Lucia's Progress

Lucia peers through Georgie's window and finds he has grown a grey beard, then plays Bridge with Elizabeth Mapp-Flint and Major Benjy at Mallards.

Georgie hides his shingles and new beard at Lucia's Grebe while Elizabeth and Diva puzzle over his drawn blinds, and Lucia profits on Siriami shares.

Tilling speculates on Siriami gold shares while Lucia hides Georgie, whose shingles have left him with a beard she dyes auburn.

Elizabeth Mapp-Flint stands for Tilling Town Council in place of Major Benjy, and she and Lucia tie last with thirty-nine votes each.

Elizabeth Mapp fakes a pregnancy and loses money on gold shares, then accepts Lucia's offer to swap Mallards for Grebe and two thousand pounds.

Lucia's house-warming lunch at Mallards reveals Elizabeth faked her pregnancy, and Lucia mistakes a leaking gas pipe for a Roman villa.

Lucia and Georgie excavate her garden for a Roman temple, but the finds turn out to be a Spencer drain tile and an Apollinaris bottle.

Major Benjy gets drunk at Susan Wyse's dinner and, alone with Lucia, offers to sell her Grebe before Elizabeth catches his hand on her knee.

Lucia and Georgie practise the Moonlight Sonata on the organ she gave to Tilling church, then she hosts a dinner that ends the town's feud.

The Bishop dedicates Lucia's new church organ, and she and Georgie secretly play the Moonlight Sonata until Elizabeth spots them at the keys.

A flood swamps the Mapp-Flints' bungalow, Lucia takes Elizabeth and Major Benjy into Mallards, then is co-opted onto the Town Council.

Georgie proposes to Lucia and she accepts, and after settling terms they marry in Tilling and honeymoon at Olga Bracely's Riseholme house.

Lucia accepts the Town Council's offer to become Mayor of Tilling next year, then tries on ceremonial hats with Georgie.