The Intrusion of Jimmy by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
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"As a matter of fact, it was like this. Like a fool, I'd bought a
second-class ticket." "What? Our young Rockerbilt Astergould, the boy millionaire, traveling second-class! Why?" "I had an idea it would be better fun. Everybody's so much more cheery in the second cabin. You get to know people so much quicker. Nine trips out of ten, I'd much rather go second." "And this was the tenth?" "She was in the first-cabin," said Jimmy. Mifflin clutched his forehead. "Wait!" he cried. "This reminds me of something--something in Shakespeare. Romeo and Juliet? No. I've got it--Pyramus and Thisbe." "I don't see the slightest resemblance." "Read your 'Midsummer Night's Dream.' 'Pyramus and Thisbe,' says the story, 'did talk through the chink of a wall,'" quoted Mifflin. "We didn't." "Don't be so literal. You talked across a railing." "We didn't." |
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