All language subtitles for Upstairs Downstairs S04E01 A Patriotic Offering WEB-DL DDP2 0 H 264-squalor (1)_track3_[eng]

[waltz music]

[clock ticking]

[bell ringing]

- I fancy it's time.

Edward. Ruby.

Ready Edward?

Very well Ruby.

Right Edward.

[everyone shouting]

What have you done girl?

- Mr. Hudson, should
I switch the-

- No! No! No! No!

It's all right Rose.

Is it probably down
this time Daisy?

- Yes, Mr. Hudson.

- Ruby, what was
you thinking of?

If anybody had seen that,

they would have thought we too

was a nest of spies.

- Sorry Mrs. Bridges.

It came over me.

- No. Nevermind me girl.

There's no harm done.

- Well, stop that noise now

and go and see about the tea.

- Yes, Mrs. Bridges.

- Oh, that girl.

We ought to send her to
fight for the Kaiser.

The war would soon be over then.

[everybody laughs]

- I'm glad we used
this green stuff.

You won't be able to
see a thing through it.

- Possibly we'll need
to put drawing pins

into the side.

No inadvertent chinks!

That has to be the
motto in this household.

-[Servants] Yes, Mr. Hudson.

- Mr. Hudson, you don't
seriously think that the

Zeppelins are gonna get
as far as London, do you?

- Well, if they do,

I'm gonna climb up the string

and stick a hair pin in them.

[everybody laughs]

And if the Coz comes over,

I'll stick a hair
pin in him too!

[everybody laughs]

- Right, right, Mrs. Bridges.

Though strictly speaking,

I don't believe the Zeppelins

have got strings attached.

Rose, Edward, Daisy.

We will now go and draw
the curtains upstairs.

Come on, look sharp now.

[Rose smirks quietly]

[Edward giggles]

-[Mr. Bellamy] Georgina
didn't come in to tea.

- No. Billy Linton's on leave.

She's gone to a the
dansant with him.

- I suppose that extraordinary
form

of entertainment will become

more popular than ever now.

With all the street
lamps turned out,

people would want
to get home early.

- I doubt if Georgina will.

[Mr. Bellamy moans in agreement]

Yes, Hudson.

- If we might draw the
curtains, madamme.

-[Mr. Bellamy] Rather
early, isn't it?

- I thought we had better
make sure that

the blackout is in order, sir,

since I understand that
the street lamps

are not going to be lit tonight.

-[Mr. Bellamy] I see.

-[Mrs. Bellamy] Very
well Hudson.

- I trust we're not
offending against

the defence of the Realm Act.

- I will send Edward
outside, sir,

to make sure that there
are no chinks.

- [sighs] There's
another one done.

I do hate sewing curtains.

[door closes loudly]

I must try and get
hold of some more

black material for the
spare room curtains.

- Spare room?

You expecting visitors?

- Not really.

Prudence wants to hold her

committee meeting here tomorrow.

- Committee?

- Her Belgian Refugee committee.

- Now here's your [grunts].

You know I passed two
smartly dressed women

in Wy-koll yesterday.

And one said to the other,

"Have you got your Belgian
refugees yet?"

As if it was a new fashion
in house furnishing.

- But if they have nowhere
to go, Richard?

- Hazel, no more committees.

You've taken on too
much already.

- Oh, I haven't really.

Anyway, I prefer
to be kept busy.

- I know.

- Do you suppose James
was at Mons?

- Yes, it does seem likely.

- I wish he could
write more often.

- Oh, I expect we shall
hear before long.

- Things are bad, aren't they?

- Quite serious.

If the Belgians give
up Ainsworth

without a fight,

the Germans will drive
straight through

to the coast.

- That would mean
a German invasion?

- Well, it would certainly
bring the possibility

a great deal closer.

If only I could take some
active part in it all.

- You have a voice
in Parliament.

- Oh, yes, to criticize Asquith

for his conduct of the war.

Which is necessary I suppose,

but which hardly seems patriotic

or even particularly effective.

Anyway, don't let Prudence

talk you into anything.

- I won't.

-[Edward] But they
were sweeping snow

out of the carriages in
[mumbles] Mr. Hudson.

- I dare say they were Edward.

But it was not snow
off the boots

of Russian soldiers.

- But I was talking to
this friend of mine,

in the Crown and Anchor and he-

- Was he there himself?

- Well, no, but he was
talking to a friend

who knew one of the porters-

- I dare see. [laughing]

- And there was that
ruble they found

in the pen in the Scott
machine near Durham.

-[Mrs. Bridges] Ruby,
have you been gossiping

with that butcher's boy again?

I don't think so.

Come along everybody.

We've got a nice bit of hav-ick

for our tea today.

Don't let it spoil.

Edward, put that paper away.

Mr. Hudson, how come this then?

It it isn't true,

how does it get put about?

I mean, it's in the
paper clear as daylight.

90,000 Russian soldiers

passing through England

on their way to France.

90,000.

- I mentioned the matter
to the master

and he said it was 90,000 eggs.

-[Edward] Eggs!

- A cable was sent which read,

'90,000 dispatched
from Arch Angel."

But it was not soldiers,

it was eggs.

[everybody laughs]

- Yeah, well, they
might say that.

No bacon, Mrs. Bridges?

- The mistress says we've
all got to accommodate?

- Yeah, that's all very well

but our ca-ve is part
of our wages.

- Edward, if the greatest
sacrifice

we have to make is
to eat hav-ick

without the customary
roll of bacon,

we will not have much
to complain about.

- Well, the war will be
over by Christmas anyway.

- I wouldn't be too
sure of that Daisy.

- How are things on the
war front, Mr. Hudson?

- Rather grave Mrs.
Bridges, I'm afraid.

The German attack has
been halted over in Mons

but Paris is still threatened.

And there was a wee
hint in the Times today

that the Belgians might not

be able to hold Ainsworth.

- Oh.

- And it would appear
that the Russian army

suffered a severe defeat
several weeks ago.

- Oh yeah, now while
we're fighting

on the same side as them
as them Russians anyway.

Nasty lot of anarchists.

- Well, the anarchists,
Mrs. Bridges, are exiles,

who in my opinion,

should all be clapped
into prison immediately.

But it's only natural
that we should be allies

of the Russians.

The Czar being a cousin
of our King.

- Sir, he's a German Kaiser,

isn't he Mr. Hudson?

- There are misalliances,
Edward,

in every great family.

- Well, I don't care
what happens

as long as Eddie don't
get mixed up in it.

- He may have to Daisy.

- Like Will Kitsen has said,

"His country needs him".

- Hold your tongue Ruby!

If this year prescription
comes in,

that'd be quite enough
time for Edward to go.

- I thought that should
the need arise

every true Britain will
enlist without the need

of a conscription, Mrs. Bridges.

But in my opinion,

that time has not yet come.

- I hope it never will.

- It'll [speaking in
heavy accent] Daisy.

But for the moment,

Edward's duty lies here.

Ruby, pepper please.

- Like I said to
Johnny Harcourt,

I cannot understand
these people.

And naturally one
keeps one's butler

and chauffeur.

And for the sake of the horses,

one cannot part with
one's grooms.

Now I thought we
should have sent

around the game keepers.

But Henry said the poachers

would become so tiresome.

- Well, your husband is
the Justice of the Peace,

isn't he?

Perhaps he could sentence
the poachers

to enlist immediately.

- That is no laughing
matter, Prudence.

We have sent seven servants

from our townhouse alone.

Now here are all these
people with their houses

full of able-bodied men

and refusing to part with them.

How else do you suppose
the butler is here?

- Hudson?

Oh, he must be at least-

- Now I shall have a
word with Mrs. Bellamy.

She comes from Wimbledon,
I believe.

Oh this war is going to be boon

to the middle classes.

But with the committees
and sewing parties

and nobody being too particular,

they are going to
get in everywhere.

And where is Mrs. Bellamy?

Hudson said she had
gone shopping.

- I am sorry.

- Ah, yes, here we are.

My dear, I don't think

you've met Lady Birkhamstead.

- How do you do?

I would have been here sooner.

On my way back,

there was a woman sitting
on the doorstep.

- What? At this house?

- Drunk, I suppose.

- No. She was a charwoman.

- A charwoman?

Surely you could have left
it to the servants to-

- She got a telegram

before she left home
this morning

saying that her husband
had been killed

in France.

When she came to Eden
Square as usual,

but on the way home,

it came to her.

She got as far as here

and then like

suddenly being drowned in grief.

I touched her.

I spoke to her and
she didn't hear me.

I've never seen anyone crying

quite so dreadfully.

-[Prudence] It's
very distressing.

- Right.

I couldn't just leave her.

Mrs. Bridges is giving her

some tea in the kitchen.

- Well, I think you
were quite right

to get her off the streets.

Now really, these people
have absolutely

no self-control.

Personally, I agree
with Mrs. Edwardlilton.

Mourning should not be allowed.

People should be proud
to feel that

they have given their
nearest and dearest

for their country's cause.

- Well, perhaps, she'll
feel that later.

Naturally, at first, she's...

Well, shall we set to work

for our gallant Belgian
refugees?

Lady Hardcastle was so sorry

she couldn't be here.

She has her own committee
meeting this morning.

- [Lady Birkhamstead]
Claudia would have

a committee of her own.

- Would you care for coffee

to be served, madamme?

-[Mrs. Bellamy] Yes,
please Edward.

- Now, how old are you?

- Me. I'm 25, madamme. My lady.

- And you are not married?

- No, my lady.

- Mrs. Bellamy, you
really will have to think

of sending him to enlist.

We all have to make sacrifices,
you know?

And it is up to people
like us to

set an example to the others.

- Yes.

Thank you, Edward.

-[Prudence] Well, Mrs.
Arthur Harrower

is willing to serve
on the committee.

- [Lady Birkhamstead]
Not Mrs. Harrower.

The more tiresome and
encroaching woman

I have yet to meet.

-[Prudence] Yes, but she
has that large house.

And she's willing to take
two Belgian families.

- Oh certainly.

I have no objection
to her doing that.

- Well...

You've taken long enough.

- What?

- Do they want coffee?

- Oh, yeah. Yeah.

- The poor creatures
are coming over

in fishing boats,

dredgers, and colliers.

Anything to get away.

Most of them have left all their

possessions behind
and have only what

they stand up in.

It's too tragic.

- Dreadful.

-[Mr. Bellamy] How
many are there?

- Well, they say 5,000 at least.

And if the German
advance continues,

we can expect twice that number.

- [Lady Berhamstead]
Oh, good heavens.

Where are we going
to put them all?

- Well, there are reception
centers, of course.

There's a large one
at Wandsworth

but they can't stay there.

More arriving all the time.

Oh, thank you, Edward.

Of course, many of them
are just simple peasants.

And the best thing would be

to send them straight
out into the country

onto farms or big estates

where they can work on the land.

- Well, Henry has some
cottages at Berkeley.

I dare say he could
put them in there.

Temporarily, of course.

- That would be excellent.

And then we must draw
up a list of friends

who are ready to take in the

better class Belgium
into their home.

- [Lady Berhamstead] Well,
I should have thought

the better class Belgian

would have relatives in England

with whom they could stay.

- Oh, my dear, Violet,

not all of them.

Angela Casthairs was telling me

the most tragic tale yesterday.

Of a count and countess who fled

from their chateau with
all their children,

arrived at the reception center,

absolutely penniless.

She had even left
her jewels behind.

Well, I mean,

we must do something
for people like that.

Now, Hazel dear,

how many can you take?

- I would like to do what I can

but I shan't have much time

to look after them and I,

I don't want it all to
fall on the servants.

- Mrs. Bellamy,

we can hardly sit on
committees like these

asking other people to
help the war effort

unless we are prepared to
do something ourselves.

- Yes, of course.

I expect we can take one family.

-[Daisy] I wonder what
they'll be like.

- I read a book once.

One of Mrs. Lizzie's.

It was called the
Scarlet Pimpernel.

And it was all about
this gallant Englishman,

what saved the Aristos.

- Ar-what?

- Aristos. That's french
for lords and ladies.

- Oh.

Yeah, those are Belgian
Aristos, aren't they?

- That's right.

Yes, this one'll do.

It's got Lady Margarie's
monogram on it.

Look.

- Oh. Where?

Oh, yeah.

[Rose speaking quietly]

- Yes. I think I'll give
them my stuffed hare.

- Do we know how many
to expect, madamme?

- Well, Lady Prudence
said she'd try

not to make it more than three.

That might be a mother,
and father,

and one child.

Or a mother and two children.

- I've ordered the spare room

to be got ready, madamme.

And Rose is putting a
cot in the small bedroom

for them, naturally.

-[Mrs. Bellamy] Oh,
that's splendid.

-[Georgina] Good morning.

-[Mrs. Bellamy] Did you enjoy

yourself last night?

- Oh, yes.

Billie said it was the
last opulent evening

before going off to the
dreadful rigors of camp

in Darken-scan.

I thought I'd go and stay
in the fox bree-dance

for a few days and
then I can see him.

- In camp?

- He says you can come
over for dinner

when he's tucked the
men up in bed.

- I see.

- Master Richard
says we're going

to have some Belgian refugees.

What fun!

- Yes.

Oh, Hudson, I wondered
if there were

any toys in the house.

- Well, yes, madamme.

There are some in the
nursery cupboard,

which belonged to Mrs. Elizabeth

and Captain James.

- Good. I'll go through them.

- I'll do it if you'd
like Hazel.

- Oh, would you?

Thank you Georgina.

- Shall I do it now?

- Is that all right, Hudson?

- Certainly, madamme.

I will send Daisy up to
help you, Ms. Georgina.

-[Georgina] Thank you Hudson.

- Will there be anything
further, madamme?

- Yes.

Hudson, do you happen
to know if Edward

is thinking of enlisting?

- Edward?

Certainly not, madamme.

I have explained to Edward
that the time may come

when it would be right
for him to enlist,

but that for the moment,

his duty lies here.

Especially, [voice muffled]

-[Mrs. Bellamy] Yes.

That's what I thought.

- Is that the press, Edward?

- Yes, sir.

- It gets later everyday.

Hello Hudson.

I have a luncheon out
but dining at home.

- Very good, sir.

[door slams loudly]

Edward!

-[Edward] Mr. Hudson.

- What were thinking
of putting the letters

into the master's hand

instead of presenting
them on a silver?

- But I was gonna put
them on a silver,

Mr. Hudson, but I
didn't have time.

The master-

- We are not going to get
slap dashed on our wage

just because there's a war on.

- Nothing from James,
I'm afraid.

If there had been bad news,

we should have heard.

- Yes.

- Well, you're getting
your Belgian refugees

after all.

- Why, I'm sorry, Richard.

- My dear, you did what
you thought was right!

If you hadn't, it wouldn't
have been you.

- I'm afraid it isn't
quite as simple as that.

Oh, I do feel sorry for them

but I think, perhaps,
it was much more wanting

to show that we were
as patriotic

as Lady Birkhamstead.

- Anyway, we made the
right decision.

These people are our allies.

They've suffered terribly.

The least we can do is
take them into our house

and do what we can for them.

- Mrs. Lizzie never was
much of a one for dolls

so someone might as
well get the use of her.

[laughing]

- If it's a little boy
he can play with this.

- Yeah.

- There Eddie.

Look, haven't they
come out lovely?

- All this fuss over a load

of blooming foreigners.

Why can't they stay
where they belong?

- Edward, how could you?

I bet if your country
was overrun

by a brutal invader,

you'd be grateful for
a few kind words.

- It'll all come back
on us, you know?

All the extra work.

If you ask me,

the mistress should
have consulted us first.

[silverware clanging]

- I do wish you were
going to be here tomorrow.

I only speak school room French.

- Won't Uncle Richard be here?

- No. He has a meeting
with his club.

- Well, I'll try and
get home early.

Anyway, they probably
speak perfect English.

Now, how does Billy
like the Naval Brigade?

- He says it's simply splendid.

There is only wonderful
people in it.

Hawk Asquith, Rupert
Brook, and Dennis Brown.

Oh, and it's so exciting.

Winston Churchill
has promised them

that if things get really
bad in Belgium,

he's going to rush them
over to hold the line.

Of course, it's a great secret.

- Well, if it was such
a great secret,

he shouldn't have told you.

- Oh, he knew I wouldn't
tell anyone.

- You told us.

- But that's different.

- Well, I know the Naval Brigade

is Winston's pet force

but I can't believe
that even he would send

completely untrained
troops into the front line.

- Yes, Uncle Richard.

He's promised them faithfully.

Billy was afraid the
war would be over

before Christmas and
then he'd never

see any fighting.

But now, he'll be in
action before anyone.

Isn't it splendid?

- Yes, Edward.

- The cab's here, sir,
for Ms. Georgina.

- Thank you, Edward.

I must rush on [speaking
in heavy accent].

Goodbye, Uncle Richard.

And don't work too hard
while I'm away.

- Send me a postcard
and let me know when

you'll be back.

-[Georgina] I will.

[door closes loudly]

- Did you put writing paper

in the bedroom, Edward?

- Yes, Mr. Hudson.

- And the mistress put
flowers in the bedroom

and the nursery too,
to cheer 'EM up.

- You're quite right, Daisy.

After all they've been through,

it is our task to make
them feel at home.

- There's not much point
in us all being here.

Is there Mr. Hudson?

I mean, I shouldn't think

there'd be much luggage.

- Maybe not, Edward.

But even if they arrive
at our door destitute,

they are our guests.

And we surely behave
towards them

as we do to all guests
in this house.

- Yes, Mr. Hudson.

[bell ringing]

- Mr. Bellamy.

- This is Mr. Bellamy's house.

- Oh, good.

Your refugees, Chargon.

One, two, three, four, five.

Good evening.

- The Belgian visitors, madamme.

- Yes.

[speaking in foreign language]

Antre. Antre, madamme.

S'il vouch plait.

And madamme.

[speaking in foreign language]

- Mr. Hudson.

Where are we gonna put 'EM?

- I don't know Rose.

We had better serve tea

then ask the mistress for orders

as to sleeping accommodation.

Edward.

- Daisy, go and put
them toys away.

And lock the toy cupboard.

- Yes.

- Would you like to put
that on the floor?

[squealing loudly]

I wasn't gonna steal
it, ya know?

- Rose.

- Sorry, Mr. Hudson.

- Rose. I expect that's
all she has in the world.

She just wants to hold on to it.

-[Rose] Yes, madamme.

I'll get another cup.

- Shall I take her?

[speaking in foreign language]

So, there. [speaking
in foreign language]

- Oh, madamme.

Wouldn't put the little
girl on your lap

if I was you?

- Oh, why not Rose?

Oh, I see.

Why not put it on the floor?

- Easy.

There.

Perhaps, when she's
had something to eat

and a glass of milk.

Daisy, you could run her a bath

with some carbonic in it?

- Yes, madamme, I think
she'd better.

[speaking in foreign language]

- I should put the milk
and sugar in, Rose.

The Belgian lady doesn't
seem to understand.

- Don't scratch.

[speaking in foreign language]

[Belgian woman speaking
in foreign language]

[coughing loudly]

[everyone talking loudly
in the room]

- What in the heck is going on?

- Oh, sir.

-[Mr. Bellamy] Hudson!

- The Belgian visitors, sir,

they're not quite
what we expected.

- Madame!

Madame [speaking in
foreign language]!

- Daisy, do deal with it.

- My dear Hazel!
- Oh, Richard!

- What the dev-

- I can't make them understand

[voice drowned out].

[everyone shouting indistinctly]

- Silence! [hands
clapping loudly]

Edward, put him down.

[Edward grunts when punched]

[speaking in foreign language]

Hazel.

- Oh, Richard.

The children are crawling
with lice.

And the others too
for all I know.

Now, they're rooms are
ready for them upstairs,

but I wanted them to
have baths first.

If it-

- Upstairs! That's out
of the question.

They're Belgian peasants.

I can't imagine who put them

into the morning room
in the first place.

- Well, what are we
to do with them?

- Obviously, they must
go down to the kitchen

and looked after there.

Now, you see to it Hudson.

- Very good, sir.

- This place is like
a bear garden!

In more than thirty
years I've never.

[voice trails away]

[everyone shouting
loudly in room]

- Ruby, get that cup
from off my table.

Oh! Pardon.

Oh.

- Here, Ruby.

-[Mr. Hudson] Edward.

-[Mrs. Bridges] Ruby!

Come and help me with
these mashed potatoes!

- Coming, Mrs. Bridges!

- All right. There we are.

Oh, right.

Now, you bath.

Come on.

Here! Come here!

- Stop it. Stop.

Edward, here you take him!

- Oh, not until he takes
his boots off.

I'm black and blue already!

-[Mr. Hudson] Edward!

[bell ringing]

Mr. Hudson!

Come on! Take him back.

Ouch!

-[Daisy] Get him in there.

What a bath. He's filthy!

- Another one?

- No.

Do you think there will
be an invasion?

- Oh, I don't know.

There's a cabinet
meeting tonight.

You shall know more
about it tomorrow.

I wonder how they're
getting on downstairs.

- Oh, I expect their
managing all right.

Hudson, are we getting
any dinner?

- Yes, sir.

I think Mrs. Bridges
is very nearly ready.

- Hudson.

Is everything all right?

- I expect things will

settle down shortly, madamme.

- But, what happens if
I wanna change my shirt?

- Oh, too late to worry
about that now.

- Now come on!

Get this bath out of my way.

I want to dish up for dinner.

- There then, after dinner.

You. Bath. You. Bath.

After dinner.

[man speaking in
foreign language]

And you and you.

[Belgian women speaking
in foreign language]

- Oh no, no, no, no.

- Who can say we
can't force them

to bath if they don't want to.

- No, but we still have
to live with them.

[speaking in foreign
language in the background]

- Mr. Hudson.

They haven't had
our pudding yet.

- No!

No, no smoking!

[speaking in foreign language]

[man spits loudly]

- Well!

[door closes loudly]

- Mrs. Bridges!

[visitors speaking in
foreign language]

- Excuse me.

[visitors speaking in
foreign language]

- Why don't ya shut up!

- [man shouting in foreign
language] Boom, boom!

[shouting in foreign language]

-[Woman Visitor] Shh!

[man shouting in
foreign language]

[visitors speaking in
foreign language]

[Daisy shrieks loudly]

- What was all that about?

- Daisy.

She thinks she's caught
lice from the Belgians.

- Lice?

Very unpleasant for her.

Presumably, they know
how to deal with it.

- Yes.

But if you had come from a slum

and thought you'd left
all that behind you, you-

- Yes. Yes, I see.

[man snoring loudly]

- It's not right, Mr. Hudson.

The mistress should
have consulted us

before sending them down here.

- Well, I say charity
begins at home.

- So do I.

We never get any time
to ourselves anymore,

clearing up after them.

We don't even get our
meals in peace.

- Shh!

- I wouldn't mind if
they was grateful

but they're not!

[voices drowning each other out]

- It is a very trying
situation, certainly,

but I don't quite see
what we can do about it.

- We could all walk out.

- Daisy!

- We could. We could all
give notice in together.

- Now wait a minute, Daisy.

Don't be too hasty.

- Well, Mr. Hudson.

I think the mistress
should be told,

it's them or us.

- Yes.

- I can not even think
how it happened.

Dolly Playfair had the
most charming couple

in her house.

Cousins of King Albert
and two delightful

little girls.

Well, we did not have
delightful girls, Prudence,

or cousins of King Albert's.

We are housing a family
of surly, ungrateful,

Belgian peasants

who incidentally were
infested with lice.

- Oh dear, I am most
dreadfully sorry.

I'll see what I can do.

Oh, by the way,

have you seen this leaflet?

- Gracious me. [mumbles]

-[Mr. Bellamy] What is it?

- Have you an able-bodied
man serving you

who at this moment
should be serving

your king and country?

Have you a man serving
at your table

who should be serving a gun?

Where on earth did you get this?

- They're being distributed
by volunteers

to all the better
houses in London.

Violet Birkhamstead's behind it.

- Very unpleasant
and quite absurd.

- Have you thought
of sending Edward?

- No, certainly not.

- Well, don't you
think you should?

You know, you cannot
be too careful

in your position.

- In my position?

-[Prudence] As a member
of Parliament.

- I hardly think that
a mob of enthusiastic

but totally untrained recruits

is going to halt the advance

of a highly-mechanized
German army.

- I'm not saying it will
be any use, Richard.

I'm merely saying you
should send him.

Goodbye, Hazel, my dear.

And about those Belgians
of yours,

I really will see what I can do.

-[Mr. Bellamy] Goodbye Prudence.

- Goodbye, Richard.

Ah, thank you, Edward.

- Why can't they use

the [speaking in heavy accent]?

- I did try to tell
them [mumbles]

but they didn't seem
to understand.

- They don't understand
anything.

If you ask me they're
off-witted.

Oh no! Not again!

No fumar in my kitchen! No!

- No. Pardon, madamme.

- I just as well talk
to a brick wall.

Ruby!

Fetch me the jam.

-[Ruby] It's on the
table, Mrs. Bridges.

- Ruby! I said fetch me the jam!

- It's on the table Mrs.

Oh, Mrs. Bridges. Look!

-[Mrs. Bridges] Oh!

You wicked boy! Come
out from there!

Come out!

Come out, I say!

Oh, I'll give you such a hiding!

[glass breaks loudly]

[man laughing]

- Oh!

[women laughing]
That has done it.

-[Ruby] Where are you
off to, Mrs. Bridges?

- I'm going upstairs
to see the mistress.

- I'll go get your apron.

- I shan't need a clean apron.

[Mrs. Bridges stomps loudly]

[door slams loudly]

They're dirty, they're rude.

And it's more than flesh
and blood can stand.

- Mrs. Bridges,

Mrs. Georgina comes
back this evening.

She went to school
in Switzerland.

She'd be able to talk to them

and make them understand

they must behave themselves.

- It's not a matter of
understanding, madamme.

It's my kitchen!

And either they go or I do.

[Mrs. Bridges stomping loudly]

[door slams loudly]

- Such a fun thing happened
when we were

waiting for the train.

Thomas saw one of the
grooves and said,

"Hello Parsons. What
are you doing here?"

And the man said,

"I've joined up, sir.

"I'm going off to fight
the Belgians."

[laughing]

He got it wrong, you see.

- Well, that's terrible.

- Terrible?

- Well to go off to
fight and maybe be killed

and not know why.

- Well, I expect he'd
find out later.

I shan't know what
to say to them.

- Oh, do your best.

[servants speaking indistinctly]

- Good evening.

I came to see.

Good evening, Mrs. Bridges.

-[Mrs. Bridges] Good
evening, Miss Georgina.

- Bonsoir.

-[Visitors] Bonsoir.

[speaking in foreign
language] Madame Bellamy.

Madame?

- Madame Chargon [speaking
in foreign language].

- Madame Chargon.

[speaking in foreign
language] Madame Huguot.

- Madame Huguot.

- [speaking in foreign language]

Monsieur Chargon.

- Monsieur Chargon.
- Mademoiselle.

- [speaking in foreign
language] Mademoiselle.

- [speaking in foreign
language] Celestine.

[speaking in foreign
language] Mademoiselle.

Voila.
-[Georgina] Celestine.

- [speaking in foreign
language] Madame Bridges.

- Pleased to meet you.

- Monsieur Edward.

Monsieur Hudson.

Mademoiselle Daisy.

Mademoiselle Rose.

And Mademoiselle Ruby.

-[Visitors] Bonsoir.

[Georgina speaking in
foreign language]

-[Women] Merci.

- Merci.

- Miss Georgina.

Would you please ask
why when we give them

a nice cup of tea,

they spit it out on the ground?

- Oh, I think I know
that, Mrs. Bridges.

- You do?

- Well, you see Belgian people,

consider tea to be
a sort of drug.

They would think you're
trying to poison them.

- Poison?

What do they like to drink then?

- Coffee.

[speaking in foreign
language] un cafe?

-[Visitors] Oui!
Cafe! [laughing]

[speaking in foreign language]

- Of course, we could
give them coffee.

We don't usually serve
it downstairs.

- Perhaps you could order

a bottle of camp coffee,
Mrs. Bridges.

That's not too dear.

- I suppose they
don't like cocoa.

- [speaking in foreign
language] chocolate?

-[Visitors] Chocolate? Oui!

[speaking in foreign language]

- They say they love cocoa

and the children do too.

But they're afraid it's
rather expensive.

- Well, I expect we could
run to the attic

if it's what they really like.

- Miss Georgina.

Ask them why they
never take a bath.

-[Daisy] Yeah, ask 'EM that.

- Well, I couldn't possibly.

[visitors speaking in
foreign language]

- We bathed the children
and we told the others

they could have a
bath after dinner

but they wouldn't.

- No. And look at them.

They're filthy.

- Yes, all they do is have
a leak in the prom-ise

in my scullery.

- Well, perhaps that's
all that they-

[visitors peaking in
foreign language]

[Georgina speaking in
foreign language]

[Visitors speaking in
foreign language]

- They said you wanted
them to take a bath

in front of everyone.

- Not in front of everybody.

- Well, they said you
put the bath out

and told them to get into it.

- No! Not in front of everybody!

I said after dinner.

After dinner.

You get in the bath.

We go and a screen would

be put around

when...

Not in front of everybody.

- I should think not, indeed!

I was in the middle of
dishing up for dinner!

- Madame and Monsieur, pardon

[speaking in foreign language].

Monsieur Hudson and
Monsieur Edward

[speaking in foreign language].

-[Visitors] Oh! [laughing]

[speaking in foreign language]

[everybody laughs]

- Well, then ask them
why they all laughed

when the little boy
spilled the jelly?

-[Mrs. Bridges] Shh!
Be quite Ruby!

-[Mrs. Bellamy] No,
Mrs. Bridges.

Let Ruby ask what she wants to.

Sit down, Mrs. Bridges.

Daisy.

Bonsior.

-[Visitors] Bonsior.

- Go on, Ruby.

- Well, the little boy
stole a pot of jam,

Miss Georgina, and
dropped it on the floor.

And they all laughed.

[Georgina speaking in
foreign language]

- Oh, excuse Mademoiselle.

[speaking in foreign language]

[Georgina speaking in
foreign language]

[Madame Huguot speaking
in foreign language]

- They say they were
glad because

it was the first
time they'd seen

Jean-Paul get into
mischief since

he saw his father shot.

-[Rose] Shot!

[Madame Huguot speaking
in foreign language]

-[Georgina] [speaking
in foreign language]

- [speaking in foreign language]

Madame Chargon.

[speaking in foreign language]

- The Germans took all
the able-bodied men

in the village,

stood them against the
wall and shot them

as a punishment for
resisting the German advance.

Madame Charon's husband was lame

but they still shot him.

[speaking in foreign language]

[Madame Huguot speaking
in foreign language]

- She says her husband
was killed in the fighting

in August and her son too.

He was in the army
although he was only 16.

- Only 16?

[Madame Huguot speaking
in foreign language]

-[Georgina] They
knew the Germans

were burning the villages IN

[speaking in foreign language]?

[Madame Huguot speaking
in foreign language]

- Raping the women.

[speaking in foreign language]

- [speaking in foreign
language] Madame Chargon

[speaking in foreign language].

- So they ran away.

Madame Chargon, the children,

Madame Huguot, and her daughter,

the old man, and his wife.

[Madame Huguot speaking
in foreign language]

- Pardon?

[Madame Huguot speaking
in foreign language]

- Some German calvary
rode through them

and they all ran away.

Afterwards, they couldn't find

Monsieur Charon's wife.

She was lost.

- Lost?

[Madame Huguot speaking
in foreign language]

- They searched everywhere

but they couldn't find her.

The road was being bombarded

so they had to go on without her

for the sake of the children.

- That would be the old
gentleman's wife,

Miss Georgina.

- And didn't they ever find her?

[Madame Huguot speaking
in foreign language]

- The airplanes came again

and dropped more bombs.

[Madame Huguot speaking
in foreign language]

-[Georgina] Pardon?

[Madame Huguot speaking
in foreign language]

- Madame Huguot as
lying in a ditch

by the side of the road.

[Madame Huguot speaking
in foreign language]

With her little girl
in her arms.

And a bomb fell near
and she was knocked out.

When she came to,
her little girl.

[Madame Huguot crying
in foreign language]

-[Georgina] There
was nothing left

of her except

[Madame Huguot weeping loudly]

- I can hardly bear
to think of it.

- I don't want to think of it.

What good does it do?

I must change.

- You're going out?

- Tommy Foxbreeden
wanted me to have dinner

with him and then see
him off to the station.

Might as well.

It might be rather a lark.

- Ah, Madame Huguout,

you've got the ladle. Good.
- Oui.

- Put it on the table.

[Madame Huguot speaking
in foreign language]

- Yes.

And put the condiments
in that [mumbles]

- Monsieur, please.
Merci, Monsieur.

Ruby, remember what I told you.

- Oh, yes, Mr. Hudson.

- Excellent.

[everyone speaking at once]

- Nice beef stew.

And Madame Chargon has
made the dumplings.

-[Everyone] Ah! [laughing]

- Although, I don't know
what they'd be like.

They don't make them
at all the same way

as what we do.

-[Mr. Hudson] Oh,
I'm sure they'll

taste excellent!

C'est bon! [laughing]

-[Mr. Hudson] Ah! [speaking
in foreign language]

[Monsieur Chargon speaking
in foreign language]

- [speaking in foreign
language] [laughing]

I inquired from Miss Georgina

and discovered that in
France and Belgium,

in farming circles,

it is the privilege of
the head of the household

to cut the bread for the family.

- Oh! [laughing]

- Where's Edward?

-[Rose] Well, he
ought to be here.

They haven't finished
in the dining room yet.

- Well, then where is he?

-[Madame Huguot]
Monsieur Edward,

[speaking in foreign language].

[Visitors speaking in
foreign language]

-[Mr. Hudson] Oh, there you are.

-[Daisy] Edward, where
have you been?

-[Mr. Hudson] Edward?

- I've been to join
up, Mr. Hudson.

- Well, how could you
without telling me first?

- But if I had told you first,

you'd have tried to stop me.

- Yes, I would.

And so would Mr. Hudson
and the master,

if they'd known.

- I don't belong to them, Daisy.

I don't belong to anyone.

Not even you.

You wouldn't think much
of me if I did.

- You better come sit down

and have your dinner, Edward.

[mumbles] Mr. Hudson.

- Well, you see, Mr. Hudson.

Well, everyone kept
saying what I ought to do.

I mean, with you and the
master and Daisy here

saying I shouldn't join up.

But it was Lady Birkhamstead
and Lady Prudence

and that bit of paper
said I should.

- And Lord Kitchener.

- Well see, I never did
think much of the war.

I mean, to me it was
just a lot of foreigners

bashing each other.

But when I heard about
what they were

doing over in Belgium, I mean.

Well, you can't let
people do things like that

and get away with it.

Oh, I'm sorry, Mr. Hudson.

I know you've taught me
everything I know.

But, well this time I had to do

what I thought was right.

- That's what it means, Edward.

-[Edward] Mr. Hudson?

- That's what belonging
to yourself means.

Doing what you think is right.

- Well, yes, Mr. Hudson.

- What regiment did
you join, my boy?

- Oh, the Middlesex, Mr. Hudson.

Same as my brother.

[everybody laughs]

[Visitors speaking in
foreign language]

-[Edward] [speaking
in foreign language]

Bang, bang.

-[Visitors] Oh!

[Monsieur Chargon cheering
in foreign language]

[Monsieur Chargon emulates
a machine gun]

-[Visitors] Bravo!

[speaking in foreign language]

- We have only just
heard the news

of the Ainsworth.

I expect you know more

about the war than we do.

Men have been simply splendid.

I believe we won with
a few brigades,

retreat from Mons with
all our equipment.

Since then, we've seen
quite a lot of action.

I expect you can guess
where we are.

There's a salient in the
German line of advance.

A sort of bulge.

A place called Eep.

I heard the lifeguards
have been thrown in

well, to hold it.

We are getting quite
expert at digging trenches.

The weather is awful.

Rain and mud everywhere.

I hope we don't get bogged down

here for the winter.

Please give my love to Hazel

and ask her to send me
out some flea powder

and some warm socks.

Best love, James.

- I hear you've enlisted,
Edward.

- Yes, my Lady.

- When do you have to go?

- Well, they're going
to let me know, my Lady.

- Well done.

We must all do what we can.

- Lady Prudence, madamme.

-[Mr. Bellamy] Hello, Prudence.

- Good morning, Richard.

- Would you like some
coffee, Prudence?

- No, thank you, my dear.

I can't stop for more
than a second.

I'm on my way to see
Connie Hardcastle.

I really just came
around to bring you

some good news.

I've managed to get rid
of your Belgians for you.

-[Mrs. Bellamy] Oh, that's--

- They're sending them off today

to a potato farm in
Cambridge here.

They'll be able to
make themselves

useful there and they'll
feel quite at home.

-[Mrs. Bridges] You
know, I'm really

going to miss them.

- They'll be much better
in the country.

Come along now!

The cab's waiting.

Say goodbye.

-[Visitors] Au revoir!

[speaking in foreign language]

- Goodbye. Goodbye.

- [Monsieur Chargon]
Goodbye Madame.

- Goodbye Monsieur.

Goodbye and good luck!

-[Visitors] Au revoir.

- Goodbye.

Goodbye!

Have a good journey!

-[Mrs. Bridges] Goodbye!

[waltz music]