When a racoon savages Emily's cat Pandora, Aunt Laura takes the cat to Dr Burnley where they share a bitter-sweet moment. When Ian Bowles asks Laura to marry him, she says yes, but not with her whole heart.

In a surprise ending for the season we watch four separate outcomes for Laura's wedding day. Each is seen in the imagination of Emily and for a change we get to see the full talents of the actors get a chance to shine. However, this episode also leaves the question, which was the real thing?

The series returns and we find that Laura's wedding has not yet happened and that she is fighting a battle of the heart whether to marry Ian or not. Emily is now thirteen years old. Not wanting to see Laura marry Ian, Emily and Ilse are overjoyed when the news that Laura is thinking of cancelling the wedding reaches them. Things don't got to plan however when fortune's wheel decides to turn and Laura never gets to tell Ian as New Moon battles to find answers…

As Director of the First Institute of Scientific Discovery and with great plans set out in front of him, Jimmy only really wants Eve to be his wife.

Aunt Isabel as always objects to the marriage but it goes ahead and the wedding is beautiful.

However the happiness is short-lived when Eve is arrested for murdering her father Abner Kinch and her fate lies in the hands of Jimmy.

One of the more hard to believe stories, this episode focuses on Perry and his life. His mother was sent to prison for murdering her husband ten years previous with an axe. Perry lived through the torments at school but he had long since forgotten about his mother. But Aunt Thom plans to break his mother out of jail and he has to help.

The truth is sometimes better left on the shelf and that is what Emily learns when she tries to overcome her writer's block. Deciding to write about what she knows she sees Rhoda's mother, Velma, as the perfect subject. ""Confessions of an Adulteress"" causing more problems when Rhoda falls for Harrison Bowles who is visting New Moon, soon Rhoda is losing control of all angles of her future.

Laura is still refusing to return to Ian and Emily helps her out by finding her employment at a mill. There Laura finds out just how hard the working conditions are for women in the 19th century. However, Ian finds out where she is and tries to force her to return back to his home. When Emily and Ilse find this out they go to visit her at the mill but Laura appears to have disappeared.