Sir Duncan Craggs retires from the Colonial Service and returns to London with his new French wife.
Both Bullock and his domineering wife travel up to London as well, fearing that Penny will tell Craggs malicious stories about them.
Back in London, Mrs. Craggs is horrified to discover she is still married to the White Russian Count Polotsky, whom she had thought was dead.
It is discovered that Polotsky has married a young Chinese woman and is equally guilty of bigamy.
Since 1930, a popular series of film adaptations of Traver's Aldwych Farces had been released.