 Between Christmas and New Year s, a Scottish war widow visits 165 Eaton Place to call on Richard Bellamy. Mrs. Charles Hamilton has a scheme to help war widows and seeks Richard s influence as Civil Lord of the Admiralty. Richard is curt with her, but it comes back to haunt him. Who is this woman and what does she really want? Richard is beguiled, but is diverted when the New Year s Honours List is announced -- he s on it and is made a Viscount. Downstairs, after the horrors of the Somme, a very shell-shocked Edward returns to London on leave and tries to conceal his infirmity. Richard sees that he receives treatment and after an explosion at a munitions factory, Ruby returns to the Bellamy household. Yes, it s another year, full of promise. But what lies ahead, nobody knows.