P. G. Wodehouse

Name: Three Men and a Maid — CHAPTER 12
Author: P. G. Wodehouse

Three Men and a Maid — CHAPTER 12 (1922)

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“Three Men and a Maid — CHAPTER 12”, published in 1922, is a work by P. G. Wodehouse. It explores elements such as Billie, Ealing West and Peters.

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P. G. Wodehouse, Three Men and a Maid — CHAPTER 12 (1922)

“ Peters!” cried Billie desperately. He was making her head swim with his meaningless ravings. “Mr. Peters, hear me! I am not married to a man at Ealing West!”
Mr. Peters betrayed no excitement at the information. This girl seemed for some reason to consider her situation an extraordinary one, but many women, he was aware, were in a similar position. In fact, he could not at the moment think of any of his feminine acquaintances who were married to men at Ealing West. ”

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P. G. Wodehouse, Three Men and a Maid — CHAPTER 12 (1922)

“ Peters.
“Thank God!” said Billie. “I'm not even engaged! It's all been a terrible mistake!”
When two people in a small room are speaking on two distinct and different subjects and neither knows what on earth the other is driving at, there is bound to be a certain amount of mental confusion: but at this point Jno. Peters, though still not wholly equal to the intellectual pressure of the conversation, began to see a faint shimmer of light behind the clouds. In a nebulous kind of way he began to understand that the girl had come to consult the firm about a breach-of-promise action. ”

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P. G. Wodehouse, Three Men and a Maid — CHAPTER 12 (1922)

“ Never! There is no man at Ealing West! There never was a man at Ealing West!”
It was at this point that Jno. Peters began for the first time to entertain serious doubts of the girl's mental balance. The most elementary acquaintance with the latest census was enough to tell him that there were any number of men at Ealing West. The place was full of them. Would a sane woman have made an assertion to the contrary? He thought not, and he was glad that he had the revolver with him. She had done nothing as yet actively violent, but it was nice to feel prepared. ”

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P. G. Wodehouse, Three Men and a Maid — CHAPTER 12 (1922)

“ For a man of volcanic passions, as Sam Marlowe had described him, he seemed to be taking the thing very calmly. She had anticipated a strenuous scene.
“Oh, it's a great compliment,” Mr. Peters assured her.
At this point Sam came in, interrupting the conversation at a moment when it had reached a somewhat difficult stage. He had finished the instalment of the serial story in Home Whispers, and, looking at his watch he fancied that he had allowed sufficient time to elapse for events to have matured along the lines which his imagination had indicated. ”

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P. G. Wodehouse, Three Men and a Maid — CHAPTER 12 (1922)

“ In this world one should be prepared for everything, or where is one? The best she could do was to stand and stare at the intruder. It would have done Sam Marlowe good—he had now finished the synopsis and was skimming through the current instalment—if he could have known how she yearned for his return.
“I've brought the revolver,” said Mr. Peters.
“So—so I see!” said Billie.
Mr. Peters nursed the weapon affectionately in his hand. He was rather a shy man with women as a rule, but what Sam had told him about her being interested in his revolver had made his heart warm to this girl. ”

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P. G. Wodehouse, Three Men and a Maid — CHAPTER 12 (1922)

“ I have tried to draw Samuel Marlowe so that he will live on the printed page. I have endeavoured to delineate his character so that it will be as an open book. And, if I have succeeded in my task, the reader will by now have become aware that he was a young man with the gall of an Army mule. ”

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P. G. Wodehouse, Three Men and a Maid — CHAPTER 12 (1922)

“ No man ever thinks he is as homely as he really is, but Jno. Peters had always come fairly near to a correct estimate of his charms, and it had always seemed to him, that, in inducing his fiancee to accept him, he had gone some. ”

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P. G. Wodehouse, Three Men and a Maid — CHAPTER 12 (1922)

“ Peters, “is to learn to draw quickly. Like this!” he added, producing the revolver with something of the smoothness and rapidity with which Billie, in happier moments, had seen conjurers take a bowl of gold fish out of a tall hat. “Everything depends on getting the first shot! ”

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