Bill the Conqueror

Bill the Conqueror finds Felicia, a sprightly girl calculated to put the stuffing into any man, about to be married off to the dreary Roderick Pyke. But when Bill West arrives from New York she suddenly recognizes in him the man for whom she should forsake all others.

Comic timing would seem less of the essence in literature until you read the English wit of P. G. Wodehouse, who shows just how a well-placed comment or properly inflected phrase can create a response that is often all too rare during a reading session: A loud, hearty laugh.