Trapped in rural Steeple Bumpleigh, a man less stalwart than Bertie Wooster would probably have given way at the knees. For among those present were Florence Craye, to whom Bertie had once been engaged, and her new fiance, 'Stilton' Cheesewright, who regarded Bertie as a snake in the grass. Also in the troupe were Zenobia Hopwood and her guardian Lord Worplesdon, whose violent antipathy to 'Boko' Fittleworth amounted to obsession. But the biggest blot on the landscape had to be Edwin the Boy Scout whose acts of kindness resembled those of sheer malevolence...