A bit of below stairs hanky-panky

NEW face Lucy (Tuppence Middleton, left) — a maid who arrives with Lady Bagshaw — stirs up trouble as she catches the eye of widower Tom Branson (Allen Leech). Estate manager Branson lets her know he is interested. The Dowager Countess makes one of her typically cutting remarks to Isobel Crawley (Penelope Wilton, right).

‘She is a scheming little minx!’

‘I’m Lady Bagshaw’s maid...’

‘I have such a feeling you understand what’s going on in my head’