Mrs Dale, the doctor's wife, records the daily happenings in the life of her family

Mrs. Mountford has been spreading a rumour that Dr. Dale had prevented Mrs. Baily's acceptance in the local hospital. Both the Doctor and Mrs. Dale were told of the rumours. Mrs. Dale intervewed Mrs. Mountford .and made her promise That she would not repeat the story. Mollie Lambert asked Mrs Freeman to tea, but when Mrs. Freeman arrived Mollie was off-hand and rude. The Dales decided it would be better to leave Mollie alone for a while. Bob wrote to say he was leaving his job in Sandbourne and coming home at the end of the week. Affairs were still unhappy between Isabel and Edward; the latter invited friends to stay so that Isabel would be too busy to be able to go out. Bruce Laurie told Dr. Dale that he felt he had been wrong to oppose she new hospital so strongly and that he was trying to get a practice in the country and go into semi-retirement.