The episode opens with Rupert giving Amy her wedding ring back, it having slipped from her finger yet again - and it prompts the couple to ponder the things they've given up since marrying each other [Amy doesn't go dancing anymore as Rupert has two left feet; Rupert doesn't go to concerts anymore as Amy has cloth ears]. Amy receives 'practically a royal command' drinks invitation from a local society matron who has also invited a local radio host [a former beau of Amy's who used to take her dancing] and the local librarian who is also a nature lover. The society matron asks them to form a committee to build a pleasure lake for local people. Later, Amy discovers it's all a ploy to enable the society matron's industrialist brother to build a factory and reservoir in a beautiful Yorkshire dale that has romantic & artistic associations for Amy.