After the holidays, Peter returns to Llanabba and Margot and Paul go up to London to plan their wedding. First, however, Margot has some business to attend to. Margot must interview girls to place in her South American cabarets. From the very beginning, it is evident to the reader that something is askew in these "places of entertainment." The girls Margot interviews use exotic aliases and lie about the details of their previous employment. Their former employers, which are known only by the name of their proprietresses and the street upon which they are found, sound very much like houses of ill repute. Margot Beste-Chetwynde evidently runs a South American prostitution syndicate, a fact that Paul remains blithely innocent of, despite watching Margot conducting her shady business transactions for an entire.....
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