The Wooster Papers

Cast

Aunt Dahlia and Jeeves

They deal with each other in Other Stories 2, 3; Carry On, Jeeves 9; Very Good, Jeeves 4, 8, 11; Right Ho, Jeeves 3, 7, 9, 22; The Code of the Woosters 2, 5, 12; Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 19, 20, 21, 22; Jeeves in the Offing 18; Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves 1; Much Obliged, Jeeves 10, 11, 12, 15; Aunts Aren't Gentlemen 11.

Scenes they share

  1. Bertie, Aunt Dahlia and Jeeves snip up and burn the canvas until Jeeves notices the last scrap is signed Everard Fothergill.Chapter 2, Bertie's room at Marsham
  2. Bertie catches Edward Fothergill stealing back his own Venus and swears secrecy, then refuses Jeeves's plan to have him found stunned by burglars, and is promptly knocked out from behind.Chapter 2, the hall at Marsham
  3. Bertie wakes with a sore head to hear the gang is blamed, Cornelia is grateful and the serial is Aunt Dahlia's, and asks Jeeves to drop the eggs and omelettes.Chapter 2, Bertie's room at Marsham
  4. 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
  5. Aunt Dahlia spurns Bertie's roses but agrees to his scheme: he will rush Honoria so that a jealous Eggleston proposes, while she eggs Eggleston on.Chapter 3, Aunt Dahlia's London house
  6. With Bertie behind the piano, Jeeves poses as a broker's man and Aunt Dahlia threatens to ship Bertie penniless to Canada, routing Waterbury; Jeeves then gets Glossop cast as Santa Claus and Bertie agrees to Florida.Chapter 3, Bertie's flat
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. Jeeves proposes that Bertie sing 'Sonny Boy' just before Tuppy so the audience gives Tuppy the bird before Cora; Bertie refuses, but Aunt Dahlia's pressure prevails and he signs up with Beefy.Chapter 4, Bertie's flat
  10. Tuppy wires for his football boots and an Irish water-spaniel, and Aunt Dahlia arrives to say he is flirting with a dog-girl after quarrelling with Angela, ordering Bertie to scrap his pranks and set Jeeves on it.Chapter 11, Bertie's flat
  11. 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
  12. 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
  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
  14. 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
  15. At the gardener's shed Bertie berates Jeeves, finds the bicycle has no lamp, and hears Uncle Cyril's story of Nicholls and Jackson.Chapter 22, the gardener's shed
  16. 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
  17. 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
  18. 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
  19. After Aunt Dahlia leaves, Bertie relaxes with brandy and declares the troubles over, only for Jeeves to find a policeman's helmet in the small suitcase he is packing.Chapters 12–13, Bertie's room at Totleigh
  20. 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
  21. Bertie refuses to let Aunt Dahlia buy his freedom with Anatole, plans his release dinner, defies Sir Watkyn, and is saved when Spode confesses to stealing the helmet.Chapter 14, Bertie's room at Totleigh
  22. 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
  23. 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
  24. Strolling in the grounds and gloating over having bottled Stilton up, Bertie gives Jeeves leave to go to London to chair the Junior Ganymede luncheon and lends him the two-seater.Chapter 15, the garden at Brinkley
  25. 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
  26. 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
  27. Aunt Dahlia reports that Jeeves's mixture has cured Trotter, who will sign, and once she leaves Bertie tells Jeeves he will shave off his moustache.Chapter 22, the Brinkley dining-room
  28. 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
  29. 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
  30. 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
  31. Aunt Dahlia hurls a Rex Stout at Bertie for failing, is herself turned away by Bastable, and then Jeeves arrives to reveal he slipped Bingley a Mickey Finn and took back the club book, whereupon she sets off to tackle L. P. Runkle.Chapters 11–12, the Brinkley drawing-room
  32. 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
  33. Runkle storms down, accuses Bertie of stealing the porringer and sends Seppings for the police, and Jeeves invents a jury summons so Bertie can slip up to London to think.Chapter 15, Brinkley Court
  34. 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
  35. 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

Every dealing, in order

Other Stories

Carry On, Jeeves

Very Good, Jeeves

Right Ho, Jeeves

The Code of the Woosters

Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit

Jeeves in the Offing

Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves

Much Obliged, Jeeves

Aunts Aren't Gentlemen