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After a slow 1st half it then picks up at the film shoot had to laugh last week when they said Fredrick had been here 7 years but has hardly had any plot time so it was nice that he could go out on a high,I'm just off too the internet to see if I can get a screen shot of Georgina in her film costume.

June, 1927, Frederick the Footman is discontented with his lot at 165 - particularly after Edward was made 'Under Butler' instead of him, and so he seeks his ambition elsewhere.

Lady Dolly Hale, a rather 'scatty' friend of Miss Georgian's, takes a shine to 'Fred', and introduces him to a whole new way of life. Frederick likes this new life, and means to have it on a permanent basis! Georgina gets a part in a film as a prostitute to James' fury. What makes it even worse, is that he and 'Aunt Prue' turn up to watch her, only to find out that Frederick is playing the man who's about to take advantage of her easy virtue... This was set up as a prank by Lady Dolly who finds everything in life a joke. James loses his temper and wrecks the whole film... As a consequence, Frederick can hardly stay on at 165 as Footman after this, and doesn't wish to carry on his relationship with Lad Dolly either, and so having felt he's found his 'niche' in society, he leaves Eaton Place to seek his fortune.

One of the most touching scenes ever is featured in this episode, when Lady Prudence, a very old and dear friend of the Bellamy family, sees James' unrequited love for his cousin Georgina, and picks up on his despair of life in general, and sounds almost like his dear mother, Lady Marjorie, when she lightly touches him under the chin and says; 'chin up darling'. Old friends of the family were made for this kind of thing in real-life. James looks like the lost boy he's become, and whose life is in tatters and needs the comfort of his mother, whose children never grow up - and Lady Prue is the next best thing and a wonderful substitute. This is beautifully scened and scripted.