Somehow Good

A returned traveller loses his memory after a small electrical accident on an underground train and is taken to a showily dressed suburban villa where a mother and her lively daughter, Sally, make him a welcome stranger. He secures an appointment despite his unknown past and becomes entwined with the household and its circle of acquaintances. The narrative follows domestic scenes, flirtations, gossip, music, and the gradual disclosure of antecedents, examining identity and memory amid social appearances, and moves toward reconciliations, a wedding, and a quietly ironic sense of retributive justice.