Hubert Horatio Bartle Bobton-Trent’s parents were extravagant socialisers.
Unfortunately, one of the drawbacks of extravagant socialising is that it tends to be very expensive. They hadn’t noticed that the bills were piling up because they didn’t know what a bill was. As far as they were concerned, a brown-paper envelope was very useful for writing Scrabble scores on.
It was left to their one and only child-genius son, Hubert Horatio Bartle Bobton-Trent, to sort out – for he was the only one in the family aware that money did not, after all, grow on trees.
