The Dippers

About the show

London lawyer Henry Talboyes is stranded at a small railway station. He accepts a lift to a nearby country house whose nouveau riche owner, Lord Mellingham, is hosting an elaborate party that evening. Talboyes is mistaken for one half of the professional dancing couple hired for the occasion, the eponymous Dippers, as the wife has turned up but the husband was delayed en route. The only person capable of untangling the mess is Talboyes's fiancee, the young widow Mrs Tavistock, who is providentially present at Mellingham Hall.