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Downton Abbey · Season 1, Episode 15

Violet Crawley, the Dowager Countess and Lady Mary Crawley in “Unfinished Business”

VCViolet Crawley, the Dowager Countess

Mary, you've gone through you a hideous time, but now you must remember your son. He needs you very much.

Lady Mary Crawley

I know. The thing is I don't think I'm going to be a very good mother.

VCViolet Crawley, the Dowager Countess

Why not?

Lady Mary Crawley

Because, somehow, with Matthew's death all the softness he found in me seems to have dried up and drained away. Maybe it was ever there in his imagination.

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