Cook

Also called Mr Cook, Pop Cook, Father, old Cook, Colonel, Vanessa’s father, Cook’s grey hairs, a Mr Cook

Mr 'Pop' Cook of Eggesford Court, Vanessa's small, purple-faced father, a rich provision merchant who owns Potato Chip and the cat, holds Orlo's inheritance in trust and waves a hunting crop at Bertie.

Connections

dealings

• is feared by, loathes Bertie Wooster 31
• is father or mother of, keeps a close watch on Vanessa Cook 18
• is feared by, disapproves of Orlo Porter 17
• has staying with them, is a pal of Major Plank 10
• owns the cat^♞︎ 9
• is at feud with, is a rival of Colonel Briscoe 7
• owns Potato Chip^♞︎ 7
• owns Cook's hunting crop^✦︎ 5

Everyone and everything else (18)

• holds in trust Orlo's inheritance^✦︎ 5
• is feared by Billy Graham 2
• owns, lives at Eggesford Court 2
• works with Uncle Joe 2
• suspects the Briscoes^⁂ 1
• is compared with Captain Bligh 1
• employs Cook's butler 1
• employs Cook's minion 1
• employs Cook's stable employee 1
• falls over the grandfather clock^✦︎ 1
• employs Henry 1
• is compared with Jack the Ripper 1
• is advised by Jeeves 1
• employs the man with the gun 1
• calls in the police^⁂ 1
• reads The Prose Rumblings Of A Rhymester^✦︎ 1
• calls in Scotland Yard^⁂ 1
• reads Vanessa's note^✦︎ 1

Scenes they are in

1. Taking the wrong turning, Bertie strays into Eggesford Court, befriends a cat and is accused by its owner Cook of stealing it for Briscoe, until Plank turns up, explains Cook's troubles with Vanessa and advises Bertie to clear out before Cook calls the police.Chapter 4, Eggesford Court, as a red-faced little half-portion
2. Pop Cook, told by the recovered Major Plank that Bertie is the crook Alpine Joe, finds Vanessa's inscribed book and goes for Bertie with his hunting crop, until he trips over the grandfather clock and Bertie crowns him with a painting and wraps him in the tablecloth before leaving for the Goose and Grasshopper.Chapter 15, the sitting-room, as her parent
3. Orlo leaves Bertie a letter for Cook announcing the elopement; Bertie decides to post it, but Cook bursts in with Major Plank.Chapters 18–19, Wee Nooke

Talked about, but not there

1. Driving to see Murgatroyd, Bertie gets stuck behind the protest march and sits watching it.Chapters 1–2, as her father
2. Bertie phones Aunt Dahlia to cadge an invitation, but she is off to the Briscoes at Maiden Eggesford and promises to find him a cottage there, near the Bridmouth races.Chapter 3, as a Mr Cook
3. At the cottage Jeeves tells Bertie that Plank really is in the village as Mr Cook's guest at Eggesford Court, and the shaken Bertie swaps his ginger ale for a dry Martini.Chapter 4, Wee Nooke, as Mr Cook
4. Back at the cottage Jeeves explains that Cook and Colonel Briscoe are bitter rivals and that Cook's racehorse Potato Chip pines without the stray cat Bertie was caught holding.Chapter 5, Wee Nooke
5. Preoccupied with fear of Cook, Bertie eats and drinks heartily at the Briscoes' lunch but hardly says a word.Chapter 5, Eggesford Hall
6. Aunt Dahlia ticks Bertie off for his dullness at lunch, then hears the cat story and says an ominous 'H'm' at the news that losing the cat would ruin Potato Chip's training.Chapter 5, the grounds of Eggesford Hall
7. Bertie tells Jeeves of Orlo's threat and they agree he must avoid Vanessa Cook, but Jeeves then takes a call saying she is coming round at once.Chapter 7, Wee Nooke, as her father
8. Vanessa accuses Bertie of following her, plans to use him as a postbox for Orlo's letters, and on learning Orlo is in the village sends Bertie to the Goose and Grasshopper to fix a meeting at his cottage.Chapter 7, Wee Nooke, as Father
9. Bertie delivers Vanessa's message to a jealous, suspicious Orlo in the inn's private bar, and Orlo cheers up only on hearing Bertie will go for a walk during the meeting.Chapter 8, the Goose and Grasshopper, as her father
10. Jeeves reports that Vanessa and Orlo quarrelled when he refused to bully her father or steal the cat, and she broke with him; then Vanessa storms in and tells Bertie she will be his wife.Chapters 9–12, Wee Nooke, as Mr Cook
11. Bertie warns Jeeves that Cook will surely come searching, Jeeves still won't return the cat himself, and proposes hiring the poacher Graham instead.Chapter 12, Wee Nooke
12. Bertie asks Graham to take the cat back; Graham refuses, citing Angelica and his bet on Potato Chip, until Bertie haggles him up to thirty-five pounds.Chapters 12–13, Wee Nooke
13. Aunt Dahlia telephones, blasts Bertie for sending the cat back, calms down when told about Major Plank, and hears of his engagement to Vanessa Cook.Chapter 13, Wee Nooke
14. Bertie, glum over his aunt's ruined plan, tells Jeeves about the telephone call over cocktails and confesses he is engaged.Chapters 13–14, Wee Nooke
15. Graham reports that the cat he returned to Eggesford Court followed him back, and Bertie, seeing he could betray Aunt Dahlia to Cook, pays him another ten pounds to take it again; then Vanessa Cook walks in.Chapters 14–15, Maiden Eggesford, as Pop Cook
16. Bertie tells Orlo Porter he will give Vanessa up to him and advises him to tackle Cook for his money after dinner, and the two part bosom pals.Chapter 16, the Goose and Grasshopper
17. Aunt Dahlia telephones in a panic: having tipped the vicar off about the cat, she has had Jimmy Briscoe threaten to scratch Simla unless it is returned, and Bertie assures her Billy Graham is taking it back.Chapter 16, Wee Nooke
18. Billy Graham turns up, says he found Cook wrapped in a tablecloth with a picture round his neck, and refuses to go near Eggesford Court with the cat.Chapter 16, Wee Nooke
19. Aunt Dahlia rings again and, threatening to bar him from Anatole's cooking, bullies Bertie into returning the cat to Eggesford Court himself.Chapter 16, Wee Nooke
20. Creeping up to Cook's stables with the cat, Bertie falls in foul mud and loses the cat, and the barking of a friendly dog gets him caught by two stable men who take him for a horse-nobbler.Chapter 17, the stables
21. Cook's butler refuses to disturb his master for a tramp who smells of drains and tells the men to shut Bertie in a stable.Chapter 17, Eggesford Court
22. Bertie stumbles into Cook's swimming-pool and enjoys the rinse, then rescues Orlo Porter, who has fallen in fleeing the dog after Cook refused to give him his money.Chapter 17, the swimming-pool
23. Bertie drives home rejoicing at being rid of the cat, only to find it waiting for him at the door of Wee Nooke.Chapter 17, Wee Nooke
24. Breakfasting at the Goose and Grasshopper, Bertie learns from Orlo that he and Vanessa were reconciled in the pool last night and are eloping this morning in Cook's Bentley.Chapter 18, the dining-room
25. Jeeves unties Bertie, freezes off Plank by denying he is Inspector Witherspoon, and reveals the cat is his aunt's, so Bertie sets off to put terms to Cook.Chapter 19, Wee Nooke
26. In New York, Bertie learns from Uncle Tom's letter and a clipping that Simla was awarded the race after Cook's cat ran on to the course, and tells Jeeves that aunts are not gentlemen.Chapter 20, New York