Wooster has just returned from a two-month long trip to Cannes, along with his Aunt Dahlia and her daughter Angela. So Wooster is rather surprised when he receives a summons to the aforementioned aunt’s state home at Brinkley Court.
Aunt Dahlia needs Wooster to give a speech at Market Snodsbury Grammar School, while Gussie Fink-Nottle, Wooster’s newt-obsessed friend is smitten with Madeline Bassett, and seeks Jeeves’ help in wooing her. Since the soppy Bassett is also currently put up at Brinkley Court, Wooster nominates Gussie in his stead.
But there are more goings-on at Brinkley Court. Aunt Dahlia has lost £500 gambling at Cannes, and she needs Jeeves’ help to tackle her miserly husband. Angela has broken off her engagement with Tuppy Glossop, and is all out of sorts. Wooster himself is feuding with Jeeves over a white mess jacket. Through a series of misunderstandings, Madeline thinks Wooster proposed to her, and now Wooster needs Gussie’s romance to succeed to get himself off the hook.
Does it all satisfactorily resolve itself in the end? It doesn’t matter, the absolutely joyful turn of phrase employed in the narrative would in and of itself provide sufficient diversion. But yes, it does all get resolved out at the end.