montauge bodkin

Montague or Montrose "Monty" Bodkin, second-richest Drone, nephew of Sir Gregory Parsloe; there is also an Uncle Percy. Son of a solicitor with a small country-town practice, he inherited his money from an aunt who married a Pittsburgh millionaire visiting London when she was in the chorus of a musical entertainment at the Adelphi Theatre. His uncle Lancelot was jugged for passing bad cheques the year Hot Ginger won the Cesarewitch. Tall, slender, and lissom, with butter-colored hair and a voice containing something of the tonal quality of a bleating sheep combined with a suggestion of a barking prairie wolf. Tries to hold down a job in Heavy Weather, editing Tiny Tots in the Mammoth Publishing Co. during the absence of Aubrey Sellick. Will be allowed to marry Gertrude Butterwick if he can hold a job for one year. Fired from Tilbury House for giving improper advice to tiny tots, engaged by Constance Keeble as Lord Emsworth's secretary in Heavy Weather. Still engaged to Gertrude in The…more