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Aunt Dahlia

Also called Mrs Travers, Dahlia, Travers, Madam, Auntie, The ancestor, Travers., The old ancestor

Mrs Travers, Bertie's good aunt and owner of Milady's Boudoir, who sends him to steal a picture and wants him to play Santa Claus at her children's party.

In each book 13 books
  • In Other Stories
    Mrs Travers, Bertie's good aunt and owner of Milady's Boudoir, who sends him to steal a picture and wants him to play Santa Claus at her children's party.
  • In Carry On, Jeeves
    Mrs Travers, Bertie's good aunt, who edits Milady's Boudoir and wants a cook who will mend Uncle Tom's digestion.
  • In Very Good, Jeeves
    Mrs Travers, Bertie's good aunt, Angela's mother and hostess at Brinkley Court, who bets Anatole on her son Bonzo and wants Tuppy rescued from the dog-girl.
  • In Right Ho, Jeeves
    Mrs Travers, Bertie's good aunt and mistress of Brinkley Court, who loses the Boudoir's money at baccarat and dreads losing Anatole.
  • In Thank You, Jeeves
    Bertie's aunt, mother of Bonzo, who runs Milady's Boudoir.
  • In The Code of the Woosters
    Mrs Travers, Bertie's good aunt and proprietress of Milady's Boudoir, who orders him to steal the cow-creamer for Uncle Tom and finally steals it herself.
  • In Joy in the Morning
    Bertie's aunt, who runs Milady's Boudoir.
  • In The Mating Season
    Bertie's aunt, owner of Brinkley Court.
  • In Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit
    Mrs. Travers of Brinkley Court, Bertie's good aunt, who has pawned her pearls to keep Milady's Boudoir going and is trying to sell it to L.G. Trotter; she coshes Spode to recover her necklace.
  • In Jeeves in the Offing
    Mrs Tom Travers, Bertie's good aunt and hostess at Brinkley Court, a governor of Market Snodsbury Grammar School and Phyllis's godmother; anxious to keep the Creams sweet, she throws Upjohn out when he scores off her.
  • In Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves
    Mrs Travers of Brinkley Court, Bertie's good and deserving aunt, who wants the black amber statuette for Uncle Tom.
  • In Much Obliged, Jeeves
    Mrs Travers, Bertie's loud-voiced aunt and hostess at Brinkley, who backs Ginger, schemes to get money for Tuppy out of Runkle and pinches his porringer.
  • In Aunts Aren't Gentlemen
    Bertie's good and deserving aunt, Mrs Travers, staying with the Briscoes; she finds him the cottage, bets heavily on Simla and has the rival horse's cat kidnapped.

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Other Stories 10 scenes
  1. 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
  2. Aunt Dahlia shows Bertie the Venus that Edward Fothergill painted and Everard loathes, and orders him to steal and burn it that night, a deal she has struck with Cornelia for the serial.Chapter 2, the dining-room at Marsham
  3. Bertie, Aunt Dahlia and Jeeves snip up and burn the canvas until Jeeves notices the last scrap is signed Everard Fothergill.Chapter 2, Bertie's room at Marsham
  4. Bertie catches Edward Fothergill stealing back his own Venus and swears secrecy, then refuses Jeeves's plan to have him found stunned by burglars, and is promptly knocked out from behind.Chapter 2, the hall at Marsham
  5. Bertie wakes with a sore head to hear the gang is blamed, Cornelia is grateful and the serial is Aunt Dahlia's, and asks Jeeves to drop the eggs and omelettes.Chapter 2, Bertie's room at Marsham
  6. Over dinner Aunt Dahlia reveals that Blair Eggleston is too timid to propose to Honoria, then asks Bertie to play Santa Claus at her children's party, and he flatly refuses.Chapter 3, Bertie's flat, as The old relative
  7. Aunt Dahlia spurns Bertie's roses but agrees to his scheme: he will rush Honoria so that a jealous Eggleston proposes, while she eggs Eggleston on.Chapter 3, Aunt Dahlia's London house, as the old flesh and blood
  8. Bertie tells Aunt Dahlia he kissed Honoria in the Park under Eggleston's eye, then Honoria phones: Eggleston proposed, broke it off after seeing the kiss, and now she means to marry Bertie.Chapter 3, Aunt Dahlia's London house
  9. Waterbury phones to say Trixie expects a wedding, demands two thousand pounds in heart balm on threat of breach of promise and Porky Jupp, and Aunt Dahlia summons Jeeves to confer.Chapter 3, Aunt Dahlia's London house
  10. With Bertie behind the piano, Jeeves poses as a broker's man and Aunt Dahlia threatens to ship Bertie penniless to Canada, routing Waterbury; Jeeves then gets Glossop cast as Santa Claus and Bertie agrees to Florida.Chapter 3, Bertie's flat
Carry On, Jeeves 5 scenes
  1. Dahlia explains that Tom’s indigestion and her bad cook threaten the magazine’s funding.Chapter 9, the offices of Milady's Boudoir
  2. A gloomy Bingo asks Bertie to be at home next morning for a matter of life and death.Chapter 9, the Littles' drawing-room
  3. Anatole’s magnificent dinner transforms Tom’s mood while Bingo remains miserable.Chapter 9, the Littles' dining-room
  4. Dahlia reveals that Jeeves secured Anatole, Rosie has withheld her article, and Tom is financing the magazine again.Chapter 9, the Royal Pump-Room
  5. Jeeves explains how Anatole’s abandoned fiancée drove him to Dahlia, lists his rewards, and reveals that he returned Bertie’s silk shirts.Chapter 9, Bertie's flat
Very Good, Jeeves 7 scenes
  1. Aunt Dahlia complains that Tuppy has dropped Angela for Cora Bellinger and tells Bertie to have Jeeves break up the affair.Chapter 4, Bertie's flat
  2. Jeeves proposes that Bertie sing 'Sonny Boy' just before Tuppy so the audience gives Tuppy the bird before Cora; Bertie refuses, but Aunt Dahlia's pressure prevails and he signs up with Beefy.Chapter 4, Bertie's flat
  3. Bertie tells Aunt Dahlia he cannot come on her yacht cruise because he loves Gwladys Pendlebury, and she bets him Jeeves will stop the match, get rid of the portrait and have him aboard the yacht.Chapter 6, Aunt Dahlia's London house
  4. 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
  5. Aunt Dahlia reports Snettisham's attempt to bribe Bonzo, and the baffled Bertie agrees to wire for Jeeves.Chapter 8, Brinkley Court
  6. Anatole cooks better than ever while the Snettishams gloat at dinner and Anstruther's visit runs out.Chapter 8, Brinkley Court
  7. Tuppy wires for his football boots and an Irish water-spaniel, and Aunt Dahlia arrives to say he is flirting with a dog-girl after quarrelling with Angela, ordering Bertie to scrap his pranks and set Jeeves on it.Chapter 11, Bertie's flat
Right Ho, Jeeves 18 scenes
  1. Bertie recounts two months at Cannes with Aunt Dahlia and Angela, where Aunt Dahlia lost heavily at baccarat and Angela was nearly eaten by a shark, and their return to London.Chapter 1, as my Aunt Dahlia
  2. 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 Mrs Travers
  3. Arriving at Brinkley, Bertie hears Aunt Dahlia's troubles: the prize giving, Gussie's newts, her baccarat losses, Uncle Tom's tight purse and the quarrel between Angela and Tuppy, which was about a shark.Chapter 7, Brinkley Court
  4. Aunt Dahlia explains that Tuppy belittled Angela's shark, says she wants Jeeves on the case, and begs Bertie in vain not to try a plan of his own.Chapter 7, Brinkley Court
  5. Bertie leaves his aunt with an inscrutable smile and in the garden runs into a gloomy Tuppy throwing stones at a flowerpot.Chapters 7–8, the garden at Brinkley
  6. Aunt Dahlia mocks the mess jacket and reveals Uncle Tom gave her the printers’ money she lost at baccarat, so Bertie recruits her to the scheme of refusing food at dinner to soften Uncle Tom.Chapter 9, the Brinkley drawing-room
  7. Dinner at Brinkley is a funereal affair, with Aunt Dahlia, Tuppy and Gussie all off their feed and Gussie looking fit for embalming.Chapter 9, Brinkley Court
  8. Bertie escapes backgammon, finds Gussie in the rose garden furious about the prize-giving, talks him round, and coaches him in a proposal speech of glimmering landscapes and God’s daisy chain while promising to soften up the Bassett first.Chapter 9, the rose garden
  9. Bertie goes looking for Angela, who has gone to bed, and finds a famished Aunt Dahlia, who tells him Anatole has given notice because of his no-dinner scheme.Chapter 11, the Brinkley drawing-room
  10. Back late from the Stretchley-Budds, Angela agrees to a stroll with Bertie, at which Tuppy leaps up and upsets a table and Uncle Tom breaks a coffee cup.Chapter 14, the Brinkley drawing-room
  11. In the garden Bertie runs Tuppy down to provoke Angela into defending him, but she heartily agrees, adds complaints of her own, and goes in, whereupon Tuppy emerges from the bushes.Chapters 14–15, the garden at Brinkley
  12. With Anatole in bed and the kitchen maid cooking, lunch passes in gloomy silence, broken only by a snatch of song from Gussie.Chapter 16, the Brinkley dining-room
  13. A tight Gussie heckles the headmaster, makes a rambling speech about a beautiful world, ridicules Uncle Tom and Bertie, and hands out prizes until he accuses G. G. Simmons of cheating and Bertie flees.Chapter 17, the Great Hall
  14. Over the cold salmon a jubilant Aunt Dahlia praises Gussie's speech and announces that Anatole has withdrawn his notice, until Seppings reports that Gussie is making faces at Anatole through his skylight.Chapters 19–20, the Brinkley dining-room
  15. Aunt Dahlia races Bertie and Seppings up to Anatole's room, where the furious chef threatens to leave over Gussie's faces at the skylight; Gussie is let in by pole but can only gurgle, and Aunt Dahlia tells Bertie to take him away.Chapter 20, Anatole's bedroom
  16. Back at supper, Aunt Dahlia calls Bertie Attila because Anatole is now leaving and Angela is engaged to Gussie, and Jeeves brings a note in which Madeline Bassett says she will marry Bertie.Chapters 20–21, the Brinkley dining-room
  17. The household gathers on the lawn with no rescues made, finds itself locked out, and Jeeves volunteers Bertie to cycle to Kingham Manor for the back-door key.Chapter 22, the garden at Brinkley
  18. At the gardener's shed Bertie berates Jeeves, finds the bicycle has no lamp, and hears Uncle Cyril's story of Nicholls and Jackson.Chapter 22, the gardener's shed
The Code of the Woosters 9 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, as this Dahlia
  2. Bertie denies loving Madeline, and Aunt Dahlia, who will skip the wedding, reveals that Sir Watkyn tried to steal Anatole while staying at Brinkley.Chapter 1, Aunt Dahlia's London house
  3. Aunt Dahlia storms in to say Sir Watkyn nobbled Uncle Tom with lobster and bought the cow-creamer, and blackmails Bertie with the loss of Anatole's cooking into promising to steal it.Chapter 2, Bertie's flat
  4. Aunt Dahlia reveals Sir Watkyn has offered Uncle Tom the cow-creamer in exchange for Anatole, smashes the Infant Samuel, accepts that Spode's threat stops Bertie, and suggests finding a shady secret of Spode's.Chapter 5, Bertie's room at Totleigh, as This aunt
  5. Bertie forgets the magic name when facing Spode, Gussie crowns Spode with a painting and flees, a brawl brings in Aunt Dahlia, and the remembered 'Eulalie' reduces Spode to grovelling, after which Aunt Dahlia scoffs at Bertie's plan to search Stiffy's room.Chapter 7, Bertie's room at Totleigh
  6. Jeeves tells how a thief took the cow-creamer while Stinker, waiting in the dark for Bertie, punched Oates on the nose, and Oates now plans to search Bertie's room, just as Aunt Dahlia rushes in and thrusts the cow-creamer into Bertie's hands.Chapters 11–12, Bertie's room at Totleigh, as a dim figure
  7. After Aunt Dahlia leaves, Bertie relaxes with brandy and declares the troubles over, only for Jeeves to find a policeman's helmet in the small suitcase he is packing.Chapters 12–13, Bertie's room at Totleigh
  8. Bertie tosses the helmet out of the window, Sir Watkyn's search of his room finds nothing, and as Bertie harangues him the butler appears with the helmet on a salver.Chapters 13–14, Bertie's room at Totleigh
  9. Bertie refuses to let Aunt Dahlia buy his freedom with Anatole, plans his release dinner, defies Sir Watkyn, and is saved when Spode confesses to stealing the helmet.Chapter 14, Bertie's room at Totleigh, as the relative
Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit 11 scenes
  1. 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 my hostess
  2. 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
  3. Locked in his room, Bertie repels Stilton through the keyhole, sends Jeeves for a strong whisky-and-soda, and is then invaded by an agitated Aunt Dahlia demanding Jeeves to save her.Chapters 11–12, Bertie's room at Brinkley
  4. 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
  5. A jubilant Aunt Dahlia bursts in on Bertie's breakfast, having learned from Jeeves that Lord Sidcup is Spode and planning to silence him with Eulalie Sœurs, and warns Bertie that Florence is planning the wedding, which he shrugs off since Stilton has drawn him in the Darts sweep.Chapter 15, Brinkley Court
  6. Strolling in the grounds and gloating over having bottled Stilton up, Bertie gives Jeeves leave to go to London to chair the Junior Ganymede luncheon and lends him the two-seater.Chapter 15, the garden at Brinkley
  7. Back at Brinkley, Aunt Dahlia rages that Tom has carried Spode off to look at his silver before she could work her scheme, savages the over-solicitous Percy, and leaves; Percy goes to tell Stilton Bertie is back, and Stilton arrives as Bertie grips the cosh.Chapters 16–17, the hall
  8. 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
  9. Aunt Dahlia learns Mrs. Trotter wants Anatole, Uncle Tom reports the necklace stolen, and Jeeves offers to return the pearls secretly and reveals that L.G. Trotter refused a knighthood, giving Aunt Dahlia a hold over him.Chapter 19, Aunt Dahlia's den
  10. 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
  11. Aunt Dahlia reports that Jeeves's mixture has cured Trotter, who will sign, and once she leaves Bertie tells Jeeves he will shave off his moustache.Chapter 22, the Brinkley dining-room
Jeeves in the Offing 6 scenes
  1. On the telephone Aunt Dahlia waves aside Ma Cream's suspicions, forbids Bertie to fight Wilbert, and jumps at his idea of inviting Kipper Herring to shadow Wilbert instead.Chapter 6, Brinkley Court
  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
  3. Squelching back from the lake, Bertie and Bobbie meet Aunt Dahlia, who wants to know why everyone but Upjohn is soaked.Chapter 16, the herbaceous border
  4. A distraught Aunt Dahlia tells Bertie that Phyllis has got engaged to Wilbert Cream.Chapters 16–18, Brinkley Court
  5. Aunt Dahlia rings for the butler, gets Jeeves instead, has him pack Upjohn's things and orders Bertie to drive Upjohn to Market Snodsbury.Chapter 18, the study, as the relative
  6. Jeeves has pinched Upjohn's speech while packing, and after Bertie fumbles the telephone call Bobbie seizes the receiver and forces Upjohn to drop his libel suit against Kipper in writing.Chapters 19–20, Aunt Dahlia's den
Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves 2 scenes
  1. Aunt Dahlia telephones in a fury over the cancelled lunch, hears Bertie is off to Totleigh, and warns him that Sir Watkyn is trying to steal Jeeves.Chapter 5, London
  2. On the telephone Aunt Dahlia, delighted that Emerald has taken over as cook while Anatole is ill, asks Bertie to buy Pop Bassett's black amber statuette for Uncle Tom with her legacy.Chapter 17, Totleigh Towers
Much Obliged, Jeeves 10 scenes
  1. 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
  2. Uneasy at Bingley's confident tip, Bertie walks home and finds Aunt Dahlia doing the Observer crossword.Chapters 8–10, Brinkley Court, as the ancestor
  3. Bertie warns Aunt Dahlia that Bingley may sell the club book to the Argus-Reminder, and she sends him off to reason with Bingley while agreeing to break the news to Jeeves.Chapter 10, Brinkley Court, as the old ancestor
  4. 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, as the old ancestor
  5. Crossing the lawn, Bertie finds Aunt Dahlia waiting for Runkle to wake in the hammock, and lectures her on why Ginger puts up with Florence until she tells him to go and drown himself.Chapter 12, the lawn
  6. Aunt Dahlia tells Bertie that Madeline is in tears because Spode wants to give up his title to stand for Parliament, then slips off to tackle Runkle.Chapter 14, the Brinkley drawing-room, as old ancestor
  7. Aunt Dahlia returns furious because Runkle will not part with a penny for Tuppy and Angela's wedding, and reveals she has pinched his porringer.Chapters 14–15, the Brinkley drawing-room, as the old ancestor
  8. Runkle storms down, accuses Bertie of stealing the porringer and sends Seppings for the police, and Jeeves invents a jury summons so Bertie can slip up to London to think.Chapter 15, Brinkley Court, as the aged relative
  9. Aunt Dahlia tells Bertie that Spode, put off politics by the potato, has kept his title and gone off to London with Madeline, freeing Bertie from marrying her.Chapter 16, the Brinkley drawing-room, as old ancestor
  10. Bingley has found the porringer in Bertie's room and Runkle offers to drop charges in exchange for Anatole, until Jeeves reveals from the club book that Runkle bribed a juror and jumped bail in America, and Aunt Dahlia turns the tables over Tuppy's money.Chapter 16, the Brinkley drawing-room, as old ancestor
Aunts Aren't Gentlemen 6 scenes
  1. Bertie phones Aunt Dahlia to cadge an invitation, but she is off to the Briscoes at Maiden Eggesford and promises to find him a cottage there, near the Bridmouth races.Chapter 3
  2. Aunt Dahlia rings to say she has got the cottage, beginning what Bertie calls the Maiden Eggesford Horror.Chapter 3
  3. Preoccupied with fear of Cook, Bertie eats and drinks heartily at the Briscoes' lunch but hardly says a word.Chapter 5, Eggesford Hall
  4. Aunt Dahlia ticks Bertie off for his dullness at lunch, then hears the cat story and says an ominous 'H'm' at the news that losing the cat would ruin Potato Chip's training.Chapter 5, the grounds of Eggesford Hall
  5. 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, as my late father’s sister Dahlia
  6. Aunt Dahlia telephones, blasts Bertie for sending the cat back, calms down when told about Major Plank, and hears of his engagement to Vanessa Cook.Chapter 13, Wee Nooke

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Other Stories 8 scenes
  1. 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
  2. Driving down to Hampshire, Bertie tells Jeeves of his foreboding about Aunt Dahlia's 'little something'.Chapter 2
  3. Bertie tells Jeeves of the job, Jeeves offers to break a window with treacle and brown paper, and the knife arrives at the door.Chapter 2, Bertie's room at Marsham
  4. Bertie creeps downstairs and cuts a picture out of its frame with four quick strokes.Chapter 2, the dining-room at Marsham
  5. Back from Glossop's clinic, Bertie learns from Jeeves, via the Junior Ganymede club book, that Lady Chuffnell won't marry Sir Roderick while Honoria is unmarried, and that Aunt Dahlia is coming to dinner.Chapter 3, Bertie's flat
  6. Jeeves backs Bertie's refusal, and Bertie sends him for roses to soothe Aunt Dahlia, secretly needing her help with a plan for Glossop.Chapter 3, Bertie's flat, as the old relative
  7. Bertie gives Honoria the rush of a lifetime with lunches, dinners and night clubs.Chapter 3
  8. In the Charing Cross Road the greasy agent Jas Waterbury takes fifteen quid to supply his niece Trixie, a Fairy Queen, as Bertie's pretend fiancée.Chapter 3, Jas Waterbury's office
Carry On, Jeeves 4 scenes
  1. Jeeves approves most of Bertie’s fashion article but objects to his silk evening shirts before Bertie asks him to find the Littles a housemaid.Chapter 9, Bertie's flat, as Mrs Travers
  2. Bertie meets Rosie outside the magazine offices and accepts an invitation to dine with the Littles.Chapter 9, the offices of Milady's Boudoir
  3. Jeeves proposes stopping Rosie’s embarrassing article by provoking a quarrel through transferring Anatole to Dahlia.Chapter 9, Bertie's bedroom at the flat, as your blasted aunt
  4. When Anatole refuses to leave his beloved parlourmaid, Bingo persuades Bertie to steal the dictating cylinder.Chapter 9, Bertie's bedroom at the flat
Very Good, Jeeves 15 scenes
  1. After lunch with the massive Cora, Tuppy reveals he means to win her by singing 'Sonny Boy' at Beefy Bingham's East End entertainment, then bolts on hearing Aunt Dahlia is coming.Chapter 4, Bertie's flat, as Mrs Travers
  2. A black-eyed Tuppy drops Cora and goes back to Angela, and Jeeves reveals he tricked Cora into singing 'Sonny Boy' too, so that she got the bird and struck Tuppy, thinking he had played a practical joke on her.Chapter 4, Bertie's flat
  3. 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 Travers
  4. With Jeeves off on holiday, Bertie dodges Sippy's invitation to amuse the Moons and gladly accepts a wired invitation to Aunt Dahlia's.Chapter 8
  5. Bertie arrives at Brinkley Court and is greeted from the smoking-room window by old Mr Anstruther.Chapter 8, Brinkley Court
  6. 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
  7. Bertie taunts Thos about his weight and his new school's mortar-boards, but the saintly boy just smiles.Chapter 8, the summer-house
  8. Jeeves returns from holiday and proposes inviting golden-curled Sebastian Moon to provoke Thos.Chapter 8, Brinkley Court, as Mrs Travers
  9. Sebastian arrives, Thos's eyes gleam at the sight of him, and Bertie plans to have the boys left alone on a country ramble.Chapter 8, Brinkley Court
  10. Jeeves reveals that Thos is reformed not by greed but by love of Greta Garbo, and Bertie resigns himself to losing Anatole.Chapter 8, Bertie's room at Brinkley
  11. The luncheon-basket has been left behind; Rosie meekly accepts it, the men eat Jeeves's sandwiches behind a hedge, and Jeeves confesses he left the basket on purpose.Chapter 9, Lakenham races
  12. Bertie explains why he chose Sir Reginald Witherspoon's Bleaching Court for Christmas: Tuppy Glossop will be there, and he has vowed revenge for the swimming-bath trick at the Drones.Chapter 11
  13. Driving to Bleaching, Bertie and Jeeves come upon Tuppy courting the dog-girl among her dogs, and Tuppy plainly wants them gone.Chapter 11, Upper Bleaching
  14. Bertie and Jeeves draft a fake telegram from Dahlia Travers saying Angela is seriously ill and calling for Tuppy, to arrive at two-thirty mid-match.Chapter 11, Bleaching Court, as Travers
  15. Tuppy, crushed that Miss Dalgleish skipped the match to chase a water-spaniel, reads the telegram, forgives Angela and dashes to London in Bertie's car, and Bertie learns Jeeves made the phone call and warned Aunt Dahlia.Chapter 11, Bertie's room at Bleaching Court
Right Ho, Jeeves 18 scenes
  1. Bertie starts his story with a scrap of dialogue, decides he has begun too abruptly, and traces the whole affair back to his visit to Cannes.Chapter 1, as my Aunt Dahlia
  2. Aunt Dahlia wires Bertie to come at once, and his baffled 'Perplexed. Explain.' gets a curt repeat.Chapter 3, Bertie's flat
  3. Bertie and Aunt Dahlia trade ever more exasperated telegrams while he spends the afternoon at the Drones, until she orders him to stop the back-chat and come immediately.Chapter 3, Bertie's flat, as Travers
  4. Jeeves advises going to Brinkley, they spar again over Bertie's mess jacket, and Bertie wires his aunt to expect him in a fortnight because of Pongo's party.Chapter 3, Bertie's flat, as Mrs Travers
  5. Bertie stakes all on propinquity, sends Gussie the 'Lay off the sausages' telegram, and plans to shove the Market Snodsbury prize-giving on to Gussie.Chapter 6, Bertie's flat
  6. A volley of telegrams with Aunt Dahlia and Gussie ends with Aunt Dahlia, calling Bertie a treacherous worm, booking 'Spink-Bottle' to give away the prizes.Chapter 6, Bertie's flat
  7. A telegram from Aunt Dahlia tells Bertie that Angela and Tuppy have broken off their engagement, and he orders Jeeves to pack for Brinkley.Chapter 6, Bertie's flat
  8. Dressing for dinner, Bertie scorns Jeeves’s fire-alarm idea for reconciling Tuppy and Angela, explains his own starvation scheme, and triumphantly sends Jeeves to fetch the white mess jacket he packed himself.Chapter 9, Bertie's room at Brinkley
  9. 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, as Mrs Travers
  10. On the lawn Bertie finds a groaning Gussie, and Jeeves explains that Gussie lost his nerve and lectured Madeline on newts instead of proposing.Chapter 11, the garden at Brinkley, as Mrs Travers
  11. Bertie wakes with a plan to fuel Gussie up with drink for his proposal, then Tuppy arrives to describe how Angela humiliated him in the larder over the steak-and-kidney pie, and Bertie reassures him that there was no rival at Cannes because Angela was with Bertie the whole time.Chapters 12–13, Bertie's room at Brinkley
  12. Bertie brings the jug to his room, learns Jeeves has already added gin, adds more himself and hides it behind Uncle Tom's photograph, just as Gussie bursts in drunk on neat whisky from the dining-room decanter.Chapter 16, Bertie's room at Brinkley, as your aunt
  13. Bertie and Jeeves discover the double-laced jug is empty and realise Gussie has drunk it on top of the whisky just before presenting the prizes.Chapter 16, Bertie's room at Brinkley, as Mrs Travers
  14. 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 Mrs Travers
  15. Helping Gussie downstairs, Bertie learns he fled Tuppy out of a window and got stuck on the roof, and advises him to barricade himself in his room.Chapter 20, the stairs
  16. At the Kingham Manor servants' ball Bertie prods Seppings, learns the back-door key was left with Jeeves all along, and sets off home.Chapter 22, Kingham Manor
  17. In the hall Tuppy, carrying bottles to the party, tells Bertie he and Angela have made it up, Anatole is staying, and Uncle Tom has paid for Aunt Dahlia's paper.Chapter 23, the hall
  18. Jeeves explains that his fire-bell scheme united everyone in dislike of Bertie and then in amusement at his pointless ride, brings him an omelette, and confesses to having burnt his mess jacket, which Bertie accepts.Chapter 23, Bertie's room at Brinkley, as Mrs Travers
Thank You, Jeeves 2 scenes
  1. 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
  2. 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
The Code of the Woosters 20 scenes
  1. Hung over after Gussie's send-off dinner, Bertie takes Jeeves's bracer, refuses his round-the-world cruise folders, and hears that Aunt Dahlia has telephoned.Chapter 1, Bertie's flat, as Mrs Travers
  2. At the antique shop Sir Watkyn takes Bertie for a reformed bag-snatcher, catches him with his umbrella, and when Bertie trips over the cat and charges out with the cow-creamer, he and Roderick yell for the police and Bertie bolts.Chapter 1, the antique shop
  3. Telegrams arrive from Gussie, Stiffy and Madeline confirming the invitation, and Jeeves prepares to pack while Aunt Dahlia keeps ringing.Chapter 2, Bertie's flat, as Mrs Travers
  4. Driving down to Totleigh, Bertie rails against aunts and agonises with Jeeves over whether to pinch the cow-creamer.Chapter 2
  5. Strolling on the terrace, Bertie spots the silver collection, steps in and lifts the cow-creamer out of its unlocked case just as Spode appears with a shotgun and says 'Hands up!'Chapters 2–3, the collection-room
  6. Bertie telephones a telegram to Aunt Dahlia saying that under Sir Watkyn's suspicious eye the cow-creamer job is impossible.Chapter 3, the library, as Mrs Travers
  7. 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, as your aunt
  8. Stiffy asks Bertie to steal the cow-creamer so that Stinker can "recover" it and win a vicarage, and when he refuses she says she will hand Gussie's notebook to Uncle Watkyn unless he does it.Chapter 4, the terrace, as mauve-faced aunt
  9. Spode warns Bertie that he is being watched and will be beaten to a jelly if the cow-creamer disappears, and Jeeves brings word that Aunt Dahlia has arrived and wants Bertie in the Blue Room.Chapter 4, the terrace, as your aunt
  10. Dressing for dinner, Bertie has Jeeves list his three-way predicament, finds Jeeves has no solution, and cheers himself with a white tie before Gussie walks in.Chapter 5, Bertie's room at Totleigh
  11. Bertie breaks it to Gussie that Stiffy will give his notebook to Sir Watkyn, refuses both to steal the cow-creamer and to search Stiffy's stockings, and Gussie breaks a shepherdess and storms off as Jeeves announces Aunt Dahlia.Chapter 5, Bertie's room at Totleigh
  12. 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
  13. Gussie crawls out from under the bed and confesses Madeline caught him searching Stiffy’s stocking for the notebook; Bertie urges him to steal it from her room, but he refuses, is denied the sheets for an escape, and slips off to hide until the milk train, after which Jeeves drifts in.Chapters 6–7, Bertie's room at Totleigh
  14. Bertie thanks Jeeves for the Eulalie tip, reads him the thriller's line that the top of the cupboard is every woman's favourite hiding-place, and drags him off to search Stiffy's room.Chapter 7, Bertie's room at Totleigh
  15. 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.Chapter 8, Stiffy's room
  16. Bertie asks Sir Watkyn for Stiffy's hand, and when Stiffy says she would rather marry the curate, the horrified Sir Watkyn gladly consents to her marrying Harold Pinker instead.Chapter 9, the library
  17. 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
  18. Bertie sees Spode off from menacing Gussie, mocks his asparagus-eating, and Jeeves arrives with the brandy and news that Oates was assaulted and the cow-creamer stolen, sending Spode galloping off.Chapter 11, Bertie's room at Totleigh, as a midnight marauder
  19. Locked in, Bertie talks to Jeeves through the door, learns that Sir Watkyn has forbidden Stiffy to marry Stinker, and urges Jeeves to cosh Oates with a shovel.Chapter 14, Bertie's room at Totleigh, as Mrs Travers
  20. Jeeves admits he got Spode to take the blame, Bertie threatens Sir Watkyn with a lawsuit until he blesses both engagements, and Bertie buys the secret of Eulalie by agreeing to the world cruise.Chapter 14, Bertie's room at Totleigh, as Mrs Travers
Joy in the Morning 1 scene
  1. 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
The Mating Season 1 scene
  1. Bertie recalls how, pleading Gussie's cause at Brinkley Court, he left Madeline thinking he loved her, and she promised to marry him if Gussie ever fell short.Chapter 4
Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit 15 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. 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
  3. Recalling how Florence tried to improve him with Tolstoy, Bertie goes to the Savoy and endures a dreary dinner with the Trotters.Chapter 3, the Savoy
  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. Over kippers at the Mottled Oyster Bertie fails to reconcile Florence with Stilton, and when the club is raided she bolts and Bertie trips the pursuing constable and is arrested.Chapter 5, the Mottled Oyster
  6. Florence telephones to learn that the magistrate who fined Bertie is Stilton's uncle, reveals that she and Stilton are engaged again, begs Bertie to keep the night club secret, and Stilton silently appears in the room.Chapters 6–7, Bertie's flat, as Mrs. Travers
  7. Bertie, enjoying a Stilton-free Drones, swaps telegrams with Aunt Dahlia, who orders him to Brinkley to cheer up a whiskered guest and bring her pearl necklace, but he hesitates for fear of Stilton.Chapter 8, Bertie's flat
  8. 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
  9. Bertie tells Jeeves they are off to Brinkley and asks him to fetch the necklace; Jeeves asks leave to chair the Junior Ganymede luncheon, and Bertie wonders who the mug was who backed Percy.Chapter 8, Bertie's flat
  10. Bertie reluctantly goes out after Percy, gives up when he can't find him, and then meets him rounding a rhododendron bush.Chapters 9–10, the garden at Brinkley
  11. Anatole's superb dinner turns to ashes in Bertie's mouth as Stilton glares at him across the table and ignores Mrs Trotter's chatter.Chapter 11, the Brinkley dining-room
  12. 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
  13. Percy Gorringe, refused by Florence, calls Bertie a weedy butterfly and then reveals he has bought Stilton's sweep ticket on him, so Stilton is free to thrash Bertie, who dashes to the stables hoping to catch Jeeves.Chapter 15, the garden at Brinkley
  14. Stilton goes off to show Daphne the grounds, and Bertie naps in his room until he wakes remembering the cosh.Chapter 17, Bertie's room at Brinkley
  15. Before Bertie can put the necklace back, a dyspeptic L.G. Trotter tuts at the open safe and slams it shut.Chapters 18–19, the hall, as your aunt
Jeeves in the Offing 16 scenes
  1. Over breakfast with Kipper Herring, Bertie takes a phone call from Aunt Dahlia inviting him to Brinkley, and learns to his horror that Bobbie Wickham and Aubrey Upjohn are among the guests.Chapters 1–2, Bertie's flat, as Mrs. Thomas Portarlington Travers
  2. Jeeves, leaving on holiday, tells Bertie that Wilbert Cream is the notorious New York playboy Broadway Willie, and Bertie nearly cries off Brinkley until he remembers Anatole's cooking.Chapter 2, Bertie's flat
  3. Arriving at Brinkley to find Bobbie, Bertie stumbles on Wilbert Cream reading poetry to Phyllis Mills, is befriended by Poppet the dachshund, and is sent off to the lake.Chapter 3, the leafy glade, as Mrs Travers
  4. Bobbie, fishing at the lake, explains that she announced her engagement to Bertie so that her mother, relieved to escape him, will welcome Kipper Herring, whom she loves.Chapter 3, the lake
  5. Musing on Bobbie's choice of Kipper, Bertie walks slap into Aubrey Upjohn and finds his dreaded old headmaster shrunk to a moustached shrimp.Chapter 3, Brinkley Court
  6. At tea on the lawn the butler brings out the fruit, and he is Sir Roderick Glossop.Chapters 3–4, the lawn, as Your aunt
  7. Over tea Mrs Cream declares the butler Swordfish (really Sir Roderick Glossop) a crook after Uncle Tom's silver, Bobbie refuses to let Bertie flee Brinkley, and Bertie resolves to wire Aunt Dahlia at Eastbourne.Chapter 5, the lawn, as Mrs Travers
  8. Bertie frets over Ma Cream's suspicions and Wilbert's ardour for Phyllis, and when Wilbert goes off walking Poppet he dozes off on the lawn over one of Ma Cream's novels.Chapter 6, Brinkley Court
  9. Glossop, answering the bell as butler, says he is still undecided about Wilbert's sanity, then brings a letter from Jeeves revealing Wilbert is a kleptomaniac, and they hurry to check the silver.Chapter 6, Brinkley Court
  10. Bertie and Glossop reach the collection room and find the cow-creamer gone.Chapters 6–7, the collection room, as Mrs Travers
  11. Bertie enters Wilbert's room, finds a housemaid there with Augustus the cat hunting a mouse, and gets rid of her by claiming Augustus has traumatic symplegia.Chapters 7–8, the Blue Room, as the woman up top
  12. Bertie dozes off over Mrs. Cream's novel, wakes and telephones his overdue wire inviting Kipper Herring, and then sees Kipper arriving in his car.Chapters 8–10, the lawn
  13. Kipper bursts into Aunt Dahlia's boudoir to confess that Bobbie has read the stinking letter he wrote her and now says she will marry Bertie, who leaps up to drive to Jeeves at Herne Bay.Chapter 10, Aunt Dahlia's den
  14. While Kipper waits behind his tree, Wilbert Cream tells Bertie the cow-creamer has vanished from his bureau, and Bertie realises Glossop has pinched it and talks Wilbert out of telling Mrs. Travers.Chapter 15, the lake, as Mrs. Travers
  15. Bobbie and Kipper tell Bertie of Aunt Dahlia's new plan: Bertie is to abuse Upjohn to his face so that Kipper can burst in, defend him and get the libel suit dropped, and Bertie, bound by the code of the Woosters, agrees.Chapter 16, Bertie's room at Brinkley, as your aunt
  16. Back from a fruitless hunt for Glossop, Bertie learns that Jeeves saved the day by having Glossop say he was there to observe the potty Bertie, who stole the cow-creamer, and is softened only when Jeeves reminds him it was all for Uncle Tom.Chapter 21, the Brinkley drawing-room, as your aunt
Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves 12 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. Aunt Dahlia phones to explain she invited Bassett to take Uncle Tom's mind off taxes, mentions the black amber statuette and invites herself to lunch, and Bertie defies Jeeves by wearing his new Alpine hat to the Ritz.Chapter 1, Bertie's flat
  3. Brooding at the Drones, Bertie is told that the Rev. H. P. Pinker wants to see him, and Stinker lumbers in and upsets a small table.Chapters 2–3, the Drones smoking-room, as my aunt
  4. Relieved, Bertie goes home and finds Gussie in a cab bound for Totleigh, who raves about Emerald Stoker and then declares that Madeline makes him sick.Chapters 3–4, Bertie's flat, as Your aunt
  5. 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
  6. Gussie storms in denouncing vegetables and reveals that the cook is Emerald Stoker, who lost her allowance on a horse and took the job rather than confess to her father.Chapter 7, Bertie's room at Totleigh
  7. 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, as my Aunt Dahlia
  8. 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
  9. 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, as Bertie’s aunt
  10. 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, as aged relative
  11. Blocked from the window by Bartholomew, Bertie hides under the sofa and hears Spode declare his love to Madeline and denounce Bertie as a thief after the statuette, then go to fetch Sir Watkyn.Chapters 22–23, Totleigh Towers, as his aunt
  12. Spode, Sir Watkyn and Plank denounce Bertie as a thief, Madeline drops him and accepts Spode, and when Bertie sneezes behind the sofa Sir Watkyn sends for Constable Oates and promises him twenty-eight days.Chapter 23, Totleigh Towers, as that aunt of his
Much Obliged, Jeeves 14 scenes
  1. Bertie begs Jeeves to tone down his Totleigh report, Jeeves refuses because of the committee's rules, they quarrel over the danger of blackmail and the drunken Bingley, until Aunt Dahlia telephones.Chapters 1–2, Bertie's flat, as Mrs Travers
  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. At Brinkley the party separates and Bertie, finding the drawing-room empty and avoiding Uncle Tom's silver talk and Anatole's liver, decides to stroll in the grounds.Chapter 5, the Brinkley drawing-room
  4. Bertie picks up a camera left on a bench to save it from the coming storm, and its stout, pink-faced owner bursts out of the bushes taking him for a thief.Chapter 5, the wooded bit
  5. Outside the French window Bertie overhears Spode, now Lord Sidcup, tell the camera chap that Wooster is a thief, and the camera chap vows the stiffest sentence if Bertie touches the silver he has brought to sell Uncle Tom.Chapter 5, the Brinkley drawing-room, as Mrs Travers
  6. 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
  7. On the doorstep Bertie meets his old valet Bingley, who tells him Ginger hasn't a chance, advises a big bet on McCorkadale, and goes in to call on her.Chapter 8, Number One River Row, as my aunt Mrs Travers
  8. 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, as my aunt
  9. Florence comes in in a temper, tells Bertie he looks like the underside of a dead fish, rages at Ginger's feeble speech at the Chamber of Commerce lunch, and sends Bertie to fetch Ginger to the study.Chapter 12, the room with the French window
  10. Brooding on his aunt's poor chances and on Ginger's coming ticking-off, Bertie walks into the summerhouse and finds Ginger locked in an embrace with Magnolia Glendennon.Chapters 12–13, the summer-house, as the old ancestor
  11. Sneaking into the Blue Room to return the porringer, Bertie treads on Gus the cat, wakes Runkle, and covers himself by saying Aunt Dahlia wants Runkle to take photographs.Chapter 15, the Blue Room, as the aged relative
  12. Bertie drives back from London with none of his problems solved and is hauled out of the car by egg-spattered Ginger, who says the debate was a riot, Florence has dropped him, and he is off to London to marry Magnolia.Chapter 16, the drive, as the ancestor
  13. Runkle gloats that Bertie is bound for prison, egg-covered Florence announces she will marry Bertie after all, then drops him when Runkle says he stole the porringer, and Runkle goes off to meet Bingley.Chapter 16, the Brinkley drawing-room, as the ancestor
  14. Over breakfast in bed Bertie reviews the happy endings all round, frets about the Junior Ganymede club book, and learns Jeeves has already destroyed his eighteen pages: 'Much obliged, Jeeves.'Chapter 17, as the ancestor
Aunts Aren't Gentlemen 19 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, as my aunt
  2. Bertie tells Jeeves the New York trip is off in favour of Maiden Eggesford, where Jeeves has an aunt, and recalls with him the old Plank episode.Chapter 3, Bertie's flat
  3. At the cottage Jeeves tells Bertie that Plank really is in the village as Mr Cook's guest at Eggesford Court, and the shaken Bertie swaps his ginger ale for a dry Martini.Chapter 4, Wee Nooke
  4. Aunt Dahlia telephones to say the Briscoes want Bertie to lunch and forbids the Drones Club tie, and Jeeves gives directions to Eggesford Hall and reports that his own aunt has gone to Liverpool.Chapter 4, Wee Nooke
  5. 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
  6. Back at the cottage Jeeves explains that Cook and Colonel Briscoe are bitter rivals and that Cook's racehorse Potato Chip pines without the stray cat Bertie was caught holding.Chapter 5, Wee Nooke
  7. 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, as aged r.
  8. Bertie tells Jeeves of Orlo's threat and they agree he must avoid Vanessa Cook, but Jeeves then takes a call saying she is coming round at once.Chapter 7, Wee Nooke
  9. 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, as my aunt
  10. Walking round the village, Bertie looks into the shop's lending library, where Angelica Briscoe conspiratorially asks him 'Has he brought it yet?' before her father arrives to buy sweets.Chapter 9, the village shop, as your-aunt
  11. 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, as The old ancestor
  12. Bertie, glum over his aunt's ruined plan, tells Jeeves about the telephone call over cocktails and confesses he is engaged.Chapters 13–14, Wee Nooke, as the aged relative
  13. 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, as the aged relative
  14. Pop Cook, told by the recovered Major Plank that Bertie is the crook Alpine Joe, finds Vanessa's inscribed book and goes for Bertie with his hunting crop, until he trips over the grandfather clock and Bertie crowns him with a painting and wraps him in the tablecloth before leaving for the Goose and Grasshopper.Chapter 15, the sitting-room
  15. Aunt Dahlia telephones in a panic: having tipped the vicar off about the cat, she has had Jimmy Briscoe threaten to scratch Simla unless it is returned, and Bertie assures her Billy Graham is taking it back.Chapter 16, Wee Nooke, as the aged relative
  16. Aunt Dahlia rings again and, threatening to bar him from Anatole's cooking, bullies Bertie into returning the cat to Eggesford Court himself.Chapter 16, Wee Nooke, as Dahlia
  17. Bertie sleeps fitfully, seeing that with Billy Graham, Jeeves and Aunt Dahlia all out of it, he alone must return the cat to Eggesford Court or lose Anatole's cooking.Chapter 18, Wee Nooke, as a loved aunt
  18. 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
  19. In New York, Bertie learns from Uncle Tom's letter and a clipping that Simla was awarded the race after Cook's cat ran on to the course, and tells Jeeves that aunts are not gentlemen.Chapter 20, New York, as your aunt