[EXT. STREET - MORNING]

　　[Branson is teaching Lady Edith how to drive.]

　　LADY EDITH

　　I do think I'm getting better, don't you?

　　BRANSON

　　Up to a point, my lady. If you could just get the clutch right down to the floor.

　　LADY EDITH

　　But I am.

　　BRANSON

　　Not quite, my lady.

　　LADY EDITH

　　It doesn't seem to want to go.

　　BRANSON

　　I think it wants to if you ask it properly. That's better. You'll be putting me out of a job.

　　LADY EDITH

　　Won't the call up put you all out of your jobs?

　　BRANSON

　　I'll cross that bridge when I come to it.

　　[INT. KITCHENS - MORNING]

　　WILLIAM

　　What are you giving them to eat?

　　MRS PATMORE

　　Not much. They know the money's for the hospital, so they can't expect Belshazzar's feast.

　　DAISY

　　I'll make some cheese straws. What's the matter with you?

　　WILLIAM

　　Nothing much. My dad still won't let me enlist.

　　MRS PATMORE

　　Your father has no one but you, of course he doesn't want you to enlist. Who can argue with him?

　　WILLIAM

　　So I stand by while the lads on the farms and in the gardens go to war? Even Thomas is on the front in the medical corps.

　　MRS PATMORE

　　Ha! That'll come as a nasty shock.

　　WILLIAM

　　Oh, you can make fun of him, Mrs Patmore, but he's fighting for his king and country and I'm not.

　　MRS PATMORE

　　Well, I daresay you won't have long to wait.

　　WILLIAM

　　Well, I hope you're right.

　　MRS PATMORE

　　Do you? Because I don't. I hope very much that I am wrong. --

　　[INT. LARGE PARLOUR - MORNING]

　　ISOBEL CRAWLEY

　　It's kind of you to let us have it here. They'll enjoy it so much more.

　　VIOLET, DOWAGER COUNTESS OF GRANTHAM

　　And you can charge so much more for the tickets.

　　ROBERT, EARL OF GRANTHAM

　　Good morning, Mama. This is very early for you to be up and about.

　　VIOLET, DOWAGER COUNTESS OF GRANTHAM

　　War makes early risers of us all. I thought I would help with the flowers.

　　CORA, COUNTESS OF GRANTHAM

　　Basset has plenty, but...thank you.

　　[Cora exits.]

　　VIOLET, DOWAGER COUNTESS OF GRANTHAM

　　You don't mind my taking over the flowers, do you? Cora's flower always look more suite first communion in southern Italy. Well, what else have you planned for tonight's raffles?

　　ROBERT, EARL OF GRANTHAM

　　Anything we can think of that will raise money.

　　VIOLET, DOWAGER COUNTESS OF GRANTHAM

　　Hot buttered toast with a countess, a tuppence a slice?

　　[INT. LIBRARY - MORNING]

　　[Ethel fluffs a pillow by tossing it in the air.]

　　ANNA

　　You drop the cushions on the floor to plump them up.

　　ETHEL

　　I know.

　　MRS HUGHES

　　Ethel, are you settling in?

　　[Ethel drops a pillow on the floor.]

　　ETHEL

　　I would be if Anna would stop teaching me how to suck eggs. I was Head Housemaid in my last position.

　　MRS HUGHES

　　You were Senior Housemaid out of two in a much smaller house.

　　ANNA

　　Are they to be coming here tonight?

　　MRS HUGHES

　　Only at the interval, and keep them out of the drawing room. I thought Mr Bates would've been back by now, or he could've stood guard.

　　[Mrs Hughes and Anna smile.]

　　ETHEL

　　Who is this Mr Bates?

　　ANNA

　　He's Lordship's Valet. He's been in London because his mother died.

　　ETHEL

　　Well, everyone talks about him as if he were king.

　　ANNA

　　Do they? That's nice to hear.

　　[Violet enters.]

　　VIOLET, DOWAGER COUNTESS OF GRANTHAM

　　Anna.

　　[Anna curtsies.]

　　VIOLET, DOWAGER COUNTESS OF GRANTHAM

　　Help me do battle with this...monstrosity.

　　[Violet stares at the hideous flower arrangement on the table.]

　　VIOLET, DOWAGER COUNTESS OF GRANTHAM

　　Looks like a creature from the Lost World.

　　[Violet starts pulling out flowers.]

　　[INT. MR CARSON'S OFFICE - MORNING]

　　[Mr Carson is polishing the silver set.]

　　MRS HUGHES

　　You should let William do that.

　　MR CARSON

　　He's got enough on his hands getting the uniforms out of mothballs. Agh, I must remember to put Anna on alert for dinner tonight.

　　MRS HUGHES

　　You have to ease up a bit or you'll give yourself a heart attack. There's a war on. Things cannot be the same when there's a war on.

　　MR CARSON

　　I do not agree. Keeping up standards is the only way to show the Germans that they will not beat us in the end.

　　MRS HUGHES

　　Well, give me some warning the next time we're expecting Germans at Downton, I'll see what I can do.