I couldn't help it.

There was no other room with a bathroom and dressing-room on that floor.' Miss Spencer's voice had an appealing tone of excuse.
'Why didn't you tell Mr Theodore Racksole and Miss Racksole that we were unable to accommodate them ?' 'Because Babs was within hearing.' Only three people in the wide world ever dreamt of applying to Mr Felix Babylon the playful but mean abbreviation--Babs: those three were Jules, Miss Spencer, and Rocco.

Jules had invented it.

No one but he would have had either the wit or the audacity to do so.
'You'd better see that Miss Racksole changes her room to-night,' Jules said after another pause.

'Leave it to me: I'll fix it.