The seance seems to have been a damp squib, but there are other nights; Ian begins to resent Charlie.

Radio Times: Ian wants a holiday. Meanwhile, Alice and Lilian are not convinced.

Characters: Adam, Alice, Brian, Ian, Jennifer, Lilian

• Jenny is digging an old table out of storage for use in her séance later in the evening. Brian is not at all impressed and is given permission to absent himself from the event. The Bull seems a much better proposition.
• With most of the guests at the Hunt Ball still recovering, Lilian and Alice are out on horseback. Of all things, Lilian can’t get over how presentable Justin Elliot was, she was quite taken with him. Not at all how she had expected him to be.
• Ian finds Adam nursing a painful neck and a headache, both derived from the night before. Adam has been trying to drum up extra contract work for the farm, with no joy. Ian prescribes a quiet night in and a special meal. When Adam returns home to have dinner, he hears Ian’s plans for a Caribbean break next month. Adam insists they can go nowhere until he has sorted next year’s contract out with Charlie. Ian is not best pleased; it seems that Charlie has better access to Adam than he does. Ouch!
• Lilian fills Alice in on Carol and John Tregorran’s history, especially the story surrounding Charles Grenville’s car crash, in which John’s first wife was killed. Alice is fascinated, especially when she finds out that it took place in 1963, but even more so when Lilian tells her that it all took place on Halloween.
• Later, Jenny, Lilian and Alice prepare for the séance at Home Farm, to a backdrop of ghostly noises provided by Brian on his way out to The Bull. Jenny turns down the lights and tries to conjure the spirits of those in the next world. The raucous laughter from the others is to be heard to be believed.
• After an hour, quite unexpectedly, Jenny’s table moves twice. Jenny asks questions and receives answers in the form of knocks on the table. It seems that they are in touch with an unfriendly, male spirit, or possibly Brian, this time on his way back from The Bull. There is much laughter. Lilian admits to having moved the table. A load of rubbish? Jenny is now convinced that they will never know.