Vicki calls the Hammond Foundling Home in an attempt to verify Liz’s claim that someone there recommended her for the job. We see Ms Hopewell, director of the home, in her office. The office is a nice glimpse of the world Vicki left to come to the house, and of the show’s idea of what was going on in the buildings around the NYC studio where it was produced.
Liz frets over Carolyn’s reluctance to marry Joe, Joe frets over the idea that his recent promotion was arranged to ease that reluctance, and everyone frets over Burke’s latest doings. Liz blames Carolyn’s hesitancy, and perhaps all the rest of her woes, on “the famous ghosts of Collinwood.” Like everyone else in these early episodes, she uses the word “ghost” figuratively, but with the door conspicuously open to the possibility that we will be hearing literal ghost stories later on.
Acilius on Dark Shadows 