Onslaught of lots of new characters this ep all lumped in together, some with prospects of extra marital affairs such as Susan (Alice Eve) and John (Adam James) what was the attraction there anyway. Obviously Charles (Jack Bardoe) and Mariah (Ella Purnell)would hit it off and they come across as more suited to each other. But with a pyriah of a mother in Lady Templemore (Tara Fitzgerald) looks like she'll pull for their marriage, don't know why since John won't be getting any inheritance by the time this show is done by the looks of things.
Anne (Tamsin Greig) must regret telling Lady Brockenhiurst (Harriet Walter) about their grandson, it really wasn't the reaction Anne was expecting and she would not keep their secret, she's not that type of woman, she's an aristo and Anne confronting her about revealing the secret in public so her son will be vindicated and not seen as the cad he was, scheming at that and Sophia was the "slut" as Lady Brockenhrst says with relish. Lots of secrets revealed here too as Anne learns how her husband, James (Philip Glenister) has been in touch with Charles and couldn't stay away from him, using business as a pretext to see him. But why hide it, at least they could've spent time with him together. Though he was right in Anne not telling Lady Brockenhurst a she didn't deserve to know with her reaction. It is she who should be pitted with a son like Bellasis and not Sophia who would be shunned by society, eventually, but ya know, she was a woman and everything so...so men are never wrong and neither are their stuck up society mothers.
Lady Brockenhurst taking on the Duchess of Bedford's tea drinking ideas in her own home too. As the Trenchard's are invited to the lavish dinner party after Lady Brockenhurst seeks out Charles under the pretext of wanting to invest in his business. Yeah she knows plenty about cotton. We get to meet Bellasis's father too, Earl Peregrine Brockenhurst (Tom Wilkinson) and his side of the family. With his brother, Rev Stephen Bellasis (James Fleet) Reverand as he was the youngest and that was something to do. As well as his overbearing nephew, John, who is the heir. Hoping he'll be put in his place once they find out about Charles, who seems to be a decent bloke. Also raised by a clergyman who was given a baby to raise with his wife as their own as they were a childless couple. Although Charles does know about him being adopted.
More gossip downstairs too as Ellis (Saskia Reeves) thinks she could've been a housemaid by now and had staff under her, but really she seems to be wanting to stay in her position for gossip if nothing else, didn't come across as being out of loyalty. As well as Brockenhurst's butler, Jenkins (Martin Bishop) knowing everything about the family. Thus he would know what a cad Bellasis was too. As Anne brings up another relative of the Brockenhurst family who did exactly the same thing and deceived a woman by pretending to marry her. Again it's all hush hush and swept under the carpet less their name should be dragged through the mud.
Poor Anne seems to be forever needing to forgive her husband and no sooner does she do so she discovers another indiscretion or secret he's been harbouring and going behind her back. She should have done as the doctor said and taken in Charles as their own, even if Sophia didn't want it that way. As she bitterly regrets this now. He was family and surely they could have made up some story about distant relatives. Of course that's not how the story goes or there wouldn't be any drama. Ella Purnell was last seen in Wildlike with Bruce Greenwood, by me at least.
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