[FOsen]

Come, Jeeves, let’s have no more of this wailing and gnashing of teeth over our forthcoming sequel. Such displays are, and I speak frankly, quite unbecoming of you. "As you say, sir. Nevertheless, one must acknowledge that none of the present auguries appear to be particularly propitious. Oh, yes. Doom attends us 'like a Wodehouse simile’, and all that tosh - but that’s simply one old cove in Kent who’s been posting crank comments. “Perhaps, sir, but Fleet Street is hardly more encouraging. I believe the mildest sentiments I’ve read are: ‘lamentable folly’; ‘absurd anachronism’; and ‘relics best forgotten’. Great heavens, Jeeves, I'd no inkling our collective stock had plummeted so precipitously. “Oh,not us, sir. Though Mr. Faulks’s enterprise is the subject of some concern, we remain at the zenith of popularity. No, each of the passages I quoted was a commentary on the prospects of book publishing in general.”