Downton Abbey (TV Series)

Episode #6.1 (2015)

Phyllis Logan: Mrs. Hughes

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• Mrs. Hughes : I hadn't fully considered all the aspects of marriage, of what I was getting into.

  Mrs. Patmore : I don't understand. What aspects? You know each other better than most couples at the start.

  [They exchange glances] 

  Mrs. Patmore : Oh, my Lord. You mean...?

  Mrs. Hughes : Yes. That is precisely what I mean.

  Mrs. Patmore : Well, there's nothing so terrible about it, is there? So they say. I wouldn't know, of course.

  Mrs. Hughes : Mrs. Patmore, look at me. I'm a woman in late middle age.

  Mrs. Patmore : Oh, don't say 'late'.

  Mrs. Hughes : I was not bad looking as a girl, if you can believe it.

  Mrs. Patmore : Very easily.

  Mrs. Hughes : But these days? I'm not sure I can let him see me as I am now.

  Mrs. Patmore : Perhaps you can keep the lights off.

  Mrs. Hughes : That is NOT helpful, Mrs. Patmore.

  Mrs. Patmore : Well, won't he feel the same? I mean, no one's clapped eyes on him without his togs for years, except the doctor.

  Mrs. Hughes : Good point. Very good point!