TEXT: [OPENING CREDITS] [SCENE_BREAK] [EXT. THE VILLAGE - DAY] Gwen: When does it open? Mr Bates: Tomorrow afternoon. Gwen: Well, let's get up a party in the evening, if Mrs Hughes lets us, after we've had our dinner. Anna: You're right. It doesn't come often and it doesn't stay long. Gwen: Well, what about you, Mr Bates? Mr Bates: I don't see why not. Anna: Well, there's Lady Mary. You go on ahead. I'll see you back at the house. Gwen: Right you are, then. Anna: Good day, milady. Is Her Ladyship all right? Has she recovered from...? Lady Mary: If you think she'll ever recover from carrying the body of Mr Pamuk from one side of the house to the other, then you don't know her at all. Anna: Well, I didn't mean recover, exactly, just...get past it. Lady Mary: She won't do that either. When she dies, they'll cut her open and find it engraved on her heart. Anna: What about you? What about your heart? Lady Mary: Haven't you heard? I don't have a heart. Everyone knows that. Anna: Not me, milady. [SCENE_BREAK] [INT. LIBRARY - DAY] Mr Carson: You wanted to see the new chauffeur, my lord. Robert, Earl of Grantham: Yes, indeed. Please send him in. Come in, come in. Good to see you again. Branson, isn't it? Branson: That's right, Your Lordship. Robert, Earl of Grantham: I hope they've shown you where everything is and we've delivered whatever we promised at the interview. Branson: Certainly, milord. Robert, Earl of Grantham: Won't you miss Ireland? Branson: Ireland, yes, but not the job. The mistress was a nice lady, but she only had one car and she wouldn't let me drive it over twenty miles an hour, so it was
SUMMARY:
May 1913. A travelling fair arrives in the neighbouring village. Anna falls ill and stays in bed, visited by Mr Bates who brings her up a tray with a flower. Mrs Hughes, the housekeeper, is reunited with a former suitor, who proposes, though she later declines. Molesley suffers from an allergic reaction to rue , which Violet correctly diagnoses after Isobel assumed it was erysipelas . Carson fears there is a thief at Downton after doing an inventory of the wine cellar. Lady Sybil continues to experiment with feminism, aided and inspired by the new, politically minded Irish chauffeur, Branson. After visiting her dressmaker, she surprises the whole family by displaying an outfit consisting of Harem pants .