Maud, Lady Bagshaw
[Maud, Lady Bagshaw intends to leave her estate to her maid, Lucy Smith, which angrily upsets Violet Crawley.]
How like you. A word of resistance and you slash with your saber.
Violet Crawley, the Dowager Countess
It is lucky for Miss Smith that I do not own a saber.
Cora Crawley, Lady Grantham
So this is truly your choice?
Maud, Lady Bagshaw
Lucy has taken care of me for many years. I wish to show my gratitude.
Violet Crawley, the Dowager Countess
With the family house? With the family estate? You belong in a straitjacket. To treat your maid as a blood relation is to unpick every fiber of the English way of life.
Maud, Lady Bagshaw
What piffle you talk.
Robert Crawley, Lord Grantham
Please. There is no need to argue.
Violet Crawley, the Dowager Countess
I never argue. I explain.
