Speaking of fathers-in-law

    "But you can't marry Emerald Stoker."

    "Why not? We're twin souls."

    I thought for a moment of giving him a word-portrait of old Stoker, to show him the sort of father-in-law he would be getting if he carried through the project he had in mind, but I let it go. Reason told me that a fellow who for months had been expecting to draw Pop Bassett as a father-in-law was not going to be swayed by an argument like that. However frank my description of him, Stoker could scarcely seem anything but a change for the better.

(from Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves, by Sir Pelham Wodehouse)