Complete and unabridged, with 59 full-page plates by James Tissot, William Orpen and Spencer Gore. An American composer in London hears a girl jump into his taxi to escape a pursuing gentleman, and by evening he has been mistaken for her suitor, insulted her brother and been invited to a castle where every servant has a bet on the outcome. Wodehouse worked on Broadway with Jerome Kern and wrote this in 1919; the servants' hall betting book is the machine that drives the whole plot, and it runs perfectly. Fifty-nine plates, from Tissot to Orpen, gather the London streets, parks and portraits of the years around this comedy, so the world the taxi and the castle belong to is visible on the page.