by Anthony Trollope
Adapted by H. Oldfield Box '
Episode 8
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Produced by Norman Wright
Laurence's sister, the good Miss Fitzgibbon, has settled with the moneylender, Clarkson, and so relieved Phineas of his most pressing anxiety. Phineas has been duly re-elected as the new member for Lord Brentford's borough, Loughton. And though Violet Effingham has refused to listen when he has told her he loves her, she has done this so gently as to make him feel that his case with her is by no means hopeless.
But back at Killaloe with his own family, he is chagrined to find that Mary Flood Jones has been removed from the town by her widowed mother, who feels that Phineas has treated her daughter very badly. Lady Laura and Mr. Kennedy have been spending the recess at hough-linter. Here Lady Laura has been finding her husband's exacting surveillance quite unendurable.