Billie knew all. And, terrible though the fact is as an indictment of the male sex, when a women knows all, there is invariably trouble ahead for some man. There was trouble ahead for Samuel Marlowe. Billie, now in possession of the facts, had examined them and come to the conclusion that Sam had played a practical joke on her, and she was a girl who strongly disapproved of practical humour at her expense.
(from The Girl On the Boat, by Sir Pelham Wodehouse)
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