The drama begins in Buckingham Palace Road outside the main entrance to Victoria station where you set for the train to Carchilders in rural Surrey. There to meet with Sir Reginald and Lady Fenella Ponsonby concerning the disappearance of their son Edward.
The details had been somewhat brief merely suggesting that the boy had gone missing while attending Trinity College, Cambridge. Further information, you were assured, would be forthcoming at your meeting. It is for this forthcoming meeting that you find yourselves on a cold, wet, and windy autumn morning near the entrance to the station.
Alas, your progress is barred by a somewhat riotous commotion. Suddenly you faced are by rioting protestors, wielding placards covered with “workers’ rights” slogans, “London Working Men’s Association,” “Trades Union Rights,” and so on. Copies of the anarchist newspaper Freedom are being handed out, blazing with lurid headlines about government repression. It’s a dangerous situation, threatening to escalate quickly beyond the woefully inadequate attempts of the London bobbies to maintain order. Fortunately her majesty is not currently in residence at the palace, so is spared the unwholesome spectacle occurring not far from her front door.
These fellows, whatever their grievances, stand before you and the pursuance of your legitimate business.
What do you do?