Being a natural social person, it is not difficult for me to make friends.
However there are people who find it harder to open up and welcome new friendships.
Sometimes these shy and reserved people are just in need of shoulder to cry on
a confidante, someone to listen to their problems.
But it's important that our purpose is to help these people, to make their lives better.
Not to gossip about their problems. Making them spill their secrets should
be for their benefit, not ours.
I am Emma Woodhouse and I will find out what is troubling Jane Fairfax
without gossiping.
I don't want to say that Jane Fairfax is my new project. Because that makes me sound
like a certain politician's future wife.
But she needs my help. It must be terrible to live with that burden.
That secrecy about everything, people gossiping and speculating about you all the time.
Why does Jane insist she doesn't know who sent the laptop?
Who sends such an expense gift without a note?
Is it because this person wasn't supposed to be sending gifts to Jane?
Emma are you ready for me?
Yep! Okay, time to work.
Tell me, how's the auction going? Did you send out the e-vites?
So far we have two hundred confirmed guests.
That's amazing!
And most of them replied within minutes of sending out the e-vites.
Mr. Churchill teased it on Twitter so they were expecting our email.
He's so dedicated. It's refreshing when someone shows enthusiasm for what we do here.
I was talking with Jane about that this morning!
You were talking to Jane?
We were getting coffee in the kitchen and I offered to help her figure out her new computer.
Is it wrong for me to be friends with Jane? I know you don't like her but --
Who said I didn't like her?
Well you --
Of course I like Jane.
In fact I'm trying to help her with something.
With what? Can I help?
Bring up her Twitter profile on your tablet.
Work, picture from a bus, work, bored at the beach...
Aha! Who are the Dixons?
Sarah Dixon is her best friend from Oxford.
College friends are hard to leave behind.
She must miss her a lot.
And since she's been here she's had to miss her friend's wedding.
She missed her best friend's wedding? Why? Why couldn't she stay in London a little longer?
It's not like she was doing a lot the first two months she was here.
She missed her aunt?
Maddy Bates would have been happy with a lengthy email.
There's something more here. She trains with the Dixons,
she runs a marathon with the Dixon's
Harriet have you noticed that she always talks about the Dixons, plural?
Sarah and Peter Dixon that's two people.
Why never anything with just Sarah?
Annie's married and we still do things the two of us.
Not lately, which I should fix, but usually.
Maybe she's good friends with both of them.
Then why not go to the wedding?
Oh oh, I know who sent the laptop!
Who?
Well if Jane wants to hide it I am not one to tell everybody.
What is Jane hiding?
Look who's hiding in her office.
Frank. You're here.
Of course I am. Don't tell me you already gave up on me.
You did flake on our photo shoot. For a haircut?
Best foot forward, as you always say. Can you blame me for wanting a higher bid?
I don't think that'll be a problem Mr. Churchill.
Thank you, Harriet.
So how's the planning going?
So far all of the guests on your list have already confirmed their attendance.
Fantastic. And did you manage to get the practical Miss Fairfax for the auction.
We did. When she saw that even Alex was participating, she ran out excuses.
Boom. Seems everything's going perfectly.
Isn't it Emma Woodhouse?
Oops, sorry. Jane needs help with her new laptop. I'll be right back.
Why are you smiling?
I'm not. Why are you smiling?
I am just very proud of Harriet. She learned so much
about computers that now she can help Jane with her new laptop.
So you finally got her a new computer.
It wasn't from us. It was a gift.
A gift? From whom?
She wouldn't say. But whoever it was knew exactly what Jane needed.
Is that so?
I wonder why they wait until now to send it.
Jane's been here for almost a month.
Perhaps they didn't know about her need for it until very recently.
Who could know about her need for a laptop? Who does she correspond with often enough to know this?
Her aunt maybe?
Oh, please. Even Jane admitted that Maddy couldn't afford that.
I think this gift came all the way from London.
Did the laptop say something snotty to you?
Does it pre-schedule a tea time?
Okay, you can be ridiculous if you want to but I saw it in her eyes.
And I know you're thinking the same thing that I am.
I will probably suspect the same thing
you suspect as soon as you tell me what you're suspecting.
Why did Jane leave London?
I understand her project there finished early.
And her coming here happened right
before her best friend got married.
Going away gift?
If it's a gift from Sarah Dixon why keep it a secret?
Am I sensing a scandalous story, Emma Woodhouse?
I'm not saying that Jane or Peter Dixon did anything wrong.
But they were all very close.
Are you sure it can't be from anybody else?
Those are the only friends she ever talks or tweets about.
Your evidence seems solid.
I've done my research.
Now I feel I need to see this amazing gift with my own eyes.
See if you can get anything else out of Jane.
I'll be back with my discoveries.
Okay so sometimes a little gossip isn't so bad. It's fun when you can share your findings.
And if you can share them with someone who offers to help you in your investigation.
All the better. And remember its all done for the good
of your new friend.