"Sigsbee H. Waddington is one of those men who have only to express a liking for anybody to cause their wives to look on him as something out of the Underworld. Sigsbee H. Waddington could not bring the Prince of Wales home to dinner and get away with it. And when he drags in and lays on the mat a specimen - I use the word in the kindliest spirit - like you, and does so, moreover, five minutes before the start of a formal dinner-party, thus upsetting the seating arrangement and leading to black thoughts in the kitchen, can you blame his wife for not fawning on you? And on top of that you pretend to be an artist."
(from The Small Bachelor, by Sir Pelham Wodehouse)
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