I hate to say it but part of their happiness and then disappointment probably had more to do with the reflected glory of Bertie's elevated aristocracy—on them, not her. Unconsciously, perhaps.
But they all always fail Edith.
Could Tom (and Edith, for that matter) really not see what was about to come out of Mary's…

Plus, she still hasn't told him that she can't live with his driving career. Maybe he'd be ready to give it up after Charles' death but they haven't actually hashed out a pretty major part of their lives. And he even seen what she does "for a living"—pigs and rents and whatnot? I feel like all they've done before…

I almost down voted you for being the bearer of bad news. ;)

The thought occurred to me, too. He was, what was it, "a bit useless"? Bound to get married, delicate, would probably have to move back to England and try to make babies… Yeah, he could have felt just as trapped as Thomas but for different reasons.

The whole situation with them bugged me: he was too forceful with his "I'll just take anything you say or even look as a Yes"; she should have taken any one of several opportunities to pull him aside and tell him; and why is it that no one in TV World can ever sense when their partner is uncomfortable or hesitant and…

Unfortunately Barrow already outranks Mosley so it would be a demotion and paycut, though it's a position nonetheless and it's possible they might keep him on in a combined capacity.

Thank you for reminding me.
None of that, for me (if I were Cora and Robert), is deterrent enough. Clearly, time-wise, putting off marriage while he does his research isn't a huge concern as she is still happily-ish unmarried. And moving to another estate to manage and have sons inherit might not be ideal for her but…

Can anyone remind me: What was wrong with (Charles?) Blake? I liked him. He was from the right background, had spunk, was hardworking and unsnobbish, interested in all the same things Mary was. So what was the problem, Mary couldn't wear her fancy heels wen they went out to dinner?

It sounded like she was also planning on taking over the big house as pretext and has no intention of waiting possibly decades until both Lord and would-be Lady Boring die of old age. Am I wrong or was that the end game going on? But in a sense, even then, as you and Lady Violet point out, maybe it would be for the…

I'm getting my information from Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte here and maybe this was not so much the case in 1925 as it was in the 1800s but I would have thought it would be practically standard to have Marigold put into some decent boarding school to be raised as an educated but working-class young woman, the way…

It's been a couple of years since I watched seasons 1-3 but I remember that Barrow was an awful person: scheming, lying, trying to get people fired. He was forever throwing other people under the bus so the staff generally and rightly view him with suspicion rather than as "one of us". That said, one of my favorite…

I will be very disappointed with Prof. Tennis Shorts if he goes from rule-enforcer to major-rule-breaker. It's icky. And frankly Jane needs to not to have yet another man chasing aftee her. For her own good.