The Inimitable Jeeves, Chapter 13 The Great Sermon Handicap Summary

At Twing Hall Bertie meets Lord Wickhammersley's daughter, Cynthia. Bingo has also fallen in love with Cynthia. Also in the group are the twins Eustace and Claude, who are embarking on a scheme to run a handicap on the length of the sermons preached by the vicars of the dozen hamlets within a six mile radius of Twing Hall.

The odds-on favorite is old Heppenstall, a previous tutor of Wooster's, who has inadvertently distorted the odds by losing half his notes on the previous Sunday and consequently preaching a falsely abbreviated sermon. The front-runner, old Heppenstall, succumbs to hay fever and will not be able to preach his well-known sermon on Brotherly Love. This sermon is guaranteed to last an hour. The odds fluctuate wildly as the day of...