Soon after, Johnnie returns home and becomes angry when he learns that Lina informed the police about his business dealings with Beaky. Her panic is intensified when she discovers that Johnnie checked out of his hotel the previous day. Learning that Beaky died by gulping a snifter of brandy in response to a challenge by his English companion, Lina becomes alarmed and calls Johnnie at his club in London. Several days later, the police arrive to question Lina about Beaky's death in Paris.

After announcing his plans to travel to Paris and dissolve the corporation, Beaky invites Johnnie to accompany him, and Johnnie agrees to drive as far as London. Relieved when she discovers the cliffs are deserted, Lina returns home to find Beaky and Johnnie in the living room. When she awakens the next morning, Johnnie and Beaky have already gone, and Lina, who has envisioned Johnnie pushing his friend from a cliff, speeds off to find them. The next evening, Johnnie informs Lina that he has decided to call off the deal, but insists upon showing Beaky the land first. Lina voices her concern about Beaky, and Johnnie menacingly warns her to stay out of his business affairs. Johnnie then convinces his bumbling friend Beaky to invest in his company. When she pretends not to know the cause, Johnnie tells her that he did not get along with Melbeck and informs her that he now plans to go into land development.

After reaffiriming her love for him, Lina tells Johnnie that she knows he has been fired. When Lina's only bequest from her father is his portrait, Johnnie asks if she regrets marrying him. As Lina tears up her farewell note, Johnnie enters the room with a telegram notifying her of her father's sudden death. Returning home, Lina begins to pack her suitcases when she realizes that she loves Johnnie too much to leave him. While in town one day, Lina impulsively goes to visit Johnnie at his office and discovers that he has been fired for embezzling £2,000, the exact amount of his race track winnings. The toast proves almost fatal to Beaky, who suffers an allergic reaction to his brandy, and Johnnie warns him that the drink will be the death of him. Beaky, Lina and Johnnie then toast Johnnie's good luck. Lina is angry when Johnnie admits to selling the chairs to bet on the horses, but forgives him when the chairs are returned to their home. Soon after Lina's discovery, Johnnie returns home, bearing expensive gifts that he claims he bought with his winnings from the track. Johnnie makes up a story about the disappearance of the chairs, but when Lina sees them for sale in the window of a village antique shop, she knows that Beaky was right. When Lina notices that the museum quality chairs, a wedding gift from her father, are missing, Beaky suggests that Johnnie sold them to cover his gambling debts. Their married life is blissful until one day, Gordon Cochran 'Beaky' Thwaite, a friend of Johnnie's, comes to visit and tells Lina that he saw her husband at the racetrack that day. To placate his bride, Johnnie accepts an offer to work for his cousin, Captain George Melbeck. When Lina learns that her husband is penniless and had planned to live on her income, she protests that her small allowance is not enough to support them and insists that he find a job. Upon returning from their honeymoon, the newlyweds take up residence in an extravagantly furnished house that Johnnie has rented. The next morning, Johnnie and Lina elope. There, Johnnie proposes to Lina in front of her father's portrait, and when he taps the painting, it falls from the wall. In the car, Lina, who has transformed herself into a beauty for the ball, blurts out her love for Johnnie, and when he admits that he is falling in love with her, she invites him to her house for a drink. Johnnie crashes the party and invites Lina for a ride. One week passes, and on the night of the Hunt Club Ball, Lina receives a telegram from Johnnie, asking her to meet him at the ball.

Although General McLaidlaw warns his daughter that Johnnie is not to be trusted, and despite the fact that he breaks their date, Lina anxiously awaits word from him. When Lina returns home and overhears her parents discussing their matronly daughter, Lina impulsively kisses Johnnie and agrees to meet him later that afternoon. Under the pretense of escorting Lina to church, Johnnie takes her for a walk along the hillside, where he affectionately names her 'monkeyface' and questions her severe appearance. Johnnie Aysgarth, a charming scoundrel, prevails upon his female admirers to introduce him to Lina McLaidlaw, the prim, spinsterish daughter of wealthy General McLaidlaw.

Suspicion 1941