Oh no, poor Harriet! Still - burdens of gratitude aside - I feel it can only be good for their relationship for her to learn that he's fallible in stupid self-destructive ways and not just in sacrificial manpain ways. Perhaps she'll now think twice about the wisdom of agreeing to "obey" someone who in certain respects is no more sensible than Jerry is.

Are the chess pieces going to survive in this reality? After all, if they don't appear as as obvious gift from the Dons' Delight, there's no motive for crushing them. That would be a great bonus. I always felt sorry about the wanton destruction of the chess set.