Jeeves knows everything, and can divine a scheme to handle any situation, however sticky. Jeeves is a whale on proper dress code, and reads Spinoza at bedtime. Quite satisfactorily, sir, thank you. A Miss Marlene Higgins of Brixton, sir. All most attractive young ladies.
Hapless bachelors try to wriggle out of rashly made engagements.
Friends purloin compromising letters and objet d'arte for other friends and relatives. For the cognoscenti, however, the whole point about Wodehouse's writing is his superlative use of the English language. You read his prose, all perfectly plain English, and then you swear you'd never have come up with quite so amusing a way of putting it. This was a wholly unjustified slur on a most respectable breed of bird, for owls are as abstemious as the most bigoted temperance advocate could wish, and at another time George Cyril Wellbeloved might have been tempted to take up cudgels on their behalf. But surely,' said Lord Ickenham, 'that speaks well for him.