![]() ![]() ![]() And then there is her husband's severed legs. The Flamborough family has only married within its own extended ranks for generations. Her mother, the beautiful Lady Flamborough, keeps whisking Jasper away to attend to her flowers. Belinda makes a playful reference to Freud, who is never far away. The lord's three lovely daughters leave Jasper hovering between desire and disgrace: the nympho Belinda, unhappily-married Chloe, and the Pre-Raphaelite, virginal, 16 year old Matilda, frenziedly romantic but scared of sex. Jasper alights at a station called Arcady Halt. His family's motto is hic manemus: here we remain. Legless since 1926, he lives on the train, travelling endlessly forward and back. ![]() The last part of his journey is on a steam train, owned by the local Lord Flamborough. ![]() The locality is called Arcady, a hint that we will soon disconnect from everyday things. Jasper Pye is an earnest young civil servant commissioned to visit (and recommend the closure of) an odd little unit of Her Majesty's Government based in a castle on the border of Norfolk and Suffolk - a wartime stopgap measure mysteriously prolonged. A tasteful and thoughtful comedy mixing myth, wish-fulfilment and English charm. ![]()
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