In the next episode of Julian Fellowes’ period drama, a new development stuns the family. How long can Sybil and Branson keep their secret?

Meanwhile, Carlisle puts Anna in a difficult position, Bates is reeling from the news about Vera and Thomas embarks on a new money making scheme.

Episode 7 airs at 9pm on Sunday 30th October 2011 on ITV1. Here are ten teasing lines of dialogue from the episode…

» ‘She looked like Juliet on awakening in the tomb.’

» ‘I’ve been tricked. I’ve been had. I’ve been taken for the fool that I am.’

» ‘She gave me a kiss in full payment.’

» ‘You’re far nicer than you were before the war, you know.’

» ‘No doubt you’ll regard this as rather unorthodox, my pushing into a man’s bedroom unannounced.’

» ‘She thinks we’d be ripe for the plucking!’

» ‘Steady on, sir! The ladies have had enough shocks for one day.’

» ‘I’m a foolish man who’s lost his way, and don’t quite know how to find it again.’

» ‘To me, Lady Mary is an uppity minx who’s the author of her own misfortunes.’

» ‘I thought I would die here and haunt it ever after.’

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