The story was also included in the 1923 collection The Inimitable Jeeves as two separate chapters, "Introducing Claude and Eustace" and "Sir Roderick Comes to Lunch".

Off-handedly, Aunt Agatha adds that Bertie's cousins, the twins Claude and Eustace, hope to be elected soon to a college club called The Seekers.

The next day, Bertie walks in the park, where he is greeted by Eustace, Claude, and their friend "Dog-Face", Lord Rainsby.

I heard Sir Roderick whisper in a kind of stricken way, and his eyes hit me amidships like a couple of bullets.

Aghast, Sir Roderick takes the hat and exits, asking Jeeves to follow and tell him more about Bertie.

Lord Rainsby, disappointed that these things are gone, asks for ten pounds to bail out Claude and Eustace, after they tried to steal a lorry.

Jeeves infers from her agitation that Sir Roderick has called off Bertie's engagement to Honoria.

[5] The only surviving episode of The World of Wooster was adapted from both this story and "The Delayed Exit of Claude and Eustace".

The episode, titled "Jeeves and the Delayed Exit of Claude and Eustace", was adapted by Richard Waring and was originally broadcast on 4 January 1966.

[7] 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!