Servants

The Sturges Borne family are returning to their country seat, Taplows, with their retinue of servants after a summer away in Italy.

Preparations are underway for a grand dinner and Taplows’ servants, particularly Mr Jarvis, are keen to impress.

The squabbling between Grace and Esther Spicer escalates to new heights in the midst of preparations for the annual hunt ball.

Housekeeper Flora discovers that Mr Jarvis has been embezzling wages for years.

The servants are having a double celebration - it’s New Year’s Eve and payday.

When Grace and George are nearly discovered together in the middle of the night, Flora instigates a witch-hunt to identify the errant servants and institutes a moral clampdown.