Right Ho, Jeeves

m one of

ou know that I have barely had my tea. You cannot be ignorant of the effect of that hearty voice of Aunt Dahlia's on

, sir, that you wished to see Mr. Fink

ry to a client. I mean, you didn't find Sherlock Holmes refusing to see clients just because he had been out late the night before at Doctor Watson's birthday party. I could have wished that t

d. "All right

good

bring me one of those

good

returned with t

d on the morning after. What they consist of, I couldn't tell you. He says some kind of sauce, the yolk of a raw egg and a dash of red pepper, bu

ough all Nature waited breathless. Then, suddenly, it is as if the

seems to blow through the world, and the subject is aware of something resembling a steam hammer striking the bac

e in order before it is too late, the whole situation seems to clarify. The wind drops. The ears cea

ll you are conscious

s clothes and in his advice to those in love, has always had a neat turn of phrase, once speaking of someone rising on stepping-stones of his dead self to hi

u, Jeeves

t all,

spot. I am now able to c

fied to hea

Aunt Dahlia! However, too late to worry about that now. Tel

ve at the fancy-

t him a bi

y me too high. Don't stand by my sick bed talking absolute rot. We shot Gussie into a cab

n invited was to be held at No. 17, Suffolk Square, whereas the actual rendezvous was No. 71, Norfolk Terrace. These aberration

o call it the

s,

el

re, Mr. Fink-Nottle endeavoured t

stoppe

ouse of his uncle, where he was residing. Bidding the cabman to wait, accordingly, he rang the door-bell, and when the butler appeared, requested him to pay

lined to

s,

whic

he cabman to drive him back

he had to do was go in, collect cash and tick

Fink-Nottle had also left his latchkey

have rung

riod he recalled that he had given permission to the caretaker--the house was offi

y, Je

s,

types do live

s,

appened

egards the cabman had become equivocal. The figures on the clock had already r

d have e

n endeavouring to do so, he found the

d have l

e himself from the coat, and it would seem that his appearance in the masquerade costume beneath it came as something of a shock to the cabman. Mr. Fink-Nottle informs me that he heard a species of whistling ga

e started being one shortly afterwards. I expec

stances he might have found a

t on earth did he do after that? London late at night--or even in th

, s

ites co

s,

ng down side-streets, skulking in

was what occurred. Eventually, after a trying night, he found his way to Mr. Sipperley'

cause of a lunkhead capable of mucking things up as Gussie had done, I had taken on a contract almost too big for human consumption. It seemed to me that what Gussie ne

e of the Woosters restrained me. When we Woosters put our hands to the plough, we do not readily sheathe th

gh one dislikes to rub it in, these things have t

ir

ot insisted on his going to that dance--a mad project, as

confess I did n

, things would not have panned out as they did. A Pierrot costume has pockets. However," I went on more kindly, "we need not go into that no

s,

and I will see wha