"Oh no, how could he do that to her." Mary thought to herself, as she watched Sir Anthony Strallan walked away from the alter and her sister, she then turned to she Edith burst into tears and run out of the side door of the church.
Before she knew it, they were all back at Downton, now her Mother, Sybil and herself had all joined Edith in her bedroom, to try to comfort her but all Edith wanted was to be left alone, so her and Sybil left their Mother to comfort their clearly brokenhearted sister. As Sybil and Mary left Edith's Room, Mary couldn't get something out of her head that Edith had said to them just a few moments ago
"Sybil married and pregnant, Mary married and probably already pregnant, oh please just leave me alone!, i'm always going to be alone from now on, this is all my fault i pushed him to fast and i'm going to be the spinster aunt of Downton, this was a long time coming he did it at the garden party years ago and now this, i love him, i don't think i can go on without him."
Sybil turned to Mary and asked "Poor darling, what can we do to help her, and what did she mean by he left her at the garden party, what happened, all i remember is that you and her had a screaming match, something about a letter?" Mary just couldn't get that bit of what Edith said out of her brain, it just kept on repeating and repeating "i'm always going to be alone from now on, this was a long time coming he did it at the garden party years ago and now this, i love him, i don't think i can go on without him." and then Mary felt a wave of guilt wash over her, could this have all stemmed from that moment in time, then she realised now how cruelly she had torn her sister and the man she loved apart that day and yet another wave of guilt crashed over her, she was brought out of her thoughts by Sybil repeating her name
"Mary, Mary! are you alright, you've gone rather pale, did you hear anything of what i've just said?" Mary just stared at Sybil blankly and said in just above a whisper
"Yes darling, i heard every word, i promise that i will tell you everything, but not now, i hope you understand?"
Sybil looked at her older sister and just nodded and said to Mary "Mary if you need me i will be with Tom in the library, alright?" and with that Sybil turned on her heels and headed in the direction of the stairs, Mary realised that she had to resolve this and straight away or it might be to late, she had to find Matthew and talk to him but before that she had to go and talk to Mr Peacock the gardener about something and Anna
After talking to Anna and Mr Peacock she found Matthew, he had just returned from speaking with her father about the money situation and the estate, she told Matthew that she was thrilled that everything had worked out on that score, but she needed his help with the whole Edith thing, she had a plan and he was the missing piece to the puzzle
"Darling i have come up with a plan but i need your help, please say you'll help me?, or do i have to remind you of our wedding vows" she teased him and gave him a little smirk
Matthew just laughed and did a very good impression of her, with her signature eye roll and sigh "Of coarse i haven't forgot our vow's, i'll help you, but what's all this about anyway are you plotting again and if you are?, i hope it's good plotting and not bad" She just raised her eyebrow and rolled her eye's sarcastically and said "It's good plotting, it's to do with Edith and Anthony, so will you help me or not, or are you just going to let your sister in-law suffer in silence or i'm i got to have to beat you around the head until you agree to help?" He just chuckled and nodded in agreement and then said "Alright, alright, i'll help, you know i would do anything to help Edith right now, so what do you want me to do?" So she took his arm and turned them around to go and find Sybil and Tom and started to tell her husband he plan.