[EXT. DOWNTON ABBEY, FRONT WALK - NIGHT]

　　VIOLET, DOWAGER COUNTESS OF GRANTHAM

　　I'm sorry Mary was rather sharp this evening.

　　[Matthew chuckles.]

　　MATTHEW CRAWLEY

　　I doubt Cousin Mary and I are destined to be close friends.

　　VIOLET, DOWAGER COUNTESS OF GRANTHAM

　　Mmph.

　　MATTHEW CRAWLEY

　　I don't blame her. Her father's home and her fortune are to be passed to me. It's very harsh.

　　[A thought strikes Violet.]

　　VIOLET, DOWAGER COUNTESS OF GRANTHAM

　　What would you say if the entail was set aside in Mary's favour?

　　MATTHEW CRAWLEY

　　I should try to accept it with as good a grace as I could muster.

　　VIOLET, DOWAGER COUNTESS OF GRANTHAM

　　Would you?

　　[Violet steps towards the motorcar.]

　　VIOLET, DOWAGER COUNTESS OF GRANTHAM

　　Oh. Well, good evening Taylor.

　　TAYLOR

　　Good evening, milady.

　　[Taylor holds the door open for Violet.]

　　VIOLET, DOWAGER COUNTESS OF GRANTHAM

　　Thank you.

　　[INT. SILVER ROOM - NIGHT]

　　MRS HUGHES

　　I'll say goodnight, Mr Carson.

　　[Carson holds a candelabra.]

　　MR CARSON

　　Look at that scratch. We'll have to get that sorted out when they're up in London.

　　MRS HUGHES

　　You can hardly see it.

　　MR CARSON

　　Well, I'll know it's there.

　　MRS HUGHES

　　Are you all right now? Only, you seemed a little upset earlier.

　　MR CARSON

　　Y-- er, I'm sorry about that. I'm just, erm...a bit tired.

　　MRS HUGHES

　　And no wonder. Did the dinner go well?

　　MR CARSON

　　Er, well enough. But they won't make a match between them, if that's what they're thinking.

　　MRS HUGHES

　　Lady Mary doesn't like him?

　　MR CARSON

　　And why should she like the man she's been passed over for? And why has she been? That's what I'd like to

　　know.

　　MRS HUGHES

　　It's the law.

　　MR CARSON

　　Well, it's a wicked law.

　　[Carson closes the silver cabinet.]

　　[EXT. COURTYARD - DAY]

　　[Thomas is fixing a clock.]

　　MISS O'BRIEN

　　Why does Mr Carson let you do that?

　　THOMAS

　　Because my dad was a clockmaker.

　　MISS O'BRIEN

　　Did you really ask him for the job with the Crawleys?

　　THOMAS

　　I'm sick of being a footman.

　　MISS O'BRIEN

　　I'd rather be a footman than wait on someone who ought to be a footman himself.

　　THOMAS

　　Well, Mr Carson shouldn't have told Bates. How are things with Lady G?

　　MISS O'BRIEN

　　Same as usual.

　　THOMAS

　　\"Yes, milady. No, milady. Three bags full\"?

　　MISS O'BRIEN

　　I'd like to give her three bags full. Preferably on a dark night.

　　THOMAS

　　Will you hand in your notice?

　　MISS O'BRIEN

　　And let her ruin me with a nasty reference? Oh, I think not.

　　[INT. THE DOWER HOUSE - DAY]

　　DR CLARKSON

　　I don't want to exaggerate. She's been...very generous in many ways.

　　VIOLET, DOWAGER COUNTESS OF GRANTHAM

　　Generous? To instruct you in your own practice?

　　DR CLARKSON

　　Well, she may even have a point. But i--it does not seem to me realistic.

　　VIOLET, DOWAGER COUNTESS OF GRANTHAM

　　Well, nor is it. Put an end to her meddling. I am your president and I say, \"Get rid of her.\"

　　DR CLARKSON

　　Will that not be awkward? I gather she's planning to stay in the village for the foreseeable

　　future.

　　VIOLET, DOWAGER COUNTESS OF GRANTHAM

　　No one can foresee the future, Doctor. Not you, not I, and certainly not Mrs Crawley.

　　[EXT. DOWNTON ABBEY, GROUNDS - DAY]

　　ROBERT, EARL OF GRANTHAM

　　You do not love the place yet.

　　MATTHEW CRAWLEY

　　Well, obviously it's--

　　ROBERT, EARL OF GRANTHAM

　　No, you don't love it. You see a million bricks that may crumble, a thousand gutters and pipes that may

　　block and leak, and stone that will crack in the frost.

　　MATTHEW CRAWLEY

　　But you don't?

　　ROBERT, EARL OF GRANTHAM

　　I see my life's work.

　　MATTHEW CRAWLEY

　　Was it ever in danger?

　　[Robert chuckles.]

　　ROBERT, EARL OF GRANTHAM

　　Many times. It's my dear papa who thought the balloon would go up in the 1880s

　　MATTHEW CRAWLEY

　　What saved it?

　　ROBERT, EARL OF GRANTHAM

　　Cora.

　　[INT. SERVANTS' HALL - DAY]

　　[Bates enters to find Anna sitting alone.]

　　MR BATES

　　Where is everyone?

　　ANNA

　　They've gone down to the village. Some travelling salesman set up at the pub for the afternoon.

　　MR BATES

　　Alone at last. We shouldn't be without both footmen. Does Mr Carson know?

　　ANNA

　　Mrs Hughes does. She's gone with them. They won't be long.

　　MR BATES

　　So, you see to the girls and you're supposed to be head housemaid. You should put in for a raise.

　　ANNA

　　What do you mean, \"supposed to be\"?

　　[The smile and chuckle. The front door bell rings.]

　　MR BATES

　　I said they shouldn't have let both footmen go.

　　ANNA

　　Well, you'll have to answer it. Mr Carson wouldn't like a maid answering the front door.