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[Lady Whistledown]
Grosvenor Square, 1813.

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Dearest reader,
the time has come to place our bets

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for the upcoming social season.

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Consider the household
of the Baron Featherington.

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Three misses
foisted upon the marriage market

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like sorrowful sows

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by their tasteless…

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Tighter.

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…tactless mama.

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-Tighter!
-Is she to breathe, Mama?

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I was able to squeeze my waist
into the size of an orange and a half

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when I was Prudence's age.

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Your sister shall do the same.

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[gasps]

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[Lady Whistledown]
Far better odds might exist

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in the household
of the widowed Viscountess Bridgerton.

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A shockingly prolific family,

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noted for its bounty
of perfectly handsome sons

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and perfectly beautiful daughters.

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[groans] I am already roasting.

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Are you to complain
the entire day, Eloise?

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Surely I cannot be expected
to bear these fashions the entire day.

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I feel like a princess.
Do I look like one?

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Do you truly wish to know
what I think you look like?

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-On your left!
-Oh, Gregory!

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Is our dear sister still not ready?

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She's only been readying herself
the entire night.

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You mean her entire life.

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I shall run upstairs and hasten her along.

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-Colin, wait. I'll do it.
-She likes me better than you, Benedict.

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-Did she say that?
-Everyone says that.

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[Eloise groans]

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Daphne!

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You must make haste!

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Should you think she heard me?

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[Lady Whistledown]
How very perfect, indeed!

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[Hyacinth] Stop it.

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[sighs]

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[Gregory] If you don't hurry up,
we're going to be late.

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[indistinct chatter]

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[indistinct chatter continues]

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Any sign of him yet?

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[sighs]

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Should your brother wish
to be obeyed as Lord Bridgerton,

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he must act as Lord Bridgerton.

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Where is he, Benedict?

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I do not know.

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Hmm.

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[both moaning, grunting]

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[grunting, moaning continues]

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-Anthony! You are here.
-Of course I am here, Sister.

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I'd never miss such an important day
for you and our family.

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No, you would just be late for it.

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[exhales]

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Shall we?

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[indistinct murmuring, whispering]

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[Lady Whistledown]
Today is a most important day,

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and for some a terrifying one,

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for today is the day

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London's marriage-minded misses
are presented

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to Her Majesty the Queen.

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May God have mercy on their souls.

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Miss Prudence Featherington,

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Miss Philipa Featherington,

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and Miss Penelope Featherington…

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all presented by their mother,
the Right Honorable Lady Featherington.

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[attendees exclaiming, gasping]

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[attendees chattering indistinctly]

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[Lady Whistledown] It is only
the queen's eye that matters today.

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A glimmer of displeasure…

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[attendees gasp]

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…and a young lady's value plummets
to unthinkable depths.

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[indistinct murmuring]

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Miss Daphne Bridgerton,

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presented by her mother,

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the Right Honorable,
the Dowager Viscountess Bridgerton.

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Flawless, my dear.

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-[whispering] Did that truly just happen?
-[quietly] Keep smiling, dearest.

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They are watching you…

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now more than ever.

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[Lady Whistledown] But as we know,
the brighter a lady shines,

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the faster she may burn.

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[Lady Whistledown] It has been said that,

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"Of all bitches dead or alive,

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a scribbling woman is the most canine."

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[women gasp]

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If that should be true,

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then this author would like
to show you her teeth.

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[laughs]

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My name is Lady Whistledown.

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You do not know me,
and rest assured, you never shall.

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But be forewarned, dear reader,

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I certainly know you.

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-You absolutely sparkled, Sister.
-[both giggle]

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Come, now. I merely simpered and minced
in a pretty dress like everyone else.

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Not exactly like everyone else.

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Oh, I shall need to go
and visit with Penelope.

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Her presentation was anything but…
What was it the queen called you again?

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Flawless…

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or some such thing.

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Trust I was astonished
Her Majesty offered me,

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out of 200 young ladies present,
a most gracious remark.

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Yes, it was quite a distinction.

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And now 200 young ladies
have a common adversary.

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-I wish you luck, Sister.
-[Francesca] Eloise!

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What? It is true.

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My success on the marriage mart
influences all of your prospects.

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We will all need to find love one day.

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Indeed, a love as pure
as what Mama and Papa once shared,

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if we are so fortunate.

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I merely hope I am able
to continue such a grand tradition.

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Your dresses have arrived.

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[girls] Oh!

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[girls giggling]

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[Daphne] Oh!

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This one is quite ravishing.

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Mary Edgecombe wore
a similar shade last season.

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And secured three offers
the very next day, one from an earl.

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Mary Edgecombe,
now the Countess of Fulton,

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apparently spent the last year
living in a cottage

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hundreds of miles away from her earl.

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She is miserable. It says it all here.

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Do not tell me that is
yet another scandal sheet. Eloise--

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No, no, this one is different.
This one lists subjects by name, in full.

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-[gasps] Let me see!
-Wait. Wait!

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-"Lady Whistledown."
-"Lady Whistledown"?

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-[Eloise] The author.
-[Violet] Do we know a Lady Whistledown?

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Surely Lady Whistledown
cannot be her true name.

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What does it say, dearest?

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She loathes the fact that we've been named
alphabetically, oldest to youngest.

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-Your father and I found it orderly.
-Lady Whistledown finds "banality."

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The papers were distributed
across town today without charge.

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Without charge? What kind of author--

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[both gasp]

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[both chuckle]

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Well, at least she has one thing right.

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She has named Daphne
as the season's Incomparable.

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She calls you
a "diamond of the first water."

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Well, how lovely!

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[chuckles]

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[Lady Featherington]
I should not be surprised

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if this Whistledown is revealed
to be Violet Bridgerton herself.

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These pages certainly report
on the viscountess's family

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with much indulgence, indeed.

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The pages report nothing
but the truth, Lady Featherington.

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Daphne has bloomed exquisitely,

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and the sooner
she is taken from the market,

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the better for the other young ladies…

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even ones prone to hysterics
in front of the queen.

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Ladies, hurry with your miniatures
before our guest arrives.

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And, Penelope, put down that book at once.

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You shall confuse your thoughts.

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[Lady Cowper] So…

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tell me about this cousin.

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Joining you for the entire season?

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She is a distant cousin of my husband,

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and with no close female relative
to sponsor her debut,

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Lord Featherington has directed me
to take her in for charity.

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Hmm. You are known to be quite charitable.

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Precisely what this new rumormonger
should have published,

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instead of erroneously specifying

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that I shall only have three young ladies
under my care this year.

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She knows nothing.

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Unless you shall like to have
only three young ladies under your care.

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I should gladly sit this season out.

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Penelope is quite nervous.
This shall be her very first season.

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I am not nervous, Mama.

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What she is is two stone heavier
than she ought to be.

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Mm, those blemishes on her face
are quite difficult to conceal.

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Perhaps some arsenic and lead might help.

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Should you allow me to delay only a year,

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just as Lady Bridgerton
has done for Eloise,

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I may remain dedicated
to my studies, perhaps.

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The answer is no, Penelope.

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You may wish to listen to her, my lady.

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Shepherding four young ladies

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through these endless rounds of affairs
at the same time…

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[scoffs] Can you imagine the competition?

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Well, how much competition
can this cousin provoke?

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She came of age on a farm,
she has a mere four-figure dowry,

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and as for her appearance…

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Well, let us hope Miss Thompson
is more presentable

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than the legions of unkempt animals
she has spent her entire life

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-tending to back home. [laughs]
-Mm.

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Lord Featherington's cousin
has arrived, madam.

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[gasps] Now, remember to be kind, ladies…

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and charitable.

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The poor are our burden.

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[clears throat]

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Oh!

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She's beautiful.

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Good afternoon, Lady Featherington.

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[exhales deeply]

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Well, if this is not a sight
for my sore eyes!

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My condolences,
Your Grace, for your father.

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-Very kind of you.
-Kind of me?

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You hated the man.

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It is so wonderful
to see you, Lady Danbury.

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Words I do not hear often enough.

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Come.

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You must excuse the, uh, disorderliness.

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As you know,
I'm to host a ball this evening.

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Yes.

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I have managed to keep
the details of your return quiet.

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But when those vulgar mamas discover

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that there is an eligible duke
present at tonight's fete,

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I shall be able to keep such a secret
no longer.

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That is what I was hoping to discuss.

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I have only returned to London
to deal with my late father's affairs.

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I'm afraid
it leaves me no time to… socialize.

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And so, whilst I appreciate
your most gracious invitation,

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Lady Danbury,
I must ask you to accept my regrets.

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Your regrets…

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are denied.

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-I suppose a brief appearance--
-Excellent.

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You may leave
that flask you carry at home.

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Most undignified.

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[woman singing operatic scales]

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[singing continues]

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[both moaning, grunting]

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Someone may hear us, my lord.

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[Anthony] Mm.

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[moaning, grunting continues]

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One day, I shall seize that watch
and take it apart bit by bit.

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That belonged to my father.

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Should it disappear,
I would miss it sadly.

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Then you shall know
precisely how I feel…

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every time you disappear.

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Stay with me today.

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I'm afraid I cannot.

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-[groans]
-Mm.

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I must chaperone my sister
at the Danbury ball this evening.

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-Daphne, yes?
-Mm.

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What might they be like,

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these grand affairs
your sister must attend?

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You… would hate them.

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-[chuckles]
-Every eligible lady of breeding

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dressed in some lavishly trimmed frock,

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bloodthirsty mamas at their sides…

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[Siena chuckles]

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…and wary fathers making arrangements

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for only the most advantageous of matches.

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And of course, without my father here,
that responsibility… falls upon me.

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A significant duty, no doubt.

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Someone must guard my poor sister
from the bucks and pinks,

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ensure her virtue remains free
of any kind of defilement.

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Daphne is fortunate.

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Every woman is not afforded
such gallant protection.

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Every woman is not a lady.

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Of course not, my lord.

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Siena.

252
00:16:55,452 --> 00:16:56,661
Hey.

253
00:16:57,996 --> 00:16:59,164
You have me…

254
00:17:00,081 --> 00:17:01,541
protecting you too.

255
00:17:03,418 --> 00:17:04,961
I will always protect you.

256
00:17:06,087 --> 00:17:07,589
[Siena moans lightly]

257
00:17:13,219 --> 00:17:17,182
[Lady Whistledown]
The season's opening ball at Danbury House

258
00:17:17,265 --> 00:17:21,061
is a most highly
sought-after invitation, indeed,

259
00:17:21,144 --> 00:17:23,480
for every darling debutante

260
00:17:23,563 --> 00:17:28,568
from Park Lane to Regent Street
will be on display.

261
00:17:29,444 --> 00:17:33,490
[rendition of "Thank U, Next"
by Vitamin String Quartet playing]

262
00:17:36,326 --> 00:17:40,413
[Lady Whistledown]
Titled, chaste, and innocent,

263
00:17:40,497 --> 00:17:43,958
this is what they have been raised
and trained for since birth.

264
00:17:46,461 --> 00:17:48,129
Tonight, we shall discover

265
00:17:48,213 --> 00:17:51,883
which young ladies might succeed
at securing a match,

266
00:17:51,966 --> 00:17:57,639
thereby avoiding the dreadful,
dismal condition known as "the spinster."

267
00:17:57,722 --> 00:17:59,265
Oh, I do love to dance.

268
00:17:59,349 --> 00:18:02,102
Do you like my flower?
We grow them in our very own garden.

269
00:18:02,185 --> 00:18:05,688
I must show you my watercolors sometime,
if you desire to see them.

270
00:18:05,772 --> 00:18:08,525
And she is quite proficient
on the pianoforte too.

271
00:18:24,332 --> 00:18:25,834
[Lady Cowper]
Is that not the young lady

272
00:18:25,917 --> 00:18:27,585
who was caught
with her gentleman last year

273
00:18:27,669 --> 00:18:30,797
in Lady Mottram's conservatory,
unchaperoned?

274
00:18:30,880 --> 00:18:33,049
She's lucky her gentleman agreed
to a hasty marriage

275
00:18:33,133 --> 00:18:35,135
after she went and ruined herself.

276
00:18:35,718 --> 00:18:37,178
Lightskirts.

277
00:18:37,262 --> 00:18:38,388
[soft chuckle]

278
00:19:01,119 --> 00:19:02,453
[indistinct conversation]

279
00:19:02,537 --> 00:19:03,997
They're all staring, Mother.

280
00:19:04,622 --> 00:19:06,499
Allow them to come to you, dearest.

281
00:19:12,547 --> 00:19:13,506
Oh!

282
00:19:14,007 --> 00:19:16,718
Look who's already setting his cap
at Miss Bridgerton.

283
00:19:18,219 --> 00:19:20,513
Lady Bridgerton, Miss Bridgerton.

284
00:19:22,307 --> 00:19:23,183
Lord Bridgerton.

285
00:19:23,266 --> 00:19:27,020
I believe you have already been introduced
to my daughter Daphne, Lord Ambrose.

286
00:19:27,103 --> 00:19:29,189
Uh, yes. We met at your brother's levee.

287
00:19:29,272 --> 00:19:32,275
If I recall, my lord, you had just won
your first race at Newmarket.

288
00:19:32,358 --> 00:19:34,027
His first and only, I believe.

289
00:19:34,736 --> 00:19:36,613
Well, in that case,

290
00:19:36,696 --> 00:19:39,490
let us hope his lordship
has found himself a new horse.

291
00:19:39,574 --> 00:19:40,408
[chuckles]

292
00:19:40,491 --> 00:19:43,536
I haven't had the pleasure of seeing you
at our club lately, Ambrose.

293
00:19:43,620 --> 00:19:45,622
Should it have anything to do
with the unpaid balance

294
00:19:45,705 --> 00:19:47,373
you left on our betting books winter last?

295
00:19:53,713 --> 00:19:54,881
Ambrose is a cheat.

296
00:19:55,506 --> 00:19:58,092
A man of any honor
ensures his debts are fully paid.

297
00:19:58,927 --> 00:19:59,886
I did not realize…

298
00:19:59,969 --> 00:20:03,181
Well, how could you have done?
It is the very reason I am here, Sister.

299
00:20:05,892 --> 00:20:07,644
Let us take a turn about the room.

300
00:20:13,274 --> 00:20:14,150
[chuckles softly]

301
00:20:20,156 --> 00:20:21,658
He is rather pleasing.

302
00:20:22,200 --> 00:20:24,452
He is rather here
to shuffle about hunting fortunes.

303
00:20:24,535 --> 00:20:26,746
Trust Mr. Lewis knows
of your sizable dowry.

304
00:20:26,829 --> 00:20:27,830
Leave him be.

305
00:20:28,456 --> 00:20:31,251
-I presume you know of him too?
-Mr. Worthington. Second son.

306
00:20:31,334 --> 00:20:32,210
We shall find better.

307
00:20:33,253 --> 00:20:35,046
He is of dubious parentage.

308
00:20:37,048 --> 00:20:40,260
I shall not have you making a life
with a poet, heaven forbid.

309
00:20:40,343 --> 00:20:41,427
Nor an eccentric.

310
00:20:42,011 --> 00:20:42,971
My word!

311
00:20:44,472 --> 00:20:46,015
Anthony! Daph!

312
00:20:46,099 --> 00:20:48,810
If the only gentlemen present this evening
are your brothers,

313
00:20:48,893 --> 00:20:50,687
then we're in a great deal of trouble,
indeed.

314
00:20:50,770 --> 00:20:52,480
You continue to say "we."

315
00:20:52,563 --> 00:20:55,984
Did Mother tell you yet? About my tour?
I'm to begin in Greece.

316
00:20:56,067 --> 00:20:58,945
-Greece? How adventurous, Colin!
-On guard!

317
00:20:59,028 --> 00:21:00,071
[clears throat nervously]

318
00:21:00,154 --> 00:21:01,739
Too late.

319
00:21:01,823 --> 00:21:03,241
I already noted you.

320
00:21:03,324 --> 00:21:04,742
-Lady Danbury.
-Good evening.

321
00:21:04,826 --> 00:21:08,121
Miss Bridgerton,
you look rather lovely this evening.

322
00:21:08,705 --> 00:21:11,124
Is there a reason
I've yet to see you on the dance floor?

323
00:21:11,207 --> 00:21:13,251
All in good time, Lady Danbury.

324
00:21:15,628 --> 00:21:17,088
You poor thing.

325
00:21:26,597 --> 00:21:27,807
Who is that?

326
00:21:29,726 --> 00:21:31,394
I'm sure I've never seen her.

327
00:21:31,978 --> 00:21:34,897
Miss Marina Thompson,
a distant cousin of my husband's.

328
00:21:34,981 --> 00:21:36,983
She's rather dowdy, is she not?

329
00:21:38,776 --> 00:21:41,154
One of the Bridgerton boys
is joining the swarm.

330
00:21:43,990 --> 00:21:44,866
Well!

331
00:21:48,411 --> 00:21:49,454
[Lady Cowper] Most telling!

332
00:21:49,537 --> 00:21:53,041
I imagine your household will be
a hive of callers in the morning…

333
00:21:53,124 --> 00:21:54,417
Lady Featherington.

334
00:21:54,876 --> 00:21:57,754
Where one suitor goes,
the rest will surely follow.

335
00:21:58,504 --> 00:21:59,964
[Lady Cowper chuckles ironically]

336
00:22:04,761 --> 00:22:05,678
Excuse me.

337
00:22:10,558 --> 00:22:12,393
[indistinct conversation]

338
00:22:18,358 --> 00:22:19,442
[quietly] There.

339
00:22:20,401 --> 00:22:23,196
The duke. I would recognize him anywhere.

340
00:22:24,155 --> 00:22:26,616
-Mama, where are you taking us?
-To meet the duke.

341
00:22:27,116 --> 00:22:28,868
That man is not in our miniatures.

342
00:22:28,951 --> 00:22:31,245
Make haste
before he should see Miss Thompson.

343
00:22:31,329 --> 00:22:32,372
Your Grace.

344
00:22:33,373 --> 00:22:34,916
[girls giggling, chattering]

345
00:22:34,999 --> 00:22:37,502
Let me introduce my daughters,
Miss Prudence Featherington,

346
00:22:37,585 --> 00:22:39,962
Miss Philipa Featherington.

347
00:22:41,589 --> 00:22:43,049
[girls chattering excitedly]

348
00:22:52,642 --> 00:22:53,893
I'm quite parched.

349
00:22:54,560 --> 00:22:56,020
I shall fetch you
a glass of lemonade.

350
00:22:56,104 --> 00:22:58,856
No. You have already done
so much for me tonight.

351
00:22:58,940 --> 00:23:00,733
I shall return in a mere moment.

352
00:23:05,780 --> 00:23:06,906
Good evening.

353
00:23:20,211 --> 00:23:21,421
Small glasses.

354
00:23:22,380 --> 00:23:25,258
-Lord Berbrooke.
-Tiny little things, are they not?

355
00:23:25,925 --> 00:23:28,386
The glasses? I suppose.

356
00:23:29,011 --> 00:23:30,513
Then the matter is settled.

357
00:23:31,097 --> 00:23:34,058
I'm not entirely sure the matter
in which we discuss, my lord.

358
00:23:34,892 --> 00:23:37,061
You've always amused me, Miss Bridgerton,

359
00:23:37,145 --> 00:23:39,439
ever since I was a schoolboy,
and you were…

360
00:23:40,106 --> 00:23:42,191
All but… five?

361
00:23:42,275 --> 00:23:43,151
[chuckles]

362
00:23:43,985 --> 00:23:45,069
[slurps loudly]

363
00:23:45,361 --> 00:23:46,279
[exhales]

364
00:23:47,989 --> 00:23:49,824
My brother, he summons me.

365
00:23:49,907 --> 00:23:51,492
-Ah. [chuckles]
-Adieu.

366
00:23:53,995 --> 00:23:55,079
Miss Bridgerton?

367
00:23:56,372 --> 00:23:58,040
A moment, please! [chuckles]

368
00:23:59,375 --> 00:24:00,626
Miss Bridgerton?

369
00:24:03,713 --> 00:24:04,922
[Daphne] Oh!

370
00:24:06,549 --> 00:24:08,509
-[gasps] Pardon me.
-Forgive me.

371
00:24:10,136 --> 00:24:12,221
Ah, yes. Wait just one second, thank you.

372
00:24:12,889 --> 00:24:13,723
Tell me your name.

373
00:24:15,391 --> 00:24:16,225
Your name, sir?

374
00:24:16,309 --> 00:24:18,603
Am I honestly to believe
you do not already know my name?

375
00:24:20,229 --> 00:24:22,273
[low] One moment. Yes, yes. Oh, hello.

376
00:24:22,356 --> 00:24:24,066
[laughs boisterously]

377
00:24:24,150 --> 00:24:25,776
If you desired an introduction, madam,

378
00:24:25,860 --> 00:24:28,279
I do believe accosting me
to be the least civilized of ways.

379
00:24:28,362 --> 00:24:29,280
Accosting you?

380
00:24:29,363 --> 00:24:31,657
Truly, they will try anything.

381
00:24:32,200 --> 00:24:33,367
Sir, that is not…

382
00:24:33,451 --> 00:24:34,619
This is not…

383
00:24:35,203 --> 00:24:37,205
-What is your name?
-[Anthony] Basset.

384
00:24:37,288 --> 00:24:38,247
Basset!

385
00:24:38,331 --> 00:24:40,166
-Bridgerton!
-Come here, old friend!

386
00:24:40,249 --> 00:24:42,293
I heard news of your father.

387
00:24:43,169 --> 00:24:45,171
-Deuce take it, you are no longer Basset.
-I shall--

388
00:24:45,254 --> 00:24:48,883
Hastings! The Duke of Hastings,
now known for evermore.

389
00:24:49,592 --> 00:24:51,344
The Duke of Hastings, is it?

390
00:24:54,222 --> 00:24:56,849
-Right, Hastings, this is my sister.
-Your sister?

391
00:24:56,933 --> 00:25:00,061
Daphne, Hastings and I know each other
from our days at Oxford,

392
00:25:00,144 --> 00:25:02,271
days we shall not soon forget.

393
00:25:03,064 --> 00:25:06,943
Yes. As I am well aware
of the company you keep, brother,

394
00:25:07,026 --> 00:25:11,197
I am certain your days with His Grace
were most civilized, indeed.

395
00:25:14,075 --> 00:25:16,285
Hastings, we shall need
to get together properly.

396
00:25:16,369 --> 00:25:18,829
-I expect to see you at our club, then.
-Indeed.

397
00:25:18,913 --> 00:25:20,081
Evening, Bridgerton.

398
00:25:20,748 --> 00:25:22,083
Miss Bridgerton.

399
00:25:35,972 --> 00:25:39,433
Daphne, I believe
Lord Wetherby is looking for you to dance.

400
00:25:39,517 --> 00:25:41,602
-Is he?
-If only it weren't time for us to retire.

401
00:25:41,686 --> 00:25:44,105
Daphne's anything but weary.
I shall stay with her.

402
00:25:44,188 --> 00:25:46,107
-That would be lovely.
-Daphne…

403
00:25:46,190 --> 00:25:48,526
there is nary a gentleman here
who would not take your hand.

404
00:25:48,609 --> 00:25:50,111
You must think about this.

405
00:25:50,695 --> 00:25:53,614
The most perfect thing to do now
is not to dance,

406
00:25:53,698 --> 00:25:55,533
but to leave them all wanting more.

407
00:25:56,158 --> 00:25:57,743
If anyone knows how this works,

408
00:25:57,827 --> 00:25:59,579
it is your eldest brother.

409
00:26:01,455 --> 00:26:02,415
Perhaps he is right.

410
00:26:03,291 --> 00:26:04,292
Let us go.

411
00:26:06,419 --> 00:26:07,670
[scoffs softly]

412
00:26:19,098 --> 00:26:20,266
[door opens]

413
00:26:21,100 --> 00:26:22,727
Miss! You've already awakened!

414
00:26:23,853 --> 00:26:26,856
Have Cook prepare
as many biscuits as he can this morning.

415
00:26:26,939 --> 00:26:30,610
Perhaps we might move a few extra chairs
into the drawing room too.

416
00:26:31,193 --> 00:26:35,114
I do wonder which gentleman
will be the very first to call.

417
00:26:36,032 --> 00:26:38,034
I have so much to ask of them all.

418
00:26:38,117 --> 00:26:39,785
Well, let us get you dressed.

419
00:26:44,957 --> 00:26:46,125
[Daphne sighs]

420
00:26:53,966 --> 00:26:54,925
Anthony!

421
00:26:55,009 --> 00:26:57,053
I did not expect
to see you here this morning.

422
00:26:57,136 --> 00:26:59,138
It is terribly early for you, dearest.

423
00:26:59,221 --> 00:27:02,433
I could not sleep for some reason.
All the excitement, I presume.

424
00:27:03,142 --> 00:27:05,144
Am I the first gentleman to arrive?

425
00:27:06,395 --> 00:27:07,563
How wonderful!

426
00:27:07,647 --> 00:27:11,067
[rendition of "Girls Like You"
by Vitamin String Quartet playing]

427
00:27:14,153 --> 00:27:15,154
[sighs]

428
00:27:19,867 --> 00:27:22,912
Callers, ma'am. The Earl of Stafford
and the Marquess of Finley.

429
00:27:22,995 --> 00:27:25,831
My word! Well, you should have
my colorful fashions to thank.

430
00:27:25,915 --> 00:27:28,334
[clears throat]
For a Miss Marina Thompson.

431
00:27:33,339 --> 00:27:36,300
[Lady Whistledown]
Dearest reader, this author finds herself

432
00:27:36,384 --> 00:27:40,096
compelled to share
the most curious of news.

433
00:27:40,179 --> 00:27:42,390
And do you have
a large family, too, my lord?

434
00:27:42,473 --> 00:27:46,727
It seems our diamond
requires a closer inspection.

435
00:27:46,811 --> 00:27:48,938
Is there a problem, Lord Bridgerton?

436
00:27:50,898 --> 00:27:53,359
I should think so. You are in my seat.

437
00:27:56,821 --> 00:27:59,990
As such, an even rarer jewel

438
00:28:00,074 --> 00:28:05,955
of only the most remarkable brilliance,
fire, and luster has been unearthed.

439
00:28:06,038 --> 00:28:09,917
Her name, unknown to most,
yet soon known to all,

440
00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:12,962
is Miss Marina Thompson.

441
00:28:15,798 --> 00:28:18,843
Should you not be out
on your daily walk about the square, dear?

442
00:28:18,926 --> 00:28:20,594
It appears as though it may rain.

443
00:28:22,179 --> 00:28:23,305
[clears throat]

444
00:28:24,140 --> 00:28:29,854
This author is left to wonder
whether Her Majesty might reconsider

445
00:28:29,937 --> 00:28:33,065
the high praise
she once afforded Miss Bridgerton…

446
00:28:34,191 --> 00:28:38,779
for we all must know what
the queen despises more than anything…

447
00:28:40,281 --> 00:28:42,032
Being wrong.

448
00:28:43,200 --> 00:28:47,872
And the drawing room at Bridgerton House
currently appears to be emptier

449
00:28:47,955 --> 00:28:50,875
than the muddled head
of her dearest King George.

450
00:28:55,796 --> 00:28:58,424
Well, I must be off to my club, then.

451
00:28:59,008 --> 00:29:01,218
Sisters. Mother.

452
00:29:04,138 --> 00:29:09,393
It follows that Lady Featherington
is to receive what she has always desired:

453
00:29:09,477 --> 00:29:13,814
the season's true Incomparable
living under her own roof.

454
00:29:13,898 --> 00:29:15,983
She must be overjoyed.

455
00:29:17,067 --> 00:29:19,945
Is Miss Thompson so high in her instep

456
00:29:20,029 --> 00:29:22,281
that she's unable to don her own slippers?

457
00:29:23,574 --> 00:29:24,909
I should think not.

458
00:29:29,038 --> 00:29:31,499
Has anyone else read
what Lady Whistledown has written of late?

459
00:29:31,582 --> 00:29:34,418
Should anyone pay any heed
to what Lady Whistledown writes of late?

460
00:29:34,502 --> 00:29:35,628
I certainly do not.

461
00:29:36,128 --> 00:29:40,216
Mama, perhaps we might attend
the upcoming Salisbury ball by ourselves

462
00:29:40,299 --> 00:29:41,801
and the Merriweather tea too.

463
00:29:41,884 --> 00:29:46,430
I believe that Anthony has already replied
on our behalf, dearest.

464
00:29:47,223 --> 00:29:49,683
Apparently, he has managed
our social calendar through June.

465
00:29:49,767 --> 00:29:51,769
He'll be there for the entire season?

466
00:29:51,852 --> 00:29:54,897
Lady Whistledown has made her opinion
of our dear sister's fortunes quite clear.

467
00:29:54,980 --> 00:29:57,066
Oh, enough about Lady Whistledown!

468
00:30:00,778 --> 00:30:02,363
A caller for Miss Bridgerton.

469
00:30:02,446 --> 00:30:03,948
Oh! [chuckles]

470
00:30:05,199 --> 00:30:07,159
The Lord Berbrooke.

471
00:30:12,373 --> 00:30:13,290
Lord Berbrooke.

472
00:30:14,583 --> 00:30:16,669
Um… Uh… Come in!

473
00:30:16,752 --> 00:30:19,880
May I help you
to some freshly prepared biscuits?

474
00:30:19,964 --> 00:30:20,881
[chuckles nervously]

475
00:30:20,965 --> 00:30:23,217
Eloise, allow some room
for his lordship, will you?

476
00:30:24,051 --> 00:30:25,010
[Violet chuckles]

477
00:30:25,094 --> 00:30:28,180
Eloise, are you not due
for a visit with Penelope this morning?

478
00:30:28,264 --> 00:30:30,808
-I believe I should like to stay.
-I believe you should like to go.

479
00:30:30,891 --> 00:30:32,226
[Eloise groans lightly]

480
00:30:35,271 --> 00:30:36,355
[clears throat]

481
00:30:40,359 --> 00:30:41,527
[Eloise chuckles]

482
00:30:49,994 --> 00:30:51,704
Forgive me for not calling sooner.

483
00:30:52,454 --> 00:30:55,749
I presumed
your affections were already engaged.

484
00:30:56,709 --> 00:30:57,626
Now I know.

485
00:30:58,836 --> 00:31:00,629
You and I were destined for each other.

486
00:31:00,713 --> 00:31:01,964
[scoffing chuckle]

487
00:31:06,802 --> 00:31:08,512
[Lord Berbrooke crunching loudly]

488
00:31:08,804 --> 00:31:09,805
[inhales shakily]

489
00:31:09,889 --> 00:31:13,434
And so, by Heaven, your love may burn

490
00:31:13,517 --> 00:31:15,352
from the depths of my soul.

491
00:31:16,145 --> 00:31:17,646
'Tis thee I shall earn.

492
00:31:23,694 --> 00:31:27,323
Wonderful, wonderful.
Gentlemen, thank you for your calls.

493
00:31:27,406 --> 00:31:32,161
Do not forget to bid Prudence, Philipa,
or even Penelope farewell as you go.

494
00:31:32,661 --> 00:31:33,996
[suitors chatter indistinctly]

495
00:31:34,580 --> 00:31:37,207
-A most wretched sonnet, indeed.
-Lord Byron he is not.

496
00:31:37,291 --> 00:31:38,500
[chuckles]

497
00:31:38,584 --> 00:31:40,336
I do not believe so. Good day, Pen.

498
00:31:45,925 --> 00:31:48,844
Lord Berbrooke is harmless.
There will be others.

499
00:31:50,471 --> 00:31:53,599
Lady Whistledown has all
but declared me ineligible…

500
00:31:54,600 --> 00:31:57,269
worthy of the affection
of a detestable simpleton

501
00:31:57,353 --> 00:31:58,270
and no one else.

502
00:31:58,354 --> 00:32:01,565
Tell me, what others should ever want
such damaged goods now?

503
00:32:01,649 --> 00:32:03,275
[Anthony]
You speak as if Lady Whistledown

504
00:32:03,359 --> 00:32:06,111
were to be held in higher regard
than Her Majesty the Queen herself.

505
00:32:06,779 --> 00:32:09,239
You give far too much credit
to some anonymous scribbler.

506
00:32:09,323 --> 00:32:11,283
These musings, they're not true.

507
00:32:11,367 --> 00:32:14,495
Only they are true, Brother,
and they are true because of you.

508
00:32:14,578 --> 00:32:17,331
You have managed
to scare every worthy suitor away.

509
00:32:17,414 --> 00:32:19,124
Whistledown has merely reported it.

510
00:32:19,208 --> 00:32:21,460
I am looking out for you.
I am protecting you.

511
00:32:21,543 --> 00:32:23,921
-It is my duty.
-And what of my duty?

512
00:32:27,591 --> 00:32:29,843
You have no idea what it is to be a woman…

513
00:32:31,679 --> 00:32:32,805
what it might feel like

514
00:32:32,888 --> 00:32:35,599
to have one's entire life
reduced to a single moment.

515
00:32:36,308 --> 00:32:38,143
This is all I have been raised for.

516
00:32:38,394 --> 00:32:40,479
This… is all I am.

517
00:32:40,562 --> 00:32:41,855
I have no other value.

518
00:32:42,690 --> 00:32:45,401
If I am unable to find a husband,
I shall be worthless.

519
00:32:45,484 --> 00:32:47,403
Daphne, you're a Bridgerton.

520
00:32:47,486 --> 00:32:49,613
[scoffs] It would be easier if I were not.

521
00:32:51,198 --> 00:32:52,449
[clicks tongue]

522
00:32:55,828 --> 00:32:56,745
Go on.

523
00:32:59,623 --> 00:33:02,584
[Lady Whistledown]
Ambitious mamas rejoice,

524
00:33:02,668 --> 00:33:08,590
for the new Duke of Hastings continues
to grace our fair city with his presence.

525
00:33:08,674 --> 00:33:12,636
And, oh,
what an impressive presence it is!

526
00:33:13,637 --> 00:33:16,557
Lady Whistledown has written
about you again, Your Grace.

527
00:33:17,891 --> 00:33:19,393
Would you like to read it?

528
00:33:19,476 --> 00:33:20,644
It should be noted

529
00:33:20,728 --> 00:33:24,773
that the duke has been overheard
announcing to mamas everywhere

530
00:33:24,857 --> 00:33:27,443
that he has no plans of ever marrying.

531
00:33:28,110 --> 00:33:29,153
This author wonders

532
00:33:29,236 --> 00:33:32,823
which brazen matchmaker
shall rise to such a challenge,

533
00:33:32,906 --> 00:33:36,160
for this competition is well underway.

534
00:33:36,869 --> 00:33:40,706
You know, I do suppose if it were not
for an overzealous mother at every corner,

535
00:33:40,789 --> 00:33:43,167
this time of year in the city
would not be so very dreadful.

536
00:33:43,250 --> 00:33:45,627
Those mothers simply want
the same as you, I rather think.

537
00:33:45,711 --> 00:33:48,338
For every last one of them
to choke on their daughters' hair ribbons?

538
00:33:48,422 --> 00:33:50,215
For you to claim a wife, Hastings.

539
00:33:50,924 --> 00:33:53,886
Are you not planning on taking your place
in society when you have a dukedom?

540
00:33:53,969 --> 00:33:56,597
I have a title, which, as far
as I'm concerned, will end with me.

541
00:33:56,680 --> 00:33:58,891
-But Hastings--
-Stop calling me that.

542
00:33:59,725 --> 00:34:01,769
It was my father's name. Never mine.

543
00:34:01,852 --> 00:34:04,605
And in any case, what of you?

544
00:34:05,314 --> 00:34:06,148
What of me?

545
00:34:06,231 --> 00:34:08,776
You are the firstborn Bridgerton
of a firstborn Bridgerton,

546
00:34:08,859 --> 00:34:11,737
nine times over. Where is your wife?

547
00:34:12,988 --> 00:34:14,114
[waiter] Right away, sir.

548
00:34:14,323 --> 00:34:18,494
Oh! Is your plan to fuck her forever,
your mistress?

549
00:34:19,620 --> 00:34:21,413
You shall need to sire an heir.

550
00:34:21,497 --> 00:34:23,957
I'm in possession
of something that you are not.

551
00:34:24,958 --> 00:34:26,001
Brothers.

552
00:34:26,835 --> 00:34:28,587
[Lady Whistledown]
It has reached my ears

553
00:34:28,670 --> 00:34:33,550
that Mr. Colin Bridgerton
shall be awarded the year's grand prize

554
00:34:33,634 --> 00:34:37,554
when he sweeps Miss Thompson
off her pretty little slippered feet.

555
00:34:37,638 --> 00:34:38,555
[Marina laughs]

556
00:34:38,639 --> 00:34:41,725
You could always send the willow
back to that farm, madam.

557
00:34:42,893 --> 00:34:45,354
As if Lord Featherington
would ever allow that.

558
00:34:45,437 --> 00:34:46,480
[Marina laughs]

559
00:34:49,399 --> 00:34:50,984
[both chuckling]

560
00:34:52,986 --> 00:34:54,655
[Lady Whistledown] In other news,

561
00:34:54,738 --> 00:34:59,368
a most peculiar suitor
for Miss Daphne Bridgerton has emerged.

562
00:34:59,451 --> 00:35:00,452
Daphne…

563
00:35:01,245 --> 00:35:03,247
[clears throat] Your caller.

564
00:35:05,916 --> 00:35:07,376
Will it be just the two of us…

565
00:35:07,876 --> 00:35:08,961
yet again?

566
00:35:15,676 --> 00:35:17,678
[classical ensemble playing]

567
00:35:36,780 --> 00:35:38,991
-Our box, Mama?
-Mm-hmm.

568
00:35:39,074 --> 00:35:40,033
Lady Bridgerton!

569
00:35:41,034 --> 00:35:42,327
Do join us.

570
00:35:49,585 --> 00:35:51,003
Your Majesty, good evening.

571
00:35:51,086 --> 00:35:53,005
You must remember my daughter, Daphne.

572
00:35:53,088 --> 00:35:54,047
Yes.

573
00:35:54,715 --> 00:35:56,425
She made quite an impression…

574
00:35:57,009 --> 00:35:59,386
however fleeting it may have been.
[snorting chuckle]

575
00:36:02,306 --> 00:36:06,101
I would like to welcome you both
to my box this evening.

576
00:36:06,185 --> 00:36:08,228
I insist.

577
00:36:10,063 --> 00:36:12,065
[overture playing]

578
00:36:15,903 --> 00:36:19,156
They are saying her husband will not live
till the end of the month.

579
00:36:19,239 --> 00:36:22,868
Surely another rumor provided
by that vicious, scandal-mongering writer.

580
00:36:22,951 --> 00:36:25,454
Should her degradation know no bounds?

581
00:36:25,537 --> 00:36:30,459
[operatic singing]

582
00:36:30,542 --> 00:36:32,836
Lady Whistledown writes
about my family too.

583
00:36:33,420 --> 00:36:35,923
Yet I suppose the duke
can withstand such scrutiny,

584
00:36:36,006 --> 00:36:37,633
since he is, after all, a man.

585
00:36:37,716 --> 00:36:40,510
His Grace was fortunate
to have you there with him as a child

586
00:36:40,594 --> 00:36:42,971
after what happened to his mother. Awful!

587
00:36:43,055 --> 00:36:45,599
-He is not what Whistledown writes.
-Nor is Daphne.

588
00:36:46,683 --> 00:36:49,102
It would seem the two of them
have that much in common, then.

589
00:36:49,686 --> 00:36:52,773
Matches have certainly been made
with far less.

590
00:36:53,815 --> 00:36:55,234
What are you suggesting?

591
00:36:57,069 --> 00:36:59,613
Lady Whistledown
merely writes what she sees.

592
00:36:59,696 --> 00:37:02,783
Perhaps we need to help her
to see things a bit more clearly.

593
00:37:07,537 --> 00:37:10,749
The duke is quite fond of gooseberry pie.

594
00:37:10,832 --> 00:37:13,168
The very dish my cook is renowned for.

595
00:37:16,964 --> 00:37:18,966
[both chuckling]

596
00:37:30,602 --> 00:37:31,812
[yells]

597
00:37:31,895 --> 00:37:36,108
[panting heavily]

598
00:37:39,695 --> 00:37:41,113
[women giggling]

599
00:37:41,196 --> 00:37:43,282
[Benedict] Haven't you heard
what we're talking about?

600
00:37:43,365 --> 00:37:45,450
For all we know,
Whistledown may be some interloper

601
00:37:45,534 --> 00:37:47,160
living in Bloomsbury, of all places.

602
00:37:47,244 --> 00:37:48,996
What should be
so terrible about Bloomsbury?

603
00:37:49,079 --> 00:37:50,956
That people there
actually work for a living?

604
00:37:51,039 --> 00:37:52,582
She does seem to be someone with access.

605
00:37:52,666 --> 00:37:55,085
-Who knows if Whistledown is even a she?
-[Anthony] Fair point.

606
00:37:55,168 --> 00:37:57,337
Because she is simply too good
to be anyone but a man?

607
00:37:57,421 --> 00:38:00,299
Well, I think it rather obvious
that the writer is Lady Danbury.

608
00:38:00,382 --> 00:38:03,093
Lady Danbury enjoys
sharing her insults with society directly.

609
00:38:03,176 --> 00:38:05,220
She would never bother herself
writing them all down.

610
00:38:05,304 --> 00:38:07,180
Could it be Lady Featherington?

611
00:38:07,264 --> 00:38:09,141
-No!
-[all laughing]

612
00:38:09,224 --> 00:38:10,434
[Anthony] No.

613
00:38:10,517 --> 00:38:12,185
You have yet to read
what Whistledown writes

614
00:38:12,269 --> 00:38:13,770
of the Featheringtons, little sister.

615
00:38:14,521 --> 00:38:17,607
You must forgive
this rather unruly debate, Your Grace.

616
00:38:17,691 --> 00:38:19,985
-Nonsense. I find it entertaining.
-Oh! [chuckles]

617
00:38:20,068 --> 00:38:23,280
All of you at one table,
even the children.

618
00:38:23,363 --> 00:38:28,660
Well, I realize it may be unfashionable,
but we like each other. [chuckles]

619
00:38:28,744 --> 00:38:30,203
Most of the time.

620
00:38:30,287 --> 00:38:32,289
You should join us more often,
Your Grace.

621
00:38:32,372 --> 00:38:34,416
Perhaps when we travel
to our country seat.

622
00:38:34,499 --> 00:38:35,917
You would be most welcome.

623
00:38:36,460 --> 00:38:38,545
[Hyacinth] Gregory!
Would you stop tossing peas at me?

624
00:38:38,628 --> 00:38:41,465
Those peas were already there.
You cannot tell me what to do. I am older.

625
00:38:41,548 --> 00:38:43,967
-And I'm taller.
-Children… [chuckles]

626
00:38:44,968 --> 00:38:46,803
He does have a presence about him.

627
00:38:49,765 --> 00:38:51,391
If rakish dukes were one's thing.

628
00:38:51,475 --> 00:38:54,186
-I'm to spar with Jackson himself.
-You?

629
00:38:54,770 --> 00:38:56,605
[Colin] Is that envy I detect
in your voice?

630
00:38:56,688 --> 00:38:59,441
[Benedict] Judgment, brother.
I shall need to witness this.

631
00:38:59,524 --> 00:39:01,109
You appear displeased.

632
00:39:02,194 --> 00:39:03,070
Do I?

633
00:39:03,153 --> 00:39:06,114
We find ourselves seated
beside each other, Miss Bridgerton.

634
00:39:06,198 --> 00:39:07,783
I'd like to think
you're happy about that.

635
00:39:07,866 --> 00:39:10,786
Perhaps, Your Grace, it would be better

636
00:39:10,869 --> 00:39:13,205
if you refrained
from thinking about me at all.

637
00:39:13,872 --> 00:39:16,041
It is simply surprising.

638
00:39:16,124 --> 00:39:20,003
Yes! However is it possible for a lady
to offer anything other than a smile

639
00:39:20,087 --> 00:39:21,254
whilst seated beside a duke?

640
00:39:21,338 --> 00:39:23,090
…you regarding subjects much too…

641
00:39:23,173 --> 00:39:25,801
-Even one of your reputation.
-You are aware of my reputation.

642
00:39:25,884 --> 00:39:29,596
I am aware of your friendship
with my eldest brother.

643
00:39:29,679 --> 00:39:31,473
If that were not enough, I am also aware

644
00:39:31,556 --> 00:39:34,518
of the things a certain writer
has recently written of you.

645
00:39:34,601 --> 00:39:36,603
Presumptuous? Clearly.

646
00:39:36,686 --> 00:39:38,271
Arrogant? Most definitely.

647
00:39:38,355 --> 00:39:41,358
You are a rake… through and through.

648
00:39:41,441 --> 00:39:42,609
Tell me I'm wrong.

649
00:39:42,692 --> 00:39:44,986
Who is to refrain
from thinking about whom again?

650
00:39:45,070 --> 00:39:47,906
[chuckles] I assure you.
I am anything but interested in you.

651
00:39:47,989 --> 00:39:49,074
-Good.
-Quite.

652
00:39:49,157 --> 00:39:53,245
And I anything but interested in you,
the eldest sister of my oldest friend,

653
00:39:53,328 --> 00:39:55,288
yet another recent subject
of a certain writer.

654
00:39:55,372 --> 00:39:57,833
Chaste, neat, desperate.

655
00:39:59,209 --> 00:40:01,545
-I shall have you know--
-To marry, that is.

656
00:40:01,628 --> 00:40:02,921
Tell me I am wrong.

657
00:40:03,004 --> 00:40:04,464
[laughs]

658
00:40:05,048 --> 00:40:06,091
[Eloise clears throat]

659
00:40:07,592 --> 00:40:11,054
Hastings, I'm so glad
you decided to join us this evening.

660
00:40:11,138 --> 00:40:13,140
-It was most spontaneous of you.
-Not at all.

661
00:40:13,223 --> 00:40:16,309
With Lady Danbury accepting
your dear mother's gracious invitation

662
00:40:16,393 --> 00:40:17,227
on my behalf…

663
00:40:17,811 --> 00:40:20,272
Well, however could I have declined?

664
00:40:20,355 --> 00:40:21,815
[Violet] You must stay for dessert.

665
00:40:21,898 --> 00:40:23,900
It's gooseberry pie, Your Grace.

666
00:40:23,984 --> 00:40:25,360
Ah! Lovely!

667
00:40:26,445 --> 00:40:27,487
[chuckles]

668
00:40:39,374 --> 00:40:42,085
You were a reasonable mother
until your eldest daughter came of age.

669
00:40:42,169 --> 00:40:43,962
-Anthony…
-This matchmaking scheme

670
00:40:44,045 --> 00:40:47,549
you rather transparently concocted
with Lady Danbury, it will not work.

671
00:40:48,717 --> 00:40:51,303
I can think of worse matches
for Daphne than a duke.

672
00:40:53,096 --> 00:40:55,474
-I believe the two of you to be friends.
-We are good friends.

673
00:40:55,557 --> 00:40:58,518
Which is why I know he has
absolutely no intention of marrying.

674
00:40:58,602 --> 00:41:00,479
You must understand
all men make that assertion.

675
00:41:00,562 --> 00:41:02,814
-Your… Your father--
-Do not bring Father into this.

676
00:41:06,193 --> 00:41:08,195
Even if he were in want of a wife,

677
00:41:08,278 --> 00:41:10,780
you would most certainly not have
the duke anywhere near Daphne.

678
00:41:10,864 --> 00:41:12,240
I am fully subscribed to the belief

679
00:41:12,324 --> 00:41:14,367
that reformed rakes make
the very best of husbands.

680
00:41:14,451 --> 00:41:15,535
He will not make her happy!

681
00:41:16,828 --> 00:41:18,163
Daphne deserves better.

682
00:41:19,122 --> 00:41:21,458
And I know… I know you think
you are solving the problem,

683
00:41:21,541 --> 00:41:22,375
but you are not.

684
00:41:22,459 --> 00:41:24,169
And that is all I shall say
about the matter.

685
00:41:30,342 --> 00:41:33,386
The duke will be joining us
as our guest at Vauxhall tomorrow evening.

686
00:41:33,470 --> 00:41:35,347
I admit, it was not easy
to convince him to come.

687
00:41:35,430 --> 00:41:37,015
-You overstep.
-She is my eldest daughter.

688
00:41:37,098 --> 00:41:39,518
-Yet she is my responsibility, as are you.
-Responsibility?

689
00:41:39,601 --> 00:41:41,770
Do not make this
any more difficult than it already is.

690
00:41:41,853 --> 00:41:43,480
I wish to know something, Anthony.

691
00:41:43,563 --> 00:41:45,774
Tonight, when you leave this study

692
00:41:45,857 --> 00:41:48,318
that you continue to keep
at your family home,

693
00:41:48,401 --> 00:41:50,987
are you to return
to bachelor lodgings across the square,

694
00:41:51,071 --> 00:41:54,199
or will you pay a visit
to a certain soprano that you tend to

695
00:41:54,282 --> 00:41:57,494
in an apartment that you pay for
on the other side of town?

696
00:41:57,577 --> 00:42:01,831
Relying on your younger brothers
to one day do the job that you cannot.

697
00:42:02,999 --> 00:42:04,918
You like to speak of responsibility.

698
00:42:05,001 --> 00:42:06,545
My dear son!

699
00:42:07,337 --> 00:42:08,171
Of duty?

700
00:42:08,672 --> 00:42:10,465
Pray tell, what should you know of it?

701
00:42:12,259 --> 00:42:14,386
I sit with her in that drawing room.

702
00:42:14,469 --> 00:42:15,845
Do you know what I see?

703
00:42:17,013 --> 00:42:18,932
A young woman who is terrified

704
00:42:19,015 --> 00:42:22,769
because she knows what kind of life,
what kind of future, awaits her

705
00:42:22,852 --> 00:42:24,980
should you continue to get in her way.

706
00:42:25,063 --> 00:42:26,314
[Anthony scoffs]

707
00:42:26,398 --> 00:42:30,026
If your father was still here,
Daphne would already have been matched.

708
00:42:30,110 --> 00:42:32,362
The man would have made an arrangement
with an old friend.

709
00:42:32,445 --> 00:42:34,823
The man would have done
what was now necessary.

710
00:42:34,906 --> 00:42:36,783
So you must ask yourself

711
00:42:36,866 --> 00:42:39,160
are you merely an older brother,

712
00:42:39,661 --> 00:42:41,913
or are you the man of this house?

713
00:43:07,606 --> 00:43:09,024
I cannot see you anymore.

714
00:43:13,194 --> 00:43:14,613
I… I do not understand.

715
00:43:15,113 --> 00:43:16,781
It is not for you to understand.

716
00:43:19,326 --> 00:43:21,036
I must do what is necessary.

717
00:43:23,079 --> 00:43:25,081
You said you would always protect me.

718
00:43:28,084 --> 00:43:30,503
You promised to care for me, my lord.

719
00:43:31,004 --> 00:43:32,172
And now…

720
00:43:33,506 --> 00:43:34,799
What shall I do now?

721
00:43:38,428 --> 00:43:39,971
You shall leave.

722
00:43:40,764 --> 00:43:42,974
[Lady Whistledown] Be it shame or slander,

723
00:43:43,058 --> 00:43:45,185
seduction or smear,

724
00:43:45,268 --> 00:43:46,728
there is but one thing

725
00:43:46,811 --> 00:43:50,857
that humbles even the most highly-regarded
members of our dear ton…

726
00:43:51,691 --> 00:43:52,901
a scandal!

727
00:43:56,154 --> 00:44:00,992
Well, dear reader, it should seem
that all of Grosvenor Square

728
00:44:01,076 --> 00:44:04,496
has been left to ponder
a rather scandalous question, indeed.

729
00:44:07,415 --> 00:44:11,711
Might one former diamond's
recent fall from grace

730
00:44:11,795 --> 00:44:15,298
turn out to be
the most damning scandal of all?

731
00:44:24,432 --> 00:44:26,059
[lively orchestra playing]

732
00:44:30,063 --> 00:44:30,939
Pen.

733
00:44:31,022 --> 00:44:32,065
Colin.

734
00:44:33,608 --> 00:44:36,361
-I did not know you would be here.
-Sorry to disappoint.

735
00:44:36,444 --> 00:44:38,571
-[chuckles]
-Have you seen Miss Thompson?

736
00:44:39,531 --> 00:44:41,116
She is ill.

737
00:44:41,199 --> 00:44:43,159
My mama had to stay home with her.

738
00:44:43,243 --> 00:44:44,828
Papa had to chaperone.

739
00:44:45,870 --> 00:44:48,039
I'm quite enjoying
the fact that he is here.

740
00:44:48,123 --> 00:44:50,709
Mama would never allow me
to wear a dress like this.

741
00:44:51,042 --> 00:44:53,878
Not, uh, yellow enough, I think.
[chuckles]

742
00:44:53,962 --> 00:44:54,963
Mr. Bridgerton.

743
00:44:56,047 --> 00:44:58,174
I believe you owe me a dance this evening.

744
00:44:58,258 --> 00:45:01,511
And I have only one more space
remaining on my card at present.

745
00:45:01,594 --> 00:45:03,304
How convenient. [gasps]

746
00:45:03,388 --> 00:45:06,141
-Penelope, I did not see you there.
-[Penelope gasping]

747
00:45:06,558 --> 00:45:08,852
I'm afraid I cannot offer you
that dance, Miss Cowper.

748
00:45:09,477 --> 00:45:12,564
I am to escort Miss Featherington
to the floor.

749
00:45:15,608 --> 00:45:17,610
[fiddle music playing]

750
00:45:28,246 --> 00:45:30,248
[guests laughing, cheering]

751
00:45:34,544 --> 00:45:38,256
[indistinct conversation]

752
00:45:38,381 --> 00:45:39,883
The resemblance is remarkable.

753
00:45:39,966 --> 00:45:41,676
You look just like him.

754
00:45:41,760 --> 00:45:42,844
Your father.

755
00:45:43,344 --> 00:45:45,138
[MC] Ladies and gentlemen,

756
00:45:45,221 --> 00:45:49,225
a most extraordinary event
is about to take place.

757
00:45:49,309 --> 00:45:51,227
Right this way!

758
00:45:51,895 --> 00:45:53,605
Come! Come!

759
00:46:06,618 --> 00:46:10,121
[humming softly]

760
00:46:15,210 --> 00:46:17,545
[gasps nervously]

761
00:46:24,302 --> 00:46:27,096
-Madam.
-Yes… Varley?

762
00:46:27,722 --> 00:46:29,140
[clears throat]

763
00:46:31,017 --> 00:46:32,727
[MC] It is with great privilege

764
00:46:32,811 --> 00:46:36,856
I present Vauxhall's
newest spectacle of illumination.

765
00:46:36,940 --> 00:46:38,691
Feast your eyes above

766
00:46:39,609 --> 00:46:44,405
and allow all that is radiant
to overwhelm you!

767
00:46:44,489 --> 00:46:45,907
[guests gasping]

768
00:46:46,783 --> 00:46:48,785
[guests exclaiming loudly]

769
00:46:49,369 --> 00:46:51,204
[MC] Wonderful light!

770
00:46:51,287 --> 00:46:52,455
Thank you!

771
00:46:54,499 --> 00:46:56,000
[guests chattering excitedly]

772
00:46:59,295 --> 00:47:01,798
Is it not the most bizarre?

773
00:47:01,881 --> 00:47:03,508
[gasps] Look, Brother.

774
00:47:05,301 --> 00:47:06,344
What is it?

775
00:47:06,427 --> 00:47:08,429
Lord Berbrooke's barony
is over 200 years old.

776
00:47:08,513 --> 00:47:10,515
His lineage is legitimate.

777
00:47:10,598 --> 00:47:13,017
He has had an excellent education,
possesses no debts,

778
00:47:13,101 --> 00:47:16,688
never hurt an animal or a woman,
and is even a decent shot.

779
00:47:18,523 --> 00:47:20,817
To speak strictly,
there is nothing wrong with him.

780
00:47:21,693 --> 00:47:23,653
-What should any of this--
-You are to marry him.

781
00:47:25,029 --> 00:47:27,282
-Nigel?
-I had to find you a husband, Sister.

782
00:47:27,365 --> 00:47:29,909
Now, be grateful it is done.

783
00:47:30,493 --> 00:47:32,996
It should be just as easy
to fall in love with Lord Berbrooke

784
00:47:33,079 --> 00:47:34,664
as with anyone else.

785
00:47:34,747 --> 00:47:37,375
I will not hear of this.

786
00:47:44,257 --> 00:47:45,133
[sighs]

787
00:47:58,521 --> 00:47:59,772
You haven't bled.

788
00:48:01,190 --> 00:48:03,526
It's been over a month since your arrival,

789
00:48:04,277 --> 00:48:05,612
and you haven't bled.

790
00:48:07,822 --> 00:48:08,907
[sighs]

791
00:48:10,450 --> 00:48:12,160
I suppose I should be happy.

792
00:48:12,744 --> 00:48:14,412
Up until now,

793
00:48:14,495 --> 00:48:17,415
I've had no legitimate excuse
to dispense with you.

794
00:48:17,498 --> 00:48:19,709
But when Lord Featherington hears of this,

795
00:48:20,627 --> 00:48:22,837
when your own papa hears of this…

796
00:48:22,921 --> 00:48:25,173
-Please…
-I suppose I should be happy.

797
00:48:25,256 --> 00:48:30,261
And if it were guaranteed
that my own ladies would not be affected

798
00:48:30,345 --> 00:48:33,139
by your revolting recklessness,

799
00:48:33,222 --> 00:48:34,307
I would be!

800
00:48:34,390 --> 00:48:35,808
Do you even know who the father is?

801
00:48:35,892 --> 00:48:38,269
What I know is
that you shall never understand.

802
00:48:38,353 --> 00:48:41,064
-What was that?
-You shall never understand!

803
00:48:41,731 --> 00:48:44,233
Someone like you,
living this ridiculously charmed…

804
00:48:45,318 --> 00:48:47,153
Did you think I wanted to come here…

805
00:48:48,655 --> 00:48:50,657
to be around people like you,

806
00:48:50,740 --> 00:48:52,492
so out of touch, so superior?

807
00:48:52,575 --> 00:48:53,576
Ah!

808
00:48:57,497 --> 00:48:59,707
[breathing shakily]

809
00:49:06,631 --> 00:49:08,049
Whatever are you doing?

810
00:49:09,550 --> 00:49:11,094
Nigel, not now.

811
00:49:11,177 --> 00:49:12,011
"Nigel?"

812
00:49:12,595 --> 00:49:14,555
Are we to drop the honorific so soon?

813
00:49:15,390 --> 00:49:17,225
I suppose as your husband--

814
00:49:17,308 --> 00:49:20,269
You will never be my husband.
I will never marry you.

815
00:49:21,437 --> 00:49:22,730
My brother, he…

816
00:49:22,814 --> 00:49:23,773
He made a mistake.

817
00:49:24,607 --> 00:49:26,609
Do you think yourself better than me?

818
00:49:28,486 --> 00:49:30,113
[Daphne] It'd be best for you to leave.

819
00:49:30,196 --> 00:49:31,656
You should be thanking me.

820
00:49:31,739 --> 00:49:34,867
I'm your last hope.
No one wants you, Miss Bridgerton.

821
00:49:34,951 --> 00:49:36,744
-[Daphne] What are you doing?
-You'll find out.

822
00:49:36,828 --> 00:49:37,996
[Daphne] Stop it!

823
00:49:38,079 --> 00:49:38,997
Let go of me!

824
00:49:40,373 --> 00:49:41,457
[grunts]

825
00:49:43,001 --> 00:49:44,293
[Berbrooke moans]

826
00:49:44,377 --> 00:49:45,712
[Daphne gasping]

827
00:49:45,795 --> 00:49:48,339
Your Grace… I had no intention--

828
00:49:48,423 --> 00:49:50,383
Of knocking the climp flat out?

829
00:49:51,426 --> 00:49:52,802
[gasps]

830
00:49:52,885 --> 00:49:54,470
Well, I must say, I am impressed.

831
00:49:54,554 --> 00:49:56,305
What are you doing out here?

832
00:49:56,389 --> 00:49:58,266
Avoiding certain people.

833
00:49:58,349 --> 00:50:00,226
-People?
-Mothers.

834
00:50:00,309 --> 00:50:01,978
They are people, I suppose.

835
00:50:02,603 --> 00:50:06,107
You are coming from the Dark Walk.
It is merely a few steps away.

836
00:50:06,190 --> 00:50:09,277
-What would you know of the Dark--
-The Dark Walk is merely a few steps away,

837
00:50:09,986 --> 00:50:11,863
and I am alone with two men.

838
00:50:11,946 --> 00:50:13,740
You are only with one man. The other is--

839
00:50:13,823 --> 00:50:15,158
I'll be compromised just the same.

840
00:50:15,241 --> 00:50:18,661
Do you have any idea what would happen
if someone even suggested that I--

841
00:50:19,245 --> 00:50:20,079
I must go.

842
00:50:20,163 --> 00:50:21,539
Marry me, Miss Bridgerton.

843
00:50:22,498 --> 00:50:25,918
Now, as far as proposals go,
that may be the least romantic of all.

844
00:50:26,002 --> 00:50:28,588
I suppose if someone were to find me here,

845
00:50:28,671 --> 00:50:30,923
it would be one way out of marrying him.

846
00:50:31,007 --> 00:50:32,842
You cannot possibly be thinking
of marrying him.

847
00:50:32,925 --> 00:50:36,637
If I am unable to secure another offer,
there may be no alternative.

848
00:50:36,721 --> 00:50:40,308
Unlike you, I cannot simply declare
I do not wish to marry.

849
00:50:40,975 --> 00:50:42,977
I do not have such a privilege.

850
00:50:43,061 --> 00:50:44,187
Yes, I was surprised to learn

851
00:50:44,270 --> 00:50:46,898
you no longer have a line of suitors
around every square in London.

852
00:50:46,981 --> 00:50:49,108
I am in no need of your derision, sir.

853
00:50:49,192 --> 00:50:51,736
I do not mock you. I am being sincere.

854
00:50:53,237 --> 00:50:56,074
I know
of what this Lady Whistledown has written.

855
00:50:56,157 --> 00:50:59,243
Trust I possess as much contempt
for the author as you do.

856
00:50:59,327 --> 00:51:01,829
She's all but issued a challenge
to London's most ambitious mamas,

857
00:51:01,913 --> 00:51:03,998
encouraging, provoking them to--

858
00:51:04,082 --> 00:51:06,000
Claim you as their prize?

859
00:51:06,084 --> 00:51:07,710
Do not worry, Your Grace.

860
00:51:08,377 --> 00:51:09,712
I believe such a win

861
00:51:09,796 --> 00:51:11,631
would be promptly forfeited, indeed.

862
00:51:11,714 --> 00:51:14,467
I must go this way.
You, through those trees.

863
00:51:15,093 --> 00:51:16,803
Perhaps there is an answer…

864
00:51:18,387 --> 00:51:20,848
to our collective Lady Whistledown issue.

865
00:51:26,729 --> 00:51:28,231
[fireworks popping loudly]

866
00:51:29,357 --> 00:51:30,691
[dramatic music plays]

867
00:51:41,494 --> 00:51:43,788
We could pretend to form an attachment.

868
00:51:49,752 --> 00:51:51,754
[dramatic music intensifies]

869
00:51:51,838 --> 00:51:53,131
[Simon] With you on my arm,

870
00:51:53,214 --> 00:51:55,424
the world will believe
I've finally found my duchess.

871
00:51:58,136 --> 00:52:00,304
Every presumptuous mother
in town will leave me alone,

872
00:52:00,388 --> 00:52:03,432
and every suitor will be looking at you.

873
00:52:06,310 --> 00:52:08,479
You must know
men are always interested in a woman

874
00:52:08,563 --> 00:52:10,898
when they believe another,
particularly a duke,

875
00:52:11,023 --> 00:52:12,024
to be interested as well.

876
00:52:12,108 --> 00:52:13,901
You presume Lady Whistledown--

877
00:52:13,985 --> 00:52:15,862
I presume she'll deem us
to be what we are.

878
00:52:15,945 --> 00:52:17,572
[Simon] Me, unavailable.

879
00:52:17,655 --> 00:52:19,198
You…

880
00:52:19,282 --> 00:52:20,199
desirable.

881
00:52:41,220 --> 00:52:42,513
Stare into my eyes.

882
00:52:48,519 --> 00:52:49,353
Here.

883
00:52:50,688 --> 00:52:51,522
Closer.

884
00:52:54,483 --> 00:52:58,362
If this is to work,
we must appear madly in love.

885
00:52:58,446 --> 00:53:00,823
-It is an absurd plan.
-I find it quite brilliant.

886
00:53:00,907 --> 00:53:03,159
Provided you do not wish to marry me,

887
00:53:03,242 --> 00:53:05,119
and I do not wish to marry you,

888
00:53:05,203 --> 00:53:07,079
whatever should you have to lose?

889
00:53:23,346 --> 00:53:25,348
[dramatic music escalates]

890
00:53:47,119 --> 00:53:49,163
[Lady Whistledown]
For those not in attendance

891
00:53:49,247 --> 00:53:50,998
at the Vauxhall celebration,

892
00:53:51,082 --> 00:53:55,044
you missed
the most remarkable coup of the season.

893
00:53:55,628 --> 00:54:00,091
It appears Miss Daphne Bridgerton
has captured the interest

894
00:54:00,174 --> 00:54:03,261
of the newly returned Duke of Hastings.

895
00:54:05,972 --> 00:54:08,975
How the young miss secured
her newfound suitor

896
00:54:09,058 --> 00:54:11,394
is yet to be determined.

897
00:54:12,436 --> 00:54:16,774
Yet, if anyone shall reveal
the circumstances of this match,

898
00:54:16,857 --> 00:54:18,192
it is I.

899
00:54:18,276 --> 00:54:19,986
Yours truly…

900
00:54:21,028 --> 00:54:22,571
Lady Whistledown.

901
00:54:22,655 --> 00:54:27,076
[dramatic music crescendos]