Patricia Brent, spinster
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Patricia Brent, a spinster, overhears two fellow-boarders pitying her because she "never has a nice young man to take her out". In a thoughtless moment of anger, she announces that the following night she will be dining out with her fiancé. When she arrives at the restaurant the next day, she finds some of the fellow-boarders there to watch her, so, rendered reckless by the thought of the humiliation of being found out, she goes up to a young man sitting alone at a table, and asks him to help her by "playing up". Countless complications and adventures ensue...Book Details
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Herbert George Jenkins
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Herbert George Jenkins was a British writer and the owner of the publishing company Herbert Jenkins Ltd, which published many of P. G. Wodehouse's novels. Jenkins' parents came from Norfolk and, acco...
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