The Wooster Papers

Cast

Aunt Dahlia and Gussie Fink-Nottle

They deal with each other in Right Ho, Jeeves 6, 7, 11, 16, 17, 19, 20, 22; The Code of the Woosters 3, 7, 12; Jeeves in the Offing 9; Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves 16, 17.

Scenes they share

  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. Bertie escapes backgammon, finds Gussie in the rose garden furious about the prize-giving, talks him round, and coaches him in a proposal speech of glimmering landscapes and God’s daisy chain while promising to soften up the Bassett first.Chapter 9, the rose garden
  4. With Anatole in bed and the kitchen maid cooking, lunch passes in gloomy silence, broken only by a snatch of song from Gussie.Chapter 16, the Brinkley dining-room
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. 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
  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
  10. 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

Every dealing, in order

Right Ho, Jeeves

The Code of the Woosters

Jeeves in the Offing

Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves