The broken-hearted Miss Hopkins has made a terrible mistake, while Lady Devonport - her chaperone - is struggling to take the impossible step of leaving her "passionate friend" Mr Foxsmith. As the house party comes to an end and each guest prepares to leave, a final ball is held in 'Masque'. Without their chaperones, the rule book is thrown out the window...

Not all of our time travellers have grown fat on the land of the Kentchurch estate. The capricious plaything of the house party guests, Zebedee the hermit, has felt the pinch of a subsistent life. He's lost over two stone in weight as supplies have dwindled. After disappearing to the hermitage for a whole day - on an undisclosed errand - Miss Francesca has had to cut the number and length of her visits as she is fast loosing her tenuous grasp on gentility.

Mrs Enright receives a letter from Miss Conick's mother, enquiring on her charge's progress. Mrs Enright muses whether or not to write and say that having found no match at the party, Miss Conick has decided to go to London and seek her fortune as a Courtesan!

Mr Everett has constructed a maze on the back lawn in the shape of a fan with symbols of love, wealth and happiness at each corner. Each male guest is to complete the maze with the partner of their choice as a symbol of their affection.

The time has come for the chaperones to leave the house and the nineteenth century behind. However before they leave they must interview each of the gentlemen to see if any matches have been made. During a ride across the deer park, Miss Hopkins admits to Lady Devonport that she wishes to complete the maze of love with Mr Everett.

Back at the house, Mr Carrington has been doing his homework, and after asking the other ladies, he fulfils one of Miss Hopkins' dreams. She returns to her room to find her bed strewn with rose petals.

"I'm just a plain, average girl... I've had to make a choice between the two and it's broken my heart," Miss Hopkins sobs in the journal room.

Mr Foxsmith is called to an interview with the chaperones and asked if there is a lady that he would like to complete the maze with as a symbol of his affection. In floods of tears, his choice Lady Devonport explains that as she is still married, they cannot complete the maze together. She hands him a ring as a token of their love, and the happiness that she believes he will find with another in the future.

The chaperones have left and only the hostess remains behind to make sure that nothing too outrageous occurs. The Wilderness has been transformed into a candle-lit tent, where the remaining guests disguised by Venetian masques dance and drink the night away. Freed from the constraints of the ever-prying eyes of the chaperones, a number of changes to the sleeping arrangements are made later that night.

The last day that our guests will spend in the early years of the 19th century has come. They are due to return to the year 2004, to the gas bill and the mobile phone, the crowded bus and beans on toast. For the last nine weeks, they have lived in an age of stunning opulence and vitality - a period of history of which it has been said that there was never anything as magnificent.

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