LEONARD (stiffly). Thank you. I am accustomed to shaving myself.
[145]NICHOLAS. I was just offering a little expert advice. You needn’t take it.
LEONARD (surveying himself doubtfully). H’m, perhaps you’re right. (He lathers himself again. In the middle of it he stops and says) Curious creatures, women.
NICHOLAS. Amazing.
LEONARD. It’s a life’s work in itself trying to understand ’em. And then you’re no further.
NICHOLAS. A week told me all I wanted to know.
LEONARD. They’re so unexpected.
NICHOLAS. So unreasonable.
LEONARD. What was it the poet said about them?
NICHOLAS. What didn’t he say?