- The platoon holds a dance providing a variety of opportunities for dysfunctional social intercourse.
- Pike's work is suffering because he is distracted by his girl-friend Violet, whom Mainwaring regards as common as her mother used to clean for him. Furthermore at the upcoming platoon dance Pike is going to announce his engagement to her, which alarms Wilson as Mavis would never let her baby go. Mainwaring arrives at the dance with a black eye after a fight with his wife and, despite efforts by Jones - doing impressions - to stall Pike, the lad announces his big news. Mavis faints. Later she locks Wilson out of the house for not telling her of her son's plans and he joins Mainwaring, also shut out by his wife, in the church hall. Pike declares the engagement off after Mavis has thrown a bucket of water over him.—don @ minifie-1
- Mainwaring presides informally over preparations for the platoon dance. Rather thanks to Walker's black market connections, it gets done. Wilson fails in his mission to talk to Pike, who is clearly distracted in the bank, from the pending announcing of his engagement to an older girl, daughter of an even less 'suitable' mother. The captain's 'accidental' black eye and his lady's absence pale compared to what happens when stalling Pike's announcement finally fails.—KGF Vissers
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