The Wooster Papers

Cast

Bertie Wooster and Bobbie Wickham

They deal with each other in Very Good, Jeeves 3, 5, 7; The Code of the Woosters 4, 5, 7; Joy in the Morning 13; Jeeves in the Offing 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 16, 19, 21.

Scenes they share

  1. Bobbie reveals the guests are Blumenfeld and his dreadful son, to whom she will read her mother's play, and on Jeeves's advice Bertie flees before the boy can insult him, meeting them at the door.Chapter 5, the sitting-room
  2. At the Savoy Bobbie opens the suite door, McIntosh rushes to Bertie's aniseed-scented trousers, and Bertie takes him home by cab.Chapter 5, the Savoy
  3. Knocked out of the golf in the first round, Bertie meets Bobbie on the pier and, ignoring Jeeves's warning looks, agrees to give her and her cousin Clementina dinner and take the child back to school.Chapter 7, the pier
  4. Over dinner at the Splendide Clementina proves a saintly, admiring child.Chapter 7, the Splendide
  5. Bobbie reveals that Clementina is out without leave from Miss Mapleton's school and gives Bertie the string-and-flower-pot plan, which Bertie passes off to Jeeves as his own, refusing to hear Jeeves's alternative.Chapter 7, the Marine Plaza
  6. Bobbie, fishing at the lake, explains that she announced her engagement to Bertie so that her mother, relieved to escape him, will welcome Kipper Herring, whom she loves.Chapter 3, the lake
  7. Musing on Bobbie's choice of Kipper, Bertie walks slap into Aubrey Upjohn and finds his dreaded old headmaster shrunk to a moustached shrimp.Chapter 3, Brinkley Court
  8. At tea on the lawn the butler brings out the fruit, and he is Sir Roderick Glossop.Chapters 3–4, the lawn
  9. 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
  10. Bertie and Glossop reach the collection room and find the cow-creamer gone.Chapters 6–7, the collection room
  11. 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
  12. 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
  13. 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
  14. Bertie finds Bobbie in her car at the front door; she explains she was called to the phone by her mother, who thinks him a nincompoop, and drives off home.Chapter 8, the front door
  15. At the Fox and Goose Bobbie tells a relieved Bertie she never meant what she said to Kipper and is off to throw herself into his arms, so there will be no wedding bells for Bertie.Chapter 11, the Fox and Goose
  16. 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
  17. 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
  18. Over port in his pantry, Glossop hears of Kipper's plight and suggests pushing Upjohn into the lake so Kipper can rescue him.Chapter 14, the butler's pantry
  19. 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
  20. 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
  21. 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
  22. 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
  23. Bobbie and Kipper tell Bertie of Aunt Dahlia's new plan: Bertie is to abuse Upjohn to his face so that Kipper can burst in, defend him and get the libel suit dropped, and Bertie, bound by the code of the Woosters, agrees.Chapter 16, Bertie's room at Brinkley
  24. Bertie goes into Uncle Tom's study to insult Upjohn but gets no further than small talk about moustaches and Kipper before Phyllis bursts in and Upjohn dismisses him.Chapter 16, the study
  25. Outside the french window Bobbie accuses Bertie of losing his nerve, and with Phyllis closeted with Upjohn the attempt is called off for now.Chapter 16, Brinkley Court
  26. 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
  27. 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

Every dealing, in order

Very Good, Jeeves

The Code of the Woosters

Joy in the Morning

Jeeves in the Offing