P.G. Wodehouse falls in love

'At about this time, Wodehouse’s private life also took a decided turn upward. When he was halfway through “Something New,” Norman Thwaites, an English friend on the staff of the New York World, introduced him to a pretty young widow named Ethel Rowley, who had come over here from England on a visit. Wodehouse was smitten with her instantly and totally—much in the fashion later made famous by such hypervulnerable members of the Drones Club as Bingo Little and Freddie Widgeon. The following Sunday, he took Mrs. Rowley out to see his favorite seaside spot—Bellport, on the North Shore of Long Island. On the train trip back to New York, their relationship reached a critical juncture. As they were chatting cozily, Wodehouse was seized with a fit of sneezing, and after it had continued for a while Mrs. Rowley suggested that it might be better all around if he took an empty seat across the aisle. He did so, reluctantly. The next half hour, feeling increasingly miserable in his exile, he sat watching her as she unconcernedly read her newspaper. Then he could stand the separation no longer. He got up, proposed to her, and was accepted.'