A line from last night's book stuck with me for some reason. Bertie and Jeeves were discussing a friend of Bertie's who was having terrible trouble building the courage to propose to a lady.
"I recollect you saying he was letting - what was it? - letting something do something. Cats entered into it, if I am not mistaken."
"Letting 'I dare not' wait upon 'I would', sir."
"That's right. But how about the cats?"
"Like the poor cat i' the adage, sir."
"Exactly. It beats me how you think up these things."
Apparently the line about cats and letting something do something is from another book or a play or something, possibly by some Scottish chap. But anyway, it made me smile enough to share it. I encourage you all not to let I dare not wait upon I would.
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