The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - PREVIEW： Chronicles #54 ｜ The Inimitable Jeeves Part 2

00:00:00.000 Hello and welcome back to Chronicles, where today we're going to be continuing on with

00:00:17.960 The Inimitable Jeeves by P.G. Woodhouse. Where we last left off last week, we talked all about

00:00:25.500 the character dynamics between Jeeves and Worcester. We talked somewhat about Woodhouse,

00:00:31.900 his own quite turbulent, very exciting life himself, a very well-travelled man, very cultural

00:00:38.620 and a remarkable humorist. Just some of the adages and the way that he spins cliches

00:00:47.140 in his writing, it's just such an eminently readable book. And because of the nature of it,

00:00:52.720 is actually less than, though there is one, as we'll see towards the end, there is something of

00:00:58.860 an overarching story to the entire thing, even though it just feels like Bertie just constantly

00:01:05.020 bungling his way through problem after problem. Well, we do actually get something of a final act

00:01:13.600 in this particular story. But for the most part, it is very episodic. It's very much a short story

00:01:19.160 structured because that's how they were originally conceived and written in the first place and then

00:01:24.040 Woodhouse has basically retroactively gone back and threaded through some materials you know for

00:01:31.240 you to follow the strands. So we're going to start with talking all about chapters I believe

00:01:40.440 9 through to 18. So we're going to cover the latter half and talk all about a really whole

00:01:48.600 colorful and clever set of stories. First of all, Bertie goes to New York, then we find him back in

00:01:55.560 Blighty, basically just having to deal with Bingo's love troubles again. There's also a really

00:02:02.920 humorous episode involving a bunch of communists as well from Speaker's Corner. Also, we get this

00:02:12.240 absolutely hilarious episode where he's constantly just making fun of rural village life and the way

00:02:20.300 that Bertie is thrown into all of this and having to deal again with Bingo's love troubles, etc,

00:02:26.360 etc. So, first we'll go through the actual narrative, as we always do, and then when

00:02:32.820 I see you on the other side of it we'll talk all about these stories, why they're so funny,

00:02:37.540 why they're so magical, and some of my personal favourite moments from the collection. So,

00:02:44.320 let's get into it. 0.97

00:02:47.120 Hot off the heels of Bertie bungling his engagement to Anoria, he flees across the Atlantic to 0.73

00:02:57.000 America, a land perfectly free from his wrathful relations, such as Aunt Agatha. But as swift

00:03:03.880 as he can flee, her letters pursue him, and Bertie Worcester is startled at the civility

00:03:09.060 of her tone. What follows is a letter of introduction from Mr. Cyril Bassington Bassington from Aunt

00:03:16.720 Agatha. Homesick, and looking to return to his aunt's good graces, and his native Blighty,

00:03:23.580 Bertie decides that giving this fish-faced figure a few days of good dinners would be the most

00:03:28.880 expedient means of fulfilling such reasonable ambitions. I've never heard of him. Have you

00:03:34.460 ever heard of him, Jeeves? I am familiar with the name Bassington, Bassington, sir. There are three

00:03:41.420 branches of the Basington Basington family. The Shropshire Basington Basingtons, the Hampshire

00:03:48.540 Basington Basingtons, and the Kent Basington Basingtons. England seems pretty well stocked

00:03:54.620 up with Basington Basingtons. Tolerably so, sir. She say she wants me to look after this

00:04:01.100 excrescence while he's in New York. By Jove, Jeeves. If I only fawn on him a bit so that he sends back

00:04:07.980 a favourable report to headquarters, I may yet be able to get back to England in time

00:04:12.800 for Goodwood.

00:04:13.800 Now is certainly the time for all good men to come to the aid of the party, Jeeves.

00:04:18.960 We must rally round and cosette this cove in no uncertain manner."

00:04:23.440 Yes, sir.

00:04:24.760 He started to put out my things, and there was an awkward sort of silence.

00:04:29.220 "'Not those socks, Jeeves,' I said, gulping a bit, but having a dash at the careless

00:04:35.820 offhand tone. Give me the purple ones. I beg your pardon, sir. Those jolly purple ones.

00:04:44.400 Very good, sir. He lugged them out of a drawer as if he were a vegetarian fishing a caterpillar

00:04:50.900 out of the salad. You could see he was feeling deeply. Juiced painful and all that, this sort

00:04:57.400 of thing. But a chappy has got to assert himself every now and then. Absolutely. Before having to 0.86

00:05:03.880 acquaint himself with Cyril. Bertie goes to lunch with George Caffin, a playwright he's befriended

00:05:10.360 in New York, currently underway with the rehearsal period for his new play, Ask Dad.

00:05:16.180 Just as all evidence begins to suggest a rather uncomplicated day, Jeeves comes to Bertie for a

00:05:22.320 discreet word. Jeeves was in the waiting room. He gave the socks one pained look as I came in,

00:05:28.180 then averted his eyes. Overcoming the unsettling sight of the socks, Jeeves informs Bertie that

00:05:35.060 Mr. Bessington Bessington is in prison, and after this startling revelation is put to George,

00:05:41.700 the yank accompanies Bertie to see what can be done about Cyril's release. Upon finding him doing

00:05:47.600 porridge in a cell, it becomes clear how such an outcome may arise. Cyril gormlessly lacks social

00:05:54.880 awareness and practical intelligence, making him a perfectly overqualified aristocrat.

00:06:01.560 Bertie goes to settle his bail, a grave error, as Cyril is left in the company of Mr. Caffin,

00:06:07.880 and before Bertie can assess the magnitude of his error, his charge has found his way

00:06:12.980 onto the theatrical scene, with a part in George's play. In fact, Cyril had come to New York with the

00:06:21.060 secret purpose of becoming a great thespian, an outcome expressly prohibited by Aunt Agatha,

00:06:27.180 and greatly in defiance of his father's expectations of cultivating a career in

00:06:32.080 Washington as a diplomat. Aid from Jeeves seemingly unforthcoming, on account of the

00:06:38.100 Saga of the Socks, Bertie can do nothing but watch as Cyril begins obsessing over the rehearsals,

00:06:44.820 and Bertie slips into further despair as he watches a key to his return to London,

00:06:50.080 fawning about on stage with all the grace of a sack of gravel.

00:06:54.360 One day, the two are in Bertie's hotel suite,

00:06:57.220 when the young boy appears in Jeeves' company.

00:07:00.340 I then perceived that the stout stripling had trickled into the room after Jeeves.

00:07:04.760 He was standing near the door looking at Cyril,

00:07:07.760 as if his worst fears had been realised.

00:07:10.660 There was a bit of a silence.

00:07:12.620 The child remained there, drinking Cyril in for about half a minute.

00:07:16.820 Then he gave his verdict.

00:07:18.980 Fish face.

00:07:20.920 Er, what? said Cyril.

00:07:24.280 The child, who had evidently been taught at his mother's knee to speak the truth,

00:07:28.880 made his meaning a trifle clearer.

00:07:31.320 You've a face like a fish.

00:07:34.040 He spoke as if Cyril was more to be pitied than censured,

00:07:37.600 which I'm bound to say I thought rather decent and broad-minded of him.

00:07:41.600 I don't mind admitting that whenever I looked at Cyril's face,

00:07:45.220 I always had the feeling that he couldn't have got that way without it being mostly his own fault.

00:07:51.040 I found myself warming to this child.

00:07:53.400 Absolutely, don't you know?

00:07:55.520 I liked his conversation.

00:07:57.800 It seemed to take Cyril a moment or two to really grasp the thing,

00:08:01.460 and then you could hear the blood of the Bessington Bessingtons begin to sizzle.

00:08:05.860 Well, I'm dashed, he said.

00:08:08.300 I'm dashed if I'm not.

00:08:09.820 I wouldn't have a face like that, proceeded the child with a good deal of earnestness.

00:08:15.900 Not if you gave me a million dollars. He thought for a moment, then corrected himself.

00:08:22.160 Two million dollars, he added. The crass little child makes another appearance at the theatre,

00:08:29.100 where the offspring is revealed to be the son of Mr. Blumenfield, the theatre manager,

00:08:34.240 the big cheese himself. The little sprong constantly puppeteers his own father's opinions.

00:08:41.180 Don't you like it, darling? It gives me a pain. You're dead right. You want something zippy 1.00

00:08:47.740 there? Something with a bit of jazz to it? Quite right, my boy. I'll make a note of it.

00:08:53.440 All right, go on. The boy remembers dear fish-faced Cyril, and he never has a chance to break a leg

00:09:00.080 on opening night. His short-lived sojourn into theatre is over. He meekly and defeatedly tells

00:09:06.980 Bertie that he will go to Washington as his father had hoped. Bertie realises that Jeeves

00:09:13.000 has gently engineered the whole satisfactory outcome. Peace of a sort descends, and the purple

00:09:19.320 socks, once a bone of contention, find a startling new home on the feet of the lift attendant,

00:09:24.800 who thanks Bertie profusely for the dazzling gift.

00:09:28.780 Jeeves, as ever, has tidied everything away with his customary quiet genius.

00:09:34.060 The way home is clear.

00:09:36.120 On his return to London, Bertie takes in a stroll around Marble Arch,

00:09:40.340 where he encounters the bread and butter of the modern man.

00:09:44.020 Protest.

00:09:45.160 On the edge of the mob, farthest away from me, 0.99

00:09:47.900 a gang of top-hatted chappies were starting an open-air missionary service. 0.90

00:09:53.240 Nearer at hand, an atheist was letting himself go with a good deal of vim, 0.83

00:09:57.740 though hand-capped a bit by having no roof to his mouth.

00:10:01.280 While in front of me, there stood a little group of serious thinkers

00:10:05.360 with a banner labelled Heralds of the Red Dawn.

00:10:09.920 And as I came up, one of the heralds, a bearded egg in a slouch hat and a tweed suit,

00:10:14.820 was slipping it into the idle rich with such breadth and vigour

00:10:19.520 that I paused for a moment to get an earful.

00:10:22.620 At the protest, Bertie encounters Bingo's uncle, Old Mortimer Little, now elevated to Lord Bittlesham

00:10:31.260 and owner of the hot favourite horse Ocean Breeze for the upcoming Goodwood Cup.

00:10:36.460 A thoroughly upper-class conversation ensues until Bertie realises that the heralds of the

00:10:42.060 Red Dawn have been listening in with decided revulsion.

00:10:46.220 Yes, look at them. Drink them in, he was yelling, his voice rising above the perpetual motion

00:10:52.480 fellows and beating the missionary service all to nothing. There you see two typical members of the 0.99

00:10:59.220 class which have downtrodden the poor for centuries. Idlers. Non-producers. Look at the 0.98

00:11:06.540 tall, thin one with a face like a motor mascot. Has he ever done an honest day's work in his life?

00:11:13.420 No, a prowler, a trifler, and a bloodsucker. 0.98

00:11:18.480 And I bet he still owes his tailor for those trousers.

00:11:22.140 He seemed to me to be verging on the personal, and I didn't think a lot of it.

00:11:26.960 Old Bittlesham, on the other hand, was pleased and amused.

00:11:30.100 A great gift of expression these fellows have, he chuckled.

00:11:34.340 Very trunctioned. 0.93

00:11:35.660 And the fat one, proceeded the chappy. 0.96

00:11:39.360 Don't miss him.

00:11:41.140 Do you know who that is?

00:11:42.920 "'That's Lord Bittlesham, one of the worst. What has he ever done except eat four square meals a day, his goddess's belly, and he sacrifices burnt offerings to it. If you open that man now, you would find enough lunch to support ten working-class families for a week.'

00:12:04.520 You know, that's rather well put, I said, but the old boy didn't seem to see it. 0.62

00:12:09.980 He had turned a brightish magenta and was bubbling like a kettle on the boil.

00:12:13.700 Come away, Mr. Worcester, he said, I am the last man to oppose the right of free speech,

00:12:20.300 but I refuse to listen to this vulgar abuse any longer.

00:12:24.040 The bearded orator turns out to be none other than young Bingo himself, now Comrade Little.

00:12:30.960 Being deeply smitten with comrade Charlotte Corday Rowbotham, the fiery daughter of a

00:12:36.720 revolutionary, Bingo has decided to try his hand at communism, as she seems to find rhetoric about

00:12:43.440 the streets of London running with the blood of the rich rather romantic. Bingo persuades the

00:12:49.520 ever-manipulable Bertie into hosting tea for the comrades at his residence, including for

00:12:55.280 the alarming and zealous Comrade Butt, Bingo's rival for Charlotte's love. The gathering is a

00:13:01.520 social nightmare, as Bertie reminisces. And I think the most gruesome part of the whole affair

00:13:08.080 was the fact that, for the first time since I'd known him, I saw Jeeves come very near to being

00:13:13.680 rattled. I suppose there's a chink in everyone's armour, and young Bingo found Jeeves' right at 1.00

00:13:19.280 at the drop of the flag when he breezed in with six inches or so of brown beard hanging 1.00

00:13:25.000 onto his chin.

00:13:26.000 I'd forgotten to warn Jeeves about the beard, and it came on him absolutely out of

00:13:31.080 a blue sky.

00:13:32.080 I saw the man's jaw drop, and he clutched at the table for support.

00:13:35.900 I don't blame him, mind you, few people have ever looked fouler than young Bingo

00:13:40.640 in the fungus.

00:13:42.760 Jeeves paled a little.

00:13:44.440 Then the weakness passed and he was himself again, but I could see he had been shaken.

00:13:49.260 Duty insists that Jeeves endures the evening, as he watches this grotty gang of comrades

00:13:54.980 seizing the scrambled eggs and sardines at the table.

00:13:58.420 Charlotte's father, Old Rowbotham, sounds out Bertie's Marxist credentials.

00:14:03.700 Mr. Worcester, said Old Rowbotham, may I say, Comrade Worcester?

00:14:10.660 I beg your pardon?

00:14:12.100 Are you of the movement?

00:14:14.700 Well, er, do you yearn for the revolution?

00:14:18.780 Well, I don't know that I exactly yearn. I mean to say, as far as I can make out,

00:14:24.220 the whole Hubbard scheme seems to be to massacre coves like me,

00:14:28.380 and I don't mind owning that I'm not frightfully keen on the idea.

00:14:33.100 Old Rowbotham is further disappointed when he finds evidence of hierarchical language in the home.

00:14:39.500 Presently, the hot water gave out, and I turned to Jeebs.

00:14:43.100 More hot water.

00:14:44.780 Very good, sir.

00:14:45.740 Hey. What's this? What's this? Old Robothma had lowered his cup and was eyeing us sternly.

00:14:54.580 He tapped Jeeves on the shoulder. No civility, my lad. No civility. I beg your pardon, sir.

00:15:02.940 Don't call me sir. Call me comrade. Do you know what you are, my lad? You're an obsolete relic of

00:15:10.380 exploded feudal system. Very good, sir. The day after this vulgar event, Bertie totters down the

00:15:17.820 street to meet Bingo, nervously considering how best to break it to his chum that the girl just

00:15:23.740 won't do. He meets both Mortimer and Bingo, only to discover that the nephew is pretending to

00:15:29.500 investigate his uncle's harassers for a fee. But all of Bingo's hijinks come to ruin when he is

00:15:36.460 unbearded by Comrade Butt at the Goodwood Cup, all orchestrated by Jeeves, naturally. 0.69

00:15:43.220 It seems that the revolution isn't for Bingo after all, and once again the Worcester Fortunes

00:15:48.840 return to something approaching tranquillity.

00:15:52.020 Still smarting from his gambling losses at Goodwood, Bertie decamps to Twing Hall for

00:15:57.120 a spot of country air.

00:15:59.200 There he finds his cousins Claude and Eustace, Bingo Little, and a lively reading party.

00:16:05.780 The enterprising Steggles has organised a novel sporting event, the Great Sermon Handicap.

00:16:12.100 A dozen local parsons are clocked for length of sermon, the longest wins.

00:16:17.240 Odds are offered, handicaps are allotted, and the syndicate, with Bertie supplying the capital, naturally, piles in.

00:16:24.660 Despite Bertie's certainty that old Heppenstall is a sure bet,

00:16:29.260 recounting a 50-minute belter of a sermon on brotherly love he'd heard many years ago,

00:16:34.300 But disaster strikes on Saturday, when the parson is incapacitated by hay fever, and

00:16:41.020 Jeeves bags a winnings due to a deft bet on a young man who borrowed that same sermon.

00:16:47.400 Their gambling thrills not quite satisfied, however.

00:16:50.480 The group engaged themselves in the great comedic affair of betting on the village school

00:16:55.480 sports day.

00:16:57.100 Steggels opens another book on the various races, Mother's Sack, Egg and Spoon, Choir

00:17:02.480 boy's dash and so forth. The syndicates study the contestants and back several certainties,

00:17:09.200 all these unsuspecting children now being evaluated like horses for the Grand National,

00:17:14.720 notably the fleet-footed pageboy Harold for the choir boy's hundred yards,

00:17:20.480 but panic strikes when Steggles nobbles Harold, stuffs a leading mother before the sack race,

00:17:26.480 and generally rigs every event against them. Once returned to Barclay Square, it isn't long before

00:17:33.280 Bertie gets a letter from Bingo, demanding he return to Twing Hall for a rather predictable

00:17:38.640 drama. Bingo's in love. Again. This time with Miss Mary Burgess, whom Jeeves assures is a very

00:17:46.080 estimable young lady. But all these mishaps with love begin to gnaw at Bingo's self-belief,

00:17:52.800 and, as always, rivals abound.

00:17:56.080 Jeebs personally makes a journey to see what can be done to seal a deal for old Bingo,

00:18:00.520 and advises him to do good works about the village to engender affectionate feelings in Miss Burgess' heart.

00:18:08.180 Returning to Bertie with his assessment, Jeebs says,

00:18:11.420 One is fighting a losing battle, I fear, sir,

00:18:14.820 but I did venture to indicate to Mr. Little a course of action which might prove of advantage.

00:18:20.320 I recommended him to busy himself with good works.

00:18:25.360 Good works? About the village, sir, reading to the bedridden, chatting with the sick,

00:18:31.700 that sort of thing, sir. We can but trust that good results will ensue.

00:18:37.120 Yes, I suppose so, I said doubtfully. But by gosh, if I was a sick man, I'd hate to have a loony like 0.98

00:18:43.960 young Bingo coming and gibbering at my bedside. There is that aspect of the matter, sir. 0.86

00:18:50.320 said Jeeves. Bingo bungles it, as usual, becoming wayward from Jeeves' advised path,

00:18:56.680 and finding himself organising for the village a calamitous rendition of the school Christmas

00:19:02.360 entertainment. It seems Miss Mary may not be the lady for Bingo, after all.

00:19:08.360 The next part of Bertie's life is even more eventful. A quiet life is what I like,

00:19:13.860 and that's why I felt that the curse had come upon me, so to speak, when Aunt Agatha sailed

00:19:19.000 into my sitting room while I was having a placid cigarette and started to tell me about Claude and

00:19:24.560 Eustace. Oh, thank goodness, said Aunt Agatha. Arrangements have at last been made about Eustace

00:19:31.300 and Claude. Arrangements, I said, not having the foggiest. They sail on Friday for South Africa.

00:19:39.340 Mr. Van Alstyn, a friend of poor Emily's, has given them berths on his firm at Johannesburg,

00:19:45.620 and we are hoping that they will settle down there and do well.

00:19:49.800 I didn't get the thing at all.

00:19:51.820 Friday? The day after tomorrow, do you mean?

00:19:54.860 Yes.

00:19:55.880 For South Africa? 1.00

00:19:57.460 Yes, they leave on the Edinburgh Castle. 0.99

00:20:00.840 But what's the idea? I mean, aren't they in the middle of their terms at Oxford?

00:20:06.360 Aunt Agatha looked at me coldly.

00:20:08.280 Do you positively mean to tell me, Bertie,

00:20:11.620 that you take so little interest in the affairs of your nearest relatives

00:20:16.700 that you are not aware that Claude and Eustace were expelled from Oxford over a fortnight ago?

00:20:23.560 No, really.

00:20:25.160 You are hopeless, Bertie.

00:20:27.420 I should have thought that even you...

00:20:29.180 Why were they sent down?

00:20:31.820 They poured lemonade on the junior dean of their college.

00:20:35.500 I see nothing amusing in the outrage, Bertie.

00:20:38.160 No, no, rather not.

00:20:41.160 I said horridly. I wasn't laughing. Joking. Got something stuck in my throat, you know.

00:20:47.620 Poor Emily, went on Aunt Agatha. Being one of those doting mothers who are the ruin of their 0.99

00:20:53.800 children, wish to keep the boys in London. She suggested that they might cram for the army, 0.56

00:20:59.620 but I was firm. The colonies are the only place for wild youths like Eustace and Claude, 0.98

00:21:05.780 So they sail on Friday. The catch to being rid of these interminable miscreants is that Aunt Agatha

00:21:12.880 insists on their being lodged at Bertie's overnight before ensuring they board the ship

00:21:17.980 the next morning. As may be suspected, this final step is blundered somewhat.

00:21:24.200 Following a raging all-nighter, Bertie wakens to the twins still being at his place. Far from

00:21:30.680 sailing down the Atlantic Ocean, Claude selfishly explains how he met a girl last night.

00:21:36.740 Two hearts that beat us one, I mean, and all that sort of thing. So the long and short of it is that

00:21:42.240 I gave old Eustace a slip at Waterloo and slid back here. The idea of going to South Africa and

00:21:47.960 leaving a girl like that in England doesn't appeal to me a bit. I'm all for thinking imperially and 1.00

00:21:54.000 giving the colonies a leg up and all that sort of thing, but it can't be done. After all,

00:21:59.600 said Claude reasonably. South Africa has got along all right without me until now, so why shouldn't

00:22:06.800 it stick it? Eustace has an identical alibi, and after several days of relentlessly stalking this

00:22:13.880 poor girl, Jeeves resolves to have them sent off at last. Good riddance, Claude and Eustace.

00:22:20.980 The final chapter is dedicated to a most unexpected matter. Bingo's actually gone and done it. He's

00:22:29.000 engaged at last to a pretty and kindly waitress. Not the same waitress as previously, of course.

00:22:36.880 Nevertheless, all that remains to unite the couple in matrimony is for Uncle Mortimer to open his

00:22:42.920 coffers again and forgive Bingo for that sad little fling with communism. Once more, Bertie is forced

00:22:49.820 into the task. He puts his greatest dedication to reading the latest Rosie M. Banks novel,

00:22:55.800 and despite his victory in restoring Bingo's stipend, he cannot gain Mortimer's blessing for

00:23:02.360 the marriage. But Bingo throws caution to the wind and finally marries her anyway. Bertie is sent to

00:23:09.380 break it to Mortimer and leaves the newlyweds outside to reconcile with him. During his absence

00:23:15.740 from the scene, a terrible confusion befalls as it turns out that the pen name that Bertie had

00:23:21.900 been feigning of Rosie M. Banks is, in fact, Bingo's new wife. This gaping lie having been

00:23:29.200 exposed, Jeeves is left in charge to fix a mess in whatever way he can. So, whilst Bertie is up

00:23:36.160 in Norfolk, Jeeves informs Uncle Mortimer that Bertie is quite assuredly mad, and truly believes

00:23:43.020 himself to be the writer of Rosie M. Banks. Quite uncharacteristically, Bertie erupts when he

00:23:49.840 discovers the reputational damage that Jeeves has thrust upon him. I pushed on to the old flat,

00:23:55.820 seething like the Dickens. One thing I was jolly certain of, and that was that this was where Jeeves

00:24:00.880 and I parted company. A topping valet, of course, none better in London, but I wasn't going to allow

00:24:07.300 that to weaken me. I buzzed into the flat like an east wind, and there was a box of cigarettes on

00:24:14.200 the small table, and the illustrated weekly papers on the big table, and my slippers on the floor,

00:24:20.800 and every dashed thing so badly right, if you know what I mean, that I started to calm down in the

00:24:27.600 first two seconds. It was like one of those moments in the play where a chappie about to 0.99

00:24:32.560 steep himself in crime suddenly hears the soft, appealing strains of the old melody he learned at 0.65

00:24:38.520 his mother's knee. Softened, I mean to say. That's a word I want. I was softened. And then,

00:24:46.860 through the doorway, there shimmered good old Jeeves, in the wake of a full tray of unnecessary

00:24:51.920 ingredients, and there was something about the mere look of the man. However, I steeled the old

00:24:58.460 heart and had a stab at it. I have just met Mr. Little Jeeves. I said, Indeed, sir. He told me

00:25:07.480 you had helped him. I did my best, sir, and I am happy to say that matters now appear

00:25:13.020 to be proceeding smoothly. Whiskey, sir? Thanks. Uh, Jeeves? Sir. Another time, sir? Oh, nothing.

00:25:27.720 Not all the soda, Jeeves. Very good, sir. He started to drift out. Oh, Jeeves? Sir?

00:25:37.480 I wish… that is… I think… I mean… oh, nothing.

00:25:47.380 Very good, sir.

00:25:48.580 The cigarettes are at your elbow, sir.

00:25:51.480 Dinner will be ready at a quarter to eight precisely, unless you desire to dine out.

00:25:56.980 No, I'll dine in.

00:25:58.980 Yes, sir.

00:26:00.980 Jeeves?

00:26:01.980 Sir?

00:26:03.980 Oh, nothing, I said.

00:26:07.140 Very good sir, said Jeeves.

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PREVIEW： Chronicles #54 ｜ The Inimitable Jeeves Part 2

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