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.
—Pruneau