Quotation from: Love Among the Chickens

Written by: P.G. Wodehouse

"What did you hit him for, then?"

This question was put, always in the same words and with the same air
of quiet triumph, at intervals of thirty seconds by a little man in a
snuff-colored suit with a purple tie. Nobody ever answered him or
appeared to listen to him, but he seemed each time to think that he
had clinched the matter and cornered his opponent.