Jill Wyvern

Also called Jill, Miss Wyvern, Stick-in-the-mud, the future Countess of Rowcester, young Jill, the girl Jill, Wyvern, Jill

The local vet, Colonel Wyvern's daughter and Bill's fiancée; she breaks it off over Mrs Spottsworth and is reconciled on learning the truth.

Connections

dealings

• is engaged to, suspects Bill Rowcester 45
• is child of Colonel Wyvern 5
• asks, is told by Jeeves 4
• is a friend of Monica Carmoyle 3
• is jealous of, is cool towards Mrs Spottsworth 3
• helps, tells Rory Carmoyle 3
• cheers on, backs Ballymore^♞︎ 2
• is troubled about Captain Biggar 2

Everyone and everything else (16)

• is sibling of, is coldly regarded by Eustace 2
• gives back Jill's engagement ring^✦︎ 2
• treats the Mainwarings' Peke^♞︎ 2
• treats Bill's Irish terrier^♞︎ 1
• is admired by the Bloomsbury admirer 1
• is engaged to Blotto 1
• is engaged to Charles 1
• detests the Charleston^✦︎ 1
• disapproves of the mauve pyjamas^✦︎ 1
• treats Mike^♞︎ 1
• is engaged to Percy 1
• hopes to sell Rowcester Abbey 1
• treats the sick cow^♞︎ 1
• is engaged to Squiffy 1
• is engaged to Tom 1
• keeps off the guests the wedding dogs^♞︎ 1

Scenes they are in

1. Monica goes into the old living room, full of childhood memories, and Jill comes in from the garden and they embrace.Chapters 2–5, the living room, as a girl in overalls
2. Over the port Biggar tells how Honest Patch Perkins welshed on his three-thousand-pound double, reveals the bookie's car number is Bill's, and is talked round by Jeeves's theory of a false number plate before going off to make a private telephone call.Chapter 8, the dining room, as Jill
3. Jill coldly questions Bill about his Cannes intimacy with 'Rosie' Spottsworth, leaves to fetch her things for the night with a pointed remark, and Bill grumbles to Jeeves about women and snubs his Aunt Emily.Chapter 9, the living room, as Jill
4. Biggar tells Jill that Bill is a fortune hunter courting Mrs Spottsworth, then Monica opens the dower chest to show off its costumes and finds Patch Perkins's check coat, and Biggar draws out the black patch and demands a word with Bill.Chapters 10–11, the living room, as Jill
5. Jill, gloomy and suspicious, learns Bill is in the garden with Mrs Spottsworth; Captain Biggar praises the spider sequence, and Bill returns to report that the pendant came off but fell down the front of Mrs Spottsworth's dress.Chapters 13–14, the living room, as Jill
6. Bill takes the pendant from Mrs Spottsworth's jewel case, but Pomona greets him with ecstatic screams and he bolts back to his room, watched by Jill.Chapter 15, the Queen Elizabeth Room, as Jill
7. Colonel Wyvern is cheeked by his teenage cook and butler, learns from Jill that she has broken off her engagement over Bill's goings-on with Mrs Spottsworth, and resolves to horsewhip Bill, though he will have to borrow Bill's horsewhip to do it.Chapter 16, Colonel Wyvern's study, as Jill
8. Jeeves, carrying the champagne through the living room, meets Jill coming in through the french window.Chapters 18–21, the living room, as Jill
9. Mrs Spottsworth announces her engagement and, on Jeeves's suggestion, buys the abbey to ship to California, saving Bill, while Jeeves gives notice to return to the expelled Bertie and Rory rings Harrige's about the TV.Chapter 22, the living room, as Jill

Talked about, but not there

1. Bill and the Carmoyles argue over whether Mrs Spottsworth will buy the Abbey, Rory tells Bill the police and a mystery man have been asking about his car, and Jeeves announces Mrs Spottsworth.Chapters 6–7, the living room, as Jill
2. Ellen announces a Captain Biggar; Mrs Spottsworth, thrilled to find an old friend, gets Monica to invite him to stay, and Monica's triumphant news turns Bill green.Chapter 7, Rowcester Abbey, as Jill
3. Left alone over a celebratory glass of port, Bill frets about Jill's cold looks at Mrs Spottsworth's chumminess, then congratulates Jeeves on lulling Biggar's suspicions and goes to join the ladies.Chapter 8, the dining room, as Jill
4. Monica finds Bill tearing his hair and packs him off to the ruined chapel to charm Mrs Spottsworth into buying the house, and he goes, seeing a deposit as his way out of the Biggar menace.Chapter 9, the living room, as Jill
5. Rory tells Monica that Biggar has something on Bill and spins wild theories about stolen idols' eyes and an illegitimate baby, while Monica scoffs and tells him to stop running down Rowcester Abbey to Mrs Spottsworth.Chapter 9, the living room, as Jill
6. With the abbey asleep, Jeeves comes to the sleepless Bill with a plan: he borrows Mrs Spottsworth's smelling salts on the pretext that Bill has fainted at the sight of Lady Agatha's ghost, so that she will hurry to the ruined chapel and leave her room free.Chapter 15, the Henry VIII Room, as Jill
7. Jeeves brings Bill a ring on a salver, sent back by Miss Wyvern.Chapter 15, the Henry VIII Room, as Miss Wyvern
8. Jeeves tips Ballymore, tells Rory and Monica that Jill has broken off with Bill, Rory's tactless consolation enrages Monica, and Jeeves advises the despairing Bill to repay Mrs Spottsworth for the pendant by selling her Rowcester Abbey.Chapter 18, Jeeves's pantry, as Miss Wyvern