Originally, Elizabeth Jane Howard had written a script called The Price of Rubies, which would have shown James Bellamy gambling and getting involved with an unsuitable woman.
However, for an unknown reason, this was quickly dropped and in the space of one long weekend Alfred Shaughnessy produced "The Joy Ride".
[1] Fall, 1921: Following the death of his aunt Kate, Lady Castleton, James uses £375 of the £1,000 she left him to buy an Avro 504 aeroplane.
However, Richard wants her to sit in the Strangers Gallery in the House of Lords while he delivers an important speech, and then to go to tea with him and some friends.
Lady Prudence insists on staying at 165 Eaton Place, and sleeps on a morning room sofa as Richard dozes.