Sarah is accompanied by Hetty on her trip back to Montreal. Hetty is inwardly distraught over Sarah's leaving but determined to keep a stiff upper lip and even stiffer backbone. When they arrive at the train station in Montreal, Blair (Sarah's father) is supposed to meet them but is delayed at work so they make their way themselves to the Stanley's luxury home where Sarah has a happy reunion with Nanny Louisa. The meeting between Hetty and Louisa is considerably frostier, their mutual distaste obvious as they trade politely worded barbs. Blair arrives home and Sarah leaps into his arms, telling him how much she missed him. He's barely been there any time though when he gets a call from the office and returns to work, assuring a dismayed Sarah that he'll only be gone for about an hour. As that hour stretches into another, then another, Sarah frets over his continued absence and Hetty, not without an inward feeling of satisfaction, tells her that she'll have to get used to this. There is a knock at the door: it's a police officer, come to inform them that there's been an accident. Blair had gone to his company's warehouse to inspect a shipment, some scaffolding collapsed and he was killed instantly.
Last night we watched the first episode of the second season of Road To Avonlea- Sarah's Homecoming. Some months have passed since the end of season one: that took place in winter and it is now summer. Also, Sarah's leg has healed. At the start of the episode, Felix is messing about with some Dominion Day fireworks which he's been told not to touch. When Sarah tries to stop him disaster ensues, resulting in Alec's wagon being damaged and a fence destroyed. Felix vacates the scene and Sarah alone is found at the scene of the crime; she is hastily blamed by Alec, who is angry over the expensive damages and in no mood to listen to explanations. Later, smarting over the injustice and feeling hurt and angry, Sarah receives a letter from her father again asking her to return to Montreal. She abruptly decides to go, to the dismay of the entire family. As they make their good-byes Alec, remorseful over losing his temper and feeling responsible for her leaving on bad terms, tells Sarah that the damages aren't that serious, that they're all going to miss her, and encourages her to come back soon to visit. Sarah is polite but aloof, making no promise to return. She ignores Felix when, obviously wretched and guilt-ridden, he tries to say good-bye to her. Sarah is accompanied by Hetty on her trip back to Montreal. Hetty is inwardly distraught over Sarah's leaving but determined to keep a stiff upper lip and even stiffer backbone. When they arrive at the train station in Montreal, Blair (Sarah's father) is supposed to meet them but is delayed at work so they make their way themselves to the Stanley's luxury home where Sarah has a happy reunion with Nanny Louisa. The meeting between Hetty and Louisa is considerably frostier, their mutual distaste obvious as they trade politely worded barbs. Blair arrives home and Sarah leaps into his arms, telling him how much she missed him. He's barely been there any time though when he gets a call from the office and returns to work, assuring a dismayed Sarah that he'll only be gone for about an hour. As that hour stretches into another, then another, Sarah frets over his continued absence and Hetty, not without an inward feeling of satisfaction, tells her that she'll have to get used to this. There is a knock at the door: it's a police officer, come to inform them that there's been an accident. Blair had gone to his company's warehouse to inspect a shipment, some scaffolding collapsed and he was killed instantly. Sarah ends up returning to PEI much sooner than anyone had dreamed, bringing her father's body to Avonlea so that he can be buried next to her mother. The whole King family gathers around her, trying to comfort Sarah, but it's like her emotions are frozen... she doesn't cry, or get angry, or express any emotion at all. The situation is made worse when Blair's will is read and Nanny Louisa is named as Sarah's guardian. Hetty hits the roof, pointing out- not entirely unreasonably- that Blair's will was three years old, made before Sarah had come to live in Avonlea with them for the last year. She and Louisa (who is also staying at Rose Cottage) get into it until Olivia warns Hetty that if this continues, Louisa will take Sarah back to Montreal and never let her return. After that, Hetty tries to play nice, though she is maliciously amused when Nanny Louisa manages to lock herself in the outhouse. This amusement becomes outrage when a fuming Louisa says that a girl of Sarah's background shouldn't have to use such "primitive facilities". Meanwhile, Sarah is struggling to come to terms with her father's death. Peter Craig, the hired boy at Rose Cottage, sees her moping about and tries to cheer her up, inviting her to go to the circus- which happens to be in town- with him. At first Sarah refuses but with the tension in the house thick enough to cut with a knife, she feels like she needs to get out and changes her mind. She and Peter go to the circus, taking in the dancing bear and other attractions until Sarah spies a fortune teller's wagon. At the door is a heavily made up woman in a robe and turban who tells Sarah that she can contact the spirits of the dead. Peter wisely tells her not to go in but, desperate to talk to her father, Sarah pays her money and enters the wagon. The fortune teller goes into a "trance" and speaks to Sarah's father, surprisingly coming out with some details- including his name- that go well beyond the standard mystic blather. As she speaks, the silhouette of a man in an overcoat and hat- like Blair's (or any other man's) appears on the curtain behind her. She also tells Sarah that her father is with her mother and that they have something to tell her... alas, the vision fades at this point. She says that she may be able to speak to them again, but is too tired now; Sarah should return later, alone, and with more money with which to pay the spirits. Sarah, grief stricken and gullible, is convinced by the woman's knowing so many details about her life and agrees to come back, bringing with her a purse filled with money. (To Be Continued... )
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