Save the congratulations for later, Jeeves, but as the French might say, it is dans le sac.
“Kidnapped!” · Season 2, Episode 5
In this episode: Bertie Wooster (5), Jeeves (2), Pauline Stoker (1)
What had you done to those people, Bertie?
I was once engaged to their daughter.
Ah.
Foreign travel often liberates emotions best kept in check, sir, and the air of North America is notoriously stimulating in this regard, as witness the regrettable behavior of its inhabitants in 1776.
What happened in 1776, Jeeves?
I prefer not to dwell on it, if it's convenient to you, sir.
JWJ. Washburn Stoker
If you think I'm going to let my daughter marry a man who consorts with common criminals, you do not know the middle west of America!
Feminine psychology is admittedly odd, sir. The poet Pope made frequent re—
Oh, never mind about the poet Pope, Jeeves.
No, sir.
There are times when one wants to hear all about the poet Pope and times when one doesn't.
Very true, sir.
MMagistrate
These are serious charges. But I'm inclined to believe that you, Alfred Trotsky, and you, Frederick Aloisius Lenin, were led astray. You are discharged. But as for the rest of you — Boko Disraeli, Oofy Lloyd George, Barmy Lord Tennyson and the rest — not only have you been guilty of a breach of the peace of considerable magnitude, I also strongly suspect that you have given false names and addresses! You are each fined the sum of five pounds.
I say!
MMagistrate
Quiet, Dr. Crippen!
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