No, I think that she was all for the dowdy. It's a point of pride in British acting to sacrifice all for the part and the show. The actors talk about asking for a plotline or a development, but once the script is printed, they stick to it.
As well, no young actor wants to be regarded as just a pretty face; it's a trap…
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But without Denker, would Spratt's eyes be still in their sockets?
Without the dragon, there's no knight.
BE SILENT THIS INSTANT SIR AND MADAMS!
Don't mess with Dickie; it's in him if he needs it.
You could almost hope that Thomas would go to work for him and put the house in order, to give the old gent a little dignity on his way out.
For me he's always and forever the Duke of Crowbait.
Ronald Pickup can do more in 5 minutes than most actors can in 2 hours. Thomas had to leave because by the time Sir Michael was done talking, HE could see the ladies on the staircase.
Well, after the editor stormed out, like Erskine Sanford in "Citizen Kane", Edith and Audrey were about to start redoing the dummy when Edith realized that it was 7 p.m. and Bertie was waiting for her at (what is clearly JF's favorite restaurant) Rules.
So possibly the rest of the staff went home at 5 or 6. They'd…
He could be a valet, which can be a parallel butler in status, for a delicate gentleman, playing Jeeves to the likes of Beverley Nichols.
"I gave the young man two guineas and sent him on his way, sir."
"Quite right, Barrow!"
"BLUEBOTTLE!"
No, she owns her own house. Rosamund married a wealthy man which made her completely independant of her family, for which her mother never quite forgave her.
Remember the Hell Hole they were going to move to when it looked like they were going to lose the Abbey?
This is Downton, so it would be Tories.
Of course, all during this patch she has no idea if Gregson is alive or not—if he will walk through the door in the next moment.
The day she learns of his death is the day she acts in the manner you describe, and when she returns home, it's on the terms she and Cora agree upon.
To recap:
Drewe thought that he and his wife could foster the child without any difficulties, and decided what to tell his wife.
Then his wife became unexpectedly possessive. She wanted to bar Edith because she thought Edith and her husband were starting an affair—and Edith was being blocked from her visits.
Then Violet…
Actually it's a pretty good depiction of a blackmailer. Sherlock Holmes thought they were a special kind of evil because they exploited human weakness, without mercy. If you haven't come across someone with the cold-blooded psychopathy to go through life like that, count your blessings. When you do, get the hell out…
"There's a chap named Ponzi who can double your money!"
That wasn't true yet in 1923. Then it was a six month residence; the six week residency wasn't in place until 1931.
But that's spoken for by George. I can't imagine her not passing onto her son every penny she can spare. "Unmoneyed" doesn't mean she's poor, only that she doesn't have a Cora-sized fortune to shore up her new husband's estate.
JF was on one of the pre-specials, talking about Anna. The short tell is that she loves him and knows that he hasn't killed anyone, but that he could; that it is in his nature to kill someone like Green, and that she has to guard him against that impulse—that she's the only one who can.