It's New Year's Eve 1914, and Harry Selfridge is throwing a gala for his staff. Josie Mardle chooses to bring her Belgian lodger as her escort. Will her colleagues accept the two as a couple, or will the gossip prove too much for their relationship to withstand?

This story picks up at the scene in which Josie Mardle and Florian Dupont meet in her home's foyer at the end of the Season Two finale of Mr Selfridge. I found myself wondering what might happen next - and this is what came to me.