I can see it in your eyes. Though he's quite correct about Eleanor being painfully lonely, he's dead wrong about what's in her eyes. He ought to practice reading the signs by staring into the eyes of king cobras more often. As the final season goes on, there are some other prominent problems for the Bramwells. Among them is the way The Thrift is being run.
Somebody even winds up pregnant by a military officer in the Boer War.
You will not be overjoyed to find out who that turns out to be. Jemma Redgrave, granddaughter of the late Michael Redgrave and the remarkable Rachel Kempson, is a superb actress who has created in Eleanor a woman of great character, decades ahead of her time. Her difficult and often humiliating ordeal as she works toward gaining the respect of her male colleagues has provided us with an endlessly fascinating portrait of women in the cruel male world of Victorian England. You won't regret it. Of that, I'm absolutely certain.