The Duchess of Duke Street: Season 2

S2·E1 Mytharc

Family Matters

Sep 3, 1977

Louisa's only brother, ne'er do well Arthur, returns to London after a decade. Her mother pressures Louisa into offering him a job at the Bentinck, running the risk of alienating t

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Poor Catullus

Sep 10, 1977

When two high spirited Oxford students play a prank on Louisa, she goes along with the fun and finds a Professor of Classics pitching the woo to her. Meanwhile, Lord and Lady Hasle

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A Lesson in Manners

Sep 17, 1977

Louisa takes a callow chauffeur in tow and tries to turn him into a 'proper gentleman,' when his kind, elderly and wealthy employer dies suddenly and leaves him the bulk of her est

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Winter Lament

Sep 24, 1977

Louisa visits Lord and Lady Haslemere in Yorkshire and finds a bleak and desperately unhappy household.

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The Passing Show

Oct 1, 1977

Louisa urges Charlie to get on with his life and a smooth and very suave actor beds Violet, who promptly gets the sack.

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Your Country Needs You

Oct 8, 1977

With the outbreak of the Great War, the staff are galvanized to help in the effort and keep the hotel running as usual. Louisa takes in a Belgian refugee, a master pastry chef. Cha

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The Patriots

Oct 15, 1977

Louisa is concerned when a government official informs her that the Bentinck has become a spies nest and implicates a member of her staff.

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The Reluctant Warrior

Oct 22, 1977

When the hotel sustains damage after it's grazed by a bomb, Ethel takes a shine to a conscientious objector, assigned to ferret out a potential UXB. Though nobody was injured, Star

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Tea and a Wad

Oct 29, 1977

Louisa brings a bit of England to France when the Major enlists her to fashion a tea and sandwich shop, military style and Charlie (Lord Haslemere) and an ecstatic Luisa agree to m

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Shadows

Nov 5, 1977

Charlie returns to London and the Bentinck when he's been wounded and puts on a cheerful and brave face, but his situation is far more serious, as Louisa and the Major suspected.

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Where There's a Will

Nov 12, 1977

With the war at an end, Louisa is at the precipice of an emotional collapse and financial ruin.

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The Legion of the Living

Nov 19, 1977

Ghosts of Visits to Yorkshire Past interfere with key decisions Louisa must make in the present, chiefly, deciding what will be best for her daughter, Lottie and her future.

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Lottie

Dec 3, 1977

While a few of the staff know of Lottie's origins, others have set their tongues wagging about just why this young girls seems to be staying at the Bentinck. Louisa wont put up wit

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Blossom Time

Dec 10, 1977

Lottie returns to the Bentinck from finishing school in Switzerland for a bit of a holiday and has her art teacher, Miss Olive Bradford, in tow. Lottie has become quite the young l

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Poor Little Rich Girl

Dec 17, 1977

Louisa and Lottie are at loggerheads -- Louisa wants her daughter to be a proper lady, as befits the daughter of a Viscount. Lottie is confident that she has the talent and the loo

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Ain't We Got Fun

Dec 24, 1977

Change is in the air at the hotel and in the lives of its many residents. An American writer, Sophie Applegate, would like to pen a book about Louisa's life, successes and failures