The Code of the Woosters, chapters 3–4, the Totleigh drawing-room, after tea
Gussie tells Bertie that Aunt Dahlia arrives tonight, explains how Jeeves's advice to despise his audience cured his shyness, and reveals he has written his scorn of Spode and Sir Watkyn in a notebook he has now lost.
The text is on its way.
Aside, a week before Gussie learned he must speak at the wedding breakfast before Spode and Sir Watkyn, who would rather Madeline had married Spode.
Aside, months before and the day before Bertie contrasts Sir Watkyn’s peevishness at Bosher Street with his fizziness in the antique shop.
Aside, after the engagement Sir Watkyn’s dismayed first meeting with Gussie and his sniff at the newts.
Aside, the summer before Gussie recalls his panic at the Market Snodsbury prize-giving.
Aside, a week before Gussie went to London and Jeeves told him to cure his fear by despising his audience.
Aside, two nights before Gussie reveals he despised everyone while speaking at Bertie’s Drones dinner.
Aside, at his first private school Bertie recalls raiding the Rev. Aubrey Upjohn's biscuit tin at night and finding him writing Bertie's report.
Aside, yesterday before lunch Gussie took a fly out of Stiffy's eye, Stiffy picked something up, and Madeline saw and swept off in a huff.
Aside, at Bertie's dinner Gussie showed Bertie the place on his leg where Stiffy's Scottie had bitten him.
Present: Bertie Wooster, Gussie Fink-Nottle
Mentioned: Aubrey Upjohn, Aunt Agatha, Aunt Dahlia, Barmy Fotheringay-Phipps, Bingo Little, Catsmeat Potter-Pirbright, Colonel H. H. Wintergreen, Freddie Widgeon, Jeeves, Madeline Bassett, Mrs Wintergreen, Roderick Spode, Sir Watkyn Bassett, Stiffy Byng, Stinker Pinker, the antique shop, Aunt Dahlia's telegram✦︎, Bartholomew♞︎, Bosher Street Police Court, Brinkley Court, the Drones dinner guests⁂, Gussie's newts♞︎, Gussie's notebook✦︎, London, Market Snodsbury Grammar School, the pump✦︎, the Saviours of Britain⁂, the stable yard, Totleigh-in-the-Wold