Bertie decides to hire an actress through a theatrical agent to pretend to be his fiancée.
He chooses the greasy-headed agent Jas Waterbury, who recommends his niece Trixie.
Bertie refuses, but Jas hints at threatening a breach of promise case.
"I represent Messrs. Alsopp and Wilson, wine merchants, goods supplied to the value of three hundred and four pounds, fifteen shillings and eightpence, a bill which Mr. Wooster finds it far beyond his fiscal means to settle.
Aunt Dahlia enters, acting shocked to find out that Jeeves is a broker's man, and declares that she will send Bertie off to Canada, with nothing left to pay Jas.
Grateful to Jeeves, Bertie gives up the Darts Tournament for a trip to Florida.
An example of this can be seen in this story: "'I take it, Jeeves', I said as I started to pick at a moody fried egg, 'that Aunt Dahlia has told you all.
"[3] In contrast to the manner in which an employer would normally be expected to address his valet, Bertie often speaks in a deferential tone to Jeeves when asking for help.
"[4]The story presents a rare instance of Jeeves telling an actual joke, which he does while pretending to be a broker's man.
Claiming that Bertie is financially dependent on Aunt Dahlia and that she would send Bertie to Canada if she discovered his debts, Jeeves says, "Should she learn of my official status, I do not like to envisage the outcome, though if I may venture on a pleasantry, it would be a case of outgo rather than outcome for Mr.
Jeeves still wants to catch a tarpon in the scenario, but Aunt Dahlia asks Bertie to hire a conjuror (magician) for her Christmas party.
Aunt Dahlia asks Bertie by telephone to come play Santa Claus, and wants Bertie to visit Wilfred Cream, the playboy character mentioned in Jeeves in the Offing, who is Sir Roderick Glossop's patient at his clinic in Chuffnell Regis.
In one draft of the story, Roderick Spode featured prominently in the plot, and was the one who ended up playing Santa Claus.
[9] The final version of the collection Plum Pie sent to its publisher, Herbert Jenkins, shows minor changes made by Wodehouse.
The following quote, spoken by Jeeves, shows an example of one of these final changes made by Wodehouse: "If your allusion is to the American poet John Howard Payne, sir, he compared it to its advantage with pleasures and palaces.
There is also an example of a change made to Bertie's speech: "'Heaven help the tarpon that tries to pits its feeble cunning against you, Jeeves.'