Where the deuce have you been for the last six or eight years?

Valentine White.

Where? Oh, buy a geography; call it, “Explorations of Valentine White in Search of Freedom,” and there you have it.

Brooke Twombley.

Freedom!

Valentine White.

Blessed freedom from forms, shams, and ceremonies of all sorts and descriptions.

Brooke Twombley.

Why, you left us for South Africa. Didn’t South Africa satisfy you?

Valentine White.