However, Edward and his best friend Charlie Wallace, his best man, are to leave for France that evening.
Daisy later accompanies him to the station, and cannot stop herself crying as they said goodbye while Edward is on board the train.
Meanwhile, on her afternoon off, Ruby secretly goes off and gets a job at the Silvertown munitions factory in the Docklands.
Mrs Bridges is furious, and as Hazel is at her parents in Wimbledon due to her father having pleurisy, she protests to Richard.
In a review of this episode in The Sunday Telegraph, Philip Purser said that Upstairs, Downstairs was "most effectively...now catching the character of that war".