If I’d been feeling nasty, they would have discovered the fleas much later at an Inopportune Moment. I, too, am worried about Polly – even if Frank married her, I can see him considering her an inconvenience fairly soon, that is, as soon as a better financial prospect comes along. A quick bash on the head and assuming that people think she’s run away when she found she was pregnant might seem a tempting scenario.

I can’t see Peter’s agent lasting without some sort of sense of the importance of Bunter in keeping Peter ticking over.