It's Gladys' birthday and Clive is taking her out for a meal. However, Harold Fox, Maplin's hatchet man, also invites her and she feels she ought to go. She arranges to meet him early and they go to the local trattoria for spaghetti but Gladys feigns illness and Peggy whisks her off on a motor-bike to meet Clive - who takes her back to the trattoria for more spaghetti. After her date with Clive she is treated to a birthday surprise by the other staff - which turns out to be a trip to the trattoria for another meal of spaghetti.