Maggie Smith credited as playing...
Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham
- Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham: If anything happens to Edith and Cora learns later we knew all along, she would never forgive us... and I wouldn't blame her. You see, as a mother it is her right.
- Lady Rosamund Painswick: But you don't plan to tell Robert. He *is* Edith's father.
- Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham: He's a man. Men don't have rights.
- Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham: I'm worried about Edith.
- Lady Mary Crawley: [dismissively] I can't think why.
- Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham: My dear, a lack of compassion can be as vulgar as an excess of tears.