Eliza Priestley could not hold her tongue regarding what she knows of Anne Lister and Ann Walker.
However the the course of true love cannot last between the two women. Ann Walker has received a serious marriage proposal, one she feels obligated to accept.
Anne Lister so far has been a brash, hard headed businesswoman. She knows the Rawson's have been stealing more coal than she initially thought. She also shows a more human side to her. She offers Thomas Sowden a tenancy if his father does not return. Rather unlikely as he was fed to the pigs.
The episode shows the fate of vulnerable young women in those times. When Lister discovered Ann Walker's secret. It was Walker who thinks she was in the wrong when she was actually the victim of the man who is proposing to her.
However the the course of true love cannot last between the two women. Ann Walker has received a serious marriage proposal, one she feels obligated to accept.
Anne Lister so far has been a brash, hard headed businesswoman. She knows the Rawson's have been stealing more coal than she initially thought. She also shows a more human side to her. She offers Thomas Sowden a tenancy if his father does not return. Rather unlikely as he was fed to the pigs.
The episode shows the fate of vulnerable young women in those times. When Lister discovered Ann Walker's secret. It was Walker who thinks she was in the wrong when she was actually the victim of the man who is proposing to her.