The Wooster Papers

Cast

Bertie Wooster and Sir Roderick Glossop

They deal with each other in Other Stories 3; The Inimitable Jeeves 7, 8, 18; Carry On, Jeeves 6, 7; Very Good, Jeeves 3; Thank You, Jeeves 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 11, 13, 15, 16, 17, 18, 20, 21; The Mating Season 25; Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit 2; Jeeves in the Offing 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 10, 14, 15, 20, 21; Much Obliged, Jeeves 6, 12.

Scenes they share

  1. Bertie rushes back to his flat, checks Jeeves's austere menu for Sir Roderick, and braces himself as the bell rings.Chapters 7–8, the sitting-room
  2. Sir Roderick orders a Wembley expedition, while Biffy loses his nerve and fails to squirt him.Chapter 6, Biffy's flat
  3. Bertie explains Biffy’s lost romance to Jeeves, who had not known why Biffy lost touch with Mabel.Chapter 6
  4. Sir Roderick leads a wearisome exhibition tour until Bertie and Biffy agree to escape to the bar.Chapter 6, Wembley
  5. Biffy smashes the glass to reach Mabel and is arrested, leading Sir Roderick to end his engagement to Honoria.Chapter 6, the Palace of Beauty
  6. Sir Roderick exposes Bertie’s identity and calls him insane, forcing him to reveal Sippy’s imprisonment.Chapter 7, the Pringle drawing-room
  7. Bertie creeps into the Moat Room and punctures the hot-water bottle, only to find it is Sir Roderick's, who has swapped rooms with Tuppy; caught by his dressing-gown in the door, he is hauled back, called insane, and left in the soaked room while Sir Roderick takes his bed.Chapter 3, the Moat Room
  8. Bertie recalls how, hiding from Aunt Agatha in New York, he fell for Pauline Stoker and got engaged to her, until Sir Roderick Glossop told her father all about him and the engagement was called off.Chapter 1, New York
  9. Sir Roderick Glossop calls to tell Bertie he ought to be certified and to demand he stop tormenting Mrs Tinkler-Moulke with his banjolele; Bertie refuses and has Jeeves show him out.Chapter 1, Bertie's flat
  10. A beaming Chuffy tells Bertie that Sir Roderick Glossop is to marry Aunt Myrtle and has found a millionaire, J. Washburn Stoker, to buy the Hall, just as the Stokers and Glossop arrive for lunch.Chapters 3–4, Chuffnell Hall
  11. Bertie stands rooted in despair until Jeeves coughs softly at his side.Chapters 14–16, Chuffnell Hall
  12. Softening towards Glossop on the way, Bertie creeps up to the Dower House, finds the drunken Brinkley singing hymns inside, and hears a frightful rampage end with someone bursting out of the back door.Chapter 16, the Dower House
  13. Glossop, thrown out by Brinkley after a nightmare among Seabury's animals, makes peace with the equally blacked-up Bertie and goes off to clean himself with petrol in Bertie's garage while Bertie heads for the summer-house.Chapter 16, the Dower House
  14. At tea on the lawn the butler brings out the fruit, and he is Sir Roderick Glossop.Chapters 3–4, the lawn
  15. 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
  16. Bertie frets over Ma Cream's suspicions and Wilbert's ardour for Phyllis, and when Wilbert goes off walking Poppet he dozes off on the lawn over one of Ma Cream's novels.Chapter 6, Brinkley Court
  17. Glossop, answering the bell as butler, says he is still undecided about Wilbert's sanity, then brings a letter from Jeeves revealing Wilbert is a kleptomaniac, and they hurry to check the silver.Chapter 6, Brinkley Court
  18. Bertie and Glossop reach the collection room and find the cow-creamer gone.Chapters 6–7, the collection room
  19. Bertie dozes off over Mrs. Cream's novel, wakes and telephones his overdue wire inviting Kipper Herring, and then sees Kipper arriving in his car.Chapters 8–10, the lawn
  20. In the pantry Bertie tells Glossop of being caught in Wilbert's room, and Glossop, his blood up, resolves to search the room for the cow-creamer himself; bonding over stolen school biscuits, they become Bertie and Roddy.Chapter 10, the butler's pantry
  21. Kipper bursts into Aunt Dahlia's boudoir to confess that Bobbie has read the stinking letter he wrote her and now says she will marry Bertie, who leaps up to drive to Jeeves at Herne Bay.Chapter 10, Aunt Dahlia's den
  22. 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

Every dealing, in order

Other Stories

The Inimitable Jeeves

Carry On, Jeeves

Very Good, Jeeves

Thank You, Jeeves

The Mating Season

Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit

Jeeves in the Offing

Much Obliged, Jeeves