Once more Bertie grows a moustache, and again Jeeves disapproves. But Florence Craye thinks it's beautiful, and that infuriates Stilton Cheesewright who is engaged to her (he is no longer a policeman). Florence orders Stilton to grow a moustache, too. Stilton would beat Bertie up in his jealousy, but he has drawn the Wooster ticket in the Drones Darts Tournament sweep, and Bertie's tipped to win. Naturally Stilton does not want to have his man throwing darts with bunged-up eyes and a twisted neck.

Florence, needing atmosphere for her next novel, gets Bertie to take her to a low London nightclub, the Mottled Oyster. Of course it is raided by the cops. The magistrate next morning happens to be Stilton's uncle, and Stilton finds out. Stilton has to lie low in London while his moustache is growing, so Bertie gratefully drives, with Jeeves, to Brinkley Court, where Aunt Dahlia is entertaining the ghastly Trotter couple from Liverpool. She wants L. G. Trotter to buy Milady's Boudoir for his stable of magazines. She hopes that a week or two of Anatole's cooking will soften Trotter up to sign for a generous price.

The ghastly Mrs Trotter is trying to get her husband knighted, so that she, 'Lady Trotter', may queen it over Mrs Alderman Blenkinsop, her rival in Liverpool society. The Junior Ganymede Book of Revelations reveals to Jeeves that Mr Trotter has actually been offered a knighthood, but has turned it down, without telling his wife, because he is ashamed of his Christian names. 'Sir Lemuel' or 'Sir Gengulphus', in knee breeches and with a sword between the legs walking backwards, would make him the laughing stock of the Palace, the press and his friends. And now, if he is to buy Milady's Boudoir; Mrs Trotter insists that Anatole comes to her kitchen in Liverpool as part of the deal.

Aunt Dahlia yells for Jeeves, who fixes everything. He spots that Mrs Trotter's pearls are false - not the ones her husband gave her. He provides a cosh for Aunt Dahlia to fell Spode/Sidcup, an expert, just as he is about to spot that her pearls are false, too. Enter Daphne Dolores Morehad, best-selling writer and very beautiful. Stilton falls for her. Florence briefly is re-engaged to Bertie, but then changes to Percy Gorringe, side-whiskered poet who has dramatized her novel Spindrift and writes successful thrillers under another name. Jeeves cures L. G. Trotter's dyspepsia with one of his miracle mixtures, and Trotter buys the Boudoir and refuses to consider taking Anatole - all that nasty continental cooking. Bertie calls for soap and a razor and forfeits the lip-fungus.

All very fresh and fizzy.

Source: Richard Usborne. Plum Sauce. A P G Wodehouse Companion.