The Meldrews have been burgled and the television set stolen. Victor decides to go to the pub and meets a man he used to know,Billy,who mistakes him for somebody else and mocks 'that old misery Meldrew'. To keep up the pretence Victor lets Billy give him a lift to the house belonging to the man Billy thinks he is,skulks a bit and walks home in the rain. Having lost his voice he is mistaken for an obscene caller when he rings the phone company,as well as being mistaken for a prowler when he was hiding in the garden of the house Billy took him to.
