Anna quotes from Downton Abbey

Anna

Might I have a glass of cider?

Anna

I love you, Mr Bates. I know it’s not ladylike to say it, but I’m not a lady, and I don’t pretend to be.

Mr. Bates

You are a lady to me. And I never knew a finer one.

Gwen, may I ask why you are sitting on Lady Sybil's bed?

Well, you see, I had a turn, like a burst of sickness, just sudden-like. I had to sit down.

Anna

It's true.

Well, you'd better go and lie down. I'll tell Mrs. Hughes.

No, I don't need to interrupt her morning. I'm sure I'll be fine if I could just put my feet up.

How many bedrooms have you still got to do?

Anna

Just one. Lady Edith's.

And you can manage on your own.

Anna

Well, she's no use to man or beast in that state. Go on. Shoo.

Daisy, may I ask why you are holding Lady Sybil's biscuit jar?

Daisy

Em...I was just...Polishing it...Before I put it back.

See that you do.

Mr. Bates

I think it means, at long last, I'm able to get a divorce.

Anna

Mr. Bates, is this a proposal?

Mr. Bates

If that's what you want to call it. And you might start calling me John.

Anna

Will we have to leave Downton?

Mr. Bates

Not until we want to. I've spoken to his lordship, and he will find a cottage for us near the house.

Anna

You told him you want to marry me?

Mr. Bates

I did.

Anna

Before you spoke to me?

Mr. Bates

You don't mind, do you?

Anna

Of course I mind! In fact, I'd give you a smack if I didn't want to kiss you so much I could burst!

Anna

Start with old Lady Grantham, then his lordship, then just go on round. You must have done this before.

Not since the war started.

Daisy

I don't think I ever knew that. Why isn't it just ladies first? Wouldn't it be more polite?

Anna

That's the way it's done on the continent. We don't like foreign ways here.

Lady Mary Crawley

It's not about the money. It's that he won't save Papa when he could.

Anna

But he has to be true to himself.

Lady Mary Crawley

That's the point. He puts himself above the rest of us. Don't you see?

Anna

What I see is a good man, my lady. And they're not like buses. There won't be another one along in ten minutes' time.

Mr. Bates

I thought I was helping him get out of our lives for good. Now he ranks higher than I do. I've been a damn fool.

Anna

By the way, what was that phrase he gave you to say to Miss O'Brien? You can tell me now, surely.

Mr. Bates

If you keep it under your hat. It was, "Her Ladyship's soap."

Anna

What?

Mr. Bates

I can't make any sense of it either, but that's what he said. "Her Ladyship's soap." And it worked.

I'm taking Master George out for some air, milady. I wondered if you like to come with us

Lady Mary Crawley

I don't think so. Poor little orphan.

Anna

He's not an orphan. He's got his mother, orphans haven't.

Lady Mary Crawley

He isn't poor either, come to that.

Mr. Bates

How was Lady Mary this morning?

Anna

The same, though I suppose she must come out of it eventually.

Mr. Bates

For Master George's sake if for no other reason.

Mr. Bates

You have put up with so much that I couldn't change. So if there is ever the slightest thing that I could make better for you, I will.

Anna

But how did you mange it?

Mr. Bates

Don't I keep telling you? Prison was an education.

Mrs. Hughes

No man should be able to do what he did and get away with it.

Anna

And when Mr. Bates has killed him, will you come with me to the prison when my husband is hanged?

Mrs. Hughes

But the poor man's heart is breaking for not knowing.

Anna

Better a broken heart than a broken neck.

Anna

You mean he fell into the road and he was hit?

Lady Mary Crawley

By a bus or lorry, apparently.

Anna

And someone saw this?

Lady Mary Crawley

The pavement was crowded. Lots of people saw it.

Anna

That's a relief.

Lady Mary Crawley

What do you mean?

Anna

Nothing. I don't mean anything.

Lady Mary Crawley

I have to be sure there aren't any...consequences.

Anna

What sort of consequences?

Lady Mary Crawley

Well...you know.

Anna

No, I don't. [pause] Oh, my God! Umm, I beg your pardon my lady.

Lady Mary Crawley

Well you see, I can't just go into a shop and buy something. What if I were recognized?

Anna

Well, I wouldn't know what to buy....Won't he take care of it?

Lady Mary Crawley

I don't think one should rely on a man in that department, do you?

Mr. Bates

I don't think Mr. Moseley meant to be unkind about Miss Marigold.

Anna

I'm sure he didn't.

Mr. Bates

Only it seemed to put you in a strange mood.

Anna

Did it?

Mr. Bates

It's ironic. So many children in need of a home, so many homes in need of a child.

Mr. Bates

My God, what have I said? My darling, what have I said?!

Anna

It's not your fault. Only...I thought I was pregnant. And then this morning...Well, anyway, now I'm not.

Mr. Bates

You should have told me.

Anna

I didn't want to get your hopes up.

Mr. Bates

You weren't to know that'd happen.

Anna

But you see I was. Because it's happened before. Twice. I can't do it! I'm not able!

Mr. Bates

There is no proof of that. But if you're not, you're not. We'll be all right.

Anna

I've let you down.

Mr. Bates

There are no words less true than those. You could never let me down.

Lady Mary Crawley

Anna could I ask you something? Is there any talk in the servants' hall about Miss Marigold?

Anna

What sort of talk, milady? Well, everyone thinks she's a lucky little girl, being taken in by the family. But they would think that.

Lady Mary Crawley

And that's all you want to say?

Anna

Why? What else should I say?

Lady Mary Crawley

Never mind.