The Little Nugget

By P. G. Wodehouse Five years have passed since Peter Burns was handed a letter informing him that his fiancée, Audrey Blake, had abruptly left him in the midst of a complacent period of engagement. Becoming painfully aware, in the ensuing months which turned into years, that he had been so selfish a slush as to drive Audrey away entirely, Peter has dedicated himself to establishing a new life and finding a new character, one especially marked by a fervent spirit of generosity.  In the altruism of this newfound nature, however, he has—with the help of his new fiancée, the cooly beautiful Cynthia Drassilis—spun himself into a complicated web of school-teaching and spoiled school-children, American thieves and fake British butlers, and—most spectacularly surprising—his former fiancée, the lovely Audrey Blake.  “Nature had given me the soul of a pig, and circumstances had conspired to carry on Nature’s work.”   Sir Pelham Grenville (P. G.) Wodehouse (1881–1975) was an English author and