From Death on the Cherwell, by Mavis Doriel Hay:

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"And don't squeak so; they'll think I'm keeping guinea-pigs in my room."

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"Will you please stop saying 'eek,'" requested Jacob, with a hint of testiness. "You're going to use up all the e's."]

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"Did you motor down?" Gwyneth asked Basil politely.

"We did—but I thought it was always called 'up?'" [Misordered punctuation sic]

"Well, of course, you come up, if you come to college, but when you motor from London on a visit I think you motor down."

"Very subtle! But of course, Oxford thought is subtle."

Gwyneth laughed uncertainly, fearing that Basil was a high-brow being obscurely witty.

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[Imaginary Sister for the Sake of a Joke dept.]

"My sister...married a Talbot."

[The Talbot is apparently a model of automobile, and the speaker subsequently admits that he invented the sister for the sake of the joke. I've done that myself! "My sister is so economical that when she goes out in the cold, she comes back with one rosy cheek."]

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The whole academic world seemed to be changing its nature, putting on wigs and false eyebrows and taking part in a melodrama.

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