inheritance and tries to win him back, but he refuses, being happily engaged to Elizabeth. Claire insists that Elizabeth knows who Bill is and is marrying him for his money, and returns to Dudley. Nutty, mistakenly believing Elizabeth got engaged to Bill for the money, tries to console her. Bill overhears this, and thinks that Claire was right. Elizabeth explains that Nutty told her Bill was Lord Dawlish days ago but she truly loves him. Bill believes her, but Elizabeth, afraid that Bill will come to doubt her feelings for him, tells him to go, and he reluctantly leaves for the city. Jerry Nichols appears, and asks Elizabeth not to tell his father, the head of his legal firm, about how he acted prematurely; Nutcombe actually left his money to Elizabeth in his final will. Nutty celebrates with Jerry while Elizabeth rushes off and catches Bill's train. They plan to get married when the train reaches New York and later run a big bee farm together. Background The exclusive club that Bill works for as secretary in the beginning of the novel, Brown's, was based on a real London club, White's. Brown's is stated in the first chapter of Uneasy Money to be located in St James Street; White's is in fact located in St James's Street. In the last chapter, Elizabeth and Bill decide to get married in a church "on Twenty-ninth Street, just round the corner from Fifth Avenue"; this is a reference to the Little Church Around the Corner, where Wodehouse married his wife Ethel in 1914. The fictional village in the novel, Brookport, was likely inspired by Bellport, a village in Brookhaven, New York, where the Wodehouses lived in the first years of their marriage. Publication history The story was published as a serial in the Saturday Evening Post between 4 December 1915 and 15 January 1916, and in the Strand Magazine between December 1916 and June 1917. It was the second novel Wodehouse sold to George Horace Lorimer of the Post, after Something Fresh. Both serials were published in seven parts. The Post serial is nearly identical to the US edition book, and the Strand serial is nearly identical to the UK edition book. Illustrations by Clarence F. Underwood were used for both serials. The US edition is dedicated: "To My Wife, Bless Her". The first US edition featured a frontispiece and seven illustrations by