We may be doing our best to deny that Downton Abbey is coming to an end in mere weeks, but the period drama’s cast certainly isn’t helping—with their Twitter countdowns and talk-show appearances touting the series’s farewell. On Thursday, Hugh Bonneville proved to be the worst perpetrator of the Downton bunch, telling ABC’s Kelly Ripa and Michael Strahan that he wasn’t particularly disappointed to be ending the show—a little salt in the wound. But the British actor did gamely share which two props he stole—nay, “liberated”—from his character’s Yorkshire estate.

We had guessed that, of anything, the actor who plays Lord Grantham would have lifted something from his character’s beloved bar, perhaps some glassware or a nice prop scotch. Maybe a souvenir reminding him of Lord Grantham’s beloved dog, Isis, like a collar. Or possibly a reminder of his character’s lovably bumbling but ineffective management, like the estate ledger, undoubtedly filled with stickers and scribbles. Alas, Bonneville stole something less expected. Let him explain.

“I did liberate a letter from a character [played by Matthew Goode] called Henry Talbot, who really emerges quite clearly in Season 6, inviting [the Crawleys] to race a car or something,” Bonneville told the Live! with Kelly and Michael hosts. We admit, this admission made us wonder whether Barrow pillaged the entire mansion by the time Bonneville made it to the set on the last day. Why else would you want some note from a character who didn’t even come into play until the last season? But letters seem to be what Bonneville is into.

The actor revealed that he also helped himself to “the telegram from Season 1 announcing that we were going to war with Germany.”

“On Downton, not only is each letter beautifully handwritten or typed if appropriate, but it’s also germane to the scene that you’re doing,” he explained. “It’s really beautiful, that level of detail, because it puts you in the moment, in that era that you are trying to evoke.”

And where did Bonneville place such props? The actor revealed, “Inside the downstairs loo. Framed.”

Now, please, no one tell the Dowager.