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Downton Abbey · Season 1, Episode 15

Anna, Mr. Lang and others in “Unfinished Business”

[The staff are getting ready to serve dinner.]

Anna

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

LMr. Lang

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.

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