DOWNTON ABBEY: Season Six, Episode Two {Recap}

As we can always expect, the good of last week can’t always last long – or can it? – and life is as it always is at Downton Abbey for the Crowleys and their staff.

We have more news that things with Tom and Rose are good in America, and maybe Rose is pregnant.

Mary is doing the agent’s job without trying to ignore her position. Mr. Finch is a bit off by the idea of her as agent, but she puts on the best show to get what she wants done. Mary invites the kids to look at the pigs at the Drewe’s farm, which makes Edith very nervous. It looks as if it was well founded as Mrs. Drewe looks at Marigold as if she were her own. Lord Grantham wants to see if the Drewes will leave, but Mr. Drewe doesn’t want to be pushed off. That idea goes out of the window as Marigold is taken by Mrs. Drewe at the pig show.

Mr. Carson and Mrs. Hughes are at odds for where the wedding should be: the servants’ hall of somewhere in town? Now Mary has offered anywhere in the house for the reception, and Mr. Carson looks very pleased. Mrs. Hughes is not happy with the idea and so they’ll find a middle ground.

Hospital business is getting nasty – Lady Grantham wasn’t included in one meeting – and it’s setting everyone in the meeting off.

The downsizing of the staff is still a concern: Barrow will start looking for new employ with mixed results as the job he finds is a combination of far too many of his old jobs.

Daisy’s still all frustrated by the lack of progress for Mr. Mason’s prospects, and still wants to get Lady Grantham’s help. While the system may need changing, Daisy, I don’t think trying to rock the boat is going to get it done. She knows the ways of the world, even if she dislikes it. Too bad that Lady Grantham has one idea that she can’t say more about.

Anna’s down about not being able to have children, but it does get Mary started on an idea of taking her into London for proper help on the matter. Mr. Bates is being very nice about the whole deal. It seems Anna has a condition that is easily treated when she next becomes pregnant.

Edith is trying to deal with her editor and it doesn’t go well because he’s never taken too kindly to her ideas. That seems a small trifle compared to all of her worries with Edith, but it’s her life all the same.

Lord Merton is trying to get Isobel on his idea of the argument about the hospital, while also being flirty for the time.