"You'll hardly believe this, but soon after that he turned up at Totleigh Towers, Sir Watkyn's house in Gloucestershire."
"Incredible!'
"I thought you'd think so."
"Disguised, of course? A wig? A false beard? His cheeks stained with walnut juice?"
"No, he came quite openly, invited by my future wife. She has a sort of sentimental pity for him. I think she hopes to reform him."
"Girls will be girls."
"Yes, but I wish they wouldn't."
"Did you rebuke your future wife?"
"I wasn't in a position to then."
"Probably a wise thing, anyway. I once rebuked the girl I wanted to marry, and she went off and teamed up with a stockbroker."
(from Jeeves and the Tie That Binds, by Sir Pelham Wodehouse)
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