 Pop discovers that Edith has a boyfriend called George. He invites them to Ma s birthday party, complete with Punch and Judy show, and befriends George, who turns out to be very wealthy. He convinces Pop to get into a fraud involving pig breeding, though Ma does trust him. Primrose has a new love interest, George the poet from Liverpool, who is helping build a swimming-pool for Pop, but Victoria keeps making fun of her.