"I don't know how to search a room."
"You'll pick it up as you go along. For heaven's sake, stop making all this heavy weather over and absurdly simple task well within the scope of a mentally retarded child of six. You'd think I was asking you to climb Moun Everest. You ought to be able to go through Barney Clayborne's effects in twenty minutes."
A strong suspicion presented itself to Jerry that this was an underestimate, and his flesh crept briskly at the thought of what awaited him at Mellingham Hall, Mellingham-in-the-vale, telephone number Mellingham 631, but he could see that it was useless to oppose his uncle's wishes.
"All right," he said tonelessly.
"Splendid," said Willoughby. "There's an excellent train at about seven. I'll tell Crispin to expect you."
(from The Girl in Blue, by Sir Pelham Wodehouse)
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