Downton Abbey2010

Mrs. Hughes:
Before I first came here as head housemaid, I was walking out with a farmer. When I told him I'd taken a job at Downton, he asked me to marry him. I was a farmer's daughter from Argyle, so I knew the life. He was very nice. But then I came here and I-I did well, and I... I didn't want to give it up. So, I told him no, and he married someone else. She died three years ago, and last month, he wrote asking to see me again, and I agreed, because all this time, I've wondered.

Charlie Carson:
Go on.

Mrs. Hughes:
I met him the other night. We had dinner at the Grantham Arms and after, he took me to the fair.

Charlie Carson:
And he was horrible and fat and red-faced and you couldn't think what you ever saw in him?

Mrs. Hughes:
He was still a nice man. He is still a nice man. Well, he was a bit red-faced, and his suit was a little tight, but none of that matters. In the real ways, he hadn't changed.

Charlie Carson:
And he proposed again... and you accepted?

Mrs. Hughes:
In many ways, I wanted to accept. But I'm not that farm girl anymore. I was flattered, of course, but... I've changed, Mr Carson.

Charlie Carson:
Life's altered you, as it's altered me. And what would be the point of living if we didn't let life change us?