imperfectly-corked

Updated: May 24, 2025

Now, when a man feels like that, it is impossible to restrain him long. For a week Mortimer Sturgis's soul sizzled within him: then he could contain himself no longer. One night, at one of the informal dances at the hotel, he drew the girl out on to the moonlit terrace. "Miss Somerset " he began, stuttering with emotion like an imperfectly-corked bottle of ginger-beer.

P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse - The Clicking of Cuthbert