Feeling ostracised by Vera's relationship with Hilda Matthewson and slighted over the lack of thanks for her Aeolian Harp, Ginny decides it is time to end her relationship with Vera and sever the tie forever. But, just as she is leaving London to give Vera a piece of her mind, an unexpected visitor drops in. The poet WB Yikes and his wife Georgie arrive at the Foxes' house in Tavistock Square looking for a precious thing.

When WB Yikes meets Ginny he announces that he has found it and declares that she is his muse. Ginny sets off for Sizzlinghurst with WB Yikes and his wife in tow in better spirits.

Meanwhile WB Yikes gives Lionel and Henry a rejuvenating pill designed to cure writer's block in Henry and give Lionel a younger outlook on life. But the pill has unfortunate side effects.