# Lady Pauline Wetherby — Uneasy Money character guide

> Lady Pauline Wetherby in Uneasy Money by P. G. Wodehouse.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Pauline, Lady Wetherby, Lady Pauline Wetherby, Pauline Wetherby

**First appearance:** 0001-uneasy-money

## Snapshot

A scheming society hostess with a menagerie of pets, determined to marry Claire off to a thirty-million-dollar automobile manufacturer.

## Who they are

Lady Wetherby arranges for Claire and Dudley Pickering to share a ship, then works the drawing-room piano and moonlight to push them together. She is frank about the appeal of thirty millions and cheerfully admits to scheming, treating matchmaking as a practical art. Her rented summer home near Flack's—and her escaped monkey Eustace—draws the English and American strands of the plot into the same neighborhood.

## In the story

### [III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/uneasy_money_se/chapters/iii)

Writes a long letter to Claire from America, describing her marital troubles with Algie over her pet snake and monkey, and urges Claire to come stay with her, having paid for her passage.

### [VII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/uneasy_money_se/chapters/vii)

Claire's friend and hostess in New York. She performs a classical dance called 'The Dream of Psyche' at the restaurant, which resembles a boxing match more than a ballet.

### [The Moonlight Proposal](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/uneasy_money_se/chapters/x)

Hosts the summer party at her rented Long Island estate; plays piano softly during the pivotal moonlit scene.

### [XIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/uneasy_money_se/chapters/xiii)

Writing letters, happy about Claire's engagement, and dealing with Eustace's mischief.

### [XV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/uneasy_money_se/chapters/xv)

Receives Bill warmly and inadvertently reveals Claire's engagement. Later, she listens to Claire's confession about her past engagement to Bill.

### [Chapter XVI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/uneasy_money_se/chapters/xvi)

Referenced as the source of the news about Claire's engagement and as the person publicizing the missing monkey, leading to the press invasion.

### [XVIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/uneasy_money_se/chapters/xviii)

Discovers Eustace's body and accuses Dudley with a menacing demeanor.

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