Bertie Wooster and Jeeves in “The Ties That Bind”

Who was that fellow with the circles, Jeeves?

You are perhaps thinking of the Florentine poet Dante Alighieri, sir, who, in the first part of his Divina Commedia, is conducted by Virgil through the nine circles of Hell.

That's the chap. Well, those fellows he bumped into had it easy.

One could beg to take issue with you there, sir.

Were any of them engaged to marry Florence Craye?

The poet makes no mention of it, sir.

Or condemned to stand, whey-faced and trembling, at the altar steps while Madeline Bassett advanced on them, up the aisle, on the arm of her father?

Indeed not, sir.

Well, it had to happen to somebody one day, I suppose. And it happened to me today. Fate has dealt me the royal flush, Jeeves: I'm engaged to Madeline Bassett and Lady Florence at the same time.

Oh. [pause] Oh dear, sir.