Peace
- Back home, Margaret finds the place pretty peaceful. She tells her father that she'd like to go to her mother's funeral. Her father says that it's not appropriate though, since funerals are no place for women. Yeah, this was actually a rule back in Victorian English society.
- Later on, they find out that Mr. Bell cannot come to Mrs. Hale's funeral because he has a bad case of gout that keeps him from getting around.
- Margaret asks her father not to ask Mr. Thornton to come to the funeral. She doesn't like the idea of him being there.
- On top of that, Margaret receives a letter from Frederick saying that Henry Lennox won't be back to London for a few days. Frederick is going to have to run the risk of sticking around to meet with him.
- Margaret ends up going with her father to the funeral. She sees Nicholas Higgins at the funeral, too, though her father is too broken up to notice anything at all.
- Mr. Thornton shows up, too, even though no one asked him to come. He asks Dixon how Margaret and her father are holding up. She says that Margaret is taking it fairly well, which annoys Thornton. He'd rather see her show her emotional pain.
- Thornton, you see, is tortured by the idea that there's another handsome young man in Margaret's life. He thinks this because he saw her walking late in the evening with her brother, Frederick. Remember that Mr. Thornton doesn't know that Margaret has a brother.
- Thornton asks Dixon if he might call on the Hales the next day to give his condolences. Dixon says it'll be fine, though she never mentions this conversation to Margaret, and Margaret never ends up hearing that John Thornton was at her mother's funeral.