Here's why the entirety of the wedding food isn't going to the church -- the downstairs staff is getting their share and good for them. In a know-it-all voice, Thomas explains the concept of canapés to Alfred and Mrs. Patmore chimes in with a bunch of other offerings on the menu that makes me wish I could be a Downton vagrant for a day. Mrs. Hughes laments all the trouble Mrs. Patmore went to, but to her credit, Mrs. Patmore says it's absolutely nothing compared to "the pain of that poor girl upstairs," and O'Brien adds that she couldn't stand the shame. Thomas: "Then it's lucky no one's ever asked you, isn't it?" Cheap! Rude! And above all, stupid! Alfred is the only one who thinks this is a blessing -- Edith is young, not bad-looking and "she could do much better than that broken-down old crock." Carson tells Alfred that Sir Anthony doesn't deserve to be spoken about in that manner by a footman, but Mrs. Hughes is like, overruled, and Carson recants: "Well, maybe just this once." Hee. Mrs. Patmore asks what everyone's having -- lobster, duck or asparagus -- whereupon Alfred asks her if there's any cheese and even O'Brien gets a "Maybe we're not actually related" look on her face.

In the morning, Anna enters to find Edith still in bed and she asks what Edith would like her to bring. Edith: "A different life." Girl, Italy. I'm telling you. Anna wants to bring up some breakfast, but Edith tells her she's a useful spinster, good at helping out. "That is my role. And spinsters get up for breakfast." See, against all that Sir Anthony-nursing, she could have had a lifetime of breakfast in bed! Lord Grantham, you really are cruel.

Mrs. Hughes is just getting ready to go to the doctor when Carson comes in to see her; they do a bit more of their verbal dance before Mrs. Patmore comes to collect her. Carson watches them go with stirring and real concern on his face...

...and then we're in the village, with Mrs. Hughes lingering outside the hospital before she gathers her courage, saying out loud that she won't be cured by standing there. They head in.

Carson looks at his watch nervously...

...a nurse shows Mrs. Hughes into Dr. Clarkson's office...

...and then, below stairs, O'Brien is down the hall when Thomas loudly calls and asks if everything's all right. She steps forward and says that, oh yes, everything's all right with her. "But it'll be all wrong with you before too long, mark my words." If those words don't send a shiver down your spine, you might want to go in for a complete physical. Thomas asks exactly how it's going to be all wrong with him and O'Brien admits that she doesn't know... not yet. But, with an evangelical smile that's even scarier than anything I've seen from her before, she promises him that it's going to happen and when she's gone, some cracks appear in Thomas' smug façade, which might mean he's only 90% sociopath.