"Oh, hullo. You were on the jury, weren't you?" she said, and it surprised and pleased Jerry that she should have remembered him. Yes, he said, he had been on the jury, adding that he had had no alternative.
"The summons told me not to hereof fail, and I wasn't taking any chances. I wonder what they do to you if you hereof fail."
"I believe they get awfully annoyed."
"Something lingering with boiling oil in it?"
"I shouldn't wonder."
(from The Girl in Blue, by Sir Pelham Wodehouse)
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