28/02/2011

Lily and Freddie have taken the Cathedral School exam and Freddie is worried he might have messed it up. Lily doesn't help by telling him which questions he might have got wrong. Elizabeth takes them off to the Orangery, where she tells them that pass or fail, she's never been so proud of them both.
Jill has a chat with David. She's extremely worried about him splitting his time between Brookfield and Lower Loxley. He and Ruth are at full stretch. They both agree that Elizabeth should get help in, but the poor girl still can't bear the thought of a stranger in Nigel's place. To be truthful, Jill isn't sure she'd recruit someone even if David and Kenton did pull back.
Lilian is gloomily staring into her coffee at Jaxx. Kenton wonders if something's bothering her, and eventually she admits it. She tells him Jolene wants to sell the Bull and Matt wants Amside to develop it as residential property. Kenton has to conceal his concern. He thinks Lilian must have got it wrong. Far from it, says Lilian. Jolene's gone to stay with a friend of hers in Websterbridge. Lilian reckons she's looking for a bolthole. She got the impression Jolene can't wait to leave Ambridge.