The book is typically Wodehouse, and very funny, but there is a major error in it: In Thank You, Jeeves, Pop Stoker barges into Bertie's seaside cottage around two or three in the morning, and demands to know the whereabouts of his daughter, Pauline. When Bertie plays dumb, Stoker replies, "Yes, my daughter, Pauline, my one and ONLY daughter." This is the error, for Stoker has another daughter named Emerald, who, in a later story, becomes a temporary cook at Totleigh Towers and elopes with Gussie Fink-Nottle, a visitor there. It seems Gussie's fiancee, Madeline Bassett, has forbidden Gussie to eat meat, and Emerald Stoker, sympathizing with his plight, sneaks him steak- and-kidney pie. This kindness induces Gussie to fall in love with Emerald and break off his engagement to Madeline. So, in Thank You, Jeeves, Pop Stoker has obviously forgotten all about his second daughter. Which is hard to do, considering Wodehouse later describes Emerald as having a face like a Pekingese. Stoker has a lot of room to talk when he disparages Bertie's
mental capacity -- it seems Pop's own capacity's not up to speed, either!