Much Obliged, Jeeves, chapters 5–7, the Brinkley drawing-room, evening
Jeeves, buttling in place of the indisposed Seppings, brings Bertie a reviving whisky and soda and consoles him with Shakespeare on good names, before Aunt Dahlia bounds in.
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Aside, always Bertie compares the vulture-like Aunt Agatha with the jovial Aunt Dahlia.
Aside, before Ginger met Florence Ginger used to be thrown out of restaurants for throwing eggs at the fan and jugged on Boat Race night for pinching policemen's helmets.
Aside, years before Tuppy once looped back the last ring over the Drones swimming bath, dropping Bertie into the water in evening dress.
Aside, years before Tuppy's father invented Runkle's Magic Midgets, but Runkle kept the fortune under the terms of his contract.
Aside, some years before Bertie wrote 'What The Well-Dressed Man Is Wearing' for Aunt Dahlia's Milady's Boudoir and sold it outright for a packet of cigarettes.
Aside, years before Tuppy once bet Bertie he couldn't swing across the Drones swimming-bath by the rings, and looped back the last ring.
Aside, before Madeline was once engaged to Gussie Fink-Nottle, when the danger of her switching to Bertie was ever present.
Aside, at Totleigh, before Hiding behind a sofa, Bertie heard Madeline tell Sir Watkyn his stealing was an illness, and Sir Watkyn retort about his helping himself.
Aside, at Totleigh, before Bertie and Gussie once agreed on the technique of removing things from eyes after Gussie took a fly from Stephanie Byng's.
Present: Aunt Dahlia, Bertie Wooster, Jeeves, Madeline Bassett, Roderick Spode, the gnat
Mentioned: Agatha Christie, Anatole, Angela, Aunt Agatha, Boko Fittleworth, Florence Craye, Ginger Winship, Gussie Fink-Nottle, L. P. Runkle, Mrs McCorkadale, Raffles, Seppings, Shakespeare, Sir Roderick Glossop, Sir Watkyn Bassett, Spinoza, Stiffy Byng, Stinker Pinker, Tuppy Glossop, Tuppy's father, Uncle Tom, Augustus♞︎, Brinkley Court, the Drones Club, the Magic Midgets✦︎, Market Snodsbury, Milady's Boudoir✦︎, the porringer✦︎, Runkle's Enterprises⁂, Saint Bernard dogs♞︎, Spode's hobnailed boots✦︎, Totleigh Towers, What The Well-Dressed Man Is Wearing✦︎