The Birthday Party

Alice and Aafrin decide to escape to Australia and Cynthia agrees to help them. Ralph has made it up with Aafrin but is smarting at his betrayal by the Maharajah and being in debt to Havistock. Ian stumbles on a clue to a three year old murder but is heart-broken when Sooni rejects him for Naseem, which angers her family as he is a Muslim, not Parsi. The Raworths decide to stay in Simla but Alice and Aafrin make a break for it with her little boy following his birthday party.