What's the Name of That Book??? discussion

Hi everyone!

In one of PG Wodehouse's books, there is a funny description of an unscrupulous, greedy man, which runs something like this (paraphrasing, cannot recall the exact line):

"People said of him that he would have been willing to sell his grandmother for five pounds, but he objected to this description. He felt that a grandmother, in good condition, ought to be worth at least ten pounds, on the open market."

Does anyone know which book this comes from?

Thanks.

I did some googling, and apparently it's from Service With a Smile. I found this excerpt from Google Books:

"I have been making inquiries about you in Market Blandings, and everyone to whom I have mentioned your name tells me that you are thoroughly untrustworthy, a man without scruples of any sort, who sticks at nothing and will do anything for money."

"Who – me?" said George Cyril, blinking. He had frequently had much the same sort of thing said to him before, for he moved in outspoken circles, but somehow it seemed worse and more wounding coming from those Kensingtonian lips. (...)

"At the Emsworth Arms, for instance, I was informed that you would sell your grandmother for twopence."

George Cyril said he did not have a grandmother, and seemed a good deal outraged by the suggestion that, if that relative had not long since gone to reside with the morning stars, he would have parted with her at such bargain-basement rates. A good grandmother should fetch at least a couple of bob.

Theodore, was the book that Annamariah suggested your book? Please let us know. We crave closure!

Yes, it is SERVICE WITH A SMILE.