Very Good, Jeeves, chapter 5, the sitting-room, lunchtime
Bobbie reveals the guests are Blumenfeld and his dreadful son, to whom she will read her mother's play, and on Jeeves's advice Bertie flees before the boy can insult him, meeting them at the door.
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Aside, the previous Christmas Bobbie let Bertie down in the affair of Tuppy Glossop and the hot-water bottle at Skeldings Hall.
Aside, earlier, in New York The Blumenfeld child snootered Cyril Bassington-Bassington by telling him he had a face like a fish.
Present: Bertie Wooster, Blumenfield, Blumenfield's son, Bobbie Wickham, Jeeves, McIntosh
Mentioned: Aunt Agatha, Clara Bow, Cyril Bassington-Bassington, Lady Wickham, Tuppy Glossop, the hot-water bottle✦︎, Lady Wickham's play✦︎, the roly-poly pudding✦︎, Skeldings