Chapters 5 and 6 Summary

5: It is time for Jeeves' annual vacation in which he takes two weeks off and finds a suitable replacement valet for Bertie. Bertie overhears Jeeves telling this substitute that Bertie is a nice fellow but "by no means intelligent." This shocks Bertie, but he says nothing to Jeeves.

At the oyster-bar Bertie meets Bingo. Bingo lost a lot of money on horses, and so he's decided to get a job tutoring a boy named Oswald Glossop. In the course of his new job, Bingo has fallen deeply in love with Oswald's sister, Honoria. Bertie knows Honoria as a brainy, musclebound "pot of poison."

Later, Bertie meets Aunt Agatha. He doesn't think she'll dare to recommend a wife after what happened with Aline Hemmingway, but she does: Honoria Glossop. Agatha has accepted (for Bertie) Honoria's invitation to visit their estate. Bertie seems...