Break The News To Mother

So, as I say, he stood there for a quarter of an hour, muttering 'Mi-mi-mi' and getting more and more above himself: and finally, after a cove who looked like a plumber's mate had finished singing 'Just Break the News to Mother' and had gone off to sporadic applause, he saw the announcer jerking is thumb at him and realized that the moment had come.

Lord Emsworth and Others. 6 The Masked Troubadour