The Wooster Papers

Cast

Dame Daphne Winkworth

Also called Dame Daphne, Aunt Daphne, The parent, Gussie’s girl’s godmother, Daph, Battling Daphne, Madeline’s godmother, a Dame of the British Empire

Esmond's formidable aunt, Gertrude's mother and Madeline's godmother, a former headmistress and widow of P.B. Winkworth, who rules Deverill Hall.

Connections

dealings

Everyone and everything else (9)

Scenes they are in

  1. 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 Dame Daphne
  2. Dame Daphne catches Bertie on a chair and Esmond on the table singing, sends Esmond cringing to the drawing room, tells Bertie his dog Sam Goldwyn has chased Charlotte and bitten Silversmith, and packs him off to bed.Chapter 6, the dining room at Deverill Hall
  3. 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
  4. Dame Daphne, syringe in hand, upbraids Bertie (as Augustus) over Madeline's telegram complaining that she has had no letters, leaving him stunned on a rustic bench.Chapter 10, the rose garden
  5. Dame Daphne catches Bertie in the hall and is delighted to hear 'Augustus' went to Wimbledon on the milk train to see Madeline, and Silversmith announces that his daughter Queenie is engaged to Meadowes.Chapter 21, the hall at Deverill Hall
  6. In the hall the new Esmond calls Silversmith a pompous old ass, prods him in the ribs, and cheerfully answers back Dame Daphne when she asks why he is late.Chapter 25, the hall at Deverill Hall, as Dame Daphne
  7. Esmond calls the Kegley-Bassingtons fatheads and leads Bertie into the drawing room, where Bertie is enjoying sardine sandwiches when Silversmith announces Constable Dobbs.Chapters 25–26, the drawing room at Deverill Hall

Talked about, but not there

  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, as her mother
  4. Jeeves proposes that someone go to Deverill Hall as Gussie, Catsmeat flatly refuses, and Bertie gives in and sets off in Gussie's name, with Corky's dog Sam Goldwyn left on his hands.Chapter 4, as Gussie’s girl’s godmother
  5. Silversmith shows Bertie to his room and is asked to send his man, but the person who enters is Catsmeat, not Jeeves.Chapters 6–7, Bertie's room at Deverill Hall
  6. 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
  7. 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, as Madeline’s godmother
  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
  9. 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
  10. 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 her mother
  11. Walking back to the hall brooding on Corky's job, Bertie runs into Esmond Haddock.Chapters 18–20, the road to the hall, as Dame Daphne
  12. At the village concert the Kegley-Bassingtons and George's 'Ben Battle' are endured, Catsmeat and Gussie's Pat and Mike act dies, and Esmond's hunting song brings the house down until the standees chant him back on over Poppy's dance.Chapter 22, the village hall