Bertie Pelham quotes from Downton Abbey

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.

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.

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.

Lady Edith Crawley

I must ask you something. Would you let me bring Marigold with me?

Bertie Pelham

Marigold? Your family's ward?

Lady Edith Crawley

You see I'm much fonder of her than anyone else and I'd hate to leave her behind.

Bertie Pelham

If she means that much to you. Of course I hope we'll have children of our own before close of play.

Lady Edith Crawley

Oh, absolutely, I'd like that too!

Bertie Pelham

Does that mean you accept?

Lady Edith Crawley

Not quite. I'll have to think about it. I'm sorry to be a killjoy, but I must.

Bertie Pelham

Be my guest. I'm not going to marry anyone else.

Lady Mary Crawley

You're wrong. I'm very happy for. And I admire you, Bertie. Not all men would accept Edith's past.

Tom Branson

Mary, don't.

What do you mean?

Lady Mary Crawley

Well, you must have told him. You couldn't accept him without telling him.

Tell me what?

Lady Mary Crawley

About Marigold. Who she really is.

Lady Edith Crawley

Marigold is my daughter.