Editing Downton Abbey season 5 (section)

=== Episode #5.3 (2014) ===
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Violet and Isobel:
:Violet: Oh, what is the latest from your ageing Romeo?
:Isobel: If it's of interest, I haven't heard anything from him ~ since you and I last met.
:Violet: Oh, how disappointing.
:Isobel: To you, perhaps. Not especially to me. By the way, how is Spratt?
:Violet: He's well, I think. Why do you ask?
:Isobel: He wasn't there to open the door. I wondered if he might be ill.
:Violet: Oh, no. He's not ill. He's in Liverpool. His niece got married yesterday and Spratt had to take her down the aisle.
:Isobel: Oh. It seems unlikely to think of Spratt with a private life.
:Violet: Hm. Yes. Unlikely and extremely inconvenient.
:Isobel: But you can't begrudge him that. Servants are human beings too.
:Violet: Yes. But preferably only on their days off.

Violet and Spratt:
:Violet: I hope you're not too tired after your exertions.
:Spratt: Ooh, M'Lady. I'm not tired exactly.
:Violet: Oh, good. I'm glad if the wedding was a success.
:Spratt: Oh. The wedding was a success. Yes.
:Violet: Spratt, I have told you before, I do not appreciate a man of mystery. If you have something to say, say it.
:Spratt: I would, Your Ladyship, but it may not be quite right for me to tell.
:Violet: Well, if that is the case then do no say it. Do you have some other business?
:Spratt: Only that it may not be mine to tell, but it is, in a way, yours.
:Violet: You're testing me, Spratt. And I warn you, being tested does not bring out the best in me.
:Spratt: No, Your Ladyship.
:Violet: I will not repeat myself. Either impart this piece of information, if you can empower yourself to do so, or go.
:Spratt: Very well. I hope Lady Mary enjoyed her time in Liverpool.
:Violet: What?
:Spratt: I was standing outside the Grand Hotel this morning, M'Lady, when I saw her come out with her suitcases. She was accompanied by Lord Gillingham who had clearly also been staying in the hotel.
:Violet: Well, yes. They were both staying there. They were attending an informal conference of northern landowners. Lord Gillingham thought Lady Mary might derive benefit from it.
:Spratt: So you knew about it?
:Violet: Of course I did. Why? What do you imagine you were witnessing?
:Spratt: Well
:Violet: Nothing vulgar, I hope! Nothing beneath the dignity of a butler of this house.
:Spratt: Oh. Nothing of that sort, M'Lady.
:Violet: I'm glad to hear it. Now, if you'll be good enough to let me drink my brandy in peace.
:Spratt: Your Ladyship.

Diasy, Carson, Hughes:
:Daisy: Oh, by the way, Mr Carson…
:Carson: Yes, Daisy.
:Daisy: You wouldn't mind if I were to sit an examination, would you? I mean, not now. But when I'm ready for it.
:Carson: That's a question for Mrs Patmore or Mrs Hughes.
:Daisy: But you don't object?
:Carson: Well, since you ask, I'm not convinced any of this extra work is necessary for your place in the scheme of things.
:Hughes: My advice Daisy is to go as far in life as God and luck allow.

INT. GRANTHAM’S HOUSE

(Mary, Spratt, Violet:)
Mary is arrived.
:Mary: Thank you, Spratt.
:Spratt: I trust you enjoyed your stay in Liverpool, M'Lady?
:Violet: You found it extremely interesting, didn't you, dear?
:Mary: Yes, I did. I think we'll have some tea. Thank you, Spratt.
:Spratt: Very good, Your Ladyship.
:Mary: Obviously, it's very shocking to someone of your generation.
:Violet: Don't let us hide behind the changing times, my dear. This is shocking to most people in 1924.
:Mary: Yes.
:Violet: Can we be confident that there will be no unwanted epilogue?
:Mary: You can be quite sure.
:Violet: Well, I must say that makes a nice…
:Mary: A nice what?
:Violet: A nice kettle of fish. Is there any chance of a proposal?
:Mary: Every chance. He already has. He wants to set the date.
:Violet: Oh. Oh, I see. Well, I'm not saying I approve because I don't. But it does put things in rather a different light.
:Mary: Yes.
:Violet: When will you announce it?
:Mary: I'm not sure. We haven't decided.
:Violet: Then you'd better get on with it. If I was seduced by a man, I would not let any grass grow under his feet if he'd offered to do the decent thing.
:Mary: I wasn't seduced, Granny.
:Violet: A young woman of good family who finds herself in the bed of a man who is not her husband has invariably been seduced.
:Mary: She couldn't have gone to bed with him of her own free will?
:Violet: NOT if she was the daughter of an Earl.
(Spratt comes back)
:Violet: Oh, there you are, Spratt. Lady Mary's been telling me all about her conference.
:Spratt: I hope you found it interesting, M'Lady.
:Mary: I learned a great deal that I never knew before.
:Violet: Thank you, Spratt.

Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham, to Lady Mary Crawley:
:Violet: I hope his arrival means you intend to make it public.
:Mary: Darling, granny, you know how much I value your advice…
:Violet: Which means you intend to ignore it.
:Mary: The point is I won't be hurried into anything. Not by you or him.
:Violet: But if you weren't certain, why on earth did you go to bed with him? Well, in my day a lady was incapable of feeling physical attraction until she had been instructed to do so by her mama.
:Mary: I don't believe that.
:Violet: Seriously, my dear, you have to take control of your feelings before they take control of you.