'Oh, well, then, it's just a gift, I take it; and if you aren't born that way there's no use worrying.'
'Precisely, sir,' said Jeeves. 'If I might make the suggestion, sir, I should not continue to wear your present tie. The green shade gives you a slightly bilious air. I should strongly advocate the blue with the red domino pattern instead, sir.'
'All right, Jeeves,' I said humbly. 'You know!'
[6—The Rummy Affair of Old Biffy]
'Jeeves,' I said, emerging from the old tub, 'rally round.'
'Yes, sir.'
I beamed on the man with no little geniality. I was putting in a week or two in Paris at the moment, and there's something about Paris that always makes me feel fairly full of espièglerie and joie de vivre.
'Lay out our gent's medium-smart raiment, suitable for Bohemian revels,' I said. 'I am lunching with an artist bloke on the other side of the river.'