Small dogs bite your ankles. Babies are hideously ugly. Young boys are fiends. Aunts are harridans. Butlers have port in their pantries.
Most handsome men have feet of clay.
No decent man may cancel, or even refuse, an engagement to a girl. Blandings Castle is traditionally infested with impostors. Men and girls in love think only of marriage. Rose gardens turn a girl's thoughts to romance. A bedroom scene is either when you discover that someone has made you an apple-pie bed, or when one or more people come and search your room for policemen's helmets or miscreants hiding under your bed.