Misquotation. The last verb, which is why Wodehouse was a genius, is not ‘speak’. It’s ‘talk’.
Wodehouse Tweets@inimitablepgw
Into the face of the young man who sat on the terrace of the Hotel Magnifique at Cannes there had crept a look of furtive shame, the shifty hangdog look which announces that an Englishman is about to speak French.
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