"Hark at him. Hark at Alfred Proud. As if your friends were better than anyone else's."
"Well, I'm not going to have fellows say my sister's hot stuff."
"Who did?"
"Never mind who did. Somebody said it."
"Arthur?"
Arthur was the melancholy Romeo introduced by Alfie.
"Somebody said you was to Arthur."
"And what did he do?"
"He was quite disgusted. He walked away."
"Didn't he have a fight over it?"