Alice and Hugo return from honeymoon, having been imprisoned for accidentally helping a drug smuggler. Alice is pregnant. Simon Horton has come to see Geraldine and they have great difficulty in spending time alone at the vicarage as different council members keep dropping by. Eventually Simon appears in a dressing gown and the villagers know he is sleeping with the vicar. However he does not commit and finishes with her. She considers resigning but everybody talks her out of it.