Service with a Smile

The description of his ancestral seat as an earthly Paradise would, at present, have struck its proprietor as ironical. Full as it was with unwanted and troublesome inhabitants. What Lord Emsworth needed above all was a rugged ally at his side toremove from Blandings its superflous guests, leaving him in peace to tend his beloved pig, Empress of Blandings. Fortunately, it was just the sort of situation that brought out the best in a certain earl whose speciality was spreading sweetness and light. However (as Pongo Twistleton will readily confirm), when Lord Ickenham is on a sweetness-and-light-spreading expedition, there's always apt to be trouble...