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The Dowager Countess is making trouble by spotting Sybil’s weakness for a member of working classes.Mary does her best to guide her younger sister in a path better than her own, but is accused of meddling and snobbery.
Isobel is riled by the challenge to her position as a senior nurse and leaves the house to tend to the wounded in France. With Matthew also gone, the servants of Isobel’s house are at a loose end and begin to look for other opportunities.
Helping wounded soldiers gets a number of the kitchen staff into hot water, though the Countess’s late change of heart on all practical issues relating to the war gives them something of a reprieve.
Meanwhile, Thomas asserts his independence by not telling the Earl of the return of Mr Bates. The Earl is shocked by the news and takes the unusual step of paying a personal visit to a public house.
The trifles of those back home pale into insignificance when news of a development on the front gets back to Downton. Nobody can concentrate on matters at hand with the news hanging over them. There is a positive development, however, when a friendly face returns to the estate bringing a cheer to the staff and family alike.
Mrs Hughes has to manage the personal affairs of the household when Thomas begins to get high-handed with Daisy. Not only that, but she is faced with a major dilemma, right at the end of the show, when it is revealed that a member of the household will be having a baby.
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