P. G. Wodehouse

“ Fortune was with him. On the dressing table, together with a bunch of keys and some small change, lay a brown leather pocketbook. Evidently Sir Thomas did not share Lady Blunt's impression that the world was waiting for a chance to rob him as soon as his back was turned.
Spennie opened the pocketbook, and counted the contents. There were two ten-pound notes, and four of five pounds. ”

“ A man to whom the set of his clothes is as important as it was to Sir Thomas, does not carry a pocketbook full of banknotes when he is dressed for dinner. He would leave it somewhere, reasoned Spennie. ”

“ There was plenty of room, and a sufficiency of retreat for those who sat out, in addition to a conservatory large enough to have married off half the couples in the county. The audience was in an excellent humor, and the monologue, the first item of the programme, was received with a warmth which gave Charteris, whom rehearsals had turned into a pessimist, a faint hope that the main item on the programme might not be the complete failure it had promised to be.
Spennie's idea had been to get through his burglarious specialty during the monologue, when his absence would not be noticed. ”