She looked like something that might have occured to Ibsen in one of his less frivolous moments.

A man's subconscious self is not the ideal companion. It lurks for the greater part of his life in some dark den of its own, hidden away, and emerges only to taunt and deride and increase the misery of a miserable hour.

Freddie experienced the sort of abysmal soul-sadness which afflicts one of Tolstoy's Russian peasants when, after putting in a heavy day's work strangling his father, beating his wife, and dropping the baby into the city's reservoir, he turns to the cupboards, only to find the vodka bottle empty.

He looked haggard and careworn, like a Borgia who has suddenly remembered that he has forgotten to shove cyanide in the consommé, and the dinner-gong due any moment.

There are moments, Jeeves, when one asks oneself, 'Do trousers matter?'"
"The mood will pass, sir.

He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.