[INT. DRAWING ROOM - EVENING]

　　[Mary is standing up facing Robert.]

　　ROBERT

　　What do you mean, "you knew"?

　　LADY MARY

　　I hoped it would blow over. I didn't want to split the family when Sybil might still wake up.

　　ROBERT

　　And all the time, you've been driving me about, bowing and scraping and seducing my daughter behind my back?

　　BRANSON

　　I don't bow and scrape! And I've not seduced anyone! Give your daughter some credit for knowing her own mind!

　　ROBERT

　　How dare you speak to me in that tone. You will leave at once.

　　LADY SYBIL

　　Oh, Papa!

　　ROBERT

　　This is a folly! A ridiculous, juvenile madness!

　　[Violet holds up her hand.]

　　VIOLET

　　Sybil, what do you have in mind?

　　ROBERT

　　Mama, this is hardly—

　　[Violet holds up her hand.]

　　VIOLET

　　No. She must have something in mind. Otherwise, she wouldn't have summoned him here tonight.

　　LADY SYBIL

　　Thank you, Granny. Yes, we do have a plan. Tom's got a job on a paper. I'll stay until after the wedding; I don't want to steal their thunder.

　　[Sybil indicates Mary and Lavinia.]

　　LADY SYBIL

　　But after that, I'll go to Dublin.

　　CORA

　　To live with him? Unmarried?

　　LADY SYBIL

　　I'll live with his mother while the bans are read. And then we'll be married... [Sybil and Branson gaze into each other's eyes.]

　　LADY SYBIL

　　And I'll get a job as a nurse.

　　VIOLET

　　What does your mother make of this?

　　BRANSON

　　If you must know, she thinks we're very foolish.

　　VIOLET (chuckles)

　　So at least we have something in common.

　　[Robert, who has been facing the wall, whips around and storms into the centre of the room.]

　　ROBERT

　　I won't allow it! I will not allow my daughter to throw away her life!

　　LADY SYBIL

　　You can posture it all you like, Papa, it won't make any difference!

　　ROBERT

　　Oh, yes, it will.

　　LADY SYBIL

　　How? I don't want any money and you can hardly lock me up until I die! I'll say goodnight. But I can promise you one thing, tomorrow morning nothing will have changed. Tom.

　　[Sybil gives him a look to follow her out, leaving the rest of them in a state of shock.]

　　[INT. ETHEL'S HOUSE - DAY]

　　ETHEL

　　He's not coming here.

　　[Ethel folds up Mr Bryant's note.]

　　ETHEL

　　I don't want him to see this place. I won't have him pity me.

　　MRS HUGHES

　　The question is, are you prepared to let them into Charlie's life?

　　ETHEL

　　I suppose so, yes.

　　MRS HUGHES

　　Good. I'll ask them to Downton for Monday at four. And this time, it'll be all above board.

　　[INT. SERVANTS' HALL - DAY]

　　O'BRIEN

　　Can't have expected to live here free forever.

　　THOMAS

　　I didn't expect to get booted out.

　　O'BRIEN

　　You'll have to find some work.

　　THOMAS

　　It's not that easy. Every Tom, Dick, and Harry's looking for work these days and they don't all have a hand like a Jules Verne experiment.

　　[Branson enters.]

　　ANNA

　　Mr Branson, I know it wasn't easy last night.

　　BRANSON

　　We should've spoken out long ago.

　　DAISY MASON

　　Spoken out about what?

　　BRANSON

　　Oh, why not? Lady Sybil and I are getting married.

　　[Carson enters and the servants stand.]

　　MR CARSON

　　Have you no shame?

　　BRANSON

　　I'm sorry you feel like that, Mr Carson. You're a good man. But no, I have no shame. In fact, I have great pride in the love of that young woman and I will strive to be worthy of it.

　　MR CARSON

　　I will not disgrace myself by discussing the topic, and nor will anyone else. Now, if you will go, Mr Branson, we will continue with our day. Leave an address where we may forward what is owing to you.

　　BRANSON

　　No problem there, Mr Carson. I'll be at the Grantham Arms in the village until Lady Sybil is ready to make her departure. I bid you all a good day.

　　JANE

　　Is it really true--?

　　MR CARSON

　　Please. I have asked for silence and silence I will have.

　　[INT. GREAT HALL - DAY]

　　[Lavinia puts a record on the gramophone as Violet enters the house.]

　　VIOLET

　　What on earth is it?

　　LAVINIA

　　A gramophone. Some cousins of mine have given it to us.

　　VIOLET

　　I should stand well clear when you light blue touchpaper.

　　[INT. DRAWING ROOM - DAY]

　　[Violet enters while Edith is sorting the wedding presents.]

　　VIOLET

　　All on your own?

　　LADY EDITH

　　I've left space at the front for jewels. I know Lavinia's getting something from Papa.

　　VIOLET

　　And from me. Though she's so slight, a real necklace would flatten her.

　　[Edith and Violet chuckle.]

　　VIOLET

　　What news of Sybil?

　　LADY EDITH

　　Papa is with her now.

　　VIOLET

　　I'm afraid it'll end in tears.

　　LADY EDITH

　　Maybe. But they won't be Sybil's.

　　VIOLET

　　I used to think that Mary's beau was a misalliance, but compared to this, he's practically a Hapsburg.

　　[Edith smiles for a moment.]

　　VIOLET

　　Oh, don't worry. Your turn will come.

　　LADY EDITH

　　Will it? Or am I just to be the maiden aunt? Isn't this what they do? Arrange presents for their pretty relations?

　　VIOLET

　　Don't be defeatist, dear, it's very middle class. Now, I better go up and support your father.