"Of course, you stupid. The Professor was doing it at night, not me. I saw him out of my window."
"Signalling practice all by himself in the middle of the night? Tell that to someone younger, my dear Kid."
Joey took no notice of the jeer. "John, isn't dot, dash, dash, dash, J?" she demanded.
"Yes, rather!"
"And dot-dash is A?"
"Of course."
"Then what does Ja spell?"
"All by itself?"
"All by itself."
"It's the German for yes," John told her, after a second's pause. "But your Stinks man is French, isn't he?"