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Forced to assume responsibility for feeding his family, 10-year-old Harry Gregson sets off to poach to feed the others, however cold and exhausted, he becomes transfixed by Lady Ludlow's glasshouse and falls asleep. Mr Carter discovers him and is so moved by Harry's dismal poverty that he offers to pay Harry to run messages for him during the preparations for the garden party. Harry proves to be reliable, good-natured and intelligent, and Mr Carter offers to teach him to read and write. This is something to be done secretly, as he is fully aware that Lady Ludlow is passionately against educating the working classes.

Matty, meanwhile, is shaken as she encounters a secret visit from a mysterious acquaintance from her past, Thomas Holbrook. Rumours begin to circulate as news of a railway line, which will come right through Cranford, are heard. All the women are scandalised by this news, but none more so than Deborah, who sees Captain Brown's knowledge of the railway as the ultimate betrayal of a friendship.