"Then be on the alert. Have a care that he doesn't get called to the telephone at the end of the meal, leaving you stuck with the bill. Your best policy, of course, would be to sever relations over the after-luncheon coffee. Yes, that's the thing to do. Tell him you've been giving it some thought during his absence, and it's all off."
"Won't that offend him?"
"On the contrary. He'll applaud your good sense. He knows perfectly well what a hound and Tishbite he is. People have been telling him for years. I was at school with L. P. Green and I have a fund of stories about him, all stressing his unfitness for human consumption. He has absolutely nothing to recommend him as a biological specimen."
(from The Purloined Paperweight, by Sir Pelham Wodehouse)
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