Lol, I was thinking the same thing. I was worried that Fellowes's idea of a happy ending for Edith would involve her getting left at the altar again - well, more like leaving the perfectly nice man who loves her - and getting back together with the father of her child. Unlike what Emily says, that wouldn't have been a…

Inability to show emotion is a quite different thing from indifference in a dramatic context, and they're portrayed very differently. There was no suggesstion whatsover that Cora and Robert gave anything more than a fleeting thought to their daughter's pain, or tried to comfort her in any way. That has nothing to do…

This is kind of on a tangent, but that blank lawn bugs me so much that I feel I have to rant about it. It's just so weird! It's like the house is allergic to all plants except grass. There's not a single flowerbed to be seen anywhere, nor any ornamental shrubbery, and even the trees seem to be keeping their distance.…

Human emotions weren't invented by the lower classes. I expect that loving parents in any time period and class would care enough about their daughter to comfort her when she receives news that her fiancé is dead. Or at least, not be utterly indifferent to her sorrow.

I think Rosamund just identifies with Edith as the put-upon Crawley sibling. And maybe she's also a decent human being.

It was worse than that. In the same episode that Edith found out that Gregson was dead, Mary held a party to show off her new hairdo, and then was annoyed when Edith was less than cheerful … and their parents sat by admiring Mary's hair while Edith ran out of the room crying. Robert and Cora: parents of the century!

Yup. And they were amply justified. Mary once again proved that she is not to be trusted, and that she's very capable of using people's past mistakes to ruin their future, and then pretend that she was 'helping' them.

Don't you know that Downton Abbey is The Lady Mary Show? Working class people feeling desperate enough to kill themselves is exactly equivalent to Mary feeling bored and lonely enough to ruin her sister's life.

Hey, what did Mrs Hughes or Mrs Patmore ever do to Edith? And her Aunt Rosamund has been the only family member who has ever been nice to her.

Gillingham bites into an apple from the fruit basket, chokes, and dies on the spot. Mary's death vagina claims another victim.

I've never gotten the impression that Tom was romantically interested in Mary. However, he did seem awfully interested in Henry Talbot. Last week's review on Tom and Lorenzo's site (http://tomandlorenzo.com/20… ) had a hilarious running joke about Tom's apparent crush on Henry. Heck, the whole review was hilarious.

Lol, I love "Well, turns out the projections for next quarter have us falling in love" - that exactly describes their (not-so) romantic love confession scene.

Yeah, Mary has 'got even' for that one act of Edith's (which was admittedly nasty) at least half a dozen times over the past 11 years.

The servant quarters in Downton Abbey aren't exactly luxurious either. At least Carson rates his own room and bed (or did in his bachelor days), but the rest of the servants all sleep in similar narrow beds in shared rooms.

She'll probably tell him in the next episode, and Bertie, being the nice guy that he is, will be totally cool with it, and they'll get married in the season finale. (Btw, this is just my prediction - I haven't seen the episodes.)

Only 2 episodes left, so obviously it will get glossed over quickly (if it does happen, that is).

With the show wrapping up in a couple of episodes, I can't believe they're introducing new storylines. What the heck is going on with poor Mrs Patmore's bed and breakfast? Why is someone spying on it?

I agree about Bertie and Marigold. After all, we, the viewers know that she's Edith's daughter because we've seen the whole story play out. If we were in Bertie's situation - i.e. if we'd just gotten to know Edith, and were only vaguely aware that her family (not even Edith personally) adopted some farmer's child -…

I'm worried that a suicide attempt for Barrow might still be in the offing - probably not via pistol, but some slightly less gory method.

It was a generic servant's room in Rosamund's house in London, not their own room. Presumably it was meant to be for two maids or two manservants, but since Anna and Bates were a couple, they were given a room to themselves. I doubt that servants' rooms come equipped with double beds.