Season 2, Episode 2Though Peter is still in Cranford Matty now lives alone. Following his wife and baby's death in childbirth Jem goes to Manchester for better work prospects and Mary moves to London to pursue her writing career. Following Lady Ludlow's death her greedy son sells land to the railway company and wealthy in-comer Buxton also lets its construction onto his property. His unpretentious son William angers him by falling for lower class Peggy Bell - whose shifty brother Edward is Buxton's land agent - and also by working with Captain Brown on the railway. Mrs. Jamieson's widowed sister-in-law Lady Glenmire arrives in Cranford and, to her snooty relative's annoyance, is charmingly down-to-earth, captivating everyone, notably Captain Brown, whom she marries after a whirlwind courtship. Edward Bell steals money given him by Buxton to compensate families made homeless by the railway building and goes on the run.He is killed in a train crash which also injures Harry Gregson, fleeing school bullying, but Miss Galindo nurses Harry back to health and becomes his landlady, permitting him to attend day school. Jem returns with his daughter and, as Peggy and William prepare to marry, everyone attends a Christmas magic show at Cranford's newly-restored Assembly Rooms.展開
故事發(fā)生十九世紀(jì)英國，貝（瑞茜·瑟斯彭 Reese Witherspoon 飾）出生于貧寒庭，但是野心勃勃她做夢都要能夠躋上流社會為此，貝來到了爵彼得考利鮑勃·霍金斯 Bob Hoskins 飾）家中擔(dān)任起了庭教師的務(wù)。聰明俐的貝姬快就獲得姑媽瑪?shù)?達(dá)（艾?阿特金斯 Eileen Atkins 飾）的認(rèn)可信任，之，貝姬跟瑪?shù)贍栠_(dá)到了夢寐求的倫敦 在倫敦，貝姬同曾的好友艾利亞（蘿拉·嘉瑞 Romola Garai 飾）重逢了。米利亞深著軍官喬（喬納?萊斯·梅斯 Jonathan Rhys Meyers 飾），為了同結(jié)婚不惜棄了家庭與此同時貝姬亦同利家的繼人羅頓（姆斯·鮑 James Purefoy 飾）秘密入了婚姻殿堂。然，等待著們的并非明的前程而是殘酷戰(zhàn)爭?
