The Wooster Papers

Cast

Emerald Stoker

Also called Stoker, Emerald, Em, The cook, the Totleigh Towers cook, a Pekinese with freckles, freckled human Pekinese

Pop Stoker's freckled younger daughter, over to study painting, who after losing her allowance becomes the Totleigh cook in secret, lays Spode out with a basin of beans and elopes with Gussie.

In each book 2 books
  • In Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves
    Pop Stoker's freckled younger daughter, over to study painting, who after losing her allowance becomes the Totleigh cook in secret, lays Spode out with a basin of beans and elopes with Gussie.
  • In Much Obliged, Jeeves
    The Totleigh Towers cook with whom Gussie eloped.

Connections

dealings

Everyone and everything else (10)

Scenes they are in

  1. 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
  2. Gussie flees with Bertie to meet Emerald in the kitchen garden, where she flattens the pursuing Spode with a basin, and Madeline, finding Gussie over the body, declares she loathes him and it is the end as he defiantly eats a ham sandwich.Chapter 15, the kitchen garden, as Em

Talked about, but not there

Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves 14 scenes
  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. At tea Madeline tells Bertie she still loves Gussie and weeps over his hopeless love for her, and Spode walks in to find Bertie patting her head.Chapters 5–6, the Totleigh drawing-room
  4. 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
  5. 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, as the cook
  6. 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
  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 the cook
  8. After Emerald Stoker's excellent lunch Bertie, going to his car, calls Stiffy a female Upas tree, and Jeeves suggests asking at the post office where Plank lives.Chapter 10, Totleigh Towers
  9. Jeeves reports that a boy egged Sir Watkyn and Stiffy's dog bit Gussie at the school treat; Gussie goes off to walk with Emerald Stoker, Stinker's vicarage is in doubt, and Spode bursts in.Chapters 13–14, Bertie's room at Totleigh
  10. Gussie, clutching Emerald's ham sandwiches, declares her his true love and Madeline heartless; Stiffy and Stinker tell Bertie to keep clear of Sir Watkyn, and when Stiffy warns Gussie that Spode is after him he bolts straight into Spode.Chapters 14–15, the yew alley
  11. 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 The cook
  12. 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, as a Pekinese with freckles
  13. 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
  14. 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 Stoker
Much Obliged, Jeeves 1 scene
  1. Bertie explains to new readers how Gussie's elopement with the cook nearly left him marrying Madeline Bassett until Spode, now Lord Sidcup, claimed her.Chapter 1, as the cook