Mr. Drewe 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.

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!

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!