The thought of being cooped up in Blandings Castle with Clarence, the Earl of Elmsworth, the perennially youthful Galahad and with the Earl's youngest son, Freddie Threepwood, openly appalled Colonel Wedge But the arrival of Tipton Plimsoll considerably brightened the horizon for Tipton was a rich, young American and rich young Americans were, in the Colonel's opinion, quite the most desirable companions for his daughter, Veronica, the dumbest beauty listed in Debretts