Jeeves Takes Charge

Question

by P. G. Wodehouse

When I got to the house, Oakshott, the butler, told me that Florence was in her room, watching her maid pack. Apparently there was a dance on at a house about twenty miles away that night, and she was motoring over with some of the Easeby lot and would be away some nights. Oakshott said she had told him to tell her the moment I arrived; so I trickled into the smoking-room and waited, and presently in she came. A glance showed me that she was perturbed, and even peeved. Her eyes had a goggly look, and altogether she appeared considerably pipped. 'Darling!' I said, and attempted the good old embrace; but she side-stepped like a bantam-weight.

"Jeeves Takes Charge" by P. G. Wodehouse

Question
Use the passage to answer the question.

Which sentence from the passage contains a simile?

(1 point)
Responses

“When I got to the house, Oakshott, the butler, told me that Florence was in her room, watching her maid pack.”
“When I got to the house, Oakshott, the butler, told me that Florence was in her room, watching her maid pack.”

“Oakshott said she had told him to tell her the moment I arrived; so I trickled into the smoking-room and waited, and presently in she came.”
“Oakshott said she had told him to tell her the moment I arrived; so I trickled into the smoking-room and waited, and presently in she came.”

“‘Darling!’ I said, and attempted the good old embrace; but she side-stepped like a bantam-weight.”
“‘Darling!’ I said, and attempted the good old embrace; but she side-stepped like a bantam-weight.”

“Apparently there was a dance on at a house about twenty miles away that night, and she was motoring over with some of the Easeby lot and would be away some nights.”

Answer 1

The sentence from the passage that contains a simile is:

“‘Darling!’ I said, and attempted the good old embrace; but she side-stepped like a bantam-weight.”

In this sentence, the phrase "side-stepped like a bantam-weight" compares her action of sidestepping to the movements of a bantam-weight boxer, which is a simile.