It's Christmas 1919. Mr. Swire has a letter to write and to remember one very much beloved, dead daughter. This is the fourth instalment of my little "Dowton series.", if you want to take it like this.

famous dialogue in 1x06 ended up with a marriage proposal and Matthew forever chasing Mary. But what if he'd turned tables on her? Sixth instalment of my Downtonverse.

A heart-to-heart between Sir Richard and Miss Lavinia Swire, I imagine during Matthew's last leave before Amiens, 1918. The fifth instalment in my little Downtonverse.

How could Emma have known that curiosity killed the cat? How could Matthew have known that he was laughing at the wrong moment? How could Mary have known that he was looking through a glass darkly? ? How indeed could they have known that their fate was determined on an ordinary Saturday afternoon in October 1913?

This is the companion piece to „Proper ladies and gentlemen" and it shows Matthew's POV of that particular wedding in January 1912.

What if our favourite Crawleys had met before the famous introduction at Crawley House? You see, I always felt that Matthew "overperformed" just a bit to express his embarrassment of having been overheard and in awe of Mary's beauty. So what if he had reason to be truly embarrassed? And why did Mary so very readily succumb to Pamuk's persuasion in her bedroom? Mary's POV.

Time turning gives you an unique opportunity to see yourself from a completely new perspective.