Catlin and Sally hid behind a massive tree to see who would come to take the horse. When a child came (a very un-Spanish looking child) Catlin made Sally go away.
Marley told Hunt that drinking won't help what's bothering him. He begged forgiveness and said he'd try to get it together. She forgave him. Ben came and told Hunt to leave Marley alone.
Lily showed Tallboys to Perry. She got him to agree to buy the place with her money and install Grant as manager.
Cass thought Cecile was Kathleen and hung up accordingly. When he figured out the truth he called the phone company and discovered that she's overseas.
Kathleen is trying to convince Jamie to buy Winthrop. He is not enthusiastic. She told Jamie she's a great publisher. She says she wants to work with him. She was very "Friendly". Jamie doesn't want to buy Winthrop or go out with her. MJ came in. She sounded stricken to see them together.
Strange music which they had also played while Catlin and Sally waited. Vehicle sounds. Walking sounds. I don't know what's going on. Sally spoke to someone who then seemed to be attacked by Catlin. Catlin berated her for not going back to town. She said if she'd gone back to town he'd be in a lot of trouble. He said as it was there were both in a lot of trouble. The horse got away. They chased it or something.
Jamie told MJ not to leave. He was short with Kathleen. He flatly refused to do business with her. He asked MJ to wait for him and he'd be back in 10 minutes. MJ asked Kathleen what she was doing. She asked for an explanation as to why Kathleen was all over Jamie when she walked in. Kathleen laughed rather nastily and said Jamie hadn't seemed to object. MJ was really upset. Apparently Kathleen has been making a hobby of flirting with MJ's boyfriends for years. (MJ: I suppose it was just a coincidence that all my boyfriends wound up asking you out? Kathleen: can I help if I have that effect on men? I don't believe she could think that, the slime. Ooooh.) MJ told her to keep her hands off Jamie. (Not in those words.)
Wallingford and Cass are arguing. Felicia is starving. Wallingfords going to take her out to dinner. (Dinner. Dancing. Romance.) Cass is going to wait for the phone to ring. (No date on a Friday night? Poor dear.)
Jamie apologized for Kathleen. (He wants to start a Tuna photo album.) On second thought he would rather be alone (with her, now). She doesn't mind at all. MJ and Jamie kissing. Wow.
Ben and Marley are alone. ("Just we two.") Marley feels so sorry for Hunt. Ben doesn't but he's impressed by her forgiving nature.
Perry got Grant to be the manager of Tallboys.
Grant told Lily about his new job. She's thrilled. He wants her to sing there regularly. He wants to discuss something with Quinn. He wants to renovate Tallboys. (Frame-Harding construction.) She agreed.
Thumping noises. Cass: Are we throwing a tantrum? Kathleen: We are considering it. Cass: Well, could we consider doing it in the other room? I've got a very bad headache. Where were you, anyway? Kathleen: Out. Cass: Out where? Kathleen: On business. Cass: What kind of business? Kathleen: It doesn't matter. Cass: Madam President, let us not forget whose name this company bears. Kathleen: I said forget it. It didn't work, OK? Cass: What didn't work? Kathleen: Oooh, she can be such a jerk. Cass: Who? Kathleen: My sister. I was having a simple discussion and she comes on like a bad B-movie or something: "Hands off my man. " Cass: Well, at the risk of sounding interested, what are you talking about? Kathleen: My sister and Jamie Frame. Cass:Oh, there's a match made in heaven. Well what's this about business? Something to do with Jamie? Kathleen: It doesn't matter. Cass: Well it does to me. Kathleen: The utter gall of her. She said that I had my hands all over him. Practically throwing myself at him. Cass: Did you? Kathleen: What are you insinuating? Cass: Tony the Tuna. Kathleen: What about him? Cass: You didn't hold back with him at all when you thought he was useful to the business. Kathleen: Are you crazy? I wouldn't even go near him. Cass: You laughed at every one of his jokes at dinner. Kathleen: I did not! -- how would you know, anyway. Cass: Just a wild guess. Kathleen: No, no, that didn't sound like a guess. That sounded -- how, Cass? Cass: I followed you. Kathleen: You louse. What did you do that for? Cass: Ihy do you think I did that? I wanted to make sure you were all right. Kathleen: I can take care of myself, all right? Cass: Well I didn't want to take any chances. What's in the mail? Kathleen: Bills, as usual. Cass: Great. Kathleen: You know, Cass, um. I've been thinking about it -- Cass: So have I. And what we want to, we make quite a team. Kathleen: Yeah, you're right. General money discussion. Except he's talking travel. See the world. Find Cecile. And she's talking back taxes. (Is there no romance in her soul?) She's giving up. Cass doesn't know why she's mad. (Perhaps I should mention that he kissed her in his mad excitement upon deducing that Cecile is alive and she seemed rather pleased.) Cass: OK, Cass. If you were Cecile, where would you be hiding out? (All he knows is she's overseas somewhere. He'll never find her at this rate.)
Sally can't go any further. They've reached a dead end. Strange sounds. Moaning as if in pain as a result of falling off cliffs or something. "O. O. Oh boy."
Cass has made a list of places where he thinks Cecile could have called from. Tony the Tuna's come to visit. Cass is overdue in his payments.
Yelling of Catlin. Sally "Catlin. Catlin, no. No."
The end.
I beg pardon for not knowing what Catlin and Sally doing. Didn't talk much. Suffice it to say that it was definitely not romantic. Or smutty. Smut has quite a different sound. Fewer hoofbeats and rustling underbrush, too, usually. Even outdoor smut doesn't sound like that.
Editor's note: Linda Dano was doing appearances to promote a "real" Felicia Gallant novel called Dreamweaver. (Real in the sense that it was an actual physical book written by a ghostwriter.) She signed a page of the synopses for us.