the vegetarian diet^✦︎

Also spinach, vegetarian diet

The spinach diet Madeline has imposed on Gussie, threatening the engagement.

Connections

dealings

• Gussie Fink-Nottle loathes 1
• Madeline Bassett insists on 1

Talked about, but not there

1. At a sombre dinner Bertie admires Sir Watkyn's new black amber statuette, bought from Plank and worth a thousand pounds, offends him by calling it soapstone, and slips off to his room afterwards.Chapters 6–7, the Totleigh dining-room, as vegetarian diet
2. Gussie storms in denouncing vegetables and reveals that the cook is Emerald Stoker, who lost her allowance on a horse and took the job rather than confess to her father.Chapter 7, Bertie's room at Totleigh, as spinach