Downton Abbey (TV Series)
Episode #2.2 (2011)
Jessica Brown Findlay: Lady Sybil Crawley
Quotes
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[Lady Sybil and Isobel are proposing setting up a convalescent home at Downton Abbey]
Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham : I think it's a *ridiculous* idea.
Lady Sybil Crawley : Why?
Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham : Because this is a house, not a hospital.
Lady Mary Crawley : Granny, a convalescent home is where people rest and recuperate.
Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham : But if there are relapses. What then? Amputation in the dining room? Rescuscitation in the pantry?
Cora, Countess of Grantham : It would certainly be the most tremendous disturbance. If you knew how chaotic things are as it is.
Isobel Crawley : But when there's so much good can be done.
[Violet stamps her stick on the floor]
Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham : I forbid it! To have strange men prodding and prying around the house. To say nothing of pocketing the spoons. It's out of the question.
Cora, Countess of Grantham : I hesitate to remind you, but this is my house now - Robert's and mine. *We* will make the decision.
Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham : [pause] Oh, I see. So now I'm an outsider... who need not be consulted.
Cora, Countess of Grantham : Since you put it like that, yes.
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Dr. Clarkson : [after the suicide of the blinded officer] He must have smuggled a razor into his bed. There was nothing to be done.
Lady Sybil Crawley : It's because we ordered him to go.
Isobel Crawley : We don't know that.
Dr. Clarkson : This is a tragedy, I don't deny it. But I cannot see what other course was open to me. We have no room for men to convalesce and Farley is the nearest house I can send them to.
Isobel Crawley : There is a solution and it's staring us in the face. Downton Abbey.
Dr. Clarkson : Would they ever allow it? Or even consider it?
Lady Sybil Crawley : I think they would. After this, I think they can be made to.