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Spring, 1923, James Bellamy meets up with Diana Newbury - his best friend's wife and 'old flame'.

After years of hesitation and dozens of 'will you's', they decide (or rather Diana Newbury does!) that they should elope and runaway to France together. It begins when they take a cottage borrowed from 'Cocky Danby'. However; they soon find that they bore each other after all these years, and that perhaps the time for 'love' has been lost...

I must confess at the shock of those words uttered by James: 'Why did I ever choose Hazel when I could have chosen you?' Well James; I think I can answer that one for you; Hazel was way more attractive, and was worth twenty of Diana Newbury! Simple as that! I never liked the character Diana Newbury - couldn't stand the woman... Nothing to look at, and a frightful snob with no redeeming qualities whatsoever...

Be warned: There's way too much kissing in this. (nauseating) Particularly as Ms. Newbury is so painfully thin and about to crack under the pressure!

...Only for it all to go to pot.

Bunny, Diana's husband, is away fishing in Wales, when Diana runs across a sad, maudlin James in a nightclub. She throws herself at him, and is delighted when he finally reciprocates. They go off for an illicit weekend together only for James to find rainy weather and boredom turn the whole thing sour. Diana's just convinced James to take her to sunny Europe, so they can party forever, when Bunny returns home to her note about having left him for James. Bunny offers to stand aside and let them marry, only for James to say he'd rather not, actually.

Lord Bellamy, with his mind on his position and the fear of scandal, talks Bunny into taking Diana back and basically blames her part in it as her needing "looking after". He recommends Bunny buys her a new hat. Bunny and Diana go off on a cruise together, and James is left alone.

No one comes out of this episode looking good. Diana appears as a spoiled child, who's left to twist in the wind when her lover deserts her. James is a selfish cad who stabs his best friend in the back, then declines to take responsibility for helping to destroy what's left of his marriage. Lord Bellamy puts his position before doing the right thing, and Bunny foolishly takes his horrible wife back.

While I don't like Diana, I feel sorry for her once she realises she can't depend on James at all.

One bright spot in the episode is Edward's growing alarm at Diana's flirtatious maid and her attempts to vamp him. Just wait until Daisy finds out!