The Wooster Papers

Cast

Vanessa Cook

Also called Vanessa, Miss Cook, the woman I love, a girl I knew, Sundered Heart B, a girl I can’t stand the sight of

Cook's imperious daughter, a protest-marching proud beauty who once turned Bertie down, accepts him after quarrelling with Orlo, and elopes with Orlo in her father's Bentley.

Connections

dealings

Everyone and everything else (15)

Scenes they are in

  1. Driving to see Murgatroyd, Bertie gets stuck behind the protest march and sits watching it.Chapters 1–2
  2. Vanessa accuses Bertie of following her, plans to use him as a postbox for Orlo's letters, and on learning Orlo is in the village sends Bertie to the Goose and Grasshopper to fix a meeting at his cottage.Chapter 7, Wee Nooke
  3. Bertie reports back to Vanessa that Orlo will come at three tomorrow, tactfully describing how he looked.Chapter 8, Wee Nooke, as Vanessa
  4. Vanessa arrives early for her meeting with Orlo and brusquely sends Bertie out for his walk.Chapter 9, Wee Nooke
  5. 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 Vanessa
  6. 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

Talked about, but not there

  1. Taking the wrong turning, Bertie strays into Eggesford Court, befriends a cat and is accused by its owner Cook of stealing it for Briscoe, until Plank turns up, explains Cook's troubles with Vanessa and advises Bertie to clear out before Cook calls the police.Chapter 4, Eggesford Court
  2. Back at the cottage Jeeves explains that Cook and Colonel Briscoe are bitter rivals and that Cook's racehorse Potato Chip pines without the stray cat Bertie was caught holding.Chapter 5, Wee Nooke, as Vanessa
  3. Preoccupied with fear of Cook, Bertie eats and drinks heartily at the Briscoes' lunch but hardly says a word.Chapter 5, Eggesford Hall, as Vanessa
  4. Driving home drowsy from lunch, Bertie naps in a wood and is woken by Orlo Porter, who accuses him of following Vanessa Cook to Maiden Eggesford and threatens to tear his insides out with his bare hands if he goes near her again.Chapters 6–7, the woods
  5. Bertie tells Jeeves of Orlo's threat and they agree he must avoid Vanessa Cook, but Jeeves then takes a call saying she is coming round at once.Chapter 7, Wee Nooke
  6. Bertie delivers Vanessa's message to a jealous, suspicious Orlo in the inn's private bar, and Orlo cheers up only on hearing Bertie will go for a walk during the meeting.Chapter 8, the Goose and Grasshopper, as Sundered Heart B
  7. Jeeves returns and Bertie tells him his advice is no longer needed since the meeting has been fixed for the cottage.Chapter 8, Wee Nooke
  8. Aunt Dahlia telephones, blasts Bertie for sending the cat back, calms down when told about Major Plank, and hears of his engagement to Vanessa Cook.Chapter 13, Wee Nooke, as a girl I can’t stand the sight of
  9. Bertie, glum over his aunt's ruined plan, tells Jeeves about the telephone call over cocktails and confesses he is engaged.Chapters 13–14, Wee Nooke, as Miss Cook
  10. 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 Vanessa
  11. Bertie tells Orlo Porter he will give Vanessa up to him and advises him to tackle Cook for his money after dinner, and the two part bosom pals.Chapter 16, the Goose and Grasshopper
  12. 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
  13. 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, as Vanessa
  14. Orlo leaves Bertie a letter for Cook announcing the elopement; Bertie decides to post it, but Cook bursts in with Major Plank.Chapters 18–19, Wee Nooke, as Vanessa
  15. Jeeves unties Bertie, freezes off Plank by denying he is Inspector Witherspoon, and reveals the cat is his aunt's, so Bertie sets off to put terms to Cook.Chapter 19, Wee Nooke, as Vanessa