1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, “That's what you're here for. Didn't your aunt tell you? She wants you to follow Wilbert Cream and Phyllis about everywhere and see that he doesn't get a chance of proposing.†“You mean that I'm to be a sort of private eye or shamus, tailing them up? I don't like it,†I said dubiously.
