Miss Duncall works for Mr Eardy as his secretary in a small unsuccessful business in the City, and is in love with him though apparently unrequited. Mr Eardy has a weakness for gambling on horses and the football pools. Miss Duncall shadows his pools bets. One of them is going to win, but which one?
Published in the Evening News, 19 December 1961.
Included in the collection Comedies and Whimsies, ed. John Higgins.