the cupboard in Stiffy's room^✦︎

Also the cupboard, the top of the cupboard

The cupboard on which Jeeves perches and in which Bartholomew is shut.

Connections

dealings

• Jeeves searches for, takes refuge in 2
• Bertie Wooster suspects 1
• Stiffy Byng handles 1

Scenes it is in

1. 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 the top of the cupboard
2. 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
3. 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 the cupboard
4. 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 the cupboard

Talked about, but not there

1. 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 the top of the cupboard