"We then decided to elope. You may be wondering what we're going to live on, but with my salary and a bit of money she has from the will of an aunt we shall be all right. So it was arranged that she should have an early breakfast, go to the garage, pinch the Bentley and put the other cars out of action, leaving Cook for pursuint purposes only the Gardener's Ford."
"That ought to fix him."
"I think so. It is an excellent car for its purpose, but scarcely adapted to chasing daughters across country. Cook will never catch up with us."
"Though I don't see what he could do, even if he did catch up with you."
"You don't? What about that hunting crop of his?"
"Ah, yes, I see what you mean."
(from Aunts Aren't Gentlemen, by Sir Pelham Wodehouse)
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