Mrs Spottsworth

Also called Rosie, Rosalinda, Mrs Dogsbody, Mrs Bessemer, Bessemer, Spottsworth, The woman, Rosalinda Spottsworth

Rosalinda Spottsworth, formerly Mrs Bessemer, a fabulously rich American widow and psychical researcher whom Bill knew at Cannes; she comes to buy Rowcester Abbey and marries Captain Biggar.

Connections

dealings

• is loved by, is in love with Captain Biggar 30
• knows of old, is the guest of Bill Rowcester 26
• wants to buy, hopes for ghosts at Rowcester Abbey 12
• is married to, communicates through the ouija board with A. B. Spottsworth 11
• is courted as a buyer by Monica Carmoyle 11
• owns, wears the pendant^✦︎ 11
• is married to, communicates through the ouija board with Clifton Bessemer 10
• is thought eccentric by Jeeves 7

Everyone and everything else (19)

• hopes to see the ghost of Lady Agatha 5
• owns Pomona^♞︎ 5
• is thought eccentric by Rory Carmoyle 4
• is envied by, is coldly regarded by Jill Wyvern 3
• ships to California 1
• teases the code^✦︎ 1
• shows round Colonel Wyvern 1
• admires the dower chest^✦︎ 1
• is told by Ellen 1
• admires Ernest Hemingway 1
• admires Jacques Fath 1
• wants to buy the knighthood^✦︎ 1
• finds the Long Gallery 1
• owns Mrs Spottsworth's hound^♞︎ 1
• believes in the ouija board^✦︎ 1
• retires to the Queen Elizabeth Room 1
• is a member of the Rotationists^⁂ 1
• praises the Society of Psychical Research^⁂ 1
• sings at the wedding of Tubby Frobisher 1

Scenes they are in

1. In the coffee room of the Goose and Gherkin, a jubilant waiter tells a rich American lady that Whistler's Mother has won the Oaks.Chapter 1, the Goose and Gherkin, as the woman
2. 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
3. Driving from the Goose and Gherkin, Mrs Spottsworth decides the spirits sent Captain Biggar back to her and she might cultivate him, then sees Rowcester Abbey in the sunset and falls in love with it.Chapter 6, Rowcester Abbey
4. 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 female Santa Claus
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 Mrs Dogsbody
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
7. In the moonlit garden Mrs Spottsworth all but invites Captain Biggar to propose, the code keeps him tongue-tied until Bill interrupts, and Biggar listens in disgust as Bill coos to her.Chapter 10, the garden
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
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
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
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
12. Jeeves, carrying the champagne through the living room, meets Jill coming in through the french window.Chapters 18–21, the living room
13. 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
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

Talked about, but not there

1. Rosalinda Banks of Ohio marries and outlives two millionaires, the second killed by a lion in Kenya, and is now on her way to stay with Lord Rowcester.Chapter 1, as Rosalinda Banks
2. 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
3. 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
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 Mrs Dogsbody
5. Left alone over a celebratory glass of port, Bill frets about Jill's cold looks at Mrs Spottsworth's chumminess, then congratulates Jeeves on lulling Biggar's suspicions and goes to join the ladies.Chapter 8, the dining room
6. 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
7. 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 Ma Spottsworth
8. 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
9. Pacing the lawn and kicking a frog, Captain Biggar broods that only money keeps him from proposing to Mrs Spottsworth, and is struck by an inspiration about her pendant.Chapter 12, the lawn, as the object of his passion
10. Biggar catches Bill and Jeeves from behind and proposes that Bill 'borrow' Mrs Spottsworth's pendant to pawn for a bet on Ballymore, and after telling how he once bought it from a beachcomber in Shanghai and gave it to her, wins Bill's agreement.Chapters 12–13, the living room
11. 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
12. Bill takes the pendant from Mrs Spottsworth's jewel case, but Pomona greets him with ecstatic screams and he bolts back to his room, watched by Jill.Chapter 15, the Queen Elizabeth Room
13. Colonel Wyvern is cheeked by his teenage cook and butler, learns from Jill that she has broken off her engagement over Bill's goings-on with Mrs Spottsworth, and resolves to horsewhip Bill, though he will have to borrow Bill's horsewhip to do it.Chapter 16, Colonel Wyvern's study
14. 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 Mrs Dogsbody