Jim Carter credited as playing...
Charles Carson
- Robert Crawley, Earl of Grantham: [about Branson, the new chauffeur] He seems a bright spark after poor old Taylor. And to think Taylor's gone off to run a tea shop. I cannot feel it will make for a very restful retirement, can you?
- Charlie Carson: I would rather be put to death, m'Lord.
- Robert Crawley, Earl of Grantham: ...Quite so.
- Mrs. Hughes: Before I first came here as head housemaid, I was walking out with a farmer. When I told him I'd taken a job at Downton, he asked me to marry him. I was a farmer's daughter from Argyle, so I knew the life. He was very nice. But then I came here and I-I did well, and I... I didn't want to give it up. So, I told him no, and he married someone else. She died three years ago, and last month, he wrote asking to see me again, and I agreed, because all this time, I've wondered.
- Charlie Carson: Go on.
- Mrs. Hughes: I met him the other night. We had dinner at the Grantham Arms and after, he took me to the fair.
- Charlie Carson: And he was horrible and fat and red-faced and you couldn't think what you ever saw in him?
- Mrs. Hughes: He was still a nice man. He is still a nice man. Well, he was a bit red-faced, and his suit was a little tight, but none of that matters. In the real ways, he hadn't changed.
- Charlie Carson: And he proposed again... and you accepted?
- Mrs. Hughes: In many ways, I wanted to accept. But I'm not that farm girl anymore. I was flattered, of course, but... I've changed, Mr Carson.
- Charlie Carson: Life's altered you, as it's altered me. And what would be the point of living if we didn't let life change us?
- Lady Mary Crawley: Do you know where His Lordship is?
- Charlie Carson: Gone to bed, m'Lady. He felt tired after he put Lady Grantham into the car.
- Lady Mary Crawley: I bet he did.
- Robert Crawley, Earl of Grantham: [speaking of his former chauffeur] And to think Taylor's gone off to run a tea shop! I cannot feel it would make for a restful retirement, can you?
- Charlie Carson: [hyperbolically] I would rather be put to death, My Lord.