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Alice is delighted to hear Brian鈥檚 relationship is becoming something significant. She likes Miranda and is glad her dad鈥檚 happy. Brian spots Alice is a bit pre-occupied and she discloses her concerns over Martha. Brian鈥檚 surprised to hear the nursery鈥檚 comments about her development. Alice confesses she lives with constant terror that she鈥檚 harmed Martha by drinking. Brian assures Alice she might never know what made Martha who she is, but she couldn鈥檛 love her more. She鈥檚 a lovely mum. In the moment they both admit to missing Jennifer.

Justin enthuses to impatient Stella about his plans for the rewilding of Borchester Land. She points out Home Farm stands to lose their contract if half of the BL estate is rewilded. Justin counters with the bigger picture, but Stella insists they need food a lot more than eco tourism. Justin insists his mind鈥檚 made up; he鈥檚 telling the board tomorrow. In that case Stella reckons she needs to tell Brian right now. Justin relents; he鈥檒l hold off at the meeting until they鈥檝e had a detailed chat next week. Stella and Pip finally get their picnic, and Pip wants to know what鈥檚 bothering Stella. But Stella doesn鈥檛 want to talk about it any more. She feels like she said the wrong thing implying Rosie might not have been innocent in the school incident. Pip accepts Rosie may have been partly culpable but she feels the school made too big a deal of it. Hopefully everything they were worried about is now sorted, asserts Stella. They agree that would be nice.