Carter and Jane Billings, a middle aged couple, notice that their friends are now leading exciting lives. One man left his wife for a Jamaican woman, his wife started a female commune, and another couple ran a long term frauding conspiracy. Another couple, Frank and Lucy Eggleston moved to England; Carter and Jane go to visit them three years after they moved. When they arrive the couples drink alcohol and tell stories. Carter tells Frank and Lucy of the various gossip surrounding their friend group back home, but Frank and Lucy are uninterested and so they all go to bed. Carter gets up to go to the bathroom at night but accidentally falls down the stairs. However, something catches his fall, so he lands upright. He finds the bathroom, and after getting slightly lost, he eventually makes it back to bed. The next morning Carter tells everyone what happened to him. Jane is not interested, but Frank and Lucy are amazed that he is not seriously injured. Frank then goes to leave on a hunt while Carter, Jane, and Lucy get in the car to drive to the beach. While on the road, they hear news of bad weather. Lucy drives to a village to show the Billings some old houses. While they are driving along, it starts to rain, so the group goes to an inn to eat. Next door, Carter buys an antique at a shop. Eventually, the group learns that they will have to take a longer route to get to the beach, so they decide to go back home. When they arrive, Frank greets them, tells them that his hunt was cancelled due to the weather, and that he is amazed that they were driving in the bad weather.