By Order Of The Czar^✦︎

Also a dud book

A dud lending-library thriller Bertie keeps trying to read, which Vanessa dismisses as trash.

Connections

dealings

• Bertie Wooster loathes 2
• Vanessa Cook despises 1

Scenes it is in

1. 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
2. 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
3. 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
4. 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

Talked about, but not there

1. 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
2. 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