This is the third summer since Emily moved to New Moon.
This is amazing.
It looks just like the real thing.
I made it from calfskin.
It's very well made.
The fairy wings I made are pretty good too, right?
Yeah.
Perry.
Perry Miller.
How's it going?
Yes sir, all's well.
What's this?
We're making props for our play, "A Midsummer Night's Dream".
This is the donkey's head.
I made it from calfskin.
Congratulations, Perry Miller.
Your application for a scholarship has been approved.
For real?
Yes.
Yahoo! I can go to Shrewsbury High!
What's with him?
Is going to high school that big a deal?
After I graduate, I'm going to learn cooking and needlework.
Mummy says a woman's duty is to look after the household after she is married.
Shrewsbury is a place for doing shopping, not studying.
Indeed.
That's great news.
Congratulations, Perry.
Thanks. I couldn't have done it without your support.
I'm going to study hard and become a lawyer.
Then, I'm going to get into parliam-
Become the President and marry Emily, right?
We already know there's no President in Canada.
I shall have to go tell Aunt Tom.
You three should think about what you want to do as well.
We're going to form a special class for the graduating students.
Decide for yourself what you want for your future.
Of course, you should consult with your families as well.
Perry sure went home in a hurry.
He's really looking forward to it.
I'm going to Shrewsbury High too.
Dad said I could.
Shrewsbury, huh? I'd like to go there too.
I'm sure I could learn a lot from the art teachers there.
But what would become of Mother if I were to go?
What about you Emily?
I'd...
I'd like to go to high school too.
But...
Aunt Elizabeth...
Oh, it's Em'ly.
It's Emily.
Good afternoon, Aunt Ruth.
Em'ly you've grown so much, for a frail child.
I hope you're not ill.
I'm not!
The Starrs have tall genes.
That's nice to know.
By the way, how's school?
Very good.
Mister Carpenter said I was the smartest pupil in his class.
You're flattering yourself.
I'm not, Mister Carpenter did say so!
What lip.
I don't think Elizabeth is being sufficiently strict with you.
I've done it to the best of my ability.
Well, I wonder.
But Elizabeth, what do you have planned for this child?
What do you mean?
She's going to be a grown-up soon.
She can't rely on you forever, can she?
A Murray shall not have to work outside for a living.
Em'ly is also a Starr.
What I had in mind is, for example,
if she could attend school at Shrewsbury and pick up a useful skill or two.
Ruth, I do not intend to send her out to work in society.
But Aunt Elizabeth, I'd like very much to study further!
Like history and geography. There's a mountain of things I'm dying to learn!
Especially literature!
Literature?
Emily, you still haven't gotten rid of that idea?
I'm opposed to your frivolous writing.
I have been lenient with your interest in poetry,
but I explicitly forbid you from writing short stories and the like!
But Aunt Elizabeth, I have to-
You do not need to go to high school for such endeavours.
But Aunt Elizabeth!
I must say something, Elizabeth.
This child will have to become independent one day.
She can't live with you forever.
Ruth, you know well the result of Juliet's attending Queen's Academy.
I'm sure you haven't forgotten.
This discussion is over!
Come in.
Teddy, I met Mister Carpenter today.
It was regarding you furthering your studies.
Umm...
If I disrupt your life by being too overprotective, you might lose everything.
That's what he told me.
I knew this day would come.
Teddy.
Dear Father,
Aunt Elizabeth's clock must have stood still for a hundred years.
Does she intend to keep me locked up here in New Moon until the day I die?
She's like a rusty cogwheel with a few screws out of place!
Ruth said that?
I intend to keep on looking after Emily.
She doesn't need to go to school just to gain independence.
She likes to study.
I also think it would be good for her to continue studying.
I don't want to deprive her of an education.
However...
Eh? A secret drawer?
Yes. What do you think is inside?
I don't know.
It's money.
My late father left it for me.
My mother is letting me go to Shrewsbury.
Teddy, that's great news!
You're going to Shrewsbury High!
Yeah.
Emily.
Emily!
I'm home!
Emily, where were you?
Elizabeth is looking for you.
I was told to send you to the parlour.
U-Umm... Aunt Elizabeth...
How dare you?
How dare you touch my private papers?
Give me those letters, Emily.
No, these are mine.
They are mine and Father's, not yours.
You had no right to touch them.
I have a responsibility to watch over you!
I told you many times not to write.
It is something I must do!
You cannot understand how I feel!
I do not know how you feel.
But reading that has made me realise how you really feel about me.
This is my thanks for taking you in.
You never wanted to take me in!
Umm...
Keep your letters,
and scorn the old woman who opened her home to you.
I never meant to hurt Aunt Elizabeth.
Perhaps I wrote some things in exaggeration.
Though that may be how I felt when I wrote them,
some things just aren't true.
Whatever excuse I may have, I can't take back the things I said.
Aunt Elizabeth...
I made Aunt Elizabeth cry.
That night, Emily could get no sleep.
Emily.
Umm...
Um, I...
Flowers have, for a hundred years-
No, even longer. They have bloomed in the same way they are today.
Could we say that the flowers' clock has stood still for a hundred years?
I've said some horrible things to Aunt Elizabeth.
I've hurt her deeply.
What should I do?
If you're looking for Elizabeth, she's visiting the cemetery.
I must go and ask Aunt Elizabeth to forgive me.
I suppose she never will.
She'll always hate me now.
But still...
But still, I must go.
Aunt Elizabeth!
Aunt Elizabeth, I'm sorry.
I shouldn't have written those things about you, and I didn't mean what I said.
I, too, must apologise.
I admit I had no right to read your letters.
Will you forgive me?
Please believe me, Aunt Elizabeth!
Um...
I...
I really don't think badly of you.
Please believe that, at least!
I'd like to believe it, Emily.
I don't like to think that Juliet's child should come to hate me.
Aunt Elizabeth, I don't hate you at all!
I... I... I love you very much!
But... But... I didn't know that you cared for me!
So I...
Emily.
Aunt Elizabeth.
Emily.
Yes, ma'am?
I think I shall send you to Shrewsbury High.
But I have a condition.
A condition?
During the three years that you will be at Shrewsbury,
you are not to write a single line of your frivolous stories.
With the exception of your school assignments, you are to stop all of your writing.
That is my condition.
I cannot.
You don't wish to go to school then?
I do! I do!
But... But...
But Aunt Elizabeth, I cannot give up on writing!
So you're giving up on school?
This is... I simply cannot.
I shall accept any other condition, but not this, please!
I'm against you writing fabrications.
Then I promise to write nothing but the truth.
This I can promise you!
Very well.
I'm most opposed to writing fiction anyway.
Let this be the condition then.
Thank you, Aunt Elizabeth!
Emily, be careful.
But we have to get things ready for Shrewsbury!
It's still a long time away.
There's no need to be overly enthusiastic.
Aunt Elizabeth.
I shall bring lunch to Cousin Jimmy.
You'll be leaving tomorrow. Have you gotten all your things ready?
I have.
I'd like to have another close look at New Moon.
I love this place very much.
You exaggerate.
You'll still come home during the weekend.
Yes, but I don't just love my room, the atmosphere and the hills here.
I love everything else too.
That's what I realised.
I'm sure they'll be lonely in my absence.
Yes, I'm sure.
Goodbye, Dad. I shall be off now.
Is there anything else you need?
My Dad, I guess.
Ilse...
Sorry for coming late, but I couldn't leave my patient.
Forgive me.
I'm kidding. I shall be back this weekend.
Let me take that.
Now that's outstanding.
Outstanding?
Yes, you needed that...
to write nothing but the truth for the next three years.
Show me what the outcome will be.
Write only about your mundane life, without a single word of fantasy.
Although I'm sure your life will be anything but mundane.
Perry Miller!
Emily, I placed a black-laced pair of stockings in your luggage.
Don't tell Elizabeth.
Thanks, Aunt Laura.
Emily.
Cousin Jimmy.
A present for you.
Cousin Jimmy, thank you!
Emily,
whatever the occasion, do not forget the good name of the Murray family.
Yes, ma'am. I shall be on my way now.
Emily!
Goodbye!
With that, Emily left her home for the first time, going away from Aunt Elizabeth,
to begin her journey to Shrewsbury.
Teddy will become an artist.
Perry, a lawyer.
Of course, I'm going to be a writer.
We all have our dreams, but I wonder what Ilse's is.
On the next episode of Emily of New Moon:
Our Dreams.
Watch for it!