#possible stiffy & jeeves friendship??

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"You can't evade the issue by saying 'Sir?'. Answer me this, Jeeves, with a simple Yes or No. Why did you tell Plank to come to Totleigh Towers?" I thought the query would crumple him up like a damp sock, but he didn't so much as shuffle a foot. "My heart was melted by Miss Byng's tale of her misfortunes, sir. I chanced to encounter the young lady and found her in a state of considerable despondency as the result of Sir Watkyn's refusal to bestow a vicarage on Mr. Pinker. I perceived immediately that it was within my power to alleviate her distress. I had learned at the post office at Hockley-cum-Meston that the incumbent there was retiring shortly, and being cognizant of Major Plank's desire to strengthen the Hockley-cum-Meston forward line, I felt that it would be an excellent idea to place him in communication with Mr. Pinker. in order to be in a position to marry Miss Byng, Mr. Pinker requires a vicarage, and in order to compete successfully with rival villages in the football arena Major Plank is in need of a vicar with Mr. Pinker's wide experience as a prop forward. Their interests appeared to me to be identical."

-- Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves, chapter 21

Jeeves probably had to call Major Plank well before Stiffy could tell him how upset she was, for the timing to work out. Which just means he made the call and then had the chat with Stiffy not the other way around.

Also compare Jeeves's speech to how Bertie breaks the news to Stiffy:

"You know about Plank?" "What about him?" "I'll tell you what about him. Plank to you hitherto has been merely a shadowy figure who hangs out at Hockley-cum-Meston and sells black amber statuettes to people, but he has another side to him." She betrayed a certain impatience. "If you think I'm interested in Plank -- " "Aren't you?" "No, I'm not." "You will be. He has, as I was saying, another side to him. He is a landed proprietor with vicarages in his gift, and to cut a long story down to a short-short, as one always likes to do when possible, he has just given one to Stinker."

-- Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves, chapter 21

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"If I might make a suggestion, sir?" "Press on, Jeeves." "Would it not be possible for you to go to Totleigh Towers, but to decline to carry out Miss Byng's wishes?" I weighed this. It was, I could see, a thought. "Issue a nolle prosequi, you mean? Tell her to go and boil her head?" "Precisely, sir."

-- Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves, chapter 4

Immediately after Bertie explains how he failed to say no to Stiffy:

To my surprise, instead of raising an eyebrow the customary eighth of an inch and saying "Most disturbing, sir," he came within an ace of smiling. That is to say, the left corner of his mouth quivered almost imperceptibly before returning to position one. "You cannot accede to Miss Byng's request, sir." I took an astonished sip of coffee. I couldn't follow his train of thought. It seemed to me that he couldn't have been listening. "But if I don't, she'll squeal to the FBI." "No, sir, for the lady will be forced to admit that it is physically impossible for you to carry out her wishes. The statuette is no longer at large. It has been placed in Sir Watkyn's collection room behind a stout steel door."

-- Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves, chapter 10

Bertie sends Jeeves to tell Stiffy no for him, and then:

He was absent quite a time -- so long, in fact, that I was dressed when he returned. "I saw Miss Byng, sir." "And--?" "She is still insistent that you restore the statuette to Mr. Plank." "She's cuckoo. I can't get into the collection room." "No, sir, but Miss Byng can. She informs me that not long ago Sir Watkyn chanced to drop his key, and she picked it up and omitted to apprise him. Sir Watkyn had another key made, but the original remains in Miss Byng's possession." I clutched the brow. "You mean she can get into the room any time she feels like it?" "Precisely, sir. Indeed, she has just done so." And so saying he fished the eyesore from an inner pocket and handed it to me. "Miss Byng suggests that you take the object to Mr. Plank after luncheon. In her droll way she said the meal -- I quote her words -- would put the necessary stuffing into you and nerve you for the... It is somewhat early, sir, but shall I get you a little brandy?"

-- Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves, chapter 10

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"Where did you get that?" I asked in a voice that was low and trembled. "I pinched it." "What on earth did you do that for?" "Perfectly simple. The idea was to go to Uncle Watkyn and tell him he wouldn't get it back unless he did the square thing by Harold. Power politics, don't they call it, Jeeves?" "Or blackmail, miss." "Yes, or blackmail, I suppose. But you can't be too nice in your methods when you're dealing with the Uncle Watkyns of this world." ... "Besides, I can't go roaming about the place with Plank on the premises." She laughed one of those silvery ones, a practice to which, as I have indicated, she was far too much addicted. "Jeeves told me about you and Plank. Very funny." "I'm glad you think so. We personally were not amused." Jeeves as always, found the way. "If you will give the object to me, miss, I will see that it is restored to its place."

-- Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves, chapter 22

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More Stiffy & Jeeves interactions.

This one has colonialist language in it (one instance of which is a quote from Othello, apparently).

"But I don't understand. Plank has never met Harold." "Jeeves brought them together." "Did you, Jeeves?" "Yes, miss." "At-a-boy!" "Thank you, miss." ... Presently she paused, and put a question. "What's Plank like?" "How do you mean, what's he like?" "He hasn't a beard, has he?" "No, no beard." "That's good, because I want to kiss him, and if he had a beard, it would give me pause." "Dismiss the notion," I urged, for Plank's psychology was an open book to me. The whole trend of that confirmed bachelor's conversation had left me with the impression that he would find it infinitely preferable to be spiked in the leg with a native dagger than to have popsies covering his upturned face with kisses. "He'd have a fit." "Well, I must kiss somebody. Shall I kiss you, Jeeves?" "No, thank you, miss." "You, Bertie?" "I'd rather you didn't." "Then I've a good mind to go and kiss Uncle Watkyn, louse of the first water though he has recently shown himself." "How do you mean, recently?" "And having kissed him I shall tell him the news and taunt him vigorously with having let a good thing get away from him. I shall tell him that when he declined to avail himself of Harold's services he was like the Indian." I did not get her drift. "What Indian?" "The base one my governesses used to make me read about, the poor simp whose hand... How does it go, Jeeves?" "Threw a pearl away richer than all his tribe, miss."

-- Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves, chapter 21

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I started back to the house, and in the drive I met Jeeves. He was at the wheel of Stiffy's car. Beside him, looking like a Scotch elder rebuking sin, was the dog Bartholomew. "Good evening, sir," he said. "I have been taking this little fellow to the veterinary surgeon. Miss Byng was uneasy because he bit Mr. Fink-Nottle. She was afraid he might have caught something. I am glad to say the surgeon has given him a clean bill of health."

-- Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves, chapter 15

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"You were all right? They didn't put your head in a sack and prod you with sticks?" "No, sir. My share in the afternoon's events was confined to assisting in the tea tent." "You speak lightly, Jeeves, but I've known some dark work to take place in school treat tea tents." "It is odd that you should say that, sir, for it was while partaking of tea that a lad threw a hard-boiled egg at Sir Watkyn." "And hit him?" "On the left cheek-bone, sir. It was most unfortunate." ... "[Gussie] tells me Stinker Pinker wants to see me about something." "No doubt with reference to the episode of Sir Watkyn and the hard-boiled egg, sir." "Don't tell me it was Stinker who threw it." "No, sir, the miscreant is believed to have been a lad in his early teens. But the young fellow's impulsive action has led to unfortunate consequences. It has caused Sir Watkyn to entertain doubts as to the wisdom of entrusting a vicarage to a curate in capable of maintaining order at a school treat. Miss Byng, while confiding this information to me, appeared greatly distressed. She had supposed -- I quote her verbatim -- that the thing was in the bag, and she is naturally much disturbed."

-- Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves, chapter 13

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Stiffy and Jeeves are in good communication with each other:

"I anticipated that my arrival might occasion you a certain surprise, sir. I hastened after you directly I learned of the revelation Sir Watkyn had made to Miss Byng, for I foresaw that your interview with Major Plank would be embarrassing, and I hoped to be able to intercept you before you could establish communication with him." Practically all of this floated past me. "How do you mean, the revelation Pop Bassett made to Stiffy?" "It occurred shortly after luncheon, sir. Miss Byng informs me that she decided to approach Sir Watkyn and make a last appeal to his better feelings. As you are aware, the matter of the statuette has always been one that affected her deeply. She thought that if she reproached Sir Watkyn with sufficient vehemence, something constructive might result. Greatly to her astonishment, she had hardly begun to speak when Sir Watkyn, chuckling heartily, asked her if she could keep a secret. He then revealed that there was no foundation for the story he had told Mr. Travers and that in actual fact he had paid Major Plank a thousand pounds for the object." ... "You can't have walked." "No, sir. I borrowed Miss Byng's car." ... "But I was forgetting. You've got Stiffy's car. Then I'll be driving on. The sooner I get this statuette thing back into her custody, the better." He didn't shake his head, because he never shakes his head, but he raised the south-east corner of a warning eyebrow. "If you will pardon the suggestion, sir, I think it would be more advisable for me to take the object to Miss Byng. It would scarcely be prudent for you to enter the environs of Totleigh Towers with it on your person. You might encounter his lordship... I should say Mr. Spode." ... "If you will give me the object, I will see that Miss Byng restores it to the collection room at the earliest possible moment."

-- Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves, chapter 11

And she does in fact get it there very quickly, and then goes out to save Bertie from Spode:

[Spode] dived into the car, opening drawers and looking under cushions. And Stiffy, coming along at this moment, drank in his vast trouser seat with a curious eye. "What goes on?" she asked. This time I did laugh that mocking laugh. It seemed to be indicated. "You know that black eyesore thing that was on the dinner table? Apparently it's disappeared, and Spode has got the extraordinary idea that I've pinched it and am holding it... what's the word... Not incognito... Incommunicado, that's it. He thinks I'm holding it incommunicado." "He does?" "So he says." "Man must be an ass."

-- Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves, chapter 12