Frederick, Earl of Ickenham, is not the man to run away from other peoples romantic problems, not even when faced with the tangled relationships of his godson, Johnny, Johnnys girlfriend, Belinda, butler Albert Peasemarch and Peasemarchs beloved, Phoebe, who happens to be the sister of his employer, bad-tempered Sir Raymond Beefy Bastable. Sir Raymond is himself in pursuit of Barbara Crowe. Everything turns on the fate of the script for a film called Cocktail-Time by Bastables nephew, Cosmo Wisdom but just to stir the mixture a little further, Wodehouse throws in American con-artist Oily Carlisle. Now read on...