The Wooster Papers

Cast

Bertie Wooster and Seppings

They deal with each other in Right Ho, Jeeves 16, 22; The Code of the Woosters 1; Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit 17; Jeeves in the Offing 1; Much Obliged, Jeeves 16.

Scenes they share

  1. 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
  2. Over the cold salmon a jubilant Aunt Dahlia praises Gussie's speech and announces that Anatole has withdrawn his notice, until Seppings reports that Gussie is making faces at Anatole through his skylight.Chapters 19–20, the Brinkley dining-room
  3. 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
  4. At the Kingham Manor servants' ball Bertie prods Seppings, learns the back-door key was left with Jeeves all along, and sets off home.Chapter 22, Kingham Manor
  5. Aunt Dahlia refuses Bertie lunch and sends him to a Brompton Road antique shop to sneer at the cow-creamer Uncle Tom means to buy, so the price comes down.Chapter 1, Aunt Dahlia's London house
  6. Back at Brinkley, Aunt Dahlia rages that Tom has carried Spode off to look at his silver before she could work her scheme, savages the over-solicitous Percy, and leaves; Percy goes to tell Stilton Bertie is back, and Stilton arrives as Bertie grips the cosh.Chapters 16–17, the hall
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. Uneasy at Bingley's confident tip, Bertie walks home and finds Aunt Dahlia doing the Observer crossword.Chapters 8–10, Brinkley Court
  10. 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
  11. Seppings describes the vegetable-throwing at the debate, and Jeeves reports that Ginger, on his advice, praised Mrs McCorkadale and urged everyone to vote for her, so ending his engagement to Florence; Jeeves adds that Bingley called round to tea in a friendly way.Chapter 16, the Brinkley drawing-room
  12. Aunt Dahlia tells Bertie that Spode, put off politics by the potato, has kept his title and gone off to London with Madeline, freeing Bertie from marrying her.Chapter 16, the Brinkley drawing-room
  13. Runkle gloats that Bertie is bound for prison, egg-covered Florence announces she will marry Bertie after all, then drops him when Runkle says he stole the porringer, and Runkle goes off to meet Bingley.Chapter 16, the Brinkley drawing-room

Every dealing, in order

Right Ho, Jeeves

The Code of the Woosters

Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit

Jeeves in the Offing

Much Obliged, Jeeves