The Eligible Bachelor

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Yelling No.

No.

No.

No.

No.

It's as if the

asylum had vanished.

The misery that must

behind those walls.

There's no escape from

the terrors of the mind.

Indeed.

Well another

case concluded.

[unintelligible]

An observant child

could have solved it.

Good Luck with the

seminar and thank you.

It's a privilege

my dear fellow

if it's a successful

case after all.

And Holmes,

don't be bored.

Glovin castle.

Glovin.

It's so beautiful Robert.

I never expected it

to be so beautiful

and it's really always

belonged to your family?

For about 4 or 5

hundred years or so.

I want to see it.

No Hettie.

Why can't I see it?

My darling girl you

don't understand,

I can't just drop

in at Glovin.

Neither can you.

You maybe utterly divine

and impossibly rich

but you can't.

But why can't I?

You own it,

you're Lord St. Simon,

it's your house.

It's an ancestral

home, which is mine.

You see it's the servants

who really live there.

Actually every one

of them has spent

more of their life in

Glovin than I have.

And I won't have

them put out.

I see,

so even when

we're married

if I want to visit

I have to send on ahead?

Yes, preferably a

day or two ahead.

Oh, I didn't realize,

like royalty.

Yes.

Will it be all

right Robert?

What my darling?

That I mind about

me at what I am

and where I come from,

the servants I mean

and your family?

They already

think of you as

being one of the exotic.

But I'm a miner's daughter

from a mining camp.

Pa might have been

digging gold out there

but it still makes me

a miner's daughter.

Doesn't matter.

Perfect education

for the country life,

you'll have the whole

county at your feet,

as you have me.

Oh my, will you

look at that.

What's it doing here?

There's always been some

sort of zoo at Glovin.

My latter fellow's

interest to keep it going.

You know I have a fancy

that cat's from the

Americas like you.

Actually he's come

to welcome here.

You wild and

beautiful thing.

Not half as wild and

beautiful as you.

Water.

Water into dust.

Come on.

Amelia why don't you let

her give the dog to me?

No, no, she stays with me.

She might get

under the horses.

It's a wonder we

got here at all.

Its arrived and

so have they.

How much did you say?

What did you say?

They sent the

child to Paris.

What for?

To school.

Yes Americans do send

their daughters to Paris,

that's what I was

given to understand.

You know in my experience

Paris breaths either

triviality or philosophy.

Neither helpful

companion in life.

No I suppose not.

Well at least the child

is not an actress.

Oh Florence

Ours, ours, ours.

Now, now Hettie, they're

your future family.

They want to like you.

They want to like Lord

Robert's future bride.

Stop being so

silly Hettie.

Oh Alice, but Alice have

you seen those women?

Now Hettie Doran

I'd like to remind you

of a certain incident

which occurred in

Tompkins Gulch

not 2 years ago.

The bear.

Alice I was

scared to death.

Awe, you faced that

bear down you did.

I couldn't move

I tell you.

You faced him down.

You believed in

yourself and you did it.

Now you get down

those stairs.

My dear Henrietta

you cannot

live at Glovin.

Why not?

Because Glovin isn't

fit for habitation.

But it's just perfect.

We'll soon get it round.

I say it's the most

beautiful place

I've ever seen.

Don't you remember

how lovely it was

when all the men came

with their scythes

to mow the hay in the park

and the summer parties?

Every lamp in

the house was lit

and outside

the smell of the hay

in the moonlight,

you remember?

Yes, yes.

I remember.

Dear Mr. Sherlock Holmes,

my father has run away.

Please will you

help me find him?

Timothy.

My cat Boswald

is missing.

Money no object.

Well I'll tell you

what I actually think.

I think she's

extraordinarily pretty

that's what I think.

And I think Robert is

head over heels in love.

I agree.

That's what I think.

And Bella thinks so

too don't you my angel?

Bella says Miss.Doran

is very [unintelligible].

Very [unintelligible].

Dear Henrietta

you mustn't take

what Amelia says

too seriously.

I didn't hear a

word of all that.

Robert so deserves

you my dear.

He's been unlucky in love

and he's business... Hush,

Mary, remember?

Why can't I finish what

I was going to say?

When do we dine?

Exquisite.

Exquisite.

Get off me.

Come here you.

Get off me.

Get off me.

No.

You've merely imagined

all these dreadful

things Oswald.

It was your imagination.

This agony's been

too much for you.

Hello Mr. Holmes.

May I?

Yes but there rehearsing...

At home with your own

mother. My blessed boy.

Everything is yours

for the asking

just like when you

were a little child.

The fit is over now.

Mother, give me the suns.

Oswald what is the matter?

Look at me.

Do you not know me?

The sun.

The sun.

No.

No.

No.

We are being watched?

I will not rehearse

in front of strangers.

Get over there.

Go on your way.

Come on.

What are you

looking for then?

Mind your own business.

It's not Lord Robert's.

It's our 7th

anniversary isn't it?

7 years.

Your damned

anniversary not his.

You know it, he knows

it and the cat knows it.

What's the

matter with you?

Get out.

Go and get me

another bottle go on.

I'm not his whore

to be paid off.

He trusted me.

I'm not your

whore my Lord.

No.

Come and use your

whore my Lord.

You'll never have anyone

who'll do what

you want like me.

Thank you.

You'll pardon me mam

if I don't join

you in drinking

that French chateau wine.

I guess it's too

refined for my taste.

Some would say

too civilized.

I'll drink you're health

but it'll be in Samuel

Markoolin's rye.

Smoky kind of whiskey.

I travel it with

me all over.

How very wise Mr. Doran.

Very wise.

If one has an established

taste why then...

just say...just say.

The wine sir

is magnificent.

Bless you.

You know don't you

I've settled

a considerable

amount on Hettie

for when she's married?

She's very conscious

of your generosity sir.

She's mentioned

it more than once.

Sure.

Now tell me about

this house of yours.

Great house, sad

looking they tell me.

I'll accept that

but I'm not prepared

to lay out more

for the time

I spend there.

Hettie has told me

how beautiful it is.

I think she'd like it

to be one of her homes.

I would want to please

Hettie in any way I can

but I'm not

sure that living in

Glovin is possible.

Why not?

You've always been

very frank with me

so I'll admit

something to you.

When I was much younger

and barely had a

grasp of affairs

I was very

badly advised,

financially I mean.

In what way?

I was persuaded

to sell off

outlying parts of Glovin

until there wasn't enough

income from the estate

to sustain the house.

Then mortgages were taken

out to repair things

which left even

less income.

And nobody warned you

of the consequences?

I trusted my advisors.

They were my

father's advisors.

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