The Code of the Woosters, chapter 8, Stiffy's room, late evening
Bertie threatens to tell Stinker of the blackmail, Stiffy counters with Sir Watkyn, Jeeves proposes Bertie pretend to be engaged to Stiffy, and Bertie is forced off to the library to do it.
The text is on its way.
Aside, earlier book Bertie recalls modelling himself at Brinkley Court on a Beau in a historical novel who laughed down from lazy eyelids.
Aside, in childhood Bertie recalls the nursery story of the dog Diamond who chewed up his master’s manuscript.
Present: Bertie Wooster, Jeeves, Stiffy Byng, Bartholomew
Also there: the cupboard in Stiffy's room, Oates's helmet
Mentioned: Aunt Dahlia, the Buck, Gussie Fink-Nottle, Rudyard Kipling, Sir Watkyn Bassett, Stinker Pinker, Bertie's flat, Brinkley Court, the cow-creamer✦︎, Diamond♞︎, Gussie's notebook✦︎, the Infants' Bible Class⁂, the ladder✦︎, the library, Stiffy's balcony, the Totleigh flock⁂, the Woosters⁂, Wormwood Scrubs