It is now the 1930s and Nicholas Jenkins is in his late twenties and writing film scripts for a living. A visit to Lady Molly's leads to a whole series of events which enthrall and fascinate. Marriage is clearly on the cards and Nicholas's old friend
Widmerpool becomes engaged to Mildred Blaides, an older woman with a reputation! Once again the lives of those known, and to be known, by Nicholas overlap and intertwine. The unlikely match of Widmerpool and Mildred, however, is not meant to be and as their engagement is broken off, Nicholas's own engagement to the charming Isobel Tolland is announced.
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