Edited sentence: "if that is the word I want,".) that it actually is repetitious at times.And while Wodehouse is far from the first place you'd look for character development, this novel is weaker than most: Runkle and Bingley are so sketchy that they are barely there, and Florence and Madeline appear in name only, participating in none of the action except to threaten Bertram with marriage.There are so many references to common Wooster tropes (his Scripture Knowledge prize,.Written late in his career, this lacks the snap and madcap action of the earlier Totleigh Towers books