The Wooster Papers

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Right Ho, Jeeves

1934. 23 chapters, 55 scenes.

Chapter 1

  1. Bertie starts his story with a scrap of dialogue, decides he has begun too abruptly, and traces the whole affair back to his visit to Cannes.Chapter 1
  2. Bertie recounts two months at Cannes with Aunt Dahlia and Angela, where Aunt Dahlia lost heavily at baccarat and Angela was nearly eaten by a shark, and their return to London.Chapter 1
  3. Back at the flat, Jeeves tells Bertie that Gussie Fink-Nottle has come up to London, in love but unable to propose, to seek Jeeves's help, and the girl turns out to be Madeline Bassett.Chapter 1, Bertie's flat
  4. Bertie explains that Madeline, Angela's friend at Cannes, struck him dumb with her soulful talk of stars being God's daisy chain, which makes her just the girl for dreamy Gussie.Chapter 1, Cannes
  5. Bertie tells Jeeves to push Gussie's romance along, then clashes with him over the white mess jacket from Cannes and insists he will wear it to Pongo Twistleton's party.Chapter 1, Bertie's flat
  6. At the Drones Pongo Twistleton keeps Bertie talking about his birthday party until nearly eleven.Chapter 1, the Drones Club
  7. Bertie comes home to find Jeeves in the sitting-room with Gussie Fink-Nottle dressed as Mephistopheles.Chapters 1–2, the sitting-room

Chapter 2

  1. Bertie comes home to find Jeeves in the sitting-room with Gussie Fink-Nottle dressed as Mephistopheles.Continued from chapter 1

Chapter 3

  1. Aunt Dahlia wires Bertie to come at once, and his baffled 'Perplexed. Explain.' gets a curt repeat.Chapter 3, Bertie's flat
  2. Bertie and Aunt Dahlia trade ever more exasperated telegrams while he spends the afternoon at the Drones, until she orders him to stop the back-chat and come immediately.Chapter 3, Bertie's flat
  3. Jeeves advises going to Brinkley, they spar again over Bertie's mess jacket, and Bertie wires his aunt to expect him in a fortnight because of Pongo's party.Chapter 3, Bertie's flat
  4. Bertie crawls home from Pongo's party after four and is barely asleep when Jeeves announces Aunt Dahlia, who storms into the bedroom.Chapters 3–6, Bertie's flat

Chapter 4

  1. Bertie crawls home from Pongo's party after four and is barely asleep when Jeeves announces Aunt Dahlia, who storms into the bedroom.Continued from chapter 3

Chapter 5

  1. Bertie crawls home from Pongo's party after four and is barely asleep when Jeeves announces Aunt Dahlia, who storms into the bedroom.Continued from chapter 4

Chapter 6

  1. Bertie crawls home from Pongo's party after four and is barely asleep when Jeeves announces Aunt Dahlia, who storms into the bedroom.Continued from chapter 5
  2. Bertie stakes all on propinquity, sends Gussie the 'Lay off the sausages' telegram, and plans to shove the Market Snodsbury prize-giving on to Gussie.Chapter 6, Bertie's flat
  3. A volley of telegrams with Aunt Dahlia and Gussie ends with Aunt Dahlia, calling Bertie a treacherous worm, booking 'Spink-Bottle' to give away the prizes.Chapter 6, Bertie's flat
  4. A telegram from Aunt Dahlia tells Bertie that Angela and Tuppy have broken off their engagement, and he orders Jeeves to pack for Brinkley.Chapter 6, Bertie's flat

Chapter 7

  1. Driving down to Brinkley, Bertie broods over the unexpected breach between Angela and Tuppy.Chapter 7
  2. Arriving at Brinkley, Bertie hears Aunt Dahlia's troubles: the prize giving, Gussie's newts, her baccarat losses, Uncle Tom's tight purse and the quarrel between Angela and Tuppy, which was about a shark.Chapter 7, Brinkley Court
  3. Bertie recalls how a shark knocked Angela off her aquaplane board at Cannes and snapped at her ankles.Chapter 7, Cannes
  4. Aunt Dahlia explains that Tuppy belittled Angela's shark, says she wants Jeeves on the case, and begs Bertie in vain not to try a plan of his own.Chapter 7, Brinkley Court
  5. Bertie leaves his aunt with an inscrutable smile and in the garden runs into a gloomy Tuppy throwing stones at a flowerpot.Chapters 7–8, the garden at Brinkley

Chapter 8

  1. Bertie leaves his aunt with an inscrutable smile and in the garden runs into a gloomy Tuppy throwing stones at a flowerpot.Continued from chapter 7

Chapter 9

  1. Still smarting at Tuppy crediting Jeeves with his scheme, Bertie restores his spirits in the bath playing with a toy duck.Chapter 9, the bathroom
  2. Dressing for dinner, Bertie scorns Jeeves’s fire-alarm idea for reconciling Tuppy and Angela, explains his own starvation scheme, and triumphantly sends Jeeves to fetch the white mess jacket he packed himself.Chapter 9, Bertie's room at Brinkley
  3. Aunt Dahlia mocks the mess jacket and reveals Uncle Tom gave her the printers’ money she lost at baccarat, so Bertie recruits her to the scheme of refusing food at dinner to soften Uncle Tom.Chapter 9, the Brinkley drawing-room
  4. Dinner at Brinkley is a funereal affair, with Aunt Dahlia, Tuppy and Gussie all off their feed and Gussie looking fit for embalming.Chapter 9, Brinkley Court
  5. Bertie escapes backgammon, finds Gussie in the rose garden furious about the prize-giving, talks him round, and coaches him in a proposal speech of glimmering landscapes and God’s daisy chain while promising to soften up the Bassett first.Chapter 9, the rose garden
  6. Bertie returns to the drawing-room, quails at the sight of the Bassett, but takes her out for a stroll after an exchange of ‘Lovely’s about Cannes.Chapters 9–10, Brinkley Court

Chapter 10

  1. Bertie returns to the drawing-room, quails at the sight of the Bassett, but takes her out for a stroll after an exchange of ‘Lovely’s about Cannes.Continued from chapter 9
  2. Bertie leaves the pair together, sure of a happy ending, and heads to the smoking-room for a drink.Chapter 10, the smoking-room

Chapter 11

  1. Starving after skipping dinner, Tuppy tells Bertie Angela hasn't softened and vows to tear apart the man he thinks stole her at Cannes.Chapter 11, the smoking-room
  2. Bertie goes looking for Angela, who has gone to bed, and finds a famished Aunt Dahlia, who tells him Anatole has given notice because of his no-dinner scheme.Chapter 11, the Brinkley drawing-room
  3. On the lawn Bertie finds a groaning Gussie, and Jeeves explains that Gussie lost his nerve and lectured Madeline on newts instead of proposing.Chapter 11, the garden at Brinkley

Chapter 12

  1. Bertie wakes with a plan to fuel Gussie up with drink for his proposal, then Tuppy arrives to describe how Angela humiliated him in the larder over the steak-and-kidney pie, and Bertie reassures him that there was no rival at Cannes because Angela was with Bertie the whole time.Chapters 12–13, Bertie's room at Brinkley

Chapter 13

  1. Bertie wakes with a plan to fuel Gussie up with drink for his proposal, then Tuppy arrives to describe how Angela humiliated him in the larder over the steak-and-kidney pie, and Bertie reassures him that there was no rival at Cannes because Angela was with Bertie the whole time.Continued from chapter 12

Chapter 14

  1. Back late from the Stretchley-Budds, Angela agrees to a stroll with Bertie, at which Tuppy leaps up and upsets a table and Uncle Tom breaks a coffee cup.Chapter 14, the Brinkley drawing-room
  2. In the garden Bertie runs Tuppy down to provoke Angela into defending him, but she heartily agrees, adds complaints of her own, and goes in, whereupon Tuppy emerges from the bushes.Chapters 14–15, the garden at Brinkley

Chapter 15

  1. In the garden Bertie runs Tuppy down to provoke Angela into defending him, but she heartily agrees, adds complaints of her own, and goes in, whereupon Tuppy emerges from the bushes.Continued from chapter 14

Chapter 16

  1. Bertie wakes, gives up on the Tuppy-Angela rift for now, and reviews his plan to lace Gussie's orange juice before the prize-giving.Chapter 16, Bertie's room at Brinkley
  2. Bertie finds a terrified Gussie rehearsing his prize-giving speech on the lawn, tells him Madeline loves him, and is told Gussie will never try proposing again.Chapter 16, the garden at Brinkley
  3. Bertie brings the jug to his room, learns Jeeves has already added gin, adds more himself and hides it behind Uncle Tom's photograph, just as Gussie bursts in drunk on neat whisky from the dining-room decanter.Chapter 16, Bertie's room at Brinkley
  4. With Anatole in bed and the kitchen maid cooking, lunch passes in gloomy silence, broken only by a snatch of song from Gussie.Chapter 16, the Brinkley dining-room
  5. Bertie and Jeeves discover the double-laced jug is empty and realise Gussie has drunk it on top of the whisky just before presenting the prizes.Chapter 16, Bertie's room at Brinkley

Chapter 17

  1. Driving to Market Snodsbury, Bertie looks on the bright side of Gussie's drunkenness, and Jeeves tells him Gussie is already engaged to Madeline Bassett.Chapter 17
  2. A tight Gussie heckles the headmaster, makes a rambling speech about a beautiful world, ridicules Uncle Tom and Bertie, and hands out prizes until he accuses G. G. Simmons of cheating and Bertie flees.Chapter 17, the Great Hall
  3. Bertie drives back and dozes, then Jeeves tells him how the prize-giving ended in the national anthem and that Madeline has broken off her engagement to Gussie, just as Tuppy barges in.Chapters 17–19, Bertie's room at Brinkley

Chapter 18

  1. Bertie drives back and dozes, then Jeeves tells him how the prize-giving ended in the national anthem and that Madeline has broken off her engagement to Gussie, just as Tuppy barges in.Continued from chapter 17

Chapter 19

  1. Bertie drives back and dozes, then Jeeves tells him how the prize-giving ended in the national anthem and that Madeline has broken off her engagement to Gussie, just as Tuppy barges in.Continued from chapter 18
  2. Bertie finds Angela in the summerhouse and rebukes her for getting engaged to Gussie only to score off Tuppy, but she refuses to back down and tells him to go and boil his head.Chapter 19, the summer-house
  3. Over the cold salmon a jubilant Aunt Dahlia praises Gussie's speech and announces that Anatole has withdrawn his notice, until Seppings reports that Gussie is making faces at Anatole through his skylight.Chapters 19–20, the Brinkley dining-room

Chapter 20

  1. Over the cold salmon a jubilant Aunt Dahlia praises Gussie's speech and announces that Anatole has withdrawn his notice, until Seppings reports that Gussie is making faces at Anatole through his skylight.Continued from chapter 19
  2. Aunt Dahlia races Bertie and Seppings up to Anatole's room, where the furious chef threatens to leave over Gussie's faces at the skylight; Gussie is let in by pole but can only gurgle, and Aunt Dahlia tells Bertie to take him away.Chapter 20, Anatole's bedroom
  3. Helping Gussie downstairs, Bertie learns he fled Tuppy out of a window and got stuck on the roof, and advises him to barricade himself in his room.Chapter 20, the stairs
  4. Back at supper, Aunt Dahlia calls Bertie Attila because Anatole is now leaving and Angela is engaged to Gussie, and Jeeves brings a note in which Madeline Bassett says she will marry Bertie.Chapters 20–21, the Brinkley dining-room

Chapter 21

  1. Back at supper, Aunt Dahlia calls Bertie Attila because Anatole is now leaving and Angela is engaged to Gussie, and Jeeves brings a note in which Madeline Bassett says she will marry Bertie.Continued from chapter 20
  2. Wandering stricken in the garden, Bertie bumps into Jeeves, makes him promise not to claim the mess jacket as his fee, and agrees to Jeeves's fire-alarm plan, fixing to ring the bell at 12.30 that night.Chapter 21, the garden at Brinkley

Chapter 22

  1. Standing nervously by the outhouse at 12.30, Bertie doubts Jeeves's scheme but rings the Brinkley Court fire bell.Chapter 22, the outhouse
  2. The household gathers on the lawn with no rescues made, finds itself locked out, and Jeeves volunteers Bertie to cycle to Kingham Manor for the back-door key.Chapter 22, the garden at Brinkley
  3. At the gardener's shed Bertie berates Jeeves, finds the bicycle has no lamp, and hears Uncle Cyril's story of Nicholls and Jackson.Chapter 22, the gardener's shed
  4. Bertie wobbles through the dark countryside, dodging a pig and mistaking an owl on a signpost for Aunt Agatha.Chapter 22
  5. At the Kingham Manor servants' ball Bertie prods Seppings, learns the back-door key was left with Jeeves all along, and sets off home.Chapter 22, Kingham Manor

Chapter 23

  1. Bertie reflects that a man hoaxed into a needless bicycle ride in the dark outdoes even a woman scorned for fury.Chapter 23
  2. Arriving back at Brinkley, Bertie is met by Madeline, who praises his chivalry and asks him to release her so she can marry Gussie, which he joyfully does.Chapter 23, the front door
  3. In the hall Tuppy, carrying bottles to the party, tells Bertie he and Angela have made it up, Anatole is staying, and Uncle Tom has paid for Aunt Dahlia's paper.Chapter 23, the hall
  4. Jeeves explains that his fire-bell scheme united everyone in dislike of Bertie and then in amusement at his pointless ride, brings him an omelette, and confesses to having burnt his mess jacket, which Bertie accepts.Chapter 23, Bertie's room at Brinkley