What you need is a jolly, lively wife to take you out of yourself, the sort of wife who would set booby traps for the bishop when he came to spend the night. I don't suppose this Hermione Bostock of yours ever made so much as an apple-pie bed in her life. I'd give her a miss. Send her an affectionate telegram saying you've changed your mind and it's all off. I have a telegraph form in my study."
A look of intense devoutness came over Pongo's face. "For your information, Uncle Fred, wild horses wouldn't make me break my engagement."
"Most unlikely they'll ever try."
(from Uncle Dynamite, by Sir Pelham Wodehouse)
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