Mr Mulliner's friends at the Anglers' Rest hear of the joys and pitfalls of True Love

In which...

Mr Mulliner's nephew Archibald falls in love with a Greek goddess, but is nearly foiled in his campaign to win her heart by an elderly aunt with an insatiable enthusiasm for Shakespeare and Bacon.

Ignatius Mulliner proves that it is never wise to give up smoking, and a pair of yellow shoes shatters Cedric's bachelor calm.

A Vignette in Verse meets her twin-soul in a Pastel in Prose, but their respective sensibilities fall under the dread influence of the Bludleigh bloodlust.

Two eighteen-handicap-men reluctantly compete for the hand of the formidable Agnes Flack, and are saved at the last tee...