(birds warbling)
(soft music)
(gentle flute music)
(upbeat music)
- The ham will do very nicely for tomorrow's supper
and Sunday sandwiches.
- Well, you children certainly won't be lacking
for food while we are gone.
- Felix King!
You just wait till I get my hands on you!
- [Janet] Felicity, let him be.
- Mother, you're much too indulgent with that boy.
The Family Guide says that bad behavior
must be nipped in the bud.
Nipped in the bud.
- Yes, well you seem as if you can handle it all, Felicity,
but can you manage Felix?
- Mother, as if I would let Felix or any of the children
misbehave while I'm in charge.
Besides, you'll only be gone two days.
Aunt Hetty says that I am more than
capable of running a household.
- Well, there's more to running a household
than a well planned menu, dear.
Well, perhaps you'd all be better off
if you went to stay with Aunt Hetty.
- Mother, you don't want to go upsetting Aunt Hetty
with the lot of us, now, do you?
- Dear, will you look at this dust.
Where has the time gone?!
I haven't had the time to get to around
my spring cleaning at all this year.
- Mother, spring cleaning is done in the spring,
not the fall.
Just wait until it comes around next year.
Mother, you leave everything to me.
In the two days that you are gone,
I'll clean this house from top to bottom.
And I'm confident that I can manage
the children while I'm at it.
- Oh, Felicity, you are a marvel.
- [Cecily] Here's Pa with the mail!
- Hail, from the great world beyond!
Whoa!
All the way from New York City.
- It's finally come!
I ordered this six months ago.
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens.
- And I have letter from your mother's great aunt Eliza.
And a parcel for Sara from her father.
- Can I hold it?
- Well...
- Holding it is almost as good as getting it myself.
(laughs)
- All right.
- Thank you.
- [Alec] Janet, you ready to leave?
- [Felix] Give me the parcel.
- I want to hold it.
- I'm gonna take it to Rose Cottage and give it to Sara.
- No, Felix!
- Cecily, give it to me!
- What in heaven's name is going on now?
- Now children, I'm sure that Sara
will be along soon to fetch her parcel.
Felix, dear, give it back to Cecily.
(whispering)
If there's any more misbehaving mother,
will send us all packing to Aunt Hetty's.
There's a good boy, Felix.
Just a little misunderstanding, mother.
- Oh, heavens, Felicity!
Great-aunt Eliza, great-aunt Eliza writes that
she's in Markdale and she wants to visit for a few days.
- Great-aunt Eliza?
- She's your grandmother's sister
and she comes from Halifax.
Oh, Alec, what am I to do?
- Well, we're not going to change our plans now, Janet.
A 15th wedding anniversary doesn't happen everyday.
Besides, your Aunt Eliza is constantly saying
that she's on the point of visiting, and then never arrives.
- Well, that's true enough.
- Oh don't worry, Mother.
I'll treat her with every courtesy.
I'll even polish the tea service, in case she comes.
- Oh, well if she does, which is very much in doubt,
you'll have to speak quite loudly
because she's become rather deaf in recent years.
- What?!
Now, Felix, I know that sometimes Felicity
can test your patience, but--
- Sometimes?
- Well, most of the time, but overall, she does mean well,
and she has been put in charge here.
Now, can I count on you being helpful
and patient with her?
- [Janet] Children, I expect you to behave
while we are away.
- Hmm?
- [Janet] We've never left you without
adult supervision before--
- [Felix] It's not gonna be easy, but I'll try my best.
- Good.
- I want you to do your chores,
and obey your sister.
And don't forget that Aunt Hetty is right next door
and she's promised to keep a very good eye on all of you.
Oh, Cecily, smile for mommy, or or you'll have me in tears.
Felicity, here are my household keys.
I expect you to rise to the responsibility.
- Andrew, keep an eye on them for me, will you?
I know you can be relied on.
- Goodbye, children.
Goodbye!
And don't forget if you need anything,
Aunt Hetty is right next door.
- Come on!
Bye bye!
- [Janet] Behave yourselves.
- [Felicity] Don't worry about a thing, mother!
Goodbye!
- [Janet] Bye!
- [Children] Bye!
- Come on!
- [Janet] Oh, Alec, this is such a wonderful idea.
- I'm gonna go fishing, cook the fish and eat them!
- And I'm gonna read my book!
- [Cecily] And I'm going fishing with Felix!
- No you're not, Cecily!
- Children, children!
Now, I will allow you a few moments of playtime.
- [Felix] What?!
- Commencing now.
- Hi, Sara!
- Hello, Cecily!
I've come for the mail.
Have your parents left yet?
- Here's the parcel from your father, Sara.
- Oh, I've been expecting something from him.
- Open the present first, please.
Is something wrong, Sara?
- [Felicity] Has your father gone to jail yet?
- No.
- Aww, they're beautiful!
Oh, those are shoes fit for a princess.
- Oh, yes a princess who peels apples
and cleans out horse stalls.
What was your father thinking, Sara,
to send you such a silly impractical gift?
You're father doesn't have a practical bone in his body.
- I happen to think that they're very practical.
- Think of how impressed the cows
will be when you milk them.
- They'll be so impressed they'll give me nothing but cream.
- Fancy words to go with those fancy shoes.
- Look at your own feet, Felicity.
Everyone knows they're the size of snowshoes.
- Snowshoes?
Your father would've been better off providing
you with a decent home than sending
you such ridiculous gifts.
Or is he just feeling guilty
because he's going to jail?
- My father is never, ever going to jail.
He's the victim of people who have betrayed his trust.
- Criminals always blame someone else,
and that's why they're criminals!
- It was a mistake!
He was fooled into believing that his employee was honest.
- Well, I wouldn't be fooled and I wouldn't make mistakes.
Oh, it's a wasp!
Get it away from me!
It's going to sting me!
Oh, it's on you, move!
- Felicity King!
That is the meanest, lowest, most despicable thing
you have ever done!
I'll never forgive you, not as long as I breathe!
- [Andrew] You did that on purpose, Felicity.
- Yeah!
- I'd like to see you face down in the mud, Felicity.
It would probably be a big improvement.
- Felix King, your playtime is up,
and it is the rest of you!
Now get back to your chores!
- There he is.
He's the one who told us our sheep would
have to find another watering place.
- Well, calm yourself, Peter.
The man is quite obviously mistaken.
You, there!
I'd thank you to stop telling tales
to my hired hand, here!
This is Rushton property.
Now, be off with you.
- I'm well aware that this is Rushton property, ma'am,
as I'm negotiating its sale.
And your hired hand heard me correctly.
After the sale is finalized in two days,
your sheep will no longer have use of the pond.
- I beg your pardon. - Aunt Hetty!
Aunt Hetty.
- Yes, Sara.
The King family have watered their sheep
in this pond since 1837.
We had an understanding with old Josiah Rushton,
which has allowed us water rights in perpetuity.
- An understanding won't hold up in a court of law.
As a lawyer, I can assure you of that Mrs King.
- Miss King, my good man.
Lawyer indeed.
A twister of words and confounder
of honest people is more like it.
Why, the sheep will die if they can't water in the pond.
- Then I suggest you get a lawyer, Miss King.
- Well, we'll see about that.
Go on, Peter, water the sheep.
I hope they drink that pond dry.
Come on.
What could Alec and Janet be thinking of
to leave at a time like this?
And Olivia, traipsing off all the way to to Summerside.
I'll just have to go to Charlottetown myself.
Yes, and dare Agnes Rushton to say to my face
those water rights aren't valid.
Sara, go pack your bags, you're going to Felicity's.
Sara Stanley, what in heaven's name are those shoes?
- Father sent them to me.
They're evening slippers.
- Evening slippers?
Does he think we hold ballet dances in the barn?
Oh, and you're just as foolish as your father.
As if I'd leave you alone in this house with Peter.
Oh, Aunt Hetty, please don't make me stay with Felicity.
- Go on upstairs and pack your bags.
You're going to stay with Felicity.
And I don't want to hear another word about it.
- Felix!
- [Cecily] It's tea time.
- Children!
Now then, as I am to be in authority
for the next two days,
I wanted to tell you, that I will be making
a few small changes in your usual schedule.
And I hope that I will have your cooperation.
- Don't count your chickens before they're hatched!
- [Andrew] Give her a chance, Felix.
- I have prepared a schedule for the next two days.
I have decided that we will be doing a thorough cleaning
of the house, from top to bottom,
as an anniversary gift for Mother and Father.
- But what about my fishing plans?
Peter's coming to pick me up in 15 minutes.
- Well, I will allow you 15 minutes
of playtime before supper.
I expect that cancels any fishing plans.
- [Andrew] Somebody's coming.
- Whoa there, Blackie!
Children!
Children, come here.
Now, listen to me.
We Kings, are in danger of losing the rights
to the Rushton pond and although I promised
your parents I'd watch over you,
I have to go to Charlottetown and that's that.
I'm reassured to know you'll be in Felicity's expert care.
Especially you, Sara Stanley,
who are daily in need of a good dose of common sense.
Now, I hope some of Felicity's qualities
rub off on you, while I'm gone.
Good heavens, there's the morning frittered away,
I must be off.
Now, be good, all of you.
And, mind Felicity.
Come on, Blackie!
- No grownups for miles!
- Yahoo!
- For two whole days!
- Attention all of you!
I am the grownup around here now,
and you will be getting your orders from me.
Sara Stanley I expect you to follow the rules of my house,
while you are under my care.
- Cecily, tell your sister I'm not speaking to her,
nor do I intend to follow any of her rules.
Cecily, I'm going to my room.
- Cecily, please tell Sara that she
is to sleep in my bedroom.
- Cecily, tell your sister I rather sleep in the pigpen.
(laughs)
- That's a good one, Sara.
You tell her.
- Felix, you are to wash the windows, all of them,
and before lunch.
I suggest you get started.
- You'd better catch me first!
- Cecily, could you please tell Sara,
that I will not allow her to take Mother's room.
I am in charge, and so I get the big bedroom.
- [Cecily] Don't be cross you two.
- [Felicity] And she had better get to work
just like the rest of us.
- I'll be much too busy, Cecily,
cleaning my satin shoes.
- I don't know how we're ever gonna get
through the next two days.
We're all gonna end up fighting like cats and dogs
if we're not careful.
Especially you and Felicity, Felix.
- Uh-huh.
- She expects you to put up a fight for everything.
So maybe it's time we started acting reasonably.
- You mean if I did exactly as she asked,
she wouldn't know what to think?
- That's it!
She'd be madder than a cat with a knot in its tail.
She wouldn't have anyone to boss around.
(cat-like growling)
(laughs)
(cat-like growling)
- [Felicity] Felix King, your chores!
- Thank you, Andrew.
Thank you.
Coming, Felicity.
- [Felicity] What are you doing?
- Washing the windows, just as you asked.
- Well, then make sure you do a proper job of it.
- Yes, Felicity.
- Now, hold your breathe, Cecily,
so you don't choke on the dust.
I think I'll soak these in a special solution.
I know everything there is to know about fine fabrics.
For instance, one does not clean mud off
satin shoes by wetting them.
You see, Cecily, buy the time I was your age,
I knew the seven household rules for removing
even the most persistent stains.
- Cecily, by the time I was your age,
I'd sail down the Nile,
and seen the Seven Wonders of the world.
When I had a stain on something I simply threw it away.
(coughs)
- Cecily, finish the dusting.
You've missed a spot.
- [Felix] Yes, Felicity.
- Well, make sure you wash the glass thoroughly.
- Yes, Felicity.
- And you're much too slow.
I expect that comes from eating
too many shortbread cookies.
- Thank you.
- Oh, look at that shepherd's pie
all slathered in cheese,
and a pie for dessert.
Oh, thank you, Felicity!
- I am known throughout Avonlea for the excessive
amount of cherries in my pies.
- What's this?!
- You are overweight and a glutton.
The Canadian Homemakers Companion advises
a strict diet in such cases as yours.
- But I'm hungry!
I've been working hard all day!
Haven't I?!
- It's true.
- I am not easily fooled by your work, Felix King.
You are up to no good, and I know it.
- Here, I couldn't stomach a mouthful of this pig slop.
- Sara Stanley, you've no business commenting
on my food unless you've tasted it.
Besides, you're much too thin.
You're not to leave the table
until you've cleaned your plate.
Aunt Hetty asked me to rub some sense into you,
and I intend to rub hard.
- Cecily, please tell your sister,
that no amount of rubbing will make obey a tyrant,
whose only interest in life
is the number of cherries in her pies.
- I'd rather not say that, Sara, if you don't mind.
- Oh, that's alright.
But some of us do put on airs, don't we, Cecily?
Though, I wouldn't act so grand
if my father was an embezzler.
- Uh-oh.
- If you think that your pies are so tasty,
why don't you have a mouthful?
- You're ruining my pie!
- Oh, you're right, Felicity.
There are a lot of cherries in your pies.
(squeals)
- Sara!
(laughing)
(screams)
Oh you!
(laughing)
That's all right, Cecily, because she's jealous.
She sees that underneath all of those fancy dresses
of hers, she's unbearably unattractive.
You see, Cecily, no amount of money can buy natural beauty.
Sara!
(screams)
Sara Stanley!
- [Felix] Cat's eyeball!
Well done, Sara.
You were right, Andrew.
It pays to hold your temper,
just let others lose it for you.
- Ow!
- I'll scalp you with my bear hands!
Sara, stop!
- [Sara] No!
- Stop it!
Stop it, you two!
Felicity!
- Felicity, stop it!
(china breaking)
- [Felix] Oh no!
- [Andrew] Felicity, stop!
- [Sara] Get off me!
- I guess Mr. and Mrs. King are still in Charlottetown.
- [Andrew] You're going to destroy the whole house!
Then we'll really be in trouble!
Stop!
- [Felicity] Felix King!
You get out of the kitchen, right now!
Felix King!
Don't you dare!
- [Felix] You can't starve me!
- Oh, yes I can.
And don't think you're going back into the cupboard,
because Mother gave me the keys.
And I'm going to lock it so
you can not eat another morsel.
Now, move!
- [Felix] I'll find something to eat!
- [Felicity] You can come back here!
- You can't tell me what to do!
I'm gonna to have my lunch,
even if I have to go to the woods and find it!
And you can't stop me!
- So, Madam Governor, all you have to do
is sign here, here and here,
and the sale will be completed.
- Yes, but I think I'd better read the contract first,
don't you think, Mr. Simpkin?
- It's a pretty standard agreement, really,
but I'm sure you'll see I've done an exemplary job
at safeguarding your interests.
I've assigned the water rights,
wholly and exclusively, to the new owners.
- You've what?
- Shared water rights never work out in the long run
Especially, when you have neighbors like the Kings.
I met one of them today and I must say I've never had
to cross words with country people before,
but a more rude and argumentative individual
I have never met.
That Miss King could--
- Mr. Simpkin, under who's authority were you acting
when you decided this?
You see the Kings are among my oldest and dearest friends.
There is absolutely no way I would sign a contract
that removes their water rights.
- Well, I can change a few--
- No, I'll straighten this out right away,
before they suffer further alarm.
- [Andrew] Felix!
- [Sara] Felix, where are you?
Is that a snake?
- [Andrew] It's a stick, Sara.
Felix!
- Sara, Andrew.
- Hi, Sara.
- Hi, Clemmie.
- My ma's wanting me to buy some eggs.
May I get some from Rose Cottage?
- I wouldn't go by the house just now, Clemmie.
Felix, what are you doing?!
- Felix!
Felix!
Felix King!
Felix King, you come home instantly!
- Not till you promise to feed me.
- [Felicity] Felix, I'll do no such thing!
You get back here and do exactly what I tell you to do!
Felix!
Drop those berries, they're poison!
- How do you know they're poison?
- I can tell just by just looking at them!
Now drop them, you fool!
Felix, spit them out, now!
Spit them out, Felix!
- [Felicity] Felix, what are you doing?!
- Spit it out!
Felix!
- He's going to die!
- I'm not going to die.
My uncle Theodore ate something poisonous once,
he felt fine, then all of sudden, he went all pale.
He died a horrible death.
They're pigeonberries, I'm telling you!
They were poison!
We have to get them out!
- Exactly!
- They're not pigeonberries!
And what do you mean come out?
- Come on, Felix, we'd better get you home.
- [Felicity] He could become a comatose
in a matter of minutes.
- Whatcha doing?
- Leave me alone, I'm not sick!
- [Felicity] But you will be.
- Peter, he swallowed some pigeonberries.
He's poisoned.
- Peter, run for the doctor quickly, please.
- [Felix] I'm all right.
- [Felicity] I know just the remedy.
- [Felix] Come on, get off!
- Put him in that chair.
We'll give him some of this.
- That's right, Felicity.
A little food should do the trick.
- It won't be long now.
My uncle Theodore went just like that.
So my mom says.
- Will you shush up Clemmie, I'm perfectly well!
- Here, drink this.
- I'm not drinking it, it smells terrible.
- Mustard and water is Mother's mixture
for an upset stomach.
It's an excellent expectorant.
- [Andrew] Drink it, Felix.
- [Felicity] He has to have more.
- Felix, drink it.
- He has to have more!
- Felix, this is for your own good.
- Felix, stop wriggling!
- [All] Oh!
- Well, mustard and water just doesn't work, does it?
- No.
- Hold your tongue, Clemmie.
Cecily, go see if the doctor is coming.
- Dear God, if Felix does die
I'll be completely responsible.
- [Cecily] We have to do something.
- I know of another cure.
My ma says in case of poisoning,
you should rub the person with whiskey.
- Whiskey?!
Clemmie Ray, this is a temperance household!
- Someone do something before I croak!
If I do, Peter and Andrew can have my fishing rods.
- I got the doctor.
- What in heaven's name are you children up to?
Felicity, clear the room.
All of you.
- Don't cry, Sabrina.
Felix will be fine.
- What can that doctor be doing?
Cecily, please fetch me an empty tin.
Mother asked me to stitch her a new pincushion.
I hope I can do something good this weekend.
This sawdust is nearly sixty years old.
- Felix is asleep now.
I've given him some medicine to settle his stomach.
And the nausea seems to have passed.
Felicity, I'd advice you to keep that boy
from experimenting with strange fruit again.
And don't try any more home remedies
without consulting an adult.
- Oh, yes, Dr. Blair, I've already warned him
to keep away from the poison berries,
but he is such a stubborn boy.
Could I fix you a cup of tea?
- Oh, no thank you, Felicity.
If I'm lucky, I'll get one at home for a change.
- [Felicity] Mother has given me one
of her best cornmeal recipes.
It's a plain, old-fashioned cornmeal pudding,
and you simply drown it in maple sugar sauce.
- That sounds good.
- Felix is awake.
- [Felicity] Tell him I'll be right up.
- Good morning, Felicity.
Aren't you a welcome sight.
- Felix, how sweet of you to say that.
- Dry toast and tea!
The Family Guide says that one must
eat lightly after a stomach upset.
- My stomach wasn't upset until you
forced me to drink that skunky mixture.
- Felix, dear, I didn't force you to eat those
poisoned berries, now, did I?
- They weren't poisonous.
- Of course they were.
- They weren't.
- Felix, eat your breakfast!
And, Cecily, get back to work with Sara and Andrew!
You're not to get out of bed!
- That does it!
- A carriage is coming.
Whoever could that be?
- Oh, dear.
It's great-aunt Eliza.
- [Mrs. Lesley] Why it hasn't changed.
- Mother told me she wrote to say that
she'd be visiting in the next day or so.
And the old thing is stone-deaf,
so you'll have to speak up so she can hear you.
Felix, get back in bed, you're sick.
- I am not!
- [Mrs. Lesley] Oh, I do long for the days
when I was just plain Agnes Rushton.
- I'm sure I can understand why, Mrs. Lesley.
- Oh, bless you, Henry.
You know what I go through.
A governor's wife is sentenced to a life
of curtsies and complements.
If I hear one more rehearsed speech
filled with insincere flatteries to me,
sometimes I think I shall scream out loud.
Oh, look.
There's the old hammock still there.
- Hello!
Welcome!
- Welcome!
- Hello!
- Good morning, children.
Are your parents at home?
- No! - No!
- They went to Charlottetown!
- Charlottetown!
- They will return tomorrow!
- [Cecily] Tomorrow!
- Oh, I see.
Then perhaps I shall return another day.
- No! - No!
- Stay!
- Please stay and visit with us!
- Yes, visit!
- Mother told us you'd be visiting!
Stay to tea!
- Tea?!
- I will make tea!
- [Both] Tea! Tea!
- Can they all be deaf, poor things?
- [Felicity] Tea!
- Welcome!
Welcome!
- I think I shall stay, children.
But, just for a short time though.
- Is that great-aunt Eliza?
- Of course, the long, pointy nose comes
straight from Mother's side of the family.
- Felicity!
- Don't worry, she can't hear us.
The old thing's deaf,
so you can speak in your normal voice,
and she won't hear a thing you're saying.
- Come back for me later, Henry.
I think I may have too much fun to leave here now.
- [Felix] Welcome!
- [Sara] Come in!
We will have tea!
- [Felicity] Please excuse the mess!
- [Andrew] I'll show you my books!
- [Cecily] Do you like dolls?!
- [Felix] Can I take your purse?!
- [Sara] Come in to the kitchen!
We will have tea!
- [Felicity] Tea!
- [Sara] Tea!
- [Cecily] Please sit down, great aunt!
And you can see these old photos!
- Cecily, she just won't want to look
at our old photo album.
- Why not?
Old people like to see old photos.
- This is cousin, Eb--
- Ebenezer!
- Ebenezer!, and he lives in--
- Carmody!
- Yes, and once he took sick,
the doctor gave him brandy,
and Cousin Ebenezer said,
"Give it to me more often and more at a time".
- [Andrew] Felix, mind your manners.
- She can't hear me.
If more adults were deaf,
there'd be more honesty in children.
- This is father when he was a child!
- Oh, Cecily, turn the page.
And that's Agnes Rushton.
- What, dear?
That is Agnes Rushton, from next door!
She used to mind Father!
- Aunt Hetty said that Agnes Rushton
was thought to be a great beauty!
- I want some!
- Not till your stomach's settled.
- It's settled now!
- I hope Aunt Hetty is successful
in settling the water rights.
- What's that, dear?
- I hope Aunt Hetty is successful
in settling the water rights,
with Agnes Rushton in Charlottetown!
There's a picture of Mr. Lesley, the governor!
He married Agnes Rushton many years ago!
But, so unattractive poor man!
With a bald-head, and so reddish looking.
- This pudding tastes kind of funny.
- [Felicity] But I followed the recipe to the teaspoon.
- [Felix] Tastes fine to me.
- [Andrew] Tastes like sawdust.
- What'd you do with the tin that was on the counter?
- The tin of cornmeal?
- The tin was full of sawdust.
(laughing)
- Felicity King is known throughout Avonlea
for her cherry pies and her sawdust puddings.
- [Felicity] You shush up!
- Why should I?!
I'm sick of you always acting so superior!
You think you'd never make mistakes!
- None as stupid as yours!
They were pigeonberries you ate yesterday!
They're poisonous.
If it hadn't been for me, you would've died last night!
- It was because of you I almost died last night!
Making me drink that horrible medicine.
It was your fault!
Just like the pudding!
- Oh, don't worry about the children, great aunt!
The Family Guide says that they are
very excitable around guests.
I don't know how, but someone must've ruined the pudding!
I will bring you some delightful biscuits, instead!
- The governor is expecting you at six, madam.
- Oh, dear, I must be leave or I shall be late.
- [Cecily] Felix, don't eat any more of those!
- Oh, I would love to stay and say goodbye
to Cecily and Felix, though.
- [Cecily] Wait, wait, come see!
He's trying to kill himself!
- Felix, have you gone mad?!
- Cecily, please go and get me some mustard and water.
I'm going to show that doctor who's right!
- I'm not taking any more mustard and water!
The doctor said not to take any more family remedies!
And besides, I don't need the doctor.
And if I hear one more thing against me
to Father and Mother, I'll tell on you too, Felicity.
- Nice way for you to speak to your sister
when you could be dead in an hour.
- I'm not going to die, nincompoop!
- Felix, don't!
- Felix! - Felix!
- We've got to get him into the house.
Help me get him into the house!
Andrew!
- Leave me alone!
They're not pigeonberries!
They're not poison!
- Felix is right.
- What do you mean?
- Those berries aren't poison.
Now, I can't remember what they're called.
But, I used to eat them all the time when I was a girl.
Mrs. Lesley, we'd best be going,
or you're going to miss that reception in Markdale.
- Would you please tell your father,
that his old neighbor, Agnes Rushton Lesley,
stopped by to talk to him about water rights.
I'll try to return soon.
And thank you very much for the tea.
- Mrs. Lesley?
Agnes Rushton Lesley.
The Mrs. Lesley, married to the governor.
She could hear us all along.
- There go the water rights!
- And you were the one that started it all, Felicity King.
- You said she had a long, pointy nose.
- And her husband was bald and reddish.
- I didn't realize!
- You're so smart.
You said no one could be fooled the way my father was.
- That's right, Felicity.
The shoe's on the other foot for once.
- The satin shoe!
- And the sawdust pudding.
- [Felix] What does the Family Guide suggest
for a ruined event like this, Felicity?
- Let me know if you want me to get doctor or the constable.
- Something's wrong.
Felicity didn't even bother to lock up the cupboard.
- She's been crying her eyes out in Mother's room.
(footsteps thumping)
- Hmm, these tarts need a little something extra.
How about some poison berries?
Maybe a pinch of sawdust.
- I've done everything wrong.
I failed miserably.
How am I ever going to explain to Father
how I treated the governor's wife?
Sara, I'm sorry about all the mean things
I said about your father.
People do make mistakes and I'm sorry.
- Oh, Felicity.
I'm sorry about cutting your hair.
- What?!
What do I have to be sorry about?
- Ow!
All right!
And I'm sorry I made you worry about
me eating poison berries.
They weren't poison, but anyway I'm sorry.
- I'm sorry too.
For whatever I might've done.
Did I do anything wrong, Sara?
- No.
- Well, the house is still standing.
- Looks just like it did when I first
brought you home 15 years ago.
Where did the time go, Janet, where?
- Went into 15 harvests, three children,
and a wife who loves you.
Alec, would you rather have ventured out into the world,
away from Avonlea?
- Not on your life, Janet.
Let's see if there's someone still left alive inside.
(children talking)
- [Janet] Children, did you miss us, did you?
- [Felicity] Yes, we did.
- [Alec] Did you?
Well, well?
- I never thought I'd hear myself saying this, Mother,
but I couldn't wait for you and Father to get home.
- Oh, Felicity, it's been at least three years
since I've seen you in braids.
- Oh, well I didn't want you to think
I'd grownup too quickly being in charge and all.
- Felix, help your father with the luggage.
Andrew, you help too.
Oh, Felicity, everything is so clean and spotless.
We did it together, Mother.
All of us.
- Oh, this is the best anniversary gift ever!
I can see you really enjoyed being
mother for the last few days.
- Yes, only I think I'll stop reading those
homemaker's journals from now on and just observe you.
You are the best homemaker and mother there is.
- Oh.
- Mother, Father, I have something I'd like to say.
- Oh, dear.
All right then.
What did Felix do?
- Oh, Felix didn't do anything, Mother.
It was me.
- You, Felicity?
- It wasn't just Felicity, Mother.
It was all of us.
- You see, Aunt Hetty told us that our water rights
to the pond had been threatened.
So, she went off to Charlottetown to speak to Mrs. Lesley.
- Hetty left?
- Yes, and then Agnes Rushton,
the governor's wife, came to tea.
- Well, the Governor's wife was here?
- There we are.
- Agnes, how delightful to see you.
Or should I say Mrs. Lesley?
I'm honored.
- Now, don't you go starting at me, Alec King.
I remember when you were in knee pants.
This is my wife, Janet.
Our children.
My niece and my nephew.
- Oh, I've already met these delightful children.
- So pleased to meet you, Mrs. King.
- It's my pleasure, Mrs. Lesley.
- Enough with the niceties.
Our water rights have been restored,
thanks to Agnes's intervention.
- Oh, you're a godsend, Mrs. Lesley.
- It was all a misunderstanding, Alec.
You see, we're selling that piece of property next to you,
and a ridiculously overzealous lawyer took it
upon himself to cut you off the water rights.
But they have now been ensured and in writing.
Oh, that fool lawyer had me chasing Agnes
up and down the highway,
to and from Charlottetown like a mad thing.
Oh, but, at least it's settled now.
Well, thank heaven's the children are still in one piece.
Oh, Hetty, they behaved admirably.
Come, Hetty.
Come and see the clean up job they've done.
- Have they, now?
Well, Felicity.
I hope your influence has done our Sara some good, hmm?
- Well, actually, Aunt Hetty, it was just the opposite.
It's Sara who's done me some good.
Heavens!
Next you'll be telling me pigs can fly.
- [Alec] You will stay and visit with us, Agnes?
- Yes, of course, Alec.
I'll be in, in just a moment.
- [Alec] Fine.
- Children.
I wanted to apologize to you for pretending to be deaf.
- Oh, madam, Mrs. Governor,
it's us who should be apologizing.
- Oh, now don't start Mrs. Governor-ing me.
You see, it's such a rare thing for me
to be treated, well, just like myself just as I am.
See, I couldn't resist pretending,
if only for a short time that
I was the aunt to a brood of such wholesome
and utterly normal children.
Now, I will forgive you,
if you promise to forgive me.
(giggling)
- Felicity, how did you ever get them so clean?
- Well, I do know the seven household rules
for removing even the most persistent stains.
- You certainly do.
Will you ever forgive me?
You must believe me my father is an honest man.
You can tease me all you want,
but please don't make fun of my father.
- Sara.
Look, if you believe that your father
is innocent then I believe it too.
- Felicity, I'm sure all this fighting
has really been worth it.
Now, we truly are cousins.
- You mean friends.
(upbeat music)
(birds warbling)
(soft music)