"Can't waste the whole day talking. If there's anything the poor half-wit doesn't understand, explain it to him." He turned to Packy. "I want a word with you," he said. "Kiss Jane and come along."
There are few things which call for so nice an exhibition of tact as the kissing of a girl in the presence of her fiance. Packy did his best to perform the feat in a manner calculted to cause the minimum of disapproval, but he was haunted by a suspicion that he had not quite got the sympathy of his audience.
Abstaining from glancing at young Mr. Eggleston, for, after all, he knew what he looked like, he followed the Sentor off the terrace.
(from Hot Water, by Sir Pelham Wodehouse)
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