Ring for Jeeves, chapter 10, the garden, night, after dinner
In the moonlit garden Mrs Spottsworth all but invites Captain Biggar to propose, the code keeps him tongue-tied until Bill interrupts, and Biggar listens in disgust as Bill coos to her.
The text is on its way.
Aside, years before Mrs Spottsworth, a sentimentalist at heart, wrote grim vers libre in Greenwich Village only because editors liked squalor.
Aside, years before Mrs Spottsworth once owned a lethargic hound dog who had to be kicked out for his nightly airing.
Aside, earlier Bill had promised Monica to coo to Mrs Spottsworth, and his cooing is of stellar quality, unmatched since May Week dances at Cambridge.
Present: Bill Rowcester, Captain Biggar, Mrs Spottsworth
Also there: the pendant
Mentioned: A. B. Spottsworth, Clifton Bessemer, Desdemona, Gustave Flaubert, Joan of Arc, Keats, Lady Agatha, Monica Carmoyle, Monsieur Poirot, Mrs Fish, Othello, Shelley, Sherlock Holmes, the Subahdar, Tubby Frobisher, the Anglo-Malay Club⁂, the code✦︎, the living room, Mrs Spottsworth's hound♞︎, Rowcester Abbey, the ruined chapel