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Aunt Agatha

Also called Mrs Gregson, Agatha, Mrs Spenser Gregson, Mother, Mrs Spenser, Miss Wooster, Aunt Agathaesque, Lady Worplesdon

Mrs Gregson, Bertie's domineering aunt, who bosses the family, worships the Mannering-Phipps name and sends Bertie to New York after Gussie.

In each book 15 books
  • In Other Stories
    Mrs Gregson, Bertie's domineering aunt, who bosses the family, worships the Mannering-Phipps name and sends Bertie to New York after Gussie.
  • In My Man Jeeves
    Bertie's formidable aunt in England, who sent him to America over Gussie and whom he dreads offending.
  • In The Inimitable Jeeves
    Mrs Gregson, Bertie's formidable aunt, who picks Aline Hemmingway and then Honoria Glossop as his bride, sends him Cyril in New York, and packs the twins off to South Africa.
  • In Carry On, Jeeves
    Bertie's formidable aunt, Mrs Spenser, born Miss Wooster: she advises Florence against marrying him, sends him to America over Cousin Gussie, and hounds him after his fine.
  • In Very Good, Jeeves
    Mrs Spenser Gregson, Bertie's formidable aunt and Thos's mother, owner of McIntosh, who wants Uncle George's match stopped.
  • In Right Ho, Jeeves
    Bertie's formidable aunt, who once played Boadicea in a pageant.
  • In Thank You, Jeeves
    Bertie's formidable aunt, mother of young Thos, whom he fled to New York to avoid; Chuffy in spectacles resembles her.
  • In The Code of the Woosters
    Mrs Spenser Gregson, Bertie's fearsome aunt, off stage with jaundice.
  • In Joy in the Morning
    Lady Worplesdon, Bertie's formidable aunt and Uncle Percy's wife, away nursing Thos; she sends the brooch for Florence and her supposed return ends the book.
  • In The Mating Season
    Bertie's formidable aunt, Lady Worplesdon and Thos's mother, who sends Bertie to Deverill Hall and finally arrives there demanding to see him.
  • In Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit
    Bertie's formidable aunt, mother of Thos and now Lady Worplesdon, whom Florence calls Mother; Aunt Dahlia met Trotter at her house.
  • In Jeeves in the Offing
    Bertie's formidable aunt, said to devour her young, who once made him take Thos to Chekhov's Seagull.
  • In Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves
    Bertie's formidable aunt, mother of Thos, who once made Uncle Percy a vegetarian.
  • In Much Obliged, Jeeves
    Bertie's formidable aunt, Lady Worplesdon of Steeple Bumpleigh, whose reading of the club book he dreads.
  • In Aunts Aren't Gentlemen
    Bertie's formidable aunt, mother of Thos, given to unloading her son on him.

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Other Stories 1 scene
  1. Aunt Agatha rouses Bertie early to tell him Gussie has fallen for a vaudeville girl in New York and orders him to go over and stop the marriage.Chapter 1
The Inimitable Jeeves 7 scenes
  1. At the Splendide Aunt Agatha tells Bertie he must marry the saintly Aline Hemmingway and introduces him to her and her curate brother Sidney.Chapter 3, the Hotel Splendide
  2. Bertie produces the stolen pearls in Aunt Agatha's suite, tells her Miss Hemmingway stole them, and lectures her for her carelessness and for pushing him to marry a thief.Chapter 4, Aunt Agatha's suite
  3. Over lunch Aunt Agatha announces that Bertie is to marry Honoria Glossop and must go down to Ditteredge Hall tomorrow.Chapter 5
  4. At lunch Honoria announces Bertie must get rid of Jeeves when they marry, and Aunt Agatha then warns him that Sir Roderick Glossop, doubting his sanity, is coming to lunch at his flat next day.Chapter 7, Aunt Agatha's house
  5. Aunt Agatha orders Bertie to put up the twins Claude and Eustace, sent down from Oxford, for their last night before sailing for South Africa, and Jeeves stays frosty over Bertie's new spats.Chapter 16, Bertie's flat
  6. Aunt Agatha frets that the twins may have come to harm, because Uncle George has seen the 'phantasm' of Eustace in the street.Chapter 16, Bertie's flat
  7. With Eustace hiding under the sofa, Aunt Agatha orders Bertie to take Uncle George to Harrogate after a whiskered burglar stole his cigarette-case, and Eustace realises Claude robbed their uncle.Chapter 16, Bertie's flat
Very Good, Jeeves 5 scenes
  1. Aunt Agatha orders Bertie to impress the Cabinet Minister Mr Filmer and to give up smoking, drinking and frivolous talk.Chapter 1, Woollam Chersey
  2. Filmer is missing from tea; Aunt Agatha sends Bertie out with a raincoat, and Jeeves reveals Thomas has marooned Filmer on the island.Chapter 1, the drawing room
  3. Bertie reports Filmer's rescue and takes a hot bath, where Purvis says Aunt Agatha wants to see him.Chapter 1, Woollam Chersey
  4. Aunt Agatha refuses to consult Jeeves and bullies Bertie into going to East Dulwich with a blank cheque to buy off the girl.Chapter 10, Bertie's flat
  5. Aunt Agatha scolds Bertie's failure, Jeeves suggests confronting Uncle George with the aunt, and Bertie defies Aunt Agatha by arranging a lunch.Chapter 10, Bertie's flat

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Other Stories 7 scenes
  1. Landing in New York, Bertie finds Gussie gone from his hotel, takes two lightning whizzers at the bar and strolls round Times Square feeling free of Aunt Agatha.Chapter 1, New York
  2. Bertie runs into Gussie, now calling himself George Wilson, at Abe Riesbitter's agency, where Gussie is booked for the small time so that Ray's father will let him marry her, and Bertie secretly cables Gussie's mother.Chapter 1, Abe Riesbitter's office
  3. Gussie's debut is a stage-fright disaster until the pretty girl next to Bertie, Ray, stands up and sings the moon song with him and makes him the hero of the house.Chapter 1, the uptown theatre
  4. Bertie meets Ray and her formidable father, and Aunt Julia arrives in New York demanding to know why he cabled.Chapter 1
  5. Gussie reports that his mother is to marry Danby and he is to marry Ray, and Bertie answers Aunt Agatha's cable: 'Stay where you are. Profession overcrowded.'Chapter 1, Gussie's hotel
  6. Aunt Dahlia telephones to summon Bertie to Marsham Manor for the week-end to charm Cornelia Fothergill into selling her serial to Milady's Boudoir, hinting at a little job she wants done.Chapter 2, Bertie's flat
  7. Bertie arrives at Marsham Manor and meets the bearded Fothergills and Cornelia, while Everard frets about a mewing cat.Chapter 2, the hall at Marsham
My Man Jeeves 8 scenes
  1. Bertie explains how he came to New York and met Corky, a would-be portrait-painter living on an allowance from his bird-loving, jute-rich uncle Alexander Worple.Chapter 1
  2. Corky brings his fiancée Muriel Singer to ask how to break the news to his uncle, and Jeeves proposes that she 'write' a children's bird book dedicated to Worple, at Bertie's expense.Chapter 1, Bertie's New York flat
  3. Corky telephones that the portrait is finished and his uncle is coming to inspect it, and Bertie agrees to come only if he may bring Jeeves.Chapter 1, Bertie's New York flat
  4. Fresh from defying Jeeves over a hat and a pink tie, Bertie is called on by Lady Malvern, who leaves her son Motty to live with him while she tours America, and Jeeves offers no sympathy.Chapter 2, Bertie's New York flat
  5. Bertie's attempt to damp Motty's revels at supper fails, Motty is seen being thrown out of a low restaurant, and Bertie wastes away with worry.Chapter 2
  6. Bertie swallows his pride and asks Jeeves for a scheme to deal with Motty, but Jeeves, still pipped about the hat and tie, has none.Chapter 2, Bertie's New York flat
  7. Lady Malvern, having seen Motty breaking stones in prison, denounces Bertie until Jeeves persuades her Motty went in voluntarily to research her book; the grateful Bertie has the pink tie burnt, sends for the Longacre and learns Jeeves bet Motty into punching a policeman.Chapter 2, Bertie's New York flat
  8. Aunt Isabel turns up at the flat believing it to be Rocky's, takes Bertie for a sponging intruder and Jeeves for Rocky's man, and moves in, driving Bertie out to an hotel.Chapter 4, Bertie's New York flat
The Inimitable Jeeves 23 scenes
  1. Hailed by old Little as the author of Rosie M. Banks's novels, Bertie wins his blessing for Bingo's marriage to a waitress, but learns the allowance cannot be raised because old Little is marrying his cook.Chapter 2, No. 16, Pounceby Gardens
  2. Bertie reflects that Bingo has bounced back from losing his girl and that, with winning horses and Aunt Agatha away in France, life has never been chirpier.Chapter 3
  3. A letter from Aunt Agatha summons Bertie to Roville, and his only consolation is the chance to wear his scarlet cummerbund.Chapter 3, the sitting-room
  4. Booked to take the Hemmingways for a drive, Bertie puts on the cummerbund over Jeeves's protests, and relations turn frosty.Chapter 3, Bertie's suite
  5. After a mouldy drive with the Hemmingways Bertie asks Jeeves for help about Aunt Agatha's marriage plan, but the still-offended Jeeves has nothing to suggest.Chapter 3, Bertie's suite
  6. The Hemmingways talk Bertie into lending a hundred pounds against a case of pearls, which proves empty, but Jeeves, who has recognised Soapy Sid, has picked the real pearls from his pocket and reveals they are Aunt Agatha's.Chapter 4, Bertie's suite
  7. Bertie overhears Jeeves telling his holiday substitute that Mr Wooster is pleasant but mentally negligible, and goes out brooding.Chapter 5, Bertie's flat
  8. At Buck's, Bingo Little, now tutoring the Glossop kid at Ditteredge, declares at the top of his voice that he worships Honoria Glossop.Chapter 5, Buck's
  9. Determined to score off Jeeves by escaping on his own, Bertie tells him he is in a difficulty but declines his help.Chapter 5, Bertie's flat
  10. Jeeves returns, Aunt Agatha telephones in a state, Bertie realises the engagement is off and Jeeves engineered it, and Jeeves books passage to New York.Chapter 8, Bertie's flat, as Mrs Gregson
  11. Bertie reflects on the menace of letters of introduction and explains why he welcomed Cyril, bearing a civil one from Aunt Agatha, as a Dove of Peace.Chapter 9
  12. Jeeves sends the early-calling Cyril away, brings Bertie the letter from Aunt Agatha asking him to look after Cyril, and grudgingly hands over the purple socks.Chapter 9, Bertie's New York flat
  13. Lunching with George Caffyn at the Lambs Club, Bertie learns from Jeeves that Cyril has been arrested and wants bailing out.Chapter 9, the Lambs Club
  14. At the police station Cyril, sporting a black eye, explains he shoved a policeman he took for a postman, and Bertie bails him out after introducing him to George.Chapter 9, the police station
  15. Brooding over Cyril, Bertie receives Aunt Agatha's cable forbidding him to introduce Cyril into theatrical circles, but is too proud to ask the cold Jeeves's advice.Chapter 9, Bertie's New York flat
  16. Cyril gleefully announces that George has given him a part in Ask Dad, which his father would never allow, and George on the telephone refuses to drop him.Chapter 9, Bertie's New York flat
  17. Bertie wakes Jeeves to ask how to stop Cyril going on the stage, and Jeeves promises to give the matter his best consideration.Chapter 9, Bertie's New York flat
  18. Cyril rehearses his tiny part at Bertie day and night while Bertie dreads Aunt Agatha and Jeeves stays cold about the purple socks.Chapter 10
  19. Clutching Aunt Agatha's threatening letter, Bertie bursts into the kitchen to find Jeeves entertaining a valet and a freckled boy who sizes him up and declares his pop is richer.Chapter 10, the kitchen
  20. At the dress-rehearsal of Ask Dad, Blumenfield's son condemns Cyril as the ugly one with a face like a fish, Cyril threatens to spank him, and Blumenfield fires Cyril on the spot.Chapter 10, Blumenfield's theatre
  21. Cyril calls to say he has nobly resigned from the show out of duty to his father and is off to Washington, and Jeeves allows that young Blumenfield may have overheard his views on Cyril and the stage.Chapter 10, Bertie's bedroom
  22. The twins breeze into the flat, correct the story of their expulsion, and announce they mean to make a night of it at Ciro's.Chapter 16, Bertie's flat
  23. Claude, then Eustace, turns up at Bertie's bedside, each having given the other the slip at Waterloo for love of Marion Wardour, and both settle in at the flat.Chapter 16, Bertie's flat
Carry On, Jeeves 20 scenes
  1. Bertie explains his dependence on Jeeves and recalls sacking Meadowes for stealing.Chapter 1
  2. Florence makes Bertie promise to steal and destroy his uncle’s scandalous memoirs.Chapter 1, the smoking-room
  3. Willoughby announces the manuscript has reached his publishers and Florence breaks off the engagement.Chapter 1, the hall
  4. Bertie explains his American exile and Corky’s dependence on an uncle who despises his artistic ambitions.Chapter 2
  5. Corky telephones for moral support when his uncle comes to inspect the finished portrait, and Bertie insists on bringing Jeeves.Chapter 2, Bertie's New York flat
  6. Bertie identifies Lady Malvern and insists on wearing the pink tie despite Jeeves’s objections.Chapter 3, Bertie's bedroom
  7. Lady Malvern imposes Motty on Bertie while she tours America.Chapter 3, the sitting-room, as Your aunt
  8. Over breakfast Bertie resigns himself to housing Motty for fear of Aunt Agatha.Chapter 3, the dining-room
  9. Bertie abandons supervising Motty’s outings and grows thin with anxiety and nightly nursing.Chapter 3
  10. Bertie directly asks Jeeves for a scheme to control Motty, and Jeeves refuses to help.Chapter 3, Bertie's New York flat
  11. Lady Malvern accuses Bertie of corrupting Motty until Jeeves persuades her that the imprisonment is voluntary research.Chapter 3, the sitting-room
  12. Bertie yields over the tie and hat and doubles Jeeves’s reward on learning that he engineered Motty’s arrest.Chapter 3, the dining-room
  13. Isabel arrives unexpectedly and mistakes Bertie for an unwelcome guest in Rocky’s flat.Chapter 5, the sitting-room
  14. Bertie encounters Biffy lost in Paris and supplies the name of his forgotten hotel.Chapter 6, the street near the Sorbonne, as my Aunt Agatha
  15. Jeeves persuades Bertie to impersonate Sippy by warning him that Aunt Agatha knows about his fine.Chapter 7, Bertie's flat, as Mrs Spenser
  16. Bertie meets the dismal Pringles, inherits Sippy’s reputation for tormenting cats and discovers Heloise’s resemblance to Honoria.Chapter 7, the Pringle drawing-room
  17. Bertie mistakes Tootles for Elizabeth’s cousin and kidnaps him so Freddie can win her gratitude by returning him.Chapter 8, the beach
  18. Mr Kegworthy refuses to take Tootles back because Bootles has mumps and insists Bertie keep him until his uncle comes.Chapter 8, Ocean Rest, as Miss Wooster
  19. Bertie climbs into Rosie’s study, startles a Pekingese, and crashes into a table of fragile ornaments.Chapter 9, Rosie's study
  20. Jeeves implies that Wooster is a distinguished speaker and persuades Miss Tomlinson to insist on an address.Chapter 10, the school drawing-room
Very Good, Jeeves 35 scenes
  1. Over breakfast Bertie frets about Aunt Agatha's mysterious invitation and receives an unsigned telegram from Woollam Chersey telling him to meet perfect strangers.Chapter 1
  2. Bertie finds Bingo Little in the garden, tutoring young Thomas, who begs Bertie to treat him as a stranger lest Aunt Agatha sack him, then dives into a laurel bush.Chapter 1, the garden, as your aunt
  3. Bertie tells Jeeves the telegram was from Bingo and laments the ban on smoking and drinking.Chapter 1, Bertie's room at Woollam Chersey
  4. After days of golf with Filmer, Bertie hears Bingo confess he lost Rosie's housekeeping money on a horse and fears Thomas's planned revenge on Filmer will get him sacked.Chapter 1, Bertie's room at Woollam Chersey
  5. With a tennis party looming, Jeeves reports that Thomas has been reading Treasure Island and admiring Captain Flint, while fussing over Bertie's tie.Chapter 1, Bertie's room at Woollam Chersey
  6. Bertie rows to the island, is chased up the Octagon by a nesting swan to sit beside Filmer in the rain, until Jeeves disposes of the swan; Filmer then concludes Thomas set his boat adrift.Chapter 1, the island
  7. Jeeves reveals he saved Bingo by telling Filmer that Bertie set the boat adrift, which also scuppers Aunt Agatha's plan to make Bertie Filmer's secretary, and proposes escape down the waterpipe.Chapter 1, Bertie's room at Woollam Chersey
  8. Sippy confesses his love for Gwendolen Moon, then quails before his old headmaster Waterbury, who presses his articles on him.Chapter 2, The Mayfair Gazette offices
  9. Bertie lays Sippy's inferiority complex before Jeeves, who asks for time to think.Chapter 2, Bertie's flat
  10. Over tea in bed Bertie rejects Jeeves's idea of a feigned injury and orders flour for a booby-trap to humiliate Waterbury.Chapter 2, Bertie's flat
  11. Over breakfast Bertie tells a disappointed Jeeves that Monte Carlo is off in favour of Christmas at Skeldings, and Aunt Agatha telephones to warn him that Sir Roderick Glossop will be there.Chapter 3, as Mrs Spenser Gregson
  12. At Skeldings Bertie explains he came to avenge himself on Tuppy and because he loves Bobbie Wickham, and Jeeves says red-haired, frivolous Miss Wickham is no wife for him.Chapter 3, the Clock Room
  13. Bertie creeps into the Moat Room and punctures the hot-water bottle, only to find it is Sir Roderick's, who has swapped rooms with Tuppy; caught by his dressing-gown in the door, he is hauled back, called insane, and left in the soaked room while Sir Roderick takes his bed.Chapter 3, the Moat Room
  14. After a sleepless night Bertie learns that Jeeves kept quiet to save him from Honoria, that Bobbie also sent Tuppy to puncture Bertie's bottle (with Sir Roderick on it), and that the Monte Carlo booking was never cancelled.Chapter 3, the Moat Room
  15. Woken by McIntosh, Bertie learns Aunt Agatha returns that evening and agrees to Bobbie Wickham's request to give lunch to her and two friends, despite Jeeves's disapproval.Chapter 5, Bertie's flat
  16. Bobbie reveals the guests are Blumenfeld and his dreadful son, to whom she will read her mother's play, and on Jeeves's advice Bertie flees before the boy can insult him, meeting them at the door.Chapter 5, the sitting-room
  17. Back at the flat Bertie breaks the news, and Jeeves devises a plan for Bertie to slip into the Blumenfelds' Savoy suite while Bobbie is there and lure the dog out with aniseed.Chapter 5, Bertie's flat
  18. Bertie races out for aniseed and returns to hear from Jeeves that Bobbie will be admitted to the suite.Chapter 5, Bertie's flat
  19. With Bertie hiding behind the settee, Jeeves convinces the furious Blumenfeld that Bertie is a dangerous lunatic who hates fat men, sells him a substitute terrier for a fiver, and Bertie happily takes Aunt Agatha's call.Chapter 5, the sitting-room
  20. Back from Brighton, Bertie learns Gwladys stayed four hours and Mrs Slingsby called him a feckless idiot.Chapter 6, Bertie's flat
  21. Bertie sends roses to Hill Street, then practises putting while awaiting Mrs Slingsby, but Jeeves announces Mr Slingsby.Chapter 6, the sitting-room
  22. Jeeves explains he bought off Slingsby's lawsuit with the portrait, that Gwladys is engaged to Pim, and that he has booked Bertie on Aunt Dahlia's postponed cruise.Chapter 6, Bertie's flat, as Mrs Spenser Gregson
  23. At the Splendide Bertie insists on his loud new plus-fours against Jeeves's disapproval and announces he has accepted Bobbie Wickham's invitation to Antibes.Chapter 7, the Splendide
  24. Bobbie reveals that Clementina is out without leave from Miss Mapleton's school and gives Bertie the string-and-flower-pot plan, which Bertie passes off to Jeeves as his own, refusing to hear Jeeves's alternative.Chapter 7, the Marine Plaza
  25. Losing his nerve, Bertie climbs the cedar with a flower-pot and is caught up the tree by a policeman, until Jeeves appears with a story of intruders.Chapter 7, the garden
  26. Miss Mapleton, primed by Jeeves, hails Bertie as a gallant burglar-hunter, scolds the policeman, and when the flower-pot crashes through the conservatory sends him off to investigate.Chapter 7, Miss Mapleton's study
  27. Jeeves explains he slipped Clementina in by the back door while seeing Miss Mapleton, and the grateful Bertie cancels Antibes and gives up the plus-fours.Chapter 7, St Monica's
  28. Aunt Dahlia explains that she has bet Anatole on Bonzo against Thos in Anstruther's Good Conduct contest, and Bertie vows to scupper Thos without Jeeves.Chapter 8, the Brinkley drawing-room
  29. Bertie plans to goad Thos into an outrage on himself and gets Anstruther to agree such a prank would cost twenty marks.Chapter 8, the smoking-room
  30. The Bingos' car runs out of petrol on a lonely by-road, Rosie and the Pyke start to bicker over Bingo, and a householder whose baby Bertie's honking nearly woke threatens him and refuses petrol.Chapter 9, Norfolk
  31. Uncle George simpers in Bertie's mirror and announces he means to marry, Agatha or no Agatha.Chapter 10, Bertie's flat, as Agatha
  32. Jeeves reveals the girl is Rhoda Platt, a Buffers waitress, and Bertie orders packing for flight before Aunt Agatha arrives.Chapter 10, Bertie's flat
  33. Rhoda's aunt mistakes Bertie for the doctor and shows him her knee, and Bertie loses his nerve and never offers the money.Chapter 10, Wistaria Lodge
  34. Aunt Agatha phones, delighted that Uncle George is dropping the girl, unaware he is to marry Mrs Wilberforce of East Dulwich.Chapter 10, the Drones Club
  35. Jeeves admits he knew Maudie was the barmaid and acted for Smethurst, and Bertie agrees to flee before Aunt Agatha finds out.Chapter 10, Bertie's flat
Right Ho, Jeeves 7 scenes
  1. Bertie crawls home from Pongo's party after four and is barely asleep when Jeeves announces Aunt Dahlia, who storms into the bedroom.Chapters 3–6, Bertie's flat, as my Aunt Agatha
  2. Bertie returns to the drawing-room, quails at the sight of the Bassett, but takes her out for a stroll after an exchange of ‘Lovely’s about Cannes.Chapters 9–10, Brinkley Court
  3. Bertie drives back and dozes, then Jeeves tells him how the prize-giving ended in the national anthem and that Madeline has broken off her engagement to Gussie, just as Tuppy barges in.Chapters 17–19, Bertie's room at Brinkley, as my Aunt Agatha
  4. Wandering stricken in the garden, Bertie bumps into Jeeves, makes him promise not to claim the mess jacket as his fee, and agrees to Jeeves's fire-alarm plan, fixing to ring the bell at 12.30 that night.Chapter 21, the garden at Brinkley, as My Aunt Agatha
  5. Standing nervously by the outhouse at 12.30, Bertie doubts Jeeves's scheme but rings the Brinkley Court fire bell.Chapter 22, the outhouse
  6. Bertie wobbles through the dark countryside, dodging a pig and mistaking an owl on a signpost for Aunt Agatha.Chapter 22
  7. Arriving back at Brinkley, Bertie is met by Madeline, who praises his chivalry and asks him to release her so she can marry Gussie, which he joyfully does.Chapter 23, the front door
Thank You, Jeeves 7 scenes
  1. Bertie recalls how, hiding from Aunt Agatha in New York, he fell for Pauline Stoker and got engaged to her, until Sir Roderick Glossop told her father all about him and the engagement was called off.Chapter 1, New York
  2. Bertie surveys his peaceful cottage and the new yacht in the harbour, then finds Seabury tooting his car horn with an invitation to lunch from Chuffy.Chapter 3, the cottage garden
  3. Carried up to his bed, Bertie finds Pauline gone, but she emerges from the hanging cupboard in his pyjamas, Chuffy accuses her of still loving Bertie, she tells him she hates him, and he storms out and falls down the stairs.Chapters 9–10, Bertie's bedroom at the cottage
  4. Landed safely from the yacht in blackface, Bertie thanks Jeeves, who advises him to wash, take the 10.21 to London and go abroad, and says he will return to Chuffy's service at the Hall.Chapter 13, Chuffnell Regis, as my Aunt Agatha
  5. Bertie stands rooted in despair until Jeeves coughs softly at his side.Chapters 14–16, Chuffnell Hall
  6. Softening towards Glossop on the way, Bertie creeps up to the Dower House, finds the drunken Brinkley singing hymns inside, and hears a frightful rampage end with someone bursting out of the back door.Chapter 16, the Dower House
  7. Over breakfast after his acquittal Jeeves reveals that he faked the cable about the contested will, and, since he will not serve a married man, asks to come back to Bertie, who gratefully accepts.Chapter 22, the small morning-room
The Code of the Woosters 7 scenes
  1. Aunt Dahlia refuses Bertie lunch and sends him to a Brompton Road antique shop to sneer at the cow-creamer Uncle Tom means to buy, so the price comes down.Chapter 1, Aunt Dahlia's London house
  2. 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.Chapters 3–4, the Totleigh drawing-room
  3. Bartholomew upsets Constable Oates off his bicycle, Stiffy admits she has Gussie's notebook, and reveals that she is secretly engaged to Stinker Pinker and has told him to pinch Oates's helmet.Chapter 4, the Totleigh gates
  4. Jeeves reveals the Junior Ganymede's club book, offers to telephone its Secretary for dirt on Spode, and on his way out mentions that Gussie's engagement to Madeline is off, as the dinner gong sounds.Chapter 5, Bertie's room at Totleigh
  5. Bertie and a disapproving Jeeves enter Stiffy's vast bedroom, where the dog Bartholomew sends Bertie onto the chest of drawers and Jeeves onto the top of the cupboard.Chapters 7–8, Stiffy's room
  6. Stiffy comes back early, refuses to call off her dog, and tells Bertie she has broken off her engagement to Stinker because he would not pinch the policeman’s helmet.Chapter 8, Stiffy's room
  7. Bertie tells Jeeves to pack for home and crows over the notebook, until Gussie trickles in to say the wedding is off.Chapters 10–11, Bertie's room at Totleigh
Joy in the Morning 16 scenes
  1. Bertie explains why he has always avoided Steeple Bumpleigh, home of Aunt Agatha, Lord Worplesdon, Florence and Edwin, turning down Boko's invitations and Jeeves's hints about the fishing.Chapter 1, Steeple Bumpleigh
  2. Over breakfast Jeeves reports a visit from Nobby Hopwood and Stilton, is summoned urgently to Lord Worplesdon's office, and asks for an edition of Spinoza when Bertie offers him a present.Chapter 1, London, as her ladyship
  3. Bertie goes to a bookshop for Jeeves's Spinoza, musing on Lord Worplesdon, is handed Spindrift by a baffled assistant, and suddenly meets his former fiancée Florence Craye.Chapters 1–2, the bookshop
  4. Bertie restores himself at the Bollinger bar and, standing in the doorway, notices something odd across the way.Chapters 2–3, the Bollinger, as my frightful aunt
  5. Jeeves reveals that he has arranged for Bertie to occupy Lord Worplesdon's cottage Wee Nooke at Steeple Bumpleigh as cover for a secret merger meeting, and Bertie, fearing Aunt Agatha, gives in.Chapter 4, Bertie's flat
  6. Over morning tea Jeeves cheers Bertie with news of a fancy dress ball, passes on Aunt Agatha's order to fetch a birthday brooch for Florence, and hears that Nobby is engaged to Boko.Chapter 5, Bertie's flat
  7. Bertie drops Nobby at the Hall, stops at Boko's cottage for a drink, whistles at the window and has a china ornament thrown at his head.Chapters 6–7, the Bokeries
  8. Florence cycles up, says she has put flowers in Wee Nooke, and calls Stilton a perfect imbecile for becoming a constable instead of letting his uncle put him into Parliament, leaving Bertie appalled at how shaky their engagement looks.Chapter 8, Steeple Bumpleigh, as my aunt
  9. Bertie drives on and pulls up at Wee Nooke.Chapters 8–11, Wee Nooke
  10. At midnight Bertie, quaking at thoughts of Stilton and Aunt Agatha, treacles paper to the scullery window but cannot bring himself to smash it, is challenged by Edwin from a window above, is chivvied by Boko, and wandering off round the house runs into Jeeves in the dark.Chapters 13–15, the grounds of Bumpleigh Hall
  11. Bertie dashes into the house and dives into Uncle Percy's study.Chapters 21–22, Uncle Percy's study
  12. Jeeves admits he misled Uncle Percy, proposes the East Wibley fancy dress dance for the meeting with Clam in Bertie's Sindbad costume, wins Uncle Percy over with the whiskers, and arranges for Boko to drive him to London and buy costumes.Chapter 23, the grounds of Bumpleigh Hall, as her ladyship
  13. Bertie spends the day stiffening Uncle Percy's nerve until Clam telephones to say he'll come to the ball as Edward the Confessor, and Uncle Percy confesses how a Covent Garden ball once cost him his engagement to Aunt Agatha.Chapter 24, Uncle Percy's study
  14. Bertie tells Boko and Nobby that Uncle Percy was locked in the garage, Uncle Percy storms in demanding a horsewhip to thrash Boko, and collapses when Jeeves mentions that her ladyship returned last night.Chapters 28–29, the Bokeries, as her ladyship
  15. Stilton brings his warrant for Bertie's arrest, but Uncle Percy denies going to the ball, swears Bertie never left the house, denounces Stilton as drunk and has him shown the door.Chapter 29, the dining-room
  16. Jeeves confesses that Aunt Agatha never came home, and he and Bertie slip away at once while Uncle Percy sings in the bath.Chapter 29, the kitchen
The Mating Season 13 scenes
  1. Jeeves briefs a reluctant Bertie on Esmond Haddock, his five aunts and Gussie's coolness with Madeline Bassett before a low-spirited Catsmeat Pirbright is shown in.Chapters 1–2, Bertie's flat
  2. 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.Chapter 2
  3. After seeing Thos off to school, Bertie comes home to find Corky and her dog Sam Goldwyn, hears of her break with Esmond Haddock and her feud with Constable Dobbs, and then a hung-over Catsmeat reveals that Gussie waded in the Trafalgar Square fountain and got fourteen days.Chapters 3–4, Bertie's flat
  4. At dinner as Gussie, Bertie hears the aunts condemn Corky's cross-talk act and the absent Mr Wooster, resolves to drop out of the act, flops with a story about two deaf men, and is left alone with Esmond Haddock over the port.Chapters 5–6, the dining room at Deverill Hall, as Agatha
  5. A frosty Silversmith brings the morning tea and says the late-night arrival was 'Mr Wooster', leaving Bertie baffled until Jeeves himself walks in with a breakfast tray.Chapters 7–8, Deverill Hall, as her ladyship, your aunt
  6. Gussie, furious at being taken for Bertie and loathing Catsmeat, rubbishes the Pat and Mike cross-talk act and refuses to hit a policeman with an umbrella, until Corky arrives and Bertie leaves her to win him round.Chapter 9, the post office
  7. Over his first days at Deverill Hall Bertie becomes certain that Gussie has fallen for Corky, and the aunts grow bitter at the absent guest they take for Wooster.Chapter 10, Deverill Hall
  8. Catsmeat bursts into Bertie's room with the news, picked up from Silversmith, that Aunt Agatha is coming to stay at Deverill Hall.Chapter 12, Bertie's room at Deverill Hall, as My sainted aunt
  9. Catsmeat returns from London with Jeeves's plan to keep Aunt Agatha away by luring Thos from school to visit Corky; after he leaves, Bertie breaks the code of the Woosters, opens Gussie's telegrams, and learns that Madeline is arriving at Deverill Hall tomorrow.Chapters 13–14, Bertie's room at Deverill Hall, as your blasted aunt
  10. Bertie hides in a bush at The Larches, waits out a flirting postman, a smoking housemaid, Madeline and her school friend's dog, then grabs Gussie's letter from the breakfast table and, cut off at the window, bolts across the hall into another room.Chapters 15–17, The Larches
  11. Back at King's Deverill station, Bertie clouts the cheeky Thomas, then learns from Corky that Thomas plans to cosh Dobbs and that Catsmeat kept Madeline away by telling her Bertie loves her hopelessly, while Corky puts off dropping Gussie until he has done a mysterious little job for her.Chapter 18, King's Deverill station, as my Aunt Agatha
  12. Walking back to the hall brooding on Corky's job, Bertie runs into Esmond Haddock.Chapters 18–20, the road to the hall, as her ladyship, your aunt
  13. Bertie congratulates Jeeves on squaring every loose end, then learns that Aunt Agatha has arrived, that Thos has blown the gaff, and resolves to go down and pull an Esmond Haddock on her.Chapter 27, Bertie's room at Deverill Hall, as his mother
Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit 12 scenes
  1. Bertie, in the bath and dreading a dinner with Aunt Dahlia's Trotters, greets the returning Jeeves, who reads him Percy Gorringe's request for a thousand pounds to back his play of Florence Craye's Spindrift, and they agree to refuse.Chapter 1, Bertie's flat
  2. Fortified by one of Jeeves's specials, Bertie refuses to shave off the moustache Jeeves disapproves of, just as Stilton Cheesewright arrives.Chapters 1–2, the sitting-room
  3. Stilton lectures Bertie on keeping fit for the Drones Darts sweep, bristles with jealousy at the mention of Florence, calls the moustache ghastly, and is interrupted as Florence arrives.Chapters 2–3, Bertie's flat
  4. Jeeves, posing as Bertie, refuses Percy Gorringe's request for a thousand pounds, declines to tear Bertie's pages from the club book, and puts Florence through on the phone; she asks Bertie to take her to a garish night club, and he agrees, hoping to patch things up between her and Stilton.Chapter 4, Bertie's flat
  5. Aunt Dahlia phones to bully Bertie into coming to amuse the lovesick Percy Gorringe while she works on selling Milady's Boudoir to L.G. Trotter, and the promise of Anatole's cooking wins him over.Chapter 8, Bertie's flat, as Agatha
  6. Bertie arrives at Brinkley and hands Aunt Dahlia her necklace; she explains she bought the Morehead serial to salt the mine for Trotter, won't say how she got the money from Uncle Tom, blames Ma Trotter for Trotter's stalling, throws her Agatha Christie at Bertie for singing, and introduces him to a reproachful Percy before sending him out to cheer Percy up.Chapter 9, Aunt Dahlia's den, as Agatha
  7. Bertie slips out of the dining-room into the garden to dodge Stilton, plans to flee, and meets Uncle Tom, who grumbles about his guests and says Aunt Dahlia nearly fainted while he talked of Sidcup coming to see his silver.Chapter 11, the garden at Brinkley, as her sister Agatha
  8. Bertie climbs the ladder into what he takes for Aunt Dahlia's room, knocks over a table, and finds Florence Craye sitting up in bed.Chapters 12–14, Florence's bedroom, as Mother
  9. Bertie learns he went to the wrong window, Uncle Tom reveals he took the ladder and locked the necklace in the safe, and Jeeves reveals that Lord Sidcup is Roderick Spode, who can be silenced with Eulalie Sœurs.Chapter 14, Bertie's room at Brinkley, as Agatha
  10. Bertie catches Jeeves just as he is driving off to London and arranges to go with him to collect the cosh Jeeves confiscated from young Thos, so as to face Stilton armed.Chapter 16
  11. Aunt Dahlia triumphantly tells Bertie how, finding Spode no longer owns Eulalie Sœurs, she coshed him and got her necklace back, and Bertie realises the necklace he took is Mrs. Trotter's and must go back in the safe.Chapter 18, Aunt Dahlia's den
  12. At breakfast a beaming Stilton thanks Bertie for freeing him from Florence and leaves to go rowing with Daphne, then Mrs. Trotter reads that Robert Blenkinsop has been knighted and orders Trotter to refuse any knighthood, wrecking Aunt Dahlia's hold on him, just as Seppings brings in a pearl necklace.Chapters 20–22, the Brinkley dining-room
Jeeves in the Offing 2 scenes
  1. At tea on the lawn the butler brings out the fruit, and he is Sir Roderick Glossop.Chapters 3–4, the lawn
  2. Back at Brinkley, Bertie learns from Aunt Dahlia that Uncle Tom sold Wilbert the cow-creamer, then Bobbie icily cuts Kipper, who confesses he got engaged to Phyllis as a ruse against Wilbert and was caught kissing her.Chapters 12–14, Aunt Dahlia's den
Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves 9 scenes
  1. Over a cheerful breakfast Bertie welcomes Jeeves back from Brinkley and is aghast to hear that Sir Watkyn Bassett, Madeline, Stiffy, Bartholomew and Gussie were among Aunt Dahlia's guests.Chapter 1, Bertie's flat
  2. 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.Chapter 2, the Ritz
  3. At a sombre dinner Bertie admires Sir Watkyn's new black amber statuette, bought from Plank and worth a thousand pounds, offends him by calling it soapstone, and slips off to his room afterwards.Chapters 6–7, the Totleigh dining-room
  4. Having eaten next to nothing at a strained dinner, Bertie wakes ravenous in his room and resolves to make for the steak and kidney pie in the kitchen.Chapter 8, Totleigh Towers
  5. Creeping through the dark hall, Bertie collides with Gussie, knocks over Sir Watkyn's precious grandfather clock, is caught by Sir Watkyn in his purple dressing-gown, and the two are driven on to a chest by Bartholomew until Stiffy appears.Chapters 8–9, the hall
  6. Madeline corners Bertie in the hall, furious that the vegetarian Gussie has been rude about Spode, and declares she will have nothing more to do with him if he ever eats meat.Chapter 12, the hall
  7. Over Anatole's lunch Bertie cheers Uncle Tom with the news that Pop Bassett's statuette was no bargain, and drives back hoping Gussie can eat meat in London unseen.Chapter 13, Brinkley Court
  8. Over cocktails with Pop Bassett, Bertie hears Stiffy announce there will be no dinner because the cook has eloped with Gussie Fink-Nottle.Chapters 15–17, the Totleigh drawing-room
  9. Back in the drawing-room Bertie ponders how to approach Pop Bassett about the statuette when Spode comes in.Chapters 17–22, the Totleigh drawing-room
Much Obliged, Jeeves 6 scenes
  1. Bertie explains the Junior Ganymede and its club book, and his fear that his eleven pages might reach Aunt Agatha.Chapter 1
  2. Lunching with Bertie at Barribault's, Ginger Winship reveals that he is engaged to Florence Craye, who has pushed him into the Market Snodsbury election and will drop him if he loses, and begs Bertie to canvass for him.Chapter 3, Barribault's
  3. Jeeves, buttling in place of the indisposed Seppings, brings Bertie a reviving whisky and soda and consoles him with Shakespeare on good names, before Aunt Dahlia bounds in.Chapters 5–7, the Brinkley drawing-room
  4. Greeted by Aunt Dahlia's old maid, Bertie urges the grim Mrs McCorkadale to vote for Ginger, only to learn she is the rival candidate.Chapter 8, Number One River Row, as my Aunt Agatha
  5. Bertie calls on Bingley at 5 Ormond Crescent to ask for the club book, but Bingley patronizes him, boasts of how he stole it to protect his bets on McCorkadale, and Bertie leaves having achieved nothing.Chapter 11, the library
  6. Aunt Dahlia hurls a Rex Stout at Bertie for failing, is herself turned away by Bastable, and then Jeeves arrives to reveal he slipped Bingley a Mickey Finn and took back the club book, whereupon she sets off to tackle L. P. Runkle.Chapters 11–12, the Brinkley drawing-room
Aunts Aren't Gentlemen 10 scenes
  1. At the doctor's Bertie meets Major Plank, who fails to place him and alarms him about his spots, and then Murgatroyd pronounces the spots harmless but orders him to the country for a quiet life, which Bertie plans to spend with Aunt Dahlia.Chapter 3, Murgatroyd's consulting room
  2. Taking the wrong turning, Bertie strays into Eggesford Court, befriends a cat and is accused by its owner Cook of stealing it for Briscoe, until Plank turns up, explains Cook's troubles with Vanessa and advises Bertie to clear out before Cook calls the police.Chapter 4, Eggesford Court
  3. Driving home drowsy from lunch, Bertie naps in a wood and is woken by Orlo Porter, who accuses him of following Vanessa Cook to Maiden Eggesford and threatens to tear his insides out with his bare hands if he goes near her again.Chapters 6–7, the woods
  4. Vanessa accuses Bertie of following her, plans to use him as a postbox for Orlo's letters, and on learning Orlo is in the village sends Bertie to the Goose and Grasshopper to fix a meeting at his cottage.Chapter 7, Wee Nooke
  5. Bertie delivers Vanessa's message to a jealous, suspicious Orlo in the inn's private bar, and Orlo cheers up only on hearing Bertie will go for a walk during the meeting.Chapter 8, the Goose and Grasshopper, as Aunt Agathaesque
  6. Jeeves reports that Vanessa and Orlo quarrelled when he refused to bully her father or steal the cat, and she broke with him; then Vanessa storms in and tells Bertie she will be his wife.Chapters 9–12, Wee Nooke
  7. Bertie asks Graham to take the cat back; Graham refuses, citing Angelica and his bet on Potato Chip, until Bertie haggles him up to thirty-five pounds.Chapters 12–13, Wee Nooke
  8. Graham reports that the cat he returned to Eggesford Court followed him back, and Bertie, seeing he could betray Aunt Dahlia to Cook, pays him another ten pounds to take it again; then Vanessa Cook walks in.Chapters 14–15, Maiden Eggesford
  9. Bertie recalls Jeeves telling him, before he defied Aunt Agatha over Thos, that cold feet before an ordeal are quite normal.Chapter 17
  10. Orlo leaves Bertie a letter for Cook announcing the elopement; Bertie decides to post it, but Cook bursts in with Major Plank.Chapters 18–19, Wee Nooke