The Wooster Papers

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Carry On, Jeeves

1925. 10 chapters, 161 scenes.

Chapter 1: Jeeves Takes Charge

  1. Bertie explains his dependence on Jeeves and recalls sacking Meadowes for stealing.Chapter 1An illustration
  2. Jeeves cures Bertie’s hangover, gets hired, and disapproves of his fiancée and check suit.Chapter 1, Bertie's flatI swallowed the stuff, and for a moment I felt as if somebody had touched off a bomb inside the old bean.
  3. Bertie puzzles over Florence’s summons while recalling his uncle’s apparently quiet habits.Chapter 1
  4. Florence makes Bertie promise to steal and destroy his uncle’s scandalous memoirs.Chapter 1, the smoking-room
  5. Jeeves tells Bertie that someone has ruined his brown shoes with black polish.Chapter 1, the passage
  6. After a sleepless night Bertie needs another of Jeeves’s restoratives.Chapter 1, Bertie's room at Easeby
  7. Bertie waits anxiously for his uncle to finish the manuscript and put it out for posting.Chapter 1, the hall
  8. Bertie steals the parcel and carries it upstairs, where Edwin’s tidying obstructs his attempt to hide it.Chapter 1What are you doing here?" " I'm tidying your room. It's my last Saturday's act of kindness.
  9. Bertie locks up the manuscript and goes downstairs to find Edwin snipping his cigars.Chapter 1
  10. Bertie compares disposing of the manuscript to Eugene Aram’s difficulty hiding a corpse.Chapter 1
  11. Unable to think how to destroy the manuscript, Bertie leaves it locked in the drawer.Chapter 1, Bertie's room at Easeby
  12. Bertie’s guilt makes him jump when his uncle unexpectedly speaks to him.Chapter 1, the smoking-room
  13. Willoughby reveals the manuscript is missing and Bertie explains Meadowes’s earlier thefts.Chapter 1, the library
  14. Bertie hides beside the library window and overhears Edwin accusing him of stealing the manuscript.Chapter 1, the grounds
  15. Willoughby searches Bertie’s room under a false pretext, but the locked drawer proves empty.Chapter 1, Bertie's room at EasebyI fancy, sir, that this must be the key you require." It was Jeeves. I could have massacred the man.
  16. Jeeves admits removing the parcel and lets Bertie believe he will arrange its destruction.Chapter 1, Bertie's room at Easeby
  17. Willoughby announces the manuscript has reached his publishers and Florence breaks off the engagement.Chapter 1, the hallFlorence gave me a look that went right through me like a knife.
  18. Bertie sacks Jeeves for posting the memoirs, and Jeeves explains why marrying Florence would have been a mistake.Chapter 1, Bertie's room at Easeby
  19. Bertie rehires Jeeves and agrees to give away the check suit, which Jeeves has already disposed of.Chapter 1, Bertie's room at Easeby

Chapter 2: The Artistic Career of Corky

  1. Bertie explains his American exile and Corky’s dependence on an uncle who despises his artistic ambitions.Chapter 2
  2. Jeeves proposes a ghostwritten bird book to win Worple’s approval of Muriel, with Bertie paying for it.Chapter 2, Bertie's New York flat
  3. Bertie finances publication by writing cheques while others do the work.Chapter 2, Bertie's New York flat
  4. The conspirators admire the new book’s lavish praise of Worple.Chapter 2, Corky's studio
  5. Corky reports that Worple has warmly invited Muriel to meet him.Chapter 2, Bertie's New York flat
  6. Bertie meets Muriel at a restaurant and discovers she has married Corky’s uncle.Chapter 2, the quiet restaurant
  7. Jeeves admits he had foreseen the possibility of Muriel marrying the uncle.Chapter 2, Bertie's New York flat
  8. A birth announcement tells Bertie that Corky has lost his position as Worple’s heir.Chapter 2, Bertie's New York flat
  9. Bertie finds Corky bitterly painting the baby who has displaced him from his inheritance.Chapter 2, Corky's studio
  10. Corky telephones for moral support when his uncle comes to inspect the finished portrait, and Bertie insists on bringing Jeeves.Chapter 2, Bertie's New York flat
  11. Worple threatens to stop Corky’s allowance over the ghastly portrait, but Jeeves turns it into the idea for Baby Blobbs.Chapter 2, Corky's studio
  12. Bertie celebrates Corky’s successful comic series and rewards Jeeves’s judgement by accepting his choice of suit.Chapter 2, Bertie's New York flat

Chapter 3: Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest

  1. Bertie recalls asserting his independence over Jeeves’s choice of hat just before the Malvern trouble began.Chapter 3
  2. Jeeves interrupts Bertie’s morning ablutions to announce Lady Malvern and her son.Chapter 3, the bathroom
  3. Bertie identifies Lady Malvern and insists on wearing the pink tie despite Jeeves’s objections.Chapter 3, Bertie's bedroom
  4. Lady Malvern imposes Motty on Bertie while she tours America.Chapter 3, the sitting-room
  5. Bertie appeals to Jeeves for help, but the offended valet offers no sympathy.Chapter 3, the sitting-room
  6. Over breakfast Bertie resigns himself to housing Motty for fear of Aunt Agatha.Chapter 3, the dining-room
  7. The arrival of supposed books reassures Bertie, who goes out for a cheerful lunch.Chapter 3
  8. Bertie returns home and learns that Motty has not yet returned before Jeeves discovers him on the mat.Chapter 3, Bertie's New York flat
  9. Bertie discovers Motty is drunk and helps Jeeves carry him inside.Chapter 3, the front door
  10. Motty announces his determination to spend every night drunk despite Bertie’s protests.Chapter 3, Motty's room
  11. Bertie’s attempt to supervise Motty at supper collapses into riotous revelry.Chapter 3, the supper restaurant
  12. Bertie abandons supervising Motty’s outings and grows thin with anxiety and nightly nursing.Chapter 3
  13. Bertie directly asks Jeeves for a scheme to control Motty, and Jeeves refuses to help.Chapter 3, Bertie's New York flat
  14. Motty’s noisy guests provoke a complaint from the flat management.Chapter 3, Bertie's New York flat
  15. Rollo attacks Bertie, who decides to escape to Rocky Todd’s country home.Chapter 3, the sitting-room
  16. Bertie returns to learn that Rollo has been sold and Motty imprisoned, and Jeeves suggests a Boston cover story.Chapter 3, Bertie's New York flat
  17. Bertie enjoys peace while Motty is imprisoned, though Jeeves remains offended by his clothes.Chapter 3
  18. Lady Malvern accuses Bertie of corrupting Motty until Jeeves persuades her that the imprisonment is voluntary research.Chapter 3, the sitting-room
  19. Bertie yields over the tie and hat and doubles Jeeves’s reward on learning that he engineered Motty’s arrest.Chapter 3, the dining-room

Chapter 4: Jeeves and the Hard-Boiled Egg

  1. Bertie reflects on Jeeves’s indispensability and other men’s attempts to poach him.Chapter 4
  2. Jeeves reports Bicky’s anxious calls and explains his family and dependence on a miserly duke.Chapter 4, Bertie's New York flat
  3. Bicky confesses his pretence of business success, and Jeeves proposes lending him Bertie’s flat to fool the visiting duke.Chapter 4, Bertie's New York flat
  4. The duke arrives, quarrels over his taxi fare, and accepts Bertie’s assurances of Bicky’s prosperity.Chapter 4, Bertie's New York flat
  5. Bertie tells the returning Bicky that the deception has succeeded.Chapter 4, the entrance
  6. Bertie goes to his club to watch the traffic.Chapter 4, Bertie's New York club
  7. Jeeves reveals that the duke has cut off Bicky’s allowance because he believes Bicky is successful.Chapter 4, Bertie's New York flat
  8. A distressed Bertie dresses and goes out for dinner.Chapter 4
  9. Bicky refuses a loan, and Jeeves suggests selling introductions to the duke.Chapter 4, Bertie's New York flat
  10. The scheme attracts only an offer of ham and an anarchist who wants to kick the duke.Chapter 4
  11. Jeeves recruits eighty-seven paying visitors, and Bertie plans to top up the proceeds secretly.Chapter 4, Bertie's bedroom
  12. Bicky secures his uncle’s agreement to meet his supposed friends, promising there will be no reporters.Chapter 4, the sitting-room
  13. Bicky celebrates over lunch by talking enthusiastically about poultry.Chapter 4, Bertie's New York club
  14. They arrange seven-minute introductions to the duke in groups of ten.Chapter 4
  15. Simms demands proof of the duke’s identity, exposing the paid reception and causing the duke to cancel it.Chapter 4, Bertie's New York flat
  16. Jeeves suggests selling the story to a newspaper, and the duke buys Bicky’s silence with a secretaryship paying five hundred pounds a year.Chapter 4, Bertie's New York flat
  17. Bertie rewards Jeeves’s ingenuity by agreeing to have his moustache shaved off.Chapter 4, Bertie's New York flat

Chapter 5: The Aunt and the Sluggard

  1. Rocky wakes Bertie with an urgent problem.Chapter 5, Bertie's bedroom
  2. Bertie explains Rocky’s leisurely career as a poet and his expectations from a wealthy aunt.Chapter 5
  3. Jeeves proposes supplying nightlife reports so Rocky can satisfy his aunt without leaving the country.Chapter 5, Bertie's bedroom
  4. Jeeves enjoys the cabarets while Rocky’s vivid invented letters delight his aunt.Chapter 5
  5. Bertie congratulates Jeeves on the material for Rocky’s letters.Chapter 5, Bertie's New York flat
  6. Isabel arrives unexpectedly and mistakes Bertie for an unwelcome guest in Rocky’s flat.Chapter 5, the sitting-room
  7. Jeeves explains the address deception and reveals that he has already summoned Rocky.Chapter 5, Jeeves's den
  8. Isabel announces that she is staying in the flat and dismisses Bertie.Chapter 5, the sitting-room
  9. Bertie asks Jeeves to maintain the deception and smuggle his belongings to a hotel.Chapter 5, Jeeves's den
  10. Bertie leaves his flat and struggles to dress unaided at the hotel.Chapter 5, the St. Aurea
  11. Rocky telephones from the Revels to complain about his clothes, his aunt, and the loss of his allowance.Chapter 5, the St. Aurea
  12. Jeeves brings clothes but seems unable to help and mentions his aunt’s passion for hansom cabs.Chapter 5, the St. Aurea
  13. Bertie resumes visiting cabarets and sees Rocky and Isabel looking increasingly unhappy.Chapter 5
  14. Rocky begs Bertie to join his table because he fears Isabel is beginning to suspect the deception.Chapter 5, the Maison Pierre
  15. Bertie accompanies Rocky and his ominously silent aunt home.Chapter 5, the taxi
  16. Isabel reveals her conversion by Jimmy Mundy and begs Rocky to abandon New York for the country.Chapter 5, the sitting-room
  17. With his flat restored, Bertie learns how Jeeves devised the cure and accepts his advice about a tie.Chapter 5, Bertie's New York flat

Chapter 6: The Rummy Affair of Old Biffy

  1. Jeeves tells Bertie that Biffy has telephoned and intends to call.Chapter 6, Bertie's Paris room
  2. Bertie encounters Biffy lost in Paris and supplies the name of his forgotten hotel.Chapter 6, the street near the Sorbonne
  3. Biffy recounts losing his fiancée Mabel through forgetfulness and says he is negotiating to sell his house to Sir Roderick.Chapter 6, the café
  4. Bertie reads of Biffy’s engagement to Honoria and is baffled by Jeeves’s indifference.Chapter 6, Bertie's Paris room
  5. Biffy asks how to escape Honoria, and Bertie offers to attend Sir Roderick’s lunch and consult Jeeves.Chapter 6, Bertie's flat
  6. Jeeves refuses to intervene, and Bertie resolves to devise his own rescue plan.Chapter 6, the kitchen
  7. Bertie tells Jeeves to telephone Biffy with news that he has found a solution.Chapter 6, the sitting-room
  8. Bertie demonstrates a squirting bouquet and tells Biffy to use it on Sir Roderick to break the engagement.Chapter 6, Biffy's flat
  9. Sir Roderick orders a Wembley expedition, while Biffy loses his nerve and fails to squirt him.Chapter 6, Biffy's flat
  10. Bertie reports his plan’s failure, and Jeeves asks to accompany him to Wembley.Chapter 6, the sitting-room
  11. Bertie explains Biffy’s lost romance to Jeeves, who had not known why Biffy lost touch with Mabel.Chapter 6
  12. Sir Roderick leads a wearisome exhibition tour until Bertie and Biffy agree to escape to the bar.Chapter 6, Wembley
  13. Green Swizzles revive Bertie and Biffy, who cannot remember which attraction Jeeves advised him to visit.Chapter 6, the Planters' Bar
  14. After enjoying the rides, Biffy spots the Palace of Beauty and remembers Jeeves’s recommendation.Chapter 6, the Amusement Park
  15. Biffy smashes the glass to reach Mabel and is arrested, leading Sir Roderick to end his engagement to Honoria.Chapter 6, the Palace of Beauty
  16. After failing to bail Biffy out, Bertie learns that Jeeves arranged the reunion because Mabel is his niece.Chapter 6

Chapter 7: Without the Option

  1. Bertie is fined five pounds while Sippy receives thirty days without the option.Chapter 7, Bosher Street Police Court
  2. Bertie recalls urging the depressed Sippy to steal a policeman’s helmet.Chapter 7, Piccadilly Circus
  3. Bertie leaves the dock feeling responsible for Sippy’s imprisonment.Chapter 7, Bosher Street Police Court
  4. Sippy fears that missing his visit to the Pringles will expose his imprisonment to his aunt.Chapter 7, the little dark room
  5. Bertie explains Sippy’s predicament and asks Jeeves to find a solution.Chapter 7, Bertie's flat
  6. Jeeves persuades Bertie to impersonate Sippy by warning him that Aunt Agatha knows about his fine.Chapter 7, Bertie's flat
  7. Bertie meets the dismal Pringles, inherits Sippy’s reputation for tormenting cats and discovers Heloise’s resemblance to Honoria.Chapter 7, the Pringle drawing-room
  8. Jeeves explains Heloise’s kinship to Honoria and advises Bertie to avoid her.Chapter 7, the Pringles' house
  9. Heloise’s constant pursuit convinces Bertie and Jeeves that she intends to marry him.Chapter 7, the Pringles' house
  10. Bertie climbs down a water-pipe to escape Heloise but Aunt Jane catches him petting the cat.Chapter 7, the Pringle garden
  11. Heloise presses Bertie to abandon Jeeves and Bertie Wooster until Aunt Jane’s demand for the cat saves him.Chapter 7, the summer-house
  12. Bertie gains a few peaceful days by repeatedly escaping down the water-pipe.Chapter 7, the Pringles' house
  13. Sir Roderick exposes Bertie’s identity and calls him insane, forcing him to reveal Sippy’s imprisonment.Chapter 7, the Pringle drawing-room
  14. Jeeves advises Bertie to tell Aunt Vera himself and arranges their departure.Chapter 7, Bertie's room at the Pringles'
  15. Aunt Vera surprises Bertie by laughing at the news of Sippy’s imprisonment and declaring herself proud of him.Chapter 7, the Paddock
  16. Jeeves reveals how his constable cousin’s summonses turned Aunt Vera against policemen, and Bertie rewards him.Chapter 7, the inn

Chapter 8: Fixing It for Freddie

  1. Bertie tells Jeeves that Elizabeth has broken off her engagement to Freddie and plans to take Freddie to Marvis Bay.Chapter 8
  2. Bertie takes Freddie to Marvis Bay, where his melancholy piano playing makes him a trying guest.Chapter 8, Marvis Bay
  3. Freddie reports that Elizabeth is at Marvis Bay and has cut him, but Bertie’s proposed rescue from drowning founders on Freddie’s inability to swim.Chapter 8, the sitting-room
  4. Bertie mistakes Tootles for Elizabeth’s cousin and kidnaps him so Freddie can win her gratitude by returning him.Chapter 8, the beach
  5. Bertie quiets Tootles with honey and sends Freddie off to return him to Elizabeth.Chapter 8, the sitting-room
  6. Freddie returns with Tootles and angrily explains that the child is no relation to Elizabeth.Chapter 8, the veranda
  7. Bertie searches for Tootles’s parents until the sweet seller identifies him as a Kegworthy of Ocean Rest.Chapter 8, Marvis Bay
  8. Mr Kegworthy refuses to take Tootles back because Bootles has mumps and insists Bertie keep him until his uncle comes.Chapter 8, Ocean Rest
  9. Elizabeth greets Tootles and mistakes Bertie for his father.Chapter 8, the road
  10. Jeeves refuses to nurse Tootles, and Bertie persuades Freddie to stay by invoking their schooldays and an unpaid tenner.Chapter 8, Bertie's cottage
  11. Sweets keep Tootles quiet until bedtime, when Bertie and Freddie undress him and worry about putting his clothes back on.Chapter 8, Bertie's cottage
  12. Bertie hires a neighbouring nurse to dress Tootles, who then spills milk over Freddie’s trousers.Chapter 8
  13. Jeeves proposes coaching Tootles to say Kiss Freddie to Elizabeth, drawing on a reconciliation scene from Tiny Hands.Chapter 8, the sitting-room
  14. Bertie and Jeeves begin coaching Tootles with sweets while keeping the plan secret from Freddie.Chapter 8, Bertie's cottage
  15. Tootles’s erratic delivery, including Kick Freddie, leads Jeeves to advise postponing the performance.Chapter 8, Bertie's cottage
  16. Elizabeth’s gift of toffee prompts Tootles to shout Kiss Freddie, and Bertie confesses the scheme while Freddie stands speechless.Chapter 8, the veranda
  17. Bertie tells Jeeves that the scheme has failed, then sees Freddie and Elizabeth embracing before a crowd.Chapter 8, the road

Chapter 9: Clustering Round Young Bingo

  1. Jeeves approves most of Bertie’s fashion article but objects to his silk evening shirts before Bertie asks him to find the Littles a housemaid.Chapter 9, Bertie's flatAn illustrationNo, Jeeves, " I said, raising my hand. argument is useless.
  2. Bertie meets Rosie outside the magazine offices and accepts an invitation to dine with the Littles.Chapter 9, the offices of Milady's Boudoir
  3. Dahlia explains that Tom’s indigestion and her bad cook threaten the magazine’s funding.Chapter 9, the offices of Milady's Boudoir
  4. A gloomy Bingo asks Bertie to be at home next morning for a matter of life and death.Chapter 9, the Littles' drawing-room
  5. Anatole’s magnificent dinner transforms Tom’s mood while Bingo remains miserable.Chapter 9, the Littles' dining-room
  6. Bertie returns home and refuses Uncle George’s invitation to join him at Harrogate.Chapter 9, Bertie's flat
  7. Jeeves proposes stopping Rosie’s embarrassing article by provoking a quarrel through transferring Anatole to Dahlia.Chapter 9, Bertie's bedroom at the flatI fear, sir," sighed Jeeves, "that when it comes to a matter of cooks ladies have but a rudimentary sense of morality.
  8. When Anatole refuses to leave his beloved parlourmaid, Bingo persuades Bertie to steal the dictating cylinder.Chapter 9, Bertie's bedroom at the flat
  9. Bertie climbs into Rosie’s study, startles a Pekingese, and crashes into a table of fragile ornaments.Chapter 9, Rosie's studyI caught the table squarely with my right hip and knocked it endways. It seemed to me for a moment as if the whole world had dissolved into a kind of cataract of glass and china.
  10. A policeman and parlourmaid challenge Bertie, who offers his drawing-room photograph as proof that he knows the family.Chapter 9, the Littles' garden
  11. Finding his photograph missing, Bertie blames Mary and escapes through the window while the parlourmaid goes to ask her.Chapter 9, the Littles' drawing-room
  12. Bertie escapes through the gate and takes a cab, vowing never to help Bingo again.Chapter 9, the Littles' gardenThe next moment I was in a laurel bush, feeling like the cross which marks the spot where the accident occurred.
  13. Jeeves convinces Bertie to escape further appeals from Bingo by joining Uncle George at Harrogate.Chapter 9, Bertie's flat
  14. Bertie enjoys his stay at Harrogate by watching Uncle George endure the cure while he drinks wine.Chapter 9, Harrogate
  15. Dahlia reveals that Jeeves secured Anatole, Rosie has withheld her article, and Tom is financing the magazine again.Chapter 9, the Royal Pump-RoomAunt Dablia was drinking something that smelled like a leak in the gas-pipe.
  16. Jeeves explains how Anatole’s abandoned fiancée drove him to Dahlia, lists his rewards, and reveals that he returned Bertie’s silk shirts.Chapter 9, Bertie's flat

Chapter 10: Bertie Changes His Mind

  1. Wooster proposes bringing his sister and nieces to live with him, and Jeeves recommends a restorative visit to Brighton.Chapter 10, Bertie's flatAn illustration
  2. Jeeves suggests that Wooster pose as a friend of Peggy’s father to excuse her unauthorized outing.Chapter 10, the London roadWell, you are a sportsman!" observed the young person, with great enthusiasm.
  3. Peggy takes Wooster to meet her friends while Jeeves asks to see the headmistress.Chapter 10, Miss Tomlinson's school
  4. Jeeves implies that Wooster is a distinguished speaker and persuades Miss Tomlinson to insist on an address.Chapter 10, the school drawing-room
  5. Jeeves anticipates a conveniently prolonged breakdown of the apparently sound car.Chapter 10, the stable-yard
  6. An exhausted Wooster seeks a cigarette and hears how schoolgirls enjoy embarrassing male visitors.Chapter 10, the stable-yard
  7. After tea in the kitchen, Jeeves receives Wooster’s cigarette-case from Peggy and hears her hopes for his lecture.Chapter 10
  8. Jeeves’s claim that the car is broken traps Wooster into giving the promised address.Chapter 10, the stable-yardWe are all waiting for you in the large schoolroom." "But I don't know a bit what to talk about." "Why, anything, Mr. Wooster. Be bright—bright and amusing.
  9. Jeeves secretly watches Wooster’s speech collapse into betting advice and the offer of an unsuitable joke.Chapter 10, the schoolroomAn illustration
  10. Wooster hides under a rug while the staff search for him over the girls’ claim that he supplied their cigarettes.Chapter 10, the stable-yard
  11. Wooster’s bitter responses reveal how thoroughly he has lost his enthusiasm for schoolgirls.Chapter 10, Miss Tomlinson's school
  12. Wooster praises his peaceful routine and confirms that the plan to live with his nieces is off.Chapter 10, Bertie's flat