Monday, July 28, 2025

Amazing coincidence

    "Why shouldn't I goggle?"

     "Why should you?

    "Because," said George Finch, looking like a stuffed frog, "I love her."

    "Nonsense!"

    "It isn't nonsense"

    "Have you ever read my booklet on 'The Marriage Sane'?"

    "No, I haven't."

    "I show there that love is a reasoned emotion that springs from mutual knowledge, increasing over an extended period of time, and a community of tastes. How can you love a girl when you have never spoken to her and don't even know her name?"

    "I do know her name."

    "How?"

    "I looked through the telephone directory till I found out who lived at Number 16 East Seventy-ninth Street. It took me about a week because . . . "

    "Sixteen East Seventy-ninth Street? You don't mean that this girl you've been staring at is little Molly Waddington?"

(from The Small Bachelor, by Sir Pelham Wodehouse)

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