The earliest extant notes for the novel, written by Wodehouse in November 1956, show that he initially planned for the plot to have Aunt Dahlia and Uncle Tom away in America, while Aunt Agatha and Lord Worplesdon were staying at Brinkley Court. This preliminary plot involves an American millionaire and the theft of the silver cow-creamer, similar to the final story, as well as Bertie reading in the paper of his engagement to someone, though it is to a girl whom he has never met. [9] The notes indicate that Wodehouse determined some of the basic parts of the plot before deciding on the specific characters as placeholders are in place of character names, as in the following note: "X wants to marry Y, gets B. to say he is engd. to Y. Formidable mother." [10] I don’t know why it is, but whenever there’s dirty work to be undertaken at the crossroads, the cry that goes round my little circle is always ‘Let Wooster do it.’ It never fails. But though I hadn’t much hope that any word of mine would accomplish anything in the way of averting the doom, I put in a rebuttal. urn:lcp:jeevesinoffing00wode:epub:6cf995bc-0011-4bae-b5b1-373a068400d5 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier jeevesinoffing00wode Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t9c54js2t Isbn 0140020470 Hall, Robert A. Jr. (1974). The Comic Style of P. G. Wodehouse. Hamden: Archon Books. ISBN 0-208-01409-8.

Apart from wishing I could throttle the young twister with my bare hands and jump on the remains with hobnailed boots, I don’t feel much about her one way or the other.’The blonde Phyllis is a fine example of what Wodehouse refers so inelegantly as a dormouse: good intentioned, but so boring and so easily led astray. Even the amiable Aunt Dahlia is forced to declare in an exasperated voice: ‘The silly young geezer. I nearly conked her one with my trowel. I’d always thought her half-baked, but now I think they didn’t even put her in the oven.’ Where I went wrong,’ he said, still speaking in that low, husky voice as if he had been a ghost suffering from cararrh, ‘was in getting engaged to Phyllis Mills.’ As had happened so often in the past, I was conscious of an impending doom. Exactly what form this would take I was of course unable to say - it might be one thing or it might be another - but a voice seemed to whisper to me that somehow at some not distant date Bertram was slated to get it in the gizzard. Poore, Charles (28 June 1960). "Books of the Times". The New York Times. New York . Retrieved 3 April 2018. As How Right You Are, Jeeves, the story was featured in the 1976 collection Jeeves, Jeeves, Jeeves, which also included two other novels, Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves and Jeeves and the Tie That Binds. [15] Reception [ edit ]

The expression "in the offing", used in the novel's title for the UK edition, describes something that is likely to happen or arrive soon. While Bobbie is away, Kipper comes to Brinkley Court. He was engaged to Bobbie, but thinks it is over after seeing the marriage announcement for Bertie and Bobbie. He is relieved when Bertie tells him the announcement was fake. Glossop searches Wilbert Cream's room for the cow-creamer, and bonds with Bertie. Bobbie ends her engagement to Kipper after reading an angry letter he wrote when he first saw the marriage announcement, and proclaims she will marry Bertie. Bertie does not want to marry her, but is prevented by his personal code from turning down any woman, so he drives to Herne Bay to get help from Jeeves. Jeeves agrees to return to Brinkley with Bertie. Bobbie soon forgives Kipper's letter, but Kipper, to spite Bobbie, becomes engaged to Phyllis.Thompson, Kristin (1992). Wooster Proposes, Jeeves Disposes or Le Mot Juste. New York: James H. Heineman, Inc. ISBN 0-87008-139-X. I mean to say, when a girl, offered a good man’s heart, laughs like a bursting paper bag and tells him not to be a silly ass, the good man is entitled, I think, to assume that the whole thing is off. Like in Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit, there is a reference in the book to David Niven, the actor who portrayed Bertie Wooster in the earlier 1936 film Thank You, Jeeves!. In the novel, Bertie describes the suspected playboy Wilbert Cream as resembling David Niven. [13] Publication history [ edit ] This story was not adapted for any Jeeves and Wooster episode. An unabridged audiobook was produced by Audible narrated by Ian Carmichael. [18] See also [ edit ] The male sex is divided into rabbits and non-rabbits and the female sex into dashers and dormice, and the trouble is that the male rabbit has a way of getting attracted by the female dasher (who would be fine for the male non-rabbit) and realising too late that he ought to have been concentrating on some mild, gentle dormouse with whom he could settle down peacefully and nibble lettuce.’

Richardson, J. M. (16 August 1960). "Once More Unto The B., Dear Jeeves". Birmingham Daily Post. Birmingham, England . Retrieved 3 April 2018. The moment had come for the honeyed word. I lowered my voice to a confidential murmur, but on her enquiring if I had laryngitis raised it again. List of P. G. Wodehouse characters in the Jeeves stories, a categorized outline of Jeeves characters urn:lcp:jeevesinoffing0000wode_e4r9:epub:6ffe0f8c-ac7e-4867-9b83-e8d6be9f44d6 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier jeevesinoffing0000wode_e4r9 Identifier-ark ark:/13960/s2zcvt3tt1w Invoice 1652 Isbn 9780099513940What a lesson, I felt, this should teach all of us that a man may have a bald head and bushy eyebrows and still remain at heart a jovial sportsman and one of the boys. Jeeves in the Offing”– a hilarious masterpiece by PG Wodehouse: 15 hilarious quotations and 8 examples of peculiar Wodehouse vocabulary. At Brinkley Court, Bertie finds Wilbert Cream reading poetry to Phyllis. He then finds Bobbie, who assures him that the engagement announcement was merely to scare her mother, who dislikes Bertie, into approving the man Bobbie really wants to marry, Reginald Herring. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2021-02-04 20:03:11 Boxid IA40055706 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier