1 00:00:18,118 --> 00:00:21,088 Subtitling made possible by Acorn Media 2 00:01:25,018 --> 00:01:26,042 Well? 3 00:01:26,153 --> 00:01:28,281 Uh, Mrs. Pratt's agency sent me. 4 00:01:28,388 --> 00:01:29,481 Well? 5 00:01:29,590 --> 00:01:31,149 I've come about the position. 6 00:01:31,258 --> 00:01:33,227 House parlormaid, was it? 7 00:01:33,327 --> 00:01:35,489 Under-house parlormaid. 8 00:01:35,596 --> 00:01:38,156 I am the house parlormaid. 9 00:01:39,600 --> 00:01:41,068 Well, come in. 10 00:01:43,804 --> 00:01:45,397 I'll tell Mr. Hudson you're here. 11 00:01:45,505 --> 00:01:46,404 Who's Mr. Hudson? 12 00:01:46,506 --> 00:01:47,633 The butler. 13 00:01:47,741 --> 00:01:50,301 Oh, the bloke all in black at the front door? 14 00:01:51,011 --> 00:01:53,003 Wait in there. 15 00:02:12,666 --> 00:02:13,666 Ooh! 16 00:02:15,502 --> 00:02:16,970 Oh, my finger! 17 00:02:17,070 --> 00:02:18,561 Oh, it's half coming off. 18 00:02:18,672 --> 00:02:20,265 It's not gone altogether, then, has it? 19 00:02:20,374 --> 00:02:21,433 Oh, I daren't look. 20 00:02:21,541 --> 00:02:23,772 If you've got blood on them potatoes, my girl, 21 00:02:23,877 --> 00:02:25,622 you can throw them away and start all over again. 22 00:02:25,646 --> 00:02:28,582 - Mrs. Bridges, look. - And get a move on, girl. 23 00:02:28,682 --> 00:02:30,378 Who are you when you're at home? 24 00:02:30,484 --> 00:02:31,527 Where's Alfred? 25 00:02:31,551 --> 00:02:33,713 He's taken my buttonhooks again. I know he has. 26 00:02:33,820 --> 00:02:35,083 Well, what am I going to do? 27 00:02:35,188 --> 00:02:37,350 Go to Mr. Hudson, Miss Roberts. 28 00:02:37,457 --> 00:02:39,221 Don't come whining 'round me. 29 00:02:39,326 --> 00:02:41,295 I'm all behind like a cow's tail. 30 00:02:41,395 --> 00:02:43,523 Well? Well, spying, are you? 31 00:02:43,630 --> 00:02:44,841 No. I've been sent by an agency. 32 00:02:44,865 --> 00:02:46,385 What have you done with my buttonhooks? 33 00:02:46,433 --> 00:02:47,332 - Oh! - Alfred! 34 00:02:47,434 --> 00:02:49,903 Get out from under my feet, the pair of you! 35 00:02:50,003 --> 00:02:51,447 Somebody answer that bell! 36 00:02:51,471 --> 00:02:52,495 Alfred! 37 00:02:52,606 --> 00:02:54,550 Cat got your tongue, has it? Well, be off with you. 38 00:02:54,574 --> 00:02:55,872 No. I'm just about to explain. 39 00:02:55,976 --> 00:02:58,445 Blood everywhere! 40 00:02:58,545 --> 00:03:00,309 Nobody cares. 41 00:03:00,414 --> 00:03:02,280 My name is Clemence. 42 00:03:02,382 --> 00:03:05,682 Clemence. I've come about the position. 43 00:03:05,786 --> 00:03:07,186 Clemence! 44 00:03:07,287 --> 00:03:09,654 What sort of a name is that? 45 00:03:09,756 --> 00:03:12,282 Answer me! Are they in your silver box or not? 46 00:03:12,392 --> 00:03:14,122 A silent woman is above rubies. 47 00:03:14,227 --> 00:03:16,696 - Well? - It's a French name. 48 00:03:16,797 --> 00:03:17,890 French! Huh. 49 00:03:17,998 --> 00:03:19,990 We don't want no foreign muck in here. 50 00:03:20,100 --> 00:03:22,592 None of your nasty haute cuisine, thank you very much. 51 00:03:23,203 --> 00:03:25,934 Greasy mutton again, then, Mrs. Bridges? 52 00:03:26,039 --> 00:03:26,802 Oh! 53 00:03:26,907 --> 00:03:30,071 None of that behavior in my kitchen, Mr. Pearce. 54 00:03:30,177 --> 00:03:32,009 - Get back to your stables - Oh, Mrs... 55 00:03:32,112 --> 00:03:33,705 And be off with you! 56 00:03:33,814 --> 00:03:34,975 Oh! 57 00:03:35,082 --> 00:03:36,482 The milk's caught! 58 00:03:36,583 --> 00:03:39,178 Now see what you've made me do. Oh! 59 00:03:39,286 --> 00:03:42,085 This place will be the death of me. 60 00:03:42,689 --> 00:03:44,521 What's wrong with mutton anyway? 61 00:03:44,624 --> 00:03:46,855 - I'll bleed to death. - Good. 62 00:03:46,960 --> 00:03:49,088 Oh, look, hasn't anyone seen my buttonhooks? 63 00:03:49,196 --> 00:03:51,688 All 12 have vanished. Well, what's to become of me? 64 00:03:51,798 --> 00:03:54,927 Let your discourse be, "Yea, yea," and, "Nay, nay," 65 00:03:55,035 --> 00:03:56,746 for whatsoever is more than this is of evil. 66 00:03:56,770 --> 00:03:57,829 Oh! 67 00:03:59,272 --> 00:04:00,638 Who's he? 68 00:04:00,741 --> 00:04:02,710 Alfred, the footman. 69 00:04:02,809 --> 00:04:05,643 Take no notice of him. He was brought up religious. 70 00:04:05,746 --> 00:04:08,682 I thought I told you to wait in there. 71 00:04:08,782 --> 00:04:10,250 I'm sorry. Cook said she wanted to... 72 00:04:10,350 --> 00:04:12,785 I said nothing of the sort. 73 00:04:12,886 --> 00:04:16,721 And it's Mrs. Bridges, if you please, not Cook. 74 00:04:16,823 --> 00:04:18,485 This is a gentleman's house. 75 00:04:18,592 --> 00:04:21,084 Not making a very good start, are we? 76 00:04:21,194 --> 00:04:24,961 Well, come on. Mr. Hudson's waiting for you. 77 00:05:34,067 --> 00:05:35,968 The new girl about the position, milady. 78 00:05:36,069 --> 00:05:38,766 Mm. Yes, Hudson. Ask her to come in, will you? 79 00:05:58,892 --> 00:06:00,622 "To whom it may concern, the bearer..." 80 00:06:03,496 --> 00:06:04,862 "the bearer of this letter 81 00:06:04,965 --> 00:06:07,332 is well recommended for domestic..." 82 00:06:07,434 --> 00:06:09,369 Mm-hmm. 83 00:06:09,469 --> 00:06:10,937 What is your name? 84 00:06:11,037 --> 00:06:12,232 Clemence Dumas. 85 00:06:12,339 --> 00:06:13,534 And you are French? 86 00:06:13,640 --> 00:06:14,640 Half French. 87 00:06:14,708 --> 00:06:17,109 You must call me "milady" when you reply. 88 00:06:17,210 --> 00:06:19,179 Oh. I'm sorry, milady. 89 00:06:21,214 --> 00:06:23,115 This letter appears to be from someone 90 00:06:23,216 --> 00:06:25,117 whose name I cannot read, 91 00:06:25,218 --> 00:06:30,521 who lives at the Château Lac du Chant near Lyon. 92 00:06:30,624 --> 00:06:31,523 I haven't heard of it. 93 00:06:31,625 --> 00:06:33,787 No, neither had I, milady, till I got there. 94 00:06:35,262 --> 00:06:37,629 Why did you leave your previous employment? 95 00:06:37,731 --> 00:06:40,963 My mother took sick, and I had to return to England. 96 00:06:41,067 --> 00:06:42,378 - I hope she's better now. - Oh, milady? 97 00:06:42,402 --> 00:06:45,099 It's important to be able to concentrate on your work. 98 00:06:45,205 --> 00:06:47,174 Oh, that's all right. She died. 99 00:06:47,774 --> 00:06:49,299 I'm sorry. 100 00:06:50,577 --> 00:06:53,172 I must assume the agency has checked your reference. 101 00:06:53,280 --> 00:06:54,280 Yes, that's right. 102 00:06:57,851 --> 00:06:59,979 You're new to service, are you not? 103 00:07:05,892 --> 00:07:08,862 They'd never take that girl on. 104 00:07:08,962 --> 00:07:10,055 Her! 105 00:07:10,163 --> 00:07:13,725 She couldn't tell a feather duster from a boa constrictor. 106 00:07:13,833 --> 00:07:15,301 Quite unsuitable. 107 00:07:15,402 --> 00:07:16,631 She went to the front door. 108 00:07:16,736 --> 00:07:17,795 You're quite right, Rose. 109 00:07:17,904 --> 00:07:20,601 Untrained and blind to all decency. 110 00:07:21,174 --> 00:07:22,938 Is luncheon ready, Mrs. Bridges? 111 00:07:23,043 --> 00:07:24,534 I confess to a wholesome appetite. 112 00:07:24,644 --> 00:07:27,170 Two shakes of a lamb's tail, Mr. Hudson. 113 00:07:27,280 --> 00:07:29,875 I've had trouble with range again. 114 00:07:29,983 --> 00:07:32,578 Damp's got into the coal. 115 00:07:32,686 --> 00:07:34,314 Hasn't it, Emily? 116 00:07:34,421 --> 00:07:37,550 Oh. That must be the morning room. 117 00:07:38,158 --> 00:07:39,158 Yes. 118 00:07:39,259 --> 00:07:40,283 Mr. Hudson! 119 00:07:40,393 --> 00:07:42,419 Right. Thank you, Rose. 120 00:07:44,698 --> 00:07:46,223 Clemence Dumas. 121 00:07:46,333 --> 00:07:48,734 Fancy trying to get into service with a name like that. 122 00:07:48,835 --> 00:07:50,667 Well, I hope she gets taken on. I liked her. 123 00:07:50,770 --> 00:07:52,363 It's not for you to hope, 124 00:07:52,472 --> 00:07:55,203 nor not to hope neither, for that matter, Emily. 125 00:07:55,308 --> 00:07:57,641 It's for you to keep the fire in. 126 00:07:57,744 --> 00:07:59,372 You let it go out on purpose. 127 00:07:59,479 --> 00:08:01,311 Oh, I never did. 128 00:08:01,414 --> 00:08:02,507 The coal's wet. 129 00:08:02,615 --> 00:08:03,947 And that's Alfred's fault. 130 00:08:04,050 --> 00:08:05,780 He always leaves the coal-house door open. 131 00:08:05,885 --> 00:08:07,581 I'll put you in the coal house. 132 00:08:07,687 --> 00:08:09,178 Ashes to ashes and dust to dust. 133 00:08:09,289 --> 00:08:10,655 Don't pass blame, Emily. 134 00:08:10,757 --> 00:08:13,454 Ah, now you're against me, too. 135 00:08:18,798 --> 00:08:20,232 Oh, yes, Hudson. 136 00:08:20,333 --> 00:08:22,666 I intend to engage this young woman. 137 00:08:22,769 --> 00:08:24,601 She'll have her dinner in the servants' hall 138 00:08:24,704 --> 00:08:26,229 and collect her belongings afterwards. 139 00:08:26,339 --> 00:08:28,740 Rose can show her what to do. 140 00:08:28,842 --> 00:08:31,812 And the young person's name, milady? 141 00:08:31,911 --> 00:08:32,810 Sarah. 142 00:08:32,912 --> 00:08:34,312 No, my name is Clemence. 143 00:08:34,414 --> 00:08:35,712 Clemence is not a servant's name. 144 00:08:35,815 --> 00:08:37,545 Yes, but I don't like... 145 00:08:37,650 --> 00:08:39,881 Go with Hudson, Sarah. 146 00:08:42,989 --> 00:08:46,016 And remember, you're here on trial. 147 00:08:46,126 --> 00:08:47,958 Yes, milady. 148 00:08:57,170 --> 00:08:58,832 Mr. Hudson, do I have to be called Sarah? 149 00:08:58,938 --> 00:08:59,938 - Yes. - I don't like it. 150 00:09:00,006 --> 00:09:01,650 It is not for you to question your betters. 151 00:09:01,674 --> 00:09:03,108 - Are you my better? - Indeed I am. 152 00:09:03,209 --> 00:09:04,253 What makes you better than me? 153 00:09:04,277 --> 00:09:05,688 I'm not being rude. I just want to know. 154 00:09:05,712 --> 00:09:08,045 I am older than you and therefore wiser, 155 00:09:08,148 --> 00:09:09,582 and I have learnt humility. 156 00:09:09,682 --> 00:09:12,311 You? 157 00:09:12,986 --> 00:09:15,785 It is a hard lesson, but once learned, never forgotten. 158 00:09:15,889 --> 00:09:16,889 How did you learn it? 159 00:09:16,990 --> 00:09:19,960 My grandmother was a proud woman and died of starvation. 160 00:09:20,060 --> 00:09:22,291 I just can't abide cold food. 161 00:09:22,395 --> 00:09:23,693 Greasy mutton. 162 00:09:23,797 --> 00:09:27,996 It'll taste all the better for the... waiting. 163 00:09:29,235 --> 00:09:31,295 Emily, another plate. 164 00:09:34,641 --> 00:09:36,803 Alfred, get a chair. 165 00:09:54,461 --> 00:09:56,396 Thank you, Emily. 166 00:10:21,554 --> 00:10:23,580 May the Lord bless our endeavors 167 00:10:23,690 --> 00:10:25,249 and grant us conciliation to that rank 168 00:10:25,358 --> 00:10:29,386 in which in His infinite mercy he has seen fit to place us. 169 00:10:29,496 --> 00:10:32,193 And for what we are about to receive of His great bounty 170 00:10:32,298 --> 00:10:34,699 may we be truly grateful 171 00:10:34,801 --> 00:10:38,067 that in the end we may find favor in His eyes 172 00:10:38,171 --> 00:10:41,369 and sit in honor at His table. 173 00:10:41,474 --> 00:10:42,601 Amen. 174 00:10:42,709 --> 00:10:44,405 - Amen. - Amen. 175 00:10:51,651 --> 00:10:53,449 Sarah is joining us 176 00:10:53,553 --> 00:10:55,146 as under-house parlormaid, Miss Roberts. 177 00:10:55,255 --> 00:10:56,621 Indeed, Mr. Hudson. 178 00:10:56,723 --> 00:10:58,248 On trial, I take it? 179 00:10:58,358 --> 00:10:59,826 On trial. 180 00:11:00,927 --> 00:11:04,022 Rose, you are to instruct Sarah in her duties. 181 00:11:04,130 --> 00:11:05,530 Yes, Mr. Hudson. 182 00:11:05,632 --> 00:11:08,727 With a good heart and a glad will, if you please, Rose. 183 00:11:08,835 --> 00:11:10,861 Naturally, Mr. Hudson. 184 00:11:10,970 --> 00:11:13,170 That's Miss Roberts. She's her ladyship's personal maid. 185 00:11:13,239 --> 00:11:15,231 That's Mr. Pearce. Mr. Pearce is the coachman. 186 00:11:15,341 --> 00:11:16,981 That's Emily. Emily does... 187 00:11:18,578 --> 00:11:20,945 Silence, if you please. 188 00:11:25,285 --> 00:11:27,015 Everyone is served, Mrs. Bridges. 189 00:11:27,120 --> 00:11:29,316 Thank you, Mr. Hudson. 190 00:11:30,590 --> 00:11:32,957 You may talk. 191 00:11:33,059 --> 00:11:34,254 Mutton again. 192 00:11:34,360 --> 00:11:36,158 And what's wrong with mutton, Mr. Pearce, 193 00:11:36,262 --> 00:11:38,026 with a nice drop of caper sauce? 194 00:11:38,131 --> 00:11:39,895 Nothing, Miss Roberts. Nothing at all. 195 00:11:39,999 --> 00:11:42,935 Perhaps you'd prefer to eat hay like your horses? 196 00:11:43,036 --> 00:11:44,902 Forget I spoke, ladies. 197 00:11:45,004 --> 00:11:46,370 Can I have the caper sauce, please? 198 00:11:46,472 --> 00:11:49,306 It's not food for young women. 199 00:11:49,409 --> 00:11:50,707 Overheats the blood. 200 00:11:50,810 --> 00:11:53,279 Millions would be grateful for what we have, Mr. Pearce. 201 00:11:53,379 --> 00:11:55,109 Yes, Mr. Hudson. 202 00:11:55,215 --> 00:11:57,207 Wouldn't you agree, Sarah? 203 00:12:00,153 --> 00:12:03,123 Mr. Hudson's addressing you, Sarah. 204 00:12:03,223 --> 00:12:04,589 Oh. 205 00:12:04,691 --> 00:12:06,353 I'm sorry. 206 00:12:06,459 --> 00:12:08,860 It's just that the name's so unfamiliar. 207 00:12:08,962 --> 00:12:11,693 C-Couldn't I be called Clemence, if only down here? 208 00:12:11,798 --> 00:12:13,027 In all my years, 209 00:12:13,132 --> 00:12:15,795 I've never heard of such a name belowstairs. 210 00:12:15,902 --> 00:12:17,837 Whatever was your mother thinking of? 211 00:12:17,937 --> 00:12:21,430 Search the good book from cover to cover and not find that name. 212 00:12:21,541 --> 00:12:24,511 Lady Marjorie's wishes must be respected. 213 00:12:24,611 --> 00:12:25,611 Clemence. 214 00:12:25,645 --> 00:12:28,012 Good name for a filly, I'll say that. 215 00:12:28,114 --> 00:12:29,514 But hardly a human. 216 00:12:29,616 --> 00:12:31,778 I think it's a lovely name. 217 00:12:31,884 --> 00:12:33,614 As I was saying, 218 00:12:33,720 --> 00:12:36,121 millions would be grateful for mutton once a week, 219 00:12:36,222 --> 00:12:38,418 let alone mutton once a day. 220 00:12:38,524 --> 00:12:40,652 Wouldn't you agree, Sarah? 221 00:12:44,931 --> 00:12:46,490 Yes, Mr. Hudson. 222 00:12:50,637 --> 00:12:52,196 Did you really live in France, Sarah? 223 00:12:52,305 --> 00:12:54,399 - Yes. - And were you in service there? 224 00:12:54,507 --> 00:12:56,271 No. I lived in a château. 225 00:12:57,010 --> 00:13:00,003 Once I had my own maid like Lady Marjorie. 226 00:13:00,713 --> 00:13:03,342 I think we must learn to take Sarah's statements 227 00:13:03,449 --> 00:13:04,449 with a pinch of salt. 228 00:13:04,550 --> 00:13:05,449 I don't lie. 229 00:13:05,551 --> 00:13:08,350 Didn't say you did. But she just exaggerates. 230 00:13:08,454 --> 00:13:10,252 If her ladyship finds Sarah satisfactory, 231 00:13:10,356 --> 00:13:11,483 I'm sure we all do. 232 00:13:11,591 --> 00:13:13,753 It is not for us either to choose or judge 233 00:13:13,860 --> 00:13:18,355 our companions in service, Rose, as you know very well. 234 00:13:18,464 --> 00:13:20,524 Have a little more caper sauce, dear. 235 00:13:20,633 --> 00:13:22,226 Thank you. 236 00:13:24,370 --> 00:13:26,202 Say something in French, then. 237 00:13:26,306 --> 00:13:27,535 Some other time. 238 00:13:27,640 --> 00:13:29,233 What are you laughing for? 239 00:13:29,342 --> 00:13:31,320 - Don't you believe me? - You're as English as I am. 240 00:13:31,344 --> 00:13:32,903 I'm not. 241 00:13:33,012 --> 00:13:34,605 My mother was a Gypsy. 242 00:13:34,714 --> 00:13:37,513 I can read hands and tell the future and put curses on people. 243 00:13:37,617 --> 00:13:39,711 Lord preserve us. The witch of Endor herself. 244 00:13:39,819 --> 00:13:42,311 If my mother was a Gypsy, I wouldn't speak of it. 245 00:13:42,922 --> 00:13:47,018 I nearly ran off with the Gypsies once when I was a girl. 246 00:13:47,126 --> 00:13:48,890 That was a long time ago. 247 00:13:48,995 --> 00:13:51,396 Oh, not as long as all that, Mrs. Bridges. 248 00:13:52,865 --> 00:13:55,027 A little more sauce, Mr. Hudson? 249 00:13:55,134 --> 00:13:56,898 I think there's just a scrape left. 250 00:13:57,003 --> 00:13:59,131 - Thank you. - I'm not ashamed of my mother. 251 00:13:59,238 --> 00:14:01,605 She was a Gypsy princess and very beautiful. 252 00:14:02,508 --> 00:14:04,101 More mutton, Mrs. Bridges? 253 00:14:04,777 --> 00:14:07,747 Just a morsel, thank you, Mr. Hudson. 254 00:14:07,847 --> 00:14:10,510 Uh, a French count saw her and married her, 255 00:14:10,616 --> 00:14:12,915 and she died giving birth to me. 256 00:14:13,019 --> 00:14:15,750 Well, my father married again... A very wicked woman. 257 00:14:15,855 --> 00:14:18,552 And when he died, she treated me like a servant. 258 00:14:18,658 --> 00:14:20,889 And in the end, she threw me out altogether. 259 00:14:20,993 --> 00:14:23,189 But I've got lawyers fighting for me, 260 00:14:23,296 --> 00:14:25,265 and in the end, I'll come into my own. 261 00:14:25,365 --> 00:14:27,994 In the meantime, I must live as best as I can. 262 00:14:28,101 --> 00:14:30,593 Oh, it's just like a story in a book. 263 00:14:30,703 --> 00:14:33,764 Exactly, Emily. A tale from a penny novelette. 264 00:14:33,873 --> 00:14:35,569 All very well for a kitchen maid, 265 00:14:35,675 --> 00:14:38,110 but not what one expects from a house parlormaid. 266 00:14:39,746 --> 00:14:42,215 Say something in French. Go on. 267 00:14:43,349 --> 00:14:45,630 Would you like me to read your hand for you, Mrs. Bridges? 268 00:14:46,285 --> 00:14:48,379 Shall she read my hand, Mr. Hudson? 269 00:14:48,488 --> 00:14:50,719 By all means, Mrs. Bridges, if it pleases you. 270 00:14:50,823 --> 00:14:51,984 After dinner. 271 00:14:52,091 --> 00:14:53,753 Oh, do mine. Do mine. 272 00:14:53,860 --> 00:14:55,726 Wicked nonsense. 273 00:14:55,828 --> 00:14:58,662 There are more things in heaven and earth, Rose. 274 00:14:58,765 --> 00:15:00,529 Truth is stranger than fiction. 275 00:15:00,633 --> 00:15:03,125 It's unhealthy and dangerous. 276 00:15:03,236 --> 00:15:04,704 Not if you have a clear conscience. 277 00:15:04,804 --> 00:15:07,137 It isn't given to mortals to know the future. 278 00:15:07,240 --> 00:15:09,505 Oh, yes, it is, but it's against the will of God. 279 00:15:09,609 --> 00:15:11,544 Look what happened to King David. 280 00:15:11,644 --> 00:15:13,510 He didn't do so bad, though, did he? 281 00:15:13,613 --> 00:15:14,876 Dirty old devil. 282 00:15:14,981 --> 00:15:16,381 My gift comes from God, not a devil. 283 00:15:16,482 --> 00:15:18,508 - She ought to be locked up. - Rose! 284 00:15:18,618 --> 00:15:19,984 That's enough. 285 00:15:21,187 --> 00:15:23,147 Well, why won't she say something in French, then? 286 00:15:23,189 --> 00:15:25,420 Answer that. 'Cause she can't, and that's why. 287 00:15:25,525 --> 00:15:27,960 Because she don't choose to. That's why. 288 00:15:28,060 --> 00:15:30,757 Don't let these old prudes upset you, Sarah. 289 00:15:30,863 --> 00:15:32,422 What's for pudding, then, Mrs. Bridges? 290 00:15:32,532 --> 00:15:34,330 Roly-poly, Mr. Pearce. 291 00:15:34,434 --> 00:15:37,336 And don't you go telling me nothing I don't want to hear, 292 00:15:37,437 --> 00:15:39,099 or you'll get your ears boxed. 293 00:15:39,205 --> 00:15:41,572 Even as King David went to the witch of Endor, 294 00:15:41,674 --> 00:15:45,304 so did Mrs. Bridges seek knowledge from our Sarah here. 295 00:15:45,411 --> 00:15:47,744 Someone's gonna get struck by lightning. 296 00:15:47,847 --> 00:15:50,476 "Our Sarah." 297 00:15:50,583 --> 00:15:53,075 Say something in French. Go on. 298 00:15:53,186 --> 00:15:55,348 If you can. 299 00:15:57,857 --> 00:16:00,224 Hm. Very nice. 300 00:16:01,861 --> 00:16:05,696 ♪ Auprès de ma blonde ♪ 301 00:16:06,299 --> 00:16:10,293 ♪ Qu'il fait bon, fait bon, fait bon ♪ 302 00:16:10,403 --> 00:16:14,397 ♪ Auprès de ma blonde ♪ 303 00:16:14,507 --> 00:16:18,603 ♪ Qu'il fait bon dormir ♪ 304 00:16:45,471 --> 00:16:46,871 Come on! Get up! 305 00:16:46,906 --> 00:16:48,217 - It's half past 5:00! - Aah! 306 00:16:48,241 --> 00:16:50,972 Oh, Alfred! I'll kill you! 307 00:16:51,077 --> 00:16:52,943 Where am I? 308 00:16:53,479 --> 00:16:55,710 You're in Mr. Bellamy's house in the servants' quarters. 309 00:16:55,815 --> 00:16:57,078 Where else? 310 00:16:57,183 --> 00:16:58,708 And it's time to get up. 311 00:17:08,694 --> 00:17:12,096 If we get behind in the morning, there's trouble all day. 312 00:17:12,198 --> 00:17:14,599 So up with you. 313 00:17:15,501 --> 00:17:18,198 Me legs won't work. Me feet are cold. 314 00:17:18,304 --> 00:17:22,139 Oh, they will, 'cause they must. 315 00:17:23,876 --> 00:17:26,209 It's half past 5:00. 316 00:17:27,547 --> 00:17:29,175 It's better once you're up. 317 00:17:36,522 --> 00:17:38,889 Oh. 318 00:17:54,941 --> 00:17:57,604 Well, come on. You'll be late. 319 00:18:09,689 --> 00:18:12,591 I trust you can remember your duties. 320 00:18:13,526 --> 00:18:16,189 When you're dressed and ready, what then? 321 00:18:16,295 --> 00:18:18,628 Uh, I must make sure 322 00:18:18,731 --> 00:18:21,997 that Emily's got the range working properly 323 00:18:22,101 --> 00:18:26,232 so that Mrs... oh... Bridges can get on. 324 00:18:26,339 --> 00:18:31,004 Then lay up breakfast in the servants' hall. 325 00:18:31,110 --> 00:18:33,306 Then there's Lady Marjorie's tray. 326 00:18:33,412 --> 00:18:35,324 Don't forget to shine up the milk jug, for goodness' sake. 327 00:18:35,348 --> 00:18:36,748 And don't leave sticky finger marks. 328 00:18:36,849 --> 00:18:38,340 The last girl always did. 329 00:18:38,451 --> 00:18:40,647 Then there's the servants' breakfast. 330 00:18:40,753 --> 00:18:42,915 Suppose I'm allowed to sit down and eat. 331 00:18:43,022 --> 00:18:43,921 After breakfast, 332 00:18:44,023 --> 00:18:46,390 make sure Emily's not hiding in the boot hole again. 333 00:18:46,492 --> 00:18:48,757 If she is and won't budge, inform me. 334 00:18:48,861 --> 00:18:50,523 I shall be brushing and dusting 335 00:18:50,630 --> 00:18:53,464 in the drawing room and the morning room. 336 00:18:53,566 --> 00:18:54,659 Well, go on. 337 00:18:54,767 --> 00:18:59,000 Uh, then upstairs and clean out the grates 338 00:18:59,105 --> 00:19:00,903 and relay and light the fires. 339 00:19:01,007 --> 00:19:02,600 If I can find the matches. 340 00:19:02,708 --> 00:19:04,836 You've got a good memory. I'll say that for you. 341 00:19:04,944 --> 00:19:05,639 Oh! 342 00:19:05,745 --> 00:19:09,045 Quiet as a mouse doing the grates, please. 343 00:19:09,148 --> 00:19:11,549 Call me to draw the master's bath. 344 00:19:11,651 --> 00:19:13,552 I'd better do that for the time being. 345 00:19:13,653 --> 00:19:15,588 But you fetch the hot water. 346 00:19:15,688 --> 00:19:18,180 Now, if the boiler is troublesome, 347 00:19:18,290 --> 00:19:20,885 you'll have to use the hot-water kettle. 348 00:19:20,993 --> 00:19:24,054 Now, after the baths, I'll lay upstairs breakfast. 349 00:19:24,163 --> 00:19:25,825 I'd like you to help me there. 350 00:19:25,931 --> 00:19:28,662 And make sure Emily's got all the boots and shoes done. 351 00:19:28,768 --> 00:19:30,464 She keeps falling asleep in the mornings. 352 00:19:30,569 --> 00:19:32,561 I don't know why. 353 00:19:32,672 --> 00:19:35,540 And keep out of Mr. Bellamy's way, whatever you do. 354 00:19:35,641 --> 00:19:36,665 Why? 355 00:19:36,776 --> 00:19:40,872 Just pretend you're not there, especially in the mornings. 356 00:19:40,980 --> 00:19:43,677 Scruffy boots. That will never do. 357 00:19:43,783 --> 00:19:45,479 Do you want to borrow a pair of mine? 358 00:19:45,584 --> 00:19:47,348 - I have a spare pair. - Thank you. 359 00:19:47,453 --> 00:19:51,356 Bit small, I daresay, but better sore feet than shabby boots. 360 00:19:51,457 --> 00:19:54,052 Oh, and today's the day for fresh bed linen. 361 00:19:54,160 --> 00:19:55,321 Now, it's a bit of a rush 362 00:19:55,428 --> 00:19:58,193 because it's got to be done while they're having breakfast. 363 00:19:58,297 --> 00:20:01,665 And Lady Marjorie eats like a little bird. 364 00:20:01,767 --> 00:20:03,360 Oh, and the towels, of course. 365 00:20:03,469 --> 00:20:05,447 - I'll never remember it all. - If they're at all damp... 366 00:20:05,471 --> 00:20:06,530 Well, you must. 367 00:20:06,639 --> 00:20:09,234 Anyway, here's a list. 368 00:20:10,109 --> 00:20:11,702 Oh, I forgot... 369 00:20:12,812 --> 00:20:14,303 You've got it upside down. 370 00:20:14,413 --> 00:20:16,314 Oh, so I have. 371 00:20:20,486 --> 00:20:22,978 Put your collar studs in, girl. 372 00:20:28,127 --> 00:20:29,390 I'm cold. 373 00:20:29,495 --> 00:20:32,090 Mm. Well, work soon warms you. 374 00:20:35,501 --> 00:20:38,061 Oh, Mrs. Bridges will kill me. 375 00:20:40,906 --> 00:20:43,603 Oh, and I'm late with their morning tea again. 376 00:20:43,709 --> 00:20:46,269 Oh. Oh, get the fire blown up for me, will you? 377 00:20:46,378 --> 00:20:47,778 It's not going properly yet. 378 00:20:47,880 --> 00:20:49,906 It never has, and it never will. Who gets blamed? 379 00:20:56,889 --> 00:20:58,414 Oh. Who are you? 380 00:20:58,524 --> 00:20:59,524 I work here. 381 00:20:59,625 --> 00:21:00,991 Good luck to you, then. 382 00:21:01,093 --> 00:21:02,584 - Where is she? - Who? 383 00:21:02,695 --> 00:21:03,924 Who do you think? 384 00:21:04,029 --> 00:21:05,088 Oh, it's you, Matty. 385 00:21:05,197 --> 00:21:07,564 She's on her way down now, only I was late calling her. 386 00:21:07,666 --> 00:21:09,601 She's in such a wax. 387 00:21:09,702 --> 00:21:12,001 You should be laying out the servants' breakfast. Go on. 388 00:21:12,104 --> 00:21:13,104 Yeah. 389 00:21:13,139 --> 00:21:14,732 Well, go on! 390 00:21:25,184 --> 00:21:27,244 You're 10 minutes late! 391 00:21:29,388 --> 00:21:31,482 Pull your hair and tweak your nose, Emily, 392 00:21:31,590 --> 00:21:33,491 till you'll wish you hadn't got one! 393 00:21:33,592 --> 00:21:35,493 Tea like dishwater! 394 00:21:35,594 --> 00:21:38,257 Not fit to drink. Not that it ever is. 395 00:21:38,364 --> 00:21:41,232 If you put boiling water on that pot, my girl, 396 00:21:41,333 --> 00:21:43,734 may lightning strike me before it gets to you. 397 00:21:43,836 --> 00:21:45,634 Oh, I swear I did, Mrs. Bridges. 398 00:21:45,738 --> 00:21:47,536 Cross my heart and hope to die. 399 00:21:47,640 --> 00:21:49,336 Bubbling its head off, the kettle was. 400 00:21:49,441 --> 00:21:51,273 Oh. 401 00:21:52,044 --> 00:21:52,704 Oh. 402 00:21:52,812 --> 00:21:54,212 She's waiting for you, Mrs. Bridges. 403 00:21:54,313 --> 00:21:55,313 - Who? - Matty. 404 00:21:55,347 --> 00:21:56,347 Matty?! 405 00:21:56,382 --> 00:21:59,284 Why didn't you say so? 406 00:22:00,519 --> 00:22:03,648 Put a cloth on the table before you lay up. 407 00:22:32,718 --> 00:22:34,311 - There you are, Matty. - Thank you. 408 00:22:34,420 --> 00:22:36,389 It's a nice plump one. 409 00:22:41,227 --> 00:22:42,525 Thank you. 410 00:22:48,234 --> 00:22:49,234 Morning, Rose. 411 00:22:49,268 --> 00:22:51,203 Morning, Mrs. Bridges. 412 00:22:53,405 --> 00:22:55,101 Sarah, what are you thinking of? 413 00:22:55,207 --> 00:22:57,052 Why isn't that table laid? What have you been doing? 414 00:22:57,076 --> 00:22:58,840 I shall require my best silk hat. 415 00:22:58,944 --> 00:22:59,673 Very good, sir. 416 00:22:59,778 --> 00:23:00,889 I'll send it 'round to the hatters 417 00:23:00,913 --> 00:23:02,279 for ironing this morning. 418 00:23:02,381 --> 00:23:06,250 The, uh, new under-house parlormaid, sir. 419 00:23:06,352 --> 00:23:07,843 I see. 420 00:23:09,755 --> 00:23:11,485 Sir. 421 00:23:16,862 --> 00:23:18,524 Oh, it's quite nice, isn't it? 422 00:23:18,631 --> 00:23:19,894 But why change? 423 00:23:19,999 --> 00:23:22,764 Morning's for housemaids, afternoons are parlormaids, see? 424 00:23:22,868 --> 00:23:24,769 - Oh. - Come on. 425 00:23:28,040 --> 00:23:29,804 Is that kettle boiled yet? 426 00:23:29,909 --> 00:23:30,933 Almost. 427 00:23:31,043 --> 00:23:32,909 Get the silver sugar bowl from the cupboard. 428 00:23:33,012 --> 00:23:35,106 - What for? - Her ladyship's tray. 429 00:23:35,214 --> 00:23:36,944 She'll be expecting it when she comes in. 430 00:23:37,049 --> 00:23:39,348 The milk jug's in the larder, Rose. 431 00:23:45,691 --> 00:23:48,354 There we are. 432 00:23:48,460 --> 00:23:51,055 Where does Lady Marjorie go to in the afternoons? 433 00:23:51,163 --> 00:23:55,066 Playing cards mostly or just driving in the park. 434 00:23:55,167 --> 00:23:56,760 To while away the time, I suppose, 435 00:23:56,869 --> 00:23:58,861 till Mr. Bellamy gets home from Parliament. 436 00:23:58,971 --> 00:24:00,337 I wouldn't fancy it. 437 00:24:00,439 --> 00:24:01,498 Oh, I would. 438 00:24:01,607 --> 00:24:04,509 Imagine driving 'round and 'round in a fine carriage 439 00:24:04,610 --> 00:24:06,943 with strong white horses and everyone looking at you. 440 00:24:07,046 --> 00:24:09,174 That'll be her ladyship back. 441 00:24:09,281 --> 00:24:11,250 Always punctual. 442 00:24:11,850 --> 00:24:13,079 Here. I'll take it up. 443 00:24:13,185 --> 00:24:15,245 No. Not until she rings for it. 444 00:24:15,354 --> 00:24:17,346 And I'll take it up this afternoon. 445 00:24:17,456 --> 00:24:20,858 You can fetch it... If you behave yourself. 446 00:24:28,634 --> 00:24:30,830 A very pleasant afternoon, milady. 447 00:24:30,936 --> 00:24:32,734 Yes, isn't it, Hudson? 448 00:24:42,181 --> 00:24:43,479 Your tea, milady. 449 00:24:43,582 --> 00:24:44,948 Thank you, Rose. 450 00:24:45,050 --> 00:24:48,384 Mrs. Bridges thought you might be a bit hungry, milady. 451 00:24:49,355 --> 00:24:51,722 Rose, how do you find the new girl? 452 00:24:52,324 --> 00:24:54,054 Quite satisfactory, milady. 453 00:24:54,159 --> 00:24:56,060 I hope you're looking after her. 454 00:24:56,161 --> 00:24:57,459 Of course, milady. 455 00:24:57,563 --> 00:24:59,555 Will that be all, milady? 456 00:24:59,665 --> 00:25:01,998 She claims to be something of a seamstress, 457 00:25:02,101 --> 00:25:04,502 so I set her to repairing the tapestry cushion. 458 00:25:05,237 --> 00:25:07,536 I thought we were going to send it out, milady. 459 00:25:07,639 --> 00:25:09,267 It's very old and very delicate. 460 00:25:09,375 --> 00:25:11,486 Otherwise, of course, I would've undertaken it myself. 461 00:25:11,510 --> 00:25:14,844 She has delicate fingers and nice, neat movements. 462 00:25:14,947 --> 00:25:16,279 Yes, milady. 463 00:25:16,382 --> 00:25:17,509 Will that be all, milady? 464 00:25:18,217 --> 00:25:20,982 I'd be interested to see it as soon as she's finished it. 465 00:25:21,687 --> 00:25:23,246 Very good, milady. 466 00:25:23,355 --> 00:25:25,981 If I was rich, I'd have a little cottage in the country 467 00:25:26,091 --> 00:25:30,119 and no one to shout at me and lots of kids. 468 00:25:30,229 --> 00:25:32,824 I'd never forget their names the way our mam did us. 469 00:25:32,931 --> 00:25:35,400 Oh, that's boring. 470 00:25:35,501 --> 00:25:37,470 That's not exciting. 471 00:25:37,569 --> 00:25:39,731 I want excitement. 472 00:25:42,975 --> 00:25:44,671 Time for a chat, I see. 473 00:25:44,777 --> 00:25:47,747 Tea's a poison. It's full of tannin. 474 00:25:49,181 --> 00:25:50,410 - Sarah? - Yes? 475 00:25:50,516 --> 00:25:52,883 I thought you were supposed to be sewing 476 00:25:52,985 --> 00:25:54,510 Lady Marjorie's cushion. 477 00:25:54,620 --> 00:25:56,197 I hope you know it's worth hundreds of pounds. 478 00:25:56,221 --> 00:25:57,532 You might at least be getting on with it. 479 00:25:57,556 --> 00:25:59,889 - I've done it. - Where? Show me. 480 00:26:08,901 --> 00:26:11,894 Oh. I see. 481 00:26:12,538 --> 00:26:14,315 Well, you'd better take it up to her, then, hadn't you? 482 00:26:14,339 --> 00:26:17,332 What, now? I haven't finished me tea. Oh. 483 00:26:18,477 --> 00:26:19,968 That's beautifully done. 484 00:26:20,079 --> 00:26:21,274 Thank you, milady. 485 00:26:21,380 --> 00:26:23,212 Where did you learn to sew like that? 486 00:26:23,315 --> 00:26:25,284 - Uh, in a convent. - In France? 487 00:26:25,384 --> 00:26:26,647 Yes, that's right. 488 00:26:26,752 --> 00:26:28,186 Were the nuns good to you? 489 00:26:28,287 --> 00:26:29,755 Most of the time. 490 00:26:29,855 --> 00:26:33,792 But sometimes they'd dress me in a long canvas robe 491 00:26:33,892 --> 00:26:35,292 and shut me up in a dark cell 492 00:26:35,394 --> 00:26:37,829 with no food or water for a whole day. 493 00:26:37,930 --> 00:26:38,930 Why? 494 00:26:39,031 --> 00:26:40,522 To teach me to be thankful, milady. 495 00:26:40,632 --> 00:26:42,396 - What for? - God's mercy. 496 00:26:42,501 --> 00:26:45,198 That was a strange way of bringing you to know it. 497 00:26:45,304 --> 00:26:47,398 Yes, that's what I said, and back I went. 498 00:26:47,506 --> 00:26:50,999 What other talents have you besides sewing? 499 00:26:51,110 --> 00:26:52,976 - None, really. - Are you sure? 500 00:26:53,078 --> 00:26:54,637 Well... 501 00:26:55,214 --> 00:26:57,615 I can tell fortunes... Hands and tea leaves. 502 00:26:57,716 --> 00:26:58,945 I could do yours, milady. 503 00:26:59,051 --> 00:27:00,528 - What nonsense. - No, I'm very good at it. 504 00:27:00,552 --> 00:27:02,817 - I'm never wrong. - I know what my future is. 505 00:27:02,921 --> 00:27:04,549 Do you, milady? 506 00:27:04,656 --> 00:27:07,683 Very well, Sarah. What do you see there? 507 00:27:08,660 --> 00:27:12,427 A tall, dark stranger from overseas, I suppose. 508 00:27:14,233 --> 00:27:15,233 Yes, there is. 509 00:27:15,267 --> 00:27:17,133 Bringing good fortune with him? 510 00:27:17,236 --> 00:27:21,298 Bringing mixed fortune, good and bad. 511 00:27:21,406 --> 00:27:22,635 He bears a sword, and... 512 00:27:22,741 --> 00:27:24,471 And he's about to use it and should not. 513 00:27:24,576 --> 00:27:25,475 Dear me. 514 00:27:25,577 --> 00:27:26,855 Does it mean something to you, milady? 515 00:27:26,879 --> 00:27:27,903 Indeed it does not. 516 00:27:28,013 --> 00:27:31,711 You see, there's first an increase in wealth, 517 00:27:31,817 --> 00:27:32,716 then a decrease. 518 00:27:32,818 --> 00:27:35,378 Now, you are surrounded by many friends, 519 00:27:35,487 --> 00:27:38,218 and they all wish you well except one, a false friend. 520 00:27:38,323 --> 00:27:39,951 How alarming. 521 00:27:41,894 --> 00:27:43,988 You should watch your health. 522 00:27:44,096 --> 00:27:45,792 That's all, milady. 523 00:27:46,398 --> 00:27:47,696 Oh. 524 00:27:47,799 --> 00:27:51,201 There's a gentleman of great authority near the rim, 525 00:27:51,303 --> 00:27:53,033 nearly out of the picture, but I think... 526 00:27:53,138 --> 00:27:54,616 Yes, I think he's coming nearer to you. 527 00:27:54,640 --> 00:27:56,768 Yes... Mr. Bellamy. He'll be home soon. 528 00:27:56,875 --> 00:27:58,686 - This is superstitious nonsense. - No, milady. I... 529 00:27:58,710 --> 00:28:01,305 Now, that'll do, Sarah. You can go now. 530 00:28:04,216 --> 00:28:05,741 Sarah? 531 00:28:16,628 --> 00:28:19,257 Mr. Bellamy wanting to dress for dinner. 532 00:28:19,698 --> 00:28:21,792 Her ladyship's evening gloves. 533 00:28:21,900 --> 00:28:23,425 Oh, there she is ringing me. 534 00:28:23,535 --> 00:28:25,299 I can't be in two places at once. 535 00:28:25,404 --> 00:28:27,015 Alfred, are you sure you haven't seen them? 536 00:28:27,039 --> 00:28:28,516 Gloves. What should I know about gloves? 537 00:28:28,540 --> 00:28:30,065 Well, I-I was sewing a button on them. 538 00:28:30,175 --> 00:28:31,438 You must have seen them! 539 00:28:31,543 --> 00:28:33,671 Alfred, take these up to the dressing room. 540 00:28:33,779 --> 00:28:36,112 Give the trousers a final brush before you lay them out. 541 00:28:36,215 --> 00:28:38,359 Now, remember, that waistcoat is white and must remain white. 542 00:28:38,383 --> 00:28:40,579 Now, look sharp. The carriage is ordered for 8:00. 543 00:28:40,686 --> 00:28:41,585 Emily! 544 00:28:41,687 --> 00:28:43,031 Yes, Mr. Hudson? 545 00:28:43,055 --> 00:28:44,648 More coke in the boiler at once. 546 00:28:44,756 --> 00:28:46,452 The bathwater's not properly hot yet. 547 00:28:46,558 --> 00:28:48,220 Everything at the last minute. 548 00:28:48,327 --> 00:28:50,772 Put gloves in Alfred's night box and make sure that her pearls... 549 00:28:50,796 --> 00:28:53,698 Cool and calm, Miss Roberts. Cool and calm. Be temperate. 550 00:28:53,799 --> 00:28:55,062 - Mr. Hudson? - Yes? 551 00:28:55,167 --> 00:28:56,066 The carriage is here, 552 00:28:56,168 --> 00:28:58,637 and Mr. Pearce wants to know what time they're leaving. 553 00:28:58,737 --> 00:29:00,205 Tell him 8:00. He's early. 554 00:29:00,305 --> 00:29:02,774 No, no. Not there, my girl. In that pantry. 555 00:29:02,874 --> 00:29:03,874 Hat, sir. 556 00:29:03,976 --> 00:29:05,604 Hudson. 557 00:29:23,562 --> 00:29:24,757 Where are you going? 558 00:29:24,863 --> 00:29:25,762 Out. 559 00:29:25,864 --> 00:29:28,561 It's the Gypsy in me. I can't bear to be shut in. 560 00:29:28,667 --> 00:29:30,226 Does Mr. Hudson know you're going? 561 00:29:30,335 --> 00:29:31,234 It's only for a minute. 562 00:29:31,336 --> 00:29:33,014 You have to ask him, or you'll get into trouble. 563 00:29:33,038 --> 00:29:34,038 Well, I'm not asking him, 564 00:29:34,106 --> 00:29:35,583 and you're not gonna tell him, are you?! 565 00:29:35,607 --> 00:29:37,405 - No. - Right. 566 00:29:38,076 --> 00:29:42,036 Then I'll tell your fortune for you when I get back. 567 00:29:42,147 --> 00:29:47,347 But if you breathe a word to a living soul, I'll curse you, 568 00:29:47,452 --> 00:29:51,253 and your blood will turn to ice in your veins, 569 00:29:51,356 --> 00:29:55,020 and you will die horribly within the week. 570 00:29:55,127 --> 00:29:56,959 There. 571 00:30:14,646 --> 00:30:16,877 You'll ruin your eyes, Emily. 572 00:30:16,982 --> 00:30:18,314 What's it matter? 573 00:30:18,417 --> 00:30:20,215 I won't be needing them much longer. 574 00:30:20,319 --> 00:30:22,288 No? 575 00:30:22,387 --> 00:30:25,118 When I breathe, I get a pain. 576 00:30:25,223 --> 00:30:28,318 The good die young, they say. 577 00:30:28,427 --> 00:30:30,896 And I have the impression on me chest. 578 00:30:31,830 --> 00:30:34,163 I wish you'd stop reading that rubbish. 579 00:30:34,266 --> 00:30:38,101 It isn't rubbish. Things like that do happen. 580 00:30:42,040 --> 00:30:44,509 I think Sarah's more tragic and more romantic 581 00:30:44,609 --> 00:30:46,339 than anything in a book. 582 00:30:46,445 --> 00:30:49,040 I would lay down my life for her if I was asked. 583 00:30:49,147 --> 00:30:50,911 Would you? Well, where is she, then? 584 00:30:51,016 --> 00:30:52,985 I do not know. I am silent. 585 00:30:53,085 --> 00:30:54,246 What's the matter with you? 586 00:30:54,353 --> 00:30:57,448 Torture me to death if you wish. My lips are sealed. 587 00:30:57,556 --> 00:30:59,567 For goodness' sake. I only want her to turn down the beds. 588 00:30:59,591 --> 00:31:01,116 It's on her list as clear as daylight. 589 00:31:01,226 --> 00:31:02,751 Or do I have to do her work, too? 590 00:31:02,861 --> 00:31:05,421 And you can pull out my toenails one by one, 591 00:31:05,530 --> 00:31:07,021 and I still shan't speak. 592 00:31:07,132 --> 00:31:09,101 What's the matter with that girl? 593 00:31:09,201 --> 00:31:10,362 Why isn't she in bed? 594 00:31:10,469 --> 00:31:12,631 Uh, I want to wait up till they come back. 595 00:31:12,738 --> 00:31:15,139 - There won't be anything to see. - There might be. 596 00:31:15,240 --> 00:31:17,209 They... They might bring someone with them. 597 00:31:17,309 --> 00:31:18,309 Oh. 598 00:31:18,377 --> 00:31:20,812 A tall, dark stranger from across the seas 599 00:31:20,912 --> 00:31:24,940 who'll fall in love with me and take me away from all this. 600 00:31:25,050 --> 00:31:26,985 It's Sarah. She's been putting ideas in her head. 601 00:31:27,085 --> 00:31:30,055 She has strange powers. She sees things we can't see. 602 00:31:30,155 --> 00:31:32,467 Stuff and nonsense. We can't have this, can we, Mrs. Bridges? 603 00:31:32,491 --> 00:31:34,119 We cannot. 604 00:31:35,761 --> 00:31:38,629 I was just going to fetch some bread and cheese. 605 00:31:38,730 --> 00:31:40,028 Would you care for a bit, Rose? 606 00:31:40,132 --> 00:31:42,897 Very much, Mrs. Bridges. I am a bit peckish. 607 00:31:43,835 --> 00:31:47,431 Emily, you sure you don't know where Sarah is? 608 00:31:47,973 --> 00:31:51,068 Well, she's not in the kitchen. She's not in the pantry. 609 00:31:51,777 --> 00:31:53,939 Emily, look at me. 610 00:31:54,045 --> 00:31:55,877 I want the truth. 611 00:31:55,981 --> 00:31:58,951 All right, then. Who's been at my larder? 612 00:31:59,050 --> 00:31:59,949 Where's Mr. Hudson? 613 00:32:00,051 --> 00:32:01,815 It's a matter for the police, nothing less. 614 00:32:01,920 --> 00:32:03,582 - Mr. Hudson! - Well, what's happened? 615 00:32:03,688 --> 00:32:06,021 Somebody's stolen a bird out of my larder. 616 00:32:06,124 --> 00:32:07,668 - That's what's happened. - Are you sure? 617 00:32:07,692 --> 00:32:09,684 You think I don't know me own larder? 618 00:32:09,795 --> 00:32:10,854 Mr. Hudson! 619 00:32:10,962 --> 00:32:13,864 Emily, where is Sarah? She hasn't gone out, has she? 620 00:32:13,965 --> 00:32:16,560 - Did you call, Mrs. Bridges? - I did indeed, Mr. Hudson. 621 00:32:16,668 --> 00:32:17,748 Why was that, Mrs. Bridges? 622 00:32:17,803 --> 00:32:21,069 Because a plucked and dressed bird cannot walk, Mr. Hudson. 623 00:32:21,173 --> 00:32:22,971 We have a thief in our midst. 624 00:32:23,074 --> 00:32:25,805 A human pox. A chicken stealer. 625 00:32:25,911 --> 00:32:29,279 And when I lay my eyes on her, I'll skin her alive. 626 00:32:29,381 --> 00:32:31,509 - Or him. - Silence! 627 00:32:31,616 --> 00:32:34,142 Kindly assemble the staff in question. 628 00:32:34,252 --> 00:32:35,982 If that's what you want, Mrs. Bridges. 629 00:32:36,087 --> 00:32:38,420 How long has the melancholy fowl been missing? 630 00:32:38,523 --> 00:32:41,584 20 minutes, Mr. Hudson, since I last saw it laying on the shelf. 631 00:32:41,693 --> 00:32:44,060 In that case, we have the staff in question assembled, 632 00:32:44,162 --> 00:32:48,964 with the exception of Sarah, who seems to be temporarily absent. 633 00:32:49,067 --> 00:32:51,298 You would hardly steal your own bird, Mrs. Bridges, 634 00:32:51,403 --> 00:32:53,099 and then complain of it. 635 00:32:53,205 --> 00:32:56,073 We know Rose would not, could not. 636 00:32:57,142 --> 00:32:58,508 And if Emily had done it, 637 00:32:58,610 --> 00:33:01,341 I swear there would still be feathers 'round her mouth. 638 00:33:01,446 --> 00:33:04,644 It was a plucked and dressed bird, Mr. Hudson. 639 00:33:04,749 --> 00:33:06,718 Not a feather left upon it. 640 00:33:06,818 --> 00:33:09,083 Even the back fluff was singed. 641 00:33:09,187 --> 00:33:11,986 I was speaking in metaphor, Mrs. Bridges. 642 00:33:12,090 --> 00:33:14,423 I'm led to the conclusion that the guilty party 643 00:33:14,526 --> 00:33:17,291 is none other than Sarah, the stranger in our midst. 644 00:33:17,395 --> 00:33:20,729 Not a Gypsy princess after all, but a common thief. 645 00:33:20,832 --> 00:33:21,891 I knew it. 646 00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:24,128 And what is to be done with a creature so unnatural? 647 00:33:24,236 --> 00:33:25,236 I stole it. 648 00:33:25,303 --> 00:33:27,295 And in what dark hole, I wonder, is she hiding? 649 00:33:27,405 --> 00:33:28,634 It was me, not her. 650 00:33:28,740 --> 00:33:31,369 - Emily knows. - I know nothing. 651 00:33:31,476 --> 00:33:33,035 I don't want my blood turned to ice. 652 00:33:33,144 --> 00:33:35,010 Oh, all this fuss about a bird. 653 00:33:35,113 --> 00:33:36,979 It was you who summoned me, Mrs. Bridges. 654 00:33:37,082 --> 00:33:39,916 Well, perhaps a rat took it off. 655 00:33:40,018 --> 00:33:43,216 Or a team of cockroaches working in harness, I daresay. 656 00:33:43,321 --> 00:33:44,601 A principle is at stake, ladies. 657 00:33:44,656 --> 00:33:46,887 A chicken today, emeralds tomorrow, 658 00:33:46,992 --> 00:33:49,052 and the whole staff under suspicion. 659 00:33:49,160 --> 00:33:51,686 It is not, after all, as if Sarah had the privileges 660 00:33:51,796 --> 00:33:54,425 granted by custom and common humanity to the cook. 661 00:33:54,533 --> 00:33:57,935 When she comes back, I'll skin her alive. 662 00:33:58,036 --> 00:33:58,935 Oh, I swear. 663 00:33:59,037 --> 00:34:00,665 I swear I don't know where she is. 664 00:34:00,772 --> 00:34:02,707 - I f she comes back. - I-I swear. 665 00:34:02,807 --> 00:34:06,073 It would be better for everyone if she didn't. 666 00:34:06,678 --> 00:34:08,146 Well. 667 00:34:09,414 --> 00:34:11,383 Sarah, I never told them. 668 00:34:11,483 --> 00:34:12,746 Sarah, come in here. 669 00:34:12,851 --> 00:34:14,051 But I never said a word. 670 00:34:14,152 --> 00:34:16,178 - Shut the door. - Liar. 671 00:34:16,288 --> 00:34:18,621 Hypocrite. Slut. 672 00:34:18,723 --> 00:34:19,986 Walking the streets at night. 673 00:34:20,091 --> 00:34:21,719 Rose, that's enough of that. 674 00:34:21,826 --> 00:34:23,124 You too, Emily. 675 00:34:25,797 --> 00:34:27,975 We have reason to believe that you have stolen a chicken 676 00:34:27,999 --> 00:34:29,729 from Mrs. Bridges' larder, 677 00:34:29,834 --> 00:34:31,312 that you have crept out into the night 678 00:34:31,336 --> 00:34:33,202 to dispose of your forbidden loot 679 00:34:33,305 --> 00:34:35,536 and have returned with your ill-gotten profits 680 00:34:35,640 --> 00:34:37,666 concealed about your person. 681 00:34:38,944 --> 00:34:40,913 What have you to say for yourself? 682 00:34:41,513 --> 00:34:43,004 Well? 683 00:34:43,114 --> 00:34:46,312 If Mrs. Bridges can do it, why the hell shouldn't I? 684 00:34:47,052 --> 00:34:48,850 Well? 685 00:35:13,278 --> 00:35:14,371 Thank you, Alfred. 686 00:35:14,479 --> 00:35:15,674 You may go to bed now. 687 00:35:15,780 --> 00:35:17,214 Thank you, sir. 688 00:35:32,664 --> 00:35:35,099 - You'll have nothing, my dear? - No, thank you. 689 00:35:36,601 --> 00:35:40,436 Strange to see Archie Hasleff across a dining table again... 690 00:35:40,538 --> 00:35:42,302 And his new wife. 691 00:35:43,508 --> 00:35:45,272 But I see why it all happened. 692 00:35:45,377 --> 00:35:46,777 What eyes that woman has. 693 00:35:46,878 --> 00:35:48,608 One can hardly excuse it. 694 00:35:48,713 --> 00:35:50,705 It's the thin end of the wedge, you know. 695 00:35:50,815 --> 00:35:52,477 Soon we'll see divorced people everywhere, 696 00:35:52,584 --> 00:35:55,577 be obliged to chat and smile as if it were nothing unusual. 697 00:35:56,187 --> 00:35:57,780 In a moment, I'm afraid you will say, 698 00:35:57,889 --> 00:36:00,654 "And the old Queen, hardly cold in her grave." 699 00:36:00,759 --> 00:36:02,819 Well, it's true. I don't like change. 700 00:36:02,927 --> 00:36:07,456 Goes too quickly, becomes not progress but disintegration. 701 00:36:07,565 --> 00:36:09,295 Spoken like a good Englishwoman. 702 00:36:09,401 --> 00:36:12,701 And an excellent wife for a Tory politician. 703 00:36:15,206 --> 00:36:17,675 Oh, tomorrow doesn't bear thinking about. 704 00:36:17,776 --> 00:36:19,836 Joe Chamberlain on tariff reform again, 705 00:36:19,944 --> 00:36:21,913 and the front bench shuffling in its shoes. 706 00:36:22,013 --> 00:36:23,724 The prime minister should be more firm with him. 707 00:36:23,748 --> 00:36:25,341 My father wouldn't have put up with it. 708 00:36:25,450 --> 00:36:26,179 Your father! 709 00:36:26,284 --> 00:36:28,129 He'd have run England single-handed if he could. 710 00:36:28,153 --> 00:36:31,021 He knew the value of firmness and resolution. 711 00:36:31,122 --> 00:36:32,613 And you are your father's daughter. 712 00:36:32,724 --> 00:36:33,851 I hope so. 713 00:36:33,958 --> 00:36:35,927 Well, don't bother your pretty head. 714 00:36:36,027 --> 00:36:37,928 - These are men's matters. - Don't say that. 715 00:36:38,029 --> 00:36:39,895 Now, why should I not bother my head? 716 00:36:39,998 --> 00:36:41,762 It has precious little else to fill it. 717 00:36:41,866 --> 00:36:43,391 No. You do so much. 718 00:36:43,501 --> 00:36:45,629 - What do I do? - You run this house. 719 00:36:45,737 --> 00:36:47,569 The servants do that in their own way. 720 00:36:47,672 --> 00:36:50,642 Yes, and a lot goes on that I know nothing about. 721 00:36:50,742 --> 00:36:53,871 I saw a light downstairs. The servants are still up. 722 00:36:53,978 --> 00:36:54,843 Have some hot milk. 723 00:36:54,946 --> 00:36:56,574 Everyone worries too much about me. 724 00:36:56,681 --> 00:36:58,343 No, don't ring. 725 00:36:58,450 --> 00:37:02,353 You know I don't like bells ringing late in dark corridors. 726 00:37:03,421 --> 00:37:06,585 One day, you know, if things go on as they have been, 727 00:37:06,691 --> 00:37:09,058 you might ring and ring, and no one would ever come. 728 00:37:09,160 --> 00:37:11,595 - Mm? - There'd be nobody there. 729 00:37:11,696 --> 00:37:13,961 I'm not as bad as you think. Don't get the police. 730 00:37:14,065 --> 00:37:15,509 You're a thief. Do you deny it? 731 00:37:15,533 --> 00:37:17,773 When I saw Mrs. Bridges doing it, I thought anyone could. 732 00:37:17,836 --> 00:37:19,980 Then you were wrong to think that you were as good as her. 733 00:37:20,004 --> 00:37:21,324 No, I didn't think of it that way. 734 00:37:21,372 --> 00:37:24,274 - Please. - Oh, "please," is it now? 735 00:37:24,375 --> 00:37:26,139 We have changed our tune, haven't we? 736 00:37:26,244 --> 00:37:29,373 Look, I'll never do anything like it again. 737 00:37:29,481 --> 00:37:31,677 I've given the money to Mrs. Bridges. 738 00:37:31,783 --> 00:37:35,015 What good will it do to have me pinched? 739 00:37:35,120 --> 00:37:37,453 I thought we was all on the same side. 740 00:37:37,555 --> 00:37:40,320 Poor girl. One could pity her, I suppose. 741 00:37:40,425 --> 00:37:43,122 - She's a moral imbecile. - What have I done to you?! 742 00:37:43,228 --> 00:37:45,697 You pretend to be something you are not. 743 00:37:45,797 --> 00:37:47,475 You make yourself out to be better than us. 744 00:37:47,499 --> 00:37:49,058 Not better. 745 00:37:49,167 --> 00:37:50,829 Just more interesting. 746 00:37:50,935 --> 00:37:53,370 Well, it does no one any harm. It's only a bit of fun. 747 00:37:53,471 --> 00:37:55,269 How can lies be fun? 748 00:37:55,373 --> 00:37:56,893 They're not lies. They're make-believe. 749 00:37:56,941 --> 00:37:58,534 You are what you are. 750 00:37:58,643 --> 00:38:01,442 There's no escape, not for you or me. 751 00:38:01,546 --> 00:38:03,174 There must be some escape! 752 00:38:03,281 --> 00:38:06,012 Well, to be an under-house parlormaid is not so terrible. 753 00:38:06,117 --> 00:38:08,518 I think it would be wonderful. 754 00:38:08,620 --> 00:38:10,953 In a minute, I'll remember you're here, Emily, 755 00:38:11,055 --> 00:38:12,055 and send you to bed. 756 00:38:12,123 --> 00:38:15,719 But I-I ought to be here, Mrs. Bridges, as a lesson to me. 757 00:38:15,827 --> 00:38:16,920 What in? 758 00:38:17,028 --> 00:38:19,930 Pride going before a fall. Uh, murder will out. 759 00:38:20,031 --> 00:38:21,556 Oh, a stitch in time saves nine. 760 00:38:21,666 --> 00:38:22,943 Anything you like, I believe you, 761 00:38:22,967 --> 00:38:24,211 but please don't send me to bed. 762 00:38:24,235 --> 00:38:25,794 - Bed! - Oh, please! 763 00:38:25,904 --> 00:38:27,873 Nothing exciting ever happens. 764 00:38:27,972 --> 00:38:30,203 Why can't I stay up and watch the police take her off? 765 00:38:30,308 --> 00:38:32,868 Because the police aren't coming, Emily. 766 00:38:32,977 --> 00:38:35,378 Not if Sarah chooses to confess her faults. 767 00:38:37,148 --> 00:38:41,643 You are a common, ignorant, worthless girl, Sarah. 768 00:38:41,753 --> 00:38:43,415 - Can you deny it? - No. 769 00:38:43,521 --> 00:38:45,581 And a liar and a thief. 770 00:38:45,690 --> 00:38:46,714 Yes. 771 00:38:46,825 --> 00:38:49,727 You are an ordinary person, Sarah, like the rest of us. 772 00:38:49,828 --> 00:38:50,659 Yes. 773 00:38:50,762 --> 00:38:52,355 And you told lies to Lady Marjorie. 774 00:38:52,463 --> 00:38:54,193 You lied your way in where you had no right. 775 00:38:54,299 --> 00:38:55,358 Yes. 776 00:38:55,466 --> 00:38:58,994 And you have no French blood in you, let alone noble blood. 777 00:39:02,006 --> 00:39:02,905 No. 778 00:39:03,007 --> 00:39:05,567 And you are lucky to have found this home with us. 779 00:39:05,677 --> 00:39:06,736 Yes. 780 00:39:06,845 --> 00:39:08,245 Very well. 781 00:39:08,346 --> 00:39:10,406 - The police need not be called. - Thank you. 782 00:39:10,515 --> 00:39:14,179 - But upstairs must be informed. - Oh, no. 783 00:39:14,853 --> 00:39:18,085 With a recommendation for mercy. 784 00:39:18,189 --> 00:39:21,159 Well, coming from you, Rose, I'm sure it will be accepted. 785 00:39:21,259 --> 00:39:23,558 Look, don't tell Lady Marjorie. I'd be so ashamed. 786 00:39:23,661 --> 00:39:25,596 Oh, she's not all bad, you see. 787 00:39:25,697 --> 00:39:27,791 She's capable of remorse. 788 00:39:29,601 --> 00:39:32,332 Look, take this Bible, Sarah. 789 00:39:33,471 --> 00:39:35,201 And read... 790 00:39:38,309 --> 00:39:39,504 read this page. 791 00:39:39,611 --> 00:39:41,876 You will find written there the Ten Commandments. 792 00:39:41,980 --> 00:39:43,710 Now, take note of the sixth commandment... 793 00:39:43,815 --> 00:39:45,875 "Thou shalt not steal." 794 00:39:45,984 --> 00:39:47,282 Now repeat it to yourself. 795 00:39:47,385 --> 00:39:49,479 Make her write it out like at school. 796 00:39:49,587 --> 00:39:51,180 Not a bad idea, Mrs. Bridges. 797 00:39:51,289 --> 00:39:52,723 Rose, fetch the pen and paper. 798 00:39:52,824 --> 00:39:55,658 She will write it out a dozen times in her best hand, 799 00:39:55,760 --> 00:39:58,161 just to suit you, Mrs. Bridges. 800 00:39:58,263 --> 00:40:00,164 Oh, thank you, Rose. 801 00:40:01,065 --> 00:40:02,658 There, now. 802 00:40:03,201 --> 00:40:06,831 Take the pen and write for Mrs. Bridges, 803 00:40:06,938 --> 00:40:09,271 "Thou shalt not steal." 804 00:40:11,276 --> 00:40:12,642 I-I can't, Mr. Hudson. I can't. 805 00:40:12,744 --> 00:40:14,337 Go on, girl. Write. 806 00:40:14,445 --> 00:40:16,573 Mrs. Bridges is waiting for proof of your reformation. 807 00:40:23,454 --> 00:40:24,454 No. Please. 808 00:40:24,555 --> 00:40:25,454 And why not? 809 00:40:25,556 --> 00:40:27,957 It's just... 810 00:40:28,059 --> 00:40:31,461 I can't write! 811 00:40:35,033 --> 00:40:37,127 I don't know how. 812 00:40:37,235 --> 00:40:39,670 You can't write? 813 00:40:39,771 --> 00:40:42,263 Not even me own name. 814 00:40:45,843 --> 00:40:47,436 Mr. Hudson. 815 00:40:47,545 --> 00:40:50,071 What, didn't they send you to school? 816 00:40:50,181 --> 00:40:51,672 I was needed at home. 817 00:40:51,783 --> 00:40:53,411 Didn't your mother learn you? 818 00:40:53,518 --> 00:40:55,612 I never had no mother. 819 00:40:56,421 --> 00:40:59,550 I was everyone else's mum from the age of 5. 820 00:40:59,657 --> 00:41:02,650 They went to school. I stayed home. 821 00:41:05,763 --> 00:41:07,925 She's very upset. 822 00:41:08,633 --> 00:41:11,603 I think perhaps, Mr. Hudson... 823 00:41:11,703 --> 00:41:13,399 I daresay you're right, Mrs. Bridges. 824 00:41:13,504 --> 00:41:14,665 What? 825 00:41:15,273 --> 00:41:18,675 I daresay there's no necessity to tell them upstairs 826 00:41:18,776 --> 00:41:21,974 about this unfortunate incident... a missing chicken. 827 00:41:22,080 --> 00:41:25,050 A dog, a cat... Who's to say? 828 00:41:25,149 --> 00:41:26,640 These things will happen, 829 00:41:26,751 --> 00:41:28,617 even in the best-regulated households. 830 00:41:28,720 --> 00:41:29,619 Thank you. 831 00:41:29,721 --> 00:41:30,921 Now up you go to bed, my girl. 832 00:41:30,989 --> 00:41:32,287 Yes, Mr. Hudson. 833 00:41:32,390 --> 00:41:33,585 Go on. I'll do that, girl. 834 00:41:33,691 --> 00:41:35,626 Oh, Rose, I'll turn down the lamps. 835 00:41:35,727 --> 00:41:37,855 Just you tidy up a bit, will you? 836 00:41:53,945 --> 00:41:55,004 Did I startle you? 837 00:41:55,113 --> 00:41:56,638 No. 838 00:41:56,748 --> 00:41:59,308 It's just I wasn't expecting no one. 839 00:42:01,285 --> 00:42:03,049 - They've gone to bed. - Who? 840 00:42:03,154 --> 00:42:04,918 The master and Lady Marjorie. 841 00:42:05,023 --> 00:42:06,491 Oh. 842 00:42:06,591 --> 00:42:08,184 - Let you go up there. - Hmm? 843 00:42:08,292 --> 00:42:09,351 Bit of trouble downstairs. 844 00:42:09,460 --> 00:42:11,759 Raised voices and heard Mr. Hudson's mostly. 845 00:42:11,863 --> 00:42:13,764 Oh, that. Uh... 846 00:42:13,865 --> 00:42:15,766 We were just having a bit of an argy-bargy 847 00:42:15,867 --> 00:42:17,597 down there, all of us. 848 00:42:18,436 --> 00:42:20,462 Little contretemps, you might say. 849 00:42:20,571 --> 00:42:22,039 Tell you something, Sarah. 850 00:42:22,140 --> 00:42:24,268 They're all hypocrites, the whole lot of them. 851 00:42:24,375 --> 00:42:25,900 Write out the sixth commandment... 852 00:42:26,010 --> 00:42:27,010 Thou shalt not steal. 853 00:42:27,111 --> 00:42:29,342 How do you know that? You wasn't there. 854 00:42:29,447 --> 00:42:31,313 I know everything that goes on in this house. 855 00:42:31,416 --> 00:42:32,975 You was listening at the keyhole. 856 00:42:34,786 --> 00:42:37,312 There's violence and sin in all of us. 857 00:42:37,422 --> 00:42:39,152 Filth and degradation. 858 00:42:39,257 --> 00:42:40,885 Let go of my arm, Alfred. 859 00:42:40,992 --> 00:42:42,722 Beware the lusts of the flesh. 860 00:42:42,827 --> 00:42:44,625 Stop it. 861 00:42:44,729 --> 00:42:46,891 Let me go to bed. 862 00:42:46,998 --> 00:42:48,864 Kate was the same. 863 00:42:51,135 --> 00:42:52,433 Who's Kate? 864 00:42:52,537 --> 00:42:55,268 Under-housemaid before you. 865 00:42:56,808 --> 00:42:58,674 Lust not for thy neighbor, 866 00:42:58,776 --> 00:43:01,769 for the wrath of the Lord shall be visited upon you. 867 00:43:27,438 --> 00:43:30,374 It's cold. Go to bed. 868 00:43:30,475 --> 00:43:34,139 Nice big empty rooms down there, and us crammed up here together. 869 00:43:34,245 --> 00:43:36,237 Well... 870 00:43:41,185 --> 00:43:43,177 Who slept in this bed before me? 871 00:43:43,287 --> 00:43:44,755 A silly girl called Kate. 872 00:43:44,856 --> 00:43:45,856 What happened to her? 873 00:43:45,923 --> 00:43:47,619 She isn't here anymore. 874 00:43:47,725 --> 00:43:49,250 Why not? 875 00:43:49,360 --> 00:43:51,352 Curiosity killed the cat. 876 00:43:55,666 --> 00:43:59,865 I expect she just withered away. 877 00:44:00,738 --> 00:44:02,866 I'll probably find her 878 00:44:02,974 --> 00:44:06,968 all shriveled up in the corner like a dead insect. 879 00:44:09,380 --> 00:44:11,315 I know. 880 00:44:12,049 --> 00:44:14,780 I'll ask Alfred what happened to her. 881 00:44:14,886 --> 00:44:16,514 Shall I? 882 00:44:16,621 --> 00:44:18,681 He's only up top. 883 00:44:18,789 --> 00:44:20,849 I could pop up there and ask him. 884 00:44:20,958 --> 00:44:24,759 You've got to be up at 5:00. I hope you know your list. 885 00:44:24,862 --> 00:44:25,761 Yes. 886 00:44:25,863 --> 00:44:27,126 But you can't. 887 00:44:27,231 --> 00:44:28,392 You can't read. 888 00:44:28,499 --> 00:44:30,695 - Oh, I was only saying that. - Oh! 889 00:44:30,801 --> 00:44:31,928 I was only making it up. 890 00:44:32,036 --> 00:44:34,665 Then read to me now. 891 00:44:34,772 --> 00:44:37,833 If you're not struck dead by lightning. 892 00:44:39,710 --> 00:44:41,804 I'm sorry. 893 00:44:42,480 --> 00:44:45,473 I don't know what comes over me. 894 00:44:47,351 --> 00:44:50,480 It must be difficult for you, I suppose. 895 00:44:52,990 --> 00:44:58,429 I'll get up with you in the morning and show you what to do. 896 00:44:58,529 --> 00:44:59,997 Thank you. 897 00:45:01,766 --> 00:45:06,898 Now go to sleep, or we'll be good for nothing in the morning. 898 00:45:25,556 --> 00:45:27,957 Sarah! 899 00:45:28,059 --> 00:45:29,118 Nothing's been done. 900 00:45:29,227 --> 00:45:30,504 The servants' breakfast table not laid. 901 00:45:30,528 --> 00:45:31,791 The fires were not done. 902 00:45:31,896 --> 00:45:33,694 Sarah, what you doing? 903 00:45:33,798 --> 00:45:34,891 I'm going, Rose. 904 00:45:34,999 --> 00:45:37,127 And you can all say good riddance to bad rubbish. 905 00:45:37,235 --> 00:45:39,761 - Sarah, you must be cuckoo. - Maybe. 906 00:45:39,870 --> 00:45:41,949 I won't be needing those anymore, not where I'm going. 907 00:45:41,973 --> 00:45:42,997 And where might that be? 908 00:45:43,107 --> 00:45:44,632 My cousin. 909 00:45:45,276 --> 00:45:46,836 I'm gonna stay with my cousin in Ilford. 910 00:45:46,944 --> 00:45:48,544 I didn't know you had a cousin in Ilford. 911 00:45:48,613 --> 00:45:51,208 Why should you? You don't own me. 912 00:45:51,315 --> 00:45:52,613 Well, you can keep them anyhow. 913 00:45:52,717 --> 00:45:54,061 You'll be needing them in your next job. 914 00:45:54,085 --> 00:45:56,611 Look, Rose, that's the whole point. 915 00:45:56,721 --> 00:46:01,056 Whatever happens, I'm not having a job again like this, ever. 916 00:46:01,158 --> 00:46:03,718 Not gonna spend my whole life rotting away in an attic 917 00:46:03,828 --> 00:46:06,662 and wearing stupid uniforms. 918 00:46:06,764 --> 00:46:09,700 You're all no better than slaves. 919 00:46:09,800 --> 00:46:12,463 "Yes, milady. No, milady. Three bags full, milady." 920 00:46:12,570 --> 00:46:14,505 Look what kind of a life you've got here! 921 00:46:14,605 --> 00:46:16,096 Living everything through them 922 00:46:16,207 --> 00:46:18,938 like they wasn't flesh and blood like the rest of us, 923 00:46:19,043 --> 00:46:21,205 as if you was vegetables with no feelings. 924 00:46:21,312 --> 00:46:23,076 But you ain't given it a chance yet. 925 00:46:23,180 --> 00:46:25,158 No, and I'm not going to either, thank you very much. 926 00:46:25,182 --> 00:46:26,548 I've seen enough. 927 00:46:26,651 --> 00:46:27,744 All right. 928 00:46:27,852 --> 00:46:30,287 I'll tell you what happened to Katie, then. 929 00:46:30,388 --> 00:46:32,755 She used to go with guardsmen in the park. 930 00:46:32,857 --> 00:46:35,622 Caught the scarlet fever, and out she went. 931 00:46:36,160 --> 00:46:38,220 She used to say to me, "Don't worry about me, Rose. 932 00:46:38,329 --> 00:46:41,197 I'll be all right. I can take care of meself." 933 00:46:41,299 --> 00:46:42,927 But her baby died, 934 00:46:43,034 --> 00:46:46,664 and now she's on the streets taking care of herself. 935 00:46:46,771 --> 00:46:49,036 I'm not gonna have a baby, Rose, 936 00:46:49,140 --> 00:46:52,042 and I'm not gonna be told I'm a moral imbecile 937 00:46:52,143 --> 00:46:55,170 and common and ordinary and a liar and thief! 938 00:46:55,279 --> 00:46:56,645 But you don't understand. 939 00:46:56,747 --> 00:46:59,512 And being shouted at because I can't read or write. 940 00:46:59,617 --> 00:47:00,846 But you was forgiven. 941 00:47:00,951 --> 00:47:04,183 Oh, forgive and forget. 942 00:47:04,288 --> 00:47:06,553 Well, that's not for me, Rose. 943 00:47:06,657 --> 00:47:08,649 I've got to be free to go where I want. 944 00:47:08,759 --> 00:47:10,694 You're all dead in this house, 945 00:47:10,795 --> 00:47:13,959 as dead as Mrs. Bridges' old cold mutton. 946 00:47:20,237 --> 00:47:22,763 I'm sorry, Rose. 947 00:47:24,108 --> 00:47:26,942 It's not your fault. You done your best. 948 00:47:27,812 --> 00:47:31,146 Perhaps I have got Gypsy blood in me after all, eh? 949 00:47:46,897 --> 00:47:47,990 Where are you going, Sarah? 950 00:47:48,099 --> 00:47:49,499 Out. 951 00:47:49,600 --> 00:47:53,765 Through the front door, the way I almost came in. 952 00:48:22,566 --> 00:48:25,536 Subtitling made possible by Acorn Media