The Wooster Papers

Cast

Bertie Wooster and Stiffy Byng

They deal with each other in The Code of the Woosters 2, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10, 13, 14; Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10, 11, 14, 15, 16, 21, 22, 24; Aunts Aren't Gentlemen 9.

Scenes they share

  1. Bartholomew upsets Constable Oates off his bicycle, Stiffy admits she has Gussie's notebook, and reveals that she is secretly engaged to Stinker Pinker and has told him to pinch Oates's helmet.Chapter 4, the Totleigh gates
  2. Stiffy asks Bertie to steal the cow-creamer so that Stinker can "recover" it and win a vicarage, and when he refuses she says she will hand Gussie's notebook to Uncle Watkyn unless he does it.Chapter 4, the terrace
  3. Stiffy comes back early, refuses to call off her dog, and tells Bertie she has broken off her engagement to Stinker because he would not pinch the policeman’s helmet.Chapter 8, Stiffy's room
  4. Stinker climbs in by the balcony with Oates’s helmet, is reconciled with Stiffy, and is told that Bertie will help with the cow-creamer scheme at midnight.Chapter 8, Stiffy's room
  5. Bertie threatens to tell Stinker of the blackmail, Stiffy counters with Sir Watkyn, Jeeves proposes Bertie pretend to be engaged to Stiffy, and Bertie is forced off to the library to do it.Chapter 8, Stiffy's room
  6. Bertie asks Sir Watkyn for Stiffy's hand, and when Stiffy says she would rather marry the curate, the horrified Sir Watkyn gladly consents to her marrying Harold Pinker instead.Chapter 9, the library
  7. Stiffy exults over Jeeves's scheme, reveals that Oates suspects her of the helmet theft and that she has hidden Gussie's notebook in the cow-creamer, and Butterfield summons Bertie to Madeline.Chapter 9, Totleigh Towers
  8. Stiffy admits hiding the helmet in Bertie's suitcase and, by appealing to the Code of the Woosters, gets him to agree to take the rap for Harold.Chapter 13, Bertie's room at Totleigh
  9. At a sombre dinner Bertie admires Sir Watkyn's new black amber statuette, bought from Plank and worth a thousand pounds, offends him by calling it soapstone, and slips off to his room afterwards.Chapters 6–7, the Totleigh dining-room
  10. Creeping through the dark hall, Bertie collides with Gussie, knocks over Sir Watkyn's precious grandfather clock, is caught by Sir Watkyn in his purple dressing-gown, and the two are driven on to a chest by Bartholomew until Stiffy appears.Chapters 8–9, the hall
  11. Bertie drives into the Totleigh stable yard and Spode orders him out of the car so he can search it.Chapters 11–12, the stable yard
  12. Gussie, clutching Emerald's ham sandwiches, declares her his true love and Madeline heartless; Stiffy and Stinker tell Bertie to keep clear of Sir Watkyn, and when Stiffy warns Gussie that Spode is after him he bolts straight into Spode.Chapters 14–15, the yew alley
  13. Over cocktails with Pop Bassett, Bertie hears Stiffy announce there will be no dinner because the cook has eloped with Gussie Fink-Nottle.Chapters 15–17, the Totleigh drawing-room
  14. Back in the drawing-room Bertie ponders how to approach Pop Bassett about the statuette when Spode comes in.Chapters 17–22, the Totleigh drawing-room
  15. Stiffy visits Bertie's cell and offers to confess to taking the statuette, Bertie refuses to let her, and Oates returns glumly to say Sir Watkyn has dropped the charge.Chapter 24, the police station
  16. Freed, Bertie refuses Stiffy's plan to get even with Oates, then learns from Jeeves that he won the release by agreeing to work for Sir Watkyn for a while, and gives up his Alpine hat to Jeeves, who will pass it on to the courting Butterfield.Chapter 24, Totleigh-in-the-Wold

Every dealing, in order

The Code of the Woosters

Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves

Aunts Aren't Gentlemen