 Thus, Flood's interest in the affairs of a now defunct company is fuelled by his desire to win back Jenny, so much so that his professional life is affected.Trying to dig up dirt on the Colborns, he is drawn into a quagmire of events he cannot make head or tail of and eventually misses an evening's performance without giving any notice.When, however, on the following day he finds his understudy—the man who saved his neck the previous night—dead in the streets of Brighton he realizes the seriousness of the situation.