Ring for Jeeves, chapters 2–5, the living room, moments later
Monica goes into the old living room, full of childhood memories, and Jill comes in from the garden and they embrace.
The text is on its way.
Aside, in Monica's childhood Monica read the Girl's Own Paper in the living room and kept white rabbits until Uncle George banned them.
Aside, years before Jill recalls keeping the dogs off the guests at Rory and Monica's rainy wedding when she was fifteen, and meeting Rory again when she was coming out.
Aside, years before Rory starts recalling Bill's romances with buxom girls such as one in the Hippodrome chorus until Monica kicks him.
Aside, some weeks before Bill proposed to Jill while helping her give a sick cow a bolus; Rory's own proposal to Monica was 'Eh, what?'
Aside, in the old days Monica remembers Bill dashing between race-courses in a grey topper full of sandwiches; Jill says he has promised never to bet again.
Aside, since his schooldays Bill's Drones Club reputation for a shortage of grey cells, rated between Freddie Widgeon and Pongo Twistleton.
Aside, that afternoon Jeeves had urged Bill to lay off Biggar's second wager, uneasy when he saw Whistler's Mother go to the post.
Aside, months before Needing money for his marriage, Bill went through the telephone directory with Jeeves, who suggested Turf Accountant on reaching the T's.
Aside, earlier in the engagement Bill has strewn Agricultural Board forms about to fool Jill, who made him promise never to bet again.
Aside, earlier that afternoon Jill's rounds: ointment for Mike the terrier, the cook's goldfish off its food, and a bolus for a cow.
Aside, before Bill recalls Bertie's praise of Jeeves's fish-fed brain, and Jeeves explains he left Bertie only because Bertie is at a school where he learns to darn his own socks.
Present: Bill Rowcester, Jeeves, Jill Wyvern, Monica Carmoyle, Rory Carmoyle
Mentioned: the Aga Khan, Barmy Fotheringay-Phipps, Bertie Wooster, the Bloomsbury admirer, Captain Biggar, Colonel Wyvern, Ellen, Eustace, the fellow in Jams, Freddie Widgeon, General Eisenhower, the Hippodrome girl, Marcus Aurelius, Mrs Piggott, Mrs Spottsworth, the mystery caller, Omar Khayyám, Percy Wellbeloved, Pliny the Younger, Pongo Twistleton, Queen Elizabeth, Queen Mary, Raffles, Shakespeare, Sherlock Holmes, Uncle George, Whistler, Whittier, the Agricultural Board⁂, the bats♞︎, Bertie's school, Biggar's five-pound note✦︎, Bill's car✦︎, Bill's grey topper✦︎, Bill's Irish terrier♞︎, Bill's telephone bill✦︎, the bookmaking business✦︎, the check coat✦︎, the cook's goldfish♞︎, the cows♞︎, the dower chest✦︎, the Drones Club, Epsom, Harrige's, the horseshoe tie✦︎, the Mainwarings⁂, the Mainwarings' Peke♞︎, Mike♞︎, Monica's white rabbits♞︎, the moustache and patch✦︎, the Oaks✦︎, the pigs♞︎, the police⁂, the Queen Elizabeth Room, Rowcester Abbey, the sick cow♞︎, three thousand and five pounds two and six✦︎, the United Rovers Club⁂, the wedding dogs♞︎, Whistler's Mother♞︎, the yew alley