chance—”
“I removed the parcel this morning, sir.”
“Oh—ah—why?”
“I considered it more prudent, sir.”
I mused for a while.
“Of course, I suppose all this seems tolerably rummy to you, Jeeves?”
“Not at all, sir. I chanced to overhear you and Lady Florence speaking of the matter the other evening, sir.”
“Did you, by Jove?”
“Yes, sir.”
“Well—er—Jeeves, I think that, on the whole, if you were to—as it were—freeze on to that parcel until we get back to London—”
“Exactly, sir.”
“And then we might—er—so to speak—chuck it away somewhere—what?”
“Precisely, sir.”
“I’ll leave it in your hands.”
“Entirely, sir.”
“You know, Jeeves, you’re by way of being rather a topper.”
“I endeavour to give satisfaction, sir.”
“One in a million, by