'I don't know what's come over me. I keep saying thingsI would never say and doing things I would never do. Has that happened to you, Jeeves?'
'Never, sir.'
'Yesterday I called Aunt Agatha an Old Trout. To her face, Jeeves.'
'She is an Old Trout, sir.'
'Great Heavens, Jeeves, you've caught it too. Did you hear yourself.
Horror spread over Jeeves's finely chiselled features like the yolk of a boiled egg when you put too much devil into your spoonwork. 'I fear, sir, we are in the grip on an unseen power.'
'You talk in riddles, Jeeves.'
'There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough hew them how we will.'
'That's well put, Jeeves. Your own?'
'The Swan of Avon, sir. There's a Mr Faulks to see you with a project he says may surprise us. He awaits without?'
'Without what, Jeeves?'
'Shall I throw the bastard out, sir?'
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