After giving her poem to Sam, Emily suffers from writer's block.

She goes birding with Edward, but it doesn't help.

She then tags along with American landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted to find inspiration.

Emily and Frederick talk about getting lost, and Frederick encourages Emily to take back her power.

Afterward, Emily does get lost, and Sam "rescues" her, telling Emily he'll be publishing her poem.

Edward falls into a hole, and Mrs. Dickinson takes advantage of the opportunity to discuss her displeasure with him.

Mrs. Dickinson wonders what happened to them, and Edward says they got old.

Mrs. Dickinson also expreses her frustration over the lack of communication and after the conversation, she leaves Edward in the hole.

Mrs. Dickinson is upset about Edward moving the Newman girls into their home, so Austin agrees to adopt them.

Sue isn't happy by this development, but Austin says this allows him to be a father without breaking his promise to Sue not to ask her for a baby.

Ship tells Lavinia he can never fall for a girl like Lola Montez, which is why he came to Amherst for her.

He later proposes to her, and Lavinia reluctantly agrees.

Lavinia later tells her parents she's not sure she wants to get married.