Franklin finds out from Henry that Dry spent the night at Crossthwaite's Cottage while he was away. Reverend Ruskin calls to see Annie and tells her about the advice he gave Letty. Annie reacts badly believing Letty should divorce Mick, but doesn't want to interfere too much as she believes it's Letty's choice. Franklin confronts Diana about Dry spending the night at the cottage. She tells him it was the night the fuses blew a few weeks ago and that Dry couldn't get the wire until the morning. She assures him he slept on the chair and she slept upstairs. Franklin loses his temper, worried about what people think. Diana points out that he never cared what people thought when he was drinking himself silly at various pubs in Bradford turning himself into a laughing stock, but now he thinks he