Penelope Wilton credited as playing...
Isobel Crawley
- [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.
- 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.