The Wooster Papers

Cast

the butter✦︎

Also butter, pounds of butter, the stearic matter

The butter Bertie needs to get the boot polish off his face; Chuffy refuses it and Seabury has used all there is for his slide.

Connections

dealings

Talked about, but not there

  1. Unable to wash off the polish, Bertie finds a drunken Brinkley wrecking the cottage, is chased into the bedroom by him with a carving knife as the Devil, keeps quiet when Sergeant Voules arrives, and flees through the window after Brinkley upsets a lamp and sets the cottage ablaze, leaving the banjolele behind.Chapter 13, Seaview Cottage, as butter
  2. Safe in a wood as the cottage burns, Bertie draws up a credit-and-debit account and decides to go to Jeeves at the Hall for butter and his fare to London.Chapter 13, the wood, as butter
  3. Bertie knocks at the back door of the Hall and the scullerymaid who opens it has hysterics at the sight of his black face.Chapters 13–14, Chuffnell Hall, as butter
  4. Bertie stands rooted in despair until Jeeves coughs softly at his side.Chapters 14–16, Chuffnell Hall, as butter
  5. Glossop, thrown out by Brinkley after a nightmare among Seabury's animals, makes peace with the equally blacked-up Bertie and goes off to clean himself with petrol in Bertie's garage while Bertie heads for the summer-house.Chapter 16, the Dower House, as butter