Will wants to have his cake and eat it. Between his dealings with the Alba-Rosas and his efforts to coach Cathy for social success, how do you judge his behaviour this week?

Ohh, I don’t even want to go there – Will’s behaviour at the start of this just made me feel a little bit sick.  First of all – IT’S YOUR WEDDING NIGHT!  Just because he wasn’t going to get his way with Cathy he just slopes off and heads straight to Amelia.  And gives her some absolute b/s about I’ve been thinking about you, blah, blah, blah.  No.  If you were getting on with Cathy and thought you were in with a chance then you wouldn’t be with Amelia would you!  Wrongness.  Aside from the fact that he was just determined to have his wicked way and he didn’t really care who with and apart from the fact that he spent the night of his wedding in another woman’s bed I hated the way that he casually showed up in Amelia’s bedroom and told her how it’s going to be – it’s not like he exactly tried to lay on the romance.  It was so awful!  The thing is, he then, like he has throughout, seemed to almost redeem himself a little – but frankly, I just don’t know if I can come back from this.    Just the way he treats women in general is so bad – he comes across as being really nice but he’s not really is he.  He’s really self serving and definitely a product of the awful environment that he’s been raised in where women are given such little regard. He saved the Alba’s with his own self interest, and now he’s trying to be nice to Cathy, again with his own self interest.  I wonder if he’ll eventually have a moment where he realises what an ass he is!

Cathy seems to be taking on the Agency – just as Max is sent to investigate them. Is she biting off more than she can chew?

I thought Cathy was really good in this section.  She seems to be coming into her own and she’s obviously intelligent which is how she found it so easy to see through the Agency – plus I liked that she stood up to them.  I don’t think she’s biting off more than she can chew although she could be in for a battle here because I don’t think the Agency are going to just given up their monopoly so easily and the fact that Max is about to investigate them definitely makes me think that they’re obviously not all good!

Max drops a lot of hints that Leanne may not be entirely her own woman any more. What do you think is going on at Leanne’s flat? – and do you think there’s any chance for Sam to save his marriage?

This is very interesting.  I really don’t know what’s going on here – perhaps, to coin the Sorcerer’s phrase – Leanne is being used as some sort of ‘puppet’ in Mundanus?  Although – it does make me laugh a little that they’re looking at things such as changes in her weight and dress.  She’s surely not the only woman in London who has slimmed down and started to dress corporately – it’s not like the epitome of evil surely!  I actually think there could be a chance for their marriage but I suppose it depends on whether she’s being manipulated and is unaware – or she’s knowingly and willingly going down this route.  If the former then I suppose things could be reversed if the latter then it’s highly unlikely that she’ll want to.

We get our first glimpse of London Society at the Tulipas ‘intimate’ dinner, and we get a hint that Cathy might be tempted to adapt her goals. What did you think of how she handled herself at dinner – and of how she reacted on the way home?

I think there could be something in the suggestion last week that maybe Cathy would start trying to reform things for all the other women.  At the dinner party she took part in the conversation, she wasn’t content to be manhandled or show that she had a brain and then she took matters into her own hands and used the opportunity to talk to the other ladies about the Agency – which could have been a disaster but she took the chance.

All that being said – I’m keen to get to some ‘action’ now!  At the moment I’m not quite sure where the plot is going and it feels a little like the investigation has really slowed down.

Also, Sam and the Gargoyle make me laugh – they both think and talk about each other as though they’re separate beings!