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It's a contest of wills as July helps Caroline dress for the day.
Caroline resolves to give a grand Christmas party at Amity. Meanwhile, it's a contest of wills as July helps her missus dress for the day.
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Caroline resolves to give a grand Christmas party at Amity. Meanwhile, it's a contest of wills as July helps her missus dress for the day.
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(fabric whooshing) (Caroline grunts) - I have decided to arrange a grand Christmas dinner here at Amity.
In England, we used to have such parties and balls at this time of year.
(birds chirping) Carol singers, (grunts) roaring fires, (gasps and exhales) fresh holly berries.
♪ If you have no penny ♪ ♪ A ha-penny will do ♪ ♪ If you haven't got a ha-penny, God ♪ (grunts) (fabric claps loudly) (casual whimsical music) - Greeting missus.
(Caroline exhales) - Christmases here are so dreary.
This year, I am resolved (grunts).
- Just a little more.
- To give a party the likes of which this island has never before seen.
(fabric whooshes) (yowls) That hurts, that's enough.
(pants) Didn't this dress used to have buttons on the sleeve?
- No, missus.
No, no, that'd be the yellow dress you think of.
- No, no, look.
Look here at the threads where they were.
(July exhales) - Missus, must be them washer women in the river.
Them slapped the dress against the rock and bash it 'til it.
- No, no, no, no, no, how many times have I told you not to let those women anywhere near my dresses?
- I did scream and I shout, "Mind the missus dress," I did tell them.
(sighs) But look, the buttons come loose now, look.
- No, but they were pearl buttons, they were pearl buttons.
- It was pearl buttons.
(inhales) Well, I fear them pearls be back down at the bottom of the sea once more.
(birds chirping) (gentle string music)
Funding for MASTERPIECE is provided by Viking and Raymond James with additional support from public television viewers and contributors to The MASTERPIECE Trust, created to help ensure the series’ future.