Much Obliged, Jeeves, chapter 4, Curzon Street, after lunch
Walking home from lunch with Ginger and brooding on his engagement to Florence, Bertie drops his cigarette case, trips in front of a taxi and is pulled clear by Jeeves, to whom he breaks the news about Florence.
The text is on its way.
Aside, before Bertie recalls his own engagement to Florence and her looks at the time she was engaged to Stilton.
Aside, at private school Bertie won a prize for Scripture Knowledge and found the military chap who said 'Come', his picture of Florence.
Aside, over the years Jeeves has often got Bertie out of entanglements with women, though they never bandy their names.
Present: Bertie Wooster, Brinkley, the cabby, Ginger Winship, Jeeves
Also there: Bertie's cigarette-case, the taxi
Mentioned: A. B. Filmer, the centurion, Florence Craye, Magnolia Glendennon, Silversmith, Stilton Cheesewright, Barribault's, the Junior Ganymede⁂, the swan♞︎