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[[Fourth Doctor|The Doctor]] pilots [[the TARDIS]] from [[1852]] [[London]] to [[Nottinghamshire]] in the same year, materialising in [[Newstead Abbey]]'s [[hedge maze]] and leaving [[K9 Mark II|K9]] inside to charge. They attempt to follow a [[plague doctor]] and meet [[Hettie Jacobs|Hettie]], a [[maid]] who denies having seen anybody and is called away by [[butler]] [[Hobhouse]], who mistakes the Doctor for a [[physician]] and invites him and Ann into the abbey. [[Wildman|Colonel Wildman]] shows them to the unwell [[Ada Lovelace]], for whom the Doctor prescribes rest and Ann fetches a cold compress from the [[scullery]]. Whilst Ann is escorted there by Hobhouse and sees Hettie washing Ada's muddy [[nightgown]], the Doctor is given a tour of the grounds by Wildman and learns that Ada believes she is going [[insanity|insane]]. | [[Fourth Doctor|The Doctor]] pilots [[the TARDIS]] from [[1852]] [[London]] to [[Nottinghamshire]] in the same year, materialising in [[Newstead Abbey]]'s [[hedge maze]] and leaving [[K9 Mark II|K9]] inside to charge. They attempt to follow a [[plague doctor]] and meet [[Hettie Jacobs|Hettie]], a [[maid]] who denies having seen anybody and is called away by [[butler]] [[Hobhouse]], who mistakes the Doctor for a [[physician]] and invites him and Ann into the abbey. [[Wildman|Colonel Wildman]] shows them to the unwell [[Ada Lovelace]], for whom the Doctor prescribes rest and Ann fetches a cold compress from the [[scullery]]. Whilst Ann is escorted there by Hobhouse and sees Hettie washing Ada's muddy [[nightgown]], the Doctor is given a tour of the grounds by Wildman and learns that Ada believes she is going [[insanity|insane]]. | ||
The Doctor tasks Ann with keeping an eye on the house and, having suspicions, acquires a [[map]] from Wildman. He joins Ada in playing [[cribbage]] at the [[ | The Doctor tasks Ann with keeping an eye on the house and, having suspicions, acquires a [[map]] from Wildman. He joins Ada in playing [[cribbage]] at the [[Papplewick Arms]], where she has been [[gambling]] since [[William King|Lord King]] [[exile]]d her to Newstead Abbey for landing him in [[debt]] with a failed gambling syndicate. On their way back in Wildman's [[carriage]], the [[horse]] is spooked by a figure which Ada believes to be the [[ghost]] of her father, [[George Gordon Byron|Lord Byron]], whom only she had been able to see until now. They head to Lord Byron's [[tomb]] at [[Church of St Mary Magdalene, Hucknall|St Mary's]] and see him again; he calls out for Ada and beckons her to him, giving her a message in [[binary]] and disappearing when plague doctors arrive. | ||
Ann discovers that Ada is missing and looks at her [[notebook]]s despite Hobhouse's protestations, finding drawings and numbers which she and Hobhouse have little time to interpret before they are forced to hide in the [[wardrobe]] from somebody. Unsure of how Ada left the building and how whoever entered her [[bedroom]] got out, Ann finds a secret passageway to the [[garden]]s and she and Hobhouse see a woman selling Ada's notebooks to a man with a non-[[Great Britain|British]] [[accent]]. The Doctor and Ada return soon after, having fled from the plague doctors, and are met by Wildman who accuses the Doctor of leading Ada astray. When the Doctor tells him that they went to St Mary's, both Ada and Wildman claim that there is no such [[church]] and it no longer appears on his map. | Ann discovers that Ada is missing and looks at her [[notebook]]s despite Hobhouse's protestations, finding drawings and numbers which she and Hobhouse have little time to interpret before they are forced to hide in the [[wardrobe]] from somebody. Unsure of how Ada left the building and how whoever entered her [[bedroom]] got out, Ann finds a secret passageway to the [[garden]]s and she and Hobhouse see a woman selling Ada's notebooks to a man with a non-[[Great Britain|British]] [[accent]]. The Doctor and Ada return soon after, having fled from the plague doctors, and are met by Wildman who accuses the Doctor of leading Ada astray. When the Doctor tells him that they went to St Mary's, both Ada and Wildman claim that there is no such [[church]] and it no longer appears on his map. | ||
