Wilbert Cream

Also called Wilbert, Willie, Willie Cream, W. Cream, Mr. Cream, New York playboy, Cream, Broadway Willie

Mrs Cream's elder son, staying at Brinkley, taken for the New York playboy Broadway Willie and, by Jeeves's letter, for a kleptomaniac; he courts Phyllis with poetry, buys the cow-creamer from Uncle Tom and turns out to be a respectable professor of romance languages.

Connections

dealings

• is watched by, is suspected by Bertie Wooster 14
• is child of Mrs Cream 12
• is courting, is in love with Phyllis Mills 12
• has the match opposed by, is a guest of Aunt Dahlia 8
• covets, is mixed up with the cow-creamer^✦︎ 7
• is under observation by, is suspected by Sir Roderick Glossop 6
• is child of Homer Cream 3
• is branded a kleptomaniac by Jeeves 3

Everyone and everything else (9)

• is watched by Kipper Herring 3
• rescues Poppet^♞︎ 2
• is brother of Wilfred Cream 2
• has the match approved by Aubrey Upjohn 1
• is thought a loony by Bobbie Wickham 1
• is child of the Creams^⁂ 1
• is sold by Uncle Tom 1
• covets Uncle Tom's collection^✦︎ 1
• is the subject of tales by Walter Winchell 1

Scenes they are in

1. Arriving at Brinkley to find Bobbie, Bertie stumbles on Wilbert Cream reading poetry to Phyllis Mills, is befriended by Poppet the dachshund, and is sent off to the lake.Chapter 3, the leafy glade, as Willie Cream
2. Bertie breaks up Wilbert Cream's tender moment with Phyllis by announcing tea, and Wilbert stalks off with the dachshund Poppet, plainly loathing him.Chapter 5, the leafy glade
3. Bertie frets over Ma Cream's suspicions and Wilbert's ardour for Phyllis, and when Wilbert goes off walking Poppet he dozes off on the lawn over one of Ma Cream's novels.Chapter 6, Brinkley Court
4. 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
5. Phyllis calls Upjohn away to the telephone just as Bobbie gives the cue, then Augustus spits at Poppet, who knocks Bertie into the lake, and Kipper dives in and rescues Bertie instead.Chapter 15, the lake

Talked about, but not there

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, as her son Willie
2. Jeeves, leaving on holiday, tells Bertie that Wilbert Cream is the notorious New York playboy Broadway Willie, and Bertie nearly cries off Brinkley until he remembers Anatole's cooking.Chapter 2, Bertie's flat
3. At tea on the lawn the butler brings out the fruit, and he is Sir Roderick Glossop.Chapters 3–4, the lawn, as Wilbert
4. 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, as Wilbert
5. 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, as Wilbert
6. 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 her son
7. Bertie and Glossop reach the collection room and find the cow-creamer gone.Chapters 6–7, the collection room, as Wilbert
8. 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, as Wilbert
9. 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, as Wilbert
10. With Bobbie supposedly on watch, Bertie searches again, finds nothing on the armoire, and is caught under the dressing-table by Mrs. Cream, who decides he has a mouse-fixation and urges him to see Sir Roderick Glossop.Chapter 8, the Blue Room, as Wilbert
11. Bertie dozes off over Mrs. Cream's novel, wakes and telephones his overdue wire inviting Kipper Herring, and then sees Kipper arriving in his car.Chapters 8–10, the lawn, as Wilbert
12. 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 her son
13. Bertie sees Bobbie off and, back in the car, tells Jeeves, who has been reading Spinoza, that the rift is mended, before starting on the tale of Wilbert and the cow-creamer.Chapter 11, the Fox and Goose, as Wilbert
14. 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, as Wilbert
15. Bertie gives Kipper and Bobbie the lake plan, which they embrace, and Kipper finds it peculiar that a butler thought of it.Chapter 14, the lawn, as Wilbert
16. Bertie outlines Operation Upjohn to Jeeves, who calls it ill-advised and quotes Burns on best laid plans, and Bertie puts his coolness down to jealousy of Glossop.Chapter 15, Brinkley Court, as Mr. Cream
17. Squelching back from the lake, Bertie and Bobbie meet Aunt Dahlia, who wants to know why everyone but Upjohn is soaked.Chapter 16, the herbaceous border
18. A distraught Aunt Dahlia tells Bertie that Phyllis has got engaged to Wilbert Cream.Chapters 16–18, Brinkley Court
19. 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 Willie
20. 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, as her son