Joy Street III

Roger and Emily settle into the new home and he has a dinner for a few friends and they invite the young lawyers from his firm. Emily has hopes that it will help bring together people who do not know each other and are prejudiced. Brian Collins the Irishman is from a well to do building family, but when he turns up, he's mistaken it for a night of poker with the boys, and is a little drunk. The dinner doesn't go well as one of the older guests makes an anti Semitic remark in front of David, and Brian makes an aggressive response. Emily also wants to help her cousin, Priscilla, who is the daughter of her uncle Sherman. Priscilla has been let run wild by her sport loving parents and is painfully shy in Boston society. Emily feels its her duty to help the girl mix in her natural environment. She is a little relieved to find that David seems to be able to break through Priscilla's awkwardness, and they get on well. She feels that at least she has done a little bit of good with the dinner party, but the attempt to bring together alien groups has not had a good start. She feels angry towards Brian Collins for his gauche behaviour. She doesn't much like her husband's sister Caroline. She is 10 years older than Roger and very prim and proper and prudish and Emily finds her hard going. Roger begins to feel uneasy about the friendship that is developing with David. He likes and admires him but he is a little envious that David is so handsome and charming... and he begins to wonder if the man is trying to flirt with Emily.