Irma, Elsie and Maggie laugh over the trivial reasons why Beattie left Norman when she fills them in on all the details. Emily listens to the same Chopin record over and over again. She tells Annie that she started the rift over her attitude to the cartoons. Ernie listens to Tchaikovsky all night. Irma asks Alan’s help in choosing a car to buy. Albert accuses Beattie of rooting through his things and lodges a piece of paper in a drawer to catch her out should she open it. He tells the Rovers' regulars that he’d like Beattie to stay and look after him but because he’s not selfish, he knows that can’t happen. Maggie and Betty concoct a plot: Maggie tells Emily that Ernie bought a full bottle of aspirins and Betty tells Ernie that Emily is ill. As a result they get ready to pamper one another