I believe she lost her virginity to Pamuk because soon thereafter Cora stated Mary was "damaged goods".
Pamuk merely meant he wouldn't tell, that she could lie and he wouldn't give her away.
There is one hypothesis which can be relevant though hard to be explicit in the case...Actually Pamuk offers Mary to remain "a virgin for her future husband" by a quite special process...say sodomy dare we say... And Mary asks "will it hurt me, is it safe ?"...So what ?.
In the Downton scripts Julian Fellowes said that Pamuk was supposed to say with a little imagination a phial of blood hidden beneath your pillow, but this was cut.
So mary did lose you virginity to Pamuk and she was supposed to use the vial of blood on her wedding night so that she could still pretend to be a virgin for her husband.
So mary did lose you virginity to Pamuk and she was supposed to use the vial of blood on her wedding night so that she could still pretend to be a virgin for her husband.
what imagination ! quite a middle-aged story, some blood in a bottle hidden under Mary's pillow (am bursting out laughing). My own interpretation seems to be much more realistic, as everyone knows the turkish pratice (extended to the whole muslim world) in sex intercourses, in the similar cases where a young virgin is involved...."the virginity of the bride is the sacred privilege of the husband...." all lovers before marriage shall use another way....
Personally I felt that Pamuk did not even look Turkish at all and he was way too weak looking be a virginity-breaker LOL. It was Pamuk who took her virginity, but what I would like to know is how he died so mysteriously? This is a storyline which was worth looking into, don't you agree, but hey, the blood in the bottle was adopted in MEDIEVIL EUROPE in the times of the Inquistion.
well ! any lubricant can make a virginity braker stronger enough to succeed...(however I'm not the best qualified in that matter...you see)
In the first Christmas special when Mary told Matthew about Pamuk, she said she was "fallen" and "impure" which seems to indicate she is not a virgin anymore, plus she compared her and Matthew to Tess of the D'urbervilles and Angel Clare, though in that it was slightly different but not entirely: Tess was raped and had a child, then fell in love with Angel but he was appalled when he learned from Tess about this (as Mary feared Matthew would, but she ended up not being Tess thankfully - Matthew was a good man).
78.144.176.152 wrote: In the Downton scripts Julian Fellowes said that Pamuk was supposed to say with a little imagination a phial of blood hidden beneath your pillow, but this was cut.
So mary did lose you virginity to Pamuk and she was supposed to use the vial of blood on her wedding night so that she could still pretend to be a virgin for her husband.
Finnally, ths secret has been disclosed.