Downton Abbey Episode #3.4 (2010–2015) Online

Downton Abbey Episode #3.4 (2010–2015) Online

August 1920. At Ethel's request, Isobel and Mrs Hughes arrange a meeting with Mr and Mrs Bryant as Ethel believes her son Charlie would have a better life with them. The kindly Mrs Bryant offers money but Ethel, though it is heart-breaking for her, agrees that the couple should raise her son for his own benefit. Edith, incensed at the limits of women's suffrage, has an article published in the press, which annoys Robert, but he is even more angry when Tom and the pregnant Sybil arrive from Ireland. Tom is on the run as an I.R.A sympathiser who has attended their meetings and will be arrested if he returns to Dublin, making them exiles though Tom expresses a wish to return to his homeland. Handsome new footman Jimmy turns the heads of the maids - and Thomas - whilst Daisy is put out when Alfred seems smitten by new kitchen maid Ivy.

Violet remarks, "Lady Gregory, Countess Markievicz... why are the Irish rebels so well born?" This is in reference to Countess Constance Markievicz, a member of Sinn Fein who was born Constance Gore-Booth, a daughter of a baronet and who later married a Polish count; and the Irish nationalist Augusta, Lady Gregory, who was born into an aristocratic Anglo-Irish family.

Robert says the religious leader coming for dinner is 'toffee nosed'. This means he's a snob and stuck up. The phrase dates to the mid 19th century when rich men at Oxford were called 'toffs', because they wore special gold tuff's on their caps on certain occasions.

Matthew defends Edith to Robert about her becoming a newspaper writer by mentioning Lady Sarah Wilson, who was Britain's first woman war correspondent in WW1.