"Champagne for One" goof?


We just finished reading the novel last night, so it's fresh in my mind. and the A&E series is usually so attentive to details that this puzzles me:

In the crucial scene of "Champagne for One," when Faith Usher takes the glass of poisoned champagne from Cecil Grantham, it sure looked to me like she shifted to holding the glass with *both* hands for a while before ever drinking from it. This directly contradicts Archie's later statement that her left hand was never near the glass (i.e., there was no way she could have been the one who put the poison into it).

That scene was kind of "busy," with lots of people doing lots of things, even walking between Faith and the camera, so it's possible that I got confused and was looking at one of the other women or something. I would be very glad to have either confirmation of what I think I saw or else a description of what Faith actually was shown doing from the time she took the glass till the time she drank from it.

I won't even complain that in the book Cecil tries to keep her from falling, whereas on the TV he's nowhere near her at that point.

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