"After that, all he had to do was hope his plot worked."

"I only hope this plot works better than your last."

Some tenant farmers owned and cultivated plots in addition to the land they worked for others.

And whose fault will it be if Mengene's little plot doesn't work?

The entire plot had worked even better than he had dared to hope.

This simple plot worked best when kept in the background.

A little plot was working in his head.

The plot was working well, but could it be brought to a climax?

The plot was working and the characters had played their parts as she intended.

And that kind of trouble would make it seem his employers' plot was working well.