Indian Summer of an Uncle

"Indian Summer of an Uncle" is a short story by P. G. Wodehouse, and features the young gentleman Bertie Wooster and his valet Jeeves.

Jeeves is acquainted with the young woman Uncle George intends to marry, Rhoda Platt.

Aunt Agatha keeps Bertie from ringing for Jeeves, since she is against involving a servant in a family matter.

She says the family must pay the girl to leave Uncle George, as they once did many years ago, when he fell in love with a barmaid.

Jeeves enters, and Bertie asks for his advice, despite Aunt Agatha's disapproval.

Bertie decides to follow Jeeves's plan anyway, and arranges for Rhoda's aunt and his uncle to come to his flat.

She stuns Bertie by telling him how she used to work as a barmaid, and was once engaged to a George Wooster.

Aunt Agatha, surprisingly, sounds cheerful; she says that Uncle George has decided to marry Mrs. Wilberforce, a woman closer to his own age.

For the time being, Aunt Agatha mistakenly believes Mrs. Wilberforce belongs to a prominent family.

The story was illustrated by Charles Crombie in the Strand and by James Montgomery Flagg in Cosmopolitan.