唐顿庄园第二季第一集_14

　　唐顿庄园第二季第一集_14
　　[INT. LADY GRANTHAM'S BEDROOM - NIGHT]
　　[O'Brien prepares Cora's hair for bed.]
　　O'BRIEN
　　So, Lady Sybil got off all right in the end. I'm afraid we have toadmit, she knows what she wants.
　　CORA, COUNTESS OF GRANTHAM
　　Yes. She certainly does.
　　O'BRIEN
　　I don't suppose the war will leave any of us alone by the time it's done. I had a letter from Thomasthe other day. He writes that, when he thinks about how things used to be, it seems like a dream.Not much more than two years ago, but he says he might as well be a century.
　　CORA, COUNTESS OF GRANTHAM
　　So you hear from Thomas? Is he well? Please give him my regards.
　　O'BRIEN
　　He's well enough, my lady. I don't think he'd mind coming home.
　　CORA, COUNTESS OF GRANTHAM
　　Oh, I wish he could, O'Brien.
　　[INT. LORD GRANTHAM'S DRESSING 1 ROOM - NIGHT] ROBERT, EARL OF GRANTHAM
　　Of course, if Bates hadn't been so bloody 2 selfish, he would've let us plan for his departure properly.
　　MR CARSON
　　Your Lordship, I have information that I have no proper claim to.
　　ROBERT, EARL OF GRANTHAM
　　Well, what is it?
　　MR CARSON
　　Well, if Your Lordship can assure me that you'll keep it to yourself.
　　ROBERT, EARL OF GRANTHAM (sigh)
　　I promise, Carson. You can drop the last veil.
　　MR CARSON
　　Well, I feel it is only right to tell you that Mr Bates's leaving was not selfish. Quite the reverse.
　　ROBERT, EARL OF GRANTHAM
　　Felt selfish to me. As for the wretched Anna, [?] with dishonest promises.
　　MR CARSON (clears throat)
　　Mr Bates left because, had he not done so, his wife was planning to engulf 3 this house in scandal.
　　ROBERT, EARL OF GRANTHAM (chuckles)
　　In scandal?
　　[Robert sees Carson's serious expression.]
　　ROBERT, EARL OF GRANTHAM
　　What scandal?
　　MR CARSON
　　The point is, my lord, Mrs Bates would've made Downton notorious. The price of her silence washer husband's return.
　　ROBERT, EARL OF GRANTHAM
　　But I must know what story she was planning to tell.
　　MR CARSON
　　I'm sorry, my lord. I could not speak of it without injuring you and betraying myself. ROBERT,EARL OF GRANTHAM
　　But you are saying that Bates fell on his sword to protect the reputation of my family.
　　[Mr Carson nods.]
　　[INT. DRAWING ROOM - NIGHT]
　　[Ethel is dusting an electric plug by in the near dark. Carson is about to close the doors when hehears the rustling 4 of her duster. He enters and checks on her.]
　　MR CARSON
　　Ethel, what are you doing?
　　ETHEL
　　Seeing to the plugs for the night.
　　MR CARSON
　　What?
　　ETHEL
　　Polishing the electric plugs and checking them for vapours.
　　MR CARSON
　　And why are you doing this?
　　ETHEL
　　Because you were too busy. She said you usually did it, but could I manage it tonight.
　　MR CARSON
　　And "she", I take it, would be Miss O'Brien.
　　[Mr Carson gives Ethel a look, revealing her naivety 5.]
　　MR CARSON
　　Go to bed, Ethel. And next time she gives you an order, ask me first.
　　[INT. LADY GRANTHAM'S BEDROOM - NIGHT]
　　[Robert absentmindedly removes his robe, lost in thought.]
　　CORA, COUNTESS OF GRANTHAM
　　Is anything the matter?
　　ROBERT, EARL OF GRANTHAM
　　Nothing. Except that today has shown me I am not only a worthless man, but also a bad
　　tempered and ungrateful one.
　　CORA, COUNTESS OF GRANTHAM
　　Well, we all know that.
　　[Robert lets out a puff 6 of amusement.]
　　CORA, COUNTESS OF GRANTHAM
　　Can I help? I wonder how Sybil's feeling.
　　ROBERT, EARL OF GRANTHAM
　　The war's reaching its long fingers into Downton and scattering 7 out chicks. But I'm glad we madepeace with Matthew.
　　CORA, COUNTESS OF GRANTHAM
　　I agree. Let us thank Sir Richard Carlisle for distracting Mary at just the right moment. By the way,she wants him to come and stay so we can all meet him.
　　ROBERT, EARL OF GRANTHAM
　　She wants us to invite a hawker of newspaper scandal to stay as a guest in this house? It's lucky Ihave a sense of irony 8.