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Gloomsbury: Series 3: Episode 3: Relishing the Gentleman

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Episode 3: Relishing the Gentleman

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Relishing the Gentleman

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Vera opens her garden to the public as a smoke screen to hide her liaison with Venus.

Vera opens her garden to the public as a smokescreen to hide her secret liaison with Venus. Starring John Sessions. From June 2015.

Having declared that she would rather die than take any of Lady Utterline's advice, Vera has decided to open her garden to the public. 
 
Ginny and Lionel have come down to help without realising that Vera is planning to dress up as a man (to avoid being recognised), so that she can indulge in a secret liaison with Venus, who is planning to dress up as a Russian Fortune Teller - Mrs Pullova. 
 
And all of this charade just to deceive Henry. 
 
But from the moment Vera asks Ginny and Lionel to be co-conspirators in her plot by luring Henry away from the garden party, things start to go wrong. 
 
Eventually, Henry finds out about the clandestine meeting in the fortune teller's tent and - despite an unwanted furore when the police arrive to arrest DH Lollipop for selling the vicar his pornographic novel (Lady Hattersley's Plover) - Henry manages to put a stop to Vera and Venus's elopement. 
 

 
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