Ah, here's Matthew calling on Mrs. Bartlett. She's quite alive, which is good news considering all the ominous talk. Less favorable is the fact that she's apparently told Murray a tale that's rather different from the one she relayed to Anna. Murray questions her on a few points, but he's hardly surprised that she's lying, although he does wonder why -- if she had nothing to say that would overturn the verdict -- she even let him come there? She replies that she thought he should see how real people live and when you think about it, it's really not a great line, but I suppose she had to say something.

In the kitchen, Ivy's humming and dancing to herself when Alfred and Jimmy James join her. She explains that she loves the foxtrot and Jimmy James says he thinks it's all right before sniffing that Alfred wouldn't do it. "He takes himself too seriously for that." So much for the easy noncompetitive flirting, then. Mrs. Patmore enters, which is the boys' cue to scatter...

...while Daisy's turning up at the farm, to Mr. Mason's unabashed delight. And quickly, we cut to the part where he's offered her a job; in addition to cooking for the whole place, she could do a great trade selling jams, jellies, cakes of all sorts and eventually, he'd train her to run the entire farm and leave it to her. Oh, show. Why did you bother making Daisy, like, 25% more tolerable if you were going to get rid of her? Daisy wonders about the fact that she's, you know, a girl, but Mr. Mason tells her there's precedent with widows having run farms before and adds that she's liked in "the big house," so they wouldn't refuse the idea. He concludes by saying that he owns all the farming equipment and livestock and has quite a bit of money saved, and geez, Daisy, with this pitch I'd think marrying him would be the right course if that's what he wanted, so merely taking the job should be a no-brainer. Regardless, Daisy says she can't answer now, but he encourages her to think about it and earnestly adds that his dream would be for her to come to the farm so he could teach her. Daisy hesitantly admits that she always thought she'd spend her life in service, but he points out that she's got 40 years of work ahead of her. "Do you think these great houses like Downton Abbey are gonna go on just as they are for another 40 years?" Mr. Mason, what you're saying suggests that this show will come to an end at some point, so excuse me while I stick my fingers in my ears. Or instead, I'll tell you about my revelation, which is that you played Nathan Maloney's asshole dad back on the original Queer As Folk. Despite what you just said, I like you better now!