Making Eggy work

          "Ann," I said, "you're a marvel!"
          "How so, Mister Bones?"
          "Why, making Eggy work. It's never been done before."
          "Well, it's going to be done now. He starts to work tomorrow."
          "That's splendid. One feels a certain pang of pity for whoever it is he's starting to work for, but that's splendid. The family were worried about him."
          "I don't wonder. I can't imagine anybody more capable of worrying a family than Eggy. Just suppose Job had had him as well as boils!"

(from Laughing Gas, by Sir Pelham Wodehouse)