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towards obtaining a divorce.

I believe a divorce is what

Lady Worsley wishes for.

There will be no divorce.

Was Jane with him?

- Did you see my Mary?

- No, I did not.

Perhaps they remain elusive.

Seymour, he was with a lawyer.

What?

A lawyer?

Speak to Richard.

If you wish for a divorce, look him

in the eye and ask him for one.

I do not have to do anything

Richard bids me to do any more.

I do as I please.

I am happy now.

- He knows my wishes, you expressed

them. - Seymour, please.

I did my duty to him as his wife

and I obliged his every whim.

I will not go to him,

sir, he must let ME go.

Lady Worsley must understand

she now has a clear choice.

She may return home to us and

we undertake to forgive her.

If she does not, there will be a trial

and I will prosecute Captain Bisset.

He will pay and she will condemn

them both to a life of penury.

I see.

If I may, surely given the...

extraordinary intimacy of your

friendship with Captain Bisset,

you may meet with him and talk with him.

She is my wife and she

is mine and mine alone

and yet she has been taken from me

and f***ed by that villain Bisset.

- Richard... - Furthermore, I

will seek compensation in law

from that scoundrel.

Compensation for all

that he has done to me

and the damage he's caused

to my rightful property.

In cases of this nature,

one would expect to ask

for 5,000 in compensation.

I will ask for 20,000.

20,000, sir?

- Why should the devil be left

undisturbed? - Richard...

We should ask for 20,000

and then let's see how

Captain Bisset likes it.

Richard, litigation will not

restore Seymour's affections

and it will be as costly for you

as well as for the scoundrel Bisset.

It is my wish.

There will be public scrutiny of

your private affairs, Richard.

It is my wish, sir.

Well, sir...

.. if it your wish then we must

apply our efforts to obtaining

proof of adultery.

We must catch them at it, sir.

Sir Richard and Lady Worsley.

I should think you mean to thank

me for taking you as my wife.

I meant nothing by it.

You will recall, Seymour, I

made a vow to love and cherish

and you made a vow to

love, cherish and obey.

Forgive me...

I am Mr Bisset. George Bisset.

I'm the new owner of Newton.

- You say you heard them screwing?

- Yes, I did, sir.

And you kept the sheets as I asked you to.

Yes, I have, Mr Farrar.

Foul state they was in as well.

Well, then...

This is Lady Worsley's riding crop.

See if she'll claim it

and give her real name.

Why do you housemaids knock

but not await an answer?

My lady, there's a riding crop

left for a lady in this house

and since there's no other ladies here,

may I crave the favour of your name?

- A riding crop.

- Yes, my lady,

a riding crop and some other effects.

Is the person who left that

a woman servant with a child?

We're instructed not to part with

the crop or any other belongings

unless my lady gives her true name first.

Why I am Seymour, Lady Worsley.

Where did you get that from?

'You are insinuated in the criminality. '

Yes, sir.

You are implicated in the

desertion of your master...

and the wicked plot to abduct the

child that is rightfully his.

You have any objection to

seeing Lady Worsley again?

No, sir.

My loyalty is to my mistress.

But I understand Sir Richard is my master.

Good.

Do you know enough of Captain Bisset...

as to be certain of his

person if you saw him?

- Yes, sir.

- Well, then, Miss Sotheby.

'You are to go to Lady

Worsley's bedchamber...

'.. and if you should see Captain Bisset,

'you are to tell me. '

Enter.

Why did you not come as I asked?

Madam, I am come by Sir Richard's orders.

- Mary?

- Madam?

You come by Sir Richard's orders?

Yes, madam.

Where is Jane?

The infant is with her father.

But you must bring her to me.

So it's true then, madam.

You know why I am here.

I never believed you would've done it.

Oh, Mary.

You will not see me again, madam.

Mary!

Mary!

He will not give up the child.

He means to use Jane as a pawn

to try and force your return.

Seymour, you gave your actual

name to the housemaids.

- Mary has confessed to Richard. - No.

No, no. - He'll have me prosecuted.

Richard would never dare

put himself and us

through the humiliation of the courts.

- We have humiliated him!

- Hush now.

Did you not mark how my Mary was with me?

- If that b*tch comes again I'll shoot

her. - You'll do no such thing.

Sh, sh, sh.

We have them.

Mary.

Does it not grieve you, you

do not see our daughter?

- Dear Seymour, please.

- Does it not grieve you, sir?

Sir?

George.

The infant was of our love begotten,

my dear Seymour, is a fact.

Richard took her for his own

and now she belongs to him.

A fact, George?

It was you who foolishly asked

your woman to bring her.

And it is you that foolishly

said we must leave without her.

- The child is better off with

Richard. - How can you say so?

The scandal will be great.

Richard knows it...

and he has us by the nutmegs.

We must be patient.

Deerhurst will go to him again.

He will be full of fury if

Deerhurst goes to him again.

- He will not, George. - If you provoke

him further, he may suggest a duel.

He may.

And I could not refuse.

Oh, my love.

- Sir, what do you mean by this?

- Maurice George Bisset.

Who is it that seeks him out?

You are served with a writ from

the Court of the King's Bench.

We've been fooled.

He has made a claim for 20,000.

I'll become a bankrupt

and live out my days in the Fleet Prison.

I have valued your wise council

and your unfailing loyalty

but I begin to wonder.

Wonder? Why, Prime Minister?

Sometimes we must accept defeat.

Accept it in its bitter entirety.

You have been wronged and mightily so

but every wall has unseen eyes and ears.

What say you, then?

All of London is in an uproar

with talk of a cuckold

in my government and a whore for a wife!

I take it you are beyond reproach

in all these terrible misfortunes.

My reputation will remain intact.

Then good.

I will need every man

of mine and every vote.

We must be married and live

as one with our daughter.

But you are already married.

It is my fortune that has acquired

all of this. My fortune.

Why should I not determine

how I am to live?

We could live as four here.

- As moderns, Seymour.

- No. No.

It is my dearest wish that you and

I and our daughter live as one.

How it is my dearest wish, George.

Mr Farrar.

Mr Wallace.

She'll not be attending, will she?

No, sir, of course not.

All rise.

The Right Honourable Lord

Chief Justice Mansfield.

Order! Order! Silence in court!

Do you consent to her attending?

I have no objection, my lord.

Very well, then. We may proceed.

Sir Richard Worsley is

a selfless, God-fearing

and dutiful public servant

of the highest order.

A doting father, a loving

and dutiful husband

who has been wronged and subject

to an outrageous plot.

Sir Richard has a seat

in the House of Commons,

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