The cup of tea on arrival at a country house is a thing which, as a rule, I particularly enjoy. . . . There is something that seems to speak to the deeps in me in the beaming smile of my hostess and the furtive whisper of my host, as he plucks at my elbow and says "Let's get out of here and go and have a whiskey and soda in the gun room."

P.G.Wodehouse, "The Code of the Woosters"