My Friend the Chauffeur

An amateur automobilist proposes a novel motor tour for a small party of women, and the voyage is told in alternating narrators. Social comedy and light romance emerge as pride, attraction, and class pretensions provoke mishaps and comic humiliation. The party encounters mechanical troubles, travel adventures, freak incidents, and escalating peril that include kidnappings and diplomatic entanglements, prompting rescues, revelations, and shifting loyalties. The episodic structure blends travel episodes, humorous character sketches, suspenseful incidents, and sentimental episodes into a brisk, entertaining account of early motor travel and its social consequences.