Dedication: To my daughter Leonora without whose never-failing sympathy and encouragement this book would have been finished in half the time.

Honoria, you see, is one of those robust, dynamic girls with the muscles of a welterweight and a laugh like a squadron of cavalry charging over a tin bridge. A…

While they were content to peck cautiously at the ball, he never spared himself in his efforts to do it a violent injury.

'Yes, sir,' said Jeeves in a low, cold voice, as if he had been bitten in the leg by a personal friend.

Thank you to Martin Scorsese - I hope my son will marry your daughter.

If there is an amateur reader still left in the world--or anybody who just reads and runs--I ask him or her, with untellable affection and gratitude, to split …

There came from without the hoof-beats of a galloping relative and Aunt Dahlia whizzed in.