Celia's boyfriend Frank has joined the Army and is heading off to WW1. When he proposes at the train station and gives her a ring, she has nothing to offer him in return. In a last moment burst of desperation she slithers out of her underwear, runs down the platform after the departing train and presses the garment into his hand through the window and shouts, "in token and in pledge " He returns and they marry. but then their children decide to repeat the action when their proposal time comes, and thus a hundred year family tradition is born.
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