...while in another of Downton's gracious satellite houses, the Dowager Countess is asking Lord Grantham what his plan for the child is if Branson chooses to take her away to Liverpool "or wherever he comes to rest." She goes on that obviously, it will be his influence that governs the child's upbringing and when Lord Grantham admits he hadn't gotten that far in his disapproval; she asks what Cora says about it. Lord Grantham has to confess that Cora has not yet forgiven him, and while the Dowager Countess declines to criticize Cora for her feelings, she deliberately goes on that "people like us are never unhappily married." He sighs and wonders what to do, then, so the Dowager Countess suggests they spend some time apart -- "Cora could go to New York to see that woman." I'd rather that woman come to see Cora, but if they couldn't get Shirley MacLaine back for the funeral, I doubt she's going to come now. Lord Grantham admits that he can't see the situation clearly and she sympathetically tells him that there's no greater test on Earth than what he's enduring now. "I do not speak much of the heart, since it's seldom helpful to do so, but I know well enough the pain when it is broken." I wish this show would toss up a warning image of a tissue in the corner of the screen before moments such as these. It'd save so much mess! Lord Grantham raggedly thanks his mother...

...while back at the main house, Daisy asks Alfred and Jimmy James -- who are standing around like layabouts -- if they don't have any work to do. Jimmy James explains that Carson asked them to wait for him, so Ivy remarks that she wouldn't mind their hours and the mere sound of her voice is enough for Alfred to stare at her like the world's tallest lovesick puppy. Daisy tells Ivy to stop gabbing (although with about a hundred times less vitriol than last week) and reminds her that Ivy will have to cover for her the following day, prompting Jimmy James to ask if she's off to see William's father Mr. Mason or, as Jimmy James calls him, "the rich farmer." Daisy sniffs that whatever he makes, he earns, and then Mrs. Patmore comes in and shoos the men away by wondering if this is the new servants' hall. Ivy then weirdly stares at Mrs. Patmore for a while, but it turns out Mrs. Patmore is just making a quick stop before heading out again. Hey, just ask Isobel or Mrs. Hughes -- propping up former hookers is time-consuming!