Tom Branson quotes from Downton Abbey

What do you mean "you knew"?!

Lady Mary Crawley

I hoped it would blow over! I didn't want to break up the family when Sybil might still wake up!

And all this time you been driving me about, bowing and scrapping, and seducing my daughter behind my back?!

Tom Branson

I don't bow and scrape! And I've not seduced anyone! Give your daughter some credit for knowing her own mind!

How dare you speak like that to me! You will leave at once!

Lady Sybil Crawley

Oh, Papa.

This is a folly! A ridiculous, juvenile madness!

Sybil, what do you have in mind?

Mama, this is hardly--

No. She must have something in mind. Otherwise she would not have summoned him here tonight.

Lady Edith tells me you're very interested in politics.

[smirks] Tom is our tame revolutionary.

Every family should have one.

Matthew Crawley

As long as you are tame. [glances at Branson knowingly]

Tom Branson

Tame enough for a game of billiards.

What a harsh world you live in.

Tom Branson

We all live in a harsh world, but at least I know I do.

You never told me you went to those meetings.

Tom Branson

I never told you I didn't.

And what else haven't you told me?

Tom Branson

All I know is that I can't stay here. Not for long.

You must. And so must I. And you must let the baby be born here.

Tom Branson

You're very free with your musts.

But I will not be free with our child's chances! We need peace and safety. Downton can offer us both.

Lady Mary Crawley

You can come up. It's a girl.

Tom Branson

And they're both...

Lady Mary Crawley

They're fine.

Thank God and Hallelujah.

Tom Branson

She's so beautiful. Oh, my darling, I do love you so much.

I just want to sleep really.

Of course you do. You've earned it. She's a wonderful baby.

Mama.

Yes, my darling?

Tom is thinking of taking a job in Liverpool and going back to being a mechanic. But it wouldn't be right for him. He needs to move forward.

Matthew Crawley

How's the baby doing?

Tom Branson

I envy her. She doesn't know a thing about it.

Lady Edith Crawley

Now that the funeral's over, we ought to think about the christening. Do know what you'd like her to be called?

Tom Branson

I'd like to call her Sybil.

Matthew Crawley

Of course.

You don't think it might be a little painful?

Tom Branson

Very painful at first, but I think it's right. I want to remember her mother whenever I look at her.

Lady Edith Crawley

Of course you do. And she would want to be remembered. I'll go and see Mr. Travis this afternoon.

Tom Branson

Why Mr. Travis?

Lady Edith Crawley

To fix the date.

Tom Branson

But Sybil will be Catholic.

What?!

Tom Branson

My daughter is Irish and she'll be Catholic like her father.

Tom Branson

I wondered if you'd be a godmother.

Lady Mary Crawley

Am I allowed to be?

Tom Branson

As long as at least one of them is Catholic. And my brother's coming over. He'll stay in the village.

Lady Mary Crawley

No, he won't. He'll stay here.

Tom Branson

He's a bit of a rough diamond.

Lady Mary Crawley

I'm very fond of diamonds.

You're very good to play.

Tom Branson

Don't know why I made such a fuss about it. Can I ask you something?

Of course.

Tom Branson

If I were to say I'd live with you while Sybbie's little, that we wouldn't move out until she's older, would you mind?

I should be delighted. And I know it's what Sybil would want.

Tom Branson

I think you're right.

Now, I asked Branson to come here because I have an idea.

Lady Mary Crawley

Granny, you must call him "Tom".

I thought I could call him "Branson" again, now that he's the agent?

Lady Mary Crawley

Well you can't!

Tom Branson

I don't mind.

There I see I'm beaten, but oh, how I sympathize with King Canute.

Lady Mary Crawley

Now what was this idea?

I want, uh--

Tom Branson

Tom.

Tom, to be your instructor

Tom Branson

What?!

Well, take Mary on your rounds. Let her learn the farmer's difficulties. Explain...the crops. And the--the livestock.

Lady Mary Crawley

What's the matter? You've been in a glump all day.

Tom Branson

If I told you, you'd despise me.

Lady Mary Crawley

It may surprise you to hear that I said that to someone once. But I did confess in the end, and it made things a lot better.

Tom Branson

Well I couldn't say it. Not to you.

Lady Mary Crawley

Then find someone you can tell. It'll help more than you know.

Lady Mary Crawley

If Papa believes enough in Drewe to lend him the money and to hide it from us, then that tells me something.

Tom Branson

What exactly?

Lady Mary Crawley

That you and I are in partnership with a very decent man.

I thought when the agent was a cousin or son-in-law, he had free shooting for life, but others did the work.

Tom Branson

To quote my wife's grandmother, "You've been reading those socialist newspapers again."

Were you still the chauffeur when you married?

Tom Branson

That's a long story.

Everything with you is a long story.

Tom Branson

Well, that one had a happy ending. For a time anyway.

Tom Branson

My vision of this country and where it should be headed is different from yours....I believe in reform, and the moral direction of the left.

I would only say this, Tom: In your time here, you've learned both sides of the argument, befriended people you'd once have seen as enemies.

Tom Branson

That's true.

You should be proud. Five years ago would you have believed you could be friendly with my mother?

Tom Branson

Not sure I would've believed it five minutes ago.

Don't make nothing of what you've achieved, that's all.