All is not well at Blandings Castle, the Lord Emsworth, who would rather spend his days pottering around garden is being forced by his sister Lady Constance Keeble to travel to London to meet the poet Ralston McTodd and bring him to Blandings. Debonair man-about-town Ronald Eustace Psmith seeks to unravel the tangled affairs of Blandings Castle and win the girl of his dreams by subterfuge theft and whatever else is necessary. Gentleman jack-of-all-trades Psmith tries to win the girl of his heart whilst stealing a diamond necklace. In a fit of gratitude for getting the necklace returned, Keeble ends up helping everyone: Mike is able to buy profitable agricultural land, Freddie gets funds to start his own business, and Psmith becomes Emsworth's new secretary, as well as the fiancé of Eve. At that moment Psmith arrives and, after a tussle with her accomplice, gets the necklace back from Peavey and returns it to Keeble after remembering his friendship with Keeble's daughter and her husband, Mike. It was taken by Aileen Peavey and her accomplice, who tracked it to Psmith's cottage. She eventually finds it at Psmith's cottage, but without the necklace. However, when Eve later attempts to retrieve the flowerpot, it vanishes. Aileen Peavey's accomplice shuts off the power and turns off the lights and in that moment Aileen makes a grab for the necklace, but it slips out of her grasp and out the window, where Eve catches it and hides it in a flowerpot. The theft is planned the evening that Psmith reads poetry in the drawing room to the assembled company. Psmith, while impersonating Ralph, begins simultaneously wooing Eve and plotting his own theft of the necklace - and he brings Eve in to help. Meanwhile, the other poet, Aileen Peavey, is secretly a thief herself, and plans to steal the necklace with the aid of an accomplice. But the real Ralph sends a telegram to cancel his visit and only the Blandings butler Beach knows this, so he quietly is suspicious of Psmith.
Eager to see more of the pretty Eve and also partake in Freddie's necklace-stealing scheme in order to raise money, Psmith steals Ralph McTodd's place before he arrives at Blandings and meets Emsworth, and basically impersonates Ralph at the castle. Both Freddie and his cousin Phyllis are also friends with a feisty young woman named Eve Halliday, who eventually catches the eye of Psmith when she is seeking shelter from the rain one evening in London. Ralph McTodd ha recently left his girlfriend Cynthia, who is friends with Freddie Threepwood. Lady Constance Keeble is currently a guest at Blandings Castle, and the castle expects two more guests in the near future: two poets named Ralph McTodd and Aileen Peavey. Freddie Threepwood is cut from his allowance yet again and hatches a plan to steal his aunt Constance Keeble's diamond necklace.
Psmith and Mike are not the only ones strapped for cash.
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