Confiding in his employer, Bates revealed Anna wants to move back into the house. Lord Grantham, one of the many upstairs residents who noticed something different about Anna (Lady Mary commented on it too), approached Bates about his wife. She refused either, but he vowed to find out what happened. Bates begged of his wife, when he saw her in the household.
“Kiss me please, or tell me what’s happened. “Better a broken heart than a broken neck,” Anna said. Bates for fear he’ll kill Green and then be sentenced to death. She went on to insist that no one tell Mr. Questioned about what she would do if she were to discover she is pregnant from the rape, Anna showed her dire state of mind.
“He is without fault and that’s the point. Hughes later, Anna asked to move back to one of the empty servant’s quarters at Downton, to save her husband shame after blaming herself for the assault. Carson, “I shall remember this visit for a long time to come.” Lord Gillingham’s departure took Green out of the picture, but not before he told Mr. Making some excuse about needing to start work, she left the downstairs table in a frazzled fashion that caught her fellow staff members’ attention. With no authority figure to turn to, Anna found herself seated next to her rapist at breakfast. “Nobody’s done anything,” Anna replied, abruptly ending the conversation.īut there was nowhere to escape. Running into his wife as she polished her shoes downstairs, Bates (with a pleading look in his eyes) asked, “Why didn’t you wait for me?” and questioned what he’d done. Bates, about the assault, Anna left home early, walking to work by herself. WATCH: Michelle Dockery - What’s Happening In ‘Downton Abbey’ Season 4?Īnna, Mr. Here’s what happened to the “Downton Abbey” characters in Sunday night’s episode:
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In Season 4’s Episode 2, as the residents of “Downton” enjoyed some opera, Anna (Joanne Froggat) was violently raped by Green, the valet of the visiting Lord Gillingham, and from Sunday’s opening scene (Episode 3) the series spotlighted the harsh realities of a rape survivor in the 1920s. Just as Lady Mary seemed to be moving past her grief for Matthew Crawley on “Downton Abbey,” the repercussions of the horrific crime Anna Bates was a victim of in last week’s episode seeped throughout the estate.
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