[INT. MR CARSON'S OFFICE - EVENING]

　　MRS HUGHES

　　We'll be going in to dinner in a minute.

　　MR CARSON

　　We've built a good [?] here, you know. I'm not saying it's legendary, but it's nothing to be ashamed of.

　　MRS HUGHES

　　You've made your mind up, then?

　　MR CARSON

　　I think so. Yes, I think I have. But with a heavy heart, Mrs Hughes.

　　MRS HUGHES

　　And just when we thought we were getting back to normal.

　　MR CARSON

　　Don't tell me you'll miss me.

　　MRS HUGHES

　　I will, Mr Carson. Very much. And it costs me nothing to say it.

　　MR CARSON

　　Thank you. That means a lot to me.

　　[INT. DINING ROOM - EVENING]

　　ROBERT, EARL OF GRANTHAM

　　Shall we go through with the ladies, let them get in here?

　　MATTHEW CRAWLEY

　　Of course.

　　CORA, COUNTESS OF GRANTHAM

　　I wonder what happened to Richard.

　　LADY MARY

　　He‘ll have started late and... [Richard  enters.]

　　SIR RICHARD CARLISLE

　　Oh, I do apologise lady Grantham. We got stuck in Royston and a cart had overturned in Baldock.

　　[Lavinia enters, to everyone‘s surprise but Cora‘s.]

　　CORA, COUNTESS OF GRANTHAM

　　Hello, my dear. How lovely to see you.

　　LAVINIA

　　You sure? Sir Richard said you were expecting me, but are you?

　　ROBERT, EARL OF GRANTHAM

　　Of course we are.

　　CORA, COUNTESS OF GRANTHAM

　　Can you take Matthew into the small library? Are you hungry? We finished, but Mrs Hughes can easily put something on a tray. Carson?

　　[Carson exits. No one is pleased with Cora.]

　　[INT. LIBRARY - EVENING]

　　[Lavinia wheels Matthew into the library.]

　　MATTHEW CRAWLEY

　　Nothing‘s changed.

　　LAVINIA

　　But, you see, it has. Because I‘ve changed. When I was last here, I was so bowled over that I let you send me away. But not this time. I love you. I‘m going to look after you, that's all there is to it.

　　MATTHEW CRAWLEY

　　And if I refuse?

　　LAVINIA

　　I‘m sorry, but I mean it. You won‘t frighten me away, whatever you do.

　　[Edith and Sybil enter.]

　　LADY EDITH

　　It seems such a waste of time to drive from London and get stuck in every town on the way.

　　LADY SYBIL

　　Oh, I don‘t agree. I‘d love to drive and you'd better [?].

　　[INT. DINING ROOM - EVENING]

　　CORA, COUNTESS OF GRANTHAM

　　Before you scold me, it‘s no good pretending Mary is not a good deal too attached to Matthew.

　　ROBERT, EARL OF GRANTHAM

　　So you summon Lavinia? To be sacrificed like some latter day Iphigenia doomed to push his chair through all eternity?

　　CORA, COUNTESS OF GRANTHAM

　　Robert. It‘s quite simple. Do you want Mary‘s marriage to be a success? Do you want grandchildren?

　　ROBERT, EARL OF GRANTHAM

　　Sometimes, Cora, you can be curiously unfeeling.

　　[Robert takes a drink and Cora leaves.]

　　[INT. GREAT HALL - EVENING]

　　LADY MARY

　　Suppose he doesn‘t want her back? Have you thought of that?

　　SIR RICHARD CARLISLE

　　He needs someone to look out for him.

　　LADY MARY

　　Yes, but—

　　SIR RICHARD CARLISLE

　　And you‘ll be too busy with our new life, won‘t you?

　　LADY MARY

　　Look, I know you‘re used to having your own way—

　　[Carlisle grabs her and pushes her against a column.]

　　SIR RICHARD CARLISLE

　　Yes, I am. And I‘ll say something now I hope won‘t have to repeat. If you think you can jilt me, or in some way set me aside, I tell you now, you have given me the power to destroy you, and don‘t think I won‘t use it. I want to be a good husband, and for you to be happy, but don‘t ever cross me, do you understand? Never.

　　[He kisses her.]

　　SIR RICHARD CARLISLE

　　Absolutely never.

　　[Mary nods.]

　　[INT. DOWNTON ABBEY, WARD - MORNING]

　　[Edith enters while Sybil is changing the sheets on Patrick Gordon's cot.]

　　LADY EDITH

　　What's happened to Major Gordon?

　　LADY SYBIL

　　He's gone.

　　LADY EDITH

　　But he can't have. When?

　　LADY SYBIL

　　After breakfast. We couldn't very well stop him. The war's over. He left this for you.

　　[Sybil hands Edith a note. Edith and Sybil sit down on the bed as she opens it.]

　　LADY SYBIL

　　What does it say?

　　LADY EDITH

　　"It was too difficult. I'm sorry." - P. Gordon.

　　LADY SYBIL

　　"P" for Patrick or "P" for Peter?

　　LADY EDITH

　　I know what you think, but I don't accept it. We drove him away. His own family drove our cousin away.

　　LADY SYBIL

　　But you believed in him, whoever he was, and that's worth something. [Edith leaves the room upset.]