That would tend to disturb your sleep

This sort of thing, it must be remembered, was not in George's usual line. His had been a quiet and uneventful life, and the only exciting thing which, in his recollection, had ever happened to him previous to the dramatic entry of Lady Maud into his taxicab that day in Piccadilly had occurred at college nearly ten years before, when a festive roommate - no doubt with the best motives- had placed a Mexican horned toad in his bed on the night of the Yale football game.

(from A Damsel in Distress, by Sir Pelham Wodehouse)