Maggie Smith credited as playing...
Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham
- Cora, Countess of Grantham: [smiling] Are we to be friends then?
- Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham: [after a very long pause] We are allies, which can be a good deal more effective.
- Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham: Well... give him a date for when Mary's out of mourning. No one wants to kiss a girl in black...
- Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham: Don't you care about Downton?
- Robert Crawley, Earl of Grantham: What do you think? I have given my life to Downton. I was born here, and I hope to die here. I claim no career beyond the nurture of this house and the estate. It's my third parent and my fourth child.
- Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham: Oh, dear, such a glare. I feel as if I were on stage at the Gaiety.
- Robert Crawley, Earl of Grantham: [Speaking to Lady Grantham, who has responded to a summons to speak with Violet] Tell her about James and Patrick-she won't have heard.
- Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham: [Scene switches to Drawing Room]
- [Speaking to Lady Grantham]
- Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham: Of course I've heard! Why else would I be here?