The Wooster Papers

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Gussie's notebook✦︎

Also notebook, the book, the notebook, Mr Fink-Nottle’s notebook, a notebook, the small, brown, leather-covered notebook, A small, leather-covered notebook, such a book

Gussie's small brown leather-covered notebook of scathing remarks about Sir Watkyn and Spode, lost, found by Stiffy and used as blackmail.

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Scenes it is in

  1. Bertie finds Spode battering Gussie's door, cows him, and takes from him the notebook he found in the cow-creamer, then hands it to Gussie to show Madeline.Chapter 10, the passage, as notebook

Talked about, but not there

  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 the small, brown, leather-covered notebook
  2. 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 a notebook
  3. Bartholomew upsets Constable Oates off his bicycle, Stiffy admits she has Gussie's notebook, and reveals that she is secretly engaged to Stinker Pinker and has told him to pinch Oates's helmet.Chapter 4, the Totleigh gates, as that book
  4. 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 that book
  5. 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, as that notebook of Gussie’s
  6. 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, as notebook
  7. 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, as that notebook
  8. 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, as the notebook
  9. 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, as the notebook
  10. Bertie and a disapproving Jeeves enter Stiffy's vast bedroom, where the dog Bartholomew sends Bertie onto the chest of drawers and Jeeves onto the top of the cupboard.Chapters 7–8, Stiffy's room, as Gussie’s notebook
  11. Stiffy comes back early, refuses to call off her dog, and tells Bertie she has broken off her engagement to Stinker because he would not pinch the policeman’s helmet.Chapter 8, Stiffy's room, as that book
  12. Stinker climbs in by the balcony with Oates’s helmet, is reconciled with Stiffy, and is told that Bertie will help with the cow-creamer scheme at midnight.Chapter 8, Stiffy's room, as a book
  13. 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, as that book
  14. Stiffy exults over Jeeves's scheme, reveals that Oates suspects her of the helmet theft and that she has hidden Gussie's notebook in the cow-creamer, and Butterfield summons Bertie to Madeline.Chapter 9, Totleigh Towers, as that notebook
  15. Madeline tells Bertie she will marry him now she has finished with Gussie; Bertie explains the notebook and nearly convinces her, but she finds nothing in the cow-creamer and decides he made it all up.Chapter 10, the Totleigh drawing-room, as notebook
  16. 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, as notebook
  17. 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 notebook
  18. 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 the notebook