Ned having playfully handled Bea's diary, she fears her defensive bitching may have revolted him, but after Xanthe suggests she really fears her own emotions, she has him read the passages over her crush on him, which he seals with a kiss. Alice stirs further between cold turkey-neurotic Sonya, whom Shane and Dipi see near drinking again, and Toadie, whose patience still lasts as she makes him decline to tell Andrea about her mother's 'demise'.
—KGF Vissers