How you hate to be wrong.
VCViolet Crawley, the Dowager Countess
I wouldn’t know, I’m not familiar with the sensation.
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I like that Rudolph Valentino. He makes me shiver all over.
What a very disturbing thought.
ENEvelyn Napier
Is this your first experience of jazz, Lady Grantham?
VCViolet Crawley, the Dowager Countess
Oh, is that what it is? Do you think any of them know what the others are playing?
RCRobert Crawley, Lord Grantham
Good-bye Tom. Look after all my womenfolk. Including Isis. [whispers] Especially Isis.
I'm not even sure which frightens me most: What may have happened to Michael or the baby.
RRosamond
What do you propose to do?
It's...hard to say the words. But...I've decided to get rid of it.
RRosamond
How terrible that is to hear.
Please don't pretend you won't be relieved when I do.
I will support you whatever you decide. Just as Cora will and Robert.
That sounds like a speech from The Second Mrs. Tanquerary but you don't mean a word of it.
I do.
So I'd be welcome in your drawing room, would I? "Have you met my niece and her charming bastard?"
I refuse to be shocked.
They said you were in here.
GMr. Green
What can I do for you Mrs. Hughes?
Nothing!! You can do nothing for me! Because I know who you are and I know what you've done!! And while you're here, if you value your life, I should stop playing the joker and keep to the shadows!
It's not that I don't love him, you know. I do love him and I would have loved his baby. Bt I just can't see over the top of this.
No.
I don't want to be an outcast. Not some person people never talk about. Sybil might have brought it off but not me.
I can see that.
I can't go back to the nursery. Not with Mary's son and Sybil's daughter playing there. I can't do that. I won't be able to do that.
VCViolet Crawley, the Dowager Countess
No life appears rewarding if you think too much about it.
What's a group noun for suitors?
CCCora Crawley, Lady Grantham
What do you think, a desire?
A desire of suitors. Very good.
If you're going to talk nonsense, I have better things to do.
I'm a feeble substitute for the entire Crawley family.
VCViolet Crawley, the Dowager Countess
Mmm. Yes, but you're better than nothing.
SBSara Bunting
I thought when the agent was a cousin or son-in-law, he had free shooting for life, but others did the work.
To quote my wife's grandmother, "You've been reading those socialist newspapers again."
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SBSara Bunting
Were you still the chauffeur when you married?
That's a long story.
SBSara Bunting
Everything with you is a long story.
Well, that one had a happy ending. For a time anyway.
VCViolet Crawley, The Dowager Countess
Switzerland has everything to offer. Except perhaps conversation. And one can learn to live without that.
JRJack Ross
Don't you believe in us?
I believe in you; I'm not so sure about her. She may love you a bit, but mostly I think she wants to shock her mother, whom incidentally, she hates.
JRJack Ross
That's what my mother said....You and my mother have a lot in common.
Tell me honestly: Do you think you can survive what they'll do to you? Because I don't believe Rose could.
...
JRJack Ross
I wouldn't give in if we lived in even a slightly better world.
It may surprise you, Mr. Ross, but if we lived in a better world, I wouldn't want you to.
Edith, should you be doing this?
Why? What are you afraid of? That I'll lose the baby?
CCCora Crawley, Lady Grantham
You're back. I can't believe it.
RCRobert Crawley, Lord Grantham
If you knew how many times I'd imagined this scene.
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