Bertie is thinking about adopting a child. Then, on their way to Brighton Bertie and Jeeves give a young girl by the name  of Peggy Mainwaring a lift to her school which is run by Miss Tomlinson. Bertie has been contemplating child adoption and  Jeeves gets Miss Tomlinson to invite Bertie to make a speech to the girls. The speech ends in disaster, Bertie and Jeeves  manage barely to get away and Bertie is cured from his adoption urge.