Ah, Wodehouse!
‘I was sprawled in my armchair pondering the vagaries of life, when Jeeves shimmered into the room and coughed apologetically.Am sorry to bother you sir, he said, but there is a gentleman at the door who wishes to speak to you most urgently.Then show the blighter in Jeeves, show him in...oh and rustle up another Manhattan would you, with two olives this time.
As I was straightening myself up in the chair, who should rush in but Binky Nosethrottle, I hadn’t seen him in months,
And gave him the glad hand. Sit down old fruit I entreated him warmly, what news from Tottering Towers?Binky looked in a frightful stew, why, haven’t you heard he cried, looking around wildly, I’m a marked man!
I boggled at him, what on earth are you burbling about Binky,
Marked in what way? He slumped onto the damask divan and put his head in his hands....it’s the police he murmured in a broken voice, they’re onto me...I, I broke the curfew, went into a shop and bought....an Easter egg!! As I looked on aghast at this news, he started to sob.
Jeeves! Come here at once, I cried, this is a job for that great brain of yours, but at that moment the doorbell rang, and then there was a great thumping at the door and a booming voice yelled ‘Constable Higgins ‘ere sir, we knows you ‘ave a fugitive in there!’
We’re done for Jeeves, I whispered........