Word: southwold
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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They know everything about him: his bank balance, his sex life, his loneliness after Lady Marjorie's death, the snubs he receives from his aristocratic Southwold in-laws, his distress at Son James' behavior, the state of his career. And in a hundred ways they mutely demonstrate their sympathy for him. But Richard, unlike the TV audience, knows very little about them. Consequently, his sensitive efforts at sympathy often seem gauche, even patronizing...
Rose's story is just as stark. Left motherless at twelve, she found herself successively at the mercy of a drunken father, the Southwold servants' hall, and a lecherous young master. Orphan Sarah's beginnings were livelier - and even more unpleasant. As a girl she is saved from impending rape in Whitechapel, but the man who saved her turned out to be a perverted missionary. By contrast, the weekly blend of world crisis and teapot tragedy at Eaton Place - where all the books end - seems calm indeed...
...furor would make an episode in it self. Undoubtedly, Southwold Solicitor Sir Geoffrey would summon a conclave to cope with the scandal. Richard might well consider putting the screws on the outraged Dowager Lady Southwold to increase his allowance in exchange for suppressing his earlier diaries. Richard's middle-class daughter-in-law Hazel would surely stick up for the servants' right to publish, and James would profit from the occasion by borrowing ten ners from a suddenly flush Hudson. As for Mrs. Bridges, it is obvious that the good woman's recipe book would be come...