Daniel Shellenbarger’s Reviews > The Mating Season > Status Update

(Wooster speaking of his previously ebullient actor friend Catsmeat Purbright) "Yet now, as a I say, he was low-spirited. It stuck out a mile. His brow was sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought and his air that of a man who, if he had said 'Hallo, girls', would have said it like someone in a Russian drama announcing that Grandpapa had hanged himself in the barn."