A couple discuss techniques for writing thank you letters.

Socialist principles come in conflict with the demands of high society.

It is said that when a Cernogratz dies in the family castle, the wolves in the forest howl all night long ... but Baroness Gruebel, new owner of Cernogratz castle, is sceptical.

Lady Drakmanton comes up with an unorthodox way of dealing with the miserly Misses Smithly-Dubb.

The government's success in a by-election becomes dependant on the acquittal of an obviously guilty man.

Sir Lulworth Quayne reflects on some of the enterprising but thwarted plans made by the Suffragettes to further their cause.

At an extended house party everyone gets along splendidly with one another - except a certain Mrs. Pentherby.

An author, at work on the third chapter of his eighth novel, is interrupted by an encyclopaedia salesman.