Beattie refuses to return home until Albert agrees to come with her. She tries to persuade him he’d be happy but he tells her he wants to be in the house he’s lived in all his married life. Concepta tells Annie and Jack that she enjoyed her night out with Harry but lies that he was quite the gentleman with her. Harry comes into the Rovers but the two keep a shy distance from one other. Arnold waits patiently for Elsie’s face-pack to finish. They talk happily over old times and their but the mood darkens when he asks her for a divorce. He threatens to sue her for adultery over her war time romance with Robert Riley in 1944. She breaks down and agrees he can have his divorce. He feels embarrassed. Jack tells Harry that his son, Billy, is due home any time soon from national service. Harry ap