- Lady Glossop: One of my most treasured memories is of Irving playing Hamlet at the Lyceum.
- Bertie: Really? Who won?
- Bertie: Have you ever seen a floral clock, Jeeves?
- Jeeves: I have not had that pleasure, sir.
- Bertie: No, well, don't. Have nothing whatever to do with floral clocks. If a friend says, "Just one more floral clock can't do you any harm," be firm.
- Jeeves: Did you have a pleasant afternoon, sir?
- Bertie: You have a cruel streak, Jeeves. I hadn't realized it before. What blighter was it that invented the bicycle?
- Jeeves: The first truly rideable machine was made by a Mr. Kirkpatrick MacMillan of Dumfriesshire in Scotland in 1839, I believe, sir.
- Bertie: Too late to do anything about it now, I suppose.
- Jeeves: I fear so, sir.