When Mary finally accepts Matthew’s proposal, he withdraws it, unsure of her true feelings.

Matthew misinterprets Mary’s hesitancy, particularly when Cora finds she is pregnant. When Matthew finally proposes to Mary, she feels she cannot accept unless she tells him about Pamuk. By May 1914, over a year after Pamuk’s death, rumors about Mary surface and Carson and the dowager Countess Violet hear them. Lady Edith then writes a letter to the Turkish ambassador. It is Daisy who tells Lady Edith in August of 1913. Unfortunately, the corpse’s transport is witnessed by Daisy. Pamuk died in Mary’s bed and Mary gets help from Anna and Cora in transporting Pamuk’s body back to a guest bedroom in March of 1913. Pamuk was a practice seducer and blackmailed her into having sex with him: He knew that if she was found with a man in her room, her reputation would still be ruined. Mary had rejected Pamuk when he kissed her and even when Pamuk had, unbeknownst to Mary, blackmailed Thomas into leading him to Mary’s room, Mary had initially rejected him again. Lady Mary was fascinated by Evelyn Napier’s friend, the Turkish diplomat Kemal Pamuk. In 1913, a woman’s reputation was everything and good girls didn’t get raped. In the end, Matthew isn’t interested in Edith, either. Mary was fond of her fiancé, but it was Edith who loved him. We don’t see the two women pursuing and being pursued by Patrick, but we do see Edith pursuing Matthew Crawley, the subsequent heir to Downton. If you recall during Series/Season 1, Mary had just lost her fiancé, the never seen Patrick, who was heir to Downton Abbey when Patrick died in the sinking of the Titanic. Last episode she called Henry Talbot (Matthew Goode) “oily.” Edith will call Mary (Michelle Dockery) a female dog in this episode, but Edith herself has been a snippy little lady herself. One of those things is let outsiders know about a scandal. There are some things that family should never do, particularly in the 1910s.

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