Mrs. Bute is the wife of Bute and a notorious busybody who knows all the gossip of Queen’s Crawley due to her connections with the servants. Although Mrs. Bute becomes a nurse to the ailing Miss Crawley and tries to use this time to convince Miss Crawley to leave her vast fortune to Bute and Mrs. Bute, ultimately Mrs. Bute is unsuccessful. Mrs. Bute’s extreme attentiveness ends up annoying Miss Crawley, and, as a result, she loses out on the inheritance.