In which Lady Lufton, pleased by her son Lord Lufton’s return to Framley, grows uneasy over his increasingly frequent visits to the parsonage and his close friendship with Lucy Robarts, leading her to enlist Mrs. Robarts to gently caution Lucy against the risks of such intimacy. Lucy, with a composed and collected demeanour, receives the admonition with a mixture of amusement and introspection, pondering the delicate boundaries between friendship and affection.