He needs help from Bertie and Jeeves when his wife's old school friend, Laura Pyke, starts enforcing her strict ideas about what people should eat on Bingo's diet.

"Laura Pyke," said young Bingo with intense bitterness, "is a food crank, curse her.

And Rosie, instead of telling the woman not to be a fathead, gazes at her in wide-eyed admiration, taking it in through the pores."

Bertie visits Bingo Little, who has inherited a large income and country home.

On the day of Bertie's departure, Bingo invites him to return for the Lakenham horse races, where he and his wife Rosie will picnic.

Rosie tells Bingo that Laura Pyke, her old school friend whom she admired greatly as a child, plans to visit.

On the day of the Lakenham races, Bertie expects Pyke will choose the picnic's food.

Bertie then wanders down the road, and sees his car, driven by Jeeves and containing Bingo.

Bingo jumps out, tells Jeeves to wait five minutes, and walks up the road with Bertie, so that they can secretly listen as Rosie and Pyke argue loudly.

For instance, in "Jeeves and the Old School Chum", Bertie says: "Then gradually, by degrees—little by little, if I may use the expression—disillusionment sets in.

"There are 17 instances of such straightforward repetition between narration and dialogue in the Jeeves series, though this particular device is so obvious that it may seem to be more prominent.

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