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Set in September 1912. Mathew Crawley, a young solicitor and the new heir, arrives at Downton Abbey with his mother, Isobel Crawley. They, the other Crawleys , and the servants all have difficulty adjusting to differences in class and culture whilst facing some resentment from certain family members and staff. Isobel Crawley, having worked as a nurse during the war, pressures Dr. Clarkson into performing pericardiocentesis on a hospital patient suffering from dropsy, and is made chair of the hospital, upsetting the Dowager Countess.