In which Mr Harding takes up a modest but charming clerical post at the little Gothic church of St Cuthbert in Barchester, where he quietly continues his religious duties and enjoys a gentle, if somewhat solitary, routine. His daughter Eleanor’s marriage brings shifts in family relations and social engagements, while the bishop shows a peculiar dependence on Mr Harding’s company, and the town still affectionately recalls him by his former title of Warden.