All language subtitles for Upstairs Downstairs S05E03 Laugh a Little Louder Please WEB-DL DDP2 0 H 264-squalor (1)_track3_[eng]

[peaceful orchestral music]

[clock chimes]

[muffled chatter]

-[Man] Well let's all
go up together!

-[Man] Georgina, you're
standing on my ear.

-[Georgina] Oh Robin, catch
me quick, I'm falling!

- Oh, it's Miss Georgina.

- Isn't she in bed?

- Come on.

-[Dolly] All right, see
you at the party tonight!

- Bye bye, Dolly!
- Bye bye, Georgina.

- Bye, Georgina, bye.
- Bye bye, Dolly, goodbye!

- Thank you, Robin.

- Can't I come in?
- No, you can't.

The servants will be up soon.

- Well then we can have
a cup of coffee.

- You had three cups
at the coffee store.

- Ah, but I didn't have
a cheese sandwich.

Perhaps if I came and waited,

Mrs. Bridges would make
me a cheese sandwich.

- If you go away now,
you can come to lunch.

- Can I?

- Yes.

- I'm not sure I can
wait until then.

- Well you'll just have to.

- If we were married, I
wouldn't have to go away at all.

- Oh, Robin. [chuckles]

Go away!

Good morning, Daisy.
- Morning, Miss Georgina.

-[Georgina] Come and help
me undress, would you?

- Oh, Miss Georgina, your dress.

- Oh, it's all right, I pinned
it back in the cloakroom.

I knew Major Bellamy would
have a fit if he saw it.

- Here Lily, go and do the
front door brass for me,

there's a dear.
- Oh Daisy, I've got my--

- Go on.

- Oh, all right.

Hey, Dais.

-[Daisy] What?

- He's still there.

Across the road.
- Who, Captain Eliott?

- He's gazing up at
Miss Georgina's window.

- Miss Georgina's bedroom's
at the back!

- Well I think it's romantic.

- I best leave this
for Rose to mend.

Just look how Miss
Georgina tore it

pinning it back like that.

- What time did she get in?
- Not until six.

And she won't stir
now before 11.

- All right for some, isn't it?

- Oh I like to see Miss
Georgina enjoying herself.

She worked hard enough
in the war.

- Well she wasn't the only one!

Why should she have
all the larks now?

- Eddie, you don't
grudge at her?

- No but I mean, we're all
in this war together and,

afterwards it was gonna
be different.

It's not so different
from here now.

- Eddie.

- Oh I'm sorry, Dais,
it's just I'm fed up

with being at everyone's
beck and call all the time.

It wasn't so bad before
we were married.

-[Daisy] Well we've got a place.

- It's not exactly ours, is it?

- No but it's better than,

Eddie we have got a place
and we've got our jobs.

- Yes, I know and we've
got to be grateful.

- No, not grateful
exactly, but--

- Listen, servants aren't
so easy to get nowadays.

- Nor are jobs.

- Dais--

- Edward, you haven't
seen my runnock, have you?

- Your runnock, Lily?

What would I be doing
with your runnock?

[chuckles] Wouldn't
catch me putting my hands

on a young girl's runnock.

- Edward, you are awful.
- What have I said?

- Well you won't find
your runnock in here.

Wasn't it in your box?

- No, I went into the morning
room and I can't find it.

- It's probably in
the scullery, Lily.

Well I've got to get upstairs.
- Dais, here.

- What is it?

- Well, the other day, His
Lordship and the Master were

talking about something in the
car that Lady Astor had said.

- Lady Astor?

- Yes you know, that woman
member of parliament.

- Oh, I don't agree with
women members of parliament.

- Well neither do I but that's
got nothing to do with it!

Now she was saying that
a friend of hers

is trying to bring a
bill into parliament.

- Oh.
- Daisy!

- I don't know what you're
talking about, Edward.

- I'm trying to tell
you something.

- If I don't go into the
Major's room while he's having

his breakfast--
- Nevermind that now.

Now listen, this is important,

and I want you to have
time to think about it.

- Think about what?

- Well, they're talking about,
on account of them being

so many unemployed, about
helping them to emigrate.

- Well we're not unemployed.

Oh Eddie, you didn't
mean us. [giggles]

Where would we go?

- Canada, Australia!

- What and go into
service there?

- But they don't have
servants out there.

That's the good point about it.

- What would we do?

- I'd get some land
or something.

- Oh Eddie, you've never
even worked as a gardener.

The only thing I ever
grew is a geranium

in a pot and that died.

Oh, Eddie.

We've got a good place here.

We can be together
and save a bit.

When Mr. Hudson retires,
you may even be butler.

-[Edward] [chuckles] Some hopes.

- There's a lot worse
off than we are.

- Yes, I know, I suppose
you're right.

Still, at least we are
amongst friends, so to speak.

- Edward, have you not
got any work to do?

The chauffeur is not supposed
to sit around on tables

in the servants' hall
drinking cups of tea.

Daisy, do you know
where I found this?

- Oh no, Mr. Hudson, Lily
was just looking for that.

- Daisy, I can't find it.

Oh Mr. Hudson, you
found the polish.

- Yes, I found it,
on the doorstep.

I do not expect to open the
front door of 165 Eaton Place

and trip over a tin of polish.

Kindly be more careful
in future, Daisy.

- Oh well, I didn't do the
front door this morning,

Mr. Hudson, Lily did it.

- Yes, I must have put it down
when I was looking in my box

for the Brasso, I'm ever
so sorry, Mr. Hudson.

- That's all right, Lily.

I thought it was your task,
Daisy, to do the front brass.

- Oh yes, Mr. Hudson,

but this morning Miss
Georgina asked me--

- Daisy, as head house parlor
maid, you have some authority,

but I do not expect
you to abuse it

by leaving your work to others.

Edward, I thought you were
going to dress His Lordship's

winter suits during
his absence abroad.

Come along, Lily, we've all
got a busy day ahead of us.

- Can I have this piece of
pastry, please, Bridgey?

- Mrs. Bridges, if you please,
Master William, and I haven't

got time to make patty
cakes for you this morning.

I've gotta make these pies,
that one for the nursery--

- Alice says we're not to
call it the nursery anymore.

It's a schoolroom now, 'cause
we're having a governess.

- Oh, [chuckles] I beg
your pardon, I'm sure.

Ruby!

Come and grease these
pie dishes for me.

-[Ruby] I'm doing the
vegetables, Mrs. Bridges!

- I'll do it.

-[Mrs. Bridges] All
right, Ruby, all right.

- I don't think I want
to have a governess.

- You must have someone
to look after you.

- Rose can look after us.

- Rose can't teach
you your lessons.

Oh thank you, Master William,
that'll do splendidly.

Anyway, you need somebody
to stop you quarreling.

What was it all about
this morning, eh?

- Alice is always reading and
when I ask her to play with me

she says "shut up" and
throws something at me.

- Oh, does she now!

Thank you, Master William.

- I wish I could live
with Edward and Daisy

in their little house.

- In the mews?

Ladies and gentlemen
don't live in mewses.

That's for servants.

-[William] I like Edward.

-[Mrs. Bridges] I hope you
like everybody downstairs.

-[William] I'm sure I
shan't like the governess.

- Oh ho, she won't
be downstairs.

Anyway, it's not good for you
to be in the kitchen too much.

Here comes Mr. Hudson you see
what he says when he sees you.

- There will be four
for lunch, Mrs. Bridges.

Lady Newbury is staying.
- Oh, there now.

I'll have to make
another pudding.

- It's only one extra,
Mrs. Bridges.

- I dare say!

Well it's one thing when Captain
Eliot stays as an extra one

for luncheon but quite another
thing when it's a luncheon

party which includes
Lady Newbury.

- Oh Frederick, you better put
the bomboniere on the table.

- Right, Mr. Hudson.

Would be the one thing I
never cleaned yesterday.

No peace for the wicked,
eh Mrs. Bridges?

- I'll help you, Frederick.

I can take the polish
off, can't I, Mr. Hudson?

- Very well, Master William,

but you will have
to wear my apron.

- I suppose I better
make my apple delight.

- Here we are then.

- I think I'll have to
give them a savory as well.

Oh, I thought we was
gonna have a nice, quiet,

peaceful time with His
Lordship and Her Ladyship away.

- You've got to keep
your feet still, Robin.

-[Robin] What?

But you can't keep your feet
still when you're dancing!

It's a contradiction in terms!
- It's not, now to the side.

-[Robin] But you said I
couldn't move my feet.

- Yes but you have to
keep your feet still,

but move to the side.

- Is that what they call the
shimmy shake, Mr. Hudson?

- I have no idea, Frederick,
get about your business.

Frederick!

- There, what do you
think of that?

- Never gonna dance
that in public.

- And why not?

-[Robin] It's all the
rage in America.

-[Diana] I think it's
rather vulgar.

I don't think I shall learn it.

- Would you care for me
to mix the cocktail, sir?

- Oh no thank you,
Hudson, I'll do it.

What for you, Diana,
Bronx or Martini?

- Martini, thanks, why
aren't you working, Robin?

I thought you had a job.

- Well, I had but
I got the sack.

- He was selling patented
hair curlers.

- I don't believe it.
- No, it's absolutely true.

I answered this advertisement
which said,

"Do you want to make your
fortune" and of course I did.

So I went along and saw
this man called Stellenbosch

who'd invented a new
kind of hair curler.

- Is that really his name?
- Well something like that.

Anyway, he said he would let
me in on the ground floor,

after I had to go out
and meet the public.

So he gave me a suitcase
full of the beastly things

and I had to go trudging
around all sorts of places

like Warrington that
I never even heard of.

- Oh Robin, not a salesman.

- Ah yes, but that was just
the first rung on the ladder.

- But, he fell off. [giggles]

- What happened?

- Well most of them didn't
even answer, they just,

peered at me through
the curtains, anyway--

- Didn't like the
look of you, eh?

- Well that is very possible.

Anyway, finally one woman
did answer the door.

She was wearing a night
dress and a dressing gown.

She had her hair curled up
with little bits of rag,

so I explained that I had
come to talk to her about

a marvelous new invention,
she said,

"oh you want to speak
to my husband,"

"No madam," I cried, "I
want to speak to you.

"Are you comfortable in bed?"

And she slapped my face
and slammed the door.

[laughter]

- He's making it up.
- No, I promise you.

Anyway, I went to old
Stickenbomb and I said,

was he sure there was such
a fortune in these things,

when women could quite
easily curl their hair

with bits of rag which
cost her nothing at all.

And 10 minutes later
I had joined the ranks

of the unemployed.
- Oh, Robin. [laughs]

- Thanks.
- Outrageous.

- Dinner ready yet,
Mrs. Bridges?

- No, it is not, and I've
got a luncheon to prepare.

- Oh, sorry.

- Ruby, go into the larder
and bring me out a big jar

of them apples and then come
back and mash the potatoes.

- Oh, Ruby.

Nursery tray ready,
Mrs. Bridges?

- No it is not, Rose, you'll
have to get it yourself.

- I shouldn't have to
do this by right.

- Ruby!

Hurry up and come and
mash these potatoes!

- They should have
a nursery maid.

- Ah well, when the
governess arrives,

the children will customarily
have their luncheon

with her in the dining
room, Rose.

- Yes but until such time,

Daisy will have to see
to the nursery meals.

- I'm not carrying no trays
upstairs for no governess.

It's Fred's place to do that.

- No it isn't, Daisy, I'm
not the nursery footman--

- Now that is quite
enough of that!

I shall assign your duties in
consultation with Her Ladyship

and you will all carry them out.

This is not the kind of
household in which we indulge in

petty arguments about who
is to carry a tray upstairs.

- Oh, that's terrible.

It says here there are nearly
two million unemployed!

- Well, that should make
us all very thankful

that our paths have
fallen in peasant paces.

Eh, peasant places--

[muffled chuckles]

Once out of a position, it is
not so easy to find one again.

As you should well know, Edward.

- When does Bunny
come back, Diana?

-[Diana] Oh I don't
know, tomorrow I think.

- Oh, and why aren't you with
him like a good little wife?

- Oh, James have you ever
seen Bunny being bucolic?

Well of course, you know
how grisly it is.

He has this idea he has a duty
to the land, a sort of debt.

- Oh, like the debt
I owe my tailor.

- Except that your tailor
probably knows

he'll never get paid.

Apparently, the land
isn't satisfied,

and as Bunny spends
several days in every month

trudging around it in
wellington boots.

Squelch, squelch, squelch,
scratching the backs of pigs.

You have no idea what a
disgusting noise it makes

when you scratch a pig's back.

A sort of bristly...

- I adore pigs.

- So does Bunny, scratching
the pig's back is suppose

set him into a sort of
ecstasy, but actually,

when Bunny's leaning over
the pen with a glazed look

in his eye, it's almost
impossible to tell them apart.

- Oh, dear.
[chuckles]

- Diana, why are you so
beastly to poor old Bunny?

- I'm no more beastly to him now

than I was before
we got married.

-[Robin] Well perhaps
he'd hoped you'd be nicer.

- Then he was a fool,
which of course he is.

- I don't think people
ought to get married,

unless they absolutely
adore one another.

Don't think that I'm
saying you and Bunny don't.

- Of course not.

- Is your father away, James?

- Yes yes, he and my
stepmother are in Geneva.

They rushed off yesterday,
my dear stepmother is one

of those people who
either takes a carpy bag

into which she's thrown nothing
but her favorite ornament

and a clean handkerchief,
or 40 pieces of baggage.

- Yesterday it was the
40 pieces of baggage.

There we were, standing
at the station

frantically searching
for a hat box.

- Without which she
could not possibly spend

the night on a train.

- Perhaps her hairnet
was packed in it.

Perfectly reasonable.

- Well I look forward to the day

when everyone travels
by airplane,

then they'll have to confine
themselves to a carpy bag.

- You don't really think
that day will ever come,

do you, James?
- Well I don't see why not.

I mean, if Alcock and Brown
could fly the Atlantic.

- Yes, just as a special effort.

It'll never be like
trains with timetables.

-[Robin] Well imagine
an aerial Bradshaw.

- What does your father
find to do in Geneva?

I hate Switzerland, all
those wholesome people

wearing woolen stockings
and yodeling.

- Oh, he's managing this
League of Nations thing.

- There's not much point
is there now the Americans

have ratted on it?
- No, none at all.

No one gives a damn
about it here,

especially the socialists,
pacifists during the war

and now all they can
talk about is wages.

I know, don't talk politics.

- Let's talk about dancing.

Oh, I'd like to dance
all night and all day.

- You very nearly do, what time
did you get home last night?

- Oh I don't know, we
started at the Barkley,

but then the band went home so
we went on to Sally Brandt's

house and danced to
the gramophone.

- Oh, and what did Lord
Brandt think of that?

- Luckily, he was away.
- Ah.

- Let's have a party here.
- Hm?

- With Uncle Richard away,
it's the perfect opportunity.

- Oh now, wait a minute--

- Oh yes, do and then Georgina
and I could dance all night!

- No, no thank you, I don't
want crazy people doing the

shimmy shake in this house.

- James, don't be such a bore.

You used to be such fun.

Since the war, you've
been positively tedious.

- I'm sorry, I didn't realize.

- Oh Jumbo, do say yes,
it would be such fun!

You'd enjoy yourself,
really you would.

We'd have a band and
all our friends.

Do say yes.

- Luncheon is served, sir.

- Ah, thank you, Hudson.

I don't know.

- Oh, that means yes, what fun!

Now what kind of party
shall we give?

- How about a baby party?

Everyone having to
arrive in pram--

- No, it's been done.

- Everything's been
done, that's the trouble.

- Yes but a bathing party
is always quite fun.

- I don't fancy wearing
last year's bathing dress.

- Well you could always be
terribly daring and come

as one of those bathing
beauties in the moving pictures!

- Well that'd just be
next year's bathing dress.

I tell you what, let's
have a servants ball.

All dressed as housemaids
and footmen.

- I'm sure Hudson
would like that.

- You wouldn't mind,
would you, Hudson?

- I think it might lead to
some confusion, my lady.

- Why not just call it
a fancy dress party,

and leave everyone free
to come as they choose?

- Oh no, then Bunny will wear
his Pierrot costume again.

It'd be too grisly for words.
- Well, why shouldn't he?

Freedom, that's what we
all fought for, wasn't it?

- Well of course, that's it!
- What?

- We'll give a freedom party!

Birds, wood nymphs,
satyrs, revolutionaries--

- No no, you need to be far
more specific than that.

-[Diana] Think it's
a wonderful idea!

- Do you remember gold
and silver ball,

Mrs. Bridges, of Londonberry
House,

where Lady Marjorie
appeared as Mary Antoinette?

- Oh, yes.

- And His Lordship, Mr.
Bellamy, as he then was,

went as Louis the, oh Louis
the something in lace collar,

and velvet knee britches, oh.

- I do hope Miss Georgina
has a pretty costume.

- It seems funny they should
have it when His Lordship

and Her Ladyship
are away, though.

- Oh, I expect it'll just be
a young people's party, Lily.

More informal than
it might have been

if Her Ladyship had been here.

- Well, I must take
Master William up to bed.

When did you say it was
gonna be, Mr. Hudson?

- Next Thursday, Rose,
rather short notice.

- That's when the governess
is coming.

Never rains but it
pours in this household.

-[Mrs. Bridges] The Governess.

- Are you sure this is
all you want to wear

for an open motor?

- It's got a thick
collar, Daisy.

Slip through to the front
bedroom and see if you can see

Mr. Bakerfield's two-seater.

I must just say goodnight
to the children.

- At least you're
not going on that

Captain Eliott's motorbike.

- Oh, I'll probably
come back on that.

- It's bad for you, going
to bed with your hair wet.

- What does it do to you?
- It, it makes you deaf.

- Oh Rose, it doesn't.

- Hello.
- Oh.

- Hello, Rose, I just
came to say goodnight.

- Georgina, you look lovely.
- Oh, thank you.

- Just like a fairy princess,
doesn't she, William?

- I think she looks silly.
- Master William.

- Well it's lucky
everyone doesn't think so.

- Have you got lots of men
in love with you, Georgina?

- Oh, not lots.

Two or three, perhaps.

Goodnight, sweet dreams.

Goodnight, William,
give me a big kiss.

- I'm too old to kiss people.

- Well I'll kiss you then!

You needn't kiss back.

[chuckles] Goodnight.

Goodnight, Rose.
- Goodnight, Miss Georgina.

- Goodnight.

Isn't she lucky, Rose?

Nothing to do but enjoy herself.

[Rose sighs]

- Robin, what are
you doing here?

- Well I thought I'd follow
you on my bike as an outrider.

- Oh, Robin.

- Well you'll of me if
Harry gets a puncture

in his beastly old motor car.

- You better take this,
Miss Georgina.

Mr. Bakerfield may not
have thought to put one in.

- Thank you, Hudson.

- Miss Georgina,
about the party.

How many guests will
you be expecting?

We'll have to be thinking
about food and wine.

- Oh don't bother about
drinks, Hudson.

We're going to make
it a bottle party.

- A bottle--
- Hm!

Everyone arrives with a bottle
of gin or wine or something.

Well it's the easiest way
because as soon as people hear

there's a party, they
do tend to turn up,

and then the drinks run out.

- You mean uninvited
guests, Miss Georgina?

- If they get too tiresome,
we'll get Edward and Fred

to throw them out.

- Or I'll shoot them with this!

- Robin, put it away.

Goodnight, Hudson.
- Miss Georgina, Sir.

- "The goblins drew back,
howling on every side.

"They were tumbling
over each other in heaps

"in their eagerness to
escape from the cave,

"when a new assailant
suddenly faced him,

"the queen with flaming
eyes and expanded nostrils,

"her hair standing half up--"

- All right, Miss Alice,
that's enough.

You're frightening
Master William.

- Poo, of course she's not,
I don't mind a few goblins.

There, look.
- Eugh.

Anyway, you'll have to
clear the table now,

'cause we're gonna put
the carpet down.

- Oh Rose, you are a nuisance.
- Oh, am I?

Well your governess
is coming soon

and you can call her a
nuisance for a change.

- I bet she'll be like
the goblin queen.

-[Rose] I don't see
why she should.

- I think she'll be more
like the old spinning lady.

- Who?

- "The princess opened
the door and entered.

"There was the moonlight
streaming in at the window,

"and in the middle of the
moonlight sat the old lady

"in her black dress
with the white lace

"and her silvery hair
mingling with the moonlight."

- Well I don't think she'll
be quite like that, neither.

- Rose, why didn't
she come here first

so that we could see
if we liked her?

- Well anyway, she won't
take any notice of you.

You're just a silly little boy.

- No, I'm not!
- Yes, you are.

- No, I'm not!
- Silly little boy!

- Oh, the old war
starting up again?

- Fredrick!

- Now then, Master William,
that is no way to behave.

- Fred, she called me
a silly little boy.

- Oh, you don't wanna take no
notice of what the ladies say.

Eh, Rose?

Now if you two will have a
truce, we can lay the carpet.

- Come, give us a hand
with the table.

- Master William, I'll send
you to see my Sergeant Major.

- Got to do something about
the decorations, James.

Wish we could have nymphs and
fawns painted on the wall.

Oh, if only Augustus
John would come and do

some of his splendid news.

I don't suppose Uncle
Richard would like that.

- No, neither would I.

- You know, Dolly said if she
was really to be as free as

that she'd come with nothing on,

so I said if she felt like
it, she'd better do it.

- Lily.

- Only 10 acceptances so far.

Do you suppose that means that
only 10 are coming, or that,

everyone is coming but only
10 have bothered to answer?

- Really Georgina, I've no idea.

I don't know why you started
this party in the first place.

- What's the matter, are
you afraid I might enjoy it?

- Now Georgina, that's not fair.

You know very well I like to
see you enjoying yourself.

- But I can't.

I can't, James, unless
you do, too.

James, we lost four
years of our youth,

when we had to be
miserable and frightened,

and watch all our friends
being killed one by one.

Well they're dead and there's
nothing we can do about it.

So let's forget it and
have some fun, please.

- All right, we'll have fun.

We'll have the most
stupendous party ever seen.

[door bell rings]

- Oh, there's Robin.

- You're not going out
on that motorbike again.

-[Georgina] We're going
down to Brooklyn's

to watch the motor racing,
tell him I won't be long.

Oh, Hudson that'll
be Captain Eliott.

Tell him I won't be long.
- Very good, Miss Georgina.

Good morning, sir.
- Good morning, Hudson.

- Miss Worsley will be
down shortly, sir.

Major Bellamy is in
the morning room.

- Good morning, Robin.
- Morning, James.

- Would you care for
some coffee, sir?

- Oh Hudson, that
would be splendid.

I've been up since six
o'clock working on the bike.

Of course it was the magneto
and I can't afford a new one

so I had to take
it all to pieces.

- Did you have time
for any breakfast, sir?

- Well, as a matter of fact.

- I will see what Mrs.
Bridges can produce, sir.

- Oh thanks awfully, Hudson.

Do you know, it's a damn
nuisance not having any money.

I wish I could afford a car

like that lucky devil
Harry Bakerfield.

- He has a rich, if
unpleasant father.

- Yes I'm devoted to my
pa but he's going broke

nearly as fast as I am.

You know I don't think I'll be
able to hang onto the estate.

- What, Emma's Wood?

You won't have to
sell it, will you?

- It looks like it, probably
to old Stellenbosch.

Here James, you and I
joined the wrong profession.

We should have been
war profiteers.

- You find a job yet?
- No, not a chance.

Do think of going
over to Ireland.

They still want ex-officers
there for the auxiliaries.

- Not a job I fancy.
- No, it would mean leave...

Did Georgina tell you we were
nearly arrested last night?

- Hm? What for?

- Well Dolly had this
marvelous idea of going along

to Limehouse to try and
find some Chinamen

and see if they would
lead us to an opium den,

but all we found were a
couple of drunken sailors

and then the police arrived
and said we were causing

a breach of the peace.
- Which of course you were.

- Well anyway, they arrested
the drunken sailors instead.

Tonight we are going to the
Barkley, we think it is safer.

- Isn't it a bit expensive,
taking Georgina out every night?

- Oh the Barkley's not too bad,
you can dance 'til midnight

on a jug of beer.

- Robin?
- Mm-hm.

I love Georgina dearly but uh,

well she's a bit scatterbrained.

- Yes, I Know.

- I mean she settled down
a lot during the war,

all that nursing--

- Are you trying to warn me off?

- No.

All I'm saying is you mustn't
depend on her too much.

- It's not a question of
depending, just that
everything's

so bloody, you've got to
have something to hang onto.

- Mrs. Bridges had a
york ham in cut, sir.

She thought you might
care for a little.

- Hudson, you are a trump
and so is Mrs. Bridges.

-[Rose] Many hands
make light work.

- Yeah well, a job shared
is a job halved.

- It's ever so heavy.
- Hey, I'll take it.

Where do you want it, Rose?
- Over there.

- Right, got that,
Master William.

-[Daisy] This carpet
looks really nice!

- It comes from Miss
Elizabeth's room, see?

That' where spilled
that pot of rouge.

Never quite been able
to get it off.

- Oh it doesn't show
though, Rose.

- Her Ladyship said we've
got to make the room

look really nice.
- Oh I reckon you have, Rose.

Aren't you pleased?
- Daisy, give us a hand.

Well you've still got your
rocking horse, William.

- We'll have to remember
to call it

the schoolroom now, won't we?

- And that desk's mine,
not William's.

- I don't want it, I don't
want a governess either!

- Well you'll like her
when she gets here.

-[Daisy] She'll like
this room, too.

- And you're not to
make it untidy.

- She's not coming
'til Thursday!

- Well I'm not gonna
do this room again.

We've got the party to
think of Thursday.

Miss Alice, I'm surprised
at you.

- Lady Newbury, sir.

- Oh!
- Hello.

- Diana.

How nice to see you.

- I just called in to see what
you're wearing at the party.

- Oh, I thought I'd go
as a sans-culottes.

- What on earth's that?
- French revolutionary.

Literally without trousers.

- How literally are
you taking it?

- Not really, I thought
I'd leave that to Dolly.

What are you going as?

- I don't know.

You've just given me an idea.

-[James] Do you want a cocktail?

- No thanks, Bunny's
traveling up this morning,

insists that I shall
meet him for lunch.

- How are things between
you and Bunny?

- Oh, you know how things
are between me and Bunny.

- No I don't or I wouldn't ask.

- It's funny, isn't it?

During the war I used to
think Bunny will be killed

and then I shall find out
that I do love him after all.

He wasn't killed.

If he had been, [chuckles]
every armistice,

I should have been like my
sister-in-law, sitting in

a heavy black veil with
tears running down my cheeks.

Do you think Georgina's
in love with Robin?

- I don't know.

I don't think she knows.

- I'm sure when we
were their age,

we always knew whether
we were in love or not.

- Yes, but that generation,

because of the war,
know too much.

They spend their time
trying to forget it.

- Well, on with the dance.

[clock ticks]

[pop]

-[Fredrick] Do we need
any other kind of glasses,

Mr. Hudson?
- I have no idea, Fredrick.

It depends what bottles
the guests bring.

- Do you know, Rose said
that at Lord Purbite's house,

they just tipped all the
bottles into the bath,

and then they just dipped
their glasses in it and--

- We shall not be doing
anything like that here, Lily.

We will serve champagne when
the guests first arrive,

and you, Fredrick, will
take any bottles from them.

In due course, these will
be opened and served,

in the appropriate glasses.
- Yes, Mr. Hudson.

- Do I have to blow all these
balloons up, Mr. Hudson?

My brain's gonna pop.

- Oh, I'll help you
in a minute, Edward.

I love blowing up balloons.
- Oh thanks.

Where've they gotta go
when they're done?

- In the hall, Edward.

I understand Lady Dolly is
bringing a piece of statuary

to complete the decorations.

Oh, Mrs. Bridges!

You have no forgotten supper
for the governess, have you?

- Well she'll just to
have soup and bonbon

and some of my almond slice.

I hope that's good
enough for her.

Trust the governess
to want a tray

when I'm here doing
deviled lobsters.

- Why can't she eat it
in servants' hall?

We could lay it on
corner at table.

- That is out of the
question, Ruby!

Miss Treadwell will have a
tray in her room, Mrs. Bridges.

- Oh well don't worry
me now, Mr. Hudson.

I'm trying to get this
galantine out.

- Are you sure that's
right, Miss Georgina?

- Yes of course it is, Daisy.

- Miss Georgina?
- Oh Rose, is that my crown?

- Yes, I got the bend out,
I don't think it'll show.

Now, where's your costume?

[James shouts in French]

- And the boring brotherhood
of man.

- Oh James, you look splendid.
- I feel a bloody idiot.

I can't dance in these shoes.
- Of course you can.

- Yes well, come on, downstairs.

What the devil is that?
[distant laughter]

- Excuse me, would you direct
the whole thing, because--

-[Dolly] No, no no no, no.

It must be at the foot
of the stairs,

so that everybody can see it
first thing when they come in.

[cheers and laughter]
[chatter]

- Dolly, it's the most
obscene thing I've ever seen.

It's gorgeous!

- Dolly can part with
some of her vine leaves.

- No no, that's what
the balloons are for.

- We are not putting
balloons on it.

- Then at midnight,

when we untie the balloons
and they float away,

taking all our inhibitions
with them,

we are as free as nature
first made man, wild in woods,

the noble savage rags.

Georgina, you look divine,
what are you?

- The Statue of Liberty.
[laughter]

- I'm a wood nymph.

Since there are bound to be
dozens of satyrs and shepherds,

I expect to be chased
like mad all night.

- I'll start now.

[laughter]
[chatter]

Dolly, Dolly!

Mind me trident pole.

No no no.

No, no, no, no no, Dolly.

- Good evening.
- Good evening.

- Miss Treadwell.

- How do you do, I'm
Georgina Worsley, and,

this is Major Bellamy.
- How do you do?

- Perhaps you would care
to see your room.

Fredrick, take Miss Treadwell's
luggage upstairs, will you?

-[James] I'm so sorry, we
seem to be a bit disorganized.

- Oh, that's quite alright,
Major Bellamy.

- Yes well uh, Rose
will look after you.

-[Rose] Would you like
to come this way, Miss?

- I thought the children
would be in bed.

- Well they would have been
normally, but with the party,

and you coming, we
let them stay up.

- Oh, I see.

[loud background chatter]

- What's she like, Ed?

- Well she didn't say
much, just sat in back.

Wouldn't sit in front with me.

- That was quite
correct, Edward.

-[Edward] Well Her Ladyship
often sits in front with me.

[door bell rings]

- I'm Miss Treadwell, you
must be Alice, how do you do?

- Hello.

- Stand up, William,
and shake hands nicely.

How do you do?

- Hello.

- Well Rose, if you'll
show me to my room

and then see that Master William
and Miss Alice get to bed.

- Can't we stay up and watch
the guests come to the party?

- They're wearing funny clothes.

- No, I don't think
that's a very good idea.

I'll see you in the morning.

We have breakfast in the
dining room, of course?

-[Rose] Oh, yes.

- Goodnight, then.

- Goodnight, Miss Treadwell.

- Goodnight.

-[Mrs. Bridges] Have the
musicians arrived yet, Mr.
Hudson?

- They have, Mrs. Bridges.

A negro band.

- Negro?

You mean, black men?

[fluttering horn]

[lively jazz music]
[muffled chatter]

- Oh, Robin!

I thought you'd never get
here, where've you been?

- Well I couldn't get
my horns to stick on.

- What on earth are you?

[Robin speaks in French]

Oh, wonderful.

Come on, let's go and dance.
- Yes!

- Fredrick!

Look sharp!
- Yes, Mr. Hudson.

- Get away and find
Dolly, she likes it.

- I don't know how
you resist me.

Mother says I'm irresistible.

- Then go and dance
with your mother, then.

- I can't, she's in Biarritz,

gambling away the
family fortune.

- Bunny what are you doing in
here, why aren't you dancing?

- Well you know I hate
dancing, unless you'd like to.

-[Diana] Why, have you
been taking lessons?

- Well, I'm quite good
at the foxtrot.

- [sighs] So hot.

- Would you like some champagne?

I've got my own secret
cache here.

Here we are.

Diana, don't you think
we're a bit, eh,

a bit old for this
sort of thing?

- What do you suggest we
do instead, scratch pigs?

I wish you'd get angry when
I say things like that,

they're meant to hurt you.

- Oh Diana I'm sure I'd know
if you really meant to hurt me.

- I wonder.

- Well hello, what are you
two doing skulking in here?

Come on, Diana, it's our dance.

- If you say so.

- I used to like it when they
used to have dance carts.

- I kept you up to
scratch, old son.

Come on, do your duty, come
on, teach me the shimmy shake.

- I tell you what, Bunny ought
to go and find the dancers

and ask them for the foxtrot.

-[Robin] What's in here?

-[Georgina] Oh!
-[Robin] Ah!

- Brushes and brooms. [giggles]

- Look, let's go in here
and get our breath back.

I'll be as good as gold.

[Georgina chuckles]

- Life's hopeless in
this country now,

I think I shall go abroad.

- Oh, don't do that.

- Well I don't really
want to, unless,

well I wouldn't mind
if you came with me.

- I'd quite like
to go to America.

- Well let's go, then.

- Would be rather fun.

- We could go if
we were married.

- Robin, I don't want
to get married.

- Of course you do!
- I don't.

- You love me, I know you do!

- Robin.

I'm awfully fond of you,

but I don't want to
spend the rest of my life

with you and nobody else.
- Oh but you wouldn't have to.

We'd still keep all
our friends, but,

we'd just always have each
other, someone to hang onto.

- I don't want anyone
to hang onto.

Look, I tried to hang
onto people during the war

and they were always killed.

So I said I'd never hang
onto anyone ever again.

Come on, we've got our breath
back, let's go and dance.

- I can't live without
you, Georgina.

- Robin.

- I mean it.

If you don't marry me,
I'll kill myself.

- It's too sick-making when
you say things like that.

You don't mean it, it's
just stupid and boring.

Are you coming?

- I mean it.

[muffled jazz music]
[muffled chatter and laughter]

- They say there's some
deviled lobster upstairs.

- Your salmon mousse is
going down well, Mrs. B.

-[Mrs. Bridges] Oh, good.

- Could do with that other one.

- Oh well, would you get it
out of the larder then, Daisy?

Have they started on
the puddings yet?

- Yes but they're holding
up all right.

- How about the galantine?

- Oh, plenty of that left.

- Hey, save some for us.

- Oh yes, we only need
one for the minute.

Well I've nearly got the
tray ready for the musicians.

I suppose them black
men do eat the same

sort of things as
ordinary people?

- Well I don't see why not.

- You got the grand supper
ready yet, Mrs. Bridges?

-[Mrs. Bridges] Yes,
just ready now, Fredrick.

- Edward, you better go
upstairs to the gentleman's

cloakroom, Sidenball's
torn his costume

and wants to know if
you've got a safety pin.

-[Mrs. Bridges] Here
you are, Fredrick.

- Well I say, I haven't
had any supper yet.

- Well I'll find you some
supper if you find me [mumbles].

- I say, do you think
Charlie Chaplin is free?

- Yes of course he is, the
little tramp on the open road.

That's why we love him.
- I never go to the movies.

[laughs]

- Hell in damnation.

- It's quite all right, sir.

- I shall never understand
by what stretch of the

imagination Bunny's
costume could be described

as an illustration of freedom.

- Oliver said that the
costumes people chose

were a reflection of what
they really wanted to be.

- Geraldine always wanted
to be an incompetent tramp.

- And Bunny, in his
inmost self is--

- A clown!

- Not a clown, a Pierrot.

I'm sorry, I was told we
could come dressed as we liked

and I remember going to
those concert parties

at Little Hampton when
we were children.

- So Bunny in his
heart's a constant party.

- Clown! [giggles]

- No, no, Pierrot.

- And I am wood nymph,
a child of nature.

- I say, where does
one go to be sick?

- Oh, excuse me.
- Oh, thank you, Rose.

This way, madam.

- Then you think at heart
that I am a revolutionary.

- Oh, probably darling in
your heart of hearts, you,

hate this boring life
for what it is

and wish to change it
for something different.

- I've found a splendid pudding,
a sort of almondy cream.

I've eaten most of it.

You don't want any, do you?

- Oh, yes.
- Then I'll finish it.

There are some very
strange people here.

Are you sure you invited
all of them?

- I'm quite sure we didn't.

- That man that came with
Lettie dressed as a Monkey,

he's swinging from a
chandelier in the drawing room

and Hudson, obviously
wishing he was dead

has climbed up on a table,
is trying to stop him

before he brings
the ceiling down.

- Do you think we ought
to go help him?

- Certainly not, the whole
point of tonight is that we

should have absolutely no
responsibility for anything.

[bang]

- There goes the chandelier.
[laughter]

[William screams]

- I woke up and I heard
goblins in my room!

Oh, the goblins!
- No, there were no goblins.

There's nothing to
be frightened of.

I promise you, there
were no goblins.

You must have been dreaming.

You must have been dreaming,
you've just had a nightmare.

- Fetch Major Bellamy.
- Yes, Mr. Hudson.

- Mr. Hudson, I thought
I [gasps].

- What's the matter,
what's happened?

- Go back to bed at once, Alice!

- What's happened?
- Go back to bed, Miss Alice.

The gentleman just fell
down, that's all.

- Hudson,

are you sure he's...

- I'm afraid so, sir.

Shall Fredrick go and
fetch the police, sir?

- Phone the police,
do we have to?

- And I will telephone
the doctor.

- Yes.

- Fredrick.

- James, Fred said that Robin
had had an accident, what...

- You pour out would you, Daisy?

I feel all of a tremble.

Where's Mr. Hudson?

- Oh he's putting the
silver away, Mrs. Bridges.

- Oh, to think of such a
thing happening in this house.

- I keep thinking of
him standing there.

Gazing up at Miss
Georgina's window.

- [chuckles] Glad I sent
him up that bit of york ham.

- Thank you, Rose.

-[Rose] Mr. Hudson,
did the police say

if there'd had to be a inquest?

- They did not say, Rose, but
I'm afraid there will be one.

The young gentleman, having...

- Well, will we have
to give evidence?

- You won't, certainly, Ruby.

You don't know nothing.

- Do you think we'll have to
give evidence, Mr. Hudson?

- Well, Miss Treadwell,

because she first found
Captain Eliott's body,

and I suppose myself
and possibly the Major.

- Miss Georgina won't
have to, will she?

-[Hudson] I trust not, Daisy.

They may want to know how
he came to have a gun--

- It was in his pocket.

Well it fell out when
I put his cloak down.

-[Daisy] Then why didn't
you take it away from him?

- What, out of his pocket?

I couldn't do that.

- That's what he must
have been doing

when I saw him go upstairs.

He must have been
to fetch it then.

- You saw him?

- Well yeah, but, I mean
I didn't know, did I?

Well it wasn't my fault.

- Jolly good of you
to come, Bunny.

- Well, I thought
I'd just pop round

and see if there's anything
I could do.

Don't suppose there
is though, is there?

- Nope, not unless you fancy
seeing his parents for me.

They've traveled up from
Wilkshire this morning,

they're staying at Brown's.

At least during the
war we only had to

write letters to the parents.

We didn't have to
go and see them.

- I suppose he'll be
buried in Abbot Wood.

- Yes.

Can't get away from
it, can we, Bunny?

- What?

- The war.

Georgina thinks we
can but we can't.

How's Diana?

- Oh no, she's a bit upset.

Spent the morning in bed.

-[James] Yes, yes
so did Georgina.

- Thank you, Hudson.

He didn't leave a
letter, did he?

-[James] No, thank God.

- Oh Rose, Miss Georgina's
locked her room.

I don't know whether
to wake her or not.

She's up.
- Give her a call.

- Miss Georgina!

Miss Georgina, I've
brought your breakfast.

-[Georgina] I don't want any.

- Well why not just have
a cup of coffee?

-[Georgina] Come in, Daisy.

-[Daisy] The door's locked,
Miss Georgina.

-[Georgina] Oh, I'm sorry.

- I'll take that into her.

- Well, Miss Treadwell,

Miss Georgina's probably
feeling a bit upset.

- Well, naturally.

- She might prefer to
see someone familiar.

- Thank you, Rose, but
I think know best

how to deal with Miss Georgina.

I myself was engaged
to an officer

who was killed in the war, I
think I know how she feels.

- Oh, goodness what
a lot of people.

Good morning, Miss Treadwell.

I'm sorry, Daisy, I really
don't want any breakfast.

I'm going down to
Croydon Aerodrome

to see Mr. Bakerfield's
new plane.

Have lunch with some
friends of his.

Oh and I'm going to Lady
Cewnards this evening,

so would you put out
my silver dress?

I shan't have much
time to change.

- Really, Mrs. Worsley,
I should have thought

after last night--
- Yes.

It did rather spoil the
party, didn't it?

- Rose, I like the children
to have milk

and digestive biscuits
at 11 o'clock.

Will you bring it up, please?

- I will inform Lily,
Miss Treadwell,

and she will see to it.

[peaceful orchestral music]