Mary's is pretty life-changingly huge, or has the potential to be, should anyone find out. About a year ago, from her current point in canon, a potential suitor visited Downton Abbey and brought along his friend Kemal Pamuk, a Turkish diplomat. Pamuk persuaded Mary to sleep with him and then died... in her bed.
Only Mary's mother, Lady Grantham, and her maid, Anna, know the truth about Mr. Pamuk's death. If it were Mary's choice, only Anna would know, but they needed a third set of hands to carry his body back to his room.
The whole thing was incredibly traumatic for Mary, who felt for quite awhile that his death was her punishment for being unvirtuous, and that had she sent him away that night, he would have lived. Her mother barely talked to her for months afterward, and she still lives in fear of anyone else finding out and ruining her in society.
She hasn't told anyone in Milliways because, hello, homegirl is repressed, but has alluded to the incident in conversations with Thayet and Kate Barlow. Of her current in-bar acquaintances, those two are probably also the likeliest to hear the story someday.
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Only Mary's mother, Lady Grantham, and her maid, Anna, know the truth about Mr. Pamuk's death. If it were Mary's choice, only Anna would know, but they needed a third set of hands to carry his body back to his room.
The whole thing was incredibly traumatic for Mary, who felt for quite awhile that his death was her punishment for being unvirtuous, and that had she sent him away that night, he would have lived. Her mother barely talked to her for months afterward, and she still lives in fear of anyone else finding out and ruining her in society.
She hasn't told anyone in Milliways because, hello, homegirl is repressed, but has alluded to the incident in conversations with Thayet and Kate Barlow. Of her current in-bar acquaintances, those two are probably also the likeliest to hear the story someday.