[EXT. DOWNTON ABBEY, GROUNDS - DAY]

　　[Mary and Robert walk with the dog.]

　　LADY MARY

　　The only one who never sticks up for me in all this is you. Why is that?

　　ROBERT, EARL OF GRANTHAM

　　You are my darling daughter, and I love you, hard as it is for an Englishman to say the words.

　　LADY MARY

　　Well, then.

　　ROBERT, EARL OF GRANTHAM

　　If I had made my own fortune and bought Downton for myself, it should be yours without question. But I did not. My fortune is the work of others who laboured to build a great dynasty. Do I have the right to destroy their work or impoverish that dynasty? I am a custodian, my dear, not an owner. I must strive to be worthy of the task I've been set. If I could take Mama's out of the estate, Downton would have to be sold to pay for it. Is that what you want? To see Matthew a landless peer with a title but no means to pay for it?

　　LADY MARY

　　So I'm just to find a husband and get out of the way?

　　ROBERT, EARL OF GRANTHAM

　　You could stay here if you married Matthew.

　　LADY MARY

　　You know my character, Father. I'd never marry any man that I was told to. I'm stubborn. I wish I wasn't, but I am.

　　[EXT. MOTOR CAR - DAY]

　　BRANSON

　　Will you have your own way, do you think? With the frock? Only, I couldn?t help overhearing yesterday, and from what Her Ladyship said, it sounded as if you support women's rights.

　　LADY SYBIL

　　I suppose I do.

　　BRANSON

　　Because I'm quite political. In fact, I brought some pamphlets that I thought might interest you about the vote.

　　LADY SYBIL

　　Thank you. But please don't mention this to my father, or my grandmother. One whiff of reform and she hears the rattle of the guillotine. It seems rather unlikely, a revolutionary chauffeur.

　　BRANSON

　　Maybe. But I'm a socialist, not a revolutionary. And I won't always be a chauffeur.

　　[INT. DOWNTON COTTAGE HOSPITAL - DAY]

　　DR CLARKSON

　　Mrs Crawley, how nice.

　　ISOBEL CRAWLEY

　　If you're busy, we can come back later.

　　VIOLET, DOWAGER COUNTESS OF GRANTHAM

　　Molesley? What are you doing here? Are y—are you ill?

　　DR CLARKSON

　　Poor Mr Molesley. Er, how's it going?

　　ISOBEL CRAWLEY

　　The solution doesn't seem to make it any better.

　　VIOLET, DOWAGER COUNTESS OF GRANTHAM

　　My imagination's running riot.

　　MR MOLESLEY

　　I've got erysipelas, Your Ladyship.

　　VIOLET, DOWAGER COUNTESS OF GRANTHAM

　　Oh. Oh, I am sorry.

　　DR CLARKSON

　　Mrs Crawley tells me she's recommended nitrate of silver and tincture of steel.

　　VIOLET, DOWAGER COUNTESS OF GRANTHAM

　　Why? Is she making a suit of armour?

　　DR CLARKSON

　　But, er, I take it there's been no improvement.

　　MR MOLESLEY

　　Not really.

　　VIOLET, DOWAGER COUNTESS OF GRANTHAM

　　And you're sure it's erysipelas?

　　DR CLARKSON

　　That is...Mrs Crawley's diagnosis.

　　VIOLET, DOWAGER COUNTESS OF GRANTHAM

　　What it is to have medical knowledge.

　　ISOBEL CRAWLEY

　　It has its uses.

　　VIOLET, DOWAGER COUNTESS OF GRANTHAM

　　Mm. I see your father has been making changes at home.

　　MR MOLESLEY

　　He has, milady. He's got no use for the herb garden now me mother's gone, so he's turned it to grass.

　　VIOLET, DOWAGER COUNTESS OF GRANTHAM

　　And you've been helping him?

　　MR MOLESLEY

　　I have.

　　VIOLET, DOWAGER COUNTESS OF GRANTHAM (chuckles)

　　Grubbing out the old rue hedge.

　　MR MOLESLEY

　　How did you know that?

　　VIOLET, DOWAGER COUNTESS OF GRANTHAM

　　Because this is not erysipelas. This is a rue allergy. If Molesley wears gardening gloves, it'll be gone in a week. Please, don't think we're ungrateful for your enthusiasm, Mrs Crawley, but there comes a time when things are best left to the professionals.

　　ISOBEL CRAWLEY

　　But I—

　　VIOLET, DOWAGER COUNTESS OF GRANTHAM

　　And now I really—I really must go. Good day.

　　MR MOLESLEY

　　Thank you, Your Ladyship.

　　[Violet chuckles as she exits.]

　　[EXT. VILLAGE COTTAGES - DAY]

　　MATTHEW CRAWLEY

　　I hope Cousin Violet has recovered from last night.

　　ROBERT, EARL OF GRANTHAM

　　Whatever she says, my mother is as strong as an ox, and it's high time she let go of her scheme for upsetting everything. Time we all did.

　　MATTHEW CRAWLEY

　　I can't deny I'm pleased to hear it.

　　ROBERT, EARL OF GRANTHAM

　　Are you beginning to see a future here, then?

　　MATTHEW CRAWLEY

　　In a way, this latest business has forced me to recognise that I do want Downton to be my future.

　　ROBERT, EARL OF GRANTHAM

　　I'm glad.

　　MATTHEW CRAWLEY

　　You must have thought me an awful prig when I first arrived.

　　ROBERT, EARL OF GRANTHAM

　　Not a prig, just a man thrust into something he never wanted or envisaged.

　　MATTHEW CRAWLEY

　　I can only see the absurdity of the whole thing. I'm sorry.

　　ROBERT, EARL OF GRANTHAM

　　Well, there are absurdities involved as I know well enough.

　　MATTHEW CRAWLEY

　　Possibilities, too, and I was blind to them. I was determined not to let it change me. It was absurd. If you don't change, you die.

　　ROBERT, EARL OF GRANTHAM

　　Do you think so? I'm not sure. Sometimes I think I hate change.

　　MATTHEW CRAWLEY

　　Well, at least we can comfort ourselves that this'll still be here...because we saved it.

　　[INT. KITCHENS - DAY]

　　DAISY

　　Thomas is lovely in every way. He's funny and handsome, and he's got such lovely teeth.

　　MRS PATMORE

　　He's not for you, Daisy.

　　DAISY

　　'Course not. He's too good for me, I know that.

　　MRS PATMORE

　　No. He's not too good.

　　DAISY

　　What then?

　　MRS PATMORE

　　He's not the boy for you, and you're not the girl for him.

　　DAISY

　　I'in't that what I just said? And why would he be when he's seen and done so much and I've been nowhere and done nothing?

　　MRS PATMORE

　　Perhaps Thomas has seen and done more than is good for him. He's not a lady's man.

　　DAISY

　　But i'in't it a blessed relief?

　　MRS PATMORE

　　Daisy, Thomas is a troubled soul.

　　DAISY

　　I don't know what you mean, Mrs Patmore.

　　MRS PATMORE

　　Oh, nothing. I don't mean anything. Except, if I don't get the ice cream started, they'll be dining at midnight.