Bertie and Jeeves go to Marsham-in-the Vale in aid of Aunt Dahlia, who wants to enlist Cornelia Fothergill as a writer for  Milady's Boudoir. But her husband Everard is in the way, a nervous wreck because of the presence of Venus, a forceful  painting by his father Edward. Aunt Dahlia wants Bertie to steal the painting and he agrees, but in trying to he meets old  Edward who has the same intention. Jeeves hits Bertie on the head with the dinner gong to create the impression that  the painting has been stolen and aunt Dahlia gets her Cornelia.