A second garden interlude!

Meanwhile, in a more secluded part of the garden, von Rumpfler meets with Nora Hindquarters…

'But what’s wrong, Rumpy, my dear?  You’ve been awfully quiet since you returned home…'

'Oh, it’s just been dreadful, Nora, dreadful!  Every stratagem I have attempted has come to grief – even the ones from von Bulow’s ‘The Compleat Strategist’.  I fear I may now be a figure of fun to my own officers – I am at a loss, my dear, and I simply do not how I will proceed on the coming campaign…'

'Oh, come here, my dearest Rumpy and let me embrace you…everything will be alright…'