All language subtitles for Upstairs Downstairs S05E04 The Joy Ride WEB-DL DDP2 0 H 264-squalor (1)_track3_[eng]

(string music)

(clock chiming)

(distant chattering
and laughing)

-[Robin] Well, let's
all fall off together!

(laughing)

-[Man] Do you know you're
standing on my ear?

-[Man] Oh, terribly sorry!

-[Georgina] Oh, Robin, catch
me quickly, I'm falling.

- Oh, it's Ms. Georgina.

- Isn't she embarrassed?

- Come on.

-[Georgina] All right, see
you at the party tonight.

Bye bye, Dolly.

-[Dolly] Bye bye, Georgina.

-[Man] Bye, Georgina, bye.

-[Robin] Bye bye,
Dolly, goodbye.

-[Georgina] See you tomorrow.

- Thank you, Robin.

-[Robin] Can't I come in?

- No, you can't, the
servants will be up soon.

-[Robin] Well, then, we
can have a cup of coffee.

- You had three cups
at the coffee store.

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

Perhaps if I came in and waited,

Mrs. Bridges would make
me a cheese sandwich.

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

- Can I?

-[Georgina] Yes.

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

-[Georgina] Well, you'll
just have to.

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

- Oh, Robin. (laughs)

Go away!

Good morning, Daisy.

- Morning, Ms. Georgina.

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

- Oh, Ms. Georgina, your dress.

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

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

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

There's a dear.

- Oh, Daisy, I got
my stairs to--

- Go on.

- (groans) Oh, all right.

Hey, Dais.

-[Daisy] What?

-[Lily] He's still there,
across the road.

- Who, Captain Eliott?

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

- Ms. Georgina's bedroom's
at the back.

- Well, I think it's romantic.

- I best leave this
for Rose to mend.

Just look how Ms.
Georgina tore it,

pinning it back like that.

- What time did she get in?

- Not til six, and she
won't stir now before 11.

- Oh, all right for
some, isn't it?

- Oh, I like to see Ms.
Georgina enjoying herself.

She worked hard enough
in the war.

- She wasn't the only one.

Why should she have
all the larks now?

- Eddie, you don't
grudge at her.

- No, but, well, we were
all in this war together,

and afterwards, it was
gonna be different.

Well, it's not so different
for me now.

- Eddie.

- Oh, I'm sorry, Dais.

Just, I'm fed up with being

at everyone's beck and
call all the time.

It wasn't so bad before
we were married.

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

- It's not exactly ours, is it?

- No, but it's better than...

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

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

- Well, no, not grateful,
exactly, but--

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

- Nor are jobs.

- Thing is--

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

- Your Ronuk, Lily?

What would I be doing
with your Ronuk?

Wouldn't catch me
putting my hands

on a young girl's Ronuk.

- Edward, you are awful.

- What have I said?

- We won't find your
Ronuk in here.

Wasn't it in your box?

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

-[Daisy] It's probably
in the scullery, Lily.

Well, I've got to get upstairs.

-[Edward] Dais, here.

- What is it?

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

were talking about something
in the car

that Lady Astor had said.

- Lady Astor?

- Yes, you know, that
woman member of Parliament?

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

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

Now, she was saying that
a friend of hers

is trying to bring a
bill into Parliament.

- Oh.

- Daisy!

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

- I'm trying to tell
you something.

- If I don't go and
do the Major's room

while he's having his breakfast,

it'll never get done.
- Never mind that now.

Now, listen, this is important,

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

- Think about what?

- Well, they're talking about,

on account of there
being so many unemployed,

about helping them to emigrate.

- Well, we're not unemployed.

- No.
- Oh, Eddie,

you didn't mean us?

(laughs) Where would we go?

- Canada, Australia--

- What, and go into
service there?

- But they don't have
servants out there,

that's the good point about it.

- And what would we do?

- I'd get some land
or something.

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

The only thing I ever grew
was a geranium in a pot,

and that died.

Oh, Eddie, we've got
a good place here.

We can be together
and save a bit.

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

-[Edward] (chuckles) Some hopes.

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

- Yes, I know.

I suppose you're right.

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

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

The chauffeur is not supposed
to sit around a table

in the servant's hall
drinking cups of tea.

Daisy, do you know
where I found this?

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

- Daisy, I can't find it.

Oh, Mr. Hudson, you
found the polish.

- Yes, I found it.

On the doorstep.

-[Lily] Ah.

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

and trip over a tin of polish.

Kindly be more careful
in future, Daisy.

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

Mr. Hudson, Lily did it.

- Yes, I must have put it down

when I was looking in
my box for the Brasso.

I'm ever so sorry, Mr. Hudson.

- Well, that's all right, Lily.

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

- Oh, yes, Mr. Hudson,
but this morning,

Ms. Georgina asked me if I--

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

but I do not expect
you to abuse it

by leaving your work to others.

Edward, I thought you were going

to press His Lordship's
winter suits

during his absence abroad.

Come along, Lily.

We've all got a busy
day ahead of us.

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

- Mrs. Bridges, if you
please, Master William.

And I haven't got time
to make patty cakes

for you this morning.

I've gotta make these pies.

That one for the nursery--

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

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

- Oh, I beg your
pardon, I'm sure.

Ruby, come and grease
these pie dishes for me.

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

- I'll do it.

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

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

-[Mrs. Bridges] Well,
you must have someone

to look after you.

- Rose can look after us.

- Rose can't teach
you your lessons.

Oh, thank you Master William,
that will do splendidly.

Anyway, you need somebody
to stop your quarreling.

What was it all about
this morning, eh?

- Alice is always reading,

and when I ask her
to play with me,

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

- Oh, (laughs) does she, now?

Thank you, Master William.

- I wish I could live
with Edward and Daisy

in their little house.

- In the mews?

Ladies and gentlemen
don't live in mewses.

That's for servants.

-[William] I like Edward.

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

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

- Oh ho, she won't
be downstairs.

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

Here comes Mr. Hudson,

you see what he says
when he sees you.

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

Lady Newbury is staying.

- Oh, there now.

I'll have to make
another pudding.

- Only one extra, Mrs. Bridges.

- Oh, I daresay,

but it's one thing when
Captain Eliott stays

as an extra one for luncheon,

but quite another thing
when it's a luncheon party

which includes Lady Newbury.

- Oh, Fredrick, you better put
the bonbonniere on the table.

- All right, Mr. Hudson.

Would be the one thing I
never cleaned yesterday.

No peace for the wicked,
eh, Mrs. Bridges?

- I'll help you, Fredrick.

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

- Very well, Master William,

but you will have
to wear my apron.

- I suppose I'd better
make my apple delight.

- Here we are, then.

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

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

with His Lordship and
Her Ladyship away.

(jazz music)

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

- What, but you can't--
- You have to.

- Keep your feet still--
- Over there.

- When you're dancing.
- But you have to!

- It's a contradiction in terms.

- It's not, and now,
to the side.

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

- That's it, and wind
it up, James.

Yes, but you have to
keep your feet still,

but move to the side.

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

- I have no idea, Fredrick.

Get about your business.

Fredrick!

- (sighs) There, what
do you think of that?

- Never gonna dance
that in public.

- And why not?

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

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

I don't think I shall learn it.

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

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

And what for you, Diana,
Bronx or Martini?

- Martini, thanks.

Why aren't you working, Robin?

I thought you had a job.

- Well, I had, but
I got the sack.

- (giggles) He was selling
painted hair curlers.

-[Diana] I don't believe it.

- No, it's absolutely true.

I answered this advertisement,
which said,

"do you want to make
your fortune?"

And, of course, I did.

So, in long, I saw this
man called Stellenbosh,

who'd invented a new
kind of hair curler.

-[Diana] Is that
really his name?

- Well, something like that.

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

but I had to go out
and meet the public.

So, he gave me a suitcase
full of the beastly things,

and I had to go trudging
round all sorts of places

like Waddington I'd
never even heard of.

- Oh, Robin, not a sales?

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

- Hmm, but he fell off.

(all laughing)

- What happened?

- Well, most of them
didn't even answer.

They just peered at me
through the curtains.

Anyway--
- Didn't like

the look of you, eh?

- Ah, well, that
is very possible.

Anyway, finally, one
woman did answer the door.

She was wearing a night
dress and a dressing gown,

and she had her hair curled up,

you know, with little
bits of rag.

So, I explained that
I'd come to talk to her

about a marvelous new invention.

She said, "oh, you want
to speak to my husband?"

No, madame, I cried, I
want to speak to you.

Are you comfortable in bed?

And she slapped my face
and slammed the door.

(all laughing)

-[Diana] He's making it up.

- No, no, I promise you.

Anyway, I went back
to old Stinkenbomb,

and I said, was he sure

that there was such a
fortune in these things

when women could quite
easily curl their hair

with bits of rag, which
costs them nothing at all?

And ten minutes later,

I had joined the ranks
of the unemployed.

- No.
- Oh, Robin. (laughs)

- Thanks.

-[Georgina] Outrageous.

- Hello, Fred.
- Hello.

- Dinner ready yet,
Mrs. Bridges?

- No, it is not,

and now I've got a
luncheon party to prepare.

- Oh, sorry.

- Ruby, go into the larder

and bring me out a big
jar of them apples.

And then come back and
make some potatoes.

- Oh, Ruby.

Nursery tray ready,
Mrs. Bridges?

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

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

- Ruby!

Hurry up and come and
mash these potatoes.

-[Rose] They should
have a nursery maid.

- Ah, well, when the
governess arrives,

the children will customarily
have their luncheon

with her in the dining
room, Rose.

- Yes, but until such time,

Daisy will have to see
to the nursery meals.

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

It's Fred's place to do that.

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

- Now, that is quite
enough of that.

I shall assign your duties in
consultation with Her Ladyship

and you will all carry them out.

This is not the kind
of household

in which we indulge
in petty arguments

about who is to carry
a tray upstairs.

- Oh, that's terrible.

It says here there are nearly
two million unemployed.

- Well, that should make
us all very thankful

that our paths have
fallen in pleasant places.

Eh, peasant place--

(Edward laughing)

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

as you should well know, Edward.

- Now, when does Bunny
come back, Diana?

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

- Mm-hmm, and why aren't
you with him

like a good little wife?

- Oh, James, you've never
seen Bunny being bucolic.

Well, all the time, of course,
so you know how grisly it is.

He has this idea he
owes a duty to the land.

A sort of debt.

- Ooh, like the debt
I owe my tailor.

- Except that your tailor
probably knows

he'll never get paid.

Apparently the land
isn't satisfied

unless Bunny's spent
several days in every month

trudging round it in
Wellington boots.

Squelch, squelch, squelch.

Scratching the backs of pigs.

You've no idea what a
disgusting noise it makes

when you scratch a pig's back.

A sort of bristly-- (shudders)

- I adore pigs.

- So does Bunny.

Scratching the pig's back

is supposed to send them
into a sort of ecstasy,

but actually, when Bunny's
leaning over the pen

with a glazed look in his eye,

it's almost impossible
to tell them apart.

-[Georgina] Oh, Diana.

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

- I'm no more beastly to him now

than I was before
we got married.

- Well, perhaps he hoped
you'd be nicer.

- Then he was a fool.

Which, of course, he is.

- I don't think people
ought to get married

unless they absolutely
adore one another.

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

- Of course not.

- Is your father away, James?

- Yes, yes, he and my
step-mother are in Geneva.

They rushed off yesterday.

My dear step-mother is
one of those people

who either takes a carpet bag

into which she's thrown nothing

but her favorite ornament
and a clean handkerchief,

or 40 pieces of baggage.

- Yesterday, it was the
40 pieces of baggage.

There we were, standing
at the station,

frantically searching
for a hatbox.

- Without which she
could not possibly

spend the night on a train.

- Perhaps her hairnet
was packed in it.

Perfectly reasonable.

- Mm, well, I look
forward to the day

when everyone travels
by airplane.

Then, they'll have to confine
themselves to a carpet bag.

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

do you, James?

- Well, I don't see why not.

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

- Yes, just as a special effort.

They'll never be like
trains with time tables.

- Well, imagine an
aerial Bradshaw.

- What does your father
find to do in Geneva?

I hate Switzerland, all
those wholesome people

wearing woolen stockings
and yodeling.

- Oh, he's mad-keen on this
League of Nations thing.

- Well, there's not much
point, is there,

now the Americans
have ratted on it.

- None at all, no one
gives a damn about it here,

especially the socialists.

Pacifists during the war,

and now, all they can
talk about is wages.

- Hmm.

- I know, don't talk politics.

- Hmm, let's talk about dancing.

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

- You very nearly do.

What time did you get
home last night?

- Oh, I don't know.

We started at the Berkeley,
but then the band went home,

so we went on to Sally
Brant's house,

and danced to the gramophone.

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

- Luckily, he was away.

- Ah.

- Let's have a party here.

- Hm?

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

- Oh, now, wait a minute--

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

- Yes, please!
- No, no, thank you.

I don't want crazy people

doing the shimmy shake
in this house.

- James, don't be such a bore.

You used to be such fun.

Since the war, you've
been positively tedious.

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

- Oh, Jumbo, do say yes.

It would be such fun!

You'd enjoy yourself,
really you would.

We'd have a band, and
all our friends.

Do say yes.

- Luncheon is served, sir.

- Ah, thank you, Hudson.

I don't know.

- Oh, that means yes.

What fun!

Now, what kind of party
shall we give?

- How about a baby party,

everyone having to
arrive in perambulators?

- No, no, it's been done.

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

- Yes, but a bathing
party's always quite fun.

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

- Well, you could always
be terribly daring

and come as one of those
bathing beauties

in the moving pictures.

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

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

All dress as house
maids and footmen.

- I'm not sure Hudson
would like that.

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

- I think it might lead
to some confusion, milady.

- Well, why not just call
it a fancy dress party

and leave everyone free
to come as they choose?

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

It would be too beastly
for words.

-[James] Why shouldn't he?

Freedom, that's what
we all fought for.

-[Diana] No!

- Well, of course, that's it.

-[Diana] What?

- We'll give a freedom party.

- How do you mean?
- Aren't you gonna--

- Birds, wood nymphs,
satyrs, revolution,

everything that's free.
(all arguing)

- Do you remember the
gold and silver ball,

Mrs. Bridges, of Londonderry
House,

when Lady Marjorie appeared
as Marie Antoinette?

- Oh, yes.

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

went as Louis the, oh,
Louis the something

in lace collar, and
velvet knee britches, oh.

- I do hope Ms. Georgina
has a pretty costume.

- Well, it seems funny
that he should have it

when His Lordship and Her
Ladyship are away, though.

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

More informal than
it might've been

if Her Ladyship had been here.

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

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

- Well, next Thursday,
Rose, rather short notice.

- That's when the governess
is coming.

Never rains but it pours
in this house, huh?

-[Mrs. Bridges] Oh,
the governess.

- Are you sure this is
all you want to wear

for an open motor?

- Mm, it's got a thick
collar, Daisy.

Slip through to the
front bedroom

and see if you can see Mr.
Bakerfield's two seater.

I must just say goodnight
to the children.

- Well, at least
you're not going

on that Captain Eliott's
motorbike.

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

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

- What does it do to you?

- It makes you deaf.

- Oh, Rose, it doesn't.

- Hello.

-[Rose] Oh.

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

- Georgina, you look lovely.

-[Georgina] Oh, thank you.

-[Alice] Just like
a fairy princess.

Doesn't she, William?

- I think she looks silly.

-[Rose] Master William.

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

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

- Not lots, two or
three, perhaps.

Goodnight, sweet dreams.

Goodnight, William,
give me a big kiss.

- I'm too old to kiss people.

- Hmm, well, I'll
kiss you, then.

You needn't kiss back.

(giggles)

Goodnight.

Goodnight, Rose.

-[Rose] Night, Ms. Georgina.

- Goodnight.

Isn't she lucky, Rose?

Nothing to do but enjoy herself.

- Robin!

What are you doing here?

-[Robin] Well, I thought
I'd follow you on my bike

as an outrider.

- Oh, Robin.

- Well, you'll be glad of me

if Harry gets a puncher in
his beastly old motorcar.

- You'd better take
this, Ms. Georgina.

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

- Thank you, Hudson.

- Oh, Ms. Georgina,
about the party.

How many guests will
you be expecting?

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

- Ooh, don't bother about
drinks, Hudson.

We're going to make
it a bottle party.

- A bottle--

- Everyone arrives with a bottle

of gin or wine or something.

Well, it's the easiest way,

because as soon as people
hear there's a party,

they do tend to turn up,
and then the drinks run out.

- You mean, uninvited
guests, Ms. Georgina?

- Oh, if they get too tiresome,

we'll get Edward and
Fred to throw them out.

- Or I'll shoot them with this!

- Robin, put it away.

Goodnight, Hudson.

- Georgina, sir.

-[Alice] The goblins drew
back, howling on every side.

They were tumbling over
each other in heaps

in their eagerness to
escape from the cave,

when a new assailant
suddenly faced him:

the queen with flaming
eyes and expanded nostrils,

her hair standing half
up from her head--

- All right, Alice,
that's enough.

You're frightening
Master William.

- Pooh, course she's not.

I don't mind a few goblins.

There, look.

- Ugh. (laughs)

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

'cause we're gonna put
the carpet down.

- Oh, Rose, you are a nuisance.

-[Rose] Oh, am I?

Well, your governess
is coming soon,

and you can call her a
nuisance for a change.

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

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

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

- Who?

- The princess opened
the door and entered.

There was the moonlight
streaming in at the window,

and in the middle
of the moonlight

sat the old lady in her black
dress with the white lace

and her silvery hair
mingling with the moonlight.

- (laughs) Well, I don't think

she'll be quite like
that neither.

- Rose, why didn't
she come here first

so that we could see
if we liked her?

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

You're just a silly little boy.

- No, I'm not!

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

- Silly little boy.

- Oh, is that all
starting up again?

- Frederick.

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

- Fred, she called me
a silly little boy.

- Oh, you don't want
to take no notice

of what the ladies
say, eh, Rose?

Now, if you two will
have a truce,

we can lay the carpet.

- Come, give us a hand
with the table.

- Master William, I'll send
you to see my sergeant major.

-[Rose] And you.

- Got to do something about
the decorations, James.

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

Ooh, if only Augustus
John would come

and do some of his
splendid nudes.

I don't suppose Uncle
Richard would like that.

- Neither would I.

- Even Dolly said if she
was really supposed to be

as free as air, she'd
come with nothing on.

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

- Lily.

- Only 10 acceptances so far.

Do you suppose that means
that only 10 are coming,

or that everyone is coming,

but only 10 have bothered
to answer?

- Really, Georgina,
I have no idea.

I can't think why you started
this party in the first place.

- What's the matter?

Are you afraid I might enjoy it?

- Now, Georgina,
that's not fair.

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

- But I can't.

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

James, we lost four
years of our youth,

when we had to be miserable
and frightened

and watch all our friends
being killed one by one.

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

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

- All right, we'll have fun.

We'll have the most
stupendous party ever seen.

(doorbell ringing)

- Oh, there's Robin.

- Well, you're not going out
in that motorbike of his.

- We're going down to Brooklands
to watch the motor racing.

Tell him I won't be long.

Ooh, Hudson, that'll
be Captain Eliott.

Tell him I won't be long.

- Very good, Ms. Georgina.

Good morning, sir.

- Ah, good morning, Hudson.

- Ms. Worsley will be
down shortly, sir.

Major Bellamy is in
the morning room.

- Right.

-[James] Good morning, Robin.

- Morning, James.

- Would you care for
some coffee, sir?

- Oh, Hudson, that
would be splendid.

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

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

so I had to take
it all to pieces.

- Did you have time
for any breakfast, sir?

- Well, as a matter of fact--

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

- Oh, thanks awfully, Hudson.

(sighs deeply)

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

I wish I could afford a car

like that lucky devil
Harry Bakerfield.

- Mm, he has a rich,
if unpleasant, father.

- Yes, I'm devoted to my pa,

but he's going broke
nearly as fast as I am.

You know, I don't
think I'll be able

to hang on to the estate.

- Oh, Abbotswood?
- Yeah.

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

- Looks like it, probably
to old Stellenbosh.

You know, James, you and I
joined the wrong profession.

We should have been
war profiteers.

- You find a job yet?

- No, not a chance.

Do you ever think about
going over to Ireland?

They still want ex-officers
there for the auxiliaries.

- (chuckles) Not a job I fancy.

- No, and it would mean leave...

Did Georgina tell you we were
nearly arrested last night?

- Hmm, what for?

Well, Dolly had this
marvelous idea

of going along to Limehouse
to try and find some Chinamen

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

but all we found were a
couple of drunken sailors.

And then, the police arrived,

and said we were causing
a breach of the peace.

- Now, which, of
course, you were.

- Well, anyway, they arrested
the drunken sailors instead.

Tonight, we are going
to the Berkeley.

We think it is safer.

- Isn't it a bit expensive,
you know,

taking Georgina out every night?

- Oh, the Berkeley's
not too bad.

You can dance til
midnight on a jug of beer.

- Robin.

- Mm-hmm?

- I love Georgina dearly,

but, well, she's a
bit scatterbrained.

- Yes, I know.

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

all that nursing, but--

- Are you trying to warn me off?

- No, all I'm saying is you
mustn't depend on her too much.

- It's not a question
of depending.

Just that everything's
so bloody,

you've got to have something
to hang onto.

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

She thought you might
care for a little.

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

-[Rose] Many hands
make light work.

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

-[Lily] Ooh, it's ever so heavy.

- Here, I'll take it.

Where do you want it, Rose?

- Over there.
- All right.

You got that, Master William?

-[Alice] This carpet
looks really nice.

- Mm, it comes from Ms.
Elizabeth's room, see?

That's where she spilled
that pot of rouge.

Never quite been able
to get it off.

- Oh, it doesn't show,
though, Rose.

- Her Ladyship said

we've got to make the
room look really nice.

- Oh, I reckon you have, Rose.

Aren't you pleased?

- I liked it as it was before.

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

-[Daisy] Look, we'll
have to remember

to call it the schoolroom
now, won't we?

-[Alice] And that desk's
mine, not William's.

- I don't want it!

I don't want a governess,
either.

-[Rose] Well, you'll like
it when she gets here.

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

-[Alice] And you're not
to make it untidy.

- She's not coming til Thursday.

- Ah, you monster.

- Well, then, I'm not
gonna do this room again,

we've got the party to
think of Thursday.

Miss Alice, I'm surprised
at you.

- Lady Newbury, sir.

- Oh.
- Hello.

- Diana, nice to see you.

-[Diana] I just called in to see

what you're wearing
at the party.

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

-[Diana] What on earth's that?

- A French revolutionary;
literally, without trousers.

-[Diana] (scoffs) How
literally are you taking it?

- (chuckles) Not very, I
thought I'd leave that to Dolly.

What are you going as?

- I don't know, you've
just given me an idea.

-[James] Do you want a cocktail?

- No thanks, Bunny's
traveling up this morning

and insists that I shall
meet him for lunch.

- How are things between
you and Bunny?

- You know how things
are between me and Bunny.

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

- It's funny, isn't it.

During the war, I used to
think Bunny will be killed,

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

He wasn't killed.

If he had been, every armistice,

I should've been like
my sister-in-law,

sitting in a heavy black veil

with tears running
down my cheeks.

Do you think Georgina's
in love with Robin?

- I don't know.

I don't think she knows.

- I'm sure when we
were their age,

we always knew whether
we were in love or not.

- Yes, but that generation,
because of the war,

know too much.

They spend their time
trying to forget it.

- Oh, well, on with the dance.

(clock ticking)

- Do we need any other kind
of glasses, Mr. Hudson?

- I have no idea, Frederick.

It depends what bottles
the guests bring.

-[Lily] Do you know,

Rose said that at Lord
Pirbright's house

they just tipped all the
bottles into the bath,

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

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

We will serve champagne when
the guests first arrive,

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

In due course, these will
be opened and served.

In the appropriate glasses.

-[Frederick] Yes, Mr. Hudson.

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

It's making my ears go pop.

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

I love blowing up balloons.

- Oh, thanks.

Where are they gonna
go when they're done?

- In the hall, Edward.

I understand Lady Dolly is
bringing a piece of a statuary

to complete the decorations.

Oh, Mrs. Bridges, you
have not forgotten

supper for the governess,
have you?

- Well, she'll just have
had soup and bon bon

and some of my almond slice.

I hope that's good
enough for her.

Trust a governess to want a tray

when I'm here doing
deviled lobsters.

-[Ruby] Why can't she
eat it in servant's hall,

we could lay it on
corner end tables--

- That is out of the
question, Ruby.

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

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

I'm trying to get this
galantine out.

- Are you sure that's
right, Ms. Georgina?

- Yes, of course it is, Daisy.

-[Rose] Ms. Georgina?

- Oh, Rose, is that my crown?

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

Now, where's your costume?

(Daisy clears throat)

What?

- Liberte, egalite, and the
boring brotherhood of man.

- Oh, James, you look splendid.

- I feel a bloody idiot.

I can't dance in these shoes.

- Of course you can.

- Yes, well, come
on, downstairs.

What the devil is that?

-[Hudson] Please, excuse me.

-[Man] Would you direct
the whole scene because--

- Be very careful, now.

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

it must be at the
foot of the stairs

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

Whee! (laughs)

-[Georgina] Dolly, it's
the most obscene thing

I've ever seen.

It's gorgeous!

-[Man] Can we cover it with
a fig leaf or something?

- Dolly can part with
some of her vine leaves.

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

-[Georgina] You're not
putting balloons on it.

That's even worse.

- Then, at midnight, when
we untie the balloons

and they float away, taking
all our inhibitions with them.

We are as free as nature
first made man

when wild in woods, the
noble savage ran.

Georgina, you look divine,
what are you?

- The Statue of Liberty.

- I'm a wood nymph.

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

I expect to be chased
like mad all night.

- I'll start now.

(raucous chattering)

-[Dolly] Oh.

Good evening.

-[Miss Treadwell] Good evening.

- Miss Treadwell.

- How do you do?

I'm Georgina Worsley, and,
well, this is Major Bellamy.

-[Mr. Hudson] How do you do?

Perhaps you would care to
see your room with Frederick.

- Tommy, I think we
ought to prime ourselves

with some cocktails
in the morning room.

I'm so sorry, we seem to
be a bit disorganized.

- Oh, that's quite all
right, Major Bellamy.

- Yes, well, Rose will
look after you.

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

- I thought the children
would be in bed.

- Oh, well, they would've
been normally, yeah,

but what with the party
and you coming,

we couldn't stop them.

- Oh, I see.

- What's she like, Ed?

- What, she didn't say much,
and just sat in the back.

Wouldn't sit in front with me.

- That was quite
correct, Edward.

- Well, Her Ladyship always
sits in front with me.

- I am Miss Treadwell.

You must be Alice,
how do you do?

- Hello.

- Stand up, William,
and shake hands nicely.

How do you do?

- Hello.

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

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

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

- They're wearing funny clothes.

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

I'll see you in the morning.

We have breakfast in the
dining room, of course?

-[Rose] Oh, yes.

- Goodnight, then.

- Goodnight, Miss Treadwell.

- Goodnight.

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

- They have, Mrs. Bridges.

A negro band.

- Negro?

You mean black men?

(jazz music)

- Oh, Robin!

I thought you'd never get here.

Where have you been?

-[Robin] Well, I couldn't
get my horns to stick on.

- What on earth are you?

- L'apres-midi d'un faune.

- Oh, wonderful.

Come on, let's go and dance.

-[Robin] Yes!

- Frederick, look sharp.

- Yes, Mr. Hudson.

- Oh, Tommy, you're
like an octopus.

Go away and find Dolly,
she likes it.

- Dunno how you resist me.

Mother says I'm irresistible.

- Go and dance with
your mother, then.

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

gambling away the
family fortune.

- Bunny, what are
you doing in here?

Why aren't you dancing?

- Well, you know I hate dancing.

Unless you'd like to.

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

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

- (sighs) So hot.

- Would you like some champagne?

I've got my own secret
cache here.

Here you are.

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

for this sort of thing?

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

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

They're meant to hurt you.

- Oh, Diana, I'm sure I'd know

if you really meant to hurt me.

-[Diana] (chuckles) I wonder.

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

Come on, Diana, it's our dance.

-[Diana] If you say so.

- Yep, shimmy shake.

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

- Yeah, kept you up
to scratch, old son.

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

- I'll tell you what, Bunny
ought to go find the dowager

who was asking for the
foxtrot, give it a shake.

-[Robin] What's in here?

-[Georgina] Oh!

-[Robin] Ah!

- Brushes and brooms. (laughs)

- Let's go in here and
get our breath back.

We'll be as good as gold.

Life's hopeless in
this country now.

I think I shall go abroad.

- Oh, don't do that.

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

Well, I wouldn't mind
if you came with me.

- Mm, I'd quite like
to go to America.

-[Robin] Well, let's go, then.

- Would be rather fun.

-[Robin] We could go,
if we were married.

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

-[Robin] Of course you do.

- I don't.

- You love me, I know you do.

- Robin.

I'm awfully fond of you,

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

and nobody else.

- Oh, but you wouldn't have to.

We'd still keep all our friends,

but we'd just always
have each other,

as someone to hang onto.

- I don't want anyone
to hang onto.

Look, I tried to hang on
to people during the war,

and they were always killed.

So, I said I'd never hang
on to anyone ever again.

Come on, we've got
our breath back.

Let's go and dance.

- I can't live without
you, Georgina.

- Robin.

- I mean it.

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

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

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

Are you coming?

- I mean it.

(jazz music and loud chattering)

- They say there's some deviled
lobster that's upstairs.

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

-[Mrs. Bridges] Oh, good.

- We could do with
that other one.

-[Mrs. Bridges] Oh, well,
would you get me that

from the larder, then, Daisy?

Have they started on
the puddings yet?

- Yes, but they're holding
up all right.

- How about the galantine?

- Oh, plenty of that left.

- Hey, save some for us!

- Oh, yes, we only
need one minute.

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

I suppose them black men do eat

the same sort of things
as ordinary people.

- Well, I don't see why not.

- You got the band's supper
ready yet, Mrs. Bridges?

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

- Edward, you'd better
go upstairs

to the gentleman's club room.

Sitting Bull's torn his costume

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

- Right.

Don't it involve me.

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

- Oh, I'll find you some supper
if you find me some booze.

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

- Oh, yes, of course he is.

The Little Tramp
on the open road.

That's why we love him.

- Hell and damnation.

- It's quite all right, sir.

- I shall never understand

by what stretch of
the imagination

Bunny's costume could
be described

as an illustration of freedom.

- Oliver said that the
costumes people chose

were a reflection of what
they really wanted to be,

so you see.

- Geraldine always wanted
to be an incompetent tramp.

- And Bunny, in his
inmost self, is--

- A clown.

- Not a clown, Pierrot.

I'm sorry, I was told
we could come

dressed as we like tonight.

Remember going to those
concert parties

at Littlehampton when
we were children?

- So, Bunny in his
heart's a concert party.

- A clown!

- No, no, Pierrot.

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

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

-[Rose] Oh, excuse me.

- Oh, thank you, Rose.
- Very well done, Rose.

-[Rose] This way, madame.

- Do you think at heart
that I am a revolutionary?

-[Georgina] Oh, no, James.

-[Dolly] Oh, probably, darling,
in your heart of hearts,

you hate this boring
life for what it is,

and wish to change it
for something different.

- I found a splendid pudding,
a sort of almond-y cream.

I've eaten most of it.

You don't want any, do you?

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

There's some very strange
people here.

Are you sure you invited
all of them?

- I'm quite sure we didn't.

- That man that came with
Lettie dressed as a monkey.

He's swinging from a
chandelier in the drawing room.

And Hudson, obviously
wishing he was dead,

has climbed up on a table.

He's trying to stop him before
he brings the ceiling down.

- Anybody want to
go and help him?

- Stop, enough.

The whole point of tonight

is that we should have
absolutely no responsibility,

free and easy.

(loud banging)

- There goes the chandelier.

- Delicious trifle.

(others laughing)

(William screaming)

- I woke up and there
were goblins in the room--

- No, no, no, no.
- Horrible goblins!

- No, there were no goblins.

There is nothing to
be frightened of.

- Horrible goblins.
- I promise you, William.

No, you must have been dreaming,

you must have been dreaming.

You must have a nightmare.

- Fetch Major Bellamy.

-[Miss Treadwell] Nothing
to be frightened of.

- Mr. Hudson, I thought
I-- (gasp)

-[Alice] What's the
matter, what's happened?

- Go back to bed at once, Alice.

- What's happened?

- Okay, you must get
back to bed, Ms. Alice.

Come, a gentleman just
fell down, that's all.

- Hudson.

Are you sure he's--

- I'm afraid so, sir.

Shall Frederick go and
fetch the police, sir?

- Oh, the police?

Do we have to?

- Then I will telephone
the doctor.

- Yes.

-[Mr. Hudson] Frederick,
this way.

-[Georgina] James, Fred said

that Robin had had
an accident, what--

- No, no, no, no.

-[Mrs. Bridges] You pour
out, would you, Daisy?

I feel all of us tremble.

Where's Mr. Hudson?

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

-[Mrs. Bridges] Oh, to
think of just such a thing

happening in this house.

- I keep thinking of
him standing there,

gazing up at Ms. Georgina's
window.

-[Mrs. Bridges] Glad I sent
him up that bit of York ham.

- Oh, thank you, Rose.

-[Mrs. Bridges] Thank you.

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

if there'd have to
be an inquest?

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

The young gentleman having--

-[Ruby] Will we have
to give evidence?

-[Mrs. Bridges] You
won't, certainly, Ruby,

you don't know nothing.

-[Frederick] Who
do you think will

have to give evidence,
Mr. Hudson?

- Well, Miss Treadwell,

because she first found
Captain Eliott's body,

and I suppose myself,
and possibly the major.

- And Ms. Georgina
won't have to, will she?

- I trust not, Daisy.

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

- It was in his pocket.

Well, it fell out when
I put his cloak down.

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

- What, out of his pocket?

I couldn't do that.

- That's what he must
have been doing

when I saw him go upstairs.

It must have been
to fetch it then.

- You saw him?

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

Well, it wasn't my fault!

(clock ticking)

- Jolly good of you
to come, Bunny.

- Well, I thought I'd
just pop round,

see if there's anything
I can do.

Don't suppose there is,
though, is there?

- No, not unless you fancy
seeing his parents for me.

They traveled up from
Wiltshire this morning.

They're staying at Rand's.

At least during the war,

we only had to write
letters to the parents.

We didn't have to
go and see them.

- I suppose he'll be
buried at Abbotswood?

- Yes.

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

- What?

- The war.

Georgina thinks we
can, but we can't.

How's Diana?

- I don't know, she's
a bit upset.

She spent the morning in bed.

-[James] Yes, yes,
so did Georgina.

- You know...

Thank you, Hudson.

He didn't leave a
letter, did he?

-[James] No, thank God.

-[Bunny] Hm.

- Rose, Ms. Georgina's
locked her room.

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

She's up.

-[Rose] Well, give her a call.

- Ms. Georgina?

Ms. Georgina, I've brought
your breakfast.

-[Georgina] I don't want any.

- Then why not just have
a cup of coffee?

-[Georgina] Come in, Daisy.

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

-[Georgina] Oh, I'm sorry.

- I'll take that in to her.

-[Rose] Well, Miss Treadwell,

Ms. Georgina's probably
feeling a bit upset.

- Well, naturally.

-[Rose] She might prefer
to see someone familiar.

- Thank you, Rose, but
I think I know best

how to deal with Ms. Georgina.

I, myself, was engaged
to an officer

who was killed in the war.

I think I know how she feels.

-[Georgina] Oh, goodness,
what a lot of people.

Good morning, Miss Treadwell.

-[Miss Treadwell] Morning.

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

I'm going down to
Croydon Aerodrome

to see Mr. Bakerfield's
new plane,

have lunch with some
friends of his.

Oh, and I'm going to Lady
Cunard's this evening,

so would you put out
my silver dress?

I shan't have much
time to change.

- Really, Ms. Worsley,

I should have thought
after last night--

- Yes, it did rather spoil
the party, didn't it?

- Rose, I like the children
to have milk

and digestive biscuits
at 11 o'clock.

Will you bring it up, please?

- I will inform Lily,
Miss Treadwell,

and she will see to it.

(string music)