- Robert is working in Oxford and sending money home whilst Ruby Pratt has returned from Pontefract after splitting with her gentleman friend. Gabriel Cochrane, whose wife has died and whose foundry has been repossessed by the bank, comes to Candleford, penniless, and Dorcas employs him in her forge where the work interests Sydney. After Edmund has collected money from Robert at the post office, he arrives home saying he has been robbed. The whole village rallies round Emma.—don @ minifie-1
- The area is atwitter when blacksmith Gabriel Cochrane is declared bankrupt and the bank seizes his ironworks. Gabriel is a widower who still hasn't gotten over the death of his young wife, whom he adored. He travels to Candleford and asks Dorcas Lane for work and she takes him on trial to run her own forge. Gabriel and Sydney take an immediate liking to each other. He has a long way to go before coming to terms with his new life. Robert Timmins is away working but sending money regularly to Emma and the children. Emma sends Edmund to collect the money at the post office but he returns to Lark Rise saying he was robbed. The villagers support the Timminses and are generous in their gifts of food and rent money. All is not as it seems, however.—garykmcd
- Gabriel Cochrane, whose wife died recently, has been evicted from the forge that he ran because Steerforth, the bank manager who lent him money, has demanded it back. He comes to Candleford, where Steerforth is staying, determined to denounce him as being callous when Gabriel's possessions and forge are sold off at auction. Minnie teases Dorcas about Gabriel, suspecting that Dorcas fancies him. Dorcas hears the other side of the story from the bank manager: the money had been lent for running the business but Gabriel instead used it to give his wife some last treats when he learned that she was dying. Because the money was not used for the purpose that Gabriel said, the bank wants it back. Dorcas persuades Gabriel to give in gracefully rather than making a scene. She gives him a job at the forge that she owns which belonged to her father. Robert Timmins is working away from home in Oxford and sends money back to his family. Edmund, one of his sons, goes to cash the postal order and then arrives home saying that he was been mugged. The village rallies round to help the family, but Laura worms the truth out of Edmund: he has stolen the money and used it to get drunk. Laura withdraws all her savings to make up for the lost money.—Anonymous
- Gabriel Cochrane returns to Candleford after his wife's terminal and agonizing sickness. There he asks the local journalist to help turn public opinion against banker Steerford. Steerford is about to foreclose on his mortgage because of a loan. Laborer Robert Timmins's young son Edmund is sent to collect all of his father's savings by postal order, cashed without proper signature on Postmistress Lane's authority. But Edmund returns home without it blaming two robbers, yet has no bruises or descriptions of the culprits. Alf Arless and other neighbors' kindness to help tide them over is rejected by Emma. Gabriel starts a new life in Lane's employment and as substitute father to her young son.—KGF Vissers
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