"Have you looked everywhere?" This query, like the previous one, seemed to give offense.
"Did you say you had mislaid your spectacles?"
"No, I did not say I had mislaid my spectacles."
"I'm always mislaying my spectacles.
"Curse your spectacles!"
"Yes, Bill."
This short digression on the subject of aids to vision seemed for some reason to have had a good effect on Willoughby, slightly restoring his calm. When he resumed the conversation, his voice, though still retaining something of the robustness of that of an annoyed mate of a tramp steamer, was quieter.
(from The Girl in Blue, by Sir Pelham Wodehouse)
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