Plot

Margaret is admitted to the hospital with cervical cancer and, despite Otto performing a hysterectomy, dies. Otto suspects Richard's involvement with her and Margaret offers Jean words of domestic wisdom before her operation. Jean, confused and upset, visits Monty for reassurance but he is also wandering and attempts to drown himself, being rescued by Otto, who discovers that Angela and Jean are sisters but agrees to say nothing. Angela, seeing the Powells as a happy family on a theatre trip, becomes even more aware that an affair with Otto would be pointless whilst Elizabeth realizes that Mulligan has duped her into having sex and there are no saving documents as promised. He tells her how Otto failed to save his son in Cyprus where he first became smitten by Elizabeth, with whom he is now obsessed. Lily sees her with Mulligan but Elizabeth asks her not to tell their husbands though Lily has her own disappointment when Charlie tells her he has failed an interview for a better job in St. Albans.—don @ minifie-1

Angela begins to reconsider her rejection of Otto's advances but then sees him with his wife Elizabeth and son Thomas as they are about to leave on an excursion together. She is again forced to reconsider her situation. Richard's lover, Margaret Dalton, visits Otto and learns that she has a tumor. The subsequent operation is unsuccessful and Margaret returns home with only a few weeks to live. Otto arranges for Jean to be her nurse and although Jean is quite put out at first, Margaret has good advice for her. Elizabeth meanwhile spends time with the obsessed Mulligan who reveals how his young son died. Charlie applies for and is successful in obtaining a position as head of anesthesia in another hospital but, obsessed with what he and Otto did in Cyprus, tells his wife Lily he didn't get it.—garykmcd