Robert Parks knows Mrs. Wilson is his Mum!

I just watched Gosford Park again twice for Gosford Park Days. I've lost track of how many times I've seen the movie. I've always wondered whether Robert figures out than Mrs. Wilson is his mother. The more I watch the movie, the more I am convinced that he DOES know she's his mother. Mostly I see it in the scene where he's reading his book when Lord Stockbridge and the other aristocratic men are off shooting birds. There is something about the look in his eyes and especially the tone of his voice when he tells her he does not believe she's ever forgotton any thing in her life. After all, his picture of her 30 odd years younger self is right there on his nightstand while he's talking to her. Look at pictures of two people, 30 years apart. Sure, there are different. Gray hair perhaps, and more weight maybe on the picture of the person 30 years older. But it usually clearly the same person. Bone structure doesn't change, eye placement doesn't change. Mrs. Wilson is still slender so there isn't even middle age spread to disguise any features. Another scene that makes me believe he know she's his Mum is after the murder during all the brouhaha that went on in the aftermath. They squeeze past each other in a doorway. And Robert gives her a very self satisfied look with a faint smirk. "Look what you and I did Mum! We took care of that randy SOB, didn't we! Sweet revenge!" he might as well say as he moves on off, clearly pleased with himself. And her. Then there are the few scenes that Robert has where Miss Isobel is present. He's even more subtle and nuanced there than he is with Mrs. Wilson. He sort of stalks by her with out a word, nose slightly in the air with an whiff of "Wow, that's my sister, but Grr! She's lived life in in the lap of luxury while I and all our other brothers and sisters were tossed into orphanages! Humph!" It's all very very very subtle, the way Robert Parks acts. But after all, he IS Mrs. Wilson's child. Apple doesn't appear to have fallen too far from the tree when it comes to figuring out the things not easily discernable.