唐顿庄园第二季第一集_2

 　　唐顿庄园第二季第一集_2

　　[EXT. STREET - MORNING]
　　[Branson is teaching Lady Edith how to drive.]
　　LADY EDITH
　　I do think I'm getting better, don't you?
　　BRANSON
　　Up to a point, my lady. If you could just get the clutch right down to the floor.
　　LADY EDITH
　　But I am.
　　BRANSON
　　Not quite, my lady.
　　LADY EDITH
　　It doesn't seem to want to go.
　　BRANSON
　　I think it wants to if you ask it properly. That's better. You'll be putting me out of a job.
　　LADY EDITH
　　Won't the call up put you all out of your jobs?
　　BRANSON
　　I'll cross that bridge when I come to it.
　　[INT. KITCHENS - MORNING]
　　WILLIAM
　　What are you giving them to eat?
　　MRS PATMORE
　　Not much. They know the money's for the hospital, so they can't expect Belshazzar's feast.
　　DAISY
　　I'll make some cheese straws. What's the matter with you?
　　WILLIAM
　　Nothing much. My dad still won't let me enlist 1.
　　MRS PATMORE
　　Your father has no one but you, of course he doesn't want you to enlist. Who can argue with him?
　　WILLIAM
　　So I stand by while the lads on the farms and in the gardens go to war? Even Thomas is on the front in the medical corps 2.
　　MRS PATMORE
　　Ha! That'll come as a nasty shock.
　　WILLIAM
　　Oh, you can make fun of him, Mrs Patmore, but he's fighting for his king and country and I'm not.
　　MRS PATMORE
　　Well, I daresay you won't have long to wait.
　　WILLIAM
　　Well, I hope you're right.
　　MRS PATMORE
　　Do you? Because I don't. I hope very much that I am wrong. --
　　[INT. LARGE PARLOUR - MORNING]
　　ISOBEL CRAWLEY
　　It's kind of you to let us have it here. They'll enjoy it so much more.
　　VIOLET, DOWAGER COUNTESS OF GRANTHAM
　　And you can charge so much more for the tickets.
　　ROBERT, EARL OF GRANTHAM
　　Good morning, Mama. This is very early for you to be up and about.
　　VIOLET, DOWAGER COUNTESS OF GRANTHAM
　　War makes early risers of us all. I thought I would help with the flowers.
　　CORA, COUNTESS OF GRANTHAM
　　Basset has plenty, but...thank you.
　　[Cora exits.]
　　VIOLET, DOWAGER COUNTESS OF GRANTHAM
　　You don't mind my taking over the flowers, do you? Cora's flower always look more suite 3 first communion in southern Italy. Well, what else have you planned for tonight's raffles 4?
　　ROBERT, EARL OF GRANTHAM
　　Anything we can think of that will raise money.
　　VIOLET, DOWAGER COUNTESS OF GRANTHAM
　　Hot buttered toast with a countess, a tuppence a slice?
　　[INT. LIBRARY - MORNING]
　　[Ethel fluffs a pillow by tossing it in the air.]
　　ANNA
　　You drop the cushions on the floor to plump them up.
　　ETHEL
　　I know.
　　MRS HUGHES
　　Ethel, are you settling in?
　　[Ethel drops a pillow on the floor.]
　　ETHEL
　　I would be if Anna would stop teaching me how to suck eggs. I was Head Housemaid in my last position.
　　MRS HUGHES
　　You were Senior Housemaid out of two in a much smaller house.
　　ANNA
　　Are they to be coming here tonight?
　　MRS HUGHES
　　Only at the interval 5, and keep them out of the drawing room. I thought Mr Bates would've been back by now, or he could've stood guard.
　　[Mrs Hughes and Anna smile.]
　　ETHEL
　　Who is this Mr Bates?
　　ANNA
　　He's Lordship's Valet. He's been in London because his mother died.
　　ETHEL
　　Well, everyone talks about him as if he were king.
　　ANNA
　　Do they? That's nice to hear.
　　[Violet enters.]
　　VIOLET, DOWAGER COUNTESS OF GRANTHAM
　　Anna.
　　[Anna curtsies.]
　　VIOLET, DOWAGER COUNTESS OF GRANTHAM
　　Help me do battle with this...monstrosity.
　　[Violet stares at the hideous 6 flower arrangement on the table.]
　　VIOLET, DOWAGER COUNTESS OF GRANTHAM
　　Looks like a creature from the Lost World.
　　[Violet starts pulling out flowers.]
　　[INT. MR CARSON'S OFFICE - MORNING]
　　[Mr Carson is polishing the silver set.]
　　MRS HUGHES
　　You should let William do that.
　　MR CARSON
　　He's got enough on his hands getting the uniforms out of mothballs. Agh, I must remember to put Anna on alert for dinner tonight.
　　MRS HUGHES
　　You have to ease up a bit or you'll give yourself a heart attack. There's a war on. Things cannot be the same when there's a war on.
　　MR CARSON
　　I do not agree. Keeping up standards is the only way to show the Germans that they will not beat us in the end.
　　MRS HUGHES
　　Well, give me some warning the next time we're expecting Germans at Downton, I'll see what I can do.