Fans of Downton Abbey are quite familiar with the quips of Lady Mary. In Season 1 she tours Haxby Park, a palatial home her fiance, Sir Richard, is proposing to buy for them. It is completely empty at the time and when Sir Richard suggests they can simply buy all of the necessary furnishings, Lady Mary remarks, "Your lot buys it; my lot inherits it." An atristocrat like Lady Mary may talk of peerage and others may refer to "old money" and "new money." In such conversations,