From boyhood his has been a gay and happy disposition, and in the autumn of his life he still retains the fresh, unspoiled mental outlook of a slightly inebriated undergraduate.
A keen matchmaker and intrepid impersonator, Lord Ickenham is in his element when at large on a sweetness-and-light-spreading excursion. On this occasion the hapless objects of his benevolence are his love-lorn nephew, Reginald ( ' Pongo' ) Twistleton, and Pongo's former crony, Bill Oakshott. Invariably a mixed blessing, this time the gleam in Uncle Dynamite's eye heralds trouble of a major kind...
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