 Angela's husband visits her with their child before embarking with the ill-equipped and ill-organised British forces for Norway, where he dies in combat.For a projected literary magazine, Ambrose Silk writes about his lost love, a Brownshirt named Hans who is now in a Nazi concentration camp.Basil persuades him to leave out Hans' fate, so that the article appears to praise the SA, and then shows it to his boss as evidence of allegedly dangerous fascists.