“You're a neighbor, I just gave you a lift" Scott explained. But it wasn't quite that simple. By mistaking Scott Redman for the local taxi driver, Fern felt she had put herself in his debt. Fern Sutton had come to the village of Thorpe St. Mary for a change of pace from city life. Then she found herself the center of a rivalry between her new employer and her neighbor. Roy Barton was exactly the kind of man she admired. Scott, though admittedly charming and forceful, she refused to take seriously!