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In Richard Veit’s immensely helpful episode guide, the following few minutes’ action occurs in his outline The Mackenzie Home, deftly between paragraphs 1 and 2:<div><br></div><div>Edwin and Helen are wandering the outdoor party, noting grownups bobbing for apples and getting their faces plastered. Separately, <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Sefton and Ada are wandering too. Sefton, unusually for him, has a go at a couple of the fun activities: throwing quoits onto a wall caricature of Hitler (“Hang one on Adolf”) and actually getting one, and then going over to hit the mallet to ring the bell; appropriately, he can get the ringer only up to “pitiful,” even with two tries. Clearly, the writer was having fun at Sefton’s expense, and why not?</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Separately, Freda’s friend Doris and her American sergeant are strolling around, far less interested in external goings-on than in their internal ones. They come across a lush hedge and, even though Doris starts to protest that “this is a private home,” her sergeant says their activity should be private and he pulls her in and down, much to their clearly mutual delight, legs akimbo. (American television was NEVER this “shocking”!)</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">This sets up the discovery in Richard’s paragraph 9 about the two ladies discovering the lovers. We already know who they are.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">All this minor activity accounts for perhaps 3 additional minutes in the Netherlands Just Entertainment set.</span></div><div><br></div><div><br></div>
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