Widow Francesca Bassington is deeply concerned. Her son, Comus, has finished his schooldays without benefit. He is now footloose and fancy free among the Edwardian social scene of London, showing no signs of responsibility or willingness to undertake a sensible career.

To add to this distress Francesca has a housing problem. Her comfortable abode for the season, home to all her treasured possessions, is under threat. She sees the marriage of Comus to an ambitious heiress, Elaine De Frey, as the solution to her crisis.

Can her son rise above a life of utter hopelessness and frivolity to save the situation or will he be banished to the wilds of the African Continent and sink without trace?

Using this narrative Saki wields and stabs his satirical pen showing no mercy!

Saki (1870 – 1916) was the pen name of British author Hector Hugh Munro, H.H. Munro was born in Burma the son of inspector- general for the Burmese police when that country was still part of the British Empire. His mother, the former Mary Frances Mercer, died in 1872, killed by a runaway cow, an incident that may have influenced the sometimes deadly animals of his later stories. He was brought up in England..

Saki is considered a master of the short story and is often compared to O. Henry and Dorothy Parker. His witty and sometimes macabre stories satirised Edwardian society and culture His stories are always short and the good ones are exquisitely memorable, with delicately drawn characters and finely judged narratives. Saki's world contrasts the effete conventions and hypocrisies of Edwardian England with the ruthless but straightforward life-and-death struggles of nature. Nature generally wins in the end.