Cast

Bertie Wooster and Vanessa Cook

• Vanessa Cook turns down Bertie Wooster chapters 2, 4, 5, 7, 10, 13
• Vanessa Cook is angry with Bertie Wooster chapter 7
• Vanessa Cook despises Bertie Wooster chapter 7
• Bertie Wooster is angry with Vanessa Cook chapter 7
• Vanessa Cook gets engaged to Bertie Wooster chapters 9, 10, 13
• Vanessa Cook sets out to improve Bertie Wooster chapters 10, 14, 15
• Bertie Wooster dreads marrying Vanessa Cook chapters 10, 14, 18
• Bertie Wooster is engaged to Vanessa Cook chapters 13, 14, 15, 16, 18
• Bertie Wooster loathes Vanessa Cook chapter 13

They deal with each other in Aunts Aren't Gentlemen 2, 4, 5, 7, 9, 10, 13, 14, 15, 16, 18, 19.

Scenes they share

1. Driving to see Murgatroyd, Bertie gets stuck behind the protest march and sits watching it.Chapters 1–2
2. Vanessa accuses Bertie of following her, plans to use him as a postbox for Orlo's letters, and on learning Orlo is in the village sends Bertie to the Goose and Grasshopper to fix a meeting at his cottage.Chapter 7, Wee Nooke
3. Bertie reports back to Vanessa that Orlo will come at three tomorrow, tactfully describing how he looked.Chapter 8, Wee Nooke
4. Vanessa arrives early for her meeting with Orlo and brusquely sends Bertie out for his walk.Chapter 9, Wee Nooke
5. Jeeves reports that Vanessa and Orlo quarrelled when he refused to bully her father or steal the cat, and she broke with him; then Vanessa storms in and tells Bertie she will be his wife.Chapters 9–12, Wee Nooke
6. Graham reports that the cat he returned to Eggesford Court followed him back, and Bertie, seeing he could betray Aunt Dahlia to Cook, pays him another ten pounds to take it again; then Vanessa Cook walks in.Chapters 14–15, Maiden Eggesford

Every dealing, in order

• Chapter 2Bertie Wooster once proposed to Vanessa Cook (earlier)
• Chapter 2Vanessa Cook turned down the proposal of Bertie Wooster (earlier)
• Chapter 4Vanessa Cook turned down Bertie Wooster (earlier)
• Chapter 5Vanessa Cook once turned down Bertie Wooster (earlier)
• Chapter 7Bertie Wooster resolves to keep away from Vanessa Cook
• Chapter 7Vanessa Cook is angry with, accusing him of following her Bertie Wooster
• Chapter 7Vanessa Cook turned down Bertie Wooster (earlier)
• Chapter 7Vanessa Cook despises as a footling bourgeois Bertie Wooster
• Chapter 7Vanessa Cook asks to take in Orlo's letters Bertie Wooster
• Chapter 7Vanessa Cook orders to fetch Orlo to a meeting at his cottage Bertie Wooster
• Chapter 7Bertie Wooster resents being turned out of his cottage by Vanessa Cook
• Chapter 9Vanessa Cook orders out of his own cottage Bertie Wooster
• Chapter 9Vanessa Cook announces she will marry Bertie Wooster
• Chapter 10Bertie Wooster proposed to and was rejected by Vanessa Cook (earlier)
• Chapter 10Vanessa Cook gets engaged to Bertie Wooster
• Chapter 10Vanessa Cook is ready to elope with Bertie Wooster
• Chapter 10Vanessa Cook means to rename Harold Bertie Wooster
• Chapter 10Vanessa Cook orders to give up smoking Bertie Wooster
• Chapter 10Vanessa Cook orders to cure his silly laugh Bertie Wooster
• Chapter 10Vanessa Cook plans a course of reading for Bertie Wooster
• Chapter 10Bertie Wooster dreads marriage to Vanessa Cook
• Chapter 13Bertie Wooster is engaged to Vanessa Cook
• Chapter 13Bertie Wooster cannot stand Vanessa Cook
• Chapter 13Bertie Wooster proposed to and was turned down by Vanessa Cook (earlier)
• Chapter 13Vanessa Cook changed her mind and accepted Bertie Wooster (earlier)
• Chapter 14Bertie Wooster is engaged to Vanessa Cook
• Chapter 14Bertie Wooster dreads marrying Vanessa Cook
• Chapter 14Vanessa Cook means to make give up cocktails and smoking Bertie Wooster
• Chapter 15Vanessa Cook is engaged to Bertie Wooster
• Chapter 15Vanessa Cook sets out to reform Bertie Wooster
• Chapter 16Vanessa Cook is engaged to Bertie Wooster
• Chapter 16Bertie Wooster offers to give up his engagement to Vanessa Cook
• Chapter 18Vanessa Cook had thought she must marry Bertie Wooster (earlier)
• Chapter 18Bertie Wooster froze at the prospect of marrying Vanessa Cook (earlier)
• Chapter 18Bertie Wooster avoids meeting Vanessa Cook
• Chapter 19Bertie Wooster is released from his engagement to Vanessa Cook