Enter sister-in-law Gladys, willed on the firm by Ivy's late, malicious husband.

The firm is plagued by hazards such as a short-sighted pallbearer and a professional mourner with a fixed grin.

Unsworth is asked to handle Oldshaw's biggest and most important funeral.

Billy discovers his being an undertaker puts the girls off.

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Billy sets off in search of a brighter, more adventurous future.

The Unsworths are drawn into a trade war when Percy Oltenshaw starts poaching ""clients"" vis Miss Askith, the local postmistress; and Ivy nearly makes a terrible mistake until Amy reads her future in the tea-leaves.