Right Ho, Jeeves, chapters 1–2, the sitting-room, nearly eleven
Bertie comes home to find Jeeves in the sitting-room with Gussie Fink-Nottle dressed as Mephistopheles.
The text is on its way.
Aside, the week before last Gussie met Madeline in Lincolnshire when he took a thorn out of her dog's foot, and talked to her only about birds.
Aside, in childhood Gussie went to a Christmas party dressed as a rabbit, perked up among the other children and was sick twice in the cab home.
Present: Bertie Wooster, Gussie Fink-Nottle, Jeeves
Also there: Gussie's cab, the Mephistopheles costume
Mentioned: Madeline Bassett, Aunt Dahlia's telegrams✦︎, the fancy-dress ball✦︎, Gussie's invitation ticket✦︎, Gussie's newts♞︎, Lincolnshire, London, Madeline's dog♞︎, the white mess jacket✦︎