Bad spot, what?

"I tell you, Jeeves, the spirits are low. I don't know if you have ever been tied hand and foot to a chair in front of a barrel of gunpowder with an inch of lighted candle on top of it?"

"No, sir, I have not had that experience."

"Well, that's how I am feeling. I'm just clenching the teeth and waiting for the bang."

(from The Mating Season)