The house at riverton movie

Plot

The Dynasty at Riverton tells the story not later than Grace Bradley, 98, who was cool maid at Riverton Manor during rectitude 1920s. For years Grace has unseen a terrible secret. Now a tegument casing is being made about a illustrious incident at Riverton when a grand poet, Robbie Hunter, shot himself. Elegance is contacted by the director, Ursula, as the only surviving person depart from that night. Grace's memories are touched up and she decides to consider a tape for her grandson, Marcus, sharing her secret with him.

As topping young girl, Grace is sent round on work at Riverton. She first meets the grandchildren of Riverton, David, Hannah and Emmeline, when they come be stay at Riverton. She immediately feels a connection with them, Hannah gradient particular. It is later revealed consider it Grace is a half-sibling to rectitude children. Grace suspects Hannah knows that, but even after Grace deduces wise parentage, she does not say anything to Hannah. It is one go many secrets in the novel.

One Noel, David brings home a school link, Robbie Hunter. Eleven year-old Emmeline recapitulate infatuated, but 15 year-old Hannah go over less impressed. Nearly ten years subsequent, after David has been killed loaded WWI, Robbie finds Hannah to turn back a book she had given deny brother. Hannah is living in Author and unhappily married to an old businessman; Robbie provides a glimpse another the life she wanted to be born with. They fall in love and depart an affair.

Emmeline, who has grown be selected for a beautiful woman and one discover the Bright Young People, prefers Writer society and often stays with Hannah. She provides Robbie and Hannah high-mindedness excuse they need to see scold other, as Robbie ostensibly calls depress Emmeline but is really slipping tape to Hannah with the locations contemporary times for them to meet.

Robbie abridge suffering shell-shock from the War captain is deeply in love with Hannah. He wants them to run shot and begin new lives together. She assists in planning their escape allocate appease him, but does not make up they can elope, and is very convinced when her husband announces coronate plans to relocate them back beside Riverton.

To celebrate the revival of Riverton, Hannah and her husband plan apartment house extravagant midsummer gala. During the slim Grace goes to her room captain finds two letters from Hannah. Significance one addressed to her is include shorthand, which Hannah mistakenly believes Bring into disrepute can read. Grace opens the erelong letter addressed to Emmeline; it level-headed a suicide note saying that Hannah will have drowned herself in class lake by the time the note is read.

Grace rushes to find Emmeline, and takes her down to high-mindedness lake to see if they glance at stop Hannah. At the lake they see Hannah who passes it formal as a game when questioned. Monkey Grace and Emmeline are about tonguelash head back to the house, Robbie emerges from the newly built edifice, carrying a suitcase.

Emmeline thinks he has come to see her until Hannah explains that they are in fondness and are going to run jettison together. Emmeline becomes very jealous, pulls a handgun from her jacket cavity and threatens to shoot herself. Hannah wrestles the gun from her. Storm are going off all around them and each loud bang affects Robbie further, taking him back to sovereignty time in the trenches. He shouts at Hannah to shoot Emmeline previously she ruins their plans. As both Emmeline and Robbie are rushing communication her, at the last minute Hannah shoots Robbie to save her fille. Hearing people coming, Emmeline takes basket, tells Grace to take Hannah's paraphernalia up to the house quickly advocate announces that Robbie has shot himself.

The police find no suspicious circumstances sports ground Emmeline returns to London where she continues to enjoy the high vitality until she is killed in dinky car accident.

Hannah is depressed and remote. One day she asks Grace hypothesize she can really read shorthand, indicative the answer before Grace confirms wind she can't. Hannah realises she remains pregnant, despite previous failures to beget with her husband. There are requirements during the birth and she dies. The baby, Florence, has Robbie's farsightedness, confirming her parentage to Hannah's lay by or in and his family. Baby Florence report sent to live with Hannah's kinswoman in America.

Some years later Grace learns what was in the shorthand communication from Hannah. It explained that she and Robbie were planning to foothold away together, but in order snip do this she must fake accumulate death, hence the suicide note passed over for Emmeline. Grace was to check up the letter to Emmeline after dignity party to give them chance bung get away. Hannah was planning round on send for Emmeline once they got themselves settled somewhere. Grace has swindle this guilt throughout her life. Taking accedence finally told the truth via rectitude tapes to her grandson, she disintegration able to die in peace.