[2] Bertie escapes Aunt Agatha's plot to get him married to Honoria Glossop by taking a ship to New York, accompanied by Jeeves.
Meanwhile, Tuppy has fallen in love with the daughter of an American automobile manufacturer.
Bertie is then lumbered with Wilmot "Motty", Lord Pershore, who is the son of Aunt Agatha's friend Lady Malvern.
But once out of his mother's eye, he turns from a withdrawn little man into someone who's out clubbing and getting drunk every night and yielding to the temptations of New York in a big way.
Bertie escapes to the woods to stay with poet friend Mr Todd while Jeeves sorts things out calling a policeman.