MUCH OBLIGED, JEEVES

A Jeeves and Wooster novel It is a time of stress at Market Snodsbury as Bertie must protect himself from the affections of Madeline Bassett. 'The prospect of being linked for life to a girl who would come down at breakfast and put her hands over my eyes and say Guess who had given my morale a sickening wallop. It is always my policy in times of crisis to try to look on the bright side, but I make one proviso - viz. that there has to be a bright side to look on, and in the present case there wasn't even the sniff of one.' If only Jeeves could come to the aid of the young master...