Book 123 - "Aunts Aren't Gentlemen" by P.G. Wodehouse
Tuesday, December 20th, 2005 18:32![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kittiwakeIt was my membership of the Drones Club that now formed the basis of her observations. She didn't like the Drones Club, and made it quite clear that at the conclusion of the honeymoon I would cross its threshold only over her dead body.
So, reckoning up the final score, the Bertram Wooster who signed the charge sheet in the vestry after the wedding ceremony would be a non-smoker, a teetotaller (for I knew it would come to that) and an ex-member of the Drones, in other words a mere shadow of his former self.
All the usual themes are present and correct: unreasonable aunts, kidnapped animals (a cat this time), a jealous lover threatening violence to any man who has ever so much as spoken to the woman he loves, and Bertie Wooster trying to disentangle himself from yet another unwanted engagement.
So, reckoning up the final score, the Bertram Wooster who signed the charge sheet in the vestry after the wedding ceremony would be a non-smoker, a teetotaller (for I knew it would come to that) and an ex-member of the Drones, in other words a mere shadow of his former self.
All the usual themes are present and correct: unreasonable aunts, kidnapped animals (a cat this time), a jealous lover threatening violence to any man who has ever so much as spoken to the woman he loves, and Bertie Wooster trying to disentangle himself from yet another unwanted engagement.
