Christina enrages Mary and Fowler, who are certain they will all be murdered in their beds, by engaging a German prisoner of war to help with the farm work; the "fierce Hun" turns out to be Wilhelm, a gentle man who was a farmer in Germany and who is a harder worker than both Harry and Stanley. Meanwhile, Tizzy informs an astonished Christina that his "Uncle Dick" is home, invalided out of the army by injury and tuberculosis, and Christina offers him the job of running the farm, a job he finally accepts. But Christina further rocks boats by insisting the local landowners treat Dick on an equal footing.
