Everyone has prepared in their version of finery for the sports and, though Dr. Fagan admits to Pennyfeather that every event of this kind he has seen at Llanabba has ended disastrously, he tells Paul, as they survey the grounds, that he is optimistic for the day ahead. Meanwhile, Grimes and Prendergast have gone to Mrs. Roberts for a drink.
There is a tent set up for the Llanabba Silver Band, a marquee for the visitors' tea, and outside on the lawn are seats and pots of flowering shrubs and palms. The preparations for the sporting events themselves are rather less impressive: the rental company has sent the wrong sort of hurdles - they are five feet high and spiked - there is no equipment for the high jump, no pit for.....
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