RIGHT HO, JEEVES by P. G. Wodehouse

Get off the mark, on the other hand, like a scalded cat, and your public is at a loss. ... To many men, no doubt, these broken utterances would have appeared mere drooling and would have been dismissed as such. But the Woosters are quicker-witted than the ordinary and can read between the lines. I suddenly divined what it was that she was ... ................
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