Aunt Dahlia goes out in the garden to see L.P. Runkle and, finding him sleeping in a hammock, assumes a watchful position at his side waiting for a chance to talk to him about Tuppy. Meanwhile Bertie tells Jeeves about Aunt Dahlia's plan to mellow mr. Runkle to the point where he would be willing to be generous to Tuppy for his father's efforts, whereupon Jeeves expresses his doubts whether that would succeed, describing mr. Runkle as a twenty-minute egg. Then Florence appears, asking Bertie to go look for her Harold, telling him that Ginger made nothing of his speech at the Chamber of Commerce lunch they had that afternoon. Bertie moves on to Aunt Dahlia, stilll watchful at mr. Runkle's side, who tells him that she saw Ginger on his way to the summerhouse. When Bertie arrives there he sees Ginger locked in close embrace with Magnolia Glendennon.