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Tom Branson:
Are you looking forward to going home?

Lady Edith Crawley:
Why, in particularly?

Tom Branson:
Aren't you missing Marigold?

Lady Edith Crawley:
Aren't you missing Sybbie? Isn't Mary missing George?

Tom Branson:
Not quite as much.

Lady Edith Crawley:
What are you trying to say?

Tom Branson:
Not a lot, really, but these will be my last months at Downton, and you have always been my ally. I'd like to feel we were honest with each other. You see, where I grew up, there were quite a few Marigolds.

Lady Edith Crawley:
I'm not sure I understand you.

Tom Branson:
I think you do. My cousin, Nuala, had a child that was brought up as her sister. No one talked of it, naturally, but we all knew.

Lady Edith Crawley:
I told Papa you'd guess.

Tom Branson:
So they're both in on it?

Lady Edith Crawley:
They are now.

Tom Branson:
And Mary, does she know?

Lady Edith Crawley:
No, she's completely uninterested in me, which should keep me safe. Please, keep it to yourself. Not for my sake so much as for hers.

Tom Branson:
You may not believe it, but I'm a signed-up member of this family now. [He places his hand affectionately on her shoulder and gives a gentle squeeze]