Chapter 1
It was about six months after she was left at the alter by the man, who she thought loved her and was suppose to changed her life forever.
Lady Edith Crawley had just returned from New York after the disaster of her supposed wedding day to Sir Anthony Strallan. Her grandmother Martha Levinson had also decided to come back to Britain with her, to spend some time in london and with her new great-grandchild as she always enjoyed herself when she was there, (getting reacquainted with old friends and going to balls and finding out what was fashionable in london).
"But grandmama where are we going to stay?"
Edith asked,
"Oh! i asked your father if we could stay at Grantham lodge" (the residents of Lord and Lady Grantham when they stay in london), Edith replied with a simple.
"Oh!"
Edith had not spoken to her father since that fateful day, when Sir Anthony stopped the wedding and looked at Edith and said
"I can't do this, i can't do it."
Then he looked around at her father and said,
"You know it's wrong, you told me several times,"
it was all such a blur to her, she could only remember what Anthony said to her and what she said to the man she thought loved her,
"No! I should not have let it get this far, i should have stopped it long ago, i tried to stop it."
She looked confused, when she replied to what she had just heard,
"What are you saying, i don't understand what your saying."
Then he cut's her off and said,
"Edith!"
In which the church fell silent, he continued,
"Edith! i can't let you throw away your life like this."
where she reached for his good hand and held it in her's in which she replied,
"what do you mean, we so happy aren't we? we're going to be so terribly terribly happy."
where he replies,
"you are going to be happy, i pray that you are, but only if you don't waste your self on me."
Then her grandmother (the dowager of grantham) said something but she couldn't remember what it was, the last thing he said before he quickly walked out of the church was "goodbye my dearest darling, god bless you. Always."
She started to tear up, but stopped and thought to herself,
"i have shed enough tears over him, i gave him my heart and he threw it away."
When she was in New York she spoke to her grandmother about that horrible day, but all her grandmother would say is,
"I was there remember and he did what he did for you, well what he thought was best for you, he didn't want you to waste your life on him, he's a goodman, he an honorable man, i don't want to blame anyone, but i did find out from my maid Reed, which she heard from Alfred that your father did not really approve of you marring him, but give him his consent anyway."
That was when Edith decided not to speak to her father again about anything but would be civil to him.