The Wooster Papers

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Much Obliged, Jeeves

1971. 17 chapters, 37 scenes.

Chapter 1

  1. Back in London after Totleigh Towers, Bertie breakfasts in a state of euphoria and Jeeves warns, with Shakespeare, that clouds may follow.Chapter 1, Bertie's flat
  2. Bertie explains to new readers how Gussie's elopement with the cook nearly left him marrying Madeline Bassett until Spode, now Lord Sidcup, claimed her.Chapter 1
  3. Jeeves reveals that the typewriter Bertie heard was him writing up the Totleigh affair for the club book.Chapter 1, Bertie's flat
  4. Bertie explains the Junior Ganymede and its club book, and his fear that his eleven pages might reach Aunt Agatha.Chapter 1
  5. Bertie begs Jeeves to tone down his Totleigh report, Jeeves refuses because of the committee's rules, they quarrel over the danger of blackmail and the drunken Bingley, until Aunt Dahlia telephones.Chapters 1–2, Bertie's flat

Chapter 2

  1. Bertie begs Jeeves to tone down his Totleigh report, Jeeves refuses because of the committee's rules, they quarrel over the danger of blackmail and the drunken Bingley, until Aunt Dahlia telephones.Continued from chapter 1

Chapter 3

  1. Lunching with Bertie at Barribault's, Ginger Winship reveals that he is engaged to Florence Craye, who has pushed him into the Market Snodsbury election and will drop him if he loses, and begs Bertie to canvass for him.Chapter 3, Barribault's

Chapter 4

  1. Walking home from lunch with Ginger and brooding on his engagement to Florence, Bertie drops his cigarette case, trips in front of a taxi and is pulled clear by Jeeves, to whom he breaks the news about Florence.Chapter 4, Curzon Street
  2. Over a whisky at the Junior Ganymede Jeeves warns that Ginger's Past could cost him the election, and they are accosted by Bingley, Bertie's former valet, who calls Jeeves 'Reggie' and now lives in Market Snodsbury as a man of property.Chapter 4, the Junior Ganymede smoking-room

Chapter 5

  1. Ginger arrives with his new secretary Magnolia Glendennon, whom Bertie likes, and Bertie drives them all down to Brinkley singing while Jeeves stays silent.Chapter 5
  2. At Brinkley the party separates and Bertie, finding the drawing-room empty and avoiding Uncle Tom's silver talk and Anatole's liver, decides to stroll in the grounds.Chapter 5, the Brinkley drawing-room
  3. Bertie picks up a camera left on a bench to save it from the coming storm, and its stout, pink-faced owner bursts out of the bushes taking him for a thief.Chapter 5, the wooded bit
  4. Outside the French window Bertie overhears Spode, now Lord Sidcup, tell the camera chap that Wooster is a thief, and the camera chap vows the stiffest sentence if Bertie touches the silver he has brought to sell Uncle Tom.Chapter 5, the Brinkley drawing-room
  5. Jeeves, buttling in place of the indisposed Seppings, brings Bertie a reviving whisky and soda and consoles him with Shakespeare on good names, before Aunt Dahlia bounds in.Chapters 5–7, the Brinkley drawing-room

Chapter 6

  1. Jeeves, buttling in place of the indisposed Seppings, brings Bertie a reviving whisky and soda and consoles him with Shakespeare on good names, before Aunt Dahlia bounds in.Continued from chapter 5

Chapter 7

  1. Jeeves, buttling in place of the indisposed Seppings, brings Bertie a reviving whisky and soda and consoles him with Shakespeare on good names, before Aunt Dahlia bounds in.Continued from chapter 6
  2. Bertie tries to tell Jeeves about Spode prowling like the troops of Midian, but the gong sounds and Jeeves insists on redoing his tie.Chapter 7, Bertie's room at Brinkley
  3. Bertie goes down to dinner gloomily, knowing that Spode, Madeline, Florence and Runkle will all be there to spoil Anatole's cooking.Chapter 7, Brinkley Court

Chapter 8

  1. Bertie and Jeeves set out to canvass River Row for Ginger, debating whether a canvasser needs preliminaries, and split up at Numbers One and Two.Chapter 8, River Row
  2. Greeted by Aunt Dahlia's old maid, Bertie urges the grim Mrs McCorkadale to vote for Ginger, only to learn she is the rival candidate.Chapter 8, Number One River Row
  3. On the doorstep Bertie meets his old valet Bingley, who tells him Ginger hasn't a chance, advises a big bet on McCorkadale, and goes in to call on her.Chapter 8, Number One River Row
  4. Uneasy at Bingley's confident tip, Bertie walks home and finds Aunt Dahlia doing the Observer crossword.Chapters 8–10, Brinkley Court

Chapter 9

  1. Uneasy at Bingley's confident tip, Bertie walks home and finds Aunt Dahlia doing the Observer crossword.Continued from chapter 8

Chapter 10

  1. Uneasy at Bingley's confident tip, Bertie walks home and finds Aunt Dahlia doing the Observer crossword.Continued from chapter 9
  2. Bertie warns Aunt Dahlia that Bingley may sell the club book to the Argus-Reminder, and she sends him off to reason with Bingley while agreeing to break the news to Jeeves.Chapter 10, Brinkley Court

Chapter 11

  1. Bertie calls on Bingley at 5 Ormond Crescent to ask for the club book, but Bingley patronizes him, boasts of how he stole it to protect his bets on McCorkadale, and Bertie leaves having achieved nothing.Chapter 11, the library
  2. Aunt Dahlia hurls a Rex Stout at Bertie for failing, is herself turned away by Bastable, and then Jeeves arrives to reveal he slipped Bingley a Mickey Finn and took back the club book, whereupon she sets off to tackle L. P. Runkle.Chapters 11–12, the Brinkley drawing-room

Chapter 12

  1. Aunt Dahlia hurls a Rex Stout at Bertie for failing, is herself turned away by Bastable, and then Jeeves arrives to reveal he slipped Bingley a Mickey Finn and took back the club book, whereupon she sets off to tackle L. P. Runkle.Continued from chapter 11
  2. Florence comes in in a temper, tells Bertie he looks like the underside of a dead fish, rages at Ginger's feeble speech at the Chamber of Commerce lunch, and sends Bertie to fetch Ginger to the study.Chapter 12, the room with the French window
  3. Crossing the lawn, Bertie finds Aunt Dahlia waiting for Runkle to wake in the hammock, and lectures her on why Ginger puts up with Florence until she tells him to go and drown himself.Chapter 12, the lawn
  4. Brooding on his aunt's poor chances and on Ginger's coming ticking-off, Bertie walks into the summerhouse and finds Ginger locked in an embrace with Magnolia Glendennon.Chapters 12–13, the summer-house

Chapter 13

  1. Brooding on his aunt's poor chances and on Ginger's coming ticking-off, Bertie walks into the summerhouse and finds Ginger locked in an embrace with Magnolia Glendennon.Continued from chapter 12

Chapter 14

  1. Bertie finds Jeeves reading Spinoza by the back door, tells him Ginger must somehow lose the election despite Spode's oratory, and warns him to keep out of Ginger's way.Chapter 14, the back door
  2. Aunt Dahlia tells Bertie that Madeline is in tears because Spode wants to give up his title to stand for Parliament, then slips off to tackle Runkle.Chapter 14, the Brinkley drawing-room
  3. Spode tells Bertie that Madeline has broken their engagement and means to marry Bertie, and threatens to tear him limb from limb if he lets her down.Chapter 14, the Brinkley drawing-room
  4. Aunt Dahlia returns furious because Runkle will not part with a penny for Tuppy and Angela's wedding, and reveals she has pinched his porringer.Chapters 14–15, the Brinkley drawing-room

Chapter 15

  1. Aunt Dahlia returns furious because Runkle will not part with a penny for Tuppy and Angela's wedding, and reveals she has pinched his porringer.Continued from chapter 14
  2. Sneaking into the Blue Room to return the porringer, Bertie treads on Gus the cat, wakes Runkle, and covers himself by saying Aunt Dahlia wants Runkle to take photographs.Chapter 15, the Blue Room
  3. Runkle storms down, accuses Bertie of stealing the porringer and sends Seppings for the police, and Jeeves invents a jury summons so Bertie can slip up to London to think.Chapter 15, Brinkley Court

Chapter 16

  1. Bertie drives back from London with none of his problems solved and is hauled out of the car by egg-spattered Ginger, who says the debate was a riot, Florence has dropped him, and he is off to London to marry Magnolia.Chapter 16, the drive
  2. Seppings describes the vegetable-throwing at the debate, and Jeeves reports that Ginger, on his advice, praised Mrs McCorkadale and urged everyone to vote for her, so ending his engagement to Florence; Jeeves adds that Bingley called round to tea in a friendly way.Chapter 16, the Brinkley drawing-room
  3. Aunt Dahlia tells Bertie that Spode, put off politics by the potato, has kept his title and gone off to London with Madeline, freeing Bertie from marrying her.Chapter 16, the Brinkley drawing-room
  4. Runkle gloats that Bertie is bound for prison, egg-covered Florence announces she will marry Bertie after all, then drops him when Runkle says he stole the porringer, and Runkle goes off to meet Bingley.Chapter 16, the Brinkley drawing-room
  5. Bingley has found the porringer in Bertie's room and Runkle offers to drop charges in exchange for Anatole, until Jeeves reveals from the club book that Runkle bribed a juror and jumped bail in America, and Aunt Dahlia turns the tables over Tuppy's money.Chapter 16, the Brinkley drawing-room

Chapter 17

  1. Over breakfast in bed Bertie reviews the happy endings all round, frets about the Junior Ganymede club book, and learns Jeeves has already destroyed his eighteen pages: 'Much obliged, Jeeves.'Chapter 17