the Mephistopheles costume✦︎
Also scarlet tights, Mephistopheles, false beard, the fungus, Mephistopheles beard, the masquerade costume, foulest false beards, a Mephistopheles costume
The scarlet tights and false beard Jeeves put Gussie into for the fancy-dress ball.
Connections
dealings
- Gussie Fink-Nottle wears 4
- Bertie Wooster disapproves of 1
- Jeeves suggests 1
Scenes it is in
- Bertie comes home to find Jeeves in the sitting-room with Gussie Fink-Nottle dressed as Mephistopheles.Chapters 1–2, the sitting-room, as
Mephistopheles
Talked about, but not there
- Bertie crawls home from Pongo's party after four and is barely asleep when Jeeves announces Aunt Dahlia, who storms into the bedroom.Chapters 3–6, Bertie's flat, as
the masquerade costume
- Bertie wakes with a plan to fuel Gussie up with drink for his proposal, then Tuppy arrives to describe how Angela humiliated him in the larder over the steak-and-kidney pie, and Bertie reassures him that there was no rival at Cannes because Angela was with Bertie the whole time.Chapters 12–13, Bertie's room at Brinkley, as
a Mephistopheles costume