New Year’s Eve

All is merry and bright as Enid, in her best, sets aside mop and broom to join the gentlemen in the drawing room to see in the new year. Carols and ragtime on the Victrola, a tipsy punch, and Mr Boxe now entertains with his celebrated take on Marie Lloyd’s “One of the Ruins that Cromwell Knocked About a Bit.”

Mrs Kumar at Number 38 is so scandalized that she cannot bring herself to stop listening.