Philip comes to visit, and Lucy leaves him alone with Maggie. She tells him that they can only be friends, and that she is going soon to a new situation because she can't bear to have her brother look after her. Philip accuses her of going back to the patterns of denial and renunciation he had helped her break away from before in the Deeps.
Lucy and Stephen come in, and the tension between Stephen and Maggie is so palpable that Philip is aware of it.
Mr. Deane reluctantly tells Lucy that the company is looking into buying the mill from Mr. Wakem so Tom can run it and move back home because he doesn't want the.....
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