merlot - your post at 10.20 is perfect. I couldn't agree more with your summary of the awful Justin and the desperate Lilian.
phoenix, I don't see Jennifer as a paragon of virtue at all. I do feel she's done her best to be a fairly discreet desperado.
Poor Raurie, banished to boarding school for ever it seems, never given any lines at all during his very brief visits home and then the possibility that his friend Sam's mum could bring him home and come into the house calling "jennifer" as so many ordinary mother's would have done. Oh no, they'd say, I can't just drop you off Raurie, without making sure your mum knows you're home. Can you imagine, horror of horrors. Plus - the news would inevitably have made its way to Miranda and Jennifer's party would have been in real Trouble.