Midsummer Mischief is set in PG Wodehouse's absurd world of England's leisured upper class in the early part of the century. 54 holes of golf a day, or a swim before breakfast in the lake, morning in the hammocks under the cedars, tea on the lawn, and coffee on the terrace after dinner. Money is something you should inherit, get monthly as an allowance from your uncle, or win at the races. Small dogs bite your ankles. Babies are hideously ugly.
Young boys are fiends.
Aunts are harridans. Butlers have port in their pantries. Most handsome men have feet of clay. No decent man may cancel, or even refuse, an engagement to a girl. Blandings Castle is traditionally infested with impostors.