Synopsis: |
A Damsel in Distress by Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, 1919. George Bevan is bored of life - what more is there for him to do when he's a brilliantly rich and successful music composer before age 30? He's lonely, but all the women he knows are (of course) dull, and he is completely over women. And then one day, he's in a taxicab and a beautiful woman breathlessly jumps in and asks him to hide her. He realizes that perhaps he's not completely over women, agrees to help her, and after knocking a chubby man's hat off and causing a scene in the middle of London, he saves her and then loses sight of her without learning her name. But Bevan is an intrepid man, and he learns that he has fallen in love with Lady Maud Marshmoreton. He tracks her down to a rural hamlet, and then there's a lot of mistaken identities, and finally, everything works out just as it should. |