Bradley blackmails Dr. McDuff with pictures from the royal laying. All pictures of the protest ride were bought by Bradley, and do not appear in the morning paper. Charlotte starts to form a plan for the Utterly newspaper. Bradley wants to send Morris to Queensland, Austrila as a punishment, but Lady Patience steps in. Morris now wants to be a priest, in order to spy on the Government.

Hardacre and Lord Mountfast work out the arragements for the marriage, and Austin works on his election bid. Charlotte uses her inheirtence from Great Uncle Woolsly to buy the towns only newspaper, The Utterly Bugle.

Morris returns to Utterley, and Bradley has his eye on the new school teacher. Lady Patience is upset that the book of poems she stole from Matthew Fairchild got a bad review in the papers, while the same poems were stolen by Morris were a big hit. Bladley dusts off the Crutch works factory to trap Jack Fairchild.