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00:26John, please have Atlas saddled, I wish to ride to the vicarage.
00:30First ride outside the castle gates.
00:32I'm ready.
00:33Very good, Euclid.
01:14Oh, this is going to go.
01:19Zeus, steady Zeus.
01:24Oh, have you found her?
01:26Oh, hey Grace, we're riding to the vicarage and Atlas bolted without warning.
01:32She's not that good a rider yet, and I'm afraid she might have become unseated.
01:36And what with that pack sound so close and angry?
01:38Missephanie!
01:39She's not answering.
01:43Missephanie!
01:44Yeah!
01:44Yeah!
02:04We need to find the pack!
02:06Now, stick it on yourself, you Grace!
02:24I heard that to you, Grace.
02:27We're getting closer.
02:57I heard that to you, Grace.
03:00You're coming.
03:01Yeah!
03:02What?
03:09You're coming.
03:20I've been asking them.
03:42To me, Persephone!
03:44I don't know.
03:45Stay next to me. Stay next to me.
03:54John, enter up to me.
03:56Take Atlas back if you can.
03:58We'll be quick about it, the pack wants to spook for long.
04:02Is that you?
04:03Hold fast. When we reach the road, we are going to run.
04:27Everyone is to beyond. The pack's in the eyes of the castle.
04:30But John Hanley is through that gate.
04:32They have to be closed immediately.
04:33Yes, your friend.
04:34I'm so dizzy.
04:34Can you walk?
04:35I think so.
04:43She was thrown from a horse out in the forest.
04:45There's a possibility she's broken her ankle.
04:47Should have a surgeon sent for.
04:48No, the wolves are prowling just outside the gate.
04:50It isn't safe for anyone to go in a rouse.
04:52They've never done that before.
04:54Persephone?
04:55Where is Mother?
04:57Drawing room.
04:57Okay.
04:58Send her up to Persephone's room.
05:11Are we safe now?
05:13Yes.
05:15I was afraid no one would find me.
05:21Mother, I need your help.
05:23There's blood on her.
05:25Writing her bed.
05:26Mother?
05:28Help her to a seat, Harry.
05:32Adam?
05:35Can you take my boot off?
05:37It's too tight.
05:47Adam, she needs a surgeon.
05:49I know.
05:51Bring me boiling water.
05:53I'm the strongest brandy Barton can find.
05:55Go.
05:56Help me, Harry.
06:00You'll have to cut it.
06:02Brother, could you find me some scissors?
06:04Look.
06:05Look.
06:07Look.
06:12Hold her still.
06:13I don't want to accidentally cut her.
06:29Here.
06:30You're fighting her.
06:31Fuck.
06:34God, I'm sorry.
06:35I'm trying to be gentle.
06:38I'm trying.
06:59I'm sorry.
07:00Oh, my God.
07:39Adam?
07:51Yes, dear?
07:54Please stay with me.
08:02If you'll stay with me.
08:15Barton said you wanted to speak with me.
08:23I know it ain't seeming me talking to you in here, but...
08:28Well, I think I know...
08:31I have an idea why the pack attacked Atlas.
08:34And I thought you might want to know sooner, than later, even if telling you means overstepping yourself a bit.
08:39You aren't overstepping.
08:41What have you discovered?
08:43While we were cleaning Atlas' wounds, we couldn't help but notice that she smelled strongly of bacon.
08:50Of bacon?
08:51It might be why the wolves attacked Atlas, but weren't so intent on getting the meat on my horse or
08:56at Ewan's house.
08:59Grace might have picked up some of that smell.
09:02That'd be why they were hunting her.
09:06Talk with your staff.
09:08See what you can find out.
09:10If it played any role in this attack, any, I do not want the same mistake to occur again.
09:16Yes, you could.
09:19John?
09:36Adam?
09:40May I speak with you, please?
09:45Perhaps you should sit down.
09:47I'm so sorry, Adam.
09:50I know you wished me to help with Persephone.
09:53You must be so disappointed.
09:54Sit down, Father.
09:59Sometimes you're so like your father.
10:02Dear man.
10:04Are you unwell?
10:07I'm so mortified.
10:10You see, I've always been hopeless in a sick room.
10:14Even as a child, when anyone in the household would get so much as a cold,
10:17I would fret our dear nurse into a fit of nerves.
10:22And my mother always told me it would be different when I was a mother.
10:30You must be so ashamed of me, being so utterly useless when you were depending on me.
10:37There was a great deal of blood earlier with Persephone.
10:40I do not blame you for not being up to the task.
10:45Well, I'm certain I only made the situation worse.
10:50I always did.
10:53The second surgeon actually sent me to the vicarage for two days.
10:58Banished from my own home.
11:02From my poor boy.
11:03You banished?
11:04The second surgeon?
11:05I'm certain I made it worse.
11:08I was so nervous, so concerned through the first one.
11:13The first surgery.
11:13And I didn't get better.
11:16Worse, in fact.
11:19The next few surgeons insisted I be gone before they even arrived.
11:22You are referring to the surgeons who did this.
11:27And I was grateful to go.
11:31Happy to.
11:34What kind of an unnatural mother wishes to leave her child at such a time?
11:50Persephone is asking for you.
11:52She seems anxious.
12:15What is it, Persephone?
12:18I've been thinking back on my ride.
12:20Well, surely that can wait until you're more fully rested.
12:23What happened today, I don't believe, was an accident.
12:30What has led you to that suspicion?
12:33John didn't help me mount.
12:37Usually the stable hand waits for him, but this time he didn't.
12:41And the stable hand who helped me smelled like...
12:45Bacon?
12:46How did you know?
12:48Was it a faint aroma?
12:50No.
12:52At first I thought perhaps he'd been helping in the curing house,
12:56or had slipped in a lard spiel in the kitchen.
12:58The scent was so strong I could still smell it.
13:01While you were riding.
13:04Exactly.
13:07The groom who helped him out, does he assist you often?
13:10Occasionally.
13:11Do you know his name?
13:13Um...
13:14He wears a green handkerchief round his neck.
13:16None of the others do.
13:19John Henley will know who it is.
13:20You're going to talk to him?
13:22That groom, I mean?
13:24If he had any hand in theirs,
13:26I plan to do far more than just talk.
13:30What's the name of the groom who has a green handkerchief round his neck?
13:33Jimmy.
13:34He's a newer one.
13:35Quiet lake.
13:36Keeps to himself.
13:36Any idea where I might find this Jimmy?
13:38Last I saw out of him, he was at the back of the stable.
13:41Where he helped to craze him out this morning.
13:43He said he reeked of bacon more than could have been accidental.
13:45What on purpose then?
13:46That's what I mean to find out.
13:47Oh, there he is.
13:49Jimmy!
13:51Smith!
13:52Do not let him get past the gate!
13:54Stop it!
14:20This woman is Mr. Smith who tried to kill my wife.
14:26You took the only thing that mattered to me.
14:29Just trying to repay the favor, Gav.
14:32You'll answer this?
14:33Oh, no.
14:34I have a better idea.
14:38Put him in the gibbet.
14:41You can't do that!
14:43You have to consult the law!
14:45I am the Duke of Kilda!
14:47I am the law!
14:49No!
14:50No!
14:51No!
14:52No!
14:56No!
15:08No...
15:15No!
15:34Dukes aren't supposed to need people, Persephone.
16:04Dukes aren't supposed to need people, Persephone.
16:05Dukes aren't supposed to need people.
16:08Dukes aren't supposed to be a good man.
16:15Dukes aren't supposed to be a good man.
16:28Dukes aren't supposed to be a good man.
16:29I like Fauston.
16:30So do I, Linus.
16:33Then why don't you look happy?
16:36Probably because I'm in pain.
16:39I had no idea how long a few simple cuts could take to heal.
16:42I understand they weren't simple at all.
16:46Considering it might have fallen me, I think of my injuries as comparatively simple.
16:53It is so good to have you here.
16:58I am happy to see you again.
17:02Don't...
17:02I already missed a see.
17:07If I don't, I never missed home.
17:15I believe he is home now.
17:17And he is with me more.
17:28Midshipman Lancaster,
17:30if I had known that your intention in visiting here was to make your sister cry,
17:34I would not have invited you.
17:36You guessed why debus flocked with alarming precision, Your Grace.
17:39Yes. Every young navy man wishes to bring their female relatives into varying states of hysteria on every possible occasion.
17:47And apparently, you are also intent on bringing Persephone down to her deathbed.
17:51Alas, it is true, though I have momentarily forgotten how I intend to do this.
17:57By keeping her out of doors, and in the cold, instead of inside, warm and off her feet.
18:03Oh yes, I remember now.
18:05Well, I suppose, since you have guessed my plot, I shall have to abandon my ill-fated scheme.
18:10It was inevitable.
18:19Oh, thank you.
18:28I will see you inside, Linus.
18:34You seem pleased.
18:36I've missed my brother.
18:39He's not at all what I expected.
18:42Your description was of an infant.
18:44Imagine my shock when he walked out of the carriage.
18:47No leading strings or nursemaids in sight.
18:50Adam Boyce, are you teasing me?
18:53I never tease.
18:54You also, apparently, never host balls.
18:58Yet you are doing exactly that tomorrow.
19:01Clearly, I have begun a descent into senility.
19:05You are in the oddest mood this evening.
19:10You have no idea.
19:49It's definitely seems to be wondering where you are.
19:51Has she asked after me?
19:55Just a look on her face.
19:57We could always tell growing up when she was worrying about one of us.
20:02She must have worried a lot.
20:04She's definitely held with the family together after my mom died.
20:08How old was she?
20:11Twelve.
20:13She very suddenly lost what was left of her childhood.
20:17You did as well.
20:19Her life these past eight years has been one unending sacrifice for the sake of the family.
20:26Including her marriage?
20:31Do you know why my papa named Persephone as he did?
20:35Obsession with all things Greek.
20:37I remember that.
20:39The story of Persephone is his favourite.
20:43Seems an odd favourite to me.
20:46Not when you look at it as he does.
20:48The far counts himself amongst the scholars of the classics who believe that Hades didn't trick Persephone at all.
20:54And that they both decided together that she'd eat the pomegranate seeds.
20:58Because it meant that nothing could prevent Persephone from returning to him.
21:04But why would she return?
21:06It was the reason for her return.
21:08I endeared the goddess to my father.
21:11The seeds?
21:12The seeds were symbolic.
21:14Symbolic of what?
21:28I know disappearing balls is one of your particular talents.
21:32But it does not reflect well on your wife.
21:35You really ought to kind of sit beside her.
21:37What I really ought to do is hang you out your bedchamber windows by a bed sheet wrapped around your
21:41ankles.
21:44Welcome back, old friend.
21:46Even shockingly softly.
21:48Oh, shut up.
21:49Harry!
21:51Harry!
22:18What do the pomegranate seeds symbolise?
22:20What?
22:22In the Persephone myth, Linus said the seeds are symbols.
22:27Has he been waxing philosophical?
22:29That is the one trait he inherited from Papa.
22:34What do they symbolise?
22:37According to Papa, the seeds are symbolic of love.
22:41Hades' love for Persephone, her love for him.
22:45How could she love someone who kept her prisoner?
22:49Papa always believed she came to know him beyond his fearsome demeanour and came to love him.
22:54Hades fell in love with Persephone as well.
22:56She was his match.
23:00But if they were so in love, then why did she leave at all?
23:05If she had eaten all the seeds, she would have stayed forever.
23:08Hades did not force her to remain because her family needed her.
23:13Hades never let anyone leave his realm.
23:17Hades loved Persephone.
23:24He let her go because he loved her.
23:28She returned because she loved him.
24:10Thank you for the ball, Adam.
24:14It was wonderful.
24:17You were happy?
24:20You weren't disappointed?
24:24What?
24:27What more were you hoping for?
24:32I've never danced at a ball.
24:36Very often imagined doing so.
24:39I had no intention of asking you to do yet another unpleasant thing today.
24:43And yet...
24:47I would enjoy dancing with you.
24:51You would endure it, I'm certain.
25:05I want to dance with you.
25:09The musicians have all left.
25:11We don't need them.
25:19My leg is still too weak to hold me for long.
25:26And allow me to hold you.
25:50And allow me to hold you.
26:07Linus leaves for structure in the morning to visit your family.
26:13Yes, I know.
26:15You will be leaving with him.
26:17That was not the plan.
26:18It should have been.
26:20It should always have been.
26:23The two of you can depart immediately following breakfast in the morning.
26:28Will you be journeying with us?
26:33I belong at Faustin' Castle.
26:41And where do I belong?
26:51Your family needs you.
26:54And what about you, Adam?
27:01Do you want me to be journeying with you?
27:08Do you want me to be journeying with you?
27:10Do you want me to be journeying with you?
27:12Do you want me to be journeying with you?
27:13Do you want me to be journeying with you?
27:13Do you want me to be journeying with you?
27:13Do you want me to be journeying with you?
27:14Do you want me to be journeying with you?
27:16Do you want me to be journeying with you?
27:16Do you want me to be journeying with you?
27:17Do you want me to be journeying with you?
27:18Do you want me to be journeying with you?
27:18Do you want me to be journeying with you?
27:21Do you want me to be journeying with you?
27:26Do you want me to be journeying with you?
27:41you'd best not keep the horses standing mother it'll only take a moment and it is more important
27:47than me making a timely departure
27:51your father and i had an arranged marriage no accounting was made for the differences in
27:58our dispositions i was raised in town among society
28:06london baton it's what i knew and needed your father was raised here in quiet and solitude
28:18we wanted very different things in life
28:24we tried to compromise
28:27to blend our preferences
28:31but he begrudged the balls and gatherings held here and came to rather despise my need for company
28:39he wouldn't have i will admit i likewise began to view my relationship to falston and
28:46by extension him
28:50through a lens of bitterness
28:52i do not wish to hear this
28:54resentment grows quickly
28:55adam
28:59your father was a good man despite his implacableness
29:05i held out hope for so long in my foolishly romantic heart that he would come for me while i
29:13was away
29:15he never did
29:18did you tell him that that was what you were hoping for
29:23i was so young
29:25only seventeen when we married
29:27in my naivete
29:30i believed that if he truly cared he would
29:33meet me part way
29:38you
29:38are more willing to compromise than your father ever was
29:43and persephone is more suited to quiet and solitude than i ever will be
29:50she is your match adam
29:53do not throw away this chance by making her guess at your feelings
30:22she has a point
30:23you know
30:27every other guest has left the castle harry
30:30why haven't you
30:33i am here to be your conscience
30:36to save you
30:38from yourself
30:42she will come back
30:47when linus returns to his ship
30:49persephone
30:50will return to foster
30:52and i know you well enough to predict
30:54that you will act as though you couldn't care less
30:55whether she is here or not
30:59do you really want her to wonder about that
31:02this is none of your concern harry
31:10you miss her
31:12and she deserves to know that
31:16she is happy
31:17with her family
31:21that isn't how it works
31:24how it works
31:28persephone receives her reprieve
31:30and hades stays in the underworld
31:33waiting to see if the seeds work
31:36obviously you were
31:37sleeping during that lecture at harrow
31:42hades does not sit back and wait for persephone
31:45when the time came
31:46hades slipped past the hellhounds
31:49and ventured into the realm of the living
31:51to reclaim his bride
31:54i do not remember that
31:58hades was no pamsey fribble
32:00adam
32:02and i'd better pony
32:03his persephone
32:05knew exactly how her husband
32:07felt about her
32:09and i would do it
32:24i think she's going to be a good girl
32:39i think she had to do it
32:39i know you
32:39and that she could not take her
32:39think so
32:39and i could not bring her
32:46Are you sure you're warm enough?
32:49I'm dressed as warmly as I am at home.
32:51It is far colder there.
32:54You speak very fondly of Fullstone Castle.
32:56I've come to love it, Athena.
32:59More than just the castle.
33:02I hope I'm not out of lying and saying that
33:06you seem to miss the castle.
33:11I do.
33:13Then why do you seem so sad
33:14whenever anyone mentions you going back?
33:16I do not nearly think it is because you'll miss us.
33:20Probably because I'm not entirely certain
33:22what I will find when I return.
33:26You could always just stay here.
33:30My heart is there.
33:34I hope the castle knows how fortunate he is.
33:58Adam.
34:03How have you come to take me home?
34:05When you're ready.
34:08But I...
34:10I wanted to see Shropshire.
34:14To see where you grew up.
34:16You did?
34:19And...
34:20And get to know your family.
34:29Hades always went off to Persephone.
34:33Yes.
34:35He did.
34:39He waited as long as he had to.
34:42And then he left his kingdom
34:44and he did not come back
34:45until he found her.
34:48I think Hades must have missed his wife.
34:52I think he knew to the very minute
34:54how long she'd been gone.
34:57But was Persephone as anxious to return
34:59as he was to have her with him again?
35:01Yes.
35:03She was.
35:17Why did he just go after her?
35:23He must have loved her.
35:24No.
35:25He did.
35:27He did more than he could even express.
35:29Yes.
35:30Yes.
35:35But...
35:37But did Persephone love him
35:39in spite of his flaws?
35:42In spite of deserving so much better
35:44than he could ever offer?
35:46Oh, Adam.
35:48Am I too late?
35:50Is there nothing that I can...
35:51You said you belong at Fauston.
35:55Only at Fauston.
35:57I belong with you.
36:19I do love you, Adam.
36:29I don't know.
36:32The Tom will not believe it
36:33even if they heard you say that.
36:36We shall have to convince them.
36:39I may enjoy London, yeah.
36:42Does this mean I can come to your castle?
36:46Our castle
36:48is in need of a good exploration.
36:52Perhaps if you have no other plans
36:53for Christmas
36:54you could undertake one then.
36:58Athena!
36:59Daphne!
37:01You realise she will bring
37:02the rest of the family
37:03and Fauston will be overrun with people?
37:10Well,
37:11there is probably a chance
37:13I will be in a foul mood
37:14from time to time.
37:17You may once again
37:19have to save me
37:20from myself.
37:23You have done that,
37:25do you know?
37:26Saved you?
37:29Oh,
37:31my Persephone.
37:34Do you know
37:35that I would have come for you
37:37no matter how far you've gone?
37:42Hades always came
37:43for Persephone.
37:48And she always returned home.
37:54Always.
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