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Alice is nervous as she and Harry meet his mum for lunch. He distracts her by asking how things are going at her family’s farm. When Eve arrives she is very charming, rhapsodising about Alice’s dress and her eye for fashion. They get on well during the lunch, with conversation flowing easily, and Eve asks to take a photo of the two of them. Then she asks Alice to join her on a shopping trip to help her choose an outfit for a Valentine’s Ball. Alice excuses herself to go to the loo and Eve’s tone changes as she quizzes Harry about how he is doing in himself. He insists he is fine and, thanks to Alice, the happiest he has been in years.

Jolene turns up unannounced to visit Lynda. She is desperate to find somewhere for Kenton to recuperate. Having discharged himself from the hospital, and unable to negotiate the stairs in The Bull, he had spent the night on Fallon’s sofa. Lynda has the perfect solution. She tells Jolene that Kenton can stay at Ambridge Hall in her accessible room on the ground floor. She and Robert set it up, complete with an en-suite wet room, after she was injured in the explosion at Grey Gables. When Kenton arrives he’s rude and churlish about the offer. Later he apologises, explaining he hadn’t taken his painkillers on time that morning, and they bond over their mutual experiences of injury and trauma – Lynda tells him how horrible she was to Robert after she was injured.