Jeeves in the Offing, chapters 16–18, Brinkley Court, a couple of minutes later
A distraught Aunt Dahlia tells Bertie that Phyllis has got engaged to Wilbert Cream.
The text is on its way.
Aside, years before Aunt Dahlia ran the women's weekly Milady's Boudoir for four years at Uncle Tom's expense; Bertie once wrote a piece for it, and it has just been sold.
Aside, years before Jane Mills, whose first husband drowned drunk in the Thames, made Aunt Dahlia promise to stop Phyllis marrying an outsider.
Aside, at school Bertie recalls being summoned to Upjohn's study at Malvern House after morning prayers.
Aside, at school Bertie remembers Upjohn trying him for breaking the drawing-room window with a cricket ball.
Aside, at Oxford A girl at Oxford saved Bertie from a charging hound by opening a Japanese umbrella in its face.
Aside, in her hunting days Out with the Pytchley, Aunt Dahlia once had wet mud kicked into her face by another rider's horse.
Present: Aubrey Upjohn, Aunt Dahlia, Bertie Wooster
Mentioned: Homer Cream, Jane Mills, Jane Mills's first husband, Kipper Herring, the Liverpool buyer, the Oxford girl, Phyllis Mills, Sir Roderick Glossop, the sports-lover, Uncle Tom, Upjohn's lawyer, Wilbert Cream, Wilfred Cream, the Bull and Bush, the Creams⁂, the cricket ball✦︎, the Japanese umbrella✦︎, Kipper's review✦︎, Malvern House, Market Snodsbury, Milady's Boudoir✦︎, the Oxford dog♞︎, Poppet♞︎, the Pytchley⁂, the sports-lover's horse♞︎, the Thursday Review✦︎