Orlo Watkins
A crooning tenor with whom Gertrude Alcester becomes infatuated in "The Go-getter", Watkins is a rather weedy man, with ill-fitting clothes, awful ties and short, but distinct, side-whiskers. He is invited to Blandings by Art-loving Lady Constance, but soon upsets Connie's sister Georgiana by working his warbling glamour on her daughter Gertrude, despite his only income coming from an occasional engagement with the BBC. He has a dislike and fear of all dogs, a horror of rats, and isn't a fan of bats either.
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