Lavender Briggs: "There is just one thing," she said. "No more fuddling yourself with alcoholic liquor. This is very delicate operation which you will be undertaking, and we can not risk failure. I want you to be bright and alert. So no more drinking."
George Cyril Wellbeloved: " Except beer, of course."
Lavender Briggs: "No beer."
If George Cyril had not been sitting on an upturned wheelbarrow, he would have reeled.
George Cyril Wellbeloved: "No beer?"Lavender Briggs: "No beer."
George Cyril Wellbeloved: "When you say no beer, do you mean no beer?"
In P.G. Wodehouse's Service with a Smile (1961)
By Crumpet
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