Ring for Jeeves, chapter 8, the dining room, nine o'clock that night, after dinner
Over the port Biggar tells how Honest Patch Perkins welshed on his three-thousand-pound double, reveals the bookie's car number is Bill's, and is talked round by Jeeves's theory of a false number plate before going off to make a private telephone call.
The text is on its way.
Aside, during his lifetime A.B. Spottsworth's dictum that the secret of a happy life was to get rid of the women early.
Aside, some time before Bertie Wooster once took the idea for a ballad, 'Way Down upon the Soigné River', from a remark of Jeeves's.
Present: Bill Rowcester, Captain Biggar, Jeeves, Jill Wyvern, Monica Carmoyle, Mrs Spottsworth, Rory Carmoyle
Mentioned: A. B. Spottsworth, Bertie Wooster, Cole Porter, Emily Post, Mariana of the Moated Grange, Meshach, Nebuchadnezzar, Oscar Hammerstein, Shadrach, Shakespeare, Somerset Maugham, the Subahdar, Tubby Frobisher, Bill's car✦︎, the Dyaks⁂, Epsom, Harrige's, Jeeves's pantry, Lucy Glitters♞︎, Way Down upon the Soigné River✦︎, Whistler's Mother♞︎