The Wooster Papers

Cast

Phyllis Mills

Also called Phyllis, the goof Phyllis, the Mills girl, P. Mills, Mother, Jane’s daughter, The silly young geezer, a pinhead like Phyllis

Upjohn's pretty but goofy stepdaughter and Aunt Dahlia's goddaughter, who types his speeches and owns Poppet; courted by Wilbert Cream, she gets engaged to him.

Connections

dealings

Everyone and everything else (2)

Scenes they are in

  1. Arriving at Brinkley to find Bobbie, Bertie stumbles on Wilbert Cream reading poetry to Phyllis Mills, is befriended by Poppet the dachshund, and is sent off to the lake.Chapter 3, the leafy glade
  2. Bertie breaks up Wilbert Cream's tender moment with Phyllis by announcing tea, and Wilbert stalks off with the dachshund Poppet, plainly loathing him.Chapter 5, the leafy glade, as Phyllis
  3. Over tea Mrs Cream declares the butler Swordfish (really Sir Roderick Glossop) a crook after Uncle Tom's silver, Bobbie refuses to let Bertie flee Brinkley, and Bertie resolves to wire Aunt Dahlia at Eastbourne.Chapter 5, the lawn, as Phyllis
  4. Bertie frets over Ma Cream's suspicions and Wilbert's ardour for Phyllis, and when Wilbert goes off walking Poppet he dozes off on the lawn over one of Ma Cream's novels.Chapter 6, Brinkley Court
  5. Back at Brinkley, Bertie learns from Aunt Dahlia that Uncle Tom sold Wilbert the cow-creamer, then Bobbie icily cuts Kipper, who confesses he got engaged to Phyllis as a ruse against Wilbert and was caught kissing her.Chapters 12–14, Aunt Dahlia's den, as Phyllis
  6. Phyllis calls Upjohn away to the telephone just as Bobbie gives the cue, then Augustus spits at Poppet, who knocks Bertie into the lake, and Kipper dives in and rescues Bertie instead.Chapter 15, the lake, as Phyllis
  7. Bertie goes into Uncle Tom's study to insult Upjohn but gets no further than small talk about moustaches and Kipper before Phyllis bursts in and Upjohn dismisses him.Chapter 16, the study, as Phyllis

Talked about, but not there

  1. Over breakfast with Kipper Herring, Bertie takes a phone call from Aunt Dahlia inviting him to Brinkley, and learns to his horror that Bobbie Wickham and Aubrey Upjohn are among the guests.Chapters 1–2, Bertie's flat
  2. At tea on the lawn the butler brings out the fruit, and he is Sir Roderick Glossop.Chapters 3–4, the lawn, as Phyllis
  3. On the telephone Aunt Dahlia waves aside Ma Cream's suspicions, forbids Bertie to fight Wilbert, and jumps at his idea of inviting Kipper Herring to shadow Wilbert instead.Chapter 6, Brinkley Court, as Phyllis-Mills
  4. Bertie and Glossop reach the collection room and find the cow-creamer gone.Chapters 6–7, the collection room, as Phyllis
  5. Bertie dozes off over Mrs. Cream's novel, wakes and telephones his overdue wire inviting Kipper Herring, and then sees Kipper arriving in his car.Chapters 8–10, the lawn
  6. While Kipper waits behind his tree, Wilbert Cream tells Bertie the cow-creamer has vanished from his bureau, and Bertie realises Glossop has pinched it and talks Wilbert out of telling Mrs. Travers.Chapter 15, the lake
  7. Bobbie and Kipper tell Bertie of Aunt Dahlia's new plan: Bertie is to abuse Upjohn to his face so that Kipper can burst in, defend him and get the libel suit dropped, and Bertie, bound by the code of the Woosters, agrees.Chapter 16, Bertie's room at Brinkley, as Phyllis
  8. Outside the french window Bobbie accuses Bertie of losing his nerve, and with Phyllis closeted with Upjohn the attempt is called off for now.Chapter 16, Brinkley Court, as Phyllis
  9. A distraught Aunt Dahlia tells Bertie that Phyllis has got engaged to Wilbert Cream.Chapters 16–18, Brinkley Court, as Phyllis