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268:, instead of returning from visiting Sir Roderick Glossop as in the final story. Jeeves still wants to catch a tarpon in the scenario, but Aunt Dahlia asks Bertie to hire a conjuror (magician) for her Christmas party. It is for this reason that Bertie visits Jas Waterbury's theatrical agency, and there is no mention of Jas threatening Bertie with a breach of promise case. Bertie then visits Sir Roderick Glossop, who tells Bertie he cannot marry Lady Chuffnell until Honoria is engaged. Blair Eggleston, who is Glossop's patient, loves Honoria, but she dislikes him. The scenario simply ends with the note, "This ends Act One".
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Freddie Widgeon. While sharing an embrace with Trixie, Bertie is discovered, but by Eggleston, not Honoria. Bertie tells him that he and Trixie are engaged, but it hardly matters, since Eggleston and Honoria reconciled already. Jas tells Bertie to marry Trixie, since Bertie has named her as his
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203:"I represent Messrs. Alsopp and Wilson, wine merchants, goods supplied to the value of three hundred and four pounds, fifteen shillings and eightpence, a bill which Mr. Wooster finds it far beyond his fiscal means to settle. I am what is technically known as the man in possession."
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