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You know what they say
about a watched pot.

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But they're so late.

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In a few hours, this house
will be filled with New York's finest.

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Well, I would say New York's finest
is already right here.

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You'll crease my dress.

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Why, thank you, Mr. Colonel, sir.

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Well, I don't give a fig
about anyone else coming.

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Actually, Mrs. Paramore responded
and said she was looking forward to it.

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But I don't give a fig about any of them.

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Well, Patti, both daughters triumphant.

11
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Why, even the papers
have heard of the duke's arrival.

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You are good to keep me company
while Theo's away. Are you bored?

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Not at all.

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I am. And you never bore me, generally.

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I was hoping for diverting conversation,

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but you're unusually short of
disgraceful stories.

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Just tired. Late nights,
you know how it is.

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Not recently, unfortunately.

19
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But it's not that. Are you in love?

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Sorry?

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Your mother held her shoulders like that
after she met your father.

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Some kind of dancing injury,
if I know her.

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Guy, in the nicest way, what are you doing
here with your shoulders like that?

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What are you waiting for?

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Theo's a duke, poor lamb.

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He has to carry the burden of waiting
for a suitable girl.

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But I don't know if you'd noticed,
you're not that important.

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Well, thank you.

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If she's suitable to you,

30
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don't be like your father,
politely waiting for life to happen.

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Your mother grabbed life.

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When she met your father by that lake,

33
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she didn't sit around hoping
he'd come to her.

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She declared her love in a letter,

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wrote it there and then on the bank
and took it to give to him.

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Your grandmother was appalled.

37
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But your father, well,
he loved her her entire life.

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We all did.

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A life without love is a life half-lived.

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And from my grand old age, Guy,
let me promise you,

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you're a long time dead
and you're even longer old.

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Now, pass me those potatoes.

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- Thank you.
- You're welcome.

44
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Well, well, well,
what time do you call this?

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- Oh, sweetheart. Welcome home.
- Hi, Dad.

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Nan. Come on, my girls.

47
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Is she doing her funny arms dance?

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Go, go.

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My little girls.

50
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My two little girls are home.

51
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- Colonel.
- Yes.

52
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Mrs. St. George. So very pleased
to make your acquaintance.

53
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Oh, well, the pleasure is all ours.

54
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I gotta hug you!

55
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It's so good to meet you.

56
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And Jinny got herself a lord.

57
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Check it out, Madison Avenue!

58
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Let us get your bags.

59
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No, we didn't want to impose.
So we're staying at the Grand.

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The Grand. What a treat.

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- Someone wants to say hello.
- Everybody's here.

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- Do you wanna hold her?
- Yes. Yes, please.

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Miss Testvalley,
both my daughters happy and settled,

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and it's all down to you.

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Yes.

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Well, we do our best, of course.
But it's not what you're used to, I know.

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We picked all the furniture ourselves,

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and I'm afraid the paintings
aren't the least bit old.

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- Is that a dove in a cage?
- Yes.

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We're having a party
with food and people--

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No, we know what a party is.
Why are we having one?

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To welcome you home.

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We've had so many RSVPs, you have no idea.

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The Astors, the Cliffords.
Perhaps even the Paramores.

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But why is there a dove in a cage?

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Mrs. Cooper-Lockhart had a heron.
It's to do with birds being chic.

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And my color scheme is dove-themed.

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Excellent. Now, who's ready
for a man's drink

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away from all this twittering? Gentlemen.

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Girls, quick, quick.
You all need to get washed.

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I am so sorry. I did not know
that there was going to be a party--

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No, I'm intrigued.
Will the doves be let out at some point?

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Will Mrs. Somebody-Somebody
bring her heron?

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I think anything at all is possible.

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Darling, please.
The guests will be arriving any minute

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- and I wanna show you off.
- Why?

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Well, because I'm your mother.

88
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Well, look who's lowering the tone.

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Lizzy!

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- Lizzy.
- Lizzy!

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- I missed you. Hi.
- Hi.

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- So happy to see you!
- What have you been doing?

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- Or should I say who have you been doing?
- Yes!

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Who's the lucky man
keeping you here and away from us?

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I couldn't care less
about boys and marriage.

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Lizzy? Who's stolen Lizzy?

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Now, there's a party
that's about to start.

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So, let's get you all dressed.

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Happy to see you home.

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Gentlemen, shall we?

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So sorry. Sorry.
I think I gave you a telegram to send.

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- Yes, sir.
- But I need it back.

103
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I have to get it back.
I have to get that--

104
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Took a while for them to transcribe, sir.
And not cheap, I'm afraid, being so long.

105
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Right.

106
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Right. Yes, it was a lengthy one.

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Thank you very much.

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So sorry to--

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My two favorite dancers.
Listen, go have fun.

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Duke!

111
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Is it duke or duke?

112
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Anyhow, so you have your drink?
Sorry it's not tea.

113
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Will Nan be joining us?

114
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She'll no doubt be getting
into trouble somewhere.

115
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So, how did you convince
our little free spirit to say yes?

116
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The minute she could walk,
no one could catch her.

117
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Well, I think I'm just hoping
to walk alongside her.

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Nice.
That's a nice line, Nan's a lucky girl.

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Mrs. Paramore, welcome.
I know how in demand you are.

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We wouldn't have missed it.

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You've gone for doves, I see.

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The Astors only had canaries at theirs,
and they didn't look well.

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The canaries or the Astors?

124
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Both.

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Congratulations, Mrs. St. George.
How very far you've come.

126
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Nan?

127
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Nan?

128
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Well, I'm just gonna wait
right here then, okay?

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Nan, you said you wouldn't today.

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Now that I'm actually in this house,
I can't simply just make my face pretend.

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Girls.

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Girls.

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Well, I'm happy for them.

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For my part, the doves are a step too far.
But Patricia's never shy of excess.

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Who is, in New York?

136
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Whereas if it had been me--

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- Lizzy, if you hadn't--
- Disappointed the family?

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Let us all down?

139
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Decided, for whatever reason,
ill-health or over-excitement,

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to take yourself away, perhaps we'd be
holding a party of this kind.

141
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Well, I'm just saying, you were the pick
of that ball on that staircase.

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Everyone said so. And if you'd only agree
to go back to England and try it out--

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- What?
- Oh, yes, she refuses.

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Now that she's met the queen,
she thinks she is one.

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- Perhaps if I had had daughters more--
- Agreeable?

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- Obedient?
- Appealing!

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There, you've made me say it.
I've said it, appealing.

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- I have to go find Jinny.
- Wait, Lizzy.

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I'm just saying, if you'd both been
more open to the process,

150
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this could've been our party.

151
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Yeah. Well, only without the doves, right?

152
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The doves are a step too far, certainly.

153
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In polite society, you don't actually
drink a drink, you know?

154
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I believe you do drink drinks, Mother.

155
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Mabel, I was a girl once and thought
I knew what was what.

156
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But I'm afraid gradually you're forced
to realize, you know nothing at all.

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When the others go back to England,
you'll be staying here with me.

158
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What? No, I can't.

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I'm afraid if Lizzy's here
then so are you.

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What would people say if I have
daughters on different continents?

161
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Your sister has ruined it for us all.

162
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Mother, please, she just--

163
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Nan, what is it?

164
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Everyone's down there.

165
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I'm nobody to you.
You have never been my mother.

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Everything you've told me
my entire life has been a complete--

167
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Jinny, go downstairs, please.

168
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I'm so sorry. This is all my fault.

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This isn't about faults, darling.
Now, go downstairs and enjoy your moment.

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Shoulders back. Head high.

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Sorry!

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Sorry.

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I don't believe we've met.

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- Elizabeth. Lizzy.
- It's a pleasure.

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There you are. I'm so sorry.

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- I was just-- Are you having a good time?
- Yes.

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I've just been introduced to Elizabeth.

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But you know Lizzy. She stayed
at your house and at Runnymede.

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There were rather
a lot of people there that weekend.

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Of course, I--

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We were all running around.

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I mean, it was a bit of a blur.

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I'm sorry, I just--

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I'm sorry.

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If I had never been born
or if I'd never existed--

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Don't, please.

187
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It would have been easier. It would have
been better for you and for Daddy.

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The whole family must have been
whispering and nudging,

189
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and having to stop talking
whenever I walked into a room.

190
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It was never like that.

191
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Why did you lie? Every day you woke up,
and you spent the whole day lying to me.

192
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And then the next day you got up,
and you lied to me again.

193
00:15:52,995 --> 00:15:56,874
- Darling, we've made mistakes.
- You've made mistakes.

194
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I'm not yours. My eyes aren't yours.

195
00:16:00,961 --> 00:16:02,754
My hands aren't yours.
My feet aren't yours.

196
00:16:02,754 --> 00:16:05,716
And it was no wonder that I was close
to Daddy when I was small.

197
00:16:06,300 --> 00:16:10,345
I used to feel so bad when I was
so glad that he came home.

198
00:16:11,263 --> 00:16:17,060
But it was because he was my daddy,
and you were nobody. You're nobody.

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- Please, wait--
- I thought being here would help.

200
00:16:21,148 --> 00:16:22,733
That if I could just talk to you...

201
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But you're just parading me to all of
New York, and you're making me lie

202
00:16:27,237 --> 00:16:28,780
and I can't look at you.

203
00:16:28,780 --> 00:16:33,702
We just need to gather ourselves.
Darling, come sit down.

204
00:16:34,912 --> 00:16:38,332
Your father's looking after Theo.
We can just talk.

205
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And you're making me lie to Theo.

206
00:16:43,629 --> 00:16:45,631
How can he marry me
when he doesn't know who I am?

207
00:16:45,631 --> 00:16:48,759
When I don't even know who I am?
My whole life has been a lie.

208
00:16:49,676 --> 00:16:50,969
I need to tell him the truth.

209
00:16:54,306 --> 00:16:57,768
Nan? Nan?

210
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Nan.

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00:17:11,281 --> 00:17:12,324
Nan!

212
00:17:32,553 --> 00:17:33,929
Mrs. St. George, can I just--

213
00:17:37,474 --> 00:17:40,143
- There you are. I've been meaning to--
- Not now, Lavinia.

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Theo.

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00:17:49,486 --> 00:17:51,071
Here she is, the best-looking

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00:17:51,071 --> 00:17:53,490
- mother of the bride I ever saw.
- No, stop. Where's Nan?

217
00:17:53,490 --> 00:17:54,950
- You know it's time for--
- I have to go.

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Ladies and gentlemen,
we know how heartbroken you were

219
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to miss the wedding of the year.

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So by way of second best,

221
00:18:01,957 --> 00:18:05,085
will you please help me give
a big New York welcome

222
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to Lord and Lady Seadown.

223
00:18:12,968 --> 00:18:16,263
Come on, it's not a first dance
until you've done it in New York.

224
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Oh, come on. Let's show these children
how it's done, Patti.

225
00:18:24,688 --> 00:18:26,148
Tracy, I have to talk to you.

226
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Get your hands off me!

227
00:19:02,434 --> 00:19:03,560
For pity's sake, Patti.

228
00:19:03,560 --> 00:19:05,854
If you don't want to dance,
you just have to--

229
00:19:08,815 --> 00:19:09,983
Nan knows.

230
00:19:17,533 --> 00:19:19,826
I guess they just thought
it would be nice for us to--

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To be paraded?
To stage a fake first dance?

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00:19:25,457 --> 00:19:28,752
Well apt, I suppose, because in America,
everything is a reproduction.

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Does the duke know?

234
00:19:37,845 --> 00:19:39,346
She says she'll tell him.

235
00:19:39,346 --> 00:19:41,765
Well, then she's a fool. She'll lose him.

236
00:19:41,765 --> 00:19:44,726
A duke can never marry a girl like that.

237
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- What about her? What about me?
- All right.

238
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I'll fix it.

239
00:19:51,483 --> 00:19:55,112
This isn't one of those times
you can go in and make her laugh, Tracy.

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Have one of your little nudges
about the world together,

241
00:19:57,906 --> 00:20:00,951
about how silly and how amusing
I always am.

242
00:20:01,994 --> 00:20:03,829
This is entirely your fault.

243
00:20:03,829 --> 00:20:07,791
Do you have any idea what we've sacrificed
for your utter belief

244
00:20:07,791 --> 00:20:10,002
that you can do exactly as you please?

245
00:20:10,002 --> 00:20:12,379
Well, I must say,
when I look at that party out there,

246
00:20:12,379 --> 00:20:14,548
with all those orchids and that food
and that furniture,

247
00:20:14,548 --> 00:20:16,884
it doesn't seem to me much
like anybody's making any sacrifices.

248
00:20:16,884 --> 00:20:19,595
I don't care for a stick of
that furniture, not a stick!

249
00:20:19,595 --> 00:20:21,471
You have turned us into liars!

250
00:20:23,640 --> 00:20:27,853
I have battled to keep this family
together, and I will continue to do so.

251
00:20:29,396 --> 00:20:32,232
And if it will be all right,
it is because I will make it all right.

252
00:20:37,654 --> 00:20:38,655
I love New York!

253
00:20:38,655 --> 00:20:40,199
New York loves you.

254
00:20:41,491 --> 00:20:42,951
I can breathe here.

255
00:20:44,661 --> 00:20:45,787
I feel free.

256
00:20:46,705 --> 00:20:47,956
Just like--

257
00:20:48,457 --> 00:20:51,043
Just like when I was a little boy,
and I could just run around

258
00:20:51,043 --> 00:20:52,044
all day long

259
00:20:52,628 --> 00:20:54,463
before I had to wear such tight breeches.

260
00:20:55,047 --> 00:20:57,466
You know, I do like you in looser pants.

261
00:20:58,300 --> 00:21:01,220
God, do you remember those
nights before the wedding?

262
00:21:01,220 --> 00:21:02,971
Those afternoons.

263
00:21:02,971 --> 00:21:04,181
Those mornings.

264
00:21:05,933 --> 00:21:06,934
Shall we...

265
00:21:08,143 --> 00:21:09,686
In the St. George house?

266
00:21:10,187 --> 00:21:13,607
Well, Conchita, this is America.

267
00:21:15,609 --> 00:21:16,777
Land of the free.

268
00:21:18,362 --> 00:21:19,363
Come on.

269
00:21:28,288 --> 00:21:30,374
- Jinny.
- There you are.

270
00:21:30,374 --> 00:21:33,085
- We wanted to say congratulations.
- Congratulations.

271
00:21:33,085 --> 00:21:38,048
You married a real English gentleman.
A lord, no less.

272
00:21:38,048 --> 00:21:40,008
- And we heard you two had--
- You eloped!

273
00:21:41,635 --> 00:21:44,388
- So romantic.
- So fabulous.

274
00:21:44,388 --> 00:21:48,100
So, how is England?
Do you live in a palace?

275
00:21:48,100 --> 00:21:49,893
Is everything really old?

276
00:21:49,893 --> 00:21:53,981
It is, but it's old and beautiful,
not old and dirty, you know.

277
00:21:53,981 --> 00:21:56,608
Lords and ladies have exquisite taste.

278
00:21:56,608 --> 00:21:59,111
I always knew Jinny would go far.

279
00:21:59,903 --> 00:22:02,281
- If I didn't say, I thought it.
- You did.

280
00:22:02,281 --> 00:22:06,660
- And so did I.
- And that gown Jenny, it's so elegant.

281
00:22:06,660 --> 00:22:09,705
So elegant.

282
00:22:11,164 --> 00:22:13,625
Yes, I believe I've already said it.

283
00:22:23,760 --> 00:22:26,513
Lizzy, what are you playing at?

284
00:22:26,513 --> 00:22:28,891
If we have to stay here with Mother,
I shall die.

285
00:22:28,891 --> 00:22:30,184
You won't die.

286
00:22:30,184 --> 00:22:31,768
How do you know? I might.

287
00:22:32,477 --> 00:22:35,981
- This all used to feel so familiar and--
- Safe.

288
00:22:37,191 --> 00:22:41,403
- Yes. And now it's--
- It's different.

289
00:22:46,158 --> 00:22:48,243
Is this still because Seadown chose her?

290
00:22:51,663 --> 00:22:55,834
Mabel, you are so much more like Mother
than you will ever see

291
00:22:55,834 --> 00:22:59,922
because you know nothing at all
about anything.

292
00:23:28,116 --> 00:23:31,078
- So, tell us more about your--
- Big castle.

293
00:23:32,621 --> 00:23:35,123
- It's not really a castle.
- What's it called?

294
00:23:35,707 --> 00:23:38,502
Tintagel... Castle.

295
00:23:41,713 --> 00:23:44,341
Well, I bet
the St. George's can't believe their luck.

296
00:23:44,341 --> 00:23:49,513
I mean, look around. It's all
rather gauche, isn't it? This new money?

297
00:23:51,515 --> 00:23:54,101
Well, you could say
America is all new money.

298
00:23:55,435 --> 00:23:57,437
Excuse me, I must find my fiancé.

299
00:24:51,992 --> 00:24:55,037
If you find any bills in there
you wanna pay, you go right ahead.

300
00:24:55,037 --> 00:24:58,081
- Be my guest.
- Jinny told me there were letters.

301
00:25:04,713 --> 00:25:08,967
Funny thing about getting older,
stories you thought were long buried--

302
00:25:09,718 --> 00:25:14,348
Well, they rear their heads again
and they don't always make you feel good.

303
00:25:14,890 --> 00:25:16,517
How does it make you feel?

304
00:25:17,142 --> 00:25:21,855
Wanting me to talk about my feelings, huh?
Well, you get that from your mother.

305
00:25:28,862 --> 00:25:30,155
You wanna know the truth?

306
00:25:31,573 --> 00:25:32,574
Old.

307
00:25:33,742 --> 00:25:36,078
Old is what I feel, Nan.

308
00:25:36,912 --> 00:25:38,622
Seems impossible when you're young,
I know.

309
00:25:38,622 --> 00:25:40,958
But that way you feel
when you're running and laughing

310
00:25:41,667 --> 00:25:43,919
and dancing with those friends
of yours, you--

311
00:25:45,546 --> 00:25:46,630
Well, one day...

312
00:25:49,341 --> 00:25:51,385
you will follow that feeling anywhere.

313
00:25:52,094 --> 00:25:53,303
Ask anyone my age,

314
00:25:53,303 --> 00:25:56,807
we're, all of us,
just pretending to be grown-ups.

315
00:25:59,977 --> 00:26:02,020
You know, when your belt's bursting,

316
00:26:02,020 --> 00:26:04,398
your hair is thin on top,

317
00:26:04,398 --> 00:26:08,360
and suddenly a beautiful young girl smiles
at you and laughs at your joke...

318
00:26:08,360 --> 00:26:11,238
Well, you know,
a man can't be blamed for seeing.

319
00:26:11,238 --> 00:26:13,365
Hell, she wants you to see it.

320
00:26:14,074 --> 00:26:15,200
And meanwhile, yes,

321
00:26:15,200 --> 00:26:18,287
your mother is still
the finest-looking woman in the land,

322
00:26:18,287 --> 00:26:24,251
but, you know, she gets tired and cranky.
So, occasionally the--

323
00:26:24,251 --> 00:26:27,129
Where is she? My real mother.

324
00:26:30,215 --> 00:26:31,466
Oh, sweetheart...

325
00:26:33,510 --> 00:26:37,639
Her family sent word that she passed on
not long after you were born.

326
00:26:40,851 --> 00:26:41,852
And who was she?

327
00:26:46,315 --> 00:26:47,316
We--

328
00:26:48,108 --> 00:26:49,193
Well, she was--

329
00:26:52,279 --> 00:26:54,198
It was a long time ago. And--

330
00:26:54,198 --> 00:26:55,407
Well, what'd she look like?

331
00:26:57,284 --> 00:26:59,369
I expect she was very beautiful.

332
00:26:59,369 --> 00:27:01,371
That much I can tell you because--

333
00:27:01,371 --> 00:27:05,125
Well, you know, look at you.

334
00:27:07,336 --> 00:27:08,545
And what was her name?

335
00:27:15,886 --> 00:27:17,846
I didn't get a proper look at her, Nan.

336
00:27:23,894 --> 00:27:25,312
Nan.

337
00:27:34,321 --> 00:27:40,285
Being away from New York, Mother,
I'm so much more myself.

338
00:27:40,285 --> 00:27:41,703
I imagine.

339
00:27:42,329 --> 00:27:45,624
And of course,
I've barely missed you at all.

340
00:27:47,918 --> 00:27:49,169
So...

341
00:27:49,837 --> 00:27:54,091
is there anyone in England like us?

342
00:27:55,175 --> 00:27:56,218
Like you?

343
00:27:58,303 --> 00:28:00,097
Oh, well, you should see them all.

344
00:28:02,266 --> 00:28:04,268
There's not a single person like me.

345
00:28:40,846 --> 00:28:41,805
Thank you.

346
00:29:01,074 --> 00:29:02,576
<i>My dearest Nan,</i>

347
00:29:03,869 --> 00:29:06,538
<i>my feelings for you can no longer
be kept secret.</i>

348
00:29:08,081 --> 00:29:11,043
<i>I am weak. And I'm confused.</i>

349
00:29:11,752 --> 00:29:15,088
<i>But Nan, my love for you is neither.</i>

350
00:29:18,509 --> 00:29:20,469
So, what did she say?

351
00:29:21,720 --> 00:29:25,432
I talked to them both.
She didn't speak, and he didn't listen.

352
00:29:27,309 --> 00:29:31,563
He said that pretty girls give him a look
which they hope he'll notice.

353
00:29:32,314 --> 00:29:33,690
And he can't be blamed.

354
00:29:34,691 --> 00:29:36,652
How can Mother even stand it?

355
00:29:37,402 --> 00:29:40,572
I think she just gets on with the day.

356
00:29:41,615 --> 00:29:43,700
I suppose that's what marriage becomes.

357
00:29:44,868 --> 00:29:48,163
Daddy will always be impossible.

358
00:29:49,122 --> 00:29:52,793
But Nan, Mother, our mother, she--

359
00:29:53,752 --> 00:29:55,879
she loves you entirely.

360
00:29:58,173 --> 00:29:59,633
Fix your face, darling.

361
00:30:46,013 --> 00:30:47,431
You got to join the party.

362
00:30:49,099 --> 00:30:50,642
Almost like I'm a real person.

363
00:30:52,102 --> 00:30:54,980
- Is Minnie...
- Safely asleep upstairs.

364
00:30:59,026 --> 00:31:00,611
He's so carefree here.

365
00:31:00,611 --> 00:31:03,405
None of those children will
ever be carefree.

366
00:31:08,827 --> 00:31:12,456
Growing up in the Brightlingsea house,
I'm afraid that's just not possible.

367
00:31:13,332 --> 00:31:14,333
They get...

368
00:31:16,210 --> 00:31:17,753
extinguished.

369
00:31:22,549 --> 00:31:24,343
We have to get away from his family.

370
00:31:27,095 --> 00:31:28,889
Lady Marable, if I may,

371
00:31:28,889 --> 00:31:32,851
Lord Richard is an Englishman,
a firstborn and a lord.

372
00:31:34,186 --> 00:31:37,898
Yes, but look at him.
Why wouldn't he choose this?

373
00:31:38,690 --> 00:31:42,194
He may not always feel it under that roof,
but in England he has power.

374
00:31:43,904 --> 00:31:47,199
No Englishman will ever choose
freedom over power.

375
00:32:14,810 --> 00:32:16,436
Have you had anything to eat?

376
00:32:45,299 --> 00:32:47,134
You're right, of course.

377
00:32:49,136 --> 00:32:50,846
I've made mistakes. Plenty.

378
00:32:51,972 --> 00:32:54,266
But I wouldn't believe any mother
who claimed she hadn't.

379
00:32:55,350 --> 00:32:58,103
And I was doing my very best. I was.

380
00:32:59,730 --> 00:33:01,732
I may not have carried you in here.

381
00:33:05,152 --> 00:33:10,449
But from the second I saw you,
I promise you, I have carried you in here.

382
00:33:21,835 --> 00:33:23,337
The day you came to me

383
00:33:25,172 --> 00:33:29,843
was the best and the hardest day
of my life.

384
00:33:33,472 --> 00:33:35,724
My heart was broken
because of your father.

385
00:33:38,519 --> 00:33:42,189
But it had no idea what was coming,
this old heart of mine.

386
00:33:44,191 --> 00:33:48,111
With your eyes and your little fingers.

387
00:33:48,820 --> 00:33:52,324
And your thighs,
I could grab a whole handful.

388
00:33:54,660 --> 00:33:56,787
And don't tell me
that your eyes aren't mine,

389
00:33:58,121 --> 00:34:01,792
because I've stared into them night
after night when you wouldn't settle.

390
00:34:03,919 --> 00:34:08,422
And your fingers are mine,
because I kiss them again and again.

391
00:34:09,882 --> 00:34:11,552
You nestled into my heart

392
00:34:11,552 --> 00:34:17,558
and made it so much bigger and brighter
and more important.

393
00:34:20,435 --> 00:34:23,105
When you were this high
and you wanted to climb,

394
00:34:23,105 --> 00:34:25,023
which you always did...

395
00:34:26,608 --> 00:34:29,485
I used to turn my back,
so you wouldn't see that I was scared.

396
00:34:30,779 --> 00:34:34,283
- But you were?
- Are you serious?

397
00:34:34,949 --> 00:34:37,953
I'm a mother and a woman.

398
00:34:37,953 --> 00:34:42,081
And both of those are terrifying
every single day.

399
00:34:43,375 --> 00:34:47,295
But I didn't want you to see from my face
that I was scared for you.

400
00:34:48,213 --> 00:34:50,382
I so wanted you to be fearless.

401
00:34:52,134 --> 00:34:54,094
And if you'd known, if we'd told you,

402
00:34:55,971 --> 00:34:57,723
you'd have been Nan with a secret.

403
00:34:59,266 --> 00:35:01,852
Nan with questions.
Nan that felt different.

404
00:35:03,729 --> 00:35:06,356
And I just wanted you to be Nan.

405
00:35:06,982 --> 00:35:10,736
And maybe that was wrong,
but I was making it up as I went along.

406
00:35:11,778 --> 00:35:13,780
And Daddy says
that everyone in this whole world

407
00:35:13,780 --> 00:35:15,949
is just pretending to be grown-ups.

408
00:35:16,700 --> 00:35:18,202
And he's right, of course.

409
00:35:19,494 --> 00:35:22,414
Though some of us are pretending
a little harder than others.

410
00:35:23,665 --> 00:35:25,083
And, darling, about Theo...

411
00:35:26,668 --> 00:35:28,462
It might feel like a lie,

412
00:35:28,462 --> 00:35:32,216
it might even be called a lie
if you look it up in the dictionary, but...

413
00:35:34,551 --> 00:35:35,677
you'll lose him.

414
00:35:37,012 --> 00:35:40,265
And I don't think it's a lie
when it's to protect someone you love.

415
00:35:40,265 --> 00:35:43,602
It's okay to turn your back
to hide that you're scared.

416
00:35:44,144 --> 00:35:48,023
But Theo's honest. He's not like Daddy.

417
00:35:49,191 --> 00:35:50,984
And maybe you can let the lies keep coming

418
00:35:50,984 --> 00:35:53,237
- and maybe you're happy with that, but--
- I'm not happy.

419
00:35:55,030 --> 00:35:57,407
And, darling, I need you and Jinny
to know that.

420
00:35:58,283 --> 00:36:00,702
I'm not happy with any of it.

421
00:36:04,581 --> 00:36:05,707
But that's up to me.

422
00:36:07,876 --> 00:36:10,045
I want better than a lifetime of lies.

423
00:36:11,755 --> 00:36:16,051
And I know that you had to turn your back
to make me brave, but I am brave now.

424
00:36:19,346 --> 00:36:23,767
Mostly.
And you've still got your back turned.

425
00:37:27,414 --> 00:37:31,835
Here she is at last, my girl.

426
00:37:33,420 --> 00:37:38,050
So, we now have the duke and his "dukess."

427
00:37:39,051 --> 00:37:43,222
So, now we need a dance from you both.
Come on, we have waited long enough.

428
00:37:52,564 --> 00:37:55,609
Why, Colonel, what makes you think

429
00:37:55,609 --> 00:37:58,195
these young people
want to hang around old folks like us?

430
00:37:58,195 --> 00:38:01,073
They're young and in love.
You must remember that.

431
00:38:02,658 --> 00:38:06,119
Now, come on everybody,
this is supposed to be a New York party.

432
00:38:36,692 --> 00:38:37,860
Nan's gonna tell him.

433
00:38:40,863 --> 00:38:43,198
And I suspect she's absolutely right.

434
00:38:53,417 --> 00:38:55,752
Theo, slow down, slow down, slow down.

435
00:38:59,047 --> 00:39:02,176
Are you okay? Has something happened?

436
00:39:14,646 --> 00:39:17,524
I love you, Nan.

437
00:39:20,527 --> 00:39:21,528
Do you want me?

438
00:39:23,989 --> 00:39:25,407
Do you want me?

439
00:39:28,118 --> 00:39:29,411
I want you to say it.

440
00:39:30,537 --> 00:39:33,165
Yes. Yes, I do. I want you.

441
00:39:56,438 --> 00:39:57,648
Come here.

442
00:40:04,821 --> 00:40:07,699
- I've missed you.
- Hasn't it been just awful?

443
00:40:08,575 --> 00:40:14,373
Listen, I've been wanting--
Darling, what's married life like?

444
00:40:16,083 --> 00:40:18,085
I mean, I'm happy.

445
00:40:18,085 --> 00:40:20,504
When we're together,
when it's just us two,

446
00:40:20,504 --> 00:40:23,590
- he does nothing but look after me.
- I'm glad.

447
00:40:23,590 --> 00:40:25,759
- He treats me like--
- Like a lady?

448
00:40:25,759 --> 00:40:27,052
- Of course.
- Does he really?

449
00:40:27,052 --> 00:40:30,973
Of course. Look, I'm Lady Seadown.

450
00:40:44,152 --> 00:40:47,406
You left me all alone. Again.

451
00:40:47,406 --> 00:40:49,408
I know, I'm so sorry.
I was just catching--

452
00:40:49,408 --> 00:40:51,535
In your house with your family,

453
00:40:51,535 --> 00:40:54,413
who are absolutely not,
I'm realizing, easy people.

454
00:40:58,917 --> 00:41:02,045
I'm just starting to feel all this fuss,
the constant references to who I am.

455
00:41:02,045 --> 00:41:04,131
Did you only marry me for my title?

456
00:41:05,382 --> 00:41:09,261
No, of course not. I love you.

457
00:41:09,761 --> 00:41:12,639
This party is humiliating to me. Humiliating.

458
00:41:13,515 --> 00:41:15,058
This whole vulgar event,

459
00:41:15,058 --> 00:41:17,895
thrown in our honor,
yet a hideous display of bad taste.

460
00:41:17,895 --> 00:41:20,189
I'd have thought I deserved more respect.

461
00:41:21,565 --> 00:41:24,276
- I don't understand.
- From you, my wife,

462
00:41:25,319 --> 00:41:26,320
and also from your mother.

463
00:41:27,112 --> 00:41:30,032
That this is how she chooses
to introduce her new son-in-law

464
00:41:30,032 --> 00:41:33,952
to New York, by parading me and my title.
It is demeaning.

465
00:41:34,578 --> 00:41:38,081
No, you're absolutely right.
And I'm so sorry.

466
00:41:38,081 --> 00:41:41,168
And it gives me no pleasure to say
that your mother ought to apologize.

467
00:41:43,504 --> 00:41:46,173
For the party. The farcical first dance.

468
00:41:46,173 --> 00:41:49,009
That display we just witnessed.
She ought to say sorry.

469
00:41:50,886 --> 00:41:53,597
But you don't
actually mean she ought to apologize?

470
00:41:54,181 --> 00:41:55,933
I'm not going to tell you what to do, Virginia.

471
00:42:06,652 --> 00:42:07,819
Theo.

472
00:42:09,655 --> 00:42:12,574
Just before we go back inside,
I wanted to tell you something.

473
00:42:15,118 --> 00:42:20,249
- I've just been wanting to say--
- Are you happy? With me, I mean.

474
00:42:20,958 --> 00:42:22,292
Of course.

475
00:42:22,292 --> 00:42:24,711
Then don't tell me anything
that might spoil it.

476
00:42:28,340 --> 00:42:29,341
Really?

477
00:42:30,843 --> 00:42:32,052
Let's get married soon.

478
00:42:33,804 --> 00:42:34,930
Might that be all right?

479
00:43:07,880 --> 00:43:08,881
Mother.

480
00:43:10,757 --> 00:43:15,179
This party, the whole event,
the entire afternoon, it's--

481
00:43:22,728 --> 00:43:25,272
Well, it's been a gaudy display
of bad taste.

482
00:43:29,610 --> 00:43:32,321
You've been to England now,
so you know how to behave.

483
00:43:32,321 --> 00:43:34,072
But I'm afraid
James deserves more respect.

484
00:43:35,616 --> 00:43:39,036
You've embarrassed him,
and you've embarrassed me.

485
00:43:39,036 --> 00:43:43,957
So, I would appreciate it
if you would apologize.

486
00:43:43,957 --> 00:43:46,376
Jinny, my love, what's come over you?

487
00:43:48,128 --> 00:43:50,255
I think we should get everyone
dancing again, don't you?

488
00:43:50,255 --> 00:43:55,052
Mrs. St. George, I can't thank you enough
for this delightful party.

489
00:43:55,719 --> 00:43:58,472
You've made me
and my wife feel so welcome.

490
00:43:59,556 --> 00:44:03,393
Well, welcome, of course.
This is Jinny's home.

491
00:44:05,896 --> 00:44:08,857
Perhaps the sea crossing
might have made you a bit queasy.

492
00:44:10,400 --> 00:44:11,527
The aim of this party,

493
00:44:11,527 --> 00:44:14,530
and our whole lives, in fact,
has been our happiness.

494
00:44:19,201 --> 00:44:20,619
I shall become a duchess soon

495
00:44:21,370 --> 00:44:24,581
and have access to royalty of every rank.

496
00:44:24,581 --> 00:44:27,417
But I fully expect to be less impressed
by them than I ought to be,

497
00:44:27,417 --> 00:44:31,004
because our mother...

498
00:44:34,716 --> 00:44:37,928
My mother is a queen.

499
00:44:51,608 --> 00:44:53,318
Shoulders back. Head high.

500
00:45:03,537 --> 00:45:04,997
You're right, of course, Jinny.

501
00:45:06,039 --> 00:45:09,251
Everything about this party is irrelevant
and in bad taste.

502
00:45:10,669 --> 00:45:13,922
In fact, the only thing I'm proud of
in this entire room are you girls.

503
00:45:15,924 --> 00:45:17,092
Both of you.

504
00:45:18,218 --> 00:45:19,887
But I'll reserve my apologies and shame

505
00:45:19,887 --> 00:45:23,140
for the years I spent giving a fig
what people thought of me.

506
00:45:23,891 --> 00:45:27,769
And perhaps one night in Saratoga
when I climbed a wall

507
00:45:27,769 --> 00:45:30,480
and accidentally showed
my second-best bloomers to the Mayor.

508
00:45:32,733 --> 00:45:37,696
Now, Lavinia,
I believe this party is beneath us.

509
00:45:37,696 --> 00:45:40,282
- But it's your party.
- We're just gonna walk out of the room.

510
00:45:40,282 --> 00:45:41,491
- Okay.
- Just--

511
00:45:51,293 --> 00:45:53,504
Do you suppose
everything will be all right, Lavinia?

512
00:45:53,504 --> 00:45:55,422
No idea. None at all.

513
00:45:59,551 --> 00:46:02,262
I believe Tracy is not always a good man.

514
00:46:02,262 --> 00:46:05,849
They so rarely are. What can we do?

515
00:46:08,936 --> 00:46:11,063
Only our very best to be grown-ups.

516
00:46:28,455 --> 00:46:31,458
I can't just move to New York.

517
00:46:32,167 --> 00:46:36,505
Why not? Please, Dicky.
We could just stay here.

518
00:46:37,089 --> 00:46:40,008
I can't be in that house. I can't live.

519
00:46:41,593 --> 00:46:44,304
And I won't let
Minnie be extinguished by your family.

520
00:46:49,601 --> 00:46:51,520
You've decided you've no choice
and that's up to you.

521
00:46:51,520 --> 00:46:53,146
But I do have a choice.

522
00:46:57,901 --> 00:47:00,112
I just need to decide which one to make.

523
00:47:34,646 --> 00:47:40,736
Mother, I'm gonna go back to England
with the girls. To be with Jinny.

524
00:47:42,321 --> 00:47:46,366
Find myself a husband, if I can.
And Mabel can come with me.

525
00:47:46,366 --> 00:47:48,660
Oh, Lizzy, that's the spirit.

526
00:47:50,329 --> 00:47:51,705
I believe in you. I do.

527
00:47:53,582 --> 00:47:55,417
- Thank you.
- Of course.

528
00:47:57,961 --> 00:48:01,548
So, Duchess Nan,
when are we going back to England?

529
00:48:02,257 --> 00:48:04,384
Oh, Lizzy, thank goodness.

530
00:48:05,719 --> 00:48:06,970
Mother, earlier--

531
00:48:08,055 --> 00:48:11,266
You're all right, are you, Mabel? Are you?

532
00:48:12,851 --> 00:48:15,604
- I do want my girls to be all right.
- Yes, very much so.

533
00:48:16,230 --> 00:48:17,981
But Mother, listen. Upstairs--

534
00:48:17,981 --> 00:48:21,860
Now, Mabel, put on your shawl properly,
and that's the end of it.

535
00:48:21,860 --> 00:48:26,156
However will we find you a husband
if you're only ever wearing half a shawl?

536
00:49:42,441 --> 00:49:44,443
<i>So, I take it Nan didn't tell him then?</i>

537
00:49:44,443 --> 00:49:46,361
We still get a duke in the family?

538
00:49:53,577 --> 00:49:57,831
I can't do this anymore, Tracy. It's done.

539
00:50:02,461 --> 00:50:05,547
Do you honestly think anyone would look
at you twice if you're on your own?

540
00:50:05,547 --> 00:50:07,966
Or even open the door to you?

541
00:50:08,467 --> 00:50:10,802
Why, they wouldn't even have you
back in Saratoga, Patti.

542
00:50:12,137 --> 00:50:15,557
And, well, you know
how muddleheaded you get.

543
00:50:18,727 --> 00:50:19,895
You'd never survive.

544
00:51:11,530 --> 00:51:16,201
She asked about her, of course.
Her real mother.

545
00:51:20,497 --> 00:51:21,999
You didn't tell her the truth?

546
00:51:22,958 --> 00:51:26,420
No, of course not. What do you think I am?