![]() “I’m getting a check suit like that one of Mr. I dug the address of the tailors out of him, and had them working on the thing inside the hour. Well, Jeeves gives you just the same impression of omniscience.Īs an instance of what I mean, I remember meeting Monty Byng in Bond Street one morning, looking the last word in a grey check suit, and I felt I should never be happy till I had one like it. You go up to them and say: “When’s the next train for Melonsquashville, Tennessee?” and they reply, without stopping to think, “Two-forty-three, track ten, change at San Francisco.” And they’re right every time. On broader lines he’s like those chappies who sit peering sadly over the marble battlements at the Pennsylvania Station in the place marked “Inquiries.” You know the Johnnies I mean. Honestly, I shouldn’t know what to do without him. Jeeves–my man, you know–is really a most extraordinary chap. Shell, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team ![]()
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