CCCora Crawley, Lady Grantham
Don't reprimand me, Mama. I think the new system will be better, and I haven't got time to be diplomatic.
VCViolet Crawley, the Dowager Countess
Don't you think I have enough things to worry about?
CCCora Crawley, Lady Grantham
It's better we should be honest. There've been too many secrets. Let's have no more of them.
VCViolet Crawley, the Dowager Countess
If you mean Marigold, that's settled, and you know I am sorry, now let us concentrate on Robert.
Edith, you can manage a day without us, can't you?
I can manage without you for as long as you want.
Why don't you come with us?
And watch Mary flirt with her oily driver? No, thank you.
Can't you be pleased for her?
I'm as pleased for her as she would be for me.
You've probably thought of this, but I'd place someone--maybe a servant--in each room the public will enter. Just to keep an eye on things.
I think that's a good idea.
CCCora Crawley, Lady Grantham
Carson, can you sort it out?
Of course, my lady. I understand it's only the ground floor.
Not too much of that. They'll start in the small library, then through the big library, into the painting room, the drawing room, the smoking room, the great hall, in and out of the dining room, and back outside.
Rope off across the staircases in the back wing. Who are the guides?
Do we need guides? Can't they just have a look and leave it at that?
I don't think so. Not if you want them to go away happy, and leave behind what's not theirs. Who knows about the history of the house?
Only our librarian...but he's away.
You'll have to fake it. Lady Mary, Edith, Mr. Branson--
Not me. I don't know a thing. I'll sell tickets, but that's it.
Well then, Lady Grantham. You and your daughters can take parties of ten each with no more than 30 in the house at any one time.
CCCora Crawley, Lady Grantham
Heavens. I feel like the Belgians waiting for the invasion.
Ah, Granny. I'm glad you're here. What else can I tell them about the library?
VCViolet Crawley, the Dowager Countess
The library was assembled by the fourth earl. He loved books.
What else did he collect?
VCViolet Crawley, the Dowager Countess
Horses and women.