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“But even if Matthew does break it off with her, why should he propose to me again?”

Mary asks this question as if it’s a practical consideration; of course, she doesn’t want Violet and Rosamund to interfere with Matthew’s relationship, and she later praises Lavinia to Matthew.

It’s a quiet, but staggering, moment. Mary is frank with Violet. The protective pretense of calm acceptance about Matthew’s engagement fades. There’s so much doubt in her heart. Fear that Matthew doesn’t, or couldn’t, ever love her again, after their first failed engagement, for which she takes the blame.

In framing the question this way, she reveals her longing for Matthew to propose again, if only in a hypothetical dream world. (She’s already prepared to say that overwhelming “yes.”) She’s lost between what she desires, and what she’s afraid she can never have again.

But the brilliance of Lady Mary Crawley is that none of this turmoil is portrayed as weakness. She’s as strong as she’s always been, and growing stronger through this experience, in her resilience and unselfish honesty. 

Amazing, you’ve done it again.

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    Brilliantly said!

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    Amazing, you’ve done it again.

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