The Mating Season, chapters 5–6, the dining room at Deverill Hall, same evening, dinner
At dinner as Gussie, Bertie hears the aunts condemn Corky's cross-talk act and the absent Mr Wooster, resolves to drop out of the act, flops with a story about two deaf men, and is left alone with Esmond Haddock over the port.
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Aside, before Catsmeat had walked with Gertrude in an old garden on twilight evenings.
Aside, before Bertie had taken Aunt Agatha's son to the Old Vic, and Jeeves once quoted 'how sharper than a serpent's tooth'.
Aside, Boat Race night, some time before Bertie was arrested and fined for trying to pinch a policeman's helmet in Piccadilly, having forgotten to shove before lifting.
Present: Aunt Charlotte, Aunt Emmeline, the aunt in spectacles, Bertie Wooster, Dame Daphne Winkworth, Esmond Haddock, Gertrude Winkworth, Silversmith, Esmond's aunts
Also there: the port
Mentioned: Agnes, Alice, Aunt Agatha, Aunt Myrtle, Beatrice, Catsmeat Potter-Pirbright, Constable Dobbs, Corky Pirbright, Edith, Eleanor, Emily, Fred, Gussie Fink-Nottle, Jane, Jeeves, Madeline Bassett, Maud, P.B. Winkworth, the Rev. Sidney Pirbright, Thos, a policeman's helmet✦︎, the hunting song✦︎, the Pat and Mike cross-talk act✦︎, the story of the two deaf men✦︎, the village concert✦︎