In the novel The Secret of Chimneys, Chilvers is the butler of Virginia Revel at 487 Pont Street. Near the beginning of the novel, Chilvers receives a telegram purportedly from Virginia ordering him to proceed to her cottage at Datchet to prepare it for a house party. Virginia saw that the telegram was a fake and designed to get him out of the house, although what crime the perpetrators had in mind she did not know.