Right Ho, Jeeves, chapter 9, the rose garden, after dinner
Bertie escapes backgammon, finds Gussie in the rose garden furious about the prize-giving, talks him round, and coaches him in a proposal speech of glimmering landscapes and God’s daisy chain while promising to soften up the Bassett first.
The text is on its way.
Aside, some time before Bertie claims he once addressed a girls’ school and held them in the hollow of his hand.
Aside, at school Bertie recalls a poem about Pygmalion’s statue coming to life.
Aside, the other day Jeeves, airing the dog in the park, quoted Gray’s Elegy about the glimmering landscape.