 00:38:21,637 I know, I know. 832 00:38:21,672 --> 00:38:24,003 Interrupting Hugh Cecil and quoting yards from some 833 00:38:24,038 --> 00:38:25,425 obscure German philosopher. 834 00:38:25,460 --> 00:38:26,712 I don't think he minded. 835 00:38:26,747 --> 00:38:28,744 He was very startled. I can assure you of that. 836 00:38:28,779 --> 00:38:30,706 Oh, it was a pretty awful showing you must admit. 837 00:38:30,741 --> 00:38:32,607 Well, talking won't help. I think you two better go to bed. 838 00:38:32,642 --> 00:38:33,775 I'll wait up for her. 839 00:38:34,161 --> 00:38:36,684 If she's not here by daylight, I'll telephone the police. 840 00:38:36,719 --> 00:38:38,811 Come along James. I'm exhausted. 841 00:38:40,535 --> 00:38:41,537 Good night, Richard. 842 00:38:42,359 --> 00:38:44,765 It was to have been such a happy evening for all of us. 843 00:38:45,404 --> 00:38:47,393 Elizabeth, it seems, had other ideas. 844 00:38:50,051 --> 00:38:51,204 [ Sigh ] 845 00:38:53,700 --> 00:38:55,142 Is there anything I can do, Father? 846 00:38:55,984 --> 00:38:57,183 No, thank you, James. 847 00:38:58,333 --> 00:38:59,307 You better go to bed. 848 00:39:00,693 --> 00:39:01,350 Goodnight. 849 00:39:01,809 --> 00:39:02,499 Goodnight. 850 00:39:02,534 --> 00:39:10,128 [ Clock chimes two o'clock ] 851 00:39:14,588 --> 00:39:28,304 [ Clock chimes ] [ Knock on door ] 852 00:39:28,339 --> 00:39:30,345 [ Loud knocking ] 853 00:39:33,670 --> 00:39:36,759 [ Clock chimes; Rose unlocks door ] 854 00:39:36,794 --> 00:39:38,190 Miss Elizabeth. 855 00:39:38,315 --> 00:39:40,227 (Tell me to sit up), for goodness sake. 856 00:39:40,262 --> 00:39:42,140 (Twenty-one after two.) [ Door closes ] 857 00:39:42,141 --> 00:39:44,416 You father's half out of his mind! 858 00:39:44,451 --> 00:39:45,786 Where have you been? 859 00:39:45,821 --> 00:39:47,321 I ran away from the ball. 860 00:39:47,857 --> 00:39:49,804 Oh, Rose, it was awful! 861 00:39:49,839 --> 00:39:51,874 What d'ya mean, you, you ran away? 862 00:39:51,909 --> 00:39:54,008 'Twas sickening. Absolutely sickening! 863 00:39:54,043 --> 00:39:58,841 All those ridiculous stuffed shirts. Those repulsive flirting females. 864 00:39:58,876 --> 00:40:01,339 The great yawning boredom of their chatter. 865 00:40:01,705 --> 00:40:04,786 What do you think of the ball? What do you think of the band? 866 00:40:04,821 --> 00:40:06,717 What DO you think of the weather? 867 00:40:06,752 --> 00:40:09,705 And did you SEE the king's filly race at Newmarket? 868 00:40:10,889 --> 00:40:13,503 Oh, God, it was more than I could stand. 869 00:40:13,940 --> 00:40:16,186 So I...ran away through the front door. 870 00:40:16,380 --> 00:40:17,592 You ran away? 871 00:40:17,627 --> 00:40:19,338 Oh, the SHAME of it all. 872 00:40:19,373 --> 00:40:20,533 Shame indeed. 873 00:40:20,806 --> 00:40:23,283 No, not the running away, silly. 874 00:40:23,508 --> 00:40:25,820 The shame of all that waste and extravagance 875 00:40:25,855 --> 00:40:29,546 when outside ther...there's so much poverty and hardship. 876 00:40:29,581 --> 00:40:31,096 Where've you been all this time? 877 00:40:31,293 --> 00:40:33,086 I've been walking through the streets. 878 00:40:33,477 --> 00:40:35,544 How people stared. 879 00:40:35,579 --> 00:40:38,371 Police constable: "Are you all right, Miss?" 880 00:40:38,406 --> 00:40:41,128 "Oh, yes, officer. Don't bother about me." 881 00:40:41,163 --> 00:40:44,122 "Look after the hungry, the weak, the oppressed." 882 00:40:44,157 --> 00:40:47,082 "I'm from a good home. Goodnight, officer." 883 00:40:48,427 --> 00:40:50,041 Goodnight London. 884 00:40:51,170 --> 00:40:53,115 Oh, I'm exhausted. 885 00:40:53,648 --> 00:40:55,829 Your father's waiting up for you. 886 00:40:55,864 --> 00:40:58,010 Oh, no, I can't face him, now. 887 00:40:58,045 --> 00:40:59,027 Coward. 888 00:41:00,142 --> 00:41:01,265 What did you say, Rose? 889 00:41:01,300 --> 00:41:02,175 Coward! 890 00:41:02,479 --> 00:41:05,123 - I should slap your face! - I'll slap yours! 891 00:41:05,158 --> 00:41:06,647 Rose! Don't Rose me. 892 00:41:06,682 --> 00:41:09,579 You stand around in your finery, looking a proper mess and all. 893 00:41:09,614 --> 00:41:12,477 Everything we've all done for you turned to ridicule. Don't Rose me! 894 00:41:12,512 --> 00:41:15,030 Oh, you don't understand what you're talking about. 895 00:41:15,065 --> 00:41:17,514 No, I'm ignorant, no doubt. I didn't go to Germany. 896 00:41:17,549 --> 00:41:20,363 All I know is, your father and mother are worried out of their minds 897 00:41:20,398 --> 00:41:22,974 and you sit here complaining 'cause you was invited to the 898 00:41:23,009 --> 00:41:24,482 grandest ball of the season. 899 00:41:24,517 --> 00:41:26,431 The season. What season? 900 00:41:26,466 --> 00:41:28,881 All seasons are alike to the poor and hungry. 901 00:41:28,916 --> 00:41:30,415 What do you care about poor people? 902 00:41:30,450 --> 00:41:31,664 You only care about yourself. 903 00:41:31,699 --> 00:41:34,339 You ran away. You're a coward, and you'll break you father's heart. 904 00:41:34,374 --> 00:41:35,340 Hold your tongue, Rose! 905 00:41:36,698 --> 00:41:37,836 Father will understand. 906 00:41:38,299 --> 00:41:40,601 Of course he will. 'Cause he loved you. 907 00:41:41,062 --> 00:41:42,784 He may even forgive you, in time. 908 00:41:42,819 --> 00:41:45,821 Though your mother never will, and I never will! 909 00:41:45,856 --> 00:41:46,842 You? 910 00:41:46,877 --> 00:41:49,567 What on earth has it got to do with you? 911 00:41:49,602 --> 00:41:51,079 You mind your place. 912 00:41:51,114 --> 00:41:53,280 I'll mind mine when you mind yours. 913 00:41:53,315 --> 00:41:53,755 Rose! 914 00:41:53,790 --> 00:41:56,540 Don't keep saying Rose in that hoity-toity way. 915 00:41:56,755 --> 00:41:58,263 I know what my place is. 916 00:41:58,408 --> 00:42:02,145 I put sticks through the grates, light the fires, make the tea, 917 00:42:02,180 --> 00:42:06,030 draw the bath, serve the breakfast, make the beds, change the linen, 918 00:42:06,065 --> 00:42:07,040 answer all the bells. 919 00:42:07,075 --> 00:42:09,062 I know what my place is, all right. Do you know yours? 920 00:42:09,097 --> 00:42:10,973 I know it's not my place to argue with you. 921 00:42:10,974 --> 00:42:14,094 Oh, you don't like a few whole truths. 922 00:42:14,129 --> 00:42:15,972 You're a spoiled brat. 923 00:42:16,151 --> 00:42:18,167 When you don't like something, you run away from it. 924 00:42:18,202 --> 00:42:20,633 All full of grand reasons and love of the poor. 925 00:42:21,091 --> 00:42:22,982 But when a house maid tells you what she thinks 926 00:42:23,017 --> 00:42:24,873 of you soon put her in her place back in... 927 00:42:24,908 --> 00:42:26,418 Rose, it isn't true! 928 00:42:26,453 --> 00:42:27,419 Then prove it. 929 00:42:27,714 --> 00:42:30,529 Go and apologize to your father. He's waiting upstairs. 930 00:42:30,564 --> 00:42:31,719 No, I can't. 931 00:42:32,236 --> 00:42:33,192 I won't. 932 00:42:33,592 --> 00:42:35,221 There you are...coward. 933 00:42:35,256 --> 00:42:37,361 Will you stop saying that, Rose. You make me so angry. 934 00:42:37,396 --> 00:42:39,255 - Good. So am I. - All right. 935 00:42:39,941 --> 00:42:43,661 Just give me one reason, one good reason 936 00:42:43,881 --> 00:42:46,083 why I should conform to all this silliness 937 00:42:46,118 --> 00:42:47,036 when I hate it so. 938 00:42:47,071 --> 00:42:49,887 Oh, I'll give you a reason. And you know it as well as I do. 939 00:42:49,922 --> 00:42:53,874 - Your father... - All right, I did my best for his sake. 940 00:42:53,909 --> 00:42:57,076 I sat through dinner trying to be intelligent 941 00:42:57,111 --> 00:42:58,600 but nobody wanted to listen. 942 00:42:58,635 --> 00:43:00,192 'Course they didn't want to listen to you. 943 00:43:00,227 --> 00:43:02,706 You're only seventeen. You ain't got nothing to say yet. 944 00:43:02,741 --> 00:43:03,707 I've got plenty to say. 945 00:43:03,708 --> 00:43:05,155 Then you'd best keep it to yourself. 946 00:43:05,190 --> 00:43:07,210 I won't be able to keep my hands off you much longer. 947 00:43:07,245 --> 00:43:08,031 What a maid. 948 00:43:08,066 --> 00:43:11,760 You listen, Rose! Ow, it's hurting. I'll tell. 949 00:43:11,795 --> 00:43:13,250 I'll bet you would and all. 950 00:43:13,285 --> 00:43:16,221 - [ Lizze whines ] - Now, sit down and listen to me. 951 00:43:16,671 --> 00:43:19,645 I do my work as best I can, 'cause one day I mean to be 952 00:43:19,680 --> 00:43:21,757 a proper lady's maid to a proper lady. 953 00:43:22,900 --> 00:43:26,793 Now, Mr. Hudson runs this house like a clockwork machine. 954 00:43:26,909 --> 00:43:30,067 And Mrs. Bridges may be an old cow, but she cooks her dream and 955 00:43:30,102 --> 00:43:32,051 I knows it's a pleasure to put on the table. 956 00:43:32,333 --> 00:43:34,067 We're the bottom of the ladder, see. 957 00:43:34,102 --> 00:43:38,251 Were the...the will to the cart. And we're content it should be so 958 00:43:38,286 --> 00:43:43,152 'cause the master's a proper gentlemen, what we really like and respect 959 00:43:43,187 --> 00:43:45,352 and does his work right in the houses of parliament, 960 00:43:45,387 --> 00:43:48,451 and my lady's a beauty and very gentile. 961 00:43:48,452 --> 00:43:54,044 And we feel that...we...this whole house is a part a London society. 962 00:43:54,145 --> 00:43:57,838 London society. The parrot house of the zoological gardens. 963 00:43:57,873 --> 00:44:01,102 London society I said, and London society I meant. 964 00:44:02,039 --> 00:44:03,902 Well, that's the hub of the empire, isn't it? 965 00:44:04,355 --> 00:44:07,146 The empire on which the sun will never set. 966 00:44:08,109 --> 00:44:12,570 [ Sigh ] If you can't feel the glow of that like I can, I'm sorry for you. 967 00:44:13,308 --> 00:44:16,055 I don't suppose you've ever been up Piccadilly on a Saturday night 968 00:44:16,090 --> 00:44:17,179 on top of an omnibus. 969 00:44:17,768 --> 00:44:21,116 Oh, uh, that's when you feel its great heart thumping. 970 00:44:21,651 --> 00:44:23,942 That's when you're proud to be part of it. 971 00:44:26,085 --> 00:44:27,717 I know my place all right. 972 00:44:28,223 --> 00:44:29,535 I'm proud of my place. 973 00:44:29,570 --> 00:44:33,179 As long as you're all of you, know yours and keep to it. 974 00:44:34,558 --> 00:44:38,247 [ Sigh ] How would it be if I was to go singing and dancing 975 00:44:38,282 --> 00:44:40,657 in the drawing room, or sliding down the banisters? 976 00:44:41,437 --> 00:44:43,814 And (some) of us do step out the line. 977 00:44:44,960 --> 00:44:48,512 If you're not a proper lady, then I don't want to be your lady's maid. 978 00:44:49,402 --> 00:44:50,595 That's all I've got to say. 979 00:44:50,630 --> 00:44:54,326 [ Sniff ] Now you can tell on me, [ Sniff ] and have me turned out. 980 00:44:55,138 --> 00:44:57,768 - [ Sobs ] - I wish you would slide down the banisters. 981 00:44:58,871 --> 00:44:59,995 Oh, Rose. 982 00:45:00,812 --> 00:45:02,300 I love you very much. 983 00:45:02,955 --> 00:45:05,227 And I am sorry if I was rude to you. 984 00:45:05,910 --> 00:45:08,507 I don't blame you for giving me a piece of your mind, but 985 00:45:08,586 --> 00:45:10,247 I've got a mind, too, you know. 986 00:45:11,279 --> 00:45:13,539 I know what I've done is dreadful for Father. 987 00:45:13,574 --> 00:45:16,948 I know I've got to eat humble pie for the time being, but 988 00:45:17,386 --> 00:45:19,353 I'm not going to be cowed, Rose. 989 00:45:20,292 --> 00:45:22,709 There are ideas stirring in this great city. 990 00:45:22,744 --> 00:45:25,208 Oh, I...I don't understand everything, I 991 00:45:25,243 --> 00:45:27,673 I'm uncertain and muddled sometimes. 992 00:45:28,022 --> 00:45:32,281 But, if only half of what I read is true, then London society 993 00:45:32,316 --> 00:45:34,529 may be heading for a nasty surprise. 994 00:45:34,564 --> 00:45:37,084 What, then they're wicked books and ought to be burned. 995 00:45:37,119 --> 00:45:39,847 No, Rose, they're good and difficult books. 996 00:45:40,328 --> 00:45:42,811 And they're written by good and serious men. 997 00:45:44,029 --> 00:45:46,247 [ Gasp ] I told you I don't understand everything, but 998 00:45:46,902 --> 00:45:48,274 I mean to one day. 999 00:45:48,330 --> 00:45:49,651 Well, you are cleverer than me. 1000 00:45:49,686 --> 00:45:51,888 No, Rose, I'm not cleverer than you. 1001 00:45:51,923 --> 00:45:54,226 I'm not worse or better either. 1002 00:45:56,435 --> 00:45:57,769 I love you very much. 1003 00:45:58,605 --> 00:46:00,329 More like a sister than servant. 1004 00:46:00,708 --> 00:46:03,128 Oh, then, that's not right, and I've overstepped my place. 1005 00:46:03,163 --> 00:46:04,497 Oh, damn your place! 1006 00:46:04,532 --> 00:46:05,810 Oh, Miss Elizabeth. 1007 00:46:05,866 --> 00:46:09,374 And now, just for your sake, I'm going to be brave 1008 00:46:09,409 --> 00:46:10,843 and face up to Father. 1009 00:46:10,878 --> 00:46:12,202 [ Sigh ] 1010 00:46:12,972 --> 00:46:14,794 Now, give me a kiss, and say we're friends again. 1011 00:46:16,511 --> 00:46:21,836 [ Sigh ] [ Kiss ] [ Hug and comfort ] 1012 00:46:26,119 --> 00:46:28,000 - Lead me to the slaughter. - [ Sigh ] Oh. 1013 00:46:28,618 --> 00:46:29,375 Where is he? 1014 00:46:29,410 --> 00:46:30,706 In the morning room. 1015 00:46:31,110 --> 00:46:32,408 Come with me, Rose. 1016 00:46:33,529 --> 00:46:34,954 Very good, Miss Elizabeth. 1017 00:46:36,024 --> 00:46:36,797 [ Sigh ] 1018 00:46:57,128 --> 00:46:57,940 We should knock. 1019 00:46:58,770 --> 00:46:59,618 Good luck. 1020 00:47:00,056 --> 00:47:02,933 - And remember, he loves you. - [ Sigh ] 1021 00:47:05,818 --> 00:47:06,990 [ Door opens ] 1022 00:47:07,790 --> 00:47:09,577 Miss Elizabeth, sir. 1023 00:47:14,239 --> 00:47:15,068 Eliza. 1024 00:47:17,177 --> 00:47:19,552 [ Kiss and hug ] 1025 00:47:20,386 --> 00:47:22,374 [ Door closes and sighs ] 1026 00:47:25,374 --> 00:47:26,509 [ Sighs ]