The Wooster Papers

Cast

Bertie Wooster and Silversmith

They deal with each other in The Mating Season 5, 7, 8, 21; Much Obliged, Jeeves 15.

Scenes they share

  1. Bertie arrives late at Deverill Hall, is overawed by Jeeves's Uncle Charlie the butler, gives his name as Fink-Nottle, and learns dinner has already begun.Chapter 5, Deverill Hall
  2. At dinner as Gussie, Bertie hears the aunts condemn Corky's cross-talk act and the absent Mr Wooster, resolves to drop out of the act, flops with a story about two deaf men, and is left alone with Esmond Haddock over the port.Chapters 5–6, the dining room at Deverill Hall
  3. Dame Daphne catches Bertie on a chair and Esmond on the table singing, sends Esmond cringing to the drawing room, tells Bertie his dog Sam Goldwyn has chased Charlotte and bitten Silversmith, and packs him off to bed.Chapter 6, the dining room at Deverill Hall
  4. Silversmith shows Bertie to his room and is asked to send his man, but the person who enters is Catsmeat, not Jeeves.Chapters 6–7, Bertie's room at Deverill Hall
  5. A frosty Silversmith brings the morning tea and says the late-night arrival was 'Mr Wooster', leaving Bertie baffled until Jeeves himself walks in with a breakfast tray.Chapters 7–8, Deverill Hall
  6. Over his first days at Deverill Hall Bertie becomes certain that Gussie has fallen for Corky, and the aunts grow bitter at the absent guest they take for Wooster.Chapter 10, Deverill Hall
  7. Catsmeat returns from London with Jeeves's plan to keep Aunt Agatha away by luring Thos from school to visit Corky; after he leaves, Bertie breaks the code of the Woosters, opens Gussie's telegrams, and learns that Madeline is arriving at Deverill Hall tomorrow.Chapters 13–14, Bertie's room at Deverill Hall
  8. Dame Daphne catches Bertie in the hall and is delighted to hear 'Augustus' went to Wimbledon on the milk train to see Madeline, and Silversmith announces that his daughter Queenie is engaged to Meadowes.Chapter 21, the hall at Deverill Hall
  9. In the hall the new Esmond calls Silversmith a pompous old ass, prods him in the ribs, and cheerfully answers back Dame Daphne when she asks why he is late.Chapter 25, the hall at Deverill Hall
  10. Esmond calls the Kegley-Bassingtons fatheads and leads Bertie into the drawing room, where Bertie is enjoying sardine sandwiches when Silversmith announces Constable Dobbs.Chapters 25–26, the drawing room at Deverill Hall

Every dealing, in order

The Mating Season

Much Obliged, Jeeves