The Code of the Woosters

After Gussie despondently leaves Wooster, Jeeves arrives with good news: His call to the secretary of the Junior Ganymede club has yielded paydirt. The club rules forbid, on pain of expulsion, the leaking of specific details to non-members, but he says the mere name “Eulalie” should be enough to neutralize Spode. After an unsuccessful house-wide search for Gussie, Wooster returns to his room to find him there, knotting sheets together. As Wooster attempts to lift Gussie’s spirits via Jeeves’s good tidings, Spode arrives, interrupting them and still trembling with rage toward Gussie. Gussie cringes into a corner, but Wooster, puffed up by his new knowledge, tears into Spode, calling him “fat head” and many other names. However, at the critical moment, he can’t remember the name Jeeves provided him. As he hems and haws, and Spode advances on Gussie, the latter, in desperation, seizes a framed canvas from the wall and brings it down on Spode’s head, where it hangs around his neck like a “ruff.” Before Spode can react, Wooster seizes a bedsheet and winds it around him, which trips him up, as Gussie makes his escape. Wooster then attacks Spode with a vase and a lit cigarette, whereupon Aunt Dahlia enters the room.