"Peter, old man, that girl aid golf bored her pallid. She said she thought it was the silliest game ever invented." He paused to mark the effect of his words. Peter merely smiled a faint, wan smile. "You don't seem revolted," said James.
"I am revolted, but not surprised. You see, she said the same thing to me only a few minutes before."
"She did!"
"It amounted to the same thing. I had just been telling her how I did the lake-hole today in two, and she said that in her opinion golf was a game for children with water on the brain who weren't athletic enough to play Animal Grab."
The two men shivered in sympathy.
"There must be insanity in the family," said James at last.
"That," said Peter, "is the charitable explanation.
(from "A Woman Is Only a Woman," by Sir Pelham Wodehouse)
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