'That', he replied cordially, 'is precisely what it isn't anything else but.'

Though not often given to theological speculation, Lord Emsworth was wondering why Providence, if obliged to make head-gardeners, had found it necessary to make them so Scotch.   In the case of Angus McAllister, why, going a step farther, have made him a human being at all?   All the ingredients of a first-class mule simply thrown away.  He felt that he might have liked Angus McAllister if he had been a mule.

'Do you know Thomas Otway?'
'I don't believe so.  Pal of yours?'
'Seventeenth century dramatist.  Wrote The Orphan, in which play these words occur:

"What mighty ills have not been done by woman!
Who was ’t betrayed the Capitol? A woman!
Who lost Mark Antony the world? A woman!
Who was the cause of a long ten years’ war,
And laid at last old Troy in ashes? Woman!
Deceitful, damnable, destructive woman!"

Otway knew what he was talking about; he couldn't have put it better if he'd known Roberta Wickham personally.'