Mr. Preston Iain Glen Mr. Preston is the Cumnor family's seemingly sinister land agent whose duties take him from Ashcombe, where Mrs. Gibson taught school prior to her re-marriage, to Hollingford. He harbors a dangerous secret that could compromise both Molly and her new sister. "There is something endearingly honest about him once you've got to know him," says actor Iain Glen. "Preston is acting out of profound love and has the purest motivation of anyone in the story. He has held onto that feeling even in the most barren of circumstances. As Preston protests, 'I have waited for years. I've put up with jealousy, and neglect.' Unfortunately, his love has turned into an obsession, as it can do when those feelings aren't reciprocated." Glen has appeared in two previous ExxonMobil Masterpiece Theatre productions, in the title role of George Eliot's Adam Bede and as Sebastian Stafford in Painted Lady. He also appeared in the London stage hit, The Blue Room, opposite Nicole Kidman.