Rory Carmoyle

Also called Rory, Sir Roderick, Sir Roderick Carmoyle, Carmoyle, Roderick Carmoyle, Mr Carmoyle, the modern Chesterfield, Roderick

Sir Roderick Carmoyle, baronet, Monica's large, tactless husband, a floorwalker at Harrige's, who wrecks the sale with talk of damp and breaks the television as the Derby starts.

Connections

dealings

• is married to Monica Carmoyle 25
• suspects, is brother-in-law of Bill Rowcester 14
• works for Harrige's 11
• runs down, praises Rowcester Abbey 6
• admires Jeeves 5
• thinks eccentric Mrs Spottsworth 4
• is helped by, is told by Jill Wyvern 3
• gives back, finds the pendant^✦︎ 3

Everyone and everything else (18)

• backs Taj Mahal^♞︎ 3
• insults, teases Captain Biggar 2
• backs, tips Escalator^♞︎ 2
• backs, declines to back Oratory^♞︎ 2
• breaks the television set^✦︎ 2
• doubts the Agricultural Board^⁂ 1
• disapproves of the check coat^✦︎ 1
• is coldly regarded by Colonel Wyvern 1
• is attacked by the decanter woman 1
• backs the Derby^✦︎ 1
• praises the dower chest^✦︎ 1
• insults Eustace 1
• is a colleague of the fellow in Jams 1
• disapproves of the horseshoe tie^✦︎ 1
• suspects Raffles 1
• picks Rory's bouquet^✦︎ 1
• backs Rory's greyhound^♞︎ 1
• quotes Shakespeare 1

Scenes they are in

1. On the front steps of crumbling Rowcester Abbey, Rory proposes arson while Monica reveals she has invited the rich American Mrs Spottsworth to come and buy the place, and warns him not to put her off.Chapter 2, Rowcester Abbey, as Sir Roderick
2. 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 Rory
3. 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 Rory
4. Left alone with Jeeves, Rory pronounces Mrs Spottsworth potty, tells of a mad customer at Harrige's, and is awed by Jeeves's knowledge of the Derby form.Chapter 7, Rowcester Abbey, as Rory
5. 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 Rory
6. 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 Rory
7. 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 Rory
8. 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 Rory
9. 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 Sir Roderick
10. At lunch Bill can't eat for guilt while Rory calls Captain Biggar an awful liar, and Jeeves heads off a row with Mrs Spottsworth by announcing coffee.Chapter 17, the dining room, as Rory
11. Rory and Monica settle their Derby bets and go to consult Jeeves, and Mrs Spottsworth tells Bill the pendant was a present from Mr Spottsworth, so Biggar's story was false and Bill flees to Jeeves's pantry.Chapter 17, the living room, as Rory
12. 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 Rory
13. Jeeves, carrying the champagne through the living room, meets Jill coming in through the french window.Chapters 18–21, the living room, as Rory
14. 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 Rory

Talked about, but not there

1. Captain Biggar bursts in chasing the bookie who welshed on his double, meets Mrs Spottsworth again and hides his love for her, deciding a penniless hunter cannot court a rich widow.Chapter 1, the Goose and Gherkin, as Sir Roderick Carmoyle
2. 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 Rory
3. 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 Rory
4. 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 Rory
5. Mrs Spottsworth finds the repentant Biggar on the rustic seat with the pendant, demolishes his code by revealing that Tubby Frobisher has married a rich widow, and gets engaged to him.Chapter 22, the rustic seat, as Sir Roderick