Hot Water by P. G. Wodehouse. Short summary

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Jay Gedge lives in Blissack Castle with his wife. The woman inherited the castle from her deceased first husband. However, the owner of the castle wants to return to her homeland in America.

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Thanks to his wife, Jay Gedge managed to snatch up the enormous Chateau Blissac, located in Brittany on the outskirts of Saint-Rock. In the text of his beloved’s ex-husband’s will, the deceased bequeathed his castle to the woman upon his death. However, despite possessing a huge chateau whose windows overlook beautiful natural views, the woman is still not happy. She longs for her homeland, which is on the other side of the Atlantic. The expanses of California and the vistas of Glendale, where she knew every nook and cranny, were familiar in her distant childhood. But it was not only nostalgia for her homeland that drove her away from France. Urgent business awaited her in the capital of Foggy Albion.

Before leaving for the United Kingdom, the American invited a senator from the United States of America and his family. But she had invited an American for the purpose of asking the American government to appoint her lover as U.S. ambassador to France.