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Robert Crawley, Earl of Gratham:
[to Edith as she enters the room] Did you get hold of him?

Lady Edith Crawley:
Yes, he's coming down tomorrow on the first leg of his trip to Tangiers. I've asked him here.

Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham:
Good.

Tom Branson:
How is he?

Lady Edith Crawley:
[sighing] Sad, he loved his cousin. And it was all so quick. The trouble is, they've already buried him, and Bertie's not quite sure what to do.

Isobel Crawley:
Well, that's ordinary in hot countries, it won't mean any disrespect.

Lady Edith Crawley:
No, but should they leave him there?

Lady Mary Crawley:
Surely the decision is down to the new marquess, not to Bertie.

Lady Edith Crawley:
[hesitantly] Well, that's the thing. He is the new marquess... Bertie.

Robert Crawley, Earl of Gratham:
[Mary looks dumbfounded] Bertie Pelham is now the Marquess of Hexham?

Lady Edith Crawley:
Yes.

Lady Mary Crawley:
Nonsense, he's having you on. He'd have told you if he was the heir.

Lady Edith Crawley:
He did tell me, but his cousin was in his thirties, and they all knew the girl he was going to marry.

Lady Mary Crawley:
But that's absurd. If Bertie's a marquess, then Edith...

Robert Crawley, Earl of Gratham:
[interrupting joyfully] Edith would outrank us all, yes, that's right!

Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham:
[Everyone smiles, thrilled with the news] Was he a close relation?

Lady Edith Crawley:
Second cousin, once removed. Nobody thought it was possible he would ever inherit, least of all Bertie.

Isobel Crawley:
Well, he seemed like a nice young man to me.

Lady Rosamund Painswick:
[beaming] And getting nicer by the minute!

Tom Branson:
With a real love of Brancaster.

Robert Crawley, Earl of Gratham:
Golly gumdrops! What a turn up!

Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham:
[Sees the door opening, smiling widely] That's dinner, if we're not too distracted to eat!

Tom Branson:
[All move toward the door except for Mary, who still appears thunderstruck; teasing] So we'll all bow and curtsey to Edith. You'll enjoy that, Mary.

Lady Mary Crawley:
[bitterly] Hardly. And if Bertie really is Lord Hexham, which I still don't believe, he won't want to marry her now.

Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham:
[sarcastically] Careful, or people will think you're jealous, dear. We don't want that.