Samuel finally gets to meet the mystery men at a cover address, promised a major government order if he passes discretion tests, which he succeeds despite(?) claiming all governments are incompetent. It's MI5, but the vital order to turn his staff locator into a success rather then a drain which may bankrupt his company is made dependent on his promise to spy on MP Richard Shaw, whose wife Kathlee eagerly invites the whole Petrushkin family to all their events, especially in the lavish garden. It's a rare treat for Sasha, who spends a grim time at boarding school, where the brush whacks any apparent imp. His sister Hannah achieves dubious fame, which she hides at home, by being the only debutante making a spectacle of herself by arriving seconds too late to be presented at court, but thus enters the party circuit, only she prefers her poet teacher from finishing school Nicolas Halliday, who gets her interested in nuclear alert exercises, where she misbehaves again. Kathleen confides in her she's still desperately working along a PI to search for her adult son Anthony, who disappeared without a clue five years ago.
—KGF Vissers