The preparations for Margot and Paul's wedding are successfully moving along. In recompense to his indirect hand in Paul's current happy state, Paul has chosen Sir Alastair Digby-Vaine-Trumpington to be his best man and, on the whole, the public is delighted by the romance of the Beste-Chetwynde/ Pennyfeather marriage. Only the upper class, particularly Lady Circumference, whose son, Tangent, recently died from an infection incurred as a result of the gunshot wound inflicted by Mr. Prendergast, seems inclined to scorn the event. Just a few days before the wedding is to take place, Margot rings up Paul in the rooms he has taken at the Ritz and explains to him that the young women hired by her to work in Rio are stuck in Marseilles, probably because of something to do.....
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