Downton Abbey au where everyone is just a little bit cooler with Barrow - the vibe is like, yes heโs an awful bastard man who we hate and heโs gay but those things arenโt connected, come on, no oneโs going to be a narc - and one night over dinner Anna is like, hey Thomas, you met anyone new recently.
Andy says, well, you donโt look awful.
Thomas says thanks for the vote of confidence.
Mrs Hughes says sheโs heard things about the lad who works at the dairy the next village over and she can put a word in with the milkman if heโd like.
Thomas says heโs just fine, no, really heโs fine and heโs, uh, well heโs spoken for anyway.
Which throws the whole downstairs into disarray because who, when, with what candlestick. It is about this time that Thomas gets a little bit flapped and coughs into his sleeve and says, well, if you must know his name is, uh. Dick. At which point everyone just lets it slide because Thomas is clearly making this supposed sweetheart up because heโs embarrassed, come on, he floundered for the name of man and came up with Dick. Hilarious.
This is how Barrow invents his own mysterious boyfriend who lives in Canada.
Now cue Thomas desperately trying to avoid pity and being set up by turns but insisting that, no, really, he lives in London, heโs very handsome and very tall, we write letters every day, he was going to come up last week but he got the flu, he doesnโt get a lot of time off work either, oh, what does he do? He, oh he works for the, uh, King, he - Daisy, I mean it, Iโm not making this up.
Anyway the punchline is that one day a gorgeous man knocks at the servants entrance and introduces himself as Thomasโs boyfriend from London, terribly sorry its taken so long to meet you all, and Andy has to physically walk over and poke him before anyone is willing to believe this isnโt all some elaborate hoax.
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