Early night. A bank manager, dressed in a tailcoat, with a white carnation in his buttonhole and a monocle at his eye, dances a Viennese Waltz with a young, beautiful, English woman at an open pavilion in front of a castle. She looks infatuated at him, while he starts talking about a new system they have developed at Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken, which includes reserve checks ...