Everybody works but Father

'I have to go to Brighton.'

'Always off on a jaunt somewhere, aren't you? It's always the way. Everybody works but Father.'

Something Fishy. Chapter 9

'If you are alluding to my employ–ah, he left half an hour ago.'

Biff nodded understandingly.

'That's always the way. Everybody works but Father. I've never known one of these tycoons who wasn't a clock–watcher. So he sneaks off, does he, and leaves you at your post? Poor, faithful little soul. You, I take it, are his right-hand woman?'

Frozen Assets. Chapter 4.II