Emma gently convinces Harriet that Robert Martin, the farmer who is pursuing her, is beneath her.

At the village Christmas festivities, Emma harbored a quiet hope of encountering Frank Churchill, a man shrouded in an air of mystery and difficult to pin down.

Emma declares her career as a matchmaker is finished – yet a flicker of doubt remains: could she be falling in love?

The day spent at Box Hill had been a complete failure, and in its wake, a reckoning with matters of the heart became unavoidable for all involved.