 In the midst of a relentless London heat wave, Hazel suffers a miscarriage. James is indifferent toward his wife s distress, as his focus is now on his step-cousin, Georgina, who has come to live at Eaton Place. Richard is alarmed at his son s behavior and things come to a head when Hazel and James engage in a fierce argument, Richard intervenes and James demands that his father move out of the household. Downstairs, Rose and Hudson engage in rigorous verbal sparring at the turn of events upstairs and Daisy, through her tears, succumbs to the mounting tension in the household. As England is about to become engulfed in the First War, the characters, up and down, and their fate are very uncertain.