1910s: Is Romance Possible?

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As Easter Sunday rolls around, Joseph discovers something delightful just outside the house. Pickles is back! 


As he goes out to get her, she too seems happy to be back in the family. Anna, while happy that the cat is back, has her head elsewhere this day however. She is in her last week before becoming an adult, and can now apply for university! Even Abigail has stopped hoping for an early marriage for her daughter, and so Anna borrows her daddy's typewriter to write her application letter. She probably shouldn't do work like that on a Sunday but her parents know by now that there is little to stop Anna when she's set her mind to something.


That afternoon, after church, Alice gets another surprise, as Elizabeth suddenly knocks on the door. 


Anna lets her in, and promptly leave the two friends alone as she tries to distract her parents and give the girls some room. She doesn't understand any of this, but what does that really matter. Perhaps Alice just need time to realise what a deep enough friendship is?


Alice cannot still her heart when Elizabeth is so near. She's so close! Why is she so close? 


As she sits down next to her, the two cannot stop talking, finishing each others sentences. It's just so easy, at the same time that it's so hard to stay decent. To not let Elizabeth know, to never reveal anything.


But in a house like this, there is no privacy, and suddenly a little tiny toddler wants to play with dolls, and then dad comes and joins the conversation and nothing is as it should be. Eventually, Elizabeth and Alice decide to take "some fresh air" and go outside to speak. They find a bench by the water. But what is this? Is Elizabeth...flirting? Can she be? No, surely not? She couldn't be as weird as Alice is, could she? She must be imagining things! But what if she is...?


As Elizabeth returns home, Alice rushes upstairs to talk to the only one she can talk to about this. Anna! "Could this be real?" Anna isn't sure, who has ever heard of such a thing. Two women? It's so strange, but then again, who is Anna to judge? Everyone else will surely do that. "Just be careful," she tells her sister.


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