Mr Stonehouse, the manager of Dobson and Hawks' biggest store, is leaving. If Swindley can get Wally Hunt into the vacancy he will be hot favourite himself for Hunt's old job. A quiet dinner party for the chairman of Dobson and Hawks, Lord Penge and his lady wife, should do the trick. There is one problem: Mrs Hunt can't cook. Swindley has the answer - call in a firm of catering specialists and he pushes Mr Hunt in agreeing to the arrangement. The tremulous Mrs Hunt is more nervous of the idea but happily agrees when Swindley tricks Mr Hunt into agreeing that his wife can buy a new dress for the night - not realising that her choice of outfit will cost Hunt forty-five guineas. Swindley himself orders the duck dinner for four to be delivered to Hunt's home from the "Bon Viveur Heated Trolle
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| - Mr Stonehouse, the manager of Dobson and Hawks' biggest store, is leaving. If Swindley can get Wally Hunt into the vacancy he will be hot favourite himself for Hunt's old job. A quiet dinner party for the chairman of Dobson and Hawks, Lord Penge and his lady wife, should do the trick. There is one problem: Mrs Hunt can't cook. Swindley has the answer - call in a firm of catering specialists and he pushes Mr Hunt in agreeing to the arrangement. The tremulous Mrs Hunt is more nervous of the idea but happily agrees when Swindley tricks Mr Hunt into agreeing that his wife can buy a new dress for the night - not realising that her choice of outfit will cost Hunt forty-five guineas. Swindley himself orders the duck dinner for four to be delivered to Hunt's home from the "Bon Viveur Heated Trolle
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| - Mr Stonehouse, the manager of Dobson and Hawks' biggest store, is leaving. If Swindley can get Wally Hunt into the vacancy he will be hot favourite himself for Hunt's old job. A quiet dinner party for the chairman of Dobson and Hawks, Lord Penge and his lady wife, should do the trick. There is one problem: Mrs Hunt can't cook. Swindley has the answer - call in a firm of catering specialists and he pushes Mr Hunt in agreeing to the arrangement. The tremulous Mrs Hunt is more nervous of the idea but happily agrees when Swindley tricks Mr Hunt into agreeing that his wife can buy a new dress for the night - not realising that her choice of outfit will cost Hunt forty-five guineas. Swindley himself orders the duck dinner for four to be delivered to Hunt's home from the "Bon Viveur Heated Trolley Service" but things go wrong from the start: Hunt's directions to Lord Penge forget to include a seven-mile diversion down an unmade road and Lady Penge's choice of dress is exactly the same as Mrs Hunt's. The real disaster occurs when the catering service delivers the food to Swindley's flat instead of Hunt's home and they refuse to re-deliver because of an overtime ban. Several hours later, with frantic phone calls to Mrs Edgeley and other companies seemingly being unsuccessful, the evening is proving a disaster. Swindley turns up with the duck dinner, as does another company who the Hunts managed to contact - only to find that Lord Penge hates duck and the alcohol that Swindley then adds to the consume has an adverse affect on Mrs Hunt and knocks her out. Things are saved from an unexpected source: Mrs Edgeley turns up with Hotpot and Jam Rolypoly, two meals that Lord Penge hasn't enjoyed for years. His parting from the Hunts is soured though when he tells Hunt that Mr Stonehouse has been encouraged to stay with Dobson and Hawkes with a large payrise and there is now no promotion in the offing...
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