Downton Abbey – Part 18

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Tonight, we slip back into Downton as the house settles into another Yorkshire evening — the dressing gong long faded, the candles lit, the Crawleys gathered in the drawing room with their careful conversation. Below stairs, Carson makes his final rounds of the night, and something between him and Mrs Hughes has been quietly left unsaid.