
You play Frank Wentworth, curate of St Roque's, whose real charge is Wharfside, the slum district the old Rector left in your hands. The new Rector, Mr Morgan, means to take it back, and every visit alongside Lucy Wodehouse through Wharfside's lanes lets the neighbourhood assume an engagement neither of you has made. On Easter Eve your aunts arrive unannounced, meaning to hear you preach before they decide who inherits the living that could finally let you marry.
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