Downton Abbey2010

[Lady Sybil and Isobel are proposing setting up a convalescent home at Downton Abbey]

Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham:
I think it's a *ridiculous* idea.

Lady Sybil Crawley:
Why?

Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham:
Because this is a house, not a hospital.

Lady Mary Crawley:
Granny, a convalescent home is where people rest and recuperate.

Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham:
But if there are relapses. What then? Amputation in the dining room? Rescuscitation in the pantry?

Cora, Countess of Grantham:
It would certainly be the most tremendous disturbance. If you knew how chaotic things are as it is.

Isobel Crawley:
But when there's so much good can be done.

[Violet stamps her stick on the floor]

Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham:
I forbid it! To have strange men prodding and prying around the house. To say nothing of pocketing the spoons. It's out of the question.

Cora, Countess of Grantham:
I hesitate to remind you, but this is my house now - Robert's and mine. *We* will make the decision.

Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham:
[pause] Oh, I see. So now I'm an outsider... who need not be consulted.

Cora, Countess of Grantham:
Since you put it like that, yes.