The Mating Season, chapter 2, evening
A low-spirited Catsmeat reveals that Corky is the vicar's niece who roped Bertie into the concert, explains his thwarted engagement to Gertrude Winkworth, and gets Bertie to guard her from Esmond Haddock, in return agreeing to give Gussie dinner.
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Aside, childhood Bertie and Corky have been friends since they went to the same dancing class.
Aside, years before Catsmeat remembers his whiskered farmer grandfather, the source of Corky's love of country life.
Aside, weeks before Catsmeat met Gertrude producing amateur theatricals at a house in Norfolk and they got engaged.
Aside, Bertie's boyhood Bertie stayed at Basingstoke with his old nurse, Nurse Hogg, who suffered from hiccups.
Aside, a short while before Esmond Haddock earlier gave Corky a similar rush, and she is sore about it.
Present: Bertie Wooster, Catsmeat Potter-Pirbright
Mentioned: Aunt Agatha, Bertie's nurse, Catsmeat's grandfather, Corky Pirbright, Dame Daphne Winkworth, Elsie Cattermole, Esmond Haddock, Esmond's father, Gertrude Winkworth, Gussie Fink-Nottle, Jeeves, Madeline Bassett, Mary, P.B. Winkworth, the Rev. Sidney Pirbright, Thos, the vicar's wife, Catsmeat's Hollywood contract✦︎, Deverill Hall, Esmond's aunts⁂, the green beards✦︎, Hollywood, King's Deverill, Lovers' Leap, Mary's lamb♞︎, the Old Vic, the Pat and Mike cross-talk act✦︎, the rose garden, Sam Goldwyn♞︎, the Vicarage, the village concert✦︎, The Yeoman's Wedding Song✦︎