Audio version of “Inklings // August 2024” is available here.
Inklings is back for August, and with a snazzy new button! (Check out Heidi’s post here for the rules to link up.) This month’s prompt is a scene by the ocean in book or film. For this prompt, I’m going with a scene from one of my favorite fictional universes.
The scene I’ve picked is from S4E1 (“Return to New York”) of Jeeves and Wooster – it’s based on the short story “Fixing it for Freddie,” but I’m going with the screen version for the prompt. In this scene, Bertie and Jeeves are staying at a seaside cottage with Bertie’s friend Tuppy, who’s moping about the fact that his fiancée, Elizabeth, has broken up with him. Bertie and Jeeves go for a stroll on the beach, and they see Tuppy’s former fiancée playing with a small child, presumably a relation of hers.
Bertie gets the idea of kidnapping the child, then having Tuppy return him – pretending to have rescued him – to get Tuppy back into Elizabeth’s good graces.
Jeeves unequivocally refuses to have any part in the plan.
“That is not an assertion I should care to see tested in a court of law, sir.”
I shan’t spoil how it turns out, but here’s the episode if you want to see for yourself. This scene technically only goes from 34:17-36:00, but you should keep playing to 43:24 if you want to see how this whole subplot plays out.
Have you seen/read any Jeeves and Wooster? Who’s your favorite Wodehouse character? Have you gone to the beach this summer?
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This looks so fun! I haven’t seen/read any of this storyline, but it really looks good! And that sentence “borrow him for an hour” is so hysterical!
I may be a little biased, but I think it is absolutely very fun! (Heh, the dialogue in J&W is perfection.)