Maple

The butler at Bumpleigh Hall.

Connections

dealings

• is employed by Lord Worplesdon 2

Scenes they are in

1. Bertie dashes into the house and dives into Uncle Percy's study.Chapters 21–22, Uncle Percy's study

Talked about, but not there

1. Avoiding Boko and Stilton swimming, Bertie finds Jeeves fishing, reproaches him for the Uncle Percy scheme, and sends him to find out from the Hall staff how Boko got out of his engagement to Florence.Chapter 20, the river, as the butler
2. Jeeves reports that, according to the boot-boy Erbut, Boko ended his engagement to Florence by kicking Edwin, and just then Edwin stoops in the drive before them.Chapters 20–21, the drive, as the butler
3. Bertie spends the day stiffening Uncle Percy's nerve until Clam telephones to say he'll come to the ball as Edward the Confessor, and Uncle Percy confesses how a Covent Garden ball once cost him his engagement to Aunt Agatha.Chapter 24, Uncle Percy's study