3.9: Vows of Silence

Road To Avonlea: Season 3 (Buy This Season) | 3.1: Ties that Bind | 3.2: Felix and Blackie | 3.3: Another Point of View | 3.4: When She Was Bad, She Was Horrid Part 1 | 3.5: When She Was Bad, She Was Horrid Part 2 | 3.6: Aunt Janet Rebels | 3.7: A Dark and Stormy Night | 3.8: Friends and Relations | 3.9: Vows of Silence | 3.10: After the Honeymoon | 3.11: The Calamitous Courting of Hetty King | 3.12: High Society | 3.13: Old Friends, Old Wounds

Felicity King “borrows” a heirloom comb which Alec has given to Janet and loses it in a hay fight with Felix. Meanwhile, Janet thinks she has lost the comb, which she hates but must wear anyway because it is a family heirloom.

Felicity is distraught and can’t bring herself to tell her mother what she has done. She becomes tormented by visions of hell and eternal damnation, fueled by the new Pastor’s loud and exuberant sermons.

Season Three

In an attempt to save Felicity, the kids visit Peg Bowen who convinces them to interpret a lunar eclipse as a sign of Judgement Day. In order to save the world and themselves the kids confess their secret sins to each other.

Currently, the loss of the comb is the only black mark on the ledger of my soul, easily outweighed by all my good deeds. – Felicity King

In the end, the world keeps turning and Felicity confesses to Janet about the missing comb. Janet also confesses to Felicity that she had a new comb made so that Alec wouldn’t find out she lost it.

Notes & Inspirations

• Originally Aired March 8, 1992
• The Disney channel titled this episode ‘True Confessions’
• The Avonlea Church Interior is a re-work of the Town Hall set seen in “Another Point of View”.
• All of the moon and eclipse shots were completely redone for the Widescreen Special Edition.