The Mickfield family was reasonably settled in their various lives but things were thrown into uproar when the eighty year-old Caroline decided to marry Robert Halesworth.

Despite the various inheritances that were disrupted by this, the marriage went off without a hitch and things settled down again. And then Caroline’s daughter decided on a marriage of convenience as well to a local man. And this time, the groom doesn’t make it to the altar – as the previous night he hangs himself in his workshop…