Much Obliged, Jeeves, chapter 3, Barribault's, same day, lunchtime
Lunching with Bertie at Barribault's, Ginger Winship reveals that he is engaged to Florence Craye, who has pushed him into the Market Snodsbury election and will drop him if he loses, and begs Bertie to canvass for him.
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Aside, years before Bertie and Ginger became like brothers at Oxford, until Ginger resigned from the Drones and moved to Steeple Bumpleigh at the bidding of a strong-minded fiancée.
Aside, some time before Bertie recalls chafing under his engagement to the bossy Florence Craye, who dropped him for Percy Gorringe.
Aside, undergraduate days Ginger, who looks like Esmond Haddock of Deverill Hall, boxed heavyweight for Oxford for three years.
Aside, some time before Bertie and A. B. Filmer were chased on to the roof of a summerhouse by an angry swan on the island at Steeple Bumpleigh.
Aside, recently Florence's string of engagements, and the flop of Gorringe's stage version of her novel Spindrift at the Duke of York's.
Aside, some time before Stinker Pinker's similar diffidence when nerving himself to invite Bertie to Totleigh Towers.
Aside, long before Florence once chucked a gentleman jockey for falling at the canal turn in the Grand National.
Present: Bertie Wooster, Ginger Winship
Mentioned: A. B. Filmer, Anatole, Aunt Agatha, Aunt Dahlia, Boko Fittleworth, Catsmeat Potter-Pirbright, the critic, Esmond Haddock, Florence Craye, the gentleman jockey, Ginger's agent, Ginger's mother, the housemaid, Jeeves, Kipper Herring, Lord Worplesdon, Magnolia Glendennon, Percy Gorringe, Silversmith, Stilton Cheesewright, Stinker Pinker, cocktails✦︎, the Drones Club, Market Snodsbury, the Market Snodsbury by-election✦︎, Oxford, the Spindrift play✦︎, Steeple Bumpleigh, the swan♞︎