Cora Crawley quotes from Downton Abbey

You'll be pleased to hear that I am not about to have a heart attack. Your father has an ulcer.

Lady Mary Crawley

Oh, that's a relief!

Lady Edith Crawley

Well, yes, it is a relief, but you've got to be good with your diet.

Well said, we'll take it seriously. White fish, chicken, no alcohol--

Steady on!

Please be careful on Christmas Eve if you do decide to drink. You'll get plastered on a snifter of sherry.

Ah, paradise.

What were you not saying about your visit to the Drewes?

Only that Mrs. Drewe has definitely not got over Marigold.

No?

No. She looked as if she wanted to swallow her whole.

Well, how clever was it to take the child there in the first place?

Mary made the plan. There was no way to cancel it.

I wish Edith would just tell her.

No. She thinks Mary would use it as a weapon, and she may be right.

If this is it, just know I have loved you very, very much.

This isn't it, darling. I won't let this be it.

Don't reprimand me, Mama. I think the new system will be better, and I haven't got time to be diplomatic.

Don't you think I have enough things to worry about?

It's better we should be honest. There've been too many secrets. Let's have no more of them.

If you mean Marigold, that's settled, and you know I am sorry, now let us concentrate on Robert.

Bertie Pelham

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.

Lady Mary Crawley

Literally.

Tom Branson

I think that's a good idea.

Carson, can you sort it out?

Of course, my lady. I understand it's only the ground floor.

Lady Mary Crawley

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.

Bertie Pelham

Rope off across the staircases in the back wing. Who are the guides?

Tom Branson

Do we need guides? Can't they just have a look and leave it at that?

Bertie Pelham

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?

Lady Edith Crawley

Only our librarian...but he's away.

Bertie Pelham

You'll have to fake it. Lady Mary, Edith, Mr. Branson--

Tom Branson

Not me. I don't know a thing. I'll sell tickets, but that's it.

Bertie Pelham

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.

Lady Edith Crawley

Crikey.

Heavens. I feel like the Belgians waiting for the invasion.

Lady Mary Crawley

Or the monkeys in a zoo.

You mustn't make him wait forever.

Lady Edith Crawley

I love him. I'd accept him in a trice if weren't for Marigold.

You say he'll let you keep her.

Lady Edith Crawley

That's not the problem.

What is?

Lady Edith Crawley

If I stay silent, there's a lie at the heart of my marriage. But if I tell him the truth, will I ruin it?

Edith, you're a grown woman and I can't force you, but you cannot be married to a man and leave him out of a secret like this. It's not possible. And you won't be happy.

Lady Edith Crawley

How happy am I now?

The estate's safe in Mary's hands with Henry and Tom to help her. Edith has risen from the cinders in the hearth to be kissed by her very own Prince Charming. What more can we ask?

A long and happy life together, just we two, to watch the children grow. That's all I want.

And why not? We never know what's coming, of course. Who does? But I'd say we have a good chance.