After the usual hearty greetings from Aunt Dahlia Bertie hears that Spode was invited to speak for Ginger at the election and that Madeline came along, with Florence Craye in their wake. When asking about the man with the camera he met in the garden Aunt Dahlia tells him that this must have been L.P. Runkle, owner of a company where the father of Tuppy Glossop worked for, inventing a pill against headaches the revenues of which Runkle kept to himself because Glossop's contract stated that the revenues of any invention made in company time would automatically revert to the company, with the result that Glossop had nothing to leave to his son, who wants to marry aunt Dahlia's daughter Angela. Runkle is at Brinkley to sell a valuable piece of old silver to Tom Travers, but as Tom is absent Aunt Dahlia is using Anatole's superb cooking to mellow Runkle to the point that he will be more generous to Tuppy.