 When he thought that Nora's downtrodden husband, Wally (Joe Gladwin), had left her and emigrated to New Zealand, he was originally going around in Wally's old clothes and tidying up.But when Clegg and Blamire tricked him into believing that Nora was intent on marriage, he panicked and tried his hardest to remove Nora from the dinner to which he had invited her (Wally had in fact gone to his mother's for a couple of days, and Compo knew that he was coming back after all).Although Nora often gives Compo the hard end of her broomstick, she does often display concern or kindness towards him.