The Wooster Papers

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Uncle Tom

Also called Tom, Mr. Travers, Uncle Thomas, old Tom Travers, Travers, Tom Travers, Thomas Portarlington Travers, Portarlington

Thomas Portarlington Travers, Aunt Dahlia's rich and tight-fisted husband, who foots the bills for Milady's Boudoir.

In each book 10 books
  • In Other Stories
    Thomas Portarlington Travers, Aunt Dahlia's rich and tight-fisted husband, who foots the bills for Milady's Boudoir.
  • In Carry On, Jeeves
    Tom Travers, Aunt Dahlia's dyspeptic husband, who pays for her paper and is cheered by Anatole's dinner.
  • In Very Good, Jeeves
    Tom Travers, Aunt Dahlia's husband and Katherine's elder brother, away in Scotland.
  • In Right Ho, Jeeves
    Tom Travers, Aunt Dahlia's rich, dyspeptic husband, who fears burglars, barred the windows and is ticked off by Gussie from the platform.
  • In The Code of the Woosters
    Tom Travers, Aunt Dahlia's husband, a mad collector of old silver who wants the cow-creamer.
  • In Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit
    Thomas Portarlington Travers, Aunt Dahlia's husband, a collector of old silver tired of funding the Boudoir, who loathes his guests, fears burglars and keeps the safe in the hall.
  • In Jeeves in the Offing
    Tom Travers, Aunt Dahlia's husband and collector of old silver, away at Harrogate courting Homer Cream over a land deal; he has sold his cow-creamer to Wilbert.
  • In Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves
    Tom Travers, Aunt Dahlia's husband, a collector with a delicate digestion who loathes Sir Watkyn and covets the statuette.
  • In Much Obliged, Jeeves
    Tom Travers, Aunt Dahlia's rich husband and collector of old silver, who has fled the guests to the south of France.
  • In Aunts Aren't Gentlemen
    Aunt Dahlia's husband, a collector of old silver with a delicate digestion, who writes to Bertie for her while her arm is in a sling.

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Scenes they are in

Carry On, Jeeves 2 scenes
  1. A gloomy Bingo asks Bertie to be at home next morning for a matter of life and death.Chapter 9, the Littles' drawing-room, as Uncle Thomas
  2. Anatole’s magnificent dinner transforms Tom’s mood while Bingo remains miserable.Chapter 9, the Littles' dining-room, as Uncle Thomas
Right Ho, Jeeves 5 scenes
  1. Dinner at Brinkley is a funereal affair, with Aunt Dahlia, Tuppy and Gussie all off their feed and Gussie looking fit for embalming.Chapter 9, Brinkley Court
  2. Back late from the Stretchley-Budds, Angela agrees to a stroll with Bertie, at which Tuppy leaps up and upsets a table and Uncle Tom breaks a coffee cup.Chapter 14, the Brinkley drawing-room
  3. In the garden Bertie runs Tuppy down to provoke Angela into defending him, but she heartily agrees, adds complaints of her own, and goes in, whereupon Tuppy emerges from the bushes.Chapters 14–15, the garden at Brinkley
  4. A tight Gussie heckles the headmaster, makes a rambling speech about a beautiful world, ridicules Uncle Tom and Bertie, and hands out prizes until he accuses G. G. Simmons of cheating and Bertie flees.Chapter 17, the Great Hall
  5. The household gathers on the lawn with no rescues made, finds itself locked out, and Jeeves volunteers Bertie to cycle to Kingham Manor for the back-door key.Chapter 22, the garden at Brinkley
The Code of the Woosters 1 scene
  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
Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit 4 scenes
  1. Bertie slips out of the dining-room into the garden to dodge Stilton, plans to flee, and meets Uncle Tom, who grumbles about his guests and says Aunt Dahlia nearly fainted while he talked of Sidcup coming to see his silver.Chapter 11, the garden at Brinkley
  2. Locked in his room, Bertie repels Stilton through the keyhole, sends Jeeves for a strong whisky-and-soda, and is then invaded by an agitated Aunt Dahlia demanding Jeeves to save her.Chapters 11–12, Bertie's room at Brinkley
  3. Bertie learns he went to the wrong window, Uncle Tom reveals he took the ladder and locked the necklace in the safe, and Jeeves reveals that Lord Sidcup is Roderick Spode, who can be silenced with Eulalie Sœurs.Chapter 14, Bertie's room at Brinkley, as old Tom
  4. Aunt Dahlia learns Mrs. Trotter wants Anatole, Uncle Tom reports the necklace stolen, and Jeeves offers to return the pearls secretly and reveals that L.G. Trotter refused a knighthood, giving Aunt Dahlia a hold over him.Chapter 19, Aunt Dahlia's den, as Tom
Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves 1 scene
  1. Over Anatole's lunch Bertie cheers Uncle Tom with the news that Pop Bassett's statuette was no bargain, and drives back hoping Gussie can eat meat in London unseen.Chapter 13, Brinkley Court

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Other Stories 2 scenes
  1. Aunt Dahlia telephones to summon Bertie to Marsham Manor for the week-end to charm Cornelia Fothergill into selling her serial to Milady's Boudoir, hinting at a little job she wants done.Chapter 2, Bertie's flat, as Tom
  2. Over dinner Aunt Dahlia reveals that Blair Eggleston is too timid to propose to Honoria, then asks Bertie to play Santa Claus at her children's party, and he flatly refuses.Chapter 3, Bertie's flat, as old Tom Travers
Carry On, Jeeves 6 scenes
  1. Bertie meets Rosie outside the magazine offices and accepts an invitation to dine with the Littles.Chapter 9, the offices of Milady's Boudoir, as your uncle
  2. Dahlia explains that Tom’s indigestion and her bad cook threaten the magazine’s funding.Chapter 9, the offices of Milady's Boudoir, as Uncle Thomas
  3. Jeeves proposes stopping Rosie’s embarrassing article by provoking a quarrel through transferring Anatole to Dahlia.Chapter 9, Bertie's bedroom at the flat, as Mr Travers
  4. When Anatole refuses to leave his beloved parlourmaid, Bingo persuades Bertie to steal the dictating cylinder.Chapter 9, Bertie's bedroom at the flat, as your uncle
  5. Dahlia reveals that Jeeves secured Anatole, Rosie has withheld her article, and Tom is financing the magazine again.Chapter 9, the Royal Pump-Room, as Tom
  6. Jeeves explains how Anatole’s abandoned fiancée drove him to Dahlia, lists his rewards, and reveals that he returned Bertie’s silk shirts.Chapter 9, Bertie's flat, as Tom
Very Good, Jeeves 5 scenes
  1. Aunt Dahlia complains that Tuppy has dropped Angela for Cora Bellinger and tells Bertie to have Jeeves break up the affair.Chapter 4, Bertie's flat, as Tom Travers
  2. Bertie arrives at Brinkley Court and is greeted from the smoking-room window by old Mr Anstruther.Chapter 8, Brinkley Court, as old Tom Travers
  3. Aunt Dahlia explains that she has bet Anatole on Bonzo against Thos in Anstruther's Good Conduct contest, and Bertie vows to scupper Thos without Jeeves.Chapter 8, the Brinkley drawing-room, as Uncle Thomas
  4. Jeeves reveals that Thos is reformed not by greed but by love of Greta Garbo, and Bertie resigns himself to losing Anatole.Chapter 8, Bertie's room at Brinkley, as Uncle Thomas
  5. Bertie explains why he chose Sir Reginald Witherspoon's Bleaching Court for Christmas: Tuppy Glossop will be there, and he has vowed revenge for the swimming-bath trick at the Drones.Chapter 11, as Aunt Dahlia’s husband
Right Ho, Jeeves 17 scenes
  1. Bertie starts his story with a scrap of dialogue, decides he has begun too abruptly, and traces the whole affair back to his visit to Cannes.Chapter 1, as my Uncle Thomas
  2. Bertie recounts two months at Cannes with Aunt Dahlia and Angela, where Aunt Dahlia lost heavily at baccarat and Angela was nearly eaten by a shark, and their return to London.Chapter 1
  3. Bertie crawls home from Pongo's party after four and is barely asleep when Jeeves announces Aunt Dahlia, who storms into the bedroom.Chapters 3–6, Bertie's flat, as old Tom Travers
  4. Arriving at Brinkley, Bertie hears Aunt Dahlia's troubles: the prize giving, Gussie's newts, her baccarat losses, Uncle Tom's tight purse and the quarrel between Angela and Tuppy, which was about a shark.Chapter 7, Brinkley Court, as Tom
  5. Aunt Dahlia mocks the mess jacket and reveals Uncle Tom gave her the printers’ money she lost at baccarat, so Bertie recruits her to the scheme of refusing food at dinner to soften Uncle Tom.Chapter 9, the Brinkley drawing-room, as Tom
  6. Bertie goes looking for Angela, who has gone to bed, and finds a famished Aunt Dahlia, who tells him Anatole has given notice because of his no-dinner scheme.Chapter 11, the Brinkley drawing-room
  7. On the lawn Bertie finds a groaning Gussie, and Jeeves explains that Gussie lost his nerve and lectured Madeline on newts instead of proposing.Chapter 11, the garden at Brinkley
  8. Bertie wakes with a plan to fuel Gussie up with drink for his proposal, then Tuppy arrives to describe how Angela humiliated him in the larder over the steak-and-kidney pie, and Bertie reassures him that there was no rival at Cannes because Angela was with Bertie the whole time.Chapters 12–13, Bertie's room at Brinkley
  9. Bertie brings the jug to his room, learns Jeeves has already added gin, adds more himself and hides it behind Uncle Tom's photograph, just as Gussie bursts in drunk on neat whisky from the dining-room decanter.Chapter 16, Bertie's room at Brinkley
  10. Bertie drives back and dozes, then Jeeves tells him how the prize-giving ended in the national anthem and that Madeline has broken off her engagement to Gussie, just as Tuppy barges in.Chapters 17–19, Bertie's room at Brinkley
  11. Over the cold salmon a jubilant Aunt Dahlia praises Gussie's speech and announces that Anatole has withdrawn his notice, until Seppings reports that Gussie is making faces at Anatole through his skylight.Chapters 19–20, the Brinkley dining-room, as Tom
  12. Aunt Dahlia races Bertie and Seppings up to Anatole's room, where the furious chef threatens to leave over Gussie's faces at the skylight; Gussie is let in by pole but can only gurgle, and Aunt Dahlia tells Bertie to take him away.Chapter 20, Anatole's bedroom
  13. Back at supper, Aunt Dahlia calls Bertie Attila because Anatole is now leaving and Angela is engaged to Gussie, and Jeeves brings a note in which Madeline Bassett says she will marry Bertie.Chapters 20–21, the Brinkley dining-room, as poor old Tom
  14. Wandering stricken in the garden, Bertie bumps into Jeeves, makes him promise not to claim the mess jacket as his fee, and agrees to Jeeves's fire-alarm plan, fixing to ring the bell at 12.30 that night.Chapter 21, the garden at Brinkley, as Mr Travers
  15. Standing nervously by the outhouse at 12.30, Bertie doubts Jeeves's scheme but rings the Brinkley Court fire bell.Chapter 22, the outhouse
  16. In the hall Tuppy, carrying bottles to the party, tells Bertie he and Angela have made it up, Anatole is staying, and Uncle Tom has paid for Aunt Dahlia's paper.Chapter 23, the hall, as your uncle
  17. Jeeves explains that his fire-bell scheme united everyone in dislike of Bertie and then in amusement at his pointless ride, brings him an omelette, and confesses to having burnt his mess jacket, which Bertie accepts.Chapter 23, Bertie's room at Brinkley
The Code of the Woosters 10 scenes
  1. Bertie denies loving Madeline, and Aunt Dahlia, who will skip the wedding, reveals that Sir Watkyn tried to steal Anatole while staying at Brinkley.Chapter 1, Aunt Dahlia's London house, as Tom
  2. At the antique shop Sir Watkyn takes Bertie for a reformed bag-snatcher, catches him with his umbrella, and when Bertie trips over the cat and charges out with the cow-creamer, he and Roderick yell for the police and Bertie bolts.Chapter 1, the antique shop, as Travers
  3. Aunt Dahlia storms in to say Sir Watkyn nobbled Uncle Tom with lobster and bought the cow-creamer, and blackmails Bertie with the loss of Anatole's cooking into promising to steal it.Chapter 2, Bertie's flat, as Tom
  4. Strolling on the terrace, Bertie spots the silver collection, steps in and lifts the cow-creamer out of its unlocked case just as Spode appears with a shotgun and says 'Hands up!'Chapters 2–3, the collection-room, as Mr Travers
  5. Bertie telephones a telegram to Aunt Dahlia saying that under Sir Watkyn's suspicious eye the cow-creamer job is impossible.Chapter 3, the library
  6. Spode warns Bertie that he is being watched and will be beaten to a jelly if the cow-creamer disappears, and Jeeves brings word that Aunt Dahlia has arrived and wants Bertie in the Blue Room.Chapter 4, the terrace, as your uncle
  7. Aunt Dahlia reveals Sir Watkyn has offered Uncle Tom the cow-creamer in exchange for Anatole, smashes the Infant Samuel, accepts that Spode's threat stops Bertie, and suggests finding a shady secret of Spode's.Chapter 5, Bertie's room at Totleigh, as Tom
  8. 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
  9. 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
  10. 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
Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit 9 scenes
  1. Over kippers at the Mottled Oyster Bertie fails to reconcile Florence with Stilton, and when the club is raided she bolts and Bertie trips the pursuing constable and is arrested.Chapter 5, the Mottled Oyster
  2. Bertie, enjoying a Stilton-free Drones, swaps telegrams with Aunt Dahlia, who orders him to Brinkley to cheer up a whiskered guest and bring her pearl necklace, but he hesitates for fear of Stilton.Chapter 8, Bertie's flat, as Thomas P. Travers
  3. Aunt Dahlia phones to bully Bertie into coming to amuse the lovesick Percy Gorringe while she works on selling Milady's Boudoir to L.G. Trotter, and the promise of Anatole's cooking wins him over.Chapter 8, Bertie's flat, as Tom
  4. Bertie arrives at Brinkley and hands Aunt Dahlia her necklace; she explains she bought the Morehead serial to salt the mine for Trotter, won't say how she got the money from Uncle Tom, blames Ma Trotter for Trotter's stalling, throws her Agatha Christie at Bertie for singing, and introduces him to a reproachful Percy before sending him out to cheer Percy up.Chapter 9, Aunt Dahlia's den
  5. A jubilant Aunt Dahlia bursts in on Bertie's breakfast, having learned from Jeeves that Lord Sidcup is Spode and planning to silence him with Eulalie Sœurs, and warns Bertie that Florence is planning the wedding, which he shrugs off since Stilton has drawn him in the Darts sweep.Chapter 15, Brinkley Court, as Tom
  6. Back at Brinkley, Aunt Dahlia rages that Tom has carried Spode off to look at his silver before she could work her scheme, savages the over-solicitous Percy, and leaves; Percy goes to tell Stilton Bertie is back, and Stilton arrives as Bertie grips the cosh.Chapters 16–17, the hall, as Tom
  7. Bertie rushes back to the hall to find the cosh gone and Uncle Tom's safe standing open.Chapters 17–18, the hall
  8. Aunt Dahlia triumphantly tells Bertie how, finding Spode no longer owns Eulalie Sœurs, she coshed him and got her necklace back, and Bertie realises the necklace he took is Mrs. Trotter's and must go back in the safe.Chapter 18, Aunt Dahlia's den
  9. At breakfast a beaming Stilton thanks Bertie for freeing him from Florence and leaves to go rowing with Daphne, then Mrs. Trotter reads that Robert Blenkinsop has been knighted and orders Trotter to refuse any knighthood, wrecking Aunt Dahlia's hold on him, just as Seppings brings in a pearl necklace.Chapters 20–22, the Brinkley dining-room
Jeeves in the Offing 18 scenes
  1. Over breakfast with Kipper Herring, Bertie takes a phone call from Aunt Dahlia inviting him to Brinkley, and learns to his horror that Bobbie Wickham and Aubrey Upjohn are among the guests.Chapters 1–2, Bertie's flat
  2. At tea on the lawn the butler brings out the fruit, and he is Sir Roderick Glossop.Chapters 3–4, the lawn
  3. Over tea Mrs Cream declares the butler Swordfish (really Sir Roderick Glossop) a crook after Uncle Tom's silver, Bobbie refuses to let Bertie flee Brinkley, and Bertie resolves to wire Aunt Dahlia at Eastbourne.Chapter 5, the lawn
  4. On the telephone Aunt Dahlia waves aside Ma Cream's suspicions, forbids Bertie to fight Wilbert, and jumps at his idea of inviting Kipper Herring to shadow Wilbert instead.Chapter 6, Brinkley Court
  5. Glossop, answering the bell as butler, says he is still undecided about Wilbert's sanity, then brings a letter from Jeeves revealing Wilbert is a kleptomaniac, and they hurry to check the silver.Chapter 6, Brinkley Court, as your uncle
  6. Bertie and Glossop reach the collection room and find the cow-creamer gone.Chapters 6–7, the collection room
  7. Bertie enters Wilbert's room, finds a housemaid there with Augustus the cat hunting a mouse, and gets rid of her by claiming Augustus has traumatic symplegia.Chapters 7–8, the Blue Room
  8. Bertie tells Bobbie he is through, but she talks him into a second search, promising to stand guard and sing if Mrs. Cream approaches so he can escape by the balcony and water pipe.Chapter 8, the lawn
  9. Bertie finds Bobbie in her car at the front door; she explains she was called to the phone by her mother, who thinks him a nincompoop, and drives off home.Chapter 8, the front door, as Mr. Travers
  10. In the pantry Bertie tells Glossop of being caught in Wilbert's room, and Glossop, his blood up, resolves to search the room for the cow-creamer himself; bonding over stolen school biscuits, they become Bertie and Roddy.Chapter 10, the butler's pantry, as your uncle
  11. Back at Brinkley, Bertie learns from Aunt Dahlia that Uncle Tom sold Wilbert the cow-creamer, then Bobbie icily cuts Kipper, who confesses he got engaged to Phyllis as a ruse against Wilbert and was caught kissing her.Chapters 12–14, Aunt Dahlia's den
  12. While Kipper waits behind his tree, Wilbert Cream tells Bertie the cow-creamer has vanished from his bureau, and Bertie realises Glossop has pinched it and talks Wilbert out of telling Mrs. Travers.Chapter 15, the lake
  13. Bobbie and Kipper tell Bertie of Aunt Dahlia's new plan: Bertie is to abuse Upjohn to his face so that Kipper can burst in, defend him and get the libel suit dropped, and Bertie, bound by the code of the Woosters, agrees.Chapter 16, Bertie's room at Brinkley, as Mr. Travers
  14. Bertie goes into Uncle Tom's study to insult Upjohn but gets no further than small talk about moustaches and Kipper before Phyllis bursts in and Upjohn dismisses him.Chapter 16, the study
  15. A distraught Aunt Dahlia tells Bertie that Phyllis has got engaged to Wilbert Cream.Chapters 16–18, Brinkley Court
  16. Aunt Dahlia rings for the butler, gets Jeeves instead, has him pack Upjohn's things and orders Bertie to drive Upjohn to Market Snodsbury.Chapter 18, the study
  17. Jeeves has pinched Upjohn's speech while packing, and after Bertie fumbles the telephone call Bobbie seizes the receiver and forces Upjohn to drop his libel suit against Kipper in writing.Chapters 19–20, Aunt Dahlia's den, as Mr. Travers
  18. Back from a fruitless hunt for Glossop, Bertie learns that Jeeves saved the day by having Glossop say he was there to observe the potty Bertie, who stole the cow-creamer, and is softened only when Jeeves reminds him it was all for Uncle Tom.Chapter 21, the Brinkley drawing-room
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, as Mr. Travers
  2. Aunt Dahlia phones to explain she invited Bassett to take Uncle Tom's mind off taxes, mentions the black amber statuette and invites herself to lunch, and Bertie defies Jeeves by wearing his new Alpine hat to the Ritz.Chapter 1, Bertie's flat, as Tom
  3. 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
  4. 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 Mr. Travers
  5. 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
  6. 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 Mr. Travers
  7. 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 your uncle
  8. Bertie tells Jeeves that Gussie and Madeline have fallen out over sunsets and the Blessed Damozel, and decides to dodge the school treat by lunching with Uncle Tom at Brinkley.Chapter 13, Bertie's room at Totleigh
  9. 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 Mr. Travers
  10. 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 your uncle
  11. On the telephone Aunt Dahlia, delighted that Emerald has taken over as cook while Anatole is ill, asks Bertie to buy Pop Bassett's black amber statuette for Uncle Tom with her legacy.Chapter 17, Totleigh Towers, as Tom
  12. 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
  13. Blocked from the window by Bartholomew, Bertie hides under the sofa and hears Spode declare his love to Madeline and denounce Bertie as a thief after the statuette, then go to fetch Sir Watkyn.Chapters 22–23, Totleigh Towers
Much Obliged, Jeeves 10 scenes
  1. At Brinkley the party separates and Bertie, finding the drawing-room empty and avoiding Uncle Tom's silver talk and Anatole's liver, decides to stroll in the grounds.Chapter 5, the Brinkley drawing-room
  2. Bertie picks up a camera left on a bench to save it from the coming storm, and its stout, pink-faced owner bursts out of the bushes taking him for a thief.Chapter 5, the wooded bit
  3. Outside the French window Bertie overhears Spode, now Lord Sidcup, tell the camera chap that Wooster is a thief, and the camera chap vows the stiffest sentence if Bertie touches the silver he has brought to sell Uncle Tom.Chapter 5, the Brinkley drawing-room, as Mr Travers
  4. 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
  5. Uneasy at Bingley's confident tip, Bertie walks home and finds Aunt Dahlia doing the Observer crossword.Chapters 8–10, Brinkley Court, as Your Uncle Tom
  6. Florence comes in in a temper, tells Bertie he looks like the underside of a dead fish, rages at Ginger's feeble speech at the Chamber of Commerce lunch, and sends Bertie to fetch Ginger to the study.Chapter 12, the room with the French window, as Mr Travers
  7. Aunt Dahlia tells Bertie that Madeline is in tears because Spode wants to give up his title to stand for Parliament, then slips off to tackle Runkle.Chapter 14, the Brinkley drawing-room, as Tom
  8. Aunt Dahlia returns furious because Runkle will not part with a penny for Tuppy and Angela's wedding, and reveals she has pinched his porringer.Chapters 14–15, the Brinkley drawing-room, as Tom
  9. Aunt Dahlia tells Bertie that Spode, put off politics by the potato, has kept his title and gone off to London with Madeline, freeing Bertie from marrying her.Chapter 16, the Brinkley drawing-room, as Tom
  10. Bingley has found the porringer in Bertie's room and Runkle offers to drop charges in exchange for Anatole, until Jeeves reveals from the club book that Runkle bribed a juror and jumped bail in America, and Aunt Dahlia turns the tables over Tuppy's money.Chapter 16, the Brinkley drawing-room, as Tom
Aunts Aren't Gentlemen 9 scenes
  1. 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 Tom
  2. 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 Tom
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. 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, as Tom
  6. 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, as Tom
  7. Bertie sleeps fitfully, seeing that with Billy Graham, Jeeves and Aunt Dahlia all out of it, he alone must return the cat to Eggesford Court or lose Anatole's cooking.Chapter 18, Wee Nooke
  8. 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
  9. 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