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"Making the Grade" (Part 2 of six) follows the runup to Sir John and Lady Orliff-Cooper's first formal dinner (for 20). For family it's a "minefield" of protocal, but they don't have to do the work. And the staff, which does, comes to resent it more and more, particularly the new scullery maid (the first one quit after two days). And then, after Mr. Edgar decides to allow a staff party to let off steam, footman Charlie and hall boy Kenny are in no shape to work as the dinner looms. As to its cost: it's twice what Kenny would have earned in all of 1906. Derek Jacobi narrates.