Jerry was pacing to and fro near the gate. He was feeling shaken but happy to have his relations with Vera Upshaw on a satisfactory basis. It had not been easy to detach her from his person and explain to her without being abrupt that his affections were engaged elsewhere and that her suggestion that everything between them should be just as it was before, Gerald dear, was not to be considered for an instant, but he had managed it. The thought of Jane had lent him eloquence, and even without telling her that he would greatly prefer to be dead in a ditch than married to her had had been able to make himself clear.
(from The Girl in Blue, by Sir Pelham Wodehouse)
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