Resolved to Elope from Downton Abbey

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My version

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VIOLET: When I met the Prince at the royal wedding, we fell madly in love. And in the weeks that followed – weeks of balls and midnight skating to the strains of the balalaika – we resolved to elope. You know, to be free.

ISOBEL: And what happened?

VIOLET: Well, at the appointed hour, we started for the port, to set sail in the Prince’s yacht, but… my maid had betrayed us to the Princess, who set out in pursuit. She caught up with our carriage, wrenched the door open and pulled me out.

ISOBEL: Pulled you out? What, by your arm?

VIOLET: Oh, by my arm, by my hair, by my leg, anything to get me out of the coach. Then she flung me into the cab that brought her and sent me back to Lord Grantham.

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