The Wooster Papers

Cast

Stiffy Byng

Also called Stiffy, Miss Byng, Stephanie, Stephanie Byng, young Stiffy, S. Byng, young Byng, Stephanie (Stiffy) Byng

Stephanie Byng, Sir Watkyn's niece, secretly engaged to Stinker Pinker, who holds Gussie's notebook to force Bertie's help.

In each book 4 books
  • In The Code of the Woosters
    Stephanie Byng, Sir Watkyn's niece, secretly engaged to Stinker Pinker, who holds Gussie's notebook to force Bertie's help.
  • In Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves
    Stephanie Byng, Sir Watkyn's niece, Stinker's fiancée and Bartholomew's owner, who blackmails Bertie into returning the statuette and later pinches it herself to win Stinker his vicarage.
  • In Much Obliged, Jeeves
    Stephanie Byng, now married to Stinker Pinker; Gussie once took a fly out of her eye.
  • In Aunts Aren't Gentlemen
    Stephanie Byng, now Mrs Stinker Pinker, whose schemes have made Bertie suffer.

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Scenes they are in

The Code of the Woosters 8 scenes
  1. Bartholomew upsets Constable Oates off his bicycle, Stiffy admits she has Gussie's notebook, and reveals that she is secretly engaged to Stinker Pinker and has told him to pinch Oates's helmet.Chapter 4, the Totleigh gates, as Stiffy
  2. Stiffy asks Bertie to steal the cow-creamer so that Stinker can "recover" it and win a vicarage, and when he refuses she says she will hand Gussie's notebook to Uncle Watkyn unless he does it.Chapter 4, the terrace, as Stiffy
  3. Stiffy comes back early, refuses to call off her dog, and tells Bertie she has broken off her engagement to Stinker because he would not pinch the policeman’s helmet.Chapter 8, Stiffy's room, as Stiffy
  4. Stinker climbs in by the balcony with Oates’s helmet, is reconciled with Stiffy, and is told that Bertie will help with the cow-creamer scheme at midnight.Chapter 8, Stiffy's room, as Stiffy
  5. Bertie threatens to tell Stinker of the blackmail, Stiffy counters with Sir Watkyn, Jeeves proposes Bertie pretend to be engaged to Stiffy, and Bertie is forced off to the library to do it.Chapter 8, Stiffy's room, as Stiffy
  6. Bertie asks Sir Watkyn for Stiffy's hand, and when Stiffy says she would rather marry the curate, the horrified Sir Watkyn gladly consents to her marrying Harold Pinker instead.Chapter 9, the library, as Stiffy
  7. Stiffy exults over Jeeves's scheme, reveals that Oates suspects her of the helmet theft and that she has hidden Gussie's notebook in the cow-creamer, and Butterfield summons Bertie to Madeline.Chapter 9, Totleigh Towers, as Stiffy
  8. Stiffy admits hiding the helmet in Bertie's suitcase and, by appealing to the Code of the Woosters, gets him to agree to take the rap for Harold.Chapter 13, Bertie's room at Totleigh, as Stiffy
Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves 8 scenes
  1. At a sombre dinner Bertie admires Sir Watkyn's new black amber statuette, bought from Plank and worth a thousand pounds, offends him by calling it soapstone, and slips off to his room afterwards.Chapters 6–7, the Totleigh dining-room, as Stiffy
  2. Creeping through the dark hall, Bertie collides with Gussie, knocks over Sir Watkyn's precious grandfather clock, is caught by Sir Watkyn in his purple dressing-gown, and the two are driven on to a chest by Bartholomew until Stiffy appears.Chapters 8–9, the hall, as my niece
  3. Bertie drives into the Totleigh stable yard and Spode orders him out of the car so he can search it.Chapters 11–12, the stable yard, as Stiffy
  4. Gussie, clutching Emerald's ham sandwiches, declares her his true love and Madeline heartless; Stiffy and Stinker tell Bertie to keep clear of Sir Watkyn, and when Stiffy warns Gussie that Spode is after him he bolts straight into Spode.Chapters 14–15, the yew alley, as Stiffy
  5. Over cocktails with Pop Bassett, Bertie hears Stiffy announce there will be no dinner because the cook has eloped with Gussie Fink-Nottle.Chapters 15–17, the Totleigh drawing-room, as Stiffy
  6. Back in the drawing-room Bertie ponders how to approach Pop Bassett about the statuette when Spode comes in.Chapters 17–22, the Totleigh drawing-room, as Stiffy
  7. Stiffy visits Bertie's cell and offers to confess to taking the statuette, Bertie refuses to let her, and Oates returns glumly to say Sir Watkyn has dropped the charge.Chapter 24, the police station, as Stiffy
  8. Freed, Bertie refuses Stiffy's plan to get even with Oates, then learns from Jeeves that he won the release by agreeing to work for Sir Watkyn for a while, and gives up his Alpine hat to Jeeves, who will pass it on to the courting Butterfield.Chapter 24, Totleigh-in-the-Wold, as Stiffy

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The Code of the Woosters 19 scenes
  1. Aunt Dahlia refuses Bertie lunch and sends him to a Brompton Road antique shop to sneer at the cow-creamer Uncle Tom means to buy, so the price comes down.Chapter 1, Aunt Dahlia's London house
  2. Telegrams arrive from Gussie, Stiffy and Madeline confirming the invitation, and Jeeves prepares to pack while Aunt Dahlia keeps ringing.Chapter 2, Bertie's flat, as STIFFY
  3. Driving down to Totleigh, Bertie rails against aunts and agonises with Jeeves over whether to pinch the cow-creamer.Chapter 2, as Stiffy
  4. Madeline thinks Bertie has come pining for her like Rudel, assures him the rift with Gussie is mended, and tells him Gussie has grown bold enough to tell Spode to boil his head.Chapter 3, the hall, as Stephanie
  5. Gussie tells Bertie that Aunt Dahlia arrives tonight, explains how Jeeves's advice to despise his audience cured his shyness, and reveals he has written his scorn of Spode and Sir Watkyn in a notebook he has now lost.Chapters 3–4, the Totleigh drawing-room, as Stephanie
  6. Dressing for dinner, Bertie has Jeeves list his three-way predicament, finds Jeeves has no solution, and cheers himself with a white tie before Gussie walks in.Chapter 5, Bertie's room at Totleigh, as Stiffy
  7. Bertie breaks it to Gussie that Stiffy will give his notebook to Sir Watkyn, refuses both to steal the cow-creamer and to search Stiffy's stockings, and Gussie breaks a shepherdess and storms off as Jeeves announces Aunt Dahlia.Chapter 5, Bertie's room at Totleigh, as Stiffy
  8. Gussie crawls out from under the bed and confesses Madeline caught him searching Stiffy’s stocking for the notebook; Bertie urges him to steal it from her room, but he refuses, is denied the sheets for an escape, and slips off to hide until the milk train, after which Jeeves drifts in.Chapters 6–7, Bertie's room at Totleigh, as Stephanie Byng
  9. Bertie forgets the magic name when facing Spode, Gussie crowns Spode with a painting and flees, a brawl brings in Aunt Dahlia, and the remembered 'Eulalie' reduces Spode to grovelling, after which Aunt Dahlia scoffs at Bertie's plan to search Stiffy's room.Chapter 7, Bertie's room at Totleigh, as Stiffy
  10. Bertie thanks Jeeves for the Eulalie tip, reads him the thriller's line that the top of the cupboard is every woman's favourite hiding-place, and drags him off to search Stiffy's room.Chapter 7, Bertie's room at Totleigh, as Stiffy
  11. Bertie and a disapproving Jeeves enter Stiffy's vast bedroom, where the dog Bartholomew sends Bertie onto the chest of drawers and Jeeves onto the top of the cupboard.Chapters 7–8, Stiffy's room, as Stiffy
  12. Madeline tells Bertie she will marry him now she has finished with Gussie; Bertie explains the notebook and nearly convinces her, but she finds nothing in the cow-creamer and decides he made it all up.Chapter 10, the Totleigh drawing-room, as Stiffy
  13. Bertie finds Spode battering Gussie's door, cows him, and takes from him the notebook he found in the cow-creamer, then hands it to Gussie to show Madeline.Chapter 10, the passage, as Stiffy
  14. Bertie tells Jeeves to pack for home and crows over the notebook, until Gussie trickles in to say the wedding is off.Chapters 10–11, Bertie's room at Totleigh, as Stiffy
  15. Jeeves tells how a thief took the cow-creamer while Stinker, waiting in the dark for Bertie, punched Oates on the nose, and Oates now plans to search Bertie's room, just as Aunt Dahlia rushes in and thrusts the cow-creamer into Bertie's hands.Chapters 11–12, Bertie's room at Totleigh, as Miss Byng
  16. After Aunt Dahlia leaves, Bertie relaxes with brandy and declares the troubles over, only for Jeeves to find a policeman's helmet in the small suitcase he is packing.Chapters 12–13, Bertie's room at Totleigh, as Stiffy
  17. Bertie tosses the helmet out of the window, Sir Watkyn's search of his room finds nothing, and as Bertie harangues him the butler appears with the helmet on a salver.Chapters 13–14, Bertie's room at Totleigh, as Miss Byng
  18. Locked in, Bertie talks to Jeeves through the door, learns that Sir Watkyn has forbidden Stiffy to marry Stinker, and urges Jeeves to cosh Oates with a shovel.Chapter 14, Bertie's room at Totleigh
  19. Jeeves admits he got Spode to take the blame, Bertie threatens Sir Watkyn with a lawsuit until he blesses both engagements, and Bertie buys the secret of Eulalie by agreeing to the world cruise.Chapter 14, Bertie's room at Totleigh, as Stiffy
Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves 13 scenes
  1. Over a cheerful breakfast Bertie welcomes Jeeves back from Brinkley and is aghast to hear that Sir Watkyn Bassett, Madeline, Stiffy, Bartholomew and Gussie were among Aunt Dahlia's guests.Chapter 1, Bertie's flat
  2. Over lunch at the Ritz Emerald Stoker backs Bertie over the Alpine hat and reveals she is off to stay a month at Totleigh Towers, so Bertie briefs her on the Bassett menagerie and learns she thinks Gussie a lamb, leaving him with a presentiment of doom.Chapter 2, the Ritz, as Stephanie Byng
  3. Brooding at the Drones, Bertie is told that the Rev. H. P. Pinker wants to see him, and Stinker lumbers in and upsets a small table.Chapters 2–3, the Drones smoking-room
  4. Relieved, Bertie goes home and finds Gussie in a cab bound for Totleigh, who raves about Emerald Stoker and then declares that Madeline makes him sick.Chapters 3–4, Bertie's flat
  5. At tea Madeline tells Bertie she still loves Gussie and weeps over his hopeless love for her, and Spode walks in to find Bertie patting her head.Chapters 5–6, the Totleigh drawing-room, as Stiffy
  6. Jeeves tells Bertie the statuette has been locked in Sir Watkyn's collection room on Spode's advice, but Stiffy, who has a key, fetches it out and sends it back to Bertie to take to Plank after lunch.Chapter 10, Bertie's room at Totleigh, as Stiffy
  7. After Emerald Stoker's excellent lunch Bertie, going to his car, calls Stiffy a female Upas tree, and Jeeves suggests asking at the post office where Plank lives.Chapter 10, Totleigh Towers, as Stiffy
  8. Plank, a Rugger-mad explorer, takes Bertie for a Daily Express reporter, and when Bertie produces the statuette and asks for five pounds he threatens to call the police, just as Jeeves comes in through the french window.Chapters 10–11, Plank's house, as Stiffy
  9. At Bertie's car Jeeves explains that Sir Watkyn told Stiffy he really paid Plank a thousand pounds and lied to Uncle Tom to annoy him, briefs Bertie on Plank, and takes the statuette himself in case Spode searches Bertie.Chapter 11, Plank's house, as Miss Byng
  10. Jeeves reports that a boy egged Sir Watkyn and Stiffy's dog bit Gussie at the school treat; Gussie goes off to walk with Emerald Stoker, Stinker's vicarage is in doubt, and Spode bursts in.Chapters 13–14, Bertie's room at Totleigh, as Miss Byng
  11. Gussie flees with Bertie to meet Emerald in the kitchen garden, where she flattens the pursuing Spode with a basin, and Madeline, finding Gussie over the body, declares she loathes him and it is the end as he defiantly eats a ham sandwich.Chapter 15, the kitchen garden, as Stiffy
  12. Bertie meets Jeeves driving Bartholomew back from the vet and tells him the Gussie–Madeline disaster, but Jeeves confesses himself baffled.Chapter 15, the drive, as Stiffy
  13. Bertie broods in his room and decides to break his promise to Stiffy and seek a cocktail from Sir Watkyn.Chapter 15, Bertie's room at Totleigh, as Stiffy
Much Obliged, Jeeves 1 scene
  1. Jeeves, buttling in place of the indisposed Seppings, brings Bertie a reviving whisky and soda and consoles him with Shakespeare on good names, before Aunt Dahlia bounds in.Chapters 5–7, the Brinkley drawing-room, as Stephanie Byng
Aunts Aren't Gentlemen 2 scenes
  1. 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
  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 Stephanie (Stiffy) Byng