Extract from The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
Pierre Arthens may know his Proust, but, for all that, he has developed no particular indulgence towards concierges; he clears his throat impatiently.
To recall his question: 'Would you bring it to me immediately?' ....
'Ye,' I reply, beating all records of concision, encourage by his own brevity and by the absence of any 'please', which the use of the interrogative conditional did not, in my opinion, entirely redeem.