Uneasy Money guide

Summary

Characters

• BillAlso Chalmers, DawlishLeadFrom Chapter 1
• ClaireSuitorFrom Chapter 1
• AlgieAlso WetherbyOtherFrom Chapter 1
• PollyAlso WetherbyHelperFrom Chapter 1
• IraAlso NutcombeGatekeeperFrom Chapter 1
• GatesHelperFrom Chapter 1
• JerryAlso NicholsHelperFrom Chapter 2
• RoscoeAlso SherriffHelperFrom Chapter 3
• DudleyAlso PickeringSuitorFrom Chapter 3
• PerkinsOtherFrom Chapter 4
• ElizabethAlso BoydLoveFrom Chapter 4
• NuttyAlso BoydOtherFrom Chapter 4
• LeonardOtherFrom Chapter 6
• Heinrich JoergAlso HeinrichOtherFrom Chapter 6
• WrenchOtherFrom Chapter 13
• The scullery-maidOtherFrom Chapter 13
• The odd-job manOtherFrom Chapter 13
• Valerie DevenishOtherFrom Chapter 13

Chapter by chapter

Storylines

• Bill's readiness to give money to strangers brings him into conflict with Claire's concern about his finances and her distrust of their claims.

• Claire demands that Bill earn more money, while his inherited title carries no fortune and his attempt to increase his salary has met resistance.

  • Bill commits to seeking greater income in America and gains practical help from Gates, but has not yet obtained work or increased his income.
  • Bill becomes a millionaire, removing the financial necessity behind Claire's demand that he increase his earnings.

• Bill and Claire are engaged, but her increasingly frequent irritation and his exaggerated view of her sacrifices strain their relationship.

  • Bill's sadness gives way to renewed remorse and pity for Claire, reinforcing his sense of her sacrifices without settling their strain.
  • Claire's anger at what she perceives as Bill's patronizing response adds to the strain on their engagement.
  • Bill's anticipation of Claire's opposition leads him to avoid meeting her and conceal the size of his legacy, adding guarded communication to their existing strain.
  • Bill's relief that Claire has supposedly missed his performance reveals his concern about her reaction, while her unseen presence creates a fresh occasion for strain.
  • Claire considers accepting Dudley and deliberately seeks an excuse to leave Bill; seeing Bill dancing with another woman gives her new material for private consideration.
  • Claire becomes engaged to Dudley and decides to end her attachment to Bill; her encounter with Bill brings that unresolved rupture into immediate reach.
  • Bill doubts his loyalty as his attraction to Elizabeth grows, then partly revives his attachment to Claire and convinces himself that he still passionately loves her.
  • Despite Bill's renewed love, Claire refuses his embrace, declares her attachment and trust destroyed, and terminates their engagement.

• Bill wants to marry Claire immediately, but she refuses marriage on his present income.

  • The inheritance removes Bill's lack of money as the stated obstacle to marriage, but Claire has not yet responded and no immediate marriage is arranged.
  • Claire accepts Dudley and intends to end her attachment to Bill, obstructing Bill's wish to marry her.
  • Claire's termination of the engagement prevents Bill from marrying her.

• After considering refusing the touring engagement, Claire decides to pack and travel to Southampton that afternoon to join the company as Claudia Winslow's replacement.

  • Claire initially proceeds with packing for the touring engagement, then abandons the replacement role after securing passage to America and sets out to tell the company to find another substitute.

• Breitstein wants Bill to secure his election to Brown's; Bill objects to him and has sent him a Zoo ticket, while Claire remains unmoved by Bill's objections.

• Bill has formed a golf acquaintance with Ira Nutcombe and undertaken to help cure his slice; Ira still recognizes Bill after their time at Marvis Bay.

  • Bill's golf help is revealed to have cured Ira's slice and prompted the bequest; Ira's death ends the acquaintance.

• Encouraged by Gates's accounts of opportunities in New York, Bill proposes an exploratory trip to America to find a way to earn more money.

  • The proposed trip becomes a definite departure tomorrow: Bill buys a New York ticket, secures promised lodging and introductions, adopts a working name, and plans to arrange his departure with Brown's committee despite Gates's initially discouraging response.
  • Bill commits to the American journey and books passage from Liverpool. His inheritance removes the need to find work, while approaching Elizabeth supplies a new purpose.
  • Bill makes the journey and reaches America, though no search for work is recorded here.

• Bill and Gates are friends, and Gates supports Bill's search for work in America with promised introductions and the use of his New York flat.

  • Bill takes up Gates's promised hospitality and occupies his New York flat.

• Bill will seek work in America under his former surname, Chalmers, following Gates's advice that his title would hinder employment; Gates agrees to introduce him under that name.

  • Bill uses Chalmers with Nutty, and maintaining the alias makes him wary of questions about Elizabeth.

• Bill interrupts his departure arrangements to visit Jerry immediately after receiving an urgent message promising good news.

  • Bill visits Jerry, learns and accepts the news of his inheritance, and leaves the office.

• Claire and Polly are close friends; Polly offers Claire summer hospitality and help finding work in New York, and pays for her passage.

  • Claire and Polly renew their intimacy, and Polly reveals her effort to bring Claire and Dudley together, including her denial of Claire's engagement.

• Claire accepts Polly's invitation and commits to sailing to America on the Atlantic using the prepaid passage; she secures a berth and plans to notify her mother.

  • Claire sails from England separately from Bill, carrying out the departure portion of her travel plan.
  • Claire has obtained her passage, made the voyage, and joined Polly at the restaurant in America.

• Algie refuses to return home until Polly disposes of Clarence and Eustace, while Polly is determined to keep the animals despite her distress at his departure.

  • Algie concedes that Eustace may stay, and Polly agrees to send Clarence away; their agreement reconciles them.

• Polly seeks Claire's help to sustain her resistance to Algie's demand that she give up the animals.

  • Although Polly tells Claire about the dispute, she abandons resistance and accepts Algie's condition concerning Clarence.

• Bill inherits Ira's fortune but feels that he has robbed Elizabeth Boyd of her expected inheritance.

  • Elizabeth learns that she is excluded from Ira's fortune, and both siblings attribute Bill's inheritance to wrongdoing, adding hostility to the inheritance conflict.
  • Elizabeth's account of the inheritance intensifies Bill's guilt, and he learns why she rejected his offer of half.
  • Ira's final will leaves the estate to Elizabeth, removing Bill's inheritance and the basis of his concern that he has deprived her.

• Jerry gives Perkins a fabricated explanation of the damaged portrait to repeat to Nichols Senior, and Perkins agrees to remember it.

• Bill plans to investigate Elizabeth Boyd's circumstances in America and seek an arrangement, considering giving her half the inheritance; he obtains her Brookport address.

  • Bill reaches America, bringing him closer to investigating Elizabeth's circumstances and proposing an arrangement; no contact or offer occurs yet.
  • Bill commissions a lawyer to offer Elizabeth half the legacy. Her refusal blocks that approach, but meeting her brother gives him a new route to negotiations.
  • The accepted invitation provides a concrete opportunity to investigate Elizabeth's circumstances and pursue an arrangement over the inheritance.
  • Bill has offered half through his lawyers, but Elizabeth refused because she regards it as charity from the man who cheated her. He postpones identifying himself and hopes her attitude will change.
  • Elizabeth's account establishes that Bill offered half the inheritance and that she agreed to accept it.
  • Elizabeth inherits the entire estate directly, making Bill's proposed division of the inheritance unnecessary.

• Bill avoids seeing Claire before departure to escape possible opposition and writes to report the legacy while withholding its amount.

  • The repeatedly forwarded letter finally reaches Claire, giving her news of the inheritance.

• Elizabeth provides Nutty with a home and care after he exhausts his inheritance; she reassures him that he is welcome and takes on his duties when the will disappoints him, increasing her own burden.

  • Elizabeth feeds and rests Nutty before confronting his irresponsibility. His defensive tactics fail, although his appearance softens her anger.
  • Elizabeth responds to Nutty's alarm, receives his confession and takes further responsibility for his recovery, including keeping the monkey as a deterrent and offering practical care.
  • Elizabeth assumes a further financial burden for Nutty, while he responds with disappointment and renewed resentment about farm work and losing a wealthy prospective brother-in-law.

• Elizabeth seeks Nutty's recovery through life and work in the country, but he denies improving and reports disturbing dreams; she fears that renewed wealth could harm him.

  • Elizabeth discovers Nutty's concealed drinking and exploits his mistaken belief that the monkey is a hallucination. He confesses, pledges abstinence and begins outdoor exercise, advancing her aim of recovery without yet establishing lasting improvement.

• Nutty looks to Ira's inheritance for money, but the lawyers' letter defeats his expectations by leaving him only twenty pounds.

  • Nutty learns and accepts that Elizabeth inherits the fortune, renewing his hopes of benefiting from Ira's wealth without making him the heir.

• Elizabeth blames Bill for Nutty's lost inheritance and comes to hate him as a supposed fortune-hunter; Nutty likewise suspects that Dawlish manipulated Ira.

  • Elizabeth refuses any share of the legacy, frustrating Bill's attempt to reach an arrangement and leaving their opposition unresolved.
  • Elizabeth continues to regard Dawlish as a schemer who obtained her uncle's fortune, explaining both her refusal of the money and Bill's reluctance to reveal himself.
  • Elizabeth learns Bill's identity but abandons her hostile interpretation of Lord Dawlish after recognizing his honesty and recalling his offer.

• Nutty leaves the farm for New York without telling Elizabeth; after searching for him and initially assuming he is walking, she discovers his departure.

  • Nutty's departure develops into a search for his old New York circle and an evening at Reigelheimer's; no disclosure to Elizabeth is recorded.
  • Nutty announces his intention to return to the country tomorrow and arranges to bring Bill with him; his return has not yet occurred.
  • Nutty returns to the farm and faces Elizabeth's confrontation over his conduct; his departure is no longer concealed.

• Nutty seeks companionship among his old New York friends; finding Gates absent, he recruits Bill for his supper party and loses his melancholy in the festivities.

  • Nutty's melancholy has lifted during the festivities, fulfilling his immediate search for companionship.

• Bill presents himself to Nutty as Chalmers and conceals his interest in Elizabeth; Nutty misreads Bill's astonishment at his identity.

  • Leonard identifies Chalmers as Lord Dawlish, and Nutty accepts the identification. Bill's identity is exposed to Nutty, but his reason for using the alias and his interest in Elizabeth remain concealed.
  • Elizabeth still does not know that her guest is Dawlish and mistakes his guilt for sympathy. Bill deliberately postpones revealing his identity.
  • Bill continues presenting himself to Elizabeth as Chalmers with only his salary, and tells Claire that Elizabeth does not know his title.
  • Elizabeth knows that Chalmers is Lord Dawlish, and Bill learns that she knows.

• Bill plans to cultivate Nutty's friendship to reopen negotiations with Elizabeth about sharing Ira's legacy.

  • Nutty invites Bill to stay at the farm, giving Bill the access to Elizabeth he had hoped to obtain through their friendship. Bill accepts and agrees to the travel arrangements.
  • Nutty brings Bill to the farm, giving him direct access to Elizabeth and an increasingly friendly reception, though her hostility toward Dawlish prevents immediate negotiations.
  • The final will removes the need to use Nutty's friendship to negotiate a division of Bill's supposed inheritance.

• Bill overcomes his initial dismay at the Good Sport and develops brotherly affection for her, sharing an exuberant but disastrous dance.

• Bill believes Claire has not witnessed his disastrous dancing, but she has seen it and is astonished.

  • Claire sees Bill's disastrous dancing and his blonde partner, then privately considers what she has witnessed; no event shows Bill learning that she has seen him.
  • Bill learns that Claire witnessed the restaurant incident and attempts to explain it.

• Dudley falls in love with Claire after their close acquaintance during the voyage; her attention encourages him, while she remains undecided about accepting him.

  • Dudley's resistance to marriage gives way to renewed longing and intimacy; he explicitly proposes, Claire accepts, and he rejoices in their engagement.
  • Claire's hostility culminates in her returning the engagement ring and leaving Dudley, defeating his expectation of marriage.
  • Claire seeks reconciliation, Dudley renews his faith in her love, and they resume their engagement.

• Dudley attempts an indirect marriage proposal to Claire, but Polly interrupts before he can complete it.

  • After retreating from his interrupted attempt, Dudley makes an explicit marriage offer and Claire accepts.

• Claire seeks an excuse to break her engagement to Bill while preserving her self-respect, so that she can settle her answer to Dudley.

  • Claire settles her response to Dudley and accepts him, then resolves to end her attachment to Bill. No actual breakup or self-justifying excuse is established yet.
  • Claire uses Bill's restaurant conduct as grounds for ending their engagement.

• Polly arranged Claire and Dudley's shared voyage hoping that Dudley would fall in love with Claire.

  • Polly's matchmaking achieves an engagement between Claire and Dudley, which she learns of with unrestrained delight.

• Dudley believes Claire is unengaged because Polly falsely told him so; Claire learns of this misinformation.

  • Dudley proposes and becomes engaged to Claire while her prior attachment to Bill remains to be ended; no correction of Polly's misinformation is recorded.

• Polly promises to send Clarence to the Zoo tomorrow as the condition of reconciliation with Algie.

• Nutty knows Bill's true identity but conceals his discovery and financial motive when inviting him to the farm; Bill receives the invitation with delight.

  • Nutty's overheard reference to five million dollars gives Bill apparent evidence of a concealed financial motive, although it does not establish Elizabeth's complicity.
  • Bill learns how Nutty discovered his identity and that Nutty subsequently told Elizabeth.

• Knowing that Chalmers is Lord Dawlish, Nutty plans to cultivate him for possible financial advantage and invites him to Elizabeth's farm as his first step.

  • Nutty carries out the invitation by bringing Bill to the farm and becomes alarmed when Elizabeth's efforts to drive him away threaten the visit.
  • Nutty benefits from Bill's domestic labour, encourages him to stay, and begins expecting him to marry Elizabeth, tactfully withdrawing when they are together.
  • Nutty intends to invite Bill for an indefinite stay, extending his cultivation of Bill.
  • Nutty learns that Bill does not inherit Ira's fortune, defeating the financial premise of cultivating him.

• Elizabeth tries to drive Bill away through unpleasant farm work, beginning with beekeeping intended to get him stung; his expertise defeats the attempt, and she abandons her wish to eject him.

• Bill likes Elizabeth immediately; she comes to welcome him as a fellow bee enthusiast, pities his thwarted rural ambitions, confesses her attempt to drive him away, and discovers that they also share golfing abilities and faults.

  • Bill and Elizabeth rapidly become close friends; Bill recognizes the unusual intimacy and privately concludes that Elizabeth is the most attractive girl he has met.
  • Bill recognizes Elizabeth as embodying his ideal woman and values her sympathy, while her concern about his extraordinary walk shows her growing care for him.
  • Bill's protective affection becomes openly romantic, and Elizabeth reciprocates his embraces and kisses and expresses her admiration.
  • Their mutual affection has become an engagement.

• Dudley intends a grand wedding followed by married life with Claire in Detroit.

  • Claire ends their engagement, blocking Dudley's plans for their wedding and married life.
  • Dudley initially accepts the loss of their planned marriage and resolves against marriage, but Claire's return reverses him; their renewed engagement restores the prospect of marriage.

• Claire intends to find Bill, disclose her engagement to Dudley and end her attachment to Bill before an embarrassing encounter; lacking his address, she unexpectedly encounters him at the estate gate.

  • The encounter at the gate becomes mutual when Bill discovers Claire beside him, providing an opportunity for her intended disclosure; no disclosure is yet recorded.
  • Claire finds Bill and ends their engagement, but these events do not establish that she tells him about her engagement to Dudley.

• Bill's growing attraction to Elizabeth conflicts with his engagement to Claire; he repeatedly reassures himself that his intimacy with Elizabeth is platonic and uses Claire's photograph to renew his loyalty.

  • Bill's love for Claire revives and her rejection leaves him grieving, but the ended engagement removes the commitment underlying his conflict over Elizabeth.

• Dudley mistakes Bill's presence outside the house and subsequent flight for a burglary threat and urges police intervention.

  • Dudley arms himself by buying a revolver, extending his response to the perceived burglary threat.
  • Dudley recognizes Bill and interprets his visit and hurried departure as evidence of criminal intent. Claire's denial reinforces his mistake, which now includes Elizabeth as an accomplice and prompts him to act.

• Roscoe plans to wait for an actual burglary and exploit it for publicity, opposing Dudley's wish to notify the police.

• Dudley's existing dislike of Roscoe intensifies over Roscoe's response to the suspected burglar.

• Polly tries to conceal Eustace's misconduct to protect her reconciliation with Algie, but the kitchen damage makes concealment impracticable and Claire reveals the attack on Dudley.

• Polly has Eustace captured and confined in the garage to stop his attacks, but he bites Dudley and escapes.

• Roscoe intends to turn Eustace's attack on Dudley into newspaper publicity by presenting the monkey as possibly mad; Dudley's use of the telephone delays his calls.

  • Roscoe's publicity effort attracts newspaper interest and brings three reporters into the house, where their activity exhausts and irritates Polly.
  • The monkey and his attack have attracted reporters to the farm, advancing the publicity Roscoe sought.

• Dudley seeks medical advice after Eustace bites him and suggestions of madness make him fear that the bite could be fatal.

• Elizabeth conceals that Eustace is real so that Nutty will believe drinking has caused hallucinations; she tells Bill the truth and asks him to maintain the deception.

  • Nutty continues to believe the monkey was a hallucination, and Elizabeth prevents reporters from discovering the real animal. Nutty remains occupied with his recovery exercises.

• Nutty commits to abstinence and physical recovery through walking, Indian-club exercise and cold baths.

  • Nutty's commitment to reform is reaffirmed, and Elizabeth finds him actively performing breathing exercises.
  • Nutty continues his walking regimen.
  • Despite an impulse to celebrate with alcohol, Nutty remembers his lifelong pledge and chooses food and water.

• Elizabeth plans to keep Eustace as a further deterrent to Nutty's drinking, befriends him with food and arranges to lodge him out of sight in the outhouse.

  • The danger of discovery leads Elizabeth to abandon keeping the monkey at the farm and arrange his immediate removal; his gunshot wound further obstructs that change of plan.
  • Eustace's death prevents Elizabeth from keeping him as a continuing deterrent to Nutty's drinking.

• Bill plans to use news of Eustace as an excuse to visit Lady Wetherby and see Claire again, withholding the monkey's location and possibly returning him later.

  • Bill uses news of Eustace to obtain a visit and establishes friendly access through Polly, but learning of Claire's engagement makes him abandon the intended meeting and hurry away. He leaves Polly believing Eustace escaped from the farm without revealing the monkey's present location.
  • Bill has made the intended visit and recalls that seeing Claire was its motive. He leaves and subsequently recognizes that his romantic attachment to her has ended.

• Bill and Polly quickly become friendly through their shared acquaintance with Claire; Polly later regrets unwittingly shocking him with news of Claire's engagement.

• Bill learns that Claire is engaged to Dudley and suspects that she accepted Dudley before ending their own engagement; shocked, he seeks to avoid her.

  • Bill confirms that Claire concealed her engagement to Pickering during their last meeting and loses trust in her. After examining his distress, he regains composure and recognizes that his attachment was attraction and pity rather than love.

• Dudley resolves to take action against Bill and Elizabeth after falsely concluding that they are accomplices using the bee-farm as a cover for burglary.

  • Dudley undertakes armed reconnaissance of the farm. Overheard conversation strengthens his mistaken burglary theory: he takes James for another accomplice, suspects stolen goods in the outhouse, and interprets banana as slang for pistol. He approaches the outhouse to investigate but accidentally fires his revolver when James touches his leg, then flees.
  • Dudley interprets the pair's removal of Eustace as preparation for burglary, follows them and enters the studio to investigate their activities.

• Claire conceals her former engagement to Bill from Dudley, falsely denies knowing the visitor, and secures Polly's promise to keep the engagement secret.

• Reporters investigating the missing monkey threaten to expose Elizabeth's concealment of him; she diverts their attempts to inspect the outhouse.

• Polly plans to offer a five-hundred-dollar reward for the missing monkey.

  • Polly discovers Eustace's body, ending the need for a reward to locate the missing monkey.

• Bill and Elizabeth agree to remove the monkey immediately, but discover that he has been shot before they can carry out the removal.

  • Bill and Elizabeth carry Eustace away to the studio shack, where Polly subsequently discovers his body.

• Someone has shot the monkey in the outhouse; Bill and Elizabeth discover the wound, but the shooter's identity and the monkey's survival remain unknown.

  • The reader learns that Dudley accidentally discharged his revolver beside the outhouse when startled by James, explaining the shooting discovered earlier. Bill and Elizabeth have not learned who fired the shot, and the monkey's survival remains unknown.
  • Eustace's death and Dudley's responsibility are established for the reader. Polly, Claire and Algie accuse Dudley, but he attempts to persuade them of his innocence; Bill and Elizabeth have not learned the shooter's identity.
  • The monkey is confirmed dead, and Claire identifies Dudley as the shooter; these events do not establish that Bill and Elizabeth witnessed the shooting.

• Elizabeth fears that an armed intruder is following her and Bill; Bill tries to reassure and protect her while Dudley secretly pursues them.

• Claire breaks her engagement to Dudley after treating him coldly and joining the others in believing him responsible for Eustace's death.

  • Claire confirms that she ended the engagement and returned Dudley's ring, expressing disgust at his conduct and relief at the separation.
  • Claire's return of the ring confirms the breakup, but she subsequently seeks forgiveness, puts the ring back on, and resumes the engagement.

• Dudley seeks to clear himself after Polly, Claire and Algie accuse him of killing Eustace, and Polly persuades Algie that he intended to frame him.

• Bill fears that revealing himself as Lord Dawlish, whom Elizabeth regards as an enemy, will destroy their relationship; his claim to have only his salary compounds the concealment.

  • His identity is openly acknowledged between them, and Elizabeth explains that knowing it did not destroy her love or her belief in his honesty.

• Bill intends to consult Jerry about whether he can legally marry as Chalmers and avoid a full confession to Elizabeth.

  • Elizabeth's knowledge of his identity removes the purpose of consulting Jerry about marrying under the name Chalmers.

• Claire seeks to renew her engagement to Bill, but he refuses and reveals his engagement to Elizabeth.

  • Following Bill's refusal, Claire reconciles with Dudley and resumes their engagement, ending her attempt to renew her engagement to Bill.

• Bill and Elizabeth are engaged; Bill knows she loves him and recognizes that his feelings for Claire have ended.

  • Bill's belief that Elizabeth wants his money undermines his trust in their engagement; Elizabeth learns that he overheard the conversation.
  • Bill recovers his trust and affirms his love, but Elizabeth refuses marriage because of their doubts about one another and sends him away.
  • Bill has left at Elizabeth's insistence, and her acknowledged love has not overcome her objection to marrying him.
  • Bill and Elizabeth reunite, reaffirm their engagement and agree to proceed with marriage.

• Bill infers that Claire seeks reconciliation because she has learned of his inheritance; Claire recognizes that admitting receipt of his letter could expose her motive but mistakenly believes him unsuspecting.

• Claire challenges Bill's confidence in Elizabeth by alleging that the Boyds already know his identity and are seeking his money.

  • Claire's allegation takes hold in Bill's mind, and Nutty's overheard remarks seem to confirm it.
  • Elizabeth explains the circumstances behind Claire's allegation, and Bill abandons the suspicion it encouraged.

• Dudley plans to leave tomorrow after the evening's events.

• Bill comes to believe that Elizabeth's affection conceals a scheme to obtain his inheritance: Claire's insinuations gain apparent confirmation when he overhears Nutty speaking of hating a man but receiving five million dollars.

  • Elizabeth explains Nutty's debts and mistaken consolation; Bill recognizes his misinterpretation and restores his trust in her.

• Nutty has borrowed five hundred dollars from five tradesmen against the same hundred-dollar bequest; their discovery brings threats of imprisonment.

  • Nutty acknowledges obtaining the money under false pretences, and Elizabeth offers her savings to repay his creditors; repayment has not yet occurred.

• Nutty mistakenly believes Elizabeth accepted Bill to rescue him from his debts; his resulting consolation produced the conversation Bill mistook for evidence of mercenary motives.

• Elizabeth fears that Bill will distrust her again and that she cannot be certain of his own motives for marrying her; despite their continued love and his assurances, she sends him away.

  • Elizabeth explains that she dismissed Bill because she fears he could never trust her love. His departure and Nutty's rejection of her reasoning weaken her confidence in that decision.
  • Elizabeth learns that she owns the fortune previously attributed to Bill and immediately departs to catch a train. The financial circumstances underlying their mistrust have changed, but no reconciliation occurs in this chapter.
  • Elizabeth deliberately follows Bill and accepts his financial help; their renewed commitment survives the revelation that she inherits the fortune, and Bill promises to stop objecting on financial grounds.

• Elizabeth commits her savings to paying Nutty's debts, abandoning their previously intended use.

• Jerry seeks to keep his father from learning that he prematurely notified Bill and Elizabeth of the superseded will, and asks Elizabeth to remain silent.

• Elizabeth urgently seeks to catch the eleven o'clock train, offering the driver ten dollars to reach the station in time.

  • Elizabeth uses Jerry's car and pays all her available cash to reach the train, successfully boarding and finding Bill.

• Elizabeth plans to buy a hat, obtain a marriage licence, marry Bill, find a farm, and support Nutty cautiously.

Places

Bandolero Restaurant, London, Shaftesbury Avenue, Palace Theatre, New York, Cambridge, Southampton, Portsmouth, West Kensington, The West Kensington flat, The Zoo, Marvis Bay, The Haymarket, America, Piccadilly, Pen and Ink Club, England, Liverpool, The Strand, Cockspur Street, Brookport, Long Island, Washington Square, Chicago, Walton Heath, Palestine, Alhambra, Covent Garden, Detroit, Reigelheimer's, The garage, Lincoln, The Savoy, State Road, Wayside inn, Morrisville, The Boyd home, East Moriches, Jamaica, Islip