Summary

Chapter 10

The film crew reaches an agreement with the Broughton family. Indeed, the narrator is hired to perform. The filming will take eight weeks, with about six weeks filming around the estate. The narrator phones Edith to tell her the news and she invites him to stay with them at Broughton Hall. He politely refuses, having already gotten the job through his connection to the family he does not want to alienate the other actors any more by staying in the luxurious house. In the end, he is put in a very small hotel room with two other actors, Simon Russell and Bella Stevens.

The conditions are very cramped and after a while the narrator asks the Broughtons if there might be an empty cottage on the estate they could rent. Lady Uckfield replies that since Edith and Charles will not be moving into...