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exposition Mrs. Pringle’s guests have begun to back out of a dinner party in which she hopes to show off her daughter. She pauses in her fit long enough gush about the idea of the Prince of Wales attending and thoughts of what it would do for her social standing in New York.
rising action More and more guests call with regrets and Mrs. Pringle and her daughter Elaine, along with the butler, Dunham try to figure out how to maintain the perfect number of guests, which is fourteen.
climax In a panic as the hour grows late and the number of guests is back at only twelve, Mrs. Pringle rants that she is done with entertaining and with one guest in particular—Oliver Farnsworth, whom she had hoped would want to marry Elaine.
falling action Mrs. Pringle receives a note from Mr. Farnsworth announcing that the Prince of Wales will be attending in his place, and she realizes that the prince is already in her home waiting to be invited to dinner.
resolution The number of guests is back to fourteen with the presence of the prince, and Mrs. Pringle no longer cares where the guests sit or that Elaine thinks well of Mr. Farnsworth because she has already set her sights on the prince as a better possibility for her daughter.
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