Distention: The state of being distended, enlarged, swollen from internal pressure. For example, on inhalation there is distention of the lungs due to the increased air pressure within the lungs. The word distention comes from a Latin root tendere, to extend. The word tendon comes from the same root.
He and Lady Mary Crawley entered a tumultuous eight-year relationship ending with Matthew's second proposal in early January 1920. Mary finally accepts, five and a half years after the first. They get married in May 1920 and lived together in Downton Abbey.
The Crawley family have a house in London, which they all go to in 1923 for the London Season and Rose MacClare 's debunate. But when one or two of them goes to London for a while on their own, they typically reside with Rosamund, a permanent resident.