Carry on jeeves

P. G. Wodehouse

Summary

I shall always remember the morning he came. It so happened that the night before I had been present at a rather cheery little supper, and I was feeling pretty rocky. On top of this I was trying to read a book Florence Craye had given me. She had been one of the house-party at Easeby, and two or three days before I left we had got engaged. I was due back at the end of the week, and I knew she would expect me to have finished the book by then. You see, she was particularly keen on boosting me up a bit nearer her own plane of intellect. She was a girl with a wonderful profile, but steeped to the gills in serious purpose. I cant give you a better idea of the way things stood than by telling you that the book shed given me to read was called Types of Ethical Theory, and that when I opened it at random I struck a page beginning:.. FROM THE BOOK.

Available since: 12/02/2020.

Print length: 251 pages.

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