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Was Sybil an elephant? (Spoilers)


Did Sybil's pregnancy last years? Seriously, since Cora finds out before christmas in Season 2 (and Sybil must have been at least a month along by then):

Bates goes to trial, gets convicted, gets his sentence changed and spends months in prison
Mary and Matthew marry and go on a month long honeymoon
Edith gets back together with what's his name, then plans an entire wedding.

Seriously, this was the longest gestation. I can only assume she lost that pregnancy then got pregnant again? But I don't believe the show makes any mention of this.

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Fairly typical soap-opera approach to pregnancies - stretch the confinement out as long as possible, throw in lots of side stories, send people away for a while, etc etc and you end up not remembering exactly when mother was due!

"Sympathy doesn't butter the parsnips." - Mrs. Patmore

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Exactly.

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