Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves, chapter 2, the Ritz, same day, lunch
Over lunch at the Ritz Emerald Stoker backs Bertie over the Alpine hat and reveals she is off to stay a month at Totleigh Towers, so Bertie briefs her on the Bassett menagerie and learns she thinks Gussie a lamb, leaving him with a presentiment of doom.
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Aside, some time before Pop Stoker once kidnapped Bertie on his yacht to make him marry Pauline, who ended up marrying Chuffy instead.
Aside, habitually Bertie's hosts never stand him for more than a week and leave time-tables marked with trains in his room.
Aside, once, years before Aunt Agatha made Bertie take Thos to see Patience.
Present: Bertie Wooster, Emerald Stoker
Mentioned: Aunt Agatha, Chuffy, Gussie Fink-Nottle, J. Washburn Stoker, Jeeves, Madeline Bassett, Pauline Stoker, Roderick Spode, Sir Watkyn Bassett, Stiffy Byng, Stinker Pinker, Thos, the Alpine hat✦︎, Bartholomew♞︎, the Bassett household⁂, the cow-creamer✦︎, Gilbert and Sullivan⁂, Gussie's newts♞︎, Patience✦︎, Stoker's yacht, Totleigh Towers