Carson is nervous about going into the water and getting his pants wet or falling down. But Mr Mason insists to Daisy she has to say goodbye to him properly, and offers to help her find the right words to say. Matthew defends Michael against his wife and goes stalking and fishing with him. Images added to that category turn up in the gallery after a short time. Poor Alfred is used as a pawn in his aunt's scheming, which eventually comes to nothing. Bates then disappears and is now on the run. He formerly worked as a hall boy, but wants to become a footman. The stalwart housekeeper of Downton Abbey Elsie Hughes (called Mrs. Hughes, a courtesy title for all cooks and housekeepers, regardless of marital status) is the head housekeeper of Downton Abbey, a country house and estate in the Yorkshire region of England. He tells Anna he knows what has happened, and reassures her that he still loves her.
Rose matures and become less self-centred. Gregson arrives in Munich, then vanishes with no word. Anna reveals that she's already pregnant again. Her fears are proven right after Edna intoxicates Tom then tries to blackmail him into marrying her with lies that she might be pregnant. An overconfident Thomas makes a snide remark that Mr Bates can do nothing to stop him only for Bates to violently grab him and shove him against the wall, proving that despite his disability he is not to be underestimated. We know she is at peace and in the loving arms of her husband and god. Mr Carson then confides in Mrs Patmore also, telling her that he thinks Mrs Hughes is beautiful and that he loves her very much. She is originally from Argyll, Scotland, where her father was a farmer. She also refused to hand the police the ticket regarding Mr Bates's trip to London on the day Mr Green died, telling Lady Mary she could never condemn a man for defending his wife's honour against such a crime.
Bates goes with her, and it is thought that his romance with Anna is over. Mrs Hughes respects, and to a degree, protects Carson. After the death of the heir to the estate and her unofficial fiancé, Mary's relationship with the new heir, distant cousin Matthew Crawley, begins coldly. Thomas escorts Jimmy to the guest corridor upstairs and plans to watch the door while Jimmy goes through with it. Anna gives birth to a healthy baby boy on New Year's Eve, much to her and her husband's delight. At the control room, Elsie notices that people will be unhappy if they learn their minds have been copied and replicated by Delos. When she asks how it's possible he silences her, insisting they speak later about it but for the moment, enjoy their Christmas. Andy later apologises to Thomas about his treatment towards him. However, this alliance does not last very long, as Edna is fired after she successfully seduces Tom Branson but is foiled in her effort to blackmail him into marrying her. She loses her virginity to him. Though unmarried, she is referred to as Mrs Hughes according to traditional titles for servants during the time period. Shannon Woodward, Actress: Westworld. O'Brien, Cora's lady's maid, schemes to get Cora to talk to Lord Grantham about Bates's unsuitability. He gives Elsie his tablet, which is open to his diagnostic program and reveals his host nature. Bates is then released from prison due to the neighbour's statement. However, problems between the two are not over as Bates realises something has upset Anna. In the Series Four Christmas Special, Jimmy travels with the Crawley family to London for the Season. Molesley gains access to the Bateses cottage and finds a picture of Bates; he and Baxter use it as they travel around York's pubs to find out which pub Bates had been to the day Green died. Rose secretly invites Ross and his band members to perform at Downton for Robert's birthday, by which times she has entered into a secret relationship with Jack. Not finding much, she returns to the jeep to find Bernard had connected himself to a tablet and ziptied himself to the wheel. The final series also deals with Carson downsizing staff to adjust for the current times. When Green returns to the Abbey, Bates is further convinced of his guilt. While waiting for Bernard to finish up in the Cradle, Elsie hears a loud crash coming from somewhere in the facility.
They briefly stop at the site of a massacre, which Elsie sees as an opportunity to gather more ammo. At the end, he is seen playing football on the beach, while Thomas watches from a nearby chair. Elsie Hughes, 99, of Littlestown, Pa., formerly of Pleasant Hill, Hanover, Pa., died Saturday, Jan. 28, 2012, at the Martin's Care Home in Littlestown. Despite not hearing from him, her intense romantic affections for him never falter. Lord Merton remarks that both his sons are very much like his late wife, to whom he was not happily married. But when learning of his status, Matthew (as the heir to Downton Abbey) instructs him to put an end to his relationship with Edith.