01x08 - Episode 8

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You weren't Father's.

You were someone else's.

An affair, and Father knew.

I think dear Lady Trenchard

has been spending a little too much time

with a certain group of gentlemen.

Frederick, I believe
I know you rather well,

and I think you would wish to know

if things were being said about Clara.

From now on, relations
between us are at an end.

I love you! I would
have loved you forever!

[CRYING] You've broken my heart.

[SIGHS]

Clara?

Clara!

[STEPHEN] Your Graces,
may I present Dr Kerry?

It is a great pleasure to
welcome you to Daraway Park.

Can you tell me a little about your son?

[ROCHESTER] I do not want
to have to look at him!

I will not have people witness
his imbecility! I want him gone!

What if I told you something?
Something about your husband

and what he gets up to behind your back.

It's not what you think...

I want you gone within the hour.

Get off her!

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[GROANS]

- [MAN 1 SPEAKING FRENCH]
- [MAN 1 IN ENGLISH] Oh, come on!

... pas nous arrêter maintenant.

[MAN 2] Merci, monsieur.

[MAN 3] Très généreux, monsieur.

[MAN 1] Allez, allez. Encore
un jeu, s'il vous plaît.

Come on!

You can't quit now. It's not fair!

Ce n'est pas juste!

[MAN 2] A la prochaine fois...

[MAN 1] Yes, yes. Very
funny. Tres marrant.

Bastards! Bloody cowards!

Bloody joke.

You English?

That's right.

Let me guess. Sailor.

Royal Navy. Purser.

Purser? Oh.

And yourself, sir? You live
here or you just passing through?

Well, that's a strangely
complicated question.

I think... I shall answer both.

- [ENRIGHT] Hmm.
- I don't suppose you play Vingt-un?

Uh, twenty-one?

No, sir. Not a gambling man.

Drink?

- I won't say no to that.
- Excellent.

- Deux encore, s'il vous plaît.
- Oui, monsieur.

Are you making the sums add up?

Trying to.

Fact is, they don't.

Not for me.

The vast part of my pay is meant to come

from profits I make buying in supplies.

I got tricked.

Hmm.

Something I thought was a good deal.

So, I've worked for
what amounts to nothing

for the past six months.

Makes you wonder what it's all for.

Yes.

Yes, I can see that it would.

Merci.

Sorry, sir you've caught
me in a philosophical mood.

John Bellasis.

Josiah Enright.

And is there a Mrs. Josiah Enright

waiting for you back in Dover?

No. I've been seeing a girl here.

- English girl.
- Oh?

Thought about asking for her hand,

but what can I offer her?

If I had a settled life on land,
reckon I might stand a chance.

- Hmm.
- Yourself, sir?

- Married?
- Oh, no, no, no.

- No, I'm a regular Casanova.
- Ah.

- I do have a son.
- Yes?

Yes, never seen him. Five years old.

I heard that he was born.

He lives with his mother in England

and with the man who, I assume,
pretends to be his father.

A sniveling excuse for a man.

[SIGHS AND CHUCKLES]

I feel it in here.

You can't go and see
the boy, then? Meet him?

No. No, not possible,

not without harming him or
damaging his chances in life,

and that I will not do.

Yeah.

- Hmm.
- [GLASS CLATTERS]

Oh, look at us,

baring our souls, like a
couple of condemned men.

I like you, Josiah Enright.

Why do I feel I can trust you?

Because you can.

Hmm.

- Enright?
- I need to speak with you, Master James.

I really need to speak with you.

[JAMES] John Bellasis?

You're saying...

You're saying...

John Bellasis is Frederick's father?

- I am.
- Bellasis was the man...

The man who tried to k*ll our cousin.

I didn't know that when I met him.

[INHALES]

Though I did hear tell of it,

long after, when I was
working at Glanville.

But you believed him

when he said that he
was Frederick's father?

I did, sir.

And he asked you to...

to watch my brother?

He told me that he
couldn't return to England.

Later on, I understood why.

He paid for me to resign from the Navy,

enabled me to marry.

Paid me a small yearly fee.

I was to secure a job at Glanville House

and send him reports from
time to time about the boy...

his progress...

how he was being treated.

And that's what I did.

Started as a footman, worked my way up.

There was... There was
never any malice in it, sir.

I kept an eye on him, loved him.

I'll say that.

And I sent off my reports to
a post office outside Paris,

and I never received a reply...

until today.

You see why I've come?

You know His Lordship has dismissed me?

I'm quite sure he won't see me, so...

He won't see me.

I've tried. I've
written to him many times

since I heard of his
present difficulties...

Then I think we must
make him see us, sir.

We are to go to my brother
and tell him this...

this villain was his father?

But the letter, sir.
There is so little time!

[DOORBELL RINGS]

Uh...

Reverend.

- Mr. Enright.
- Mr. Fletcher.

Er... Mr. Fletcher, I...
I need to see His Lordship.

I'm afraid he's not seeing anyone.

This is imperative.

Please say to him that it's
a matter of life and death.

[CLOCK TICKING]

Your Lordship, The Reverend
Mr. Trenchard is here.

He's asking to see you.
He says it's imperative.

No.

Just for a moment?

He seems...

He says it's imperative.

No.

I'm sorry.

His spirits are very low.

It's all I can do to get him to dress,

since the day Her Ladyship left.

I must write it down
then, what I have to say.

Do you have pen, paper, I can use?

[ENRIGHT] She hasn't been back, then?

No. He's heard nothing for two months.

No one knows where she is.

Frederick...

- What do you want?
- I... I need to speak to you, alone.

If you never want to lay
eyes on me again, so be it,

but please...

Please, listen now
to what I have to say.

[DOOR CLOSES]

I need you to read this.

There's a story,
but let this letter be the beginning.

It's a great deal to...

But you deserve to see it.
You deserve to make a choice.

I don't understand.

He's your father.

And whatever else he's
done, whatever else he is,

it comes down to this,

his care for you, clearly
written on the page.

He's dying.

He's desperate to see you.

Freddie, we have lived
with lies for so long,

and look what it's done to us.

This is your one chance...

your one chance to hear the truth,

to let the light of truth
shine into all of this darkness.

[TRAIN WHISTLE BLOWS]

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[INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS]

[DRIVER] Monsieur.

Une demi-heure. Half an hour.

[BELLASIS BREATHING HEAVILY]

[ENRIGHT] Lord Trenchard.
Mr. John Bellasis.

Of course you're handsome.

Of course you are.

More handsome than me, and
that's saying something.

[CHUCKLES AND COUGHS]

I shall leave you.

- Would you like me to leave?
- No.

Ah. Who's this?

My brother. Reverend James Trenchard.

James...

James, you changed the game, young man.

The one who wasn't meant to be.

I've been thinking about your mother.

I wasn't especially nice to her.

But then, she wasn't especially nice.

I've been wondering

if she used me for the stud that I am.

Trenchard had failed her.

She wanted her child.

I wonder if he even fathered you.

[JAMES EXHALES]

It's all right.

[CHUCKLES AND COUGHS]

Where did you meet our mother?

Good old Belgravia.

Small circle, all of us
going round and round.

[FREDERICK] When did you meet her?

Ah...

Eighteen forty-one.

How long did your affair last?

Or was it just a coupling?

- You're angry...
- Answer the question, please.

Months.

Many misspent afternoons
between the sheets.

Ah, merci, Soeur Pascale.

La belle Pascale.

She knows what I like.

We have an understanding, don't we?

Oh, she's wild about me, don't you know.

Plays hard to get.

[CHUCKLES AND COUGHS]

[COUGHING CONTINUES]

Freddie...

We don't have to stay.

Wait for me.

What do you want?

Why did you want to see me?

I haven't done a great deal with my life

that I'm proud of.

In fact, you're the only thing.

Reading of your achievements,

your many, many achievements,
it has been my...

It has made my life.

When I read that you'd jumped

your first three-foot
fence on Galahad...

that was a day.

Only yourself to spur you on.

And when your tutor said
he'd never taught a boy

with such an aptitude for numbers,

that was a day.

I opened a bottle of Château Lafite,

and I drank to you, my boy.

Your tenacity.

Oh, my God. The empire you built.

I know you weren't cherished

and adored in the way
you should have been,

and for that, I am sorry.

I had dreams, actual dreams,

where I would stride
into that damn house,

and I would lift you in my arms

and tell you you were mine

and that you...

you were wonderful.

[GASPS SOFTLY]

Enright tells me there are things

that have not gone so
well for you of late.

When you are made to feel worthless,

of course, of course you want
to be better than anybody else.

I spent many years on
the outside looking in,

my face pressed against the glass...

distorts you,

cripples you.

Only...

stop looking in.

[EXHALES]

[COUGHING HEAVILY]

[WHEEZING COUGH CONTINUES]

[EXHALES DEEPLY]

Have you found your wife?

She sounded very beautiful.

Sounded like she was quite a handful.

And it sounded like she loved you.

I wasn't worthy of her.

No one could be.

I don't know where she is...

or if I'll ever see her again.

Can you ever forgive me

for not being there?

Oh, you don't know.

That's fair enough.

Fair enough.

[EXHALES]

Please come again soon.

Just a few minutes.

Bring some cards.

[CHUCKLES AND COUGHS]

I don't suppose anyone
ever taught you to play.

[JAMES] Is it troubling you?

Who he is?

Because it doesn't mean
that you're like him.

It doesn't trouble me.

The dates... they work, don't they?

Yes.

It's probably true what he
said about mother, about me.

I once saw her with
one of the groundsmen.

So did I.

[JAMES CHUCKLES]

No one will ever know.

It will remain our secret.

Poor Father... he wasn't
equal to any of it.

Extraordinary, all those years...

Enright writing your story,

Bellasis loving you from afar...

as you deserved to be loved.

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[JAMES GROANS]

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Forgive me, Sister, it's early,
but I've come to see my father.

I'm sorry, monsieur.

[SEABIRDS SQUAWKING]

[INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS]

- Thank you.
- You're welcome.

Nice to see a pretty face.

- [MAN GASPS]
- Oh, I do beg your pardon, sir.

[CLARA] It's my father's birthday today.

He would have been 60.

My mother would have woken up and cried.

[SNIFFLES] But then she and Emily

would have had a cup of tea together

and talked about all the happy times...

I hope.

What if they aren't
in the house anymore?

What if their allowance was stopped?

Perhaps you should put this address in

if you decide to send them a note.

My father made me feel

I was the most important
person in the world.

Better than I am.

If I hadn't had his love, I would have

fared a great deal worse than Frederick.

I've been thinking that.

It's a powerful thing,
that need to be cherished,

to matter.

Perhaps that's all any of
us are really after in life.

Did you feel cherished
when you were a child?

Oh... [CHUCKLES]

I knew my mother loved me.

My father d*ed before I was four.

I did think I was loved by a man once.

I'd just gone into service.

One of the older servants...

he set his cap at me.

Made me feel there was a...

bright light shining over my head...

Turned out I was a wager...

all the men in the house,

a crown on which of
them would bed me first.

He won.

They all treated me
like nothing after that.

I learned to keep my
guard up, I suppose.

I've settled for that.

There are things you lose.

I won't pretend there aren't.

That was the first time
you've said his name.

We'd best get some sleep.

[BLOWS AIR]

Frederick!

- Duchess!
- [GASPS]

Such a long time.

- You look well.
- So do you.

Will you come in?

I won't, if you don't mind.

Come then, just for a minute.

Percy tells me the Eaton
Square house has been sold.

It has. First week of
January, I shall be gone.

I still can't believe what's happened...

that dreadful woman tricking us all,

and not just us, people
all over France as well.

The authorities are searching
in America. Did you hear?

They think it's likely she went there.

You haven't lost everything, have you?

[SCOFFS] Not quite.

How are you? How is little Lord Chatham?

He's leaving in a few days...

Switzerland. I don't know.

I wake up before dawn every morning

with my heart pounding.

I have to go and look at him.

It's a strange world, isn't it,

where the love between
a mother and her child

must be secondary to anything,
titles, reputation, money?

How did we come to be like this?

I must go.

I don't suppose Clara's back?

Ah...

I don't suppose you have
any idea where she is?

I'm afraid not.

I feel so guilty about...

I was responsible for
driving her away. No one else.

I live and breathe that fact.

Please, won't you come inside?

Percy would be delighted to see you.

No. But thank you, Mary.

I don't harbor any ill will towards him.

It's really not that.

Please make sure he
knows that, would you?

Frederick? Good Lord. How did he seem?

- Different.
- Yes.

Well, I suppose he would be,
facing what amounts to ruin.

He said a curious thing...

that he wants you to know
he isn't cross with you.

- Why would he say that?
- Ah.

I think he's referring...

I mentioned to him that
I'd had an early warning

about the Marquise and hadn't shared it.

I know now that I should
have gone to him at once.

Well, I didn't know how
much he was investing.

That was his own fault!

Really, Percy,

you can be so obnoxious sometimes.

- I beg your pardon?
- [SIGHS]

He said something else.

He said it's a strange
world we're living in,

where a mother's love isn't deemed

the most important thing.

What has that got...

- Peter?
- Yes.

- Peter.
- Complaining to him about that, I suppose?

Painting me as some sort of ogre.

I simply told him the facts,

and he made me see
them for what they are.

You know why we are
doing what we are doing!

For the twins' sake, for Edgar's sake,

for the sake of our good name!

No, if it were only that,
we have another choice.

We have dear Dr. Kerry,

who is more than ready to take him.

- For God's sake...
- And he would be near Maywood,

- we could see him...
- No! We have been through this!

You would rather he d*ed!

You don't want him to thrive.

And in a clinic,

far away, in a distant land,
deprived of us, deprived of me,

he will languish.

And hopefully, he will die before you!

And so Randolph will
inherit the dukedom,

and all will be right with the world.

Have you taken leave of your senses?

[DOOR OPENS AND SLAMS]

[INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS]

- [BLOWS AIR]
- [GIGGLES]

- [WOMAN 1] Yes, it does, indeed.
- [WOMAN 2] There you are.

[WOMAN 1] Thank you. Oh...

- Sorry, I...
- Oh, don't worry.

- [WOMAN 1] You are such a dear.
- [WOMAN 2] Never mind...

[CONTINUES INDISTINCTLY]

[FOOTSTEPS APPROACH]

- [DOOR CLOSES]
- [DAVISON SIGHS AND EXHALES]

[DAVISON EXHALES]

[SNIFFLES]

[CRYING]

[SOBS]

[CRYING] I can't bear it anymore.

[DOORBELL RINGING]

[MAID] Yes, Madame...
[CONTINUES INDISTINCTLY]

Who is it?

Oh, Emily, must you shout?

- [INDISTINCT CONVERSATION IN DISTANCE]
- [DOOR CLOSES IN DISTANCE]

[GASPS]

Oh, Clara!

[BOTH LAUGHING AND CRYING]

- [EMILY] Mother!
- [MRS. DUNN] Oh!

Oh, my goodness!

Oh, my goodness! [LAUGHING]

Am I dreaming?

Oh! You're like an angel,

a Christmas angel fallen to the Earth!

Where did you go, dear?

To the north.

Heavens.

I will be going back after Christmas.

We can talk about that another day.

I was worried I wouldn't find you here.

I thought that your allowance
might have been stopped.

Oh, no, dear, our
allowance has increased.

Although we hear that Frederick
has lost a small fortune

and will have to sell
the house on Eaton Square.

Because of what the Marquise did?

Yes.

I hate to think of what
he's depriving himself of,

but we are very grateful, nonetheless.

Have you spoken to him, dear?

Mother...

No.

Will you go and see him? Will you?

No. I won't.

I'm here to see you two. No one else.

Oh. [GASPS]

She's sleeping.

Peace at last?

I'm so sorry, Em.

I ran away,

left you to deal with everything.

You mustn't worry about that.

Dealing with things is my forte.

[CHUCKLES]

Tell me how you've been.

How's James?

He's extremely well.

We work well together at the Church.

He says we're a...

a good team.

I'm the one who should be sorry.

I was far too quick to
think the worst of you.

I am ashamed.

Don't be.

Everyone acknowledges
that it was the Marquise

who was fueling the rumors,

for whatever twisted motives of her own.

I was to blame in part.

I've had time to think about
everything that happened

and why it happened.

The distance is good for me.

If you ever want to
talk about it, I'm here.

Thank you.

Why don't we make some cocoa?

- [BOTH GIGGLE]
- Like we used to do?

Oh, I see you're without Nell.

Yes. She married. A doctor.

- [CLARA] Hmm.
- It's really rather touching.

They knew each other
from in her hometown.

Confidentially, I suspect

he may have been the
father of her child.

Ah.

I'm truly happy for her.

But what of us?

At this rate, we shall
have to enter a nunnery.

[LAUGHS]

[BOTH LAUGH]

What are these?

Letters Frederick has been sending

asking if we know where you are.

I thought you should see them.

[GASPS]

[GASPS AND CRIES]

[SNIFFLES]

[CHOIR] ♪ Joyful and triumphant... ♪

What do you think, Your Ladyship?

Would you like me to go in
and speak to the Reverend,

ask him if he'll come out?

No.

♪ Come and behold him ♪

Sorry.

It's all right.

Nell?

Your Ladyship.

I heard about your marriage.

I couldn't be more pleased for you.

Thank you.

I'm going to see my baby.

Would you like to come?

Richard and Annie designed it for us.

[CLARA] It's beautiful.

Stephen told me about
how much he adored you.

It's all right.

He has a large and restless heart.

He always will have.

Nothing happened between
us, not in any real way.

I was grateful,

I always will be, for the
friendship he showed me.

I admit I was flattered

by some of the words he said to me.

But I know now that it was only because

I was desperate to hear
those words from someone else.

He fears you must think badly of him.

- I don't.
- He didn't know about the baby.

He left long before I even knew.

If my parents had encouraged
him, but they didn't,

not rich enough, not devout enough.

The only thing I find
difficult to forgive

is that he didn't see
how much he meant to me,

how much I would suffer when he left.

But you forgive him now?

Yes. None of it was intentional.

People being human, imperfect.

[BELLS TINKLING]

That's it, darling.

That looks even better, doesn't it?

I wondered if you might

look at this for me before I send it?

You're so much better at
these things than I am.

"Dear Dr. Kerry, the Duchess and I

have reconsidered your kind offer... "

[GASPS]

[LAUGHS]

[GASPS AND INHALES]

I'm sorry, Father.

For what?

- For the trouble I've caused.
- [DUCHESS GASPS]

- For upsetting Mama.
- [DUCHESS] Oh!

And you.

No trouble.

Peter. Peter, no trouble at all.

♪♪♪♪♪

[DUCHESS CRIES]

I hardly need tell you
how good it is to see you.

Please.

I thought of coming before,

but, well, I've hesitated
to put you in a position

where you must keep
something from Frederick.

Emily told me that
you're speaking again.

We are.

But you do understand
that he can't know.

May I at least tell him

that you've been in
touch with your family

and that you're safe?

It would mean a very great deal to him.

Yes.

I've seen the letters he's written.

I certainly don't want
him to feel so concerned.

I'm so sorry about
what's happened to him.

I can hardly believe he
has to sell the house.

Actually, I think he
rather wants to sell it.

He was bequeathed a
sum of money recently,

not a fortune,

but it would have been
enough to prevent the sale.

But he gave the money
to me, to help the poor.

He has changed, Clara.
His whole view of the world

and of his place in it is different.

I believe he would find
some sort of contentment,

but he can't, because
he doesn't have you.

It breaks my heart.

James...

He deeply regrets the way he behaved...

He doesn't need to.

Please, please will you
see him, talk with him?

No.

He hasn't lost my love.

He couldn't.

But even talking about this...

My life now isn't happy,

but it's simple and clear.

I long for him.

I do.

- But we're better off apart.
- You're wrong.

Forgive me, but I know,

I know you aren't better off apart.

You need only dare to believe me.

[FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING]

Merry Christmas, Your Lordship.

Merry Christmas, Enright.

[CHURCH BELLS RINGING]

[BELLS CONTINUE RINGING]

[ORGAN PLAYING "GOOD KING WENCESLAS"]

♪♪♪♪♪

[INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS]

- [EMILY] Just relax.
- [MRS. DUNN] Oh, no.

He's coming, Mother. Ready yourself.

I shall spurtle out that
she's here, I know I shall.

[SIGHS] Oh, no, for goodness sake.

I wonder if there is such
a thing as a chastity belt

- for the tongue.
- Ah.

- Leave all the talking to me.
- Yes.

Oh, Frederick. Frederick,

oh, Merry Christmas.

And to you, Mrs. Dunn. Miss Dunn.

- I trust you're both well?
- Yes, thank you.

Yes we're very, very well,
well, especially now that...

Now that it's... it's Christmas Day.

Eh...

I wanted to thank you
for allowing my brother

to tell me that you'd heard from Clara.

- Well, we were glad to.
- Yes.

We know how dreadful
it is to be worrying.

You had a letter, I assume?

Yes, uh, a... a Christmas card.

Ah, yes, a Christmas card.

From where, do you know?

Um...

A shop.

- [EMILY] We must go.
- Yes.

- Lunch and...
- Of course.

You will tell me,

please, if you hear anything more?

- [MRS. DUNN] Mm-hmm.
- Yes. Come, Mother. Good day.

[MRS. DUNN] Mm-hmm.

Are you all right, Your Lordship?

Yes. You and Fletcher take a cab.

- I shall walk back.
- Very good.

[JAMES] Happy Christmas, brother.

Happy Christmas.

You spoke so well.

Great heart and great purpose.

I'm immensely proud of you.

We're having a small gathering
at the vicarage later today.

A few dear friends, a glass of punch.

I... I should warn you that
the Dunns will be there,

but I would love it if you could come.

And Enright and Mr. Fletcher, of course.

I won't.

But thank you.

I'm struggling today.

It would have been our
first Christmas together.

I could cancel the event.
Come stay with you if...

Dear James, don't worry.

- [ENRIGHT] Ah! Your Lordship.
- That smells good.

[ENRIGHT] Doing our best, Your Lordship.

We thought a glass of
sherry in the drawing room,

- as it's Christmas.
- The drawing room?

I can take one down here with you.

No, no. I shall bring it up.

The fire's lit in there. Roaring.

And...

for Christmas. For old time's sake.

Very well. Thank you.

[CREAKING IN DISTANCE]

Hello, Frederick.

Clara...

Are you real?

Yes.

I'm real.

Enright let me in.

I hope you don't mind.

Clara, will you allow me to apologize?

I've learned a great deal
these last few months.

I understand a great deal more
about why I behaved as I did

and what it must have
been like for you...

how much of it was fear
and desperation and anger.

I'm not excusing it for a moment.

But at least, in understanding,

I've found the possibility of change.

You were trying to show me the way.

I know that now.

I wasn't strong enough to do that.

I ended up losing my own way.

I'm sorry.

I'm truly sorry.

I know that can never be enough.

How do you know?

I've been thinking, too...

about how little chance we stood.

I've been thinking that
it was a sort of miracle,

that even with so
much ranged against us,

we shared moments of...

the purest joy...

and the deepest love.

Love too precious to be thrown away.

It is enough that you're sorry.

[CRYING] It is enough
that you understand.

It is enough. [CRYING]

[FREDERICK] Oh, my darling.

[BREATHLESSLY] Oh, my darling.

[DOORBELL RINGS]

[INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS]

[DOOR CREAKS]

[GASPS]

Merry Christmas.

[ENRIGHT] Merry Christmas.

If we're not too late, Mr. James?

By no means. Welcome.

Thank you.

[DAVISON] Merry Christmas.

Miss Davison...

Freddie. [CHUCKLES]

[CHUCKLES]

Oh! [GASPING]

[LAUGHS]

[MRS. DUNN] Oh, my darling girl...

[EMILY] Do you still
mean to sell the house?

- [FREDERICK] Yes.
- Will you go to Glanville?

We thought we would do some traveling.

See more of the world
together, side by side.

[MRS. DUNN] Oh. Traveling, oh, dear.

- [CHUCKLES NERVOUSLY]
- But you will come back?

We will always come back to all of you.

Perhaps we will go to
Glanville eventually.

Settle there.

Live our life the way
we want to live it.

[LAUGHTER]

Looks like we shall be
traveling, Mr. Fletcher.

Well, that suits me.

The happiest Christmas imaginable.

Mmm. Yes. I believe it is.

Emily, I just want to say you
are exceptionally excellent.

Aw. [LAUGHS]

And if I didn't consider
myself married to God,

it could only have been you.

That is really very sweet of you.

Who is that?

A nephew of the Misses White.

He's just returned from
a spell in the Army.

Nice that he was able to join us.

Yes.

I should say it is.

[HOPEFUL MUSIC PLAYS]

It... It's snowing.

Why, so it is!

♪♪♪♪♪

I have so much to tell you.

And I you.

We have all the time we could wish for.

♪♪♪♪♪

Us, then.

Us.

♪♪♪♪♪