my case to him.”
“What case?”
“My problem.”
“What problem?”
“Why, you poor fish, my uncle, of course. What do you think my uncle’s going to say to all this? If I sprang it on him cold, he’d tie himself in knots on the hearthrug.”
“One of these emotional johnnies, eh?”
“Somehow or other his mind has got to be prepared to receive the news. But how?”
“Ah!”
“That’s a lot of help, that ‘ah’! You see, I’m pretty well dependent on the old boy. If he cut off my allowance, I should be very much in the soup. So you put the whole binge to Jeeves and see if he can’t scare up a happy ending somehow. Tell him