How It All Goes Down
- The Major pays Roger to a visit to let him know he's bringing a +1 (Grace).
- Roger's cottage, however, is minus 1. Roger isn't home. And it's about to be minus 1 permanently: Sandy is leaving him.
- Roger puts his social-ladder-climbing before Sandy, and, well, she's tired of it.
- Sandy decides to return to America to focus on her career, and even though the Major offers to help however he can, she tells him not to bother.
- Early the next morning (well, 8:30—early for us), the Major calls Roger.
- Roger has realized that Sandy left him, and, in anger, he has thrown the turkey out the window.
- The Major tells Roger to go get it, because he and Grace are still coming over. Now is the time for family.
- When Grace and the Major arrive at Roger's cottage, Roger is still asleep.
- The Major finds the turkey behind a hedge, and Grace does a ton of cooking while waiting for Roger to wake up.
- When he finally comes downstairs, Roger admits that he won't be staying for dinner. Gertrude invited him to play bridge, so the ungrateful sod is going to do that.
- The Major cannot believe how rude Roger is being, and he says to Grace: "He is no longer my son" (19.80).
- The Major and Grace decide to take all the food back to the Major's place and leave Roger nothing but dirty dishes.