Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves, chapters 17–22, the Totleigh drawing-room, evening
Back in the drawing-room Bertie ponders how to approach Pop Bassett about the statuette when Spode comes in.
The text is on its way.
Aside, before Aunt Dahlia once instigated the theft of the cow-creamer, holding that collectors pinching from collectors isn't stealing.
Aside, before he became Lord Sidcup Spode used to be a Dictator leading a mob of black-shorted followers shouting 'Heil, Spode!'.
Aside, earlier that day Bertie recalls seeing Spode knocked down by Stinker Pinker and laid out by Emerald Stoker's basin of beans.
Aside, years before, in Peru Plank was stabbed in the calf by a mother after judging a bonny-baby competition.
Aside, years before, in West Africa Plank recalls dining with native chiefs whose main dish might be a wife's relation.
Aside, years before Plank recalls Johnny Byng, who came on an expedition with him and was bitten by a puma.
Aside, years before Plank once hitch-hiked from Johannesburg to Cape Town to avoid getting married.
Aside, earlier Jeeves tells how he met a despondent Stiffy, learned at the Hockley post office that the vicar was retiring, and put Plank in touch with Stinker.
Aside, previous visit to Totleigh Towers Bertie recalls Stiffy landing him with Constable Oates's helmet and his speculating on what her children by Pinker would be like.
Present: Bertie Wooster, Butterfield, Jeeves, Major Plank, Roderick Spode, Sir Watkyn Bassett, Stiffy Byng, Stinker Pinker, Bartholomew
Also there: the black amber statuette, the sofa
Mentioned: the Archbishop of Canterbury, Aunt Agatha, Aunt Dahlia, Constable Oates, the egg-thrower, Emerald Stoker, Gussie Fink-Nottle, Johnny Byng, Madeline Bassett, Mr. Bellamy, Napoleon, the other Wooster, the Peruvian mother, Uncle Tom, the basin of beans✦︎, Bosher Street Police Court, Brinkley Court, the collection-room, the cow-creamer✦︎, the Drones Club, Hockley-cum-Meston, the Hockley-cum-Meston Rugby team⁂, Oates's helmet✦︎, the Saviours of Britain⁂, Totleigh-in-the-Wold, Uncle Tom's collection✦︎, the vicarage✦︎, the vicarage of Hockley-cum-Meston✦︎