"Engaged to someone else, yes," he conceded. "But only to Lionel Green." And when Bill said that he didn't see what the name of the man she was going to marry mattered, the salient fact being that she was going to marry him, he replied that that, on the contrary, was the whole nub and gist, because it was out of the question that any girl, however much she might in a moment of temporary insanity have got betrothed to him, would think seriously of marrying Lionel Green. The madness was bound to pass, leaving her once more in circulation.
(from The Purloined Paperweight, by Sir Pelham Wodehouse)
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