Sybil and you may Tom returned to Downton to own Matthew and you will Mary’s relationship, courtesy money provided by Violet, exactly who after told Tom one night you to definitely “he or she is a member of the family now” and therefore “i Crawleys stick together.” Through to arriving, Tom went downstairs in order to allowed their former co-gurus and let them know which he had not changed shortly after his relationships to Sybil. Hughes, however, Robert and Carson try lower than happy. Carson and Thomas Barrow both refused to play the role of valet in order to your, thus Mrs Hughes claims you to Alfred will have to exercise, as he have a tendency to just need verify that Tom needs things.

Luckily for us, Crawley family members friend and you may Female Edith’s up coming love notice Anthony Strallan told folks which he watched Grey getting things for the Tom’s take in ahead of they went on the dining area

Tom also clashed with his inside the-laws and regulations towards proper eating don. Sybil recommended he could pick best wear to the currency they had become offered, but he refused toward concept. He found Sybil’s maternal granny, Martha Levinson, in the see. While the catching up into the household members, Martha showed that she accepted out-of Tom, his jobs with his republican sympathies. Through the their head to, Tom tried to care for an equilibrium between their feedback with his wife’s contentment. He and molded a friendship that have Matthew Crawley, just who attempted to assist your to fit right in toward Crawley members of the family. In the course of time the guy did start wear evening clothing, admitting in the 1921 he eliminated wanting to talk about his clothes throughout the all the restaurants.

On a good pre-wedding dinner, Tom’s drink try drugged by one of the visitors, Larry Grey – a former suitor off Sybil’s – very however appear impolite and you may intoxicated towards the party. (more…)