Following the birth of Isobel, Christina returns to supervising the farm work, and with Dick's help, they celebrate their first albeit small harvest with a joyous dinner--one that is rudely interrupted by the return of Mark, just released from a prisoner of war camp. He and Dick immediately become enemies, and, when she has to turn down Mark's proposal of marriage, Christina realizes she may have to leave Flambards if she wants to stay with Dick.
