After arriving in Bournemouth at Aunt Hermione's house, Larry quickly sets off to visit friends in London, where he is greeted at his friend Durant's house by a group of like-minded artists - Henry Miller, Jonquil and Ruby - and begins to embrace their modern, bohemian lifestyle. Louisa is left with her cousins Prue, Geoffrey and Basil, who arrive to settle details of Hermione's will and attend the funeral. Leslie takes charge of the household and is offered a job as a local policeman, whilst Spiros forbids Margo from seeing Zoltan in Louisa's absence, and Gerry saves a donkey from an abusive farmer.