#i wanted bertie to get a win though :( poor guy just doesn't want jeeves caling him stupid

[vickyvicarious]

I can't decide my favorite part of this update...

The drawback to this otherwise singularly fruity binge was, of course, the fact that Jeeves wouldn��t be on the spot to watch me in action. Still, apart from that there wasn’t a flaw. The beauty of the thing was, you see, that nothing could possibly go wrong.

Bertie wanting to show off to Jeeves so much. Also, his confident assertion that there are no issues with his plan whatsoever (right before everything about it goes wrong).

I had decided to open the proceedings by sort of paving the way for young Bingo. I mean to say, without actually mentioning his name, I wanted to prepare the girl’s mind for the fact that, surprising as it might seem, there was someone who had long loved her from afar and all that sort of rot.

Knew exactly how this was going to go immediately, but honestly Bertie is SUCH a good pal. He's so so good to his friends, it's really sweet.

Well, on the night the misguided female forgot to stand by, and it was a full minute before the search-party located her and shot her on to the stage. And all that time I had to stand there, waiting. 

This is such a nightmare scenario??? Oh my god.

When I had finished getting the water out of my eyes and had time to take a look round, I saw him about ten yards away, going strongly and using, I think, the Australian crawl. The spectacle took all the heart out of me. 

Poor Bertie! But I gotta admit that's hilarious.

“You are funny!” she said again. “First proposing in that extraordinary roundabout way, and then pushing poor little Oswald into the lake so as to impress me by saving him.”

I can definitely see where she started thinking of him as a cute dumbass. And he is but not specifically for her, haha. Honoria's reaction here makes me like her all the more, except then the talk about making something of Bertie is kinda sucky. Too akin to his aunt, as I think he said last time? Still I'd love it if this whole situation resolved with her and Bertie being friends (alas I don't expect it).

Two days later I got a letter from Jeeves.

“… The weather,” it ended, “continues fine. I have had one exceedingly enjoyable bathe.”

Trying to decide if this is pure coincidence or if Jeeves has his temp spying on Bertie or something and is making a sneaky snide reference. I lean towards the spying.

Also though, Jeeves writes him letters on his vacation! That's adorable. (Also, how to say... not your typical employee-employer relationship, no?)