唐顿庄园第二季第八集_7

 　　唐顿庄园第二季第八集_7

　　[INT. SERVANTS' HALL - DAY]
　　[One of the serving bells rings. Bates turns to one of the extra servants.]
　　MR BATES
　　Take care of that, thank you.
　　[The servant leaves as Anna enters.]
　　MR BATES
　　How're you doing?
　　ANNA
　　I'm not sure. Her Ladyship's worse.
　　MR BATES
　　I'm sorry.
　　ANNA
　　Jane said you wanted to see me.
　　MR BATES
　　It's only to say that I've done it. I've booked the registrar 1. [Anna beams.]
　　ANNA
　　When for?
　　MR BATES
　　He's had a cancellation 2, so it's...it's Friday afternoon.
　　ANNA
　　This Friday?
　　[Ethel enters with Charlie.]
　　ANNA
　　Ethel? What are you doing here?
　　[Anna greats Charlie as Jane enters.]
　　JANE
　　Those Bryants have turned up agai--
　　ETHEL
　　That's what.
　　ANNA
　　I'll find Mrs Hughes and come back for you.
　　[Anna smiles at Bates on her way out.]
　　[INT. PARLOUR - DAY]
　　MRS HUGHES
　　I hope I haven't kept you waiting.
　　MRS BRYANT
　　No, no.
　　MRS HUGHES
　　I'm afraid we have illness in the house, so I hope you can excuse Lord and Lady Grantham.
　　MR BRYANT
　　It's not them we've come to see, is it? Is she here?
　　MRS HUGHES
　　She's just coming now.
　　[Anna opens the door for Ethel and Charlie.]
　　MRS BRYANT
　　May I meet him properly?
　　ETHEL
　　Come along, Charlie.
　　[She carries him to Mrs Bryant, both of them smiling.]
　　ETHEL
　　This nice lady is your grandmother.
　　MRS BRYANT
　　Perhaps you could call me Gran.
　　MRS HUGHES
　　He's a stout 3 little chap, isn't he?
　　MRS BRYANT
　　And so like Charles. I thought it when we were last here. I know what was said at the time and Mr Bryant's sorry for it now, but I could see he was just like Charles.
　　MR BRYANT
　　Never mind all that. Let's get down to business.
　　ETHEL
　　Business?
　　MRS HUGHES MR BRYANT
　　That's what you want from us, isn't it? Find out what we mean to do for little Charlie in the future.
　　[INT. KITCHENS - DAY]
　　DAISY MASON
　　What do you mean, "she might die"?
　　O'BRIEN
　　What do you think happens with a fatal illness? The fairy's come?
　　MRS PATMORE
　　By heaven, if anything happens to her, it won't be your fault, Miss O'Brien. I've never seen such care.
　　O'BRIEN
　　I wish I could talk to her, that's all, but she doesn't know me.
　　MRS PATMORE
　　I'm sure she knows how hard you've worked for her.
　　O'BRIEN
　　It's not that. There's something I need...Never mind. Either I will or I won't.
　　[O'Brien takes the tray and exits.]
　　MRS PATMORE
　　You never know people, do you? You can work with them for twenty years and you don't know them at all.
　　[INT. PARLOUR - DAY]
　　ETHEL
　　What? You mean, give him up? Never see him again?
　　MR BRYANT
　　Those are my terms.
　　MRS HUGHES
　　But...would it hurt if Ethel were to care for him in your own house? She could be his nurse.
　　MRS BRYANT
　　That might be possible.
　　ETHEL
　　MRS HUGHES MR BRYANT
　　Of course she can't be his nurse. Just think for a minute. We mean to bring him up as a gentleman, send him to [Harrowsay?] and Oxford 4, and all the while his mother's down in the servants' hall? How does that work?
　　ETHEL
　　Well, I-- I could.
　　MR BRYANT
　　No, no, no. Don't you see? We want to raise him as our grandson, not as a housemaid's bastard 5.
　　MRS BRYANT
　　Well, he has to know the truth sometime.
　　MR BRYANT
　　Maybe. But not for a long time. Till then, his father had a wartime marriage until he died, and his mother succumbed 6 to Spanish flu.
　　MRS BRYANT
　　A lot of people have.
　　MRS HUGHES
　　We've quite a few upstairs.
　　MR BRYANT
　　And that, for many years at least, is all that Charlie will be told.
　　ETHEL
　　So, I'm just to be written out? Painted over, buried?
　　MR BRYANT
　　What matters is what's good for Charlie.
　　ETHEL
　　No. What's good for Charlie, and what's good for you?
　　[Ethel stands up angry. She walks over to Mrs Bryant.]
　　ETHEL
　　You've got a heart, I know you have. You see what he's asking?
　　[Mr Bryant stands.]
　　MR BRYANT
　　Ethel, consider this: in the world as it is, compare the two futures 7. The first as my heir 8, educated, privileged, rich, able to do what he wants, to marry whom he likes. The second as the bastard son--
　　[Mrs Hughes stands up.]
　　MRS HUGHES
　　I think we've heard enough of that word for one day.
　　MR BRYANT
　　Very well. As the...nameless offshoot of drudge 9. You're his mother. Which would you choose for him?
　　ETHEL
　　Suppose I could be his nurse and never tell him who I am? Suppose I promised that?
　　[Mrs Bryant stands.]
　　MRS BRYANT
　　Surely--
　　MR BRYANT
　　Come on, we all know that's a promise you could never keep.
　　[Anna enters.]
　　ANNA
　　I'm sorry, Mrs Hughes. We must send for the doctor to come at once. Her Ladyship's much worse.
　　MRS BRYANT
　　I--I'm afraid--
　　MR BRYANT
　　Go where you're needed, we've has our say, and you know how to reach us when you've made your decision.
　　[Mrs Bryant and Ethel exchange a look.]
　　MR BRYANT
　　Come along Daphne.
　　[INT. LADY GRANTHAM'S BEDROOM - DAY]
　　[O'Brien continues to nurse Cora alone.]
　　CORA
　　O'Brien? Is that you, O'Brien?
　　[O'Brien smiles.]
　　O'BRIEN
　　Yes, milady. It's me, milady.
　　CORA
　　You're so good to me. You've always been so good to me.
　　O'BRIEN
　　Not always, milady.
　　CORA
　　So good.
　　O'BRIEN
　　No. And the fact is, I want to ask so much for your forgiveness, because I did something once which I bitterly regret. Bitterly. And if you could only know how much--
　　CORA
　　So very good.
　　[Cora is clearly still delirious 10. Robert enters.]
　　ROBERT
　　How is she?
　　O'BRIEN
　　She slept and she seemed better, then suddenly the fever came back.
　　ROBERT
　　O'Brien, thank you for the way you've looked after her. I mean it, I'm very grateful, whatever comes.