Agatha's butler Seppings, the butler at Aunt Dahlia's home Brinkley Court Waterbury, the chauffeur at Brinkley Court Anatole, chef extraordinaire, employed by Tom and Dahlia Travers Butterfield, butler at Totleigh Towers Other characters Mr Anstruther, an elderly man who holds a Good Conduct competition between Thomas Gregson and Bonzo Travers Mr Blumenfeld, theatrical producer Comrade Butt, a Marxist revolutionary Ernest Dobbs, constable of King's Deverill, and betrothed of Queenie Silversmith, Deverill Hall's beautiful parlourmaid The Rt. Hon. A. B. Filmer, a Cabinet Minister Esmond Haddock, a man dominated by his aunts Charlotte, Emmeline, Harriet, and Myrtle Deverill, and Dame Daphne Winkworth, his aunts Sidney "Soapy Sid" Hemmingway, a con man Aline Hemmingway, Soapy Sid's partner in crime The Rev. Francis Heppenstall, a long-winded vicar Mary Burgess, his niece Peggy Mainwaring, a student at Miss Tomlinson's school Miss Mapleton, headmistress of a girls' school in Bingley Sebastian Moon, a detestable young boy with golden curls Daphne Dolores Morehead, an attractive blonde bestselling novelist, prob. based on Daphne du Maurier Eustace Oates, constable at Totleigh-in-the-Wold Wilmot, Lord Pershore, a sheltered young man Lady Malvern, his over-protective mother Rhoda Platt, a barmaid whom George Wooster, Lord Yaxley thinks he loves Lucius Pim, an artist who loves Gwladys Pendlebury Beatrice Slingsby, his sister Alexander Slingsby, Beatrice's husband Laura Pyke, a nutrition-obsessed schoolmate of Rosie M. Banks Charlotte Corday Rowbotham, a Marxist with whom Bingo Little falls in love Jane Snettisham, Aunt Dahlia's friend, who attempts to win Anatole from her in a bet Jack, Lord Snettisham, Jane's husband Rupert Steggles, a crooked bookie Mrs Tinkler-Moulke, a patient of Sir Roderick Glossop Miss Tomlinson, the headmistress of a girls' school The Rev. Aubrey Upjohn, headmaster of Malvern House, where Bertie went to school Lord Wickhammersley, a friend of Bertie's late father Lady Cynthia Wickhammersley, his daughter Dame Daphne Winkworth, Aunt Agatha's friend and Madeline Bassett's godmother; also an acquaintance of Lord Emsworth Gertrude Winkworth, her daughter Jas. Waterbury, the "greasy bird": theatrical agent and blackmailer George Travers, Tom Travers's brother Sir Reginald Witherspoon, Bart., husband of Tom Travers's sister Katharine McIntosh, Aunt Agatha's terrier Augustus "Gus" the cat, lives at Brinkley Court, intensely dislikes being disturbed from his sleep and, unlike most cats, dislikes being scratched under the ears Mr. Mulliner Mr. Mulliner, pub raconteur with a large family, including several nephews. his nephew Archibald Mulliner, sock collector who can mimic a hen laying an