Pink Carnations

=Summary= Desperate for companionship, Rigsby places an advertisement in the personal column of the local rag describing himself as a ‘company director in his early 40s who’s cultured and sophisticated’. When Miss Jones reads the ad she’s keen to meet the man, even though Philip, who knows it’s Rigsby’s doing, tries to dissuade her. Rigsby is impressed by the solitary reply, which is covered in scent, so he picks up the phone and arranges a rendezvous at The George, suggesting they both wear pink carnations to identify themselves.

At The George, a peak-capped, dapperly dressed Rigsby tells the barman he’s looking for a girl, but when he spots Miss Jones, who tells him she’s waiting for a friend, he leaves her alone. What Rigsby doesn’t know is that a wedding reception is taking place at the pub, and when he spots an attractive woman sporting a pink carnation he leaps in and lays on what he sees as charm. But when her husband arrives, Rigsby causes total confusion and a row by claiming his wife sent him a letter.

Miss Jones is next to get involved in all the confusion when she suspects the groom is her blind date, and when his wife spots them holding hands, the bride bursts into tears and storms out. Before the escapade is over, Rigsby has accosted the stem-looking mother-in-law and has a laugh with Miss Jones about the whole disastrous affair.