The Bells Are Ringing

Against Gary's advice, Yvonne has decided to go into business with a man called Clive, to promote her new health drink, but he is a swindler who runs off with her investment and so she and Ron, whose business has also gone bust, get drunk together. Gary learns that, at about the time Phoebe is due to give birth, the church bells rang out to celebrate General Montgomery's North African victories and resolves to be present at the birth. It's as well that he is because the midwife has got drunk and disappeared leaving Gary and Margie to deliver the baby - just as the bells start to ring. The child is a boy - Michael Montgomery Sparrow