Nervous Youth (to charming girl, who has been trying to set him at his ease). “He, he! I always—ha—feel rather shy with pretty girls, y’know, but I’m quite at home with you!”
“Oh, Miss Brown, I was so sorry I didn’t see you when you called the other day. I had such a dreadful headache that I had to tell my maid I was not at home to any of my friends. But of course I should have seen you!”
The New Footman (stentoriously). “Mrs. Montgomery Jenkins’s carriage!”
Mrs. Montgomery Jenkins. “A—tell the coachman to wait.”
New Footman. “Please, ma’am, he says he can’t. He says he’s got another job at twenty minnits past eleven!”