title: Thank You, Jeeves (A Jeeves and Bertie Novel)
author:  P. G Wodehouse 
description: A humorous novel in which Bertie Wooster seeks refuge in Lord Chuffington's cottage, but the peace is soon shattered with the arrival of an ex-fiancee, Pauline Stoker, and her father. From the author of RING FOR JEEVES and JOY IN THE MORNING.
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  ## The Return of Jeeves
  
  
    
  
  
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  _( Jeeves and Wooster - 10 )_
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Pelham Grenville Wodehouse
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## The Return of Jeeves
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  The waiter, who had slipped out to make a quick telephone call, came back into
  the coffee-room of the Goose and Gherkin wearing the starry-eyed look of a man
  who has just learned that he has backed a long-priced winner. He yearned to
  share his happiness with someone, and the only possible confidant was the
  woman at the table near the door, who was having a small gin and tonic and
  whiling away the time by reading a book of spiritualistic interest. He decided
  to tell her the good news.
  
  
  "I don't know if you would care to know, madam," he said, in a voice that
  throbbed with emotion, "but Whistler's Mother won the Oaks."
  
  
  The woman looked up, regarding him with large, dark, soulful eyes as if he had
  been something recently assembled from ectoplasm.
  
  
  "The what?"
  
  
  "The Oaks, madam."
  
  
  "And what are the Oaks?"
  
  
  It 