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.

Bradley is in love. Bradley invites the new school teacher over the manor to play on his piano, and he must now turn his bedroom into a music room. Morris returns home a Vicar, and Lady Patience tries to get Isobel to cancel her engagement to Lord Mountfast.