wanda seduces george's barrister, archie leach. archie is in a loveless marriage. he quickly falls for wanda. she gets him to persuade george to plead guilty and to tell the location of the diamonds. otto is jealous. his interference causes wanda and archie's liaisons to go disastrously wrong. wanda accidentally leaves her pendant at archie's house. archie's wife, wendy, mistakes it as a gift for her. at wanda's insistence, archie recovers the pendant by staging a burglary. archie feels guilty and ends the affair.