Aunts Aren't Gentlemen, chapters 9–12, Wee Nooke, same afternoon, an hour and a half later
Jeeves reports that Vanessa and Orlo quarrelled when he refused to bully her father or steal the cat, and she broke with him; then Vanessa storms in and tells Bertie she will be his wife.
The text is on its way.
Aside, earlier Bertie let Orlo talk him into an accident policy and a life policy for huge sums.
Aside, at private school Bertie recalls Balaam's ass from the paper in which he won the Scripture Knowledge prize.
Aside, in the past Bertie has suffered from scheming girls like Stiffy Byng and grown wary.
Aside, earlier Bertie recalls how firmly Vanessa had turned down his proposal.
Aside, since arriving at Eggesford Hall Aunt Dahlia was talked by Jimmy into betting more than she possesses on Simla, only to find Potato Chip just as good.
Aside, a couple of years before A minion of Cook's got the jockey of Jimmy's horse Poonah drunk on the eve of a race at Bridmouth; relations soured only when Jimmy fined Cook for moving pigs.
Aside, last year Aunt Dahlia sang 'Every Nice Girl Loves A Sailor' in a sailor suit at the village concert and got three encores.
Aside, years before Bertie recalls Aunt Agatha making him take Thos to Macbeth at the Old Vic, and likens himself to Macbeth seeing Banquo's ghost.
Aside, earlier, at Totleigh Bertie recalls that his first meeting with Plank ended with Plank proposing to hit him with a Zulu knob-kerrie.
Aside, at school Plank remembers Jimpy Murgatroyd as Haileybury's star wing three-quarter.
Present: Angelica Briscoe, Aunt Dahlia, Bertie Wooster, Jeeves, Major Plank, Vanessa Cook, the cat
Mentioned: Agatha Christie, Aunt Agatha, Banquo, Billy Graham, Billy Graham (the evangelist), Captain Bligh, Cleopatra, Colonel Briscoe, Cook, Cook's minion, E. Jimpson Murgatroyd, Fenimore Cooper, Gene Tunney, Jack Dempsey, Jack the Ripper, Lord Chesterfield, Lord Worplesdon, Macbeth, Marlene, Mrs Briscoe, Orlo Porter, Plank's native bearer, Poonah's jockey, the Rev Ambrose Briscoe, Shakespeare, Spinoza, Stiffy Byng, Stinker Pinker, Thos, Tolstoy, Uncle Joe, Uncle Tom, Balaam's ass♞︎, Bertie's insurance policies✦︎, By Order Of The Czar✦︎, Cook's hunting crop✦︎, Eggesford Court, Eggesford Hall, the gamekeepers⁂, the Goose and Grasshopper, Haileybury, the kitchen of Wee Nooke, Maiden Eggesford, Orlo's inheritance✦︎, Plank's knob-kerrie✦︎, Plank's village team⁂, Poonah♞︎, Potato Chip♞︎, the Pytchley⁂, the Quorn⁂, Scotland Yard⁂, Simla♞︎, the Spinoza✦︎, the spots✦︎