"Oh, Bertie, how nice to see you again. How are you?"
"I'm fine. How are you?"
"I'm fine."
"That's fine. How's your father?"
"He's fine."
I was sorry to hear this. My relations with Sir Watkyn Bassett were such that a more welcome piece of news would have been that he had contracted bubonic plague and wasn't expected to recover.
(from Jeeves and the Tie That Binds, by Sir Pelham Wodehouse)
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