The story was published in the Saturday Evening Post in New York in June 1918, and in The Strand Magazine in London in August 1918.

[1] It was also included in the 1923 collection The Inimitable Jeeves as two separate chapters, "A Letter of Introduction" and "Startling Dressiness of a Lift Attendant".

Hoping to return to England in time for Goodwood, Bertie decides to appease his menacing Aunt Agatha by treating Cyril kindly.

Bertie, Jeeves, and George go to the police station, and learn the hot-tempered Cyril had shoved a policeman.

The part which old George had written for the chump Cyril took up about two pages of typescript; but it might have been Hamlet, the way the poor, misguided pinhead worked himself to the bone over it.

Cyril visits Bertie and says he has a small part in George's musical comedy, Ask Dad.

From the back of the theatre, Bertie sees that the boy from earlier is the son of the manager, Blumenfield.

Ask Dad was the initial title of a 1918 musical comedy later retitled Oh, My Dear!, which Wodehouse collaborated on with Guy Bolton and Louis Hirsch.

[6] The story was illustrated by Grant T. Reynard in the Saturday Evening Post, and by Alfred Leete in the Strand.

[8] There are some differences in plot, including: This story, along with the rest of The Inimitable Jeeves, was adapted into a radio drama in 1973 as part of the series What Ho!