 While out alone one evening at a jazz club, James meets his old girlfriend, Diana, Lady Newbury. She asks how he s faring and he asks about her husband, his old friend, Bunny, Lord Newbury. He s in Wales, she tells James, and life at Sommerby Park is very dreary for her. She remarks that, with Hazel gone, she wonders why he refuses her many invitations to visit them at their grand estate. As it happens, James is staying at a cottage in the country for the weekend and the pair conspire to meet there. James takes Edward, who meets Violet, Diana s new maid. Between the cozy setting and the rainy weather, James beds Diana after all of these years. Word gets to Lord Newbury and to Richard. Richard is furious at what his son has done and Bunny is disappointed in both James and his wife. When they meet at Eaton Place, Bunny, still a gentleman and rather old-fashioned tells James that he will grant Diana a divorce, on the condition that James and Diana marry. James tells Diana that he could never make her happy -- the war has forever changed him and he s not the man she knew and loved. The Newburys are reconciled, scandal is averted and James thinks upon what might have been.