 Gordon Brittas sees the annual official dance as a rare occasion for his staff to mix with society, but is gravely disappointed when many seem unable or unwilling to get a suitable partner. Colin asks his milk delivery woman. Carol places an add and gets an answer from her first teenage boy friend, who is now wealthy but gets his hand stuck in the suggestion box, and gets into worse trouble. Laura s Texan ex-partner Michael T. Farrell turns up, disinherited and broke. Gordons wife has rushed back home, but in what state. The weather isn t festive either.