"So where do we go from here?" asked Packy. "All I am trying to do is to save you unpleasantness. If you wish me to leave, of course, I'll leave at once. But in that case how about Mrs. Gedge? Won't she write to the Vicomtesse asking what has become of her son? Of course she will. The whole story will then come out, and I don't see how the police can fail to track you down. And after that . . . Well, you can say what you like about the guillotine - the only known cure for dandruff and so on - but nobody's going to persuade me that you will enjoy it."
(from Hot Water, by Sir Pelham Wodehouse)
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