Lady Edith Crawley quotes from Downton Abbey

Mr. Drewe

So if you go tomorrow, how long would you be in Switzerland?

Lady Edith Crawley

About three or four days at the most.

Mr. Drewe

So we not got long to prepare.

Lady Edith Crawley

I'll pay you for the first month this afternoon, but with three children, you must have plenty of the paraphernalia already.

Mr. Drewe

You're right. We won't need much.

Lady Edith Crawley

And you're quite sure your wife is keen to take this on?

Mr. Drewe

Margie dotes on children, milady. In fact, I'm not sure we've had our last. She'll love her like her own.

Lady Edith Crawley

We'll need a decent story: That the parents are dead and the mother was a close friend of yours or something. That's true, of course, it's my friend and not yours.

Mr. Drewe

But you don't want her in the nurseries here?

Lady Edith Crawley

I can't have her here. My parents disapproved of my friendship with her mother. That's why it has to be a complete secret.

Mr. Drewe

I think it should be our secret, milady.

Lady Edith Crawley

[touched] Mr. Drewe would you do that for me?

Mr. Drewe

For you and the little girl, Madame. Yes.

Lady Edith Crawley

Have you had any ideas?

Mr. Drewe

Yes and it's a simple one: You're going to take a great interest in little Marigold, milady.

Isobel Crawley

How are you getting on with repairing the fire damage?

Lady Edith Crawley

They're all being marvelous, but I do feel such an idiot.

Lady Mary Crawley

Maybe because you behaved like an idiot.

I would never suggest anything that is not in your interest.

Lady Edith Crawley

In my interest, or the family's?

To me, they are the same.

Lady Edith Crawley

That is where we differ.

Mr. Drewe

I'm trying to bring her around, but I wish you hadn't jumped the gun.

Lady Edith Crawley

I know. But I had some bad news today and I needed to see her.

Mr. Drewe

You mean you were right about Marigold's father? I'm very sorry to hear it. But if you could just give me some time...

Lady Edith Crawley

I don't have time, Mr. Drewe!

Tom Branson

Oh God, Edith! Won't you wait and talk to them about it?

Lady Edith Crawley

If I talked to anyone, it'd be you.

Tom Branson

Then talk to me, please!

Lady Edith Crawley

I can't stay, Tom. Not if I'm ever going to be happy at all.

It's lunacy! You've lost your mind!

Lady Edith Crawley

Tell her!

Mr. Drewe

It's true. Marigold's her daughter.

It's a lie! I don't know what she's holding over you, but you can't let her get away with it!

Lady Edith Crawley

I have a copy of her birth certificate. It's in French, but you can read my name clearly enough!

Mr. Drewe

Which was brave of you.

Lady Edith Crawley

My aunt wanted me to use a false one, but I knew I might need proof.

Give that to me! [tears it up]

Lady Edith Crawley

I have others!

You've cooked this up between you!

Mr. Drewe

That's enough. We've got nothing formal that gives us any claim over her.

Only a note from her dying father!

Mr. Drewe

Which I wrote.

How could you do this? I'm your wife, yet you have lied and cheated and used me shamefully! If you had taken a mistress you couldn't have been more false!

Lady Edith Crawley

Mrs. Drewe, I know you don't want to hear this, but I'm very grateful.

No, I don't bloody want to hear it!

Lady Edith Crawley

Papa? Is something the matter?

No, nothing's the matter, and that's what I want to make clear.

Lady Edith Crawley

I don't understand. What's this about?

Marigold.

Lady Edith Crawley

I see. And what do you have to say about Marigold?

I think you know what I want to say--what I want you to say.

Lady Edith Crawley

I can't give her up.

No, of course not.

Lady Edith Crawley

I want your forgiveness, Papa. Am I allowed to say that still?

It's not the way I would have things. I won't lie to you about that, but this is what's happened. I believe Michael Gregson was an honorable man.

Lady Edith Crawley

Oh, he was, Papa! He really was. He would have married me as soon as he could. I know that!

I think so, too. So now we must do our best for his child. For his sake as well as yours.

Lady Edith Crawley

That's so lovely of you.

But I think we should keep it in the family. Even in 1924, there are plenty of people who might be unpleasant.

Lady Edith Crawley

But do you forgive me, Papa?

Oh, my darling, I'm sure I need your forgiveness quite as much as you need mine.

Lady Edith Crawley

No burning ambitions?

Bertie Pelham

Not really. I'm always jealous of those chaps who fly the Channel or invent a cure or something. What about you? Are you pining for some unfulfilled dream?

Lady Edith Crawley

Not today. Today I feel very happy.

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!

Tom Branson

What do you say we take a moment to think of Sybil? We're the three left on Earth who loved her the most.

Lady Edith Crawley

And Mama and Papa.

Tom Branson

But we were the three who should have grown old with her....And who knows when we'll be together again.

Lady Mary Crawley

Darling Sybil, wherever you are, we send you all our love and kisses, for the happiest of Happy Christmases.

Lady Edith Crawley

I suppose cousin Isobel is entitled to put up an argument.

[very upset] Of course she is! She's just not entitled to win it!

Lady Mary Crawley

Is he worth it?

Lady Edith Crawley

As opposed to your car mechanic?

Tom Branson

I'm a car mechanic, thank you very much.

Lady Mary Crawley

Edith, you can manage a day without us, can't you?

Lady Edith Crawley

I can manage without you for as long as you want.

Tom Branson

Why don't you come with us?

Lady Edith Crawley

And watch Mary flirt with her oily driver? No, thank you.

Tom Branson

Can't you be pleased for her?

Lady Edith Crawley

I'm as pleased for her as she would be for me.

Lady Edith Crawley

This is Mary's son, George. And my late sister Sybil's daughter, Sybbie. And this is Marigold.

Bertie Pelham

God bless you, Marigold. What a lovely place this is to grow up.

Lady Edith Crawley

I certainly hope so.