Ring for Jeeves, chapters 13–14, the living room, night, minutes later
Jill, gloomy and suspicious, learns Bill is in the garden with Mrs Spottsworth; Captain Biggar praises the spider sequence, and Bill returns to report that the pendant came off but fell down the front of Mrs Spottsworth's dress.
The text is on its way.
Aside, 1782 A Rowcester ancestor was caught cheating at cards by Charles James Fox at Wattier's.
Aside, years before Biggar tells how Tubby Frobisher's Charleston shook stolen silver out of the Greek consul's kleptomaniac wife's dress at an embassy ball.
Aside, same evening Biggar, unable to bear the sight, storms out to pace the lawn in a black mood.
Present: Bill Rowcester, Captain Biggar, Jeeves, Jill Wyvern, Monica Carmoyle, Mrs Spottsworth, Rory Carmoyle, Pomona
Mentioned: the beheaded ancestor, Charles James Fox, the cheating ancestor, the Greek consul, the Greek consul's wife, Marcus Aurelius, Tabasco Rowcester, Tubby Frobisher, Cannes, the Charleston✦︎, the garden, the gramophone✦︎, Harrige's, the lawn, the library, the pendant✦︎, the Queen Elizabeth Room, Rowcester Abbey, the Rowcesters⁂, the spider sequence✦︎