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Downton Abbey · Season 1, Episode 15

Violet Crawley, the Dowager Countess and Robert Crawley, Lord Grantham in “Unfinished Business”

VCViolet Crawley, the Dowager Countess

Why...why did she say that?

RCRobert Crawley, Lord Grantham

Because there is some truth in it.

VCViolet Crawley, the Dowager Countess

My dear, when tragedies strike, we try to find someone to blame. And in the absence of a suitable candidate, we usually blame ourselves. You are not to blame; no one is to blame. Our darling Sybil has died, during childbirth, like too many women before her. And all we can do now is cherish her memory and her child.

RCRobert Crawley, Lord Grantham

Nevertheless there is truth in it.

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