First broadcast 8th October 1977.
With the outbreak of the Great War, the staff are galvanized to help in the effort and keep the hotel running as usual. Louisa takes in a Belgian refugee, a master pastry chef. Charlie enlists and leaves a worried Louisa as he departs for France .
Gemma Jones ... Louisa Trotter
Christopher Cazenove ... Charles Haslemere
Richard Vernon ... Major Smith-Barton
John Cater ... Starr
John Welsh ... Merriman
Victoria Plucknett ... Mary
Mary Healey ... Mrs. Cochrane
Sammie Winmill ... Ethel
John Moreno ... Gaspard
Charles Rogers ... Willie Watling
Osmund Bullock ... Hoppy Hubbard
Reggie Oliver ... Wounded Man
Dominic Allan ... Kitchener
