Your Obedient Servant?

Gert Loubser, 50, Managing Director of the Continental Group based in Cape Town, is an imposing character. His wife Susan, 46 and shorter than he, is attractive, healthy and friendly, a country girl who grew up in Meiringstad (in the Karroo area of South Africa). Gert also lived there, but left to study accountancy. They have twin boys at university and a married daughter, and live in an upmarket suburb of Cape Town.

Gert was a good family man in their early days. However the demands of his business life began to strain their relationship. Plus Susan's dislike of the elevated society in which she was expected to participate.

Susan hears of a reunion of past pupils of the Meiringstad Teacher Training College, which she had attended, and decides to go to it. There she meets Chris, a colleague from those days, now Principal of the College. Still handsome, cheerful, dependable. The same Chris with whom she had a clandestine love affair, wrecked by the insistence of her parents that she marry Gert.

Chris takes care of her during the events, and they talk about their respective lives since they were parted. They end up having their own “reunion”!

Back home Gert is planning a revamp of Continental Stores, one of the Group companies. He intends taking the finance involved from the Group's pension fund; its investments significantly exceed its liabilities. He hits the roof however when he is told he needs the agreement of the Financial Services Regulatory Authority (“FSRA”) to do this, and orders his staff to get it immediately.

Enter Roger, a retired actuary on the staff of the FSRA. Continental's application lands on his desk, and puts him on a collision course with Gert.

Drama after drama follows, ending in legal action by Gert and a tension-filled outcome. Meanwhile Susan and Chris enjoy several more “reunions”!