"She had gone six months without thinking of Evelyn Napier. It was no record, as she had gone eight years without really thinking about him in the past." Mary Crawley seizes her new life.

I have found her, she's an angel, with the dust of the stars in her eyes. We are dancing, we are flying, and she's taking me back to the skies! 1911-the night Evelyn Napier met Mary Crawley.

She longed for the untainted; he longed for a marriage based on love. What they had was neither, but it kept them both alive for a decade.