Bertie is visited by a friend of his Aunt Agatha, Lady Malvern, and her ladyship's son, Wilmot "Motty", Lord Pershore.

Lady Malvern tells Bertie to let Motty, a meek young man who sucks his walking stick, live with him while she tours American prisons for a book she is writing.

"Listen to me, old thing: this is the first time in my life that I've had a real chance to yield to the temptations of a great city.

In the morning, Motty, having drunk one of Jeeves's special hangover cures, is cheerful.

Then Motty starts bringing noisy friends to Bertie's flat.

Bertie is bitten by Rollo, a bull-terrier that Motty won in a raffle.

Irritated, Bertie leaves to stay with his friend Rocky Todd in the country.

Grateful, Bertie tells Jeeves to burn the pink tie and get him the White House Wonder hat.

Wodehouse updated these hat names from the original 1916 Saturday Evening Post version of the story, in which Bertie wants a hat called the "Country Gentleman" while Jeeves favours the "Longacre".

[3] The story was illustrated by Henry Raleigh in the Saturday Evening Post and by Alfred Leete in the Strand.