The Wooster Papers

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Joy in the Morning

1946. 29 chapters, 49 scenes.

Chapter 1

  1. Driving home from Steeple Bumpleigh after it is all over, Bertie admits he nearly despaired, and Jeeves supplies the saying 'Joy cometh in the morning'.Chapter 1
  2. Bertie explains why he has always avoided Steeple Bumpleigh, home of Aunt Agatha, Lord Worplesdon, Florence and Edwin, turning down Boko's invitations and Jeeves's hints about the fishing.Chapter 1, Steeple Bumpleigh
  3. Over breakfast Jeeves reports a visit from Nobby Hopwood and Stilton, is summoned urgently to Lord Worplesdon's office, and asks for an edition of Spinoza when Bertie offers him a present.Chapter 1, London
  4. Bertie goes to a bookshop for Jeeves's Spinoza, musing on Lord Worplesdon, is handed Spindrift by a baffled assistant, and suddenly meets his former fiancée Florence Craye.Chapters 1–2, the bookshop

Chapter 2

  1. Bertie goes to a bookshop for Jeeves's Spinoza, musing on Lord Worplesdon, is handed Spindrift by a baffled assistant, and suddenly meets his former fiancée Florence Craye.Continued from chapter 1
  2. Florence finds Bertie apparently buying her novel Spindrift, autographs it, is thrilled to hear he reads Spinoza, and gives him a melting look that sends him fleeing.Chapter 2, the bookshop
  3. Bertie restores himself at the Bollinger bar and, standing in the doorway, notices something odd across the way.Chapters 2–3, the Bollinger

Chapter 3

  1. Bertie restores himself at the Bollinger bar and, standing in the doorway, notices something odd across the way.Continued from chapter 2

Chapter 4

  1. Walking home, Bertie resolves to save Stilton from Florence and writes Nobby Hopwood a strong note listing Florence's defects, then posts it.Chapter 4, Bertie's flat
  2. Jeeves reveals that he has arranged for Bertie to occupy Lord Worplesdon's cottage Wee Nooke at Steeple Bumpleigh as cover for a secret merger meeting, and Bertie, fearing Aunt Agatha, gives in.Chapter 4, Bertie's flat

Chapter 5

  1. Over morning tea Jeeves cheers Bertie with news of a fancy dress ball, passes on Aunt Agatha's order to fetch a birthday brooch for Florence, and hears that Nobby is engaged to Boko.Chapter 5, Bertie's flat
  2. Bertie collects the brooch at Aspinall's and buys a Sinbad costume and ginger whiskers.Chapter 5
  3. Bertie finds Nobby waiting at the flat and drives off with her while Jeeves sees them off.Chapter 5, Bertie's flat
  4. Once clear of London traffic on the Portsmouth Road, Bertie sets about quizzing Nobby on her engagement to Boko.Chapters 5–6

Chapter 6

  1. Once clear of London traffic on the Portsmouth Road, Bertie sets about quizzing Nobby on her engagement to Boko.Continued from chapter 5
  2. Bertie drops Nobby at the Hall, stops at Boko's cottage for a drink, whistles at the window and has a china ornament thrown at his head.Chapters 6–7, the Bokeries

Chapter 7

  1. Bertie drops Nobby at the Hall, stops at Boko's cottage for a drink, whistles at the window and has a china ornament thrown at his head.Continued from chapter 6
  2. Driving to Wee Nooke in gloom, Bertie is hailed by a hostile Stilton Cheesewright, who has inexplicably become a country policeman.Chapters 7–8

Chapter 8

  1. Driving to Wee Nooke in gloom, Bertie is hailed by a hostile Stilton Cheesewright, who has inexplicably become a country policeman.Continued from chapter 7
  2. Florence cycles up, says she has put flowers in Wee Nooke, and calls Stilton a perfect imbecile for becoming a constable instead of letting his uncle put him into Parliament, leaving Bertie appalled at how shaky their engagement looks.Chapter 8, Steeple Bumpleigh
  3. Bertie drives on and pulls up at Wee Nooke.Chapters 8–11, Wee Nooke

Chapter 9

  1. Bertie drives on and pulls up at Wee Nooke.Continued from chapter 8

Chapter 10

  1. Bertie drives on and pulls up at Wee Nooke.Continued from chapter 9

Chapter 11

  1. Bertie drives on and pulls up at Wee Nooke.Continued from chapter 10
  2. After searching the garden in vain Bertie walks to Boko's gate and meets Nobby cycling up.Chapters 11–12, the Bokeries

Chapter 12

  1. After searching the garden in vain Bertie walks to Boko's gate and meets Nobby cycling up.Continued from chapter 11
  2. Boko pretends his lunch with Uncle Percy was a success, then announces his plan for Bertie to break the Hall's scullery window so he can foil the 'burglar', and Bertie, flattered by Nobby, reluctantly agrees.Chapter 12, the sitting-room

Chapter 13

  1. At midnight Bertie, quaking at thoughts of Stilton and Aunt Agatha, treacles paper to the scullery window but cannot bring himself to smash it, is challenged by Edwin from a window above, is chivvied by Boko, and wandering off round the house runs into Jeeves in the dark.Chapters 13–15, the grounds of Bumpleigh Hall

Chapter 14

  1. At midnight Bertie, quaking at thoughts of Stilton and Aunt Agatha, treacles paper to the scullery window but cannot bring himself to smash it, is challenged by Edwin from a window above, is chivvied by Boko, and wandering off round the house runs into Jeeves in the dark.Continued from chapter 13

Chapter 15

  1. At midnight Bertie, quaking at thoughts of Stilton and Aunt Agatha, treacles paper to the scullery window but cannot bring himself to smash it, is challenged by Edwin from a window above, is chivvied by Boko, and wandering off round the house runs into Jeeves in the dark.Continued from chapter 14
  2. Nobby whistles Bertie aside behind a tree, learns that the night's plan has flopped and that Boko has alienated Uncle Percy, and rushes off to tick Boko off.Chapter 15, the grounds of Bumpleigh Hall
  3. Jeeves reports he has released Clam, and Bertie sends him to find Boko and think of a way to heal the breach, after which Boko looms up again.Chapters 15–19, the grounds of Bumpleigh Hall

Chapter 16

  1. Jeeves reports he has released Clam, and Bertie sends him to find Boko and think of a way to heal the breach, after which Boko looms up again.Continued from chapter 15

Chapter 17

  1. Jeeves reports he has released Clam, and Bertie sends him to find Boko and think of a way to heal the breach, after which Boko looms up again.Continued from chapter 16

Chapter 18

  1. Jeeves reports he has released Clam, and Bertie sends him to find Boko and think of a way to heal the breach, after which Boko looms up again.Continued from chapter 17

Chapter 19

  1. Jeeves reports he has released Clam, and Bertie sends him to find Boko and think of a way to heal the breach, after which Boko looms up again.Continued from chapter 18
  2. Back at Boko's, Bertie confesses he is engaged to Florence again, and agrees to tick off Uncle Percy in return for Boko's secret method of getting disengaged.Chapter 19, the sitting-room

Chapter 20

  1. Bertie wakes to find the script of insults Boko has written for him to deliver to Uncle Percy, and is appalled by it.Chapter 20, Bertie's room at Boko's
  2. Avoiding Boko and Stilton swimming, Bertie finds Jeeves fishing, reproaches him for the Uncle Percy scheme, and sends him to find out from the Hall staff how Boko got out of his engagement to Florence.Chapter 20, the river
  3. Over breakfast Bertie warns Boko he may back out of telling off Uncle Percy, and Boko calls him a poltroon and threatens to withhold the Fittleworth secret.Chapter 20, the dining-room
  4. Jeeves reports that, according to the boot-boy Erbut, Boko ended his engagement to Florence by kicking Edwin, and just then Edwin stoops in the drive before them.Chapters 20–21, the drive

Chapter 21

  1. Jeeves reports that, according to the boot-boy Erbut, Boko ended his engagement to Florence by kicking Edwin, and just then Edwin stoops in the drive before them.Continued from chapter 20
  2. Bertie tells Nobby he is backing out of inflaming Uncle Percy, until she promises to show Florence his insulting letter about her if he goes through with it.Chapter 21, the drive
  3. Bertie dashes into the house and dives into Uncle Percy's study.Chapters 21–22, Uncle Percy's study

Chapter 22

  1. Bertie dashes into the house and dives into Uncle Percy's study.Continued from chapter 21
  2. Leaving the study, Bertie is met in the passage by Nobby.Chapters 22–23, the passage

Chapter 23

  1. Leaving the study, Bertie is met in the passage by Nobby.Continued from chapter 22
  2. Jeeves admits he misled Uncle Percy, proposes the East Wibley fancy dress dance for the meeting with Clam in Bertie's Sindbad costume, wins Uncle Percy over with the whiskers, and arranges for Boko to drive him to London and buy costumes.Chapter 23, the grounds of Bumpleigh Hall

Chapter 24

  1. Bertie spends the day stiffening Uncle Percy's nerve until Clam telephones to say he'll come to the ball as Edward the Confessor, and Uncle Percy confesses how a Covent Garden ball once cost him his engagement to Aunt Agatha.Chapter 24, Uncle Percy's study
  2. Bathing in the river, Bertie is confronted by a seething Stilton, who tells him Florence has fixed their wedding for September and wishes he could break his neck or pinch him.Chapter 24, the river
  3. Back at the cottage Nobby promises to show Florence Bertie's letter next morning, and Boko, having fobbed Bertie off with a Pierrot, opens the suitcase to find a Borstal Rovers football suit.Chapters 24–25, the sitting-room

Chapter 25

  1. Back at the cottage Nobby promises to show Florence Bertie's letter next morning, and Boko, having fobbed Bertie off with a Pierrot, opens the suitcase to find a Borstal Rovers football suit.Continued from chapter 24
  2. Alone with Jeeves, Bertie complains of the danger of wearing Stilton's uniform, learns what a porpentine is, and resigns himself to his fate.Chapter 25, Steeple Bumpleigh

Chapter 26

  1. Bertie refuses to be driven to the East Wibley ball by Boko, preferring his own two-seater so he can get out of Stilton's uniform quickly, and frets that Stilton already suspects him of pinching it.Chapter 26
  2. Bertie's two-seater breaks down half-way to East Wibley and he is stuck until a lorry driver fixes it, so he arrives only at midnight.Chapter 26
  3. Boko scolds the late Bertie and sends him to the bar, where a very tight Uncle Percy, dressed in shoes much too small, boasts of having got the better of Clam and agrees to go and sit in a car.Chapter 26, East Wibley Town Hall
  4. With Uncle Percy shoeless in Boko's car, Bertie pleads Boko's cause; Percy rails against Fittleworth, softens on hearing Boko once kicked Edwin, and gives in when told Hollywood is six thousand miles away.Chapter 26, Boko's car
  5. Bertie sends Boko off to Uncle Percy, drives home, throws Stilton's uniform into the river, and finds a hedgehog in his bed, which he lets loose in the garden instead of putting it in Boko's.Chapter 26, Bertie's room at Boko's

Chapter 27

  1. Setting out to bathe, Bertie meets a radiant Nobby, who tells him Uncle Percy has consented to her marrying Boko.Chapter 27, the garden gate
  2. Nobby kisses Bertie in gratitude, and he swims in the river reflecting that all is well and the uniform is gone for good.Chapter 27, the river
  3. Stilton arrives at breakfast to arrest Bertie for stealing his uniform, on Edwin's evidence and a waiter's, but goes off to check whether he needs a warrant, and Boko urges Bertie to flee abroad.Chapter 27, the dining-room
  4. Rushing to the garage to escape, Bertie hears Uncle Percy inside cursing Fittleworth and realises Boko unknowingly drove him home asleep in the back of the car.Chapters 27–28, Boko's garage

Chapter 28

  1. Rushing to the garage to escape, Bertie hears Uncle Percy inside cursing Fittleworth and realises Boko unknowingly drove him home asleep in the back of the car.Continued from chapter 27
  2. Bertie tells Boko and Nobby that Uncle Percy was locked in the garage, Uncle Percy storms in demanding a horsewhip to thrash Boko, and collapses when Jeeves mentions that her ladyship returned last night.Chapters 28–29, the Bokeries

Chapter 29

  1. Bertie tells Boko and Nobby that Uncle Percy was locked in the garage, Uncle Percy storms in demanding a horsewhip to thrash Boko, and collapses when Jeeves mentions that her ladyship returned last night.Continued from chapter 28
  2. Stilton brings his warrant for Bertie's arrest, but Uncle Percy denies going to the ball, swears Bertie never left the house, denounces Stilton as drunk and has him shown the door.Chapter 29, the dining-room
  3. Nobby, off to London to marry Boko, admits that Bertie's letter never reached Florence because Edwin destroyed it, and a baffled Jeeves is sent to the kitchen to eat anchovy paste.Chapter 29, the dining-room
  4. Stilton cycles up to tell Bertie that he has resigned from the Force and that Florence has broken off her engagement to Bertie and is going to marry him.Chapter 29, the garden gate
  5. Jeeves confesses that Aunt Agatha never came home, and he and Bertie slip away at once while Uncle Percy sings in the bath.Chapter 29, the kitchen
  6. Half-way to London, Bertie tries once more to recall the saying about Joy that sums it all up.Chapter 29