From The Case of the Curious Client, by Christopher Bush:

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"He said a lot about being knocked down with a feather," Galley said.

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[Irrelevant Quotations dept.]

"An honest man's the noblest work of God," he quoted, and heaven knows why.

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"Something about that girl always gets me. Damned if I know why."

I said nothing. To him she might have been a lump in the throat; to me she'd been a pain in the neck.

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[Fictitious Naughty Stage Comedies dept.!]

He'd first met her when she was in the chorus of Now You're Getting It.... Previous to that she'd been on the road with a company touring in How's Your Father?....

 

[Of course, How's Your Father? was too appealing to stay fictitious forever, and I see that several decades after this novel was written, it became the title of a TV show.]

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[Both Sides of the Family dept.]

It looked to me as if we were in for the father and mother of all fogs.